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Art
What a View
Prints charming
By Lilia Menconi
Published: July 12, 2007
Art exhibitions can be frustrating, confusing, and challenging. It's always a struggle to decide whether the art in an exhibition is total crap or you're just too dumb to get...
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Art
Art Scene
Current shows, installations, and exhibitions
By Lilia Menconi
Published: July 12, 2007
"Homegrown AZ Artist Show" at Windup Gallery: Graffiti — it’s not just for cinderblock anymore. The bold and energetic aesthetic has recently popped up in galleries...
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Night & Day
Hang the DJ
These mix masters won't play "Hey Ya!" -- promise
By Lilia Menconi
Published: July 5, 2007
They say it doesn’t matter what the DJ plays. As long as people are totally wasted, they’ll get out on the dance floor. Lies! A few weeks ago, we watched an entire...
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Club Candids
Covet Thy Neighbor
Fashion and action
By Lilia Menconi
Published: July 5, 2007
Yes! Finally, Club Candids punked out on the weekend circuit and cruised to Covet Boutique in Scottsdale on Wednesday, June 27, for its in-store party. (Click here for more...
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Studio Visit
Bee Season
Waxing artistic
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 28, 2007
Lisa Marie Sipe, 32, is sweet, cheery and likes to mess with melted wax. Three years ago, she started working with encaustic — in which pigmented wax is poured, painted or...
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Art
Body Language
Show says it with figures
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 28, 2007
No argument that our collective body-consciousness has, indeed, reached a vulgar place. You can't channel-surf these days without hitting Dr. 90210 or a countdown of the 100...
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Club Candids
Let's Get It On
Feel the Rhythm
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 28, 2007
This week, Club Candids decided to check out the Rhythm Room All-Stars show, where Big Pete Pearson and crew blared their tunes from the stage all night. This Phoenix favorite...
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Art Scene
Reviews of current exhibits, shows and installations
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 28, 2007
"4th Annual Mail Art Show" at The Trunk Space: These days, receiving anything worthwhile through snail mail is a novelty. But there’s a little art fad going on that is bringing...
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Club Candids
Clubhouse Rules
Tearing it up in Tempe
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 21, 2007
If you happened to go out on Saturday night, you may have noticed the thick stench of rampant pheromones and incredibly attractive people completely losing their minds. We...
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Art
Branching Out
New little world of wonder
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 21, 2007
Give a kid couch cushions and a blanket and you'll inevitably see some masterful fort-building. What child can resist? Creating new spaces that offer protection, mystery and...
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Art Scene
Reviews of current exhibits, shows and installations
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 21, 2007
"Automotivated" at the Phoenix Art Museum, Fashion Design Gallery: If the cars in PAM’s “Curves of Steel” show were enough to get you revved up, check out the fashion gallery...
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Art
Clay Gone Wild
Statues sans limitations
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 14, 2007
Little, pink weasel-cats making sweet love atop bulbous greenery. Such is the kinky world I entered at "Renegade Clay: 5 Views from the West," at ASU Art Museum's Ceramics...
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Club Candids
Patio Party
Plein air drinking at Bar Smith
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 14, 2007
It seems like ages since we've been able to sit at a bar and enjoy a cigarette with our booze. This weekend, we may well have found the coolest patio in town. Bar Smith in...
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Art Scene
Reviews of current exhibits, shows and installations
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 14, 2007
"Automotivated" at the Phoenix Art Museum, Fashion Design Gallery: If the cars in PAM’s “Curves of Steel” show were enough to get you revved up, check out the fashion gallery...
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Club Candids
Get Lost
Thank you for Leafing
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 7, 2007
Our biggest complaint about the First Friday art walks is the lack of venues for getting stinking drunk. Carly's has a huge waiting list, The Roosevelt is packed beyond...
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Summer Guide
Abstract Relief
Cold, cold art
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 7, 2007
The best advice you can give a Phoenician in summer (other than, "Get the hell out!") is: Stay hydrated. So gulp a bottle of water and head to the cool climes of the lower...
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Summer Guide
Steamed
Yoga that's so not cool
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 7, 2007
Hot yoga is the place to go if your shins need a good sweat. That's what I discovered after taking a class at Hot Yoga on 16th Street just north of Bethany Home Road. I was...
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Club Candids
Hot in the Shady's
Location, location, location
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 31, 2007
We remember back in the day when Shady's had a different name and was full of bearded, blue-collar workers guzzling beer to wrap up a hard day's work. Not so much any more...
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Art
Feminine Mystique
Overwritten and understated
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 31, 2007
The best part of any art history class is learning whom an artist was sleeping with when she painted her masterpiece. It's natural — the thirst to hear the dirt behind the...
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Art
Play Ball
Engage against the machine
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 31, 2007
The other day, I found myself swooping a glowing green ball in front of me as I stepped forward, kneeled to the floor, and then scooted to the side. I was in the middle of the...
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