Jan Brewer: "Beheadings, beheadings, beheadings!"
The EVT actually gets to talk to Jan Brewer on the continuing fallout from the Wednesday debate breakdown.
Besides completely drawing a blank for some ten long seconds, Brewer ran off after it, refusing to take reporters' questions.
From the story:
Brewer blamed part of her post-debate activities on her gaffe in her opening statement. The governor also said she presumed reporters would want to talk to her about some of the issues raised during the hour-long televised debate.
“All you guys were doing and talking were beheadings, beheadings, beheadings,” the governor said.
Brewer continues with the lies, lies, lies:
Anyway, Brewer insisted she has been misquoted.
“I never said ‘Arizona,‘” Brewer said, regarding beheadings in the desert. “And it’s unfortunate that it was construed as ‘Arizona.’ And I’m sorry if people thought that I said it was in Arizona.”
The record, however, shows otherwise.
“Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded,” Brewer said in a June appearance on Sunday Square Off on KPNX-TV 12 in Phoenix. And the governor said “there are people all over Arizona living in fear.”
7:36 AM
'No Festival Required' director Steve Weiss to program Film Bar
This just in—Steve Weiss, the director of No Festival Required Independent Cinema, has been appointed programmer to
Film Bar, the new independent movie theater/bar coming soon to downtown Phoenix:
Film Bar will screen new, classic and cult independent films by local, national and international filmmakers in a microcinema setting (approximately 60-80 seats), while offering beer and wine with a warm and comfortable atmosphere. Scheduled to open to the public in late November, Film Bar will be the first 1st run cinema in downtown Phoenix since the closing of the Palms Theater in 1981. See cinematreasures.org
No Festival Required Independent Cinema, has, since 2002, programmed indie screenings in traditional art venues such as the Phoenix Art Museum, Mesa Arts Center, Detroit Film Center and local art-spaces Modified Arts, Paper Heart, Chyro Arts, Space 55 and most recently, the Metro Arts Theater.
Weiss plans to continue his programming of rare, independent films in other venues throughout the Valley.
For more info see nofestivalrequired.wordpress.com.
10:12 AM
A-1 Beer returns to AZ
A-1 Country runs tonight at The Icehouse:
“A-1 Country” is a photography exhibition and beer tasting event hosted by Phoenix-based artist William LeGoullon and The Nimbus Brewing Company of Tucson . This collaborative event will focus on the re-release of the historic Arizona beer, A-1. Originally presented by the Arizona Brewing Company in 1943, A-1 continued being produced by various brewing companies till 1985 when the beer’s symbolic narrative soon became forgotten. Through the works of William LeGoullon, “A-1 Country” observes the history and story of the iconic beer that was once the symbol of Arizona ’s beer-drinking culture. During the event, Nimbus Brewing Company, the largest brewery in Arizona, will be hosting a free beer tasting of the newly-released and long-awaited classic brew.
The show is tonight from 7 – 11pm.
The Icehouse is at 429 W Jackson St.in downtown Phoenix. For info go to www.theicehouseaz.com or call 602.257.8929.
10:30 AM
Tonight at First Friday
Our regular commentary on wingnut mania, desert atrocities, Scottsdale smut and political malfeasance—delivered with a liberal dose of Schadenfreude, will continue shortly. Below, some art spot hints.
Start the tour early today at the end-of-residency and opening party for artist/filmmaker Brent Green and his new installation Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then at ASU Art Museum 4 – 6pm.
Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then is inspired by the true story of an idiosyncratic house in Louisville, owned by hardware store clerk Leonard Wood. When his wife Mary was diagnosed with cancer, Leonard started building the house room by room, with the tragic hope that his labor would save his wife. Even after Mary’s death, Wood continued to build the house. Over the next 20 years, he strove to bring something as tangible and powerful as his love for Mary into the world.
The installation features Green’s version of Wood’s house, transplanted and reconstructed from the artist’s studio in rural Pennsylvania. The house, along with sculptural elements and structures, is installed in one of the ASU Art Museum’s galleries with video and sound pieces shown inside and around the house to create an immersive environment
This just in—Green will offer a performance to the crowd. Friday, September 3, 4-6pm @ ASU Art Museum. Free for all to attend, the event will feature food, beverage and more…
For more information on Brent Green’s work go to www.nervousfilms.com or visit asuartmuseum.asu.edu.
Converging Trajectories: Crossing Borders, Building Bridges at Modified Arts:
…is an invitational group exhibition of works by 42 artists, mostly from Brazil and Arizona with others from Buenos Aires, Charlotte, Chicago, Mexico City, New York, and San Francisco…Of the 42 artists in the exhibition, 21 are currently based in Brazil making this the largest exhibit of contemporary art from Brazil ever shown in Phoenix and the Southwestern United States.
The exhibition is organized by local arts maven and dealer Ted G.Decker. Read the curator’s story at Hearsight.com.
Modified Arts is at 407 East Roosevelt, PHX. Visit modified.org for more info.
Artist talk at 7pm by Rachel Woodburn at Tilt Gallery, PHX’s only fine art photography salon, located at 919 W. Fillmore just off Grand Ave:
“Beyond Measure,” by Rachel Woodburn,? consists of three dimensional sculptural pieces with a selection of supporting photographs. In the past year her current body of work has taken form through found or discarded objects. Recently, in Art in America Edward Gomez wrote, “Used objects contain historical energy. You can’t always see that energy but you can feel it.” Rachel is trying to find where the history of the objects and her expression intermingle.
Julian Cox, photography curator at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, said her work combines “beauty and psychological content in delicate balance.”
The exhibition will be on view from September 3 – 27.
More info at tiltgallery.com.
Wrap up the evening at The Firehouse Gallery with First Friday Night Live, a stage show featuring:
…fifteen of Phoenix’s best performers, ranging from musicians to drag queen karaoke stars, were selected. These performers will be pumping life into sketches created by a team of bloggers, slam poets, comedians and performance artists.
For the next seven months, FFNL will be showcasing cage free Phoenix talent every first Friday of the month at the The Firehouse Gallery. Unlike loose-running open-mic events, this locally-produced performance-art shindig will be a choreographed event, complete with scripts, cues, and all of that good stuff.
Through humor, FFNL will soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. Intentionally, FFNL begins where First Friday Artwalk leaves off, offering a late night experience that will rival other metropolitan cities.
The Firehouse Gallery is at 1015 N. 1st Street, just north of Roo Row in downtown PHX. Tickets are $7 at the gate or call 1-402-615-2854. For more info go to www.strivedreams.com.
11:39 AM
Gratehouse: Jan Brewer is supposed to just get the Governorship handed to her!
I mean, sheesh, why are people so insistent that Governor Brewer be subjected to punishing crucibles known as “debates”. Which as we all know are filled with unfair and onerous things known as “questions”. Really really difficult and biased and unfair “questions” such as, “Governor, your opening statement?”
From TPM
Gov. Jan Brewer ® has put the kibosh on all future debates with her Arizona gubernatorial opponent Terry Goddard (D), after her rather embarrassing display at Wednesday’s debate. “I don’t believe that things come out in proper context in an adversarial atmosphere,” she defended herself.
They sure don’t, Jan.
4:11 PM