A contemporary crime drama edged with Greek tragedy, Ajami is an untidy, despairing, oddly exhilarating joint venture by writer-directors Scandar Copti, an Israeli Arab, and Yaron Shani, an Israeli Jew. Though its unwieldy cast and multiple storylines might better lend themselves to a television series, the movie teems with life,...
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Like many gold sellers, Republic Monetary Exchange LLC focuses much of its advertising on conservatives. While many businesses bend over backward to avoid offending people, the firm's chief executive, Jim Clark, wears his right-wing politics — literally — to basketball games. Late in the afternoon one day in mid-June, Clark...
Arizona is a state of cowardly little white men with handguns. They need their guns to prove their manhood. Without them, they have nothing but fear.This is one reason why Sand Land remains so benighted. Any illusions you may have had that we live in a civilized state should be...
Not all of the water from all of the jugs placed in the desert by activists from groups like No More Deaths can wipe clean the blood of migrants from President Barack Obama's hands.What other conclusion can be drawn from the news from Tucson advocacy group Derechos Humanos that the...
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As the Mexican government's war on drugs continues to produce lackluster results, Mexico's ruling party is taking aim at a different enemy: musicians.Members of Mexico's National Action Party have proposed legislation that would make "drug ballads," or "narcocorridos," illegal.Violators of the law could face up to three years in prison...
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A Kingman woman was arrested Tuesday after police received reports of a foul smell coming from one of her homes.That foul smell was a bunch of dead animals.Police began investigating 43-year-old Deanne Lynn Ray-Rike on February 10, when the smell was first reported.The smell was coming from a house where...
Arizona State Game and Fish agents say poaching is on the rise in Arizona. Agents aren't sure why they've seen a dramatic increase in complaints about wildlife poaching (up 70 percent from 2008), but theorize that during difficult financial times, Arizonans are poaching for food and profit. Some of the...
Mere days remain in the current NBA season, and the Western Conference playoff race is tighter than ever, which is why it's unfortunate that the Phoenix Suns split a pair of games over the weekend. It felt like there were two different teams wearing PHX's purple and orange uniforms...
This month, New Times celebrates its 40th anniversary. To mark this modest moment, we invoke iconic art in the name of ongoing community resistance to misguided immigration policies and the continued heavy hand of local law enforcement. In 1958, Art Kane pulled together 57 giants of jazz and took their...
Not everyone enjoys a night of heavy drinking, but even the most severe masochist hates a hangover. And as long as there's been alcohol consumption, there have been professed hangover cures, whether it's "hair of the dog," pills and powders, or IV infusions. Now Scottsdale-based company Intelligent Beverages is bottling...
An alleged crime ring tied to local nightclubs, high-end car dealerships and the hip-hop community used millions in cash from a Mexico media family -- but authorities don't know why. With officials including Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon in attendance, police outlined the highlights of a suspected white-collar crime spree that resulted in the arrests of five...
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[jump] Fleshmap analyzed samples of thousands of songs and calculated the percentage of instances in which a certain body part is mentioned in a particular genre. Genres such as alternative, folk, electronica, country, and hip-hop were included in the study. The results are fascinating, with hip-hop showing some of the...
The Phoenix Coyotes beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-3 in dramatic fashion last night, ending the game with an Adrian Aucoin goal in the sixth round of a shootout and shutting down Vancouver's Mason Raymond in his attempt to send the shootout into a seventh round.The Coyotes struck first, with a...
The Phoenix Suns blasted out to an 18-2 lead over the Denver Nuggets early in the first quarter of last night's game against the Denver Nuggets, and they never looked back. The lead was 27 by the end of the third period at US Airways Center, and the Suns wound up embarrassing...
There's something particularly obscene about the fact that state Senator Russell Pearce's bigoted, anti-immigrant legislation SB 1070/HB 2632 will be heard today on the House floor, falling, as the date does, on St. Patrick's Day.Because before nativist hatemongers had Mexican immigrants to kick around, there were the Irish. Fleeing poverty,...
Looking at the quaint, historic home that houses Inside the Bungalow off Robson and Main Streets in Mesa, one would never suspect the danger that lurks inside, in the form of a coffee drink known as "Instant Karma." This drink is a "red eye" (coffee mixed with two shots of...
If their pre-season moves are any indication, the Phoenix Mercury are ready to come out of the gates shooting when their season opens May 15.In addition to announcing the formation of an all-male training squad to challenge the WNBA champion Mercury, General Manager Ann Meyers Drysdale recently signed two potentially key...
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The Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control is putting the smack-down on underage drinking, thanks to two law enforcement programs and a big grant from the Governor's Office. Despite being severely understaffed, DLLC police officers issue an average of 216 underage liquor citations each month, to both alcohol retailers...
When an artist's repertoire is as wide and varied as Elvis Costello's, it's hard to know exactly what one will get when attending his concert. Last night's show at Scottsdale Civic Center Amphitheater had all the trappings of a toned-down affair: The amphitheater's lush lawn was covered in blankets and...
If you've ever been through the system for a ridiculous traffic infraction at Tempe's downtown kangaroo court (full disclosure: I have), you probably know the city is run by idiots. Like, the sort of idiots who wanted a now-shuttered Borders Books on their downtown strip instead of several legendary bars?...
It's widely known that the self-righteous voice of conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh is enough to irritate the pants off of liberals and hippies from Burlington to Berkley, but two scientists at Northern Arizona University are using Limbaugh's squawk to annoy a different type of nuisance: beetles.We would have suggested...