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Retail giant T.J.Maxx is opening a brand new store in Silver Spring on Nov. 11th at Ellsworth Place. The grand opening will take place from 8:30 a.m. until 9:30 p.m., when customers will be able to explore the 24,000 square feet space. According to a news release, the store will have  an easy to shop layout and […]

Officials from Montgomery Parks, the Montgomery County Planning Department and Montgomery County Department of Transportation, are inviting residents to celebrate PARK(ing) Day on Sept. 18 by converting a parking space in downtown Silver Spring into a temporary pop-up parklet. The pop-up park, according to a news release, will feature plants, seating, and the bean bag toss game: […]

About three dozen restaurants in Silver Spring are joining together from Sept. 8 – 13 to start a new tradition, Silver Spring Restaurant Week. Participating restaurants will offer special lunch and dinner fixed-price menus throughout the week to encourage residents from around Montgomery County to discover some of the area’s best dining establishments. Susan Kenedy reports. […]

Commuters may see bus activity at the new Paul Sarbanes Transit Center in Silver Spring this week. Starting Monday drivers are training for the new multi-level, multi-modal, public transit complex that will link Metrorail, Marc trains and Metro and RideOn buses. No word yet on when the center will open. However, a new controversy is brewing […]

Jerry McCoy is a Silver Spring resident. He is also known in the community as the founder of the Silver Spring Historical Society– a nonprofit that promotes awareness and protects historic sites, archives and structures related to downtown Silver Spring and close neighborhoods. McCoy and his wife moved to Silver Spring in 1992. He said […]

The 2015 Silver Spring Summer Concert Series, presented by the Montgomery County Department of Recreation, will kick off on Thursday, June 18 at 7 p.m. on Veterans Plaza at the Silver Spring Civic Building at Ellsworth Drive and Fenton Street. The free, outdoor concerts, featuring a wide range of music and musicians for the whole […]

Most pop-up museums are pretty straightforward. They are short-term institutions in temporary spaces. The Smithsonian Asian-Latino Festival 2013 held its final event, a pop-up museum called  “Intersections As American Life,” at the literal intersection of Fenton Street and Ellsworth Drive in downtown Silver Spring. My neighbor Fran Rothstein invited me to pop in with her […]

The fourth annual Silver Spring Blues Festival attracted thousands of people to downtown Silver Spring. Part 5 of our Maxi Series on the Fourth Annual Silver Spring Blues Festival showcases Clarence “The Blues Man” Turner. This program will premier on Channel 21 on Saturday, September 15th at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. MCM’s Sonya Burke […]