Can you tell me the meaning of the word “aguacate”? All I know about this delicious fruit is that it originated on this continent. Guacamole Man Dear Gabacho: “Aguacate” is the Spanish word for avocado, but its Nahuatl meaning is more rustic: balls. According to Ana María de Benítez’s 1974…
Display Cases Taste test: “Stunning”??? I’m sorry, did Wynter Holden really describe the effect of Jen Urso’s In Place installation at the show “Phoenix: Land of Somewhere” at Modified Arts as “stunning” (“Going Nowhere,” November 9)? Wynter, go with your first instinct. It looked like a Halloween decoration (and a…
Three years since Phoenix New Times ran our “Exploding Downtown” series, the wrecking ball is still taking aim all over downtown, threatening what little history the city has left to preserve. Will Phoenix wind up a cross between Disneyland and Mill Avenue? This week: Phoenix is too eager to scrape…
Three years since Phoenix New Times ran our “Exploding Downtown” series, the wrecking ball is still taking aim all over downtown, threatening what little history the city has left to preserve. Will Phoenix wind up a cross between Disneyland and Mill Avenue? This week: The latest great hope for downtown…
Not Kathy Shayna Shocket… Did Kathy Shayna Shocket survive the Repugnant’s editorial bloodbath? That’s what I wondered after I read her 11/20 society column. Sources high up on the Republic food chain had informed me that Shocket was part of last week’s Gannett layoff-fest, where 31 employees were let go,…
Altman, on the set of The Gingerbread Man. I feel a little odd mourning the loss of director Robert Altman. I mean, the guy lived eight decades and a year, and was incredibly prolific during his life, churning out film after film — many actual celluloid masterpieces (MASH, McCabe and…
In the middle (presumably) the MILFy-hot Lisa Allen MacPherson… All pics by Lilia Menconi AG Terry Goddard entering as I’m being escorted out by Chagolla. Right this way, ladies undergarments, fifth floor… Who’d expect Joe Arpaio, supposedly the “toughest sheriff in the nation,” to turn all yella-belly when the New…
Catherine King channelling Cousin Itt… Ya think Jerome Du Bois’ mom was named Blanche? The PHX art-fart gadfly’s capacity for self-delusion is equal to that of Tennessee Williams’ most famous character, and like Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Jerome’s creeping up there in mileage. For a while now, the…
The wild and crazy Rachel Bess… The Bird knows all, sees all. The minions of The Bird are perched everywhere, scribbling notes, observing all social interactions in the PHX as potential fodder for the next column. Of course, it all flows through my massive bird-brain, and no boob is left…
Banned by the CNA! Not really. There’s a ton more like this on the CNA website… Below is another e-mail from Harry Summers of the Center for Nursing Advocacy, and my response to him. Harry’s married to Sandy Summers, the executive director of the Maryland-based, self-appointed watchdog org. When he’s…
The Great Camille Paglia: Feminazi slayer, diva and intellectual nonpareil. Below find some recent correspondence between myself and the Maryland-based Center for Nursing Advocacy’s Senior SOLE Advisor Harry Jacobs Summers, hubby of Executive Director Sandy Summers. For all intents and purposes, it looks like the Summers ARE the CNA. The…
The GrossCost of livin’: $150 mil. As far as I’m concerned, former House Speaker Jeff Groscost, whom the Bird disses in death this week, deserved to be wearing stripes, eating green baloney and wondering if he was gonna have to take it up the poot pipe from his cell-mate Randy…
Published online November 14, 2006, 8:45 p.m. MST COPYRIGHT 2006, Phoenix New Times At an Arizona Racing Commission meeting Wednesday, November 15, the state Racing Department plans to introduce a report questioning the friendship between Commission Chairman Burton Kruglick and embattled Turf Paradise owner Jeremy Simms. The report also recommends…
The lowest point in the relationship between federal immigration agents and Arizona state troopers was the changing of locks and the can of tuna fish. The incident began last year after Dan Kelly, a civilian investigator for the Arizona Department of Public Safety, learned that Phoenix resident Carmen Tolle had…
Great toucan turds, people! With all the pathetic blubberin’ that’s busted out over the past couple of weeks due to the demise of former Arizona House Speaker Jeff Groscost, you’d think the long-disgraced Mesa Republican was the second coming of JFK. Um, instead of the scandal-dogged sneaky bastard whose shenanigans…
Published online November 14, 2006, 3:30 p.m. MST COPYRIGHT 2006, Phoenix New Times Two years ago, Governor Janet Napolitano gave sole rights to tens of millions of dollars in bond business to a group of politically connected retired firefighters with zero experience in the field, New Times has learned. And…
My fiancé is trying to learn Spanish so he can speak to my grandmother when we get married next month. Lately, he’s been listening to CNN en Español to get an ear for the language. A couple of days ago, he told me that, after several weeks of seeing the…
Ambulance Chasers Got no soul: Once again we see how Bob Ramsey and Pat Cantelme play this little game (“Emergency Brake,” Sarah Fenske, November 9). A game that is played at the expense of sick and injured people. As an employee of Southwest Ambulance, it is disconcerting to see my…
“Good work, ZeeDick. Think we can buy the LA Slimes after this?” A source at the Republic relates the following internal scuttlebutt on Monday’s massacre, which laid waste to 31 Rep jobs, at least 7-to-8 of which were in editorial: It’s supposedly a 1% cut locally and is part of…
Somethng tells us these blokes ain’t squeezin’ lemons? All this hard-news is makin’ my brain hurt, but anything that slams our illustrious Guv, I’m down with, so here’s a taste of my colleague Sarah Fenske’s breaking story on Nappy’s monkeyshines involving student loans, the Phoenix firefighters union, Pat Cantelme, Billy…
Now, this won’t hurt a bit… Classy how the bean-counters at Gannett picked the week of the Walter Cronkite Luncheon to hack into the Arizona Republic’s staff, cutting 31 jobs, according to VisualEditors.com. Posts to that site suggest 7 editorial bodies are headed for the morgue (read, “unemployment line”), but…
Irony of ironies: CNA promulgates the very images it claims to abhor… Wanna peep pics of hot, horny nurses and not feel a bit guilty about straying from your more-liberal-than-thou PC leanings? Well, spank that monkey no further than the web address for the Center for Nursing Advocacy, a politically-correct…
