Phoenix rock band Vayden has a busy summer ahead of them. The group's lined up a monthly gig at Los Angeles' famous Whiskey a Go Go, every fourth Friday from May through July, then they're heading to Germany for the Dithmarscher Festival. You can check out the globetrotting band when...
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A traffic stop in Surprise ended in suicide Tuesday when the driver slit his throat. According to police, George Lajeunesse, 43, was stopped because he was wanted for questioning in a domestic-violence call. Lajeunesse reportedly wielded a large knife at the traffic stop, and slit his throat after being Tasered...
A new Cronkite/Eight poll finds that county residents mostly approve of Joe Arpaio's performance as sheriff. The poll, conducted between October 22-25, asked 389 registered voters in Maricopa County if they approved or disapproved of the job the sheriff iis doing. It found that 61 percent of county residents either "approve"...
Common folk weren't the only peeps to check out Muse and Silversun Pickups last night at US Airways Center. Apparently a famous face, Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, was also in the audience checking out the show. To offset the fact the band doesn't alter their set list, they tried...
Living in Central Phoenix, I'm not about to state any allegiance between East Valley and West Valley restaurants. I'll go wherever there's good food to be had. But I can't deny the overwhelming surplus of self-consciously hip sushi spots in the East Valley, where the trend is toward sleek and...
He's the Prince of Darkness. He's a pioneer of both heavy metal and reality television. And now, finally, he's a best-selling author.Ozzy Osbourne's book I Am Ozzy, was recently released in the U.S. and has been extremely well received. He's making appearances across the country in support of the new...
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The ultra-"moral" morning man for 92.3 FM (KTAR), and often-deserved punching bag of this paper, Darrell Ankarlo, returned to the airwaves with a vengeance today, after a five-month absence resulting from a car accident that nearly ended his career...
Now, Arty Girl doesn't usually like to double dip on covering art events. This time around, however, we've got two artists, two gallery locations and two receptions. So it seems only appropriate that there would be two blips of coverage on the Phoenix New Times radar.Yep, the exhibition, "colLABORation" certainly...
Every artistic medium has its challenges: Oil paint can stay wet for months, acrylics dry quickly, and encaustic (heated wax) is unyielding. But local artist Lisa Marie Sipe, whose latest works are on display in the exhibit "Polychromic Outthrusts" at eye lounge in Phoenix, found a way to bend encaustic...
Who knew that 35 years after people became excited about saving the planet that the subject would finally be taken seriously? Of course, we had to be bitch-slapped by the fact that there is no more snow on Mount Kilimanjaro and that polar bears are going the way of the...
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"Grab your best underwear! No Pants AZ is coming!" This is the message emblazoned across the homepage of local urban prankster group Improv AZ by its organizer Jeff Moriarty announcing the impending arrival of the 2010 edition of the annual No Pants AZ Light Rail Ride this weekend. Just like...
DESIGN Cy Keener and Jay Atherton Atherton Keener Some people know Cy Keener and Jay Atherton as artists; others know them as architects, business partners whose Atherton Keener firm has designed a Phoenix home that's received a lot of recent national attention. Whether they're working on an art installation or...
The Seattle Seahawks' folically challenged quarterback Matt Hasselbeck didn't stand a chance yesterday. His offense mustered a measly 128 total yards, he completed only 10 of 29 passes, and he was sacked five times throughout the 27-3 Cardinals victory. The big news coming out of Seattle Sunday wasn't Hasselbeck's seemingly reserved seat on the...
Stymied by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, County Attorney Andrew Thomas now threatens to conduct the investigation and possible prosecution of Don Stapley in his own office. Again.Remember, the first case against Stapley traveled from Thomas' office to the Yavapai County Attorney's Office. Then came the new case, examined briefly...
What does a band do if its tour bus hits a deer? Ask Blessthefall, who at least pretend to deal with that situation in the latest dispatch from the Bangover tour, currently selling out shows in Canada. How do we know it's Canada? Just listen for the part where the...
The FBI today released its hate crime report for 2008, showing the number of documented hate crimes by participating agencies to be up nationally by about 2.1 percent. Locally, hate crimes were up in Arizona by nearly 15 percent, in Phoenix by 11.25 percent (see note below), and in Maricopa County...
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If Andrew Thomas were the one telling this story, he'd probably begin it on December 12, 2008. That's the day Thomas, the newly re-elected Maricopa County Attorney, issued a subpoena to other county officials — demanding to see all contracts and procurement documents from the court tower about to break...
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President Barack Obama gracefully accepted the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. Here, in Phoenix, Arizona, we enjoy little peace; indeed, we live in the chaos generated by a reign of terror that Obama has done little to address. Yes, his federal investigators are here examining the assaults against...
On the night of February 16, 1970, Brian McDonnell was sorting through bulletins on the Teletype machine at Park Police Station in the Upper Haight neighborhood of San Francisco. The respected 44-year-old sergeant was checking results from the recent union elections, in which he was running for station representative. Steady...