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If Mitt Romney Won't Tell You Which Corrupt Tax Loopholes Need to Be Closed, We Will

A Downtown Phoenix Wish List: Maple Bacon Donuts and Eight Other Things We Desperately Need

See also: Urban Grocery and Wine Bar to Close May 12 See also: CLOSED: Roosevelt Tavern Editor's Note: We've made wish lists before, but this one began with a maple bacon bar. A friend asked where she could find one of those famous donuts she's been hearing about. Rainbow Donuts, we told her -- but ... More >>

Michael Marin's Cyanide Stash Made It Into His Mouth, Medical Examiner Confirms

See also: Burning Man: Attorney Says He Escaped His Blazing Home Using Scuba Gear See also: Michael Marin, "Burning Man," May Have Committed Suicide in the CourtroomThe Maricopa County medical examiner's office confirmed the expected this morning -- "Burning Man" Michael Marin definitely ingested so ... More >>

DEA Agents Pretended to Be Hells Angels to Bust Phoenix Bath Salts Manufacturers

See also: DEA Makes Raids Nationwide for Making Chemicals Similar to Illegal DrugsThe Drug Enforcement Administration's nationwide "synthetic drug takedown" led to the arrest of five Valley men this week. Two of the men were uncovered by DEA sources, two were busted by DEA agents pretending to be me ... More >>

Michael Marin Probably Took Cyanide, MCSO Says; Joe Arpaio Tells Everyone Where to Buy It

See also: Burning Man: An Attorney Says He Escaped His Blazing Home Using Scuba Gear; Now He's Charged with ArsonSee also: Michael Marin, "Burning Man," May Have Committed Suicide in the CourtroomMichael Marin probably popped a cyanide pill after a jury handed down a guilty verdict against him in hi ... More >>

Drawn Together

FoxVag III: Promoters Assures It Ain't Another Breast-Fest

Fedex Worker Attacked by Sheriff's Deputy During Routine Package Inspection, Lawsuit States

​A local Fedex worker claims in a federal lawsuit that he was attacked without provocation by a Maricopa County Sheriff's Office deputy during a routine inspection of packages.Fedex doesn't appear to be backing employee Larry Strickler in his lawsuit, though the complaint states that Strickler's c ... More >>

Aaron Johnson's Zine Collection

Roosevelt Row's Lawn Gnome is about to be infused with owner Aaron Johnson's personal collection of self-published zines from authors all over the globe. The 29-year-old is an internationally traveled slam poet and fixture of the downtown Phoenix art scene -- and he's a longtime zine ... More >>

Wait a Minute Mr. Postman: 10 Songs About the Mail

​By now it's news to no one that the United States Postal Service is in trouble. As detailed by Nick Greene earlier this month at Village Voice's Running Scared, this means print media is in for a punch (you know, while it's down and everything), your bills are going to show up later than they ... More >>

Rebecca Nab Young Shares Volga German Recipes and Stories

Maya DukmasovaRebecca Nab Young poses with her book and some family photographs​This week in Chef Talk, we take a bit of a detour to explore the culinary and cultural traditions of Volga Germans with Rebecca Nab Young, the Phoenix-based author of a new cookbook, There is Always Room for One More: ... More >>

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter Outs Himself as Illegal Immigrant, Details Underground Network That Supported Him

New York Times "We're not always who you think we are," Vargas writes of illegal immigrants. "Some pick your strawberries...[others] write news articles you might read." ​An illegal immigrant on the Washington Post reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Virginia ... More >>

The Feds Have Evidence That Joe Arpaio Broke the Law -- When Will The Indictments Come?

Ask a Mexican on the Perils of Cultural Misunderstanding

Teddy Bears Filled With Pot Sent From Tempe to Iowa; Former Arizona Resident Arrested

​ In a creative yet another case of people making illicit Build-A-Bears, a former Arizona resident has been arrested in Iowa for mailing teddy bears filled with pot. At least one was mailed from Tempe, authorities say. Douglas Duane Hoffman, 53, was arrested on Monday and slapped with mariju ... More >>

Early Listening: Menomena - Mines

​There was once a time when Menomena was fresh on the Portland indie rock scene. It was 2003 and the band had just self-released their debut album I Am The Fun Blame Monster! to a rather impressive critical acclaim (P4K gave it a 8.7). In true Portland/DIY fashion, the band included a self-assembl ... More >>

Merle Haggard Is Long Past His Angry-American Phase

The First Global Musical Instrument Museum Opens in Phoenix

Sheriff Joe’s Tortured in Hades, and Will Arizona’s New U.S. Attorney Follow El Diablo’s Lead?

Don’t Let Earthmen and Strangers’ Ryan Rousseau Use Your Gear

Craig Newmark Speaks at Victim's Memorial in Wake of Craigslist Killings

Free Vanity

A local metal artist plans to give away half a million CDs

MCSO pays more than $200K in RICO funds for facial recognition tech; large portion intended for "Honduran unit."

Free Vanity

A local metal artist plans to give away half a million CDs

Xtreme Cuisine

Arizona's cunning culinary wizard Chef Kaz Yamamoto prepares taboo illegal moveable feasts for the elite and über-rich

Greek Love

Saganaki mon amour

The Shipping News

Jose Avila's furniture designs are out of the box

The Real Deihl

How a Paradise Valley snake-oil salesman sprayed his way to success

BEAT IT:

Quitting for dummies

To a Tee

How Andy Brown took his tee shirts from the halls of NorthCanyon High to the racks at Urban Outfitters

Legally Brown

You've seen Legally Blonde, but did you know Elle Woods really grew up in Paradise Valley?

On a Roll

Parkay contest winner David Pittman wrote a slogan for what oils you

Fuzzy Math

Mishandled money adds up to a loss for students at Roosevelt schools

No Fear

There's more tenderness than terror to be found in Stephen King's Hearts in Atlantis

Crushing a Contrarian

The 'patriotic' squelching of Bill Maher is a scary sign of an emerging groupthink

Found at Sea

Tom Hanks discovers himself, and Robert Zemeckis steers a strong course in Cast Away

Mel Sells Out

What Women Want is a movie that's better than this two-hour advertisement

'Til Death Do Us Part

The murder case against Brian Eftenoff crumbles under scrutiny. Part two of a New Times investigation

Demi's Monde

Ms. Moore gives us less in Passion of Mind, a split-psyche romance from Alain Berliner

BY GREGORY WEINKAUF

Growing My Way

Freddy Kroger

Teamsters face a nightmare on 99th Avenue

Ground Zero

With arrests and civil pressures, police have reduced the terror inflicted by Eastside Los Cuatro Milpas. But conditions that gave rise to the gang in the first place still fester.

Flashes

Misguided Auteur

Steve Martin's all over the star map in Hollywood-themed Bowfinger

McCain's Gravy

Don't buy his poor-boy claims — he can raise big bucks. But will it be his undoing?

Missing Earl Jr.

A Glendale couple forges a national alliance and a personal bond in their mutual quest to find the 2,087 Vietnam-era POWs and MIAs

Art Attack!

To George Zraket, it's an evil zoning plot by old Sscottsdale cronies; to Janie Ellis, it's the only way her timeworn art colony can survive.

The Case of the Terrified Tiger

She was a dame with high-voltage looks and an eroticbook contract. Her name was Tiger. No last name. Just Tiger. And she was in trouble.

POP GOES THE REVOLUTIONARYTHOMAS MAPFUMO PREPS FOR AN INVASION OF THE WEST