Tempe Public Library, already a haven for book lovers and pop-culture obsessives, got exponentially more nerdy this past weekend. On Jan. 31, hundreds of Valley residents turned out for Tempe FanCon, ...

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It’s weird because we already kinda think that Dispatch is going to be a cultural phenomenon. It feels like the start of something every time we play. As we get closer to the release of Episodes 5 and ...

Don’t take a licking from spicy food. A team of researchers in China claims to have created an artificial “tongue” that can quickly detect spice levels in their food — and they used a well-known ...

Sweet from late summer corn and just spicy enough from poblano and jalapeño chiles, these quesadillas are a delight. By Mia Leimkuhler Good morning! Today we have for you: Elotes (or esquites) as ...

What makes hot sauces tingle your tongue? Hot sauces have been around for thousands of years. Aztec people were one of the first to use them. Spice lovers enjoy the sharp, fiery heat that comes with ...

Los Angeles’ Anime Expo 2025 describes itself as North America’s “largest celebration of Japanese pop culture.” The 34th such event finished recently, with the four-day spectacular seeing an ...

The Carolina Reaper is so hot, it makes jalapeños taste like milk. It’s so hot, it causes people to hallucinate, vomit, pass out, wish they’d never been born. It’s so hot that the guy who invented ...

Jo Craig (they/them) is a writer on Game Rant from Scotland and has been in the industry for nearly a decade dissecting comic book movie trailers for hours and diving headfirst into horror. They still ...