It's apropos that state Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Andy Biggs, the man primarily responsible for a bill that will drive a Ryder Truck full of nitro through the state's Medicaid program, is himself a very wealthy man.He's not rich through any sweat of his brow. He's not self-made. Hell, he didn't...
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Arizona's Independent Redistricting Commission won't be independent if state Senate President-elect Russell Pearce has anything to do with it.Already, Pearce, with the assistance of state House Speaker Kirk Adams, has effectively bulldozed two of the Republican nominees for the IRC off the list created by the Commission on Appellate Court...
Today The Beatles and the company formerly known as Apple Computer Inc. struck a deal resulting in the release of the band's music on iTunes for the first time.The band's entire output -- 12 studio albums with 193 tracks from the original catalog plus all the filler from Anthology and...
The Sundance Film Festival, which ends January 30, self-identifies as a "discovery festival," meaning that it embraces its own legend of being a place where, over the course of a single screening, an unknown can transform into an industry-redefining star — even as that fantasy seems increasingly out of date...
The trouble with Mama and Jack Carew is that there's so very much of it. Hal Corley's full-length play, at least as presented by Theatre Artists Studio, is too long by a good 90 minutes. Its sluggish 2½ hours unfold as slowly as a dental exam; its underwhelming lead male...
This year sure has been a fickle beast thus far -- treacherous weather, Jared Lee Loughner and now a slumping music industry.Showroom Of Compassion, the latest album from venerable rock band Cake, took the top spot on the Billboard charts for the week ending on January 16, Yahoo! News reports.That's good news,...
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Image: www.planetware.com Two cops -- a man and woman -- stood at the door when the senior citizen opened it one afternoon in Middle Village, Queens. The female cop had her hand on the butt of her holstered handgun. "You registered a couple of rifles last year," the female cop...
A plan to oversee medical marijuana cultivation centers in Oakland drew fire from the feds last week -- yet the plan is similar to that being developed in Arizona. The way we read it, the February 1 letter from Melinda Haag, U.S. Attorney for California's Northern District, (see below), to...
In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:...
UPDATE (3:31 p.m.): We obtained court documents that show DMX's probation violation was the result of cocaine use, not only failing to check in with his probation officer, as stated in this article. Click here for details.Legally challenged hip-hopper DMX was arrested -- again -- yesterday for allegedly violating his...
Billie Maxwell's "Cowboy's Wife" is one of those subtly powerful songs that leave you haunted and still. Recorded in 1929, the track depicts the day-to-day toils of its protagonist, a woman living a tough life in the mountains of eastern Arizona. Maxwell sings sorrowfully about a scene in which she...
I have praised Channel 5/KPHO's reporters and producers in the past. I consider them colleagues. Not necessarily drinking-buddies. (Yet.) But I have fun chatting with them when I see them in the midst of the media scrum.Still, I wonder about the station's pro-PLEA spin, PLEA being the powerful Phoenix Law Enforcement Association,...
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The Scottsdale man accused of shooting up the Great Alaskan Bush Company strip club last month faces a slew of felony charges, including two that could earn the 28-year-old a date with the executioner's needle.The indictment against Gavin Macfarlane, first reported on by the Associated Press, charges him with two counts...
Before you move to Canada or New Zealand or wherever, you can give the Grand Canyon State a one-hundred-percent-cotton one-fingered salute, thanks to Shane Kennedy. The downtowner, who designed the "Welcome to Phoenix, Lower Your Standards" tees, is back at it again with his snarky-centric taglines inspired partially by last...
How does the band follow up their previous album, a revamped score to the 1934 documentary The Man From Aran? By getting back to grandiose guitars and dense lyrics, a formula that made the band's 2003 debut The Decline of British Sea Power such an intriguingly different album. The band...
A little reminder, for those SCs inclined to vote for RodneyRodney Glassman, reaching out to the Tea PartyDavid Abie Morales of Three Sonorans fame has written a hard-hitting opinion piece on how erstwhile U.S. Senate candidate and trust-fund baby Rodney Glassman is messing up the party of LBJ, JFK and...
Since our earlier post about the shooting and hostage situation that occurred earlier today near the Chandler Fashion Center Mall, one suspect has been arrested, Chandler police confirm to New Times. Cops say they're still ironing out the details, but any confusion that the suspect might have been fugitive Daniel...
Happy freaking holidays, Jerome, Arizona: The quaint historic mining town that's a popular tourist destination with Phoenicians has been nailed with an $8 million-plus lawsuit. Brought upon by the Jerome Grand Hotel, the legal action is in response to the town government's decision to revoke the historic lodging spot's certificate...
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It seems I've introduced my dear colleague Ray Stern to the fascinating world of facts, statistics and sources, as he finally breaks down and uses a few in his latest pro-gun nut diatribe, "The Anti-Gun Culture..."In it, Ray returns once again to his us-versus-them, all-or-nothing theme, calling out those who want...
The problem of sewer water leaking on surgical patients at the Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center in Phoenix began as early as April of 2009, a newly obtained report shows. Until we received the report today, we'd been under the impression that two incidents of water leaking into...
Maybe I shouldn't admit that I've watched every single rerun of Charmed at least three times. Sneer if you must, but my devotion to the early-21st-century TV show featuring three young witches with enviable powers has given me invaluable insight into the subject matter of "Shapeshifters," the exhibition running at...