What does Fry Girl know about Hanukkah? Bubkis. But when my editor told me the Jewish Festival of Lights, going on now until December 9, included eating foods fried in oil and that she’d make me an honorary Jew if I named a few of my fast food fried favorites,…
The holidays can be a spendy time, and the fast-food giants want our dollars as much as the retailers do. With new and limited-time fast fare making its way out of the research-and-development departments and into our quick-service sights, Fry Girl’s on the scene to help you make the best…
Unpack those friggin’ knives, yo! The so-close finalists from the past seven seasons of Top Chef ain’t playin’ this time around, as they compete to win the grand prize of $200,000 on Top Chef All Stars. Redemption? Saving face? Insults? How can this not be good TV? The premiere opens…
Rainbows, hearts, symbols of man, a nude self-portrait? This out is so on. With a ta-ta to 2010, Arizona artist Julio Cesar Rodarte ponders life and love in “The Gay Is Out!” exhibition about being, well, gay and out. In a collection of acrylic paintings that utilize dynamic shapes, patterns,…
For the nation’s fast-food chains, new menu items mean new customers willing to give up a few greenbacks to try something different — at least once. And with the economy still as shaky as Uncle Larry’s hands before a few glasses of spiked eggnog, every patron matters — especially in…
A parade of home tours may provide inspiration for a new kitchen countertop but for those wanting to know more about that backyard evaporative cooling system for Brownie, Spotty-Dotty, and Tweetie, there’s the Phoenix Tour de Coops, a self-guided tour of more than 19 of the Valley’s hippest hen houses…
The northwest corner of 16th Street and McDowell is like a Mexican mullet — La Hacienda Carniceria lunch business in the front, an outdoor fiesta in the back. The host of the party side? Rico’s Tacos. The celebration starts every day at 4 p.m., when La Hacienda closes its doors…
Like Drew from Office Space, everyone has an “o-face” — it’s just that most of us wouldn’t allow a photographer in the room to capture it, let alone leave the ambient light on.Not so for 24 women in a collection of images from New York-based fashion photographer Rick Kim. In…
Can’t tell borscht from ukha? Think gorodki is a lesser-known cosmonaut? Still laughing along with Yakov Smirnoff? Maybe it’s time to brush up on Mother Russia. Presented by Holy Archangels Orthodox Church and the Phoenix Russian Library Club, the Arizona Russian Festival will cram the culture of the largest land-area…
Mom still the only one commenting on your blog? Latest podcast sound like an S.O.S. transmission from the Grand Canyon Caverns? Social media campaign not so social? Better grab your wiki and head to PodCamp AZ. Billed as a free, networking media “unconference” (anyone can speak and you can walk…
When you’re a first-time restaurant owner, it doesn’t hurt to have a sense of humor. And for Chaka Chaka’s Charlie Blonkenfeld, a banana will do nicely. “I was experimenting with my jerk chicken sandwich, and my roommate wanted to put cheese on it,” Blonkenfeld says. “I told him, ‘Screw that…
Football meets the footlong? Yeah, it’s a bit of a stretch, especially when it’s a Tex-Mex Footlong. But if Friday Night Lights has taught me anything, it’s that Texas loves its football and 30-year-old actors who play teenagers. Sonic’s new Tex-Mex Footlong Quarter Pound Coney, available for a limited time,…
Today is the day Jack in the Box gives away two free tacos after 2 p.m., thanks to Jack’s visit to the dentist, where, hopped up on laughing gas, he makes the announcement. Note to dentists everywhere: More laughing gas for fast-food mascots, please! According to my e-mail from Jack…
The newest battleground for the fast-food giants is breakfast. McDonald’s, Burger King, and Starbucks have turned up the griddle on joints like Dunkin Donuts, forcing them to fight back. Said Dunkin Donuts to the breakfast bullies, “Suck on our Sausage Pancake Bites!” Last week, for a limited time only, Dunkin…
How much is that doggy in the window? First you need to find the window. Dog Town Chili Dogs, the new fast-food joint that opened up a few weeks ago in Tempe, seems to be doing everything it can to make sure you don’t. If you do happen to stumble…
Last night’s episode of Top Chef Just Desserts determined who was going on to the final challenge. And while it sucks to be the first to go home, it sucks even harder to be eliminated just before the finale. True dat. We start the episode watching Yigit shaving, which is…
Most of us know Dr. Seuss as the beloved author of such classics as Green Eggs and Ham and The Cat in the Hat, but what about his work featuring racist depictions of Japanese soldiers and a wide-eyed doll whose breasts and butt conceal bombs? Horton hears a . …
Desserts are a lot like fashion — one day it’s in, the next day it’s out. And for those still living in the cupcake age, it’s time to stick a fork in it and embrace the latest pastry passion: pie, glorious pie. Roosevelt Row and New Times’ food blog Chow…
There’s trouble in Dog Town. Big trouble. The chili dog joint that opened a few weeks ago in Tempe seems to be doing everything it can to secure a place in the land of fast-food fails. For starters, there’s the location: positioned off Mill Avenue, in a back-of-a-building storefront, with…
Hello? Idea store? Hi, this is Top Chef Just Desserts and we need some ideas for challenges…yeah…we’re down to five contestants and our intern totally screwed up and thought that…what? How much? Um, okay, thanks, we’ll just use the crappy ones we have for tonight. At the start of this…
After downing the last of the candy corn and (blech) box of raisins, isn’t it time for some chevaps or a palachinke or two? At the eighth annual SerbFest, patrons can cleanse their post-Halloween palates with homemade Serbian cuisine like spit-roasted lamb and pig, chevaps (Serbian sausage), palachinke (crepes), and…
While Hollywood was experiencing an artistic low point in 1970 (think Weekend with the Babysitter), American avant-garde filmmaker Hollis Frampton created Zorns Lemma and turned experimental filmmaking on its celluloid ass. Called “an exercise in mathematical logic in cinema,” Zorns Lemma features an evolving alphabet composed of New York City…
