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Rick Perry's Texas Is a Fantasy Land

A Band of Screw-Ups at KWSS-FM Work at Waging a 100-Watt Revolution

Katy Perry Coming to Phoenix (Thank Her Sponsor, Schick Razors!)

​Skankstress Katy Perry just announced a tour date for Phoenix's Comerica Theatre on August 3.It's part of a "California Dreams" tour that starts on June 7 in Atlanta and runs through August 14, the second show in Katy's hometown Santa Barbara, California. Tickets, priced pretty modestly at $3 ... More >>

Badlands: For Those Living in the Arizona County That's Ground Zero for Drug and Human Trafficking Along the Border, the Illegal Immigration Crisis Is Personal

Big Brains: Check Out the Talented Finalists for Our First-Ever Awards for Emerging Creatives

Doug Lingner's Getting Pushed Out of the Housing Authority of Maricopa County -- But His Resignation Isn't Enough to Solve the Agency's Problems

Comic Book's Cannibal Cop Takes a Bite Outta Crime

Cannibals, cops, bird flu: All three of these things have grabbed headlines before, but probably not simultaneously. That's where comic book creator John Layman comes in. His runaway hit series Chew follows the adventures of Tony Chu, a detective turned FDA agent who lives in a world where chicken m ... More >>

The Dirty on Nik Richie, Post-it Note Ninjas, and SCA-Gate — All Within This Owl’s Talons

Teenage Wasteland

It's up to Governor Janet Napolitano to make sure history doesn't repeat itself — that is, boldly reform juvenile corrections. Or at least make sure someone's watching

Silver Mullet

Maná is huge in Latin America but still hopes to gain new fans in the U.S. Coors Light is helping their cause.

Arizona's Worst Criminal

Infamous killer Robert Comer now says he's the one who should die

Murderball

The Phoenix Heat quadriplegic rugby team has hot wheels, championship dreams, and a thirst for blood

El Parche

Hailed as the Jimi Hendrix of the accordion, Estéban 'Steve' Jordan is one bad-ass pachuco

House Hold

The dearth of affordable housing has reached the crisis stage

Shock Treatment

California eats lots of power, but it doesn't like growing its own power plants. Instead, Arizona is becoming the new power farm for the Coast.

Bacharach Bonanza

What the World Needs Now...

Burt's Still the Word

The newly rediscovered Burt Bacharach has a history most fans have never even heard about

Who Mutilated Dominic Marion?

On the trail of a bizarre hospital crime, New Times finds a cryogenically frozen head, a witch hunt for a wiccan and a stumped detective. And still nobody knows . . .

Chemistry Decree

Local distributor of "party drug" ingredient held on $5 million bail in biggest GHB bust in U.S. history

War in Peace

Skip Spence made one brilliant album, then spent the next 30 years dying in obscurity. Now, a new tribute album is giving him life again.

The Strong Arm of the Law

Police go to great lengths -- including civil injunctions -- to combat gangs. The jury is out on their effectiveness

eBay Jeebies

Valley bidders go berserk on Internet's biggest auction house.

Letters

Down the Drain

Judge flushes allegations that water was tainted by Motorola

The Hack and the Quack

The "Phoenix Lights" made Frances Emma Barwood the darling of the global space-alien lobby. And it'stransformed computer geek Jim Dilettoso into a star in the UFO firmament.

Jingo All the Way

Outside groups leading the anti-immigration campaign in Arizona are trying to distance themselves from their own bigoted pasts.

Unsung Guitar Hero

Glen Buxton played a crucial role in rock history, but how many people know about it?

Shooting Craps

U2 takes over the world--and turns it into a commercial

Jailers Show a Paraplegic Who's Boss

Richard Post was taken to jail in his wheelchair for mouthing off in a bar. Joe Arpaio's detention officers saw him as such a threat, they strapped him into a medieval restraint chair--and broke his neck.

Herbs of Love

Pills made from a Peruvian vine known as Cat's Claw are all the rage among Latino health buffs

OUTLETS of Hostility

Egoconsumed developers, lobbyists, flacks, detectives and lawyers generate fear and loathing a la Barbarians at the Gate. The reason? Two proposed outlet malls the Valley doesn't really need.

THE MACKING OF A MYSTERYGRAHAM COUNTY SHERIFF RICHARD MACK'S INVESTIGATORS MADE SO MANY MISTAKES THAT NO ONE MAY EVER KNOW HOW STEPHANIE PROFFITT DIED

SAY HELLO TO COOLIOTHE RAPPER FROM COMPTON MIXES HIS GLOCKS WITH YOCKS

THE SILICONE SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVESENRAGED AND EMPOWERED, WOMEN HAVE ENLISTED COMUTER BULETIN BOARDS IN THEIR WAR AGAINST BREAST-IMPLANT MANUFACTURERS

DEBT IN THE WATER"ZERO-DOWN " BANKRUPTCY FIRMS COST THEIR CLIENTS PLENTY