Redemption Song

Gravel crunches under Ken Lamberton’s sneakers as he follows the Yetman Trail near the Tucson Mountains west of the city on a clear, cold morning in early January. Lamberton glances up and pauses. Above him, a large bird flies in circles. He identifies it as a red-tailed hawk and gives…

Hate Jock

“I am conservative, but I am not a right-wing nutjob,” claims KTAR 92.3 FM morning talk jock Darrell Ankarlo in a station promo tease. Oh, please allow this smart-ass starling to differ! Since that boneheaded blowhard took over the AM slot from nice-guy Pat McMahon (you know, the old fart…

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, March 1, 2007

Activist Grudges Got burned?: Thank you for stirring up hatred against patriotic Americans with your lying, slanted “profile” of me (“Burn, Baby, Burn!” Stephen Lemons, February 15). The power of the press to influence the ignorant is wonderfully illustrated by the hateful comments here. This article no more reflects who…

Lying, Stealing, and Teasing

As a kid, I grew up with Mexicans who stole things just to steal. As an adult, I see much of the same behavior from adult Mexicans and their children. And I don’t mean just the poor Mexicans. Why is it in their nature for Mexicans to steal? Larcenous Lester…

Chez Nous lives? For the moment, at least…

Will Chez Nous live to fight another day…? Seems we’ll know by tomorrow if the little soul bar that could will get a few more months in operation. For those who spied last week’s Bird column, the item titled “Adieu, Chez Nous” reported that the legendary Afro-chic waterin’ hole on…

Liar’s poker: Eric Williams and the Chandler 9/11 conference

Holocaust-denier Eric Williams at his conference booth on Sunday. While the rest of the civilized world was at home Sunday watching Marty Scorsese finally win an Oscar, I was hanging out with the conspiranuts at the Chandler 9/11 conference, and though I have only limited time because I’m on deadline…

Holocaust denier Eric D. Williams attends 9/11 Accountability Conference; Prof. James Fetzer defends anti-Semite

Holocaust denier Eric Williams (left) with NY 9/11 activist Sander Hicks (right) at the 9/11 Accountability “press conference” Friday, February 23, 2007. Despite statements on 911Accountability.org that Eric D. Williams had “stepped down from involvement in the 9/11 Accountability Conference,” Williams was present today (Friday) at a “press conference” for…

Arizona Republic publishes puff piece on Chandler 9/11 Conference

The Rep’s reportorial kitty cat: I could Google 9/11, but then I’d have to get off my ass. Following the East Valley Tribune’s verbal BJ of the 9/11 Accountability Conference taking place in Chandler this weekend, the Arizona Repugnant ran a totally uncritical puff piece on the confab in today’s…

Arrested Development

On Tuesday afternoon, January 16, an old man walked into the administrative office of a small charter school on the high desert plains north of Prescott. He was skinny, with floppy jowls that made him look like the Bitter Beer Face man of the old Keystone ads. But other than…

Space Rock Time Bomb

When Ryan McKay was in his early teens, he took his girlfriend to check out some regional band that had achieved a certain local-hero status back in his home state of Illinois, and afterward, they all went back to party in the band’s hotel room. Which was great until the…

Kook Congress

This ornery oriole’s been crowin’ loud and proud (“Denier’s Conference,” February 1) over the fallout from its revelation that Eric D. Williams, former director of this weekend’s 9/11 Accountability Conference in Chandler, is a Grade-A Holocaust denier, with a book to prove it. Williams’ The Puzzle of Auschwitz posits that…

Three-Question Especiál

Why does Arnold Schwarzenegger keep putting his foot in his mouth and talking smack about Mexicans? To my understanding, his wife Maria is of Mexican descent. He’s not only humiliating nuestra raza, but his wife, too. Please give the readers and me some input on the Governator. Deep Sea Angler…

Letters From the Issue of Thursday, February 22, 2007

Burning Issue Should be kerosene and not heard: New Times should be ashamed of itself for giving so much space to a big old dyke nut like Laine Lawless (“Burn, Baby, Burn!”, Stephen Lemons, February 15), who has no credibility even among anti-illegal-immigrationist assholes. That Chris Simcox will have nothing…

Hump Day Honey #4: Naughty Nicole

Imagine that cleavage covered in vanilla pudding. This week’s Wednesday wench is a hella-voluptuous vixen, a va-va-voom Venus with the kinda curves that’re a throwback to the screen sirens of the fabulous ’50s, babes like Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield, Rita Hayworth, and so on. You might run into Miss Nicole…

Poor little Phil Gordon only has four friends!

No, Phil, you’re supposed to stick the gun in your mouth… Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon is a major dweeb, the kinda guy who probably got his lunch money stolen from him when he was in grade school, who now desperately curries favor with anyone and everyone to get them to…

1480 KPHX’s Jeff Farias, coward; Kent Knudson, convicted felon.

Air America Phoenix Scaredy-cat radio jock Jeff Farias: Whoa, Jeff, is that 40-weight in your hair, or what? Kent Knudson was on Jeff Farias’ 1480 KPHX show “The Truth to Power Hour” today to talk about the 9/11 Accountability Conference, and when it became obvious that Farias was just gonna…

My Bloody Valentine: Tiffany Sutton’s prior bloodlettings…

Alleged vampirish vixen Tiffany Sutton: Is she a man eater? None other than “Mr. Mike,” aka Michael O’Donoghue, renowned comedy writer for National Lampoon, Saturday Night Live , and others, once stated that, “I like my women like I like my eggs — scrambled.” And indeed there’s something really hot…