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SB 1070 Showdown at the Sandra Day O’Connor Courthouse, Round One

With the cries of demonstrators on both sides of the SB 1070 debate reverberating inside the steamy glass cage of Phoenix's Sandra Day O'Connor U.S. Courthouse, a special prceedings room filled to overflow with lawyers, reporters and average citizens became the scene of the first major hearing in a challenge to Arizona's new breathing-while-brown...
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Morning Poll: Do You Want Charles Barkley to be Suns’ New GM?

Arizona Republic columnist Dan Bickley planted the seed yesterday with an article suggesting that former Phoenix Suns star Charles Barkley was open to the idea of being the team's next general manager. The Suns have made no indication that they would even want "Sir Charles" to replace Steve Kerr in...
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The Vaselines: Sex with an X

Artist: The VaselinesTitle: Sex with an XRelease date: September 14Label: Sub PopIf you're a small-time indie band looking for an opinion leader to lift you from obscurity, you can do no better than Kurt Cobain. That's the position Scotland's The Vaselines found themselves in when Nirvana covered a couple of...
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Morning Poll: Who’d Ya Rather…? Featuring Two Tucson High School Teachers

In the past month, two female teachers from Tucson-area high schools were arrested for allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with students at their respective schools. Considering that such hanky-panky with a teacher is often the dominating fantasy of many high-school-age dudes -- and that Valley Fever readers opted to turn the...
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Photo of the Day: For Sale (x2)

Believe it or not, this image, snapped out in southwest Phoenix, is not the result of Photoshop magic. Rather, the first couple of exposures of 120 roll film got all jammed up in my Hasselblad and this is what happened. A happy accident, indeed...
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UPDATE: Lisa Randall Murder Case Dismissed This Morning

We just returned from a downtown Phoenix courtroom where a judge dismissed first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse charges in the case of Peoria day-care operator Lisa Randall (pictured feeding a grandchild). "The dismissal is in the interests of justice," Deputy County Attorney Belle Whitney told Judge Michael Kemp, during a...
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Wolfgang Van Halen Demonstrates Everything Wrong with Millennials

Want undeniable proof that Millennials and their insufferable parents are ruining America?Check out two news stories that broke yesterday involving irresponsibly indulgent parents and the musician children they love.First, we have some band kids at Mesa's Dobson High School who got suspended after being busted for drinking beer on a...
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The Black Keys

The blues take a back seat on The Black Keys' sixth record, Brothers, and the results are impressive. The two-man band from Akron, Ohio, has mostly dispensed with the dirty, garage-blues riffage that made them famous, turning to down-home glam before easing into a lonely soul vibe that finally gives...
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Arizona Press Club Names Up On The Sun “Best Features Blog”

It brings me great joy to report that Up On The Sun was named the Best Features Blog in the state by the Arizona Press Club in a ceremony Saturday night in downtown Phoenix. Niki D'Andrea, Jonathan McNamara, Stephen Chilton and I made up the winning team. (Full results here.)The...
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Morning Poll: Is J.D. Hayworth’s Campaign Over?

J.D. Hayworth's campaign is in trouble. Yesterday, Hayworth was forced to admit that his starring in an infomercial for a now-bankrupt company promising to teach customers how to get their hands on "free government money" was "a mistake."...
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New Arizona Sweatlodge Under Fire; Nobody Died This Time

There's a brand-new sweat lodge fiasco playing out in northern Arizona, but "spiritual warrior" James Arthur Ray has nothing to do with it and, thankfully, nobody is dead as a result. According to court documents, Adam Yellowbird De Armon, a spiritual leader and executive director of the Institute of Cultural...