Best Place To Document Your Drunken Shenanigans 2012
Ever wonder why your head is filled with fuzzy recollections on the morning after a big-time bender? To paraphrase Jamie Foxx, you can blame it on the alcohol. See, the neurons populating the hippocampus region of your brain — specifically, the ones responsible for memory formation — don’t take kindly to last night’s orgy of [...]
Best Scottsdale Success Story 2012
Four Valley nightlife veterans — Chad Landau, G.R. Boone, Brooks Holcomb and Kyle Dibble — have managed to figure out how to please Old Town Scottsdale’s party crowd. They opened side-by-side lounges: one that appeals to men, and the other that appeals to women. In late 2010, they opened Smashboxx, a beat-thumping club with rows [...]
Best Nightclubs in Scottsdale and Phoenix 2011
Another Scottsdale hot spot is Smashboxx in Old Town in the area of other great places, like Majarle’s and El Hefe. Less than a year old, Smashboxx has already seen major success in being a lounge and restaurant by day and club at night. Many club-goers are following the trend of coming early for dinner and a [...]
Best New Nightclub 2011
The seemingly cursed location in Old Town finally has luck on its side with Smashboxx, a vibrant new club run by Valley nightlife veterans. By day, Smashboxx is an upscale sports lounge and restaurant; by night, it’s a pulse-pounding, girls-dancing-on-the-booths hot spot. The lounge has a noticeably masculine feel: The 65-foot-long bar is paneled in [...]
