Friday, May 24, 2013
Looking for something exciting to do this weekend? Check out some of the fun things going on around the county.
Each week, Patch puts together a list of local activities and events going on in your area this weekend. Check back weekly and tell us in the comments if you know of any additional activities coming up. Fathom Sculptural Exploration of another World Cinderella Pontoon Boat Tours at Seneca Creek State Park Free Remodeling and Design Seminars: How to Fall in Love with Your Home Again Big Book Sale Flower Avenue Outdoor Market Homefront Street Cars Big Nate: A World Premiere Musical
Thursday, May 23, 2013
The historic movie theater in Chevy Chase, DC, recently made the switch from showing films via 35-millimeter projectors to screening them via digital projectors.
Chevy Chase neighborhood gem Avalon Theatre (5612 Connecticut Ave. NW, DC) is beloved for its classic look and for its distinction as one of the city's last remaining movie houses from the early 20th century. And, it just received an upgrade that will make watching movies there even more enjoyable: It recently replaced its 35-millimeter film projectors with digital projectors, WTOP reported. The first movie digitally projected in the c. 1923 theater was Star Trek Into Darkness, on May 16, WTOP added. Last fall, the theater announced that its fundraising campaign was complete. The Avalon Legacy Campaign—which started in 2001, after the theater had closed, Patch reported—reached its goal last fall of raising $2 million to restore the theater…
Monday, May 20, 2013
The anthology features the work of nearly 50 local writers.
The work of close to 50 DC-area writers is featured in a new anthology—District Lines—published by well-known Chevy Chase, DC, independent bookstore, Politics & Prose. Printed on Politics & Prose’s very own book-printing machine, District Lines contains essays, short fiction, poems, sketches and photography "on quirky and serious subjects ranging from a sighting of Effi Barry on a Metro bus to an August night on the Q Street Bridge to hotcakes at the Florida Avenue Grill to an ode to the Dupont Circle metro escalator," according to a news statement from the bookstore. Read more about the bookstore's book-printing machine—which can print out a book from a PDF file—on Patch. "We really wanted to capture a sense of people and place in DC and …
Friday, May 17, 2013
Corcoran, Phillips and others to offer free admission or special deals.
A number of local art museums will offer free admission in honor of Art Museum Day (Saturday, May 18), according to The Washington Post. In the District, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Museum of African Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Phillips Collection will offer free admission this Saturday, while the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens will honor the day on Saturday, June 8, when “Living Artfully” opens. In Maryland, the Baltimore Museum of Art will allow visitors free admission to view its 90,000 works of art on Saturday. Art Museum Day was developed by the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) in 2009 to dovetail with the International Museum Day, created by the International Council of Museums …
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Celebrate the summer movie release with some of these local tie-ins.
The Great Gatsby is showing in theaters, and it's inspiring people to delve deeper into the story’s history, culture, music, food and drink. Starting with F. Scott Fitzgerald’s grave at St. Mary’s Church in Rockville, there are a number of local places to help you get your Gatsby on, according to The Washington Post. If you venture to Fitzgerald’s gravesite, take note of the epitaph, which reads, “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” This quote is the final line in The Great Gatsby. View costumes, set designs, paintings and films from the Gatsby era at the National Gallery of Art’s “Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes” exhibit, which opens May 12. Check out some Art Deco architecture in Silver …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Bethesda's "Fair Focus" Art Exhibition artist discusses the inspirations behind her work and what her life would be like without paint.
As part of Bethesda’s Art Walk festivities, the “Fair Focus” Art Exhibition was an event for the community to enjoy unique masterpieces by reputable artists from all over the world, including Julia Fernandez-Pol. The Argentinian-American artist grew up looking either under a microscope or through a telescope. Over time, Fernandez-Pol used those same observation techniques to create her paintings. After moving across the country to Los Angeles, Fernandez-Pol is establishing herself on a new coast and her work is just getting started. Bethesda-Chevy Chase Patch: Who is Julia Fernandez-Pol? Julia Fernandez-Pol: I think Julia the artist is allowing my eccentricity to be my important feature. One of the things for me is that I love the …
Friday, May 10, 2013
New York City may have Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night," but Bethesda's got the David van Go-berg one.
New York City's Museum of Modern Art may have Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night, but Bethesda's got the David van Go-berg original. And, van Go-berg's Starry Night is a lot bigger, and may be seen from the street, free-of-charge. The 146-inch-by-96-inch mural is affixed to the side of Union Hardware (7800 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda)—see it around the corner on Norfolk Avenue. Union Hardware co-owner David Goldberg—aka van Go-berg—created the mural out of left-over hardware stock (more than 1,250 door knobs, levers and backplates from Germany, Italy and the U.S.), according to the description at the side of the mural. Goldberg describes his creation as "Post-Door Hardwareism," in homage to van Gogh's Post-Impressionism. Read more about Goldberg…
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Author F. Scott Fitzgerald had deep ties in Maryland, some of which you can see for yourself.
Don't expect a glittering movie opening of the The Great Gatsby, and its mega stars Leonardio DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire and Carey Mulligan, anywhere near The Free State. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of the novel (published in 1925) that provided the inspiration for the three-dimensional film, however, was deeply entrenched in the region during his lifetime, with landmarks to his family and his literary works sprinkled from Rockville to Towson. Even if you're not lining up for the premiere Friday, find a little of Gatbsy's Roaring '20s vibe nearby: 1. The Fitzgerald family—F. Scott, his wife Zelda and their daughter Scottie—spent more time in Baltimore than any other place, according to University of Maryland professor emeritus Jackson Bryer…
Brenton Duvall is the big man on campus tonight. Up on the makeshift stage, he’s tinkering with his MacBook’s audio settings while red Solo cups are passed around the room. He's working on going from Internet stream to mainstream.
By Jonathan Elbaz, Capital News Service Brenton Duvall is the big man on campus tonight. Up on the makeshift stage, he’s tinkering with his MacBook’s audio settings while red Solo cups are passed around the room. With a playlist full of party music and a hook up to the speakers, he’s got a captive crowd of Clemson students ready to rage. But everyone’s far too wasted, and those speakers of authority aren’t even loud enough to fill out the whole room. All he can think about on this February night is ditching this crowded frat house basement and returning to his home studio to work on crafting the perfect song. The 22-year-old producer from Potomac already scored big online in 2010 with his Taylor Swift and Wiz Khalifa-sampling remix, “Mean…
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Bethesda’s Gallery B’s May exhibition features work by local artists, as well as a collaborative piece to be sold for charity.
Gallery B’s May exhibition includes pieces from seven local artists who, in addition to their individual works, will contribute to a group piece to be auctioned off during the month. The exhibition, called “Seven Variations and a Conversation,” features seven artists from Dupont Circle’s Foundry Gallery: Fran Abrams, Nancy Donnelly, Naomi Taitz Duffy, Judy Gilbert Levey, Donna K. McGee, Robert Wiener and Patricia Zannie. Several of the contributors are from the area; Levey is an oil painter from Bethesda, Abrams works on polymer clay out of Rockville and Wiener is a Washington, DC, native who owns a private art glass studio. As part of the exhibition at Gallery B (7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E, Bethesda), the artists collaborated on a group…
Natalia Caryl
12:57 pm on Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Author from Bethesda, MD, Christian Caryl about a week ago made a presentation of his new book "Strange Rebels" in Politics and Prose. In July he'll make his book presentation in Barnes & Noble Bethesda. Come and support your local author. His book get best reviews and you could watch an interview with him online. Here is the link: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/Caryl If you're interested in … more ›