LOWELL — A 160-year-old family farm is living up to its name – by welcoming families.
Halloween is just around the corner, and there are plenty of places to celebrate the holiday in the coming weeks.
October is the perfect month for pumpkin-flavored everything, football weekends, apple picking and all things Halloween. For me, October also ushers in “Scary Movie Month.”
Joe Cron, an author and former resident of the Tri-Cities, will host a book signing at Booked for the Season on Saturday, Nov. 13, from noon to 2 p.m.
The newly renovated and relocated Midwest Miniatures Museum in Grand Haven plans to officially open its doors to the public on Nov. 6.
The Grand Haven Schools Foundation was once again the beneficiary of the Art at the Yard fundraiser.
Any time a new event is planned, there’s always that fear — what happens if not enough people show up?
The next Music at St. Matthew event will be a Hymn Festival on Saturday, Oct. 23 at 7 p.m.
Saturday's Chowdown Centertown event drew big crowds to Grand Haven's Centertown, with food trucks, live music and more.
It’s not unusual for people to give Mike Johnson’s boat a second look – or a third.
Halloween is just around the corner, and there are plenty of places to celebrate the holiday in the coming weeks.
MUSKEGON — The Muskegon Community College Center for Theater will present a musical adaption of Mel Brooks’ 1974 film “Young Frankenstein,” a parody of the classic horror film genre, in the Overbrook Theater on Oct. 28-31.
Several food trucks will converge on Grand Haven’s Centertown on Saturday, Oct. 16, for a new event called Chowdown Centertown.
After a year’s hiatus, Art at the Yard is back.
With the week of Holland’s annual Tulip Time festival just seven months away, the festival has announced a slate of entertainers, exhibits and community events that looks more like festivals of the past than last year’s pared-down pandemic-era festival.
The Lakeshore Visual Arts Collective (LVAC) will host “A Walk in the Woods” in Grand Haven’s Duncan Memorial Park from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10.
Spoiler alert: Betty Crocker isn’t a real person. Still, Cathy Swanson Wheaton is making sure that the 100th birthday of General Mills’ fictitious spokesperson is not going unnoticed.
GRAND RAPIDS — Grand Rapids will soon be welcoming the world-renowned musical “Hamilton.”
The Celtic music group Blackthorn will perform as part of the First Presbyterian Church Community Artist Series at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 3.
MUSKEGON — Michigan State University’s Be-Bop Spartans, a 22-member student jazz orchestra, will perform selections from their repertoire of jazz, soul, swing, blues and gospel at the Frauenthal Center, 425 W. Western Ave. in Muskegon, at 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 10.
MUSKEGON — Dr. Scott Behrens, vice president of enrollment management and student success at Monroe County Community College, will present “Using Data to Inform Growth and Student Success” on Tuesday, Oct. 5, at noon in Muskegon Community College's Stevenson Center, Room 1300.
HOLLAND — A vocal music teacher at West Ottawa’s Macatawa Bay Middle School has been awarded this year’s Calvin Langejans Excellence in Music Education Award from the Holland Chorale.
This year’s weeklong Hispanic Heritage Fiesta – from its authentic food to music and dancing – was an overwhelming success, say the organizers of the event held in Grand Haven.
HOLLAND — Hope College faculty member and flutist Gabe Southard will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, in the Concert Hall of the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts.
The West Michigan Opera Project will perform “From Broadway to Opera and Back Again” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25, at Village at the Pines Retirement Community Courtyard, 1450 S. Ferry St., Grand Haven.
SPRING LAKE — Lloyd’s Bayou Baldwin House Senior Living of Spring Lake is hosting Michael Carluccio, known as “The Man of A Thousand Voices," for a night of musical memories on Thursday, Sept. 23, beginning at 6:30 p.m.
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Cec Bradshaw’s collection of cribbage boards started slowly.
Chef Ollie McCain loves the food culture in Peru, calling it a melting pot of several South American foods paired with Asian influences.
Rob Hlebinsky will be performing a Disney-themed organ concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 19, at First Presbyterian Church in Grand Haven.
There’s often so much more to a piece of artwork than what first meets the eye.
HOLLAND — The Hope College Chapel Choir, College Chorus, and SPERA choirs will present the program “Together Again: Songs of Belonging and Becoming” during an outdoor concert on Friday, Oct. 1, at 6 p.m. in the Pine Grove in the central campus. Bring a chair, blanket and sweater to enjoy thi…
HOLLAND — The Hope College Knickerbocker Fall Film Series will continue the college’s long tradition of showing current independent and international films.
The Big Red Quilters Guild in Holland is welcoming two-time ArtPrize winner Annie Loveless, who will offer a lecture at their meeting on Monday, Sept. 20.
HOLLAND — Dr. Ernest Cole of the Hope College English faculty will present the lecture “Negotiating the In-Between: Colonial Education, Spatial Geographies, and the Postcolonial Body in Transition.”
MUSKEGON — Grand Haven Area Community Foundation has opened a new endowment fund for the West Michigan Symphony (WMS) with a $75,000 gift — part of its most recent round of Community Impact Grants.
The Tri-Cities Puentes Initiative announced that its upcoming concert as part of the Grand Haven Hispanic Fiesta on Sept. 24 will now be free, thanks to the support of event sponsors.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The University of Michigan marching band will perform a halftime show on Saturday — the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks — that its director says will not only pay tribute to the lives lost and impacted that day, but also will be dazzling in its scope.
When she was just 2 years old, Brett and Lyn VanTol were told their daughter, Kylee, may never walk or talk.
The four teenage artists who spent the summer creating a mural are excited to see their artwork as part of the Spring Lake landscape. They also hope messages expressed in the artwork resonate with people.
SPRING LAKE — The 97th St. Mary’s Parish Festival is Saturday, Sept. 11, from 12-8 p.m.
Marianne Stupartis' Halloween-themed quilt, titled "A Witchin' Good Time," took first place at the Lighthouse Quilt Guild's recent virtual show.
We are just two weeks away from the start of one of the region’s biggest attractions — ArtPrize is returning to Grand Rapids.
FRUITPORT — The Scottville Clown Band, in a surprise appearance, played to a crowd of hundreds Tuesday night at Pomona Park in Fruitport.
The Scottville Clown Band wrapped up the Dancing into the Sunset season with a surprise concert Tuesday night at Pamona Park in Fruitport. (Tribune photos by Becky Vargo)
When someone thinks of a director or a producer in charge of a musical production, they normally think of someone who has many years of experience in theater.
NEW YORK — Near the end of 2020, the pandemic had lasted long enough for author Jodi Picoult to try something that seemed unthinkable for novelists in its early stages – turn it into fiction.
MUSKEGON — Taste of Muskegon will return to Hackley Park for a special autumn edition of the festival on Sept. 24-25.
“Who doesn’t like music?” asked Tammy Lamadline, a volunteer at Walk the Beat, which took this past weekend on Grand Haven’s east side.
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