London (England)

How to Make a Hanky Panky Cocktail

Here I go again with drinks with weird names. Hanky Panky? It manages to be hopelessly outdated, yet still carries a lurid aura with it. The origin of the drink's name is a bit more innocent. It goes back to the early 20th century, at the American Bar in London's Savoy Hotel. See Also: - Corpse Rev ... More >>

Edible Hotel Opened in London For One Night Only

Apparently Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a documentary -- not a work of fiction -- because London has just played host to an edible "cake hotel." The rug is meringue, the books are cake and a doughnut tower. It looks like pretty much every horizontal surface was covered by diabetes some sor ... More >>

Tony Abou-Ganim & Adam Seger: On Vodka, Vermouth, and Cocktail Culture in Russia

Chef Salad takes a detour this week, interviewing three more of the country's leading beverage industry experts, all of whom are participants in the second annual AZ Cocktail Week, which started this past weekend and runs through February 22. Seminars are held in the Sands Room at the Hotel Valley H ... More >>

Adorable Wallace and Gromit Inspired Contraption: Pancake-omatic

The pancake-omatic is an automatic pancake making machine built by a team of designers over at The Happy Egg Co, a UK based company that turns out free range eggs and egg products. Their blog points out the wildly popular stop-motion series, Wallace & Gromit, as obvious inspiration. See Also: --Ol ... More >>

Charlotte Voisey: On Molecular Mixology and Being a Bartender

Chef Salad takes a detour this week and next, interviewing four of the country's leading beverage industry experts, all of them speakers at upcoming seminars held at the Hotel Valley Ho for the second annual Arizona Cocktail Week, February 16-22. See also: --6 Don't Miss Events During AZ Cocktail ... More >>

Grouplove @ Crescent Ballroom

Watch This Man Pour the World's Most Expensive and Oldest Cocktail

Salvatore Calabrese mixed up world's most expensive cocktail at the Playboy Bar in London, which he owns. The single drink, dubbed "Salvatore's Legacy," cost more than $8,000 and was mixed exclusively with alcohol 100 years old or older. See Also: --Creating Fall Cocktails with Belinda Chang and J ... More >>

Easy Riders

Robyn Hitchcock's Strange World Is a Tuneful Place

French Connection

Golden Opportunity

Who Needs The Olympic Ceremonies? Duran Duran Chilled in Tucson

Where we're going, we don't need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. See also: Pet Shop Boys' New Release Rivals Muse's Official 2012 Olympic Anthem See also: George Michael: Better Today Than Yesterday? See also: Madness, a Soundtrack to '80s ... More >>

From High Tea to Fish and Chips, Seven Places to Get a Taste of Britain in Metro Phoenix

See also: Five Must-See Summer Olympics Parties See also: The Best and Worst Olympic Theme Songs in History In case you don't remember from last time the Olympics rolled around, watching athletes burn hundreds of calories can really get you thinking...about dinner. And since we're about to be bomba ... More >>

Watch: Murderous Burger Chases Man, World's Largest McDonalds Built In a Minute

See Also: Hipster Foodie Mauled By Bear to '80s New Wave Soundtrack in Very Satisfying Video See Also: Video Mashup: Brad Pitt Eating. And Eating With all the talk about how bad fast food is for your health, it's not surprising that a team of French art students might create a vision of a world in ... More >>

London Restaurant Installs Nightmare Worthy Art to Glare Down at You Over Dinner

There's a new restaurant in a trendy corner of London called the Tramshed. Their gimmick is that their simple menu completely revolves around steak and chicken. So to celebrate this they decided to install a giant Damien Hirst art piece: A massive tank filled with formaldehyde and a preserved "Coc ... More >>

The Sporting Life

Flashback Friday: Madness, a Soundtrack to '80s Fun Houses

Where we're going, we don't need roads; just a synthesizer, eyeliner, and a touch of androgyny. Welcome to Flashback Friday. Seminal '80s ska revivalists Madness are probably best remembered for their kooky house-of-mirrors-style riff-raff and carnival music flair. During MTV's glory days, it was a ... More >>

Jay "Akshen" Valdez Talks Para One, Jam Master Jay, Fools Gold, and More

If you pay a visit to AZ/88 tonight, its urbane décor and trendy drinks won't be the coolest thing going on inside the haute Scottsdale hangout. DJ Akshen will be working hard on the wheels of steel providing a fitting tribute to the late Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys during his weekly gig Fluid F ... More >>

Mega-Watson

DMC Phoenix Regionals @ Civic Space Park

Club Candids: Piñata at Fillmore Creative

New York City has a few moombahton nights spring up across its nightlife landscape in the last year, as has El Lay, London, Miami, and even Dallas. (Hell, the Bay Area has at least four or five separate events devoted to the genre). As for Phoenix? Eh, not so much. Although its been spun in clubs ... More >>

Caspa @ School of Rock

The Quakes' Paul Roman on New Lineup, Getting Deported, and Psychobilly in the '80s

Melissa Fossum​ In spited of limited commercial success, The Quakes are one of the most influential bands in the tatted up, creepers-and-pompadour subgenre psychobilly. The band formed in Buffalo, New York in 1986 and relocated to London shortly thereafter, where they established a reputatio ... More >>

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our November 3 Issue

​This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. What does Henry Rollins have to say about Occupy, his new book, and KCRW in Los Angeles? What does Dead Ey ... More >>

Bass Oddity: Skrillex Brings Dubstep to the Masses

A La Mode

Historic Gastronomy: the New Trend in Haute Cuisine

http://foodists.ca/2011/06/05/a-london-lunch-at-dinner.htmlChef Heston Blumenthal's take on "meat fruit" (c.1500) at London's Mandarin Oriental.​If you've had quite enough, thank you, of hi-tech food manipulation techniques and long for simpler, perhaps more barbaric times when you might drown spa ... More >>

Frank Turner Discusses Touring, London Riots, and Drinking With Grandma

Frank Turner has been enjoying unexpected success as a solo folk/punk musician after the demise his hardcore band, Million Dead. Turner has garnered an international fanbase over the past few years, touring relentlessly with bands like Social Distortion, Flogging Molly, and The Gaslight Anthem. His ... More >>

Five English Riot Songs

London is burning. Storefronts are busted. Looting is rampant. And rioters are reducing many of the city's buildings to piles of timber. But what is it all for?

Artists React and Reach Out as London Riots Continue

Sony warehouse fire in London on August 9, 2011 The people of London are taking Bob Marley's song "Burnin and Lootin" to heart with a multiple-day riot that has not yet ended. The riots, which are a response to police shooting and killing 29-year-old Mark Duggan, have affected other citi ... More >>

Chris Brown Carelessly Infuriates His Neighbors

​It's tough enough to have a regular bad neighbor, but your living situation will be made particularly difficult if your neighbor is Chris Brown, according to the Boom Box.Residents of the same West Hollywood condos as Chris Brown have been complaining about the late night dog races that he holds ... More >>

Arctic Monkeys' Suck It and See Album Cover Reportedly Censored by Some Retailers

Press Here PublicityArctic Monkeys: Suck It and See what happens.​British garage pop rockers Arctic Monkeys' next album, Suck It and See, hits American store shelves Monday, June 6 -- but some stores are going to censor the album cover, according to singer Alex Turner in a recent interview with Lo ... More >>

Cakey Perry: The High Tea Pop-Up to Melt Your Popsicle

"Perry Pops" from Molly Bakes​Who says London tea parties and fine, fresh, and fierce California girls don't mix? Not Emma Thomas, more commonly known as Miss Cakehead and creator of the adults-only cake shop Eat Your Heart Out. Inspired by Katy Perry's "California Gurls" video, Miss C ... More >>

2011 World's 50 Best Restaurants: Two Tickets to Denmark, Please

Getty Images​Those devilish Danes have done it again. Curse their delicious Nordic cuisine! (Not really. Pass the Greenland musk ox, please.) Restaurant magazine and S. Pellegrino's annual "World's 50 Best Restaurants" list is out and it seems Denmark, the land of Lego AND Hans Christian A ... More >>

Brit Grit and Pub Grub: Dinner and a Movie

Candied bacon.​ Staying in? We've got you covered -- both on the culinary and entertainment fronts. Now presenting Dinner and a Movie -- a guide to do a do it yourself evening of food and film. Winter in the desert can get cold and gray. More people are wearing black sweaters, jean ... More >>

Best Trends Forever

Learn the history behind your favorite looks

Chef Christopher Gross' Kitchen Secrets

Pop Art: For Some Local Artists, the Bad Economy Is Good News

Larry Tee Talks Electro, Siriusmo, Róisín Murphy, Sex, Dance Parties, and More

Larry Tee works his magic tonight at Crotch Rockitt in Scottsdale.​Many a hipster spinster in this town might just owe a debt of gratitude to Larry Tee. The NYC club promoter/producer/DJ helped give birth to the style of upbeat, ultra-colorful dance events put on by Jared Alan or the Party Foul! c ... More >>

Where Do Arctic Monkeys Fit Into Britain's Many Regional Scenes?

Bentley Gallery in Scottsdale Works to Revive Marshall Way

http://www.flickr.com/photos/athomeinscottsdale/4283373294/​I've kept my beady little eye on Marshall Way in Scottsdale for quite some time now. And, as you may already know, I've been quite concerned (click here for some stories on the subject).Well, I'm not the only who worries. Bentley Calverle ... More >>

Wine on Tap and Yummy Insects in Today's Eater's Digest

An early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives. ​ The Newest Trend in wine has hit the Valley in the form of a 5 gallon keg. That's right folks, a keg o' wine. Valley favorite Postino has started serving wine on tap at both the Arcadia and Central locations. R ... More >>

Year in Film: Clint Eastwood Tackles Mandela, the Hereafter and Approaching 80

House at the End of the World

Japanese DJ/producer has been everywhere – but here

FauxSW

London Calling

And it’s only a short Tube ride away

Artist Betsy Schneider takes pictures of her children naked and shows them to the world

New Japanese joint Roka Akor gets the details right

Great Britons

Never mind the bollocks, here’s the Guana Batz

Bottom Feeding

Casting to find the best fish and chips