Out of a job? Worried about spending? Fast-food restaurants feel your pain, right in their grease-soaked wallets, and right around breakfast time. At a 26-year high, the current jobless rate and economic stressing-out mean more folks are scarfing down Sugar Puffs at home instead of sausage biscuits on the go…
As teenagers, most of us filled evenings of boredom and adolescent angst with ghost stories, slasher movies, and Ouija board Q&A sessions. Now, Chicago-based artist Corkey Sinks has gone and put a twist on these pubescent nail-biters with an exhibit crawling with creepy. Through her vast use of mixed media,…
As teenagers, most of us filled evenings of boredom and adolescent angst with ghost stories, slasher movies, and Ouija board Q&A sessions. Now, Chicago-based artist Corkey Sinks has gone and put a twist on these pubescent nail-biters with an exhibit crawling with creepy. Through her vast use of mixed media,…
Scarfing down a sausage muffin before work? You’re one of the lucky ones. Thanks to the high unemployment rate and crap-ass economy, millions of people are no longer making the sunrise sojourn for fast-food breakfast fare. Instead, they’re sleeping in — opting for a bowl of bran flakes at home…
Adam Richman, host of Man v. Food on the Travel Channel, took on an 11-pound, 30-inch meat-covered pizza in Atlanta, a 7.5-pound hamburger in Memphis, and a 72-ounce steak in Amarillo. Now, the kinda-looks-like-Fred-Savage feaster has taken the Ultimate Slider Challenge at the Chompie’s location in Tempe. In March, and…
How well do you know your favorite cookhouse contraptions? See if you can guess today’s gadget and check back next week for the answer, and to see if you’ve won a most-awesome prize. Here are a few shots at this week’s trickster, add yours to the comment box below: -…
Our calendar is chock-full of pointless holidays: Sweetest Day, Arbor Day, National Boss Day, there’s even a National Children’s Day (yeah, like they need another one). So when a holiday in May comes along called National Burger Month, I don’t ask questions. What’s the history of it? Who knows? Where…
Napoleon Dynamite: This is pretty much the worst video ever made. Kip: Napoleon, like anyone can even know that. Kip’s right. How can anyone know what’s the worst (or the best) of anything? TLC’s hoping we’ll trust their judgment with its new show, Best Food Ever, narrated by Treme star John…
Beauty Lab: Cookin’ up good looks in nature’s pharmacy. I’m hilarious. How do I know? Because I’ve got lines around my eyes from laughing so hard at my own jokes. What to do? Consult The Beauty Cookbook by authors and beauty experts Kym Douglas and Cindy Pearlman. In the chapter…
Different cultures, different languages, different tastes. Somewhere along the line, things are going to go wrong when it comes to packaging our foodstuffs for the rest of the world to see. We’ve captured the top five most unfortunate in today’s post. 5.) Shitto Hotly Spiced Pepper Sauce: Ghana What’s the…
An Italian farm boy leaves his home and family behind for the hot sun and his heart’s true love in Phoenix, Arizona, where he opens a prosperous pizza joint and lives the American dream. A Lifetime original movie? Hardly, but a delicious story like this one needs to be told…
Waiting an hour and a half at Pizzeria Bianco for a pie (albeit phenomenal) doesn’t make the cut for the Fry Girl All-Star Pizza-On-the-Go team. And with Phoenix’s car culture making walk-up slice sellers non-existent, the question of where to find a piece of scrumptious ‘za between forever and immediately…
“When I eat his doughnuts, all I leave is the hole. Any time he wants to, why he can use my sugar bowl.” Thank you, “Kitchen Man,” for that delightful lyric. Look up raunchy songs in the blues dictionary and you’ll find more like “Shake That Thing” and “The Right…
Cinco de Mayo, like St. Patrick’s Day, doesn’t require a connection to country, just the potential to party. But where to begin? The most sizable celebration in the Southwest, the Cinco de Mayo Phoenix Festival 2010, features two days of live entertainment, including local bands, ballet folklorico, Mexican food, and…
Cinco de Mayo, like St. Patrick’s Day, doesn’t require a connection to country, just the potential to party. But where to begin? At Chandler’s Cinco de Mayo Festival, the day has gone to the dogs. Specifically, Chihuahuas. See more than 150 of the feisty four-leggers race and compete for awards…
Sometimes we forget that old people are just people. Some are sad, some are funny, and some like to tell you the name of their dildo instead of offering you a piece of toffee and asking you what time it is so they won’t miss Judge Judy. Tonight’s double-episode premiere…
Holy moralistic mind-fucks! Can’t a day drinker just have her morning brew without the hassle of soul-saving? Seriously, I’ll be in a much better mood for it — think of the glorious singing, friendly back-slapping, and alcohol-induced, “Lord, I love you’s!” That wasn’t to be the case this morning fellow…
How well do you know your favorite cookhouse contraptions? See if you can guess today’s gadget and check back next week for the answer, and to see if you’ve won a most-awesome prize. Here are a few shots at this week’s trickster, add yours to the comment box below: -…
Like everyone else on the planet, I can’t wait for Iron Man 2. Every day that goes by without seeing Mickey Rourke cracking electro-whips, portable suitcase Iron Man suits, and Monaco sports car racing is like watching an eternity of The Back-Up Plan trailers. What better way to ease my…
Are you a hot mess of fashion sense with mad sewing skills and a catch phrase? Project Runway wants you for its Season 8 New York showdown of crazy-creative divas, criers, and throw-other-designers-under-the-bussers. The deadline to receive submissions is tomorrow, April 27 (first challenge, designers!) For the link and application…
There, there, Jamie, at least you tried. You came up $20,000 short of your financial goal to keep fresh food on the plastic cafeteria trays of Huntington School’s youth, some of the parents called bullshit on your healthy school lunches by sending more of their kids to school with bags…
Mona Lisa, The Scream, The Thinker, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living — famous works of art all captioned and hanging out in some museum. But what about the foundlings? The little gems of visual curiosity we see around us everyday. What are their names?…
