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The competition and festivities of the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam culminated Saturday night at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe, where Porsha Olayiwola, who hails from Boston, was crowned the champion.

Performer Leslie Barton has worked in an array of art forms including performance and stand-up comedy. She enjoys shocking her audiences, making them laugh and expressing her feelings about personal experiences.

The SNAP Challenge tests people's ability to eat on a food stamp budget for a week: $27 all week, or about $3.86 per day. Downtown Devil Assistant Photo Editor Amanda LaCasse took on an abridged version of the challenge.

Arizona Humanities has created a writing workshop to help veterans express themselves and reintegrate with their communities. The program is hosted at the Burton Barr Central Library.

Lindsay Kinkade is the founder of graphic design studio Design RePublic, which has collaborated with different people and organizations to enhance art and transportation downtown.

The 4-year-old Grand Avenue Rail Project organization continues to seek support for the construction of a downtown streetcar system, now expanding its proposed rail lines.

Hot Box Gallery, a shipping-container gallery on Fourth and Roosevelt streets, was joined by two new container galleries for October's First Friday Art Walk. The galleries received funding to be temporarily transported around different areas of downtown Phoenix.

Downtown's The Nash jazz club has partnered with the Phoenix Conservatory of Music to create a one-year jazz studies program for nine high-school students.

Local community leaders and scholars congregated at the Arizona Opera Center Monday to discuss Hispanic culture and issues, and how they can be better...

MyFitnessPal, Fitbit, MapMyRun, Nike+ -- health apps are redefining the way communities can maintain healthy lifestyles. Over the past few years, health app innovation...