For Sale: Script for Roadhouse Remake Starring Guy Fieri

The Craigslist sale is simple. The script to Roadhouse 2012: Pain Still Don’t Hurt, a remake of the ’80s cult classic and Patrick Swayze heartthrob vehicle. The proposed star? None other than Guy Fieri, because… We’ll admit, we haven’t exactly figure out why Guy Fieri would be suited to such…

Watch This: Someone Eating Little Baby’s (Ice Cream)

Welcome to that weird part of the internet where you see things you wish you could unsee. In this edition of Twilight Zone YouTube we present for your consideration the strange tale of autocannibalism in the pursuit of ice cream sales. Our subject? Little Baby’s Ice Cream, a Pennsylvania based…

Best of Phoenix Readers Poll: Make Your Voice Heard

See also: Chow Bella Tastemakers 2012 The countdown to New Times’ 34th Annual Best of Phoenix is on, but it’s not too late to make your voice heard. Just head on over to the Best of Phoenix Readers Poll and submit your suggestions for the Valley’s best eateries, food trucks,…

Olympic Shot Put-er

See Also: BrewDog’s Latest Beer Claims It’ll Get you Banned From the Olympics (But It Really Won’t) Drinking games are fun but is it really necessary for them to be so strenuous? We live in a time when we can shoot a nuclear mini cooper into space and land it…

Wendy’s Japan Presents: A Lobster Burger for $16

See Also: The $666 Douche Burger. For Real. See Also: Burger King Japan Will Give You 15 Pieces of Bacon For 100 Yen Apparently Wendy’s in Japan is trying to break into the crowded Japanese fast food market by going highbrow. Way, way highbrow. In addition to their instantly recognizable…

Big New Asian Supermarket Opens In Glendale

Glendale is now home to a supermarket called LF Market Oriental & Seafood. As the name implies, LF Market specializes in ethnic food of the Asian persuasion. While we haven’t been able to get out to its distant north Valley location, it certainly sounds promising. Even if it doesn’t have…

July Restaurant Openings and Closings

It was a rough, rough month for coffee and tea shops around the Valley. While we bid goodbye, at least temporarily, to places like Royal at Market, we also picked up some new faces. Scottsdale has a new place for fancy sausages and beer and downtown picked up a new…

Lay Waste to the Forces of Hunger With the Sushi Bazooka

See Also: We Welcome Our (Sushi) Robot Overlords See Also: Watch This: The Story of Sushi Making sushi is hard and time-consuming. There’s the monumental amount of prep work, the difficulty in making tender sushi rice, the actual hassle of rolling the sushi by hand. Professional sushi chefs use a…

Tempe Duo Crafts Awesome Mass Effect 3 Cosplay Armor

In a hot, poorly ventilated garage in Tempe, a young couple lost a lot of sleep so they could hammer out one the best Mass Effect cosplay costumes in time for the San Diego Comic Con Masquerade. David Lyon is an architect who has worked on everything from remodeling the…

$100 a Head Rat Dinner: Survival as Performance Art (NSFW)

Brooklyn based artists Laura Ginn recently hosted a $100 a head gourmet dinner that used rat as it’s central ingredient. The meal, prepared by a professional chef, began with a “rat and pork pate” appetizer, followed with braised and grilled rat and finished with a sorbet. The dinner took place…

Chick-fil-A Flap Summed Up In Bizarre Taiwanese Animation

See Also: The Jim Henson Company Breaks Its Rainbow Connection With Chick-fil-A See Also: Trannies Chow Down on Chick-fil-A So a lot has happened since the Jim Henson Company withdrew their support from Chick-fil-A over the company’s outspoken views against gay marriage. Shortly after that announcement was made, pictures started…

Get Hammered on “Air”

Apparently the future of alcohol consumption isn’t inhaled booze but rather alcohol that tastes… like water? Cue the jokes about cheap beer. “Air” is a new adult beverage is currently rolling through a nationwide release. Release parties have popped up in several cities around the country, although sadly not Phoenix…

Q Up BBQ Brings The Smoke From Their Family to Yours

See Also: Shinobu Diego Tacos y Burritos: Bringing Fusion Food to the Streets Phoenix has been blessed with a veritable explosion of food trucks but none truly devoted to the art of embracing meat with smoke — until Q Up. The were off the road most of last month due…

The Jim Henson Company Breaks Its Rainbow Connection With Chick-fil-A

After a week of high-profile condemnation for Chick-fil-A’s CEO’s public stance on gay marriage, the hits just keep on coming. The most recent defection is the Muppet’s own Jim Henson Company, which announced via Facebook that it would be forming no new partnerships with Chick-fil-A because of the company’s stance…

Ikea Brews and Sells Not One, But Two Beers

Ikea, haven to college students looking for cheap furniture and Swedish meatballs, has introduced a new product for the masses (at least in the UK): Ikea beer with a name just as unpronounceable as any of their other products. ÖL LJUS is a lager and ÖL MÖRK is a dark…

Burger King Employee Takes A Stand — in the Lettuce Bins

See Also:Burger King Rolling Out Food Trucks Because Of Course See Also: Gross Out Archives It’s common knowledge that if you’re going to do something stupid you probably shouldn’t take photos of it and definitely shouldn’t upload those pictures to the internet. If you are going to upload them to…