Is there anything in the world more captivating than watching the evening news and seeing some idiot weaving in and out of traffic with a fleet of police cruisers speeding after him?The answer, in out humble opinion, is no. It's impossible not to watch. It's dangerous and stupid to run from police,...
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When Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard takes up a solo project the results can be stellar -- just look at The Postal Service. So his newest project, a team effort with Son Volt's Jay Farrar (read an extended Q&A with Jay from earlier this summer here), is pretty intriguing...
Listening to "Paper Bag," the scuzzy, shuffling opening track from Phoenix-based garage rockers The Chandails' forthcoming EP, it's easy to imagine a good-for-nothing street gang, maybe the "cholos performing satanic rituals while eating pozolé" described on the band's Web site. But the group of 16- and 17-year-olds hardly casts that...
The medical staff at Banner Health's 10 Valley hospitals have quit using a rapid test for the H1N1 swine flu virus because of too many false-negative results. About 50 percent of people who came up negative on the rapid test were later found to have swine flu. According to a...
Talking to Tom Horne about test scores is like questioning a suspect in a murder. He gets nervous, defensive, and passes blame to anyone who controls his budget. As if the AIMS test is the ultimate barometer for his success. What boosts test scores? Money, obviously. So when President Obama suggested...
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Like the ominous fingernail moon early on in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, the bloodsucker trend is again in a waxing phase thanks to the mass-cult followings of the Twilight saga and HBO's True Blood. However, the only authentic vampires in this first (and, I can all but guarantee,...
A new study conducted by the Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix might make it a little harder for kiddies to get their hands on an "official Red Ryder carbine-action two-hundred-shot range-model air rifle, with a compass, and a stock, and this thing which tells time," made famous in the classic "A...
Carl Hayden High School place-kicker Jorge Paredes found himself shuffling aimlessly on the opponent's 30-yard-line. It was a time-out, and in a few moments the outcome of the game last Friday night would ride on his left foot. Jorge isn't the best kicker in the world, but just minutes earlier,...
For their one-year anniversary, the folks at Sushi Roku, the high-style Japanese restaurant at the W Scottsdale, are offering up an enticing deal for regulars and first-timers alike. Today through September 13, guests will get a 50 percent discount on all food items for lunch and dinner, from traditional sushi...
The Arizona Court of Appeals has overturned the conviction of a Tucson woman for burying her newborn son in the backyard of her home in 2005. Regina Lockwood was convicted of conspiracy to abandon or conceal a dead human body back in 2008 after she and her friend, then 22-year-old Nicholi...
The mother of the three-year-old girl, and the mother's boyfriend were officially charged with the child's murder yesterday by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office.Police say the child's mother, 26-year-old Susan Witbracht, and her boyfriend Dauntorian Sanders, 23, both of Chandler, beat the toddler with a belt until she was covered in...
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As much as we hate to quote Keanu Reeves, in the 1989 film "Parenthood," his halfwit character "Tod" makes a coarse but eloquent point about paternity.When describing his father to his future mother-in-law, "Tod" tells her, "You know, Mrs. Buckman, you need a license to buy a dog, to drive...
Watch out Andrew Thomas, Tom Horne, and Sam Crump.And, for that matter, David Lujan really better watch out.It's not just boys "exploring" a run for Arizona Attorney General anymore. Today, Felecia Rotellini, the former Superintendent of the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions and a longtime prosecutor, announced that she was...
The Arizona Diamondbacks dropped another game last night, losing 5-6 to the San Diego Padres. Next up: the first of three D-Backs home games against the Colorado Rockies on Friday evening...A $30 million loan could help the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community build a new spring-training complex on tribal land...
Here's something that ought to pump some life blood into moon-landing-conspiracy theorists everywhere.If you visited the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam over the last 17 years and thought you saw a genuine moon rock, get ready to be disappointed. Not only didn't the rock you saw come from the moon, it wasn't...
Is Sheriff Joe "America's Toughest Sheriff," or "America's Biggest Wimp"? That's what I can't help wondering as I read this latest press release from his PR staff. It lamely attempts to link the folks who protest Joe almost daily outside downtown Phoenix's Wells Fargo Building -- where Arpaio keeps two...
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Bad Boy Bill, DJ Skribble, Adam Goldstein, Scotty Boy, Steve Aoki, and Q-Bert. What do all these cats have in common? They're some of the best DJs and turntablists that our country has to offer. And every last one of them were soundly defeated by Z-Trip to become "America's Best...
When Bill Murray made glorious lounge-mockery of the Star Wars theme on Saturday Night Live all those years ago, little did he know that the bit would inspire, if not one of the great all-time music acts, then one of the great all-time music shticks. Led by Sinatra-soundalike Richard Cheese...
A California-based charity with facilities in Phoenix has been collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations and income but has not been providing service on par with its revenue. According to a story in The Arizona Republic, Eye Dog Foundation for the Blind recently reported $7 million in assets,...
Three unidentified sources "from different parts of the political spectrum" hint that a state investigation of Governor Janice Brewer may be coming down the pike, says the Phoenix Business Journal.A September 5 article by Mike Sunnucks says that questions have arisen about the way Brewer uses her power and how,...