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Obama’s Executive Action on Immigration Legal, No Matter What Teabaggers Say

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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Mesa Gets a Blues Night at Stacey’s Smoke House BBQ on Main

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

Beer: Mars, The Bringer of War Brewery: Bell's Brewery, Inc. Style: Imperial India Pale Ale ABV: 10.1 percent Optional musical accompaniment to this post. Listen while reading and the review will sound WAY more epic. Like most artists, brewers draw inspiration for their work from many different sources. Sometimes the...
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Jewels of the Nile

Cloisonné is a French word, but it’s used to describe an art-making technique that now exists virtually world-wide. The ancient method of decorating metalwork objects using gemstones, glass, or vitreous enamel originated in the Near East as a jewelry-making practice, but it spread to include wider geographies and more complicated...
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Best of Phoenix 2014: Legend City / Mural of the Story

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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Best of Phoenix 2014: Legend City / The Golden Nugget

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 […]
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Phoenix, Tucson Launch 2015 Water Sharing Plan

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...
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Doug Ducey’s Flack Confirms Organized Crime Story

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...
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How Metronomy ?Frontman Joseph Mount Got Scooped by Daft Punk

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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5 Favorite Costumes From Saboten Con 2014 in Glendale

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,...
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Jon Kyl Praised AG for Prosecuting Doug Ducey’s Uncle

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...