Wyoming

Michael Cimino Revisits His Notorious Flop Heaven's Gate, Which Maybe Was a Masterpiece All Along

Mamma Toledo Makes Egg Sammies with Horseradish Cheese

Forks up, Phoenix! Chow Bella and Roosevelt Row present the third annual Pie Social Saturday, November 3, from 2 to 6 p.m. on Roosevelt Row in downtown Phoenix. We've got an all-star lineup of bakers making pies for you to taste, and from now til Pie Social, we'll introduce them to you, one by one. ... More >>

Teenage Boys Report Being Raped in High Numbers, Health Survey Report by CDC Shows

About 5 to 10 percent of U.S. high-school boys say they've been "physically forced" to have sexual intercourse against their will, according to survey results reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Those surprising numbers come from the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance report p ... More >>

Ethnic Studies at TUSD on the Ropes Till Federal Judge Rules

Los Tigres del Norte, apparently not to Judge Kowal's liking...Is there any doubt save in the most muddled of noggins that Arizona's Latino population continues to dwell beneath the bootheel of a hostile political class made up almost entirely of Anglos?Yes, the successful recall of the state's top ... More >>

Rebecca Nab Young Shares Volga German Recipes and Stories

Maya DukmasovaRebecca Nab Young poses with her book and some family photographs​This week in Chef Talk, we take a bit of a detour to explore the culinary and cultural traditions of Volga Germans with Rebecca Nab Young, the Phoenix-based author of a new cookbook, There is Always Room for One More: ... More >>

Registered Sex Offender Carlos Parra's at it Again; Accused of Perving on Three Girls at Wife's At-Home Daycare Business

MCSO Carlos Parra apparently has a thing for young girls.​If your husband has a history of perving on young girls, perhaps a daycare business at the home the two of you share isn't the best idea.That said, it didn't stop the wife of convicted sex criminal Carlos Parra, who's, yet again, acc ... More >>

Chris Rupp

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, April 7, 2011

John McCain, "The Maverick," Now Amongst Most Conservative Senators, Study Shows

Told ya I wasn't a "Maverick."​During the 2010 Senate primary against former TV pitchman J.D. Hayworth, Senator John McCain insisted he wasn't "the Maverick" -- willing to cross party lines for crucial votes -- he once was. According to a study by the National Journal, he wasn't kidding.The study ... More >>

Tracy Province, Prison Escapee/Bear-Food Wannabe, Pleads Not Guilty to Murder

Tracy Province​The Arizona prison escapee who planned to commit suicide-by-bear while a fugitive last summer has pleaded not guilty to two murders he allegedly committed while on the run in New Mexico.Tracy Province was in federal court in Albuquerque this morning, where he pleaded not guilt ... More >>

Arizona Prison Escapee Who Planned Suicide-by-Bear Taken to New Mexico to Face Murder Charges

Tracy Province has been moved to New Mexico where he faces two murder charges.​One of the three inmates who escaped from an Arizona prison last summer has been extradited to New Mexico where he will face murder charges in the deaths of a husband and wife from Oklahoma.Tracy Province, who along wit ... More >>

Under Jan Brewer's Fearless Leadership, Arizona Not Ranked Worst-Run State in Country -- Just Third Worst

​Arizona Governor Jan Brewer may think that she has "did what is right" for Arizona, but an independent analysis by the financial news Web site 24/7 Wall St. disagrees. The site has issued its "State of the States" rankings and Arizona has been ranked 48th on its list of well-run states.The rankin ... More >>

Mark Matos & Os Beaches on Acid-Gospel, Drugs and Old Weird America

​ Mark Matos used to live in Tucson, where he played with a rising indie band called Campo Bravo. Then he had a road to Damascus moment while out on tour, experiencing an epiphany while tripping on LSD. His new band, Os Beaches, is located in San Francisco, where they attempt to revive ghosts of t ... More >>

Steve Miller Band's Scottsdale Scammer Ordered to Pay Band for Bad Check

www.wikimedia.org​A Scottsdale concert promoter who wrote a bad check to the Steve Miller Band was sentenced yesterday after pleading guilty to felony check fraud back in February.Robert Alfred Green, 48, was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay the band restitution.Insert "Take the Money and ... More >>

"Take the Money and Run:" Scottsdale Man Pleads Not Guilty to Writing Steve Miller Band a Bad Check

www.uulyrics.com​A Scottsdale man pleaded not guilty yesterday for allegedly passing a bogus check to the Steve Miller Band for a show the group played in Casper, Wyoming last November.

Felecia Rotellini First Candidate to Announce Officially for Attorney General Race

Felecia Rotellini is running for Arizona Attorney General.​Former Assistant Attorney General Felecia Rotellini became the first candidate for Arizona AG to officially throw her hat into the ring today -- announcing that she's converting her "exploratory" committee to a "campaign" committee a ... More >>

Arpaio Visits Houston and the Bigots at Westboro Baptist Church Have a New Target: Jews

Gay-Bashin' Westboro Baptist Church Punks Out of Glendale Picket

Just a few of the folks WBC missed out on meeting Saturday night.I was expecting a hatefest, a yellathon, maybe even some fisticuffs. Instead, it turned into a love-in.I'm talking about the threatened picket of Glendale Community College by the gay-bashing Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas. ... More >>

Gas Bag Man

The winged wonder rags on dead Republi-con Jeff Groscost, Tempe's "PG clause," and Dr. Sketchy's anti-art lameness

Word Player

Suzan-Lori Parks mouths off

Struck Dumb

Strom-y weather

Working Title

Nickel and Dimed clocks on at the Herberger

Shout Out

Laramie Inside Out examines the small town that birthed a notorious hate crime

Caught on Film

Pollack Cinemas snags indie flicks

Cubed Logic

Burning Man gets boxed in

Ghost Radio

Who's behind Arizona's nonstop oddball rock time capsule?

Grooms on the Cupcake

With Terry Goddard and Janet Napolitano around, you'd think gay marriage would have a chance in Arizona. Think again.

Lynch Burg

Actors interviewed the people of Laramie, Wyoming, where a gay student was killed, and then became them

Animal Crackers

A new book reveals a conservative speechwriter's more sensitive side

Guilty Conscience?

MTV does an about-face with a tele-film on the Matthew Shepard case and the launch of a yearlong information campaign

What, Them Worry?

As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad

Hollow Points

State requirements for a concealed weapons permit are hit or miss

Happy Daze

Nebula conjures up memories of loud Les Pauls, long hair and weed

At Long Lost Live?

In search of the historic double live album . . . who started it, and who finally finished it off?

Flashes

Flashes

Heel Thyself

The Big Steep

The only thing slick about Arizona Snowbowl is the snow

Fool's Gold

Letters

Pic Hits for the week

REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PRIMITIVECODY LUNDIN CAN SHOW YOU WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO BE ABLE TO CATCH A FISH BAREHANDED

THE WORLD ACCORDION TO YANKOVICSEPTUAGENARIAN KING OF POLKA PUMPS HIS ORGAN IN MESA

FIFE, POMPED UP

IT'S REVERENT, IT'S MARTIAL, IT'S A PARTY. IT'S INAUGURATION-A-GO-GO.

KILLER B

MICHAEL KIEFERSTANCES WITH WOLVESFORMER ECO-TERRORIST DAVE FOREMAN UNLEASHES A PLAN TO LET LOBOS LOOSE IN THE WILDERNESS

NO MELLOW CELLO

LYLE LOVETT'S CELLIST, JOHN HAGEN, BENDS MORE THAN STRINGS

ARIZONA'S EDUCATION SYSTEM IS READY FOR REFORM SCHOOL

FOR ONCE, BIG BUSINESS AND EDUCATORS ARE IN CONCERT. BUT WILL LAWMAKERS FACE THE MUSIC

RIFF AND READ

GIVE ME THAT OLD-TIME CONSTITUTION

THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND INDUSTRY OVER PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS HAS TAKEN ON A RELIGIOUS FERVOR