If the White House was betting that Republicans would overreact to President Obama's impending announcement tonight on immigration, where he's expected to outline a plan that will extend deferred removal to some 5 million undocumented immigrants, boy, were they right. For instance, Arizona Congressman Matt Salmon, proud representative of Sand...
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With the Chow Bella Pie Social returning for its fifth year on Saturday, November 15th, you will certainly be inspired to bake up some of your very own slightly sweet treats this holiday season. For those with food allergies or who follow particular diets, the last course is generally one...
DUI task forces around the state arrested 582 people on DUI charges over Labor Day weekend. That's an increase over the same weekend in 2013, when the task forces arrested 503 people on DUI charges...
On a recent Friday afternoon, Nick Kriaris, owner of Encanto Green Cross medical-marijuana dispensary in Phoenix, and his brother, Chris, tried to open an account at Bank of America for their nonprofit business with $420 in cash. The attempt at the bank branch at 3030 North Central Avenue was, to...
The race to become Arizona's next governor is tied, according to the second poll on the race released in the last week. The latest poll comes from Rasmussen Reports has Republican Doug Ducey and Democrat Fred Duval tied at 40 percent each, based on interviews with 850 likely Arizona voters...
There's a line from Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost, after Lucifer falls into the pit, that summarizes the predicament of Democrats in Arizona. "Fall'n Cherub," the Dark Prince tells a cohort, "to be weak is miserable, doing or suffering." Hard on the heels of Tuesday's Election Day massacre for the...
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The blues keep hopping throughout the Valley during the weekdays, thanks to Buzz Fowler. Fowler started blues jam parties at the El Dorado Bar and Grill in Scottsdale on Wednesday nights and the Steel Horse Saloon in Deer Valley on Thursday nights. Now, Stacy's Smoke House BBQ on Main Street...
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Bell’s Mars: Music-Inspired Beer
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Jewels of the Nile
According to Harry Nilsson, one is the loneliest number. But for singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Keller Williams, one is more than enough. Unlike one-man bands of old, Williams doesn't have cymbals on his knees, horns under his arms, taps on his toes, or a drum on his back. Rather, Williams has propelled the...
Writing a book is relatively easy, right? You come up with a beginning, a middle, and an end. You add in some characters, maybe a plot twist or two to keep your readers on the edge of their seats. Slap a catchy title on the front, and you're done. Okay,...
Only a few months after he painted a mural of his quirky, high-color stick figures on the Berlin Wall in 1986, artist Keith Haring, the story goes, also created a mural on the side of the old Hartfield’s Dress Shop on the southeast corner of Adams Street and Central Avenue in downtown Phoenix. And while […]
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In October 1891, German immigrant and Valley pioneer Jacob Waltz promised his friend and caretaker, Julia Thomas, that he would take her to his hidden gold mine the following spring, after he’d recovered from a nasty case of pneumonia. Waltz had moved to the Valley in 1868 and tried homesteading a farm. But he was […]
When a new spot opens in town, we can't wait to check it out -- and let you know our initial impressions, share a few photos, and dish about some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that...
The Chef: Bernie Kantak The Restaurant: The Gladly The Animal: Pork The Dish: Pickled Pork Temple What do you do when your friend, who happens to own a pork company, calls you up with a bunch of extra pork temple? Well, if you're Bernie Kantak, you take it and use...
Phoenix and Tucson have announced a plan to collaboratively store and make use of their shares of Colorado River water. Both cities have contracts with the Central Arizona Project, the canal that diverts Colorado River water from a pumping station near Lake Havasu throughout the rest of the state. Through...
Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Ducey's spokeswoman, Melissa DeLaney, declined to comment Tuesday when I contacted her regarding this week's cover story on Ducey's hailing from an infamous Toledo organized crime family. But Wednesday, she gave a statement to the Arizona Republic's Laurie Roberts, and I'm glad she did, because she...
When Joseph Mount of London-based Metronomy listened to Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, he realized he'd have to change the direction of "Boy Racers," the most upbeat song on his band's 2013 album, Love Letters. He had intended to have the song include a German narrator speaking about how fast...
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Japanese pop culture can often be a bit colorful and imaginative, to put it mildly. Maybe we're showing our gaijin (or foreigner) by saying such things, but it seems that much of what constitutes entertainment by denizens of the Asian isle -- be it video games, TV shows, movies, literature,...
Talk about a small world: In this 2006 C-SPAN clip, Kyl heralds the indictment of Doug Ducey's money-laundering uncle, William "Billy" Scott Governor-elect Doug Ducey's recent announcement that former U.S. Senator Jon Kyl will chair his transition committee offers a delicious mix of irony and hypocrisy. See, while he was...
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery brought together several Phoenix-area police chiefs yesterday to explain how the departments are handling encounters with mentally ill people. Of course, this comes on the heels of the shooting of Michelle Cusseaux, a 50-year-old mentally ill Phoenix resident who was fatally shot August 14 by...
Fred DuVal's campaign for Arizona governor has been airing campaign ads featuring Republican Grant Woods, a longtime friend and college classmate of DuVal's. DuVal, the Democratic nominee, is running against Republican Doug Ducey in the November general election. Sure, Woods, a former Arizona attorney general, may have chaired Governor Jan...