Grand Rapids Magazine

Fall is officially on its way, and Blandford Nature Center is making it a little easier for families to get outside outside and enjoy it.

Erin A. Craig has come a long way from the teenage years when she wrote Phantom of the Opera fan fiction for fun.

Walk into Yesterdog in Eastown and nothing much has changed.

As West Michigan students head back to school, one local author is encouraging families to start preserving the memories that will eventually become part of a much bigger story.

There’s a certain kind of meal that doesn’t just impress you—it lingers afterward in a quieter way.

One of the most significant museum ship preservation projects ever undertaken on the Great Lakes began July 13 of this year when World War II submarine USS Silversides departed Muskegon for a carefully planned tow across Lake Michigan

Grand Rapids is trading one fleet of two-wheeled urban chaos for another — but city officials say the new rides will be safer, cheaper and easier to park.

There are few places in Grand Rapids where a group of people can walk in hungry and completely disagree about what they want to eat — and somehow everybody still wins.

Ever since the U.S. put men on the moon, outer space has captured the imaginations of generations of children, inspiring make-believe missions, moon bases and spacecraft bound for distant worlds.

Wish you were here. That’s what the postcard reads as you check in to The Grand Beach in Traverse City, Michigan.

Covered Bridge Park officially opened Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, giving Ada a new public space along the Thornapple River with plenty to do — and, perhaps more importantly, plenty of reasons to stick around.

The meal that was once largely associated with octogenarians and bottomless coffee has gotten a pretty serious makeover in recent years.