Picture Phoenix, fit inside a photo booth. A new approach to portrait photography, The Social Station, had its official launch party Thursday night at Levine Machine, one of Phoenix’s eclectic showrooms in the warehouse district.

The first licensed medical-marijuana dispensary in Phoenix opened Wednesday next to the new Sky Train Terminal.

Practical Art, located north of Camelback Road on Central Avenue, will be celebrating its five-year anniversary this weekend. The event will feature food, beverages, live music and an art raffle.

It was four in the morning. A man whose pockets were bursting with poems took the stage at Lawn Gnome Publishing. A meager crowd sleepily clapped. It was only 10 hours into a 24-hour poetry reading. We had a long way to go.

Representing the voices of the Latino culture nationwide, the editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan for Latinas magazine spoke and answered questions Tuesday with students of the Walter Cronkite School after presenting a special viewing of a new HBO documentary series.