Phoenix Councilwoman Peggy Neely is expected to officially announce her bid for mayor of Phoenix this morning at the Westin Kierland Golf Club in Scottsdale. (It’s really in Phoenix, but they like to use the Scottsdale address. Adds a little panache, we suppose.)Anyway, her press release says only that she…
Ready for a shocker? The Arizona Diamondbacks often-pitiful bullpen actually played decent in the D-Backs 8-7 win over the San Francisco Giants Thursday night. The performance by the D-Backs’ starter, Rodrigo Lopez, could’ve used a little work, though. Lopez allowed six runs and 10 hits in five innings for the D-Backs. During…
Mexican President Felipe Calderon gave Arizona’s controversial, new immigration law (which hasn’t taken effect yet and may not for a long time because of pending lawsuits) a brand new set of legs after bashing it in an address to a joint-session of Congress yesterday. Calderon, like many (some of whom haven’t even read…
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: Michelle Obama Embarrassed by 2nd Grader; and Why Arizona Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce Is an…
Channel 5/KPHO’s Morgan Loew did a segment for last night’s newscast on state Senator Russell Pearce’s plan to punish the American citizen children of undocumented parents, by making it illegal to accept or issue the birth certificate of such a child, unless one parent is a citizen.In fact, Pearce’s plans…
The Arizona Diamondbacks currently have the worst bullpen in Major League Baseball, and it’s likely the team’s latest addition won’t do much to help that.The D-Backs signed reliever Luis Ayala to a minor-league contract today, which is the team’s latest move in its attempt to improve the bullpen’s current, league-worst 7.90…
Former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has a nice, little campaign going for state attorney general — and he might even win. Thomas talks a lot about illegal immigration. One thing his campaign hasn’t addressed, though, is why Thomas charged Superior Court Judge Gary Donahoe with bribery last year. (There were two…
Move over Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Pam Anderson, and the droves of other celebutards who thought the sex tapes they “privately” made with their one-time significant others would never see the light of day — there’s a new celebrity sex star on the rise and her “co-star” happens to be…
We get many a blurb here at Alt-Weekly Central, many of which we pass along to the proper authorities (ie: our Night & Day editor) and some of which we dump in the circular file (or push the delete button on our computer). One that came in earlier today caught our…
Rush wants a civil war? Hey, bring it, sandbillies.Waistline-challenged ex-OxyContin addict Rush “Do As I Say, Not As I Do” Limbaugh seems to think America is ripe for another civil war over Arizona’s “papers please” law SB 1070. And he reckons it’ll begin on the border of Arizona and California.Speaking…
Phoenix police this afternoon arrested a woman they believe is responsible for stealing an 80-year-old woman’s wedding ring off her finger on Sunday, after the victim generously offered to give the suspect money to buy gas.Phoenix police Officer Luis Samudio tells New Times that 28-year-old Jenny White was arrested about noon today for the…
A Yavapai County woman went on a bit of a rampage on Tuesday afternoon that resulted in a broken cell phone, a wasted beer, and a bruised-up boyfriend.According to the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office, 54-year-old Janet Beekman and her 53-year-old boyfriend got into a bit of a spat over “relationship…
While signing Arizona’s controversial, new immigration bill and her plan to ditch Arizona’s photo-radar program apparently made Governor Jan Brewer one of the popular kids again, Prop 100 getting voter approval may have taken her popularity to the level of homecoming queen. Looks like listening to your constituents — even…
LifeLock seems to be having trouble breaking its habit of deception. The story of the company’s founding was a lie, it was slammed with a $12 million penalty by the Federal Trade Commission in March for deceptive advertising, and it claimed falsely on its Web site until May that its CEO,…
And a little child shall lead them…In case you missed it, the video above is of First Lady Michelle Obama, accompanied by Mexico’s First Lady Margarita Zavala, visiting with a group of Maryland second graders on Wednesday. One kid asked if it was true what her mommy says that Barack…
Police in Tucson have arrested a man they say kidnapped a woman and attempted to sexually assault her before she was attacked by his five dogs as she tried to flee. The suspect, 62-year-old Arthur Bedoya, also happens to be a level-three sex offender. According to the Tucson Police Department, Bedoya offered a…
professional athletes should just shut the fuck up about politics and play sports: Phoenix Suns forward Jared Dudley. Between games one and two of the Western Conference Finals, Dudley used his time in Los Angeles to drop by TMZ to discuss — among other things, such as guarding Kobe Bryant, who happened to score 40 points the…
Well, it was fun while it lasted. From February through the end of the regular season, the Phoenix Suns were one of the most consistently solid teams in the NBA, then they made quick work of playoff foes the Portland Trail Blazers and San Antonio Spurs. But now, it looks…
The Phoenix Suns lost game two of the Western Conference Finals to the Los Angeles Lakers last night, and, as in game one of the series, Kobe Bryant’s gettin’ all Kobe Bryant on the Suns defense — if not scoring 40 points in a game, getting the ball to an…
DESIGN Cy Keener and Jay Atherton Atherton Keener Some people know Cy Keener and Jay Atherton as artists; others know them as architects, business partners whose Atherton Keener firm has designed a Phoenix home that’s received a lot of recent national attention. Whether they’re working on an art installation or…
Over the past couple of weeks, the Know-Nothing nation has invaded my inbox with the question of why can’t the United States follow the stringent immigration laws of Mexico. They’re merely parroting a recent column by the reprehensible Michelle Malkin, who thought that bringing up the issue was an original…
BORDER WAR Stop the legacy of hatred: It’s a shame that many North Americans forget where they came from. Everyone in this country owes their life, literally, to immigrants (“Hopeless,” Michael Lacey, May 6). They built this country! They continue to build it. They come here every year, not to…
