Under the bright club lights at The Door on Scottsdale Road, Willy Northpole is shining like a gold star. The Phoenix-born-and-bred rapper is wearing a shimmering designer shirt that hugs his bulging biceps, and several thick gold chains hang from his neck. The diamond studs in his earlobes flash when…
In the weeks after Michael Nowakowski scored a major upset to win a seat on the Phoenix City Council, something curious happened. His mailbox filled with checks. Nowakowski wasn’t supposed to win the District Seven seat. For one thing, he was running against the daughter of Congressman Ed Pastor, D-Phoenix,…
Nothing makes this mallard madder than Tyra Banks after someone’s said her booty’s too big than having the truth-twisters over at the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office call The Bird and his fellow New Times scribes liars. Fabulous thunderbirds! We don’t need to make up anything about this county’s top constable…
Football season may only last six months, but there’s another sport that holds the attention of many Phoenix residents year-round — race car driving. We’re not talking NASCAR here, we’re talking the reckless thrill seekers who speed down the 101 and other Valley freeways like they’re training for the left…
Local NSM rep Scott Hume, alias, “Shawn Hughes” at one of the Pruitt’s protests in December. Well, NSM-PHX acting unit leader Scott Hume (alias “Shawn Hughes”) has jerked most of his stuff off the Web since last week’s post “Another neo-Nazi in the nativist woodpile,” but much of it lives…
Although not high on drama, four NFL games proved to at least entertain over the weekend, as three out of four favorites won. Tampa Bay was the lone exception, bowing out to the New York Giants. Some of this weekend’s games have the potential to be not-so-entertaining. All four of…
****PLEASE NOTE: Since I posted this item last night, some of the pages linked to below have been taken down. I anticipated this possibility, and so have screen shots of everything. Next week, I’ll see about posting some of these to back up what was linked to in the first…
A new year brings a new season for NFL fans… it’s the postseason, baby. All the wannabes and should-have-beens, the pretenders, are looking for their golf clubs. But 12 NFL teams still have a shot at Super Bowl XLII. The Patriots (16-0) are still perfect (although the Giants got their…
Say it ain’t so, Alonzo… Word’s out that local ICE honcho Alonzo Pena will soon be skating after just about 14 months in his position. Sources say Pena’s set to depart in a week or two – though knowing how the feds do things, one or two weeks could stretch…
Jabba the Hendershott, Arpaio’s portly Dick Cheney… What I can never figure out about Maricopa County is that the public officials who by all rights should be under the freakin’ magnifying glass are in fact the ones pursuing bogus charges against their enemies. Take Joe Arpaio’s Chief Deputy David Hendershott,…
Buffalo chips, ahoy! Even Ankarlo finds this guy “icky,” and that’s saying something, coming from KTAR’s ick-meister pooh-bah… (Note the pistol, folks. Armed? Absolutely. Dangerous? Hey, no more than any other wacko with a sidearm.) En route to the Macehualli Work Center near 25th Street and Bell Road Wednesday mornin’,…
As everyone knows, dogs seem to reflect their masters’ personalities. Likewise, the breeds invented by a nation say a lot about that nation. Germans bred the German shepherd and Rottweilers: smart, loyal, faithful, yet a little cold, and not the kind of dogs you want to piss off. The French…
EVERYBODY HATES JOE Morally Reprehensible is his middle name: I’d heard many negative things about Sheriff Joe Arpaio for years, and what you’ve exposed, in detail, is truly shocking (see the “Target Practice” series). I know New Times has a hard-on for Arpaio, but if you can document every thing…
When it comes to sightseeing, it’s tough to beat a panoramic view to really give you an appreciation of a place — especially one as spread out as the Valley of the Sun. North Mountain Park has all the usual trappings of a mountain park in our town — hiking…
The panic! release party? It won’t be at Anderson’s… Here’s a message from the folks at panic!, which apparently had a pending club date at the now defunct Anderson’s Fifth Estate. The mass e-mail pretty much speaks for itself, especially since Tom Anderson is not returning calls. Well, at least…
Why were the nativists at the Paradise Valley Mall Saturday? “Why not?” sputtered American Freedom Riders founder Danny Smith in reply to my query. Hey, it’s still a free country, kinda-sorta. And the AFR and other anti-illegal groups wanted to get out of the Thomas Road box this weekend, seeing…
P. Diddy, Snoop Dogg and Kid Rock are among the big-name performers appearing at Axis/Radius and Suede during Super Bowl week, making the sleek clubs definite party destinations. P. Diddy will take the stage in his only performance during the Super Bowl festivities in an hour-long concert, presented by Phoenix…
When Super Bowl XLII kicks off at University of Phoenix Stadium, one of the competing squads will be designated as the home team. Unfortunately, it won’t be the venue’s regular occupants, the Arizona Cardinals. Here’s our Top 10 reasons why… 10. The NFL’s cruel schedulers have the Cardinals facing the…
The latest issue of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report is out. The quarterly mag is practically a must-read for those following hate groups in AZ, the immigration issue, and how they overlap. Though the lead article “Immigration Backlash” deals directly with everyone’s favorite topic, there are three others…
County Attorney Andrew Thomas has not issued a single grand jury subpoena in the wake of the fallout from my arrest and that of my business partner, New Times CEO Jim Larkin. According to a document leaked to the paper from inside the prosecutor’s office, Thomas is mulling his next…
COGNITIVE DISSIDENCE Boggles the mind: Your series on constitutional abuses by Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio has been mind-boggling. Each week I’ve grabbed New Times to see what horrors would be waved in front of our faces (“Inhumanity Has a Price,” John Dickerson, December 20; “Information…
On October 19, the day after New Times’ owners were arrested, the county attorney very publicly fired special prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik. That same day, Bill French very quietly resigned from Wilenchik’s law firm. At 76, French is a man who could rest on his laurels. Instead, he shared them with…
