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Earlier this year, MCA Records made a big media splash with the "news" that it had knighted itself lord-protector of the hallowed Chess Records catalogue that it owns. The pride of...
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I remember:
All season long, the writers came from all over, from Germany and France and even New York City. They came from the New York Times, The Sporting News, Sports Illustrate...
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Max Dunlap's chair was squeaking. He signaled to the courtroom bailiff, who immediately came over and squirted WD-40 into the wheels.
Then Dunlap, impeccably dressed, sat down aga...
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The shameless selling and shilling of O'Neal by the NBA is the clearest indication of panic I have yet seen by the men who run professional sports.
Phineas Taylor Barnum...
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Before the trial is over, defense attorney Murray Miller must convince the jury that the guilty man is not Max Dunlap but a sinister, alcohol-deranged lawyer named Neal Roberts.
A...
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I usually don't look upon anything Charles Barkley says as being especially prophetic. I should have listened to him the other night, though.
"We had a perfect month," Barkley sai...
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Shortly before four o'clock last Sunday afternoon, Michael Jordan strode onto the floor of America West Arena for the first time.
The cavernous place, which would later seat more ...
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Rocked by sex scandals, the Mesa Police Department has changed its policy about releasing the results of its completed internal investigations. The new policy makes it even more di...
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Have you noticed that the EP, that five-song minialbum once considered a strictly European innovation, has come back into its own after years of disfavor? Why EPs, one of many ...
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Remembered for his still-murky link to the 1976 murder of Arizona Republic reporter Don Bolles, Phoenix attorney Neal Roberts has long negotiated around legal-system land mines wit...
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ON THE MORNING of his release from jail, erstwhile murder suspect Mike McGraw blinks in the broad sunlight and lowers his thick body into the shotgun seat. He tosses a plastic bag ...
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In Washington, D.C., a gentleman boards a jet and flies across the country to Arizona. This man is a lawyer from a city of lawyers. He is Mr. Daniel Fromstein, a prosecutor with th...
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Roger Rea is a gay attorney who was badly beaten up last year.
The night before he was badly beaten up, he made his first visit to a gay bar since he and his longterm l...
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Andy Conlin can't decide whether he's happy or wary about the antiwar demonstration that turned up at Arizona Center shortly after its November opening.
"I was flattered," ...
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Ken Kesey's bus trip is generally considered the gala grand opening of the hippie era. In the summer of 1964, Kesey and a bunch of friends who called themselves the Mer...
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I could hear the organ playing from the other side of Seventh Avenue. Kemper Marley's funeral would start in less than half an hour.
Already, the cavernous Church of the Be...
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Rancher Troy Neal talks more like an ecologist than a land baron as he surveys the 76 Ranch, his 24,000-acre spread in the Zane Grey country near Payson. "We have to ta...
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The truth in their message stands out so starkly that, even though they sound like extremists, you know they're basically right: The Earth is being destroyed by abuse and co...
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It's early morning. The bartender spots the tall man as he comes through the door. "I'll have a vodka on the rocks," Neal Roberts says in a soft, polite voice. Rob...
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For the third year in a row, a New Times writer has been named Arizona's top print journalist. Deborah Laake won the Arizona Press Club's Virg Hill Journalist of the Year Award at ...
