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Love Connection

Why the current, slick Courtney Love actually rings truer than the disheveled baby doll of the past

Chef Beau MacMillan to Appear on Today Show

Cardinals go to the Super Bowl, Arizona gets a windfall of PR. Totally expected. But publicity for a local chef is certainly an unusual perk for the Phoenix culinary world. Turns out, executive chef Beau MacMillan, from Elements at the Sanctuary on Camelback, is the lucky one getti ... More >>

Jan. 26 In Blogs: Cardinals, TheDirty.com, Rotten Tomatoes and More

We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Valley Fever: Arizona Cardinals Send Off In Video Arizona Cardinals Get Big Airport ... More >>

The Shipping News

Jose Avila's furniture designs are out of the box

Dance Dance Fever

Valley arcade rats find fame on the DDR Dance Pad

'50s-Sent

New exhibit looks at the designs of a decade

Cough Link

ShariAnne and Daved Fischer's Web site asks, "Brother, can you spare a cyber dime?"

Pie vs. Pie

Digging out of the Valley's pizza rut

Lost Hope

Paul Hewitson has spent the Last two years in a place he calls hell.

Revenge of the Idiot Girl

The Republic's ex-Idiot Girl gets her revenge

He's Bat Man

When you're drinking with Doug Click, "the bat man vigilante," there's more than one kind of chaser at the bar.

Snow Job

Phoenix counselor finds a different kind of gold at the Winter Olympics

Drum & Drummer

Valley jazz musician Rob Schuh pounded skins, pumped iron, shot steroids, went to prison and almost died. Now the feisty trapsman has added an organ to his repertoire -- a transplanted kidney.

Catch a Falling Star

Ricky Martin is in a show-biz tailspin. The boy needs help. And he needs it now.

Radio Ga Ga

Once a week, skaters and fetishists take over the studio

McCain's Arizona Problem

If the senator will listen, he might learn why he's trailing George W. Bush in his home state

Murder on Madison: The Norberg Remix

Tweaker inmate who died at the hands of jailers was also a loving son

No, No, Janet

Tweaker inmate who died at the hands of jailers was also a loving son

The Return of the Native

Tweaker inmate who died at the hands of jailers was also a loving son

Marriage Can Be Murder, Sometimes

Tweaker inmate who died at the hands of jailers was also a loving son

TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES

Tweaker inmate who died at the hands of jailers was also a loving son

Brenda Combs, Ex-Homeless Crack Addict, to Team With Former Reporter for Book

Brenda Combs is a former crack addict from Phoenix whose successful efforts at turning her life around will be featured in a planned book. And that same book may help Slim Smith, (right), a disgraced local newspaper columnist and former alcoholic, turn his own life around. Smith, who was fired ... More >>

Chef Beau MacMillan Takes On Worst Cooks in America

​Executive Chef Beau MacMillan of elements at Sanctuary on Camelback Mountain is somewhat of a local legend. He's been on NBC's The Today Show three times. He cooked at The James Beard House. He even beat Chef Bobby Flay with his delicious Kobe beef dishes on a 2006 episode of Iro ... More >>

Baby Gabriel Update: Hopeful Adoptive Mother, Tammi Smith, Arrested

Tammi Smith during an appearance on The Today Show​Tempe police arrested the woman who had hoped to adopt Gabriel Johnson before the 8-month-old went missing more than six weeks ago.Tammi Smith, 37, was labeled a person of interest by the Tempe Police Department in mid-January after police f ... More >>

Get Him to the Greek: Crude on the Outside, Sweet in the Middle

Tammi Smith during an appearance on The Today Show​Tempe police arrested the woman who had hoped to adopt Gabriel Johnson before the 8-month-old went missing more than six weeks ago.Tammi Smith, 37, was labeled a person of interest by the Tempe Police Department in mid-January after police f ... More >>

Hell's Kitchen Season 7 Opener: Continued Abuse, Crazy Contestants, and a (Yech!) Chef Ramsay Make-Out Session

Another Hell's Kitchen, another ride on the Chef Ramsay roller coaster. In last week's first episode, it didn't take long for Gordo to send food flying all over the kitchen, repeatedly kick defenseless stainless steel appliances, and shout out such gems as, "You're gonna blow someone's mind off!" ... More >>

Sam the Cooking Guy: In Town Tonight with a New Cookbook and an Even Better Thing to do with Leftover Mashed Potatoes

While we at Chow Bella strive to provide you with the the best coverage of fine dining, interviews with the most sophisticated chefs in the greater Phoenix area, and recipes that will amuse even the most sophisticated bouche, we also realize that every once in a while you need a tomato and potato ch ... More >>

Cat Cora Dishes on Oprah and Iron Chef at Changing Hands

Jonathan McNamaraCat Cora prepares an Egyptian bread salad at Changing Hands bookstore.​It's no shock that Cat Cora didn't really cook anything for her book-signing at Changing Hands Bookstore last night. On errant whiff of smoke from a cook top and the overhead sprinklers at Changing Hands wo ... More >>

The MTV Video Music Awards Get Worse Every Year

​MTV's annual Video Music Awards have been working their way steadily downhill for a few years now.This year's show was pretty damn near the bottom of the slope, one would hope. The 2010 iteration included predictable performances, a lack of pans to stars in the crowd, and a lack of award winners ... More >>

AZ Biltmore Hosts "Inside the Chef's Studio"

​Any excuse to hang out at the iconic Arizona Biltmore resort is great (oh, that architecture!), but if you've got a thing for gourmet cooking, there's extra incentive to visit, thanks to the new "Inside the Chef's Studio" series. This will be your chance to step inside the Biltmore's main k ... More >>

Morning Poll: Who's Classier -- Joe Arpaio or Charlie Sheen?

www.icanhascheezburger.com​When one candidate has been quoted this week as saying -- amongst several (several) other douchey remarks --  "I'm tired of pretending like I'm not special...like I'm not a bitchin' rock star from mars," and the other tried to publicly vilify an elementary school, t ... More >>

Lobster Ice Cream Washes Up (for the First Time?) on the Arizona Desert

One crustacean cream, please.​So the Pink Spot, the all-day breakfast, coffee, and scoop joint in Phoenix, is carrying lobster ice cream through the month of July. And before you think some Valley schemester is forcing mutant scorpions from the canal into an icy dessert, this frozen crustacean ... More >>