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A new jewelry store in the Arizona Center opened earlier this month. Avir Jewelry is located between Cold Stone Creamery and Sports World. The owner said he hopes to create jewelry that reflects the buyer's view of the world.

Elephants Trunk, an eclectic antique store, offers a wide array of products including anything funny, bright or ugly as the owner describes it. The store opened earlier this month and is located at 5th and Garfield streets.

ASU graduate students in the Herberger Institute School of Art’s printmaking program took the sunflower stalks grown during the last Valley of the Sunflowers season, turned them into paper and asked local artists to create artwork out of it.

City Councilman Tom Simplot announced Tuesday he will not run again for office after ten years of service in District 4.

If Grand Avenue were a street on the Monopoly board, Beatrice Moore would be its owner. But instead of identical, characterless little red and green plastic houses lining the roadway, each unique structure has an interesting story to tell, just like the woman behind their preservation.

Originally from Scotland, Gordon Stevenson is the choir director for St. Mary's Basilica, located on Third Street in downtown Phoenix.

Due to high vacancy percentages in Phoenix’s past, the city, businesses and community organizations are creating new venues and events to fill the unused spaces.

A new restaurant will be taking over the small retail space inside Grand Avenue’s Bragg’s Pie Factory mid-February, bringing with it familiar vegan and vegetarian food and for the first time, pie.

Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski has a vision for a pedestrian-only First Street that would feature grassy walkways, cultural centers and an area devoted to sports legends.

The Arizona Board of Regents approved funding recently for a six-story, $100 million dollar cancer center at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, set to open by 2015.