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Going out in Greenbelt for May 17 – 26

This is a weekly preview of fun, interesting things happening in Greenbelt:  music, theater, talks, guided tours, and more.  Seriously, only fun events are listed – no meetings!  This list covers the next nine days. Friday,  May 17 At the New Deal Cafe: – Jazz and blues piano by Takoma Park’s own John Guernsey (6:30 [...]

Club 125 Opens to Enthusiasm from Greenbelters

We’ve all been following the progress of Club 125,  Greenbelt’s new community activity center, since renovations began in September.  What had been a dry cleaning store has, through both the sweat and financial equity of George Boyce and Eva Fallon, been transformed into a happening for all things technie and creative. And just days ago [...]

Preservation Awards were a Blast!

By now you all know that Greenbelt Theatre won $75,000 in the Partners in Preservation contest, thanks to the overwhelming support the theater earned from the community and the City of Greenbelt, too – the theater’s owners.  Which means that WE own the theater, and the spirit of supporting OUR theater really showed in our [...]

Kale-a-Rama was Awesome, and so is Veganism

I was soooo impressed with the “first-ever” Kale-a-Rama Festival that was a major happening recently in Roosevelt Center, I had to find out who or what was behind it.   Here’s what I found out via organizer Cam MacQueen. Who Made it Happen There were four organizers of the event, all vegans and active the animal [...]

Shrubs and Small Trees that Grow well for Greenbelt Gardeners

Presenting: Plants that Greenbelt Gardeners grow and recommend to their neighbors – because the best plant recommendations are local.  I’ve started off the list with some of my favorites, but please send me more-more-more via comments here on the blog or by email, and I’ll add them. Plants you’ve actually grown yourself, please, and that [...]

Rally for Greenbelt Theatre – Tomorrow in the Center

The City of Greenbelt is going all out to help the Greenbelt Theatre win funding for much-needed restoration.  Tomorrow, Sunday 5 it’s holding a Rally for the Theatre. There will be a group vote, and a sing-along of songs from the movies with the Children’s Choir from St. Mary’s in Laurel.  Also, free keychains. Bring [...]

The Green Man Cometh!

If proof were ever needed that Greenbelters 1), care about Mother Earth and 2), know how to have fun, one need look no farther than the Green Man Festival, scheduled to return for the 9th year this coming weekend.  This year it’s dedicated to our forests (didn’t someone proclaim this Greenbelt’s Year of the Forest?) [...]

Vote Daily to Help Preserve the Greenbelt Theatre

  American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation have $1 million in preservation grants and they want us to tell them where it should go. Click here to vote for the Greenbelt Theatre (after simple registering, or logging in with Facebook).  Click here to see all the competitors and their current score.  As [...]

“Less Lawn” Talk Coming Up!

I’ve teamed up with the Beaverdam Creek Watershed Watch Group and GHI’s Woodlands Committee to talk Less Lawn, using THE most convincing visuals I can collect to win you all over to the less-lawn cause.  Here’s more background about it all – the why, and the how.

Great Moments in Local Poetry

Greenbelters, these are your poets.  And no, they’re not the Hippie Poets Society but the competitors in a new poetry event sponsored by Friends of the New Deal Cafe.  The poets read their works at a fun reception for them at the New Deal, which event was timed to celebrate the National Poetry Month.  This [...]