Subject: Florida

• It's Not, but It Oughtta Be

  February 5, 2007

• Newsaxon.com, the neo-Nazi MySpace, with hot racist chicks galore.

  April 25, 2007

• FROM THE BIG HOUSE TO GOD'S HOUSE

  HE HELPED MASTERMIND A MAJOR GOLD FRAUD IN FLORIDA. SO WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING AT A CHURCH IN GLENDALE

  December 8, 1993

• WARNING CIGNA

  NEGLIGENCE BY ARIZONA'S BIGGEST HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY NEARLY KILLED JIM SELL'S WIFE. THEN CIGNA AND A MAJOR HOSPITAL WENT AFTER THEIR POCKETBOOK.

  September 15, 1994

• She Ball

  A Phoenix league goes to bat for women's baseball

  May 9, 1996

• Angle Heart

  Scottsdale's Greg Crane calls himself an entrepreneur. Prosecutors in three states call him a grifter. But he's such a young man.

  October 16, 1997

• Flashes

  November 5, 1998

• Flashes

  January 7, 1999

• Leave It to Bistro

  March 18, 1999

• Gershwin Pickle

  Turning a grocery store into a dinner theater is no picnic

  November 8, 2001

• Rumbleseat

  Rumbleseat Is Dead
  (No Idea)

  July 7, 2005

• Grabass Charlestons

  Ask Mark Twain
  (No Idea)

  July 7, 2005

• Delight 2007

  November 29, 2007

• Underoath

  November 13, 2008

• Tim and Eric From Adult Swim Coming to Tempe

  Adult Swim fans -- and we know there are a lot of you out there -- are about to freak out. Tim and Eric of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! fame are coming to Tempe next month as part of a national tour. It's a follow-up to this year's tour, which sold out in all 14 cities last April and May."Much like the television series, Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Tour 2008 is a fast-paced, live variety show, complete with short films, parodies, pranks and musical numbers. Tim and Eric will

  December 1, 2008

• Arty Girl: ASU Art Museum in Miami, FL

  Finally, a reason I would actually want to go to Florida. No offense to anyone from that place. It's just that I'm a native Phoenician - I don't like humidity, warm beach water offends me and I've always thought Florida was for people who don't know California exists.Today through Friday, the Aqua Art Miami art fair is going down in two locations: the Aqua Hotel in South Beach and at Aqua Wynwood in the heart of Miami's gallery district. Aqua Art Miami is an annual fair whose mission is to promo

  December 3, 2008

• Rapper DMX Caught in Florida; Lawyer Says Sheriff Arpaio Pushed to Involve FBI

  Accused animal abuser Earl Simmons, a.k.a. rapper DMX, was arrested in Florida today following yesterday's news that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was offering  $5,000 for information on his whereabouts. The rapper, who was arrested at his Cave Creek home in May on animal cruelty charges, was found at the mansion of record producer Scott Storch, according to an article on the entertainment news site TMZ. A woman who wanted the $5,000 tipped police off, sa

  December 9, 2008

• Tempe's The Cover Up in Australian TV Commercial

  An Australian Bank has a new commercial out featuring a "metal band" that turns out to be Tempe's The Cover Up. Click here to see the video which is pretty hilarious. The next video in the series, "Florida," is also pretty funny.Thanks to our friend Psyko Steve for the heads up on this. --Martin Cizmar

  December 15, 2008

• Valley Fever's Top 5 Entries of 2008

  Happy New Year, Phoenix. Here's one last look at 2008 with the top five blogs as determined by the sheer number of eyes that read them. Catch the top three slots after the jump. 5 - Is dead CEO's mortgage empire crumbling?Mortgages Ltd. CEO Scott Coles, 48, was found dead on Monday in his $11.3 million home. The cause of death has yet to be determined, but the unfortunate event may fit the scenario of CEO suicide during an economic downturn...full story 4 - John McCain and Wife Cindy's Former Ma

  January 6, 2009

• Lord of the Lap Dance

  June 4, 2009

• Rapper DMX Sentenced to 90 Days in Jail; Can't Own Animals or Firearms for 18 Months

  Earl Simmons, better known as the rapper DMX, was sentenced to 90 days in jail for abusing his dogs and theft-related charges. He's scheduled to be released on April 30.DMX also received 18 months of supervised probation, during which time he can't own firearms or animals, according to a news release from Maricopa County Andrew Thomas' office.It'll be tough for the scofflaw rapper to stick to those requirements and other terms of his probation, we imagine -- he proved what he thinks of the le

  January 30, 2009

• Punk Band This Bike Is a Pipe Bomb Forces Airport Evacuation

  Or at least a sticker with their name on it did:"A bicycle with a sticker advertising a Florida punk-folk band forced the evacuation of a Memphis, Tennessee airport terminal late Monday afternoon, authorities said.A pilot alerted airport police when he saw a bike with a sticker that read "this bike is a pipe bomb" parked near the passenger ramps of Terminal C at Memphis International Airport, according to the Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority. "Terminal C ticketing and baggage claim at the

  February 17, 2009

• Let's Make A Duel

  ASU/OSU? You should give a poop.

  February 26, 2009

• Skillz Test

  January 1, 2009

• "The Sunshine State"

  January 1, 2009

• "The Sunshine State" First Friday Reception

  January 1, 2009

• ASU Women's Basketball vs. UC Riverside

  December 11, 2008

• Starfucker

  October 2, 2008

• Catcher in the Wry

  Tragicomic new book is full of dead bodies and phantasms

  July 17, 2008

• Arizona's homeopathic board is the second chance for doctors who may not deserve one

  April 10, 2008

• nextDOOR

  November 1, 2007

• Underoath

  September 27, 2007

• Rollin' on the Redneck River

  June 7, 2007

• Amblin' Man

  The "topical pop" creations of a bass-playing adventurer

  May 31, 2007

• Mofro

  'Fro better blues

  October 12, 2006

• Paris James

  Death Letter
  (Dreamvox)

  September 28, 2006

• Welcome to Hooters

  Jimmy Buffett inexplicably leads a kid movie to the big screen

  May 4, 2006

• Percee P

  West siiiiide

  March 23, 2006

• Diabolic

  Infinity Through Purification (Olympic Recordings)

  December 18, 2003

• Soul on Ice

  Veteran breakbeat selector DJ Icey pushes funk into the future

  May 30, 2002

• Big Bong Theory

  Arizona's pro-pot advocates cast first stone in latest national effort to legalize marijuana

  September 13, 2001

• 24K Mold

  Corn smut is the delicious fungus among us

  May 17, 2001

• Puttin' On the Ditz

  Saturday Night Live alum Victoria Jackson brings her standup act to Chandler

  May 10, 2001

• Bland of Plenty

  March 23, 2000

• Drum & Drummer

  November 25, 1999

• MENTAL HEALTH MASQUERADE

  THE OFFICE OF THE COURT MONITOR IS SUPPOSED TO HOLD THE MENTAL-HEALTH-CARE SYSTEM ACCOUNTABLE TO ITS CLIENTS. BUT NOBODY'S BEEN HOLDING THE OFFICE ITSELF ACCOUNTABLE.

  June 8, 1995

• Copeland

  July 2, 2009

• Intense Apparatus

  July 30, 2009

• Arizona Man Rides Mule-Drawn Wagon From Minnesota to Texas For Jesus

  Cafe Press​An Arizona man rolled through Le Mars, Iowa today on his journey from Minnesota to Texas. For a trip like that, someone would probably want a reliable car, right? Not this guy. Randy Boehman has opted to make the nearly 1,000-mile trek on a mule-drawn covered wagon. Why would someone travel this far using mules? Jesus. 

  October 2, 2009

• Senate Education Committee Chairman John Huppenthal Defends Wanting to Change School-Labeling Methods

  Senator John Huppenthal​Yesterday, Jeb Bush came to town to offer advice to Arizona lawmakers about how to fix the ailing K-12 education system.As we reported yesterday, the most publicized recommendation that came out of the two-hour meeting was a push to change the way Arizona labels its schools from a method that uses  words like "performing" or "performing plus" to an A-F grading system.Seemed rather impotent to us.How changing the way we refer to schools can change the way they

  October 2, 2009