Now which one is Chris Simcox? It’s a regular monkey knife fight down at the Scottsdale HQ of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, where alpha male prez Chris Simcox, aka “The Little Prince,” has recently purged anywhere from three to 14 members for revolting against his iron rule and asking…
Last fall, a sophomore at Arizona State University named Matthew Jezierski started a club in honor of a group he considers to be oppressed and undervalued: the white male. The Caucasian American Men of ASU grabbed attention thanks to the club’s name, but Jezierski insisted it wasn’t a white pride…
This B-ball-lovin’ loon’s madder than Alec Baldwin on a cell phone call to his daughter! Over the Suns’ 114-106 loss to the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the Western Conference semifinals, of course. Why, this crestfallen kingfisher consumed an entire bottle of Old Crow to drown its dejection…
Robert “Gypsy” Comer, whose path to death by lethal injection was paved with bad intentions, sent a series of letters to New Times before his execution on the morning of Tuesday, May 22. “I’m ready, and I’ve been ready,” he wrote from his cell in Florence on April 29, “though…
SOLAR FLARE-UPS HOAs just dont “get” it: Sarah Fenske’s column on homeowners associations raised some great points, and it doesn’t hurt that she writes about such a potentially mundane topic with wit and flair (“Let the Sunshine In,” May 10). Once my husband, Tom Rawles, is off the Mesa City…
I was going through a local state colleges academic program the other day and found that the school offers a bachelors degree in Chicano studies. My question is in what field of work would someone with a bachelors in Chicano studies land? Here are a few jobs I came up…
Gee, Captain Horne, you think we’ll last till September? Though the last thing the PHX metro area needs is less competition among its news entities, that might be what’s coming this summer with the rumored demise of the small-but-scrappy Scottsdale Tribune, the Scottsdale edition of Mesa’s East Valley Tribune. According…
Don’t cry, Stevie. You’ve at least got one good year left… Can there be any doubt two-time MVP Steve Nash is the goat of the series pitting the Suns against arch-rival San Antonio? I know, I know. David Stern’s an ass for penalizing Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw for getting…
Will someone pull the dirty ol’ Sheriff away from Paris? For Christ’s sake… I can barely stand to watch CNN news-harpy Nancy Grace as the bizzatch almost always looks like she’s about to bite the head off someone’s baby. But as I was flippin’ channels the other night, I saw…
Yo, Dave, what’s that brown stuff on your lip? Ewww, never mind… Can anyone doubt after last night’s Suns-Spurs donnybrook dat we wuz robbed? Minus Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw, the mighty Suns dominated that game for 40-plus minutes, only running low on solar power towards the very end. As…
So imagine this. You’re home on a Thursday night, watching TV. You live with your college sweetheart, a fellow journalist, a guy you’d once planned to marry. But you broke up a couple of months ago, and although you’re still living together, he hasn’t been home in two days. Then…
Phoenix New Times writers were honored for stories about botched immigration reform, contemporary Native American art, an army peacenik, and more at the annual Arizona Press Club banquet, held May 12 in Phoenix. The contest honored the best Arizona print journalism in 2006. New Times captured 19 awards, including 8…
FOOD FOR THOUGHT Giving vegans a bad name: I agree with your comment in “Diet From Hell” (Ray Stern, May 10) that, maybe, a worse problem in the United States than starving your children is feeding them nearly to death. You see a lot more odiously fat kids at the…
I have no problem with immigrants. My grandparents were Dutch on one side and Irish on the other — but they came here legally, through Ellis Island. What I cant stand are a bunch of fence-hopping, river-wading illegals telling me I owe them a free education, free health care, free…
For a two-month stretch that ended a few weeks ago, Mistress Seven spent her evenings as the guest of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Tent City, the primitive outdoor jail in south Phoenix. She did so under her legal name of Amber Dawn Landin, 32, serving time for extreme DUI and felony…
A pic of Ashlea Deahl from her www.faceofms.org profile. Deahl suffers from the affliction. Take a gander at Sarah Fenske’s story this week on everyone’s fave jailbird Joe Watson, aka, the Salon Bandit. Fenske nabbed a scoop on what a lot of folks suspected from jump — that Watson’s fiancee…
Goober works the room prior to making Chamber of Commerce chin-music. Most mayors of great cities are not afraid of the press, even a hostile press. Indeed, as much as I despised Rudy Giuliani for various reasons when I was living in New York, I admired the way he’d regularly…
You pay for the paper, and you write the paper! Why? Because the Rep blows, son. One staple of late night comedians like Conan O’Brien, Jay Leno, Carson Daly, David Letterman, etc. is a “funny pics” bit where the host will run through a number of photos, offering up amusing…
Health food was always on the menu at the small south Scottsdale apartment where Blair and Kimu Parker lived with their three children. The Parkers were vegan, a common but less-than-household term that sounds distinctly extraterrestrial, possibly because the star Vega has spawned numerous science-fiction aliens that bore the name…
As if this outraged owl needed more proof that Maricopa County’s gone mad, Sheriff “Nickel Bag” Joe Arpaio announced two months ago that he would implement a new policy on jail mail on May 1. That is, inmates ain’t allowed none. Or nearly none. Already, prisoners of Arpaio’s gulags can…
You don’t have to be Al Gore to believe solar power is a good thing. But try telling that to Lynn DeMuth’s homeowners association. DeMuth, a project director at the University of Phoenix, lives on a quiet Chandler street lined with stucco and Spanish tile. She says that she and…
If attorney Steve Dichter could have gotten away with kicking his client Bob Owens to shut him up at the con man’s recent sentencing, he probably would have. After years of police investigation, news stories (starting with New Times’ “Catch Him If You Can,” August 12, 2004), a grand jury…
