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Sam Pillsbury Answers the Question: Why Arizona Wine?

Why Arizona wine? In 2000 -- the year I planted my first vineyard at the end of a lonely, dusty road in Cochise County, 12 miles south of Willcox -- one of the 10 Best 'How to Lose Money' jokes on Saturday Night Live was: Plant a Vineyard In Arizona. Arizona is all Sonoran Desert, obviously suicid ... More >>

Arizona Man Joins Al Qaeda Group and Tours the Middle East Fighting

A former U.S. soldier raised in Phoenix is hopping around the Middle East lending his services to various warring countries and jihadist groups, according to Fox News - there's a seemingly authentic Youtube video to back it up (see below).The article says that Eric Harroun, 30, was most recently in ... More >>

8 Tips on Mixing the Perfect Cocktail from 4 Local Mixologists

What does the cocktail enthusiast with no bartending experience need to know to make an awesome craft cocktail? Lynne Rossetto Kasper -- the sonorous talk show host of NPR's The Splendid Table asked that question of four of the Valley's top mixologists at the Hotel Palomar last weekend, and she got ... More >>

Los Amigos Invisibles Tried to Make a Pop Record, But They Found Themselves Instead

The best punchlines are the ones that you don't see coming. In 2009, New York-based Venezuelan funk/dance outfit Los Amigos Invisibles thought they were being pretty slick when they decided to try and shed their underground Alternative Latin act image, putting out a record chock-full of uplifting ... More >>

Reubens Accomplice Returns With Sons of Men (Download)

See also: Reubens Accomplice --It's Not a Dill Spear, Either See also: Reubens Cubed: Reubens Accomplice Makes a Bi-Coastal Album While Still Keeping a Desert Address You know you're in trouble when bloggers start resorting to cryptozoological terms to describe your long-awaited third record. It' ... More >>

From Chocolate to BBQ, 17 Festivals to Hit in Metro Phoenix

​ The Festival: Glendale Chocolate Affaire The Dates: February 3 - 5 The Theme: Chocolate, just in time for Valentine's Day! What To Eat: Endless chocolate from more than 30 chocolatiers from across the country. There will be the usual suspects like chocolate dipped strawberries, choco ... More >>

Chow Bella Book Club January Selection: Blood Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton

​We're starting the year in style by choosing the memoir  so stellar, it inspired us to create Chow Bella Book Club. We're reading Blood Bones and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton this month and it will be capped off with a visit from the author hers ... More >>

Peter Murphy at Marquee Theatre, 11/3/11

Photos by Melissa Fossum​ Peter Murphy and She Wants Revenge Marquee Theatre Thursday, November 3 Peter Murphy is a weird dude. Known as the "Godfather of Goth" for his work fronting Bauhaus, one of the pioneers of the genre. Murphy has released eight solo albums since Bauhaus broke up in 19 ... More >>

Mental Illness Hasn't Stopped Chris Shelton from Becoming a World-Class Boxing Historian

Chef Talk: Charles Wiley of Hotel Valley Ho

Though he's never been east of New Jersey or west of Alaska, Chef Charles "Chuck" Wiley traveled a long way to get where he is today.  As a child, Wiley dreamed of working on cars. He was hired at a local auto body shop in New Jersey at the age ... More >>

DJ Adam Osuna Talks Lady Gaga, House Music, Asher Roth, Lawnchair Generals, and More

DJ Adam Osuna​Name: Adam Anthony O'Suna, Sr. Nickname: Suna, brah! Current club nights: I play out when the opportunity presents itself. On guest rotation at Skyline on Fridays, Solstice on Saturdays, and Retro Hi-Fi about every month or so. Genres spun: Real house, jackin and good deep with a ... More >>

Cinco de Mayo Guide

Honor Thy Father: The Inside Story of the Young Muslim Woman "Honor-Killed" by Her Father Because He Believed She'd Become Too Americanized

Emil Pulsifer's Intriguing Essay on the Subject of Immigration

If Emil's right on immigration, it may all come down to oil... Regular readers of the Feathered Bastard blog are familiar with the trenchant, and often amusing observations of regular commenter Emil Pulsifer. So you will be interested in Pulsifer's recent, thought-provoking guest column for Jo ... More >>

Arty Girl: Linda Connor at Phoenix Art Museum

Linda Connor, Mudra Mindroling Monastery, Tibet 1993I have to hand it to photographers...and not just because I get paid to.Honestly, I don't have a mind for what they do. I took one photography class when I was 17 and ended up dropping halfway through the semester. It's the process that gets me do ... More >>

Like La Bocca Urban Pizzeria's crust, the pizza competition in Phoenix is stiff

First-Person Plural

Actress has multiple-personality disorder — in a good way

Head on a skewer: Joe Arpaio was so obsessed with getting a hard-charging New Times writer prosecuted that he badgered Andy Thomas into making a fool of himself

Turkish Delight

A good reason to fight your way into Tempe

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Posh Playas

Foxy sirens and oversexed sultans self-lubricate until the state's new 2 a.m. cutoff at Suede.

In the Crosshairs

County lawmen boffing hookers isn't Sheriff Joe's only problem. Fed up with his thuggery, Arpaio's own political party has targeted him for defeat

Kings of Kebab

Stephen Lemons sings the praises of Turkish cuisine

In The Zone

Eloy's Skies are raining men, and sprinkling hot chicks, too.

She Can't Be Serious

Yes, she can, actually. The enigmatic Diamanda Galás returns with four sweeping discs of new material.

Letters

Letters from the week of June 26, 2003

Serious Business

If Joe Arpaio runs for governor, he'll win if people forget he's a madman

Ali's Mother and Her Dessert

This concoction is much more than the Middle Eastern equivalent of Jell-O

Kurd Mentality

Thoughtful and disturbing, Iranian A Time for Drunken Horses rides high in the saddle

Parting Shot

Forced out of the military over refusal to take part in a controversial anthrax immunization program, an ex-serviceman finds his protest was in vein

Flashes 05-25-2000

The Plot To Assassinate Arpaio

It was a diabolical scheme. Problem is, most of it was hatched by the Sheriff's Office.

Glass Houses

Philip Glass and Robert Wilson once again shatter the bounds of musical theater with the digital opera Monsters of Grace

The Wizard of Austria

At 67, jazz great Joe Zawinul is just beginning to peak

Sex for Less

Flashes

Well, Excuuuuuuuuuse Me

The Hills Are Alive

An obscure old folk album reveals a place where stories--both spoken and sung--are priceless heirlooms

Flashes

Kid Pics for the week

Heavy Competition

One hundred pounds overweight, Dave Alexander is truly an athlete of substance. Nah--go ahead, call him fat. He doesn't mind. He'll just enter another triathlon.

Ethnicity Lights

Original Recipe

Chicken-scratch music predates the railroads in Arizona, but mainstream audiences are just now getting a taste for the stuff

Mutiny At The County

Sheriff Arpaio's deputies say his vaunted posse does little more than waste money and slake their boss's thirst for publicity

A Secretary's Revenge

Deborah Vasquez, a secretary in the Attorney General's Office, overstepped her authority to help a kidnaped child. After being upbraided, she spread fantasy and half-truth that have been used to discredit the attorney general's top assistant, Rob Carey.

Pols to the Wall

OPEN RECORDS PREVENT A POLICE STATE