Portland (Oregon)

Now Available in Arizona: Upright Seven

Beer: Seven Brewery: Upright Brewing Co. Style: Saison ABV: 8 percent Not sure if you guys have noticed, but craft beer is going all Manifest Destiny right now. With the likes of New Belgium, Oskar Blues, and Green Flash breaking ground on East Coast facilities, big brands are going nationwide. Ev ... More >>

Charcuterie Class and Tasting at The House Brasserie in Scottsdale Jan. 27

Nobody in town knows cheese like Laura Mulchay. And lately she's been making room at the table for another fancy food trend: the ancient art of charcuterie. The founder of WedgeFestUSA, owner of the defunct Petite Fromage, and advocate for American artisan and craft cheese will be sharing her know ... More >>

Chocolate, Banana, Peanut Butter Beer...Voodoo Doughnuts and Rouge Ales Are At It Again

We can get behind the collision of doughnuts and beer, particularly when it's Rouge beer and Voodoo doughnuts. Last year in honor of the Portland Oregon-based Voodoo Donuts breaking the world record for largest box of donuts, they rolled out the notorious pink bottle Voodoo Doughnut ale Maple Bacon ... More >>

The Helio Sequence Create a "Night Album" with Negotiations

The intertwined impressions of night and space that hover about The Helio Sequence's latest album are no accident. Recording for the first time in their much larger studio -- and on a totally different schedule -- the Portland, Oregon, duo channeled their isolation into Negotiations, both in words ... More >>

Sweet Republic Introduces Sichuan Orange Chocolate Ice Cream

See also: Sweet Republic Makes U.S. News and World Report's List of America's Best Ice Cream When do you know you've made the Big Time? For most people, appearing in a national publication would be a pretty good litmus test. But by now, Partners Helen Yung and Jan Wichayanuparp -- the empresses o ... More >>

Cascade Sang Noir

Beer: Sang Noir Brewery: Cascade Brewing Style: American WIld Ale ABV: 9.5 percent See also: Moa Imperial Stout See also: Dogfish Head Indian Brown Ale Whoever said "It's about the journey, not the destination," was A) Probably a dirty, baked-out hippie, and B) Full of it. The journey is filed wit ... More >>

Eidolons @ Trunk Space

Deschutes/Hair of the Dog Collage

Beer: Conflux No.1 - Collage Brewery: Deschutes Brewery, Hair of the Dog Brewing Co. Style: American Strong Ale ABV: 11.6 percent If you've never heard of Hair of the Dog Brewing Company, don't feel too bad about it. Although the Portland-based brewery has been around since 1995, annual production ... More >>

M. Ward Discusses "A Wasteland Companion," and His Arizona Ties to The Meat Puppets and Howe Gelb

See also: fIREHOSE's Ed Crawford: "It Was Our Job. We F**kin' Showed Up Every Day." M. Ward has slowly and sturdily built himself up as a songwriter and producer over the past decade, with a string of hushed folk, country, blues, and pop inflected records that don't cry out for attention, but quiet ... More >>

Six More Food(ie) Terms that Drive Laurie Notaro Nuts

It turns out people get pissed when you call them out for acting elitist for something they have to do or they die. We all have to eat; but when you start acting kinda Big Ike about it, you ruin it for everybody. Thus, here are six more terms plus a bonus round that I'd like to permanently strike fr ... More >>

The Decemberists at Mesa Arts Center With Video, 8/11/11

The DecemberistsMesa Arts CenterThursday, August 11I guess I had The Decemberists pegged wrong. Here's this insanely popular indie-folk-Americana blended outfit with heavily starched clothing that comes from (where else?) Portland, Oregon. Yes, lead singer and songwriter Colin Meloy has a beard. Yes ... More >>

Starfucker at Trunk Space Last Night

Starfucker​StarfuckerSunday, March 13, 2011Trunk SpaceWhat's a band to do en route to next week's SXSW? Perhaps spend a night on Grand Ave. in Phoenix at Trunk Space whilst they make their way to Austin? Such was the more than decent decision by Portland indie/electronic outfit Starfucker. March i ... More >>

What Phoenix Needs: A Funky Doughnut Shop

​Given the cultural similarities between Phoenix and L.A., it's surprising that the Valley of the Sun isn't already smothered in doughnuts. In La La Land, it seems like there's a doughnut shop on every corner, in every strip mall, in neighborhoods both hip and low-rent. How that city manage ... More >>

Wildfish Seafood Grill Hires Sushi Chef

The raw bar at Wildfish Seafood Grille​Already a reliable spot for a good crabcake or a big platter of raw oysters to slurp, now Wildfish Seafood Grill is bringing sushi and sashimi into the mix with the hiring of sushi chef Stephan Martin.It's a natural evolution for the Waterfront restaurant, wh ... More >>

MasterChef With Gordon Ramsay, The American Idol of Cooking Shows, Coming to Fox in July

With no restaurant experience, a passion for cooking, and a dream of one day working as a professional chef, 50 just-like-us contestants will test their skills and palate in hopes of becoming the winner of MasterChef, the cooking competition show coming to Fox on July 29. Gordon Ramsay, the show's ... More >>

National Donut Day -- Free 'Nuts Around Phoenix

​Stop the presses, people! It's National Donut Day. (Or is it Doughnut? We always wonder.) With temperatures soaring in the Valley this weekend, you might want to stick a glazed donut on each butt cheek and look in the mirror before indulging. But if you don't give a hoot, here are some loca ... More >>

Phoenix Suns Crush Blazers in Game Five, Thanks to 55 Points Off the Bench; Game Six Is Thursday in Portland

www.nba.com/sunsChanning Frye: 20 huge points off the bench.​Game Five belonged to the bench. Channing Frye scored 20 points and his fellow reserves scored 35 points Monday night as the Phoenix Suns' super-subs wrested control of their first-round playoff series against the Portland Trail Blazers. ... More >>

Job for a Cowboy Tour Dates and Landmine Marathon Album Stream

Job For A Cowboy​Wanna hear some free local metal? MetalSucks is hosting an exclusive stream of Landmine Marathon's new album, Sovereign Descent, which hit stores on Tuesday, March 16.In other Phoenix-area metal news, Glendale's Job for a Cowboy have announced a spring headlining tour that kicks o ... More >>

People's Biennial Slated for SMoCA Raises Hackles of Local Artists and Curators

Kathleen VanesianCould this be a contender for SMoCA's upcoming "People's Biennial"?​ The art community grapevine in this Valley is about three inches long, so it didn't take much time for me to get calls concerning a recent, very heated panel discussion at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary A ... More >>

A Statewide Sales Tax Hike for the Arts — In This Economy? Are They Insane?

NSFW: New Yeasayer Video For "Ambling Alp" Is Frighteningly Sexy

Yeasayer's new NSFW video for their fantastic new single "Ambling Alp" confuses and titillates me all at once​If you were wondering if you should make bones about the recent rash of NSFW music videos these days, please don't. Bands and artists alike are stretching the boundaries for what should be ... More >>

The Thermals

Loretta Lynn Plays the Classics at Celebrity

Luke HolwerdaLoretta Lynn on the circular stage of Celebrity Theatre.It's been five years since Loretta Lynn's Grammy-winning collaboration with Jack White but it seemed even longer at last night's Celebrity Theatre show, where the Van Lear Rose era seemed long forgotten. Sure, a few curious hipste ... More >>

Lame Ducks

Devils take on an Oregon team that hasn’t played in a generation

Former Format Frontman's New Band, Fun, Starts Touring Tomorrow

That Format-size hole in the heart of Phoenix music fans is about to get a little healing. Fun, the new NYC-based project by The Format's Nate Ruess, with ex-Anathallo multi-instrumentalist Andrew Dost and Steel Train's Jack Antonoff, will embark on a 34-date tour with Manchester Orchestra tomorrow ... More >>

Port Landings

More Phoenix sons and daughters hit the Oregon trail

Tim and Eric From Adult Swim Coming to Tempe

Adult Swim fans -- and we know there are a lot of you out there -- are about to freak out. Tim and Eric of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! fame are coming to Tempe next month as part of a national tour. It's a follow-up to this year's tour, which sold out in all 14 cities last April and May."M ... More >>

Pink Martini at Scottsdale Civic Center Mall Amphitheater

Untraceable: Big, dumb, and not much fun

Red Alert

Sphere and loathing in Scottsdale

Alt-Weeklies Provide Web Links to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Home Address

Action Taken in Solidarity with Phoenix New Times

You'll Laugh Dying

Clubhouse Rules

Tearing it up in Tempe

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, November 23, 2006

Yellow Swans

Clinical trial

Viva Voce

Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
(Barsuk Records)

Lightheaded

Wrong Way
(Tres Records)

Novel Tease

The First Fiction tour treats new authors like rock stars

Meow Minx

Answering the cat call of the Subcutaneous Film Festival

Barbecue Nations

Aryanfest was hardly the badass event it billed itself. Shaved-headed men hugged each other like they were at a gay pride picnic.

Sex, Lives and Videotape

Documentary shines light on life among the swing set

Fowl Play

Tempe combo's music is a little tough to describe, but it tastes like Chicken

Back to Earth

Elliott Smith's 'moment' has passed; now he's just making music

World Federation Poetry

Beat-themed SlamNation documentary's a howl

Night & Day

May 14 - 20, 1998

Reconstructed Funk

Tempe sextet Bionic Jive plays cosmic slop with a twist

Qwestioned Ballots

Sage Advice

Wipers front man Greg Sage on d.i.y., surviving the music biz, and life in the Valley

Songbird Rising

Live music in Phoenix is there if you want it -- whatever it is you want

THE SHANE OF IT ALL

SHANE STANT WHACKED NANCY KERRIGAN'S LEG. HERE'S WHY HE THINKS HE'S A VICTIM