CityscapeIt’s almost too good to be true, but there it is, towering over us at Central and Washington. Cityscape is a reality, threatening to energize downtown Phoenix, once and for all. This multi-use destination is making it harder for critics to claim there’s still no reason to linger downtown after work, what with its blending […]
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The results of a poll published by the Arizona Capitol Times are making the media rounds this week.The poll focuses on the Distric 3 Congressional primary and shows a dramatic shift in numbers from a poll taken a little over month ago. According to Yellow Sheet, the Cap Times exclusive...
The Arts & Business Council of Greater Phoenix (A&BC) has named the Mesa Arts Center (MAC) as its "Arts Organization of the Year" for 2010. The result, announced Wednesday during an awards ceremony at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel, was decided by a panel of 42 independent judges from across...
I've been a fan of SunUp Brewhouse since back in the days when it was still called Sonoran. The name change, a legal result of SunUp's burgeoning distribution, took place a year ago (wow -- time flies!), but the place is just as good of a hangout, with the same...
If you're feelin' a little blah, and thinking of ending it all, there are a lot of ways to do it. We don't recommend any of them. We also don't recommend threatening cops with an enormous machete after they've been called to help you.That's what a Mesa man did yesterday...
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Yesterday, we wrote about two of the dumber alleged criminals in recent memory.One guy, Albert Graham, was arrested after police say he broke into the same house twice in two days.He faces charges of burglary, possession of stolen property, theft, assault, and criminal damage.Check it out here.Another guy, Jay Searles,...
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio spent a large portion of last week touting how his jails received high marks after a federal "audit.""The information they got ... they should turn this over to DOJ. They would say, 'Boy, this is pretty good, you did all the work for us,'" Arpaio...
Today is the day we find out if all the bickering between candidates running for public office -- and the far-reaching attack ads they produce -- have paid off. Today is election day, and we're pumped.The 2010 general election in Arizona hasn't been nearly as entertaining as the primary season...
Brian Hughes rescues superheroes. His wife, Carolyn Lavender, grabs the large bowl full of characters and spreads them out on the couple's patio. Decapitated, one armed, one legged, non-functioning superheroes (and a few villains) somehow find their way into Brian Hughes' line of vision -- usually while he's driving around...
A guy wearing nothing but pink socks was seen running towards 35th Avenue near the Durango Jail yesterday. The problem with that -- aside from the guy being naked -- is he was an inmate at the jail who'd just scaled five razor-wire fences and his running naked through the...
Anyone living in the city of angels got a little taste of Phoenix today, as temperatures hovered around 110 degrees for most of the day.Most people living in Los Angeles are novices when it comes to hellacious, oppressive, unfair heat. So, as you might expect, everyone freaked out.The top headline...
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Dear zombies, undead ghouls, rage virus victims, and the walking dead: We need to take a break. You used to scare the bejeesus out of us with your guttural moans while lumbering through dimly lit hallways. We used to cringe at the sight of you eviscerating B-movie over-actors. You used...
If you read today's Arizona Republic or watched Fox News last night, you might be under the mistaken impression that Sheriff Joe Arpaio's vast incarceration complex has undergone an audit from the U.S. Marshals Service and earned gold stars and smiley faces all around. Um, not exactly. Despite the hoo-ha Arpaio's made over...
We've crunched the latest numbers, analyzed the trend and spoken to campaign experts about the incredibly close race of Proposition 203. Our take: Arizona's medical marijuana measure will fail without a minor miracle. But we won't burst anyone's bubble yet, 'cause the race isn't finished. As you'll see below, the Prop...
Hungry yet? We're working up our appetites for our huge Best of Phoenix issue, which hits the streets tomorrow, with daily servings of Chow Bella's 100 Favorite Dishes from across the Valley -- in no particular order.Visit our sister blog, Jackalope Ranch, for a companion series on 100 Creatives who make Phoenix a little more interesting for all...
In New Times' feature this week, Pinalchio, we examine the shooting of Pinal County Sheriff's Deputy Louie Puroll.Puroll claims he was shot by a group of Latino or Native American (he couldn't tell) drug smugglers in the desert just west of Casa Grande.The shooting fueled the immigration debate, thrust Pinal...
One of the City of Phoenix's countless homeless men apparently doesn't have enough money for a house -- but he had enough money to buy gasoline so he could set one on fire.According to court documents obtained by New Times, 62-year-old Frutoso Gallegos went to a gas station in the...
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A couple of weeks back, I blogged on the obscenity of Arizona's business elite feting "Bush's brain" and "war criminal" Karl Rove on November 9 at the Sheraton as part of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce's "Phoenix Forum" speaker series.Rove was part of the Bush administration scheme to sell the American public...
It's a long, long way from the women's bar outside Berkeley, California, where Ntozake Shange first presented her combustible choreopoem For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf, in December 1974, to Atlanta's Tyler Perry Studios, where the impresario filmed much of this calamitous adaptation. Though striving...
Billy Graham is sitting in the lower lobby of the airport Hilton in Los Angeles, near a harem of female wrestlers selling glossies and ring-worn outfits and a merchandise stand set up by a wrestling memorabilia website. The Insane Clown Posse, ex-Playboy model Torrie Wilson, and the last remnants of...
The murder of Chandler Detective Carlos Ledesma wasn't the result of a legit drug-deal-gone-wrong as was previously thought. Rather, an ambush planned by the alleged killers to rip off Ledesma and other undercover officers for the 500 pounds of weed they brought to the buy.At the time of the shootout,...