Weekend to Weekend 4/24/08

Events In Rockville

Thursday, April 24

Martinis & Matisse, VisArts at Rockville, 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM. Music from On Thin Ice. Have a Saki-tini while enjoying the exhibit Kimonos & Woodcut Collaboration. Make a Japanese-influenced charm and take home the martini glass. Tickets are $10 at the door. Cash bar.

Meet the Author: Susan Coll, Rockville Library, 7 PM. Susan Coll was a guest on our first radio show! She even read from her second novel, Rockville Pike. She’s a local author and will discuss all her novels including Acceptance and Karlmarx.com. A book sale and signing will follow. Her novels speak to our life here in the suburbs and enthusiastic discussion always ensues!

Nelly’s Echo Acoustic, Austin Grill Rockville, 8:30 PM. Nelson Emokpae is invited to come on down from Baltimore to play solo every month because everybody’s enjoying the music! It’s not “Just a Dream”!

Friday, April 25

Arbor Day Celebration, College Gardens Elementary School, 1:30 PM. Everyone is welcome to hear the Mayor and Council read a proclamation at this tree planting ceremony. For the 19th consecutive year, Rockville is named a Tree City USA.

A Celtic Celebration, F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 8 PM. Adults $15, Seniors/Students $13. What a wonderful chance to enjoy the Celtic spirit performed by DC’s award winning Celtic musicians. America’s premier hammered dulcimer player Maggie Sansone, is joined by Rob Greenway (Irish flute & guitar), Andrea Hoag (fiddle), Matt Bell (percussion), Paul Oorts (guitar, mandolin, musette accordion) and four-time Scottish harp champion and Rockville resident, Sue Richards. They’ll be joined by the Teelin School of Irish Dance.

20 for 7, Austin Grill Rockville, 9:30 PM. They dare anyone to pigeonhole their sound and they look a little scary so I’m not gonna try (only partially kidding). They hail from Baltimore, write their songs on the fly, and pound away at their sound.

Saturday, April 26

Maryvale’s Spring Fling, Maryvale Elementary School, 11 AM – 3:30 PM. Rain or shine. No admission but you’ll have to pay for the carnival games, Turbo Tubs of Fun Ride, Trackless Train, a moonbounce, and pony rides (12:30-3 PM). Pizza, salads, subs, & Carmen’s Italian ice for sale, plus a silent auction. They’ll also be free things like fire safety, kid’s fingerprinting, and McGruff the Crime Dog! You will not want to miss the student bands!! Middle school bands: Medow & 32 Below, along with elementary stars from Olney: Crash. This is not your ordinary school event and everyone is invited!!

Earth Day Celebration, Parking Lot at 850 Hungerford Drive, 11 AM – 3 PM. The MoCo Division of Solid Waste Services invites everyone to celebrate. My family went last year and had the best time. We took the bus to the award-winning recycling center. I ALWAYS wanted to go into the recycling center! It’s loud. There are belts every which way. But atlas, our recycling from the City does not go to this facility. Make earth-friendly crafts, bring confidential paper for off-site shredding, and get rid of household electronics for recycling (cell phones, digital cameras, VCRs, stereos, & telephones). Discover environmentally friendly home materials and landscaping options. I know it’s in a parking lot but it’s fun!

Spring Festival, Croydon Creek Nature, Center 1 PM – 4 PM. Celebrate the 6th Anniversary of the Nature Center. Native plant sale, nature games, crafts, raptors, and woodland hikes for the whole family.

Konark Dance School and MKK-USA, Inc., F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 3 PM. $20 adults, $15 seniors, $10 students, & children under 7 free. Professional dancers from India and Konark’s Panine-Ganguly present classical Indian dance.

Ty Braddock, Austin Grill Rockville, 9:00 PM. He’s DC’s “Mr. Honky Tonk” and he’s back to play for us here in Rockville.

Sunday, April 27

Rockville Science Day, Montgomery College – Rockville Campus, 12 noon – 5 PM. Free parking and admission. Our family has been going since the pre-school years. Something for adults and kids because there are rockets, reptiles, robots, gems, scientists, engineers, shuttle simulator, and hands-on experiments of all kinds. Every year there is something new. The Discover Genomics bus is very popular so line up early. (Last year we tried 3 times and I gave my spot to a kid so she could see the DNA demonstration.) The Rockville Kiwanis are selling hot dogs so come hungry!

Monday, April 28

Beall Elementary School Fundraiser by The West End, Austin Grill Rockville, 5 PM – closing Say you’re there for Beall and part of your dinner tab will go toward the 2nd Annual Beall Anthology. Best of all, The West End will be playing at 6:30 PM and 7:30 PM. Bring the whole family!

Thursday, May 1

Registration Deadline. If you live in East Rockville, this is the last day to register the address of your Yard Sale for the East Rockville Civic Association’s “Authentic Trea$ures & Tra$h Neighborhood Yard Sale to be held on Saturday, May 17th from 8 AM – 1 PM. Email chas_hausheer@hotmail.com

Twinbrook: The Quintessential Postwar American Suburb, Twinbrook Library, 7:30 PM – 8:45 PM. Graduate students from George Washington University will explain about the developer Joseph Geeraert, the design/remodeling/landscaping of the houses, and the people who bought them. Twinbrook was the largest suburb built in Rockville right after WWII.

Friday, May 2

Family Fun Night, Welsh Park, 3 PM – 10 PM. An extreme time is planned for the Rockville Sk8Park with a family movie, free skateboarding, extreme demos, and a moon bounce. (Located behind the Swim Center.) Free but donations are appreciated. Food & beverages for sale. All proceeds support the Rockville Recreation Fund.

Rockville Rooftop Terrace Grand Opening, VisArts Arts and Innovations Center, 5 PM – 8 PM with ribbon cutting at 5:30 PM. The Mayor and Council invite you to celebrate by taking yourself to the top of Town Center. This is the also the first of the “First Fridays Deck Parties” that the City sponsors each month during the warmer weather. Thanks to sponsor Gordon Biersch for sending me the band lineup for the summer. I am SO excited! We’re going to start with Sons of Pirates this month and I’m going to ALL of them!

All My Sons by Rockville Little Theatre, F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 8 PM. $16/adults, $14/seniors & students. Arthur Miller play which opened on Broadway in 1947 and was eventually made into a film and TV movie. Based on a true story of a woman who informed on her father for selling faulty parts to the US during WWII.

Saturday, May 3

Annual Spring Bazaar and Yard Sale, Rockville Senior Center, 9 AM – 2 PM. More than 30 vendors. Low-cost items, crafts, plants, computers and homemade treats to eat. All proceeds benefit the nonprofit organization which supports the Senior Center. Don’t forget to get the raffle tickets because the prize is good, old fashioned cash – 1st $500, 2nd $250, and also themed gift baskets.

Community Yard Sale, Welsh Park, 9 AM – Noon. You can stop by both Sales! Shop and support the Rockville Recreation Fund.

Cinco de Mayo Fest, Austin Grill Rockville, 11 AM ‘til late. Music on the indoor and OUTDOOR stages. Take the kids to a big Tex-Mex brunch with upbeat kid’s music from 11-noon. Then the outdoor stage starts up the rock, alt-country & pop with The Guzzlers, Justin Trawick Group, Everyone But Pete, and Justin Jones & the Driving Rain. At 9:30 PM J.B. Beverley & the Wayward Drifters play back inside. AN ALL DAY LINEUP! These people know how to throw a party!

All My Sons by Rockville Little Theatre, F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 8 PM. $16/adults, $14/seniors & students. Arthur Miller play which opened on Broadway in 1947 and was eventually made into a film and TV movie. Based on a true story of a woman who informed on her father for selling faulty parts to the US during WWII.

Sunday, May 4

All My Sons by Rockville Little Theatre, F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, 2 PM. $16/adults, $14/seniors & students. Arthur Miller play which opened on Broadway in 1947 and was eventually made into a film and TV movie. Based on a true story of a woman who informed on her father for selling faulty parts to the US during WWII.

Recuperate. Can you believe how many things there are to do in Rockville?!! Everybody must be going to at least one, right?

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