By Jonathan McNamara I just checked weather.com and it’s 102 degrees. Face it, your chances for communing with nature are growing slimmer by the second. Before the summer sun banishes you to an air-conditioned existence, take this chance to visit the Desert Botanical Garden. Tonight the garden will feature an…
By Jonathan McNamara Take a look at the paintings plastered all over building G at 1700 Curry and you might write them off as vandalism. Though the works are a combined effort between taggers and traditional artists, there’s no getting around the fact that they are graffiti. They have been…
Courtney Bisbee in happier times, with her daughter Taylor Lee. The case of convicted student-boffer Jennifer Mally makes my blood boil. Not because I have any problem, per se, with the six months punishment she received after pleading guilty to three counts of getting horizontal with a 16-year-old. After all,…
By Jonathan McNamara Mona Lisa sits me down in the back at Rhythm Room amid a plethora of reserve booze and string lights and tells me about her hair. She’s a little bit self-conscious because it’s shorter than it’s ever been for her. She proceeds to tell me how she…
By Sarah Fenske No one said it was easy to fight The Man. But in the latest skirmish in its battle to stop corporate welfare in Arizona, at the least the Goldwater Institute doesn’t have to go it alone. Last year, I told you about the libertarian think-tank’s bold play…
Don’t get me wrong, I understand how technically proficient the members of Apocalyptica are. As musicians go they’re extremely talented, but their true genius, I believe, lies not in their skill but in their decision. Think about it: Metallica covers on trombone? That’s a bit depressing, isn’t it? How about…
My recent column regarding the dissimilarities between Scots and Mexicans provoked a surprising amount of angry responses — by real Scotsmen furious that letter writer Great Scot could be so pendejo. Here’s the best reader carta: Having just read Great Scot’s question and your response, I can’t help but think…
HEAR IT FOR THE BAND They’re Digital Summer!: Digital Summer is an amazing band that has so much talent and deserves this type of recognition and much more (“Sticker Shock,” Benjamin Leatherman, May 8). The band members work really well together and have what it takes to make it. I…
New Times founder and executive editor Michael Lacey has been honored with the Arizona Press Club’s Distinguished Service Award. The lifetime accolade was given for Lacey’s 38 years as a writer, editor, and newspaper owner in Arizona. It’s one of two national and 19 state awards that New Times has…
The widow and the man who cheated her out of hundreds of thousands of dollars come from large Mormon families and lived in the same west Phoenix neighborhood back in the ’70s. Martha Mow, whose maiden name was Judd, is about 13 years older than Mark Bosworth and didn’t know…
When Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon spoke out against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, he had to know that retaliation would be swift. After all, past critics of the sheriff’s office have been investigated, smeared, even jailed. It didn’t take Gordon long to join the list. On April 24, four weeks…
Bad-ass Becca, still not kowtowing to the MCSO… The viciousness of nativist Neanderthals in this burg knows no bounds. Take the comments on the story at azcentral.com regarding the picayune report of Guadalupe Mayor Rebecca Jimenez receiving a citation for driving minus a headlight. The way these nimrods natter, you’d…
By Sarah Fenske Yeah, yeah, I know… We at New Times already have confessed to more than a shade of Green Fatigue (see our 10 zillion word analysis of overly trendy environmentalism here.) But we have to admit, we still plan to watch tonight’s Wife Swap, which pairs an “eco-friendly…
By Ray Stern As expected, Sheriff Joe Arpaio threw a tantrum when he found out Governor Janet Napolitano was cutting his allowance. After first reading of the cuts to his immigration enforcement efforts in New Times, Arpaio held an impassioned, late-afternoon news conference on Tuesday to protest the governor’s move…
By Paul Rubin One of the NBA’s most amazing plays happened 14 years ago this week, when Phoenix Suns point guard Kevin Johnson (all six-feet-one of him) executed a one-handed dunk over seven-footer Hakeem Olajuwon, the great and very intimidating center for the Houston Rockets. It happened in the second…
By Lilia Menconi Lush Handmade Cosmetics Store on Saturday, May 10. Get your fill of more perfection and click through our Lush slideshow. Pulling off the nightlife is some tricky business. Even though you repeatedly hinder cell regeneration with booze and nicotine, you must remain eff-able. That means feigning youth,…
By Jonathan McNamara I understand that Myst’s swim wear fashion show tonight will feature more beautiful ladies than I can shake an over-priced gin and tonic at. I also understand that hosting the whole shebang is Misty Dawn, a former Playboy Cyber Girl of the week. The truth is Myst…
An illegal alien cozying up to Lady Liberty at Monday’s protest. As part of a last-minute anti-Arpaio demonstration, hastily organized via the Internet, about 80 protesters from the Phoenix arts community and various immigrant rights organizations besieged the gates of the Arizona American Italian Club on North 12th Street, where…
By: Megan Irwin The frontrunner for the Republican nomination to replace Dubya is also older than this mountain. Lately, election coverage has focused almost totally on Obama vs. Clinton. But at least one blogger out there wants you to remember there’s another contender in the presidential race: the senior senator…
By Ray Stern Much of the money for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s immigration-enforcement efforts lately has poured out of a special pool of state money. But New Times has learned that Governor Janet Napolitano’s turning off the spigot. In what appears to be a prelude to a major fight…
By: Megan Irwin Last week my editor found this response to my story “Waterlogged” which ran as part of our Earth Day-inspired “Green Fatigue” series in April. Though I personally expected a backlash from most members of the conservation community, surprisingly we got relatively little hate thrown our way after…
By Jonathan McNamara A Wikipedia breakdown of Nebraska’s religious affiliations list Christians at 90 percent, other religions at 1 percent and atheism at 9 percent. Spend a few moments with Caryl Peters and you’ll know that those numbers are inaccurate. There may be other belief systems in place in Nebraska,…
