Every weekday, Chow Bella brings you food stories from around the world in the form of its Wake Up Call column. Sometimes the stories are about national food trends bound for Phoenix, other times they’re just plain fun, and still other times they’re stories of food scene mavens caught up…
By Jeremiah Toller Once upon a time in the late 90’s or early 2000s, I paid 35-plus bucks for a ticket, drove with friends for hours for hours and hours to Wisconsin to see DJ Swamp perform at a huge rave with probably a couple thousand people. No, wait, for…
By Nathan Smith These days, swing revivalists seem to have comfortably settled into their own niche in the music industry. Brian Setzer has cornered the market in playing swingin’ Christmas carols to grown folks; Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, out on its own Christmas tour all month, will play a post-Christmas…
Al Madrigal @ Stand Up Live Al Madrigal is no stranger to Arizona, what with his coverage of Tucson’s Mexican-American Studies Ban, SB 1070, and government gridlock. Now The Daily Show’s senior Latino correspondent returns to the Valley with some breaking new comedy…
This week we’ve looked back at some of our favorite posts in Guilty Pleasures, Bites & Dishes and Chef & Tell. We’re rounding things out with a cocktail (what else?) with our five favorite Last Call cocktail recipes of 2013, courtesy of Chow Bella resident bartender J.K. Grence. How to…
Jackalope Ranch interviewed a slew of comedians in 2013. Here are the 10 best talks we had with some of the world’s funniest folks…
This year Chow Bella writers tossed everything from the breakfast sandwich to the chimichanga into the ring, for a mouthwatering series of “Battle of the Dishes.” Here are our five favorites from 2013. Pig & Pickle vs. Searsucker: Bone Marrow Beatdown in Scottsdale Bone marrow has begun to pop up…
Before you run out to see one of the several movies opening on this Christmas Day 2013, listen to this very special Voice Film Club podcast: Voice film editor Alan Scherstuhl runs point while Voice film critic Stephanie Zacharek and L.A. Weekly film critic Amy Nicholson run down their top…
We all have them. They’re the irresistible, mass produced, totally-bad-for-us food indulgences we just can’t give up. Take a look back at the year in our most-read Guilty Pleasures…
Once again this year, Chow Bella writers are gnawing on the holidays — in the form of stories of Christmas and food. Hope you have some Alka-Seltzer handy. Enjoy. By Ada Malcioln Martin A product of divorced parents, a crazy Jewish Panamanian dad, and a bi-polar Anglican mom of West…
New Times photographers were out and about this weekend. Did we take your picture? Elf Yourself at Maya Day & Nightclub, 12/20/13 Twas the weekend before Christmas and Maya Day & Nightclub in Scottsdale was alive with twinkling holiday lights, glimmering LEDs, thumping beats, and merry revelers during the Elf…
There’s a big, two-day hole cut into our concert schedule this week, on account of Jesus’ birthday (observed), but I’ll be damned if this weekly Phoenix-concert-listings feature goes dark on my (and Jesus’) watch. We may or may not get to five shows, but let’s give it a shot…
A West Coast showdown, Christmas raving, and airport art round out Jackalope Ranch’s top picks for things to do and see in Phoenix this week. Have at ’em, and happy holidays. Phoenix Suns vs. L.A. Lakers @ US Airways Center The first month of the NBA season often winds up…
Once again this year, Chow Bella writers are gnawing on the holidays — in the form of stories of Christmas and food. Hope you have some Alka-Seltzer handy. Enjoy. By Sativa Peterson When I was a teenager I once risked the wrath of my mother by boldly declaring that I…
Take a chill pill this pre-holiday weekend. Here are Jackalope Ranch’s top five picks for things to do in metro Phoenix. A Christmas Carol @ Theater Works Give it up to the 170 years of the greatest holiday grump we’ve known. Ebenezer Scrooge gets down in the West Valley with…
Joaquin Phoenix in Her.On this week’s Voice Film Club podcast, this paper’s film critics talk about Spike Jonze’s Her and Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, in addition to the wave of films all coming out before the year’s over. Listen to it on iTunes or below on Soundcloud…
All illustrations by me. I’m Shea. [Editor’s Note: In his column Serrano Time, award-winning writer and goofball Shea Serrano writes about his life and times.] This game is very simple: Look at the pictures and guess what Kanye West song each one represents. Boom. That’s it. That’s all. You’re done…
It happened. Whatever else you can say about this year’s inaugural True Music Festival in Scottsdale, the ambitious one-day festival went off mostly hitch-free, bringing The Flaming Lips, Wiz Khalifa, and Bassnectar, among others, to town for a very appreciative audience. This is that audience–sweatshirted, in large groups, and, if…
Once you’ve wrapped up your seasonal shopping (for help, consult Jackalope Ranch’s ultimate gift guide), here’s how to fill in the gaps in this week’s schedule. Clint Hill and Lisa McCubbin Book-Signing @ Changing Hands Bookstore The assassination of JFK was one of the most devastating events in American history,…
By Heather Hoch and Lauren Saria During our quest to find Phoenix’s best offal dishes, we noticed a great deal of pork belly popping up on the menus around town. While pork belly didn’t quite make the weirdness cut for our offal specifications, we thought the delicious, luxurious cut of…
From Movimiento Alterado’s “Sanguinarios del M1″BuKnas de Culiacán singer doing what he does best–vamping!By Gustavo Arellano America’s liberal class and MSMers are abuzz right now over Narco Cultura, a documentary about Mexico’s horrific drug war and the musical movement that has risen around it. These libs (and more than a…
In 2013, love came in many forms: girl on zombie, boy on smartphone, and James Franco on — count ’em — two hot bikini babes at the same damn time. Sure, romantic comedies are as extinct as Oprah Winfrey’s chances of winning Best Supporting Actress at the Golden Globes, but…
