Utopia Film Festival is Coming!
Just out – the trailer for the 2018 Utopia Film Festival, happening October 12-15 right here in the heart of Greenbelt.
Just out – the trailer for the 2018 Utopia Film Festival, happening October 12-15 right here in the heart of Greenbelt.
By Theresa Diffendal In a hallway with a giant papier-mâché snake slinking across the wall, you wouldn’t expect to find a tri-part artistic reflection on life, death and their intersections. The aptly named exhibit “Where two worlds touch” invited visitors … Read More
What a treat to see the Greenbelt Theatre and Roosevelt Center all dressed up and glittery for a film premiere – let’s hope it’s a trend! Last weekend’s dress-up event was for the film Walk in my Shoes by David Lloyd … Read More
Remember the wedding of Hillary Gottemoeller and Joe Harris in Roosevelt Center back in 2015? Thought so! They’ll be returning to their wedding venue this Saturday, when they perform for the Crazy Quilt Festival, organized again by Joe. But this … Read More
If you love Greenbelt or are simply curious about it, you won’t want to miss Defending Utopia: The Greenbelt News Review at 80. That’s the new one-hour documentary about the paper – and Greenbelt itself – by Greenbelt documentarian Susan Gervasi, commissioned … Read More
Editor’s Note: The Barbara Stevens Retrospective Art Show is on view at the New Deal Cafe now through July 24. Speaking of the New Deal, Barbara created the History of the New Deal Cafe, an interactive website. Ray and Barbara have … Read More
Greenbelt’s New Deal Cafe now has a monthly e-newsletter and I’m posting them here, too – because the Cafe is our Living Room and Night Spot. Selfishly, it’s very important in my life. So I teamed up with manager Heather Brooks … Read More
Now playing at Old Greenbelt Theatre. At the end of Jean Cocteau’s La Belle et la Bête, a famous actress—either Greta Garbo or Marlene Dietrich—cried out, “Where is my beautiful Beast?” Cocteau’s poetic black and white film, although made in … Read More
I was one of those Karaoke scoffers, having only seen snippets of it in movies and TV, where the singers are often portrayed as drunks. But when Karaoke recently made its Greenbelt debut – at the New Deal Cafe – … Read More
Chris Lawrence, organizer of monthly Laugh-ins at the New Deal Cafe, got the idea to produce a benefit for Doctors without Borders in Aleppo by following Virginia-based comedian Rahmein Mostafavi on Facebook. There he learned that Rahmein is touring touring … Read More
Now showing at the Old Greenbelt Theatre Stephen Hawking and theoretical physics tantalize us with an alternative universe in which Zayn is still a member of One Direction. In another—or maybe the same—universe, the outcome of the 8 November 2016 … Read More
Now playing at the Old Greenbelt Theatre. Review by Anna Socrates. Although I made straight A’s and grasped concepts quickly, my seventh-grade math teacher did not recommend me for an accelerated program to take algebra a year early. Her unsubtle … Read More
Now playing at the Old Greenbelt Theatre. Review by Anna Socrates. Chief Justice Earl Warren presided over a Supreme Court that created seismic social shifts and changed the way we live. Landmark Warren Court decisions banned segregation in public schools … Read More
Here’s what the New Deal Cafe’s front room looked like just two weeks ago at the very beginning of the installation of its brand new kitchen. Despite potential chaos in the kitchen, not to mention making the front room … Read More
The 12th Utopia Film Festival is coming up soon – this weekend – and I’ve been lucky enough to join the festival-planners as one of its screeners. That means getting together weekly to watch together some of the over 200 entrants for … Read More