Focus. Flash. Phoenix: Meet the new assistant photography editor

The Downtown Devil photography column welcomes the new assistant photography editor, Amanda LaCasse.

RadiatePHX event reboots to bring community together, address downtown projects

RadiatePHX, a networking event focused on enhancing the downtown community and bringing collaborators together, held an event Tuesday evening at the Arizona College of Medicine. Organizers hope RadiatePHX becomes a monthly event.

Two companies to renovate Barrister building

The city of Phoenix selected two companies to redevelop the Barrister building and its neighboring property. The space will be made into a rental housing project with ground level retail and a self-contained parking garage.

Curtain Critic: ‘By the Way, Meet Vera Stark’ asks powerful race and identity questions

Through humor, drama and a dash of desperation, “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” illustrates a black woman in film who refuses to back down from her creative dream, even as it means taking roles that may support stereotypes. Thought-provoking and humorous, “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” presented by iTheatre Collaborative is well worth watching.

Protesters shed shirts and march down Central to demand topless equality for everyone

Women and men of all ages gathered Sunday at Steele Indian School Park for the third annual AZ Topless Day to protest decency laws that make it illegal for women to be shirtless in public but allow the same behavior for men.