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David Horowitz Has Made Taunting College Students a Spectator Sport

Comfort Me with Apples: Chow Bella Book Club Meeting, Now In Session

Jennifer Woods​ Come grab a seat, you've just arrived at the third meeting of the Chow Bella Book Club! We've gathered to discuss Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl. As you probably already know, apples don't really make much of an appearance in this book. It's really more of a feeling Reich ... More >>

December's Chow Bella Book Club Selection: Comfort Me with Apples by Ruth Reichl

​Chow Bella Book Clubbers, are you ready for the holidays? We're already deep in run-around-and-be-festive mode, why not a book that might be familiar to some of you that's already been a New York Times bestseller - so we already know it's good one. It's also full of recipes, stories of fami ... More >>

Christopher Gross' Perfect Food Day

Christopher Gross​ We've known and loved Chef Christopher Gross' French-inspired cuisine for so many years -- we guess you could say we have a "crush" on him - sorry, couldn't resist. For a little fun, Chef Gross likes to fly across the pond and jump on his bike to give it a spin. This is him at ... More >>

Redesigned Food Labels Make Current Food Label Look Like Ass Crap

Renee Walker​Current food label.​With all the hoopla finally dying down on MyPlate, the new icon of healthy eating from the U.S. Department of Agriculture that replaced the food pyramid, maybe it's time the nation focused on another food-related headache of sorts: the nutrition label. ... More >>

New in Scottsdale: Soi 4 Bangkok Eatery

​A Bay Area Thai restaurant just opened a new location at Scottsdale's Shops at Gainey Village, and there's already favorable early buzz from a couple of my favorite food spies. Soi 4 Bangkok Eatery has a sister restaurant in Oakland, California, along with three other Thai spots run by the ... More >>

Green Day

Green Day

Ryan Gabrielson, Former Pulitzer-Prize-Winning East Valley Tribune Reporter, Gets New Gig With California Watch

Pulitzer Prize winner Ryan Gabrielson​Ryan Gabrielson, the former reporter for the East Valley Tribune who, along with Paul Giblin, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009 for exposing how immigration enforcement by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office undermined criminal investigations and emergency respo ... More >>

Day Drinker: Pat Murphy's

Who says you have to wait until the sun goes down to have a good time? ​"I used to like St. Patrick's Day, back in the '90's." That's what Ron, the morning barkeep at Pat Murphy's, tells my day-drinking gal-pal Ronda and I when we pop in for pre-St. Patrick's Day brews at Pat Murphy's. R ... More >>

ASU Close But No Cigar In Big Loss Up In Berkeley--But Pac-10 Tourney Around Corner

One thing was clear during halftime of the tightly contested Arizona State-California men's basketball game up in Berkeley on Saturday afternoon:​The Sun Devils were up by one point, but it was about the shakiest lead one could imagine.ASU's three-point shooters, Derek Glasser, Ty Abbott and Rihar ... More >>

Youth In Revolt: The Cult Novel Must Continue It’s Search for a Worthy Film Adaptation

Green Day's Dookie and the Peak of Western Civilization

East Valley Tribune Unveils Massive New Project on Tax Credits

www.eastvalleytribune.com​God bless those busy bees over at the East Valley Tribune. These days no one's got time for massive enterprise projects -- and we mean no one! Some times we're jumping on news so fast, we feel like we're literally going to keel over from the sheer insanity of journalism i ... More >>

Arty Girl: Robert Colescott, African American Artist, Dies in Tucson

By Bromirski from Flickr Creative Commons"George Washington Carver Crossing the Delaware: Page From an American History Textbook" by Robert Colescott. Much like the death of Michael Jackson overshadowed the loss of Farrah Fawcett, Bisbee, AZ artist Rose Johnson's untimely and tragic demise diverted ... More >>

Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Reporter Ryan Gabrielson Leaving East Valley Tribune for UC-Berkeley Fellowship

The East Valley Tribune is losing another member of its Pulitzer-prize-winning team: Reporter Ryan Gabrielson (right), the lead writer of the award-winning series on Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, is heading to UC-Berkeley to work as a journalism fellow.

Green Day to Bring American Idiot to the Stage

American Idiot will take the stage this fall in BerkeleyBerkeley punk rockers Green Day will adapt their multi-platinum, Grammy-winning, catnip-for-angst-ridden tweens album American Idiot to the stage, just in time to open Berkeley Repertoire's 2009/10 season. The musical will be the first for the ... More >>

Planets in Other Star Systems Photographed

It's a groundbreaking moment in the search for other planets and possibly other life in the universe.

Is It August 30th Yet?: 2008 ASU Football Preview

Family Night: Turbonegro, Mondo Generator, and Year Long Disaster, October 4 at the Brickhouse Theatre

In-Between Green Days

Pre-Idiot gems

Get Smashed

Mosaic than you can shake a stick at

General Elektriks

Cliquety Kliqk
(Quannum)

Elvis Lives

Impersonator conjures crooner

The Explosion

Beantown punkers light the fuse

Trigger Voter

Rock 'n' roll the vote this election year

Greet Expectations

The members of evening are ready to ditch their day jobs, but not their newfound friends

Punk Voter Tour

Getting registered with legends

Mr. T Experience

Yesterday Rules (Lookout!)

BEST FRENCH RESTAURANT

Christopher's Fermier Brasserie

Small Time Cooks

The smaller the cafe, the more charming the food

Dead and Gone

Berkeley boys look on the dark side

Blo Hard

The Velvet Room gets a fishy facelift

Kids' Play

The Moss Brothers are a novelty act -- until you hear them

Austin, We Have a Problem!

What happens when you cram too much music into one city and two pairs of eardrums? Nothing, if you move too fast to hear it all.

Retouching Evil

Using detailed instructions left by Orson Welles, top film editor Walter Murch has remade "the best B-movie" ever, Welles' Touch of Evil

Ethnic Plate Cleansing

Indie Outings

The highs and lows of another adventurous year in the world of indie rock

Cramming for Finals

Heel Thyself

Yo Yo a Go Go

Olympia festival embraces ideals of indie rock

Frolicking Among the Pansies

Shango-La

Pulling influence from Cobain as well as Coltrane, Charlie Hunter leads the charge for alt. generation jazz

Cleaning House

In this issue: Safehouse, Duh Nobuddies, Budget Girls, Hepcat and a lethal mix of speed freaks and Tuna Helper

Steinboss

Bruce Springsteen takes up where The Grapes of Wrath left off

Recordings

Sworded Behavior

Their idea of a good time is to dress up in medieval armor, stage elaborate battles and fight for a royal title. Any effort to unmask the fantasy would be feudal.

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