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The Cave Creek-based restaurant, Bad Donkey, opened at the downtown Valley of the Sun YMCA last Tuesday. The small shop sells subs, salads, wraps, smoothies and other healthy food items.

The City of Phoenix approved the purchase of 120 new Valley Metro buses that will run on compressed natural gas, replacing about 25 percent of liquefied natural gas buses currently in use.

The Bergamot Institute is a nonprofit organization, and its new art program provides people of all ages with the space and art supplies needed to create artwork. The organization receives most of the supplies for the sessions as donations from The Art Resource Center located in Tempe, as well as from local artists.

For the second year in a row, Stacey Champion has taken on the task of producing "The Vagina Monologues," a set of skits that have been performed around the globe. The production is the brainchild of American playwright and activist Eve Ensler.

With the arrival of Art Detour’s 25th year comes an opportunity to take pause and look back at what came before. In that spirit, we present 25 spaces -- an overview of 25 locations that helped shape Art Detour and its monthly iteration, First Friday, into what they are today.

An exchange of ideas between friends over a bottle of wine could be the new “once upon a time” in the entrepreneurial and business world. Such was the situation for Courtney Klein Johnson, the co-founder of downtown Phoenix’s Seed Spot.

February's Third Friday Guide highlights dystopias, gunpowder and Arizona's stunning night sky.

A downtown restaurant is looking to make a little extra money by doing something unconventional -- leasing out the building to their competition.

Short Leash Hot Dogs has been expanding recently by deciding to partner with Astor House in downtown Phoenix and offering a new brunch menu.

The Jamburritos Cajun Grille food truck is hoping to expand to a brick-and-mortar by next fall