Oprah Winfrey

Tony Abou-Ganim & Adam Seger: On Vodka, Vermouth, and Cocktail Culture in Russia

Chef Salad takes a detour this week, interviewing three more of the country's leading beverage industry experts, all of whom are participants in the second annual AZ Cocktail Week, which started this past weekend and runs through February 22. Seminars are held in the Sands Room at the Hotel Valley H ... More >>

Practice Makes Perfect

Five Songs Chick-Fil-A Should Put in Its Next Commercial (Since It's Okay With Taking Money from Gay Folks Again)

There must be something in the air. Everywhere we look, broken relationships seem to be mending. First Rihanna confessed to Oprah that her abusive ex-boyfriend Chris Brown is still the love of her life, then rumors swirled about a possible Kristen Stewart/Robert Pattinson reconciliation after the ... More >>

Oprah Gives Shout-Out to Valley Confectioner Julia Baker

How to know when you've arrived? It's not Snooki following you on Twitter, your mention in a rap song/your rap song, or your video making it on Tosh.0 -- it's a shout-out from the Big O herself, Oprah Winfrey. Julia Baker, chef and owner of Julia Baker Confections, should know. The one-time statist ... More >>

Thirteen Years and a Hundred School Shootings Later, Why Is Hollywood Still Obsessed With This One?

Slade Grove: Caramelpalooza Candymakers

From now through Caramelpalooza -- March 2 at Smeeks candy shop -- Chow Bella will introduce you to the 17 chefs participating in the third annual caramel tasting. Today, meet Slade Grove of Slade Grove Creative Gourmet. With a commitment to "over-the-top indulgence," Slade Grove has been making an ... More >>

Victoria Jackson Goes From Comedy Heights to Being the Tea Party's Princess

Hugging it out with Tammy Abney at Mastro's City Hall

Zach Fowle ​The tender: Tammy AbneyThe bar: Mastro's City Hall Steakhouse (6991 E. Camelback Rd., 480-941-4700)The pedigree: Abney never went to bartending school -- she started her career as a cocktail waitress at DJ's Bar & Grill and worked her way up. She joined up with the Mastro Gro ... More >>

Moscow Mule: Oprah-Approved Refreshment

Image via SF Station Ever since Oprah name-dropped the Moscow Mule, this classic cooler is suddenly red hot​We're uncorking our latest column, Bottoms Up: a weekly guide to everything brewed, bottled, blended, barrel-aged and generally booze-soaked. Sometimes it's impossible to nail down e ... More >>

Couple Awarded $197,500 in Housing Discrimination Lawsuit Won't Tell Story Without More "Gain"

​The story of discrimination faced by an Egyptian Muslim couple who once lived in Tempe is a troubling one.The couple, Soha Abdelrahman and her husband, Hany Ibrahim, were paid $197,500 by the owners of the apartment complex they used to live in, thanks to a settlement negotiated by the office of ... More >>

Cold Comfort

Cross over to Celebrity Theatre for a little light reading

Slade Grove of Wicked Kitchen Gourmet and Cookies from Home

Slade Grove is the kind of man you want in charge of your chocolate: He professes his love for his new enrobing machine and says he has packed on nearly 20 pounds perfecting all his holiday treats at Wicked Kitchen Gourmet and Cookies from Home.

June 24 In Blogs: Andrew Thomas, Evil Dead, Erykah Badu, Cat Coa, and Jan Brewer

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

Let's Have Our Own Top Chef Masters Office Pool!

Oh man, are there Top Chef Masters office pools out there? If not, there should be. Wait, what are we waiting for? We could totally make our own, kinda, through the world wide interweb -- whee! Sorry, still psyched up from last Wednesday's Top Chef Masters on Bravo. The classy reality show ... More >>

Sarah Palin Book Tour Schedules Stop in Tempe

www.babble.com​Will Sarah Palin be coming to the Valley to promote her new book? You betchya! On December 1, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the former GOP vice-presidential candidate will be at the Costco in Tempe to promote her new tell-all, Going Rogue.  Palin began her book tour on Oprah y ... More >>

Mike Tyson in Scuffle With Photog; Then They Both Tried to Arrest Each Other

www.bossipfiles.com​One month to the day after telling Oprah he was done using violence to resolve his "issues," Iron Mike Tyson seems to be at it again.

Hot Links: Bomb Threats, Silver Stars, and Stephenie Meyer

​A female student at Maricopa County High School was arrested yesterday for allegedly making a bomb threat. The girl, whose name has not been released, reportedly told a teacher she "would be sorry, because a bomb would be placed on school grounds." The suspect is being held at Pinal County Juveni ... More >>

China Girl

Journalist transforms touchy-feely situation into brutally frank book

No Wait at Pizzeria Bianco? You Can Bid on It

​Thanks to props from Oprah, Martha, and all the culinary mags, Pizzeria Bianco's wood-fired pies are about as famous as it gets. But the wait at the restaurant is just as legendary. On a good night, you might wait an hour and a half, killing a bottle or two at Bar Bianco and nibbling on ... More >>

Mike Tyson Talks to Oprah About the Death of His Daughter; Doesn't Want to Know Details Because it Could Create a "Problem"

www.myfitnessstudio.comIron Mike​Iron Mike Tyson will be on Oprah Monday, where he discusses the tragic death of his daughter in his Phoenix home earlier this year and claims to not want to know any details to avoid a potential "problem."For the sake of every ear in the Valley, let's respect his w ... More >>

Arty Girl: Phoenix Art Museum Tonight

By Carolyn Castano, courtesy of Phoenix art MuseumTonight, you should do what I did a week ago. Really, you should. Because I went to the Phoenix Art Museum to see "Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement".I have to say, I loved this show. And while I won't get too heavy-duty on the critic ... More >>

Hot Links: Home Invasions, Sarah Palin, and Oprah Winfrey

Incoming Arizona Board of Regents president Ernest Calderon is proposing a plan that would cut the cost of four-year degrees. The proposal would allow students to attend community college for three years, and then an Arizona university their final year...A Mesa woman reportedly shot two home inv ... More >>

The Face of Terror

House of Sand and Fog author explores the September 10 mentality

Craig Ferguson Could Read Me the Phonebook

As Americans, there are a lot of things we don't agree on. But if there's one thing I think we can all get behind, it's this: British/Irish/Scottish accents make everything better. You could call my mother a dirty slut in your boring old American accent and I'd want to punch you in the face, but ... More >>

Tabloid Literature

Author’s works are daytime TV in book form

Tabloid Literature

Author’s works are daytime TV in book form

Barack the Vote

Local creative types back the “cool” candidate

Wardrobe Malfunction

God help us, it’s back

Food PHX

Hushed Heroes

Speaking of snake-eyes . . .

Big Dipper

The cleated tweeter tackles O.J. Simpson, The PHX's hip-hop Klan war, and Police Chief Harris' second helpings of salary pie

Goin' for the gold, man: Valley resident Fred Goldman on Oprah

Sittin' in the Waiting Room

India.Arie

Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship
(Universal/Motown)

One-Woman Odd Squad

A million little stories

David Hemphill

Histrionic truth

We Be Buggin'

Frog One, Bugz in the Attic's Daz-I-Kue, and the scrumptious Sy Smith tear up the club at Mythos' Symposium

A Very Long Run

New releases available this week

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Toila

Motley Crew

Bikers, skinheads, punks and coeds love getting bent at the PV, the divey-est dive in Tempe.

House of Pain

It's Kingsley versus Connelly in a heart-rending real estate battle

The Full . . . Mindy?

This time, it's the middle-aged ladies of a small English town who bare all for laughs

Kings of Beer

A new suds squad seeks to build a roster in Phoenix

And Baby Makes Six

Stacey Beehler's doing the Terrible Twos. Times four.

Beat It

Only band fans need stand in the Drumline

White Wash

The White Stripes create mystique the old-fashioned way: lying and keeping mum

Masters Without Masterpieces

Show offers weakest works of great Mexican artists

The Lust Supper

Mission: Unfilmable

Beloved makes an awkward transition from the page to the screen