PHXations—Wednesday, January 27
How the Arizona Republic sucks, no. 434 in a series:
In the Northeast Phoenix zoned section, a story—stretched out, astonishingly, over two pages—about a Starbucks inside the Camelback Inn. A hotel that sells coffee. Stop the presses. It’s not fair to ridicule the reporter who wrote the thing. The real culprit is the craven editor who assigned it, and the other who published it.
AT&T says it’s upgrading its 3G network in Phoenix, PV, and Carefree and Cave Creek, Beth Duckett of the the Republic reports. The story details the new areas, one of which covers a major chunk of downtown—good news for iPhone users.
Readers may have noticed the PHXated’s redesign and reconstruction, these done by Steven Southard. The process disrupted the old RSS feed, but it works fine if you resubscribe.
At the RadiatePHX get-together at Hula’s Modern Tiki on Central last night, representatives of CityScape, the massive, nearly $1 billion mixed-use development at Central and Washington downtown, gave an upbeat overview of the project. You can read about it on the site’s site, here. The representative confirmed there would be a CVS pharmacy on the site. He said there would be a grocery, but couldn’t name the replacement for AJ’s yet. Finally, he did give this tantalizing hint, of a “surprise” “entertainment venue” overseen by a “local person.”
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