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Mother's Day in Metro Phoenix: 7 Restaurants Perfect for Spoiling Mom

Mother's Day is on Sunday, May 12, this year -- that's about two weeks away -- and this is one occasion where you can't put off reserving a table (or special take-home dinner) until the last minute. Whether your mom prefers fine dining or a simple steak, a lavish outdoor brunch or a stay-at-home gou ... More >>

3 America's Taco Shops Raided by MCSO Deputies; 11 Arrested

Thursday, the Valley-based restaurant chain calling itself "the home of the best carne asada" became the latest target of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office. See also: - America's Taco Shop Goes National: New Restaurants Will Feature Updated, Fast-Casual Look The Republic reports that three loca ... More >>

Foam If You Want To

Top Five Phoenix Food Stories of the Week: Super Bowl Edition

Every week, there's a cornucopia of Phoenix food news, features, and reviews to report here at Chow Bella. If you're like most people, you probably just don't have the time to get to all of it. It's kind of like those burgers at Old Town Whiskey; it just won't all fit in your mouth ... or in this ca ... More >>

NFL Punter Is Prying Open America's Last Closet: Pro Sports

Height With Friends: Not Freakishly Tall, Not Quite Hip-Hop

Baltimore MC Height (known by his mother as Dan Keech) got his start rapping with Wounds and Dogg and Pony and Keech's first solo show was opening for Animal Collective in mid-2000. Eight years later, Keech started collaborating with other Maryland musicians, starting Height With Friends. As part ... More >>

Swanky New York Steakhouse Coming to Scottsdale This Fall

Heads up, chichi Scottsdaleans with a penchant for prime, dry-aged porterhouse steaks: New York's Ben & Jack's Steakhouse is planning a move to your fair city this fall. Taking over a vacant Outback Steakhouse at 4180 Drinkwater, Ben & Jack's, which started in Midtown Manhattan in 2005 by long tim ... More >>

Your Drink This Weekend: The Black-Eyed Susan

Two weeks ago, a great deal of people put on extravagant hats, got together to watch a horse race, and proceeded to get inebriated on mint juleps. Since the second leg of the Triple Crown is tomorrow, it's a good reason to throw another get-together in case you didn't get enough horse racing the fir ... More >>

Post-Fire Richardson's Just As Good As Pre-Fire Richardson's (Plus, There's a Patio)

Well that was worth the wait. Ever since Richardson's burned down at its former location on the corner of Bethany Home Road and 16th Street over two years ago, I've had to get my New Mexican cuisine-on at its pint-sized sister restaurant, Dick's Hideaway -- until now. Last month, Richardson's (w ... More >>

Let's Make it Official: Arizona Needs a State Food

Arizona Needs a State Food, I Say Let's Give It One.

Next Tuesday, February 14, Arizona celebrates 100 years of statehood. So where are the eats? The official state food eats? Sadly, there's not one to be found. Which is why, after this long, it's time to get hungry for an official state food. Here's an excerpt from my column in this week's specia ... More >>

Fifteen Favorite Bakeries in Greater Phoenix

​In the 16th and 17th centuries, the skills of the pastry chef were added to those of the bread maker so that in modern Britain (as opposed to France), domestic and commercial bakers used the talents of both. Though the lines have been blurred, the benefit of combining these two trades mean ex ... More >>

Dominick's Steakhouse in Scottsdale Quarter Opens Today -- Extends Middle Finger to Recession With Six-Foot Chandeliers, Poolside Dining, and Complimentary Organic Cosmetics

Mohair-upholstered ceilings, a 3,000-bottle wine cellar, two pianos -- with the opening of Dominick's Steakhouse today in the Scottsdale Quarter, it's like the slumping economy ISN'T EVEN HAPPENING! Courtesy of the Mastro group, the 10,500 square foot, 350-seat, two-level luxury dining destination, ... More >>

Five Teachers That Turned Into Rock Stars

Having Bun B as a professor could have been interesting...​What if Sheryl Crow had been your elementary school music teacher? How cool would it have been if Bun B was your professor in a class about religion and hip-hop? How strange would your learning experience have been if Peaches had been your ... More >>

Tempe and Scottsdale Among Best "Fun, Affordable" Cities in U.S., Says Magazine Report

​Two Valley cities rose to the top of a list of 25 "fun, affordable" cities compiled by a magazine that reviewed median home prices along with proximity to eateries and nightlife.The report from Better Homes and Garden Real Estate, which used data from Onboard Infomatics, reviewed 6,106 ZIP codes ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, May 19, 2011

Colorado House Spikes Legislation Charging Undocumented Students In-State Tuition

News MildUndocumented students walk through a minefield of laws in pursuit of higher education.​Some bills die on the floor of the statehouse. Others die on the governor's desk. Sometimes, they die in the courts. And then there are those that die in a legislative committee, along party lines, li ... More >>

Final Exit Network Murder Case Likely Goes To Jury Today

An eight-person jury will start its deliberations today in a difficult case involving a suicidal Phoenix woman and a national right-to-die organization.Will the jury be able to unanimously decide this one?​Superior Court Judge Paul McMurdie is presiding at the manslaughter trial of co-defendants L ... More >>

Mental Health Check for Gun Buys? Talk About a Straw Man...

YahooMovies If he only had a brain, he could pass that non-existent mental health evaluation and buy a Glock... In the wake of the Tucson massacre, there have been, as you might expect, a number of folks who have suggested that maybe Arizona, and the nation, would benefit from stricter gun le ... More >>

Morning Poll: Are You Over the Whole J.D. Hayworth/ Jack Abramoff Thing Yet?

www.tpm.com Disgraced D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramoff​Yesterday, disgraced, former Washington D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramoff was released from the Maryland prison he's called home since 2006. Simultaneously, Senator John McCain and his opponent in the GOP Senate primary, J.D. Hayworth, are b ... More >>

Michelle Obama Embarrassed by 2nd Grader; and Why Arizona Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce Is an Idiot

And a little child shall lead them...In case you missed it, the video above is of First Lady Michelle Obama, accompanied by Mexico's First Lady Margarita Zavala, visiting with a group of Maryland second graders on Wednesday. One kid raised her hand to ask if it was true what her mommy says that Bara ... More >>

Arizona State University One of Playboy's Top Party Schools Once Again

www.motivatedphotos.com​After a brief fall from grace, thanks -- in part -- to Arizona State University President Michael Crow's ruthless crusade against fun under the disguise of "The New American University," the Sun Devils are back in Playboy magazine's list of top 10 party schools in the count ... More >>

Roots '66

Former Page France frontman hangs with the folk revival

Oops! Former Guv Napolitano Wrongly Hyped "Impending Crime Wave" in 08

​Janet, Janet, Janet ...We found ourselves sadly shaking our head while reading the New York Times yesterday, wondering (yet again) how our former governor could have gotten things so wrong.Governor Janet Napolitano, need we remind you, repeatedly insisted the state was not in a budget crisis -- s ... More >>

Playboy Apartments Maintain a Swinging Style That’s Renovation-Proof

You Asked for It: Third and Maryland

Not too many bands would post a flier for a show where they're not even named, but I thought there was something telling about Third and Maryland's decision to do so here, where they're, presumably, referred to as "LIVE BAND !"Third and Maryland, a four-piece gener-ock band from Phoenix/Scottsdale/B ... More >>

Gunnin' for that #1 Spot

Documentary based on a New Times cover story premieres this weekend

Peacenik Alert

Letters

Letters from the week of January 1, 2004

Day of the Dreads

Good and bad hair days in Scottsdale

Dangerous Curves

ASU's How I Learned to Drive is a near miss

Atomic Fusion

A marriage of tasty and gourmet

War Rations

Portions aplenty are Basis for contentment

Republic Rants

Letters from the week of August 22, 2002

Portrait of a Young Man

Letters from the week of April 25, 2002

Under Fire

Cops seeking sympathy and attention fabricate tales of woe

Cretin Hopping

Veteran roadie John Calleo brings together four rock veterans for the one-off Ramones tribute Rocket to Russia

Hunky Dory

Despite the chaos, a revamped Sugar High and a renamed 40 Watt Las Vegas debut; meanwhile, James Hall spreads the gospel.

Letters

From the week of April 12, 2001

Something Wicca This Way Comes

Blair Witch sequel's reach exceeds its gasp

Relocation Blues

Venerable Valley roots club is on the move

Perpetual Movement

Not content to simply milk his invention, trance music pioneer BT continues to trip the light fantastic in a never-ending search for sound

Ennui and Upward

You've Got Toast!

At a Las Vegas electronics show, "networked homes" have everybody talking, but not asking the right questions

Letters

Hot Five

Phonoroyale carries the torch song into the modern world

Locked in Masquerade

The Department of Juvenile Corrections helped create an overcrowding crisis in state juvenile facilities--to the benefit of a private contractor that employs two former state officials

Getting Over Ansel

THE NAKED DESERT

UNDER EVERY ROCK? SCANDAL! A GUIDE TO OUR MOST TORRID TERRAIN.