Email Author Clay McNear

Awards

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "He's With the Banned"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Chick Magnates"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Acidic Jews"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "No-holds Bard

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Pat Murphy's Law"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Expatriate Games"

• 2008 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Someday My Prints Will Come"

• 2008 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "The Dirt Devil Wore Prada"

• 2008 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Four Leaves and a Rake"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "50 Ways to Love Your Liver"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "The School of Hard Box"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Noir is Hell"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Praise the Lard"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Carnival of Shoes"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "From Hair to Paternity"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "O Solo Trio"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Quantum Bleep"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Tome Capsule"

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2009 Stories by Clay McNear

• High on the Pig

  published December 17, 2009

  Sick of eating dry cereal out of boxes while lounging around the bachelor pad in your boxers? Cadillac Ranch at Tempe Marketplace, 2000 East Rio... More >>

• Aroma Therapy

  published December 3, 2009

  Sure, Arizona lacks certain amenities, but for those of us with ancestry of the redneck type, the dearth of barbecue ranks among the most... More >>

• Prime Numbers

  published December 3, 2009

  Kurt Warner of the Arizona Cardinals. Brett Favre of the Minnesota Vikings. A game pitting two first-ballot Hall of Famers leading two of the... More >>

• Thin Line Between Lust and Weight

  published November 26, 2009

  Warning: The book is cheesy. Its author? An artery-clogging Mascarpone. But Valerie Bertinelli remains relevant – and hot. She... More >>

• North by Southwest

  published November 26, 2009

  We don’t like hanging out with snowbirds any more than you do, but Heard Museum’s Ornament Marketplace is one of those events... More >>

• Native Art & Artifacts Appraisal Day

  published November 19, 2009

  So your grandma willed you a Navajo rug, and you've been using it as a door mat. Stop, for Chrissakes, and haul it down to the Native Art &... More >>

• Charles Goyette

  published November 19, 2009

  The Libertarian mouthpiece and former Valley radio personality signs his new book, The Dollar Meltdown: Surviving the Impending Currency Crisis... More >>

• Diana Gabaldon

  published November 19, 2009

  Stephenie Meyer may get most of the headlines these days, but Arizona’s other world-famed author of atmospheric romantic fiction is... More >>

• Ali Vincent

  published November 19, 2009

  Okay, everyone, it's officially Cheesy Book Week. Technically, we suppose, it's hold the cheese. The former Mrs. Eddie Van Halen, pop-culture... More >>

• A Thousand Points of Blight

  published November 19, 2009

  Director Gregory Greene and the crew of The End of Suburbia spend 78 minutes explaining, in documentary detail, how the economic crisis... More >>

• Mowing the Liquid Lawn

  published November 19, 2009

  Flashy car? Hell, landlubber, jammin’ jalopies are a dime a dozen here in P-Town. Give us a hot boat any day. Tubs don’t get... More >>

• Phoenix Noir Signing Party

  published November 12, 2009

  For a place with an overall IQ of about 32 -- to judge by all the shotgun-toting boobs sporting Sheriff Joe bumper stickers -- Phoenix has an ace... More >>

• Phoenix Noir Signing Party

  published November 12, 2009

  For a place with an overall IQ of about 32 -- to judge by all the shotgun-toting boobs sporting Sheriff Joe bumper stickers -- Phoenix has an ace... More >>

• Devils' Disciples

  published November 12, 2009

  If ASU Men’s Basketball coach Herb Sendek thought he had it rough coaching against the big dogs in the Atlantic Coast Conference, or... More >>

• Home, Sweep Home

  published November 12, 2009

  Only the Arizona Cardinals could come up with a notion as nutty as road-field advantage. 4-0 away from home in ’09, they’re... More >>

• Cheese and Crackers

  published November 5, 2009

  In the wacky, chicken-fried world of fairs, it’s not sex that sells. It’s violence – and the cheesier, the better. This year’s... More >>

• Sponge-Worthy

  published October 29, 2009

  SpongeBob SquarePants has a bad rap. Overzealous merchandisers mis-market him as a canary-colored bath toy. Educators and many parents –... More >>

• China Girl

  published October 29, 2009

  At first glance, Mei-Ling Hopgood’s Lucky Girl smacks of Oprah. And Hopgood’s 2009 memoir, about traveling back to China as an... More >>

• Phoenix Noir Signing Party

  published October 22, 2009

  For a place with an overall IQ of about 32 – to judge by all the shotgun-toting boobs sporting Sheriff Joe bumper stickers – Phoenix... More >>

• Talkin' Trash

  published October 22, 2009

  We were born on the wrong side of the tracks in Yahoo, Texas, and have spent every subsequent day trying to live it down. We drink wine,... More >>

• Bunker Mentality

  published October 22, 2009

  Though it’s a legit PGA Tour stop, fall’s Frys.com Open is kind of a weak-sister stepchild to its overwhelmingly popular winter kin,... More >>

• 20 Grand

  published October 15, 2009

  Having sweated and sniped through a few 5Ks in our time, we admire folks who run for the hell of it. 20K types? Forget about it. These are... More >>

• Fair Warning

  published October 15, 2009

  1: Officially – and a mite pompously for people who deal with swine – it’s the Arizona Exposition & State Fair. 2: The... More >>

• Phoenix Noir Signing Party

  published October 8, 2009

  For a place with an overall IQ of about 32 – to judge by all the shotgun-toting boobs sporting Sheriff Joe bumper stickers – Phoenix... More >>

• Ghouls' Night Out

  published October 8, 2009

  The most petrified we’ve ever been was on the stroke of midnight one bitter Christmas Eve, reading the final delicious syllables of... More >>