Willy Wonka

Taylor Swift Will Incite A Willy Wonka Scavenger Hunt in Phoenix This Weekend

When people and brands recreate the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket promotion they don't always seem aware that Willy Wonka is kind of a sociopath. Regardless: Taylor Swift is recreating the Golden Ticket promotion, and it's coming to Phoenix. If you can connect a series of clues on Diet Coke's Twitter ac ... More >>

Vial of Sound - Crescent Ballroom - 4/13/2013

Vial of Sound @ Crescent Ballroom, 4/13/2013 Obviously, I was not at Coachella. But I don't get what the big deal about it is, so I didn't care. Besides, something great happens when a bunch of local talent comes together. Sure, music scenes have their pitfalls, their petty grudges, the recycled re ... More >>

Watch This New York City Barista Draw Tiny, Intricate Foam Portraits in Lattes

There's plenty of art-related reasons to make a trip to the Big Apple. It's got the Guggenheim, the Met, and MoMA. And the City That Never Sleeps now is home to the king of latte-art portraiture, Mike Breach. See also: - The Coffee Chop Kicks Off Coffee Class Series at Crepe Bar in Tempe - Coffee ... More >>

MJ Coe Dishes on His Love of Wonderbread and Baking to the Willy Wonka Soundtrack

This is part two of our interview with MJ Coe, the bread and butter behind MJ Bread and creative genius behind the wood-fired creations at Federal Pizza. To find out the weirdest thing that MJ ate (or rather, couldn't eat) and where his hatred of Cupcake Wars stems from, check out part one of the in ... More >>

David Duarte Makes Peanut Butter Crunch Bars

Forks up, Phoenix! Chow Bella and Roosevelt Row present the third annual Pie Social Saturday, November 3rd, from 2 to 6 p.m. on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix. We've got an all-star line up of bakers making pies for you to taste, and from now til Pie Social, we'll introduce them to you, one by on ... More >>

OMG! It's the Katy Perry Movie Drinking Game!

I missed Sound Wave, so my Saturday was not spent doing ecstasy in a drained swimming pool. Sad face. I also missed Justin Bieber's concert, which totally blows becausehe threw up, guys! He threw up on stage in front of hundreds of people and now millions of people will watch the video on YouTube an ... More >>

Anatomy of a Brownie with Eileen Spitalny of Fairytale Brownies

See also: Fairytale Brownies in Bite-Sized Morsels -- a Dream Come True See also: Tammie Coe, Fairytale Brownies and Goody Twos Toffee for Valentine's Day When you're cooking, it's all about a dash of this and a splash of that. But baking is another matter, an exact science. In this series, we're g ... More >>

Stuffed! Saturday at Devoured Phoenix Culinary Classic 2012

This is what spring in Arizona is all about, people. Fresh air, sun, smiling happy guests and some rockin' Arizona food at the Devoured Phx Culinary Classic. Here's how it went down on Saturday with our favorite booths and people.

Dengue Fever: "It Doesn't Matter...They Don't Know What the Hell We're Saying Anyway"

Imagine wild organ swirls, rolling surf licks and jazzy party horns coupled with angular and decidedly eastern melodies, plus a sultry singer who shifts between English and her native Cambodian dialect. That's just a fraction of what shapes Dengue Fever's original sound. The band discovered its ca ... More >>

Epic Meal Time

Refresh Glass Updates Ronco's Bottle and Jar Cutter in Style

Courtesy of Refresh Glass​There's no longer a need to haunt Ebay for Ron Popeil's Ronco Bottle and Jar Cutter kit from the 70's--Ray Delmuro's got it figured out. Three years ago, the owner and creator of Refresh Glass perfected a way to produce sturdy, dishwasher-safe drinking glasses ... More >>

Gingerbread Village at Desert Ridge and Sparkling Cranberries in Today's Eater's Digest

www.minimalista.org​ Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Gingerbread VillageThe largest gingerbread village in the Valley is all set up and ready to be gawked at! "Candy Wonderland" at the JW Marriott Resort is sure to inspire you to attempt to cr ... More >>

A Thanksgiving Dinner Fowl: Cornish Pasty Company vs. All Wrapped Up

Remember that scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory where disgusting gum-chewing champion Violet Beauregarde gets her choppers on a piece of gum that tastes like a roast beef dinner, complete with tomato soup and blueberry pie? According to the Institute of Food Research,&nbs ... More >>

Analog Roll

Local mystery mixer Djentrification stays out of cyberspace

Shopping for Kitchen Supplies: Costco Business Center

Sloane BurwellThe mandoline - a serious savings on a powerful tool.​ Ask any chef or great cook and they'll tell you - it's all in the tools. Home cooks could spend the rest of their lives amassing their collection, and truth be told - they often do. But what if you're just starting out, on ... More >>

Smeeks Candy Shop Opens Downtown

Lauren GilgerA taste of the goodies at Smeeks in downtown Phoenix.It's nice to see a price tag on anything that reads 5 cents. It calls to mind a time way back (a time few among us can remember, but perhaps have read of in books) when gas cost 20 cents a gallon and kids said, "Shucks!" But that's ... More >>

Sweets & Beats Coming to Grand Avenue

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jbhill/When it rains, it pours . . . candy. Last week I got the lowdown on Smeeks, a new candy shop coming to Central and Camelback. And now there's already word of another place in the works for Grand Avenue -- right between vintage tiki bar Bikini ... More >>

Christopher Gross Brings Flavor Tripping Trend to AZ

Listening to chef Christopher Gross explain the mind- and palate-expanding sensation of eating "miracle fruit," I can't help but think of Willy Wonka waxing poetic about Everlasting Gobstoppers. "You can eat a lemon wedge, and it tastes just like a piece of candy!" he tells me. It's called fla ... More >>

Brew Review: Hitachino Nest's Sweet Stout

Nathan Sproul's anti-Pearce MVD flier; and LD18's Ron Middlebrook and Cecil Ash take money from neo-Nazi J.T. Ready.

Center of the Earth plays like a promo for 3D filmmaking

Zombie Vision

The rocker turned Halloween director on demonic gargoyles, the drive-in, and growing up without YouTube

Analog Roll

Local mystery mixer Djentrification stays out of cyberspace

The Back of Love

Lindsey Buckingham has big, big love for his work

Mustache Ride

In the latest WarioWare, you can pick your friend's nose

Freak Show Maestro

Get Down With Dave

Chappelle returns with a raucous Party

Of Montreal

Psychedelicatessen

Blessed Are the Buttmunches

The View From Vu

Great American nouvelle

Working Blue. And Brown

There is a pony in there somewhere

Bad News

One more awful remake strikes out

Bar None

Candy man Colin Redding chocs it up to experience

Chocolate Kisses

Wonka just got weirder

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise

Pie-Faced

Pizza guy gets lucky

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Scoop du Jour

Oh to be a professional ice cream taster

Ape Escape

Monkeybone, like a dream, is best when half-remembered

Hacked Off

The flimsy techno thriller Antitrust does nothing to boost Ryan Phillippe to stardom

Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

Lasse Hallström greets the season with a huge dose of Chocolat

Master of Puppets

Curt Kirkwood is the heart, soul and everything else of the Meat Puppets, no matter who's in the band

Black Rock or Combust

Afterthoughts on the 1999 Burning Man Festival, from a four-year veteran

Candied Camera

Willy Wonka's dark chocolate still tasty at 25

Kid Pics for the week

Kid Pics for the week

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