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26 Nov 2024

Native American Heritage: Greenbelt Cinema Shows Award-Winning Film Highlighting the Missing, Murdered

by Sandy Rodgers

On Sunday, November 17, Greenbelt Cinema held a special showing of Gomeo Bobelu: Lightning Unveiled for National Native American Heritage Month, attended by a small but engaged audience. The 68-minute film tells the story of a Zuni man whose extraordinary … Read More

11 Apr 2024

Most Greenbelters Stayed Home To View Near-Total Solar Eclipse

by Lesley Kash, Sandy Rodgers

Light clouds on Monday, April 8, mostly dissipated in time for eclipse watchers throughout Greenbelt to clearly view the first eclipse in the area since 2017. This partial solar eclipse – with the moon blocking 89 percent of the sun, … Read More

27 Jul 2023

Rare Weather Phenomenon Startles Greenbelt Woman

by Sandy Rodgers

Judy Parker was sitting quietly on her sofa reading in the living room of her GHI home on Ridge Road near Laurel Hill Road on Friday, June 30. Her Senegal parrot Nori was chattering in her cage nearby. It was … Read More

3 Nov 2022

Wild Rumpus Halloween Celebration a Roaring Success

by Sandy Rodgers

The Greenbelt Recreation Arts Program invited families and children of all ages to the first in-person Halloween celebration in Roosevelt Center since the pandemic on Friday, October 28. Attendees dressed in Halloween or cosplay costumes joined in the creative transformation … Read More

5 Sep 2019

GAC’s Musical, The Wild Party, Hits the Right Notes

by Sandy Rodgers

The Wild Party is a tour de force performance of acting, singing, dancing and orchestral music, that brings the decadent 1920s to life with exuberance, pathos and heart. A steamy prohibition tale, based on Joseph Moncure March’s 1928 narrative poem … Read More

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