Everyone has a daredevil side. Some express it by jumping out of an airplane or driving through a burning building, while others are satisfied watching the pros do it on the big screen. That’s why even the dare-iest of devils ought to enjoy MADCAP Theaters’ Daredevil Double Feature Friday presentation…
There’s nothing like a good sampler platter. You get a little bit of everything without committing to a whole plate of gut-busting hot wings or risking it all on the jalapeño poppers. Both scenarios can end up in major regret. The same goes for music, which is why compilation albums…
Vodka is sort of the “high school boyfriend” of liquors: it’s usually your “first” and you feel comfortable and safe with it, but then you notice your more ambitious friends looking so much happier with others that you start to think that while staying with vodka forever may be easy,…
You may typically dread Mondays as much as a fat orange cartoon housecat, but what could be better motivation to get through the workday than knowing it will be followed by a delicious, refreshing, cheaper-than-usual margarita or two? The margarita is the most popular cocktail the U.S. according to renowned…
With the Oscars less than a month away, you might want to start catching up on your movie watching; and there’s no better place than the theater to get the full cinematic experience. Unfortunately, the food selection at most movie theaters (especially if you’re catching up on the second-run films)…
It’s not easy to combine lovable cartoon characters, trisyllabic meter, and serious political messages in a way that both children and adults adore. That’s why Theodore “Dr.” Seuss Geisel is just as relevant today as he was mid-century. This year, the late children’s author, who made anti-consumerism, anti-fascism, and anti-isolationism…
In the beginning, there were tattoos. Then came the clothes (shudder). Now Ed Hardy’s got a whole line of beverages including wine, sparkling wine, sangria, beer, vodka, tequila, energy drinks and spring water. The results of such a line could be horrific; just imagine the cast of Jersey Shore pimping…
Johnny Rotten once described love as “two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds.” While we disagree with the time (isn’t it more like 15 minutes?), we dig the cynicism, especially around Valentine’s Day. However, even heartbroken, bitter men and women can enjoy Sweet Heart Day at the Arizona Science…
Generally, the thought of a “night out” on Mill Avenue gives us a sickening feeling normally reserved for positive lab test results or finding half of a roach in our food, but after checking out Sucker Punch Sally’s bar/diner on Friday night, we’re thrilled to have found a new douche-free…
Maybe it’s the women’s studies classes talking, but in our opinion there’s nothing quite as offensive as products marketed specifically and shamelessly toward the “fairer sex” (particularly when they target women assumed to be shopping-obsessed, pink-loving, rhinestone-studded gossip queens who appear to love their flirty life of singledom, but waste…
Breaking tradition tends to set some into an uproar, so we can only imagine the even-more-disgusted-than-usual face of French sommeliers when they discover that several companies from the U.S. as well as Australia are now packaging wine in aluminum cans…
If Elvis had shimmied down to Sunset Strip instead of Las Vegas – and stayed alive for an extra decade or so – he very well might have formed a super group with Slash, Nikki Sixx, and Tommy Lee. Okay, probably not, but four Arizona rockers came up with the…
Not for little boys under 21 at all, actually; but those of age can wipe the lipstick off the door and put away that kitchen knife because their (or the voices in their heads’ anyway) request has been granted. And it’s delicious…
There’s a little pyromaniac in all of us, and it frequently emerges while knocking back a few drinks; so what better way to spark up a good time than combining the human fascination with fire the human fascination with alcohol? From Scottsdale to Soho, bartenders are creating new libations by…
Hey, downtowners. Wouldn’t it be great to do something fun and interactive with your lunch hour besides waiting in line for fatty foods with other grumpy cubicle trolls? Now you can (at least on Thursdays), thanks to a massive team effort between Karuna Village Fair Trade, Radio Phoenix, ASU’s College…
Rainy weekends often leave Phoenix lookin’ like a ghost town, but fortunately the flurry of droplets didn’t rain on the Sheraton’s Skyline Friday night. Special guest DJ Goldsmith joined residents Senbad and Deon for their weekly installment of fancy drink sippin’ and dancin’ at the swanky hotel in downtown Phoenix…
It sounds like something you’d want to get surgically removed from your small intestine, but the term “gastropub” is actually a combination of the words pub (short for “public house”) and gastronomy (the study of the relationship between culture and food)…
If you pay even the slightest attention to local booze news, you probably know by now that Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan has taken up winemaking right here in AZ (check out Michele Laudig’s 2008 feature story if you’re out of the loop). But what you may not know is…
OK so no alcohol is really healthy for you (despite our best efforts to convince ourselves otherwise), but VeeV is just about the closest booze can get to nutritious because its main ingredient is one of the world’s healthiest foods…
If you know enough about Finland to procure at least one stereotype, it would probably be that of a jolly, beer-swilling outdoorsman with a ZZ Top beard and an affinity for the accordion (sounds like a dude you’d want to party with). Finnish band Korpiklaani, which means “Clan of the…
Do you still get night terrors from that one time your friend made you take a shot of hot sake at her favorite sushi place and it made you gag from the weird taste and acute burning sensation? Don’t let your traumatized virginal palate cause you to swear off sake…
Here in the states we count on Japan for all things innovative and weird (especially when there’s no reason or practical application), so we were delighted to see that Abashiri Brewery, located on Japan’s northernmost island of Hokkaido, specializes in “unique” beers…
