Slide show: Students return to classes
Shots from events around the Downtown campus and downtown Phoenix as students returned for the first week of classes.
Slide show: Phoenix Pride Festival
The Phoenix Pride Festival was hosted on April 17-18 by Phoenix Pride, which brings Phoenix’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people community together for marches, parades, entertainment and educational events.
Audio Slide show: St. Patrick’s Day
The Phoenix Irish Cultural Center celebrated St. Patrick's Day with a performance by local chorale group Celtica! and a Ceili, in which Irish dances were taught to live music.
Matsuri: Phoenix’s Japanese festival
Taiko drummers, bonsai artists and anime characters gathered at the annual Japanese festival, Matsuri, which returned to the Heritage and Science Park in downtown Phoenix on Feb. 27-28.
Audio slide show: Black History Month
A variety of musicians and artists supported downtown Phoenix’s black community in a celebration for Black History Month at the Civic Space Park. The event, which lasted from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Friday Feb. 5, featured a group playing the djembe drums, a pair of rappers and a ten-man jazz band.
Fear in Phoenix
The latest exhibit at the Arizona Science Center in downtown Phoenix, which opened on Jan. 31, gives visitors the chance to face their fears — in the most literal sense.
Cyclists raise awareness about sharing roads
About 100 Phoenix cyclists rode around the downtown area Friday to raise motor-vehicle drivers’ awareness on sharing the road.
Slide show: Phoenix Idiotarod
Nearly 150 people competed in the fourth annual Phoenix Idiotarod on Saturday. About 30 teams drove modified shopping carts around downtown Phoenix participating in drinking competitions and making mandatory pit stops at local bars and restaurants while sporting creative costumes.
DevilCast: An early Christmas
Kids and their families visited the Historic Heritage Square on Dec. 5 to sit with Santa, ride a train and decorate cookies as part of a fund raising event to support the museum at the Rosson House, a historic home built in 1895.
Musician uses native sounds to heal and liberate
Porangui, a teacher, therapist and musician, brings the native sounds of the Americas along with his hometown of Sao Paulo, Brazil to downtown Phoenix through the musical group, Grupo Liberdade. Grupo Liberdade, which Porangui founded and musically directs, performed in the fourth annual Phoenix Parade of the Arts on Nov. 14.