Think about the last meal, snack, or handful of whatever that you ate. Did it contain meat? Was it organic? Local? Do you know how your meal,...
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Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Tagged: OccupyGR
Unlike the large demonstrations all over the country following the Occupy movement that started in New York City this fall, Occupy Grand Rapids has been fairly quiet. After their initial...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Tagged: 106 Gallery, grassroots, Heather Hughesian, Jeff Kraus, John Hanson, mini-grant, not5x5, Open Concept Gallery, Sunday Soup, The Daac
Promising to afix a massive rainbow-shaped neon sculpture to the side of their prominent downtown building, Open Concept Gallery won $276 at last night's...
Posted: 12 years 25 weeks
Tagged: literacy
The Literacy Center of West Michigan, along with literacy champions Mayor George Heartwell and Bing Goei, announced the Community Literacy Initiative (CLI), a literacy coalition that seeks to...
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
On December 10th, The Pyramid Scheme is holding a charity benefit called...
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
Billboard Classical Music chart-toppers Anonymous 4 make an appearance at St. Mark's Episcopal Church this...
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
Tagged: Day of the Dead, Dia de los Muertos, Latino, Library, Mexican, October
Death is a part of life, something everyone deals with in his or her own way. When I was twelve years old and my grandmother’s organs were shutting down, I made wishes every day that by some...
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
Tagged: Community, meal, microgrant, Miriam Slager, Sunday Soup, Teresa Zbciak
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Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
Tagged: arts and culture, Grand Rapids Art Museum
This past weekend, the Grand Rapids Art Museum hosted the Film Art & Literature Symposium, promising a conversation about “The Michigan Perspective.” As both a recent Michigan...
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
Tagged: Cook Arts Center, GAAH, GAAH Press Club, GRCYC, WZZM
The GAAH Press Club visited WZZM 13, and was given a tour by Executive Producer ...
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
Tagged: Cook Arts Center, GAAH, GAAH Press Club, GRCYC, Omar V., WZZM
The GAAH Press Club visited WZZM 13, and was given a tour by Executive Producer ...
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
Tagged: Avelycia, Cook Arts Center GAAH, GAAH Press Club, GRCYC, WZZM
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
Tagged: kids food basket, Kirtan, Mike Cohen, Wealthy Theatre
The kirtan music scene is...
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
Tagged: discussion, Diversity, inclusion, lecture, lgbt
The Tolerance, Equality, and Awareness Movement (TEAM), a 501(c)(3) human rights organization in West Michigan, is launching its Diversity and Inclusion Lecture Series, part of its broader TEAM...
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
This Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Wealthy Theatre's Centennial Sustainability Campaign gets a boost from a...
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
Tagged: Holland, Michigan, The Meanwhile, Until Love is Equal
As a resident and business owner in West Michigan, I have been troubled by the (in)action of the Holland City Council pertaining to the...
Posted: 12 years 26 weeks
The Kent GOP will host Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...
Posted: 12 years 27 weeks
Tagged: independent music, instruments, lessons, local business, music, RIT Drums, RIT Music, school band
Frank Nawrot, lead singer and guitarist for local band Absinthe, and a lifetime Grand Rapids resident, started playing guitar as a teenager.
He...
Posted: 12 years 27 weeks
Tagged: Cooking, entrepreneur, entrepreneurship, food, small business
Kelly LeCoy recently graduated from Calvin College with a business and marketing degree. For her final thesis project before graduating last May, LeCoy drafted a business plan for a community...
Posted: 12 years 27 weeks
Tagged: undefined
There's been quite a whirlwind of change around The Rapidian these days.
This summer, intern Samantha Dine...
Posted: 12 years 27 weeks
Tagged: burgers, Casey Lockwood, cats, Chris Lockwood, house shows, humor, Jason Lohman, Jordan Houser, Max Quint, Mental Infestation, metal, music, Shows, slam
Mental Infestation is nothing what you'd expect from a typical slam metal band. While other musicians in their genre write lyrics about...
Posted: 12 years 27 weeks
Tagged: Anne Elizabeth Moore, Cambodia, Cambodian Grrrl, Khmer Rouge, Phnom Penh, self-publishing, zines
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Posted: 12 years 27 weeks
Tagged: archive, gallery, mapping, new features, photo of the day, ron woldyk, tagging, tech, The Rapidian
It’s been a little while since we rolled out the newest incarnation of The Rapidian, but we are still working on things behind the scenes. Here is a brief overview of a few of the new...
Posted: 12 years 27 weeks
Tagged: Advent, December, Dominican Center, event, Magnificat, Mary Vaccaro, Marywood, Michelle Ogren.
Dominican Center at Marywood will host an evening of reflection, prayer and song based on the Canticle of Mary (...
Posted: 12 years 27 weeks
Tagged: Aaron DeSersa, Black Elk, Grand Rapids Public Library, gvsu
"Then I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more...
Posted: 12 years 27 weeks
Tagged: Diversity Lecture Series, GRCC, Iran, Maziar Bahari, political prisoner
Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari, who was detained by Iranian security forces and held in solitary confinement for 118 days,...
Posted: 12 years 27 weeks
Tagged: Fair Farm Rules, food, Food and Water Watch, GIPSA, meat
This past Thursday was windy and overcast, with temperatures in the low 40s. That didn't stop the 20+ advocates who came out to support the Fair Farm Bill Rally held at Calder Plaza. Multiple...
Posted: 12 years 27 weeks
will host an interfaith dialogue Between Monsignor Gaspar F. Ancona and...
Posted: 12 years 27 weeks
Tagged: Goodwill, seniors, Specialized Language Development, tutoring, United Way, Visiting Nurses Association, volunteer
Each week, our Volunteer Center highlights three high-need opportunities in the areas of education, income and health: the building blocks for advancing the common good.
This week...
Posted: 12 years 27 weeks
Tagged: Don't Tell, Kerry Eleveld, Lessons from
National journalist and Grand Rapids native, Kerry Eleveld, will be speaking at Grand Valley State University’s Loosemore Auditorium on Nov. 14, 2011. Eleveld, who had the rare opportunity...