The Spot: SideBar, 1514 N. 7th Ave., Phoenix, (602) 254-1646. www.sidebarphoenix.com The Hours: 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday The Details: Appetizers and well drinks are $4, and you get $1 off all beers and $2 off wine by the glass. All wine bottles are $8 off. There’s an…
The Spot: Big Earl’s BBQ, 7213 E. First Ave., Scottsdale, (480) 947-6800. bigearlsbbq.com The Hours: 2 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday The Details: Since we graded them back in October, Big Earl’s BBQ has revamped their happy-hour specials. Check the chalkboard above the bar for details on the new…
The Spot: Z’Tejas Southwestern Grill, 7221 W. Ray Road, Chandler. (480) 893-7550. Other locations include Scottsdale, Tempe and Phoenix. ztejas.comThe Hours: 3:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Hours vary slightly by location, and the Scottsdale Z’Tejas includes a reverse happy hour from…
Thirsty Lion Pub & Grill, 2000 E. Rio Salado Parkway, Suite 1041, Tempe, (480) 968-2920. www.thirstylionpub.com The Hours: 3 to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 p.m. to close Sunday through Thursday. The Details: Wine, well drinks, margaritas, and 11 select craft beers are all $4. Domestics (Bud Light and…
The Spot: Urban Tea Loft, 11 W. Boston St. #2, Chandler. (480) 786-9600. urbantealoft.com The Hours: 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 3 to 6:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays The Details: Appetizers are 1/2 off, domestic beer is down to $2.50, and a glass of wine is $2 off…
In a high-rise apartment in downtown Minneapolis, Mavis Gary (played by Charlize Theron) — young adult fiction author, divorcee, and aging prom queen — takes a morning swill of Diet Coke and peels off last night’s As-Seen-on-TV, stick-on bra. After a Wii Fit step program in roomy sweats, she checks her…
Since its launch in 2009, the Phoenix Tequila Fest has grown into a big annual event – maybe a little too big. This past weekend, crowds descended on US Airways Center – that is, just outside the doors and inside the entryway – to taste smooth tequilas, margaritas, and samples…
The Spot: Va Bene Italian Cuisine and Wine Bar, 4647 E. Chandler Blvd., Phoenix, (480) 706-4070. www.vabeneaz.com The Hours: 4 to 7 p.m. daily, 4 p.m. to close Sundays and Mondays The Details: Contrary to what the restaurant’s website says, Va Bene’s happy hour isn’t exclusively drinks; it’s just mostly…
The Spot: Jimmy Woo’s Sushi & Asian Bistro, 4233 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, (480) 945-4669. jimmywoos.com The Hours: 3 to 7 p.m. daily The Details: The Jimmy Woo’s happy hour is extremely inclusive: 1/2 price house sushi rolls (of which there are many), 1/2 price all appetizers (of which there are…
Lars von Trier is not for everyone. You have only to watch von Trier’s violently quirky short film Occupations — featuring von Trier brutally murdering the man talking in the movie theater next to him — to see that he’s wildly passionate about his work, and yeah, a little bit uninhibited. The…
The Spot: Stax Burger Bistro, 4400 N. Scottsdale Road #12, Scottsdale, (480) 946-4222. www.staxburgerbistro.com The Hours: 3 to 6 p.m. daily The Details: The Stax happy hour is all about 3 hours of $3 deals. On the $3 menu: five choices of Stax mini-burgers, like Turkey and Beef; Baskets of…
Eric Glomski – Page Springs winemaker and winemaking mentor to Maynard James Keenan – has a mop of beachy-blonde bedhead and a surfer’s swagger. “I can’t use the word ‘luster’ talking about wines I make,” he says, with a smile. Glomski is addressing a crowd of eager tasters at the…
Dragonslayer is a film that sets out to capture a generation: the lost boys and girls born during the Reagan Administration now stumbling and tumbling through a kind of dystopian Southern California, bathed in the warm rays of the western sun. To call it a love song to an entire…
Every hour is happy hour for The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger. So when we heard there was a drink named the Honey Badger at Cocina 10, the new restaurant attached to the Crescent Ballroom music venue (open last month in downtown Phoenix), we had to try it. Made with American…
Marilyn Monroe was known and celebrated for her full figure and ample curves, which have dominated much of the discussion in anticipation of two new Monroe biopics: My Week with Marilyn and Blonde. Last year, the films’ directors announced that Michelle Williams would take on Monroe in My Week with Marilyn and Naomi…
Watching Pearl Fryar select a plant from the discards of the local nursery is a little like getting to see Michelangelo pick out a piece of marble. And what Fryar creates with the number of cast-off shrubs and trees — over a number of years of patient trimming and sculpting…
When the first Technology Entertainment and Design (TED) conference was held in 1984, the Internet as we know it was still strange little world inhabited mostly by government employees and academics, busily creating much of the lingo (FAQ, troll, flame war) we use today. Since then, TED Talks continued to grow and the…
After the biting social commentary of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) and the political satire of Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008), says John Cho (Harold himself, visiting ASU for a Q&A with Kumar’s Kal Penn on Oct. 24), “the most radical move was to…
There’s a moment at the beginning of Tower Heist, the new comedy opening Friday by director Brett Ratner (the Rush Hour series), when you can almost forget years of Eddie Murphy’s career. Murphy stands on the sidewalk taunting Ben Stiller as he passes by in his best suit (“punk-ass bitches”…
After two weekends of foodie and wine festivals, Chandler’s beer drinkers got their fix this Saturday at the Hoptoberfest Chili Cook Off, hosted by the Hungry Monk. The festival featured 40 India Pale Ales on tap, eight spicy chilis for sampling, live music, Stein-holder contests, and some very brave men…
On a Monday in late August, Elizabeth Olsen — younger sister of the infamous Olsen twins — and writer/director Sean Durkin sat beneath the screen at Harkins Camelview. They were in Phoenix to promote the unfortunately titled Martha Marcy May Marlene, in limited release beginning today (keep an eye out,…
Every town has a handful of sketchy restaurants. Often it’s the joints that look the most questionable that hold the secrets of culinary enlightenment. Then again, they might hold nothing more than a one-way ticket to whatever you stuffed down your gob firing back out from both ends. It’s the…
