The post-holiday hangover is in full effect and it’s more than a little funky. We’re still finishing off the last of our Christmas leftover, trashing the remainder of the decorations and festive miscellanies, and trying to get our brainpans back into a normal schedule after all these mid-week holidays and…
Taiyou Con @ Hilton Phoenix East/Mesa Halloween seems like a distant memory and Comicon is over six months away. If your costume yen needs to be fulfilled, the fourth annual edition of Taiyou Con celebrates the different dimensions of Japanese pop culture starting Friday, January 3, that includes, yes, cosplay…
Shea Note: in his column Serrano Time, award-winning writer and goofball Shea Serrano writes about his life and times. Dear 2013, Oh, man. So you’re officially over. That’s kind of sad. You were mostly a very dope year — at least for me, anyway, and truth be told, that’s all…
New Times’ photographers were out and about this past week. Did we take your picture? Mary X-Mas Rave, 12/25/13 Self-proclaimed as Arizona’s longest running rave party, Mary X-Mas took place on Christmas night somewhere in the Metro Phoenix sprawl and featured DMC world champ DJ Swamp and a slew of…
“Chihuly in the Garden” @ Desert Botanical Garden He’s back. World-famous glass artist Dale Chihuly returns to the Valley with a new exhibition, “Chihuly in the Garden” at Desert Botanical Garden…
Every weekday, Chow Bella brings you food stories from around the world in the form of its Wake Up Call column. Sometimes the stories are about national food trends bound for Phoenix, other times they’re just plain fun, and still other times they’re stories of food scene mavens caught up…
By Jeremiah Toller Once upon a time in the late 90’s or early 2000s, I paid 35-plus bucks for a ticket, drove with friends for hours for hours and hours to Wisconsin to see DJ Swamp perform at a huge rave with probably a couple thousand people. No, wait, for…
By Nathan Smith These days, swing revivalists seem to have comfortably settled into their own niche in the music industry. Brian Setzer has cornered the market in playing swingin’ Christmas carols to grown folks; Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, out on its own Christmas tour all month, will play a post-Christmas…
Al Madrigal @ Stand Up Live Al Madrigal is no stranger to Arizona, what with his coverage of Tucson’s Mexican-American Studies Ban, SB 1070, and government gridlock. Now The Daily Show’s senior Latino correspondent returns to the Valley with some breaking new comedy…
This week we’ve looked back at some of our favorite posts in Guilty Pleasures, Bites & Dishes and Chef & Tell. We’re rounding things out with a cocktail (what else?) with our five favorite Last Call cocktail recipes of 2013, courtesy of Chow Bella resident bartender J.K. Grence. How to…
Jackalope Ranch interviewed a slew of comedians in 2013. Here are the 10 best talks we had with some of the world’s funniest folks…
This year Chow Bella writers tossed everything from the breakfast sandwich to the chimichanga into the ring, for a mouthwatering series of “Battle of the Dishes.” Here are our five favorites from 2013. Pig & Pickle vs. Searsucker: Bone Marrow Beatdown in Scottsdale Bone marrow has begun to pop up…
Before you run out to see one of the several movies opening on this Christmas Day 2013, listen to this very special Voice Film Club podcast: Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl runs point while Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek and L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson run down their top…
We all have them. They’re the irresistible, mass produced, totally-bad-for-us food indulgences we just can’t give up. Take a look back at the year in our most-read Guilty Pleasures…
Once again this year, Chow Bella writers are gnawing on the holidays — in the form of stories of Christmas and food. Hope you have some Alka-Seltzer handy. Enjoy. By Ada Malcioln Martin A product of divorced parents, a crazy Jewish Panamanian dad, and a bi-polar Anglican mom of West…
New Times photographers were out and about this weekend. Did we take your picture? Elf Yourself at Maya Day & Nightclub, 12/20/13 Twas the weekend before Christmas and Maya Day & Nightclub in Scottsdale was alive with twinkling holiday lights, glimmering LEDs, thumping beats, and merry revelers during the Elf…
There’s a big, two-day hole cut into our concert schedule this week, on account of Jesus’ birthday (observed), but I’ll be damned if this weekly Phoenix-concert-listings feature goes dark on my (and Jesus’) watch. We may or may not get to five shows, but let’s give it a shot…
A West Coast showdown, Christmas raving, and airport art round out Jackalope Ranch’s top picks for things to do and see in Phoenix this week. Have at ’em, and happy holidays. Phoenix Suns vs. L.A. Lakers @ US Airways Center The first month of the NBA season often winds up…
Once again this year, Chow Bella writers are gnawing on the holidays — in the form of stories of Christmas and food. Hope you have some Alka-Seltzer handy. Enjoy. By Sativa Peterson When I was a teenager I once risked the wrath of my mother by boldly declaring that I…
Take a chill pill this pre-holiday weekend. Here are Jackalope Ranch’s top five picks for things to do in metro Phoenix. A Christmas Carol @ Theater Works Give it up to the 170 years of the greatest holiday grump we’ve known. Ebenezer Scrooge gets down in the West Valley with…
Joaquin Phoenix in Her.On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, this paper’s film critics talk about Spike Jonze’s Her and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, in addition to the wave of films all coming out before the year’s over. Listen to it on iTunes or below on Soundcloud…
All illustrations by me. I’m Shea. [Editor’s Note: In his column Serrano Time, award-winning writer and goofball Shea Serrano writes about his life and times.] This game is very simple: Look at the pictures and guess what Kanye West song each one represents. Boom. That’s it. That’s all. You’re done…
