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Mesa Doctor Gabriel Ogbonnaya Found Not Guilty of a Dozen Sex-Abuse Charges

A Mesa doctor who was charged with a dozen sex-abuse charges in 2010 was found not guilty yesterday by a jury of his peers.Gabriel Ogbonnaya, who was a physician with Healing Touch Internal Medicine in Mesa, was accused by multiple women of making sexual advances toward them in his capacity as a doc ... More >>

The Movies to Know from Sundance -- and the Year Ahead

10 Favorite (Restaurant) Doughnuts in Greater Phoenix

Homer Simpson sold his soul to the devil for one, 30 Rock's Liz Lemon loves putting them in the microwave, and on the first Friday of June each year, we celebrate their very existence. It's the doughnut. While readily available at bakeries and shops, snatching one up at a Valley restaurant is a bit ... More >>

Ike Diogu (Onetime ASU Basketball Great) and Eric Boateng (Onetime ASU Not-So-Great) In Olympic Games

See Also: Destiny's Child See Also: Winning Season It doesn't seem that long ago, but it's almost been a decade since a precocious freshman basketball player named Ike Diogu led Arizona State University to the second-round of the NCAA championships. His given name was Ikechukwu Somtochukwu Diogu ... More >>

The Best of Coachella: Sunday, April 15

See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Saturday, April 14 *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs Wow, that was fast! In a whirlwind of top-notch performances from legends and buzz bands alike, pool parties, and rain, Coachella's first weekend is over. Here are our scribes' favorite moments from Sund ... More >>

Fu-Fu Cuisine: Where Africa Meets the Caribbean

Fu-Fu Cuisine Is a Journey to Africa and the Caribbean

To eat at Fu-Fu Cuisine on Phoenix's west side, is a journey far from the sprawling Arizona desert. The new restaurant owned by Esther Mbaikambey, who was born in Nigeria and spent her high school years in Jamaica, offers a culinary journey to Africa and Caribbean.

Big Brain Awards 2012: Meet This Year's Finalists

Big Brain Finalist 2012: Esther Mbaikambey

You submitted nominations for awards given to the Valley's emerging creatives and the results are in. Introducing our Big Brain 2012 Finalists. Leading up to the Big Brain Award awards announcement and celebration on April 7, Chow Bella and Jackalope Ranch will introduc ... More >>

Fu-Fu Cuisine Is Fun to Say and Eat, and Focuses on African and Caribbean Cuisine (Okay, There's Spaghetti and Meatballs, Too)

Get this: yassa chicken​When a new spot opens in town, we can't wait to check it out -- and let you know our initial impressions. Share a few photos, some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that have just opened, samp ... More >>

Seven Psychedelic Tunes to Get Psyched for Dead Meadow

Dead Meadow​Dead Meadow's coming through town tonight with Drainbow and Strangers Family Band, so expect the Rhythm Room to get a little frizzle-fried by the band's psychedelicized rockers. Three Kings, the band's most recent release, drags listeners through a bluesy, backwards-glancing psych- ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio and His Fiesta Bowl Freebie

Immigrants Who Fight Deportation Are Packed Into Federal Gulags for Months or Years Before Their Cases Are Heard

Ask a Mexican on Staying Stuck on the Bottom Rungs

Davila 666 Last Night at The Yucca Tap Room

​Davila 666Yucca Tap RoomTuesday, March 22One of the great things about rock & roll is its lack of language barrier. I don't need to speak Nigerian to know that the Nigeria 70 comps rule -- don't need to learn Japanese in order to turn Boris up too loud -- or understand German to zone out to A ... More >>

Sundance: Cults and Uncertain Futures Dominate the Festival

Assassination Threat Sent to Phoenix New Times Writer Turns Out to Be Scam

Wikimedia Commons There's not a hitman in the bush, after all.​ Turns out that someone didn't pay a hitman to kill us -- after all. This morning, we received an e-mail at work titled, "Do or Die, Urgent Reply" from one "Hitman Sapp." Sapp wrote that he'd been following us for some time, and ... More >>

An SB 1070 Prediction: The Feds Will Come to the Rescue

Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo

Nigerian-Like Scam Hits Our Inbox--We Run for Cover!

Just about everyone we know who routinely plays around on the Net -- which is just about everyone -- has gotten a Nigerian scam letter.   ​You gotta know the deal: Someone has $30 million awaiting them in a Swiss bank, or something, but only if you fork over $3,000 or so to the cause. ... More >>

Arizona Republic Disqualifies Best Local Band Candidates Without Comment, Crowns Jimmy Eat World

​The Arizona Republic's website, AZCentral.com runs an annual "Reader's Choice" contest which everyone should know by now is a huge farce.Editors have, for example, allowed the nomination of two canceled music festivals in the "Best Music Festival" category. So, yeah, it's a joke and everyone shou ... More >>

Huun-Huur-Tu and Carmen Rizzo Bring An Ecclectic and Avant-Garde Mix To Scottsdale

​If you thought the newly opened Musical Instrument Museum was diverse in its selection of exotic instruments from around the world (where Nigerian hausa trumpets and a Burmese saung guak harp are housed in the same building as Eric Clapton's stratocasters), try checking out the multifaceted l ... More >>

Joe Arpaio on Nightline: Mexicans Bring Disease Into the U.S. (Ahem, Not), and Probably Built His House

Tonight on ABC's Nightline: Joe spouts more bigoted blather Nightline's piece on our corrupt top constable runs tonight -- you know, the one ABC was working on when they sent Nightline talking head Martin Bashir to Phoenix to cover one of Arpaio's anti-immigrant sweeps last ... More >>

Big Brothers

Mixed-race ensemble play authentic afro-pop

Flesh Trade

Tired of Inc.? Try Ink.

The Check Is in the E-mail

Hilarious true tale lifts C-list actor out of obscurity

Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

By Randall RobertsAny knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive hous ... More >>

A Hard Day's Day

Diary of a Fat Black Woman

Mo'Nique gets her groove on

Reigning Cats and Dawgs

A stylus assault at Old Brickhouse

Thrilling Me

Not-so-softly with their songs

Speed Queens

Peoria teen sisters are racing toward success on the track and off

Ice Creamed

Paradise Valley police picked the wrong black man to stop

Cuba Gear

Havana good time at SMoCA

Critics VS 2002: Rebuilding From Ash

2002 spent the year in a 9/11 hangover. Through the confusion, notable and amazing works still arose

Various Artists

Mali Music (Astralwerks)

Art and Soul

Martin Sexton, rock music's black sheep, strikes out on his own. Again.

Letters

Letters

Blade Runner

Who's the Man?

With Suge Knight in prison, onetime receptionist Norris Anderson is now the big man on Death Row

A Quiet Voice Against the Death Penalty

Amnesty International's Dr. Daniel Georges-Abeyie coolly argues the case against capital punishment in our hang-'em-high state

For the Halibut

Basic Black

BLACK LIKE SHE

TWILIGHT OF THE GOD

POP GOES THE REVOLUTIONARYTHOMAS MAPFUMO PREPS FOR AN INVASION OF THE WEST

THE SUNNY KINGTHIS NIGERIAN SUPERSTAR RULES THE REALM OF WORLD MUSIC

WHY JAPAN DOES IT BETTER