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Be a part of an Art Prize entry

Be a part of an Art Prize entry

As if there's not enough cool stuff going on in Grand Rapids to do with the family, here's one more thing to add to your list.  Grab your digital camera or camera phone and take the family on a tour of downtown.

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City Lights Music Festival

City Lights Music Festival

If you've lived in Grand Rapids for any period of time you have probably heard the name Rob Bliss.  He's the local guy that organizes all these crazy fun events in town like the zombie walk, water slide and pillow fight.

Verdant Graphics: A New Take on Printing

Verdant Graphics: A New Take on Printing

By Nicole Corley

A new take on printing

Don Kallil is an entrepreneur at heart. In his former life, Kallil was a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch in Chicago. As of today, he has had his hand in many different entrepreneurial pots for almost 25 years.

He’s president of five local companies, including Design Design, MaryAnne’s Chocolates, Cool Cups and Stuff, M. Middleton (an invitations company) and Verdant Graphics. Verdant Graphics is a Grand Rapids-based, full-service printing company with a focus on environmentally friendly products and processes. Since it began in 2010, Verdant Graphics has grown to about 11 employees.  

Downtown Alliance Names Official "Grandwich" – It’s A Wrap!

Downtown Alliance Names Official "Grandwich" – It’s A Wrap!

A heavy downpour couldn’t keep foodies from gathering in downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, to experience the top ten sandwiches that comprised the Grandwich competition on August 6. The standout? The G-Wrap. It featured crisp seared Big B Farms pulled pork, spiced barbeque sauce, local Andouille sausage, spicy pickle “slaw” on BBQ spiced naan bread, and was the winner of the Grandwich competition.

The G-Wrap was created by The B.O.B.’s Bobarinos restaurant in downtown Grand Rapids. It was just one of 48 local restaurants that created a new-recipe sandwich for the competition which allowed people to vote for their favorite sandwich. When asked about the inspiration behind the G-Wrap, Jared Miller, executive chef of The B.O.B. said, “It wraps Grand Rapids up!”

The top ten restaurants were the Grand Central Market, The BOB – Bobarinos, Skywalk Deli, 25 Kitchen + Bar, St. Mary’s Health Care, Peppinos, Greenwell Gastro Pub, Hopcat, the Omelette Shoppe and Rico’s Deli.

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WKTV joins Grand Rapids Art Museum for 'Friday Night Conversations'

WKTV General Manager Tom Norton will be inspiring audience members to “Just Look Inside!” WKTV in order to help shape the future of media creation in West Michigan at the Grand Rapids Art Museum’s “Friday Night Conversations” series at the GRAM Friday, August 19 at 7:30 PM.  Called “WKTV:  Your Perspective is Requested”, Tom Norton will be inviting audience members to experience the tremendous asset that WKTV is to content creators everywhere.  WKTV, a national leader in community media production, provides access to and training in the latest and greatest media production tools including HD portable cameras, Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Creative Suite software, two production studios with green screen and cyclorama, an on-location production mobile unit and much more.

Treehuggers opens on Wealthy Street S.E.

Treehuggers opens on Wealthy Street S.E.

Treehuggers specializes in earth friendly retail with many products made of recycled materials and many made right here in Michigan. They also offer free recycling of many hard to recycle items like styrofoam and toothpaste tubes.

This is the second Treehuggers store to open in west Michigan. The first location is in Holland, MI.

Visit http://thetreehuggerstore.com for additional information.

Local hospital performing deep brain stimulation

GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM) - It's a disease that has no cure -- Parkinson's Disease affects a million Americans.  But a promising procedure is helping people with Parkinson's have a better quality of life.

Deep brain stimulation can help stop those debilitating tremors, giving patients temporary relief for up to 10 years. It's offered in Grand Rapids at Saint Mary's Hauenstein Center.

Cheryle Hall has been living with Parkinson's for nearly 20 years. What started as a little tremor in her pinky, has now affected her hand and her leg.

But she's found hope in deep brain stimulation. Hall says going through the procedure is worth it, even if it only lasts ten years.

"I'm 70 years old, so who knows how long I've got? So they've have it go longer, so I figure it's a good time," says Hall.