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The Pazz & Jop 2012 Critic's Poll Is Live

Our sister paper, the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop music critic's poll is live, and the results are in: Frank Ocean's neo-neo-soul record channel ORANGE is the album of the year, and Carly Rae Jepsen's infectious (and impossible to escape) "Call Me Maybe" is the single of the year. This yea ... More >>

2012 Village Voice Film Poll Results

Michael Lacey Talks About Selling New Times and Village Voice Media to Trusted Colleagues

Michael Lacey Says Newspaper Chain He Co-Founded Will Continue Quality Journalism Under Its New Ownership

Michael Lacey says he wouldn't hesitate to put his children in the care of the management team that just bought the newspaper chain he helped start 42 years ago. In fact, he feels like that's almost what he did. It was announced Sunday night that Village Voice Media had agreed to sell its 13  ... More >>

Voice Media Group Agrees to Purchase Village Voice Media, owner of Phoenix New Times. Backpage.com Not Part of the New Company

A new holding company out of Denver, Voice Media Group, announced today that it has agreed to purchase Village Voice Media, owner of Phoenix New Times and 12 other alternative newspapers across the country. The purchase includes the newspapers, their websites, and VVM's national-advertising componen ... More >>

Puente's "Undocubus" Riders Arrested Outside Democratic National Convention

See also: Puente's "Undocubus" Set to Travel to Democratic National ConventionUndocumented immigrants who rode across country on the "Undocubus" to protest immigration-related deportations were arrested outside the Democratic National Convention yesterday.The "No Papers No Fear" mission is supposed ... More >>

Village Voice Media Rolls Out Seven Sins, an Electronic True-Crime Anthology

Every week writers for New Times and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant magazine-style feature writing -- a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories.Now VVM has collected some of its best recent true-crime yarns into an ebook: Seven Sins: A True Crime Ant ... More >>

Alert: SXSW Coverage Ahead

"What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." -- Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of the above building ... More >>

Wait a Minute Mr. Postman: 10 Songs About the Mail

​By now it's news to no one that the United States Postal Service is in trouble. As detailed by Nick Greene earlier this month at Village Voice's Running Scared, this means print media is in for a punch (you know, while it's down and everything), your bills are going to show up later than they ... More >>

New Times "Best of" App Gets a Little Love From iTunes, Wired

Best "Best of" app: Village Voice Media (we're awesome...admit it).​We're not typically in the business of shameless self-promotion here at New Times, but we'll make an exception to toot our own horn over recent accolades for our "Best of" smartphone app, which apparently is pretty friggin' awesom ... More >>

Activists Picket New Times Building in Protest of Backpage.com

James King This was the scene outside of New Times' downtown Phoenix offices this afternoon. ​About 15 to 20 protesters picketed New Times' downtown Phoenix offices today in protest of Backpage.com, a classified ad website owned by our parent company, Village Voice Media ... More >>

Video of Activists Protesting New Times -- Compliments of Dennis Gilman

Roughly 15 activists picketed in front of New Times' Phoenix offices this afternoon in protest of our parent company, Village Voice Media's, classified ad website Backpage.com.The activists feel the website facilitates sex trafficking -- although, they admit that getting rid of Backpage.com will not ... More >>

New Research Demolishes the Stereotype of the Underage Sex Worker

Scientologists Targeting Village Voice Media

www.roflrazzi.com​On the same day our cover story about the Church of Scientology's new Phoenix "Ideal Org" hit newsstands, our sister paper in New York, the Village Voice, reports that the Church is now probing our parent company, Village Voice Media.See our cover story on what Scientology ... More >>

This Has Been a Good Week For Black Star Fans

​It's been a really great week for Black Star fans -- and I'm one of them. Black Star, the 1998 collaboration between Mos Def and Talib Kweli is one of my favorite hip-hop albums. The duo performed "Fix Up," produced by the nearly always awesome Madlib, on The Colbert Report, on Wednesday, October ... More >>

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, July 14, 2011

Underage Sex Trafficking Not as Popular as Ashton Kutcher Wants You to Believe

www.flickr.comAshton Kutcher's trying to Punk the world into thinking up to 300,000 underage kids become prostitutes every year.​If you're buying into Ashton Kutcher's latest media blitz about underage sex trafficking, and think 100,000 to 300,000 children in America become prostitutes every year, ... More >>

New Times Summer Guide 2011

New Times Writers Win Aronson Award

Limp Bizkit is Baaaaack: Fred Durst Says the Band is Working on Two New Albums

Fred Durst now has a gray beard but he still wants to rock.​Bad news for people with working ears: Limp Bizkit, the rap-rock outfit that stained an entire generation by instigating a meathead riot at Woodstook 1999, is reassembling.Or so says singer/rapper/douchenozzle Fred Durst, who NME reports ... More >>

Village Voice Media and Frank 151 Throwing Huge SxSW Party

​Wu-Tang Clan, Fishbone and Yelawolf will headline the annual Village Voice SXSW party, this year produced in tandem with with Frank 151.If that's not enough to grab your attention, it's worth mentioning that Erykah Badu will DJ the party on Thursday, March 17 at the Austin Music Hall.The event ru ... More >>

What Would Comprehensive Immigration Reform Look Like If the Feds Got Off Their Duffs?

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, November 18, 2010

Bonnaroo Video and Audio Footage

The Avett Brothers at Bonnaroo. Photo by NPR.​If you dared to log on to Twitter this weekend, you undoubtedly saw the onslaught of not only massive amounts of Tweets on the start of the World Cup, but also on the Bonnaroo Festival that you were not at.There's nothing like a constant influx of inst ... More >>

An Opportunity to Stand Up

An Opportunity to Stand Up

Surfer Blood

Less Than Jake

Joe Arpaio Target of FBI Probe, Says Channel 5 in Report to Air Thursday

CBS 5's tantalizing promo for their Thursday report Set the DVR this Thursday night for KPHO CBS 5's 10 p.m. newscast, which will feature an eight minute mini-documentary on Sheriff Joe's abuses of power while in office. The award-winning team of producer Gilbert Zermeno and reporter Morgan Loew bo ... More >>

Now Hiring: Denver Newspaper Owned By New Times Parent Company Seeks Marijuana Critic

www.demotivators.com​Any aspiring journalists looking for a great gig? Well New Times parent company, Village Voice Media, is seeking an energetic young writer for what may be the greatest job in journalism -- marijuana critic. You may have to move to the mile high city but when you're alre ... More >>

Phoenix New Times Does It Right, Says Editor & Publisher Magazine

  ​Time to toot our own bugle: The Phoenix New Times has been selected as one of the "10 That Do It Right" for 2009 by Editor & Publisher magazine. Our competition in the field: Every other newspaper in the country, apparently. The magazine says this isn't a "best-of" award, "but rat ... More >>

Pitchfork and Siren: A Weekend of Music Festivals

Nick LucchesiThe Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne pulling off the old "human hamster" trick at Pitchfork 2009. See more shots in our slide show from Pitchfork. As much as we wish it wasn't true, there's not a whole lot happening around these here parts. At least not as much as is happening in par ... More >>

Former New Times Writer Honored

Crewmember of M/V Maersk Alabama Recounts Initial Day of Pirate Attack

You know what happened to the captain of the M/V Maersk Alabama after it was attacked by pirates. Now read exclusive details of how the crew handled the attack. Village Voice writer Graham Rayman obtained e-mails from a crewman describing how shipmates took control of the engine and steering rooms ... More >>

Our SxSW Party: M. Ward, Crystal Antlers, Cursive

M. WardLA Weekly has announced the bill for our Village Voice South by Southwest showcase. M. Ward, Crystal Antlers, Cursive, Gomez and Bear Hands. Crystal Antlers and Cursive are the highlights for me. The new Cursive record, Mama, I'm Swollen -- which I popped in today, and happened to be listenin ... More >>

Flier of the Week: DeVotchKa

Do you like Arcade Fire? How about Gogol Bordello? Sure you do! So why not check out DeVotchKa's show at The Clubhouse tonight?Cuz here's the thing: As The Village Voice has pointed out, DeVotchKa was those bands before those bands were those bands. It sounds ridiculous to say an act is proto-gypsy ... More >>

Pazz and Jop 2008 is Out

Pazz and Jop, the annual Village Voice poll of music critics, is out. Conducted since 1971, the poll is the original metacritic, aggregating music writer's annual best of lists in to one mega list. Unsurprisingly, TV on the Radio won the number one spot, as it did in all the major music magazines, w ... More >>

Young Jeezy and Jay-Z: "My President Is Black" (Live)

I'm not sure I've seen anything that sums up the raucous atmosphere surrounding the Obama inauguration better than this live video for "My President is Black" with Young Jeezy and Jay-Z (a.k.a. Old Jeezy), which I came across over on The Village Voice's music blog, Sound of th ... More >>

Off the Chain: How Douchebag Became Everyone's Favorite Insult

Why is "douchebag" the default insult of our time? Our sister paper in SF explores the rise of this most 00s of insults.BTW, the guy above is the first thing you get when you type "douchebag" in to a Google image search... quite a dubious honor. Personally I think this guy (result two) fits the bill ... More >>

Goodbye, Get Out

Get Out, The East Valley Tribune's Thursday entertainment tabloid will publish for the last time on Christmas Day. Today, I finally got an e-mail with memorial details for our vanquished -- but respected -- foe of 11 years. You can click here to leave thoughts and memories.The Trib is my former empl ... More >>

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Over the Weekend: Edgefest 2008, Chandler Oktoberfest and More

Over the Weekend: Hurricane Ike

Over the Weekend: Stephenie Meyer, Miss Gay Arizona, Discount Assassin

AZ ACLU honors New Times founders Jim Larkin and Mike Lacey as Civil Libertarians of the Year.

Southbyscurvy: The Best of SxSW

Who's Sorry Now?

Andy Thomas eats crow to save his political career, but wants us to apologize to Sheriff Joe. Fat chance

UPDATE: NEW TIMES FOUNDERS MIKE LACEY AND JIM LARKIN RELEASED FROM SHERIFF'S CUSTODY, VOW TO FIGHT ON.

2006 Ear Infection Pandemic Poll

New Times To Merge With Village Voice

Combination creates nation's premier alternative media company