For the second year in a row, some of the top advertising experts from Grand Rapids mingled with some of the brightest up-and-coming minds at The Yardsticks...
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Posted: 12 years 32 weeks
Posted: 12 years 32 weeks
Tagged: Architecture, artprize 2011, Hopcat
ArtPrize ended almost a month ago. The monkeys are off the Blue Bridge, Rusty the dog went back to his rusty dog house and most venues have restored their businesses free from ArtPrize artwork....
Posted: 12 years 32 weeks
Tagged: bar, live music venue, night life, West Side
October 29, 2011 marked the last “hurrah” for Bridge Street icon Monte's Lounge. Though the bar may have shuttered its door as the last revelers staggered out into the brisk...
Posted: 12 years 32 weeks
Tagged: Baxter, community development, Grand Rapids, housing, HUD, NSP, rental housing, vacant property
The story of a problem property on an otherwise peaceful block has been told time and time again. The house that has loud parties, drug activities, and “riff-raff” as my dad used to...
Posted: 12 years 32 weeks
Tagged: farm, food, local food, restaurant week
Foodies and people who love to eat out--rejoice! Restaurant Week Grand Rapids is back for a second year with new places to eat...
Posted: 12 years 32 weeks
Tagged: art, Carol Radecki, crafts., Dominican Center, free, gallery, Grand Rapids, Local, Marywood, Michigan, Robyn Bomhof
Dominican Center at Marywood is pleased to show the work of two Michigan artists from November...
Posted: 12 years 32 weeks
Tagged: bell, department, fire, Glance at the Past, Grand Rapids, GRFD, History, Radio, WYCE
This bell still stands at the entrance of Grand Rapids Public Museum. Learn about its rich history with Grand Rapids Fire Department on this episode of Glance at the Past!
Posted: 12 years 33 weeks
Tagged: Cook Arts, GAAH Press Club, GRCYC, pumpkin
On October 14, a truckload of pumpkins were donated to Grandville Avenue Arts & Humanities, and the GAAH Press Club was there to interview Mr....
Posted: 12 years 33 weeks
On Wednesday, Oct. 26, the Grand Rapids Business Journal announced the 40 Under Forty Class of 2011. Among them was Grand Rapids Public Schools' very own, Daniel Williams, Principal of Grand...
Posted: 12 years 33 weeks
Tagged: Abbey Road, Beatles, comic, Cori Somers, Corn Fed Girls, Daisy May, dark, Earthwork Music, Electromagnetic Escape, escapism, Harvest Gathering, Ian Gorman, Ira Cohen, Jay Gavan, live, Matt Jarrells, May Bernard, May Erlewine, Michael Shimmin, Mike Shimmin, music, oil spill, particle physics, photography, Rachel Flanigan, Red Sea Pedestrians, Scary, seance, Seth Bernard, spooky, Strutt, Water Festival, Wealthy Theatre, WYCE
Kalamazoo's The Red Sea Pedestrians "world roots" music has been said to delight Michigan listening audiences, as evidenced by...
Posted: 12 years 33 weeks
Don't have time to listen right now? Download the mp3 and listen at your...
Posted: 12 years 33 weeks
Tagged: Cityscape Adventures, Ghost Hunting, Masonic Temple, Ritz Koney, Saint Cecilia's, Wealthy Street Theater
My interest in the paranormal started at around age ten. I woke up one night sweating in my bed to see what I believed to be a dark-haired woman sitting on the edge of my bed while Marky Mark'...
Posted: 12 years 33 weeks
Tagged: altars, culture, Day of the Dead, Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids Public Library, Latino, Mexico
Day of the Dead, despite its somber name, is a big, colorful and fun celebration of life. Each year on November 1 to 2, Mexicans, Mexican Americans and an increasing number of everyone else enjoy...
Posted: 12 years 33 weeks
Tagged: art community, arts and culture, Arts Council
Recently, the Arts Council of Greater Grand Rapids officially announced its plans to...
Posted: 12 years 33 weeks
Tagged: KCTCC, Wolverine Worldwide
Written by: Jessica Gonyou, Volunteer Center
Last year, when faced with the possibility of losing a vital Kent County Tax Credit Coalition (KCTCC)...
Posted: 12 years 33 weeks
Tagged: GRPS, millage, Safe & Dry, vote, Warm
The future of our students, schools and the district as a whole is not just an education issue or a city issue. It is about economic development. As we look into how each individual school is in...
Posted: 12 years 33 weeks
Every Tuesday night, young adults all over Grand Rapids descend on downtown for a night of socializing and dancing courtesy of Grand Rapids Original Swing Society (GROSS).
GROSS meets on...
Posted: 12 years 33 weeks
Dusk was setting in, and as I lifted my arms over my head in yoga class, I thought about all the ways to say goodbye. I didn't have a clear idea of how, so mostly, I nestled into the sound of...
Posted: 12 years 33 weeks
Tagged: art, downtown shopping, fashion, Jim Gebben, One Girl's Treasure, photography
You might be surprised to walk into a women’s resale clothing store on a Friday evening and find not just fashionable used clothing, but also art, appetizers, and a crowd of art enthusiasts...
Posted: 12 years 34 weeks
Visit the trials of Grand Rapids' early medical practitioners.
Posted: 12 years 34 weeks
Tagged: Campus Elementary, Grand Valley Ward, GRPS
On Saturday, October 8, 40 volunteers from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints - Grand Valley Ward went to Campus Elementary School to cleanup and revitalized the school's exterior...
Posted: 12 years 34 weeks
Tagged: cinema, cinema paradiso, movies, UICA
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...
Posted: 12 years 34 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 34 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 34 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 34 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 34 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 34 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 34 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 34 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...