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Score Small Bites of Summer at 30 Restaurants in Metro Phoenix

Food festival season is in full swing in other parts of the country, but in the Valley of the Sun, it's already too hot to crowd around outside with a thousand other people to score a bite of meat grilled over the open flame -- even if it is insanely delicious. That's no great loss, however, because ... More >>

ASU Softball Season Ends With Hard-Fought Loss To Oklahoma Sooners

Women's college softball is terrific these days--they can really play ball, and they all look so damned coachable.So, natch, it's very hard to win a national championship, no matter the level, no matter the sport--and Division I fast-pitch definitely is no exception.The Arizona State Sun Devils were ... More >>

ASU Softball Catches Huge Early Break, Beats Oregon In College World Series Opener

Back in the day, we had several occasions to bat against Mike White, a native New Zealander who happened to be one of the greatest fastpitch softball pitchers of all-time. Whitey wasn't a big guy, but had great command of all of his pitches, and was an absolutely fierce competitor.So last night we t ... More >>

ASU Softball Team Up Against Wall In Super-Regionals; Must Win Two Tonight To Advance

The defending national champion ASU Sun Devils softball team will have to beat tough Louisiana-Lafayette twice tonight to advance to the College World Series in Oklahoma City.That, after the Ragin' Cajuns routed the Devils 6-0 last night in Tempe in the first of the best-of-three Super Regionals ser ... More >>

ASU Softball Team Dominant in Winning National Championship Last Night

Arizona State's women's softball team proved once and for all that it is the nation's very best last night, pounding the Florida Gators 7-2 to win the NCAA championship in Oklahoma City.Dallas Escobedo, best pitcher on best team​The Sun Devils swept the best-of-three series against the formidable ... More >>

ASU Softball Team One Win From National Championship After Routing Florida

Strange game, fast-pitch softball.Dallas Escobedo on cusp on taking Sun Devils to national crown​Just last Friday night, the Florida Gators were poised to post a come-from-behind victory over the top-ranked ASU Sun Devils.Alas, the Devils pulled their own comeback and stole a 6-5 victory on their ... More >>

ASU Softball Team Reaches National Championship Finals; Plays Florida Tonight in First of Best-of-Three

Arizona State and Florida, the two best-hitting teams in the Women's College World Series, won berths in the championship finals in Oklahoma City yesterday.ASU softball team hopes to be soon wearing a 2011 version of this cap​The best-of-three series promises to be a great one, with veteran, well- ... More >>

ASU Women's Softball Team Begins Quest For NCAA Crown Today

The top-ranked Arizona State women's softball team takes the field this afternoon against the Oklahoma Sooners in a first-round game at the NCAA World Series in Oklahoma City.NCAA College World Series starts this afternoon​The 4 p.m. game will be nationally televised on ESPN2 (Channel 32). It shou ... More >>

Arizona and ASU Softball Teams Earn Spot in Super-Regionals This Weekend

Both Arizona major-college softball programs rolled through their respective NCAA Regionals over the weekend in Tempe and Tucson, the first of two steps necessary to earn a coveted spot in the College World Series.Freshman ace Dallas Escobedo leads Devils to Super Regionals​ Neither squad rea ... More >>

ASU Softball Team Ranked Nation's Best Going Into NCAA Playoffs

Time was, Arizona State's fast-pitch softball team was a decided lesser-light, an afterthought of a program whose "rivalry" with the Arizona Wildcats was anything but. ASU ace pitcher Dallas Escobedo is one of nation's best.​ But the arrival of a new head coach, Clint Myers, a few years ag ... More >>

Branded: Can Tucson Ever Live It Down?

Airport Security: Clothing Apparently Optional. Woman Gets Through TSA Checkpoint Wearing Nothing But Undies

That's 52-year-old Tammy Banovac -- and those are her bra and panties.​No shirt? No pants? No problem -- at least when trying to get through airport security in Oklahoma City.A 52-year-old woman headed for Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport showed up to a security checkpoint at the Will Ro ... More >>

Toni Braxton Up to Her Eyes in Unbelievable Debt

​R&B singer Toni Braxton has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy again, according to TMZ. She owes between $10 million and $50 million.The companies to which she is indebted include Tiffany & Co., AT&T, The Four Seasons Hotels, and Neiman Marcus. Maybe diamonds aren't a girl's best friend a ... More >>

The Word Alive Scores a Spot on the Billboard Chart

​When Phoenix metalcore band The Word Alive told a New Times reporter it was "about time" the year-old band got signed it was clear the guys were either really smart or really cocky.It's apparently the former: The band's new full-length, Deceiver, landed at #96 on the Billboard Top 100. They're no ... More >>

Food Network's 24 Hour Restaurant Battle Is an Eternity of Boring

​Dreams are awesome. Especially the ones with zombies and double rainbows (oh my God!), but what about the waking dreams we have for our lives? Losing weight, running a marathon, starting a business. Those are cool, too. And for the most part, they take planning. Which is why Food Network's new ... More >>

Landmine Marathon Debuts New Video for "Shadows Fed to Tyrants"

​How do you make a metalhead swoon? Play him the new video for "Shadows Fed to Tyrants" by Phoenix grindcore band Landmine Marathon. If you read my feature on the band last year, you probably didn't have to read between too many lines to figure out that I have a huge crush on lead screamer Grace P ... More >>

Phil Gordon's Anti-SB 1070 Resolution Passed by U.S. Conference of Mayors

usmayors.orgMayor Gordon speaking before the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Oklahoma CityThe U.S. Conference of Mayors, wrapping up their 78th annual meeting in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma today, passed a resolution condemning SB 1070 that had been submitted by Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon. The Gordon resolu ... More >>

Vasectomies Soar Couple of Days Before NCAA Big Dance Starts -- Great Excuse For Couch Potatoes

The Big Dance finally started an hour or so ago, with Florida and BYU going at it in Oklahoma City.   ​We're here at work, occasionally (really) checking the scores on the Internet, just like millions of other March Madness junkies. We already are rethinking our Final Four picks of Ka ... More >>

Was John Mayer's Racist Comment Taken Out of Context?

​No, not exactly. The recent controversy over John Mayer's interview with Playboy has been discussed from nearly every angle since the article came out. The journalist who interviewed him, Rob Tannenbaum, said that there was much more to the interview than the tiny blip that got repeated, re-poste ... More >>

An MCSO Officer Craves an Alleged Terrorist’s John Hancock, Plus Religious Insanity at Phoenix Symphony Hall

Judge in Mahon Brothers Case Denies Motion to Dismiss, Despite MCSO Guard Allegedly Seeking Dennis Mahon's Autograph

Must reading for MCSO detention officers? Federal District Judge David Campbell today denied a motion to dismiss the indictments against white supremacist twin brothers Dennis and Daniel Mahon, who are charged in connection with the 2004 package bombing of Scottsdale's Offi ... More >>

Wannabe Timothy McVeigh Types Welcome: The Neo-Nazi Nationalist Coalition's Phoenix Fall Wing Ding

Like you needed more proof that white supremacists are lame and talentless Are you painfully white, and hate Jews, diversity, Mexicans, and black folk (though not necessarily in that order)? Do you find yourself googly-eyed whenever Adolf Hitler is on the History Channel, or en ... More >>

Tom Metzger's Buds Dennis and Daniel Mahon Collared for Scottsdale Bombing, Arizona ADL Helped Bring Them Down

White supremacist godfather Tom Metzger at the 2004 Aryanfest, from New Times' cover story "Barbecue Nations" Friday morning, I dropped by the offices of U.S. Attorney Diane Humetewa to attend a news conference announcing the indictment of identical twin white supremacists  ... More >>

The Pest Years of Our Lives

Playwright takes the government to task in seedy postwar drama

The Flaming Lips Dazzle at McDowell Mountain Music Festival

Jonathan McNamaraSee more shots of The Flaming Lips in our slide show. Major labels get a lot of flack. Whether it's because they supposedly put out nothing but overly-commercialized crap, or because they're suing computer-using kids in a vain effort to salvage their busted business model, it's rare ... More >>

Janet Napolitano's Not Worried About Right-Wing Extremists, She Nurtured Them as Guv

from the Department of Homeland Security While Guv, she was the best Democrat palsy-walsy the nativists ever had... It's been belly-ticklin' reading all the moonbat paranoia over this recent report on wing-nutbars issued by Janet Napolitano's Department of Homeland Security. Every far right, ... More >>

ASU Sun Devils About to Dance With the Owls

We were in Oklahoma City the last time the ASU men's basketball team took the floor in the wonderful event known to all as March Madness. Led by Ike Diogu, the Sun Devils got stomped by a championship-level Kansas team in the second round after upsetting Memphis a few days earlier. That wo ... More >>

Fear of a Black Prez and Crazy White Folks with Guns

Why worry? As The Turner Diaries reveals, ofays and guns go together like grits and runny eggs. What the hell is wrong with white people? Numerous media reports of late have detailed a run on gun stores by crazed crackers who believe the new black President-elect will take their firearms away shor ... More >>

Republiloon Karen Johnson visits moonhowler Alex Jones' radio show, signals she's straitjacket-ready.

Newsaxon.com, the neo-Nazi MySpace, with hot racist chicks galore.

Big in Japan

Tempe rapper Intrinzik's journey from the Valley of the Sun to the Land of the Rising Sun

Designs on Greater Things

New SMoCA show celebrates the ordinary

Barbecue Nations

Aryanfest was hardly the badass event it billed itself. Shaved-headed men hugged each other like they were at a gay pride picnic.

Covert Fuzz

Short-wave radio, with its fringe elements and bizarre discoveries, is a living, breathing organism

Identity Crisis

Court committee considers keeping the names of jurors secret

The Flaming Lips

Finally the Punk Rockers Are Taking Acid, 1983-1988;

The Day They Shot a Hole in the Jesus Egg -- The Priest Driven Ambulance Album, Demos and Outtakes, 1989-1991 (Rykodisc/Restless)

Best Saturday-Night Date For Classical Music Lovers

Robert Moody
Associate conductor, Phoenix Symphony

The Power of Five

Fifteen Minutes Fast is in no hurry to use up its quarter-hour of local fame

All God's Children

When terrorists breed hatred among us, they've already won the war

Letters

For the week of 06-22-2000

Flashes

Varinsky or Varoutsky?

Renowned trial consultant helped Symington defense decide who would serve on the jury

Beware of the Dogma

When KFYI radio host John Dayl spews mindless hate, David Winkler listens

Affirmative Reactionaries

Arizona's militias aren't the exclusive domain of white supremacists - people of color are joining the ranks, too.

Recordings

NONE DARE CALL IT REASONARIZONA IS A HOTBED OF CONSTITUTIONALIST DISSENT, AND HERE ARE FOUR WHO FUEL THE PATRIOT FLAME

OKIE DOKEY

A KILLER CONVENTION

THE IMAGE-CONSCIOUS NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION ALLOWED NO NOISY FIREFIGHTS DURING ITS ANNUAL MEETING. EVERYONE WAS USING SILENCERS.

FLASHES, 5-11

FLASHES