Approximately 120 people attended the Startup Weekend Phoenix event that ran from Friday Oct. 22 through Sunday Oct. 24. Participants got together with local developers, marketers, designers, enthusiasts and onlookers to start companies in just 54 hours.

Seventy-five students, businesspeople, developers and all other kinds of entrepreneurs and innovators will gather on Friday in downtown Phoenix and work for 54 hours straight to develop new startup companies.

“Hereafter” is not a ghost story, nor is it a supernatural thriller in any way, shape or form, but a melancholy character-driven meditation on why it is that love endures long after it logically should and whether death is as bad for the deceased as it is for those they leave behind.

An increase in student customers has been noticeable at local businesses in downtown Phoenix that now accept Maroon and Gold Dollars from students this year.

West of Soho, a new retail store in CityScape, opened its doors earlier this month.