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Review: Food Inc.

Submitted 04-05-2010 under OPINION

Chickens - hundreds of them, all plucked, gutted, and dangling from hooks by their legs as they move slowly along a long and winding conveyor. It's not an unexpected sight at a chicken processing plant, but as the camera pulls back, the viewer can...

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Community in the Time of Cyberspace

Submitted 04-05-2010 under OPINION

Last week, I'm hanging out at my favorite bookstore Schuler Books, a Grand Rapids haunt that many locals favor. I'm killing time, waiting for the recall updates to my Toyota to be completed at the dealership across the street. Browsing in one of my...

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The Local Beet: Growing a crop of smart, healthy Grand Rapidians

Submitted 04-04-2010 under OPINION

Food, food, food – the topic of food has hit mainstream. Many of us have heard of the latest food blockbuster, Food Inc., listened to food expert Michael Pollan on Oprah, or have heard the British super chef Jamie Oliver, who is looking to remake...

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Sgt. Matt Maupin: Loves never loses its way home

Submitted 04-01-2010 under OPINION

Sgt. Matt Maupin was captured in Iraq on April 9, 2004, and his body was found several years later.  On the anniversary of his capture, he is still being remembered. This is an audio story dedicated to his memory.

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TMI: Leave it on the cutting room floor

Submitted 03-30-2010 under OPINION

From Rapidian staff: When presenting information to your audience, don't pile it up. Deconstruct it. It happens all the time in classes, at conferences, at public events. With so many questions fizzing from the audience, participants feel...

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Low graduation rates affect community in many ways

Submitted 03-29-2010 under OPINION

I was a straight B and C student all through high school with very little to show after leaving other than a degree. I never cared that much or tried all that hard. I knew from my junior year on that I was going to be a musician/recording engineer....

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For life, love and the pursuit of the ever elusive rutabaga.

Submitted 03-25-2010 under OPINION

Here is Word on the Street for March 24, 2010 WEDNESDAY!Every Wednesday from 6:30-8:30pm, Bar Divani hosts a wine social. These socials are a gathering of people who share a love of wine, expand (or begin) their wine knowledge and also to taste...

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Localizing a larger story for The Rapidian audience

Submitted 03-24-2010 under OPINION

From Rapidian staff*: As a hyperlocal news source, a main thrust behind The Rapidian is to cover the news and events that affect lives within the City of Grand Rapids, but there’s no denying that news happens outside these boundaries. Health care...

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NORTH FACE - UICA Films review

Submitted 03-19-2010 under OPINION

 North Face is a drama based on real events prior to the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Two renowned mountain climbers,  Andreas Hinterstoisser and Toni Kurz, are reluctantly spurred into tackling the Eiger, “the last great problem of the...

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@verylocal: Another way of connecting with Rapidian content

Submitted 03-15-2010 under OPINION

From Rapidian staff*: Many of you responded to the recent Rapidian poll, “How do you primarily get your Rapidian Updates?” I would be lying were I to suggest that this question was posed without somewhat of an ulterior motive. We have been...

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