Small Town Guy
Sidney Katz, former mayor of Gaithersburg, current member of the Montgomery County Council, was born in Gaithersburg when it was largely rural. Now 72,...
Cartoonist Leila Cabib’s craft is to tell a joke without using words
The cartoonist’s job entails more than just eliciting a chuckle at a humorous punchline. The best cartoonists are not only — or merely —...
Silver Spring is the epicenter of a thriving Ethiopian diaspora
On most mornings you’ll find Abeba Tsegaye behind the counter at Kefa Café on Bonifant Street, serving a local clientele. After college in Ohio,...
Erika Alexander: Marriott’s chief global officer
Having worked for Marriott International for 33 years, Erika Alexander, the hospitality company’s chief global officer, Global Operations, has been with the company for...
Montgomery County plugs in its EV future
On Earth Day weekend, Brookside Gardens hosted its largest GreenFest ever, attracting more than 5,000 people to Montgomery County’s 7th annual environmental festival, a...
Games Without Frontiers
Story and photos by Susan C. Ingram
The tidy, unassuming midcentury split-level on a gently winding lane in Kemp Mill Estates sold last spring, the...
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...