I have a Mexican friend at work, and we happened to get in a discussion that started off fine — but I believe that I offended her as the discussion progressed. My intention, of course, was not to do such. We were talking about an upcoming Cinco de Mayo celebration,…
It’s canceled. That’s what a box office clerk told artist Ronnie Ray Mendez on Friday, August 30, when he arrived at Herberger Theater Center to pick up promotional postcards for the exhibition “Prime Example,” a group show curated by local gallery owner (and longtime New Times contributor) Robrt Pela and…
Coddling copperheads never has been my thing. On the other hand, I don’t expect vipers to morph into poodles, which is why I’m bewildered by the outrage expressed by local scribblers over the Goldwater Institute’s suing Governor Jan Brewer on the subject of Medicaid expansion. The lawsuit argues that the…
People are very slow to catch on to Phoenix resident Paul Horner’s antics.Horner has used fake news articles to convince people of many things, including street-artist Banksy being arrested, Governor Jan Brewer putting gay-to-straight programs in Arizona schools, and Bill Murray going on a nationwide party-crashing tour. Now, Horner apparently…
There’s never been a summer in Phoenix hotter than this one.The average temperature of 95.1 degrees from July to August is the highest on record, according to the National Weather Service…
Phoenix officials are pretty amped about downtown’s first dog park, calling its opening a “great day” and the “most exciting thing” for dogs and their owners to happen in a decade. The off-leash area for dogs at the northwestern part of the park on Culver Street between 3rd and 5th…
A couple of campaign fliers circulating around District 8 slam Kate Widland Gallego for her ties to Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s political allies — and apparently for not being a minority. One of the bright yellow fliers, tucked on doors of homes throughout the district, call the council candidate a…
Chad Campbell, the state House Minority Leader, has decided that he’s not running for governor in 2014.Unless someone else with the ability to raise some money decides to get in the race, it looks like Fred DuVal is going to be the Democratic nominee in 2014…
Peoria officials are opening Pioneer Community Park, an 83-acre recreation campus, to the public at 9 a.m. on Saturday. The park, at the corner of 83rd and Olive avenues, features six ball fields with concessions stands and restrooms with a central plaza; four lighted multipurpose fields; a dog park, picnic ramadas…
A jury found former Phoenix Police Officer Richard Chrisman guilty of aggravated assault, but the jurors couldn’t decide on two other charges, including second-degree murder.Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery says he has not ruled out a retrial on charges of murdering Phoenix resident Daniel Rodriguez in 2010, and killing his…
Don’t know how many of you are familiar with British conspiracy theorist David Icke, the guy who believes a secret race of shape-shifting lizard people have populated the planet in the guise of our political and cultural leaders, but I’m beginning to believe Icke’s not spouting bunkum and has been…
A 10-year-old Phoenix boy recently had what’s probably the crappiest day of his young life, after some creep exposed his penis to the boy, and proceeded to steal his bike.Police say 40-year-old Anthony Gerard Vigil is the alleged pervert/bike thief, who said he was too drunk to remember anything, according…
Yesterday, we brought you our picks for the 10 worst-named towns in Arizona.In many cases, the story behind the name is even worse than the name itself, like the town of Bagdad…
Former Phoenix homicide detective Armando Saldate might be the only reason Debra Milke was on death row for more than two decades for killing her son — a conviction that has since been overturned by a federal appeals court.Upon hearing that Saldate was planning to refuse testifying in Milke’s retrial,…
Lisa Aubuchon, the ethics-bending ex-prosecutor who filed bogus criminal charges against a judge, has lost her appeal with the state Supreme Court to get her law license back. Aubuchon and her former boss, former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas, were disbarred last year for abusing law-enforcement procedures in their fight…
The Chandler man accused of branding his initials into his girlfriend’s vagina has been arrested again, this time for allegedly having sex with a dog.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office says detectives served a warrant on 47-year-old Christopher Lynn Jackson’s house yesterday, and recovered videos that “clearly show” Jackson and two…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s office certainly didn’t shut down the Arizona State University party scene in Tempe this weekend, but the alcohol task-force did come away with 405 arrests.That was the fourth weekend of Tempe PD’s “Safe and Sober” campaign, which notched 1,367 arrests over the three previous weekends…
Tea party activists are celebrating as one of their own successfully got a book banned from a southern Arizona school district.Debbie Stoner, a tea party organizer in the small community of Palominas, near Sierra Vista, alleged that her son, a sophomore at Buena High School in Sierra Vista, was told…
If your engine was ripped out of your car, would you be able to spot your engine if you ever saw it?For one Peoria man, the answer to that question is “yes,” and a chop-shop owner was busted after the victim recognized the engine from his stolen Ford Mustang had…
If you stopped watching the Arizona Diamondbacks and their mediocre season, we can’t blame you.But allow us to point something out — this morning, Paul Goldschmidt is hitting .301, and is first in the National League in home runs, RBI, slugging percentage, and OPS, and is third in the NL…
Arizona State University beat 20th-ranked Wisconsin in extraordinarily strange fashion on Saturday at Sun Devil Stadium.New Times was there to capture the festivities…
Arizona Highways magazine won’t be hitting the newsstands this month, after it wrongly identified a certain mushroom as being edible.Let’s just say that while most people wouldn’t consider the fly agaric mushroom to be edible, hippies at a Phish concert might…
