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Independent music label dizzybird records celebrates second year

Submitted 12-12-2016 under LOCAL LIFE

Dizzybird records just celebrated their second anniversary last month and the Grand Rapids independent music label doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. The label was started in 2014 by music content manager, Brian Hoekstra, and venue manager...

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Encore! A national movement expands locally

Submitted 12-12-2016 under LOCAL LIFE

For many people across the country, retirement brings one common question: What now? “The Baby Boomer generation has been all work, work, work,” said Jane Royer. “You spend so much time mastering your job and suddenly you have...

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Catalyst Radio: On the Ground's embedded journalism in Garfield Park and Burton Heights

Submitted 12-09-2016 under LOCAL LIFE

In this episode, we interview Michelle Jokisch Polo, project editor for On the Ground, an embedded journalism project through Rapid Growth Media that highlights and celebrates the communities found along South Division Avenue that touch the Garfield...

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Snoop is coming to Grand Rapids, are you going?

Submitted 12-08-2016 under LOCAL LIFE

Calvin Cordozar Broadus, Jr., better known as Snoop Dogg has set the music industry on fire since the launch of his career in the 90’s. Grand Rapids may get a little hazy on December 20. The reason is not attributed to fog or pollution but the...

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Shop local this holiday season

Submitted 12-08-2016 under LOCAL LIFE

It’s time to think small this holiday season. While Small Business Saturday may be behind us, you can still make an impact in your community by shopping at small businesses this holiday season. If you have holiday shopping to tackle, we...

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Building community around a tabletop

Submitted 12-08-2016 under LOCAL LIFE

On a green, felt table a group of tabletop gamers lay out their board and its pieces, getting ready to begin their play. Their game of choice tonight: Agricola. The gamers will strategize, laugh, and engage with like-minded community members in a...

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Catalyst Radio: Grand Rapids DAPL Resistance Fellowship

Submitted 12-02-2016 under LOCAL LIFE

Download the audio here.  In this interview, we cover a local perspective on a global movement. Over this past year, tribes throughout the U.S. and world have come together in Standing Rock, North Dakota, to stand in solidarity with the...

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Local artist finds inspiration in moths, praying mantises, mysteries of tarot cards

Submitted 11-28-2016 under LOCAL LIFE

"I always wanted to be an artist. Well, or a ballerina," Molly Vega Burgess laughs. "Because you're supposed to." We are standing in her studio, a windowed but curtainless room on the second floor of her home. The minimal...

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From bartering to banking: A look at the historic money of Old Grand Rapids

Submitted 11-28-2016 under LOCAL LIFE

Have you ever wondered what kind of money people used when they came to Michigan and settled down in what would become Grand Rapids? Generally speaking, it wasn’t dollars and cents. In fact, there was very little actual money on the frontier....

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Inline skater joins cyclists on 500 mile journey to raise funds to fight poverty

Submitted 11-22-2016 under LOCAL LIFE

The Sea-to-Sea Tour is a physical challenge as well as a moral one. Sea-to-Sea asks us to unite as athletes as well as Christians. Around this time of year, we begin training for our leg of the journey; at the same time, we mobilize our communities...

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