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: Lou Dobbs Delivers His Head to Hispanics, But That’s Not Necessarily a Good Thing Up…
Yesterday morning, Scottsdale police got a call from the Paiute Neighborhood Center saying a man was exposing himself to kids at a bus stop in the 6600 block of East Osborn Road.When they got there, he was gone.This morning, police figured they would watch the area, just in case the perp…
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Susan Brnovich has set a “firm trial” date of December 14 in the case of alleged “Salon Bandit” and former New Times scribe Joe Watson. Brnovich ordered all subpoenaed witnesses to appear in court on that date. Watson, who has been incarcerated in county jails…
In what seems to be a last-ditch effort to keep the team in the Valley, Phoenix Coyotes President Douglas Moss is pulling out all the stops to try to boost attendance at Jobing.com Arena.Yesterday, the team announced the “Coyotes Express,” a free shuttle service to drive people from the East…
The superintendent of the Tucson Unified School District did something this week that may sound nuts — she gave back a $20,000 bonus.Superintendent Elizabeth Celania-Fagen is in her second year as head of the district and evidently doing a good job, so the district’s governing board gave her a $20,000…
Time Magazine has named Arizona State University President Michael Crow one of the 10 “best college presidents” in the country — in part, because he ruined what was traditionally a perfectly good party school…
One thing we failed to point out in our previous post about Mike Tyson’s latest brush with the law is that the former heavyweight champ is currently on probation here in Arizona.In case you forgot, in 2007, Iron Mike was convicted of misdemeanor DUI and felony cocaine possession…
Window Rock Democrat Chris Deschene announced Wednesday that he will file paperwork to form an exploratory committee for a possible run for Secretary of State. The office is Arizona’s second highest and is currently held by Republican Ken Bennett, who is expected to run for reelection. Described in his House of Representatives…
One month to the day after telling Oprah he was done using violence to resolve his “issues,” Iron Mike Tyson seems to be at it again…
Man, we’ve waited a long time for this! The Phoenix Suns dominated Chris Paul and New Orleans from the start at US Airways Center last night and wound up blowing out the Hornets (who challenged for NBA Western Conference supremacy a couple of seasons ago) 124-104. And (in a phrase we were…
John Jay O’Connor III, husband of retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, has died. O’Connor, 79, died of complications stemming from Alzheimer’s Disease on Wednesday. Memorial services will be private…After a pickup truck went into Tempe Town Lake on Wednesday, divers searched the water for three hours, but found…
Whenever I see an ad for a Mexican ramera, they always describe themselves as “spicy.” Are Mexican women hiding habaneros in their panochas? Concha Curious “I wish I could say that ‘Mexican Spitfire’ Lupe Velez was to blame for the ‘spicy’ epithet so often associated with Mexican femme pulchritude,” says…
It’s Halloween night, and the biggest party in metro Phoenix resembles Dirty Dancing as if imagined by the Marquis de Sade. A couple hundred people fill the dance floor, bathed in bright red lights and psychedelic, paisley blue and yellow projections. The thumping electro-metal of Rob Zombie blasts partygoers in…
DO THE HASSLE The coward will probably be promoted: Thanks, New Times, for the story of William Robles in Guadalupe. Robles is a brave man, and Maricopa County Sheriff’s Deputy Loren Gaytan is an unprofessional coward. If Gaytan worked for a real police force, he’d probably be fired. But seeing…
Carl Hayden High School place-kicker Jorge Paredes found himself shuffling aimlessly on the opponent’s 30-yard-line. It was a time-out, and in a few moments the outcome of the game last Friday night would ride on his left foot. Jorge isn’t the best kicker in the world, but just minutes earlier,…
SKIN BUSTERS I’m not the type for formal to-dos. The dress code kills me. Last time I wore a suit was for Methodist Sunday school, back before I’d had my first smoke. I made an exception for the Anti-Defamation League of Arizona’s Torch of Liberty Award Dinner, held recently at…
Editor’s note: This is one of a group of individual accounts of racial profiling by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s forces. The next personal story will appear on our Web site Wednesday night, November 18. Unlike his friends, Sergio Martinez-Villaman wasn’t afraid during June’s immigration sweep in Mesa. The seasonal worker had…
Nine years ago, when the city of Phoenix last issued a request for proposals for taxicab service at Sky Harbor airport, it chose three experienced companies: AAA, Discount, and Allstate. This year, it’s selecting a one-week-old start-up — and a firm based out of a UPS store. That sounds crazy,…
I’m not going to weep any tears for CNN’s erstwhile token nativist Lou Dobbs, who resigned on air Tuesday, handing a victory to Latino groups who’ve sought his ouster through the Basta Dobbs campaign, led by activist/writer Roberto Lovato’s Presente.org.Dobbs has been a despicable opportunist, cynically dousing the anti-immigration bonfire with gasoline,…
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: Naui’s Video of Saturday’s Neo-Nazi March to the Capitol Up on the Sun: Downtown is…
As if Saturday’s loss to USC wasn’t enough, ASU’s secondary is now in trouble — legal trouble.ASU cornerback Terell Carr was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of three different misdemeanors…
Flight attendants for US Airways aren’t too thrilled with some of the working conditions after the 2005 merger with America West Airlines, and they plan to let management know Friday morning when they picket at Sky Harbor Airport…
