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Marie Catrib's serves up Lebanese and Yooper influences

Submitted 01-10-2012 under OPINION

Local homemade cuisineThe above phrase excited me when my friends told me we were dining at Marie Catrib’s, known for its quality food. This popular multi-service restaurant is a hearty member of Local First, an organization dedicated to...

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Creating content on The Rapidian: Pitching a story

Submitted 01-09-2012 under OPINION

Sometimes you don't have time to write a story yourself. Sometimes the story is about you. So what do you do when writing an article yourself just isn't going to work? Pitch it to our reporters in our Storybank. Using this simple form, as...

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David Cobb of Move to Amend visits Grand Rapids

Submitted 01-07-2012 under OPINION

On Thursday January 12, Fountain Street Church will host David Cobb of Move to Amend as the next event in the Duncan Littlefair Great Speaker Series. Local representatives of Move to Amend and Occupy Grand Rapids are co-hosting the event, focused on...

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Uses, misuses and abuses of music: John Varineau at the January Series

Submitted 01-06-2012 under OPINION

Associate conductor John Varineau of the Grand Rapids Symphony demonstrated to the audience "The Uses, Misuses and Abuses of Music" this past Thursday at the January Series of Calvin College. After opening performance with Mozart's...

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Creating content on The Rapidian: Adding a calendar event

Submitted 01-04-2012 under OPINION

Last week, we showed you how to (as a reporter) add your article on The Rapidian. This week, we show you (and by that we mean anyone with a user account for The Rapidian) how to add your event to our Calendar pages. If you've been looking...

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Looking ahead: news bureaus on The Rapidian

Submitted 12-30-2011 under OPINION

As we ring in the New Year here at The Rapidian, we’re taking time to look back, but we're also busy planning for 2012. We just shared our staff’s favorite articles of 2011, and look forward to the articles that are coming in 2012....

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Looking ahead: beats on The Rapidian

Submitted 12-30-2011 under OPINION

We're always looking for creative ways to give our readers more information about the city of Grand Rapids. We are also know we have quite a lot of reporters that have strong, passionate interests in one specific topic. Some of us would be...

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Staff picks and your picks: Looking back on 2011

Submitted 12-28-2011 under OPINION

What were your favorite stories on The Rapidian over the past year? I asked our team that very question. Below I'm revealing what they came up with-would you have come up with the same list?  Laurie Cirivello, our publisher, had the...

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The Starlight Six come back to ring in the New Year

Submitted 12-27-2011 under OPINION

The Starlight Six welcomes the new year with their return to the Wealthy Theatre for their second annual New Year's Eve show. The talented group of Michiganians will also give a special performance of Tom Petty's classic album Wildflowers...

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Creating content on The Rapidian: Adding an article

Submitted 12-26-2011 under OPINION

So you took the plunge: you signed up to be a reporter for The Rapidian!  Once you're a New Reporter, you'll have a mentor to help you along the way-all the way from coming up with that first story idea to hitting publish on your...

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