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Top Metal Festivals of 2013

When the lineup for Rock on the Range was announced last week, a flurry of emails between myself and three other of my fellow chick metal journalists/enthusiasts ensued regarding flights, hotels, and tickets. We had all attended the weekend festival together in 2012, and relished the thought of a he ... More >>

Which MCSO Employee Gave the Most Likely Explanation of "Crime Suppression" Sweeps?

See also: MCSO Sergeant Says Main Goal Is to Catch Illegal ImmigrantsSee also: Deputy Chief Brian Sands' Testimony Contradicted by His Statements in 2010 See also: Joe Arpaio's Deputy: Sheriff Is Misinformed About Illegal Immigration Patrols See also: Joe Arpaio Struggles in Racial-Profiling Trial S ... More >>

MCSO Sergeant Says Main Goal Is to Catch Illegal Immigrants, Contradicting Deputy Chief Brian Sands' Testimony

See also: Deputy Chief Brian Sands' Testimony Contradicted by His Statements in 2010See also: Joe Arpaio's Deputy: Sheriff Is Misinformed About Illegal Immigration PatrolsSee also: Joe Arpaio Struggles in Racial-Profiling Trial See also: Joe Arpaio's (ahem) Legal Scholar Brett Palmer and Brian Sand ... More >>

Joe Arpaio's Taliban, Nativist Steve Camarota, and More Problems for the MCSO

See also: MCSO Sergeant Says Main Goal Is to Catch Illegal Immigrants, Contradicting Deputy Chief Brian Sands' Testimony See also: Joe Arpaio Struggles in Racial-Profiling Trial See also: Joe Arpaio Looks Like Tired, Old Racist on Stand During Racial-Profiling Trial See also: Joe Arpaio's (ahem) Leg ... More >>

La Mala Rodriguez @ Crescent Ballroom

A Friends of James Beard Dinner in Our Own Backyard Last Night

Is a trip to NYC and a dinner at the famed James Beard House on your "bucket list"? Note to self, a taste of the experience and access to James Beard award winning chefs from across the nation is right in your backyard. Well, it was last night, anyway. While the James Beard Foundation celebrates ... More >>

Sadie Madrid Left Dead Dogs To Rot In Her Apartment For Nearly Two Months

Dead puppies are no fun -- just ask 21-year-old Sadie Elizabeth Madrid, who was apparently so bored with her dead dogs that she left them to rot in her apartment for nearly two months.Madrid's two dogs got sick in early December -- they were throwing up, losing weight, etc. Rather than take the pooc ... More >>

Coddling Joe: How Do You Collaborate With a Felon?

Closed for Business: Toast Breakfast Boutique

​Yesterday was the last day of business for the short-lived Toast Breakfast Boutique. Our lease was up and it's time for something new," says owner Vine Saccento. "(We're) also very busy with v100modbox (Saccento's prefab housing structures) -- we will be putting them on t ... More >>

The Love Me Nots in Europe: The Hilarious Google-Translated Version

http://happy-few.tumblr.comA fan photo from the Love Me Nots European tour.​How is The Love Me Nots tour of Europe going? Pretty well, at least according to the foreign language reviews we're reading with the help of Google Translate.Now, honestly, it's sorta hard to tell just how professional the ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Sanctioned by Judge in Racial Profiling Lawsuit, Must Do-Over Deposition

photo by Adriane Goetz A second deposition? This time, I gotta read that book I wrote...District Court Judge G. Murray Snow has ordered sanctions in the big Melendres v. Arpaio racial profiling lawsuit still ongoing in federal court. The sanction addresses in a very measured way the systematic destr ... More >>

Arpaio Brings His MCSO Circus to ASU's Cronkite School, and Deputies Admit Destroying Public Records

Joe Arpaio's Deputies Admit Destroying Evidence in Racial Profiling Lawsuit

Nixon redux: Document shredding, deleted e-mails. What's next, secret tapes?In a stunning revelation recently made public as part of the ongoing federal civil rights lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Department and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, an MCSO sergeant has admitted that the departmen ... More >>

Cabin Fever: Camp Creek’s Cabin Owners Say the New District Ranger Is Driving Them Out

Battle of the Breakfast Sandwiches

Drip Coffee Lounge vs. Tammie Coe Cakes & MJ BreadA reader suggested we compare breakfast sammies and we were more than delighted to oblige. That's how we ended up spending Sunday morning flitting between two popular downtown Phoenix eateries. It was an ideal time to scope out the breakfast sand ... More >>

Soy Meets Girl

Veggie Society strikes a raw nerve in Tempe

Limits of Control: Wandering Spain with Jim Jarmusch’s "Lone Man"

Opera & Ballet Film Series: La Boheme

Opera & Ballet Film Series: Tamerlano

Phoenix Fringe Festival: 35 Minutes

Phoenix Fringe Festival: Identity

Top Ten Latin Music Albums of 2008

By Julienne GageAmericans who still think of Latin music as mariachi bands and gyrating Ricky Martins and Shakiras might want to lend a closer ear to the genre. This country's Hispanic population isn't just growing, it's growing more diverse. More and more unique musical styles are being gobbled up, ... More >>

Hail Marry

In any language, this upbeat musical means “’80s pop”

Marcos Najera asks the Fifth Question – am I a Jew?

Best intentions: Jump high or stay home

Information Blockade

The sheriff's made a career of stonewalling critical media — the public's right to know be damned

Alejandro Sanz

Spyro Gyra

Still not a Greek pasta dish

Westcor Weenies

This raucous raven demands: Is Westcor taking a cue from the Jim Crow South, or is io's closing really about a lame-o lease dispute?

Bugs and Basques

Mexican TV humor and surname sticklers

Shocket Shocker: It's alive!

Un-American Dream

An immigrant's pursuit of a European fantasy

Hypocritic Oath

California's rent-a-patient scam has reaped millions for greedy physicians, clinics and patients

Tapas Dancing

Bistro Madrid is a place for profound contentment

All You Can Eat, or Else

Sushi eaters clean their plates -- or pay the price

The Unusual Suspects

DG's revamped and renovated -- now it reorganizes

War of the Words

With big dollars at stake, rival newspapers duke it out to capture Valley's rapidly growing Hispanic market

Strife With Father

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

Mass Confusion

Bishop's guarded statement of support for embattled pastor further inflames critics

Holy War

Demonstrators launch boycott and announce plans for legal action against the Catholic diocese

Letters 08-10-2000

Altar Ego, Power of Babel...

Immaculate Heartbreak

Three months after a fire gutted Phoenix's oldest Hispanic Catholic church, its pastor is feeling the heat and parishioners are steaming

Brand New Year

Having averted a millennial apocalypse, it's time to catch up on the latest in heritage in roots music

Madre Squad

Almodóvar's All About My Mother more fun than Spanish fly

Spain Check

Romantic comedy Spanish Fly sinks under weight of American neurosis

Murphy's Law

Year after year, Murphy school district officials watched their students die in a hail of violence. They decided to take matters into their own hands.

Night & Day

June 11 - 17, 1998

The Joy of Sacks

HE'S SPANISH PINK AND CURSED

HONESTY IS THE BEST ANODYNEUNCLE TUPELO KEEPS ITS MIDWESTERN ROOTS ON THE WAY TO LOW-TECH SUCCESS