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Night & Day
Splash Bash, Scottsdale-Style
By Lilia Menconi
Published: July 16, 2009
If you're into the suicide-girl types, pool parties like Star Swim and Adult Swim are your place to spy some gnarly tats peeking out of bikini lines. On the other hand, if you...
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Idol Worship
We may be ill, but these kids are alright
By Lilia Menconi
Published: July 16, 2009
Have there really been eight seasons of American Idol? That settles it. We’re all freaking sadists with rampant addictions to witnessing innocents get brutal lashings by...
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Art
"Mike Frick’s Twitter Show": Could Your Twitter Photo Become Art?
By Lilia Menconi
Published: July 16, 2009
Move over, MySpace and Facebook, Twitter is about to have its day. The social-networking site is three years old and has an estimated 4.5 million users worldwide. Flagstaff...
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Kick Out the Jam
DJ Pari funks up the Violin
By Lilia Menconi
Published: July 9, 2009
Too much space is the Achilles’ heel of the Phoenix club scene. Those cavernous clubs uncomfortably resemble our daytime lives that are dominated by wide roads and ranch...
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Too Close for Comfort
Doc illuminates man of a thousand giant faces
By Lilia Menconi
Published: July 2, 2009
If you are a friend or family member of Chuck Close, God help you. You've most likely had your portrait blown up to a monumental size (we're talking 8x10 feet) to really show...
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Art
How Long Can Art One Hold On?
By Lilia Menconi
Published: July 2, 2009
It's been a year since I sat at Art One Gallery in Scottsdale with a Cornish Rex cat sleeping on my lap. And on a recent visit to check in with owner Kraig Foote, history...
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The Good, the Bad, and the Sexy
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 25, 2009
Stick a hot chick in a world of black spandex, laser security systems, high-tech weapons, and karate superstar violence and all of America gets a hard-on. Boobies plus...
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Petting Zoo
This ain’t your eighth-grade hello dance
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 25, 2009
You're single and want some action. However, when you bone down with a virtual stranger, it leaves you unsatisfied, paranoid about a crotch disease, and full of self-loathing...
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Turrell Skyspace Sunrise Viewing
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 18, 2009
Here at New Times, we've covered the ever-living shit out of artist James Turrell's skyspace viewing chamber Knight Rise at SMoCA. Don't believe us? Scroll up and punch...
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Off the Stooks
Local sad bastard releases new album
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 18, 2009
We're hearing the term "old, sad bastard music" thrown around quite a bit. Could this be a burgeoning genre? If so, JD Stooks – who openly admits to ripping the descriptor...
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Gang of New York
Doc shows how de Kooning, Pollock, et. al., stole Paris’ fire
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 11, 2009
Hard to believe, but there was a time when an artist from New York meant about as much to the art world as a creative type from Phoenix means to it today. Burn. Seriously,...
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Urban Legend
Our decoder ring says: Great show
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 4, 2009
We love it when “urban” is used to describe art. Our decoder ring says it’s a soft and very PC way of saying the works include racial themes. Such is the case...
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Urban Legend
Our decoder ring says: Great show
By Lilia Menconi
Published: June 4, 2009
We love it when “urban” is used to describe art. Our decoder ring says it’s a soft and very PC way of saying the works include racial themes. Such is the case...
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Open Water
East Valley waterpark opens for season
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 21, 2009
You don’t need a thermometer to tell it’s summertime. Just look at the kids. They’ve got dry, crackling skin dusted with funky chlorine residue, green hair,...
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Open Water
East Valley waterpark opens for season
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 21, 2009
You don’t need a thermometer to tell it’s summertime. Just look at the kids. They’ve got dry, crackling skin dusted with funky chlorine residue, green hair,...
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Art
SMoCA’s “Seriously Funny” Exhibit Will Leave You Either in Stitches or Wondering How You Missed the Punch Line
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 21, 2009
Walk through SMoCA's "Seriously Funny" exhibition and you'll be entertained. But don't expect every piece to make you, um, lol. At first, I was disappointed with the show. I...
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Babes for Bush
Comedy variety show hits the G-spot
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 14, 2009
Here’s a little pop quiz for ya: 1) Do you love ladies? 2) Do you love the vagina? 3) Would you wear a button that reads “I heart my cunt”? If you answered...
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Brave Nu World
Heard shoots for the hip with new series
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 14, 2009
There's no denying that women, in our Western society, are constantly sexualized. Just think of art history. Since man figured out how to paint, he's been slapping up images of...
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Unnatural History
Artist bucks the trendy in wowza exhibit
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 7, 2009
Here’s our promise to you with this piece about Jessica Drenk: We're not going to talk about the green movement. Of course, being that the Tucson-based artist makes works...
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Graveyard Shift
Party offers Euro flair without all the dead bodies
By Lilia Menconi
Published: May 7, 2009
So, it's been a dream of yours to fly to Paris and see the grave of Jim Morrison at the famed Pere Lachaise cemetery since 14-year-old you hung that Forever 27 poster on your...
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