Go back to Mexico, honors students! And take your little dog, Toto, too… I could envision Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts turning over Jews to the Gestapo. This is assuming she jumped in the way-back machine and time-traveled to Hitler’s Germany. After all, that was the law back then, right?…
Give ’em hell, Yoda… Just listened to the Yoda of 9/11, aka Pat Curley, on The World Tonight with Rob Breakenridge, an excellent radio talk-show out of Calgary. The subject, of course, is those wacky troofers, and Breakenridge and Curley get into some interesting areas during the hour-long segment. Of…
I love these guys. Need a break from all the anti-immigrant hate-mongers out there, the Terry Andersons, Lou Dobbses, Michael Savages and so on who make their livings spewing forth venom and bile onto the poorest, meekest members of our society? Then check out this episode of the Penn and…
From the Omaha Nazi rally, J.T.’s the second from the right. The Ernst Roehm of East Valley, former Mesa City Council candidate J.T. Ready has been lying low for a while, at least since I saw him arm-in-arm with AZ state Rep. Russell Pearce, after his rabble-rousing speech at the…
Virginia’s North High School yearbook photo. Another yearbook photo, with Virginia on the left. A stunning development regarding the case of deported teen Virginia Gutierrez: Twelve days after Gutierrez signed voluntary deportation papers and was placed on a bus bound for Nogales, a bench warrant was issued for Gutierrez’s arrest…
Two supporters of Virginia Gutierrez, shortly after Wednesday’s rally. A peaceful rally on behalf of deported teen Virginia Gutierrez was disrupted Wednesday at the state capitol by an ugly mob of bigoted rednecks shouting inanities about the Iraq War and mocking speakers with sarcastic “Boo-hoos.” The counterdemonstrators appeared towards the…
HOME ALONE But shes a contributor: It was sad to read about young Virginia Gutierrez being deported to Mexico (“No, Virginia,” The Bird, August 30). She’s obviously someone we want to keep here — an honor student — yet there doesn’t appear to be deportation leeway with the law when…
A new line of Speedy Gonzalez clothing came out earlier this year. As a black vendor in a predominantly Mexican market, I immediately thought about selling some of these items. I am 35 and, although I remember the cartoon coming on when I was a young kid, I can’t really…
Leigh Fords home, 510 West Lynwood Street. Next door to the Halloran family home, this is the house where Winnie Ruth lived after her arrival in Phoenix. She resided with the Fords as their live-in nanny and met neighbor Jack Halloran, a married man with whom she had a notorious…
Two former Arizona State University football players have died from bullet wounds to the head. One is known worldwide for giving up National Football League riches to go to war. Killed by friendly fire in April 2004, Pat Tillman is hailed as a hero, his name enshrined at Sun Devil…
At last week’s mayoral debate, the only one we’ll have in this year’s lopsided race, Mayor Phil Gordon was asked a very good question — and gave a very disappointing answer. Knowing what we know now, the moderator asked, did Gordon regret the city’s promise to hand over $97 million…
Ipso Schmucko: The Repugnant’s Muttonhead Montini, menace to local journalism. See the front page of The Arizona Republic today? The article titled Feds Helping police nab more migrants, with the subhead, Policy shift: ICE now responds to every Valley call ? The piece features a photo of Immigration and Customs…
Kid (right) with Ruben (left) and LL Cool J (center). ***UPDATED WITH COMMENT FROM POWER VP NAT GALVIN BELOW*** Hip-hop radio employees slipping on KKK hoods to pay a visit to their rivals? As incredible as it sounds, that’s the tale told by a lawsuit filed August 21 by 101.5…
A photo of Virginia Gutierrez from her supporters. Just received the following announcement of a rally at the State Capitol this Wednesday on behalf of recently deported 18-year-old Virginia Gutierrez. The above photo came with it, the first glimpse so far of the former North High School Student who I…
Back on the bus: Psychic TV’s Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge. (from left) Lady Jaye, Genesis P-Orridge, and William “Fucking” Reed welcome the lunar eclipse. Under a blood red moon we sat on the sidewalk like children, clapping to encourage the completion of Monday’s lunar eclipse. “Clap your…
Rusty’s new group. Rusty’s old group. Rusty’s thong. Kia-peddler and brown-basher Rusty Childress is a co-founder, along with this guy Danny Smith, of an anti-illegal immigrant bike group called the American Freedom Riders. Their shtick is to harass day-laborers at this Episcopal Church up in Cave Creek. They also have…
Do you agree with immigration rights activists calling Elvira Arellano, who is an illegal immigrant and a criminal, the Mexican Rosa Parks? The very idea that these people refer to her as such is deeply disturbing. Rosa Parks was a legal resident of this country and took a stand against…
UNFLATTERING PORTRAIT Poor old Joe: It’s terrible what Elias Bermudez did to the best sheriff in the United States (“Grand Wizard Arpaio,” The Bird, Stephen Lemons, August 23). He should be strung up for that. And your boy, Lemons, should be strung up for re-publishing that illustration Bermudez passed around…
Every time you drive past U.S. Airways Center, Diana Taurasi’s looking down on you, holding a two-toned basketball and smiling. The 6-foot shooting guard for the Phoenix Mercury, our professional women’s basketball team, has been honored with one of those life-size cardboard effigies, which looms in the second-floor windows of…
Carla Olson was a twentysomething Michigan native who visited Phoenix, fell in love with the desert, and decided, just like that, to move here. She’d barely been in town a year when she began working on a project to bring the desert’s harsh splendor to her fellow outdoorspeople: the Phoenix…
Know what Phoenix’s mayoral contest conjures up? That South Park episode titled “Douche and Turd,” a send-up of the 2004 presidential election in which South Park Elementary School has to give up its original bovine mascot after ponytailed PETA protesters invade the campus. The replacement choices students get to vote…
I know P-Orridge was feeling a lot more mellow after the show, but the following press release sent to me this morning via PTV spokesperson Howard Wuelfing reflects P-Orridge’s frustration at that point in the evening prior to the gig. It’s unclear what happened at The Sets, and why it…
