Not many restaurants can say they have a "Marilyn Monroe table" and actually have a plausible story to back up the claim. But the legendary Durant's steak house does, and it's a little surprising. Talk to any of the waiters or employees and you'll quickly realize that the majority of...
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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...
Hussein Mohamed took a hard road to America. Born into a minority clan in a nation rife with ethnic conflict, the boyish 24-year-old with gangly limbs and intense brown eyes describes fleeing his village in Somalia in 2012 after gunmen threatened to kill him. Mohamed says he was forced to...
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Scores to Settle
The (Sort Of) Guilty Pleasure: Satisfries Where To Get It: Burger King, locations Valleywide Price: $1.49 and up; 20 to 30 cents more than the regular fries depending on size. What It Really Costs: Less damage than your average fry. Don't eat more to compensate. If there's one practically universal...
SPECIAL REPORT: FLORENCE EXPOSED | Third of three parts Seated in a conference room near his Florence Town Hall office and dressed in his standard collared shirt, silver belt buckle, cowboy hat, jeans, and roughed-up cowboy boots, Mayor Tom Rankin looks as if he has stepped out of Florence's frontier...
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While it's not our cup of tea, we acknowledge the fact that many beauty-conscious individuals pay good money for services like vajazzling, colonics, and anal bleaching. But when we heard about the newest beauty craze (emphasis on craze) to hit the holistic spas -- well, our eyes weren't the only...
The Sugar Thieves, considered by many the best dance-blues band in Phoenix, have been busy for a while now, playing a regular gig every Wednesday at Copper Blues, touring across the state, and working toward getting an album out in 2014. Oh, yeah, and band members Mikel Lander and Meredith...
The setup: Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's third blockbuster sung-through musical collaboration, 1978's Evita, was revived in a new production on London's West End in 2006. That restaging, which ran 337 performances on Broadway last year, began its U.S. tour this fall and visits Gammage Auditorium through Sunday...
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10 Best DJs in Metro Phoenix
Welcome to Courthouse Update, a weekly rundown goings-on at the Maricopa County Superior Court.This week, two now-deceased children get their justice, jurors continue deliberations in the murder trial of former Phoenix cop Richard Chrisman, and more:...
Bruce Hornsby has not rested on "The Way It Is." He probably could -- sometimes it seems like he could rest on the hip-hop songs that sample "The Way It Is." But in the 27 years since his biggest hit came out, he's been working not just on follow-ups --...
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In 1997, 87-year-old Richard Lusk flew from California to Florida to claim an $11 million prize he believed he'd won in a sweepstakes. The day after he returned home empty-handed, he had a stroke. Four months later, he bought a second plane ticket to Florida and stubbornly knocked on their...
Although Alexa "Pixie" Bowler began her career in culinary school, she found a love for mixology when she realized that it combines the creativity of the kitchen with the guest interaction of the front of the house. She's a "cook by trade" but brings her love of balance, flavor and...
As I've said before about Arizona's ethically-challenged Attorney General Tom Horne, you can tell a man from Harvard, but you can't tell him much. Which is no doubt why the Harvard-grad persists in some of the dumbest, self-destructive activity possible for a public official, barring that of Toronto Mayor Rob...
Stone Temple Pilots with Chester Bennington has gotten all the way off the ground, which is a first step that a lot of reconstituted rock bands never quite reach. Diehard STP fans are still mostly nonplussed, but a lot of them are going to the shows anyway; casual fans are...
Not many restaurants can say they have a “Marilyn Monroe table” and actually have a plausible story to back up the claim. But the legendary Durant’s steak house does, and it’s a little surprising. Talk to any of the waiters or employees and you’ll quickly realize that the majority of the anecdotes about the restaurant […]
Phoenix resident Hector Olalde does not like being called gay.He dislikes the accusation so much that police say Olalde, 28, pulled a gun on his girlfriend, and fired that gun all around his neighborhood after she called him gay, according to court documents obtained by New Times...
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Following John Dougherty's report on the growing evidence that the Granite Mountain Hotshots never should have been deployed to the fire that killed almost the entire crew, some interesting responses to the story showed up in New Times' mailbag.A former Prescott mayor, a former hotshot, and others sent us their...
Attention, children! Thanksgiving will soon be upon us, and unless the cook in your household provides a vegetarian option, that means turkey — a bird that has been raised to be axed, packaged, and raced to your grocer's freezer, ultimately to wing its way onto your family's table. There it...
Staff members at the Arizona Corporation Commission have recommended against paying rooftop solar customers less for their electricity. In a filing last night, staff members acknowledged the position by Arizona Public Service that adding more rooftop-solar customers to the grid eventually raises electric bills for the non-solar customers. But the...
An 8-month-old child died Wednesday after being burned with a cigarette lighter and "violently shaken," according to Phoenix police.Adrian Ponce, the fiancé of the child's mother, has been jailed on nine felony child-abuse charges, as police await the results of an autopsy on the child, Sabrina Santos-Vasquez...