Archive for June, 2012
Angella Foster: Dancer, Teacher, Arts Administrator
Aspiring artists of all types, listen up! Everyone may be telling you to have a Plan B, your Plan B doesn’t have to mean giving up what you’re passionate about – what we used to call “selling out” back in the ’60s. If you’re a savvy artsy type (NOT an oxymoron) like Greenbelt’s Angella Foster, [...]
“Moonrise Kingdom” on My To-See List
I’m hearing raves for the new Wes Anderson movie “Moonrise Kingdom”, which happens to be playing at the Old Greenbelt Theater now. Click here for showtimes.
The case for moving your money, preferably to a credit union (Greenbelt’s?)
The Move your Money Project was started three years ago as a campaign to encourage Americans to get their money OUT of institutions that are too big to fail and into smaller, local institutions – and for lots of good reasons. started that aims to empower individuals and institutions to divest from the nation’s largest [...]
Outdoor clothes-drying is alive and well!
Project Laundry List is a nonprofit promoting the outdoor laundry-drying and fighting the hundreds of (ridiculous) homeowner association rules that prohibit it. Even in relatively with-it Columbia, MD! I’ve spread the word in frequent blog stories on this national blog and elsewhere (I love their Top Ten Reasons to Line-Dry) and was pleased to find [...]
Poison Ivy Alert!
See the darker green leaves just to the right of the sidewalk? That’s poison ivy, y’all, positioned perfectly for casually rubbing up against the ankles of passers-by. And guess where I spied these pesky plants – which bother almost everyone and for an unlucky few, to a serious degree? Alongside Greenbelt’s Municipal Building! And it’s [...]
Fritz, our first featured Dog of Greenbelt
Barely out of his puppyhood but already the gentleman, Fritz here is a familiar sight around town. This handsome redhead is half miniature poodle and half cockapoo, so owner Jeannette Holman calls him a cockapoopoo. Send us your dog photos! Email Greenbelt Live to have photos of your best canine friends posted here for all [...]
Front Garden Re-Do
As an avid gardener now making a living as a garden writer, I’ve gotta have a garden. No question. But the one I toiled in for the last 26 years was too much for this baby Boomer, so downsizing to a townhouse hits the spot. Not an end unit, mind you – some of those [...]
