In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Chow Bella:Tammie Coe to Compete in Caramelapalooza Tasting.Man V. Food’s Adam Richman Takes a Bite Out of…
Here is your guide to today’s spring training games, as well as a look at some of yesterday’s games that most Valley baseball fans actually care about (sorry, Brewers fans, there’s nothin’ here for you unless your boys happen to play against the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers, or the Cubs):Arizona Diamondbacks: D-back fans,…
If there is one thing we learned from last night’s episode of Police Women of Maricopa County it’s that if someone steals a Playstation game from you, you apparently have the right to beat the ever-loving shit out of them.Viewers followed Deputy Lindsey Smith in last night’s show as she…
Phoenix police have finally identified the officer who allegedly roughed up Phoenix City Councilman Michael Johnson early this morning as Brian Authement, 27, and police officials say he will remain on duty — for now, anyway.Department spokesman Trent Crump says Authement might even go back to work tonight, despite the media circus…
Even before this morning’s press conference to discuss the alleged abuse of power by an unnamed Phoenix police officer against City Councilman Michael Johnson, we’re told that top city officials met with local NAACP President Oscar Tillman, who was on the verge of calling on Harris to resign.Both City Manager David…
An unnamed Phoenix police officer may have messed with the wrong bull. The Phoenix City Council will hold an executive session on Monday to try to get to the bottom of an incident this morning, where one of its members was handcuffed and thrown to the ground by a Phoenix…
If you’re not howling for the Phoenix Coyotes yet, just watch a game. There was no shortage of excitement in last night’s game, as the Coyotes beat the Florida Panthers in a dramatic 4-3 thriller, breaking the franchise’s single-season win record with the Yotes 44th victory. If you caught the first…
Here is your guide to today’s spring training games, as well as a look at some of yesterday’s games that most Valley baseball fans actually care about (sorry, Mariners fans, there’s nothin’ here for you unless your boys happen to play against the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers, or the Cubs):Arizona Diamondbacks: The D-backs…
In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries: Feathered Bastard: Russell Pearce Bigot Bill Scuttled by Freedom’s Phoenix? And Ernie Hancock Calls Pearce a “Judas…
A Scottsdale doctor has found a way to make fat look awesome: He turns it into titties.Dr. Todd Malan is the first doctor in the United States to use a new method of breast augmentation that takes stem cells found in fat, mixes it up a bit, and whamo! You…
Guess what? Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is no fan of the healthcare reform bill getting pushed through Congress, and she let House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid know about it in a letter penned yesterday. Not that they’ll care what she thinks.In the letter, partisan Brewer claims, “The devastating impacts…
They did it.The Phoenix Coyotes sold out a hockey game for the first time this season, and despite the ‘Yotes fan-friendly opponent, we have a feeling people are actually showing up to see the home-town team.The Coyotes will host the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday night, and the Jobing.com Arena will…
Senator John McCain’s lead over J.D. Hayworth in the GOP primary for U.S. Senate has shrunk dramatically, according to the latest Rasmussen poll, but that doesn’t have the McCain campaign singin’ the blues just yet.The poll, which the Hayworth campaign announced this morning, shows that Hayworth, who trailed McCain by…
The regular season is about two weeks away, and ESPN has come up with a formula to give baseball stadiums “power rankings.” Of the most hitter-friendly parks, the Arizona Diamondbacks’ Chase Field ranks third.After last year, yeah, we’re a little surprised, too…
As much fun as it’s been to watch Senator John McCain and J.D. Hayworth duke it out over who has the most racist supporters — William Gheen’s endorsement of Hayworth takes the cake, of course — the political grappling has shifted to a new battlefield: earmarks. Yesterday, the McCain campaign put out…
Here is your guide to today’s spring training games, as well as a look at some of yesterday’s games that most Valley baseball fans actually care about (sorry, Reds fans, there’s nothin’ here for you unless your boys happen to play against the Dodgers, the Cubs, or the Diamondbacks):If an overpriced,…
The son of “world-renowned” investigator Jay J. Armes thinks that the father of missing baby Gabriel Johnson is trying to make Armes and his squad of “investigators” out to be the bad guys, after the honeymoon between the men came to an abrupt end last week.Last week, Gabriel’s father, Logan…
Arizona Cardinals quarterback Matt Leinart might have some competition if he wants to be the Cards starter next season.The Cardinals announced today that Derek Anderson, the former QB for the atrocious Cleveland Browns, signed a two-year, $7.25 million deal with Redbirds…
Autopsy results were released in the cases of the three people who died during a sweat-lodge- ceremony-gone-wrong in Sedona last October, and if you guessed heat stroke or multi-system organ failure as causes of death, you win!The autopsies conclude that two of the three victims died as a result of heat…
Senator John McCain’s now dubbing J.D. Hayworth, his U.S. Senate opponent in the GOP primary, as “the earmarker” in his latest Web ad attacking Hayworth’s Conservative principles.Unfortunately, he lost us with Glenn Beck.McCain’s new ad, entitled “Earmarker” begins with a clip from the Glenn Beck Program, where we can’t tell…
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office — using “any means necessary,” as directed by a judge — delivered the mother of missing baby Gabriel Johnson to court this morning without a hitch, and things didn’t go in her favor, court officials tell New Times.Elizabeth Johnson had requested a new attorney in her kidnapping…
Weezy just can’t catch a break. A Yuma County judge issued a bench warrant for legally challenged rapper Lil Wayne yesterday, after he missed a pre-trial hearing in his drug and weapons case, court officials tell New Times. If the judge wants to find Weezy, he won’t have to look…
