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Slide show: CityScape’s Black Friday

CityScape celebrated Black Friday with a vintage market, and set up its ice skating rink for the third year — this time on Central Avenue.

DevilPass: Oscar nominees, an acclaimed animator and the Green Bay Packers

If you're spending your Thanksgiving weekend in Phoenix, check out a notorious animator, an acclaimed Broadway play, a true science-fiction classic, a long-running talk show and two rising rock groups.

DevilPass: Downtown Chamber Series, tribal graffiti, lot reactivation and Alexis Gideon

This weekend, is all about heavy-hitters. The long-running Downtown Chamber Series is performing an encore of one of its most revered pieces. A mural all-star debuts his brand-new solo show. Local hip-hop aficionados hold down the fort at downtown’s hottest (and only) book shop welcoming hot DJs from the past, present and future. And a multimedia artist shares her latest film work, incorporating improvised music into her emotional constructions. Step outside and walk (or bike) to one of these shows.

DevilPass: Captain Squeegee and the Soap Suds, Euro-folk music and breakdancing

This week we embrace the fringe. Local ska-turned-psychedelic stars collaborate with a massive jazz group, while an experimental theater troupe makes its triumphant return to the public.

DevilPass: Saul Williams, a community party, the story of a string quartet and Eddie Vedder

To be honest, there isn’t any sort of cohesive theme to this week’s DevilPass. But rather, it’s amalgamation of all the idiosyncrasies which make this city so vital.Together, this diverse array truly provides the greatest definition of downtown Phoenix.

DevilPass: Demetri Martin, creative J-punk, eclectic haunted tours and PoeFest

In the spirit of Halloween, this week's DevilPass is a bit more spirited, a bit more participatory and a lot more FUN. In a week filled with Important Things, sing-along folk-punk, Edgar Allen Poe, zany J-punk, and...