These five questions have been posed to several different local artists, their responses create this series. First up, Michael Pfleghaar, local painter and...
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In this video, we interviewed international and national art professionals about the importance of an organization like UICA. If you are interested in donating online to UICA, please visit...
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Tagged: Amy Zerner, carol manos, carol's ferals, Catalyst Radio, Denise Cheng, Linda Gellasch, Luigi Colarullo, Monte Farber, The Rapidian, WYCE
Feral cats mate three times a year, and every cat can spawn thousands of feral kittens over the course of just a few years. Carol Manos of Carol's Ferals...
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Tagged: food, Fundraising, holiday, Michael Wolf, mini-grant, potluck, proposal, Society for Experiential Artistic Services, Sunday Soup, The Division Avenue Arts Collective
Today is Sunday Soup #9, and after ...
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Tagged: Art Covert, baritone horn, Christmas, concert, euphonium, Grand Rapids Community College, GRCC, Harvey Phillips, holiday, Karen Dunnam, low brass, music, Royce Auditoirum, sousaphone, St. Cecilia's, tuba
Karen Dunnam plays the euphonium, and she is proud of it. When she moved to town six years ago, she came with a plan. Having already organized one in Detroit, Karen was determined to bring Tuba...
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Tagged: Children, Grand Rapids, Healthcare, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital talent, Michigan, nurses, physicians
A well-designed structure should reflect the place where it is built, the people that will utilize it and a give a sense of its purpose. The new Helen...
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Tagged: continuum of care, Dwelling Place, grand rapids area coalition to end homelessness, Grand Rapids Area Housing Continuum of Care, homelessness, Janay Brower, Lynn Sorrell, Roof to Roots, Verne Berry Place
In Grand Rapids, more than 5,000 people are considered homeless, half of whom are part of homeless families. Homelessness is a problem that stems from multiple causes including job loss, jail...
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Tagged: Crispin Glover, Everything is Fine!, It is Fine, Steven T. Stewart, UICA, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, What is It?
I had not heard of Crispin Glover until 2 p.m. yesterday afternoon. Since listening as he read his books at a slideshow live at...
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With Christmas just 17 days away, Heart of West Michigan United Way's holiday Adopt a Family program is still seeking groups, companies, and families willing to...
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Tagged: AIDS, Clean Works, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Heartside Neighborhood, HIV, Leah Baker, Michigan AIDS Coalition, Needle exchange, The Grand Rapids Red Project
In 1989 a group of committed leaders and the Council of Michigan Foundations came together to form the Michigan AIDS Fund (MAF) in response to the devastating...
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Tagged: Downtown, fiber arts, folk art, heartside, heartside gallery
Heartside Gallery and Studio began in 1993 as a small program of Heartside Ministry. This ever-expanding program continues to offer the...
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Tagged: Grand River, parks and recreation, pollution, Water, water quality
"Filthy water cannot be washed."
- African Proverb
If you’re familiar with downtown Grand Rapids, you’ve likely been exposed to the...
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Tagged: Heartwell, Mayor Heartwell, pilgrim manor
Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell has announced that he will seek a third term for the city leadership position. The mayor disclosed his intentions to GRTV's “City Connection” and in a...
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Tagged: City Connection, City Hall, Heartwell, Linda Gellasch, mayor george heartwell, Mayor Heartwell, Mayor John Logie, Tom Schwallie
*** UPDATE *** The above video is a recording of tonight's City Connection.
From The Rapidian Staff: Ever...
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Tagged: Grand Rapids Press, Ken Kolker, media, photography, profile, reporter, WOOD TV 8
This periodic feature for The Rapidian will spotlight the media personality behind the byline, camera or mic.
Like clockwork, every evening at 6:05 Ken...
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Tagged: Carousel, Grand Rapids Public Museum, GRPM, Peter C. Cook
In 1981 Peter C. Cook, and his wife Pat were leaders in the Grand Rapids Public Museum campaign to acquire an antique Carousel and to build the pavilion to house the featured attraction. The...
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Tagged: Bad Plus, concert, Dave King, Ethan Iverson, Igor Stravinsky, jazz, music, Reid Anderson, St. Cecilia
The avant-garde trio The Bad Plus (Ethan Iverson, piano; Reid Anderson, bass; Dave King, drums) opened their set at...
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The renowned European girls' choir, "Little Stars" ("ZVJEZDICE") will be visiting Grand Rapids during their USA tour this month. From Zagreb, Croatia, the choir will be presenting the sound and...
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Tagged: Carol Maillard, Diversity, Glee, Grand Rapids Winter Concerts, Grand Rapids Women's Chorus, Ivo Antognini, Ro Ogura, Social Issues, Women's Choirs
The sound of dozens of voices singing in harmony can be a powerful experience, one that brings a feeling of wholeness on a physical and emotional level. To achieve this takes a lot of practice...
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Dance in the Annex (DITA) and ArtPeers invite local musicians to submit original pieces of music for the second annual Trip The Light event, to take...
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On Dec. 2 at 2 p.m., former President George W. Bush visited Grand Rapids to speak about his new book, ...
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Tagged: downtown shopping, jobs, shop local, urban shopping
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...
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Tagged: Audio, bureau, Casey Stratton, GAAH, Grand Rapids Creative Youth Center, Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities, GRCYC, Lorena Slager, Marjorie Kuipers, sw, The Rapidian
The Rapidian is partnering with Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities to launch the first neighborhood news bureau in January. Marjorie Kuipers, executive director of...
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Tagged: alienation, bravery, cave, Children, Christmas, cross, cry, despised, disabled, Dominican Sisters, facade, fear, fishermen, foreigners, Grand Rapids, grown ups, homeless, humble, hungry, imprisoned, isolation, Jesus, lowly, outcast, pain, poor, Poverty, pretense, receive, risk, self, shelter, shepherds, Soul, thief, undocumented, unpretentious, women
It really was a poor place to be giving birth -- that dimly lit and chilly cave meant to shelter animals. The parents, Mary and Joseph, were in a strange town, far from home; they had walked for...
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Tagged: asian carp, WMEAC
WMEAC hosted John Goss, Asian Carp Director for the White House Council on Environmental Quality, as one of its keynote speakers at Tuesday’s FIGHT EM & FILLET EM Asian Carp...
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Tagged: bars, biscotti, cake, cherry festival, chocolate, confections, contemporary, Cookies, Dominican Center, Elderly, elegant, flavor, Grand Rapids, holiday, infirm, Marie Celeste Miller, Peace, presentation, red velvet, sweets
Her first job was in a bakery and fifty years later she is a serious baker. Marie...
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The Michigan Golden Gloves Association (MGGA) Boxing Gym hosted the 11th annual Bernie Schmidt Memorial boxing show on Nov. 13....
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Tagged: Downtown, Entertainment, heartside, Ladies Literary Club, talent show
The Heartside Downtown Neighborhood Association is pleased to announce the 7th Annual Heartside Neighborhood Talent Show on January 14th at 8PM! The night will be a showcase...
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Tagged: bureau, Community Media Center, Cook Arts Center, Cook Library Center, education, Grand Rapids Creative Youth Center, Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities, Laurie Cirivello, Lorena Slager, Marjorie Kuipers, sw, The Rapidian, training, youth
The Rapidian, a service of the Community Media Center, is partnering with Grandville Avenue Arts and Humanities to...
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Tagged: economy, Knight, Soul of the Community
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...