Rachel Brock, daughter of Maricopa County Supervisor Fulton Brock, was in court this morning where she pleaded not guilty to charges that she had sex with a then-13-year-old boy when she was 18.The boy is the same child whom her mother, Susan Brock, was convicted of sexually abusing for three years...
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Those devilish Danes have done it again. Curse their delicious Nordic cuisine! (Not really. Pass the Greenland musk ox, please.) Restaurant magazine and S. Pellegrino's annual "World's 50 Best Restaurants" list is out and it seems Denmark, the land of Lego AND Hans Christian Andersen, is also home to first-prize...
Most Arizona residents prefer larger cultivation facilities for medical pot and residency requirements for dispensary owners, says a poll commissioned by the folks who brought you Prop 203.Joe Yuhas of the Arizona Medical Marijuana Association spoke of the poll results today at the medical marijuana rules hearing in Tempe, and...
Whether fronting The Verve or in his solo career, Richard Ashcroft is all about musical majesty. His best songs are sweeping, epic and grand, some would say "grandiose," but he's always aiming for a transcendence from the ordinary to the sublime. When he succeeds in the effort -- and most...
Front Line Assembly founder Bill Leeb cut his musical chops in one of the most influential industrial bands of all time, Skinny Puppy. While Skinny Puppy's known for its dark, gloomy tunes, Front Line Assembly's taken a flashier (but still ambient) tack. If Leeb's old band was Dracula, Front Line...
Despite The Virgin's recent successes at making everything from aphrodisiac sandwiches to hot cross buns, I got off easy this Easter and didn't have to prepare a damn thing for the holiday meal. However, that didn't stop me and my sig other from heading home from dinner with a bag of leftover,...
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Los Lobos was never officially part of the Sound Strike, the musicians' boycott of Arizona over Senate Bill 1070, Sand Land's notorious breathing-while-brown law. But when the old-school Chicano rock band announced the cancellation of a gig at Scottsdale's Talking Stick Resort in June of 2010, they earned plaudits from many in...
If the customers who feast on the Arrogant Butcher's Turkey Sloppy Joe and wash it down with a Miller High Life have anything to say about who will lead the nation's fifth ... er, that is sixth largest city ... then the honors will go to former Deputy Attorney General...
>p>Who let this gum-smacking, white trash witch out of her cage?Oh, do I have a treat for you. Here's a new video from Phoenix activist and radio show host Carlos Galindo of him taking on racist Republican state Senator Lori Klein. In the video, Klein basically admits to telling an...
Just after noon on December 15, 2009, a Tempe police detective sent a very specific e-mail about how to conduct a child pornography investigation to this private address: detectiveoneal32[at]ma.com. Detective Burke Mattlin was writing from his work computer to a former colleague, Shaquille O'Neal — a.k.a. Shaq, The Big Cactus,...
A group of southern Arizona residents who are fed up with the "unconstitutional machinations" that go on in the state Legislature are getting organized -- the group recently launched a website to help drum up support for their push to break away from Arizona and form "Baja Arizona," the nation's...
Governor Jan Brewer recently pissed off her far-right-wing-nut base by vetoing three bills it desperately wanted, and today she's trying to make amends by bringing up the issue that got her elected: Arizona Senate Bill1070.The bills Brewer vetoed include the ridiculous "Birther Bill," which could have required presidential candidates to provide...
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Although many of you have loved and/or loathed my columna for years, the Mexican still finds new readers every week in the unlikeliest of spots (hola, Chattanooga! See you in August, inshallah!). As a result, I sometimes receive questions about the methodology of the column, questions all of us know...
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VotoLatino is sponsoring a talk with Javier Gonzalez of Sound Strike on Twitter today at 4 p.m. Pacific TimeThere continues to be a lot of kvetching from the local music "scene" here in Sand Land about Sound Strike, the ongoing boycott of Arizona by numerous acts over Senate Bill 1070.But...
Hatin' on fatsos isn't just for Westerners anymore -- a study conducted by researchers at Arizona State University shows that negative attitudes toward the overweight is going global.According to a cross-cultural study of attitudes toward obesity -- to be published in the April issue of Current Anthropology -- the overall...
Federal agents may bust anyone participating in a "large" pot-growing operation, despite Arizona's voter-approved medical marijuana law, says Arizona U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke in a letter to the state. In a recent letter to Will Humble, the director of the state Department of Health Services, Burke reiterates that the feds will look the other...
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Since there's really no better accessory than a cocktail in your hand, each week brings you a tasty adult beverage from one of our favorite drinking establishments, complete with recipe. This week: The Mexico City Mule at Mucho Gusto Taqueria & Mexican Bistro Whether it's the awesome patio or the...
Local lawyer Mark Goldman's alleged actions in the investigation of Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley have become evidence against former County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Thomas' political go-to girl, Lisa Aubuchon. Goldman also helped Aubuchon fight her State Bar complaint. Now bad-boyfriend and state senator Scott Bundgaard is counting on...
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio fired two of his most trusted aides today, Chief Deputy Dave Hendershott and Deputy Chief Larry Black, both of whom have been accused of crimes and misconduct. Arpaio told the Arizona Republic in 2009 that no one could make him drive Hendershott from office, but the 1,022-page investigative report into...
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers," the character Blanche Du Bois famously said, in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. Given, she was being toted off by men in white coats, but that makes her observation no less trenchant, not to mention worthy of a big musical...