Long Island

Street Eats Food Truck Festival Is Set for January 12 and 13 at Salt River Fields

If you love local food trucks, Food Network, or Man v. Food on the Travel Channel, here's an event for you.

Laurie Notaro's Eight Food(ie) Terms Past Their Expiration Dates

​Some people, such as readers of Eatocracy, followers of multiple food blogs, and Food Network devotees, consider themselves as inductees in a special club of "culinary provocateurs" who rise far above the standard chewers of mealtime. So much to the point that as any exclusive rank, they've inven ... More >>

Last Call Goes On Spring Break: Adios Motherfucker!

It's that time again, time for the students at ASU to be on spring break, heading off to Puerto Peñasco or Lake Havasu or goodness knows where. And with spring break comes a time-honored tradition for college students everywhere: Binge drinking. One of the most popular mixed drinks for copious cons ... More >>

Where to Eat and Drink Near Camelback Ranch

​ Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago White Sox: Camelback Ranch 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. Widely considered one of the crown ... More >>

Matt Slenske's American Junkie

Zach Fowle ​Yesterday we met Matt Slenske, bar manager at American Junkie. Today he shares with us the recipe for the bar's signature drink, aptly named the American Junkie. Packed with ingredients, it's like a Long Island Iced Tea gone to the loony bin.

Making Hundreds of Long Islands with Curtis Williams at Mill Cue Club

Zach Fowle​The tender: Curtis Williams The bar: Mill Cue Club (607 S. Mill Ave., 480-858-9017) The pedigree: Becoming a bartender at Cue Club works differently than at most places: any girl who wants to tend bar has to start out as a server, and any guy has to first work the door. Williams followe ... More >>

White Collar Job

NEW Spring Restaurant Week Starts May 13

​Hungry for some awesome restaurant deals? The Arizona Restaurant Association announced yesterday that they'll be following in the footsteps of Long Island's Restaurant Week sponsors, who recently added a spring event to their annual culinary lineup. The first-ever Sprin ... More >>

April Lohrenz at Spitfire Grill & Tavern

April Lohrenz ​April Lohrenz wears many hats. There's the promoter hat, which she wore while working years ago as a promoter for Budweiser, travelling all over the country to promote the beer company at hydroplane speed boat races. There's the student hat, which she currently dons as she stu ... More >>

Justin Garza, What Are You Eating?

​Justin Garza The singer/songwriter for The Season Premiere plays with the band at the Desert Sound Music Festival in Yuma September 25. The band recently released a new single on i-Tunes, entitled "She Doesn't Know". What'd you eat for dinner last night? A 6-ounce sirloin steak with mashed p ... More >>

MasterChef, the American Idol of Cooking, Premieres This Tuesday -- Prepare for Stomach for "Funeral Potatoes"

This Tuesday on Fox, Mr. needs-a-nap chef Gordon Ramsay brings the world's biggest cooking competition to America with MasterChef. Featuring home cooks competing for $250,000 and the chance to publish their own cookbook, this American Idol of cooking shows doses out more drama than the wildly pop ... More >>

Badness at Char's Has the Blues

Badness members​This is part of a series of reviews of bands who play weekly at local bars. The show: Badness at Char's Has the Blues. The look: Small, old-school blues dive, lit by red Christmas lights. The smell: Wood and the street. The taste: Sweet. In an old, sweaty kind of way. Three words/ ... More >>

Top 5 Cocktails That Will Make You Fat

This subway sign from the NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygeine is about sugary soft drinks, but you get the point.​Just because the bartender doesn't hand you a nutritional information packet with your cocktail doesn't mean those calories don't count. For some, a night of binge-drinking ca ... More >>

Tiger Woods and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino "Un-Sexiest Men of the Year"

www.fancast.com"The Situation"​The results are in: Sex great Tiger Woods and Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino of The Jersey Shore are named as the two un-sexiest men of 2009, according to an opinion survey conducted by The Boston Phoenix.Tiger, who just finished a stint at an Arizona rehab center, ... More >>

Mug Shot of the Week: Cardinals Super Fan

​This is one of the few haircuts we've ever seen that may be dumber than the "blown out" Long Island locks Paulie D sports on the Jersey Shore. This Arizona Cardinals super-fan was originally seen on The Smoking Gun and his mug was brought to our attention by our friends a ... More >>

God on the Mic

The original emcee returns to pump up the volume

Concert Review: Brand New Cover Songs From All Four Albums And Keep It Simple On Stage

​It's not often that a band garners encore-like chants from their fans before a show unless it's an arena band such as Bon Jovi or U2. However, this was the scene at Mesa Ampitheatre Thursday 10 minutes before Brand New greeted the fairly packed house. The Long Island punk act took ... More >>

Brand New Streaming New Disc on MySpace

​ Daisy, the forthcoming album from Long Island indie/hardcore band Brand New isn't out until next Tuesday, Sept. 22, but thanks to MySpace, you can check out the disc in its entirety before it drops next week. The band is streaming its fourth disc on their MySpace page. After givi ... More >>

Long Live The Mean Queen

A not-very-nice girl performs at Dodge

Brand New to Release New Disc in Sept. and Headline Mesa Amipitheatre in Oct.

Daisy, the forthcoming album from Brand New, is set to drop Sept. 22Arizona Brand New fans can rejoice. The Long Island hardcore rock band will release Daisy, their forthcoming disc, Tuesday, Sept. 22. The disc is the highly-anticipated follow-up to 2006's The Devil and God Are Rag ... More >>

Break a Hipster

Panic! offshoot has good genes for an alt-dance party

Taking Back Sunday

Taking Back Sunday

"The Ballad of Joe Arpaio" Hits the Blogosphere

A buddy just sent us a link to this cool little story in the New York Times.  Seems that a factory worker from Long Island named Saul Linares recently penned a little corrido -- those wonderful Latino folk ditties about love, murder, and about everything between. Th ... More >>

Better Than Petty?: Hypothetical Super Bowl halftime shows

Stinging Sensation

Artist Gwyneth Scally swims with the jellyfish

War Games

Colonel Kreme and Staff Sergeant Jett dive-bomb Mardi Gras for the Mother of All Sadisco Battles

Charlie Sexton, and Shannon McNally

A little bit country

From Autumn to Ashes, Armor for Sleep

Big indie

Pit er Pat

Shaken and stirred

Action Action

Catchy, with gloom

Lick Them Beavers!

Notre Dame looks for payback in the Insight Bowl

BEST UPSCALE ITALIAN RESTAURANT

Daniel's Italian Cuisine

THE NIGHT:Standard at Elixir

THE DJ:Translator

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Palace of Perversion

The Scully and Mulder of PHX-Files fame discover Goth/Industrial vamps and tramps at Area 51

Bemoaning Mahowny

If there was any life to this reality based drama, the filmmakers seem to have missed it.

Northern State

Dying in Stereo (Interscope)

Best Place To Expect The Unexpected

Hamburger Mary's

Best Neighborhood Italian Restaurant

La Famiglia

Teenage Wasteland

The malaise of a suburban teen is made vivid in the disturbing debut L.I.E.

Another Opening, Another Show

If your vagina got dressed, what would it wear to The Vagina Monologues?

Blowin' Smoke

Ted Demme and Denis Leary are a match made in effin' heaven

Burn, Baby, Burn

'Stop urban sprawl!' 'Burn the rich!' 'An acre an hour is obscene!' Is it any wonder some are rooting for the arsonists?

The Gay Laughter Trinity

Valley of the Sun Gay and Lesbian Community Center's "2000 Night of Comedy"

Song for Xmas

The trailer-park Grinch revisits his year of misery

Rhymes of Passion

Hip-hop court jester Busta Rhymes rides high with new album and groundbreaking tour

I Love a Band in a Uniform

The fashionable dos and duds of pop's greatest costume gimmick bands

KIN AND COUNTRY