Community Media Center (CMC) proudly debuts a new video about Wealthy Theatre's pioneering Centennial Sustainability Campaign, which has a fundraising goal of $500,000. We're halfway there...
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Posted: 12 years 24 weeks
Posted: 12 years 24 weeks
Tagged: board games, Comics, Games, white cap
"Most people don't realize that 20% or less of the games on the market are represented in stores like Wal-Mart or other mass retailers," estimates Priscilla Collins, co-owner of...
Posted: 12 years 24 weeks
Tagged: ap2012info, art, artprize, ArtPrize2012
This morning, at the Sponsor Launch Breakfast, ArtPrize unveiled some significant changes to the...
Posted: 12 years 24 weeks
Tagged: Grand Rapids City Commission
This Tuesday, December 6, the Grand Rapids City Commission will meet for one of its bimonthly meetings. On the...
Posted: 12 years 24 weeks
Tagged: Community, human rights
This week kicked off the Amnesty International(AI) Global Write-a-thon, which is a mobilization for people from around the world to write...
Posted: 12 years 24 weeks
Tagged: George Heartwell, GRCMC, GRTV, Linda GalleschCity Connection, Mayor Heartwell, Sr. Barbara Hansen
At 5 p.m. Monday night, Mayor Heartwell's live interactive public access show City Connection was simulcast right here on The Rapidian. City Connection is an...
Posted: 12 years 24 weeks
Tagged: Christmas dinner, family dinner, meal, Poverty
As old-fashioned and unrealistic as Norman Rockwell’s paintings seem today, there is something alluring about them. I have never been a fan of his work, but some of Rockwell’s...
Posted: 12 years 24 weeks
Tagged: blandford nature center, Christmas, community engagement, fun, Grand Rapids, holidays, hwmuw, Kent County, living water ministries, salvation army, service, toys for tots, volunteerism
There's nothing quite like volunteering to get you into the holiday spirit. And there's nothing like the holidays to bring you lots of fun ways to volunteer!
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Posted: 12 years 24 weeks
Tagged: Catalysts Radio, Diversity, Hate Crime, inclusion, Not in our Town
Don't have time to listen now? Download the MP3 and listen at your leisure.
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Posted: 12 years 24 weeks
Kent Vocational Options and Community Based Occupational Training (KVO & CBOT), in cooperation with Grand Rapids Public Schools Nutrition Services, is teaching students who qualify for special...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Tagged: Dessert, food, Reserve, restaurant week, Wine Bar
I am still mourning the loss of Grand Rapids’ restaurants Bloom and Corez. For just over a year I’ve been stuck somewhere between...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Our featured artist for December is Tom S.
Here's a little bit about Tom, in his own words:
Originally from Grand Rapids, Tom came to Heartside in...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Good-news holiday update in three parts:
- Holiday open house for gift buying!
- An invitation to West Michigan businesses.
- Announcement of "Shop Holland"...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Tagged: GRCMC, greening, GRPD, Hopcat, sustainability, WT Centennial
The Wealthy Theatre screening of the remastered HD version of "The Blues Brothers" takes place Wednesday, Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. This special presentation is an honorary Meanwhile Movie, an...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
The Grow the Soul Ministries at Fountain Street Church is presenting ...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Tagged: animals, celebration, Children, Christmas, Dominican Center at Marywood, event, family, friends, holiday, Instruments of Hope, Jesus, Joseph, manger
A family event that will delight and inspire people of all ages, we will begin our journey on Sunday afternoon, December 11, 2011 at 5:30 p.m. with a candlelight walk led by the Three Kings...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Tagged: City of Grand Rapids
I was an arts junkie in high school. With the plays, musicals, choir, private voice lessons, and creative writing, I had found my place in the high school world. I felt pretty excited and...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
There is still time left to spread a little hope and cheer this season through Heart of West Michigan United Way's holiday Adopt a Family...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Tagged: art, buy local, Christmas, free, gifts, Holiday Artists' Market, holidays, market, Shopping, UICA
UICA's 23rd Annual Holiday Artists' Market is right around the corner and we asked a few of the artists some questions about their products for the market. Below Lisa Price answered our...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Tagged: Camp Henry, Sesquicentennial, Westminster Child Development Center, Westminster Presbyterian Church
Reports of its birth vary: Either Westminster Presbyterian Church began with 10 members--or with 25; with a minister who was paid $500--or $1000; as a...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Our society is opening doors for entrepreneurs to accomplish most anything they set their minds to. With technology and social media advances serving as the floodgates for this sea of...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Tagged: Grand Rapids, politics
Political reporting has always been at the forefront of journalism. From the muckrakers of the 20s, 30s and 40s through Woodward and Bernstein up to the modern day bloggers, political reporting...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Tagged: 106 Gallery, art, craft, DIY, John Hanson, SASS FEST, South Division
I wasn’t sure what to expect from Sass Fest. It was promoted as "an event celebrating doing it together: music,...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Tagged: Amena Anderson, Benjamin Ave, Carol Carpenter, christian, Eastown Ministries, Eileen Brouwer, Gordon Brouwer, Haiti, Jim Carpenter, Kiara Baskins, outreach
Kiara Baskins was in kindergarten when she started going to Eastown Ministries, a Christian outreach program at...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Tagged: Aquinas College, Dominican Center, Eberle
Dominican Center at Marywood is hosting a free lecture and book signing tonight from 6:30-7:30 p.m., featuring local professor and...
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
Don't have time to listen now? Download the mp3 and listen at your leisure.
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Tagged: Local, local business, Local First, Restaurants
A hot new chain restaurant opens up in town. Some are excited. Others are dismayed and prefer to only dine at locally-owned restaurants. Does it really matter? According to Melissa English,...
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
Tagged: Avenue for the Arts, deck the avenue, urban lights
Holiday shopping has become something of a circus, with every business vying for your attention with their specially conceived fanfares. I haven’t even been to the mall recently but I have...
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
Back in September, I wrote a piece on how small the world is for inner city children. Lack of opportunities to experience activities children from more affluent families take for granted hinders...
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
Tagged: Found VS Found, new theatre, Prohibition, review, UICA
So, what’s better: a "found" letter describing the “dopest fish ever” in Grand Rapids or a "found" exercise VHS circa 1980-something featuring Angela Lansbury...