Email Author Stephen Lemons

Awards

• 2012 - Education Reporting Awards/National Education Writers Association, published May 12, 2011

  "White Lies"

• 2012 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published November 3, 2011

  "Sourpuss"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published February 3, 2011

  "Recalling Russell Pearce"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published April 14, 2011

  "His Own Worst Enemy"

• 2012 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published November 3, 2011

  "Kissing His Political Career Goodbye"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2011 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2010 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc.

  "Are Your Papers in Order?"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  Feathered Bastard

• 2009 - National Society of Newspaper Columnists

  Feathered Bastard

• 2006 - James Beard Journalism Awards/The James Beard Foundation, published April 7, 2005

  "Behind the Green Door"

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2004 Stories by Stephen Lemons

• Queen of Siam

  published September 30, 2004

  As you may have gleaned from perusing this space previously, I take a dim view of conventional wisdom and the morons who spout it. Al Pacino's... More >>

• Seoul Survivors

  published September 23, 2004

  What would you eat if it were your last night on Earth, and you could have just about anything you wanted? That's the hypothetical dilemma I've... More >>

• Prêt-à-Porter Ranch

  published September 23, 2004

  Prêt-à-Porter Ranch It's a sausage fest in Old Town Scottsdale on this Thursday night. And the J-grrl and I are at... More >>

• Tomato Head

  published September 16, 2004

  , Redendos Pizzeria and Pasta More >>

• Lesbian Heaven

  published September 16, 2004

  With the J-grrl back in the saddle this week after her brief leave of absence (though whose saddle, I'll never tell), I decide to let the... More >>

• Finding Nemo

  published September 9, 2004

  I'm no urban planner, and Lord knows I have no inclination to be one. But whenever I hear my fellow diehard metropolitans talking up the Holy... More >>

• Raw Rasslin'

  published September 9, 2004

  It's a fine Tuesday night in the Zona, and Saddam Hussein's chrome-dome, um, brother-in-law Sheik Samir Hussein is getting his ass beat down by a... More >>

• Baghdad Bound

  published September 2, 2004

  I've always wanted to summer in Baghdad, and now at last I can. No, silly, I'm not joining the Army National Guard. I may be the size of John... More >>

• Posh Playas

  published September 2, 2004

  Now that's what I'm talkin' 'bout: The Zona finally starts jackin' its game up to the minimum of what's expected from 21st-century party... More >>

• Saigon in Scottsdale

  published August 26, 2004

  Nineteenth-century journalist, poet and author Charles Pierre Monselet once stated that "a true gastronome should always be ready to eat, just as... More >>

• Motley Crew

  published August 26, 2004

  From the street, Tempe's Palo Verde Lounge looks like the sort of janky, pale brick building that might house a meth lab, a massage parlor, or a... More >>

• Bravo, Blac-a-Zoli

  published August 19, 2004

  One dilemma I face as a restaurant reviewer is how long of a grace period I should allow an infant establishment before writing about its fare.... More >>

• Catfish Connoisseurs

  published August 12, 2004

  Having spent my formative years in the Land Time Forgot (i.e., the South), soul food is as dear to me as pasta is to the Italians. How fortuitous,... More >>

• Near-Perfect Padre

  published August 5, 2004

  Before I dive into this week's review, I should take a moment to reply to some of the correspondence I receive on a regular basis. To the female... More >>

• Dog Park Decadence

  published August 5, 2004

  Looking like a cross between Jet Li and the Hives' Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, pimped out like his bandmates in a regal purple tux and a Green... More >>

• Bamboo, Pee-Yew!

  published July 29, 2004

  A colleague of mine left me a copy of a certain publication the other day with the attached note, "Well, I guess someone feels threatened."... More >>

• Drag-Stars

  published July 29, 2004

  So the L-word Mila Kunis and I are kicking it with drinks and smokes in that intimate Seventh Street cabaret Wink's, enjoying drag diva Barbra... More >>

• Java House

  published July 22, 2004

  Burgs like Snottsdale and Parasite Valley may get all the kudos when it comes to living arrangements, but were I run out of central Phoenix on a... More >>

• Where the Boys Are

  published July 22, 2004

  If it seems like the Jettster and I have been playing Mister and Mizz Humptyvision of late, going out a lot in the middle of the week, blame... More >>

• White Elephant

  published July 15, 2004

  Descending from Pinnacle Peak the other day, after a repast at Sassi, the new, resort-like restaurant fashioned to resemble an Italian villa, the... More >>

• Deep House Daze

  published July 15, 2004

  A plush, blue-lit chapel of sin, with a black square bar for an altar: That's Scottsdale's Next on the inside. Slanted wood beams give the... More >>

• Billy Goat Gruff

  published July 8, 2004

  Those of you old enough to have lived through any part of the Cold War -- or to have suffered through a political conversation with a devout... More >>

• Lounge Addicts

  published July 8, 2004

  I'm perched on a stool at The Merc Bar, a bucket of vodka-Red Bull before me, with the superstylin' sounds of Britain's Groove Armada pulsing... More >>

• Savory Seoul

  published July 1, 2004

  I was in Tempe last week, sitting in a cafe and flipping through my recent purchase from a nearby bookshop of a rare copy of Valentine Penrose's... More >>

• Smokin' Sandwiches

  published June 24, 2004

  So I was over at Mikey's the other day, doing bong hits and watching episode after episode of Cartoon Network's Aqua Teen Hunger Force,... More >>