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Arts & Culture

The Kids Are Alright: ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ Approaches Its 40th Anniversary

Filmed before a Judas Priest show at the Capital Centre in Landover in 1986, the 16-minute cult classic has been referred to as both the “seminal anthropological study of beer-swilling teenage metalheads” and “one of the greatest rock documentaries ever.”

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Arts District

A Month Before Woodstock, Led Zeppelin and The Guess Who Rocked the Laurel Pop Festival

Fifty years ago, music’s biggest names shared a stage in Laurel.

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Arts District

Led Zeppelin Played a Maryland Rec Center Gym on their 1969 Tour. Or Did They?

Documentary screening at Parkway Theatre probes show’s urban legend.