Editorials

Hello, my name is Morgan Willis. I moved to Phoenix two years ago to study journalism at Arizona State University. By rebooting Phoenix Rising,...

Piet Oudolf's 2017 documentary film ‘Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf’ was presented Wednesday as part of the “No Festival Required” film series...

The top three editors of Downtown Devil say farewell as they prepare to graduate and pass on their roles for the next school year. Sarah...

Placemaking is a pretty popular development and planning term to describe the creation of livable spaces, but whose place are we making in downtown...

Rating (out of four stars): ★★ “Bullets Over Broadway” at Phoenix Theatre is not going to change your life, and frankly you probably won’t think...

Following a summer break, Phoenix’s young reporters are back to the proving ground of downtown, hoping to make you think in ways you haven’t before.

What better place to capture the feel of the holidays in Downtown Phoenix than CitySkate? I decided that to capture the feel of the holidays in a large city, a small personal moment would not cut it. Instead, I decided to capture the unending movement that is the city.

For the staff at Downtown Devil, downtown Phoenix has worked as a canvas. It’s a place where our aspirations can take any form they’d like through hard work creating content we’re proud to present to the public. Now five years strong, Downtown Devil, thanks to readers and leaders like you, has seen the uniqueness of the city, its nooks and crannies, and the people who breathe life into it. We couldn’t be more excited to be back for full-time publishing.

We were young, naive and believed that we could make a difference in the campus and community — and we did. That same spirit still remains with the Downtown Devil five years later, as co-founder Salvador Rodriguez looks back at its beginnings.

With each passing semester, Downtown Devil aims to put itself in a position to give its staffers more opportunities and cover the downtown Phoenix area better. This semester is no different, as Downtown Devil has added a new top editor position and is expanding the organization’s managing board.