The latest issue of the League of American Orchestras’ trade magazine Symphony features a cover story on Michael Christie, the 34-year-old conductor of the Phoenix Symphony and the Brooklyn Philharmonic. As is the case with most trade magazine stories, the article is flattering in the extreme. So much so, Christie…
I’ve gotta give a shout out to our sister paper Miami New Times’ Riptide blog for this disturbing post about the medieval health care female immigrant detainees receive in ICE’s countrywide gulag archipelago. In it, reporter Tim Elfrink covers a news conference in Miami where the results of two studies…
How much you wanna bet Sheriff Joe pulls a raid during this meet-up next week of many of the organizers, lawyers, and activists involved in the pro-immigrant movement nationwide? Then again, if something like that happens March 27-28 during Somos America’s Reform Not Raids Summit, maybe they should adjourn to wherever…
I’ve obtained the documents the MCSO was so hot to have Maria del Carmen Garcia-Martinez mark with her fingerprint. You can see them for yourself, here. Initially, I believed that there was just one page, but now I see there are four pages that the MCSO had Garcia-Martinez put her fingerprint…
The latest video from HumanLeague002 and Puente. There is one sure way to prove the cynical, prissy pundits, the professional tut-tutters right in regards to Sheriff Joe Arpaio: Do nothing. “Do nothing” is essentially the message to the streets from Huffington Post’s Dawn Teo, a former PR rep who now lives in…
Though questions remain, the autopsy report is in on the onetime Broadway actor, country-western singer, and ultimately, full time diaper-wearer William “Baby Man” Windsor, who was discovered dead in his Phoenix home on January 30. The Maricopa County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that Windsor suffered from acid reflux, chronic alcoholism, and hypertensive heart…
Why do I bother with a middlebrow muttonhead like the Republic’s E.J. Montini? After all, this smug little scribbler is known for his milquetoasty opinions, his aversion to rocking the proverbial boat, and his kowtowing to authority. No doubt he’s well-paid for his snooty simpering, the kind that doesn’t upset…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement released a suspected illegal immigrant Thursday night after it was determined that her arm had been broken while she was in MCSO custody. Maria del Carmen Garcia Martinez was released on her own recognizance, her left arm slung in a cast after she received treatment at…
Ponzi-scheme king Bernie Madoff got the cuffs slapped on him today and a one-way ticket to the no-frills Manhattan Correctional Facility, after pleading guilty to 11 felony counts involving his $64 billion empire of fraud, which has bilked thousands of investors. The courtroom cheered as the judge sent him on…
One clip from today’s media event denouncing Joe Arpaio, and heralding the investigation into him by the U.S. Department of Justice. The big news out of D.C. for us here in Sand Land, of course, is that the Justice Department is investigating Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his office for civil…
So much of the time, Joe Arpaio, with his speech punctuated with dese, dats, and dose, and his defiance of federal authority, sounds more like he’s imitating Robert DeNiro’s Al Capone in The Untouchables, than acting like a local sheriff. Now the feds are after Joe for real. If you haven’t heard…
Check this video the group America’s Voice has been using to gather signatures for the anti-Joe petition to be ballyhooed tomorrow. This is one I wish I could be in D.C. for: Tomorrow at 1 p.m., House Judiciary Chair John Conyers, Immigration Subcommittee Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren, and apparently our own…
Who has the time, or motivation to listen to bigoted KTAR blowhard Darrell Ankkkarlo’s b.s. on a regular basis? Once in a while I’ll flick on PHX’s Glenn Beck-wannabe, just to see if KTAR’s fired his lame ass yet. But you’d really have to be a glutton for earaches to tune…
Should the State of Arizona carve out an exemption to its marijuana ban for the pot-worshipping, neo-Zoroastrian Church of Cognizance? That was but one of the legal issues at stake during oral arguments on February 18 before the Arizona Supreme Court in the case of the State of Arizona vs…
Judge Michael Gordon’s cupboard-sized Phoenix courtroom was packed Wednesday afternoon with supporters of both Courtney Bisbee and Bisbee’s parents Camille and Tom Tilley. Family court seldom gets that kind of action. The Tilleys were there to petition the court for visitation rights to their granddaughter, Bisbee’s daughter, Taylor Lee. As regular readers of…
Proving once more that the anti-Arpaio march that went down this weekend in Phoenix has, um, legs, both the Huffington Post and the New York Times editorial board have put their respective two cents in on the Zack de la Rocha-led anti-Arpaio protest. The Huffington Post had a two-woman film crew on…
I’d been tipped off that KNUV 1190 AM, formerly the flagship station of the liberal Nova M radio network, and briefly, the home of Nova M’s successor network, On Second Thought, had been padlocked. So I had to see for myself, as On Second Thought’s driving force, Mike Newcomb, was apparently…
Dennis Gilman’s video of the Saturday march, featuring Shannon Rivers of the Akimel O’odham people. Gilman’s video of the Saturday anti-Arpaio protest led by Zack de la Rocha is particularly cool because of an address he captured at the beginning of the march, given by Shannon Rivers of the Akimel…
My conservative estimate is that today 3,000 to 4,000 people braved 90 degree weather to march from Steele Indian School Park to the Sandra Day O’Connor Federal Courthouse in downtown Phoenix to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration abuses. Led by Rage Against the Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha, as well Phoenix civil…
THIS JUST ADDED: Zack doing an inspiring version of “People of the Sun” at Tonatierra. The closest thing to compare it to that I can think of, is that famous footage in the documentary Don’t Look Back of a young Bob Dylan singing Only a Pawn in Their Game at a…
Well, here’s one sure to spook the socks off the nativists — Gilman’s latest YouTube effort promoting the anti-Arpaio march tomorrow. This little poison pill features loads of video coughed up by the sheriff’s office in the case of Juan Mendoza Farias, a poor sap who went into Arpaio’s roach…
I had been hoping that the Congressional Hispanic Caucus would take a thick paddle to Janet Napolitano’s ever-generous backside when they met with the new DHS head for the first time today. But, alas, some of our congressional leaders are as worthless as a week-old bowl of menudo. If they…
