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Rob Koebel: Ex-Wife Caused Him to Whiz in Public (They've Been Divorced 17 Years)

See also: Rob Koebel Was Allegedly Peeing Outside an Apple StoreSee also: Boob's Tube See also: The Devil's in the Details See also: Below the Belt Former KNXV-TV Channel 15 reporter and Sheriff Joe Arpaio suck-up Rob Koebel finally gave some comment to local media after being arrested for allegedly ... More >>

Words to the Wise

Gossip Girl

NOFX's "Fat" Mike Burkett Talks Performance Art and Capitalism

Suspects Force Robbery Victim to Push SUV to Gas Station (With Car) as Girlfriend Taken Hostage; Three Punks Robbed Nine at Gunpoint

Image: Circle K surveillance videoCops say this is one of three men who helped rob and hold a group of nine people hostage on June 28.​ Three hoodlums whose SUV ran out of gas during a June robbery forced one of their victims at gunpoint to use his car to push the vehicle to a gas station ... More >>

Fabian Cota, Mesa Police Association President, Busted for Public Drunkenness in San Diego, Police Say

  Image: Linked In Fabian Cota, president of the Mesa Police Association, spent four hours in a San Diego drunk tank over the weekend, police say.​Javier Fabian Cota, president of the Mesa Police Association, spent four hours in a drunk tank over the weekend following a run-in with co ... More >>

The Bastard Returns Monday

I've received a couple of calls from regular readers wondering about the paucity of posts this week in Feathered Bastard. And no, I'm not in rehab or dead. Yet.Rather, I've been hard at work on a special project for my editor, one commanding almost all of my time this week. And, as fate would have i ... More >>

Afghan War Army Vet Shot Victim Because He Said Marines Were the Best. Parents Claim PTSD's to Blame

www.facebook.comJeremiah Pulaski​The Afghan war veteran fatally shot by a Glendale police officer early Saturday morning suffered from post traumatic stress disorder and alcoholism, his parents told police after the shooting, and, as an Army man, he apparently isn't too fond of the Marine Corps.Ac ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Son Joshua: Bench Warrant Issued

There's a bench warrant out on the son of the most powerful man in ArizonaAccording to a recent minute entry by Maricopa County Superior Court Commissioner Steven K. Holding, a bench warrant has been issued for state Senate President Russell Pearce's son Joshua Trent Pearce.Holding's minute entry st ... More >>

Gin Blossoms' Ex-Drummer Scott Kusmirek Starts New Band Vinyl Station ( Mp3)

​Drummer Scott Kusmirek -- who did two stints with the Gin Blossoms in the midst of the band's feud with Phillip Rhodes, the drummer they rode to prominence in the early 90s -- has a new project."The Kooze's" new band is called Vinyl Station and an "indie-rock" trio also featuring bassist Darell C ... More >>

Heavy D

Megadeath founder signs confessional memoir

Fiancee/Cousin of Escaped Inmate Described as "Meth Addict"-Looking

Casslyn Welch ​The hunt is still on for Casslyn Welch and her would-be cous-band, escaped Arizona prison inmate John McCluskey. The first cousins are apparently engaged, despite McCluskey's lengthy prison term, and are currently on the run somewhere in the American Northwest or Canada, autho ... More >>

Afternoon Delight

Dress up your day drinking at Jade Bar

Rooster Coup DeVille Stream New Song, Schedule CD Release Show

Michael Cozzo (left) & Joe Curran of Rooster Coup DeVille​Michael Cozzo has been a fixture in the local country and rockabilly scenes for several years now, first as a singer/guitarist in Liquor Store Junkies, then as a solo bluesman and now as frontman of local rockabilly act Rooster Coup DeV ... More >>

No-Limit Polka

Tempe Beach Park rolls out the barrels and the oom-pah bands

DUI Task Force to Cover Areas With All-Star Game Events This Weekend

Don't be like Sir Charles: If you get an offer for oral sex while drunk this weekend at NBA All-Star Game festivities, leave the driving to someone else.With parties and NBA-theme events erupting all over town, starting tonight, cops from Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa, Tempe and the Department of Public S ... More >>

Dr. Michael Mahl Relapses After New Times Warns Medical Board About Addiction

Silver Jews

Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
(Drag City)

Mike Ness

Ness is More

Andrew Thomas spends public money to bring sinners to Christ

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, June 8, 2006

Theater Scene

What's running now

Meth and Sex

Tweakers, straight and gay, are obsessed with sex. The result is that pregnancy and HIV-infection rates among meth-heads are increasing at alarming rates

Cage

Hell's Winter
(Def Jux)

Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter

A powerful addiction

The Epoxies, and The Aquabats

Everything New Wave is old again

Assisted Suicide

A county psychiatrist's indifferent treatment of a disturbed inmate leads to a courthouse hanging

Doggerel

Jet Li barks up the wrong tree

Life in Pictures

By the Sign of the Spyglass
(Clockwork)

Tom Russell

Hot Walker
(Hightone)

Everclear

BEST SKATE PARK

Paradise Valley Skate Park

A Fighting Chance

How Rick Schroder cast a Black Cloud over the Valley

BEST PLACE TO GET METAPHYSICAL

The Astrology Store

There's Something About Phoenix

Phoenix police shoot and kill a lot of people. But it's time to look beyond the police department for the reasons.

Lost Hope

Paul Hewitson has spent the Last two years in a place he calls hell.

Club Meds

The mental-health-care system says Lynda Sue Dale, a young mentally ill mother, is ineligible for treatment -- until she informs the bureaucrats she's talking to New Times

Gash Register

Shopping offers a mixed bag of blood, sex and violence

Letters

Letters

In a World of Hurst

Family Affairs

A professional Phoenix woman wanted to help one poor, "at risk" family. It was the type of private initiative that both political parties say will ease the harsh impacts of welfare reform. Her three-year experiment in personal responsibility rescued an 1

THE FAMILY TRAP

UNDER ITS "REUNIFICATION-FIRST" POSICY, THE STATE OF ARIZONA ROUTINELY FORCES CHILDREN TO LIVE WITH PARENTS WHO ARE UNFIT GUARDIANS BY ANY DEFINITION

CHARLIE'S ANGELINSPIRED BY SAX LEGEND PARKER, SONNY ROLLINS FINDS PEACE IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE-WHETHER HE'S PLAYING IN IT OR NOT