July / August 2012 Archives

The Business of Love

Matchmaker Leora Hoffman 55, Bethesda Leora Hoffman Associates When Leora Hoffman started her business 23 years ago, personalized...

Meeting Their Match

Going…Going…Gone! Bill Frick was being auctioned as a charity “date” at Northwestern University in 1995...

Body of Work

It’s the last few minutes of a grueling, hourlong cycling class, and everyone is...

Judy Gross: Prisoner of Love

Judy Gross was enjoying life: gardening at her comfortable Fox Hills neighborhood home in...

Hearts & Homes for Youth Honors VIP Reception

Hearts & Homes for Youth hosted an Honors VIP reception at Food Wine &...

Greg Hourigan Fundraiser

Several hundred people turned out Aug. 9 for a fundraiser for Greg Hourigan, the...

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Pint’s and Pancakes

A few dozen dogs and people came out on Saturday, July 28 for a...

Jennifer Herndon and James Schneider

Bride and groom Jennifer Herndon, a first grade teacher with Montgomery County Public Schools, originally...

7th Annual HERA Climb4Life Metro DC

More than 90 people joined the HERA Women’s Cancer Foundation July 13-15 for the...

2012 DARCARS Rockville Rotary Twilight Runfest

Hundreds of runners braved the heat and rain on Saturday, July 21 for the...

The Dating Game: Round Two

“I Google them and then I run a case search.” The woman speaking is not...

Long and Foster agents host Washington Humane Society fundraiser

Long and Foster's Woodley Park and Chevy Chase offices raised over $5,000 for the...

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Pike & Rose Is Off and Running

Governor Martin O'Malley and other state and local officials were on hand Monday (July...

Bethesda Artist Market

Approximately 25 local and regional artists displayed their work at the Bethesda Artist Market...

The Stranger Asylum

Second place, Young Adult Short Story Contest The Stranger Asylum By Grace Chen Loose flakes of snow...

Poised for success

It’s usually easy to tell whether a new restaurant is going to make it....

The Lyme Labyrinth

On one of the waning days of summer in 2009, I experienced a wave...

Sex, Lies & Videotape

This is where love gone wrong leads: to a parking garage in Rockville, where...

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Sex in the Suburbs

They see each other no more than a few hours during the week. Usually...

Up on the Roof

Green Haven Linda Reinisch of Cabin John wasn’t planning on building a roof deck when...

12th Annual Autism Speaks 5K

Despite the storms, extreme heat and widespread power outages across the region, the 12th...

Alisia Golden and James Kleinmann

Bride and groom Alisia Golden, the events coordinator for the Matchbox Food Group, originally from...

Diamonds in the Rough

A Minor League Baseball game is quite possibly the best deal in sports. There,...

Man the Bunkers

I was in college in 1979 when The New Yorker published a cartoon depicting...

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Love’s Labor Lost

After 17 years of wedded bliss and three kids, I decided it was time...

A New Chapter

Second acts are seldom easy in this area, especially for people who have played...

Since You Asked: July-August 2012

What is the oldest restaurant in Bethesda? —A reader from Olney The Tastee Diner on Woodmont...

Winning Words

Family tensions in an Arab-American household. The dawning realization of gay love in Nazi...

Best of the Beaches

Best Place to Buy Wine Liquid Assets If the oversize wooden wine barrels on the retail...

Bay Watch

A vacation home should be different from a primary residence, and this cedar-clad, modernist...

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Cooking Class

Summer cooking should be uncomplicated and light. And that’s the beauty of cooking salmon tightly...

After the Glory

Thierry Humeau Whitewater Slalom Canoe, 1992 Dana Chladek Whitewater Slalom Kayak, 1992, 1996 Compared with some of Thierry...

Web Exclusive: From Here, Done That

A number of Olympians have connections to the Bethesda area, even if they’ve since...

Boytox

Don is a 63-year-old Gaithersburg resident with a secret: For the past decade, he...