With the J-grrl back in the saddle this week after her brief leave of absence (though whose saddle, I'll never tell), I decide to let the lezzie Eva Longoria pick our party-place du jour. Three guesses where the Jettster wants to lick her lips and twist her hips? The new...
You may have already heard the stories about A Home at the End of the World. In what many viewers have deemed a big loss, Colin Farrell's penis no longer appears in the film. The official line is that test audiences found it too distracting, though that seems unlikely, given...
From the street, Tempe's Palo Verde Lounge looks like the sort of janky, pale brick building that might house a meth lab, a massage parlor, or a drop spot where the mob boys stash shipments of disco doughnuts. The only outward signs of drink-slingin' taking place are a neon Bud...
THU 15 Can't crack The Da Vinci Code? Don't blame yourself for trying -- you and a few million other obsessive-compulsive readers who've turned the book into a way of life. Dan Brown's best-selling novel's been a talker, for sure. And it keeps spawning further discussion. Take, for instance, Dr...
For those who play the game of catching online perverts, Raymond Dooley was the perfect villain. That is, exactly the type of guy the cyber-vigilantes at Perverted-Justice.com were looking for. Perverted-Justice found Dooley in late January in an online chat room -- where the 23-year-old Michigan man entered into a...
Face it -- just about everyone has a little unwanted hair. Particularly in warm weather, which keeps the hair-removal business buzzing in the Valley, year-round. Some of the more intriguing hair-removal specialists in town bared all to share their techniques -- and a few tales from around the wax pot...
Linda Saville leans across the table in a downtown Phoenix restaurant and recites the pledge she made at the moment her brother was acquitted of conspiring to kill Sheriff Joe Arpaio. "I swore I was not going to let this happen to someone else," she said about that fateful Friday...
At terminal velocity, the wind can have a troubling effect on the male body. Consider that a plummeting adult falls at a rate of about 120 mph, a freefall fast enough to ripple your lips back around your ears. Nude, the whipping winds can actually flip a penis backward, thrusting...
Shawn Dirks says he couldn't wait to report for duty. After months of training, February 17, 2001, would mark the first time that Dirks would be patrolling alone as a rookie officer with the Phoenix Police Department. That night, a Saturday, 42-year-old Lori Levinson was out on a date that...
With 50 First Dates, it seems as though Adam Sandler is trying to compile a Greatest Hits film, cobbling together the stuff that worked in his previous films in the hopes that it'll play even better all in one go. There's the falsetto comedy song bit from every episode of...
Political Action That creepy feeling: I've gone around and around about these Tempe mayoral candidates ("The Mouth That Should've Roared," John Dougherty, February 26). But I'd prefer not to vote for the obviously ignorant and corrupt one. That's Dennis Cahill. If Hugh Hallman is bad for Tempe, we'd know it...
Hostage Crisis Wrong arm of the law: I am writing to share my horror and disgust about the way the hostage situation at the Arizona State Prison Complex was handled ("Covering Tracks," Robert Nelson, February 5). It didn't take a genius to figure out that the female hostage was being...
Sammy Writes Bull The Spike loves mail from jail. In fact, The Spike may now have a complete set of those Sheriff Joe Arpaio postcards he makes available so prisoners can help promote his re-election effort -- Joe playing around in the middle of a pile of puppies, Joe standing...
Most of us who have them get smacked for playing with our dicks in public. But onetime show-biz agent Simon Morley has made an art of pulling his pudding in front of others. In Morley's wildly popular touring show Puppetry of the Penis, he and pal David Friend twist their...
For a few minutes, at least, things don't look so bad. Watching Ben Affleck swagger around as the thuggish title character of Gigli ("Rhymes with really," he tells us, twice) is amusing for a bit. Affleck's eminently qualified for the role, actually -- that of a low-level hood pretending to...
"This is laughable," scoffs Cindi Nannetti, Maricopa County's sex-crimes bureau chief, as she finishes reading a three-page report prepared by the Colorado City Police Department -- an agency controlled by fundamentalist Mormon polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border. The report briefly summarizes more than a decade of sex crimes by Dan...
"The skinhead path leaves a trail of broken trust, lost comrades, and a little love and a lot of betrayal along the way. [...] For the very unfortunate ones it ends behind bars for one reason or another. For these people there is no chance to ever make something of...
When Napoleon's army discovered the Rosetta stone along the banks of the Nile in 1799, little did they know that the tablet of black basalt would provide them with a key to unlocking the thorny riddles of Egyptian hieroglyphics. "Perhaps someday," they might've thought, "this slab of carved symbols will...
THU 2/27 Nine years after the Zapatistas' armed uprising made international headlines, Chiapas, Mexico's southernmost state, is still a politically charged place. But now, the revolution will not be televised. Instead, a Mayan women's theater collective is exploring many of the same sociopolitical issues on stage, through female eyes. La...
Derek doesn't like to let his mind wander he's been fighting his thoughts for nearly two decades yet it wanders every day. Usually he can hold off his reflections until he's safely alone in his room with the door shut. That's when the darkness seeps in, sexual arousal triumphs over...
From the Heart Heartfelt thanks: Thank you for the article you did on Dr. Teodori ("Prince of Hearts, Paul Rubin, September 19). He is a wonderful man and many people have been praying for him since his accident. He saved my niece in July of 2001 by repairing her heart...
Crotch Talk Macho macho man: Regarding Amy Alkon's rant equating big SUVs with small penises ("Guys With Small Penises," September 12): I drive a Toyota truck, but I live full-time in a 35-foot-long, 11-foot-tall motor home. It averages about six miles per gallon. Based on Amy's assumptions, I must have...
