With new parking-meter rules, exceptions made for meters around ASU campus
Although Phoenix's change in parking-meter hours and rates have stirred conversation among residents and visitors, the city has worked with ASU to accommodate students parking near the Downtown Phoenix Campus, giving those meters longer parking-hour limits.
Light-rail fare machines to be lowered in height to ease access for people with...
The fare vending machines in downtown Phoenix's light-rail stations will have their heights changed in order to create easier access for those with disabilities.
Phoenix partnership presents code to regulate construction near light-rail stations
Reinvent PHX, a Phoenix sustainability group, presented its Walkable Urban Code to the city's Historic Preservation Committee Monday. The new code would support more transit-friendly construction around the city's light-rail stations.
Arizona Science Center will receive grant to establish STEM education programs in project
The Arizona Science Center was chosen by the APS Foundation in July to receive a $246,080 grant in order to help further STEM education...
ReEngage Phoenix at Burton Barr reconnects high school dropouts to education system
Rebecca Chávez was 15 years old when she dropped out of high school. Her story is not uncommon because she was one of Phoenix's...
NPR television critic examines the effect of modern media on prejudice, racism
NPR television critic Eric Deggans discussed the issue of racial stereotypes and prejudices of modern media at The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and...
Curtain Critic: Dan Hull’s storytelling is poetry in motion for himself and the community
The heat is like a thick woolen blanket, comforting in the way it seems to gather up the little backyard outside Lawn Gnome Publishing...
‘Phantasmagorical’ Mystic Circus at Alwun House shocks audiences with erotic content
The Alwun House hosted the Mystic Circus, an erotic, sexual and demented series of acts designed to test the moral limits of its audience, this Saturday. The show featured juggling, glass dancing, burlesque, fire twirling and everything in between.
Students of 3 universities host Health Fair for the Homeless; clinic to launch in...
Students from Arizona State University, the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University have teamed up to create Arizona’s first student-run health clinic for the homeless. Student Health Outreach for Wellness, or SHOW, along with Central Arizona Shelter Services and the Maricopa Integrated Health System, hosted the inaugural Health Fair for the Homeless at the Human Services Campus in Phoenix.
Four Chambers Press ‘Flash Your Fiction’ flash mob stages poetry readings on the light...
"Flash Your Fiction," the literary flash mob organized by Four Chambers Press, was among the many events the local publication is planning to help make prose and poetry more relevant in people’s lives.