Hey Susan, can I get a witness? Where’s Susan Powter when you need her? I’ve mostly held my tongue during the mourning over the four guys who perished in that tragic helicopter accident last week, out of respect for those who died and their families. However, it has occurred to…

First piece on the Grant Ave. side of Miranda’s. Let’s hear it for serendipity. I was going stir-crazy Sunday, researching the cover story I’m working on now, so I took a ride to ease my nerves and just so happened upon one of the dopest legal walls I’ve ever seen…

The kids are alright: Give ’em hell, El Break… I was heartened over the weekend to learn of the hunger strike starting today by these college students who have a radio show on 1190 AM called El Break. According to the press release, they’ll be parked outside of Congressman Ed…

Mayor of the nation’s fifth-largest city, major league doofus, or both? Let’s go to the videotape. Anyone out there who doesn’t think PHX Mayor Phil “Goober” Gordon is icompetent should take a look at this video from a 7/21 interview ABC 15’s Lisa Fletcher did with Goober, following the airing…

Damnit, Manet, won’t you ever come out? Just watched a late night repeat of the Friday journalist roundtable on AZ PBS Horizon (you guessed it, there was nothing else on), with Howie Fischer hosting and making sure to hit everything he wrote about this week for Capitol Media Services. One…

Paul Chagolla (right) barely containing his rage, with me on the left, and Lisa Allen MacPherson in the middle; from back in November, when Chagolla threw me out of a press conference for no reason. Uh, note my super-aggressive body language… What do Communist China, present-day Iran, and Maricopa County…

Schmidt with Joe Arpaio’s former spleen victim Jefferson Davis McGee… Hey if Germany can’t keep TomKat out of the country, as much as they dislike Scientologists, do you really think it’s smart to try to hustle Cruise? The latest from the AP says the Valley’s not-so-beloved Sultan of Sleaze, David…

Ice-cream peddler, alleged studmuffin, and former Congressman Gary Condit… You’ve gotta wonder what was going through former Congressman Gary Condit’s noggin. I mean, most folks’d packed the whole sad, tawdry Chandra Levy affair deep into their mental basements, and had no idea that Condit now lives in AZ. So reporter…

Maupin, battling to get back on the ballot. Here’s an update on yesterday’s post regarding the news that PHX City Clerk Mario Paniagua is not certifying mayoral hopeful Jarrett Maupin for the 9/11/07 ballot because Maupin’s 91 signatures short of the 1500 valid sigs needed. The amount of effort Gordon’s…

Maupin’s down for the moment, but he’s not out yet… The Rev. Jarrett Maupin fell 91 signatures short of the 1,500 necessary to be certified to be on the ballot in the Sept. 11 mayoral election, Phoenix City Clerk Mario Paniagua said today. Maupin turned in 3,920 signatures on Friday,…

If you’re irony deficient, here’s one to bite on: Damon Ashenfelter, the self-avowed white supremacist who was identified in Friday’s post, “Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America: A family portrait,” has set his MySpace profile to private, and changed his motto from “Hail the Order. Hail the 14 words…

The gang’s all here, everyone but Uncle Fester… Add another white supremacist to the ranks of Kia-peddler Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America. A source sent the above photo to me, stating that they got it off Rusty’s Web page at http://immigrationbuzz.com/. According to the source, the photo was…

Terry Goddard’s new slogan: A tranny in every bog! To cop a line from comedienne Margaret Cho: Ah, the magical smell of balls and pantyhose! You best get used to it ladies, if Attorney General Terry Goddard and local diversity activist Michele de LaFreniere have anything to do about it…

Wack-ass graff: Detail from pics of Goober Gordon’s HQ (below). You’d think with a million smackers in the bank, PHX Mayor Phil “Goober” Gordon could keep the ex-tranny bar on Roosevelt he calls a campaign HQ free of urban blight. But as mayoral contender Steve Lory pointed out with a…

Sun Tzu, the first Republican? Back in the 6th Century B.C., renowned Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu wrote in his seminal treatise The Art of War that all warfare is based on deception. One might apply this observation to modern politics, which is war by other means, to paraphrase Clausewitz…

Buddha by the PHX’s El Mac and El Lay’s RETNA. Nice to know the ink-slingers over at New Times’ sister paper in L.A. have some taste. I might’ve thought otherwise had they not – ironically – chosen an image from one of the most talented street artists in the PHX…

Dumbass songstress Kay Rivoli, wonderin’ why she has to press 1 for English. Rusty Childress has the problem licked, he just gives Spanish speakers their own # to call. One of the incessant whines of the nativist crowd has to do with having to press 1 for English (as opposed…

What a mother! One of the latest Bird boycott letters, signed by Stephanie Harris of Mothers Against Illegal Aliens As Feathered Bastard’s co-clucker The Bird mentioned this week in his column, Rusty’s World, some New Times advertisers have been receiving various versions of the above form letter, distributed at Randy…

Hey, that’s one way to keep him off the OxyContin… It’s a rare event when I agree with the likes of Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, and so on. But when it comes to liberals and prominent Democrats who want to revive the so-called “Fairness Doctrine,” the…

In my ongoing attempt to spotlight what noteworthy PHX graff I can find out on those much-buffed streets, here are a few snaps I shot this Sunday while driving around. One is definitely from the SOS crew, the others I have no idea about, so feel free to school me…

Yours truly with rocker Evan Seinfeld and the hella-hot Tera Patrick… Porn mogul and First Amendment defender Larry Flynt has long been my personal hero. Technically, he’s also my old boss, as I used to write for Hustler back in the day, though I’ve only talked to him while interviewing…