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MarchFourth Marching Band @ Crescent Ballroom

Polish Goodies Like Grandma Used to Make

Henry Rollins Won't Tell You Who to Vote For (But He Really Thinks You Should Vote)

See also: OFF!'s Dimitri Coats Talks Phoenix Oil Theft Charges See also:Henry Rollins on Occupants, the Occupy Movement, and the RadioYesterday, 458 episodes of legendary maverick pirate/BBC radio broadcaster John Peel's radio program were mysteriously uploaded to SoundCloud. For fans of radio that ... More >>

World's Biggest Burger Weighs One Ton, Has Bacon

See Also: Poland Cooks World's Largest Lasagna in Honor of Italian Soccer Team See Also: Watch: Murderous Burger Chases Man, World's Largest McDonalds Built In a Minute The cooking staff at the Black Bear Casino Resort, Minnesota, managed a minor food engineering feat over the Labor Day weekend whe ... More >>

94: Hanna Gabrielsson

From now 'til we publish the 2012 edition of Best of Phoenix, New Times and Chow Bella present 100 Tastemakers -- Valley residents who make the cut in our culinary scene. Some you'll know; for others, it'll be a first introduction (but likely not the last). While you're here, check out our 100 Creat ... More >>

Cardamom Chicken at Beaver Choice

By nature, most spices have unique flavors that only lend well to specific styles of cuisine or types of ingredient. Take coffee, for example. When used as a seasoning, it works best with full-flavored meats like beef and pork, and it doesn't play well with vegetables. On the other hand are spices, ... More >>

Nominees for the 84th Academy Awards

​Our shiny, golden man is back for the 2012 Academy Awards. Nominees for this year's awards were announced this morning, with a few surprises. We've listed them below, and we're plotting award-time strategy (and perhaps a drinking game). So grab the popcorn and catch up on these flicks before ... More >>

Beaver Choice Serves Up Swedish Fare That's Too Good to Keep Secret

Quick Flicks

Ska Parade Tour @ The Clubhouse Music Venue

Eating the World: Europa Pastry Cafe

The best ethnic food is often the most difficult to find. So each week we'll spin the globe and search for a new other-worldly spot to expand our eating horizons around the Valley.This week we go to Poland at Europa Pastry Cafe. Carrie Wheeler The small pierogi and stuffed cabbage plate ... More >>

The Toasters, Monkey, and Go-Go 13 Headline Two-Day Ska Fest at The Clubhouse in January

The Toasters​Ska kids and rude boys from throughout the Valley will definitely be skanking up a storm at this news: alt-rock station X103.9 and local promoter Jeremiah Gratza (a.k.a. President Gator) are bringing a massive two-night ska festival to the Clubhouse Music Venue in Tempe next month. T ... More >>

Torn Apart

Peep immigration laws in a different light

Coconut Water

Kelly Green ​In the name of good health and a good read, each week we'll be bringing you a health product, complete with review. We're calling this feature Crunchy Granola -- even though we doubt much of this stuff tastes that good. This week: Coconut water.Celebrities love it. Athletes swe ... More >>

Morning Glory

Wake up, y’all. The Americans are on the tube.

TLC Launches Best Food Ever (or Yabba-Dabba-Done-to-Death)

Napoleon Dynamite: This is pretty much the worst video ever made. Kip: Napoleon, like anyone can even know that. Let me go, I need to narrate. Wilma!​Kip's right. How can anyone know what's the worst (or the best) of anything? TLC's hoping we'll trust their judgment with its new show, Best Food ... More >>

The World's Most Unfortunate Food Packaging

Different cultures, different languages, different tastes. Somewhere along the line, things are going to go wrong when it comes to packaging our foodstuffs for the rest of the world to see. We've captured the top five most unfortunate in today's post. ​ 5.) Shitto Hotly Spiced Pepper Sauce: Ghan ... More >>

Fight for Ducks at Anti-Foie Gras Protest at the Westin Kierland

We always love a good protest, and who could argue with saving the lives of cute little ducks?Not the members of the local "End Foie Gras Campaign," which will be taking a stand at the Westin Kierland Resort tomorrow, December 4 at 11 a.m. The Resort serves duck and foie gras at restaurants such as ... More >>

Slayer Plays Through The (Dry) Heat

SlayerTwo stages, 13 bands, more than nine hours of music, and yet the Rockstar Mayhem Festival could easily be summed up in one word: SLAYER!!!!!!!!!!!!! Unfortunately, New Times doesn't pay me for one-word reviews, and to be honest, a handful of other bands on the bill definitely made an impre ... More >>

Geek Beat: Atomic Comics Anime Fest Transformers News

I've only attended a handful of Anime cons and cosplay contests so far, but I'm starting to get the picture. Anime fans, especially cosplayers, are a little like the mafia. Not to say they go around whacking people or talking like Tony Soprano, of course, but they're dead serious. They're org ... More >>

Phoenix Phoodies: Abram Sulaymonov brings treats from Russia, with love

Svetlana and Abram Sulaymanov opened Russian Market over a decade ago in a dusty strip mall on the corner of 19th Avenue and Northern. Since then, they've been bringing the best dishes from the homeland to a hungry, and often homesick, community of ex-pats, immigrants, and globetrotting foodies. ... More >>

Meaty Girl: Schreiner's Fine Sausage

When I heard about Schreiner's Fine Sausage -- a family-owned business that's provided Phoenix with fine meats since 1955 -- I was ecstatic. As I approached the unassuming red-and-white building with retro-looking signs on Seventh Street, I felt like I was on a school field trip. Once inside, I gaz ... More >>

Sen. Barry Goldwater, Anchor-Grandbaby

An excerpt from Bill McCune's 1991 documentary, Barry Goldwater: An American Life.Someone recently sent me this YouTube clip from Bill McCune's excellent bio-doc Barry Goldwater: An American Life, which I first watched while researching my 2006 cover story about the ribald Goldwater we rarely see r ... More >>

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On Appreciating Clamato and Parking Tickets

Fugitive Pieces sucks the poetry and life out of its source material

Vader

The adamantium of thrash

The Masters of Chaos Tour

Cool names convention

Sausage Fest

It was the wurst of times

Up From the Underworld

This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music

Diabolic

Infinity Through Purification (Olympic Recordings)

In the Ghetto

Polanski Returns to Poland

Air Apparent

Studio LoDo has its fans

Yippee-Oy-Vey

I'd Like to Buy the World a Kosher Meal

Stilled Life

Taking a dead-on approach to the gripping, gruesome photographs of Joel-Peter Witkin

Here Today, Gone Tamale

In search of the best of the cornhusk-wrapped treats

Kron Artist

Lisa Kron's one-woman show 2.5 Minute Ride

Pole Position

Elements of a traditional Polish Christmas Eve supper

From Poland to Phoenix

A tale of international intrigue -- a Polish dancer brings hints of Russia to The Nutcracker in Arizona

Foreign Affair

Czech indie rockers Sunshine are three wild and crazy guys -- musically speaking, anyway

Dead End Job

In Errol Morris' Mr. Death docu, it's all in the execution

Ms. Holland's Opuses

Faith Lift

The Third Miracle may make a believer out of you

Good Morning, Auschwitz

Life is less than beautiful in Robin Williams' Jakob the Liar

Flash in the Chopin

Near-Death Experience

Dead Man Balking

Death row inmate wants to finish a 100-year robbery sentence before he's executed

What's the Mig Deal?

A Valley company finds a thriving market for used Soviet-bloc fighter jets

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