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Riding High: Arizona's Zero-Tolerance Stance on Pot and Driving

Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez Furthers His Sci-Fi Empire with The Armory Wars

It's a major feat to create art that facilitates an entire spectrum of fandom. Take, for example, the newest Disney acquisition and the very first hugely popular sci-fi event: the Star Wars franchise. Some elect to dress as Stormtroopers in their wedding photos, but most fans simply have a pedestria ... More >>

Here Are the Songs They Play at a Middle School Dance

[Editor's note: The following post by Houston writer and ESL teacher Shea Serrano was named the best blog post of the year in the first-ever Voice Media Group music writing awards. Originally published by our sister blog, West Coast Sound at L.A. Weekly, it's a hilarious real-time account of an afte ... More >>

Announcing the Winners of the First Voice Media Group Music Writing Awards

Each week in our print editions and every day on our blogs, the 13 Voice Media Group papers feature some of the best music writing in the country. That's why we're excited to announce the winners of our first VMG music writing awards. The honor goes to the authors of one blog post and one print pi ... More >>

Polish Goodies Like Grandma Used to Make

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Jhessye Shockley Disappearance: Search Of Landfill For 5-Year-Old's Body Starts Today

​Authorities have begun searching a landfill south of the Valley for the remains of missing 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley.Shockley was reported missing in October. Glendale police suspect the girl is dead -- and that her mother, Jerice Hunter, killed her and threw her dead body into a trash can in T ... More >>

Tyson Langley, 15-Year-Old Accused of Double Homicide, Pleads Not Guilty to Murder Charges

Peoria Police DepartmentTyson Langley​Tyson Langley, the 15-year-old accused of murdering two people at a Peoria smoke shop last month, was in Maricopa County Superior Court this morning where he pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder.Despite his young age, Langley's being charged ... More >>

Jhessye Shockley Disappearance: Police to Start Searching Landfill For Body February 6

​Glendale police announced this morning that investigators will start searching a landfill south of the Valley for the body of missing 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley on February 6.Shockley was reported missing in October. The case is now a homicide investigation, with her mother, Jerice Hunter, as th ... More >>

Tyson Langley, 15-Year-Old Accused of Double-Murder, Held on $2 Million Bond

Baby-faced alleged killer Tyson Langley​Tyson Langley, the 15-year-old accused of gunning down two people at a Peoria smoke shop last week, is being held on $2 million bond after he was arrested in Los Angeles over the weekend and extradited back to the Valley.Langley, court records obtained by Ne ... More >>

Glendale Police to Search Landfill For Body of Missing 5-Year-Old Jhessye Shockley

​The Glendale Police Department says it will move forward with plans to search a landfill south of Phoenix for the body of 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley, who's been missing since October.Glendale police told New Times last month that the case is now a homicide investigation, with Shockley's mother, ... More >>

Jhessye Shockley Thrown in Tempe Trash Can; Case Now a Homicide Investigation, Glendale Police Say

The body of 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley was thrown in a trash can in Tempe, Glendale police now say.​The Glendale Police Department says it now believes that the body of missing 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley was thrown in a trash can in Tempe and may be in a landfill just south of the Valley.Glendal ... More >>

Jhessye Shockley Disappearance: Glendale Police Won't Search Landfill For Girl's Remains

Jhessye Shockley was reported missing on October 11. The last time she was seen alive was September 22.​The Glendale Police Department says it no longer plans to search a city landfill for the remains of missing 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley, who was reported missing nearly two months ago.Glendale S ... More >>

Jerice Hunter, Mother Suspected in Disappearance of 5-Year-Old Jhessye Shockley, Released From Jail

MCSOJerice Hunter is a free woman...for now.​Jerice Hunter, the mother of missing 5-year-old Jhessye Shockley -- who is suspected in the girl's disappearance -- has been released from jail.Hunter, the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office says, was released about 10:40 a.m today.Jerry Cobb, spokesman f ... More >>

Nick Oliveri (Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss) One-Ups Mic Todd's Armed Robbery With a Five-Hour SWAT Team Standoff

Former Queens Of The Stone Age bassist Nick OliveriIt's been a rough week for bassists of widely-known rock bands. First was Coheed and Cambria bassist Mic Todd and his Sunday night arrest for armed robbery in Massachusetts. Today comes the news of former Queens of the Stone Age, Dwarves, and c ... More >>

Bon Iver Fleet Foxes The Walkmen Comerica Theatre = Indie Rock Pants Wetting

Bon Iver​ In case you've missed practically every noteworthy blog hyping it, or didn't watch The Colbert Report last night, here's some news: Bon Iver, the band, released Bon Iver, the album, today. It's the band's second outing, and technically the first that was recorded as a band and not just ... More >>

Alice Cooper Got To Meet Lady Gaga

​Alice Cooper got what we imagine to be the thrill of his life over the weekend when he got to meet the one and only Lady Gaga.The news broke yesterday. Gaga, of course, was in Phoenix over the weekend for a concert at US Airways (review video here).Someone let the grizzled old goat, who wa ... More >>

Jared Loughner Reportedly Posed in G-String -- Glock in Hand -- in Photos Taken Day Before Shooting

This is NOT Jared Loughner -- but the suspect in Saturday's shooting rampage was wearing a number similar to this hours before the shooting occurred.​Just when we thought the tragic story of Jared Loughner couldn't possibly get any more bizarre, it's now being reported that he took photos of himse ... More >>

The Career Criminal Squad Scores Again, Putting the Boot to Phoenix's Contingent of the Vinlanders Social Club

Vinlanders Vanquished: Phoenix PD's Career Criminal Squad Crushes White Supremacist Gang in Arizona

The Vinlanders Social Club, out of business in AZ because of the Career Criminal SquadAccording to records on file with the Maricopa County Superior Court, the investigators of the Phoenix Police Department's elite Career Criminal Squad, with the assistance of the local Anti-Defamation League,& ... More >>

'Til Death Do Us Part: They Got Married. Then Everything Changed

Has Phoenix PD's Expert Career Criminal Squad Fallen Prey to Office Politics?

Courtney Bisbee Is Assaulted in Prison, and a Band of Skinhead-Collaring Cops Gets Busted Up

A Skinhead-Collaring Cop, Nazis at the State Capitol, and a Lesbian Nativist Reveals Homicidal Fantasies Toward Mexicans

Pat Benatar's "Heartbreaker" Updated for Sheriff Joe Arpaio by "dude"

See the new lyrics for this song by "dude" below -- after the jump, if you're in the abridged version. Once in a long while, a commenter emerges from this blog who befuddles other blogilla gorillas, an anonymous wing-nutty tard who shakes things up with his (or her)masturbatory use of th ... More >>

Has Phoenix Finally Arrived? Feel the Love

The Top 14 Heavy Metal Men of Arizona

Artist Betsy Schneider takes pictures of her children naked and shows them to the world

It took less than one drink to get Shannon Wilcutt busted for felony DUI

Regina Spektor @ the Orpheum Theatre, Sunday, November 4

Pussy Galore

Redefining both hacky and sack

Rage Against the Machine

His life is great

Bad Medicine

Locking up cold medicine makes the politicians feel good -- but it won't put a dent in Arizona's meth habit

Drag-Stars

Drag diva Barbra Seville and her ab-fab cross-dressing queens vamp the night away at Wink's.

Buzz-Kill Betty

Our intrepid gal learns the hazards of sticking a tape recorder in a drunk's face

Money for Nothing

Halloween is still a week away, but are contributors being tricked into paying for J.D.'s treats?

Grape Nuts

Wine, don't whine, with the unpretentious fun at Atlas Bistro

Rants Fever

Native Son Neal Pollack Lugs His Anthology to the Valley

Laugh, Riot

Neil Hamburger died for your grins

The Law of the Land

Lobbyists ride roughshod over the legislative process, going so far as to write the bills that lawmkers pass

Arts of the West

Flashes

Roux Confessions

Recordings

Six Degrees of Bacon

Interview With a Vampire. Sort Of.

DIGGING BURROS

OF YUMAN BONDAGE

TRIAL AND TERROR

A TREE GROWS IN PHOENIX