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Efforts are being made to bring an innovation lab to downtown Phoenix that would give people with ideas for inventions the place and resources to bring them to reality.

Civic Space Park in downtown Phoenix is one of five finalists for the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence. The award is given every other year for urban spaces that contribute to their community, and not just parks—in fact, Civic Space is the only project this year that is technically a city park.

Body Pride Week began Monday on the Downtown campus to raise awareness and inform students and faculty about body image, eating healthy, eating disorders and available campus resources.

Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and a top public agency executive from Bahrain spoke at the Walter Cronkite School to about 150 Phoenix businesspeople and 29 Bahraini government and business representatives Tuesday morning.

The Arizona Students’ Association is holding the 34th annual Lobby Day at the Arizona Capitol where students from around the state will lobby for issues important to them on Wednesday.

As trial runs with ASU’s Maroon and Gold Dollar program near their end for Hsin Cafe and El Portal Mexican Grill, the two downtown restaurants will soon have to decide whether they'll keep accepting the currency or not.

Claiming to be the first independent cinema in Phoenix since 1981, FilmBar will open on Thursday after a year of renovation that turned a warehouse into a cozy theater seating around 70.

LGO Public House, a restaurant affiliated with the group behind popular restaurant La Grande Orange, will no longer open in CityScape, but the Downtown Phoenix Partnership is working to find them another location downtown.

Freshman journalism major Patrick Ryan was one of the 23 people recently laid off from the Urban Outfitters at CityScape. Including Ryan, 10 ASU students had their jobs terminated.