Guess time off did the Arizona Diamondbacks some good. After spending the last few days watching torrential rain postpone a couple games, the D-Backs came out swinging in a 5-3 win over the Florida Marlins on Tuesday night, following a whiz-bang seventh inning that featured the heroics of Gerardo Parra, the...
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Two brews stepped up to the field of battle. One armed himself with the tastiness of the humble blackbeery while the other trained his dark coffee flavor on his opponent. In the end, only one would remain and that victor is none other than Samuel Adams' Blackberry Witbier. Competing against...
Need something to do tonight? What about Saturday or Sunday? Here's the latest edition of our weekend sampler encompassing everything a slew of cheap and chic thrills available around the Valley. 1. Third Friday Art Walk (Friday) It's a well-known fact that tens of thousands of local art lovers usually...
One of baseball's best traditions is batting practice, because not many things in sports are sweeter than watching a Major League ballplayer cranking moon shots into the outfield and over the fence. If you love BP and the Cincinnati Reds are your fave, then you probably experienced the best time...
Yo, Josh Byrnes. How's that manager switch lookin' a week in? Now, we're no fan of Bob Melvin and his watching-paint-dry coaching style, but the biggest crime in the Arizona general manager's installation of glorified farm hand A.J. Hinch wasn't Hinch's four-year, no-questions-asked contract or Byrnes' transparent power grab in...
I've gotta give a shout out to our sister paper Miami New Times' Riptide blog for this disturbing post about the medieval health care female immigrant detainees receive in ICE's countrywide gulag archipelago. In it, reporter Tim Elfrink covers a news conference in Miami where the results of two studies...
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www.mlb.com Justin Upton hits two homers in as many days this weekend, but the D-Backs lose Sunday. It was a four-game series that ended on a shadowy Texas Leaguer by Milwaukee Brewers center-fielder Mike Cameron. The Arizona Diamondbacks won two of three over the weekend behind the pitching of Jon...
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Police are hunting have arrested a suspect in a SUV who shot a photo radar van operator Sunday night. (SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF POST). The 51-year-old victim, Doug Georgianni, had worked for the photo enforcement company Redflex as a "driver-technician" for only three months, according to a news...
I've been taking a calcium supplement for years. It was hard to get into the habit, but the tasty chewable ones make it easier. Turns out that I was taking calcium every day but not in a way that was most effective. When you take calcium, what you take with...
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas touted his 1,000th conviction for an illegal immigrant under the state's three-year-old human-smuggling law. The number was reached only because Thomas has prosecuted nearly 900 illegal immigrants for conspiring to smuggle themselves into the country. Lawmakers who wrote Arizona's human-smuggling law intended it only...
Fare collection for Metro light rail, like the system's ridership, is trending in the wrong direction. The system brought in an estimated $547,294 in March, says Metro Light Rail. That's slightly higher than the $528,000 it collected in February (more days in the month, remember), but still much lower than in January,...
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Garage-rock gal pals Rachel Nagy and Mary Ramirez have gone through a lot of men in their day. Drummers. Guitarists. Bassists. All kinds. When an interviewer makes light of the fact, Ramirez playfully props her legs open, as if to receive yet another session-musician servicing. Nagy, her fellow creative principal...
My wife and I have an argument going on about pirates. And since you are the source for all things Mexican. I'd thought I'd ask: While I know there were Spanish and Portuguese pirates back in the early 1600s and 1700s, were there ever any Mexican pirates? Not pirates from...
About 200 people packed the pews at Encanto Community Church today at noon for a memorial service for Marcia Powell, the 48-year-old inmate at Goodyear's Perryville Prison who died early the morning of May 20. This was following her confinement the day before in an outdoor cage where she endured...
An Iraq war veteran who says he was stabbed multiple times by a Mesa police officer during his arrest has filed a lawsuit, and is preparing an expert witness list for a federal judge. The veteran, Keith LaVoie, got into an altercation with officers in January, 2007, after a night...
Lisa Davis made it to her late-afternoon appointment with forensic psychiatrist Joseph Franzetti with time to spare. It was April 2007, and Davis was with her 10-year-old son, Troy. The fourth-grader was facing charges of criminal damage and burglary in Maricopa County Juvenile Court. He and a pal had gotten...
Twenty years ago this December, a child's apparent disappearance from the busy Metrocenter mall followed by the grisly discovery of his body in the desert north of Phoenix gripped the community. The 4-year-old was Christopher Milke. He had been shot three times in the back of his head from close...
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Last night's Arizona Diamondbacks loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers was all about streaks. Following the 3-1 win, the NL West-leading Blue Bombers have amassed 12 straight victories at Chavez Ravine for the season. Conversely, the D-Backs have lost three in a row, equaling their worst losing streak this year...
Dozens of teachers will spend this morning playing video games tomorrow as part of a state conference on Internet safety.Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard has partnered with Web Wise Kids, a non-profit education group and the Entertainment Software Association for a program that uses specially designed games that make it...
Alright all you crafty people in town, this is what you've been waiting for...Faythe Levine of "Handmade Nation" fame is in Phoenix this weekend!I think it's safe to say our nation's love affair with mass production is coming to an end. Sure, we appreciate factory produced goods for all they've...
Arizona Attorney magazine published an article this month on the complexities of death penalty cases in Maricopa County and why they take so long to resolve. The article, by Superior Court Judge Robert Gottsfield and Marianne Alcorn, a scholar at Arizona State University, is "required reading" on the subject, says the...