The Home Depot Inc.

Metz @ Crescent Ballroom

Christopher Clark of Mesa Addicted to Child Porn, Wife Does In-Home Child Care

Christopher Clark must know a few things about temptation. The 53-year-old Mesa man is reportedly obsessed with videos of little kids having sex. Meanwhile, his wife -- a former preschool teacher -- has kept the home full of little kids as she runs an in-home babysitting service and takes care of s ... More >>

What Would Life Be Like Without Technology? A Onetime Addict Finds Out

Gary Vogt Identified as Glendale House Bomber; He Was Angry With School District, Feds Say

See also: ATF, Glendale P.D. Trying to Find Out Who Bombed a House for the Third TimeGary Vogt, 50, was arrested this morning by Glendale police and ATF agents, and is accused of being the guy who bombed the same Glendale house three times.Vogt's possible motivation, according to documents filed in ... More >>

Six Signs that Pinterest Food Pins Are Destroying the World

​Look away! Look away! Every day, I cringe. Every day, I gag. Every day on Pinterest is another opportunity to witness atrocious food pins, indications that our society is crumbling around its very foundation. True, I've scored some great ideas and recipes on the site, but more times than not, I ... More >>

Businessman Brian Weymouth Gets on the Wrong Side of His Celebrity Partners

Mike Viola on Get Him to the Greek, Breaking Bad, and Living with Kim Fowley at 13

​Mike Viola is one of those guys you've heard a hundred times and not realized it. He's the vocalist singing "That Thing You Do" (from the 1996 film of the same name); his '90s band The Candy Butchers scored serious buzz along side his friends Fountains of Wayne; he's written songs for Get Him to ... More >>

Doug MacEachern Goes Off Deep End in Ward Churchill Email Exchange

Steve RhodesWard Churchill, the object of Doug MacEachern's right-wing paranoiaI'm really beginning to wonder about Arizona Republic columnist Doug MacEachern's sanity.Yesterday, I pointed out that MacEachern was regurgitating Glenn Beck's conspiratorial leftovers, wailing like a stuck javelina that ... More >>

Bentley Gallery Heads Into the Woods With Work From Phillip and Matt Moulthrop

Will El Mirage Ever Be Able to Emerge From the Shadow of Luke Air Force Base?

Valley Painter Wants You to "Hire a Vet, Not a Wet." Yeah, He Means Wetback

KPHONice try​A Valley painter apparently thought he'd try to cash in on the down-on-brown mentality gripping many Arizonans at the moment by making the slogan for his business a racial slur about Hispanics.It seems to have backfired.The business card of Russell Lewis, of Russell Lewis & Son Pa ... More >>

Augustus Shaw Ruling Expected Today; Tempe Legislative Candidate Says He Moved to District 17 for Son

Photo: Ray SternAugustus Shaw following yesterday's court challenge to his residency qualifications to run for office in State Legislative District 17.​The mood at the courtroom hearing was light.Maricopa County Judge Edward Burke cracked jokes about Augustus Shaw's lack of hair, Shaw smiled and w ... More >>

High Times: Valley Smokers Buy, Steal, and Inhale JWH-018 to Get High – and They Say It’s Working

Going Rogue: An Obsessive Phoenix Patrol Cop Tried to Nail the Wrong Guy in the Baseline Killer Case

Nativists Go Nuts at a Phoenix Walmart, and the Arizona Republic Belittles the U.S. Attorney’s Investigation of Sheriff Joe Arpaio

Friday Night Frights: Carl Hayden High Football Players Have More to Worry About Than Winning Games

Mark Spencer, PLEA President, and the Dark Spots on His Career Record

from PLEASpencer has his own agenda when it comes to the issue of immigration ​In response to my request for a comment from the Phoenix Police Department concerning Phoenix Law Enforcement Association President Mark Spencer's challenge to the current Operations Order 1.4.3, PPD spokesman Jame ... More >>

Things Get Nasty in the Phoenix Police Department’s Homicide Bureau

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, June 25, 2009

Behind BadPhoenixCops.com: The Blogger Who Took on the Phoenix PD — and the Homicide Detective Who Might Be His Best Source

Boston gets Michael Sweet, thanks to some divine intervention

How Boston Got Sweet

Fun With Fluids

The revolution will be televised — and plenty addictive, too

Money for Nothing

Don't fall victim to the identity-theft protection scam

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

Dubplate Divas

The infamous DJ Lady Tribe and hella-fine DJ Miss Lisa set the decks ablaze at the Brickhouse

Alienated

Outraged citizens hold Mexicans at gunpoint in a church. Andy Thomas applauds such vigilantism as patriotic -- again

Minuteman of the Hour

One nation, under Simcox

Jesus Christ Rap Superstar

Phoenix is the unlikely capital of Christian hip-hop – leading to the not-so-immortal question, Who Would Jesus Diss?

Free Will

Another SNL vet may be the next Bill Murray. Seriously.

Biscuit is Gravy

Sure, Seabiscuit 's better than all the action sequels it's up against. But what will a fan of the book say?

A Scar is born

Matt "Scar" Haugen loves the pain of local extreme wrestling

Sister Act

Late Nite Catechism has gotten to be a habit with local crowds

The Living Dead

No more room at the inn. Our Bunker of the Apocalypse has been filled.

Monsters of Rock

Danish 'psychobilly' band lampoons America, offers twangy satire

Pretty Vacant

New Times' panel of critics searches for musical gems in a disheartening 2001

Chicano and the Man

Ralphie May isn't Latino, but he's plenty loco

Sultan of Style

In the world of mixed media, Donald Sultan reigns as the czar of tar

The Devil and Mr. Hernandez

A man possessed, plumber turned amateur exorcist Paul Hernandez wants to get the Hell out of Phoenix.

The Last Man in Cactus

City zoning rules make it tough for Larry Jany to sell his property and retire

Dam Vulnerable

Tempe is asking for a monkeywrencher to pull the plug on Town Lake

Flashes

This Old Crater

A volcanic cinder cone near Flagstaff will soon become one of the world's most significant pieces of environmental art

Glam Slam

Six years after the death of glam, Psycho Gypsy is making the Valley safe for mascara and spandex

Out with the old

he 80-somethings at retirement home Desert Crest face eviction. But that's just business, says the home's owner--which happens to be an agency of the Roman Catholic church.

Shooting Craps

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

Flashes

THE MAN IN THE MAZEPIMA LEADER IVAN MAKIL SEEMS MOST ADEPT AT MAKING DEALS AND MAKING ENEMIES

ON GOLDEN PAWN

DESPERATE PEOPLE WILL HOCK ALMOST ANYTHING FOR QUICK CASH. THAT'S WHY PAWNSHOPS ARE BUSTLING, AND THE COPS ARE BUSTING

THIS HOSTESS FOR HIREITS A LONG TIME BETWEEN DANCES AT A NEW CENTRAL AVENUE DANCE HALL