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Stephen Strange of the Strange Family Circus partnered with the Office of the Mayor Phil Gordon and the Downtown Phoenix Partnership to establish the Phoenix Annual Parade of the Arts, which won “Best Parade” in the Phoenix News Times Best of 2008. Stephen also co created “Television Noir,” an award winning, late night comedy/music show with musician Mike Red of Sonorous and Burn Down Tempo. As “The Mother Fakir,” Sahar Strange became the first African American woman to have a speaking role in an American sideshow while working with the Coney Island Circus Sideshow in New York. As a child, she studied with the Princeton Ballet Society and graduated cum laude from Wellesley College. Together, the duo received the honors of “The Outrageously Odd Couple” by the Phoenix News Times Best of 2008 and shared the spotlight with other denizens of Roosevelt Row for “Best place to be on First Friday” in the Phoenix News Times Best of 2009. For fun, Stephen and Sahar can often be seen street performing at First Friday and at other downtown public events in Phoenix, AZ and on Mill Avenue in Tempe, AZ. On most Sunday evenings, Stephen teaches fire eating at their studio in Central Phoenix. Stephen and Sahar live in Phoenix with their two young daughters, Raven and Amara who appeared with their parents in a Sunday arts cover story in the Arizona Republic in September of 2009.