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. "...

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 & Ra...

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...

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-ba...

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 Ma...

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 1...