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Review: "The Drawer Boy" at Actors' Theatre

Submitted 05-16-2010 under OPINION

Actors' Theatre's production of "The Drawer Boy" This melodrama is a "three-hander" — just three characters — in which decades-old secrets get revealed, a main character has a disability, and a naïve young actor learns lessons. The actors, G.M....

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New features on The Rapidian

Submitted 05-07-2010 under OPINION

Welcome to the newest version of the Rapidian! Both longtime and new readers alike are bound to notice some big changes to The Rapidian after today’s relaunch. Over the past several weeks Ron Woldyk (three cheers for Ron!), our long-suffering web...

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Catalyst Radio and The Rapidian partner for on-air media analysis and local happenings

Submitted 05-04-2010 under OPINION

From The Rapidian staff: Two programs of Community Media Center—Catalyst Radio and The Rapidian—have joined forces in bringing media, media news, and highlights on local nonprofits to the Grand Rapids community. Some of you may have noticed...

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The Automobile and Us - Part V: Did the car ever make sense?

Submitted 04-30-2010 under OPINION

This is the last part of a five-part series that explores the effects of the automobile on us as a population and on Grand Rapids. This segment shows what automobile trends GR shares with the nation. Over the course of the twentieth century,...

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The Art of the Steal - UICA Films review

Submitted 04-30-2010 under OPINION

 The Art of the Steal is the story of The Barnes Foundation and it’s founder, Dr. Albert C. Barnes, a cantankerous philanthropist of Philadelphia. With a fortune derived from the development of the antiseptic drug Argyrol in the early 1900...

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The Automobile and Us - Part IV: Current efforts in GR to strengthen alternative transportation

Submitted 04-27-2010 under OPINION

This is part four of a five part series in which we will explore the effects of the automobile on us as a population and on Grand Rapids. This part features an interview with Jack Hoffman, who represents Grand Rapids on the Rapid board. He also...

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You, with your ear to the ground!

Submitted 04-27-2010 under OPINION

From The Rapidian staff: During our press pit last week about breaking news, Grand Rapids Press' Web Producer Kate Nagengast made some very good points. It was the day after a cancelled Grand Rapids Public Schools board meeting. Emotions were...

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The Automobile and Us - Part III: Ways to modify cities to accommodate alternative transportation

Submitted 04-23-2010 under OPINION

This is part three of a five-part series in which we explore the effects of the automobile on us as a population and on Grand Rapids. In this part, we will focus on a variety of solutions to the problems we discussed in the previous articles. On...

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Parking conflicts in the Heritage Hill neighborhood

Submitted 04-22-2010 under OPINION

Traffic confusion on the streets of the Heritage Hill neighborhood, located in downtown Grand Rapids, is at an all time high. Since the beginning of last September, the neighborhood's compacted, narrow streets have become congested. From early...

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The Automobile and Us - Part II: The automobile's detrimental toll on community life

Submitted 04-21-2010 under OPINION

This is part two of a five-part series that explores the effects of the automobile on Grand Rapids.  In this part, we will explore how communities have been affected socially and physically by the car. We will also see how our downtown area...

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