Subject: P.T. Barnum

• FLACK ATTACK

  February 24, 1993

• Freak Magnate

  Valley homeboy Jim Rose has fashioned himself into a P.T.Barnum for the postmodern era

  November 23, 1995

• Pic Hits for the week

  February 13, 1997

• Angle Heart

  Scottsdale's Greg Crane calls himself an entrepreneur. Prosecutors in three states call him a grifter. But he's such a young man.

  October 16, 1997

• Letters

  June 10, 1999

• Letters

  09-14-2000

  September 14, 2000

• Letters

  Letters from the week of February 24, 2005

  February 24, 2005

• The Bird Defends a Hispanic Woman Whose Wing Was Clipped by the MCSO, and Knocks Guadalupe Mayor Frankie Montiel's Idea of Din-Din with Arpaio

  March 19, 2009

• Show of Farce

  July 10, 2008

• Show of Farce

  June 26, 2008

• Dr. Feelgood

  Moore's pill goes down easy, but his diagnosis still devastates

  June 28, 2007

• The Police

  They've been practicing

  June 14, 2007

• Letters From the Issue of Thursday, April 5, 2007

  April 5, 2007

• Burn, Baby, Burn!

  Butch-lesbian nativist Laine Lawless loves incinerating Mexico's flag. Is she a dangerous wacko or a proud patriot?

  February 15, 2007

• Sleepytime Gorilla Museum

  Modern sideshow in the center ring

  February 17, 2005

• Operation Mickey Mouse

  Could downtown Phoenix get more soulless? Yep! Check out Jerry Colangelo's secret plan.

  November 20, 2003

• Still Smilin'?

  Part Disney, part Barnum, the man who saved comics is all Stan Lee

  July 10, 2003

• The Bleeding Edge

  A decade ago, Vertigo started a revolution by making comics for adults

  February 13, 2003

• Surreal World

  Two Chicago artists dive into the past and come up with gold at Scottsdale's Lisa Sette Gallery

  January 9, 2003

• Perry Farrell

  Song Yet to Be Sung (Virgin Records)

  August 16, 2001

• Ring Cycle

  How many registered phrases can one circus pack into its clown car? Read on.

  June 21, 2001

• Letters 04-13-2000

  April 13, 2000

• Halloween VI: Election Fright!

  In the sixth congressional district, J.D. Hayworth and Steve Owens have run campaigns so devoid of content it's almost scary

  October 31, 1996

• THAR SHE FROZE!REFRIGERATED WHALE TO CHILL OUT IN THE ARIZONA DESERT AFTER 30 YEARS ON SHOW-BIZ ROAD

  April 20, 1995

• SPIRITED CONVERSATION PSYCHIC DEATH COUNSELORS JUMP ON THE GRIEVING TRAIN

  July 21, 1994

• Anti-Vaccine Ron Paul Insaniacs (aka, "Ronulans") Rousted by Phoenix PD, and Man Could I Care Less

  Well, at least they weren't using old bedsheets this time around Normally, I could give a flip if someone hangs a banner off a freeway overpass. But these Ron Paul-worshipping hosers so annoy me with their conspiracy-a-minute mills and their wack, home-made signs spouting the nonsense that "vaccines equal poison" that I was somewhat amused by this video by the Ronulans at RP 4409 (a YouTube site pimped heavily by Freedom's Phoenix, home to that P.T. Barnum of political thought, pistol-packin'

  September 1, 2009

• Sunday Service at Obama-Hater Pastor Steve Anderson’s Tempe Church, and Details of Inmate Marcia Powell’s Autopsy

  September 3, 2009