Hot Links: Celebrity City, MCSO Pay Raises, and Clone Babies

Former Phoenix Mayor Paul Johnson is proposing the development of an entertainment complex on 22 acres surrounding Celebrity Theatre, saying it would emulate nightlife hot spots in other cities, such as Sunset Strip in L.A….Among the barrage of boo-hoos Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio laid out in his memos to…

Hot Links: Shooting in Show Low, Marijuana in Gilbert, Manilow in Malls

The jaguar that was recently captured and collared in southern Arizona was recaptured and euthanized at the Phoenix Zoo on Monday, after veterinarians determined the animal suffered from irreparable kidney failure…Hey brother, can you spare another ten million? Phoenix is sending a “strike force” of lobbyists to Washington, to ask…

Seriously Joking

On a sweltering Friday night in mid-July, an experimental punk band called Janis Joplin Crap N Vomit takes the stage at Club Red in Tempe, looking like a trio of misfit superheroes. Singer and guitarist Dana Stern dons a sailor’s cap and a red, white, and blue face mask that…

Zappa Plays Zappa Stays True to Frank’s Vision

Attention, audio adopters like Diddy who think classic rock sounds better with a rap track laid down over it: Keep your hip-hop mitts off Frank Zappa’s songs. Dweezil Zappa, the oldest son of late avant-garde rock composer Frank Zappa, has been performing songs from his father’s career for the past…

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Impersonator Posts Funny Updates on Twitter

  There’s no way it can be the real Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Twitter — we doubt he’s anywhere near tech-savvy enough to micro-blog on a social networking site with applications like “Twitterfox” and “Twim,” and the Twitter updates he’s been posting are way too funny to come from a…

Hot Links: Janet Napolitano, Kurt Warner, and Cow Pee Soda

Hey, is that word loaded?  New Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano  will avoid using the words “terrorism” or “9/11” in her first congressional testimony since taking office, swapping them for terms like “intelligence” and “analysis”…John Pertuit, a teacher at a Flagstaff high school, has been arrested and charged with six…

Hot Links: Crime from Mexico, Photo Radar, and Child Prostitution

A New York Times article discusses the ties between crime in Mexico and crime in Arizona. In the story, officials including Arizona attorney general Terry Goddard talk about how the Mexican drug trade and illegal immigration has led to murders, kidnappings, and home invasions (surprisingly, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio…

Shaq Meets Fans at 5 & Diner in Phoenix Through Twitter

As we reported on this blog back in November, Suns star Shaquille O’Neal’s on Twitter, the “micro-blogging” site where users can post short messages on the Internet (through computers or their cell phones) that detail what they’re doing at any given moment. (For example, Shaq Twittered on January 16 at…

Caffiend: Iced Coffee from Lux

Anybody who’s ever stepped foot into Lux coffee shop on Central knows the weekend and weekday morning scenes there can be chaos, with caffeinated hipsters and business-types all tapping away on their laptops or reading the morning papers. There’s a reason they consistently flock here — Lux’s coffee is rich…

Hot Links: Pet Chimps Banned, Barkley Apologizes, and Monks Get Funky

No, a dead president isn’t throwing people off yachts in California, but a man named John Fitzgerald Kennedy was convicted yesterday on two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of a Prescott, Arizona couple who were tied to anchor and drowned in Southern California…Barrels of monkeys are apparently not…