It ain’t hard proving state Representative Russell Pearce is a bigot when the guy does the job for you on a regular basis. As Feathered Bastard readers know, the prejudiced Pearce has been photographed arm-in-arm in the past with Mesa neo-Nazi J.T. Ready and has been caught forwarding e-mails to…
By Steve Jansen I’m pretty sure that Kevin Brockmeier won’t be reading this blog entry about Kevin Brockmeier. Last year when Brockmeier visited Tempe’s Changing Hands Bookstore to plug his amazing novel The Brief History of the Dead (the book fuses suspended belief with a light dusting of science fiction),…
By Jonathan McNamara No, it’s not Christmas. We do this every month. Check out a month’s worth of hard-hitting news, riveting restaurant reviews, rockin’ show previews and a slide show or two direct from the streets of Phoenix. This month in photos features our special report “Green Fatigue,” Guadalupe Mayor…
By Jonathan McNamara Boy did Commodore Perry poke a stick into a hornet’s next when he opened Japan to the West in 1854 or what? Nine years later (they didn’t have e-mail) Emperor Kohei issued an edict to “Expel the foreign barbarians” as a reaction against the westernization of Japan…
By John Dickerson ABC’s Good Morning America recently retold New Times’ “Hot Potato” story. New Times reported the story on November 8, 2007. “Hot Potato” detailed a case of buyer-remorse that escalated into a lawsuit. The story centered on Candy Tatum, a potato-throwing neighbor whom the buyer said was too…
By Sarah Fenske So Peter Singer came to ASU on Monday. The philosopher has argued that parents ought to be able to kill disabled babies within a year of their birth — and he’s not talking about just the extreme cases, like when an infant has no brain. He thinks…
The incessant criticism of Sheriff Joe from other politicians, the media, law enforcement officials, activists, and ordinary citizens must be taking its toll on our corrupt top constable. His big interview in Sunday’s Republic is obviously part of a media campaign to polish his tarnished image, one he continued on…
Hark! Tonight is an opportunity not to be missed! You and yours may yet see The Southwest Shakespeare Company finale of its most ambitious marathon reading of the collected works of Shakespeare, as begun last Thursday. Let not the magnitude of such a task frighten you. Nay! Venture forth to…
By Paul Rubin Late one night six months ago, plainclothes Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies showed up in unmarked cars at the homes of New Times founders Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin. The grim-faced cops arrested the men on misdemeanor charges of revealing so-called grand jury proceedings — orchestrated by then-county…
By Jonathan McNamara Halfway through “Comedy Draft” on Sunday, MC Bryan Ricci got up on the small stage in the cabaret lounge at Tempe Improv and said something I wasn’t expecting. The audience had already been assaulted by a few local comics including Steve “The Short Bus” Krause, who made…
By Joseph Golfen One of the rinks at the Alltel Ice Den wasn’t full of the usual sounds of pee-wee hockey last weekend. There wasn’t the scrape of blades against ice, the smack of sticks cracking against the puck, or the thudding of players careening into each other. Instead, the…
By Jillian Sloan The Chandler Cinemas doesn’t quite carry the clout of the Moulin Rouge, but the half-dressed ladies and men in tails in attendance on Saturday night did smack of the dance club brothel. It took an audience with a passion for low budget productions and a true love…
Janet, while being grilled by activists outside the Wyndham (photo courtesy of Eduardo Barraza of Barriozona.com). UPDATE, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 3:09 PM : In what can only be described as a triumph for local pro-immigration activists, Governor Napolitano saved her fellow Dems’ asses in the state Legislature and vetoed HB…
By Paul Rubin The Suns were kind enough to stick New Times up in Section 207 for last night’s fiasco against the San Antonio Superiors. Best to be as far from the action in the 115-99 crushing loss as possible, sitting among good folks who have lived and now are…
Pearce pre-rug… Pearce post-rug. The new look failed to fill the campaign coffers… Remember when Paleolithic Republican state Rep. Russell Pearce was gonna run for Congress against GOP golden-boy, Congressman Jeff Flake? Pearce had an exploratory committee, and even started sporting a toupee in a failed attempt to look young…
By Brian Bujdos I was fully prepared to fill this space with a rant about $10 beers and $9 Philly cheesesteaks, but then she appeared on the scoreboard. It figures. I had just left section 329 to head downstairs to see if I could find a $50 beer near the…
By Jonathan McNamara There are a lot of interesting sports out there. In Japan, they ride trees down hillsides. In Canada, they hurl boulders across expanses of ice and use brooms to slow them down. There are no Japanese tree-riders in the Valley this weekend, but if you want to…
Do me a quick favor and stand outside for a minute then come back. Don’t worry, I’ll wait. You can tell, right? It’s getting hotter. The summer is just around the corner, and that means it’s past time to get in swimsuit shape. My suggestion: Sacrifice your normal Thursday activity…
When he retired in 2003, Steve Kerr was known as the most accurate three-point shooter in the NBA. In 1997, Kerr scored a game-winning shot giving the Chicago Bulls their fifth NBA championship in seven years. If you haven’t seen it, here’s your chance to catch up on your NBA…
Lately, I’ve been hearing how punks and metalheads in Mexico are trying to beat up emos because it’s been said emos makes Mexican culture look bad. As a metalhead, I support this because I don’t see the point in being emo because they are very sensitive and guys dress like…
DIFFERENT SHADE OF GREEN A happy conservative: I normally plow past the typical New Times articles bashing President Bush and Sheriff Joe Arpaio (not because I like them, so much as I already know why I hate them). And I feared the direction that your eco-chic articles would go (“Green…
• Six straight first-half three-pointers as UA routed ASU in 1988. • A series-winning shot with Michael Jordan’s Bulls in game 6 of the ’97 NBA Finals. • Four three-pointers during the Spurs’ comeback defeat of Dallas in game 6 the ’03 Western Conference championship. • Signing Shaquille O’Neal to…
