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The Urban Shopping Experience

Submitted 12-03-2010 under OPINION

Downtown retail is an indicator of a healthy city. The suburban ethos of the 50s and 60s left Grand Rapids, like many other cities, with deteriorated business cores that were primarily only used as commuter office spaces on a nine to five schedule....

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Apparently, Rapidians are Sticky

Submitted 11-30-2010 under OPINION

From The Rapidian staff: The Rapidian is an open platform where the community self-selects the news and information to be shared and reported. The original intent was to increase community engagement and encourage connections in the community. The...

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Don't go mental?

Submitted 11-26-2010 under OPINION

I was reading an article a while back which reminded me that many members of the general public have little knowledge of what psychiatric conditions are really all about. At least many people are not sensitive to the very real pain associated with...

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Voces exhibition honors the dead and challenges viewers

Submitted 11-24-2010 under OPINION

Voces ("Voices"),  a solo exhibition by Mandy Cano Villalobos, addresses the mass femicide in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Femicide is historically defined as the systematic killing of women by men simply because they are women. In Ciudad...

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New Feature Tuesday: Suggestions Slider

Submitted 11-23-2010 under OPINION

From The Rapidian staff: A new feature announcement on a Tuesday can really only mean one thing. That’s right, it’s New Feature Tuesday! 
 
This time we only have one new feature that we are ready to talk about, the suggestions slider, and actually...

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Downtown Alliance ups cool factor with mobile site

Submitted 11-20-2010 under OPINION

Grand Rapids' Downtown Alliance has launched a new DowntownGR Mobile website. The site, for use with web-enabled phones, is intended to provide an easy way for people on-the-go to find places to eat, locations to shop and...

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The future of health care is blossoming in the Heartside District

Submitted 11-19-2010 under OPINION

If you’ve been near St. Mary’s Hospital on Jefferson or otherwise close to the corner of Cherry and Sheldon recently, you may have noticed a large area of new construction underway. What is being built on the former parking lot at Cherry Street...

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Big Dudee Roo to Release First EP at The DAAC

Submitted 11-17-2010 under OPINION

 After playing together for over three years, Big Dudee Roo (Max Lockwood - vocals and bass, Justin Dore - lead guitar and vocals, Aurora Lewis - vocals and bass,  Amanda Smith - viola and vocals, Nate Wagner - guitar and banjo, and Kurt...

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A DIY prototype kit for Rapidian reporters - Crafters wanted!

Submitted 11-16-2010 under OPINION

From The Rapidian staff: Last week, we were invited to set up shop at AimWest's social media confabulation, an annual conference in its second iteration that's spilling out of the gills with GR's social media savviest (read: marketers)....

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Denali: Local playwright's hot little number in sub-zero setting

Submitted 11-16-2010 under OPINION

"People give you things so you'll open the door. So they can see inside."   On Nov. 5, local playwright Austin Bunn gave 50 of us at Spectrum Theater's black box space the gift of a high-stakes plot and intricately connected characters in the...

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