How's this for irony? One month before Governor Doug Ducey issued a statement calling for a halt to the placement of Syrian and Iraqi refugees in Arizona, the Arizona State Transportation Board voted in favor of spending about $367,000 in public funds to honor a Syrian Muslim immigrant. The mostly-federal...
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As he lay in an irrigation ditch in excruciating pain, the shot clock seemed to be running out for the final time for Bobby Hurley. A legendary college basketball player, Hurley had just finished playing his 19th NBA game for the Sacramento Kings. He had been broadsided by the driver...
Less than two years after a court ordered Phoenix to allow gun-rights activists to plaster city bus shelters with the slogan “Guns Save Lives,” officials have once again attempted to censor advertisements containing the emotionally charged phrase. The new ads, much like the signs that sparked a four-year legal battle...
Sophomore efforts are a tricky business, especially if you're trying to make lightning strike twice. So when word got out early last year that the team behind Arcadia's beloved Crudo was launching a second restaurant in Phoenix, the mounting anticipation — and high expectations — were palpable. Okra Cookhouse &...
If there’s one thing Ann Kirkpatrick doesn’t want to talk about, it’s John McCain. On a recent Thursday afternoon, the congresswoman is seated at a long wooden table in a boardroom in Tucson. She’s just finished a round-table discussion with 20 men and women who work with veterans, and managed...
Remake The Graduate today, and an adult might corner Benjamin Braddock and whisper, "Startups." Debut director Max Joseph gives that a good shot, though the result — the EDM-fueled, drug-laced dream-crusher We Are Your Friends — is so sweaty and silly that people may not notice. Like Mike Nichols, Joseph...
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A Maricopa County nonprofit that makes much of its money off low-level marijuana offenders would take a big financial hit if Arizona voters legalize marijuana in November. The Treatment Assessment Screening Center, better known as TASC, contracts with the county to provide six months of mandatory drug-treatment services for first-...
Okay, we're late getting this story out because we spent Monday sleeping off our hangover from drinking ourselves numb after the Arizona Cardinals stunk up the Deep South Sunday night Damn, we don't know what football team played against the Carolina Panthers in the NFC Championship in Charlotte, because it...
VICE Magazine called it "Comi-Con meets burlesque nerd orgy," while Esquire minced no words in describing it as "beautiful young women with tattoos." Each was describing the same scene, one of shimmying Stormtroopers and scantily clad tattooed women dancing and playing dress-up with pop culture references. The show is Blackheart...
Look, we get it. You’re probably going to be really short on money and time this month, what with the holidays exhausting your supply of both. But if you can somehow pry yourself away from the yuletide hullabaloo and set aside a few bucks for yourself, any of the following...
A woman in a pink T-shirt and beanie crept up to the Tempe house, quickly snatched a package from the porch and scurried back to her car. At his job several miles away, homeowner Rob Biggs got an alert on his iPhone announcing movement in front of his home near...
Cornish Pasty Co.'s George Jacobs sums up his problem with beard nets succinctly: "I don't like them. They're itchy." Jacobs can thank the federal Food and Drug Administration for the accessory. In metro Phoenix, Maricopa County's Environmental Services Department complies with the FDA's Food Code, which states: "FOOD EMPLOYEES shall...
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This year was the most historic in history for Arizona's cannabis culture. One of the pioneering states for marijuana freedom in the country, Arizona has a well-established medical-marijuana program that includes nearly 90 retail outlets. Advocates worked hard in 2015 to collect signatures for a legalization measure expected to be...
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best local music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. Bear Ghost — "Funkle Phil" Bear Ghost is celebrating the New Year by releasing another single from its forthcoming debut full-length...
Gunfire erupted inside of a Glendale bar and nightclub over the weekend, resulting in the shooting death of one patron and the injuring of another. An after-hours altercation between patrons in the early morning hours on Saturday, August 8, at the La Sierra Nightclub and Kanta Bar in Glendale turned...
The queasiest thing about American Crime Story’s (FX) retelling of the 1995 O.J. Simpson murder trial is how easily such a flagrant miscarriage of justice could happen all over again. The twin forces that most warped that case, after all, still plague us today: a tabloid culture that reduces flesh-and-blood...
A Democratic "dark-money" group finally registered with the state as a political committee to avoid getting slapped with a contempt charge, the Arizona Secretary of State's Office announced today. Problems for the group, the Committee for Justice and Fairness, began when it ran TV ads in 2010 attacking then-Attorney General...
As long as there has been music, there have been dance crazes. There are those stemmed in 60’s R&B like “The Locomotion” that were brilliant and duds like the “Hokey Pokey” and the “Macarena.” You can almost hear Holly Golightly cringe at the mention of the latter two dances. “Those...
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Music videos are more important now than they ever were. As the music market has saturated with bands, anything that makes an artist stand out from the crowd becomes vital, and music videos are a great way for artists to distinguish themselves from the masses. Luckily, video technology is so...
A life-size Pac-Man game, a nightclub on wheels, jazz-playing robots — these are just a few projects that U.S. Senator Jeff Flake says taxpayers wasted their money on this year. In a snarky new report, “Wastebook 2015: May the Farce Be With You,” the junior senator from Arizona calls a...
Queensrÿche is a band that has had its fair share of ups and downs, especially in the past decade. Since its birth in 1982, the American metal act has released 14 studio albums, one of which was ’88’s Operation: Mindcrime, considered one of the best concept albums of all time...
With Valentine’s Day just past, it's worth noting that Pinal County's most eligible bachelor, Sheriff Paul Babeu, may finally have found love in a young man 25 years his junior. Babeu’s spokesman, Barrett Marson, who also flacks for the legalize pot initiative Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol, confirmed to...