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Meeting attendees aren't the only ones getting all the perks. The Hotel at The University of Maryland has an incentive for meeting and conference planners who book an event by October 31, 2021, and host an event by June 30, 2022. They are offering everything from audio/visual discounts to room upgrades to make your event as perfect as possible! Contact their sales team to learn more and to start planning your event today!

Travel the world of arts as students, faculty, and artists present a new season of exciting virtual and in-person events. This year’s lineup includes: the Afro-Cuban All Stars, Collage Dance Collective, Heritage Film Festival, SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, A Raisin in the Sun, Kyung Hee Park and Friends, student art exhibitions, faculty jazz concerts, and a student production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. For information and to register for either in-person or virtual events, visit pgcc.edu/arts.

Muralist and Artist Cita Sadeli Gives Artistic Touch to Mt. Rainier Branch Library

Known as Miss Chelove, Sadeli has been working on a series of interior murals inside the Mt. Rainer branch public library, which recently reopened. It's a perfect backdrop for reading your next book!

St. Crispy’s in Brentwood, MD made a list of new D.C. brunch spots recommended by Washingtonian magazine as the latest spot at Brentwood’s food hall to be recognized by D.C. media. Started by the restaurateur behind the former Bird Kitchen, the fried chicken spot in the miXt food hall at 3809 Rhode Island Ave. blends French cooking techniques with Southern cooking.

Located in Upper Marlboro, Owl’s Nest Farm grows organic produce such as squash, eggplant, cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers and kale as well as spices including basil and garlic. It sells its produce to D.C.-area farmers markets, various restaurants and through CSA shares which you sign up for to pick-up locally.

Add the Holiday Inn Greenbelt to your Friday Night Calendar! That's right, Friday night summers from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Willy K's will be grilling hot dogs, hamburgers & shrimp poolside on the patio. Come enjoy a refreshing night out.

The Fair Lakes developer is advancing long-held plans to deliver additional mixed-use space to the east of National Harbor's downtown core and on properties immediately adjacent to MGM National Harbor.

Dr. Aminta H. Breaux has been president of Bowie State University, one of the state’s historically black universities, since July 2017. Last year, she faced the daunting challenge of running an institution of higher learning during a pandemic.

Baltimore street artist Nether is painting a new mural at The Hall CP. He has done more than 100 murals primarily around the Baltimore area and is using spray paint and paint sprayers to create a mural of wildlife and native plants on the sides of the steel shipping containers that line the exterior of the College Park food hall and music venue.

A new pop-up park in Hyattsville’s Arts District called “The Spot”, which will hold its first outdoor community event at the end of this month, will soon feature one of the Route 1 corridor’s first Black Lives Matter murals.

The mural, which will be visible from the south end of the Rhode Island Avenue Trolley Trail near the Franklins underpass, and will be painted by Isak Shah, a painter and illustrator who manages Artist & Craftsman Supply in Hyattsville, and illustrator Darren Soto.