The Cinema is my favorite place to spend an evening. When that cinema is an independent establishment, my happiness skyrockets, shattering my personal (glass) happiness scale. There is a rare...
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Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
Tagged: ap2012convo, artprize, ArtPrize2011, ArtPrize2012, experience Grand Rapids, Mia Tavonatti, Rick Devos
Standing underneath the Metaphorest Project wearing my “Ask Me” vest on my final Wayfinding shift of ArtPrize 2011, the real conversations finally started. Beyond the number of hours...
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
Tagged: film, film industry, Michigan
In 2010, several big name actors and directors flocked to Grand Rapids. If someone was in the right place at the right time, they could watch as movie production crews filmed...
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
Tagged: Champagne Books, Children, education, family literacy
The Literacy Center of West Michigan surpassed their goal of collecting 2,000 children’s books by collecting 4,289 books. Books for Bedtime,...
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
Tagged: art, kitsch, picturesque, staff editorial
Well, there's no denying it now: ArtPrize is over. And with it, the closing of our fall edition of Picturesque: "Art or Kitsch?...
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
Tagged: artprize, GAAH Press Club, Gilberto, GRCYC, Marie Bergstedt, Telephone Tales, Women's City Club
On Sunday, October 1, The GAAH Press Club visited ArtPrize and each wrote a review of a work of art that they found particularly interesting. The following is...
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
Tagged: Andi Steele, Cook Arts Center, Focus, GAAH Press Club, GRCYC, Shirley, Women's City Club
On Sunday, October 1, The GAAH Press Club visited ArtPrize and each wrote a review of a work of art that they found particularly interesting. The following is Shirley's review of an...
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
Tagged: holistic health
When the owner of 946 Cherry bought the building in 1952, he probably never dreamed it would one day be used for things like Chinese energy therapy and brewing kombucha.
Grand Rapids...
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
Tagged: 6 words, Grand Rapids, MyGR6
The weather outside may have been rainy and gloomy, but inside the museum the mood was festive. At a lively breakfast event at the Grand Rapids Public Museum Wednesday morning, the six winners of...
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
Tagged: Fall Arts Celebration, gvsu, poetry, Ted Kooser, Terrance Hayes
Two of the nation's most esteemed poets will be featured as part of Grand Valley University's...
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
This year marks the first national Food Day on October 24th, and the Greater Grand Rapids Food Systems Council (GGRFSC) wants to celebrate food, glorious food! The Grand Rapids premier of the film...
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
Tagged: City of Holland, civil liberties, Gay rights, Holland City Council, Holland Michigan, Human Relations Committee, lgbt, ULIE
by Erin Wilson
Until Love Is Equal
We've reached a pivotal and complicated moment with our efforts in Holland, MI. It cannot be reduced to a soundbite. Here is the state of the...
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
Local radio station WYCE has been hosting the Hat Trick Concert Series for more than a decade. Each show consists of a national act brought in to One Trick Pony in downtown Grand Rapids. Donations...
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
Tagged: Fountain Street Church, Jim Wallis, social justice
Progressive Christian activist Jim Wallis will speak about economic disparity in an appearance at...
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
Tagged: amway, bill berkeley, blind, boys & girls club, deaf, fundraiser, Grand Rapids, Meijer, mt. kilimanjaro, youth
“Our children are the foundation upon which the legacy of Grand Rapids is to be built on,” said this year’s 3rd Annual Steak & Burger Dinner keynote speaker, Bill Barkeley....
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
With ArtPrize just behind us, "Glance at the Past" reflects upon the first two professional artists in Grand Rapids history: Marinus Harting and A.J. Conant.
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
One might think to write a mystery book, you'd need to read a few mystery books. Not the case with Susan Newhof: she's more of a science fiction reader, and the oddities of that genre...
Posted: 12 years 30 weeks
Tagged: Golden Apple, GRPS, Western Michigan University
The Golden Apple Award is given to an outstanding individual who attended or graduated from Western Michigan University’s College of Education and Human Development. Liesha Crawford, a...
Posted: 12 years 31 weeks
Tagged: Heartside Gallery and Studio, london
It turns out to be the middle of the night when I start to come out of a watery dream, where I am visiting a friend from London in her outdoor garden hospital bed. In the garden there is music,...
Posted: 12 years 31 weeks
Tagged: Eat Local Challenge, food, fork fest, Local First
“At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.”
~ Michael Pollan
Food...
Posted: 12 years 31 weeks
There is a routine we've established here, even in a few short days: we head down four flights of narrow stairs, and watch the old charming cabs roll by as Willie finishes his morning...
Posted: 12 years 31 weeks
Tagged: African, Amena Anderson, Burton Street SE, dance, Garfiled Park Gym, Grand Rapids, Jewellynne Richardson, LOOP, West Michigan Jewels of Africa
Grand Rapids native Jewellynne Richardson, 43, spent eight years in Atlanta learning West African dances such as Kakilambe, a...
Posted: 12 years 31 weeks
Tagged: education, Future, Grand Rapids Public Schools, millage
My father teaches American history, so I value education and think its quality is crucial for the advancement of our nation. This past year I served at-risk youth in a Grand Rapids elementary...
Posted: 12 years 31 weeks
Tagged: brass band, heartside gallery, james brett, judith scott, london, museum of everythnig, selfridges hotel
Imagine walking into the most amazing party you had never planned for. Last night Willie, Sue and I were invited to a Museum of Everything (MOE) dinner and dance event at the old Selfridges Hotel...
Posted: 12 years 31 weeks
Civil War soldiers are greeted with a lavish banquet upon their return to Grand Rapids.
Posted: 12 years 31 weeks
Tagged: art, Hugo Claudin, Mexicains Sans Frontieres, MSF, music, Scott Warren, venue
Mexicians Sans Frontieres (MSF), an amorphous, avant garde artspace and...
Posted: 12 years 31 weeks
Hillcrest 1 and 2 classrooms, part of Grand Rapids Public Schools Kent Vocational Options Program, are utilizing the Fulton Street Farmers Market as part of their curriculum. Every...
Posted: 12 years 31 weeks
Tagged: ap2012convo, ArtPrize2011, ArtPrize2012, johnston, photo, photography, picture, Terry Johnston
Terry Johnston stands at the front of a classroom, safely behind his MacBook Pro. Many would decline the opportunity to be interviewed by a room full of college level writers, as college students...
Posted: 12 years 31 weeks
Tagged: artprize, ArtPrize2011, Cook Arts Center, Donny, GAAH Press Club, GRCYC, Mark Rumsey, Michele Brody, Nature Preserve, The Sky is Not Falling, UICA, Women's City Club
On Sunday, October 1, The GAAH Press Club visited ArtPrize and each wrote a review of a work of art that they found particularly interesting. The following is Donny's review of an...
Posted: 12 years 31 weeks
Tagged: artprize, Avelycia O., GAAH Press Club, GRCYC, Mark Rumsey, The Sky is Not Falling, Women's City Club
On Sunday, October 1, The GAAH Press Club visited ArtPrize and each wrote a review of a work of art that they found particularly interesting. The following is Avelycia O's...