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Arizona State University's Party-School Reputation Apparently Dead at Age 25

After a 25-year run as one of the nation's top party schools, Arizona State University's party-school reputation is likely dead in the eyes of national party-analysts.Just a week after Newsweek gave ASU one of the school's lowest party rankings of all-time at 24th in the nation, the just-released Pr ... More >>

ASU Continues Depressing Showings in Party School Rankings: Newsweek Says 24th

In 2002, Arizona State University was named Playboy's top party school in the nation, dethroning Chico State -- which held the top spot in the nation for 15 years after becoming the first party school crowned by Playboy.ASU's reign among the party schools ended in 2006, when it dropped to third in P ... More >>

Jan Brewer Not on TIME List of Influential People, but DREAM Act Proponent in Past New Times Cover Story Makes the Cut

Despite ranking among the top 20 in TIME magazine's reader poll of the most influential people in the world, Governor Jan Brewer didn't make the cut for the magazine's final list -- even after soliciting votes a little late.On the other hand, a DREAM Act proponent and undocumented woman living in Ar ... More >>

Aaron Johnson's Zine Collection

Roosevelt Row's Lawn Gnome is about to be infused with owner Aaron Johnson's personal collection of self-published zines from authors all over the globe. The 29-year-old is an internationally traveled slam poet and fixture of the downtown Phoenix art scene -- and he's a longtime zine ... More >>

Otro Mundo Featured in NME's 100 New Bands You Have to Hear in 2012

British tabloid NME has a penchant for overstating it -- you know, a new "savoir of rock" every couple weeks -- but they're right on the money with this one: the January 7 issue of the magazine spotlights Phoenix-based Otro Mundo as one of the 100 New Bands You Have to Hear in 2012. The Otro Mundo ... More >>

Men's Health Publisher Drops Push to Stop Nov. 5 AZ Urban Race; Parties Settle

After a name-change and a settlement with the publisher of Men's Health magazine, AZ Urban Race is cleared for take-off on November 5.​ The race will go on!After playing the heavy in a legal fight against a local promoter of an upcoming obstacle-course race, the publisher of Men's Health magaz ... More >>

AZ Urban Race, Formerly AZ Urbanathlon, Faces Possible Restraining Order in Trademark Case; Race Scheduled for November 5

​AZ Urban Race, formerly AZ Urbanathlon, has yet to clear all the hurdles in a lawsuit filed by the publisher of Men's Health magazine.As we reported on October 18, the obstacle-course race hosted by Mountainside Fitness was slapped with a lawsuit by Rodale, Inc., the magazine's publisher. Men's H ... More >>

Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu Sued by National Prison Legal News, With Help From ACLU

Image: www.prisonlegalnews.orgPrison Legal News editor Paul Wright, (with movie star Danny Trejo).​ A national news magazine for prisoners is suing Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu in federal court for the right to distribute its publications to jail inmates.Paul Wright, editor of the Vermont-b ... More >>

Paste Magazine Returns with New Digital Format and mPlayer

​After suspending print issues last August, Paste magazine returned yesterday with a new and improved digital format. Readers will now be treated to weekly issues of the music and culture magazine, via a new mPlayer.The mPlayer will include the popular Paste New Music Sampler, as seven weekly mus ... More >>

Background Checks for College Football Players: Right or Wrong for NCAA?

bcsknowhow.com Does College Football need background checks?​Sports Illustrated ran an article this morning detailing the results of background checks into all college football players who play for the Top 25 ranked schools in the country.   The results are unsurprising: some college ... More >>

Video: Shooting a Glock 19 With a 31-Round Magazine

Quick quiz: The perfect number of bullets in the magazine of a handgun is -- A) Zero. Bullets and handguns shouldn't be sold to anyone but cops. B). Ten. That's the maximum in California, and was the maximum under the expired federal assault rifle ban. C). 16. This is roughly a normal magazine ... More >>

Zac Brown Band

Arizona State University One of Playboy's Top Party Schools Once Again

www.motivatedphotos.com​After a brief fall from grace, thanks -- in part -- to Arizona State University President Michael Crow's ruthless crusade against fun under the disguise of "The New American University," the Sun Devils are back in Playboy magazine's list of top 10 party schools in the count ... More >>

Zac Brown Band

Zac Brown Band

Arty Girl: Write for the Superstition Review Online Magazine

By Arbron on flickr Creative Commons.Fire it up...you've got some writing to do.​So you want to be a published writer, eh? Good news! The Superstition Review online magazine is now accepting submissions.Here, in the offices of the Phoenix New Times, discussing the current state of a career in writ ... More >>

Abe Vigoda

Bald Geeks & Beer Bitches at the Underground Publishing Convention

Remember drawing crayon superheroes on long strips of butcher paper, or doodling X-Men in your spiral bound notebook? Even non-geek kids do that. But sending intern applications to Marvel with hand drawn images of Iron Man, Rogue and She-Hulk crawling around the envelope? Oh, yeah, that was all us. ... More >>

Twilight Author Stephenie Meyer, Indy 500 Driver Danica Patrick and John McCain Finalists for Time's Top 100

  Three high-profile Arizonans are finalists for the "Time 100," Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people of the year. They are: *Stephenie Meyer, Gilbert resident and author of the popular novel, Twilight. Read about Meyer in New Times' 2007 feature story about her. *D ... More >>

Babak Dehghanpisheh

No Depression is Back! ...Sorta

When No Depression, The New York Times of roots music, stopped publishing last May, then stopped updating the site frequently shortly thereafter it left a huge hole in the alt-country scene. Now it's back. Sorta. The magazine, named for a Carter Family/Uncle Tupelo song, launched in 1995 is now a ... More >>

Beer Pong Herpes at ASU? Nope, Say University Officials Trying to Dispel Bogus News Story

A bogus news story about college students getting herpes from a drinking game contained a fake quote from Arizona State University president Michael Crow, according to a correction by the Los Angeles TV station KNBC.The erroneous article claims the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control has ... More >>

"The New Defining Moment: Perspectives on the Presidency and Democracy"

ASU's Research Magazine Eliminating 22-Year-Old Print Publication

Arizona State University's award-winning, full-color Research magazine will publish its last issue in March -- another apparent victim of cost-cutting in the face of economic troubles. "We have been told to re-invent ourselves," says Conrad Storad, the ASU employee who started the magazine in 198 ... More >>

Star Trek Night

Jonathan Alter

Professional critics: An endangered species?

Of Z-Guns and Brainbombs

The Mountain Goats

Elite cloven feet

Winning News

New Times honored by Arizona Press Club and beyond

A to Zine

Why should your D.I.Y. publication D.I.E.?

Student Body

ASU student Jaime Hammer exposes her inner beauty for Playboy's annual College Girls issue

BEST PLACE TO BE A PUNK

www.AZPunk.com

Rock Crock

One man travels through the best of what American music magazines offer -- and needs a shower

Razor's Hugh Hefner

Publisher details his magazine's maxim

Escape From Tempe

Assignment to Afghanistan is just another stop for local journalist

Mick Jagger

Goddess in the Doorway (Virgin)

Best Magazine Selection

Borders Books & Music

Art Pulpitations

Sun City artist Norman Baer looks back at babes, blood baths and bazookas.

Reading the Beat

American dance-music journalism shows it has a long way to go

Hoke Floats

Folksy Norman Rockwell exhibition explores magic in the mundane

American Gotham

New Yorker characters revealed in multileveled Joe Gould's Secret

Flashes

Voas Named Editor

VARIOUS ITEMS IN THE MAIL

Zine-ophobia

CARLE HODGE'S NEEDLESS DEATH

CACTUS COPS WERE STICKLERS SUCCULENT SLEUTHES' POSTS ELIMINATED

NATIONAL PRESS RECOGNIZES R&G

...FOR BROWN-NOSING AND PANDREING

THE SELLING OF ANNIE LEIBOVITZ