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By Paul Rubin Been getting a bunch of missives from folks wondering the status of the Gary Karpin criminal case. New Times readers will remember the ubiquitous north Phoenix divorce “mediator” who dubbed himself “Dr. Gary,” the title referring to an alleged doctoral degree from a college in Vermont that…

By Jonathan McNamara The Arizona Republic published a lead editorial today called “Paranoia-ville” that sternly criticizes Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s campaign to peruse more than 10,000 e-mails (as reported by New Times on May 15) received by Mayor Phil Gordon and his staff. For more images from City Hall, see our…

By Jonathan McNamara Father’s Day Paint Ball at Ballers Arena Maybe you showed Dad how much you care by taking him to brunch. For the players at Ballers Arena, ham and eggs weren’t going to cut it. They showed Dad their love by shooting him in the face! Ballers Arena,…

By Sarah Fenske Waah, waah, waah! That’s the sound of Maricopa County Sheriff’s Captain James Miller, whining in an internal memo about the Phoenix Police Department’s refusal to come to the MCSO’s aid when it tried to keep a New Times reporter from (gasp!) looking at public records. Captain James…

By Megan Irwin Allison DoBois, the (um…) psychic/medium, predicts that her next book will be about–me. Well, kind of. In this week’s cover story, I profiled DuBois and her rise to fame as the namesake for the TV show Medium. DuBois did not like the story. As she wrote in…

By Amy Silverman They’re not calling Moses Anshell the Arizona Republic’s Refugee Camp for nothing. He wasn’t nearly old enough for a buyout, but A1 editor (and for our money, an all-around kinda A1 guy) Chris Fiscus flew the Gannett coop recently, landing in the nest former Republic columnist and…

Did you forget? The official day of appreciation for the man who gave you life is a mere two days away. Show him you love him by taking him to one of these father-friendly events this weekend. Zap! Vintage Video Games X-boxes are for cowards. Sixteen buttons? I only need…

By Benjamin Leatherman The star of a New Times cover story is about to become a star of the silver screen. Back in 2006, I profiled madcap local performance artist and musician Ryan Avery, a cherubic and ultra-gleeful teenage oddity who was a mainstay at downtown Phoenix art galleries like…

By Sarah Fenske Here’s news that’s sure to strike fear in the hearts of misogynist golfers everywhere. The state’s chief law enforcement officer has ruled that you can’t ban women from the dining room of your country club, even if you give them a smaller, crappier dining room to use…

By Jonathan McNamara Arizona State University’s High Performance Computing Initiative under the School of Computing and Infomatics is providing humanitarian organizations with detailed satellite images of the ground conditions in Myanmar in the aftermath Cyclone Nargis. Hyper detailed images of the area clear enough to assess whether roads are blocked…

By Paul Rubin When we named ASU fast-pitch softball pitcher Katie Burkart “Best Female College Athlete” in our Best of Phoenix issue last September, we quietly wondered if it wouldn’t be the kiss of death to the team’s chance of making it to the College World Series the following June…

 Why do Mexicans swim in the ocean with their clothes on? I mean, denim?! Vicente Fox’s Mustache I know this might be a seasonal question, but why do Mexicans like swimming in their clothes? Is it a Catholic thing? I remember as a child growing up in the San Fernando…

NAME-CALLING COWARDS What do you have against Kentucky?: This is to the reader who withheld his name. That is, the name-calling coward. The redneck bigot who’s afraid to identify himself (“Filth, vermin, death wishes,” Letters, May 22). My ancestors have lived in this area for many more years than the…

XTRA CRISPY So the Bird was out for First Friday recently when it ran into Andrea Beesley-Brown, a.k.a. the Midnite Movie Mamacita, known for hosting splatter and grindhouse flicks at Chandler Cinemas, where she doubles as the operations manager. The perky New Zealander told this tweeter a wacky tale of…

In the summer of 2006, metropolitan Phoenix was under siege. Two serial killers stalked the streets — one a violent rapist, the other a “shooter” picking his victims off at random. Naturally, Phoenix police were taking any tips they could get. So when Allison DuBois called wanting to talk, they…

After a decades-long court battle with Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his predecessors, a lawsuit alleging poor conditions in the Maricopa County jails is finally moving forward. Health and corrections experts are currently examining conditions in Arpaio’s jails, in connection with Hart v. Arpaio, a class-action lawsuit brought by Phoenix attorney…

By Ray Stern How close did I come to getting arrested by Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies today? As Maxwell Smart would say, “Missed it by that much.” These cowardly MCSO deputies refused to identify themselves. The problem: I had the nerve to want to look at the same public records…

By John Dickerson It’s the worst kept secret in town that the Arizona Republic is a sad and sorry shell of its former self. (Revisit Sarah Fenske’s 2007 cover story on the topic if you’re not clear on the details.) And it’s the second-worst kept secret in town that the…