The Holland Area Arts Council is now selling tickets to the Nutcracker Ballet Afternoon Tea.
The oldest restaurant in Grand Rapids has decided to expand its offerings in an effort to welcome all.
When fall rolls around, it’s the perfect time to celebrate the fruits of farmers’ labor in bringing us the fresh hops and grains needed to produce our favorite libation: beer.
Grand Rapids-based Founders Brewing Co. today announced plans to release Lizard of Koz, its 16th installment of the limited-run “Backstage Series” of beers, starting in December.
In 1989, River Phoenix walked into a bar in Gainesville, Fla. and ordered a beer. He was 19 years old, but famous enough to skirt the state’s drinking age of 21.
Talk to anyone who spent time in that Florida college town in the late ’80s and they have a River Phoenix story, mostly involving an intense guy who played in a local college jam band called Aleka’s Attic, lived on a 17-acre compound with his family in nearby Micanopy. Music was his first love, but his second job, being a Hollywood celebrity, had him often commuting to movie sets.
With ArtPrize, a growing creative class, plenty of jobs and still-affordable space where artists can create, Grand Rapids would seem to be on the verge of an artistic renaissance. So why are the city’s artists so worried about their future?
Everyone knows the woods of Allegan are a local hotspot of nature and wildlife.
Michiganders all over agree these lush forests are the ideal haven for hiking, bird watching, hunting and… practicing alchemy? OK, so maybe that last part seems a little out there, but not for Joel Potrykus and his crew. These brave local filmmakers used this location for their most recent project, The Alchemist Cookbook.
Head to Seven Steps Up on Oct. 7 to celebrate the fourth album from Red Tail Ring.
On Sept. 28, the Grand Rapids Ballet is putting on a free show in order for the public to familiarize themselves (or their friends) with the ballet.
The Grand Rapids Public Museum has put together what it refers to as a “mini exhibit,” full of voting related artifacts.
