The jaguar that was recently captured and collared in southern Arizona was recaptured and euthanized at the Phoenix Zoo on Monday, after veterinarians determined the animal suffered from irreparable kidney failure…Hey brother, can you spare another ten million? Phoenix is sending a “strike force” of lobbyists to Washington, to ask…
The Phoenix Suns have built a presence on social networking site Twitter, and now some local Twitterers and Suns fans are helping to bring Suns players and fans together via a site called sunstweets.com. Several months ago, the Planet Orange presence on Twitter was started by Amy Jo Martin, Director…
A New York-based research group called Justice Strategies files a report calling Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s system for cracking down on illegal immigration a failure. They’re not the first…A recent study examines retail closures in 65 metro markets, and Phoenix tops the list of distressed markets…The FBI searched 21…
On a sweltering Friday night in mid-July, an experimental punk band called Janis Joplin Crap N Vomit takes the stage at Club Red in Tempe, looking like a trio of misfit superheroes. Singer and guitarist Dana Stern dons a sailor’s cap and a red, white, and blue face mask that…
Attention, audio adopters like Diddy who think classic rock sounds better with a rap track laid down over it: Keep your hip-hop mitts off Frank Zappa’s songs. Dweezil Zappa, the oldest son of late avant-garde rock composer Frank Zappa, has been performing songs from his father’s career for the past…
In this corner, wearing the purple and orange shorts, please welcome a man who’s won four NBA championships, Suns center Shaquille O’Neal! And in the other corner, wearing the pink underwear and panting like a dog with emphysema, give it up for the man who’s had at least nine inmates…
There’s no way it can be the real Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Twitter — we doubt he’s anywhere near tech-savvy enough to micro-blog on a social networking site with applications like “Twitterfox” and “Twim,” and the Twitter updates he’s been posting are way too funny to come from a…
The Arizona Cardinals failed to grab the brass ring at this year’s Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida, but at least one Valley resident came away victorious.Keith Johnson, owner of Phoenix-based Majoreventrentalz.com, says his business has been booming since Super Bowl XLIII. Johnson’s company rents out local peoples’ homes to fans…
Hey, is that word loaded? New Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will avoid using the words “terrorism” or “9/11” in her first congressional testimony since taking office, swapping them for terms like “intelligence” and “analysis”…John Pertuit, a teacher at a Flagstaff high school, has been arrested and charged with six…
The Phoenix Coyotes are seven months behind in rent to Jobing.com Arena, and the city’s been footing the bill, the Glendale City Council found out through 12 News.According to this story on AZCentral.com, Glendale’s been letting the team play rent-free at the stadium. The story estimates the team’s break on rent…
A New York Times article discusses the ties between crime in Mexico and crime in Arizona. In the story, officials including Arizona attorney general Terry Goddard talk about how the Mexican drug trade and illegal immigration has led to murders, kidnappings, and home invasions (surprisingly, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio…
As police announce they’re close to making an arrest in the eight-year-old Washington, D.C. murder of Chandra Levy, Valleyite and former California Congressman Gary Condit tells a newspaper he’s planning a book on the case. District of Columbia police are seeking an arrest warrant for Ingmar Guandique, an immigrant from…
As we reported on this blog back in November, Suns star Shaquille O’Neal’s on Twitter, the “micro-blogging” site where users can post short messages on the Internet (through computers or their cell phones) that detail what they’re doing at any given moment. (For example, Shaq Twittered on January 16 at…
Anybody who’s ever stepped foot into Lux coffee shop on Central knows the weekend and weekday morning scenes there can be chaos, with caffeinated hipsters and business-types all tapping away on their laptops or reading the morning papers. There’s a reason they consistently flock here — Lux’s coffee is rich…
Officials at Arizona’s three public universities warn students to avoid Mexico during spring break, citing high crime rates in border towns like Nogales and Juarez. An ATF spokesman says that most violence doesn’t take place at Mexico’s popular tourist spots, which, not surprisingly, don’t include Nogales and Juarez….The men’s lacrosse…
No, a dead president isn’t throwing people off yachts in California, but a man named John Fitzgerald Kennedy was convicted yesterday on two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of a Prescott, Arizona couple who were tied to anchor and drowned in Southern California…Barrels of monkeys are apparently not…
There’s a plea deal set for today in the case of the 9-year-old St. Johns, Arizona boy accused of killing his father and another man on November 5, 2008…A town council decides that Schnepf Farms in Queen Creek gets to rock on, as they approve a permit for the farm…
Simon Rohrich stands in his laboratory in east Mesa, talking about his latest invention: a 700-pound, 27-inch-wide blue aluminum box with blinking lights called the S.P.E.A.R. He’s excited. Rohrich walks around the machine, opening and closing panels to show the features — here’s the hookup for cellular phones, here are…
President Obama has arrived in the Valley, and he’s cooling his heels at the new Montelucia Resort & Spa in Paradise Valley. The resort is a change from the Biltmore, which has traditionally been politicos’ resort of choice (except for George W. Bush, who always preferred the Royal Palms)…This spring,…
There’s a Janis Joplin tribute band playing in Phoenix, and as the late ’60s icon herself would say, “Get it while you can.”Phoenix resident Susan Ballard has been impersonating blues singer Janis Joplin since 1997, when she played her first tribute show at a club on 7th Avenue called Desert…
President Obama will give his speech on economic woes at Dobson High School tomorrow, reportedly because he wants to see an area hit hard by home foreclosures, and for its easy access to the US 60 freeway and Sky Harbor Airport. Never hurts to have a quick getaway route, we…
We’ve been known to pull one over on the public before — our spoof stories on Preserve A Life garnered fax orders for human taxidermy, and the Anna Nicole Smith secret love child story was picked up by major media outlets, including People, US Weekly, and TV’s Inside Edition. But this…
