The Phoenix Business Journal recently released its coveted “40 Under 40” list. To quote Clark W. Griswold, we could wake up tomorrow with our heads sewn to the carpet and we wouldn’t be more surprised than we were when we saw the name of Arizona Republican Party Executive Director Brett…
Good news, fatsos: you may now be able to blame your flab on your friends.According to a recent study by researchers at Arizona State University, obesity is socially contagious…
AT&T has turned to federal court to make Phoenix approve a cell-phone tower that the company says is needed to fix a dead-air zone on the Piestewa Freeway. A complaint filed by the company last week in U.S. District Court claims that Phoenix’s Board of Adjustment erred by denying a use permit for the planned…
Two girls at a Valley high school went a few rounds recently, and made the, um, brilliant decision to post video of the fight on Youtube.It’s a pretty brutal fight (as far as girl fights go) — complete with a lot of hair pulling and off-balance punches.So far, the video…
Daniel Hudson was in top form on Saturday night as the Arizona Diamondbacks walloped the San Diego Padres 6-0 thanks to his powerful performance. The starting pitcher scored his third, straight victory by striking out six batters in seven innings and blanking his opponents n effortless fashion. Too bad Hudson…
Last week, the Phoenix Police Department updated the media on the investigation into the shooting death of Sergeant Sean Drenth. As we noted, the update raised a lot of questions but no answers as to who killed the sergeant — and it’s still unclear whether he was murdered or committed…
Los Lobos was never officially part of the Sound Strike, the musicians’ boycott of Arizona over Senate Bill 1070, Sand Land’s notorious breathing-while-brown law. But when the old-school Chicano rock band announced the cancellation of a gig at Scottsdale’s Talking Stick Resort in June of 2010, they earned plaudits from many in…
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The Phoenix Police Department held a press conference this afternoon to discuss the findings of the soon-to-be-released report on the investigation into the death of Sergeant Sean Drenth, who was found shot to death near the State Capitol last October.The report, as Phoenix police officials explain, offers a lot of…
For nearly a year, Phoenix city-bus drivers have been going to work without an official contract with Veolia Transportation, the French company awarded a $385 million contract to operate those buses. The drivers’ contract expired on June 30, 2010, and while there have been a few contract extensions, the on…
The scriptures advise us that a gentle answer turneth away wrath. Apparently it has the effect of disarming Tea Baggers as well.That proverb was put to the test last Sunday at Phoenix’s Margaret T. Hance Park where a couple of hundred people gathered to celebrate International Workers’ Day, otherwise known…
Just three days after Public Policy Polling found that just about no one likes Sarah Palin or Donald Trump, the pollsters say today that Arizonans don’t like their senators either.Arizona Senator John McCain — who had a 40 percent approval rating in the firm’s January polling — now has a…
The Phoenix Police Department is holding a press conference this afternoon to give some context to the “massive amount of information” they plan to release in the next few days regarding the death of Officer Sean Drenth.According to the department, “There are no new case developments at this point, and…
hen we first learned of William Willis, an alleged cross-dressing kiddy-porn connoisseur who dug a tunnel in his house leading to a secret, underground room beneath his backyard, we thought there could be no way a guy building a sex dungeon in his house is married. But he is, and his…
Swiss daredevil Yves Rossy, 51, was scheduled to jump out of a helicopter near Eagle Point and, using his homemade jet-propelled wingsuit, fly west along the rim of the Grand Canyon this morning. He pimped the event for weeks. People headed to the Canyon to watch. He even got the FAA…
Former Phoenix Suns star Charles Barkley was a hell of a basketball player. That said, he’s the shittiest golfer we’ve ever (ever) seen. Despite his world-renowned awfulness on the links, Barkley is often asked to play in celebrity golf tournaments and put his atrocious swing on display for other…
“Buffalo” William Willis, the alleged cross-dressing kiddy-porn connoisseur who removed his court- ordered ankle monitor earlier this week, was not only busted by U.S. Marshals yesterday, he was busted wearing a wig — which is both fitting and terrifying.When Willis was arrested at an apartment complex near 48th Street and…
For eight innings, Arizona Diamondbacks hitters looked like they were swinging at golf balls with tooth picks — seemingly en route to being shut out by the Colorado Rockies in the last of a three-game series at Chase Field.Yet with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning, Diamondbacks…
For the first time since his wife’s arrest for having a three-year sexual relationship with a teenage boy, Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock made a public appearance yesterday. It didn’t go well for the county supervisor.Following a speech with his pal, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, to recovering drug addicts…
In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times’ blogs. Today’s entries:…
A month before claiming to be “flabbergasted” by the news that his wife was having a sexual relationship with a teenage boy, Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock met with former interim County Attorney Rick Romley and asked whether he knew of any good defense lawyers that specialize in cases of…
The Phoenix City Council appointed Bryan Jeffries today as an interim representative for District 2. He fills the seat left vacant by Councilwoman Peggy Neely, who resigned to run for mayor.Jeffries was one of four candidates vying for the interim appointment, and has indicated that he does plan to run…
