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Club Candids
Detour From Drinking
Taking in culture instead of tequila
By Lilia Menconi
Published: March 8, 2007
A Club Candids without drinking? What could possibly make us want to go out besides the sweet promise of bars filled with bountiful booze? The biggest downtown arts event of...
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Club Candids
Party Like a Rock Star
Shaking asses and eardrums at The Rogue
By Lilia Menconi
Published: March 1, 2007
After hitting up a couple empty clubs this past Saturday night, we finally gave in and headed to The Rogue in Scottsdale for Shake!'s two-year anniversary. Leave it to William...
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Club Candids
Booze Makes It Better
Getting tanked on a Tuesday
By Lilia Menconi
Published: February 22, 2007
If getting obliterated only two nights a week just isn't enough to fill whatever emotional void you've got going on, Club Candids has found the perfect place to make an...
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Club Candids
She's a Brick House
Stacked and packed on Saturday night
By Lilia Menconi
Published: February 15, 2007
Club Candids had so much fun gallivanting among the potholes and dirt mounds of downtown Phoenix last week that we decided to hit up the 'hood again for the Brickhouse Theatre...
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Art
Cause Celeb
The golden touch
By Lilia Menconi
Published: February 8, 2007
Make a Saturday morning stop at the neighborhood garage sale, and you might find a stack of watercolors depicting flowers, butterflies and landscapes, at 25 cents apiece. They...
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Club Candids
Burn Out
Beautiful boys move to the noise
By Lilia Menconi
Published: February 8, 2007
Club Candids has been showing a lot of love to the straight folks lately, so we decided to hit up Burn Nightclub to get a good dose of gay on Saturday, February 3. The...
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Club Candids
Party-Hopping Pit Stop
Popping cherries on Mill
By Lilia Menconi
Published: February 1, 2007
We liked the Scottsdale club life so much last week that we thought we might hit up a new hot spot, the Cherry Lounge & Pit in Tempe, on Friday, January 26. Mill Avenue was...
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Night & Day
Art à la Cart
Gravity, wheels, and cojones
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 25, 2007
Plein-air painting was supersexy 150 years ago, when Monet and his indie impressionist bros trekked outdoors in search of the perfect natural lighting. Though these bad-boy...
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Club Candids
Mackin' and Movin' at Myst
Friday-night freaking on the dance floor
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 25, 2007
The Valley's post-adolescent crusty punk rockers have been getting a lot of camera time lately, so Club Candids hit up one of Scottsdale's most popular clubs, Myst, on Friday,...
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Night & Day
Swine Tasting
Sexy nurses serve up king-size cow patties
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 18, 2007
It’s been decades since bad-ass broads like Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem enlightened our primeval patriarchy. Now women watch football and mow lawns while men talk...
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Club Candids
In the Flesh
Pigments of the imagination
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 18, 2007
When we heard about the grand opening of Lady Luck Tattoo Gallery in Tempe, we packed our camera and hit the party for some freaky photo-ops. After all, tattoos and Tempe go...
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Studio Visit
Nurturing Nature
Traces of neighboring life
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 11, 2007
Mayme Kratz, 48, is the type of person you just want to hug when you meet her. With a nest of curly auburn hair and a calming smile, she owns a natural beauty that ignites...
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Art
Apocalypse How
Growing in the dark
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 11, 2007
Blame it on the History Channel's Hiroshima documentaries or the section in theology class on the Rapture. Apocalyptic visions are undeniably enthralling. I don't know about...
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Club Candids
Roadhouse Blues
Holidays? Get over 'em
By Lilia Menconi
Published: January 11, 2007
After two holiday weekends in a row and the final shake-off of family obligations (phew!), we wanted nothing more than to return to normal life and normal drinking habits. This...
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Night & Day
Mental Floss
Dentally challenged wankers duke it out
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 28, 2006
What is it with those bloody Brits? Of course the arrogant blokes would come up with a tradition like the weekly Quiz Night at George & Dragon, where they can massage their...
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Club Candids
Puttin' On the Urban Ritz
Santa's little hotties
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 28, 2006
After a few weeks of hanging with crowds of casual kids, Club Candids needed to spice it up with something slightly more sophisticated, like Club io's Million Dollar Mingle on...
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Club Candids
Go Punk Yerself!
Sofa dance
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 21, 2006
When we coughed up the seven bucks to get in the door at PHiX for the "Gothabilly Nitemare Before X-Mas!" show on Saturday, December 16, Grand Avenue was pretty damn quiet....
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Club Candids
Chilly Phase
Airing the laundry
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 14, 2006
Who goes clubbing on a Sunday, anyway? Leave it to the techno kids — they love to party so much, Saturday nights just aren't enough. On Sunday, December 10, the Phase 54...
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Studio Visit
Church of Light
Emission possible
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 7, 2006
James White, 57, longtime Arizona State University sculpture professor, creates humorous and whimsical works that incorporate his custom bent tubes of neon light. White's...
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Night & Day
Figure Great
The buff that dreams are made of
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 7, 2006
Naked people totally kick butt, especially when one needs to brush up on his or her life-drawing skills. But when the semester is over and your boyfriend won’t hold still...
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