I’ve dated a few Mexican girls in the past couple of years and I’ve come to realize one big, important thing — most of the girls didn’t know how to cook, clean and, you know, bring that old-school Mexican flavor from the roots! What’s happening to all our true mexicanas?…
SIN OF THE FATHER No sympathy for Faleh Almaleki: I want to comment on your very good article detailing the trials and tribulations of Noor Almaleki, a seemingly wonderful young lady. To have something like this happen to her in America is very heart-wrenching. Her father stated that killing her…
Around the lunch hour in Vale, South Dakota, on February 5, a 33-year-old cattle rancher finished a morning of blogging, then stepped outside with a bottle of wine and a Flip video camera. “Hello, my name is Troy Hadrick. I’m a fifth-generation United States rancher in South Dakota,” the man…
HISTORY REBUFFED The persistent myth about ex-neo-Nazi Frank Meeink’s memoir, Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead, is that the tale Meeink tells of his violent, racist past was the basis for the 1998 movie American History X. Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe has promoted the book, in part, with this supposed…
Just about everybody who came into contact with Edward Ravenscroft in 2008 concluded that he needed some serious help. Thanks to a bad crack habit, Ravenscroft, then 47, had burned through more than $1 million in two short years — with little to show for it. As an heir to…
When Bertha Oropeza was arrested last summer for marijuana possession, she didn’t expect it to nearly cost her life. But after 10 hours in Maricopa County’s Fourth Avenue jail, Oropeza was unconscious, in cardiogenic shock with acute kidney failure at Good Samaritan Hospital. Meanwhile, no one at the jail could…
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: Russell Pearce Triumphs on SB 1070, as Minority Leader David Lujan Takes a Powder Up…
Remember Gary Donahoe, the Superior Court judge accused late last year of “bribery” by County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio? Though that skanky dog of a case was dropped before it really ever got going (we never will forget this press conference), the boys succeeded in sullying…
As you may recall, former Congressman J.D. Hayworth has pledged for months that on April 15, he will reveal the names of those who’ve donated money to a trust fund he set up to help pay legal bills he incurred defending himself from potential charges over his relationship with shamed…
A Phoenix gang-banger was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of planning a botched 2007 home invasion that left one of his homies dead. During the robbery, Cory Eugene Lamb-Jones, 35, and his fellow gangstas forced their way into an apartment, tied up two victims, poured motor oil on them, and threatened to…
An Arizona man is lucky to be alive after he was bitten by a rattlesnake after kayaking in the Gila River over the weekend.Cecil Tidwell, 57, was heading down river near Rainbow Valley on Sunday when rough water forced him to bring his kayak to land and try to hike his…
Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth has scheduled two debates with Senator John McCain, seemingly based on a New Times article featured in Valley Fever yesterday.As a side note to a post about the McCain campaign’s latest Web video — to point out that McCain says he welcomes debates with Hayworth –…
The Arizona Medical Marijuana Policy Project announced today that it will submit more than enough signatures to the Secretary of State’s Office to get an initiative that would legalize the use of medical marijuana on the November ballot here.The initiative only requires 153,356 signatures to get on the ballot in Arizona, but the AMMPP…
Requests made by “spiritual warrior” James Arthur Ray and his lawyers to subpoena emergency workers who responded to the Sedona sweat lodge that left three people dead and dozens injured, was quashed by a Yavapai County judge. Ray and his attorneys sent 10 subpoenas to various emergency responders, hospital staff, and…
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors will choose an interim replacement for departed County Attorney Andrew Thomas in a few days. Here’s some predictions about who won’t get the gig: 1. SATAN: Left, in photo. 2. JESUS: Right, in photo. 3.. BILL MONTGOMERY: Andy Thomas clone with a bit more…
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, Glendale Mayor Elaine Scruggs, and a host of state and local business people are lobbying top Air Force officials to convince them that Luke Air Force Base is the best place for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.The F-35 is the latest war bird coming off the military…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio says his latest, dehumanizing, inmate “incentive program” is so successful that parents should use it on their “couch potato” children. Two weeks ago, Arpaio unveiled “Pedal Vision,” a stationary bike rigged up to a television. As an inmate pedals, the bike creates enough electricity to power the TV. If…
The Phoenix Suns blasted out to an 18-2 lead over the Denver Nuggets early in the first quarter of last night’s game against the Denver Nuggets, and they never looked back. The lead was 27 by the end of the third period at US Airways Center, and the Suns wound up embarrassing…
Remember, Arizona D-Backs fans, the season is long and, well, so are the games. So, the Los Angeles Dodgers pounded the homeboys by a 9-5 count in yesterday afternoon’s home opener over on the beautiful Left Coast. Putting up a five-spot usually will do it, but the Dodgers put up…
Investigators raided several locations of local business Bank Card Empire, a work-from-home company that’s been investigated for fraud allegations for the past year. According to police, Bank Card Empire scammed people by requiring them to pay thousands of dollars up-front to open a home-based telemarketing business. Some people have reportedly…
It’s state Senator Russell Pearce’s Arizona, and the Democrats just live in it. The Republicans? They do as they’re told.Such is the state of affairs after the passage of Pearce’s police state/anti-immigrant legislation SB 1070 in the Arizona House today. The handful of disgruntled Republicans who’d been promising quietly (and…
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: Russell Pearce’s SB1070: Welfare for Anti-Immigration Lawyers, Says Attorney David Selden Up on the…
