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Goodbye 2017. Hello 2018, plaid to meet you.

2018 Flannel Ball! Downtown Phoenix New Year's Eve Party & Art Show BEER. ART. MUSIC. FOOD. GAMES. Celebrate New Year's Eve in the Roosevelt Row Arts District! Party like it is 1999 and join us for the 2018 Flannel Ball for beer, live music, art show, flannel clothing, food trucks, lawn games, photo booth, champagne toast, midnight countdown, and piñata drop. Ticke...

Read this article from Phoenix New Times and decide if Jimbo Reid was crazy or spot-on. What do you think about Roosevelt Row's change in the last two years? What will it look like in 3 more years?

Roosevelt Row: The Fight to Keep Downtown Phoenix "Authentic" Is a Fight to Let It Become Something It's Never Been Jimbo Reid is pi**ed off. He's mad that there aren't any "cute chicks" today in Jobot, a coffee shop in an old house on Fifth Street. He's angry that the guy he's talking to on Jobot's cracked front porch keeps asking him about gentrification. He's fuming because the latte he...

It's always going to be Polar Pops and stencil art if we don't take pride in making the big events big. Let's have a good First Friday 5th Street!

Creative bike racks were abundant on 5th Street. The Lost Leaf had a buried park bench in their front yard, Hoodride had a variety of tacked and wire-tied racks around the perimeter, and Lawn Gnome Publishing made this 2x4 and window-guard rack before the City followed through with development plans and Grid Bikes came to the area. Which do you prefer for your community? When was your last bike stolen?

Space 55 is moving away from us. Catch the last production "Ear" by Ashley Naftule for the next two weeks before they relocate!

Ear | Space 55 The Space 55 Writer’s Group, (which brought us previous hits “Blue Galaxy”, “Night of the Chicken” and “Remote Control”) has produced yet another remarkable new play: Ashley Naftule’s “EAR”.

“We just felt that with everything going on in downtown Phoenix, somebody should step in and preserve the character of these two city blocks,” Kreipke says. Without sharing specific names, he praises the long-term efforts of people who've made Roosevelt Row a thriving destination" (Phoenix New Times). Read more about the The Blocks of Roosevelt Row plans here: http://bit.ly/2ve06MS

What a great looking mural by Tyson Krank, oh wait, this article is not good news.

Things Didn't End Well for Roosevelt Row in Phoenix v. Arizona Here's what happened.

This is Adrian Fontes, and he has put years of long hours into making 5th Street a memorable place to live and work in. Whether he brought his family into eat breakfast at Jobot Coffee & Bar, singing mariachi at the Chile Pepper Festival, stocking shelves at Bodega 420, running for public office, Adrian showed us all that anyone from our neighborhood can change policy through living as an example, trusting people for help, supporting family, contributing to arts and culture, and putting your feet firmly into ideology you believe in. You can catch him these days as Maricopa County's Recorder.

This is Billie Speece, and she has put years of long hours into making 5th Street a wonderful place to live and work in. Whether she was making chai lattes at Jobot Coffee & Bar or running "The Letter Writing Society" at Lawn Gnome Publishing, Billie always does what she loves, and the result is that nothing she does is less than amazing. She loves hot dogs, rides bikes, plays with small dogs, wears costumes that somehow incorporate facial hair, and appreciates sewing machines and board games. You can catch her these days over at Jobot still serving the community, and keeping it weird.