It’s like a scene from the 1995 post-slacker cult classic flick "Empire Records," in which hip young wage slaves band together to save their beloved independent record shop.

Our faith is both a comfort for us and a most powerful force for change. When the economy falters, or politics upsets us, or stress rolls through our lives, how does our faith speak to us in such troublesome times?

In protest of what’s being called a monopoly by bookstores small and large, Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe will no longer offer books published by Amazon Publishing.

Cassidy Turley BRE Commercial has announced completion of a $3.075-million acquisition of Gilbert Commerce Center, 459 N. Gilbert Rd.

Card game aficionado Adam Slutsky, writer for Maxim, Outside, Chance, and Bluff magazines, visits Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe with his book “52 Things to Pick Up Your Poker Game” 7 p.m. Tuesday.

Sugar Daddy’s nightclub, a landmark on the Scottsdale nightlife scene, has been sold to new owners, but an Internal Revenue Service investigation into former owner Brian Roerich is ongoing, IRS officials said.

Everyone gets a photo with Santa Claus this time of year. Why not take one with the Grinch, too?

In protest of what’s being called a monopoly by bookstores small and large, Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe will no longer offer books published by Amazon Publishing.

Baxter Black won’t let himself be described as America’s best-loved cowboy poet, according to a write-up on Changing Hands Bookstore’s website, but he’s OK with being called the country’s tallest, scrawniest, most left-handed one.

The Arizona State University campus bookstores are about to become the Sun Devil bookstores when management changes hands this month.

The Arizona State University campus bookstores are about to become the Sun Devil bookstores when management changes hands this month.

Anyway you dice them, the softball stats are surprising.

Anyway you dice them, the softball stats are surprising.