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

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

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,

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

OPINION • BY JAMIE RASKIN When I moved to Takoma Park in 1990, there was no Internet. No websites. No email. No blogging. No neighborhood listservs. No 24-hour

MARYLAND • BY MARK MILLER, CNS When the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area logged a population increase last decade, the most dramatic changes came in outlying counties like Charles

THEATRE • BY AMANDA ZIADEH Hexagon, a non-profit satirical singing, dancing and acting group, is now putting on its 57^th anniversary show, skewering Washington elites and raising money

FAMILY • BY TOM MCPARLAND, CNS Even as Gov. Martin O'Malley capped a major legislative victory Thursday by signing a bill that allows same-sex couples in Maryland to

COMMUNITY • BY SARAH KRAUT

COMMUNITY • BY AMANDA ZIADEH The Civil Rights Educational Freedom Tour will be taking off from Rockville, Md. on April 2 and will be returning on April 7. The

FAMILY • BY KARA ROSE, CNS For Maryland same-sex couples like Erin and Kat McGonigle, getting legally hitched required a short trip

PHOTOS • BY MARK PODGER On February 19, Voice photographer Mark Podger ventured over the river to the State Theatre in Falls Church, Va., for the 26th Wammies,

MUSIC • BY AMANDA ZIADEH The 26^th annual WAMA awards kicked off a little after 8 p.m. on Sunday, February 19. As the line outside the State Theatre

EYE ON ANNAPOLIS • BY TOM MCPARLAND, CNS [View the story "Md. Same-Sex Marriage" on Storify] After a year of highly contested debate and political wrangling, the

MUSIC • BY AMANDA ZIADEH Who really cares about the Grammys? On Sunday, Feb. 19, LOCAL guitar heroes will compete for the chance of winning a Wammie at

AMORE • BY BETHANY KARN Somehow, a kiss next to the Washington Monument is not nearly the same as a kiss under the Eiffel Tower.  This is not an

BIZ BUZZ • BY TEIGHLER DOAK A European café, bakery and pastry shop will be coming to Takoma Park in March. Bread and Chocolate will be located at

TRANSPORTATION • BY AMANDA ZIADEH The completion of the new Silver Spring Transit Center may be delayed after a contractor error that left the concrete in various places