Bruce Starr at the Super Bowl. The image is from the Honduras radio personality’s February report on his trip in Honduras This Week Online. Let’s return to Honduras for a moment and check in with Sheriff’s office pal “Roatan Bruce” Starr, a radio-personality in the Bay Islands, Honduras who also…
By Jonathan McNamara You’re stuffed full of grilled meats and your clothes still smell like fireworks, but alas, the weekend has drawn to a close. Before you head back to the grind stone, take a gander at these weekend activities. Did you hit them all or did you miss out?…
Senator Jesse Helms, no-longer-living evidence that the good die young… The caustic sensation of hatred and bile inching up the back of my throat: It’s the same feeling I used to get as a teenager in North Carolina, as I watched Republican Senator Jesse Helms play the race card over…
By Jonathan McNamara In a move that’s sure to bring a smile to John Walsh’s trademark serious mug, the Peoria Police Department has gone Web 2.0 by posting its top-10 most-wanted criminals on its their Web site similar to America’s Most Wanted Dirty Dozen. Have you seen these people? The…
Blair Parker has escaped the 30-year minimum mandatory sentence his wife received last year for starving their three children on a strict “vegan” diet.
Buffalo Rick, just outside the Macehualli Work Center, nearby where he’s alleged to have taken an illegal public piss. Local anti-immigrant activist and alleged public urinator Buffalo Rick Galeener inched a tad closer to trial today on a March 8 incident in which Galeener stands accused of taking an al…
Whenever I have an immigration debate with my Chicano hermanos who support open borders and get angry at any type of immigration control, they don’t seem to understand the basic laws of economics, such as the fact that migrant workers who pick fruit, work in construction, and do other blue-collar…
Hugh Hallman and Sandra Day O’Connor are dancing. It is not exactly elegant — not yet. This is only their first rehearsal, and song-and-dance routines do not come together without sweat. And both Hallman and O’Connor are clearly sweating this. It is not every day that a guy gets to…
RAY OF HOPE Who else can they victimize?: New Times’ coverage of this latest public-records outrage by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his goons is full-of-irony great! As is the bravery of “140-pound” pit bull reporter Ray Stern. Sarah Fenske’s column got it right about Nazi-thug deputies who think…
MR. PITIFUL Why, The Bird’s never seen Sheriff Joe Arpaio lookin’ so used up and beat as he appeared at the Barnes & Noble in Surprise during a recent Saturday-afternoon book-signing for Joe’s Law, which was ripped a new one by the Taloned One’s stenographer the other day (“America’s Meanest…
By Paul Rubin Abigail Rose Minor was just 34 months old when–according to police, prosecutors and a trial jury–her father locked her into a tox box, where she suffocated after apparently struggling to free herself for minutes. The investigation into little Abbey’s horrific death became part of our 2006 series,…
By Ray Stern Gerald Richard, Democratic candidate for Maricopa County Attorney (pictured), today released a list of people endorsing him that included Paul Charlton, former U.S. Attorney in Arizona. Charlton was famously fired by the Bush Administration in 2006 along with several other top federal prosecutors in what appeared a…
Jeez, Joe, take a nap, will ya? You’re too old to keep up this pace… Ancient oldsters being wheeled around by their 70-year-old “children.” Blue-hairs lugging about their own oxygen tanks. A withered old crone with literally one tooth in her mouth, eager to get her book signed. The occasional…
By Ray Stern Blogs are buzzing about the Bush Administration’s faux pax in hiring scandal-plagued former NAU president Owen Cargol as the first chancellor of the American University in Iraq. According to this article on www.insidehighered.com, nobody appears to have performed a Google search on Cargol when he was hired…
It’s been nearly a year since New Times columnist Sarah Fenske reported on the brouhaha over the Men’s Grill at our own Phoenix Country Club. (Her recent update’s here. And here.) That other paper, the New York Times, has finally taken note of the controversy…
The Silver Fox, Mesa Police Chief George Gascon, outwitted and outmaneuvered Sheriff Joe on Thursday. See a slideshow of yesterday’s events, here. So where was Joe yesterday afternoon for the big Mesa sweep? Pro-immigrant protesters were out in full force in front of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office substation in…
By Jonathan McNamara June, named after the Roman Goddess Juno, has once again retreated into the ether leaving us to revel in a month’s worth of stories and slide shows. Click for the month in photos…
Can’t Stop the Serenity: 3 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 28, at Chandler Cinemas; Can’t Stop the Serenity. By Clay McNear The TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer ran for seven seasons and totaled 144 episodes. I double-sourced and tripled-checked, ’cause we’re dealing with the Buffyverse, a subset of the…
By Paul Rubin We were sad to learn about the death a few days ago of Bob Eger, a veteran local sportswriter and author who was known to everyone he worked with and wrote about as a consummate professional and genuine nice guy. Egs, as his pals called him, covered…
What do you think would happen if U.S. citizens could buy land and set up businesses in Mexico as easily as Mexicans do in the U.S.? Might that be a boost to the Mexican economy? I know there are provisions in the Mexican Constitution that prevent this, but what is…
Wanna see for yourself how buzz-worthy Agwa de Bolivia Coca Leaf Liqueur is? Try it straight or mixed at one of these Valley clubs. Homme 138 W. Camelback Rd. 602-234-3023 www.hommelounge.com Jay’s Cocktails 3208 W. Indian School Rd. 602-242-1150 www.members.cox.net/jayscocktails Shady’s 2701 E. Indian School Rd. 602-956-8998 TT Roadhouse 2915…
You don’t have to stick to the “Bolivian Kiss Ritual” (biting a lime and then taking a shot) to get your Agwa kicks. We dug up dozens of drink recipes. Here’s a handful of our favorites: Agwa Bloody Mary Mix 1.5 ounces of Agwa, 3 ounces of tomato juice, three…
