UPDATE — Just as the neighborhood was shaking that nasty zombie plague, all kinds of crazy Halloween shit breaks out.
Music lovers should check out blues gheetahrist and Friend of The Penguin Jonny Grave and his band The Tombstones at the Quarry House Tavern (8401 Georgia Ave) Friday night. About Jonny: He’s a good guy. He lives in Woodside Park, works in the Ripley District, and can play dirrrrty-ass blues like a mofo.
Don’t know if there’s a cover charge. Don’t really care. All I know is the Penguin newsroom is going to enjoy this tax-deductible “editorial meeting” with fierce gusto and a side of tots.
There’s also some inexpensive stage action going down. Both the Round House Theatre and Montgomery College’s performing arts center host “pay what you can” preview performances of their featured shows. They’re good for impressing first dates and in-laws, and for expanding one’s cultural horizons on the cheap.
Take it all in:
Thursday
8:00 p.m. Funk band WPG Trio and go-go artist Chuck Brown perform at the Blair Mansion Inn (7711 Eastern Ave). Tickets are $25 each.
8:00 p.m. The Forum Theatre Co. presents Tony Kushner’s award-winning drama “Angels in America: Perestroika”. This event takes place at the Round House Theatre (8641 Colesville Rd); admission is “pay what you can”.
Friday
7:00 p.m. The AFI Silver Theatre (8633 Colesville Rd) screens FW Murnau’s silent film “Nosferatu” (1922), with live music by Silent Orchestra. Tickets are $20 each.
8:00 p.m. Happenstance Theatre presents Don Nigro’s faerie tales “Three Fantasies”. This event takes place at the Montgomery College performing arts center (7995 Georgia Ave); admission is “pay what you can”.
8:00 p.m. The Forum Theatre Co. presents Tony Kushner’s award-winning drama “Angels in America: Perestroika”. This event takes place at the Round House Theatre (8641 Colesville Rd); admission is “pay what you can”.
9:00 p.m. The AFI Silver Theatre (8633 Colesville Rd) holds a second screening of FW Murnau’s silent film “Nosferatu” (1922), with live music by Silent Orchestra. Tickets are $20 each.
10:00 p.m. Gallery Lounge (1115 East-West Hwy) hosts a Halloween costume party with New York deejay Jay-J. Admission is $15 for this over-21 event.
Saturday
9:00 a.m. FreshFarm Markets brings local farmers and food vendors to Ellsworth Drive, between Georgia Avenue and Fenton Street, until 1:00 p.m. There is no admission fee.
10:00 a.m. The county offers seasonal-flu vaccinations at the Silver Spring Health Center (8630 Fenton St, 10th floor) until 2:00 p.m. There is a $20 fee for adults; no fee for pediatric patients. Vaccination against H1N1 (swine) flu is not available.
2:00 p.m. The Downtown Silver Spring shopping center hosts a Halloween “monster mash”, featuring costume and pie-eating contests, a scavenger hunt and hayride. This free event takes place on Ellsworth Drive between Fenton Street and Georgia Avenue until 5:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. The Forum Theatre Co. presents Tony Kushner’s award-winning drama “Angels in America: Millenium Approaches”. This event takes place at the Round House Theatre (8641 Colesville Rd); tickets are $25 each.
4:00 p.m. ArtSpring (8519 Georgia Ave) hosts live musical performances by Ne’a Posey, Quineice Clarkson, Gary Young and Sadie Flick until 7:00 p.m. This free event is open to the public.
8:00 p.m. Happenstance Theatre presents Don Nigro’s faerie tales “Three Fantasies”. This event takes place at the Montgomery College performing arts center (7995 Georgia Ave); admission is “pay what you can”.
8:00 p.m. The Forum Theatre Co. presents Tony Kushner’s award-winning drama “Angels in America: Perestroika”. This event takes place at the Round House Theatre (8641 Colesville Rd); tickets are $25 each.
Sunday
2:00 p.m. Happenstance Theatre presents Don Nigro’s faerie tales “Three Fantasies”. This event takes place at the Montgomery College performing arts center (7995 Georgia Ave); admission is “pay what you can”.
7:00 p.m. The Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music presents performances by Myrmyr, Daniel Malinsky, and Moon Pie. This event takes place at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (8230 Georgia Ave); tickets are $7 each.
Updated to include Saturday’s seasonal-flu vaccination clinic. — JD (Oct 29, 2009)
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If I didn’t already have my tickets to Nosferatu, I’d be pretty tempted to hit up Angels in America… Such a wonderful, albeit hard, play.
Dude, “Angels” part II goes down tonight for cheap. Or you can do the “Angels” double feature on Saturday for eight straight hours of heavy drama.
I missed that Perestroika was going down tonight! Might see what I can do…
Would do the full deal on Sat. but that’s going to get pricy quick!
Also on Sunday, from 1-3:30 pm, the Washington Humane Society will be in Downtown Silver Spring with adoptable dogs and cats at the invitation of Living Ruff. Families always seem to enjoy a chance to play with the pups.
The Art Spring event yesterday was nice. Didn’t stay long, was passing through, but the vocalist performing was great. The place was pretty dead. It sucks seeing nice events get a poor turnout. It was pretty slimy outside, but the turnout should’t have been that bad. Saw a few families with their kids getting their face painted and lots of candy, but that was it.