This month, New Times celebrates its 40th anniversary. To mark this modest moment, we invoke iconic art in the name of ongoing community resistance to misguided immigration policies and the continued heavy hand of local law enforcement. In 1958, Art Kane pulled together 57 giants of jazz and took their…
Phoenix New Times writers won 26 awards — including 13 first places — at the recent Arizona Press Club awards banquet for work published in 2009. The big winner was art director Peter Storch, named Designer of the Year, one of the contest’s four most prestigious awards. About Storch’s winning…
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: Feathered Bastard: Three Undocumented DREAM Activists Released from ICE Custody in Tucson William Gheen’s ALIPAC Withdraws from…
LifeLock has finally responded to our feature article this week about the Tempe-based company, and the revelation that its CEO, Todd Davis, has had his identity stolen at least 13 times. We offered Davis and LifeLock the chance to come clean about Davis’ problems with identity theft before we published…
After a day or two of pissing and moaning about being taken out of the Florida Marlins’ lineup against the Arizona Diamondbacks yesterday, Hanley Ramirez, the Marlins’ drama-queen-of-the-week all-star shortstop — accused by his coach of not hustling the day before — has sucked it up and apologized to his…
Drugs and immigrants get most of the ink when it comes to Arizona’s criminal exports, but an Arizona man, who police in a small town in Wyoming believe murdered one guy and nearly murdered another, is dominating the news in Diamondville, Wyoming, these days.Police in Diamondville tell New Times that…
Attorney General Terry Goddard announced today that a former Scottsdale office manager has been sentenced for embezzling more than $250,000 from her employer, a Scottsdale-based medical practice.Kacee Sissener, 29, who now lives in San Diego, pleaded guilty to theft and fraudulent schemes and artifices last year she was extradited from California.According…
Arizona’s possibly soon-to-be law that makes it a crime to be in the state without ‘jer paypers’ has made us the butt of jokes, the target of boycotts, and created a feeling of tension and angst in the Latino community. Yeah, even the legal ones.But not to be completely dampened by…
Yesterday, NBC sports analyst Mike Florio planted the seeds for rumors of former Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner’s triumphant return to the gridiron.When Warner retired at the end of last season, we thought he made it pretty clear that he had no intention of pullin’ a Favre and backing out on retirement,…
The first image of Cowboys and Aliens, Jon Favreau’s futuristic answer to the über-successful Avatar, was “tweeted” by Favreau today, and it looks pretty awesome. The film is described as a 3-D journey into a Southwestern conflict between Arizona settlers, who must resolve their differences when an alien spaceship crash-lands in their…
The North Carolina-based nativist group ALIPAC (Americans for Legal Immigration PAC) is pulling out of a planned June 5 anti-immigration/pro-SB1070 rally at the Arizona state Capitol over what it claims are the white supremacist ties of one of the event’s organizers.ALIPAC head honcho William Gheen blasted “Phoenix Rising” event planner Dan…
According to the latest poll from Scott Rasmussen, Senator John McCain holds a 12-point lead over his GOP primary challenger J.D. Hayworth.This is a significant jump from a poll conducted a month ago, where Rasmussen showed McCain with only a five-point lead, but that’s not stopping the pollster from comparing…
Three undocumented DREAM activists who had been arrested Monday on second degree trespassing charges after staging a sit-in at U.S. Senator John McCain’s Tucson office were released last night from ICE custody, according to ICE spokesman Vinne Picard.Picard said the three activists were issued notices to appear in their immigration…
As the Phoenix Suns are in the process of trying to win the NBA Western Conference Championship, the mother of Suns star Amar’e Stoudemire has been arrested — again. Carrie Mae Stoudemire was stopped by Scottsdale police on Saturday for driving her Lincoln Navigator erratically on Shea Boulevard. According to court…
The Arizona Diamondbacks got blown out 8-0 by the Florida Marlins yesterday. It’s the ninth loss in 11 games for the 16-24 D-Backs, and aside from poor offensive production, the team’s miserable bullpen owns much of the blame. Yesterday, the bullpen gave up six runs in three innings in the loss,…
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: Feathered Bastard: Antonio Villaraigosa Says Los Angeles Will Take Joe Arpaio If Suns Best Lakers (w/Riposte from…
We asked Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley last week what he planned to do with the illegal immigrants arrested by Sheriff Joe Arpaio on suspicion of smuggling themselves into the country. Romley’s spokesman, Bill FitzGerald, wrote back that a decision hadn’t been made yet. Today, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Andrew…
Before this afternoon, the Arizona Diamondbacks had lost eight of their last 10 games, and after this afternoon’s shiteous performance from the D-backs bullpen — as well as producing almost no offense whatsoever — the Snakes can throw another one in the loss column.The Diamondbacks got blown out by the Florida…
Finally, a way to get rid of Maricopa County’s geriatric gendarme Sheriff Joe, and he doesn’t even have to get indicted by the feds! Though that would still be pretty sweet.In a message to Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon publicized today, La-la Land Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa says the City of Angels will…
Attention Valley residents: When you go to a bar, don’t leave your kids sitting alone in your car in the bar’s parking lot. For the second time in less than a month, somone was arrested for doing exactly that. Tempe police arrested a man on Sunday who they say left…
Opponents of Arizona’s controversial, new immigration law are probably saying one thing today: Dammit, Janet!Former Arizona Governor and current Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano said during a Senate Homeland Security Committee hearing yesterday that despite criticizing Arizona’s new law, she hasn’t actually read it…
Since Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon continues to refuse to answer questions about who’s paying for the big sporting events he and his girlfriend Elissa Mullany have attended — and won’t even confirm that they went to at least two Super Bowls — sources have felt compelled to help unravel these mysteries.Just…
