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"

More

2006 Stories by Stephen Lemons

• Thai Tee Off

  published February 16, 2006

  By the Great Seal of Solomon, they were the most treacherous 18 holes I've ever encountered in all my years as a golf enthusiast. I don't know... More >>

• Monsters Ball

  published February 16, 2006

  Last call at Jonny Noir's Filthy/Gorgeous Friday at The Biz: The Chloë Sevigny of P-town is off in a grimy nook with her tongue buried deep... More >>

• Jamrock Jaunt

  published February 9, 2006

  How's this for synchronicity, Carl Jung fans: I'm driving down Broadway in SoPo (a.k.a. South Phoenix), my windows open and my system blasting the... More >>

• Gutter Depravity

  published February 9, 2006

  So I'm kickin' it like a 300-pound Charles Bukowski in the butt-end of the gloriously sleazy Ky's Place, situated in a shabby strip mall on the... More >>

• Greek Love

  published February 2, 2006

  Did you know that the German fashion house Hugo Boss outfitted the Nazi SS during WWII? That many of the clocks in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp... More >>

• The Big Sleazy

  published February 2, 2006

  "Too bad you've switched sides yet again, Jett," I needle the PHX's now stud-muffin-exclusive Vanessa Minnillo as we watch a fine, female-filled... More >>

• Pox Populi

  published January 26, 2006

  The classic rock jams filtering through the stereo system at the Yard House in Desert Ridge are hand-picked at the corp's Irvine HQ by none other... More >>

• Tandoori Tummy

  published January 19, 2006

  I was home alone, meditating in the buff after a particularly sweaty yoga workout, when he appeared to me in a blaze of glory: the four-armed,... More >>

• Hump-Night Ho-Down

  published January 19, 2006

  To celebrate the B-day of Albert Hofmann, the Swiss cat who discovered LSD back in the day and who hit the century mark last Wednesday, your... More >>

• Valley Vixen

  published January 12, 2006

  Like Scottsdale really needs another Ho, one more glamour gal about town who lives to slink sexily through Valley nightlife, turning heads,... More >>

• Beggar's Banquet

  published January 5, 2006

  Selective amnesia and creative revisionism run rampant this time of year, like social diseases in a pre-penicillin bordello. I can't frown too... More >>