Hosts Annika Cline and Agnel Philip set out to answer this question. Urban planners point to Phoenix's city plan to explain today's problems, while community members search for small-scale solutions. They discover parking is about much more than the hunt for a spot; it's a literal road map of Phoenix's past.
In celebration of the end of the academic semester, the Downtown Devil's editors selected stories and columns that represented some of the publication's best work of the past six months.
Paz Cantina, the recent installment along Roosevelt Row tucked away on Third Street where The Local and Scratch once occupied, is a struggling spot which makes our mouths more critical when it comes to the newcomer. Paz maintains the energy of a variety of other downtown restaurants -- the urban-casual feel you might find all along Roosevelt Row, but what does it bring to the table?
Demonstrators rallied around the First Fridays artwalk zone in downtown Phoenix Friday night to protest against police brutality, after a wave of recent national police-involved shootings and grand jury decisions.
When the light rail glides down First Avenue past the Circle K, she doesn’t look. Every day, she turns her body to face the opposite direction or wrenches her eyes tight, barely visible behind don’t-mess-with-me glasses.
