Email Author Stephen Lemons

Awards

• 2012 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published May 12, 2011

  "White Lies"

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published November 3, 2011

  "Sourpuss"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 3, 2011

  "Recalling Russell Pearce"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 14, 2011

  "His Own Worst Enemy"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 3, 2011

  "Kissing His Political Career Goodbye"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2010 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc.

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2009 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists

  Feathered Bastard

• 2006 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published April 7, 2005

  "Behind the Green Door"

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2007 Stories by Stephen Lemons

• The new Nick Tarrr Reporter Ray Stern's disorderly conduct charge mysteriously disappears...

  published Nov 26, 2007

  Stern's still got his ticket, but his name wasn't on the court's docket... As I mentioned in my post on harassed actor Nick Tarr last week, one of the MCSO's standard intimidation moves is to cite o... More >>

• Sheriff Joe's Nick Tarr-baby: Joe Arizona plots his revenge.

  published Nov 21, 2007

  Actor Nick Tarr after his citation in 2002. PHX actor Nick Tarr won a major victory this week in his ongoing quest to make Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his dastardly, power-crazed underlings pay for their... More >>

• Joe Arpaio's poll numbers down -- way down, according to Cronkite-Eight Poll.

  published Nov 21, 2007

  Any way you slice Nickel Bag Joe's sopressata, his poll numbers have dropped dramatically. A new Cronkite-Eight poll of registered voters in Maricopa County showed that 61% of respondents, "had a very... More >>

• Welcome to Phoenix, the ethnic cleansing begins at noon.

  published Nov 20, 2007

  As further proof that a coterie of loudmouthed, reactionary extremists are calling the shots in our benighted Valley of the Sun, and winning in their push for the ethnic cleansing of the local Hispani... More >>

• Sheriff Joe's racist clown carsr You be the judge...

  published Nov 19, 2007

  Whaddya think, is this clown car a cultural stereotyper So, I've received a couple of calls about this Billy Moore Heritage Days parade that was held in Avondale a few weeks back on October 27. It's... More >>

• Racist Daisy-Chain

  published November 22, 2007

  So look who's got a neo-Nazi in the woodpile: the Maricopa County Republican Party. This plumed penman first sniffed a whiff of National... More >>

• PLOT THICKENS IN SUBPOENA SEARCH: Judge Anna Baca demands to see missing docs, orders County Attorney to appear.

  published Nov 16, 2007

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• Andrea Dworkin's ghost haunts the Maricopa County Republican Party.

  published Nov 16, 2007

  Female trouble: The flash-art GIF at maricopagop.org. What do Andrea Dworkin and Republicans have in commonr You could say both are deader than doorknobs. Metaphysically, intellectually. Dworkin's... More >>

• published Nov 14, 2007

  "A day late and a dollar short," laughed Village Voice Media Executive Editor Mike Lacey when asked to comment on the latest bit of legal paperwork to cross his desk, the "State's Notice of Intent to ... More >>

• Collar-Crazy

  published November 15, 2007

  Ever notice how little it takes to get arrested in Maricopa County, especially when the Sheriff's Office is involved? Dan Pochoda, legal... More >>

• PHX attorney Mike Manning demands that Thomas, Arpaio and Wilenchik not destroy docs related to Lacey/Larkin arrests.

  published Nov 13, 2007

  In a strongly-worded letter dated November 6, Phoenix attorney Mike Manning demanded that all of the players in the arrests of New Times founders Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin not destroy any documents... More >>

• PEACE DECLARED IN TRANNY TOILET WARS! Trans activist Michele de LaFreniere now boasts banos privileges at Anderson's Fifth Estate.

  published Nov 12, 2007

  Let the doves fly and church bells sound, the battle over the banos at Anderson's Fifth Estate is officially finito! Now transgendered folk -- including activist Michele de LaFreniere -- are free to p... More >>

• MEXICAN STANDOFF: Joe Arpaio, Roger Sensing, and the manure (for real) at Pruitt's.

  published Nov 12, 2007

  Where's the fiesta, hombresr On the sidewalk outside of Pruitt's, every Saturday. PHX's M.D. Pruitt's Home Furnishings, the site of the ongoing day-laborer squabble, smells like cow caca. For real. ... More >>

• ACCIDENTAL HANGING: Medical Examiner Ann Bucholtz's autopsy of Carol Anne Gotbaum finally released.

  published Nov 09, 2007

  Carol Gotbaum with her youngest child Tobias, 3. The results are in on the autopsy of Carol Anne Gotbaum, the 45-year-old mother of three who died September 28 in police custody at Phoenix's Sky Har... More >>

• Michele's Big Day: Michele de LaFreniere gets the People magazine treatment from her official hagiographer Richard Ruelas. UPDATE: De LaFreniere's still a dood!

  published Nov 08, 2007

  Since I penned the entry below, the Arizona Republic has made several major corrections to Ruelas' story, including the fact that De LaFreniere has not had "sexual reassignment surgery," and is theref... More >>

• Monster interview with Tony Millionaire, creator of the Maakies comic strip.

  published Nov 07, 2007

  See more and better reproduced Maakies strips, here. Tony Millionaire's sort of the Charles Bukowski of comics. That is, if Bukowski'd been obsessed with Patrick O'Brian novels, French shipbuilding,... More >>

• ACLU legal director Dan Pochoda popped by Sheriff's deputies; Pochoda says there was, "No reason for arrest."

  published Nov 04, 2007

  ACLU attorney Dan Pochoda with his golden retriever Blu. Park in the wrong place in Maricopa County and you get jailed for misdemeanor trespassing. Well, at least if Sheriff's deputies are on site, ... More >>

• TRANNY TURNAROUND: Tom Anderson caves, sort of, and the trannies are back at Anderson's Fifth Estate.

  published Nov 02, 2007

  A unisex loo is now an option for you and yours at Anderson's Fifth Estate. Well, it ain't over till the fat lady with the weenie sings, but there's been a break in the battle over who gets to use w... More >>

• Latest police report on Carol Gotbaum's death.

  published Nov 01, 2007

  Carol Gotbaum with her three children Ella, Nathaniel and Tobias. The PHX PD released a doorstop doc on the Carol Gotbaum arrest yesterday, as has been reported elsewhere. There were a few revelatio... More >>

• New video of Carol Gotbaum's arrest; and audio of Noah Gotbaum's calls to Sky Harbor.

  published Oct 31, 2007

  Below is a new snippet of video released on Friday from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport of Carol Gotbaum's arrest. Though the video seems of slightly better quality and closer-in than previous footage, it ... More >>

• Public Wreckers

  published November 1, 2007

  As if you needed another example of how Maricopa County's run like a banana republic, there's the case of this catbird's colleague Ray... More >>

• ADL's new report on nativist extremism is out, and the winners are...

  published Oct 30, 2007

  The Anti-Defamation League has a new report out on anti-immigration nutbars entitled, "Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream." Naturally, AZ was well-represented, with Minu... More >>

• Rusty Childress' U.S.A. extremists invade the PHX Yucca Branch Library.

  published Oct 27, 2007

  Kia-peddlin' playboy Rusty Childress, pre-motorcycle crash... So where are all the Hispanic-hatin' racists gonna go on Thursday nightsr Not to Childress Kia anymore. The word's out that owner Rusty ... More >>

• Dennis Wilenchik, the Sgt. Schultz of the PHX legal worldr

  published Oct 26, 2007

  I know noth-ink, NOTH-INK about zee Lacey-Larkin arrests... Anybody get a load of the recent statement from toxic-mold specialist and former special prosecutor Dennis Wilenchikr They should call the... More >>

• SIGNS OF HOPEr Terry "Me Too" Goddard tries growing a set of nads with a huffy epistle to Candy Thomas.

  published Oct 25, 2007

  Goddard: His masculinity is a work in progress... So yesterday, someone sends me a copy of this letter Attorney General Terry Goddard fired off to County Attorney Andrew Thomas mentioning the New Ti... More >>