By Jonathan McNamara Before you shield your eyes from the summer sun’s onslaught, take a look back at the photos and stories of May 2008. Catch up on the stories you missed by checking out our slide show: Month in Photos: May 2008…
By Sarah Fenske Any time I write about law enforcement issues, I get a spike in my inbox — there are lots of you New Times readers who take civil liberties seriously, which is heartening. (There are also apparently a boatload who’ve been wrongfully arrested, which is not heartening at…
By Jonathan McNamara Either way you look at it, it was a delicious weekend. Then again, how could it not be when it was full of cup cakes, hot dogs and Eartha Kitt? Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Qualifying Round at Arizona Mills Mall A dozen competitors bent on making it…
By Jonathan McNamara Brand X Custom T-shirts on Mill Avenue opened its doors to local artists Disposable Hero, Kent Baltutat and Ulises Lara for its “Academics Party” on May 30. 2008. Visitors got to check out some wacky art while chomping on free cup cakes, listening to a couple of…
Above is another outstanding video just posted by local pro-immigrant activist Dennis Gilman. The occasion: a Joe Arpaio booksigning at the Barnes and Noble in Goodyear this past Saturday, May 31, 2008. As the video mentions, that date came close to making it almost 12 years to the day that…
Buffalo Rick Galeener, alleged public urinator. The fattest lie those in the nativist camp spew about themselves is that they’re all true-blue Norman Rockwell American patriots who’ve never done anything wrong in their lives, while everyone opposed to them is a traitorous, law-breakin’ scalawag. But all you have to do…
By Ray Stern The choice of homemade poisonous gas in the apparent suicide of East Valley Tribune theater critic Chris Page shocked those who knew him and resulted in the evacuation of Page’s Mesa townhome complex on Monday. Chris Page: Memorial service information below. Page, 29, had mixed potassium cyanide…
By Amy Silverman A lot of assholes have run for public office in Arizona — many have even won — but here’s a new one: a real Schmuck. No, really. Check out this guy’s campaign sign. The picture was taken, literally, from a moving car, with a camera phone, but…
If Wikipedia is to be believed, Brian Posehn was born on July 6, 1966. His height is 6’6″. I may be making a hypothesis here, but is it possible that this funny man owes his career of appearances on just about every sitcom from Seinfeld to The Sarah Silverman Program…
I’m a Mexican American, but I always lie and tell people my ancestors were from Spain and immigrated to the United States in the 1920s. My whole family says this. We feel embarrassed if we tell people that our heritage is Mexican because Mexicans in the USA are so dirty,…
BLIZZARD OF “BOZ” Editor’s note: Letters and comments poured into New Times after publication of Ray Stern’s “Dirty Deeds” article (May 15). Many readers requested anonymity or listed only partial names, phony names, or Internet handles. A smattering of the responses follows: Got the goods on Bosworth: I’m sure there…
Downtown Tempe’s under aerial assault. The evidence can be found all over Mill Avenue’s sidewalks, trademark red-brick buildings, and on automobiles parked up and down the thoroughfare. It’s bird poop. Lots of it. The culprits: thousands of grackles, starlings, and other birds that have made Mill Avenue their home in…
With spirited protesters and helmeted deputies on horseback, the night of April 3 in Guadalupe was like some historical reenactment, albeit in miniature, of a late-’60s anti-war melee. You know, the kind chronicled by Norman Mailer in one of his seminal “non-fiction novels” of the era, such as Miami and…
Heather Squires was the designated driver. Never exactly a fun thing, but a college buddy of her husband’s was driving up from Tucson to celebrate his acceptance into law school. So when her husband, Jason, asked, Heather said yes. At Chuy’s in Tempe, Heather’s brother and her husband and the…
By John Dickerson Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio lied to the news media at a press conference he called Wednesday about how much jail lawsuits have cost the county compared to Los Angeles County. Then, he verbally flogged attorney Mike Manning and, after the briefing, one of his flacks threw…
So check out this Dennis Gilman video of Nickel Bag Joe at a booksigning for the sheriff’s latest work of fiction Joe’s Law. It took place at the Barnes and Noble bookstore in Deer Valley, and the Arizona Repugnant had a freelancer there to smooch Joe’s fanny. Some suckup by…
By Jonathan McNamara Protesters gathered at the Cesar Chavez Memorial Plaza Tuesday clutching signs that asked for peace, demanding that troops be brought home and labeling President Bush and John McCain fascists to demonstrate against Bush’s McCain fundraising visit here. The sound of drums and bagpipes ricocheted across downtown as…
By Jonathan McNamara Here’s the secret to Nintendo’s Wii bowling: you don’t have to stand up. Trust me. You can sit on a barstool with one hand firmly clasped around a bottle of your choice while you lob virtual balls down a virtual lane and experience the thrill of a…
By Lilia Menconi We remember skipping into The Lost Leaf on a First Friday in spring 2007, only to stumble out a few hours later, pick up our friend off their front lawn, and weave our way home. Can’t say it was the last time that happened, and it’s hard…
By Sarah Fenske This just in: Carlos Mendoza is retiring. Now, the idea of “retirement” may sound a little fishy to you. After all, Mendoza, a justice of the peace in the Downtown Justice Court, was facing charges from the Arizona Commission on Judicial Conduct for some pretty serious stuff:…
By Jonathan McNamara Laura Stack’s book The Exhaustion Cure: Up Your Energy from Low to Go in 21 Days promises to show readers how to not only increase their energy, but also boost their productivity by basing work around deeply held values. So if you’re ready to channel the powers…
By Jonathan McNamara Check out his Myspace page and you’ll see that John Huntington describes himself modestly as a promoter, DJ, producer, consultant and restauranteur. Knowing that Huntington is one half of the very same Hart & Huntington tattoo shop featured on A&E’s “Inked,” most of his hats are self…
