Sonoran Desert

Sam Pillsbury Answers the Question: Why Arizona Wine?

Why Arizona wine? In 2000 -- the year I planted my first vineyard at the end of a lonely, dusty road in Cochise County, 12 miles south of Willcox -- one of the 10 Best 'How to Lose Money' jokes on Saturday Night Live was: Plant a Vineyard In Arizona. Arizona is all Sonoran Desert, obviously suicid ... More >>

Tempe's Ascetic House Blurs Lines at Upcoming Sonoran Pop Festival

New Food Truck Alert: Gourmet Command Center (With Their Badass 17-Foot-Tall Former SWAT Vehicle)

We've always liked guys in trucks, although we never though we'd apply the rule to food trucks. That was until Gourmet Command Center hit the streets in their purple and black, totally pimped out, former-SWAT-surveillance-vehicle now turned food truck. See also: 10 Corporate Food Trucks Totally Bo ... More >>

Gilbert Police Find Tortoise Walking Down Sidewalk, Discover Multiple People Have Lost Their Tortoises

If your tortoise went missing in Gilbert, you are not alone. Gilbert Police spotted one of these speedy creatures making its way along a sidewalk in the Power Ranch subdivision on Thursday. An officer contacted members of the surrounding neighborhood to find out who had lost the 25-pound African T ... More >>

Howe Gelb on Giant Giant Sand, and How an Acid Trip and Roman Polanski Birthed Tucson's Music Scene

See also: Howe Gelb Discusses Rainer Ptacek Howe Gelb doesn't like to fight fate. The Tucson-based singer/songwriter says that destiny played a big role in the birth of Tucson, the new record from Gelb's Giant Giant Sand collective. The extra "giant" was added to signify the group's swelling ranks ... More >>

What Laura Says Talks Earth Day and How You Can Contribute

Over 40 years have gone by since the first Earth Day. During that time, the eco-conscious have planted trees, rescued oil-covered birds, and rocked out with their compost out. What Laura Says might not have been around for the first Earth Day, but Saturday, they'll celebrating the anniversary i ... More >>

Let's Make it Official: Arizona Needs a State Food

Steve Gallardo Drops Repeal SB 1070 Bill, Nativists Counter-Rally

Down at the state Capitol today, it was like a little bit of 2010, all over again.Grizzled nativists toting "I love SB 1070 signs," with pistols on their hips. Pro-immigration activists in droves denouncing the two-year old breathing-while-brown statute. And Arizona Department of Public Safety offic ... More >>

Beef Stew Review: Tilted Kilt vs. Seamus McCaffrey's

Lauren SariaIrish Beef Stew from Tilted Kilt ​Open since 1992, Seamus McCaffrey's Irish Pub and Restaurant has become a downtown Phoenix landmark serving cold brews and traditional eats for years. They've got an impressive selection of drinks and serve food early and late. So when "Irish pub" chai ... More >>

ICE Flies Undocumented Immigrants Back to Mexico on U.S. Dime

Signs like this one along the U.S.-Mexico border warn migrants not to cross​The United States government is revamping a program that will fly  undocumented Mexican immigrants back to Mexico City, after they've been caught entering the country illegally.The feds claim this prevents deaths from ... More >>

Destruction Unit: Former Reatard Grows Up and Spaces Out

Sound Strike Responds To One-Sided Salon.com Article

Zack's been coming to AZ long before 1070 was an issueWhen I read the recent Salon.com article "How a boycott meant to save Arizona is hurting it," I wondered to myself how its author, a woman by the name of Drew Grant, ended up writing such an insipid, one-sided piece about the Sound Strike, a piec ... More >>

Jan Brewer's Bogus SB 1070 "Counterclaim"on a Road to Nowhere

photosbyjosemunoz.comGee, if we're being "invaded," Jan, why not declare a state of emergency?Add one part delusion to three parts grandstanding, mixed with a healthy glob of nativism, and what do you get?Governor Jan Brewer's SB 1070 "counterclaim" against the federal government for not protecting ... More >>

Why Bands Play Tucson Instead of Phoenix

​It's possibly the oldest, loudest gripe in Phoenix's music scene: Why Tucson?By that they mean, "Why is this cool band that I really love playing that bumblefuck shithole down South when they could play our sprawling metropolis of interconnected stripmalls?"Electric Mustache's photographer/hatche ... More >>

Neo-Nazis Nab More Migrants in the Arizona Desert

Just Another Day... Neo-Nazis J.T. Ready and Harry Hughes on a recent "illegal immigrant" patrol in the desert Arizona neo-Nazis J.T. Ready and Harry Hughes have apparently been busy to judge by a recent item on Hughes' blog "Just Another Day... " There, he's posted photos of Ready, himself ... More >>

Margaret Regan, Author of The Death of Josseline, To Appear May 3 at Changing Hands

Save the date: Author Regan's in town May 3 With summer approaching and the death count of migrant bodies found on the Mexico-Sonoran border in the high 80s according to the watchdog group Derechos Humanos, there may be no better time for Margaret Regan, author of The Death of J ... More >>

We Read Books So You Don't Have To: Progressive Nation

  When it comes to travel, we will admit to being a total geek. Forget about a beach in Cabo or a schmancy resort: We want to see where important stuff happened! We've been to Paul Revere's house. We've stood in the room where Winston Churchill was born. We even made treks to the Abbey where t ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, October 16, 2008

Howl of Sanity

Too bad it stands a snowball's chance in the Sonoran Desert of passing, because a bill banning armed Minutemen makes sense

Do or Die

For most Mexicans who're flooding our borders, it's a life-or-death choice

Garbage Time

Something besides the dump stinks in Mobile

This Week's Day-by-day Picks

Letters

From the week of November 8–14, 2001

Shtick Happens

Food writer dishes up leftovers to Republic readers

Letters

From the week of March 1, 2001

International Food Bizarre

Barcelona a baffling experience

Border Crossing

Through its nods to tradition and embrace of innovation, Calexico emerges as a desert bloom

Range Wars

Tolerance of ranching puts The Nature Conservancy at odds with the environmental community

Flashes 04-06-2000

Continental Divide

A development proposed for a north Valley slope has residents accusing the county of "collusion"

Reaching Out

Phoenix Parks Department balances bosks and ball fields in its plans for Reach 11

Leave It to Bistro

Red Scarce

Thanks to gubernatorial neglect, Hull's ambitious agenda is going nowhere

Letters

Forest Chump

Green Around the Grills

Calendar for the week

La Mujer Canta los Blues

Arizona native Betsy Pecanins dents the Mexican pop charts with American blues steeped in tequila

To Skewer, With Love

Kid Pics for the week

Kid Pics for the week

Kid Pics for the week

Out-of-Place Mats

WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE

DEL WEBB'S 5,600-ACRE NEW RIVER DEVELOPMENT HAS SPAWNED CONTROVERSY. BUT NEWS COVERAGE HAS IGNORED THE WATER WHEELING AND DEALING THAT COULD CARPET ARIZONA'S VIRGIN DESERT WITH SUBURBAN SPRAWL.

STUPOR BOWL

TURF 'N' SURFIN' SAFARI

BUSINESS AS USUAL

STATE LAWMAKERS SOLVED MANY PROBLEMS THIS SESSION. UNFORTUNATELY,MOST OF THE PROBLEMS WERE BIG BUSINESSES'.

WAY OFF ABBEY'S ROAD

CHUCK BOWDEN EXTOLS ARIZONA'S UNIQUE PLANTS AND ANIMALS. HIS LATEST SUBJECTS ARE WEASELS IN THREE-PIECE SUITS.

COOK'EM DANO

Surrealism Revisited

Marilyn Butler Fine Art Gallery