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Joe Arpaio's Racial Profiling Trial Begins, And Yes, He's Guilty as Sin

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From now 'til we publish the 2012 edition of Best of Phoenix, New Times and Chow Bella present 100 Tastemakers -- Valley residents who make the cut in our culinary scene. Some you'll know; for others, it'll be a first introduction (but likely not the last). While you're here, check out our 100 Creat ... More >>

Last Night's Scottsdale Culinary Festival Chocolate & Wine Experience Not So Chocolatey

To me, one of chocolate's best properties is the fact that it doesn't need to be super sweet to feel incredibly indulgent. A blissful chocolate is smooth, rich, dark, and simple. My current favorite is Chocolove's Orange Peel, and I expected the Scottsdale Culinary Festival's only dessert event woul ... More >>

Thin Mint Cupcakes at Liberty Market

Every now and then, a special breed of fast casual spots really wows us with their menus. And if that includes dessert, we definitely want to know about it.

Savannah Smiles Cookie Showdown: And The Winner Is ...

Once again, Chow Bella writers hunkered down in their kitchens and cooked up their best sweet and savory creations using Girl Scouts Cookies as an essential ingredient. It's kind of like a pared down version of the Food Network's Chopped, except we aren't actually going to chop anyone (I don't think ... More >>

Nestle is Making Thin Mint Cookie Candy Bars. Yes Please!

We need about 100 of these sent to the New Times office like right now (attn: Shannon Armour, please). We don't even care if it's an "Unholy Union" between the Girl Scouts and Nestle or if the Girl Scouts are "selling out," we just want to get our hands on a Thin Mint candy bar (and any other futur ... More >>

Russell Pearce Nabs First Vice Chair, Ron Paul Dominates Straw Poll at State GOP Meeting

Ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce began slithering back into relevancy this Saturday during the Arizona GOP's winter meeting, held at Phoenix's Church for the Nations, where he was elected to the party's First Vice Chair position.Despite an embarrassing 12-point loss to fellow Republican Jerr ... More >>

Sweet! The Girl Scouts Announce New Cookie Flavor for 2012

​Good morning and welcome to Wake Up Call! After two years, we (okay, mostly me) have decided to put Eater's Digest to bed and greet you each morning with a mix of fun events, odd ball food stories, things I have baked, awesome places I've eaten, crappy places I've eaten, and, well, pretty much w ... More >>

Beam Me Up

S'Mores Smackdown: Frank & Albert's vs. Beckett's Table

​S'mores -- the all-American, classic dessert that was once reserved for campfires and sing-a-longs has managed to make its way onto just about every food blog and restaurant menu across the country in the form of ice cream, cupcakes, tarts, pancakes -- you name it, it's probably been turned i ... More >>

Homemade Samoas, BBQ Bruce, Foodiebear's Foodzie Box, and Pickled Grapes

A round-up of tasty morsels from Valley food blogs. Les Petite GourmettesThey made the holes in the cookies using a clean drinking straw​Can we get a hell yeah? We have a recipe for making Girl Scout Samoas at home. We had fun taste testing the Keeber fake outs, but we really like the idea of ma ... More >>

Trefoil Cookie Showdown: And the Winner Is . . .

​As one of her final acts as New Times' food critic, Michele Laudig weighed in with her choice in our Trefoil Cookie Showdown. We tried to one-up ourselves at Chow Bella when Girl Scout Cookie season kicked in this year. A year ago, we experimented with Thin Mints and came up with some ... More >>

Trefoil Cookie Showdown: Pear Frangipane Tart

Jonathan McNamara​Got some Girl Scout cookies sitting around? So did we. Hence, the Trefoil Cookie Showdown. Being one of the newest Chow Bella members, I was a bit nervous about entering this challenge. I had seen last year's Thin Mint competition and wondered if I could make something wort ... More >>

Trefoil Cookie Showdown: Trifle

Jonathan McNamara Kathleen Vanesian's Girl Scout Trefoil Trifle​ Got some Girl Scout cookies sitting around? So did we. Hence, the Trefoil Cookie Showdown. There's something perverse, or at least ironic, in combining Girl Scout cookies and liquor.  So I did it. Instead of using lemon p ... More >>

Trefoil Cookie Showdown: Girl Scout ****-on-a-Shingle

Johnathan McNamaraTrefoils meet the trailer park: Girl Scout Shit-on-a-Shingle. Got some Girl Scout cookies in the pantry? So did we -- hence, the Chow Bella Trefoil Showdown. Our dish for the Trefoil showdown boiled down to simple logistics. Last minute crunch time with only fifteen minutes to ... More >>

Trefoil Cookie Showdown: Blue Cheesecake Bites

Carol Blonder blue cheesecake bite Got some Girl Scout cookies in the pantry? So did we -- hence, the Chow Bella Trefoil Showdown.  Say shortbread and I immediately think not of Girl Scouts but of McVities. I was introduced to the Scottish digestive biscuits and shortbread when faced wit ... More >>

Trefoil Cookie Showdown: Edible Terrarium

Photo: Jonathan Mcnamara​ Photo: Jonathan Mcnamara​Got some Girl Scout cookies in the pantry? So did we -- hence, the Chow Bella Trefoil Showdown.  When the challenge was given to create something tasty using Trefoil (shortbread) Girl Scout Cookie, the stress was on. The question is to do s ... More >>

Girl Scout Samoas vs. Keebler Fudge Shoppe Coconut Dreams

Jonathan McNamara Samoas and faux Samoas, can you tell the difference? ​ For a while now, we've been able to get our Thin Mint Girl Scout cookie fix out of season by heading to the supermarket and picking up Keebler Fudge Shoppe Grasshoppers. In fact, we've found similar cookies ... More >>

Kookaburra: How To Make the Long-Lost Girl Scout Cookie

Carrie Wheeler The finished sort-of Kookabura.​ One year in the early '80s, my sister was a Brownie, my mom was the cookie chairman and there existed a Girl Scout cookie called the Kookabura which was everything I loved in a cookie. Girl Scout cookie season is upon us already this year, ... More >>

Sorority Girls

Learn about Phoenix’s heavy-hitting females

Paramore at the Dodge Theatre Last Night

Luke HolwerdaParamore at Dodge Theatre​Paramore September 15, 2010 Dodge Theatre Hayley Williams is quite the little firecracker.Physically, the Paramore singer looks fiery with her bright red hair and ruler-straight body. Personality-wise, she's a dynamic burst of energy. At her show at the Dodg ... More >>

Thin Mint Showdown: And the Winner Is . . .

The Chow Bella contributors do not make it easy on me.  I showed up at a recent meeting to discover a huge spread of beautiful, chocolatey desserts on the conference room table, each one of them with my name on it (metaphorically speaking). Everyone really hustled to create some new dessert o ... More >>

Thin Mint Showdown: Steeplechase Cupcakes

Jonathan McNamaraSteeplechase Cupcakes​One can never have enough Thin Mints. At least that's what we thought until Managing Editor Amy Silverman brought in a dozen unsold boxes to a recent Chow Bella meeting. If one must make lemonade when life hands one lemons, we theorized one must make dese ... More >>

Thin Mint Showdown: Thin Mint Mojito Madness

One can never have enough Thin Mints. At least that's what we thought until Managing Editor Amy Silverman brought in a dozen unsold boxes to a recent Chow Bella meeting. If one must make lemonade when life hands one lemons, we theorized one must make dessert when life hands one unwanted Girl Scout c ... More >>

The Lemon Chalet Creme Girl Scout Cookie Conundrum

senseseduction.blogspot.com ​To eat them or not to eat them? News has spread of a recall of some Lemon Chalet Creme Girl Scout cookies. Frankly, this is not as upsetting as, say, news regarding Thin Mints or Tagalongs. Still, those lemon cookies have their fans. Yesterday we got some bad infor ... More >>

Hungrygirl.com Offers Ideas to Tip the Scales in Your Favor

You can try that one foot on the scale trick, but you're not fooling anyone.​Valentine's Day has come and gone and you've whole heartedly abandoned your New Years diet by professing your undying love to a giant box of chocolates.  Your jeans still don't fit and those crafty Girl Scouts will b ... More >>

Second Person Arrested For Embezzling Funds From Phoenix Girl Scouts

Trisha Proud​Perry Bush​ A second person has been arrested in a case in which $8,000 was embezzled from Phoenix Girl Scout troop 534. Scottsdale police spokesman Sergeant Mark Clark says cops began to investigate after troop members noticed missing funds in April. Former troop leader T ... More >>

Hot Links: Lethal Injections, Tribal Theft, and Jesus In Concrete

A federal judge ruled yesterday that Arizona's lethal-injection procedure is similar to the method approved by the U.S. Supreme Court. Executions have been on hold in Arizona since November 2007, when the Arizona Supreme Court stalled the execution of inmate Jeffrey Landrigan pending a federal decis ... More >>

On Loving Your Legal Mexican Amigos and Wishing Your Illegal Mexican Amigos Would Stop Beating You at Soccer

Door-to-Door Soliciting Rules Proposed by Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio

It's kind of creepy: There's a sudden knock at the door. You check to see who it is -- and it turns out to be someone trying to save your soul. Or maybe they just want to sell you something. Either way, you wonder if they would have tried the door and maybe burglarized the place, had you not answ ... More >>

Andrew Thomas spends public money to bring sinners to Christ

Disco Inferno

Tanning, my love

Candy Thomas

Judge Thomas O'Toole made tough-talkin' Andy Thomas a loser, but sounds like he's a big chicken, too?

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Security Flap

The lines to get into Maricopa County courthouses are about to get longer.

Dora's Darlings

Prisoners are precious to Dora Schriro, Arizona's new corrections chief

Washboard Confessional

Holy saccharine. Absolve this man of his sinful affection for pop-punk.

Cave Creek Carnivores

In search of the unexpected and the unusual

Sweet Successes

Chefs get their just deserts serving up Just Desserts

X-Man

Local cartoonist Jim Mahfood hits pay dirt with new porn comic book

Letters

Week of October 12th

Best Place to Bag a Brownie

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Hollow Points

State requirements for a concealed weapons permit are hit or miss

Ground Zero

With arrests and civil pressures, police have reduced the terror inflicted by Eastside Los Cuatro Milpas. But conditions that gave rise to the gang in the first place still fester.

Net Loss

Twenty years ago-- as gangs began their rise in the valley-shortsighted civic leaders slashed youth programs. Today's troubled kids are still paying the price.

Flag Stuff

Kid Pics for the week

Mother Hips Connection

This California roots-rock jam band wants to be known as more than the living Dead

GREAT SOCIETY'S CHILD

How To Stuff A Wild Wahine

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