“Ides of March” (R) **** A few years ago the Contemporary American Theatre Festival in Shepherdstown premiered a new play called “Farragut North.” It was the runaway favorite of audiences there. For those who saw it, the movie version was much anticipated. The play crackled with political and personal tension. With drastic changes for...
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The Montgomery Playhouse opened a run of “Driving Miss Daisy,” the Alfred Uhry play from 1987, on Oct. 7 at the Gaithersburg Arts Barn in Kentlands. Opening night may excuse the slow scene changes and lighting cues, but several other elements need work as the run continues. The cast is badly unbalanced with a...
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Imagine walking 20 miles in the pouring rain for almost eight hours. Well, that’s exactly what Lakelands Drive resident Maureen Stiles did, along with approximately 2,500 others, on day one of the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure walk in Washington, D.C. Their 60-mile walk began on a soggy Friday. “It was challenging...
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Marti Horowitz always knew she wanted to be a designer. “I’ve been doing it forever. It’s always been my dream,” she said. Marti, who goes by her first name (pronounced Mar-tee), went to Parsons School of Design and design school in London. She has worked in retail and buying “everything you could think of,...
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The Help (PG-13) **** Yes, this is very much a chick flick in the sense that it will appeal primarily to the same audience that flocked to buy the book. It is a story of women, black and white, united by geography and tradition in Jackson, Mississippi, during the early civil rights era —...
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Li-Sann Mullings is the owner of the newly opened Wellspring Skin Care Clinic in Kentlands — but she’s certainly not new to the area. In fact, she’s been seeing some of her neighborhood clients for almost 20 years. Mullings has worked at numerous spas and salons in the Gaithersburg/Potomac area, including nine years as...
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UPDATED Lakelands resident Michele Wolf is an editor, a teacher, a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister and an award-winning, widely published poet. Not in that order. “Poet” is much closer to the top of the list. Wife and mother are up there too. Possibly the three stand together. I know that from...
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“Friends With Benefits” (R) **** There have been several near-miss rom-coms from Hollywood this past year, but this one, as the kids say, “nails it.” The reasons are simple: Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake. Kunis is terminally cute in every way — sitting, standing, reading lines in her throaty voice — and in this...
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The real craziness happened Friday at one minute past midnight when two of the 10 Kentlands Stadium theaters filled up, but we caught a smaller crowd at its more civilized debut Friday morning. Two Lakelands residents, Linda and Kathleen Redmond, went together and both enjoyed the experience, one perhaps more than the other. Kathleen,...
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“Winnie the Pooh” (G) **** From the first strains of the ultra-familiar theme song, this film grabs parents, and the kids follow soon after. The story is mostly original, as are the songs, but the spirit is the same. I dare you to watch this film while keeping a smile off your face. The...
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