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The hits, they keep-a-comin'. Seattle's The Stranger recently conducted a brilliant field test, if you will, which forced four 17-18 year olds to listen to nothing but Bob Dylan for 3 days. Specifically, the youngsters had to listen to Dylan's exhaustive three disc set Biograph while they packed for college and...
Here's a scenario where art changed a life. Two years ago, Alan Fitzgerald attended an Art Intersection/One Revolving Door workshop in the small Italian village of Vitiana. The program, founded by Phoenix-based artists Julie Hampton, Carol Panaro-Smith, and others, was one of Fitzgerald's first hands-on experiences with art during a...
So what if your favorite band's songs are featured in car commercials? Who cares if they hold the distinction of having the biggest selling digital album in history? That's not a bad thing, right?Well, for many people, it is.I don't know when "selling out" became such a big issue for...
Judge Susan Bolton's made her decision regarding the SB 1070 injunction, and nobody seems too thrilled about it -- on either side of the debate.Both sides are declaring victory -- in some sense -- while the real winner seems to depend on whom you ask, or the radio station to...
Anyone hip to Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Twitter page knows that his birthday was "ruined" last weekend with the news that he was uninvited to speak at a convention of guide dog users.As crushed as the sheriff seems to be after getting the boot from the convention, we just...
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Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu seemed unprepared for the intense national and local media scrutiny immediately thrust on him and his deputy, Louie Puroll, in the wake of our story "Pinalcchio" . Babeu, an anti-illegal immigrant spokesman of increasing national prominence since the famous April 30 shooting incident involving Puroll,...
The Arizona Capitol Times' assertion that Steve Moak is now the frontrunner in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary continues to gain steam in the more-mainstream media -- and the mainstream media continues to swallow the bait.The latest Valley news outlet to do absolutely no research into the source of...
Congressional candidate Steve Moak has finally responded to questions posed to him last week by one of his opponents in the crowded District 3 Congressional primary.In short, Moak never disclosed a conflict of interest to the IRS when a not-for-profit anti-drug charity he founded was pushing the drug tests produced...
In 1995, Steve Bays, a British Columbian with a curly mop of hair and a dream, started a rock 'n' roll act with dance influences. Bays somehow ended up playing synthesizer with the new group and a friend of the band sang the vocals. Eventually, they dumped the friend, added...
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today reversed the 2008 conviction of No More Deaths activist Dan Millis for placing gallon jugs of drinking water on the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge in southern Arizona.Millis was cited for "littering" in February of 2008 by U.S. Fish and Wildlife officers after he...
Was I the only one in the world who was shocked and a little horrified when Russell Brand and Katy Perry got engaged? Either way, the London Evening Standard has reported that Brand will be selling his premarital home, worth about £2.5 million, since Perry is jealous that he slept...
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Ten years ago, I reviewed a record called Mood Ring by a Minneapolis singer-songwriter named Jeff Arundel. It wasn't a particularly good record, and it's fair to say that it earned its spot in the great milk crate in the sky, where promo discs go after they've had their industry-standard...
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Tonight, Travel Channel celebrity Adam Richman will perform feats of gastronomic fortitude direct from Tempe in a new episode of Man v. Food. His ultimate hunger quest for this episode: the slider challenge at Chompie's. Featuring twelve not-so-mini sandwiches plus onion rings, this challenge is enough to make the strongest...
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UPDATE: the Mohave County Attorney's Office will not seek the death penalty for alleged baby-rapers. Click here for details.A Bullhead City couple was arrested yesterday after their 1-month-old baby died as a result of what police are calling a "brutal sexual assault."Bullhead City police spokeswoman Emily Montague tells New Times...
There's a debate waging among New Times staffers over whether there should be a fee to hike Camelback Mountain -- or at the very least, a fee to park near the mountain.The debate is fueled by -- among other things -- the eight people who needed to be rescued from...
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Sunday's Arizona Republic story about Tom Horne wasn't the first time the candidate for Attorney General has been asked about a decades-old bankuptcy and government sanction. As Horne reminded us today, Republic reporter Pat Kossan wrote an article in 2002 about his failed business venture from long ago, which resulted in his being...
ROACH MOTEL Dead rats in the evening slop. Cells so full of cockroaches that you sleep in a mass of them. No air-conditioning. Overcrowding. A lack of guards to watch the inmates. Violence and mayhem. White supremacists. And enough drugs to slake the appetites of Hermann Goering and Aleister Crowley,...
When author Sherman Alexie read from his latest novel, War Dances, to a sold-out crowd at the Heard Museum last fall, he ranted about technology, specifically Amazon's Kindle and some trouble his outspokenness about the gadget had caused him recently. Alexie, who presents more as a stand-up comic than as...
The vicious GOP primary battle between John McCain and J.D. Hayworth goes on. The latest skirmish is over a McCain campaign ad featuring his number-one cheerleader in Arizona law enforcement, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu.Babeu recently called in to a Tennessee-based, white-supremacist radio show to talk about, what else, immigration...