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ICE Detainee Commits Suicide, and a Not-So Modest Proposal

Watch A clip from The Undocumented on PBS. See more from Independent Lens. I have very little to go on with the press release below from U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement concerning the "apparent suicide" at the Eloy Detention Center by a 24 year-old Guatemalan woman named Elsa Guadalupe-Gon ... More >>

A Twist of Fete

Buyer Be There

Set Your DVR to Stun: Kitchen Nightmares Candidate Amy's Baking Company Scheduled to Be on Check Please! Arizona

You've got to hand it to Amy's Baking Company. Somehow, the Scottsdale restaurant, whose name-calling owner, Amy Bouzaglo, made the news in 2010 after an angry tirade on Yelp following a one-star review, has found the proverbial rabbit hole to travel between television worlds. See also: Screaming, ... More >>

Watch This: David Chang and Anthony Bourdain's New Show 'Mind of A Chef'

Here is a reason to keep PBS on the air. Professional pithy sourpuss Anthony Bourdain is narrating a new show called "The Mind of A Chef." The first season, which premieres November 9, will center around Momofuku's David Chang. See Also: --Lucky Peach Looks Good Enough to Eat: See What's Inside Iss ... More >>

Debate 2012: Romney and Obama Attack, Jim Lehrer Loses Control -- the Media Room View

The following post was written by Sam Levin, an editorial fellow at New Times' Denver-based sister paper, Westword. Although Senator John McCain easily won Arizona in the 2008 election, team Obama believes Arizona is in play this time around. Read on for observation and analysis from last night's de ... More >>

Why Real Sex in Real Movies Never Quite Works

Border Patrol Abuse: PBS Video Documents Stories of Cruel Treatment of Immigrants

See also Cloaked Brutality: Feds Bury Border Patrol Abuses of Immigrants See also Immigrant Abuses by Border Patrol Agents Documented See also Mexican Smugglers Exploit the Corrupt Reputation of U.S. Border Officers When New Times traveled to Nogales in Mexico in about two years ago, we found many ... More >>

60: Denise Clayton

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 >>

How Pizza Flows Like Blood Through the Veins of America

It's easy to forget just how complicated the modern world is -- how the conveniences we enjoy are the result of a vast interlocking network of systems that create ease, comfort, and survival for us everyday. So it's nice that PBS put out an entire series devoted to showing us how something as simple ... More >>

90: Christina Barrueta

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 >>

Mega-Watson

Point-Counterpoint: Alton Brown Is the Man and I Challenge You to Say Otherwise

We had so much fun chucking Chow Bella contributors Ando Muneno and Lauren Saria into the ring over food trucks, we decided to do it again. This week's burning topic: Alton Brown. Ando: Alton Brown is the man and I challenge you to say otherwise. Lauren: CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. Ando: Seriously, wha ... More >>

Lisa Whealy, What Are You Listening To?

Lisa Whealy​Lisa Whealy Whealy is the CEO of Surface to Air Records and owner of Mountain Music Promotions.  When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? Radio iPod. What's the first album you bought? Emerson, Lake, & P ... More >>

Follow Friday: Chefs/Cooks On TV

It's that time again. We've compiled a small but meaningful list of great Twitter accounts for any Phoenix foodie to follow. We've been spending a sad amount of time indoors this summer running away from the heat and searching out new food inspiration on the boob tube. Everybody is tweeting now, e ... More >>

Saveur Nominates Skillet Doux For Best Food Blog Award

A round-up of tasty morsels from Valley food blogs. Dominic Armato​Saveur has given the Valley some love by nominating Dominic Armato's blog, Skillet Doux, for a 2011 Best Food Blog Award in the restaurant/dining coverage catagory. If you're a fan, you can vote for Skillet Doux until May 12. Ch ... More >>

Tonight: Robert McGrath Hosts New PBS Show, Check, Please!

Robert McGrath steps out of the kitchen and in front of a TV camera for a new PBS show.​Robert McGrath, the James Beard Award-winning chef who founded Roaring Fork and now serves his signature Southwestern flavors at Renegade Canteen, hosts local food lovers who get to dish about th ... More >>

Feel the Migration

Get jazzed about the great outdoors

Ask a Mexican: On Robbing From the Old, Giving to the Underpaid, and Crying Manly Tears

Chef Robert McGrath Hosting New PBS Show

​James Beard Award-winning chef Robert McGrath of North Scottsdale's Renegade Canteen has just been named the host of a new television show on Eight, Arizona's PBS channel. Check, Please! will be a half-hour restaurant review program featuring three different regular Arizonans' takes o ... More >>

Belly Up

Catch the latest live dance performance while it’s still cool

Beer For Brains' Off-Centered Experience Lets You Drink For a Good Cause

Louis Dolgoff, beer aficionado and Founder of the Beer For Brains Foundation ​Talk to Louis Dolgoff for a moment or two and you'll understand what a busy guy he is. He's working on a beer pairing television show for PBS. He continues to orchestrate several ornate, beer-tasting dinners all ove ... More >>

Keb' Mo'

Bob Dylan Opens White House Concert Series

​Last night began the "In Performance at the White House" concert series, and focused on music from the civil rights era. Both Bob Dylan and Joan Baez performed, though not in fact together. (Initial buzz had specualted that they would be singing a duet.) Smokey Robinson, Yolanda Adams, the Blind ... More >>

Submit Pie Recipes for New Channel Eight Cookbook

​Got a mouthwatering pie recipe that you're dying to share with fellow cooks?KAET Eight, the local PBS station, is accepting recipe submissions for a new cookbook, called Eight Cooks: P is for Pie. From savory meat pies and pot pies to the whole spectrum of dessert pies, they're including eve ... More >>

Native Art & Artifacts Appraisal Day

It's A Dry Humor

Whose Line funnyman is hotter than the sum of his game-show episodes

Absolutely Superfabulous

Former go-go boy is ready for prime time

PBS Channel 8 Budget Cuts Cause Fundraisers to Howl "The Wolf is at the Door"

PBS Channel 8 (KAET-TV) is crying wolf over its financial situation, but it's a real wolf. Make that a metaphorical real wolf. Whatever -- they've got a cute, little drawing of it on an e-mail sent to potential donors and a Web page. Money problems plague the station because ... More >>

Geronimo Miniseries Preview

Geronimo Miniseries Preview

Native Art & Artifacts Appraisal Day

Shop at Whole Foods, Support PBS

I don't know what it was about this past Christmas, but for some reason, I found it a whole lot easier to get out my checkbook and send some dough to local non-profits than to slog through the list of presents I had to buy. And seriously, right after I read Sarah Fenske's column about the financial ... More >>

Hot Links: Protesters Welcome New Chairman of County Supervisors; Harry Mitchell Says No to Pay Raises; Buckeye Cop Fired After Speaking Out on Safety Issues

Protesters against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio welcomed the new chairman of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Max Wilson, in the hopes of getting some quality time with the board at a public meeting. Harry Mitchell doesn't need no stinkin' raise, and he doesn't want others in Congres ... More >>

Channel Eight, Arizona's Biggest PBS Station, Needs Money to Relocate — but Have Viewers Already Moved On?

Antiques Roadshow, Home Edition

You may be surprised in Surprise

Greg Brainy

Canny comic's not just the other guy with glasses

Endless Feast update

The Endless Feast, coming soon to a TV near you

Holy shit, I agree with Darrell Ankarlo! Rosie O'Donnell's a big fat dumb bitch.

TV Eye

Pigment of Imagination

The making of art history

Bob Dylan

No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series Vol. 7)
(Columbia/Legacy)

Crazy Love

Dude meets ranch

BEST PLACE TO RENT A MOVIE YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF

Burton Barr Central Library

Various Artists

The American Song-Poem Anthology: Do You Know the Difference Between Big Wood and Brush, (Bar/None)

Voice Verses

A Cappella under the stars

TV Wonder

PBS documentary series P.O.V. (Point of View)

Not the Same Old Song and Dance

With innovative Love Songs, choreographer David Roussve steps way past the tried and true

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