Most Popular
- Concrete Bungle: Tempe’s Twin-Towers Condo Project Collapses Financially, Leaving Investors in the Rubble
- Pregnant Latina Says She Was Forced to Give Birth in Shackles After One of Arpaio’s Deputies Racially Profiled Her
- Friday Night Frights: Carl Hayden High Football Players Have More to Worry About Than Winning Games
- State of Fear: Permanent Legal Resident Stopped For Being Brown By MCSO Deputies
- One Mother’s Suffering, Joe Arpaio’s Bigotry, and Stories of Racial Profiling by the MCSO
Recent Blog Posts
November 6 In Blogs: Neo-Nazis, Black Flag, Whoopie Pies, and DUIs
Fri Nov 6, 6:30 PM
Chandler Pastor Charged With Having Sex With a 14-Year-Old Girl Indicted on Unrelated Charges in Ohio
Fri Nov 6, 4:43 PM
The Anarchists Own the Nazis, and the Nazis Cause a Car Wreck as They Amscray
Sun Nov 8, 7:09 AM
J.T. Ready's Star Turn, and the Plan for Tomorrow's Nazi March to the Capitol
Fri Nov 6, 11:54 AM
New Grizzly Bear Video "Ready, Able" Will Blow Your Mind
Fri Nov 6, 4:22 PM
50 Cent Twitter Spam, Free Pixies EP, New MIA
Fri Nov 6, 4:22 PM
This Week In Chow Bella
Fri Nov 6, 5:30 PM
Welcome Diner Open Tonight for First Friday
Fri Nov 6, 5:00 PM
National Features >
Village Voice
The Great Walls of Chinatown
With the exception of the electric rice cookers, this Bowery tenement could have come straight from the Nineteenth Century.
By Elizabeth Dwoskin
Houston Press
Getting Off
DUI attorney Tyler Flood wins 80 percent of his trials--even if his clients were 100 percent drunk.
By Mike Giglio
Miami New Times
Park or Die Tryin'
From the homeless parking mafia to the meter fairy, finding a spot in Miami has taken a turn toward the surreal.
By Gus Garcia-Roberts
City Pages
The Baddest Men on the Planet
Straight from the Sam's Club tire shop, Brett Rogers prepares to meet Fedor Emelianenko in mortal combat.
By Bradley Campbell
On a Roll
Dames inaugurate new digs with blood bouquets and cement kisses
Share
By Leslie Barton
Published on January 28, 2009 at 4:04am
Veterans’ Memorial Coliseum hasn't been "The Madhouse on McDowell" since the Phoenix Suns outgrew it in 1992. What better league to kick back open the cuckoo's nest than the hip-swaying, trigger-tempered Arizona Derby Dames, who’ve moved into the cavernous Vet after selling out all of their games last season at the Castle Sports Club? According to AZDD media director Andrea Beesley-Brown, a.k.a. The Kamikaze Kiwi, the Dames have added national legitimacy and beaucoup seats in one fell swoop. “It's the largest venue for roller derby in the world," Beesley-Brown tells New Times.
Last season’s champions, the Runaway Brides, will toss blood bouquets and blow cement kisses on Saturday, January 31, during the Dames’ Season Four opener, as they defend their title against the Brutal Beauties, Schoolyard Scrappers, Coffin Draggers, and Bombshells in a single-elimination event featuring four 10-minute bouts.
L.A. band Devil Doll will provide the entertainment at intermission, and will also perform at the after-party, which will be held at the George & Dragon pub on Central Avenue.
Sat., Jan. 31, 7:30 p.m., 2009
Now Click This
