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The public comments around the food truck issue didn't carry quite the same gusto as earlier...
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Posted: 11 years 46 weeks
Tagged: city commission, dining, Downtown, eating, food trucks, planning commission, Rick Devos
Posted: 11 years 46 weeks
Tagged: Miss Michigan, Morgan Lind, Sarah Suydam
Thursday begins the final steps of the journey to crown the next Miss Michigan who will participate in the 2013 Miss America pageant in January. Thirty-...
Posted: 11 years 46 weeks
Tagged: #art, #music, blandford nature center, nature, Site:Lab
This Friday and Saturday Blandford Nature Center brings you an extra special treat. BNC's third annual Field of Green Festival will be blending with SiTE:LAB. SiTE:LAB is a nonprofit...
Posted: 11 years 46 weeks
Tagged: grand rapids whitewater, Grand River, michigan league of conservation voters, mlcv, Phil Skaggs
There’s been a lot of talk in recent months about the Grand Rapids Whitewater group and their plans to build a whitewater...
Posted: 11 years 46 weeks
Tagged: Pruitt-Igoe Myth, UICA, UICA Film Review
In a sense, having a distorted or inaccurate view of the truth is like playing the telephone game. The truth keeps getting interpreted and reinterpreted until the perception of reality is almost...
Posted: 11 years 46 weeks
Tagged: abortion, City, Dave Shaffer, Grand Rapids, Healthcare
About thirty members of the community addressed the City Commission Tuesday night, all coming to Mulick Park Elementary School (1761 Rosewood Ave) on the southeast side of the...
Posted: 11 years 46 weeks
Tagged: Community, computer classes, digital literacy, ESL, Hispanic Center of Western Michigan, immigration, Jaenell Ott, Spanish language
At the Hispanic Center of Western Michigan, building community and confidence are an integral part of learning. Jaenell Ott, Adult Education...
Posted: 11 years 46 weeks
Tagged: interview., Movie review, Steve Jobs, UICA, UICA Film Review
Filmed in 1995 for a television series called “Triumph of the Nerds,” the film ...
Posted: 11 years 46 weeks
Glance at the Past is a local history radio project presented by Grand Rapids Historical Commission and the Grand...
Posted: 11 years 46 weeks
Tagged: beauty, discussions, Dominican Center, Jan Lundy, Janice Lynne Lundy, Joy, Labyrinth, luxury, movie., quiet, rest, Retreat, Understanding, walking, women, writing
Join us at Dominican Center at Marywood for a weekend of sacred rest, writing and communion with...
Posted: 11 years 46 weeks
Tagged: festival, live music, Pyramid Scheme, Shorts Brewing Company, T-Rex Fest
This Saturday, the streets surrounding 68 Commerce Ave SW will fill with people, beer and musical festivities as the Pyramid Scheme launches its first...
Posted: 11 years 46 weeks
Tagged: Bissell, business, innovation spotlight
BISSELL, a globally recognized brand with a goal to expand to all continents of the world, has not always had such wide-spread success. The Grand Rapids-based company has journeyed through time to...
Posted: 11 years 46 weeks
Tagged: #creston #seniors #aginginplace
By Norma Kraai
A group of five Creston volunteers, aged 40-74 has been meeting this spring to talk about how to make the Creston neighborhood a place that’s...
Posted: 11 years 46 weeks
Tagged: Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, education, reading
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading has named Grand Rapids a...
Posted: 11 years 47 weeks
Tagged: buy local, eat local, farmers market, food, fulton st farmers market
Posted: 11 years 47 weeks
Tagged: #painting, art downtown, downtown events, Gerard Richter, movies, UICA
Located on the corner of Division and Fulton downtown Grand Rapids, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts hosts...
Posted: 11 years 47 weeks
Dinderbeck is a word gaining more and more recognition and momentum in our city. What started as a small printmaking collective continues to grow. The...
Posted: 11 years 47 weeks
Tagged: cornerstone, health, I Believe I Become, LINC, rock the block, southeast
On Saturday, June 9 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. local non-profit LINC will be hosting its second annual...
Posted: 11 years 47 weeks
On June 9, Avenue for the Arts will be setting up its annual Market on South Division between the streets of Fulton and Williams. The event will run...
Posted: 11 years 47 weeks
Wouldn't you love the opportunity to practice your yoga among nature? To do your tree pose underneath not just one, or even some trees, but a whole canopy of trees? Well, Blandford...
Posted: 11 years 47 weeks
Tagged: a watershed moment, breast cancer, ecofeminism, gvsu, julia mason, women's health
On this week’s episode of "A Watershed Moment", we hear from Dr. Julia Mason, Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Grand Valley State University, on ecofeminism and...
Posted: 11 years 47 weeks
Tagged: Julie Slagter, labor trafficking, map, Michigan Abolitionist Project, modern day slavery, Prevention, sex slavery
Don't have time to listen now? Download the mp3 and listen at your leisure.
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Posted: 11 years 47 weeks
Tagged: buy local, local food
Nearly a year ago, Sheri Rop made the transition from selling local and artisan food online to opening a storefront on Wealthy Street. What began as a small endeavor including just her and someone...
Posted: 11 years 47 weeks
Tagged: farmers market, garfield park, southeast side
This weekend will kick off the market season on the southeast side.
This Friday, the South East Area Farmers Market-Gerald R. Ford Middle School will commence after school gets out,...
Posted: 11 years 47 weeks
At 2:00 p.m. this Saturday, the folk-pop band Ribbons of Song took the stage at Bookfest to a crowd of both friends...
Posted: 11 years 47 weeks
Tagged: Bookfest, Gary Schmidt, Romeo Ray
Gary Schmidt emphasized the importance of asking questions during Saturday’s “Fire! Fire! Why We Tell Stories” presentation at Bookfest...
Posted: 11 years 47 weeks
Glance at the Past is a local history radio project presented by Grand Rapids Historical Commission and the Grand...