What is the shape and size of a human soul? Does it look like a chickpea? A gumdrop? A pet rock? And if you could somehow extract your soul from your body, what would be left? Would you still be you? These are among the concerns taken up by writer-director...
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The New York Times makes mistakes just like any other news outlet, but the multiple name errors in the cover story of the New York Times Magazine last Sunday resulted in a larger-than-normal correction: Correction: October 26, 2008 The cover article on Page 52 this weekend about Senator John McCain’s...
In any other place, the publicity Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has received recently would be seen as, well, horrendous: • His supporters launched one of the sleaziest TV political ads ever against his political opponent in the November 4 election, Dan Saban, resulting in a backlash that drove the...
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Travis
Finally, we get to report good news about the Arizona Cardinals, who finished the regular season 9-7 -- just as we predicted they would when we named Ken Whisenhunt top head coach in the PHX in our 2008 Best Of edition. Our prediction was based on the Cardinals going 8-8 last season behind...
By Ray Stern The St. Johns community in northeastern Arizona is trying to cope with a mind-boggling crime: An 8-year-old boy used a rifle to kill his father and another man. The more interesting story may yet be how the justice system treats this kid; he’s expected in court today...
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An update to this story written on May 7, 2009 can be found here. In October 2007, Katherine Olson was looking for work. Since graduating summa cum laude from St. Olaf College with a dual degree in theater and Hispanic studies, she'd mostly cobbled together part-time jobs—waitressing, teaching Spanish, coaching...
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Pop Culture: Sidral Mundet
SHERIFF SPENDTHRIFT Even if you're one of those gap-toothed hillbillies who hate illegal immigrants and want nothing more than Arizona's population to be as pale as Anderson Cooper's ass, you have to admit that Sheriff Joe Arpaio's latest operation in the West Valley was a colossal waste of cash. Headquartered...
Have you ever felt you truly belonged anywhere? Since you were in diapers, you've probably experienced a constant mental negotiation to determine a sense of belonging to something: your gender, your family, your classmates . . . The list goes on. Michael Dixon's no different, except his situation may be...
The office manager of a Sierra Vista drywall firm was sentenced to jail today for hiring illegal immigrants in the case of the first worksite enforcement bust in Arizona by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. According to this news release by the U.S. Attorney's office in Arizona, 44-year-old Carol...
Some of the more well-received albums of 2008 have come from the rainy, bike-loving confines of the Pacific Northwest - a trusty bastion for indie rock and insanely innovative pop. When bands from the two meccas of the Pacific Northwest - Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington - emerge onto the...
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By John Dickerson Dr. Gary Page (pictured above), a former Arizona homeopathic physician, has been indicted by a grand jury on one count of manslaughter. The charge results from Page's using his homeopathic license (or M.D.h.) to perform a cosmetic surgery, as New Times reported in April. Page's patient died...
A chicken (activist Chris Fleischman) is interrogated by plainclothes po-po.According to witnesses and a spokesperson for the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, four members of Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability, an activist group critical of the BOS and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, were arrested this morning while sitting quietly in...
Ipso schmucko can't fathom why the hoi polloi hate the photo enforcement cameras.The Arizona Republic's smug, smarmy scribbler E.J. Montini is clueless (yet, again) as to why so many of the Republic's online readers are so pissed off by the Department of Public Safety's photo enforcement cameras. You can almost...
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The Princess Diaries
"Every life is precious," Joe kept saying of murder victims. Who is he tryin' to kid?The citizens of Buckeye and Avondale can rest easy tonight knowing that sheriff's deputies with assault rifles, body armor, and ski masks are busy pulling over old ladies and Hispanics with expired tags. This was...
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Gray Matters
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In reporting this series, New Times staff writer Paul Rubin spent months at the Maricopa County Juvenile Court in downtown Phoenix. He focused on the work of two Superior Court judges, Michael Kemp and Ronald Reinstein, and on their delinquency and dependency calendars, respectively. Delinquency Court judges hear cases about...
By Ray Stern The Phoenix office of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was expecting a record year of deportations in 2008, but the final numbers exceeded predictions. A news release just put out by ICE states the agency removed 72,955 illegal immigrants in its fiscal 2008, which ended in...
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Pop Culture: Java Pop
newspaper stories from the early 2000s, Maricopa County finally took action against shady county supervisor Don Stapley. A grand jury has indicted Stapley on 118 criminal counts, alleging he failed to publicly disclose land deals and other business activities going back to when he was first elected in 1994. The charges include perjury, forgery, false...