Downtown Dining: Carolina’s Mexican Food

Carolina’s Mexican Food is tucked within the cracked walls and barred windows of a building at the corner of East Mohave and South 12th streets. A walk through the door reveals a similarly sobering scene: two large rooms with concrete floors (one for people waiting for carry-out and another for eating) furnished with a few cheap booths and tables. But inside the kitchen of this arcane establishment there is a little bit of magic.

Audio slide show: Black History Month

A variety of musicians and artists supported downtown Phoenix’s black community in a celebration for Black History Month at the Civic Space Park. The event, which lasted from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Friday Feb. 5, featured a group playing the djembe drums, a pair of rappers and a ten-man jazz band.

Senate rejects facilities fee again

The ASASUD Senate voted down the proposed facilities fee 6 to 3 at its biweekly meeting Friday, which is the second time the Downtown campus student government has rejected a version of the fee this year.

Opinion: The pros in paying up

It is the dawn of a new era, one where floundering online news sources have begun to charge readers for Web content just to keep some of the nation’s most historic papers from going under.

Fear in Phoenix

The latest exhibit at the Arizona Science Center in downtown Phoenix, which opened on Jan. 31, gives visitors the chance to face their fears — in the most literal sense.