A new line of Speedy Gonzalez clothing came out earlier this year. As a black vendor in a predominantly Mexican market, I immediately thought about selling some of these items. I am 35 and, although I remember the cartoon coming on when I was a young kid, I can’t really…
Leigh Fords home, 510 West Lynwood Street. Next door to the Halloran family home, this is the house where Winnie Ruth lived after her arrival in Phoenix. She resided with the Fords as their live-in nanny and met neighbor Jack Halloran, a married man with whom she had a notorious…
Two former Arizona State University football players have died from bullet wounds to the head. One is known worldwide for giving up National Football League riches to go to war. Killed by friendly fire in April 2004, Pat Tillman is hailed as a hero, his name enshrined at Sun Devil…
At last week’s mayoral debate, the only one we’ll have in this year’s lopsided race, Mayor Phil Gordon was asked a very good question — and gave a very disappointing answer. Knowing what we know now, the moderator asked, did Gordon regret the city’s promise to hand over $97 million…
Ipso Schmucko: The Repugnant’s Muttonhead Montini, menace to local journalism. See the front page of The Arizona Republic today? The article titled Feds Helping police nab more migrants, with the subhead, Policy shift: ICE now responds to every Valley call ? The piece features a photo of Immigration and Customs…
Kid (right) with Ruben (left) and LL Cool J (center). ***UPDATED WITH COMMENT FROM POWER VP NAT GALVIN BELOW*** Hip-hop radio employees slipping on KKK hoods to pay a visit to their rivals? As incredible as it sounds, that’s the tale told by a lawsuit filed August 21 by 101.5…
A photo of Virginia Gutierrez from her supporters. Just received the following announcement of a rally at the State Capitol this Wednesday on behalf of recently deported 18-year-old Virginia Gutierrez. The above photo came with it, the first glimpse so far of the former North High School Student who I…
Back on the bus: Psychic TV’s Genesis P-Orridge and Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge. (from left) Lady Jaye, Genesis P-Orridge, and William “Fucking” Reed welcome the lunar eclipse. Under a blood red moon we sat on the sidewalk like children, clapping to encourage the completion of Monday’s lunar eclipse. “Clap your…
Rusty’s new group. Rusty’s old group. Rusty’s thong. Kia-peddler and brown-basher Rusty Childress is a co-founder, along with this guy Danny Smith, of an anti-illegal immigrant bike group called the American Freedom Riders. Their shtick is to harass day-laborers at this Episcopal Church up in Cave Creek. They also have…
Do you agree with immigration rights activists calling Elvira Arellano, who is an illegal immigrant and a criminal, the Mexican Rosa Parks? The very idea that these people refer to her as such is deeply disturbing. Rosa Parks was a legal resident of this country and took a stand against…
UNFLATTERING PORTRAIT Poor old Joe: It’s terrible what Elias Bermudez did to the best sheriff in the United States (“Grand Wizard Arpaio,” The Bird, Stephen Lemons, August 23). He should be strung up for that. And your boy, Lemons, should be strung up for re-publishing that illustration Bermudez passed around…
Every time you drive past U.S. Airways Center, Diana Taurasi’s looking down on you, holding a two-toned basketball and smiling. The 6-foot shooting guard for the Phoenix Mercury, our professional women’s basketball team, has been honored with one of those life-size cardboard effigies, which looms in the second-floor windows of…
Carla Olson was a twentysomething Michigan native who visited Phoenix, fell in love with the desert, and decided, just like that, to move here. She’d barely been in town a year when she began working on a project to bring the desert’s harsh splendor to her fellow outdoorspeople: the Phoenix…
Know what Phoenix’s mayoral contest conjures up? That South Park episode titled “Douche and Turd,” a send-up of the 2004 presidential election in which South Park Elementary School has to give up its original bovine mascot after ponytailed PETA protesters invade the campus. The replacement choices students get to vote…
I know P-Orridge was feeling a lot more mellow after the show, but the following press release sent to me this morning via PTV spokesperson Howard Wuelfing reflects P-Orridge’s frustration at that point in the evening prior to the gig. It’s unclear what happened at The Sets, and why it…
This would almost be funny if the poor guy hadn’t been freaked out by it. I got to the show late last night, as I was on deadline for my column till 11. I did get to hang out with the band afterwards, and interview Genesis P-Orridge. We all watched…
Amazing! It never ends. Just got a call from William “Fucking” Reed. Seems Luckyman pulled out at the last minute, or something. The Psychic TV gig is no longer at The Sets, but will instead take place at The Rogue East, 423 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, phone: (480) 947-3580. WFR…
P-Orridge puts the smack down, right on Tom Anderson’s skully. Genesis speaks! And Anderson takes it on the chin. What else can be said? So let it be written, so let it be done…I love the line at the bottom, “PEE WHERE THOU WILT SHALL BE THE WHOLE OF THE…
AZ GOPer Horst Kraus, just the way I want to remember him: Clothed! Just got this press release over the transom, and it’s so good, I have to share. Seems the Phoenix Business Journal has also picked this one up. NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 24, 2007 Nudist czar…
Year of the dog, indeed: But in the case of DMX, it’s Maricopa County’s “Deputy Dawg.” One thing we know about Sheriff Joe Arpaio: He loves publicity more than the truth, human rights, the U.S. Constitution, and his own conscience, if he has one. That’s why you should take the…
The power of P-Orridge compels you: Psychic TV icon Genesis P-Orridge plans to land the mothership in Tempe. Promoter William “Fucking” Reed has just announced that the Psychic TV show will go forward at The Sets in Tempe. Same date: 8/27/07. Doors open at 8 p.m., with Psychic TV to…
Will rock band Psychic TV make it to the PHX this Monday? If so, where will they play? A victory for local transgender activist Michele de LaFreniere, and a huge disappointment for fans: That’s my initial take on the news that Tom Anderson has cancelled the Monday concert of experimental…
