Durango

Ask a Mexican on Mexican Pride and Speaking English

Bill Montgomery Is No Immigration Moderate

Ask a Mexican on Spanglish, HDTV, and Conquistadors

Ask a Mexican on Aztec Love and Mexican Stereotypes

"Paper!" at Phoenix Art Museum Is One Giant Missed Opportunity

Joe Arpaio Turns a Blind Eye to Jailhouse Justice

Inmate Found Dead at Durango Jail; MCSO Goon-Squad Thuggery Not Suspected in Death...This Time

​An inmate at the Durango Jail died last night -- and it wasn't at the hands of a Maricopa County Sheriff's Office detention officer, according to the MCSO.MCSO Officer Chris Hegstrom tells New Times the death is being investigated as a "natural causes death."Hegstrom says he won't identify the de ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Latest Illegal Immigrant Roundup Nets Seven Arrests; MCSO Going Gangbusters in West Phoenix Manana

​If you're a criminal, illegal immigrant, or just don't want to get hassled by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's boys in beige, avoid West Phoenix tomorrow -- the MCSO's staging its latest "crime-suppression operation."The MCSO isn't saying where it will focus its op, only noting that it will be in Phoenix and ... More >>

Meat Puppets Release New Record Today, Hit Clubhouse on National Tour

​The last time we caught up with the Meat Puppets it was mostly to talk about the 'Arizona scene' after a rough week at Austin's South by Southwest music conference.Regrettably, I didn't even mention the band's new record Lollipop in that piece. But, yes, the Puppets put out a brand new record thi ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Son Joshua Arrested, in MCSO Custody

Josh, son of Russell, back in stirState Senate President Russell Pearce's son Joshua Trent Pearce was arrested February 9 by the Mesa Police Department on outstanding warrants issued by the Maricopa County Superior Court. Currently he's cooling his heels in Durango Jail.The thirty year-old unemploye ... More >>

Morning Poll: Should Guards Have Noticed Inmate as He Scaled Five Fences Before Escaping?

Clayton Thornburg had a brief taste of freedom yesterday.​A guy wearing nothing but pink socks was seen running towards 35th Avenue near the Durango Jail yesterday. The problem with that -- aside from the guy being naked -- is he was an inmate at the jail who'd just scaled five razor-wire fences a ... More >>

Guy Scales Five Fences to Break Out of Maricopa County Jail; Busted Wearing Nothing but Pink Socks

MCSOClayton Thornburg​The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office began a press release about an escaped inmate this afternoon with the comical question "Herculean inmate? Or Darwin award?" Perhaps the questions should have been "how the hell does a guy scale five razor-wire fences without anyone noticin ... More >>

Beef Head: Cabeza from Andale Mexican Food

Erica O'Neil Cabeza de vaca, burrito style. Served up by Andale Mexican Food. ​Despite what the supermarket aisle may lead you to believe, there's more to an animal than neatly wrapped styrofoam trays of meat. From tongue to tail, offal (pronounced awful) encompasses all those taboo edibles ... More >>

Scuffles Between "Anarchists" and Cops, and The Use of Pepper Spray, Mar Today's Anti-Arpaio March

California videographer Naui's footage from the pepper spray incidentI am so disgusted by today's events at the big anti-Arpaio march to Joe's jails that I hardly know where to begin. The saddest part of it is that a mostly-peaceful demonstration of over 10,000 persons, which ended with a concert by ... More >>

E.J. Montini, Take a Powder; Richard Ruelas, Take His Place, Please

from Ernesto YerenaErnesto Yerena: The agit-prop Delacroix of the anti-Joe, pro-immigration reform movementIf the editors over at Phoenix's daily fishwrap had half a brain, they'd relegate their star columnist E.J. "Milksop" Montini to checking typos in the classifieds, and make Richard Ruelas his r ... More >>

On the Reconquista and State Pride

Strip-Searches of Male Prisoners by Female Guards OK'd by 9th Circuit Court; Maricopa County Jail Inmate Sued

Image: Arizona Department of CorrectionsCharles Byrd A former Maricopa County jail inmate who was stripped to his underwear and felt up by a female guard-in-training during a search did not have his rights violated, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. Charles Byrd, who was convicted of ... More >>

Zack de la Rocha Protests Arpaio, Who Cozies up to White Supremacists, Plus, Jeff Farias Finds a Home with the Lord

Durango Hunger Strike on Cinco de Mayo Confirmed by Board of Supervisors

Following up on yesterday's blog item about the hunger strike in Joe's jails, I spoke with Maricopa County Board of Supervisors spokesman Richard DeUriarte this afternoon, and he confirmed that a massive hunger strike did take place yesterday in MCSO's Durango Jail. DeUriarte said that on Cinco de ... More >>

Hunger Strike in Joe Arpaio's Jails: 500 Reportedly Refusing to Eat Because of Bad Food

from MCSO.org Durango Jail, where some of the 500 hunger strikers are being held Phoenix civil rights activist Salvador Reza and Univision Channel 33 are reporting that there is a hunger strike on in Joe's jails, with about 500 prisoners joining in the action to protest the atrocious food ser ... More >>

Videos of Zack de la Rocha's Speech, and Neo-Nazis and Nativists Supporting Joe Arpaio

Zack de la Rocha at the anti-Arpaio rally Saturday in front of Tent City -- footage by Dennis Gilman If you only read the coverage of Saturday's anti-Arpaio march in Phoenix's paper of record, and/or watched it on our local news channels, you wouldn't know that neo-Nazis were present in the nativis ... More >>

Zack de la Rocha Leads a March of Thousands to Joe Arpaio's Jails, Neo-Nazis and Nativists Back Arpaio

Zack de la Rocha addresses the crowd at the end of Saturday's Walk for RespectBefore today's successful march of thousands from the Wells Fargo building in downtown Phoenix to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's gulags, many in the Phoenix activist community tried to dissuade civil rights leader and march organi ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Panics Over May 2 March; Activists and Law Enforcement Fear Violence from Provocateurs Infilatrating Protesters' Ranks

Arpaio sticks it to the prisoners, while rumors of provocateurs in tomorrow's march aboundSheriff Joe Arpaio is officially freaking out over the May 2 anti-Arpaio Walk for Respect, which will begin at 9 a.m. tomorrow at the Wells Fargo building downtown (100 West Washington Street) and continue on ... More >>

White-Supremacist Activity Is on the Rise in Sand Land, and One Latino-American Family Is the Victim of a Vicious Hate Crime in North Phoenix

Can Maricopa County’s Juvenile-Justice System Fix Troubled Teens? Rarely, One Judge Laments

Sheriff Joe's Day of the Dead.

Feedback from the issue of Thursday, September 11, 2008

The Joe Watson Foundation: WTF?

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, January 25

Mondo Resolutions . . .

When new Choos aren't enough

Fast Times at Westwind junior high

Any way you add it up, kids at one Valley middle school were dealing meth out of their backpacks

SuperMix Saturday

Our nightlife ninjas brave crackheads and broken bra straps to party 'til dawn at RedMonkey

Letters

Letters from the week of August 5, 2004

Turning Up the Heat

There's a difference between justice and vengefulness -- something that's lost on Sheriff Joke.

Greased Lightning Show

Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys keep rockabilly a-hoppin' in a 30-year-old school bus

Bob Dylan

Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Review (Sony/Legacy)

Family Tradition

With prospects drying up for Latin rock, a gifted guitarist returns to the acoustic sounds of his youth

Letters

From the week of November 30, 2000

Murphy's Law

Year after year, Murphy school district officials watched their students die in a hail of violence. They decided to take matters into their own hands.

Full Mettle Junket

For gangbangers and delinquents, Project Challenge boot camp is a last chance to avoid prison

The Warehouse Tape

County supervisors erase any notion of compromising to preserve historic buildings

Street Without Hope

On Madison Street, crowds of crack-addicted homeless are plaguing police and downtown businesses. But no one seems to be doing much about it.

Letters

Language Barrier

Casa de Locos has the audience, it just lacks the gigs

Jail Suits Could Cost County Taxpayers Tens of Millions

Barbarism As a Public Relations Strategy

Bagels and Locks

Complaints about tainted food and inmate abuse pour forth in wake of Tent City riot

Mutiny At The County

Sheriff Arpaio's deputies say his vaunted posse does little more than waste money and slake their boss's thirst for publicity

The Homeless Cafe

Lucina Rivera's cafe provides good food and camaraderie to the homeless and dysfunctional. It's not a charity. It's just Mama's Place.

WHEN GUNPLAY BACKFIRESHE USED A TOY PISTOL IN A "JOKE" ROBBERY, BUT THE AUTHORITIES WEREN'T LAUGHING