Reality Shows

Reality Rock Stars: Can ENOVA Maintain the Momentum?

Top Chef Mobile Tour Coming to Phoenix on June 8

There's nothing like the searing heat of a Valley summer to watch some of our favorite (and not so favorite) chef-testants from Bravo's popular reality competition show Top Chef fulfill their contractual obligations strut their stuff for the fifth annual Top Chef mobile tour.

MCSO's in a New Reality Show -- Complete With Jailhouse, Race-Gang Justice

​When most people look at Tent City, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office's infamous outdoor detention facility, they see a jail.Not Sheriff Joe Arpaio -- he, apparently, sees a stage...for a reality TV show.Yet again, Arpaio has opened the MCSO's doors to reality TV film crews -- this time for a ... More >>

Morning Poll -- Stupider Idea For Reality TV Show: Bree Olson's Porn-Star Rock Band or Nik Richie?

"Nik Richie's kinda famous -- so, of course, he needs a reality TV show. ​"Bubble-Butt" Bree Olson, porn star/former Charlie Sheen "goddess," just wrapped up filming a reality TV show that recently made a stop in Scottsdale. It's about a rock band comprised of porn stars who apparently just get sh ... More >>

Top Chef All-Stars Season Finale: Finally, What We All Knew Would Happen Did

​We made it, yo! After what has seemed like an eternity in the Bahamas (BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR!), we're finally down to crowning a Top Chef, and Bravo is all business right out of the gate -- straighten that tie, Bravo! Padma and Tom tell the chefs there will not be a Quickfire and tha ... More >>

Party Animal

Celebrate The Year of the Rabbit

Top Chef All-Stars Season 8, Episode 8 Recap: It's All-Stars, They're Gonna Do What They Want

Shameless flirting, shameful challenge.​Since Teen Wolf Marcel left last week with his facial hair grooming products and "You haven't heard the last of me!" exit line (until Top Chef All Stars: Foam and Rap airs), nine cheftestants are left to duke it out for the title. On last night's epis ... More >>

Top Chef All-Stars Season 8, Episode 7 Recap: Restaurant Wars, Restaurant Bores.

"My arm tats rock."​Ugh. It's "Restaurant Wars," yo, the most overhyped episode of the Top Chef season. It's all about seeing which team can come up with the worst-ever name for a restaurant, argue over which font to use for the menus, and see who can yell the most at their servers. Shhh...d ... More >>

Dance Band

Stars from hit TV show gather in Glendale

Bret Michaels @ Arizona State Fair

Stars from hit TV show gather in Glendale

Bret Michaels

Stars from hit TV show gather in Glendale

Top Chef Just Desserts Episode 5 Recap: Clique Clack, Clique Clack!

Go Diva!​Compared to last week's episode of Top Chef Just Desserts, Wednesday night's episode was fairly drama-free. Take a break, ambulance drivers and tissue box suppliers -- this one's for you! We start the show with Yigit announcing his "Team Diva" clique, which includes himself, Zac, and He ... More >>

Carrie Underwood @ Jobing.com Arena

Go Diva!​Compared to last week's episode of Top Chef Just Desserts, Wednesday night's episode was fairly drama-free. Take a break, ambulance drivers and tissue box suppliers -- this one's for you! We start the show with Yigit announcing his "Team Diva" clique, which includes himself, Zac, and He ... More >>

John McCain Considered a "Top Tweeter;" Study Finds He Has Highest "Digital IQ" in Senate

www.hypericum.comJohn McCain apparently learned how to use a computer since the 2008 presidential campaign.​Senator John McCain's back-and-forth banter with "Snooki" -- of Jersey Shore shame -- seems to have earned him high marks as far as his digital prowess goes.In a joint study conducted by Ge ... More >>

Dear Top Chef: Just Desserts, Please Kick Ass in TV's Pastry Playground, Start With Warring Cupcakes

​On Wednesday, September 15, at 11 p.m. ET/PT, Bravo will launch Top Chef: Just Desserts, spin-off of the 2010 Primetime Emmy-nominated and James Beard Award-winning Top Chef. "Pastry chefs have a different brain than savory chefs," says the show's host and judge of Top Chef for the past seven se ... More >>

Paper Tongues

​On Wednesday, September 15, at 11 p.m. ET/PT, Bravo will launch Top Chef: Just Desserts, spin-off of the 2010 Primetime Emmy-nominated and James Beard Award-winning Top Chef. "Pastry chefs have a different brain than savory chefs," says the show's host and judge of Top Chef for the past seven se ... More >>

Bobby Brown: Why I Can't Stop Rooting for the New Edition Star and Former Mr. Houston

​On Wednesday, September 15, at 11 p.m. ET/PT, Bravo will launch Top Chef: Just Desserts, spin-off of the 2010 Primetime Emmy-nominated and James Beard Award-winning Top Chef. "Pastry chefs have a different brain than savory chefs," says the show's host and judge of Top Chef for the past seven se ... More >>

Friday Night Vino Tasting, Top Chef at the Market and Cinnamon Swirls in Today's Eater's Digest

cafelynnylu.blogspot.com​Friday Night VinoSample wines from Italy with Damien Kanser from Action Wines at AZ Wine Co. in Carefree tonight from 5:30 to 7:30. Learn about the laws of wine and regions of Italy while enjoying sample of wine from Sicily, Trentino and Tuscany. AZ Wine Co. will als ... More >>

Top Chef, Ye Olde Bravo Standby, Comes To Snoozeville (Washington D.C.)

Hearts across America have barely started to beat regularly again after last week's amazing finale of Top Chef Masters (congrats, Marcus Samuellson!) and now comes Season 7 of Top Chef. The time-tested Bravo standby will premiere this week, take place in our nation's capital, and, once again, feat ... More >>

Top Chef Tour Heads for Phoenix

​Bravo is bringing their Top Chef show to Downtown Phoenix's public market with the Top Chef Tour 2010. Admission is free and gets you access to get autographs from "chef'testants,"samples of food, and the chance to win Top Chef prizes. Top Chef Tour 2010 will hit Phoenix Public Market on Jun ... More >>

Bret Michaels, Poison Frontman and Reality TV Star, Released From Phoenix Hospital

www.rightthoughts.comBret Michaels ​Bret Michaels, the front man for the hair band Poison and reality TV whore star of shows like Rock of Love, Rock of Love 2, Rock of Love Bus, and Celebrity Apprentice, was recently discharged from a Phoenix hospital, his doctor announced today.Michaels, as we re ... More >>

Guy Fieri Is Too Crazy for All of Us, and This Week's Must-Watch Shows in "TV Dinner"

Looking for the latest in tasty television? Need to know the need-to-watch episodes of your favorite foodie shows? Chow Bella is here to help with reviews of the most delectable and dreadful, and a week-long, must-see schedule so you won't miss a thing. Whoa. Is NBC sure it wants Guy Fieri to host ... More >>

Matt Hires

Looking for the latest in tasty television? Need to know the need-to-watch episodes of your favorite foodie shows? Chow Bella is here to help with reviews of the most delectable and dreadful, and a week-long, must-see schedule so you won't miss a thing. Whoa. Is NBC sure it wants Guy Fieri to host ... More >>

Queen G

Self-deprecating comic takes the stage at Dodge

Simon Cowell Leaving 'American Idol'

​Our music editor Martin Cizmar seems to think an American version of X Factor would be sort of pointless, but not if Simon Cowell has anything to do with it. The notoriously cranky American Idol judge wants to make the similarly performance-based X Factor a hit here in America, accordin ... More >>

American X-Factor? Don't Bet On It

​What purpose would there be in an American version of X-Factor, the British talent competition that made headlines this week by losing a chart battle with Rage Against The Machine? You've got me. American Idol, the original American spin on Simon Cowell's first show, Pop Idol, seems to be doing p ... More >>

The Bookworm Turns

Home-schooled nerd hits big with whimsical alt-pop

Antique Roadshow

Home-schooled nerd hits big with whimsical alt-pop

Grease

Home-schooled nerd hits big with whimsical alt-pop

Winged Victory

Chicken-gnawing contest’s as American as a snout full of RedHot

"Supernanny" Producers to Hold Casting Call at Phoenix Zoo

Wikimedia Commons "Supernanny" Jo Frost​Are your children unruly? Do they yell at the dinner table, shove each other in the hallway, or refuse to speak to you? Maybe you've got a house full of active kids and can't keep up the pace. Well, Phoenix parents, get ready: if you're feeling overwh ... More >>

Winged Victory

Chicken-gnawing contest’s as American as a snout full of RedHot

ABC's The Bachelor Comes to Phoenix Looking for Local Ladies

www.wildsound.com​Looking for love in all the wrong places? Here's one more.The producers of ABC's The Bachelor will be holding open casting calls this week, right here in the Valley.On Thursday at 5 p.m., single ladies can audition to win the heart of an undisclosed bachelor, and duke it ou ... More >>

Saturated Phat

He cheated on LCS. He does Bush. He’s still cool.

Winged Victory

Chicken-gnawing contest’s as American as a snout full of RedHot

'Idols Live' tour to Hit Glendale

If you've been trolling the streets of Scottsdale in the hopes of bumping into hometown American Idol also-ran Scott MacIntyre, at the very least now you know where to find him July 20. MacIntyre, along with the other eight runners-up and whoever the Idol winner ends up being (cough--Adam Labert--co ... More >>

Chef Stephanie Izard

If you've been trolling the streets of Scottsdale in the hopes of bumping into hometown American Idol also-ran Scott MacIntyre, at the very least now you know where to find him July 20. MacIntyre, along with the other eight runners-up and whoever the Idol winner ends up being (cough--Adam Labert--co ... More >>

"Big in Scottsdale" feat. Christopher "Big Black" Boykin

If you've been trolling the streets of Scottsdale in the hopes of bumping into hometown American Idol also-ran Scott MacIntyre, at the very least now you know where to find him July 20. MacIntyre, along with the other eight runners-up and whoever the Idol winner ends up being (cough--Adam Labert--co ... More >>

For Shwayze, life imitates art imitating reality

If you've been trolling the streets of Scottsdale in the hopes of bumping into hometown American Idol also-ran Scott MacIntyre, at the very least now you know where to find him July 20. MacIntyre, along with the other eight runners-up and whoever the Idol winner ends up being (cough--Adam Labert--co ... More >>

Top Chef: The Tour

If you've been trolling the streets of Scottsdale in the hopes of bumping into hometown American Idol also-ran Scott MacIntyre, at the very least now you know where to find him July 20. MacIntyre, along with the other eight runners-up and whoever the Idol winner ends up being (cough--Adam Labert--co ... More >>

Gonna Make You Sweet

R&B/hip-hop spinners tempt humps to bump

Fair Deal

It’s odd, it’s cheap, and the food’ll kill you. What’s not to like?

Floyd "Money" Mayweather Presents: "Dancing With the Stars"

It’s odd, it’s cheap, and the food’ll kill you. What’s not to like?

After Shock

The Grinch who gave back Christmas

Fuel

The Grinch who gave back Christmas

Miranda Writes of Wrongs

Like any other kick-ass Texas girl

The New Black

Clothes to the edge in Scottsdale

Royal Flush

Clothes to the edge in Scottsdale

Pallin' Around

Willie Nelson brings his buddies on tour

Reality Schmeality

Former Phoenicians amp up the reality TV biz with Joe Schmoe