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The local Wide Open Walls mural festival officially wrapped up over the weekend, but you can still check out the artwork.

Need ideas for your tour? The accompanying slideshow features some of the many murals painted during the festival, which included local, national and international artists.

David Sobon, who owns DSA Events, is the festival's founder and producer. Warren Brand is its curator, and Visit Sacramento is the presenting sponsor.

This year, 358 artists applied to paint only 40 available…

Donovan's Steak & Chop House, a high-profile steakhouse in Phoenix's Camelback corridor, has closed its doors.

The restaurant on Camelback Road and 32nd Street shut down this week, according to a terse statement on its website.

“It is with a heavy heart that we announce our Donovan’s Steak & Chop House in Phoenix has permanently closed,” the statement reads. “We thank you for your support over the last 14 years.”

No other details on the closure were mentioned. Donovan's is a steakhouse chain…

The combo eatery was locked up on Monday, with one managing partner saying it was the end of the line for the shop.

Local officials attended an unveiling ceremony for a restored mural at 730 K St. on Monday.

The mural is displayed at a space in downtown Sacramento that was once Tower Records. Russ Solomon, who founded Tower Records, commissioned the mural and it was painted in 1973 by Frank Carson and Mitch Aaronson.

A group of local artists recently restored the mural. Those artists include Seamus Coutts, Shaun Burner, Franceska Julianna, Jeff Musser and Sophie Aaronson, who is Mitch Aaronson's daughter.

The…

In the coming weeks Chris and Danielle Bjorling, the husband and wife team behind The Copper Hen Cakery & Kitchen on Eat Street in Minneapolis, will launch a coffee and wine bar in downtown Minneapolis and a burgers-and-shakes venture in Minnetonka.

The Star Tribune has an update on both concepts: Gray Fox Coffee & Wine, which is setting up shop in the atrium of the former TCF Bank Building, and Copper Cow, which is taking over a former Dairy Queen. The coffee bar should be open in “just a few weeks,”…

A new restaurant specializing in local cafe fare, juices and smoothies will soon open in the Dayton area.

The historic German beer hall has been closed following a fire in June, and could be evicted entirely if its landlord gets its way.

The Clifton Library building on Ludlow Avenue is getting new life – and a rooftop deck – as its owner prepares to convert it into a restaurant.

The former library at 351 Ludlow Ave. is becoming a restaurant under the same owners as the Ludlow Garage. Gaslight Property owner David Taylor and his wife, Claudia, purchased the building in 2014. After various restaurant and bar tenants fell through, they decided to open their own concept there.

“It's on a corner, it's iconic and it has a real pub…

Happy Tuesday morning, Columbus.

It's hard to believe, but there was a time not that long ago when there were no motorized scooters for rent in Columbus.

Weird, huh?

I distinctly remember people in town walking here and there. Or riding their bikes. Or driving their cars, taking the bus or a cab, hiring an Uber or Lyft or even renting a CoGo or Lime bike.

Alas, our lives were so drab and boring before Bird flew into town, dropping its distinctive black scooters here, there and everywhere, and…