Sandy Point Beach House restaurant in West Olive has been defined as the “gem of the lakeshore.”

A love of travel and an interest in the macabre may not seem like an obvious pairing, but together they were the inspiration for The Mortals, a “death café” that specializes in conversations around dying, served with a side of Vietnamese coffee. 

Over a decade after it closed in 2009, it’s impossible to describe just how influential and important longtime punk club Skelletones was to the Grand Rapids music community. 

The Smiling Acres Music Festival couldn’t have picked a better person to serve as the face of the festival for its first year than local musician Mark Lavengood.