In our featured photo, runners get ready to tear through Silver Spring at Pacer’s Earth Day 5K 2011, which benefited The Nature Conservancy (as it will again this

SLIGO NATURALIST • BY ALISON GILLESPIE What an odd non-winter we had. I missed the snow, and the recharge it usually brings my spirit. My garden never got

MARYLAND • BY MARK MILLER, CNS When the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area logged a population increase last decade, the most dramatic changes came in outlying counties like Charles

EDUCATION • BY NICK FOLEY, CNS When Jacen Sherman set out to create a video game in which players must save the world from catastrophe, he didn't think

COMMUNITY • BY SARAH KRAUT Pat Rumbaugh was still in the preliminary planning stages of this year’s Mid-Winter Play Day when a friend told her he knew when

ENVIRONMENT • BY VARUN SAXENA, CNS Rock Creek Park officials are waiting for National Park Service approval of a plan that allows to them employ sharpshooters to reduce

TAKOMA ARCHIVES • BY DIANA KOHN From Takoma Park’s first settlers to Motorcat, "Images of America: Takoma Park" celebrates 125 plus years of local history and makes a

HOUSING — When Gabriel Rodriguez-Rico and Danielle Dean met one recent Saturday in Prince George's County to help residents of foreclosed homes, they ended up heeding, in a

PHOTOS • BY JULIE WIATT On December 3, Downtown Silver Spring kicked-off the holiday season with a Santa available for photo ops, tree-lighting, caroling, and a “lion” from

On October 19 the Takoma Voice hosted a forum for the candidates in the upcoming City Council election in Takoma Park. The forum was moderated by Eric Bond,

BUSINESS • BY BRANDON GREEN In the heart of Old Town Takoma Park, under the gazebo, Blessed Coffee was inaugurated as a benefit corporation, dedicated to help the

Aziza Afzal and Meg Lebow, both sixteen, sat in the back seat of a Toyota, holding ukuleles, taking a crash course from their friend and musician Maya Davis. They

PHOTOS BY RACHEL HORESOVSKY — Flip through a photo gallery of the dazzling "Broadway Meets Hip Hop" performance by the talented Urban Nation Academy For the Performing Arts

PHOTOS BY RACHEL HORESOVSKY The following is a collection of photos taken at the Silver Spring Cote D'Ivoire festival on August 7, 2011. To view this photo gallery, go to  

Midnight, July 14 not just another trip to the Majestic for Harry Potter fans of a certain age.  Missing the event was unthinkable.  They grew up on the

Fenton Street is lined with Ethiopian restaurants and coffee shops, a clear reflection of the thriving Ethiopian community in Silver Spring.  But there is also another Ethiopian-owned business

Once a week, my husband and I eat at a Mexican restaurant just down the street from the Tribal Belly Dance class I go to on Tuesdays. I

When my husband dropped and broke his cell phone last week, we rejoiced in the fact that we had taken out insurance that guaranteed him a replacement in