Maryland

Superbowl Cupcakes This Weekend Only at Urban Cookies

Still don't know what you're serving at your big Superbowl party on Sunday? Urban Cookies Bakeshop has you covered -- for dessert, anyway. One flavor represents San Francisco, the other Baltimore. So if you're a 49ers fan, hopefully you love dark chocolate, red wine, and cheese. Pulling for the Rave ... More >>

Arizona Powerball Winner: Could This Be the Man Who Got Filthy Rich from the Ticket Bought in Fountain Hills?

Missouri lottery officials already have announced that Cindy Hill and her family have won half of the $587.5 million Powerball jackpot, but who is the lucky winner who bought the second winning ticket at 4 Sons Food Store in Fountain Hills? We have no idea if this Maryland guy was ha ... More >>

New Food Truck Alert: Gourmet Command Center (With Their Badass 17-Foot-Tall Former SWAT Vehicle)

We've always liked guys in trucks, although we never though we'd apply the rule to food trucks. That was until Gourmet Command Center hit the streets in their purple and black, totally pimped out, former-SWAT-surveillance-vehicle now turned food truck. See also: 10 Corporate Food Trucks Totally Bo ... More >>

Soft-Shell Crab Done Right at Quiessence, Teeter House and Binkley's

It's soft-shell crab season now until the end of summer, which means we're going to be seeing lots of it on local menus -- usually served lightly battered and deep-fried, always eaten whole. The good news? No futzing around with crab-crackers. The bad news? Having to eat those beady little eyes. ... More >>

New Belgium Clutch

Zach Fowle ​Beer: ClutchBrewery: New Belgium Brewing Co. Style: American stoutABV: 9 percent It's well-known that most brewers are major fans of rock and roll. Walk into a brewhouse when brewers are hard at work crafting beer and you're likely to some heavily distorted, high energy stuff com ... More >>

Brunch at The Rokerij, Tea and A Tea Set, Bertha's Cafe's Caramel Toffee Bar

A round-up of tasty morsels from Valley food blogs. LocalLily.com​We can't think of a better place to hide out from this heat than the cave-like interior of The Rokerij. LocalLily.com wrote a quick but serious post about how "the brunch Tenderloin and Dungenous Crab Benedict is to.die.for. I wou ... More >>

Connecticut Legislature Approves Bill to Charge Undocumented Students In-State Tuition

Color Lines America is a country divided on education for children of illegal immigrants.​Connecticut will become the 13th state to charge undocumented students in-state tuition at public colleges and universities.   Their senate passed a bill yesterday to that effect, which the gover ... More >>

Polkadot Cadaver at The Rogue Bar

Photos by E. Groves​Polkadot Cadaver The Rogue Wednesday, May 17, 2011I'm embarrassed to admit this, but I -- a devout metal head -- had never heard of Polkadot Cadaver before this show. I went to see them because I had about a dozen friends who were going, and for weeks, they've been go ... More >>

What's Cooking at Sky Harbor's Terminal 4?

Sky Harbor AirportBig changes are in store for Terminal 4.​Changes are happening over at Sky Harbor International Airport, and we're not just talking about the otherworldly metal arches that recently went up at 44th Street and Washington in preparation for the PHX Sky Train. The grub offered insid ... More >>

Feds to School Districts: No, You Can't Deny Undocumented Kids an Education -- And Don't Bully Them, Either

SalonMemo to legislators: son niños. They're children.​The Department of Justice mailed out a gentle reminder to school districts across the country over the weekend advising that undocumented students are, in fact, entitled to attend primary and secondary schools in America without being hassled ... More >>

Third and Maryland: Wednesday

Third and Maryland: Wednesday​Artist: Third and MarylandTitle: WednesdayBasics: Billed as "funk-based blues and straight-ahead rock n' roll," Third and Maryland (TAM) play more blues than rock on their first full-length. The majority of the album is stripped-down, mellow rock with a few upbeat tra ... More >>

Westboro Baptist Bozos Have Right to Protest Funerals, Supreme Court Rules

​The United States Supreme Court ruled this morning that groups like the Westboro Baptist Church, an anti-gay/anti-logic bunch of twerps known for protesting the funerals of soldiers killed overseas, are protected under the first amendment, regardless of how disgusting their message may be.You ... More >>

Gabrielle Giffords Shot in Tucson. The Democratic Arizona Congresswoman Reportedly Was Alive at This Writing *UPDATED*

Representative Gabrielle Giffords was shot this morning in Tucson.​*UPDATED* Click here for update.Democratic U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was one of at least 12 people shot this morning at an event at a grocery store in Tucson, NPR is reporting.Giffords was reportedly shot in ... More >>

Black Label Society @ Comerica Theatre

Joan Waters' "20/20: New Sculpture and Painting" Brings Caribbean-Inspired Colors to @Central Gallery

Still Waters

New work based on our topography

Joe DiPadova, What Are You Eating?

​ Joe DiPadovaThe deep house and techno deejay and founder of ONE spins regularly at places such as Hanny's and Cream Stereo Lounge and plays at Bar Smith Saturday, January 16. What'd you eat for dinner last night? Well, I'm up in Taos, N. M. right now, so I ate at a great local Mexican j ... More >>

Chef Talk: Eddie V's Crab Cake Maryland Style

Yesterday, we chatted him up. Today executive chef Brian Feirstein, from Eddie V's Prime Seafood, shares this recipe for Maryland-style crab cakes. The dish is super-simple and quick to make, but its beautifully plated presentation makes it seem way fancier. Nicki Escudero​Here's how to mak ... More >>

Coronado Cafe Under New Ownership

Flight attendants-turned-restaurateurs Robert McCarville, Tom Vigil, and Randy Betnar sold Coronado Cafe two weeks ago, and the new owners of the charming eatery, tucked into an historic 1915 bungalow on 7th Street, have a few changes in store. Co-owner Diane Stackwick has lived in Arizona for a dec ... More >>

Hot Links: Kidnappings, Plane Crashes, and 15 Pounds of Meth

​Two children have been safely returned to their mother after an early morning kidnapping near 27th avenue and Indian School Road. According to police, a group of men stormed the victims' house, yelling that they were police, and forcibly took the children, ages two and eleven months. Police are s ... More >>

Hot Links: Cardinals, Coyotes, and Cabaret Shootings

Following the NFL draft, the Arizona Cardinals have released three players: running back Edgerrin James, cornerback Rod Hood, and linebacker Travis LaBoy...Arizona Representative Robert Meza has resigned from the board of Chicanos por la Causa to focus on creating a nonprofit organization for e ... More >>

Benefit for Lit Drummer Saturday at Club Red

I know a lot of people are planning to go out to The Loveblisters' last show Saturday night, but there's another cool show that night, this one for a good cause. Allen Shellenberger, drummer of the California band Lit, was diagnosed with brain cancer a year ago and the age of 38 and one of his Ariz ... More >>

Senator Benjamin Cardin Floats Bill to Give Newspapers Tax Exempt Status

The daily newspaper industry seems to be violently ill, if not on its death bed, judging by the onslaught of furloughs, layoffs and shutdowns. But coming to the rescue is a Democratic senator from Maryland, Benjamin Cardin (pictured), who today introduced a bill that would allow newspapers to o ... More >>

UPDATE: County Attorney Andrew Thomas Says Final Exit Network "Assisted Suicide" Case on Front Burner

County Attorney Andrew Thomas didn't answer many questions at his press conference a few hours ago about Phoenix's "assisted suicide" case, the story we broke in an August 2007 piece entitled "Death Wish." What he did tell those assembled in the crowded conference room of his eighth-floor ... More >>

Could This be in Our Future? Maryland Teens Reportedly Use Photo Enforcement to Pull Pranks

Maryland teens reportedly have found a new use for a speed-camera program launched last year in that state's Montgomery County. According to an online "exclusive" in the Montgomery County Sentinel newspaper, high school students in the area came up with a game called speed-camera "pimpin ... More >>

HAG's Naughty Nurses, Still Stickin' It to the CNA

CNA's rage for censorship...

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, May 25, 2006

Art Scene

Current shows, exhibits, and installations

Clutch

Heavy but spry

Hello Moto

Freaky freestyle flies through town

Public Display

It was only a Kiss, how did it end up like this?

Picking St. Nix

A little supping for Christmas

Hit Parade

Glendale Arena packs a punch with Showtime boxing

Kings of Beer

A new suds squad seeks to build a roster in Phoenix

Courting Death

U.S. Supreme Court says don't short-change death clients

Chasin' Player in Bogotá

Firing-up traditions of Colombia

Wright 'em, cowboy

From the Rockery to the Rooste

Entry Level

O.A.R. traveled instantly from Ohio State University to touring nationally. They have only their fans to thank.

Sniper

God, Boys, Madness and the Sacred Art of One Shot, One Kill. A Meditation.

Rick's Rokery?

The owner of Richardson's and Dick's Hideaway hopes that three's company

Best Italian Restaurant

Acqua e Sale

Trans Am, I Said

Maryland post-rock trio drives it into the Red Line

Petty Woman

Veiled in mediocrity, Runaway Bride isn't much of a catch

Fresh Blood

The left-field, ultra-low-budget The Blair Witch Project scares us in a way that Hollywood's forgotten

Tents Situation

The Blair Witch Project pitches camp for terror

Slipping Through the Net

"Internet Internist" caught in web of investigations

Branch Management

Recycle your Christmas tree

The Internet Internist

Dr. Pietr Hitzig of Maryland has prescribed a fen-phen panacea for all manner of ailments to thousands of patients he has never met. One of them, Alvin Chernov, killed himself.

MAYBERRY, R.I.P.EX-LOTTERY DIRECTOR MADE THE MISTAKE OF CROSSING GTECH, A POWERFUL CONTRACTOR THAT IS USED TO GETTING WHAT IT WANTS