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The Downtown Phoenix Partnership’s Phoenix Ambassadors may be best known for their bright orange shirts that encourage passers-by to “Ask Me!” questions, but ambassadors also serve the community as security and emergency responders.

Discount Cab will launch a new mobile application that will allow customers to rate drivers and pay for their fare with their credit card.

We-Cycle-USA, a recycling bicycling shop, relocated to the heart of the emerging warehouse district in August, at 521 S. First Ave., on the corner of First and Lincoln avenues. We-Cycle was originally founded in Mesa by Robert Chacon.

Phoenix is the sixth largest city in the country, but its downtown offers few apartment complex options students can afford to live in. But affordability is not the problem; students claim there is nothing to do in downtown.

Startups that are a part of Seed Spot, a midtown incubator, will showcase their business models to the public as part of Demo Day on Wednesday.

Heritage Square Park drew 66 local and national breweries at the Phoenix Brewers International this weekend, where those of legal drinking age could sample beers with the purchase of a $35 plastic 12-ounce beer mug.

At 5:30 p.m. on Monday, St. Mary's Basilica will begin the 14-month celebration of its centennial with a solemn mass led by Bishop Thomas Olmsted. Mass will start with an outdoor ceremony, have a ceremonial prayer and then move inside for worship.

On Friday, fixed-gear bike group and bike- and clothing-maker Heavy Pedal opened its first store at Madison Street and Eighth Avenue, where they kicked off the company's opening with designers, DJs and artists.

Jon Linton aims to show the public the stories of homeless men and women that are often ignored through the power of his photography. His project, called I Have a Name, has gained a following online and will make a debut at {9} The Gallery on December First Friday.

Family-planning services and STI testing aren't the first things you think of when you're looking at a church, but an unlikely partnership between the Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Grace clinic and the Grace Lutheran Church downtown sets out to break the stereotypes. The clinic also offers positions to ASU nursing students.