Archive for February, 2007

Silver Spring Scene News Round Up

By Silver Springer • Feb 6th, 2007 • Category: News Round Up

â–º Looks like the old design for the King Street art center was thrown out for a new and much better looking one (either that or I’m looking at the wrong side). Formally known as the Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Art Center, the former Giant bakery will house the School of Art + Design, [...]



Silver Spring Scene News Round Up

By Silver Springer • Feb 1st, 2007 • Category: News Round Up

â–º Add Oguchi Onyewu to the long list of famous people from Silver Spring, Maryland. The Nigerian born native nicknamed the “Gooch”, came over to the U.S. at an early age and grew up in Silver Spring. Onyewu defended the USA in the FIFA World Cup 2006. Recent headlines from Sports Illustrated reports Onyewu temporarily [...]



Convergences

By Silver Springer • Feb 1st, 2007 • Category: Arts, Food and Entertainment

Convergences:

Towards a Jewish/Muslim RenewalFeaturing the art and thought of Tunisian Muslim artist Karim Chaibi
and American Jewish artist Tom Block
February 9 – April 9, 2007
Opening reception Friday February 9, 6-8 PM
Jews and Muslims, Biblical cousins, enjoyed nearly a five hundred year golden era during the Middle Ages, when, circling the Mediterranean Sea, these two peoples built [...]