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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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Art
Bright Ideas
Covering the spectrum
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 7, 2006
Remember when your first-grade teacher said that without the abundant rays of the sun, the Earth would die? Humans can't get enough of the stuff, and nothing proves our...
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Club Candids
North Side Nookie Market
Single belles
By Lilia Menconi
Published: December 7, 2006
Sometimes a night out in Scottsdale with all things shiny and plastic is just what we need. The hordes of twentysomething bronzed babes and stylish studs remind us that the...
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Club Candids
Beautiful Drag
Photophobic turkeys
By Lilia Menconi
Published: November 30, 2006
There's nothing like a good ol' drag show to scum up a wholesome holiday with the family. That was the idea at Amsterdam's 4th Annual Thanksgiving Night Show last Thursday,...
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Art
Native Gift
Not your typical Southwestern art show
By Lilia Menconi
Published: November 23, 2006
If you've lived in the Southwest for any amount of time, chances are you've already seen your fair share of howling coyotes, dream catchers and geometric pottery patterns. I...
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Club Candids
Glam-O-Rama
Drunken dancing and drama
By Lilia Menconi
Published: November 23, 2006
The Phoenix indie crowd has a new pit stop on their Friday-night boozing agenda. Glam (formerly Ky's Place), at 32nd Street and Indian School Road, is a perfectly petite dance...
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