Michelle Beaver, a Walter Cronkite School faculty associate, published her book about gay rights and Mormonism in late July this year. The topic developed out of an in-depth reporting class that she took while a student at ASU.

Truce, a local cleaning-product vendor, makes its appearance at the Open Air Market on Saturdays. The company boasts environmentally friendly products.

Even if the weather isn’t quite as cool as we’d like, downtown’s creative community is already beckoning us outside with three tantalizing outdoor events this week alone. Check out some ballet from the Valley’s only professional troupe, some one-of-a-kind spicy food over on Roosevelt Row and a bicycle-driven pub crawl.

Downtown Phoenix was used both an example of bad city planning and a model for redevelopment in a discussion among the mayors of Phoenix, Mesa and Tempe that centered on sustainability efforts.

Downtown musicians Tobie Milford and Henri Bernard provide the soundtrack to "The Immigration Paradox," a movie that will premiere at Phoenix's Orpheum Theatre on Thursday. The movie's subjects range from undocumented immigrants to "tea party" activists, and the film touches on Arizona's Senate Bill 1070 and the DREAM Act.