The man who inspires Eric Clapton is coming to 20 Monroe Live on Sept. 26.
After two months as interim president and CEO, Peter Perez now has been made the official president and CEO of the Grand Rapids Symphony.
The Who is coming to town on Tuesday, July 25, stopping at Grand Rapids’ Van Andel Arena.
This year’s season of the Grand Rapids Symphony’s Picnic Pops Series has five shows arriving at Cannonsburg Ski Area during July and August.
Celtic punk-rock group Flogging Molly is stopping by 20 Monroe Live in Grand Rapids on June 1, 2017.
While Schuler Books and local libraries are stocked with rock ‘n’ roll biographies spanning all genres — sometimes the hard-to-get, feasibly out-of-print, gems deliver more debauchery. If you’re willing to waken the sleuth in you, try digging around for these rare tell-alls detailing some of Michigan’s oddest icons.
The hit Broadway musical Hamilton will begin touring soon, arriving at Lansing’s Wharton Center in the 2018-2019 season.
With its 2016 Annual Report, ArtPrize has announced that it is no longer in debt to the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation.
There was a time, only a few years ago, when the Grand Rapids Improv Festival didn’t have a single all-female group in its lineup.
Taking note, a group of women came together in 2015 to fill that void with Funny Girls, a mixed-media collective of female-identifying comedians, writers, bloggers, vloggers and more.
Grand Rapids finally has its very own live, late-night talk show. Tonight Tonight premiered at The Holiday Bar, back in August 2016, created by local comedians Andy Bledsoe and Stu McCallister. The show features guests such as Mayor Rosalynn Bliss, Eric Zane and rotating local comedians.
With so many of Michigan’s local, independent filmmakers’ sweat and toil to bring their films to life, they deserve a fancy, red-carpet awards ceremony to celebrate their creations.
While big studios continue to pour millions into each of their films, there’s another style of film that has kept a steady presence in the shadow of big blockbusters: micro-budget films.
The Public Media Network (PMN) of Kalamazoo hopes to take this uniquely frugal style of filmmaking and put it in the limelight with the third annual North By Midwest Micro-Budget Film Festival.
Back when the state of Michigan had a tax incentive for films, people like Racheal Floyd had it a little easier. Big-screen movies like End of the Tour, with Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel, came to Grand Rapids, but now Floyd has to go to them. After working abroad on films like Fast & Furious 8 and All Eyez On Me, and shows like Being Mary Jane, Floyd is returning home (at least, for a moment) to work on her own projects. We talked with Floyd about her aspirations for the future and her take on the film industry at large.
Lil Wayne is coming to 20 Monroe Live in Grand Rapids on May 10.
