Prince George's Suite Destinations - May 2016

Destinations Suite

MAY 2016

Prince George’s

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Adam Sandler, Boyz II Men, All-4-One, Angie Stone, Kenny Chesney Faith Evans, Itzhak Perlman, Alejandro Escovedo, Stephanie Mills Salt N Pepa, Marvin Sapp, Daryl Hall & John Oates, Miranda Lambert The Afro-Cuban All Stars, Joe, Mya, Jodeci, Sweet Honey In The Rock Paul Taylor Dance Company, Mary Lou Williams Jazz Fest, and more!

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Destinations

Suite Prince George’s

MAY 2016

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1 Assassins Laurel Mill Playhouse Laurel, MD Thru May 22 Boxerfest: Subaru Shoot-Out & Show-Off Fed Ex Field Landover, MD Cowboy Junkies Birchmere Alexandria, VA

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Jared Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, MD

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Jeff Foxworthy & Larry the Cable Guy Royal Farms Arena Baltimore, MD “Less Is More” by Judith Kornett Montpelier Arts Center Laurel, MD Thru May 22 Morgan State University Choir Annual Spring Concert Morgan State University Murphy Fine Arts Center Baltimore, MD Remembering World War I Tribute Concert Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center College Park, MD UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED, IMAGES ARE PRESS PHOTOS

Romano Vineyard & Winery

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This Award Winning Winery Romano Vineyard and Winery is located south of Washington, D.C., in the scenic rural tier of Prince George's County, Maryland. Our family is committed to producing small lots of handcrafted wine from the grapes grown in our vineyard and those of carefully selected custom growers. We are proud to offer hand crafted award winning wines. No holiday meal or holiday gift is complete without wine from Romano’s.

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HELLYEAH With Escape the Fate, New Years Day, From Ashes To New Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, MD

Dr K’s Motown Revue OC Inlet Parking Lot Ocean City, MD

3 Bon Qui Qui in Concert with Group 1 Crew presented by Anjelah Johnson Warner Theatre Washington, DC Freddie Gibbs Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, MD Nashville DAR Constitution Hall Washington, DC Robby Krieger Band Birchmere Alexandria, VA 4 2016 National Finals of Poetry Out Loud Lisner Auditorium Washington, DC Filter Howard Theatre Washington, DC Santigold Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, MD The Washington Ballet: Bowie and Queen The Kennedy Center Washington, DC Thru May 15

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Dweezil Zappa Birchmere Alexandria, VA

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Megadeth The Fillmore Silver Spring Silver Spring, MD

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The Afro-Cuban All Stars Howard Theatre Washington, DC 6 29th Annual Evening of Comedy The Barns at Wolf Trap Vienna, VA Also May 7 Anthony Hamilton & Fantasia DAR Constitution Hall Washington, DC Also May 7 Buckberry Howard Theatre Washington, DC Bumper Jacksons Montpelier Arts Center Laurel, MD

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Enter Shikari With Hands Like Houses, White Noise Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, MD Jerry Jeff Walker Birchmere Alexandria, VA Also May 7 Make Someone Happy: A 60’s Cocktail Party Lisner Auditorium Washington, DC

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Make It Mama Stella’s

Italian & Greek specialties are served with wine & cocktails in a homey, old-school space with bar.

7918 Old Branch Ave, Clinton, MD 20735 (301) 868-3057 11:00 AM – 10:00 PM

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Ring Cycle: Twilight of the Gods The Kennedy Center Washington, DC Thru May 22 Spring Vendor Fair Romano Winery Brandywine, MD

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Annual Pops Concert Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center College Park, MD Bill O’Reilly and Dennis Miller: Who Wants To Be President EagleBank Arena Fairfax, VA

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BSO: A Celebration of Uncommon Women Strathmore North Bethesda, MD Capitol Pet Expo Show Place Arena Upper Marlboro, MD Collective Soul OC Inlet Parking Lot Ocean City, MD

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Flow Hip Hop & The Church With Al B Sure, Angie Stone, Peter Gunz & Flow Warner Theatre Washington, DC Also May 8

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Ladies Night R&B Super Jam With Jodeci, El Debarge, Faith Evans Blackstreet, 112, The Lox, Carl Thomas, more Verizon Center Washington, DC

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Lol Comedy Show Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Baltimore, MD

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Morgan State University Jazz Ensemble Annual Concert Morgan State University Murphy Fine Arts Center Baltimore, MD Mothers Day Tea Montpelier Mansion Laurel, MD Pop, Rock and Doo Woop Live!

Hippodrome at France-Merrick Performing Arts Center Baltimore, MD Reenactor Yard Sale Darnall’s Chance House Museum Upper Marlboro, MD Royal Comedy Tour Royal Farms Arena Baltimore, MD Sebastian Ingrosso Echostage Washington, DC Soul Generation featuring Cliff Perkins Harmony Hall Regional Center Fort Washington, MD 8 A Mother’s Day Celebration With Stephanie Mills, Marvin Sapp, Erica Campbell, Travis Green, Tasha Cobbs Royal Farms Arena Baltimore, MD GHOST with Pinkish Black Hippodrome at France-Merrick Performing Arts Center Baltimore, MD Mother’s Day Celebration Featuring Damien Escobar Howard Theatre Washington, DC Mother’s Day Tours Riversdale House Museum Riverdale Park, MD UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED, IMAGES ARE PRESS PHOTOS

Mother’s Day with Mother’s Finest Birchmere Alexandria, VA Moving Closer with Shafqat Amanat Ali and Rekha Bhardway DAR Constitution Hall Washington, DC

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A Day To Remember with State Champs, Guns Out At Sundown The Fillmore Silver Spring Silver Spring, MD Bowie High School Art Show Bowie Center for the Performing Arts Bowie, MD

9 Bring Me the Horizon The Fillmore Silver Spring Silver Spring, MD Chris Isaak Birchmere Alexandria, VA Also May 10 10 Babymetal The Fillmore Silver Spring Silver Spring, MD Washington Performing Arts presents Itzhak Perlman, violin and Emanuel Ax, piano The Kennedy Center Washington, DC 11

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Boyce Avenue The Fillmore Silver Spring Silver Spring, MD Buckethead Howard Theatre Washington, DC Iris Dement & Loudon Wainwright III Birchmere Alexandria, VA Otep Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, MD

DC’s Finest AKA The Doo Wop Cops Montpelier Arts Center Laurel, MD X Ambassadors with Robert DeLong, Sara Hartman Echostage Washington, DC 13 21st Annual Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival The Kennedy Center Washington, DC Also May 14 John Hiatt Weinberg Center Frederick, MD Mya Howard Theatre Washington, DC New Wrinkles Greenbelt Arts Center Greenbelt, MD Thru May 29 Rene Marie Montpelier Arts Center Laurel, MD Also May 14 The Art Is Murder with Rings of Saturn, Fit for an Autopsy, Dark Sermon Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, MD Walter Beasley Birchmere Alexandria, VA

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ZHU Echostage Washington, DC 14 Airstream Travel Trailer Show Marietta House Museum Glenn Dale, MD Billy Connolly Warner Theatre Washington, DC Celebrating the 1st Annual Go-Go New Music Day Featuring The Chuck Brown Band Howard Theatre Washington, DC CREDIT: EJ HERSOM/WIKIPEDIA Chillin’ While Colored: 19th-Century African American Places of Leisure Surratt House Museum Clinton, MD

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Cycle Through Aviation History College Park Aviation Museum College Park, MD CREDIT: RAYMOND FUDGE / WIKIPEDIA

Gary Taylor Birchmere Alexandria, VA

Gateway Arts District Open Studio Tour Brentwood Arts Exchange Brentwood, MD Health and Wellness Fair CREDIT: MOHEGAN SUN Fairland Sports & Aquatics Complex Laurel, MD I Love The 90’s With Salt N Pepa, Color Me Badd, Tone Loc, Coolio, Rob Base, All-4-One, Young MC Royal Farms Arena Baltimore, MD Marietta Food and Wine Festival Marietta Historic House Museum Glenn Dale, MD

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Middleway Music Studio Concert XII Murder Mystery Howard Theatre Bowie Community Theatre Washington, DC Wendy’s - 16400 Harbour Way Bowie, MD Prince George’s Book Festival 19 Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex Bloc Party Landover, MD Echostage Washington, DC Three Sassy Ladies featuring Brian Regan Warner Theatre Washington, DC Also May 20-21

Langley Park Day Langley Park Community Center Hyattsville, MD Sebastian Bach Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, MD

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Boyz II Men The Kennedy Center Washington, DC Also May 21

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Hard Working Americans With Todd Snider, Dave Schools, Neal Casal, Duane Trucks, more Birchmere Alexandria, VA

Ireland 100: Installation: The Ogham Wall The Kennedy Center Washington, DC Thru June 5

Herman’s Hermits featuring Peter Noone Howard Theatre Washington, DC

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The Color Run 145 National Plaza National Harbor, MD

Foundations of Punk Howard Theatre Washington, DC

Ottmar Liebert Birchmere Alexandria, VA

The Foreign Exchange Howard Theatre Washington, DC

The Avett Brothers EagleBank Arena Fairfax, VA

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Kenny Chesney Merriweather Post Pavilion Columbia, MD

Prince George’s County Green Summit Samuel Riggs IV Alumni Center University of Maryland College Park, MD

Sweet Honey In The Rock Birchmere Alexandria, VA

Brandy Clark Birchmere Alexandria, VA

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Marilyn Ashford-Brown Bowie Center for the Performing Arts Bowie, MD

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A TASTE OF

Sweetgrass New Carolina-Style Restaurant Adds Sweet Mix to Full Fun Destination Hotel

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f we learned anything from Ratatouille’s Remy (2007), it’s that great food cuts through all the mist. Through the nostrils and then onto the taste buds, great food—the right food—can take you back to mama’s kitchen under her apron strings and trying to steal a bite before dinner. It can take you back to that very moment.

If you’ve ever been there, it’s hard not to identify with iron-jawed Anton Ego, the harshest food critic ever who completely melts once he’s had a single bite of Remy’s signature but basic dish, ratatouille.

Such is the goal at the new Sweetgrass Restaurant located at the Colony South Hotel and Conference Center.

Catch a whiff of the Fried Green Tomato Jubilee as it’s headed from the kitchen to your neighbor’s table.

It’s a classic, crispy FGT, served on heirloom greens & topped with Applewood smoked pork belly, goat cheese sprinkles & honey balsamic glaze.

Then, on the other side of your table, you’d already eyed the Country Fried Softshell Crab as you get to

your own seat. It’s centered with cucumber salad & red onion and drizzled with aged maple chili sauce.

You can smell the Lowcountry Jambalaya placed before you. Your mouth waters, trade the fork for a spoon and you’re ready. Savory pan braised chicken, shrimp, spiced smoked sausage, onion, rice & beans.

“Those great dishes that mama used to make 30 years ago came from South Carolina origins,” says Sweetgrass Restaurant founder and owner Michael Chiaramonte. “It’s part of the culture of Southern Maryland. For people here, this is home food.” Born and raised in Prince George’s, Chiaramonte comes from a family of contribution and culture that helped shape the area. When then Southern Maryland Hospital Center, founded by Dr. Francis Chiaramonte, needed hotel accommodations for visiting physicians to the hospital, his remedy was simple: build a hotel on the hospital’s campus.

Since Colony South Hotel was built it provided much more than a rest space for road weary doctors.

It became a conference SWEETGRASS Page 12

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SWEETGRASS from page 11 center, restaurant and a nightspot as well.

In fact, Colony South Hotel and Conference Center has developed as a destination spot. There’s a 15 yard indoor swimming pool (open to drop-ins as well as guests) and Wednesday night karaoke at the Decoy Lounge (which hosts so much real talent it seems more like American Idol).

Decoy also hosts live music/DJ and dancing on Friday and Saturday nights: the music sizzles, the floor throbs.

And now Colony South includes Sweetgrass Restaurant, a new cutting edge atmosphere that blends rustic tradition with modern comfort and technology

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serving up authentic lowcountry dishes.

The outdoor patio includes a full bar, music, open flame pit and grill.

All combined, the venue is a guaranteed summer hotspot in southern Prince George’s. It’s one-stop play, party, dine, relax & recover---and repeat.

At the Feb. 24 grand opening, approx.

250 guests came to see and sample the new dishes and atmosphere at Sweetgrass.

Sunday brunch is also a favorite.

Sydney Harrison, Clerk of the Court for Prince George’s County was among several county leaders in attendance and support of the launch. “It’s a great venue for people to come and fellowship and

we always want new businesses to come to south county.”

It always comes down to a great experience. “First of all, I will be back,” said Lucy Young. Young considers herself a very careful consumer who doesn’t go back to eateries that don’t provide the best in service and atmosphere. Sweetgrass made the grade.

“I like the food and the atmosphere and the closeness,” she adds. “They make you feel that you’re a part of the atmosphere and whatever concerns you have, the wait staff deals with right away with a wonderful attitude. The food is delicious, too.”

WATER SPORTIN’

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ruisin’ across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge from the Virginia side to the Maryland side, your attention and eyes are instantly drawn to the shores and then maybe even to those boats docked over by the other attraction….

The Capital Wheel. We’ll come back to that ferris wheel in a bit.

The National Harbor Marina is fast becoming a stand out attraction, not only for those coming by boat, but there’s plenty for the landlubber as well. However, for the modern day Captain Jack, the National Harbor Marina boasts a 25 slip space for your convenience and they welcome you with plenty of amenities.

The National Harbor Marina is located on the Potomac River, on “Smoots Bay” as its historical location would be designated. The marina has a few surprises that make it a stand out and a spectacular get-away. Besides “Movies on the Potomac”, stunning water shows, festivals and events that call National Harbor home, there are fantastic restaurants

a few strides from the slips. You can enjoy oysters to guacamole, Americana to Hunan, casual to elegant, and everything in-between, including Bobbie McKee’s Dueling Piano Bar. Attractions such as The Carousel, Build-A-Bear Workshop, South Moon Under, and of course, the 180-foot high, year-round operating, climate-controlled Capital Wheel are all family friendly.

Have a desire to further explore and want to keep the big boat in the slip? Hop a water taxi to Old Town Alexandria, and enjoy history and additional dining choices. And Washington, D.C. is just minutes away.

By the sea, by the sea, by the glorious sea, whether you are one of the permanent residents here at the Harbor or just visiting for the day, the Dock Master Andrew Eichhorn and all of the Harbor crew are simply marvelous. They offer the usual staples and amenities for your stay on the water if you have run out or just need to stock up.

With the many varied menu of activities throughout the year, you will not run out of things to do or see. Come on down….by the sea!

AMENITIES • Floating docks with 48’ and 60’ slips with 5‘ wide, full length finger piers • Alongside floating dockage for up to 120’. Fixed pier can accommodate up to 200’.

• 125’ fuel dock, offering gasoline, diesel, and pumpout service • Electrical hook-ups for 30, 50, and 100 amp service • Cable television • Free wireless internet access at the Marina • Abundance of free private showers and free laundry facilities • Two 10,000sf platforms for corpo rate and private events 13

21 2016 Author’s Explosion Accokeek First Church of God Accokeek, MD DC On Tap Walter E. Washington Convention Center Washington, DC Delbert McClinton Birchmere Alexandria, VA Miranda Lambert with Kip Moore and Brothers Osborne Jiffy Lube Live Bristow, VA

Prince George’s Philharmonic Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center College Park, MD The Amazing Tour Is Not On Fire Warner Theatre Washington, DC

Scripps National Spelling Bee Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center National Harbor, MD Also May 26 Senior Health and Fitness Day Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex Landover, MD

Andy Black Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, MD BlaqCrown & The Family Howard Theatre Washington, DC

Trump vs Bernie: the Debate!

Starring James Adomian and Anthony Ataman The Fillmore Silver Spring Silver Spring, MD

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The Ebonys Harmony Hall Regional Center Fort Washington, MD

Youth Baseball Clinic Baysox Stadium Bowie, MD

Alejandro Escovedo Birchmere Alexandria, VA

Women’s Pro Football: DC Divas vs. Philadelphia Prince George’s Sports & Learning Complex Stadium Landover, MD

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Guys and Dolls Bowie Playhouse Bowie, MD Thru June 25

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Paul Taylor Dance Company The Kennedy Center Washington, DC Thru May 28

Adam Sandler EagleBank Arena Fairfax, VA

Berner Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, MD

Richard Marx Birchmere Alexandria, VA Saul Hernandez Howard Theatre Washington, DC

Hurley Feis 2016 Show Place Arena Upper Marlboro, MD

Daryl Hall & John Oates Jiffy Lube Live Bristow, VA

The Beyond!

Conference 2016 First Baptist Church of Glenarden Upper Marlboro, MD

Diane Schuur Birchmere Alexandria, VA

Justin Hayward Birchmere Alexandria, VA DC Gay Pride 2016 Howard Theatre Washington, DC

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Springtime Gospel Explosion Mt. Calvary Baptist Church Lanham, MD

Avatar Baltimore Soundstage Baltimore, MD

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Nootana presents Looking Glass Joe’s Movement Emporium Mount Rainier, MD

Around The World in 20 Years Children’s Chorus of Washington Lisner Auditorium Washington, DC

The Charlene Tour Starring Tweet Howard Theatre Washington, DC

National Memorial Day Choral Festival 2016 The Kennedy Center Washington, DC

The Monkees – Good Times: The 50th Anniversary Tour Warner Theatre Washington, DC 27

Joe Howard Theatre Washington, DC Rare Essence featuring Jas Funk Howard Theatre Washington, DC 28 Freddie Jackson Birchmere Alexandria, VA

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