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Improbable Comedy Brings Back Stand Up Silver Spring Shows
Improbable Comedy, a Silver Spring-based production company, will bring back the Stand Up Silver Spring show live for the first time since the pandemic, according to founder Kim Levone.
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Missing Child Located in New York CIty
Detectives from the county’s Special Investigations Division (SVID) have located one-year-old Ziona Amaya and her father, Cornelius Smith.
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Warwick Apartments on University Sold to Rockville Company
The Warwick Apartments at 1131 University Blvd. W, near the intersection with Sligo Creek Parkway, has been sold to Rockville-based Donaldson management company, according to the Washington Business Journal.
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Discovery, AT&T to Merge Media Assets
AT&T and Discovery Inc. today announced a deal to merge AT&T’s WarnerMedia unit with Discovery, creating a streaming giant including the HBO Max and Discovery+ properties.
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The Shell Shack Seafood Relocating to Silver Spring
The Shell Shack Seafood will be relocating to Silver Spring, according to a post on the outlet’s Instagram account. The Caribbean-infused seafood truck will be located near Millennium Salon at 920 Gist Avenue in the South Silver Spring neighborhood, opening on Saturday, May 1 at 12 p.m. The truck is relocating from the Savor Food…
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Takoma Park Businesses to Celebrate National Bubble Tea Day
Three businesses in Takoma Park will celebrate National Bubble Tea Day on Friday, April 30, according to an email from Main Street Takoma.
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Beteseb Named One of The Area’s Best Ethiopian Restaurants
Thrillist recently asked locals like Meseret Bekele, co-owner of Ethiopic Restaurant, and Elias Taddesse, chef-owner of Mélange who earned a Michelin star while at Caviar Russe in New York City, to help them curate a list of best Ethiopian restaurants in the area. Beteseb Restaurant in downtown Silver Spring was listed as a favorite.
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TPSS Co-op Becomes Maryland’s First Fair Food Sponsor
The Takoma Park Silver Spring Co-op (TPSS) has partnered with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to become the first in Maryland to support the award-winning Fair Food Program (FFP), a worker-driven human rights initiative ensuring basic protections for tens of thousands of farmworkers along the East Coast.
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Life in the Time of the Coronavirus: Voices from Silver Spring—Jason Wong
Editor’s note: This guest post and photo is from Jonna Huseman, who began the Voices project to document the lives of friends and neighbors in Silver Spring and Takoma Park and how they may have changed since the shelter in place order. It originally appeared on her blog, The Sligo Creek Photographer.