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…
No surprise today that Judge Anna Baca unsealed all the records of the grand jury in the New Times case. Actually, according to her, there was technically no grand jury yet, so the stuff wasn’t really secret! (Huh?) Specifically, she said that is was OK for her to release the…
Check this video of Tuesday’s press conference by County Attorney Andrew Thomas, featuring his fake outrage about the Arizona Republic having a link online to a County Recorder document listing his address and the name of his four kids. Okay, so if you were really worried about the safety of…
Ankarlo not only digs smooching the Sheriff’s butt, he also enjoys the occasional snack. I didn’t really have time to be on KTAR today, engaging in verbal fisticuffs with the Mormon-owned radio station’s premier right-wing lip-flapper. But the offer was hard to turn down for two reasons: 1) I’m addicted…
Enjoy this delicious video of County Attorney Candy “Babyface” Thomas admitting to a major eff-up yesterday in the effort to prosecute New Times by using his private attack-schnauzer Dennis Wilencheckbook, who’s reportedly earned nearly $2 mil of the public’s dough working for former employee Thomas. Check out the very end…
County Attorney Thomas, admitting major mistakes and backing off the criminal prosecution of New Times. In a stunning capitulation to an overwhelming public backlash, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas announced in a press conference this afternoon charges against New Times founders Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin are being dismissed and…
VVM Executive Editor Michael Lacey talking to reporters earlier this a.m. after being released from MCSO custody. Village Voice Media Executive Editor Michael Lacey was released from PHX’s 4th Avenue Jail around 4 a.m. this morning after being arrested Thursday evening by plainclothes agents of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office…
