Data from the Grand Rapids Public Schools shows that Latino students test scores lag behind their peers more each year as they progress academically. In third grade, according to MEAP scores,...
Feed items
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Tagged: art, Dani Vilella, Jes Kramer, LadyFest, music, National Organization of Women, NOW, planned parenthood, Pyramid Scheme, workshops
Don't have time to listen now? Download the mp3 and listen at your...
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Tagged: beer, beer week, winter beer fest
With tickets for this year's Winter Beer Festival at Fifth Third Ball Park selling out in December (all 5,900 of them...
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Tagged: Corrie ten Boom, Dominican Center, Edith Stein, Elizabeth Ann Seton, event, Grand Rapids Dominicans., Holy, Marywood, spirituality, Vaccaro, VanderHaagen, women, Zerfas
In this year of interfaith understanding, we recognize that many women have served within a context of religious prejudice, often at great personal cost. This morning session will celebrate the...
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Tagged: 8th grade, art, art exhibition, Arts Academy, classroom, collaboration, Cook Arts Center, Cook Arts Center GAAH, Dream Act, Escamilla, GAAH, Grandville Ave, Grandville Avenue Arts & Humanities, Grandville Avenue neighborhood, immigration, journalism, local art, local artist, painting, project, Rapidian, Reyna Garcia, Southwest, students, SWCC
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Tagged:
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Tagged: art, culture, Grand Rapids Art Museum, interview, Michael Pfleghaar
The show titled "Michael Pfleghaar: Reinforcing Objecthood" opened at the Grand Rapids Art Museum earlier this...
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Tagged: Chez Olga, GAAH, GAAH Press Club, GRCYC, GRPL, Jamaican Dave's, Southern Fish Fry, Taste of Soul Sunday, The Cook Arts Center
After attending "Taste of Soul Sunday" at the Grand Rapids Public Library, it became clear that the...
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Tagged: bikes, Entertainment, Lady Fest, music, planned parenthood, sex ed, women
The ladies are taking over The Pyramid Scheme on Saturday, March 3 with Grand Rapids' inaugural ...
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Tagged: comedy, improv, Local, pop scholars, show
The Pop Scholars are professionals. Andy Allen, Dave Lyzenga, Mike Ryskamp and Matt Sterenberg are funny, but they are also seriously smart. They have mastered all forms of improvisational comedy...
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Tagged: netiquette, photo use, photos, staff editorial
With all of the sharing happening on websites like Facebook, Pinterest and Tumblr, not to mention all of the improper use on blogs and websites setting a poor example, it can be easy to forget...
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
I had the pleasure of attending the Congress School Meet and Greet last Thursday evening. The intention of the event was to get residents of east hills familiar with this great neighborhood...
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Victoria Upton, publisher of Women’s Lifestyle Magazine, calls her office on West Monroe “a vortex of positive energy. The things we say in...
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Tagged: Calvin College, concert, music, My Brightest Diamond, Shara Worden
Like her band name implies, My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden delivers multi-faceted brilliance as she weaves together rock, opera, cabaret, chamber music, and choral elements...
Posted: 12 years 10 weeks
Tagged: Carly Luttmann, deltaplex, Easy Walk Harness, Gentle Leader, Humane Society of West Michigan, Kent County, Kent County Animal Shelter, Lisa LaPlante, St. Patrick's Day parade, Vicky's Pet Connection, West Michigan Pet Expo
Carly Luttmann is making great strides to change the perception of the Kent County Animal Shelter (KCAS). Indeed, thanks...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: community organizing, political, progressive, PWA
When Mary Alice Williams first began participating in community organizing in the 1960s going door-to-door meant literally that.
She said that engaging people was a one-by-one, house-by-...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: beats, chickens, Community conversation, Emma Higgins, food, Ken Ford, Local, music, Nick Manes, politics, reporters, Samantha Dine, speakers, Writers
Don't have time to listen now? Download the mp3 and...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: 2012, chandler stokes., christian, dinner, discussion., Dominican Center, hindu, imam, interfaith understanding, jewish, Mary Vaccaro, mayor george heartwell, michael schadick, muaz redzic, muslim, Rabbi, year of
In celebration of Interfaith 2012, the second Tuesday Tabletalk will be held on February 21 from 5:30 - 7:30 p.m. at Dominican...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: Conservation, lakes, Ocean, pollution, sustainability, West Michigan Environmental Action Council, WMEAC
Don Walsh is little-known for traveling deeper into the ocean than any other human being. Over half a century ago, Walsh and his team plunged over 35,000 feet into the Pacific Ocean. Since...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: environmental justice, green groups, Sierra Club
This year, the the local chapter of the Sierra Club will celebrate three monumental anniversaries: the national club’s 120th anniversary, the...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
LINC Up First Friday is an event that LINC Community Revitalization, Inc. sponsors every first Friday of the month. On February the 3rd my granddaughter and I...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
By: Akilah F.
Mayor Heartwell met with students of Mayor's Youth Council to get an outside opinion of what they not only thought about the State of the City...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: Ghost Heart, jammies, local bands
Ghost Heart will be kicking off The Jammies main stage performances with their atmospheric riffs and driving beats. I sat down and asked them to talk...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: giftsorcreatures, jammies, WYCE
The view from a pilothouse is dynamic for even the most weathered skipper. Changing currents, landscapes and climates extend seafarers an almost irresistible invitation to keep coming back. In...