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Parker: A Rough Guide to a Rough Guy

Laura S. Strickland, What Are You Listening To?

Laura S. Strickland Strickland is the Principal Flutist for the Arizona Pro Arte Ensemble and a soloist in the upcoming concert, The Winds; Woodwind Masterworks, on Friday, January 25 and Saturday, January 26. For more info, go here. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, wh ... More >>

Mitt Romney's Years at Bain Represent Everything You Hate About Capitalism

Curtains: Th [sic] Sense's Best of Our Worst Sketch Comedy at Soul Invictus on Grand

photo by Franc Gaxiola, imaging by Charles Sohn Schwing votes: A majority of the U.S. Supreme Court, who did not actually pose with the litter of sketch performers surrounding them​Franc Gaxiola's Th [sic] Sense troupe's sketch comedy seemed like a good fit for this column -- it's written d ... More >>

Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman isn’t afraid to step on a few toes as he waltzes into his second term

Youth Without Youth: Coppola’s back with a Faustian romance about the reversal of time

Indian Givers

The Havasupai trusted the white man to help with a diabetes epidemic. Instead, ASU tricked them into bleeding for academia.

The Mouth That Should've Roared

Because Hugh Hallman went suddenly silent, Tempe wound up losing the Cardinals and the Fiesta Bowl

Old Glory

Veteran Phoenix lawyer Gary Peter Klahr fought The Bar and The Bar won

The Last Days of Gold Bar

The doors are closing on the Valley's most eclectic coffee house.

Ode to Coach Busken

Bernie Busken may have gone too far in toughening his players. More likely, the world around him no longer goes far enough.

Judge Knot

JP posse sticks to its guns in decades-long battle to clean up it judicial corral

Lens Capo

Ron Walker chats about his fascination with film

Toy Soiree

'Wonderlust' captures the remembrances of childhood

Tube Talks

Mystery Science 2000

Mesa is home to a multimillion-dollar quest to quantify gang-intervention techniques

Wake-Up Call

That's what the jury gave Scott Falater, convicted of killing his wife in the Sleepwalker Murder Case

A Fortune Runs Through It

Tempe has long given the impression its Rio Salado project costs $45 million. The actual taxpayer tab could surpass $200 million.

Doctoring the Bills?

FBI investigates possible Medicare fraud in county health-care system

A Different School of Thought

The state's unabashed enthusiasm for charter schools stops at the borders of Indian reservations

Calendar for the week

Nomads Land

Bisbee's idyllic Shady Dell trailer park offers nostalgia--with a hitch

The Man Who Loved Lucy

ASU's Donald Johanson redefined our understanding of man's origins. But when he told the world about it in books and on TV, some scientists thought he talked too much.

Pic Hits for the week

LOUSY FOOTBALL, PART TWO: ASU

THE OBJECT OF THEIR DESIRE

WOULD-BE POWER COUPLE TOM AND LINDA RAWLES WANT VOTES MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE

BRIAN KINGMAN'S BLUE PERIOD

THE FORMER OAKLAND A'S PITCHER GOT ENTANGLED IN THE THEFT OF A MILLION-DOLLAR PICASSO. EXCEPT IT WASN'T A PICASSO.

STAR GATE

KING OF THE MUCK RAKERS

GO AHEAD. THROW AWAY YOUR FUTURE. GARBOLOGIST BILL RATHJE WILL BE HAPPY.

DESPERATELY SEEKING SASQUATCHTHESE SCIENTISTS SPEND THEIR LIVES CHASING ANIMALS THEY ONLY THINK EXIST

The Tangled Roots of Doug Wead

Preacher, peddler, Beltway meddler