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A high-end denim shop is opening its doors Sunday in CityScape, with the hopes of bringing a “Johnny Depp meets GQ” style to the Phoenix business scene.

Children and parents tinker with snap circuits and other circuit boards for fun or to complete projects as part of Hacker Haven Tuesday nights at Burton Barr Central Library.

Downtown Phoenix has a history — its buildings tell a story. Ghosts are part of that story, as local self-described “hip historian” Marshall Shore would say. An entrepreneur in spirit, Shore will be leading his second annual Haunted Phoenix bus tour exploring the city’s ghostly past starting Oct. 12.

Circle K will move forward with its development of its new 16-pump location on the southeast corner of Seventh and Roosevelt streets. Community reaction has been overwhelmingly negative, with most concerns centering around their poor relationship with Circle K in the past and the new location's impending liqueur license.

Electric car charging station company Ecotality has declared bankruptcy and is facing class-action lawsuits. The company's charging station brand, Blink Network, constitutes 95 percent of the charging stations in the Phoenix metropolitan area. How Ecotality's bankruptcy will affect the Phoenix economy is still uncertain.

The city of Phoenix and over 50 private and public organizations aim to bring awareness to domestic violence through Paint Phoenix Purple, a city-wide event happening during Domestic Violence Awareness Month in October. The city will paint some streets purple and change the lights outside or on buildings such as the Convention Center and City Hall to purple.

For downtown Phoenix activists, angry reactions don’t dissuade them from showing up on street corners, in front of libraries or outside politicians' offices.

University of Arizona professor Frederic Zenhausern spoke about the difference between real life and "CSI" at the Arizona Science Center Friday. Zenhausern created a portable, DNA-analyzer that can give investigators results in hours.

Several thousand people marched through downtown Phoenix Saturday while following a route was carefully chosen to tell the story of deportation symbolically by passing through a church, ASU and ending at the Superior Court.

The first zombie walk king and queen were crowned Friday night at the zombie homecoming hosted by the Downtown Phoenix Partnership at the Duce.