Ivy League

Okay, It's Time to Stop Saying Vampire Weekend Sounds Like Afropop (or Graceland)

Vampire Weekend -- the album -- sounded a lot like Graceland, inasmuch as most of us hadn't heard that bright Afropop guitar tone on any other albums in the intervening 20 years, and Ezra Koenig's lyrics were as epigrammatic as Paul Simon's, if in a different way. It wasn't just the guitar, even tho ... More >>

More Than $20,000 Worth (That's Five and a Half Tons) of Nutella Stolen in Germany

People love Nutella -- like, really love it. We get that. But to what extent? Apparently, thieves in Germany are willing to go to extremes to get their sticky fingers (pun totally intended) on the chocolate-hazelnut spread. See also: - Making Homemade Nutella, with a Little Help from Pinterest - ... More >>

Tina Fey's Great, but Admission Doesn't Have the Marks

CLOSED: Bueno Burger in Scottsdale

Just a little over a year ago, owners Gary and Vanessa Shaw shuttered Bueno Burger Mex American Grill in Glendale. This month, they've shuttered their second concept, Bueno Burger, in Scottsdale. See also: CLOSED: Oaxaca Restaurant & Cantina in Downtown Phoenix and CLOSED: Ivy League Dogs in Goody ... More >>

CLOSED: Oaxaca Restaurant & Cantina in Downtown Phoenix

Oaxaca Restaurant & Cantina has closed -- again. But this, time, it looks like the downtown Phoenix Mexican restaurant and 30-year-plus landmark near the state Capitol has shuttered for good. See also: Mesa's Monsterland Bar & Grill Closing Its Doors CLOSED: Ivy League Dogs in Goodyear Oaxaca fir ... More >>

CLOSED: Ivy League Dogs in Goodyear

West Valley residents have lost the place to score deep-fried franks as well as Oreos and Twinkies. Ivy League Dogs in Goodyear is shuttering. Opened in spring of 2010, Ivy League Dogs came courtesy of Derek Pyle, who named the place after his Chihuahua-Jack Russell mix pup and operated the hot dog ... More >>

Throne for a Loop

Flavor Flay

Monkey Business

Where to Eat and Drink Near Goodyear Ballpark

​ Cleveland Indians and the Cincinnati Reds: Goodyear Ballpark All week long we're sharing suggestions of where to find breakfast, lunch, dinner and drinks near each spring training stadium. Have a favorite spot baseball fans should hit? Leave it in the comments. Ohio is one of those Midwestern ... More >>

'Linsanity' Was Predicted by Harvard Pal of Ours: We Told Him He Was Nuts

This whole Jeremy "Linsanity" Lin thing is out of control, and the NBA is far better for it, a one-off feel-good, out-of-the-box, unexpected story that transcends the game itself.   ​  If Lin had arisen from nowhere in, say, Sacramento, Salt Lake City or right down the street ... More >>

Ivy League Dogs: Out West for Under $10

Yes, Virginia, there is something good to eat on the west end of town. ​A common refrain of foodniks around the metro Phoenix area is "There's no good food in the West Valley." It seems like once diners get past downtown Glendale, they are stuck in chain restaurant purgatory. When paying a vis ... More >>

Top Ten Hot Dogs in Greater Phoenix

​The connection between hot dogs and dogs, the lovable tongue-wagging pets, is thought to have come from newspaper cartoons by T.A. Dorgan around the 1900's, which portrayed talking frankfurters, also known as "dachshund sausages," because of their shape. No matter the origin of the name, hot ... More >>

The Formulas Work in Moneyball

James Franco Unveils His Sole Weakness in Superbad New Collaboration

​​After some hardcore investigation, we finally uncovered something that James Franco doesn't completely excel at. ​We found your weakness! Suck it, Franco.

Mel Gibson Goes Crazy for The Beaver

Tennis @ The Rhythm Room

Inside Job Will Make You Seethe

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

Surfer Blood at Clubhouse Music Venue Last Night

​Surfer BloodThe Clubhouse Music VenueSeptember 27, 2010Maybe you remember 'the bear thing' or 'the wolf thing,' those peculiar eras when seemingly every hotly-tipped indie band adopted one of those ferocious animals as a component of its name? Of course you do.Probably you've noticed we're curren ... More >>

Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing

Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing

League of Their Own

Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing

Vampire Weekend at Marquee Theatre

​Vampire Weekend's 19-song set at Marquee Theatre Tuesday was totally devoid of riffs or deviations from their studio versions -- the crowd couldn't have cared less.In fact, the crowd knew every vocal and instrumental cue so well that, had the band gone off-script at any point, they may not have k ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, December 17, 2009

Arizona Cardinals Receiver Donates Brain to Medical Study; Yes, Football Players Have Brains

Cardinals wide receiver Sean Morey​A pro football player donating his brain to science? Well, we never...  Arizona Cardinals receiver Sean Morey announced yesterday that he has agreed to donate his brain, plus some spinal-cord tissue, to a medical study being conducted at Boston ... More >>

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

Into the Wild, the movie The Oscars forgot

Yeasayer's experimental rock finds a way to make a connection

Friend in High Places

Hot career, homemade beer

Pups Runneth Over

Sun Devils look to steamroll Yale's smarty-pants pooches

Bugaboo Confidential

Life as a young, hot, white, educated nanny in the city sure is a drag

Expense Account

Truffles no trifle

Hardball

Dads' egos can run amok in super-competitive Valley youth baseball, and that's dangerous

Get Lost

A bad case of sequel fever can never Be Cool

Shell Game

Rowing in the desert? Tempe junior crew is leading a boom in this traditional Ivy League sport.

Year in TV: Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

MC Paul Barman

Paullelujah! (Coup d'État)

Burr, Not Chilly

With the rich, says Igby, always a little pity

Head Trip

Young writer's memoir examines bipolar disorder

Teenage Fanclub

Howdy (Thirsty Ear)

Legally Bland

Reese Witherspoon's talents are wasted in the muddy, unoriginal Legally Blonde

Frank Black and the Catholics

Dog in the Sand (What Are Records?)

Arc of Triumph

Well-connected Six Degrees works all the right angles

Bottled Anger

Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello pours forth the vitriol

Letters

THE PROF IS IN THE PUDDINGWHILE STUDENTS GET THE LARGEST TUITION BOOST EVER, ASU'S FACULTY SEEKS A BAILOUT FOR ITS UNIVERSITY CLUB

WAY TO GO, FIFE

DESPERATELY SEEKING SASQUATCHTHESE SCIENTISTS SPEND THEIR LIVES CHASING ANIMALS THEY ONLY THINK EXIST