Photo: Plane spotters in "Plane Days" (2008). Courtesy of SilverDocs.
For better or worse, humans are big on manipulating the environment. We construct buildings and plant lawns where none existed before. Flipping the script, these constructed environments manipulate humans to either conform or rebel. The SilverDocs shorties program “City[e]scapes” tries to capture that conflict, with varying degrees of success. (more…)
Photo: Tony Hausner talks public safety with the neighborhoods committee. Credit: J. Dese/SSP.
Ideas for keeping Silver Spring safe were crawling out of the woodworks at last month’s public-safety summit. Now the summit’s organizers want to know how to turn those ideas into action.
“The biggest success [of the summit] was that we had so many outstanding recommendations — too many,” Tony Hausner, an event organizer and Indian Spring resident, admitted to Silver Spring’s neighborhoods committee Monday night. (more…)
Hollywood — or at least Cleveland — descended on Silver Spring Monday night when a documentary on pro basketballer LeBron James opened the SilverDocs film festival.
The 6-foot, 8-inch Cleveland Cavaliers forward hit the AFI Silver Theatre on Colesville Road for a 7:00 p.m. screening of “More Than a Game” (2008). The film, directed by Kristopher Belman, spells out the ebb and flow of James and four high-school teammates. It rolls again on Sunday as the documentary-film fest wraps.
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Updated Jun 16, 2009, at 3:05 p.m.
9:00 a.m. The Gesneriad Society holds a plant show and sale until 3:00 p.m. as part of its annual convention. This free event takes place at the Hilton Washington DC/Silver Spring (8727 Colesville Rd) and is open to the public.
Photo: The smoothies were a big hit with these dogs. Credit: L. Lombardi/SSP.
Dog owners and their canine companions chugged a few for a good cause Sunday at a “yappy hour” celebration in Downtown Silver Spring.
Most dogs in attendance spent the sunny afternoon putting away french fries outside McGinty’s Public House on Ellsworth Drive. Others slurped frosty smoothies from the Living Ruff pet-supply shop. Pups also sampled nonalcoholic “beer” — beef broth packaged in beer-like bottles — while their people sipped the real deal. (more…)
Photo: I'll be in the cheap seat. Photo courtesy of Discovery Communications; doctored by J. Deseo/SSP.
In case you didn’t get the memo, the SilverDocs film festival goes down this week. That means a big brewha on Colesville Road every night, and svelte young people dressed in black cruising Georgia Avenue in search of an after-party. (more…)
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