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Sky High
Downtown club bumps to the max
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 12, 2008
There are certain things that make for a good night. Finding the hottest party in town, maintaining a lack of mascara globs throughout the evening, and successfully averting...
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Movers and Shakers
Reclaiming the fete on Roosevelt Row
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 5, 2008
Remember when moving was cause for celebration? Well, housewarming parties and gifts of crappy potpourri are a thing of the past. And since everyone seems to be putting off...
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Smart Bomb
Renegade thrills in Tempe
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 29, 2008
Academicians aren't exactly known for their partying skills. For example, if you’re the parent of a nerd and you go out of town, here’s the worst-case scenario: Your...
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Art
John Dawson captures essence instead of physicality in “Dawson: Thirty Years” at Mesa Contemporary Arts
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 29, 2008
If I were the sitter for the portrait Martha, I'd hate John Dawson. Martha is one of the most compelling paintings showing at the Mesa Contemporary Arts exhibition "Dawson:...
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Pop-Culture Club
Rose & Crown series is some kind of wonderful
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 22, 2008
“If I'm gonna get busted, it is not gonna be by a guy like that.” Know what movie that was from? How about this one? “When you get old, your heart dies.”...
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Indecision 2008
Change the world? Mark us down. For sure. Tentatively.
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 22, 2008
Think of how much money you wasted when you switched your college major four times. And did you know you’ll make at least three significant career changes in your...
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Secondhand SMoCA
Out with the old really cool stuff, in with the new
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 15, 2008
Take a look at your little apartment and see how much junk you own. You’ve still got every single paperback book from your high school reading list, that drawer of...
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The Heartbreak Kid
Painter’s works lend a healing salve to childhood’s sting
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 15, 2008
As hard as we try to forget our childhood, the human memory, once triggered, can overpower our best efforts. For example, some jerk in your office decides to watch the...
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Art
Known for helping artists, Art One owner Kraig Foote now needs someone to help him
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 15, 2008
Nine years ago, a guy named Brian Boner moved to Phoenix as a fresh college grad with an art degree from Minnesota State University. Boner stopped by gallery after gallery in...
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Radiation Vibe
Dallas minx pushes the UV index off the charts at Myst
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 8, 2008
Attention, fellas. If you want to know your lady ain’t a ho, get her naked and check for tan lines. If she’s got ’em, that’s a good sign. It means...
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Wings of Desire
Flapping beauties wrap up their stay at DBG
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 8, 2008
Oh, the lovely, majestic butterfly. There isn’t a person in the world who could hate these gorgeous critters. They give unattractive people hope that morphing from a fat...
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Fringe Benefits
Celebrating the weirdos of theater
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 1, 2008
As a small child, you wore those moon boots from your Halloween costume to school everyday. When you were a teenager, your parents begged you to make good grades and don a...
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Divine Trash
One woman’s castoffs are another woman’s treasures
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 1, 2008
If you’ve ever had a garage sale, you’ve witnessed that special breed of bargain shopper. As soon as you put out the signs, they’re dive-rolling out of their...
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Art
Synthetic Reality crosses into this plane of existence at ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 1, 2008
A dense, menacing thicket looms. Green and pink stems, yellow flower buds, fuchsia seed pods and burgundy leaves intertwine, overlap, and suffocate the surface. Enormous...
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Hope Precariously Floats
By Lilia Menconi
Published: April 17, 2008
The outside world must think of Arizonans as big, fat poseurs who are always looking to copy character instead of creating their own. And they may have a point. Ten years ago,...
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Art
The Future of Heads by Mark Keffer attempts to capture the mind visually
By Lilia Menconi
Published: April 17, 2008
Lifetimes are spent trying to tackle and pin down the constant state of flux of the human mind. Even pros like Freud, Jung, and Dr. Phil have grasped only morsels. The task is...
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Art Scene
Current art shows, exhibitions and installations
By Lilia Menconi
Published: April 17, 2008
"Chado Ralph Rucci" at Phoenix Art Museum's Kelly Ellman Fashion Design Gallery: If you just splurged on a ridiculously expensive piece of clothing — whatever you do...
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Recipe for Success
The uterus lives on at Trunk
By Lilia Menconi
Published: April 10, 2008
Ah, the modern woman. She’s educated (so much so that she emasculates her boyfriends). She’s independent (because she’s too much of a chickenshit to take...
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The Gay ’90s
They’re back
By Lilia Menconi
Published: April 10, 2008
Whatever happened to the good old days of the 1990s? It was the gays’ heyday, and we were all on board. We cried into our leopard-print pillows when Pedro Zamora died on...
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Mid-Century 21
Back to the future of Valley real estate
By Lilia Menconi
Published: April 3, 2008
You opportunists should get ready for the most shameful steal of your life. Our constipated housing market is prairie-dogging the dump of the decade, and you should be at the...
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