Yesterday marked the end of the 7th annual Phoenix Border Security Expo, and we should all feel much, uh, safer knowing that the 180 companies attending have devoted so much time and resources to keeping our border safe from low-grade pot and immigrants. The companies set up individual booths like...
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The record store gods giveth and they taketh away. Over the past six months or so, they've imparted another iteration of Eastside Records in Tempe, a mega-sized Zia Records on Camelback, as well as the equally quaint Record Room in Scottsdale, while claiming beloved East Valley shops like Rockzone and...
While it appeared that many of New Times' readers were favoring a big upset in Arizona in one race or another, none of them appeared to have happened.A few of the congressional races still need to be ironed out, but Mitt Romney took Arizona, Congressman Jeff Flake's moving on to...
Matt Fahey is no stranger to intense challenges, risk, and life-threatening situations. As a producer and camera operator for Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch, he's battled many storms and has willingly gone back for more. We talked with Fahey about how he ended up in film production, why he pursued getting...
With results in from about half of the precincts in Pinal County, voters are giving Sheriff Paul Babeu an early -- and likely permanent -- lead over his challengers Ty Morgan and Kevin Taylor. According to early results, Babeu, a Republican, has 32,362 votes, about 53 percent, while Democratic opponent...
The setup: A few years back, playwright Jordan Harrison was approached by Anne Kaufmann of The Civilians, NYC's "investigative theater" troupe, who'd become fascinated with intentional communities such as Hasidic Jews, nuns, and the Amish, bearing transcripts of interviews and a request to let the concept marinate and come up...
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Paintyourpizza.com is an app that lets you "paint" a pizza on your computer using something that looks an awful lot like Microsoft paint, then pay for that pizza and have it delivered to you in all of its terrible glory. The program gives you the option of painting collaboratively with...
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When local artist Adam Dumper learned that fellow painter Jules Demetrius had been diagnosed with colon cancer, he didn't waste much time being bummed out about his longtime friend's misfortune. Instead, he and other mutual friends immediately got busy planning a benefit in Demetrius' honor. "Since the first week we...
Another day, another six-digit award by Maricopa County to a victim of Sheriff Joe Arpaio and former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas. This time it's the chairman of the Board of Supervisors, Andy Kunasek, who was framed for a crime he didn't commit as part of an apparent plan to...
Imagine my surprise, when checking the website of the venerable Valley organization Chicanos por la Causa, to see a photo of a beaming Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery on a page advertising the group's 44th anniversary dinner, coming up on April 4. See also: -County Attorney Bill Montgomery's Endorsement Rejected...
When motocross superstar Robbie Maddison released his latest collection of signature gear and a stunt/action video this week, we watched the death-defying tricks and massive, air-catching jumps with glossy eyes. And then we realized Maddison picked a very familiar backdrop. Off of Interstate 10 in southern Tucson is an aircraft...
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As Mr. Zimmerman once crooned long ago, the times they are a changin', and though progress has generally leap-frogged our benighted state, there are odd signs that Arizona is slouching toward the 21th Century, like some rough beast come round at last. See also: -Arizona Organix Steps Out as the...
Love is one of those things that means something different to everyone. And for their new music video for "Kill It with Love," local funky pop band The Wiley One allowed artist Nathan Shields to apply his own artistic interpretation to the clip, using his speed drawing skills to capture...
Kelsey Dake has a very thick half-wall between her studio and the rest of her home in uptown Phoenix. The 23-year-old illustrator stresses the importance of a work and home-life balance, which is hard to pull off when both things happen in the same space, but probably necessary when you're...
Background: With two little kids in the house, I never fail to spend a solid portion of the winter fighting a cold. In addition to being on a first-name basis with my pharmacist, I'm a big fan of matzo ball soup as a cure for anything that ails you. A...
I don't expect a lot of Arizona Democrats to understand why I'm making such a big deal of the untimely passing of Jeff Vath, chief blogger and owner of the pugnacious, GOP-centric Politico Mafioso blog. After all, Vath was an uncompromising partisan who derided President Barack Obama, lionized U.S. Senator...
When a new spot opens in town, we can't wait to check it out and let you know our initial impressions. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that have just opened, sampling a few items, and satisfying curiosities (yours...
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Gary Hanna's cruising through the desert wildlands east of Phoenix in his white SUV, hunting for shooters. On this warm early morning in late June, the forest ranger is one of several state and federal officials patrolling the southern Tonto National Forest on the lookout for one of the most...
Good short film anthologies are lovingly culled from disparate sources, so it's no surprise that the entries in this for-hire horror anthology — in which 25-odd international filmmakers were tapped to provide brief, cheap chillers pegged to a letter of the alphabet — are berserkly inconsistent. What's unexpected is how...
What started out in Spring of 2012 as a plot of flowers in downtown Phoenix has morphed into a beautiful art show at Combine Studios. The Valley of the Sunflowers Paper Project is a testament to what happens when you give a group of artists two pieces of well-made paper...
Respect Arizona, the group attempting to recall Sheriff Joe Arpaio from office, may yet prove the naysayers wrong. At a press conference Monday in downtown Phoenix, about 20 members of the group gathered to announce that, so far, they have collected 200,359 valid signatures to recall Sheriff Joe. See also:...