Attractions Features
Stephanie Doublestein
Thursday, October 15, 2009
All aboard this year's ride through fall weather, when thoughts turn to hot donuts and fresh squeezed cider for the kids and its fermented cousin-with-a-kick, hard cider, for the adults. Paul Vander Heide has carved out a niche for crafted hard ciders, following the lead of locally made beers and wines.
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Kelly Quintanilla
Thursday, October 01, 2009
One boutique is a find, but several boutiques collaborating on a fashion show is a feast for local trendsetters. Fashionista Angie Austin and her compadres want to bring a bit of New York to Grand Rapids this month.
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Juliet Bennett Rylah and Matthew Gryczan
Thursday, September 24, 2009
It's like Halloween, Christmas and New Year's, all rolled up into the 17-day party marathon of ArtPrize. What to wear, say and go to during city's over-the-top arts event.
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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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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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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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John Hogan
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Boasting fresh food unlike anything you're likely find at the grocer, West Michigan's co-ops and CSA are bringing local urbanites a step closer to the farm.
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Amy Ruis
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Smaller, specialized shops are sprouting up around metro Grand Rapids to cater to the tastes of immigrants who have made their homes here, selling foodstuffs as varied as live crawdads to bulghur. The winners: area cooks who want to experiment with new cuisines.
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Keleigh Wolf
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Pack 300 designers and artistic types into a building for three hours, and the result is nothing short of Nosh Night, a cross-pollination of the artistic disciplines that creates a sum greater than its parts.
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