Stuck on the notion that documentaries are stuffy and boring? Docs in Progress can change your mind. Docs in Progress is a nonprofit organization founded in 2004 by Erica

EVENTS • BY JAMIE LEE The Silverdocs are coming back to Silver Spring! This year marks the documentary festival’s tenth year.  From June 18 to 24, one-hundred-and-fourteen films will be

"Milkshake," an independent film production is now filming in and around town. The film is a coming of age comedy set in 1990s Takoma Park. Not coincidentally, that's when

VOX POPULI • BY WILLIAM SIMS Last spring when Paramount Pictures and Clint Eastwood prepared shooting in the DC area for a major motion picture about the life

Try renting “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” from online media superstore Netflix, and customers are in for an indefinite wait. But a Takoma Park Old Town video store has

In 2007, the Ravinia Festival in Chicago commissioned renowned modern dance choreographer, director and multiple Tony-award winner Bill T. Jones to create a performance to commemorate the bicentennial

Midnight, July 14 not just another trip to the Majestic for Harry Potter fans of a certain age.  Missing the event was unthinkable.  They grew up on the

Docs in Progress—organizers of this year’s local documentary film festival, Silver Spring Stories—promises something for everyone: filmmakers, community activists, government officials, business owners, Silver Spring residents and fans. The

Humorist, writer, and cultural commentator Fran Lebowitz appeared at the American Film Institute in Silver Spring on May 12 for a screening of "Public Speaking", directed by Martin