On a recent Sunday morning, several twentysomethings in jeans and T-shirts race around the otherwise deserted offices of La Buena Onda 1190-AM, a radio station in central Phoenix. In an hour, El Break will go live for its weekly noon to 2 p.m. broadcast. It couldn’t have been easy for…
I have to admit it. When I heard that Mayor Phil Gordon was in New Orleans last week, announcing that Phoenix city planners will “help” that stricken city with planning and redevelopment, I laughed. Hey, it’s better than crying, right? Now, it’s true that New Orleans needs help, by the…
A curious moment occurred inside Maricopa County Judge Andrew Klein’s courtroom on July 25. Danny Carbajal, the older brother and former trainer/manager of retired local boxing great Michael Carbajal, was about to plead guilty to three counts of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in property and retirement accounts from…
HOPE FOR THE ‘SLOPE See what happens when you listen to your parents?: I must admit that when I started reading your Sunnyslope story, I was in a state of disbelief (“Sunnyslopetopia,” Robrt L. Pela, July 26). How could this sleazy neighborhood be the subject of what looked to be…
Why do Mexicans say “¡Ojalá Dios quiere!”? Ojalá refers to Allah the Muslim god, and Dios is the Christian god. Do Mexicans want to cover their bases and get a double blessing, or maybe they cant they make up their minds? ¿Qu pasó con los dos dioses? White Paddy Pinche…
Hey Susan, can I get a witness? Where’s Susan Powter when you need her? I’ve mostly held my tongue during the mourning over the four guys who perished in that tragic helicopter accident last week, out of respect for those who died and their families. However, it has occurred to…
First piece on the Grant Ave. side of Miranda’s. Let’s hear it for serendipity. I was going stir-crazy Sunday, researching the cover story I’m working on now, so I took a ride to ease my nerves and just so happened upon one of the dopest legal walls I’ve ever seen…
The kids are alright: Give ’em hell, El Break… I was heartened over the weekend to learn of the hunger strike starting today by these college students who have a radio show on 1190 AM called El Break. According to the press release, they’ll be parked outside of Congressman Ed…
Mayor of the nation’s fifth-largest city, major league doofus, or both? Let’s go to the videotape. Anyone out there who doesn’t think PHX Mayor Phil “Goober” Gordon is icompetent should take a look at this video from a 7/21 interview ABC 15’s Lisa Fletcher did with Goober, following the airing…
Damnit, Manet, won’t you ever come out? Just watched a late night repeat of the Friday journalist roundtable on AZ PBS Horizon (you guessed it, there was nothing else on), with Howie Fischer hosting and making sure to hit everything he wrote about this week for Capitol Media Services. One…
Paul Chagolla (right) barely containing his rage, with me on the left, and Lisa Allen MacPherson in the middle; from back in November, when Chagolla threw me out of a press conference for no reason. Uh, note my super-aggressive body language… What do Communist China, present-day Iran, and Maricopa County…
Schmidt with Joe Arpaio’s former spleen victim Jefferson Davis McGee… Hey if Germany can’t keep TomKat out of the country, as much as they dislike Scientologists, do you really think it’s smart to try to hustle Cruise? The latest from the AP says the Valley’s not-so-beloved Sultan of Sleaze, David…
Ice-cream peddler, alleged studmuffin, and former Congressman Gary Condit… You’ve gotta wonder what was going through former Congressman Gary Condit’s noggin. I mean, most folks’d packed the whole sad, tawdry Chandra Levy affair deep into their mental basements, and had no idea that Condit now lives in AZ. So reporter…
Mike Nielsen is talking about his dream again. It’s about a Phoenix neighborhood so perfect he’s not sure there’s a single adjective that can do it justice. In this fantasy neighborhood, there’s a nice mix of upscale, custom homes and affordable housing; a spiced-up combination of hilltop mansions, swanky gated…
Last month, a Mesa mother of six was killed in a car accident. Within days, she’d been made a martyr by the anti-illegal-immigration movement. Nanuma Lavulavu died when a 26-year-old Mexican national intentionally hit another car on the road. Guadalupe Perez-Bojorquez, according to the sheriff’s report, admitted to being in…
Dear Readers: You love us, you really love us! Mere moments after publishing my July 12 column (in which Know Nothings had their say on the failed Senate amnesty bill), ustedes bombarded the Mexican with letters expressing your disgust toward those pendejos. Space prohibits the printing of all, so lets…
PUFFS ‘N’ STUFF Quit now, Niki: I enjoyed your “Up in Smoke” article (Niki D’Andrea, July 19). I also enjoyed cigarettes, etc. — many, many years ago. I don’t mean to sound like Niki’s mother (although I may be old enough), but smoking does really suck for your health. When…
Maupin, battling to get back on the ballot. Here’s an update on yesterday’s post regarding the news that PHX City Clerk Mario Paniagua is not certifying mayoral hopeful Jarrett Maupin for the 9/11/07 ballot because Maupin’s 91 signatures short of the 1500 valid sigs needed. The amount of effort Gordon’s…
Maupin’s down for the moment, but he’s not out yet… The Rev. Jarrett Maupin fell 91 signatures short of the 1,500 necessary to be certified to be on the ballot in the Sept. 11 mayoral election, Phoenix City Clerk Mario Paniagua said today. Maupin turned in 3,920 signatures on Friday,…
If you’re irony deficient, here’s one to bite on: Damon Ashenfelter, the self-avowed white supremacist who was identified in Friday’s post, “Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America: A family portrait,” has set his MySpace profile to private, and changed his motto from “Hail the Order. Hail the 14 words…
The gang’s all here, everyone but Uncle Fester… Add another white supremacist to the ranks of Kia-peddler Rusty Childress’ United for a Sovereign America. A source sent the above photo to me, stating that they got it off Rusty’s Web page at http://immigrationbuzz.com/. According to the source, the photo was…
Terry Goddard’s new slogan: A tranny in every bog! To cop a line from comedienne Margaret Cho: Ah, the magical smell of balls and pantyhose! You best get used to it ladies, if Attorney General Terry Goddard and local diversity activist Michele de LaFreniere have anything to do about it…
