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Tasting Dunkin' Donuts' New Donut Breakfast Sandwich

The Guilty Pleasure (loosely speaking): Donut Breakfast Sandwich Where to Get It: Dunkin' Donuts, locations Valleywide Price: $3.50 (Give or take, depending on location) What it Really Costs: Oh, where to begin... Quick-service chains are on to writers like me. There's an easy way to garner media b ... More >>

Burger King's New Rib Sandwich: Move Over, McRib

The Guilty Pleasure: Boneless Rib Sandwich Where To Get It: Burger King, locations Valleywide The Price: $6 and up as a combo. What It Really Costs: As always with fast food, sodium city with over 1,500 mg for the sandwich alone. See also: - Why You Can Shut Up About McRibs and Yoga Mats. - McRib M ... More >>

An Infamous 2004 Scuffle Continues to Define Danny Marianino and Glenn Danzig

Why You Can Shut Up About McRibs and Yoga Mats.

Last year, food bloggers everywhere had a story that was literally on the tongues of many people in the country: A chemical used in the making of the McRib is also found in yoga mats. This is completely true. Azodicarbonamide is found in the ingredients listings for both the McRib and for soft, foam ... More >>

Green Day's Second Politically-Charged Single Lacks Bite

See also: Green Day's New Song "Epic as Fuck?" Not Even Close See also: Throwback Thursday: Green Day's Dookie Last week at a live show in Los Angeles, Green Day revealed another three power punk tracks from their upcoming album, ¡UNO!: "Nuclear Family," "Wild One," and most importantly, "Kill The ... More >>

Raul Castro's Treatment by Border Patrol an Argument for BP's Elimination

I despise the United States Border Patrol. One-hundred miles from the U.S. Border, the entire U.S. border, they are a law unto themselves, in what the ACLU refers to as a "constitution free zone," that encircles the entire contiguous United States.They regularly treat U.S. citizens with contempt. Th ... More >>

Is "the Left" to Blame for Vandalism to Congressional Candidate Wendy Rogers' House?

​Yesterday, the campaign for Republican Congressional candidate Wendy Rogers ​announced her house was vandalized the day she announced her candidacy, and one of her campaign staffers thinks "the Left" might have something to do with it.The campaign for Rogers -- who's running in the newly formed ... More >>

Tempe Police Not Suspecting "the Left" -- or Anyone Else -- for Damage to Wendy Rogers' Landscaping Decor

​Well, Tempe police aren't suspecting "the Left" or blog commenters are responsible for the vandalism at Congressional Candidate Wendy Rogers' house on Saturday.Nor did police mention that they "recommended they investigate because of the coincidental timing of this attack with Rogers' campaign an ... More >>

Congressional Candidate Wendy Rogers' House Vandalized; Campaign Cites Left-Wing Blog Commenters

​Republican Congressional candidate Wendy Rogers says her house was vandalized the day she announced her candidacy, and one of her campaign staffers thinks "the Left" might have something to do with it.An email from the Rogers campaign says her Tempe home was vandalized on Saturday night, about 12 ... More >>

Thoughts and Predictions for the 2012 Food Scene

Seven Food Predictions for the Valley in 2012

It's no secret that the Valley food scene is slow to hop aboard the gastronomical trend train, but that doesn't mean it can't surprise us every once in a while. And when it comes to food predictions for Arizona eaters in 2012, I'm certainly no fortuneteller, but given high food prices continuously m ... More >>

Top 10 Cities That Spend the Most on Fast Food: AZ City Makes the Greasy Cut

David McNew, Getty Images​Value meals, super sizing, quick trips through the drive thru -- America loves fast food. Wedging itself into nearly every nook and cranny of our society, its everywhere. And some cities in the good ol' 'U.S.of A. take advantage of it more than others. So says the mo ... More >>

Trent Robertson at the Vine Tavern

Zach Fowle ​The tender: Trent RobertsonThe bar: The Vine Tavern (801 E. Apache Blvd., 480-894-2662)The pedigree: Robertson got his bartending start in Kansas, working mostly, he says, at "Applebee's-type restaurants." A fortuitous coin flip led him to Tempe and the Vine ten years ago, where ... More >>

Arby's New Limited-Time Menu Items: Steakhouse Onion Rings & Chocolate Turnover (Um, Do Not Eat Together)

What onion rings are supposed to taste like? We'll see about that.​Howdy, Arby's! Recently, the Wendy's sibling best known for roast beef sandwiches and curly fries introduced two limited-time items to its menu: Steakhouse Onion Rings and a Chocolate Turnover. Billed as, "Battered and fried to go ... More >>

George's in Scottsdale Gives Diners Gyro Euphoria

Fry Girl Versus the Top Five Fish Sandwiches

Food Challenge: Dining for a Buck

When we heard about the two Social Justice teachers who went on a "Dollar a Day Diet" back in 2008 (they're now working on a book deal) and Rebecca Currie's follow-up project on healthy eating for a dollar a day, we thought they all must be crazy. We can't even eat for a dollar a meal, mu ... More >>

Less Than Model Behavior at Phoenix Fashion Week

Who knew the fashionably chic were inclined to be so fashionably wasted? Maybe it was the "party all night" atmosphere or the seemingly neverending stream of martinis pouring out of Scottsdale's famed Valley Ho this past Friday, but there was a lot of elbowing, a l ... More >>

Budget Beat: Eliana's Authentic Salvadoran Cuisine

Savage Love

Testing familial bonds, one nursing home at a time

Nowhere Fast

Tim Allen and company Zoom straight to the bottom of the superhero barrel

Crown Room Kickin' It

Fire-breathing bartenders, hot bi-chicks, and talking socks? That's a Crown Room Thursday night, baby

Burning Bright

Twin tigers light up the screen in Two Brothers

LET'S GET PHYSICAL:

Pumping up and slimming down

Bound by Fear: Polygamy in Arizona

For decades the state has let a feudal colony of fundamentalist Mormons force underage girls into illegal polygamous marriages

And the Wiener Is . . .

Dogging the town's frankfurter joints

Rocking Maniac

Where there's a Willis, there's a schizophrenic cult icon who can whup all of rock's mad geniuses

Steers and Queers

Arizona's gay rodeo is one of the largest and most competitive in the country. And that's no bull.

Letters

Week of October 12th

Diff'rent Strokes

Eccentric swimmer Gary Hall Jr. of Phoenix heads into the Olympic trials, hoping to win a place on a historic medley relay in Sydney. In this potential scenario, he would join an eclectic mix of likely and long-shot compatriots.

Boogie Men

Dislocated Styles find the common ground for hip-hop, hard rock and old-school funk

Chain Saw of Fools

Where do Wendy and Rob rate among rock's most marginal contributors?

You Want Ska With That?

Dave's Big Deluxe--watch out for the special sauce

ALONE AT THE TOP

WON TON A BANDON

SOUR JUSTICE THIS NICE LITTLE OLD LADY'S DAY IN COURT LEFT A BAD TASTE IN HER MOUTH

THE LITTLE LAWSUIT THAT COULD

HEY, JUDGE, PUT THAT BLINDFOLD BACK ON!