Monday, April 1, 2013
Bethesda's The Brown Bag will be returning as the park's concessions operator.
Mark your calendars: The Ballroom Cafe at Glen Echo Park will re-open for the season on Friday, April 5. Returning for its second season behind the Ballroom Cafe counter is Bethesda-based chainlet The Brown Bag. The Brown Bag took over as concessions operator last April after a push to shift control for food vending at the park from the National Park Service to Montgomery County. The Brown Bag opened in Bethesda in 2002 and has quickly expanded throughout the Washington, DC, region. With a tagline of “honest food,” the chainlet offers made-to-order food with a focus on fresh ingredients, founder Erich Fuldner told Patch last year. “Our salads are a different—they’re more gourmet. We have items like edamame and goat cheese, which you don’t …
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Bethesda's the Brown Bag will be returning as the park's concessions operator.
Mark your calendars. The Ballroom Cafe at Glen Echo Park will re-open for the season Friday, April 5. Returning for its second season behind the Ballroom Cafe counter is Bethesda-based chainlet the Brown Bag. The Brown Bag took over as concessions operator last April after a push to shift control for food vending at the park from the National Park Service to Montgomery County. The Brown Bag opened in Bethesda in 2002 and has quickly expanded throughout the Washington, DC, region. With a tagline of “honest food,” the chainlet offers made-to-order food with a focus on fresh ingredients, founder Erich Fuldner told Patch last year. “Our salads are a different – they’re more gourmet. We have items like edamame and goat cheese, which you don’t …
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Meeting set for 6 - 8 p.m. Thursday.
The National Park Service is hosting an open house Thursday evening to solicit feedback on a proposed shared-use path realignment project at Glen Echo Park. The meeting will focus on an improvement project proposed for the 800-foot length of the shared-use path that falls on National Park Service property near Glen Echo park and the Clara Barton National Historic Site. The project is part of Montgomery County's plan to improve bikeways and paths along MacArthur Boulevard. According to the WashCycle, the path "would be relocated from MacArthur Boulevard to NPS property, where it would parallel MacArthur Boulevard from Oxford Road along the northeastern edge of the Clara Barton National Historic Site parking lot. Heading southeast, the path …
Friday, May 4, 2012
There's lots of great events going on this weekend.
Looking for a few funs things to do this Cinco de Mayo weekend in and around Bethesda? Look no further; our weekend planner is here. 1.) Jim Sanborn Artist Talk Where/When: 4 p.m. Saturday, May 5, at Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo Why Go: Listen in on an artist talk with renowned artist Jim Sanborn, the designer of the famed Kryptos sculpture at the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Sanborn, a former resident artist at Glen Echo, will have his work on display at the park from May 5 through May 28. An opening reception for the exhibition will follow the talk. Price: Free 2.) ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ Book Signing Where/When: 7 p.m. Friday, May 4, at the Bethesda Barnes and Noble Why Go: Catch a book signing with …
Monday, March 26, 2012
New food vendor to debut after push to transfer authority for food service at Glen Echo Park from NPS to the county.
Visitors to Glen Echo Park will soon have a new dining option after a push to shift control for food vending there from the National Park Service to Montgomery County. The Brown Bag, which opened in Bethesda in 2002 and has quickly expanded throughout the Washington, D.C. region as demand grew for its fast-casual, healthy and gourmet food options, will begin operating the park’s Ballroom Café April 2. The previous concessions operator at Glen Echo contracted with the park service to run food operations at all National Park Service sites in the national capital area, according to Katey Boerner, Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture executive director. “We were just a small thing in this huge contract,” Boerner said. “We didn’t …
Friday, February 3, 2012
30 Yellow Barn artists work together on one piece of art.
This month, collaboration is the name of the game for advanced students of the Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery. Feb. 2 through 28, 30 artists will be working on a large, door-sized painting in a relay style in the Chautauqua Tower first floor studio. The tower is also known as the “Stone Tower,” which usually houses just one resident artist per month. The public can watch the artists at work in person, and also watch their progress through photos displayed on the Yellow Barn blog and Facebook. The event, dubbed "Coming Together, Again," is the brainchild of Yellow Barn Studio manager J. Jordan Bruns. “Last year we did a relay with the instructors; this time I thought it would be fun to see how our members do," Bruns said. Last year’s …
Thursday, December 22, 2011
Fine Arts & Crafts at Glen Echo Park Holiday Art Show & Sale
Procrastinators fear not! You can still pick out the perfect gifts for those tough-to-shop-for people on your list at Glen Echo Park Partnership’s annual Holiday Art Show & Sale. Thoughtfully open through January 8 (in case you’ve forgotten someone or want to pick up a little “post-holiday happy” treat for yourself), the show and sale features gifty glass, ceramics, jewelry, photography, paintings and more, all representing the Park’s major visual arts organizations: Art Glass Center at Glen Echo, Glen Echo Glassworks, Yellow Barn Studio & Gallery, Glen Echo Pottery, SilverWorks and Photoworks. Among the items featured: Animal Attractions For a child or the child within, watercolor collages of friendly elephant or monkey faces, in …
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Friday, October 7, 2011
A grownups-only take on a favorite family art form.
Did you love the Broadway hit Avenue Q, but leave with your appetite whetted for more? Well, puppetry for a grownup audience is coming to Glen Echo Park again this Saturday for the Playhouse Puppetry Slam! The showcase is held in conjunction with Puppet Pandemic, an organization that fundraises for the O’Neill National Puppetry Conference Alumni Scholarships. Puppet Pandemic is bringing five O’Neill Puppetry Conference alumni from New York to perform. The rest of the performers are from the Washington, D.C. metro area, and one from Richmond. As always, this show’s puppets are more bawdy and edgy than Bert and Ernie, and more tender and tear-jerking than The Twiddlebugs. Christopher Hudert and Duck Cheney (you’ll see!) emcee the evening. …
Thursday, August 4, 2011
Student artists display their work at Glen Echo Park.
Students from visual arts courses at Glen Echo Park again have an opportunity this summer to share their artwork with the community, at the Sixth Annual Student Art Show. The show will take place at Popcorn Gallery, an exhibition space managed by Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture, opening Saturday, August 6, and will run Saturdays, Sundays and Labor Day Monday from 12 to 6 p.m. The show is non-juried and is open to students of all ages, though according to Meredith Forster, education program manager for Glen Echo Park Partnership, “most this year seem to be adults.” Patch talked to Forster just hours before the deadline for submissions, the day before the hanging of the show began. “It’s a nice opportunity for people to …
Monday, June 20, 2011
Artist Jordan Bruns explores life's paradoxes in his latest work.
Artist Jordan Bruns explores the universal themes of destruction and rebirth, chaos and order, and old and new in his latest work, and attempts to reconcile these dualities in paint on panel. “My personality needs some sort of order. It needs to put things together in a neat and orderly fashion,” Bruns says. “So for my paintings to look like this, I have to really force myself to do the opposite of what I want to do.” Bruns, a semifinalist in the 2011 Bethesda Painting Awards, says he has always been fascinated with the concept of destruction and rebirth. "You build this Lego castle and then you destroy it and rebuild it,” Bruns says. “So I think that kind of cycle has always been fascinating for me, even as a kid." Bruns, who describes …
Michael Shapiro
10:46 am on Thursday, January 24, 2013
I hope that the proposed improvement conforms to the recommended 10 ft. width. I've seen some recent paths that are barely 5 feet wide, which makes sharing the path almost impossible and invites anger. more ›