HEALTH & FITNESS • BY CHELSEA BOONE Increasingly, residents are trading in their automobiles for another set of wheels. Bicycles are gaining ground as the preferred mode of transportation

ASK EMORY • BY EMORY LUCE BALDWIN Question: I just hung up the phone with my sister who lives halfway across the country.  She wants me to come

GARDENING GODDESS • BY KATHY JENTZ Many gardeners were introduced to their passion for growing all things green at the knee of an older relative, such as a

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Reconciliation is so beautiful! It means the budget process is almost over. It was a typical reconciliation process May 14. The city manager

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

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Takoma Park's progressive activists are now bullying the city council to take an official stand for peace and freedom. City resident and

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

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Budget work sessions! That's what it's all about now. One. Department. At. A. Time. Each Takoma Park city department presents a yearly

We like thinking of history as a series of layers. The layers are the different eras, events and people of our past that can be peeled back to

ARTS • BY SARAH KRAUT In 1910, the world’s largest full-stage theatre allowing African American performers opened in Washington, D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood. At the height of its majesty,

ENVIRONMENT • BY KIRSTY GROFF One week from today, one Takoma Park resident may discover she has won the opportunity to travel to Rio de Janeiro to cover

COMMUNITY • BY JULIE WIATT Bill Murphy’s life course shifted when he took in a homeless man to share his dorm room in a Catholic college in Worcester. Bill

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

TAKOMA ARCHIVES • BY DIANA KOHN In many of my historical accounts for this column, newspapers have provided a major source of detail and understanding of past events.

SIN OF THE MONTH • BY ABBY BARDI Many years ago, my ex-husband, who teaches philosophy, often performed a useful mental exercise: he would examine something very ordinary

HEALTH • BY JOSH COOPER, CNS Scroll to bottom to see interactive map. Some Maryland residents see drinking raw milk as a normal part of a healthy diet. The