Jim Moret & moi: As you can see, Jimbo’s dreading that drive to Sells. Now that the word’s out that our wildly successful Anna Nicole Smith spoof was, um, a spoof, I can reveal the events of this Monday that resulted in Thursday’s Inside Edition segment on yours truly and…
Be afraid, be very afraid: Mandal season is upon us. You know it’s Spring in the Zona when they appear — the dreaded mandals, or man sandals, which signal the advent of warmer weather. I regard it as being on par with such Biblical plagues as locusts, frogs, water turned…
http://www.myspace.com/ankarlo Ankkkarlo loves the misery of others, especially if they’re illegals… KTAR saliva jockey Darrell Ankarlo was practically beating off on the radio this morning in ecstasy over the news of three teenagers being deported to Mexico after being stopped by a Gilbert police officer for drag racing. Sure, if…
Eve and the apple: Temptress Tondra says fruit does a body good. Common wisdom holds that booful women are bitchy because they can be. But fortunately that doesn’t apply in the case of the captivating PHX club-hopper known as Tondra. A habitue of nightspots like The Rogue, GLAM, Tranzylvania, and…
I am perplexed. I just saw a middle-aged wab (complete with a bright red, lipstick-accentuated mustache) wearing tight pink stretch pants with the phrase “Pink Taco” emblazoned across her misshapen buttocks. In my experience, Mexicans of the Mexico-born variety seem to wear a lot of clothes with odd/tacky slogans. My…
At one time, Pat Cantelme made no secret of his interest in vying for ambulance work in the city of Phoenix. Two years ago, he briefly discussed the matter with a New Times reporter, saying that he saw Phoenix as a potential market for his private ambulance company, PMT. (See…
In case you missed it, this pugnacious parrot had yuks aplenty sparring with wing-nutty blowhard Darrell Ankarlo on a Friday edition of his KTAR-FM 92.3 morning show. The Cro-Magnon-esque conservative invited this cranky cock-of-the-rock on for some verbal fisticuffs over The Bird’s column “Hate Jock” (March 1, 2007) that had…
Hot for Teacher Let lying dogs sleep: This Ken Lamberton guy must have a big pair of balls to write about his sordid past. You would think he would be hiding under a rock for what he did (“Redemption Song,” Megan Irwin, March 1). If he hadn’t tried to profit…
Bob Khan and Nick Brunacini were high-school pals who became closer than brothers. They played freshman football at Cortez High School, served as groomsmen at each other’s weddings, and even lived together for a while. As young men, both joined the Phoenix Fire Department, where Nick’s dad was chief. Both…
www.lastgasp.com The official coloring book in gangsta’s paradise. If you’re KTAR’s Darrell Ankarlo, the poor man’s Sean Hannity, that means you’ve got to fill three-and-a-half hours each day with spleen, even if it means exaggerating the topic a bit. Case in point was a segment on today’s show about San…
Ignignokt and Err flip Phoenix the bird at the Lost Leaf gallery… The highlight of my First Friday artwalk last week was not scopin’ all the drunken art babes, but checking out Ignignokt and Err, those Mooninite characters from Adult Swim’s Aqua Teen Hunger Force , whom I found hanging…
photo by Giulio Sciorio The pulchritudinous Pyra Sutra, now with breasts to match that gorgeous bod. Hump day came and went so fast this week that I’m introducing a Thump Day Honey, none other than Mizz Pyra Sutra, co-founder of the Phoenix burlesque troupe Scandalesque, which is sort of a…
Little Marshall Soto is glued to the TV this Friday morning in his dad’s modest home just outside of Sells, Arizona, capital of the Native American Tohono O’odham Nation. He’s not watching cartoons or Sesame Street or some new kids’ show on Nickelodeon. Instead, he’s focused on the image of…
The biggest controversy at this year’s Art Detour — the weekend when artists in downtown Phoenix open their studios and galleries to the public — began before the event ever started. Jon Gipe, an accomplished artist (he once worked as New Times’ staff photographer) e-mailed John Spiak, a curator at…
Paying Fair Oh, that’s different: After reviewing your article (“The Real Rip-off Report,” Sarah Fenske, February 1), I feel that it is important to point out two important aspects of the story that you failed to address. We fully understand that your job includes making difficult decisions regarding what to…
I have a major crush on a worker with the Mexican Consulate aquí en Tucson. But I fear that, like two star-crossed lovers, were destined for doom. Im a gabacha yaktivist and against governments in general. He represents the PAN or PRD or PRI or whatever Mexican political party happens…
Hey, would you guys be interested in learning about 9/11 conspiracy theories? Thought so… Christ, here we go again! ScrewLooseChange’s James Bennett has just reported on the upcoming “2007 Justice and Freedom Conference” to be held in Irvine, CA, March 9-12. This kook confab, part deux, is being hosted by…
Allegedly, the one on Williams’ ‘puter had no red line through it, natch. So, get this, the latest scuttlebutt about Eric “Holocaust-denier” Williams’ participation in the Chandler 9/11 Accountability Conference is that he allegedly had a freakin’ ginormous swastika screensaver on his laptop while set up in his vendor booth…
Does this place have nine lives, or what? In the eleventh hour, Chez Nous gets a new lease on life… I’m not the first journo to have written an obit for Chez Nous, and seeing how things go with the tres cool nightspot, I probably won’t be the last. Now…
Hey, I love Kool-Aid. I just don’t wanna drink the 9/11 batch. I don’t want to start asserting that there’s a conspiracy on the part of the 9/11 conspiracy theorists to get me. You’ll figure I drank the Kool-Aid, or went native. Or maybe that they left the pod beside…
Uh, sorry troofers, I don’t look like the guy from Mass. This is me in da club gettin’ smooched by a babe. Eat yer hearts out! This is what the Mass. sex offender looks like… I’ve been noting a few blog comments come over the transom today accusing me of…
The Manchurian Candidate? Do you really want this wacko’s finger on the button? Now that Arizona Senator John McCain has announced his candidacy for Prez on David Letterman, the question remains, does the dood have a popsicle’s chance in Hades of ever occupying the Oval Office? Personally, I don’t think…
