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Volunteers kicked off the final harvest of the Valley of the Sunflowers project at Sixth and Garfield streets. More than a dozen turned out to brave the high temperatures and help harvest the sunflowers, which will be turned into biodiesel by the Phoenix Union Bioscience High School.

Community members and Phoenix officials met last month to view plans to revamp the sidewalks and roadway of Roosevelt Street. During the meetings ,concerns with the plans and with downtown as a whole surfaced, including light-rail access and parking.

Fanboys and fangirls flocked to the Phoenix Comicon at the convention center, leaving streets packed and local businesses profiting.

At Core CrossFit Downtown Phoenix, customers come to better themselves physically through group workouts, self-paced exercise and competition with fellow members.

The 2011-2012 school year has been a season of change for ASU Downtown and downtown Phoenix alike, marked by highs and lows that have affected both the campus and the community.

It’s the last day of the first workweek of the month and all of you lovers of the arts know what that means: It’s First Friday. For the last 25 years the good people at Artlink Phoenix have transformed downtown Phoenix into the nation’s largest monthly art walk. Featuring local, national, international, amateur, professional and student artists, First Friday has something for everyone.

Nine people were arrested in midtown Phoenix Wednesday during a protest against Arizona’s controversial immigration law, Senate Bill 1070.

The Valley of the Sunflowers project is in its final season in its current location, but could pop up in another vacant lot in the future.

Presidential candidate Erika Green, incumbent Joseph Grossman and the four vice presidential candidates squared off Friday at the Downtown Devil Presidential Debate, primarily wrangling over the extent of their government experience.

Phoenix’s public spaces were discussed on Wednesday evening by a panel of community activists as part of the last Downtown Devil Discussion of the semester.