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​Twenty-six-year-old local culinary guru Gabriele Bertaccini is the Florence-bred chef, charming host, and passionate businessman behind Culinary Mischief, a once a month underground dinner party adventure, marking a Phoenix first for bridge-gaping dining events around town.

Bertaccini's "Mischief" has been around for almost three years. He says that he hopes the event continues to bring people together by introducing new flavors, new spaces, new faces, and new fun into the lives of "in-the-know" local folk who seek the kind of mind-opening, memory making experiences that Bertaccini lives for.

Six courses, six wines, thirty hand-selected guests, and one unique location. Oh yeah, and onehelluva awesome local memory.

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George Koopman is the cool and collected cat behind local limousine party bus/van transportation services, The Vig Rig and Tuesday Trolley. As The Valley's most reputable designated driver, Koopman knows how to show people a good time and keep them safe while doing it.

With The Vig Rig in its fourth year of running -- a complimentary van service that picks you up from home, drops you at The Vig Arcadia and a Scottsdale club/bar of your choice, then swoops you up and delivers you right back home (yes, for free) -- Tuesday Trolley is Koopman's most recent, a sweet party bus that's been rockin' up and down Indian School Road for a little over two years-- $3 to ride and $3 drinks at each of the four bars on The Trolley's itinerary.

Don't worry, we're smacking ourselves for not knowing about this rad deal sooner, too.

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McCall and right-hand man Aaron Lockert

​Braden McCall is a full-time architecture student, dedicated local music mastermind, and part-time party enthusiast. More >>

Photo by: Maria Vassett

​28-year-old Stephen Chilton (aka "Psyko Steve") is the Valley's veteran concert promoter. After 11 years of experience in the concert promoting game, Chilton's name (and rockin' mustache) have become synonymous with the Phoenix music scene.

As a Phoenix native, Chilton has not only watched a place like downtown Phoenix develop, he's helped inspire it-- through kick ass rock show, after kick ass rock show. 

We caught up with Chilton on our most recent wingman venture. Read on, after the jump.
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​Tiffany Egbert is a local designer, photographer, and owner of online vintage clothing store, Kitten Paws Vintage. More >>

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​Jason Ayers is a local artist, graphic designer, and computer programmer. But owning a web/mobile application business and organizing the local installments of Pecha-Kucha are just a few of Ayers daytime duties. More >>

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​You might know Juan Carlos Lenz as "JC," or by his reputable DJ handle, BC/AD, and you'll definitely recognize him as an OG in The Valley's alternative nightlife scene. He's responsible for developing legendary DJ dance nights Party Foul and Ransom, he's helped to set the local standard for kick ass dance party debauchery, and he's also set the standard for what it means to be called a "hipster DJ".

That is, if a hipster DJ translates to being a lovable, Texas-bred gent who knows how to rock a belt buckle and trouble shoot a mac, just as well as he knows how to spin a wide-range of dance-inducing jams.

We caught up with Lenz for our most recent Wingman venture in Downtown Phoenix. Read on, after the jump.
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​Monique Suede Wallis is a local promoter with a whole lot of chutzpah. Lets just say, being one of very few up and coming female promoters in Phoenix, takes some serious girl power-- and it's pretty clear this dynamic diva doesn't have a problem with that.

At 23 years old, Miss Wallis is fairly new to the promoting game but that doesn't mean she's any less capable than a veteran promoter to come up with a killer creative idea for a kick ass party in Downtown Phoenix. More >>

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​Aaron Hempsey is a local DJ with a hunger for underground house-music. After years of involvement in the alternative nightlife scene and recent DJ gigs at The Valley's most reputable indie dance nights like Cheap Thrills, Solstice, and Sticky Fingers, Hempsey or "Aaron F" is taking matters into his own hands with an event he and a few of his close DJ friends are launching called Rebel Disco.

(Note: Rebel Disco will take place this Saturday, the 17th, at Brick in Downtown Phoenix and feature NYC Big-Wig, Jacques Renault.) More >>