Tucson-based musician/filmmaker/artist Marianne Dissard has a unique gift for marking connections among disparate places, mediums, and ideas. On the surface, the elements she uses appear to have only abstract links, but in her capable hands, they go together like peanut butter and jelly. So it's not surprising that Dissard is...
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Chris Deschene wants at least two things.First, the Democrat wants voters to elected him Secretary of State November 2. Second, he wants Ken Bennett, his political opponent and current Arizona Secretary of State, to turn over public records, including e-mails, to help determine Bennett's role in the Green Party candidate sham...
It's hard to believe that given as in demand as music producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo are as the Neptunes that they can still find time to put out a new album for their N*E*R*D project. But somehow Pharell, Chad, and fellow band member Shae Haley have managed to...
Arizona has had more than its fair share of bad characters in the governor's chair for too many years. Ev Mecham: Impeached. Fife Symington: Convicted. Jane Hull: Alt Fuels. Napolitano: Credit Card's Maxed Out -- Time to Quit. Now we've got these bozos to choose from...
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Rebuilding Hope, a documentary that follows three men who fled civil war-torn Sudan and into the United States as children, then return to their homeland as adults, is available for purchase online following a local screening in Phoenix. Gabriel Bol Deng, Koor Garang and Garang Mayuol, the subjects of the...
Tucson-based musician/filmmaker/artist Marianne Dissard has a unique gift for marking connections among disparate places, mediums, and ideas. On the surface, the elements she uses appear to have only abstract links, but in her capable hands, they go together like peanut butter and jelly. So it's not surprising that Dissard is...
Artist Colin Chillag keeps the titles to his new portrait paintings, now on display through October 30 at Pravus Gallery, refreshingly simple. Most are either labeled Portrait of a Man or Portrait of a Woman and, in one case, Portrait of a Man and Woman. But that's where all simplicity...
Looks like the days of free hiking in Phoenix are soon to be over.At least, if you happen to frequent North Mountain Park, Phoenix Mountains Park and Recreation Area (yes, this includes Piestewa Peak), Dreamy Draw Recreation Area, Echo Canyon area of Camelback Mountain, or the Pima Canyon area of...
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Whuu-chhh! There's a new Disciplinary Judge in town. And he's looking to break in his whip on the backs of Arizona's worst lawyers. As part of a sweeping change in attorney-discipline rules, the state Supreme Court today announced the appointment of Arizona's first-ever Presiding Disciplinary Judge. Pinal County Superior Court...
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America's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff," Joe Arpaio, is heading to New Hampshire this weekend, which has caused the national media to speculate that the aging (and aging) law dog plans to run for president.That theory, as we pointed out yesterday, is definitely probably bullshit. Check out what CNN senior political editor...
It's now been about three hours since the news broke that charges against the Gilbert rabbi accused of raping a 7-year-old girl have been dropped, and we're still yet to see any other news outlets -- many of which were quick to publicize his arrest in March -- reporting on...
Former Tucson City Councilman (if you ask him "vice mayor") Rodney Glassman is off to a sluggish start in his bid to unseat Senator John McCain.His former colleagues are bashing him -- hard -- and people on his own campaign have abandoned ship because they aren't happy with how he...
Yesterday, we got our hands on some court documents describing the disgusting conditions of the apartment of the man suspected of putting his 7-month-old son in the freezer while he was high on crystal meth.Of the several disgusting items found in Chance and Leanna Kracke's apartment, we narrowed them down...
No recounts will be needed in any state or county race following last week's primary election, says Matt Benson of the Secretary of State's office. As of late-afternoon Tuesday, all the votes statewide have been counted. Some races got within a rat's hair of forcing a recount, like the Democratic one for...
The electronic strip-shows being installed at airports around the country haven't helped catch any terrorists, bombs or guns. Yet body scanners are paying off for local law enforcement: The high-tech machines excel at detecting tiny packets of illegal drugs hidden on a person's body or in a pocket. Since the scanners went...
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If you're wanted on a felony warrant, hanging out at a county jail that's swarming with cops seems like a great place to get yourself caught.That didn't stop a Phoenix man, though, who paid a visit to a friend in the county clink. The visit resulted in a high-speed chase...
Lebanon, written and directed by Samuel Maoz, is not just the year's most impressive first feature but also the strongest new movie of any kind I've seen in 2010. Actually, Lebanon — which won the Golden Lion at Venice, after being rejected by Berlin and Cannes — hardly seems like...
Davis Guggenheim's call-to-arms documentary on the failures of the U.S. public-education system — thoroughly laudable in intention if maddening in its logic and omissions — originated with his own guilty conscience. An Academy Award winner for 2006's An Inconvenient Truth, the director, whose debut doc, 2001's The First Year, heralded...
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