The Gaithersburg Book Festival will take place on May 18 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. at Gaithersburg City Hall grounds. The family-friendly festival includes author presentations, book signings and numerous workshops. The schedules for the presentations, discussions and author signings is available on the Gaithersburg Book Festival website and summarized below.  View or print [...]

Friends of the Library, Montgomery County (FOLMC) and the Latino Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) History Project (LHP) on May 17 will host an evening with Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco at the Rockville Memorial Library beginning at 7:30 p.m. The library is located at 21 Maryland Ave. Blanco, the first Latino and the first [...]

The first “Celebrate Takoma” festival will take place on May 19, from 1 to 5 p.m. on the newly refurbished Ed Wilhelm Field behind Piney Branch Elementary School. The festival will feature music, dancing, and food from Takoma Park. The event is free with nominal fees for food and merchandise. “Celebrate Takoma” will be held [...]

Bethesda will be hosting the Fine Arts Festival on May 11 and May 12 in Bethesda’s Woodmont Triangle. Admission to the festival is free and free parking is available in the public parking garage on Auburn Avenue. The festival includes 130 booths of contemporary fine art and fine craft, live entertainment on the Del Ray [...]

The Long Branch Super Block Party today (May 11) from 2 to 5 p.m. celebrates the ten temporary sculptures on display at the Long Branch Library, 8800 Garland Ave., Silver Spring. Live music, kids activities/entertainers, an art exhibit and a sense of community will highlight the event. This free event celebrates the sculptures that are [...]

Mark your calendars for June 2nd and bring your appetite. That’s the date for the Taste of the World in Fenton Village festival. Here’s a preview: Visit our PEG partner County Cable Montgomery to view more of its local programming.

Folksinger Tom Paxton appears at BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown on May 11 at 8 p.m. Prolific singer/songwriter Tom Paxton won the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. Tickets are $39 – $42 and may be purchased by calling 301.528.2260 or online at BlackRock website. Take a look at Tom Paxton perform “Bottle [...]

Bela Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio performs a night of jazz May 10 at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda. Béla Fleck has been nominated in more Grammy categories than anyone in history, and has taken home 14 of the statuettes, wandering gleefully across genres and bringing [...]

The Friends of the Library, Montgomery County (FOLMC) is hosting an event on May 17 with U.S.  Inaugural Poet Richard Blanco at the Rockville Library. Take a look. Sponsors will be invited to attend a reception with Blanco starting at 6:30 p.m. If you would like to be a sponsor, please contact Ari Brooks at [...]

Montgomery College’s Parilla Performing Arts Center in Rockville presents ‘The Little Engine That Could Earns Her Whistle’ on May 11 at 11 a.m. This musical for grades K – 2 is based on the book, The Little Engine That Could by Watty Piper. Little Blue Engine dreams of someday leaving the train yard to pull [...]