Poland

Polish Goodies: Pierogi, Sausages, and Sauerkraut (Oh, My!)

Danuta and Richard Zablocki are starting over. And they're starting over in Sunnyslope. Both originally from cities in southwestern Poland, the couple hit hard times in 2010 with their first restaurant, a sandwich shop, in the Scottsdale Airpark. But looking back, Danuta tells me, she wouldn't cha ... More >>

Stanley's Sausage Company on McDowell Moving

If you've visited Stanley's Homemade Polish Sausage Company on McDowell Road lately in search of a damn good smoked sausage sandwich (or other meaty delights) only to find it shuttered with a sign on the window noting the address and hours of its retail-only location on Bell Road, fear not. The near ... More >>

In Defense of Bubbe's Passover Desserts

Editor's Note: Last week, a well-known Phoenix bakery put out a press release advertising some admittedly tempting Passover desserts, with a curious sales pitch: "Passover is around the corner (starting sundown April 6) and those who love sweets are already thinking of what to serve besides their gr ... More >>

Tucson MC Savant Doesn't Create Standard Hip-Hop

Kratom: Some Say the Latest "Legal Drug" Is a Harmless Herbal Tonic. The DEA Says It's Far More Sinister

Hanna Gabrielsson of Beaver Choice

Maya Dukmasova Hanna Gabrielsson shows off a tray of salmon marinating into gravlax at Beaver Choice ​This week we talk to Hanna Gabrielsson, the woman behind the delightful little Scandinavian bistro with an even more delightful name, Beaver Choice. The restaurant has been open in Tempe on ... More >>

Tim Eriksen on Gospel, Punk, Ethnomusicology and The MIM

​ To call balladeer Tim Eriksen's career varied would be a colossal understatement. Few artists can claim such expansive work: He's shared stages from CBGB to Carnegie Hall with Nirvana, Weezer, Jack White, Ralph Stanley and Doc Watson, playing punk, jazz, world music, folk and gospel. He also app ... More >>

Pastis vs. Pittsburgh Willy's: Another Pierogi Gets Burned

Last week, one of the dudes hired by the Pittsburgh Pirates to run around in a pierogi costume was fired for comments he made about the team on Facebook. Not being from Pennsylvania, I could've cared less about the ridiculous mascot and his social media woes. But the incident did ... More >>

Chef Christopher Gross Expects Another Foie Protest

​There are quite a few restaurants serving foie gras in the Valley, but for some reason, Christopher's Restaurant and Crush Lounge have become a favorite target of protesters who consider the production of foie to be animal cruelty. Chef-owner Christopher Gross says he's had protesters show ... More >>

An MCSO Officer Craves an Alleged Terrorist’s John Hancock, Plus Religious Insanity at Phoenix Symphony Hall

Foie Gras Protest Tomorrow at Christopher's Restaurant and Crush Lounge

Foie gras is on menus at some of the best restaurants in the Valley. But tomorrow, a group of protesters will do their best to shed a different light on the culinary delicacy -- and they'll do it in front of a well-respected Phoenix restaurant, James Beard Award-winning chef Christopher Gross' Chri ... More >>

Brüno: Sacha Baron Cohen’s in Queerface, but What’s His Real Target?

Al Perry and Fish Karma reflect on decades in the desert

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, August 16, 2007

From Yasha with Love

The Sundance Kids

For alumni of America's most prestigious film festival, winning is less than half the battle

Apocalypto Now!

Nasty and brutish, but not short

Pussy Posse

Signs of the times: The feathered fiend asks the sheriff if he's ever eaten a pink taco and invades the mind of a Grassfire.org bigot

Artful Dodging

Dangerous Dance

Ominous storm clouds threaten to trample the Constitution and turn our republic into a theocracy.

Thrilling Me

Not-so-softly with their songs

In The Zone

Eloy's Skies are raining men, and sprinkling hot chicks, too.

Shakedown Cruise

On his maiden voyage, veteran director Peter Weir masters the sea epic

Mad Max

Metal dad Max Cavalera rocks the thrash scene – and his Phoenix neighborhood

Yigee Yes, Y'all. Boom!

Not even preemptive war and its inherent dangers can stop the 24-hour party people at Miami's WMC 2003

Old News

Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded some good harvest

Orc Chops

The action's much meatier in Jackson's second Rings film

Gypsy Jamboree

Gogol Bordello romps through a theater of punk, Gypsy folk and the macabre

Tuesdays with Si

Life lessons over the Ping-Pong table

Rail People

Into the Arms of Strangers documentary artfully tracks Holocaust Kindertransport survivors

Shut Up, Jeremy!

Two rock critics tackle all 25 live Pearl Jam albums, and for what? Nothing, man.

Letter in a Battle

Rediscovered cache of castoff communiqués captures World War II and 1940s Phoenix

Good Morning, Auschwitz

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

Dachau Dramatist

Arroz con Polling Place

Mexicans living in the U.S. may no longer have to go home to vote in Mexico's elections

Letters

Stormy Monday

After a decade of legendary jam sessions, Melody Lounge abandons its Monday jazz nights

I Don't Want a Pickle; I Just Want Wagner's Ring-Sickle

Night & Day

April 30 - May 6, 1998

Distaff Is Restless

A resident gets cut from Maricopa Medical Center's surgical training program. She says it's discrimination. It's just the latest problem facing the center's taxpayer-funded contractor, Medpro.

Recordings

Things to Do in Denmark When You're Dead

The long- and shortcomings of Branagh's full-length Hamlet

Treble in Mind

Tarnished by sour notes, Shine still hits a chord with audience

Simply Simon

Paternity Suite

COLOR BIND

PARTY GIRL

HIGH BRAU EATS

EIFFEL POWER

The Sauce Of His Content

Bluesman James Harman barbecues the blues on his latest LP Extra Napkins