Software

Mealmatch: Local Organization Helping Fight World Hunger with Social Media App

Though no one can know the exact number of people who go hungry every day, one statistic estimates that 925 million people were hungry throughout the world in 2010, according to the the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization. See also: - Kickstarter Campaign Asks for Money to Start "Freegan" Cafe ... More >>

Bill Montgomery's Victims Plead Not Guilty En Masse as Their Children Weep

The cattle call began a little after 8:30 a.m. Wednesday for the unfortunates arrested in the MCSO's Sportex Apparel raid in Tempe the first week of February. See also: -Bill Montgomery Is No Immigration Moderate -Bill Montgomery Fails to Convict an Innocent Man -S.A.N.E. Immigration Initiative Un ... More >>

Paint Your Pizza Lets You Paint a Pizza Online and Then Have It Delivered

Paintyourpizza.com is an app that lets you "paint" a pizza on your computer using something that looks an awful lot like Microsoft paint, then pay for that pizza and have it delivered to you in all of its terrible glory. The program gives you the option of painting collaboratively with other users o ... More >>

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The Herb Box and Gertrude's at DBG Beta Test WineQuest Mobile, a New iPhone App For Selecting Wine

Unless you're a wine wonk like Mark Tarbell, Peter Kasperski, Amy Binkley or Dave Johnson, you probably find reading a multi-page wine list and making a smart selection intimidating. Too many wines to choose from and way too much terminology and lore to master. So you take a shot in the dark, shell ... More >>

Chow Bella's 5 Favorite Food and Drink Apps

If you're like us, you have a smart phone...a smart phone that is being highly under-utilized, subjected to menial tasks when it could really be tackling complex algorithms or at the very least launching virtual birds out of a slingshot. Which is why we at Chow Bella have decided to start using ou ... More >>

Billr: Because Splitting the Bill Really Required an iPhone App

Splitting the bill at the end of a large meal can be a challenge -- and a friendship test. (Any person who cannot honestly and quickly settle a bill in a shared meal is no kind of friend, and someone who is willing to short a group of friends after a delicious meal and then argue about it or try to ... More >>

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 >>

The Devil Wears Prada's Mike Hranica on Slaying Zombies and the Future of Musical Distribution

Slaying zombies on Monday at the Marquee ​Whether you love the progressive instrumentals or hate the screeching screams, The Devil Wears Prada is stepping up its game on as many levels as possible. Count 'em off: An ongoing cross-country tour with their most elaborate production yet; photos ... More >>

Angry Birds Cookbook Will Be Egg-cellent

​Can Angry Birds, the crazy-addictive game that challenges players to catapult furious fowl at structures containing egg-stealing swine, get any more popular? Answer: Yes. Now put your apron on. Angry Birds is gettin' a cookbook. Read on for the egg-y details. Follow Chow Bella on Faceb ... More >>

Mother Brain Teasers

David Guetta's Single Leaks, Pentagon Investigator Gets Involved

​Just as any artist would be, DJ and producer David Guetta is understandably quite upset over the recent leak of his new song, according to Rolling Stone.Guetta has gone above and beyond to catch the sleazy hacker who leaked his new single "Where Them Girls At?" which features Nicki Minaj and Flo ... More >>

3-D Biology

Pepper @ Marquee Theatre

Pepper

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 >>

Please Illustratre

Artists take to techniques from the past

Altered Ego

Photographer Hank Keneally manipulates with no regrets

Please Illustratre

Artists take to techniques from the past

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

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 >>

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

Wanda Jackson Show on Jan. 11 Cancelled

Old timey rock chick Wanda Jackson has canceled her January 11 performance at the Rhythm Room due to a family emergency. The 71-year-old Oklahoma native is known as "The Queen of Rockabilly" once dated Elvis Presley... before setting down with a IBM programmer named Wendell. Refunds are available th ... More >>

Stimulus Package

Hillz Thrillz par-tay scintillates the senses

Irwin Benefit Boasts Two Brash Female Voices

By Martin Cizmar st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } It was a bold move, putting Dry River Yacht Club on right before Black Carl. Here you have two of the biggest female voices in the Valley's indie rock scene -- Emma Pew of BC and DRYC's Garnet -- back to back. But, hey, when you'r ... More >>

Con Artists

Students get digital in Mesa

MCSO pays more than $200K in RICO funds for facial recognition tech; large portion intended for "Honduran unit."

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

Lucky Dragons

The Shipping News

Jose Avila's furniture designs are out of the box

BEST CLASSICAL MUSIC STATION

KBAQ-FM 89.5

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KXKQ-FM 94.1

Shotgun Franny

Local blues diva gets some Texas-size love from the Red-Headed Stranger

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?"