The Terps are playing in Jersey, and the Skins have the weekend off. That leaves plenty of free time to devise a dream lineup for the future Fillmore concert hall.
Hint: My list involves the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes and Kanye West, with Timbaland at the sound board to get things freaky.
Already made your dream lineup? Check out what else is cooking this weekend:
Friday
6:30 p.m. Elaine Kessler, of the Women’s Education Project, talks about her organization’s work in Uganda. The free discussion kicks it at Kefa Cafe’s Space 7:10 (963 Bonifant St).
8:00 p.m. Serious drama goes down at the Silver Spring Stage (10145 Colesville Rd) with “Agnes of God”. Tickets run from $15 to $18.
8:00 p.m. Dinner comes with a side order of murder and mayhem at the Blair Mansion Inn (7711 Eastern Ave). Their dinner-theater production, “One Life to Lose”, sets you back $55, which includes a meal.
Saturday
8:15 a.m. Charge up your chakra on Veterans Plaza with yoga instructor Hannah Willman. The intermediate-level class is free.
9:00 a.m. It’s peak apple-croissant season at the Ellsworth Drive farmers market. Score some before 1:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. The kiddies take over Ellsworth Drive for the annual Magical Montgomery fair. Music, games and activities rock downtown Silver Spring until 7:00 p.m.
7:00 p.m. Montgomery Blair High School (51 University Blvd E) hosts the Rock for Renovation concert, to benefit the Old Blair Auditorium project. Silver Spring’s The Fighting Janes and New York rocker Derek James tear the place up. A ticket sets you back $20 ($5 for students).
Sample tunes by Derek James in Friday’s “Local Licks” column and The Penguin podcast.
8:00 p.m. The Chekhov Project presents “My Mocking Happiness” at Montgomery College’s Black Box Theatre (corner of Chicago and Philadelphia avenues). Call (240) 567-1368 for ticket information.
8:00 p.m. Serious drama goes down at the Silver Spring Stage (10145 Colesville Rd) with “Agnes of God”. Tickets run from $15 to $18.
8:00 p.m. Dinner comes with a side order of murder and mayhem at the Blair Mansion Inn (7711 Eastern Ave). Their dinner-theater production, “One Life to Lose”, sets you back $55, which includes a meal.
Sunday
11:00 a.m. State attorney general Doug Gansler noshes with area Democrats at Los Arrieros (7926 Georgia Ave). The elbow rubbing costs $8. Call (301) 891-0671 for more information.
1:30 p.m. Friends of Sligo Creek roll up their sleeves and strap on some hip waders for the annual “Sweep the Creek”. Click here for locations in Silver Spring.
2:00 p.m. Silver Spring’s Hilton Hotel (8727 Colesville Rd) hosts its premier bridal event, a dry-run wedding reception with everything but the funky chicken and drunk brother-in-law. The free event runs until 4:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. The Chekhov Project presents “My Mocking Happiness” at Montgomery College’s Black Box Theatre (corner of Chicago and Philadelphia avenues). Call (240) 567-1368 for ticket information.
2:00 p.m. Serious drama goes down at the Silver Spring Stage (10145 Colesville Rd) with “Agnes of God”. Tickets run from $13 to $15.
4:00 p.m. The St. Augustine Gospel Choir performs traditional and contemporary gospel music at the Grace Episcopal Church (1607 Grace Church Rd). The gig is free, but donations are appreciated.
Updated Sep 28, 2007, at 3:30 p.m.
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Question for the Penguin: Does maintaining this blog require a full-time job? You put up enough news and community information that would require a 40 hour work week. Anyway, I think your site is great.
Add to your list of weekend activities “My Mocking Happiness” at the Montgomery College Black Box Theatre (corner of Chicago and Philadelphia Avenues) Saturday at 8 pm and Sunday at 2 pm. http://www.silverspringdowntown.com/events.php?item=678
Editor’s note: Thanks, Gary! Will do. — JD (Sep 27, 2007)
Thanks for the kudos, Yuppie Hater!
To answer your question, running The Penguin is a full-time gig. Currently, I make zero dollars doing it. However, I have had several offers to buy me a beer, as well as one marriage proposal.
Now, if anyone out there would like to buy advertising space on this site, holler! What you see is what you get, in terms of content and attitude. My dedication to the facts, and my bad-ass nature, are non-negotiable. However, my ad rates are flexible.
And to all those people who offered to buy me a beer: Beware. Someday, I will throw myself off the wagon, and then there will be HELL to pay.
Let’s open up some bars in this town, already!
Kanye? Ew to the max.
I offered to buy you a Penguin Coctail. What am I chopped liver? :)
Nonetheless, I too appreciate how much time you put into The Silver Spring Penguin. I read it just about every day.
A full time job that you don’t make any money off of… thanx for the effort. I must ask though – are you independently wealthy, in college or writing a blog about Silver Spring while living in Idaho?
Anywho… you should throw urself of that wagon.. it’s really no fun :-)
I’d buy space if I had anything to advertise… but alas.. i am not such a crafty entrepreneur as that.
Do you track your reader-ship? I’d bet you could get local businesses (bars, restaurants, etc..) to advertise if you could prove your reader numbers – which must be getting reasonable with the flyers you’d been hanging all over town… although at first glance I see all the dangling “tear-off” bits and think it’s someone trying to sell used furniture who hasn’t learned about craigs list yet.
Better yet… you could go out to bars and SELL your beer offers at a discount! So long as ur on the wagon anyway. Charge people $3 and make the people who offered buy them a beer instead.
Too bad its not 1998.. you could just go public and make a fortune on stock sales without having a business plan or any intention to ever make any money… like Napster :)
Yeah, I wonder how The Penguin pays for groceries and a roof over her head. Maybe she is an aspiring journalist looking for a “break” in the news reporting business? A starving citizen journalist if you will.
Never mind the beer…we should start a soup can drive for The Penguin.
… beer is way better than soup
“beer is way better than soup.” Paul, you’ve never had my Tuscan White Bean soup.
I don’t know how Jennifer does it. The Internets are a mysterious thing to me in many ways, but methinks that she is an aspiring journalist, and this is a pretty good resume (I hear that the young ‘uns submit internet content with their resumes these days).
Jennifer, if I had anything to advertise, you’d be the first to know. Maybe you can start a Silver Spring “pennysaver” type service on your blog here, where local yokels can advertise stuff and if we sell it due to your blog, you get a cut. The draw would be that we buyer could drive or walk to the seller (or vice versa) and so not have to pay shipping; plus, they could eyeball the goods before committing to a purchase.
Also, don’t forget the fall “Sweep the Creek”.
Editor’s note: Thanks, Sligo! It’s been added to the post. — JD (Sep 28, 2007)
Thanks to all for the kudos and offers of soup and beer!
Paul wrote:
I’m not independently wealthy, but I do have a very supportive partner who puts up with my inability to draw an income.
In college? Been there, done that. I am the poster child for the overeducated and underemployed.
Writing about Silver Spring while living in Idaho? Nope. I’m proud to say that The Penguin is produced from my living room (well, my partner’s living room), steps away from the Silver Spring Metro station.
IHateYuppies wrote:
The groceries and roof over my head are covered by my partner. However, tabs for The Penguin restaurant reviews are drawn from my ever-shrinking reserve funds. At the rate I’m going, I’ll never get to review Ray’s the Classic!
Aspiring journalist? Sort of. I was an editor and reporter in the scientific and medical press for more than 10 years. Unfortunately, it’s hard to express any sense of humor when writing about flesh-eating bacteria or congestive heart disease, so I bailed.
The Penguin is my attempt at straight, community-based reporting.
As the cliche goes: It’s my honor to serve!
Wait a second. You can’t express humor when writing about flesh-eating bacteria? Good grief, the material practically writes itself!
(I know, it’s really bad for those who suffer from it, but still…).