Sean Riley is what you'd call a die-hard fan of Phoenix Comicon. An avowed geek, the 34-year-old Glendale resident has not only been attending the event annually since 2011, he buys his tickets well in advance, keeps abreast of the latest news about its special guests, and considers it one...
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The Arizona Department of Corrections has agreed to settle a lawsuit alleging that it failed to provide a safe work environment for a teacher who was raped while administering a GED test at a state prison. The teacher, who was the subject of a New Times cover story in July,...
"Hello, it's Laurie. I'm so sorry!" Laurie Notaro's on a beach on the Oregon coast. The bestselling author and humorist whose Idiot Girls' Action-Adventure Club is all but required reading for 20-somethings explains that a very rousing game of phone tag was the result of one distracting and delicious chicken...
New Times picks the best arts and culture events in metro Phoenix from February 22 through 26. Workin' It Out Find yourself with a constant case of the Mondays? Seek reprieve and laugh it off during Workin’ It Out, Ernesto Ortiz and Gene Moore’s weekly stand-up show. As one of the...
Here are our picks for best concerts in Phoenix this week. Browse our comprehensive concert calendar for more options. The Maension - Joe's Grotto - Monday, January 18 The Maension plays an intriguing combination of ’90s grunge and ’00s nu-metal, filled with slogging, heavy riffs and hard-hitting breakdowns that brings...
Casandra Hernandez has been named ASU Art Museum's curator of Celebración Artística de las Américas, or CALA, Initiatives, according to a Monday, December 13, announcement from the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Hernandez had worked at the Commission as artists program coordinator since September 2014. One of her most notable...
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In a public letter to Arizona Governor Doug Ducey, the American Civil Liberties Union calls the governor's new plan for an anti-drug-trafficking border Strike Force "seriously concerning" and potentially “devastating.” Ducey, who campaigned on a promise of mitigating cross-border human and drug trafficking, says he's making good on this promise...
Striking Phoenix bus drivers admit that they’re starting to worry about how the strike is affecting their lives, but they say they’re not willing to give up. “Even though I don’t have money, I couldn't face my fellow workers knowing I let them down," said Vanessa Washington, a driver and...
Alyssa and Joel Leibow's mid-century home isn't easy to find, tucked away in an off-the-path Central Phoenix neighborhood. They found it by chance via an Instagram post from a realtor and decided on a whim to check it out during an open house. The Leibows bought it on the spot...
Psyko Steve Chilton’s Rock Lottery (scheduled for Saturday, January 16), now approaching its third year, is one of the more brilliant ideas to take hold in the local music scene. There is nothing quite like the exhausting task of shuffling some two dozen musicians together, forming random, new five-piece bands,...
Arizona State University will celebrate the centennial of Albert Einstein's Theory of General Relativity on Friday. Meanwhile across the country, scientists are analyzing data attempting to prove the existence of gravitational waves, the last, most elusive prediction of Albert Einstein's theories. Last week, ASU Professor Lawrence M. Krauss caused a...
Researchers in Phoenix have found genes identified with Broken-Heart Syndrome, a severe heart condition that appears during times of intense stress. The discovery could lead to better treatments for patients who are at risk for the problem, officially known as stress-induced cardiomyopathy, (SIC), say scientists at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix...
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Videos of "Stoner Sloth," a cute-but-pathetic character created by the Australian government who can't handle life because of marijuana, are bringing in more laughs than self-reflection by cannabis advocates. Stoner Sloth is portrayed as both male and female in the ads, which were produced by the New South Wales Department of...
As of last week, 19 people in seven states have fallen in from an E. coli outbreak that's been linked to celery in rotisserie chicken salad sold at Costco. The multistate outbreak prompted Taylor Farms, located in Tracy, California, to recall dozens of products sold in stores all over the...
Members of the Russian feminist punk protest group, Pussy Riot, were in downtown Phoenix on February 16 for a conversation on art, sex, and disobedience at Beth Hebrew Synagogue. Pussy Riot, known for staging provocative guerrilla performances and music videos, became famous in 2012 with the arrest of three of...
In a September interview with GQ, Constance Wu, star of NBC’s Fresh Off the Boat, observed of the HBO series Togetherness, “It’s a show about white people.” She’s not wrong: Created by indie-film luminaries Jay and Mark Duplass, along with the actor Steve Zissis, Togetherness is a low-key look at...
One of the Valley’s most iconic country bars is now a pile of smoldering rubble and debris after being destroyed by devastating fire. The Buffalo Chip Saloon in Cave Creek burned to the ground earlier today after a massive fire swept through the rustic cowboy joint and dance hall this...
Our health is our most precious resource, yet our health-care system’s more adept at mining wallets than making us healthy. We pay one-and-a-half to two times what other countries pay for health care without appreciably better outcomes. America spends more than $9,500 per person annually, more than one-sixth of our...
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West Phoenix based rapper José “Low Key” Hernandez was in the process of making positive changes in his life. He was less than a year home from a six-month prison sentence for assault, but instead of boasting about it on records he decided to completely change his ways. But unfortunately...
Does a marijuana-legalization initiative expected to be on the ballot this November allow cities and towns to ban adults from growing their own marijuana? Under the initiative, adults 21 and older could grow up to six plants, with a 12-plant-per-household maximum. Ryan Hurley, a lawyer for the Campaign to Regulate...
It stuns me each year as Viva PHX, Stateside Present's mini-South by Southwest that takes place in 17 venues in downtown Phoenix on Saturday, gets better and better, how difficult the decisions are about when and where to be. In addition to the sheer mind-blowing volume of touring acts booked,...
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. Wolvves - "Ivory Drive" Around this time last year, Wolvves released its debut full-length debut album and upon doing so, immediately...