The Smithsonian Asian-Latino Festival 2013 will come to Silver Spring on August 6 and 7 with a pop-up art museum. Art work of Asian and Latino artists will be projected on the surfaces of Veterans Plaza from 8 – 10 p.m. each night. The site was chosen as an urban landscape fundamentally shaped by immigration […]
Covering the Nighttime Economy Initiative
I have been covering the county’s initiative on boosting the nighttime economy for the past two months. To get a feel for what the issue was about, I decided to spend a few hours in downtown Silver Spring on a Friday night with my family. It’s something I enjoy doing on a regular basis. I have noticed a large increase […]
Veterans Reunion in Silver Spring (Video)
Vietnam veteran Max Cleland, current secretary of the American Battle Monuments Commission and former administrator of the U.S. Veterans Administration gave the keynote presentation at the Vietnam Veterans Reunion on April 22 at Veterans Plaza in downtown Silver Spring. Cleland was a U.S. senator from Georgia from 1996 to 2002. The event was hosted by […]
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