A coalition of environmental groups is joining the Havasupai Tribe in appealing a U.S. District Court decision last month that Energy Fuels Inc. can resume uranium mining at Canyon Mine in Northern Arizona. The groups had filed a preliminary injunction in March 2013 to stop the company from completing construction...
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When it comes to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's 22-year reign over Maricopa County, a cursory glance at newspaper clippings from earlier in his career reveals that some things never change. Consider Arpaio's penchant for investigating his enemies, his critics, and anyone who stands in his way. In January 1999, Maricopa County...
New Times art director Peter M. Storch and his team received five awards, including three first places in the Arizona Press Club's annual journalism contest, which recognized outstanding work from 2014. In addition, Storch was named second runner-up for Designer of the Year. The paper also took top honors in...
What do you do if a political satirist paints an image of you, which you consider "beyond offensive"? If you're Sheriff Joe Arpaio, you send it to every reporter in town, and tweet it out to your 63,400 followers. That's what happened to an image created by longtime anti-Arpaio activist...
For being thrown together at the last minute, A$AP Rocky’s listening party for his latest album A.L.L.A. sure looked like a good time. The festivities, which were held in New York City on Monday, came a week earlier than planned. The rapper tweeted that his second album, whose title is...
White Arrows frontman Mickey Church approached writing the band's latest, In Bardo, as though it were the end of his musical world on Earth. The result: a playfully quirky, anything-goes-into-a-pop-song groove inhabiting the album from start to finish. "I didn't really know or care what was going to happen after...
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You might think, walking the aisles separating large cases of ceramics at the ASU Ceramics Research Center, that ceramic works are simply objects. Grouped by decade, they appear to be mere artifacts from bygone days. Some are functional, decorative, or both. But few beckon viewers to consider the fluid nature...
In my line of work, it doesn't get much better than a federal judge's handing your column to a public official, and getting the accused pol to confirm the column's facts, one by one, under oath. This is what happened on day three of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's civil contempt trial,...
As a middle-aged woman, I rarely have a conversation with other middle-aged women in which the subject of movies "for us" fails to come up. As a critic, I don't really think of movies in terms of which ones are "for" me and which are not, but I know what...
We caught muralist El Mac in the act of art-making at The Heavy Pedal, 1309 E. Van Buren last week, working on his latest Phoenix mural. It's a collaboration between El Mac, Pablo Luna, and Mando Rascón that took a full week of steady work to execute. The results are...
National media coverage of Arizona's toughest-talking sheriff's contempt trial paints a subdued portrait of Joe Arpaio, infamous for his ruthless opposition to illegal immigration, describing him as a "quiet, almost deferential," "humble and weary retiree." While some suggest the personality flip may signal the fall of a hero for the...
Arizona State University president Michael Crow released a public statement slamming Governor Doug Ducey's proposed cuts to higher-education funding. Ducey was elected on a promise to get the state in better financial shape, and more than half of the money in budget cuts Ducey is proposing comes from higher education,...
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Governor Doug Ducey signed a bill that gives a new tax break for certain religious groups. House Bill 2128, being pushed by the Center for Arizona Policy, was vetoed by Governor Jan Brewer after it was passed by lawmakers last year, but it got a better reception from Ducey...
Prison life is reliably repetitive, but conditions can be frighteningly unstable, too. Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black, which returns June 12 for its third season, reflects that paradoxical state of affairs by delivering more of the same — heartfelt but complicated relationships, inspired capers, compelling personalities, stomach-twisting flips in...
Scottsdale Cultural Council president and CEO Neale Perl has announced plans to restructure how closely the Council works with the organizations it oversees -- literally by relocating senior staffers from Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and Scottsdale Public Art to work at the Council's...
In an opinion that impacts several criminal cases around the state, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled on Wednesday that authorized medical-marijuana patients cannot sell cannabis to other patients. The 3-0 ruling by the state's Division Two appeals court overturns a decision made last July by Pima County Superior Court Judge Richard...
A man with white-supremacist tattoos on his face is the man police believe shot six people in Mesa today, killing one person. Ryan Giroux, age 41, has been identified as the suspect, and was arrested by Mesa police this afternoon after an hours-long manhunt...
An embezzlement case that cost a local labor union more than a quarter-million dollars shows that the organization has a "zero-tolerance" policy for corruption, its officials said. “We’re relieved that the legal process is over and happy that justice has been served,” Bob Bean, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union's Local...
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Tempe’s historic Double Butte Cemetery is one of the area’s oldest, dating back to the 1890s, before Arizona was a state. One section of the 17-acre property near 48th Street and Broadway Road is lush and green, lined with trees beneath which visitors might spy local fauna, rabbits, or an...
So what do you do if you've just undercut more than two decades of selling yourself to the public as "America's Toughest Sheriff" with a groveling admission to a federal judge that you're guilty of civil contempt and are ready to bend over for punishment? If you're Sheriff Joe Arpaio,...
Space Is Still the Place, the sophomore album from Austin psych-rockers Bright Light Social Hour, smashes past, present, and future together into a golden age of the band's own design. From the lyrics to the sound, from the recording techniques to what the band drew as inspiration from meeting down-and-out...
Maya's Farm doesn't just sell fantastic organic produce; for a limited time, they'll also be selling plant starters for a ton of different heirloom tomatoes...