One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here's today's -- what's yours? Aaron Koblin, the brain behind Sheep Market and Bicycle Built for 2,000, is a project kind of guy ... and he's a big fan...
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Natasha Helmick goes up for a header during a Dallas soccer match and gets speared in the left temple by an opponent. The 14-year-old, a talented center midfielder playing in the choice Lake Highlands Girls Classic League, crumples to the ground. She can't see anything out of her left eye...
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A bus-driver strike may be looming in Phoenix, potentially disrupting at least 31 public-transit routes.On Tuesday, officials with Veolia Transportation, a French-based company that operates those 31 bus routes, made their "best and final" offer the bus drivers' union.Bob Bean, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1433, which represents...
The family of the girlfriend of Scottsdale-based Medicis CEO Jonah Shacknai -- who was found bound, naked, and hanging by her neck at Shacknai's Coronado, California, mansion last week -- rejects the theory that she committed suicide.The San Diego Sheriff's Department is being pretty tight-lipped about the case, and hasn't...
Untitled from Kholood Eid on Vimeo.In June, photographer Bryn Corbett set up his camera at Downtown's Practical Art and began his video portrait series, "Staring Down Andy." Each of the 40 participants had two minutes "to be themselves" in front of Corbett's video camera in a dark room with a black backdrop,...
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Today is Friday -- a day that ends with the word "day," which, sadly, seems to mean one thing here in the Valley: someone was arrested for beating up a kid.The latest contestants for Parents of the Year are 22-year-old Melissa Chambers and her 26-year-old boyfriend, Travis Darrah.Chandler Detective Seth...
State Senator Scott Bundgaard was supposed to be in Phoenix Municipal Court this morning to answer for his alleged scuffle with ex-girlfriend Aubry Ballard, but he wasn't, and now his hearing's been rescheduled.Bundgaard's attorneys reportedly are asking for a change of venue and say they need time to interview additional witnesses.Bundgaard's been...
In Jesse Peretz's Our Idiot Brother, Paul Rudd plays Ned, a kind of Upstate New York version of "The Dude" Lebowski — a man out of time, blinkered enough to be living the hippie dream. In the film's first scene, Ned is "entrapped" into selling pot at a farmers market...
In his quest for the presidency, Texas Governor Rick Perry says three things: His state's economy is better than America's. Low taxes and small government are the reasons. He gets the credit. Almost none of that is true. The Texas economy isn't stronger than the national economy, and it may...
The kennels of Maricopa County Animal Care and Control are now only slightly overcrowded -- rather than bursting at the seams -- thanks to a tremendous community turnout to this month's MCACC's $17 adoption sale. Since July 12, shelters have seen about 1,200 adoptions --more than double the adoption rate...
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Documents released yesterday by the Pima County Sheriff's Department show that the controversial shooting of an Iraq War vet was the result of a complex drug investigation into the man and his brother.Jose Guerena, a 26-year-old father of two and veteran of the war, died on May 5, in his...
[jump] Dear Mr. Arpaio, In reading your press release dated June 21, 2011, regarding the "exceptional times" MCSO is experiencing, I noticed that you neglected to mention numerous and significant details: To begin, you failed to mention the approximately 500 sex crime cases that your office failed to...
Sci-fi geeks everywhere have been up in arms recently at the news that filmmaker George Lucas is making changes to the original Star Wars trilogy yet again. The entire six-film space opera saga is being released on Blu-Ray this Friday and the Star Wars creator is taking the opportunity to...
The competition got sticky Friday night at the second annual Caramelpalooza, co-sponsored by Chow Bella and Smeeks. We're not sure of the exact head count -- beyond the fact that the line wrapped around the block -- but we do know that approximately 2,750 caramels were gone in about an...
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne today agreed to a hefty $40.8 million settlement agreement with GlaxoSmithKline LLC and PB Pharmco -- companies accused of distributing defective drugs.After divvying up the settlement between 37 states and the District of Columbia that also filed complaints, Arizona's raking getting $1.4 million.From 2001 to 2004, the...
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A photo has been released of the woman found dead at the home of Scottsdale-based Medicis executive Jonah Shacknai. The body of 32-year-old Rebecca Nalepa -- Shacknai's girlfriend -- was found in the courtyard of Shacknai's historic Coronado, California mansion with a rope around her neck, bound, naked, and hanging from...
It's said that to get hired in a kitchen, budding chefs are often put to the "egg test." If the cook can perfectly prepare eggs on request, they're in. So to wrap up the weekly series in which I learned to burn rice, make crepes with leftovers and get wasted on...
It's always amusing when wingnuts try to grow a conscience. Like a beard on an alligator, you know it's fake from jump.That's why I cracked a smile today while perusing far-right wing blog Sonoran Alliance, where moral relativist-in-charge Shane Wikfors is demanding an apology from Carolyn Cooper, a supporter of...