Listen up. Bar Flies — New Times’ live reading series held monthly at Valley Bar in downtown Phoenix — is now available on the fly. The first three episodes of Bar Flies: The Podcast are ready to be downloaded free on iTunes. We’ll release a new episode each month. The…
We’re coming up on a year of Bar Flies, Phoenix! Don’t miss the eleventh installment of the monthly live reading series, brought to you by Phoenix New Times and Valley Bar. The next Bar Flies’ theme is Friends, and it will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 19,…
Editor’s note: This piece is excerpted from the book My Heart Can’t Even Believe It: A Story of Science, Love, and Down Syndrome by Phoenix New Times managing editor Amy Silverman, published this spring by Woodbine House. By third grade, my daughter Sophie had become a bit of a tattletale. “Someone…
Hey Phoenix, you ready for more stories? We suggest you get your tickets (just $5!) early for the Thursday, April 7, installment of Bar Flies at Valley Bar. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the event is at 7. R. Bradley Snyder is curating, and the theme is Fathers. The…
Every year the Scottsdale League for the Arts recognizes some of the top professionals in the local food and beverage industry with an induction into the Arizona Culinary Hall of Fame. This year, the awards feature five new categories, including Best Upcoming Chef, Brewery of the Year, Winemaker of the…
Bar Flies — the New Times/Valley Bar live reading series — is bursting at the seams. So we’re trying to something new on March 10, when the same lineup of readers will perform twice in one night. Doors open at 6 p.m. for a show at 7, and another at…
For the second year in a row, Scottsdale Public Art and New Times are teaming up for a spoken word event — and it’s time to party. Birthday party, that is. “Stories with a Splash: A Birthday Party” will be presented in conjunction with the public art celebration Canal Convergence…
Hey Phoenix, thanks for all the love you’ve been giving Bar Flies! New Times’ new(ish) live reading event at Valley Bar has been selling out for months now. We suggest you get your tickets (just $5!) early for the Thursday, February 4, installment of Bar Flies. Doors open at 6…
Back by popular demand, Jackalope Ranch Bingo returns to Crescent Ballroom on Thursday, January 14. Doors open at 7:30 p.m.for this 21-and-over event, and the games begin at 8. There’s no charge to play, but you’ll want to load up on food and drinks and settle in for an evening…
Hey Phoenix, thanks for all the love you’ve been giving Bar Flies! New Times’ new(ish) live reading event at Valley Bar has been selling out for months now. So resolve to get your tickets (just $5!) early for the January 7 Bar Flies. Katie Johnson is curating, and the theme…
New Times is back with the December installment of Bar Flies, our monthly reading series at Valley Bar. This time we’ll honor our long(ish) standing tradition of celebrating the holidays with the theme “Eating Christmas” — tales of the winter holidays, and food. The lineup: Tricia Parker, Robrt Pela, Amy Silverman, Amy…
Hey, Phoenix, you’re sweet. Thanks for coming out for the sixth annual Pie Social, cosponsored by New Times and Roosevelt Row. Hundreds of you sampled dozens of pies made by community bakers and celebrity chefs. Proceeds will benefit Bioscience High School and we hope you emerged full, happy, and inspired…
The competition was the stiffest yet this year, with dozens of entries in our pie-ku contest. There can only be one winner, and with stakes this high we conducted a blind judging with pie-ku pro (and former winner) Michael Tucker doing the honors. And he chose an entry written by…
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. No, not that. Pie Social! The sixth annual event will be the sweetest ever — check out our updated celebrity chef lineup and sharpen your pencils, folks, because it’s time once again for Chow Bella’s Pie-Ku contest. And you just might win…
Hey Phoenix, it’s less than a month till Pie Day. Time to dust off those cookbooks and dig out the pie tins. Pie Social 2015 is on — 2 p.m. Saturday, November 21 at a new venue in the same Roosevelt Row neighborhood, the Bioscience High School at 512 E…
With the holidays fast approaching, we’re taking a cozy approach with the November 19 installment of Bar Flies, New Times’ monthly live reading series at Valley Bar in downtown Phoenix. The theme: Family Ties. The readers: Maxfield Barker, Evie Carpenter, Nikki DeLeon, Katie Johnson, and Molly McCloy. Johnson is curating, with music by Kevin Vaugh-Brubaker…
On September 30, Phoenix took a walk with the latest edition of New Times’ reading series, Bar Flies. Now, the conversation will continue on Tuesday, October, 6, at the opening reception of “Talking Walking,” an exhibition from the Museum of Walking. Museum of Walking founder Angela Ellsworth explains: “At the…
The city’s newest reading series is a big hit — if we say so ourselves. The next installment of Phoenix New Times’ Bar Flies will take place at 7 p.m. September 30 at Crescent Ballroom. Tickets are on sale now for the Best of Phoenix collaboration with Scottsdale Public Art…
Congratulations are in order. Phoenix New Times Food Editor Lauren Saria has won first place in the “newspaper food feature category” for “Flour Power,” her 2014 cover story about efforts to grow heirloom wheat in Arizona. The AFJ announced 59 awards at its annual conference, held last week in Florida…
We are totally blown away by the love of pie in this town. In six years we’ve never come close to having our Pie Social celebrity chef roster fill so quickly. But in well under a week, every slot was taken for the New Times/Roosevelt Row Pie Social, which will…
Hey, Phoenix, ready to get your pie on? Chow Bella and Roosevelt Row are hosting the sixth annual Pie Social from 2 to 5 p.m. Saturday, November 21, at the “What Should Go Here” Pop Up Park at Second and Roosevelt streets. And we’re looking for celebrity chefs. As in…
Last night marked the third Bar Flies, New Times’ live reading series at Valley Bar. Pretty good, right? Now that you’ve got the drill down, we’re going to change things up. On September 30, Phoenix New Times will join with Scottsdale Public Art and Museum of Walking to present a…
