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From 12 months to one week before a performance, Arizona theater companies go through many motions to make a show happen, starting with figuring out the upcoming year's schedule and ending with everyone working together in real time.

Construction on a four story, 266-unit apartment complex in Midtown called Elevation Central is slated to begin this December on the southwest corner of Central and Highland Avenues. Verdura Residential is the residential development company in charge of the complex, which will be located near two light rail stations - Campbell and Central, and Central and Camelback.

The Bar on Central is currently open to anyone 18 years or older once a week. Its College Night, which began in mid-October along with the bar's grand opening, happens every Wednesday starting at 10 p.m.

The city will add approximately 35 new street and pedestrian lights along Roosevelt Street from Central Avenue to Fourth Street in April 2014 and from Fourth to Seventh streets in April 2015. Local businesses and community associations anticipate increased business and street traffic while making sure the lights fit the community's growing identity.

The donation program at Mazie's began in July. The cafe chooses a charity every month and donates ten percent of its proceeds every Wednesday to that chosen charity.

Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter James Steele spoke with a panel of this year’s Barlett & Steele Award winners about investigative business reporting Monday at the Walter Cronkite School.

The ASU Herberger Institute for Design and Arts’ School of Art will be moving five of its ten graduate programs to its new facility in the Levine Machine, a renovated warehouse in downtown Phoenix.

The fifth annual Tour de Coops was promoted at the first Sustainability Festival on Saturday at Steele Indian School Park. Other sustainability vendors were present, including Arizona Public Service and ASU's Global Institute of Sustainability.

The Friday presentation was part of the Equal Opportunity Department's Faces of Diversity Brown Bag Series and moved to educate people about and raise awareness of workplace bullying, which is often connected to bullying in childhood.

At the 14th annual effort by HandsOn Greater Phoenix to renovate locations throughout Phoenix on Saturday, about 100 people spent the morning painting downtown's Growhouse and fixing up the A.R.T.S. Market lot on Roosevelt Row.