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Regal holiday treat

Since it's getting a little too cold for kids to play outside, Regal Entertainment wants to treat children and their families to a free movie (or five).

For five consecutive Saturdays, starting this Saturday, the Snowden Square Stadium 14 and Bel Air Stadium 14 movie theaters will offer a free showing of a holiday movie at 10 a.m. The movies are rated either G or PG, and include The Grinch, Peter Pan, Home Alone, Miracle on 34th Street, Jimmy Neutron, Rugrats and others. Because seating is limited, patrons will be seated on a first-come, first-served basis.

Regal Entertainment's Free Family Flicks series starts at 10 a.m. Saturday and continues Saturdays through Dec. 18 at Snowden Square Stadium 14 (9161 Commerce Center Drive in Columbia. Call 410-872-0676.) and Bel Air Stadium 14 (409 Constant Friendship Blvd. in Abingdon. Call 410-569-8249).

Storytelling fest

In the age of video games and television, the age-old art of storytelling continues to thrive through events such as Saturday's Tellaboration! Held at Woodbrook Baptist Church, Tellaboration! has about 12 local storytellers performing for children and adults at separate times. They will tell stories for the family from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and stories for adults (attentive children are encouraged to stay) from 8:30 p.m to 11 p.m.

The Baltimore Folk Music Society hosts Tellaboration! 7 p.m.-11 p.m. Saturday at Woodbrook Baptist Church, 25 Stevenson Lane in Towson (three miles south of Beltway exit 25 south). Admission is $5 for children, $7 for BFMS adult members, $9 for nonmember adults, $16 for BFMS member families and $20 for nonmember families. Call 410-366-0808 or visit www.bfms.org.

Get caught in her web

"What a pig!"

Fans -- both children and grown-ups -- of Charlotte's Web can see the real-people version at Imagination Stage in Bethesda, which begins previews on Wednesday, opens Dec. 4 and runs through Jan. 9. Based on E.B. White's novel, Charlotte's Web is about a pig saved from the farmer's ax by a series of clever words woven by a spider into her web. The show is about 90 minutes in length.

Imagination Stage (formerly the Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts) presents "Charlotte's Web" starting with previews on Wednesday, opens on Dec. 4 and runs through Jan. 9. The performance schedule is 3:30 p.m. Saturdays and 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $10-$15. The theater is at 4908 Auburn Ave. in Bethesda. Call 301-280-1660 or visit www.imaginationstage.org.

-- Sam Sessa