Obviously, both a glorious and gruesome weekend for Phoenix’s professional basketball and baseball teams, respectively. Alas, our task here is not to recount the Suns’ sweep of the Spurs in a memorable one-eyed effort by one Steve Nash. No, we are here to report on the absolutely miserable three-game home…
At the end of the Suns’ game yesterday against San Antonio, Spurs great David Robinson ran onto the court to offer heartfelt congratulations to… Phoenix Coach Alvin Gentry! The retired San Antonio center and NBA legend then escorted the coach who’s molded the Suns into a contender this season off the court, grinning ear-to-ear with…
We know the Los Angeles Lakers won’t officially be the Phoenix Suns opponent in the next round of the NBA playoffs until they beat the Utah Jazz one more time — which will likely happen tonight — but, if history tells us anything, the Suns playing against Kobe Bryant and friends…
If you’re not a basketball person or a Suns fan, you should head out to the Valley Art on Mill Ave. in Tempe today and check out the documentary 9500 Liberty. I caught the film last night, and was intrigued by its depiction of the conflict in Prince William County,…
Sultans of falsehoods: Man, is Bill O’Reilly looking old these days, or what?The lefty Think Progress Web site has addressed an absurd, nativist shibboleth that I’ve heard kicking around the conservanut echo chamber lately: The lie that SB 1070, Arizona’s new “papers please” legislation, is actually supported by a majority…
Just caught this anti-SB 1070 hip-hop on YouTube. The dopest track out there right now on the subject. Already gone viral. The revolution, it will be YouTube-ized. Enjoy…
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: Hispanic Neighbors of Suspect in White-on-Brown Homicide Say He’s “Not a Racist” (w/Update) Up on…
Nik Richie bragged on a radio show recently that his Web site is bringing in big bucks — catching the attention of a Houston lawyer trying to collect on a $1.5 million judgment. As we related last month, Richie lost an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit to a Texas woman after his…
U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Tucson Sector seized more than 1,300 pounds of marijuana during four separate vehicle interdictions in the past 24 hours, including one stop where the suspects crashed their weed-filled truck into the border fence to evade capture.The suspects, according to USBP spokesman Eric Cantu, got…
Saying their request for information is “burdensome, overly broad, and intended to harass,” the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office told the Board of Supervisors today that it will not comply with a subpoena demanding financial records. The supervisors have been demanding the information since March — resorting to a subpoena two…
A teacher at a Phoenix elementary school was arrested when federal authorities found him in possession of child pornography following an investigation by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cyber Crimes Center.Tyler A. Townley, 30, a fifth-grade teacher at Sun Canyon Elementary School in Phoenix, got pinched after authorities searched his home, where…
The mother and step-father of a Tucson boy who fatally shot himself in the head back in January pleaded not guilty to child abuse charges in Pima County Superior Court this morning.According to police, Genesia Elizabeth Lozano and Carlos Janesch Lozano left their 10-year-old son, Anthony J. Wells, home alone…
The nine activists arrested after chaining themselves to the Arizona state Capitol in an act of civil disobedience over SB 1070 — known to many as “the Capitol Nine” — will be honored next week with a billboard-size digital mural in San Francisco’s Mission District.The billboard was commissioned by San…
Criss Angel, the over-dramatic, shirtless “magician” and star of A&E’s Criss Angel Mindfreak, is performing a stunt in Arizona this weekend that was once perfected by legendary magic man Harry Houdini.This weekend, Angel plans to be chained, shackled, handcuffed, wrapped in rope, and lowered into the Colorado River from the…
A Facebook group dedicated to putting an end to Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s reign over Maricopa County hit its latest milestone today — the group’s membership has now hit 50,000 people in just under three months.We’ve been following the progress of the group People Against Sheriff Joe Arpaio since it was…
Congratulations, drunks! This summer, you will no longer find yourself in the annoying situation of not being able to buy booze at 6 a.m. on a Sunday.Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill yesterday that relaxes laws regulating the sale of alcohol on Sunday mornings.Currently, there is a statewide ban on…
Open-source Web sites allowed witnesses to chronicle political violence in Kenya, earthquake devastation in Haiti, and election problems in India.Now a local company, NiJel, hopes to use the same techniques to record, and map, fallout from Arizona’s controversial new immigration policy, Senate Bill 1070. The company’s newly created Web site,…
Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill that changes the language used to rate schools’ achievement profiles from actual words to letters. Currently, schools are given designations like “excelling,” or “under-performing,” as a way to describe to parents and the public how well the school performs academically. The change makes it so that…
The Arizona Diamondbacks come home tonight to face the Milwaukee Brewers feeling pretty good about themselves. Why? They just wrapped up the season’s longest road trip, an 11-gamer, with an acceptable 6-5 record. The D-Backs punctuated it Thursday night in Houston with a complete-game 6-3 win from ace Dan Haren…
As you may have heard yesterday, the days of photo-radar enforcement in Arizona will be a thing of the past come July 1. The Arizona Department of Public Safety says it will not renew the contract of Redflex Inc., the company that operates Arizona’s hated speed cams.Accidental Governor Jan Brewer,…
UPDATE, 9:44 PM: Received the statement below from the Phoenix PD shortly after posting this item. Suspect’s name is Gary Kelley. Victim’s name is Juan Varela. See bottom of post for more.***Police are saying that a 50 year-old white male shot his 44 year-old Hispanic neighbor in South Phoenix in…
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: Al Sharpton Wears “Los Suns” Jersey During March to Arizona Capitol Protesting SB 1070 Robert…
