Think no one in their right mind wants to come to Arizona this time of year? You’d be wrong, bub. Despite the fact that we’re hip deep in the most tortuous portion of the summer (and all the frightfully hot temperatures and frightening monsoon storms that go with it), we’re...
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Andy Biggs probably wishes he never stopped by a recent Legislative District 16 meeting in Mesa, where he reportedly picked a fight with his fellow Republican state legislator, Rep. Kelly Townsend. The fallout from their verbal donnybrook has encouraged others to go public with grievances against the departing state senate president,...
A new climatology report shows that the much-heralded El Niño weather pattern this year already is winding down, having failed to soak Arizona with snow and rain. In January, the Pacific Ocean-driven weather phenomenon spurred the state's mini-snowpocalypse in January with flurries north and south and lots of rain in metro...
“Did I want to shoot comedies?” asks Brandon Trost, director of photography on two of this summer's funniest films, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping and Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising. “It’s funny — not at all.” But then came MacGruber, Jorma Taccone's 2010 SNL film.“The director wanted me because I wasn’t...
The director of the Arizona Department of Economic Security, Tim Jeffries, plans to take roughly 200 letters from pious DES employees to a popular religious site in France later this month. Jeffries requested the letters in an April 10 email about the trip he sent to the state agency's...
In response to New Times' story detailing the Arizona Department of Child Safety's plan to close its emergency placement center in Phoenix — and allow children who can't immediately be placed in foster care to sleep in DCS offices — DCS spokesman Doug Nick wrote the following letter to the...
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Ever since the presidential election season really kicked off last summer, pollsters in Arizona have tracked voter preference among the state's Republican voters, but they have paid little attention to the Democrats. Not any more. Two political consulting firms, MBQF and Marson Media, conducted a phone survey of likely Democratic...
Anyone who's gotten lost in an unfamiliar neighborhood knows there's more to the Valley's homes than faux adobe. And while there's certainly no shortage of annual home tours dedicated to the central city's historic neighborhoods, those who enjoy peeking into and poking around strangers' homes had another opportunity to do...
From the tons sold in state-legal medical-marijuana dispensaries, to the tons imported each year from Mexico, Arizona is a place that knows its cannabis. Here's a roundup of some of last week's biggest news stories about marijuana that affect the Grand Canyon State... State Supreme Court: No Immunity for Doctors...
There was a time when the summer movie season was a season, sandwiched between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends. By the 21st century, the start date drifted back to the first weekend in May. This year, the superhero flicks started arriving with Deadpool’s release on February 12. Only two...
Donald Trump destroyed his competition in the Arizona's Presidential Preference Election on Tuesday to mixed reviews by some in the Republican Party. The race was called for Trump early in the night even as some voters still waited in line at polling places. The controversial businessman and political outsider had...
Known for describing his stand-up comedy as "a puppet show, but way filthier and without the puppets," Ari Shaffir isn't afraid to bluntly offend any sensitive people who accidentally wandered into his performance. After pursuing comedy for almost two decades, the New York native and longtime LA resident finally managed...
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Once again, the facts have gotten in the way of arguments by cannabis prohibitionists. Echoing the messages of anti-pot warriors like Kevin Sabet, local cannabis critics Sheila Polk and Seth Leibsohn wrote in a widely published op-ed just last month that legalization would lead to more teen use of the...
We're recapping Difficult People, episode by episode. Hey, you look homeschooled! It's been slow going for Billy and Julie on season two of Difficult People. Between the two, they've failed at resolutions not to have anonymous sex at the gym, killed Nathan Lane, kept their porn to themselves, pretended to...
Drone warfare is a moral grey area, and this movie is on it. Gavin Hood’s Eye in the Sky stands alongside Drones and Good Kill as the cinematic equivalent of online commenters shouting “First!” on on a hot topic but not bothering to say anything new or insightful about it...
The Vans Warped Tour is what you’d call a chaotic experience. In fact, during any of the various stops that the touring concert festival makes each summer, it’s easy to get lost in all the bedlam of the hectic cultural menagerie going on all around you and listen to a...
Leading Republican presidential candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have been competing with each other over who has the toughest stance on immigration. They’ve called for more deportations and aggressive immigration enforcement. But a new survey finds most people in Arizona do not agree with those views. The survey released...
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's favorite deputy, Brian Mackiewicz, has returned to work, dogged by allegations of spiking his overtime and, according to sources, sleeping with a crime victim during an MCSO investigation. Formerly assigned to Arpaio's threats management unit, the detective was on paid administrative leave for several months last year...
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Monday morning, during the last day of ex-border vigilante Chris Simcox's trial in Phoenix on six felony counts related to child molestation and exposing minors to porn, a video of one of his alleged victims dealt serious damage to Simcox's cause when the prosecution played it in court. Simcox, who...
They're subtle — and sometimes sung in Spanish — but the questions that are scattered across Calexico's Edge of the Sun carry the thrust of the album's themes. Where? What? Why? The questions are prominent on an album about progressing, searching, and moving. And they're at the core of interactions,...
Youth advocates and members of the Arizona Public Defender Association want the Arizona Supreme Court to do what many other states have done and end the indiscriminate shackling of youth in juvenile courtrooms. In a petition submitted to the court, attorney Christina Phillis writes that, “The goal of juvenile court is...
A she-wolf of Wall Street with a spiky ginger Suze Orman shag, Michelle Darnell, the anti-heroine of fitfully funny The Boss, is the latest of the Rabelaisian wonders played by Melissa McCarthy. The actress specializes in characters with indestructible bravado, no matter where they stand on the socioeconomic ladder; Michelle,...