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The Cronut: An Easy At-Home Recipe, Impostors Around the World, and How Much They Cost on the Black Market

Once upon a time, there was a New York baker who decided he wanted to combine two humble baked goods: the doughnut and the croissant. French chef Dominique Ansel, operating out of a storefront in SoHo, spent two months finding the perfect fusion of the two breakfast bakery treats and introduced the ... More >>

Judge Strikes Down NYC Soda Ban

A state Supreme Court Judge upended New York City's ban on some high-capacity sodas which was set to go into effect this Tuesday. Mayor Bloomberg, who championed the ban on some sodas over 16 ounces in size, was less than pleased and said that the judge had erred in his ruling. He also said that he ... More >>

Enter to Win a Trip to New York for The James Beard Foundation Awards on May 6

Sure, Phoenix is far from being a favorite city of the JB foundation, but that doesn't mean we don't daydream about what it would be like to experience the biggest event in the culinary world. See also: - 2013 James Beard Award Semifinalists Announced: Four Arizona Candidates Make the Cut Aside ... More >>

Soda Drinker Pro Is... A Soda Drinking Simulation

Humanity has accomplished a great deal in its relatively brief time on this planet. So it's refreshing to see we've even managed to wield technology so advanced that we can properly simulate the act of walking around and drinking a soda. See Also: -Colbert Struggles With NYC Soda Ban, Conan Offers ... More >>

"The Real Bears" Takes a Jab at the Coca-Cola Bears

Preempting Coca-Cola's polar bear themed holiday advertising campaign, the healthy eating advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest has launched a campaign aimed squarely at the lovable ambassadors of sugary delight. Their campaign called "The Real Bears," plays on the cute imagery of ... More >>

NYC Soda Ban Passed, Watch Horrifying Anti-Soda Ads

See Also: Colbert Struggles With NYC Soda Ban, Conan Offers Alternatives See Also: Good News: Coffee Might Extend Your Life. Bad News: Sugar Might Make You Dumb Mayor Bloomberg's high-capacity soda ban has passed through the bowels of the New York City Board of Health and into law, provided it isn' ... More >>

Nine Food Trucks We Wish Would Road Trip to Phoenix

See also: 10 Corporate Food Trucks Totally Bogarting the Mobile Kitchen Scene, Man Don't get us wrong, we're damn proud of the Valley's mobile food scene. And it's not like Phoenix doesn't boast some nationally recognized trucks. Now-defunct Truckin' Good Food from Jeff Kraus made a list of Most In ... More >>

Bohemian Rhapsody

Twin Sister @ Crescent Ballroom

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

Snap Judgment

Good Vibrations

The Rave and the Bold

Carrie On

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

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

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

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

Weeknight Warriors

Jazz quartet blows away the Monday blues

The Air I Breathe

East Village People

First mullets, then fanny packs, now this

Planet Peelander

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