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Paolo Soleri Is the True Legend of the Arizona Architecture Scene

Dan Deacon: The Avant-Garde Pop Artist Feels "Out of Place" Everywhere He Goes

When I called and spoke with Dan Deacon earlier this month, he was in the middle of his tour and didn't know where he was (he guessed somewhere between Georgia and North Carolina). Deacon, who is known for many weird side projects and his bizarre, experimental music, has become a popular figure in t ... More >>

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 >>

Phil Roberts Exaggerated the Phoenix PD's Kidnapping Statistics, Then Tried to Debunk His Own Numbers

Russell Pearce in a Pantsuit? Susana Martinez, Much More Than That

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez: Not as easily dismissed as the Dems would likeYou may have read of New Mexico's newly-elected Republican Governor Susana Martinez's executive order rescinding what she's referred to as that state's "sanctuary status," and ordering state police to inquire into the ... More >>

ILLEGAL Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone (Chapter 6)

Glee at Dodge Theatre

Luke HolwerdaThe Glee: Live Tour opens in Phoenix.​Lady Gaga is a free bitch, baby.Bitch. Bitch. Bitchhhhhhhh.You would not know that from last night's world premiere of the hit Fox musadramedy Glee's touring stageshow at Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, where a cadre of stars from the show reprised "Bad ... More >>

J.D. Hayworth Interprets Grant Woods Vampire Quip as Death Threat

Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth​What do you call a vampire who's running for the U.S. Senate? Don't bother asking Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth because the guy's apparently humorless, can't take a joke.Hayworth seems to think that a vampire quip made by former Arizona Attorney General ... More >>

Ex-Con Who Traveled to Virginia to Meet Girl Says He was "Door-to-Door" Salesman in Valley

  Image: www.wavy.comWe just found a reason to support Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio's proposal to regulate door-to-door salespeople: Jesse Lee Wise. As we reported on Friday, Wise was arrested last week in Chesapeake, Virginia and accused by police of taking a bus from the Valley ... More >>

Former New Times Writer Honored

Hot Links: Wittmann Standoff, Newsweek, and Drug Tunnels

Following President Obama's decision in April to lift travel restrictions for Cuban-Americans, many Valley residents who have family in Cuba are taking trips to the country. Phoenix has a small but burgeoning Cuban-American community. Most other Americans are still barred from visiting Cuba or purch ... More >>

ATF Agent Jay Dobyns, Infiltrator of Hells Angels, Says Feds "Abandoned" Him in Tucson House Fire Investigation

  Image: www.youtube.comAn undercover agent who infiltrated the Arizona Hells Angels basically called his federal superiors cowards this morning on NPR for not doing more to find out who burned down his Phoenix home last year. Jay Dobyns, a University of Arizona grad who has been promoti ... More >>

Babak Dehghanpisheh

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

Jonathan Alter

Fifteen years after the Squaw Peak Pots debacle, the Phoenix art community rallies around a public-art project

Absolutely Fabulist

A subdued thriller considers the ominous power of storytelling

Planes Mistaken for Stars

From Newsweek to the Mason Jar

Get It Straight

The road to Ellen was paved with the best of intentions

White Wash

The White Stripes create mystique the old-fashioned way: lying and keeping mum

Escape From Tempe

Assignment to Afghanistan is just another stop for local journalist

Ka-ching Kachina

Sizing up the price of the world's tallest kachina.

Bang to Hype

At SXSW, it's all about the buzz, not the Buzz Band

Letters

From the week of December 20, 2001

Small World

Radio Disney feeds the new pop underground with music for tweens

Cy Fi Fan

Jon Haddock's digital art generates a media buzz and selection in a major exhibition at the Whitney

Letters

From the week of March 22, 2001

Don Henley

Inside Job
(Warner Bros.)

Spender Bender

Campaign contributions buy the strangest things

Dance Fever

Never Too Old to Tango

Los Fabulosos Cadillacs take back the past with La Marcha del Golazo Solitario

Soul Crusaders

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's reunion tour proves that there's still magic in the night

GHB.com

Ingredients for potentially lethal do-it-yourself party drug are just a mouse click away

The Teen Commandments

Why Hollywood's high on children of the multiplex

Flashes

Ladies First

Lilith Fair returns with a more eclectic sequel

Counterfeit Bill

Splashy Primary Colors comes to screen in bold, if uneven, strokes

Slave Labor

Spielberg unshackles high-minded Amistad . . . and You Are There!

Lust for Lifeless

Necrophiliac Kissed a cinematic stiff

Flashes

Levi Stress

Melatonin for Your Sins

A FAKE IN THE LIFEFOR DRAMA'S SAKE, NPR NEWS EMBELLISHES A PHOENIX POLICE DISPATCHER'S WORKDAY

TOMORROWLAND LORD

THE TWO FACES OF ARTBETWEEN THE GODDARD AND JOHNSON ADMINISTRATIONS, PHOENIX'S PUBLIC ART PROGRAM WAS KNOCKED OFF ITS PEDESTAL

GET A READING ON THE NAVAJO-HOPI DISPUTE

NATIONAL PRESS RECOGNIZES R&G

...FOR BROWN-NOSING AND PANDREING

TORCHING THE TWANG

K.D. LANG WAS ALMOST BURIED ON THE LONE PRAIRIE. NOW SHE'S CAUGHT FIRE WITH A HOT NEW ALBUM.

WHY FIFE'S HISTORY