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Bioscience High School senior Samantha Su Taylor was recently awarded a Flinn Scholarship, making her the first student from the school to ever receive this prestigious merit.

Downtown Phoenix overflowed with costumed fans and pop culture enthusiasts attending the eleventh annual Phoenix Comicon. From Thursday to Sunday, the Phoenix Convention Center and the surrounding hotels hosted the yearly event crafted for comic geeks, Trekkies, anime buffs and countless other fandoms.

But the most dissident aspects of the report among downtown residents was the use of social media surveillance, undercover cops and an email sent to police by Cindy Dach, MADE art boutique owner, Changing Hands Bookstore owner and co-founder of Roosevelt Row CDC.

The documentary tells the story of Latinos in the United States and their history, culture and experiences. It covers the European conquest of the Southwest, various waves of immigration to the United States, the Latino presence in global wars and the Latino civil rights movement.

The city of Phoenix is moving forward with a study that would determine the effectiveness of a pedestrian mall on Adams Street between Second Street and Central Avenue. The city council has allocated $73,060 for one year of consulting with the architectural firm Gensler for the Adams Street Activation Study.

ASU alumni and Peritoneum designers Kyle Fiano and Courtney Larsen will spend a month in eastern Europe this summer to study Spomeniks, a form of public art designed to commemorate historic events.

Urban Choices hosted conversations with City Council candidates from Districts 4 and 8 in on Wednesday and Thursday. The candidates discussed a variety of issues, proposed to the candidates by members of the community and Urban Choices.

The scholars program provides academic opportunities to remarkable minority students with financial need like Jennifer Price-Smith, Gerardo Calderon and Elizabeth Palos.

The Phoenix Public Market Cafe, which celebrated its official opening day Wednesday, is the creation of Valley chef Aaron Chamberlin and is altogether a restaurant, rotisserie, bakery, coffee shop and bar.

ASU alumnus Ian Danley received an award last week from the White House honoring him as a “Champion of Change.”