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Cooley Celebrates Diversity and Hispanic Heritage Month

Submitted 10-07-2011 under NEWS

Video news brief of the Cooley Law School's Hispanic and Latino Law Society's recognition of the Hispanic and Latino Heritage Month.

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"Ghost of a Dream," critiqued by Omar V.

Submitted 10-06-2011 under NONPROFITS

Omar, a member of the GAAH Press Club, visited ArtPrize and wrote about a his responses to "Ghost of a Dream: and The InBetween."

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Artprize 2011: Erkfitz's part of Schematic in Two Parts

Submitted 10-06-2011 under LOCAL LIFE

Interview with Artist Erwin Erkfitz, co-creator of a collaborative mural in the Heartside district.

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The Artists of Heartside Gallery and Studio: Alyssa

Submitted 10-06-2011 under NONPROFITS

Alyssa, featured artist from Heartside for the month of October, tells her story and explains how discovering Heartside Gallery has helped her process her emotions.

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Local manufacturing workers react to Austin Bunn's "RUST"

Submitted 10-04-2011 under OPINION

Video interviews with Gary Albrecht formerly of Rowe International, Marty Green of GM and Al Berry of Michigan Works! following the first performance of "RUST" by Austin Bunn.

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You’ve cast your vote for Artprize, now vote for community.

Submitted 10-03-2011 under NONPROFITS

The people that attend the 'Free Radical 2011' will be the people that sincerely care what the future of the arts is not only in Heartside, but the whole of Grand Rapids. They were here before Artprize overshadowed them, and they’ll be here after its annual furor has gone into hibernation.

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Haunted Holmdene Manor and the history of Aquinas College

Submitted 09-29-2011 under NONPROFITS

Please join the Grand Rapids Historical Society for a delightful and entertaining free presentation, "Haunted Holmdene Manor and the History of Aquinas College," at 7 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 13 at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum!

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Assocreation: Pink streetwear!

Submitted 09-27-2011 under LOCAL LIFE

Assocreation: what is it? A person, a group, a place, a happening, a pink print t-shirt? Who is Annamarie Buller and why was she out there mixing it up again in the Heartside neighborhood on Saturday September 24 2011? This time it was your feet, fun shoes, pink paint, road dirt and white t-shirts.

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Pulitzer prize winner details discrimination against women

Submitted 09-27-2011 under NEWS

Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, spoke at the Diversity Lecture Series at Fountain Street Church, spoke about equitable rights for women as a worldwide issue, not just a women's issue.

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Former manufacturing employees shake off the "RUST"

Submitted 09-26-2011 under LOCAL LIFE

Years after assembly plants close, the question of "so now what?" still lingers in Michigan. Stories of those affected are turned into a play by Austin Bunn, "RUST."

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