Events

Thursday, February 12th, GRD's sister station, Channel 95.7 sweetened up the Amway Grand with Dessert Wars 2015! Bakeries and dessert-makers converged to serve up some of the tastiest, and sweetest desserts in West Michigan to thousands looking to feed their sweet-teeth!

The Grand Rapids Griffins are hosting their fourth annual Purple Community Game to benefit Van Andel Institute on Friday evening.

The 5th Annual Cardboard Bobsled Derby is this weekend. Saturday to be exact at Cannonsburg. You could win cash prizes and the weather is supposed to be perfect!

Fresh off the heels of being named Best Beer Town by USA Today and Top 10 Vacation Spot for Beer Lovers (www.TheStreet.com), Beer City USA will once again host beer lovers and food enthusiasts from all over Michigan and beyond for Cool Brews.
Hot Eats. in Grand Rapids, which runs Feb. 16 to 28.

The Grand Rapids Griffins will be taking to the ice in Rosa Parks Circle in downtown Grand Rapids and skating for 24 straight hours this weekend to raise money for underprivileged children in the area.
The 13th annual Great Skate Winterfest begins at noon Saturday and runs until 10 p.m. Sun…

The Intersection has announced that tickets for the April 23 Todd Rundgren concert go on sale Feb.

The inaugural West Michigan VaperFest took over The Deltaplex Arena & Conference Center and filled it with clouds of the most amazing smelling vapors you could possibly imagine!
There was thousands of square feet at The DeltaPlex in Grand Rapids of nothing but e-liquids, tanks, batteries and…

TEDxGrandRapids returns to Grand Rapids Civic Theatre on May 7.
Applications to attend the event are now open.
A launch party for this year's TEDxGrandRapids is slated Feb. 4 at Downtown Market.

The WGRD Pond Hockey Classic 2015 is done for the weekend and its remaining games will be rescheduled because of tenuous ice conditions at Richmond Park.
As of 9 p.m. EST Saturday, it was determined by tournament officials the ice at the Grand Rapids park was no longer in playable condition and Sund…

Forty-five-teams. Five rinks. Three days over one weekend. One park in Grand Rapids.
That pretty much sums up the WGRD Pond Hockey Classic 2015, which opened Friday night under the lights.

Seems like all the stories on WFGR.COM lately have fallen into two catagories. Sports and old rock stars. That's fine and all, as I like both, but I also like another topic.

Students who have the day off from school on Monday can see the movie "Selma" for free.