Yesterday we announced Chef Aaron May’s plans to open a noodle house and Mexican restaurant as part Downtown Phoenix’s CityScape project. As it turns out, the good chef is cooking up something else in Scottsdale. Last week, May closed on the building formerly known as Green Bay Packers bar Mabel…
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Picture this: it’s just after noon and your tummy is rumbling. What to eat for lunch? Ah, the eternal question. These days the New Times crew is avoiding our regular haunts in search of lighter fare. Luckily for us (and you as well) we’ve got this week’s Café column to…
How do you get 500 Phoenicians to stand outside in the heat at 8 a.m.? If you’re Cityscape, you get local chef Aaron May to make them breakfast. May will be bringing an “Asian noodle house” and “Mexican style restaurant” to the 27-story office tower that will be the first,…
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In case you missed any of the action on the SCA scandal as reported through several blog posts today here is a review: Dan Saban: SCA Donors had “Vested Interest” in Election Outcome; Hendershott Nixed Payroll Deductions for Union DuesJoe Arpaio’s Office Denies Involvement in SCA Despite Donations From Office’s…
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He assures us that his skin cancer is a result of youthful recklessness, not his current lifestyle. Now he’s an old man who spends weekends hanging out by the pool and playing water volley ball. He’s also stark naked, but that’s cool because so is everyone else. This guy, who…
Jenny Lewis at The Marquee: Not Quite Convincing Jenny Lewis is certainly an entertainer. “From Los Angeles, with love, here’s Jenny Lewis,” the announcer belted Vegas-style as she took the stage at the Marquee on Saturday night, and Ms. Lewis wasted no time making her indie-diva status abundantly clear. As…
We’re beginning to count the weeks in lagers instead of days. But worry not, fellow drinkers! We shall press on in our quest to find the tastiest of Summer brews. This week: Coney Island Lager. We met up with the folks at Shmaltz Brewing to try their line of freaky…
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It’s 9:30 a.m. and Adan Hinojosa stands in the shade outside the Wells Fargo building in downtown Phoenix speaking with Channel 3 news anchor Beverly Kidd. If it weren’t for the camera crew, you’d think he was just a regular joe, but it turns out this Phoenecian is an entirely…
Today I write to you a changed man. No, I have not found a beer so good that I’ve felt the touch of God. Rather, I’ve found a beer-drinking mecca. I can only apologize that it’s taken me this long to discover Sun Devil Liquor in Mesa; though I have…
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: Digestif Moving; Kasperski Selling Restaurant Spaces Maynard James Keenan…
For 115 days, journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee have faced hard labor and all but silence from the outside world as detainees in a North Korean Prison Camp. On March 17, while on assignment for Current TV, the two journalists broke North Korean law by entering the country from…
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: Mesa Singer/American Idol Contestant Brooke White to Stream Performance on Facebook The Format’s…
We hope you don’t mind if we get a bit English major on you for a moment. You see, this week’s cafe column has us thinking about Avalon. Yes, we mean the sacred island from the Arthurian legends. It is said to be the very location where Arthur’s Excalibur was…
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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: Update on The Edge 103.9’s “Format Modification:” Less New Music, More 90s Hits…
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: Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready Speaks at Phoenix Tea Party Event, as Does Tasered Tempe Pastor Steven…
Could Jay-Z Replace Michael Jackson? Jay-Z’s claim to being “The Best Rapper Alive” is delivered so flippantly it’s almost filler anymore. Certainly, there was a time after 2003’s The Black Album dropped that it’d have been indisputable to any serious fan of hip-hop music, but, in the years since, it’s…
