“When people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over — and you’re strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can’t handle it.” That was Donald Trump, speaking at…
Dear Stoner: I have a drug test in a week and smoked weed ten days ago. I hadn’t smoked for a while before that. Will I be good? Should I be worried? Prickly Dear Prickly: It depends on what method the drug test uses to detect THC. If it’s a…
The Arizona Attorney General’s Office has declined to prosecute Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s favorite deputy Brian Mackiewicz on allegations that Mackiewicz abused his overtime while working on the MCSO’s notorious Seattle investigation, which involved a 13-month probe of a kooky anti-Arpaio conspiracy theory that supposedly involved federal Judge G. Murray Snow…
An Arizona employer is stiffing a small-business owner on a completed job, affecting dozens of low-income employees. Sounds like the kind of greedhead Arizonans for Fair Wages and Healthy Families is targeting with its campaign to raise the minimum wage, right? Wrong — the employer is Arizonans for Fair Wages and Healthy…
More than 10,000 people schlepped to the Prescott Valley Events Center Tuesday to see Donald Trump in the flesh. Fans started lining up for the rally — Trump’s sixth appearance in Arizona — at 9 p.m. Monday. There wasn’t enough room inside, so several thousand watched the Republican presidential nominee…
Just before sunset on a recent Sunday, Alfonso Cordoba is the only street vendor left on a highly trafficked corner near 65th Avenue and Berkeley Road in west Phoenix. Cordoba, an amiable-looking man in his 40s, is wearing sensible-looking Teva shoes and a straw hat to keep the last traces…
The 2016 edition of New Times’ Best of Phoenix is out now, featuring a series of “as told to” profiles that explore how our city’s proximity to Mexico makes it better. In 1988, I was in my mid-30s, and had just broken off a relationship and was feeling sorry for…
In a lengthy statement released to news outlets on Monday, Arizona’s top federal prosecutor called for the public to curb its rampant speculation about police shootings, which he blamed on “news media, social media, and some politicians.” The statement by John S. Leonardo, U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, follows…
The 2016 edition of New Times’ Best of Phoenix is out now, featuring a series of “as told to” profiles that explore how our city’s proximity to Mexico makes it better. I’ve been in the Valley since 1978, most recently from law school. I went to Stanford, and then moved…
La edición de 2016 Lo Mejor de Phoenix del New Times ya está disponible, con una serie de ensayos que exploran cómo nuestra proximidad a México hace que este sea un lugar mejor para vivir. Muy a menudo hablamos de ciudades fronterizas como si la geografía fuera todo lo que…
When track star Will Claye first tried the triple jump at Mountain Pointe High School in Ahwatukee his freshman year, his coach, Larry Todd, told him he was too good. “He was like, ‘Oh yeah. You got it. You’ve almost got it down too well, too early,'” Claye recalls. “‘You’re…
Growing up in Phoenix, Bob Carey probably never imagined that one day, he would take photographs of himself wearing pink tutus at locations all over the world, his burly body posed in pliés on beaches and performing pirouettes on the Brooklyn Bridge. Then again, Carey probably never imagined his wife, Linda…
It was quite a public-relations coup for that dinosaur of daily newspapers, the Arizona Republic. Last week, it seemed as though everyone in the country was talking about how a “conservative newspaper” or a “conservative editorial board” had endorsed a Democrat for president for the first time in its 126-year…
Un ferviente canto viajo a través de las gradas del estadio hacia el campo, las ondas de sonido caendo sobre mí en la línea de medio campo. Una multitud de más de 40.000 aficionados al fútbol, ??incluyendo miles de ciudadanos mexicanos, llenó el estadio Bank One Ballpark para ver México…
The fervent chant rolled through the stands and down onto the field, waves of sound crashing over me on the midfield line. A crowd of more than 40,000 soccer fans, including thousands of Mexican nationals, filled Bank One Ballpark to see Mexico take on Yugoslavia in a friendly match. The…
Phoenix New Times has an immediate opening for a part-time social media editor. This 20-hour/week position combines journalism with social-media skills to increase Phoenix New Times’ audience and serve as its online public face. The social media editor manages New Times’ Facebook and Twitter accounts, among others, with the expectation…
Despite public outcry and two congressional letters asking for a delay to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s proposed ban on the herbal remedy kratom, the DEA remains poised to make the head-shop staple a Schedule I drug, adding it to the same category of illicit substances as heroin, LSD, and…
I’m having a party on the first Sunday of October. The point is to celebrate the life and times of the first important broadcaster in Arizona’s history: Vin Scully, who will be calling his final game in his 67th, and final, season for the Los Angeles Dodgers. From the early…
Maricopa County officials expect toxic emissions from the $2 billion Solana concentrated-solar plant near Gila Bend to continue despite a record $1.5 million fine for air-quality violations. The fine was the latest embarrassment for the plant, which was was built by Spain’s Abengoa Solar company with loan guarantees from the…
Even as some clamor for a wall, the border between Arizona and Mexico grows ever more indistinct. The way we at New Times see it, the choice is to bury one’s head in the desert sand and suffocate, or to revel in it and thrive on the multifarious nutrients of…
A Chinese Arizona State University student took video and pictures of at least six women using the toilet at ASU on Monday night, police say. His female victims struck back, though, stopping him after he came out of the restroom, taking his phone and holding him at the scene until…
Fans of tattooed faces and tear-streaked mascara will be disappointed to learn that Sheriff Joe Arpaio has canceled his controversial “Mugshot of the Day” series. Since April 2011, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office website feature had allowed the public to cast votes on the mugshots of people booked into the…
