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Want to Start a Farm? This Workshop Will Teach You How

Starting a farm sounds really good -- in theory. Fresh produce, fresh eggs, lots of furry friends running around? Not to mention the beauty of green open spaces and plant life. On the other hand, the practical knowledge required -- you know, things like how to acquire land, buy equipment, and irriga ... More >>

Sun Devils and Wildcats: Get Your Bike and Booze On For The Annual SanTan Brewery Rivalry Ride

College football rivalries don't get much more heated than the one between Arizona State University and their cross-state frenemy, University of Arizona. Every year the two teams clash in a game that usually ends with one team (cough, cough ASU) embarrassing itself with some sort of stupid blunder - ... More >>

UA Library: Not the Ideal Place to Pull a Knife on Random People

For some reason, the guy being carried by police officers in the photo above was walking around the University of Arizona's library with a knife yesterday.

Did Anyone Find the Humor in the Daily Wildcat Comic About Shooting a Gay Kid?

Everyone at the University of Arizona's student newspaper, the Daily Wildcat, is in apology mode after a comic about shooting a gay kid if he ever came out to his father garnered some national attention.The apparent "joke" was about a father shooting his gay son with a shotgun, rolling him up in som ... More >>

UA Student Paper Sorry About That Cartoon Joking About Blasting a Gay Kid With a Shotgun

After seeing an apology about a cartoon on the website of the University of Arizona's student newspaper last night, the Daily Wildcat, we were ready to channel our inner Michael Scott -- "There is no such thing as an appropriate joke. That's why it's a joke."However, the apparent "joke" is about a f ... More >>

For Your Health

Pineberries, Square Watermelons and Pink Lemons: The Wonderful, Wild World of Plants

Via Organic Green Roots on Facebook​It's always fun to remind ourselves of the wonders of nature. We saw these and thought it would be fun to get you in the mood for food.  Organic Green Roots posted on Facebook some cool photos of edible fruits that make you wonder if they are real or ... More >>

Science Friday

Community Colleges Considering Adding Transgendered to List of Protected Groups

www.photobucket.com​The Maricopa County Community College District board is considering adding transgendered people to its list of groups protected from harassment.Arizona State University and the University of Arizona have included transgendered people in their anti-discrimination policies for ye ... More >>

Free Garden Tour This Weekend: Learn To Grow Exotic Fruit In Your Own Backyard

http://www.phoenixtropicals.com/banana.htmlBackyard banana plant​Did you know you can grow bananas and mangoes in your own back yard? Ya, we didn't think so, either. There's a FREE event this Saturday July 9th from 8 - 10 a.m. at the University of Arizona Cooperative Extension office where you ca ... More >>

Drought Eases in Arizona; Phoenix Area Now "Moderate"

Image: U.S. Drought MonitorArizona's drought is actually easing -- for the western part of the state.​ After the storm like the one the Valley had last night and all the wildfires, you'd think Arizona was one giant dust bowl.You'd be wrong.Despite "exceptional," bone-dry conditions in the sout ... More >>

University of Arizona Mock Border Fence Kinda Decries U.S.-Mexico Border Fence

Photo by Hisham Yousif​When the near-1,000 foot fence went up in the middle of the University of Arizona campus Monday, it seemed like an obvious message for a campus about an hour's drive from the Mexican border -- a cry against the U.S. immigration policy. That's not exactly the case, as photos ... More >>

March 24 In Blogs: Eric Cox, Cut Copy, Citizen Public House, and a Mock Border Fence

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

Background Checks for College Football Players: Right or Wrong for NCAA?

bcsknowhow.com Does College Football need background checks?​Sports Illustrated ran an article this morning detailing the results of background checks into all college football players who play for the Top 25 ranked schools in the country.   The results are unsurprising: some college ... More >>

Off the Wall

Gallery graffiti brings street art indoors

Branded: Can Tucson Ever Live It Down?

Drought Might Go Medieval on Southwest, Researchers Say; 60-Year Dry Period Possible

  "I'm-a get medieval on your ass." -- Marcellus Wallace, spokesman for Mother Nature?​A 60-year drought, the likes of which hasn't been seen since medieval times, may be in store for the Southwest this century, University of Arizona researchers report. A summary of scientific f ... More >>

Rodney Glassman and Other Arizona Dems Not Exactly Motivating Youth Vote

Rodney Glassman​U.S. Senate hopeful Rodney Glassman, as well as several other Democrats running for office this year, were at the University of Arizona yesterday for a rally. It didn't go well.It went so bad, in fact, that the university's newspaper, The Daily Wildcat, wrote a scathing editorial w ... More >>

The Deep End

Gay softball team throws big bash before big tourney

Thrown for a Curve

UA delivered a slider when we were expecting fastball

Strictly Fo Da Parkys: Watch 66-Year-Old Rap About Parkinsons Disease

It takes some serious guts to laugh at yourself whilst fighting a debilitating disease, and that's exactly what you'll get from Sharon Kha, a former veep from the University of Arizona who is now suffering from Parkinsons, the progressive wasting disease that also afflicts Michael J. Fox. As Tucson ... More >>

Hot Links: UA's Nuclear Reactor, Salvation Army, and Circles

​The University of Arizona plans to shut down its nuclear reactor by mid-2010. The license for the 51-year-old reactor, used for research, expires next year, and Director John Williams says it isn't used enough to warrant a vigorous re-licensing process with the Nuclear Reg ... More >>

Hot Links: Pat Murphy, Ballers Out, and a Sweat Lodge Rescue

​Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies say they are investigating after someone painted "Kill Obama" in purple spray paint across a pair of political signs in Cave Creek. Sheriff Joe Arpaio says the Secret Service has been contacted, and asks anyone with information to contact his office...Arizon ... More >>

Robert Glennon @ Changing Hands Bookstore

Hot Links: Grants, Temples, and Ear-Biting Cabbies

​The federal government has awarded a $54 million grant to Arizona for the expansion and creation of charter schools. The state plans to open up to 92 new campuses...The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints plans to build two temples in the Valley, one in Phoenix and one in Gilbert. The tem ... More >>

Brain Man

Grey’s Anatomy consultant relates kooky surgical tales

Hot Links: CPS, U of A Frat, and Traffic Ticket Refunds

An audit claims that Child Protective Services are taking too long to investigate complaints of abuse at group homes and treatment centers. State law requires CPS to complete an investigation within 21 days of a complaint about a care facility...University of Arizona fraternity Sigma Phi Epsilon has ... More >>

Pink Moth Discovered in Arizona Named After UA Biologist's Wife

  How's this for romantic: A University of Arizona professor found a new species of moth -- one with beautiful pink wings -- and named it after his wife, who likes the color pink. Tests proved the critter was a previously unknown species.

Jay-Z Concert Screw-Up at University of Arizona Costs Student Group Almost $1 Million

An unsuccessful stadium concert hosted by the Associated Students of the University of Arizona will be costing students for years to come.The Last Smash Platinum Bash concert took place at the Arizona Stadium in Tucson and featured Jay-Z, Kelly Clarkson, Third Eye Blind, and other musical groups. A ... More >>

Hot Links: Arpaio's System Called a Failure, Cable Companies Searched, and the Mark Reynolds Improvement Project

A New York-based research group called Justice Strategies files a report calling Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's system for cracking down on illegal immigration a failure. They're not the first...A recent study examines retail closures in 65 metro markets, and Phoenix tops the list of distresse ... More >>

MLK Basketball Classic

Arizona Wildcats Kick Butt in Entertaining Vegas Bowl Game

No question, University of Arizona football has been lousy at best for about a decade now. Alums like ourselves who pay attention to such weighty things quietly were suffering through yet another mediocre season until -- Hallelujah! -- the Wildcats throttled ASU down in Tucson a few weeks ago and th ... More >>

Lute Olson Retires as Wildcat's Men's Basketball Coach

Hot Links: Michael Phelps' new gold, D-Backs acquire Adam Dunn, Suns dancer tryouts, and why Joe Arpaio's got to go.

"Up From the Ashes: Phoenix Goes to Mars"

Magical History Tour

You say you want high resolution?

You like us, you really like us

A week in which we bask in the all-too-temporary glow of readers' compliments

Lab Rats

The University of Arizona's push to become one of the nation's great research institutions has paid off -- but at what cost to the state, faculty and students?

Stalking a Novelist

Lydia Millet reads from her latest novel, My Happy Life

Power Ploys

The Arizona State hockey team iced tough competition this season. So why did players pass on a shot at a national championship?

Smoke Screening

ASARCO says it will pay for health tests in Hayden, but residents' lawyers fear a cover-up

I Varied Wyatt Earp

One of its books has been misrepresented as a memoir, but the University of Arizona Press has no plan to correct the record

Second Helpings

Flashes

Silver Versus Shadegg. Rad.

A battle of GOP extremes pits environmentalist Robin Silver against conservative Congressman John Shadegg

A Reputation in Ruins

FLASHES, 8-10

COSMIC EVENTS

UOFA TELESCOPES PRODUCE STANGE PROTESTS AND WEIRED OFFICIAL REACTIONS

ARMS APPRECIATIONARTISTS FOLLOW THE TRAIL OF THE LONESOME SPINE