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Angela Davis: Frameworks for Social Justice

Submitted 02-12-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

She speaks with the same passion and power that she had when I heard her in the late 60’s.  Today, Angela Davis displays the wisdom and eloquence of speech that she’s achieved through a lifetime of fighting oppression. Appearing Wednesday...

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Music and LOVE are in the air….

Submitted 02-11-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

Heeeeyyy-o! It is almost the weekend and things are bumping. Flowers and sweets are flying off the shelves everywhere and reservations are being made for nibbling and nookie. I fully embrace a consumerist holiday where the main premise is showing...

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A-Typical Teenage Couple

Submitted 02-10-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

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Ken Stephens & MiraBella Confections: A Labor of Love

Submitted 02-10-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

    Weddings are all about love.  The happy couple professes their love for one another and the family and friends who love them as well. But there is much more than the wedding day that goes into a wedding. Choosing the location...

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Interview with Allison Iraheta

Submitted 02-09-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

Rapidian reporters Maurice Preston and Sophia Maslowski interviewed Allison Iraheta in September 2008 while she was on tour in Grand Rapids along with Adam Lambert, Scott MacIntyre, Michael Sarver, Matt Giraud and Anoop Desai.

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Everyone in The Pool: February Swim Challenge

Submitted 02-08-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

Training for any sport takes a tremendous amount of dedication, persistence, time and energy. Making a commitment to train every single day notches that up and makes it more than training - it becomes a challenge.Each February for the last four...

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The Electric Cheetah Supporting Local Farms

Submitted 02-08-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

  Local eating is catching on in a big way. To me, it just makes sense environmentally as well as economically. The average tomato travels 1,500 to 1,800 miles before it reaches your plate. In this weeklong delay from harvest to dinner plate,...

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On the Record: Chris Knape

Submitted 02-08-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

A Q&A with a Grand Rapids Press business reporter WHAT DOES GRAND RAPIDS NEED?Grand Rapids has been really lucky and I’ve been lucky just to be here in the last seven years because I’ve seen so much of what I thought it needed come to pass.Right...

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Relationships: To call each thing by its right name

Submitted 02-05-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

Matt Russell and I were musing in the office yesterday about the possibilities with February's first story theme: Relationships. We were talking about inanimate objects and why people name them. Of the core staff, George Wietor has named his...

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Art Work, Football and enchiladas! Word on the Street February 5

Submitted 02-05-2010 under LOCAL LIFE

Hey hey hey! Did you know the Super bowl is this weekend!? How did that happen!? I have to admit, I am not a sports fan, but once a year… on Superbowl… I resign myself to watching a single sporting event…. Of course I have NO idea what is going on...

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