Use quotes to search for a phrase or name: "toy story", or "brooklyn bridge".

Article

Chris Bianco’s New Custom Aprons from The Willows Now for Sale

Chris Bianco is one of our favorite tastemakers in town -- and we're not just talking about his pizzas and sandwiches. His aesthetic is spot-on -- or, at the very least, he's got good taste in the folks he surrounds himself with. Either way, just peek inside Pizzeria Bianco, Bar Bianco...
Article

Maricopa County Officials File Amended Claims Against County and Sheriff Arpaio; Streamlined to Comply With Judge’s Order

Current and former Maricopa County officials have filed new, streamlined complaints against the county and Sheriff Joe Arpaio to comply with a judge's order. Filing anew are: County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox and her husband, Earl; County Supervisor Don Stapley; retired Superior Court Judges Barbara Mundell and Gary Donahoe; deputy...
Article

Sunday Night’s Goat Tour at The Accidental Yard, Revisited

Sunday night's Stephanie Izard (and Guests) Goat Tour dinner was a convergence of new and cool projects all gathered together under white lights strung above the grass carpeted courtyard of Joe Garcia's soon-to-be-built-out The Accidental Yard in Old Town Scottsdale.  The rock star culinary "set list" was written by Izard...
Article

Ryan Nishijima’s G-Spot

​Yesterday we met Ryan Nishijima, who pours beer and wine at Cave & Ive's in Arcadia. Today he shares with us the recipe for the G-Spot. Because Cave & Ive's doesn't have a license to sell hard liquor, the owners had to get creative with their cocktail menu. The result...
Best Of

Best Local Band

Andrew Jackson JihadThings are looking pretty damn good for Arizona music. Bands like What Laura Says, The Summer Set, Kinch, and The Maine are making national waves, proving that the Valley of the Sun has a thriving music scene. So what makes Andrew Jackson Jihad, the folk-punk duo of Sean Bonnette and Ben Gallaty our best local […]
Article

A Time Print Machine

One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here's today's -- what's yours? When designer Paul Ferragut rigged standard felt-tip pens to a custom machine and created an interpretive program using openFrameworks, the result was colorful.  The...
Article

California AG Won’t Review Suicide Findings in Bizarre Death of Rebecca Zahau

California Attorney General Kamala Harris has decided that she won't review the San Diego County Sheriff Department's findings that the bizarre death of Rebecca Zahau, the girlfriend of Scottsdale-based Medicis CEO Jonah Shacknai, was a suicide.Earlier this week, Shacknai wrote Harris a letter asking her to review the case --...
Article

Metal Goes Pop: Five Examples of Doing It Right

Yesterday our compatriots at Country Grind announced that heavy rockers Torche and Part Chimp will team for upcoming Chunklet-issued 12-inch record that finds Torche covering legendary lo-fi rockers Guided By Voices. Torche have always been a metal band unafraid to embrace big pop sounds, and the band's take on "Exit...
Article

A Hotshot Phoenix Attorney Finds Love Behind Bars

Phoenix attorney Carmen Fischer has a thing for bad boys. Really bad boys. You may vaguely recall her name making headlines in 1999 when it was revealed that the veteran defense lawyer had engaged in an affair with one of her clients, Michael Sanders, as Sanders was tried for a...
Article

Outdoor Dinner Parties and SELF Mag Blog-Off Results

A round-up of tasty morsels from Valley food blogs. Beverly Burch of The Willows posed a very exciting question on her blog this week. She asked, "Wouldn't it be fun if my daughter Christine (former chef of Palatte) hosted dinner parties you could attend with friends for a flat fee?...
Article

Samantha Rogers at Cafe Zuzu

​The tender: Samantha RogersThe bar: Café Zuzu (6850 E. Main St., 480-421-7997)The pedigree: Rogers got into bartending when she was 20, starting as the daytime bartender at My Big Fat Greek Restaurant in Tempe. She spent four years there, eventually working her way up to bar manager and crafting the...
Article

Check out September Equinox and a Bright, Shiny Jupiter This Friday

If you believe in myths and superstitions, this Friday, September 23, might be a good day to try and balance an egg on its end, avoid drinking water, or celebrate Persephone's return to the Underworld. All those myths are associated with the September Equinox, which takes place at 9:04 a.m...
Best Of

Best General in Local Sports

Kevin Towers, Arizona DiamondbacksThere was a different vibe in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ clubhouse this season, and it’s because of new GM Kevin Towers. The former San Diego Padres GM, who finished his first regular season with the Diamondbacks, has put people in place — manager Kirk Gibson, along with clubhouse leaders like veteran pitcher Joe Saunders — who […]