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The Hip-Hop/Comic Book Connection by Ed Piskor

Ed Piskor​American comic book artist Ed Piskor has a keen eye pop culture. His 2009 collaboration with Harvey "American Splendor" Pekar, The Beats: A Graphic History, turned its eye to the Beat poets, and his Brain Rot series for Boing Boing touched on vintage Nintendo Entertainment Systems, ... 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 >>

Stand and Deliver

​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 >>

Seamless

​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 >>

Author Kathleen Flinn of Kitchen Counter Cooking School Coming to Phoenix for First Chow Bella Book Club Event

Kathleen Flynn, author of Kitchen Counter Cooking School ​When we started the Chow Bella Book Club earlier this month with Changing Hands Bookstore, the hope was that eventually CHB would be able to persuade some kick-ass food writers to come to town. Well, that was quick. We'd barely annou ... More >>

Wanna Be a Judge at Pie Social? Join the Chow Bella Book Club!

​Hey Chow Bella readers -- and pie lovers everywhere! Want to be a judge at the second-annual Pie Social, coming up Saturday, November 12 on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix? We've got a star-studded line-up of celeb bakers, and we're looking for one more judge to round out our panel. ... More >>

Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy and Five Other Self-Help Books From Eccentric Sources

Sometimes help can come from the unlikeliest of places. You might not think of Ozzy Osbourne as a self-help guru, but you sure as hell can't say the the dude doesn't know how to survive. His years of hard living benefit his new book, Trust Me, I'm Dr. Ozzy, out on bookstore shelves today. In the b ... More >>

Presenting the Chow Bella Book Club; Now Reading: "The Kitchen Counter Cooking School: How A Few Simple Lessons Transformed Nine Culinary Novices into Fearless Home Cooks" By Kathleen Flinn

​ Chow Bella and Changing Hands Bookstore are proud to present the Chow Bella Book Club -- an online book club for people who love food, books and books about food.Every month, we'll choose a book -- memoir, history, novel, biography, cook book -- that you can buy at a discount from Changing Hands ... More >>

Animal Instincts

​ Chow Bella and Changing Hands Bookstore are proud to present the Chow Bella Book Club -- an online book club for people who love food, books and books about food.Every month, we'll choose a book -- memoir, history, novel, biography, cook book -- that you can buy at a discount from Changing Hands ... More >>

High I.Q.

Ink meets ink at tattoo artist’s book signing

Fair Enough

Check out boxing and Bret Michaels this weekend

Saving Tania's Privates @ Phoenix Theatre's Little Theatre

Check out boxing and Bret Michaels this weekend

Write and Wrong

Criminal minds gather for annual mystery conference

Cat Cora at Changing Hands, Tonight at The Duce and Goats Milk Donuts in Today's Eaters Digest

soapopotamus ​Cat Cora Tonight She's finally here! Tonight Iron Chef Cat Cora will at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe promoting her new book Cat Cora's Classics with a Twist. Cora with will be doing a cooking demo and signing copies of her new book. Chow Bella will be on hand as well with prizes ... More >>

Costume Party: Phoenix Comicon Is Here

soapopotamus ​Cat Cora Tonight She's finally here! Tonight Iron Chef Cat Cora will at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe promoting her new book Cat Cora's Classics with a Twist. Cora with will be doing a cooking demo and signing copies of her new book. Chow Bella will be on hand as well with prizes ... More >>

Carolyn Jessop: Triumph: Life After the Cult

soapopotamus ​Cat Cora Tonight She's finally here! Tonight Iron Chef Cat Cora will at Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe promoting her new book Cat Cora's Classics with a Twist. Cora with will be doing a cooking demo and signing copies of her new book. Chow Bella will be on hand as well with prizes ... More >>

Tonight: Organic, Shaken and Stirred

​Paul Abercrombie must be a booze psychic.His new book, Organic, Shaken and Stirred, is full of delicious-sounding, organic, exotic cocktails that I want to drink all summer long. There's the Arboretum, with vodka, green Chartreuse, maraschino liqueur, agave nectar, orange bitters, basil leav ... More >>

Neo-Nazi Remorse? Ex-Skinhead Frank Meeink Says He Has It, and the Career Criminal Squad is Saved

​Paul Abercrombie must be a booze psychic.His new book, Organic, Shaken and Stirred, is full of delicious-sounding, organic, exotic cocktails that I want to drink all summer long. There's the Arboretum, with vodka, green Chartreuse, maraschino liqueur, agave nectar, orange bitters, basil leav ... More >>

Joan Retallack

​Paul Abercrombie must be a booze psychic.His new book, Organic, Shaken and Stirred, is full of delicious-sounding, organic, exotic cocktails that I want to drink all summer long. There's the Arboretum, with vodka, green Chartreuse, maraschino liqueur, agave nectar, orange bitters, basil leav ... More >>

The Date Escape

Bestselling author shares the love

The Write Stuff

Noted wordsmith continues SMoCA’s Museum Heart series

Murder, He Wrote

A close-to-home account of an infamous Phoenix hit

Sarah Palin @ Costco

A close-to-home account of an infamous Phoenix hit

Jerry Colangelo

A close-to-home account of an infamous Phoenix hit

Simon Ortiz and Labriola Center Lecture: Leslie Marmon Silko

A close-to-home account of an infamous Phoenix hit

"Strong Heroines in Crime Fiction"

A close-to-home account of an infamous Phoenix hit

Brent Ghelfi

A close-to-home account of an infamous Phoenix hit

Bhira Backhaus

A close-to-home account of an infamous Phoenix hit

Antonya Nelson

A close-to-home account of an infamous Phoenix hit

Judge Lynn Toler

A close-to-home account of an infamous Phoenix hit

David Muench

A close-to-home account of an infamous Phoenix hit

David Muench

A close-to-home account of an infamous Phoenix hit

Jewell Parker Rhodes

A close-to-home account of an infamous Phoenix hit

Deadly Sanctuary

Sylvia Nobel dreamt of a movie version of her Kendall O'Dell mysteries — until the money disappeared.

Edward O. Wilson and Bert Holldobler

Sylvia Nobel dreamt of a movie version of her Kendall O'Dell mysteries — until the money disappeared.

Jonathan Alter

Sylvia Nobel dreamt of a movie version of her Kendall O'Dell mysteries — until the money disappeared.

XXY

Sylvia Nobel dreamt of a movie version of her Kendall O'Dell mysteries — until the money disappeared.

The 11th Annual Emancipation Marathon @ eye lounge

Sylvia Nobel dreamt of a movie version of her Kendall O'Dell mysteries — until the money disappeared.

Kevin Brockmeier

Sylvia Nobel dreamt of a movie version of her Kendall O'Dell mysteries — until the money disappeared.

Robin Miller

Sylvia Nobel dreamt of a movie version of her Kendall O'Dell mysteries — until the money disappeared.

Wyclef Jean

Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant
(Sony)

Ingrid Newkirk

Carnival Vol. II: Memoirs of an Immigrant
(Sony)

Idiot Girl, Interrupted

Laurie Notaro blows town