@body:After hearing so many monstrous things about Carolyne Berry, seeing her is a letdown. Watching the Madison School District board member fidget through a meeting, it’s difficult to imagine how she came to be the object of so much ire. She doesn’t look much different from the rest of the…
They say truth is stranger than fiction. But Zapata Rose in 1992, a short story by ASU professor and author Gary Keller, is an even stranger phenomenon–fiction that turns out to be truth. Released nearly two years ago as part of a compilation of Keller’s other work, Zapata Rose is…
W.H. “Moose” Graham sat slack-jawed and panting in the defendant’s box in a Pinal County courtroom in Florence last Friday morning, his big, gray head poking out of orange prison garb. He was waiting for Judge Robert Bean to formally charge him with first-degree murder in the 1992 shooting death…
They say truth is stranger than fiction. But Zapata Rose in 1992, a short story by ASU professor and author Gary Keller, is an even stranger phenomenon–fiction that turns out to be truth. Released nearly two years ago as part of a compilation of Keller’s other work, Zapata Rose is…
MDRVRXP: see note below at “Art Films”MDNM @day:wednesday @mon:january @date2:26Martha Graham Dance Company: The most celebrated of all American dance companies observes the 100th birthday of its founder, late dance doyenne Graham, with a performance at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Gammage Auditorium, Mill and Apache in Tempe. It’s also the…
Baseball lovers and tax haters waited all last week for word on the proposed baseball stadium they will be asked to pay for. Two months after Phoenix Suns owner Jerry Colangelo and an investor group announced plans to pursue an expansion franchise, a breakthrough in negotiations was expected any day,…
Joe Arpaio’s Tent City, where the sheriff sends overflow from the Madison Street Jail, is the most colorful local encampment since the last Grateful Dead show. Sure, the prisoners get a littly chilly at night. And fine, June afternoons get a tad warm. But this is one county that will…
Pity the unpublished author. He works in solitude, unrecognized, unknown. He lays bare his soul on the page. Then, what? He sends his manuscript away, typically to publishers picked out of a library reference book. In return, he gets rejection letters and the suggestion that next time he should use…
After months of arguing with his grade-school-age son about the importance of making his bed every morning, William Calderwood finally hit the ceiling. Some time later, so did Calderwood’s out-of-sight, out-of-mind solution to those daily squabbles–a helium-filled bed that floated to the top of the room when not in use…
:First, David Brock wrote a devastating profile of Anita Hill, the law professor who testified against Clarence Thomas. Then he took on Hillary Rodham Clinton. Calling a hatchet man like Brock a legitimate journalist is like reading Crime and Punishment and deciding that Raskolnikov really carried that ax around with…
This is amazing. An entire week has passed without the sports pages of the daily newspapers decrying the fact that Kevin Johnson has been snubbed by Dream Team II. It’s easy to understand why KJ gets so much favorable press. He is approachable. He is intelligent. And he is always…
@body:TUCSON–Bagging rays under a crisp blue sky backed by a postcard-perfect view of the majestic Santa Catalina Mountains, the husband-and-wife writing team of Jane and Michael Stern rhapsodize over the Western wonderland we know as Arizona. “If we were driving down a highway and saw the Grand Canyon on our…
It was a glorious October afternoon when Eddie Basha, Democrat for governor, rolled into the tiny mining town of Kearny. He was midway through a five-day campaign tour of rural Arizona. Basha spoke without notes as he stood below swishing ash trees, addressing two dozen assembled faithful on the patio…
Last Thursday morning, at the Maricopa County courthouse, Corliss Ford got her life back. It happened when a Superior Court judge rejected charges by the Arizona Attorney General’s Office that the Phoenix nurse had abused and neglected three elderly residents in her care. Judge Stanley Z. Goodfarb ordered the AG’s…
At the Arcadia Funeral Home on 48th Street and Indian School, Dick Dozer’s casket was flanked by two large easels. Carefully attached to them were dozens of photographs of Dozer, the retired Chicago Tribune baseball writer, on various major-league playing fields. The chapel was crowded with friends who had come…
Sunlight dances on fresh snow; Adella Begaye edges her big pickup truck off ice-packed Route 12 high in the Chuskas Mountains on the Navajo Reservation and onto the trackless white snow covering a dirt road into the trees. Begaye gets out of the truck to turn the front wheel hubs…
Someone raised the subject of “Steve’s ordeal” about midway through Stephen Wilson’s funeral service last week. “It’s hard to imagine what Steve and his family went through after his arrest,” a close friend of Wilson’s told those gathered at the Grimshaw Bethany Chapel. “But he stuck it out and stayed…
Tim has a small penis, and he doesn’t want to talk about it. A tall, slim, balding figure in his 40s, he sits in a cramped waiting room, fidgeting nervously along with three other men–all of whom are doing their level best to ignore one another. Eye contact is verboten,…
Tim has a small penis, and he doesn’t want to talk about it. A tall, slim, balding figure in his 40s, he sits in a cramped waiting room, fidgeting nervously along with three other men–all of whom are doing their level best to ignore one another. Eye contact is verboten,…
Someone raised the subject of “Steve’s ordeal” about midway through Stephen Wilson’s funeral service last week. “It’s hard to imagine what Steve and his family went through after his arrest,” a close friend of Wilson’s told those gathered at the Grimshaw Bethany Chapel. “But he stuck it out and stayed…
Someone raised the subject of “Steve’s ordeal” about midway through Stephen Wilson’s funeral service last week. “It’s hard to imagine what Steve and his family went through after his arrest,” a close friend of Wilson’s told those gathered at the Grimshaw Bethany Chapel. “But he stuck it out and stayed…
Tim has a small penis, and he doesn’t want to talk about it. A tall, slim, balding figure in his 40s, he sits in a cramped waiting room, fidgeting nervously along with three other men–all of whom are doing their level best to ignore one another. Eye contact is verboten,…
