BTL Staff
Grand Rapids-area Christmas Tree Recycling Schedules
BY BTL STAFF GRAND RAPIDS – Whether you're a Grinch or a Cindy Lou Who, a dried-out Christmas tree can start to wear out its welcome in your home after the holidays. The city of Grand Rapids, as well as several area communities, have programs to [...]
Life in Flint a Year Into the State of Emergency Over Tap Water
BY BTL STAFF Kylan Pouncil, 10 months, is passed to Santa Claus as members of the community gather for a tree lighting on Dec. 2 in Flint. Photo courtesy of Callaghan OHare/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP FLINT – More than a year after unsafe [...]
Saugatuck Named to Advanced Placement Honor Roll
BY BTL STAFF SAUGATUCK – Saugatuck Public Schools has been named to College Board's seventh annual Advanced Placement Honor Roll, according to a Holland Sentinel report. Saugatuck is one of 23 districts in Michigan to make the honor roll, and one [...]
Choosing Family: Stop Telling LGBT People We Need to Go 'Home' During the Holiday Season
BY PRESTON MITCHUM Preston Mitchum – a Washington, D.C.-based essayist, activist and policy nerd – wrote this piece for The Root online. He has written for The Atlantic, Ebony.com, Huffington Post, ThinkProgress, Hello Beautiful and The Grio. Each [...]
Make the New Year Special by Adopting a Pet
BY BTL STAFF Now that we've eaten an over-abundance of baked goods, indulged in lavish family meals and attended more holiday parties than our calendar has room for, we need motivation to work off all those extra calories. Wouldn't it be nice to [...]
Merry Christmas Everybody': Obamas Share Final Holiday Address
BY ERIK ORTIZ, NBC NEWS Watch the Obamas' final holiday message. Video courtesy of NBC News online. President Barack Obama and the first lady shared a bittersweet goodbye — and a few laughs — in their final Christmas video message to the [...]
Broad Museum Seeks New Home for Kresge Collection
EAST LANSING – Michigan State University's Broad Art Museum is planning to lease a space across Grand River Avenue where it will showcase art from the former Kresge Art Museum, the Broad's new director, Marc-Olivier Wahler, said in an interview [...]
Broadway Musical 'In the Heights' Comes to Royal Oak
Stagecrafters proudly presents "In the Heights," from the creator of Broadway's hit musical, "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda. Miranda conceived the music and lyrics, and also the book by Quiara Alegria Hudes. The story is set over the course of three [...]
Transmissions: Deadnames
By Gwendolyn Ann Smith On Dec. 2, a fire broke out in a warehouse building in Oakland, California. Its tenants knew the building as Ghost Ship; it housed an artists' collective. That's not uncommon in the Bay Area, where affordable housing is [...]
Fighting Chants
Across 1 Cukor's rib donor 5 Decide not to swallow 9 Amelie Mauresmo's woman 14 Threesome that visited Mary 15 ___ sci 16 Hunter that comes out at night 17 Apple that isn't a fruit 18 What you should take it like 19 Shopping aids 20 Start of a [...]
