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Bull's Head offers bargain burgers, crushing crowds

Submitted 04-26-2011 under OPINION

When I first came to Grand Rapids from my small home town in the Upper Peninsula, I couldn't believe how many restaurants there were. As I have grown to know the city, I've done my best to dine at as many of the great local restaurants as...

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Rethinking how we describe news categories

Submitted 04-20-2011 under OPINION

The Rapidian is chock full of arts and entertainment content. Is it fluff or does it signal a new way of thinking about news, community and dialogue? In the last six years, I've had numerous conversations with journalists, bloggers, web developers...

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Building our skills and building community: public hours get special

Submitted 04-12-2011 under OPINION

What are public hours? Every week, The Rapidian staff is available to you in person in our offices for specific hours. We call them "public hours," and they're a great chance to stop by to visit, brainstorm article ideas, ask general...

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Share the credit: Collaborators and Translators get some Rapidian love too

Submitted 04-06-2011 under OPINION

Like our mothership, Grand Rapids Community Media Center, The Rapidian has always been about building community through media. With this project, that manifests is in a variety of ways, but today I’d like to focus on story collaborations and...

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Friday Burger Blogging: O'Tooles Edition

Submitted 04-01-2011 under OPINION

This morning I was having coffee with The Rapidian's Citizen Journalism Coordinator Denise Cheng.  She casually asked me what I would be doing the rest of the day.  I told her that my friends Ryan Van and Jef McClimans and I typically meet...

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Greenspace: Should We Grow?

Submitted 03-29-2011 under OPINION

We often think about infrastructure in modern cities as a those hardscaped things - roads, bridges, and so on -- that foster productivity and efficiency.  But we should also think about a "green" infrastructure that...

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Has the divide gone mobile?

Submitted 03-29-2011 under OPINION

From the Rapidian staff   Quite recently, I was reading through the Predictions for Journalism 2011 series on the Nieman Journalism Lab website. Once again, many are claiming this is to be the “year of mobile.” Hardly earth-shattering as this...

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[REVIEW] (a)wake: Local women artists' exhibition for Women's History Month

Submitted 03-28-2011 under OPINION

Photo essay by Denise Cheng   This past weekend, the site-specific exhibition entitled "(a)wake" opened... ...and closed. The exhibition was a collection of works by 11 local artists, installed on the fifth floor of what was previously Steketee...

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You Can Recycle That! A check up on the Single-Stream Recycling system.

Submitted 03-28-2011 under OPINION

The city's new single stream recycling program is nearly seven months old, and it is time to check in and see how the program is doing. The new program allows residents to place all of their recyclables into one tidy bin, rather than sort their...

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Review: Lady Gaga at Van Andel Arena

Submitted 03-27-2011 under OPINION

Lady Gaga arrived at Van Andel Arena on Tuesday, March 1st to perform at the final Michigan venue of her Monster Ball Tour. Her first time performing in Grand Rapids, Gaga was met by a sold-out arena of spectators eager to experience a show...

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