Grand Rapids reinvented itself and kept receipts. Wealthy Street rooms fill with people who remember the furniture factories and people who arrived for ArtPrize—both claim the city's creative identity. East Hills draws the artists who discovered affordable studio space. Eastown hosts the families who bought before the breweries multiplied. Midtown watches the condos rise. The comedy here navigates reinvention against memory. Open mics demand knowing which Grand Rapids story the room wants. The comics who honor both the furniture-town past and the arts-destination present find audiences across every renovation.