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James Porter Explains What He Hates About Foodies and Gives the Best Description Ever of Phoenix as a Restaurant Town

See Also: Chef James Porter Leaves Big Earl's BBQ James Porter Petite Maison 7216 E. Shoeman Lane, Scottsdale 480-991-6887 www.petitemaisonaz.com This is part one of my interview with James Porter, chef-owner of Petite Maison. Come back tomorrow for part two, when Porter explains why Deadliest Cat ... More >>

Yard House: Happy Hour Report Card

​The Spot: Yard House, 9401 W. Westgate Blvd., Glendale, (623) 872-3900. www.yardhouse.com The Hours: 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 p.m. to close Sunday through Thursday The Details: Discounts on most drinks, like $2 off wine by the glass and well drinks for only $4.25-4.75, plus pi ... More >>

Ten Favorite First Date Restaurants

Hello Phoenix Cibo's Patio = Perfect First Date Spot​So you convinced that special someone -- or maybe that special someone that you've never actually met but you have a really strong connection with via instant messenger -- to actually go out to dinner with you. Where are going to take the ... More >>

Lexi Huckaby at DiVerti Bar & Grill

Zach Fowle ​The tender: Lexi HuckabyThe bar: DiVerti Bar & Grill (4 E. University Dr., 480-284-5972)The pedigree: Huckaby's father worked for an oil company, so the family moved a lot -- she  lived in Brazil, Dubai, Egypt, London, Bangkok and Turkey before turning 15. A "traveling b ... More >>

Five Best Food Fights on Film

Tony Curtis (left) looks on as Jack Lemmon gets hit in the face with a brandy-flavored cream pie in 1965's The Great Race. Lemmon has a taste before proclaiming, "Brandy! Throw more brandy! Moooore brandy!" From the classic Laurel and Hardy custard pie fight to Eva Mendez angrily chucking veg ... More >>

What's Selling: Revolver Records Top 10 Selling Albums of the Week

revolveraz.com​Since 2007, Revolver Records has kept its racks full of music elation with a vast collection of vinyl, CDs and DVDs. Their website boasts that the shop carries more than 25,000 new and used LPs, providing Phoenicians with plenty of ways to fill their ears with euphoria. Find out ... More >>

In Season: Purslane

Whether you're a CSA devotee, a farmers' market weekender or consider ketchup a veg, we'll bring you fresh inspiration for how to prepare our local produce. This week's harvest: Purslane/Verdolagas Jennifer WoodsPurslane in the dirt​ Purslane is the fancy schmancy succulent weed that you see at ... More >>

$10 Lunch at Mark's Cafe

Maya Dukmasova Turkey wrap with mango-cantaloupe salsa at Mark's Cafe Today we bring you an extended version of our "$10 Lunch" feature -- one with a backstory. ​ Mark's Cafe in south Tempe has been around for years, but you may remember it by the old and slightly confusing name: Culinary S ... More >>

Cannes Outdoes Itself: Our Picks from the Strongest Festival in Years

This Week In Chow Bella

Another week has come and gone leaving us to ponder the upcoming events that will shape our lives and, more importantly, our dinners out. But before we move on, let's have one last look at the blog posts from this week. The Ron Swanson Turkey Burger: A Fried Turkey Leg Inside a Grilled Hamburger ( ... More >>

Susie Timm's Perfect Food Day

Susie Timm ​Susie Timm is an ASU grad who started as a banker and then switched gears completely by co-founding Foodies Like Us. She currently blogs over at Girl Meets Fork about all things food. Timm says she's an incredibly adventurous eater -- from sushi to steak and everything in bet ... More >>

Nov. 19 In Blogs: Pot, Harry Potter, Snoop Dogg, Beer, and DMX

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

Chef Wade Moises Unveils New Menus at Adobe Restaurant

​If you're not a regular at the swanky Arizona Biltmore Golf Club, Adobe Restaurant probably isn't on your radar. And even if you are, you might think of the restaurant as just a pitstop on your way to the championship courses. But that might change now that Wade Moises is in charge.The chef ... More >>

Ranch-Dressing Flavored Mints, Maggot-Covered Candy Apples -- and Worse

​We rarely meet a candy that we won't try, let alone one we don't like. These 6 candies sound so disgusting we are not even willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. So here we go judging books by their covers and knocking it before we try it. Hey,the line has to be drawn somewhere!  ... More >>

Phoenix Suns Center Robin Lopez Invited to Team USA Basketball Camp

nba.com Robin Lopez​Phoenix Suns center Robin Lopez is getting an opportunity to shine. Lopez, who will be entering his third year in the league this fall, has been invited to Team USA's training camp next week in Las Vegas. Team USA will play in the world championships in Turkey from Augu ... More >>

SanTan Brewing Celebrates 'Burgers & Beer' This Week

SanTan Brewing Company is celebrating American Craft Beer Week, which kicks off today, with a daily "Burger & Beer" pairing. Each day this week, the downtown Chandler microbrewery will create a different specialty burger to complement one of its unique ales: Today: Smoked bacon cheeseburger, a ... More >>

Cheba Hut : Lunch $10 and Under

​Cheba Hut "Toasted Subs" is silly. Cheech and Chong posters on the wall, big paper mache blunts hanging from the ceiling that say "order here," and a menu that reads like an honor roll of marijuana varietals over the years.  Most of the sandwiches have been named after strains of marij ... More >>

Phallic Foods and Other Tasty Treats at the Arizona Renaissance Festival

If you've been to the Arizona Renaissance Festival before, you know how the shows work. Most are wholesome, family-friendly entertainment: comedic storytellers, singing nuns, a prankster hypnotist. Then there are the shows labeled LC for "Loose Cannon" -- i.e. bring the kiddies at the risk ... More >>

Phoenix Students Schooled on How Sheriff Joe Arpaio Came to Be Wonder... How Much Longer Can He Last?

We spoke last week to a north Phoenix high-school class about our "experiences in journalism." ​It was early in the day, and the majority of the students were, shall we say, less than engaged in the, um, dialogue. But the class of about 25 boys and girls gat ... More >>

10 for 2010: Food Trends for College Kids

For me, college was mostly a blur of all-day breakfast at Tom's (the diner storefront always pictured in Seinfeld episodes), roast beef sandwiches from the student center, and bagels from anywhere I could get 'em. But college kids these days are eating a lot more sophisticated grub, it seems. Sodex ... More >>

Sweetbreads at Tempe's Caffe Boa

​ For my dad's annual visit to Arizona last weekend, I wanted to take him out to a nice dinner at someplace where the food would be great and the atmosphere would be comfortable -- anything too trendy wouldn't suit him one bit. So we hit up Caffe Boa in Tempe, which I've always liked (and wh ... More >>

Brandon Huigens, What Are You Eating?

​Brandon Huigens The singer for Male Pattern Radness, co-producer for the monthly Femocracy Comedy Variety Series and executive producer/contributor/resident cartoonist of Modest Proposal Magazine and www.mpempire.com performs Saturday, December 5 at The Celebrate Christmas Swe ... More >>

Hot Links: Home Invasions, Sarah Palin, and Oprah Winfrey

Incoming Arizona Board of Regents president Ernest Calderon is proposing a plan that would cut the cost of four-year degrees. The proposal would allow students to attend community college for three years, and then an Arizona university their final year...A Mesa woman reportedly shot two home inv ... More >>

Gross Out: Arizona Heart Hospital Cafeteria Fails Inspection -- Again

  Hospital cafeterias are renowned for serving food that's not so tasty, but we thought such a place would at least follow the rules. And yet the Arizona Heart Hospital near 19th Street and Thomas hasn't passed a county restaurant inspection since February 2007! The cafeteria has received ... More >>

Restless Spiritualist

Globetrotting photog tracks time and myth

Restless Spiritualist

Globetrotting photog tracks time and myth

Brew Review: Rogue's Juniper Pale Ale

Gross Out: Fenix Eatery & Bar gets Two "No Award" Inspections

Gross Out: 5 & Diner on 16th Street a Little too Grungy even for a Greasy Spoon

Budget Beat: Ararat

Sheriff Joe buffaloes readers with bogus yarns in his book Joe's Law

Gross Out

Headbangers Ball

Cello-style

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

Who's spinning what, where and when

RedMonkey Trouble

"SuperMixer" beats a pass-out at Denny's anytime

Snap To It

Comeback kids, rhymin' Limeys and songs about partying defined Hip-Hop Nation in 2006

Posterizing EA

NBA 2K7 towers over the competition

Pluck Off

Something's coming down, but not the sky

This Week's Day-by-day Picks

Letters

Letters from the week of October 21, 004

Heaven Can Wait

Warriors of Heaven and Earth makes you wait for the payoff

BEST NAZI ARTWORK AT A STATE BUILDING

Arizona State Office Building

Best Chain Restaurant

Roy's Pacific Rim Cuisine
2501 East Camelback
602-381-1155
(and 7001 North Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, 480-905-1155)

Knives and Lovers

Ethereal Girl on the Bridge cuts to the quick

A Whirled Apart

Something Old, Something New

In 1996, punk was murdered by its parents and resurrected by its children

Second Helpings

Pic Hits for the week

PLEASE, SIR, CAN I HAVE SUMO?