Featured Stories
Thursday, September 24, 2009
After all the endless discussion these past weeks of what ArtPrize may be or should be, the time is now upon us. But is it all that and a bag of chips? (A: Yes)
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Tom Mulligan and Matthew Gryczan
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Entrepreneurs now can get detailed marketing information on the people who live near commercial districts that surround downtown Grand Rapids, and the price is right -- it's free. Here's where to find out whether your neighborhood could support a new flower shop or dry cleaner.
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Matthew Gryczan
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Grant Carmichael and his colleagues at ActiveSite think one great way of predicting the future is to have a hand in inventing it, and you can catch of glimpse of coming times next week at the launch of ArtPrize. The competition has encouraged the fusion of art and technology with some stunning results.
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Rick DeVos
Thursday, September 17, 2009
For the next few days, Rick DeVos will post a blog in Rapid Growth that offers what ArtPrize means and how it may change the way art is experienced in Michigan. He's used social media to decentralize control of the event, a gutsy move that has excited some and rankled others. Whichever side you fall on, one thing is certain: This inaugural year represents a huge social experiment.
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Thursday, September 17, 2009
G-sync's Tommy Allen can be jaded after being submitted to weeks of ArtPrize street chatter, but it appears for once that road to this event will live up to all the hype.
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Matthew Gryczan
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Blandford Nature Center is a gem in the rough for metro Grand Rapids, and Annoesjka Steinman wants to polish it until it shines brilliantly. Working with the center's founder Mary Jane Dockeray, Steinman thinks Blandford can be a hands-on laboratory to show how sustainability plays a part in everyday life.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
Ever wonder what happens to G-Sync's Tommy Allen's junk mail before it is recycled? He actually reads it...and discovers something really cool.
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Bona Van Dis
Thursday, September 10, 2009
There's a whole new class of young professionals in West Michigan who may never suffer from heart trouble -- the hundreds of people who work at non-profit organizations on causes good and great. Now they are ratcheting up their own support group in a region known for its philanthropy.
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Kelly Quintanilla
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Marie-Claire Camp shares a laugh in a relaxed atmosphere, now that the pressue of Pitch Night is gone. There are few things tougher than trying to pursuade a crowd of strangers to hand over their money, but Pitch Night helps to develop a good spiel -- and a thicker skin.
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Mary Radigan
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Mary Radigan and her husband, Mike Hale, head into the Patterson Ice Center as movie extras in the film "The Genesis Code," which wound up its shooting in metro Grand Rapdis last week. Find out what life is like as a fledgling star in a Hollywood movie.
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Thursday, September 03, 2009
*Cash is king as ArtPrize prepares to open but suddenly the region has attracted a group of investors operating off the radar that Tommy discovers in a cafe.
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Mary Radigan
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Grab your pen and notebook, sling the camera over your shoulder and head out to cover news as a reporter for The Rapidian, the city's newest online publication. Or use your digital recorder or video camera: it publishes audio and video too. Local news never had it so good.
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Matt Vande Bunte
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Take a step back in time to the 18th century at Guarneri House in Grand Rapids, where master craftsmen construct and repair some of the finest stringed instruments and bows in the world.
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
In the blink of an eye Twitter users became the city's best tour guides and here's the kicker, we didn't even see it coming.
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Amy Ruis
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Even though its the second largest population center in Michigan, metro Grand Rapids is surrounding by farms that grow everything from blueberries to turkeys. So it only stands to reason that the city folk would blog about what the country folk do.
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