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Posted: 14 years 10 weeks
Tagged: bakery, competition, cupcake, Founders, fundraiser, God's Kitchen, Haley McNeil, Heritage Hill, Heritage Netherlands Reformed Congregation, James Stubbleton, Justin Golinski, Kameel Chamelly, Martha's Vineyard, Midtown, Nantucket, Nick Natale, Nick Stygstra, Peter Eizel, Rockwell's
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Tagged: crime mapping, GRPD, police, sources
From The Rapidian staff: You probably wouldn’t imagine being a contributor to the Rapidian would put you on the police...
Posted: 14 years 10 weeks
Tagged: GRAM, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Ox-Bow
Grand Rapids Art Museum presents the third installation of the GRAM/Ox-Bow Friday Lecture Series, featuring John Corbett's Ox-Bow: Now and Then.
The...
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What's in season? What fresh produce is on the horizon? If you're curious about what's at market, the Fulton Street Farmers...
Posted: 14 years 10 weeks
Tagged: 76 Coffee, beach, Grand Haven, Grand Rapids, Kirby Grill
Nothing says summer in Grand Rapids like getting out of town for a day and heading to the beach in Grand Haven, a mere 30 miles away. Five years ago, two locals had a different idea for...
Posted: 14 years 10 weeks
Tagged: barefoot running, road racing, running, running injuries, running shoes
Taking up barefoot running is quite personal. The reasons people come to it are varied - people explore running barefoot to overcome injuries; others like the idea of improving their running style...
Posted: 14 years 10 weeks
Tagged: best buy, BGC, boys & girls club, computer, Grand Rapids, seidman, steil, tag team awards, talent, volunteer, youth
Amazing things can happen when big corporations pair up with local non-profits, and on June 28th and 29th, Best Buy demonstrated exactly this. Forty-seven Club members from...
Posted: 14 years 10 weeks
Tagged: Amber Zidarevich Kilpatrick, donation, Eastown, facebook, fundraiser, Hatha, Heritage Hill, Midtown, Midtown Green, Midtown Neighborhood Association, MNA, Neighborhood, Seva, Vinyasa, Yoga
Amber Zidarevich Kilpatrick wears many hats. She is the community organizer for Eastown Community Association...
Posted: 14 years 11 weeks
Tagged: busy, colors, credit, Dominican Sisters, Dorothy Ederer, God, golf, goodness, Grand Rapids, gray clouds, messsage, metaphors, parents, people, Reflection, role models, silver lining, spectators, swing, University of Michigan., value
by: Rosemary Steers, Communications Specialist
Sister Dorothy Ederer has been a member of the...
Posted: 14 years 11 weeks
Tagged: art, artprize, CREO Productions, film, Kurt Perschke, Red Ball Project, UICA, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, video
With ArtPrize 2010 right around the corner, we at UICA thought it would be fun to look back on one of our artists from 2009 - Kurt Perschke. Kurt Perschke is an artist who works in sculpture,...
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Ceremony will take place on Monday, July 19, 2010 at 4pm at the Steil Boys & Girls Club.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Grand Rapids Youth Commonwealth mourned the loss...
Posted: 14 years 11 weeks
Tagged: Denise Cheng, Heart of West Michigan, Jane Royer, Jessica Gonyou, Linda Gellasch, United Way, Volunteer Center
Joining us in studio are Jane Royer and Jessica Gonyou from United Way's Volunteer Center. Stay tuned to hear how the wave of retiring babyboomers have...
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The sun has unleashed its full summer fury which has been pretty awesome. The heat, the swelter, the humidity, isn’t it lovely? This is what we Michigander long for during each and every one...
Posted: 14 years 11 weeks
Tagged: atom, behavior, believe, competitive, control, Different, difficult, disappointment, failure, God, gravity., Hawking, lovable, Love, mutation, mystic, need, overwork, person, reassurance, relationships, saint, scripture, self-worth, shame, Stephen, strain, stress, worthy
Last month's talent for living in a community was appreciating our own unique qualities. Remember? "As different as different can be." That leads us right into this month's talent - the gift...
Posted: 14 years 11 weeks
Tagged: Antenacraft, ClearStream, Grand Rapids, GRTP, How I Met Your Mother, OTA, Radio Shack, The Big Bang Theory, TV, WOODTV, WOTV, WWMT, WXMI
To promote the Grand Rapids Technology Partnership’s (GRTP) goals of providing technology education and promoting technology use in the region, GRTP Partner Will Hartwell is writing...
Posted: 14 years 11 weeks
Tagged: activity, event, facebook, form, going-on, Midtown, MNA, Neighborhood, publicity, submission
Summer is buzzing with activities, from yard sales to block parties to kickball games on the Green. If you are planning an event or know of one coming up in Midtown, we can help...
Posted: 14 years 11 weeks
Each week the Volunteer Center will highlight an exciting skill-based volunteer (SBV) opportunity found on our...
Posted: 14 years 11 weeks
Tagged: Audio, chickens, city commission, City Hall, hens, Urban Sustainability
The Grand Rapids City Commission met with an unprecedented turn-out this evening to hear, among other agenda items, the proposed amendments to the city housing code that would allow hens to be...
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What's in season? What fresh produce is on the horizon? If you're curious about what's at market, the Fulton Street Farmers Market publishes a list of goods every Tuesday.
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Tagged: art, dance, GRAM, GRAM on the Green, music
This Friday, Grand Rapids Art Museum highlights Broken Flowers, A Butoh-Inspired Performance during...
Posted: 14 years 11 weeks
Tagged: Bissell, criterium, cycling, Grand Cycling Classic
The lengthy gap between Bissell Pro Cycling’s recent signee, 19-year-old Patrick Bevin, and the rest of the peloton had some spectators...
Posted: 14 years 11 weeks
Tagged: citizen journalism, Grand Rapids, nonprofit, Rapidian
As the Rapidian nears its first birthday, we are looking to extend The Rapidian to new audiences and engage new voices. The cornerstone of this initiative is the plan to seed and...
Posted: 14 years 11 weeks
Heartside Gallery and Studio began in 1993 as a small program of Heartside Ministry. This ever-expanding program continues to offer the Heartside community and its neighbors a...
Posted: 14 years 12 weeks
Tagged: Drew Stoppels, Eastown, lgbt, The Network
A little Saturday morning rain brought nothing but rainbows on Atlas Street as Eastown neighbors and area lesbian-gay-bisexual-trans (LGBT) advocates gathered to celebrate the first annual...
Posted: 14 years 12 weeks
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What's in season? What fresh produce is on the horizon? If you're curious about what's at market, the Fulton Street Farmers Market publishes a list of goods every Tuesday.
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Posted: 14 years 12 weeks
Tagged: East Hills, house shows, music, Ribbons of song
This article is the first in an occasional series of house show reports. House shows are pretty much exactly what they sound like, informal musical performances staged in and around people’s...
Posted: 14 years 12 weeks
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Fireworks, the Avenue for the Arts Market, 5 great arts shows (openings every day this weekend) two cd release parties, some underground scene and absolutely sultry summer weather Hells-yes...
Posted: 14 years 12 weeks
Tagged: 2:22, Catalyst Radio, Denise Cheng, Four Finger Five, Healthy Homes Coalition, Linda Gellasch
Joining us in studio is Healthy Homes Coalition, a nonprofit centered on ensuring environmentally...
Posted: 14 years 12 weeks
Tagged: Christine Helms-Maletic, committee, Common Ground, Common Ground Coffee Shop, community celebration, garden, Green, Kelly Otto, Meditation, meeting, Midtown, MNA, Neighborhood Association, Park, Peace, sculpture
Midtown Green Park, at the corner of Eastern and Fountain, has long been a favorite neighborhood fun spot. Whether it’s flying a kite, throwing a frisbee or playing catch with Fido, many...