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Steamer’s and Sam’s Cafe Set to Close at Biltmore Fashion Park

Steamer's Genuine Seafood and Sam's Cafe, two longtime players in the Biltmore Fashion Park dining mix, will be closing on April 4. Even though Sam's Cafe owners Doug Czufin and Bruce Lazarus recently bought Steamer's and renovated it last year, they're being forced to close both eateries as a result...
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Arizona Fall Frenzy Brings Out the Masses Despite Heat and Bomb Scares

This weekend, Valley concert lovers ignored record high temperatures (and bomb scares due to suspicious packages) and partied it up at the Fall Frenzy at Tempe Beach Park, taking in big names such as Devo, Weezer, Stone Temple Pilots and Disturbed. People Tweeted their thoughts on the shows throughout the...
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Critics, Love, and The Avett Brothers

At one point in their career, the North Carolina trio The Avett Brothers (brothers Scott and Seth Avett, along with Bob Crawford), were better suited to perform at an old fashioned hootenanny than at a classy place like Mesa Arts Center. But though the band started out playing old-timey bluegrass,...
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Letters of Complaint (1 of 2) and FoodLab 2010 Wrap-Up

Molecular gastronomy. Sure, it sounded interesting at first: Buy a kit, make some fun stuff using chemicals and food. The brochure even said, "Easily Get Started..." - easily! Soon, ingredients were impossible to find, an invasive measurement system reared its ugly head, additional money was needed for supplies, recipes couldn't...
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Educating Maria

On a recent afternoon inside the bustling day-care center Las Familias del Pueblo in downtown's Skid Row, Alice Callaghan heads toward a ringing phone. The middle-aged Episcopal minister, who was once a Catholic nun, still wears a kind of religious uniform that's both pragmatic and modest: a khaki skirt cut...
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Flying Lotus: Cosmogramma

Let's cut the bullshit: May is going to be a huge month for new music. People are rightly circling the entire month on their calendars, frothing at the mouth in expectation of all of the quality releases due in the next 30 or so days.Los Angeles' DJ/producer/electronic music impresario Steven...
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Kanye West (Sort-Of) Acts Like a Man on “Runaway”

Kanye West​Not surprisingly, preppy hip-hop star Kanye West managed to inject a lot of energy into his show-closing performance of "Runaway" at Sunday's MTV Video Music Awards. He started out playing a loop which served as the backdrop for the song, then he danced around in his bright red suit,...
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Ed Hardy Alcohol: The Next Step in World Douche-ification?

In the beginning, there were tattoos. Then came the clothes (shudder). Now Ed Hardy's got a whole line of beverages including wine, sparkling wine, sangria, beer, vodka, tequila, energy drinks and spring water. The results of such a line could be horrific; just imagine the cast of Jersey Shore pimping...
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Why Your Pizza Delivery Guy Hates You

They work hard to deliver hot, cheesy goodness to your front door and expect only a paltry tip in return. They are pizza guys and their stories deserve to be heard. The following is the tale as told to me by such a pizza guy. Should he attach his name...
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Hot Links: Sunday Booze, Pipe Bombs, and 10,000 Easter Eggs

A bill that would allow retailers to sell alcoholic beverages at 6 a.m. on Sundays received preliminary Senate approval Thursday. If the bill passes, alcohol sales on Sunday would begin four hours earlier than they do now. An analysis by budget staffers states that the new bill would generate more...
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A Look at the Two Prevailing Versions of the Dutchman Legend

Though there are literally hundreds of variations on the legend of the Lost Dutchman's Gold Mine, most are offshoots of two main versions of the story, named for the people who supposedly heard Jacob Waltz's dying words. In the Petrasch version, Waltz is a softie who makes several fateful mistakes...
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The Sand Rubies Are Arizona’s Ultimate Bad Luck Story

The great "could have been" story is a tired tale in the music business. Anyone with more than a casual relationship with popular music can remember a band that should have been huge, likely an act similar to another act that did hit it big. Mine: Christian pop geniuses, the...
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The Sand Rubies Are Arizona’s Ultimate Bad Luck Story

The great "could have been" story is a tired tale in the music business. Anyone with more than a casual relationship with popular music can remember a band that should have been huge, likely an act similar to another act that did hit it big. Mine: Christian pop geniuses, the...
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Thin Mint Showdown: Lazy Thin Mint Pie

One can never have enough Thin Mints. At least that's what we thought until Managing Editor Amy Silverman brought in a dozen unsold boxes to a recent Chow Bella meeting. If one must make lemonade when life hands one lemons, we theorized one must make desert when life hands one...
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Mojo

Artist: Tom Petty and the HeartbreakersTitle: MojoRelease date: June 15Label: RepriseHow many of you have acts that you'd never call yourself a fan of, would never buy one of their records, or pay money to see in concert, yet recognize that the acts have been around for so long and...