That ain’t Monopoly money Phil’s playin’ with… In case you have any doubts whom Mayor Phil Gordon really represents, check this under-the-radar March 2 story by the Phoenix Business Journal titled “Developers bankrolling Gordon’s re-election campaign.” Gordon’s Phil for Phoenix PAC has raised over $655K according to the article, and…

Joe Watson in custody… Some Mondays are crazier than others, and this one was particularly whack, with the news that ex-New Times staff writer Joe Watson was popped Friday for allegedly sticking up six Valley businesses, including three salons in Scottsdale, hence the catchy sobriquet “the salon bandit.” Scottsdale detectives…

Could it work for the rednecks? Just back from a three-day weekend in La-La Land, where you can’t help but be struck by how far more ethnically diverse the City of Angels is than the PHX. Angelenos are not nearly as worked up over illegal immigration as many Sand Landers…

Protector of sheep, punisher of poor illegal immigrants… Is it any coincidence that on the same day the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office makes headlines for releasing an illegal immigrant from jail who’s suspected of subsequently murdering someone, Nickel-Bag Joe Arpaio announces he’s going to have his deputies bust illegal immigrants…

Riana Songstress-siren Riana, the sort of pale beauty of which the poets sing… With her almond eyes, raven tresses and a complexion stolen from the winter moon, PHX songstress Riana Riggs of bands Edison Gem and Runaway Diamonds is like one of those pale sirens Lord Byron wrote of years…

The curvaceous Shelly, aka DJ ///she///… Droogs Necro and Jules at the Sadisco Milk Bar… Cue Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, me droogies, I’ve just now found time to post these pics from A Clockwork Sadisco, the A Clockwork Orange -themed soiree thrown on a recent Saturday by those genius industrial/EBM whores…

www.poynter.org Great Zeus! Poynter’s Romesnesko finds the word “Repugnant,” repugnant. So Friday, I check Journalism God Jim Romenesko’s linkathon at the Poynter Institute Web site and I discover that he’s posted a link to a Phoenix Business Journal article from the same day reporting the news that Jon Talton’s bidding…

OutNow By order of the almighty Gannett and its faithful servant John Zidich, journalism as you know it will now cease to exist! Below is the makeup of the Arizona Republic’s new Information Center, the Orwellian Gannett construct which merges the newsroom with online, makes redundant a print paper, and…

http://www.philgordon.org/ Stick ’em up, pardner: Goober Gordon shootin’ air bullets, as usual. As if the murder report on the local nightly news wasn’t enough to convince you that you live in one of the most dangerous states in the nation, here comes a new study showing that — golly, gee…

Ain’t no cake walk for Flake’s new bill, but it does offer hope. At first glance, Rep. Jeff Flake’s new immigration reform bill seems to offer hope of a compromise on the issue between the pro and anti camps. It presents a pathway to legal residency for the 12 to…

Paris Troy Hotter than a Georgia firecracker; so hot you could bake bread on her back, or maybe a frozen pizza…uh, you get the picture. For some reason Thump Day Honey sounds a lot cooler than Hump Day Honey, and it also gives me an extra day to snag a…

http://www.almaweb.org/about/richard.htm Rep. columnist Ruelas is all smiles, despite the killing of his column. Following on the heels of the news of Jon Talton’s imminent departure at the Arizona Repugnant, I now learn that my other favorite columnist at the Rep, Richard Ruelas, has also had his column cut. Unlike Talton,…

WikimediaCommons Rosie the Rotund takes a hit off the 9/11 troofer crackpipe. Proving true the adage that even a cracked clock is right twice a day, Mexican immigrant-basher Darrell Ankkkarlo of KTAR 92.3 FM dumped on roly-poly bigmouth Rosie O’Donnell this Tuesday morn re: her support for 9/11 conspiracy theories…

http://www.jontalton.com/ Someone crank up the Dion: “Anybody here seen my old friend Jon? Can you tell me where he’s gone?” Sadly, it seems the Arizona Republic’s massive reorganization, which I wrote about back in January, into an online Information Center that also happens to put out a daily paper, has…

A Royal pain: Tabloid talking head Royal Oakes Check this Friday, March 16 post from The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) concerning the Anna Nicole spoof and the somewhat preachy piece from the TV show that birthed Bill O’Reilly, Inside Edition: Phoenix New Times’ Anna Nicole Story is — Gasp!…

Jim Moret & moi: As you can see, Jimbo’s dreading that drive to Sells. Now that the word’s out that our wildly successful Anna Nicole Smith spoof was, um, a spoof, I can reveal the events of this Monday that resulted in Thursday’s Inside Edition segment on yours truly and…

Be afraid, be very afraid: Mandal season is upon us. You know it’s Spring in the Zona when they appear — the dreaded mandals, or man sandals, which signal the advent of warmer weather. I regard it as being on par with such Biblical plagues as locusts, frogs, water turned…

http://www.myspace.com/ankarlo Ankkkarlo loves the misery of others, especially if they’re illegals… KTAR saliva jockey Darrell Ankarlo was practically beating off on the radio this morning in ecstasy over the news of three teenagers being deported to Mexico after being stopped by a Gilbert police officer for drag racing. Sure, if…

Eve and the apple: Temptress Tondra says fruit does a body good. Common wisdom holds that booful women are bitchy because they can be. But fortunately that doesn’t apply in the case of the captivating PHX club-hopper known as Tondra. A habitue of nightspots like The Rogue, GLAM, Tranzylvania, and…