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Arizona Gun Nuts Rally at State Capitol in New Dennis Gilman Video

Gilman chats up the gun nuts, take one... Phoenix videographer Dennis Gilman covered the gun nut rally at the Arizona State Capitol this past Saturday, and caught some interesting footage of the local pro-2nd Amendment crowd, which seems mainly to have consisted of angry white dudes who're afraid t ... More >>

Ken Bennett Says 277,011 Votes Left Statewide, 168,000 in Maricopa County

Maricopa County's long march toward a final vote count slogs on, with county Recorder Helen Purcell today announcing that by late this afternoon, 47,351 early ballots had been tabulated. Purcell's statement noted that "approximately 46,000 early ballots still remain to be processed for tabulation." ... More >>

Caesar's Messiah: Rome Invented Jesus, a New Doc Claims

GOP Candidate Scared of "Middle Easterners" in U.S., Especially Since They "Look Mexican"

Republican congressional candidate Gabriela Saucedo Mercer would prefer that people like Jesus Christ or Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not come to the United States -- "legally or illegally" -- because they're "Middle Easterners."Those ideas came out of her mouth in an interview from a y ... More >>

41: Michael Perry

From now 'til we publish the 2012 edition of Best of Phoenix, New Times and Chow Bella present 100 Tastemakers -- Valley residents who make the cut in our culinary scene. Some you'll know; for others, it'll be a first introduction (but likely not the last). While you're here, check out our 100 Creat ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, September 22, 2011

Iraq Native Faleh Almaleki Gets 34 Years in Prison for Murdering His Americanized Daughter

Honor Killing Dad Gets 34 Years in Prison at Emotional Hearing

Just back from downtown Phoenix's county courthouse, where Faleh Almaleki has been sentenced to 34 1/2 years behind bars for the 2009 murder of his daughter Noor and near-murder of another woman. Faleh Almaleki: "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" ​We'll be writing in more detail about th ... More >>

Catholic Bishops Protest Upcoming Executions; Say Death Penalty Contributes to "Culture of Death"

​There are two executions scheduled to take place in Arizona in the next week, and Bishops of the Arizona Catholic Conference aren't happy about it.The group issued a statement on the matter this morning, which you can read in its entirety below. 

Jesus Christ Was a Liberal, No Matter What Republinuts Say

northernsun.comIf he was around today, the Republinuts'd be calling him a commieWhat is it about some Republicrazies and conservatards that makes them think God is on their side? I mean, they really believe all liberals are godless atheists who worship Satan and hate religion, and that Jesus is thei ... More >>

Burning Qurans, Flags, Bibles? The First Amendment Rules

~crystalina~ If the book burning was to be of Bibles instead of Qurans, would anyone have cared? All the sturm und drang of the past few days over a Florida pastor's plans to burn a pile of Qurans on September 11 may have paid off. The AP is now reporting that Pastor Terry Jon ... More >>

Cottonwood Rednecks Freak Over Korean Statue of Mother Earth Named "Mago"

from MagoEarthParkGalleryWhat's all the hubbub? Looks pretty cool to me...To cop and alter a line from Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part I, the rednecks are revolting! Yeah, man, they stink on ice.Like you needed more proof that Arizona's chock full of backwards, toothless puddin'heads who ... More >>

Joe Arpaio, Walkin' on the Water? Wacky, Nativist African-American Preacher Compares Sheriff Joe to Jesus Christ

Usually, folks like to compare Sheriff Joe to rather nefarious historical figures, you know, like Bull Connor, Idi Amin, Augusto Pinochet, Benito Mussolini (well, they're both Italian), and so on. But the Man from Galilee? The Prince of Peace? The Light of This World? Jesus Christ himself? That's t ... More >>

Concert Review: Brand New Cover Songs From All Four Albums And Keep It Simple On Stage

​It's not often that a band garners encore-like chants from their fans before a show unless it's an arena band such as Bon Jovi or U2. However, this was the scene at Mesa Ampitheatre Thursday 10 minutes before Brand New greeted the fairly packed house. The Long Island punk act took ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, July 23, 2009

UPDATE: Doug Grant in Maricopa County Jail After Manslaughter Conviction

Doug Grant sits in the Maricopa County Jail tonight, the consequence of a deeply flawed life and the vagaries of the criminal-justice system. A 12-person jury convicted the one-time Phoenix Suns   nutritionist of manslaughter in the death of his wife Faylene. It was the least serious ( ... More >>

Wu Tang Clan Brings Da Rukus at Marquee Theatre on Dec. 7

The last time I saw Wu Tang Clan was possibly the most disappointing concert-going experience of my life. I was in high school when the boys from Staten Island stopped by Cleveland to open for Rage Against The Machine. It was awful. They were over an hour late -- O.D.B. having gotten arrested som ... More >>

Trans-Siberian Orchestra at Jobing.com Arena on Sunday, November 23

Sometimes, we do things we don't want to do because the people we love want to do them. Such was the case with me attending the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert last night at Jobing.com Arena in Glendale. I hadn't planned to attend the show, but I couldn't refuse in the face of my girlfriend's unbr ... More >>

Veggie Boy: Vegetarian House

Andrew Thomas spends public money to bring sinners to Christ

The Bird exposes Sheriff Joe's racist ties, delves into the Israel Correa madness, and reveals Napolitano as the real Judas

Michael Salman wants to build a church in his backyard. His neighbors aren't buying it

The Sound of Salesmen: Rush at Cricket Pavilion July 27

Nun Done

Third time's lukewarm

What Would Jigsaw Do?

The Passion of the Cut-Rate, High-Grossing Saw Series Continues

Jesus Wept

Anybody got a good anagram for "crap"?

Happy Returns

The cult of Neutral Milk Hotel should perhaps prepare for a second coming

This Week's Day-by-day Picks

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Ghouls on Film

Skeleton crew pulls the strings

Letters

Letters from the week of April 8, 2004

Leggo My Alter Ego

Off-the-wall rapper Z-Man busts out with another persona and a whole new vocabulary

Washboard Confessional

Holy saccharine. Absolve this man of his sinful affection for pop-punk.

Battle Hymns

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Not the Usual Suspects

The crowd at Patriots Square Park resembled that at a Stones concert

Beyond Belief

American Atheists prepare to take on Bush's new church-state alliance at regional meet

Tally How

Pregnant chads and butterfly ballots abound as we sort through the latest batch of local CD submissions

Strife With Father

Under fire for charges of behavior unbecoming a priest, controversial pastor Saúl Madrid takes a self-imposed sabbatical

Letters 05-04-2000

Going Ballistic

I'm a marked man -- and I'm not talking about tats

Molten Wax

Analyze Diss

Mumford's mystical psychobabble delivers shrinking returns

Indie Outings

The highs and lows of another adventurous year in the world of indie rock

Letters

The Trashman

Where unit-shifting heroes of rock are exposed as the passionless poseurs they really are

His Master's Voice

FIN AND YANG

CLEAN, SOBER AND STANGE

A NORTHERN ARIZONA FOLK ARTIST REVEALS HIS ALTER EGO

PEROT: THE WET LOOKMYSTERIOUS RAIN SPOT PRECIPITATES INTEREST

UNEQUAL RITESA MORMON WRITER'S FORBIDDEN ACCOUNT OF HER TEMPLE MARRIAGE