Email Author Michael Kiefer

1994 Stories by Michael Kiefer

• ARIZONA'S WHITE WATER SCANDALTHE RIVER GUIDE WHO DESTROYED QUARTZITE FALLS HAD PLENTY OF MOTIVES--NOT ALL OF THEM NOBLE

  published December 29, 1994

  Although William Kenneth "Taz" Stoner told the Los Angeles Times that he dynamited the Salt River's Quartzite Falls to save lives, U.S.... More >>

• TAKE ME OUT TO THE EXERCISE YARDNETTED IN A STOLEN--ART STING, BRIAN KINGMAN GOES FROM THE BIG LEAGUES TO BIG HOUSE

  published December 8, 1994

  The first time we saw Brian Kingman in uniform, he was wearing the green and gold of the Oakland A's. In the late Seventies,... More >>

• AN OBSCENE LOOPHOLE DOUGLAS GATES WENT TO PRISON FOR SECRETLY VIDEOTAPING NAKED CHILDREN NOW, AN APPEALS COURT SAYS HE SHOULD GO FREE

  published December 1, 1994

  Don't go breaking my heart. Carla was singing along to the radio as she slid out of her jeans. It was April 16, 1991, and Carla, who... More >>

• CAR 54, WE KNOW EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE PHOENIX COMPUTER FIRM'S SQUAD-CAR COMPUTER TAKES A BYTE OUT OF CRIME

  published November 17, 1994

  Bill Lowery has a police officer's poker face and a flat and factual Jack Webb voice. "I'm not a police officer, but I... More >>

• HIGHER YEARNING

  published October 13, 1994

  The cars seem remarkably new for a university parking lot. There are no bikes or beaters, no VW buses with bumper stickers that read... More >>

• ARIZONA'S OIL CHANGE

  published September 15, 1994

  The Arizona Department of Weights and Measures is breaking the law and endangering the environment by refusing to test recycled oil that is burned... More >>

• HEART TIMES

  published September 8, 1994

  Twice in his life, Eric Adam has fallen in love at first sight with women who launched him on crusades that other men would have known were... More >>

• THE FLYING LEININGER BROTHERS

  published August 4, 1994

  Christophe Leininger and his opponent waltz sideways across the mat, like white-jacketed dancing bears, each one pawing at the sleeves and lapels... More >>

• BRIAN KINGMAN'S BLUE PERIOD

  published July 7, 1994

  "Freeze, FBI!" Brian Kingman thought he was being robbed. He'd just left a private jet on the tarmac at Scottsdale Municipal Airport with two... More >>

• THE SHANE OF IT ALL

  published June 15, 1994

  Shane Stant spent the last weeks of his freedom literally shoveling shit. He'd taken a construction job in rural Oregon while he was waiting to be... More >>

• THE YEAR OF LIVING LITERALLYBEST-SELLING AUTHOR DEBORAH LAAKE SURVIVES SUCCESS, CONTROVERSY, MALIGNANCY

  published May 25, 1994

  As of last Sunday, Deborah Laake's book Secret Ceremonies sat at No. 11 on the New York Times Bestseller List for paperback nonfiction after nine... More >>

• THE SCOOP ON THE POOP ON THE BIG HOUSE

  published May 11, 1994

  Dave Roth brought a friend to the New Times offices, a demure little pigeon he calls Tootsie. He set her on a desk and she strutted around,... More >>

• The Color of Monet

  published May 4, 1994

  Beneath an unassuming building on Central Avenue, in a labyrinth of studios, dozens of artists labor over worktables and at easels and printing... More >>

• SANITIZED FOR YOUR PROTECTIONVICE COPS FLUSH A TAVERN'S TRADEMARK REST-ROOM NUDES

  published April 20, 1994

  During the 16th century, fussy Vatican clerics took offense at the friskier frescoes in the Sistine Chapel and commissioned an artist to paint... More >>

• THE TRAGEDY OF ERIC TAYLOR

  published April 6, 1994

  Eric Taylor was a proud father, an exceptional college athlete, a hard worker and a devout Christian. He was six feet seven inches tall, with a... More >>

• THE TRAGEDY OF ERIC TAYLOR

  published April 6, 1994

  Eric Taylor was a proud father, an exceptional college athlete, a hard worker and a devout Christian. He was six feet seven inches tall, with a... More >>

• THE TRAGEDY OF ERIC TAYLOR

  published April 6, 1994

  Eric Taylor was a proud father, an exceptional college athlete, a hard worker and a devout Christian. He was six feet seven inches tall, with a... More >>

• WHO TORCHED GARY RAPER'S HOUSE?FLAGSTAFF ARSONIST INFLAMES ENVIRONMENTAL DEBATE

  published March 30, 1994

  No one remembers exactly when the first message--DEVELOPERS BEWARE"--appeared. It was scrawled in big, blue brush strokes on a palisade fence... More >>

• WHO TORCHED GARY RAPER'S HOUSE?FLAGSTAFF ARSONIST INFLAMES ENVIRONMENTAL DEBATE

  published March 30, 1994

  No one remembers exactly when the first message--DEVELOPERS BEWARE"--appeared. It was scrawled in big, blue brush strokes on a palisade fence... More >>

• WHO TORCHED GARY RAPER'S HOUSE?FLAGSTAFF ARSONIST INFLAMES ENVIRONMENTAL DEBATE

  published March 30, 1994

  No one remembers exactly when the first message--DEVELOPERS BEWARE"--appeared. It was scrawled in big, blue brush strokes on a palisade fence... More >>

• WHO TORCHED GARY RAPER'S HOUSE?FLAGSTAFF ARSONIST INFLAMES ENVIRONMENTAL DEBATE

  published March 30, 1994

  No one remembers exactly when the first message--DEVELOPERS BEWARE"--appeared. It was scrawled in big, blue brush strokes on a palisade fence... More >>

• THE LOUD POETS SOCIETY

  published March 2, 1994

  Brian Flatgard is loose and goofy, wearing an earnest grin and a backward baseball cap over hair that free falls to his shoulders. He lifts a... More >>

• THE LOUD POETS SOCIETY

  published March 2, 1994

  Brian Flatgard is loose and goofy, wearing an earnest grin and a backward baseball cap over hair that free falls to his shoulders. He lifts a... More >>

• MICHAEL KIEFERSTANCES WITH WOLVESFORMER ECO-TERRORIST DAVE FOREMAN UNLEASHES A PLAN TO LET LOBOS LOOSE IN THE WILDERNESS

  published February 2, 1994

  One night in Minnesota, Dave Foreman woke up in his tent to a wolf howl, a desperate, aching sound that freezes time and makes domestic dogs try... More >>

• MOOSE NO LONGER LOOSEYEAR-OLD EVIDENCE LEADS TO STIFFER CHARGE IN CASE OF SLAIN GOLD MINER

  published January 26, 1994

  W.H. "Moose" Graham sat slack-jawed and panting in the defendant's box in a Pinal County courtroom in Florence last Friday morning, his big, gray... More >>