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Hot Toppings: Minerva's Favorite Mexican Hot Sauces

Growing up in Hermosillo, in northern Mexico, in the 1980s, my school lunchbox was filled with healthy and delicious snacks of juicy orange wedges, crunchy cucumber spears, jicama slices drizzled with lime juice and sprinkled with salt and chile powder, and a cold can of Jumex brand mango nectar. I ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Cubans and Idiots

Ask a Mexican on Spanglish, HDTV, and Conquistadors

Here's That Mexican Sushi Food Truck You've Been Asking About

Oh, hey, hi. How's your day going so far? You know that Mexican sushi food truck you're always going on about? Yeah, I found it. See also: Old Dixie's Food Truck Finds Brick-and-Mortar Home at Welcome Diner and A New Weekly Food Truck Event: Washington Wednesdays at CO HOOTS It's called Sushinola ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Leprecanos and Christmas Trips

Mariscos Playa Hermosa: From the Shores of Mexico to a Colorful Central Phoenix Restaurant

Hey, readers, get ready. We're putting new meaning into the term "street food." For Chow Bella's latest mission -- "Eating 16th Street" -- we've employed a young woman who's literally eaten her way around the world. Alex Rodriguez has eaten borscht in Moscow, steak in Buenos Aires and a "life-changi ... More >>

Top Phoenix Music Stories of the Week

The news waits for no one -- at least that's what we read somewhere -- so it's perfectly understandable that you, the reader, might have missed out on a musical tidbit, breaking news about your favorite venue, or one of our rants. So enjoy this digest-style sampling of some of our biggest stories f ... More >>

Narcocorridista El Komander To Bring the Sound of the Drug War to Phoenix

See also: Que Se Vende: Impacto Musical Top Selling Albums of the Week Alfredo Ríos, also known as the Mexican corridista El Komander is leaving the AK-47 behind and is bringing his talents to the Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix on Saturday, July 21.

Campechana Tostada: Mixed Sea Critters from Mariscos Sinaloa

Erica O'NeilThe campechana tostada from Mariscos Sinaloa, packed with octopus and conch.​Tacos may very well be the perfect food, but let's face it, the standard Meximerican fare can get a bit stale after a while. Taco the Town is here to highlight some of the more unusual Mexican finds in the ... More >>

Que Se Vende: Impacto Musical Top Selling Albums of the Week

​Want to know what new release discs and platters are moving across the Valley at local record stores? We've got you covered with another installment of What's Selling. Shopping at Spanish language record shops is a whole lot different than a regular trip to your local Zia Record Exchange. Di ... More >>

Cannes 2011 Has Issues

Ask a Mexican on the Perils of Cultural Misunderstanding

Kidnapping Capital, USA: Phoenix Teen Kidnapped While Loading Family Car

Karla Gabriela Lizzaraga-Sanchez​Phoenix isn't the kidnapping capital of the United States for nothing. We get that wrap because...well...a lot of kidnappings happen in the Valley -- as pointed out in the New Times feature "Seized." Check it out here.A Phoenix teen is the latest victim of this cit ... More >>

Innocence Lost: Childhood in Juarez Often Is Spent Hiding Behind Closed Doors, Coping with Dead Bodies, and Seeing Ghosts

Ask a Mexican on Facts, Stats, and Go-Go Boots

Pro-SB 1070 Phoenix Rising Rally: Neo-Nazis, Nativists, Crackpots, and More

A white supremacist in the nativist nut bag... A fruitcake of nativist rage and looniness baking in the Arizona sun: That's what was generally to be found at Wesley Bolin Plaza this Saturday, June 5 for the pro-SB 1070 Phoenix Rising rally, which drew around 2,000 mostly white participants to ... More >>

Paul Rodriguez Cancels Arizona Comedy Show in Protest Over SB 1070, and Denver Public Schools District Signs On To Boycott

photo by Michael SchwartzLatin King of Comedy Paul Rodriguez says SB1070 is too broad and targets all Hispanics Comedian Paul Rodriguez, one of the "Latin Kings of Comedy," has canceled his upcoming May 1 show at Chandler's Wild Horse Pass Casino, partly in protest over Arizona's new pro-racial prof ... More >>

Chef Talk: America Corrales of America's Taco Shop (part two)

Yesterday we heard from chef America Corrales of America's Taco Shop. Today the conversation continues. Sometimes, mom really does know best. Growing up in Mexico, America Corrales learned how to cook most of the items on her menu from her mother. Because of these memories in the kitchen, ... More >>

Chef Talk: America Corrales of America's Taco Shop

America and her husband Terry​America Corrales wasn't exactly playing hooky; she was checking up on her restaurant. The full-time teacher and owner of America's Taco Shop decided it was time to pack up her first grade classroom last year and focus on her Downtown taco shop. The buzz that used to b ... More >>

America’s Taco Shop Does Mouth-Watering Carne Asada in Phoenix’s Coronado District

Handgun Nets Illegal Immigrant Nearly Five Years in Prison

.38 Superwww.gunsetc.com "Alien in possession of a firearm" sounds a tad like science-fiction poetry, but it's also the title of a federal statute - and one that's putting a Mexican national behind bars for about five years. While gun ownership is an Arizonan's birthright, (the state constitution g ... More >>

On the True Meaning of the Word Pinche

Janet Napolitano Meets with Congressional Hispanic Caucus Thursday: Let's Hope They Grill Her Fat Ass

photo courtesy of Eduardo Barraza at Barriozona.comThe Congressional Hispanic Caucus needs to turn her fanny into virtual ground round till Nappy yanks Arpaio's 287(g).The congressional daily The Hill is reporting that Department of Homeland Security czar Janet Napolitano will be meeting privately f ... More >>

Hot Links: Cops Arrest Man in Horrific Beating of Two Little Kids; Mesa's Police Chief Swats at Sheriff's Office Over City Hall Raid; Goddard Would Consider Legalizing Pot

Tragic beating: Cops arrest a 36-year-old man after two boys, 7 and 10, are found with severe head injuries at a Phoenix park. Mesa Police Chief George Gascon fires back at the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, arguing that an affidavit used in October's raid on Mesa City Hall was flawed. Arizona a ... More >>

Prado and Other New Restaurants Opening This Week

Budget Beat: Eliana's Authentic Salvadoran Cuisine

Marcos Najera wonders what Brown Town would have been without his nona-Nana

The Big Bang

Chimi Eat World

Arizona's deepest-fried mystery is smothered in cheese, guacamole and sour cream

Bad Football Is the Best Medicine

Hugs and drugs

Jumping to Confusion

If illegal perks are so great, why crave citizenship?

Pass the Arroz, Chely

Rice paddy is just short for Rice Patrick

The New Boss

Police have shut down most of the meth labs in Phoenix, but now the drug is a big import from Mexico -- cheap, pure and more plentiful than ever

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Tepic Restaurant

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De Leon

Border Boyz

As narcocorridos - Mexican drug ballads - get nastier, the crowds in Phoenix get bigger and bigger

Corn Stalking

Mexican kernals equal culinary art

Herding People

When undocumented workers gather to wait for jobs at the city's first day-labor center, complaints about them should subside. But don't count on it.

The Lesser of Three Evils

Mexico and U.S. authorities finally captured Arizona's leading drug kingpin. Good work, guys. Now let him go.

Save the Last Dance

Guadalupe pays tribute to Mexican traditions with the finery of folklórico

City of Coke

Cocaine from Mexico is the currency that drives gangster economics

Drug Lord

The bandit Jesus Malverde has been dead for nearly a century. He's still wanted on both sides of the border.

Bordering on Exploitation

A couple hours from Phoenix, tens of thousands of Mexicans work on maquiladora assembly lines for $1 an hour, making the toys and tools of American convenience. Critics say the maquila system lets U.S. corporations maximize profits on the backs of Third W

Best of Fife Vol. II

Fife has done much in — and to — Arizona. We've been keeping track

Symington Family Partner Under Suspicion

U.S. authorities suspect a Mexican vegetable grower with business ties to the Symingtons is involved in drug trafficking

The Mexican Connection

How Governor Symington misused state resources to further the cross-border business interests of his friends and family.

Si, We Have No Burritos!

Second Helpings

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