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10 Favorite Bakeries In Metro Phoenix

If you're one of those people who bakes a pie to cheer up a friend, makes your specialty carrot/red velvet/whatever cake for everyone's birthday, and routinely pulls together all manner of adorable goodies for your children's school programs and bake sales . . . well, bully for you (and the rest of ... More >>

Pot of Gold: Manila Sunrise Gourmet

Manila Sunrise Gourmet: A Pot of Filipino Gold in a Mesa Strip Mall

America is a melting pot of cuisines. But when it comes to Filipino food, not so much. See also: - The 10 Best Things I Ate in 2012 - 9 Best New Restaurants of 2012 in Greater Phoenix Unlike its Thai and Vietnamese neighbors, the food of the Philippines has never really caught on in the United St ... More >>

Cowboy Ciao's Lester Gonzalez Dishes on Food Truck Fantasies and His Love/Hate Relationship With the Bacon Obsession

Lester Gonzalez Cowboy Ciao 7133 E. Stetson Drive Scottsdale See Also: MJ Coe Dishes on the One Thing He Couldn't Eat and the Death of Cupcake Wars This is part one of our interview with Lester Gonzalez, executive chef at Cowboy Ciao. Check back on Tuesday to learn more about one of Scottsdale's ... More >>

Passion Pit: The Electropop Band is "Doing A Lot Better" After Drama Earlier This Year

Massachusetts' electropop outfit Passion Pit got fans moving with its full-length debut, Manners, in 2009. The group followed it up this year, with Gossamer, full of the same catchy synth tones, but with much darker undertones. Songs like "I'll be Alright" provides a glimpse into songwriter Michael ... More >>

6 Favorite Spots for Hawaiian Food in Greater Phoenix

Take one tropical location and mix it with influences from across the Pacific Rim -- like Japan, the Philippines, Korea, and Thailand -- and you've got the cuisine of Hawaii, the ultimate in fusion food. And whether you prefer Spam musubi over saimin or manapua over a massive plate lunch of kalua ... More >>

The Bourne Legacy: So, Who's the New Guy?

Jay "Akshen" Valdez Talks Para One, Jam Master Jay, Fools Gold, and More

If you pay a visit to AZ/88 tonight, its urbane décor and trendy drinks won't be the coolest thing going on inside the haute Scottsdale hangout. DJ Akshen will be working hard on the wheels of steel providing a fitting tribute to the late Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys during his weekly gig Fluid F ... More >>

Chef Mensur Duzic's Paella

This week in Chef Talk we've been talking with Chef Mensur Duzic of Phoenix Children's Hospital. A tenured veteran of fine dining spots from across the Valley to across the pond, Duzic has enjoyed his position at the hospital for nearly ten years. But does he miss his more high-class culinary roots? ... More >>

Balut, a.k.a. Filipino Duck Embryo Shooters

Balut, a steamed partially developed duck embryo, is a massively popular dish in the Philippines. It is a meal best eaten with friends and large quantities of beer. In America it is generally something that only forms fodder for a parade of "Most Disgusting Foods Ever" lists. In the Philippines, bal ... More >>

Big Brain Update: Brian and Margita Webb

In preparation for this year's Big Brain awards, we're checking up with a few of last year's winners. Our Big Brains today: Brian and Margita Webb Hey Joe! has certainly been keeping busy since winning Phoenix New Times' Big Brain Award last year. With their "no roach, roach coach" turning out Fil ... More >>

Muhammad Ali's 70th Birthday Yesterday Spurs Sweet Memories About "The Greatest"s About `The Greatest'

Sadly, many of us who followed Muhammad Ali's (aka Cassius Clay) boxing career and life for about a half-century suspected that he wouldn't see a 70th birthday.​Surely, we told ourselves privately, he never would outlast his nemesis, Smokin' Joe Frazier, the Philadelphia fury who died late last ye ... More >>

Smokin' Joe Frazier's Death Evokes Memories of Big Apple Showdown With Ali

It was late Janary 1974, and I took a train from Connecticut to New York City for the rematch between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali. I had no idea how or if I was going to get into Madison Square Garden for the fight--but I was determined to give it my best shot. One of sport's greatest rival ... More >>

Chop PHX: Bicol Express

Ando Muneno​ ​​Tired of the same old tired orange chicken and California rolls? Want to venture beyond the standard suburban-stale take-out? Here comes Chop PHX, with the Valley's rarer Asian offerings. This Week: Bicol Express from Gingerroot (1076 W. Chandler Blvd. Chandler). The ... More >>

John Sayles Brings the Philippine-American War Into the 21st Century

Foreigner and Journey at the Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion, 7/24/11

Jonathan McNamaraForeigner ​Night Ranger, Foreigner, and JourneySunday, July 24Ashley Furniture HomeStore PavilionIn all my years attending concerts at this pavilion (under its myriad names), I've never seen traffic like what we waded through before the Foreigner/Journey concert. Cars were still b ... More >>

Natalie Morris' Perfect Food Day

Natalie Morris​Natalie Morris really gets around when it comes to food. She went to culinary school, wrote about food, then wrote some more about food. She went clear across the globe only to learn more about food and returned eating fewer foods as she's mostly vegetarian these days. You can ... More >>

Kiddy Porn Peddler Cries at Sentencing; Gets 15 Years in Prison

www.icanhascheezeberger.com​A Peoria man was sentenced today for his role in an international kiddy porn racket, and when the judge read his sentence, he cried like a baby.David Dean, a 43-year-old trucker from Peoria, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised probatio ... More >>

Brian and Margita Webb

Fox 10 Falls Head Over Heels For Mail-Order Bride Service on Valentine's Day

www.loveme.comWhat are the odds this woman doesn't speak this guy's language?​Fox 10 (KPAZ) reported last night that the "business of love" is "booming" in these hard times -- in the form of increased mail-order "relationships." Who says romance is dead?(See the Fox 10 video below).The TV station ... More >>

Annatto Powder, Achiote Paste, and Neon Red Pollo Supremo

Erica O'NeilBright red chicken and carne asada-- The Combo Plate from El Pollo Supremo.​Tacos may very well be the perfect food, but let's face it, the standard Meximerican fare can get a bit stale after a while. Taco the Town is here to highlight some of the more unusual Mexican finds in the vall ... More >>

Jon Justice, Wingnut Lip-Flapper, CHALLENGED To Debate by David Abie Morales

David Abie Morales, the bad-ass, lefty blogger of Three Sonorans fame, is calling out Tucson wingnut lip-flapper Jon Justice of 104.1 FM "The Truth," and challenging the rightist moonhowler to a debate.But, um, on neutral ground, of course. Heck, I'll even drive down to Tucson to moderate, if they w ... More >>

Barenaked Ladies: The Sordid History of the World's Most Canadian Band

On Inadequate Vocabularies and Pacifying the Whiners

Dlubak Recycling Company Violates Standards in Yuma, Spreads Lead, Says DEQ; E-Waste Going to South Korea, Not Philippines

  Lead-contaminated glass at the Yuma location of Dlubak Glass recycling company is being shipped to South Korea, not the Philippines, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality now reports. Mark Shaffer, spokesman for the agency, tells us state officials named the wrong ... More >>

Red-Hot, White, and Brown

Canadian-Indian comic seeks world domination

The big leprosy lie, as repeated by KTAR's morning wing-nut Darrell Ankarlo.

Journey

Revelation
(Frontiers)

Jungle Fever

Coppola's nightmare yields a dream documentary

Whodunit High

Mild Wilde

A good actor or two wouldn't hurt

Meth and Sex

Tweakers, straight and gay, are obsessed with sex. The result is that pregnancy and HIV-infection rates among meth-heads are increasing at alarming rates

Unknown Soldiers

Compelling story never comes to life

BEST ASIAN MARKET

Lee Lee Oriental Supermarket

Bravo, Blac-a-Zoli

New eatery good to go

Have It Our Way

Baked Bean Dippers? They're a hit at BK in the U.K.

Open to All

Black Eyed Peas hope they're luckier in 2001 than they were last year

Suspended Animation

When Pearse Cullinane left Dublin to work for Fox Animation Studios in Phoenix, he hadn't counted on losing his rights in a right-to-work state. These days the only line he's drawing is in the sand.

Fowl Play

Pious animal-rights activists can't take the fight out of the gamecock

Red Rock Fest

Light of Gay

Tombstone Blues

1,161 rock stars were fatally injured in the making of The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries

The Terminator

Trash-talking abortionist Dr. Brian Finkel has a message for pro-life zealots: "Kiss my ass."

Out, Out, Damn Sport!

Voters seem certain to do what the Arizona Legislature has repeatedly refused to do--ban cockfighting, and hasten the death of a way of life

Main Dish Antenna

WHOSE SOY NOW?

BLOOD SPORT

COCKFIGHTING IS ILLEGAL IN 46 STATES. SIXTEEN OF THEM CONSIDER THE PRACTICE A FELONY. IN ARIZONA, IT'S ENTERTAINMENT.

EASTERN SUNA NEW ASIAN-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER AIMS AT COMMUNITY WHILE COMPETING WITH THE EXISTING TIMES

Hula Oops

Taki's Luau Garden, Aloha Kitchen