UICA's 22nd Annual Holiday Artists' Market is right around the corner and we asked the artists a few questions about their products for the market. Below Shelly Klein of k studio answered...
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Tagged: art, craft, free, Holiday Artists' Market, holiday sale, holidays, UICA, Urban Insitute for Contemporary Arts
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Tagged: asian carp, great lakes, lake michigan, white house, WMEAC
The West Michigan Environmental Action Council and San Chez Bistro are putting Asian carp on the menu as part of an exclusive culinary event to benefit efforts to keep the notorious invasive...
Posted: 13 years 44 weeks
I was reading an article a while back which reminded me that many members of the general public have little knowledge of what...
Posted: 13 years 44 weeks
Tagged: AniJam, editing, education, Gretchen Vinnedge, Mobile Learning Lab for Information Education, MOLLIE, production, video, youth
This week we turn the mic on Gretchen Vinnedge, the Community Media Center's education director. The education department for the CMC steers many...
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Tagged: Alt Farms, Betty Dykstra, Bob Alt, Dykstra Produce, food, Fulton Street Farmers Market, Jeff Dykstra, pumpkin, recipes, RuthAnn Alt, stuffing, Thanksgiving
For every person who took the day off work to cook for Thanksgiving, there's another person still plumbing their minds for what to make. Here are two recipes from a couple of our vendors.
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Tagged: art exhibition, Barbara Martinez Jitner, CEDAW, Chihuahua, Ciudad, Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Discrimination Against Women, femicide, Juarez, Mandy Cano Villalobos, maquilador, Mexico, Open Concept Gallery, women
Voces ("Voices"), a solo exhibition by Mandy Cano Villalobos, addresses the mass femicide in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. Femicide is...
Posted: 13 years 44 weeks
Tagged: animals, celebration, Children, Christmas, event, family, friends, holiday, Instruments of Hope, Jesus, Joseph, manger, Mary, Mic Carlson, Saint Francis, Sculpture Garden
Instruments of Hope will be hosting a Live Nativity event on Sunday, December 12 at...
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Tagged: facebook, mapping, new features, related articles, tags, twitter
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...
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Tagged: AIDS, HIV, planned parenthood, STD, STI, World AIDS Day
Twenty percent of the more than one million Americans living with HIV don’t know they have the virus that causes AIDS, according to the Centers for Disease Control and...
Posted: 13 years 44 weeks
Tagged: Circle Theatre, comedy, Darion Murchison, David Sedaris, Grand Rapids Community College, Motown, Ryan Jarosch, Santaland Diaries, Spectrum Theater, Wright McCargar
Circle Theatre and Grand Rapids Community College, along with the...
Posted: 13 years 44 weeks
Tagged: art, arts & crafts, craft, Elizabeth Mayville, Holiday Artists' Market, holiday sale, UICA, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
UICA's 22nd Annual Holiday Artists' Market is right around the corner and we asked the artists a few questions about their products for the market. Below Elizabeth Mayville answered our...
Posted: 13 years 44 weeks
Tagged: archive, ArtPeers, Downtown Grand rapids, East Hills neighborhood, Grand Rapids, Historical, photography, Rachel Lee, research, Site:Lab
Rachel Lee has sound advice for Grand Rapids city residents: “Get involved with your city.” Lee can talk the talk because she has certainly walked the walk. The East Hills resident and now “...
Posted: 13 years 44 weeks
Tagged: art, Avenue for the Arts, gallery, heartside, holiday, local artists, Shopping
Avenue for the Arts is holding its annual Urban Lights event along South Division Avenue. Local artists will be...
Posted: 13 years 45 weeks
Tagged: Downtown, drink, eat, Grand Rapids, mobile, smart phone, tourism
Grand Rapids' Downtown Alliance has launched a new ...
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Tagged: brownfield, Center, City, construction, Future, health, Heart, heartside, Holistic, LEED, Medicine
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...
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Tagged: BCG, Bon-Ton, Boston Store, boys & girls club, Carson Pirie Scott, Elder-Beerman, Herberger’s and Parisian, holiday, toys, younkers, youth, youth commonwealth
This holiday season, Younker’s introduces two highly likable heroes that are sure to win hearts. With help from the community, the twosome will help save the day for a local Boys & Girls Club...
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Tagged: BGC, board, boys & girls, camp o'malley, club, Grand Rapids, lee scott, volunteer, youth, youth commonwealth
The commitment of one individual often makes all the difference, and Mr. Lee Scott, was one man whose efforts helped keep Grand Rapids’ youth in a safe and positive place for two decades....
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People in Grand Rapids will never have the opportunity to see the new Helen DeVos Children's Hospital like they will on Saturday, December 4 when the nearly completed facility opens its doors for...
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Tagged: Blackberry Winter, Catalyst Radio, Center for Inquiry, critical thinking, Denise Cheng, Free Thought Society, humanism, Jennifer Beahan, Linda Gellasch, media analysis, philosophy, religion, Science, secular, Standale, WYCE
Jennifer Beahan joins us on air to explain the goals of Center for Inquiry. Although based in Grand Rapids and with a small staff of...
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“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
This holiday and...
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Tagged: Alex Hamel, Amanda Smith, Aurora Lewis, Big Dudee Roo, Division Avenue Arts Collective, indie, Jewly Waren, Justin Dore, Kurt Rizley, Max Lockwood, music, Nate Wagner, The Daac
After playing together for over three years, Big Dudee Roo (Max Lockwood - vocals and bass, Justin Dore - lead guitar and vocals, Aurora Lewis -...
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Tagged: Barbara Jitner, Barbara Martinez Jitner, border issues, Diversity Lecture Series, Fountain Street Church, Grand Rapids Community College, GRCC, illegal immigration, Jitner, Juarez, Mexico, NAFTA
Barbara Martinez Jitner drew a significant crowd to her lecture on Wednesday night, Oct 20. From the stage of the Fountain Street Church (24 Fountain...
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Tagged: art, arts & crafts, crafts, Holiday Artists' Market, holiday sale, Shopping, UICA, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
UICA's 22nd Annual Holiday Artists' Market is right around the corner and we asked the artists a few questions about their products for the market. Below Lindsay Jones and Jeffrey...
Posted: 13 years 45 weeks
Tagged: aimWest, CMC, Community Media Center, crafting, crafts, creativity, DIT, DIY, Do It Together, Do It Yourself, GRCMC, manual, packet, prototype, reporter, resource, tool, volunteer
From The Rapidian staff: Last week, we were invited to set up shop at...
Posted: 13 years 45 weeks
Tagged: art, art studios, artists, Elaine Dalcher, Grand Rapids Michigan, Michael Pfleghaar, Nikki Wall, tommy allen
It all began in 1990, a year of fairly memorable events: Iraq invaded Kuwait, a dozen paintings were stolen from the Isabella Gardner Stewart Art Museum and South Africa freed Nelson Mandela after...
Posted: 13 years 45 weeks
Tagged: Actors' Theater, Austin Bunn, Denali, Jennifer Fawcett, Martin Andrews, Mount McKinley, Play, playwright, Sean Christopher Lewis, Spectrum Theater, Theater
"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...
Posted: 13 years 45 weeks
Tagged: Brad Ritter, Jewly Warren, non-profits, peter Julius, Tax help, Tax Resolution Center of West Michigan
Thousands of people in West Michigan are in debt to the IRS. On top of the taxes they cannot pay, the government is charging ridiculous interest for late payments. You can hire a law...
Posted: 13 years 45 weeks
Tis' the season for giving and Heartside businesses and organizations are bustling with preparations for the holiday season. The HBA is proud to present the Heartside Holiday Gift...
Posted: 13 years 45 weeks
Tagged: author, challenge, goal, NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, novel, November, Ottawa, plot, story, Todd Slager, West Michigan, writing
With the recent time change reminding us of how bleak November can get, you might find yourself looking for a diversion to keep your spirits up. So what about that novel you’ve always wanted to...
Posted: 13 years 45 weeks
Tagged: chickens, city commission, Dave Shaffer, politics
Just a couple of short months back on August 10th, the City of Grand Rapids Commissioners voted no on a...