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  Club Candids: Rolling Through February's First Friday

  February 17 at 5 a.m.

  The monthly First Friday art walk in downtown Phoenix was a place to see and be seen on February 7. People flocked to Roosevelt Row, Grand Avenue, and elsewhere to check out the art, galleries, vendors, and musicians. There's also plenty of people-watching to be had. Here's who we saw out and about at the event.

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  Club Candids: Techno Snobs' Cold Leather Party Was Kinky and Debaucherous Fun

  February 4 at 6:54 p.m.

  The Techno Snobs took over the upstairs Scarlet Lounge at the Monarch Theatre on Friday, January 31, for an evening of fetish thrills and high-energy dance music. Kink-oriented demonstrations took place while DJs and producers including Sueño, Stoneypie, and Hexmaschine blasted genres like techno, bass, and industrial.

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  Club Candids: CUPCAKE! Cirque Berserk Was a Big-Top Bacchanal

  January 29 at 12:38 p.m.

  Fetish-friendly dance party CUPCAKE! made its long-awaited return on Saturday, January 25, at The Rebel Lounge. Subtitled "Cirque Berserk," the event featured clowns, ringmasters, stilt-walkers, goths, and freaks in attendance. DJs like Betty Blackheart, Self.Destrukt, and Plastic Disease were also present and spun mixes of industrial, bass, and electro. 

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  Club Candids: Going Wild at an After-Hours Warehouse Party

  January 21 at 1:08 p.m.

  One of the many warehouses in the Valley was alive with activity and pulsating with bass deep into the night on Saturday, January 18, during an under-the-radar dance party. Local DJs like Gypsy X, Fairydust, Fatal Error, and Eyechronic spun house, dubstep, and trap, and other electronic dance music genres in two rooms as wild times ensued.

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  Club Candids: Full Moon Festival's Wolf Moon Celebration Was An Arty Party

  January 17 at 9 a.m.

  The Pressroom in downtown Phoenix was alive with music, color, and art during the Full Moon Festival's Wolf Moon celebration on Saturday, January 11. The event, which was held in honor of January's wolf moon, featured a vibrant mix of local DJs, bands, and creatives, as well as plenty of people in attendance. 

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  Club Candids: Geeking Out at Level 1 Arcade Bar's Grand Opening

  Monday, December 30, 2019 at 6:30 a.m.

  It was game on inside Level 1 Arcade Bar in Gilbert during its grand opening on Friday, December 27. The new game bar, which is located in Gilbert's Heritage District, was packed with people checking out the place and playing its 30 arcade games and 10 pinball machines.