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Angel Olsen Doesn't Want to Sell You Anything but Her Music

Angel Olsen's Beautiful Folk Music Probably Won't Show Up in Car Commercials

Singer/songwriter Angel Olsen skipped out on SXSW 2013. Though she's hardly indignant about it, the industry showcase just doesn't speak to the sensibilities displayed on Olsen's gorgeous noir-folk Half Way Home, released by Bathetic Records in 2012. Those songs, like the wounded but sensual "Lonely ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Collecting Old Cars and the American Dream

Peoria Man Accused of Stealing Police Car -- After Being Handcuffed in the Back Seat

A Peoria man is accused of driving off in a police car this morning, after being handcuffed behind his back and placed in the back of the car.Peoria police spokesman Jay Davies tells New Times that today's events started around 6:30 a.m., as 24-year-old Nicholas Wade Fields allegedly broke into a ho ... More >>

Metallica Curates Orion Music and More Festival: Who Picked Which Bands?

Metal legends Metallica recently announced the two-day Orion Music and More Festival, where the band will headline each night by playing a different classic album, Ride the Lightning and The Black Album, in their entirety. There's a super-long video on the festival site featuring an interview with t ... More >>

Fred Knadler, Valley Businessman, Arrested in Plot to Kill Estranged Wife

​Fred Knadler, the owner of Phoenix-based Arizona Shower Door, is looking at a pretty pricey divorce from his wife of 17 years. So, police say, he concocted a scheme to make her "go away."Things didn't quite work out as planned -- a man he enlisted to help carry out the alleged murderous plot told ... More >>

Brocked Up: Supervisor Fulton Brock Attempted to Cover Up the Sexual Liaisons Between His Wife, Daughter and a Teenage Boy

County Supervisor Fulton Brock Asked Former County Attorney to Recommend Sex Abuse Defense Lawyers a Month Before He Claims to Have Learned of Wife's Affair With Teenage Boy

Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock asked former County Attorney Rick Romley for lawyer advice a month before his wife was arrested for sexually abusing a teenage boy.​A month before claiming to be "flabbergasted" by the news that his wife was having a sexual relationship with a teenage ... More >>

Henry Morello, 84, Missing Since Last Monday, Found Alive and Well (and Full of Wiper Fluid)

Henry Morello was found alive and well over the weekend.​Henry Morello, the 84-year-old man reported missing last week, was found alive and well over the weekend, and he apparently survived nearly a week in the desert by drinking diluted windshield washer fluid.Morello was last seen Monday in the ... More >>

Missing Old Person Alert: 84-Year-Old Henry Morello

If you've seen 84-year-old Henry Morello, call the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office.​The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is asking the public's help in tracking down a missing Cave Creek man.Henry Morello, 84, was last seen in the Cave Creek area. He drives a pale green 2007 Lexus SUV with Arizon ... More >>

The Susan Brock Sex Scandal

Susan Brock Police Report: Removal of "Temple Garments," a Meeting With LDS Officials, and Way Too Many Sex Toys for One Woman to Keep in Her Car

Susan Brock faces a minimum of seven years in prison when she sentenced in March. The Chandler Police Department released the full report on the Susan Brock sex scandal this morning, and it's a doozy.   Turns out that she, her county supervisor husband, Fulton Brock, and the parents ... More >>

Charges Dropped Against Valley's Second-Most-Infamous Serial Speedster

Elvis Saloum​A Valley speedster fought that law and actually won.Back in November, we told you about Elvis Saloum, a real-estate agent from Peoria, who managed to rack up 55 photo-radar speeding tickets while driving his mom's Lexus.Saloum got busted speeding on nearly every Valley freeway a ... More >>

Zooey Deschanel and Three Other Jazz Singers Who Just Can't Sing

DPS Sends Photo Radar Ticket to Designer of Novelty License Plate After a Truck Sporting the Decorative Plate Was Caught Speeding

www.azsmartblonde.com​Here's a new way to potentially beat the dreaded photo-radar cameras: Buy a novelty license plate.This method apparently worked for one Arizona speeder, whose large white Dodge pickup truck went speeding past a photo radar station and the camera snapped a shot of the li ... More >>

Phoenix Police Release Sketch of Man Who Beat and Robbed a 90-Year-Old Woman

Phoenix Police Department This is a sketch of the man police say beat and robbed a 90-year-old woman in Phoenix over the weekend​Phoenix police released a sketch today of the man they believe beat and robbed a 90-year-old woman in her Phoenix home over the weekend.On October 10, police say ... More >>

Doug MacEachern, aka, "Mr. Provincial," Takes a Swipe at His Betters at The New York Times

Is it just me, or is MacEachern looking more and more like the old dood from Family Guy these days?Here's a big surprise, the Republic's lead curmudgeon Doug "Mossback" MacEachern doesn't like it that the New York Times recently labeled Cactus Country a "State of Fear," due to our loss of Janet Napo ... More >>

On anchor babies and hanging out in the garage

Bangin' Blow-out

The Kreme Machine lands in Barcelona and parties with the bootylicious Zowie Bowie

Boyz N the Studio

Pimping ain't easy

Eco Trip

SolFest proves it is easy being green

Tough Row To Ho

Can the city's seediest street ever be cleaned up, much less gentrified?

Original Soul

This time, it's personal: Our look back at an intimate year in music.

Mollusk Massacre

At Nantucket Seafood and Raw Bar, there are bivalves dying foryou sins

Letters

Letters from the week of June 26, 2003

Report Card

Spielberg's Minority Report gets good grades until the end

Duh Press

Fear and self-loathing at the Minority Report junket

Tuesdays with Si

Life lessons over the Ping-Pong table

Much Ado About Numbers

Arts groups are discovering that counting heads doesn't really add up to arts success

Big Audio Dynamite

Alma Gates' car stereo can kill you, set world records and possibly save mankind

Live by the Sword

Jim Jarmusch brings new tricks to samurai-themed Ghost Dog

Unhairy Carey

His body shaven and painted silver, photographer Bob Carey explores upside-down syndrome

Grist for the Millennium

Y2K hucksters cash in on fear of cataclysmic calendar crash 'n' burn

The Hype and the Mighty

Review-proof Star Wars prequel? Jedi set, go!

Shooting Star

Three years ago, at the pinnacle of their 15-year career, local rock heroes the Meat Puppets vanished from view, after bass player Cris Kirkwood became addicted to cocaine and heroin. The story only gets worse from there.

Untouched by an Anglo

The Manhattan Project

N.Y.-bred Lyricist Lounge explodes on the hip-hop nation with a national tour

Second Helpings

Second Helpings

"Parallel to Hell"

The life and style of Queensbridge, New York, "street journalist" Nas: in his own rhymes

Slab Report

The Living Lawyer Joke

Q: What do you call someone who allegedly forges signatures, takes clients for hundreds of thousands of dollars, lies to police and helps burn down a building in an insurance scam? A: Until very recently, an attorney in good standing.

Bean a Long Time Coming

Starbucks, the high-powered gourmet coffee-house chain, finally finds grounds for expansion into Arizona

Second Helpings

Formal Complaint

High-fashion salesman Dick Kovacic knows how to make women look good. So why are national pundits and congressmen trying to make him look bad?

DEATH OF A WHIZ KID

BY AGE 30, SHELDON WEINER WAS ONE OF CHARLIE KEATING'S TOP LIEUTENANTS. TEN YEARS LATER, HE COMMITTED SUICIDE IN A TOY STORE PARKING LOT.

ALL RAPPED UP

HE'S HOT. HE'S COLD. HE'S ICE CUBE.

BOXING YOUR EARS

IF YOU'VE GOT CASH IN YOUR WALLET AND TIME ON YOUR HANDS, BOXED SETS ARE FOR YOU

YOUNG GUNS

THE COSMO GRILL