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The Vivacious Miss Audacious and Mr. Paw at home on the West Side
The Vivacious Miss Audacious and Mr. Paw at home on the West Side - Brian Kelly

Entertainment Features

Art in the Ear of the Beholder

Scott Naylor deals in "purposeful art," where a creation can incorporate sound and lighting as well as sculpture for use by companies, bars, restaurants or even someone's own entertainment center. Get an earful about Loud Art Design. read on…

Where Everyone's a Star

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.read on…

G-Sync - Tour Guides R Us

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. read on…

Serving Up Some Food Blogs

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. read on…

G-Sync - The Joys of My New Diet

G-Sync's Tommy Allen spends some quality time at the end of a dock, reflecting where we are in history – and then decides it's time for a new type of diet. All the calorie-free, but full-flavor richness of his effort is just a click away.read on…

G-Sync - The Rise of the Staycation

"What good is sitting alone in your room" is a line G-Sync's Tommy Allen hums often when planning the weekly list of events to consider attending.  And with a lot of folks opting for the Staycation, he comes up with an interesting mix big on fun with little impact on the wallet. read on…

A Night of Noshing

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.read on…

Spontaneous Productions

A very strange thing happened at the Eighth Street Marketplace in Holland on Saturday when about 50 people all simultaneously froze in their tracks for several minutes -- Something Was Taking Place. Become part of the creativity cult tonight at the Park Theatre...read on…

Making Waves in Sound

Metro Grand Rapids is now home to several small sound studios that can produce top quality recordings for local bands at a fraction of the price charged a decade ago read on…

Art Without Borders

The world of Hugo Claudin consists of luchadores -- Mexican wrestlers -- captured on canvas in vivid colors, but it also has a more contemplative sideread on…