2009 rocked and we’ve got 51 shots to prove it. From Tempe Music Fest to McDowell Mountain, Slayer to Kiss, Flight of the Concords to Shiny Toy Guns, they’re all here waiting for you to wax nostalgic. What are you waiting for? Check out the slide show…
In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Feathered Bastard: Joe Arpaio’s Longtime Foe Mary Rose Wilcox Earns Supporters’ Prayers Up on the Sun: Anyone…
In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Up on the Sun: Tea Leaf Green Plays The Compound on New Year’s Eve Incoming: Phoenix at…
Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding Friday night was the ninth installment of Alice Cooper’s Christmas Pudding, though speaking in Christmas/culinary terms, it was really more of a fruitcake, with ingredients both numerous and diverse mingling to create a final product I would definitely try to re-gift. The differences between the acts…
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Another week has come and gone leaving us to ponder the upcoming events that will shape our lives and, more importantly, our dinners out. But before we move on, let’s have one last look at the blog posts from this week: Dive Bar Dinner Club: Chino Bandido Takee Outee Sets…
In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Feathered Bastard: Joe Arpaio Under the Microscope: DOJ Team in Phoenix, According to Multiple Sources Up on…
We weren’t always into sushi, but we loved Japanese fried chicken. During a year-long stint in the land of the rising sun, we would often drive our Daihatsu Mira (think of it as a mini Mini) to this tiny sushi shop to order karaage, which this particular shop served with…
In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Up on the Sun: Winter Horrorland Fashion Show Pimps Pasties, Leather Bras for Xmas Little Kid Better…
One stint of working retail during December was all it took to ruin Christmas music for me. Listen to “Little Drummer Boy” enough times and the only thing you’ll want for Christmas is noise-canceling headphones. Yet even as I write this I’m happily rocking out to “Deck the Halls” thanks…
In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Up on the Sun: Yeasayer Announce World Tour, Graciously Include Phoenix Concert Review: The Shaky Hands and…
Yesterday, Brewmaster Uwe Boer opened a door in to his home-brewing past by tapping a new seasonal at Sun Up Brewing. Named by a Sun Up staffer, The Nut Before Christmas Brown Ale is an English Brown ale that uses mostly ingredients produced in the GMT time zone. We had…
In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Feathered Bastard: Joe Arpaio’s Goon Squad Blasted by Chicanos Por La Causa, MCSO Fishing Expedition Under Way…
Phoenix Tequila Festival in Photos The first Phoenix Tequila Festival went down this weekend at U.S. Airways Center. How many of them did we try? All of them. Tequila distilleries including Patron, Three Amigos, Cruz and many more were present and representing the agave goodness…see photos Concert Review: Metric at…
“It tastes like Chocolate World,” she said referring to Rogue Brewing’s Chocolate Stout. Not having been there ourselves, we asked our dining companion to elaborate on the Pennsylvania-based chocolate theme park that (apparently) takes one on a delicious journey from growing cacao through to the consumption of a delicious chocolate…
In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Feathered Bastard: Dennis Burke Admits There’s “a Problem” with Joe Arpaio’s Rampage, Source Says the U.S. Attorney’s…
Another week has come and gone leaving us to ponder the upcoming events that will shape our lives and, more importantly, our dinners out. But before we move on, let’s have one last look at the blog posts from this week: Pistachio Martini at Roaring Fork Hot Tamales in Time…
In this week’s music feature, Clubs Editor Benjamin Leatherman asked local musicians and scenesters to share their memories and thoughts about Modified Arts, the downtown music venue that will soon close down to the stage to focus on being an art gallery. At last night’s not-so-secret Jimmy Eat World show,…
In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Feathered Bastard: Activist Dennis Gilman’s Letter of Disgust to Eric Holder’s DOJ Investigators Up on the Sun:…
We walked in to Z Tejas expecting a Winter menu full of heavy, comfort foods. Stuffing your face with carb and fat-laden dishes is why we celebrate the holidays, right? What we found instead were dishes that provide that satisfying sense of holiday comfort with a fresh edge more akin…
This week’s cafe column uses the phrase “style over substance” to describe Hula’s Modern Tiki. Talk about being off to a bad start. Writer Wynter Holden, filling in for critic Michele Laudig, on Hula’s Modern Tiki: The coconut shrimp rolls arrived so overdone that I was surprised our server didn’t…
In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Feathered Bastard: Help Sal Reza’s Macehualli Center Tomorrow by Eating at Applebee’s Up on the Sun: The…
