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Original Breakfast House: A.M. Eats and S.O.S. in Northeast Phoenix

When a new spot opens in town, we can't wait to check it out -- and let you know our initial impressions, share a few photos, and dish about some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that have just opened, sampling a few item ... More >>

Stanford Wero and Tamara Lake of Flagstaff Convicted for Taking 8-Month-Old Baby on Long Grand Canyon Hike

Stanford Wero, Tamara Lake, and Lake's uncle, Vinton Whitehat, are three reasons why signs at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon warn people not to try to walk all the way to the Colorado River and back in one day. After setting out down the South Kaibab trail and hiking to the river with Wero and L ... More >>

Arizona's Fry Bread Brings Native American Cooking Into the Future

Joe Arpaio Recall Fever Meets Two Americans at Harkins

So Sheriff Joe Arpaio wants to make nice with Latinos now? Pardon me while I laugh till I spit. Though Arpaio's won re-election for an unprecedented sixth term in office, so far, as of Friday, his two opponents together garnered 47.98 percent of the vote. See also: -Joe Arpaio Doc Two Americans ... More >>

Top Ten Arizona Political Ads of 2012 (So Far)

I don't think anyone will bemoan the end of the 2012 election cycle, except perhaps the TV execs and political consultants who're making a killing off the political ads bombarding us through the boob tube. Still, quite a few are memorable, and there is nothing more American than reducing your oppo ... More >>

Arizona Guardian Political News Site Bites the Dust

The Arizona Guardian, a local political news site once held up as a possible model for a declining news industry, has gone belly-up. As of today, the Guardian's site is off the air, sounding the death knell that it has been "terminated." The site launched in January of 2009, backed financially by ... More >>

More Combat Veterans Are Falling Prey to Gambling Addictions

Wendy Rogers Becomes Seventh Person to Announce Run for Congress in CD9

​Republican Wendy Rogers -- who lost her bid for a State Senate seat in 2010 -- made it official today that she's joining the Congressional race in Arizona's newly formed Ninth District.Rogers joins what's becoming an increasingly populated field of candidates, which already includes Republicans D ... More >>

Honor, Courage, Popcorn: Act of Valor Wants You!

Joe Arpaio's Victim Marty Atencio's Obituary, with Funeral Service Schedule

The Atencio family has released the following obituary and schedule of funeral services for their late family member Marty. The public can send flowers and cards in care of the address below for Heritage Funeral Chapel.Heritage Funeral Chapel 6830 W Thunderbird Road Peoria, AZ 85381-5025 (623) 974-3 ... More >>

Smokin' Joe Frazier's Death Evokes Memories of Big Apple Showdown With Ali

It was late Janary 1974, and I took a train from Connecticut to New York City for the rematch between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali. I had no idea how or if I was going to get into Madison Square Garden for the fight--but I was determined to give it my best shot. One of sport's greatest rival ... More >>

Super 8: J.J. Abrams Deploys Humor and Destruction In His Catastrophe Flick

Afghan War Vet Fatally Shot by Glendale Cop -- After Shooting at Female Officer

www,facebook.comJeremiah Pulaski​Jeremiah Pulaski, 24, returned to his home in Glendale from Afghanistan -- where he served in the United States Army -- in February, and it appears he's had some trouble readjusting to society.According to his latest Facebook status update, he was thinking about do ... More >>

Ask a Mexican on Carlos Mencia, and Searching For Beer and Salsa

Canibus @ Club Red

Arizona Republican Steve May's Full of ... Integrity? Claims Green Party Candidates Legit

stevemay2010.com​A 27-year-old tarot-card reader, reportedly homeless and with less than a dollar to his name, is among the candidates running to serve as Arizona's State Treasurer?Thank Steve May.May, a Republican running for a House seat in District 17, once told the nation that he ha ... More >>

Hot Links: Homeless People, Hot Air Balloons, and Snail Mucus

​According to a recent count, more than 2,700 homeless people live on the streets of metropolitan Phoenix. The Maricopa Association of Governments says those numbers show a six percent decrease from the year before. Of the 2,729 people living on Valley streets, 236  are younger than 18...Lock ... More >>

Brewer Names New DPS Chief; Not to Worry, it's Not Russell Pearce

​Governor Jan Brewer announced today who will replace Roger Vanderpool as the next director of the Department of Public Safety, and although it's probably much to the dismay of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, it's not anti-illegal-immigration blowhard Russell Pearce. Brewer has appointed Robert Halliday, ... More >>

On Spreading Stereotypes and Buying into the Reconquista

Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Phoenix Journalist Heads to Afghanistan

www.pulitzer.org Giblin (center) accepts the Pulitzer Prize with co-winner Ryan Gabrielson​Former East Valley Tribune scribe and co-winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Paul Giblin, is heading to Afghanistan.The Arizona Guardian announced this morning that Giblin will be working in Afghanistan for ... More >>

Coyotes Latest Gimmick to Fill Some Seats: "Military Mondays"

www.stayclassy.net​In what seems to be a last-ditch effort to keep the team in the Valley, Phoenix Coyotes President Douglas Moss is pulling out all the stops to try to boost attendance at Jobing.com Arena.Yesterday, the team announced the "Coyotes Express," a free shuttle service to drive p ... More >>

The Men Who Stare at Goats: Did Aliens Abduct George Clooney's Sense of Humor?

The Hurt Locker Is a Ticking Time Bomb as Unconventional as the Warfare It Depicts

A Former Marijuana Smuggler and Vietnam War Hero Seeks Greater Recognition From His Government

Let freedom rock: Ten musical moments that shaped who we are as a country

rder Trial--says prosecutor played dirty

Mario Kart Wii is nothing you haven’t seen, but so what?

Nostalgia Trip

Steven Soderbergh tries, and largely fails, to make ’em like they used to

Virtual Quagmire

The Army's realistic first-person shooter bogs down under fire

Toby Keith

Still ready for prime time

Pat City

Tempe hosts run to honor Tillman

Men o' War

Film captures soldiers' stories

Craig Morgan

A real hero performs in the Valley

Indian Giver

The Missing misses plenty, except ancient prejudices

Swing Set

Jazz fest touts talents

Yigee Yes, Y'all. Boom!

Not even preemptive war and its inherent dangers can stop the 24-hour party people at Miami's WMC 2003

Hell and Back

Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down pays grim, gritty homage to real-life warriors

In Cold Blood

Novelist James Ellroy reshapes America's ugly history in his own image

Leave It to Weaver

Navajo textiles loom large in Heard Museum blanket show

Letters

08-17-2000

Press Club Honors Silverman

Reporter wins NT's sixth consecutive Journalist of the Year award

Sansei Sensibility

Artist Roger Shimomura plays historian and reporter with cartoonish impressions of life in an internment camp

Letter in a Battle

Rediscovered cache of castoff communiqués captures World War II and 1940s Phoenix

La Vida So-So

One Man's Hero is another man's south-of-the-border historical yawner

Revenge of the Verdes

Natives finally glean a few reparations for a legacy of genocide

Clip Joint

Playing with guns at Crossroads of the West

New Studio, Same Old Stuff

DreamWorks' first film is a conventional tale of glam and guns

Talk Dirty to Me

A sampler box of the best (worst) heavy-metal lyrics of the '80s

Reveille Without Applause

LET'S DO LAUNCH

NO,YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A ROCKET SCIENTIST. JUST FLEX YOUR MISSILES.