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Ty Beat - "See Ya"

Submitted 11-03-2015 under NONPROFITS

Local songwriter, producer, drummer, and DJ Ty Beat shares a new song live on 88.1fm WYCE.

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City High Middle School to host 7th annual Recycled Art Market

Submitted 11-03-2015 under NEWS

The art market will be held Saturday, November 7 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and showcase artists and crafters from all over Michigan.

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Placemaking gone digital: Local library assistant turns Eastown into video game

Submitted 11-03-2015 under LOCAL LIFE

Local cartoonist and librarian Drew Damron celebrates and pokes fun at Grand Rapids scene in a video game released this past summer to entertain friends and grow local culture.

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Upscale taqueria expands love of local community in Heartside's newest addition

Submitted 11-03-2015 under NEWS

Mario Cascante, owner of the new Luna restaurant on Ionia, refuses to label ingredients as “local” on the menu. “We’re not trying to use it as a marketing ploy. We’re doing it because it’s the right thing.”

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Avenue for the Arts to celebrate emerging local artists in First Friday event

Submitted 11-03-2015 under PLACE-MATTERS

November's First Friday event will showcase Kendall College students at Spiral Gallery on South Division.

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Hannah Rose Graves - "Love Shocked"

Submitted 11-02-2015 under NONPROFITS

Local blues/rock/soul singer-songwriter Hannah Rose Graves shares a new song with her band in Studio X live on 88.1fm WYCE.

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Hannah Rose Graves - "Blue Jay Blues"

Submitted 11-02-2015 under NONPROFITS

Local blues/rock/soul singer-songwriter Hannah Rose Graves shares a new song with her band in Studio X live on 88.1fm WYCE.

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The University Wits to produce "Lucky Stiff"

Submitted 11-02-2015 under NONPROFITS

Lucky Stiff is a delightful musical comedy that is guaranteed fun for all. With fast paced choreography, slapstick humor and high energy vocal performances, Lucky Stiff will take you on an exotic adventure through the south of France.

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"Native Kids Ride Bikes" artist to talk on gentrification, public space at Civic Studio

Submitted 11-01-2015 under NONPROFITS

On November 2, 2015 at 6:30 p.m., Civic Studio will present Dylan A.T. Miner for a free public talk entitled "All space is public. All land is Indigenous. All ownership is violence."

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GRAM brings retrospective of local art hero Reynold Weidenaar to community

Submitted 10-29-2015 under LOCAL LIFE

Thirty years of his passing, one of the greatest artists Grand Rapids ever produced receives his first full scale retrospective now through January 17, at the Grand Rapids Art Museum.

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