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A Peek Into The Momofuku Kitchen Laboratory

Reuter's has an interesting video that gives viewers a look into the world of Momofuku's kitchen test lab, where chefs and microbiologists team up to create novel tastes and textures using humble common bacteria in interesting ways. Momofuku's chef David Chang is pretty adamant about his desire to u ... More >>

Horsing Around

Best Reader Caption For Photo of Jan Brewer Humiliating Arizona: david saint

​Congratulations to the New Times reader who goes by the handle david saint, you are the proud winner of this week's New Times You Write the Caption contest.On Friday, we asked readers to provide what they thought would be an appropriate caption for the above photo of Governor Jan Brewer humiliati ... More >>

Junk Food Makes Young Dudes Infertile

Rich Legg / Istock​Burgers as a passive form of birth control? It's true. The Sun reports fertility doctors from Harvard University and the University of Murcia, Spain, have discovered that healthy young men between the ages of 18 and 22 who ate a high proportion of junk food had poorer quali ... More >>

Remember "Like a G6?" Arizona State Kids Use it to Make a Parody Video that Shows Exactly Why Everyone Hates Arizona State

Remember "Like a G6," Far East Movement's bangin' club anthem about getting slizzard in a blizzard with a mizzard and a tizzard? It was a pretty cool song, I guess. Last year, I mean.Arizona State University students are apparently still listening to the song. Also, uploading parody videos using th ... More >>

Paul Schwennesen's Perfect Food Day

​Paul Schwennesen​Paul Schwennesen from Double Check Ranch raises grassfed beef in the San Pedro Valley east of Phoenix. He has a master's degree in government from Harvard and we wonder if he raises smart cows, too. We asked Paul to describe his perfect food day.

Wei of Chocolate: Flourless Chocolate Cake

courtesy Wei of Chocolatechocolate cake ingredient prep​ Lisa Reinhardt is the CEO and chocolatier behind Wei of Chocolate, a unique Phoenix chocolate business combining the health benefits of dark chocolate with homeopathic floral essence infusions. In our Sweet Talk with Lisa she revealed her ... More >>

2011 Top Food Trends: Home Cookin'

flickr.com/creative commons/Daniel Semper​ Last week local chefs shared restaurant predictions with Michele Laudig, and Wynter Holden mused about her high hopes for Steampunk cooking to trend in 2011. Taking a look closer to hearth and home, here are trends we think will influence the way we garde ... More >>

Sidebar: Mexican Macroeconomics

Inside Job Will Make You Seethe

The Social Network: David Fincher Comments on Mark Zuckerberg's Status

League of Their Own

Elena Kagan Gets No Love From "The Maverick;" John McCain Will Not Support Kagan's Nomination to Supreme Court

​If Elena Kagan wants to be the next justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, she's gonna have to do it without the support of "The Maverick."Arizona Senator John McCain will not support Kagan's rise to the country's highest bench and he explains why in an op-ed piece he wrote for USA Today, wh ... More >>

Downtown is Ovah: The Shirt, The Followup Column, The Contributors

​If you pick up a copy of the brand new New Times (or, I guess, just click this link) you'll come across my latest Sonic Truth column, a followup to the "Downtown is Ovah" column I penned predicting that the demise of Modified Arts will lead to a shift of live music and local bands to Tempe. Hopef ... More >>

Too Cool for Public School

A feel-good education story? Here it is.

Barack Obama, Hypocrite on Racial Profiling: While Obama Defends Prof Pal, Mexicans Are Rounded Up Like Cattle

from the White House Obama cares about racial profiling when it's a pal from Harvard. How about when it's a Latino in Maricopa County?  You don't have to be a Harvard prof to note the smiling hypocrisy of President Barack Obama's comments last night on racial profiling. Just hours after ... More >>

Harvard Beats Yale 29-29: Legendary Ivy League Football Game Documentary Wraps Up the Boomer Era

Daily Show Trashes ASU, We Laugh Our Asses Off

thedailyshow.com Headed out to the big ASU commencement tonight? Be sure to check this out first. "The Harvard of Date Rape." Instant classic!

Jon Stewart's The Daily Show Skewers ASU for Barack Obama Snub

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c Arizona State Snubs Obama thedailyshow.com Daily ShowFull Episodes Economic Crisis Political HumorIn case you haven't seen this, it's a must... Why did Arizona State University snub President Barack Obama on a worthless, honorary sheepski ... More >>

Arty Girl: International Star Architect, Bernard Khoury at ASU

By architect Bernard KhouryWhen life gives you lemons...An old friend of mine heard this from one of our Catholic school teachers back in the day and we both agreed that the saying was so annoying, it made us want to kick that teacher in the crotch.But if there's a person out there making lemonade, ... More >>

Arizona Guardian News Site Wants Readers to Pay for Content; Concept is Wishful Thinking Among News Outlets

The Arizona Guardian online news outfit that we told you about after its launch last month has gone to a sort of pay-per-view format and now wants up to $150 a month from subscribers. For that lofty price, four former East Valley Tribune staffers (with help from their sponso ... More >>

On Thin-Cut Meats, Heartbreak, and the Recent Death of Samuel P. Hunting

Edward O. Wilson

Weezer Frontman Rivers Cuomo Seeks Soul Mate

Phoenix Art Museum brings Chinese ink drawing to the Valley with “A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection”

County Attorney Andrew Thomas, George Borjas, and getting the report you pay for...

SMoCA and Mirrors

Beautiful-people schmoozefest focuses on fashion

´Scuse Me While I Piss the Skyy

Kissin' concrete in Tempe

One big, drunk, Catholic family

Yet another reason for McDonald's to use Spanish

History Creating Itself

On crime, upward mobility, and Tweety Bird

Answering Your Questions About "Down There"

Jesus Wept

Anybody got a good anagram for "crap"?

Swift Kick

Elijah Wood a soccer thug? Not bloody likely

Rivers Runs Deep

Weezer's auteur takes a tentative step into the real world

New releases available this week

This Week's Day-by-day Picks

Chauvinist Pig-Out

Real men do eat ceviche

Fields of Dreams

Think your kid could be the next Shea Hillenbrand or Curt Schilling? Hook him up with the major leaguers in metro Phoenix youth baseball.

Legally Brown

You've seen Legally Blonde, but did you know Elle Woods really grew up in Paradise Valley?

Dive-In Movies

Tempe's evening entertainment is all wet

Lab Rats

The University of Arizona's push to become one of the nation's great research institutions has paid off -- but at what cost to the state, faculty and students?

Animal Fights

'They're fighting for their careers, for their reputations, for their money.'

Tom Lehrer

The Remains of Tom Lehrer (Rhino)

Tube Talks

Hil-Lehrer-ity

Out-of-Place Mats

FLASHES, 6-15

THE SHAM WHO CAME TO DINNER, TINKER, TINKER, LITTLE STAR

SYMINGTON'S VAST CARELESSNESS