Fountain Hills

Is John Kavanagh Arizona's Worst Legislator?

Republican Representative John Kavanagh of Fountain Hills has had quite the legislative session thus far.He kicked it off by announcing his support for repealing Arizona's voter-approved medical marijuana law, followed it up with vocal support of a bill that would protect Sheriff Joe Arpaio in the e ... More >>

New Medical-Marijuana Poll Shows High Support by Arizonans; Poll Done by Same Firm Used by Pot Foe John Kavanagh

A new poll that shows high support by Arizona voters for medical marijuana is unlikely to be challenged by anti-pot lawmaker Representative John Kavanagh: The political consulting firm used by Kavanagh and his wife, Fountain Hills Mayor Linda Kavanagh, conducted the survey. Kavanagh still hopes to ... More >>

Rep. John Kavanagh Wants No Exception for Cancer Patients or Anyone Else in Proposed Medical-Pot Repeal

John Kavanagh, the Republican State Representative from Fountain Hills, doesn't want any exceptions in a proposed medical-pot repeal for patients with cancer, AIDS, or any other serious disease. Verifiable illness or not, they would be booked into jail under Arizona's felony possession law like any ... More >>

Men of Many Faces

CLOSED: Gaspers Casual Italian Dining

Count one less Italian restaurant and pizzeria in East Phoenix. Gaspers Casual Italian Dining has shuttered. Opened in July of 2010 at 4117 North 16th Street (16th and Indian School Road), and in the spot that used to be Zest, the restaurant was owned by Gasper Manno, co-founder of Sapori D'Italia ... More >>

Songs Remain the Same

Allan Sobol: Arizona's Medical-Pot Martyr?

John Phillips Is 82, and Wore a G-String to the Salt River -- Then He Allegedly Showed the Rest of Himself to a 14-Year-Old

Wearing a G-string in public as an 82-year-old man might not be a crime, but showing off what's under that G-string to a 14-year-old girl sure is.That's what the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is saying Fountain Hills resident John Phillips did on Monday, while he was hanging out near the Salt Riv ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's (ahem) Legal Scholar Brett "Shut Up" Palmer and Flunky Brian Sands Under Oath

See also: Joe Arpaio Struggles in Racial-Profiling Trial to Answer Examples of Seemingly Bigoted Leadership See also: Joe Arpaio Looks Like Tired, Old Racist on Stand During Racial-Profiling Trial See also: Joe Arpaio's Racial Profiling Trial Begins, and, Yes, He's Guilty as Sin See also: Joe Arpaio ... More >>

Russell Pearce's Bigot Bash Moves to Fountain Hills, Courtesy of Gary Lvov

After being run out of three venues in Phoenix last month by activists, a fundraiser for recalled, former state Senate President Russell Pearce has finally found a home at a local hotel run by one of his supporters. According to an item on the conservative Sonoran Alliance blog, Pearce and his ethi ... More >>

10 Favorite Gelato Spots in Greater Phoenix

The origins of gelato -- Italian ice cream made with less butterfat, a higher density, and served slightly warmer than its American counterpart -- date back to frozen treats made from mountaintop snow and ice in ancient Rome and Egypt. Thankfully, for those of us in search of the frozen sweet trea ... More >>

Child-Porn Collector Who Worked at Joe Arpaio's Neighborhood CVS Pleads Guilty

Michael Brown, a former CVS pharmacy employee who was busted on child-porn charges in June 2010, pleaded guilty today to five related charges.Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies arrested Brown after they received a tip that he had left several pornographic images of children in one of the store's pho ... More >>

The Whoopie Shack: A Break From Cupcakes

​No fair! Here we've spent weeks discussing options for an Arizona state food, and here comes the state of Maine with the coolest state food ever: the whoopie pie. Who knew? These treats are kind of (at least in appearance) like oversized French macarons; two rounded chocolate cakes resembling b ... More >>

From Chocolate to BBQ, 17 Festivals to Hit in Metro Phoenix

​ The Festival: Glendale Chocolate Affaire The Dates: February 3 - 5 The Theme: Chocolate, just in time for Valentine's Day! What To Eat: Endless chocolate from more than 30 chocolatiers from across the country. There will be the usual suspects like chocolate dipped strawberries, choco ... More >>

Anthony Redendo of Sofrita and Redendo's Pizzeria

Courtesy of Anthony Redendo ​For Anthony Redendo of Sofrita and Redendo's Pizzeria, having a successful restaurant of one's own is not enough. Redendo is a teacher and mentor to his culinary students at Phoenix College as well as his followers on Facebook. Is this guy really a ch ... More >>

Pei Wei Raided by Sheriff Joe Arpaio

​Illegal restaurant workers, beware: Sheriff Joe Arpaio is after you. Why go after human traffickers or drug dealers or any other kind of bad guys when the Valley's hospitality industry is apparently such a ripe, easy target for tracking down undocumented workers? That's the ... More >>

DJ's Bagel Café: Lunch $10 & Under

We ventured up to Fountain Hills to see if the rumors of real New York style bagels were true, and we confirmed it: DJ's Bagel Café is an authentic, East Coast bagelry.

Now Open: Gasper's Casual Italian Dining

​Hungry for some pizza?Gasper's Casual Italian Dining just opened last week in the 16th Street spot that used to be Zest. Since the building sat vacant for quite awhile, it's refreshing to see signs of life there again. Owner Gasper Manno, co-founder of Sapori D'Italia in Fountain Hills, reno ... More >>

Gasper's Pizzeria Taking Over Old Zest Location

​After sitting vacant for the last year and a half, the building that last housed Zest Spirited Dining (4117 N. 16th St., north of Indian School) will soon become Gasper's Pizzeria, an Italian restaurant specializing in traditional Neapolitan-style pizza, and rustic southern Italian cuis ... More >>

Curtains: Arizona Curriculum Theater's Topical, Disturbing Salem: 1692

Living Art StudiosFrom left: Gail Rae, James David Porter, and Jason Barth reproduce the Salem witch trials in Salem: 1692.​At least three excellent classic 20th-century plays are presented regularly by high schools, which tends to taint them for anyone who was first exposed to them there: Arsenic ... More >>

Sheriff Arpaio Launches 14th Crime and Immigration Sweep; Will They Save the Public Records This Time?

  ​ Watch your skin tone -- Sheriff Joe Arpaio has begun another crime sweep. As he promised, the Maricopa County sheriff is turning up the heat once again on illegal immigrants. His 14th such effort, according to the Associated Press, is focusing on "drop houses, drug violators an ... More >>

Make Your Own Wine, Quick & Easy!

​ ​Famed director Francis Ford Coppola did it. So did Sam Neill and Olivia Newton-John and Tool's Maynard James Keenan. If they can get into the wine business, so can you! All you need is a large grape arbor, some vats, processing equipment, oak barrels, bottles, massive amounts of tim ... More >>

Brother's Keeper

Local filmmaker explores childhood grieving

Janet Napolitano Pulls a Switcheroo on the Pro-Immigrant Crowd, Arpaio Scores a Latina Judge's Recusal, plus Swastikas in Fountain Hills

Neo-Nazi Oi Fest II Scheduled for October 24 in Tonopah, Arizona

from whiteknightsofamerica.com Some sieg heil-ing action from last year's Oi Fest, posted to WKOA's site What could it be that draws neo-Nazis to western Maricopa County town of Tonopah? Desert vistas pregnant with ennui? The occasional corpse dumped next to the Interstate? Exhaust from ... More >>

Wife of Arizona Diamondbacks Pitcher Scott Schoeneweis Found Dead in Fountain Hills

Gabrielle Dawn Schoeneweis, the wife of Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Scott Schoeneweis, was found dead in her Fountain Hills home. She was 39. According to an Associated Press report, Ms. Schoeneweis' teenage daughter found her mother unresponsive on the floor of the master bedroom, and called polic ... More >>

Show Announcements: Junior Brown, Limbeck, David Banner, Davey Jones, The Verve Pipe

Concert Schedule for This Weekend: Jimmy Fallon, The Donnas, Cattle Decapitation, and The Blood Countess

"Red Red Wine" revisited: The UB40/Phoenix connection

Suzi Dodt’s on a mission to return the nameless dead to their loved ones

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, October 25, 2007

Theater Scene

What's running now

Theater Scene

What's running now

Get Out of the Self-Serving Rut . . .

And volunteer to make other lives easier

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Fairy Scary

Bookman's hosts its own "March Madness"

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Working Title

Nickel and Dimed clocks on at the Herberger

Satan Place

How not to party like it's some guy's birthday

Tomato Head

Valley chefs need to take a lesson from Redendo's

Mystic Ribber

Pela's play predictions

Stick It to 'Em!

The Phoenix City Council can't sanction the $350 million, city-owned convention center hotel. By law, a referendum must be held.

Wednesday Night Fever

The bump and grind of a new generation

Letters

Letters from the week of June 5, 2003

The Toxic Sublime

Uncovering the faint beauty of a defaced, degraded American West

Slot Luck

Diners luck out with Casino Arizona's new upscale Cholla restaurant

Indigenous Voices

The Native American music scene gets in tune with a new radio show

Letters

GIVE 'EM HAIL, HURRY!

FOR THE ARIZONA THUNDERSTORM CHASERS, THE SKY'S THE LIMIT. AND THEREIN LIES THE RUB.

LAWYERS, GUNS AND MONEY

THE FEDS DESPERATELY WANTED THE CROATION IMMIRANT TO BE AN ILLEGAL GUNRUNNER. WHEN HE REFUSED, THEY BUSTED HIM ANYWAY.