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• Arizona Republic publishes puff piece on Chandler 9/11 Conference

  February 23, 2007

• Hookers and Blow

  November 20, 2006

• Update on Rusty Childress associate Damon Ashenfelter as he attempts to hide his white power views.

  July 23, 2007

• Urban Campfire burned... ouch...!

  March 26, 2008

• Who’s performing at tomorrow’s First Friday art walk

  July 3, 2008

• Jesse Ventura Rallies 9/11 Nutbars, Republic Clueless as to Where.

  September 8, 2008

• Dream Weaver

  Denny Le Nimh, the Yoda of PHX rock DJs, parties with the Kreme posse at Paco Paco for Plus One

  March 23, 2006

• Fu Manchu: Back on tour and headed for Mesa

  March 27, 2008

• Hot Links: MSNBC tricked by Internet hoax; Gilbert Spanish-haters want name of school changed; Fence slows migrants at border; Suns squabble with Rockets

  November 13, 2008

• MC Chris

  October 16, 2008

• Obtain a Kiss Kiss with Couscous

  February 26, 2009

• Veterans Mountain -- Not the Landmark You've Been Looking For

  View Larger Map A Sun City resident who wanted to honor the country's veterans persuaded the Arizona State Board on Geographic and Historic Names to slap a handle on a nameless Phoenix peak and (voila!) Veterans Mountain is born. It's a sweet and sentimental idea, and Air Force veteran Lanny Brent deserves a certain amount of appreciation for thinking of it. But this peak literally falls short of the kind of natural monument our veterans deserve. As far as the height of other hills in the P

  November 19, 2008

• Arizona Republic Still Won't Name St. Johns Murder Suspect's Family

  His dad -- the one he's accused of killing -- was named Vincent Romero. His mother's name has been reported nationwide as Eryn Thomas or Eryn Bloomfield. The Arizona Republic won't name either of the boy's parents to avoid identifying the 8-year-old murder suspect from St. Johns. Though it's nice to see anyone in this world stick to a code of ethics, the exercise is getting rather silly by now.

  November 25, 2008

• Arty Girl: Steampunk by ASU Sculpture at First Studio

  So it's a First Friday tonight and I'm sure your schedule is packed with this, a little of that and probably some of this...But please allow me to suggest one more. The ASU Sculpture students, faculty and some extraneous local artists have come together for an evening of Steampunk.Okay, I know Steampunk is nothing new - it started way back in the ancient decade of the 1980's. But just In case you haven't heard, Steampunk is a movement that basically resurrects Victorian-era fashion, aesthetics a

  December 5, 2008

• Coming in January: New Irish Pub Downtown

  What the heck is a turf accountant? I had to Google that one. The American Heritage Dictionary says it's a British term for a bookmaker licensed to take bets on horses. Huh. In downtown, though, Turf Accountant is the name of the new Irish pub set to open at 705 N. 1st Street at the end of next month, reportedly from the same people behind Seamus McCaffrey's. Can we interpret the unusual name to mean that they're betting on downtowners racing for a pint? Tucked into the same building as Se

  December 30, 2008

• Larry Fitzgerald's Alleged Domestic Abuse Buried Deep in Pages of Arizona Republic

  The New Year's Eve news exclusive from sleazy entertainment Web site TMZ.com about Arizona Cardinals player Larry Fitzgerald alleged domestic abuse incident was the "kind of momentary headline that can damage a good name," writes Arizona Republic sports columnist Dan Bickley in a Sunday article about Fitz's "meteoric rise." Funny thing is, the incident never rated a headline -- or any other kind of mention -- in the state's supposed paper of record. Now, Barkley's reported rush for oral

  January 2, 2009

• Off the Chain: How Douchebag Became Everyone's Favorite Insult

  Why is "douchebag" the default insult of our time? Our sister paper in SF explores the rise of this most 00s of insults.BTW, the guy above is the first thing you get when you type "douchebag" in to a Google image search... quite a dubious honor. Personally I think this guy (result two) fits the bill better. Oh, and this "Off the Chain" thing is something we're going to be doing regularly for you, linking to some of the cool content being produced by our Village Voice sister papers all over the c

  January 19, 2009

• Arty Girl: Please Meet Rick Alvin Schaier

  If you've been reading Up on the Sun or paying any attention to the local music scene, this image should look familiar. It's the first thing you see when you visit the MySpace page of the Phoenix band, Miniature Tigers.And it's an original work by Rick Alvin Schaier, the band's drummer.

  January 23, 2009

• Top 5 Ways to Get Through a Super Bowl Party if You Just Don't Give a Crap

  Not as excited as this dude for Sunday? No worries, I'm not, either.If you're anything like me (and I recognize that most Arizonans--nay, most Americans--are not), you don't get football.The overall appeal, the rules, the weird players-slapping-each-other-on-the-ass thing--it's all a bit baffling. But, there are a surprisingly large contingent of us who still attend Super Bowl parties every year for two overwhelming reasons: the food and the beer. If there were ever two more noble reasons to att

  January 27, 2009

• Michelle Branch Headlining "Chicks with Picks" Fest in Tempe

  Though she sometimes strives for demure in promo shots, Michelle Branch ain't no Tori Amos -- at least I've never seen Tori look like this -- making her an interesting choice for an all-woman music festival. But it's Branch who's slated to headline the Chicks with Picks Music Festival in Tempe later this month.Branch, a Sedona native, will be joined at Tempe Beach Park by country singer Sarah Buxton (warning: DO NOT do a Google image search for her at work!), Waylon Jennings' widow Jessi Colter,

  March 2, 2009

• Aural Surgery

  Brazilian sound artist highlights ASU museum’s new batch

  February 19, 2009

• The Dork Side

  October 16, 2008

• Phoenix Country Club board member Mike Hayes turned a sex-segregation issue into a juvenile shouting match

  August 28, 2008

• When every song ever recorded fits on your MP3 player, will you listen to any of them?

  June 5, 2008

• Skank You Very Much

  May 1, 2008

• Green Fatigue: By the Numbers

  April 17, 2008

• Cyberspace Invaders

  County law enforcement's seeking more and more Web site information to mount investigations against private citizens

  December 20, 2007

• Smokin'!

  Music to inhale by

  July 19, 2007

• The Real Rip-Off Report

  February 1, 2007

• Rock Docs Are Go!

  As CDs wither, the low-budget rockumentary is born again

  January 18, 2007

• Keystone Clowns

  This poop-producin' pelican dive-bombs slapstick sheriff's deputies, ex-mayor Skip Rimsza, and Chase Field's crotchety old baseball enforcers

  June 1, 2006

• The Slackers

  Big ska country

  May 4, 2006

• Commons Killer

  Conceptual like a Fox

  April 20, 2006

• Dilated Peoples

  Thank you for not Pea-ing

  March 23, 2006

• Ditch That Rut

  Quit whining and keep your promises

  January 19, 2006

• Swearing In

  Year of the R-rated comedy

  January 5, 2006

• Whacksing Poetic

  Dave Gorman Googles it

  September 29, 2005

• Unkind Cut

  We'd been enjoying emo for years before self-injury stepped into the spotlight

  June 23, 2005

• Melt Banana

  Adorably harsh

  May 19, 2005

• Home Grown

  October 28, 2004

• iTunes Update: Sales May be Down, but Revenue is up

  On Monday I wrote about a report from Billboard on the initial effects of iTunes increased prices. That report showed that the increased prices hurt a song's chart positions on iTunes top 100 singles charts compared to those songs that did not see a price increase. Well Billboard has a new report on the price increases. In my first report I cautioned that "a small decrees in sales because of the raised prices could generate more revenue..." Well that is exactly what the new Billboard article fo

  April 17, 2009

• Geeks Gone Wild!

  Wardriving hackers take the revenge of the nerds to the street

  August 14, 2003

• Scorched Earth

  Fed to Your HeadTriptych (Rubric)

  August 1, 2002

• Hot Links: School Bus Crash, IRS Trash, and Google Maps

  Two buses from the Roosevelt School District collided near 23rd and Southern avenues yesterday. According to police, one bus rear-ended the other while it was stopped at a stop sign. Sixty students were on the buses, but police say there were no major injuries...Inspectors have found that in the past two years, several IRS branches in Arizona failed to dispose of processed tax returns properly. Tax returns containing personal information were found in dumpsters in Tuscon, Tempe, and Phoenix.

  May 22, 2009

• Phoenix Police Recruiting Billboards Go for Soft Sell

  Maybe this Phoenix police recruitment billboard does wonders for recruitment...      ... but it sure as heck doesn't inspire confidence in the police force.

  June 12, 2009

• Ingrid Michaelson

  October 1, 2009

• Google Launches Fancy New Music Search

  Google has launched - albeit slowly - their new music search feature, making it easier to immediately hear an artist's music right awayEvery wonder how many Google searches are music related? Two out of every 10 searches just so happen to be music related, you curious cat, you. Google, the internet behemoth, noticed this trend and figured they would spruce up their search function to easily satiate the widespread need for internet users to get their music fix, announcing their new music search f

  October 29, 2009

• October 29 In Blogs: Google, Thomas Keller, Metadata, and ABC 15

  ​In the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Feathered Bastard: ABC 15 Flubs Joe Arpaio Poll Results, Arpaio's Numbers Countywide, Not Statewide Up on the Sun: Gone But Not Forgotten: Top Venues We Miss Google Launches Fancy New Music Search Chow Bella: Meet and Eat with Foodies Like You Thomas Keller is Coming to Scottsdale . . . Valley Fever: Crime

  October 29, 2009

• Tribune Web Site's Demise Means Past Articles Will be Tougher to Find

    ​ The impending death of the East Valley Tribune means fewer news articles in the future about things that go on in the Phoenix metro area. But it's even worse than that: The planned shuttering of the Trib's Web portal in two months, coinciding with the closure of the physical property, means the past will become more vague, too. All those informative articles that hundreds of Trib employees have produced over the last several years will become inaccessible to mos

  November 3, 2009

• ASU Tempe Campus Named as One of Five Finalist in Google Street View Contest

  www.stateuniversity.com​Arizona State University's Tempe campus could be one of the first university in the country with a Google Street View.Street View is a popular feature by Google that gives users a 360-degree street-level look at locations in most major American cities. It has been used at a college campus once before for a promotional campaign at the University of Pennsylvania and now Google is looking to map the walkways and trails at a new university. 

  November 10, 2009