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Fenske Wins Major Award

New Times' Writers, Designers and Photographers Win Honors from Arizona Press Club

Phoenix New Times walked away with nine first place awards Saturday night at the state Press Club's 2010 Best Journalism in Arizona contest -- including for the paper's comprehensive immigration series, "Amongst U.S."The newspaper received more than 30 awards for work during 2010.Sarah Fenske, ... More >>

Grant Goodman (a.k.a. Mr. Litigious) Offers to Engage in "Cross-Interview" -- Maybe Another Time

Last year, our former colleague Sarah Fenske wrote a scathing article about a goofball Phoenix barrister named Grant Goodman. Here it is.   Federal judge Mary Murguia​The upshot of the piece came in what we call the "nut graf," a sentence or two that tells the reader why he or she ma ... More >>

Doug Lingner Investigation: Sarah Fenske's Reporting on Now-Former Maricopa County Housing Authority Chief Bears Fruit

Our sadly departed (from this newspaper, guys, not from the planet) colleague Sarah Fenske wrote a humdinger of a story earlier this year about all manner of fiscal wrongdoing and blatant nepotism inside the Housing Authority of Maricopa County. Doug Lingner holding court in the Hawaiian ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, July 15, 2010

Maricopa County Superior Court's Norm Davis Officially Takes Over as Presiding Judge

Norm Davis, a steady-as-she-goes gent we dealt with when he presided as the chief judge in both Juvenile and Family Court, started his five-year term today as the presiding judge of Maricopa County Superior Court. ​  What we like about Judge Davis (that's a photo of him from a few ... More >>

Designer Ice? Yep, And Much More in New Times Summer Guide

New Times Summer Guide -- pick up an issue today to get yours.​You know the Alice Waters-inspired hunt for truly perfect ingredients has reached its zenith when restaurants are boasting about their designer ice cubes.Seriously -- it turns out that having the highest quality ice is a huge deal for ... More >>

New Times Staffers Honored

Frittata at Cheuvront's Brunch

​About a month ago, Cheuvront's announced it was starting up weekend brunch service again, so I stopped by to check it out. 

Blog Posts and Articles Leading up to This Week's Cover Commentary on the SCA Scandal

Five blog posts over 10 days led up to Sarah Fenske's cover analysis this week on the SCA (Sheriff's Command Association) scandal. A 2007 cover story on the smear of Arpaio opponent Dan Saban was an omen of what was to come -- state Republican Party ads further sme ... More >>

KJZZ's "Here and Now" Features Sarah Fenske This Morning

New Times columnist Sarah Fenske explained her concerns about the Arizona Clean Elections System this morning on the local NPR affiliate's Here and Now, hosted by Steve Goldstein on KJZZ 91.5 FM.  Fenske's appearance on the program comes two months after the publication of ... More >>

Summer Guide: Get Toasted

Supreme Court to Hear Phoenix Appeal in CityNorth Case

Sarah FenskeThe $97 million CityNorth tax giveaway supposedly paid for this parking garage.This just in: The Arizona Supreme Court will revisit the appellate decision that struck down the city of Phoenix's $97 million subsidy of the CityNorth development.Today's decision to grant review is a victory ... More >>

New Times Wins Arizona Press Club Awards

PBS Channel 8 (KAET-TV) Slashes 13 Jobs in Latest Media Layoff

Thirteen staffers at PBS Channel 8 (KAET-TV) were given pink slips yesterday in a cost-cutting move expected to affect local programming. According to this morning's broadcast on National Public Radio's local affiliate, KJZZ (91.5 FM), the employees include a local production manager and severa ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 9, 2009

Shop at Whole Foods, Support PBS

I don't know what it was about this past Christmas, but for some reason, I found it a whole lot easier to get out my checkbook and send some dough to local non-profits than to slog through the list of presents I had to buy. And seriously, right after I read Sarah Fenske's column about the financial ... More >>

Sonoran Alliance Anonymous Blogger Criticizes, Praises New Times Coverage of Don Stapley

In looking at Sonoran Alliance blog post about Andrew Thomas running for state attorney general, we couldn't help but notice another post by our mostly anonymous friends -- this one about New Times.  It seems that "Pat," whoever that is, believes that New Times contradicts itself about i ... More >>

Fried: Bleu Ribbon Burger at Red Robin

  Four of us -- my sister-in-law and my brother and my dad -- had just decided on pizza for lunch when another brother piped up. "Pizza?? I have a sore throat! I can't eat pizza." This is life in the Fenske family. There is never consensus. Nothing can ever be simple. We might spend 40 minutes de ... More >>

Fried: QuikTrip Taquitos, Breadsticks, and a Surprisingly Good Chicken Wrap

A true feast ... If there is anything worse than moving -- and I'm not certain there is -- it may well be attempting to move in that frantic time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. But I'm nothing if not stupid, so my movers are scheduled to arrive bright and early December 3. ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, November 6, 2008

McCainia: Live from the Arizona Biltmore

McCainia: The Fashion Show

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Fried: Calamari at Rokerij

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Fried: Pakoras and Samosas at Flavors of India

Phoenix Country Club Men's Grill in today's NYT

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Honor Roll

New Times captures eight first-place wins in state journalism contest

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Loose Screws

The patriotic pigeon uses the bleedin’ facts to peck holes in the rantings of 9/11 conspiracy wacktivists!

Awards of the State

Rubin wins the Arizona Press Club's top honor for the third time. And the rest of the staff did pretty well, too

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