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25 Best Club Candids Photos of December

By Benjamin Leatherman

Jan 2, 2015

December was what you might call a busy month, and not just because of all the holiday hullabaloo. Granted, there was plenty of that happening, but it was just one of many things we had on our to-do list over the last 31 days or so. Between celebrating the season...

25 Best Club Candids Photos of November

By Phoenix New Times

Dec 4, 2014

So, how was your November? You probably did the Thanksgiving thing with the family, watched tons of football, and got into it with other Black Friday shoppers in order to nab the biggest deals. As for the Club Candids crew, they spent the past month celebrating Day of the Dead,...

25 Best Club Candids Photos of October

By Benjamin Leatherman

Nov 6, 2014

We totally got to party with a robot in Scottsdale a few weeks ago. True story. Well, we're pretty sure it was a robot, but admit that it might've been a dude in some shiny, vacuformed plastic armor. (We also may have been a few drinks in at the time.)...

25 Best Club Candids Photos of September

By Benjamin Leatherman

Oct 1, 2014

Summer is officially over, which is both a blessing and a curse. Yeah, the heat may have dissipated (for the moment, at least) but that means the end of all those groovy pool parties. As the swim soirees drop off, however, you're gonna see club scene activity pick up a...

The 25 Best Club Candids Photos of August

By Benjamin Leatherman

Sep 1, 2014

There were a lot of things both shiny and new making a debut in local nightlife during the month of August. Spots like The King or Cowboys and Whiskey in Scottsdale opened to the clubgoing public while a few new dance nights (such as Motown on Mondays at the Crescent...

The 25 Best Club Candids Photos of July

By Benjamin Leatherman

Jul 31, 2014

The Club Candids crew logged a helluva lot of miles and shutter clicks in July as we found ourselves venturing into some rather interesting places From shiny and new Scottsdale bars to the dark and sweaty rave venues out in Mesa, we crisscrossed the Valley and sought out wild times...

The 25 Best Club Candids Photos of June

By Benjamin Leatherman

Jul 3, 2014

As the temperatures rise in the Valley, the turnout at local bars and clubs tends to drop, for the most part. Some nightlife spots still attract a crowd despite the killer heat, like the place that Club Candids visited in June. Whether it was costumed partiers at Apollo's Lounge, college...

The 25 Best Club Candids Photos of May

By Benjamin Leatherman

May 30, 2014

You won't believe some of the things we saw while out at the clubs this past month. Besides gawking at all the usual nightlife shenanigans, we happened to spy such weird and wild things as life-sized anthropomorphic animals costumes, dudes firing up laser beams, and a few religious types leading...

The 25 Best Club Candids Photos of April

By Benjamin Leatherman

May 1, 2014

Ravers and drinkers and college cats, oh my. That's just some of who we encountered in our clubland adventures during the past month while in pursuit of snazzy snapshots. We got to share oxygen with world-famous beat-juggler David Guetta at Maya in Scottsdale, stayed up late with candy kids at...

The 25 Best Club Candids Photos of March

By Benjamin Leatherman

Apr 2, 2014

If you were out soaking up the sounds at the Monarch Theatre during Pete Tong's spectacular set last month, we might have taken your picture. Ditto for those who hung out at both Bottled Blonde and El Hefe in Scottsdale, folks celebrating Spring Training at Dos Gringos and Giligin's, or...

The 25 Best Club Candids Photos of February

By Phoenix New Times

Mar 6, 2014

February was most certainly a busy month for the Club Candids crew. Each and every week, we hit up hot nightspots and dance joints in both Tempe and Scottsdale and grabbed snaps of some of the mass revelry that was taking place within. And believe us, there was a lot...

The 25 Best Club Candids Photos of January

By Phoenix New Times

Feb 4, 2014

It's been said that January is the worst month because of post-holiday depression, having to stick to all those pesky resolutions, or your ass getting dumped. But if anyone was feeling blue during the first month of 2014, they weren't showing their frowny faces at any of the bars, music...

The 25 Best Phoenix Club Candids Photos of September

By Phoenix New Times

Oct 1, 2013

Fun fact: If a Phoenix New Times Club Candids photographer is caught out in the line of duty--and given the size of the cameras they carry around, this happens a lot--we disavow all knowledge of their activities. So when you see them taking photos in every nook and cranny of...

The 25 Best Phoenix Club Candids Photos of August 2013

By Phoenix New Times

Sep 4, 2013

August is a paradox. It's peak pool party weather, inasmuch as it's too hot out to do much else, but it's also the socially accepted time to begin wrapping up the pool party season, wearing white, pretending it's summer instead of pretending it's fall, etc. It's a transition month for...

The 25 Best Phoenix Club Photos of July 2013

By Phoenix New Times

Aug 6, 2013

An emergency deployment to Hollywood Alley might have deprived them of sleep and beer money, but it wasn't about to keep our Club Candids photographers off their usual July beat: Taking pictures of people who would probably have left Phoenix for the summer if it weren't for the pool parties...

The 25 Best Phoenix Club Photos of June 2013

By Phoenix New Times

Jul 3, 2013

June ended with a bang--Axis Radius closed down after one last blowout and temperatures spiked from "I guess I signed up for this" to "I did not sign up for this"--but our Club Candids photographers were busy all month, documenting Phoenix nightlife and consuming lots of fluids, probably. Here are...

20 Photos from Axis Radius' Big Going-Away Party

By Phoenix New Times

Jul 1, 2013

Last weekend, after 16 years as an Old Town institution, Scottsdale's Axis-Radius was the site of one last blowout before closing down for good. (It's set to reopen next year as a new music venue and craft beer hangout.) We were there for Last Call. Here's 20 photos from the...

The 25 Best Phoenix Club Photos of May 2013

By Phoenix New Times

Jun 3, 2013

Our intrepid Club Candids photographers began May covering Cinco de Mayo at the Spanish Fly and ended it on Mill Avenue, at the newly opened Gringo Star Street Bar. In between, they caught nightlife in the Valley in these photos:...

Club Candids: Hollywood Saturdays at EPIQ Nightclub in Scottsdale

By Benjamin Leatherman

Apr 17, 2013

The weekend drinking and dancing action at EPIQ Nightclub in Scottsdale gets so fierce that it appears as though people are climbing the walls while frenetically partying their brains out. Okay, that ain't literally the case, mind you, but damned if don't look that way, thanks to all the smoke...

Club Candids: Relentless Beach at El Santo

By Benjamin Leatherman

Apr 10, 2013

Although we're loath to admit it, the full force of summertime's fury is a few weeks hence, if not (gulp) sooner. And thanks to that whole climate-change nightmare that the right-wing nutters seem to be in unapologetic denial over, it's gonna be more uncomfortable than ever 'round these parts. Some...

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