
What's Going On This Month: September 2025

Laughter On the Lakeshore: Wave after Wave of Laughs

A Roundup of Openings, Closings and other Local Business News
A Roundup of Openings, Closings and other Local Business News
A Roundup of Openings, Closings and other Local Business News
A Roundup of Openings, Closings and other Local Business News
A Roundup of Openings, Closings and other Local Business News
A Roundup of Openings, Closings and other Local Business News
A Roundup of Openings, Closings and other Local Business News
A Roundup of Openings, Closings and other Local Business News
A Roundup of Openings, Closings and other Local Business News
Over the past year, dozens of businesses have come and gone, but on the whole, they’re mostly coming. At least 30 restaurants have opened doors this year, from sandwich shops to whiskey bars with $22 entrees and a brewery with Puerto Rican food. West Michigan’s capacity for great food may reach a ceiling at some point, but we don’t seem to be anywhere near it yet. Here’s our look back on 2017.
A Roundup of Openings, Closings and other Local Business News
A Roundup of Openings, Closings and other Local Business News
A Roundup of Openings, Closings and other Local Business News
At this point in his career, veteran stand-up Nick Di Paolo doesn’t pull any punches. He’s made a name for himself as one of the most honest comics around, so if he upsets someone looking for political correctness in his comedy, he doesn’t care.
“I’ll have a table of people get up and leave,” Di Paolo told Revue. “It’s usually college-age kids who believe in safe spaces and they get offended by my act. They’re coming from a whole different world. It’s not their fault they’ve been brainwashed to think that life is a thing you go through without feeling uncomfortable. I don’t know how the f*** that idea came about. Sometimes I find myself just saying shit just to annoy those people. This country was built on freedom of speech and that’s all we have left.”