STAYCATION • BY JAMIE LEE If it rains on the day of your trip to Harpers Ferry or Annapolis, check out these strictly indoor staycation destinations. First, there’s plenty

BIZ BUZZ • BY JAMIE LEE Not many businesses would welcome a mob. But Now and Then is one of those places.  On Friday, June 15, from 4:30 p.m.

EVENTS • DARLENE REYES The Silver Spring Town Center is holding its fourth annual Silver Spring Blues Festival on June 16 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. To help

EVENTS • BY DARLENE REYES Start the summer off right enjoying live performances, games and international food. Washington Revels is holding its annual summer solstice celebration, SunFest, on June 10

If you want to listen to something besides splashing at the pool or insects buzzing by the grill, the Takoma Park Jazz Festival is on Sunday, June 10

MUSIC • BY JAMIE LEE Looking to inject some taste and sophistication into your summer?  Want to spice up an otherwise monotonously hot and humid season? Then come to the

ARTS • BY DARLENE REYES This weekend celebrates the dance and music of the African Diaspora at Dance Place in nearby Brookland. The celebration, which is estimated to draw

COMMUNITY • BY JAMIE LEE Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi is known for the sweeping changes he brought across India during its independence movement.  Sixty-four years after his death, his

COMMUNITY • BY SARAH KRAUT Scroll to the bottom for a slideshow from Opening Day. The weather is beautiful, the days are long and spring is upon us; all

TAKOMA ARCHIVES • DIANA KOHN The self-guided Takoma Park House and Garden Tour offers the opportunity to explore a dozen houses in the neighborhood developed by town founder

MUSIC • BY SARAH KRAUT In celebration of its Bar Mitzvah year, the Washington Jewish Music Festival is throwing the ultimate party. It’s going to ramp up the

Imagine enjoying food, music and cultures from around the globe -- all in one afternoon and within just a few blocks. That’s what the second annual “Taste the World

In our featured photo, runners get ready to tear through Silver Spring at Pacer’s Earth Day 5K 2011, which benefited The Nature Conservancy (as it will again this

ARTS • BY ROB KOENIG He was born in a French-speaking town in West Africa and barely spoke English when he arrived as a refugee in Silver Spring

COMMUNITY • BY SARAH KRAUT Pat Rumbaugh was still in the preliminary planning stages of this year’s Mid-Winter Play Day when a friend told her he knew when