Money ain't growing on trees these days in downtown Phoenix. As a result, two independently run art spaces are teaming up. In the near future, ©haos, 801 North 6th Street, plans to move its operations to Of The Earth, the Sean and Maryana Riley-run gallery located one building south of...
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Summertime temps are lingering, and let's face it: Around here, there's no end in sight. The fast-food world feels our desire to chill, and has offered up some new and limited-time frozen fare to cash in on our need to beat-the-heat eatings. Are these new cold concoctions worth getting fired...
New Times has confirmed with the Arizona Department of Public Safety and the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office that longtime downtown Phoenix artist Steve Bass was the driver of the Dodge 3500 pick-up truck that collided head-on with a car carrying three Yavapai County Sheriff's detention officers over the weekend. Officers...
Two new campaign ads funded by -- and starring -- Senator John McCain have Congressional Democrats in a huff.The ads are for Congressional candidates Jesse Kelly and Ruth McClung and are similar-in-nature to "campaign ads" run by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, in which he didn't so much hype himself,...
Here's a summary of nearly all the too-long-didn't-read reviews you'll see of Sufjan Stevens' electro-beat-y new album, The Age of Adz: "He's not doing the state thing anymore. Something about the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. This album is weird. Where's the banjo?" Sure, most critics will throw around big words and dance...
Here's a little news for those Sand Land haters out there who've dissed Shaun Attwood, author of Hard Time: A Brit in America's Toughest Jail, the subject of my most recent Bird column. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the guy Attwood takes to task for the squalid, dangerous conditions in his vast incarceration complex, is...
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More than 100 inmates previously housed at Arizona's privately-run Kingman Prison have been moved to state-run digs thanks to the three inmates who escaped from the prison last month.The Arizona Department of Corrections released its report on the escape this morning. It found several security problems with the facility, which...
It's not looking good for former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas. As of the end of today's count of the remaining ballots, state Schools Superintendent Tom Horne had expanded his lead of about 400 votes from yesterday to 1,073. This, in the GOP nod for state Attorney General. According to the...
Rick Romley and Tom Horne seem to be two casualties of the public's desire to stick it to illegal immigrants, as we've reported tonight. (NOTE: As the votes came in, Horne took the lead and later won). David Schweikert, a Republican candidate in Congressional District 5, also made illegal immigration central to...
It was by no means perfect, but it'll do nicely. The Arizona Diamondbacks won their last home series of the 2010 season by taking two of three victories from the slumping Los Angeles Dodgers over the weekend. It started off rather inauspiciously on Friday night with a 3-1 loss to...
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A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has been asked to intervene in a spat between Sheriff Joe Arpaio and two candidates running for political office this yearYou see, Arpaio's started running TV ads he claims are in support of his re-election campaign -- a lofty claim for a guy who...
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We all have guilty pleasures.When we like something that falls outside the realm of our normally stringent tastes, it can be exhausting to constantly keep up appearances around our peers.Maybe you've had that experience when Britney Spears' "Toxic" comes on the radio and you try not to visibly enjoy it...
Hungry yet? We're working up our appetites for our huge Best of Phoenix issue, out September 30, with daily servings of Chow Bella's 100 Favorite Dishes from across the Valley -- in no particular order Leave your suggestions for upcoming favorites in the comments section. Visit our sister blog, Jackalope...
Attention Arizona Capitol Times, KTAR, ABC 15, The Huffington Post, and all the other media outlets who ran with Cap Times reporter Jeremy Duda's claim last week that Ben Quayle had fallen from frontrunner status in the District 3 Congressional primary: we hate to say we told ya so, but...
The now-infamous tale of the Jet Blue flight attendant who quit his job in grand fashion earlier this week didn't occur in Phoenix, or even in Arizona, but that hasn't stopped some area news outlets from trying to turn it into a local story.We figured we'd follow suit.If you're unfamiliar...
It's no secret that we at New Times are no fans of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, but even we have to ask: is depicting America's self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" as Adolf Hitler over the line?A painting at the "Footprints" art show, featuring anti-SB 1070 art, depicts Arpaio as Hitler. Check it...
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Higher Phoenix temperatures = more hot sex? According to a recent survey by Trojan Brand Condoms, that's exactly right. Trojan's "Degrees of Pleasure" survey links weather with sexual satisfaction; the results for Phoenix show, among other things, 70 percent of the people polled in Phoenix are "always up for sex,"...
Primary day is finally upon us, folks, and we're a little bummed out. The daily bickering between candidates and the cruel-but-entertaining political attacks will be coming to an end.We've been blessed with some fairly ugly campaigns this primary season, which have only been made better by the fact that those...
Congressional candidate Vernon Parker decided to pull out the race card last week, asserting that a phrase used by one of his primary opponents is racist.The phrase in question: "national poster boy."The term was used by Ben Quayle in statement his campaign released in response to a different far-reaching attack...
Can you believe this nonsense? First, former County Attorney Andrew Thomas and his deputy, Lisa Aubuchon, claim that county officials misused public funds by sweeping their offices for hidden listening devices. Then, last month, a high-ranking sheriff's official publicly accuses county officials of a felony related to the sweeps, despite the fact...