It’s no secret that making a movie is a huge undertaking.
Hell, Avatar alone took 10 years to make. And yet the Grand Rapids Film Festival is challenging participants to make a movie in just 36 hours.
OK, so the finished films are expected to be around six minutes, and the budget is admittedly smaller than anything James Cameron would have to work with, but it’s still damn impressive what people can pull off with such time constraints.
One lake. Two-hundred and sixty-five acres of open water. Fifty-two feet down, at its deepest point. And centuries of history. This is Reeds Lake.
Men, the time to complete your outfits is long overdue. Welcome to our humble guide of haberdashery and accessories for the discerning gentlemen.
American sculptor Beverly Pepper, 94, is giving her print and drawing archives covering nearly seven decades of work to Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park.
The 2017 West Michigan Area Show is now accepting submissions from local artists until Jan. 23.
After feeling like a misfit her entire life, a film set was the first place Liz Merriman felt like she belonged. Merriman feels the industry is filled with other beautiful misfits — beautiful people who truly work hard together.
One of Grand Rapids’ latest restaurants, The Sovengard, is taking a cue from the New Nordic movement — with a Scandinavian-influenced, local, “hyper-seasonal” menu despite cold climates for farming much of the year. Revue sat down with Chef Patrick Conrade and founder Rick Muschiana to see how the experiment is faring.
Holland-based New Holland Brewing Co. and Los Angeles-based Pabst Brewing Co. have announced a deal aimed at increasing New Holland’s sales and distribution.
With President and CEO Peter Kjome departing in February, the Grand Rapids Symphony has appointed Peter Perez as interim president and CEO.
A longtime downtown Grand Rapids deli has expanded.
One of the best things about movies is their ability to take you out of the real world for a short while. On the other hand, cinema also gives us the opportunity to delve head first into our global community’s most pressing issues in the form of investigative, informative documentaries.
The Grand Rapids-based West Michigan Environmental Action Council is a huge proponent of the latter, and has been teaming up with the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts (UICA) for more than five years to bring eye-opening documentaries to its theater as part of the WMEAC Film Series.
If there’s one thing longtime stand-up comedian Alonzo Bodden knows, it’s the healing power of humor. From donating a kidney to his brother to confronting institutionalized racism onstage, Bodden is a big believer in laughter as medicine for those who are hurting in mind, body or soul.
Many will remember him best from his two seasons on NBC’s reality competition series Last Comic Standing, where he won the grand prize during season three back in 2004.
A native of New York, Ricki Levine made her way to West Michigan via Los Angeles first. She fell in love with the area after friends in California moved to Saugatuck and invited her to visit.
A Michigan native, Ella Swift earned a masters in Irish literature with a specialty in dramatic literature, studying how folklore was used in early Irish theater.
