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To the uninitiated, Chandler’s Snedigar Park looks like an abandoned water park in post-apocalyptic-drought Phoenix. There’s an empty swimming pool with a ladder, giant concrete steps to nowhere, and what appear to be several kiddy pools surrounded by towering palms. But to anyone with a worn left sneaker and a full deck, this is a […]
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Charlie’s is a slice of Phoenix gay bar history that has huddled along Camelback Road just west of Seventh Avenue since its debut in 1984. In those days, the “lil bitty ol’ pissant country place” and dance hall opened by John King (co-founder of the International Gay Rodeo Association) was aimed at gay urban cowboys […]
Cheetahs Gentleman’s Club has everything a red-blooded, old-fashioned, all-American carnivore and strip club connoisseur could possibly want during a night out on the prowl at an exotic dance emporium. Red meat abounds on its menu of Mexican and American-style eats in the form of beef fajitas, thick cuts of prime rib on Thursdays, and plates […]
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Housed inside the historic Monroe School in downtown Phoenix, this kid-centric museum is a must for parents trying to cure the summertime boredom blues. Of course, the Children’s Museum on Phoenix is a great place to visit truly any time of year, with awesome exhibits like the infamous “noodle forest,” a waving, wiggling rainforest of […]
Childsplay, founded in 1977, is a professional childrens theater company. The theater company founder David Saar recognized during his Master of Fine Arts studies that children could benefit in big ways from professional theater and after graduating, began performing in local classrooms. To this day Childsplay offers three annual touring productions that stop and perform […]
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Usually, we’re with those Echo Canyon snobs who sneer at the wimps coming up the easier Cholla side. But this year, we’ve rediscovered the pleasures of Cholla Trail on Camelback Mountain – especially the killer scramble up the last fifth of the 1.75-mile hike to the summit. If you enjoy a hands-on hike like we […]
The overriding philosophy of topless strip club chain Christie’s Cabaret seems to be that bigger is, indeed, better. All three of its Valley locations dwarf competitors in terms of venue size and revenue alone, serving as the sand-kicking 900-pound heavyweight to everyone else’s pipsqueak runt. Then there’s the chain’s enormous emphasis on unrivaled opulence and […]
The overriding philosophy of topless strip club chain Christie’s Cabaret seems to be that bigger is, indeed, better. All three of its Valley locations dwarf competitors in terms of venue size and revenue alone, serving as the sand-kicking 900-pound heavyweight to everyone else’s pipsqueak runt. Then there’s the chain’s enormous emphasis on unrivaled opulence and […]