There’s a good way to get a reputation in the National Football League for being a prima donna crybaby: piss and moan about team business to the media.With Anquan Boldin gone, the Arizona Cardinals are without the token team crybaby. Enter running back Beanie Wells.Rather than commiserate Sunday’s loss to…
My Fox Phoenix aired a story last night that needs some attention. If you’ve never asked the question “why do they put superglue and eye drops in nearly identical bottles?” you should have — it’s stupid, and can have painful results if a mix up happens. People who use eye…
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:…
UPDATE: Here’s a short clip from Cornel West’s address on Saturday, October 2: We’re not the only ones to have noticed that progressives, Democrats, and their ilk don’t currently have a central charismatic leader whose every utterance is sociopolitical Gospel, the way Glenn Beck seems to affect many right-wing Tea…
We’re beginning to wonder if anyone driving in Mesa on Saturday night wasn’t fucked up in one way or another.An unidentified man, who police say may have been drunk, was hit by not one, but two impaired drivers as he rode his bike in the 1600 block of South Higley…
After hearing that Lisa Aubuchon had hung up a shingle on the Internet, advertising her services as a lawyer in Tempe, we gave the former prosecutor a call.Despite all the grief we’ve given the fired Maricopa deputy county attorney about her losing ways, including a recent zinger about her Internet defender– a…
Phoenix isn’t the kidnapping capital of the United States for nothing. We get that wrap because…well…a lot of kidnappings happen in the Valley — as pointed out in the New Times feature “Seized.” Check it out here.A Phoenix teen is the latest victim of this city’s less-than-esteemed reputation.Last Wednesday, Karla…
A few weeks ago, we had a chance to ask Democratic Congressional candidate Jon Hulburd if he was actually a Republic trying to pass himself off as a Democrat. He insisted he was in fact a Democrat residing under the Democratic Party’s “very big tent.”We weren’t entirely convinced and our…
A homeowner in Mohave County faces a possible citation and fine for allegedly using mothballs outdoors as a snake deterrent. The looming enforcement action for suspected misuse of pesticides is the only case that Jack Peterson, acting director of the Arizona Department of Agriculture, can recall that involved an average resident. Usually,…
Last week, Mesa Police Detective Steve Berry told us the man shot by police after threatening them with a machete was expected to survive.That didn’t happen.We got word yesterday that after undergoing surgery, 35-year-old Cole Ravel died.Ravel was shot by police Thursday afternoon after he lunged at an officer while…
Democratic Senate candidate Rodney Glassman doesn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell at beating Senator John McCain in this year’s general election. That isn’t stopping the McCain campaign from kicking poor Rodney while he’s down, though, and its latest jab comes in the form of a new Web ad explaining…
Feathered Bastard will go dark for about a week as I work on a larger project that requires my undivided attention.Unless something pops up that I absolutely must blog, there will likely be no new blogs on FB until Monday, October 11. Sources are still free to contact me with info,…
Just when we thought the Arizona Diamondbacks and Jan Brewer were the most embarrassing things about living in Arizona, the Arizona Cardinals went ahead and played a game of football with the San Diego Chargers yesterday.The Cards got crushed.The 41-10 loss was testament to everything the Cards have been doing…
To paraphrase the late great T.S. Elliot, this is the way the Arizona Diamondbacks’ 2010 season, not with a bang but a whimper. The sucktastic Snakes closed out their year by losing two out of three games to the Los Angeles Dodgers during the final weekend of play. Sunday’s 3-1…
The rumor mill is churning and pumped out the following information yesterday: Kirk Gibson will be named the permanent manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks.According to multiple reports, the announcement that Gibson got the job could come as early as today.”I’m going to be held accountable for philosophies, the hitting approach,…
Some of what Sanchez said that sunk his dinghyCNN’s firing of Rick Sanchez over some controversial comments made on a satellite radio show is asinine, short-sighted and hypocritical in the extreme.Yeah, he called The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart a “bigot,” but then he withdrew the comment later during the same…
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:…
The Arizona Cardinals find themselves with an unlikely record of 2-1, thanks to some incredible luck and Oakland Raiders kicker Sebastian Janikowski sucking big time last week.Janikowski missed what would have been a game-winning field goal (one of three kicks he missed that day), which allowed the Cards to claim…
The same day Ben Quayle’s Democratic opponent in the District Three Congressional race, Jon Hulburd, rolled out his latest Dirty.com-centered attack ad, Quayle’s released an ad of his own.It’s not likely to make as much noise in the blogosphere as his last corny ad, where he called Barack Obama “the…
There’s a little-known shortcut to get from downtown Phoenix to Tempe during rush hour. Some of those in the know call it cheating. We tell those people to pipe down because it’s our preferred way home from work. The shortcut goes directly through Sky Harbor International Airport and allows you…
If you’re feelin’ a little blah, and thinking of ending it all, there are a lot of ways to do it. We don’t recommend any of them. We also don’t recommend threatening cops with an enormous machete after they’ve been called to help you.That’s what a Mesa man did yesterday…
A 90-year-old Phoenix man took a drive on Monday and never came home. Now, the Phoenix Police Department wants the public’s help in finding him.Clarence Merkel was last seen around noon on Monday leaving East Grovers Avenue and North Cave Creek Road in Phoenix.He said he was going to see…
