In 1950, two upstart architects, Paolo Soleri and Mark Mills, finished their first commission — the Dome House — a model of which is included in the permanent collection of New York's Museum of Modern Art. Their glass dome-covered tour de force was built in rugged, barely accessible desert in...
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Editor's Note: In this special edition of "Battle of the Dishes," we asked our favorite mensch, Eric Schaefer, to do some latke research for us. Latkes are the culinary poster child for Chanukah, the Jewish festival of lights that is of relatively minor religious significance but gives us Jewish kids...
Outgoing Maricopa County Republican Party Chair Rob Haney, slavish BFF to recalled, disgraced ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce, has had his wrinkled, leprechaun fanny handed to him by the non-Pearce-worshipping faction of the Legislative District 25 Republicans. I informed you yesterday about the federal lawsuit against Haney and his cretinous...
Steve Wiley is Jackalope Ranch's Parent Hood. He's a slightly unorthodox father of five who will weigh in weekly with his mildly-rebellious views and observations. If you'd like to see how he came to write this column, watch the intro video. This week he admits to a few things he...
A suspected illegal immigrant who was just recently released on bond from Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody was arrested yesterday in the fatal stabbing of his wife.Maria Gonzalez was stabbed to death on Friday, although her husband, Salvador Garcia-Sanchez, was just arrested yesterday since he remained hospitalized after accidentally stabbing...
There were a lot of strange ideas proposed this week around the state, like the Governor Jan Brewer's thought that she can run for a third term -- even though the state constitution says two -- and Joe Arpaio's declaration that he's distributing automatic weapons to deputies because too many...
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Less than a week after taking credit for creating five jobs at a Mexican restaurant, Sheriff Joe Arpaio now claims he's now opened up some "employment opportunities" in the patio furniture refurbishing industry.Of course, that's a result of "employer sanctions operation"/illegal-immigrant roundup number 66, in which all seven people arrested...
Finally, we know who Arizonans are sending to Congress -- the Democratic Congressman Ron Barber has an unbeatable lead over Republican challenger Martha McSally in CD-2.Indeed, it looked unlikely Thursday morning that McSally could take over Barber's lead, although it was small, the number of ballots remaining to be counted...
Last November, Joseph "Sentrock" Perez gave the now-defunct Downtown Phoenix Public Market a pretty sweet paint job, that you better check out in the next few days -- according to Aaron Chamberlin, who will open a farm-focused cafe in the space in 2013, the mural will be replaced by windows...
The Guilty Pleasure: Ginger Broccoli Steak Where to Get It: Pei Wei Asian Diner, locations Valleywide Price: $8.75 What It Really Costs: Admitting you ate at a national chain and liked it. Oh yeah, that plate you polished off? It's supposed to serve two. I love lots of authentic Chinese...
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Several of the races for Arizona's seats in the U.S. House of Representatives ended up close, and at the time of this post, we still don't have the answer in three districts.Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, Republican Martha McSally, and Republican Jonathan Paton are each hanging on to small leads in their respective...
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Out of 43 Maricopa County Superior Court judges, four have last names that sound Hispanic. It doesn't seem like a coincidence that those four happen to have ended up among the six worst vote-getters in last night's election. Scanning over the vote counts today, it looks like Maricopa County residents...
We know, the beginning of the work week sucks. But if you take a quick look at the calendar, you'll see we're off to a pretty good week of art events, sports games, dance parties, and more. Here are our must-see events from now to the weekend... Monday, December 10:...
In line with the growing interest in collaborative online artistic endeavors like the Ken Andrews-led (Failure, Year of the Rabbit, Ken Andrews) Digital Noise Academy, Phoenix Design Week organizers announced that during this year's celebration of local design, they'll showcase the results of their experiment, "Exquisite Phoenix." "Exquisite Phoenix" takes...
Titus Andronicus and Ceremony @ Crescent Ballroom, 11/6/12"Good night, good luck, and four more years!" said Patrick Stickles as he high-fived fans from the stage as Titus Andronicus wrapped up a solid set that ran almost two hours. The night wasn't as political as it could have been, both bands...
A wan comedy about gambling that takes no risks, Stephen Frears' Lay the Favorite has none of the stinging sordidness of The Grifters, his 1990 movie about chiselers and con artists. That tight, nimble adaptation of Jim Thompson's high-pulp, strained-through, Greek-tragedy 1963 novel endures as the only other good film...
I have a problem I need your advice on. My granddaughters were born and raised in Georgia, as was their father. Their knowledge of their culture is zero, and I have tried to educate them by talking to them and even writing a book of my life growing up in...
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Dumperfoo's 40th Birthday feat. Drunken Immortals @ Club Red | 1/18/13Once upon a time, catching a wild gig by the Drunken Immortals was an easy thang to do. A decade ago, the local hip-hop ensemble of phenomenal talent and great renown was throwing weekly joints at Tempe bars like the...
Scottsdale police officers have had quite a few questionable shootings in recent history that have been determined by the department to be justified.That -- along with Officer James Peters' involvement in a sixth fatal shooting -- is why representatives of the American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona announced that they've filed...
Louis Eugene Harper was sentenced yesterday to life in prison for the 2010 robbery and murder of Arizona State University student Zachary Marco.Harper, 21, will be eligible for parole after 25 years, but Harper also earned an extra 15 years in prison for armed robbery, and those sentences will run...
We had a temporary, though intense, urge to flee the state after reading Michael Clancy's climate-change apocalypse story in today's Arizona Republic. Clancy's story describes how climate change could turn Arizona from the paradise it is today into a scorched, polluted, economically challenged wasteland that swelters in winter as well...