“Pop the flower head off the stem with your thumb. Hold the wire in your right hand and the flower in your left hand. Push the wire through from bottom of the flower, just a little off-...
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Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: Cascade Road, Dutch immigrants, Eastern Market, Fulton Street Farmers Market, Jasperse Family, Kerrytown Market, Kresge, our goodness is growing, Schuler Books, straw flowers, Woolworth
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: author, authors, Calvin College, faith, festival, festival of faith and writing, writing
Calvin College's Festival of Faith and Writing is gearing up for another year of authors, editors, publishers, artists and readers coming together for...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: community radio, GRCMC, music, Radio, WYCE
WYCE is in the middle of its "Un-Drive."
Certain donation levels can get you dinner and a show, tickets to a show at the Outdoor Summer Concert Series at Frederik Meijer Gardens...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: 0-5, Bright Beginnings, Buchanan Elementary, Early Childhood Development, Esther Gomez, Kent Intermediate School District, Welcome Home Baby
Despite some of the children getting “the wiggles” by the end of story time, Esther Gomez’s exuberance was contagious: she had everyone singing along to the group's good-bye...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: charter schools, Latino education, online schools, school choice, school test scores, schools of choice
Fifty years ago choices for educating students through twelfth grade were limited. Parents could send their children to public school or a private school, either parochial or for the few elite, a...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
A proposal that would allow the Kent County Board of Public Works more control over where solid waste ends up after leaving the curb is generating much debate between waste haulers and the county...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: amway, Art Museum, design, entrepreneur, Grid70, innovation, innovation spotlight, seth starner, storytelling
Within a few minutes of meeting Seth Starner, it becomes clear he’s not the kind of guy who sits in one place for very long. It may be his bright blue eyes or the way he gestures in...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: City Hall, Cook Arts, GAAH, GAAH Press Club, George Heartwell, GRCYC, Mayor Heartwell
The GAAH Press Club was invited to meet Mayor Heartwell in his office at City Hall, but the mayor had to leave for a family situation shortly after we arrived. He rescheduled for March 23rd,...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: #LOMOBB, Africa, art, benefit, Billy's Lounge, Camfed, Community, Dean Martian, education, fundraiser, Grand Rapids Community College, GRCC, hip-hop, Maniacal, March Forth, Maurice Clark, Trav Waylaa, Venson
Since 1993, national organization Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education) has been fighting poverty and...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: alternative music, dave navarro, devos, DeVos Performance Hall, Jane's Addiction, music, perry ferrell, rock music, Theatre of the Escapists tour, tour
After a long intermission following the drums and guitar duo of opening act Black Box Revelation, the blue mood lights finally go dark and a...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: delta plex, Dog 281, Janet Vorminttag, pets, West Michigan Pet Expo
Anyone who has visited a veterinarian's office, animal shelter or humane society in West Michigan no doubt is familiar with Janet Vormittag...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: Grand Rapids, photos, picturesque, Rapidian, Spring, staff editorial, swag
Spring has definitely hit early this year... or was last week summer? We know you've all been out enjoying the amazing weather and capturing moments and all those new signs of...
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Posted: 12 years 7 weeks
Tagged: Glance at the Past, Historical Commission, Little Italy, Radio, Russo, WYCE
Glance at the Past is a local history radio project presented by Grand Rapids Historical Commission and the Grand Rapids Community Media Center. It's written and voiced by award-winning local...
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: Dianne Carroll Burdick, farming, Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council, homegrown foods, Jaye Beeler, Michigan Agriculture, Tasting and Touring Michigan's Homegrown Food: A Culinary Road Trip, Women's History Month
Two local women have tapped into the surging interest in eating fresh foods grown locally with a new book called "Tasting and Touring Michigan's Homegrown Food: A Culinary Road Trip....
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: Dianne Carroll Burdick, farming, Greater Grand Rapids Women's History Council, homegrown foods, Jaye Beeler, Michigan Agriculture, Sharon Hanks, Tasting and Touring Michigan's Homegrown Food: A Culinary Road Trip, Women's History Month
Two local women have tapped into the surging interest in eating fresh foods grown locally with a new book called "Tasting and Touring Michigan's Homegrown Food: A Culinary Road Trip....
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: decriminalize, drug, Grand Rapids, GRPD, marijuana, Michael Tuffelmire, policy, pot, weed
Last week a group of citizens in Grand Rapids launched a petition effort to decriminalize the crime of marijuana possession. Our local law enforcement is currently held to state law when it comes...
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: 88.1fm, Bill Byl, Community Media Center, stormwater, West Michigan Environmental Action Council, WMEAC, WYCE
Before Michigan was settled, natural drainage created many wetlands in the state. As inhabitants came, water was drained in order to avoid disease and make room for arable land. This was...
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: art, Art Gallery, Children, Draw On, drawing, family event, free, Grand Rapids, illustration, Michigan, UICA, Urban Instititute for Contemporary Arts
From March 24 to April 7, UICA will be participating in a national community festival called Draw On!
Introduced in 2006 by the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield,...
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: Becky McDonald, benefit, fundraiser, Hop, Theresa Meendering, war, Women At Risk
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: Occupy, Occupy Grand Rapids, Occupy Movement, Occupy The Lakeshore, Occupy Wall Street, politics
Dean Vanderstelt is on a mission to change the way society works. As a member of Occupy the Lakeshore, Vanderstelt works in solidarity with New York...
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: bicycle, bike shop, bikes, biking, Community, cooperative, Grand Rapids, initiative, Spoke Folks
When Jay Niewiek moved to Grand Rapids four years ago, he continued doing something that he had always done: riding his bicycle. Jay bikes for work, bikes for leisure, and bikes for play. In his...
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: Friends of Grand Rapids Parks, fundraiser, releaf michigan, the city of grand rapids, trees, urban forestry committee, urban tree canopy cover
From now until April 9, greater Grand Rapids residents can do their part to green the landscape and increase urban tree cover by purchasing and planting goods at the 22nd Annual Spring Tree...
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: 88.1fm, Carol Parsaca, Community Media Center, Pilgrim Manor Retirement Community, sustainability, West Michigan Environmental Action Council, WMEAC, WYCE
On this episode of A Watershed Moment, we hear from Carol Parsaca, Sustainability Manager for the Pilgrim Manor Retirement Community on Grand Rapids' northeast side....
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: Alex Beecroft, Buddha, Catholicism, Grand Rapids Activism, justice, Occupy Grand Rapids, Occupy Movement, seven social responsibilities, Wall Street
I must admit, I know little about activism and less about Catholicism. I had a laid-back Protestant upbringing, but did attend mass a few times for cousin’s Confirmations and weddings. Most...
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
"For anyone with an interest in dance, 'Pina' is a must-see. For anyone not interested in contemporary dance, 'Pina' is a should-see. It could change your mind....
Posted: 12 years 8 weeks
Tagged: Activism, Activists, food, government, Grand Rapids, health, Jewly Seeking Justice, Jewly Warren, Michigan, move to amend, nutrition, Occupy, Occupy GR, Occupy Grand Rapids, Occupy Wall Street, politics, Protesters, Protests, Real estate, Viva la Veggie, West Michigan
“It’s about time!” This was Jewly Warren’s reaction to the formation of Occupy Grand Rapids, an activist organization...