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Singapore Style Fried Rice Noodles: A Tasty Gateway for the Chinese Noodles Newbie

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Singapore style fried rice noodles (sing chow mai fun) is that although they can be found in nearly every Cantonese-style Chinese eatery in Hong Kong (as well as the U.S., Canada, England, and Australia), the dish is, for the most part, not recognized in the So ... More >>

Continental Rift

Manufactured Superstars

10 Favorite Metro Phoenix Wine Bars

​Pretentious and snobby wine bars are, thankfully, a thing of the past -- at least as far as we're concerned. We like our wines bars fun and full of life with an outstanding staff who will refrain from laughing at our questions and will happily pair our food with a wine of their choice. Speaking o ... More >>

Madonna Coming to US Airways in October

Of all the articles concerning Madonna's Half Time show/M.I.A.'s on air fingerbird (Finger-Gate 2: Electric Boogaloo), none was quite as hilarious as this one, from Vigilant Citizen, which alleged that the entire performance was an indicator of Madonna's allegiance to the Illuminati (you know, that ... More >>

Jon Foreman of Switchfoot Talks Vice Verses, Death and the Bro-Am

Andy BarronSwitchfoot​Switchfoot is back, and its making a splash. The band's new album, Vice Verses, recently debuted at number eight on the Billboard charts, and it's definitely worth a listen even if you abandoned your Switchfoot fandom years ago. Lead singer Jon Foreman spoke to Up On The ... More >>

Art vs. Science @ Bar Smith

Mercury Rising

Eat With Me: Start Your Own Pop-Up

After spying a new-ish show this weekend on The Cooking Channel called The Urban Grocer, we followed the young traveling foodie to her blog where Caitlin Zaino featured a pop-up concept called Eat with Me. eatwithme.net​ Based in Australia, Eat with Me is a social networking site dedicating to h ... More >>

Coachella 2011 Official Lineup Announced

​In perfect Girl Talk fashion, the good people of Goldenvoice set up a surprise late night release of Coachella's overwhelmingly impressive lineup.Many of Michael Lopez's lineup predictions were spot on. The Strokes made the cut, as did Duran Duran, although on a different day than what Billboard ... More >>

Linkin Park's Chester Bennington Talks About Rick Rubin, How Bad Saw 3D Was and More

Chester Bennington​ It seems as if most casual fans are still likely to associate Linkin Park with the nu-metal sound that the band helped make popular in the early '00s. But that was then and this is now.The groups' latest album, A Thousand Suns, finds the band making its most diverse music yet. ... More >>

The Maine Make a Movie

PVT: Church With No Magic

​What happens when a previously instrumental band decides to add some vocals to the mix? The jury is still out on that -- just ask RJD2 -- although the reception is never quite as positive as it could be. Australia's PVT (formerly Pivot) are going through these exact same vocal growing pains with ... More >>

Community Collage

Artist Jon Totel’s travel landscapes are a cut above

MasterChef With Gordon Ramsay, The American Idol of Cooking Shows, Coming to Fox in July

With no restaurant experience, a passion for cooking, and a dream of one day working as a professional chef, 50 just-like-us contestants will test their skills and palate in hopes of becoming the winner of MasterChef, the cooking competition show coming to Fox on July 29. Gordon Ramsay, the show's ... More >>

The World's Most Unfortunate Food Packaging

Different cultures, different languages, different tastes. Somewhere along the line, things are going to go wrong when it comes to packaging our foodstuffs for the rest of the world to see. We've captured the top five most unfortunate in today's post. ​ 5.) Shitto Hotly Spiced Pepper Sauce: Ghan ... More >>

Three Lisa Sette Gallery Artists Accepted to 17th Biennale of Sydney

Against absurd odds, Lisa Sette Gallery on Scottsdale's Marshall Way can boast that three of her gallery artists -- Enrique Chagoya, Claudio Dicochea and Angela Ellsworth -- have been handpicked to show work at the 17th Biennale of Sydney, which runs from May 12 through August 2010. Sydney's Bienn ... More >>

Q&A: Dr. Dog's Jeffrey Lewis

By Frances Michelle Lopez ​It takes a brave person to release an album of covers. Sure, Rod Stewart's "Great American Songbook" had some sweet old school jams, not to mention the nostalgic tracks off of the infamous Pop Goes Punk compilations, and the growing number of indie artists covering hi ... More >>

Female Trouble

Local theater spotlights Mamet the misogynist

Jennifer Ginther, Grad Student from NAU, Named Student Regent by Governor

Governor Jan Brewer has appointed a new student representative to the Arizona Board of Regents. Jennifer Ginther, a graduate student in biology at Northern Arizona University, comes with an impressive resume. We can't tell you how she'll do as a regent, but the 4.0 student knows a thing or two abou ... More >>

The Best Movies of 2008

White truffle AND burrata alert!

The John Butler Trio

Shear Madness

Production resurrects Sondheim’s slaying stylist

Nomen Omen: The Worst-Named Bands Playing at SxSW This Year

Props to Oz

Props to Oz

Suffocation

What lies Down Under

Obadiah Parker

The covers that reveal

That '70s Sound

Wolfmother brings the buzz

Finding Nirvana

Zen and now

More is More

Too much of a good thing is just right at SXSW

Long, Strange Trips

Dispatches from the world of travel writing

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Nice Piece of Oz

We come for a land down under

Hot Hot Feet

Heatwave look to ice their opponents

Spring Screening

ASU's Film and Video Fest gets fresh

Rabbit Punch

Phillip Noyce's return to his roots packs some power, though the lack of dialogue hurts

Check, Please!

Powderfinger

Odyssey Number Five (Republic/Universal)

The Great Escape

Baz Luhrmann makes movies--and audiences--in his own image

Mr. Edna

Dame Edna makes his/her way to the Valley

Garageland

Do What You Want (Foodchain)

Richard Davies

Barbarians (Kindercore)

From Queer to Paternity

One of Ssan Francisco's most outlandish entertainers and his family set up camp in Phoenix

Second Helpings

Treble in Mind

Tarnished by sour notes, Shine still hits a chord with audience

Kid Pics for the week

Kid Pics for the week

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