So why can’t a man be prettier than a woman? Look at Brad Pitt. Leonardo DiCaprio. Johnny Depp. David Beckham. And, um, Congressman Jeff Flake. Not that Channel 12’s Brahm Resnik is in their league. I mean, he’s no Joe Dana. If you ask me, you folks who were outraged…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s financial disclosure forms for his re-election campaign show an ocean of greenbacks flowing into the coffers of Summit Consulting, the firm owned by local Republican consultant Chad Willems. Willems is one of the political geniuses who ran former state Senate President Russell Pearce’s disastrous 2011 recall election…
A recipe for disaster: U.S Customs and Border Patrol’s lax policies over the use of lethal force. Inadequately trained agents sent to patrol rough desert terrain blanketed with fear and tension that’s fueled by potential danger. A border-hawk sheriff putting weapons in the hands of unpaid civilians who want to…
Medical marijuana in Arizona faces an important court decision in a case that local prohibitionists see as a weak link in the voter-approved 2010 pot law. Arizona Republic reporter and rapid-fire Tweeter Yvonne Wingett-Sanchez has been filing live updates from the courtroom this afternoon. The hearing’s over, but you can…
From what we can tell from a YouTube video, some men, or boys, engaged in a bout of fisticuffs on the Metro Light Rail earlier this month.That fight was eventually broken up by an apparent ninja-wannabe — or maybe an actual ninja, we’re not sure what the qualifications are –…
Following in the footsteps of our sister papers of South Florida, Miami New Times and Broward-Palm Beach New Times, we bring you the weekly roundup of visitors to the desert’s own Fourth Avenue Jail.This week, most of our alleged cons each have their own unique way of expressing themselves. Enjoy…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s latest “employer sanctions operation”/illegal-immigrant roundup resulted in the arrest of about one-quarter of a Glendale small business’ employees yesterday.Sonoran Concrete was the small business raided in operation number 68, and 18 people were arrested for allegedly using false identifications, according to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office.See also:-Joe…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his “birther” chief Mike Zullo are balking at their chance to talk about their super official “investigation” of President Obama’s birth certificate in court, and Zullo tells New Times why — Orly Taitz.Taitz told us yesterday that she’s very upset with Arpaio and Zullo, since she’s…
For fans of erstwhile D-backs broadcasting tandem Mark Grace and Daron Sutton, there was probably a low likelihood of being impressed with their replacements.Touché, Arizona Diamondbacks, touché.See also:-Arizona Diamondbacks Ax Commentators Daron Sutton and Mark Grace…
Everyone at the University of Arizona’s student newspaper, the Daily Wildcat, is in apology mode after a comic about shooting a gay kid if he ever came out to his father garnered some national attention.The apparent “joke” was about a father shooting his gay son with a shotgun, rolling him…
Elected on pink boxers? This ain’t 2008, Joe. The independent expenditure committee Citizens for Professional Law Enforcement has a couple of killer new anti-Sheriff Joe Arpaio ads running on local cable and broadcast Television. See also: -Penzone Benefits from Arpaio’s Latest Attack Ad -Paul Penzone Can Beat Arpaio, If He…
Nearly three years after 8-month-old Gabriel Johnson was reported missing, the boy’s mother, Elizabeth Johnson, was not found guilty of kidnapping. However, a jury did find her guilty of unlawful imprisonment and two custodial-interference charges.The kidnapping charge is the one that Johnson’s attorney really fought — it could have landed…
CBS 5 – KPHO ***Please see update below*** In an odd segment that aired last night on CBS 5/KPHO, reporter Donna Rossi told viewers that Maricopa County’s elections department had received complaints regarding door-knockers representing themselves as county workers, offering to pick up folks’ early ballots. Rossi reported that the…
If, for some reason, anyone needs further evidence of how bogus Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” investigation is, here you go.Orly Taitz, perhaps one of the most well-known challengers to the eligibility of President Obama, is still trying to contest the issue in court, and tells New Times that Arpaio refuses…
Pedro Lopez-Marroquin isn’t exactly a pickup artist — according to police, he was just walking around a Phoenix apartment complex with $100 in his hand, trying to get kids to have sex with him.Believe it or not, nobody took him up on his offer…
Michael Turley — also known as the magician “Gianni” — pleaded not guilty today to charges related to his alleged role as the director of a movie that was produced to “test” the Phoenix Police Department’s response to a terrorist situation.Turley was arrested last month after it was discovered that…
One of the latest political ads that’s emerged in the fight for Arizona’s U.S. Senate seat attacks Democrat Richard Carmona over an incident he says never happened. Congressman Jeff Flake, the Republican running against Carmona, released a 30-second ad claiming Carmona has a temper and doesn’t play well with women…
After seeing an apology about a cartoon on the website of the University of Arizona’s student newspaper last night, the Daily Wildcat, we were ready to channel our inner Michael Scott — “There is no such thing as an appropriate joke. That’s why it’s a joke.”However, the apparent “joke” is…
As a college-educated Mexican-American, I had my fair share of Chicanas in college, all of whom my jefita considered “putas with books.” But now that I graduated, I’m going out with a gabacha for the first time. She’s nice, bilingual, tall, skinny, educated, and a liberal with liberal gabacho parents,…
Bill Clinton electrifies the crowd during a rally for Rich Carmona’s U.S. Senate campaign. The rock star of American politics is with Carmona on a stage erected on Arizona State University’s Performance Lawn for a “Get Out The Vote” rally the day before early voting began October 11. Clinton, Carmona…
You know it’s bad when high-priced political pimp Chad Willems is taking a page from unhinged guttersnipe DeeDee Blase. A gadfly who has about as much credibility as her pick for sheriff, Republican-turned-Independent loser Mike Stauffer, Blase has taken great glee in lying about a 2003 incident involving Penzone and…
Quite a few people seem to think it’s quite a coincidence that the Maricopa County Elections Department listed the wrong election date on a sparsely distrusted document, but the error was only made on the Spanish portion of that document.The estimate from the elections office is that fewer than 50…
