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A Latina singer and a Japanese mother talk about how they maintain their cultural heritage through music. Then reporters discuss how the LGBT community is creating its own traditions downtown.

Harumi Sushi was my first time adventuring outside of what I like to call the “California Roll Bubble,” where the only sushi consumed is either cooked or unauthentic.

Bioscience High School seniors took a walk down Seventh Street Wednesday to visit the site where they will start a new community garden. The lot is currently a stretch of dirt behind a rental home owned by Dr. Preethy Kaibara. Kaibara reached out to Bioscience last summer about reactivating the lot because the neighborhood could use an interactive community space, she said. The students will incorporate school and internship projects into their plans for the garden.

Children and parents tinker with snap circuits and other circuit boards for fun or to complete projects as part of Hacker Haven Tuesday nights at Burton Barr Central Library.

Several thousand people marched through downtown Phoenix Saturday while following a route was carefully chosen to tell the story of deportation symbolically by passing through a church, ASU and ending at the Superior Court.

The first zombie walk king and queen were crowned Friday night at the zombie homecoming hosted by the Downtown Phoenix Partnership at the Duce.

Saturday was the annual Chili Pepper Festival on Roosevelt Street. Local food trucks and restaurants whipped up their finest pepper dishes, from green chili stew to green chili green apple pies.

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation exceeded their expected donations during Saturday's 33rd annual StairClimb and Firefighter Challenge, with the money to go toward the search for a cure to cystic fibrosis.

Artists, friends and local art buyers in Phoenix gathered at The Firehouse Gallery to give a final farewell to deceased artist, Craig Koch. Various pieces of Koch's artwork were gathered for the occasion.

After two days of heavy rainfall and cooler weather around the Valley, more showers are predicted for the rest of the week, according to the National Weather Service.