2022 Summer Fun Guide
By Rachel Kohn
The trees are an explosion of green, the flowers are blooming, and school is almost out: all signs that summer is nigh...
Melissa Mollet leaves the traffic behind
Born in Gaithersburg when it was “a slower version of what it is now,” Melissa Mollet is known as morning traffic reporter on NBC4....
Carving Colin and the Brookside chainsaw commission
Countless people find themselves in jobs they don’t love. Olney resident Colin Vale was one of them. Early in his career as a computer...
Round House Theatre’s National Capital New Play Festival runs through May 8.
Beloved for producing works of the American canon, in recent years Round House Theatre artistic director Ryan Rilette has been on a quest for...
Art of Transformation: From spoons to something special, from clergy to creative artist
One day, remembering a college friend who sometimes bent cafeteria forks into crude bracelets, Doug Heifetz picked up a fork and gave it a...
Will the Cider Barrel ever reopen?
While hard cider has become a popular drink in recent times, the most famous soft cider spot in the county is dry and getting...
The price of isolation
By Ellen Braunstein
As the pandemic wears on, the emotional challenges are sending more people to mental health specialists than ever before, clinicians say.
Area therapists...
Round House Theatre’s National Capital New Play Festival runs April 5 through May 8
Beloved for producing works of the American canon, in recent years Round House Theatre artistic director Ryan Rilette has been on a quest for...
Steven and Susan Saidman were avid doll collectors for years. Now it’s time to...
Story by Barbara Trainin Blank
Photos by David Stuck
Steven and Susan Saidman were in New York in 2003, sitting in the waiting room of Kleinfelds,...
Donuts for Dinner covers the classics
Photos by David Stuck
Oct. 17, 2020, was an unusually auspicious Saturday for a picnic and live music. In the afternoon, the parking lot at...