January / February 2021

The eye guy

As a pediatric ophthalmologist for 17 years, Dr. G. Vike Vicente has dealt with...

Animal farm

At the end of Norwood Drive in Chevy Chase, in the middle of a...

Book report

Bethesda’s Rita Colwell, a microbiologist and distinguished professor at the University of Maryland and...

Weddings of the year

Home again A couple that met on a dating app exchanged vows in the bride’s...

Takeout takeaways

The last meal I ate inside a Bethesda restaurant was in early March 2020...

Fighting back

The party was, by all accounts, a blast. Kids plunged into foam pits. Moms...
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A change in plans

It’s 8 o’clock on a March morning in 2020 and I’m bracing for the...

To ski or not to ski

I’m at a ski resort, but I’m not skiing. Instead, I’m exploring the options...

Mask makers

Yong Lee couldn’t find masks at the store last spring, so she went online...

Bethesda interview: Kate Andersen Brower

On a cloudy afternoon in October, bestselling author Kate Andersen Brower was sitting on...

‘Why can’t it be me?’

In 1981, when C. Marie Taylor was 8 years old, financial problems forced her...

A place for everything

1. Neat and tidy Channel your inner Marie Kondo with a super orderly laundry room....
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Almost famous

It started with a bet. Last February, a few weeks before schools closed, Winston...

The reckoning

Khanya Dalton was a sophomore at Walt Whitman High School the first time she...

Best bets

Through Feb. 28 Let it snow Bethesda’s Imagination Stage presents its version of The Snow Queen,...

Table talk

Popping up Two food trucks, Pop-Up Poutine and Pop-Up Patisserie, are wheeling around Montgomery County...

‘Finding the water’

Shortly after graduating from college in 1998, Angela Willingham was volunteering at a retirement...

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