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"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Feathered Bastard

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

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "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

• Demon law dog Dennis Wilenchik vs. Judge Timothy Ryan, video to come.

  published Oct 04, 2007

  Pugnacious PHX barrister Dennis Wilenchik... Someone slipped me the video of the courtroom donnybrook that broke out yesterday between Superior Court Judge Timothy Ryan and demon law dawg Dennis Wil... More >>

• Witnesses of Carol Anne Gotbaum's arrest allege police brutality.

  published Oct 03, 2007

  For anyone who didn't see Anderson Cooper 360 last night, Cooper interviewed two witnesses of Carol Anne Gotbaum's Friday arrest at Sky Harbor Airport, and their accounts were, to say the least, highl... More >>

• Celebrity pathologist Cyril H. Wecht performs second autopsy on Carol Anne Gotbaum.

  published Oct 02, 2007

  Pathologist Cyril Wecht, who performed a "backup autopsy" on Carol Gotbaum's corpse late today. Spoke with Gotbaum family attorney Mike Manning earlier this evening, around 6 p.m. He informed me tha... More >>

• Condumbass strikes again! Gary Condit ordered to pay the scrappy Sonoran News over $42K.

  published Oct 02, 2007

  Former Congressman Gary Condit loses again in court to the Sonoran News . Here's an update to my July post "What a Condumbass! Linda Bentley, Gary Condit and the Sonoran News," wherein I documented... More >>

• Results of Carol Anne Gotbaum's autopsy still pending, Medical Examiner says.

  published Oct 02, 2007

  Not in the travel brochure: Come to lovely AZ and get chained and choked in the freakin' airport. The autopsy of Carol Anne Gotbaum, the New York mother of three who died in Phoenix police custody F... More >>

• Carol Anne Gotbaum's autopsy under way; NYC Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum issues statement saying Carol was "manhandled" by PHX cops.

  published Oct 02, 2007

  Can we really buy this story that Carol Anne Gotbaum choked herself to death with her own handcuffsr The autopsy of the 45-year-old New York mother of three who died in PHX police custody Friday at... More >>

• PHX barrister Mike Manning, retained as attorney in the Carol Anne Gotbaum case, calls PHX PD's actions "at first blush, astounding."

  published Oct 01, 2007

  Carol Anne Gotbaum, who died in the custody of the PHX PD Friday. Phoenix attorney Mike Manning, retained by the husband of deceased New Yorker Carol Anne Gotbaum, called the Phoenix PD's actions in... More >>

• WTFr New Yorker Carol Anne Gotbaum, um, "chokes herself to death" at Sky Harborr UPDATE: Mike Manning hired as Gotbaum family lawyer!

  published Oct 01, 2007

  How in Hades did this poor lady choke herselfr And was David Hans Schmidt involvedr UPDATE: Seems PHX attorney Mike Manning, known for his many successful lawsuits against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, has be... More >>

• Was David Hans Schmidt a victim of autoerotic asphyxiationr And more on his wicked, wicked ways. (WITH UPDATE.)

  published Oct 01, 2007

  Passed polishing the bishopr So speculates one former pal. (UPDATE: Since this was written, David Boyer, Director of the County Medical Examiner's Office has announced the cause of death in the Schm... More >>

• David Hans Schmidt death by hangingr And why Phoenix mag finally published David Leibowitz's DHS story.

  published Sep 30, 2007

  From the DHS site Hansnews.com: Schmidt turning over filched photos of Jamie Foxx to the actor's rep. I've gotta give up the journalistic kudos to Arizona Republic reporter Richard Ruelas, who's obv... More >>

• David Hans Schmidt suicider PHX sex-tape hawker found dead.

  published Sep 29, 2007

  An ass on an assr Schmidt in better days, from his Web site. Could it be another of David Hans Schmidt's publicity stuntsr Yet, there it is in black and white on my 'puter, the news that the celebr... More >>

• Buckeye punts, for the moment, on ordinance aimed at Arpaio foe Chief Dan Saban.

  published Sep 28, 2007

  One step ahead of the Sheriff: Chief Dan Saban in his CHiPs getup. Buckeye Police Chief Dan Saban, Sheriff Joe Arpaio's once and future foe, may be able to breathe a tad easier this weekend. Seems ... More >>

• Sheriff Joe Arpaio rides again! Arrests workers for being BWP, Brown Without Papers.

  published Sep 28, 2007

  The satirical image of Joe as a Klansman that made media headlines in August. Sheriff Joe's on the warpath against illegals, so much so he's not even bothering to wait for new anti-day laborer laws ... More >>

• Mayor Phil "Goober" Gordon, P-town's Barney Fife.

  published Sep 27, 2007

  Note the similarityr Just saw this bit in the ASU State Press about PHX Mayor Phil "Goober" Gordon speaking at the Central Library yesterday, where he "discussed making the city a safer place for m... More >>

• Told you so again: Warren Jeffs' Jane Doe, Elissa Wall, speaks to the media. Is Oprah nextr

  published Sep 26, 2007

  Elissa Wall, a.k.a., Warren Jeffs' Jane Doe... Pardon me if I crow like the Feathered Bastard that I am, but what was all over the news last night but 21-year-old Elissa Wall, formerly known as Jane... More >>

• Vick-timization

  published September 27, 2007

  This witty warbler has been observing with jaundiced peepers the Vick-timization of part-time AZ denizen DMX, a.k.a. Earl Simmons,... More >>

• More fun with the John Birch Society...

  published Sep 25, 2007

  Cpt. John Birch, Baptist, U.S. intelligence officer, and inventor of the missionary position. It isn't often that someone contradicts themselves so blatantly in the comments to this blog as has Brya... More >>

• John Birch-ers, Ron Paul-ites and loads of white folk at Gilbert's Constitution Week Fair.

  published Sep 24, 2007

  Michael Israel's Lady Liberty, painted live on the premises. "So where are the slaves and the dead Indiansr" That was my first thought on arrival at Mesquite High School this Saturday evening for Gi... More >>

• Russell Pearce's Willie Horton: White supremacist J.T. Ready.

  published Sep 22, 2007

  Jeez, dudes, get a room! J.T. Ready and Russell Pearce snuggling at an anti-immigrant rally in June. Have you seen Russell Pearce's new toupeer Pearce sports his new rug on his Pearce for Congress E... More >>

• Told you so: Warren Jeffs' Jane Doe revealed to the public as Elissa Wall.

  published Sep 21, 2007

  Elissa Wall, age 14, in a photo released by her lawyers. As the jury in the rape-as-accomplice trial of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs recessed for the weekend, attorneys for his accuser revealed her name... More >>

• Darrell Ankarlo, Russell Pearce, and other rabid wing-nuts exploit the death of Nick Erfle.

  published Sep 21, 2007

  Who gets the blame for Officer Erfle's murderr According to nativist wing-nut logic, they do! I've heard the anonymous voice before. The cowardly creep has called in to my phone mail previously to t... More >>

• Mayor Phil "Goober" Gordon passes the buck on the slaying of Officer Nick Erfle.

  published Sep 20, 2007

  Look at this incompetent putz. No wonder our cops are getting killed right and left. They say Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and Phil "Goober" Gordon suns himself in the tropics and passes the buck... More >>

• New Times banned in Chandlerr WTFr

  published Sep 19, 2007

  It doesn't have quite the same ring as "Banned in Boston," but Phoenix New Times could be "Banned in the Chandler Library" if this dip Larry Edwards gets his way. Edwards is reportedly the prig who co... More >>

• Big Dipper

  published September 20, 2007

  Know what Phoenix Police Chief Jack Harris has in common with Joe Arpaio henchman David Hendershott and County Attorney... More >>

• WILD WILD WEST: PHX cop killed Tuesday morning as Mayor Phil Gordon vacays in Hawaii.

  published Sep 18, 2007

  Slain PHX Police Officer Nick Erfle. Like you needed more proof we live in the Wild Wild West: PHX Police Officer Nick Erfle was shot dead Tuesday morning in Central Phoenix, during rush hour, after... More >>