Electronic music is making quite the jump from the underground to mainstream conciousness. Whether it's ...
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Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: jammies, music, The Crane Wives, WYCE
I have known The Crane Wives for quite a while now and have been friends with them for the majority of that time. So when I offered to write about them for the coverage of the Tuesdays Jammies, at...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: church, Community, religion, St. Michael's, Ukraine
Upon entering the parish nave of St. Michael The Archangel, one’s senses are immediately inebriated with the colorful iconography and flowery...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: country, country music, Jammie Awards, Midnight Cattle Callers, music, swing, swing music
Local Band The Midnight Cattle Callers will perform their rare blend of swing and country music this Tuesday night at the...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: beat, beat reporters, food, music, politics, The Rapidian
We now have designated pages for our music beat, politics beat, and...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: Creolization, music
No other band in West Michigan, or probably anywhere else, plays the combination of high energy sounds that Creolization creates. It is never the same old, same old. The music is danceable and...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: bluegrass, Jammie Awards, Red Tail Ring, WYCE
Earthworks Music Collective boasts a host of artists nominated for 2012 WYCE Jammie Awards; among them a...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: greg nagy, music, the intersection lounge, The Jammies
Greg Nagy's newest album "Fell Toward None" hopes to bring home five...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
An Dro, a West Michigan Celtic/World Beat band, is described in the WYCE Fresh Picks Blog as...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: folk, local music, rock, Scopitone Vidbox, the intersection lounge, Valentiger, WYCE, WYCE Jammie Awards
“Oh, to know!” is the name of the...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
The Wealthy Orphans have been nominated for their first ever...
Posted: 12 years 11 weeks
Tagged: bluegrass, folk music, Lindsay Lou, Lindsay Lou & the Flatbellys, Music review, WYCE Jammie Awards
If America ever needs a soundtrack, it should strongly consider “A Different Tune” by ...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
By: Allen M.
Some teenagers may loathe Valentine's Day, just as many adults do, but this year there are plenty of ways teens can get the most out of Valentine's...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
Tagged: Believe 2 Become, L.A.S.T., leaders, leadership academy, LINC, LINC Community Revitalization
It feels like giving birth. After a long time planning and prepping for conception, twenty community members gathered on Jan 26 for the first session of the...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
Tagged: art, fundraiser, live, Maureen Nollette, Michele Bosak, UICA, Urban Insitute for Contemporary Arts
UICA's biggest fundraiser of the year offers guests the unique opportunity to purchase artwork that is created right before their eyes! Come to the Steelcase Town Hall for an unforgettable...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
Tagged: Circle Pines Center, cooperative, film, Freedom Riders, IWW, labor, Mike Kowalski, social, union
Don't have time to listen now? Download the mp3 and listen at your leisure....
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
Tagged: beer, Brewery Vivant, brewpub, environment, local beer, Silver LEED certification
Brewery Vivant, a local brewpub that recently...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
Tagged: building, Catherine's Care Center, Catherine's Health Center, Creston, green design, LEED, St. Alphonsus
Catherine’s Health Center, located at 1211 Lafayette in downtown Grand Rapids, has been awarded LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
Husband and wife team Michael VanderBrug and Anja Mast are well known in Grand Rapids: they have had a booth at the Fulton Street Farmer’s Market...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
Tagged: Community Media Center, Consumers Energy, Smart Grid, West Michigan Environmental Action Council, WMEAC, WYCE
On this episode of A Watershed Moment, we hear from Dr. Ian Hiskens, the Vennema Professor of Engineering at the University of...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
Tagged: Eastern Blok, Gypsy, local music, Man Man, Michigan, orpheum bell, WYCE Jammie Awards
Ann Arbor based band Orpheum Bell has been nominated for several WYCE Jammies, including...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
Tagged: Valentine's Day, Wealthy Theater
There are many reasons why Valentine’s Day might not be on your agenda this year, or possibly never has been. Perhaps you want to avoid this annual smooch fest because you believe it to be...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
Tagged: Local Restaurants, Valentines Day
The origins of Valentine's Day are unclear, but perhaps the most valiant tale is the one from third century Rome attesting that after Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
Tagged: agribusiness, agrifood, Downtown Market, food advocates, food economy, Foodies, Fulton Street Farmer's Market, Grand Action, Grand Rapids, heartside, local food economy, urban market, Visser Farms
With all the publicity surrounding the Fulton Street Farmers Market (FSFM) renovations, it’s easy to overlook the fact that plans to create a $28...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
Tagged: campaign, China, debbie spend it now, pete hoekstra, politics, Racism, senate, stabenow, super bowl ad
It's been a few days since the now infamous Pete Hoekstra ad aimed at Sen. Stabenow hit the airwaves (and social media) for the first time. Hoesktra is running for US Senate against Stabenow,...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
Tagged: Civic Theatre, grand rapids civic theatre, Harvey, Joe Worth, Nancy Wagner, penelope notter, Play, rabbit, Rob Thomsma, Steven J. Anderson, whimsical
The play
The play "Harvey" was showing for the first time at the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre through January 29. “...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
Tagged: Black History Month, Brian Kruger, Buddy Moorehouse, Gerald Ford, Gerald R. Ford Museum, Grand Rapids Community Foundation, university of michigan
"Bringing this documentary to Grand Rapids is really going to make a big impact. It's like a movie on Henry Ford going to Dearborn. This really is an awesome opportunity," says Brian...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
At 5 p.m. Monday night, Mayor Heartwell's live interactive public access show City Connection will be simulcast right here on The Rapidian. ...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
Tagged: city commission, Grand Rapids
This Tuesday, February 7, the Grand Rapids City Commission will meet for their bi-monthly meeting.
On this week's...
Posted: 12 years 12 weeks
The Grand Rapids Planning Department is hoping to spark some community conversation about...