If you’ve ever squeezed into a booth at Brewery Vivant or thrummed your fingers on the bar while waiting for an espresso at MadCap Coffee, you’ve touched the work of Studio Wise, a local design production company putting their mark on West Michigan one project at a time.
Madonna, the Kardashians, Governor Snyder, and Kevin Spacey are somehow all mentioned in the same conversation and pens fly as lines are edited, scenes are blocked and prop ideas are bandied about. Though it might sound like the writers’ room at Saturday Night Live, the group is West Michigan’s newest comedy troupe, Nobody Gets Us...
Zipments is a stunningly simple courier service revolutionizing the way things get delivered, matching customers and couriers of all types across the city.
Who would have thought that there's a market niche in ecofriendly cosmetics for children? Natalie Bauss and Katy Scheffler did, and the two moms say they are now nuturing a thriving little company along with their families.
Erykah Ross writes a phrase that echoes repeatedly down the halls of the Van Andel Education Institute: "What happens when ..." For Ross and hundreds of other kids who have learned hands-on science at the Grand Rapids institute, the answer is boundless.
A vacant parcel owned by April and Scott Hadley has become the Garden of Eastown, offered free of rent to anyone who wants to learn how to tend a vegetable patch. It's was just the right thing to do, they say.
Life is full of curiousities when you enter the doors of Captain Bizzaro's Treasure World, and the captain himself will likely be there to greet you. Captain Bizzaro's alter ego Tim Garrod says it all started with a love of pirates.
With a name that conjures up feelings of warmth and greenery, the Meadowview Farm in Lowell seems in hibernation, with snow piled high around its buildings now. But that image is deceptive: It's time to play polo!
Choose your weapon and enter the world where swordplay takes place "on the strip," the roughly 6- by 40-foot rectanglar field of competition. How two area academies are putting a fine point on the sport of fencing.
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