Camp out at the Town Square garage tonight, and you just might score the best seats for Saturday’s jazz festival.
Here’s what else is cooking this weekend:
Thursday
7:30 p.m. Get your iambic pentameter on at poetry open-mic night. The rhymes fly at Mayorga Coffee Factory (8040 Georgia Ave). Five bucks gets you through the door.
Friday
6:30 p.m. Abstract artists Maria Santiago, Marina Reiter and Shela Qamer meet the masses at Kefa Cafe’s Space 7:10 (963 Bonifant St). The art show and cool conversation is free. The espresso in your demitasse will cost you.
8:00 p.m. Dinner theater drops on Silver Spring. The Blair Mansion Inn (7711 Eastern Ave) presents the comedy “One Life to Lose”. Food and laughs set you back $55 per person.
Saturday
8:15 a.m. Yoga instructor Hannah Willman leads a free, intermediate-level class on the Veterans Plaza turf. BYO yoga mat.
9:00 a.m. Savor the waning days of raspberry croissant season at the Ellsworth Drive farmers market. Score some until 1:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. The fourth annual Silver Spring Jazz Festival swings through Veterans Plaza. The gig starts with a New Orleans-style parade, and wraps with trumpet master Arturo Sandoval. The free show runs through 10:30 p.m.
8:00 p.m. Dinner theater drops on Silver Spring. The Blair Mansion Inn (7711 Eastern Ave) presents the comedy “One Life to Lose”. Food and laughs set you back $55 per person.
Sunday
Detox.
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Has ANYONE been to the Blair Mansion Inn lately? Has the food improved? SSPenguin – we await your review.
At $55 a pop, you might be waiting a while for that review.
Jenn – I signed up for their email list and get 2-for-1 coupons and specials regularly – you are welcome to them. I originally thought I’d give his as a gift for a friend – but after hearing such bad things about the food and the fact that NO ONE in the ESS area seems to go there – I reconsidered that gift – now that they have new owners, decor, menu, etc, I’d be willing to go – IF the reviews are halfway decent.