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Arts/Culture
10:17 pm
Wed December 22, 2010

Striking Detroit Symphony musicians play for homeless

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A small group of striking musicians from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra brought holiday music to three area homeless shelters Wednesday.

 

The musicians’ made their final stop at the Ruth Ellis Center in Highland Park, which provides shelter and other services for homeless and other at-risk gay and lesbian teens.

 

But the free concert attracted more than just the shelter’s clients.

 

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Technology
2:48 pm
Tue December 21, 2010

Pothole or broken street light? There's an 'app' for that

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Potholes are one problem you can report with the GRCity 311 app.
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Grand Rapids has a new smartphone ‘app’ that people can use to report things like potholes and graffiti. IPhone and Android users can download the GRCity 311 application for free. Just head to your providers’ app marketplace.

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Arts/Culture
9:50 am
Mon December 20, 2010

New ministry hopes to help strippers create new positive identity in life

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Anny Donewald, Eve's Angels
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Eve's Angels founder Anny Donewald (left) with longtime friend Shawne Hondered (right)
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Anny Donewald was raised in an upper-middle class home near Grand Rapids. She’s beautiful, with blue eyes and long blond hair. When she was 19, a couple girls approached her at college and told her she’d be a natural dancing in nightclubs.

She entered an amateur night contest at a club in Kalamazoo and won.

At the time, she reasoned that $200 for 3 minutes on stage might be a good way to make money.

But when she got a job at a Lansing strip club, things started getting bad:

"About 2 weeks in I’m sitting in the back and just distraught. Like I just don’t know how I entered in this. I dropped out of college. I’m doing coke, and I’m drunk all the time."

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Arts/Culture
11:33 am
Fri December 17, 2010

Grand Rapids Symphony posts $65K budget surplus

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The Grand Rapids Symphony posts a $65K budget surplus for FY10
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It's not all bad news coming out of the symphony world.

The Grand Rapids Symphony is the second largest orchestra in Michigan, after the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. And yet the two arts organizations finances couldn't be farther apart. The GR Symphony posted a $65,000 budget surplus for the 2010 fiscal year; the DSO posted an $8.8 million deficit.

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Arts/Culture
10:19 am
Fri December 17, 2010

Detroit Symphony management: Granholm, Levin proposal not "feasible"

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The Detroit Symphony Orchestra musicians have been on strike since Oct. 4
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Governor Jennifer Granholm and U.S. Senator Carl Levin issued a joint letter Thursday detailing the framework for a possible resolution between Detroit Symphony Orchestra management and its musicians who have been on strike since October 4.

Granholm and Levin's proposal called for a 3-year deal that would cost a total of $36 million.

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