What a surprise to receive my Old Greenbelt Theatre membership card, shown above. It’s the exact same watercolor that’s been hanging on my wall for decades. They’re displayed with three other scenes I chose because I love them: the … Read More
And grand it was! Festive, too. Apologies to everyone I didn’t identify in the video with captions. I’d add these missing captions if I knew how to do it using the Youtube editor: Mayor Emmett Jordan being interviewed by Hillary … Read More
I’m still as busy as ever but how can I NOT blog about the opening of our much-missed, better-than-ever historic Greenbelt Theatre, under exciting new management?? The soft opening was Friday May 1 and as executive director Caitlin McGrath said … Read More
Capacity crowd and lots of laughs last night at the New Deal – a Tuesday night, y’all. It was the first of what will be a monthly event (4th Tuesdays) and boy, are we lucky to have good stand-up right … Read More
I recently attended the Reel and Meal viewing and discussion of Dying Green, a short documentary about conservation or “green” burial, which I’d never heard of before. Here’s the trailer. I’d always thought cemeteries had to look like this: During my … Read More
Here’s a mural I came upon in an out-of-the-way restaurant parking lot while visiting Pittsburgh last summer. Funded by a Pittsburgh’s public art program, it made me long for murals right here in Greenbelt. Here’s where I’d love to see murals instead … Read More
I walked into the Cafe on a Tuesday night not knowing what to expect but within seconds became a fan of Lipbone Redding here. The small crowd (Tuesday!) obviously agreed. He’s one singer-songwriter-entertainer with gobs of stage presence.
Greenbelt’s City Council is holding the first of three work sessions to consider management of the under-renovation Greenbelt Theatre this Wednesday – whether to turn the theater over to the new nonprofit Friends of Greenbelt Theatre or to contract again … Read More
Chris Cherry’s newest play, which debuted at Creative Kids Camp this summer, mixes New Deal values and modern misbehavior in a retro-futuristic adventure. Lore Rosenthal was so struck by the themes in the play – Message to Tomorrow – … Read More
The Greenbelt Concert Band caught me by surprise the first time I ever heard it, in a good way, because they sound nothing like the community bands I’ve heard before. Sadly, that’s especially true of Takoma Park’s, which is almost … Read More
Singer-songwriter Betty Ladas made the move from Nashville to Greenbelt just a year ago, and seems to be settling in just fine. Now she can see plenty of her grandchildren, and perform at the New Deal on the third Thursday … Read More
As a regular patron of the New Deal Cafe, I’ve noticed a pattern of Grateful Dead cover bands playing there, and was tipped off by New Deal fixture Bill Barber that there’s a whole culture around those bands, one that … Read More
I stopped by Kids Open Mic at the New Deal Cafe and found it a low-key, friendly place for families to gather and do music. Also, very cute, like these Suzuki violin students. Or another little girl singing “Itsy Bitsy … Read More
New videos on the Greenbelt Maryland Youtube Channel! From GAVA/GATE (Greenbelt Access Television and the Greenbelt Association for the Visual Arts) is this animated account of the beaver problem at Greenbelt Lake: And I took the next two videos of … Read More
I’d heard great things about ERHS’s music program, and their recent Winter Concert didn’t disappoint. The combined Women’s Choir and Chamber Choir, under the direction of Michele Fowlin, sounded great, as you can hear for yourself. I learned that … Read More