Bosom bigot buddies: J.T. Ready (in suit) and Rep. Russell Pearce (in flag shirt) work the crowd together. Like you needed more proof that AZ’s nativist movement is riddled with racists, rednecks, and raving wing-nuts, the anti-immigrant protest at the state capitol this Saturday (6/16) featured a rabble-rousing speech by…
Come on baby, light my fire: Burlesque Baroness Pyra Sutra at burn nightclub. See more babeage on parade in this Scandalesque slideshow. Starry, starry night. Not the sappy Don McLean tune of yore. Starry night’s what they call the shots I’ve been pounding at downtown’s new burn nightclub: a mix…
Chill out people, it’s just water. Um, at least it looked like water… I hate to say I told you so. Actually, who am I kiddin’? I LOVE telling you I told you so. On May 31, The Bird squawked about an insane new law Governor Janet “Manet” Napolitano signed…
WRAP IT UP Following the dodo: I just finished reading the cover story about the shrinking size of our state’s largest daily newspaper (“It’s a Wrap,” Sarah Fenske, June 7). Compared with daily newspapers in other metro areas of comparable size — San Diego, Denver — the Arizona Republic pales…
Continental Airlines Flight 82 departed from Newark, New Jersey, on the evening of March 30, bound for New Delhi, India. One of the 300-plus passengers on the Boeing 777 jetliner attracted little attention as he boarded and settled quietly into a window seat in an emergency-exit row. He was 32-year-old…
You might think a public official facing 13 felony counts would be maintaining a low profile, huddling with her lawyer, and trying to figure out a way to avoid prison. Not Sandra Dowling. Never mind the laundry list of charges that the longtime Maricopa County Schools superintendent faces in Superior…
So often when we see Mexican bands perform in the U.S. and Mexico, the crowd, at some point, starts chanting, “¡Cu-le-ro (ass-hole)!” Why does the crowd yell “cu-le-ro” at a band that they seemingly adore and paid a lot of money to see perform? Even fellow Latinos are really confused…
Goddard standing tall: If he ever investigates Candy and/or Sheriff Joe, I may go gay for him! In a startling development that’s the AZ state government equivalent of standing up to the schoolyard bully, Attorney General Terry Goddard has told Sheriff Joe to go eff himself, informing asshole Arpaio that…
Don’t tell me Pooh’s a troofer too! Nah, he’s too smart for that. (Believe it or not, this tin-foil hat’s for sale at eCrater.com.) Should 9/11 troofer and tin-foil hatter Matt Lepacek have been booted from a post-debate Spin Room at the Republican debate Tuesday, June 5 in Goffstown, N.H.?…
Christ, Joe, put your tongue back in your mouth… If you have to think about your answer to the question above, you haven’t been in Maricopa County for very long. Still even if you’re a newbie, watching dirty ol’ Joe salivating before cameras over the Paris Hilton controversy taking place…
Sly Sy, raggin’ on Neocons, editors, and the Iraq War. Nothing’s more boring than a conference room full of “serious” journalists. Unless Seymour Hersh is in it. The legendary investigative reporter, who nabbed a Pulitzer back in 1970 for exposing the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and who’s still breaking…
“So Phil’s hiding where?” Maupin presents Goober’s chief of staff Deb Gullett with paperwork to help hizzoner switch parties… With a handful of supporters waving signs that read “Phil Gordon: Republican wolf in Democratic clothing,” and “Mayor Gordon is a Democrat in Name Only,” candidate Jarret Maupin stormed the Mayor’s…
THE SHAME GAME “Crybaby” presiding judge: I am an attorney who has practiced in this state for more than 30 years. I was one of the attorneys who spoke to the Phoenix City Council just before it fired Municipal Court Judge Mike Carroll and asked them not to do such…
The Bird, a racist? That’s the accusation leveled by a cowardly campaign of avian-haters, featuring form letters denouncing this funky feathered fiend being sent to some New Times advertisers. The malignant missives are addressed “Dear Business Owner” and sound like some nasty little chain-mail scheme from back in the day…
I was sitting around with my daughter and her Mexican husband the other day talking about her past. Jokingly, I mentioned that when she was a teenager (30 years ago), lots of boys came by the house to see her. Her husband flew into a rage and said that Mexicans…
On Monday, March 19, Arizona Republic subscribers across the Valley picked their newspapers up off the driveway, slid off the protective plastic bag, and then, surely, started shaking the paper — looking for its missing sections. There was no Valley & State. No Business section. As a reader in Peoria…
DJ Blonde Noize tearin’ up the decks as I get wasted on GINORMOUS DOLLAR WELLS! If you’re wondering why the blog posts are kinda light right around now, that’s because the Feathered Bastard is hard at work, tap-tapping out Best of Phoenix entries for the highly-anticipated issue of the same…
Guess which one is the bottom… Why any Democrat in his or her right mind would vote for a Democrat in Name Only (DiNO) such as Phil “Goober” Gordon is beyond me. It’s bad enough that he endorsed asshole wingnut Andy “Candy” Thomas for County Attorney in 2004, and that…
Me with the mega-fine Brea Lynn on my shoulder… At the invite of the party people at Marquee Entertainment**, I stopped by E4 in Scottsdale Saturday night to wish Vivid contract star and former Chandler girl Brea Lynn a happy 21st b-day. Lynn moved from Cali to Chandler when she…
Cheesy Fred Thompson goofs big-time with radio ads for LifeLock. Is Fred Thompson smokin’ crack? On the same day the Law and Order star and former Senator is incorporating his presidential committee in Nashville, Tenn., we learn that he’s also shilling for scumbag Robert Maynard, founder of the identity theft…
A pic from Nat’l Geographic of the MCDC fence on a ranch in Naco, Arizona, now the subject of a lawsuit. More troubles for Minuteman Civil Defense Corps Prez Chris Simcox, aka “The Little Prince,” who just recently had to put down a “palace coup” (his words) instigated by Minuteman…
Betcha Max Jarman’s seen his mini-me.. I wonder what it feels like to butt-lick one of the biggest assholes on face of the planet? That’s what I’d like to ask Arizona Republic journo (and I use that word loosely) Max Jarman, after reading his verbal rim-job of Richard Adkerson, CEO…
