You can pull the fork out of our eyes now, Top Chef D.C. is finally over, and not even previous Top Chef winner Hung Huynh or chef David Chang (Treme everybody!) saying “fuck” and “balls” could save the finale on Wednesday night from being as boring as the entire season…
Well, it’s over. The two-hour finale of MasterChef aired Wednesday night and, for those of us who actually watched the first season of the American version of the popular amateur cooking competition, we can get back to living our lives without montages, pre-commercial break cliffhangers, unnecessary narration, and music that…
“Are you a salesperson?” “No, I’m a writer for the New Times.” “Oh, what do you write?” “I write a column about fast food called ‘Fry Girl'” “I don’t like fast food. It’s not very healthy.” (cue uncomfortable silence and shifting self in chair) This is Wendy’s? It is this…
How was Peaches Christ while directing the twisted black comedy All About Evil? “A total bitch,” says Josh Grannell, first-time director and drag alter ego of midnight movie impresario Peaches Christ. “Peaches, more than anyone, ended up on the cutting-room floor.” Starring Natasha Lyonne, cult icon Mink Stole, and Cassandra…
How was Peaches Christ while directing the twisted black comedy All About Evil? “A total bitch,” says Josh Grannell, first-time director and drag alter ego of midnight movie impresario Peaches Christ. “Peaches, more than anyone, ended up on the cutting-room floor.” Starring Natasha Lyonne, cult icon Mink Stole, and Cassandra…
How do you know you’ve been abducted by a monster? “Usually, you wake up in the desert sitting naked in a cardboard box, surrounded by cans of Tab with honey in your eyes. That’s a pretty good indicator. It happens way more than you might think.” So says Daniel m…
It was a Fry Girl first: I felt out of place at a fast-food joint. I felt out of place at Wendy’s. Well, it wasn’t really Wendy’s — not this morning. It was Breakfast Experience Wendy’s, an event for “VIPs” and media only. The redhead was dressed to impress for…
For many of us, nightmares typically involve monsters, forgetting to wear clothes in class, and being forced to watch M. Night Shyamalan flicks. That was me, too, until recently. Now, my nightmares all involve Cantina Tacos from Taco Bell — killer Cantina Tacos, deadly, foul-tasting Cantina Tacos, and worst of…
All right class, settle down, settle down. It’s been brought to my attention from a student who wishes to make gadget class more than things going up your nose with a rubber hose (thank you Mr. Widwitz) that some of you Sweathogs may be cheating in an attempt to “win”…
They could have been worse. The Western Chili Loaded Burger and Spicy Southwest Loaded Burger, two new limited-time offerings from Sonic aimed at keeping up with the competition’s big beefs, could have been packed with sponges, or Post-It pads, or dice — anything to put on the heft. But they…
Holy raw halibut! With only six weeks to recover from the last season of Hell’s Kitchen (“I wuv you, Mommy!”), Gordon Ramsay is sounding the name-calling whistle on his anger- management-issues train bound for expletive town. “All aboard, you f%*&ing donkeys!” Set to premiere Wednesday, September 22, on Fox, the…
On your way to the Colonel’s for a bucket of greasy cluck? Turn. That. Damn. Car. Around…
The Jamaican oxtail soup at Starlight Cuisine is nothing short of a religious experience — tender meat falling off the bone, with lima beans and thick, doughy pods called “spinners” bathed in a rich, spice-filled gravy that regulars order by the cupful. But for Janet and Trevor Brown, owners of…
Imagine being invited to a different land to photograph the traditions and customs of an unfamiliar people. What would your images say about them? About you? Tiffiney Yazzie, an art history and photography major at ASU, wondered the same. From the Yucca Fruit-Strung-Out-in-a-Line Clan, Yazzie and her family invited several…
Imagine being invited to a different land to photograph the traditions and customs of an unfamiliar people. What would your images say about them? About you? Tiffiney Yazzie, an art history and photography major at ASU, wondered the same. From the Yucca Fruit-Strung-Out-in-a-Line Clan, Yazzie and her family invited several…
Raising money for a worthy cause can mean anything from running a marathon to miles of bike riding to racing your pet ferret. But for those of us less mobile and weasel-less, the AIDS Walk A-Go-Go makes it easy to give green: drink alcohol. “We wanted to get the word…
Classic Caribbean fare with a little help from above? It’s got to be Starlight Cuisine. “People will just order the gravy,” owner Janet Brown tells me of the spice-filled sauce she uses in her oxtail soup. “They take cupfuls of it home and just pour it over their regular food.”…
This week, Jack in the Box released a new sandwich to join a stable of grilled grinders that includes the Deli Trio, Turkey, Bacon & Cheddar, and breakfast sandwiches. The Pastrami Grilled Sandwich features hot pastrami, Swiss cheese, pickles, and deli mustard between two slices of grilled artisan bread. Different,…
Summertime temps are lingering, and let’s face it: Around here, there’s no end in sight. The fast-food world feels our desire to chill, and has offered up some new and limited-time frozen fare to cash in on our need to beat-the-heat eatings. Are these new cold concoctions worth getting fired…
What’s an “Arizona Bud”? Hardly your home-state BFF, it’s what beer-drinkin’ folk in 1940s Arizona started calling A-1, the popular pilsner that began as a product of the Arizona Brewing Company until the company eventually fell on hard times. (Sadly, the brand vanished in 1985.) Fellow swillers, it’s time to…
Say what you will, J. Crew catalog, I ain’t in the mood for stretchy tights and a merino wool cardigan just yet. Summer’s still hangin’ around and Fry Girl needs to chill. Good thing the fast-food world has provided some new and limited-time frozen sweet treats for the tastin’. Arby’s…
“Unlike a lot of white folks in the South who won’t admit it, I got some black blood in me,” says comedian Ralphie May. “I wish I got that big dick. Instead I got bad credit. That’s how it goes, a big dick or bad credit every time — that…
