New York Times Slams Arpaio’s Dumb New Reality Show

I’m on the run this a.m., but I would be remiss if I did not point your attention to this excellent article by David Carr in Sunday’s New York Times online concerning our clown of a sheriff, “A Star Turn for a Sheriff on Fox TV.” Unlike a lot of…

Sheriff Paul Babeu Ends Pinal County’s Contract with Redflex

There’s a new sheriff in Pinal County, and he’s ridin’ Redflex out on a hot rail… CameraFraud.com’s reporting that Pinal County’s newly elected Sheriff Paul Babeu has ended Pinal’s photo enforcement contract with Redflex, the Australian firm responsible for so many of those mechanical Orwellian shutterbugs plaguing motorists throughout the…

Nicknames and Chinos with Tans

Dear Mexican: How do Mexicans get such ridiculous nicknames from seemingly normal names? For instance, José becomes Chepe, Eduardo is Lalo, Gabriel becomes Gabi, and Guillermo devolves into Memo. It’s Marcela, Not Chela Dear Mexican: I want to know why Mexicans have such incongruous nicknames. In English, people have nicknames…

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, January 1, 2009

CORNER KICKS The Argentineans do it correctly: It’s kind of a shame that youth soccer has to be so money-driven (“Soccer Bomb,” John Dickerson, December 18). I’ve read lately that the English Football Association has started not keeping score at youth games, so the kids and their parents can focus…

Before Don Stapley’s Indictment, There Was the Land Deal

Behind the year’s most shocking indictment — 118 criminal counts filed last month against Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley — is a bizarre tale of a land deal turned ugly, a $360 million jury verdict reduced to nothing, and a political fundraiser hosted by one of the Valley’s most influential…

News: Staff Writer Wanted

New Times has an immediate opening for a full-time staff writer. We’re looking for a journalist with sharp investigative skills who understands the difference between magazine-style reporting and the hurried fact-finding of daily newspaper reporting. If your copy is as much a pleasure to read as it is well researched,…

Charles Barkley Sweats DUI Arrest in Unflattering Mug Shot

Few people look good in a police mug shot, but this must be one of the worst sides of Sir Charles Barkley ever seen.In a story covered extensively today by the national media, Barkley was arrested last night in Old Town Scottsdale on suspicion of DUI after he allegedly ran a…