Grand Rapids has gained the attention of many urbanists, locally and nationally in the past decade based upon its successful community re-investment strategies. Grand Rapids has been doing...
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Posted: 14 years 17 weeks
Tagged: gentrification, Grand Rapids, redevelopment, reinvestment, renewal, vocab
Posted: 14 years 17 weeks
I drive by it everyday. Each time, I think, “I need to capture this before the trains move again.” For brief periods of time, a moving art gallery comes to Grand Rapids at the train yard...
Posted: 14 years 17 weeks
Tagged: Doby Watson, Glow Friends, Good Night & Good Morning, Grand Rapids, Indie Music, Ribbons of song, The Daac
On Saturday, January 9th the indie music sounds of the Great Lakes region will merge in Grand Rapids. Starting off the trip are local pop-folksters ...
Posted: 14 years 18 weeks
Tagged: art, free, UICA, workshops, Youth programs
Join the Spring ArtWorks youth program and experience an eight-week series that includes films, hands-on activities, and workshops run by contemporary artists and local businesses. ArtWorks is a...
Posted: 14 years 18 weeks
For the last several years, the Grand Rapids Institute for Information and Democracy (GRIID) has been putting on classes to help spread awareness of important current issues. Starting...
Posted: 14 years 18 weeks
Tagged: college, financial aid, Scholarship, university
Each year, Grand Rapids Community Foundation awards more than $550,000 in scholarships to students who are college bound or pursuing a technical career. 2010 marks the 65th year the...
Posted: 14 years 18 weeks
Tagged: economy, Grand Rapids Community Foundation, grants, gvsu, workforce
Grand Rapids Community Foundation’s Board of Trustees recently approved $150,000 in grants that will support local economic and workforce development in 2010....
Posted: 14 years 18 weeks
Tagged: at-risk, boys & girls clubs, charity, donate, Grand Rapids, Michigan, non-profit, Poverty, taco bell, volunteer, winter coats, youth
Over a span of only ten days, West Michigan residents succeeded in making winter a little warmer for over 500 members of Boys & Girls Clubs in Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Holland, and...
Posted: 14 years 18 weeks
Tagged: #BreakfastForSmartPpl, aimWest, business, human resources, internet, Mosaic Space, Nemo Chu, S.L. Robbins and Associates, social media, Spinneractive, twitter, web 2.0
January 21. $21. 21 spots. The registration page for #BreakfastForSmartPpl went live at 4:30 p.m....
Posted: 14 years 18 weeks
Tagged: AIDS, Clean Works, Heartside Ministry, Heartside Neighborhood, Needles, Public Heatlh, The Grand Rapids Red Project
I recently interviewed Steve Alsum. He is the coordinator for Clean Works, a needle exchange and disease prevention program that operates on Mondays and Thursdays out of...
Posted: 14 years 18 weeks
Tagged: content facilitator, jan101, Matt Russell
Dear readers, reporters, collaborators, sources and supporters, 
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Posted: 14 years 18 weeks
Tagged: Camp Kellogg, Camp Lee, Central High School, Civil War, Civil War Camp, Fountain street, Grand Rapids Public Library, History, Martha's Vineyard
As you walk by the many shops and buildings in Heritage Hill that we have grown fond off, buildings like...
Posted: 14 years 18 weeks
Tagged: beer mile, Cherry Street, running, twitter
A beer mile is an odd event. To compete, you could be good at running, you might be good at drinking beer but to win you need to be somewhat good at both. The Grand Rapids Beer Mile was the...
Posted: 14 years 19 weeks
Tagged: cadet, education, Grand Rapids Central High School, High School students, J.R.O.T.C., JROTC, Public School, United States Army
Grand Rapids Central High School is the city’s oldest public high school. It has seen...
Posted: 14 years 20 weeks
Church-goers attending the Christmas Eve midnight mass were met by a wall of choral music immediately upon entering the...
Posted: 14 years 20 weeks
Tagged: buy local, Care of Earth, Dominican Sisters, eat healthy, Econony, energy, food, fresh produce, Grand Rapids business, local farm, Peace., support Michigan, sustainability
by: Sisters Mary Lucille Janowiak OP and...
Posted: 14 years 20 weeks
Tagged: burlesque, christmas special, dec09, East Hills, Entertainment, live show, performance, satire, SHFTB, Super Happy Funtime Burlesque, uptown, Wealthy Theatre
Super Happy Funtime Burlesque has been around for quite a while now, entertaining audiences and offending critics. Friday...
Posted: 14 years 20 weeks
A year ago this December, workers at the Republic Windows and Doors Factory in Chicago, Illinois were informed by management that the factory would be closing in three days and...
Posted: 14 years 20 weeks
Tagged: Bill Cox, Care of Creation., Contenporary, David Willis, Dominican Sisters, Grand Rapids, Instruments of Hope, Mark Siegrist, Meditation, Mic Carlson, Park, Sculpture Garden
We often carry with us a deep longing for a quiet space away, where we can see the beauty of the wilderness and listen to the songs of nature--a place of renewal and peace where we can take time...
Posted: 14 years 21 weeks
Tagged: art, Exhibitions, free, UICA
The Economist Series features a series of collaborative works that represent an ongoing dialogue between the two artists. Each piece in the series is an extrapolation of weeks in time,...
Posted: 14 years 21 weeks
Tagged: art, Exhibitions, free, UICA
Atrocities is based on the 85 prints in Fransico Goya’s Disasters of War. Seah seeks to investigate the pleasure of viewing a still image by animating it within one’s mind....
Posted: 14 years 21 weeks
Tagged: Dominican Sisters, education, environment, Global Warming, Green, Social Issues, Sustainable, United Methodist Church., West Michigan Environmental Action Council, WMEAC
West Michigan Environmental Action Council (WMEAC) is offering a five-session program to encourage and support the desire to care for creation. This...
Posted: 14 years 21 weeks
Cydney Colvig, Special Events Volunteer
In every city she has resided, Cydney Colvig seeks out artistic opportunities of both the professional and volunteer nature....
Posted: 14 years 21 weeks
Call for Entries: dis.place.ment
dis.place.ment, an international juried exhibition. As part of an ongoing commitment to...
Posted: 14 years 21 weeks
D.A. Blodgett for Children is hosting an Adoption Reflection Group for Birthmothers. We know that relinquishing a child for adoption has a lifelong impact on mothers and we believe that no...
Posted: 14 years 21 weeks
Tagged: adult, adult content, burlesque, dec09, Dr. Sketchy's, la la vulvaria, mr. happy pants, partial nudity, saturday, sazerac, shimmy shack, Super Happy Funtime Burlesque, vivacious miss audacious
MATURE CONTENT: Contains partial nudity
Shimmy Shack Burlesque is in a lot of ways...
Posted: 14 years 21 weeks
Tagged: flickr. grand rapids, fun, group activities, meeting people, photography, Rapidian
Meeting up with the Grand Rapids, MI Flickr group might seem a little intimidating if you look at the photos in the group pool. There are plenty of people carrying around big equipment, and it's...
Posted: 14 years 21 weeks
Tagged: beta, The Rapidian, upgrade, upgrades
Since the launch of The Rapidian, exactly three months ago to the day, The Rapidian has been operating in what we’ve been calling “Beta I.” It has been a time to throw everything out there...
Posted: 14 years 21 weeks
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Walking through the austere building, you hear hushed voices, feel a cool draft and see stark white walls everywhere you look. You move from room to room glancing at each of the hundreds of...
Posted: 14 years 21 weeks
Tagged: Barbara Hansen, Culture of Peace Committee, December 20., Dominican Center, Dominican Sisters, DVD, Grand Rapids, movie, Nuclear Disarmament
The movie, Hiroshima: Repentance and Renewal, will show on December 20, 2009 at the Dominican Center at Marywood. The 38-minute movie will...