May/June 2026
Features
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Best of Grand Rapids List: Arts & Entertainment
Next up in our Best of Grand Rapids series: Arts & Entertainment.
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Survey says: John Ball Zoo
Animals take center stage at John Ball Zoo—otters frolicking in their new home, snow leopards and sloth, pygmy hippos and red pandas—
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Best of Grand Rapids List: Retail & Services
So far, we’ve released the winners of our Arts & Entertainment and Community & Personalities categories. Next up is our Retail & Services section of the annual Best of Grand Rapids readers survey.
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Best of Grand Rapids List: Health & Beauty
We’re getting down to the wire—the night we celebrate all of you Best of Grand Rapids winners is almost here.
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Food + Drink
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The Best of Beer & Pizza
For more than a decade, the Mitten Brewing Company has quietly built a lasting pizza and beer haven.
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Best of Grand Rapids List: Food & Drinks
This is it. Food & Drinks—the category we’ve all been waiting for in this year’s Best of Grand Rapids readers survey.
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Look + Feel
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Water, interrupted
By mid-April, West Michigan was already having an unusually wet spring.
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Lovely Leigh’s
It’s not that far afield to accuse me of being a clothes horse. I’ve even been caught wearing skirts to the stable, and maybe that’s why I hot foot it over to Leigh’s every chance I get—to get a feel for what is new and real.
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