Software

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, March 1st, 2012

New Times "Best of" App Gets a Little Love From iTunes, Wired

Best "Best of" app: Village Voice Media (we're awesome...admit it).​We're not typically in the business of shameless self-promotion here at New Times, but we'll make an exception to toot our own horn over recent accolades for our "Best of" smartphone app, which apparently is pretty friggin' awesom ... More >>

Oxford Coma Closes Out Open Source Project

http://osptempe.com/​As reported by our sister blog Jackalope Ranch, Tempe's Open Source Project is scheduled to close at the end of the month, making it another entry is a sad string of venues closures. But the doors won't be shut before local prog-rockers The Oxford Coma have their way with th ... More >>

Chefs Eric O'Neill and Perry Herst of SmartKitchen, Part Two

​We talked yesterday with the chefs behind the online culinary school SmartKitchen. Chefs Eric O'Neill and Perry Herst talked about the launch if the program and we explained Eric's culinary roots. Today Chef Perry, COO of SmartKitchen, will give his story and we'll find out what they each find mo ... More >>

Mother Brain Teasers

​We talked yesterday with the chefs behind the online culinary school SmartKitchen. Chefs Eric O'Neill and Perry Herst talked about the launch if the program and we explained Eric's culinary roots. Today Chef Perry, COO of SmartKitchen, will give his story and we'll find out what they each find mo ... More >>

3-D Biology

​We talked yesterday with the chefs behind the online culinary school SmartKitchen. Chefs Eric O'Neill and Perry Herst talked about the launch if the program and we explained Eric's culinary roots. Today Chef Perry, COO of SmartKitchen, will give his story and we'll find out what they each find mo ... More >>

Atomic Tom

​We talked yesterday with the chefs behind the online culinary school SmartKitchen. Chefs Eric O'Neill and Perry Herst talked about the launch if the program and we explained Eric's culinary roots. Today Chef Perry, COO of SmartKitchen, will give his story and we'll find out what they each find mo ... More >>

Pepper @ Marquee Theatre

​We talked yesterday with the chefs behind the online culinary school SmartKitchen. Chefs Eric O'Neill and Perry Herst talked about the launch if the program and we explained Eric's culinary roots. Today Chef Perry, COO of SmartKitchen, will give his story and we'll find out what they each find mo ... More >>

Pepper

​We talked yesterday with the chefs behind the online culinary school SmartKitchen. Chefs Eric O'Neill and Perry Herst talked about the launch if the program and we explained Eric's culinary roots. Today Chef Perry, COO of SmartKitchen, will give his story and we'll find out what they each find mo ... More >>

Totally Cool

Jason Hill hearts Phoenix

Totally Cool

Jason Hill hearts Phoenix

LifeLock Worries About Employee's Personal Data, Asks New Times to Alter Published Police Report

Lame! LifeLock, the so-called identity-theft "protection" company based in Tempe we wrote about last week, called us in a tizzy yesterday -- worried about the accidental publication of one its employees' personal data. This is the type of situation LifeLock would never put in a press release, b ... More >>

Altered Ego

Photographer Hank Keneally manipulates with no regrets

Altered Ego

Photographer Hank Keneally manipulates with no regrets

Correction: Phoenix P.D. Investigation Finds That Grindr iPhone App Not Involved in Yesterday's Murder

Grindr.com​Yesterday, we posted a story about a man who was murdered by a man he met on what we were told by the Phoenix Police Department was an iPhone application called Grindr. Grindr is a social networking site that links gay men with other gay men in their area using GPS on their iPhones -- ... More >>

iPhone's Gay "Cruising" App Leads to Murder of Phoenix Man, Police Claim

​Murder? Apparently there's an app for that, too. That's according to Phoenix police who say a local guy was murdered by a 19-year-old fellow he met using a popular iPhone app often used by gay men to hook up. Mark G. Woodland, 54, was found dead at his apartment in the 3800 block of East Gree ... More >>

Maal Culture

West African rock-and-blues fusion jams in Scottsdale

The Love Me Nots in Europe: The Hilarious Google-Translated Version

http://happy-few.tumblr.comA fan photo from the Love Me Nots European tour.​How is The Love Me Nots tour of Europe going? Pretty well, at least according to the foreign language reviews we're reading with the help of Google Translate.Now, honestly, it's sorta hard to tell just how professional the ... More >>

OiNK Administrator Cleared of Charges

Alan Ellis, operater of former p2p juggernaut OiNK, was cleared of all charges last Friday in a British court.​For those not in the know, file-sharing is a pretty big way of life for some music fans. Shawn Fanning pushed the practice into prominence in the late 1990s with his super-slick software ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Under the Microscope: DOJ Team in Phoenix, According to Multiple Sources

photo by Adriane GoetzHey, the DOJ's in town, Joe. Time for another sweep?What a difference a couple of days make. Less than 72 hours ago, members of the pro-immigrant community in Phoenix were kvetching to me about the lack of follow-through on the part of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rig ... More >>

Bill to Bring State Public Records Law Into 21st Century Gets Sidelined

A bill that would've brought Arizona's public-records law into the digital age has gone into sleep mode. Elizabeth Hill, (pictured), state public-records ombudsman, says the League of Arizona Towns and Cities launched a late lobbying effort this week and had the bill scuttled for this year's legisl ... More >>

App Pupils

Mobile techies land in East Valley tech heaven

Scotland May Be Small, But It's Big On Pop Music

The flag of Scotland What is it about Scotland that makes the country of just more than 5 million people produce far more than its fair share of great pop music artists? Consider the following sample list: Simple Minds, Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, Big Country, Altered Images, The Bluebells, The Je ... More >>

Slumdog Millionaires

Huntington Beach babes don’t need talent – or panties

Statues of Liberty

Photoshop helps artist break free from the portrait rut

Stimulus Package

Hillz Thrillz par-tay scintillates the senses

What Kind of Foodie Were You at Age 12?

By Michele Laudig Here's a cute New York Times story I couldn't resist sharing, about a 12-year-old who aspires to be a restaurant critic. This got me thinking about what kinds of random things in our childhoods lead us to where we are as adults. What were you doing at 12 that hinted at your futu ... More >>

"Pregnant Man" Stories Back in Media After Sex-Change Patient Conceives Again

Beatie is legally a man, but no medical or chemical procedure has changed the fact that she's still a woman -- as her pregnancy proves beyond all doubt.

Randy Travis

Beatie is legally a man, but no medical or chemical procedure has changed the fact that she's still a woman -- as her pregnancy proves beyond all doubt.

Con Artists

Students get digital in Mesa

Podcast: Ecclesia

Students get digital in Mesa

CANDY'S CAPITULATION: Video of Andrew "Candy" Thomas' crow-munching press conference this afternoon.

Students get digital in Mesa

Lucky Dragons

Students get digital in Mesa

BEST PC GAMING ROOM

eJoy Internet Cafe

BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC STATION

KBAQ-FM 89.5

Björk

Medulla
(Elektra)

Geeks Gone Wild!

Wardriving hackers take the revenge of the nerds to the street

Stoned Cold

The party is on at "Under the Influence," the Valley's premier underground hip-hop radio show

Against All Odds

Two local promoters come together; Kazaa cooks up response to the majors

Best Country Radio Station

KXKQ-FM 94.1

Learned Hand

TV-mom icon Michael Learned brings her stage skills to Sedona Shakespeare

Best Place to Get a Cake With Your Kid's Face on It

Fred Meyer
4707 East Shea
602-801-3200
(and other Valley locations)

Eclipsed

Arizona asteroid hunters were poised to save the Earth from Armageddon. Then a secret Air Force project took over.

The Internet Internist

Dr. Pietr Hitzig of Maryland has prescribed a fen-phen panacea for all manner of ailments to thousands of patients he has never met. One of them, Alvin Chernov, killed himself.

Blues Bodhisattva

Valley jazz singer and devout Buddhist Sherry Roberson answers the question "What's the sound of one woman scatting?"