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He is one of about 160,000 students enrolled in MCPS, the 14th-largest school system in the nation. As the MCPS website reminds us, these students hail from more than 150 countries and speak 115 languages. Nearly every one of them is, or per haps has outgrown being, someone’s cuddle nugget.

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We can control only what we can control. We can do our level best to improve and influence the system. Can we pro tect our children? The answer appears to be: somewhat. And as I turn out the light in Thomas’ room and kiss his cheek, that doesn’t feel satisfactory.

We want these kids, our kids, to grow up to be ethical, car ing, curious and ready to improve the world that awaits them. We want their learning environment to be physically safe and secure; emotionally welcoming and supportive; and intellec tually stimulating and rigorous.

relationships with a “trusted adult” at school. That person could take the form of a social worker, a teacher, an adviser or—and this is where opinions differ—a police officer.

That night, we are chatting as he changes into mismatched pajamas (how he often prefers them). He smiles, and in his face I glimpse an impish 20-something he may become. This is new, too.

He is sitting in the toddler bed he’s about to outgrow, read ing Shark Lady, the biography of scientist Eugenie Clark. He points out the sexism she suffered while getting an education, and this offends him. This is new, too. I like this budding sen sitivity to equality and injustice.

Caralee’s story centers on MCPS. But similar concerns about safety apply in local private schools, too. In April, a heavily armed, 23-year-old sniper opened fire near the Edmund Burke School in Washington, D.C.’s Van Ness neighborhood, injuring a 12-year-old girl, two women and a school security guard, as well as destroying a glass-enclosed walkway on the campus. The suspect, an alumnus of Wheaton High School, then fatally shot himself, according to police.

He is still the boy I gave birth to five years ago, and yet he is undergoing uncountable changes all the time, often impercep tible at first. They are accumulating, and somehow he is ready for kindergarten. As this issue hits mailboxes and newsstands, this cuddle nugget will be a proud new pupil in the Montgom ery County Public Schools system.

I AM DRIVING MY son home during one of his final weeks at “junior kindergarten” preschool, and I notice for the first time that Thomas’ knees form a perfect right angle at the edge of his car seat. This is new. He has grown. Again.

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Lying behind an unassuming gate off Glen Road, Glenstone presents nearly 300 acres of landscape integrated with architecture and art. On the property you’ll find the Gallery, which hosts changing exhibitions and overlooks a pond. The Pavilions feature 50,000 square feet of exhibition space in rooms linked by glass-enclosed passages where visitors can see an 18,000-square-foot water court. Outdoor sculptures are scattered

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FOUR STEEL CYLINDRICAL FORMS stand tall in a new long-term installation at Glenstone, the private contemporary art museum that opened in Potomac in 2006 and debuted expanded offerings in 2018. The mammoth pieces in renowned sculptor Richard Serra’s Four Rounds: Equal Weight, Unequal Measure each weigh 82 tons and range from 45 inches to 120 inches tall, with diameters from 78 inches to 127 inches. Daylight passes through skylights to illuminate Four Rounds in a new 4,000-square-foot concrete building by Thomas Phifer designed to house the exhibit.

throughout the grounds. Nature permeates the experi ence through paths, trails, streams, meadows and for ests. Strategically placed benches orient visitors toward greenery so they stop to observe their surroundings.

Glenstone is open Thursday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. Reserve tickets online; see the website for details on guaranteed entry programs for bus riders, students, active-duty military members and museum professionals. 12100 Glen Road, Potomac, 301-983-5001, glenstone.org n

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WANDER THROUGH REVEL GROVE, home of the Maryland Renaissance Festival, and you’ll encounter kings, queens, knights, pirates and fairies. Known for its costumed performers and attendees—as well as its medieval culinary offerings, like giant turkey legs and mugs of ale—the annual festival takes place in Annapolis on a 27-acre site designed to look like an English village circa 1536, during the rule of King Henry VIII. Visitors can roam the paths and interact with performers portraying villagers and royalty, along with jugglers, magicians, mimes and other street performers. Buildings are designed in the traditional Tudor style and feature craft shops, taverns, armor and weapon displays, and artisan dem onstrations, such as leather working and knitting.

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A 3,000-seat jousting arena hosts matches, as well as chariot races, equestrian shows and falconry demonstra tions. Plays, storytellers, puppet shows and singalongs can be found at outdoor theaters. Pick up a program highlighting shows for young kids (pre-K to third grade) from the guest ser vices pavilion. For those who want an even more immersive experience, costumes are available for rent on a first-come, first-served basis ($10-$30), or revelers can bring their own.

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Artists, dance troupes, bands, local businesses and community leaders come together to strut down Georgia Avenue for the Wheaton Arts Parade, which also includes nearly a dozen large-scale creative floats, such as a tree made of plastic and a re-creation of Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam,” this one depicting Adam posing for a smartphone selfie. The parade culminates in a festival featuring art for sale, food and beverages from local restaurants and breweries, and three stages of entertainment, including live music, dance and theatrical performances.

Start time 6:45 a.m., $100, starting line at Metro overpass, corner of Redland Road and Sommerville Drive, Rockville, parkshalfmarathon.com

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3-10 p.m.; admission is $20 for adults, $8 for ages 6-17 in advance, or $30 for adults, $15 for ages 6-17 at the gate, free for ages 5 and younger; Montgomery County Agricultural Fairgrounds, Gaithersburg, balloonshows.com

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With its unique course through county parkland along the Rock Creek stream valley, the Parks Half Marathon is a favorite among casual and competitive runners. The 13.1-mile course starts near the Shady Grove Metro station, winds through Aspen Hill, Dewey, Ken-Gar Palisades and Rock Creek parks, and ends at Beach Drive near the Grosvenor Metro station. The run is known for its relaxed and friendly vibes. The race is followed by a finisher’s festival with food and activities for participants. It is open to runners ages 13 and older.

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You can float nearly 100 feet above the ground in a hot air balloon at the DC Hot Air Balloon Festival. About a dozen balloons—both traditional and special shapes, such as cartoon characters—will be on display at the event. Rides ($25 per person) are in balloons tethered to vehicles on the ground. Other festival highlights include live music and DJs, craft and retail vendors, festivalstyle food vendors and children’s activities ($1-$10), such as rides, games, bounce houses, rock-climbing walls and a zip line. Each night of the festival features a balloon glow and laser light show set to music (8 p.m.).

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Montgomery County is home to a growing number of breweries, a few located in Rockville. The city celebrates local beer-makers with its German-accented fall festival Rocktobierfest. Like the traditional Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany, Rocktobierfest will feature a beer garden with drinks for sale from local breweries. Stick around for live entertainment—including traditional German music and rock bands—food vendors, an artisans market and activities for kids.

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Part escape room, part cosplay event, the CluedUpp Games Alice in Wonderland experience is an interactive event set to take place on the streets of Gaithersburg. To play, teams use a smartphone app that directs them to different locations to solve riddles, find clues and rescue Alice. The exact location is revealed to ticket holders two weeks before the event. Teams—which are encouraged to dress in costumes—can include up to six adults; a minimum of two adults are required to play.

Children play for free and aren’t counted among team members. The event lasts two to three hours; you go at your own pace. Teams can win prizes for best dressed and other categories.

11 a.m. to 4 p.m., free, Norfolk, Cordell, Del Ray, St. Elmo and Auburn avenues, Bethesda, bethesda.org

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In the play Dance Nation, the stakes are high for the middle school dance team at the center of the story. As the squad prepares for a national competition, its members deal with their hopes, fears, talents and inadequacies. But the play, which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, travels to some poignant and surreal territory as adult actors of various ages portray the 13-year-olds who make up the team, offering a glimpse of the people the adolescents will grow up to be. The show is best for adults; it would be rated R if it were a movie, according to the theater’s website.

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Haven’t had a chance to check out some of the exciting restaurants that have opened in Bethesda in recent months? You can sample bites from new spots, as well as revisit old favorites, at the Taste of Bethesda. The food festival was canceled the last two years due to the pandemic, but it returns this fall with a roster of nearly 50 restaurants. The event also features five stages of live music and entertainment, as well as an activity area for kids and families. Admission is free; food tickets are available for purchase.

Start time between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m., $80 per team, cluedupp.com/products/alice-gaithersburg

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Darnell Patrick Morris hangs at Ovations Theatre.

Productions aren’t always such solo affairs, but Morris does wear a multi tude of hats at the 6-year-old theater. “I’m very opinionated,” he says. “I have definite ideas and don’t mind the hard work in getting things done.”

show chaos,” Morris, 35, says later that morning with his staccato laugh. “At least I got four hours of sleep.”

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AT 5 A.M. ON THE day of Ovations Theatre’s dress rehearsal for its late April production of Seussical Jr., Darnell Patrick Morris crawled onto a futon in his office at the Gaithersburg youth the ater. Morris, Ovations’ founder and pro ducing artistic director, didn’t dream of driving home to Silver Spring to sleep with so much left to do. He had spent the night hanging lights and painting sets in hot pink and lime-yellow hues for the musical based on stories by Dr. Seuss.

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Past productions include Matilda,

For this show, he had created the sets, sewn the costumes, and rehearsed and directed the actors. “It’s the usual pre-

Rent, Hair, Cabaret, Spring Awaken ing and Ragtime . “Young people are way more aware of who they are and what’s going on in the world,” Morris says. “We’re not your typical youth the ater doing kids shows. As a queer black man, I like to have my voice heard. Our mission is to engage and inspire kids to have their voices heard, too.”

That night had been preceded by long days of technical rehearsals at the 40-seat theater. The usual problems associated with a small staff had to be solved: The lighting designer couldn’t finish the job, so Morris had to step in. Costumes weren’t done. Morris’ phone was blowing up with texts from actors.

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The for-profit theater, which Morris financed himself, offers acting instruction to students in grades three through 12, plus summer programs for college students. Before the pandemic, the Ova tions programs provided instruction for about 250 students. Now, about 150 stu dents are taking classes and participating in shows, Morris says. Casts for musicals are divided between the theater’s junior company that serves students in grades three through eight and the senior com pany for grades nine through 12.

Yasmin Ranz-Lind, 22, recalls act ing in seven Ovations productions and working as a production assistant on another show during her junior and senior years at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. “I would not be where I am today without Darnell and Ova tions,” says Ranz-Lind, who is pursu ing a career in drama in New York City after graduating in May from Syracuse University. “Darnell taught us tech niques like breaking down a song or script that I didn’t get until college. He took a chance on me and trusted me with big Ovationsroles.”isthe cul

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mination of Morris’ love of drama, a passion initially nurtured by his first grade teacher, Sha ron Thorne. Her stu dents at Waters Land ing Elementary School in Germantown were encouraged to express themselves creatively, he says. When he was in third grade, he founded a recess drama club that produced three plays each school year, all musicals he’d writ ten. “Our teachers were very supportive— we performed for the whole grade, not just our class,” Morris says. Morris received his first formal training at

Ovations is in a warehouse on Indus trial Drive in Gaithersburg that Morris and his friends transformed into a black box rehearsal and performance area, with a lobby named for heroic aboli tionist Harriet Tubman. Framed biographies of artists such as Cicely Tyson and Karen Olivo are posted on the walls.

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“Young people are way more aware of who they are and what’s going on in the world,”

“We’ve built a theater community,” Morris says. “Once you’re in a show with us, you’re connected for life.” n

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Bound for Broadway, a Rockville youth theater program that’s no longer active. Raised in Germantown in a Christian and Jewish home, he graduated from Tree of Life, a private Christian high school for merly located in Gaithersburg. He then studied acting and theater arts at Mont gomery College. Estranged from his par ents and distant from his four younger siblings, Morris considers the theater community to be his family.

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and now serves as Ovations’ managing director. The theater’s four-person staff is often supplemented by guest choreog raphers, directors, set designers and cos tumers—many with Helen Hayes Awards and Broadway credits. “We’re trying to grow fully rounded performers and expose them to great talent,” Morris says.

“ This is one of my dreams, just to help. I want to give back,” Ajay Jalloh says.

“Ajay is not only a hero to the chil dren who come to his truck to get ice cream, he’s also a compassionate indi vidual,” says Jean Horan, a customer since 2004 who lives down the street from the pool. He lets it slide sometimes if kids are a dollar short, she says, and donates to the Garrett Park Ladybugs Swim Team. “He’s just like an extension of the neighborhood.”

Jalloh fled war in Sierra Leone in 1995, making his way to the United States alone. “I had no choice but to move. Reb els attacked and my family was person

In chatting with customers, he shared his vision of helping schoolchildren in his home country of Sierra Leone by collect ing needed items. Notices also began cir culating on neighborhood email lists.

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treasure,” Jalloh says of the contributions that he and his wife, Fatmata, pick up from local families. They store the items in their garage (with overflow going to a storage unit) for eventual distribution in a small town in the Kono district of the West African country where both grew up. “I get tears in my eyes. It’s very emo tional,” he says of handing out supplies to the children in person last year.

ALUSINE “AJAY” JALLOH’S ice cream truck is a kid magnet when it pulls up on a hot summer day at the Garrett Park Swim ming Pool. With no snack bar on-site, it’s the go-to place for a frozen pop, sundae, milkshake, smoothie or shaved ice.

And the local community responded.

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People have donated enough back packs, bikes, shoes, clothing, feminine hygiene products and other needed goods for two overseas shipments—one in 2018 and another in 2021. Each time Jalloh has filled about half of a 40-foot container, paying $5,000 out of his own pocket to cover the cost of shipping.

For more than 20 years, Jalloh, 47, has been driving to pools, parks, schools, sta diums, special events and neighborhoods in Garrett Park, Kensington, Bethesda, Potomac, Chevy Chase and elsewhere, selling ice cream and forming friendships along the way.

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hygiene products. Jalloh says he felt com pelled to do something.

Last year, Jalloh brought his three youngest sons (now ages 11, 13 and 23)

Above: At the Kono Heritage Primary School in his native Sierra Leone, Ajay Jalloh (far right) hands out donations he’s gathered from people in the Bethesda area, including bicycles (left).

ally targeted,” says Jalloh, who was fin ishing high school and in the diamond business with his father at the time. Fatmata came to Maryland the following year, and the couple got together in 1997.

In trips to his home country in recent years (he spends the winters there work ing construction), Jalloh says he has been struck by the sight of children walking miles to school. They didn’t have back packs, and sometimes girls wouldn’t attend because they didn’t have feminine

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“When I came to the United States, fortunately, I saw possibilities for kids. Some things are necessities that I think every child deserves,” says Jalloh, who became a naturalized U.S. citizen last year and has four children of his own. “This is one of my dreams, just to help. I want to give back.”

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Jalloh’s goal now is to start a nonprofit, perhaps raising enough money to build a school or facility for clean drinking water in his Sierra Leone hometown.

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“It’s very impactful to see the end results—that it really does make a differ ence,” says Garrett Park’s Jennifer Perry, who has gotten to know Jalloh over the past 10 years, arranging for him to bring his truck to back-to school nights, spring fairs and other activities at Garrett Park Elementary School.

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In early July, Jalloh had to put his busi ness and charitable work on hold after a traffic accident left him injured and his ice cream truck was totaled. He has been recovering at home, hoping to be back on his regular routes soon. Neighbors say they are poised to help in the future, encouraged by the photos and videos that Jalloh shares on his phone of those who received their donations.

Jalloh says he is grateful for the love and loyalty his customers have shown over the years with his business, and now with his charitable efforts. He is continuing to collect items, including new and used-but-functional laptops, for another shipment to the schoolchildren. He recently was buoyed by an influx of leftover items from a multifamily yard sale in Garrett Park.

Perry says Jalloh’s story and sincerity motivated her family to donate school supplies, shoes, backpacks and cloth ing. “It’s just nice to feel like there’s this human connection where all the way over here, there’s something we can do, even if it’s small, to help there,” Perry says. “And for my kids to hear firsthand what other people in the world are expe riencing has given a little perspective on what life is like for other people.”

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with him to Sierra Leone to help hand out the donations they’d gathered.

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Richard Hoye often cruises Bethesda with his dog, Prince Rudder, in tow.

Hoye next strikes up a conversation with a friend who’s homeless and lost his legs to illness. The two have known each other a long time, and greet one another as Hoye rides by.

Richard Hoye and his dog are friendly fixtures on the streets of Bethesda

“I’m just sort of like family,” Hoye says. “It’s nice to have some feeling of a small-town experience.”

banization a cause of significant societal problems. It alienates people, separates them along economic lines, and degrades the environment as people use more land than they need, he says.

On this particular day in Bethesda’s center, he’s the man about town. When Hoye turns onto Montgomery Avenue, he is greeted by waves and nods from con struction workers who see him regularly.

He still roams the Bethesda-Chevy Chase firehouse’s halls, lined with blackand-white photographs of cars man gled from crashes and buildings choked with flames. He points out the men and women he worked with in the photos

has not owned a car for 27 years, there’s a purpose to his riding beyond just trans portation. He believes that many of soci ety’s problems could be solved if com munities were more compact and people eschewed cars and engaged with strang ers as they commuted. That’s what he and Rudder do, he explains.

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He stayed on as a firefighter for 25 years before retiring at 52.

As a firefighter, Hoye probed the con ditions that led to people’s vulnerabil ity. Older people in single-family homes were often isolated. Their children could not afford to live near them, and their age made it burdensome to drive to urban areas.

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“I was also seeing how interconnected we are, even though it doesn’t appear so on the surface,” Hoye says. “In fact, we’re very much dependent on each other, which I think the pandemic is showing us.”

Hoye does not mind the attention he receives from the people he passes. Rather, he courts it. He slows down near pedestrians and floor-to-ceiling windows. Often he waves and smiles. Though he

He catches the eye—an older man on a bicycle with a poncho-clad black dog in the pedicab trailing behind him. Hoye often sports a large Western-style straw hat that he considers his signature.

Hoye grew up in Potomac, the son of an accountant and a homemaker. Though he recalls a pleasant child hood, he scarcely saw his neighbors— most of them white-collar profession als—except in the moments before 9 or after 5. He attended Winston Churchill High School and graduated in 1974.

Now Hoye critically examines the con ditions he grew up in. He considers subur

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Years ago, Hoye dropped out of college to join the fire department. On multiple occasions, he administered emergency care to older people who had fallen and remained on the floor for two or three days before someone found them.

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The hat is called “The Gus.” The black Lab mix is Prince Rudder. The man is a 66-year-old retired firefighter, avid salsa dancer, transportation advocate and weightlifter trying to reverse the metrics of aging.

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The ultimate goal of his quest to extend life? Hoye hopes to live a long life with Leonor Ruiz, the woman he met at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and proposed to in late July, at 66 years old.

But lately he’s shifted his efforts to a much more personal goal. Hoye hopes to reverse the metrics that define aging and have the biological markers of someone half his age.

“Leonor has a 12-year-old son. I’ve got to keep in shape for the both of them,” Hoye jokes. n

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On a policy level, Hoye pushes to change settlement patterns to allow for more serendipitous human interac tions. He envisions and lobbies for com pact communities connected by transit. This means small towns where people can live, run errands, and interact—all without cars.

“I feel so lucky to be someone who cannot really afford to live in this area, to be enriched by what this area has to give,” Hoye says. The people who can comfortably live here, he says, seldom get to experience what the neighbor hood has to offer because they spend most of their time working in order to afford their mortgage or rent.

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Greg Kiel, who lives down the street from him, says Hoye is a positive force for Bethesda because he is not concerned with material wealth and opposes the exclusivity of the area. He focuses instead on humanitarian causes.

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Hoye lives on the outskirts of down town Bethesda in a small redbrick house. Velida Juzbasic, a neighbor, says he’s the first to offer to watch her dog, clear snow from her driveway or trim back her hedges. “It is very impor tant to have neighbors that you actu ally communicate with,” Juzbasic says. “That’s Richard. If you need anything, he’s there. If he can help you, he will help you out.”

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But Hoye is struggling to stay in the area. Last year, he put a reverse mort gage on his house.

Hena Khan says her most recent book series aimed at ages 7-10 is based on the Fox Hills West neighborhood in Rockville where she grew up. Kids often played games outdoors just like her main character in Zara’s Rules for RecordBreaking Fun (Salaam Reads, April 2022). The story includes interfaith elements as Zara, a young Muslim girl, develops a rivalry with Naomi, the Jewish girl who moves in across the street; they end up becoming best friends. “I like that these are real kid-centric challenges, but with a very playful and anticsfilled read,” says Khan, who lives in Rockville and says it’s refreshing to write for this age group. The next installment, Zara’s Rules for Finding Hidden Treasure, will be released in October, and a third is slated for next spring.

“If we can do it, you know, anyone can do it,” Jamie Ratner says of starting a company with her husband, Brian, when their kids were toddlers. Without a traditional business background, the Potomac couple launched a website offering familyfriendly deals on camps and classes in 2009 that has grown into CertifiKID, a national digital media and advertising business. The two share what it was like to appear on the television show Shark Tank, how they run a business as spouses, and what they learned along the way in ParentPreneurs: A Decade of Deals from a Messy Minivan (Rowman & Littlefield, August 2022). “[The business] gave us such a common purpose,” Brian Ratner says. “You work in ways together in partnership in business that we would never have had the opportunity to do in our marriage.”

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Betsy Griffith says material she’s been collecting throughout her professional life as a historian, teacher and writer appears in Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020 (Pegasus Books, August 2022). Her book spans the certification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution through the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, with particular attention paid to the role of Black women in the struggle, which she says has often been overlooked. “This fight had lots of warriors—a really diverse army of women,” says Griffith, who lives in Chevy Chase and earned her doctorate at American University. “This struggle isn’t over. I hope [the book] inspires people to remain engaged and outraged and angry.”

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When Aggie Blum Thompson first heard about the local high school tradition of Beach Week, she thought it would be the perfect backdrop for a thriller. Originally from New York and now a resident of Bethesda, Thompson chose Dewey Beach in Delaware for the setting of her latest novel, All the Dirty Secrets (Forge Books, July 2022). The story alternates between the voice of a mother, Liza, and her daughter, Zoe, each of whom had a friend who drowned during Beach Week, 25 years apart. “It’s about freedom, secrets, privilege and the length parents will go to protect their children,” says Thompson, a former newspaper reporter and the mother of two teens. She hopes the book, loaded with D.C.-area references, will hook readers: “I want it to be a page-turner where you burn your food and lose sleep.”

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banter DATA PROVIDED BY READING LIST Here are the top-selling books in our area. Data is based on books sold at Politics and Prose’s Connecticut Avenue location in Upper Northwest D.C. and online from July 1 to 14, 2022. 1. Horse, Geraldine Brooks 2. This Time Tomorrow, Emma Straub 3. Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus 4. The Midcoast, Adam White 5. Either/Or, Elif Batuman 6. The Latecomer, Jean Hanff Korelitz 7. The Candy House (Good Squad Series, No. 2), Jennifer Egan 8. The Cartographers, Peng Shepherd 9. The Paris Apartment, Lucy Foley 10. The Hotel Nantucket, Elin Hilderbrand 1. Kiara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro 2. Book Lovers, Emily Henry 3. The Personal Librarian, Marie Benedict, Victoria Christopher Murray 4. All the Dirty Secrets, Aggie Blum Thompson 5. Every Summer After, Carley Fortune 6. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid 7. The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller 8. Silverview, John Le Carré 9. Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens 10. The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family, Joshua Cohen

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The annual number of mass shootings in the United States more than doubled from 272 in 2014 to 691 in 2021, according to the non profit Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as one in which at least four people are injured or killed, not including the shooter. School shootings rose from 24 in 2018 to 34 in 2021, accord ing to Education Week; 27 school shootings have been recorded as of Aug. 1 this year.

ailey Baker, a senior at Quince Orchard High School in Gaithersburg, recognizes that the statistical risk of an attack there by an active shooter is low. “Overall, Mont gomery County is a pretty safe area,” she says.

“With all the mass shootings around the country,” she says, “there is a sense of fear that everyone has.”

As students grab backpacks and parents send them off for a new academic year, Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has adjusted its approach to school safety in ways that speak to both the realities and the perceptions of danger. Some times, data and experts indicate, those aspects conflict.

After country,shootingshigh-profilearoundthelocalofficialsandcommunitymemberssearchfortherightresponses

The investment in mental health has broad support but has been a struggle to execute. Last school year the district began recruit ing 50 clinical social workers, formally advertising the positions in December, four months after police officers were removed. The first hires started in February, with others added through the spring and

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HOW SAFE ARE

But news and video footage of the fatal shooting of 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, in May left her sobbing and heavyhearted.

Other events are also animating that “sense of fear.” Last school year, many children strug gled to resolve conflicts and displayed behav ioral problems after the isolation of the pan demic, Montgomery County school officials say. And in January, when a 15-year-old boy was shot with a so-called “ghost gun” at Col. Zadok Magruder High School in Derwood, officials moved to make police more visible in schools—after having removed them from buildings in August 2021.

MCPS is investing in mental health services, security cameras and training. It’s adding security personnel and trying to maintain a law enforcement presence in schools while responding to criti cisms about disproportionate interactions with students of color.

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Districts need a “both-and approach” to school safety, says Annette Anderson, deputy director of the Center for Safe and Healthy Schools at the Johns Hop

“In a school, the most important position is that of the trusted adult. We have to empower every adult in a school building to be connected to kids,” she says. “It’s not just enough to put men tal health resources in the building. You also have to train every adult, from the cafeteria manager to the maintenance person to the recess worker to the classroom teachers,” on how to respond to students in need.

THERE WERE 697 “SERIOUS INCIDENTS” at county public schools—calls for service including assaults, weapons offenses and sex offenses—during the 2021-2022 aca demic year, according to data from the Montgomery County Police Department.

Community pressure amid the national racial reckoning following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 prompted County Executive Marc Elrich to end the traditional SRO program in August 2021. The 26 officers who had each been assigned to one of 25 high schools and one alternative school were reassigned to a cluster of schools in the renamed commu nity engagement officer (CEO) program.

Research has undercut the value of beefing up police and “hardening” phys ical security of buildings. The Uvalde attack has been held up as a failure of law enforcement; 376 officers descended on the school but did not intervene for an hour, according to officials.

Some experts favor a combination of solutions that are backed by research.

kins University School of Education. That means not just buying security equip ment but also equipping staff to meet student needs through mental health and family services.

Law enforcement officers speak outside a makeshift reunification site in Uvalde, Texas, after the attack at Robb Elementary School in May.

That new approach makes it hard to construct a trend analysis of violence in MCPS, according to police. School officials who previously contacted their SRO—who may not have recorded each request for service—were as of last school year pinging the police dispatch center, which tallies all calls.

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Nationally, educators are increasingly uneasy. Forty percent of those surveyed by Education Week in June said they felt less safe than they did five years ago.

a revised goal of 34 in 12-month posi tions met by July 1.

Advocates, however, say properly trained officers can build vital relation ships with students that prevent inci dents that aren’t always captured in the data. The county’s high school principals have been united in their support of school resource officers (SRO) before the school board.

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In the Magruder shooting, authorities allege, Steven Alston Jr., then 17, bought a 9mm ghost gun (which can be assembled from a kit) and shot then-15-year-old DeAndre Thomas in a bathroom.

*Injuring or killing at least four people, excluding the shooter

Middle School seventh grade teacher Ben Israel says, it wasn’t until the fourth quarter that administrators conducted a lockdown drill, in which students learn how to respond to an attack, such as by staying silent in a locked and darkened classroom or by exiting the building. “It’s very problematic when you con sider how important being prepared is for these kind of emergency situations,” he

Police and MCPS reached a new agreement in April. Under the CEO

The Montgomery County Police Department recorded 697 “serious incidents” in Montgomery County Public Schools in the 2021-2022 academic year. Officials say reporting changes preclude a year-over-year trend analysis.

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An after-action report released by MCPS called for more training of dis trict employees and first responders and a review of communication protocols. Montgomery County police Chief Mar cus Jones also complained publicly that student witnesses took to social media instead of calling 911.

POLICE DEPARTMENT ARSON 4 ASSAULT 233

7 HOMICIDE 1 RAPE 27 ROBBERY 13 SEX OFFENSE 231

WEAPONS OFFENSE (OTHER) 123

Dana Noga’s son, then a sophomore, was at Magruder that day. Around 1:30 p.m. he texted her to say the school was in lockdown and to check her email. There, a message from Magruder said the school was responding to a student health issue. At 5:30 she watched a news briefing about the shooting, but it wasn’t

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Increase in mass shootings* in the United States, from 272 in 2014 to 691 in 2021

*New category beginning in 2021-2022 denoting threats of violence other than bomb threats (such as firearms) Not all calls for service occurred during school operating hours.

After the Magruder shooting, Jones and then-Interim Super intendent of Schools Monifa McKnight revisited the question of a police presence in schools. (McKnight became permanent superintendent in July.)

Asays.day after the Uvalde tragedy, Israel and fellow teachers were discussing the threat of violence and their careers.

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Alston was not located until two hours after the incident. He is set to be tried as an adult on attempted murder charges in February.

SOURCE: MONTGOMERY COUNTY

until 7:10 that her son got off the bus near their home in Olney.

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Thomas was found by a security guard. He lay in a coma for weeks and has had numerous surgeries, his mother testified at a hearing.

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Noga and other parents were unhappy with the vague initial email and others that“Itfollowed.wasanincredible nightmare,” Noga says. “I hope for more transparency” by the school system in communicating during a Alreadycrisis.aproponent of SROs, Noga became a stronger supporter after the shooting and joined Community Partners for Public Safety, a nonpartisan group that has advocated for SROs since 2009.

“You don’t go into this job saying, ‘I’m going to be in danger at some point during the course of my work.’ You go into it because you want to help young people,” says Israel, who is on leave this school year to work as a member orga nizer for the Montgomery County Education Association, the teach ers’ union. “We can’t be expected to be martyrs.”

‘Serious Incidents’ in 2021-2022

MONTGOMERY COUNTY IS THE only district in Maryland that has transi tioned away from an SRO program and one of only a few nationally, according to the National Association of School Resource Officers. About 70% of Americans approve of placing armed officers in schools, accord ing to a 2021 study in Criminology and Public Policy .

In addition, 12 new, non-police, roving security personnel have been assigned to elementary schools to help with emergency drills and to support principals with safety issues. Other security coordinators have been hired, along with a full-time safety trainer.

know when evil may knock on the front door of a school,” Clarke says. “It takes a village rityadministrators,weresummer,andinformedpractices,tion,ics40CEOs)countyfortrainingRecently,approach.”staterequirementsSROs(whichtheappliestoincreasedfromto70hours.Topincludede-escalarestorativejusticetrauma-counselingimplicitbias.ThislocalsessionsaddedforMCPSseculeadersandothers.Jonessaysthe

new CEO 2.0 model lets offi cers tailor relationships with school communities. “Every high school is different, and they may not have the same public safety needs as the next,” he says. “It’s not a cookie-cutter approach.”

To foster connections and build trust, Jones says he plans to conduct town hall meetings at high schools. Officials say there will be quarterly monitoring of the CEO 2.0 program. A dashboard is being developed to track responses in real time and improve transparency.

Police Capt. Sta cey Flynn, who coor dinates the CEO program with all 26 officers (many of them former SROs), says the hybrid approach lets princi pals invite in officers—or min imize their presence. “It gives us a little bit of flexibility in our response,” she says.

2.0 safety model, offi cers have access to a private office in a high school. They check in daily but are not sta tioned permanently in a building. CEOs can be asked to participate in school-based events such as career days and to assist with athletic events or other activ ities. As with SROs, CEOs are not to be involved in discipline.

in before advancing into the school. Only two schools of the district’s 210 remain on the list for Closed-circuitinstallation.television systems have been expanded recently in the elementary schools, according to Ed Clarke, chief safety officer for MCPS.

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Middle and high schools already have trained, unarmed security staffs patrolling halls and monitoring student behavior.

A 2021 study in JAMA Network Open, a monthly open access medical jour nal published by the American Medical Association, found that rates of death were higher at school shootings when armed guards were on the premises. Jil lian Peterson, an associate professor of

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In an “incident command” training session in July, principals, security staff and central office leadership focused on emergency responses. “We never really

An analysis of school shootings from 1999-2018 in the Journal of Adolescent Health shows the presence of an SRO was not associated with any reduction in the severity of school shootings.

“We would go in and address the threat immediately,” Chief Marcus Jones says of his department’s response to an active shooter.

McKnight says more proactive steps are needed, with an emphasis this year on training and communication.

Police and administrators gathered in July for training under the new model. A nonemergency number was announced for school staff to reach police. The agreement lists 12 events, such as robbery and weapons possession, in which school employ ees must contact police and spells out whether police or schools take the lead in investigating them. The session promoted flexibility in the schools’ handling of most misconduct as teach ableAtmoments.theevent, McKnight said many students returned from virtual learning “scarred” from disruptions and in need of support. “While violent behaviors like fighting and weapons can occasion ally become a reality in our schools, they are not a reality that we accept,” she said. “School leaders and police and the entire community must invest…to make sure that safety for our students is our first priority.”

In the past few years, MCPS has put money into security vestibules, requiring visitors to be buzzed in and then to sign

MOST RECENT NATIONAL DATA offers little evidence that more policing in schools leads to increased safety.

“We have trained significantly in this area for a very long time,” Jones says. “We would go in and address the threatAdvocatesimmediately.”sayofficers are in schools not to arrest people or enforce discipline, but to be a resource—and there are benefits to consistency.“We’vemade this such a political football, and the people that are suf fering are going to be the kids,” says Joe Lowery, a retired SRO with MCPS.

Advocates say examples of officers intervening are not always widely known.

criminology and criminal justice at Hamline Uni versity in Minnesota, and her co-authors note that the presence of a weapon increases aggression and does not deter ofpolicingproblemResearchersviolence.saythewithmoreorthecreationahardenedenvironment,whichhavenotprovedtobedeterrents,isthattheycanhaveneg-ativeconsequences.“Youhavealotmorearrestsforminoroffenses,”saysEricMadfisoftheUniversityofWashingtonTakomaandtheauthorof

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“A lot of students of color don’t feel comfortable with police on school campuses,” Taylor says. He says little changed with the CEO model since officers are still visible. “We are expe riencing the same trauma as with the SROHeprogram.”maintains the well-being of Black and Latino students is being sacrificed to appease parents understandably “freaked out” by the Magruder shooting.

The U.S. Department of Education reported that Black students accounted for 31.6% of students arrested at school or a school-related activity in 2017-2018— twice their share of student enrollment. MCPS data in 2020 showed that Black children represented one-fifth of the stu dent population but nearly half of stu dent arrests in the previous three years.

In July, Community Partners for Public Safety hosted a webinar to high light the value of SROs.

Baker says she maintained daily con tact last school year with the officer assigned to the WJ cluster, and that the officer will join weekly security meetings.

County Councilmember Will Jawando led efforts in 2020 to remove SROs and says data from the CEO 2.0 model should be closely monitored to ensure proportionality in the treatment of students of color. He says he’d like to see the district address the causes of interpersonal conflict, expand restorative justice practices and employ more adults trained in youth development—with police responding only when necessary.

“Schools are on high alert. We are very aware of what is happening around the country,” she says. 2019 2020 2021 2022

The number of school shootings* fell in the first calendar year of the pandemic but has since climbed.

The delay in the police intervening in Uvalde may not boost trust between communities and officers. But county police leaders insist that such a situation would not be repeated here.

Kyson Taylor, a 2022 graduate of Rich ard Montgomery High School in Rock ville, also pushed for policing changes at MCPS and helped start a criminal justice reform group.

School Shootings in the United States

SOURCE: EDUCATION WEEK

MCPS principals, including Jennifer Baker (no relation to Hailey Baker) at Walter Johnson High School, have long supported the SRO program. She points to a 2018 incident in which a student confided in an SRO about a teen posting a photo of himself online with an AR-15 rifle and the caption “school shooter.” The teen in the photo was charged with threatening mass violence.

*Shootings on K-12 grounds that injured or killed at least one person; does not include suicides. 2022 data current as of Aug. 1.

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“Historically, here in Montgomery County, we had a best practice school resource officer program before the issue was polit icized and our nationally recognized SRO program was eliminated based on a national narrative,” Susan Burkinshaw, co-founder of the group, said at the session. She referenced a 2016 Office of Legislative Oversight report on the school-to-prison pipeline in Montgomery County showing low suspension rates and falling juvenile arrest rates. She considers the CEO pro gram “reactive” and “unproven.”

At the event, Afsara Nowrin, a 2022 Quince Orchard graduate, cited her bond with Lowery as an important resource her freshman year. When she was a danger to herself at home, she recalled, police summoned Lowery, who helped resolve the situation.

The Risk of School Ram page . “School resource officers tend to view prob lems as crime problems, as opposed to disciplinary issues. Things that conventionally would have been just handled in the school get elevated.”

“The key to safety is hav ing those relationships.”

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When young people feel there is no other option than violence against themselves or someone else, Martin says, it’s often the result of a past trauma building up—a failure of the system to intervene ear lier. Having more professionals on a cam pus who can pay attention is aimed at preventing violence, she says.

Though no method is proven to stop shootings, some experts recommend schools practice lockdown drills and try to keep kids from bringing weap ons to school. They emphasize addressing root causes and pro viding mental health services.

MCPS allocated $1.6 mil lion to set up in-person and telehealth therapy. A variety of personnel manage behavior threat assessment teams.

Arming educators is “unsafe and ridiculous,” says MCPS teacher

“The doors are locked. There is one

Federal21.lawmakers in June passed the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the first major federal gun legislation in decades. It funds state red-flag pro grams that can bar gun access to peo ple in crisis and those convicted of cer tain domestic violence crimes. It also increases funding for mental health pro grams and school security.

entrance. There are cameras in the school. We practice drills,” says Ger aci, who has kept her classroom blinds mostly shut as a precaution. “I feel like we are well prepared...but we have to balance it with the little kids because we don’t want to frighten them.”

Anderson, of Johns Hop kins, says school shootings continue to increase despite schools and colleges spend ing about $3 billion a year on security products and services. “We’re not lessening the prob lem. I think maybe the issue is that we are going after the wrong problem,” Anderson says. She does not believe that police belong in schools but suggests toughening gun laws and prohibiting sales to anyone under age

Elsewhere in the nation, officials have encouraged arming teachers at schools, as a deterrent. A 2020 Rand analysis found no evidence it increases school safety. Arming teachers comes with risks,

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Geraci does not like the idea of a secu rity guard or police officer stationed at her building. “I want elementary school to feel warm and inviting and fun. I don’t want it to feel like we’re in prison,” she says.

There is no evidence that school safety measures reduce firearm violence, according to a 2019 study in the journal Violence and Gender. The ideal solution, the researchers conclude, is to prevent youths from gaining access to firearms.

Christa Geraci. “It’s not something I would ever be comfortable with.”

“For many, this is going to feel like too little, too late,” she says, referring to the need for mental health services during the pandemic. “The crisis got so big, so quickly that we’re definitely going to be in catch-up mode for a while.”

The sites are staffed through the coun ty’s Department of Health and Human Services. Funds were budgeted sepa rately to hire therapists, case managers, youth development specialists and com munity service employees, says Monica Martin, a senior administrator at the department. Funding has been approved for the personnel, and the county is mov ing quickly to fill positions, but there is a staffing shortage in the field, Martin says.

On a list of possible responses in an Edu cation Week survey, teachers and school and district leaders favored action on gun ownership and mental health resources more than adding security features and arming school staff.

Christa Geraci has seen safety mea sures ramp up over 15 years teaching first grade at Goshen Elementary School in Gaithersburg but would like to see more emphasis on social-emotional supports.

THIS SCHOOL YEAR, the district priori tized access to mental health services. Its budget was approved with $8 million to build so-called wellness “spaces,” where students can access such services, by summer’s end in all high schools. They join five wellness “centers” already at Gaithersburg, Northwood, Seneca Val ley, Watkins Mill and Wheaton high schools, where health care is also offered. A sixth at Kennedy High School is slated to open in September.

Geraci, like Israel, is on leave this year. She says the thought of being told to take a gun to school to protect students makes her sick. “I think it’s very unsafe and ridiculous. It’s not something I would ever be comfortable with,” she says.

Baker, the Quince Orchard senior, says the new social worker in her school is a welcome addition who will make stu dents feel Movedsafer.after Uvalde to act, Baker donated $30 earned from her minimumwage job to March for Our Lives, a stu dent-led movement backing gun restric tions. She joined the group’s march on the National Mall in June. But when a man yelled that he had a gun, the crowd ran and Baker was terrified. Though a false alarm, the episode gave her nightmares.

“With incidents like that, it brings a sense of trauma,” she says, putting in perspective that violence wasn’t just something she saw on the news. “No matter how many measures schools put in place, it’s still really scary to go to school sometimes.” n

such as accidental shootings, and the country’s largest teacher unions, including the National Education Association, oppose training teachers to use guns.

WHAT WOULD MAKE SCHOOLS SAFER?

Maryland has some of the nation’s strictest gun laws and bars anyone under 21 from possessing a firearm.

Induction cooktops are more energy efficient than gas or electric, and they offer fast and precise temperature control. Unlike gas ranges, they do not release indoor pollutants that cause respiratory illnesses.

WHO is going electric?

Lynette in Colesville says: My new ELECTRIC BACKPACK LEAF BLOWER is quieter and lighter than my old, gas-powered blower. It’s a little less powerful on tough jobs, and the battery charge lasts less than an hour, but I’m glad I don’t need to mix gas anymore. It turns on and off with a trigger on the handle—so no more pull-cord struggles! Great for traditional residential home use.

Historically, electricity production involved a coalfired, dirty process. However, by 2020, coal’s share of Maryland’s electricity production fell to just 9%. Maryland now receives more energy from cleaner sources like hydropower, solar, nuclear and wind.

Montgomery County has been a national leader in responding to the challenge of climate change. Setting aggressive greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction targets, the County aims to reduce GHG emissions 80% by 2027 and 100% by 2035. To tackle the impacts of climate change, it’s time to Electrify Everything!

Conserving energy and using energy more efficiently remain important—like taking shorter showers and opting for LED light bulbs. We can make a big climate impact by replacing technologies that run on combustion—such as gasoline vehicles and natural gas furnaces—with alternatives that run on electricity—such as electric vehicles and heat pumps. Let’s get as much energy consumption as possible hooked up to the electric grid!

HOW do I electrify everything?

Electric lawn care devices are growing in popularity because they don’t give off gas fumes and are less noisy—making you and your fellow neighbors happy.

WHY electrify everything?

Ann in Rockville says: Call me a convinced skeptic! I walked into a local store and got my new INDUCTION RANGE delivered within a week. It was affordable, and I’m very happy with it. I was initially caught off guard by how fast it heats things. Cast iron and steel pans work great, and so does my wok. (My only disappointment is that my trusty aluminum pancake griddle won’t work on it.) An unexpected bonus: the cooktop cools rapidly, so cleanup can be done sooner!

Find out more at MyGreenMontgomery.org/2022/electrify-everything

EXTRAORDINARY EDUCATORS

Six local teachers who are making a difference — from talking about real-world issues to finding new ways to teach math

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Gabby Machuca has stayed in touch with Shane since she had her for sixth grade math 10 years ago. Now a senior at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, she recalls Shane encouraged students to ask questions when they didn’t understand and welcomed them into her classroom during lunch. “It makes a big difference, especially in middle school, feeling like you have someone on your side,” Machuca says.

JOAN SHANE SAYS SHE was good at math until junior high school. Her teachers, using an overhead projector, would stand in the front of the classroom, present one way of solving a problem and expect kids to get it. If she didn’t understand, there was no effort to explain in a different way. Shane says she later realized it wasn’t the subject she didn’t like—it was the anxiety and frustration that came with doing the math.

Shane says she finds joy in seeing kids excel at something that had been difficult for them—whether in her math class or on the school’s cross-country team that she coaches.

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Math teacher Joan Shane with students, from left, Erich Ramos, Jerson Diaz and Lena Fleschner

She has been with Montgomery County Public Schools for 21 years, working at Oakland Terrace Elementary School in Silver Spring before coming to Sligo a decade ago. She serves as content specialist for the math department, mentors new teachers entering the profession, and is on the school’s instruction leadership team.

Strings of white lights encircle her classroom, and the walls are covered with motivational quotes, including: “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.” Students work at tables in groups while Shane moves around asking: “Do you get it? Kind of, sort of?” When each student turns in a com pleted paper, her response is “Yes!” or “Saah-weet!”

Principal Patrick Bilock says Shane has a way of communicating to kids that they can do anything. She challenges school leaders to make good decisions, including pushing for a student to be put in a higher math level when she sees potential. “She does not hold back when it comes to fighting for what kids need,” Bilock says. “She does it in a way that helps people to question what their thinking is and always comes back to what is best for the kid.”

Teaching methods have evolved, and Shane, now a math teacher at Sligo Middle School, has embraced the freedom to use a variety of approaches. She focuses on individual instruction and building student confidence.

“I want them to be comfortable, to take risks, to make mis takes and grow from that,” says the 52-year-old resident of Chevy Chase. “They can do math if it’s taught in a way that reaches them and makes sense to them.”

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Diaz earned his undergraduate degree at Georgetown University and a master’s degree in education at the University of Granada in Spain. At Landon, he is a lower and middle school counselor, and he teaches health and ethics in the lower school, and health and wellness in the middle school. He also coaches tennis and football at the lower school.

Landon. “He’s wonderful at recognizing the strengths in a boy, recogniz ing the needs, and then how to address that. You will often see him taking walks and chatting, just trying to get to know a student and then helping in ways that aren’t necessarily obvious.”

Society is quick to label boys with behavior issues as toxic, says Diaz, who grew up in Los Angeles and now lives in North Bethesda. To help his students learn how to resolve prob lems, he has them practice how to be good lis teners and how to calm themselves in stress ful situations. Rather than “laying down the law,” he says, they often need the space and the vocabulary to talk with a trusted adult about how they’re feeling. “If you give them time, and if you’re with them consistently, you can actually be that person, that rock for them while they figure things out,” he says.

This summer, Diaz was selected by the International Boys’ Schools Coalition to do an action research project on developing healthy masculinity. The coalition is a nonprofit orga nization of 300 boys schools of which Landon is a member. As part of the project, Diaz was to create materials for fifth grade boys to develop skills such as empathy, emotional connection and regulation, and vulnerability.

IN THE HEALTH, WELLNESS AND ETHICS classes that Adam Diaz teaches at Landon School, he wants to provide students with an imaginary toolbox of sorts—one that con tains a motivation tool, a forgiveness tool and a setting boundaries tool—to deal with difficult situations.

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“Adam is just a calm presence,” says Courtney Collis, a learning specialist at

“We tell boys over and over that the only thing you can control is yourself,” says Diaz, 35, who has worked at the private all-boys school in Bethesda since August 2020. “Get ting them to shift and understand what con trol I do have in any given situation makes them feel more empowered.”

Diaz says it’s rewarding to see students put the tools he teaches to use. He once worked with a boy who was having a hard time with emotional regula tion and then saw him resolve a conflict with another boy. “He said, ‘I’m sorry, that was my fault and I’m not going to do that again.’ And the other boy said, ‘That’s OK. I forgive you,’ ” Diaz says. “That was such a massive moment. Just being able to see that change for me was like, you’ve scored a touchdown.”

later (sometimes as parents of her current students), they often say her catchphrase.

When the show airs, you can hear a pin drop as students watch, says Kelli Phillips, staff development teacher at NCC. During the uncertainty of the pandemic, MosleyRamsey kept the show going. “She found a way to get teachers to make videos, to put in student jokes—and we had social and emo tional lessons about how to take a mindful minute,” Phillips says. “At a time when every one felt separated, the TV show gave us a sense of unity again.”

Mosley-Ramsey says she makes sure all fifth grade students have a role (reporter, anchor, manager) as they rotate through her media class to produce the weekly Wake Up NCC television show. “The kids’ creativity and seeing their leadership is what I love,” she says. “We want to build leaders early and give sev eral different people that opportunity.”

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“It’s unbelievable what she takes on. We all just kind of think she has a cape hidden somewhere and she’s superwoman,” says school counselor Jannette Breeding. “She’s a force to be reckoned with and a role model for the children and for the staff.”

SHARON MOSLEY-RAMSEY

Mosley-Ramsey doesn’t remember how it started, but knows she’s been saying it for most of the 30-plus years she has been at the school. It’s her way of offering encouragement, she says, to convey: “Good job. Keep it going. Be happy. Spread the light. Be the light.” When former students see her years

“HEY, ALL RIGHT!” Sharon Mosley-Ramsey says to students throughout the day at North Chevy Chase Elementary School. It’s how she punctuates the end of morning announcements, signs her emails and greets students in the hallway—often with them repeating it to her.

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In the media center, Mosley-Ramsey has a variety of college logos posted next to the computer monitors. The logos include ones from her undergraduate alma mater, North Carolina Central University, and the Univer sity of Michigan, where she earned her mas ter’s degree. She talks to students about pre paring for college—emphasizing that it’s more than just grades that matter.

The 61-year-old Mosley-Ramsey, who grew up in New York City and lives in Olney, is a media specialist, enriched literacy cur riculum teacher and co-lead teacher. She also is the sponsor for the Student Gov ernment Association and coordinates spe cial events with the PTA, such as Interna tional Night. She helps organize food drives and spirit week, and mentors girls of color through the Sisters Supporting Sisters Club.

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Huang says she looks at her students as if they were her own, especially if they are struggling, and thinks about how she’d like a teacher to treat them. The school year that ended in June brought the added challenge of helping her 27 students adapt to being in a classroom after many learned remotely in kindergarten during the pandemic. Huang says that meant emphasizing routines and teaching students how to share space and ask questions.“Thisis where you can instill the love for school. This is where it all starts,” Huang says about first grade. She has been with Montgomery County Public Schools for 29 years and says she likes to “change it up” periodically, so she has taught first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh graders along the way.

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“Threeexample.thingsthat make me happy are my class, my family and food,” says Huang, whose three children (16, 20 and 22) attended the school where she has taught for 13 years, not far from her home in North Potomac. “You guys know what made me sad this week, right? When my son moved out. And also when my favorite sushi restaurant closed. When I am sad, I cheer myself up by Whensinging.”thestudents finish, they each come up to Huang and read aloud what they have written before she asks follow-up questions. “It’s my one-on-one time to really understand where my students are com ing from that morning,” says Huang, who gets to their eye level to talk and offers encouragement to kids who admit to having a terrible start to their day.

AS STUDENTS ENTER Lily Huang’s first grade classroom at Stone Mill Elementary School, she greets each one by name with a smile and a handshake, wave, high-five or hug. They start the day by taking out their journals. On an early June morning, the prompt is to write about three things that make them happy, two things that make them sad, and what they do to feel better. Huang gives an

“She is able to bring out the best in her students,” says Joanne Misovec, whose three children all had Huang as a teacher at Stone Mill. “She has this amazing ability to connect and build relationships so her students want to perform and do well.”

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Huang, 52, graduated from Col. Zadok Magruder High School in Derwood before earning her bache lor’s degree in elementary education at the University of Maryland and her master’s in school administration from Hood College in Frederick.

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Because Saloma has been through the school himself, Head of School Lelia True says he understands the Waldorf philoso phy and knows how to relate to students andInparents.therecent capital campaign for the school’s first-ever gym, True says Saloma was key in communicating the value of the facility from an athletic and community perspective—helping raise money for the $7 million project, which is expected to be completed in 2023. Says True: “We couldn’t have done it without him.”

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WASHINGTON

TAISTO SALOMA’S ROOTS RUN deep at Washington Waldorf School. He graduated from the private school in Bethesda in 1993, and now his two sons are students there in first and third grade. Saloma’s mother was a longtime teacher at Waldorf, and he’s been on staff at the school for nearly 20 years.

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Saloma, 47, who grew up and still lives in Takoma Park, says he likes the school’s holistic approach to education and the flexibility it gives him in the classroom.“Wewant each student to develop and follow their, some would say, destiny, or path that’s uniquely meant for them,” says Saloma, who teaches high school American history and government. “As much as I believe that the Constitution is important and that everybody should know it, it helps me to understand that not everybody is going to really want to dive into federalism—and that’s OK.”

are many people working to improve commu nities in a positive way,” says Saloma, a grad uate of Guilford College in North Carolina, where he majored in history with a minor in sportsBeforemanagement.becoming a teacher, Saloma was a golf professional. He is the athletic director at Waldorf and coaches boys and girls bas ketball and girls soccer.

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“He’s not afraid to diverge from his notes and talk about real-world issues that matter,” says Sam Merkel, a 2022 Waldorf graduate. “It makes students feelInheard.”hisgovernment classes, Saloma says, he wants students to understand they don’t have to be an elected official to make a difference. “At a time when kids feel the weight of the world and a lot of the pain, I want to share how there

The small classes at the school (an average of 18 students) allow him to get to know his students and be responsive to the moment, Saloma says. He’s always looking for fresh material to engage students with and is part of the school’s effort to make the history curriculum more expansive and diverse.

to bring them to school. One student said she didn’t want to come because she’d bother others with her urge to turn the lights on and off. Twombly went to Home Depot and bought her a light switch to hold in class—a solution that helped get the girl to come back.

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At Col. Zadok Magruder High School in Derwood, Twombly is a resource teacher for special education and head of the Enhanced Social Emotional Special Education Services Program, which serves up to 40 students with a range of emotional disabilities, such as anxi ety, depression, schizophrenia and obsessivecompulsive disorder. She says her students are vulnerable and often overlooked because the issues they are dealing with are not visible.

“When they’re in a good place mentally and emotionally, they are so bright and can academically just soar,” says Twombly, 53, who lives in Brookeville. “They just need a safe place to grow up and be able to learn how to handle their frustrations, emotions and anxiety. With the skills and with the strategies, they will be fine. I know that.”

It’s all about meeting students where they are, says Twombly, who has been at Magruder for six years and with the county school system for 16. Sometimes that means driving to their homes (with another adult)

Kimberly Corbin of Silver Spring says the program and Twombly’s influ ence were “lifesaving” for her daughter, who graduated last spring. “They had the freedom to take a nap, make some tea, go to the meditation room— whatever tool they needed to calm them and push through the moment,” Corbin says. “When my daughter went into the program, she hated school. When she finished, she was there every day and helping coach other stu dents through challenges.” n

VIRGINIA TWOMBLY SAYS SHE can under stand students of hers who don’t want to go to school. As a teenager growing up in the Midwest, she was socially anxious, felt hope less, and dropped out of high school at 17. She eventually found her way back to school, earning her undergraduate degree in sec ondary education and a master’s in special education—and she’s committed to helping her students succeed, too.

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Caralee Adams is a freelance writer in Bethesda who covers health, education and other topics for Bethesda Magazine.

In a wing that’s separate from the rest of the school, Twombly works with a team of four core academic teachers, seven paraedu cators, a behavioral specialist, a clinical social worker and a psychologist. The hallways are less crowded, and there is a mindfulness room with comfort toys, beanbag chairs, aroma therapy diffusers, and visits from trained therapy dogs. Students spend time in nature, working in a school greenhouse and taking regular trips to the Kingsley Environmental Education Center in Boyds.

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THE FOLLOWING IS a chart of the colleges and universities where 2022 graduates from eight Bethesda-area high schools applied, were accepted and—new to the chart this year—enrolled. The chart is based on data provided by the schools. The schools are: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Walt Whitman and Walter Johnson in Bethesda; Albert Einstein in Kensington; Winston Churchill in Potomac; Richard Montgomery and Thomas S. Wootton in Rockville; and Montgomery Blair in Silver Spring.

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Bard College 2 2 0 6 4 0 11 6 1 N/A N/A N/A 2 1 0 6 2 1 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 28 15 2

Auburn University 0 0 0 8 3 0 4 0 0 9 1 0 18 10 0 6 1 0 8 4 0 8 3 0 61 22 0 Babson College 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 0 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 0 0 11 1 0

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American University 25 10 4 64 20 5 50 7 2 45 16 4 45 16 2 66 14 4 39 16 2 27 17 4 361 116 27 Amherst College 2 0 0 24 5 5 24 5 1 12 2 0 8 0 0 9 3 0 11 1 1 6 1 1 96 17 8 Appalachian State University 2 2 0 2 1 0 4 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 2 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 13 7 0 Arcadia University 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 3 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 6 4 0 Arizona State University, Tempe 6 6 0 20 11 1 10 6 1 21 13 2 12 9 1 9 5 1 20 6 0 3 3 0 101 59 6

The information that the schools sent is self-reported by students, so school officials could not guarantee its accuracy. Churchill provided only data from schools that had at least three applicants, and Richard Montgomery provided only data from schools that had at least four applicants, so we have designated some of their numbers as not applicable (N/A). For brevity’s sake, we have limited the list to colleges and universities with at least six applicants from the combined high schools.

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Baylor University 2 2 0 6 4 1 3 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 6 4 1 4 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 3 1 24 16 3

Adelphi University 2 0 0 2 1 0 3 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 8 4 0 Allegheny College 4 3 1 4 1 0 3 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 1 2 2 1 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 14 8 3

0 0 0 5 3 0 3 1 0 1 1 0 12 6 0 Berklee College of Music 0 0 0 2 2 1 2 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 3 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 8 5 2 Binghamton University 2 1 1 6 5 0 8 8 0 4 1 0 8 6 0 4 2 0 7 4 0 1 1 1 40 28 2 Boston College 2 0 0 64 9 2 20 4 0 29 12 1 39 8 2 37 8 3 35 10 3 27 10 4 253 61 15 Boston University 9 1 1 84 23 1 50 14 3 70 23 6 72 23 3 65 17 6 62 23 2 63 15 4 475 139 26 Bowdoin College 2 1 0 17 2 0 10 1 0 4 1 0 6 2 2 4 0 0 8 0 0 0 0 0 51 7 2 Bowie State University 18 9 1 8 3 0 30 10 5 11 6 2 0 0 0 7 3 0 5 2 1 1 1 0 80 34 9 Brandeis University 1 0 0 11 5 2 11 3 1 N/A N/A N/A 12 5 0 10 8 2 10 3 1 1 0 0 56 24 6 Bridgewater College 6 6 1 2 1 0 0 0 0 4 2 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 14 10 1 Brown University 7 1 1 62 2 1 68 5 4 63 4 2 54 3 3 35 0 0 54 2 2 33 2 1 376 19 14 Bryn Mawr College 4 1 1 10 5 0 12 0 0 10 3 1 7 4 1 7 2 2 3 3 1 1 0 0 54 18 6 Bucknell University 3 1 0 30 7 1 7 3 1 10 2 0 18 8 2 14 2 1 8 4 1 4 2 1 94 29 7 Butler University 1 1 0 3 2 0 3 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 5 4 1 5 4 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 17 13 1 California Institute of Technology 0 0 0 5 0 0 34 2 2 11 1 0 5 0 0 13 3 1 4 0 0 6 0 0 78 6 3 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo 5 4 0 1 0 0 7 5 1 N/A N/A N/A 3 1 0 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 0 0 20 11 1 California StateLosUniversity,Angeles 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 6 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 8 3 1 APPLIED ACCEPTED ENROLLED

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Barnard College 2 0 0 16 1 1 11 1 1 15 0 0 13 0 0 13 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 6 0 0 76 2 2 Bates College 4 1 0 16 4 2 5 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 11 2 2 5 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 41 8 5

Belmont University 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 7 5 0 Bentley University 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A

Where Bethesda-area high school graduates applied to college, where they were accepted and where they enrolled

1 1

N/A 6 5

Drew University 2 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 7 4 1

1 1 0 35 23 2 7 6 0 7 3 0 37 24 1 23 18 3 23 18 0 12 9 0 145 102 6 College of the Holy Cross 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 5 2 1 2 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 11 6 1 College of William & Mary 6 1 1 40 12 2 26 7 4 28 7 0 31 7 2 32 7 3 24 6 1 23 6 1 210 53 14

The College of Wooster 2 2 1 10 6 1 6 2 1 N/A N/A N/A 5 4 1 2 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 26 16 5 Colorado College 3 2 1 10 2 2 6 3 2 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 1 3 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 23 8 6 Colorado School of Mines 1 1 0 1 1 1 3 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 0 0 3 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 11 5 1 Colorado StateFortUniversity,Collins 6 6 0 9 8 2 4 4 0 N/A N/A N/A 5 4 0 7 6 2 3 1 0 2 2 0 36 31 4 Columbia College Chicago 3 3 0 1 1 0 2 2 1 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 8 7 1 Columbia University 7 0 0 49 2 2 58 1 1 59 4 4 40 1 1 44 3 1 39 1 1 31 0 0 327 12 10

Delaware State University

Eckerd College 1 0 0 3 0 0 6 4 0 N/A

12 7 0 Elon University 10 9 4 26 17 3 11 10 0 9 8 0 27 21 2 27 18 4 9 7 0 8 7 1 127 97 14 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 6 4 2 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 11 8 2 Emerson College 2 1 0 8 5 0 9 5 2 N/A N/A N/A 9 4 0 8 4 0 6 3 0 2 1 0 44 23 2 Emory University 6 3 2 37 7 3 24 2 0 27 9 0 46 7 4 29 3 2 44 13 7 30 3 3 243 47 21 Fairfield University 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 6 2 0 Fashion Institute of Technology 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 0 0 4 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 10 1 1 Florida A&M University 0 0 0 5 1 0 8 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 15 2 1 Florida Atlantic University 3 3 0 3 1 0 4 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 1 1 3 1 0 5 1 1 1 1 0 21 9 2 Florida Gulf Coast University 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 4 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 3 0 13 7 0 Florida Institute of Technology 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 1 0 0 4 2 1 1 1 0 11 3 1 THE EDUCATION ISSUE

0 0 0 3 1 0 4 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 7 2 1

Christopher Newport University 1 1 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 1 2 2 0 11 10 1

1 Elizabethtown College 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 2 0 N/A

Earlham College 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 6 5 Carolina N/A 0 6 0 4 2 0 0 23 12 2 N/A N/A 2 3 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 17 8 N/A N/A 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 5 5 0

Coastal Carolina University

Case Western Reserve University 7 0 0 40 13 2 26 7 0 18 8 1 29 8 1 25 14 4 30 9 2 37 12 1 212 71 11

Clark University

2 0 0 14 1 1 14 2 1 4 1 0 13 8 5 4 0 0 6 0 0 2 0 0 59 12 7 Colgate University

0 0 0 4 1 0 3 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 10 2 0

Champlain College 1 0 0 2 1 0 7 4 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 0 0 4 2 0 4 0 0 3 2 0 23 9 0

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Carnegie Mellon University 1 0 0 28 1 0 63 6 6 61 8 5 29 4 3 30 4 3 37 13 6 64 4 2 313 40 25

Drexel University 18 11 2 32 21 1 29 17 2 18 13 3 17 14 0 38 27 6 15 11 1 23 22 3 190 136 18 Duke University 4 0 0 45 2 0 51 4 1 61 11 7 44 2 2 36 1 0 61 2 2 44 4 4 346 26 16

1 0

The CatholicofUniversityAmerica 6 6 5 11 5 0 16 5 2 6 2 0 2 1 0 14 12 5 8 3 0 5 3 0 68 37 12

University 1 1 1 2 0 0 3 2 1 N/A

Chapman University 4 2 0 5 3 0 5 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 9 3 0 5 2 0 5 2 0 1 1 0 34 14 0

2 0 0 23 6 2 16 3 1 5 1 1 18 3 0 9 1 0 9 3 0 2 1 0 84 18 4 College of Charleston

1 1 0 5 3 0 8 5 2 4 2 0 5 2 0 6 4 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 30 18 2

Duquesne University 0 0 0 6 5 1 0 0 0 4 3 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 2 0 16 11 1

1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 0 7 4 1 2 1 0 8 6 1 N/A N/A N/A 2 1 0 23 16 4 Colby College

Claremont McKenna College 1 0 0 8 1 1 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 5 1 1 3 1 0 4 0 0 1 1 1 24 4 3 Clark Atlanta University 2 2 0 4 2 0 6 2 1 4 0 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 3 2 0 1 1 0 23 11 1

Carleton College 2 1 1 7 1 1 4 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 0 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 17 3 2

Dickinson College 7 6 1 24 12 1 10 5 0 5 2 0 15 6 1 11 8 1 6 3 2 3 1 0 81 43 6

Connecticut College 1 0 0 16 9 1 7 5 3 N/A N/A N/A 4 2 1 5 4 0 4 3 1 1 0 0 38 23 6 Cooper Union for AdvancementtheofScienceandArt

JohnsonWalter ChurchillWinston ThomasWoottonS. TOTAL

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Denison University 3 1 0 8 7 3 4 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 15 11 2 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 32 20 5

Clarkson University 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 6 1 0

DePaul University 6 4 1 6 5 1 13 7 1 N/A N/A N/A 3 2 0 7 5 1 5 3 0 4 3 0 44 29 4

Clemson University 6 4 0 37 20 5 7 2 0 20 6 0 34 16 3 23 16 5 28 8 1 26 11 0 181 83 14

Coppin State University 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 3 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 7 4 1 Cornell University 6 1 1 73 10 6 80 1 0 60 5 1 66 11 7 51 4 2 86 10 9 73 2 0 495 44 26 Dartmouth College 0 0 0 33 3 2 20 1 0 19 2 1 24 2 2 11 1 1 34 2 2 19 1 0 160 12 8 Davidson College 3 0 0 7 1 0 12 4 0 N/A N/A N/A 10 5 1 3 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 2 1 1 37 12 3

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Georgia State University

Hofstra University 4 4 0 7 2 0 14 6 1 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 7 5 0 N/A N/A N/A 8 6 0 41 24 1 Hollins University 0 0 0 1 0 0 7 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 9 4 0 Hood College 2 2 0 10 6 1 19 3 0 7 1 0 1 0 0 10 9 2 6 2 0 6 6 1 61 29 4

Kean University 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 6 2 0

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

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Hawaii Pacific University 0 0 0 5 2 0 1 0 0 10 4 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 19 8 0 High Point University 1 1 0 5 4 2 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 2 0 5 2 0 8 5 1 6 3 0 30 18 3

Lynn University 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 2 0 3 2 0 5 4 2 3 2 0 17 11 2 Macalester College 2 1 0 11 3 0 11 6 1 N/A N/A N/A 9 4 3 1 0 0 5 4 3 1 0 0 40 18 7 Manhattan College 0 0 0 4 1 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 2 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 9 3 1

Jacksonville University 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 1 7 3 1

8 6 0 16 11 0 17 4 1 9 4 1 5 3 0 7 6 0 N/A N/A N/A 7 6 0 69 40 2 Grinnell College 0 0 0 12 1 0 8 3 1 N/A N/A N/A 4 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 0 0 26 4 1 Guilford College 0 0 0 3 2 1 5 3 2 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 9 6 3

23 5 1 62 22 8 49 13 1 50 19 4 38 20 5 62 35 5 40 31 6 42 24 2 366 169 32

1 1 0 21 3 1 8 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 7 4 3 3 1 1 5 2 1 1 0 0 46 14 6 Hampshire College

George Mason University 18 12 0 19 15 3 27 9 1 34 19 0 18 8 4 38 32 8 22 18 2 29 26 0 205 139 18

Lebanon

JohnsonWalter ChurchillWinston ThomasWoottonS. TOTAL

0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 1 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 7 1 0 Goucher College

James Madison University 10 8 0 21 10 0 14 5 0 33 20 1 19 14 2 27 16 3 29 21 4 30 26 4 183 120 14 Johns Hopkins University 13 0 0 50 1 0 90 5 3 79 4 3 34 3 1 55 1 1 60 6 4 59 1 1 440 21 13

college bound

1 1 0 6 2 0 5 4 0 4 3 0 8 3 0 4 4 1 5 2 0 3 3 0 36 22 1 Gonzaga University

Lehigh University 0 0 26 5 1 9 1 0 5 1 0 22 6 2 15 3 0 16 3 1 7 3 0 102 22 4 & Clark College 1 0 7 5 1 6 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 17 10 1

Loyola Marymount University 3 2 0 8 3 1 6 2 0 5 2 0 11 5 2 7 4 2 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 41 19 5

Frostburg State University 16 12 3 10 7 2 21 7 1 9 3 0 1 1 0 14 8 1 6 0 0 6 4 0 83 42 7 Furman University 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 6 4 0

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Florida State University

Lafayette

Kent State University 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 2 0 0 3 3 0 2 2 0 12 7 0 College 0 0 16 9 2 11 5 0 N/A N/A N/A 6 4 1 3 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 39 22 3

Kenyon

Franklin & Marshall College 3 1 1 9 4 0 10 5 0 N/A N/A N/A 11 5 0 4 3 0 6 3 1 0 0 0 43 21 2

Georgetown University 10 2 0 30 6 5 19 5 3 21 11 3 17 10 5 46 4 1 57 12 6 32 6 2 232 56 25 Georgia Institute of Technology

4 0 0 9 2 0 19 0 0 7 2 1 12 5 2 3 1 0 7 4 2 3 1 1 64 15 6

Howard University 16 4 2 25 10 1 49 9 2 20 7 2 5 2 1 26 10 3 13 3 3 11 5 1 165 50 15 Hunter College 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 4 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 6 4 0 IE University, Madrid 0 0 0 5 3 1 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 6 4 1 Illinois Institute of Technology 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 3 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 6 3 0 Indiana University Bloomington 1 1 0 44 30 10 10 5 4 23 15 0 50 33 4 46 35 4 57 57 8 32 30 6 263 206 36 Iowa State University 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 1 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 3 0 8 7 0

Louisiana State University 3 3 0 11 6 1 6 0 0 7 1 0 7 5 0 9 3 2 7 5 2 5 5 0 55 28 5

La Salle University 0 0 1 1 0 7 5 1 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 9 7 1 College 0 0 11 4 0 5 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 10 5 1 7 3 0 4 2 0 3 1 0 43 16 1 Valley College 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 6 1 0

Ithaca College 4 2 1 8 5 0 15 9 2 6 6 1 6 5 0 11 6 0 5 4 3 2 1 0 57 38 7

Loyola University Chicago 3 1 0 12 10 0 8 7 2 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 7 5 1 5 5 1 2 2 0 38 31 4

Gettysburg College

3 1 1 27 11 1 56 15 2 28 6 2 33 6 1 34 7 2 41 7 3 53 11 5 275 64 17

Juniata College 1 1 0 3 2 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 7 5 0

1 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 7 6 1 Hampton University 0 0 0 7 6 1 10 3 1 5 2 2 0 0 0 5 4 1 6 5 1 3 2 0 36 22 6 Harvard University 5 0 0 38 0 0 52 1 0 52 6 5 41 0 0 30 1 0 44 1 1 31 1 1 293 10 7 Harvey Mudd College 0 0 0 4 0 0 22 1 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 4 1 1 1 0 0 44 2 1 Haverford College

3 3 1 2 0 0 14 3 1 5 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 7 2 0 1 1 0 35 12 2

0 0 0 6 3 1 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 1 4 3 1 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 13 9 3

4 1 0 30 7 1 18 3 0 17 4 2 15 1 0 17 5 0 9 3 0 15 8 2 125 32 5 Fordham University 11 8 0 44 32 5 23 12 1 28 18 1 16 11 1 30 17 1 14 12 1 12 11 0 178 121 10

Lewis

Loyola University Maryland 17 15 4 19 9 3 42 16 4 17 8 4 8 5 0 14 13 1 17 11 1 9 9 0 143 86 17 Loyola University New Orleans 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 2 1 N/A N/A N/A 2 1 1 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 9 4 2

Hamilton College

APPLIED ACCEPTED ENROLLED

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Northwestern University 6 0 0 55 8 4 52 6 4 43 4 2 54 3 2 42 2 2 63 6 3 44 2 2 359 31 19 Notre Dame of Maryland University 3 3 0 4 2 0 19 8 1 4 2 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 33 18 1

0 0 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 0 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 7 1 0

3 2 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 3 0 8 7 1

15 2 1 83 22 4 60 9 2 56 11 1 110 22 7 57 14 3 93 19 3 70 6 1 544 105 22

Occidental College 0 0 20 4 1 8 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 7 2 0 3 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 39 10 1

1 1 0 1 0 0 2 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 6 4 1 North Carolina State University 6 4 1 15 7 0 14 5 1 27 8 1 19 4 1 27 14 0 18 13 0 14 6 1 140 61 5

0 0 0 15 0 0 43 4 4 35 3 1 22 1 1 19 2 2 32 1 0 29 0 0 195 11 8

Morgan State University

Muhlenberg College 6 5 2 8 4 0 4 3 0 4 3 2 6 3 0 6 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 2 0 37 23 4 New Jersey Institute of Technology

Massachusetts College of Art and Design 3 2 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 3 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 10 6 0

McMaster University

North Carolina A&T State University 4 2 0 9 6 0 14 6 0 7 2 1 0 0 0 9 7 0 5 1 0 3 1 0 51 25 1

1 1 0 0 0 0 6 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 1 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 9 5 1

Maryland Institute College of Art 13 12 4 6 2 0 11 4 1 5 2 0 2 1 0 8 7 2 3 1 0 5 4 0 53 33 7

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Marymount University 2 2 0 2 1 0 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 11 7 1 3 2 0 1 1 1 22 15 2

The Ohio State University 5 0 30 12 3 21 7 0 39 22 3 27 16 2 31 17 4 77 45 6 51 38 3 283 162 21 University 3 1 8 1 0 5 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 4 3

Montana State University

Marist College 0 0 0 5 4 1 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 5 2 1 7 4 0 4 2 0 24 14 2

Middlebury College

4 0 0 27 3 0 20 4 0 N/A N/A N/A 16 3 1 7 1 0 10 0 0 3 0 0 87 11 1

Ohio

1 0 0 27 10 2 15 3 1 11 2 1 16 4 3 6 3 2 18 10 6 2 2 1 96 34 16

0 3 0 0 5 2 0 1 0 0 29 12 1 Ohio Wesleyan University 1 1 0 3 1 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 8 5 0 Old Dominion University 1 1 0 4 2 0 3 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 3 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 14 9 0 Olin College of Engineering 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 1 1 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 10 1 1 Oregon State University 3 3 0 1 0 0 3 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 10 6 0 PaceNewUniversity,YorkCity 7 7 0 10 5 0 11 6 0 6 3 0 2 1 0 17 13 3 7 6 0 2 2 0 62 43 3 Pennsylvania State University 26 14 1 126 78 7 82 32 4 113 65 7 114 75 6 112 87 6 150 97 15 129 116 20 852 564 66 Pepperdine University 0 0 0 6 1 1 5 0 0 5 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 0 1 1 1 24 5 2 Pitzer College 0 0 0 6 2 2 6 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 7 2 2 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 21 5 4 Point Park University 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 6 5 0 Pomona College 0 0 0 11 0 0 14 1 0 12 1 1 9 0 0 5 1 0 3 0 0 1 1 1 55 4 2 Pratt Institute 5 5 0 7 0 0 4 1 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 12 7 2 N/A N/A N/A 5 3 2 38 17 4 Princeton University 4 0 0 41 2 2 60 1 1 52 5 2 33 2 2 28 2 1 31 3 2 26 0 0 275 15 10 Providence College 3 1 0 13 8 2 4 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 5 4 2 2 1 0 3 0 0 1 1 0 31 18 4 Purchase College, SUNY 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 1 1 3 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 8 4 1 APPLIED ACCEPTED ENROLLED

1 1 1 11 4 2 30 15 5 10 5 0 2 2 0 15 10 2 5 1 0 3 3 0 77 41 10

Michigan State University

Morehouse College

North Carolina Central University

Oberlin College 8 6 2 17 10 3 23 13 5 N/A N/A N/A 11 9 2 7 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 67 41 12

McDaniel College 14 12 3 21 10 0 26 12 0 10 4 1 3 3 0 9 7 2 7 3 2 12 10 0 102 61 8

Northeastern University

Miami University, Oxford 4 4 0 19 16 0 3 1 0 12 8 3 20 18 1 12 11 1 29 29 6 22 21 6 121 108 17

2 1 1 22 14 3 13 5 1 16 12 0 15 9 3 11 4 1 20 14 3 20 19 1 119 78 13

Marymount Manhattan College 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 1 1 4 2 1 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 10 6 2

2 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 6 4 1

JohnsonWalter ChurchillWinston ThomasWoottonS. TOTAL

McGill University

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Montclair State University

college bound

Montgomery College 144 124 123 92 92 40 95 59 48 120 106 106 5 4 2 138 135 107 37 37 24 45 45 40 676 602 490

Mount Holyoke College 0 0 0 6 4 0 6 3 1 7 5 0 1 0 0 5 2 0 3 2 0 1 0 0 29 16 1 Mount St. Mary’s University 19 16 9 8 7 1 20 7 1 10 7 1 3 1 0 9 5 1 9 3 1 4 3 0 82 49 14

0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 6 4 0

Norfolk State University

1 1 0 1 1 0 4 1 1 4 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 12 4 1

Nova Southeastern University 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 4 3 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 7 5 2

The New School 4 2 0 15 5 2 5 2 1 5 1 0 4 0 0 13 4 3 3 3 1 1 0 0 50 17 7 New York University 16 2 1 55 6 5 59 7 2 67 12 3 64 13 8 69 12 11 74 12 4 63 14 10 467 78 44

Marquette University 1 1 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 7 6 0

Reed College 1 0 0 9 2 0 7 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 0 0 4 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 24 7 0

top colleges and

Quinnipiac University 1 1 0 4 2 0 4 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 1 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 13 6 0

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talents

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 0 0 0 7 5 2 13 5 1 9 7 1 5 3 0 8 5 1 6 6 2 4 4 0 52 35 7

in U.S. News & World Report and

Salisbury University is an equal educational and employment opportunity institution.

Purdue University 1 0 0 17 8 0 25 11 2 26 7 0 28 17 4 29 18 0 30 20 3 35 24 3 191 105 12

Rice University 3 0 0 19 3 3 25 2 0 19 3 0 14 3 0 12 2 2 31 3 0 21 2 0 144 18 5

Ringling College of Art and Design 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 2 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 1 1 8 4 1

Rhodes College 1 1 0 5 4 0 3 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 5 1 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 14 9 0

Rutgers University—Newark 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A

RutgersNewUniversity—Brunswick 3 1 0 8 6 0 7 3 1 18 13 2 6 3 1 12 9 1 11 5 0 7 7 0 72 47 5

lives, SU ranks among the

and graduate programs, SU is

Roger Williams University 0 0 0 4 3 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 0 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 8 4 0 Rollins College 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 1 0 5 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 12 5 0 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 4 3 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 7 6 0

celebrates

to call home while

National Recognition

Rhode Island School of Design 6 0 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 5 0 0 3 1 1 9 4 2 3 1 0 4 0 0 38 6 3

Home to 7,500 students, state-of-the-art a national arboretum, perfect place charting future.

Offering over 60 majors one of those rare that individual and encourages big ideas.

Queen’s University 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 4 2 0 0 0 0 6 2 0 0 0 0 12 6 0

Rider University 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 3 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 1 8 3 2

2 2 0 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 7 6 0 Saint Joseph’s University 6 4 0 1 0 0 2 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 3 2 2 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 13 8 3 Salisbury University 27 19 1 35 26 1 51 23 2 22 12 0 21 16 3 40 33 3 24 12 2 23 21 1 243 162 13

facilities and

0 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 1 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 7 4 0 Rochester Institute of Technology

your

Roanoke College

Radford University 0 0 0 2 2 0 4 2 1 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 5 5 1 14 11 2

SU is the

Set Your Success in Motion at Salisbury University

3 2 1 13 7 1 16 7 1 10 5 0 10 5 0 6 5 1 9 5 0 16 10 3 83 46 7

Academic Excellence

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Shenandoah University 5 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 7 4 2 Shepherd University 0 0 0 6 2 0 2 2 1 4 2 2 1 0 0 1 1 1 4 2 0 2 1 0 20 10 4 Skidmore College 1 0 0 15 4 0 14 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 12 6 3 5 3 1 5 3 0 0 0 0 52 18 4 Smith College 2 0 0 15 4 1 13 4 1 10 5 0 5 1 0 5 4 3 7 2 1 0 0 0 57 20 6 Southern Methodist University 0 0 0 10 5 1 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 1 0 4 2 0 2 2 1 19 10 2 Spelman College 3 0 0 3 2 0 12 2 0 8 3 0 0 0 0 3 1 1 3 3 0 1 0 0 33 11 1 St. Bonaventure University 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 8 5 0 St. John’s College N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 23 5 John’s University, New York 0 N/A N/A N/A 9 2 3 0 4 4 0 28 20 St. Lawrence University 5 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 17 10 3 St. Mary’s College of Maryland 28 9 36 19 0 28 37 9 14 7 0 16 13 1 269 163

2 St.

1 1 0 7 3 0

2 1 1 1

Sarah Lawrence College 0 0 0 5 2 0 12 8 0 N/A N/A N/A 4 1 0 2 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 24 14 0 Savannah College of Art and Design 8 7 4 1 1 0 3 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 3 2 8 4 0 6 4 1 3 3 3 32 25 10

0 0 0 3 1 1

3 1

18 4 41

1 1 0

1 1 0 10 1 1 9 2 0

2 0 0 3 2 1 5 3

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20 16 4 42 25 3 72

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college bound

San Diego State University 5 5 3 4 2 0 4 2 1 N/A N/A N/A 2 1 0 4 1 0 3 1 0 2 2 0 24 14 4

San José State University 0 0 0 1 1 1 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 6 2 1

Santa Clara University 2 2 0 11 6 2 5 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 6 0 0 8 4 1 6 2 1 4 2 0 42 17 4

School of the Art Institute of Chicago 4 3 1 1 1 0 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 6 4 1 N/A N/A N/A 2 1 0 15 10 2

School of Visual Arts 4 4 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 0 0 3 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 1 1 12 7 1 Scripps College 1 1 0 9 3 2 5 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 5 2 1 2 1 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 25 8 5 Seattle University 1 1 0 3 2 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 3 1 11 8 1

Seton Hall University 2 2 0 7 6 1 6 3 0 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 3 3 0 26 19 1

Texas Tech University 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 8 2 0

Stony Brook University 0 0 0 3 1 1 10 6 0 5 1 0 0 0 0 5 4 1 8 6 0 8 6 1 39 24 3

Stevenson University 14 8 1 15 9 2 18 2 1 9 7 0 1 0 0 12 6 1 6 2 2 4 4 2 79 38 9

Tufts University

account six (6)

1 1 0 8 4 1 4 2 1 N/A N/A N/A 4 3 0 1 1 0 4 4 1 1 0 0 23 15 3

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Stanford University 2 1 0 33 0 0 63 3 3 63 4 2 36 1 0 22 0 0 41 3 3 20 0 0 280 12 8 Stevens Institute of Technology 0 0 0 3 2 0 4 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 5 2 0 4 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 1 1 18 9 1

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0 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 8 4 0

JohnsonWalter ChurchillWinston WoottonS. TOTAL

EinsteinAlbert ChevyBethesda-Chase MontgomeryBlair MontgomeryRichard WhitmanWalt

Swarthmore College 4 0 0 16 1 1 32 1 0 13 0 0 13 2 0 15 0 0 15 0 0 7 1 1 115 5 2 Syracuse University 7 3 0 68 22 4 33 10 0 21 10 0 49 31 3 47 21 5 28 21 2 27 17 0 280 135 14 Temple University 29 22 1 31 17 1 55 24 5 28 11 1 14 10 0 30 24 6 17 12 0 23 20 2 227 140 16

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United States Naval Academy 0 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 4 3 3 7 4 4 University at Albany, SUNY 1 0 0 2 0 University at (0.625%)

Trinity College Dublin 1 0 0 5 2 0 2 1 1 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 3 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 12 4 1

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United States Air Force Academy 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 1 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 4 3 2 7 4 3

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Tulane University 6 3 1 41 6 3 20 2 1 19 4 0 41 8 5 23 5 2 27 8 4 21 6 3 198 42 19

a Citibank personal checking

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1 0 0 7 3 1 3 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 1 14 5 2

any funds we determine you will need for a down payment or closing costs; Deposit Account

Texas Christian University 0 0 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 2 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 8 3 0

Towson University 77 55 16 76 50 9 173 73 15 126 79 9 43 30 6 116 80 12 59 55 10 96 85 14 766 507 91

Glossary Balances means balances less means and/or as well as certiﬁcates of deposit and money market accounts; means IRAs and investments held in Citigroup Global Markets Inc. accounts.

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6 0 0 73 4 1 29 1 1 34 1 0 60 6 2 39 7 4 44 2 1 25 4 3 310 25 12

Trinity College

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Texas A&M University

Trinity Washington University 2 0 0 3 1 0 17 5 2 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 24 8 2

SUNY College of ScienceEnvironmentalandForestry 4 2 0 3 1 0 3 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 10 4 0

1 1 0 1 0 0 2 1 0 4 1 0 1 1 0 3 1 0 6 3 0 4 2 1 22 10 1

Susquehanna University 2 2 0 5 2 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 4 3 0 13 8 0

off interest rate

account ﬁve

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University of Chicago 1 0 0 24 2 2 35 3 2 52 2 1

college bound

The University of Arizona 3 3 0 19 9 2 9 2 0 11 6 1 11 8 0 8 5 2 17 7 2 8 7 1 86 47 8

University of the Arts 2 2 0 1 0 0 4 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 7 3 0

University of British Columbia 0 0 0 14 4 0 7 3 0 4 1 0 10 3 0 7 5 1 3 0 0 1 1 0 46 17 1 University of California,Berkeley 11 2 0 36 1 1 44 5 1 45 6 3 43 1 1 45 2 1 74 5 2 40 4 1 338 26 10

University of Alabama 1 1 0 13 6 0 7 2 0 7 1 0 9 9 1 3 2 1 5 4 1 6 5 0 51 30 3

University of California, Davis 2 2 0 15 11 1 5 3 0 N/A N/A N/A 11 5 1 11 7 0 9 2 1 7 3 0 60 33 3

23 2 2 26 2 1 25 4 2 21 0 0 207 15 10 University of Cincinnati 1 0 0 2 1 0 4 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 4 2 1 1 1 1 3 0 0 5 5 0 20 10 2

University

University of California, Irvine 1 0 0 13 8 0 6 2 1 N/A N/A N/A 14 3 2 15 6 1 15 6 0 12 5 0 76 30 4 University ofLosCalifornia,Angeles

of Colorado Boulder 5 4 0 65 40 8 38 18 0 16 7 1 47 31 5 35 26 3 21 18 2 16 15 3 243 159 22

Denver 0 0 0 6 4 1 1 0 0 4 4 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 14 10 1 University of Connecticut 3 2 0 18 13 1 10 3 0 16 11 0 11 7 1 12 6 0 14 6 0 22 18 0 106 66 2 APPLIED ACCEPTED ENROLLED GTM ARCHITECTS.COM 7735 old georgetown road, suite 700 bethesda, md 240.333.200020814 Winner A VoteTopGetter Readers’ Pick, Best2017–2021BestWinnerArchitectArchitect for Custom 2016–2020Home Readers’ Pick, A Top Vote Getter Best Architect for Custom Home 2008–2015Best2022Architect

University of SantaCalifornia,Barbara 6 3 0 31 7 1 13 3 0 14 10 0 36 5 2 22 7 0 31 13 4 13 7 0 166 55 7 University ofSantaCalifornia,Cruz 3 3 1 12 8 0 5 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 8 4 0 10 5 1 7 4 0 0 0 0 45 26 2

University of California, Riverside 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 0 2 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 7 4 0 University of SanCalifornia,Diego 5 4 0 32 10 1 13 4 0 16 4 0 32 5 0 23 6 1 26 4 1 25 10 0 172 47 3

7 2 1 44 5 4 39 5 1 43 10 3 50 4 3 34 2 2 75 13 2 33 4 0 325 45 16

University of Alabama at Birmingham 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 2 0 0 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 3 1 6 7 1

University of Central Florida 0 0 0 4 1 0 3 1 0 9 3 0 2 0 0 5 1 0 3 0 0 3 1 1 29 7 1

University Colorado

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University of Denver 3 3 0 17 9 0 5 2 0 4 1 0 14 7 1 5 5 0 4 4 0 3 2 0 55 33 1

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University of Illinois Chicago 1 0 0 4 2 0 5 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 0 0 2 1 0 4 0 0 2 2 0 19 6 0 University of Urbana-ChampaignIllinois 0 0 0 12 1 0 36 11 0 25 5 0 24 5 0 22 11 0 30 14 1 34 11 2 183 58 3

University of Iowa 0 0 0 5 0 0 7 4 0 N/A N/A N/A 4 3 1 0 0 0 4 2 0 4 4 0 24 13 1

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University of Maine 2 1 0 7 6 1 6 2 1 5 4 0 1 0 0 1 0

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University of Michigan 12 2 0 99 16 8 71 8 3 71 11 3 118 13 6 83 8 0 85 17 6 69 6 2 608 81 28

University of Massachusetts Boston

1 1 0 1 1 0 4 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 3 1 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 2 2 0 12 10 1

University of Montana

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University of Rochester 5 1 0 34 13 4 25 10 0 18 7 1 26 9 0 15 8 1 10 7 2 10 7 2 143 62 10

10 1 0 69 5 4 49 6 1 72 13 6 74 6 0 62 3 2 74 6 2 71 7 5 481 47 20

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University of Mississippi 0 0 0 4 3 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 4 2 0 1 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 1 11 7 1

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of Massachusetts Lowell 0 0 0 3 3 1 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 2 1 N/A N/A N/A 1 1 1 7 6 3

University of Redlands 0 0 0 2 1 0 3 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 7 4 0

1 0 0 2 1 0 3 2 1 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 2 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 8 5 1

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University of San Diego 2 0 0 14 4 0 6 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 8 4 0 6 1 0 6 3 0 4 0 0 46 12 0

University of Massachusetts Amherst

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University of North Carolina at Greensboro

University of Missouri

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The University of Texas at Austin 2 0 0 20 2 2 16 4 1 14 2 1 28 7 2 14 1 1 33 4 2 30 5 0 157 25 9

University of Utah 0 0 0 4 2 1 3 0 0 N/A N/A N/A

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University of North Carolina at Asheville 3 2 0 0 0 0 6 2 0 N/A N/A N/A 3 2 0 2 1 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 14 7 0

1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 6 2 0

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University of North Carolina at Charlotte 3 3 0 3 1 0 3 0 0 7 5 0 1 1 1 3 2 1 N/A N/A N/A 0 0 0 20 12 2

University of Richmond 6 2 0 30 9 1 9 1 0 12 3 0 25 3 0 12 4 1 8 3 1 11 4 1 113 29 4

University of South Florida 2 0 0 6 1 0 3 0 0 4 4 1 6 2 0 6 3 2 5 2 0 7 7 1 39 19 4

University of Tampa 5 1 0 15 7 0 15 4 0 9 5 0 12 4 0 17 6 2 19 4 1 15 13 3 107 44 6 University of Tennessee,Knoxville 1 1 0 15 7 1 3 1 1 8 6 3 13 9 0 10 5 1 8 7 2 9 5 1 67 41 9

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8 7 0 25 15 1 27 13 2 12 8 2 18 10 0 27 18 4 22 14 2 18 14 3 157 99 14

University of Southern California 8 0 0 50 8 2 40 4 0 36 7 1 35 3 1 30 5 1 52 10 3 36 6 1 287 43 9

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University of Pittsburgh 26 19 2 114 76 5 76 29 2 103 66 3 85 52 3 85 53 4 103 92 6 111 90 5 703 477 30

TOTAL Vassar College 1 0 0 9 1 0 19 4 3 4 3 1 8 2 0 5 2 1 7 0 0 1 0 0 54 12 5 For more information, please contact Jennifer Matheson Jennifer@PotomacPizza.com or 301-299-2170 P O T O MACCHAMBER O F COMMER POT Come for the fun middleCommunityisourname traditionSteepedin PO BOX 59160, POTOMAC, MD 20859 www.PotomacChamber.org college bound APPLIED ACCEPTED ENROLLED

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Grades: K-12 Gender: Co-ed Lower School Enrollment: 146 Middle School Enrollment: 205 Upper School Enrollment: 549

Grades: 12 months - Grade 12 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 350 Average class size: 16

Accreditations/Affiliations: American Montessori Society, Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, National Association of Independent Schools, Association of Independent Maryland & DC Schools

The Auburn School, Silver Spring Campus

Religious affiliation: None Seniors with National Merit recognition: N/A Languages offered: Spanish Lowest tuition for 5-day students: Please inquire

Student/teacher ratio: Lower School, 13:1; Middle-Upper School, 10:1

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Accreditations/Affiliations: Montessori Schools of Maryland, Accredited Kindergarten, Licensed by State of MD Founded: 1983

10601 Falls Road Potomac, MD 20854

Students receiving financial aid: 47% Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Teacher retention rate: 90% Theater productions per year: 1 Accreditations/Affiliations: AdvancEd/ Mansef

Bullis School

Grades: K-8 Gender: Co-ed

2022-2023

Bethesda Magazine’s PRIVATE SCHOOL GUIDE will help you to find the school that’s the best fit. In the following pages, we provide essential information on 30 schools. You’ll find the information you need to narrow your search and to start your exploration in a targeted and effective way.

13500 Layhill Road Silver Spring, MD 20906 www.barrie.org301-576-2800

Founded: 1932

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Total number of students: 65 Average class size: 10 Student/teacher ratio: 10:2

Religious affiliation: N/A

Number of art studios: 3 Theater productions per year: 2 Music ensembles: 5

Students receiving financial aid: 47% Uniform: No Bus transportation: Yes Number of AP courses offered: 4 Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: 13 Varsity sports: Soccer, volleyball, cross country, basketball, track & field Interscholastic sports (middle): Flag football, track & field, soccer, cross country, basketball

Barrie School

Religious affiliation: None Grade foreign language first offered: Pre-K Languages offered: French Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $12,700 Annual tuition for grade 12: N/A Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Number of art studios: 1 Theater productions per year: 1 Music ensembles: 3

Bethesda, MD 20814

9115 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20910 www.theauburnschool.org301-588-8048

The Bethesda Montessori School 7611 Clarendon Road

Our area boasts a number of excellent private schools, but choosing the right one for your child may not always be easy. There are scores of good schools to choose from and a countless number of factors that you need to consider. Co-ed or single gender? A school with a religious affiliation or not? What’s the educational philosophy and approach?

Seniors with National Merit recognition: N/A Grade foreign language first offered: 6 Languages offered: Spanish, French, Independent Study Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $19,980 Annual tuition for grade 12: $34,710 (includes books)

Founded: 2011

Average class size: 15

www.bethesdamontessori.com301-986-1260

Grades: 3-6-year-olds, Pre-K & Accredited Kindergarten Gender: All Total number of students: 80 Average class size: Offering three, multiage Montessori classrooms

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www.bullis.org301-299-8500

Bullis School

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Accreditations/Affiliations: Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Maryland Department of Education, National Association of Independent Schools, Independent Education, Association of Independent Maryland Schools, Secondary School Admission Test Board, The Black Student Fund Founded: 1930

AP courses offered: 22

US Varsity sports: Baseball, basketball, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field, volleyball, wrestling

Gender: Co-ed

MS Arts: Grade 6 & 7 students participate in visual arts classes and shows and one performing arts class (choices: band, strings, chorus, dance, theater). Grade 8 students choose a major and minor area of the arts in which to delve more deeply. US Arts: Students may pursue an Honors Capstone. Arts students participate in multiple shows and performances during the course of the year. US courses are offered in music, audio engineering, theatre, dance, and visual arts.

Number of AP courses offered: 0 Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: N/A Varsity sports: Cross country, dance, soccer, tennis, volleyball, basketball, swimming, wrestling, indoor track, baseball, softball, and track and field Interscholastic sports (middle): cross country, soccer, volleyball, basketball, swimming, wrestling, baseball, softball, and track and field

Students receiving financial aid: 33% Uniform: Yes

Number of art studios: 6 Theater productions per year: 9 Music ensembles: 12

Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School

MS Interscholastic sports: Baseball, basketball, cross country, field hockey, football, lacrosse, soccer, softball, tennis, track & field, wrestling

Students receiving financial aid: 50% Uniform: None

cesjds.org301-692-4870

Student/teacher ratio: 8:1 Languages offered: French, Spanish, Latin, Mandarin

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Bullis is an independent, co-ed private school for kindergarten through grade 12. We are situated on a stunning 102acre campus in Potomac, Maryland just outside Washington, D.C. Bullis School provides a rich intellectual experience that inspires students to be critical thinkers, lifelong learners, and impactful global citizens. Our student-centered community embraces diversity, honors integrity, and fosters belonging. Meaningful opportunities in academics, arts, athletics, and service stimulate individual and collective growth and enhance joy.

Number of art studios: 4, plus dance studio, 2 makerspaces

Teacher retention rate: 92%

Total number of students: 900 Average class size: 18 Student/teacher ratio: 8:1

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Grades: Junior Kindergarten-Grade 12

Bus transportation: Yes, throughout the metro area

Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $29,690 Annual tuition for grade 12: $20,810 (First Semester Only)

Enrollment: Lower School: 146 Middle School: 205 Upper School: 549 Grades: K-12 Average Class Size: 15 Student/Teacher Ratio: 8:1 Annual Tuition (Grade 12): $52,190 Year Founded: 1930 SCHOOL PROFILE

Bus transportation: Yes

Religious affiliation: Jewish Seniors with National Merit recognition: 6 Grade foreign language first offered: Junior Kindergarten Languages offered: Hebrew, Spanish, and Arabic

Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $39,470 Annual tuition for grade 12: $52,190

winter, and spring musicals and ensembles

10601 Falls Road Potomac, MD 20854 301-299-8500

Music ensembles: Chorus, chamber singers, concert band, concert choir, jazz ensemble, jazz workshop, string ensemble,

1901 E. Jefferson St Rockville, MD 20852

LS Arts: Grade-based theatrical productions, 5th-grade musical, visual arts classes & shows, movement classes, general music class and band, string, and choral ensembles. All groups perform several times during the school year.

Total number of students: 355 Average class size: 15 Student/teacher ratio: 6:1

4101 Connecticut Ave. NW Washington, D.C. 20008 www.burkeschool.org202-362-8882

Gender: Girls

Students receiving financial aid: 30%

Concord Hill School 6050 Wisconsin Ave. Chevy Chase, MD 20815 www.concordhill.org301-654-2626

Religious affiliation: Catholic Grade foreign language first offered: 6 Languages offered: Spanish, French

Caring | Challenging | Community 10601 Falls Road Potomac, MD www.bullis.org 900 Students—Co-ed—K-12

Uniform: Yes Bus transportation: Yes

Connelly School of the Holy Child 9029 Bradley Blvd. Potomac, MD 20854 www.holychild.org301-365-0955

Lowest tuition for 5-day students: Upper School $36,690 Middle School $32,960

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Students receiving financial aid: 13% Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Teacher retention rate: 88% Number of art studios: 1

Annual tuition for grade 12: $36,690

Annual applications per opening: 3

Music ensembles: 4-6

Accreditations/Affiliations: Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools, The Maryland Department of Education, National Association for College Admission Counseling, the Potomac and Chesapeake Association for College Admission Counseling, the College Board, AIMS, Independent Education, Archdiocese of Washington, Black Student Fund, Latino Student Fund, Holy Child Network of Schools, National Coalition of Girls’ Schools, One Schoolhouse

Founded: 1961

Edmund Burke School

Grades: 6-12 Gender: Co-ed

Grades: Preprimary (age 3) through Grade 3 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 107 Average class size: 15 Student/teacher ratio: averages 5:1

Number of AP courses offered: 17, plus 23 Honors courses

Varsity sports: Soccer, field hockey, volleyball, cross country, tennis, basketball, swim & dive, lacrosse, softball,

Religious affiliation: None Grade foreign language first offered: Preprimary (age 3) Languages offered: Spanish Lowest tuition for 5-day students: Preprimary- Half Day - $18,250 Full Day- $24,250 PrimaryThirdFirst-Kindergarten-$26,950$30,750SecondGrades$32,550Grade-$32,750

Grades: 6-12

Annual applications per opening: 3 Founded: 1965

Accreditations/Affiliations: Accredited by AIMS

Accreditations/Affiliations: AIMS/IE, NAIS, NAEYC, Black Student Fund, Latino Student Fund Founded: 1965

track & field, equestrian, golf, ice hockey Interscholastic sports (middle): Soccer, field hockey, basketball, swim & dive, lacrosse, softball, equestrian Number of art studios: 2 Theater productions per year: 3 (with additional performing opportunities like Evening of the Arts)

Geneva Day School

Number of art studios: 1

Theater productions per year: 1 Music ensembles: 1 Accreditations/Affiliations: NAGC; National Consortium of Secondary STEM Schools (NCSSS)

Number of AP courses offered: 9 Varsity sports: 12 Interscholastic sports: 12 Number of art studios: 3 Theater productions per year: 4 Music ensembles: 13 Accreditations/Affiliations: Association of Independent Maryland and DC Schools, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington, National Association of Independent Schools, Potomac Valley Athletic Conference Founded: 1968

Annual applications per opening: 15 Founded: 2009

Total number of students: 165 Average class size: 18 Student/teacher ratio: 6:1 – varies by age Religious affiliation: Non-denominational Grade foreign language first offered: 3 years old

Students receiving financial aid: 20% Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Teacher retention rate: 98%

Accreditations/Affiliations: Maryland State Department of Education Office of Childcare, National Childcare Association, Maryland State Department of Education Office of Nonpublic Schools, Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education Certified Green School, Maryland State Childcare Association, National Association of Education for Young Children

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Grades: PS-8 Gender: Co-ed

Total number of students: 100 Average class size: 12 Student/teacher ratio: 6:1 Religious affiliation: None Seniors with National Merit recognition: N/A Grade foreign language first offered: Preschool Languages offered: Spanish Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $20,170 Students receiving financial aid: 50% Uniform: No Bus transportation: Yes

11810 Falls Road Potomac, MD 20854 www.feynmanschool.org301-770-4370

Founded: 1965

Georgetown Preparatory School

Feynman School

Languages offered: Spanish, Chinese, and Sign Language soon to return Lowest tuition for 5-day half-day students: $8,350

Number of AP courses offered: N/A Interscholastic sports (middle): N/A

Enrollment: 498 Grades: 9-12 Average Class Size: 16 Annual Tuition (Grade 12): $40,565 Year Founded: 1789 SCHOOL PROFILE

Grades: 2 years old-Kindergarten Gender: Co-ed

10900 Rockville Pike • North Bethesda, MD 20852 • 301-493-5000 www.gprep.org

Total number of students: 315 Average class size: 14 Student/teacher ratio: 6:1 Religious affiliation: None Grade foreign language first offered: 3 years old Languages offered: Spanish, French Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $43,363 Annual tuition for grade 12: $45,996 Students receiving financial aid: 35% Uniform: No Bus transportation: Yes

11931 Seven Locks Road Potomac, MD 20854 www.genevadayschool.org301-340-7704

Educating young men since 1789 and from all over the world, Georgetown Preparatory School provides a strong, meaningful, and diverse educational experience for all of our boys, preparing them for not only college but also for life in the global community. As a Jesuit institution steeped in a sacred mission of forming men of competence, conscience, commitment, and compassion, Georgetown Prep has an outstanding faculty and staff that understands and educates to all facets of our boys’ development. The teaching and learning at Georgetown Prep immerses our students in challenging academics, with STEM, humanities, visual and performing arts, and global studies offerings. Additionally, Georgetown Prep provides opportunities for physical fitness and teamwork through a wide offering of 33 first-rate athletic teams. In living out our Jesuit mission and Catholic identity, we work to develop men for others who will make a difference–through building relationships and bonds with each other and their teachers; through forming their spiritual self; through developing a social awareness from retreats, service projects, and leadership and outreach opportunities in the Greater DC area. Georgetown Prep offers first-class campus facilities as a day and boarding school, allowing for outdoor exposure, social interactions, program enhancements for academics, athletics, and the arts, and for the continued professional development of our faculty and staff. Located on 93 acres in North Bethesda, the campus is Metro accessible and offers bus transportation. Guests are welcome on campus at the Open House on Sunday, October 16, 12:00-3:00 PM. Visit www.gprep.org/admissions.

Number of art studios: 2 Theater productions per year: 3 Music ensembles: 3 Accreditations/Affiliations: Accreditation:

Annual applications per opening: 3.5/1

Potomac, MD 20854

Religious affiliation: Catholic, Salesian Programs: Bridge program with Georgetown University

Uniform: No Bus transportation: N/A Accreditations/Affiliations: MSDE, EXCELS, NAEYC

9905 Counselman Road

Bus transportation: Several public buses service Georgetown Visitation, including the G2, D6, D2, 30s series, and the Circulator

Grades: 9-12

Gender: Girls

www.gprep.org301-493-5000

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Average class size: 16 Student/teacher ratio: 8:1

www.visi.org202-337-3350

1524 Thirty-fifth St NW Washington, D.C. 20007

Number of AP courses offered: 17, plus 13 honors classes

Total number of students: 120 Average class size: Infants: 6, toddlers: 9, twos: 12, threes: 20, fours: 20 student/teacher ratio: infants & toddlers: 1-3, twos: 1-6, threes & fours: 1-10

Annual applications per opening: Varies

Total number of students: 505 Average class size: 15 Student/teacher ratio: 9:1

Lowest tuition for 5-day students: Varies by age

WEʼRE FIRED UP! See you at Open House Sunday, October 16, 12-3 p.m. Visit our 93-acre campus and learn more about a Jesuit education at Georgetown Prep, preparing young men to lead and serve with confidence, courage, and compassion.

Georgetown Hill Early School

Number of AP courses offered: 25 Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: 95% Varsity sports: Football, soccer, cross country, basketball, wrestling, hockey, swimming & diving, winter track, baseball, lacrosse, track, rugby, tennis, golf

Georgetown Preparatory School

Religious affiliation: None

Grades: Infants, toddlers, twos, threes, pre-K, transitional Kindergarten Gender: Co-ed

Founded: 1980 by Ellen Cromwell

Age or Grade foreign language first offered: 3+ Languages offered: Spanish

10900 Rockville Pike North Bethesda, MD 20852

Grades: 9-12

www.georgetownhill.com301-527-1377

Gender: Boys

Total number of students: 498

Religious affiliation: Jesuit (Catholic) Grade foreign language first offered: 9 Languages offered: 5

Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $40,565 Students receiving financial aid: 28% Uniform: Sport coat and tie Bus transportation: Bus transportation from the Grosvenor–Strathmore (Red Line) Metro stop. Students commuting to Georgetown Prep from Virginia can take advantage of a new joint transportation option with Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart.

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Maryland State Department of Education, Jesuit Province of Maryland

Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School

Languages offered: Spanish, French Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $33,750 Students receiving financial aid: 33% Uniform: Yes

Interscholastic sports: 13

Founded: 1789

Teacher retention rate: 89%

Number of art studios: 2 (including new

Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: 88% Varsity sports: Basketball, crew, cross country, field hockey, ice hockey, indoor track, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, track & field, volleyball

Theater/Music productions per year: 4 (a fall musical, a spring dramatic production, Christmas and spring concerts featuring vocal, instrumental, and dance)

Grades: Pre-K-Grade 12

Number of AP courses offered: 8 Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: 95% Varsity sports: Soccer, basketball, volleyball, swimming, track & field, tennis Interscholastic sports (middle): Soccer, basketball, volleyball, swimming, track &

Grades: Age 3-Grade 8 Gender: Gender Inclusive Total number of students: 160 Average class size: 11 Student/teacher ratio: 7:1

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Uniform: No Bus transportation: DC, MD, NOVA Teacher retention rate: 90%

www.greenacres.org301-881-4100

$28,000 (Pre-K)

$39,890 (2nd–4th grade)

13500 Layhill Road • Silver Spring, MD 20906 • 301-576-2800 www.barrie.org/admission

Located in Silver Spring, Maryland, Barrie School provides an extraordinary learning environment integrating local, national and global educational opportunities. Our 45-acre campus is home to the world-renowned Barrie Institute for Advanced Montessori Studies— one of the largest school-based teacher training programs in the country—and Barrie Camp, a Washington, D.C. area tradition since the 1950s.

STEAM Innovation Lab)

Barrie School is a progressive independent school that inspires excellence, intrinsic motivation, and responsibility through innovation in learning. Serving a diverse and inclusive student body, our intentional educational throughline—from Montessori (12 months to Grade 5) to Project-Based Learning (Grade 6 to Grade 12)—cultivates learning that lasts. Our challenging educational experiences unlock intrinsic motivation and innovation in both students and faculty. And our community fosters a deep sense of belonging and honors student voice and responsibility. All of this comes together to create engaged citizens with diverse and inclusive worldviews who are confident to be and advocate for themselves.

Enrollment: 350 Grades: 12 monthsgrade 12 Average Class Size: 16 Annual Tuition (Grade 12): $34,710 Year Founded: 1932 SCHOOL PROFILE

Washington D.C.

Religious affiliation: None Grade foreign language first offered: Pre-K Languages offered: Spanish Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $20,000 (Half-day Pre-K)

$33,500 (Kindergarten) $37,000 (1st grade)

Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 520 Average class size: 16 (Elementary and Upper Schools)

Barrie School

Student/teacher ratio: 18:1

German International School

Religious affiliation: None Programs: Strong focus on World Languages and STEM Grade foreign language first offered: German starting in Pre-K Languages offered: German, English, French, Spanish, Latin Lowest tuition for 5-day students: 2-year-old (half day): $18,530 (full day also available); 3 & 4-year-old (half day): $15,215 (full-day also available); Kindergarten (5-year-old program): $22,500; Grade 1-6: $ 23,620; Grades 7-12: $ 24,405

8617 Chateau Drive Potomac, MD 20854

11701 Danville Drive North Bethesda, MD 20852

Number of art studios: 1 Theater/Music productions per year: 4 Music ensembles: Choir and orchestra Accreditations/Affiliations: Accredited by the Federal Republic of Germany’s Central Office for Schools Abroad and approved by Maryland State Department of Education, Member of AISGW, Part of Network of 140 German Schools around the globe

Music ensembles: 1 instrumental, 3 vocal (Chorus, Madrigals, Gospel Choir) Accreditations/Affiliations: National Catholic Educational Association, Visitation Salesian Network, International Coalition of Girls Schools, National Association of Independent Schools, Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington, Middle States, Archdiocese of Washington, the Black Student Fund, the Latino Student Fund, DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, Crimsonbridge Foundation, One Schoolhouse Founded: 1799

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www.giswashington.org301-365-3807

Founded: 1961

Green Acres School

What creates such a following? The Geneva Method, which promotes studentled discovery of traditional pre-academics, stellar instruction from passionate, highly trained staff, and inspiring settings in which to learn and play. . . An irresistible formula.

As Potomac’s hidden gem, Geneva Day School provides exceptional classes and extraordinary programs for children aged two through kindergarten.

Whether skipping stones at the nearby creek, conducting a science experiment, or painting according to artistic inspiration, Geneva students hold a lifelong love of learning in their hands. . .And hearts.

Enrollment: 165 Grades: 2 years KindergartenoldAverage Class Size: 18 Student/Teacher Ratio: 6:1 (varies by age) Year Founded: 1965 SCHOOL PROFILE

Maryland

11931 Seven Locks Road • Potomac, MD 20854 • 301-340-7704 www.genevadayschool.org

Geneva

Encouraging a lifelong love of learning!

Geneva Day School

Geneva’s enriching, academic curriculum is powered by STEAM (science-technologyengineering-arts-math) and includes specialized Art, Environmental Education, Mindfulness and Physical Education. An “outdoor classroom” presides over gorgeous, Maryland Green School grounds, often visited by the very butterflies that serve as the school’s mascot.

Hands on experiences

11931 Seven Locks Road Potomac, MD 20854 301 340 7704 genevadayschool.org curriculum Method Green School

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Join as a two. . .This nurturing and innovative school grows with you. Many students maintain lifelong friendships and a number of graduates enroll their children so as to grant the gift of a Geneva education.

Join us as a two. . . We will grow with you

$39,990 (5th–6th grade) $40,990 (7th–8th grade) Annual tuition for grade 8: $40,990 Students receiving financial aid: 50% Uniform: No Bus transportation: Yes Teacher retention rate: 82% Interscholastic sports (middle): Soccer, cross country, basketball, softball Number of art studios: 3 Theater productions per year: Multiple Music ensembles: Middle school vocal & instrumental ensemble; 4th grade chorus Founded: 1934

STEAM: Each division has dedicated science, library, art, and maker spaces and classes.

Enrollment: 65 Grades: K-8 Average Class Size: 10 Student/Teacher Ratio: 10:2 Year Founded: 2011 SCHOOL PROFILE

The Auburn School has campuses in Silver Spring and Chantilly, Virginia.

Grades: PK-8 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 335 Average class size: 16 Student/teacher ratio: 8:1 Religious affiliation: None

McLean School 8224 Lochinver Lane Potomac, MD 20854 301-299-8277

The Maddux School 11614 Seven Locks Road Rockville, MD 20854 www.madduxschool.org301-469-0223

Lowell School

Music and Theater: Students begin music education in Pre-Primary, carrying through to Middle School when they can participate in ensembles such as Pop Band. Every year, each Middle School grade and some Primary grades perform in the campus’ black box theater and dance studio, learning various elements ranging from set design and sound to acting.

Annual Applications per opening: Please inquire Founded: 2004

Grade foreign language first offered: Kindergarten Languages offered: Spanish Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $21,650 (Half day, Pre-Primary)

Athletics: Lowell’s indoor pool is used in the PE program. The school also supports after-school teams for different age groups, including cross country, track and field (as young as kindergarten in the spring), basketball, soccer,

Frances.garcia@auburnschool.org • www.theauburnschool.org

The Auburn School integrates social skills and pragmatic language development throughout the curriculum and school day using research-based programs and educational best-practices, and provides a challenging academic curriculum featuring multi-sensory instruction, research-based curriculum and appropriate student accommodations.

baseball, and lacrosse. Founded: 1965

The Auburn School is an independent day-school with a specialized program that offers a stimulating educational program for intellectually engaged students with challenges in the areas of communication, socialization, language and organization. Auburn’s program simultaneously supports the development of academic skills, social competency and pragmatic language in an engaging educational environment. Our program is appropriate for students who can learn successfully and appropriately in a small classroom setting.

1640 Kalmia Road NW Washington, D.C. 20012 www.lowellschool.org202-577-2000

The Auburn School, Silver Spring Campus

Grades: PK-2 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 42 Average class size: 8-10 in PK; 10-12 in K-2nd Student/teacher ratio: 4:1 Religious affiliation: None Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $32,500 Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Specials: Art, library and technology, music, physical education, yoga, plus integrated speech/OT Accreditations/Affiliations: State approved curriculum

The Auburn School grows the social and academic potential of bright students with social and communication challenges.

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9115 Georgia Ave. • Silver Spring, MD 20910 • 301-588-8048

Students receiving financial aid: 1/3 Uniform: No Bus transportation: Yes Interscholastic sports: Co-ed cross country, boys soccer, girls soccer, boys basketball, girls basketball, co-ed swimming, co-ed jr. track & field, co-ed sr. track, girls lacrosse, baseball Number of art studios: 3

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For more information about De Chantal and our admissions process please contact Catherine Tomsheck at ctomsheck@dechantal.org or visit our website dechantal.org.

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www.dechantal.org

Enrollment: 310 Grades: PK-8 Average Class Size: Average class size (Pre-K): 16 Average class size (K-8): 18-20 Student/Teacher Ratio: 17:1 Year Founded: 1953 SCHOOL PROFILE DECHANTAL.ORG Please register via email: CTOMSHECK@DECHANTAL.ORG FALL OPEN HOUSE October November12th11th

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St. Jane de Chantal is a Catholic, Coeducational Elementary School educating children for over 70 years. We have two classrooms per grade and average 18-20 students in each classroom. In recognition of academic excellence, The US Department of Education has twice named De Chantal a Blue Ribbon School.

Through proud traditions and a close, caring community, De Chantal educates students through strong values and academic excellence. De Chantal is the school where your child will grow in spirit and mind, the school where your child will be known and loved, and the school where you can be involved.

St. Jane de Chantal Georgetown Bethesda, MD 20814 301-530-1221

Although, academics are a priority and teachers are dedicated to the educational success of each child, we also value the whole child. De Chantal recognizes that our students will spend their childhood with us, and we strive to cultivate a sense of curiosity and discovery in the children.

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Music ensembles: 4 (choral, strings, band, hand bells)

90 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2022 | BETHESDAMAGAZINE.COM Age3toGrade3 Project-based learning Anti-Bias Education 6 0 5 0 W i s c o n s i n A v e C h e v y C h a s e , M D 2 0 8 1 5 w w w . c o n c o r d h i l l . o r g The MontessoriBethesdaSchool Celebrating Our 40th Year 3 - 6 year olds, Pre-K & Kindergarten 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. 301.986.1260 WWW. BETHESDAMONTESSORI.COM LANGUAGE • MATH • ART MUSIC • SCIENCE SPORTS • DAY CARE • CAMP NOW ENROLLING Fully Licensed & Accredited WINNER

8821 River Road Bethesda, MD 20817

Religious affiliation: None Grade foreign language first offered: Grade 5 Languages offered: Spanish, Latin, American Sign Language

Number of art studios: 4

Uniform: Dress code

Students receiving financial aid: 40% Uniform: Yes

Languages offered: Spanish, French, Latin, Mandarin Chinese

Average class size: 10-12 Student/teacher ratio: 6:1 Religious affiliation: None Grade foreign language first offered:

Students receiving financial aid: 23%

Theater productions per year: 2 (fall play and spring musical)

Gender: Co-ed

comedy per year, 1 musical per year, 2 musical concerts per division, talent shows Music ensembles: Strings Ensemble, Jazz Band, Rock & Blues Band, Pop, Chorus Accreditations/Affiliations: Maryland Department of Education, National Association of Independent Schools, Association of Independent Maryland Schools, Association of Independent Schools in Greater Washington, The Black Student Fund, Latino Student Fund, International Dyslexia Association, Learning Disabilities Association, Secondary School Admission Test Board, Association of Independent School Admission Professionals, National Business Officers Association

Accreditations/Affiliations: AIMS, AISGW

Total number of students: 450

Total number of students: 140

HIGH SCHOOL: 9411 Connecticut Ave. Kensington, MD 20895

Oneness-Family Montessori School

www.norwoodschool.org301-365-2595

pre-kindergarten

Gender: Co-ed

Teacher retention rate: 90% Number of AP courses offered: 10+

Varsity sports: Volleyball, softball, lacrosse, track & field, cross country, soccer, wrestling, basketball, golf, tennis, baseball Interscholastic sports (middle): Volleyball, softball, volleyball lacrosse, track & field, tennis, golf, cross country, soccer, wrestling, basketball

Grades: Ages 2-Grade 12

Grades: PK-8 Gender: Co-ed

Norwood School

Total number of students: 495 Average class size: 10+ Student/teacher ratio: 7:1

Bus transportation: Yes

6701 Wisconsin Ave. Chevy Chase, MD 20815

Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $40,990

Number of art studios: 4 Theater productions per year: 1 drama/

Founded: 1952

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Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $26,850

Interscholastic sports (middle): Soccer, field hockey, volleyball, basketball, lacrosse, baseball, softball, cross country, track & field

www.onenessfamilymontessorischool.org301-652-7751

Annual tuition for grade 12: $52,990

Founded: 1954

Bus transportation: Morning and afternoon routes available

Grades: K-12

www.mcleanschool.org

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Oneness-Family Montessori School, which serves students in preschool through high school, and is home to students from more than 60 countries, is a family-focused school that encourages a strong partnership between school and home. Its learning program combines a research-based Montessori curriculum with an emphasis on well-being, community, character and lifelong learning.

6701 Wisconsin Ave. • Chevy Chase, MD 20815 HIGH SCHOOL: 9411 Connecticut Ave. • Kensington, MD 20895 301-652-7751 • www.onenessfamily.org

Oneness-Family School

Enrollment: 140 Grades: Ages Grade2-12 Average Class Size: 20 Student/Teacher Ratio: 12:1 Year Founded: 1988 SCHOOL PROFILE Admissions: admission@onenessfamily.org301.652.7751 | onenessfamily.org Lower School (Age 2–Grade 8) : 6701 Wisconsin Ave., Chevy Chase, MD Upper School (Grades 9–12) : 9411 Connecticut Ave., Kensington, MD DISCOVER YOURSELF • FIND COMMUNITY • TRANSCEND YOUR LIMITS Enrollment: 140 Student/Faculty: 12:1 Special Programs: French, Spanish, Italian, Model United Nations, Yoga, Outdoor Education, Theater, Leadership Program Montessori Programs For Students Age 2 — Grade 12 in Chevy Chase-Bethesda

In 1988, Oneness-Family School (OFS) Founder and Head of Upper School Andrew Kutt set out to create a school built upon Maria Montessori’s philosophy — where the center of the educational process is the student. Three decades later, what began with 10 students in a public school library is now a global family with thousands of alumni students following their dreams across the planet.

www.olgchs.org240-283-323520832

Total number of students: 1,200+

Average class size: 20 Student/teacher ratio: 12:1 Religious affiliation: Non-sectarian Grade foreign language first offered: PS Languages offered: Spanish, French, Italian Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $23,600 Annual tuition for grade 12: $36,200 Students receiving financial aid: 29% Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Number of art studios: 2 Theater productions per year: 1 Music ensembles: 1 Accreditations/Affiliations: International Montessori Council / American Montessori Society / NAIS Founded: 1988

Olney, MD

Average class size: 19 Student/teacher ratio: 13:1 Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic Tuition: $27,900

The Primary Day School

Students receiving financial aid: 11% Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Number of art studios: 1 Music ensembles: Twice a month Accreditations/Affiliations: AISGW/AIMS Founded: 1944

Rochambeau, the French International School 9600 Forest Road Bethesda, MD 20814 www.rochambeau.org301-530-8260

State of the Art STEM Lab: Opened 2018 Award-winning visual, instrumental and choral Founded:programs 1958

Grades: Age 2-Grade 12 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 1,160 Average class size: 20 Student/teacher ratio: 11:1 Religious affiliation: None Grade foreign language first offered: Bilingual French/English program in all grades. Additional language in 4rd grade. Languages offered: Spanish, German, Arabic, French immersion for French beginners, French Baccalaureate, IB Diploma Program, High School Diploma Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $23,640 Annual tuition for grade 12: $28,580

Enrollment: 168 Grades: Age 3-Grade 8 Average Class Size: 11 Student/Teacher Ratio 7:1 Annual Tuition (Grade 8): $40,990 Year Founded: 1934 SCHOOL PROFILE

Uniform: No Bus transportation: Yes

Green Acres School

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www.theprimarydayschool.org301-365-4355

Grades: PK-2 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 150 Average class size: 16 Student/teacher ratio: 8:1 Religious affiliation: None Grade foreign language first offered: Pre-K Languages offered: Spanish Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $27,900

Grades: 9-12 Gender: Co-ed

Entering its 88th year, Green Acres School is among the nation’s foremost—and one of the area’s original—progressive schools. Founder Alice Mendham Powell believed that education was the engine of social change, and so she set out to build a school that would give children a voice, empower them to think critically and inventively about real-world problems, and equip them with the skills they need to participate fully in democracy.

Uniform: Yes Bus transportation: Yes Honors, Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, STEM, Ryken and Global Programs offered Varsity, Junior Varsity and Freshman Sports: 40+

17301 Old Vic Boulevard

11701 Danville Drive • North Bethesda, MD 20852 • 301-881-4100 info@greenacres.org • www.greenacres.org

Green Acres graduates find success in high school, college and beyond, using their solid intellectual foundation, creativity, and strong ethical framework to emerge as leaders in a wide variety of disciplines.

Located on 15 wooded acres in North Bethesda, learning at Green Acres extends into an oasis of pristine forest, outdoor pathways, gardens, and streams—particularly advantageous for STEAM learning across all divisions—as well as playgrounds and athletic fields. Green Acres was named a MAEOE Maryland Green School in 2015 and 2019; the campus also features a greenhouse. To learn more, go to www.greenacres.org.

7300 River Road Bethesda, MD 20817

This legacy of engaged citizenship and academic excellence continues today at Green Acres and is bolstered by the School’s commitment to inclusion and diversity, social justice, service learning, and environmental stewardship.

Our Lady of Good Counsel High School

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Our structured classes with low student/teacher ratios are led by highlyeducated and experienced teachers. A speech language and occupational therapist are also key members of each teaching team to support students with language, social and executive function challenges. In a recent 5-year alumni survey, parents attributed their child’s increased self-esteem, flexibility, self-advocacy, and ability to make friends to their years at The Maddux School. Our curriculum includes robust academics, plus STEAM activities, an active social learning program, music, physical education, and yoga. At The Maddux School, we give our students wings to soar!

“It wasn’t just about reading, math and science. It was about the whole person.”

The Maddux School teaches young children to recognize and build on their unique strengths and individual learning styles. The Maddux School is a small, private, general education school that provides strong academics, a distinctive social learning curriculum, and differentiated instruction to children in pre-kindergarten through second grade.

Enrollment: 42 Grades: PK-2 Student/Teacher Ratio: 5:1 Lowest Tuition for 5-day students: $32,500 Year Founded: 2004 SCHOOL PROFILE greenacres.org/admission Join us for our fall admission events! Long live childhood At the intersection of joy, community, and academic preparation is Green Acres a progressive school for students age 3 through grade 8 We Give Them Wings to Soar! Building Strong Foundations for The Maddux School Pre-K through Second Grade • Small Classes in Nurturing Environment • Flexible, Differentiated Instruction • Innovative Curriculum and Teaching Methods - Targets academic success, social skills, and self-esteem • Integrated Support for Different Learning Styles 11614 Seven Locks Road Rockville, 301-469-0223MD www.madduxschool.org

The Maddux School

11614 Seven Locks Road • Rockville, MD, 20854 • 301-469-0223 www.madduxschool.org

Students receiving financial aid: 40% of student body

French International School A world class education just steps from the heart of Bethesda F R E N C H I M M E R S I O N F O R B E G I N N E R S Creative, Curious & Independent Thinkersburkeschool.org/learn-more-about-burkeSCANTOLEARNMORETODAY! EDMUND BURKE SCHOOL GRADES 6-12 | FOUNDED IN 1968

Average class size: 16 Student/teacher ratio: 8:1 Religious affiliation: Quaker Grade foreign language first offered: Preschool (Age 4)

Interscholastic sports: Soccer, rugby, basketball, volleyball, swimming Music ensembles: 1 vocal, 1 band Theater productions per year: 2 Accreditations/Affiliations: French Ministry of Education, State of Maryland Dept. of Education, International Baccalaureate Founded: 1955

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Varsity sports: Soccer, cross country,

Accreditations/Affiliations: NAIS, AIMS, Friends Council on Education (FCE), TABS, CASE, SSATB, ERB, The College Board, National Association of College Admissions Counselors, Black Student Fund, Potomac and Chesapeake Association of Co

www.saintanselms.org202-269-2350

Number of AP courses offered: 6

Total number of students: 2021-2022 school year: 249

Average SAT score: 1400

Rochambeau

Grades: 6-12

Total number of students: 675

Bus transportation: Shuttle services from Northern Virginia and Bethesda. Shuttle to and from the Fort Totten Metro

Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $31,900

F O L L O W O U R S O C I A L M E D I A I B D I P L O M A , F R E N C H B A C , H I G H S C H O O L D I P L O M A N E W P R E S C H O O L A N D E L E M E N T A R Y C A M P U S B I L I N G U A L | M U L T I C U L T U R A L | E X C E P T I O N A L

Languages offered: French, Spanish, Arabic, Latin, Greek

Sandy Spring Friends School 16293 Norwood Road Sandy Spring, MD 20860 www.ssfs.org301-774-7455

Founded: 1961

Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: Class of 2022: 97.9%

Uniform: Dress code of jacket, tie, dress shirt, dress pants, dress shoes

Gender: All boys

Music ensembles: 4

Grade foreign language first offered: 7th grade

Theater productions per year: 4

St. Anselm’s Abbey School 4501 South Dakota Ave., NE Washington, D.C. 20017

Teacher retention rate: 90%

Number of art studios: 2

Number of AP courses offered: 25

Interscholastic sports (middle): Soccer (girls & boys), volleyball (girls), crosscountry (girls & boys), basketball (girls & boys), track and field (girls & boys), lacrosse (girls & boys), baseball (boys), softball (girls)

Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic; Benedictine Seniors with National Merit recognition: Class of 2022 – 10

Annual tuition for grade 12: $32,900

Student/teacher ratio: 6:1

Varsity sports: Soccer (girls & boys), volleyball (girls), cross-country (girls & boys), basketball (girls & boys), track and field (girls & boys), lacrosse (girls & boys), baseball (boys), softball (girls), golf (co-ed), swimming/diving (girls & boys)

Students receiving financial aid: 42% Uniform: No Bus transportation: Yes

Average class size: 14

Languages offered: 2 Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $20,200 Annual tuition for grade 12: $38,300

Grades: Preschool (Age 3)-12th Grade Gender: Co-ed

Academics: Advanced Placement courses • Global Programs: exchange trips, classes, clubs • International Baccalaureate Program • Ryken Program for students with mild learning differences • STEM Program: top 3% of Project Lead the Way schools nationally Community: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program • Service curriculum, local and international • Spiritual retreats and Mass offerings Excellence: 84% of faculty hold advanced degrees • Class of 2022 earned $38.9 million in college scholarships • 13 consecutive DC/MD/VA Speech and Debate Team titles • 10 WCAC titles won by our recent graduating class • Award-winning visual, instrumental and choral programs Facilities: 51-acre campus • 650+ seat Performing Arts Center • State-of-the-art STEM lab • New turf field, baseball stadium and track • 150-seat chapel

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Enrollment: 1,200+ Grades: 9-12 Student/Teacher Ratio: 13:1 Tuition: $27,900 Avg. scholarshipcollegeawardfor the Class of 2022: $195K Miles north of the ICC: 3 SCHOOL PROFILE At Good Counsel’s Open House you’ll find a Catholic, co-ed high school focused on continually meeting students’ needs to help you grow academically, personally, and spiritually. And you’ll meet caring teachers (84% of which hold advanced degrees), who helped our most recent graduating class earn a record $38.9 million in college scholarships, as well as current students who are on their way to a long list of top 100 universities. A Marching Band, Cheerleaders, Robotics Experiments, And Coaches From More Than 40 Teams But This Day Isn’t About All Of Them. It’s All About You. OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL HIGH SCHOOL - OPEN HOUSE Register for your Open House today at www.olgchs.org/openhouse Sunday, October 23rd, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. 7301 Old Vic Blvd. Olney, MD 20832

Our Lady of Good Counsel High School

17301 Old Vic Blvd • Olney, MD 20832 • 240-283-3230 • olgchs.org

Our Lady of Good Counsel High School Good Counsel is a Catholic, co-ed school that inspires students to excel, serve, and love. Rooted in our Xaverian values of compassion, humility, simplicity, trust, and zeal — GC will welcomes students in and supports you to thrive academically, personally, and spiritually.

Grades: 3-10 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 50 Average class size: 10 Student/teacher ratio: 10:1 Religious affiliation: None Grade foreign language first offered: 9 Languages offered: Spanish Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $46,120 Annual tuition for grade 12: $47,612 Students receiving financial aid: 43% Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Teacher retention rate: 97% Varsity sports: NA Interscholastic sports (middle): NA Number of art studios: 1 Theater productions per year: 2 Music ensembles: 1 Accreditations/Affiliations: NAIS, ISM, MSACS, IDA

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Year Founded: 1980

Silver Spring, MD 20901

St. Jane de Chantal 9525 Old Georgetown Road Bethesda, MD 20814 www.dechantal.org301-530-1221

Annual applications per opening: 3 Founded: 2021

Accreditations: Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools / Affiliations: National Catholic Education Association, The Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington, the Association of Independent Maryland Schools and the National Association of Independent Schools

Average Class Size: Infants: 6, Toddlers: 9, Twos: 12, Threes: 20, Fours: 20

The Siena School

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Total number of students: 150 Average class size: 10 Student/teacher ratio: 10:1

Annual applications per opening: 3 Founded: 1942 Campus size: 40 acres

Phone www.thesienaschool.org703-745-5900

www.thesienaschool.org301-244-3600

7235 Wisconsin Ave. • Bethesda, MD 20814 • 301-284-8144 www.georgetownhill.com

Love Where They Learn! With over 40 years of experience and 40,000 little footsteps walking through their doors, Georgetown Hill Early School is leading the childcare industry with its play-based, joyful approach to learning. Using its research-based P.L.A.N.™ (Play, Learning, Arts, and Nurturing) curriculum, Georgetown Hill Early School provides a child- and familyfirst environment in which happy teachers create happy children, and in return happy parents. Their whole-child approach to learning is rooted in early childhood best practice and is adapted to meet the changing needs of families and to support the growth and development of each child. Georgetown Hill Early School is a nonprofit organization and believes in giving back to the families and communities it serves. Georgetown Hill opened in Bethesda-Chevy Chase in 2021 and is now enrolling Infants – Transitional Kindergarten with enhanced health and safety protocols and a growing school family that can’t wait to meet you!

basketball, wrestling, swimming, baseball, tennis, track and field, fencing, golf, and lacrosse

Enrollment: 120

Student/Teacher Ratio: Infants & Toddlers: 1-3, ThreesTwos:1-6,&Fours: 1-10

Georgetown Hill Early School

Grades: 4-12 Gender: Co-ed

Religious affiliation: None

Grade foreign language first offered: 9 Languages offered: Spanish Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $46,120 Annual tuition for grade 12: $47,612 Students receiving financial aid: 43% Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Teacher retention rate: 93% Varsity sports: Soccer, basketball, volleyball, tennis, softball, cross country Interscholastic sports (middle): Soccer, basketball, cross county, softball Number of art studios: 2 Theater productions per year: 2 Music ensembles: 2 Accreditations/Affiliations: NAIS, ISM, MSACS, IDA, LDA-MC Annual applications per opening: 8 Founded: 2006

1300 Forest Glen Road

Interscholastic sports (middle): Soccer, cross country, basketball, wrestling, swimming, baseball, tennis, track and field, fencing, golf, and lacrosse Theater productions per year: 3 Music ensembles: Band, orchestra, choir, jazz ensemble

Ages: Infants, toddlers, twos, threes, Kindergartentransitionalpre-K,

The Siena School, Northern Virginia 2705 Hunter Mill Road Oakton, VA 22124

$18,530

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As one of over 140 school in the network of German Schools around the globe, the GISW has a strong focus on STEM and World Languages. Since over 60 years, we teach children from preschool through 12th grade. The diplomas granted at the end of twelfth grade are the German International Abitur (DIA) and the U.S. High School Diploma. They provide our students access to the best universities all around the world.

Tuition: (half day): (full day also (full-day united by a shared interest in German language and culture. Knowledge of German is not required for Pre-K and to up

8617 Chateau Drive • Potomac, MD 20854 • 301-365-3807 www.giswashington.org

also oldKindergartenavailable)(5-year-program):$22,500Grade1-6:$23,620Grades7-12:$24,405 Year Founded: 1961 age 2 - grade 12 OPEN ENROLLMENT admissions@giswashington.org301.767.3807AtGISWourstudentbody is truly international,

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available) 3 & 4-year-old (half day): $15,215

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SCHOOL PROFILE Enrollment: 520 Grades: Pre-K–Grade 12 Average Class Size: 18:1

Average class size (Pre-K): 16 Average class size (K-8): 18

Grades: PK-8

Student/teacher ratio: 17:1

Accreditations/Affiliations: Archdiocese of Washington

Average class size: 21 Student/teacher ratio: 12:1

Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic Grade foreign language first offered: Grade 6 Languages offered: Spanish STEM Lab offers weekly interactive science and engineering lessons for all students Pre-K to Grade 8

Annual tuition (K-8): $9,425

St. John’s College High School

Gender: Co-ed

Seniors with National Merit recognition: 12 Grade foreign language first offered: 9 Languages offered: Spanish, French, Latin

Annual tuition for grade 12: $22,950

Uniform: Yes Bus transportation: Yes Number of AP courses offered: 24

Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: 77% Varsity sports: Baseball, basketball (boys and girls), crew, cross country/track, equestrian team, field hockey, football, golf, ice hockey (boys and girls), lacrosse (boys and girls), rugby, soccer (boys and girls), softball, swim and dive, tennis (boys and girls), volleyball, wrestling

Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $22,950

Number of art studios: 2 Theater productions per year: 2-3 Music ensembles: 20

www.stoneridgeschool.org301-657-4322

Bus transportation: No, On-site after school care available until 6 P.M. daily Interscholastic Sports: Interscholastic CYO sports begin in Grade 3 and continue to grade 8, soccer, basketball, baseball, softball, cross country and track & field Number of art studios: 1 Theater productions per year: 4

2607 Military Road NW Chevy Chase, D.C. 20015 www.stjohnschs.org202-363-2316

OPEN HOUSES UPPER SCHOOL (Grades 9-12) • Sunday, October 16, 2022 MIDDLE SCHOOL (Grades 5-8) • Friday, November 11, 2022 LOWER & MIDDLE SCHOOL (Pre-K-Grade 8) • Friday, January 6, 2023 Marking a century of educating women of faith and purpose. We are an all-girls grades 1-12, Catholic, independent school, with co-educational Pre-K and Kindergarten, located in Bethesda, Maryland. Bus transportation is available throughout the metropolitanWashingtonarea. WWW.STONERIDGESCHOOL.ORG For bright students with Webasedlanguage-learningdifferenceslikedyslexianowhave a second campus in Northen Virginia! Silver Spring 1300 Forest Glen Road Silver Spring, MD 20901 301.244.3600 Learn more at www.thesienaschool.orgNorthernVirginia 2705 Hunter Mill Road Oakton, VA 703.745.590022124

Annual applications per opening: 4:1 Founded: 1851

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Accreditations/Affiliations: Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington, DENA Brothers of the Christian Schools, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, National Association of Independent Schools, National Catholic Education Association

Total number of students: 310

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Students receiving financial aid: 39%

Students receiving financial aid: 12% Uniform: Yes

Grades: 9-12

Gender: Co-ed

Total number of students: 1,250

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart

Music ensembles: 5 (beginning band, advanced band, beginning choir, advanced choir, chimes)

Religious affiliation: Catholic/Lasallian Tradition

Grades: Preschool-Grade 12

Annual tuition (Pre-K): $10,800

Founded: 1953

9101 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814

Teacher retention rate: 90% for three consecutive years

St. John’s College High School

Enrollment: 1,250 Grades: 9-12 Average Class Size: 21 Student/Teacher Ratio: 12:1 Annual Tuition: $22,950 Year Founded: 1851 SCHOOL PROFILE

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2607 Military Road NW • Chevy Chase, D.C. 20015 • 202-363-2316 www.stjohnschs.org

St. John’s College High School is an independent, Catholic, co-educational college preparatory school in the Lasallian tradition. Committed to academic excellence, St. John’s prepares students for lives of leadership, achievement, and service to the community. Our graduates have a 100 percent college acceptance rate, and the class of 2022 collectively earned $35,000,000 in scholarships. Recent capital improvements to our 30-acre campus include the Center for Performance and Leadership (2020), the Cap Mona Family Student Center (2017), and the Donatelli Center for the Visual and Performing Arts (2016). Unique to the St. John’s experience are the Cadet Corps Leadership Program, the Entrepreneurial Center for Innovation and Social Impact, and state-of-the-art athletic training facilities.Throughout the years, St. John’s has become synonymous with excellence, diversity, leadership, and service. Our mission and vision emphasize holistic personal growth and innovative thinking, which strengthens and continually transforms our school and alumni community.

At Norwood School, education expands beyond academics to tap a full range of intellectual, artistic, athletic, social and emotional potential, allowing our students to develop a deep sense of who they are and who they want to be. We are a warm and welcoming community where the voice of every student is heard, and where caring adults model a love for learning and a responsibility for making positive contributions to our world.

Annual tuition for Grade 12: $41,500

Student/teacher ratio: 11:1

Uniform: Yes

Bus: Yes

Number of art studios: 9

Music ensembles: Upper school Heartfelt (a cappella), chorus, handbells, instrumental ensemble, band, orchestra, and strings Accreditations/Affiliations: AIMS, Middle States Associations Of Colleges And Schools, Network Of Sacred Heart Schools, National Catholic Education Association, National Association Of Independent Schools, National Coalition Of Girls Schools, National Association Of Principals Of Schools For Girls, Association For Supervision And Curriculum Development, Independent Education, National Association For The Education Of Young Children

5600 Little Falls Parkway Bethesda, MD 20816 www.w-e-s.org301-652-7878

Washington Episcopal School

Grades: Age 3-Grade 8 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 330 Average class size: 14

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Founded: 1923

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Student/Teacher

Interscholastic Sports: Soccer, cross country, basketball, lacrosse, track and field Number of art studios: 3 Theater productions per year: Every grade performs at least once/year for entire school Accreditations/Affiliations: Association of Independent Maryland Schools; Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington; Mid-Atlantic Episcopal Schools Association; National Association of Episcopal Schools; National Association of Independent Schools; Independent Education; Black and Latino Student Fund. Founded: 1986

Student/teacher ratio: 6:1 Religious affiliation: Episcopal Grade foreign language first offered: Age 4 Languages offered: Spanish, French, Latin Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $15,000 Annual tuition for Grade 8: $40,000 Students receiving financial aid: 28% Uniform: Yes Bus transportation: No Teacher retention rate: Average tenure of 15 years

At Norwood School, we believe that families shouldn’t have to choose between challenging academics and a joyful community. It begins with a simple promise: your child will be known. When students are known, teachers can design learning experiences that stretch without stress. When students are known, they are best able to learn. This is because they feel comfortable asking big questions, taking on advanced challenges, and, most importantly, becoming their true selves.

Ratio: 6:1 Annual Tuition (Grade 8): $41,250 Year Founded: 1952 SCHOOL PROFILE

The result? A vibrant community of students who love coming to school each day. Life-long learners who are confident, curious and creative. Ethical and compassionate leaders who have the skills and values necessary to actively engage in high school and in the wider world.

Gender: Co-ed Preschool, Pre-K, K; All-girls Grades 1-12

Total student population: 760 Avg. class size: 16

8821 River Road • Bethesda, MD 20817 • 301-841-2130 www.norwoodschool.org

Languages offered: Spanish, French, Latin Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $22,600

Theater productions per year: 2 in upper school, 2 in middle school

Number of AP courses offered: 21 Upper School Interscholastic Sports: Basketball, cross country, equestrian, field hockey, golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, swimming & diving, soccer, softball, squash, tennis, track & field, volleyball, winter indoor track Middle School Interscholastic Sports: Basketball, Cross Country, Equestrian, Field Hockey, Lacrosse, Swimming, Soccer, Softball, Tennis, Track & field, Volleyball

Religious affiliation: Catholic Grade foreign language first offered: Preschool (3 year-olds)

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Enrollment: 450 Grades: PK-8 Average Class Size: 10-12

7300 River Road • Bethesda, MD 20817 • 301-365-4355 www.theprimarydayschool.org

The Primary Day School

The Primary Day School is a nondenominational, diverse, coeducational, independent school for children in pre-kindergarten through grade 2. These are the four most crucial learning years of their lives, a time when they are ready for quantum leaps of development. At Primary Day, everything we do focuses on helping young children flourish both academically and emotionally during this vitally important time of life.

Enrollment: 150 Grades: PK-2 Average Class Size: 16 Student/Teacher Ratio: 8:1 Year Founded: 1944 SCHOOL PROFILE BE CURIOUS Coed I Grades PK-8 We believe that an open mind and an appreciation of one another's contributions are the strengths of the Norwood community. Our focus on inclusion and respect creates a culture where students and teachers are genuinely curious in learning about one another and the world beyond our school. 8821 River Road Bethesda, MD www.norwoodschool.org301-841-213020817

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For additional information about Primary Day, please call 301-365-4355, email us at admission@theprimarydayschool.org or visit our website at www.theprimarydayschool.org.

The Primary Day curriculum is designed specifically to engage young learners. Children gain essential building blocks in reading, writing, phonovisual, mathematics, science, STEM, Spanish, social studies, music, physical education and art, creating a firm foundation for ongoing school success and continued personal growth. Primary Day provides enrichment after-care options for families.

Individual tours and parent interviews with our head of school are offered during the school day and open houses are hosted in the fall and winter. We also invite you to join our popular Ultimate STEM event. For updated information please see our website.

intellectual peers as they embark on a journey of talent

Enrollment: 100 Grades: PS-8 Average Class Size: 12 Student/Teacher Ratio: 6:1 Year Founded: 2009 SCHOOL PROFILE McLean Sees Gifts. Help Your Child Discover Their Strengths. McLean School transforms lives. Our small classes and Abilities Model® prepare bright students K-12 including those with dyslexia, anxiety, attention, and organizational issues for college success. Potomac, admission@mcleanschool.org240.395.0698MarylandSaturday,January12 Open House 9:00 am Friday, November 11 7:00 pm Thursday, December 8 Come hear about McLean’s Abilities Model® where we recognize students for what they can do, rather than for what they cannot. Register mcleanschool.org/visitat

Feynman School

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11810 Falls Road • Potomac, MD 20854 • 301-770-4370 FeynmanSchool.org

puts it: “Feynman is about more than just

Feynman School is an internationally recognized school for gifted learners. Our experienced teachers recognize that gifted learners are bored by repetition but joyful and motivated when learning something new. We offer favorable student-to-teacher ratios; place no ceiling on academic achievement; and provide authentic learning experiences within a supportive environment in which learning is interdisciplinary, handson, and fun. Upon graduation, Feynman students are prepared to excel at the area’s most elite private high schools and public magnet programs. We emphasize higherorder critical and creative thinking, socialemotional development, collaboration, and effective communication. Feynman’s closeknit community promotes student success. Here, students build lasting relationships with development and creative production. As one graduate a better future; it’s also about a better today.”

In addition to dynamic classroom learning, students are encouraged to explore interests like athletics, art, clubs, theater, service and travel. We believe in providing our students with opportunities to try new things, develop their strengths and reach their fullest potential.

Enrollment: 355 Grades: 6-12 Average Class Size: 15 Year Founded: 1961 SCHOOL PROFILE Where Gifted Minds Grow PS - 8th Grade 11810 Falls Road/ Potomac, MD (301)770www.feynmanschool.org4370 Transportation Available

Connelly School of the Holy Child

Our 6:1 student/teacher ratio fosters an enhanced, supportive environment built for optimal learning, allowing students to develop as leaders and global citizens.

For more information about Holy Child, please call 301-365-0955, email us at admissions@holychild.org or visit our website www.holychild.org.

At Holy Child we believe an individualized, challenging and joyful approach to education creates the next generation of female leaders. Connelly School of the Holy Child is a Catholic college preparatory school committed to the intellectual, spiritual, artistic, physical and social development of young women in grades 6–12. We welcome students and families of different faiths and diverse backgrounds.

In keeping with the philosophy of our founder, Cornelia Connelly, Holy Child values the uniqueness of each individual and fosters a life of service to others by following our motto of “actions not words.”

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9029 Bradley Blvd. • Potomac, MD 20854 • 301-365-0955 • www.holychild.org

Holy Child offers a rigorous, innovative and engaging academic program of studies.

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Washington Episcopal School

Enrollment: 330 Grades: PK3-8 Gender Co-ed Average Class Size: 14 Student/Teacher Ratio: 6:1 Annual Tution (Grade 8): $40,000 SCHOOL PROFILE PK3–Grade 8/Co-Ed | www.w-e-s.org | 301-652-7878 | 5600 Little Falls Parkway, Bethesda, MD WASHINGTON EPISCOPAL SCHOOL WES students have the mindset to ask, “How can I make a positive impact?” and the capacity to find and enact an answer. OpenAdmissionHouse Sat., Dec. 10 Sat., Jan 21 w-e-s.org/rsvp KIND. CONFIDENT. PREPARED.

Washington Episcopal School (WES) helps children become kind, confident, and prepared global citizens who are ready to make contributions to their communities. Our students develop a moral and ethical compass through our virtues curriculum, engaging with values such as courage, humility, and compassion. Through hands-on projects and multiple public-speaking opportunities, our students learn how to take risks and self-advocate, building resilience and leadership.

We believe learning can and should be joyous, and we cultivate a sense of wonder, curiosity, and critical thinking through our experiential study trips. Every child studies geology in Southwest Utah in Grade 6, explores the history and culture of Italy in Grade 7, and puts their language skills to the test in France or Spain in Grade 8.

The best way to learn more about this life-changing education is to join us at an admission event. Call today to learn more!

5600 Little Falls Parkway • Bethesda, MD 20816 • 301-652-7878 admissions@w-e-s.org • www.w-e-s.org

Lowell teaches children to fully embrace the humanity, dignity, and individuality of all people so they may serve now and in the future as leaders and change-makers.

We provide PK–8th children with an active, collaborative, integrated space to learn and grow. Our students are highly motivated learners. They have efficacy. They are the agents of change our world needs.

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Our faculty and staff honor each child’s individuality and give them time and space to grow. A fundamental understanding of the developmental stages of cognitive, social, emotional, and physical growth informs all that we do. This approach provides the foundation for children to become highly motivated learners with a strong sense of self-worth and efficacy.

1640 Kalmia Road NW • Washington, D.C. 20012 • 202-577-2000 www.lowellschool.org

We promote active, collaborative learning, with an emphasis on building conceptual understanding and developing strong creative, critical, and analytical thinking. Carefully designed learning experiences are integrated across subjects and draw on relevant content and student interests. Thinking is emphasized over rote learning, and students are expected to use their knowledge and skills creatively and practically.

Enrollment: 335 Grades: PK-8 Average Class Size: 16

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Lowell School

Founded in 1965, Lowell School is a progressive co-ed PK-8th school in Washington, D.C. Our eight-acre campus is next to Rock Creek Park and includes PrePrimary, Primary, and Middle School facilities, as well as several playgrounds, sports areas, and outdoor learning spaces.

Enrollment: 249 Grades: 6-12 Average Class Size: 14 Student/Teacher Ratio: 6:1 Average SAT Score: 1400 Year Founded: 1942 SCHOOL PROFILE

4501 South Dakota Ave., NE • Washington, D.C. 20017 • 202-269-2350 www.saintanselms.org

St. Anselm’s Abbey School

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Located on a beautiful forty-acre campus in Washington, DC, St. Anselm’s is an independent Catholic school for motivated and academically gifted young men. Founded in 1942 by monks of the Order of Saint Benedict, St. Anselm’s maintains a rigorous classical curriculum that prepares students for lives of excellence. Each boy, known in his uniqueness, is trained in science, history, foreign languages, literature, and the arts. The fields and the trees, and the 1500year tradition of Benedictine spirituality, provide a physical and intellectual place of contemplation and learning that helps our students make sense of, and use appropriately, the technology and the information so widely available to them. Also, our unique environment and education assists our graduates in being more aware of the world around them and in being attentive to the needs of others. Our mission is to “create an atmosphere of peace, a sense of service to community, and a willingness within our students to work toward a balance in mind, body, and spirit.”

We invite you to discover Visitation and see how we help each girl to be who she is and be that well.

Enrollment: 505 Grades: 9-12 Average Class Size: 15 Year Founded: 1799 SCHOOL PROFILE OCT 15 1 - 4 p.m. OPEN HOUSE - St. Francis de Sales An all girls Catholic, Salesian high school in Georgetown Discover a place where girls with dreams become women with vision. @visidc www.visi.org

Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School

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1524 Thirty-fifth Street NW • Washington, D.C. 20007 • 202-337-3350 • www.visi.org

Visi girls are friends and fans, classmates and teammates, companions and confidants. While striving for their personal best, they collaborate and support one another, creating an inclusive and caring community where all are embraced and each can shine. Here, optimism and compassion are contagious.

Visitation provides the spiritual grounding, challenging academics, plentiful co-curricular opportunities, and supportive and joyous community that enable our students to cultivate their God-given gifts. And they do—with confidence and enthusiasm.

Every day, we live the Salesian Little Virtues of kindness, gentle strength, humility, and thoughtful concern for others, honoring and respecting the uniqueness of each individual while fostering an inclusive and caring community.

"Be who you are and be that well." The wise words of Visitation Order co-founder St. Francis de Sales form the heart of a Georgetown Visitation education. The high school years are a time of discovery, not just of knowledge and skills, but also of yourself and your potential.

Sandy Spring Friends School (SSFS), founded in 1961, is a progressive, coed, college preparatory Quaker school serving students from Preschool (age 3) through 12th Grade, with optional 5- and 7-day boarding programs in the Upper School. Situated on 144 acres in the historic Sandy Spring area of Montgomery County, MD, SSFS provides a safe, supportive environment—in a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive community—for young people to discover their passions and become actively engaged in their education.

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A low teacher-to-student ratio and small class sizes allow students to experience a rigorous, inquiry-based curriculum with faculty who challenge and encourage them, creating an environment where all voices may be heard and where teachers lead and learn alongside students. Our school’s culture—rooted in the idea that collaboration engenders achievement—can be traced to our Quaker heritage and values of simplicity, equality, integrity, stewardship, and peaceful resolution of conflict. SSFS’s program fosters independence while cultivating self-confidence, cultural identity, and a sense of belonging, resulting in students who become responsible, successful citizens of the world.

Enrollment: 675 Grades: AgeGrade3-12th Average Class Size: 16 Annual Tution (Grade 12): $38,300 Year Founded: 1961 SCHOOL PROFILE EDUCATING THE CONSCIENCE TO ACT Fostering compassionate, critical thinkers who lead exemplary lives www.ssfs.org/discover Preschool (Age 3) 12th Grade • Coed Quaker School • Optional Boarding 16923 Norwood Road • Sandy Spring, MD 20860 • admission@ssfs org STUDENTS LEARN, CREATE, AND THRIVE AT CESJDS! Admission Open House Sunday, October 30, 2022 Lower School: Junior Kindergarten - Grade 5 1901 East Jefferson Street, Rockville, MD 20852 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM High School: Grades 9-12 Middle School: Grades 6-8 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM 11710 Hunters Lane, Rockville, MD 20852 /cesjdsconnectcesjds.org 02

16923 Norwood Road • Sandy Spring, MD 20860 • 301-774-7455 www.ssfs.org

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MEET FIVE LEADERS WHO ARE MAKING AN FORSPARKINGIMPACT—ANDHOPETHEFUTURE

At 18, she joined the U.S. Navy. (In those years, she was “Josie before the ‘i,’ ” she says). She became a nuclear reac tor operator and spent four of her six years in the military stationed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan. “I wanted to prove to the world that I was a tough per son,” she says.

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Now 36 and living in Silver Spring, Caballero is a proud queer transgender woman. She’s the director of the 2022 U.S. Transgender Survey, the largest survey of trans people in the country. Under her leadership, the survey is expected to reach 60,000 trans people—more than double the num ber of participants in the 2015 survey. The 2022 survey, which launched this past summer, asks members of the trans community about their experiences with everything from COVID-19 to abortion access to identification-card

AMPLIFYING TRANS VOICES

One evening in 2010, while stationed in Afghanistan, the crew was shown footage of mountain villages they had struck that morning, using aircraft Caballero helped launch. “It was the first time I saw the blood on my hands,” she says. That night, she made the decision to leave the military and take her life in a new direction. She attended San Diego State University on the GI Bill and remained in Southern California for 16 years, running political cam paigns for progressive candidates, and eventually her own for U.S. Congress.

Early this year, she was named the U.S. Trans Survey’s director, and moved to Montgomery County with her partner, Katie Meyer. This past summer, Cabal lero helped organize an event at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser vices (HHS) for families of young trans people to share their stories with HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra.

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hen Josie Caballero was 8 years old, growing up in Mineral Wells, Texas, she assumed every little boy secretly wished to be a girl. Caballero had been born the oldest male in a conservative Latino family. “In Latin culture, the first-born male child is kind of the person that leads the family,” she says. “So to turn all that around, and become the woman I’ve always been, was very hard on me.”

One of the youths in attendance was a trans girl Caballero began mentoring when she lived in California. “I was the first trans person she ever met,” Caballero says about the little girl, whom she now thinks of as a niece. The first time Cabal lero sat down with her, she told the girl about the challenges she faced growing up in Texas. The girl’s face lit up with hope that everything would turn out OK, Cabal lero says. “I feel motivated to work harder for a better future when I think of her.”

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barriers. The results, she says, will help inform lawmakers, educators, researchers and the community about the needs of trans people.

An outspoken advocate of both LGBTQ and veterans’ rights, Caballero has been public from the start about her own tran sition. It began two years ago, when she was 34. A month before the congressio nal election she was running in, she came out to herself, she says, and broke down. After she lost, she had the time to start her transition, reclusing herself for about four months before coming out publicly. “I was accepted by a lot of people, and ostracized by a lot of people,” she says.

“She is a bridge builder who enthusiastically supports ways to pro mote different cultures and traditions,” says Maury Peterson, the exec utive director of Rebuilding Together Montgomery County, where Larsen serves on the board.

BREAKING BARRIERS, BUILDING BRIDGES

Larsen’s accomplishments include organizing a program to teach technical language classes in fields such as automotive repair and land scaping to people seeking management positions who lacked enough English to be eligible for promotions. And she co-founded an initiative

providing internships with stipends to immigrant teenagers. “Otherwise, they’d drop out of high school at 16 to go to work to support their families,” she says. “I have a tendency to [want to help] peo ple who have a lot of talent and a lot of desire but…who have a barrier to get them where they need to get in order to be Thesuccessful.” daughter of Ecuadoran parents, Larsen was born and raised in Rome, Italy. When she was 16, her father’s job at an international nonprofit transferred the family to Washington, D.C.

Her aptitude for computer software and data processing soon led her to the corporate world, but her interest in serv ing as a bridge between people who need help and those in a position to offer it only grew stronger. “Sometimes people don’t help you out because you look dif ferent or behave different or speak dif ferent,” she says. “That is where I want to step in.”

LARSEN HAS BEEN A MENTOR TO MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE WHO HAVE WANTED TO START THEIR OWN BUSINESSES.

She kept the contract, she says.

Today, Larsen, 70, of Chevy Chase, is still running AQUAS Inc., the company she founded more than 40 years ago. Over the past four decades, Larsen also has been a mentor to more than 100 people who have wanted to start their own businesses, say those close to her.

t was 1978 and Carmen Ortiz Larsen was seven months pregnant when she decided to leave her job at a management consulting firm and branch out on her own. At 27 and recently separated from her husband, she became an information-technology consultant and con ducted as much business as she could over the phone so that no one would know that hers was a one-person operation and that she was about to give birth.

When she finally had to meet a client in person, she nearly lost the contract. “I hope I’m dealing with a company and not just you,” the cli ent asked after glancing at her swollen belly. “Of course not,” she said, and rushed to the ladies’ room to think of a corporate name that would exude quality—and start with an “A” so it could be found at the front of the phone book.

After graduation, she became the nation’s first computerized tomogra phy technician, she says, handling the machine’s complex digital imaging. Just as important, she says, was her role of calming and reassuring nervous patients, many of them suffering from brain injuries or mental health challenges.

One of the first women to attend Georgetown University in 1969 (it became fully coed her freshman year), Larsen still remembers an admissions interviewer ask ing if she wanted to attend the prestigious school to find a husband. No, she recalls saying, “I want to study physics.”

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As president and chairman of the board of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Montgomery County—and as an executive board member of the Montgomery County Economic Development Corp.—Larsen has orchestrated dozens of public-private partnerships to help aspir ing entrepreneurs. She’s especially focused on assisting young people who are new to the country, single moms, even older people who find themselves “aged out” of the hiring process, she says.

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FAJINGBESI’S NEXT PROJECT UNDER THE SHE-EO UMBRELLA WILL FOCUS ON BLACK WOMEN IN THE FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL SECTORS.

She grew up in a middle-class family in Lagos, Nigeria, and came to the U.S. in 2002 to pursue an MBA at Emory Univer sity in Atlanta, then got hired at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Manhattan. She arrived in the D.C. area in 2004 to take a job at Constellation Energy, where she worked until 2008. After that, she stayed in the region, traveling around the U.S., Nigeria and Europe, focusing on projects to help women and children across the African continent.

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Fajingbesi’s next project under the SheEO umbrella will focus on Black women in the food and agricultural sectors. When she and her husband started Dodo Farms, she had never known a farmer in America who was Black, let alone a migrant, or a woman, but she knows they are out there, she says. “Giving people who look like me, who speak like me, who have names as long as mine, a forum to belong—to speak—is, I think for me, my most important work.”

t’s a muggy July morning, and Tope Fajingbesi is wearing a sparkly teal hijab, a long-sleeved shirt and dark slacks. She’s straightening the gardening supplies in a shed at Dodo Farms, the certified-naturally-grown farm in Brookeville that she runs with her husband, Olaniyi Balogun. The couple and their farmhands use no pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers, only compost manure, to grow their crops—which are spread out in neat rows across their tidy 1-acre parcel. In the five years that Dodo Farms has been in business, its customer base has grown from 20 weekly regulars to more than 200, and it recently added another 4 Fajingbesi,acres. 45, doesn’t look like the stereotypical farmer, and she isn’t. The Silver Spring resident is also a certified public accountant, a published author, a professional speaker and edu cator, and a social media personality who created and hosts a YouTube show called Impact Africa.

gather to talk about the topics that mat ter most to them, both professionally and personally. Those includes painful histo ries of domestic abuse, divorce, child-cus tody battles and infertility, as well as the uncomfortable stares they get when they arrive at meetings—many wearing hijabs and headscarves—in conference rooms filled with white men. The next She-EO conference is scheduled for October in Houston,FajingbesiTexas.is so forthright about her own personal tragedies—the domestic abuse she suffered in a previous relation ship, her struggles with childlessness— that she makes people around her com fortable in sharing their stories, too, says Lydia Nylander, an international risk and policy expert at the United States Agency for International Development and a pan elist at the first She-EO. “Tope unpeels the onion with such care,” Nylander says. “She leans into who she is, and she gives the per mission for others to do the same.”

EMBOLDENING AFRICAN WOMEN AROUND THE GLOBE

Tope Fajingbesi

To that end, she’s the founder and president of a global platform for professional, mostly college-educated women of African descent called She-EO (thesheeo.org). Three times a year, She-EO conferences around the U.S. and in London and Lagos host women from across the African diaspora who

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THE CHEVY CHASE MOTHER OF TWO HAS DEVOTED MUCH OF HER LIFE TO REMOVING THE BARRIERS THAT HOLD PEOPLE BACK.

Before Muthiah arrived, “We were very scattered and working with close to 1,000 different companies,” says

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adha Muthiah has dined with some of the world’s most powerful corporate leaders, but she’ll never for get the lunch she had four years ago with an 8-year-old girl named Mikaela. It was at a local after-school meals program co-hosted by the Capital Area Food Bank, and Muthiah had recently been named the organization’s president and CEO. A little girl with “a sparkle in her eye” sat down at a nearby table with a tray of food and caught Muthiah’s gaze. Before long, the executive and the girl were playing tic-tac-toe and talking about the girl’s plans for her birthday. “She wasn’t shy,” Muthiah says.

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In the back of Muthiah’s mind was one of her nieces, who was about the same age as the girl and lived only a few miles away. She knew that her niece’s life was filled with possibilities, and that Mikaela’s would likely be fraught with challenges. “Girls like her inspire me every day,” Muthiah says about her lunch companion. “I don’t want her to be a 20-something-year-old who is still dependent on the food bank, or a 45-year-old or a 70-year-old. [I] want to clear the pathway for her to be able to succeed to whatever her aspirations are.”

The Chevy Chase mother of two has devoted much of her life to removing the barriers that hold people back. Before joining the food bank in 2018, she spent six years helming the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, now known as the Clean Cooking Alliance, a public-private partnership, and before that she worked at global nonprofit CARE— first as chief operating officer of CARE India, based in New Delhi, and then as vice president of strategic partnerships and alliances at CARE International, in Washington, D.C.

Helene Gayle, who was president and CEO of CARE when Muthiah joined its D.C. office in 2008. But Muthiah zeroed in on Walmart, The Gap Inc. and about 50 other large corporations and “really helped [these companies] build out their market” for small producers in developing coun tries, says Gayle, now president of Spel man College in Atlanta. “She had a huge amount of Muthiahvision.”wasraised in her parents’ native Malaysia, arriving in the U.S. at age 13. The plan was for the family to return to its home country, where Muthiah and her younger sisters would eventually enter into arranged marriages. Instead, she graduated from high school in three years, began col lege at Tufts University at 16, and took a job at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, where she quickly moved up the ranks. At 28, she got her MBA at Stan ford University in California and came to Washington, D.C., with her boyfriend (now husband), human rights advocate Adotei Akwei. It was tough at first for her parents to understand the direction she wanted to take with her life, but they’ve always been supportive, she says.

Today, the Capital Area Food Bank has more than 450 local partners and helps source food for more than 45 million meals a year. Muthiah’s goal is to ensure that girls like Mikaela aren’t just the recipi ents of food, but also of possibilities. A girl like Mikaela, she adds, “has every right to achieve her ambitions, and we have a role to play in removing whatever roadblocks exist for her.”

Radha Muthiah

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Amy Halpern is a journalist who has worked in print and television news, and as the associate producer of an Emmy Award-winning documentary. She lives in Potomac.

The oldest of six kids, she graduated from D.C.’s Georgetown Visita tion Preparatory School; majored in political science at the College of the Holy Cross, in Worcester, Massachusetts; and briefly considered a career in politics before deciding that hospitality was her passion. After a couple of years with Hilton Hotels, she headed to the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, for her MBA.

Instead, she and her team led the company in investing in new tech nology, such as mobile check-in and checkout, and focused on what they

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Stephanie Linnartz

Marriott hired her shortly after graduation, and over 25 years, she worked her way up from the finance and business development depart ment to the C-suite. Marriott insiders say that she played a critical role in the company’s 2016 acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, she was instrumental in the company’s rollout of its 150-million-member Marriott Bonvoy loyalty program, and she was the force behind Marriott’s expan sion into the luxury home and villa rental market. She was named Mar riott’s new president in February 2021.

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could do to help the global community and their employees—many of them sud denly laid off or furloughed. Under Linn artz’s leadership, Marriott turned hotel ballrooms into blood banks for the Amer ican Red Cross, donated food and linen to local hospitals, even trained more than 800 customer service associates at Marriott call centers throughout the U.S. to help out-of-work New Yorkers file unem ploymentMarriottclaims. GlobalHuman Resources Offi cer Bridgett Price, who has known Linn artz for more than 20 years, remembers her saying that even though they needed to downsize, they should be looking for ways to help in the global crisis while pro viding job opportunities to as many Mar riott associates as possible. “[She] had to balance making the tough calls—furloughs, job eliminations—but also [be] kind and compassionate as we were doing it.” Linnartz chalks up her success to what she calls “healthy paranoia.”

s a teenager, Stephanie Linnartz spent her summers cleaning guest rooms at her parents’ Phoenix Park Hotel on Capitol Hill, and bussing and waiting tables at the hotel’s iconic Irish pub, The Dubliner. “Every human being should have to wait tables at least once in their life,” because nothing teaches the importance of eye contact, hard work and grit like working in the service industry, she says. Now married and the mother of two, the 54-year-old Linnartz is president of Marriott International, the world’s largest hospitality company, managing more than 8,100 proper ties, including 30 brands, across 139 countries.

“There’s always a disrupter around the corner, and if you are not innovat ing and…coming up with new ways to grow your business—if you don’t have a little bit of healthy paranoia—I don’t think you are going to survive in the world today,” she says. “It’s moving too fast.” It’s OK if not every idea works out, she adds. “Take risks…take the project that nobody else wants to take. Even if you fail, you are going to get recognized for trying.” n

What she’s most proud of is how she and her team navigated the tur bulent COVID-19 days of March and April 2020, when the company lost nearly 90% of its business in a matter of weeks. “It was the worst time this company has seen in its 95-year history,” she says. “We leaned into the fact that the world was changing; we didn’t just sit back and say, ‘Let’s hang on.’ ”

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LINNARTZ CHALKS UP HER SUCCESS TO WHAT SHE CALLS “HEALTHY PARANOIA.”

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Q: Why do you do what you do?

to immerse ourselves in our community. Our team members' unique skill sets complement each other, allowing us to collaborate efficiently and effectively. With each success, we celebrate not just as colleagues but as genuine friends.

Banner Team

A: Our top priority is always to provide unrivaled service to our clients, building prosperous relationships from first meeting to property closing and beyond. We strive to make buying and selling a home an enjoyable, stress-free experience, providing “A Team Behind Every Transaction!” When we see glowing reviews about positive experiences working with us from past clients — many of whom have become friends — we know we're succeeding.

4650 East West Highway Bethesda, MD www.bannerteam.cominfo@BannerTeam.com301-365-909020814

A: The Banner Team is all women, not by design, but by evolution. Having a group of women with different experiences, backgrounds and expertise has shaped our approach to business. Challenging each other and collaborating with people who think differently fosters creativity, innovation and growth. Team Leader Wendy Banner has championed empowerment, nourishing a growth mindset and driving inspiration through her mentoring and support.

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Over $1.6 Billion Sold & Settled; Top Producer, Bethesda Magazine, 2022; Elite Producer, Washingtonian, 2022; No. 1 Group in No. 1 Long & Foster Office, 2022; Top 5 Real Estate Groups, Maryland, REAL Trends, 2022; Top 100 Real Estate Teams, U.S., REAL Trends, 2022.

A: We love being part of our community and helping people; the impact we make is very important to us. Whether we're guiding friends and neighbors through the home buying and selling process, donating a portion of every commission to local charities through our Pay It Forward program, hosting community events, or serving local organizations, we seek

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Q: What advice would you offer for women just starting out?

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A: My advice for women new to the field of real estate is to develop a strong business model and value proposition that will fuel your career progression. Seek out mentors early in your career and surround yourself with strong, trusted advisors and accountability partners. Adopt a growth mindset — be prepared to continue learning throughout your career. Don't get set in your ways, be open to change and embrace the unknown. Do what you love, do it with confidence, and success will follow!

Carolyn has been a top-producing agent in the Washington, DC region for more than 18 years. She and her team are dedicated to delivering a first-rate client experience. Their track record of success stems from decades of local experience, superior negotiation and problem-solving abilities, and, most importantly, the lifelong client relationships they have developed.

shifting market, our vast network and relationships with fellow Realtors is an invaluable resource. Above all, our goal is to make every transaction as seamless and efficient as possible.

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CAROLYN SAPPENFIELD RE/MAX REALITY SERVICES

A: As native Washingtonians, we offer homebuyers and sellers unmatched market knowledge and resources, providing deep insight into local market dynamics to help them evaluate and achieve their real estate goals. Transactions are tailored to each client's particular needs, whether that client is a first-time buyer or experienced real estate investor. We are dedicated to providing professional and personal real estate guidance you can trust at every stage of the home buying and selling process. Our marketing team develops comprehensive and custom listing strategies for sellers, including the highest-quality professional photography, digital advertising, virtual tours and print marketing. We also work hand-in-hand with buyers to understand their unique needs and preferences, bringing decades of experience in handling real estate negotiations to get deals to the closing table. In this

Q: What makes your client experience unique?

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We love collaborating with a client to take their ideas and dreams to the next level. It’s so satisfying to work through unique challenges presented by each project. Whether we’re trying to fit a piece of program into a tight space, creating a huge expanse of glass, or designing to new code restrictions, problem solving is most of what we do.

TRACI K. WEEMS, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP BD+C, SR. MEGANASSOCIATEMILAWSKI, IIDA, LEED AP, ASSOCIATE LAUREN IBARRA, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP, SR. ASSOCIATE

Q: What do you think makes your client experience unique and successful?A:

GTM Architects

TAMARA GORODETZKY, SR. ASSOCIATE MARY D’ERRICO, AIA, LEED AP, ID+C, ASSOCIATE KADE SHERIDAN, SR. ASSOCIATE

Listening and being responsive to client needs and treating your client as a member of the team. A successful architect is able to synthesize programmatic needs into a design that exceeds a client’s expectations. We serve as a client’s guide, navigating them through the twists and turns of the project, from start to finish.

ROBIN MENGE, LEED AP, PRINCIPAL CARMEN MALDONADO, ASSOCIATE

Established in 1989, GTM Architects is a full service, award-winning design firm offering services in Residential and Commercial architecture, planning and interior design. “We pride ourselves on being responsive, courteous and talented professionals who bring vision, creativity and passion to our work, prioritizing the client’s wants and needs above all else.”

A: Take every opportunity to learn. Find role models that you want to emulate. Be gracious with yourself and celebrate your unique talents and perspectives. Who you are as a person is sometimes the biggest benefit you can bring to a project.

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It’s so important to have a true passion for design and problem solving at all levels, from small details to the overall idea. Our people are open and inquisitive with a goal to always learn new things from our environment, our clients and our peers.

Q: What gives you the most satisfaction?A:

Successfully guiding our clients from start to finish and seeing the designs realized, built and enjoyed as a home, office or public space is incredibly gratifying.

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A: We most look forward to coming into the office to collaborate with our team. Our office atmosphere is casual and energetic and we enjoy feeding off of each other’s ideas and thoughts. Every project’s design is a culmination of each of our team member’s unique perspective and ideas.

Q: What advice would you offer women just starting out in the A:industry?

Q: What do you look forward to most when you go to work every day?

We would suggest that women just starting out in the industry look for opportunities, no matter how big or small, at architecture or design firms. Any small effort to get your foot in the door can go a long way to understanding what goes into designing a building. Ask a lot of questions and soak in as much information as you can. Keep up to date on industry standards by reading articles and following your favorite designers on social media. If there are opportunities to join a construction tour, take advantage!

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Delta Associates’ Most Innovative Apartment Community, and Washington Business Journal’s Best Multifamily Development – Park Kennedy Apartments

A: GTM-DC believes in embracing the existing physical, historical, and social context of each project’s site. Before we draw even one line on paper, we fully analyze the site in order to achieve a better understanding of the community we are designing for. This supports our mission statement, "We design for people."

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gtmarchitects-dc.com202-893-7860

Q: What do you think makes GTMDC stand apart from other firms?

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Delta Associates’ Best Washington/Baltimore LowRise Apartment Community, and Associated Builders and Contractors’ First Place Award – Bottling Plant Apartments

The family law practice provides services related to adoptions, divorce, child custody, child support, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements and immigration law. The all-female team offers over 50 years of combined experience handling family law cases in Maryland and D.C. “We are on your case in handling your most sensitive and urgent legal needs.”

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We are flexible and ready for family law challenges. You never know what changes will take place in the law, and we can pivot quickly. We learned that both with transitioning the way we practice family law during Covid and with changes in immigration law over the last several years.

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My mother inspires me. She came to the U.S. from India in her 20s with my father and a young child (me!), leaving all family and friends behind. She went on to raise me and my two sisters as proud firstgeneration Americans. My mother always told me to be brave whenever I was fearful of trying something new. That has made all the difference in my life.

Q: What woman inspires you and A:why?

A: My family. I am a single mom to three beautiful children, who are adopted and through solo IVF. They inspire me every day to help families and children going through the often stressful and traumatic aspects of divorce and immigration.

Tina Sharma

8401 Colesville Road, Suite 200 Silver Spring, MD 20910 www.tinasharmalaw.com202-329-6556

We have built a team of all female attorneys at the Law Offices of Tina Sharma. We have weekly and daily meetings to discuss not only cases and strategy but also each individual attorney’s goals and hopes for the future.

Today, my advice to women is to keep on going and don’t give up. Things will be hard at times but stay strong and be brave! Do things that maybe you don’t think you can do. You will surprise yourself!

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BB: Find mentors in your area of expertise and be a sponge. The requisite formal education or training for your particular field is important, but hands-on experience is also vital to your success. So many experienced professionals are willing to impart their wisdom to younger generations. Be ready to observe and understand that while you may make some mistakes along the way, they might ultimately provide your most valuable lessons.

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A: Danielle Smith: Be open to learning new things; you never know what doors you'll open. I earned a college degree in organic chemistry. But, delving into finance and private wealth management, I discovered I enjoyed the family education component of wealth management. Helping people, especially younger family members, learn how to be good stewards of the assets they have been entrusted with became my passion.

BRIDGETTE BECKER DANIELLE SMITH

Q: What advice would you offer for women just starting out?

Q: What's the most important lesson you've learned during your career?A:

A: Bridgette Becker: I value building long-lasting relationships with my clients that are rooted in trust. I cherish knowing that I can positively impact people's lives by administering a trust and advising multiple generations of a family. At Glenmede, we continually strive to collaborate, ensuring all of our clients receive the best possible guidance and financial planning.

Glenmede was founded in 1956 to serve in perpetuity as Trustee for The Pew Charitable Trusts. This required two qualities from Glenmede: a commitment to fiduciary values and the longevity to fulfill its duties. In the 1960s, the investment platform created for The Pew Trusts was leveraged to serve other families.

Q: What do you love most about doing business in this area?

BB: Listen and then speak. The only way to give sound advice is to first listen to your client, so you can truly understand their situation and goals. My Glenmede colleagues shine in this area.

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A: The ability to create communities that foster connectivity. I have always been intrigued by the symbiotic relationship between real estate and people that thrive on using it to connect them to their dream lifestyles. This year, at the Carl M. Free man Companies, we are celebrating 75 years of creating places that enrich lives and families and enhance communities through responsible development. I love tapping into my creativity, brainstorming an idea and seeing it through, from pen and paper to execution. Leading a familyowned business, I take the responsibility

Michelle DiFebo Freeman is the CEO of the Carl M. Freeman Companies, a Real Estate company specializing in land acquisition, land planning, development and redevelopment, management of residential communities, neighborhood shopping centers, commercial properties and golf courses. As a philanthropic leader, her visionary achievements include The Freeman Arts Pavilion.

Movingwww.freemancompanies.com240-453-300020850toPike&Rose(North Bethesda, MD)

Q: Why do you do what you do? What motivates and inspires you?

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Q: What's the best advice you've received, and how has it helped you?

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A: Keep working for people who make space for you, who include you in meetings and the decision-making process. That's the best way to learn and grow.

A: All things work toward good, even when it's the hard things. My motherin-law Virginia Freeman used to say this often; in my darkest hours, after my husband's untimely death in 2006, I could hear her voice in my head. Her words led me down a path to discovery, showing me that I could turn my pain into something good for others; that through service, we can take something sorrowful and make good in the world. When I think about the most remarkable leaders I know, it's the people who have been through hardships and rose up in the face of adversity.

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of continuing a long history of excellence to heart.

“We were selling a relatively inexpensive condominium and got the same level of service and attention one would expect for a million-dollar property…[Andy] is a pleasure to work with and we strongly recommend her to anyone looking for a real estate professional.

A: I’ve always made it my top priority to recognize and value the trust my clients have placed in me with one of, if not the largest, purchases they will ever make. I hold myself accountable to deliver the utmost value to make a difference in their lives, hence my motto: Integrity. Experience. Commitment. Local.

Top 1% Nationally; A Top Vote Getter “Top Real Estate Agent”

A: I always measure success through my clients’ eyes. To me, success is the excitement in my buyer’s eyes when we find their perfect home. Or the look of satisfaction on my seller’s face when we reach the settlement table. Success is always the end result when you truly listen to your clients, make it your goal to fully understand their wants and needs and then deliver more than expected. I never waver in my determination to exceed my clients’ expectations. I’m only successful if my clients are happy; the many testimonials like the ones below tell me they are:

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Winner for "Best Real Estate Brokerage for Luxury Homes" Best of Bethesda Readers’ Polls, Bethesda Magazine, 2019/2022; Top Producer, Bethesda Magazine, 2022; Washingtonian Elite Producer 2022; Potomac Chamber of Commerce, Business Person of the Year 4701 Sangamore Road, LL1 Bethesda, MD andy4homes.com301-466-5898andy4homes@gmail.com20816

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“Andy was always available for my many questions. She helped get my home listed in two weeks — provided great handymen — and then sold my home in two days.… She's the realtor you need to talk to before choosing who will help you with every step to settlement.”

Q: How do you measure success?

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A: I have been in practice for 24 years — 20 in Montgomery County — and based on my experience, I believe every successful surgeon must have technical skills, the propensity for listening and, especially in facial plastic surgery, an artful eye. These continually evolving skills weave together to provide a seamless system of patient care.

Q: What qualities do you think a successful surgeon should have?

Bethesda Magazine Winner, Best Cosmetic Surgeon, 2020; Top Doctor, 2019 & 2021; Top Vote Getter, Best Aesthetic Practice, 2022

7201 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 515 Bethesda, MD 20814 www.chevychaseface.com301-652-8191

The narrow focus of facial plastic surgery allows me to recognize the many nuances of facial anatomy, enabling me to customize each procedure to fit each person's anatomy and personal preferences. And the importance of listening is crucial to ensuring successful treatment and patient satisfaction.

A: I think all my patients know that their wants and needs are my top priority; I spend time listening to their goals and concerns and discussing their options thoroughly, laying out all potential options. My extensive experience has shown me what works and what doesn't, and I always offer patients my honest opinions — I will never perform a procedure or surgery that is not in their best interest.

Double-board Certified; American Board of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ABOHNS) & American Board of Otolaryngology — Head and Neck Director,Surgery ABOHNS

Q: What is one thing your patients should know about you?

A: Last year, I was elected as a Director for the American Board of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, a commitment I proudly worked toward for 23 years. By bringing a different perspective to this position, I hope to encourage the next generation of women, especially women of color, to pursue their dreams of becoming a surgeon.

Q: How would your patients describe you?

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wwwainbanklaw.com202-530-3300

1300 19th Street, NW, Suite 300 Washington, D.C. 20036

Q: What advice would you offer for women just starting out?

most effective. And we believe in giving back and encourage our attorneys and staff to volunteer throughout the area.

A: Our clients. We pride ourselves on offering clients the best legal representation available in the DMV and work tirelessly to meet day-to-day and long-term client needs. We believe strongly in continuing education to stay on top of changes in laws so we can be

A: We have an incredible team that allows us to do outstanding work every day. One of the best parts is the time we get to spend with co-workers. It’s genuinely a pleasure to be in the office with colleagues and this collaboration is key to our success. We recently moved to a new suite, not too far from where we have been for over 46 years. We’re excited about the memories and victories for our clients we will be able to share there.

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A: It’s important for women to always understand the value they bring to any work environment. Unfortunately, women continue to be underpaid in comparison to their male counterparts. Women need to learn to advocate for themselves from the start of any job. They should educate themselves on the job market and salary ranges for their position. They can do this by joining professional associations, speaking with career placement counselors and mentors. And don’t be afraid to talk to your employer.

Q: What are your top priorities?

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A preeminent boutique family law firm, Ain & Bank attorneys represent clients with an acute understanding of challenges that arise in family law matters. We strive to resolve cases amicably, but are also sophisticated litigators. We pride ourselves on discretion, representing a wide range of clients, including those with substantial assets and complex business interests.

Wendy Weinberger is president and co-founder of Illuminos, an academic, executive function coaching service that’s laser-focused on individual student needs. Her company’s sophisticated curriculum, whole-child approach, caring coaches and in-home customized sessions have resulted in Illuminos being hailed as one of the premier academic coaching companies in our region.

A: We are an industry-leading academic coaching and tutoring organization offering in-person support to students in 3rd grade through college in and around the entire DMV area, as well as virtually throughout most of the world. The foundation of our service is our proprietary, scientifically validated and award-winning executive function (EF) curriculum. In addition to covering essential topics such as organization, time management, study skills and social competencies, Illuminos coaches/ tutors support students across all of their subjects, standardized test prep and college applications.

Q: What are you doing to help families mitigate learning loss that resulted from Covid?

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student. This helps us identify how each student learns, as well as the specific EF skills that need to be strengthened. Using the resulting Learner Profile, we provide targeted academic coaching and tutoring to both fill in learning gaps and address EF challenges interfering with school success and achievement.

Wendy Weinberger

Q: What sets Illuminos’ awardwinning curriculum and approach apart from other academic support companies?A:

www.illuminos.coHeyWendy@illuminos.co571-313-5163

We provide customized support for every child. We help students feel encouraged, empowered and motivated to steer their own academic journey. We integrate our curriculum into each child’s everyday life, working together with other members of the child’s support circle. Our goal is to help students become independent learners who perform to their potential using research-driven selfmanagement strategies while maintaining social-emotional health.

A: Using a cutting-edge and researchdriven assessment tool, we develop a personalized learning plan for each

PRESIDENT & CO-FOUNDER ILLUMINOS ACADEMIC COACHING & TUTORING

Q: What is Illuminos Academic Coaching & Tutoring?

Q: What changes or innovations are on the horizon? How are you preparing for them?

7600 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 625 Bethesda, MD 20814 FeldmanJackson.com301-715-8110

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Feldman Jackson, PC

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All of the partners at Feldman Jackson serve as mediators in an effort to assist parties in reaching a negotiated resolution. All of our attorneys are adept in advocating for our clients in mediation. In a negotiated agreement, parties can implement many more options than what a court can provide, so our attorneys work creatively to help problem solve the situations presented.

Our entire practice concentrates on family law. Our singular focus ensures we are well-equipped to handle any divorce, from the most straightforward to the most complicated. Awards and Honors: Best Law Firms, U.S. News; Top Divorce Attorneys; Washington’s Top Lawyers-Family Law, D.C. Metro Area; American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers; Best Lawyers in America; Super Lawyers

A: Recovering from the pandemic, courts are overwhelmed. As a result, hearings and trials are scheduled many months out and are often truncated. Alternatives to trial need to be fully explored.

With a reputation for integrity, judgment and skill, our attorneys at Feldman Jackson offer clients compassion, guidance, advocacy and most importantly, a sense of control over their future. We help our clients manage change with integrity.

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A number of our attorneys are also trained in Collaborative Law. The Collaborative process is a team-based approach. The team supports, educates and guides each party to reach resolutions that are balanced, respectful and lasting.

LEFT TO RIGHT: RACHEL DE ROSE, REBECCA SHANKMAN, ANNE MARIE JACKSON & MAGDALENA D’AIUTO

Finally, often there is one issue that is causing the roadblock to resolution. Arbitration can provide parties with an efficient, cost-effective method of obtaining a thoughtful resolution of that issue thereby permitting resolution of the entire matter. As the effects of the pandemic became apparent, our partner, Anne Marie Jackson became certified as an arbitrator through the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

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Q: What changes or innovations are on the horizon in your industry?

A: Our partnership started through the mentorship of Dr. Amy Light and we wanted to provide the same opportunity to others. Team Harmony includes members of our internship program for those interested in a career in dentistry. Also, the process of starting up a new business as mothers during COVID was taxing but watching our daughters participate with us was both exciting and fun. Our patients can thank them for the Ms. Pacman machine and the cool prizes.

A: At Harmony, we measure success by how much we can give back to our patients and our community. This is why we have partnered with a local nonprofit called City Blossoms that develops kid-focused green spaces. At these green spaces, toddlers to teens can learn about pollination, composting, plant cycles and

Harmony Pediatric Dentistry Orthodontics&

How are you preparing for them?

HEATHER SHOLANDER, DMD, MS MADDY GOODMAN, DMD

Dr. Goodman is an orthodontist and president-elect of the Middle Atlantic Society of Orthodontists. Dr. Heather is a pediatric dentist and a Diplomat of the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry. They are both board-certified specialists and have been practicing together in the area for over 10 years.

Q: How have you mentored or inspired others who are following in your footsteps?

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A: One innovation that we are passionate about is a shift towards a more teambased approach to care. Research has continued to confirm the strong link between oral and full-body health. Understanding that many factors influence how a child grows allows us to tailor treatment and help them reach their full potential. We have partnered with other local healthcare providers to create a study club that focuses on this treatment philosophy.

growing edible gardens. For every new patient we donate plants to help these gardens grow because we believe that health starts from the ground up!

Q: How do you measure success?

4818 Del Ray Ave. Bethesda, MD www.harmonybethesda.com301-664-422020814

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4416 East West Highway, Fourth Floor Bethesda, MD

Kianawww.selzergurvitch.com301-986-960020814Taylor,Partner,301-634-3199, ktaylor@sgrwlaw.com

A: Kiana Taylor: I enjoy seeing the projects that I work on come to life. Being a good lawyer is more than knowing the law; you need business acumen. Having the ability to use your legal and business knowledge to find the best business solutions for the client is critical. I love the challenge of finding the answers my clients need to propel their businesses forward.

Q: What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned during your A:career?

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A: Jessica Lieberman: It is important to look for other women in your field to be both mentors and friends. Gather with these women, provide support to one another, both professionally and personally, and learn from and lean on each other.

Selzer Gurvitch Rabin Wertheimer & Polott, PC is a leading full-service real estate, estate planning, tax, business, and general litigation law firm based in Bethesda, Maryland. Since 1982, the firm has delivered innovative solutions to meet the needs of investors, owners, developers, and businesses throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

Q: Why do you do what you do? What motivates and inspires you?

A: Lauren Lamb: Professional success is achieving a client’s desired result effectively and efficiently. I also measure success on a personal level by whether I feel both challenged and fulfilled by my endeavors.

Lauren Lamb, Associate, 301-634-3111, llamb@sgrwlaw.com

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Q: How do you measure success?

Jessica Lieberman, Counsel, 301-634-3154, jlieberman@sgrwlaw.com

Q: What do you enjoy most about practicing law?

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Q: What advice would you offer for women just starting out?

Chris Sorge, Shareholder, 301-634-3129, csorge@sgrwlaw.com

Kristin Hall, Associate, 301-634-3108, khall@sgrwlaw.com

Kristin Hall: Stay positive, no matter what the circumstances, and surround yourself with positive people. That makes a big difference in your growth and professional success.

Brittany Oravec, Associate, 301-634-3119, boravec@sgrwlaw.com

A: Chris Sorge: I enjoy meeting with clients, understanding their needs and concerns and addressing them on a personal level. The opportunity to use my skills and experience to help clients solve problems and plan for their families is most rewarding.

Q: What woman inspires you and why?A:

My mother has always been and still is the source of my strength, moral compass and inspiration.

You can't perform your best without passion. When I oversee a special event like a bar mitzvah, wedding or milestone birthday party at our Lakewood venue, I get goosebumps thinking about the instrumental role we played in creating such an unforgettable memory for people and families. That's where I get my greatest satisfaction, knowing we didn't just throw a party. We became part of a beautiful family experience. So, ultimately, the most important lesson I've learned during my career is that genuine passion, plus my mother's unbreakable rule of integrity, equals success.

Lakewood is more than a country club; it's a tight-knit community of 640 families, says General Manager Andrea Morrow. "It's my family," continues Morrow. "We play golf, swim, eat and drink together. But, most importantly, we all love and support each other. I look forward to coming to work each day to see my Lakewood family."

Q: What's the most important lesson you've learned during your career?A:

A: The country club world is changing, intentionally straying from its traditional, stuffy reputation to foster a more inclusive culture that appeals to a broader range of families. We call Lakewood "Our Happy Place" because this club continues to evolve to meet the changing demands of its membership, recently investing in designing pickleball courts and expanding fitness and pool facilities. Over the last decade, we are proud to have successfully elevated the Lakewood brand to become one of the most progressive country clubs in the United States. Lakewood is more than a country club; it's a community of families, one I'm fortunate to serve.

Andrea GeneralMorrow,Manager

LAKEWOOD COUNTRY CLUB

13901 Glen Mill Road Rockville, MD www.lakewoodcc.org301-762-543020850

Q: What challenges or innovations are on the horizon in your industry? How are you preparing for them?

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A: As a transactional attorney, I love being able to interface with my clients and visit their businesses to see their dreams come to life. In this area, with Stein Sperling’s headquarters overlooking I-270, it’s easy to keep your fingers on the pulse of what’s going on without the frantic pace of firms in larger metropolitan areas. It’s the perfect balance between the sophisticated and challenging work readily available with all the beauty and affordability that goes along with living and working in Rockville and throughout Montgomery County.

Founded 43 years ago, Stein Sperling is proud of many achievements, but especially its attentive and personalized approach that has nurtured the firm’s reputation for excellence, in Montgomery County and beyond. With 54 attorneys, Stein Sperling serves clients in 10 practice areas at locations including Rockville, Frederick, Langley Park, Falls Church and Wheaton.

Q: What's changed for women in business, if anything, over your

Q: What do you love most about doing business in this area?

A lot! It’s much more acceptable to be a female attorney now than when I started my career. I am no longer the only woman in the room. Additionally, my clients are more likely to be female business owners and more men are willing to take guidance from female professionals such as myself. There are cracks in the glass ceiling, however it hasn’t been broken yet.

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Q: What has been an unexpected surprise in your work?

Beth McIntosh Irving, Attorney & Principal STEIN BENNETTSPERLINGDEJONG DRISCOLL PC

1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 700 Rockville, MD www.steinsperling.com20852

A: The biggest surprise has been how much I like it. It is hard work, but I get great satisfaction from helping my clients achieve their goals and avoid pitfalls. The satisfaction of doing a good job for my clients continues to motivate me every day.

A: Working with a family law attorney is a good investment in your future. The McKeon Law Firm specializes in all family legal matters, from prenuptial agreements and uncontested divorces to complex divorce cases involving business, partnerships, pensions, financial tracing and multiple properties. Our clients benefit from our extensive experience with settlement negotiations and litigation involving custody and visitation, enforcement, contempt and modification of prior orders, domestic violence and child, spousal and retroactive support. Drawing upon decades of practice, we offer a knowledgeable perspective and are committed to educating our clients about their options, helping them make informed decisions in negotiation, settlement or litigation. Many issues can be settled through mediation, often more cost-effective than going to court.

Q: What makes McKeon Law Firm different from other law firms?

The McKeon Law Firm offers a personal approach and customized solutions for family law matters. Shelly McKeon has been recognized by Washingtonian magazine and included in Maryland Super Lawyers, and the firm holds the highest MartindaleHubbell rating. Many clients are referrals, which the firm considers one of its greatest achievements.

SHELLY D. MCKEON, ESQ., FOUNDER JESSICA S. KERN, ESQ.

A: The McKeon Law Firm clients will have an entire team working on their behalf to see them through one of the most challenging times of their lives toward better days. We provide our clients with the customized care expected from a boutique law firm — a tailored, handson approach to each case, prompt communication and attention to detail — while offering the experience, expertise, skills and resources more often associated with a larger practice. Additionally, our two attorneys have worked together for over 10 years, alongside the same support staff for much of that time. The continuity and camaraderie among our staff help our clients feel more welcome, contributing to the firm's longevity and success, at the settlement table and in court.

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Q: What are the benefits of working with a family law attorney?

3 Bethesda Metro Center, Suite 700-71 Bethesda, MD 20814

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17B Firstfield Road, Suite 101 Gaithersburg, MD 20878 www.mckeonlawfirm.com301-417-9222

The McKeon Law Firm

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For even more motivation and inspiration for me and my team, we donate a portion of each patient’s visit to a foundation to impact the world. This year we have given back over $100,000 to various organizations supporting cancer research, brain development and special needs children.

American Dental Association

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Affiliations & Awards: Bethesda Magazine, Top Dentist, 2022 Washingtonian, Top Dentist, 2022 American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry

Q: What motivates and inspires you?

District of Columbia Dental Society

5454 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 835 Chevy Chase, MD

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smilesofchevychase.com301-652-0656@smilesofchevychase20815

I can instantaneously change the overall health, function and appearance of a patient’s smile, which directly impacts their quality of life. Many new patients have had poor dental experiences and care in their past. This inspires me to strive for never-ending improvement in care, comfort, innovation and communication.

A: Being in dentistry for over 25 years, I have a passion for changing lives and helping impact the world. The mouth is the pathway to our body, and the first encounter we make with the world is through our smile.

From the moment our patients schedule their first visit, they’re welcomed with a letter explaining what to anticipate, all our safety measures and a phone call from me. We listen to their needs, review x-rays and intra-oral photos and determine the proper plan for their oral health. They are always surprised to not only have reviewed the information with us but to also go home with it written down. We offer TV or headphones to help them relax. Follow-up phone calls are made post-treatment.We’reknownfor our expertise in implants and cosmetic dentistry, as well. We complete smile makeovers and full mouth reconstructions seamlessly while guiding patients to an optimal result.

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A: I just love our small-town, community feel. Our inn and Chestertown are places that we dreamed of living in. Now we do, plus we share it all with our guests.

A: I had been very successful in my corporate career and had a good network of colleagues but wondered if that was the pinnacle. Dave and I asked each other, "Are we doing everything we want in our lives?”

At a stay at the Brampton Inn, we found out it was for sale. We had talked before about owning a bed and breakfast because of the good experiences we always had staying in them. We called a broker and that was it.

I would tell other women to seek out mentors and to be one yourself. You can’t accomplish your goals and dreams alone. Surround yourself with good people. Follow what you want to do — not what you think others want you to do. Have passion for what you do, whether you think it's your dream or not.

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We love making a difference in some way for our guests, too. We help them feel like they’re in a place far away from their daily hectic lives — an escape where they can feel that peace and tranquility and never want to leave. I always see things to improve, but when guests say that everything was wonderful — the grounds, accommodations, staff, food, experiences — I feel like, "Wow, we're doing it right."

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Q: What was a major turning point for you?

25227 Chestertown Road Chestertown, MD 21620 www.bramptoninn.com410-778-1860

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Hilari and her husband, David, own the historic Brampton Inn, a Chestertown, MD bed and breakfast on the Eastern Shore. The boutique hotel is nestled into 35 acres of gardens, meadows, and forest, just a stone’s throw from the quaint town, scenic Chester River, great restaurants and a vibrant arts community.

Hilari Co-OwnerRinehart,

Q: What do you love most about your business?

Q: What’s changed for women in business, if anything, over your career?A:

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“Since the firm’s founding in 1992, our goal at McMillan Metro has always been to offer our clients what they really want: fair fees, clear communication and services that always put their needs first. Now in our third decade, we believe more strongly than ever in that client-first approach.”

When we first started practicing, the few women we encountered who were successful in law firms were in those positions because they chose their career over starting a family. These days women are finding ways to thrive in the legal profession while having both a family and career, and employers (like McMillan Metro) are more supportive of them. This is especially true post-Covid now that working from home has become an acceptable option for many.

A: Nurturing your clients, knowing what you don't know, diligence, being able to work well with other attorneys (including opposing counsel), possessing the ability to adapt as new information becomes available and being honest and transparent in all of your dealings with clients.

McMillan Metro P.C.

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Q: What advice would you offer for women just starting out?

Q: Why do you do what you do? What motivates and inspires you?

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A: Set aside time each week to build your skills and knowledge by reading trade magazines, attending continuing education courses and reaching out to established professionals in your field. It is important to make that a priority early on, so that as your work schedule fills up, you will already have established that habit.

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7811 Montrose Road, Suite 400 Potomac, MD 20854 www.mcmillanmetro.com301-251-1180

Q: What qualities do you think a successful attorney should have?

A: We gain great satisfaction from a client leaving our office with much more insight and understanding than when they came in. We are motivated by the knowledge that we have helped a client to successfully navigate challenging issues.

A:"Can't" has to be proven to me. I don't accept it without first asking myself, "How can I?" Only after I've exhausted all options will I reluctantly accept that I might not be able to do something.

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Q: What is one thing prospective clients should know about you?

the furniture and interiors sector. And as an Accredited Staging Professional Master with 18 years of experience, I know exactly how to make your home most appealing to buyers, giving you a competitive edge.

LONG & FOSTER PARK POTOMAC

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Q: What makes you different from other real estate agents?

A: A home is more than just a place where you live; it's where you create memories and build a family. I have always been interested in interior design and creating beautiful living spaces people can picture themselves in, making homes the best they can be. I hope that in sharing my passion with my clients, they too will embrace the joy that stepping into a house and immediately thinking, “This is my new home," can bring.

Selling a house is like Staging the Show. Deb is one of only 400 Accredited Staging Professional Masters worldwide and has owned a successful home staging company, Staged Home Decor, for over 15 years. As a realtor and a staging expert, she provides comprehensive property presentation and representation.

www.yourhomewithdeb.com240-506-379920854

Debra Realtor,Harshman,ASPM

12500 Park Potomac, Suite 101S

Potomac, MD

Q: Why do you do what you do? What motivates and inspires you?

A: Buying a home is one of the most important purchasing decisions you'll ever make; finding someone you trust and feel comfortable with to guide you through the process is essential. I have an extensive sales background — more than 30 years — centered mostly on various aspects of homeownership, including two decades in

A: One of the most important lessons I have learned is to accept that you're not perfect and admit to your mistakes. As a custom home builder, we are crafting someone's dream home, and it's a large financial obligation. Mistakes happen, but it's essential that your clients and business associates know they can count on you to admit when you've made a mistake and do what's necessary to make it right. Standing by your work and your word is critical for your personal and professional reputation.

Q: What are your top priorities?

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Q: Why do you do what you do? What motivates and inspires you?

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www.sandyspringbuilders.com301-913-5995

4705 West Virginia Ave. Bethesda, MD 20814

Sandy Spring Builders, LLC

Sandy Spring Builders, the area’s premier custom homebuilder, is an integrated, full-service team with over 40 years of experience in bringing our clients’ visions to life. Our vast portfolio of well-built homes makes a lasting impression, proven by myriad awards including Best of Bethesda every year since its inception.

A: Though my dad was a builder, I never expected to work in this industry. But when I started apprenticing with another builder, I fell in love with building homes. It's rewarding to know I can provide someone with the home they will raise their family and make lasting memories in.

I'm motivated and inspired each day by the incredible team around me and the beautiful homes we've built.

A: My family is my top priority; they always come first. I want to know that I was there for them, through good times and bad, while building a successful career. In my work, I prioritize honesty and reliability, values that paved the way for our great reputation. Giving back to the community is also important to me; I am actively involved with NAMI-Montgomery County, Habitat for Humanity Metro Maryland and JWI, among other organizations.

7501 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 1000W

My work in education, especially with children with disabilities, provides me with a unique experience that is very useful in my custody cases with special needs children.

Q: What kind of law do you A:practice?

Lisa Seltzer Becker

Pre- and Post- Marital Agreements

Q: What motivates you?

Special Education, Custody, Divorce

School Discipline, Title IX

Protecting the Rights of Students and Parents

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K-12 and Higher Education

Offit Kurman, PA

www.offitkurman.com/attorney/lisa-becker/240-507-178020814

I practice both family law and educa tion law. I am a seasoned practitioner in divorce, high-conflict custody cases, domestic abuse, pre- and post-marital agreements and enforcement actions. My education practice includes representing students in disciplinary matters involving suspension or expulsion. These cases in clude sexual misconduct, Title IX matters, academic dishonesty and harassment. I protect students’ rights in bullying, free speech, special education and disabil ity, school transfers and other matters. I represent students K-12 across Maryland and in the District of Columbia. I serve as an advisor to students in higher educa tion (colleges, universities and graduate school) in Title IX and disciplinary matters on a national basis. I represent profes sors in Title IX matters and advise private schools and daycare centers regarding compliance, bullying and school policies.

FAMILY AND EDUCATION LAW ATTORNEY

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Bethesda, MD

A: I enjoy fighting for children, students and parents, especially when the stakes are high. For college students, the impact of suspension or expulsion is truly lifealtering and can affect future employment. Suspension or expulsion for K-12 students can affect their college opportunities and ability to participate in extra-curricular activities, and can cause extreme anxiety. In a custody case, a parent risks losing time with their child and the ability to make decisions about their child, so the stakes are very high.

A: Women play significant roles at Chevy Chase Trust, and we are all proud and inspired by that. Women make up more than half of the staff and executive team, and we all value women as clients, employees and leaders. Our female investment managers, financial planners, trust officers, fiduciary officers, tax advisors and attorneys excel in their work with clients. We are proud to be on the vanguard of our industry and inspired by the progress and accomplishments women have made in our own workplace as well as the greater business community.

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A: First, we work with many savvy high net worth women, all of whom have different circumstances, assets and goals. We also work with women who need to learn more about their finances. We know that many of our clients prefer to work with other women, too.

PAULA LANDAU, STACY MURCHISON, BLAKE DOYLE, ELIZABETH KEARNS, CHRISTINE NICOLAIDES KEARNS, LALY KASSA & AMY RASKIN

7501 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 1500W Bethesda, MD

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Chevy Chase Trust works with individuals, families, endowments, and institutions to provide investment management, planning, and fiduciary services. The firm is comprised of wealth advisors, CFAs, MBAs, tax attorneys and other specialists—half of whom are women. Professionals average more than 18 years of experience.

www.chevychasetrust.comInfo@ChevyChaseTrust.com240-497-500020814

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Q: What motivates and inspires you?

Q: How is working with women in the industry different?

Regardless of gender, all our client relationships start with a financial plan that informs the investment strategy and asset allocation recommendations for each unique situation. There is no "one size fits all" offering, and every step of the process is personalized.

All investing involves risk of loss, including principal. The investment strategies of Chevy Chase Trust Company ("CCTC") are not guaranteed or insured by CCTC and/or any governmental body. Please see CCTC's ADV Part 2 for more information.

Our remarkable results are a direct reflection of our commitment to thinking differently. We take a thematic approach to investing, capitalizing on powerful secular trends, disruptive ideas, innovations and economic forces that are constantly reshaping the world. Customized planning ensures client confidence. And our client retention is at 98%.

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A: The surgical field is moving toward minimallyinvasive procedures, resulting in shorter recovery times, lower complication rates and less pain. I am the first gynecologist in Maryland to perform Sonata®, a new, minimally-invasive treatment for heavy bleeding caused by fibroids. The procedure (1-2 hours) is a giant leap forward in treating a common condition that significantly adversely affects many women's quality of life.

A: I think my patients appreciate that not only am I a knowledgeable, skilled surgeon, but I am an active listener and very thorough when taking patient histories, carefully analyzing all information in great detail. I am also compassionate and gentle, and strongly value streamlined communication. I take the time to teach my patients about their medical issues, laying out all options and guiding them toward the best treatment plan to meet their individual needs.

Carolynn Young, MD, Gynecologist

Q: What brings you the most satisfaction in your A:work?

15204 Omega Drive, Suite 200 Rockville, MD www.rockvillegynecology.comoffice@rockvillegynecology.com301-330-700720850

A: Figure out how you can best serve others, and remember to prioritize relationships, personal and professional. Don't compare yourself to others; focus on being the best you that you can be.

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Q: What changes or innovations are on the horizon in gynecology? How are you preparing for them?

Q: How would your patients describe you?

I am passionate about and committed to improving my patients' quality of life. Whether they are struggling with heavy periods, pelvic pain or menopausal concerns, identifying the root of my patients' issues and finding the best treatment to help them live their best lives brings me tremendous joy.

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Q: What advice would you offer women just starting out?

Named a "Top Doctor" by Washingtonian Magazine every year since 2015, Dr. Young graduated from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. She is a board-certified gynecologist and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a leader in modern women's health solutions and a highlyregarded gynecologic surgeon, pioneering several groundbreaking procedures.

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Shulman Rogers

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Shulman Rogers is a full-service law firm providing corporate, real estate, litigation and personal legal services. Experience, breadth of knowledge and commitment to excellence enables attorneys at the firm to provide highquality legal services at reasonable fees. As a result, Shulman Rogers serves as an attractive alternative to larger, higher-priced law firms and smaller firms with less depth.

Q: How does Shulman Rogers empower its female attorneys and clients?A:

A: Our attorneys share a common purpose: to help clients solve their problems and achieve their objectives. Whether they're helping to establish a new business, create a venture fund, settle a contentious dispute, refinance a commercial real estate complex or resolve a divorce/custody matter, our lawyers are poised to meet any challenge and exceed client expectations.

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Shulman Rogers has always invested in developing the talents and abilities of its female attorneys, whether they joined the firm as a seasoned lateral or new associate, to support their professional and personal goals. In 2009, the firm launched the Women's Business Development Group

Q: What is one thing prospective clients should know about Shulman Rogers?

to focus on the business challenges and opportunities unique to women. The group addresses these issues for Shulman Rogers' female attorneys and for existing and prospective female clients through monthly meetings, guest speakers, social outings and various women in business events.

CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: FAMILY LAW; REAL ESTATE; COMMERCIAL LITIGATION; ENTERTAINMENT/BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL SERVICES.

Q: What's changed for women in business in the past decade or so?

12505 Park Potomac Ave., Sixth Floor Potomac, MD www.shulmanrogers.cominfo@shulmanrogers.com301-230-520020854

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A: The role of women in the workplace has made slow but steady progress over the past few years. This advancement is clearly reflected at Shulman Rogers, where there are more female attorneys at the firm — and in leadership positions — than ever before. While the journey toward gender equality is far from over, the inclusive, respectful and open culture at Shulman Rogers has made the firm an attractive home for women seeking control of their career destinies.

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932 Hungerford Drive, Suite B Rockville, MD

www.bialeksmusic.cominfo@bialeksmusic.com301-340-620620850

ROBIN SHAIKUN, CO-OWNER, GENERAL MANAGER

Bialek's Music officers serve on the boards of Destination D.C.'s Partnership & Alliance Committee, Special Events Sites Marketing Alliances and the Greater Washington D.C. chapters of the National Association for Catering and Events and the International Live Events Association. With over 44 years of experience, these organizations seek to gain from our knowledge and experience.

Q: What is something people should know about you?

A: I've grown up in this business. My dad, Ray Bialek, founded this company 44 years ago, and I started working for him in high school. My 36 years of experience in this industry have taught me, among many other lessons, that streamlined communication and accessibility, especially on short notice, are essential to having happy clients. I've saved many events by being readily available to jump in at the last minute. I also think how I've balanced raising three children — one with special needs — while co-owning a successful company, says a lot about my work ethic and commitment to both.

Q: Why choose Bialek's Music?

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Q: What do you look forward to when you go to work every day?

A: Playing an essential role in making someone's milestone celebration or corporate event the best, most memorable experience possible. I love the fast-paced nature of my work; each day presents new challenges and opportunities to push myself and problem-solve. I also enjoy speaking with prospective clients and convincing them why we are their best choice, and I revel in the accomplishment of booking important events, knowing my hard work and persistence paid off.

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A: Our comprehensive volume of some of the Washington, D.C. area's top musicians and entertainers allows us always to be prepared with a backup plan, which has been immensely helpful during this covid era. And, despite our success, we still constantly attend networking functions to meet new people and further our industry knowledge so we can best serve our clients.

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A: Paula Calimafde: Make sure you’re working with clients and fellow colleagues that you like and respect. Join groups and committees and be willing to mentor others.

Jennifer Pope: I love that Bethesda and Northwest D.C. have a small-town feel. I run into clients in the grocery store and at school events—serving this community is personal and rewarding.

Q: What advice do you have for the next generation of women?

STANDING, LEFT-RIGHT: MICHELLE CHAPIN, TRISH WEAVER, JENNIFER POPE, DEBORAH COHN, MIRANDA ROSS, AMANDA MCGRATH, JESSICA SUMMERS SEATED, LEFT-RIGHT: HOPE EASTMAN, PAULA CALIMAFDE

The women lawyers of Paley Rothman are leaders in many areas including litigation, estate planning, estate and trust administration, employment law, retirement plan law and government relations.

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Q: What are your thoughts about working in Bethesda?

Paley AttorneysRothman,atLaw

Amanda McGrath: We serve a vibrant community of families and individuals. I never tire of the opportunities to get to really know my clients, who are leaders in nonprofit organizations, industry and all levels of government.

A: Jessica Summers: Bethesda is an urban area with a local feel. Like our firm, the businesses I work with are invested in this community and take pride in their role in making Bethesda a great place to live, work and do business.

4800 Hampden Ln. 6th Floor Bethesda, MD www.paleyrothman.com301-656-760320814

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Deborah Cohn: Know that your work is important and meaningful. See difficult problems as challenges and take joy from your creativity in devising solutions.

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Trish Weaver: I love practicing law in the Bethesda area with its great mix of innovative businesses and professionals of all stripes. Representing and collaborating with these folks to resolve their disputes is really gratifying.

Hope Eastman: Partner with your clients. First, be responsive—return calls and emails quickly and provide excellent legal advice. Second, take the time to help your clients develop the strategies to change or fix policies, procedures and management actions.

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12900 Middlebrook Road, Suite 1500 Germantown, MD 20874 | 301-916-5946

A: Our priorities at HIP include expanding our capacity to develop affordable multifamily deals that will benefit low- and moderate-income families and seniors. We also are strong believers in preserving existing homes that might be naturally affordable but with residents at risk of displacement.

MARY MARYANNJOCELYNHUNTERHARRISDILLON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Q: What motivates and inspires you?

6525 Belcrest Road, Suite 555 Hyattsville, MD 20782 | 301-699-3835

www.HIPhomes.org

I realized a long time back that revitalizing neighborhoods and creating opportunities for families to obtain high quality housing that they could afford long-term were key steps in building wealth both in individual families and in the communities in which they live. I want to be part of a permanent solution, not just a Band-Aid. Helping families and seniors across the full spectrum of housing needs, from homelessness to homeownership, really motivates me.

HIP has been a close partner with Montgomery County by providing comprehensive housing counseling services that help residents find housing they can afford and then keep it long-term. We are focused on helping families stay in their homes after continued disruptions caused by the Covid pandemic.

HIP is a green nonprofit housing developer and counseling agency dedicated to revitalizing neighborhoods. Operating three offices in Germantown, Gaithersburg and Hyattsville, HIP builds affordable apartments and homes, and provides a full range of housing and financial counseling services to renters, first-time homebuyers and homeowners to help them realize their housing goals.

A: I believe in passing it forward by keeping an open door to younger professionals and students looking to build a career in affordable housing. I have been very fortunate to have a wonderful Senior Management Team at HIP to collaborate with these past 10 years and I hope they have had a chance to learn from me as I have from them.

Q: How have you mentored or inspired others who are following in your footsteps?

SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM (FROM LEFT): STEPHANIE PRANGE PROESTEL

LESIA R. BULLOCK CARMEN CASTRO-CONROY

Q: What are your top priorities?

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A: Executive Director Maryann Dillon:

Maryann Dillon | mdillon@hiphomes.org

Housing Partnership,InitiativeInc.

Q: How do I protect myself in the event of A:litigation?

JDKATZ, PC

Elizabeth’s broad litigation practice includes representing individuals and businesses in complex civil and commercial disputes. She also represents individuals in all aspects of trust and estate litigation and guardianship matters. Named a “Super Lawyer” and named to “Leading Women” by The Daily Record, she has a deep commitment to clients, focusing on their distinct concerns and goals.

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It is incredibly important to know your rights in a lawsuit and consulting with a skilled attorney will help you determine whether your best option is to walk away, negotiate or litigate. Litigation may be inevitable, but outcomes are often better when lawyers get involved earlier in the process.

The best offense is a good defense! A solid written agreement that protects your rights and interests is often your first line of defense. Once it appears that a lawsuit may be imminent or already has been filed, you will want to collect and document evidence that will prove or disprove the events in question. If you are served with court papers, do not ignore them! These documents have strict timelines and failure to respond may place you in legal trouble.

Q: Why should I use JDKatz PC?

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A: At JDKatz, we are experienced and professional litigators in the areas of civil litigation, business law, trusts and estates, elder law and general litigation matters. Our clients are our priority. We stay connected to their interests and devise creative strategies to best protect those interests. We take a hands-on approach and are completely dedicated to our clients and the outcome of their cases.

Elizabeth J. McInturff, Attorney at Law

3 Bethesda Metro Center, Suite 500 Bethesda, MD elizabeth@jdkatz.com240-743-541020814

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All of our locations survived throughout the Covid pandemic when many fitness studios were shutting down, and RTR Pilates is now thriving and growing into a stronger, more missionaligned brand post-pandemic.

Reina Offutt

RTR Pilates is a place to become the healthiest version of yourself. More than a studio, RTR is the premiere DMV community for wellness-minded adults who want to minimize pain, manage stress, strengthen and restore their bodies, and empower themselves in all aspects of life.

Five Metro D.C. Locations Potomac | Chevy Chase | Palisades | McLean | Great www.rtrpilates.cominfo@rtrpilates.comFalls SCHWABHILARY

A: I’ve been a local, female entrepreneur for over 15 years and that’s not going to change. My goals include creating more upward mobility for my staff, including more benefits, and offering higher pay and expanding to other local markets.

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I’ve been successful by being forced to gain practical financial knowledge over the years and I would tell other women to do the same. Knowing your numbers can be the difference between decision-making that can make or break your business.

As a woman and a mother of two teens, my success isn’t all financial. I will always measure my quality of life by the time I get to spend with those that I love. And I measure the success of my business by the happiness of my clients.

Q: What’s next for the future for you and RTR Pilates?

A: I was raised by a single mom whose perspective was “let’s figure it out.” I learned early on to see opportunities instead of obstacles. What started out as a dream to create meaning in my community has turned into a profitable and growing empire. Our mission is to build a supportive, thriving community of performance-minded individuals through innovative Pilates classes, and today we’re a seven-figure business with studios in five DMV locations that serve thousands of clients each year.

FOUNDER & CEO, RTR (POTOMAC) PILATES

Q: How did you become successful in your Pilates business?

Elizabeth Andie Shin, DDS

Women in business

Q: How did you become a pediatric dentistry A:specialist?

BCC PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY

All along the way, I always loved working with and treating children. I relate to their fears of the unknown.

My longtime dream was to open a unique pediatric dental office, that would change perceptions of how kids see dentists. I have never looked back. I continue to specialize in the one area in dentistry that I truly love — kids and how to help them.

My Korean parents wanted me, their eldest child, to become a doctor. But in high school I developed a big crush on my physics teacher, and all of a sudden, I shined in that class and wanted to be a physicist. We settled our differences by agreeing that I would go to dental school. I would still have “Doctor” before my name to please my parents, but I could still use my recently found skill and fascination for physics and chemistry in the world of dentistry.

“Keep dreaming, brushing your teeth, flossing and smiling. Keep your face always towards the sunshine, and the shadows will fall behind you. Life is not always good, but you can make it better. Dream high, be courageous and trust in yourself.”

A: I have been called a “child whisperer.” I opened my practice in Bethesda with the goal to be a new model for pediatric dentistry. After working over 20 years in the field, I have learned a lot and incorporated ideas about how to improve the delivery of care to families.

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-Dr. Andie Shin

I was born in Korea, grew up in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and moved to California and fell in love with the United States. After Sept. 11, I joined the Army and they sent me to Walter Reed, at the time in Washington, D.C.

Q: What’s different about your practice?

4825 Bethesda Ave., Suite 220 Bethesda, MD 20814 bccpediatricdentistry.com301-941-7374

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LAW OFFICES OF SANDRA GUZMAN SALVADO

Q: What qualities do you think a successful attorney should have?

A: The most successful attorneys never stop learning and genuinely value their clients. People want to be validated, respected and heard. If you forget how valuable your clients are, they will stop coming. I will always be my clients' strongest advocate.

Q: Why do you do what you do? What motivates and inspires you?

Sandra Salvado,GuzmanEsq.

Q: What's the best advice you've received? How has it helped you?

www.guzmansalvadolaw.comSandra@GuzmanSalvadoLaw.com301-340-1911

A: I do what I do because I enjoy problemsolving and learning, not just about the law, but about human thoughts and behaviors. Family law — even uncontested cases — involves a lot of emotion. I'm

constantly motivated and inspired by my clients' transformations through the process of their cases; when I see them finally realize that everything is temporary and that there is light at the end of the tunnel. This always drives me to help the next client get through their challenging circumstances.

11 N. Washington St., Suite 500 Rockville, MD 20850

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A: The best advice I have received is to live in the moment but recognize that everyone's perspective hinges on where they stand at a given moment in time, making it difficult for people to see the whole picture. Embracing this concept has helped me better understand my clients, friends, family, office team and myself. Sometimes, fully understanding another person's perspective requires deeper exploration. My goal is to help my clients navigate difficult times in their lives the best I can; the more I know about them and their situations, the more pointed legal advice I can offer.

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In practice for 17 years, Sandra focuses on divorce and child custody. She was nominated to the Super Lawyers 2022 and 2023 list that recognizes a small number of attorneys for excellence. She is a courtcertified mediator, child best interest attorney and trained parent coordinator, and has also been trained in collaborative law.

8935 Brookville Road Silver Spring, MD 20910 nadia@aidandesign.comwww.aidandesign.com301-320-8735

Q: What advice would you give to someone starting a small business?

CO-OWNER, AIDAN DESIGN

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Q: How do you keep your design skills current and your team motivated?

A: Stay inspired and informed! I work in a creative field designing kitchens and bathrooms, so it's important to keep up with what's happening in the world of design, to learn about all the latest technologies and to find inspiration. It makes me a better designer.

It’s also important to take care of your team. The last few years have been tough with so many of us struggling with stress. Make time for low key company events that keep the team happy and connected with one another.

A: Being a small business owner is not only exciting, but also filled with responsibility. My advice to anyone starting out is to know your strengths and solicit help where you need it. We could not have gotten to where we are without the hard work of our entire team and the many professionals who have helped us along the way, offering great advice, guidance and perspective.

It's critical to write a business plan that starts with a mission statement. Who do you want to be? What service will you provide? How do you want to grow? Who is your target market? You get pulled in many directions as a small business owner and it's important to remember your focus. It's important to take time to set goals and to track your progress. Don't let crisis management become your every day.

I love what I do and being part of the Aidan Design family, where our collaboration and support extend from work to our personal lives. Our end goal is to create beautiful kitchens and bathrooms that have positive impacts on our clients’ everyday lives.

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Nadia Subaran

A: Every day I’m grateful that I can help people find their dream homes, build prosperous relationships and give clients the tools they need to conquer their next chapter in real estate. As a third-generation Washingtonian, I cherish my role as a trusted advisor and love helping my clients discover all the beautiful communities in and around our nation's capital.

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Q: What’s most important for you in your careers today?

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A: Our happiness is most important. It feeds our creative spirit, and that shows up in our work and our relationships with clients. We’re a successful team today because we share similar values and different strengths. Ultimately, we love what we do, we like our clients and each other! And our design and staging work, and discoveries of cool pieces are very fulfilling for us.

Tyler Whitmore and Debbie Labonski

O: 301-298-1001 | C: www.compass.com/agents/lindsay-lucaslindsay.lucas@compass.com301-467-4090

TYLER WHITMORE INTERIORS

REALTOR, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT

Q: What do you look forward to when you go to work every day?

@tyler_whitmore_interiorswww.tylerwhitmoreinteriors.com202-746-2537

Lindsay Lucas, Compass

I provide a full-service and highly personal approach to seamlessly guide people through the often-stressful process of buying and selling their homes. I advocate for my clients and find solutions to overcome any obstacles we may encounter. My vast, trusted network gives my clients a competitive advantage as both buyers and sellers, which is critical in our shifting market.

Q: What makes your client experience unique?A:

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There is an art to home furnishings, and Tyler and Debbie are masters. Their online shop and location in Kensington offer furniture, lighting, rugs, art and other décor.

5471 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 300 Chevy Chase, MD 20815

4208-A Howard Ave. Kensington, MD 20895

PROFILES

We help with investment management, retirement planning, social security maximization, Medicare filing, LTC planning, coordinating tax planning and estate planning coordination.

Q: How do you measure success?

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MYRLE SIMONE, CFP; SOPHIE LEAHY, CFP; JENNIFER MACLENNAN, CFP, CPA; MARIA CORNELIUS, CFP; BETH VENIT, CFP; AND DEANNA TOMASETTI, CFP

A: Our boutique firm has served the metro area for more than 30 years. Of seven financial planners, five are women. If you’re looking for a female advisor, we are yourWefirm.keep client numbers low so that we have ample time to spend with clients. We listen carefully, as money is very personal and lots of emotions come into play when talking about financial goals or dealing with market declines.

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Burt AdvisorsWealth

A: The underlying goal with everything we do is creating peace of mind. We engage all clients in the planning and investment process, empowering them when it comes to finances. All questions are good questions and there are never too many questions.

Q: How has the increase in women advisors changed your firm?

Q: Why choose Burt Wealth Advisors?

All our advisors are Certified Financial Planners (CFPs), which requires education in investments, insurance, taxes and estate planning, as well as continuing education. We’re a team. When you work with a Burt Wealth Advisor, you’re not only being supported by their knowledge, but also the support of all of us.

A: We see many women who are in a life transition and handling finances, or serving as their own advocate for the first time. Many enjoy knowing there’s another woman to speak to. All five of our women advisors are in different stages of life and can help clients through life changes.

6116 Executive Blvd., Suite 500 N. Bethesda, MD 20852 www.burtwealth.com301-770-9880

"We become an ongoing resource to each client, helping them navigate their financial life to best achieve their financial goals," says Maria Cornelius. A Bethesda Magazine Best of Bethesda Top Vote Getter in 2021, the firm was also named in the 12 Best Financial Advisors in D.C., Maryland and Virginia by Advisory HQ.

SCHWABHILLARY

A: Don’t wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and the pig likes it. That’s kept my side of the street clean and terminated the BS.

Q: What do you look forward to when you go to work every day?

One Church St., Suite 800 Rockville, MD 20850

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Fait & DiLima, LLP

Q: How have you mentored or inspired others?A:

1095 Seven Locks Road Potomac, MD 20854 www.wink.net301-545-1111

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Q: How do you measure success?

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DOROTHY R. FAIT & MARJORIE G. DILIMA FOUNDING AND MANAGING PARTNERS

A: We watched my friend and neighbor go through a divorce while owning her own business, having an awesome relationship with her daughters and building her business so much that she only works on the business and not in it while taking home plenty of money. Much of her success is due to coaching and manifesting.

A: I have always been interested in eyes, which provide a window into our overall health. I feel fortunate that I not only get to help people see better and achieve optimal ocular health but can significantly impact their overall wellbeing by detecting potential underlying health issues. I also love interacting with people all day. I enjoy getting to know each of my patients/customers so I can offer the highest quality of individualized, comprehensive eye care and help them find stylish frames that best suit their faces and personalities.

A: To me, being successful means appreciating what you have in life, gleaning satisfaction from achievements within your control, and showing perseverance when facing adversity.

Q: What’s the best advice you’ve received?

Q: What woman inspires you?

We've taken on several mentees through the Inns of Court and Montgomery County Bar. We have helped them prepare for court, and have gone to court with them, too.

Rachel Cohn, Optometrist

www.fdfamilylaw.com301-251-0100

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WINK EYEWEAR BOUTIQUE

MAXLIINDSEY

Felicity Tchoufa BONDAY BOUTIQUE

Q: What do you love most about doing business in the area?

I am excited about launching this new business and watching it grow. With my strong business background, I feel it is important to support my community through leadership, volunteering and giving back whenever I can. Launching my new business and watching it grow is not only exciting, but also gives me the opportunity to share my experiences with others. This led me to co-chair the women’s networking group of the Greater Bethesda Chamber of Commerce and lead an international women's networking group. I am excited and grateful to be a part of women’s leadership in the community.

My family. At a young age, I helped my mother sell goods. My family has an entrepreneurial spirit. From them, I learned three important principles: clearly define your goals; stay focused and never give up! This is the foundation for everything that I do.

A: I am proud of my many accomplish ments. As a designer, it is always exciting to see my ideas take shape. Currently, I am ready to launch my new line of shoes and bags, Felicity T! This line celebrates women with chic, elegant, and effortless style, and will be featured at my Bonday Boutique lo cation (12274-C Rockville Pike) and online.

ENTREPRENEUR, DESIGNER, LIFESTYLE & INTELLIGENCE COACH OWNER,

Bonday Boutique offers a curated selection of shoes, purses, candles, home décor, and personalized gift baskets. Please stop by!

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Q: What has been your greatest accomplishment in your career?

“Life is about making an impact.” 12274-C Rockville Pike Rockville, MD info@lebonday.comwww.lebonday.com240-249-590820852

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Q: What inspired you to be an entrepreneur and leader in the A:community?

A: I love this area, the people, and its many great neighborhoods. This is my home and I’m looking forward to growing my business and helping meet the needs of the community here!

Q: What was a major turning point in your life and/or career?

11 N. Washington St., Suite 630 Rockville, MD

Caroline:301-516-1212301-646-1701, cheinen@ttrsir.com

TTR InternationalSotheby'sRealty

Graciela: 301-807-8845, ghaim@ttrsir.com Michael: 301-646-8207, www.haimandheinen.commheinen@ttrsir.com

Q: What advice would you offer for women just starting out?

4809 Bethesda Ave. Bethesda, MD 20814

CAROLINE HEINEN, MICHAEL HEINEN & GRACIELA HAIM

www.gbfamilylawyers.cominfo@gbfamilylawyers.com20850

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A: Caroline: I remember my mom Graciela studying to a be a Realtor when I was about 11 years old. She loved her career from the start, and I think her passion for what she does shows. 30 years later, she still loves working in real estate, and when someone enjoys what they do, they not only make it look enjoyable but also easy, and it inspires people to follow suit. Throughout the years, I have seen many of her friends and clients be inspired into a career in real estate, including myself and my husband Michael. What people may not understand is that to succeed it takes certain qualities. It’s not just passion and knowledge of your industry, but perseverance, patience and dedication.

A: Cultivate and foster your relationships with clients, but also with colleagues in the bar and other industryspecific professionals who may become involved in a client’s case as an expert, consultant or other helpful resource. These connections will help you succeed and enrich your knowledge and experience.

A: Starting our own firm. It is empowering to run your own business and practice law your own way. We strongly believe in supporting other women and have received immeasurable support, encouragement and approbation from other women in business.

ANNE GROVER, PARTNER KRISTINA BADALIAN, PARTNER

Grover & Badalian LLC

Q: What woman inspires you and why?

SCHWABHILLARYLEWISJ.TONY

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Q: How have you mentored or inspired others following in your A:footsteps?

I strongly believe in a give-and-take relationship with my patients. It's my job to carefully listen to their individual needs and goals, educating and empowering them to make informed decisions. Theirs is to ask any necessary follow-up questions. I'll never force my opinion on anyone, and I’m committed to offering constant support and guidance throughout my patients' fertility journeys.

FertilityMontgomeryCenter

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Q: Why choose Montgomery Fertility Center?

OLUYEMISI FAMUYIWA, MD, FACOG, MEDICAL DIRECTOR

I love encouraging young women who are interested in the medical field and being a role model for them the way other women were for me. Early mentors can set the tone for someone's entire career trajectory. I strive to be that positive influence at the start of young women's professional journeys, helping them find their true path, a trusted adviser they will hopefully emulate when it's their turn to lead a younger generation. It's a joy to watch my mentees flourish — one of them is now a Harvard professor. I also hope to bring awareness to the field of fertility; I lecture at medical conferences and participate in research affecting women's health.

WILLIAMSSTEPHANIE

Dr. Famuyiwa is a compassionate, awardwinning physician. One of "America's Most Honored Doctors-Top One Percent" per The American Registry, Castle Connolly selected Dr. Famuyiwa as a "Top Doctor (2012-14, 2016-22)" and to its list of "Exceptional Women in Medicine (2017-22)." She has numerous publications in peer review journals and is a clinician and co-author with the Oncofertility Consortium.

3202 Tower Oaks Blvd. Rockville, MD montgomeryfertilitycenter.comfaqmfc@gmail.com301-946-696220852

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A: I always say that doctors must be able to see a little bit of themselves in their patients to understand their situations and genuinely care about them. Having dealt with some medical woes myself, I've been that patient and often reflect on my experiences to ensure our collaborative team continually holds ourselves to the highest standard of excellence, providing premium care using the latest equipment and technologies in a warm, personalized environment.

Offices in Bethesda, Rockville and Maple Lawn

Q: Why do you do what you do?

www.mccaberussell.com443-812-1435

A: Heather McCabe: I have been inspired by many legal pioneers, including RBG and Hilary Clinton, who paved the way for women like me in the law profession. I also admire the women in our judiciary who represent where grit, intellect and dedication can lead us. And I'm grateful to my mom — a physician — for showing me through her own determination that women can do anything.

Q: What makes Danielle Sara Photography unique?A:

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A: Photos are our visual link to the past, connecting us to specific feelings and memories. I love telling my clients' stories and am honored they trust me with capturing their family legacy, from newborn photos to childhood and family milestones. A mom of two, I understand the value in capturing memories to cherish forever! The pure joy on clients' faces when they see their finished artwork is beyond rewarding.

Q: What woman inspires you and why?

www.daniellesaraphotography.comdanielle@daniellesaraphotography.com20850

Danielle Benson

DANIELLE SARA PHOTOGRAPHY

McCabe Russell

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The personalized boutique experience — my retail photography studio has everything clients need for a successful session, from clothing and accessories to a comfortable environment. I pride myself on capturing those "wow" moments, but my goal is for clients to enjoy their whole customized experience as much as they love their photos.

A: Emily Russell: Working with our dynamic, committed team to help people who often come to us during their darkest hours get their lives back. Divorce and custody fights can shake a person; it's our great honor to shepherd our clients through the tumult to a brighter day.

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70 Upper Rock Circle, Suite 102 Rockville, MD

HEATHER MCCABE, ESQ., CO-MANAGING PARTNER

EMILY RUSSELL, ESQ., CO-MANAGING PARTNER

Q: What do you look forward to when you go to work every day?

Q: How do you measure success?

7501 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 1500E Bethesda, MD www.bfsaulinsurance.com301-986-600020814

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A: Erika L. Marino: I like to help people and problem solve. It is very rewarding to see the impact I can have on people's financial lives, especially at the time of a claim. As unfortunate as claim situations are, I find solace in knowing my clients are properly protected should the unexpected happen. My goal is to help them sleep better at night by knowing this.

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Q: What's the most important lesson you've learned in your A:career?

Q: What qualities do you think a successful insurance agent should A:have?

Erika Marino: A successful agent should be honest, responsive, knowledgeable and have their clients’ best interests at heart. I am proud that our team displays these qualities every day. I consider myself very lucky and do not take this for granted!

Lanie Raphael: While moving up the career ladder feels good, the most rewarding roles I have taken have provided me with a more profound knowledge of the insurance industry from which my clients greatly benefit. These roles were lateral moves, so I have learned to view my career as a lattice rather than a ladder.

LANIE RAPHAEL, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, PRACTICE LEADER

A: Lanie Raphael: I measure success through client feedback. If I can have a positive, meaningful impact on our clients' lives, I consider myself successful.

Q: Why do you do what you do? What motivates and inspires you?

ERIKA L. MARINO, ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT

B. F. Saul Insurance has the knowledge and relationships with specialty insurers to meet the complex coverage and claims needs of businesses and successful families. With our team as a trusted advisor, our clients spend less time on insurance and more time doing the things they love.

B. F. Saul Insurance

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PRESIDENT, GOODFELLOW CONSTRUCTION, LLC

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Joan Howanitz, DDS, MS

A: I grew up immersed in construction and architectural design. My father was an architect, and my mother an artist. Growing up, my parents designed and built every house I ever lived in, instilling the love for construction in me. I founded Goodfellow Construction, a woman-owned general contracting and construction management company, to serve retail, restaurant and hospitality markets in the DMV. We also provide services to homeowners through Goodfellow Remodeling.

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Q: What advice do you have for women just starting out?

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A: Maintaining a work-life balance is challenging, especially as co-owner of two practices (Rockville and Fairfax), but you can pursue a successful periodontal career without sacrificing other areas of your life. Seeing my work's positive impact on patients' lives, helping them achieve periodontal health and thus, better overall health, makes it all worth it.

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A: At North Bethesda Periodontal Group, we believe in a team approach to care. My husband and I have been practicing together for over 15 years, working closely with referring restorative doctors and dental specialists to provide optimal treatment and results for our patients in a welcoming and relaxing environment. Everything we do is guided by accuracy, safety, comfort and recovery.

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I love guiding my clients through the decisionmaking process. In the end, the owner has a beautifully built and decorated space. Taking a client’s dream from an idea on paper and bringing it to life, making it a tangible reality, is my biggest motivation, and so rewarding.

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A Memphis, Tenn. native, Teri Thompson is a commercial real estate lender with EagleBank. She has worked in the financial services industry — primarily banking — for the entirety of her 25-plus-year career. Having lived and worked in several different regions across the country, she has experience working with people of varied backgrounds.

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Q: What would you say if you could go back in time and advise yourself as a young professional?

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Your mentor relationships may look and feel different from your colleagues' but are nonetheless beneficial.

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A: Learning something new. As a commercial real estate (CRE) lender for an active financial institution with a robust client base, there is never a dull moment. Each day is full of opportunities to think creatively and strategically. No day is the same, and that keeps me energized! More importantly, discussing commercial real estate projects, business plans and company histories with my clients allows me to understand things from their perspectives and to learn from their decades of experience.

Early in my career, a female Caucasian banking executive told me that as a 4-foot-11-inch Black woman, I had three strikes against me. I could be successful, she said, but based on her life and professional experience, it would take longer, and I would have to work harder. Her courageous conversation helped me understand that our challenges are not always apparent. Her counsel helped me embrace those simple words of wisdom we've all heard: Treat others with respect, maintain a positive attitude and outlook, and be the best person you can be.

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A: As a Black woman with a 25-plusyear career, long before discussions of diversity, equity and inclusion, I would tell my younger self to stay open-minded, encouraged, motivated and determined.

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A: The energy purpose-driven work has given me. For years networking left me feeling like a fraud applying a persona I thought people needed to see; a means to an end. Today, I look forward to meeting new people, hearing their stories and sharing what I do. As I tell my clients, knowing who you are, where you’re headed and watching yourself get there is a powerful drug.

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Wealthspire Advisors is an independent advisory firm that puts its clients' needs and aspirations first. Small enough to be personalized and big enough to offer worldclass resources, the practice is centered on customized service and a commitment to optimizing its clients' finances and making a positive difference in people’s lives.

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A: Michele Walthert: Women's increasing interest and involvement in their households' financial decisions has led to an industry shift. As women control more and more wealth, the demand for women advisors is at an all-time high.

Understand that you're not always going to have all the answers, and you can't predict the future! Therefore, you must be able to problem-solve and think outside the box to find the best solutions.

A: Ashley Iddings: Nothing is more rewarding than a client referring you to a friend, colleague or family member, and there is no greater proof that you have earned someone's trust. That means everything to me. Several of our advisors also came to us as referrals; knowing that my colleagues love our team enough to bring in a friend tells me we're doing pretty well.

Q: What makes you different from other real estate agents?

Meiselman Helfant & Wills

A: Keep your personal feelings out of work. Our clients are good people experiencing the worst time of their lives. While we genuinely empathize with them, we must maintain a professional outlook on each situation. Our clients don't need someone to agree with everything they say; they need someone they can trust to give them honest answers and recommend effective solutions to make the most informed decisions for their families.

A: I am consultative, truly value building a natural rapport with my clients and lead with empathy for what they're going through — as happy as buying/ selling a home can be, it can also be the result of a divorce or death in the family. Every client is treated like an extension of my family and will only receive advice I would take myself or give to a family member. To me, real estate is about much more than a great business decision or investment. It's the intimate process of helping people find homes that best match their lifestyle and budget, where they'll host their first Thanksgiving, bring home their first baby and raise a family or have their grandkids over for the first time.

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anesthesia team to secure the airway, drain the abscess and treat the infection in an expedited manner made me truly appreciate the importance of the service we provide and the difference we can make in people's lives. I will never forget the look of gratitude in the parents' eyes.

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MOSA’s award-winning doctors offer the full scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery and continually rank among the highest quality.

A: I remember caring for a young child who was rushed to the emergency room with facial swelling from an untreated dental abscess related to multiple carious teeth. Working closely with the pediatric

Q: What is one thing patients should know about MOSA?

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A: The state's oldest and largest oral and maxillofacial facial surgery practice, MOSA has expanded, in 52 years, from two full-time surgeons to 13; all have trained at the world's highest-rated surgical programs. And we are proud to have five women — Malini Iyer, Lisa Cohen, Mary Carter Robinson, Sarah Naghibi and Payal Verma — on our surgical team.

Q: What is an example of a time you helped a patient that you're particularly proud of?

Top Dentists in Bethesda Magazine as well as Frederick, Northern Virginia, Washingtonian and What’s Up Annapolis/West County magazines. The official Oral Surgeons for University of Maryland athletic teams for nearly 20 years, MOSA specialties include dental implants, “teeth-in-a-day,” bone grafting, wisdom teeth, extractions and cosmetics.

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A: My father taught me that it isn't work if you love what you do. The opportunity to use my skills and experience to help people every day is most rewarding; I can't imagine doing anything else.

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Q: What brings you the most satisfaction in your work?

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At MOSA Bethesda, I relish the entire process of meeting a patient, understanding their needs and concerns and addressing them. I enjoy getting to know my patients and connecting with them on a personal level, allowing me to provide a holistic experience and customized treatments that result in optimal outcomes.

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A: The most important lesson I’ve learned is to trust my gut because it is never wrong.

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Q: What advice do you have for women just starting out?

Q: What is one thing prospective clients should know about you?

A: My family (Veirs) have been buying/selling real estate in Montgomery County and surrounding areas for over 100 years. I grew up in this industry and never wanted to do anything else. Diagnosed with juvenile diabetes at 18 months old, I've always been fiercely determined and driven to overcome every obstacle I face. And my clients benefit from that innate tenacity.

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A: I would tell my younger self to not be afraid to go against the grain and create a career that best suits me. We can often get pigeon-holed into a career that doesn’t satisfy us, and I think it’s important for people to know that it’s OK to go against what is “normal” and to choose a career path that is best for them.

Q: If you could go back in time and give advice to yourself as a young professional, what would you say?

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A: Be yourself — never change who you are for a job. No one is perfect; I'm transparent with my clients, candid about my shortcomings, and people appreciate that. As a realtor, you must set yourself apart. But that doesn't mean you should be flashy or fake. Authenticity — and a little humor — goes a long way!

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Daphna Nachminovitch’s work has led to the first felony cruelty charges for abusing animals in a laboratory, the first convictions of factory farm employees for abusing pigs, the first felony indictments for abusing factory-farmed birds, and the strongest penalty ever imposed for cruelty to any farmed animal, among other landmark victories.

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A: I’m proud of working to take down a horrific beagle-breeding factory in Virginia called Envigo, which sold dogs for painful and deadly experiments worldwide. I oversaw PETA’s undercover investigation, which exposed Envigo’s rampant neglect of thousands of beagles, as well as our follow-up efforts and complaints to state and federal agencies, work with a bipartisan group of state legislators and U.S. senators, and calls and e-mails from more than 55,000 PETA supporters that led to the facility’s closure.

Now 4,000 surviving beagles like handsome Dylan (pictured with me before Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed the five beagle protection bills we had relentlessly lobbied for) will soon have a chance to be members of a loving family.

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“My day job,” jokes Bainum, who also is chair man of Artis Senior Living, an owner-operator of Memory Care Assisted Living residences in 11 states.

“I have to believe that people in a democracy want to know what the hell is going on in their commu

Bainum in the Baltimore Banner newsroom in downtown Baltimore

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he view of the Inner Harbor is spec tacular from the Fells Point conference room in the fourth-floor offices of The Baltimore Banner, the news nonprofit that Stewart Bainum Jr. hopes will shift the very foun dation of how local journalism is conducted and con sumed in this country. But Bainum, the Montgom ery County hotel magnate and philanthropist who founded the enterprise and has committed to bank rolling it to the tune of $50 million, isn’t gazing out the window and admiring the gleaming National Aquar ium or the iconic Domino Sugars sign in the distance. Rather, he’s looking inward, contemplating a future for his startup, for which there is no blueprint.

Born and raised in Takoma Park, Bainum, 76, resides in Chevy Chase. He is chairman of the board of directors for Rockville-based Choice Hotels International. With more than 7,000 hotels, rep resenting nearly 570,000 rooms in more than 40 countries and territories, it’s one of the biggest hotel franchisors in the world.

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Lately his considerable energy and intellect have been focused on Baltimore, where he hopes the Ban ner, which offers some free content but charges read ers a monthly fee to read the meat of it, can become a model for how to revive vanishing local news cover age. Since 2005, the U.S. has lost more than a quar ter of its newspapers (2,500) and is on track to lose a third by 2025, according to a Local News Initiative report by the Medill School of Journalism at North western University.

The Chevy Chase hotel magnate talks about plunging into the Baltimore news business

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Bainum sees his mission as trying to save it. If he fails, he’ll be the latest in a line of people whose efforts to recalibrate the industry went bust. If he succeeds, he could help change the course of Ameri canConsideringjournalism.the stakes, we found Bai num to be affable and relaxed when we spoke with him in mid-June, a week after the Banner officially launched.

When did you first become interested in the changing nature of local journalism?

I’m not the CEO, but I’m taking it seri ously and I’m going to invest a dispropor tionate amount of my time on the Banner.

“I knew nothing about the business,” Bainum says. “I just knew it was dying.”

Ted Venetoulis came to me in June of 2015 and said, ‘I’d like for you to con sider investing in this local news startup.’

Is your plan to coexist with the Sun or to try to defeat it?

STEWART BAINUM JR.

Family: Wife, Sandy; sons, Brad, 31, and Matt, 28

We don’t look at it that way. Local news is underreported. We hope to supple ment what the other local news sources are doing. The radio, TV, the Sun , the [Baltimore] Brew, Maryland Matters; it’s all one echo system. There are so many stories in Baltimore that aren’t being

nity. And they need to know, certainly,” Bainum says. “There’s no map for what we’re trying to do. We have to experi ment left and right and go down a num ber of dead ends and turn around and try anotherTakingroute.”risks is nothing new for the Bainum family. His father rose from humble beginnings to found a success ful company focused on hotel franchis ing and nursing and assisted living facili ties. When Stewart Jr. took over as CEO in 1987, he helped increase its revenues from millions of dollars to billions. A for mer state representative and senator who represented District 20 in Montgomery County, Bainum over time became con cerned with the dwindling news cover age in Annapolis and in county council chambers and city board rooms through out the state. After a failed attempt to obtain The Baltimore Sun , he made a bid to buy the newspaper’s parent com pany, Tribune Publishing. When that fell short as well, he pivoted and created The Venetoulis Institute for Local Jour nalism, which oversees the Banner. (It’s named for his late friend, former Balti more County Executive Ted Venetoulis, who was a passionate advocate for robust local media coverage.)

reported and deserve to be reported, so we’re hoping to help with that.

What is your day-to-day involvement with the Banner?

I’ve spent a lot of time on this for the last two years. Beginning in May of ’20, and it ramped up around December of ’20 when we got involved in trying to buy the Sun and the Tribune Company. My role with the Venetoulis Institute and the Banner is to form a healthy, well-functioning governance structure and then find the right talent, starting with the CEO and the editor-in-chief. I was highly involved with both of those appoint ments. I see the paperwork on everyone that’s hired. I’ve done other startups, and some have worked and some haven’t, and a lot of it goes to the talent. Who’s on the team? The editor-in-chief search…we looked at 150 people. I spent 16 hours with the two finalists.

It wasn’t important. We wanted a loca tion that was close to the city govern ment and the courthouse, and we wanted to immerse our journalists and our busi ness side right into the heart of the city. We actually looked at almost 20 different location options, and this was the most economic. It looks like the most expen sive, but it wasn’t.

Professional background: Chairman of the board of Choice Hotels International; chairman of Artis Senior Living; founder and chairman of The Baltimore Banner

Why was it important to you to have high-profile offices right in the middle of the city?

Age: 76

Lives in: Chevy Chase Education: College: B.A. in history from Pacific Union College; Graduate School: MBA from UCLA; Divinity School: Andrews University from 1971 to 1972

Bainum overlooking the Inner Harbor from the Baltimore Banner’s offices

How did you and your team come up with this idea for the Banner? It was around the end of March in ’21 when we decided we needed a backup plan in case buying the Sun or Tri bune doesn’t work out. That’s when we started developing a business plan for the Banner.

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How can a people govern themselves when they don’t know what the hell is going on in their community? When the stories on one side of town aren’t being shared on the other side of town, there’s a lack of understanding, a lack of empa thy, polarization goes up. How do we know the values of the people on the bal lot if there’s not local news? How do we know what skeletons they have in their closet? We’re flying blind, and it puts the community at risk.

When I reflected back on my time in the General Assembly between 1979 and 1987, four years in the House, four years in the Senate, we had six robust daily newspapers there. The Evening Sun, the morning Sun, The News American was still kicking, Capital-Gazette was a damn good paper, The Washington Star, The Washington Post. Now there’s only two real papers, the Sun and the Post , and they don’t cover like they used to—by a longSoshot.Ithought,

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But I frankly thought that the budget was too small to make it successful.

Over the next five years, local news declined a lot from where it was in ’15. In June of ’20, I reached out to him and said, ‘Give me the lay of the land.’

Wait a minute. There were a lot of shenanigans going on when I was down there, and that’s when you had six papers. Now you don’t have that, so is the public being treated fairly or not?

Why is it important that there be robust coverage of local and state government?

Choice just announced its purchase of Radisson Hotel Group Americas. Why are you so bullish on the hotel industry as we emerge from COVID?

What is that business plan?

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I’ve committed to invest or raise $50 mil lion over the next three-and-a-half to four years. We’re going to raise some of that—it won’t all be out of my pocket— but I’m going to see that it’s funded.

When did you first get the political itch?

Well, it would be a little more exciting if we had somewhat of a road map. But yeah, startups are exciting. I’ve had some that failed; they’re less exciting than the ones that worked. My [wife] has told me that she’s seen how excited I am about this, and her thought was that I’ve always had a public service itch that the voters in 1986 didn’t let me fully scratch, and this is a way of maybe doing something more than I have.

When I became CEO in ’87, we had about $475 million in revenue, and we grew that over the next 11 years to be about $2.6 bil lion. We grew it pretty aggressively and created value for our shareholders and our people. We ended up with like 55,000 employees all over the country, and we had the hotel and the health care business. We spun Choice off in the fall of ’96. The fam ily still has [roughly] 38% of the company; it’s a public company.

My dad was a plumber for most of my childhood. He was an entrepreneur. It took him 20 years to put $50,000 together to invest in a little 24-room motel. ...When my dad started making some money, we moved out to east Silver Spring, to the White Oak area.

No. What happened was, my dad wanted me to be a business major. I said OK, I’ll double major in history and business. I go to college, and I had a final exam in accounting and I was so bored. I said to hell with this major. I s---canned that. So he’d given up on me. But then my soph omore year I was elected student body president for the next year at this little college out in California. I worked like 40 hours a week on it, and I loved it. I loved being in charge. Being the boss. When I was applying to graduate schools, the only business school I applied to was UCLA. When I called my dad, he was delighted. He couldn’t believe it. He had given up.

I always loved hearing my dad talk about his business, which he was inclined to do 90% of the time at dinner. I was probably the only one at the table interested. He drove a taxi at night when he was a plumber. He sold vegetables out of the back of his plumbing truck on week ends. He hustled. I admired my dad a lot, and I still do.

It’s a 501(c)(3)—not-for-profit. So there are no shareholders that have to be paid a dividend or are looking for a return. We wanted to make it not-for-profit because we want the support of the community. It would be hard to attract for-profit capi tal to invest in an industry that’s shrink ing so Therapidly.business model assumes that by 2025, 50% of our revenues will be covered by subscriptions, 25% by advertising, and 12 to 15% by contri butions, because we don’t want to be a drain forever on the philanthropic Baltimore community.

Our hotel franchising business, the last 50 years, 49 of 50 we’ve had earnings. Forty-eight of the 50 years, the earn ings have increased. It’s a good business model we like.

You became chairman and CEO of Manor Care in 1987. What are some of your accomplishments in that role that you’re most proud of?

Do you find it exciting to be involved in something like this with no road map?

Public service, I felt, was the high est calling I could have, given all this emphasis through my religious educa tion. I liked politics because you could do that, and it appealed to my ego— being recognized for doing something good for people who were underserved in the state. I was single for 13 years between two marriages when I was in

Your dad started the business that you would eventually run. How did he get his start?

I was raised as a Seventh-day Adventist. I went to Seventh-day Adventist school from first grade through college. So service to other people was important. The whole [mysticism] of Christianity, I never really identified with. I tried. After business school, I taught college for a year—poor kids, I was 24—and then I went to divinity school for almost a year and a half just to understand what I believed. Not to become a pastor. I learned a lot; it was a good experience, and I’m glad I did it. Then I went and joined my dad’s business.

What did you learn from your dad about the world of business?

To think big. I sometimes still wonder, Do I think big enough? I learned how to nego tiate. He was a hell of a negotiator. I had someone…who sent me a note and said, ‘I’ve never come across a better negotiator than your dad.’ And I haven’t either. Also, just how to treat people, and how to go about having high standards and getting people who will fit the culture.

Did you always know that after college you were going to join your father in the business?

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How old were you when you started working for your father?

You also studied theology?

I was 12. He had a plumbing company and this little motel. I was a janitor there for three summers.

How much of your own money have you invested in this effort so far?

What do you want your legacy to be? Our goal here is both local and national. Both are ambitious. The local goal is to create a first-rate news outlet that tells the story of the people of Baltimore, strengthens the community, and holds our leaders to account. The national goal is to create a sustainable business model at a scale that can be replicated in communities in all 50 states. That wouldn’t be a bad legacy, because it could really help strengthen the dem ocratic process in this country in a sig nificant way. It’s a grand slam, if we can do it. n

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You’re 76 years old. Do you ever think of retiring?

What did you discover about politics in eight years in Annapolis?

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Mike Unger is a writer and editor who grew up in Montgomery County and lives in Baltimore. The Bethesda Interview is edited for length and clarity.

the legislature, so I worked a lot at both jobs and got a lot of satisfaction out of it.

You’ve got to be willing to give and take, and you’ve got to be willing to vote for something that you don’t want to vote for to get something that does more for the public. It’s a trade. I was a babe in the woods. I was 32 at the time. I didn’t understand how things work. I was prob ably overly idealistic, which meant I was unrealistic. I had to play ball with people with power to get on the right committees and get the votes to get your legislation out of committees. Not just mine, but other good legislation. I wasn’t the best at it, but I enjoyed it. I loved the policymaking end of it.

You mentioned that politics played to your ego. What is the impact on your ego when you lose a highprofile race like you did in 1986 to Connie Morella for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives?

I had a drink that night. That was a tough one. That was a big disappointment, no question. I didn’t even know if I’d get the nomination, because six other people were running. It was not a high mark in my life.

I just don’t think about it. I need the stim ulation. I can’t just go and play golf and tennis and go skiing. I need things to stim ulate me intellectually. Business is where I’ve made mistakes and hopefully learned from some. It keeps me interested.

BY CARALEE ADAMS AND MIKE UNGER

We profiled these medical workers when they were on the front lines of the pandemic two years ago. Here’s how they’re doing today.

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interviews in the spring of 2020 that we wanted to return to those we profiled.

Yet, most remain hopeful and com mitted to their profession. They talk of learning from the experience and feeling better prepared for the next crisis. They found joy when they could finally share in a celebration with their colleagues faceto-face. Many say they are finding them selves increasingly aware of the fragility of life and seizing on any downtime they can grab to re-energize for each wave.

THEN AND NOW

wo years ago, we introduced you to 13 medical heroes on the front lines as COVID-19 first gripped the world. It was a time of great uncertainty. The situation was unlike any thing these health care workers had dealt with, and there was no clear treatment. These professionals layered on cum bersome personal protective equipment and put in marathon shifts. Worried about bringing the virus home, they told us about changing out of their scrubs in the garage and, in some cases, isolating for weeks from their families. Many leaned on their “work families,” who understood the shared trauma of caring for patients who were often alone at the end of life except for the staff at their bedsides. So much has happened since our first

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In our follow-up conversations with eight of them, we heard stories of heart ache, dedication and resilience. Some sought therapy to cope with the hard ship. They recount individual patients lost with clarity, and sometimes raw frustra tion with the unvaccinated.

DR. MANU KAUSHAL WAS so careful to protect his family in the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic that he left his scrubs in the garage and slept in the base ment of his Rockville home. The only fam ily member he would touch was Demo, their Cavalier King Charles spaniel.

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ICU staff members witnessed so much loss during the pandemic that they had to get creative to process it, Kaushal says. So together, they painted pictures. In one, stars in the sky represent patients who

died. In another, flowers symbolize those who survived. These works now hang in an ICU hallway at the Olney hospital.

After missing so many milestones with Reva as a newborn, Kaushal is try ing to spend as much time with her as possible. She’s already old enough to love Pixar movies, he says.

Most patients with COVID in hospi tals are unvaccinated, Kaushal says.

In March, the family got a golden retriever puppy. They named the pup Wall-E in honor of Reva’s favorite movie, one they’ve watched nearly 50 times.

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His family made it all the way to Christ mas 2021 before the omicron variant hit. “We created a bubble. The weak link was [Reva], who was unvaccinated and going to day care. That’s where she got it,” says Kaushal, 42. Reva, who tested positive on Dec. 26, was sick for about a week. Then Kaushal and his wife, Dr. Vandhna Sharma, 37, and his 76-year-old mother all tested positive for COVID but had few or no symptoms—and no long-term effects.

“It was very disheartening because we had always protected ourselves,” Kaushal says. “But I had very high confidence in the vaccine. …Going through COVID and recovering and being asymptomatic throughout all this just raised my confi

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The family did suffer a loss. Fourteenyear-old Demo, Kaushal’s “savior” early in the pandemic, died last year. Not only was the dog good company, but Kaushal recalls he was constantly sniffing Demo to make sure he hadn’t lost his sense of smell—a possible symptom of the virus.

As medical director of critical care and pulmonary rehabilitation at Med Star Montgomery Medical Center in Olney, Kaushal says the isolation was a necessary sacrifice because of the unknown impact the virus could have on his daughter, Reva, who was born in January 2020.

One of Kaushal’s intensive care unit patients earlier this year, he recalls, was a man in his late 40s who chose not to get vaccinated and opposed his teenage chil dren getting the shots. He said he’d done his research and was taking vitamins but then realized the severity of the situation. “You could see the remorse in his eyes,” KaushalFacingsays.death, the patient pondered what he could do. Kaushal recalls telling him, “You’ve got to get the people around you, your kids, vaccinated. It’s very impor tant.” But the man didn’t survive. Later, the patient’s daughter got vaccinated, but the son remained adamant. If his father didn’t do it, he wouldn’t either, Kaushal says.

By this past spring, Kaushal says, it was beginning to feel more normal at the hospi tal and with his family. His wife completed a National Institutes of Health fellowship in June and joined MedStar staff in Olney as chief of inpatient endocrinology.

dence in the vaccine completely.”

Sundergill says the pandemic revealed to her the fragility of life—because every one was vulnerable.

“You name it, and people were calling,

Still, Sundergill says, the staff pro vided great care.

While putting in long hours at the hos pital, Sundergill undertook a two-year process to earn her nurse practitioner degree, which she received in December 2021. Unable to take a vacation during the most difficult days of the pandemic, she finally took two months off before starting her new position as a nurse practitioner in

During the break, Sundergill and her fiancee moved from Rockville to Elli cott City. The two had planned to wed in Hawaii on April 26, 2020, but the pandemic made that impossible. Now that grand plan doesn’t seem as important as just being married, so they are likely to have a court house ceremony, Sundergill says.

For a while, Sundergill says, she had nightmares and anxiety bordering on panic. There was one instance she just couldn’t shake. She performed CPR on an older man, but he didn’t survive. It was particularly upsetting afterward to inter act with members of his family because they hadn’t been permitted to be with him in the hospital. “I just really needed to get some help to process that and get over it so that I could go back to work and start connecting with patients again because I put up a wall, big time,” she says.

the MedStar psychiatric unit in late April.

LITTLE DID LAUREN SUNDERGILL know that volunteering to work in the inten sive care unit at MedStar Montgomery Medical Center in the spring of 2020 would become an on-again, off-again gig for nearly two years. With each lull in the ICU, she returned to her position as a behavioral health nurse in the psy chiatric unit of the Olney hospital—but the transition was hard.

“I have a much deeper appreciation for slowness—just watching the birds in my backyard,” she says. “With COVID, it literally could have been anybody. That kind of realization of, Wow, this really could be me at any time—it shifted my mindset to just living in the moment and being more present.”

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“It didn’t matter if they were unvac cinated. It was frustrating, especially when they were young and didn’t make it, because it hurt more,” she says. She thought, We have something that could have helped you.

“Inworkers.thebeginning, it was like, ‘Oh my goodness, you guys are so wonderful,’ ” she recalls. “Then it really did a 180.

demanding that we give it to their fam ily members. We’re talking Viagra, iver mectin, random medications that didn’t even make sense.”

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Another challenge has been the changing public sentiment toward health care

“I felt like I didn’t really belong” back in the psychiatric ward, says Sunder gill, 38. There, none of the patients were COVID-positive, and she and other staff members didn’t face the same fears about entering patient rooms for hours, clothed in protective gear. “There was so much I had seen and done that they hadn’t. I felt like a different person.”

Sundergill met with a therapist online who helped her work through the trauma, and she has subsequently encouraged her fellow ICU nurses to do the same to maintain their mental health.

“People got pretty nasty,” Sundergill says. “Patients, their family members, people were outright telling us that we’re lying. ‘COVID isn’t a thing.’ ‘Why won’t you give [out] this medication?’

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IN NOVEMBER 2021, staff at Holy Cross Germantown Hospital gathered for a tree planting ceremony and blessing to honor those who had died at that point in the COVID-19 pandemic. Patricia Aparicio, the nurse in charge of the intensive care unit, painted on a small stone: “For all the lives that perished in the ICU rest in peace.” She placed it at the base of the sapling, joined by other colleagues doing the same.

Aparicio never counted the losses, she says, because she didn’t want to become like a machine—insensi tive to the needs of her individual patients. It required balance to be

emotionally supportive while maintaining the energy and focus needed to pro vide critical care, she says.

By the time the omicron wave hit last December, Aparicio says her team was mentally exhausted, and she wanted to get away for the first time since the pandemic began. She, her husband and their two grown children flew to Las Vegas for four days.

“It was a Christmas present for the whole family,” she says. Not a fan of the slots, she says she enjoyed just walking around outside. Even in December, Vegas

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As for getting vaccinated, Aparicio says she’s come to accept that some won’t do it. Still, she tries to educate her unvac cinated patients at the hospital.

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“At the end of the day, we had to respect patients’ choices,” she says. “We’re not there to judge. We’re there to take care of them.”

“I don’t know if you ever let go. You just have to think about the good things that you did and you were able to accomplish under difficult cir cumstances,” says the 48-year-old who lives in Boyds. “They will always have a special place in your heart.”

Two years ago, Aparicio described getting attached to her patients and the emotional toll it took, espe cially when family members weren’t allowed in the hospital because of COVID restrictions. Her co-work ers have been her best source of sup port, she says, truly able to under stand the experience of being at the bedside of dying patients.

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I don’t even care anymore if you’re vaccinated or not. You’re just a patient who has this disease,” Dr. Rachel Vile says. “

“People were vaccinated and still getting COVID, which was extremely depressing because we thought we had a cure,” she says. “But we had some vacci nated people dying. They all had preex isting conditions. Healthy people who got COVID were fine.”

When tragedy strikes, she gives her self time to grieve. If she doesn’t, she says,

In the spring, the hospital had only one COVID patient in the ICU. The availability of new drugs like Paxlovid, given to patients who meet certain criteria, has helped treat mild to moderate forms of the disease. Since then, however, she has seen more patients with complications such as a blood clot or a heart attack.

“What we hope, and what is going to happen, they are two different things,” she says. “Right now, our new routine is when the [COVID infec tion] numbers are going down, we’re coming out. When the numbers are going up, we’re going inside. …As nurses and doctors, we adapt. We adapt to changes. It was hard and it was challenging, but we adapt.”

“I don’t even care anymore if you’re vac cinated or not. You’re just a patient who has this disease,” she says.

Vile is quick to point out that the vaccine has made a huge difference in the severity of disease in patients.“Overthe course of two years, we’ve tried to provide all the care we can for every patient,” she says. “I try to enjoy the victories and grieve over the ones that don’t make it. Don’t try to compart mentalize the sadness; try to deal with it in the moment. I still take such pride in the patients that we helped. When I feel I’ve made a difference, it means the world to me.”

was sunnier than Bethesda and temperatures were in the 70s. “I just needed to see a different scenario, different than home andNext,work.”Aparicio says she’d like to go to the Caribbean, but was hesitant to book too far in advance because of the uncertainty of the virus.

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“By the time you come to the ICU you’re so sick that we need to do everything we can for you. Blood is the same color no matter what you do, no matter what the politics are. If you’re sick in the ICU, I just want to take care of you. I don’t care how you got there.”

THE LOW POINT, says Dr. Rachel Vile, came around Christmas and in January of this year, when the omicron variant was putting people with COVID back into the intensive care unit at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring at an alarming rate. DR. RACHEL VILE

Vile, 53, works as the hospital’s medi cal director of critical care. She’s the liai son between the critical care unit and the administration. To her, it’s irrelevant whether a patient is vaccinated. One patient refused to acknowledge that they had COVID before being placed on a ventilator. That patient later died.

Vile, who is married with three teens, has reflected a lot in the past few years. She’s increased her focus on self-care. She spends more time with friends, reading for pleasure, and exercising.

the sadness will eat her alive. She spends time in one of the hospital’s newly created oasis rooms, where she can contemplate life and death. Luckily, she hasn’t been sick with COVID, and no one among her friends and family has died from it. One colleague, however, contracted the disease and has had to permanently stop working because of the long-term effects.

WHILE THE INTENSITY OF the COVID-19 crisis has abated, Dr. Atul Rohatgi says he’s busy in new ways at Suburban Hos pital. The Bethesda hospitalist, an internal medicine physician who cares for patients exclusively in a hospital setting, is mentoring other hospitalist leaders in the region—on top of putting in more hours to cover staffing shortages.

“He gave me my heart for pub lic service,” Graham says of his dad, who he didn’t see in person very often during the last year of his life. “One thing I’ve absolutely, positively hated about the pan demic was the separation.”

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The report will build on a July 2020 internal “pause and learn” review Gra ham helped conduct, co-authoring an article about the results in the Physician Leadership Journal. While Graham says the response went well in the first six months of the pandemic, there were unexpected challenges, such as a frac tured supply chain, staffing shortages and fast-moving variant waves.

leadership who stepped in to fulfill basic jobs, such as deliv ering food trays and cleaning rooms to keep the hospital run ning during the winter holidays.

“Omicron really shook our trees,” Graham says of the surge in late 2021 that hit many Holy Cross health care workers and created a labor crunch. The hospital developed a staffing resource pool with job descriptions for tasks that could be done by a substitute—and the creative approach worked, he says. Graham cred its members of the hospital’s executive

After celebrating Christmas with his wife and two grown daughters at their farm in Comus, near Sugarloaf Moun tain, Graham drove into Silver Spring about 8 p.m. to work the overnight shift at Holy Cross Hospital and allow others to spend part of their holiday at home. He had wanted to be with his mother and extended fam ily in Cumberland but didn’t feel comfortable taking the risk with the virus still threatening. It would have been particu larly comforting to be together then, he says, as his father, Dick Graham, a Maryland state trooper for nearly 59 years, had died unexpectedly in July 2021.

As director of emergency preparedness and safety, Graham ran the Inci dent Management Center for Holy Cross Health, Maryland Region, located in Silver Spring. Although the center closed its doors this past March, the hospital continued to monitor devel opments regarding the virus. But the focus has shifted to compiling an afteraction report that will include inter views of those involved in every aspect of the health care system’s response to the“Thatpandemic.document will serve as oppor tunities for us to do things differently, or opportunities for us to not have to re-create a wheel should something like this happen again,” says the 58-year-old, who has not taken a vacation day since the pandemic began.

Graham says being able to help during the COVID-19 cri sis validated his career choice in public safety, which included 27 years with the Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service.

“So much of this successful pandemic response was based on...people willing to serve others who don’t know how sick they are, you don’t know where they are in their walk in life, you don’t know who they just lost,” Graham says. “To serve humanity is probably the greatest calling that anyone can have. And even more impor tantly, to lead people to be able to do what they do best.”

MANY PEOPLE ARE EAGER to put the COVID-19 pandemic behind them, but Scott Graham wants to remem ber all the details. His job at Holy Cross Health is to be ready for the next crisis, so that means reviewing the response to the latest one

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“It’s been tough,” the 47-year-old says of the extra work for his team of 50 phy sicians, nurse practitioners and physician assistants. “As a hospital, you can’t be like an office and just say: ‘We’re closing our doors. We can’t see patients.’ It just means everyone has to do more—and it’s been continuing now for over two years. There has not been a chance to really just take a deep breath and sigh.”

more on the big picture of care. “I also get to learn a higher level of hospital medi cine across the system instead of just at an institution,” he says.

In April, Rohatgi got on an airplane for the first time since the pandemic began for a vacation in California with his wife and two teenage children. This summer he planned to take a two-week Boy Scout backpacking trip with his son in New Mexico. “That’s probably just as scary for me as COVID because I’m not an outdoors guy. But it’s an experience I want to share.”

In the early days of the pandemic, Rohatgi helped craft a manual for the care of COVID-19 patients. It was updated with each surge, he says, and became a model of sorts for other area institutions to adapt. Mentoring colleagues at How ard County General Hospital and Sibley Memorial Hospital in Northwest Wash ington, D.C., has been a welcome chal lenge, Rohatgi says, and a chance to focus

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“COVID fatigue” was real, Rohatgi says, but the hospital staff did what was needed. “I don’t want to go through another surge, but if we had to, I would feel confident that this institution would manage it as smoothly as it could be,” he says. “Say something similar would happen in 10 years, it would be a heck of a lot easier for us to pull together and know how to approach this.”

Rohatgi refers to his colleagues as his “work family” and says they are a social group. They were eager to have a party when they all could get together unencum bered, but didn’t want to gather too early and risk holding a “super-spreader event,” he says. In early July, Rohatgi says, about 20 members of his team enjoyed dining together outdoors at a Rockville restaurant.

At Suburban, Rohatgi’s team is find ing new ways to stay connected. Instead of doing group TikTok dances at the end of shifts as they did in the spring of 2020, many are playing Wordle together, and the team’s book club has restarted after taking a hiatus.

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Since then, things have improved personally and professionally for Ventura, who now splits her time between Suburban’s intermediate care unit and Sibley Memorial Hospital’s ICU. She cares for COVID patients much less often these days, but that doesn’t erase the memories of those she knew who didn’t make it.

Before June 2020, Ventura hadn’t lost a patient under the age of 50, a situation that sadly didn’t last. A year later, her unit moved to the floor at Suburban that once housed the hospital’s COVID ICU. The shift triggered memories of seeing patient after patient intubated, each one seemingly doing worse than the last.

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“We experienced a lot of people crash ing and having emergencies at the same time, dying on the same shift,” she says. “I have a memory bank of patients who touched me. I think about the patients who I have connections with, who tell

LAURA VENTURA COULD HARDLY have been greener when, eight months after graduating from nursing school, the COVID-19 pandemic hit. She worked in Suburban Hospital’s progressive care unit then—essentially one step removed from the intensive care unit— and two years later she still recalls viv idly the weight of the job.

Laura Ventura at home with her cat, Lucifer Hellfire—Lucy, for short

“I would get off work and sit in my car and have a breakdown after shifts,” says Ventura, 26. “There was a time when every single patient that I had was declining, and I felt like there was noth ing that I could do about it. I was watch ing all these people not getting better, and that’s very difficult. It’s hard for nursing to feel rewarding when you’re experiencing that.”

He didn’t realize the toll the job was taking on him until he posted a photo of himself on social media in May 2020.

There was plenty of cuddle time in March when Ventura contracted COVID. It was a mild case, she says, that felt like a cold. She missed just two days of work.

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“I work nights, so I come home and all my roommates are at work, so it’s just me and the cat,” she says. “He’ll come and snuggle up next to me in bed and it’s just the absolute best.”

me their stories. I tell them my story, and we make that connection. That stuff doesn’t leave

The experience profoundly changed the way he looks at life.

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He wasn’t dieting, so over the next year he made an effort to eat a healthy breakfast and lunch, two meals he had often skipped because he was so busy at work. He joined a gym and started going on regular walks with his two dogs and wife, whom he married in October 2020.

the first surge and noticing how drained the nurses looked. He arranged for ther apists and chaplains to be available for the staff, and he set up meditation ses sions for those who were interested.

Kapoor himself wasn’t immune to the emotional strain the disease caused. He recalls a patient with seven children whom doctors determined was termi nal. When they went to remove the patient’s breathing tube, only two of the kids could be there.

“When I saw people my own age come to the hospital with COVID and become seriously ill, it made me appre ciate what I have,” says Kapoor, 33, of Gaithersburg. “I was fortunate enough to have a good family and nobody around me got severely ill. It made me appreciate life a lot more.” n

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Venturame.” occasionally sees a therapist to help her process what she’s gone through. She says reacquainting herself with her friends post-quaran tine and practicing daily yoga and meditation have improved her mental health. But noth ing has been more important than adding a furry friend to her household. Her cat, Luci fer Hellfire—Lucy, for short— usually greets her at the door of her Silver Spring home after she returns from one of her three weekly 12-hour shifts.

Nearly three years into her nursing career, she says she can’t imagine doing anything else for a living.

“I already knew that it was hard when I started, but I learned that you have to come in there each day with all this energy to give to people,” she says. “You need to fill your tank to make sure that you have enough for yourself and for all of the people you’re taking care of.”

“The family had to decide which two kids to have bedside when it happened,” he says. “There are a lot of decisions that have to be made about end-of-life care. At the time, there was a week when we were see ing one death a day, which is not typical in the ICU. That was extremely challenging not just for family members, but for our staff, too, because they’re the ones who are trying to empathize with the families.”

Kapoor worked as a nurse for eight years before shifting to administrative roles, so he knows how exhausting the profession can be. He remembers walk ing through Shady Grove’s ICUs after

AT THE BEGINNING OF the pandemic, Nimeet Kapoor was the newly hired nursing manager of the intensive care unit at Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville. It was a stressful time for everyone in the health care industry, but particularly for Kapoor, who was 31 at the time and tasked with adding two ICUs to treat COVID patients.

“Somebody said, ‘Nimeet, you look good. Thin,’ ” he recalls. “I weighed myself, and I didn’t realize that I’d lost 30 pounds in like six months.”

ensuring that we can get the right processes in place to get the right staff in the right places,” he says. “Hospitals suffered from the ‘Great Resignation’ as well. Nurses are leav ing the profession because they were so burnt out. Many people went to an agency, where they’re traveling to other parts of the country.”

Kapoor has a new role at hadoneICUmentstaffinggramtheHealthCareAdventistnow,assystem’sprodirectorformanageservices.“WhenIwasintheasamanager,ofthethingsIapassionforwas

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aitlyn Lucey has friends and fam ily who love to cook—but count her out in the kitchen. Lucey, 35, a busy professional who lives and works in Rockville, isn’t big on spending her free time gro cery shopping and preparing meals. For the past four years, she has depended on Phresh Gour met, a local meal service company, to deliver to her apartment most of the lunches and dinners she eats during the workweek.

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Website features: See a photo of “Chef Mam” and the other chefs who may have prepared your dinner and learn about their backgrounds in their short bios.

This meal service, devised to provide a living wage for immigrant and refugee cooks, made a big splash when it launched in 2016. Founder and owner Noobtsaa Philip Vang was inspired by his Laotian immigrant mother, who worked multiple jobs while he was growing up, but none that employed her best skill set—her home cooking. Vang, who went to graduate school at Georgetown University, started Foodhini with one chef and five meals; now the company offers 25 to 28 dishes from four chefs who hail from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Ivory Coast and Laos. The chefs receive salaries, benefits and paid time off; over the years, some have moved on to other jobs in the restaurant industry, started their own catering businesses or pursued other careers. Foodhini, which operates out of a commercial kitchen in Northeast Washington, D.C., also sells grab-and-go items at a few Whole Foods stores in downtown D.C.

Good for: Customers interested in supporting immi grant communities and who like to eat adventurously. foodhini.com, info@foodhini.com202-734-3855,

Cost: Meals range from $10 to $18.75 and can be ordered individually, or you can opt for a Taste the World subscription, which consists of a weekly meal for one ($21.55), two ($35.45) or four people ($70.55).

First-time orders come with a personal handwritten note from the chef who prepared your meal. “Thank you so much for ordering my Lao food!” wrote “Chef Mam” with our order of ping kaduk kang. “I like everything about it. I hope you like too! Enjoy! Stay safe!”

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Food: Options span the globe, and each of the four chefs offers interesting restaurant-style meals, served in generous portions. We sampled ping kaduk kang (meaty Laotian-style barbecue pork ribs with a sweet and spicy tamarind sauce that really added oomph) that came with sticky rice; Afghan chicken biryani— moist chunks of thigh meat served with lemony rice; and Eritrean mandazi (a fun finish, these triangularshaped doughnuts, which come with Nutella for dip ping, benefit from a quick reheating). While Foodhini doesn’t provide nutrition information about its meals, you can filter selections by dietary preference—halal, vegan, vegetarian, keto or gluten-free.

Foodhini offers 25 to 28 dishes made by chefs who hail from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Ivory Coast and Laos.

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Ordering and delivery: Deliveries are made on Sunday between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m.; the company also delivers on Mon day to homes and offices within a 10-mile radius of the company’s Hyattsville kitchen. All orders must be placed by Saturday at noon.

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Food: A variety of dishes are offered each week in seven catego ries—the “clean” menu (well-balanced and all-natural), athlete (a little higher in protein), low carb (usually less than 25 grams of car bohydrates), family meals, kids meals, breakfast, and snacks and desserts. The low carb salmon we tried wasn’t the freshest-tasting piece of fish but was disguised by a drape of Thai coconut curry sauce and a pleasant side of kale, onions and peppers. And the “ath lete” steak, potatoes and green beans meal was a respectable take on this classic combo.

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Cost: No minimum orders or subscriptions. Meals, including breakfasts, range from $10 to $15 each. Family-size protein options that serve two to four (depending on the item) range from $12.99 to $25. Kids meals are $8. There is a $10 delivery fee; $5 to offices.

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Good for: People who want an easy and efficient ordering and deliv ery process. Also, Healthy Fresh Meals are heat sealed and last for seven days in the refrigerator, according to Greenbaum, which could be useful if you want a week’s supply of meals on hand. healthyfreshmeals.com, 202-851-4855, contact@healthyfreshmeals.com

Founder and owner Shana Greenbaum grew up in Georgetown and Bethesda, working in restaurants from the time she was 17. Greenbaum, who transitioned into catering management, started participating in fitness competitions, and initially created Healthy Fresh Meals in 2016 for distribution to gyms and athletes. The business, based in Hyattsville, has evolved and expanded to also serve busy professionals, working parents, families and seniors from Richmond to Baltimore.

Website features: Each meal lists a complete rundown of ingredients and nutritional information.

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Website features: The Mighty Meals web site is scheduled to be revamped in October, but in the meantime, meals can be filtered in multi ple ways—by protein source (including vegetarian); diet type (e.g., low carb, low sodium, under and over 500 calories); specified amounts of calories, fat, protein and carbohydrates; and dietary restrictions (dairy-, gluten-, shellfish-, nut-, wheat- and soy-free, as well as “not spicy”). You also can schedule a free 20-minute nutrition consultation on how to create a meal plan that’s best for you.

Cost: No minimum orders or subscriptions; most meals range from $11.99 to $13.99.

Two Northern Virginia fitness trainers (Dan Graziano, Alex Lebonitte) and a chef (Stefano Marzano) started Mighty Meals in 2015, and sales have nearly doubled every year since, according to Marzano. The firm now has 100 employees, its own drivers and refrigerated vans. In addition to serving the Washington, D.C., metro area, Mighty Meals are distributed to clients as far south as Richmond and as far north as Baltimore. Based in Burke, Virginia, Mighty Meals is the “official meal prep company” for D.C. United, Old Glory DC and the University of Maryland Baltimore County athletic department. At press time, major expansion plans were in the works, including acquiring a $7 million, 16,000-square-foot production facility in Gainesville, Virginia.

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Food: With more than 100 entrees, Mighty Meals has a lot of items to choose from; dishes are rotated, and new items are added every other week. In addition to complete meals, you can also order bulk items, such as a pound of cooked chicken, or family-size servings of vegetables or starches. We selected Italian herb chicken with spaghetti squash, which also came with spinach, tomatoes, artichoke hearts, roasted red peppers and a side container of pesto. Under 500 calories and less than 25 grams of carbohydrates, it was a fresh and lively dish made with chicken breast that stayed remarkably moist after reheating. The ropa vieja with rice was a bit bland, but filling and fine for a midweek supper.

mightymeals.com, info@eatmightymeals.com

Ordering and delivery: Deliveries are made Saturday and Sunday (deadline for ordering, Thursday 11:59 p.m.) and Wednes day and Thursday (deadline for ordering, Monday 11:59 p.m.). Delivery fee is $10; free for orders $130 or more.

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Good for: People who like a lot of variety and options, and want to curate their dietary intake.

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Ordering and delivery: V+B strongly encour ages subscriptions rather than trial orders. Sub scriptions allow customers to choose their meals,

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Good for: Vegans seeking a wider and better-tasting variety of options, people who are pas sionate about health and envi ronmental issues, and those who don’t mind some of the company’s quirky and cumber some policies.

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Cost: Meals vary in price depending on whether they’re part of a trial order or subscription, and they also vary within those options. Vegan dishes cost less than those with meat, and prices decline as you order more of either. For weekly subscriptions, vegan meals range from $11.50 to $14.50 per meal, and plans with meat range from $12.50 to $16 per meal; there’s a two-meal minimum per week, and all prices include free delivery. The most popular subscription plan is eight meals per week, which works out to $13/meal for vegans (or $104/week) and $14.50/meal with meat (or $116/week). Customers who opt for nonrenewing one-week orders pay a 15% premium on top of those prices (vegan $13.50 to $17 per meal; with meat $15 to $19 per meal).

but you must order either a Vegetable’s Basket or Butcher’s Box; if you want to mix and match vegan and meat dishes, you have to set up two subscrip tions within an account. Deliveries, made Monday, Wednesday and Friday, are scheduled between 3 a.m. and 7 a.m.—this is to ensure delivery in time for breakfast orders, and drivers can reduce carbon emissions by avoiding daytime traffic. Requests can be made for 8 a.m. to noon deliveries. Meals come in a zippered cooler bag with ice packs. There is no delivery fee.

Website features: The sleek and attractive website was refreshed recently to better focus on the company’s “soil to soil” composting mission. Before plac ing an order, you’re prompted to type in your first name, email address and ZIP code to see if the company deliv ers to your location (by typing that information in, you’ll be signed up for email promotions).

Opened in 2016 by Ariane Valle (a vegan) and Turner Hoff (a meat eater), Vegetable + Butcher has grown from two employees to 70 full-time staff in the past six years. Hoff is from Houston; Valle was born in the Philippines and spent part of her childhood there, the rest in Northern Virginia. With a prep kitchen in Northeast Washington, D.C., and a fulfillment center in Hyattsville, the company is consolidating its operations and planning to move into a new 46,000-square-foot facility in Upper Marlboro by the end of the year. V+B is environmentally aware—it composts its food scraps, all of its packaging is compostable, and customers can opt to return containers and bags for the company to compost (for $2.50 per week). Aside from its nutrition-minded meals, V+B also sells detox products, such as tonics, “gut reset” drinks and pre- and post-cleanse kits.

Food: Matt Baker, currently the chef/owner of Gravitas restaurant in the District, helped the cou ple launch the initial menus, and Valle used to work at Washington’s Knightsbridge Restaurant Group (Rasika, Bombay Club and more), so the selections will appeal to foodies. The vegan meals become paleo with a helping of animal protein; this summer’s vegan version of watermelon chaat with serrano citrus yogurt came with tofu, and the meat option came with chicken breast. For a trial order (the company picks the menu, and you can’t mix vegan and meat meals), we received kung pao Brussels sprouts with diced chicken breast, and chickpea potato curry with coconut-braised chicken thighs. Both dishes were high quality and packed with flavor.

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Food: There are a total of eight to 12 breakfast, lunch and dinner options each week, including a vegetarian dish and a main-course salad. We tried seared mahi-mahi with Brazilian collards and cauliflower rice, and shrimp Creole with saffron rice and steamed mixed vegetables. Both were serviceable dishes with some good-tasting twists (i.e., the Brazilian collards, yellow carrots and the rice sides).

Good for: People who want to support a small Montgomery County-founded company and who look for personable one-on-one service. phreshgourmet.com, info@phreshgourmet.com202-549-4484, n

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through Tuesday are delivered Wednesday noon to 8 p.m.

From left: Braised short ribs with mashed potatoes and root

Website features: Type in your age, height, weight and exercise level under the “nutrition info” tab, and the calorie intake calculator will tell you how many calories you need to consume for weight maintenance, fat loss and extreme fat loss. Meals on the website contain calorie, fat, carbohydrate, fiber, sugar and protein counts as well as ingredient lists.

Ordering and delivery: Orders placed Wednesday through Friday are delivered Sun day noon to 8 p.m. Orders placed Saturday

Carole Sugarman, a contributing editor at Bethesda Magazine, is a longtime food writer who lives in Chevy Chase.

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Montgomery Blair High School graduate Manny Gossa launched Phresh Gourmet in 2018 in a commercial kitchen in Kensington. Gossa, who majored in marketing at West Virginia University and saw potential in the fresh and convenient food trend, expanded his business more than a year ago, and now works out of a larger space in Northeast Washington, D.C.

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Cost: A la carte meals range from $9.50 to $12.50, breakfasts $7, plus a $10 delivery fee. Monthly subscriptions are available for 20 meals ($210, five meals/week), 28 ($290, seven meals/ week) or 40 ($410, 10 meals/week). Twelve breakfasts/month ($65) can be added to any plan. No delivery fee for subscriptions.

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—Jeffrey Yeates

The paved Virginia Capital Trail runs between Richmond and Williamsburg.

The 51-mile Virginia Capital Trail (virginiacapitaltrail. org) opened in 2015 and has been attracting cyclists ever since. Informally known as the Cap2Cap—it connects the current and former Virginia capitals of Richmond and Williams burg—the paved, multi-use trail follows Virginia State Route 5, transporting travel ers past inns, campsites, barbecue joints, former plantations, museums, farms, waterways and more. Though the trail has no major climbs, there are some hills, particularly on the trail segments near Richmond. Don’t want to do all 51 miles? A popular and accessible ride is the 7-mile segment between mile 0 at the Jamestown Settlement and Chickahominy River front Park in Williamsburg.

forests and fields, hook yourself up with a zip line adventure. Open March to November, the Tree Top Zip Tour at the Salamander Resort in Middleburg, Virginia (empoweradventures.com), has five zip lines and two suspension bridges that collectively span 20 acres of tree canopy at heights of 35 to 65 feet ($149).

Daredevils can take it up a notch at Adventures on the Gorge (adventuresonthegorge.com) in Lansing, West Virginia, home to the 1.5-mile, 200-foot-high Gravity Zipline, as well as the AdrenaLine, a 3,150-foot run that sends willing parties careening above the forest at speeds up to 65 mph. Here, the year-round Treetops Canopy tour includes 10 zip lines, five swinging sky bridges and a 35-foot rappel. Tickets are $104 and up for ages 15 and older; $57 for ages 10-12.

—Amy Brecount White

Adventures on the Gorge in Lansing, West Virginia, features five sky bridges and 10 zip lines.

Buzz the Treetops

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Bear Mountain Ziplines (bearmountainadventure.com) in the Shenandoah Valley near Luray, Virginia, offers the year-round Mama Bear zip line ($75), whose seven runs across 50 acres reach speeds of up to 35 mph.

—Jenny Sullivan

Retrace Black History

“Voices of Perseverance,” a mural by Ed Trask and Jason Ford, in Richmond’s Jackson Ward neighborhood

—Amy Brecount White

At the start of the 20th century, Richmond’s Jackson Ward was one of the wealthiest Black neighborhoods in the nation. Known as the “Harlem of the South” and “Black Wall Street,” it’s where tap-dancing legend Bill “Bojangles” Robinson rose to fame and where Maggie L. Walker, the nation’s first African American bank president, founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, giving Black entrepreneurs access to capital. For a self-guided walking tour of Jackson Ward, a National Historic Landmark District, access a map at visitblkrva. com/jacksonward. Download the National Park Service app for a narrated walking tour podcast and transcript.

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See Baltimore’s Inner Harbor by kayak on a guided tour.

Here’s a new and different way to explore Balti more’s Inner Harbor—by kayak. Departing from the Maryland Science Center, this three-hour guided circuit tour (waterfrontpartnership.org/ enjoy/kayak-tours) passes historic ships, includ ing the USS Constitution and a Coast Guard lightship (think mobile lighthouse), as well as the USS Torsk, a World War II submarine. Near the National Aquarium are two noteworthy ecoinitiatives: floating wetland prototypes com posed of native plants that naturally remove pollutants from the water, and an oyster colony dedicated to repopulating the bivalves that serve as natural filters for the Chesapeake Bay. Paddlers can take a selfie with Mr. Trash Wheel, a floating device that uses solar and hydro pow er to collect litter and debris from the harbor. At Fells Point, spy an old train pier before crossing the harbor for views of the city skyline and Fed eral Hill, a former military outpost. Inner Harbor Kayak Tours ($20) are limited to experienced paddlers ages 12 and older. Available Sundays, May through October.

Go Underground

—Amy Brecount White

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Caverns, near Allentown, Pennsylvania

Take a kayak excursion in Maryland’s Antietam Creek to pass under the historic Burnside

Alternately, head to Lost River Caverns (lostcave.com) near Allentown, Pennsyl vania, where, in the late 1800s, locals built a wooden dance floor underground in a section of the cave now known as the Crystal Chapel. Bootleggers also stored their wares in these caverns during Pro hibition. Admission is $14.50; $9.50 for ages 3 to 12.

Descend into cool caverns, where the alchemy of limestone and water has cre ated stalactites, stalagmites and other calcium-carbonate wonders over thousands of years. In the Crystal Grottoes Caverns (crystalgrottoescaverns.com) about 20 miles northwest of Frederick, Maryland, spelunkers can discover bacon, cauliflower, soda-straw and ribbon formations (to name a few) in a guided tour that includes seven chambers and rimstone pools ($20; $10 for kids younger than 12).

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For a nocturnal outing, behold the glowing spectacle of some 18,000 illuminated lakeside orbs at Pennsylvania’s Longwood Gardens (longwoodgardens.org), where a series of eight large-scale light installations by British artist Bruce Munro is on display through Oct. 30. Visitors can arrive starting at 4 p.m. in September and October, Thursday through Sunday evenings, to wander the gardens and watch the installations come to life at dusk; a 30-minute illuminated fountain show begins at 8:15 pm. The property’s 1,100 acres of gardens also include 37 stainless steel lilies that shimmer with light, and 1,000 plastic flamingos awash in ever-changing colors, thanks to projection technology. Admission is $35; $32 for college students and seniors; $19 for ages 5-18; free for ages 4 and younger. Timed ticket purchases are recommended.

A light installation by artist Bruce Munro at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania

Light the Night

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Poetic accounts of the Battle of Antietam suggest that Antietam Creek flowed red on Sept. 17, 1862, after the bloodiest day in American history left 23,000 soldiers dead, wounded or missing. Today its placid waters and quiet banks in Western Maryland are a refuge for kayakers, canoeists and tubers, as well as Civil War history buffs. For a leisurely six-hour paddle or float, put in at Devil’s Backbone County Park, glide beneath the 140-foot-long aqueduct (circa 1834) that channels the C&O Canal Towpath overhead, and follow the snaking creek to the point where it spills into the Potomac River. Along the way, you’ll skirt Antietam National Battlefield and pass under the limestone blocks of the historic Burnside Bridge. Antietam Creek has a few minor rapids, but the journey is gentle enough for kids. Bring your own boats and floats, or rent equipment from an outfitter such as Antietam Creek Canoe (antietamcreek.com). It provides shuttle service to drop-off and pickup points. See websites for prices.

—Barbara Ruben

—Jeffrey Yeates

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Tour the Topiaries

Sculpted greenery at Ladew Topiary Gardens in Monkton, Maryland

From shrubs shaped like horses and hounds, to a hedge coaxed to resemble swans gliding on waves, the topiaries at Ladew Topiary Gardens (ladewgardens. com) in Monkton, Maryland, rate among the best in the world. The Garden Club of America has named this northern Baltimore County destination “the most outstanding topiary garden in America,” with more than 100 leafy sculptures dotting 22 acres. The nonprofit’s grounds also feature hundreds of black-eyed Susans (the Maryland state flower), climbing roses, foxgloves and other sum mer blooms in various garden “rooms” and along a 1-mile nature walkway. The butterfly house, open through late September, showcases native butterflies, caterpillars and plants. Admission is $15; $10 for seniors and students; $4 for ages 2-12; free for kids younger than 2. Tours of the property’s manor house are an additional $5. Open April 1-Oct. 31; closed on Wednesdays.

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park has 22 miles of hiking trails spread across 3,500 acres and three states: West Virginia, Maryland and Virginia. The moderately strenu ous 7.5-mile Loudoun Heights Trail—which includes a scant section of the Appalachian Trail—rewards hikers with spectacular views of Harpers Ferry and the Potomac and Shenan doah Rivers, as well as interesting phyllite and quartzite rock formations. The 4.5- to 6.5-mile Maryland Heights Trail offers equally spectacu lar views. For a more easygoing walkabout, the 1- to 3-mile Murphy-Chambers Farm hike passes through fields and wooded ravines to arrive at views of the Shenandoah River, the surrounding mountains and Civil War cannons. Leashed dogs are allowed on all trails, with hikes of varying lengths and difficulties. Pick up a trail map at the park’s visitor center or go to nps.gov/hafe/planyourvisit/hikes.htm to plan your route. If time allows, Harpers Ferry’s museums, ghost tours, quaint shops and ca fes are worth a stop, too (discoveritallwv.com/ attractions/harpers-ferry)—Christine Koubek Flynn

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The view from the Maryland Heights Trail in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park

—Barbara Ruben

A horseback tour of Pennsylvania’s Gettysburg National Military Park

—Christine Koubek Flynn

. Carriage tours are also available, as are group discounts.

—Christine Koubek Flynn

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Tours of Gettysburg, provide equine tours ($99.50 for riders 8 and older) with licensed battlefield guides for a unique view of history. Riders receive headsets with single earbuds so as not to miss a word of the two-hour tour. Reserve your saddle in advance at comhorsetoursgettysburg.

Saddle Up

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Annapolis Electric Boats rents 22-foot vessels by the hour.

For a private excursion on the Chesapeake Bay, hop aboard Capt. Mike Krissoff’s turbo-diesel-powered Markley 46 in Annapolis and chart your own itiner ary—be it lighthouse-hopping, a trip to Chester River’s Conquest Beach for kayaking or paddleboarding, or a sail across the bay to St. Michaels and Tilghman Island. Krissoff’s Full Moon Adventures boat tours (capnmikesfullmoonadventures.com) generally cost around $250 per hour for up to six people with a twohour minimum. He’s happy to transport bikes, boards andAnotherkayaks.option: Pack a picnic and captain your own 22-foot electric boat with Annapolis Electric Boats (aebrentals.com). Cruise along Spa and Back Creeks to see the Naval Academy, downtown Annapolis and beau tiful homes and marinas from the water. Each canopied boat runs on batteries (similar to a golf cart), accom modates up to 10 passengers and has a top speed of roughly 5 miles per hour. Rates begin at $200 for a one-hour rental.

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The lovely shape of this cabinet creates an eyecatching spot to display books and collections and keep them dust-free. It’s crafted of solid oak and features spacious shelves, a tempered glass front and brass hardware. The Tolle cabinet, from Four Hands, comes in a drifted matte black or drifted oak finish (pictured) for $4,199 at Urban Country Designs in Bethesda urbancountrydesigns.com)(301-654-0500,

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Inspired by classic midcentury modern designs, the Sanders coffee table makes a practical and artful centerpiece for a living room or family room. A tempered glass top showcases the sculptural silhouette of the walnut (pictured below) or charcoal-stained solid ash base. It is available in four sizes, priced from $699 to $899 at Room & Board in Bethesda (866-407-6252, roomandboard.com).

Update an average dining room table with bold new chairs. The unique shape of the Frontline dining chair makes a statement, but also offers armrests and back support. The product is available in a variety of the company’s fabric selections. Choose a solid color or opt for contrasting colors on the front and back (pictured). The covers have concealed zippers for removal and clean ing. The retail price is $1,905 at Roche Bobois in Chevy Chase, D.C. roche-bobois.com)(202-686-5667,

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Carolyn Weber lives in Silver Spring and frequently writes about architecture and home design.

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There’s something dreamy about a canopy bed. This modern version, from designer Leanne Ford, brings the drama and creates a sleek shelter with a barrel-vaulted canopy made of powder-coated iron tubing and an upholstered headboard for comfort. The Canyon canopy bed retails for $1,799 (queen size) and $1,999 (king size) at Crate and Barrel in Upper Northwest D.C.’s Spring Valley neighborhood (202-364-6100, crateandbarrel.com).

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These airy pendant lights look like they’re floating. Handwoven of natural rattan, the soft forms give texture and an organic feel to a room without adding visual weight. The Hollis pendants measure 32.25 inches wide, come in black or natural finishes and are priced at $699 at Arhaus in Rockville (301-230-2973, arhaus.com)

Sink into this fun, good-looking and cozy swivel chair. The soft, low-slung lounge spot makes it easy to turn and face the conver sation or pivot to take in the view outside. It’s available in more than 40 fabric styles and colors and priced from $899 to $1,748 at West Elm in North Bethesda’s Pike & Rose westelm.com)(301-230-7630,

PUFF PIECE

This kitchen in a 1920s Friendship Heights home recently got a modern revamp.

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Fresh takes on cooking spaces

Fab Kitchens

Your kitchen is the workhorse of your home. It’s where you pre pare meals, where family and friends gather for dinner par ties or the holidays, where you sneak a late-night treat. It needs to be functional but also a reflec tion of your personal style—and the four shown here do exactly that. One is a design-driven reno vation of a kitchen in a late-19thcentury home, and another is a playful addition for a young family. There’s a breezy, modern escape, and a neutral place that provides a sense of calm amid an active lifestyle. They’re different, yes, but they have one thing in common—they’re each beloved in their own way.

hue of the high-top bar chairs was a happy accident, Bridget recalls. “We got rid of all our old furni ture, and one thing I didn’t anticipate is once your project is done, you need fur niture. That wasn’t the brightest move on my part.” She purchased the chairs on a whim online, thinking they were gray. But when they turned out to be green, their elegant pop of color lent a cool, beachy vibe to the kitchen.

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“After raising my kids, I didn’t want to see anything on my counters,” Bridget says. The refrigerator is hidden, too—its panels blend in with the white cabinetry.

honor the house,” Bridget says of the ren ovation, which began in 2020 amid the pandemic. “While my kids have moved on, I love to cook and entertain. We have a large family, and friends in the area, so we host a lot.” She wanted a space with a more modern aesthetic but plenty of efficiency and usability—objectives that were accomplished thanks to interior designer Melissa Cooley of Case Archi tects & Remodelers, which is headquar tered in Bethesda.

The crisp lines are complemented by warm wood tones in the flooring and in the existing reclaimed wood ceilings, which were originally installed by Bridg et’s father—and also in the driftwoodstained range hood by Crystal Cabinet Works that was brought in for “visual interest,” Cooley says.

“It’s an old home, and we wanted to

The couple purchased their 1920sera Friendship Heights home in 2005 from Bridget’s parents, who had raised her there. The Morrises, in turn, raised their four now-grown children in the home, mixing old memories with new ones.

Says Bridget: “I feel like I’m on vaca tion every day in this beautiful space.”

The gold-and-marble backsplash is a textural counterpoint to the smooth hood. Sutton Place champagne-finish cabinet pulls by Atlas Homewares and a gleaming gold light fixture that pre sides over the peninsula add to the quiet sophistication.Thegreen

A prime example is what Bridget calls “appliance cubbies”—aka counter wall cabinets—which were installed for the toaster and coffee maker. Pullout draw ers for pots and pans, a utility cabinet for the brooms, and a cabinet divider for trays also ensured a clutter-free space.

EFFICIENCY, STORAGE AND SOME THING NEW—those were crucial ele ments when it came to redesigning Bridget and Mike Morris’ kitchen.

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“A lot of modern [designs] nowa days tend to be more stark with the materials; the artwork provides the accent colors,” Thiede says. “But this is the opposite: The materials of the project are the showpieces. People shouldn’t be afraid to bring materials and colors in if it’s done tastefully.”

The design team pulled in lots of neutrals—dark quartz coun tertops, modern satin nickel pen dants, whitewashed oak cabinets,

Feinberg enlisted the help of Michael Rouse, principal architect of D.C.-based MPR Architecture, and Michael Thiede of Bethesda Contract ing to help bring her vision to life via a two-story addition totaling about 1,000 square feet. A key component of the project was the new colorful, com fortable kitchen flowing into the fam ily room. For her, it all began with the tile. “I wanted it to be the focal point,” Feinberg says. She was drawn to the

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dark blue, light blue and orange hues— the latter is one of her favorite colors—of the handmade zellige tiles that she found online at Mosaic House, a design store in New York City. (The tiles are crafted in Fez, Morocco.) “There are dozens of geometric patterns and colors of tiles, and you just mix and match whatever you want,” she says. That resulted in her custom stove back splash, set off by teal subway tile.

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WHEN BECKY FEINBERG, 45, moved into a home in Bethesda’s Wyngate neigh borhood in 2017, she knew she wanted to make some changes in the future. Built in 1952, the colonial had three bedrooms, one bath and a minuscule kitchen. It was fitting for her family back then— Feinberg would soon give birth to her first child—but when she got pregnant with her second in 2019, she knew it was time for her and her two kids to make the space truly their own.

floating shelves—to counter the brighter shades. “Mike [Rouse] had to remind me that everything in the room can’t be screaming,” Feinberg says with a laugh.

The circular hood was selected to soften the harder edges in the kitchen and to let the tile shine through.

A must-have? The island. “I wanted an eat-in, and the island accom plished that,” Feinberg says. “We have almost all of our meals there.”

Plenty of light was also key (Rouse remained true to the body of the home by using more traditional win dow elements), as was the screened porch that was added off the side of the kitchen. A pass-through win dow to the porch allows Feinberg to serve her kids outside. It’s a clever touch that speaks to the playful, fam ily-friendly design of the space. “We spend 98% of our time here,” Fein berg says. “It’s so easy to use.”

As for the former kitchen? It’s now the powder room.

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“It was like, Wait, what? My kitchen isn’t nice and new?” she recalls thinking. So in 2020, Winnik tapped Matt Covell, founder of North Bethesda-based Structure, and Chevy Chase-based interior designer Gerald Smith to bring the kitchen into the 21st century, while also staying true to the historic character of the home.

A coffee bar includes a drawer stocked with Keurig pods, plus refrigerator and freezer drawers for java accoutrements.Therenovation also included the addition of a lovely bay window over one sink. And in a nod to the home’s history, one of the original stained-glass doors was retro fitted for the pantry—a modern classic, indeed.

“I love this home,” says Winnik, who enjoys entertaining and cooking. The kitchen was in good shape when Winnik moved in—it had been refinished in the late ’80s—and she later added her own touch with a black-and-white-checked floor. That floor, which got old and began cracking, was what jarred her into kicking off her recent renovation.

The monochromatic scheme continues throughout, with white Wood-Mode cabinetry, quartz countertops and a quartzite oven backsplash.

The goal of the project, which also included transform ing a porch behind the kitchen into a new sitting room and mudroom (and renovating the powder room), was to create a practical but statement-making place where Winnik could host gatherings for her friends and family. A few walls were removed to update the floor plan, and design-forward elements were brought in. Among them was a large custom hood that Winnik initially wanted in white; Smith convinced her to go with rolled steel. It turned out to be the perfect match for her BlueStar range, which she loves using to prepare meals. It’s a “thrill,” she says, to cook in the new space.

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BARBARA WINNIK KNEW HER home was a gem long before she moved in. She lived around the corner from the circa-1892 abode—one of the first homes built in Chevy Chase Village— for 11 years before making it her own in 1994.

A pièce de résistance is the custom island. It boasts a curved, built-in, two-person banquette, upholstered in a gray-and-reddish-orange pattern for color and soft ness. Three midcentury elongated bubble pendants from Design Within Reach hang over the island. “They take the kitchen to another level,” Winnik says. “They’re simple butApartdesign-driven.”fromthe visual impact, the kitchen is highly functional. “[The counters are] very easy to clean up,” Winnik says. “I’m probably a messy cook, but you can’t tell because there are so many places to put things away.”

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FOR ADAM AND AMY EISNER, updating their kitchen was largely about sim plicity and maintaining order amid their busy day-to-day existence.

agers. “There’s always sports equipment and things everywhere. So I wanted the kitchen to be fairly neutral.”

“Our lives are chaotic,” says Amy, the mother of three teen

The couple, now in their mid-40s, pur chased their home in the Bradley Park neighborhood of Bethesda as a spec

The overall effect is minimal but livedin—a welcoming, usable space for enter taining that the Eisners adore. “We have the great feeling of something new that we were able to design for ourselves,” Adam says, “but it is also familiar to us.” n

The country vibe of the eat-in island had to go. “That was not our style at all,” Amy says. Geyer worked with Amero to flatten out the island’s edges and make it more streamlined; a quartz counter top and dove-gray paint finished that transformation. And while the origi nal appliances remained, the walls were updated with sleek white subway tiles to add brightness and light, further assisted by circular pendants and sconces in pol ished nickel and black tones.

To offset what Geyer calls the more “sterile” vibe, she wanted a warm color for the dining set. So she sourced a table with a wood herringbone top and an iron base from Moe’s Home Collection and teamed it with leather West Elm chairs.

updated hardware) from Mark Amero of Kensington-based Ovation Renovations gave it a modern boost.

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“We wanted it to be soft and minimal, and avoid anything that felt overdone,” says Bethesda-based interior designer Julie Geyer, who notes that the former kitchen had a darker design aesthetic.

house in 2008; while they had no input on the customization, it fit their needs at the time. But as their children got older and their lifestyle changed, they wanted to make it more reflective of their fam ily dynamic and of their personal flair— contemporary, light and airy.

The red-oak floors, formerly stained orange, were sanded and re-stained and are now a deep brown.

Kristen Schott is the editor of Philadelphia Wedding magazine and a freelance writer living in Alexandria, Virginia. A native of Orange County, California, Schott is an avid runner and wine enthusiast.

Rather than completely overhaul the kitchen, many of the original elements were retained and updated. The wood cabinetry was in good condition, so a fresh coat of white paint, as well as some detail changes (think cleaner lines and

hen his girlfriend at the time asked him to buy plants to spruce up the patio at their North Bethesda condo, Graham Phillips headed to Home Depot to pick up a few. For Phillips, 36, now of Aspen Hill, that first step into “plant parenthood,” as millennials say, has since branched into tens of thousands of foliage-loving Facebook friends and a side gig raising and selling tropical varieties (he co-owns Live to Die Tropicals in Baltimore). His romantic relationship didn’t last, but he now hosts tents “full of plants throughout my entire house,” he says (the tents provide humidity for the some times finicky flora). Like many in his generation, he’s hooked on Millennials,plants.infact, purchase more plants than any other generation, according to a recent study by North Carolina State University assis tant professor of horticultural science Melinda Knuth and two colleagues. Plant parenthood, a term that developed before the pandemic, is still a booming concept. It’s a source of inspiration on

From watermelon peperomia to Philodendron red moon, the houseplant craze being driven by millennials has sprouted up in the Bethesda area

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In recent years, plants have served multiple purposes for their owners, whether newbie or seasoned. “During the pandemic, people really needed friends,” says Agnes Traynor, 42, the owner of Indi gro Plant Design, a cute, compact shop that opened in Takoma Park in February. “They knew they wanted the living things in their homes. Sitting at your desk all day, then taking time to water your plants is a nice break, and it’s meditative.”

Among its in-store foot traffic and 831,000 Instagram followers, The Sill is seeing more interest in gifting plants, Marino says, possibly to share the joys of plant parenthood. She also sees a con tinuing interest in large plants. Custom ers are asking: “What can I have in my space that looks like I pulled it from the backyard?” she says.

social media and for local vendors who cater to this influential crowd and want their plant children to be happy. And 93% of millennials “believe houseplants make them happier,” according to that same study.

Jeff Kushner (left), owner of Plants Alive! in Silver Spring, with Amari Hemmings, who does the marketing, social media and event planning for the business

Plant parents who made that initial investment and stepped up the botanical learning ladder continue to be spurred on by social media. Gorgeous plantaccented interior design photos, plant portraits and urban jungle shots first invigorated plant sales in 2011-2012, says

At Indigro, Traynor pairs the plants she sells with bright pots, so many cus

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Erin Marino, the editorial lead at The Sill, a New York City-based plant storefront and delivery company that launched in 2011 and is slated to open a Bethesda location later this year. Previously, many apartment dwellers and home owners couldn’t imagine large plants— particularly the popular fiddle-leaf fig or monstera—in their spaces. Social media helped them to envision “how to get this beautiful look in my own home,” Marino says, and also to easily purchase plants.

tomers leave with their greenery ensconced in an attractive container to accent their personal spaces. As a savvy busi nesswoman who had to pivot during the pan demic from office plant care to selling plants online from her home, Traynor also does pop-up events at farmers markets and other gatherings. And she posts col orful plant shots on the store’s Instagram account to entice and inspire customers, particularly millennials and younger.

Kushner, 64, who has a bachelor’s degree in horticulture, “wanted to make plants fun again,” he says, so the tone is usually light. In November 2020, Plants Alive! had about 400 Instagram follow ers; it now has over 12,000. Nearly 90% of them and their on-site shoppers are women ages 25 to 40, Kushner says, adding that Instagram has “been a vital part” of their growing connection with younger“Peoplegenerations.comeinhere—they have a thirst for knowledge,” says Kushner, who makes himself available for questions in an “Ask Jeff” feature on Instagram and also shares his cellphone number with cli ents. Plants Alive! hosts monthly Makers Markets on-site for 50-plus local vendors in an effort to draw more millennials and potential plant shoppers to its location. The plant craze has “just taken on a life of its own, and it’s all millennial driven,” Kushner says. “They’re so enthusiastic.”

“I had told [Jeff] a bunch of times that millennials love plants, and it’s one of the fastest growing spaces for millennials,” Hemmings, 31, says. “All my friends are very into the rare plants and taking care of their plants.” Kushner and Hemmings tested out this new business strategy of marketing to millennials by doing a few local pop-ups, and they “were very suc cessful,” says Hemmings, who now does all the marketing, social media and event planning for Plants Alive!

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The next evolution for Plants Alive! was to retrofit 12,000 square feet of a

Phillips, the plant parent from Aspen Hill, has also found this assessment to be true online in both Facebook groups and markets. “There’s probably hun dreds of Facebook groups for every plant genus,” he says. Through his social media connections, he was invited to co-administer an international tropi cal plant sales group with nearly 38,000 members, mostly millennials, he says. The group focuses entirely on buying, selling and trading rare tropical plants, and he’s seen one then-rare plant, Mon stera obliqua, sell for $20,000, due to its eye-catching perforated foliage. Anthuriums, a species often bred for bright colors, and variegated plants that sport multiple-colored leaves are partic ularly popular these days, Phillips says.

Interacting with indoor houseplants may also reduce psychological and physiologi cal stress, according to a study in the Jour nal of Physiological Anthropology in 2015. Recently, many urban landscape designers and homeowners have

ACROSS THE GENERATIONS, plant enthu siasts are onto something. Multiple stud ies show that having plants nearby con tributes to our overall mental wellness. “Natural environments [are] found to have a medium to large effect on increas ing positive emotion and decreasing nega tive emotion,” according to a 2022 metaanalysis of 49 separate scientific studies. The meta-study sought to prove or dis prove biologist E.O. Wilson’s biophilia hypothesis that “posits an innate bio logical and genetic connection between human and nature, including an emo tional dimension to this connection.”

embraced the concept of biophilic design to welcome more plants and trees into their homes, offices, parks and other set tings. With seven in 10 millennials own ing at least one plant, according to a 2020 study by OnePoll for Article, a furniture retailer, this group has gravitated toward using plants to enhance their physical spaces and psychological health.

“The planet that we live on is pretty precarious,” says Natalie Miller, 44, a master certified life coach who cares for 150 plants in her Cape Cod-style home in Silver Spring. “It’s very clear now that the traditional way of moving through life—like, get a job, raise a family, retire, you’re done—is not really the way the world works anymore. Millennials are so creative in finding other ways of mak ing a rich life and making, tending and caregiving in ways that are creative and different. [During the pandemic], plants helped us to nurture growth in a moment that felt so unsteady. It’s pretty healing to watch a plant grow and move through its natural cycles, to remind us that we grow in cycles as well.”

IN THE HOUSEPLANT SPACE, social media is a thriving builder and connector. The pandemic initially walloped Jeff Kushner’s business, Plants Alive! in Silver Spring, which primarily sold and cared for office plants and rented them for events. Through mutual friends, Kushner, a baby boomer, connected with Amari Hem mings, a millennial who’d started Appo line Co., a marketing agency in D.C.

greenhouse from a plant growing and rental space to a browser-friendly retail venue, along with amping up its social media game for the millennial market. In their posts, Hemmings says, they seek to be as “helpful to our demographic as possible.” Appearing often in Instagram videos and reels, Kushner offers tips and tricks for your plants, things to look out for and other educational tidbits.

This millennial subset (those born between 1981 and 1996)—and a grow ing Generation Z contingent (born between 1997 and 2012), according to these experts—wants “the exclusive, the new, the cool, the different plants with the new leaf they’ve never seen before,”

This fragrant plant flowers prolifically and likes to dry out between waterings. It prefers bright indirect or medium light, which fits most settings and experience levels, Traynor says. There are many varieties available. Hoya carnosa is pictured.

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For the experienced plant parent, Traynorbetweenlightpreferswatermelon-likethisbeautybrightindirectanddryingoutwaterings,says.

This standout has “green, white and purple-striped leaves with cute little flowers that grow from pink buds,” Traynor says. In bright direct light, its colors are more vibrant, and it prefers drying out between waterings.

There’s a wow factor to the creative plant-and-pot pairings at Indigro Plant Design, Agnes Traynor’s petite shop in Takoma Park. Here are a few “popular and easy” plants flying off her shelves.

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His current favorite is the Anthurium ace of spades, which he describes as “a really cool collector’s plant.”

INITIALLY, CONSUMERS WERE “BUYING the fiddle-leaf figs, monstera, birds-ofparadise and snake plants,” which popu lated most social media sites and were relatively easy to raise, Hemmings says. During the pandemic, though, “peo ple really got confident with what they were able to take on.” Lately, some have sought rarer, pricier plants, such as the Philodendron red moon, which has pale green leaves with red streaks and is $2,000 for one in a 6-inch pot, Kushner says. Plants Alive! has started offering classes to meet this expanding demand, such as how to build an indoor green house from a Milsbo Ikea glass cabi net, or understanding humidity, which is vital to “keeping a rare plant alive,” he says. The Sill has seen a similar uptick in rare plant interest, Marino says.

Plants Alive! offers classes to become a “certified plant parent.” It’s this kind of mutually nurturing relationship with their plant children that many across the generations seem to be looking for. n

Kushner teaching a Plants Alive! class on the basics houseplantof care in July

Milano’s passion for indoor plants started in 2016, when he transformed most of his yard to focus on “adding and encouraging native plants” to support biodiversity. He enjoyed that interaction so much that he “wanted to bring it inside,” and now has 75 plants in his home. He often rescues curbfind plants that others have dis carded, and also propagates plants from small cuttings shared by his plant-loving friends.

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This booming interest in unusual plants also crosses generations. Glenn Milano, 49, of Chevy Chase, traveled frequently to

says Emily O’Gwin, 28, the retail manager at American Plant’s Bethesda location near the Beltway. Although O’Gwin, a millennial, has worked at garden centers off and on since she was 19, she now sees varieties of species she’s never encoun tered in any storefront.

Based in Arlington, Virginia, Amy Brecount White is the proud plant parent of a reblooming orchid, several fiddle-leaf figs, several scheflerra and many others.

“I find plants to be as beau tiful or more beautiful than most things you could possi bly put on your wall,” Milano says. “It’s always been a reward ing effort. You get a lot of juice for your squeeze.”

WHILE MILLENNIALS AND Gen Zers may look to tech and social media to solve their plant parenting issues, local experts warn against using plant apps, which often misidentify plants and share faulty advice on care. “It’s like having an app to feed your child,” Traynor says.

Africa for his government job, where he was enchanted by the indigenous plants, including the baobab tree, the largest-growing succu lent in the world. The one he bought without soil at the airport in Senegal and transported home in 2019 is now a foot tall but grows very slowly and can live more than 1,000 years. It needs water only two times a year, he says. During the summer, he puts it outside with his other succulents.

“The app does not have a relation ship with the plant,” says Emma Hough, the houseplant manager at Good Earth Garden Market in Potomac, who often fields questions and offers repotting and watering advice. On watering, she suggests that plant parents lift up their plant once a week over the first month of care to see how light it is when it needs water. She also encourages plant owners to check on the soil and roots, touch the plant often, and not be afraid “to get their hands dirty” in order to know their plant better.

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Days on Market: 10

LIST PRICE: $3.5 MILLION

SALE PRICE: $4.9 million

SALE PRICE: $4 million

SALE PRICE: $3.3 million

Listing Agency: Compass Bedrooms: 5 Full/Half Baths: 5/2

Address: 9800 Avenel Farm Drive, Potomac 20854

SALE PRICE: $3.3 million

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LIST PRICE: $4 million

LIST PRICE: $3.7 million

Address: 7420 Helmsdale Road, Bethesda 20817

LIST PRICE: $4.9 MILLION

SALE PRICE: $3.9 million

Full/Half Baths: 6/1

Address: 7304 Helmsdale Road, Bethesda 20817

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Address: 6 Newlands St., Chevy Chase 20815 Days on Market: 5

SALE PRICE: $3.4 million

Listing Agency: Washington Fine Properties Bedrooms: 9 Full/Half Baths: 11/2

Listing Agency: TTR Sotheby’s International Realty Bedrooms: 7

Address: 11105 Bellavista Drive, Potomac 20854 Days on Market: 2

LIST PRICE: $3 MILLION

Days on Market: 5

Days on Market: 4

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Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate Bedrooms: 5 Full/Half Baths: 7/1

LIST PRICE: $3.5 MILLION

Days on Market: 110

Address: 8905 Iron Gate Court, Potomac 20854

SALE PRICE: $3.3 million

LIST PRICE: $3.3 MILLION

Listing Agency: Washington Fine Properties Bedrooms: 8 Full/Half Baths: 5/1

at some of the area’s mostrecentlyexpensivesoldhouses

JUNE’S MOST EXPENSIVE

Address: 4716 Falstone Ave., Chevy Chase 20815 Days on Market: 17

Listing Agency: Washington Fine Properties Bedrooms: 6 Full/Half Baths: 5/1

Listing Agency: Washington Fine Properties Bedrooms: 6 Full/Half Baths: 7/1

SALE PRICE: $2.6 million

SALE PRICE: $2.5 million

LIST PRICE: $2.7 MILLION

LIST PRICE: $2.8 MILLION Address: 5613 Wood Way, Bethesda 20816 Days on Market: 3 Listing Agency: TTR Sotheby’s International Realty Bedrooms: 6 Full/Half Baths: 4/2

LIST PRICE: $2.3 MILLION Address: 4319 Murdock Mill Road NW, Washington, D.C. 20016 Days on Market: 9 Listing Agency: TTR Sotheby’s International Realty Bedrooms: 7 Full/Half Baths: 5/0

SALE PRICE: $2.2 million

LIST PRICE: $2.6 MILLION

LIST PRICE: $2.3 MILLION Address: 7012 Florida St., Chevy Chase 20815 Days on Market: 4 Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate Bedrooms: 6 Full/Half Baths: 5/1

SALE PRICE: $2.5 million

Address: 5804 Brookside Drive, Chevy Chase 20815 Days on Market: 1 Listing Agency: Washington Fine Properties Bedrooms: 5 Full/Half Baths: 3/1

SALE PRICE: $2.4 million

SALE PRICE: $2.2 million

SALE PRICE:

Address: 6317 Tilden Lane, Rockville 20852 Days on Market: 75 Listing Agency: Washington Fine Properties Bedrooms: 6 Full/Half Baths: 6/2

LIST PRICE: $2.7 MILLION Address: 6922 Woodside Place, Chevy Chase 20815 Days on Market: 21 Listing Agency: Compass Bedrooms: 5 Full/Half Baths: 3/2

Address: 6113 Eastview St., Bethesda 20817 Days on Market: 7 Listing Agency: Compass Bedrooms: 5 Full/Half Baths: 5/1

SALE PRICE: $2.3 million

Note: Some sale and list prices have been rounded.

SALE PRICE: $2.6 million

Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate Bedrooms: 5 Full/Half Baths: 3/2

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SALE PRICE: $2.3 million

SALE PRICE: $2.6 million

SALE PRICE: $2.9 million

LIST PRICE: $2.3 MILLION Address: 7105 Nevis Road, Bethesda 20817 Days on Market: 4 Listing Agency: Compass Bedrooms: 4 Full/Half Baths: 4/1

SALE PRICE: $2.3 million

LIST PRICE: $1.5 MILLION Address: 3617 Shepherd St., Chevy Chase 20815 Days on Market: 8

LIST PRICE: $2.2 MILLION Address: 36 Quincy St., Chevy Chase 20815 Days on Market: 4 Listing Agency: Compass Bedrooms: 5 Full/Half Baths: 4/1

Address: 4209 Dresden St., Kensington 20895 Days on Market: 4 Listing Agency: Compass Bedrooms: 6 Full/Half Baths: 5/1

LIST PRICE: $2.6 MILLION Address: 7607 Hemlock St., Bethesda 20817 Days on Market: 8 Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate Bedrooms: 5 Full/Half Baths: 4/1

LIST PRICE: $2.5 MILLION

LIST PRICE: $2.7 MILLION

LIST PRICE: $2.4 MILLION Address: 10000 Carter Road, Bethesda 20817 Days on Market: 0 Listing Agency: None listed Bedrooms: 6 Full/Half Baths: 5/1

SALE PRICE: $2.6 million

LIST PRICE: $2.3 MILLION Address: 9203 Wilmett Court, Bethesda 20817 Days on Market: 1 Listing Agency: Allied Realty Bedrooms: 5 Full/Half Baths: 4/1

SALE PRICE: $2.2 million

$3 million

LIST PRICE: $2.2 MILLION Address: 11013 Tara Road, Potomac 20854 Days on Market: 7 Listing Agency: Washington Fine Properties Bedrooms: 5 Full/Half Baths: 8/3

LIST PRICE: $3 MILLION Address: 8711 Ridge Road, Bethesda 20817 Days on Market: 6 Listing Agency: Washington Fine Properties Bedrooms: 7 Full/Half Baths: 7/1

SALE PRICE: $2.9 million

SALE PRICE: $2.7 million

SALE PRICE: $3 million

LIST PRICE: $3.1 MILLION Address: 5 Eagle Ridge Court, Bethesda 20817 Days on Market: 91 Listing Agency: TTR Sotheby’s International Realty Bedrooms: 8 Full/Half Baths: 9/2

LIST PRICE: $1.9 MILLION Address: 3027 Tennyson St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20015 Days on Market: 0 Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate Bedrooms: 4 Full/Half Baths: 3/1

Below Asking Price 6 2 Sold Over $1 Million 1 2

Above Asking Price 15 12

20879 (Gaithersburg)

Average Sold Price $725,092 $841,111

REAL ESTATE TRENDS

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Average Sold Price $707,893 $780,558

Number of Homes Sold 26 15

Below Asking Price 15 6 Sold Over $1 Million 50 18

Number of Homes Sold 24 14

Average Sold Price $2.2 Mil. $2.4 Mil.

Above Asking Price 14 14

Number of Homes Sold 35 33

Average Days on Market 6 9

Below Asking Price 3 13 Sold Over $1 Million 1 3

Number of Homes Sold 83 60

20877 (Gaithersburg)

Number of Homes Sold 38 27

Number of Homes Sold 20 15

Above Asking Price 34 31

Average Days on Market 11 13 Above Asking Price 15 8

2021JUNE 2022JUNE

Number of Homes Sold 21 19

Above Asking Price 21 11

Average Days on Market 9 11

20854 (Potomac)

Above Asking Price 19 19

20814 (Bethesda)

Average Days on Market 7 7

Average Days on Market 8 8

Number of Homes Sold 52 18

Below Asking Price 14 5 Sold Over $1 Million 33 25

Average Sold Price $1.1 Mil. $1.1 Mil.

Average Sold Price $671,193 $688,323

2022JUNE 2022JUNE

Average Sold Price $843,370 $937,169

20016 (Upper NW D.C.)

Number of Homes Sold 2 2

Below Asking Price 0 0 Sold Over $1 Million 1 2

20852 (North Bethesda/Rockville)

Average Days on Market 12 6

Above Asking Price 55 40 Below Asking Price 18 8 Sold Over $1 Million 59 50

2021JUNE 2021JUNE

20818 (Cabin John)

Above Asking Price 24 18

20816 (Bethesda)

20882 (Gaithersburg)

Average Sold Price $495,603 $532,164

20851 (Rockville)

20015 (Upper NW D.C.)

Average Days on Market 9 35 Above Asking Price 19 12 Below Asking Price 5 5 Sold Over $1 Million 3 3

Above Asking Price 19 8 Below Asking Price 3 4 Sold Over $1 Million 20 9

Average Days on Market 5 7

Number of Homes Sold 24 20

Average Sold Price $1.1 Mil. $1.5 Mil.

Below Asking Price 4 4 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

20855 (Rockville)

Average Sold Price $1.4 Mil. $1.5 Mil.

Above Asking Price 2 2

Above Asking Price 17 11

Above Asking Price 16 9 Below Asking Price 2 3 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

Average Sold Price $1.3 Mil. $1.6 Mil.

Average Days on Market 8 9

Average Days on Market 9 11

20832 (Olney)

Average Days on Market 16 10

Number of Homes Sold 20 24

20878 (Gaithersburg/North Potomac)

Below Asking Price 2 3 Sold Over $1 Million 2 0

Below Asking Price 3 3 Sold Over $1 Million 12 7

Average Sold Price $1.7 Mil. $1.8 Mil.

20850 (Rockville)

Below Asking Price 6 10 Sold Over $1 Million 8 10

Average Days on Market 4 8

Below Asking Price 3 3 Sold Over $1 Million 20 19

Average Days on Market 7 9

home | by the numbers

Number of Homes Sold 21 18

Above Asking Price 26 15

Number of Homes Sold 50 41

Average Days on Market 9 13

Average Sold Price $1.4 Mil. $1.3 Mil.

Above Asking Price 18 9

Average Days on Market 11 13

Average Days on Market 6 7

20817 (Bethesda)

20853 (Rockville)

Number of Homes Sold 19 14

Average Days on Market 12 15

Average Sold Price $641,550 $615,192

Average Sold Price $522,280 $604,818

BY ZIP CODE

Above Asking Price 17 17 Below Asking Price 2 3 Sold Over $1 Million 1 3

Above Asking Price 41 25 Below Asking Price 4 8 Sold Over $1 Million 9 12

Average Sold Price $849,934 $883,917

Number of Homes Sold 37 25

20815 (Chevy Chase)

Average Sold Price $1.5 Mil. $1.5 Mil.

Average Days on Market 4 7

Below Asking Price 1 3 Sold Over $1 Million 22 18

Below Asking Price 12 10 Sold Over $1 Million 41 43

Above Asking Price 30 11

Average Sold Price $659,888 $746,629

Number of Homes Sold 29 15

Number of Homes Sold 52 54 Average Sold Price $1.4 Mil. $1.6 Mil.

Number of Homes Sold 26 18

Above Asking Price 11 2

20910 (Silver Spring)

Above Asking Price 38 31

Below Asking Price 6 5 Sold Over $1 Million 6 10

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Below Asking Price 0 0 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

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20903 (Silver Spring)

Average Sold Price $580,798 $595,983

Average Days on Market 7 9

Below Asking Price 0 1 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

Average Sold Price $826,951 $833,198

Above Asking Price 5 6

This information includes single-family homes sold from June 1, 2022,

Some sale and list prices

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been rounded.

20895 (Kensington)

Number of Homes Sold 48 49

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Number of Homes Sold 33 30

Number of Homes Sold 12 5

Number of Homes Sold 5 7

Above Asking Price 19 15

Average Days on Market 9 8

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Number of Homes Sold 35 28

Above Asking Price 26 25

Below Asking Price 8 15 Sold Over $1 Million 1 0

Number of Homes Sold 26 23

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Average Sold Price $599,377 $631,590

Average Sold Price $564,958 $697,800

Average Days on Market 8 11

Average Sold Price $528,800 $519,014

Average Days on Market 5 10

Above Asking Price 26 22

Below Asking Price 3 6 Sold Over $1 Million 4 4

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OK, I can't stop at just one — our retail segment is also on fire! We had one not quite up-to-par showroom when I started here. We now have six showrooms, all of them beautiful, light-filled, experiential and amazing! Our team spends hundreds of hours per year training and we are now able to travel to factory trainings again. We have folks in every single showroom who blow my socks off with their knowledge and expertise.

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A: Work with a real estate agent right from your first thought of selling – one who understands market values in your specific area. Realtors® are the front line of any trend; we constantly hone our recommendations based on current market data. The information we provide one month may be totally different three months later. It’s important to stay in touch with a Realtor who is active and keeps close tabs on the market.

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A: The important thing for homeowners to know is what is universal in any market: buyers care about overall home condition. No matter the pace of the real estate market, good maintenance, fresh paint, impeccable curb appeal, strategic marketing and an excellent pricing strategy will protect you, regardless of how the market is doing. A “hot” market does not guarantee that your home will sell. And if you do fail to sell, you’ll fail more publicly than if the market is struggling. A hot market is not the time to skimp on efforts.

Our agents have a variety of complementary backgrounds – in architecture, staging, marketing, sales and communications – with unique perspectives on the market. This allows them to work with a wide range of clients – from first-time buyers to those looking to buy or sell upper-bracket properties – and to serve them with diligence, care and excellence.

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A: Chase is a full-service national bank, and we can lend in all 50 states, assisting our clients who are moving to other parts of the country. As part of the One Chase team, we can work with our bank partners to help clients with other financial services as well.With 36 years of mortgage lending experience in the DC/MD/VA markets, I’ve seen a variety of economies. Each requires a different approach to financing, with a wide range of loan programs, payments and terms. Educating borrowers on their options is critical. Whatever the economy, one thing remains constant: The DC real estate market is historically strong and stable.

A: We believe that it doesn’t matter where rates are or what your friends and family are doing; purchase a home when it’s the right time for you. A home is forever; the rate is not. “Marry the house and date the rate!” If rates are rising, buy now and refinance when market conditions improve. Adjustable-rate and interest-only mortgages are a good way of lowering monthly payments to get into a home today.

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While rates may be slightly higher than last year’s lows, they are still historically very good. And with fewer people bidding on homes, we’re seeing some homes sell for list price or under, as opposed to way over list price, which we saw in recent months.

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Led by Kevin Gilday, nationally recognized Gilday Renovations has provided clients with a highly collaborative design-build process that seamlessly blends the expertise of its award-winning team of architectural designers, interior designers and master builders for 40 years.

Whatrenovation.haschanged significantly in the last five years is that the desire to open up and expand living space with additions has turned into requests for outdoor living rooms. That may partly be in reaction to the pandemic because, for the past few years, the only safe place to be was outdoors. We have designed and built many luxurious porches. In fact, we won a national award for a porch we did at a Potomac residence last year.

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Everyone starts with a wish list, and rarely does their budget cover it all. One of the greatest services we provide our clients is to help them prioritize and focus their intentions to arrive at a cohesive, build able scope of work. Once we’ve identified “the heart of the project” as we call it, and guide them to their must-have items, it’s amazing how other items on the list decline in importance. We help them focus on what really matters to them so that all their thoughts, efforts and budget dollars support those desires.

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Kitchens are perennial. No surprise there. It’s the first deficiency that people notice when they purchase an older home. Home addition projects often start with a kitchen. People want to open up the kitchen and modernize the main floor of the house to improve flow. We specialize in this type of project. It requires more design specificity and goes beyond a simple kitchen

Talk to people. We get over 85% of our business from referrals. Many clients refer friends and relatives. Within the industry, there is positive word of mouth from architects, designers and contractors who have seen that we do a really great job.

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A: Not really. We create designs that our clients desire, and that also have careful functionality that our clients will appreciate. There are always two parts to designing a kitchen. First is color, style and other visuals. The other is functionality of the space with the appliances and the client's specific needs. There's always a moment when you solve the puzzle and are able to put these two halves together. We have a lot of letters from clients thanking us for creative designs, attention to detail and fair business practices. People often praise the beauty and design of our work. They talk about how much they enjoy being in their kitchens and how often their friends compliment the renovated space.

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Also, it helps if you think outside the box, which we’re good at doing. We had a client who needed a second dishwasher in order to keep kosher. She also wanted to expand her laundry room and was looking at an expensive addition. We came up with a plan to convert a seldom-used side door into a window, which eliminated the need for a four x 10-foot hallway, opening up space in both the kitchen and laundry room. Our design solution was a fraction of the cost of the proposed addition.

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Q: Why does experience matter so much in Real Estate Agents?

Absolutely! I love working with all buyers and sellers, in any price range, from first-time buyers to luxury homeowners. My team and I create a "white glove" experience and personally cater to all circumstances. Besides VIPs and owners of notable properties, we love young families and downsizing buyers and sellers. Plus, we are certified senior specialists and can facilitate the needs of maturing buyers and sellers.

7200 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 100 Bethesda, MD 20814

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In one word: listening. MPR Architecture works directly with our clients to take their needs and desires and turn them into functional, beautiful and enduring spaces. The most important part of that process is listening to our clients and having our architectural solutions respond thoughtfully to their desires and the unique characteristics of the site. As architects, we bring a creative and independent eye to all solutions and advocate for our clients through our teamwork with consultants, interior designers and contractors.

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A: We create custom design/build solutions to fit lifestyles and needs. Whether you want a kitchen or bathroom, home office, addition or whole-house remodel, we help you envision the possibilities. Our designers and craftsmen are masters at what they do. And we handle every detail from start to finish so that every project is completed efficiently – with no hassle to our clients. It’s what defines us; it’s the way we care. Whether it’s handyman services or a large-scale design/build project, you see quality and creativity in everything we do. Our additions are beautiful and blend seamlessly with the original architecture. You won’t know where one ends and the other begins.

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A: Our beautiful homes and our excellent reputation. We are incredibly proud to drive all over the area and see our projects everywhere. We take great pleasure in bringing prospective clients into finished homes and hearing our homeowners speak so enthusiastically about their homes and working with us. We value our clients and have become friends with many of them. Most importantly, we love what we do and are able to give back to our community.

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We offer unparalleled knowledge and experience, with over 40 years in the homebuilding industry. We are full service, and our talented team will be by our clients' side, working toward their goals — financial and architectural — from the start of a project to its completion. Our goal is to be your "Builder for Life;" we often build second and third homes for clients.

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A: Clients still want great design and prefer open floor plans. Function — for instance, elevators for empty-nesters, or mudrooms with cubbies and informal powder rooms for families — is important. And we understand this "livability" better than most. Many clients are tech-savvy and want a smart home with the ability to control lighting, music, security and HVAC systems from a cell phone or laptop. Limited use of solar panels and electric car chargers have become more popular, too. Our expert team works together to help clients navigate what can be an overwhelming process as seamlessly as possible.

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A: It may sound cliché, but it’s quality versus quantity that’s the key element in our success. We have a select group of agents who care about maintaining the company’s 66-year reputation for competence and professionalism. Because of our size, there’s no red tape, so we can personalize our service and respond quickly to clients’ needs. The collegial spirit among our agents is also truly special. We work closely with each other, and our clients receive the support of the entire team. The fact that we continue to thrive alongside our “big box” competitors is a testament to the advantages we offer both to agents and clients.

A successful project requires collaboration between the client, architect, engineers and build ers. We are experts in coordinating among all the team members. Elie Ben Architecture is passion ate about working closely with clients by getting them involved during the design process. We value clients’ expectations and are committed to a seam less client experience.

A: Building a successful project starts from a functional and cost-effective architectural solution. We start our process of design by understanding the unique requirements of your project. Whether you build a modern, transitional or traditional style, your vision drives the style we design for you. Your vision coupled with the architect’s extensive expertise brings your project to life.

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As Trent always says, “It’s like going to Vegas.” While we can’t predict the future, our market is historically strong enough to see resilience. Your answer, again, lies in your strategy. Currently, the 10year ARM has been the most successful play on the purchase side and bridge loans on personal equity the gain on the sell side.

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A Bethesda pediatric neurologist explores the mind-body connection to treat debilitating headaches

“My own mindfulness practice is doing breathing techniques for 10 minutes every morning when I wake up, and every evening before bedtime. In the morning, it sets the tone for the day. It clears my mind, and afterward I have much more clarity. At night, it’s almost like an erase button. So even when things are stressful, especially with the pandemic, I don’t have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep. I started with guided meditation, but now it’s ingrained in my brain to focus on my body and my breath, and I can do it myself.”

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neurology,” she says. “It’s an expansive field with a lot of room for growth.”

“I had a son, Dhilan, right before the pandemic started. He’s 2 now. I show my patients videos of him doing yoga, and putting a bear on his tummy so that he can see it go up and down during breathing exercises. He can help them understand why we do these things and how it helps us feel better. He’s our office mascot.”

Now Patel, 45, is a pediatric neurolo gist and epileptologist in Bethesda and the owner of Magnificent Minds Neu rology Center. She treats migraines and headaches, seizures, tics, developmental delays and other neurological conditions in patients from birth through age 25. She has always been fascinated by the brain and embraces mindfulness when treating her patients. “There’s a lot we don’t know about

“The most important thing I can do as a pediatric neurologist is have compassion. Nobody comes to me thinking everything is fine. Usually their pediatrician referred them because something very worrisome is happening. And when patients and their families come in distressed, you need a lot of patience. The ability to connect is also helpful because that leads to increased compliance.”

“The first time I really realized what I’d been going through, that these were migraines and there was treatment, I thought, Oh, there are things you can do about this? That’s amazing,” recalls Patel, who lives in Chevy Chase. It turned out that she was genetically predisposed to migraines—her mother had had them, but they were never diagnosed.

In the past decade alone, Patel says, an entirely new class of medications has become one of the most effective for migraines in adults. “It’s been amazing to see a whole field change in terms of efficacy, and we can’t wait until that gets approved for pediatric age groups,” she says. “We’re hoping that’s in the next year.” More research is being done, she adds, with cannabis oil in children with seizures, and deep brain stimulation for Tourette’s syndrome in children.

“It’s really meaningful to me to feel that in this world, I helped people in a difficult situation and made a difference,” she says. n

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DR. SONAL PATEL BEGAN dealing with headaches, vomiting and vision changes about once a week at age 4. Her pedia trician couldn’t figure out why. By high school, symptoms were less frequent; while she was an undergraduate at Duke Univer sity, they arose only in stressful times.

Patel, who is slated to open a second office in Tysons, Virginia, in October, became interested in the mind-body connection while working in Southern California, where “there’s a more holistic approach to health and wellness.” She often asks patients, “What can we do with your mind to help your body relax and see if we can decrease symptoms when they occur?”

She’s writing a book, expected to be out in 2023, on the effects of mindfulness and meditation on the pediatric brain.

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“I had a 5-year-old patient recently who suddenly started having seizures. The parents were very thrown off. They asked, ‘Why is this happening? He seemed so normal.’ I remember his little voice saying, ‘I am normal. This is just something I have.’ The beautiful thing is they came back after we started treatment, the seizures had resolved, and the parents told me, ‘That was one of the best experiences we’ve had, learning from him.’ It was heartwarming to see that this child had taught his parents that medical things happen but that we can treat issues and still live normal, healthy lives.”

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Courtney Evans with her husband, Sterling High; their son, Ethan, 8; and daughter, Milly, 4

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IT WAS THE PHANTOM smells that first troubled Courtney Evans: the pungent scent of black pep per when no one was using it, the reek of burning cigarettes even though no one in the house smoked. The Takoma Park mother of two then developed a low-grade fever; a “noisy gut,” as she calls it; and a food aversion to everything but oranges. In late April 2020, about two weeks after her symptoms began, she was tested for COVID19. The test came back negative.

Her doctor at the time assured her that, at 38 and healthy, she would surely be feeling better soon, she says. Instead, her symptoms dragged on, and new ones emerged. Fevers began setting in daily, and so did excruciating headaches, gas trointestinal issues and dysautonomia—a nervous system disorder that affects involuntary functions like heartbeat, breathing and digestion. She devel oped heart palpitations that kept her from sleep

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Yet more than two years later, Evans, now 40,

To keep her home life together, her in-laws moved up from Alabama and bought a house nearby. Now they come over practically every day to help out. Evans’s husband, Sterling High, 39, tran sitioned to part-time status as an intelligence ana lyst at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. That way, he can take care of her, the house and the couple’s two kids, who haven’t gone back to in-per son school since the pandemic began. The children, who fell ill with COVID at the same time as Evans, have lingering symptoms too, she says, including dysautonomia and fatigue.

EVANS IS ONE OF an untracked number of COVID “long haulers” in Montgomery County whose COVID-related symptoms have persisted or wors ened in the months—and in some cases, years— following their bout with the virus. Though many people refer to the syndrome as Long COVID, its official name is Post-Acute Sequela of COVID-19, or PASC. It’s estimated to affect between 10% and 30% of all post-COVID patients, potentially affect ing up to 23 million Americans, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Stud ies show it can strike anyone who contracted the coronavirus, regardless of the strain they had or

ing and cognitive disorders that would “come on like a fog,” she says, and leave her staring blankly at her computer screen. Some of her symptoms would abate, only to return a few weeks later.

In December 2020, she met with doctors at the now-shuttered George Washington University COVID-19 Recovery Clinic in Washington, D.C. They clinically diagnosed her with Long COVID and referred her to a new primary care physician, she says. Eventually she began seeing a speech ther apist who helped her with the cognitive challenges she’d been experiencing—what many people refer to as “brain fog,” a condition that she now knows is common among Long COVID sufferers. “It was good to be validated,” she says.

has not returned to her pre-COVID health. She still suffers from extreme post-exertional malaise, low-grade fevers and other symptoms that plague her in waves. A political assistant with the Inter national Association of Fire Fighters in Washing ton, D.C., she filed for Americans with Disabilities Act accommodations so she can continue to work remotely, even as her coworkers have started to return to the office. Now she sleeps during the day when she’s too exhausted to tackle a project, and crams late into the night in between “crashes” to meet deadlines. Earlier this year, she pulled back her application for a promotion when she realized the position would require travel—something she is unable to do easily.

sors at work, who have given her extra lead time on projects and emailed her detailed written instruc tions, rather than relying on oral ones, since her cognition is still weak.

She was sure these were residual symptoms of COVID, but her doctor pushed back. If it had been COVID, she would have gotten better by then—or ended up in the hospital, Evans recalls her thendoctor telling her. “The gaslighting was just terrible,” Evans says, looking back. “Knowing what we know now…it’s unsurprising that I had a negative nasal swab after 10-plus days of symptoms.”

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Four-year-old Milly has yet to start preschool and 8-year-old Ethan is going to school remotely through Montgomery County Public Schools’ Vir tual Academy. “On days when he’s crashing some times, he gets these headaches and these stom achaches, and he has to lie down for a little while,” EvansEvans’ssays.husband’s switch to part-time status meant a 25% drop in his salary as well as lost medical and other benefits that are offered only to full-time employees. “We’ve taken a pretty big financial hit,” sheButsays.what’s most “terrifying and frus trating and demoralizing,” she says, “is that it’s like walking across a trip wire, and you don’t know where it is. … I can have a good day, like a really good day, and I do things and I try to catch up…and I won’t find out until two to three days later when I start to crash that I had overdone it. … All I can do [then] is drink a lot of Pedialyte and rest and just wait it out.”

“We have college athletes who are now in wheelchairs,” Diana Berrent says. “I receive calls … from people who are suicidal.”

“The misery that imbues COVID knows no bounds,” says Diana Berrent, the founder of Sur vivor Corps, a global, grassroots organization that compiles COVID-19 data and research tools—and that hosts a Facebook forum for long haulers to share their struggles. Berrent, a former photogra pher and attorney who divides her time between

Long COVID is particu larly tricky to diagnose because of the sheer number of symptoms it encom passes. In July 2021, The Lancet’s eClin icalMedicine website published the results of an online international study led by University College London that involved nearly 4,000 Long COVID patients from 56 countries. The study found that participants experienced more than 200 different symptoms— with an average of 14.5 symptoms per person—affecting virtually every organ system in the human body. Six months after recovery from COVID, the most frequent symptoms study participants reported were fatigue, post-exertional malaise and cognitive dysfunction. More than 85% experienced regular relapses, with exercise, physical or mental activity, and stress as the main triggers. Nearly half reported needing a reduced work schedule, and 22% said they had to stop working altogether due to their health conditions.

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the severity of their original illness. In fact, 32% of the long haulers who partici pated in a University of California study published in March 2021 reported being asymptomatic at the time of their initial diagnosis.Hospitals around the country have opened support clinics targeting Long COVID sufferers, but none of these pro grams are offered at hospitals in Mont gomery County, according to local hospital and county officials. Medstar Health’s National Rehabilitation Hospi tal, in Washington, D.C., runs a COVID Recovery Program for Maryland, Virginia and D.C. residents struggling with Long COVID symptoms. GWU’s COVID-19 Recovery Clinic, where Courtney Evans was treated, closed its doors on July 1, after nearly two years in operation, says Dr. Jillian Catalanotti, associate profes sor of medicine and of health policy and management with GWU Medical Faculty Associates. “We’re all really realizing that Long COVID is potentially a chronic con dition,” Catalanotti says. “Like all chronic conditions, we feel strongly that it’s mov ing into the purview of primary care physicians.”Expertssay

Diana Berrent of Bethesda, who contracted COVID in March 2020 and felt symptoms for the next year, founded a global organization for fellow survivors.

Antonio King contracted COVID in August 2021. Lingering symptoms meant he could not work for nine months and had to move in with his mother, sister and her husband in Silver Spring.

UNLIKE WITH MOST DISEASES, “patients have become the true experts on Long COVID,” and the medical community is learning from them, Berrent says. For example, she says, after her 12-year-old son lost an adult tooth nine months after recovering from the virus, she posted on Sur

Bethesda and Los Angeles, founded the organi zation shortly after she contracted COVID in March 2020. Her symptoms lingered for nearly a year, but she doesn’t consider herself a long hauler. “We have 200,000 members, each with their own stories, and each one is heart-wrench ing,” she says. “We have college athletes who are now in wheelchairs. I receive calls … from people who are suicidal.”

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With chronic Lyme disease and myal gic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), people are often diagnosed years after their symptoms first appear, hindering advancements in treatments and cures, Koroshetz says. “COVID is actually a natural experi ment,” and the “best chance,” he says, to figure out why some infections— COVID, Lyme disease, ME/CFS and more—trigger “a cadre of [long-term] symptoms” in a subset of people. But he “can’t be confident in something no one’s ever done before,” he says. “[There are] a lot of diseases where we have no treatment …I just hope this is not going to be one of them.”

In February 2021, the National Insti tutes of Health (NIH) announced a $1.15 billion federally funded research study on Long COVID. But Berrent— who has played an advisory role on several NIH committees related to Long COVID—says the pace of the project is unacceptable. “Millions of Americans are languishing and need immediate relief,” she says. “We need multi-pronged inquiries into both the mechanism of [the] disease and poten tial“Iremedies.”wouldlove to snap my fingers and make it all happen,” counters Dr. Walter Koroshetz, director of the National Insti tute of Neurological Disorders, and a codirector of the NIH initiative. “We’re not exactly sure [of Long COVID’s] biological basis,” and until that’s figured out, find ing a cure is unlikely, he says. Koroshetz admits that COVID presents a unique opportunity for researchers. “You have millions of people infected and most of them get better, but a percentage of them don’t, so you can actually do a compari son …We’ve never had an opportunity to do what we can do now.”

Last year, Berrent’s organization partnered with scientists from Yale University and the Uni versity of Pennsylvania to study two of the virus’s symptoms that she believes cause the most human suffering: Parkinson’s-like tremors and feel ings of internal vibrations. These symptoms are among those that led to the suicide in June 2021 of acclaimed Hollywood screenwriter Heidi Fer rer, according to Ferrer’s husband, Nick Güthe. In newspaper and magazine articles, he says that his wife, a writer on television shows Dawson’s Creek and Wasteland, suffered for 13 months with Long COVID before taking her life. “Watching Long

Antonio King, a 47-year-old voiceover actor and security supervisor now living in Silver Spring, spent nearly a year as an inpatient at four facili ties across the greater D.C. region after he con tracted COVID in August 2021. A single parent of a 13-year-old son (he also has two daughters in their 20s), King and his son were staying with his girlfriend in Woodbridge, Virginia, at the time of his diagnosis. He was not yet vaccinated (now he is), and days after he contracted the coronavirus,

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COVID systematically take her apart, organ sys tem by organ system, was the most terrifying dete rioration of a human being I have ever witnessed,” Güthe wrote in January 2022 in The Guardian.

vivor Corps to ask whether anyone else had expe rienced a similar dental phenomenon after their bout with COVID. “The answers came pouring in …teeth falling out, crumbling, cracking, all with no blood loss,” Berrent says, pointing out that “we really can’t rely on even clinical physicians for this [type of] data because they are not seeing enough people, and the symptomology can be so varied from person to person.”

“With COVID it’s a multi-system inflammatory disease,” adds Dr. Walter Faggett, a pediatrician and former chief medical officer for the DC Department of Health. He’s concerned that many patients with serious Long COVID symptoms show up in the emergency room and ER doctors are not sufficiently familiar with the syndrome. Long COVID patients, he says, “present a real diagnostic challenge.”

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and I pretty much hobble everywhere… it’s overwhelming and frustrating.”

He was eventually transferred to a rehabilitation center near his girlfriend’s home, then to another Northern Vir ginia hospital (after contracting pneu monia), and then to FutureCare Pineview, a rehabilitation center in Clinton, Maryland. In April 2022, nearly nine months after his original diagnosis, he checked out of that facility, and he and his son moved into the two-bed room apartment shared by his 64-yearold mother, his sister and her husband. King’s son had been staying with friends and relatives during his time as an inpa tient. “We’re technically homeless,” King says of himself and his son.

King says he was in excellent health before contracting COVID and that he worked out regularly. His internist, Dr. Kathryn Kelly, gave him the names of some physical therapists to help him improve his balance and regain his strength, but he has yet to contact any of them, he says.

“For those first few months especially, I would go to bed at night in legitimate fear as to whether or not I’d wake up,” Michael Clark says.

A certified public accountant, and con troller and director of finance for a bio pharmaceutical company, Clark has cre ated a five-page, single-spaced guide for

list of diet and lifestyle changes that he made after Long COVID took over his life nearly two years ago. He estimates that he’s spent nearly $20,000 of his savings on counseling, hyperbaric oxygen, intra venous vitamin therapy, acupuncture and a handful of other remediations that have helped mitigate some of his symptoms.

Long COVID is easier to confirm in patients who had no underlying condi tions before their coronavirus diagnosis, Kelly says, estimating that about 5% of her patients overall are clearly Long COVID sufferers. “Most of them,” she says, “are having trouble with brain fog and they have trouble with executive functioning.”

ON A SUNNY DAY this past April, Michael Clark, 33, is relaxing on an Adirondack chair on the front porch of the Clarksburg home he shares with his wife and 4-yearold son. He’s sipping herbal tea—he gave up caffeine and alcohol as part of a long

Physically unable to work for many months, either as a voice actor or at his job at Allied Universal Security Services, he now uses a cane to get around. Balance, muscle wasting and shortness of breath are his most challenging symptoms, he says. “My voice is not where it used to be,

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Over the next several weeks, a hand ful of telehealth doctors on his medical plan told him to “give it time,” he says, so he tried to maintain as normal a sched ule as he could. But the fatigue was so debilitating, he often went to bed at 8:30 at night, and still needed three or four naps spaced throughout the day to stay on top of his work. And his shortness of breath sometimes felt “terrifying,” he says. “For those first few months especially, I would go to bed at night in legitimate fear as to whether or not I’d wake up.”

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Eventually he met in-per son with a general practitio ner, an asthma and allergy specialist, and a pulmon ologist, and was clinically diagnosed as having contracted COVID. He says he was one of the first patients to sign up for Penn Medicine’s Post COVID Rehab Clinic, in Philadelphia, where the focus was on in-person physical therapy and strength reconditioning. But long after he completed the program, he’d still find himself relapsing, having days where he’d sleep 16 hours and still be exhausted.

He’ll never forget the afternoon he spent two hours standing in his kitchen, chop

his breathing became so labored that he was admitted to a nearby hospital. There, he suffered a collapsed lung, spent two months in a coma and ended up needing an emergency tracheotomy.

For Clark, who used to be “at the gym at 6 a.m. and at work by 8,” he says, his journey with COVID started when he began experiencing shortness of breath, chest pain, fatigue, and dizziness in March 2020. The one symptom he didn’t have was a fever, he says, so he wasn’t eligible for a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) test—the COVID test that is considered most accurate but must be performed in a doctor’s office or lab.

newly diagnosed long haulers. It begins: “Welcome to Long Covid 101.” He’s posted it on several Long COVID sup port-group websites in hopes that his advice will save other long haulers from making the same mistakes he made early on. His first recommendation: “Rest, rest, and rest!”

Kelly, whose office is in Silver Spring, says she has a diverse array of patients,

and those who didn’t have access to qual ity health care before the pandemic often have pre-existing conditions that make it hard to know whether their symp toms were due to COVID, aggravated by COVID, or not related to the coronavirus at all. She says that several of her asthma patients who had COVID are now having more significant issues with their breath ing. But “they’ll say, ‘I’m feeling short of breath with my asthma,’ ” she says. “They wouldn’t say, ‘I have Long COVID,’ ” even if the virus was a contributing factor.

Still, he says he’s one of the lucky ones. “Every day on my support groups, people post about how they lost their job, they’re selling their house, they are selling their car, because they are too sick to work,” he says. “A lot of [find ing relief] is experimenting and trying on your own as to what you can do and what you’re willing to do. I am fortu nate enough… that I have the financial means to put some money into experi menting, but you think about how many people can’t.”

Since then, he says a cardiac MRI has revealed scarring on his heart from COVID-induced myocarditis (inflam mation of the heart wall); he’s com pleted voice and speech therapy for muscle tension dysphonia (a hoarseness of his voice caused by many months of throat constriction); and he’s started taking beta blockers to help manage his coronavirus-related tachycardia, or rapid heartbeat. Without the medica tions, he says, “If I were to stand up, my heart rate would jump up 30, 35, 40, 45 beats per minute.”

One of the saddest parts of his illness is that he can’t play with his son the way he’d like, he says. “I can take him to the playground, but I can’t run around with him. We can go on walks, but I can’t chase after him. Even just picking him up some times…I’ll feel strain in my chest.”

Clark has written essays about his Long COVID journey that he shares online with fellow sufferers. One of his essays begins: “How do you heal from that which is presently untreatable? How do you wake everyday living in dishar mony with nature: a body that betrays you; a psyche that distorts; emotions that have run amuck.”

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A STAR OF THE D.C. FOOD SCENE, CHEF MIKE FRIEDMAN OF OLNEY WILL OPEN TWO RESTAURANTS—AVENTINO AND AP PIZZA SHOP—EARLY NEXT YEAR IN BETHESDA

n a Tuesday this past spring, chef Mike Friedman—Mikey to his friends—is in the kitchen of his Olney home. The room is spa cious, ordered and pristine, with white cabi netry, white quartz countertops, and gray and white marble tile backsplashes. Multiple windows fill the space with light.

Friedman is preparing Aventino menu items for this writer to sample. On the kitchen island are a chunk of Pecorino Romano (a sheep’s milk cheese) resting on a cutting board and some items from the aperitivo (cock tail snacks) section of Aventino’s upcoming menu: a bowl of glistening, bright green Castelvetrano olives marinated with olive oil, fresh bay leaves and lemon zest; sandwiches made with pizza bianco (the thin, spongy everyday bread of Rome), fig preserves, arugula and thinly sliced mortadella spiked with pistachio nuts and squares of fat; and taralli,

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Friedman stands at his GE Monogram professional range to prepare rigatoni all’amatriciana, a dish that will be on the menu at Aventino, his Bethesda restaurant that is sched uled to open in early 2023. Adjacent to Aventino, Friedman will open a takeout-focused pizzeria called AP Pizza Shop.

The 41-year-old Friedman brings plenty of experience to the projects. He opened The Red Hen, his first and still wildly popular Italian restaurant, in D.C.’s Bloomingdale neighbor hood in 2013, followed by two D.C. locations of All-Purpose Pizzeria (hence AP Pizza Shop), one in Shaw (2016) and one at Capitol Riverfront (2018).

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Chef Mike Friedman making all’amatriciana,rigatoni a dish he plans to put on the menu at Aventino, at his Olney home

Friedman threw himself into work and rose up in Andrés’ company, ThinkFoodGroup (TFG), becoming sous-chef, first at Zaytinya and then at the group’s D.C. location of Jaleo. But long hours and his father’s death took a toll, and, he says, he hit a wall in 2010. He left TFG, took a break from cooking, then returned to D.C. to work at Proof (now closed) and Estadio.

In 2012, Friedman decided it was time to strike out on his own, and he asked O’Malley, his Mon Ami Gabi buddy, to join him in the venture. O’Malley, who earned an MBA from DePaul University in Chi cago in 2008 and was working in the res taurant business in that city, was all in and moved back to the D.C. area. O’Malley knew that he and Friedman would be a good fit in business. “Mike is a happy-golucky guy, which is not always the case in back-of-the-house people. He’s a good leader, a good trainer and understands operations and numbers,” O’Malley says.

They, along with another partner, Sebastian Zutant, opened The Red Hen in April 2013. “We were young enough and dumb enough to sign a lease on our own space,” Friedman jokes, adding that he went from sous-chef to owner but skipped the executive chef part.

especially in New York, where he worked selling TV Friedmanairtime.graduated from Boston Uni versity in 2003 with a degree in communi cations. A brief stint selling radio airtime made him realize the cubicle life wasn’t for him. At 22, he was broke and living in his parents’ Chevy Chase apartment. (They had moved in 2000 for Robert’s work.) Leafing through his mother’s cook book collection inspired him to give cook ing a try. Hitting up a manager at Mon Ami Gabi in Bethesda in 2004 through the friend of a friend, he talked his way into a job with little more experience than working in an Italian deli and scooping ice cream. “I had never used a chef’s knife before, so the guy who hired me handed

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FRIEDMAN’S PARENTS INSTILLED AN interest in food early on. “I grew up in a Jewish household in Westfield, New Jer sey, a predominantly Italian suburb of New York City. There were Italian restau rants and four stellar pizzerias,” he says. His mother, Vicki, exposed him to good Jewish cooking at home, but the family was also keen on takeout: pizza weekly and Chinese food regularly. His father, Robert, was raised in the Bronx and was always seeking out the best food places,

Friedman thrived, learning every station and even going through the management pro gram of Mon Ami Gabi’s par ent company, Lettuce Enter tain You. In 2006 he went to The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, earning an associate degree. Later that year he got a cooking job at José Andrés’ D.C. restaurant Zaytinya.

me a chain-mail [protective metal] glove and said, ‘Don’t f--- this up. This is my reputa tion.’ ” A friend he made there, a young assistant manager named Mike O’Malley, is now a partner in Friedman’s restaurants.

The sauce for Friedman’s rigatoni all’amatriciana simmers for 45 minutes, and the pasta is homemade.

On the stove is a saute pan with cubes of guanciale (cured pork cheek) that have been browned and rendered. Next to it is the amatriciana sauce, a 45-minute simmer of tomato passata (pureed, strained and uncooked toma toes), chile flakes, black pep per and rendered guanciale. “All of our extruded pastas [spaghetti, ziti, fusilli, etc.] are homemade,” Friedman says as he drops rigatoni into a pot of boiling water. “We don’t dry them. We refrigerate them first, then freeze them for a day. This way, they cook to al dente in a minute and don’t retain a lot of water. And we don’t salt the pasta water.” The dish comes together in a minute in the saute pan of guanciale. Olive oil, amatriciana sauce, pasta water and a dab of but ter emulsify into a luxuriant sauce, glazing the rigatoni with a lustrous orange sheen. Friedman scoops it into bowls and grates Pecorino Romano on top. Nodding approval after a first bite, he muses, “I hope I’m doing the right thing. You can create a dish using 25 or 30 ingredients and have it taste good. It’s harder to be simple because everything’s naked.”

The dish is toppped with grated Pecorino Romano.

and her parents, her brother, a massive amount of aunts and uncles and cousins, my mother, who lives right off of Wood mont Avenue, and friends can come is also a bonus,” Friedman says.

O’MALLEY CONSIDERS OPENING IN Bethesda a homecoming of sorts for both himself and Friedman because of their past at Mon Ami Gabi, where they learned foundational restaurant skills. The fact that both are familiar with the Bethesda market gives them an advan tage, he Friedmansays. was skeptical about the timing when RedStone’s real estate bro ker (and Bethesda resident) Jared Meier of CBRE contacted him in Novem ber 2019 about a Bethesda property he wanted Friedman to see. “My partners and I weren’t sure about reaching out into Montgomery County yet. But it was a prime location [JBG Smith Properties’ headquarters at 4747 Bethesda Ave.] and [JBG] was very interested in talking to us,”

Bethesda as a location for expansion wasn’t a hard sell for Friedman. “I had a wonderful time working in Bethesda from 2004 to 2006 and always saw it as a wonderful community that demanded more from its food and beverage scene,” he says. Friedman says that as a Mont gomery County resident with two small children, Bethesda provided an oppor tunity for him and his wife, Ashley—a seventh-generation county resident— to go to places such as Mon Ami Gabi, Woodmont Grill, Pizzeria Da Marco and Raku. “Having a hub where Ashley

It’s no coincidence that RedStone named the LLC of their two Bethesda restaurants There’s No Place Like Rome. Friedman says The Red Hen is about an idea, that of a generally Italian restaurant, whereas Aventino is about tradition, spe cifically food from Rome. He became enamored with the city when his father took him there on a tour of Italy in 2006. Eating in various trattorias, seeing how the Roman Empire lived, and going to the Jewish ghetto affected him greatly. “I was young, a sponge soaking everything up,” he says. The coexistence of the old and

The laid-back neighborhood joint was a hit. After a couple of years, they decided to expand with a different but related con cept, settling on New York-style pizza. “Everyone was doing Neapolitan pizza [in D.C.] at the time, so we decided to do deck-oven pies because they were near and dear to me and my New Jersey upbringing,” Friedman says. To facilitate expansion and handle the larger operation, O’Malley and Friedman brought on two partners, Colin McDonough and Gareth Croke, the owners of Boundary Stone, a D.C. pub around the corner from The Red Hen. In 2015, they formed RedStone Res taurant Group. (The name is a combina tion of Red Hen and Boundary Stone.) In 2016, Zutant left the group to open a wine bar right after All-Purpose Pizzeria opened in D.C.’s Shaw neighborhood.

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Friedman says. The deal was on the table, then off the table when the pandemic hit, and then revisited when things were more stable. They signed a lease with JBG Smith in November 2020.

“YOU CAN CREATE A DISH USING 25 OR 30 INGREDIENTS AND HAVE IT TASTE GOOD. IT’S HARDER TO BE SIMPLE EVERYTHING’SBECAUSENAKED,”MIKEFRIEDMANSAYS.

On his first trip there, he discov ered that Jews inhabited Aventino until the mid-1500s, when they were forced into a cramped Jew ish ghetto. (Jews weren’t allowed to live outside the ghetto until 1870.)

Sicilian pizza (rectangular pizza with thick, spongy dough cut into squares) will be available only at lunch, whole or by the slice. New York-style pizza (12-inchdiameter, thin crust, crispy and chewy dough) will be available at lunch and dinner. Both types will be baked in a deck oven. The Sicilian pizza dough will be sourdough; the New York pizza dough won’t be. Among the New York pies will be Sedgewick (whipped ricotta, mozzarella, Taleggio and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheeses, black truffle honey and chives); Enzo the Baker (tomatoes, mozzarella, capicola bacon, chiles, red onion and Pecorino Romano); and Marsala (por cini mushroom crema, smoked mozzarella, braised chicken and wild mushrooms).

Growing up in a Jewish house hold in an Italian neighborhood made Rome resonate for Friedman.

new fascinated him. “Rome is one of the oldest modern cities on Earth. To see the Forum and Circus Maximus while stay ing in a modern hotel and to see histor ical and traditional ideas clashing with forward and modern-thinking ones in trattorias inspired me.” The trip was also a bonding experience for Friedman and his father, who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2008, forwent treatment and died six weeks later.

The dinner menu will be divided into starters, including eggplant parm, whipped ricotta with black truffle honey, and risotto balls with beef and pork ragu; salads; pizza; and sweets, including olive oil cake with strawberry preserves, tiramisu, and panna cotta with whipped Nutella. Starters and salads will be around $14. Pizzas will be around $21. Desserts will be Friedman$9. will offer both New York and Sicilian styles of pizza to emulate old-school pizzerias in New York and New Jersey.

Italy continued to beckon. He went there with his mother in 2010 and honeymooned there with Ashley in 2012, when Friedman acci dentally booked a seniors cruise starting in Venice and ending in Rome. “Where is everyone?” he wondered when they first boarded. “I only see their grandparents.”

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A famous Roman dish that will appear on Aventino’s menu is car ciofi alla giudia, Jewish-style fried artichokes. “[The Romans] gave the Jews artichokes because no one else wanted them. They were too difficult to clean and eat,” Fried man says. A planned salad with dine

AP Pizza Shop’s 2,000-square-foot space will seat 20, with a separate to-go window highlighting a focus on takeout. Chef Mike Friedman and his partners named it AP Pizza Shop rather than All-Purpose Piz zeria to differentiate it from their two D.C. locations, which are full-on sit-down restaurants. “We will serve the same kind of New York-style pizza and some of the same D.C. pies on the AP menu, but AP is a more casual concept with a nostalgic feel,” Friedman says. “Coney Island meets Jersey Shore.”

In February 2020, the Red Stone partners went on a five-day research and development tour of Rome. “I had an idea of how Ital ians ate from my previous trips to Rome, but to go with a much sharper eye about how modern Romans eat and drink was some thing we needed to experience,” Friedman says. “We didn’t have a name or a core concept.” During the trip, O’Malley came up with the name Aventino, which is one of the seven hills that Rome was built on. As research, they visited several trattorias—among them Armando al Pantheon, Santo Pal ato and da Cesare—to experience classical Roman cuisine and mod ern, innovative interpretations of it. They also quaffed at Ma Che Siete Venuti A Fà, a bar in Rome’s Trastevere neighborhood known for its craft beer selection.

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pepper; carbonara, spaghetti with guan ciale, egg yolk and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese; and amatriciana, which is named after the Lazio town of Amatrice. (The fourth Roman pasta is alla gricia, made with guanciale, Pecorino Romano and blackAventino’spepper.)menu will be divided into five sections: aperitivo, anti pasti (appetizers), pizza romana, pasta and secondi (entrees). Cur rently planned entrees include fried whole branzino with Meyer lemon cream, roasted half chicken with truffle jus, and crispy veal chop with prosciutto and sage butter. Antipasti and pizzas will be around $15, pastas around $20. The branzino and chicken will be $36, the veal chop $45. No dish on The Red Hen’s menu will be on Aventino’s, Friedman says.

FRIEDMAN KNEW HE WANTED to focus on the four classic Roman pastas, three of which are planned for the Aventino menu: cacio e pepe, tonnarelli (a spaghetti-like pasta) with Pecorino Romano cheese and lots of cracked black

Pizza-wise, Aventino will offer only Roman pizza—8-inch, thincrust, shareable snacking pizzas like you’d see on the streets of Rome. Among them: a white pizza with roasted figs, prosciutto, ricotta and Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese, and a Calabrese pizza with Bianco diNap oli-brand tomatoes, ‘nduja (a spicy and spreadable fermented pork sausage) and burrata. “It makes sense to have pizza romana at Aventino because that style is prevalent in Rome,” Friedman says.

AP Pizza Shop will be designed to evoke clas sic New Jersey and New York City pizzerias, with wooden booths, Italian midcentury posters and an open kitchen with deck ovens and stacked pizza boxes, metal pizza pans and cans of plum toma toes on display.

fried and marinated zucchini has Jew ish roots. So do crispy veal sweetbreads with truffle fonduta. Variety meats, such as sweetbreads, kidneys and tripe, were considered the undesirable quinto quarto, the fifth quarter of the animal, a mainstay of Rome’s cucina povera (literally “poor kitchen,” meaning cooking made from the most economical ingredients). Trippa alla romana (Roman-style braised tripe) is an off-menu item that will always be available at Aventino, Friedman promises.

stemmed rose. “The [ancient] Romans would bring exotic animals into the city and display and eat them. The giraffe is a symbol of the power of the Roman empire,” Friedman says. (Julius Caesar brought the first giraffe to Europe in 46 B.C.) The archlike shape of the border represents a keyhole on the gate of the Knights of Malta’s headquarters—known as the Aventine Keyhole—that frames a perfect view of St. Peter’s Basilica. Fried man went to this popular tourist attrac tion with his father. The rose represents Rome’s Municipal Rose Garden, built in 1950 on the eastern side of the Aventine Hill on top of what had been a Jewish cemetery from 1645 to 1934, when it was moved to build the via del Circo Mas simo. The garden’s pathways, when seen from above, are shaped like a menorah. n

Other Roman trends at Aventino will be cocktail ice branded with a mono gram, a 70- to 100-bottle wine list heavy on producers from Lazio, the region of Italy where Rome is located, and Italian craft beers, such as those from Baladin Brewery in Italy’s Piedmont region.

The Aventino logo is an image of a giraffe wearing a plumed Roman helmet standing in profile next to a large long-

The partners’ trip heavily influ enced Aventino’s bar program, Fried man says. “Aperitivo is so important in Italy. In Rome, they are passionate about spritzes…Negronis [gin, Campari, red vermouth] and other cocktails, such as martinis and bourbon-spiked drinks. We will have a strong spritz and Negroni program—the classics and variants—like a white Negroni, Campari spritz, riffs on a French 75 [gin, Champagne, lemon

David Hagedorn is the restaurant critic for Bethesda Magazine.

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Aventino’s 4,200-square-foot space will seat 135. In terms of design, look for Roman archways throughout, travertine cobblestone or mosaic pathways, mar ble tabletops, hanging greenery, leather accents, an emerald and gold color palette and a lavish use of exotic animal graphics, including on custom wallpaper.

juice, sugar].” Their classic spritz will be garnished with green olives. “That’s all over Rome. The salty with sweet makes so much sense, and it looks so cool in the glass,” Friedman says.

Steak frites with herbed garlic butter and french fries at J. Hollinger’s Waterman’s Chophouse

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Chef John Manolatos serves up fine fare at J. Hollinger’s Waterman’s Chophouse

J. Hollinger’s seats 130, including 18 at a curved peninsula bar in a room that offers high-top seating and a view of the kitchen. The main dining room is a study in cool colors. Lining one wall are six large, U-shaped booths upholstered with tufted gray and blue velveteen in a cloud-like pattern. Sheer gold curtains drawn back

FAVORITE DISHES: Shrimp toast and pork belly with citrus mostarda; housemade spaghetti with clams; steak frites; grilled trumpet mushrooms; apple cider-brined pork chop with morel cream sauce and lemon spaetzle; assorted housemade sorbets and ice creams

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Rating:Overall B+

PRICES: Appetizers: $9 to $19; Steaks: $28 (steak frites) to $75 (22-ounce cowboy rib-eye); Non-steak entrees: $19 to $34; Desserts: $8 to $12

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Jerry Hollinger, who owns The Daily Dish in Silver Spring and The Dish and Dram in Kensington, says the owners of the Lee Building approached him and another restaurateur in mid-2019 to submit a proposal for an upscale restaurant in their building. “I felt like a sea food and steakhouse concept would do well, considering what was there before,” says Hollinger, referring to the steakhouse that oper ated there between 2006 to 2018, first as Ray’s the Classics, and later as The Classics after a change in ownership.

SERVICE: Well informed and pleasant

AT J. HOLLINGER’S WATERMAN’S CHOPHOUSE in downtown Silver Spring, I ask George Manolatos, the director of operations of Hollinger Group Restaurants, which cut is used for the steak frites—the simple dish of grilled beef, herbed garlic butter and french fries that’s ubiq uitous on American and French bistro menus—and receive a pleas ing response: teres major. From the chuck, that muscle is almost as tender as, but much more flavorful than, much pricier filet mignon. (Butchers sometimes call it the petite tender.)

I’ve not had a finer steak frites than at J. Hollinger’s, which opened in the Lee Building in May. My knife, unlike with chewier cuts often used for the dish (such as hanger, flat iron or flank), glides effort lessly through the meat, whose umami beefiness melds beautifully with the sweetness and pungency of its garlic-parsley butter. Chef John Manolatos, George’s brother, gets the crispy frites right, too, because he makes them in-house instead of shortcutting with frozen fries. (He soaks the fries in water for two days, blots them dry and par-cooks them in 325-degree canola oil. Then they’re fried to order at 350 degrees to crisp them.)

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LIBATIONS: Mixologist Alex Georgiadis has put together a list of six playful craft cocktails ($12 to $15), such as an applewood smoked “odd” fashioned made with rye, maple, honey and Angostura bitters, and a gin and tonic made with purple Empress 1908 gin and elderflowerflavored tonic. Two classic New Orleans cocktails, a Sazerac and a Vieux Carré, hit the $20 mark. Assistant manager and sommelier Timothy Clune has curated an intriguing collection of wines that favor Old World (Italy, Spain and especially France) offerings. The 48 bottles on the wine list range from $44 to $242. There are 18 wines by the glass from $10 to $17.

Good sourcing is the starting point for many a dish at J. Hol linger’s. For one starter, Manolatos dips plump Chesapeake oysters in buttermilk and then cornmeal mixed with flour before deep-frying. For another, sweet Virginia Chesapeake clams take center stage on housemade spaghetti; the butter, red pepper flakes and garlicky toasted breadcrumbs play sup porting roles in this star turn. (Superlative raw materials, alas, can’t save a wan Manhattan-style clam chowder.)

Another appetizer appeals for its whimsy: a surf and turf riff of fried shrimp toast triangles alongside a tender chunk of barbe cued pork belly. Its accompaniments—kimchi with daikon radish and cabbage and a “mostarda” made with fresh tomatoes, mus

County in Pennsylvania. A trip there in mid-July yielded heir loom tomatoes, zucchini, Asian eggplant, farm eggs, peaches, sweet cherries and blackberries. That weekend, Manolatos put Andalusian gazpacho, tomato and feta salad (a nod to his Greek heritage), dorade fillets with zucchini, and fruit crostata on theMymenu.late spring and early summer visits benefit from Mano latos’ use-’em-if-you-got-’em strategy. A thick, ultra-tender, apple cider-brined grilled pork chop comes atop sauteed kale, fresh English peas and delicate lemon spaetzle (little flour dumplings). It’s festooned with fresh morels, prized for their smoky, nutty earthiness, and a rich brown cream sauce. Ora King salmon arrives on a bed of local greens, pickled radishes and roasted carrots.

on both sides of each booth are elegant (albeit impractical) decorations. Sculptural trees fashioned from copper wire, a built-in wall fireplace, abstract paintings from Chevy Chasebased artist Jenny Wilson, and woodwork created by a Men nonite woodworker in Pennsylvania add touches of refinement to decor that strikes the right balance between casual and upscale. (It’s refreshing to see carpeting instead of con creteHollinger,flooring.)who is 55 and a resident of Silver Spring’s North Woodside neighborhood, has a winning chef in John Manola tos, 47, who was born and raised in Silver Spring and gradu ated from John F. Kennedy High School. “I always wanted to cook from the age of 14, watching Yan Can Cook and The Frugal Gourmet on television,” says the chef. At age 20, he scored a job as a prep cook and dishwasher at Cashion’s Eat Place when it opened in Washington, D.C., in 1995. With James Beard Awardwinning chef Ann Cashion mentoring him, he rose to execu tive chef by 1999 and then bought the restaurant with George in 2007. In 2016, the business was struggling, and Cashion took over the lease. John Manolatos still owns Pop’s SeaBar, a board walk-inspired seafood eatery he opened next door to Cashion’s in 2014.LikeCashion, Manolatos’ hallmark is using what’s available seasonally and not indulging in elaborate manipulations. That’s fine with Hollinger, himself a chef, who has for years been mak ing weekly visits to produce auctions in his native Lancaster

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From left: Apple cider-brined pork chop with morel cream sauce and lemon spaetzle; shrimp toast (back) and pork belly with citrus mostarda; and housemade spaghetti with clams

tard seeds and dried mustard—make the unusual pairing come together in a dance of sweetness, fattiness, heat, salt and acid.

Now to steaks. J. Hollinger’s offers an 8-ounce Wagyu culotte ($32), a 6-ounce Black Angus tenderloin ($38), a 14-ounce bonein Kansas City strip ($48) and a 22-ounce cowboy rib-eye ($75). These are garnished with a grilled scallion and some roasted gar lic cloves. Side dishes, such as mac and cheese and spinach sauteed with golden raisins and pine nuts, are à la carte. On a first visit, sauces, such as housemade steak sauce, béarnaise and red wine demi-glace, were à la carte at $4 a pop. On the next, steaks came with the housemade steak sauce. (I’d prefer a sauce and side dish of the diner’s choice factored into the steaks’ prices instead of nickel-and-dime pricing.) I can attest to the strip’s bold, heady flavor (it’s dry-aged for 48 days) and Manolatos’ on-point béar naise, but my money is still on the $28 steak frites.

Bavarian lime cheesecake with a buttery shortbread crust and a layer of tart lime curd is a lovely way to end dinner at J. Hollinger’s, as is an uber-rich bar of peanut butter mousse, chocolate cake and fudgy chocolate ganache. The sleepers, though, are the homemade ice creams and sorbets. The sam pler features tiny scoops of three ice creams (coffee, chocolate and white chocolate peanut butter) and three sorbets (dark chocolate, passionfruit and raspberry). Another sweet bonus at Hollinger’s is free parking in the lot on Georgia Avenue next to the Lee Building. The code to enter it comes with a Resy res ervation online or from calling the restaurant for it. n

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Owner Jerry Hollinger (left) and Executive Chef John Manolatos in the dining room at J. Hollinger’s Waterman’s Chophouse

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In addition to the clam pizza, the crushed tomato pie is a specialty, made with tomatoes grown, packed and pro cessed exclusively for Frank Pepe near Salerno, Italy, and topped with grated Pecorino Romano and a drizzle of olive oil. In the summer (September is per fect), they offer fresh tomato pies. Spe cialty pizzas, including the veggie special

The 3,500-square-foot restaurant, which seats 74 inside and 16 outside, is the company’s 13th. A 14th opened in Alexandria, Virginia, in July, and two Florida outposts are slated to open by 2023. “We chose Bethesda as a location because it’s very acces sible and convenient and we got a lot of requests from people in the area,” says Jennifer Kelly, 65, a granddaugh ter of Frank Pepe who co-owns the res taurants with her two sisters and three of their cousins. “We started in a college town, and a lot of our stores are near col leges. Those kids eat our pizza and then go home and want our pizza there.”

The business has always been familyowned, but the grandkids brought on management 25 years ago to expand it beyond Connecticut. The plan is to have 25 stores by 2025, their 100th anniver sary. “Family makes all the decisions. We have a team that executes what we want. They know our legacy of using the high est quality ingredients with no skimping,” Kelly says. “We all have the commitment to our grandfather’s legacy.” n

every steel bar in that Bethesda oven is the exact design as the one in New Haven. The dry heat of coal is what gives our pizza its crispness.” The pies (12, 16 or 18 inches) are baked at 600 degrees for eight to 10 minutes, depending on the toppings, and maneuvered with a 16-foot peel. (Those soupy Neapolitan pizzas, by contrast, are baked at 800 to 900 degrees for 60 to 90 seconds.)

loaded with broccoli, peppers, mush rooms and spinach, range between $14.50 and $28 for a 16-inch pie.

Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana, 7101 Democracy Blvd. (Westfield Mont gomery mall), Bethesda, 301-304-7373, pepespizzeria.com

The pizzas at Frank Pepe have a thin, crispy crust after being cooked in a coal-fired brick oven.

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THE LOCAL FOOD WORLD was giddy with anticipation in December 2019 when Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napole tana, a family-owned, New Haven, Connecticut-based business that dates to 1925, announced it would be opening an outlet in Bethesda’s West field Montgomery mall in 2020. Due to myriad construction delays caused by the pandemic, opening day didn’t come until March 28 of this year.

Many pizza aficionados consider Frank Pepe pies, especially the one made with fresh clams, garlic, oregano and grated Pecorino Romano cheese, to be the ne plus ultra of pizzas. (Pizza is called “apizza” in New Haven and pronounced “a-beets.”) Pepe pizza’s hallmark is a thin, crispy, chewy crust with spots of char on the edges and a few on the bottom, too. (The dough recipe is a family secret.) This isn’t the gooey kind of Neapolitan pizza that is soupy in the center and needs to be eaten with a fork and knife. When you pick up a slice of Frank Pepe, it will stick out straight with little to no drooping.

Frank Pepe made his pizzas in a coalfired brick oven, and that’s how they’re made today. “How the oven was built in New Haven is how each oven is built in all of our stores,” Kelly says. “The oven weighs 104,000 pounds. Every brick,

in-house at Italian Bar.

sgroppino (lemon sorbet, vodka and pro secco, $13) and frullato, a fruit and milk smoothie ($5.99).

WHEN THE SPACE FORMERLY occupied by a non-chemical dry cleaner became available a few doors down from I’m Eddie Cano in Chevy Chase, D.C., Carolyn and Massimo Papetti, the wifeand-husband owners of that Italian res taurant, checked out the property. The diminutive, narrow space—it’s only 684 square feet—had no rear exit, which meant that D.C. code wouldn’t allow indoor seat ing. Still, Carolyn was drawn to it and came up with a workaround: a stand-up coffee bar like those common in Massimo’s native Italy, where people stop in for a quick coffee or to socialize with friends or grab a gelato after dinner. (The Papet tis met and married in Rome, where Car olyn earned her MBA through St. John’s University, started a company providing custom tours and became a certi fiedItaliansommelier.)Bar, which doesn’t take cash or tips, opened in May, offering coffee drinks (they use Italy’s Lavazza coffee and a Lavazza espresso machine), pastries, savory snacks, cock tails and gelato. In addition to hot and cold brew and the usual espresso drinks ($2.75 to $4.50), such as lattes, cappuccinos and macchiatos, Italian Bar offers a shakerato—hot espresso is shaken with sugar and ice and

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The Papettis invested in a $50,000 Car pigiani gelato machine and a $10,000 blast freezer to make gelato in-house. Carolyn took an intensive gelato-making course in Miami and learned to crank out fan ciful, swirly-topped containers for the display case with such flavors as strac ciatella (chocolate-flecked vanilla); spag nola (vanilla with cherries and chocolate chips); coffee; pistachio; and hazelnut (two flavors for $4.95; three for $5.95; $9.95 per pint). “Margarita Vasquez, a cook [from I’m Eddie Cano], usually makes the gelato and is much better at it than I am,” Carolyn says, noting that as the soft gelato comes out of the machine, the idea is to mound it attractively but delicately, not pack it into the container, leaving as much air as possible in the gelato to maintain its Designercreaminess.Esther Konrad helped Carolyn breathe life into the space. “It turned out prettier than I thought,” Carolyn says. “The deep blue color of the walls and the bar, the pressed copper ceiling, the Roman brick floor… it feels very Italian, a little gritty. Like Rome.” n

Italian Bar owners Carolyn and Massimo

served on the rocks or straight up, creat ing a layer of foam on the top. Among the pastries ($3.25 to $3.75) are plain, choc olate or pistachio-filled cornetti (crois sants) and ciambelle (doughnuts). Savo ries include tramezzini (tea sandwiches with, say, smoked salmon or prosciutto, $3.95); Roman pizza rosso, thin-crusted pizza spread with tomato sauce ($4.25); and pizza bianco ripieno (think grilled cheese made with pizza dough and fill ings,On$6.75).tap,Italian Bar offers two beers ($8), prosecco ($8), pinot grigio ($9) and, for $13, an Aperol Spritz and a Negroni Sbagliato, which subs sparkling wine for gin in a classic Negroni. “We have a full bar, but I’m deterring martinis and the like because we don’t have the glassware,” Carolyn says. “But if we have it, we will make it.” Interesting libations include the

Italian Bar, 5008 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, D.C., italianbardc.com

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Alexandria, Virginia-based Neighborhood Restaurant Group an nounced that in the fall it plans to turn two-thirds of Owen’s Ordinary in North Bethesda’s Pike & Rose development into an outpost of Caruso’s Grocery, an Italian restaurant on Capitol Hill.

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Washington, D.C.-based Seven Restaurant Group, which owns Seven Reasons and Imperfecto restaurants, also plans a fall opening for a Latin American restaurant called Joy by Seven Reasons. The new concept will take over the Chevy Chase space that housed Little Beet Table, which closed in March.

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There were several closures in July. Rockville-based CAVA closed the Gaithersburg location of Zoe’s Kitchen, and the burger chain BGR closed its rio Gaithersburg outpost. In Bethesda, Silver Spring-based Moorenko’s ice cream shop closed its Westfield Montgomery mall kiosk, and Brickside Food & Drink closed after a nine-year run. Not Your Average Joe’s restaurant and bar closed its Gaithersburg loca tion. In Wheaton, Max’s Kosher Kitchen closed after 28 years; the owners hope to relocate to Kemp Mill shopping center.

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BETHESDA CRAB HOUSE 4958 Bethesda Ave., 301-652-3382. In the same location since 1961, this casual, family-owned dining spot features jumbo lump crabcakes, oysters on the half shell and jumbo spiced shrimp. Extra large and jumbo-sized crabs available year-round; call ahead to reserve. ❂ L D $$

CASA OAXACA 4905 Fairmont Ave., 240-858-6181, casaoaxacamd. com. The focus is on tacos at this family-owned Mexican restaurant, but you’ll also find fajitas, salads, quesadillas and more on the menu. There’s an indoor bar and an outdoor beer garden. J L D $$

4926 Cordell Ave., 301-718-6427, alatribros.com. The folks behind Olazzo and Gringos & Mariachis bought Mia’s Pizzas and revamped it with a new name and decor. They kept the Naples-style pies that come from a wood-burning oven, but added small plates and healthy options. Sit in the cheery dining room with green, gray and white accents or under an umbrella on the patio. ❂ J L D $$

BACCHUS OF LEBANON

6937 Arlington Road, 301-654-0213. A calm oasis on a busy street, where chef Kazuo Honma serves patrons several kinds of sushi, sashimi, noodle soups, teriyaki and more. Try a dinner box, which includes an entree, vegetables, California roll, tempura and rice. L D $$

highlights include Maryland crab beignets, shrimp and grits and roasted trout. ❂ R L D $$

ALATRI BROS.

7614 Old Georgetown Road, 240-800-4783, andpizza.com. Create your own designer pizza from a choice of two crusts (both are vegan and one is also gluten-, soy- and dairy-free), three cheeses (including a vegan option) and five sauces or spreads. Toppings for the thin, crispy crusts range from the usual suspects to Beyond Meat sausage and tater tots. This location of the hip, fast-casual chain has limited seating L D $

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7101 Democracy Blvd. (Westfield Montgomery mall), 301-347-7370, buttermeupdc.com. In the space formerly occupied by the Aroma Espresso Bar, this restaurant serves breakfast fare all day. Toasts include “So in Love” (avocado, soft boiled egg and hot sauce) and “First Kiss” (poached peach, arugula, ricotta and spicy honey). Find sandwiches on toasted butter brioche rolls, such as “Easy Like Sunday” (turkey sausage, scrambled eggs and Havarti cheese) and “Feels Like Home” (fried chicken, eggs, cheddar, pickles, caramelized onions and sriracha mayo). Juices, smoothies and some alcoholic beverages too. B L $$

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BGR: THE BURGER JOINT 4827 Fairmont Ave., 301-358-6137, bgrtheburgerjoint.com. The burgers are good and the vibe is great. Protein choices include beef, chicken and Beyond Meat. Pick your own toppings or choose from a handful of selected combos, such as the Wagyu Wellington, with caramelized onions, roasted mushrooms, black truffles, blue cheese and BGR’s mayonnaise-horseradish “mojo” sauce ❂ J L D $

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7945 Norfolk Ave., bacchusoflebanon.com.301-657-1722,Thisfriendly and elegant

BISTRO PROVENCE

4933 Fairmont Ave., 301-656-7373, bistroprovence. org. Chef Yannick Cam brings his formidable experience to a casual French bistro with a lovely courtyard. The Dinner Bistro Fare, served daily from 5 to 6:30 p.m., offers a choice of appetizer, main course and dessert for $35. ❂ R L D $$$

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BETHESDA CURRY KITCHEN 4860 Cordell Ave., 301-656-0062, bethesda currykitchen.com. The restaurant offers lunch buffet and Southern Indian vegan specialties, served in a spare and casual setting. There are plenty of choices from the tandoor oven, as well as vegetarian, seafood and meat curries. L D $$

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4867 Cordell Ave., 240-800-3253, barrelandcrow. com. Contemporary regional and southern cuisine served in a comfortable setting with charcoal gray banquettes and elements of wood and brick. Menu

BENIHANA

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THE BIG GREEK CAFE 4806 Rugby Ave., 301-907-4976, biggreekcafe.com. Owned by the Marmaras brothers, the cafe serves Greek specialties, including a top-notch chicken souvlaki pita. L D $

THE BARKING DOG

7935 Wisconsin Ave., 301-652-5391, benihana. com. Experience dinner-as-theater as the chef chops and cooks beef, chicken, vegetables and seafood tableside on the hibachi. This popular national chain serves sushi, too. The kids’ menu includes a California roll and hibachi chicken, steak and shrimp entrees. J L D $$

7776 Norfolk Ave., 240-781-6943, acfp.com. A fullservice restaurant in Woodmont Triangle serving coal-fired pizzas and other Italian fare, Anthony’s is part of a Florida-based chain. The corner restaurant includes a large bar area with TVs. Voted “Best New Restaurant” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2021. ❂ L D $

7101 Democracy Blvd., Suite 2360 (Westfield Montgomery mall), 301-658-2233; 4832 Bethesda

4922 Cordell Ave., 301-215-7730, caddieson cordell.com. Twentysomethings gather at this golfthemed spot to enjoy beer and wings specials in a casual, rowdy atmosphere that frequently spills onto the large patio. Voted “Best Bar Scene” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2022. J R L D $

ANTHONY’S COAL FIRED PIZZA

Lebanese staple has a large, sunny patio that beckons lunch and dinner patrons outside when the weather is good to try garlicky hummus, stuffed grape leaves, chicken kabobs, veal chops and dozens of small-plate dishes. ❂ L D $$

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BLACK’S BAR & KITCHEN 7750 Woodmont Ave., blacksbarandkitchen.com.301-652-5525,Customers count on the impeccable use of fresh and local ingredients and enjoy dining on the expansive patio. The bar draws crowds for happy hour. ❂ R L D $$$

4723 Elm St., 301-654-0022, barkingdogbar.com. A fun place for young adults, with drink specials nearly every night and bar food such as quesadillas and burgers. Karaoke night is held weekly. ❂ L D $

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Ave., 301-656-1772; cava.com. The guys from CAVA Mezze restaurant have created a Greek version of Chipotle. Choose the meat, dip or spread for a pita, bowl or salad. House-made juices and teas provide a healthful beverage option. ❂ (Bethesda Avenue location) L D $

7929 Norfolk Ave., 301-312-8837, ddgbethesda. com. Thirty-five-seat French brasserie owned by chef Ashish Alfred. Small plates include steak tartare, and squid ink spaghetti with Manila clams and Fresno chilies. Among the entrees, look for updates of French classics, such as dry-aged duck with Bing cherries, and halibut with scallop mousse and puff pastry. ❂ L D $$

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focuses on Mediterranean fare, offering dishes ranging from fish and seafood to chicken, steak and pasta. Desserts include cannoli, cheesecake and tiramisu J R L D $$

10321 Westlake Drive, 301-347-6175; donpollogroup.com. Juicy, spiced birds and reasonable prices make this Peruvian chicken eatery a go-to place any night of the week. Family meals that serve four or six people are available. ❂ L D $

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8130 Wisconsin Ave., 301-656-0888, guapos restaurant.com. This outpost of a local chain has everything you’d expect: margaritas and chips galore, as well as a handful of daily specials served in festive Mexican surroundings. Perfect for families and dates.

GARDEN GRILLE & BAR

HALFSMOKE (NEW)

7820 Norfolk Ave., 301-654-7851, hanarosushi.com. The restaurant’s modern dark woods combined with a light-filled dining room brighten its corner location, and the menu includes sushi and Asian fusion main courses such as pad Thai and galbi (Korean ribs) The bar offers a daily happy hour. ❂ L D $$

4928 Cordell Ave., gringosandmariachis.com.240-800-4266,Theowners of the popular Olazzo Italian restaurant in Bethesda trade in the red sauce for salsa at this hip taqueria with edgy murals and plenty of tequila. Voted “Best Happy Hour” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2021 L D $

7901 Norfolk Ave., 301-907-7542, thecornerslice. net. New York-style pizza, available by the slice or as a 20-inch pie. Specialty pizzas include the spinachartichoke white pie with ricotta, mozzarella and parmesan and the Buffalo Chicken Pie with blue cheese and hot sauce. ❂ L D $

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7237 Woodmont Ave., chaiatacos.com. Plantbased foods star at this fast-casual local chain. The menu includes kale and potato tacos, mushroom enchiladas, a quesadilla with squash blossoms, and sweet potato nachos. J L D $

GUARDADO’S

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7251 Woodmont Ave., 301-652-0010; 10305 Old Georgetown Road (Wildwood Shopping Center), 301-564-6000, fishtacoonline.com. This counterservice taqueria features a full roster of seafood as well as non-aquatic tacos, plus margaritas and other Mexican specialties. Voted “Best Tacos” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2022 J L D $

7904 Woodmont Ave., 301-652-4287, bethesda. doghaus.com. This fast-casual California-based chain serves hot dogs, sausages, burgers and chicken sandwiches. The hot dogs are all beef and hormoneand antibiotic-free. The industrial-chic space includes picnic tables, TVs, a bar and more than two dozen beer choices. J L D $

4907 Cordell Ave., cubanosrestaurant.com.301-347-7952,Findauthentic Cuban cooking with dishes such as ropa vieja (shredded beef in onions, peppers and garlic) and fried plantains. L D $$

HAWKERS ASIAN STREET FOOD

4710 Bethesda Ave., Suite A, 443-437-3297, cubasibistro.com. The owners of a Sterling, Virginia, restaurant opened this spot with a meat-focused menu that includes Cuban sandwiches and platters (that come with two sides). Puerto Rican fare with mashed green plantains is also offered.

CITY LIGHTS OF CHINA

8021 Wisconsin Ave., cheesypizzibethesda.com.240-497-0000,Inadditionto the standard offerings of a pizza joint, this spot (formerly Pizza Tempo under different owners) has sandwiches and boat-shaped Turkish pizza known as pide. L D $

4926 St. Elmo Ave., cheftonysbethesda.com.301-654-3737,Chef-owner Tony Marciante

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6910 Arlington Road (Bradley Shopping Center), 301686-3224, edithspizzas.com. The owner of Breads Unlimited opened this pizza shop with 20 seats inside and six outside in the same strip mall as his bakery. Appetizers, salads, calzones and pizza by the slice or the pie. For an original take, try the Edith’s Paradise pizza (cheese, onions, pineapple, capicola, spicy honey).

10205 Old Georgetown Road, 301-664-4971, iamaflowerchild.com A fast-casual restaurant that’s part of a national chain, Flower Child has an emphasis on vegetarian eating (grain-based bowls, vegetable plates, salads) but also offers protein addons such as chicken, salmon and steak. ❂ L D $

7301 Waverly St. (Hilton Garden Inn), 301-654-8111. Aside from a breakfast buffet featuring cooked-toorder omelets, waffles, fruit and more, the restaurant offers an extensive menu, from burgers to pasta dishes. J B D $$

7280 Woodmont Ave., 301-968-0053, chikodc.com. The name of this fast-casual outpost of a D.C.-based chain is a combination of Chinese and Korean, and so is its menu. Entrees are priced at $15-$20 and include Orange-ish Chicken and Cumin Lamb Stir Fry. Appetizers include Crispy Chicken Spring Rolls and Wok-Blistered Green Beans. ❂ J D $$

garlic and oregano. Others include the Amanti Della Carne (tomatoes, mozzarella, meatball, pepperoni, sausage, bacon, Pecorino Romano) and one with spinach, mushrooms and gorgonzola.

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7117 Bethesda Lane, 240-203-8135, eathawkers. com. This Bethesda Row branch of a Florida-based chain features bright decor with neon signs for a fun vibe reminiscent of an Asian street. The menu stars small plates such as baos (buns filled with chicken

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4918 Del Ray Ave., 301-986-4920, guardados.com. Chef-owner Nicolas Guardado, who trained at Jaleo, opened this hidden gem devoted to Latin-Spanish cooking in 2007 and has developed a following with tapas specialties like shrimp and sausage, stuffed red peppers and paella. J L D $

7101 Democracy Blvd., (Westfield Montgomery mall), halfsmoke.com. Part of a D.C. chain of eateries, this fast-casual spot specializes in half-smoke sausages. You’ll also find grilled wings, a funnel cake with buttermilk-brined fried chicken, fries topped with crabmeat, and milkshakes, beer, wine and cocktails.

4611-A Sangamore Road, 301-347-6830, gregoriostrattoria.com. Proprietor Greg Kahn aims to make everyone feel at home at this family-owned restaurant serving a hit parade of traditional Italian favorites, with all the familiar pasta, pizza, chicken, veal and seafood dishes; the gluten-free menu offers pizza, cheese ravioli and quinoa pastas.

4921 Bethesda Ave., chercherrestaurant.com.301-652-6500,Thesecond branch of a D.C. Ethiopian spot, this restaurant and bar took over the space housing Suma. The decor is moderncontemporary and the menu features dishes—from beef to vegan—served on one large platter, meant for sharing, and Ethiopian wine. L D $

HANARO SUSHI

THE CORNER SLICE

4953 Bethesda Ave., bethesdacitylights.com.301-913-9501,LongtimeChinese eatery serves familiar Sichuan and Beijing fare, including six types of dumplings and seven handmade noodle dishes. Red walls and chocolate-colored booths give the place a sharp look. L D $$

7101 Democracy Blvd. (Westfield Montgomery mall), pepespizzeria.com. Part of a chain that serves coalfired pizzas, Frank Pepe offers a signature pizza with fresh clams, Pecorino Romano cheese, oil, fresh

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CHAIA

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NOT YOUR AVERAGE JOE’S 10400 Old Georgetown Road, 240-316-4555, notyouraveragejoes.com. This Massachusetts-based chain’s moderately priced menu offers burgers, big salads and stone-hearth pizzas, plus entrees including Anything But Average Meatloaf.

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6119 Tulane Ave., 301-229-6600, irishinnglenecho. com. This historic tavern has been a family home and a biker bar, but its incarnation as the Irish Inn has been delivering smiles and hearty food since 2003. Traditional Irish music on Monday nights, The 19th Street Band or other live music on Wednesday nights and live jazz on Sunday nights. ❂ J R L D $$

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KADHAI

7400 Wisconsin Ave., 301-657-2650, mortons.com. An ultra-sophisticated steak house serving pricey, large portions of prime-aged beef and drinks. The restaurant is known for a top-notch dinner experience but also offers lunch and a bar menu. L D $$$

MATCHBOX

THE IRISH INN AT GLEN ECHO

4932 St. Elmo Ave., 301-654-1997. The Kang family, who own Milae Cleaners in Bethesda, bring simple Korean dishes to their first food foray. Chef “M&M” Kang prepares home-style fare such as bulgogi, galbi and bibimbap.

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huevos rancheros and a breakfast burrito at weekend brunch. J R L D $

OLAZZO

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LE PAIN QUOTIDIEN

or pork belly), chicken dumplings, wontons, beef and chicken skewers, wings and coconut shrimp. There are also rice and noodle dishes, and lighter vegetable-based eats, such as green papaya and shrimp salad, edamame and five-spice green beans.

MORTON’S, THE STEAKHOUSE

MAKI BAR

MAMMA LUCIA

6831 Wisconsin Ave. (Shops of Wisconsin), 301907-9888, makibarbethesda.com. This tiny 30-seat Japanese restaurant and sushi bar offers 60-plus kinds of maki rolls, categorized as Classic (tuna roll), Crunch Lover (spicy crunch California roll) and Signature (eel, avocado, tobiko, crab), along with sushi, sashimi, noodle bowls and rice-based entrees.

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MEDIUM RARE

7921 Norfolk Ave., 301-654-9496, olazzo.com. This well-priced, romantic restaurant is the place for couples seeking red-sauce classics at reasonable prices. Founded by brothers Riccardo and Roberto Pietrobono, it was voted “Best Italian Restaurant” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2022.

7129 Bethesda Lane, 301-718-1005, lukeslobster. com. This upscale carryout features authentic lobster, shrimp and crab rolls; the seafood is shipped directly from Maine. Try the Taste of Maine, which offers all three kinds of rolls, plus two crab claws.

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4931 Cordell Ave., 301-656-3373, passagetoindia. info. Top-notch, pan-Indian fare by chef-owner Sudhir Seth, with everything from garlic naan to fish curry made to order. ❂ R L D $$

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MOMO CHICKEN & GRILL

THE ORIGINAL PANCAKE HOUSE

JETTIES

MAMAN (NEW)

7239 Woodmont Ave., 301-654-1234, monamigabi. com. Waiters serve bistro classics such as escargot, steak frites and profiteroles in a dark and boisterous spot that doesn’t feel like a chain. Live jazz Thursday nights. ❂ J R L D $$

4916 Elm St., 301-907-3399, mammalucia restaurants.com. New York-style pizza dripping with cheese and crowd-pleasing red sauce, and favorites like chicken Parmesan and linguini with clams draw the crowds to this local chain. Gluten-free options available. ❂ L D $$

7700 Wisconsin Ave., Store D, 301-986-0285, ophrestaurants.com. Along with the classic flapjacks on this chain’s menu, you’ll find flavor-packed items such as apple pancakes with a cinnamon sugar glaze. And it’s not just pancakes to pick from: The restaurant serves a variety of waffles, crepes, eggs and omelets. J B L $

7140 Bethesda Lane, 301-656-1526, mamannyc. com/bethesda. In the Bethesda Row space that formerly housed Le Pain Quotidien, this French cafe is part of a chain. The menu includes omelets, sandwiches, salads, pastries and a “nutty chocolate chip cookie” that was one of Oprah’s Favorite Things in 2017. ❂ J B R L $$

PAUL

4903 Cordell Ave., 240-552-5299, parisintown.com. This offshoot of a North Palm Beach, Florida, cafe serves sandwiches, salads, quiche, breads, pastries and crepes in a French-themed space.

7278 Woodmont Ave., matchboxrestaurants.com.240-465-0500,Atthislocal chain, look for mini-burgers, a “ginormous meatball” appetizer and thin-crust pizza with toppings, including herbroasted chicken, roasted mushrooms, fire-roasted red peppers and Spanish onions. ❂ J R L D $$

MON AMI GABI

4829 Fairmont Ave., 301-769-6844, jettiesdc.com. The only suburban location of the popular Nantucketinspired sandwich shop, which has five restaurants in Northwest Washington, D.C. Aside from the signature Nobadeer sandwich (roasted turkey and stuffing with cranberry sauce and mayonnaise on sourdough), look for large salads and an innovative children’s menu. Voted “Best Sandwich Shop” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2022. ❂ J L D $

4921 Cordell Ave., 301-951-6433, lapanetteria. com. La Panetteria transports diners to a quaint Italian villa with its impeccable service and Old World atmosphere, serving Italian and Argentinian dishes, such as homemade pasta, pizzas and Argentinian meats. There are vegan options on the menu.

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4613 Willow Lane, 301-656-3427, foonglin.com. The Chinese restaurant features Cantonese, Hunan and Sichuan cuisine, including chef’s recommendations, low-fat choices and lots of traditional noodle dishes.

LEO & LIV

10217 Old Georgetown Road (Wildwood Shopping Center), 240-752-8737, lepainquotidien.com. New York-based Belgian-born bakery/restaurant chain with farmhouse vibe, featuring organic breads, European breakfast and dessert pastries, savory egg dishes, soups, Belgian open-faced sandwiches, entree salads, wine and Belgian beer by the bottle.

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comes with bread, salad, steak and fries is the sole option at this small chain outpost (there’s a Medium Rare in D.C. and one in Virginia). Desserts cost extra. Weekend brunch also features a prix fixe menu.

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7905 Norfolk Ave., 301-718-0121, kadhai.com. This popular Indian restaurant formerly known as Haandi serves a variety of traditional chicken, lamb and seafood dishes, plus rice and vegetarian dishes and a selection of breads. An extensive lunch buffet is offered daily. Voted “Best Indian Restaurant” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2022. ❂ L D $$

4733 Elm St., 240-540-4900, mexicue.com. In the space formerly housing Gusto Farm to Street, this New York City-based fast-casual chain focuses on tacos (chicken, fish, seafood, barbecue and vegetable mash-ups) and burritos, including the “jamburrito” (chicken, chorizo, beans, cheese) and smoky chicken and roasted vegetable varieties. Beer, wine and cocktails are available. Find French toast,

8120 Wisconsin Ave. (The Bethesdan Hotel, Tapestry Collection by Hilton), 301-652-2000, Moroccanandthishotels/wasbaup-the-bethesdan-hotel.hilton.com/en/Setinahotel,farm-to-tablerestaurantservesMediterraneanAmericancuisine,fromfiletmignonandlambshanktobutternutsquashravioli.

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4760 Bethesda Ave., 301-656-3285, paul-usa.com. Fifth-generation, family-owned French bakery becomes an international chain, with locations in close to 35 countries. Aside from breads

4862 Cordell Ave., Bethesda, 240-483-0801, usmomo.com. Skip the breasts, and head for the wings or drumsticks at Bethesda’s first Korean fried chicken spot. Options such as seafood pancakes, bulgogi and bibimbap are part of the extensive offerings, all served in a hip space with framed record albums gracing the walls. ❂ J L D $$

PINES OF ROME

4706 Bethesda Ave., 301-718-1862, ricepaddiesgrill.com. This cute copper-and-green eat-in/carryout makes quick work of Vietnamese favorites such as pork, beef and vegetable skewers infused with lemongrass and the classic beef noodle soup known as pho. L D $

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8008 Woodmont Ave., 301-654-6083, pizzeriadamarco.net. Authentic Neapolitan pizzas fired in a 900-degree Italian brick oven range from the Siciliana with eggplant confit and black olives to the Solo Carne with sausage, pepperoni and salame. Salads, antipasti and calzones available, too.

10257 Old Georgetown Road (Wildwood Shopping Center), 240-858-6099, piccolipiattipizzeria.com. The owner of local chains Fish Taco and Don Pollo opened this full-service Italian concept in the former Oakville Grille spot. Specializing in 12-inch Neapolitan-style pizzas, the restaurant also sells sandwiches, salads, small plates and pasta dishes. ❂ L D $$

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4858 Cordell Ave., 301-656-2011, smokebbq.com. Pulled pork, beef brisket, smoked chicken, ribs and all the fixin’s, plus starters including smoked tomato soup and fried pickles served in a friendly, casual space. J L D $

7228 Woodmont Ave., 240-345-9492, shopterrain. com/restaurants. Located inside the Anthropologie & Co. at Bethesda Row, this quaint cafe changes its

8003 Norfolk Ave., 301-652-1400, satsumajp. com. Bethesda’s first yakiniku (Japanese barbecue) restaurant has built-in grills at each table. Diners select a cut—short rib, chuck rib, skirt or tongue— and prepare it themselves. There’s also an extensive sushi and sashimi menu, as well as interesting cooked dishes. L D $$

7101 Democracy Blvd. (Westfield Montgomery mall), 301-657-0488, tarathai.com. Thai cuisine goes high style With colorful murals of ocean creatures looking on, diners can try dishes ranging from mild to adventurous. L D $$

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PIZZERIA DA MARCO

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TACOMBI

4910 Elm St., 301-407-2447, plantarestaurants. com. Part of a chain, this plant-based fine-dining spot features pasta dishes, salads, pizzas and appetizers. Cauliflower tots come with truffle aioli; the Bianca pizza is topped with rosemary potatoes, kale, olives, capers, hot chili oil, cashew mozzarella and onion. To drink: cold-pressed juices, beer, wine, cider, sake, and cocktails, including a few nonalcoholic options. R L D $$$

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5436 Westbard Ave., shouk.com. Specializing in kosher, halal, plant-based, vegan Israeli street food, Shouk is part of a local chain. The menu features stuffed pitas and bowl versions of them, hummus, salads, and cardamom chocolate cookies, baked or in dough form. Try the Shouk burger, a baked then griddled patty made with chickpeas, flaxseeds, mushrooms, black beans, beets and other vegetables and stuffed into a whole wheat pita with roasted tomatoes, pickled turnips, arugula, charred onions and tahini. L D $

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SILVER

4917 Cordell Ave., 301-652-0834, phovietus.com.

4914 Hampden Lane (The Shoppes of Bethesda), 301-652-7030, takogrill.com. Longtime, popular sushi destination relocated to the space formerly occupied by Hinode Japanese Restaurant. Look for the same traditional sushi menu, plus some new options, such as griddle-cooked teppanyaki at lunch, and more varieties of yakitori at dinner. L D $$

7707 Woodmont Ave. (Marriott Bethesda Downtown), 240-539-3410, seventhstaterestaurant.com. This hotel spot’s dishes lean artisan with local touches. Find prosciutto and avocado toast and an heirloom tomato frittata at breakfast, and flatbread pizzas and Old Bay blackened salmon at lunch and dinner. The hotel also includes a lobby bar and Hip Flask, a rooftop bar. B D $$

7110 Bethesda Lane, 240-696-0990, pokedojo.com. The owners of Bethesda’s Hanaro Sushi opened this poke place at Bethesda Row. The menu includes a handful of signature bowls, or you can build your own from the raw fish, rice and toppings offered. L D $

4831 Bethesda Ave.301-654-7336, sweetgreen. com. The sweetgreen fast-casual chain—with its focus on local and organic ingredients—concentrates on salads (devise your own, or pick from a list) and soups. Look for eco-friendly decor and a healthy sensibility. Voted “Best Salads” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2021. ❂ L D $

4749 Bethesda Ave., 301-338-8958, tacombi.com. Part of a chain, the taco spot has a coastal vibe with large doors that are open in nice weather. The roster of tacos includes Baja crispy fish, al pastor (pork and pineapple), carne asada, marinated chicken, and sweet potato with black bean. Also find quesadillas, burritos, beer and cocktails. ❂ L D $$

ROCK BOTTOM RESTAURANT & BREWERY

POKE DOJO

Q BY PETER CHANG

SALA THAI

7240 Woodmont Ave., 301-718-8680, rakuasiandining.com. Voted “Best Sushi” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2022 and “Best Restaurant in Bethesda” by readers in 2021, this casual restaurant has bamboo walls that do little to dampen the noise, but the menu satisfies with everything from sushi to kung pao chicken.

7731 Woodmont Ave., 301-652-3970, tasteediner. com. For more than 80 years, this crowd-pleasing if slightly sagging spot has served up everything from breakfast to burgers to blue-plate specials such as steak and crabcakes to crowds of loyal customers. Open 24 hours. J B L D $

PICCOLI PIATTI PIZZERIA

PRALINE BAKERY & BISTRO

SWEETGREEN

Part of a chainlet of Vietnamese restaurants, this Woodmont Triangle spot serves 10 types of pho, along with rice entrees, cold noodle dishes and banh mi sandwiches. L D $$

7150 Woodmont Ave., 301-652-9780, eatatsilver. com. Upscale, tonier version of the homegrown Silver Diner chain, with modern takes on American classics

RAKU

4918 Cordell Ave., 301-657-8775. Longtime Italian restaurant, formerly on Hampden Lane, still serves traditional pasta, pizza, fish and seafood at prices that are easy on the wallet. The white pizza is a hit, and don’t forget the spaghetti and meatballs. L D $

SEVENTH STATE

SHOUK (NEW)

4500 East West Highway, 240-800-3722, qbypeterchang.com. Notable chef Peter Chang’s highend flagship restaurant offers traditional Chinese dishes in an attractive, modern space. Peking duck, double-cooked pork belly and other authentic Sichuan cuisine are served, and some dishes are “ultimate spicy” for brave palates. Dim sum is available.

7271 Woodmont Ave., 301-284-3700, spanishdiner. com. José Andrés replaced the Jaleo in downtown Bethesda with this breakfast-all-day (Spanish style) concept. Menu standouts include huevos rotos (over-easy eggs with potatoes); chicken, pork and duck foie gras-stuffed canelones with cheese sauce; and a breakfast ham, egg, cheese and avocado sandwich. For dessert, don’t miss the compressed pineapple with rum, lime and mint Voted “Best New Restaurant” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2022.

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TARA THAI

4611 Sangamore Road, 301-229-8180, praline-bakery.com. This sunny restaurant offers a tempting bakery takeout counter, full dining service and a patio. The food, which includes chicken pot pie and pralines, is French with an American accent. J B R L D $$

SPANISH DINER

7900 Norfolk Ave., 301-652-1311, rockbottom.com. India Pale Ales and specialty dark brews are among the award-winning beers crafted in-house at this cavernous yet welcoming chain, which offers a vast menu. The burgers are the real deal. ❂ J L D $$

4828 Cordell Ave., 301-654-4676, salathaidc.com. This Thai mainstay cooks the classics and offers diners a nearly panoramic view of Woodmont Avenue through huge, curved windows. Live jazz Friday and Saturday evenings. L D $$

and an emphasis on healthy, local and organic ingredients. Sleek interior takes its cue from the 1920s. ❂ J B R L D $$

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JUNCTION BISTRO, BAR & BAKERY

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VIRRAAJ FINE INDIAN CUISINE

4870 Bethesda Ave., 301-656-2981, unclejulios. com. Loud and large, this Tex-Mex eatery packs in families and revelers fueling up on fajitas, tacos and more. Kids love to watch the tortilla machine. Voted “Best Mexican Restaurant” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2022 and “Most Kid-Friendly Restaurant” by readers in 2021. ❂ J R L D $$

CABIN JOHN

4929 Elm St., 301-312-8191. Named after the classic curry recipe, Tikka Masala serves its namesake dish with a choice of four proteins— chicken, shrimp, lamb and paneer (cheese). Other classic Indian meat dishes and vegetarian entrees (including chickpea curry and cauliflower vindaloo) are also on the menu. L D $$

7940 Norfolk Ave., 301-654-3801, tommy-joes. com.This Bethesda institution is now in the space formerly housing Urban Heights. The second-floor, window-filled corner location suits its sports bar persona, and the vast rooftop is ideal for outdoor drinking and snacking. Fare includes wings (Pohostyle, grilled and smoky, are a good option), burgers, crabcakes and ribs. Chunky brisket chili, on its own or on nachos, is a winner. ❂ L D $$

7715 Woodmont Ave., 301-656-9755, hillstone.com. Part of the Houston’s chain, the eatery offers such classics as spinach-and-artichoke dip and its famous burgers, but also house-baked breads, more exotic dishes, live jazz and a granite bar. Voted “Restaurant You Missed Most During the Pandemic” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2021, and “Best Overall Restaurant” by readers in 2022.

Bethesda Magazine readers in 2021.

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CHEVY CHASE

4839 Del Ray Ave., 301-654-4443, tiaqueta.com. This longtime family and happy-hour favorite offers authentic Mexican food such as moles and fish dishes, as well as the usual Tex-Mex options. Drink menu includes American and Mexican beers. J L D $$

WILD TOMATO

CLYDE’S

7945 MacArthur Blvd., Restaurant”sandwichesDamianneighborhoodwildtomatorestaurant.com.301-229-0680,Afamily-friendlyrestaurantfromPersimmonownersandStephanieSalvatore,servingsalads,andpizza.Voted“BestNeighborhoodby

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THE CAPITAL GRILLE 5310 Western Ave., 301-718-7812, thecapitalgrille. com. The upscale steak-house chain, known for its He-Man-sized portions and extensive wine list, is located in The Shops at Wisconsin Place. Entrees also include chicken, lamb chops, salmon and lobster. L D $$$$

UNCLE JULIO’S

5471 (206B) Wisconsin Ave., 586-949-2035, junctionbakery.com. Part of a local chain, this eatery offers breakfast foods (muffins, scones and hot foods such as biscuits and gravy and Texas smoked brisked hash), and an “all day menu” that includes sandwiches, salads and other entrees, such as a falafel bowl, roasted salmon, shrimp and grits, a tofu stir fry and General Tso’s cauliflower. Cocktails, wine and beer are available. ❂ J B R L D $$

TIKKA MASALA

7100 Wisconsin Ave., 240-200-1257, truefoodkitchen.com. Health-focused chain prides itself on serving fresh ingredients and features an open kitchen. The eclectic, multicultural menu changes from season to season, and includes sandwiches, salads and pizza. Beer, wine and freshfruit and vegetable cocktails are also available. Voted “Best Restaurant for Vegetarian Dishes” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2022.

TRUE FOOD KITCHEN

7945 MacArthur Blvd., 301-229-0900, fishtacoonline.com. See Bethesda listing.

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7101 Brookville Road, lafermerestaurant.com.301-986-5255,Thischarming Provencestyle restaurant serving classic French cuisine is a popular choice for an intimate dinner. Cognac Le Bar at La Ferme, a bar within the restaurant, opened in fall 2016. The bar serves small plates and cocktails. Voted “Best Restaurant in Chevy Chase” and “Best Special Occasion Restaurant” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2021. ❂ R L D $$$

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THE HUNTER’S HOUND 5471 Wisconsin Ave., toffeeCollectionbeanGemyou’lldescribesthehuntershound.com.301-969-8281,Withfaretherestaurantas“modernIrishAmericanacuisine,”findafewIrishclassicsalongsideGrilledBabyCaesarSaladandamushroomandblackveggieburgeratthisdarkandcozyspotattheatChevyChase.Endamealwithstickypudding.

4929 Bethesda Ave., wangdynastybethesda.com.301-654-1188,Amixofdishes from Shanghai and Taiwan—sweet and sour chicken, crispy shrimp with minced pork, Peking duck, panfried noodles with beef—fill the long menu at this Chinese restaurant in the space that housed Shanghai Village. Weekend dim sum is offered

4515 Willard Ave., 301-657-9133, alfios.com. This Northern Italian classic on the first floor of The Willoughby of Chevy Chase Condominium has been feeding families and casual diners for more than 30 years. Look for traditional pasta, veal and chicken dishes (plus pizza), served in an Old World environment. J L D $$

5441 Wisconsin Ave., 301-951-9600, clydes. com. The popular restaurant features a frequently changing menu of American favorites and a collection of vintage airplanes and cars, as well as a model train running on a track around the ceiling.

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4435 Willard Ave., 240-223-5427, chefgeoff.com. Owner Geoff Tracy focuses on highquality, low-fuss modern Italian-American fare at this modern space with a wine room. Pizzas, house-made

7345 Wisconsin Ave., Unit B, 301-312-8399, zaostaminaramen.com. The menu is concise here— ramen is the star (three of the ramen soups are vegan). You’ll also find a few appetizers, such as gyoza (pork or vegan dumplings) and pork buns.

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WANG DYNASTY

7945 MacArthur Blvd., 240-802-2370, salsitaliankitchen.net. Persimmon and Wild Tomato owners Damian and Stephanie Salvatore replaced their Asian concept Indigo House with a return to their roots. Find traditional Italian fare, such as bruschetta, risotto balls, Caprese salad, meatball subs, fettuccine Alfredo, chicken cacciatore and shrimp scampi. ❂ L D $$

WOODMONT GRILL

DON POLLO 7007 Wisconsin Ave., 301-652-0001, donpolloonline.com. See Bethesda listing. L D $

7200 Wisconsin Ave., 240-389-9317, worldofbeer. com. Craft beer-focused tavern chain offers 50 brews on tap rotating daily and hundreds of bottled options. Food is classic pub fare, including hamburgers, wings and bratwurst sandwiches, as well as flatbreads and salads. Voted “Restaurant With Best Beer Selection” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2021.

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4930 Cordell Ave., 301-718-0344, trattoriasorrento. com. This family-run Italian favorite offers homemade pastas, baked eggplant and fresh fish dishes. Halfprice bottles of wine on Wednesdays. D $$

LIA'S

4914 Cordell Ave., 301-906-8425, virraaj.com. The Indian fusion-style dishes at this Woodmont Triangle restaurant range from vegetarian entrees such as Paneer Makhan Masala (cottage cheese cubes in a tomato cream sauce) and Maa Ki Dal (creamy black lentils) to meat-based dishes like Lamb Vindaloo (with a spicy curry sauce) and Murgh Tikka Masala (boneless grilled chicken sauteed in a creamy tomato sauce) ❂ L D $$

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8540 Connecticut Ave., 301-951-1818, manolicanoli. com. Italian and Greek specialties abound at a fun family eatery that features a large prepared foods section, dishes made with olive oil from owner Stavros Manolakos’ family farm in Greece and homemade mozzarella on pizza and subs.

4457 Willard Ave., 301-652-9882, meiwah restaurant.com. This modern restaurant on the second floor of a Friendship Heights office building offers top-quality Chinese dishes that are hard to beat. There’s also a sushi bar with an extensive menu. A fountain sparkles on the outdoor patio.

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9124 Rothbury Drive, 301-975-0757, athensgrill. com. This casual, friendly, family-run restaurant specializes in authentic Greek cooking, using recipes handed down through generations. Specialties such as rotisserie chicken, chargrilled salmon with a lemon dill sauce and lamb kabobs are cooked on a hardwood grill. L D $

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7003 Wisconsin Ave., persimmonrestaurant.com.301-654-9860,OwnersDamian and Stephanie Salvatore’s popular restaurant offers casual fare from salads to sandwiches to meat and seafood entrees in a bistro setting featuring a lively bar, cozy booths and bright paintings on the walls. b R L D $$

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19 Wisconsin Circle, 301-951-1127, potomac pizza.com. This cheery, casual dining room provides a break from the ultra-posh shopping surrounding it. In addition to pizza, subs and pastas are popular. Beer and wine available b  L D $

8401 Connecticut Ave., 301-652-8684, tavira restaurant.com. Fish stews and several versions of bacalhau (salted cod) figure prominently on the menu of this intriguing Portuguese restaurant, which manages to be charming and attractive despite its location in an office building basement. L D $$

MEIWAH RESTAURANT

254 Crown Park Ave. (Downtown Crown), 301-3309997, asianinemd.com. Pan Asian restaurant with a first location in Washington, D.C.’s Penn Quarter offers dishes from Vietnam, China, Thailand and Japan. Specialties include grilled lamb chops served with mango-soy coulis and miso honey duck breast drizzled with a sake butter sauce.

SUSHIKO

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5455 Wisconsin Ave., sushikorestaurants.com.301-961-1644,Knownasone of the Washington, D.C., area’s most respected sushi restaurants, Sushiko offers a wide range of sushi and other dishes. Kobo, a restaurant within the restaurant, allows eight people to dine on 12- to 15-course tasting menus. b L D $$

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7023 Wisconsin Ave., 301-654-1838, mobyskabob. com. This kabob takeout/eat-in mainstay was one of the first kabob places in the area. It makes its own pita bread. The menu includes a variety of salads and vegetarian sandwiches and platters. Voted “Best Middle Eastern/Mediterranean Restaurant” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2022. L D $

ATHENS GRILL

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258 Crown Park Ave. (Downtown Crown), 240-4998447; 570 N. Frederick Ave., andpizza.com. See Bethesda listing.

100 Boardwalk Place (rio), 240-631-0003, ccgrill. com. Large portions of American classics such as salads, ribs and rotisserie chicken prepared with seasonal ingredients at family-friendly prices are the bill of fare at this spacious and casual chain restaurant. J L D $$

12207 Darnestown Road, 301-963-0115, inferno-pizzeria.com. Tony Conte, former executive chef of Washington, D.C.’s Oval Room, goes casual with his first restaurant, an authentic Neapolitan pizzeria offering sophisticated toppings such as shaved truffles and garlic confit. Cozy dining room seats 39, with a tiled, wood-burning pizza oven as the centerpiece. D $$

411 N. Frederick Ave., 240-702-0217, ixtataqueria. com. The owners of Taco Bar (in a Gaithersburg gas station) serve Mexican street food at this fast-casual spot. Pick a protein to go on corn tortillas, then head to the fixings bar. Or try a taco that comes already topped (the alambre with bacon, grilled onions and red peppers and Oaxaca cheese is good). ❂ L D $

IXTAPALAPA TAQUERIA

KENAKI SUSHI

216 Market St. W., lapulapubreakfast.com.240-477-7764,Theowner of Kuya Ja’s Lechon Belly in North Bethesda opened this breakfast-focused spot in the Kentlands. Breakfast sandwiches, served on Filipino buns, include chorizo with fried egg and cheese; Spam with eggs and cheese; corned beef with eggs, cheese and Russian slaw; and bacon, egg and cheese. Try a cone of softserve ube ice cream (a Filipino specialty made with purple yam). ❂ B L $

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82 Market St., 240-631-2401, bonefishgrill.com.

122 Kentlands Blvd., 301-947-7346, bucadibeppo. com. The Kentlands outpost of this national chain serves huge, family-style portions of Italian specialties from fresh breads to antipasti and pasta dishes amid a sea of Italian kitsch. Desserts include Italian Creme Cake and tiramisu. J L D $$

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IL PORTO

COPPER CANYON GRILL

CHENNAI HOPPERS

640 Center Point Way, cincodemayorest.com.240-261-4349,Partofasmall chain, this Kentlands restaurant serves Mexican fare, including quesadillas, tacos, grilled chicken, steak, burritos and fajitas. ❂ L D $$

DOGFISH HEAD ALEHOUSE

800 W. Diamond Ave., 301-963-4847, dogfishalehouse.com. The first Maryland outpost of the popular Rehoboth Beach brewpub, the restaurant is packed with revelers and families clamoring for the Dogfish Head brews, burgers, pizzas and ribs. Check out the burger of the week. ❂ J L D $$

FIREBIRDS WOOD FIRED GRILL 390 Spectrum Ave., 301-284-1770, gaithersburg. firebirdsrestaurants.com. Part of a chain, this restaurant in the Watkins Mill Town Center cooks steaks and seafood over a wood-fired grill. Designed to look like a Colorado lodge, the eatery tends toward classic fare for entrees (surf-and-turf, salmon, burgers) and dessert (chocolate cake, Key lime pie, carrot cake) ❂ J L D $$

245 Muddy Branch Road, 301-590-0735, ilportorestaurant.com. A classic red-sauce menu, elegant murals of Venice and an authentic thincrust pizza are hallmarks of this friendly, unfussy Italian restaurant tucked in the Festival Shopping Center. Fried calamari and the white pizza are among customer favorites ❂ L D $

LAPU LAPU (NEW)

CAVA

COAL FIRE

DOG HAUS BIERGARTEN 644 Center Point Way, 240-690-6090, kentlands. doghaus.com. See Bethesda listing. L D $

THE GRILLED OYSTER CO. 200 Main St., thegrilledoystercompany.com.301-299-9888, This Chesapeakestyle seafood eatery relocated from Potomac’s Cabin John Village to the Kentlands in Gaithersburg. You’ll find salads, lobster pasta, a poke bowl, a burger and mussels. The sampler of grilled oysters— with ingredients such as spinach and bourbon— showcases the namesake item. ❂ J D $$

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GUAPO’S RESTAURANT

17030 Oakmont Ave., hersheysatthegrove.com.301-948-9893,Friedchicken that tastes like it was made by an aproned elder is served up in a clapboard building constructed in 1889. Besides the fab fried chicken, Hershey’s serves up warm rolls, inexpensive prices and live music.

239 Spectrum Ave., 240-297-6230, barkingmadcafe. com. Cooking from a wood hearth and selecting vegetables, herbs and edible flowers from its aeroponic (grown in air/mist but without soil) organic garden, Barking Mad Cafe has a corner spot in Watkins Mill Town Center. Look for made-from-scratch brunch, lunch and dinner sweets and savories, such as breakfast pizza, watermelon salad and farro salad.

121 Market St., 240-800-1004, java-nation.com. This local coffeeshop chain serves up morning meals (avocado toast, huevos rancheros) and dinner fare (a salmon burger, empanadas, grilled flatbreads) along with coffee drinks, beer and wine. The Kentlands and North Bethesda locations offer cocktails. B L D $

706 Center Point Way, 240-224-7189, kenakisushi. com. This sushi counter at Kentlands Market Square offers what the owners call a “modern take on traditional sushi.” Experiment with the Black Magic roll, which comes with truffle oil and black sushi rice. Lunch is more informal, but at dinner there’s full service. L D $

THE MELTING POT

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BREWS & BARRELS BOURBON BAR AND GRILL

109 Commerce Square Place, 240-798-2021, burtonsgrill.com. Part of a national chain, this Kentlands restaurant serves crab-crusted haddock, fried shrimp, crabcakes, salads and steaks.

BUCA DI BEPPO

COASTAL FLATS

BURTONS GRILL & BAR (NEW)

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135 Crown Park Ave. (Downtown Crown), 301-8698800, greatamericanrestaurants.com. First Maryland locale for Great American Restaurants, a Fairfaxbased chain. Seaside-inspired decor extends to the menu, which offers lobster and shrimp rolls, fried grouper and Key lime pie. Steaks, pasta and burgers also served. Voted “Best Restaurant in Gaithersburg/North Potomac” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2021. ❂ J R L D $$

While fresh fish cooked over a wood fire is the centerpiece of this upscale Florida chain, the steaks, crabcakes and specialty martinis make it a fun option for happy hour and those with hearty appetites.

116 Main St., 301-519-2625, coalfireonline.com. Homemade crusts fired by coal and topped with your choice of toppings and three different sauces: classic, spicy and signature, which is slightly sweet with a hint of spice. Salads, sandwiches and pasta also available, plus a full bar. ❂ L D $

213 Kentlands Blvd., 301-476-4209, cava.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ L D $

DON POLLO

HERSHEY’S RESTAURANT & BAR

9083 Gaither Road, 301-990-0981, donpollogroup. com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ L D $

JAVA NATION

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LANZHOU HAND PULL NOODLE

3 Grand Corner Ave. (rio), 240-403-7486, handpullnoodle.com. The made-to-order noodles (choose hand-pulled or knife-sliced) at this fastcasual spot are served in soups and stir-fries with beef, chicken, duck and other proteins. Rice dishes, dumplings and pork buns are also available. L D $

9021 Gaither Road, 301-519-3638, themeltingpot. com. There’s nothing like dipping bits of bread, vegetables and apples into a communal pot of hot

625 Center Point Way, 240-912-7736, brewsbarrels. com. With rustic chic decor, this Kentlands spot serves burgers, sandwiches, fish and chips, baby back ribs and pan-seared scallops alongside craft beer, whiskies and cocktails. J D $$

BONEFISH GRILL

9811 Washingtonian Blvd., L-17 (rio), 301-977-5655, guaposrestaurant.com. See Bethesda listing.

INFERNO PIZZERIA NAPOLETANA

CINCO DE MAYO

136 Paramount Park Drive (Spectrum Town Center), 240-813-0061, chennaihoppers.com. The South Indian dishes here are made with creative twists, including the Kozhi Lollipop (chicken wings that are battered and fried, then tossed with a sauce, onions and peppers) and Madras Ilai Meen Varuthathu (fish in a red sauce and coconut oil, wrapped in banana leaf and pan seared). ❂ L D $$

BARKING MAD CAFE

OLD TOWN POUR HOUSE

105 Market St., 301-978-7770, mobyskabob.com. See Chevy Chase listing. L D $

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SIN & GRIN

353 Main St., 301-977-5595, singrintacos.com. Located in the heart of Kentlands Market Square, Sin & Grin is a fast-casual restaurant owned and operated by the Hristopoulos family, which also runs Vasili’s Kitchen. Pick from eight tacos, rotisserie chicken and an assortment of Mexican cuisine.

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cheese to get a date or a party started. The Melting Pot chain also offers wine, oil or broth to cook meat tableside and chocolate fondue for dessert.  D $$

SOUTH HOUSE GARDEN

317 E. Diamond Ave., thesouthhousegarden.com.240-912-6395,Thegarden theme plays out in plants and vines around this stylish restaurant and bar, which has lots of room for grabbing a beer, wine or a cocktail. Appetizers have a Southern slant (fried green tomatoes and jalapeno cornbread skillet). Main courses include tacos, pizzas, sandwiches, crabcakes and several vegan options. You’ll also find billiards and a few arcade games. b  L D $$

TANDOORI NIGHTS

MOBY DICK HOUSE OF KABOB

212 Ellington Blvd. (Downtown Crown), 301-9636281, oldtownpourhouse.com. One of the eateries from Chicago’s Bottleneck Management restaurant company, this place features more than 90 local and international brews on tap. Classic American cuisine is served in a setting with copper-inlaid bars and high ceilings. b L D $$

PALADAR LATIN KITCHEN & RUM BAR

106 Market St., 301-947-4007, tandoorinightsmd. com. The restaurant serves traditional Indian fare ranging from tandoori chicken, marinated in yogurt and spices, to a biryani flavored with saffron, nuts and raisins. b L D $

145 Commerce Square Place, 240-552-9850, modpizza.com. The Bellevue, Washington-based chain offers design-your-own fast-casual pies (hence, Made on Demand, or MOD). Pizzas, cooked at 800 degrees for three minutes, can be topped with a choice of nearly 40 sauces, cheeses, meats, spices and veggies b L D $

TARA THAI

9811 Washingtonian Blvd., L-9 (rio), 301-947-8330,

9811 Washingtonian Blvd. (rio), 301-321-3530, silverdiner.com. This branch of the trendy diner includes a full bar and brasserie-style interior. The latest food trends (think quinoa coconut pancakes) share company on the enormous menu with diner staples such as meatloaf and mashed potatoes

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Cuba, ropa vieja; and from Jamaica, jerk chicken. Bar selections include 50 varieties of rum, 15 tequilas and six types of mojitos. b  R L D $$

616 Quince Orchard Road, 301-869-8200

RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE

203 Crown Park Ave., paladarlatinkitchen.com.301-330-4400,ThisCleveland-based chain covers the spectrum of Latin cuisine, with dishes from Cuba, the Caribbean and Central and South

SILVER DINER

106 Crown Park Ave. (Downtown Crown), 301-9901926, ruthschris.com. A dark and clubby feel makes this elegant chain popular with families as well as the happy-hour crowd. Don’t skip the fresh seafood choices, which include Caribbean lobster tail and barbecued shrimp. Voted “Restaurant You’d Go to When Someone Else is Paying” and “Best Steak” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2022. D $$$

MOD PIZZA

QUINCY’S BAR & GRILLE

Energetic neighborhood pub with a sports bar atmosphere, Quincy’s also has an extensive menu with wings, pizza, build-your-own burgers and chicken sandwiches, plus entrees including Guinness-braised brisket. Live music is also a big draw. L D $

891-D Rockville Pike (Wintergreen Plaza), 301-5452848, bkgrockville.com. This fast-casual spot offers Thai classics (drunken noodles, pad Thai, fried rice, and curries served with chicken or pork belly) alongside Thai street fare, such as a mussel omelet.

KENSINGTON

AL HA'ESH

THE DISH & DRAM 10301 Kensington Parkway, 301-962-4046, thedishanddram.com. The owners of The Daily Dish in Silver Spring serve comfort food made with local ingredients in a 2,800-square-foot space in Kensington. Steak frites, Maryland crab soup, burgers and house-made desserts are on the menu

BLACK MARKET BISTRO 4600 Waverly Ave., blackmarketrestaurant.com.301-933-3000,Sublime American

VINE ALLEY

JAVA NATION

YOYOGI SUSHI

1319-C Rockville Pike, 301-251-7878, aj-restaurant. com. Northern dim sum is the specialty at this hardto-find cash-only spot in the Woodmont Station shopping center. Warm-colored walls surround the crowd digging into thousand-layer pancakes and fresh tofu. R L D $

YARD HOUSE

THAI TANIUM

4860 Boiling Brook Parkway (Randolph Hills Shopping Center), 301-231-0839, al-haesh.com. Kosher Israeli grill serves vegetable and protein skewers (including chicken, lamb, beef, chicken livers and sweetbreads). All entrees come with small ramekins of salads (think curried chickpeas; marinated red cabbage; and balsamic marinated mushrooms). ❂ L D $$

5268 Nicholson Lane, 301-881-4976, biggreekcafe. com. See Bethesda listing. L D $

GARRETT PARK

TED’S MONTANA GRILL

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KNOWLES STATION WINE & CO. 10414 Detrick Ave., Suite 100; 301-272-9080; knowlesstation.com. Part retail wine shop, part restaurant, part bar, this spot near the intersection of Knowles and Summit avenues features a short menu with meat and cheese plates, appetizers, salads and sandwiches (including grilled chicken, roast pork and crabcake). Find more than a dozen beers on draft and more than two dozen wines by the glass, plus lots of beer and wine to go. ❂ J L D $$

AMINA THAI

105 Ellington Blvd. (Downtown Crown), 301-3300777, tedsmontanagrill.com. First Maryland location of billionaire and bison rancher Ted Turner’s restaurant chain, which uses bison as the showpiece in a humongous selection of dishes, including burgers, meatloaf, nachos and chili. Soups, salads, American classics and spiked milkshakes also available at this saloon-style eatery. ❂ J L D $$

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317 Main St., 301-963-0001. yoyogisushi.wixsite. com/yoyogisushi. A no-nonsense neighborhood sushi

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TRUE FOOD KITCHEN (NEW)

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221 Rio Blvd., Suite 0221 (rio), 240-821-6660, truefoodkitchen.com. See Bethesda listing.

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200 Park Road, 301-738-0003, alcarbonrestaurant. com. Serving authentic Latin American fare across the street from the Rockville Metro station, this unassuming roadhouse has a loyal following for its arepas, empanadas, tapas and more. Try one of the natural juices including mango and tamarindo. ❂ B L D $

place offering the familiar sushi, teriyaki, tempura and green tea or red bean ice cream ❂ L D $

10516 Connecticut Ave., 301-327-6580, java-nation. com. See Gaithersburg/North Potomac listing. R L $$

K TOWN BISTRO

11626 Old Georgetown Road (Pike & Rose), 240621-7016, andpizza.com. See Bethesda listing.

BANGKOK GARDEN THAI STREET EATS

657 Center Point Way, thaitaniumrestaurant.com.301-990-3699,AuthenticThai food laced with lots of chilies and garlic as hot as you like. Try one of the Thai street food dishes, such as roasted pork with Thai herbed sweet sauce and noodle soups. ❂ J L D $

3784 Howard Ave., 301-933-1211, ktownbistro. com. Try filet mignon, duck breast à l’orange, chicken marsala and other classic continental dishes from this family-run eatery owned by Gonzalo Barba, former longtime captain of the restaurant in the Watergate Hotel. L D $$

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AKIRA RAMEN & IZAKAYA 1800 Rockville Pike, akiraramenizakaya.com.240-242-3669,Thisminimalist Japanese eatery serves house-made noodles and vibrant food such as a poke salad. The sleek establishment, located on the first floor of the Galvan at Twinbrook building, features an open kitchen and several variations of ramen to choose from. L D $

AL CARBÓN

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12307 Wilkins Ave., 301-770-7888, amalfirockville. com. A family-run, red-sauce Italian restaurant with specialties including white pizza and lasagna. Lots of antipasti choices, too. The gazebo is a charming spot to dine during the summer. J L D $$

bistro fare served in a restored Victorian building next to railroad tracks; the building once served as a general store and still houses a post office. Entrees range from swordfish to a burger and pizza, including several vegetable options. Voted “Best Restaurant in Garrett Park/Kensington” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2021. ❂ J R L D $$

220 Ellington Blvd. (Downtown Crown), 301-9900600, tedsbulletin.com. First Maryland location of the modern diner chainlet from the folks at Matchbox Food Group. Boozy milkshakes, homemade pop tarts and the Cinnamon Roll As Big As Ya Head (served weekends only) are among the specialties.

FRANKLY…PIZZA!

TED’S BULLETIN

114 Market St., vinealleykentlands.com. In the Kentlands, this beer and wine shop has a bar and tables for dining in and a menu that focuses on salads, sandwiches and small plates. Wines by the glass and beer on tap are available, and there’s a $5 corking fee if you buy a bottle and drink it on-site.

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705 Center Point Way, 301-977-1011, vasilis kitchen.com. Tan and brown decor lends a cozy vibe to this 4,700-square-foot Kentlands restaurant. The owners ran the popular Vasili’s Mediterranean Grill in another Kentlands location for more than a decade before closing it to focus on Vasili’s Kitchen. The Mediterranean menu is heavy on seafood dishes

211 Rio Blvd. (rio), 240-683-8790, yardhouse. com. Part of a chain with locations in California, Illinois and Texas, this Gaithersburg spot is big: The 13,000-square-foot restaurant has more than 100 beers on draft, and more than 100 items on its menu, from poke nachos and Nashville hot chicken to Parmesan-crusted pork loin and ginger-crusted salmon. ❂ J L D $$

A & J RESTAURANT

THE BIG GREEK CAFE

231 Rio Blvd. (rio), 240-632-2150, unclejulios.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ J R L D $$

10417 Armory Ave., 301-832-1065, franklypizza. com. Owner Frank Linn turns out high-quality pizza in a rustic brick-and-mortar restaurant. The menu offers wood-fired pies topped with home-cured meats and tomato sauce made from an 80-year-old family recipe. Wines and homemade sodas served on tap, too. ❂ L D $

5065 Nicholson Lane, 301-770-9509. Pleasant and bright, Amina Thai is run by a husband-and-wife team and bills itself as the first Muslim Thai restaurant in the area, using only halal meats and serving familiar Thai dishes. Chef’s specials include pineapple fried rice and grilled salmon. L D $

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AMALFI RISTORANTE ITALIANO

UNCLE JULIO’S

VASILI'S KITCHEN

1020 Rockville Pike, 301-298-3650, csnypizza. wixsite.com/sneaksite. Carry out a New York-style pizza from this spot by the owners of Pizza CS. Their second Rockville location also offers six seats for guests to dine in, and serves whole pies, hot subs and pizza by the slice. L D $

201 E. Middle Lane, 301-666-6685, domoishi.com. This Rockville Town Center restaurant lets diners customize their bowls of ramen, and also sells poke and wings. The eatery shares an address with Pearl Lady, a bubble tea shop. L D $

12037 Rockville Pike (Montrose Crossing), 240-2350627; 28 Upper Rock Circle, 301-200-5530; cava. com. See Bethesda listing b L D $

BOB'S SHANGHAI 66

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305 N. Washington St., 301-251-6652. Dim sum and rice and noodle dishes are the specialties at this popular eatery offering Taiwanese, Shanghai and Sichuan cuisine. It’s also one of the area’s top destinations for soup dumplings, where you can even watch the chefs making them in a glass-enclosed booth. R L D $

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CHINA GARDEN

2 Preserve Parkway, 301-294-0200, clydes.com/ tower. Here is Clyde’s version of a lodge in the mountains. Well-prepared food runs the gamut of American desires, from burgers to fish, plus a raw bar. Check out the twig sculpture spanning the ceiling of The Saranac Room.  R L D $$

2206 Veirs Mill Road, 301-309-1608, donpollogroup. com. See Bethesda listing. L D $

765-D Rockville Pike, elmariachirockville.com.301-738-7177,ServingTex-Mex and South American food in a bright, pleasant space made lively with colorful art. In addition to the usual enchiladas, tacos and burritos, look for Peruvian seafood and Cuban beef specialties. L D $

EL PATIO

800 King Farm Blvd., farmsookthaikitchen.com.301-258-8829,Atastefully modern dining room soaked in a soothing yellow light. The usual Thai suspects are on the menu here, but chef’s suggestions include an intriguing broiled fish wrapped in banana leaf and stir-fried duck. L D $$

CSNY PIZZA

THE BLOCK FOODHALL & BAR

CHINA BISTRO

DOMOISHI

CAVA

EAST PEARL RESTAURANT 838-B Rockville Pike, eastpearlrestaurant.com.301-838-8663,Choosefrom many options of Hong Kong cuisine, including familiar dishes featuring chicken, beef, poultry, pork and even duck, as well as those for adventurous tastes. Try the soups ranging from egg drop to seafood with bean curd. L D $

EL MERCAT BAR DE TAPAS

5556 Norbeck Road, emarossipizzeria.com.240-669-9900,Neapolitan-style pizza, cooked in a wood-burning oven, is the focus of this spot in Rockville’s Rock Creek Village Center. Also look for rigatoni with Bolognese sauce; Wagyu beef and veal meatballs in marinara sauce; deviled eggs with a sauce flavored with anchovies, capers, chives and pickles; and house-made gelato. b L D $

CITY PERCH KITCHEN + BAR

FAR EAST RESTAURANT

967 Rose Ave. (Pike & Rose), theblockfoodhall.com. This Asian food hall is a sibling of an Annandale spot that helped launch the food hall trend. Find tacos, Korean barbecue, shaved ice cream and more from a half dozen stalls. The center of the space houses a bar with TVs. ❂ L D $

98 W. Montgomery Ave., 301-762-8798, bombaybistro.com. Bombay Bistro opened in 1991 as one of the first Indian restaurants in the area to combine high style, reasonable prices and a fresh take on traditional Indian, and it has been packed ever since. House specialties include tandoori lamb chops and shrimp and scallops masala.  L D $$

EMA ROSSI PIZZERIA NAPOLETANA

THE BIG GREEK CAFE

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BOTANERO

800 Pleasant Drive, Suite 160, 240-474-5461, botanerorockville.com. Located in the King Farm neighborhood, this small plates restaurant and wine bar features cuisine that changes seasonally. Some recent offerings include a fig and prosciutto flatbread and quinoa grilled salmon. B L D $

11830 Grand Park Ave. (Pike & Rose), 301-2312310, cityperch.com. Located above the entrance to the iPic Theaters at Pike & Rose, City Perch offers creative, seasonal American cuisine in a rustic, inviting space. The menu includes raw-bar selections, small plates, shareable salads and entree options such as grilled shrimp and Long Island duck

BONCHON CHICKEN

9713 Traville Gateway Drive, 301-309-9090, cavamezze.com. The dark and elegant CAVA Mezze offers small plates of everything from fried Greek cheese, octopus and orzo in cinnamon tomato sauce to crispy pork belly and macaroni and cheese. There are martini specials, too. Voted “Best Small Plates”

755 Hungerford Drive, 301-294-0808. Extensive Chinese menu features many familiar favorites, but this is the place to go for dumplings. With tender dough wrappers and chock-full interiors, these beauties come 12 to an order and with 16 different filling choices. Fresh, uncooked dumplings are also available for carryout. L D $

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1403 Research Blvd. (Research Row), 301-5179463, chwinery.com/locations/maryland/rockvillemd. Part of a national chain, this restaurant and winery lists which of its wines to pair with the contemporary American dishes on the sprawling menu (pasta, steak, seafood, burgers, 600-calorie or less dishes). There’s also a tasting room and a retail space. Voted "Restaurant With Best Wine List" by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2021.

EL MARIACHI RESTAURANT

BB.Q CHICKEN

CLYDE'S TOWER OAKS LODGE

BOMBAY BISTRO

CAVA MEZZE

COMMONWEALTH INDIAN

11610 Old Georgetown Road (Pike & Rose), 240833-3055. The owner of two Bollywood Bistro restaurants in Virginia opened this fine-dining spot that serves traditional Indian favorites such as curry chicken and butter chicken, along with fresh-baked bread and Indian salad. The bar has Indian-inspired cocktails and Indian beers and wines.

9712 Traville Gateway Drive, 301-309-0962, bbqchickenrockville.com. This Korean chain uses olive oil for frying its chicken, which you can order as whole, half, wings or boneless. Other Korean and fusion entrees and sides—including kimchi fried rice, calamari and fried dumplings—are on the menu too. There’s also a full bar. L D $

5240 Randolph Road, 301-231-9225. This bustling cafe with pretty green umbrellas on the patio serves up the traditional meat-heavy dishes of Argentina, as well as pizzas and freshly made baked goods. Look for mouth-watering empanadas, beef tongue and sausage specialties. b  B L D $

4007 Norbeck Road, 301-929-9760; 5268 Nicholson Lane, 301-881-4976, biggreekcafe.com. See Bethesda listing. L D $

5055 Nicholson Lane, fareastrockvillemd.com.301-881-5552,Ownedandoperated by the same family since 1974, this classic Chinese restaurant greets customers with two royal stone lions out front and sticks to the familiar ChineseAmerican basics. Check out the daily specials and dim sum menu. L D $$

107 Gibbs St., Unit A (Rockville Town Square), 301-637-9079, bonchon.com. International fried chicken franchise with Korean roots serves up wings, drumsticks and strips with soy-garlic or spicy hot garlic sauce, plus other traditional offerings such as bulgogi, bibimbap and scallion seafood pancakes.

101 Gibbs St., Unit C. (Rockville Town Square), 240403-7436, elmercatbardetapas.com. The shareable dishes at this Spanish restaurant include pan-seared brussels sprouts and pork ribs with a cider glaze. Four types of paella are also on the menu D $$

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11333 Woodglen Drive, 301-881-2800, chinagardenhg.com. The Cantonese restaurant moved from Rosslyn, Virginia, to the former Paladar Latin Kitchen & Rum Bar space. The lunch menu includes dim sum items (they are on a pushcart on weekends). L D $$

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20 Paseo Drive, 301-968-2096. An outpost of a Szechuan Chinese restaurant based in Chicago, this large and airy restaurant serves an extensive list of dishes, including sweet and sour chicken, Peking duck and jumbo shrimp coated with salted egg.

1093 Rockville Pike, 301-417-4922. An offshoot of nearby La Limeña Restaurant, this Peruvian eatery with a spacious patio serves several traditional seafood dishes, including Ceviche Mixto, an appetizer of lime-marinated tilapia served with glazed potatoes and crispy dried corn kernels. The Chicha Morada, a sweet corn-based drink, pairs nicely with authentic and tender braised-beef entrees. ❂ J L D $$

11915 Grand Park Ave. (Pike & Rose), 301-5179090, julii.com. A French Mediterranean bistro from the owners of CAVA, Julii looks like a glass box from the outside and serves fare such as salmon crudo, roasted bone marrow, crispy trout, New York strip au poivre and tableside nitrogen ice cream. Voted “Most Imaginative Cocktails” (tied with another venue) by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2022. L D $$

15209 Frederick Road, 301-309-0610, ilpizzico.com. Setting aside the strip mall location and lack of pizza (il pizzico means “the pinch” in Italian), chef-owner Enzo Livia’s house-made pasta dishes, gracious service and extensive wine list of mainly Italian wines make even a weeknight meal feel special. L D $$

11120 Rockville Pike, 301-836-6022, java-nation.com. See Gaithersburg/North Potomac listing. ❂ J R L D $$

33 Maryland Ave., Suite B (Rockville Town Square), 240-403-7670, gyuzobbq.com. Diners cook up their own meat using a small grill at their table here. The menu includes a variety of rice and noodle dishes, along with beef dishes such as Kalbi boneless short rib, sirloin, ribeye and filet mignon. Pork and poultry dishes include spicy pork belly and duck breast.

1699 Rockville Pike, 301-816-0369, matchboxrestaurants.com. See Bethesda listing

12401 Parklawn Drive, 301-468-8850, labrasarockville.com. A bold, yellow awning marks the unlikely industrial location of the popular La Brasa. Customers rave about the rotisserie chicken, lomo saltado (Peruvian marinated steak), Salvadoran pupusas and Tres Leches. ❂ L D $

GYUZO JAPANESE BBQ

1605 Rockville Pike, 301-468-9086, lebtav. com. LEBTAV has a shorter menu than its fastcasual sibling Lebanese Taverna Café. You’ll find sandwiches, bowls, hummus, falafel, chicken and lamb kabobs. L D $

11600 Old Georgetown Road (Pike & Rose), 301841-9200, fogodechao.com. Part of an international chain, the Brazilian steakhouse offers cuts of meat— plus a salad and vegetable station—at all-you-can-eat prices. ❂ R L D $$$

KUYA JA’S LECHON BELLY 5268-H Nicholson Lane, 240-669-4383, kuyajas. com. This fast-casual restaurant that started as a pop-up in the Rockville area specializes in serving lechon, a Filipino pork belly dish. Chef and owner Javier J. Fernandez, a native of the Philippines, shares the flavors of his home country through ricebowls, spiced wings and homemade pastries.

JAVA NATION

905 Rose Ave. (Pike & Rose), 301-818-9090, melinagreek.com. The owners of CAVA opened this fine dining Greek restaurant. The fare includes artisan bread, cured hamachi (yellowtail fish) in a citrus dressing, cod skordalia over pickled beets, and slow-roasted lamb neck. End with Greek doughnuts for two. ❂ D $$$

LEBANESE TAVERNA CAFÉ

FONTINA GRILLE

MATCHBOX

KUSSHI SUSHI

IL PIZZICO

134 Congressional Lane, 301-816-2190, hinoderestaurant.com. Serving traditional Japanese cuisine since 1992. All-you-can-eat lunch and weekend dinner buffet offers 40 types of sushi, 14 hot foods and a salad bar. Check out the patio with full bar service. L D $$

12274-M Rockville Pike, 301-770-4894; 14921-J Shady Grove Road, mammaluciarestaurants.com.301-762-8805;SeeBethesda listing.

141-D Gibbs St. (Rockville Town Square), 301-2511550, lacanelaperu.com. Sophisticated, modern Peruvian cooking shines in a regally furnished dining room in a yellow stucco building graced with curvy black ironwork. The menu includes artfully prepared seafood, pork, chicken and beef dishes. ❂ L D $

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910 Prose St. (Pike & Rose), 301-816-3029, jinyaramenbar.com. A 74-seat eatery that’s part of a chain, Jinya serves 12 different types of ramen, ranging from the classic wonton chicken to a creamy vegan option. Try the Jinya Mini Tacos, which come with a choice of salmon poke, pork chashu and kimchee, or spicy tuna. J L D $

100 Gibbs St. (Rockville Town Square), 301-3398267, finneganswakerockville.com. Irish pub with a nice selection of bourbons, whiskeys and Irish beers and a very limited bar menu offering such fare as bangers and mash, poutine (french fries, gravy and cheese curds), a chicken club sandwich, fish and chips, wings and a burger. L D $

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1054 Rockville Pike, ironagekoreansteakhouse.com.301-424-1474,Part of a small chain of all-you-can-eat Korean barbecue restaurants, this branch opened in 2012. Garlic pork belly, spicy chicken and beef brisket are among the dozen-plus offerings. There are two menu options (the pricier one includes a few more items, such as steak and octopus). J L D $$

MELINA

940 Rose Ave. (Pike & Rose), 301-389-5840, hellobettybethesda.com. On the second floor of the Canopy by Hilton hotel, this beachy spot is seafoodcentric: fire-baked clams, fire-charred oysters, fireroasted blue crabs and whole-fire-roasted trout. Grab a drink at the outdoor patio with a 40-foot boat that’s set up as a bar. ❂ R L D $$

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HARD TIMES CAFÉ

115 Gibbs St. (Rockville Town Square), 301-3098681, lebanesetaverna.com. A casual and pleasant family spot for lunch or dinner, the cafe is a more casual offshoot of the local Lebanese Taverna chain, serving hummus, pita, falafel, lamb kabobs, salmon and chicken. ❂ J L D $

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1701-B3 Rockville Pike, 301-816-7829, gyrolandmd. com. Build-your-own salads, open-face and wrapped sandwiches, and other Greek choices star at this fast-casual spot near Congressional Plaza. For dessert, Gyroland serves loukoumades, a bite-size fluffy Greek doughnut soaked in hot honey syrup.

1488-C Rockville Pike, joesnoodlehouse.com.301-881-5518,Chineseexpats and many other customers consider the Sichuan specialties (soft bean curd with spicy sauce and hot beef jerky) among the area’s best examples of gourmet Chinese cooking. L D $

LA CANELA

JINYA RAMEN BAR

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801 Pleasant Drive, 301-947-5400, fontinagrille. com. A trendy spot with its curvy maple bar and wood-burning pizza oven, Fontina Grille is a favorite gathering place for the King Farm neighborhood. Pizza, pasta and salads are the main attractions. Three-dollar pasta dishes available on Monday nights and half-price bottles of wine on Tuesdays.

LA BRASA LATIN CUISINE

LA LIMEÑA GRILL

JOE’S NOODLE HOUSE

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HINODE JAPANESE RESTAURANT

1117 Nelson St., 301-294-9720, hardtimes.com. Good American beer selections, hearty chili styles ranging from Cincinnati (cinnamon and tomato) to Texas (beef and hot peppers), and hefty salads and wings bring families to this Wild West-style saloon for lunch and dinner. L D $

11826 Trade St. (Pike & Rose), 240-770-0355, kusshisushi.com. The owners of Hanaro Sushi, a Japanese restaurant in Bethesda, serve up similar sushi offerings here. A boat-shaped platter with 64 to 128 pieces of sushi or sashimi is a fun shareable option. L D $$

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11886 Grand Park Ave. (Pike & Rose), 301-7714040, eatdrinknada.com/n-bethesda. Part of a small national chain, Nada serves street tacos with fillings such as caramelized cauliflower, fried tofu and pork carnitas. The brief menu also includes soups, salads and a fajita plate. Margaritas and seasonal cocktails are available R L D $$

11782 Parklawn Drive, 301-770-5576. This pleasant pho restaurant offers the full gamut of variations on the beef noodle soup, plus about a dozen grilled entrees. The Adventurer’s Choice features “unusual” meats, including tendon, tripe and fatty flank. The Vietnamese iced coffee is divine. L D $

MOBY DICK HOUSE OF KABOB

SHANGHAI TASTE

11401 Woodglen Drive, 240-669-3270, quincyssouth.com. See Gaithersburg/North Potomac listing. ❂ L D $

SADAF HALAL RESTAURANT

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12276 Rockville Pike, 301-770-2828, silverdiner. com. Customers flock to this trendy diner that still

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Neighborhood Restaurant Group is slated to undergo a split in fall 2022: Part of the space will become Italian restaurant Caruso’s Grocery, and the rest will be called Owen’s Tavern and Garden. R L D $$

410 Hungerford Drive, sichuanjinrivermd.com.240-403-7351,Customersfind terrific

887 Rockville Pike, 301-294-0553, niwanohana.com. Clean Asian decor and elegant wooden screens greet diners at this friendly and busy sushi spot located in Wintergreen Plaza. There are the usual sushi rolls, plus creative options such as a Spicy Scallop Roll with mayonnaise and chili peppers, noodle dishes, teriyaki and yakitori. L D $$

MISSION BBQ

10048 Darnestown Road, 301-762-2226, pholuscious.com. This casual restaurant and bar is home to traditional Vietnamese cooking, with fresh ingredients, minimal use of oil and many herbs and vegetables. The menu features pho, noodle dishes, rice plates and lots of protein dishes. Beverages include bubble tea, smoothies, beer and wine.

11414 Rockville Pike, 301-984-5252, seasons52. com. A fresh, seasonal menu featuring items under 475 calories. Choose from flatbreads including Blackened Steak & Blue Cheese and Grilled Garlic Pesto Chicken to entree salads to meat and seafood dishes. Nightly piano music. ❂ L D $$

5568 Randolph Road, shouk.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ L D $

SAM CAFÉ & MARKET

NAGOYA SUSHI

PHO NOM NOM

14929-A Shady Grove Road, 301-738-0005, mobyskabob.com. See Chevy Chase listing. L D $

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121 Congressional Lane, 301-770-5999, mykonosgrill.com. An authentic Greek taverna with whitewashed walls with Mediterranean blue accents on a busy street, Mykonos Grill turns out legs of lamb and fresh seafood expected at any good Greek restaurant. ❂ L D $$

POYOTECA

842 Rockville Pike, 301-610-0232, phonomnom.net. As the name suggests, the specialty is pho, but there are also grilled dishes, noodles and the Vietnamese sandwich known as banh mi. House specials include Vietnamese beef stew and pork and shrimp wontons.

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1066 Rockville Pike, 301-603-2279, pikekitchen. com. The 6,200-square-foot, 100-seat Asian food hall at the Edmonston Crossing shopping center includes eateries dishing up Vietnamese banh mi sandwiches, pho, poke, ramen, bibimbap and more.❂ L D $

1121 Nelson St., 301-279-0806. Co-owner and chef Wei Sun, a Shanghai native, specializes in preparing three different flavors of soup dumplings at this small restaurant in a strip mall. The menu also includes traditional Chinese-American dishes, such as General Tso’s chicken and fried rice. L D $

MYKONOS GRILL

141 Gibbs St., #305 (Rockville Town Square), 301968-2136, plaza-oaxaca.com. A full slate of Mexican fare—from enchiladas and fajitas to tamales and carne asada—is served up in a festive atmosphere. Mariachi bands, salsa lessons, and late nights with a DJ are all in the mix ❂ J L D $$

1327-K Rockville Pike, 301-424-4040. An elegant alternative to the run-of-the-mill kabob places dotting Rockville Pike, Sadaf is pristine, with lace curtains and glass mosaic tiles in front. In addition to kabobs, it offers Persian curries and fish dishes.

SICHUAN JIN RIVER

11355 Woodglen Drive (Whole Foods Market), 301984-4880, plntburger.com. This vegan fast-casual eatery within Whole Foods Market serves cooked-toorder plant-based Beyond Meat burgers, fries, and soft-serve dairy-free ice cream J L D $

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14921 Fallsgrove Blvd., 240-386-8234, poyoteca. com. Peruvian rotisserie chicken is the signature item here, in quarter, half or whole portions. You’ll also find burritos, a handful of salads, and bowls of rice with chicken and other toppings. J L D $

SHEBA RESTAURANT

Sichuan cuisine served in a no-frills setting. Take the plunge and try something new with the authentic Chinese menu, including 23 small cold plates.

402 King Farm Blvd., Suite 130, 301-990-6778, nagoyasushirockville.com. Cheery yellow walls decorated with shelves of Japanese knickknacks greet customers who come for the large selection of sushi at this unassuming sushi spot in King Farm. L D $$

PLAZA OAXACA

QUINCY’S SOUTH BAR & GRILLE

THE ORIGINAL PANCAKE HOUSE

9709 Traville Gateway Drive, 301-279-2234, potomacpizza.com. See Chevy Chase listing.

5071 Nicholson Lane, 301-881-8882, sheba rockville.com. The menu features authentic Ethiopian cuisine with lots of vegetarian and vegan options. House specialties include Dulet Assa, chopped tilapia mixed with onion, garlic and jalapeno and served with a side of homemade cheese. L D $

POTOMAC PIZZA

885 Rockville Pike, 301-444-5574, mission-bbq. com. This outpost of a national chain, known for its support of U.S. military troops and veterans, serves its barbecue—including brisket, ribs and pulled pork—alongside a slew of add-your-own sauces. Come for lunch and stay to recite the national anthem at noon. J L D $

SHOUK

12027 Rockville Pike, 301-287-4284. modpizza. com. See Gaithersburg/North Potomac listing ❂ L D $

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11820 Trade St. (Pike & Rose), 301-2451226, owensordinarymd.com. This Americanstyle restaurant, barroom and beer garden from

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771 Hungerford Drive, 301-309-8873. The restaurant is one of the Washington area’s favorite spots for the Vietnamese beef noodle soup known as pho. Soup can be customized with bean sprouts, Thai basil, chilies, lime, and hot and hoisin sauces. Beverages include interesting options such as Iced Salty Pickled Lemon Juice. L D $

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OWEN’S ORDINARY

20-A Maryland Ave. (Rockville Town Square), 301838-9188, peterchangarlington.com. Chef Peter Chang’s Sichuan specialties are showcased in an apricot-walled dining space. Garnering a cult-like following over the years, Chang is best known for dishes such as dry-fried eggplant, crispy pork belly and duck in a stone pot. L D $$

12224 Rockville Pike, 301-468-0886, ophrestaurants.com. See Bethesda listing. This location stays open until 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. J B L D $

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NIWANO HANA JAPANESE RESTAURANT

186 Halpine Road, 301-468-0682, mosaiccuisine. com. A diner with a soft European accent. Try the fresh Belgian waffles for breakfast. For those with hefty appetites, the waffle sandwiches are worth the trip, but don’t overlook the homemade soups or light dinner entrees. J B R L D $$

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844 Rockville Pike, 301-424-1600, samcafemarket. com. Fill up on the kitchen’s juicy skewered meats or interesting entrees, including pomegranate molasses stew and marinated grilled salmon, then have a gelato and check out the hookahs. ❂ L D $

SUSHI OISHII

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1488 Rockville Pike, 301-984-1190, yekta.com. Persian cuisine, including a selection of beef, chicken and lamb kabobs, is served in a beautiful dining room. Try a dessert such as frozen noodle sorbet or saffron ice cream. Check out the adjacent market after polishing off your kabob. L D $$

36-G Maryland Ave. (Rockville Town Square), 301340-8010, sushidamo.com. A slice of New York sophistication, this elegant restaurant offers sushi à la carte or omakase, chef’s choice, plus beef and seafood entrees and an impressive sake list.

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offers tableside jukeboxes. The latest food trends (think quinoa coconut pancakes) share company on the enormous menu with diner staples such as meatloaf and mashed potatoes. Voted “Best LateNight Eats” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2021.

1331-D Rockville Pike, 301-309-0043, sushihouse1331.com. A tiny, plain restaurant serving a large selection of fresh sushi, including sushi and sashimi combinations. Lunch specials for under $7. It’s popular, so be prepared to wait. L D $$

TAIPEI TOKYO

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29 Maryland Ave. (Rockville Town Square), 301-3398045, thaichefdmv.com. The colorful interior of this restaurant features fun and quirky decor, much of it from Thailand. A roster of street foods like what you would find at a Thai night festival includes cucumber salad, catfish dry curry, spicy eggplant, and peppery garlic fried rice with shrimp. ❂ L D $$

Z&Z MANOUSHE BAKERY

5532 Norbeck Road (Rock Creek Village Center), 301-460-1247. Here you’ll find all the traditional Mexican and Tex-Mex favorites from quesadillas to fajitas that are sure to please the whole family.

XI’AN GOURMET

SUSHI HOUSE JAPANESE RESTAURANT

THAI CHEF

316 N. Washington St., xian-gourmet.business.site.301-875-5144,Thiscasual diner prides

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255 N. Washington St., thespotdmv.com. This 6,200-square-foot, 200-seat Asian food hall, not far from Rockville Town Square, includes a handful of vendors, including Mian Pull Noodle (dumplings and noodle dishes), Poki DC (the Hawaiian-inspired raw fish dish called poke) and Alpaca Dessert (shaved snow ice and ice cream-filled waffle cones). L D $

itself on its comfort food. Named after an ancient city, Xi’an heavily features Sichuan and Shaanxi cuisines, after the chefs’ regional heritage. Go for the Shaanxi cold steamed noodles or the Shanghai soup dumplings. L D $

1043 Rockville Pike, 301-340-7720. Deep-fried oysters, classic rice balls, ramen noodle soup, sushi and sashimi and comic books to peruse while you await your order set this Japanese restaurant apart from the rest. L D $$

SUSHI DAMO

TACO BAMBA

URBAN HOT POT

1800 Rockville Pike, 240-669-6710, urbanhotpot. com. On the first floor of the Galvan at Twinbrook building, this hot pot spot features a conveyor belt where food travels to diners. A prix fixe all-you-caneat menu allows you to create your meal at your table using one of the stationed iPads. Choose from a selection of noodles, vegetables and meat to add to a bowl of hot stock, then do it again if you’re still hungry. L D $$

15201 Shady Grove Road, 240-268-0682, thatsamore.com. This local chain focuses on familystyle portions of classic Neapolitan dishes such as lasagna and chicken Parmesan in a more elegant setting than might be expected. Good for groups and large families. J L D $$

14921-D Shady Grove Road (Fallsgrove Village Center), 301-738-8813; 11510-A Rockville Pike, 301881-8388; taipei-tokyo.net. These sister restaurants offer a sizable roster of Chinese, Japanese and Thai dishes. The Fallsgrove Village location is the younger and sleeker of the two, with full sit-down service. The older sister, opened in 1993, is more like a noodle shop/cafeteria. L D $$

798 Rockville Pike, 301-762-5937, yuanfuvegetarian. com. From tea-smoked “duck” to kung pao “chicken,” the whole menu is meatless, made from Chinese vegetable products. There is a large selection of chef’s specials, including Pumpkin Chicken with Mushrooms in a hot pot. L D $

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11825 Grand Park Ave. (Pike & Rose), 301-8812381, summerhousesm.com. An airy, light and stunning space sets the scene for modern American cuisine with a West Coast sensibility. Fare includes salads, sushi, tacos, sandwiches and steak frites. Do not miss the bakery counter. Voted “Best Restaurant in Rockville/North Bethesda” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2021, and “Restaurant With Best Decor” by readers in 2020. ❂ J R L D $$

12071 Rockville Pike, 301-231-9899, tarathai.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ L D $$

1111 Nelson St. (Woodley Gardens shopping center), 301-296-4178, zandzdc.com. A trio of brothers opened this tiny bakery to sell manoushe—pizza-

785 Rockville Pike, 301-738-0086. Look for a large variety of Asian noodle dishes in super-size portions, plus a wide selection of appetizers. Also, bubble tea and desserts, including Sweet Taro Root Roll and Black Sugar Shaved Ice. ❂ L D $

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9706 Traville Gateway Drive, 301-251-1177, sushioishii.com. This charming sushi bar in the Traville Gateway Center offers friendly service and 24 specialty sushi rolls, bento boxes and a few grilled items, including beef, poultry and seafood teriyaki.

TEMARI CAFÉ

1627 Rockville Pike (Congressional Plaza), 301-8222334, tacobamba.com. The fast-casual chainlet features around two dozen traditional tacos and craft tacos, including the MoCo Crab (a crab melt with spicy mayo, vinegar slaw and potato sticks) and the Mrs. Hogan (pork, gochujang, kimchi bacon fried rice, cucumbers and radishes). There’s also a cocktail bar with 18 seats. ❂ B L D $

STELLA BARRA PIZZERIA

SUPER BOWL NOODLE HOUSE

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YUAN FU VEGETARIAN

VILLA MAYA

SUMMER HOUSE SANTA MONICA

11800 Grand Park Ave. (Pike & Rose), 240-7473006, sportsandsocialbethesda.com. Skee-Ball, foosball, basketball, shuffle puck and more than 20 TVs compete with a full food and drink menu at this branch of a national chain. This location’s cocktails include an Orange Crush, a drink well known throughout Maryland made with freshly squeezed orange juice, triple sec, orange vodka and Sprite.

14929 Shady Grove Road, Unit M (Fallsgrove Village Center), 301-605-7511, stveg.com. With its focus on plant-based foods, this vegan fast-casual spot offers gluten-free, nut-free and soy-free options. Fresh local and organic ingredients mean the menu can change, but look for cauliflower bites, tater tots, veggie burgers, and sandwiches packed with vegetables, along with bowls of rice, greens or whole wheat noodles with toppings that range from potatochickpea croquettes and braised tofu to pickled mustard greens and jicama. ❂ L D $

TRAPEZARIA

11 N. Washington St., 301-339-8962, thetrapezaria. com. This down-to-earth and hospitable Greek/ Mediterranean restaurant serves top-notch and unfussy small plates and entrees. Choose among a variety of dips, vegetarian mezze, souvlaki, sausages and more-involved fish and lamb dishes. Save room for the baklava. L D $$

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WORLD OF BEER

196B East Montgomery Ave., 301-340-2915, worldofbeer.com. See Bethesda listing.

2000 Tower Oaks Blvd., 240-582-1000, thestanfordgrill.com. From the Blueridge Restaurant Group, owner of Copper Canyon Grill restaurants, comes this 300-seat American eatery on the ground floor of an office building. Salads, burgers, steaks and seafood, plus sushi, with an eye toward high quality. ❂ R L D $$

11825 Grand Park Ave. (Pike & Rose), 301-7708609, stellabarra.com. Adjacent to its sister restaurant, Summer House Santa Monica, Stella Barra is an artisan pizzeria with a hip, urban vibe. Look for crisp crusts with chewy centers topped with butternut squash and candied bacon or housemade pork sausage and fennel pollen. Italian wines available. ❂ R D $$

YEKTA

THE SPOT

TARA THAI

1132 Seven Locks Road Suite 100 (Cabin John Village), 301-298-9878, boulangeriechristophe.com.

GRAND FUSION CUISINE

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1089 Seven Locks Road, 301-340-3354, brooklynsdelimd.com. From chopped liver to chicken soup, Brooklyn’s serves all the deli specialties, plus more. Think hot pastrami with coleslaw and Russian dressing on pumpernickel. ❂ J B L D $

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Omelets, waffles, pastries and sweet and savory crepes star at this French bakery. Breads and treats fill the display cases. ❂ B L $

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ALL SET RESTAURANT & BAR

12435 Park Potomac Ave., 301-296-6260, kingstreetoysterbar.com. Part of a small local chain, this Park Potomac restaurant replaced Addie’s. There’s a raw bar menu, plus cedar plank salmon, parmesan-crusted trout and crabcakes. ❂ L D $$

LOCK 72 KITCHEN & BAR 10128 River Road, 301-299-0481, lock72.com. Well-known chef Robert Wiedmaier’s RW Restaurant Group runs this upscale American pub (formerly called River Falls Tavern). Entrees include panroasted duck breast, crabcake, rockfish and New York strip steak. ❂ R L D $$

8455 Fenton St., andpizza.com. See Bethesda listing L D $

COLADA SHOP

LAHINCH TAVERN AND GRILL 7747 Tuckerman Lane (Cabin John Village), 240499-8922, lahinchtavernandgrill.com. The menu of this sister restaurant to The Irish Inn at Glen Echo commingles Irish standards (traditional sausage roll, shepherd’s pie, bangers and mash, lamb stew) with fare such as Alaskan halibut. Lahinch is a coastal town in Ireland’s County Clare. J R L D $$$

and popular English hunt-themed spot, try a big salad or hamburger for lunch and a traditional pasta dish or filet mignon for dinner with the family.

SISTERS THAI

8216 Georgia Ave., 301-273-9684, astrolabbrewing. com. A menu of about a dozen items—including handheld savory pies, a sausage roll and a hummus platter—are served in the downtown Silver Spring brewery’s taproom. Grab one of the hop-forward beers brewed on-site to sip at the communal tables or on the patio. ❂ J L D $

8624 Colesville Road, 301-588-3588. See North Bethesda/Rockville listing. L D $

10120 River Road, renatosatriverfalls.com.301-365-1900,TheItalian restaurant offers fish dishes among its menu of pastas and classics such as penne with eggplant, and chicken parmigiana. Traditional Italian desserts include tiramisu, profiteroles, and cannolis. ❂ J L D $$

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TALLY-HO RESTAURANT

GREGORIO’S TRATTORIA

The colorfully decorated space seats 100 inside, and there’s room for another 65 outside ❂ B L D $

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AMINA THAI

350 East Fortune Terrace, 301-838-2862, grandfusionpotomac.com. Diners will find something for everyone seeking a taste of the Asian continent, a full sushi bar, and Chinese, Malaysian and Singaporean specialties. Chef’s specials include Crispy Eggplant in Spicy Orange Sauce and Double Flavored Shrimp. ❂ L D $

like Levantine flatbreads with various toppings. Try the Classic with olive oil and za’atar or the Lahm Bi Ajeem with ground beef, tomatoes, sumac onions and lemon. Takeout only with some patio seating, and there’s a park nearby. ❂ L D $

9923 Falls Road, 301-299-6825, tallyhorestaurant. com. A local fixture since 1968, the eatery serves an expansive diner-style menu with Greek and Italian specialties. Choose from options ranging from burgers and deli sandwiches to pizza, calzones and dinner entrees. ❂ J B L D $

OLD ANGLER’S INN 10801 MacArthur Blvd., 301-365-2425, oldanglersinn.com. Open since 1860 and known for its refined American food and beautiful fireplaces and grounds, it features live music on weekends. Signature cocktails include hard cider sangria and a pumpkin pie martini. ❂ R L D $$$

POTOMAC PIZZA 9812 Falls Road, 301-299-7700, potomacpizza.com. See Chevy Chase listing. J L D $

7991 Tuckerman Lane (Cabin John Village), 301-2005398, cava.com. See Bethesda listing ❂ L D $

RENATO’S AT RIVER FALLS

7995 Tuckerman Lane (Cabin John Village), 301-2994157, sisterscabinjohn.com. The owners of a Thai restaurant and bakery in Virginia serve classic Thai dishes in a setting that mixes several decor styles (one room has a fireplace and looks like a living room filled with books). A dessert counter offers coffee and tea drinks along with ice cream, snow ice and other treats. Voted “Best Thai Restaurant” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2022. ❂ L D $$

12505 Park Potomac Ave., 301-765-3354, attmansdeli.com. The menu at this branch of a landmark Baltimore deli offers the same legendary corned beef, pastrami and other deli specialties. Third-generation owner Marc Attman is at the helm. ❂ B L D $

O’DONNELL’S MARKET 1073 Seven Locks Road, 301-251-6355, odonnellsmarket.com. This market, from the family that ran O’Donnell’s restaurants in Montgomery County for decades, features a 10-seat bar for lunch and happy hour. The menu includes a raw bar, salads and many O’Donnell’s classics, among them a lumpfilled crabcake sandwich, salmon BLT, seafood bisque and crab gumbo. Voted “Best Takeout During the Stay-at-Home Order,” “Best Crabcake” and “Best Place to Buy Fish” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2021. ❂ L $

Bethesda Magazine readers in 2021, and “Best Brunch,” and “Most Imaginative Cocktails” (tied with another venue) by readers in 2022 ❂ B R L D $$

MOCO’S FOUNDING FARMERS 12505 Park Potomac Ave., “Bestdessert.D.C.restaurantinwearefoundingfarmers.com.301-340-8783,Farm-inspiredfareamodernandcasualsetting;thisisthesistertothephenomenallypopulardowntownFoundingFarmers.TrythewarmcookiesforVoted“BestRestaurantinPotomac”andBrunch”by

8630 Fenton St., 301-495-8800, allsetrestaurant. com. American cuisine with a focus on New England specialties. Look for clams, oysters and lobster, plus crabcakes, and beef and vegetarian options. Voted “Best Restaurant in Silver Spring” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2021. ❂ J R L D $$

HUNTER’S BAR AND GRILL

ASTRO LAB BREWING

THE ANGRY JERK

12435 Park Potomac Ave., 301-339-8855, gringosandmariachis.com. See Bethesda listing.

BOULANGERIE CHRISTOPHE

8223 Georgia Ave., 301-328-0788, theangryjerk. com. The fast-casual restaurant dishes out jerk chicken, fried fish, curry chicken, jerk salmon and other spicy Caribbean eats. You can build your own bowl or tacos, or order entrees and side dishes.

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CAVA

GRINGOS & MARIACHIS

7745 Tuckerman Lane (Cabin John Village), 301-2966168, gregoriostrattoria.com. See Bethesda listing.

POTOMAC

7993 Tuckerman Lane (Cabin John Village), 240332-8870, coladashop.com. Pastelitos, empanadas and tostones are among the Latin food offerings at this D.C.-based, fast-casual, Cuban-style cafe. The menu offers breakfast items, salads, sandwiches, pastries, snacks, coffee drinks, cocktails and desserts (including key lime pie in a screw-top jar).

10123 River Road, huntersbarandgrill.com.301-299-9300,AtthisPotomac institution

SILVER SPRING

MOBY DICK HOUSE OF KABOB 9812 Falls Road, 240-660-2626, mobyskabob.com. See Chevy Chase listing. L D $

1093 Seven Locks Road, 240-500-3010, quincyspotomac.com. See Gaithersburg/North Potomac listing. L D $

QUINCY’S

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7926 Georgia Ave., elaguilarestaurant.com.301-587-3000,Acheerybar and generous plates of Tex-Mex favorites such as enchiladas and Salvadoran seafood soup make this eatery popular with families and others looking for a lively night out. L D $

1115 East West Highway, 301-557-9818, denizensbrewingco.com. The bright-orange building houses Montgomery County’s largest brewery, featuring core beers and seasonal offerings, along with drafts from other regional breweries. Menu of snacks, sandwiches and salads includes vegetarian options. There is a large outdoor beer garden and indoor seating overlooking the brewery. ❂ D $

L D $$

LEBTAV

928 Ellsworth Drive, 301-589-1330, ccgrill.com. See Gaithersburg listing. ❂ J R L D $$

8301 Grubb Road, thedailydishrestaurant.com.301-588-6300,Aneighborhood favorite serving seasonally inspired, locally sourced comfort food, including bar bites and brunch dishes. Fullservice catering is available, too. ❂ J R L D $$

FENTON CAFÉ

944 Wayne Ave., 301-587-4427, gharekabab.com. This spot offers a mix of authentic Indian and Nepali cuisine. From Indian staples such as chicken tikka masala and lamb curry to Nepalese appetizers such as furaula (vegetable fritters) and cho-e-la (marinated duck), there are a variety of South Asian flavors.

1310 East West Highway, 240-531-1880, districttaco.com. This branch of a local chain of eateries that grew out of a food truck serves fastcasual fare, from egg-filled tacos for breakfast to quesadillas, burritos and tacos for later in the day.

LANGANO ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT

KAO THAI 8650 Colesville Road, 301-495-1234, kaothairestaurant.com. This restaurant turns out topnotch curries, noodle dishes and vegetarian options, plus house specialties, such as Siam Salmon with Spicy Thai Basil Sauce and Thai Chili Tilapia. Dishes are cooked medium spicy. ❂ L D $$

GHAR-E-KABAB

14418 Layhill Road, azucarrestaurant.net.301-438-3293,Thenamemeans sugar, and

10151 New Hampshire Ave., 301-408-2200, jewelofindiamd.com. Elegant decor and excellent northern Indian cuisine make this shopping center restaurant a real find Diners will find a good selection of curries, and rice and biryani dishes.

J. HOLLINGER’S WATERMAN’S CHOPHOUSE (NEW) 8606 Colesville Road, 301-328-0035, jhollingers. com. The owner of The Daily Dish in Silver Spring and The Dish and Dram in Kensington owns this steakhouse. Go for shrimp toast and pork belly with citrus mostarda; housemade spaghetti with clams; steak frites; grilled trumpet mushrooms; apple ciderbrined pork chop with morel cream sauce and lemon spaetzle; and assorted house-made sorbets and ice creams. R L D $$$

EL GAVILAN

THE DAILY DISH

COPPER CANYON GRILL

DOG HAUS BIERGARTEN

8626 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, 240-8477016, ordering.app/koitegrill/koitegrill. A sisterand-brother chef team helm the kitchen at this Senegalese restaurant. Look for charcoal-grilled lamb dibi, chicken yassa and Senegal’s national dish, thieboudienne, which means “rice with fish.” L D $$

8305 Georgia Ave., 301-563-6700, langano restaurant.com. Named for the popular Ethiopian vacation spot, Lake Langano, this longtime restaurant offers fine Ethiopian cuisine such as doro wat (spicy chicken stew) and tibs (stewed meat) in a cozy white- and red-accented dining room. Lunch specials on weekdays. L D $

KOITÉ GRILL

8739 Flower Ave., 301-608-2121, elgolforestaurant. com. Friendly, home-style Latin service is the hallmark, as attested to by the many Salvadorans who stop in for lunch and dinner. Pupusas, soups and beef dishes such as carne asada as well as more adventurous choices can be found in the charming, raspberry-colored dining room. ❂ J R L D $

JEWEL OF INDIA

8214 Piney Branch Road, 301-588-6656, lacasitapupusas.com. Homemade pupusas, tamales and other Salvadoran specialties are available, plus a full breakfast menu and a small selection of grocery items. B L D $

8622 Colesville Road, 301-562-8622, lamalinchetapas.com. Diners will find an interesting selection of Spanish and Mexican tapas, plus a full Saturday and Sunday brunch featuring huevos rancheros, variations of tortillas Espanola and more.

1201 Fidler Lane, 301-563-4020, cubanos restaurant.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ L D $$

EL AGUILA RESTAURANT

811 Roeder Road, 301-588-2225, beteethiopia. com. Family-run Ethiopian restaurant with a modest dining room but some exemplary cooking. Don’t miss the vegetarian sampler, and in nice weather, opt for eating outside in the lovely, shaded back patio.

it fits: The colorful Salvadoran spot is decorated in bright purple and orange with Cubist-style paintings. The pork-stuffed corn pupusas are stars. Also look for more elegant dinners, including fried whole trout.

8515 Fenton St., 301-200-8666, cava.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ L D $

933 Ellsworth Drive, 240-450-7000, doghaus.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ J L D $

DISTRICT TACO

LA CASITA PUPUSERIA & MARKET

J L D $$

FIRE STATION 1 RESTAURANT & BREWING CO.

EL SAPO CUBAN SOCIAL CLUB

8535 Fenton St., 301-588-1192, lebtav.com. See Rockville listing. ❂ L D $

BETE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE

8213 Georgia Ave., 301-587-4733, biggreekcafe. com. See Bethesda listing. L D $

CRISFIELD SEAFOOD RESTAURANT

DENIZENS BREWING CO.

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8311 Fenton St., crêperiefentoncafesilverspring.com.301-326-1841,Anout-of-the-wayserving31kindsofsweetcrêpesand 16 varieties of savory crêpes. Savory versions range from cheese and ham to roasted eggplant with zucchini, bell pepper, sundried tomato, garlic and onion. B L D $

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8805 Flower Ave., 301-587-4197. The walls are bright, the music’s upbeat, the margaritas are fine and the service is friendly. The usual Tex-Mex fare is here, as well as Salvadoran specialties such as tasty cheese- or pork-filled pupusas. J L D $

8519 Fenton St., 301-448-1819, locavino.com. In the space that overlooks Veterans Plaza and that once housed Adega Wine Cellars & Cafe, this wine

DON POLLO

8131 Georgia Ave., 301-585-1370, firestation1md. com. A historic firehouse made over as an eatery serves 21st-century pizza, sandwiches, meat, seafood and vegetarian entrees. L D $

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8201 Fenton St., 301-588-7800, italiankitchenmd. com. Casual, attractive pizzeria with bar seating also turns out homemade sandwiches, calzones, salads and pasta dishes. L D $

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ITALIAN KITCHEN

CUBANO’S

LA MALINCHE

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12345 Georgia Ave., 301-933-9515; 13881 Outlet Drive, 240-560-7376, donpollogroup.com. See Bethesda listing. L D $

8012 Georgia Ave., 301-589-1306, crisfieldseafood. com. With its U-shaped counter and kitschy, oysterplate-covered walls, this landmark seafood diner has customers lining up for the Eastern Shore specialties such as oysters and crabmeat-stuffed lobster that it has served since the 1940s. L D $$

CAVA

LOCAVINO

THE BIG GREEK CAFE

8455 Fenton St., 301-326-1063, elsaporestaurant. com. Cuban specialties are the focus at this restaurant from owner and chef Raynold Mendizábal. Small bites such as empanadas and cod croquettes are on the menu with dishes that Cuba is known for, including the beef entree ropa vieja and puerco asado (roasted pork). L D $$$

EL GOLFO

bar focuses on local wines and beer but includes offerings from other regions. Salads, burgers, sandwiches, pasta and flatbreads fill the menu

PACCI’S TRATTORIA & PASTICCERIA

8317 Grubb Road, 301-587-1427, theparkwaydeli. com. Parkway features a bustling back dining room that makes this popular spot so much more than a deli. Longtime waitresses greet regular customers and kids with hugs during busy weekend breakfasts. All-you-can-eat pickle bar. b B L D $

UNDERGROUND PIZZA CO. 8235 Georgia Ave., undergroundpizza.co. After gaining a following through pop-ups at locations throughout Montgomery County, this Baltimorebased pizza business opened in the former Olazzo space. A few appetizers and salads are offered but it’s the thick-crust Detroit-style pizzas—more than 30 varieties, 10 of which are vegan—that headline here. L D $$

SUSHI JIN NEXT DOOR 8555 Fenton St., 301-608-0990, sushijinnextdoor. com. The eatery is spare, clean and modern, and offers terrific udon noodle soup and impeccable raw fish. Choose from 11 appetizers and seven soups and salads. L D $$

PHO TAN VINH

1907 Seminary Road, meleketrestaurant.com.301-755-5768,Thisfamily-owned, EthiopianItalian restaurant serves classic vegetarian, beef and chicken Ethiopian plates, alongside Italian entrees such as pesto pasta with chicken. For breakfast, try a traditional Ethiopian dish of kinche (a buttery grain porridge) or firfir (bread mixed with vegetables in a red pepper sauce). B L D $

8630 Colesville Road, silverstringsonline.com.301-587-0596,Servingclassic American food in downtown Silver Spring, this spot features live music in the evenings by mostly jazz, blues and classic rock musicians. b L D $$

PARKWAY DELI & RESTAURANT

8705-A Colesville Road, 301-588-8188, photanvinh. com. A family-owned Vietnamese restaurant, Pho Tan Vinh was opened in 2014 by Tiffany Chu, who sought the traditional food she ate in her youth. She and her chef mother serve classics such as pho and put their own spin on items such as the Tan Vinh special, a “deconstructed” banh mi sandwich. L D $

MAMMA LUCIA

THAI AT SILVER SPRING

8301 Georgia Ave., 301-589-6700. The authentic Ethiopian menu here includes beef and lamb plates, such as kitfo (raw beef) sandwiches and boneless braised yebeg alicha (Ethiopian mild lamb stew). The interior is decorated with Ethiopian-inspired art and features a full bar. L D $

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ZINNIA CAFE (NEW)

7912 Georgia Ave., paphaitiancuisine.com.301-565-2006,Theeateryserves a small

THE SOCIETY RESTAURANT & LOUNGE

3830 International Drive (Leisure World Plaza), 301598-6868, vegetablegarden.co. The popular vegan, vegetarian and macrobiotic Asian restaurant features a wide variety of eggplant and asparagus dishes, plus vegetarian “beef,” and “chicken” dishes often made with soy and wheat gluten. L D $$

SILVER STRINGS

SWEETGREEN

8601 Cameron St., 301-589-8171, tasteediner.com. See Bethesda listing. b  B L D $

8517 Georgia Ave., 301-244-5402, sweetgreen.com. See Bethesda listing. L D $

911 Ellsworth Drive, 301-587-1270, mcgintyspublic house.com. Traditional Irish pub and restaurant features corned beef and cabbage, live music and dancing. b  R L D $$

MI RANCHO

VICINO RISTORANTE ITALIANO

9201 Colesville Road, 301-704-6653, eatzinnia. com. The cafe part of this multi-concept venue in the space previously housing Mrs. K’s Toll House offers breakfast and lunch. Fare includes toast, sandwiches, tacos, burgers and salads. The outdoor beer garden and indoor tavern (which serves a different menu) are also open. A restaurant is planned as well. B L $ n

904 Bonifant St., 301-244-5906. With its roots as a food truck, this spot that focuses on fare from Jamaica and Sierra Leone serves egusi stew, oxtails and other dishes. L D $

919 Ellsworth Drive, matchboxrestaurants.com.240-247-8969,SeeBethesda listing.

SWEET SWEET KITCHEN

8229 Georgia Ave., 301-565-8864, societyss. com. A sleek and modern atmosphere catering to a nightlife crowd, Society offers fare with a Caribbean accent. Check out the rooftop seating and daily drink specials, which include $25 beer buckets.

8701 Ramsey Ave., 301-588-4872, miranchomd. com. You'll find a boisterous party atmosphere every night at a place where customers can count on standard Tex-Mex fare at good prices. The outdoor patio, strung with colorful lights, is the place to be in nice weather. b L D $

959 Sligo Ave., 301-588-3372, vicinoitaliano.com. A favorite neighborhood red-sauce joint that hasn’t changed in decades, Vicino features some fine seafood choices in addition to classic pasta dishes. Families are welcome. b L D $$

SAMANTHA’S

MELEKET

833 Wayne Ave. (Whole Foods Market), 301-6089373, plntburger.com. See Bethesda listing. b  L D $

909 Ellsworth Drive, 240-485-1570, modpizza.com. See Gaithersburg/North Potomac listing. b L D $

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QUARRY HOUSE TAVERN

PORT-AU-PRINCE AUTHENTIC HAITIAN CUISINE

921-E Ellsworth Drive, thaiatsilverspring.com.301-650-0666,TheAmericanized Thai food is second to the location, which is superb for peoplewatching on the street below. A modern and stylish dining room with a hip bar in bold colors and good service add to the appeal. b L D $$

8401 Georgia Ave., 301-844-5380, facebook.com/ quarryhouse. Closed for nearly three years after a fire, this basement-level dive bar reopened in its original space. The inside holds the same 1930s-era feel as the original bar, and burgers and Tater Tots are still on the menu. D $

MCGINTY’S PUBLIC HOUSE

PLNT BURGER

1302 East West Highway, mammaluciarestaurants.com.301-562-0693,SeeBethesda listing.

MATCHBOX

8241 Georgia Ave., #200, 301-326-1333, mixbargrille.com. Modern American bistro with charcuterie and cheese plates, brick-oven flatbreads, ceviche and other light fare. Look for lots of wines by the glass and beers on tap. b  R L D $$

6 Old Post Office Road, 301-588-0867, paccistrattoria.com. Diners will find a range of classic Italian dishes, including homemade meatballs and sausage. L D $$

L D $

631 University Blvd. East, 301-445-7300, samanthasrestaurante.com. This white-tablecloth, Latin-Salvadoran spot in an industrial neighborhood is popular because of its welcoming attitude toward families with young children. The steak and fish specialties are good. L D $$

TASTEE DINER

MIX BAR & GRILLE

menu of Haitian fare: five appetizers, five entrees (plus an entree salad) and two desserts. Chicken wings, fritters, whole red snapper, fried turkey and legume casserole are among the highlights. A Sunday brunch buffet draws crowds. R D $$

VEGETABLE GARDEN

8242 Georgia Ave., 301-755-6144, spicestreetmd. com. In the bottom of the Solaire apartments, this spot serves Indian street food and other dishes. Expect tandoori chicken and shrimp, minced lamb kabobs, scallops in coconut sauce, and a crab and cauliflower entree with mild spices. L D $$

SPICE STREET

MOD PIZZA

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LUCY ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT

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Brandon Heishman (left) and Joshua Simon got married on Halloween at a Virginia inn. For more, turn to page 304.

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Time to perk up your look with a coffee-colored messenger bag. There is much to adore about this distressed vegan leather wonder by Peace Love Fashion. Accents include gold hardware, a slim outside pocket and a striped adjustable-length strap. $99 at Scout & Molly’s, Pike & Rose, North Bethesda, 301-348-5047, scoutandmollys.com

Made for layering, this crewneck sweatshirt has a cute tie-front detail. Styled in a fall-forward dark oak, the Carrie offers pure comfort. It’s made in the U.S. by women-owned Year of Ours. $128 at Flex All Day, Wildwood Shopping Center, Bethesda, 202-760-0876, flexallday.com

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TIE A BOW

Add rich brown to your palette for an autumnal refresh. These looks offer a warm welcome to shorter days and cooler temperatures.

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Nutmeg is one of fall’s signature spices (think pumpkin spice latte) and the perfect color to be cozy in through cooler days and clock changes. Wear this generously sized mock-neck sweater with skinny jeans, leggings or even opaque tights. The Ottoman slouchy tunic is made of cotton, nylon and spandex. $168 at Free People, Westfield Montgomery mall, Bethesda, 301-365-3192, freepeople.com

Here’s a comfortable way to step into fall. Made in Italy, Jenni Kayne’s Canyon boot in chestnut suede with a crepe rubber sole comes with two sets of laces. These boots are ready for a crisp autumn day of foliage and fun, iced mocha in hand. $545 at Jenni Kayne, Bethesda Row, 301-364-9160, jennikayne.com

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Unisex and almost too cool for (back to) school, Warby Parker’s Locke frames are better to see with and be seen in. The saturated color and contrasting acetate layers offer a modern take on a classic midcentury shape. Shown in layered cacao crystal; also available in blue. $145 (price includes prescription lenses) at Warby Parker, Bethesda Row, 240-614-4317, warbyparker.com

Ooh-la-latte, it’s tough to resist this deep brown vegan leather blazer. With plenty of stretch, the day-to-night piece by Generation Love is a near effortless way to infuse some versatile cocoa chic into your closet. $365 at Belina Boutique, Wildwood Shopping Center, Bethesda,belinaboutique.com301-897-2929,

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HOW THEY MET: Hoping to make local theater connections after moving back to the area after graduating from New York University in 2014, Joshua went to an underground cabaret night hosted by LA TI DO Produc tions at the Black Fox Lounge (now closed) in Washington, D.C. Brandon was there as a piano accompanist for a musical about Edgar Allan Poe. “Even though Brandon is a really truly sweet, bubbly, kind person, when I first saw him, I’m like, ‘Who’s this dark mysterious raven of a man?’ ” Joshua recalls with a laugh. Though they chatted and exchanged phone numbers, they didn’t meet again until another cabaret night

about six months later. “When they told me who to send my music to, I was like, ‘Gee, I hope it’s that same cute guy from earlier,’ ” Joshua says, “and it was.” In May 2015, they went on their first official date, to see mutual friends in a Falls Church, Virginia, production of the musical Once on This Island.

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THE PROPOSAL: On Oct. 13, 2018, Brandon surprised Joshua by popping the question with a flash mob in Blagden Alley in D.C. Brandon enlisted about 10 friends

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After two pandemic-related reschedulings, this Kensington couple’s Halloween wedding was music to their ears

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THE COUPLE: Joshua Simon, 30, grew up in Potomac and graduated from Winston Churchill High School. He is an actor and dog walker. Brandon Heishman, 38, grew up in Broadway, Virginia, and is a choir director and organist at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Arlington, Virginia, and an optician at Village Eye Center in Potomac. They live in Kensington.

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wore a green suit and a matching floral tie—“because of the fall colors, [our out fits] actually stood out,” Brandon says.

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THE CEREMONY: After COVID-19 forced the pair to reschedule their wedding twice, they decided to legally tie the knot in Joshua’s parents’ front yard in Potomac on a sunny day in September 2020.

at the Briar Patch Bed & Breakfast Inn in Middleburg, Virginia, on Oct. 31, 2021, they hosted another ceremony. With about 125 guests present, the couple wed under a chuppah (a canopy used in Jewish weddings) next to their ketubah (the Jewish marriage contract), on a hilltop with views of the Blue Ridge footfills. Brandon donned a blue suit and a floral bow tie while Joshua

Joshua is Jewish, so a rabbi performed the ceremony, which was attended by about a dozen guests, plus some loved ones who watched at a distance from their cars. When they were finally able to

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THE RECEPTION: Guests headed indoors to the Briar Patch’s Fox Den building for the reception, where each of the four “best people” gave speeches as the new lyweds sat at a sweetheart table topped with floral arrangements of eucalyptus,

and family members to help him perform an a cappella mash-up of “Cheerleader” by Omi and “How Will I Know” by Whitney Houston. “I kind of knew what was going on right away, because I knew that when Brandon was going to propose, it was going to be in a meaningful and also entertaining way,” Joshua says, “but I was just in such shock that I stood completely still.” Onlookers watched as Brandon got down on one knee in front of four garage doors, which spelled out “love” in large rainbow letters. The harmonizing contin ued even after Joshua said “yes.”

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THE ENTERTAINMENT: “Working in the arts, you get to know some talented singers,” Joshua says. The pair enlisted friends to lend their musical chops

waxflowers and hydrangeas. Halloween is Joshua’s favorite holiday, so to get in the spooky spirit, each table was assigned a scary movie, like Psycho or Jaws; later, tables were called up to eat by playing that film’s music. “It was really a night to remember,” Joshua says. “After so much

rearranging and so much difficulty, it’s just so beautiful to see everything happen.”

THE FOOD: After a dinner consisting of stations for tacos, poke and salads, a Carpe Donut truck pulled up, slinging fresh doughnuts, vanilla ice cream and hot apple cider, “which was great because by then it had gotten a little chilly at night,” Joshua says. The party favors were coffee beans from Compass Coffee, loose-leaf tea and cookies.

THE HONEYMOON: The couple took a mini-moon to a Cancún resort right after the wedding—lounging by the beach and indulging in massages—and hope to travel to Greece once travel is more feasible.

the day’s festivities. Joshua’s friend John Gargan sang “Extraordinary Magic” by Ben Rector as they walked down the aisle, a choir of friends sang “Set Me as a Seal” by René Clausen during the ceremony, and guests were accompanied out of the ceremony by friend Robbie Taylor strum ming a guitar arrangement of “Everytime We Touch” by Cascada. The couple’s first dance was “All of Me” by John Legend, performed by Joshua’s best man, Daniel Zimmerman. The Bachelor Boys Band got guests grooving during cocktail hour and the reception, playing hits like “Shut Up and Dance,” one of the couple’s favorite moments from the evening. “We were on opposite ends of the dance floor some how, and ended up running at each other and pointing and screaming and dancing,” Brandon says.

THE VENDORS: Dessert, Carpe Donut; flowers, Twinbrook Floral Design; food, Kevin’s Catering; grooms’ suits, Indo chino; hair and makeup, DC Bridal Hair and Makeup; music, Bachelor Boys Band; photography, Lindsay Ladd of Ginger Fox Photography; transportation, Point to Point Limousines; venue, Briar Patch Bed & Breakfast Inn; videography, Toast Wedding Films.

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The Varsity Club, the hotel’s flagship restaurant, serves upscale takes on Southern classics such as she crab soup, shrimp and grits, and pork Wellington. The Rooftop, its menus styled as composition note books, is the spot to sip craft cocktails and take in

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expansive mountain views.

“WHERE SLEEPING IN CLASS Is Finally Allowed.” That tagline is fitting for The Schoolhouse Hotel, a historic high school turned boutique hotel in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. Opened in May, the hotel is among the buildings and businesses in town that have been transformed following a devastating flood in 2016. Nods to the property’s schoolhouse past are found throughout the hotel, from photographs and football programs to the original 1912 school bell, which now can be found at the check-in desk.

The 30 guest rooms and suites offer plush robes with the hotel’s school bell logo and an interactive high-definition television that allows you to commu nicate with the front desk. The hotel’s accessibility fea tures include touchpad control of guest room toilets, and a bar that allows wheelchair users to roll up to the counter for drinks. Early online guest reviews rave about the service, and some of those A+ grades have been earned by employees who once roamed these halls as high school students. Rates begin at $150.

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KEY WEST COTTAGES CHINCOTEAGUE Island, which is set at the water’s edge on Chincoteague Island, Virginia, is expand ing from five to 38 pastel-colored tiny retreats. Slated to open in October, the 33 new one- or two-bedroom cottages range from 376 to 661 square feet. Each has a full kitchen, tiled walkin shower, coastal decor and a cozy covered porch with water views. Many of the decks are at the canal’s edge, making it easy to fish and crab from them.

In “Our Commonwealth,” you can learn how to do the Slide Step, a popu lar Appalachian dance move, via video from Martha Spencer, a singer-song writer and dancer from the Blue Ridge Mountains, and learn about an African American family whose Virginia roots go back nearly 300 years. Commonwealth Explorers is the place for kids to play and create their own museum exhibit. Other exhibits include “American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith,” which examines

The Key West vibe is carried through the cottage colors, decor and landscaping, and in music piped through speakers that dot the property. Perks include a private beach, pool, dock, outdoor firepit and tiki torches. Bikes are available (no extra fee). Chincoteague’s Main Street—home to boutique shops, restaurants and popular food trucks (don’t miss Build Your Own Cookie)—is a short walk, and Assateague Island (home to the area’s famed wild ponies) is a short drive. Cottage rates begin at $150.

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LOCATED IN RICHMOND, the Virginia Museum of History & Culture (VMHC) reopened in May following a more than $30 million renovation and expansion that includes a new immersive orientation theater, grand two-story entrance, café and store. While VMHC had his torically focused on Richmond, today’s artifacts, paintings and exhibits cover Virginia’s five major regions.

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“History is very personal, and you should treat it as such. That is why we focus on specific people with specific experiences—and not just the famous people,” Jamie Bosket, the museum’s president and CEO, says about one of their guiding intentions. The “History Matters” exhibit includes the 2018 Vir ginia Tech graduation cap of the first African American woman to graduate with a degree in nanoscience in Virginia, and the green Converse sneakers worn by Rainbow Minute radio show co-host Judd Proctor at his wedding to co-host Brian Burns in Provincetown, Massa

chusetts, in 2006, a time when samesex marriage was illegal in Virginia.

the continuing story of America’s “of, by, and for the people” form of govern ment (through Dec. 31), and “Cheers, Virginia!” (through Jan. 29, 2023), which celebrates the state’s craft brewing, dis tilling and fermenting industry.

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The museum is open daily 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets range from $5 to $10 (see website for details) and can be pur chased online or in person.

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The barn at Wishing Star Farm & Wellness, where co-owner Missy Teague leads meditation sessions (opposite)

To me, it tastes like milk.

Next, he proposes “creek sitting,” which is exactly what it sounds like. I ask if he wants me to actually sit in the water, and he tells me that, yes, he actually does.

Ditching the galoshes, I get on my knees in the creek and kind of splash around a bit because I have no idea what else to do. Hosmer splashes the water on his face, so I follow suit. I feel like a child, but it feels good.

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I think about it. “Birds, the water… and I can hear the grass. Is that right?”

I’ve booked a “mindfulness saun ter” at Wishing Star Farm & Wellness, located on 6 bucolic acres north of Bal timore in Glen Arm, Maryland, and my guide is Phil Hosmer, a former corpo rate banker who quit his job in 2019 to become a nature therapist. He is also sticking his tongue out.

I’M STICKING MY TONGUE out in the middle of a field, next to a creek, wear ing borrowed galoshes and socks over stretch pants and a tank top.

Holistic practices combined with old-fashioned playing in the mud can do a mind and body good

Then, with our eyes closed, he asks, “What do you hear? There are three

sounds in this world that people have sought out since the beginning of time.”

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“What does the air taste like?” he asks.

“That’s the wind,” he says. Birds, water and wind—the trifecta.

The private hourlong session also

Take a 17-minute drive from Wishing Star Farm to Historic Jerusalem Mill Village in Kingsville. The Quaker settlement dating to 1772 still includes the original gristmill, miller’s house, blacksmith forge, tenant house, general store, smokehouse/dairy and other preserved structures in the National Register of Historic Places. It’s free to visit, though donations are welcome to aid in the site’s ongoing preservation. The Jericho Covered Bridge is located adjacent to the village, which now has a history museum and shops. jerusalemmill.org

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Wishing Star’s yoga meditation room

The gristmill at Historic Jerusalem Mill Village houses the visitor center.

includes sound immer sion therapy with an assortment of deephelpsbeautyaboutcarwithIintoing.andarattles,ments—drums,instrubonerainsticks,bells,NativeAmericanfluteintermittentchant-I’mskepticalgoingit,butwhenit’sover,amsuddenlyovercomeemotion.Iruntomyandstarttocry.Lateron,IaskBairdthecrying.“Theofreikiisthatitapersongettoastateofrelaxation

This explains how I found myself, the night before, lying on a table in Wishing Star’s carriage house barn trying reiki— a Japanese energy healing technique that aims to promote relaxation and reduce stress through gentle touch. To get me grounded, Janet Baird, a master reiki practitioner and certified “sound healer,” starts by placing her hands on my ankles, then my shoulders and then pausing above my face. I feel a rush of blood to my cheeks and the sensation of prickly heat.

LIKE SO MANY OF us in pandemic times, I’ve been knotted with anxiety and a general sense of malaise. The mindful ness saunter is part of a weekend get away during which I’ve resolved to keep an open mind and try some holistic therapies that I once might have derided as New Age bunk.

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and allows them to heal themselves from the inside out,” she says, whether the pain is physical, emotional or both. “[Pain is the result of] stuck energy— wherever energy is not flowing—that’s disease, so the whole purpose of energy work in general is to get energy to move properly and flow easily.”

Anchoring a 45-acre organic produce farm in Stevenson, Maryland, Gramercy Mansion was built in 1902 by Alexander J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad and brother of the American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Today, the 11-room Tudor estate is a bed-andbreakfast filled with curious oddities (porcelain dolls, bronze figurines, china cabinets packed with vintage tools) courtesy of owner Anne Pomykala. The Camelot suite is a mauve fantasy of marble tile, chintz and fringe swags, with cherubs over the tub. If you’re a fan of cottagecore, this is the place for you. Rates start at $150. gramercymansion.com

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The idea is to show up at a farm and engage in some light physical activity in nature—like gardening or, yes, creek sit ting—that puts you in direct contact with the soil microbiome. Studies suggest that playing in the dirt may help to improve our gut health and immune response, with the added benefit of a serotonin mood boost. (The Earth Microbiome Project, a collaboration of researchers at University of California San Diego, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, University of Chicago and Argonne

My cathartic tears, it seems, were a manifestation of negative energy that had finally been dislodged.

Teague, a certified life coach and cor porate trainer who works in commercial real estate, opened Wishing Star Farm

Janet Baird with a client in a sound healing session

National Laboratory, is one group at the forefront of this research.)

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WHEN I FIRST HEARD about “dirty well ness,” a philosophy that espouses leaving our sanitized, hermetically sealed existence behind and reconnecting with good oldfashioned bacteria-laden dirt, I wanted to try it without really knowing what it entailed. It sounded fanciful and fun.

In addition to dirty wellness, Wishing Star Farm offers other holistic practices designed to help visitors unwind, from yoga and reflexology to acupuncture and herbal remedies. The combination is sup posed to result in a realignment of phys ical, mental and spiritual health. I just didn’t think it would be as hard as it was.

When I meet up with the farm’s coowner, Missy Teague, on Day Two of my visit, she’s wearing jeans, cowboy boots and a standard work shirt. She assures me that my post-reiki sobbing episode the night before was totally normal—it happens all the time.

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Located on 65 acres of farmland, the Haley Farm Inn & Retreat Center in Oakland, Maryland, offers yoga, guided meditation, nutrition counseling and exercise classes, plus add-ons like massage, horseback riding, belly dancing instruction and rock climbing. Build a custom retreat itinerary for you or a group. haleyfarm.com/retreats

Just down the road from Wishing Star Farm in the town of Hydes,

style tavern in Sparks, is a worthy spot for a decadent lunch or dinner. Tucked into a historic fieldstone house with white plaster walls and dark wood interiors, the restaurant has a covered outdoor patio, where I happily feasted on buttery-salty beef tartare, foie gras with cornichons, and a squab dish with white beans and spinach, courtesy of executive chef and co-owner Chris Scanga. Salads, quiche and fish round out the menu. themiltoninn.com

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Centering on Ayurvedic healing in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the picturesque Eupepsia Wellness Resort in Bland, Virginia, has a broad menu of wellness offerings, from yoga, meditation and health screenings to detox packages, cleanses, spa treatments and light and salt therapy. eupepsia.com

At McFaul’s IronHorse Tavern in Parkville, you can knock back a beer and watch oysters shucked to order behind the wood bar. Or, do as the locals do and go for a bowl of Tilghman Island oyster stew or Maryland crab soup. mcfaulsironhorse.com

At first, it seemed like the pandemic might derail their fledgling wellness ven ture, but the opposite happened. They started staging wellness demonstrations and handing out literature that explained sound immersion, reiki and sound heal Known for its superior dry-aged beef (it supplies many of the finest restaurants in the Washington, D.C., area), the 350-acre Roseda Black Angus Farm in Monkton is worth a stop on Fridays and Saturdays, when a barbecue stand serves up pit beef, steak burgers and hot dogs fresh from the smoker. If time allows, take a walk through the farm’s rolling fields, cow pastures and streams—which are preserved in perpetuity. roseda.com

“People are drawn to this place,” Teague says with an unironic air of mys

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For a yoga retreat with wine on the itinerary, book a stay at the Farmhouse at Veritas in Afton, Virginia, where beautifully appointed rooms look out on mountain vistas and fields of the vineyard’s cabernet franc, chardonnay and viognier grapes. Retreats can be customized to include reiki, massage, journaling, mala making (a mala is a necklace or bracelet for meditation), tarot card reading and chef-prepared vegetarian meals with wine tastings. veritasfarmhouse.com/farmhouse-retreats

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Part of the Foreman Wolf restaurant group, The Milton Inn, a British-

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The Milton Inn is a good spot for a decadent lunch or dinner.

Boordy Vineyards offers vineyard tours and tasting flights of its wines—fromaward-winningcabernetfrancs to albariños—plus live music in spring and summer. boordy.com

Visit the Blueberry Gardens Healing Center in Ashton, Maryland, to practice yoga, tai chi or qigong in a 990-squarefoot octagonal studio with a soaring clerestory ceiling. The center also provides acupuncture, massage, reiki and nutrition counseling in five private treatment rooms, plus a 3-acre garden filled with blueberries, vegetables and native plants. blueberrygardens.org

ing at roadside produce sales with local growers and farmers during quaran tine—Teague calls it “divine timing”— and like-minded people interested in wellness started showing up and asking about classes. Things took off.

ticism. “Sometimes people just show up and knock on the door of my house. They say they are drawn to how spiritual the land Wishingfeels.”Star offers a range of group and individual wellness workshops led by local practitioners. Private sessions are $15 to $40; multi-day retreats

in 2019 with her husband, Don, a car painter and handyman.

start at $200; and six-month programs can cost up to $2,500. It has become a destination for people seeking greater meaning, purpose and clarity in their lives, Teague says, noting that visitors have come from as far away as Texas and Florida. Attendance at the farm’s twilight sound immersion sessions has been growing over the past two years, from the dozen customers she met at her produce stand to a few dozen nightly regulars and private clients.

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sound workshops. She explains how she uses Himalayan copper bowls of differ ent sizes to create an immersive auditory experience, hitting the bowls with a small mallet so that the sound waves multiply and overlap, filling the space in a cre scendo. The effect is a bit like running a finger around the rim of a wineglass. I ask her how it works therapeutically.

“Overlapping tones and frequencies resonate out [to create a] vibration that runs through your body,” she says. “The sound waves take your brain into the theta brain wave state—our rest-andrestore space. This is similar to a REM sleep state, where you work through trauma and process the events that hap pen during the day.”

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It tastes like fresh, green grass—a bit like dirt and a bit like life.

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BEFORE MY SECOND SOUND immersion (this time in a group of about 15 partici pants), I speak with Bridgette Jester, the certified yoga, reiki and vibrational sound instructor who leads the farm’s nightly

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For me, the theta state feels like heavy lucidLaterdreaming.thatnight, during Jester’s class, I’m lying on the barn floor under a knotty white blanket, my knees drawn into my chest. The air fills with the med itative tones of the copper bowls. I close my eyes and stick out my tongue.

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These should include favorite though regular snacks for daily use. “Highvalue” handouts signify progress and accomplishments, something that qualifies as a reward for extraordinary work. “The pooch doesn’t get these gold stars on a regular basis,” Brittany Fulton says. “The difference is in what they signal to your dog.”

What really got me was how work with canines was based on a much deeper level of understanding, echoing through gen erations and based on perfecting commu nication between dog and human. With dogs, the signals go both ways: They tell us things, for example, when they need to go out to relieve themselves, and we tell them things, for example, how to walk with us.

This is an effective and humane method to reduce pulling while on walks. Fulton prefers the brand 2 Hounds Design.

A “special spot”

A crate or exercise pen

This establishes your dog’s area both for comfort and for purposes of identifying their turf within the home. They should have the ability to access it at will, giving them a sense of their own safe space.

Especially in the past few years, when we have found ourselves home and our dogs have taken a central role in our lives, this is who we are. We are not people who keep dogs outside in the yard. On the contrary, our dogs sleep with us, hike and walk with us, sit by the table when we eat—they are such a big part of our lives. Mean ing, behavioral issues cannot be ignored. Inherent to this is the way in which we attempt to ignore what dogs were bred for and focus on their domestication.

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Keep your dog’s toys and bed in one designated spot in the house. It creates control and comfort for your pet. Better still, and if young kids are around, it signals for those kids to show respect and leave your dog alone.

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You’re an advocate for ‘positive reinforce ment training.’ What does that mean?

FORGET PUNISHMENT. THIS LOCAL TRAINER SAYS SMART USE OF POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT CAN MAKE YOUR DOG—AND YOU—HAPPIER.

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Plain old leashes give you more control and are preferable over fancier retractable models when establishing positive habits, Fulton says.

Why do you think that approach is suitable for our society now?

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When I arrived in D.C., I was eager to take on an internship at the National Zoo, mainly to explore my interest in wild and exotic animals. Two things struck me— first, the work on this classification of animals was incredibly familiar, rooted in dog training and stuff I already knew. Humans, dogs and zoo animals like seals, for example, all seek out the same thing: affirmative response. Any type of train ing needs a reinforcement in order for the animal to continue behavior. For a seal, it is fish; for a dog, it is a treat; for a human, it is the same. This is all rooted in the same psychological place—there is a clear overlap.

You’ve studied all kinds of animals. What’s so fascinating about dogs in particular?

The focus is on working with clients whose goal is seeing their dog happy and communicating to them what is appropri ate for the environment or situation. This is a major shift away from ‘do as I say, or else.’ It is science- and reward-based, and signals a commitment to mutual respect. Owners should see their dogs as emo tional, intelligent beings and strive for ways to connect with them.

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BRITTANY FULTON, 35, IS THE FOUNDER of and sole trainer at Dances with Dogs, a Silver Spring canine behavioral practice. Since her days in Eugene, Oregon, Fulton has been an early, leading voice of positive reinforcement training, a technique that she argues is well suited for professional households and their dogs. After she completed a degree in psychology and animal behavior at the University of Oregon, a mentor encouraged her to pursue more schooling, with a focus on force-free positive reinforcement. Her signature methodology was the result of an intensive two-year program grounded in how the mind works. “My classmates felt my psychology degree gave me a huge advantage,” Fulton says. “In retrospect, it did. It allowed me to go even further in my intensive, force-free explorations.” She came to the Washington, D.C., area in 2016 for her husband’s job and found herself part of a “very small group” of trainers work ing with that approach. We chatted with her about it; this interview has been edited and condensed.

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Simple: to keep our dogs occupied and feeling safe. And this becomes a difficult goal to meet when you, the owner, are working at a computer most of the day. This is where training, be it private or through classes, comes into play.

What is the human job in all of this?

If you could give dog ‘parents’ just one piece of advice, what would it be?

One, dogs benefit from the exercise and mental stimulation of walks; they sniff new smells and they tire both their minds and their bodies. Mentally stimulating toys are a complement to walking. Things like a Kong or Busy Buddy are toys that can be stuffed with various food items. I like these because they require a dog ’s dedication. It is a task toy, one that takes commitment for the dog to pull the treat out. This is also a great ‘quiet while on a call’ toy.

Brittany Fulton trains Basil, a Corgi mix, in a Silver Spring park

At this stage in our evolution, dogs are in the house with us, and as such create or present many new challenges, such as how to respond to delivery people. Our dogs were bred to keep people away from homes. So we are having to work through what dogs were bred for, which may not align well with our lives. An example would be terriers: This breed was bred to chase and kill rats and other small, fast animals. That would likely explain why they use their ‘high prey drive’ to go after Chihuahuas at the dog park or chase down birds and squirrels on a walk.

Why do you look at what our dogs were genetically bred for versus how we live today?

What are some good ways to keep our dogs stimulated?

My wish is to convince everyone to elimi nate all punishment tools from the pub lic. While these were once considered best practice, they are no longer advisable. These are cruel and not the way to train our dogs. We in the canine community have seen some really bad outcomes from these methods, including negative feelings of fear and distrust that are hard to undo. Positive begets positive.

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He also advises groups on how to start social revolutions. He says people need several things to create the per fect storm—including Congress, media, celebrities and photographs.

There is a group for every flavor of ani mal lover—from carnivore to abolition ist. “Some [groups] organize a barbecue for their fundraising,” DeKok says. “They eat one animal to support another.” Other groups are so zealous that they oppose the use of guide dogs for the blind.

Pacheco, who now lives in Florida, says he became “radicalized” while living in England, enthralled by the animal rights movement there. Returning to the States, he met kindred spirit Ingrid Newkirk, and they formed PETA in 1980, operating it out of a basement apartment in Takoma Park that they shared with a pet pig.

“You need them all,” he says. “But it all starts with the photographs. Nobody’s going to get involved if you don’t have the photographs.”

The researchers who worked at the warehouse had altruistic goals—they were looking for ways to restore limb function to victims of strokes and other traumas, according to Edward Taub, the lab’s director. But the gruesome photo graphs were too much for even life-hard ened cops to ignore. They bit, and raided the Institute for Behavioral Research (IBR). By the next day, Pacheco’s tiny organization—People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA—was on its way to becoming famous, known for bold capers and outlandish stunts.

Suburban Washington, D.C., it turned out, was the perfect place to start a rev olution. It was close to Capitol Hill; was home to the National Institutes of Health, which funded IBR and scores of other labs; and was a major media hub. And it had celebrities.

It was the opening round of the animal rights movement—and it happened in Silver Spring

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The Silver Spring monkey case super charged the animal movement. In 1986, activist Wim DeKok obtained a list of animal groups in the United States from the Farm Animal Reform Movement. There were 80. Today, DeKok’s list— maintained by World Animal Network, and believed to be the most comprehen

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In the end, both sides in the IBR case declared victory—PETA for getting the first conviction of a lab for animal cruelty, the IBR for having it overturned. In the years since, PETA has moved to Norfolk, Virginia. Newkirk remains its president. Taub went on to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where at 91 he is still listed as a professor. The last of the Silver Spring monkeys died at a primate center in Loui siana in 1998, according to a spokesman for the Tulane University National Primate Research Center. Pacheco, 63, says he now runs a charity looking for ways to spay and neuter stray dogs with a single pill.

sive—contains 9,000 U.S. groups and 16,000 worldwide. The actual numbers are probably twice those, he says.

It’s true that the animal welfare move ment was alive and well before the big raid. But animal lovers had long focused on stray cats and mistreated dogs. They spoke the language of love and compan ionship. When Pacheco spoke to report ers, he employed the language of Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, Thomas Paine and Voltaire—speaking not of animal welfare, but of animal rights. Forget Paine’s Rights of Man, he said. Fight for the rights of rats.

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In 1981, Montgomery County police raided a federally funded research lab in Silver Spring and confiscated 17 rhesus macaque monkeys.

Pacheco, then 23, had orchestrated the raid. Masquerading as a volunteer, he had spent four months documenting conditions in the federally funded research lab at the warehouse. He pho tographed monkeys with open wounds confined to restraining devices that looked like electric chairs. At night, he recalls, he sneaked in experts to attest to the monkeys’ poor treatment.

On the morning of Sept. 11, 1981, Montgomery County police raided a nondescript warehouse on Brookville Road in Silver Spring, confiscating 17 rhesus macaque monkeys after receiving a tip from Takoma Park resident and ani mal welfare activist Alex Pacheco.

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or “Extraordinary Educators” (page 60), photographer Skip Brown went to the six schools where the teachers work. Brown, who has taken photos for the annual feature six times, calls it a “challenge” to find new ways to take pictures in a school setting. “Classrooms are OK, but they all start to look the same after a while,” he says. “I usually have only a few minutes to assess the situation, suss out my subject and come up with a solution on the fly.” When he went to Sligo Middle School in Silver Spring, he and teacher Joan Shane headed outside. “Joan is the cross country coach at the school, and I was originally thinking we’d do something with some of her kids on the track. But none were dressed or available to run,” says Brown, who snapped shots of Shane and a few of her math students at a tree. “Joan was easygoing and athletic so I asked her if she’d climb the tree. She was a great sport.” n

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