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Beta, a dance show at Phoenix Center for the Arts, will premiere this Saturday. The show will consist of 14 original pieces submitted by the dancers and choreographers in styles ranging from ballet to hip-hop.

The Phoenix City Council approved an ordinance on Wednesday that will increase the cost of parking meters up to $4 per hour based on demand and extend meter hours of operation to 10 p.m. every day starting this fall.

Robin Roberts, anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America" whose career spans more than 30 years, was chosen as the 2014 recipient of the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism. She is the 31st overall recipient of the award and the seventh woman to receive it.

Bodega 420, a local grocery store that provided a relief to downtown's infamous 'food desert' classification, closed its doors on Wednesday, just over two years after it opened. As the owners look to spend more time with family, customers share sentiment for the loss of what was seen as a community staple.

Four Chambers Press has filled the community's need for a compilation of local literature. It has already published one issue, released in December of last year, and plans on releasing the next issue in October.

In an effort to assist summertime business and have downtown visitors evade the summer heat, the new "Vampire Hours" initiative in Roosevelt Row will shift operating hours of some businesses and keep many of them open until at least 9 p.m. The initiative started on June 6 and will run until Sept. 1.

The importance of Arizona's current and future leaders in shaping the state's national identity was emphasized by all nine candidates running for state governor at Friday's gubernatorial forum at the Phoenix Convention Center, organized by the Center for the Future of Arizona's The Arizona We Want Institute.

Greg Esser, the vice president for the Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation board, spoke about the preservation and promotion of the Roosevelt Row Artists' District at a community forum in Seattle on Tuesday, May 20.

Savannah Sanders, a recent graduate from ASU's School of Social Work and a former sex-trafficking victim, works along with other state programs to help victims of human trafficking regain their footing.

The 7-foot teddy bear installation, titled "I Bearly Give a Scrap," is just one of the many temporary art projects present throughout the Roosevelt Row area downtown. With the bear, creator Tara Logsdon hopes to inspire people to reuse old materials that may otherwise go into landfills.