Valley developer Steve Ellman must feel a bit of deja vu. Years before we broke the story about his big contribution to the SCA, Ellman knew what it was like to be under suspicion of using the Republican Party to funnel money toward a specific political candidate. "The recent revelation is...
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Just learned that scathing political humorist Bill Maher will have Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano on his HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher, which airs this Friday, July 24 at 10 p.m. The confirmation of this is up on HBO's page for Maher. And Kate Baker, my contact at HBO, tells...
4 p.m. Kerry Martin, sheriff's office lawyer, says he can't put on his case in 20 minutes. It's a complex law-enforcement issue. Judge Heilman says there's a simple issue in this case: what transpired on Wednesday and why it transpired. Says Martin has spent a lot of time talking...
Max Scherzer might as well start calling himself Jack Sparrow, since the Diamondbacks pitcher was cutting down Pirates left and right during yesterday's 9-0 shutout over Pittsburgh at Chase Field. Instead of using ye olde cutlass, however, he was doing it with his 94-mile-per-hour four-seamers and sliders, dispatching Bucs batters...
Brooke White, the 5th place finisher on Season 7 of American Idol, will be hosting a unique live performance with the help of social networking site Facebook today at 5 PM PST. The event, dubbed "Facebrooke," will showcase songs from the singer's debut, post-Idol album High Hopes & Heartbreak --...
CAGE TIME After wading through the Arizona Department of Corrections' recently released doorstop report on the cage death of Marcia Powell, I'm not sure whom I'd rather see get a taste of Powell's open-air sunbake: acting ADC director Charles Ryan, his pathetic excuse for a boss, Governor Jan Brewer, or...
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Josh Parry is serious about drinks. He will not allow his bartenders to free-pour the sweet and sour in one of their signature cocktails, a Cucumint Martini. It must be measured with a jigger. "It's that exact," he says. "If you pour it perfectly, it will taste perfect." He insists...
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DJ Dossier: Rob Wegner
An hour after Valley Fever called ex-Green Bay Packers player Tony Mandarich (above) for comment about a lawsuit filed against him by an ex-girlfriend, an offending Web site with pictures of the girlfriend no longer works. Mandarich never called us back, but our message may have had an effect. The...
Aarti Shahani talks 287(g) on GRITtv This video from Laura Flanders' GRITtv is a must-watch for anyone concerned about Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano's recent expansion of ICE's 287(g) program -- the program, which in Flanders' words, "turns traffic cops into deportation agents." The 10 minute clip features Aarti Shahani, co-author of the...
A lawyer for Liberty League International of Scottsdale wrote to us after our recent post about a $5 million lawsuit against the company. Not surprisingly, he rejects our gut-feeling theory that Liberty League has probably violated the terms of a 2005 settlement with Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard. We've pasted...
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The lofty Centerpoint Condominium towers broke ground in 2005 and were supposed to give downtown Tempe its own slice of Manhattan. Four years later, they've delivered just that — except the slice resembles something out of the film Escape from New York. Not quite the Chamber of Commerce's dream. The...
BULL CONGRESSMAN Next time Congressman John Shadegg holds a town hall meeting, remind me to clothespin my nose. What's wafting from the Republican pol is the stench of hypocrisy. True to what you've been seeing nonstop on the TV news lately, his August 8 town hall on healthcare was full...
As we mentioned in a previous post, ridership for the light-rail system fell in May. Today, Metro released the official figures: PHOENIX -- METRO ridership totaled 928,259 boardings in May 2009. The average weekday ridership was 33,553, average Saturday ridership was 27,176 and average Sunday and holiday ridership...
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon says he can't support the legislature's current budget proposal, despite Governor Jan Brewer's urging to do so. In a news release sent out this evening by the city (see text below), Gordon says changes to property tax collection rates will lower the amount of bond money...
Our Republican Gov. Jan Brewer has effectively banned abortion for 24 hours with the stroke of her pen. Where are the Arizona Democrats? Asleep somewhere, dreaming of Janet Napolitano and Barack Obama gamboling in a field of poppies. And I don't see any sign that they'll be waking up any time...
Well, we knew his time on American Idol wasn't going to be long, but I thought Scottsdale's very own Scotty "The Body" (as Seadouche liked to call him) MacIntyre had one more week left in him. But after Tuesday night's performance, and a couple of other mediocre performances in the...
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Kings of Alt-Rock
On the surface, (500) Days of Summer really is no different from, oh, The Proposal, in which Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock spun box-office gold from romantic comedy's refrigerator fuzz. Former music-video maker Marc Webb's feature debut is as conventional as any made-for-cable rom-com, down to its soft-indie-rock soundtrack on...
I will be the first to admit that as excited as I am about last night's Idol results, I am also really shocked (as are a lot of other people, apparently). I think most people--whether they were Gokey fans or not--thought his large hausfrau fan base would keep him safe...