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Summer is almost here and that means time for chillin’ outside is rapidly running out!

Hazelwood’s 1st Place Sports Grill on Saturday, April 12th. By: Lilia Menconi For more to fantasize about click here. This weekend, we decided to check out one of those places we’ve passed by a million times but have never bothered to stop in. Rumor has it that Hazelwood’s is loaded…

By Jonathan McNamara The Phoenix International Raceway was buzzing with activity this weekend as not one, not two, but three races delighted race fans and extreme noise enthusiasts. The Subway Fresh Fit 500 on Saturday drew a colossal crowd that was quick to slam over-priced beers while trying to talk…

My invoking the argot of Black artists achieved a level of insensitive stupidity almost galactic in scale. Whatever discussion lingers about the use of the words “bitch” or “ho” in hip-hop, comedy, film or literature, there is no question about the N-bomb coming out of the mouth of a 59…

On the Rocks at Suede lasted from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. and had everything that defines a night out in Scottsdale: beautiful people, gourmet food and lots of liquor.

By Paul Rubin Minutes after a jury convicted Robert Stanley Ortloff of murdering 20-year-old Kathleen Smith back in October 1984, one of her brothers summed it all up perectly. “I felt it could go either way because of all the time that had passed and because there wasn’t the physical…

More than 400 young girls have been freed from the bonds of “spiritual marriage” to older men as the result of a police raid of a polygamist compound operated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in San Angelo, Texas.

SPECIAL DÍA DE LOS IMPUESTOS EDICIÓN Sitting on my desk is a levy from the Internal Revenue Service for over $12,000 in unpaid taxes. Turns out some dude used my Social Security number for two years in Albuquerque to get paid, and didn’t bother to pay taxes. It’s taken me…

SIDEWALK FRIDAYS Beer vendors will bring sanity: I disagree with The Bird and agree wholeheartedly with efforts to rid First Fridays of so many street vendors (“Art Crime,” Stephen Lemons, April 3). If you want to go to the art galleries, you have to walk in the middle of Roosevelt…

 New Times founders Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin received the President’s Award from the Valley chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists at the group’s Freedom of Information Awards banquet Friday, April 4. The award was presented for a story the two penned last fall about unreasonable grand jury subpoenas…

ICEMAN BLOWETH So you’re the new Immigration and Customs Enforcement honcho in town, replacing a rico suave ICE chief by the name of Alonzo Pena, and first thing you do in public is deep-massage your tonsils with your toes. That’s the smooth move the newbie head of AZ ICE, Matthew…

Cliff Young was a good employee. During the first 21 years of Young’s career at the Arizona Department of Transportation, his performance evaluations were great. He never faced so much as a written reprimand from his supervisors. So it was kind of strange to sit in a courtroom last month,…

A Florida doctor lost his license after he was diagnosed as a sex addict — he claimed he could cure his female patients by fondling their breasts. A Utah doctor lost his license after he illegally prescribed drugs over the Internet. A California doctor lost his license after he was…

When you’ve finished exploring D’Andrea’s first-hand account, be sure and take a look at the following.

When you have to roll down the windows because it smells so bad, they call it a Holy Roller.