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1. Feature

   Pimp My Bod

   Our intrepid reporter travels north Scottsdale in search of the sweet life. Someone's version of it, anyway

   By Megan Irwin

   Published: September 27, 2007

   I am standing topless in front of a photographer. My back is against the wall as she snaps picture after picture of my bare breasts. This is quite possibly the most...

2. Niki at Nite

   Foxy's Ladies

   Lollypop, making your heart go giddyup

   By Niki D'Andrea

   Published: September 27, 2007

   "What do you think of my yuppie douchebag shirt?" My buddy B-Boy is modeling for me in my living room. He's draped his 6-foot-4, 350-pound frame in some black dress pants and...

3. Cafe

   Gravy Kind of Love

   By Michele Laudig

   Published: September 27, 2007

   How often do you go out for German food? Probably not that frequently, considering there are only a handful of places in the entire Valley that serve it. I admit, I don't...

4. Film Feature

   Dark-Skinned, Good Guy

   By Ella Taylor

   Published: September 27, 2007

   So here's this Arab actor talking to me in Hebrew about his role as a Saudi soldier in Peter Berg's The Kingdom — which ought to be enough cultural confusion to throw...

5. Stage

   Bloody Horror

   Nothing to see here

   By Robrt L. Pela

   Published: September 27, 2007

   Fifteen minutes after the curtain went up on Actors Theatre's The Lieutenant of Inishmore, two audience members ran for the exits. Ten minutes later, five others got up to go....

6. Game On

   Down in Flames

   Lair's fire-breathing dragon is just a big turkey

   By Gary Hodges

   Published: September 27, 2007

   In terms of the yawning chasm between what was promised and what has been delivered, Lair earns the distinction of being the biggest letdown ever for PlayStation 3. Worse, it's...

7. Sweeties

   Tasty Freeze: Ray Karam

   By Amy Silverman

   Published: September 27, 2007

   Ray Karam is trademarked. At least, his title is. As tastemaster for Cold Stone Creamery, this guy takes his frozen treats seriously. Cold Stone is headquartered in Scottsdale,...

8. Night & Day

   Water Sports

   By Clay McNear

   Published: September 27, 2007

   Doug Franz and former Cardinals fullback Ron Wolfley -- the ever-squabbling, Click-and-Clack hosts of the fun-tastic Doug & Wolf morning-drive sports-talk show on KTAR-AM 620...

9. Night & Day

   Good Moon on the Rise

   The sky's the limit at Friendship Garden

   By Steve Jansen

   Published: September 27, 2007

   The moon is sad, according to the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Orange, says Erykah Badu. Made of cheese, sings Rotary Connection. Kinda depressing, huh? Well, during Japan’s autumn...

10. Night & Day

    Hickstock

    Rockin' and rollin' ´til the cows come home

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: September 27, 2007

    Before you scoff at this year’s location for Edgefest 2007 -- Schnepf Farms -- let’s take you down memory lane, back to October 2006 . . . The scene: Tempe Town Lake....

11. Night & Day

    Raising the Bar

    Whew! For once we don't have to say "razing."

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: September 27, 2007

    In a town whose definition of old is a two-year-old vomit-colored strip mall with a Starbucks that recently folded because the Albertson’s shopping plaza across the street just...

12. Night & Day

    Life After Morrissey

    Former Smiths drummer is still alive and stickin'

    By Clay McNear

    Published: September 27, 2007

    Say your favorite band breaks up. Ouch. But you know the main man will land on his feet with a new project and a fresh babe on his arm. What happens to the unwashed horde of...

13. Night & Day

    Go, Speed Racers

    By Clay McNear

    Published: September 27, 2007

    F1-ChampBoat neophytes probably want to know what the hell an F1-ChampBoat is before heading to the F1-ChampBoat Grand Prix of Phoenix. Well, the sexy contraptions look like a...

14. Night & Day

    Oldies and Goodies

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: September 27, 2007

    Just because the Record Swap Meet takes place at the Arizona America Italian Club doesn’t mean you’ll be crate-battling for stale Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra vinyls. More...

15. Night & Day

    The Shlong Show

    Bad-taste test in Scottsdale

    By Leslie Barton

    Published: September 27, 2007

    What do you get when you cross Foghorn Leghorn with Milton Berle and a Gibson guitar? You get Big Cock, The Hardest Band in the Land, which promises all the microphone-jacking,...

16. Night & Day

    Nature Calls

    Especially after that triple grande hyper mondo latte

    By Clay McNear

    Published: September 27, 2007

    Out late partying at one of Scottsdale's 85251 clubs? No big. Just don't go to sleep. Grab a Starbucks pint and head for the Spur Cross Ranch Conservation Area for the Nature...

17. Night & Day

    Bloody Ear Candy

    "Brutal prog" men mate freeform jazz and Crimson-style rock

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: September 27, 2007

    Not since, well, ever, has a band like San Diego-based quintet Upsilon Acrux seamlessly married the spontaneity and energy of freeform jazz with the abstract and angular...

18. Night & Day

    Some Liked It Hot

    By Clay McNear

    Published: September 27, 2007

    Bernie Taupin, Elton John's longtime lyricist, doesn't particularly care for Marilyn Monroe. Fair enough, except it was Taupin who penned the elegiac words for "Candle in the...

19. Night & Day

    ´Scuse Me While I Piss the Skyy

    Kissin' concrete in Tempe

    By Steve Jansen

    Published: September 27, 2007

    We won’t pretend to claim that ASU is the Harvard of the West. On the contrary, we wouldn’t be surprised if pulse-taking docs reside inside the school’s cavernous admission...

20. Night & Day

    15 Minutes of Shame

    Nik Richie's tangled Web

    By Benjamin Leatherman

    Published: September 27, 2007

    The delicious irony of Dirty Scottsdale is that the notorious Web site not only trashes the debaucherous denizens of the city’s nightlife scene but celebrates them at the same...