Fry Girl Meets Lucky Boy
What kind of food’s served up at Lucky Boy? The answer may not surprise you, but the family serving it will…
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Fry Girl Finds Allies at the Lucky Boy Burger Joint
Some families serve up dinners of macaroni casseroles and meatloaf, but for the Nano family — owners and operators of the Lucky Boy burger joint in central Phoenix — it’s daily doses of creamy shakes, fries smothered in chili and cheese, and a burger called the Lucky International that’ll have…
Ray It Forward
The list of celebrities for whom Tempe-based artist and entertainer Ukulele Ray has created his custom “Lunchbox-A-Leles” read like a People magazine who’s who. He’s made a left-handed “Yellow Submarine” original as a birthday present for Paul McCartney, a KISS creation for Gene Simmons, and a Spongebob Squarepants product for…
Day Drinker: Wood, Lavender, and Sunshine at The Coach House
Who says you have to wait until the sun goes down to have a good time? Today, my day drinking gal pal Tana I are off to explore a lead from one of our day drinking cyber-chums, Ginger Spice: The Coach House. Thanks, Ginger! First, I should confess I have…
Blow Me Like a Torture Tool, in This Week’s “Guess That Gadget”
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: -…
KFC’s Buckets for the Cure: Charity, Hypocrisy, or Both?
After the launch of one of the worst jokes sandwiches in fast food history, the KFC Double Down, it seems a lot of folks have their feathers ruffled over the Colonel’s latest cause-marketing effort, Buckets for the Cure — a program in conjunction with Susan G. Komen for the Cure…
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Food Network’s Private Chefs of Beverly Hills Is Further Proof of Programming Coma, in This Week’s “TV Dinner”
Like any ginormous corporation, you can’t blame Food Network’s faults on the folks in the trenches doing the real work. You have to look up, way up. To the millionaires calling the shots, keeping the company profitable at any expense, and wringing their hands in anticipation of their next bonus…
Beauty Lab 2010: Get That Food Off Your Plate and Put It On Your Face
Cookin’ up good looks in nature’s pharmacy. After my run-in with molecular gastronomy, The French, and their invasive metric system in FoodLab 2010, my kind-hearted editor thought I might need a little TLC (tequila-loaded cocktail) and a bit of pampering, Chow Bella-style. Enter The Beauty Cookbook, a first-ever recipe book…
KFC Double Down Terrorizes Fry Girl With Skeleton-Less Savagery
Did I miss something? Did I not get the memo from one Colonel H. Sanders stating that KFC fans want their fried chicken sans skeleton? Sure, I get the fish sandwich. No one wants the shock and awe of a fish bone swimming around in their mouth. But a piece…
Watch It
Except for the prices, the experience of movie-going hasn’t changed much. It’s the same cold theater, sticky floors, and hours of our lives we’ll never get back (thank you, Battlefield Earth). Where’s the nighttime sky? The terse tales? The free? Enter the ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival…
Skinhead Deep
Frank Meeink’s teenage years make underage drinking and teen pregnancy look like a bad homework assignment. Meeink became a skinhead at thirteen. By eighteen, the South Philadelphian (who Edward Norton portrayed in American History X) was a neo-Nazi recruiter, had his own cable-access show called The Reich, and was finally…
Ray It Forward
The list of celebrities for whom Tempe-based artist and entertainer Ukulele Ray has created his custom “Lunchbox-A-Leles” read like a People magazine who’s who. He’s made a left-handed “Yellow Submarine” original as a birthday present for Paul McCartney, a KISS creation for Gene Simmons, and a Spongebob Squarepants product for…
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Day Drinker: A Toast to Last Week’s Bar Brainstormers, and Daytime at Dizzy’s
Who says you have to wait until the sun goes down to have a good time? Today Ronda, Tana, and I are raising our collective day drinker glasses to the good folks who graciously gave up their favorite watering-holes for our sunrise boozing indulgences in last week’s post. Not only…
Fry Girl Breaking News: KFC’s No-Bone Zone
Greetings fast-food fans. With the introduction of KFC’s new Double Down Sandwich this weekend in addition to their boneless filet, yours truly did some diggin’ to find out what all this no-bone brew-ha-ha was all about. As a breaking news bonus, I’m posting this week’s story early so you can…
“Go Ahead, Sun, Make My Dinner,” in This Week’s “Guess That Gadget”
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: -…
“Sophisticated” Reality TV Returns with Top Chef Masters, and Tucson Makes Food Wars Watchable, in This Week’s “TV Dinner”
Wading through the grease pit of bland food, cooking, and eating shows focusing on cheap shopping, bogus belly busters, and chefs more familiar with cursing than conjuring up a decent dish, we’ve paid our dues to the TV gods (Kraken release avoided!) — at least for the time being. In…
Fry Girl Tries on The Bikini Burger at Carl’s Jr.
Stupid TV. I bask in your glow for hours, hang on your every image, and break commitments with friends so I can stare into your one, giant, flickering eye, and you repay me with a commercial about a fast-food chain’s burger hawked by a D-list reality TV star eating it…
Fry Girl Battles Bikini-Clad Audrina Patridge of The Hills and Her Obsession for the Teriyaki Burger at Carl’s Jr.
Damn you, TV. First, you convinced us we should buy insurance pimped by lizards and a blanket with armholes. Now you’ve paired a fast-food chain with a D-list reality TV star to hawk an exotic, expensive burger to Americans and our suppressed sexuality and insatiable desire to exceed the monthly…
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Ride and Seek
“When I moved here 12 years ago, I got called a biker — and that was a bad thing,” says Mark Bradshaw, owner of The Hideaway Grill and this year’s winner of the Arizona Bike Week hero award. “Now the scene’s changed. More people are riding, from shovelheads to RUBs…
Pot Stuff
Say the word “ceramics” to most folks and they’ll show you their “I Just Work Here” coffee mug or tell you about the time they got high, went to a strip mall pottery studio, and painted pot leaves on a dog bowl. That’s great for a casual encounter, but there’s…
Ride and Seek
“When I moved here 12 years ago, I got called a biker — and that was a bad thing,” says Mark Bradshaw, owner of The Hideaway Grill and this year’s winner of the Arizona Bike Week hero award. “Now the scene’s changed. More people are riding, from shovelheads to RUBs…
Day Drinker: Your Watering-Hole Ideas Needed!
Who says you have to wait until the sun goes down to have a good time? Since December of last year, we Day Drinking gal pals have covered 14 drinking establishments catering to those enjoying a libation or two in the morning hours. From dive bars to sports bars to…