What happens when one man juggles three ladies? If you’re a follower of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, you supposedly get in good with the Heavenly Father. More likely, you’ll just end up with a frantic schedule and an empty wallet. In Boeing Boeing, opening at Phoenix Theatre on Wednesday, August…
Before Pennsylvania native Randy Walters opened his iconic Pittsburgh Willy’s hot dog shop inside Chandler’s Merchant Square antiques mall, he pounded the pavement with a traditional dog cart. “I didn’t even know how to cook,” he says. “I had no experience in the restaurant business. But I had this dream of opening…
It’s an active late-summer weekend for Phoenix as the Arizona Rattlers battle for an Arena Bowl title against the Sharks and local artists try to cool down and get creative by splashing about at The Firehouse’s Colored Water Throwing Festival & Rain Dance. If you’re looking for some more thrills…
The tables are set and final touches are almost complete at Venue 104, the new performance cafe scheduled to open next weekend in Tempe’s Cornerstone Center at 940 East University Drive. The stage is built, the coffee shop’s walls covered in a killer music-themed mural by local artist Sean Griffin, and the opening acts booked. There’s…
Bacon and cupcakes may be the culinary trends of choice these days, but we can’t ignore the amount of burger joints popping up in Phoenix. Recent months have seen the emergence of coal-fired burgers, Fat Ass Burgers and the California-based Habit Burger, and now another new hamburger concept has hit the East Valley…
The idea of a healthful burger joint is pretty laughable, especially considering how much fat and calories are packed into the average Big Mac (29 grams and 540, respectively). But Coal Burger, the “coal-fired burgeria” which launched this past March at Scottsdale Quarter, is aiming to make fast-food better for…
If you thought the woman who climbed into a polar bear cage at the Berlin Zoo in 2009 was crazy, just wait until you see the full story of Timothy Treadwell, the naturist and grizzly/brown bear enthusiast who camped in the Alaskan wilderness for 13 seasons to be closer to…
It’s said that to get hired in a kitchen, budding chefs are often put to the “egg test.” If the cook can perfectly prepare eggs on request, they’re in. So to wrap up the weekly series in which I learned to burn rice, make crepes with leftovers and get wasted on…
Interior designers have a pretty sweet gig. Not only are they encouraged to be creative in their job, they also get to work with gorgeous, magazine-worthy furniture and accessories that most of us would need a lottery windfall to own — perhaps a sleek leather couch from from Austrian modernist Manfred Wakolbinger, or Katharina Styren’s cool leaning…
Even with the recent monsoons, water activities are still at the top of everyone’s to-do lists for the weekend. From see-and-be-scene diving at the Millennium resort and laid-back loafing at DJ William Reed’s Cannonball Pool Party to serious indoor swimming relays at Mesa’s Tri to Help benefit triathlon, it’s a…
If the whole “law of attraction” and power of positive thinking mumbo-jumbo pimped in books like The Secret really work, then local artist Curtis R. Smith is about to make it big. That’s because in modern hip-hop lingo, the names of his signature characters Stack Bread, Mad Cheez, Mad Paper and Make It…
Despite the endless parade of frosted delights showing up in bakeries, at culinary festivals, and on fancy restaurant menus over the past few years, cupcakes don’t seem to be going anywhere — except in our mouths. Last year’s Cupcake Love-In at the Hotel Valley Ho was proof positive of just how crazy Phoenicians are over the sweet treats. The event was sold out…
There are few food products out there that have the addictive power of Nutella®. Forget that radio commercial featuring a saucy granny using four-letter words to explain the secret of her cooking: We put this shit on everything, from pound cake and crackers to chicken (via an adulterated mole sauce)…
On Friday night, Scottsdale’s Radius nightclub was buzzing with the creative energy and passion that all of the sold-out Ignite Phoenix presentation nights inspire. If you haven’t been to the “After Hours” version of the event, it works much like the regular Ignite — 20 slides in five minutes — except that nothing is off-limits. That means the…
Though the big news in sports this week was the end of the NFL lockout, there’s another football event making headlines in Phoenix this weekend: The AZ Rattlers’ playoff opener against Spokane, which could seal the deal for the arena ball team. If you’re not cheering the snakes on from…
In February of this year, NASCAR fans had the time of their life watching three-time Daytona 500 champ Jeff Gordon in action at Phoenix International Raceway — not in his heavily branded Chevy Impala, but in the driver’s seat of a backhoe. The highly recognizable racing figure had the honor…
Local growers like those you find vending at the Scottsdale Old Town Farmers’ Market and Downtown Phoenix Public Market are typically a peaceful lot. But this past weekend, that calm was shattered when word got around about a recent online article by Kate McClendon of McClendon’s Select about their decision to not…
Ridged. Fried. Kettle cut. Baked. What seems like a simple, easy snack — the classic potato chip — is now found in supermarkets in a gazillion combinations of flavor, texture and cooking method. While it’d be easy to grab a few bags and make the taste test comparison, Cooking Virgin…
Courtesy of Laurie Notaro Bestselling author and former Phoenix-area journalist Laurie Notaro is back in the Valley of the Sun. No, she didn’t pack up the U-Haul and move here for good (though the idea isn’t completely off the table.) Notaro will make appearances this week at Changing Hands Bookstore and the Desert Ridge…
Lei some zombies at Rips tonight. Now that we’re in the Dog Days of Summer, some locals are heading north for cooler climes and the smokin’ hot visuals of Flam Chen’s Electropolis, or trying to imagine themselves in California wine country at the Arizona Biltmore’s Hollywood & Wine Festival Weekend…
We were a little dismayed to drive down 16th Street in Phoenix recently and discover a new sign plastered on the funky little green shack that used to house an outpost of Two Hippies Beach House. Bummer, right? As it turns out, the joint’s new owners are original Two Hippies’…
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art recently unveiled the full list of offerings for its 2011-2012 season, and the lineup is a bit of a departure from recent shows. Don’t expect the stifled laughter provoked by a nude man frolicking the the snow in Dance With Camera, the whimsical feel of creations by Sue…
