BK’s New Fire-Grilled Ribs a Dehydrated Disaster
The lid of the black, shiny box holding the new fire-grilled ribs from Burger King says, “Straight From the Grill.” That’s an error. It should say, “Left On the Grill.”…
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Jack in the Box’s 3 for $3 and the Battle for Economical Satisfaction
You’re hungry, on the road, and have just a few bucks in your wallet. The fast-food giants are waving value menus and dollar deals in your money-starved face. Will most of us bite? Sure, we will. Grab a burger for a buck and a regular-size soda and we’re on our…
Break for Cyclists
Whether you’re a gonzo gravy dog, a chain gang grunt, or a bone-shaking basket case, the Rusty Spoke, a volunteer organization dedicated to bicycle advocacy in Phoenix, invites velocipedes of all types to shed their skidlids and slide out of their saddles for a one-night party pit-stop. With a portion…
Frame and Fortune
To many of us, frames are finishing touches, essential add-ons to great works of art, but what if the frame is the art? Then what? Huh? That question is best answered by Tempe-based artist Andrew Seiferth in his new exhibit “Framed” that transforms personal memories of landscapes and locations into…
Ignite Phoenix #7: Create This Year’s Shirt Design for Bragging Rights (and Free Tickets)
For the past three years, local designer Mark Dudlik has created the shirts for Ignite Phoenix, the one-night information-a-thon featuring 18 folks from the creative, technical, and business communities presenting five-minute nuggets of idea-spreading goodness. This year, you’re gonna do it. And it’s gonna be beautiful…
IHOP’s Pancake Stackers Not Disgusting Enough for “Bressert”
We can all thank KFC’s Double Down Sandwich for raising the grossness bar when it comes to eating. Since April, nothing has touched it. They have expanded the playing field of repulsive, have gone the extra mile to create colon explosions of untold severity, and have raised their middle finger…
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Screw This, Hand Over Your Monopoly Money, in This Week’s “Guess That Gadget”
How well do you know your favorite cookhouse contraptions? See if you can guess today’s gadget and check back next week for the answer, and to see if you’ve won a most-awesome prize. Here are a few shots at this week’s trickster, add yours to the comment box below: -…
McDonald’s “Great Tastes of America” in the UK: Cue Football, Monster Trucks, and Baywatch
Finally, some truth in advertising. Dig this spot for McDonald’s fourth annual “Great Tastes of America” promotion in the UK, a five-week program involving the introduction every Wednesday of a new American-themed burger. Beginning with the New York Special, Mickey Dee’s “Great Tastes of America” will also feature the Chicago…
Hell’s Kitchen Season 7: Meet the Cast, and What Andrew Zimmern’s Doing in Arizona
“Don’t act like a cry baby!” “You (bleep) donkey!” “Get out!” Uplifting comments like these from Chef Gordon Ramsay are just a taste of what the 16 culinary contestants competing on Hell’s Kitchen’s seventh season, premiering Tuesday, June 1, at 8 p.m. ET/PT, will be subjected to as they work…
Easy Treatment for Foot Fashion Pain Starts With Hobo Shoes
Beauty Lab: Cookin’ up good looks in nature’s pharmacy. Our poor feet. They take us everywhere we want to go and what thanks do they get? Crammed into a pair of fabulous shoes to endure hours of fashion pain. Sure, we vow we’ll never do it again, but we know…
The Culver’s Zone: Cheese Curds, Custard, and Alice Cooper
Butter burgers? Custard? Fried cheese curds? For those not familiar with Wisconsin-based Culver’s, the Midwest’s favorite blue-roofed home of fresh fast food, those eats may as well be served on board the V’s mother ship. Luckily, this Fry Girl’s spent some quality time with the good folks of Wisconsin, where…
Culver’s Fried Cheese Curds Battle Against McDonaldization
You walk into another dimension. A dimension of far-out fast food. A place where customers eat in rather than drive through, where cleanliness is next to godliness and employees are so happy you’d swear they’re about to burst into song. You’ve just crossed into the Culver’s Zone. Opened on Camelback…
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Monster Mash
DNA Extractor Probe? Slimy Slim? Regurgitating Ralph? These are the names of creatures you do not want hiding in your closet, let alone living under your bed. Featuring new work by Phoenix-based artist Nervis Wrek and San Francisco-based artist Jay222, “Home Grown Monsters” is a freak fest of toy sculptures…
Say Bye-Bye
“This is an opportunity for the bands to come out and do what they do best,” says Michael Peck, theater director and founding member of Chyro Arts, “and let us thank them the best way we know how.” After three seasons of theater, music and poetry, Scottsdale’s Chyro Arts Venue…
Bisbee’s St. Elmo’s Bar a Day Drinking Road Trip Dream
Who says you have to wait until the sun goes down to have a good time? “What are you lookin’ at, girl?” A man in sunglasses asks me through the window of a beat-up gray van (complete with closed curtains in the back windows) as he slowly pulls up to…
Ignite Phoenix #7 Tickets To Go on Sale This Saturday, Will Sell Out in 30 Minutes…Probably.
Hot tickets? Yeah, you could say that. Ignite Phoenix, the one-night information-a-thon featuring 18 folks from the creative, technical, and business communities presenting five-minute nuggets of idea-spreading goodness, confirmed that ticket sales will open at 10 a.m., this Saturday for Ignite Phoenix #7. But don’t go thinkin’ you’ve got time…
Severed Finger in Cryogenic Chamber Herb-Chopping No More, in This Week’s “Guess That Gadget”
How well do you know your favorite cookhouse contraptions? See if you can guess today’s gadget and check back next week for the answer, and to see if you’ve won a most-awesome prize. Here are a few shots at this week’s trickster, add yours to the comment box below: -…
Wendy’s Chipotle Boneless Wings: Turning Chicken During National Burger Month
Happy National Burger Chicken Month? Thanks to high beef prices, my new favorite holiday is looking as sad as the Hamburglar after a bust. Seems burger chains everywhere are giving the heave-ho to hamburger hurrah in lieu of fare that’s fowl. Carl’s Jr., just came out with a Teriyaki Chicken…
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Let’s Have Our Own Top Chef Masters Office Pool!
Oh man, are there Top Chef Masters office pools out there? If not, there should be. Wait, what are we waiting for? We could totally make our own, kinda, through the world wide interweb — whee! Sorry, still psyched up from last Wednesday’s Top Chef Masters on Bravo. The classy…
Dry-Hair Beauty Secret From Upper Peninsula in Michigan Also Great on Pancakes
Beauty Lab: Cookin’ up good looks in nature’s pharmacy. I’ve since given up on trying to tame the beast living atop my head. Dry, fuzzy, curly, it’s been likened to everything from a tumbleweed to dirty cotton candy. I know, hot. But wait, all hope may not be lost for…
Iron Man 2 Is a Two-Hour Trailer for The Avengers
Besides doing super-fun married stuff like yard work, going to Costco, and leaving the bathroom door open, New Times writers Laura Hahnefeld and Jay Bennett go to the movies. Laura: So I guess there’s an Avengers movie coming out. Jay: Yeah, poor Robert Downey Jr. He looked like he was…
JR’s Why Don’t You Title It? Found Art Naming Contest: Google God
Mona Lisa, The Scream, The Thinker, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living — famous works of art all captioned and hanging out in some museum. But what about the foundlings? The little gems of visual curiosity we see around us everyday. What are their names?…