Alexandra Scoville

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Devil’s Advocate: A graduating senior’s goodbye to Downtown Devil

Seventh Street to Seventh Avenue, McDowell to the railroad tracks. Those were some of the first words I ever heard at my first Downtown Devil meeting. I was new to downtown Phoenix, despite growing up in the city’s northernmost...

Downtown Devil’s Highlights of Art Detour 28

Downtown Devil's arts editor, as well as our art columnist, each picked their top three experiences of Art Detour 28. Be sure to listen to their podcast, "Art School Dropouts," for more discussion about their top choices and thoughts on Art Detour as an institution.

A history of Okilly Dokilly: Phoenix’s half urban legend, half viral Internet sensation

Perspiration hung thick in the Trunk Space on Sept. 5. Tickets were capped at 175, but there were more people than that in the garage-sized venue. The concert probably broke city fire code. No one cared. Okilly Dokilly...

Make the most of Saturday’s Los Dias de la Crescent and Chile Pepper Festival

The entertaining doubleheader of Los Dias de la Crescent and the Chili Pepper Festival is this Saturday. We mapped out your day so you don't have to.

Timeline: Downtown public art through the years

With the art projects along Roosevelt Row causing such a commotion recently, we decided to highlight some other examples of the 170 completed projects downtown since the creation of the city's Public Art Program in 1986.

Devil’s Advocate: Adaptive reuse keeping city’s past intertwined with its future

Despite what appears to be a grim time for buildings and the memories and culture that go with them in downtown Phoenix, hope to preserve the past and enhance the future exists with adaptive reuse.