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Baseball fans!
In pre-celebration of Phoenix hosting the All Star Game in 2011, VOTE FOR MARK REYNOLDS!
Buy this Red Brick Beauty with as little as 1% down
Buy this very cool, 3 bedroom home in the Campus Vista Historic District for as little as 1% down, depending on your Credit Score. This home sits on an irrigated lot with lush foliage – trees, shrubs, flowers, and a pond. Built in 1948, this executive red brick ranch features large formal dining and living rooms, large windows, and polished concrete floors.
Jackson Street Entertainment District moving forward
The City Council on Wednesday, unanimously approved the PUD (Planned Unit Development) Application of the Jackson Street Entertainment District developers, paving the way for them to move forward with their project. Although I was not there personally and I have not been able to find any reports of this event in the media, I’m told by at least 2 reliable sources that it happened.
The Jackson Street Entertainment District covers an L-shaped group of properties in the city’s warehouse district — on Jackson from First to Fourth Streets and between Third and Fourth Streets from Jackson to Lincoln Streets. The Plan calls for a walkable District that would include an outdoor market and cafes, restaurants, nightclubs and up to as many as 1000 residential units at completion. Although the Project could take 5 to 7 years to complete, some businesses could open as early as next year, according to Larry Lazarus, Attorney for the Developer.
Stay Out Late On The Light Rail
Metro light rail is extending the hours of operation for Friday and Saturday nights to help those that do not want to worry about missing the last train when dining out, attending a show or just having some fun.
A Public Enemy…of the audience
If you are like me, and have fond memories of Johnny Depp’s spellbinding performance in Edward Scissorhands or Chrstian Bale’s masterful work in American Psycho, then you will love Public Enemies—well actually you will love about three minutes of it. The three minutes of screentime that Bale and Depp share are brilliant, but sadly they… Read more
New Revolver Locked and Loaded
Everyone’s favorite Melrose record store, Revolver Records, has packed up and headed south to Roosevelt Row. When you’re done reading this, head over to Roosevelt and 2nd Street to check out the roomy new confines.
‘Movie Mondays’ Continue Through July
‘Movie Monday’ is continuing at the Heard museum this month, beginning with a showing of Chiefs on July 6 at 1:30pm.
This 87-minute documentary follows a team of American Indian teens from Wyoming Indian High School in the town of Ethete on the Wind River Indian Reservation as they strive to recapture the state basketball championship while battling against poverty, alcoholism, drugs and racism.
Chicano Art Exhibit At Phoenix Art Museum
Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement, the first comprehensive consideration of Chicano art in two decades, will open at the Phoenix Art Museum on July 12. It explores the work of a young generation of artists working today after the initial social struggles of the Chicano movement, a larger political and cultural movement that in the late 1960s and early 1970s began campaigning for justice and equality for Americans of Mexican and Latin American heritage.
We’re always looking for bloggers…
Are you involved in local happenings? Do you like to tell people about it? Do you want your stories to be seen by millions (okay, thousands) of people? Can you work a computer? Good. We want to work with you. Come write for us. Tell us what’s going on in your downtown Phoenix neighborhood. We… Read more
Swimming, Star Style
eards, Lucky Strikes, margarita slushies and sleeves of tats abound at the debut of 2009’s Star Swim at the Wyndham Hotel. Nevermind the bands that played (more on that in a minute), this now weekly event is the place for twentysomethings to let loose is half-naked reckless abandonment, and if the crowd from the first weekend is any indication, this thing is catching on fast. The rooftop pool was full of boozin’, cruisin’ for digits and generally (sometimes frighteningly) loud people dancing in some very unconventional fashions.
