Stern’s still got his ticket, but his name wasn’t on the court’s docket… As I mentioned in my post on harassed actor Nick Tarr last week, one of the MCSO’s standard intimidation moves is to cite or arrest someone they want to “punish,” then never file the ticket or the…
Actor Nick Tarr after his citation in 2002. PHX actor Nick Tarr won a major victory this week in his ongoing quest to make Sheriff Joe Arpaio and his dastardly, power-crazed underlings pay for their violation of the thespian’s Constitutional rights. On November 20, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals…
Any way you slice Nickel Bag Joe’s sopressata, his poll numbers have dropped dramatically. A new Cronkite-Eight poll of registered voters in Maricopa County showed that 61% of respondents, “had a very positive (32 percent) or generally positive (29 percent) opinion of Sheriff Arpaio.” Compare that to Arpaio’s previous numbers…
As further proof that a coterie of loudmouthed, reactionary extremists are calling the shots in our benighted Valley of the Sun, and winning in their push for the ethnic cleansing of the local Hispanic population, Channel 3 reports that, “The Phoenix Police Department’s upper brass has assembled a committee to…
Whaddya think, is this clown car a cultural stereotype? So, I’ve received a couple of calls about this Billy Moore Heritage Days parade that was held in Avondale a few weeks back on October 27. It’s sort-of a founders day thing, and it seems Sheriff Joe has an entry in…
In my Wednesday blog post (“County Attorney’s office (finally) files `Notice of Intent to Dismiss’ charges in Lacey/Larkin matter”), I mentioned a cryptic document recently filed by Chief Assistant County Attorney Sally Wolfgang Wells, entitled, “State’s Report of Document Search.” Responding to an October 24 order from Judge Anna Baca…
Female trouble: The flash-art GIF at maricopagop.org. What do Andrea Dworkin and Republicans have in common? You could say both are deader than doorknobs. Metaphysically, intellectually. Dworkin’s been physically dead for a couple of years now. She died in 2005 at the age of 58 from heart failure. The Republicans?…
“A day late and a dollar short,” laughed Village Voice Media Executive Editor Mike Lacey when asked to comment on the latest bit of legal paperwork to cross his desk, the “State’s Notice of Intent to Dismiss,” which was filed November 7 by the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office, and received…
In a strongly-worded letter dated November 6, Phoenix attorney Mike Manning demanded that all of the players in the arrests of New Times founders Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin not destroy any documents related to the case. Addressed to Sheriff Joseph Arpaio, County Attorney Andrew Thomas, Pinal County Attorney James…
Let the doves fly and church bells sound, the battle over the banos at Anderson’s Fifth Estate is officially finito! Now transgendered folk — including activist Michele de LaFreniere — are free to pee standing up, sitting down, doing handstands or any dang way they please in the newly christened…
Where’s the fiesta, hombres? On the sidewalk outside of Pruitt’s, every Saturday. PHX’s M.D. Pruitt’s Home Furnishings, the site of the ongoing day-laborer squabble, smells like cow caca. For real. Owner Roger Sensing recently had fresh manure laid down on his side of the sidewalk, next to where Salvador Reza…
Carol Gotbaum with her youngest child Tobias, 3. The results are in on the autopsy of Carol Anne Gotbaum, the 45-year-old mother of three who died September 28 in police custody at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport. In the opinion of Maricopa County Medical Examiner Ann L. Bucholtz, Gotbaum expired “as…
Since I penned the entry below, the Arizona Republic has made several major corrections to Ruelas’ story, including the fact that De LaFreniere has not had “sexual reassignment surgery,” and is therefore still in possession of her taliwacker! Here’s the full retraction, which ran on page 2 of Section A…
See more and better reproduced Maakies strips, here. Tony Millionaire’s sort of the Charles Bukowski of comics. That is, if Bukowski’d been obsessed with Patrick O’Brian novels, French shipbuilding, and eating monkey brains. Millionaire, 51, is the creator of the world’s greatest comic strip, the Maakies, which runs in alternative…
ACLU attorney Dan Pochoda with his golden retriever Blu. Park in the wrong place in Maricopa County and you get jailed for misdemeanor trespassing. Well, at least if Sheriff’s deputies are on site, and you happen to be a persistent critic of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. ACLU legal director Dan Pochoda…
A unisex loo is now an option for you and yours at Anderson’s Fifth Estate. Well, it ain’t over till the fat lady with the weenie sings, but there’s been a break in the battle over who gets to use which bog over at Anderson’s Fifth Estate. The club’s owner,…
Carol Gotbaum with her three children Ella, Nathaniel and Tobias. The PHX PD released a doorstop doc on the Carol Gotbaum arrest yesterday, as has been reported elsewhere. There were a few revelations. Gotbaum was on meds for depression. An airline attendant said Gotbaum purchased and drank a bloody mary…
Below is a new snippet of video released on Friday from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport of Carol Gotbaum’s arrest. Though the video seems of slightly better quality and closer-in than previous footage, it only shows Gotbaum being dragged through the concourse, and does not show her being taken down by…
The Anti-Defamation League has a new report out on anti-immigration nutbars entitled, “Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream.” Naturally, AZ was well-represented, with Minuteman Chris Simcox and Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America getting mentions, and urban cougar Michelle Dallacroce scoring a whole section to herself. Of…
Kia-peddlin’ playboy Rusty Childress, pre-motorcycle crash… So where are all the Hispanic-hatin’ racists gonna go on Thursday nights? Not to Childress Kia anymore. The word’s out that owner Rusty Childress, winner of New Times’ 2007 “Best Bigot” Award, has sold Childress Kia. And for the last few weeks, there have…
I know noth-ink, NOTH-INK about zee Lacey-Larkin arrests… Anybody get a load of the recent statement from toxic-mold specialist and former special prosecutor Dennis Wilenchik? They should call the dood Pass-the-Buck Wilin-chuck for the way he’s thrown his legal lackeys under the bus, tryin’ to dodge all responsibility for the…
Goddard: His masculinity is a work in progress… So yesterday, someone sends me a copy of this letter Attorney General Terry Goddard fired off to County Attorney Andrew Thomas mentioning the New Times case, and asking that Thomas recuse his office from the investigation and have it “transferred immediately to…
