Subject: Manufacturing Sector

• High noon: Lawyers for Jarrett Maupin and the City of Phoenix slug it out in court; Judge Swann promises ruling before 5 p.m.

  August 8, 2007

• MONITOR LAGGARDS

  WHEN IT COLLECTS AIRBORN SAMPLES OF RADIOACTIVE DUST, PALO VERDE THINKS SMALL

  June 8, 1994

• SECOND HELPINGS

  October 27, 1994

• SHORT-SHEETEDSTATE SCRAMBLES TO KEEP ITS PAPER-PUSHERS IN BUSINESS

  May 18, 1995

• A Shut and Open Case

  TRW's air-bag plant was closed because of chronic explosions. Mesa officials weren't ready for the political explosion that followed.

  October 12, 1995

• Candied Camera

  Willy Wonka's dark chocolate still tasty at 25

  August 29, 1996

• Gross Out: Fenix Eatery & Bar gets Two "No Award" Inspections

  October 23, 2008

• The Devil and Todd McFarlane

  Spawn's creator revolutionized the comic-book industry. But did he survive Hollywood with his soul intact?

  July 31, 1997

• Shirt Happens

  Budding urban-wear mogul takes Phoenix's MosDef label to the streets

  April 23, 1998

• Smoke and Beers

  Senator John McCain may have turned his back on tobacco, but alcohol still gets a free ride

  June 4, 1998

• Sense of Humidor

  June 18, 1998

• Maquila Wages, Sans Slums

  July 9, 1998

• Putting Globe on the Map

  As the gritty old mining town tries to broaden its economic base, residents debate how much of its future lies in its past

  July 30, 1998

• Best Bread Bakery

  Willo Baking Company
  534 West McDowell
  602-254-0005

  September 21, 2000

• Phoenix Fringe Festival: The Next Best Thing

  April 2, 2009

• Best Place To Open A Business If You're Not Good With Names

  Downtown Mesa

  September 20, 2001

• Best Place To See The State Bird

  Old MacDonald's Ranch

  September 26, 2002

• Letters

  Letters from the week of July 17, 2003

  July 17, 2003

• BEST MAKEUP SELECTION

  Sephora

  September 18, 2003

• Hot Pink Perdition

  The night crew checks out an after-hours hot spot

  February 19, 2004

• The Big Sleazy

  Tall trannies, polyamorous pagans and tipsy rounds of tonsil hockey: That's Hot Pink! redux, baby

  February 2, 2006

• 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

• The New Black

  Clothes to the edge in Scottsdale

  July 19, 2007

• Arty Girl: HRC Gala Auction Donations - check 'em out

  Now, doesn't that sound fancy?That's because it kinda is. The HRC Arizona Gala is on its fifth year of organizing an art auction to benefit The Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America's largest civil rights organization working to achieve gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender equality.And you can check out the goods this weekend, during Art Detour.

  March 4, 2009

• Gross Out: Mice at Wright on Main

  At Wright on Main (on Main Street in Mesa), Maricopa County restaurant inspectors recently found something rare -- at least, it hasn't turned up in dozens of inspection reports reviewed in the last few months. Mice. And roaches. Also "excessive" droppings from both. (What would qualify as non-excessive, one wonders?) Food pans were dusty, some had dried food on them. There were no "use by" dates for open containers of sour cream, cottage cheese and gravy. There was excessive trash on the

  March 11, 2009

• Gross Out: Towel Trouble at Tomaso's

  Of the last five restaurant inspections completed at Tomaso's Italian restaurant on East Camelback Road in Phoenix, five resulted in a failing grade. At the most recent inspection, in early March, the inspector noted dried food debris on the interior of the microwave and surfaces of the slicer. The meat bandsaw for cutting steaks contained "excessive dried raw meat residue". And so on. But the worst thing on the inspection report?

  March 25, 2009

• Food for Thought

  December 11, 2008

• Must Love Hogs

  October 30, 2008

• Doobie Brutha

  Dope rapper spins yarns about sex and sticks

  October 16, 2008

• The Symbol Life

  September 4, 2008

• Men Wax On, Women Wax Off

  March 13, 2008

• Popular Mechanics

  January 17, 2008

• Meat Me at the Fair

  Free grub. Mmm.

  October 25, 2007

• DIY Hard with a Vengeance

  August 9, 2007

• Butt Rock

  Ride hard without the . . . well, you know

  July 26, 2007

• Next Big Things

  The five biggest attention-getters at E3

  May 25, 2006

• Shell Game

  What's it selling? Everything

  May 18, 2006

• Generation Next

  Microsoft's Xbox 360 fires the first shot in the next-gen console war

  January 5, 2006

• Paper Pusher

  The message is the medium

  September 1, 2005

• Dollyrots

  December 16, 2004

• A Good Cigar Is a Smoke

  December 2, 2004

• Politics: A Smelly, Puking Habit

  Mayor Rimsza urges reticent council to embrace local antitobacco enforcement

  May 16, 1996

• Mayoral Smoke Screen?

  Rimsza blasts cigarette makers, then endorses tobacco-industry legislation

  January 18, 1996

• Where There's Smoke

  There are Friends of Tobacco. And antismoking advocates worry that behind-the-scenes machinations may water down a state campaign to discourage teen smoking.

  January 4, 1996

• F*cked Up, Xiu Xiu Stick It to The Man, or At Least Camel

  Back in 2007 R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. ran an ad disguised as editorial content in Rolling Stone which featured an insert called "The Indie Rock Universe" that had cartoons and features on indie rock bands. F*cked Up and Xiu Xiu have both sued the company over using their names in the feature.A number of States have also filed suit for completely different legal reasons. The artist are suing over the unauthorized use of their names in the ads and the implication that they endorsed the produc

  May 14, 2009

• Death to Chocolate in Phoenix?

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/misbehave/Lately, it's gotten downright impossible to get a chocolate fix in Phoenix. Sure, you can still find a Milky Way at Walgreen's, but we're not looking for the waxy stuff that you'd find in a 5-year-old's trick or treat bag. We want our chocolate grown up, funky-flavored and locally made. Recently there's been a trifecta of chocolate tragedy with the closure of three chocolate spots in town: Godiva Chocolatier, Granny's Chocolate Creations, and Chath

  June 19, 2009

• Robots to do Battle at MetroCenter; Youths From Maricopa Skill Center Showcasing Summer Project

  Image: Wikimedia Commons The rip of metal skin, the smell of electric motors overheating, the excited faces of young nerds in button-down, short-sleeve shirts... If you love a good robot fight like we do, tread on down to Metrocenter this Friday from 10 a.m. to noon. It may not be as exciting as a scuffle between Optimus and Megatron, but there ought to be some entertaining take-downs. Budding builders from 16 to 25 who spent part of their summer learning manufacturing at the Maricopa Skill

  July 16, 2009

• World Technology Award Results: Drumroll Please...

  Here's an update for those following the nomination of our intrepid algae-to-rocket fuel ASU inventors for the World Technology Award: Looks like scientists Qiang Hu and Milton Sommerfeld fell just short: The energy award was given on Friday to Zhengrong Shi from Suntech Power Holdings Co., for his work on solar energy. We say solar energy, shmolar energy. Green rocket fuel is so much cooler!

  July 20, 2009

• "Robots: The Interactive Exhibition"

  September 24, 2009

• Hot Links: Speed Cameras, Arizona Game and Fish, and Joe Biden in the Valley

  ​Vice President Joe Biden will be in the Valley today for the first time since being elected. Biden will be holding a roundtable discussion about how stimulus money is benefiting Arizona at Sky Harbor International Airport after going to a fundraiser for Arizona Democrats... A Chinese solar panel company announced Sunday that it will be basing its North American headquarters somewhere in the Valley. Suntech Power Holdings Co. plans to build a 100,000 square foot facility tha

  November 16, 2009