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5 Disgusting Foods That Will Make You Eat Healthy In the New Year

Not feeling awful enough after all that holiday binging? Need a little push to help send you into the glutton-free lifestyle? Here are five things that should do the trick and shame you into changing your eating habits. Because we all know that hating yourself is the first step to eating healthier ... More >>

Study Paid Participants to Gorge on Fast Food, With a Catch

At first blush, it seems like the greatest of great deals: Get paid thousands of dollars to gain weight by eating an extra meal every day composed entirely of fast food. The only catch is that to earn the full amount of money, participants have to try and lose the weight immediately after they finis ... More >>

Nine Favorite Spots for Fried Chicken in Metro Phoenix

See Also: Chicken & Waffle Warfare: Lo-Lo's vs. Louisiana Fried Chicken Falling somewhere between mac & cheese and chocolate chip cookies, fried chicken is near the very top of our favorite comfort foods list. And even though we can't eat this culinary treat very often, that doesn't stop us from d ... More >>

Top Phoenix Music Stories of the Week

The news waits for no one -- at least that's what we read somewhere -- so it's perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of our biggest stories f ... More >>

Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend

Curious about what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions as to how to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend.

Buckethead on His Time in Guns 'N' Roses: "No Answer."

In the world of eclectic guitarists, Buckethead stands out. With his face hidden by a hockey mask and long dark hair cascading out of a KFC bucket perched on his head, and using guitars shaped like human torsos and other visages of the macabre, he is not easily missed. And, yes the man born Brian ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Working in Mexico and Superstitions

7-Elevens in Singapore Have Mashed Potato and Gravy Dispensers

7-Elevens in the fine city-state of Singapore serve piping-hot mashed potatoes out of machine that looks like it should dispense coffee, not food. It's also self-serve. For about a dollar (or two dollars if you want a drink with it) this machine will eject a slurry of instant potatoes and hot water ... More >>

Praying Monk: Embrace the Familiar (and the Beer), Avoid the Novelty

When a new spot opens in town, we can't wait to check it out -- and let you know our initial impressions, share a few photos, and dish about some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that have just opened, sampling a few item ... More >>

The Daily Meal's "20 Food Topics that Won't Die": We'll Take the Hint and Quit with the Bacon

Cupcake takes the CakeThat sure is a Bacon Donut on top of a cupcake! ​Earlier this week we went on a little bit of a rant about a bacon wrapped matzoh ball. It was just too much and we couldn't contain our disgust any longer.  Of course we still love bacon, but we don't want to write ab ... More >>

Five Food Disasters on Film

On April 24, 2005 -- the day after YouTube officially opened its doors to all the cute cat videos and leave-Britney-alone pleas the madding crowd could muster -- a little video called "Flambe Disaster" became the third video to be uploaded on the site. A short video chronicling the disastrous ... More >>

Raising Cane's Is Your New Favorite Chicken Fingers Joint (If You Had a Favorite Chicken Fingers Joint Before)

Chicken finger sandwich.​If Chick-fil-A, In-N-Out Burger, and T.G.I. Friday's had a baby, its name would be Raising Cane's. Inside Raising Cane's.​The chicken fingers chain, based in Louisiana, opened its first Arizona location on Tuesday, at 2715 West Peoria Avenue (1-17 & Peor ... More >>

Stacy's Smokehouse to Open a Second Location in Scottsdale

​Sounds as if Scottsdale residents will soon be getting a taste of their own drool-worthy 'cue from Stacy's Smokehouse, the tiny, no-frills purple building on Indian School Road and 16th Street. Between bites of rib tips smoked over almond and hickory wood and doused in Stacy's sugary-sweet s ... More >>

Slideluck Potshow: Why Potlucks Are for Freeloaders

photo by Jonathan McNamara At the Icehouse for Slideluck Potshow​In 2000, Seattle-based photographer Casey Kelbaugh invited a few of his creative friends over to watch a slideshow of their artwork while enjoying some homemade dishes, potluck style. The result, Kelbaugh says was part art, pa ... More >>

"Kate Plus Ate" Royal Wedding Inspired Tea Sandwiches

The Virgin's tea sandwiches went over well at the Slideluck Potshow.​ ​ There's one social activity that every not-so-fab cook dreads: the potluck dinner. Sure, it's fine if you can bring a bucket of KFC or a tray of Safeway cookies without shame, but if the The crusty carn ... More >>

El Pollo Correteado Kicks KFC Culo

​On your way to the Colonel's for a bucket of greasy cluck? Turn. That. Damn. Car. Around.

WTF? KFC Offers Free Doublicious Sandwiches to "Two-Timing" Employees of Competition, Will Offer "Sandwich Amnesty"

From the Colonel to the competition...um, no.​On Tuesday, July 20, KFC will offer free Doublicious sandwiches to the first 10 uniform-clad associates of a competitive fast food restaurant who visit participating KFC's -- up to 50,000 free sandwiches for folks the Colonel calls "two-timing employee ... More >>

Chick-fil-A Hatches Its Spicy Chicken Sandwich, and Fry Girl Takes a Bite

Chick-fil-A's New Spicy Chicken Sandwich

​Yeah that's right, this Fry Girl's a Spicy V.I.P. Taking advantage of Chick-fil-A's pre-launch promotion of reserving their new Spicy Chicken Sandwich for a limited number of customers to try before officially launching on Monday, this Fry Girl felt like a fast food celebrity. Friendly e-mails, ... More >>

Whataburger Brings Back the Honey BBQ Chicken Strip Sandwich, Not as Double Down Disgusting, But Almost Twice as Bad For You

Boneless, gut-bustin' bedlam.​May, as National Burger Month, is officially sucking ass. No new burgers, high beef prices, a dehydrated disaster from Burger King called Fire-Grilled Ribs, and a boneless chicken brouhaha is making this holiday as senseless as the movement to retire Ronald McDonald. ... More >>

Is Burger King's Breakfast a Cereal Killer? Fry Girl Says No

KFC's Buckets for the Cure: Charity, Hypocrisy, or Both?

After the launch of one of the worst jokes sandwiches in fast food history, the KFC Double Down, it seems a lot of folks have their feathers ruffled over the Colonel's latest cause-marketing effort, Buckets for the Cure -- a program in conjunction with Susan G. Komen for the Cure promoting breast ca ... More >>

Winemaking 101: A Crash Course at Studio Vino

There's something magical about making food or drink with your own two hands. Not that I haven't passed a few store-bought cakes off as my own at dinner parties, but it just doesn't feel the same when your contribution to the meal comes out of a bottle, box or KFC bucket. But what abo ... More >>

KFC Double Down Terrorizes Fry Girl With Skeleton-Less Savagery

Fry Girl Breaking News: KFC's No-Bone Zone

Greetings fast-food fans. With the introduction of KFC's new Double Down Sandwich this weekend in addition to their boneless filet, yours truly did some diggin' to find out what all this no-bone brew-ha-ha was all about. As a breaking news bonus, I'm posting this week's story early so you can be in ... More >>

Phoenix Man Busted After Robbing Three Stores in 20 Minutes, Getting His Car Stuck in the Mud, and a Brief Swim

www.doroteofiles.com​A Phoenix man was arrested this afternoon after robbing three stores in 20 minutes, getting his car stuck in the mud, and leading police on a foot chase that ended in a nearby lake.According to Phoenix police Detective James Holmes, 20-year-old John Michael Krol robbed a Kentu ... More >>

Recreation Myths

“Artsy-fartsy” stuff invades the Y

Customer Allegedly Bumps KFC Employee With Car After Condiments Dispute

​When an employee at a drive-through fast-food restaurant forgets to include the appropriate condiments in your go bag, you're irked. If you're a jerk, you ask to speak to the manager. But you'd have to have a screw loose to try to hit an employee with your car, which is what poli ... More >>

Peoria Cop Shoots at Rifle-Wielding Suspect; Man was Behaving Erratically, Attempting Carjacks, Police Say

 A 42-year-old Peoria police officer with two years on the job shot at a berserk man who pointed a rifle at him last night, cops say. All police will say about the suspect so far is that he's a 23-year-old Peoria resident. Calls began coming in about him at about 11:45 p.m. in the are ... More >>

Great Wall Hong Kong Cuisine: Phoenix’s Chinatown in One Dim Sum Joint

Hot Links: Mental Health, Don Stapley, and Colonel Sanders

The National Alliance on Mental Illness gave Arizona's mental health care system a grade of "C,"which, sadly, is higher than the national average of  "D." Governor Jan Brewer has formed a special panel to address the subject at a hearing in May...A massive house fire near 47th avenue and Gl ... More >>

Monday Night Martha: Chocolate Ginger Bars

Monday Night Martha has its roots a couple years back, in a now-defunct book club. The book club had been around for years -- members had come and gone -- and the thing really was on its last leg, when we decided (well, I decided -- it was my pick that month) we should read the book "Julie and ... More >>

Buckethead: Under the Bucket

There’s Nothing Evolutionary About Spore

Fried: KFC Snackers

Future Shock: Alicia Keys, Buckethead, The Hives, and more

The Recovery Room is a slice of classic dive bar heaven

Fun Bobby's back in town, sharing stories about the Mentors and Kurt Cobain

BEST FRIED OKRA

Lil' Mama's Soul Cafe

Seoul Survivors

Lemons picks his hypothetical "last meal"

Java House

Asian delicacies dominate the menu at Lotus Asian Cafe

Tobacco Roadie

Valley music players remember a fallen comrade

Gulp and Go

Fast service, cheap prices, casual ambiance and terrific eats

Number One With a Pullet

The creators of Wallace & Gromit have cooked up a radical bucket of fun with Chicken Run

Burn the Man!

Playing with fire at the 1997 Burning Man festival

Going to the Doggs

Freaks in the Desert

Strange days and fiery nights at the 1996 Burning Man Festival

Second Helpings

Colonel of Truth?

HOG HEAVEN