Tomorrow another issue of your favorite alternative weekly will hit the stands and the Web. Take this opportunity to pick Phoenix’s collective brain on last week’s stories. On: Warring US Airways and America West pilots have the merged company in a real tailspin “Boo Hoo. A bunch of overpaid bus…
What’s fair for John Edwards should also be fair for Sarah Palin… Glenn Beck just can’t leave poor ol’ John Edwards alone. Seems like every time I tune into the wing-nut lip-flapper, he’s pummeling the Edwards stallion like the story of the pol’s infidelity broke yesterday, bewailing how the MSM…
By Paul Rubin Yes, the Sheriff decided last month with only a bit of fanfare (that’s the first clue) to see firsthand how the other half lives inside his jail. Stop the presses? Not so fast, Kimosabe. Can you find Sheriff Joe in this photo? We’re not talking about our…
By Stephen Lemons Obama campaign opens Arizona digs. The ACLU’s Dan Pochoda beats bogus trespass charge. (Congrats, Dan!) Backyard wrestling ring busted by po-po. Speed camera van driver popped for DUI. Giants crush D-Backs. Mercury not swift enough for Shock. SNL’s Franken wins Minnesota Senate primary. Let the Al Franken…
Dennis Gilman’s latest on the protests at Wells Fargo… The anti-Arpaio protests at the Wells Fargo bank building in downtown Phoenix are in their second week, and so much is happening on a daily basis that I think the organizers of the action should have their own blog just to…
By Clay McNear Before we look forward, a quick look back . . . ASU vs. Stanford in Tempe, September 6 This game was supposed to be a lot closer than the end result, a 41-17 thumping of the Cardinal by senior QB Rudy Carpenter (pictured) and crew. After years…
By Ray Stern The arrest of Dan Pochoda, legal director for the state’s chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, was yet another example of the heavy-handedness by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. Pochoda stopped off at anti-Sheriff Arpaio demonstration at Pruitt’s Furniture last November and was arrested by deputies…
By Ray Stern Two local activists face potential disorderly conduct charges after allegedly holding signs up on August 27 in front of a Scottsdale photo radar van, an incident New Times covered in a recent Valley Fever article. However, police now say a third man at the scene — the…
By Sarah Fenske Twenty-eight reporters and editors at the Arizona Republic have accepted buyout offers from the Gannett-owned daily. Sources say that executive editor Randy Lovely is telling staffers that the buyouts could help the paper avoid layoffs — but only if the economy improves. Uh oh. We’re also hearing…
By Stephen Lemons Geezer McCain’s got more bounce than Obama? That’ll teach the whippersnapper. “Reformer” Sarah Palin billed Alaska for time spent at home. (It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.) McCain speech heckler was a Phoenix gal. (You go, girl.) Pro-immigrant firebrand Isabel Garcia cleared in Arpaio pinata controversy. Phoenix Mercury best…
By Ray Stern There’s your typical, garden-variety USA-style violence. Even worse, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas seems to imply in his latest press release, is the dreaded “Latin America-Style violence.” But like the propaganda Thomas put forth in a recent public service announcement, Thomas’ attempt to capitalize shamelessly on the…
By Stephen Lemons Nik Richie posts john names (he says) in Desert Divas bust. You won’t believe who’s listed. (Update: Richie’s taken them down. Was the story bogus, Nik?) Old Man McCain takes lead over Obama in new poll. (Yikes!) Arizona tax revenues in the dumps. Cards clobber the 49ers…
C’mon, Jesse, rock the boa, for old times’ sake… Do the reporters who pen the Political Insider column for the Arizona Republic know how to use Google? Does their editor? I wonder this after reading this Sunday’s edition of the Insider. The column talks up the fact that the former…
By Ray Stern Terri, no! That cherubic face. The mommy image. The craft show. It all makes me wonder: What’s a nice, local gal like Terri Ouellette doing making commercials for a scoundrel like Kevin Trudeau? Ouellette has made a name for herself over the years as the self-fashioned “Craft…
More effective than a bucketful of Sominex… A colossal yawn. That’s what a CSPAN cameraman caught one of the GOP delegates in the middle of last night during John McCain’s speech, and it pretty much summed up my experience watching it. A real snoozer. I could barely keep from flipping…
By Ray Stern How much thought should I put into this blog? Should I publish every newly formed or silly thought rattling around in my brain? If I did, I’d be approaching the experiment of “live blogging” that’s been gracing a dim corner of the Arizona Republic/Channel 12 (KPNX) news…
By Amy Silverman They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but maybe not this time. Remember a local new wave/punk band from the 80s called Liquid Visual? Then the name George Maestri might ring a bell. We hear his sister, Jane Smith, was a fairly well-known performance artist/amateur…
A kid looks to see what all the fuss is about. Photo by Jonathan McNamara By Sarah Fenske Naked children! That shocking topic is the subject of ASU photography professor Betsy Schneider’s work. It was also the subject of New Times’ profile of Schneider, which ran August 14. As writer…
By Stephen Lemons Who da man? Nik Richie is drunk driver Hooman Karamian. McCain gives his big speech. Faithful roar, the rest of us snooze. Heart fires off cease and desist letter to McCain/Palin over Barracuda rip-off. Arizona bishops pray for passage of gay marriage ban. Pima’s Popes of Pot…
Since Huffington Post published the story a couple of days ago of McCain’s Veep choice Sarah Palin’s association with the Assemblies of God church in Wasilla, Alaska, nearly 750,000 people have read the item, and presumably watched the video of Palin at the church she attended for many years, giving…
By Ray Stern As predicted in this blog, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office decided Deputy Jesus Cosme did not commit racial profiling in a traffic stop described by the East Valley Tribune. Oddly, the Tribune still hasn’t written about the investigation of Cosme, which was sparked by the Trib’s own…
Does the Guv secretly heart Sarah Palin, or does she just have hoof-in-mouth disease? What the hell is wrong with Janet Napolitano? The woman has a cushy job where she doesn’t have to lift a pinky, and for nearly six years, she’s mostly maintained a stunning record of boredom and…
