Michelle Blades, of the Phoenix-based band North Dakota, will return after a year in Europe to Trunk Space on Dec. 11.

Phoenix is the sixth largest city in the country, but its downtown offers few apartment complex options students can afford to live in. But affordability is not the problem; students claim there is nothing to do in downtown.

Startups that are a part of Seed Spot, a midtown incubator, will showcase their business models to the public as part of Demo Day on Wednesday.

Heritage Square Park drew 66 local and national breweries at the Phoenix Brewers International this weekend, where those of legal drinking age could sample beers with the purchase of a $35 plastic 12-ounce beer mug.

Volunteers came together Friday morning to create a giant image of a desert flower for the Ground Cover Public Art Project, which will donate the 300 blankets used to complete the image to the homeless for the winter.