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What Would Life Be Like Without Technology? A Onetime Addict Finds Out

Andrew Zimmern Won Us Over and Adam Richman Tried Too Hard at Scottsdale Culinary Fest Celeb Shows

If getting out of the sun and away from the delirious drunks yesterday at the Scottsdale Culinary Festival wasn't enough motivation for you to fork out $30 to see Travel Channel personalities Andrew Zimmern of Bizzare Foods with Andrew Zimmern and Adam Richmanof Man vs. Food, you weren't alone. Bu ... More >>

Don Bivens, the $160,000 Man, Slimes Former Surgeon General Richard Carmona

Former Arizona Democratic Party Chair Don Bivens will not go gently into that good night, like he should.Rather, Bivens seems hell-bent on an ugly contest in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate this year. Already, he's going negative on former U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona, the guy Pr ... More >>

Richard Carmona Promises AZ Dems a U.S. Senate Seat

Ford Motor Company Fined $225,000 for Cheating Permit Process; Proving Grounds Manager Mike Stoeckler Lied by Omission, Official Says

Image: www.linkeng.comFord Motor Company was fined $225,000 by Maricopa County for failing to obtain the necessary permits before building a new test track.​Back in January, longtime Ford engineer and proving grounds manager Mike Stoeckler flew to from Dearborn, Michigan to deliver an urgent reque ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Loses Again: Maricopa County Settles for $200K in Mora Racial-Profiling Case

Julio and Julian Mora, who today won big against Sheriff Joe As Sheriff Joe Arpaio plots to humiliate Arizona by deploying a chain gang of illegal immigrants to clean up around Chase Field, where the Major League Baseball All-Star Game is scheduled to take place July 12, there's ample evidence Arpai ... More >>

The Top 10 Most Annoying College Football Fight Songs

music.colorado.eduThe University of Colorado Golden Buffalo Marching Band in action​I'm just gonna come right out and say it - college football is the best sport in the world. Unlike professional sports, where lockouts and strikes by multimillionaires are commonplace and players allegedly collude ... More >>

Arizona State University One of Playboy's Top Party Schools Once Again

www.motivatedphotos.com​After a brief fall from grace, thanks -- in part -- to Arizona State University President Michael Crow's ruthless crusade against fun under the disguise of "The New American University," the Sun Devils are back in Playboy magazine's list of top 10 party schools in the count ... More >>

The Humane Society and Big Agriculture Slug It Out Over Animal Rights

Andrew Thomas Caused a "Cancer" on Our Justice System with His "Appearance of Impropriety" in Cases Against Supervisors and a Judge

Concert Review: Dirty Projectors at Rhythm Room

BY LINDSEY HOLDER Shawn Anderson courtesy of ElectricMustache.com​Last night at the Rhythm Room, Dirty Projectors held our hands and led us on an auditory cross-country journey. Each song performed was like a different piece of scenery along the trip, with sometimes unpredictable tempo changes an ... More >>

Dirty Projectors Go From Covering Black Flag to Being Sublimely Inventive

Too Cool for Public School

A feel-good education story? Here it is.

Heard Museum's Director, Frank Goodyear, Announces Retirement; Presided Over Expansion

Frank Goodyear, the director of the Heard Museum for the last 10 years, will retire at the end of the year. Goodyear's tenure coincided with a period of expansion and growth at the Valley's best-known museum, and he was appreciated for his fundraising skills. According to the news relea ... More >>

Arty Girl: Poet Cynthia Hogue

By Laineys Repertoire at www.flickr.com/creativecommonsSo all of us arty weirdos have probably been to a poetry reading or poetry slam at least once.Ask anyone who knows me...bad poetry being read aloud in an overly-dramatic-high-school-thespian way is my personal hell. Anytime I've seen an amateur ... More >>

Skull and Bones, Pancho Villa's Head, and a Possible Phoenix Connection?

Pancho Villa, with head still attached... Curiosity's driven me to write a little follow-up to my post Wednesday about the WASPy wieners at Skull and Bones being sued by the heirs of the Apache warrior Geronimo. They're suing because it's rumored that Yale's secret society has posses ... More >>

Geronimo's Heirs Declare War on Yale's Skull and Bones: It's About Damn Time

from the University of Arizona's State MuseumIf Yale's Bone-heads really do have Geronimo's noggin, someone should flay George W.'s honkey ass, or John Kerry's...My question is, what took 'em so long? I'm talking about the descendants of the Apache warrior Geronimo demanding his remains back from "o ... More >>

Feb. 18 In Blogs: President Obama, Geronimo, The Hold Steady and More

We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries: Valley Fever: Obama Protesters Leave Signs Near Dobson High School in Mesa Obama Say ... More >>

They Got Wood

Just like most college kids

They Got Wood

Just like most college kids

Tom Waits slays 'em on opening night in Phoenix

Why David Ray Griffin is full of merde, Part I.

Yale Boys Get a Head?

Pancho needs your prayers, it's true

Like Herding Sheep

De Niro takes a loooong, sloooow look at the history of the CIA

Design Flaw

Agoraphobia goes public

This Week's Day-by-day Picks

When and Wear

The fashion-forward look back

Letters

Letters from the week of June 12, 2003

Greek Out

Distributors still don't honeymoon with small romantic comedies

Cheaters Never Win

Even with Rushmore's Jason Schwartzman, Slackers swindles its audience

Tongue Lashing

Art exhibit asks why bilingual education has taken such a licking

Poetess' Corner

Julie Harris in The Belle of Amherst

Understated Original

Phoenix owes its art museum and its cultural life in part to the late Philip Curtis

Cult of the Darned

Brain-dead Skulls hasn't a thought in its head

"This Has Wrecked My Career"

Jack Rose was a golden boy, a precocious businessman and political insider. Then he ran into a buzz saw at the Arizona Corporation Commission.

Pupil Reign

High-school-themed Election scores a winning ticket

Flashes

Playwrights of the Western World

Two local playfests raise hopes of unsung dramatists

Slave Labor

Spielberg unshackles high-minded Amistad . . . and You Are There!

The Vision Quest of Philip Curtis

More than 500 paintings of social and psychological truths spanning 50 years have made Curtis the dean of Arizona artists. At 90, he's losing the most important tools of his trade.

Western Union

Dual canyon exhibitions illustrate gulf between painting and photography

Greenhouse Defect

Low-End Theory

When it comes to Morphine's noirish, bass-heavy head trips, a little taste will treat you fine

Garden of Eatin'

How Phil Nabity transformed a trashy utility easement into an inner-city ribbon of produce

GARDENING BACK TO WILDERNESSBOTH ENVIRONMENTALISTS AND LOGGERS EMBRACE WALLY COVINGTON'S RESEARCH--BUT DO THEY SEE THE FOREST FOR THE TREES?

STUPOR BOWL

LET'S DO LAUNCH

NO,YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A ROCKET SCIENTIST. JUST FLEX YOUR MISSILES.

NADA THIS EARTHGRINGO ART HITS THE CANVAS IN NEW "SOUTH OF THE BORDER" EXHIBITION

ONCE A LAWYER MOVES IN, THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD

ATTACK OF THE SAGACIOUS ANTS