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Over Easy Named One of America's Best Brunches by Travel Leisure

Many of us in the Valley consider Over Easy, restaurateur Aaron May's concept of breakfast eats with some unique twists (with locations in Arcadia and North Scottsdale), our neighborhood go-to spot for a.m. goodness. Now, it looks like Travel Leisure, the travel magazine and website based in New Y ... More >>

Couture Club

Many of us in the Valley consider Over Easy, restaurateur Aaron May's concept of breakfast eats with some unique twists (with locations in Arcadia and North Scottsdale), our neighborhood go-to spot for a.m. goodness. Now, it looks like Travel Leisure, the travel magazine and website based in New Y ... More >>

Snap Judgment

Many of us in the Valley consider Over Easy, restaurateur Aaron May's concept of breakfast eats with some unique twists (with locations in Arcadia and North Scottsdale), our neighborhood go-to spot for a.m. goodness. Now, it looks like Travel Leisure, the travel magazine and website based in New Y ... More >>

Good Vibrations

Many of us in the Valley consider Over Easy, restaurateur Aaron May's concept of breakfast eats with some unique twists (with locations in Arcadia and North Scottsdale), our neighborhood go-to spot for a.m. goodness. Now, it looks like Travel Leisure, the travel magazine and website based in New Y ... More >>

The Rave and the Bold

Many of us in the Valley consider Over Easy, restaurateur Aaron May's concept of breakfast eats with some unique twists (with locations in Arcadia and North Scottsdale), our neighborhood go-to spot for a.m. goodness. Now, it looks like Travel Leisure, the travel magazine and website based in New Y ... More >>

Carrie On

Many of us in the Valley consider Over Easy, restaurateur Aaron May's concept of breakfast eats with some unique twists (with locations in Arcadia and North Scottsdale), our neighborhood go-to spot for a.m. goodness. Now, it looks like Travel Leisure, the travel magazine and website based in New Y ... More >>

Slideluck Potshow Coming to Phoenix

If you've been waiting for a good excuse to make a giant batch of your favorite cookies or looking for a way to share all that extra swiss chard in the garden, we have a good one. ​ On April 30th at 7 pm at The Icehouse, the NYC based non-profit Slideluck Potshow is coming to Phoenix to bring ... More >>

Tempe and Scottsdale Ranked Amongst "Rudest Cities" in English-Speaking World

​Two Arizona cities (that happen to be home to a large number of Arizona State University students) are ranked in the top 10 when it comes to rudest cities in the English-speaking world.According to a study conducted by the Foursquare social network, Tempe ranks No. 6 when it comes to rudeness, wi ... More >>

Graphic Novel Style Cookbook

Ryan Dunlavey​ How fun is this new book planned by Dirt Candy NYC? Dirt Candy NYC is a brilliantly named vegetable based restaurant in NYC and is one of the only Michelin-recommended vegetarian restaurants in America. Even the most tired home cooks will drag their weary rears to be inspired ... More >>

Market Research

Check out this body-parts-free zone

Ask a Mexican: On the Trials of Being Successful and the Meaning of Dreams

Check out this body-parts-free zone

Mates of State

East coasters to document one of downtown’s best art venues

Ask the Critic: Where Can I Find Boba Drinks?

​You have your neighborhood gelato shop and ice cream parlor, but boba drinks -- cold, sweet beverages filled with ice and chewy balls of tapioca -- are much harder to come by. I was living in New York City when the boba trend first hit. Also known as "bubble tea," the drink was popularized ... More >>

Hell's Kitchen Season 7 Opener: Continued Abuse, Crazy Contestants, and a (Yech!) Chef Ramsay Make-Out Session

Another Hell's Kitchen, another ride on the Chef Ramsay roller coaster. In last week's first episode, it didn't take long for Gordo to send food flying all over the kitchen, repeatedly kick defenseless stainless steel appliances, and shout out such gems as, "You're gonna blow someone's mind off!" ... More >>

Heroin-Filled Hiking Boots Earn Mexican Doctor Seven-Year Prison Sentence

www.nrainsights.com​Two Mexican men, one a medical doctor, were sentenced to prison yesterday for their participation in a heroin-trafficking conspiracy that stretched from a drug cartel in Colombia, through Arizona, and all the way to New York City.Dr. Jose David Portillo-Lopez, 39,&nb ... More >>

Strip-Ease

NYC gals show off their goods

Art of Noise

The new Modified debuts experimental-music series

Hartbreaks: Phoenix's Hipster DJ King In Waiting?

FACT: You can tell how popular a DJ is by how many pictures exactly like this are on his/her MySpace.​With William "Fucking" Reed, the undisputed king of Phoenix hipster dance nights, scheduled to move to NYC, we're on the lookout for a new Saturday Night Messiah. This is only news to some of you, ... More >>

National Bagels and Lox Day: Where to Get Your Schmear Here

​Today is National Bagels and Lox Day.  We have to admit that nothing beats a New York city bagel.  But since the NYC weather report is showing temps topping out at just above the freezing mark, we'll stay put with the snowbirds in sunny Phoenix while we indulge.A bagel is only brag ... More >>

Hot Fudge Sundaze

​Today is National Bagels and Lox Day.  We have to admit that nothing beats a New York city bagel.  But since the NYC weather report is showing temps topping out at just above the freezing mark, we'll stay put with the snowbirds in sunny Phoenix while we indulge.A bagel is only brag ... More >>

DJ William Reed Moves To NYC This Spring

William Fucking Reed is hitting the road for the Empire State in the spring.​Start spreading the news: William Fucking Reed is moving to New York Fucking City in April. The stylish 32-year-old DJ has apparently had his fill of being a Phoenician and will become a Gothamite after his moves to the ... More >>

Bomb Tracks

Holiday music that rules

Bomb Tracks

Holiday music that rules

The Eyes of Ground Zero

NYC street artist discusses 9/11 and other work

Prado's Pavle Milic Leaving to Start His Own Restaurant

​Will it be the gourmet panini restaurant, inspired by Ino in New York City, that he'd been trying to open before the economy took a dive? Or will it be an entirely new concept? It remains to be seen, but Prado general manager Pavle Milic -- one of the city's best-known front of the house p ... More >>

School of Mock

Daft Punk cover act may be bogus, but it’s pretty damn good

Just Plain Anti-Folks

The north rises again with odd (and oddly named) NYC crew

Dr. Michael Baden

The north rises again with odd (and oddly named) NYC crew

Review of Jimmy Eat World's NYC Show

Ashley HarrisJimmy Eat World playing Clarity in NYC.We should probably just declare this Jimmy Eat World Week at New Times. We've got an essay about Clarity running in Thursday's paper, along with my column on the 10 best emo songs of all time. On Up on the Sun, we've got a series of posts about Cl ... More >>

Disco Infierno

Big Manzana-born Fuego keeps it caliente

Hot Links: DPS Covers State With Speed Cameras; Phoenix Cutting 1,000 Jobs; FBI Calls Robber "Mid-Life Crisis Bandit"

Travelers must force their way through a gauntlet of photo enforcement vans today on Interstates 10 and 40 in what appears to be the single largest deployment of speed cameras ever. The Arizona Department of Public Safety wants to "cover all of I-10 and I-40 in Arizona," says the Republic article be ... More >>

Bach to the Future

Grammy-winning PHX group fosters a youth movement

Jazz It Up

A night of burning sound awaits at the Lost Leaf

The Claudia Quintet

A night of burning sound awaits at the Lost Leaf

Weeknight Warriors

Jazz quartet blows away the Monday blues

The Air I Breathe

Jazz quartet blows away the Monday blues

East Village People

First mullets, then fanny packs, now this

Planet Peelander

First mullets, then fanny packs, now this

Singapore Fling

Meet the top guns of cocktail aeronautics

The Manhattan Project

Photogs pulled out all the f-stops for NYC survey

Hula Hoopla

Rave DJs kick Don Ho to the curb

Ed Petterson

The New Punk Blues of Ed Petterson
(Split Rock Records)

Season's eatings

The New Punk Blues of Ed Petterson
(Split Rock Records)

Gorilla Biscuits

Flaky and hot

Lansing-Dreiden

The Dividing Island
(Kemado)

10,000 Leagues Below the Funk

Wherever it is, you're there

Sonic Youth

Staples of screeching noise-rock come to the Valley

Various Artists

Savoy on Central Avenue (Savoy Jazz)

The Strokes

Is This It (RCA)