While donning an American Apparel “Legalize Gay” t-shirt or slapping an equality sticker on your bumper is a good start, supporting your local LGBT community shouldn’t begin and end with the same motivation as an ironic mustache (i.e. to get laid by hipsters). Put your money (or at least your…
After months of living in limbo, Phoenix’s favorite hip kid dance party (formerly held at Blackforest Mill) has finally settled into a new location. On the last Saturday of each month, Cheap Thrills takes over the new Brick pizzeria at the Arizona Center in downtown Phoenix. See the debauchery that…
Scottsdale Quarter feels like the Valley’s best kept shopping secret. There’s an H&M and an Apple store with a fraction of the normal shopping traffic; an Oakville Grocery with tons of locally made, gourmet foods; and Primebar, a swanky new restaurant with a killer happy hour. This month, Armani Exchange…
If your knowledge of Brazil starts with its waxing technique and ends with soccer, you really ought to read on. This Saturday marks the first annual Brazilian Day in Arizona, a night of dancing, eating, drinking, and celebrating of Brazilian culture on its independence day. The event features live music,…
Adriane GoetzLoving life at Bar Smith. Phoenicians finally have their choice of dance venues on Friday nights, but Bar Smith was among the first to do it right and its Fuse Fridays are still going strong. Check out our slideshow from last Friday, where special guest DJ Udachi lit up…
If you want your business to make more money, “You just git one o’ them ‘Tweeter’ accounts, right?” This is the stuff of nightmares for any social-media strategist, but sadly, there are still many businesses with a similar mindset. Today, even technologically out-of-touch businesses know that social-media – “whatever that…
Here in the States, the closest thing to a “traditional garment” worn by men, women, and children is a pair of jeans (at best). In Japan, however, the kimono has been a major wardrobe staple of each and every citizen for centuries. As familiar as the kimono is internationally, many…
Finally, some CityScape nightlife! Lucky Strike opened its lanes and lounge last Thursday, and folks from all over the Valley came out to drink some booze, throw some balls, and, in a few cases, get turned away for violating the venue’s strict dress code. Perched atop a CVS on Jefferson…
Everyone should have a dream. While yours may not be as ambitious as, say, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s, it’s nice to have something to strive for. And if Liquid Entertainment’s dream was to throw a Scottsdale dance night lasting at least one year then that dream has come true.How…
Between Eclipse, True Blood, and the (unfortunate) remake of The Wolfman, 2010 is clearly the year of the werewolf. So perhaps it’s best that the (Lake) Pleasant Paddlers are hosting an almost full moon tour. This weekend, cruise through the Lake’s bay and inlets with the moonlight and your flashlight…
With Friday the 13th films playing on every TV screen, an entire staff of slasher victims and a visit from Jason Voorhees himself, it was a real massacre at Monkey Pants in Tempe on Friday night. Check out our slideshow for all the gory details…
Ain’t nothin’ chilly about Florida, so it’s not surprising that Orlando native DJ Icey supposedly received his moniker because of his love for air conditioning. Icey is known for blending elements of Chicago hip house with English break-beat house (a sound that was dubbed “funky breaks”) and was a driving…
You may not have the grades or the rich daddy to attend Harvard, but now you can party like a pretentious, coked up co-ed at Jen Deveroux’s newest Ivy League bash. Go-go dancers will be clad in underwear and knee-highs on the retro futuristic light-up dance floor as DJ Tricky…
No doubt about it, Amsterdam is the most poppin’ place to be downtown on a Friday night. The music is loud, the drinks are strong and crowd is wild and crazy, but also super friendly and welcoming. Check out the scene last Friday in our slideshow…
Everyone likes Daft Punk (or at least claims to). At this point it’s considered socially unacceptable not to at least “respect” the duo’s music as being “influential” (this response was originally created by people who don’t like the Beatles but don’t want to argue about it for the next hour)…
Hell yes the Lady Gaga show was crazy, but the after party at Crotch Rockitt with guest DJs Lady Starlight and Semi Precious Weapons was Monster Balls-to-the-walls. Peep our slideshow to see drinking, dancing, debauchery and outrageous club fashion at its Phoenix finest. Crotch Rockitt takes over Club Forbidden, 6820…
If two to three hours of live Lady Gaga still isn’t enough (or if you couldn’t score tickets to the sold-out show), you don’t have to let that eight-inch bedazzled Kermit the Frog hairpiece go to waste. That’s because after the real Gaga show ends, the Lady G After Party…
Every summer, the Phoenix metro area turns into the “Valley of the Hotel Pool Party.” But as great an excuse as it is to get drunk, half-naked, in the middle of the afternoon, one problem remains: it’s a hundred and fifteen friggin’ degrees. Since 50 percent of attendees don’t step…
There were plenty of synchronized dance moves, laser lights and ski masks to go around at Club Sanctum Friday night. Check out our Sanctum slideshow to see all the action…
We may not always “get it,” but for some reason the world is obsessed with club music. So whether or not you like house, trance, or electronica, it’s still pretty rad that the biggest names in the scene consistently hit Phoenix. (At least that’s one genre not boycotting us yet.)…
Sometimes the best time and place to dance will surprise you. More often than you’d expect, a Thursday night at Tempe’s Yucca Tap Room is a way better time to “get down” than a Friday night at [insert any typical dance club here], thanks to the killer DJs and zealous…
It’s funny how the entire world hates Ke$ha’s guts but goes bananas on the dance floor every time her tunes come on. Like it or not, some music is made strictly for partyin’. Los Angeles-based “hip pop dance” sensation Far East Movement is another great example of a party-music machine,…
