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contents EDUCATION AND PARENTING 116 addicted? Our teens can’t live without their phones—and the consequences are troubling BY DINA ELBOGHDADY

131 Ranking Our High Schools We’ve tapped the enormous amount of data that Montgomery County Public Schools has to offer. See profiles of our high schools, and rankings across several school and student performance categories. Plus: How do county schools stack up in the national rankings? COMPILED BY JEFF CIRILLO

153 Extraordinary Educators Six local teachers who are making a difference—from giving first-graders mindfulness tips to encouraging high school journalists to cover international issues BY CARALEE ADAMS

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160 College Bound Where 2017 high school graduates applied to college—and where they got in COMPILED BY JEFF CIRILLO

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PHOTO BY SKIP BROWN

Maura Cromwell teaches fifth grade at Bannockburn Elementary School in Bethesda

contents P. 206 Head football coach DJ Durkin is beginning his second season at the University of Maryland.

features The Washington area is a hotbed for fast-casual startups. We tell the stories of some of the best local eateries and pick our favorite dishes. BY CAROLE SUGARMAN

184 His Toughest Test Yet

196 Shelter from the Storm

Former Montgomery County Council member Tom Perez has held some big jobs during his 30 years of public service. Now it’s up to him to bring together a fractured Democratic Party.

Twenty years ago, Terry Cummings and Dave Hoerauf started Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary, a farm-animal and wildlife refuge in Poolesville. Since then, they’ve cared for thousands of animals that have been neglected, abused or abandoned.

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206 Bethesda Interview DJ Durkin, head football coach at the University of Maryland, talks about his team’s first win, how he gets recruits and the two players who changed his life BY ANDREW METCALF

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DEPARTMENTS 80 | HOMETOWN

good life

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40 | BEST BETS

222 | HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS

With a new chef, Macon Bistro & Larder soars

308 | TABLE TALK What’s happening on the local food scene

314 | COOKING CLASS

How your kitchen can still shine with matte appliances, fixtures and more

Can’t-miss arts events

44 | ARTS CALENDAR

Crab and butternut squash pair up in this spiced autumn soup

224 | NIFTY SHADES OF GRAY

Where to go, what to see

316 | DINING GUIDE

Local homeowners are renovating their kitchens with open plans, clever storage and sophisticated neutral colors

banter

people. politics. books. columns.

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235 | LET THE SUN SHINE IN

56 | FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING The cost of school sports by the numbers

62 | QUICK TAKES 66 | BOOK REPORT New books by local authors, literary events and more

74 | SUBURBANOLOGY Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School’s genderneutral homecoming court made history, but will the royals follow suit this year? BY APRIL WITT

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339 | SHOP TALK

From a need for more natural light to a desire to add architectural interest, area homeowners look to the skylight

Designer handbags worth the investment. Plus, Sarmadi Brothers bets on luxury neckwear.

248 | HOME SALES BY THE NUMBERS

News you may have missed

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306 | REVIEW

home

art. festivals. culture. day trips. hidden gems.

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How a rabbi and a reverend share the same worship space in Bethesda BY STEVE ROBERTS

26 | CONTRIBUTORS

344 | WEDDINGS A Bethesda chef helped turn his own wedding into a fancy barbecue with a Southern-themed menu

health

282 | BE WELL Life as an OB-GYN can be unpredictable, especially when you’re also married to one

348 | GET AWAY

284 | THE RECOVERY

350 | DRIVING RANGE

Patients with facial palsy just want to look like themselves again

Three beautiful places to visit in the Brandywine Valley

292 | WELLNESS CALENDAR

360 | OUTTAKES

Your cheat sheet for a weekend away

AD SECTIONS PRIVATE SCHOOL GUIDE 86

LONG & FOSTER AD SECTION 213

COMPASS AD SECTION 242

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PROFILES: PHYSICIANS 294

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HOLD THE PHONE ONE OF THE (MANY) nice things about being empty nesters is that my wife, Susan, and I no longer have to argue with our kids about their cellphones. No more admonitions about using their phones at the dinner table, in the middle of a conversation, while doing homework and, of course, while driving. When they were teenagers, I would occasionally remind my kids that I somehow had a happy childhood with only a landline phone (and a rotary phone and party line when I was really young). I might as well have been telling them that I grew up without running water and electricity. (As I write this, I realize just how much I sounded like my father lecturing me about something I wanted that he didn’t have when he was young. I apologize, here in print, to all four of our kids!) For anyone who has grown up since smartphones became ubiquitous in the late 2000s, it would be hard to imagine life without the devices. Cellphones have become the way young people (and many not-so-young people) interact with each other and the world. How many times have you seen a group of teenagers at Starbucks texting or skimming social media rather than talking with each other? In our cover story, writer Dina ElBoghdady explores how and why young people have become so dependent on their phones—and the worrisome implications of that dependence. ElBoghdady says working on the story led to some changes in her behavior. “Writing this story has inspired me to be a better role model for my girls (ages 13 and 16) in terms of cellphone usage,” she says. “They’ve never been allowed to have their phones at the table for dinner or in restaurants. But I’ve always kept mine face down within easy reach during meals. No more. I now keep it out of sight (in another room or in my purse on mute). I’m finding I’m far better focused on conversation. I’ve also become a real nag on staying off all screens at least an hour before bedtime.” She adds: “I also vow to no longer text my girls during the school day. Yes, I was one of those annoying parents that teachers complain about apparently!” ElBoghdady’s story begins on page 116.

THE COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM is big in every way: about 159,000 students, 204 schools, about 23,000 employees and an annual budget of nearly $2.5 billion. So it should come as no surprise that Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) also has a lot of data about the school system, the schools and the students. Want to know the square footage of all 204 schools? It’s on the MCPS website. How experienced the teaching staffs are at each school? It’s there. Number of lunches served in fiscal year 2017? Check. (It’s just under 10 million, by the way.) As a journalist and county resident, I applaud MCPS for being so transparent—even if the sheer amount of data available online can make finding a specific fact or figure a daunting task. In combing through the data this summer, I realized the numbers can provide a compelling and useful snapshot of our schools—and their relative strengths and weaknesses. With that in mind, we provide profiles (some online) of the 25 county high schools using data in 15 categories, including how crowded and diverse the schools are, and the percentage of seniors who meet the University System of Maryland admission criteria. Data, of course, does not capture the spirit of a school, or the dedication, talent and passion of the staff. But the information that’s available does provide a valuable way to evaluate a school and to learn more about our school system. The profiles of our schools begin on page 131. IT’S TIME TO VOTE in the 12th annual Best of Bethesda Readers’ Poll! You can pick your favorites in more than 80 categories. To vote, go to BethesdaMagazine.com by Sept. 22. The results of the Readers’ Poll will appear in the January/February 2018 issue of the magazine. The winners will be honored at the Best of Bethesda Party in May. I hope you enjoy this issue of Bethesda Magazine. Please email me your thoughts on the issue at steve.hull@ bethesdamagazine.com.

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IN THIS ISSUE: Photographed the cover on teens addicted to their cellphones. “I can completely relate to this story as I have a daughter in her early 20s who is checking or using her phone nearly all her awake life. Today’s phones are amazingly useful—it seems I could not do my job without one—but there is a time when it has to be put away.” Ventura also took photos for several other stories in this issue, including the profile of Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez. WHAT HE DOES: A freelance photographer, Ventura grew up in downtown Bethesda and graduated from Walt Whitman High School in 1978. His interest in photography started at Whitman, and he got involved with the school newspaper and yearbook. Ventura is a regular contributor to Bethesda Magazine, Arlington Magazine, Washingtonian and Home & Design.

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CELEBRATE OKTOBERFEST

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PART GERMAN TRADITION, part classic street festival, Oktoberfest at the Kentlands fills the area near Kentlands Market Square in Gaithersburg every fall. The event offers a full afternoon of food, drink and entertainment, including dancers in traditional Bavarian dress spinning to the music of the Alte Kameraden band. Adults can taste local wines or grab a Dogfish Head beer to go with bratwurst sandwiches, sauerkraut and strudel. Family-friendly activities include pumpkin painting, apple-cider pressing and a horse-drawn wagon ride around Inspiration Lake. Most of the activities are

free, but visitors must pay for food and refreshments. The festival is a good way to see the Gaithersburg neighborhood, from Market Square and the old Kentlands Mansion to the Village Green and charming Main Street. Oktoberfest at the Kentlands, Oct. 8, noon to 5 p.m., at Kentlands Market Square, 821 Center Point Way; 301-258-6350, gaithersburgmd.gov/leisure/special-events â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Jeff Cirillo BETHESDAMAGAZINE.COM | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017

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Robert Clarke, a motorman at the National Capital Trolley Museum, in a 1950 street car

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TROLLEY TIME FOR MOST OF THE YEAR, visitors to the National Capital Trolley Museum in Colesville can ride one or two colorfully painted trolleys through the woods of Northwest Branch Recreational Park. During the museum’s Calvacade of Street Cars on Sept. 17 ($5-$7), riders of all ages can experience multiple street cars that are normally to be seen but not touched. Several trolleys rotate on the tracks from noon to 5 p.m. For older visitors, the rides may be nostalgic, and kids get especially excited for a trainlike trip. Many of the trolleys have roots in D.C., dating to the 19th and early 20th centuries, when trolleys dominated District streets and helped spawn Maryland’s suburbs. Others hail from European cities. One crowd favorite is the sleek, opentopped blue and yellow tram originally designed for shuttling beachgoers in the English coastal town of Blackpool. Between rides, visitors can explore the museum, including a kid-friendly wall-to-wall model of the Connecticut Avenue line, complete with moving cars and tiny riders.

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TAKE AN OFF-ROAD RIDE he will come,” rings true for paths that were blazed on a patch of Germantown land in the ’90s. The Schaeffer Farm trails quickly became popular among their intended users— mountain bikers—and were so successful that they spawned many more places across the region for off-road riders. The terrain of the 15 ride-ready miles at Schaeffer Farm includes rocks, roots, logs and lots of dirt—the challenges that are typically part of mountain biking. A section on the yellow trail that’s leased to a local farmer by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is used for the alternating production of soybeans and corn; the crops make a green carpet one year and a tunnel of tall stalks the next. The white trail is the other main artery, and a few smaller 38

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trails are accessible from it or the yellow trail. Through a partnership with DNR, the nonprofit Mid-Atlantic Off-Road Enthusiasts (MORE) created and maintains the trails. For those new to mountain biking or looking to ride with others, MORE offers periodic kids rides and weekly adult rides (check more-mtb.org for details). The Schaeffer Farm trails are open from 8 a.m. to sunset. They are closed from late November to early March and when trail conditions are poor. Parking is in a lot on Kingsview Village Avenue off of Schaeffer Road in Germantown. Another lot, at Black Rock Mill, also offers access to the trails, as well as to Seneca Ridge Trail and Seneca Bluffs Trail. —Kathleen Seiler Neary

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Our picks for the best things to see and do in September and October BY STEPHANIE SIEGEL BURKE

Sept. 4

LABOR OF LOVE This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Kensington Labor Day Parade and Festival. The annual spectacle kicks off at St. Paul Park and features high school marching bands, Scout troops, dance groups, vintage cars and community ensembles, including the Washington Revels and the Harmony Cornet Band. The procession will travel down Connecticut Avenue and end at Kensington Town Hall with a block party featuring vendors, music, kids activities and food from local restaurants. The grandstand will be next to Noyes Library for Young Children, with prime viewing nearby on Montgomery Avenue and on the green space in front of the BCTGM building facing Connecticut Avenue. 10 a.m., St. Paul Park to Kensington Town Hall, free, tok.md.gov/events

Sept. 6-30

EYES ON THE PRIZE For 15 years, The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards has been a win-win for regional artists and Bethesda art lovers. Since its start, the annual art contest has awarded more than $200,000 to up-and-coming artists from Maryland, Virginia and the District. It also has enabled their work—often edgy and thought-provoking—to be seen in exhibitions in the heart of Bethesda. Art by the 2017 winners and finalists will be on display in September at Bethesda’s Gallery B. A public opening reception will be held on Sept. 8, 6-8 p.m. Noon to 6 p.m., Wednesday-Saturday, Gallery B, free, bethesda.org

THE SOUND OF SIMON & GARFUNKEL Given the notoriously fractious relationship between Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, it’s unlikely that the two, who met in Queens, New York, as kids and went on to form one of the most successful musical duos of all time, will reunite soon. But fans can get the next best thing at The Simon & Garfunkel Story, a concert-style theater show. Actors who look and sound like the real thing perform the pair’s songs—including “Mrs. Robinson,” “The Sound of Silence” and “Bridge Over Troubled Water”—set against projected images of the 1960s, with the tale of their rise to fame and disbanding sprinkled in. 8 p.m., The Music Center at Strathmore, $38-$58, strathmore.org 40 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017 | BETHESDAMAGAZINE.COM

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PARK AND RIDE From the early 1900s through the late 1960s, Glen Echo Park was one of the leading amusement parks in the region, with a roller coaster, bumper cars and the historic Dentzel Carousel. Today, the park’s vintage art deco structures serve as art studios and theaters, but visitors can get a glimpse of its lively past at the Then and Wow! festival, which features amusement rides, magic shows, vintage cars and arcade games. It’s held on the last day for rides on the original carousel before the end of its 97th season. 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Glen Echo Park, free admission, ticket purchase required for rides and games, glenechopark.org

Oct. 7

BEER AND CHEER A taste of Germany comes to Rockville for the city’s inaugural Oktoberfest-style festival. Rocktobierfest includes two stages of entertainment, polka music, dancing, food and craft vendors, kids activities and beer for sale by local breweries. The event coincides with the visit of a delegation from Pinneberg, Germany, to mark 60 years as Rockville’s sister city. Noon to 6 p.m., Rockville Town Center, free, rockvillemd.gov

ALL ABOUT THAT BASS Bethesda’s Round House Theatre breaks new ground this fall with its world premiere production of I’ll Get You Back Again. The comedy with live music tells the story of Chloe, a struggling stand-up comedian who sits in for her dead father, playing bass in his 1960s psychedelic rock band. Silver Spring native Rachel Chavkin, who earned a 2017 Tony Award nomination for directing the acclaimed Broadway musical Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812, makes her regional debut directing the show, which was written by Sarah Gancher. Round House Theatre, $36-$65, roundhousetheatre.org

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Oct. 28

SPEEDING PUMPKINS Ever wonder how fast a pumpkin can go downhill? See for yourself at Kensington’s third annual Pumpkin Rock n’ Roll, where kids 13 and under are invited to race pumpkins down a sloping driveway in a derby-style competition. Racers can bring a decorated pumpkin or purchase one on-site, strap it to a set of wheels (which will be provided) and let it roll. The rock comes from live music provided by students and teachers of GIGS, a Kensington guitar studio, which produces the event along with other sponsors. The family-friendly festival also features a costume contest and parade, food trucks, crafts and activities for kids, including inflatables. Advance registration recommended for derby participants. Noon to 4 p.m., Warner Circle Park, free, pumpkinrocknroll.com

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Cirque de la Symphonie will perform while the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra plays Broadway songs at Strathmore on Oct. 12.

songwriter, bass player and producer known for multiple genres. Cherrelle’s first R&B Top 10 single, “I Didn’t Mean to Turn You On,” was covered by both Robert Palmer and Mariah Carey. 8 p.m. $45-$75. Bethesda Blues & Jazz Supper Club, Bethesda. 240-330-4500, bethesdabluesjazz.com.

Oct. 8 LISA LOEB. The indie pop musician looks back 20 years and at her latest album, No Fairy Tale. 8:30 p.m. $30-$37. (See kids concert on the same day in Children and Families.) AMP by Strathmore, North Bethesda. 301-581-5100, ampbystrathmore.com.

Oct. 8 ROCKVILLE CONCERT BAND. Called “Looking Up!,” the performance will focus on music that describes things above our heads. 3 p.m. Free; $5 suggested donation. F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, Rockville. 240-314-8690, rockvillemd. gov/theatre.

Oct. 12 CIRQUE DE LA SYMPHONIE GOES BROADWAY. Cirque de la Symphonie provides acrobats, aerialists, strongmen and jugglers to accompany the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in music from Broadway’s greatest shows. 8 p.m. Ticket prices not available at press time. The Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda. 301-581-5100, bsomusic.org.

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Sept. 17 RACHEL BARTON PINE. The violinist performs Saint-Georges’ Sonata in A Major; Beethoven’s Sonata in A major, Op. 47, “Kreutzer”; Brahms’ Sonata in D minor, Op. 108; and William Grant Still’s Suite for Violin and Piano. 7:30 p.m. $35$45. Bender Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, Rockville. 301-3483779, jccgw.org.

Sept. 21 JOHN WAITE: THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR. The pop rock idol, known for his work as lead vocalist with The Babys and Bad English and as a solo artist, shares his many hits. 8 p.m. $30-$40. AMP by Strathmore, North Bethesda. 301-5815100, ampbystrathmore.com.

Sept. 21 MICHAEL HENDERSON AND CHERRELLE: STARSHIP LANDING CONCERT. Henderson is a four-time Grammy nominee, singer,

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Oct. 14-15 THE NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC STARSTUDDED SEASON OPENER. Violinist Sarah Chang and cellist Zuill Bailey join the orchestra in Beethoven’s “Egmont Overture,” Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, and Dvorák’s Cello Concerto in ž B minor. 8 p.m. Saturday; 3 p.m. Sunday with a “meet the instruments” session

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Oct. 15 SUNDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT SERIES: GUY ROBERT JEAN. The singer/songwriter plays acoustic guitar and sings in French, English, Spanish and Creole. 2 p.m. Free. Glenview Mansion Conservatory, Rockville. 240-314-8660, rockvillemd.gov. Browse artwork and go inside artists’ studios at Glen Echo’s Art Walk in the Park. For details, see page 48.

Oct. 19 AN EVENING WITH SERGIO MENDES. The Grammy winner’s influence on the music industry has spanned five decades; the composer/keyboardist/vocalist’s mix of bossa nova, samba and pop defines Brazilian music. 8 p.m. $29-$69. The Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda. 301-581-5100, strathmore.org.

OUTDOOR CONCERTS You bring the picnic fare, blankets and lowrise chairs; they provide the music. Concerts are free.

Sept. 7 SUMMER CONCERTS AT GLEN ECHO PARK. Capital Horns of the Washington Conservatory performs. 7:30 p.m. Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo. 301-634-2222, glenechopark.org/summerconcerts.

Sept. 8 TGIF DOWNTOWN STREET PARTY. DJ Damon spins family-friendly Top 40 tunes for listening and dancing, plus games with prizes, such as movie tickets and gift

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Sept. 9 LIVE FROM THE LAWN: TEAM FAMILIAR. The last offering of Strathmore’s summer concert series takes a funky and soulful approach. The group was formed by D.C. native and legendary go-go saxophonist Donnell Floyd. 7 p.m. Gudelsky Gazebo

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Thursdays through Sept. 28 EVENINGS IN OLDE TOWNE. Scheduled bands include: Diamond Alley (contemporary/pop, Sept. 7); Vintage #18 (soul/blues, Sept. 14); The Rhodes Tavern Troubadours (roots rock, Sept. 21); and Ball in the House (pop/neosoul, Sept. 28). 6 p.m. City Hall Concert Pavilion, Gaithersburg. 301-258-6350, gaithersburgmd.gov.

Fridays and Saturdays through Sept. 30 RIO WASHINGTONIAN CENTER SUMMER CONCERT SERIES. Performers are: Speed of Sound (Paul McCartney Tribute, Sept. 1); Quiet Fire (R&B/Motown, Sept. 2); Grupo Latino (Latin, Sept. 8); Fabulous Exaggerations (classic rock/Motown, Sept. 9); First Class (rock/pop/Motown, Sept. 15); Dunn’s River Band (country rock, Sept. 16); Route 66 (rock/pop/Motown, Sept. 22); Back Pages (oldies, Sept. 23); Diamond Alley (contemporary/pop, Sept. 29); Guys in Thin Ties (’80s music, Sept. 30). 6-9 p.m. RIO Washingtonian

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Saturdays through Sept. 30 NANDO’S SPICY SATURDAY NIGHT CONCERTS, SILVER SPRING. Scheduled performers are: Scorpion Rose Band (top 40/rock/pop, Sept. 2); School of Rock (pop, rock) at 3 p.m. and Lulu’s World Classic (rock) at 6:30 p.m. (Sept. 9); Loose Ends (rock/blues/country, Sept. 16); Priceless Advice (’90s rock, Sept. 23); and Tropik Sol (reggae, Sept. 30). 6:308:30 p.m. Fountain Plaza, Silver Spring. downtownsilverspring.com.

IRISH MUSIC & DANCE SHOWCASE. The Glen Echo Park Partnership and the Irish Inn at Glen Echo present a wide variety of the area’s finest performers. 1-5 p.m. Free. Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo. 301-634-2222, glenechopark.org.

Oct. 14-15 DRACULA. The Rockville Civic Ballet offers its take on Count Dracula’s Transylvania treachery. 7:30 p.m. Saturday; 2 p.m. Sunday. $13-$17. F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, Rockville. 240-314-8690, rockvillemd.gov/theatre.

THEATER AND FILM Sept. 6-Oct. 8 IN THE HEIGHTS. Round House Theatre, which is starting its 40th year, has teamed up with the Olney Theatre Center to stage this winner of four Tony Awards, with music and lyrics by Hamilton legend Lin-Manuel Miranda. This was his first Broadway

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Sept. 16 THE PRINCESS BRIDE: AN INCONCEIVABLE EVENING WITH CARY ELWES. See the film again, 30 years after its debut, and then the English actor who played handsome hero Westley will dish about life on and off the set of the classic film. The format is a moderated discussion followed by a Q&A. 8 p.m. $25-$55. The Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda. 301-5815100, strathmore.org.

Sept. 22-Oct. 1 ALMOST, MAINE. The play, which debuted to critical acclaim in Portland, Maine, in 2004, uses nine vignettes to explore love and loss in a fictional town called Almost, Maine. 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, Rockville. $20-$22. 240-314-8690, rockvillemd.gov/theatre.

Oct. 27-Nov. 18 THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY. Kensington Arts Theatre produces the

D.C.-area community theater premiere of the 2014 Broadway musical. 8:15 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. $17-$25. Kensington Town Hall, Kensington. 240-621-0528, katonline.org.

Oct. 27-Nov. 12 WHITE CHRISTMAS. Rockville Musical Theatre presents Irving Berlin’s musical comedy, based on the 1954 film with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen. 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Nov. 5 and 12. $20$22. F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, Rockville. 240-314-8690, rockvillemd.gov/theatre.

ART Through Oct. 6 GROUP SHOW. The exhibits include: Chet Stein, photography, “Nature’s Beauty”; Xiaosheng Bi, ceramics, “Dreams of Nature”; Tinam Valk, mixed-media, “Wanderings”; and Donna K. McGee, acrylics, “What Was I Thinking?” Gallery hours are 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday; 9 a.m.9 p.m. Thursday. Free. Glenview Mansion

Art Gallery, Rockville. 240-314-8682, rockvillemd.gov.

Through Jan. 28 RONI HORN. The four-decade retrospective of the internationally known American multimedia artist fills the museum’s 9,000 square feet of gallery space. This is believed to be Horn’s first solo showing in the Washington, D.C., area. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday-Sunday. Free. Glenstone, Potomac. 301-983-5001, glenstone.org.

Sept. 1 ART WALK IN THE PARK. See pottery, blown glass, carvings and other artwork during studio open houses and artist demonstrations throughout the park. 6-8 p.m. Free. Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo. 301634-2222, glenechopark.org.

Sept. 1-4 LABOR DAY ART SHOW. More than 200 artists will be selling paintings, ceramics, glass, textiles, photography and other media during the 47th annual show. 7-9 p.m. Sept. 1; noon-6 p.m. Sept. 2-4. Free. Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo. 301-634-2222, glenechopark.org.

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Sept. 2-4 PAINT THE TOWN. The annual show features works in various media by members of the Montgomery Art Association. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday. Reception 6-8 p.m. Saturday. Free. Kensington Town Hall, Kensington. montgomeryart.org.

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES Through Oct. 1 CIRCUS! The “Greatest Show on Strings” is 35 minutes of clowns, death-defying acrobats and a “menagerie of fauna from the farthest reaches of the globe.” Recommended for children from pre-K to 6 years old. 11 a.m. Fridays; 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. $12. The Puppet Co. Playhouse, Glen Echo. 301634-5380, thepuppetco.org.

Sept. 2-4 TROLLEYMEN AT WORK. Learn how employees of the Capital Transit Co. and D.C. Transit System labored to provide streetcar service in Washington, D.C.,

back in the day. Also catch a film about becoming a trolley motorman in 1947 at 1:30 and 3:30 p.m. Noon-5 p.m. $7; $5 for children and seniors. National Capital Trolley Museum, Colesville. 301-384-6088, dctrolley.org.

Sept. 9-10 MODEL TRAIN SHOW. Members of the National Capital Trackers, a train enthusiast club, share their love of electric trains with this display. Proceeds benefit the Noyes Children’s Library Foundation and the Kensington Historical Society. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. $7; $2 children; $15 maximum per family. Kensington Town Hall, Kensington. 301-949-2424, kensingtontrainshow.com.

younger. The Arts Barn, Gaithersburg. 301258-6394, gaithersburgmd.gov.

Sept. 22-Oct. 22 HOW I BECAME A PIRATE. The 60-minute musical is based on the book by Melinda Long about a band of hilarious pirates. Recommended for all ages. Check website for dates and times. $19.50. Adventure Theatre MTC, Glen Echo. 301-634-2270, adventuretheatre-mtc.org.

Oct. 5-Nov. 17

Sept. 15-Oct. 1 THE CANTERVILLE GHOST. The play is based on Oscar Wilde’s first published story, a novella about a no-nonsense American family that buys an old mansion in rural England. They scoff at the idea of a violent resident ghost but find a way to reconcile with him. Recommended for ages 7 and older. 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays. $20, $12 for ages 14 and

PINOCCHIO. The story is told in 45 minutes with half-life-size rod puppets. Recommended for ages 5 and older. 11 a.m. Thursdays and Fridays; 11:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. $12. The Puppet Co. Playhouse, Glen Echo. 301-634-5380, thepuppetco.org.

Oct. 7-29 THE SMARTEST GIRL IN THE WORLD. In this warm, witty play by Miriam Gonzales, two latchkey children of hardworking parents share a dream of being successful and making life easier for their family. Their parents won’t let Leo go on a local TV quiz show with his school team to try to

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Oct. 8

LISA LOEB KIDS’ CONCERT: PAJAMA JAM PARTY. Kids know the indie pop musician’s voice as Princess Winger on Disney Junior’s Jake and the Never Land Pirates, and Milli the Microphone on Doc McStuffins. She shares her folk renditions of children’s songs, and parents and kids in pj’s can dance and sing along. 4 p.m. $12; free for children ages 1 and younger but they need a ticket. AMP by Strathmore, North Bethesda. 301-5815100, ampbystrathmore.com.

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Oct. 20-29

INTO THE WOODS JUNIOR. Kensington Arts Theatre’s younger performers—KAT Second Stage—offer an adaptation of the groundbreaking Tony Award-winning musical; only the first “traditional fairy tales” half of that production will be presented. Recommended for ages 7 and older. 7:30 p.m. Fridays; 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. $15, $12 for ages 14 and younger. The Arts Barn, Gaithersburg. 301-258-6394, gaithersburgmd.gov.

Oct. 28

PRIMARY BLUES: BLUES 101 FOR FAMILIES. A multimedia concert led by local jazz singer and Strathmore Artist in Residence alumna Rochelle Rice gives kids and adults a crash course in the blues. Musicians will cover the genre and icons such as Muddy Waters, Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and B.B. King. 11 a.m. $14 adults; $5 kids ages 12 and under. The Music Center at Strathmore, North Bethesda. 301-581-5100, strathmore.org.

FESTIVALS / SEASONAL Through Sept. 17

WINGS OF FANCY LIVE BUTTERFLY & CATERPILLAR EXHIBIT. Hundreds of butterflies flit about as you walk through the exhibit and learn about metamorphosis and butterflies’ roles in an ecosystem. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $8, $5 ages 3-12; free for younger than 3. Brookside Gardens, Wheaton. 301-962-1400, montgomeryparks.org/parks-and-trails/ brookside-gardens/wings-fancy-live-butterflycaterpillar-exhibit.

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SATURDAY FAMILY STORY SESSIONS. Local storytellers teach kids how to weave narrative tales, using music, movement, art and interactive play to explore different cultures. Oct. 14, Diane Macklin; Oct. 21, Jamaal Collier; Oct. 28, Ali Oliver-Krueger; Nov. 4, Dovie Thomason. Recommended for ages 3 to 8. 11 a.m. $10 in advance;

$12 at the door. The Mansion at Strathmore, North Bethesda. 301-5815100, strathmore.org.

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Sept. 4

GAITHERSBURG LABOR DAY PARADE. The 79th annual parade will include marching bands, antique fire trucks, equestrians, community groups and other organizations. Marchers step off at East Diamond Avenue, wind through Olde Towne Gaithersburg and end on Odendhal Avenue. 1 p.m. Free. Olde Towne, Gaithersburg. 301-258-6350, gaithersburgmd.gov.

Oct. 7

HARVEST FESTIVAL. Tour the farm, participate in an archaeological dig, go on a hayride or try making a scarecrow or candles during an annual celebration of fall life on the farm. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $15 per car. Agricultural History Farm Park, Derwood. 301-670-4661, montgomeryparks.org.

Oct. 21

POTOMAC DAY. The 35th annual celebration of Potomac features children’s activities, a parade, a classic car show and a business fair. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Free. Potomac Promenade, Potomac. potomacchamber.org.

Oct. 1

TAKOMA PARK STREET FESTIVAL. The 36th annual event includes live music, artists’ and crafters’ booths, food vendors and children’s activities. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Free. Along Carroll Avenue, Takoma Park. mainstreettakoma.org.

Oct. 21-29

Oct. 7

TASTE OF BETHESDA. Downtown Bethesda’s annual event offers samples from 50 restaurants, music and cultural entertainment on five stages, and kids activities. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. (Ticket sales end at 3:30 p.m.) Free. Taste tickets are sold in bundles of four for $5. Woodmont Triangle, Bethesda. bethesda.org.

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MAKE A DIFFERENCE DAY AND COMMUNITY SERVICE WEEK 2017. National Make a Difference Day is Oct. 28, when you can work on a project that helps one person or join a larger effort that benefits the community. But Montgomery County has a whole week of activities that are appropriate for all ages. Search locally or nationally to sign up. 240777-2600, montgomeryserves.org; makeadifferenceday.com.

Oct. 28

PUMPKIN TROLLEYFEST. The National Capital Trolley Museum includes a special ride to Pinson’s Pumpkin Market, where kids can exchange the tokens purchased with their trolley ride tickets for pumpkins, then decorate them to take home. Also, tour Street Car Hall with a docent, learn about the role of street cars in developing communities and see the silly antics of Harold Lloyd in silent films. Noon-3:50 p.m. $7; $5 for children and seniors; $2

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FALL FROLIC. A family-friendly day of activities includes pumpkin decorating ($2 per pumpkin), trick-or-treating in resident art studios and galleries, and a costume parade around the park. 1-4 p.m. Free. Glen Echo Park, Glen Echo. 301-634-2222, glenechopark.org. ■

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THE HURRICANE HUNTER A NOAA pilot finds his calling in the skies

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BY JEFF CIRILLO

HUNDREDS OF MILES OFF the coast of New Jersey, pilot Mark Sweeney was flying blind. Thick gray clouds and driving rain blocked the view from the airplane as it hopped through intense 100 mph winds. Sweeney relied on the plane’s radar systems to chart a safe path as he charged toward the eye of Hurricane Sandy in 2012. The harsh weather gave way to

sunshine and near silence as the plane punched into the eye, Sweeney recalls. The bright sun projected the plane’s shadow onto the Atlantic Ocean some 10,000 feet below. Apart from a few stray clouds, the 20-person crew was alone inside the eye’s towering white funnelshaped walls. At roughly 25 miles across, standard for a Category 2 hurricane, BETHESDAMAGAZINE.COM | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017

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nearly all of Montgomery County could have fit inside. Sweeney is one of 16 pilots and navigators at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Now living in Silver Spring and working at the agency’s headquarters there, Sweeney has flown into dozens of storms over the past 11 years. During hurricanes, crews take several nine- to 10-hour flights and scatter probes to collect data about a storm’s strength, speed and direction. This helps NOAA’s National Hurricane Center predict where the storm is headed, enabling it to establish accurate and credible evacuation zones, thereby minimizing damage and saving lives. The flights are surprisingly safe, Sweeney says. Since the first hurricane hunting mission in 1943, the only fatal crash in the Atlantic Basin occurred in 1955, when a plane went down while investigating 54

Hurricane Janet south of Jamaica; nine Navy crewmen and two Toronto Daily Star journalists died. Sweeney, now 43, was born in the Azores archipelago off the coast of Portugal, home to a Navy base where his father, a pilot, was stationed. His family later moved to Lansdale, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia not far from a Navy base. Sweeney remembers his father pointing out the Lockheed P-3 Orion, his old plane, as it flew overhead. Sweeney would fly the same model airplane after graduating from Cornell University, where he studied on a Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps scholarship. While doing storm research projects for the Navy, he met NOAA trainees who told him about the agency’s work, including that its hurricane pilots fly modified P-3s. He applied and was hired in 2006. Sweeney’s work schedule is predictably erratic. He can be called away at any

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moment, for days or even weeks. “You get used to being by yourself,” says Lauren Freeman, his girlfriend of four years. One late-July afternoon in 2014, Sweeney was called to the Caribbean to fly into Hurricane Bertha—missing the surprise party Freeman planned for his 40th birthday. His schedule complicates long-term arrangements, as well: Both want to get married, but Freeman, 37, says she’s still goading Sweeney to propose. Sweeney serves as deputy chief of NOAA’s Remote Sensing Division, which is responsible for mapping U.S. shorelines down to every dock and boat ramp. He plans to return to hurricane hunting full time at the end of next year. After two years of mostly administrative work, it’s no secret he misses the skies. “I like the flying part better,” Sweeney says with a grin. “When we go out and fly, we can say, ‘We did this. It was worth something.’ I can see how it impacts other people.” n

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THE COST OF SCHOOL SPORTS BY THE NUMBERS About 22,500 Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) students at 25 high schools compete in 20 different sports each year. Most of the expenses, including coaches’ salaries and equipment, are covered by MCPS. Here’s a look at the athletics budget and spending in county high schools, by the numbers.

$1,642,353 ATHLETICS BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 Top expenses: referees, equipment, uniforms, transportation and security

$32.50 Extracurricular activity fee paid by students in the 2016-2017 school year (some families were eligible for a reduced fee of $15)

Highest salary for a varsity coaching position (head football coaches)

$1,725

LECTIONS

Lowest salary for a varsity coaching position (bocce, handball and coed softball coaches)

$975,000

Revenue from ticket sales at last school year’s sporting events

$50,000

Annual cost of maintaining the five turf fields at county high schools (Gaithersburg, Paint Branch, Richard Montgomery, Thomas S. Wootton and Walter Johnson). Montgomery Blair has a turf field owned and operated by the MarylandNational Capital Parks and Planning Commission.

This year’s extracurricular activity fee (the Board of Education eliminated it for the 2017-2018 school year)

$73

Amount MCPS spends per student athlete

$500,000 Cost of salaries for athletic trainers for fiscal year 2018

SOURCE: MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

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RECIPES FOR LIFE A group of women started a cooking club in 1976—and it’s still going strong

THE MARINATED LAMB IS cooking on the grill. In the kitchen, vodka, scotch and fresh limes are arranged for cocktails. The dining room table is set with china and fresh flowers. Around 7 p.m. on a May evening, the women begin to arrive with appetizers, sides, wine and desserts, the same way they have for the past 41 years. The hostess of the monthly cooking club dinner always prepares the entrée, and the other members are supposed to bring something they’ve never tried making before. Then the 60-somethings share recipes. “If nobody comments on a dish, you can kind of read between the lines,” says Carroll Dunn, who started the club with sister-in-law Gerri Connolly and is hosting the dinner at her home in Chevy Chase (they rotate every month). At first, 58

the group came up with themes, but that went by the wayside. “You can only do Italian, Chinese or Southern picnic so much,” says Dunn, a retired teacher and school administrator. The women formed the club in 1976, when many were young newlyweds, as a way to socialize and learn how to make new dishes for entertaining. “As we started having our families, it was an outlet for exchanging parenting info and sharing both the good and the not-sogood experiences,” says Connolly, a floral designer. Most of the women were busy with kids and careers, but they carved out time for the Monday night dinners, which eventually turned into girls nights out. Over time, they’ve become more laid back about the meaning of gourmet cooking, and sometimes they even repeat

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recipes. “If you are rushed, people will admit, ‘I got this at Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods,’ ” says Leanne Boland, who lives in Northwest D.C. These days they serve more salsas, fish and grains, and lighter desserts than they used to. They use olive oil instead of butter. “We’ve basically cut out bread and use healthier salad dressings,” Connolly says. “Kale has become our friend.” Nearly all of the 11 cooking club members grew up in the D.C. area. Many went to Catholic school together; about half attended Georgetown Visitation in the District. They’re all still married to their first husbands, something many of them consider a feat. “Maybe our cooking has something to do with it,” Boland says. They’ve been together through christenings, graduations, weddings and funerals.

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They’ve given their children books of their often taste better the next day. Several of favorite recipes—often as bridal shower the women got their recipes online, and gifts—and helped some start their own say their cookbooks are collecting dust in cooking clubs. Recently they’ve watched the digital age. The women have had some hits— one another become grandparents. After drinks and appetizers on Dunn’s including beef Wellington, Toblerone patio, the women—who refer to each mousse and crab canapé pie—and some other as “girls”—move inside for dinner. clunkers. Years ago they had awful bourThey jockey to share the microwave, bon ball appetizers, and someone made lamenting how their starter apartments an Irish soda bread that was so hard it didn’t always have that convenience. could have been used as a doorstop. Then Carla Byrd of Bethesda heats up sautéed there was the roast fiasco, when Byrd’s Broccolini, noting that of all the women, kitchen filled with smoke after a mix-up she is not much of a cook. “Now I can over the broiler setting and Dunn took admit it. In the early days, I used to have the entrée to her ex-fiancé’s nearby apartment to finish cooking it. to pretend,” she says with a laugh. When the cooking club meets, the The women fill their plates at the buffet, pour wine (which is in bottles, husband of the host typically stays not jugs, as it was when they first started) away—things get louder as the night goes and chat about what they’ve made. Kathy on—only dropping in at the end to say Hayes, who lives in Chevy Chase, is asked hello, as Dunn’s husband, George, does about her Tuscan white beans with sage on that night in May. The women used and rosemary. She explains that she to invite the men to join them once in a Bethesda Magazine 1/2 page horizontal | 7”w x 4.625”h soaked the raw beans overnight and they while, but they haven’t done that in years.

One man put a silver serving tray in the oven. “They make a mess, even if it’s takeout,” says Connolly, who lives in Chevy Chase. “Every pot and pan and spoon you own is out on the table.” As the evening closes, Connolly serves her mom’s “Apple Brown Betty” with vanilla ice cream. Chris Cassidy announces that she’s planning to move to Florida soon, but assures the group that she’ll try to come back a couple times a year. By 9:25, Connolly dings her glass to announce that she has to leave, but as the group’s scheduler she wants to confirm next month’s host before she goes. The women used to meet later in the evening, after their kids were in bed, and once lingered till 2 in the morning after a wine-filled San Francisco-themed dinner in Chevy Chase in the ’80s. “I never stayed so late at anybody’s house in my life,” Connolly says. Now they opt for less wine and more sleep. Says Cassidy, “You come at 7 and you leave at 10.” n

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SEARCHING FOR TRUTH A local writer heads a new journal, intertwining art and politics BY JANELLE HARRIS

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WHEN AUTHOR PAULA WHYMAN leans across a quiet corner table at Le Pain Quotidien on Bethesda Row to talk about her new project, she grins excitedly from her first word to her last. It’s the exact opposite of the way she was feeling after Election Day, when she says the tumultuous political and social climate temporarily suffocated her creativity. Emotionally, the Bethesda resident was sapped. Mentally, too. Then a Facebook post by writer Mikhail Iossel gave her feelings purpose. “It felt like the culmination of the longest year ever, and I wanted to do something, but I didn’t know what to do. I was just really angry and frustrated,” Whyman remembers, shaking her head in a surge of fresh disbelief. “Then Mikhail said something like, ‘There should be a place where artists and writers can respond to the threats against democracy through artistic expression.’ We didn’t know each other except through Facebook, but I saw that and said, ‘I’ll help.’ Now,” she laughs, “I’m the editor.” That’s the creation story for Scoundrel Time, a digital literary journal that celebrates stories of resistance in original works of poetry, fiction, essays and visual art. Through it, Whyman recovered her own voice and is helping others build an anti-oppression community. Launched in January, Scoundrel Time—its title is borrowed from a memoir about political subversion by playwright Lillian Hellman—is managed by a team of five volunteer editors. It’s not like the standard quarterly journal that solicits the expertise of professionals and scholars. Instead, new work is posted at scoundreltime.com weekly from both emerging and well-known contributors who live around the world. As of press time, there were more than 100 postings. The storytellers come from all backgrounds. One writer penned an essay about her mother’s pilgrimage to Mecca. Another wrote a short piece about gathering emergency supplies for what she calls her “Trump Box.” Some

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contributors are Guggenheim, Whiting or National Endowment for the Arts fellows. Some are self-identifying creatives. All of them, says contributor Regie Cabico, are committed to giving voice to people and experiences that may otherwise be unheard. “When you’re creating resistance art, you’re trying to elevate some unique point of view,” says Cabico, a spoken word artist and poet who grew up in the D.C. suburbs. “So when you look at Scoundrel, you can’t help but to be inspired by the immediacy of what’s happening in this administration and the way people are reporting on it.” That’s the overarching vision for the journal, which Whyman wants to be both an outlet for expression and a tool for movement. To help that, the site’s Actions page is regularly updated with events and invitations for readers to engage in activism and advocacy around critical issues. A former book editor for the American Psychological Association, Whyman grew up in Silver Spring with a family versed in current events. “Politics was always a subject at our dinner table, so I was raised to question authority,” says Whyman, who has two teenage sons. Her first book, You May See a Stranger, was published in 2016; she’s currently working on her second. Scoundrel Time is her welcome opportunity to intersect art and action in ways she may not otherwise be able. Although it’s powered mostly on sweat equity, Scoundrel Time is registered as a 501(c)(3) organization to accept donations; in April, the team received an initial grant from the Amazon Literary Partnership. Response to content has been overwhelmingly positive so far, Whyman says, minus one online commenter who accused her of being exclusionary to Trump supporters. (She invited that person to submit work, an opportunity she says he or she didn’t take.) Overall, Whyman says, “People are really excited. They’re almost relieved to have something to do, and I feel strongly that art is a place to tell the truth and to find the truth, even through fiction.” ■

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TWISTER! The first tornado to hit the county in four years touched down in Silver Spring during a June rainstorm. The twister traveled down one block in Northwood Park and dissipated after a minute or two. According to the National Weather Service, it produced 70 mph winds and uprooted several trees, damaging homes, vehicles and power lines. A tornado that touched down in Seneca in 2013 had been the last to hit the county. Only 22 tornadoes have been reported in Montgomery County since 1950, according to government data.

SILVER SPRING GOES GREEN The smoke cleared this summer on plans to open a pot shop in Silver Spring. Representatives of Green Thumb Industries announced the future business would sell medical cannabis from a building at 7900 Fenton St., the former home of Banner Glass. The planned opening seems certain to generate conversation in the neighborhood. “It’ll bring a lot of excitement for sure,” says Shelton Williams, who owns a salon next door.

Silver Spring futsal fans are in luck! Officials are planning on building the county’s first outdoor futsal court in Dewey Local Park as part of a larger renovation project. Planning board officials seemed excited about the amenity for futsal—especially after learning what futsal was. Similar to soccer, the sport is played on a hard surface, and there are five players on each team. Street hockey enthusiasts can celebrate, too, since the court will double as a space for their sport. 62

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Bullied as a child, Marco Sies became a martial arts instructor and kickboxing legend BY CARALEE ADAMS

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AS A YOUNG BOY growing up in Chile, Marco Sies would plead with his dad and uncles to show him their martial arts moves. He was fascinated with kickboxing. He’d started taking lessons at 4 years old, but he was small for his age, often bullied, and says no one took him seriously. By sixth grade, Sies was training more intensively, and it wasn’t long before the kids at school stopped stealing his lunch

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Sies’ family was struggling to make ends meet—his mother, a cafeteria worker, and his father, a police officer, divorced when he was in high school— so the teen washed dishes, swept floors and cleaned bathrooms to pay for his training. He buried himself in philosophy books, which helped him develop the focus he needed. “You have to know what you want to achieve, then condition your mind,” he says. “To have a positive view on things—that is power.” In 1992, at the age of 19, Sies became a national featherweight kickboxing champion in Chile, a title he held for three years. He thought his prospects of finding sponsors and succeeding as a fighter would be better in the United States, so with $40 in his pocket and limited English skills, Sies moved to Virginia and stayed with an aunt. He trained for up to six hours a day— Marco Sies, a world champion kickboxer, conditioning on trails teaches classes at at 5 a.m., then boxing Master Method Academy. in the gym before work and doing a late-night and throwing him against a garbage can. practice from 9 to 11. For a few months At 15, he saw world champion kickboxer he was homeless, so he slept in a buildBill “Superfoot” Wallace compete at an ing he cleaned, and later at a karate exhibition in Santiago. “I decided that school where he taught. He’d run the very night I wanted to become a world stairs at a nearby mall and practice champion,” Sies says. He plastered his kickboxing with a couch cushion he bedroom walls with posters of famous tied to a tree. “I used the elements that martial artists. “I would close my eyes were available to me,” says Sies, 44, who and imagine it so strongly that in my lives in Gaithersburg. “I never pouted.” mind it became a reality—it was just a He eventually began to compete in the United States, and at 5 feet 6 inches matter of time.”

tall and 135 pounds, he became known as Marco “Babyface” Sies. In 2000, the 26-year-old won a kickboxing world championship. “My whole life flashed before my eyes when they gave me the belt and they were celebrating,” he says. “I remembered all the struggles and people that helped me get there.” Sies went on to win six more world titles, and in 2002 was inducted into the Karate World Hall of Fame. After retiring from competition in 2005, Sies became a full-time martial arts instructor, later opening Master Method Academy, which now has locations in Olney, Silver Spring and Rockville. In addition to teaching, Sies—author of The Master Method: 4 Steps to Success, Prosperity and Inner Peace—says his bigger mission is to give students the tools they need to be successful in life. Lise Sullivan of Gaithersburg says her son, Sean, was in physical and speech therapy as a child until he started practicing karate with Sies, a calming force who helped him develop confidence. Sean, now 19, says the classes taught him “self-discipline, how to treat people the right way, and how to stand up for people who can’t stand up for themselves.” Sies has a full schedule. He teaches throughout the day, hosts a weekly show, The Master Method, on Montgomery Municipal Cable Television, and partners with the county to provide free karate programs, seminars and assemblies in 10 public schools. He and his wife, Julie, the academy director and CEO of Master Method Academy, have five children—ages 11 to 19—in what they call their blended “Brady Bunch family.” All of the kids have black belts in martial arts, and three are instructors. The words “Believe it, Achieve it!” are painted in large white letters on the front wall of Sies’ Rockville studio. When he leads, he’s tough, but he makes it a point to smile. “Joy is very important,” he recently told an adult karate class. “Life lesson for this month is attitude. Everyone?” “Attitude!” his students yelled in unison. n

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BOOK REPORT

Alice McDermott’s novel The Ninth Hour (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2017) is based on an underground world of nuns who cared for poor women and children in Brooklyn, New York, early in the 20th century. The Bethesda author was unexpectedly drawn to their stories of generosity and self-sacrifice, and wanted to explore the degree to which they were willing to do for others. “What gave the novel its shape and focus was my sense of astonishment about the unsung abilities of these hardworking women,” says McDermott, who has written seven other novels, none about religious life. “Up until now, I’ve been labeled as a Catholic writer and I’ve always felt like, no, I have characters who are Catholic. Now, finally, here is a Catholic novel.” 66

After a career of studying the climate system through satellites at 10,000 feet, David Goodrich wanted to see what it looked like on the ground and to talk to people about it. The 64-year-old retiree from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration biked 4,200 miles from Delaware to Oregon and wrote a hybrid environmental/travel book, A Hole in the Wind: A Climate Scientist’s Bicycle Journey Across the United States (Pegasus Books, June 2017). “Climate change is a here-andnow thing—a lot is baked into the system,” says the scientist from Rockville. He witnessed droughts in Kansas and dying forests in the Rockies, but also encouraging signs, such as windmills in Iowa. “The way people get energy is starting to change quite radically,” he says.

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In Getting Grit: The Evidence-Based Approach to Cultivating Passion, Perseverance and Purpose (Sounds True, June 2017), Caroline Adams Miller talks about the need to aim high, work through challenges, learn from failure and inspire others. “We live in a society that is awe deprived,” says the executive coach from Bethesda. “We don’t know what excellent is anymore.” Miller believes the culture is misguided when everyone gets a trophy because parents, schools and coaches are so concerned about hurting kids’ feelings. “Research shows the happiest people wake up every day to the hard goals that are outside of their comfort zone,” Miller says. “Grit has to be part of who we are as human beings…without grit you don’t have any greatness in life.”

Allan Topol got lucky with the timing of his latest novel, Washington Power Play (SelectBooks, May 2017). He started his 13th book about two years ago, but the storyline is right out of today’s headlines: Washington infighting with the backdrop of China challenging the U.S. for world leadership and trying to influence the U.S. presidential election. “From the idea of money influencing elections, it didn’t seem like much of a leap to think about why couldn’t a foreign government do it—there is an awful lot at stake,” says Topol, an attorney who lives in Chevy Chase. Much of the action in the political thriller takes place in Bethesda, where the main character, a female FBI agent, thwarts a terrorist attack at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

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What’s on your bedside table? BEFORE DAVID PETR MOVED to Potomac last year, a colleague in Florida gave him a hard copy of The CEO as Urban Statesman by Sam A. Williams (Mercer University Press, 2014). Petr recently finished reading it, finding that much of the content related to his new job as president and CEO of the Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation, a public-private partnership that works to expand and retain business here. The book describes how to bring together private business leaders—who may not see what they have to gain from getting involved in complex community

problems—with local government officials and citizens to achieve a greater good, Petr says. Williams shares what works through case studies, explaining how Atlanta turned around a hospital, Oklahoma City revitalized its downtown, and Salt Lake City improved its infrastructure. “It made me realize if I can do a better job of aligning people, getting people to communicate more and finding shared goals, we can accomplish better things than if we are all working individually,” says Petr, whose other big takeaway from the book is the importance of having a vision and of being bold and proactive. ■

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Oct. 6-8 CAPCLAVE 2017 The Washington Science Fiction Association, the oldest science fiction club in the area, offers readings, discussions, writing workshops and exhibits at its annual convention. The scheduled special guests are Neil Clarke, editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, and Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings. 4 p.m.-midnight Friday; 10 a.m.-midnight Saturday; 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. $30-$70. Recommended for ages 13 and older. Hilton Washington DC North/Gaithersburg, capclave.org.

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Runners Dayna Harrison (left) and Keri Jacobs started 22 Too Many to raise awareness about post-traumatic stress disorder.

TO HONOR AND REMEMBER Montgomery County runners aim to memorialize military veterans

AT LAST YEAR’S PITTSBURGH Half Marathon, Montgomery County Road Runners Club (MCRRC) member Wendy Young finished the 13.1-mile run in tears. It was a different experience than her usual race. This time she had signed up to run in memory of Michelle Langhorst, a former Army staff sergeant she’d never met who had suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). At the finish line, Langhorst’s sister, Nicole, went wild when she saw Young, and the race emcee gave Nicole the 70

opportunity to share Michelle’s story. Young recalls, “Nicole later posted [on Facebook] about how important it was to say that stuff out loud for other people to hear.” Since 2013, 75 runners from Montgomery County and 1,500 runners from across the country have completed 5Ks, half marathons, marathons and even Ironman Triathlons—more than 150 events in 2016—in memory of military veterans who have taken their own lives. They’re running with the nonprofit 22

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Too Many, started by Dayna Harrison and Keri Jacobs. The two friends became committed to raising awareness about PTSD and providing veterans’ families with support. They also wanted to do their part to help change a 2012 Department of Veterans Affairs estimate that an average of 22 veterans of the military die by suicide each day (a number that was adjusted to 20 in a 2016 report). “We thought, ‘That’s 22 too many,’ ” Jacobs says, “so that’s what we called ourselves.” Jacobs, 56, who lived in Silver Spring

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for 30 years before moving to Raleigh, N.C., this summer, is a church music coordinator and pianist, and her son, Scott, served in the U.S. Air Force from 2009 to 2013. During his service, she’d joined an online support group in which one of the women’s sons, Andrew Wilson, suffered from PTSD. Harrison, 47, of Potomac, works as an analyst for the Treasury Department. She’s a U.S. Navy veteran, and over the years she’s seen the effects of PTSD on relatives who also served. Jacobs and Harrison first ran for veterans in December 2012 at the Rehoboth Beach Seashore Marathon, the names and pictures of three Army veterans pinned to their backs. They were running for Wilson, and for Randy Abrams and Trever Gould, the sons of two other mothers they’d met. All three men served in conflicts in Iraq or Afghanistan and suffered from PTSD. Next, Jacobs and Harrison recruited 11 runners to do the 2013 Rock ’n’ Roll D.C. Marathon for 11 heroes. Soon after, 22 Too Many was formed. Now, there are some 200 soldiers on the nonprofit’s Facebook “Wall of Heroes,” their stories chronicled by family members who give the group permission to run for them. Runners select soldiers from the wall, and Jacobs and Harrison send the runners photos and bios of the heroes. Runners, in turn, mail their medals and personal notes to the heroes’ families. The first time Ben Guthrie, 43, of Brookeville received a medal from a runner who honored his father, Marine Corps veteran John Guthrie, he drove to Virginia Beach to hand-deliver it to his uncle. Guthrie, a MCRRC member, runs for others, too. He’s sent 10 medals, including two from Ironman Triathlons, to heroes’ families. “For a marathon, you’re spending four hours with an individual,” he says. “It really is a time of personal reflection and reflection about the person you’re carrying.” n BETHESDAMAGAZINE.COM | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017

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A CROWNING MOMENT PATTY RIVERA SPENCER, a writer, recalls struggling to help her transgender son survive high school. “The image I had of myself with Aiden was looking down from above at two tiny figures,” she says. “One was me, holding Aiden’s hand, and a tsunami was coming at us.” The tsunami in this mother’s nightmare represents “the whole cultural thing: so much negativity, so much disbelief of goodness, so much disparagement and despair,” she recalls softly. “The tsunami, to me, was the endless cynicism and the concentration on the dark parts of life: the violent, the mean and the nasty. It was the constant feeding of things that drench our spirits with nastiness. That’s the tsunami.” The tsunami overtook them. In the spring of 2010, Aiden took his own life. He was 17. Aiden was a ninth-grader at BethesdaChevy Chase High School when he began transitioning from a girl named Caitlin to living as a boy. Some students teased and bullied him. His parents, friends and school officials tried to shield him. “B-CC as an institution was incredibly

good to Aiden,” Spencer, 63, recalls. “The administration worked their butts off to try to help him succeed. They gave him a key to the staff bathroom. … The school can set a tone, which is really important. They can’t control what comes out of the mouths’ of kids.” The bullying—and the pushback against it—continued until Aiden dropped out senior year. Last fall, six years after Aiden’s suicide, B-CC became the first school in Montgomery County to elect a gender-neutral homecoming court. Instead of the traditional crowning of a male “king” and female “queen,” students elected homecoming “royalty.” Royals could decide for themselves whether they wished to be called king, queen or neither. The result: Seniors elected two royals who wore matching crowns—and made national news. One royal was Camern Pinkus, a transgender male student active in Spectrum, the school’s club for youths who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans or questioning their sexual identity. The other was a more traditional choice: Patrick Kirlin, a member of the lacrosse and wrestling teams.

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The elected royalty were announced during halftime of the homecoming football game on Oct. 7, 2016. The two seniors shook hands. “It was a good feeling,” recalls Jacob Rains, now 18, of Silver Spring. He was president of the school’s five-member Student Government Association (SGA) that decided to make titles for the 2016 homecoming court genderneutral as part of a broader effort to be more inclusive to all kinds of students. On homecoming night, “It felt like what we had wanted came to fruition,” Rains says. “It wasn’t the announcement of who had won, but the reaction; the crowd just roared with excitement as each person who had won was announced.” Does that mean that the student culture inside one suburban high school—Aiden’s old school—had been completely transformed in just six years? Well, yes and no. Some students—including Kirlin— felt that their opinions hadn’t been heard and considered before the SGA officers decided the matter for them. In an attempt to be more inclusive, some critics argued, the SGA had excluded

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much of the student body of more than 2,000. “B-CC is not as strictly liberal as people think it is,” Kirlin wrote in an essay published in The Tattler, the school newspaper. “However, it is obvious that those in positions of power are very liberal. That is something we must live with because we elected them thinking they would be making decisions about spirit days and pep rallies, not making political decisions that negatively affect the image of our school. We must move forward as a community and have some kind of reform that restricts the power of the SGA and gives the students the option to vote on big decisions, especially those that bring unwanted national attention.” Rains, the former SGA president, describes that body’s decision-making process as sound representative governing. The idea had been floating around the school at least since Rains’ freshman year, he says. By junior year, Spectrum leaders were actively lobbying for such a change, Pinkus says. Rains was a seasoned student leader. He had been elected to leadership positions regularly since elementary school. At B-CC, he was president of the SGA in both his junior and senior years. He worked hard in his junior year to tackle some practical issues, such as the student parking shortage. That, he thought, gave the SGA enough political capital during his senior year to tackle a more controversial issue. Two weeks before homecoming, the school administration announced that they would be converting a teacher bathroom on the third floor into a gender-neutral student bathroom. The school already had a designated genderneutral bathroom on the first floor. That same day, Sept. 23, the SGA officers voted 4-1 to change the way in which the student body voted for homecoming royalty in order to make the court gender-neutral. “All students will see these changes reflected in the Homecoming Court voting forms that will go out early next week,” Rains wrote in an Instagram post announcing the change. “B-CC is an

Y incredibly accepting, warm, and caring community and I am sure that students, staff and the surrounding community will embrace this change.” The only SGA officer to vote against the proposal favored doing away with a homecoming court altogether. (Walt Whitman High School eliminated its homecoming court in 2016.) “The decision to create a gender neutral homecoming court is an attempt by the Student Government to put a progressive façade over an institution that is inherently discriminatory,” SGA Treasurer Misha Lerner later wrote in the school newspaper. Lerner recalls arriving at high school knowing no one. He spent lunch periods alone in the library reading plays by Anton Chekhov. “I am one of the few SGA members to know what it feels like to be completely on the outside,” he wrote. “I am fighting for the inclusion of

the student who has been out for four months in rehabilitation because he is suicidal, for the student who comes home everyday to an abusive household, and who cannot function as a result, for the student who is recovering from a drug or alcohol addiction, for the student who is not fluent in English, and yes, I am fighting for my ninth grade self. … In essence, I am fighting for all marginalized students.” Some critics of the changes around homecoming and gender identity were less eloquent. “We had a lot of controversy,” Pinkus says. “That’s a polite way of saying it. Some people thought we had a queer agenda we were pushing on the school. We had people mocking identity, saying things like, ‘If I identify as a cat, why don’t we have litter boxes in the bathroom?’ ” Ultimately, Rains says, the full student body voted to determine who was

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elected to the court. He believes the students voted for something bigger than a popularity contest. He’s not alone. “Winning homecoming king wasn’t about me,” says Pinkus, 18, who is studying psychology and human relations. “It showed that people who felt like me, and maybe were in the shadows and unsure of who they are, can be accepted. It was making history and being part of making changes that are very beneficial for other people at the school.” Rains, now a freshman studying political science and international relations at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, says he doesn’t know if B-CC’s homecoming will be gender-neutral again this year. That’s for other student leaders to decide, he says. He’s passed the torch. B-CC Principal Donna Redmond Jones says she expects designations for homecoming court to remain gender-neutral this year. “I fully expect us

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to use the term we have been using: homecoming royalty…We’re not putting a definition on and putting people in boxes.” Patty Spencer had no idea that Aiden’s old school had made history until I asked this summer to interview her about B-CC’s gender-neutral homecoming court. After Aiden killed himself, Spencer’s 22-year marriage to his other mother, an American University professor, ended. The couple’s first child, born with serious congenital defects, lived just a few hours. “When Aiden died, he took the rest of us with him,” says Spencer, who returned alone to her native Canada in 2011. She wrote a book on surviving suicide. She has nothing but praise for the B-CC students who wrestled with how to make homecoming more inclusive. She isn’t just grateful to the kids who pushed for the change; she’s grateful to those who dissented because they had to think about the issue. She’s grateful that Pinkus survived to wear a homecoming crown. “It takes a lot of courage to be who you are in this world,” Spencer says. “Good for him. Good for the kids who did it. Good for the kids who are thinking about it and not being outright hateful. “It sounds like a great success. Just the fact that not everybody is comfortable about it doesn’t mean it’s not a success. People who have been thinking about it can no longer believe that these issues are not part of their world. Everybody had to do a lot of thinking. “We don’t all have to be the same,” she adds. “We just have to be kind. We can’t forget to be kind.” After talking to Spencer, I hung up the phone thinking about homecoming, the storied event around a football game, and the concept of coming home. I kept thinking about a favorite quote that Spencer adds to the end of every email she sends: “We are all walking each other home.” n April Witt is a former Washington Post writer who lives in Bethesda.

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KEEPING THE FAITH FOR THE PAST 50 YEARS, the Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church and the Bethesda Jewish Congregation have shared space on Bradley Boulevard. Like any long marriage, that relationship has lived through moments of conflict and conciliation. A church member commissioned a stained-glass window in the main sanctuary honoring his late wife and depicting the 23rd Psalm. The design featured a bearded man holding a shepherd’s crook with a distinctive curve at the end, and that troubled Rabbi Sunny Schnitzer, who leads the Jewish community. The curved crook is a Christian symbol associated with Jesus, and the rabbi remembers asking: Why not make the crook a straight staff? “And the donor said ‘No, it needs to be a shaped crook,’ and I said, ‘I can live with that,’ ” recalls Schnitzer. 80

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banter | HOMETOWN Living with each other—tolerating and respecting and even embracing each other—makes this marriage instructive and enduring. “When someone walks in who is Jewish—I hear it all the time— they look at that window and they go, ‘Oh it’s Moses,’ ” Schnitzer says. “And if they’re from the church they go, ‘No it’s the shepherd, the Good Shepherd.’ You can bring to great art whatever you need at the moment.” When Jews use the church’s sanctuary on High Holy Days, Schnitzer can see the stained-glass window from the pulpit, and it makes him think of Jesus and his Jewish origins. “Jesus, nice to have you back in house, I’ve actually thought that more than once,” says the rabbi, who came to Bethesda in 2001. Some tensions are inevitable. But if sharing space with another faith makes someone uneasy, they generally don’t join these congregations in the first

place. For those who do, says the Rev. David Gray, the Presbyterian minister, “the partnership is almost universally a positive,” a symbol of the church’s message that “this is a place of real openness theologically.” “We reflect Montgomery County, a lot of people in both congregations are well educated and have an interest in multicultural, multireligious things, in really wanting to engage the mind and the heart,” Gray says. This partnership started in the late ’60s, when a small group of Jewish worshippers began renting space from the church. As both congregations expanded, they jointly raised $3 million for a new room, Covenant Hall, shaped like a six-pointed Jewish Star of David and nestled in the corner of the church’s cruciform design. I have a special connection here. My wife, Cokie, and I are an interfaith

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couple—I’m Jewish, she’s Catholic—and 51 years ago we were married in the garden of her childhood home just 2.3 miles away on Bradley Boulevard. We’ve written two books about interfaith marriage and were invited to speak at the dedication of Covenant Hall in 2001. I interviewed the Presbyterian minister at the time, Susan Andrews, who explained the church’s thinking: “It seems so natural to me, so obvious. It’s a good use of space, and we’re teaching our children to live with those who are different.” Of course there were problems. When the Jews use the church sanctuary they cover a large cross with a banner, and as Andrews noted, “I had to deal with people who thought it was sacrilegious to cover the cross. ‘How dare they.’ ” Schnitzer recalls his first winter on Bradley Boulevard and seeing a large Christmas tree displayed in the building’s main lobby. “I went, ‘Oh, that

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banter | HOMETOWN could be problematic on a Friday night or Saturday morning for people who are coming for a Jewish experience,’ ” he recalls. An answer was quickly found: Put the tree on a dolly and move it out of sight during Jewish services. In recent years the congregations have expanded their partnership to include the Idara-e-Jaferia Islamic Center in Burtonsville, hosting joint worship services and study groups, and co-sponsoring a family of Syrian refugees trying to resettle in the area. When President Donald Trump last January issued an executive order barring Muslims from seven countries and blocking all refugees from entering the country, parishioners from all three faiths felt “confused and angry,” says Schnitzer, and rapidly organized a joint prayer service that attracted 400 people. “We actually suffered a personal loss, this affected our congregations directly. We felt our friends were under attack.”

Both the rabbi and pastor are often consulted by other clergy who are exploring similar joint ventures. The interest is particularly strong among those from mainline Protestant denominations like Presbyterians, who are facing a steady decline in membership. Gray explains, “Part of it is practical. We have a lot of churches that are shrinking quickly and saying we can’t afford this building.” The other impulse is spiritual. “In a post 9/11 world,” says Gray, “more and more people are reacting to the politics of hate by saying let’s find a way to be in [a] community with people who have a diverse background.” That reaction is not universal. Andrews told me about a testy interview she had on the Christian Broadcasting Network, an arm of the Rev. Pat Robertson’s evangelical ministry. “They couldn’t understand what we were doing; we were supposed to be converting Jews,” she says. A rabbi from the Chabad-Lubavitch

movement, a conservative group, was invited one Passover to demonstrate olive oil pressing for the Hebrew school students. “He pulls up and sees the cross [on the church building], and he just left,” recalls Schnitzer. In the face of such intolerance, and the larger scourge of sectarian violence around the world, the congregations on Bradley Boulevard are trying to send a different message, one of: bridges not walls, inclusion not exclusion, reaching out not pulling back. The stained-glass window in their common space commemorates both Jesus and Moses, the shepherd of Christians and the liberator of Jews. And here, they are brothers. ■ Steve Roberts teaches journalism and politics at The George Washington University and is the co-author, with his wife, Cokie, of From This Day Forward. Send ideas for future columns to sroberts@gwu.edu.

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The Academy of the Holy Cross 4920 Strathmore Ave. Kensington, MD 20895 301-942-2100 www.ahctartans.org Grades: 9-12 Gender: Girls Total number of students: 500 Average class size: 19 Student/teacher ratio: 11:1 Religious affiliation: Catholic Seniors with National Merit Recognition: National Merit Semifinalists: 1 National Merit Commended Scholars: 3 National Hispanic Scholar: 1 Grade foreign language first offered: 9 Languages offered: Spanish, French, Latin Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $23,905 Annual tuition for grade 12: $23,905 Uniform: Yes Bus transportation: Ride-on Bus stop at school entrance; Metro 5-minute walk Number of AP courses offered: 11, plus International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme World School Varsity sports: Basketball, Crew, Cross Country, Equestrian, Field Hockey, Golf, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Softball, Swimming/Diving, Tennis, Track, Volleyball Number of art studios: 3 Theater productions per year: 8 (Musical, Dance, Vocal, Instrumental, Dramatic) Music ensembles: 1 Instrumental, 4 Vocal Accreditations/Affiliations: National Catholic Education Association, Middle States, Independent Education, International Baccalaureate Organization, Maryland State Department of Education Founded: 1868

The Auburn School, Silver Spring Campus 9545 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring MD 20910 301-588-8048 www.theauburnschool.org Grades: K-8 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 65 Average class size: 10 Student/teacher ratio: 8:2 Religious affiliation: none Seniors with National Merit recognition: N/A Languages offered: Spanish Students receiving financial aid: 47% Uniform: no Bus transportation: no Teacher retention rate: 98% Theater productions per year: 1

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Barrie School 13500 Layhill Road Silver Spring, MD 20906 301-576-2800 www.barrie.org Grades: 18 months - Grade 12 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 300 Average class size: 16 Student/teacher ratio: Lower School, 13:1; Middle-Upper School, 10:1 Religious affiliation: N/A Seniors with National Merit recognition: N/A Grade foreign language first offered: Primary Languages offered: Spanish, French, Chinese, Independent Study Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $17,500 Annual tuition for grade 12: $32,100 Students receiving financial aid: 47% Uniform: No Bus transportation: Yes Number of AP courses offered: 7 Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: 13 Varsity sports: Soccer, Volleyball, Cross Country, Basketball, Tennis, Equestrian, Track & Field, Lacrosse Interscholastic sports (middle): Soccer, Cross Country, Basketball, Equestrian Number of art studios: 3 Theater productions per year: 2 Music ensembles: 5 Accreditations/Affiliations: American Montessori Society, Independent Education, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, National Association of Independent Schools, Association of Maryland & DC Founded: 1932

Beauvoir, the National Cathedral Elementary School 3500 Woodley Road NW Washington, DC 20016 202-537-6485 www.beauvoirschool.org Grades: PK-3 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 390 Average class size: 20 Student/teacher ratio: 6:1 Religious affiliation: Episcopal Grade foreign language first offered: PK Languages offered: Spanish, additional options after school Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $35,975 Students receiving financial aid: More than 1.7 million dollars in grants were awarded last year

to approximately 22% of Beauvoir students. Students currently receive grants ranging from approximately 6% to 94% of the full tuition. Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Number of art studios: 1 Accreditations/Affiliations: See www.beauvoirschool.org Founded: 1933

Blessed Sacrament School 5841 Chevy Chase Parkway NW Washington, DC 20015 202-966-6682 www.bsstoday.org Grades: K-8 Gender: Co-ed; plus some same sex classes beginning in 4th grade Total number of students: 500+ Average class size: 17-20 grades K-2; 18-22 grades 3-8 Student/teacher ratio: grades K-2, 2 adults in classroom of 17-20; grades 3-8 1 adult-20-22 students Religious affiliation: Catholic Seniors with National Merit recognition: N/A Grade foreign language first offered: 1st Languages offered: Spanish, French Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $10,275 Annual tuition for grade 12: N/A Students receiving financial aid: 8% Uniform: Yes Bus transportation: No Number of AP courses offered: N/A Varsity sports: N/A Interscholastic sports (middle): CYO Soccer, CYO Basketball Number of art studios: 1 Theater productions per year: 9 musical productions (1 per grade) plus numerous other in-class productions Music ensembles: Band and Advanced Band, Angel Choir (grades K-2), childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choir (grades 3-6) Cantors (grades 7-8) Accreditations/Affiliations: Accredited by AdvancED Accreditation, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence 2012 Founded: 1923

Bullis School 10601 Falls Road Potomac, MD 20854 301-299-8500 www.bullis.org Grades: K-12 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 845 Average class size: 15

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Grades: JK-12 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 960 Average class size: 17 Student/teacher ratio: 8:1 Religious affiliation: Open to all backgrounds and affiliations Seniors with National Merit recognition: 15% of class of 2017 Grade foreign language first offered: Dual language program in Hebrew begins in Kindergarten; others begin in grade 7 Languages offered: Hebrew, Spanish, Arabic Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $20,850 (Jr. Kindergarten), $26,030 (Lower school) Annual tuition for grade 12: $17,070 (seniors graduate in February); 6-11 tuition is $33,380 Students receiving financial aid: 45% Uniform: No Bus transportation: Yes Number of AP courses offered: In keeping with the school’s educational philosophy, emphasizing personal academic discovery, creativity, and a deep exploration of course material, CESJDS does not

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Guide offer Advanced Placement (AP) courses. However, students often elect to take AP exams. For the class of 2017, students took more than 50 AP exams. Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: 91% Varsity sports: 12 Interscholastic sports (middle): 9 Number of art studios: 3 Theater productions per year: 2 Music ensembles: 7 Accreditations/Affiliations: Association of Independent Maryland & DC Schools Founded: 1965

Concord Hill School 6050 Wisconsin Ave. Chevy Chase, MD 20815 301-654-2626 www.concordhill.org Grades: Preprimary (age 3) through grade 3 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 100 Average class size: 16 Student/teacher ratio: averages 6:1

Religious affiliation: None Grade foreign language first offered: Preprimary (age 3)) Languages offered: Spanish Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $17,485 (Preprimary); $24,450 (Primary); $27,380 (K – 3rd) Students receiving financial aid: 9% Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Teacher retention rate: 91% Number of art studios: 1 Accreditations/Affiliations: AIMS/ IE, NAIS, NAEYC, Black Student Fund, Latino Student Fund Founded: 1965

The Diener School 11510 Falls Road Potomac, MD 20854 301-299-4602 www.thedienerschool.org Grades: K-6 Gender: Co-ed

Total number of students: 40 Average class size: 8 Student/teacher ratio: 3:1 Religious affiliation: None Students receiving financial aid: Please inquire Uniform: None Bus transportation: None Teacher retention rate: Please inquire Accreditations/Affiliations: Please inquire Annual applications per opening: Please inquire Founded: 2007

Geneva Day School 11931 Seven Locks Road Potomac, MD 20854 301-340-7704 www.genevadayschool.org Grades: 2 years old - Kindergarten Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 270 Average class size: 12-18 Student/teacher ratio: 3:1 Religious affiliation: None

SCHOOL Rochambeau, the french school Profile international • Enrollment

1,060

Grades

Age 2-grade 12 Student/Teacher Ratio

11:1

Annual Tuition (Grade 12)

$23,000

Year Founded

1955

9600 Forest road bethesda, md 20814 7108 bradley blvd. bethesda, md 20817 3200 woodbine st. chevy chase, md 20815 301-530-8260 rochambeau.org

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For over 60 years, Rochambeau, The French International School, has been educating generations of bicultural, bilingual and internationallyminded students. Students can start as of age 2 in our French preschool without any prior knowledge of the French language*, and continue through high school (12th grade or Terminale) to graduate with both the French Baccalauréat and the High School diploma. Our comprehensive academic program is based on the French National Curriculum, plus a strong native-level English program, allowing our students to master both the French and English languages and culture. Rochambeau graduates have the opportunity to continue their education in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., France or anywhere in the world. Rochambeau is part of the global network of French schools (AEFE) which allows students to move with ease to any of the 500 schools around the world, and enjoy the same quality of the education. *Rochambeau welcomes non-French speaking students in a specially designed French Immersion program from age 2 through 3rd grade.

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age 2 through 12th grade: Let’s all say “rō-sham-bō”!

Let’s all say “rō-sham-bō”!

DISCOVER the ROCHAMBEAU Advantage Immersion program open to non French speakers from age 2 through 3rd grade Learn more at rochambeau.org

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THE FRENCH INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL From age 2 through 12th grade: Let’s all say “rō-sham-bō”!

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Guide Grade foreign language first offered: 3 years old Languages offered: Spanish, Chinese Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $7,200 Students receiving financial aid: 5-10% Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Teacher retention rate: 98% Accreditations/Affiliations: Maryland State Department of Education Office of Childcare, Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, Maryland State Board of Education Kindergarten Certification, Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education Certified Green School Founded: 1965

Georgetown Preparatory School 10900 Rockville Pike N. Bethesda, MD 20852 301-493-5000 www.gprep.org Grades: 9-12

Gender: Boys Total number of students: 490 Average class size: 16 Student/teacher ratio: 8:1 Religious affiliation: Jesuit (Catholic) Grade foreign language first offered: 9 Languages offered: 4 Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $35,955 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. 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 Number of art studios: 2

Theater productions per year: 3 Music ensembles: 3 Accreditations/Affiliations: Accreditation: Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Maryland State Department of Education, Jesuit Province of Maryland Annual applications per opening: 3.5/1 Founded: 1789

Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School 1524 Thirty-fifth St. NW Washington, DC 20007 202-337-3350 www.visi.org Grades: 9-12 Gender: Girls Total number of students: 500 Average class size: 15 Student/teacher ratio: 9:1 Religious affiliation: Roman Catholic Seniors with National Merit recognition: 16 Grade foreign language first offered: 9

SCHOOL st. john’s college high school • • • Profile

2607 Military Road NW Chevy Chase, DC 20015 202-363-2316 www.stjohnschs.org St. John’s College High School is an independent,

Enrollment

1,100

Grades

9-12

Average Class Size

Student/Teacher Ratio

12:1

Annual Tuition (Grade 12)

$19,175

Year Founded

1851

Catholic, coeducational, college preparatory school. Rooted in the Lasallian tradition, we are committed to academic excellence and preparing young men and women for lives of leadership, achievement and service. St. John’s offers 24 AP and 16 honors courses, as well as a Scholars Program for gifted and talented students. Our dynamic 1:1 educational technology program, featuring iPads provided by the school at no additional cost, allows students to learn, produce and collaborate in a manner now commonplace at colleges across the country. Our graduates have a 100 percent college acceptance rate; the Class of 2017 earned more than $30 million in scholarships. We field 29 varsity teams that train with our full-time performance coaches and offer over 45 clubs and activities. Unique to St. John’s is the Cadet Corps, a century-old program that promotes leadership and teamwork, and the Entrepreneurial Center for Innovation and Leadership. We have invested approximately $30 million in recent improvements to our 28-acre campus, including the Donatelli Center for the Visual and Performing Arts (2016) and the Cap Mona Family Student Center (2017).

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Languages offered: French, Spanish, Latin Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $29,200 Students receiving financial aid: Approximately 30% Uniform: Yes Bus transportation: No Teacher retention rate: 94% Number of AP courses offered: 18 Varsity sports: Basketball, Crew, Cross Country, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey (non-varsity), Lacrosse, Soccer, Softball, Swimming and Diving, Tennis (Fall and Spring), Track & Field (Winter and Spring), Volleyball Number of art studios: 1, plus Dance Studio Theater productions per year: 2 Music ensembles: Madrigals (select), Chorus, Orchestra Accreditations/Affiliations: Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, National Association of Independent Schools, National Catholic Education Association, National Coalition of Girls' Schools, Archdiocese of Washington, Association for Independent Schools of Greater Washing-

ton, Online School for Girls, Bridge Program with Georgetown University Founded: 1799

German International School Washington D.C. 8617 Chateau Drive, Potomac, MD 20854 301-365-3807 www.giswashington.org Grades: age 2 - grade 12 Gender: Coeducational Total number of students: 500 Average class size: 18 Student/teacher ratio: 7:1 Religious affiliation: none Seniors with National Merit recognition: N/A Grade foreign language first offered: German in Pre-K, English in 1st grade Languages offered: German, English, French, Spanish, Latin Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $11,876 Annual tuition for grade 12: $20,685 Uniform: No

Bus transportation: DC, MD, NOVA Teacher retention rate: 90% Number of AP courses offered: 5 Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: 95% Varsity sports: Soccer, Basketball, Volleyball, Swimming, Track & Field, Tennis Interscholastic sports (middle): Soccer, Basketball, Volleyball, Swimming, Track & Field, Tennis Number of art studios: 1 Theater 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 Maryland State Department of Education Founded: 1961

Green Acres School 11701 Danville Drive North Bethesda, MD 20852 301-881-4100 www.greenacres.org Grades: Age 3 – Grade 8

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October 29, 2017 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Encouragement COMMUNITY CHALLENGE

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SERVICE

Building a better future for every student, every day. Opening Minds | Unlocking Talents | Building Leaders 2607 Military Road, NW, Chevy Chase, DC 20015

www.stjohnschs.org

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Guide Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 250 Average class size: 10-12 Student/teacher ratio: 5:1 Religious affiliation: None Grade foreign language first offered: Pre-K Languages offered: Spanish Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $15,000 (Half-day Pre-K); $22,900 (Pre-K); $27,700 (Kindergarten); $36,610 (1st–8th Grade) Annual tuition for grade 12: N/A Students receiving financial aid: 32% Uniform: No Bus transportation: Yes Teacher retention rate: 90% Interscholastic sports (middle): Soccer, Cross Country, Basketball, Softball Number of art studios: 3 Theater productions per year: Multiple Music ensembles: Middle School Instrumental Ensemble; 4th Grade Chorus Founded: 1934

Holton-Arms School 7303 River Road Bethesda, MD 20817 301-365-5300 www.holton-arms.edu Grades: 3-12 Gender: Girls Total number of students: 665 Average class size: 15 Student/teacher ratio: 6:1 Religious affiliation: None Seniors with National Merit recognition: 30% Grade foreign language first offered: 3 Languages offered: Spanish, Chinese, Latin, French Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $40,695 Annual tuition for grade 12: $41,755 Students receiving financial aid: 23% Uniform: Yes Bus transportation: Yes Number of AP courses offered: 17 Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: 81% Varsity sports: Basketball, Crew, Cross-Coun-

try, Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Softball, Swimming, Diving, Tennis, Track & Field, Volleyball Number of art studios: 7 Theater productions per year: 2 Music ensembles: 17 Accreditations/Affiliations: Accreditations include Association of Independent Maryland Schools and the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Affiliations include National Association of Independent Schools, Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington, Association of Independent Maryland Schools, Parents Council of Washington, National Coalition of Girls Schools, National Middle School Association, Secondary School Admission Test Board, INDEX Founded: 1901

Lowell School 1640 Kalmia Road NW Washington, DC 20012 202-577-2000 www.lowellschool.org

SCHOOL Washington Episcopal School • • • Profile •

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

Enrollment

280

Grades

Nursery (age 3)-8 Average Class Size

Student/Teacher Ratio

7:1

Annual Tuition (Grade 8)

$34,600

Year Founded

1986

Washington Episcopal School (WES) believes that learning should be joyful, because academic excellence and happy children belong together. An independent, co-educational school for students from Nursery through Grade 8, WES is committed to helping every child develop his or her fullest potential. Our skilled, caring and attentive teachers nurture the abilities and talents of each student. The broad and enriched curriculum builds knowledge and strengthens moral awareness, self-reliance and leadership. Our supportive community — true to Episcopal tradition — welcomes and celebrates a diversity of faiths and cultures. WES graduates are accepted, attend and seamlessly transition to a wide variety of top secondary schools. Here, children stand out without burning out. The best way for you to learn about WES is to visit and meet the students and faculty in-person. WES hosts three Open Houses in the fall and offers private tours throughout year. Call today to schedule your visit!

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Grades: PK-8 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 340 Average class size: 16 Student/teacher ratio: 6:1 Religious affiliation: None Seniors with National Merit recognition: N/A Grade foreign language first offered: Kindergarten Languages offered: Spanish Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $17,100 (Half day, Pre-Primary) 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, Co-ed Ultimate Frisbee Number of art studios: 3 Theater productions per year: A variety of music, drama, and dance performances occur

throughout the year in the Primary and Middle Schools. Students perform in class and at schoolwide assemblies and special events. Music ensembles: 4th-5th Grade Chorus, Middle School Chorus, Recorder Consort, Jazz Band, Pop Bands Accreditations/Affiliations: National Association of Independent Schools, The Association of Independent Maryland Schools, The Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington, National Association for the Education of Young Children, Progressive Educators Network, Capital Area Progressive Schools, Black Student Fund, Latino Student Fund, Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, Center for Spiritual and Ethical Education, Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, The Parent Encouragement Program, Secondary School Admission Test, Educational Records Bureau Founded: 1965

The Maddux School 11614 Seven Locks Road

Rockville, MD 20854 301-469-0223 www.madduxschool.org Grades: PK-2 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 55-60 Average class size: 10-12 Student/teacher ratio: 5:1 Religious affiliation: none Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $30,445 Students receiving financial aid: Please inquire Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Number of art studios: 1 Teacher retention rate: Please inquire Accreditations/Affiliations: State approved curriculum Annual Applications per opening: Please inquire Founded: 2004

Massanutten Military Academy 614 S. Main St. Woodstock, VA 22664

spirit of

character

At Washington Episcopal School, our job is not complete until we have helped every child build a strong moral foundation based on ethics, kindness, and character. Students are challenged daily in a balanced, joyful environment that lets kids be kids.

COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF:

Early Childhood (Age 3 to Kindergarten) Open House Thursday, November 9 • 9:30 a.m. All Grades (Age 3 to Grade 8) Open House Saturday, December 9 • 9:30 a.m. Thursday, January 18 • 9:30 a.m. RSVP at www.w-e-s.org/admissions Or call 301-652-7878 to schedule a visit today!

WASHINGTON EPISCOPAL SCHOOL An independent, co-educational school for Nursery – Grade 8 5600 Little Falls Parkway, Bethesda, MD 20816 | www.w-e-s.org

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Guide 540-459-2167 www.militaryschool.com Grades: 6-12, Post Graduate Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 120 Average class size: 10 Student/teacher ratio: 10:1 Religious affiliation: None, but the school has relationships with religious organizations of nearly every faith. Grade foreign language first offered: 7 Languages offered: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $8,800 (inclusive, Day Student) $34,000 (inclusive, 5-Day Boarding) Annual tuition for grade 12: $32,000 (inclusive, 7-Day Boarding) Students receiving financial aid: 20% Uniform: Military Styled Cadet Uniform Bus transportation: Boarding School Number of AP courses offered: 9 Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: 30 Although we offer AP courses, most cadets have switched

to Dual Enrollment options that don’t require an AP exam. Varsity sports: Football, Basketball (Boys and Girls), Lacrosse, Baseball, Softball, Volleyball, Track, Cross Country, Wrestling, Tennis, Rifle, Raiders, Drill Team Number of art studios: 1 Music ensembles: Marching Band Accreditations/Affiliations: NAIS, VAIS, TABS, AMCSUS Founded: 1899

McLean School 8224 Lochinver Lane Potomac, MD 20854 240-395-0698 www.mcleanschool.org Grades: K-12 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 400 Average class size: 10 Student/teacher ratio: 5:1 Grade foreign language first offered: Grade 3 Languages offered: Spanish, Latin, American

Sign Language Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $24,890 Annual tuition for grade 12: $44,675 Students receiving financial aid: 36% Uniform: Yes Bus transportation: Yes Teacher retention rate: 95% Number of AP courses offered: 12 Varsity sports: Volleyball, Softball, Lacrosse, Track & Field, Cross Country, Soccer, Wrestling, Basketball, Dance Interscholastic sports (middle): Volleyball, Softball, Lacrosse, Track & Field, Cross Country, Soccer, Wrestling, Basketball Number of art studios: 3 Theater productions per year: 1 drama/comedy per year, 1 musical per year, 2 musical concerts per division, talent shows Music ensembles: Strings Ensemble, Jazz Band, Rock, Pop & Blues Band, Chorus Accreditations/Affiliations: Maryland Department of Education, National Association of Independent Schools, Association of Independent Maryland Schools, Association of Independent

SCHOOL Beauvoir, The National School Profile Cathedral• Elementary • • 3500 Woodley Road NW washington, dc 20016 202-537-6485 www.beauvoirschool.org

Enrollment

390

Grades

PK-3

Average Class Size

Student/Teacher Ratio

6:1

Year Founded

1933

Beauvoir is an independent elementary school located on the picturesque grounds of the Washington National Cathedral in Northwest Washington, D.C. A Pre-Kindergarten through Third Grade elementary school serving a coed population of approximately 390 students, Beauvoir focuses exclusively on the early childhood and early elementary years. All curricular goals, projects and community decisions, as well as the scale of the classrooms and Beauvoir Outdoors, are designed specifically for children under the age of 10. Beauvoir is French for “beautiful view” and we believe that the most effective education occurs when children are engaged, excited and motivated by a “beautiful view” of learning. For children to make the most of their education, they should be in an elementary school that values them, knows how to challenge and nurture them, and encourages their self-worth and sense of responsibility.

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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 Founded: 1954

The Nora School 955 Sligo Ave. Silver Spring MD 20910 301-495-6672 www.nora-school.org Grades: 9-12 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 70 Average class size: 8 Student/teacher ratio: 5:1 Religious affiliation: None Grade foreign language first offered: 9 Languages offered: Spanish, Latin Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $29,500 Annual tuition for grade 12: $30,100 Students receiving financial aid: 20%

Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Varsity sports: 4 Co-ed JV teams Number of art studios: 2 Music ensembles: 2 Accreditations/Affiliations: NAIS, AISGW and Middle States Accreditation Association Founded: 1964

Norwood School 8821 River Road Bethesda, MD 20817 301-365-2595 www.norwoodschool.org Grades: PK-8 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 440 Average class size: 10-12 Student/teacher ratio: 6 to 1 Religious affiliation: None Grade foreign language first offered: pre-Kindergarten Languages offered: Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, Latin

JOY AND MATH CAN BE USED IN THE SAME SENTENCE.

Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $20,175 Students receiving financial aid: 19% Uniform: Dress Code Bus transportation: Morning and afternoon routes available Interscholastic sports (middle): Soccer, Field Hockey, Volleyball, Basketball, Lacrosse, Baseball, Softball, Cross Country, Track & Field Number of art studios: 4 Theater productions per year: 2 (Fall Play and Spring Musical) Music ensembles: 4 (Choral, Strings, Band, Hand Bells) Accreditations/Affiliations: AIMS, AISGW Founded: 1952

ONENESS-FAMILY MONTESSORI SCHOOL 6701 Wisconsin Ave. Chevy Chase, MD 20815 301-652-7751 www.onenessfamilymontessorischool.org Grades: Ages 2 – Grade 10 Gender: Co-ed

Serving Students Kindergarten – 6th Grade with Learning Disabilities; Language and Sensory Processing Needs; Executive Functioning & Attention Issues; and Social Thinking Challenges

One child. A collaborative community. A world of difference.

Beauvoir offers an extraordinary education designed for early learners. Accepting applications in September for Pre-Kindergarten to Third Grade for the 2018-2019 school year. Please visit www.beauvoirschool. org for more information.

3500 Woodley Road NW Washington, DC 20016 www.beauvoirschool.org

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Guide Total number of students: 145 Average class size: 24 Student/teacher ratio: 12:1 Religious affiliation: Non-sectarian Grade foreign language first offered: PS Languages offered: Spanish and French Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $20,500 Annual tuition for grade 12: N/A Students receiving financial aid: 14% Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Number of AP courses offered: N/A Number of art studios: 1 Theater productions per year: 3 Music ensembles: 2 Accreditations/Affiliations: International Montessori Council / NAIS Founded: 1988

The Primary Day School 7300 River Road Bethesda, MD 20817 301-365-4355 www.theprimarydayschool.org Grades: PK-2

Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 125 Average class size: 16 Student/teacher ratio: 6:1 Religious affiliation: None Grade foreign language first offered: Pre-K Languages offered: Spanish, Chinese, French Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $21,000 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

Randolph-Macon Academy 200 Academy Drive Front Royal, VA 540-636-5484 www.rma.edu Grades: 6-12, plus post graduate Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 330 Average class size: 13

SCHOOL the nora school • • Profile

Student/teacher ratio: 8:1 Religious affiliation: United Methodist Church Grade foreign language first offered: 7 Languages offered: Spanish, French and German Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $27,428 Annual tuition for grade 12: $36,156 Students receiving financial aid: 37.5% Uniform: Yes Bus transportation: No Number of AP courses offered: 18 Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: N/A Varsity sports: 20 Interscholastic sports (middle): 9 Number of art studios: 1 Theater productions per year: 1 Music ensembles: 3 Accreditations/Affiliations: Accredited by VAIS (Virginia Association of Independent Schools) and SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, listed with the University Senate of the United Methodist Church. A Falcon Foundation School. A member of AMCSUS (Association of Military Colleges and Schools of the U.S.) Founded: 1892

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955 Sligo Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20910 301-495-6672 www.nora-school.org

Enrollment

Grades

9-12

Average Class Size

Annual Tuition (Grade 12)

$29,700

Year Founded

1964

Think differently. At The Nora School, these are words we take to heart. This intentionally small, personal, college preparatory high school works to bring out the best in bright students with diverse learning styles. Students turn to us because they’ve become frustrated in large, impersonal institutions, while others seek a richer, more engaging education without the emphasis on standardized testing. In our discussion-based classrooms, we inspire a critical world view, and students find their voice in an intellectually rigorous, accepting, nurturing environment. With a thought-provoking curriculum, inclusive sports and arts programs, Intersession, mindfulness and more, The Nora School helps students find their unique paths and prepare for college, work, and life. Building deep connections between the faculty and students, we encourage responsibility and build confidence and excitement about learning. We’ve expanded, offering more curriculum choices and openings for more students! Discover the essence of our school. RSVP for an Open House or call us to arrange a visit. Come see how our students thrive. Celebrating the same mission for over 50 years. Think Differently.

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Rochambeau, the French International School 9600 Forest Road Bethesda, MD 20814 301-530-8260 www.rochambeau.org Grades: Age 2-Grade 12 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 1,060 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 3rd grade. Languages offered: Spanish, German, Arabic French Baccalaureate: 100% passed: 37% highest honors, 41% high honors, 17% honors Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $17,240 Annual tuition for grade 12: $23,000 Uniform: No Bus transportation: Yes Interscholastic sports: Soccer, Rugby, Basketball, Volleyball, Swimming

Music ensembles: 1 Vocal Theater productions per year: 2 Accreditations/Affiliations: French Ministry of Education, State of Maryland Dept. of Education, International Option Baccalaureate Founded: 1955

The Siena School 1300 Forest Glen Road Silver Spring, MD 20901 301-244-3600 www.thesienaschool.org Grades: 4-12 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 124 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: $38,009 Annual tuition for grade 12: $39,812 Students receiving financial aid: 33% Uniform: No Bus transportation: No

Capitol Hill

Teacher retention rate: 97% Varsity sports: Soccer, Basketball, Volleyball, Tennis, Softball, Jiu Jitsu Interscholastic sports (middle): Soccer, Basketball, Flag Football, 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

Spring Valley Montessori Academy 5144 Massachusetts Ave. Bethesda, MD 20816 202-316-2200 www.springvalleymontessoriacademy.org Grades: Ages 2-5 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 60 Average class size: 14 Student/teacher ratio: 5:1 Religious affiliation: None Seniors with National Merit recognition: N/A

St. Peter School The Key to Educational Excellence since 1868

We’ve Raised the Roof! And We’re Expanding Enrollment

THE NORA SCHOOL Grades 9-12 Inclusive Nurturing College Prep www.nora-school.org

Fall Open House Dates

Friday, November 3, 2017 9 am–10:30 am Friday, December 1, 2017 9 am–10:30 am 422 Third Street, SE • Washington, DC 20003 202-544-1618 • stpeterschooldc.org

National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence

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Guide Grade foreign language first offered: N/A Languages offered: N/A Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $10,600 Annual tuition for grade 12: N/A Students receiving financial aid: N/A Uniform: No Bus transportation: No Teacher retention rate: 100% Number of AP courses offered: N/A Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: N/A Varsity sports: N/A Interscholastic sports (middle): N/A Number of art studios: 1 Theater productions per year: 1 Music ensembles: N/A Accreditations/Affiliations: International Montessori Society Annual applications per opening: N/A Year Founded: 2005

St. Andrew's Episcopal School 8804 Postoak Road, Potomac, MD and 10033 River Road, Potomac, MD 301-983-5200 www.saes.org

Grades: Preschool (Age 2) – Grade 12 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 580 Average class size: 13 Student/teacher ratio: 6:1 Teacher retention rate: 93% Religious affiliation: Episcopal Grade foreign language first offered: Preschool (Age 2) Languages offered: Spanish, French, Mandarin, Latin Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $16,990 Annual tuition for grade 12: $40,650 Uniform: K-5 grades only Bus transportation: Yes Number of AP courses offered: 16 Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: Not provided Varsity sports: 21 Interscholastic sports (middle): 20 Number of art studios: 4 Theater productions per year: 4 Music ensembles: Jazz Band, Symphonic Rock Orchestra, Acapella Club Accreditations/Affiliations: AIMS, AISGW, NAIS,

SCHOOL bullis school Guide • • Profile

MAESA Annual applications per opening: Varies Founded: 1978

St. John's College High School 2607 Military Road NW Chevy Chase, DC 20015 202-363-2316 Grades: 9-12 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 1,100 Average class size: 21 Student/teacher ratio: 12:1 Religious affiliation: Catholic/Lasallian Tradition Seniors with National Merit recognition: 16 Grade foreign language first offered: 9 Languages offered: Spanish, French, Latin Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $19,175 Annual tuition for grade 12: $19,175 Students receiving financial aid: 38% Uniform: Yes Bus transportation: Yes Number of AP courses offered: 24 Students scoring 3+ on AP exams: 76% Varsity sports: Baseball, Basketball, Crew (Fall

PRIVATE SCHOOL

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10601 Falls Road Potomac, MD 20854 301-299-8500 www.bullis.org At Bullis, we believe that the best

Enrollment

845

Grades

K-12

Average Class Size

Student/Teacher Ratio

7:1

Annual Tuition (Grade 12)

$41,057

Year Founded

1930

100

education is achieved through a balance of academics, arts and athletics. Here, students learn and grow, discover their passions, achieve their highest potential and develop the best tools to succeed in college and beyond. At the same time, they are happier and more confident through community-building, service, strong teacher relationships and our healthy Bullis balance. Combining superior academics, arts and athletics with signature programs—in STEM, Entrepreneurship, Visual and Performing Arts, and Humanities and Global Studies—Bullis leads the way in 21st century educational approaches. Located on a 100-acre campus in Potomac, Bullis offers a highly diverse student body and a unique combination of traditional with progressive for all students. Top-rate facilities include the new 70,000-squarefoot Discovery Center with Fab Lab, Entrepreneurship Center, blackbox theater, classrooms and labs, student center and more to engage students in their learning and with each other all day long. Visit during open house on Oct. 29, campus tours throughout the fall or through individual appointments. Learn more at our website or contact the Admission Office at 301-983-5724.

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Founded in 1789, Georgetown Preparatory School is America’s oldest Catholic boarding and day school for young men in grades nine through 12, and the only Jesuit boarding school in the country. Situated on 93 acres in beautiful suburban Washington, D.C., Prep’s mission is to form men of competence, conscience, commitment and compassion; men of faith and men for others. Prep’s campus features state-of-the-art academic, athletic and student centers, small classes and a curriculum that prepares its graduates to earn admission to the world’s best colleges and universities.

10900 ROCKVILLE PIKE | NORTH BETHESDA, MD 20852 | 301-493-5000 | WWW.GPREP.ORG

Dance Model UN National Spelling Bee Writing Economics Printmaking Sculpture Robotics Soccer Politics Astronomy Geo Bee Swimming Math Day Class Mayor Capstone Spanish Basketball Managem Challenge Accepted Poetry Marine Biology Government passionS discovered Martial Arts Photography Illustration Community Service National History Day Entrepreneurship Dance Ensemble Girl Up Experiential Education Track & Field

www.bullis.org Bullis School @BullisSchool Grades K–12 | Potomac, MD | (301) 299-8500

Come visit our school on October 29th at 1pm

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Guide and Spring), Cross Country, Equestrian Team, Field Hockey, Football, Golf, Ice Hockey (Boys and Girls), Lacrosse, Rugby, Soccer, Softball, Swim and Dive, Tennis, Track & Field (Indoor and Outdoor), Volleyball, Wrestling Number of art studios: 2 Theater productions per year: 2-3 Music ensembles: 21 Accreditations/Affiliations: Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, Association of Independent Schools of Greater Washington Annual applications per opening: 4:1 Founded: 1851

St. Peter School 422 Third St. SE Washington, DC 20003 202-544-1618 www.stpeterschooldc.org Grades: PK4 - 8 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 234 Average class size: 23 Student/teacher ratio: 10:1 Religious affiliation: Catholic

Grade foreign language first offered: PK Languages offered: Spanish and Latin Annual tuition: $14,500* Students receiving financial aid: 19% Uniform: Yes Bus transportation: No Teacher retention rate: 90% Interscholastic sports (middle): CYO basketball, track & field, cross country Theater productions per year: 1 Music ensembles: 2 Accreditations/Affiliations: Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Founded: 1868 *Full tuition. There is a discounted tuition rate for Catholics in the Archdiocese of Washington.

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart 9101 Rockville Pike Bethesda, MD 20814 301-657-4322 www.stoneridgeschool.org Grades: Preschool-Grade 12 Gender: Co-ed Preschool, Pre-K, K;

All-girls Grades 1-12 Total student population: 700 Avg. class size: 16 Student/teacher ratio: 11:1 Religious affiliation: Catholic Seniors with National Merit Recognition: National Merit Finalists: 2 National Merit Commended Scholars: 5 National Hispanic Recognition Program: 3 Grade foreign language first offered: Preschool (3 year-olds) Languages offered: French, Spanish, Latin Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $19,900 Annual tuition for Grade 12: $33,900 Uniform: Yes Bus: Yes Number of AP courses offered: 21 Students Scoring 3+ On AP Exams: 70% Varsity sports - high school: Basketball, Crew, Cross Country, Field Hockey, Golf, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Swimming/Diving, Soccer, Softball, Squash, Tennis, Track & Field, Volleyball, Winter Indoor Track Club Level: Archery, Equestrian Interscholastic sports - middle school: Basket-

SCHOOL westmoreland children’s center Guide • • • Profile PRIVATE SCHOOL

5148 massachusetts ave. bethesda, md 20816 301-229-7161 www.wccbethesda.com

Enrollment

142

Grades

Age 2-5 Average Class Size

12-15

Student/Teacher Ratio

12:3

Annual Tuition for 5-day Students

$17,150

Year Founded

1970

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A respect for children is the heart of WCC’s philosophy. We recognize and value each child’s individuality. We promote self-esteem and facilitate growth in each aspect of development. We provide emotional development for children by building confidence, trust and independence. We want children to enjoy the school experience, to feel good about transitioning from home to school. We help children learn how to join, understand and play in a group. We offer a curriculum rich in concrete experiences that expand a child’s knowledge and understanding. Through individual and group activities, skills in communication, language development, social studies, mathematics, science, pre-reading and problem solving are strengthened. We view play as an essential part of development to any child. In the context of imaginative play, children are able to set up, resolve social and emotional conflicts, extend their ideas about the world, and expand conversational skills. WCC is licensed and accredited by the State of Maryland and the Office of Child Care. WCC is the only NAEYC accredited preschool in the 20816 ZIP code.

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come Grow With us Serving the Community Since 1970 Westmoreland Children's Center believes that play is essential to a child's overall development. At W CC, we know children learn best by investigating, exploring and playing. Students develop social, physical, and cognitive skills through interactive, hands-on experiences.wee is licensed by the Division of Early Childhood Development/Office of Child Care of the Maryland State Department of Education as a nursery school and as a child care center. Our preschool programs are accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).

Three Locations in Bethesda

301-229-7161 www.wccbethesda.com

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Guide ball, Cross Country Field Hockey, Golf, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Swimming, Softball, Tennis, Track And Field, Volleyball Number of art studios: 3 Theater productions per year: 2 in upper school, 2 in middle school Music ensembles: Upper School Heartfelt (A Cappella), Middle School RidgeSound (A Cappella), Chorus, Handbells, Instrumental Ensemble, Band, Orchestra and Junior Chorus 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 Founded: 1923

Washington Episcopal School 5600 Little Falls Parkway Bethesda, MD 20816

301-652-7878 www.w-e-s.org Grades: Nursery-8 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 280 Average class size: 14 Student/teacher ratio: 6:1 Religious affiliation: Episcopal Grade foreign language first offered: Age 4 Languages offered: French, Spanish, Latin Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $10,695 Annual tuition for Grade 8: $34,600 Students receiving financial aid: 23% Uniform: Yes Bus transportation: No Teacher retention rate: Average tenure of 15 years Interscholastic Sports: Soccer, Cross-Country, Basketball, Lacrosse, Track, Swimming 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; Mid-Atlantic Episcopal

Schools Association; National Association of Episcopal Schools; National Association of Independent Schools; Independent Education; Black and Latino Student Fund. Founded: 1986

Westmoreland Children’s Center 5148 Massachusetts Ave. Bethesda, MD 20816 301-229-7161 www.wccbethesda.com Grades: age 2-5 Gender: Co-ed Total number of students: 142 Average class size: 12 to 15 Student/teacher ratio: 12:3 Religious affiliation: None Lowest tuition for 5-day students: $17,150 for full day Uniforms: No Bus Transportation: No Teach retention rate: 97% Accreditations/Affiliations: NAEYC Accredited Founded: 1970

SCHOOL oneness-family montessori school • • • Profile •

6701 wisconsin ave. chevy chase, MD 20815 301-652-7751 admissions@onenessfamily. org www.onenessfamilymontessorischool.org

Enrollment

145

Grades

ages 2-grade 10 Average Class Size

Student/Teacher Ratio

12:1

Lowest Tuition for 5-day students:

Oneness-Family Montessori School serves students Ages 2- Grade 10, providing the very best in Montessori education since 1988. Our unique program focuses on both character and curriculum, offering a diverse international community within an academically rich environment. This has enabled us to prepare our students to be the global leaders of tomorrow who can think in creative and dynamic ways for an ever-changing world. This September we will launch the first Montessori IB high school in the MidAtlantic region. Visit our website at www. onenessfamilymontessorischool.org or come in for a tour to see 21st century education in action.

$20,500

Year Founded

1988

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Designing Education for the 21st Century Ages 2â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Grade 12 Enrolling for Fall 2017 An Independent Montessori School Steps from Downtown Bethesda A Vibrant International Community 6701 Wisconsin Avenue Chevy Chase, MD 20815 301-652-7751 www.onenessfamilyschool.org

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SCHOOL Guide holton-arms school Profile Guide • • • PRIVATE SCHOOL PRIVATE SCHOOL

7303 River Road Bethesda, MD 20817 301-365-5300 admit@holton-arms.edu www.holton-arms.edu

Enrollment

665

Grades

3-12

Average Class Size

Student/Teacher Ratio

6:1

Annual Tuition (Grade 12)

$41,755

Year Founded

1901

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Holton’s Global Education curriculum prepares students to become agents of positive change locally, nationally and globally. Across all three divisions, the school creates opportunities inside and outside the traditional classroom for students to explore the world, develop disciplinary and interdisciplinary expertise, recognize and understand multiple perspectives, and discover their potential to impact their own communities and beyond. In 2014, Holton established the Global Scholars Honors Designation to encourage and recognize Upper School students interested in global learning. To earn the designation, students must: STUDY four-years of a World Language: Chinese, French, Latin or Spanish COMPLETE the Grade 11 Global Perspectives Class TRAVEL on a school-led Global Education Journey to China, India or Peru at the end of Junior Year CONDUCT a Senior Project on one of the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals As a result of making Global Education an institutional priority, thinking globally is part of the culture at Holton. Our students graduate with greater self-knowledge, which influences their commitment to intellectual curiosity, affects their worldview and inspires their leadership well into the future.

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Who is a Holton girl? a Holton girl is someone Is who: Loves to learn eager to explore Might be an artist, athlete, scholar, or all three Works hard, yet knows how to have fun Hears •

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our motto, “I will find a way or make one,” and thinks,

yes, that’s me!

Sound like anybody you know?

AdmISSIonS open HouSe Sunday, October 29, 2017

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“To say that our daughter has flourished at CESJDS would be an understatement. She has become an amazing self-advocate, socially has thrived and has a new appreciation for what it means to be Jewish.” – Jennifer Plotnek, parent

Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (CESJDS) is a JK-12 independent school that engages students in an exemplary and inspiring general and Jewish education.

VISIT OUR COMMUNITY! Lower School (JK-5) Open House Tuesday, November 7, 7:30 PM 1901 E. Jefferson St., Rockville, MD

Upper School (6-12) Open House Sunday, November 5, 4:30 PM 11710 Hunters Lane, Rockville, MD

More Info & RSVP: www.cesjds.org/events www.cesjds.org

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SCHOOL montessori academy Profile spring valley • • • 5144 massachusetts ave. bethesda, md 20816 202-316-2200 www.springvalleymontessoriacademy.org

Enrollment

Ages

2-5

Student/teacher ratio

5:1

Annual Tuition (for 5-day students)

$10,600

Year Founded

2005

Spring Valley Montessori Academy's (SVMA) awardwinning program combines the Montessori method with creative learning. SVMA, established in 2005 by Christine Lonergan, emphasizes fostering every child’s independence and confidence. The Academy’s student/teacher ratio (1:5) allows for individualized attention with a variety of small, large, and mixed age learning. Families are provided with 2-3-5-day options. Daily lesson plans incorporate six interrelated areas: practical life, sensorial, language, mathematics, social studies and science. The cheerful Tulip, Daisy and Sunflower classrooms invite curiosity and exploration. They are designed to encourage a child’s innate interests and introduce the joys of learning through stimulating and enriching materials. We believe in maintaining healthy bodies and minds. Our outstanding Exercise Program is recognized by the former First Lady Michelle Obama‘s nationwide initiative, Let’s Move! In addition to the 9 am-noon hours, SVMA offers Afternoon Enrichment courses. SVMA is conveniently located for families residing in Bethesda, Chevy Chase and Northwest D.C. The Academy’s talented staff, colorful interior, green garden and welcoming playground provide the ideal introduction to school. Every day is a great day at SVMA!

Ready to Take on the World At Lowell, children gain the knowledge and skills to become the creative leaders and problem-solvers our world needs.

Sign up for a tour to learn more. 1640 Kalmia Road NW Washington, DC 20012 www.lowellschool.org admissions@lowellschool.org Bus service available in MD/DC BETHESDAMAGAZINE.COM | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017

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SCHOOL International School Profile German Washington D.C. Enrollment

500

Grades

age 2-grade 12 Average Class Size

Annual Tuition (Grade 12)

$20,685

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8617 Chateau Drive Potomac, MD 20854 301-767-3807 admissions@giswashington.org www.giswashington.org

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Located in a quiet neighborhood in Potomac, the German International School Washington provides students with a unique international perspective by combining the best of both U.S. and German academic education. We teach students from over 20 different countries side by side and give them the opportunity to earn the U.S. High School Diploma and the German International Abitur. With these degrees, our students are well equipped to attend prestigious universities in the U.S., in Germany and all around the world. For children age 2 through 12th grade, our school creates a unique, multicultural and multilingual experience in a warm and nurturing environment. Knowledge of German is not required for admission to our pre-K and Kindergarten (School Entry Level) programs. Extended care is available up to and including 9th grade until 5 p.m. and our school buses serve D.C., Maryland and Northern Virginia. As the only German full-time day school in the area and one of over 140 recognized German Schools Abroad worldwide, we offer an attractive alternative to other American independent schools. Visit our Open Houses on Nov. 10, 2017 and March 2, 2018, or call us to schedule a private tour!

Building Strong Foundations for Learning and Friendship

OPEN HOUSE: Nov. 10, 2017 age 2 - grade 12

The Maddux School

Pre-K through Second Grade

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Offering an innovative transdisciplinary curriculum targeting social skills, self-esteem, and academic success. 11614 Seven Locks Road • Rockville, MD 301-469-0223

www.madduxschool.org

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SCHOOL day school Profile The primary • • •

7300 River road bethesda, md 20817 301-365-4355 www.theprimarydayschool.org

Enrollment

125

Grades

Pk-2

Average Class Size

Student/Teacher Ratio

6:1

Year Founded

1944

The Primary Day School, a demonstration school for the Phonovisual Method, is a nondenominational, diverse, coeducational, independent school for children in PreKindergarten through Second Grade. The school’s warm and supportive atmosphere encourages the development of students intellectually, morally, physically and emotionally, according to each child’s gifts and talents. Our rich and varied curriculum cultivates a love of learning in every child while assuring a strong academic foundation. Our teachers enjoy a deep understanding of childhood and devote time and attention to help children learn at a pace that’s right for them. In addition to Math, Reading, Writing, STEM and Social Studies, we offer World Languages, Technology, Art, Music and Physical Education. Primary Day provides before-school care as well as a variety of after-school enrichment options for families. Individual tours are offered during the school day and Open Houses are hosted on November 15, 2017 and January 7, 2018. For additional information about Primary Day, please visit our website or telephone the Admission Office.

“Be Who You Are and Be That Well.” —St. Francis de Sales

Georgetown Visitation students become their best selves by discovering their God-given gifts and using them for others, preparing them for exceptional lives in college and beyond.

THREE WAYS TO EXPLORE OUR SCHOOL THIS FALL OPEN HOUSE Saturday, October 14, 1–4 p.m. PARENT INFORMATION NIGHT Wednesday, November 1, 6 p.m. STUDENT CUB FOR A DAY VISITS Register for any and all at visi.org/admissions

An all-girls Catholic high school in Georgetown. Learn more at visi.org 202.337.3350 /visidc

www.ThePrimaryDaySchool.org

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SCHOOL Profile the siena• school•

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1300 Forest Glen Road Silver Spring, MD 301-244-3600 www.thesienaschool.org

Enrollment

115

Grades

4-12

Average Class Size

Student/Teacher Ratio

10:1

Lowest Tuition for 5-day students

$36,547

Year Founded

2006

Siena is known for providing individualized reading/language remediation through daily reading classes offering explicit, systematic instruction in the five essential skills identified by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Our focus is bright, creative, college-bound students in grades 4-12, with mild to moderate language-based learning differences. At Siena, a critical component of our engaging and successful learning environment is the value we place on an interdisciplinary curriculum, packed with experiential learning and integrated arts. Siena’s arts program includes substantial experiences in the fine and performing arts. Courses in history and literature are connected thematically and topically, and other subjects draw on the themes and topics covered in the humanities. Through highly individualized, research-based, multisensory instruction and curriculum-related field trips, our students develop critical thinking skills and acquire the tools and strategies needed to become successful and independent learners, prepared for college. The Siena School is conveniently located on Forest Glen Road in Silver Spring, off the Beltway, just past Holy Cross Hospital and near the Forest Glen Metro station.

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

Enrollment

300

Grades

18 months-grade 12 Average Class Size

Annual Tuition (Grade 12)

$32,100

Year Founded

1932

Located on 45 acres in Silver Spring, just minutes from the ICC and Glenmont Metro, Barrie combines a natural setting of woods, trails, streams, stables and ponds with thoughtfully designed, award-winning learning environments, performance spaces and athletics facilities. Through Barrie Montessori (age 18 months-Grade 5) and Barrie Prep (Grades 6-12), we emphasize academic and personal excellence. We nurture students who are intellectually curious, socially engaged and prepared to take on the challenges of college and life. Barrie students are known and valued as individuals. From our youngest toddlers to our graduating seniors, Barrie provides a balance of autonomy, responsibility and personal attention in an environment that emphasizes academic and personal excellence. Also home to Barrie Camp and the Institute for Advanced Montessori Studies.

Extraordinary Environment for Learning Serving students age 18 months through Grade 12

Limited spaces available for fall 2017!

Barrie School

13500 Layhill Road Silver Spring, MD 20906

barrie.org

301.576.2800 admission@barrie.org

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SCHOOL school Profile norwood • •

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

Enrollment

440

Grades

PK-8

Average Class Size

10-12

Student/Teacher Ratio

6:1

Lowest Tuition for 5-day Students

$20,175

Year Founded

1952

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. 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. 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.

Our unique approach to education involves an environment built on collaboration, critical thinking, and innovation! We offer a full STEM curriculum, AP and Dual Enrollment Courses as well as an Academic PostGraduate Year!

Our JROTC program is recognized as an honor unit with distinction, and our JLAB Team is considered one of the TOP 8 academic programs in the country!

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SCHOOL school Profile green acres • •

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

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Enrollment

250

Grades

age 3-Grade 8 Average Class Size

10-12

Student/Teacher Ratio

5:1

Annual Tuition (Grade 8)

$36,610

Year Founded

1934

Voted “Best K–8 School” by Bethesda Magazine’s readers in 2014 and named “A Top Vote Getter” in 2016, Green Acres School is among the nation’s foremost progressive schools. Green Acres School ignites a love of learning in every child, providing students with meaningful, rigorous challenges that empower them to tap into their intellect, curiosity, compassion, determination and innate joy for learning. Teachers at Green Acres are experts in education and child development. They skillfully blend innovation, brain research and tradition to help students develop into determined makers and risk takers, and driven learners. 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 the forest and streams—particularly advantageous for STEAM learning across all divisions—playgrounds and athletic fields. The school was named a Maryland Green School in 2015. To register for an open house, go to www.greenacres.org/visit.

Located in

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North Bethesda, in the heart of the

Experience the joy of learningThe

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OPEN HOUSES

Grades 9–12: Sunday, October 15 · 12:00-2:30 pm Grades 3–8: Tuesday, October 17 · 8:30 am Little Hearts Early Childhood Program–Grade 2: Wednesday, October 18 · 8:30 am Empowering leaders to serve with faith, intellect, and confidence. Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic, independent, college preparatory school for girls, Grades 1-12, with a co-educational Early Childhood Program, infants through Kindergarten. Located in Bethesda. Maryland. DC, MD and VA bus transportation available.

www.stoneridgeschool.org

Join us for

Discovery Day! A Green Acres education is hands on—not heads down. Come discover how our progressive educational framework promotes innovation, intellectual risk taking, and the confidence to approach the most demanding of academic challenges with creativity and vigor. Schedule a tour at our campus in North Bethesda www.greenacres.org | 301.881.4100 | Age 3–Grade 8 BETHESDAMAGAZINE.COM | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017

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SCHOOL Auburn School, Profile The Silver Spring Campus Enrollment

Grades

K-8

Average Class Size

Student/Teacher Ratio

8:2

Year Founded

2011

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9545 Georgia Ave. Silver Spring, MD 20910 301-588-8048 info@theauburnschool.org www.theauburnschool.org

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The Auburn School grows the social and academic potential of bright students with social and communication challenges. 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. 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. The Auburn School has campuses in Silver Spring, Fairfax, Virginia and Baltimore.

CONCORD HILL SCHOOL 6050 Wisconsin Avenue | Chevy Chase, MD 20815 301-654-2626 | www.concordhill.org

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To schedule a visit, contact Susan Arzt, Director of Admission & Financial Aid, call 301.654.2626 or email sarzt@concordhill.org.

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SCHOOL academy Profile randolph-macon • • • • 200 Academy Drive Front Royal, VA 800-272-1172 540-636-5484

Enrollment

330

Grades

6-12, plus post graduate Average Class Size

Annual Tuition (Grade 12)

$36,156

Year Founded

1892

www.rma.edu

Accepted to top colleges and universities and averaging over $6 million in college scholarships annually, each graduating class at Randolph-Macon Academy is full of young men and women who are ready to rise to future challenges in college and in life. A boarding school for students in grades 6-12 and postgraduates, Randolph-Macon features a safe, positive environment for spiritual, intellectual, athletic and character development. Students in grades 9-12 learn leadership skills through Air Force JROTC and have the opportunity to fly in school-owned aircraft. The middle school provides an interactive, structured community, with a separate campus and uniform. Students experience personal attention in small classes, tutorial sessions, mentoring groups and scheduled study halls. Advanced Placement courses and college credits are available. Extracurricular opportunities include sports, band, chorus, drama, drill team and more. Founded in 1892 and affiliated with the United Methodist Church, the Academy is accredited by the Virginia Association of Independent Schools and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The 135-acre campus is conveniently located 70 miles west of Washington, D.C.

• Ages 2 through K • AM, PM & All Day • Limited spaces available

301-340-7704

www.genevadayschool.org

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addicted? Our teens can’t live without their phones—and the consequences are troubling BY DINA ELBOGHDADY

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Former journalists Lissa Muscatine and Bradley Graham were seen as unlikely successors.

Fifty percent of teens say they “feel addicted” to mobile devices, according to a recent Common Sense Media poll.

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phone for more than two hours a day. Determined to rein herself in further, Olivia drafted a contract allowing herself to check email only once a day and to use technology only as needed for homework. Some classmates allowed for check-ins with their parents or listening to music. But Olivia opted out of all that, and even coaxed her mother to cut back on her use of technology for the duration of the project, which started on a Wednesday. The first three days went smoothly enough. “I felt I had all this time because I had two hours of my day added back,” Olivia says. “It was relaxing not to be constantly accessible.” She went to bed earlier. She focused more on her homework. Olivia, who was editor-in-chief of her school paper, even managed to keep up with current events after turning off news alerts from different media operations. Reading the newspaper felt less chaotic; she felt like she could control how much she wanted to know. And that “missing out” feeling faded. But then came the weekend, and suddenly Olivia was at a loss for a way to fill her time outside of school. She couldn’t watch a movie or log in to social media. Making plans with friends got complicated. More than once, friends showed up at her doorstep to inform her of a change in plans. She took long walks and napped a lot. But she was at loose ends without her phone. “I still had positive feelings about the project, but I hadn’t planned ahead for what I was going to do with all that extra time,” Olivia says. “My generation as a whole is not used to being alone and having time to spare.”

FOR TEENS AND THEIR parents, it’s tough to gauge how much is too much when it comes to phone usage. Fifty percent of teens say they “feel addicted” to mobile devices, and 59 percent of their parents agree with that assessment, according to a poll released last year by

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Montgomery County public schools allow high school students to have cellphones on campus. Here, teens demonstrate a typical dismissal scene.

Common Sense Media, a nonprofit dedicated to helping families make smart media choices. This so-called addiction often leads to conflicts at home, with 32 percent of teens and 36 percent of parents reporting that they argue about the devices daily, according to the survey, which polled children between the ages of 12 and 18 and their parents. Families and mental health experts agree that the primary source of tension appears to be the smartphone. The device was a niche product more than a decade ago. But the advent of the BlackBerry in the business world (also known as the

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OLIVIA GONZALEZ GOT HER first iPhone during her freshman year of high school. Since then, it has been the newly minted senior’s primary portal to the online world and all of its distractions. On Snapchat, Twitter and Instagram, she has compulsively checked who was doing what and where. She has snapped selfies. And she’s texted friends near and far. During the summer before her junior year at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, she came to wonder if her phone was nothing more than a source of misery. “I felt anxious and irritable on it,” she admits. With dread, she’d go onto any of her social media apps and wonder: What will I see that I wasn’t invited to today? As that summer drew to a close and the demands of a heavy academic workload loomed, Olivia made a conscious effort to cut back on her phone usage and dramatically reduce her time on social media. “I was using apps when I didn’t really want to, when I knew I was getting nothing out of it,” says Olivia, 17, who lives in Silver Spring. It was information overload, especially since the phone bombarded her with texts, news alerts and social media notifications. In the spring of her junior year, she signed up for the “digital downtime” project offered to Blair students who participate in one of the school’s magnet programs. The project encourages them to limit screen time—phones, computers and all other digital technology—for one week. Each student must write a contract specifying the restrictions that they will impose on themselves. The goal is to unplug as much as possible, staying away from social media and frivolous Internet searching. But before they do, they must keep a log of their screen time, both the hours and specific uses. Olivia thought she’d be in good shape going into it since she’d already whittled down her phone use. But in tracking her time, she learned that she was still on her

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“Crackberry” for its addictive nature), the surge in social networking and the mass acquisition of smartphones revolutionized the way we live, especially after the 2007 launch of the Apple iPhone with its groundbreaking touchscreen technology. As the phones gained popularity with adults, many children ended up with their parents’ castoffs. For many teens, the smartphone is now a rite of passage. A poll released this year by the Pew Research Center found that 92 percent of children own a cellphone of some type before graduating from high school, and more than half own smartphones.

“It’s changing the way childhood looks,” says Edward Spector, a psychologist in Bethesda who specializes in the healthy use of technology. Teens are doing what teens have always done, learning by trial and error through social interactions at school and in public spaces, Spector says. For older generations, those spaces were shopping malls, football games or town centers. Now the spaces are online, and they’re massive. Parents want to help their teens cope, but moms and dads are navigating terrain that didn’t exist in their youth. “That’s at the heart of parental angst

now,” Spector says. “The technology is changing so dramatically and quickly that we’re constantly in catch-up mode. Kids are the first responders.” Research can’t keep up with the changes either, and the study of how technology affects the brain and social development remains in its infancy. The term “addiction” is used freely and often in that realm, particularly as it applies to the Internet. But Internet addiction is not officially recognized as a mental disorder in the United States, though there’s a robust debate on whether it should be. The American Psychiatric

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Association is considering a draft definition of video-gaming addiction to determine if it qualifies as a mental disorder. But experts are still trying to get their arms around how to define addiction in terms of phones, other mobile devices and the Internet itself. Some psychiatrists view the Internet merely as a vehicle for an underlying disorder. A recent article in The New Yorker summed up the thinking of these experts this way: “If you spend your time gambling online, maybe you have a gambling addiction, not an Internet addiction. If you spend your time shopping 120

online, maybe it’s a shopping addiction.” While researchers try to sort through these matters, parents are grappling with the practical issues, unsure of how to distinguish the normal from the problematic. Spector says the telltale signs of a serious problem are not subtle. In his practice, Spector sees patients—ranging from tweens to young adults—who are compulsively gaming or using the Internet via any technology they can get their hands on. Many of his patients are struggling at school and sabotaging their relationships because they can’t

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stay away from their screens, he says. They’re lying about their screen time. Some slip out of class to the bathroom just to play a game on their phones or watch porn, he says. They’re overweight or painfully thin, and they often suffer from a vitamin D deficiency because they’re rarely outdoors. Many pick fights online, where they post provocative comments on their perceived area of expertise, maybe gaming culture. For the most part, these patients have significant mental illnesses that are intersecting with their use of technology, according to Spector. “They’re fleeing to technology as a way of escaping from their problems and doing so at the expense of their functioning,” Spector says. There’s a seasonal component to his workload. September, when students are just settling in at school, is quiet time, Spector says. Calls to his office ramp up when teachers start handing out test scores and report cards, or when they introduce Chromebooks into the classroom. That’s when impulsecontrol problems tend to surface. But the hair-on-fire calls begin in May, when private schools refuse to renew a student’s contract. They continue well into the summer, when college students confess to their parents that they’ve failed out of college because they were attached to their screens and didn’t show up for class. “They’re staying up until 5 in the morning, then collapsing,” he says. But these are the extreme clinical cases, Spector says. For teens who are immersed in technology but otherwise thriving, there’s a lot of room for staying calm and putting everything in perspective. “What parents bring to the table is a higher order of executive functioning skills that kids don’t have, and a whole lot of experience and wisdom,” Spector says. “What’s most important is that we teach our kids our values, which are not bound in a particular context. Those values can be transferred.”

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FIVE YEARS AGO, KEVIN SHINDEL read an article that cited alarming statistics about the number of teens who wake up at night to send or respond to text messages. (One 2010 study reported that they were averaging 34 texts or emails after bedtime.) As a teacher, Shindel was intrigued by the data, so he asked his students how many of them engaged in this type of late-night texting. “I couldn’t believe how many hands shot up,” Shindel says, adding that more than half of the students acknowledged they did. The response inspired him to launch the “digital downtime” project in April 2012 at Montgomery Blair High School. The goal of the weeklong digital detox, Shindel says, is to push students to reflect on why they’re so attached to screens of all types. That’s why he asks them to log their daily technology usage before getting started. When they write contracts committing to a digital-free week, many carve out exceptions, some of which are eye-openers for him. A few girls, for instance, reserve the right to pull out their phones and fake a conversation, a tactic that helps them ward off unwanted advances from strangers, he says. Shindel insists he’s not a sky-is-falling kind of guy, but he has deep reservations about round-the-clock digital connectedness and overload. “You can walk down the halls and look into any classroom and the kids will have three or four screens operating,” says Shindel, who has been teaching at Blair for 15 years. “They’ll have their Chromebooks out. They’re looking at videos on each other’s screens. They’re looking at the SmartBoards. And they have their phones out. It’s a lot.” But the one screen that students have the most trouble abandoning during digital downtime is the one on their phones. Last year, one female student who participated in the project simply could not give up her phone for more than five or six hours at a time. She felt bad about

it, but not enough to change her ways, says Shindel, who describes the student as “a happy, social kid.” Shindel did not penalize her for breaking the contract. The grading is based on each person’s ability to reflect on the experience. This student felt that her phone use was well within the norm for her peer group, Shindel says, and it served as a lifeline to her friends. “I think these kids rely so heavily on their friends for validation,” he says, “that they just don’t want to miss out on anything.” There’s a phrase for that: Fear of Missing Out, or FOMO. It’s a phenomenon that took off when the rise of social networking and smartphones enabled

Think of all the social media platforms teens access on their phones, and the hundreds of people they’re connected to, Pletter says. They may scroll through one feed and see photos of preschool buddies together at the mall. Then they’ll spot selfies of a few camp buddies hanging out, and then more photos of more friends at a sleepover. And they’ll be viewing all this in a matter of minutes. They can even watch events unfold in real time because Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook have live features. Even if they took part in one event, it’s never good enough. “With teens, there’s no ‘I’m satisfied. I have met my quota for the day, and I’m going to sleep now,’ ” Pletter

32 PERCENT OF TEENS AND 36 PERCENT OF PARENTS SAY THEY ARGUE DAILY ABOUT THE USE OF MOBILE DEVICES. —COMMON SENSE MEDIA POLL us to see what everybody else is doing all the time and to wish that we were also doing it. In 2013, Oxford Dictionaries Online added the phrase, defining it as “anxiety that an exciting or interesting event may currently be happening elsewhere, often aroused by posts seen on a social media website.” Adam Pletter, a child psychologist in Bethesda, says it’s not the “fear of” part of the equation but rather the “missing out” part that’s tough for teens these days. “It’s almost a constant and never-ending chronic level of missing out,” says Pletter, who runs a workshop about parenting and technology called iParent 101. “It’s an onslaught of one upset after another, and when you put many of these upsets together, that leads to a level of trauma. I use the word trauma because it feels traumatic to kids I see in my practice who are prone to feeling left out or bullied.”

says. “They always need more and more.” Doug Fagen, director of the Reservoir Psychology Group at The Lab School of Washington in Northwest D.C., says it’s not just about missing out on an event. It’s also about missing out on what other people are saying about them. “A lot of social media content is commenting on something somebody else did or said, or a picture. It’s about: How do other people see me? Am I good enough?” Fagen says. “Before, you could go to school and put on the mask of who you want to be, then come home and take it off. Today, technology means you’re always presenting yourself to a group.” Teens are constantly curating that presentation, snapping selfies, tracking how many followers they have, and comparing the feedback they get to what their friends receive. That barrage of input from a large

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TIPS FROM THE EXPERTS CHECK IN BEFORE BEDTIME “Teens need 9 to 9 ½ hours of sleep each night. But the light from something as tiny as a cellphone screen can cue their brain to be awake. If teens are using their phones or computers past 9 p.m., they should use the built-in programs on the iPhone and Android operating systems that filter the phone screen’s blue light. They can also buy the Uvex orange lens sunglasses to filter out the blue light.” —Dr. Helene Emsellem, medical director, The Center for Sleep & Wake Disorders, Chevy Chase

LAY THE GROUND RULES “Parents should create a contract as early as possible detailing phone use rules. Use tools such as ‘Ask to Buy,’ a built-in feature in Apple products that forces kids to gain parental permission before downloading apps. I know of children as young as 10 who have watched 13 Reasons Why (the controversial Netflix teen suicide drama) because they had access to the Netflix app on their phones and their parents didn’t know about it until after their child got upset by the show. Parents need to be aware of what’s happening on their child’s device.”—Adam Pletter, child psychologist and founder of iParent 101, Bethesda

TEACH THEM THAT IT’S A PRIVILEGE “Teens need to know that having a phone is a privilege that is earned. If parents take the phone away from their teen for negative behaviors, the consequences should be logical and predictable. Do not take the phone away indefinitely. You need to reinforce the idea that a person can make mistakes, learn from them and earn back a privilege. When teens say that taking away their phones causes too much discomfort or stress, it is an opportunity to teach other effective strategies for dealing with those uncomfortable emotions. It’s important to learn a variety of coping skills.” —Avy Stock, psychologist, and child and adolescent program director, The Ross Center for Anxiety & Related Disorders, Friendship Heights, D.C.

MONITOR USE DURING HOMEWORK TIME “Having the phone within easy reach when kids are doing their homework can be a bad idea. Research shows that a phone’s mere presence is distracting even if it’s not in use. If students insist they need the phone for their homework, limit screen time to half an hour or so. If it’s a group chat, designate a communal space where they are within earshot. The presence of a parent tends to keep children on task.” —Tina Melendez and Meredith Rice, co-founders of AIM Education Strategy, Bethesda

REMEMBER THAT PRIVACY MATTERS “Technology should be an ongoing dialogue with your teen, not just a one-time talk when they get their phones. Ask them which apps and social media platforms they like and why. Listen—without judgment—to why they’re posting the things they’re posting online. And talk to them about what privacy means to you, keeping in mind that your definition will differ from theirs. Remember what it felt like talking to your own parents, and ask yourself: Is your goal to prevent your child from making a mistake now, or to build trust so they are comfortable talking to you about difficult issues in the future?”—Doug Fagen, director of the Reservoir Psychology Group at The Lab School of Washington, Northwest D.C. 122

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audience can push teens to hang on too tightly to what others say, distract them from schoolwork and even lead them to hurt themselves if there’s bullying involved. Not every teen is susceptible to the damaging fallout, Fagen says. But many of them are fixated on becoming the person others most want to be around on social media. “It’s a highanxiety game,” Fagen says. “We’re taking a really shiny red sports car, giving the keys to a 13-year-old and saying: ‘Just drive the speed limit.’ ” Many mental health experts say the amount of self-control being asked of teens these days is unreasonable, especially given that their prefrontal cortex—the part of the brain that controls impulses, emotions, decisionmaking and other factors that affect judgment—is not fully developed. This makes it difficult for them to manage social media and other apps, which tend to coax users into bingeing by rewarding them with “likes” and feedback that induce a dopamine high, releasing feelgood neurotransmitters in the brain that keep them coming back. The New York Times recently reported that scientists are even exploring whether teens are replacing drugs with smartphones. Researchers are intrigued that teen drug use has dropped during the same stretch of time that teen adoption of smartphones and tablets has surged. They want to know if teens are using drugs less because they’re constantly stimulated and entertained by their computers and phones, which may fill the same thrill-seeking impulses and cravings for independence, the article says. Many of these issues come up in Shindel’s class, and he says he’s received overwhelmingly positive feedback from his students and their parents, many of whom marveled that their teens could unplug for an entire week. During the past school year, one family even unplugged together, and the mother wrote an essay on her thoughts about the experience. But on occasion, parents push back a

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ONE ROCKVILLE MOTHER, WHO didn’t want to be named, says her son wasn’t into social media when he got his phone as a fifth-grade graduation gift. He was mostly using it to play games and occasionally text his classmates. She was happy to give it to him, figuring he’d soon start to hang out with his friends without adult supervision. She wanted to make sure he could reach her if he needed to and that she could call or text him. It gave her peace of mind to be able to check on his whereabouts if she hadn’t heard from him for hours. But his phone ultimately became a major source of anxiety for her, she says. The family’s sharing plan enabled her to receive all his texts on her phone. As he grew older—he’s now an eighthgrader—and his social life got busier, her phone practically blew up as his friends began to arrange their outings by texting each other. “What I noticed is that he wouldn’t respond to his texts,” she says. She began nagging him about it. “I was like, ‘Respond already. Are you going or not?’ ” she says. “He didn’t seem to care, and his friends didn’t seem to care. Things would work out. But I was getting emotionally involved. I needed to step away, and he needed some independence. We both needed space.” Last March she disconnected from his text messages. She’s feeling much more relaxed. “I never realized how exhausting it was,” she says. Sam Erdheim of Derwood says he came to realize early on that he couldn’t

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KATHY AITKEN OF ROCKVILLE says she did not have the luxury of being able to constantly monitor her four daughters’ phone use as they grew up, even if she’d wanted to. Her daughters—ages 16, 18, 20 and 22—each got their own phones when they turned 13. Aitken was working part time when her oldest daughter, Ruth, got hers. It was an old-style flip phone with cumbersome texting features. Aitken was home in the afternoons to keep a watchful eye on Ruth and keep her on task with homework. But as the girls got older, Aitken worked full time to help pay college tuition. “They’d get home before I did,” says Aitken, a physical therapist. “It’s possible they were on the phone every minute until my car pulled into the driveway.”

And the phones got more sophisticated, making it harder to pry them away. The devices became a go-to source of entertainment for her girls. No longer did they reach for a book when they woke up on weekend mornings, she says. Aitken sometimes longs for simpler times, when the typical family had one landline and the kids fought over it, as she and her siblings did when they were teens. None of them could spend hours on the phone. And when they did use it, at least they heard a voice on the other end. Unlike with texting, you could pick up on social cues, such as a long pause, a sigh, or a change in tone. Aitken says the interactions on texts and social media lack an intimacy that she thinks is important to developing social ties. Her daughter Abby, 16, says she understands why her mother gets frustrated with the smartphones. Abby concedes that perhaps she spends too much time on her phone, mostly using Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter—maybe for an hour after school, she says. The junior at Montgomery Blair talks of the benefits of using the apps—she has a place to express herself— but she recognizes the downsides, too. “It can be toxic because no one is expressing any vulnerability, so you’re constantly consuming distorted pictures of other people’s lives,” Abby says. “That can make you feel unproductive and boring.” The good-time vibes of most of the social media posts “kind of give me this weird feeling that somehow these people, these strangers, are better than me in some way,” she says. But even knowing the tendency for distortion does not make you immune from feeling down when you’re sitting home alone on a weekend scrolling through all the happy posts, she says. And it certainly doesn’t help you focus on your work once the school day begins, says Abby, who keeps her phone with her at school. Some teachers are more flexible about allowing phone use during class time than others. They’ll have students pull out their phones to look up

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something assignment-related. But they really have no way of knowing what you’re actually doing on that screen, Abby says. “Personally, I don’t use my phone when teachers are talking or teaching, because if I do, I won’t be able to process the information they’re providing,” she says. “But sometimes, if we work in groups or I’m finished with a worksheet or activity, I’ll pull the phone out.” Abby suspects that switching from her schoolwork to her phone and back disrupts her ability to

understand that it’s rude to pull out their phones while she’s teaching, so they generally don’t do it. Starr says she’s never had to explicitly bar them from using the phones in class, but she says they whip out their phones if a lesson ends early or as soon as they’re released from class. Starr says concerns about teens’ phone addiction are overblown. “Every generation seems to think that the younger one is falling apart,” Starr says. “We’re just undergoing a huge shift in

“YOU JUST CAN’T GET SO FAR INTO YOUR KID’S BUSINESS THAT YOU’RE NOT GIVING THEM ANY PRIVACY OR LEEWAY TO MAKE DECISIONS.” —SAM ERDHEIM, FATHER OF AN EIGHTH-GRADER AT SHADY GROVE MIDDLE SCHOOL focus. “I can’t be 100 percent sure,” she says, “but I think that’s what’s happening.”

MONTGOMERY COUNTY PUBLIC Schools regulations allow high school students to possess cellphones during school hours. But the devices must be off and out of sight during class time unless a teacher allows their use for instructional purposes. The same rules apply to middle school students. But unlike their high school counterparts, middle schoolers cannot use their phones during their lunch periods unless their principal allows it schoolwide. Generally, principals have a lot of leeway in deciding cellphone policy for their respective schools, and many permit students to use their phones during breaks between classes. Evva Starr, an English teacher at Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, says her students intuitively 126

how we communicate and process information. The older generation is alarmed about it. But for the younger generation, it’s just the new normal.” Besides, the phones make some tasks much easier for students. When she became the school’s newspaper adviser 17 years ago, the staff relied on point and shoot cameras, she says. Now they use their phones to take photos, record interviews and type notes. They now can send articles to each other from anywhere for editing. Donna Redmond Jones, the principal at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Bethesda, says students are able to link instantaneously to many sources of information via their phones, and they can use them to track assignment due dates and organize their schedules. But the phones present challenges for educators, Jones says. One of the most common complaints from teachers is that kids are sneaking a peek at their

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phones during class time, and then later seeking additional help from teachers to make up for whatever material they missed. “I hear that from teachers a lot,” Jones says. “It’s a waste of everyone’s time, and it’s aggravating.” Another problem for schools is that phones make it easier for students to cheat, Jones says. In a survey of 1,013 teens released by Common Sense Media in 2009, about 35 percent of teens with cellphones said they’ve used them to cheat in class, most often by storing information on the phones to look at during tests or by texting answers to friends. Jones says teachers at her school do their best to monitor their classrooms, and they demand that students turn in their phones, usually at the front of the class, when they’re taking state or national assessment exams. “But one adult’s eyes can’t be on every student all the time in a class of 32 or 34 people,” she says. “These kids are digital natives and they’re quick with their phones.” Teachers are trying to combat the problem by switching up test questions and assignments from class to class. Starr leans toward more essay questions on her tests to discourage cheating. José Varela, a school counselor at Wootton, says it’s not uncommon for students to hide their phones under their desks and use them to text friends or surf the Internet when a teacher’s back is turned. Even though they're required to use the school’s Wi-Fi network, which has filters that block students from accessing certain websites, students game the system. Some kids have unlimited data on their phones, which means they can use private cellular networks and access whatever they want, Varela says. Others use the school’s Wi-Fi network to install apps such as Snapchat or WhatsApp so they can communicate with others during class time. “Some students whose parents are not able to provide them with cellphones will take a hand-me-down from a friend,” Varela says. “There’s no

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number associated with the phone. But they can access the school’s Wi-Fi system and download apps.” When it comes to reining in the use of phones during class time, parents are not necessarily helping, Varela says. He’s busted more than one student texting in class only to find that they’re responding to messages from their parents. The most recent incident occurred when he was teaching a group of 10th-graders to use one of the school’s online portals. “When I told the student I was taking her phone away, she said: ‘But my mom just texted me,’ ” says Varela, who told the student to put the phone away. “It makes it so difficult for us to establish a rule when parents are undermining that rule.” Meredith Rice, an education consultant and co-founder of AIM Education Strategy in Bethesda, says parents often mistakenly assume that their kids will text them back at an appropriate time. But the teenage brain is not wired to easily distinguish what should be done now versus later, especially since teens are conditioned to respond instantly to every text 128

or every social media “like,” says Rice, who is also a middle school English teacher and student adviser at Washington Episcopal School (WES), a private school in Bethesda for kids in nursery school through eighth grade. WES does not allow students to bring phones to class, though they can leave them in their lockers during the school day. At AIM Education Strategy, Rice and co-founder Tina Melendez train parents and teens about the responsible use of technology. Melendez says it surprises her how parents often cede power to their kids when it comes to phones, perhaps because the parents are intimidated by the devices. She recalls a recent conversation with a mother whose eighth-grade daughter keeps her phone in her room at night and wakes up exhausted, possibly because she’s using the device well past bedtime. “I said: ‘Well, you shouldn’t allow her to keep her phone in her room,’ ” says Melendez, a former middle school math teacher and advisory program coordinator at Washington Episcopal. “Her exact words back to me were: ‘Am I allowed to do that?’ ”

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RICE AND MELENDEZ SAY they’re concerned that teenagers’ over-reliance on the phone for gathering information and connecting with friends will erode face-to-face communication skills. They fear they’re already seeing it happen at the middle school level, where friendship troubles tend to flare up. The negotiations that used to take place in person, when friends tried to sort through conflicts, are now unfolding online in group chats, texts or comments on social media. That’s a problem when you consider, Melendez says, that communication incorporates three main elements: 7 percent is what a person says, 55 percent is body language and 38 percent is voice or tone. “So when you’re online, you’re basically losing 93 percent of the communication and you’re just getting the words,” she says. “That makes communication much more difficult. When kids are behind their screens and they’re not working on eye-to-eye contact or reading body language or picking up on the subtleties of communication,

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chances are they’re losing the capacity to build social relationships in a meaningful way and failing to develop empathy, which is huge in today’s world.” Susan Kaminskas says this lack of in-person communication is one of her biggest concerns for her daughter, Randolph, a freshman at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda. “When I was a teenager, my friends and I would hang out together and we’d have conversations with no distractions, looking at each other, talking and laughing,” says Kaminskas, who lives in Upper Northwest D.C. “Sometimes when Randolph has a friend over I’ll just see them sitting on their phones on Snapchat or Instagram. While they’re spending time together, it just doesn’t seem like the quality time I had with my friends, or maybe it is but it’s just different. I’m not really sure what to make of it.” Randolph, 14, says she’s not worried about herself or her relationships. “I

really don’t feel like I’m missing something or that I don’t talk to people enough face to face,” she says. “I have social skills, and I don’t just sit there at a loss for words when I’m around people.” But some kids do, which is why you’ll often see teens with their faces glued to their phone screens when they’re in large groups, she says. It’s a coping mechanism. “I guarantee you that 90 percent of the time they're not doing anything important,” Randolph says. “They just don’t know what to do or say, so they sit there on their phones.” Still, Randolph says, the phone can be a relationship-building tool. When two of her close friends left her school three years ago because their family moved to London, Randolph stayed in touch with them through social media. In fact, she had a 303-day snapstreak with one of them recently, meaning they each exchanged a snap every day for 303 consecutive days. “I would send a

picture of myself or the floor or the ceiling or something” each day to keep the streak going, she says. She’s also used her phone to stay connected with two girls from Minnesota she met while vacationing with her family in Costa Rica this year. “I wish I could see them more, but I can’t since they’re so far away,” Randolph says. “So social media helps in that way.” Randolph says she recognizes that she’s probably spending too much time on her phone. During one rainy day at the beach during summer break, she estimates that she was on her phone four to five hours on Snapchat, texting or watching Netflix. “I’m not proud of that, but it’s just the truth,” she says. “I don’t like how much I use my phone. I wish I used it less.” n Dina ElBoghdady spent more than two decades as a journalist at several newspapers, most recently The Washington Post.

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RANKING OUR HIGH SCHOOLS COMPILED BY JEFF CIRILLO THERE’S A RANKING for pretty much everything these days—and none are more popular (and controversial) than the rankings of schools. Among school officials and parents, the numerous annual rankings of local public and private high schools are a source of pride and consternation— depending on how your school fares. The rankings are often criticized because the people compiling them have subjective views on what makes a good school. The rankings can vary wildly based on the

information that’s used and the weight that each data point is given. Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) compiles an enormous amount of data about its schools and student performance. In the following pages, we present a data profile of eight of the county’s 25 high schools, then rank all the schools in several of the school and student performance categories so our readers can draw their own conclusions.

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NOTES 1. Data on average SAT, AP and IB test scores, graduation rates, and University System of Maryland entrance requirements are from the 2015-2016 school year. Other data are the most current available.

2. Future capacity accounts for expansions or renovations planned through the 20212022 school year.

3. University System of Maryland entrance requirements include a high school diploma, a cumulative high school grade point average equivalent to a C or better, a score on a nationally standardized test such as the SAT or ACT, and accumulated course credits in English (4 credits), social science/history (3 credits), biological and physical sciences (3 credits), mathematics (4 credits), and world languages or advanced technology (2 credits).

4. Post-graduation plans are self-reported by graduating seniors to the Maryland State Department of Education.

5. MCPS does not specify graduation rates higher than 95 percent or free and reduced-price meals rates lower than 5 percent to comply with federal reporting requirements.

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Ranking Our High Schools

BETHESDACHEVY CHASE Opened in 1926, the Bethesda school is in the middle of an expansion, scheduled to be completed in 2018, to accommodate its fast-growing student population. The school has an International Baccalaureate program.

Current capacity

1,683

Projected enrollment

high school in county

of graduates attending 4- or 2-year colleges

Student population

2,064

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Future capacity

2,407

22.64% over capacity

2,249

Campus size

16.4 ACRES

Graduation rate

Average class size

Student diversity

Students eligible for free and reduced-price meals

students

nonwhite

2020-2021

6.56% under capacity

28.8

Professional staff with more than 15 years of experience

43.5%

Average SAT scores

1741

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Highest percentage

42.4%

Professional staff diversity

21% nonwhite

Graduates scoring 3 or higher on AP test or 4 or higher on IB test

70.2%

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95%

10.9%

Students meeting University System of Maryland entrance requirements

62%

Graduates attending 4- or 2-year colleges

98.1%

MONTGOMERY BLAIR The Silver Spring school is home to the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Science, Mathematics and Computer Science Magnet Program, and the humanities- and media-focused Communication Arts Program.

Current capacity

2,920

Projected enrollment

Largest studenotn

populati in county

Student population

2,952

11th-most diverse

student population in county

Future capacity

2,920

1.1% over capacity

3,381

Campus size

30.2 ACRES

Graduation rate

Average class size

Student diversity

Students eligible for free and reduced-price meals

students

nonwhite

2020-2021

15.79% over capacity

24.5

Professional staff with more than 15 years of experience

48.8%

Average SAT scores

1730

77.7%

Professional staff diversity

34.4% nonwhite

Graduates scoring 3 or higher on AP test or 4 or higher on IB test

55.4%

88.3% 36%

Students meeting University System of Maryland entrance requirements

48.3%

Graduates attending 4- or 2-year colleges

92.5%

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QUINCE ORCHARD The Gaithersburg school offers a range of special academic programs, including an Engineering Magnet Program and an Advanced Studies in Arts and Academics Signature Program.

Current capacity

1,879

Projected enrollment

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Student population

1,959

4.26% over capacity

Sixthhighest

percentage of graduates attend ing 4- or 2-year colleges in coun ty

Future capacity

1,879

2,066

Campus size

30.1 ACRES

Graduation rate

Average class size

Student diversity

Students eligible for free and reduced-price meals

students

nonwhite

2020-2021

9.95% over capacity

25.1

Professional staff with more than 15 years of experience

36.2%

Average SAT scores

1624

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57%

Professional staff diversity

20.6% nonwhite

Graduates scoring 3 or higher on AP test or 4 or higher on IB test

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93.8%

22.9%

Students meeting University System of Maryland entrance requirements

55.6%

Graduates attending 4- or 2-year colleges

95%

RICHARD MONTGOMERY About 25 percent of the student body at the Rockville school participate in its International Baccalaureate Magnet liberal arts program.

Current capacity

2,236

Projected enrollment

Secondlargest

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Student population

2,391

6.93% over capacity

Fif hightehst avera g e score SAT in cou s nty

Future capacity

2,236

2,616

Campus size

29.1 ACRES

Graduation rate

Average class size

Student diversity

Students eligible for free and reduced-price meals

students

nonwhite

2020-2021

16.99% over capacity

Professional staff with more than 15 years of experience

54.4%

Average SAT scores

1779

70.5%

Professional staff diversity

21.5% nonwhite

Graduates scoring 3 or higher on AP test or 4 or higher on IB test

64.3%

93.1%

19.8%

Students meeting University System of Maryland entrance requirements

63.9%

Graduates attending 4- or 2-year colleges

96.8%

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THOMAS S. WOOTTON The Rockville school hosts a humanities and arts signature program, which includes a requirement that students complete an internship, take classes at a university or study abroad on a 10-day trip.

Current capacity

2,150

Projected enrollment 2020-2021

gradua in rates y count

Fourthhighest

average SA T scores in county

Student population

2,189

1.81% over capacity

Campus size

2,228

27.4 ACRES

Average class size

Student diversity

students

nonwhite

3.63% over capacity

27.3

Professional staff with more than 15 years of experience

51.7%

Average SAT scores

1818

136

Among top fivetion

54.4%

Professional staff diversity

18.9% nonwhite

Graduates scoring 3 or higher on AP test or 4 or higher on IB test

74.8%

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Fourthhighest percentage of graduates scoring 3 or higher on AP test or 4 or higher on IB test in county

Future capacity

2,420

expansion to be completed Sept. 2021

Graduation rate above

95% Students eligible for free and reduced-price meals

5.1%

Students meeting University System of Maryland entrance requirements

77.2%

Graduates attending 4- or 2-year colleges

92%

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WALT WHITMAN The Bethesda high school is slated for an expansion project scheduled for completion in 2021.

Current capacity

1,864

Projected enrollment 2020-2021

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High

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Future capacity

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95%

Average class size

Student diversity

Students eligible for free and reduced-price meals

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Professional staff with more than 15 years of experience

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Average SAT scores

1897

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Professional staff diversity

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Graduates scoring 3 or higher on AP test or 4 or higher on IB test

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75.8%

Graduates attending 4- or 2-year colleges

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WALTER JOHNSON The Bethesda high school has the fastest-growing student population in the county, expecting to add almost 500 students by the 2020-2021 school year. The school has yet to receive expansion funding from the school systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s strained construction budget. Walter Johnson offers an advanced and AP coursework program called the APEX Scholars Signature Program.

Current capacity

2,335

Projected enrollment

student population in county

meeting University System of Maryland entrance requirements in county

Student population

2,345

0.43% over capacity

Fifth-high e percentag st of gradua e tes

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Future capacity

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Graduation rate

Average class size

Student diversity

Students eligible for free and reduced-price meals

students

nonwhite

2020-2021

21.63% over capacity

28.4

Professional staff with more than 15 years of experience

55.8%

Average SAT scores

1753

140

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Fifth-highest percentage of students

45.5%

Professional staff diversity

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Graduates scoring 3 or higher on AP test or 4 or higher on IB test

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Students meeting University System of Maryland entrance requirements

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Current capacity

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Projected enrollment 2020-2021

graduation rates in county

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% Over/Under Capacity 1. Bethesda-Chevy Chase 2. Walt Whitman 3. Northwood 4. Albert Einstein 5. Richard Montgomery 6. Winston Churchill 7. Clarksburg 8. Quince Orchard 9. Northwest 10. Wheaton 11. Thomas S. Wootton 12. Montgomery Blair 13. Poolesville 14. Walter Johnson 15. Paint Branch 16. Gaithersburg 17. James Hubert Blake 18. Rockville 19. Seneca Valley 20. Sherwood 21. John F. Kennedy 22. Springbrook 23. Watkins Mill 24. Col. Zadok Magruder 25. Damascus

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31.50% 30.61% 21.78% 21.63% 19.69% 16.99% 15.79% 15.04% 9.95% 8.25% 7.15% 4.82% 4.44% 3.68% 3.66% 3.63% 1.73% -4.38% -6.56% -8.16% -8.52% -9.17% -12.57% -13.70% -44.82%

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Damascus Sherwood Poolesville Walt Whitman Col. Zadok Magruder Walter Johnson Richard Montgomery Paint Branch Seneca Valley (TIE) Springbrook 10. Thomas S. Wootton 11. Clarksburg 12. James Hubert Blake 13. Montgomery Blair 14. John F. Kennedy (TIE) Watkins Mill 15. Winston Churchill 16. Wheaton 17. Gaithersburg 18. Bethesda-Chevy Chase 19. Northwood 20. Albert Einstein 21. Rockville 22. Quince Orchard 23. Northwest

67.4% 62.6% 60% 59.9% 56.8% 55.8% 54.4% 53.8% 53.5% 53.5% 51.7% 50.7% 49.1% 48.8% 46.9% 46.9% 46.2% 45.7% 45.6% 43.5% 43% 42.9% 42.7% 36.2% 31.5%

Students Meeting University System of Maryland Entrance Requirements 1. Poolesville 2. Winston Churchill 3. Thomas S. Wootton 4. Walt Whitman 5. Walter Johnson 6. Richard Montgomery 7. Bethesda-Chevy Chase 8. Sherwood 9. Quince Orchard 10. Northwest 11. Damascus 12. Montgomery Blair 13. Clarksburg 14. James Hubert Blake 15. Paint Branch 16. Col. Zadok Magruder 17. Albert Einstein 18. Rockville 19. Gaithersburg 20. Springbrook 21. Northwood 22. Wheaton 23. Seneca Valley 24. Watkins Mill 25. John F. Kennedy

81.5% 78.1% 77.2% 75.8% 64.5% 63.9% 62% 59.3% 55.6% 54.3% 51% 48.3% 47% 45.1% 41.8% 39% 36.7% 35.5% 32.7% 32.1% 27.8% 27.6% 26.8% 25.7% 23.4%

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HOW DOES YOUR SCHOOL STACK UP? Student Diversity (% Nonwhite) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Professional Staff Diversity (% Nonwhite)

John F. Kennedy Paint Branch Springbrook Wheaton Watkins Mill Northwood Gaithersburg Seneca Valley Albert Einstein (TIE) James Hubert Blake 10. Clarksburg 11. Montgomery Blair 12. Col. Zadok Magruder 13. Northwest 14. Richard Montgomery 15. Rockville 16. Quince Orchard 17. Thomas S. Wootton 18. Sherwood 19. Poolesville 20. Winston Churchill 21. Walter Johnson 22. Damascus 23. Bethesda-Chevy Chase 24. Walt Whitman

94.9% 92.4% 92.2% 91.8% 90.7% 86.7% 84.6% 81.6% 80.7% 80.7% 78.4% 77.7% 73.1% 70.6% 70.5% 70% 57% 54.4% 50.4% 48.6% 46.4% 45.5% 42.6% 42.4% 32.5%

1. Northwood 2. Springbrook 3. John F. Kennedy 4. Gaithersburg 5. Wheaton 6. Watkins Mill 7. Paint Branch 8. Albert Einstein 9. Montgomery Blair 10. Seneca Valley 11. Northwest (TIE) Rockville 12. Sherwood 13. Col. Zadok Magruder 14. Winston Churchill 15. James Hubert Blake 16. Richard Montgomery 17. Bethesda-Chevy Chase 18. Quince Orchard 19. Thomas S. Wootton 20. Clarksburg 21. Walter Johnson 22. Walt Whitman 23. Poolesville 24. Damascus

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Graduates Scoring 3 or Higher on AP Test or 4 or Higher on IB Test 1. Walt Whitman 2. Winston Churchill 3. Poolesville 4. Thomas S. Wootton 5. Walter Johnson 6. Bethesda-Chevy Chase 7. Richard Montgomery 8. Quince Orchard 9. Rockville 10. Montgomery Blair 11. Sherwood 12. Damascus 13. Albert Einstein 14. James Hubert Blake 15. Northwest 16. Col. Zadok Magruder 17. Clarksburg 18. Watkins Mill 19. Paint Branch 20. Wheaton 21. Seneca Valley 22. Springbrook 23. Gaithersburg 24. John F. Kennedy 25. Northwood

Graduates Attending 4- or 2-Year Colleges 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

Bethesda-Chevy Chase Richard Montgomery Winston Churchill Poolesville Walt Whitman Quince Orchard James Hubert Blake Walter Johnson Northwest (TIE) Paint Branch 10. Sherwood 11. Montgomery Blair 12. Thomas S. Wootton (TIE) Watkins Mill 13. Clarksburg 14. Rockville 15. Seneca Valley 16. Albert Einstein 17. Northwood 18. Wheaton 19. Col. Zadok Magruder 20. Damascus 21. John F. Kennedy 22. Gaithersburg 23. Springbrook

85.4% 81.3% 78.5% 74.8% 72.7% 70.2% 64.3% 58.8% 58% 55.4% 53.6% 49.8% 49.5% 48.6% 46.3% 43.1% 40.3% 39.4% 39.2% 34.6% 32.9% 31.8% 30% 28.3% 26%

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LOCAL REACTIONS to National Rankings JUST WHAT MAKES a high school great depends on whom you ask—and how you crunch the numbers. When a school is favorably ranked, it can be cause for celebration. When a school slips, it can raise questions among parents. “I try to take it all in stride, quite frankly,” says Kimberly Boldon, the principal at Thomas S. Wootton High School in Rockville, which ranked No. 2 in Maryland and No. 106 nationally in U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 listing of “Best High Schools.” Schools must serve all kids, and it’s hard for the data to reflect the breadth of the programs provided, says Boldon, who did not promote the U.S. News results this year. Still, she says, the results boost morale: “It’s nice to get a pat on the back.” Principal Alan Goodwin of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda says he typically doesn’t express too much interest in the rankings. However, this spring he sent out an email when the school didn’t make the U.S. News list. Despite high scores on the SAT and Advanced Placement tests, Goodwin explained that Whitman did not reach a threshold for the two state pilot Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) tests that were added to the formula. Some students didn’t take the PARCC tests seriously because they knew the score wouldn’t count toward their graduation, Goodwin says. “They would graduate anyway, so all they had to do was participate in the test,” he says. Goodwin told parents in an email: “I am confident that our students will perform on future tests in the manner to which you and I are accustomed.” Parent reaction was “surprisingly refreshing”—out of six emails he received, only one expressed concern, suggesting that property values might fall, Goodwin says. “I responded to that parent and said you must keep these things in perspective.” The methodology for rankings sometimes changes, so it can be tricky for administrators to manage expectations. Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda was fourth in Maryland and 148th nationally on the U.S. News ranking in 2017, but a few years ago it didn’t make the list. Principal Jennifer Baker says she was surprised there was a change in the criteria. “There were some parents who wondered why we weren’t on the [earlier] list, and we explained it to those who asked,” says Baker, who takes the results with a “grain of salt”

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because they rely on statistics. Changes in criteria make it hard to form comparisons year to year, and there are shortfalls in how the lists are presented. For instance, some rankings include magnet public schools that have selective admissions on the same list as those with open enrollment, says Sid Groeneman, the head of Groeneman Research & Consulting, a Bethesda company that specializes in opinion, policy and marketing surveys. The overall focus is heavy on academic achievement, but extracurricular programs and culture might be more important to some families. The formulas assign certain weight to certain components that may not be universally agreed upon, he says. “Some people naively assume that because it’s complex, it must be rigorous and a true measure of what’s ‘best.’ There are a lot of assumptions that go into that complex formula,” Groeneman says. “Unless you buy into all the assumptions, you might not agree with that definition of best that is invented in the formula.” And sometimes mistakes are made. In June, The Washington Post had to correct its 2017 America’s Most Challenging High

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Schools list after the IDEA charter schools network acknowledged that it mistakenly submitted erroneous data that incorrectly boosted the rankings for several of its schools. Parents at Bullis School in Potomac definitely check the rankings, but most aren’t hung up on them, says Shannon Priddy, former executive board president of the Bullis Parents Association. “I don’t think anyone is going to pull their kids out if they come in a little lower on something,” she says. Choosing a school is more about fit, says Connie Mitchell, spokeswoman for Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Bethesda, which doesn’t pitch its data to the organizations that compile the lists. “We don’t feel that rankings help because the comparisons don’t always tell the whole story,” she says. Adds Bob Farrace, spokesman for the National Association of Secondary School Principals in Reston, Virginia: “Schools are complex organizations that don’t easily lend themselves to neat ratings and rankings. What matters most is how well the school serves its local community.” —Caralee Adams Note: The schools included on the following charts were the only Montgomery County schools to make the lists; also included are private schools in Upper Northwest D.C.

U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT (2017) High School

State Rank (of 206)

National Rank (of 20,487)

Winston Churchill Thomas S. Wootton Poolesville Walter Johnson Richard Montgomery Col. Zadok Magruder Damascus Paint Branch Wheaton

1 2 3 4 5 13 19 22 27

75 106 108 148 187 514 662 811 1,019

NEWSWEEK (2016)* High School

National Rank (of the top 500 schools)

Poolesville Walter Johnson

32 72

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NICHE.COM (2018)

THE WASHINGTON POST (2017)

High School

State Rank (of 215)

National Rank (of 17,867)

Poolesville Walt Whitman Winston Churchill Richard Montgomery Thomas S. Wootton Walter Johnson Montgomery Blair Bethesda-Chevy Chase Northwest Quince Orchard Sherwood Damascus Rockville Paint Branch Col. Zadok Magruder Clarksburg James Hubert Blake Wheaton Albert Einstein Gaithersburg Springbrook Seneca Valley Watkins Mill Northwood

1 2 3 4 5 7 8 13 17 19 31 35 36 42 43 44 50 55 65 72 75 89 99 110

61 98 125 159 188 219 220 326 750 808 1,412 1,612 1,668 1,896 2,066 2,126 2,283 2,512 2,857 3,423 3,733 4,770 5,757 7,183

High School

National Rank (of 2,369)

Poolesville Richard Montgomery Winston Churchill Bethesda-Chevy Chase Walt Whitman Quince Orchard Thomas S. Wootton Walter Johnson Northwest Rockville Sherwood Montgomery Blair Wheaton Albert Einstein Springbrook Damascus James Hubert Blake Clarksburg Watkins Mill Northwood Paint Branch Col. Zadok Magruder John F. Kennedy Seneca Valley Gaithersburg

92 117 129 156 183 252 255 291 450 484 525 575 583 640 655 684 804 861 1,073 1,158 1,205 1,209 1,320 1,336 2,033

News outlets and websites in the high school ratings game use different methodologies to arrive at their lists. U.S. News & World Report first looks at studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; scores on state proficiency tests, particularly those of economically disadvantaged students, compared to state averages. U.S. News also considers graduation rates and participation and performance on AP tests. Newsweek considers state proficiency test scores, college acceptance and enrollment, and participation and performance on SAT, ACT, AP, IB and AICE tests, as well as the number of counselors at the school and participation in dual-enrollment programs. Newsweek relies on schools to provide most of the data, and about one in four surveyed schools provided data for the 2016 rankings. Niche.com ranks public and private schools based on several factors, including SAT and ACT scores, racial and economic diversity, and survey responses from parents and students about the overall school experience. The Washington Post only takes into account AP, IB and AICE test participation relative to the size of the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s senior class.

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PRIVATE SCHOOLS NICHE.COM (2018)

NICHE.COM (2018) High School

Gender

State Rank National Rank (of 100) (of 3,497)

D.C. High School (ZIP codes 20015 and 20016)

Gender

Holton-Arms School Landon School Georgetown Preparatory School

girls boys boys

1 3 5

63 142 181

Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart

girls

244

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Bullis School The Heights School Sandy Spring Friends School Rochambeau French International School

coed coed boys coed coed

9 12 17 22 23

270 363 490 611 639

Our Lady of Good Counsel High School

coed

682

Connelly School of the Holy Child

girls

723

High School

Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School

coed

786

Washington Waldorf School The Academy of the Holy Cross

coed girls

34 35

934 954

Washington Christian Academy McLean School Barrie School Brookewood School Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy

coed coed coed girls coed

36 37 38 51 55

967 1,049 1,056 1,451 1,523

Holton-Arms girls School Stone Ridge School girls of the Sacred Heart Our Lady of Good coed Counsel HighSchool

The Avalon School boys Covenant Life School coed Yeshiva of Greater Washington girls Girls Division

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60 69 74

1,740 2,433 2,702

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Sidwell Friends School National Cathedral SSchool St. Albans School St. John’s College High School

District Rank (of 15)

National Rank (of 3,497)

coed

girls

boys coed

3 12

44 559

THE WASHINGTON POST (2017) Gender

National Rank (of 2,369) 241 309 487

THE WASHINGTON POST (2017) D.C. High School (ZIP codes 20015 and 20016) National Cathedral School

Gender

National Rank (of 2,369)

girls

304

extraordinary

Educators Six local teachers who are making a differenceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; from giving first-graders mindfulness tips to encouraging high school journalists to cover international issues BY CARALEE ADAMS PHOTOS BY SKIP BROWN

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SHAUNTAE FITCHEARD SPAUGH

College Gardens Elementary School, Rockville

SUNG HEE KIM

St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, Potomac CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYS IN Sung Hee Kim’s first-grade classroom at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School. She has framed the windows with blue and yellow organza curtains, and cleans the tables with a homemade spray infused with organic vanilla. Every Wednesday, Kim has a candlelight lunch with her students. “We spend a lot of time here, so it has to be a welcoming place—a place where we take care of each other, where we want to come every day,” says Kim, 52, who lives in Bethesda and has been a teacher for 16 years, including eight at St. Andrew’s. After Kim taught her students about mindfulness, they asked to create a meditation space in the room. She got a cushioned bench, put a carpet underneath it, and added a weighted blanket and meditation toys, such as a small expandable sphere that kids can open and close as they breathe. Students can ask to sit in the space, where a timer limits their relaxation escape to three minutes. Kim recognizes that choice enhances learning, and she’s willing to deviate from her lesson plan to follow kids’ passions. Last year, students were so into analyzing and thinking about Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1957 speech “Loving Your Enemies” that they asked to make a book on the topic. They shared their finished product with others at a school assembly. The framework for projects may be the same from year to year, but Kim incorporates student feedback, says Jordan Love, head of the lower school at St. Andrew’s. “It creates an opportunity for kids to create their own meaning, and that’s lasting,” Love says. “It adds to the retention of concept because she links it to what really motivates each child.” Kate Marino, whose daughter, Chase, was in Kim’s class last year, appreciates the confidence that kids gain in the teacher’s classroom. “Ms. Kim promotes broad thinking— understanding why you came up with an answer, not just focusing on right or wrong,” Marino says.

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FORTY LANGUAGES ARE SPOKEN at College Gardens Elementary, and students are encouraged to embrace their differences. “There is never a time when it’s too early to teach children what love is, how to love themselves and how to relate to other people regardless of gender, race or religion,” says third-grade teacher Shauntae Fitcheard Spaugh. Last year at College Gardens, Fitcheard Spaugh, 41, helped lead “No Place for Hate,” an initiative developed by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) to promote inclusiveness in schools. Students celebrated the school’s diversity with a Spirit Week that included a day, called Put a Cap on Hate, when kids wore various hats. The school’s Read Across America Day focused on anti-bias books, and students were encouraged to make new friends at Mix It Up at Lunch Day. “I heard from parents that [the initiative] really sparked a lot discussion at their dinner tables,” says Beth Swibel, a parent on the activity planning team who says Fitcheard Spaugh volunteered her personal time and created a corner in a school hallway with student artwork from the initiative that has had a positive impact. A Gaithersburg resident, Fitcheard Spaugh has taught for five years at the school, where the nearly 900 students last year were 38 percent white, 22 percent Asian, 18 percent black or African-American, 14 percent Hispanic/Latino and 7 percent multiple races. College Gardens was the first school in Montgomery County to adopt the ADL program. In her classroom, Fitcheard Spaugh is heartened to see students become confident expressing themselves—in what they wear, speaking in their native language, and discussing their Muslim or Hindu perspectives on a story they’ve read. She believes kids need to have open conversations to better understand each other and learn to be kind. “I want to make an impact beyond reading levels, math test scores and papers,” she says. “It’s important to me who they are as a person.”

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JULIE MIKA

Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School, Silver Spring “FOCUS, MY FRIEND,” Julie Mika says as she asks students about the date, weather and schedule for the day. Correct answers are greeted with high-fives and lots of affirmation: “That was awesome!” Mika is a special education teacher with Col. E. Brooke Lee Middle School’s Extensions Program, which serves students with moderate to severe disabilities— often autism—who also have a history of aggressive or interfering behavior. There were seven boys and six aides in her classroom last year. Most students communicate by pointing to pictures, some use gestures or apps on iPads. When a student begins to go into crisis, the staff swoops in to intervene while keeping the others on track. It’s a huge step toward self-regulation when a student can point to the quiet room as he begins to melt down to indicate he needs some time out. “In this program, it’s about little victories,” says the 38-year-old Montgomery County native who lives in Gaithersburg. A week before she was scheduled to start law school in 2002, Mika decided not to follow in her father’s footsteps as an attorney— but rather in her mother’s to become a teacher. Her first time in a special education class, she felt a calling. “I was excited to go to work. I thought about the kids when I wasn’t there,” Mika says. “I felt like I had something innate in me. I knew what to say and do to connect on that personal level.” Mika gives families her cellphone number and is available after hours to answer questions or to just listen to a student sing. Jon Cadacio appreciated Mika attending his 14-year-old son M.J.’s first Communion last year and chaperoning her students at the school dance last spring. At school, Mika advocates for the acceptance and inclusion of her students in the cafeteria and assemblies, says Rodrick Hobbs, assistant principal at Lee. Mika coordinates the schoolwide Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports program and has a knack for motivating and mentoring struggling students in the larger school community. “Oftentimes with special programs, the teacher is isolated on an island,” Hobbs says. “But she’s everywhere.”

DAVID LOPILATO

Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School, Bethesda DAVID LOPILATO WANTS STUDENTS to know they can make a difference, whether it’s writing for the school newspaper, organizing a student event or protesting for a cause. “Today, high school students are so focused on what comes next that I get worried they don’t make the most of their time here,” says the Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School anthropology and journalism teacher. “I want students to see if they can develop skills of advocating for themselves and advocating for other people right now.” Before moving to the D.C. area in 1998 to run a tech company, Lopilato was in a graduate program in anthropology in New York and had taught at the college level. He missed the classroom and taught Montgomery College courses, including some at Rockville and Thomas S. Wootton high schools, before coming to B-CC seven years ago. He’s been the adviser for the school newspaper, The Tattler, since his first year at B-CC, growing the staff from 12 to 50-plus students, and the publication from eight pages to two or three dozen. Lopilato, 51, is known for pushing the young journalists to stretch themselves— reporting beyond the walls of the school to cover national and international issues. “If we didn’t tap into their global-mindedness, we’d be missing out,” says the Bethesda resident. Lopilato’s anthropology students take on a social action project. Dylan Burgoon and Kai Elwood-Dieu worked to get more recognition for the arts at B-CC. They secured $2,000 from the PTA for frames and hooks to hang student art in a school hallway. The two recent graduates say they gained valuable skills. “I’d never gone before a grant committee or developed a PowerPoint to request a grant, or really sent emails in a professional manner,” Elwood-Dieu says. At this age, students are able to effect change more than in college, Lopilato says. “People don’t expect this kind of engagement from high school students. It gives them a certain megaphone that I think they should use when they have it.”

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MAURA CROMWELL

Bannockburn Elementary School, Bethesda

MARY ELISE GRIBBIN

Georgetown Preparatory School, North Bethesda LATIN IS NOT EVERYONE’S favorite subject. It wasn’t Mary Elise Gribbin’s either—but a teacher changed how she felt about the ancient language. Gribbin’s Latin professor at Gettysburg College was a demanding 30-something woman who was also funny and warm. Originally a pre-med major, Gribbin had to take two years of language, and when she discovered how much she enjoyed the problem-solving nature of translating Latin sentences, she changed her major to classics. That mentor’s personal approach influenced the way Gribbin teaches Latin at Georgetown Prep. “I treat all my students as my sons. They are not grades to me,” says Gribbin, who has taught at the all-boys school since 1994. Gribbin understands that the two-year Latin requirement at Prep is a big ask for some students. Her two sons graduated from the school—Billy in 2009, and Bobby in 2011—and she recalls her father’s stories about failing Latin. When students struggle, she tries to find ways to make the subject more understandable. The 55-year-old Rockville resident and chair of the classics department shares “Gribbin tricks”—funny phrases or mnemonic devices—to help kids retain grammar rules. She runs an after-school program as a way for students to improve their Latin skills and earn extra credit. History teacher Steve Ochs says Gribbin knows the demands of the school from the inside out, and that gives her credibility. “She holds the guys to be accountable, but she has a wonderful warm spirit about her and tremendous kindness,” he says. Gribbin volunteers at the school’s spiritual retreat for juniors, and her classroom walls are covered with articles about alumni, inspirational posters and scripture. Says Gribbin: “It is not as important to me that my students remember the actual Latin I taught them. What is most important is that they remember how they felt in my class each day—that they were an individual person to me and I really cared about them and that we had fun together.”

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STUDENTS IN MAURA CROMWELL’S fifth-grade class never know who, exactly, will be teaching their science or social studies lesson on any given day. It could be professor Cromwell, a mad scientist with a white lab coat and rainbow wig, explaining genetics, or colonist Cromwell talking about the American Revolution in a British accent. The 33-year-old teacher has also taken on the persona of George Washington, donning a powdered wig to deliver a lecture on the Declaration of Independence. “I have multiple personalities,” says Cromwell, who hangs costumes in her classroom closet for her alter egos. “I’m just trying to engage the kids as much as possible to make things interesting.” The students get their turn when they study the Constitutional Convention and take on the roles of the delegates. “Maybe because they see me embrace it, but they totally get into character,” she says. “Enthusiasm is contagious. If I get excited about it, they’ll get excited about it.” Lola Monroe, who was in Cromwell’s class last year, says acting out history made it easier to understand—and fun. “We got to really see how it worked and put ourselves in those people’s shoes,” she says. Cromwell says she has become more willing to take risks in the classroom during her decade as a teacher. “If it completely fails, I have the confidence to know how to go from there rather than to worry and be self-conscious,” she says. “Failure is an example of growing—I try to model that. Oftentimes the failure is more valuable than getting it right the first time.” In connecting with her students, Cromwell has the advantage of being from the area. She grew up in Bethesda and graduated from Walt Whitman High School. After studying at Boston College and Harvard University, she taught in Needham, Massachusetts, before returning to her hometown three years ago. ■ Caralee Adams is a freelance writer in Bethesda who covers education, health, parenting and other issues.

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COLLEGE BOUND

Where Bethesda-area high school graduates applied to college and where they were accepted COMPILED BY JEFF CIRILLO

THE FOLLOWING IS a chart of the colleges and universities where 2017 graduates from seven Bethesda-area high

Bethesda- Montgomery Richard Chevy Chase Blair Montgomery Albright College 8 2 6 2 1 0 Allegany College of Maryland 4 3 11 1 1 1 Allegheny College 2 1 6 2 0 0 American University 38 17 39 8 35 17 Amherst College 21 3 5 0 5 1 Arizona State University 12 6 2 0 7 0 Auburn University 4 2 1 0 1 1 Babson College 4 2 0 0 0 0 Baldwin Wallace University 1 1 1 1 1 0 Bard College 7 5 3 1 3 2 Barnard College 12 3 5 0 12 2 Barry University 4 1 1 0 1 0 Bates College 15 2 5 1 4 0 Baylor University 3 1 1 0 2 0 Belmont University 2 1 0 0 1 1 Berklee College of Music 4 2 0 0 0 0 Binghamton University â&#x20AC;&#x201C; SUNY 2 1 3 1 3 2 Boston College 29 12 11 1 18 3 Boston University 46 15 36 11 43 11 Bowdoin College 21 1 6 0 5 1 Bowie State University 31 10 47 13 17 6 Brandeis University 16 8 5 2 5 3 Bridgewater College 2 2 4 2 0 0 Brown University 40 2 38 2 42 6 7 3 4 1 4 1 Bryn Mawr College Bucknell University 29 5 11 3 6 1 Butler University 6 3 0 0 1 1 California Institute of Technology 2 0 13 1 7 1 California Polytechnic State 2 0 2 1 3 0 University, San Luis Obispo Carleton College 12 2 5 3 3 0 Carnegie Mellon University 22 3 37 11 29 12 160

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Thomas S. Wootton 2 2 0 0 2 2 25 13 2 0 4 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 2 2 0 0 10 4 19 6 39 8 1 0 4 2 4 3 0 0 19 0 0 0 20 6 1 1 10 1

Walt Whitman 0 0 0 0 1 1 34 17 14 2 8 4 8 6 5 0 0 0 5 3 1 0 0 0 11 6 4 2 1 1 2 1 4 4 20 3 51 22 10 2 1 0 16 12 1 0 32 1 5 2 13 3 2 1 5 0

Walter Johnson 2 1 0 0 4 3 43 17 3 1 9 4 4 2 2 0 2 2 1 1 5 1 1 0 3 2 1 1 1 0 2 1 1 0 21 7 44 20 6 0 9 3 6 2 2 1 27 1 7 6 12 3 2 1 6 1

Winston Churchill N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 32 26 3 0 7 6 6 6 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 3 1 N/A N/A 3 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 19 9 37 13 N/A N/A 3 1 6 4 N/A N/A 18 0 N/A N/A 8 3 N/A N/A 5 2

AC CE PT ED

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

D IE PL AP

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

schools applied and were accepted, based on data provided by the schools. The schools are: Bethesda-Chevy Chase, Walt Whitman and Walter Johnson in Bethesda; Richard Montgomery and Thomas S. Wootton in Rockville; Winston Churchill in Potomac; and Montgomery Blair in Silver Spring. The acceptance information that the schools sent is self-reported by students, so school officials could not guarantee its accuracy. Churchill only provided data from schools that had at least three applicants, so we have designated some of their numbers as not applicable (N/A). For brevityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sake, we have limited the list to colleges and universities with at least seven applicants from the combined high schools.

TOTAL 19 16 15 246 53 49 25 13 7 19 39 10 39 17 7 8 23 137 296 49 112 58 9 216 27 99 12 48

7 5 9 115 7 22 18 3 5 12 6 2 11 6 5 4 12 41 100 4 35 34 5 12 13 24 7 6

N/A

0 40

0 14

10 22

6 7

2 11

0 3

N/A 24

N/A 9

32 185

11 59

Thomas S. Wootton 17 7 6 4 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 4 3 23 7 8 7 3 0 3 0 9 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 6 6 1 0 29 2 0 0 0 0

Walt Whitman 18 7 8 5 2 1 7 4 2 1 6 0 6 6 19 5 7 6 7 4 5 3 23 17 2 2 1 1 4 2 8 1 5 4 2 0 33 2 0 0 8 6

Walter Johnson 14 5 13 5 5 3 2 1 1 0 3 0 7 5 22 9 6 4 9 3 9 4 18 14 1 0 2 2 5 5 6 0 9 3 1 0 16 1 1 0 1 0

Winston Churchill 27 16 8 7 N/A N/A N/A N/A 4 3 N/A N/A N/A N/A 19 7 5 2 N/A N/A 5 2 24 23 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 15 2 N/A N/A 3 1

AC CE PT ED

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

IE PL AP

Bethesda- Montgomery Richard Chevy Chase Blair Montgomery Case Western Reserve University 10 4 18 7 14 5 The Catholic University of America 14 8 17 11 9 5 Champlain College 1 1 1 0 0 0 Chapman University 3 0 2 0 0 0 Christopher Newport University 1 1 3 0 2 1 Claremont McKenna College 4 0 5 0 1 0 Clark University 14 4 8 3 2 1 Clemson University 31 6 6 3 6 0 Coastal Carolina University 9 6 0 0 1 0 Colby College 23 4 2 1 6 2 Colgate University 18 4 5 0 8 4 College of Charleston 18 14 1 0 4 2 The College of New Jersey 1 0 3 1 2 1 College of the Holy Cross 1 0 1 0 2 0 College of Wooster 10 9 6 0 2 2 Colorado College 14 2 5 2 1 0 Colorado State University 6 3 3 1 0 0 Columbia College Chicago 4 3 0 0 1 0 Columbia University 29 1 37 3 38 3 Concordia University (Montreal) 8 2 2 1 0 0 Connecticut College 6 2 0 0 2 1 Cooper Union for the 2 0 0 0 1 0 Advancement of Science and Art Coppin State University 6 1 15 1 1 0 Cornell University 41 6 51 6 58 9 17 3 13 2 21 2 Dartmouth College Davidson College 12 3 4 2 3 0 Delaware State University 0 0 7 2 8 2 Delaware Valley University 3 2 2 1 1 1 Denison University 11 7 3 2 2 0 DePaul University 8 2 5 4 1 0 Dickinson College 24 15 9 4 3 3 Drew University 4 2 3 2 1 1 Drexel University 30 19 27 8 12 6 Duke University 26 2 33 5 42 5 Duquesne University 1 1 0 0 2 2 East Carolina University 7 3 0 0 0 0 Eckerd College 10 6 5 4 3 0 Elon University 20 13 9 2 6 4 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical 1 1 4 2 2 2 University, Daytona Beach Emerson College 7 2 5 2 2 2 Emory University 29 6 26 0 19 6 Florida Atlantic University 3 3 0 0 0 0 Florida Gulf Coast University 2 1 0 0 2 1 Florida Institute of Technology 3 2 4 2 0 0 Florida State University 19 8 3 0 4 2 Fordham University 18 6 14 6 11 6 Franklin & Marshall College 14 6 6 3 1 0 28 13 35 10 27 12 Frostburg State University Furman University 2 1 1 1 3 2 George Mason University 18 11 39 12 33 18 The George Washington University 32 4 36 6 42 13 Georgetown University 35 7 20 2 33 9 Georgia Institute of Technology 18 1 26 4 17 3

TOTAL 118 75 10 15 13 19 41 126 36 50 53 97 9 7 27 35 29 9 197 11 20

51 45 6 6 6 0 22 37 25 14 17 77 4 3 18 5 17 3 14 3 10

N/A

1 59 9 3 0 2 2 3 5 1 21 37 2 4 2 9

1 9 1 1 0 2 1 3 3 0 20 3 2 4 2 7

0 54 14 13 0 0 3 3 20 2 14 29 1 1 4 15

0 10 3 5 0 0 2 2 16 2 12 8 1 0 4 10

4 27 9 2 1 0 9 1 11 0 15 13 1 6 2 16

1 4 0 0 1 0 6 1 7 0 10 1 1 4 1 11

N/A 47 16 N/A N/A N/A 3 N/A 11 N/A 19 33 N/A 5 6 18

N/A 14 1 N/A N/A N/A 3 N/A 10 N/A 15 4 N/A 4 4 16

27 337 99 37 16 8 33 21 83 11 138 213 7 23 32 93

4 58 12 11 5 6 21 12 58 7 90 28 7 15 21 63

N/A

1 18 4 3 1 8 4 5 9 2 32 42 25 44

1 3 3 3 1 5 2 4 6 1 22 17 9 10

3 25 0 1 0 4 16 10 7 0 17 32 36 20

1 8 0 1 0 2 7 9 7 0 11 15 8 5

3 15 5 1 2 9 18 12 23 0 36 30 25 28

1 3 1 0 2 2 6 8 13 0 19 8 5 10

N/A 32 N/A N/A N/A 14 9 6 8 N/A 21 37 26 19

N/A 12 N/A N/A N/A 8 3 5 4 N/A 13 17 5 4

21 164 12 9 10 61 90 54 137 8 196 251 200 172

9 38 7 6 7 27 36 35 65 5 106 80 45 37

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Thomas S. Wootton

Walt Whitman

Walter Johnson

Winston Churchill

AC CE PT ED

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

D IE PL AP

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

college bound

TOTAL

3 12 23 5 4 8 6 20 2 22 6

2 6 8 1 2 5 3 0 0 3 5

0 1 10 4 4 3 19 38 6 5 2

0 1 4 1 2 0 6 3 2 2 2

1 1 6 1 0 2 12 36 4 7 8

0 1 3 0 0 2 7 1 0 0 5

0 2 3 1 1 0 2 23 1 3 9

0 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 6

0 7 4 4 0 7 1 36 4 9 4

0 4 4 4 0 4 0 2 0 6 3

3 8 16 2 2 6 4 19 2 13 10

3 6 11 0 1 2 2 1 0 2 6

N/A 7 8 N/A N/A N/A N/A 16 3 N/A 17

N/A 7 6 N/A N/A N/A N/A 1 1 N/A 8

7 38 70 17 11 26 44 188 22 59 56

5 27 38 6 5 13 19 8 4 14 35

N/A

8 1 15 23 39

7 0 2 5 31

18 0 6 44 6

5 0 2 7 5

7 1 8 17 14

3 1 4 9 9

7 1 4 7 55

4 1 1 5 53

7 1 2 2 47

4 1 2 1 40

16 3 6 4 26

11 3 2 0 12

10 N/A N/A N/A 66

7 N/A N/A N/A 63

73 7 41 97 253

41 6 13 27 213

N/A

11 12 28

6 2 2

13 3 60

7 2 4

5 13 67

3 10 8

5 30 42

3 27 2

4 22 32

3 17 5

14 29 26

10 23 2

5 21 28

2 18 4

57 130 283

34 99 27

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Walter Johnson

Winston Churchill

AC CE PT ED

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

IE PL AP

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Thomas S. Wootton

Walt Whitman

0 0 2 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 5 0 0 1 1 1 4 0 2

1 4 1 2 3 10 1 0 4 2 4 5 2 2 1 0 2 2 0 2

1 4 1 1 1 3 1 0 3 2 4 3 2 2 1 0 2 2 0 2

1 1 5 1 9 20 2 1 3 1 1 11 1 2 1 7 2 1 2 2

1 0 4 1 4 4 2 1 2 0 1 8 0 1 0 7 2 1 1 2

1 2 6 2 6 10 6 2 1 0 2 19 0 2 1 4 5 4 1 8

1 2 3 1 3 1 3 1 1 0 1 9 0 1 0 2 2 3 0 6

N/A N/A 3 N/A 5 14 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 9 N/A N/A 3 N/A 6 3 N/A 3

N/A N/A 1 N/A 2 5 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 4 N/A N/A 2 N/A 4 2 N/A 3

15 13 35 9 47 88 22 7 12 16 10 102 7 10 12 31 24 21 10 32

11 8 23 5 14 15 13 4 8 5 8 44 4 5 4 19 16 12 8 19

134

TOTAL

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Bethesda- Montgomery Richard Chevy Chase Blair Montgomery McDaniel College McGill University Miami University Oxford Michigan State University Middlebury College Millersville University Montgomery College Morehouse College Morgan State University Mount Holyoke College Mount St. Mary's University Muhlenberg College New England College The New School New York University North Carolina A&T State University North Carolina Central University North Carolina State University Northeastern University Northwestern University Notre Dame of Maryland University

Thomas S. Wootton

Walt Whitman

Walter Johnson

Winston Churchill

AC CE PT ED

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

D IE PL AP

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

college bound

TOTAL

22 19 29 7 19 0 97 1 28 3 13 8 0 13 36

11 3 14 5 4 0 90 1 16 0 7 5 0 6 10

17 18 2 7 9 1 95 5 36 5 32 7 3 1 36

11 8 1 3 2 0 58 1 16 3 12 4 2 0 8

16 9 5 4 5 3 141 2 11 0 9 1 1 1 43

5 4 3 2 1 1 137 2 2 0 5 0 0 1 10

10 9 30 13 2 2 67 0 1 0 13 3 0 1 35

7 4 24 12 0 2 64 0 1 0 11 2 0 1 13

5 16 24 6 13 0 16 0 1 2 4 5 1 4 40

4 7 18 4 3 0 13 0 0 1 4 4 0 3 16

22 6 17 9 4 2 103 1 14 3 13 11 4 7 27

18 2 15 5 1 2 101 1 5 3 10 4 3 5 11

9 6 25 16 5 N/A 37 N/A N/A N/A 9 4 N/A 4 27

5 0 24 15 2 N/A 37 N/A N/A N/A 6 1 N/A 2 9

101 83 132 62 57 8 556 9 91 13 93 39 9 31 244

61 28 99 46 13 5 500 5 40 7 55 20 5 18 77

N/A

1 11 36 34

1 3 13 3

2 7 18 27

1 3 6 2

9 5 13 31

7 1 2 2

1 14 39 32

1 10 20 2

0 8 51 55

0 2 26 5

2 6 25 16

0 3 9 2

N/A 10 28 19

N/A 2 12 3

15 61 210 214

10 24 88 19

N/A

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Thomas S. Wootton

Walt Whitman

Walter Johnson

Winston Churchill

AC CE PT ED

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

IE PL AP

Bethesda- Montgomery Richard Chevy Chase Blair Montgomery

TOTAL

15 20 7 12 3 1 7

5 8 4 8 0 0 5

3 14 7 5 1 2 1

3 6 2 1 0 0 0

2 11 3 0 4 0 4

1 7 1 0 2 0 2

1 53 8 1 2 1 3

0 34 5 1 2 0 3

13 27 3 3 0 3 2

9 12 2 3 0 1 1

10 12 12 2 8 0 6

6 4 5 2 6 0 5

N/A 42 7 N/A N/A N/A 3

N/A 26 5 N/A N/A N/A 2

44 179 47 23 18 7 26

24 97 24 15 10 1 18

N/A

119

101

482

322

1 11 17 2 36 3 10 7 1 9

1 3 1 2 2 2 5 3 1 2

4 1 11 3 44 1 7 0 4 1

4 0 1 1 2 1 4 0 1 1

0 0 3 2 48 1 12 0 2 1

0 0 0 2 4 0 6 0 0 1

1 0 1 2 25 0 36 1 4 0

1 0 0 2 0 0 23 1 4 0

2 5 8 5 25 2 24 3 1 3

1 1 0 1 3 1 9 3 1 1

1 3 6 4 18 1 8 4 6 3

0 0 1 1 1 0 3 2 2 1

N/A N/A 3 N/A 25 N/A 20 N/A N/A N/A

N/A N/A 0 N/A 1 N/A 15 N/A N/A N/A

9 20 49 18 221 8 117 15 18 17

7 4 3 9 13 4 65 9 9 6

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Bethesda- Montgomery Richard Chevy Chase Blair Montgomery Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhode Island School of Design Rice University Robert Morris University Rochester Institute of Technology Rollins College Rutgers University – New Brunswick Saint Joseph's University Salisbury University San Diego State University Santa Clara University Sarah Lawrence College Savannah College of Art and Design School of the Art Institute of Chicago School of Visual Arts Scripps College Seattle University Seton Hall University Shepherd University Skidmore College Smith College

Thomas S. Wootton

Walt Whitman

Walter Johnson

Winston Churchill

AC CE PT ED

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

D IE PL AP

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

college bound

TOTAL

12 2 11 3 13 1

4 0 1 1 10 1

7 2 12 1 9 0

5 0 1 1 5 0

9 1 14 0 4 0

4 0 2 0 4 0

9 4 8 2 11 1

8 1 0 1 10 1

11 2 11 1 18 4

3 0 3 0 13 3

7 3 2 5 8 1

4 0 2 4 7 1

7 N/A 6 N/A 7 N/A

5 N/A 1 N/A 5 N/A

62 14 64 12 70 7

33 1 10 7 54 6

5 72 2 7 5

2 38 0 3 3

2 72 0 2 1

1 19 0 1 0

3 20 3 1 3

3 8 2 0 3

2 34 3 4 0

2 28 3 3 0

2 17 2 8 0

1 15 2 5 0

4 43 7 3 2

3 26 2 1 2

4 31 N/A N/A N/A

2 25 N/A N/A N/A

22 289 17 25 11

14 159 9 13 8

1 9 0 2 2 14 6

1 2 0 1 1 6 3

0 2 3 2 5 8 3

0 0 0 0 2 3 1

1 0 1 0 3 1 3

0 0 1 0 0 1 1

0 0 0 4 1 1 1

0 0 0 3 1 1 0

2 2 1 0 1 12 1

1 1 0 0 0 8 0

1 5 2 0 2 13 3

1 0 2 0 2 7 2

3 N/A N/A N/A N/A 3 N/A

1 N/A N/A N/A N/A 0 N/A

8 18 7 8 14 52 17

4 3 3 4 6 26 7

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Thomas S. Wootton 1 1 1 1 1 1 14 11 16 0 2 2 5 3 9 7

Walt Whitman 3 1 0 0 0 0 22 19 29 3 2 1 2 1 3 3

Walter Johnson 0 0 1 0 2 2 44 28 17 0 1 1 15 8 3 1

Winston Churchill 5 2 N/A N/A N/A N/A 27 19 27 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A 7 6

AC CE PT ED

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

IE PL AP

Southern Methodist University Spelman College St. John's University – Queens St. Mary's College of Maryland Stanford University Stevens Institute of Technology Stevenson University Stony Brook University SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Susquehanna University Swarthmore College Syracuse University Temple University Texas A&M University Texas Christian University Towson University Trinity College Trinity University Trinity Washington University Tufts University Tulane University Union College

Bethesda- Montgomery Richard Chevy Chase Blair Montgomery 4 1 0 0 2 2 5 1 13 8 6 1 4 2 12 3 2 0 62 42 20 10 31 10 34 0 44 3 34 3 2 1 2 2 1 0 18 8 21 4 8 0 1 0 4 0 3 0

TOTAL 15 26 21 220 201 10 69 30

7 11 8 139 10 7 24 17

N/A

4 19 30 43 3 3 99 5 1 9 37 48 7

4 0 4 24 0 0 51 1 1 7 4 10 3

3 8 21 95 1 1 147 0 1 21 15 29 1

2 0 6 31 0 1 44 0 1 14 1 6 0

0 16 14 12 1 0 64 3 1 1 29 19 0

0 2 5 8 0 0 54 0 0 0 1 3 0

7 8 21 19 3 2 99 2 2 0 13 36 1

5 1 12 10 1 1 78 1 1 0 1 16 1

1 10 35 6 0 3 31 3 2 0 30 65 3

0 4 22 6 0 2 22 2 0 0 10 32 3

0 10 17 20 2 0 127 2 0 0 17 21 3

0 1 5 11 2 0 74 1 0 0 2 6 2

N/A 7 24 20 N/A N/A 69 7 N/A N/A 19 59 N/A

N/A 1 11 14 N/A N/A 63 2 N/A N/A 2 21 N/A

15 78 162 215 10 9 636 22 7 31 160 277 15

11 9 65 104 3 4 386 7 3 21 21 94 9

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Bethesda- Montgomery Richard Thomas S. Chevy Chase Blair Montgomery Wootton United States Air Force Academy 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 United States Military Academy 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 United States Naval Academy 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 1 University at Buffalo – SUNY 0 0 1 0 1 1 2 2 University of Alabama 15 13 3 0 5 2 13 11 University of Alabama at 6 1 2 0 3 1 2 2 Birmingham University of Arizona 14 10 1 1 2 0 10 8 University of Baltimore 2 0 7 1 3 1 0 0 University of Bridgeport 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 University of British Columbia 13 6 3 2 3 0 2 2 University of California, Berkeley 29 6 45 10 34 7 27 6 University of California, Davis 3 0 2 1 4 1 8 4 University of California, Irvine 3 2 4 1 8 3 11 6 University of California, Los 24 7 28 6 24 4 28 3 Angeles University of California, San 17 4 9 3 15 7 20 7 Diego University of California, Santa 14 4 4 2 8 2 10 5 Barbara University of California, Santa 1 1 3 1 1 0 6 5 Cruz University of Central Florida 7 1 1 4/11/16 1 110:44 1 1 2 1 1 BethesdaMag_CapCity/Curry7x4.625_Layout AM Page

Walt Whitman 1 0 1 1 2 0 3 2 15 15

Walter Johnson 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 7 5

Winston Churchill 4 1 3 0 4 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A

9 9 14 7 58

3 3 4 5 46

N/A

8 0 1 4 26 7 6

7 0 0 4 8 4 3

10 3 3 3 19 2 3

7 1 1 1 3 1 1

14 3 N/A N/A 24 N/A 4

10 2 N/A N/A 8 N/A 3

59 18 7 28 204 26 39

43 5 2 15 48 11 19

184

N/A

TOTAL

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AC CE PT ED

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

D IE PL AP

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

college bound

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Thomas S. Wootton 12 1 0 0 14 11 8 2 1 1 50 36 1 0 0 0 24 0 33 13 0 0 4 3 2 0

Walt Whitman 17 3 2 0 38 24 7 3 2 1 42 28 7 7 3 2 15 9 16 6 0 0 5 4 1 0

Walter Johnson 19 1 2 1 41 22 9 2 2 0 53 20 10 7 4 2 9 5 14 8 1 1 4 2 2 1

Winston Churchill 13 1 3 1 21 15 11 7 N/A N/A 45 27 4 2 N/A N/A 31 18 21 14 N/A N/A N/A N/A 3 1

AC CE PT ED

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

IE PL AP

University of Chicago University of Cincinnati University of Colorado Boulder University of Connecticut University of Dayton University of Delaware University of Denver University of Edinburgh University of Florida University of Georgia University of Glasgow University of Hartford University of Illinois at Chicago University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign University of Kansas University of Kentucky University of Louisville University of Maine University of Mary Washington University of Maryland University College

Bethesda- Montgomery Richard Chevy Chase Blair Montgomery 19 2 31 3 38 3 1 0 1 0 4 0 47 26 20 8 10 3 10 6 3 2 4 1 5 3 0 0 0 0 36 17 7 4 30 9 13 8 6 4 1 0 3 3 0 0 1 0 17 6 6 3 6 3 21 4 9 3 2 1 5 2 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 1 0

TOTAL 149 13 191 52 10 263 42 11 108 116 7 15 9

14 2 109 23 5 141 28 7 44 49 4 10 2

2 3 0 0 4

2 2 0 0 3

1 3 0 1 4

0 2 0 0 3

1 2 2 1 2

0 1 0 1 1

0 2 1 2 2

0 1 0 1 1

2 1 1 3 5

2 1 0 3 4

1 4 3 1 3

1 4 1 1 1

N/A 5 N/A N/A 5

N/A 5 N/A N/A 4

7 20 7 8 25

5 16 1 6 17

N/A

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Bethesda- Montgomery Richard Chevy Chase Blair Montgomery University of Maryland, Baltimore County University of Maryland, College Park University of Maryland Eastern Shore University of Massachusetts Amherst University of Miami University of Michigan University of Minnesota Twin Cities University of Mississippi University of Missouri University of New Hampshire at Durham University of New Haven University of North Carolina Asheville University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Carolina at Charlotte University of North Carolina at Greensboro University of North Carolina Wilmington University of Notre Dame University of Oklahoma University of Oregon University of Ottawa University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh University of Redlands University of Rhode Island University of Richmond University of Rochester University of San Diego University of San Francisco University of Scranton University of South Carolina University of South Florida, Tampa University of Southern California University of St Andrews University of Tampa University of Tennessee, Knoxville University of Texas at Austin University of the District of Columbia University of Toronto University of Utah University of Vermont University of Virginia University of Washington University of Wisconsin â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Madison Ursinus College Vanderbilt University 170

Thomas S. Wootton

Walt Whitman

Walter Johnson

Winston Churchill

AC CE PT ED

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

IE D

college bound

TOTAL

138

145

129

112

717

456

242

131

307

142

280

183

346

201

254

172

268

163

274

198

1971

1190

N/A

38 59

16 19

19 53

5 10

8 48

3 10

28 80

12 27

29 93

12 36

14 50

3 12

24 72

9 22

160 455

60 136

8 1

2 1

1 2

5 0

3 0

1 1

1 0

4 2

4 1

2 2

3 N/A

2 N/A

N/A

232

N/A

13 4 1 3 46 37 3 1 11 20 6 3 0 29

1 1 1 2 5 20 2 0 1 4 4 1 0 19

3 1 3 0 52 40 3 0 4 17 3 4 2 6

0 1 1 0 6 20 3 0 2 4 0 2 1 4

9 0 1 0 70 54 0 2 5 5 1 4 2 7

2 0 1 0 6 27 0 0 1 3 0 2 1 2

4 1 0 0 39 96 0 7 12 2 1 3 1 33

0 1 0 0 3 75 0 6 4 1 1 2 1 31

7 2 3 3 42 38 3 4 6 18 4 4 0 24

2 2 2 2 6 27 3 4 2 6 2 2 0 18

5 1 10 3 18 41 0 2 8 12 3 4 2 32

1 1 7 0 1 26 0 1 4 3 3 3 2 19

N/A N/A N/A N/A 44 66 N/A 5 7 7 N/A N/A N/A 18

N/A N/A N/A N/A 6 53 N/A 1 3 3 N/A N/A N/A 16

41 9 18 9 311 372 9 21 53 81 18 22 7 149

6 6 12 4 33 248 8 12 17 24 10 12 5 109

N/A

24 6 14

6 2 6

31 2 6

10 1 3

24 1 3

5 1 1

20 1 8

5 1 7

42 2 4

10 2 2

20 6 5

6 4 4

35 N/A 8

2 N/A 4

196 18 48

44 11 27

N/A

23 3 31 37 7

12 3 19 3 4

4 4 28 38 15

4 1 19 2 7

9 1 11 45 13

4 1 6 11 0

7 2 13 45 10

5 1 7 0 6

6 7 45 50 14

5 3 36 11 11

4 2 27 43 9

2 2 14 7 3

6 N/A 16 57 9

5 N/A 13 10 4

59 19 171 315 77

37 11 114 44 35

268

139

1 31

0 3

2 16

2 4

1 21

0 2

4 21

4 2

4 28

4 4

0 12

0 1

N/A 33

N/A 2

12 162

10 18

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Thomas S. Wootton

Walt Whitman

Walter Johnson

Winston Churchill

AC CE PT ED

AC CE PT ED AP PL IE D

IE D PL AP

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TOTAL

15 27

2 5

5 4

1 1

6 9

1 2

0 12

0 6

5 15

3 7

5 18

3 7

N/A 18

N/A 8

36 103

10 36

7 28 24 0 5 11

3 10 6 0 2 8

8 23 5 7 0 6

2 7 2 3 0 2

4 30 7 1 1 3

2 10 1 1 0 1

2 53 3 0 4 3

1 41 0 0 0 2

0 22 20 0 1 4

0 11 13 0 0 4

2 39 6 0 3 1

0 23 1 0 1 0

3 32 8 N/A 4 3

0 21 1 N/A 1 2

26 227 73 8 18 31

8 123 24 4 4 19

208

6 27 28 27 15 5 6 27 2 4

1 2 14 7 2 3 4 5 1 2

10 9 11 11 10 3 3 37 4 2

5 1 3 6 1 3 1 4 3 1

6 7 3 12 5 4 2 44 0 0

1 1 2 5 0 1 1 3 0 0

1 3 20 16 3 1 1 17 11 1

0 0 18 6 1 0 1 2 11 0

4 12 5 18 12 10 0 24 1 0

2 4 2 12 3 4 0 2 1 0

2 8 13 17 7 5 1 15 1 1

1 1 8 4 0 5 1 2 1 0

4 8 10 15 3 4 N/A 22 N/A N/A

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

33 74 90 116 55 32 13 186 19 8

12 10 54 44 7 20 8 21 17 3

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The Bethesda area has

been a fertile breeding ground for fast-casual restaurants—those counter-service places with fresh, healthy ingredients, customizable combinations, and reasonable prices for high quality. There’s Cava, the Mediterranean chain started by three Montgomery County buddies, which opened its first location on Bethesda Avenue in 2011. Now with about 30 restaurants across the country and plans to open at least 10 more by the end of this year, diners from Culver City, California, to New York City are craving Crazy Feta. Sweetgreen, the salad chain opened by three Georgetown University students shortly after they graduated in 2007, made its appearance in Bethesda in 2009, its first suburban location. With the help of significant venture capital, there are now nearly 70 Sweetgreen locations nationwide, with several more in the pipeline. From California Tortilla and Fish Taco to Gusto Farm to Street and more, our homegrown fast-casual spots are tried-andtrue trendsetters. We decided to seek out the most delicious, distinctive and surprising contributions they’ve made. We also pitted them against the out-of-towners in taste tests, and offer some revealing information about their calorie counts.

Lebanese Taverna’s Traditional platter includes hummus, baba ghanoush and tabbouleh, a kibbeh and grape leaf, and two falafel.

BEST MEZZE MEAL DEAL For those who like a little bit of everything, the mezze platters at the long-established Lebanese Taverna Café are the tasty ticket. For $11.95, the Traditional platter offers plentiful mounds of hummus, baba ghanoush and tabbouleh, a kibbeh and grape leaf, two falafel and two puffy pockets of pita bread. It’s a belt buster for one person, a satisfying lunch for two. A family of four can fill up on the Lebanese Feast, a selection of 12 mezze items for $27.95, or a small group could enjoy the Supreme Feast, a choice of seven items, plus meat options, baklava and soda for $32.95. Whichever combination you choose, the homemade hummus will be super creamy, the baba ghanoush smoky from grilled eggplant, the kibbeh and falafel nicely spiced and fried, and

the hollow pitas great to deflate for dipping and scooping.

BACKSTORY: Tanios and Marie Abi-Najm and their five children fled the civil war in Lebanon in 1976, and that same year they opened their first restaurant in Arlington. In addition to four cafés in Maryland (the first opened in Rockville’s Congressional Plaza in 1998), the Abi-Najms now run six full-service restaurants, a market, a Lebanese Taverna Express at Reagan National Airport, and a full-service catering kitchen. All five siblings are involved in the business, and while Marie Abi-Najm is technically retired, she still visits the locations. Tanios moved back to Lebanon a few years ago. lebanesetaverna.com BETHESDAMAGAZINE.COM | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017

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Cereal Milk cream soda and the Farmer’s Daughter pizza

Grain Silo

FARRO

When Gusto Italian Grill opened in Bethesda in 2015, its focus was build-your-own pasta bowls, Italian flatbread sandwiches and salads. Since then, the concept has shifted from Italian to healthy fastcasual; in 2016, the name was changed to Gusto Farm to Street, and early this year the noodles were nixed. Now the menu offers unique salads and pizzas, and the results prove that change can be very good. Witness the Grain Silo, a nutritional knockout that features warm seasoned farro; roasted sweet potatoes, cauliflower and broccoli; a blend of cruciferous veggies; hummus, tortilla strips, falafel and a basil pesto drizzle. Granted, there’s a lot going on here, but the textures, temperatures and flavors work well together, leaving you full, comforted and fond of farro.

BACKSTORY: Josh Grim, a former Wall Street investment banker who grew up on a farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, founded the local chainlet, which also has a branch in Silver Spring and one on the way at Westfield Montgomery mall. Grim, who partnered in 2016 with Don Schaefer, the former director of operations at Sweetgreen, and Ben Protheroe, a former regional manager at Cava, says there are more outlets in the works. eatgusto.com 176

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BREAKFAST RIFF at a Pizza Place

One unusual menu item meets another at &pizza, where you can assemble breakfast at lunch or dinner with the Farmer’s Daughter, a pizza topped with spicy tomato sauce, Italian sausage, eggs, spinach, mozzarella, Parmesan and red pepper chili oil—and wash it down with Cereal Milk cream soda. The pleasing pie, subtitled “breakfast with a kick,” is just that, and the soda—created exclusively for the chain by Christina Tosi, chef and founder of Milk Bar— cuts the pizza heat with sweetness. You have to drink it to believe it, but you can really identify both tastes—milk at the bottom of a cereal bowl and fizzy vanilla cream. There are other out-of-the-ordinary drinks here (we especially like the burdock and anise root beer or the lemongrass white peach iced tea), but for the timid, there’s always bottled water and a classic tomato pie.

BACKSTORY: The first &pizza shop, featuring oblong pies cooked briefly in hot conveyor ovens, was opened in 2012 in Washington, D.C., by two 30-something New Yorkers, Michael Lastoria and Steve Salis. There are now nearly two dozen across the country, including four in Montgomery County. Salis is no longer working with the funky chain, which refers to employees as “tribe members” and picks up the tab for staff who want ampersand tattoos. andpizza.com

GUSTO COURTESY PHOTO; BEEFSTEAK BY REY LOPEZ

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BEST PLACE TO EAT YOUR

VEGETABLES José Andrés makes it easy (and affordable) to eat your vegetables. At Beefsteak, Andrés’ homage to healthy eating, $4.99 buys the satisfying namesake sandwich—a thick slab of tomato topped with pickled red onions, sprouts, caper herb mayonnaise, olive oil and sea salt on an olive oil brioche bun. Or, for the same price, opt for the beetsteak, a hefty beet slice on a bun topped with the same onions and sprouts, with chipotle-flavored mayo. Aside from house-composed bowls and salads, the options for “choose your veggie voyage” include a selection of seasonal vegetables, grains, fresh and crunchy toppings, plus dressings and sauces such as green curry or spicy tomato to add some oomph. You don’t have to be completely virtuous; Beefsteak does sell bags of José Andrés potato chips.

BACKSTORY: Beefsteak was born in Foggy Bottom in March 2015, and four other locations have opened since then, including one in Westfield Montgomery mall. The brainchild of José Andrés, the internationally known chef who lives in Bethesda, the fast-casual concept is part of ThinkFoodGroup, the umbrella company for his restaurants, products, and advocacy and education projects. beefsteakveggies.com Beetsteak sandwich

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The Clark: chopped romaine, avocado, Brussels sprouts, grape tomatoes, smoky bacon, aged Grana Padano, Parmesan crisps, Julius Caesar’s dressing, lemon wedge and breaded chicken

BEST SALADS AT A SANDWICH SHOP “You’re here for the hoagie,” reads Taylor Gourmet’s home page in big capital letters. Actually, we’re here for the salads. Unexpected components, such as pastina, crispy prosciutto, spicy roasted rainbow carrots, black pepper ricotta, chili-marinated asparagus and pickled red onions, add intrigue to the various salad selections, which are sharply dressed with good vinaigrettes. Topped with slices of breaded or spice-grilled chicken, they make for a satisfying meal. No roll required.

BACKSTORY: Philadelphia friends Casey Patten and David Mazza co-founded the upscale hoagie haven in 2008 with their first restaurant in Northeast D.C.; there are now 17 shops, including two in Montgomery County. A third MoCo location, at Pike & Rose, is slated to open in February 2018. taylorgourmet.com

BEST PERUVIAN COMFORT FOOD We’ve always coveted the Peruvian chicken at Don Pollo and its sister restaurant, Chicken on the Run, finding it far more crisp and juicy than Crisp & Juicy, another locally founded chain. Under a new ownership arrangement since 2016, Don Pollo’s president, Carlos Ramirez, hired passionate Peruvian chef Nelida Rosales, who added specialty dishes to the dependable rotisserie chicken lineup. Aguadito, the traditional Peruvian chicken soup, is a heartwarming rendition chock-full of rice, peas, corn, carrots and chunks of tender chicken, the broth turned

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Tallarin saltado con pollo

THE TASTE TEST Who does the standards better, our local fast-casual chains or the out-of-towners? We tasted them side by side to find out.

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CHEESEBURGERS

BURRITOS

FALAFEL

Contenders: Sweetgreen, founded by three Georgetown University students, versus Chopt Creative Salad Company, incorporated in 1998 and headquartered in New York City. Sweetgreen has boomed into a chain with about 70 shops in seven states and Washington, D.C. Chopt has more than 40 outlets on the East Coast.

Contenders: BGR the Burger Joint (transitioning into BGR—Burgers Grilled Right), founded in 2008 in Bethesda by Mark Bucher (Medium Rare, Community) versus Bobby’s Burger Palace, established by celebrity chef and restaurateur Bobby Flay. In 2015, BGR was sold to Chanticleer Holdings Inc., a public company based in Charlotte, North Carolina; there are now 21 domestic locations, including four in Montgomery County. Flay has 17 burger palaces across the country, including four in Maryland.

(chicken and steak) Contenders: California Tortilla, founded in 1995 in Bethesda by Pam Felix and Alan Cohen, versus Chipotle, the mother of Mexican fast-casual, which started in 1993 in Denver. Cohen retired in 2014, but Felix is still involved with California Tortilla, which now has 48 locations, including seven in Montgomery County. Chipotle, with 2,291 restaurants, reported $1.07 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2017.

Winner: Tie

Winner: Chipotle

Contenders: Cava, the successful spinoff of MoCo buddies Ted Xenohristos, Ike Grigoropoulos and Dimitri Moshovitis, versus Roti, founded in 2007 in Chicago. The three local Greeks, who started with full-service restaurants, opened their first Cava in 2011 in Bethesda, and have been expanding rapidly with the help of a multimillion dollar investment from a venture capital firm. Roti has nearly 30 restaurants across the country, including one in Montgomery County.

Comments: BGR’s burger had better ingredients—quality beef, redder, riper tomatoes and crunchier red onions—but the meat was cooked way past its requested medium rare, and the cheese wasn’t melted. Bobby’s burger turned up true to medium rare, sporting a gooey blanket of melted cheese. But the tomatoes were wan, the onions a bit limp, and when eaten by itself, the meat tasted more salty than beefy.

Comments: We like the colorful décor, vibe and local roots of California Tortilla, but Chipotle has burritos down pat, with better quality and proportions of ingredients, and just-right seasoning. In particular, Chipotle had a leg up in the rice department, and its steak was markedly more tender. Unlike California Tortilla, however, its stores do not have a hot sauce Wall of Flame.

Winner: Sweetgreen

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Comments: Sweetgreen’s salad, awakened with a crucial squeeze of lime juice, tasted far fresher and brighter than Chopt’s rendition. Other jazzy plusses in Sweetgreen’s salad: cheesy Parmesan crisps, shards of fresh Parmesan and grape tomatoes.

mossy green with cilantro. And there are heaping portions of homey entrées such as chaufa con pollo, carne or mariscos (fried rice with chicken, steak or seafood) or tallarin saltado con pollo or carne (a noodle dish with chicken or steak, red onions, tomatoes, peppers and herbs), showcasing the Chinese influence on Peruvian cuisine that’s rooted in an influx of immigrants to the country in the 19th century. Just save room for Rosales’ divine bread pudding, drizzled with custard sauce.

Winner: Cava Comments: Cava’s crusty orbs were full of whole chickpeas and had a greater depth of flavor and texture than Roti’s. Ditto for Cava’s hummus and tzatziki, both thicker and more complex than Roti’s renditions.

BACKSTORY: The Don Pollo restaurants have a convoluted ownership history. In 2016, partners Carlos Ramirez and Francis Namin divvied up their holdings, with Ramirez getting the Rockville Don Pollo, and Namin retaining the Wisconsin Avenue branch. With a new partner, Ramirez has since opened three new Don Pollo restaurants (two in Silver Spring and one in the Westlake Shopping Center in Bethesda). Meanwhile, Ramirez operates Bethesda’s Chicken on the Run with Fred Namin, Francis’ brother. donpollogroup.com

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WHO’S COUNTING? We’re just comparing calories here—not taste, quality or nutrient density.

BIG MAC

540 calories (Two beef patties, Big Mac sauce, American cheese, shredded lettuce, pickles, onions, bun)

SWEETGREEN PESTO PORTOBELLO BOWL

775

CALIFORNIA TORTILLA HONEY LIME CHICKEN BURRITO

766 calories

calories (Quinoa, arugula, roasted chicken, portobello mix, corn, chickpeas, broccoli, pesto vinaigrette)

Citrus margaritas

Best BUZZ Aside from the terrific food at Fish Taco, we get a real kick out of the restaurant’s frozen citrus margaritas. Made with fresh grapefruit, lime, lemon and orange juices, a touch of triple sec and sugar, and, of course, tequila, the drink is smooth, refreshing and not too sweet. It doesn’t skimp on the booze. On Mondays, the drinks sell for $5 ($7 otherwise), and the deal is particularly popular among hikers at the Cabin John location after their walks in nearby Great Falls Park.

(Grilled mesquite chicken, rice, honey lime sauce, romaine, salsa, tortilla)

TAYLOR GOURMET CHEESESTEAK

900 calories

(Beef rib eye, cheese, grilled onions or mushrooms, roll)

BEST SIGNATURE SANDWICH Anyone who frequents Jetties knows the Nobadeer, the restaurant’s signature sandwich named after the Nantucket beach. A towering riff on Thanksgiving leftovers, it’s layered with turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and mayonnaise on sourdough bread, and hits a nostalgic nerve. Over the years, kudos for the combo have often turned up on Yelp. Some of the best: “The first time I had the Nobadeer was akin to the first time I heard The Beatles” (Connor S.), and “I always get the Nobadeer sandwich, because who

doesn’t want Thanksgiving ALL THE TIME?!” (Caroline G.).

BACKSTORY: Founded in 2003 by Washingtonians Bo Blair, David Scribner and David Simone, Jetties now has six locations, including Bethesda and Chevy Chase, D.C. Under the Georgetown Events management company, the partners also run two Surfsides in Northwest D.C. and two Millie’s, one on Nantucket, the other in Spring Valley, in Northwest D.C. jettiesdc.com

The Nobadeer

Francis Namin, owner of the shuttered Food Wine & Co., opened the first Fish Taco in Cabin John in 2013, following it with two Bethesda locations in 2016— one on Wisconsin Avenue, the site of Namin’s former City Burger eatery, and the other in the Wildwood Shopping Center. At press time, Namin was finalizing a deal to open another Fish Taco on Woodmont Avenue in the spaces formerly occupied by Cosi and Secolari. fishtacoonline.com 180

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BACKSTORY: Longtime local restaurateur

The strawberry shortcake shake and the Pretzler

BEST SHAKES AND SOFT SERVE ICE CREAM Like the Bethesda downtown sector plan, Bold Bite has gone through several iterations. When it first opened on Fairmont Avenue in 2011, it was a hot dog haven. Hamburgers were added in 2013, and then, in 2014, along came coffee and homemade doughnuts. The latest incarnation is a new location in Bethesda in the former Smashburger space, and the dogs were let go in favor of pankocrusted fried chicken, falafel or burgers, offered between a potato bun with various add-ons. (We vote for the Argentino, a fried chicken sandwich topped with lettuce, tomato, chimichurri, Monterey Jack cheese and hot ’n bold sauce.) Salads and all-day breakfast sandwiches are also available. But the highlight is the sweet stuff— particularly the uber-creamy, thick and luscious “roll n’ dip” soft serve ice cream, a rarity in this area. (With no regrets, we indulged in The Pretzler, a vanilla-chocolate swirl rolled in pretzels, dipped in

a chocolate shell and drizzled with chocolate syrup.) Milk shakes demand a taste, too; check out the Dulce de Leche, a decadent blend of malted milk, chocolate ganache, vanilla ice cream and Heath bar pieces topped with whipped cream, more Heath bar bits and a dulce de leche drizzle. The strawberry shortcake shake is next on our to-try list.

BACKSTORY: Bold Bite is one of versatile chef and co-owner Alonso Roche’s culinary projects; he and wife, Maria, and his brother Alvaro also run the popular TapaBar in Bethesda, as well as 202 Donuts & Coffee in the original Bold Bite location. They plan to open TacoArepa, a Caribbean-Latin American restaurant, next door in October. There’s a Bold Bite in Union Station, and plans for another branch downtown on 19th Street NW. boldbite.net BETHESDAMAGAZINE.COM | SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017

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Chicken and rice platter

WHEN YOU’RE COUNTING AS THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM GOES, fast-casual meals are a lot healthier than traditional fast-food. But do they contain fewer calories? Often, no. A study published last year in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics found that on average, entrées at fast-casual restaurants contained 200 more calories than those at fast-food places. Using database nutrition information, the researchers from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina analyzed 3,193 entrées at 34 fast-food restaurants and 28 fast-casual establishments. They calculated that “significantly more” fast-casual entrées exceeded 640 calories, the median number of calories of the entrées. The authors did not compare nutritional quality at the two types of eateries. That’s the conundrum surrounding the fast-casual trend, which serves up fresh vegetables, greens and whole grains, and all the fiber and other nutrients that go with them. But fast-food meals likely have fewer calories because they are served in smaller, standardized portions, and there are fewer options for customization, says Potomac-based dietitian Faye Berger Mitchell, who offers the following tips for navigating fast-casual eating:

Over the years, we’ve appreciated the consistency of Moby Dick House of Kabob, with its well-seasoned and char-edged grilled meats, and a carryout menu that’s conducive for family gatherings. But we’re particularly addicted to the basmati rice and pita bread, thankfully offered in ginormous portions. High-quality aged rice from India, washed and soaked before cooking, turns fragrant and fluffy, and the plated mounds are garnished with a smattering of grains colored sunny yellow by saffron. You can also watch the staff at each location make homemade pita; knobs of dough are flattened, pierced with holes and spread inside the hot clay oven to quickly bake. The blistered, finished rounds are then hung on an Instagram-worthy wall. Up to 400 rounds are made every day at each location, so it’s a continuous photo op.

BACKSTORY: Mike Daryoush opened Moby’s Luncheonette on Wisconsin Avenue in Bethesda in 1989. The restaurant served an American breakfast and lunch until Daryoush built a clay oven and started baking fresh pita. Its popularity took off, and soon other Persian specialties were added. Renamed Moby Dick House of Kabob, the growing chain now employs close to 400 people in 22 restaurants in the metropolitan area, including six in Montgomery County. The original Bethesda location is one of the chain’s busiest. mobyskabob.com 182

✔ Consider the “lightly dressed” option if asked how much salad dressing you’d like, and don’t be timid about requesting smaller quantities of other high-calorie toppings. They also can be ordered on the side. ✔ Check websites for nutrition information. Several chains, such as Cava, Chipotle, Roti and California Tortilla, offer nutrition calculators on their websites that add up the calories, fat and more in your customized selection. ✔

If possible, opt for kids meals, which come in smaller portion sizes.

✔ Load up on all types of veggies—this is where many fast-casual restaurants shine. In fact, if your fridge at home isn’t stocked with vegetables, fast-casual dining may help you get your “5 A Day.” ✔ Choose whole grains when you can, such as brown rice and wholegrain tortillas and pita breads. ✔ If you’re concerned about calories, substitute greens for grains or go half and half. ✔ Be judicious about healthy fats such as olives, avocados, olive oil and nuts. They’re beneficial in small amounts, but too much of a good thing can jack up the calories. ✔ Remember, however, that nutrition isn’t all about calories. If you’re looking for healthier options, fast-casual restaurants are a good choice. Just be aware of portion sizes and toppings. ■ Carole Sugarman is a contributing editor at Bethesda Magazine.

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✔ Watch out for the “more the merrier” mentality. With the plethora of choices, it’s tempting to load up on toppings, but generally the more you add, the greater number of calories. Be particularly mindful of sauces, dressings and cheeses.

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His Toughest Test Yet Former Montgomery County Council member Tom Perez has held some big jobs during his 30 years in public service. Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s up to him to bring together a fractured Democratic party. BY LOUIS PECK

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we couldn’t have been more different,” says Denis, a Jewish native of Brooklyn. Perez, more than 20 years younger than Denis, was from the other end of the Empire State. The son of Dominican immigrants, he was raised in Buffalo and attended a Catholic high school. Their shared interest in baseball resulted in trips to Baltimore to watch the Orioles. Denis grew up following the Brooklyn Dodgers; Perez played baseball in high school and later umpired games to make money during his summers home from college. There were collaborations in the council chambers in Rockville, as well: Both were former congressional aides, and they teamed up to sponsor field hearings and push

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several pieces of legislation. With the council’s eight Democrats split down the middle, Denis became the deciding vote in a 5-4 majority that unexpectedly elevated Perez to the presidency of the council in 2005, making him the highest-ranking Latino elected official in Maryland. Denis, long a member of the GOP’s moderate-to-liberal wing, was even among the speakers at a Silver Spring rally a year later, as Perez launched what turned out to be an abortive bid for the Democratic nomination for state attorney general. “In significant ways, I’d like to think we were—and are—simpatico, because I would say that people like Tom, and I would include myself, like to get things

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A DECADE BEFORE HE achieved prominence in national Democratic Party circles and became a frequent lightning rod for GOP legislators on Capitol Hill, Tom Perez’s closest political friend and ally was a Republican. It was 2002, and Perez had just been elected to the Montgomery County Council from Silver Spring/Takoma Park-based District 5 following an upset victory in the primary. On the council, he became close with veteran officeholder Howard Denis, the council’s only Republican. The pair soon became known as “the odd couple” around the Council Office Building. “It’s hard to explain where friendships come from, but in terms of background,

Tom Perez, who lives in Takoma Park, spent time on the Montgomery County Council and later served as assistant U.S. attorney general and secretary of labor in the Obama administration. In February, he won a contentious election to chair the Democratic National Committee.

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done in a collegial way,” Denis says. That’s what he was ready to tell a Senate committee when a partisan battle erupted in 2009 over President Barack Obama’s nomination of Perez to head the U.S. Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division—the agency where Perez had worked as a young attorney before his days in Rockville. “I would have said something like, ‘You haven’t met Tom Perez. He’s someone I could work with, and [when] he goes into these issues he’s fair-minded and diligent,’ ” Denis adds. “What more do you want in a public official?”

ON A WARM EVENING this past June, Perez is the featured speaker at a gathering of former staffers of the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy in a crowded reception room at a downtown Washington hotel. Perez also worked for Kennedy, as a staff member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, before his days on the Montgomery County Council. Kennedy was the Senate’s leading voice of liberalism until his death in 2009, but he also was known for his ability to craft legislative bargains with ideologically disparate partners. Perez has sought to emulate Kennedy’s collaborative manner, according to those who have worked with him at all levels of government. “I’m an accomplishments Democrat,” Perez tells his fellow staff alumni, repeating what Kennedy used to tell him. “I want to get stuff done. I want to move the ball down the field for people.” These days, however, Perez is spending most of his time trying to unify his fractious fellow Democrats rather than reaching across the political aisle. In February, he won a contentious election to head the Democratic National Committee, becoming the DNC’s first Latino chair at a time when his party—already in the minority on Capitol Hill—had just lost the White House. In this power vacuum, he immediately became one of the country’s most visible and influential Democrats. “It was not his idea—people in the Obama administration, including the

president, were urging him to do this,” Perez’s wife, Ann Marie Staudenmaier, says of her husband’s bid for the DNC chairmanship. “When you have a lot of people around you saying, ‘Hey, you’d be really good at this, you should do this,’ it’s hard to say no to that.” Her advice to Perez at the time? “I said it’s the type of thing that might be interesting, but kind of exhausting,” she says. She ultimately supported his pursuit of the post, but adds, “I wasn’t enthusiastically pushing it.” Perez is more coy when asked what Obama and others in the White House said to convince him, and to what extent he—then the Obama administration’s

behind Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ bid for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, was met by boos at the DNC meeting in Atlanta, where the vote took place. “Party for the people, not big money!” the Sanders forces chanted in response. Perez momentarily quieted these chants with the announcement that he had asked his chief rival to serve as the party’s deputy chair. (Ellison accepted.) But the boos from former Sanders supporters resumed during a joint cross-country tour with the Vermont senator in early spring. Perez’s election was widely seen as a win for the “establishment” candidate: “Democrats Elect Thomas Perez, Establishment Favorite, as Party Chairman”

“It was not his idea—people in the Obama administration, including the president, were urging him to do this.” —Ann Marie Staudenmaier, Perez’s wife, of his bid to chair the DNC outgoing secretary of labor—hesitated before agreeing to run. “On Nov. 8 [2016], I had a very high confidence level that Hillary Clinton was going to be the next president of the United States. I was obviously mistaken,” Perez says. “And so I began the process of figuring out how I could make the biggest difference. “I’ve always believed that it’s important to know what chapter of your life you’re in, and to have situational awareness of where you can make the biggest difference.” By December, he decided that the best place to do that was at the DNC, and he declared his candidacy for the chairmanship. Perez’s relatively narrow victory over Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison, the candidate of the insurgent forces that mobilized

read The New York Times’ headline after his election. The label clearly irks Perez, an early supporter of Clinton’s candidacy for the party’s 2016 nomination. “This is one of those beefs I have sometimes with our friends in the Democratic Party,” he tells the former Kennedy staffers. “All too frequently I think we ask the wrong question: ‘What kind of Democrat are you?’ I don’t know what the word ‘establishment’ means anymore.” Perez seems to take the criticism aimed at him in stride. He says he’s not afraid of the “tension” that comes with his new, highly visible position. Although now in a political role, he sees his mission as similar to what he faced in seeking to transform large government bureaucracies over the past decade. “One of the

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Perez and his wife, Ann Marie Staudenmaier, an attorney at The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, met at a party in his hometown of Buffalo in 1984. The couple married in 1988.

LEON RODRIGUEZ, A LONGTIME friend, attributes Perez’s drive and deliberateness to the circumstances of his upbringing, including the loss of his father to a heart attack when he was 12. “I think that looms hugely in a lot of things, including Tom’s sense of ‘it’s got to get done right now,’ ” says Rodriguez, an attorney in private practice. “Because we don’t necessarily know how long we’re going to be around.” Perez’s background was hardly typical of Buffalo, a largely working-class steel manufacturing city when he was growing up. His father, Rafael, fled the Dominican Republic as a young man, enlisted in the U.S. Army and later trained as a physician, ultimately finding his way to a job at a Veterans Administration hospital

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things I really enjoy is going into agencies or organizations that have a critical mission but are underperforming—and [trying] to change the culture,” he says. At the DNC, he aims to double the staff, adding nearly 100 jobs. “We have to build an organizing infrastructure, we have to build a training infrastructure, we have to build a millennial next generation engagement infrastructure—and we have to make sure we have a compelling message that resonates with people. I have a lot of people I talk to who say, ‘I don’t know what you stand for.’ ” Five months into the job, he’s often on the road, including “a lot of weekend travel to talk to voters.” In a Thursday telephone interview from Chicago, he says: “I left yesterday, I get back Sunday. I’ll do my laundry and get back out on the road Tuesday.” Of his sleeping habits, Perez says: “I’m kind of a five hour a night guy. I’ve periodically said that sleep is overrated. I can sleep a lot after I die.”

in Buffalo. Perez’s mother, Grace, was from a prominent Dominican family; her father was the country’s ambassador to the U.S. before a falling out in the mid-1930s with longtime Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. The family opted to remain in the United States after her father was declared persona non grata back home. Perez is the youngest of five children— three brothers who became physicians and a sister who is a psychologist. One of his brothers encouraged him to pursue a medical career, but Perez, then in his late teens, says he became “wobbly-kneed” and nearly fainted at the sight of blood while observing an operation. At his Jesuit-run high school, Perez tried out for the basketball team but was cut in each of his first three years. “I was kind of a glutton for punishment, and then, after my junior year, the coach there for 30 years retired, and I decided that I would try again just to prove to myself I could do this,” he says with a laugh. “I made the team and ended up starting a couple of games. It was a good life lesson in persistence.” With his father gone, the “$30,000 or $40,000 life insurance policy...wasn’t exactly a road map for long-term financial security,” he says. He made it through Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with the help of federal scholarship aid and a series of part-time and summer jobs—including collecting garbage and working in a warehouse, as Obama noted in announcing Perez’s nomination as labor secretary. He worked 20 hours a week during the school year, and his siblings often helped out financially. Perez maintains close ties to his hometown. There is the annual trip that he and former U.S. Deputy Transportation Secretary John Porcari take with their sons to see the Buffalo Bills play. “I think to understand Tom, you need to understand the Bills,” says Porcari, another western New Yorker. “It’s not been easy to be a Bills fan. That kind of loyalty, I think, is the essence of who Tom Perez is. …Life is hard in upstate

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New York, and what you can rely on is your friends, your family and your hard work. I think his roots formed him.” Perez also returns at least once a year for what his wife terms “guys weekends” with friends from his days in both elementary and high school. “Most of his friends come from conservative Republican backgrounds, and when they get together they just don’t talk politics,” Staudenmaier says. “His friends don’t care that he’s a well-known Democrat, and he doesn’t care that they’re Republican. …He can get along with pretty much anybody.” Today, Perez is quick to make friends, but often with more strategic purposes in mind. “I don’t think I have ever known anybody who is as deliberate about befriending people as Tom is,” says Rodriguez, who has known Perez for more than 20 years and at one point served as his chief of staff at the Justice Department. “Partly it’s because he’s a good guy, but partly it’s because he ends up coming back to those people, almost godfather-like, as professional allies down the line. He gets to know you in a much more intentional way than I think I’ve ever seen anybody else do it—in a very gracious way, but in my mind, very intentional.”

PEREZ AND STAUDENMAIER—a longtime staff attorney at The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless—lived in Rockville for seven years before purchasing the brick colonial in Takoma Park that they have occupied since 1995. They have two daughters—Amalia is a student at Brown University, and Susana attends the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where her mother graduated. Their son, Rafael, is a high school sophomore. Perez and Staudenmaier met at a party in Buffalo in 1984, the summer after Perez finished his first year at Harvard Law School. Staudenmaier was in Buffalo as part of a volunteer program focusing on inner cities. For three years, they maintained a long-distance relationship between Boston, where Perez was simultaneously pursuing a master’s degree at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy

Perez, pictured with his son, Rafael, was cut from his high school basketball team three times before finally making it as a senior. “It was a good life lesson in persistence,” Perez says.

School of Government as well as a law degree, and D.C., where Staudenmaier was attending The George Washington University Law School. They married in 1988 while Perez was clerking for a federal judge in Denver, and were back in Washington in 1989 for his first full-time stint in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, where he

had initially worked during a summer internship while at Harvard Law School. The couple often can be found in the stands at baseball games at Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, where Rafael (nicknamed Raffa) plays. In recent years, even during his stint as a Cabinet officer, Perez regularly coached basketball teams on which his daughters and son played in Montgomery County. For Perez, who turns 56 in October, the basketball playing days are largely over, thanks to a knee replacement several years ago. “Coaching basketball is one

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of his favorite things to do with our kids, because he can kind of vicariously play,” Staudenmaier says. When Perez is at home, the TV is most likely tuned to ESPN or the MLB Network. “Tennis, golf, baseball—you name it. He watches every kind of sporting event you can think of,” Staudenmaier says. “That’s kind of his downtime.” He reads a lot of news online, she says, “but he’s not a big

assumed the DNC chairmanship. Friends say the couple—one a career government employee until the DNC chairmanship, the other a legal aid attorney—live a modest lifestyle. “Tom was no gilded Cabinet member,” says Porcari, who has been a friend since before he and Perez served together in the administration of Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. “One reason that some people don’t understand Tom is

Of his sleeping habits, Perez says: “I’m kind of a five hour a night guy. I’ve periodically said that sleep is overrated. I can sleep a lot after I die.” CNN watcher.” DNC aides will call him regarding late-breaking news developments meriting a comment. While Perez was previously a Cabinet secretary in the line of succession to the presidency, his wife says his job at the DNC “seems to be way higher profile” than his prior post. “We can’t really go out for a walk anymore without people stopping and saying something,” Staudenmaier says. “It’s a lot of strangers who just recognize him. …The number now who ask to take pictures with him or want to talk about things or introduce themselves is kind of astounding.” Within the avowedly progressive municipality in which they live, “almost everyone is very friendly,” she notes. While Perez was labor secretary, a disability rights group at one point organized a sizable protest demonstration outside their home; there have been no such sidewalk demonstrations since he 190

that he’s not motivated by some kind of financial coup that will let him play golf. Tom could have cashed in at many stops along the way. He never has.” While few within his circle of friends dispute that Perez is motivated by ambition, they insist it is accompanied by the noblest of intentions. “You might look at the different jobs Tom has had and say he’s ambitious, and that’s true, but what’s important to note is that he’s ambitious to accomplish things,” says University of Baltimore law school Dean Ronald Weich, who hired Perez to work on Kennedy’s staff more than two decades ago. “He is not trying to get jobs for selfaggrandizement or self-promotion; he’s trying to put himself in roles where he can improve the state of our democracy.” After a three-year stint as a Kennedy aide, Perez returned to the federal government’s executive branch in 1999 as director of the Office of Civil Rights for the

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the Clinton administration. Republican George W. Bush’s narrow victory in 2000 left him off the federal payroll for the first time since law school. It was also the first time that Perez decided to seek elected office—a seat on the County Council that was up for grabs in 2002. “I wasn’t one of these people who, when I was 16, said, ‘I want to run for office when I’m 30,’ ” he says. “Sometimes life presents opportunities you don’t expect. I was not, in 1999, holding meetings with people about a potential run for County Council in 2002.” In a four-way primary field, Perez captured the nomination with 44 percent of the vote, and he went on to victory by a 3-1 margin in the general election to become the first Latino member of the County Council. “I loved my experience on the County Council,” Perez says. “Every time I go by my kids’ elementary school and see the health clinic there, that I was able to play a role in, it brings a smile to my face.” But several former colleagues say Perez’s priorities on the council—such as curtailing predatory lending practices and importing lower-priced Canadian pharmaceuticals, issues normally tackled at the state and federal levels— showed that he was eyeing opportunities beyond Rockville. “He was looking at a different platform,” says former Councilmember Steve Silverman. “The issues he cared about…are things more suited to an attorney general or a governor position.” In fact, in the spring of 2006, Perez announced not for re-election, but for the open state attorney general’s position. Montgomery County State’s Attorney Doug Gansler, who had been positioning himself to run for Maryland attorney general for the better part of four years, had an overwhelming advantage in fundraising. But Perez picked up some potent allies in organized labor, including the state’s teachers union. By the September primary, however, Perez was off the ballot, scuttled by a

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clause in the Maryland Constitution that requires 10 years of practicing law in the state before running for attorney general. Citing the fact that Perez had only been a member of the Maryland State Bar Association since 2001, a lawsuit was brought by Stephen Abrams, the Republican candidate for state comptroller in the 2006 election and, at the time, a member of the Montgomery County Board of Education. A lower court ruled in favor of Perez, but barely two weeks before the primary election the Maryland Court of Appeals reversed that decision and disqualified him from running. Perez calls it “a kick in the gut.” But one veteran Maryland political operative who had urged Perez to run in 2006 says there was a silver lining. “It’s my humble opinion that, had the race reached its natural conclusion, he would have lost,” says Len Foxwell, now chief of staff to Maryland Comptroller

Perez, at home with his dog, P.J., has lived in the same brick colonial in Takoma Park for 22 years. The former Montgomery County Council member is often on the road now as chair of the DNC.

of working themselves out. I feel like I’ve led a charmed life. So my mother was right.”

Peter Franchot. “Because he didn’t finish the race, he emerged from the 2006 cycle with an untarnished halo, and he was still a highly coveted commodity.” Perez doesn’t argue with that assessment. “My mother always taught me that everything happens for a reason,” he says. “Sometimes it takes a little bit longer than other times to figure out what the reasons are. “The irony is that if all that hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to be the [Maryland] labor secretary, and then I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to be head of the Civil Rights Division, and I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to be the U.S. labor secretary. …Things have a way

HIS OWN ASPIRATIONS FOR elected office sidelined, Perez pivoted quickly, and in the fall of 2006 began to campaign for Martin O’Malley, the mayor of Baltimore who was seeking to oust Republican incumbent Gov. Robert Ehrlich. Though they had not known each other previously, O’Malley and Perez shared some common background. They were both products of Jesuit high schools (O’Malley, growing up in Rockville, attended Gonzaga College High School in the District). There was a political logic to their alliance. Little love was lost between Gansler, Perez’s former opponent, and O’Malley, whose father had faced off against Gansler in a bitter race for Montgomery County state’s attorney in 1998. O’Malley, who

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his toughest test yet had spent his adult life in Baltimore, saw Perez as a way to re-establish ties to the county where he had grown up. Once elected, O’Malley named Perez to head the state’s Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (DLLR—often referred to by insiders as “Dollar”). While forging a close working relationship on several policy initiatives, O’Malley and Perez came down on different sides of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. O’Malley strongly supported Hillary Clinton, while Perez lined up with Barack Obama. “I did so very quietly, and the reason I did so quietly was that I was working for Martin O’Malley,” Perez says. “You don’t ever undermine your boss. And Martin O’Malley was very generous after the primary ended, when I started to do a lot more work for the [Obama] campaign.” Shortly after the 2008 election, Perez—who had not known Obama before the campaign—spent a significant

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amount of time in Washington as part of the Obama transition team. He had been tapped by Melody Barnes, a top Obama aide whom Perez had known in Kennedy’s office, to oversee key aspects of planning for the justice and labor departments. Perez’s efforts were rewarded with a plum appointment in 2009 as assistant U.S. attorney general in charge of the Civil Rights Division, where he had begun his career two decades earlier. He was quickly engulfed in partisan warfare. Ironically, Perez was nominated after the Obama administration passed over California Latino lawyer Thomas Saenz—its initial choice for the post— as too controversial, due to his past involvement in fights over immigration policy. But the immigration issue also surfaced in Perez’s protracted confirmation process. Some Republicans took aim at his lengthy involvement with CASA (formerly known as CASA

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de Maryland), the immigrant rights organization based not far from Perez’s Takoma Park residence. Perez served on CASA’s board of directors from the mid1990s until he resigned upon his election to the County Council, including several terms as chairman. According to Gustavo Torres, CASA’s executive director, Perez helped put together a strategic plan that enabled CASA to become a statewide presence. “He played a major role to make sure the organization became what we are right now,” Torres says. Six months after he was nominated, Perez was confirmed as assistant attorney general in October 2009, with a majority of Senate Republicans opposing him. Four years later, when Perez was confirmed as Obama’s secretary of labor, the partisan battle lines had hardened even further: According to the Senate Historical Office, the 54-46 tally marked the first time since before the Civil War that

a Cabinet secretary had been approved on a strictly party-line vote. Assessing Perez’s tenure as head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division just before that vote was taken, Republican Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, then the Senate minority leader, snarled, “Tom Perez is more than just some left-wing ideologue, he’s a leftwing ideologue who appears perfectly willing to bend the rules to achieve his ends. This is reflective not of some passionate left-winger who views himself as patiently advancing policies within the bounds of a democratic system but as a crusading ideologue whose convictions lead him to believe that the law simply doesn’t apply to him.” Several of Perez’s initiatives during his tenure in the Civil Rights Division riled congressional Republicans. He challenged state laws in Alabama and Arizona that targeted illegal immigration, and he succeeded in overturning

voter identification laws in South Carolina and Texas—in what some in the GOP considered an effort to boost the Obama re-election vote among minorities in 2012. But the major flash point involved a Perez-engineered deal in which the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, dropped its appeal of a housing case that the Supreme Court had agreed to hear. Some liberals feared that an adverse ruling in the case could have weakened a legal doctrine known as “disparate impact,” which has been used to fight discrimination against racial minorities. In return for St. Paul dropping the appeal, the Justice Department did not intervene in an unrelated whistle-blower action brought against the city, which led to that case being dismissed. Led by Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, now chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, critics charged the decision not to intervene deprived the federal government of an opportunity to recover up to $200

million in taxpayer funds that, according to the suit, St. Paul had obtained improperly. Rodriguez calls the criticisms of Perez in the St. Paul matter “bullshit.” He adds: “I’m a career prosecutor myself. The point there is that it is incredibly common [for] the government to have two issues with a particular defendant or particular organization…and work out a deal that covers both issues. That’s just the way the system is designed.” Weich, a former counsel to the Senate Democratic leadership, attributes part of the Republican rhetorical assault on Perez to “circumstances”—the increasing polarization on Capitol Hill—and to Perez’s increasing clout. “They saw he was effective, they knew that as a Latino lawyer he had a real future in government—and they wanted to bloody him.” O’Malley sought Perez’s support in 2015, when the former governor became a candidate for the Democratic

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his toughest test yet nomination for president. He was rebuffed, only to have Perez come out strongly for Clinton several months later. In turn, when Perez sought the DNC chairmanship, O’Malley endorsed a dark-horse contender, Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana. Perez and O’Malley moved to smooth things over after Perez’s election as chairman. “He sat in my office, probably a month into my tenure, and I continue to have great respect for Martin O’Malley. Working for him was a real privilege,” Perez says. “I made a decision on the presidential [race], and I know he was disappointed, but I think our friendship has enough strength to endure those decisions.”

IT IS BARELY TWO months since Perez’s election as DNC chairman as he appears before a home-state audience at the annual dinner of the Anne Arundel County Democratic Central Committee. Introducing Perez, U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland tells the overflow crowd, “As he was telling me earlier, he’s basically a career guy at the Department of Justice.” Such comments feed into the narrative that becoming attorney general remains a goal for Perez. Passed over for a spot on the national ticket in 2016 as Clinton’s running mate, he was widely seen as a possible attorney general in a Clinton Cabinet. Earlier, when Eric Holder announced in 2014 that he was stepping down as Obama’s attorney general, there was speculation about Perez succeeding him, and sources say Perez quietly approached some members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus—resulting in that group publicly endorsing him for the post. But the appointment went to Loretta Lynch. Perez, at that point a little more than a year into his tenure as labor secretary, disputes suggestions that he was pushing himself for attorney general. “I wasn’t lobbying for anything,” he says. “I was trying to transform the Labor Department. It was, again, a good organization with a great mission [where] we needed to up our game. That was my singular focus.” But his attachment to the Justice 194

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Department remains evident as he discusses it in emotional terms. “I spent something like 14 years at the Justice Department. So it always has a special place in my heart,” he says. “And it breaks my heart right now to see Jeff Sessions doing what he is doing to the department. I walked into a department in 2009 that had been decimated by [Bush Attorney General Alberto] Gonzales, and I don’t want history to repeat itself. Its independence is its most important currency.” Now, as chair of the DNC, Perez faces the most daunting task of his career: recrafting his party’s message and organization in the wake of the 2016 debacle—and winning back the House and Senate in 2018 and the White House in 2020. A strong showing in the 2018 election would surely boost his personal political stock. A spot on the national ticket in 2020? A run for Maryland governor in 2022, if incumbent Republican Larry Hogan wins re-election and the job is up for grabs then? Perez, sources say, had not ruled out the prospect of seeking to take on Hogan in 2018 if he had fallen short in his bid for the DNC chairmanship. Washington lobbyist Manus Cooney, a Republican counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee two decades ago who worked closely with Perez, is among those waiting to see what happens next. “Of all the people I’ve worked with over the years on the Democratic side of the aisle, the intellectual capacity of Tom Perez is unmatched,” Cooney says. “His life story isn’t near finished, and it will be fun to watch—interesting at least.” Perez bats aside a question about a future run for office. “I have given that zero thought. This job is all consuming right now, and the notion of thinking of what I’m going to do in 2021 when I’m trying to think about what I’m going to do next Monday is a little daunting.” ■ Louis Peck (lou.peck@bethesdamagazine. com) has covered politics extensively at the local, state and national level for four decades.

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In 1997, Terry Cummings and Dave Hoerauf welcomed their first animal, a pig named Petunia, to Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary in Poolesville. Since then, they have cared for thousands of animals who had been neglected, abused or abandoned. BY MELANIE D.G. KAPLAN | PHOTOS BY GASTON LACOMBE

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TERRY CUMMINGS AND Dave Hoerauf, once high school sweethearts in Hyattsville, rented a Colonial-era farmhouse in Poolesville in 1987, expecting to leave in a year. She was working as a veterinary technician at the National Zoo; he had a job in printing. The couple knew a farmer was renting the land around their house, and before long they had fallen in love with his Angus cows and steers. They watched their babies grow and delighted in waking up to “moos.” Cummings was folding laundry in the house one day when she heard the cows and steers crying and people yelling. From her bedroom window she saw men beating the bovines with baseball bats, forcing them into a truck, babies abandoned. Cummings says it never occurred to her that the animals they’d named and fed apples were being raised for slaughter. In that moment, everything changed. She and Hoerauf learned that farm animals are exempt from animal cruelty laws, and over the next several years the couple became vegans and decided—after a lot of discussions—to start an animal sanctuary on the property. They had the blessing of the landowner, who had evicted the cattle farmer. “We didn’t just jump in feet first,” Hoerauf says to a visitor one day this spring, walking through the goat barn. Once you start a forever home like this, he says, you can’t stop. “It’s a lifetime commitment. But we don’t ever feel like we made a mistake. Right, Zachary?” he says, petting a white goat. Losing their lease was among the couple’s early worries. But the landowner donated the entire property of 430 acres to Cummings and Hoerauf a decade ago. Today, the couple—both 57, married 32 years and without 198

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Conductor William Eddins (left) is one of the key players in Strathmore’s most ambitious production of the 2016-2017 season, All Rise. During dress rehearsal, composer and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis (right) interrupts Eddins to say the violins should sound “scratchier.”

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children—can keep their promise to the 300 animals that they will always have a home there. “I have the best job in the world,” Cummings says. “It’s exhausting, time-consuming, and we haven’t had a weekend off in 20 years. But I can’t think of anything I’d like more than seeing these animals alive and having a great life because of what we’re doing.”

CAROLE SUTTON BEGAN volunteering at Poplar Spring in 2007, shortly after she retired as a Montgomery County teacher. Cummings and Hoerauf hired her within weeks. She is one of eight staff members. “There’s always something going on here, either gut-wrenching or euphoric,” says Sutton, 72, adding that the work makes her feel much younger. While it’s heartbreaking to see animals arrive injured or emaciated, she says, knowing they have a life ahead of them is pure magic. “It’s brought me to a level of compassion and a place I didn’t even know my heart could go.” Each animal has a name and distinct personality, and a few unlikely friendships have formed. There’s Josie, a blind Barbados Blackbelly sheep, and Evie, a three-legged Nigerian Dwarf goat, who have become besties. And visitors are tickled when they see how Nicky, a male pigeon, and Stevie, a Silkie hen, pine for each other when separated. They share a tiny house with a fan and heater, and soft cooing resonates from behind closed doors. “Nicky loves Stevie,” Hoerauf says. “You can’t stop love. It’s real.” Every resident also has a story. Ferdinand the goat was found in a Southeast Washington apartment. A goat named Sebastian was rescued from a hoarder who had two dead goats in his closet. Chester the black sheep was found running loose in Rock Creek Park. Marshall, a white sheep, was found grazing on Interstate 270 and eventually lured into a trailer by some clever humans and an ewe in heat. Two pigs arrived from a testing laboratory. Malcolm, the head goat, was found as a baby on the median strip of I-95. This spring, Poplar Spring adopted its first alpacas from a farm starvation case in Pennsylvania. Griffin and Spencer hum (as alpacas 200

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do), run like the wind and still withdraw fearfully when humans approach. With each saved life comes an eventual death. After an animal dies, a necropsy is performed and the animal’s ashes are buried at the farm. In December, a Longhorn cross steer named Mini Moo died in his sleep of heart and liver failure, and each cow came up to say goodbye, mooing quietly. Later in the winter a social, tail-wagging sheep named Adam died in hospice in the farmhouse. In April, an arthritic, half-blind rooster named Sydney died, leaving an equally arthritic girlfriend, Cleo, in mourning. The farm’s oldest animal is a 42-year-old mule named Gloria. 202

“Losing animals is so sad,” Sutton says. “But I’ve learned to personally say to myself, ‘This animal had the best chance at life.’ ” The sanctuary is not just for animals, she adds. “It’s for those of us who feel so deeply.”

SAVING LIVES COMES AT a price. Cummings and Hoerauf are limited in the number of animals they welcome onto the farm by their funding, which comes completely from donations. They field requests daily for help in placing animals, and while they can’t bring them all to the sanctuary, they have networked with other groups to help find homes for

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Poplar Spring Animal Sanctuary welcomes visitors, who can take tours and see a variety of farm animals up close.

hundreds of animals over the years. The sad truth of life after neglect or abuse, no matter what the species, is that special—and expensive—care is often needed. Take Georgie, a lamb born on a West Virginia farm this spring with front legs so twisted and bent that he couldn’t stand up to nurse. After surgery at the University of Pennsylvania’s New Bolton Center Hospital for Large Animals, he returned to Poplar Spring with one leg in a cast and one in a splint, and would soon learn how to walk. Cummings drives three hours each way to New Bolton when animals need treatment, whether it’s a 950-pound pig with a bone infection or a goat with gallstones. In Georgie’s case, treatment cost about $2,000. But he unexpectedly died of an infection shortly after he returned to the farm.

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who lives in Gaithersburg and has volunteered at Poplar Spring for four years. McGowan had retired from the Department of Homeland Security, and one year into volunteering she converted from meat-eater to vegan. Today, as one of 100 regular volunteers, she helps with animal care and manages the Facebook page for Wee Wee, a celebrity pig who was a 2-week-old piglet when he was found freezing on the side of the road during Snowzilla in 2016. McGowan is also known as the treat lady and can be found tossing pieces of sliced bread to joyfully jumping geese. When McGowan drives down the dirt road to the farm, her favorite resident, pygmy goat Zachary, watches her silver SUV and starts crying with anticipation. Part of the sanctuary’s mission is to promote compassion and humane treatment of all animals by educating the public. Cummings and Hoerauf regularly give tours to school and community groups and talk about the lives of

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animals raised for human food. Visitors pet sheep, hold chickens and feed goats. “You hope it changes people the way it changed us,” Cummings says. “The pigs are like dogs. You’re trying to clean the barn, and the pig wants to get his belly rubbed.” These bellies, by the way, are enormous. Pigs are generally slaughtered at 5 months, or 250 pounds. When they are allowed to live, they can reach 1,000 pounds by age 6. At the end of the day, the animals are called to their barns. “C’mon sheepies!” “Chick-chick-chick-chick!” But the failsafe way to get everyone running home, Hoerauf says, is to offer dessert. On a warm afternoon this spring he stood outside the sheep barn and shook a plastic jug from Sam’s Club that was filled— of course—with animal crackers. “It works every time,” he says. n Melanie D.G. Kaplan grew up in Montgomery County and is now a freelance writer based in D.C.

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NAME DJ Durkin AGE 39 WHAT HE DOES Head football coach at the University of Maryland LIVES IN Kensington

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WHEN HE FINISHED PLAYING college football at Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 2000, DJ Durkin wasn’t sure what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. So when a job opened on the football staff at the school, he took it. “I had a business degree and I figured I’ll stick around football for a little longer and buy some time until I figure something out,” Durkin says. “I was just kind of doing it to get my graduate school paid for, [to] be around the game I played my whole life.” Sixteen years after graduating from Bowling Green, Durkin is still “around the game” as the head coach at the University of Maryland. Durkin, 39, who lives in Kensington, is known nationally for his recruiting prowess, and his résumé includes coaching stints under famed college coaches Urban Meyer and Jim Harbaugh. He is beginning his sophomore season at Maryland. Last year, the Terrapins finished 6-7 overall, middle of the pack in the Big Ten. Durkin grew up in northeast Ohio and was a

defensive end and outside linebacker at Bowling Green. As he has built his coaching career, he and his wife, Sarah, have moved six times in the past 15 years. The couple has two children, 7-year-old Abigail and 4-year-old Luke. Durkin leads his team with a coaching style that promotes hard work, dedication and competiveness. It’s a style he has honed since his days as an assistant coach at Stanford, where he anointed players on special teams and the defensive line as “pack or prey”—those who put in the most effort and dominated practices joined the pack, while those labeled as prey didn’t get to play in games. Expectations are high for Durkin, who is paid $2.4 million a year. He will have to prove over the next few seasons that his team can beat Big Ten powerhouses such as Ohio State and Michigan. From his office overlooking Capital One Field at Maryland Stadium, Durkin discussed his coaching philosophy and his path to becoming a head coach.

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Growing up in Ohio, were you an Ohio State fan? As a kid, you end up cheering for who your parents cheer for. My dad was a Notre Dame fan, so that’s who I grew up rooting for. You played football at Bowling Green and then later coached there as a graduate assistant under Urban Meyer, now the head football coach at Ohio State. Do you feel like you lucked out joining his coaching staff fresh out of college? I certainly benefited from good timing. I didn’t know him at all. I don’t think anyone knew of him at the time—that was his first head coaching job. I wasn’t really certain or clear on what I wanted to do, and luckily I had some guys that were on the staff when I played there that spoke highly enough of me for him to offer me a job.

What is the right way to coach? Being involved in your players’ lives, just entrenching yourself in what’s going on with them. Not just coaching football, but making sure they’re taking care of their academics, making sure you know 208

In 2016, the Terps beat Howard University 52-13 in DJ Durkin’s first game as University of Maryland head football coach. He’s pictured with defensive back Qwuantrezz Knight.

what’s going on with them off the field. Almost taking them in like they’re your own kids. That relationship you build is what it’s all about. It’s not done that way everywhere. I’d like to say it’s my own doing, my own idea. I don’t know. When did you realize that? When I was a graduate assistant at Bowling Green, that’s where I learned what it’s all about. There were two young men on the team that I was assigned to watch

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over and keep track of because they were really good players that were struggling with their grades. So I went through that time of really building a relationship with those guys and just seeing how you can have a positive effect on a young man’s life and help turn it around. That’s where I acquired my philosophy on coaching. And then it kind of became, wow, this is a big deal, it’s a powerful thing. It’s something really important you can be a part of. That’s when I realized what

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What were those early days like working for Urban Meyer? Every day was a learning experience. You’re talking about your first job, you’re just trying to take in as much as you can. It was a different time back then, too. It was crazy, it was wild. It was really good. To me, that was the most valuable learning experience you can have. I think I learned a lot about the reasons you coach, what's behind it and the right way to do it. I think the more you’re coaching—and this is probably true in any profession—the more you’re around it, the more you understand people are products of what their experiences are. I was very fortunate at such a young age to have such a great experience, to really learn what coaching is all about and how to do it the right way.

coaching was all about, and what my calling was. Can you share more about those two players? They were guys that came from rough backgrounds, not much family, and had been kind of passed through schools. They were unprepared for what college had to offer. So myself and my wife, we actually personally took the time to help teach them how to read and write and those sorts of things, as well as every day Never face a disciplinary making sure they’re [getting] to class and doing what they’re supposed to be doing. hearing or appeal alone. It became my responsibility to make Call for a consultation sure they were where they were supMCMILLANMETRO.COM 301-485-5901. posed to be, [that] they were eligible and ready to play. It was like having EDUCATION LAW | FAMILY LAW | ELDER LAW | ESTATE PLANNING | LITIGATION kids of our own. What first started as MEDIATION | REAL ESTATE | BUSINESS AND CORPORATE LAW...AND MORE a ‘Are you kidding me? I can’t believe I have to do this’ type of deal turned into probably the single most influential or life-changing experience that I’ve had.McM_Bethesda_Ad_F.indd 1 8/3/17 Do you stay in touch with those players today? I do, mainly through text. But I know both are doing well and have families of their own. It’s a pretty cool thing when you help with that.

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being a head coach. After everything calmed down, I got in my office, took a deep breath and just thought about it. Do you have any memories that stand out during your first season as head coach? I’ll always remember the looks on our players’ faces after our first win. I think, especially at that point, [the coaching staff ] put them through a lot when we first got there. We changed a lot. It was a very demanding, tough program to be a part of. It was done that way intentionally because I wanted to find out who actually was invested and wanted to be here. You can kind of eliminate people who were just participants. We went through a lot together, and to see the looks on their faces of the feeling of victory and knowing all that work they put in was starting to pay off. It was pure joy in that locker room. I think after any win you always get that, but there was something special about that first one, all of us together. After the Michigan loss last year, you were quoted as saying, ‘We’re a fragile team, there’s a lot of things we need to do to grow up as a program.’ What does this program need to do to grow up, and how long do you think it will take? We’re taking steps every day. How long? I don’t know. I don’t see it as a long-term thing. I see it as a process. What I meant by that was…there’s a culture and winning way created around a program and it takes time to ingrain that in everyone. We were on the road against a tough team, got down a little bit, and everyone got the ‘woe is me’ look. There’s going to be a time here where it’s gonna happen, we’re going to get down somewhere on the road and we’re going to look at each other and be like, all right, let's go, and we’re going to get the lead back and go win a game. That, to me, is the mark of a 210

program, when you’re where you want to be culture wise. We’re leaps and bounds from where we were at the time, but we still got a ways to go. Coming into the 2017-2018 season your recruiting class was ranked in the top 20 in the country. How do you get recruits to Maryland, which has been known as a basketball school for years? I think there’s a genuineness to our program. I don’t—my coaching staff doesn’t promise anyone anything. We don’t tell you you’re going to start, you’re going to do this, you’re going to do that. We just tell it like it is. I think there’s a freshness people feel when they come here. We’re not usedcar salesmen, we tell them like it is. I think there’s a vibe and excitement around this program you can feel, you can sense. I think people come here and they see it. There’s a lot of good things to sell. I don’t care how good of a recruiter or salesman someone thinks they are, you have to have a good product to sell. You look at the degree and the strength the University of Maryland carries, it’s tremendous, as well as all the things going on with this football program—a new facility—there’s a lot to sell. Do you think that’s something you can sell to the fans, too? Without a doubt. There are great football fans, sports fans in general in this area. It’s our job to put a product on the field that wins, consistently wins, that they can be excited about. We’re building not just a team, but a community here. This stadium is our community. If you look at all the guys we’re recruiting from right here in our backyard, they have friends and family and coaches and people that have been following them and watching them play. Those are the people that are going to be coming to these games and have a genuine interest in what’s [happening]

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on the field because they have a personal connection to it. How do you recruit players from the D.C., Maryland and Virginia area? We’ve redefined what the DMV is for us. We’re counting basically a three-hour radius from where we’re sitting. That includes South Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and there’s a little more to it. We break up our recruiting by county, city and all that based on who recruits where. On your spring game roster I counted five players from Montgomery County. How does the recruiting pool in Montgomery County compare to the rest of the region and other areas you’re recruiting from? It’s solid, it’s deep, there’s good talent year in and year out. I think this whole area is a consistent producer of talented young football players. Overall, we believe we can recruit in our own backyard and field a team with enough talent to compete with anyone. Not a lot of places can say that. Are the recruits going to be good enough to compete with Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State? Absolutely. It’s on us to get enough [of them] to come here and stay here—to keep having guys stay home and play for their team, the team that represents where they’re from. Last year’s class was another big step in that direction. This year you play at Texas, Ohio State and Wisconsin, and also face Michigan and Penn State. How many games do you think you can win against these traditional powerhouses? People who aren’t involved in competing [make those predictions]. We certainly don’t ever look at it. We go into every game preparing and planning on winning. At the end of the year you finally

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fall back, take a deep breath and count ’em up. You figure out where you’re at. Football brought you to the D.C. area. How did you choose Kensington? We looked around, my wife did, and really fell in love with it. It’s a neat kind of neighborhood feel there, and it’s an easy commute to work every day, which is important. I work long hours, so the commute from home needs to be, for us, as short as possible because that’s valuable time with your kids and family. Maryland basketball coach Mark Turgeon also lives in Kensington. Do you and your family have a relationship with him and his family? Right from the get-go, [Turgeon and his wife, Ann,] were both at the press conference when we got here. Immediately after the press conference, Ann took Sarah to lunch at her house. I can’t say enough how amazing they’ve been. That day [was] obviously a crazy, whirlwind day for me, [but] it’s fine, I know what I’m signing on to do. For Sarah, it’s kind of like you don’t get a choice in a lot of that. So it was great for her to be able to just step away from it and go to Ann’s house. They have a great friendship now, and it all started right from there. Do Abigail and Luke play any sports? They do. I mean, Luke does all sorts of things in the backyard. He’s only 4, so nothing organized yet. Abigail plays soccer, runs track—they’re definitely involved. Are people starting to recognize you in Kensington? Are you becoming a neighborhood celebrity? I don't know, we’ll see. I don’t really get out much, so I don’t know if I can properly judge that. n Andrew Metcalf writes for Bethesda Beat, the magazine’s daily online news briefing.

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Spectacular custom built home! The exterior exudes style and beauty. The interior is a perfect blend of warmth and sophistication. Highlights: chef’s kitchen, stunning family room with 22’ ceiling and stone fireplace, walls of windows, and private backyard with stone patio. Unparalleled quality. Krystyna Kazerouni 240.876.8750 / 301.983.0060 (O) Krystyna.Kazerouni@LNF.com

Bethesda

$1,199,000

Wonderful, almost new, spacious River Quarry townhome! Elevator, private bathrooms for each of the 4 bedrooms, high ceilings, open floor plan, fabulous kitchen. First listing in River Quarry to come on the market in over 18 months! Kathy Lorenz 240.350.7355 / 301.983.0060 (O) Kathy.Lorenz@LongandFoster.com

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Bethesda homeowner Debbie Pollack loves the openness of her updated kitchen. For more on her renovation and three other kitchens, see page 224.

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TO THE MATTE The toned-down finish of appliances, fixtures and more can still make your kitchen shine

1. BACK IN BLACK

2. SEE THE LIGHT

3. GET A HANDLE

Form meets function in this shapely matte black faucet, which is chic looking and won’t show fingerprints or water spots. It is equipped with a 54-inch hose with magnetic docking and a 360-degree swivel spout. Delta’s Trinsic pullout spray kitchen faucet is priced at $655.65 at Ferguson Bath, Kitchen & Lighting Gallery in Rockville (301-4241393; ferguson.com)

The right hanging light fixture can make a big impact over an island or dining table. Matte black is a classic neutral, and the Windsor pendant mixes it with brass trim and textured glass for a modern twist on tradition. Find it for $529 at Crate & Barrel in Spring Valley (202-364-6100; crateandbarrel.com).

Cabinet hardware puts the finishing touches on every kitchen. Gold-colored knobs and pulls can warm up cool-toned cabinets (whites, grays, blacks and navy), and a brushed finish gives a modern edge. The 1¼-inch rounded knobs in brushed brass are part of the Dakota collection from Top Knob and priced at $6.70 each at Union Hardware in Bethesda (301-654-7810; unionhardware. com).

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Colorful appliances can make a bold, contrasting statement with a bright hue, such as this rich burgundy in a sophisticated matte finish. The 36-inch Heritage gas range from Bertazzoni retails for $6,399 at ABW Appliances in Silver Spring (301-589-1445; abwappliances.com).

This toaster has a hint of retro charm, and the pearl color blends in with minimalist white décor or pops against dark countertops. It browns two slices at a time, has a removable crumb tray and an “extra lift” position to easily remove small pieces. Find the $99 De’Longhi Icona toaster at Bloomingdale’s in Chevy Chase (240-7443700; bloomingdales.com).

Make the perfect cup of pourover coffee with this specially designed kettle. The sculptural stove-top pot has an ergonomic handle for controlled pouring and a curved spout for the perfect rate of flow. It heats quickly and evenly, and has a built-in thermometer. The Fellow Stagg pourover kettle is available for $79 at Sur la Table in Chevy Chase (202-2370375; surlatable.com). n

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GRAY Local homeowners are renovating their kitchens with open plans, clever storage and sophisticated neutral colors BY CAROLYN WEBER

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THE 1995 REAL ESTATE ad for this home touted “a little piece of Middleburg” in Chevy Chase. It was effective, as the current owners have loved the stately, sturdy 1920s home ever since. But like most vintage homes, there was less to love about the kitchen, with its original footprint, small windows, low light, and lack of views or access to the back garden. When the pair, now empty nesters who did not want to be named, decided to embark on a renovation, they tried to make the existing space work. Expanding it would have meant too many modifications to the first floor, jeopardizing the architectural character. “I didn’t want to blow out the back of the house,” one of the homeowners says. “I didn’t need bigger, I just needed better.” 226

Instead, they transformed an underused side porch into a chic new kitchen. Builder Peter Pagenstecher of the Pagenstecher Group in Kensington finished the space, adding heat and air-conditioning, plumbing and gas lines, hardwood floors, and clerestory windows. The 8-by-16-foot room is a wide galley that puts everything within reach. Nadia Subaran, co-owner of Aidan Design in Silver Spring, took the lead on the interior details. She pulled the color palette—slate gray cabinets, honed black soapstone countertops and linen wall paint—from the exposed stone exterior wall. “The gray is a soft transition into the living areas,” Subaran says, “and it looks gorgeous with wood and stone.” One of

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the homeowners is a serious cook, so she opted for a large eight-burner professional range from Viking in gray enamel to match the cabinetry. Eschewing wall cabinets in favor of more windows and floating shelves is a signature of Aidan Design. But fewer cabinets means fewer places for task lighting, so Subaran used sconces with dimmers to give the warm glow of a living room. “I wanted it to look good at night,” one of the homeowners says. “You don’t want to leave a softly lit dining room and feel like you’re walking into an operating room.” The homeowners get plenty of opportunities to create a cozy entertaining atmosphere, as they’re often busy cooking and hosting dinner parties for family or friends.

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Stone Tones

Designer Nadia Subaran banked the tall storage cabinets on one wall, alongside the refrigerator and built-in microwave. Rollout shelves provide space for small appliances so the counters stay clear. A stretch of shallow base cabinets topped by a honed statuary marble counter provides storage space for serving pieces and is used as a buffet or bar during parties.

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A bar-height stainless steel breakfast table doubles as a work surface, and clear acrylic counter stools donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t block the view of the garden. An invisible bookshelf from Design Within Reach creates a sculptural tower of cookbooks.

Natural light floods the room through a wall of windows, and two dishwashers make dinner party cleanups a breeze.

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MARY DEOREO AND HER husband, Marc Lackritz, have lived in their home in Bethesda’s Sumner neighborhood since 1983, and they don’t have any plans to move. “It was a traditional four-bedroom W.C. & A.N. Miller house, and we did a major renovation in 1990, doubling the size with additions and bump-outs,” says DeOreo, who had three small children at the time. It included a new kitchen, a few steps up from the family room, with a large island and a built-in banquette. “We loved it, and it served our family well,” she says. But 25 years and six grandchildren later it had seen a lot of wear and tear. The retired couple considered downsizing to an apartment, but decided to stay and remodel the space. They 228

didn’t have to expand the 225-squarefoot room, they just needed to update the appearance and tweak the plan to be more workable for two people. “We don’t have to do everything in the kitchen. Now we use the dining room to eat with guests,” DeOreo says. She turned to Case Design/Remodeling in Bethesda and director of project development Samantha Klickna, whose team retained the layout but improved the flow by reducing the size of the island and replacing the banquette with a small table. Relocating the wall oven under the counter added 30 inches of counter space. “We didn’t lose any storage and we made everything fit in better,” Klickna says. The island is still ample, at 3 feet by 6½ feet,

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but notching it out for two counter stools makes it look and feel lighter. DeOreo chose bright white for the upper cabinets and an earthy mushroom color for the base cabinets and island. “This color really spoke to me,” she says. “It’s the warmer side of gray,” Klickna adds. A marble and glass backsplash incorporates both colors to create an eye-catching focal point. The color combination is repeated in the truffle color Silgranit sink that punctuates the white quartz countertop. “Instead of moving, we are taking each room and bringing it up to date to feel like new,” says DeOreo, who is currently working with Case to renovate a first-floor powder room. “We hope we can stay here for 10 more years.”

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Radiant Refresh

Every inch of the fridge wall is storage. Narrow 6-inch pull-out cabinets provide storage space for cereal boxes and spices, and the two larger cabinets are for dishes and serveware.

Homeowner Mary DeOreo wanted a clean, classic look and practical storage in her newly renovated kitchen.

Glass-front cabinets are lighted from within to display glassware. Below, appliance garages with bifold doors conceal the coffee maker and blender.

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SOME THINGS ARE WORTH the wait. The owner of this 1960s split-level in Kensington considered renovating the small kitchen and chopped-up first floor for almost 20 years before she took the plunge. After much research, planning and careful attention to the details, the remodel is finished. The kitchen renovation was part of a larger project with a connecting family room and screened porch. Her lifestyle is casual and she wanted a large, open and informal place to cook and entertain guests at the same time. The work triangle revolves around a 4½-by-8-foot center island. The project’s architect, Bethesda-based Tom Flanagan, referred the homeowner to designer Hedy Shashaani of Jack Rosen Custom Kitchens in Rockville, and the two 230

women collaborated on the layout and finishes, including the unique cabinets. “It’s much different from what I thought I wanted,” the homeowner says of the mahogany coated with Benjamin Moore’s Silver Lake paint and a gray glaze. The effect reveals some of the grain for a warmer look than solid gray. “I like the subtle detail, and I was able to get the wood look but in a more elegant way,” she says. A 2½-inch slab of Python granite on the island adds pizzazz. “It’s like a piece of art,” Shashaani says. The perimeter counters are simple no-sheen leathered black granite. “These are easier to maintain than other black materials, and show fewer water stains,” the designer explains. When kitchens open directly into living

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spaces, it’s important to be conscious of the views. “We wanted it to feel inviting and not look too kitchen-y,” Shashaani says. To that end, she eliminated wall cabinets over the cooktop and worked with Flanagan to enlarge the windows to frame the matte-black custom vent hood. “It may feel like we’re losing storage, but we made up for it with longer, deeper cabinets on the main sink wall,” Shashaani explains. The balance and integration of the kitchen and the family room was a primary goal for the homeowner, who now has a beautiful and functional place to cook and spend time with friends. After all the effort and investment, she doubts she will ever tire of it. “It’s changed my entire entertaining experience, and I feel like it’s timeless and future-proof,” she says.

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Warm and Welcoming

A natural stone backsplash from Architectural Ceramics stretches to the ceiling on two walls, adding texture to the kitchen and complementing the stone fireplace in the family room.

The metal accessories are a nod to the homeowner’s fondness for industrial design. She chose “Iron Scaffold” leather stools from Restoration Hardware and steel pendant lights reminiscent of wooden bushel baskets. “I love to boat on the Chesapeake Bay,” she says, “so it’s a personal element that means a lot to me.”

A bar area has storage for glasses and an undercounter wine cooler.

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ONE SATURDAY IN 2015, Debbie and Richard Pollack were making the rounds in downtown Bethesda, visiting kitchen showrooms, meeting designers and collecting ideas for their planned renovation. “We stopped by Konst-SieMatic and met Jonas, and that was the end of the looking,” Richard says. He’s referring to designer Jonas Carnemark, the owner of Konst, and the exclusive dealer for the German-made SieMatic brand cabinetry in this region. The kitchen at the Pollacks’ 1960s colonial in Bethesda’s Springfield neighborhood looked dated, and the appliances needed to be replaced. “We have lived there for 17 years, and we decided that we’re going to stay for another 10 or 15 and wanted to make it more enjoyable,” Richard says. 232

As part of a larger first-floor renovation, they expanded the kitchen slightly, pushing out the back and side walls a few feet. They also added new, larger windows above the sink and widened to 10 feet the interior doorways to the connecting rooms on either end. Stretching the room created better circulation, which was high on the homeowners’ wish list. When their grown children visit, they all enjoy cooking together, but the old space was too constricted. Carnemark and Patrick Herald, project developer at Carnemark’s eponymous design/build firm, designed a spacious island with plenty of elbow room around it. “I always put 42 inches between the island and the opposite counters,” Carnemark says. It’s an easy pivot to the

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other side, but there is enough room to work back to back with another person. For a change from their high-gloss white cabinets, the couple opted for a laminate called Titan Pine, a tranquil taupe-y gray with a textured horizontal grain. “It has more of an organic modern feeling,” Carnemark says. The peaceful shade lets other colors, such as the bright white quartz of the countertops, pop. The Pollacks wanted a flooring material that would hold up to the paw traffic of their two dogs, Grover, an English springer spaniel, and a yellow Lab named Addie. The 12-by-24-inch basalt color porcelain floor tile is durable and creates a lovely tone-ontone effect with the cabinetry. “It doesn’t show wear from the dogs and it feels great underfoot, especially in the summer,” Richard says. n

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Modest Modern

The 48-by-107-inch island has a gas cooktop with an exhaust fan overhead, and a raised cherrywood surface at the end is the perfect perch for a cup of coffee or a glass of wine.

Debbie Pollack, in her new kitchen, in the Springfield neighborhood of Bethesda

The wall ovens serve as a bookend for the run of cabinets on an exterior wall.

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Let the Sun Shine In

From a need for more natural light to a desire to add architectural interest, area homeowners look to the skylight BY ELLEN RYAN

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“I’VE HEARD IT called a light chimney,” lawyer

Ben Lippard says. “We call it a light monitor,” says architect Maria Casarella. Whatever the name of this glass “chimney” with a roof, the main skylight in the Bethesda home of Lippard and his wife, Janet Reynolds, reflects a design that goes back to ancient times, says Casarella, a senior associate with Georgetown’s Cunningham | Quill Architects. When the couple talked about building their house, which was completed in 2014, they knew they wanted natural light throughout. Casarella designed around a central and open staircase so light would carry as far as three floors below. As a central design element, Casarella says, the light monitor “organizes the house…we wanted something to pull everything together.” Major living spaces, plus a library and an office, all open off of this lighted “house hinge.” The light monitor’s glass is energy efficient, reducing the transfers of heat and cold. Beneath the monitor, the decorative chandelier “felt interesting when not lit and interesting at night as well,” Lippard says. Its LED bulbs cast little light but “make it a point of visual interest 24/7,” especially with the constant changes in 236

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natural light on the walls around it. Less of an aesthetic statement, more of a practical addition is the skylight that adds brightness with privacy to their sons’ bathroom. At ceiling level, the opening is 9 feet by 3 feet. “It makes that bathroom the best one in the house; everyone takes a side trip there,” Lippard says. “If we’d known how well it worked, we would have found a way to put a skylight in all of them.” Especially in a bathroom, where there may be one small window or none, a skylight opens many possibilities, Casarella says. Against the wall, over the mirrors, such a feature brings ambient light to shaving and makeup application. “During the day, we don’t use artificial light in any of these areas,” Lippard says. Lippard and Reynolds are delighted with the many ways skylights have added to their house: less electricity use, more natural light, a new perspective to the outside, a bit of an artistic element, all with the privacy and insulation skylights are known for. “What you get is the lighting of space that’s sensitive to the time of day and dramatic changes. It gives you a good feeling,” Lippard says. “You feel connected to the day.”

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Center of Attention

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SARAH DAVIS AND KEN KIGER’S Silver

Spring house, a traditional 1950s rambler, was feeling a little cramped. They’d lived there for 17 years. The lot is 200 feet deep and 50 feet wide, and with the neighbors close, the house was as wide as it was going to get. Two years ago they batted around ideas with John Audet of Case Design/Remodeling in Bethesda, such as adding a second floor. But the more Davis talked about what she wanted, the more she focused on the kitchen—what she called the “command post of the house.” She also talked about the importance of natural light in her life. To Audet, Case’s director of project development, that meant the one-window kitchen wasn’t functional. So he suggested opening up the floor plan, moving the kitchen to the front of the house, and making a couple of cuts in the ceiling. “Early on, we placed an imaginary skylight in the plan to give the idea” of how things would look, Audet says. One skylight became two so sunlight could best serve the developing floor plan and the size of the new kitchen, which was moved to what used to be the dining space. Senior lead craftsman Robert Campbell sketched plans for skylight shafts right onto the walls, and he and Kiger, a mechanical engineer, worked out angles and dimensions: 18 inches by

48 inches at roof level, opening to 18 inches by 8 feet at ceiling level. “That gives us a diffuse glow, not a harsh light,” Kiger says. One opening boosts the light behind anyone reading or doing homework while sitting on the far side of the kitchen island. The other opening, 5 feet away, brightens the sink and stove work area. When the skylight idea came up, “both Sarah and I were skeptical about roof leaks,” Kiger says. “My perception was probably 30 years old. We’ve had no problems with that.” According to Audet, “When done properly with a quality product, they’re watertight.” They’re also energy efficient: Most use low-e (insulated) glass with a built-in argon layer, and the shaft is insulated against heat and cold. “They’re so sleek and low-profile now that many people may not notice them in the roofline,” Audet says. “They’re not a bubble dome anymore the way people remember.” Kiger enjoys the patter of the rain on the glass overhead. Davis uses the skylights as her weather report: “How hard is it raining? How foggy? I can see and hear better with skylights than with plain windows.” Kiger adds, “They’re my connection to the elements through light and the changes in light.”

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Holmes is admiring the skylight installed above her top-floor landing. “It gives the upstairs the look of a Tiffany lamp. I absolutely love it,” she says. It replaced “a muted, dim skylight that brought in nearly no light—horribly ugly yellowish plexiglass. We couldn’t see the sky.” Six years after buying their home in the Wesley Heights neighborhood of Upper Northwest D.C., Holmes and her husband, Chris, tasked Anthony Wilder of Anthony Wilder Design/Build in Cabin John, with redesigning the skylight as part of a third-floor renovation. He’d be drawing new plans for a guest room, bath and sitting area, and while he typically wouldn’t recommend skylights in historic homes, especially in the front of the house, he made a suggestion that the homeowners liked: an octagonal, leaded, pastel-tinged window. In this 1928 French country-style home, he found an unusual flat spot on the roof above the third-floor ceiling. At roof level, high enough to be invisible from the street, Wilder’s team placed a square metal box with clear, insulated glass. This outer window makes the skylight waterproof. Things were trickier several inches below, in the staircase ceiling. The design team built an

octagonal frame to hold the lower window in place. This skylight is a dome, not flat, because “over time, weight can settle and undulate,” Wilder explains. “A dome won’t do that.” Sunlight heats up lead, which—combined with gravity—would make the window sag. So Wilder added strong metal ribs throughout his design to help support the weight of both the glass and the lead. He also added the color amber around the edges of the glass for warmth. Holmes sees purple, blue around the center circle, and occasionally green and pink. “You can see different colors at different times,” she says. “It’s definitely part of the whimsy.” It’s part of why visitors clamor for the thirdfloor guest room, which has a view of the skylight. “Guests go on and on and on about it,” Holmes says. “They fight about it, even though they have to walk up two flights of stairs.” On sunny days, the skylight brings brightness all the way down to the first floor. It updates the home while fitting in with its classic period appeal. Looking ahead, Wilder says, “this will sell the house. You’ll never see anything like this in any house outside of London or Paris.” ■ Ellen Ryan is a writer in Rockville.

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The Tait-Trussell House is one of Washington’s grand and historically significant residences. Lovingly and thoughtfully maintained and updated over the decades, this six bedroom, five bath home offers its third-ever owners the possibility that it could be part of their family for generations. The house recalls an elegance that has almost disappeared.

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$3.2 million LIST PRICE: $3.4 MILLION

Address: 111 E. Melrose St., Chevy Chase 20815 Days on Market: 234 Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate Bedrooms: 7 Full/Half Baths: 7/2

$2.7 million LIST PRICE: $2.7 MILLION

Address: 8014 Aberdeen Road, Bethesda 20814 Days on Market: 13 Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate Bedrooms: 6 Full/Half Baths: 6/2

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$2.7 million LIST PRICE: $2.7 MILLION

SALE PRICE:

$3 million

Address: 7105 Denton Road, Bethesda 20814 Days on Market: 6 Listing Agency: Washington Fine Properties Bedrooms: 6 Full/Half Baths: 4/1

LIST PRICE: $3.1 MILLION

Address: 3300 Rittenhouse St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20015 Days on Market: 16 Listing Agency: Compass Bedrooms: 6 Full/Half Baths: 4/1

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$2.6 million LIST PRICE: $2.6 MILLION

Address: 23 Primrose St., Chevy Chase 20815 Days on Market: 87 Listing Agency: Washington Fine Properties Bedrooms: 6 Full/Half Baths: 3/2

SALE PRICE:

$2.8 million LIST PRICE: $2.8 MILLION

Address: 5509 Chamberlin Ave., Chevy Chase 20815 Days on Market: 0 Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate Bedrooms: 5 Full/Half Baths: 4/2

$2.6 million LIST PRICE: $2.6 MILLION

Address: 5908 Aberdeen Road, Bethesda 20817 Days on Market: 68 Listing Agency: TTR Sotheby’s International Realty Bedrooms: 7 Full/Half Baths: 7/2

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4822 Drummond Avenue ď&#x201A;§ Chevy Chase, MD 20815 This spectacular stone and shingle colonial was custom built by Gibson Associates in conjunction with PKK Builders using only the finest materials and expert craftsmanship. An exceptional interior consists of four dramatic living spaces with each one professionally designed without compromise. A beautifully executed wraparound front porch introduces a traditional yet open floor plan ideal for both full scale entertaining as well as comfortable family living. From the wide front to back entry foyer with exotic hardwood flooring, to the true gourmet chef's kitchen with expansive center island, to the fabulous adjoining family room with beamed ceiling and customized stone fireplace, no detail has been spared in reflecting the pride of ownership. The top two levels consist of 5 bedrooms and 4 designer baths including a sensational master bedroom with cathedral ceiling and luxury bath. Further enhancing the home's appeal is a gorgeous walk out lower level complete with second family room, game room, exercise room and guest suite. A private deck overlooks that landscaped backyard with professional landscaping and a detached two car garage. Ideally located in the town of Drummond on a private dead end street with access to the Capitol Crescent Bike Trail, the home is convenient to the heart of Friendship Heights in DC and the vibrancy of downtown Bethesda. Offered at $3,295,000.

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Address: 6 W. Melrose St., Chevy Chase 20815 Days on Market: 347 Listing Agency: W.C. & A.N. Miller Realtors, a Long & Foster Co. Bedrooms: 5 Full/Half Baths: 4/1

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Address: 8818 Chalon Drive, Bethesda 20817 Days on Market: 17 Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate Bedrooms: 4 Full/Half Baths: 5/2

LIST PRICE: $2.4 MILLION

Address: 7820 Hampden Lane, Bethesda 20814 Days on Market: 37 Listing Agency: Washington Fine Properties Bedrooms: 5 Full/Half Baths: 4/1

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Address: 11400 Skipwith Lane, Potomac 20854 Days on Market: 106

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Address: 3903 Blackthorn St., Chevy Chase 20815 Days on Market: 310 Listing Agency: Evers & Co. Real Estate Bedrooms: 5 Full/Half Baths: 4/1

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Address: 10204 Counselman Road, Potomac 20854 Days on Market: 16 Listing Agency: Long & Foster Real Estate Bedrooms: 6 Full/Half Baths: 5/1

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Address: 5407 Duvall Drive, Bethesda 20816 Days on Market: 25 Listing Agency: Wydler Brothers Bedrooms: 5 Full/Half Baths: 4/2

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20015 (Upper NW D.C.) Number of Homes Sold Average Sold Price Average Days on Market Above Asking Price Below Asking Price Sold Over $1 Million

22 $1.2 Mil. 27 12 7 13

19 $1.2 Mil. 8 10 5 11

20016 (Upper NW D.C.) Number of Homes Sold Average Sold Price Average Days on Market Above Asking Price Below Asking Price Sold Over $1 Million

36 $1.7 Mil. 44 16 15 27

36 $1.5 Mil. 31 8 16 24

20814 (Bethesda) Number of Homes Sold Average Sold Price Average Days on Market Above Asking Price Below Asking Price Sold Over $1 Million

28 $1.1 Mil. 41 3 21 14

22 $1.2 Mil. 48 5 15 8

20815 (Chevy Chase) Number of Homes Sold Average Sold Price Average Days on Market Above Asking Price Below Asking Price Sold Over $1 Million

38 $1.3 Mil. 38 10 22 25

27 $1.5 Mil. 55 5 17 21

20816 (Bethesda) Number of Homes Sold Average Sold Price Average Days on Market Above Asking Price Below Asking Price Sold Over $1 Million

29 $1.1 Mil. 27 13 11 10

23 $1.2 Mil. 28 9 10 14

65 $1.1 Mil. 60 17 39 34

59 $1.1 Mil. 59 9 43 29

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77 $1.1 Mil. 64 13 55 34

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20818 (Cabin John)

20854 (Potomac)

Number of Homes Sold 2 1 Average Sold Price $850,000 $835,000 Average Days on Market 16 75 Above Asking Price 0 0 1 1 Below Asking Price Sold Over $1 Million 1 0

Number of Homes Sold Average Sold Price Average Days on Market Above Asking Price Below Asking Price Sold Over $1 Million

20832 (Olney)

20855 (Rockville)

Number of Homes Sold 22 21 Average Sold Price $551,514 $611,405 Average Days on Market 42 16 Above Asking Price 7 5 Below Asking Price 11 11 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

Number of Homes Sold 17 19 Average Sold Price $474,019 $552,732 Average Days on Market 45 18 Above Asking Price 4 8 Below Asking Price 10 10 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

20850 (Rockville)

20877 (Gaithersburg)

Number of Homes Sold 28 40 Average Sold Price $711,590 $709,163 Average Days on Market 38 31 Above Asking Price 5 11 Below Asking Price 20 27 Sold Over $1 Million 3 6

Number of Homes Sold 15 14 Average Sold Price $402,927 $400,843 Average Days on Market 21 18 Above Asking Price 4 4 Below Asking Price 6 4 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

20851 (Rockville)

20878 (North Potomac/Gaithersburg)

Number of Homes Sold 14 14 Average Sold Price $380,182 $417,979 Average Days on Market 12 11 Above Asking Price 8 8 5 4 Below Asking Price Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

Number of Homes Sold 39 47 Average Sold Price $704,485 $661,329 Average Days on Market 54 27 Above Asking Price 10 6 26 32 Below Asking Price Sold Over $1 Million 2 2

20852 (North Bethesda/Rockville)

20879 (Gaithersburg)

Number of Homes Sold 13 29 Average Sold Price $625,477 $697,310 Average Days on Market 30 18 Above Asking Price 6 8 Below Asking Price 6 13 Sold Over $1 Million 2 2

Number of Homes Sold 16 16 Average Sold Price $431,938 $458,806 Average Days on Market 32 27 Above Asking Price 5 3 Below Asking Price 8 11 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

20853 (Rockville)

20882 (Gaithersburg)

Number of Homes Sold 45 48 Average Sold Price $487,757 $468,121 Average Days on Market 44 21 Above Asking Price 17 13 Below Asking Price 17 18 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

Number of Homes Sold 22 16 Average Sold Price $596,602 $630,931 Average Days on Market 98 35 Above Asking Price 2 3 Below Asking Price 16 11 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

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20886 (Gaithersburg)

20902 (Silver Spring)

20905 (Silver Spring)

Number of Homes Sold 14 12 Average Sold Price $453,429 $422,167 Average Days on Market 45 31 Above Asking Price 3 2 Below Asking Price 9 5 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

Number of Homes Sold 42 50 Average Sold Price $410,019 $443,776 Average Days on Market 29 30 Above Asking Price 14 19 Below Asking Price 18 23 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

Number of Homes Sold 21 28 Average Sold Price $515,257 $571,071 Average Days on Market 60 26 Above Asking Price 4 9 Below Asking Price 15 17 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

20895 (Kensington)

20903 (Silver Spring)

20906 (Silver Spring)

Number of Homes Sold 36 29 Average Sold Price $719,976 $801,442 Average Days on Market 49 41 Above Asking Price 7 8 Below Asking Price 26 19 Sold Over $1 Million 4 7

Number of Homes Sold 9 4 Average Sold Price $387,756 $387,475 Average Days on Market 20 13 Above Asking Price 3 2 Below Asking Price 2 0 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

Number of Homes Sold 46 57 Average Sold Price $391,469 $420,348 Average Days on Market 41 17 Above Asking Price 9 23 Below Asking Price 28 16 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

20901 (Silver Spring)

20904 (Silver Spring)

20910 (Silver Spring)

Number of Homes Sold 56 42 Average Sold Price $455,544 $485,377 Average Days on Market 33 24 Above Asking Price 20 17 Below Asking Price 21 18 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

Number of Homes Sold 36 34 Average Sold Price $466,028 $462,691 Average Days on Market 46 58 Above Asking Price 8 10 Below Asking Price 22 17 Sold Over $1 Million 0 0

Number of Homes Sold 26 29 Average Sold Price $600,396 $656,366 Average Days on Market 24 39 Above Asking Price 12 8 Below Asking Price 10 14 Sold Over $1 Million 1 1

Information courtesy of Bright MLS, as of July 14, 2017. The Bright MLS real estate service area spans 40,000 square miles throughout the mid-Atlantic region, including Delaware, Maryland, Washington, D.C., and parts of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. As a leading Multiple Listing Service (MLS), Bright serves approximately 85,000 real estate professionals who in turn serve over 20 million consumers. For more information, visit brightmls.com. Note: This information includes the most expensive detached single-family homes sold from June 1, 2017, to June 30, 2017, as of July 14, 2017, excluding sales where sellers have withheld permission to advertise or promote. Information should be independently verified. Reports reference data provided by ShowingTime, a showing management and market stats technology provider to the residential real estate industry. Some sales and list prices have been rounded.

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Brett, Todd and Erik Shorb OWNERS, AMERICAN PLANT GARDEN | HOME DÉCOR | LANDSCAPE

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How can American Plant help me with my at-home, nature-themed wedding? Tinge, our lifestyle boutique, has an array of accessories including outdoor string lights, lanterns, flameless remote candles, gorgeous wooden Indian wedding tables, Fermob bistro sets (in a rainbow of colors), tabletop votives and citronella candles and incense to keep the bugs away. We have one-of-a-kind trays and platters in wood, metal or stone, as well as Chilewich table runners and placemats. Select special jewelry for bridesmaid gifts and Duke Cannon grooming sets for your groomsmen. American Plant’s talented greenhouse designers can choose from our vast selection of containers to create custom potted tabletop arrangements. Orchids or succulents would be ideal. For the various party areas, our annuals departments will coordinate your color scheme with additional potted arrangements, large or small. Faux topiary plants in ceramic containers are easy accents for any season. We just bought a house with absolutely no curb appeal, and the backyard is just as bad. Can you recommend some quick fixes as well as longer term ideas? Our designers can work with you to create the design that works best for your front yard, and the back, taking into consideration your ideas and your budget. We can offer a full landscape makeover, a beautiful stone wall, pergola and fence. We also specialize in drainage issues and are able to navigate you through Montgomery County's RainScapes Program that contributes to such projects. Our designers are able to create an overall plan that can be implemented in stages. At the same time, we include a maintenance package estimate. Professional maintenance keeps your landscape looking fabulous throughout the year.

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I’ve heard the renovation nightmares; how can I avoid them? Look for a company that addresses common remodeling concerns up front. At BOWA, our Peace of Mind Promises allow clients to move forward with confidence and actually enjoy their remodeling experience. We start with fanatical customer service, which is our company’s number one core value. Our solution to calm fears about budget overruns is a promise of no pricing surprises. From guaranteed budget ranges and open-book budgets, to fixed-price contracts and change authorization pre-approval, our clients have line-by-line visibility into where every dollar is spent. BOWA’s schedule guarantee ensures that every project has written design and production schedules with a defined substantial completion date before construction begins. Full-time onsite supervision means just that. Our full-time project supervisors are present to ensure the project is delivered on time, on budget and according to our high standards of excellence. Finally, our good neighbor programs are designed to proactively manage neighbor communications, avoid the usual hassles and thank them for their patience. What are the benefits of the design build process? For nearly 30 years, our design build experts have been guiding clients from the first thoughts of the project, throughout architecture and construction, and continuing through a lifetime of ownership. Our experience tells us that it is best to develop the design and budget simultaneously with input from the professionals who are tasked with getting the project in the ground. This collaborative approach helps to ensure a smoother construction process. If done correctly, this can set the stage for success as your project enters construction and beyond. BOWA’s design process is thorough, but efficient. We keep refining details until all the pieces fall in place and both the design and budget feel right to you.

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Jose Lopez OWNER, JOSE LOPEZ ENTERPRISES, INC. What advice do home improvement contractors give to their friends and family? It’s no secret that kitchens and bathrooms are the best places to spend money to increase the value of your home. When a family member or friend is doing a renovation, I tell them to choose a contractor with many years of experience and confirm their credentials. I’ve been in the business for more than 30 years and have established a long relationship with my clients. Over the years I’ve learned continuously and have a great team. I recommend spending money on certain features. For example, lighting is important. Instead of more common recessed lighting, choose anything from dim ambient lights to the brightest LED light. Install radiant heating in the floors of the kitchen as well as the bathrooms. Go for frameless shower enclosures and a Schluter system linear drain. Finally, a great sound system enhances your life, whether you are home alone or throwing a big party.

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Jonathan Lerner & Michael Lerner MERIDIAN HOMES, INC. What are custom homebuilding clients looking for today? Whether it’s a new home, addition or renovation, our clients are interested in beautiful, functional design, high-end finishes, energy efficiency and state-of-the-art home automation. They want an honest, dependable builder who respectfully and enthusiastically interacts with them. Our approach encourages involvement, and incorporates our principals, architects, designers and craftspeople at all the right moments. The Meridian Homes team honors the unique characteristics of each client and project with concierge-level service. Collaborative planning and continuous communication ensure that there are no surprises. We’re obsessed with quality. To us, high quality begins with the integrity of the construction and ends with a home that exceeds expectations. After our thorough pre-occupancy inspection, follow up is sensibly scheduled to give people time to settle in. Beyond that, Meridian Homes’ Aftercare Services provides ongoing access to the team. We’re your natural resource for many services, from storm repair to the basement bathroom you saved for later.

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What strategies do you use to help people sell their homes? In today’s digital world, reaching online consumers is the most effective form of marketing. Our two websites typically appear at the top of Google searches when buyers look for homes in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac and Northwest D.C. Since over 95 percent of buyers go online to find their next home, this is a huge advantage for our sellers. Since the Internet is where many buyers fall in love with their next home, another critical step is making sure your house shows beautifully online. I have an interior design background and my daughter and partner, Christina, is a certified stager. We both offer that expertise, with complimentary staging advice and accessories to help showcase your home beautifully. The goal is attracting as many potential buyers as possible, online and in person. How do you help your clients buy the right home for them? As proud lifelong residents of the Bethesda/Chevy Chase area, our knowledge of the local communities is unparalleled. We appreciate that moving can be stressful. Having an agent with the ability to guide clients to those areas that best suit their lifestyle really helps focus their search. Another area of expertise we have is working with downsizers who have homes that are too large for their current needs. I work hard to stay current on existing and future condo and townhouse communities. That way, I can present clients with all their options so they can sort out what community and lifestyle will work best for them. We genuinely love being part of one of the biggest events in our client’s lives, helping them transition to the next stage of their life. Every client is treated like our only client; we’re happy to put potential clients in touch with past clients.

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Chris, Christy and John Scango CAPITOL HARDSCAPES What is one thing your clients should know about you? We operate as a boutique-style firm—very customer centric. Our team of project managers has more than 40 years of combined experience and is committed to providing a superior level of availability. From the job estimate, through visits to stone companies for selection of materials and project completion, Chris or John is present on every site—every day—to walk customers through details, answer all questions and concerns, and make sure our clients stay fully informed. We can provide a wide variety of hardscaping services that solve difficult site conditions, such as poor drainage, elevation changes, limited access installations, unusual material acquisition, historic restorations and more. Our project managers and site superintendents apply a solution-oriented hardscaping focus to every project. Our experienced subcontractor network also provides us the versatility to implement creative and budget friendly solutions to outdoor spaces. We work directly with homeowners, architects, professional landscapers, homebuilders and developers to create designs that integrate our customers’ ideas with functional solutions. And our team approach and constant personal involvement insures that our designs are finished according to the highest standards. What brings you the most satisfaction in your work? Quite simply: Happy customers. A hardscape project can be overwhelming for clients, with many decisions and choices, but we simplify the process by breaking it down into segments our customers can clearly envision. We enjoy working closely with them on all aspects of a project, including choosing the best stones, colors and textures to complement their style. We strive to maintain our clients’ vision throughout each project and implement customized strategies to achieve their goals. In the end, it brings us great pleasure when our clients thank us for helping them manage the process to achieve the outdoor space they have always wanted.

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JAMES KIM

SPECIALTIES Driveways, walkways, patios, stoops and stairs, pool decks, walls, outdoor fireplaces, outdoor grills, outdoor kitchens

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Jill Schwartz COMPASS How does the Jill Schwartz Group create value for developers and investors through technology? I have operated on the cutting edge of technology my entire career. Early on, I designed an interactive portal connecting buyers and sellers, as well as adopted best practices for technology in the real estate industry. Our website, JillSchwartzGroup.com, is designed to interact with Compass’ proprietary technology, Collections. It’s a digital workspace that connects clients and agents, allowing for each party to provide real-time feedback on listings and comparable properties in the market. We work tirelessly, 24/7, to set the standard as social media influencers and technological innovators in the D.C. metropolitan market. As a nationally ranked top-producing agent in sales and volume, my team has evolved to offer concierge service for residential and commercial real estate investors and developers. By providing real-time market updates and design feedback within one easy-to use interface, we are changing the way developers and agents work together. Why were you selected as a founding member of the D.C. Sports & Entertainment Division for Compass? Real estate has become entertainment. I have always been a leading agent in the ultra luxury marketplace, consistently listing and selling homes in the upper bracket market. With the rise in appeal of so many reality shows, I was flattered to be called on to provide the real estate overview opening for Bravo’s Real Housewives of Potomac. We are in discussions to develop a D.C.-based real estate show. My celebrity clients, whose names are always kept confidential, include an extensive network of sports and entertainment figures, private wealth managers, sports managers, owners and players, which made my team and Compass’ Sports & Entertainment division a natural fit.

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AWARDS/HONORS Top Producing Individual Agent, Bethesda’s famed $1+ Billion Office, 2015 and 2016; Washingtonian Top Producer; Capital File Magazine A-List; Top Producer, Compass

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Gretchen Koitz PRINCIPAL, THE KOITZ GROUP; VICE PRESIDENT, COMPASS How do you employ new technology to help your clients? My smartest technology move was paying tuition for Kevin Koitz, my son and partner, to attend Stanford University. He was instrumental in developing KoitzGroup.com, which was one of the first agent-driven sites with an integrated IDX, which greatly increases the exposure of local listings. Being an early innovator has helped us tremendously in bringing value to our clients. When prospective buyers and sellers call us and comment on our web presence, we like to say, “Google likes us.” Of course, technology is changing almost on an hourly basis, so we are constantly reviewing processes so that we keep our properties at the forefront. What’s an example of a time when you used your expertise to help a client that you’re particularly proud of? I was representing clients who had contracted for their new house prior to putting their current home on the market. We got it de-cluttered and staged and under contract right away, so everyone was happy. Then came the appraisal; the appraiser valued their home at substantially under the sales price. The buyers were planning to use a FHA loan, which meant that the “bad” appraisal was going to stick with the property for six months and my clients were looking at the very real possibility of not being able to close on their new home. Because the purchasers were physicians, we were able to switch their loan to a new product that is available only to physicians. This allowed us to start from scratch on the appraisal process and the house reappraised at the sales price. Settlement went off without a hitch and my clients were able to happily move into their new home as scheduled. Whew!!

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MICHAEL VENTURA

HONORS Named a top agent by Washingtonian magazine 2017; “A Top Vote Getter” for Best Realtor in Bethesda Magazine’s Best of Bethesda Readers’ Poll; Real Trend, America's Best 2017

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Phil Leibovitz, CEO; Mimi Brodsky Kress, COO SANDY SPRING BUILDERS

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What are the most important factors to consider when selecting a lot for my new custom home? Arguably one of the most important factors our clients consider is location. Many want convenience and walkability. Price is next. Since we are custom builders, once we have found the property, light and view are very important. They help us decide how we might situate a garage, for example. The building restriction lines are also important for the width and depth of the house we can build, plus the size of the footprint that is allowed. Topography determines how much light you can get into the lower level, plus how usable the yard will be. We’re about to have our first custom home building experience. Where should we splurge and where should we save? The place to really spend money in my mind is architecture; great architecture makes or breaks a house. Also, using a builder who has years and years of experience, as we do, with the livability of the house is important. The most important rooms in the house are the kitchen, family room, master bath and formal powder room. We also believe in spending money on lots of highly efficient windows and doors throughout the house. You could consider saving money by building a beautiful clapboard house with a stucco foundation instead of brick and stone. You can get a lifetime-warrantied architectural grade asphalt roof instead of a slate roof. There are a lot of good window manufacturers, and you can shop around for good values. Skip the fancy basement. Finally and perhaps most importantly, your house does not need to be overly large, just very livable for you and your family.

AWARDS Professional Builder Magazine’s National Grand Prize Winner for “Best Overall Custom House in the U.S.;” more than 60 Gold and Silver Custom Builder Awards

4705 West Virginia Ave. Bethesda, MD 20814 301-913-5995 www.sandyspringbuilders.com

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Davida Rodriguez OWNER, DAVIDAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S KITCHEN & TILES What are the latest trends in the kitchen and bath industry? The latest in current trends in the kitchen industry is cool colors, with white, gray and navy cabinetry finishes. Some of the latest accent colors for tile, lighting and hardware are metallics. French gold, brushed copper and brass finishes are in vogue. Plumbing is going towards metallics, as well as matt black and matt white. Mirror is back with a twist. Unique finishes and colors that are particularly modern are beveled tile in matt and polished smoke, brass and antique colors. The tiny house trend has heavily influenced the residential market. Small, high functioning kitchen spaces with smaller appliances and dual-purpose areas are all the rage. The McMansion has been replaced with modest spaces that are rich in design. What is your process with new clients? My approach to design is that every project is an opportunity to create a unique work of art. Coming from an arts and crafts background, I see a space as a blank canvas that allows me great freedom to use innovative products, unique materials and fabulous colors. I am very in tune with listening to client ideas and deciphering their design aesthetic. After discussing your project requirements, lifestyle and family environment, I will show you a kitchen, bathroom or built-in I have designed. Clients usually instantly love what I show them. My inspiration for the project always comes from the client and that is why most are delighted with the outcome. I am pleased to report that clients are surprised to see how fun and effortless the process can be.

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AWARDS NKBA National Design Awards: 2017 First Place, Small Kitchen, and Third Place, Large Kitchen (regional); 2016 Third Place, Small Kitchen (regional); 2015 First Place, Medium Kitchen (regional)

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Avi Galanti PRINCIPAL, GALANTI GROUP VICE PRESIDENT, COMPASS What makes the Bethesda real estate market unique and what does that mean for my house? The real estate market in Bethesda-Chevy Chase is one of the steadiest markets in the country today. In order to understand it better, one should look at the contributing factors that influence our market. It begins with job stability, high incomes, excellent private and public schools, and local development that offers a variety of convenient and modern amenities and services. These factors have helped our market recover remarkably well following the great recession, and they support the rise of property values year to year. Still, buyers and sellers need to further understand that each neighborhood, and indeed every house or condo building within this micro economy of ours, is unique and has its own set of influencing factors when it comes to pricing and desirability. Street features, proximity to downtown or major roads, public schools and, of course, the specific house and lot features, all have degrees of influence on value perception in the eyes of buyers. What can I expect, as a client, if I hire you? As my client, you can expect that we will forge a personal connection and build a relationship based on trust and commitment to your goals. My established market expertise and experience allow me to elevate the level of commitment to my clients and provide a level of service that incorporates individualized care, open communication and accessibility. This, combined with solid advice on every aspect of the selling process, gives my clients the confidence that they’re in good hands. I’d also like to think that I have the wit, creativity and resourcefulness to deal with the unexpected.

LISA HELFERT

HONORS/AWARDS Over $300 million in career sales, “Best of Washingtonian” award three years in a row

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David Benson VP SALES, ARCHITECTURAL CERAMICS

What should I keep in mind if I want to get tile that looks like wood for my home? Hardwood floors are warm and welcoming, but they can’t handle humidity, water, pets and kids like tile can. When you’re selecting the best wood replica for your home, the first consideration is graphical repeat. Some lines only repeat their pattern every few tiles, but a better product can have upwards of 100 different images, which gives it a much more natural look. Also ask about resolution. You’ll want high-definition inkjet technology. Next is the material: ceramic or porcelain? Porcelain is the most durable base for wood-look tiles. A high quality porcelain tile is tough and will not scratch easily. Finally, decide what size is best for the area. Larger tiles are more difficult to manufacture, so when wood-looks were first made, they were 6” x 24.” Now they can manufacture planks all the way up to 72” long. Increased length gives a more natural wood look. We carry many different lines of fine wood-look tiles and can guide you through these decisions. 266

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AWARDS/HONORS Designer’s Choice Award, Home & Design Magazine; Best of Houzz; featured on ION TV’s “World’s Greatest” show for tile

6807 Wisconsin Ave. Chevy Chase, MD 20815 301-718-8343 sales@architecturalceramics.com www.architecturalceramics.com

HEATHER FUENTES

How do we best prepare for an appointment at your showroom? Especially if you’re a little bit country but your spouse is a little bit rock n’ roll, sit together with design magazines and use our social media pages (Houzz, Pinterest, Instagram) to let us know the looks you like. Next, use our website’s Wish List function to select tiles that appeal to you. Before your appointment, let us know if you started a Wish List so we can pull pieces for you to see and touch. Bring countertop, cabinet and paint samples, if you have them, or photos. Time frame and budget are both important numbers. Providing us with yours will make the process much more efficient.

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Dana Rice DANA RICE GROUP COMPASS REAL ESTATE

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Love it or list it? We sell homes and we personally renovate homes. In fact, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve renovated a dozen homes in recent years. Because of this experience, we bring a truly holistic view to buying, staging and marketing a home. Every. Detail. Matters. So when to sell? Every house has a buyer. Even with flaws, there is a buyer who will love it just like it is. You don't have to sell to a builder who will tear it down. In our market, risk is not as high as other areas. Buyers are extremely well-qualified and enjoy the process of expanding or improving homes themselves. The home you loved for 30 years is just waiting for the next owner, and we love playing matchmaker. What do you love most about working in real estate right now? The potential in older homes is awesome. Each neighborhood has its own aesthetic. We love highlighting the uniqueness and possibilities to our buyers. Funny thing is, we will meet with homeowners who are thinking of selling, talk through renovation ideas and boomâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they decide they're going to stay and improve.

5471 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 300 Chevy Chase, MD 20815 301-298-1001 Direct: 202-669-6908 Dana.Rice@compass.com www.compass.com/agents/dc/dana-rice/

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Andy Alderdice W.C. & A.N. MILLER REALTORS, A LONG & FOSTER CO.

If I wanted references, what client comments would you share? The following are three favorites: “Andy is a pro’s pro. She knows the market and has a realistic view on the value of a property. She has handled every kind of real estate transaction for my family with equal parts of skill and compassion.” “She was recommended to us by a friend with the assurance that she was the best! She certainly is. We are a military family and move around a lot so, needless to say, we have experience with Realtors!” “Andy helped me find and buy my first house over 15 years ago. She really understands the marketplace. I love her smart, professional demeanor and warm, friendly personality.” 268

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AWARDS/HONORS #1 Agent, W.C. & A.N. Miller, Long & Foster's #1 office; #1 Team, Washington Metro Region; Member, Christie's International Luxury Alliance; Top 1% Realtors nationally

4701 Sangamore Road  Bethesda, MD 20816 301-466-5898 www.andy4homes.com

JAMES KIM

How important is freshening up and staging a home for sale? Aren’t the buyers going to make their own changes anyway? Buyers will make changes but when you put your house on the market it’s important to create a neutral palette by eliminating the distraction of too many personal items. This helps the buyer focus on what’s important to them. Furnished homes show best. Vacant homes, in person and in photographs on the Internet, don’t show as well as those that are warm and inviting with tasteful, current colors and furnishings. I can’t think of a time when a seller has staged a home and not realized their investment. Buyers today want homes that are either in perfect condition or listed for a compelling price. More often than not, it’s worth the time and money to make needed repairs and updates. Create a model home-type atmosphere for all the buyers to see. The phrase “you only get one chance to make a first impression” is paramount in real estate sales. Showing your house at its best from the first showing is the way to go.

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Deb Levy, Vice President and Senior Mortgage Banker, NMLS ID 481255 Lisa Bennett, Residential Mortgage Loan Sales Assistant

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EAGLEBANK What are the first steps to take to homeownership? As a long-distance runner and coach, I think that training for a marathon and planning to buy a home are similar: fail to plan, plan to fail. Both require planning, goal setting and strategy. We recommend an informal consultation six months to one year prior to home purchase. Part of what we discuss is how to save and plan for this large purchase and its new monthly obligations. Owning a home you love and living in a home you can afford are not mutually exclusive. We help you identify the specific steps you need to take to buy a first home, a move-up home or a vacation/investment property. Many people diagnose their own mortgage options online. Research is great, for sure, but keep in mind that mortgage professionals offer homebuyers an advantage by keeping up-to-date with industry and local real estate trends. A web browser cannot replace that level of experience and education. Shopping for a mortgage rate is frustrating, and there are many components that go into an interest rate. Rates are critical, but don’t let that be the sole focus of value. There can be other considerations that will affect you financially. Why choose an established, local team? We’ve provided home mortgage loans since 1986, working in every kind of market condition and in a variety of positions in mortgage banking. I grew up in Potomac and chose to raise my family in Bethesda. As local homeowners, Lisa and I are invested in the community and want to help more people find the best path to homeownership. We’ve earned a superior track record by providing excellent rates and services to your neighbors. Securing a mortgage loan is not the easiest thing to do, but we try to make it fun.

HONORS/AWARDS “Best Mortgage Broker” by the readers of Bethesda Magazine, 2012-2015, “A Top Vote Getter,” 2016 Top 1% of Mortgage Loan Originators Nationwide 2012-2016, Mortgage Executive Magazine

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2001 K St. NW, Suite 150 Washington, DC 20006 301-332-7758|dlevy@eaglebankcorp.com www.debbielevy.com

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Tom Gilday and Kevin Gilday GILDAY RENOVATIONS

What challenges do condos present that homes do not? In our area’s elegant, historic buildings, many systems are out of code. Old wiring and pipes, lead paint and asbestos are some of the issues we resolve for building code conformity, health and safety. Our professionalism and courtesy come in handy for interacting with building staffs, condo boards and committees, and adjacent neighbors. 270

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9162 Brookville Road Silver Spring, MD 20910 301-565-4600 www.gilday.com

LISA HELFERT

We’re ready to trade our large suburban home for an urban lifestyle. What should we expect as we move to a condo? We’ve been renovating more and more condos in the area, for people who are ready for a change. Many are repeat clients that hired us years ago for renovations and additions when they were raising their families. Topic #1 at our first meetings is kitchens, which are often outdated and lack storage space. In a collaborative atmosphere, we discuss how you plan to use the space. Do the two of you plan to use the kitchen for yourselves and the dining room for guests, or would you like one big dining area? If the kitchen is large enough, the dining room can become a small family room, something that’s usually lost in a move from a large house to a condo. Guest rooms often double as offices. We make sure there is empty closet space so desk items can be put away before guests arrive. With closets a priority, we create a double closet in a second or third bedroom, with built in dressers to save space in the master bedroom. Bathroom updates are usually necessary, adding soaking tubs, steam rooms and other features. For the open look that is popular today, we redesign the space by removing walls to add light and add pocket doors to save space. Often, we replace all the doors to eliminate a commercial aesthetic.

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Margie Halem MARGIE HALEM GROUP; LONG & FOSTER | CHRISTIES INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE

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How do you work with a new client? Each home and client is unique, and I treat each as such, listening and looking for the qualities that make your situation different from anyone else’s. I learn by listening to you. I ask questions so I can understand your needs and expectations. I then tailor a marketing platform including staging, pricing strategy and guidance for the current market conditions in your neighborhood. I want prospective clients to know I have an unfailing commitment to each of my clients. What is unique about your approach to selling a house? From the moment I list your home I am committed to you 100 percent. I provide staging suggestions, complimentary accessories, pricing and marketing strategies and a professional network. I do whatever it takes to get your home sold in the time frame you want at the best possible price. I’m involved every step of the way. My sellers are regularly updated with market research, web statistics on virtual visits, industry feedback, ways to maximize exposure and more. We stay on the cutting edge of social media and marketing. That, along with our large professional network, is a big advantage in marketing homes for sellers and finding homes for buyers. Whatever your price range, we provide excellent representation and you receive my highest level of service and professionalism. I'm completely accessible and a valuable resource for everything you may need for buying, selling and moving.

AWARDS/HONORS “A Top Vote Getter” for Best Real Estate Agent, Bethesda Magazine, 2010-2017; Top Agents, Washingtonian magazine, 2015, Wall Street Journal Top 1000 Agents, 2017

4650 East West Highway Bethesda, MD 20814 O: 301-907-7600 C: 301-775-4196 www.margiehalemgroup.com

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Doug Monsein PRESIDENT, DOUGLAS CONSTRUCTION GROUP, LLC What are some major considerations before deciding to build a custom home? First, honestly assess if you have the time, desire and energy to invest in the process, from design to specifications to selections. It's time consuming, but an experienced builder will make it enjoyable and not overwhelming. Remember a custom home should be just that, purely custom, capturing your personality and family’s needs. Alternatively, give some thought to buying a home that’s already under construction, where you can personalize finishes. Either way, create a list of your must-have priorities and a wish list. Be realistic about your budget and communicate with your builder about it. There’s no sense falling in love with a pricier home than you'll be comfortable with. Don’t forget to check references on the construction management team, and get a sense of the chemistry and collaborative feel between yourselves and the builder and architect. After all, you will be working closely together and it should be a positive experience.

8429 Fox Run | Potomac, MD 20854 301-983-6947 | www.dcghomes.com

DARREN HIGGINS

AWARDS/HONORS Bethesda Magazine, Best of Bethesda Readers Pick “A Top Vote Getter” for Best Builder, 2013, 2015-2017 and “Winner” 2012, 2014; and “Winner,” Best Green Builder, 2012 and 2014

Ben Fazeli LONG & FOSTER | CHRISTIES INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE Where do you find that flexibility is important in home buying and selling? For house hunters, budget and number of bedrooms are usually inflexible, but I can bring in creativity with other factors such as architectural style or neighborhood. For example, if buyers fall in love with an unaffordable home in a preferred neighborhood, I introduce them to homes in other neighborhoods with comparable appeal. On the selling side, I try to be sensitive to people who want to list their home for more than its market value. I can show them comps on paper, but it’s more effective to drive them to just a few homes at the price they have in mind, and let them reach their own conclusions about where their home should be priced. I always stress curb appeal, which is very important, and help sellers identify the changes and repairs that will make their home most attractive to buyers and put it in the best condition for sale.

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TONY J. LEWIS

SPECIALTIES Residential and commercial sales, Accredited Buyer Representative, Senior Real Estate Specialist, licensed in Maryland, Washington, D.C. and Virginia

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Jerry Weed, CKD; Karen Hourigan, CKD; Peggy Jaeger, CKD; Nancy Kotarski, NCIDQ; and Fred Grenfell KITCHEN AND BATH STUDIOS INC.

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Do you have a certain look you go for when designing? 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. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. How does one go about choosing a great but also creative and economical kitchen and bath designer? Talk to people. We get over 85 percent 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. Also, it helps if you think outside the box, which weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 4 x 10foot hallway, opening up space in both the kitchen and laundry room. Our design solution was a fraction of the cost of the proposed addition.

SPECIALTY Eco-friendly cabinet lines: Christiana, Crystal, Signature and Executive

7001 Wisconsin Ave. Chevy Chase, MD 20815 301-657-1636 www.kitchenbathstudios.com

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Sarah Funt, CBR LONG & FOSTER | CHRISTIES INTERNATIONAL REAL ESTATE How far do you go to help sellers improve their homes before putting them on the market? I do everything from arranging for minor fix-ups and repairs to overseeing full-scale renovations. I evaluate every home with a keen eye based on my 26 years of experience in real estate. I know what draws buyers to a home and what causes them to walk away. My clients and I compare their home to the comps to determine what work will be most worthwhile. Recently, I met with a couple whose time and energy had been devoted to their successful careers in healthcare, to the detriment of their house. Cosmetic updates and even basic systems maintenance had not been priorities for them, but they understood that they needed to explore making some changes to their home before putting out the for sale sign. I went directly to my granite supplier, a plumber and other trades professionals I’ve worked with for years and got them to give us timely estimates. Because I’ve given them so many jobs, they gave my clients excellent prices and efficient scheduling. I offered to oversee and coordinate all of the work—as I do with all my clients who are renovating— so they wouldn’t need to hire a general contractor. In the end, this couple had quite a bit of work done and reaped the reward of a much higher sales price than they originally thought possible. They were ecstatic to receive six offers and to sell their home for $40,000 over asking price. What is the advantage to working solo versus on a team? I have never wanted to form a team because I enjoy, and want to take care of, each client personally. This is especially important since almost 100 percent of my business comes through referrals.

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MICHAEL VENTURA

HONORS AND DESIGNATIONS Long & Foster’s Luxury Alliance Group of 80 top agents, Luxury Homes Specialist with Christie’s International Real Estate, Certified Buyer Representative

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Palisades of Bethesda

TONY J. LEWIS

A COMMUNITY OF SOUTHERN MANAGEMENT Why own when you can rent? That’s flipping the classic question “Why rent when you can own?” on its head—and we’re big believers in doing that, offering carefree living in beautiful apartment homes in Bethesda. While many people feel that buying a home is the next logical step in life, we at The Palisades of Bethesda focus on the amazing lifestyle you experience with renting a luxury apartment home or Penthouse apartment home. Each apartment has a washer/dryer. A beautiful rooftop sundeck area offers sweeping views of Bethesda. There's a fully-equipped Business Center and full-size Fitness Center with our own trainer. Penthouse residents have a private concierge, daily continental breakfast, a private Sky Lounge, monthly maid service, exclusive Penthouse social events and complimentary garage parking. Perhaps the best news? All utilities are included! All residents are spoiled with our Five Star Concierge Team, package acceptance services and pet care while they are away. We must be doing something right, as we have won “Best Luxury Apartment” for the past three years, in the Bethesda Magazine Best of Bethesda Readers’ Poll. Our award-winning service team will take care of all maintenance requests so when something breaks you’re not waiting or paying for a repairman. We mow the lawn and shovel the sidewalks so you don’t have to. There are no HOA fees, property taxes or any assessments. Imagine owning a home, getting a job transfer and having to sell your home quickly. Our residents have the flexibility to move anytime if they need to. On the corner of Cordell and Woodmont avenues in the heart of Bethesda, the high-rise apartment building promises a perfect blend of convenience, comfort and amenities. Let the Apartment Home Experts take care of you at The Palisades!

AWARDS 2017, Best of Bethesda Readers’ Poll, Best Luxury Apartments, Bethesda Magazine; 2016, Platinum Service Team Award, Southern Management Corporation

4835 Cordell Ave., Bethesda, MD 20814 301-961-0981 888-560-0383 info@palisadesapt.com www.palisadesapts.net

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Fabiana Zelaya & Agne Salgado M SQUARED REAL ESTATE How would your clients describe you? We asked a few of our clients and they all said the same things. They talked about how responsive we are and our fun, energetic personalities. Our clients reflect the fact that we are way above and beyond just sales. We really experience each transaction as if it was our own home-buying experience. We have been so lucky to have worked with amazing clients that we now call friends.

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What is your professional and educational background? We have diverse backgrounds. Agne: I went to University of Technology in Lithuania and studied mechanical engineering and design, and then emigrated to the United States. Fabiana: I grew up in Bethesda and went to Woodacres Elementary. Prior to real estate, I was into fashion, and co-owned Daisy Too and Daisy Baby in Bethesda. I love that I get to sell homes in my home town!

Claude C. Lapp, AIA CLAUDE C. LAPP ARCHITECTS As an architect of both custom and spec homes, are you seeing any new trends in D.C.-area design? It’s refreshing to be transitioning toward more contemporary, clean lines. We’re still using the same warm stone, stucco and wood as we do with our popular Arts & Crafts and traditional homes, but the designs I’m referring to feature more glass and less embellishment on the exterior. This more modern look on the outside affects the interior, making open floor plans even more expansive. Sight lines can extend from the front door straight through to the back, with less separation between the dining room and family room. The definition is still there, for conversation areas and eating areas, but it comes more from décor and architectural features rather than walls. We find that younger homeowners value a low maintenance lifestyle. They want less in their homes. The uncluttered interior is compatible with the minimal outside, even extending to landscaping that’s easy to maintain.

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Sintia Petrosian THE FLEISHER GROUP/TTR SOTHEBYâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S INTERNATIONAL REALTY

Lynda Rothschild and Holly West TOWN & COUNTRY MOVERS, INC.

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How much will staging affect the sale of my house? First impressions are everything, so the benefits of staging a property are tremendous. It allows a home to sell faster, helps online exposure standout and, because personal photos and other items are removed, it helps buyers visualize themselves living there. With Town & Country Staging, a division of Town & Country Movers, my clients receive professional advice and excellent service that eliminates the stress of trying to prepare their house for sale on their own. How does the staging process work? Our certified home stagers and designers work directly with the homeowners and their real estate agent to develop a customized strategic action plan. Utilizing our knowledge and experience, we map out the smartest, quickest and most cost-effective options for your home, whether you are still living there or if it is vacant. We assess the property listing and consult with the homeowner and Realtor to put a game plan together. This assures that everyone is on the same page before any contracts are signed. By having a detailed action plan, we can have our moving crews at the ready for furniture removals and furniture installs. This cuts down on labor charges and offers the most cost effective plan. Our home stagers and interior designers are certified by their professional organizations. Interior designers provide color choices that enhance the beauty of your home. Our designers are specialists in space planning, color concepts and current design trends to assure your home will be viewed in the best possible light.

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Drew Gibbons and Larry Gibbons THE GIBBONS GROUP, COLDWELL BANKER

What home improvements do you recommend to clients who do not have the budget to do new kitchens and bathrooms? Updated landscaping and power washing are low cost improvements that showcase good homeownership. New windows are dramatic in an older home, increasing curb appeal and bringing in more light. Change all the light bulbs to LEDs for even more brightening. Step back, study your roof and make cosmetic repairs. Roofers have solutions for removing moss and other growth, making your house look years younger. We’re happy to give past and current customers recommendations for our many professional contractors in all the trades, and to consult on estimates. 278

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How do you take advantage of social media to market your listings? My team and I believe that the keys to success for every great business are marketing and innovation. This core belief ensures that we are constantly studying, learning and testing out new ways to best market our listings. Social media and Google AdWords are part of our formula to attract the right people to each listing and cut clients’ sales costs. These platforms provide us with key information including location, marital status, age, occupation and dozens of other data points about potential buyers. This information allows us to create targeted marketing plans for each of our listings. For example, if the data tells us that the buyer for a certain listing is a certain age and lives a certain distance from the property, we can specifically target everyone within a certain age range who lives in that area. Going even further, we have recently started using geofencing to target buyers on their cell phones after they’ve visited one of our listings or a competing one. This is great on weekends when buyers might be in a neighborhood going to multiple open houses.

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As the area’s premier drapery workshop, what is the key to purchasing perfect window treatments? So many firms today help with just a small part of a drapery project, such as a seamstress who makes drapes but needs their customers to design them and also hire a handyman to install them. For draperies that look gorgeous and last a lifetime, find a partner that offers expert design assistance, handcrafted fabrication and professional installation. At Rockville Interiors, we start each project by introducing you to one of our interior designers to guide you through our award-winning gallery of fabrics and fabulous drapery designs. Next, in our very own locally operated drapery workshop, our artisans handcraft your draperies with meticulous attention to detail. Finally, our in-house team of installation technicians, who are all factory trained and certified with a minimum of 10-years of experience, oversees measuring and installation. Should we reupholster our old furniture or buy new? If your old furniture was inexpensive and you don’t particularly love it, buy new. We recommend reupholstering when you have a high-quality piece, if you love its unique shape or if it’s an irreplaceable antique or heirloom. In our very own local upholstery workshop, we transform your old furniture by refurbishing the frame, refinishing any exposed wood, inserting the coziest new fillings and applying stunning new designer fabrics. Our interior designers provide you with complimentary design assistance and we assist with pickup and delivery. Our upholstery workroom is located at our showroom in Rockville, enabling you to view our master tailors as they handcraft upholstery, slipcovers, pillows, cushions and more.

SPECIALTY The latest fabrics from Kravet, Fabricut, Duralee, Robert Allen, Clarke & Clarke, Schumacher, Pindler, JAB, ROMO, Designers Guild, Maxwell, Villa Nova, Thibaut, Anna French, Sunbrella and Trend

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Do you have any additional strategies for helping your sellers to get their listings sold quickly? I always arrange for a pre-inspection so that all latent problems are revealed and can be resolved by a group of licensed, reliable contractors whom I work with regularly. With my many years of successful partnerships with those contractors, they are able to provide highly competitive pricing and top-notch quality of workmanship. After each open house and any regular property tours during the lifespan of the listing, I provide my clients with immediate feedback from each visitor, which provides the seller with valuable first-hand assessments of their home. The sellers can then adjust and improve any shortcomings, making the listing much more appealing to the current market. 280

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How do you make sure your listings get maximum exposure? As a responsible and effective sellerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s agent, I provide tailored solutions to custom fit each client's needs. Getting maximum exposure should be the first priority for any listing. As a global property specialist with strong team support in China, and a large database of international investors, I have an extensive global reach. Being bilingual gives me an advantage. About 40 percent of my sales come from the Asian community, both here in the U.S. and overseas. I have been representing the Chinese Embassy as their Realtor to help high-ranking officers find residences in the D.C. metro area since 2013. Having these networks may result in an immediate sale, which is much more efficient than putting a house on the market and waiting to see who comes to see it. Since that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happen every time, I employ all available marketing avenues, such as professional photography, custom staging, open houses and popular real estate web sites.

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THE DELIVERY WOMAN Life as an OB-GYN can be unpredictable, especially when you’re also married to one BY KATHLEEN SEILER NEARY

DR. JACQUELINE APGAR’S three young children are used to their parents’ hectic schedules. She and her husband, Anders, are OB-GYNs, so “I’ll be home in 30 minutes” can easily turn into two hours. Apgar still remembers when her oldest child, now a sixth-grader, was little, and Anders called from the hospital. She hung up and told her daughter that Daddy wouldn’t be home for a while because he was delivering someone’s baby. “How many centimeters is she?” the 3-year-old asked with a sigh. Apgar, 45, delivers two to four babies during a typical shift at Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville. But she once delivered nine in a 12-hour period. “Listen, I’ve delivered your baby, everything’s fine, everything’s good, I’ll be right back,” she’d tell one patient before running to the next room. She and her husband—both of whom work for Capital Women’s Care but in separate locations—finagled their schedules to make Tuesday their day at the hospital. “We have our hot date on Tuesday,” she says, laughing. “He buys me a little lunch in the cafeteria and it’s sometimes the only time we get to talk during the week.” The Darnestown couple met in 2000, when she was finishing medical school and he was completing his residency. She’s often asked about her last name—her husband’s great aunt was Virginia Apgar, an obstetrical anesthesiologist who introduced the Apgar score, a five-point assessment of a newborn’s health, in 1952. Apgar, who divides her time between offices in Rockville and Bethesda, gets all sorts of questions from patients. “I’ve had women call from concerts to see if that music was going to hurt their babies,” she says. “ ‘Is my baby going to be deaf?’ No, you’re OK.” She understands the worry. “To that person, that’s their whole world.” Apgar calls her own first pregnancy “an eye-opener.” She was confident that she’d know what to do if a problem arose, but terrified because she’d seen what can go wrong. “I got a dose of my own medicine, of ‘oh, this is how scared people are.’ ” In recent years, Apgar’s seen changes in her field, including patients posting on Facebook from the delivery room. She’s fine with moms hiring photographers for their deliveries, but she doesn’t allow video. “I don’t want to be explaining to the camera what I’m doing in a shoulder dystocia to save your baby’s life,” she says of the emergency procedure when a baby is stuck during delivery. She’s had patients turn to Pinterest for ideas on preparing for a delivery, including one woman whose labor included wardrobe changes. “If that makes her less anxious, great,” Apgar says. “As long as everybody’s safe.” n Associate Editor Kathleen Seiler Neary can be reached at kathleen.neary@bethesdamagazine.com. 282

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PLAYING DOCTOR “I grew up thinking that everybody wanted to be a doctor. I loved playing paramedics. I loved the smell of the hospital. I loved going to the doctor. If you asked my mom, she never thought I’d be anything else, from kindergarten on.”

ALMOST FAMOUS “There’s not a place we go—restaurants, stores, school functions—where people don’t come up and say, ‘You delivered me—look how big the baby is now!’ My kids sometimes get so frustrated with us and our schedules, [but] they have this huge amount of pride for wow, my parents did that.”

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“You just don’t ever forget the losses—the ones that come in and think that they’re in labor, but we can’t find the baby’s heartbeat. You can hear it down the hall, that guttural scream. It never leaves you, and it haunts you. And it makes you just try and be better for the next day. I’ve had two patients recently that lost a baby late in the third trimester, and one that lost a sweet boy for multiple anomalies three months after he was born. And I got to go to his funeral, and I got to be with Mom, and I got to go through her next miscarriage, and then I just got to deliver her healthy boy.”

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“I usually tell patients: Pick one thing to be anxious about today. I’m not going to tell you not to be anxious because it’s impossible. You’re already a good mom by being anxious about your baby. It’s 40 weeks of a roller-coaster ride. Some people have really difficult high-risk pregnancies. For others, it’s almost too easy—‘I don’t even feel like I’m pregnant’—and some get anxious about that. ‘Deep breath’ is the biggest thing I can tell people.”

“I need to know: How are you? Is your child doing OK? I have a patient who was struggling with some things in pregnancy. I have to stand back and say, ‘Is there something else going on? Why is your blood pressure elevated? Do you have preeclampsia?’ Well, no, her [older child] was just diagnosed with autism. If you see a patient in a vacuum, anybody can do that. There’s a lot of psychology to my job.”

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THE RECOVERY Patients with facial palsy just want to look like themselves again

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TARA COLES HAD JUST put her toddler and 10-month-old twins to bed and was finishing up the dishes when her husband, John, looked at her and said her left eye was blinking more slowly than the other. “At first I thought, ‘What is happening?’ ” says Coles, an emergency room physician. “But I was so exhausted that I thought, ‘I’m just going to go to bed.’ ” She woke around 2 a.m. with pain near her left ear, looked in the mirror and found the left side of her face drooping. She couldn’t close her eyelid. “In the back of my mind I knew what it was, so I wasn’t freaking out,” she says. Later that day she went to the Baltimore hospital where she worked and told colleagues that she had Bell’s palsy. A form of facial paralysis, Bell’s palsy is usually temporary and can occur when a facial nerve becomes damaged or inflamed, resulting in muscle weakness on one side of the face. The exact cause isn’t clear, but many scientists believe it could be related to certain viruses; it occurs more often in people who are pregnant or have diabetes. Coles thinks her Bell’s palsy may have been the result of undiagnosed Lyme disease, possibly picked up as a child on summer trips to deer-infested Fire Island, New York. At the hospital, the emergency room doctor prescribed anti-inflammatory and anti-viral medicines and advised Coles to tape her eye shut when she slept to protect her cornea. She kept going to work, and felt like she had to

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explain the situation to her patients. “Just so you know, I have Bell’s palsy,” she’d say. “My face isn’t working well. It’s not contagious, but it may be hard to understand me.” About six weeks later, strangers stopped staring. A few weeks after that, the twitching stopped, except when she was tired. Coles moved on with her life, working and raising four kids, and used her experiences to help with patient care. It seemed like at least once a month she’d have a patient with Bell’s palsy or

temporomandibular joint dysfunction, known as TMJD, a condition that causes pain in the jaw. Everything changed in 2000 when a friend, primary care physician Robert Fields, asked her to see one of his patients. The man was suffering from a form of facial palsy caused by an acoustic neuroma—a benign tumor that grows on the main nerve between the inner ear and the brain—and nothing Fields had suggested seemed to help. Barth agreed to see the patient and quickly realized that she had a lot to

“Just so you know, I have Bell's Palsy," Coles would tell patients. “My face isn't working well. It's not contagious, but it may be hard to understand me.” hear of a friend who had it. “It’s not that uncommon,” Coles says. It never crossed her mind that it could recur—Bell’s palsy rarely does—but nine years later, in February 2016, it happened again. She walked into the dining room of her Bethesda home and John told her something was wrong with her face. “Your right eye is closing slower than the other,” he said. Coles looked in the mirror. I can’t even believe it, she thought. The facial paralysis wasn’t as bad the second time, she says, but food and drinks still dribbled down the side of her mouth, and she kept biting the inside of her cheek when she ate. “You’re constantly aware of it,” says Coles, 47. “You don’t really appreciate what your face does until it doesn’t do what it’s supposed to do.”

PHYSICAL THERAPIST JODI BARTH wasn’t planning to focus her career on facial palsy. She had her own practice in Olney and was specializing in orthopedics, working mostly with patients who had spine problems or 286

learn about his condition, so she invited a well-regarded physical therapist from Pittsburgh to teach a one-day course for her staff on treating facial palsy. She soaked up as much information as she could, then spent a day observing the therapist at work. “Everything he did, I had more and more questions,” she says. What intrigued Barth the most, she says, is that the muscles of the face, excluding the jaw muscles, are attached to skin, not bone. As a result, procedures such as electric stimulation, which physical therapists routinely use to strengthen muscles in the body, can actually harm the face. Barth often meets patients whose doctors have advised them to try electric stimulation, not realizing that the treatment is contraindicated for facial palsy. She believes that’s part of a bigger issue: that some physicians don’t realize what’s available in physical therapy for facial palsy patients. “The standard approach has been to tell patients it will either get better or it won’t get better,” Barth says. “[They’ll say], ‘Be glad it’s not cancer.’ ”

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Barth’s first facial palsy patient did well, and the progress he made inspired her to shift gears and focus on working with patients like him. Since then, Barth has treated more than 600 patients with facial palsy, first at her own practice and then with NRH (National Rehabilitation Hospital) Regional Rehab in Olney, which acquired her practice in 1999, and more recently at The Center for Facial Recovery in Rockville. She and cofounder Gincy Stezar opened the center in 2014, and patients have come from as far away as Australia and Jordan to see them. Some participate in 30-minute Skype sessions that often lead to inperson visits because there are so few physical therapists with the knowledge to treat the face. The American Physical Therapy Association doesn’t track the number of physical therapists offering treatment for facial palsy, but Barth says her practice with Stezar is one of only a handful in the country. “These patients are so dedicated to getting better. Any suggestion that might make their face feel better or look better they jump on,” says Barth, 58, who lives in Olney. “They really partner with us, versus patients who come in and say, ‘Make me feel better.’ ” She and Stezar, who met while working at NRH Regional Rehab (now part of the MedStar National Rehabilitation Network), are especially sensitive to the emotional toll that accompanies conditions affecting the muscles of the face. The sudden onset of Bell’s palsy, which affects about 40,000 Americans each year, can be alarming and traumatic. Though less common in people younger than 15 and older than 60, the temporary paralysis can happen to anyone at any time. “How would you like to walk around not being able to smile and have people think you are mad at them all day?” Barth asks. “How would you like to wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and not look like yourself?” According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, most individuals with Bell’s palsy begin to see

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an improvement within two weeks of the initial onset of symptoms, and recover some or all facial function within three to six months. But the symptoms can last longer, and in rare cases may never fully disappear. Barth says most patients who come to the center have not seen an improvement in their facial paralysis in several months, or even years, but it’s beneficial to receive physical therapy right away. When Coles had her second bout of facial palsy, she started taking a higher dosage of steroids and stayed on the medication longer, which she felt was more effective than the treatment she received the first time. Then a woman she knew from an art class told her about The Center for Facial Recovery. She called right away and had her first appointment within a month of developing symptoms. “I had never heard of facial palsy physical therapy,” she says. “But I was willing to do anything to help my recovery.” At Coles’ initial evaluation, Stezar videotaped her efforts to smile, pucker, snarl and show other expressions. Barth says analyzing the motion of those facial movements provides key information for treatment, and the video offers a way to assess progress. She took an extensive health history, paying close attention to any symptoms Coles experienced before the facial palsy started. “Oftentimes it’s not determined before they get to us what type of facial palsy they have,” says Stezar, 64, who lives in Olney. “We dig deeper on these questions to make sure they have an accurate diagnosis.” Stezar taught Coles exercises to do on her own, including self-massage techniques and stretches using pingpong balls, to strengthen her facial muscles. She showed Coles, whose left eye still twitches when she’s tired, a mirror that she and Barth invented in 2007. The Mirror Book, a rehabilitation device, shows patients the unaffected side of their face twice, tricking the brain into believing there’s nothing wrong with the other side. The tool, now available as the Face2Face app—also created by Barth

Physical therapists Jodi Barth (left) and Gincy Stezar opened The Center for Facial Recovery in Rockville in 2014. Patients have come to the center from as far away as Australia to receive treatment for facial palsy.

and Stezar for facial palsy patients— makes exercises more efficient. “She’s pretty holistic in terms of her assessment,” Coles says of Barth, noting that during weekly sessions Barth also worked on her tight neck and issues with TMJD, a problem that was unrelated to the Bell’s palsy. They discussed putting off a dental procedure because the Novocain might interfere with her recovery. “It’s amazing the way she approaches and looks at all muscle systems and is not just

focusing on one muscle in the face.” As treatment progresses, Stezar and Barth use laser therapy to reduce inflammation, relax facial muscles and accelerate the recovery process by improving damaged or dysfunctional tissue. Coles was referred to an ear, nose and throat doctor who specializes in plastic surgery in order to receive Botox treatments, which can help shut down overactive muscles. Five months later she’s pleased with her progress. “What Jodi does is restorative and healing,” she says.

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equipment in April 2016. “I was like a kid in a candy shop,” she says, describing what it was like to be able to see under the skin while doing evaluations and routine therapy. “It’s validation of our theories and what we felt on the outside, and what the patients described they were feeling.” Barth and Stezar partner with other medical professionals—including dentists, neurologists and plastic surgeons—to address the specific needs of each patient, in some cases working side by side. Every Monday morning they assist Dr. Chad Zatezalo, an ophthalmologist who specializes in plastic surgery around the eye, as he works in a procedure suite at the center. Barth can identify by touch the areas of a patient’s face that would benefit the most from

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Bethesda attorney John Bergin, a patient at The Center for Facial Recovery, woke up with Bell’s palsy two years ago. He’s 90 percent recovered.

the procedures he performs. Eye closure is often a major obstacle for individuals with facial palsy: One of Barth and Stezar’s patients, Gaithersburg physician Kisha Davis, was 38 weeks pregnant when she awoke with Bell’s palsy two years ago and couldn’t attend her children’s soccer games because the inability to close her eye made the exposure to wind extremely painful. Zatezalo works with patients who have trouble blinking, often inserting a platinum weight in the eyelid to aid in closure and to protect the eye from corneal scratches and dryness. He’s currently doing a new procedure to replace the platinum weight with another

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that’s carrying an ultrasound machine, then applies gel to Pioli’s face and runs the probe across her forehead. A physical therapist for 37 years, Barth uses the tool to look for a thickening of the fascia, a thin sheath of fibrous tissue that encloses a muscle. That thickening fascia in the forehead appears dense and white on the monitor. This area is impeding progress for Pioli, a Bethesda resident who was stricken with the Ramsay Hunt version of facial palsy, also known as shingles of the face, in July 2015. It causes a more severe inflammation of the facial nerve than Bell’s palsy, and also has a slower recovery time. “You can see how the muscle moves and glides,” Barth says, referring to an area of Pioli’s forehead where she can see an improvement. She checks another spot. “I don’t get much movement there when she tries to move.” When Pioli, an emergency room physician’s assistant, works on closing her left eye, the corner of her mouth on that side of her face pulls upward. Barth explains that facial synkinesis, the abnormal and involuntary movement that occurs with the voluntary movement of other facial muscles, is to blame. Barth hands Pioli two Dammit Dolls, stress relief toys that Barth uses as a tool for patients to squeeze when they’re in pain. Then Barth puts on blue medical gloves and inserts solid nonmedicated filament needles through the skin on Pioli’s forehead to help release the fibrous tissue that surrounds and separates muscle, a procedure called dry needling. Pioli squeezes the dolls, but never winces. Then Barth goes back to the ultrasound and finds that the area is broken up and no longer appears heavy, white and thick. There’s noticeable improvement when Pioli moves her face. Because the medical field has had few answers for this patient population in the past, Barth says, she’s continued to evolve the practice to embrace new approaches to treatment. She added the ultrasound machine to her growing arsenal of

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material that does not require surgery or an incision into the skin or eyelid muscle. Five years ago, Barth and Stezar worked with Dr. Victor Ibrahim, a physiatrist who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation at Regenerative Orthopedics & Sports Medicine in Rockville, to develop IBBS (Ibrahim, Barth, Stezar), a noninvasive ultrasound technique that helps reduce facial synkinesis. Now Zatezalo is one of the doctors who performs the procedure. “The center is very innovative,” he says. “[Barth and Stezar] are out-of-thebox thinkers.”

JOHN BERGIN, A 49-YEAR-OLD civil litigation attorney who lives in Bethesda, was in court the day after he woke up with Bell’s palsy in August 2015. “It was very hard to speak,” he says. He approached the judge and the opposing attorney to explain his appearance, worried that they’d think he was drunk or that he’d had a stroke. Bergin’s uncle once had facial palsy, so he’d immediately recognized what was wrong. But the young physician’s assistant at his doctor’s office had no idea, he says. Barth and Stezar hear that type of story every day. It’s one reason they created the Foundation for Facial Recovery in 2015, funded largely by a grant from The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation. The goal is to conduct research on facial palsy and TMJD, and raise awareness about the disorders. Last year, Barth was treating several physicians and physician assistants, but none of them had been referred to the center by medical professionals. Pioli found the practice by searching the Internet; Davis had a friend whose sister was a patient. “Our frustration is that there is a strong lack of education,” Barth says. Betsy Ellis and her husband, Don, leave their house in Flemington, New Jersey, at 9 a.m. every two weeks for Betsy’s appointments at The Center for Facial Recovery. After being diagnosed with facial palsy in March 2016, Ellis couldn’t find anyone in her area who specialized 290

in treating the disorder. She found Barth through a neighbor who Ellis says had “looked everywhere” for help. Now both women travel regularly to Rockville. When Ellis, 73, returns to the main treatment room on a Thursday in April, Barth says her forehead looks tight on the right side, just above the eyebrow. They discuss how Ellis has been feeling, the exercises she’s been doing. Later,

become tight and painful. The machine, which features a suction cup with adjustable pressure levels, is starting to replace the need for dry needling, and patients say it’s a gentler procedure. “Clinically, we have seen better recovery, as well as improvement in working with patients to get their eye to close sooner,” Barth says. “It has made a big difference.” According to Barth, all of the facial

“How would you like to wake up in the morning and look in the mirror and not look like yourself?" Barth asks. Ellis mentions that she aggravated an old neck injury. “Yes, I know,” Barth says with a laugh. She walks behind Ellis, putting both hands on her neck, then gently rotates her head and begins calling out numbers—indicating the range of motion in the neck—as Stezar records the information at her standing workstation. “Let’s go to the table.” Ellis lies on her back and Barth begins to work on her neck, not her face. As Barth preaches to her patients daily: Everything is connected. She may see a patient with facial palsy and start with the person’s feet, often suggesting and providing orthotics. As part of their physical therapy practice, Barth and Stezar have worked extensively with singers, including members of the University of Maryland’s performing arts program. Just helping them align their bodies correctly with orthotics often improves their vocals immediately. After the neck work with Ellis, Barth brings over the center’s newest piece of equipment. The PhysioTouch was developed to stretch fascia and tissue and to spur lymph flow in cancer patients, but has been repurposed in Barth and Stezar’s clinic to help in myofascial release, the release of fibrous tissue that surrounds and separates muscle and can

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palsy patients who’ve been treated at the center have shown at least a 50 percent improvement. A few have returned to modeling careers; others are finally willing to speak in front of large groups again. For some, simply being comfortable enough to have a photograph taken with a newborn baby, or at a grandchild’s wedding, is enough. A CEO she treated had been conducting all of his meetings by phone for months, refusing to be seen in his condition. “It was remarkable when he went back to work,” she says. Bergin, who’d noticed only minimal improvement eight weeks after developing Bell’s palsy, continues to slowly get better 18 months into his time with Barth and Stezar. They’ve coordinated his care and referred him to three different specialists; he had a weight surgically placed in his eyelid and removed four months later with great success. The father of two has gone from weekly physical therapy sessions to monthly appointments. He’s 90 percent recovered. “We are so fortunate,” he says. “We’ve got the best folks in the world right in our own backyard.” n Writer Annmarie Sarsfield Edwards lives in Rockville and is a spine patient of Barth and Stezar.

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CALENDAR COMPILED BY SANDRA FLEISHMAN

Sept. 23

Run a 5K through Derwood farmland on Oct. 22 at Cross Country on the Farm.

KENSINGTON 8K. Proceeds benefit Kensington Parkwood Elementary School, North Bethesda Middle School and Walter Johnson High School. The event also includes a 2-mile run and a 1K fun run. 8:30 a.m.; 7:45 a.m. for 2-mile and 8:35 a.m. for fun run. $14-$30. Kensington Town Hall, Kensington. kensington8k.org.

Sept. 24 CABIN JOHN KIDS RUN. The race, to encourage and promote childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s running, is for ages 17 and younger. 9 a.m. for the quarter-mile run; 9:10 a.m., half-mile; 9:25 a.m., 1-mile. Free. Cabin John Regional Park, Potomac. mcrrc.org.

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Sept. 2 KENTLANDS/LAKELANDS 5K RUN/WALK. The 24th annual race, benefiting Kentlands Community Foundation programs, winds through neighborhoods and ends at a shopping center with live music. 8:30 a.m.; 8 a.m. for kids runs. $35-$40; $15-$20 for kids runs. Kentlands Market Square Plaza, Gaithersburg. kentlandsfoundation.org/ annual-5k.

Sept. 10 PARKS HALF MARATHON. Run along Redland and Needwood roads, Beach Drive and on sections of the Rock Creek Trail (the start location and course are new this year). 6:45 a.m. $69-$80. Race starts at Redland Road and Somerville Drive adjacent to the Shady Grove Metro station, Rockville. parkshalfmarathon.com.

Sept. 16 LAKE NEEDWOOD CROSS COUNTRY. Expect mud, grass and trails on this 10K course. 8:50 a.m. for 10K; 8:30 a.m. for quartermile and half-mile young runs; 8:52 a.m. for 1-mile fun run. $10 ages 18 and older; $5 younger than 18; free for members of the Montgomery County Road Runners Club. Lake Needwood, Derwood. mcrrc.org. 292

Sept. 16 RACE FOR FREEDOM. Proceeds from the 5K and kids run will help fight human trafficking. 9 a.m. $30; $10 for children 9 and younger. First Alliance Church, Silver Spring. raceforfreedom.org.

Sept. 17 EYE RUN 5K FOR PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS. The event will also include a vision health fair and kids activities. Proceeds benefit the Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington. Run a 5K fun run or walk. 9 a.m. $30-$60. Prices are the same for the fun run and walk. Westfield Montgomery mall, Bethesda. eyerunforpob.org.

Sept. 17 RUN FOR EVERYMIND 5K RUN/3K WALK. The second annual event, which benefits EveryMind (formerly the Mental Health Association of Montgomery County), includes a 5K run, 3K walk, live music and ticket giveaways from iHeartRadio, health and wellness vendors, food and kids activities. 8 a.m. 5K; 8:30 a.m. 3K walk. 7 a.m.-1 p.m. activities. $40 for 19 and older; $20 for ages 13-18; $10 for ages 3-12. Candy Cane City Pavilion at Meadowbrook Park, Chevy Chase. 301-424-0656, every-mind.org.

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Oct. 14 MATTHEW HENSON TRAIL 5K. Enjoy a low-key run along the hard-surface trail. 9 a.m. $10 ages 18 and older; $5 younger than 18; free for members of the Montgomery County Road Runners Club. Matthew Henson Trail parking lot (next to Global Mission Church), Silver Spring. mcrrc.org.

Oct. 15 HOME RUN RACE. The event includes a 10K, 5K, 1-mile and fun run, benefiting residents of Charles E. Smith Life Communities. 8:30 a.m. $15-$40. East Jefferson Street, in the back of Federal Plaza, Rockville. smithlifecommunities.org.

Oct. 22 CROSS COUNTRY ON THE FARM. The unpaved 5K winds through farmland. 8:30 a.m. $10 ages 18 and older; $5 younger than 18; free for members of the Montgomery County Road Runners Club. Agricultural History Farm Park, Derwood. mcrrc.org.

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5K OKTOBERFEST & FUN RUN. The annual race benefits the German School/German Language School in Potomac. 9 a.m.; 10 a.m. fun run. Oktoberfest begins at 9 a.m. and includes live music, kids activities, food and games. $30-$45; $15-$30 for fun run; Oktoberfest is free and open to the public. German School/German Language School, Potomac. dswashington.org/ oktoberfest-run.html.

Oct. 22 JCADA 5K RUN/WALK. Help the Jewish Coalition Against Domestic Abuse raise money to address domestic and dating abuse. 9 a.m. $40; free for ages 10 and younger. Melvin J. Berman Hebrew Academy, Rockville. hbaron.wix.com/jcada-5k.

SCREENINGS/CLASSES/ WORKSHOPS Through Sept. 26 ZUMBA. The weekly class turns a workout into an outdoor dance party. Presented by Adventist HealthCare Washington Adventist Hospital and Washington Sports Clubs. 7 p.m. Tuesdays. Free. Fountain Plaza, Silver Spring. downtownsilverspring.com.

Through Sept. 27 YOGA ON THE PLAZA. Bring your yoga mat and a water bottle for this mixed-level vinyasa class. Presented by Grace Studios. 7-7:45 p.m. Wednesdays. Free. Fountain Plaza, Silver Spring. downtownsilverspring.com.

Sept. 6 SIMPLIFY YOUR LIFE. Learn techniques for de-cluttering and de-stressing your life. 7-9 p.m. $20. Suburban Hospital, Bethesda. Registration required. 301-896-3939, events.suburbanhospital.org.

Sept. 7 and Sept. 14 HEALTHY COOKING SERIES. On Sept. 7, The Mediterranean Pantry will explore recipes from the Mediterranean, using olive oil, fresh herbs and yogurt. On Sept. 14, the Fall Farmers Market offers a sampling of foods using ingredients from a local farmers market. $25 for one class; $45 for both. Suburban Hospital, Bethesda. Registration required. 301-896-3939, events.suburbanhospital.org.

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Sept. 8-Oct. 13 MINDFULNESS MEDITATION. In this sixweek session with a Suburban Hospital Mindfulness Center instructor, participants learn the basics of mindfulness meditation by focusing on posture, breathing and energy work. 11-11:45 a.m. Fridays. $50 for the session. Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center, Bethesda. Registration required. 301-896-3939, events.suburbanhospital.org.

Sept. 16 TEDDY BEAR CLINIC AT THE MUSEUM. Bring a favorite stuffed friend and explore the Teddy Bear Clinic with activities and crafts designed

to highlight the body, physical fitness and healthy habits. Recommended for children in pre-K through second grade. 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free. National Museum of Health and Medicine, Silver Spring. 301-319-3303, medicalmuseum.mil.

Sept. 17 FITNESS ON THE SQUARE. The last free hourlong summer session by Gold’s Gym will be yoga. 10-11 a.m. Rockville Town Square, Rockville. rockvilletownsquare.com/events/ fitness-on-the-square.

Sept. 18 12TH ANNUAL PROSTATE CANCER SYMPOSIUM. Dr. Peter Pinto, an investigator and faculty member in the Urologic Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute, presents “Knowledge Is Power: The Role of MRI to Improve the Diagnosis & Treatment of Prostate Cancer.” 6-8 p.m. Free. Suburban Hospital, Bethesda. Registration required. 301-896-3939, events.suburbanhospital.org.

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Sept. 18 LOOK GOOD, FEEL BETTER. Women undergoing cancer treatments learn makeup techniques, wig care and other beauty tips. 10 a.m.-noon. Free. Hope Connections for Cancer Support, Bethesda. 301-634-7500, hopeconnectionsforcancer.org.

Sept. 20 and Oct. 18 AARP SMART DRIVER CLASS. The one-day session is for drivers 50 and older who want to sharpen driving skills and learn defensive driving techniques. 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $20 for either session; $15 for members of AARP. The instructor collects payments (check or money order). Holy Cross Hospital Senior Source Center, Silver Spring. 301-754-8800, holycrosshealth.org.

Sept. 25 LUNG CANCER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM. Stephen Liu, a thoracic oncologist from Georgetown University, reviews the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer, including the latest advances and what to expect in coming years. Registration required. 6:30-8 p.m. Hope Connections for Cancer Support, Bethesda. 301-634-7500, hopeconnectionsforcancer.org.

Sept. 26 MEDICAL MUSEUM SCIENCE CAFÉ: AFRICANAMERICAN DOCTORS IN WORLD WAR I. In World War I, 104 African-American doctors joined the U.S. Army to care for the 40,000 men of the 92nd and 93rd Divisions, the Army’s only black combat units. The authors of a book about these doctors share their insights. 9:30-11:30 a.m. Free. National

Dr. Paul Ross

Doctor of Podiatric Medicine

Bethesda Medical Building 8218 Wisconsin Avenue Suite P-14 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 301.660.8173

www.paulrossdpm.com

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Sept. 26-Oct. 31 and Sept. 30-Nov. 4 MOMS ON THE MOVE. Each meeting of these six-week classes has 30 minutes of strength training and high-intensity interval training, and 30 minutes of yoga. For women who are at least six weeks post-delivery. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays (Sept. 26-Oct. 31) and 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Saturdays (Sept. 30-Nov. 4). $60. Holy Cross Resource Center, Silver Spring. 301-754-8800, holycrosshealth.org.

Sept. 28 SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR FIRST-TIME GRANDPARENTS. Suburban Hospital offers tips on infant and child CPR and choking rescue. Course includes a refresher on life skills such as diapering, swaddling, feeding and soothing a crying baby. 6-9 p.m. $45-$75. OASIS at Macy’s Home Store, Westfield Montgomery mall, Bethesda. Registration required. 301-896-3939, events.suburbanhospital.org.

Oct. 3 BECOMING A FATHER. Expectant and new dads will learn about basic baby care, the

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impact of a dad’s role in a baby’s life and keeping a baby safe. 6:30-9:30 p.m. $30. Holy Cross Resource Center, Silver Spring. 301-754-8800, holycrosshealth.org.

SUPPORT GROUPS

Support groups are free unless otherwise noted.

Sept. 5 and Oct. 3 BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUP. 6:30 p.m. Hope Connections for Cancer Support, Bethesda. 301-634-7500, hopeconnectionsforcancer.org.

Sept. 20 CAREGIVERS SUPPORT GROUP. Open to any caregiver of a cancer patient. Johns Hopkins Health Care and Surgery Center, Bethesda. Registration required. 301-896-3939, events.suburbanhospital.org.

Sept. 20 and Oct. 18 GYN CANCER SUPPORT GROUP. For patients and survivors. 6:30-8 p.m. Holy Cross Hospital Professional and Community Education Center, Silver Spring. 301-7549124, holycross.drsreferralservice.com/p-23ovarian-gyn-cancer-support-group.aspx.

Oct. 4-Nov. 29

Sept. 7 and 28 YOUNG ADULTS WITH CANCER SUPPORT GROUP. 6:30 p.m. Hope Connections for Cancer Support, Bethesda. 301-634-7500, hopeconnectionsforcancer.org.

Sept. 14 and Oct. 12 PARKINSON’S DISEASE SUPPORT GROUP. For patients, caregivers and family members. 12:05-12:55 p.m. Adventist HealthCare Rehabilitation, Silver Spring. 301-445-3191, adventisthealthcare.com.

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CAREGIVER SUPPORT GROUP. The eight-week series includes sessions with speakers and time for questions and discussion. 10:30 a.m.-noon Wednesdays; no class on Nov. 22. OASIS at Macy’s Home Store, Westfield Montgomery mall, Bethesda. Registration required. 301-469-6800, oasisnet.org/ washington-dc-area. To submit calendar items, go to www.Bethesda Magazine.com. n

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“To provide truly excellent care, a physician must have time to listen to their patients and be accessible whenever they need care,” says Dr. Matthew Mintz. After 20 years practicing at The George Washington University School of Medicine, he recently opened his own Internal Medicine and Primary Care practice in Bethesda, with an emphasis on prevention and wellness. “Patients are becoming more frustrated with today’s typical healthcare experience,” he says, including difficulty getting appointments, too-short visits, and trouble getting calls returned. Consistently named in Washingtonian’s “Top Docs,” Dr. Mintz aims to provide personalized, high-quality care in a stress-free environment, and will take the time to listen to patient concerns, and get to know them as individuals. His practice offers same day/next day appointments, after-hours accessibility, and can communicate by phone, email or even text message. Call 1-855-646-8963 to schedule an appointment or a complimentary “meet and greet.”

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Shih-Chun (David) Lin, MD; Jeff Jacobson, MD; and Quoc-Anh Thai, MD, PhD

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JOHNS HOPKINS NEUROSURGERY Get the expertise of Johns Hopkins neurosurgeons without the drive to Baltimore. Johns Hopkins neurosurgeons are available to evaluate patients right here in Bethesda at 4927 Auburn Ave., and most operations are performed at Suburban Hospital. Our surgeons offer comprehensive, tailored treatment for neurosurgical conditions— including minimally invasive treatments for spinal and brain disorders—providing personalized care before and after surgery. Following any consultation and throughout the course of treatment, our team works with your physicians to determine the best care plan for you. Dr. David Lin focuses on treating patients with spine and brain disorders, such as spinal stenosis, herniated intervertebral disc and brain tumor. At 21, he was the youngest in history to graduate National Taiwan University College of Medicine. He earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience from The Johns Hopkins University and completed his neurosurgical residency at Stanford University Medical Center. Dr. Jeff Jacobson has practiced neurosurgery in Bethesda for 34 years and specializes in brain tumor surgery, lumbar spine surgery and reconstructive cervical spine surgery, including cervical disc replacements. He uses the most advanced techniques, including intraoperative CT imaging and navigation for cranial and spinal procedures. Dr. Jacobson completed his medical education and neurosurgical training at George Washington University. As the division chief of Johns Hopkins Neurosurgery in the National Capital Region, Dr. Quoc-Anh Thai sees patients with diseases involving the brain and spine. He focuses on conditions of the degenerative spine, including neck and back pain, disc herniations and stenosis that may require surgery. Dr. Thai graduated from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he also completed his residency in neurosurgery.

“These neurosurgeons evaluate patients right here in Bethesda in their offices at 4927 Auburn Ave., and most operations are performed at Suburban Hospital.”

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Rachel Cohn “For a lot of us, choosing glasses is almost as much fun as jean shopping,” says Dr. Rachel Cohn. “But glasses are one of the first things people notice, and finding the right eyewear is so important.” “The right glasses can make you look sexy and smart, and the wrong frame can be distracting and make you look old,” she says. The most flattering frames play against facial contours. If your face is round, choose a frame with some angles. Square? Choose softer angles. “Don’t be afraid of color—it can add life to your face—and please don’t think you have to match your glasses to your clothes.” Wink blends Dr. Cohn's optometry practice and an eyewear boutique. “I’m an optometrist with a passion for fashion, and my staff and I will help you find your perfect frame. Try on lots of them. It’s certainly easier than trying on a pair of jeans!”

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Nine out of 10 patients feel better after their first visit to the podiatrist— without surgery. Since 1980, Dr. Paul Ross and his practice have made more than 180,000 people feel better with their foot, ankle and toe issues. “We want to educate every patient and begin a relevant treatment program with the highest quality of foot and ankle care available,” says Dr. Ross. Located in Bethesda as well as Springfield, VA, the practice helps with sports injuries, bunions, orthotics, heel pain, hammer toes, women’s foot problems and more. “We’ve seen and treated almost every known foot condition,” says Dr. Robert Pica. “Your feet don’t have to prevent you from the active lifestyle you’re used to.” “It’s very gratifying to hear patients say, ‘I don’t know why I didn’t come to you sooner, my pain is gone,’” says Dr. Ross. “I hear that all the time.”

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Gregory O. Dick, MD, FACS; Shirley A. Olsen, MD

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AESTHETIC PLASTIC SURGERY Currently celebrating over 25 years in private practice, “Our practice takes care of our patients, as we would like ourselves and family members to be cared for,” says Dr. Gregory Dick. “From the moment you speak to our friendly and knowledgeable staff and enter our warm and inviting office, you will begin to realize that we consider you and every patient to be special.” Lengthy consultations addressing all of your concerns and questions, and referrals to previous patients are just a few of many fine touches you can expect. It’s reassuring to know that Dr. Dick is a previous Chief of Surgery at Shady Grove Adventist Hospital. For added reassurance, Dr. Dick provides his home number to all postoperative patients. “We attend national meetings, and do months of research and evaluation of new procedures,” he says. “We specialize in facial rejuvenation, rhinoplasty, mommy makeovers, breast augmentation, fat grafting, laser skin care, CoolSculpting, Botox, and Juvederm fillers including Voluma, Volbella and Vollure. Dr. Shirley Olsen, a Stanford graduate, is the practice’s laser, CoolSculpting and skincare expert. She is one of only a few physicians who directly performs all procedures. This allows her to constantly assess your treatment while performing it. A CoolSculpting provider since 2012, she has performed thousands of treatments. As a former model, she will share with you her best kept secrets for maintaining youth and beauty. “Let us help you to ‘get back the pretty,’” she says. “Our philosophy is simple,” says Dr. Dick. “If you look good, we look good. If you are happy, we are happy.”

“From the moment you speak to our friendly and knowledgeable staff, and enter our warm and inviting office, you will begin to realize that we consider you and every patient to be special.” HONORS Board certification: surgery & plastic surgery; Former plastic surgeon to the First Family and Congress; Washingtonian “Top Doctor” since 1993; Prior president, American Cancer Society, Montgomery

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Your hearing should be evaluated by an audiologist to ensure there are no medical problems. If there is sudden loss or ear pain or dizziness or ringing in the ears, these need to be checked before you purchase OTC devices. Be sure any device has understandable instructions. Check the label for maximum loudness. It’s possible to have too much amplification as well as too little. Real-ear probe microphone measures are required for fittings to be successful and not part of the OTC process.

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The FDA’s Reauthorization bill went into effect in July and included requirements for ‘Over the Counter’ hearing aids that do not need to be prescribed by an audiologist. This regulation should provide greater access to hearing loss treatment for adults with mild to moderate loss. “Hearing loss, however, is not a benign condition and even a ‘mild’ loss can have significant impact,” says Dr. Gail Linn. “Just like other medical products that have moved from ‘prescribed’ to the ‘retail’ arena, ensuring safety is paramount.” With any hearing aid, there is a learning process. “On average, we spend 15 to 20 hours in the first year with new hearing aid patients,” says Dr. Linn. As part of their mission to educate the consumer, Potomac Audiology provides a few points for those looking to purchase hearing loss treatment over-the-counter:

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Arthritis & Rheumatism Associates, P.C. For more than 40 years, the physicians and staff at Arthritis and Rheumatism Associates (ARA) have been dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of people with autoimmune diseases and disorders of the joints, muscles, tendons and other connective tissues. Today, ARA is the largest rheumatology practice in the area, with offices in Wheaton, Rockville, Chevy Chase, Olney, and Washington, D.C. Comprehensive services include a full-service laboratory, digital x-rays, physical therapy and bone density testing for osteoporosis. Each office also features an Arise Infusion Therapy Center, administering the most advanced drugs for a wide variety of conditions including arthritis, psoriasis, osteoporosis, inflammatory bowel disease, asthma and neurologic disorders. Dr. Jeffrey A. Potter, MD, FACR, who sees patients at both the Wheaton and Olney offices, explains: “We pride ourselves on offering patients access to the latest, most innovative therapies for treatment of musculoskeletal, rheumatologic and other autoimmune diseases.” ARA’s commitment to improving the health of their communities served is exemplified by a very active research program. The Center for Rheumatology and Bone Research has participated in over 400 clinical trials. “We have been running clinical trials since 1982, working on treatments for rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, Sjögren’s syndrome, fibromyalgia, tendonitis and ankylosing spondylitis, among other conditions,” notes Dr. Potter. ARA’s team approach to patient care means that doctors, nurses and physical therapists discuss each patient’s care and carefully plan the best combination of approaches to achieve maximum relief of symptoms and improvement in functionality, in accordance with each patient’s needs. Patients are encouraged to express concerns, ask questions and stay informed about their care. “People who understand their condition and participate in treatment decisions often have better outcomes,” says Dr. Potter.

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Locations in: Wheaton, Rockville, Chevy Chase, Olney and Washington, D.C. Central Call Center: 240-514-5611 www.arapc.com

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GREATNESS IN THE MAKIN’ With a new chef, Macon Bistro & Larder is soaring

BY DAVID HAGEDORN PHOTOS BY STACY ZARIN-GOLDBERG

IF YOU HAVEN’T BEEN to Macon Bistro & Larder lately, chef Tyler Stout, who took over as chef there in November 2016, is a mighty good reason to rectify that situation. Tony Brown, a Chevy Chase resident and former chef (and federal contractor), opened the Upper Northwest D.C. restaurant in May 2014, naming it after his hometown of Macon, Georgia, and a city in France that has the same name. Situated in the Chevy Chase Arcade, Macon Bistro is a symbiosis of French and Southern American style and 306

everything a neighborhood eatery should be: charming, tasty, reasonably priced and hospitality-oriented. The space, which seats 60 inside and 40 outside, is light-fi lled and inviting (another 30 seats are in the Magnolia Room, a separate space added down the hall in the arcade in April 2016). Family photos from Brown’s childhood grace the wall. Light bulbs spell out “Macon” marquee-style behind the bar. Green leather upholstered bistro chairs, hardwood floors and a long gray-and-white marble bar accent the

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cozy room. An open kitchen, tucked in the back, is where you fi nd Stout, a L’Academie de Cuisine grad whose résumé includes stints at Bethesda’s Chef Tony’s Fresh Seafood Restaurant, Newton’s Table and Barrel + Crow. He is the fourth chef here—let’s hope he stays a long time, because he is tremendously talented. Care and attention come through in every dish. From the warm greeting on arrival to the buttery salted caramels offered with the check, a meal at Macon Bistro in early June shines. Our server, who

Toasted breadcrumbs and celery leaves top lobster and grits.

Macon Bistro & Larder 5520 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, D.C. 202-248-7807, maconbistro.com

Overall Rating:

FAVORITE DISHES: Deviled eggs, fried okra, lobster and grits, Iberico pork pappardelle, angel food cake with strawberries PRICES: Snacks: $7; Appetizers: $10 to $17; Entrées: $21 to $35; Desserts: $9

Chef Tyler Stout’s menu includes (from left) deviled eggs, fried okra and roasted maitake mushrooms.

mentions she is a recent hire, knows the menu inside and out, a testament to good training. We start with snacks—fried okra with a zesty rémoulade sauce, and creamy deviled eggs topped with ground bacon and sweet pickle relish— to accompany gin cocktails. The Night Flights (vodka, gin, aromatized wine, crème de violette and gentian, a violetflavored aperitif) is a smooth ride. For a first course, a moss-colored mixture of breadcrumbs, parsley and preserved lemon dusts roasted maitake

LIBATIONS: A perfectly delightful collection of cocktail creations, plus a wine list of superlative French wines, including five sparklers ($60 to $180), 17 whites ($36 to $225), 25 reds ($48 to $180) and a separate rosé menu SERVICE: Attentive, helpful, eager and delightful

mushroom clumps to make them resemble broccoli florets, all enhanced by a lush Gruyère cheese sauce dotted with droplets of tarragon oil. It’s an elegant dish. Lobster and grits get the royal treatment with a sophisticated, lobster bisque-like sauce, creamed leeks, a sprinkle of buttery toasted breadcrumbs, and celery leaves. For a second course, my companion and I share sublime homemade pappardelle pasta nesting in a ragù of Iberico pork shoulder made with an intensely flavored stock reduction

(instead of tomato sauce) and adorned with grated Parmesan cheese. Main courses include seared halibut with a ragout of ham hock meat and gigante beans (like large white lima beans), topped with cornbread croutons; and Amish chicken breast with a velvety mushroom sauce laced with foie gras. Tender coconut cake with sesame ice cream, and angel food cake garnished with strawberry ice, fresh strawberries, julienne basil leaves and whipped cream are a splendid ending to an already outstanding meal. n

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Al Ha’esh Chef Daniel Yitzhaky (left) with Tracy Yitzhaky and Gideon Sasson

SKEWERED, ISRAELI-STYLE AL HA’ESH, WHICH MEANS “on the fire” in Hebrew, is

Al Ha’esh, 4860 Boiling Brook Parkway, Rockville; 301-231-0839, al-haesh.com. Open Sunday–Thursday noon–2:30 p.m. and 5–8:30 p.m.; and Friday noon–2:30 p.m. 308

our favorite Dishes at Al Ha’esh: 1. PHOTOS BY MICHAEL VENTURA

the kosher Israeli grill that replaced Moti’s Grill in Rockville’s Randolph Hills Shopping Center in January. How the restaurant came to be is a song of Solomonov—Michael Solomonov, that is, a Philadelphia chef whose restaurant and cookbook, both named Zahav, are paeans to Israeli cooking. The chef at Al Ha’esh, Daniel Yitzhaky, got a copy of the Zahav cookbook last year while finishing up his degree at L’Academie de Cuisine cooking school in Gaithersburg. “Solomonov tells great stories about Israeli grills,” says Al Ha’esh owner Gideon Sasson, who also found the tome inspirational. “We Israelis love going to those grills, and I said, ‘Huh! We can do this!’ ” As research, Sasson and Yitzhaky took a 10-day trip to Israel, visiting eateries featuring skewers of proteins and vegetables grilled over charcoal and served with a dazzling array of cold side salads (salatim). That’s the formula they brought back to Al Ha’esh, along with a signature seasoning blend that includes cumin, garlic, cilantro, paprika, coriander seed, black pepper and allspice. Sasson and business partner Tracy Yitzhaky (Daniel’s mother) closed Moti’s Grill last year and renovated it to create an inviting, light-filled, 88-seat space (plus seven at the bar and 24 outside) with an open kitchen that features a large charcoal grill. Al Ha’esh was a hit from the start, and for good reason. Grilled skewers (such as chicken, lamb, beef, chicken livers, sweetbreads and seitan, a vegetarian meat substitute made from wheat gluten) or other entrées (including chicken schnitzel and a burger) come with a side dish and salatim. On a recent visit, the salatim included ramekins of tahini; beets with tahini; curried chickpeas; cucumber, tomato and red onion salad; marinated red cabbage; baba ghanoush; balsamic marinated mushrooms; pickles; tabouleh; and olives. Two-skewer plates at dinner cost $19. Entrées range from $11 (falafel) to $28 (lamb chops).

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Hummus topped with (left to right) chickpeas and olive oil; merguez (lamb) sausage; sautéed mushrooms; and ground beef Grilled rosemary-and-garlic-marinated lamb chops Chicken liver skewers Sautéed zucchini with tahini and za’atar, a Middle Eastern spice blend that includes sumac, sesame seeds, cumin, thyme and oregano Grilled baby eggplant with tahini and bell peppers

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ONE SMART COOKIE GOOD DHARMA JAMES RICCIUTI, THE CHEF and owner of Ricciuti’s restaurant in Olney since 1997, was looking for an additional business venture that jibed with his healthful lifestyle, which includes a rigorous fitness regime. The 50-year-old chef has been a short-distance runner, a weightlifter, an avid bicyclist, a fitness instructor and, as of 2011, an endurance runner. Ricciuti’s search for a decent-tasting organic, plant-based energy bar led to the creation of Dharma Bars, three flavors of which he brought to market in April 2017. Dharma, from the Sanskrit for “to support,” refers to the purpose, passion and duty to take care of the body, he says. “None of the bars that existed tasted good and they had a terrible, chalky texture, so I made my own to take with me on long runs.” The bars are made in Washington state and are certified organic, vegan and kosher. They have no gluten, dairy, soy, preservatives, refined or added sugars, cholesterol, artificial flavors or genetically modified organisms (GMO). The three flavors are: Endurance, made with chocolate, almonds and dates; Recover, made with cocoa, hemp seeds and dried cherries; and Balance, made with vanilla, coconut and almonds. Their texture resembles that of a thin, moist brownie, and their flavor is pleasant, without the chemical aftertaste found in most other energy bars. They are sold online (dharmabars.com) in 12-packs for $30 plus shipping; and individually ($2.79-$2.99) at Potomac Grocer, Roots Market in Olney and nontraditional retailers, such as yoga studios and a hair salon (check the website for a list). 310

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vent. Such was the case with Molly Hamilton, a Potomac resident whose fruitless search for a healthful, tasty cookie safe to give her four children, all of whom have food allergies, inspired her to launch a company called Molly’s Bakeovers and a line of made-over (baked-over) treats called One Smart Cookie. Hamilton started thinking about the idea in 2012. She'd had Lyme disease for many years and her doctor instructed her to cut out gluten, dairy and sugar. “Everything I love,” she says. “The more I learned about the immune system, the more I realized I was doing my kids a disservice giving them sugary treats.” An avid baker who had learned the craft from her mother, Hamilton set out to create something without the peanuts and tree nuts her kids were allergic to, soon discovering that it’s not so easy to bake if you take out butter, flour, sugar and eggs. (Her kids aren’t allergic to eggs, but many people are.) But she persisted, creating recipes for chocolate chip, brownie chocolate chip, oatmeal raisin, apple and blueberry cookies that were high in fiber and without gluten, soy, peanut, dairy, egg and genetically modified organisms (GMO). Ingredients used in all the flavors include oats, coconut, chia seeds, brown rice cereal, honey and pure vanilla extract. The chocolate chip cookie impressed a store manager Hamilton visited at Whole Foods Market in Rockville. The store’s buying team mentored Hamilton on everything from packaging to pricing. She raised $34,000 through the crowdfunding site Indiegogo, most of which came from Montgomery County residents, and Molly’s Bakeovers launched in December 2015. Hamilton’s onto something—her cookies are carried in 300 Safeway stores in Hawaii, California and Nevada, and in Bed, Bath & Beyond stores all over the mid-Atlantic. They can be purchased online (bakeovers.com) and in Montgomery County at Whole Foods Market stores, Potomac Grocer, Henry’s Sweet Retreat, Balducci’s and Dawson’s Market.

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Potomac resident Molly Hamilton’s line of cookies don’t contain common allergens and are high in fiber. Her kids, (left to right) Declan, 11; Grace, 15; Ella, 9; and Brendan, 13, have food allergies.

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COMINGS GOINGS Brothers Alvaro and Alonso Roche announced plans to open TacoArepa in Bethesda. The fast-casual Caribbean-Latin American restaurant was expected to open in October next to TapaBar and 202 Donuts & Coffee, both of which are owned by the Roches.

eateries are Five Guys (replacing the burger joint’s current location across the street from Rockville Crossing); Pieology (build-your-own pizzas); Cava (build-your-own Mediterranean bowls); and Honeygrow (stir-fries and salads).

Chef and restaurateur Ashish Alfred was aiming for an August opening for his new steak house and raw bar George’s Chophouse to replace 4935 Bar and Kitchen, his French-and-Indian bistro in Bethesda. The second floor will continue to be rented out for private events, with Alfred providing the catering.

Two Asian eateries, Urban Hot Pot & Grill and Akira Ramen, are expected to open this fall at Rockville’s Galvan at Twinbrook.

Husband and wife Brendan and Bailey O’Leary will open True Respite Brewing Company, a brewery and 2,500-square-foot taproom, on Calhoun Place in Derwood in December.

Bethesda restaurant Grapeseed closed in July after a 17-year run in Woodmont Triangle. Chef and owner Jeff Heineman cited rising costs and declining sales as the reasons.

In Rockville’s Montrose Crossing shopping center on Rockville Pike, four fast-casual restaurants are scheduled to open this winter in the former Timpano Italian Chophouse space, which will be enlarged into a 19,000-square-foot complex. The slated

Carluccio’s, an Italian café, restaurant and market in North Bethesda’s Pike & Rose, closed in June, after being open only 15 months. The British chain closed its other U.S. location (in Alexandria) as well. n

Arlington restaurant China Garden will relocate to the former REI space on Rockville Pike in October.

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fall flavors Crab and butternut squash pair up in this spiced autumn soup

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Butternut Squash and Crab Soup DIFFICULTY LEVEL

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SERVINGS

45 minutes

Ingredients 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 tablespoon minced bacon 6 garlic cloves, chopped 1 large yellow onion, chopped 1 leek, white part only, chopped 1 large carrot, chopped 1 teaspoon fresh minced ginger 1 cup dry white wine 8 cups chicken stock, plus additional for adjusting consistency 1 large butternut squash, peeled, seeded and diced into approximately 1-inch cubes (if purchasing squash that is already cut, use at least 1½ pounds) 1 Granny Smith apple, peeled and chopped

1. Place an 8-quart pot over medium heat. Add the olive oil, bacon and garlic. Allow the garlic to turn just golden brown, then add the onion, leek, carrot and ginger. Stir once a minute for about 10 minutes.

½ teaspoon cinnamon

2. Add the wine and continue cooking until the liquid is absorbed.

½ teaspoon ground ginger

3. Add the stock, then the butternut squash, apple and next seven ingredients (through brown sugar).

½ teaspoon allspice ½ teaspoon nutmeg

4. Make a bouquet garni by wrapping the bay leaves, parsley and thyme in cheesecloth and tying up with butcher’s twine. Add to pot.

½ teaspoon fennel seed

5. Bring to a boil and reduce to simmer for 30 minutes.

1 tablespoon brown sugar

6. Purée the soup with an immersion blender in the pot, or in several small batches in a separate blender. Pass through a fine strainer. Adjust the consistency to your preference, thinning with additional chicken stock or thickening by reducing over medium heat. At this stage, the soup may be cooled and stored in the refrigerator or freezer for another time.

½ teaspoon cloves

2 bay leaves 2 sprigs parsley 2 sprigs thyme PHOTOS BY STACY ZARIN-GOLDBERG

Directions

4 ounces heavy cream Cayenne pepper to taste (a pinch or less)

7. To serve, bring the soup to a simmer. Add heavy cream and season with salt, black pepper and cayenne to taste. (Note: once cayenne is added to a soup, it takes a while to show itself.)

2 tablespoons sour cream

8. In a small bowl, combine the sour cream with 1 tablespoon of water and set aside.

1 pound fresh jumbo lump crabmeat, picked through to remove shell fragments

9. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Arrange soup bowls on a sheet tray. Place 6 to 8 lumps of crabmeat in each bowl. Place in oven for about two minutes. Ladle the soup into the bowls. Spoon a little of the sour cream/water mixture over the surface of the soup. Garnish with chives. n

Salt and black pepper to taste

Chopped chives for garnish Also needed: cheesecloth and butcher’s twine

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BETHESDA AJI-NIPPON 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 entrée, vegetables, California roll, tempura and rice. L D $$

ALATRI BROS. (EDITORS’ PICK) 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 décor. 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.  L D $$

AMERICAN TAP ROOM 7278 Woodmont Ave., 301- 656-1366, americantap room.com. Here’s a classic grill menu featuring sliders, wings and craft beer. Entrées range from BBQ Glazed Meatloaf Dinner with whipped potatoes and green beans to the lighter Crabmeat Omelet. ❂  R L D $$

&PIZZA 7614 Old Georgetown Road, 240-800-4783, andpizza.com. Create your own designer pizza from a choice of three crusts, three cheeses and eight sauces or spreads. Toppings for the thin, crispy crusts range from the usual suspects to falafel crumbles, fig marsala and pineapple salsa. This location of the hip, fast-casual chain has limited seating. L D $

BACCHUS OF LEBANON 7945 Norfolk Ave., 301-657-1722, bacchusoflebanon.com. This friendly and elegant 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 $$

BANGKOK GARDEN 4906 St. Elmo Ave., 301-951-0670, bkkgarden. com. This real-deal, family-run Thai restaurant turns out authentic cuisine, including curries, soups and noodle dishes, in a dining room decorated with traditional statues of the gods. L D $

THE BARKING DOG 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. Salsa dancing on Tuesdays, trivia on Wednesdays, karaoke on Thursdays and a DJ and dancing Fridays and Saturdays. ❂ L D $

BARREL + CROW 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 highlights include Maryland crab beignets, shrimp

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BEEFSTEAK 7101 Democracy Blvd. (Westfield Montgomery mall), 301-365-0608, beefsteakveggies.com. The fastcasual spot from chef José Andrés is heavily focused on seasonal vegetables for build-your-own bowls and salads (or pick one of their suggested combinations). Toppings such as poached egg, chicken sausage and salt-cured salmon are also in the lineup. L D $

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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 entrées. J L D $$

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BETHESDA CRAB HOUSE 4958 Bethesda Ave., 301-652-3382, bethesdacrab house.net. 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 $$

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 $

BGR: THE BURGER JOINT 4827 Fairmont Ave., 301-358-6137, bgrtheburger joint.com. The burgers are good and the vibe is great at this frequently packed eatery next to Veterans Park. Try the veggie burger, made with a blend of brown rice, black beans, molasses and oats. ❂ J L D $

BISTRO LAZEEZ 8009 Norfolk Ave., 301-652-8222, bistrolazeez. com. Reasonably priced Mediterranean cuisine served in a small, attractive space. Don’t miss the grilled pita and the signature BLZ Chicken Medley, with a grilled, marinated chicken thigh, drumstick and wing basted in a zesty sauce. ❂JLD$

BISTRO PROVENCE (EDITORS’ PICK) 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 $$$

BLACK’S BAR & KITCHEN (EDITORS’ PICK) 7750 Woodmont Ave., 301-652-5525, blacksbar andkitchen.com. Customers count on the impeccable use of fresh and local ingredients and

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enjoy dining on the expansive patio. The bar draws crowds for happy hour. ❂ R L D $$$

BOLD BITE 4903 Cordell Ave., 301-951-2653, boldbite.net. Made-to-order hickory-smoked burgers, fried-chicken sandwiches, salads and milkshakes top the menu at this casual spot. A mix of barstools, booths and small tables offers 60 seats. J L D $

BRICKSIDE FOOD & DRINK 4866 Cordell Ave., 301-312-6160, brickside bethesda.com. Prohibition-era drinks meet Italian bar bites and entrées. Dishes range from fried pork and waffles to short ribs. Try one of the colorfully named punches, which include Pink Murder Punch and Snow Cone Punch. ❂ R L D $$

CADDIES ON CORDELL 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. ❂ J R L D $

CAFÉ DELUXE 4910 Elm St., 301-656-3131, cafedeluxe.com. This local chain serves bistro-style American comfort food in a fun and noisy setting with wood fans and colorful, oversized European liquor posters. Menu options include burgers, entrées, four varieties of flatbread and mussels served three different ways. ❂ J R L D $$

CAVA MEZZE GRILL 4832 Bethesda Ave., 301-656-1772, cavagrill. com. The guys from Cava restaurant have created a Greek version of Chipotle. Choose the meat, dip or spread for a pita, bowl or salad. Housemade juices and teas provide a healthful beverage option. ❂ LD$

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dine CESCO OSTERIA 7401 Woodmont Ave., 301-654-8333, cesco-osteria.com. Longtime chef Francesco Ricchi turns out Tuscan specialties, including pizza, pasta and foccacia in a big, jazzy space. Stop by the restaurant’s Co2 Lounge for an artisan cocktail before dinner. ❂ L D $$

CHEF TONY’S 4926 St. Elmo Ave., 301-654-3737, cheftonys bethesda.com. Chef-owner Tony Marciante focuses on Mediterranean seafood tapas, offering dishes ranging from fish and seafood to chicken, steak and pasta. Desserts include Drunken Strawberries and Classic Creme Brulée. J R L D $$

CITY LIGHTS OF CHINA 4953 Bethesda Ave., 301-913-9501, bethesda citylights.com. Longtime Chinese 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 $$

COMMUNITY RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 7776 Norfolk Ave., 301-272-9050, communitybethesda.com. Mark Bucher, founder of the BGR burger and Medium Rare chains, describes Community as “a Miami Beach-Palm Beach coffee shop of the ’40s with American comfort classics” and a sophisticated cocktail menu. The expansive street-level space in the 7770 Norfolk luxury apartment building is filled with color and light—orange chairs, wood paneling, floor-to-ceiling windows. No time to sit down? A walk-up window sells coffee and doughnuts. ❂ J B L D $$

COOPER’S MILL 5151 Pooks Hill Road, 301-897-9400, coopersmillrestaurant.com/bethesda. The restaurant showcases a modern, stylish menu with stone-oven flatbreads, homemade tater tots and locally sourced produce. Local beers on draft and by the bottle, plus regional bourbon and gin. Happy hour and private dining are offered. B R L D $$

THE CORNER SLICE 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 $

CRAVE 7101 Democracy Blvd., Suite 1530 (Westfield Montgomery mall), 301-469-9600, cravebethesda. com. Minnesota-based chainlet offers an eclectic melting pot of American dishes, including bison burgers, lobster-and-shrimp flatbread and kogi beef tacos. The restaurant is also known for its extensive selection of wine and sushi. J L D $$

DAILY GRILL One Bethesda Metro Center, 301-656-6100, dailygrill.com. Everyone from families to expenseaccount lunchers can find something to like about the big portions of fresh American fare, including chicken pot pie and jumbo lump crabcakes. ❂ J B R L D $$

DON POLLO (NEW) 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

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DUCK DUCK GOOSE 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 entrées, look for updates of French classics, such as dry-aged duck with Bing cherries, and halibut with scallop mousse and puff pastry. ❂ L D $$

FARYAB AFGHAN CUISINE 4917 Cordell Ave., 301-951-3484. After closing for more than a year, Faryab reopened in 2017 and serves well-prepared Afghani country food, including Afghanistan’s answer to Middle Eastern kabobs, vegetarian entrées and unique sautéed pumpkin dishes, in a whitewashed dining room with native art on the walls. D $$

FISH TACO 10305 Old Georgetown Road (Wildwood Shopping Center), 301-564-6000, fishtacoonline.com. This counter-service taqueria features a full roster of seafood as well as non-aquatic tacos, plus margaritas and other Mexican specialties. JLD$

FLANAGAN'S HARP & FIDDLE 4844 Cordell Ave., 301-951-0115, flanagansharp andfiddle.com. This stylish pub features live music several days a week, Tuesday night poker and Monday quiz nights. In addition to traditional stews and fried fish, Flanagan's offers smoked ribs, salmon and traditional Irish breakfast on weekends. ❂ J B L D $$

GARDEN GRILLE & BAR 7301 Waverly St. (Hilton Garden Inn), 301-6548111. Aside from a breakfast buffet featuring cooked-to-order omelets, waffles, fruit and more, the restaurant offers an extensive menu, from burgers to crabcakes, short ribs and pasta dishes. J B D $$

GRINGOS & MARIACHIS (EDITORS’ PICK) 4928 Cordell Ave., 240-800-4266, gringosand mariachis.com. The owners of the popular Olazzo Italian restaurants in Bethesda and Silver Spring trade in the red sauce for salsa at this hip taqueria with edgy murals and plenty of tequila. LD$

GUAPO’S RESTAURANT 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. J R L D $

GUARDADO’S 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 $

GUSTO FARM TO STREET 4733 Elm St., 240-396-6398, eatgusto.com. The fast-casual eatery aims to serve healthy fare, with a focus on pizzas and salads. The menu includes suggested combos but you can also build your own. Pizza crust comes in cauliflower, whole grain or traditional, and house-made dressings top heirloom

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tomatoes, butternut squash and other salad items. ❂LD$

HANARO RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 7820 Norfolk Ave., 301-654-7851, hanarobethesda. 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 $$

HECKMAN’S DELICATESSEN & BAR 4914 Cordell Ave., 240-800-4879, heckmans deli.com. The deli features all the staples, plus a dinner menu with chicken-in-a-pot and stuffed cabbage. Menu offers long lists of ingredients to build your own salads, sandwiches and egg dishes. Sweets include rugelach, black-and-white cookies and homemade cheesecake. ❂ J B L D $

HIMALAYAN HERITAGE 4925 Bethesda Ave., 301-654-1858, himalayan heritagedc.com. The menu includes North Indian, Nepali, Indo-Chinese and Tibetan cuisines, featuring momos (Nepalese dumplings), Indian takes on Chinese chow mein and a large selection of curry dishes. L D $

HOUSE OF FOONG LIN 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. L D $$

HOUSE OF MILAE 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. The kids’ menu has one item: spaghetti, made from the recipe of owner Thomas Kang’s former college roommate’s mother. JLD$

THE IRISH INN AT GLEN ECHO 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 and The 19th Street Band on every other Wednesday night, plus live jazz on Thursday nights. ❂ J R L D $$

JALEO (EDITORS’ PICK) 7271 Woodmont Ave., 301-913-0003, jaleo.com. The restaurant that launched the American career of chef José Andrés and popularized Spanish tapas for a Washington, D.C., audience offers hot, cold, spicy and creative small plates served with outstanding Spanish wines. Voted “Best Small Plates” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2017. ❂ R L D $$

JETTIES 4829 Fairmont Ave., 301-769-6844, jettiesdc. com. The only suburban location of the popular Nantucket-inspired 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. ❂ J L D $

KADHAI (EDITORS’ PICK) 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. ❂ L D $$

KAPNOS KOUZINA (EDITORS’ PICK) 4900 Hampden Lane, 301-986-8500, kapnos kouzina.com. This is chef Mike Isabella’s first foray into Maryland and the second outpost based on Kapnos, his D.C. restaurant that spotlights Greek spreads, salads, small plates and roasted meats. Not to be missed are the pyde, puffed pillows of bread. They are best as spread-dipping vehicles; crusts for topped, pizza-like flatbreads; or sandwich casings for souvlakis. ❂ R L D $$

LA PANETTERIA 4921 Cordell Ave., 301-951-6433, lapanetteria. com. La Panetteria transports diners into a quaint Italian villa with its impeccable service and Old World atmosphere, serving such Southern and Northern Italian classic dishes as homemade spaghetti and veal scaloppine. L D $$

LE PAIN QUOTIDIEN 7140 Bethesda Lane, 301-913-2902; 10217 Old Georgetown Road (Wildwood Shopping Center), 240-752-8737, lepainquotidien.com. New Yorkbased Belgian-born bakery/restaurant chain with farmhouse vibe, featuring organic breads, European breakfast and dessert pastries, savory egg dishes, soups, Belgian open-faced sandwiches, entrée salads, wine and Belgian beer by the bottle. ❂ JBRLD$

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7925 Old Georgetown Road, 301-652-6816, levieuxlogisrestaurantmd.com. The colorful exterior will draw you into this family-run Bethesda institution, but classic French dishes such as Dover sole meunière and mussels in a white wine broth will keep you coming back. ❂ D $$$

LEBANESE TAVERNA 7141 Arlington Road, 301-951-8681, lebanese taverna.com. This branch of this long-lived local chain is an elegant spot for dipping puffy pita bread into hummus and baba ghanoush. The rest of the traditional Lebanese mezze are worth a try, too, as are the slow-cooked lamb dishes. Voted “Best Middle Eastern Restaurant” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2016. ❂ J L D $$

LOUISIANA KITCHEN & BAYOU BAR 4907 Cordell Ave., 301-652-6945, louisiana bethesda.com. The popular Bethesda institution offers a Cajun- and Creole-style menu, complete with divine fried items. The pain perdou and beignets remain a great way to start a Sunday morning. B R L D $

LUKE’S LOBSTER

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 entrées. L D $$

MAMMA LUCIA 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 $$

MEDIUM RARE 4904 Fairmont Ave., 301-215-8739, mediumrare restaurant.com. A prix fixe menu that comes with bread, salad, steak and fries is the sole option at this small chain outpost (there are two Medium Rares in D.C.). Desserts cost extra. Weekend brunch also features a prix fixe menu. D $$

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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.❂ L D $

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7027 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. L D $

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dine MODERN MARKET 4930 Elm St., 240-800-4733, modernmarket. com. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner daily, this Bethesda Row eatery is part of a Denver-based chain. The focus is on seasonal, from-scratch fare and ingredients such as nitrate- and hormonefree bacon. Sandwiches, soups, salads and pizza dominate the menu. ❂ J B R L D $

MOMO CHICKEN & GRILL 4862 Cordell Ave., Bethesda, 240-483-0801, momofc.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 $$

MON AMI GABI 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 Tuesday and Thursday nights. ❂ J R L D $$

MORTON’S, THE STEAKHOUSE 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 $$$

MUSSEL BAR & GRILLE 7262 Woodmont Ave., 301-215-7817, musselbar. com. Kensington resident and big-name chef Robert Wiedmaier serves his signature mussels, plus wood-fired tarts, salads and sandwiches. Wash them all down with a choice of 40 Belgian beers, a list that was voted “Best Beer Selection” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2017. ❂ R L D $$

NOT YOUR AVERAGE JOE’S 10400 Old Georgetown Road, 240-316-4555, notyouraveragejoes.com. This Massachusettsbased chain’s moderately priced menu offers burgers, big salads and stone-hearth pizzas, plus entrées including Anything But Average Meatloaf. ❂ J L D $$

OAKVILLE GRILLE & WINE BAR (EDITORS’ PICK) 10257 Old Georgetown Road (Wildwood Shopping Center), 301-897-9100, oakvillewinebar.com. Fresh California food paired with a thoughtful wine list in an elegant, spare setting may not sound unique, but Oakville was one of the first in the area to do so, and continues to do it well. L D $$

OLAZZO (EDITORS’ PICK) 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 2016. ❂ L D $$

ORIGINAL PANCAKE HOUSE 7700 Wisconsin Ave., Store D, 301-986-0285, ophrestaurants.com. Try one of dozens of pancake dishes, as well as eggs and waffles galore. JBL$

PASSAGE TO INDIA (EDITORS’ PICK) 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. Voted “Best Indian Restaurant” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2016. ❂ R L D $$

PASSIONFISH BETHESDA 7187 Woodmont Ave., 301-358-6116, passionfish bethesda.com. The second location of Passion Food Hospitality’s splashy seafood restaurant features stunning coastal-themed décor and an extensive menu of shellfish, caviar, sushi, chef’s specialties and fresh catches of the day. Voted “Best Happy Hour” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2017. J L D $$$

PAUL 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 and pastries, look for soups, sandwiches and quiche. ❂BLD$

PENANG MALAYSIAN & THAI CUISINE & BAR 4933 Bethesda Ave., 301-657-2878, penang maryland.com. At this Malaysian spot decorated with exotic dark woods and a thatched roof, spices run the gamut of Near and Far Eastern influence, and flavors include coconut, lemongrass, sesame and chili sauce. L D $$

PERSIMMON (EDITORS’ PICK) 7003 Wisconsin Ave., 301-654-9860, persimmon restaurant.com. Owners Damian and Stephanie Salvatore’s popular restaurant offers casual fare from salads to sandwiches to meat and seafood entrées in a bistro setting featuring a lively bar, cozy booths and bright paintings on the walls. ❂ R L D $$

PINES OF ROME 4709 Hampden Lane, 301-657-8775. Local celebrities and families gather at this down-home Italian spot for 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 $

PI PIZZERIA 7137 Wisconsin Ave., 240-800-3822, pi-pizza.com. St. Louis-based chain serving thin-crust pizza and deep-dish cornmeal-crust pizza, the latter of which has a thick layer of tomato sauce on top. Customize your own or go for the specialty pies, such as the Southside classic deep pie with Berkshire sausage, mozzarella, onions, green peppers and mushrooms. LD$

PIZZA TEMPO 8021 Wisconsin Ave., 240-497-0000, pizzatempo. us. Pizza with a twist, which includes toppings such as sujuk (Mediterranean beef sausage), pistachio mortadella and spicy beef franks, plus a wide selection of pides (boat-shaped pizzas). Salads, wraps, panini and entrées also available. Limited seating; delivery within about a 3-mile radius. LD$

PIZZERIA DA MARCO (EDITORS’ PICK) 8008 Woodmont Ave., 301-654-6083, pizzeria damarco.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. ❂LD$

POSITANO RISTORANTE ITALIANO 4940-48 Fairmont Ave., 301-654-1717, epositano.com. An authentic Italian, family-run restaurant popular for private events, large and small. Colorful rooms are decorated with Italian landscapes, copper pots and hanging plants, and

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the outdoor patio is one of the most beautiful in the county. ❂ L D $$

PRALINE BAKERY & BISTRO 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 $$

Q BY PETER CHANG (EDITORS’ PICK) 4500 East West Highway, 240-800-3722, qbypeterchang.com. Notable chef Peter Chang’s high-end 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. ❂ J L D $$

RAKU (EDITORS’ PICK) 7240 Woodmont Ave., 301-718-8680, rakuasian dining.com. Voted “Best Restaurant in Bethesda” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2017, 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. ❂ L D $$

REDWOOD RESTAURANT & BAR 7121 Bethesda Lane, 301-656-5515, redwood bethesda.com. The upscale wine bar features fresh, local food and California-centric wines. Redwood features a frequently changing menu and in-season farmers market dinners. ❂ J R L D $$

RICE PADDIES GRILL & PHO 4706 Bethesda Ave., 301-718-1862, ricepaddies grill.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 $

ROCK BOTTOM RESTAURANT & BREWERY 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 $$

RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE 7315 Wisconsin Ave., 301-652-7877, ruthschris. com. A dark and clubby feel makes this elegant chain popular with families as well as the happyhour crowd. Don’t skip the fresh seafood choices, which include Caribbean lobster tail and barbecued shrimp. D $$$

SALA THAI 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 $$

SAPHIRE CAFÉ 7940 Wisconsin Ave., 301-986-9708. A relaxing spot for tasting everything from Maryland-style crab soup to Argentine skirt steak, Saphire pumps it up a notch on Friday and Saturday nights with drink specials and DJs. Tiki bar open Wednesdays through Saturdays. ❂ L D $

SATSUMA 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—

casual space. Delivery available for orders over $15. J L D $

and prepare it themselves. There’s also an extensive sushi and sashimi menu, as well as interesting cooked dishes. L D $$

SOUTH STREET STEAKS

SHANGHAI BAO KITCHEN 7101 Democracy Blvd. (Westfield Montgomery mall), 301-365-8866, shanghaiveggies.com. A fast-casual concept offering steamed, then panfried buns (bao) with pork or vegetable fillings, and chicken or shrimp dumplings that share the bill with create-your-own rice noodle or garlic-rice bowls loaded up with veggies, proteins, toppings and sauces. L D $

SHANGHAI VILLAGE 4929 Bethesda Ave., 301-654-7788. Owner Kwok Chueng prides himself on personal attention and recognizing regulars who have been stopping in for his classic Chinese cooking for more than 25 years. Order the secret recipe Mai Tai. L D $

SHANGRI-LA NEPALESE AND INDIAN CUISINE 7345-A Wisconsin Ave., 301-656-4444, shangrila bethesda.com. Northern Indian and Nepali specialties such as butter chicken and fresh flatbreads known as naan shine here. The extensive menu ranges from soups and salads to tandoori and kabobs.J L D $

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STROMBOLI FAMILY RESTAURANT 7023 Wisconsin Ave., 301-986-1980, strombolis restaurant.com. In addition to a large selection of delectable hot Italian sandwiches called stromboli, this proud family restaurant/carryout features pizzas, subs and pastas at reasonable prices. L D $

SUMA RESTAURANT AND BAR 4921 Bethesda Ave., 301-718-6378, suma bethesda.com. Seasonal modern American cooking from chef Gene Sohn, formerly of Mussel Bar & Grille. Dishes include spicy sesame soy wings, deviled eggs with goat cheese, and challah-crusted fried chicken. Also find pizza, including one with duck confit sausage and caramelized onions. The outdoor patio is spacious and inviting. ❂ R L D $$

SWEETGREEN

8120 Wisconsin Ave. (DoubleTree Hotel), 301-652-2000, doubletreebethesda.com/dining. aspx. Share some buffalo chicken sliders or avocado bruschetta, or go for main courses ranging from Yankee pot roast to cedar plank-roasted salmon. B L D $$

SILVER 7150 Woodmont Ave., 301-652-9780, eatatsilver. com. Upscale, tonier version of the homegrown Silver Diner chain, with modern takes on American classics and an emphasis on healthy, local and organic ingredients. Sleek interior takes its cue from the 1920s. ❂ J B R 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 décor and a healthy sensibility. ❂ L D $

TAKO GRILL 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 $$

TANDOORI NIGHTS

SMOKE BBQ BETHESDA 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,

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4856 Cordell Ave., 301-215-8333, southstreet steaks.com. Even transplanted Philadelphians will admire the cheesesteaks at this local chain’s third location. The shop also offers chicken cheesesteaks, hoagies (that’s Philly-talk for cold subs) and sandwiches called “Phillinis,” a cross between “Philly” and “panini.” J L D $

7236 Woodmont Ave., 301-656-4002, tandoorinightsbethesda.com. Located in the heart of downtown Bethesda, the restaurant serves traditional Indian fare ranging from tandoori chicken,

marinated in yogurt and spices, to a biryani flavored with saffron, nuts and raisins. ❂ L D $$

TAPABAR (EDITORS’ PICK) 4901-A Norfolk Ave., 240-483-4004, tapabarbethesda.com. This small-plates spot shares a kitchen with its sister eatery, Bold Bite. Find reasonably priced tapas—from tomato, garlic and olive oil on toasted bread for $2 to a smoked octopus dish for $12—alongside main entrées such as Spanish seafood risotto. R L D $$

TAPP’D BETHESDA 4915 St. Elmo Ave., 240-630-8120, tappdbethesda.com. Beer-centric gastropub offering 40-plus beers on tap, 100-plus bottles and beer flights. Food menu includes standard American fare: soups and salads, char-grilled wings, beer-battered onion rings, burgers, brats and mains such as crab cakes, barbecue ribs and beer-can chicken pot pie. Top it off with a root beer float. ❂ J L D $$

TARA THAI 7101 Democracy Blvd. (Westfield Montgomery mall), 301-657-0488, tarathai.com. Thai cuisine goes high style at Bethesda Magazine readers’ pick for “Best Thai Restaurant” in 2016. With colorful murals of ocean creatures looking on, diners can try dishes ranging from mild to adventurous. L D $$

TASTEE DINER 7731 Woodmont Ave., 301-652-3970, tasteediner. com. For 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 crab cakes to crowds of loyal customers. Open 24 hours. J B L D $

TAYLOR GOURMET 7280 Woodmont Ave., 301-951-9001, taylorgourmet.com. The sandwich shop offers a menu of upscale takes on Philadelphia hoagies, sandwiches and salads made with top-notch ingredients. Check out the eggroll appetizer of mozzarella, provolone, hot capicola, Genoa salami, peppers and red onion. L D $

TIA QUETA 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

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dine dishes, as well as the usual Tex-Mex options. Drink menu includes American and Mexican beers. ❂ J L D $$

TOMMY JOE’S 7940 Norfolk Ave., 301-654-3801, tommyjoes. 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, crab cakes and ribs. Chunky brisket chili, on its own or on nachos, is a winner. ❂ L D $$

TRATTORIA SORRENTO (EDITORS’ PICK) 4930 Cordell Ave., 301-718-0344, trattoriasorrento. com. This family-run Italian favorite offers homemade pastas, baked eggplant and fresh fish dishes. Half-price bottles of wine on Wednesdays. D $$

TRUE FOOD KITCHEN (NEW) 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. ❂RLD$

TYBER BIERHAUS 7525 Old Georgetown Road, 240-821-6830, tyberbierhausmd.com. Czech, German and Belgian brews served in an authentic beer-hall setting, furnished with the same benches as those used in the Hofbrau brewhouse in Munich. Pub menu features mussels, hearty sandwiches, schnitzel and goulash. R L D $$

UNCLE JULIO’S 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 Kid-Friendly Restaurant” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2017. ❂ J R L D $$

VILLAIN & SAINT 7141 Wisconsin Ave., 240-800-4700, villainand saint.com. Listen to live music while digging into salt-roasted beets or slow-smoked pork ribs at this hip bar, courtesy of chef Robert Wiedmaier’s RW Restaurant Group. Delightfully dated décor includes lava lamps and photos of late great rock stars. The menu is divided into hearty dishes (villain) and vegetarian options (saint). ❂ R L D $$

VINO VOLO 7247 Woodmont Ave., 301-656-0916, vinovolobethesdarow.com. This wine bar and shop features a rustic café serving small plates, cheeses and cured meats, salads, sandwiches, pizza and a few entrées. For dessert, there’s bourbon bread pudding, gelato or sorbetto. ❂ L D $$

VÜK 4924 St. Elmo Ave., 301-652-8000, vukpinball. com. VÜK owner (and MOM’S Organic Market CEO) Scott Nash consulted restaurateur Mark Bucher for the only thing offered on the short menu of his Bethesda pinball arcade other than Trickling Springs Creamery’s soft-serve ice cream: thin-crust New York-style pizza and thick-crust Sicilian pizza sold by the slice or as whole pies: cheese, sausage, pepperoni and mushroom/onion. L D $

WILDWOOD ITALIAN CUISINE 10257 Old Georgetown Road (Wildwood Shopping

Center), 301-493-9230, wildwooditaliancuisine. com. The eatery, owned by the adjacent Oakville Grille & Wine Bar, serves up thick-crusted Sicilianstyle pizza, pasta and entrées in a casual atmosphere. ❂ L D $$

WILDWOOD KITCHEN (EDITORS’ PICK) 10223 Old Georgetown Road (Wildwood Shopping Center), 301-571-1700, wildwoodkitchenrw.com. Chef Robert Wiedmaier’s attractive neighborhood bistro serving fresh and light modern cuisine. Entrées range from Amish chicken with a scallion potato cake to grilled Atlantic salmon with creamy polenta. L D $$

WOODMONT GRILL (EDITORS’ PICK) 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. ❂ L D $$$

WORLD OF BEER 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. ❂ J R L D $

YAMAS MEDITERRANEAN GRILL 4806 Rugby Ave., 301-312-8384, yamasgrill.com. A friendly staff serves gyros, souvlaki, lemon chicken and other Greek specialties at this sunny café. Dinner entrées include Greek-style chicken and vegetarian mousaka. ❂ J L D $

YUZU 7345-B Wisconsin Ave., 301-656-5234, yuzu bethesda.com. Diners will find authentic Japanese dishes, including sushi, sashimi and cooked tofu, vegetable, tempura, meat and fish dishes, prepared by sushi chef and owner Yoshihisa Ota. L D $$

CABIN JOHN FISH TACO 7945 MacArthur Blvd., 301-229-0900, fishtacoonline.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂JLD$

SAL’S ITALIAN KITCHEN (EDITORS’ PICK) 7945 MacArthur Blvd., 240-802-2370, salsitalian kitchen.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 $$

WILD TOMATO (EDITORS’ PICK) 7945 MacArthur Blvd., 301-229-0680, wildtomato restaurant.com. A family-friendly neighborhood restaurant from Persimmon owners Damian and Stephanie Salvatore, serving salads, sandwiches and pizza. Voted “Best Neighborhood Restaurant” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2017. ❂JLD$

CHEVY CHASE ALFIO’S LA TRATTORIA 4515 Willard Ave., 301-657-9133, alfios.com. This Northern Italian classic on the first floor of The Willoughby of Chevy Chase Condominium has

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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 $$

THE CAPITAL GRILLE 5310 Western Ave., 301-718-7812, capitalgrille. 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.Entrées also include chicken, lamb chops, salmon and lobster. L D $$$$

CLYDE’S 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. ❂ J R L D $$

DON POLLO 7007 Wisconsin Ave., 301-652-0001, donpolloonline.com. See Bethesda listing. L D $

FISH TACO 7015 Wisconsin Ave., 301-652-0010, fishtacoonline.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂JLD$

LA FERME (EDITORS’ PICK) 7101 Brookville Road, 301-986-5255, laferme restaurant.com. This charming Provence-style 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 include the French 75, with cognac, simple syrup, lemon juice and champagne. ❂ R L D $$$

LIA'S (EDITORS’ PICK) 4435 Willard Ave., 240-223-5427, chefgeoff.com. Owner Geoff Tracy focuses on high-quality, low-fuss modern Italian-American fare at this modern space with a wine room. Pizzas, house-made pastas and fresh fish please business lunchers and dinner crowds. Voted “Best Restaurant in Chevy Chase” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2017. ❂JRLD$

MANOLI CANOLI RESTAURANT 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. ❂ J L D $

MEIWAH RESTAURANT 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. ❂ L D $$

POTOMAC PIZZA 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. ❂ J L D $

SUSHIKO (EDITORS’ PICK) 5455 Wisconsin Ave., 301-961-1644, sushiko restaurants.com. Known as one of the Washington, D.C., area’s most respected sushi restaurants, Sushiko offers a wide range of sushi and other dishes. Kōbō, a restaurant within the restaurant,

allows eight people to dine on 12- to 15-course tasting menus. ❂ L D $$

TAVIRA 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 $$

GARRETT PARK BLACK MARKET BISTRO (EDITORS’ PICK) 4600 Waverly Ave., 301-933-3000, blackmarket restaurant.com. Sublime American 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. Entrées range from swordfish to a burger and pizza, including several vegetable options. ❂ J R L D $$

KENSINGTON 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. J R L D $$

FRANKLY…PIZZA! (EDITORS’ PICK) 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 $

K TOWN BISTRO 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 $$

NORTH POTOMAC/ GAITHERSBURG &PIZZA 258 Crown Park Ave. (Downtown Crown), 240-4998447, andpizza.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ LD$

ASIA NINE 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. R L D $$

ATHENS GRILL 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 $

BARKING MAD CAFE 239 Spectrum Ave., 240-297-6230, barkingmad cafe.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 madefrom-scratch brunch, lunch and dinner sweets and savories, such as breakfast pizza, watermelon salad and farro salad. ❂ R L D $$

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BONEFISH GRILL 82 Market St., 240-631-2401, bonefishgrill. com. While fresh fish cooked over a wood fire is the centerpiece of this upscale Florida chain, the steaks, crab cakes and specialty martinis make it a fun option for happy hour and those with hearty appetites. R L D $$ World of Beer - Bethesdta

BUCA DI BEPPO 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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COAL FIRE 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 $

COASTAL FLATS 135 Crown Park Ave. (Downtown Crown), 301869-8800, greatamericanrestaurants.com. First Maryland locale for Great American Restaurants, a Fairfax-based chain. Seaside-inspired décor extends to the menu, which offers lobster and shrimp rolls, fried grouper and Key lime pie. Steaks, pasta and burgers also served. ❂ J R L D $$

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COPPER CANYON GRILL 100 Boardwalk Place, 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 $$

DOGFISH HEAD ALEHOUSE 800 W. Diamond Ave., 301-963-4847, dogfishale house.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 $$

DON POLLO 9083 Gaither Road, 301-990-0981, donpollogroup. com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ 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 entrées (surf-and-turf, salmon, burgers) and dessert (chocolate cake, Key lime pie, carrot cake). ❂ J L D $$

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dine GROWLERS 227 E. Diamond Ave., 301-519-9400, growlers restaurant.com. This turn-of-the-century building in downtown Gaithersburg is now a brewpub with regular and seasonal house brews and a full menu, including pizzas, burgers, sandwiches and entrées such as Cajun rigatoni and steak frites. Live music Wednesday through Saturday. ❂ J R L D $

GUAPO’S RESTAURANT 9811 Washingtonian Blvd., L-17, 301-977-5655, guaposrestaurant.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂JRLD$

HERSHEY’S RESTAURANT & BAR 17030 Oakmont Ave., 301-948-9893, hersheysat thegrove.com. Fried chicken 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. ❂ J B R L D $$

INFERNO PIZZERIA NAPOLETANA (EDITORS’ PICK)

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 $

IL PORTO RESTAURANT 245 Muddy Branch Road, 301-590-0735, ilporto restaurant.com. A classic red-sauce menu, elegant murals of Venice and an authentic thin-crust 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 $

JOE’S CRAB SHACK 221 Rio Blvd., 301-947-4377, joescrabshack.com. This is one of four Maryland locations of the chain, which offers blue crabs from April through August and other varieties year-round, as well as chicken and burgers for landlubbers. Popular with families and young couples. ❂ J L D $$

LE PALAIS 304 Main St., No. 100, 301-947-4051, restaurantlepalais.com. Chef-owner Joseph Zaka trips lightly through the dishes of Brittany and Burgundy, adding a modern twist here and there. Entrées include duck pot-au-feu and cassolette of lamb. D $$$

THE MELTING POT 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 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. J D $$

NOT YOUR AVERAGE JOE’S 245 Kentlands Blvd., 240-477-1040, notyouraveragejoes.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ J L D $$

OLD TOWN POUR HOUSE 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. ❂ L D $$

PALADAR LATIN KITCHEN & RUM BAR 203 Crown Park Ave., 301-330-4400, paladarlatinkitchen.com. This Cleveland-based chain covers the spectrum of Latin cuisine, with dishes from Cuba, the Caribbean and Central and South America. From Brazil, there’s feijoada stew; from Cuba, ropa vieja; and from Jamaica, jerk chicken. Bar selections includes 50 varieties of rum, 15 tequilas and six types of mojitos. ❂ J R L D $$

POTOMAC VILLAGE DELI 625 Center Point Way, 301-299-5770, potomacvillagedeli.com. Traditional Jewish deli in the Kentlands, offering all-day breakfast and all the classics, from bagels, smoked fish, knishes, matzo ball soup, corned beef, pastrami and chopped liver to overstuffed combo sandwiches, Reubens, subs, wraps, burgers, salads, pizza and New York cheesecake. J B L D $$

QUINCY’S BAR & GRILLE 616 Quince Orchard Road, 301-869-8200, quincys bar.com. 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 entrées including Guinness-braised brisket. Live music is also a big draw. L D $

RED HOT & BLUE 16811 Crabbs Branch Way, 301-948-7333, redhotandblue.com. You’ll find generous portions of hickory-smoked barbecue, plus burgers, salads and wraps, and a Southern attitude at this chain popular for its office party takeout and its family-friendly, kitschy roadhouse décor. J L D $

RUTH’S CHRIS STEAK HOUSE 106 Crown Park Ave. (Downtown Crown), 301-9901926, ruthschris.com. See Bethesda listing. D $$$

SARDI’S POLLO A LA BRASA 430 N. Frederick Ave., 301-977-3222, sardis chicken.com. Yes, there’s charbroiled chicken, but don’t miss the other Peruvian specialties, especially the ceviche and Salchipapas, a true Peruvian street food of thinly sliced pan-fried beef hot dogs mixed with french fries and served with condiments. LD$

TANDOORI NIGHTS 106 Market St., 301-947-4007, tandoorinightsmd. com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ L D $

TARA THAI 9811 Washingtonian Blvd., L-9, 301-947-8330, tarathai.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ L D $$

TED’S BULLETIN 220 Ellington Blvd. (Downtown Crown), 301990-0600, 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. ❂ J B R L D $$

TED’S MONTANA GRILL 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

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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 $$

THAI TANIUM 657 Center Point Way, 301-990-3699, thaitanium restaurant.com. Authentic Thai 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. ❂JLD$ TOMMY JOE’S 311 Kentlands Blvd., 301-569-4247, tommyjoes. com. This second branch of a popular Bethesda bar and restaurant offers bar food (burgers, salads) and entrées such as filet mignon. There’s a dance floor inside; the outdoor patio has 18 tables and a lounge area with a sofa. ❂ J L D $$

UNCLE JULIO’S 231 Rio Blvd. (RIO Washingtonian Center), 240-6322150, unclejulios.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ J R L D $$

VASILI'S KITCHEN 705 Center Point Way, 301-977-1011, vasilis kitchen.com. Tan and brown décor 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. ❂ J D $$

THE WINE HARVEST, THE KENTLANDS 114 Market St., 301-869-4008, thewineharvest. com. Stop by this popular Cheers-like wine bar locally owned by the Meyrowitz family for a glass of wine or a Belgian beer. The menu includes salads, sandwiches and cheese plates. ❂ L D $

YOYOGI SUSHI 328 Main St., 301-963-0001. A no-nonsense neighborhood sushi place with bright fish tanks, it offers the familiar sushi, teriyaki, tempura dishes, plus seaweed salad, soup, green tea and red bean ice cream. L D $

ZIKI JAPANESE STEAK HOUSE 10009 Fields Road, 301-330-3868, zikisteakhouse. com. This large steak house on a busy corner charms patrons with its fountains, stone Buddhas and geisha mannequins. Food offerings include sushi, as well as meats cooked on a tableside hibachi. J L D $$

POTOMAC AMICI MIEI 1093 Seven Locks Road, 301-545-0966, amicimiei ristorante.com. Chef Davide Megna and manager/ partner Roberto Deias have created an upscale Italian neighborhood gathering place, with woodfired pizzas, homemade pastas and creative salads. ❂ R L D $$

ATTMAN’S DELICATESSEN 7913 Tuckerman Lane (Cabin John Shopping Center & Mall), 301-765-3354, cabinjohn.attmansdeli. com. This landmark Baltimore deli has run a second location in Potomac since 2013. The menu offers the same legendary corned beef, pastrami and

other deli specialties. Third-generation owner Marc Attman is at the helm. J B L D $

BROOKLYN’S DELI & CATERING 1089 Seven Locks Road, 301-340-3354, brooklyns delimd.com. From chopped liver to chicken soup, Brooklyn’s serves all the deli specialties, plus more. Think hot pastrami with cole slaw and Russian dressing on pumpernickel. ❂ J B L D $

ELEVATION BURGER 12525-D Park Potomac Ave., 301-838-4010, elevationburger.com. Fast-food burgers go organic and grass-fed at this Northern Virginia-founded chain. Veggie burgers, chicken sandwiches, grilled cheese and a BLT available, too. Shake flavors range from banana to Key lime and cheesecake. ❂LD$

GREGORIO’S TRATTORIA 7745 Tuckerman Lane (Cabin John Shopping Center & Mall), 301-296-6168, 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. J L D $$

THE GRILLED OYSTER CO. (EDITORS’ PICK) 7943 Tuckerman Lane (Cabin John Shopping Center & Mall), 301-299-9888, thegrilledoyster company.com. This Chesapeake-style seafood eatery features small plates, salads, sandwiches and entrées. The sampler of four grilled oysters— with ingredients such as coconut rum and cucumber relish—showcases the namesake item. ❂ J R L D $$

HUNTER’S BAR AND GRILL 10123 River Road, 301-299-9300, thehuntersinn. com. At this Potomac institution 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. ❂ J R L D $$

LAHINCH TAVERN AND GRILL 7747 Tuckerman Lane (Cabin John Shopping Center & Mall), 240-499-8922, 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 $$$

LOCK 72 KITCHEN & BAR (EDITORS’ PICK) 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). Entrées include crab cakes, fish tacos, grilled bronzino, a New York strip steak and steak frites. ❂ R L D $$

MIX BAR AND GRILLE 9812 Falls Road, 301-299-3000, mixbarandgrille. com. This casual spot serves charcuterie and cheese plates, brick-oven flatbreads and other light fare. The space is modern and hip, with tall, white banquettes, Plexiglas chairs, five big-screen TVs, and a 20-seat bar. Look for lots of wines by the glass and beers on tap. L D $$

MOCO’S FOUNDING FARMERS 12505 Park Potomac Ave., 301-340-8783, wearefoundingfarmers.com. Farm-inspired fare in a modern and casual setting; this is the sister

restaurant to the phenomenally popular downtown D.C. Founding Farmers. Bethesda Magazine readers chose it as “Best Restaurant in Potomac,” "Best Bar" and "Best Brunch" in 2017. Try the warm cookies for dessert. ❂ B R L D $$

NORMANDIE FARM RESTAURANT 10710 Falls Road, 301-983-8838, popovers.com. This fine-dining French restaurant, open since 1931, strives to preserve its classical heritage while embracing new traditions. Dinner entrées run from seafood to beef and lamb. The restaurant offers quick service, a casual café option and a violinist at afternoon tea. ❂ J R L D $$

O’DONNELL’S MARKET 1073 Seven Locks Road, 301-251-6355, odonnells market.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 (11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.). The menu includes a raw bar, salads and many O’Donnell’s classics, among them a lump-filled crab cake sandwich, salmon BLT, seafood bisque and crab gumbo. ❂L$

OLD ANGLER’S INN 10801 MacArthur Blvd., 301-365-2425, oldanglers inn.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. Voted “Best Outdoor Dining” by Bethesda Magazine readers in 2017. ❂ R L D $$$

POTOMAC PIZZA 9812 Falls Road, 301-299-7700, potomacpizza. com. See Chevy Chase listing. J L D $

RENATO’S AT RIVER FALLS 10120 River Road, 301-365-1900, renatosatriver falls.net. The Italian 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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SUGO OSTERIA 12505 Park Potomac Ave., 240-386-8080, eatsugo. com. The Greek guys who own Cava Mezze and Cava Mezze Grill partner with Mamma Lucia restaurants to serve Italian small plates, meatballs, sliders, pizza and pasta. Chef specialities include blue crab gnocchi and charred octopus. ❂ R L D $$

TALLY-HO RESTAURANT 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 entrées. ❂ J B L D $

THE WINE HARVEST 12525-B Park Potomac Ave., 240-314-0177, thewineharvest.com. See Gaithersburg listing. ❂LD$

ZOËS KITCHEN 12505 Park Potomac Ave., Suite 120, 240-3281022, zoeskitchen.com. The first Maryland outpost of a Birmingham, Alabama, fast-casual chain, Zoës features Mediterranean dishes such as kabobs, hummus and veggie pita pizzas. It specializes in takeout dinner for four for under $30. ❂JLD$

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ROCKVILLE/ NORTH BETHESDA A & J RESTAURANT (EDITORS’ PICK) 1319-C Rockville Pike, 301-251-7878, aj-restaurant. com. Northern dim sum is the specialty at this hard-to-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 $

AL CARBÓN 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. ❂BLD$

AL HA'ESH 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 entrées come with small ramekins of salads (think curried chickpeas; marinated red cabbage; and balsamic marinated mushrooms). ❂ L D $$

AMALFI RISTORANTE ITALIANO 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 $$

AMINA THAI RESTAURANT 5065 Nicholson Lane, 301-770-9509. Pleasant and bright, Amina Thai is run by a husband-andwife 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 $

&PIZZA 11626 Old Georgetown Road (Pike & Rose), 240621-7016, andpizza.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂LD$

BOB'S SHANGHAI 66 305 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 glassenclosed booth. R L D $

BOMBAY BISTRO 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. J L D $$

BONCHON CHICKEN 107 Gibbs St., Unit A (Rockville Town Square), 301637-9079, 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. LD$

CAVA MEZZE (EDITORS’ PICK) 9713 Traville Gateway Drive, 301-309-9090, cavamezze.com. The dark and elegant Cava 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. ❂ R L D $$

CHINA BISTRO 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 $

CHUY’S 12266 Rockville Pike (Federal Plaza), 301-6032941, chuys.com. Drawing inspiration from New Mexico, Mexican border towns, the Rio Grande Valley and Texas’s deep south, Chuy’s is part of a family-friendly chain that serves up a Tex-Mex experience. Colorful food meets colorful décor, where “If you’ve seen one Chuy’s, you’ve seen one Chuy’s” rings true—eclectic collectibles give each location its own flare. Free chips are served out of a car trunk display. L D J $

CITY PERCH KITCHEN + BAR 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 entrée options such as grilled shrimp and Long Island duck. ❂ R L D $$$

CUBAN CORNER 825 Hungerford Drive, 301-279-0310, cubancornerrestaurant.com. Pork and empanadas shine at this small space brimming with ethnic pride (there’s a tribute wall to famous Cuban-Americans). Don’t skip the Cuban coffee or the Cuban sandwich, a sub bursting with ham, pickles and tangy mustard. LD$ CSNY PIZZA 1020 Rockville Pike, 301-298-3650, csnypizza. wixisite.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 $

DEL FRISCO’S GRILLE 11800 Grand Park Ave. (Pike & Rose), 301-8810308, delfriscosgrille.com. This is the Texasbased chain’s second location in the area. Look for upscale takes on American comfort foods, such as filet mignon meatloaf and short rib stroganoff, plus trendy items such as kale and Brussels sprouts salad, deviled eggs, flatbreads and ahi tuna tacos. Plenty of burgers, sandwiches and salads, too. ❂ R L D $$

DON POLLO 2206 Veirs Mill Road, 301-309-1608, donpollogroup.com. See Bethesda listing. L D $

EAST PEARL RESTAURANT 838-B Rockville Pike, 301-838-8663, eastpearl restaurant.com. Choose from many options of Hong Kong cuisine, including familiar dishes featuring chicken, beef, poultry, pork and even duck, as well

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as those for adventurous tastes. Try the soups ranging from egg drop to seafood with bean curd. LD$

EL MARIACHI RESTAURANT 765-D Rockville Pike, 301-738-7177, elmariachi rockville.com. Serving Tex-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 5240 Randolph Road, 301-231-9225, elpatio international.com. This bustling café 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. ❂ J B L D $

FAR EAST RESTAURANT 5055 Nicholson Lane, 301-881-5552, fareastrockvillemd.com. Owned and operated 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 $$

FINNEGAN’S WAKE IRISH PUB 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 $

FLOR DE LUNA 11417 Woodglen Drive, 240-242-4066, flordeluna md.com. Latin American fare includes tamales and lomo saltado (a stir-fry of beef and peppers) at this 75-seat restaurant near Whole Foods Market. Tacos, nachos and quesadillas are also in the lineup. Finish off your meal with the tres leches (three milks) cake. ❂ J R L D $$

FONTINA GRILLE 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. ❂ J R L D $$

GORDON BIERSCH 200-A E. Middle Lane (Rockville Town Square), 301340-7159, gordonbiersch.com/restaurants. The national brewpub chain prides itself on house beers and friendly service. The shiny bar is boisterous, and the menu includes bar favorites with some barbecue and Asian touches, small plates, salads, pizza and flatbreads. J L D $$

GRAND FUSION CUISINE 350 East Fortune Terrace, 301-838-2862, grand fusionrestaurant.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 $

HARD TIMES CAFÉ 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 $

HELEN’S 11120 Rockville Pike, 202-483-4444, helensonthe pike.com. Caterer Helen Wasserman serves her signature Asian-American fusion cooking at her 30-seat jewel box eatery (with two large outdoor patios), formerly Addie’s. Dumplings, cheese wontons with guacamole, salmon in phyllo, grilled lamb chops with herbed yogurt, and lump crab cake with shrimp sauce are highlights. ❂ J R L D $$

HINODE JAPANESE RESTAURANT 134 Congressional Lane, 301-816-2190, hinode restaurant.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 $$

IL PIZZICO 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 $$

JOE’S NOODLE HOUSE 1488-C Rockville Pike, 301-881-5518, joesnoodlehouse.com. Chinese ex-pats 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 BRASA LATIN CUISINE 12401 Parklawn Drive, 301-468-8850, labrasa rockville.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 $

LA CANELA (EDITORS’ PICK) 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 $

LA LIMEÑA RESTAURANT 765 Rockville Pike, 301-424-8066, lalimena restaurant.com. Diners can choose dishes such as beef hearts, tripe and homemade pastries in this tiny but well-appointed eatery. Desserts include passion fruit mousse and vanilla flan. And of course, there’s rotisserie chicken to go. L D $

LA TASCA 141 Gibbs St., Suite 305 (Rockville Town Square), 301-279-7011, latascausa.com. The Rockville location of this regional chain strives to keep things interesting with 45 tapas dishes and six kinds of paella, including Paella Mixta with chicken, shrimp, chorizo, scallops, mussels, squid and clams. ❂ R L D $$

LEBANESE TAVERNA CAFÉ 1605 Rockville Pike, 301-468-9086; 115 Gibbs St. (Rockville Town Square), 301-309-8681; lebanesetaverna.com. A casual and pleasant family spot for lunch or dinner after shopping on Rockville Pike, the café is a more casual offshoot of the local

Lebanese Taverna chain, serving hummus, pita, falafel, chicken and lamb kabobs. J L D $

LIGHTHOUSE TOFU & BBQ 12710 Twinbrook Parkway, 301-881-1178. In addition to the numerous tofu dishes ranging from Mushroom Tofu Pot to Seafood Beef Tofu Pot, diners at this Korean stalwart can try barbecue, stirfried specialties and kimchee, the national dish of pickled cabbage. L D $

LITTLE DIPPER HOT POT HOUSE 101 Gibbs St. (Rockville Town Square), 301-6057321. An offshoot of an Asian restaurant in Virginia, this 90-seat restaurant serves individual fonduestyle meals. Pick a pot base (including miso and curry), the level of spiciness, the protein and the starch (either rice or noodles), and cook your food right at your table in a bowl of hot stock. J L D $$

MAMMA LUCIA 12274-M Rockville Pike, 301-770-4894; 14921-J Shady Grove Road, 301-762-8805; mammalucia restaurants.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ L D $$

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MELLOW MUSHROOM 33-A Maryland Ave. (Rockville Town Square), 301294-2222, mellowmushroom.com. Bright retro décor adorns this 200-seat branch of the popular pizza chain, including a wall with more than 1,000 Coke bottles. The lineup: craft beers and over-thetop pies (including one with roasted red potatoes, bacon, caramelized onions, cheddar and mozzarella cheeses, ranch dressing and sour cream). ❂JLD$

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MICHAEL’S NOODLES 10038 Darnestown Road, 301-738-0370, michaels noodles.com. Extensive Taiwanese menu at this popular strip mall eatery includes dim sum, mixed noodle dishes, noodle soup and unusual specialties, such as Shredded Chicken with Jelly Fish and Stewed Pork Intestine and Duck Blood. LD$

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MI RANCHO 1488 Rockville Pike, 240-221-2636, miranchotexmexrestaurant.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. ❂LD$

MISO FUSION CAFÉ 33-E Maryland Ave. (Rockville Town Square), 240-614-7580, misofusioncafe.com. This 65-seat Korean-Japanese fusion restaurant features: yakatori (grilled marinated skewers of chicken, beef, shrimp); ramen bowls; katsu (breaded, deep-fried cutlets) bowls with rice, vegetables, scallions and egg; chicken, beef or pork katsu stuffed with mozzarella cheese and other fillings; and Korean BBQ of chicken, sliced beef, teriyaki salmon and spicy pork belly. L D $

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dine MOA 12300 Wilkins Ave., 301-881-8880, moakorean restaurant.weebly.com. A welcoming Korean restaurant in the midst of an industrial stretch. Try the seafood pancake appetizer—a satisfying, crispy frittata bursting with squid, clams, shrimp and scallions. Dol Sot Bibimbap, a mix of rice, vegetables and protein in a hot pot, is a customer favorite. L D $

MODERN MARKET 1627 Rockville Pike (Congressional Plaza), 301603-2953, modernmarket.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ J B R L D $

MOSAIC CUISINE & CAFÉ 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 entrées. J B R L D $$

MYKONOS GRILL 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 $$

NAGOYA SUSHI 402 King Farm Blvd., Suite 130, 301-990-6778, nagoyasushimd.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 $$

NANTUCKET’S REEF 9755 Traville Gateway Drive, Rockville, 301279-7333, nantucketsreef.com. This casual New England-style eatery offers a wide range of reasonably priced seafood dishes, including raw and baked oysters, stuffed cod, fried Ipswitch clams, seafood tacos, tuna and salmon salads, and lobster items. Signature cocktails are made with Nantucket Nectars juices. ❂ R L D $$

NICK’S CHOPHOUSE 700 King Farm Blvd., 301-926-8869, nickschop houserockville.com. Aged Angus beef cooked over an open fire is the specialty at this upscale spot, but seafood lovers can get their fill from big crab cakes. Signature steaks include slow-roasted prime rib weighing 10 to 32 ounces. Separate bar menu. ❂ L D $$

NIWANO HANA JAPANESE RESTAURANT 887 Rockville Pike, 301-294-0553, niwanohana. com. Clean Asian décor 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 $$

ORIGINAL PANCAKE HOUSE 12224 Rockville Pike, 301-468-0886, ophrestaurants.com. See Bethesda listing. JBL$

OWEN’S ORDINARY 11820 Trade St. (Pike & Rose), 301-2451226, owensordinarymd.com. This Americanstyle restaurant, barroom and beer garden from Neighborhood Restaurant Group boasts 50 rotating drafts and more than 150 types of bottled beer. The

175-seat restaurant serves salads, burgers, beef, pork and fondue entrées, and those looking to grab a drink can make the most of the space’s 60-seat beer garden. ❂ R L D $$

PALADAR LATIN KITCHEN & RUM BAR 11333 Woodglen Drive, 301-816-1100, paladarlatinkitchen.com. See Gaithersburg listing. ❂ J R L D $$

PETER CHANG (EDITORS’ PICK) 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 $$

PHO 75 771 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 $

PHO 95 785-H Rockville Pike, 301-294-9391. Pho, the Vietnamese beef noodle soup, is king here. Other offerings include fat rice-paper rolls of shrimp, noodles and herbs with a sweet and spicy peanut sauce, Grilled Lemon Grass Chicken and Grilled Pork Chop and Shredded Pork Skin. L D $

PHO HOA BINH 11782 Parklawn Drive, 301-770-5576, phohoa. com. This pleasant pho restaurant offers the full gamut of variations on the beef noodle soup, plus about a dozen grilled entrées. The Adventurer’s Choice features “unusual” meats, including tendon, tripe and fatty flank. The Vietnamese iced coffee is divine. L D $

PHO NOM NOM 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. L D $

PHOLUSCIOUS VIETNAMESE GRILL 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. L D $$

PIZZA CS 1596-B Rockville Pike, 240-833-8090, pizzacs.com. Authentic Neapolitan pies are offered in a sub-shop atmosphere. Choose from a list of red and white pizza options, or build your own pie with herbs, cheeses, meats and vegetables. ❂ J L D $

POTOMAC PIZZA 9709 Traville Gateway Drive, 301-279-2234, potomacpizza.com. See Chevy Chase listing. ❂ JLD$

QUENCH 9712 Traville Gateway Drive, 301-424-8650, quenchnation.com. Urban bar scene in the suburbs, with unique cocktails and contemporary American cuisine. Lots of starter options to try, plus salads,

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entrées, sandwiches and burgers, and three Asian dishes including pad Thai. ❂ J R L D $$

QUINCY’S SOUTH BAR & GRILLE 11401 Woodglen Drive, 240-669-3270, quincys bar.com. See North Potomac/Gaithersburg listing. ❂LD$

ROLLS ‘N RICE 1701 Rockville Pike (Shops at Congressional Village), 301-770-4030, rollsnrice.com. This Asian café serves more than 25 varieties of rolls, from a volcano roll (spicy tuna, white fish, salmon, tomato, jalapeño, fish eggs and vegetables) to a Philadelphia Roll (smoked salmon, cream cheese and avocado). J L D $

SADAF HALAL RESTAURANT 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. ❂ JLD$

SAM CAFÉ & MARKET 844 Rockville Pike, 301-424-1600, samcafemarket. com. Fill up on the kitchen’s juicy skewered meats or interesting entrées, including pomegranate molasses stew and marinated grilled salmon, then have a gelato and check out the hookahs. ❂ LD$

SAMOVAR 201 N. Washington St. (Rockville Town Square), 240-671-9721, samovarrestaurant.com. Chicken Kiev, plov (a lamb-and-rice dish) and borscht are among the long list of Russian and central Asian dishes here. Infused vodkas and Russian and Ukrainian beers are available. A framed wolf pelt adorns one wall. J R L D $$

SEASONS 52 (EDITORS’ PICK) 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 entrée salads to meat and seafood dishes. Nightly piano music. ❂ L D $$

SEVEN SEAS 1776 E. Jefferson St., 301-770-5020, sevenseas restaurant.com. An elegant restaurant popular with politicians and local chefs and known for its fresh seafood and impeccable service. Specials include the paper hot pot, meals using ancient Chinese herbs and afternoon tea. Sushi, too. L D $

SHEBA RESTAURANT 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 jalapeño and served with a side of homemade cheese. L D $

SICHUAN JIN RIVER 410 Hungerford Drive, 240-403-7351, sichuanjin river.com. Customers find terrific 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. L D $

SILVER DINER 12276 Rockville Pike, 301-770-2828, silverdiner. com. Customers flock to this trendy diner that still offers tableside jukeboxes. The latest food trends (think quinoa coconut pancakes) share company

2-COURSE LUNCH FOR $12.00 (TUES-FRI) on the enormous menu with diner staples such as meatloaf and mashed potatoes. JBRLD$

SPICE XING 100-B Gibbs St. (Rockville Town Square), 301-6100303, spicexing.com. Chef and owner Sudhir Seth, who also owns Bethesda’s Passage to India, serves up small plates and dishes that reflect the history of culinary influences on India. Try the all-you-can-eat lunchtime buffet. ❂ J R L D $$

STANFORD GRILL 2000 Tower Oaks Blvd., 240-582-1000, thestanford grill.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 $$

STELLA BARRA PIZZERIA 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 $$

SUMMER HOUSE SANTA MONICA (EDITORS’ PICK)

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. ❂ J R L D $$

SUPER BOWL NOODLE HOUSE 785 Rockville Pike, 301-738-0086, superbowl noodlehouse.com. 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 $

SUSHI DAMO 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 entrées and an impressive sake list. L D $$

SUSHI HOUSE JAPANESE RESTAURANT 1331-D Rockville Pike, 301-309-0043. 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 $$

SUSHI OISHII 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. L D $$

TAIPEI TOKYO 14921-D Shady Grove Road (Fallsgrove Village Center), 301-738-8813; 11510-A Rockville Pike, 301-881-8388; 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

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TARA ASIA 199-D E. Montgomery Ave., 301-315-8008, taraasiarestaurantrockville.com. A pan-Asian offshoot of the Tara Thai family, Tara Asia is dominated by a floor-to-ceiling mosaic and has an 82-item menu that spans the cuisine from Japan to Thailand and the tiny islands in between. L D $$

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TARA THAI 12071 Rockville Pike, 301-231-9899, tarathai.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ L D $$

TEMARI CAFÉ 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 $$

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THAI FARM 800 King Farm Blvd., 301-258-8829, thaifarm restaurant.com. A tastefully modern dining room soaked in a soothing yellow light. The usual 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 $$

THAI PAVILION 29 Maryland Ave., Unit 308 (Rockville Town Square), 301-545-0244, thaipavilionrestaurant.com. The soaring ceilings decorated with red chandeliers shaped like giant, stationary spinning tops give the feel of a modern museum. When the menu says spicy, believe it. ❂ J L D $$

THAT’S AMORE 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 $$

TOWER OAKS LODGE 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. J R 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 entrées. 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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URBAN BAR-B-QUE COMPANY 2007 Chapman Ave., 240-290-4827; 5566 Norbeck Road, 301-460-0050, urbanbbqco.com. Urban BarB-Que Company, a tiny joint run by a couple of local friends, has a winning formula and features fingerlicking ribs, burgers and wings, plus salads, chili and smothered fries. Staff is friendly, too. J L D $

VILLA MAYA 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. R L D $$

THE WOODSIDE DELI 4 N. Washington St., 301-444-4478, thewoodside deli.com. A second location of the venerable Silver Spring eatery and caterer that has been dishing up matzo ball soup since 1947. Choose from a wide selection of sandwiches, burgers and entrées. This one has a pickle bar. ❂ J B R L D $

WORLD OF BEER 196B East Montgomery Ave., 301-340-2915, worldofbeer.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ JRL D $

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dine YEKTA 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 kebab. L D $$

YUAN FU VEGETARIAN 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 and Baby Abalone in Tomato Sauce. L D $

SILVER SPRING 8407 KITCHEN BAR 8407 Ramsey Ave., 301-587-8407, 8407kb.com. This sleek space across from the Silver Spring Metro prides itself on stellar service and fromscratch preparations, such as house-smoked salmon and home-cured charcuterie. Signature craft cocktails are a specialty. R L D $$

ADDIS ABABA 8233 Fenton St., 301-589-1400. Authentic Ethiopian-style vegetables and fiery meats are served atop spongy bread in communal bowls. Traditional woven tables and a roof deck add to the ambience. There’s a weekday lunch buffet, too. ❂ RLD$

ALL SET RESTAURANT & BAR 8630 Fenton St., 301-495-8800, allsetrestaurant. com. American cuisine with a focus on New England specialties. Look for clams, oysters and lobster, plus crab cakes and rockfish, and beef and vegetarian options. The snazzy space is also the setting for clam bakes and fried chicken on Sunday nights. ❂ J R L D $$

AMINA THAI 8624 Colesville Road, 301-588-3588. See Rockville/North Bethesda listing. L D $

AZÚCAR RESTAURANT BAR & GRILL 14418 Layhill Road, 301-438-3293, azucarrestaurant.net. The name means sugar, and 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. L D $$

BETE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE 811 Roeder Road, 301-588-2225. 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. ❂ J B L D $$

BIBIM 923 Sligo Ave., 301-565-2233, bibim923.com. Korean fare is served in a charming, 65-seat neighborhood restaurant, with outdoor seating for 50. Start with scallion or kimchi pancakes and crunchy, lightly coated chicken wings, then go for the house specialty: bibimbap, an abundant mealin-a-bowl dish of rice, vegetables, fried egg, various protein add-ons and gochujang (red chili paste). Sip on a nice selection of bourbons and soju, Korea’s beloved distilled rice spirit. ❂ D $$

THE BIG GREEK CAFÉ 8223 Georgia Ave., 301-587-4733, biggreekcafe. com. Owned by the Marmaras brothers, whose family operated the decades-old Golden Flame restaurant, the café serves a hit parade of Greek specialties, including a top-notch chicken souvlaki pita. L D $

CAVA MEZZE GRILL 8515 Fenton St., 301-200-8666, cavagrill.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ L D $

THE CLASSICS (EDITORS’ PICK) 8606 Colesville Road, 301-588-7297, theclassicsdc.com. The restaurant features great steaks and seafood served without the pomp in a basic white dining room. Serious drinks and fresh seasonal American fare. Its less-formal bistro seating is first-come, first served. D $$

COPPER CANYON GRILL 928 Ellsworth Drive, 301-589-1330, ccgrill.com. See Gaithersburg listing. ❂ J R L D $$

CRISFIELD SEAFOOD RESTAURANT 8012 Georgia Ave., 301-589-1306, crisfieldseafood.com. With its U-shaped counter and kitschy, oyster-plate-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 $$

CUBANO’S 1201 Fidler Lane, 301-563-4020, cubanos restaurant.com. The brightly colored tropical dining room and the authentic Cuban cooking evident in dishes such as ropa vieja (shredded beef in onions, peppers and garlic) and fried plantains keep customers coming back. ❂ L D $$

THE DAILY DISH 8301 Grubb Road, 301-588-6300, thedailydish restaurant.com. A neighborhood favorite serving seasonally inspired, locally sourced comfort food, including bar bites and brunch dishes. Full-service catering is available, too. ❂ J R L D $$

DON POLLO 12345 Georgia Ave., 301-933-9515; 13881 Outlet Drive, 240-560-7376, donpollogroup.com. See Bethesda listing. L D $

DENIZENS BREWING CO. (EDITORS’ PICK) 1115 East West Highway, 301-557-9818, denizens brewingco.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 $

EGGSPECTATION 923 Ellsworth Drive, 301-585-1700, eggspectations.com. This Canadian import features fresh and creative egg plates in an elegant yet casual dining room complete with a fireplace and colorful Harlequin-themed art. It also serves great salads, dinners and dessert. ❂ B L D $$

EL AGUILA RESTAURANT 8649 16th St., 301-588-9063, elaguilarestaurant. com. A cheery bar and generous plates of TexMex favorites such as enchiladas and Salvadoran seafood soup make this eatery popular with families and others looking for a lively night out. ❂ L D $

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EL GAVILAN 8805 Flower Ave., 301-587-4197, gavilanrestaurant.com. 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 $

EL GOLFO 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. ❂ JRLD$

ETHIO EXPRESS GRILL 952 Sligo Ave., 301-844-5149, ethiogrill. com. Ethiopian food goes fast-casual in this counter service eatery that offers your choice of carbohydrate bases (i.e., injera, rice, pasta), plus grilled meats (or tofu), sauces and lots of vegetables (the spicy lentils and yellow split peas are especially good). L D $

FENTON CAFÉ 8311 Fenton St., 301-326-1841. An out-of-the-way crêperie serving 31 kinds of sweet crêpes and 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 $

FIRE STATION 1 RESTAURANT & BREWING CO. 8131 Georgia Ave., 301-585-1370, firestation1. com. A historic firehouse made over as an eatery serves 21st-century pizza, sandwiches, meat, seafood and vegetarian entrées. Try the Cuban sandwich with seasoned pork, chipotle mayo, Dijon mustard, pickles and Swiss cheese on a ciabatta roll. L D $

THE GREEK PLACE 8417 Georgia Ave., 301-495-2912, thegreekplace. net. Here are big portions of better-than-average food at reasonable prices. The bifteki pita sandwich, a seasoned ground lamb and beef patty with tzatziki, tomatoes and red onions, is especially good. L D $

GUSTO FARM TO STREET 8512 Fenton St., 301-565-2800, eatgusto.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ J L D $

HEN QUARTER 919 Ellsworth Drive, 240-247-8969, henquarter. com. An outpost of a restaurant in Alexandria, Virginia, Hen Quarter focuses on Southern fare, such as shrimp and grits, and chicken and waffles. The space includes rustic décor and garage windows that roll back for open-air views of Downtown Silver Spring’s fountain. The bar pours 75 types of bourbon and other whiskeys, as well as craft beer and wine. ❂ J R L D $$

ITALIAN KITCHEN 8201 Fenton St., 301-588-7800, italiankitchenmd. com. Casual, attractive pizzeria with bar seating also turns out homemade sandwiches, calzones, salads and pasta dishes. Pizza and paninis are top notch. L D $

JEWEL OF INDIA 10151 New Hampshire Ave., 301-408-2200, jewelofindiamd.com. Elegant décor 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. L D $$

KAO THAI 8650 Colesville Road, 301-495-1234, kaothai restaurant.com. This restaurant turns out top-notch 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 $$

LA CASITA PUPUSERIA & MARKET 8214 Piney Branch Road, 301-588-6656, lacasita pupusas.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 $

LA MALINCHE 8622 Colesville Road, 301-562-8622, lamalinche tapas.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. R L D $$

LANGANO ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT 8305 Georgia Ave., 301-563-6700. 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 $

LEBANESE TAVERNA CAFÉ 933 Ellsworth Drive, 301-588-1192, lebanese taverna.com. See Rockville listing. J L D $

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8402 Georgia Ave., 240-641-8061. The casual diner features a blend of American and Frenchinspired options, from frisée aux lardons (salad topped with bacon and egg) to double cheeseburgers. Eclectic, Bohemian décor adorns the walls of the dining room. J L D $$

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LINCOLN’S BAR-B-QUE 931 Ellsworth Drive, 301-578-1660, lincolnsbbq. com. Next to the fountain in the heart of downtown Silver Spring, Lincoln’s serves up all manner of barbecue. While smoked meats are the headliners, you’ll also find a Frito pie appetizer—cheese, chili, jalapeños and onions on Frito chips—served in a cut-open Frito bag. To-go goods, including sauces and spices, are for sale here too. ❂ J L D $$

MAMMA LUCIA 1302 East West Highway, 301-562-0693, mammaluciarestaurants.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ L D $$

MANDALAY RESTAURANT & CAFÉ 930 Bonifant St., 301-585-0500, mandalay restaurantcafe.com. The modest dining room is packed most evenings with families and large groups who come for the Burmese food, a cross between Indian and Thai. L D $

8241 Georgia Ave., #200, 301-326-1333, mixbar andgrillesilverspring.com. Modern American bistro with an older sibling; similar menu, plus a selection of ceviche. See Potomac listing. ❂  R L D $$

MOD PIZZA 909 Ellsworth Drive, 240-485-1570, modpizza.com. First Maryland location of this Bellevue, Washingtonbased 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. ❂ L D $

MRS. K’S RESTAURANT 9201 Colesville Road, 301-589-3500, mrsks.com. Here’s an elegant, antique-filled option for special occasions and brunch. This historic restaurant beckons a younger crowd with the Wine Press, a European-style wine bar downstairs, which has its own more casual menu. ❂ R L D $$$

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MCGINTY’S PUBLIC HOUSE 911 Ellsworth Drive, 301-587-1270, mcgintys publichouse.com. Traditional Irish pub and restaurant features corned beef and cabbage, live music and dancing. Early-bird special, three-course menu for $15, from 5 to 7 p.m. ❂ J R L D $$

1200 East West Highway, 301-585-6678, nainaisnoodles.com. Sisters Joanne and Julie Liu serve homemade noodles and dumplings in this lovable fast-casual eatery that shares a kitchen with their Scion restaurant next door. Focus on the noodles, and bring a photo of your “Nainai” (grandmother in Chinese) to tack on the bulletin board. L D $

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dine NOT YOUR AVERAGE JOE'S 8661 Colesville Road, 240-839-3400, notyouraveragejoes.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ J L D $$

OLAZZO (EDITORS’ PICK) 8235 Georgia Ave., 301-588-2540, olazzo.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ J L D $

ORIENTAL EAST RESTAURANT 1312 East West Highway, 301-608-0030, orientaleast.com. Be prepared to wait for a table and maneuver around carts filled with dumplings, noodles and spare ribs at this popular dim sum restaurant that caters to families and groups on weekends. L D $

PACCI’S NEAPOLITAN PIZZERIA (EDITORS’ PICK) 8113 Georgia Ave., 301-588-1011, paccispizzeria. com. This stylish eatery turns out top-notch pizzas from a wood-burning oven. Choose from red or white pizza selections, plus four kinds of calzones. ❂ JLD$

PACCI’S TRATTORIA & PASTICCERIA 6 Old Post Office Road, 301-588-0867, paccis trattoria.com. Diners will find a range of classic Italian dishes, including homemade meatballs and sausage, from the owner of Pacci’s Neapolitan Pizzeria, also in Silver Spring. L D $$

PARKWAY DELI & RESTAURANT 8317 Grubb Road, 301-587-1427, theparkway deli.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 L D $

PETE’S NEW HAVEN STYLE APIZZA 962 Wayne Ave., 301-588-7383, petesapizza.com. Sporting more stylish décor than its other locations, this Pete’s offers the same crunchy-crusted New Haven-style pizzas, plus pasta, panini and salads. This branch is the only one so far to offer fried calamari. J L D $

PHO HIEP HOA 921-G Ellsworth Drive, 301-588-5808, phohiephoa. com. Seventeen kinds of Vietnamese soup called pho can be customized to taste in this upbeat restaurant overlooking the action in the downtown area. ❂ L D $

SAMANTHA’S 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 $$

SCION 1200 East West Highway, 301-585-8878, scionrestaurant.com. A contemporary American eatery from sisters Joanne and Julie Liu, who also own a popular Dupont Circle restaurant with the same name and Nainai’s Noodle & Dumpling Bar in Silver Spring. Look for everything from wasabi Caesar salad to crab Reuben to spicy yogurt chicken. J R L D $$

SERGIOS RISTORANTE ITALIANO 8727 Colesville Road, 301-585-1040. A classic red-sauce Italian restaurant that manages to feel special, with soothing wall murals and high-quality service, despite a basement location inside the

DoubleTree Hotel. Ravioli with asparagus and cheese in a tarragon sauce is popular. L D $$

THE SOCIETY RESTAURANT & LOUNGE 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. ❂ 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 $$

SWEETGREEN 8517 Georgia Ave., 301-244-5402, sweetgreen. com. See Bethesda listing. L D $

TASTEE DINER 8601 Cameron St., 301-589-8171, tasteediner. com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ J B L D $

TAYLOR GOURMET 8535 Fenton St., 301-304-6283, taylorgourmet. com. See Bethesda listing. L D $

THAI AT SILVER SPRING 921-E Ellsworth Drive, 301-650-0666, thaiatsilver spring.com. The Americanized Thai food is second to the location, which is superb for people-watching on the street below. A modern and stylish dining room with a hip bar in bold colors and good service add to the appeal. ❂ L D $$

URBAN BAR-B-QUE COMPANY 10163 New Hampshire Ave., 301-434-7427, urban bbqco.com. See Rockville listing. L D $

URBAN BUTCHER (EDITORS’ PICK) 8226 Georgia Ave., 301-585-5800, urbanbutcher. com. Hip, eclectic setting is the backdrop for this New Age steak house, with its home-cured salamis, sausages and other charcuterie, plus meat dishes made from local animals of yesteryear breeds. There’s a lounge, bar, meat curing room, retail counter and dining area. R D $$

URBAN WINERY 949 Bonifant St., 301-585-4100, theurbanwinery. com. Silver Spring residents Damon and Georgia Callis open the first and only urban winery in the midAtlantic area. Tasting facility offers craft wines made with local and international grapes, and customers can even create their own wines (by appointment). Light menu includes artisan cheese, charcuterie and smoked seafood platters, plus Greek mezze. D $

VEGETABLE GARDEN 3830 International Drive (Leisure World Plaza), 301598-6868, vegetablegarden.com. 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 $$

VICINO RISTORANTE ITALIANO 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. ❂ L D $ $

THE WOODSIDE DELI 9329 Georgia Ave., 301-589-7055, thewoodside deli.com. See Rockville listing. J B L D $

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UPPER NW D.C. AMERICAN CITY DINER 5532 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-244-1949, americancitydiner.com. Retro diner complete with blue-plate specials such as Salisbury steak and stuffed peppers; malts and egg creams. Diners can catch a classic movie free with dinner. ❂ JBLD$

ARUCOLA 5534 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-244-1555, arucola. com. The restaurant serves authentic Italian cuisine in a casual setting, with a changing menu that includes creative treatment of traditional dishes, homemade pasta and pizza from the wood-burning oven. ❂ L D $ $

BLUE 44 5507 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-362-2583, blue44dc.com. The menu features classic American favorites infused with the flavors of Italy and France, including ratatouille, pork schnitzel and bouillabaisse. ❂ J R L D $$

BUCK’S FISHING AND CAMPING 5031 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-0777, bucksfishingandcamping.com. Diners can enjoy a seasonal menu that changes daily, and offers hip takes on comfort food such as roast chicken (locally raised) in an artsy-chic setting. D $$$

CAFÉ OF INDIA 4909 Wisconsin Ave. NW, 202-244-1395, cafeofindiadc.com. Here’s a cute corner café with two levels of dining and an extensive menu that includes vegetarian and tandoori entrées, dosas, samosas, tikkas, curries and kabobs. ❂ L D $$

CHATTER 5247 Wisconsin Ave. NW, 202-362-8040, chatterdc. com. A group that includes Gary Williams, Maury Povich, Tony Kornheiser and Alan Bubes bought this neighborhood hangout in 2017 and renovated it while maintaining its Cheers-like atmostphere. It offers a full menu beyond bar food, including salads, steaks, seafood and sandwiches. ❂ R L D $$

COMET PING PONG (EDITORS’ PICK) 5037 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-0404, cometpingpong.com. Landmark fun spot where you can play ping-pong or admire local art while you wait for your wood-fired pizza. Choose from over 30 toppings to design your own pie. ❂ R L D $

DECARLO’S RESTAURANT 4822 Yuma St. NW, 202-363-4220, decarlosrestaurant.com. This is a family-owned neighborhood staple, with a traditional Italian menu and upscale/casual atmosphere. Signature dishes include agnolotti, veal scallopini, broiled salmon and hand-made pasta. ❂ L D $$

GUAPO’S RESTAURANT 4515 Wisconsin Ave. NW, 202-686-3588, guaposrestaurant.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ R L D $$

JAKE’S AMERICAN GRILLE 5018 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-966-5253, jakesdc. com. Burgers, steaks and sandwiches are served in a restaurant named after the owner’s grandfather, an accomplished Navy test engineer. Check out the Boiler Room, a sports bar in the basement. J R L D $$

JETTIES 5632 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-2465, jettiesdc.com. See Bethesda listing. J L D $

MASALA ART (EDITORS’ PICK)

LE CHAT NOIR 4907 Wisconsin Ave. NW, 202-244-2044, lechatnoirrestaurant.com. This cute, cozy neighborhood bistro is run by French restaurateurs, who cook traditional fare such as steak frites, bouillabaisse and braised lamb cheeks. R L D $$

4441-B Wisconsin Ave. NW, 202-362-4441, masalaartdc.com. Here is fine Indian dining featuring tandoor-oven specialties and masterful Indian spicing. Start off by choosing from a selection of nine breads and 17 appetizers. L D $$

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LE PAIN QUOTIDIEN 4874 Massachusetts Ave. NW, 202-459-9141, lepainquotidien.com. See Bethesda listing. ❂ JBRLD$

LUNCHBOX 5535 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Suite 018, 202-2443470, voltlunchbox.com. The Washington remake of chef Bryan Voltaggio’s defunct Frederick restaurant offers specialties including the Southern Banh Mi with crispy chicken and pickled vegetables, and B’More with pepper-crusted pit beef. L D $

MACON BISTRO & LARDER (EDITORS’ PICK) 5520 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-248-7807, macon bistro.com. Southern and French cuisine converge at this airy, charming restaurant in the historic Chevy Chase Arcade. Appetizers include raclette and fried green tomatoes, and steak frites is offered alongside short ribs with grits for main courses. See our review on page 306. ❂ R D $$

MAGGIANO’S LITTLE ITALY 5333 Wisconsin Ave. NW, 202-966-5500, maggianos.com. The restaurant features oldstyle Italian fare that’s a favorite for large groups

Voltaggio’s extravaganza, featuring multiple open kitchens, seats 300 and offers an enormous wine list. L D $$$

and private celebrations. Check out the signature flatbreads and specialty pastas, including lobster carbonara. J R L D $$

4866 Massachusetts Ave. NW, 202-733-5789, milliesdc.com. This eatery in the Spring Valley neighborhood may be from up north—it’s the second location of a popular Nantucket restaurant—but its flavors are distinctly south-of-the-border. The menu offers coastal takes on tacos, quesadillas and salads that are as summery as the bright, nautical décor of the dining room. ❂ J R L D $$

PARTHENON RESTAURANT 5510 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-966-7600, parthenon-restaurant.com. This is a neighborhood eatery taken up a couple notches, with an extensive menu full of authentic selections familiar and exotic, including avgolemono (egg/lemon soup), tzatziki, moussaka, dolmades and souvlaki. ❂ L D $$

PETE’S NEW HAVEN STYLE APIZZA 4940 Wisconsin Ave. NW, 202-237-7383, petesapizza.com. See Silver Spring listing. ❂ JLD$

SATAY CLUB ASIAN RESTAURANT AND BAR 4654 Wisconsin Ave. NW, 202-363-8888, asiansatayclub.com. The restaurant prides itself on providing a comfortable/casual setting with a menu that spans Japanese sushi, Chinese moo-shi vegetables, Thai curries and Vietnamese spring rolls. L D $

TANAD THAI 4912 Wisconsin Ave. NW, 202-966-0616, tanadthai cuisine.com. The extensive menu ranges from noodles, rice and curries to vegetarian entrées, and even a Thai lemonade cocktail. House specialties include pad Thai and Drunken Noodles. ❂ L D $$

TARA THAI 4849 Massachusetts Ave. NW, 202-363-4141, tarathai.com. See Gaithersburg listing. ❂ L D $$

TERASOL (EDITORS’ PICK) 5010 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-237-5555, terasolartisans.com. This charming French café offers soups, salads, quiches and a few entrées, along with jewelry and pottery from local artisans. Live music on Fridays and Saturdays. ❂ B L D $

WAGSHAL’S RESTAURANT 4855 Massachusetts Ave. NW, 202-363-5698, wagshals.com. Longtime popular deli expands grocery and carryout section, and adds a casual sit-down restaurant in the Spring Valley Shopping Center. Same high-quality fare, including the overstuffed sandwiches. L D $ ■

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BACK-TO-SCHOOL SEASON means new backpacks for kids, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good time to think about a new bag for yourself. Investment bags, which can last decades if properly maintained, can range from $300 to more than $3,000. We asked two local fashion insiders, Luis Serrat, general manager of Saks Fifth Avenue in Chevy Chase, and Naina Singla, a Bethesda stylist, to share tips to help you shop for a designer bag.

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The type of bag you buy depends on how you spend the bulk of your time. “If you’re going to be in a public space, especially in a city, you need to be cognizant of the closure of the handbag,” says Serrat. “If you work from home and are driving to yoga, you want something less structured that you can toss stuff into,” Singla says.

“Most women are wearing 20 percent of their wardrobe 80 percent of the time,” says Singla, who suggests focusing on those favorite pieces when determining what color to buy. If your clothes are predominantly black, go for a black or slate gray bag. Opt for a navy or brown bag if you wear more jewel tones. A camel or dark cream bag works best with closets dominated by navies, reds and ivories. COURTESY PHOTOS

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$3,400, Intrecciato Leather Shoulder Bag, Bottega Veneta, Neiman Marcus, Mazza Gallerie, 5300 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C., 202-966-9700

$1,195, Steel Blue and Black Crocodile Embossed Satin Leather Tote Bag, Jimmy Choo, 5481 Wisconsin Ave., Chevy Chase, 240-223-1102

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Serrat says pebbled or textured leather will endure the elements and age the best, while suedes and exotic skins are more delicate. Singla suggests keeping hardware such as chains and studs to a minimum. Both recommend avoiding bags with lots of logos. “Subtlety wins the day,” Serrat adds. “And silhouette is what identifies the status of a luxury bag.”

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BETHESDA FINANCIAL ADVISER Kayvon Sarmadi, 29, learned to appreciate a good tie from his father, a crisply dressed businessman from Roanoke, Virginia. “As a kid, I always respected how polished he was,” Sarmadi says. “Never a hair out of line, suit and tie every day.” When he entered the professional world—Sarmadi has been with the financial services company UBS since 2010—he mimicked his father’s sartorial choices but didn’t like paying $200 and up for luxury neckwear that skimped on silk in favor of synthetic inlays or, even worse, would fray quickly. So in 2015, he set out to make his own. He went to the silk mills of Como, Italy, where designer brands such as Kiton and Brioni sourced 342

materials. Then he went south to Naples, where craftspeople dutifully follow the traditional seven-fold method of tiemaking. The resulting Sarmadi Brothers products—each adorned with a fatto a mano (“made by hand” in Italian) tag in back—are as crisp as the Hermès and Bulgari ties Sarmadi sported early in his career but are priced considerably less at $160 each. The company, which also sells shoes for $395 to $450, is a family business. While Sarmadi guides the overall vision, his wife, Nadira, handles social media and marketing, and his youngest brother, Omid, supervises operations. His oldest brother, Paykon, an architect in Roanoke, advises on product design.

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Sarmadi Brothers made its first sale in January 2016. Most orders come to sarmadibrothers.com via word of mouth—“Compliments in the kitchen [at my UBS office] lead to purchases,” he says about modeling the ties at work. The small-batch neckwear (most patterns are produced in groups of 10 or 20) is also available at the Greenbrier resort in West Virginia. There are plans to expand the brand, including new products—Sarmadi is currently testing pocket squares and floral lapel pins with private clients— before exploring new wholesale accounts or a permanent brick-and-mortar space. “We’re still in our ‘proof of concept’ phase,” Sarmadi says. “[I need to] see how much demand I can handle.” n

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Vineyard Vows A Bethesda chef helped turn his own wedding into a fancy barbecue with a Southern-themed menu THE COUPLE: Alexandra Kemp, 25, grew up in Falls Church, Virginia, and is a nurse at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington. Jarrad Silver, 29, grew up in Bethesda and graduated from Walt Whitman High School. He’s a chef for Mike Isabella Concepts and is currently based at Kapnos in D.C. They live in Bethesda. HOW THEY MET: The pair met in the

summer of 2008 while working at a pizza place in Falls Church. Alexandra was in high school and Jarrad was in college. The following summer, Alexandra was going through a breakup, and after work one day they drove around in Jarrad’s car. “I talked it out with her, helped her through it a little bit,” Jarrad says.

THE FIRST DATE: Jarrad invited Alexandra over to have Chinese food and watch the movie WALL-E. “We were still kind of friends at that point, but it was definitely a date vibe,” she says. THE RING: After Jarrad’s grandmother

died in early 2014, his grandfather gave Jarrad her engagement ring, which was a family heirloom. Jarrad’s grandparents had welcomed Alexandra (whose friends call her Aleigh) into the family as soon as they met her. “[My grandfather] said specifically, ‘This is for Aleigh. This isn’t for you, it’s

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home from a late night at work on May 3, 2014—the day of the Kentucky Derby— he thought about his late grandmother’s annual Derby party, the ring that now included her diamond, and the garden he and Alexandra had planted in their backyard in her memory. “It just all fit,” he says. He woke Alexandra and brought her out to the garden. “We probably stopped at every single plant and looked at how it was doing. My grandmother always talked to her plants, so as silly as it sounds, we talked to every single one.” As they started chatting about marriage, Alexandra, who wanted to wait a year to get engaged, said they were too young and, besides, Jarrad didn’t have a ring. “What if I did have a ring?” he said. Alexandra patted him down but missed the pocket with the ring in it. “I said, ‘Well, what about this pocket?’ ” Jarrad says. He pulled out the ring and proposed. Still half asleep, Alexandra took a few seconds to process what was happening. “The ring was on my finger before I said yes. And he looked at me

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and he was like ‘yes?’ I was like ‘yes, yes,’ ” she says with a laugh.

THE WEDDING: Alexandra and Jarrad were married in front of 120 guests on Oct. 11, 2015, at Stone Tower Winery in Leesburg, Virginia. THE PLANNING: Since Alexandra had

just started a new job—and doesn’t consider herself much of a planner— Jarrad did a lot of it himself. “We would spend the little bit of time that we had together looking at food and chairs and flowers and all of the things that you have to do,” he says. “It got a little bit overwhelming, and each time it got a little bit overwhelming I would look at Aleigh and say, ‘This is good.’ Like, we’re doing the right thing…We should have just run away and gotten married, just the two of us, but if you want a wedding I’m going to give you a wedding. This is good.” He repeated that phrase—this is good—during the ceremony as the last line of his vows.

THE COCKTAIL HOUR: Guests played cornhole and horseshoes, dined on pickled vegetables, boiled peanuts and deviled eggs, and drank hard cider that Jarrad had made. “We wanted it to be like you’re hanging out with family at a barbecue in somebody’s backyard,” he says.

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THE DÉCOR: The reception venue was brand-new and featured stonework, big columns and a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows. “We really left it the way it looked when we got there. It was such a beautiful room that we didn’t want to mess with it,” Jarrad says. Instead of pricey floral centerpieces, he bought gourds, pomegranates and Indian corn to spread on tables, and added candles in black lanterns. THE FIRST DANCE: The couple chose “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from Toy Story for their first dance. Early in their relationship, Alexandra had to evaluate movies for a psychology class, and Jarrad had helped her with the assignment. “We watched Toy Story and we sat down and talked about all the different psychological things in the movie,” Alexandra says. Later they watched the sequels. THE FOOD: Jarrad was talking with Mike Isabella Concepts corporate chef Adam Howard one day about the price of wedding catering, especially for barbecue. “He said, ‘Why don’t we just cook the food here?’ ” Jarrad says. “He grew up in Alabama, he loves that style of food.” For a few days right before the wedding, Jarrad and Howard prepped and cooked as much of the dinner as possible. On the wedding day, Howard and other Kapnos staffers finished making the food, which was served buffet-style and included a whole roasted pig, barbecue chicken, cornbread and mac ‘n’ cheese. THE DESSERT: Alexandra isn’t a cake person, so a friend baked a small “show cake” for the couple to cut at the reception. They served apple, pumpkin and Key lime pies for dessert. wedding, the couple spent a week in Oregon and Washington, and a week in Maui, Hawaii.

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TUCKED IN TURTLE BAY, a neighborhood on the east side of midtown Manhattan, The Bernic is a new 22-story hotel with an at-home-in-thecity feel. Opened last November, each of the hotel’s 96 rooms features plush linens, heated tile flooring in the bathroom, a flat-screen TV with Apple TV technology, a book collection curated by Strand bookstore, and art inspired by the nearby United Nations headquarters, reflecting cities of the world (London, Sydney, Dubai and Shanghai, to name a few). Seventy-five of the rooms have a balcony. 348

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Northern Italian-American fare fuels the hotel’s Allora Ristorante, where “Maccheroni Alla Mugnaia,” a dish crafted with a single strand of pasta, is a work of art. The rooftop bar Allora Alto offers small bites and old-world Italian cocktails with a view. Enjoy a sunny afternoon there, or gaze out at the bright lights of the big city on a starry night. Rates at The Bernic start at $159 per night. 145 E. 47th St., New York City; 212-754-9700, thebernichotel.com.

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GET SPOOKED TWO PLACES OF INTEREST were on Charles Dickens’ bucket list when he visited the United States in 1842: Niagara Falls and Eastern State Penitentiary. Opened in 1829, the Gothic prison’s design—based on the belief that convicts needed time alone to discover their good nature—included skylighted cells located in seven cell blocks spread out like the spokes on a wheel. Through exhibits and tours, this Philadelphia slammer-turnedmuseum offers a fascinating look at both the history of incarceration and its current state. The sobering Prisons Today exhibit highlights several reasons for the United States’ incarceration rate (the highest in the world), the effect it has on our eligible electorate, and how race and early life experiences impact a person’s chances of landing behind bars. Actor Steve Buscemi, along with former officers and inmates, narrates a free audio tour that includes details on why the buildings had central heat and hot water before the White House, and provides a glimpse into the stories behind infamous inmates Al Capone (and his “posh” cell), “Slick Willie” Sutton and Pep the Dog, an imprisoned canine. Added in May, a guided tour of the hospital wing that’s offered several times a day reveals how the prison handled a tuberculosis outbreak and mentally ill patients. A daytime visit to Eastern State is daunting, but the museum’s popular Terror Behind the Walls haunted house will scare you straight. Consistently ranked a top Halloween experience, including “#1 Haunted Attraction in the U.S.” by Forbes in 2013 and 2014, the spooky experience can be “enjoyed” on select evenings from Sept. 22 through Nov. 11.

RELEASE YOUR INNER COLLEGE kid at Graduate Richmond, the newest addition to Graduate Hotels’ portfolio of collegiate-inspired properties. Opened this summer near Virginia Commonwealth University, the 205-room hotel’s public spaces serve up design inspiration from Richmond native and three-time Grand Slam tennis champion Arthur Ashe. Named after the park where Ashe honed his early tennis skills, the Brookfield café serves craft coffees in the early hours, and grill favorites later on. Just outside the café, don’t miss the chandelier made from frames inspired by Ashe’s eyewear. Take the elevator to rooftop bar Byrd House (a nod to Richmond founder Col. William Byrd II) for Southern-style fare and boozy slushies poolside. Similar to sister property Graduate Charlottesville, guest rooms incorporate a touch of preppy plaid. Each room also includes a striking print of an American foxhound—Virginia’s official dog—and an old-fashioned rotary phone that will befuddle today’s college students. Room types vary from standard queen and king up to family suites with bunk beds. Graduate Richmond rates begin at $160 per night. 301 W. Franklin St., Richmond, Virginia; 804-644-9871, graduaterichmond.com. ■

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Bright lights? Dazzling hydraulics? The main attraction in Longwood’s Summer of Spectacle is a recent $90 million revitalization of the 5-acre “fountain garden” that industrialist and engineer Pierre S. du Pont masterminded nearly a century ago. Inspired by the grand allées of European villa gardens, du Pont originally designed the fountain display as the crowning gem on his estate in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, where he threw lavish parties for friends and family. By 2014 the waterworks had deteriorated and were closed for a major upgrade. Basically, “[We] peeled back the surface of the garden to install new infrastructure,” explains Longwood Gardens President Paul Redmond. More than 80 U.S. and European firms were involved in the “restitching” of a system that now 352

includes 5 miles of new water pipes, 9,000 cubic yards of concrete and 4,000 refurbished pieces of Italian limestone. Anticipation runs high as my friend Jan and I wander Longwood’s elegant terrace gardens and pathways, waiting for a fountain show. At 1,077 acres, the property epitomizes just what is possible when you have a grand vision and a whole lot of cash. It’s home to 11,000 types of trees, shrubs and flowers that erupt yearround in a rainbow of colors and scents in some 40 indoor and outdoor gardens (including a grand conservatory), fertile meadows and woodlands. Grateful that predicted rains haven’t materialized, we sip on locally brewed Oro Blanco wheat beers—made with grapefruits grown on-site—while admiring a display of symmetrical boxwood and Linden plantings. Quiet falls as flowing water leads us into a new stone grotto.

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At 7 p.m. we take seats outside the conservatory, and it’s showtime. Soon, bold music fills the night air. Towering plumes of water sway to the rhythm, keeping the beat as the soundtrack moves from a Mozart overture to the mezzosoprano of Édith Piaf to the playful strains of Mancini’s “Pink Panther.” One moment the water looks smoky, then air cannons boom. Sprays of water twirl and crisscross, their colors morphing like dancers changing costumes. Whereas du Pont’s original fountains relied on 386 jets, the new computercontrolled design deploys more than 1,700 jets and LED lights to sculpt water and create visual effects, from basket-weave patterns to flames that miraculously shoot out of the water (the flames, Redmond explains, are achieved by injecting propane into the water column). Today, the fountain’s plumes reach 175 feet.

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The fountain plumes at Longwood Gardens can reach 175 feet.

Left: Andrew Wyeth’s work space, which he occupied from 1940 to 2008, still looks like a working studio. Below: N.C. Wyeth’s studio showcases familiar props, such as the tricorn hat, that appear in some of his paintings.

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Longwood Gardens’ Summer of Spectacle features fountain performances on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays and runs through Sept. 30. Special fireworks and fountain shows are scheduled for Sept. 2 and 16. Advance tickets are available and recommended.

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Happily, the spring-into-summerlong fountain unveiling coincides with a retrospective show just down the road at the Brandywine River Museum of Art in honor of what would have been Andrew Wyeth’s centennial birthday. Around the same time the du Ponts were busy building and expanding their grand châteaus (including nearby Nemours, which some have called “America’s Versailles”), N.C. Wyeth, illustrator of children’s classics such as Treasure Island and Kidnapped, purchased a home

in the same valley. He and his wife had five children, three of whom—Andrew, Henriette and Carolyn—would become painters, as would Andrew’s son Jamie. It goes without saying that Wyeth works figure prominently in the museum’s collection. Housed in a refurbished 19th-century mill, the building synthesizes the original stones and dark wood with modern, gleaming glass walls that overlook the Brandywine River, prompting visitors to contemplate the landscape outside while admiring painted interpretations of it. The museum and nearby

conservancy sit on 15 acres and include a creekside trail with native plantings. As geography and lineage would have it, there is a connection between the Wyeths and the du Ponts. The museum traces its origins back to George A. “Frolic” Weymouth (his mother was a du Pont), a driving force in the formation of the Brandywine Conservancy in the late 1960s. The conservancy rescued the old mill and protected its surrounding lands—including the agrarian landscapes that had inspired many a Wyeth painting—from developers.

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IF YOU GO Nemours Mansion & Gardens Can’t get enough of the du Pont pomp and properties? Check out stately Nemours, the playground of Alfred I. du Pont and his wife, Alicia, for whom he built this 77-room, late-18th-century, French-inspired estate with 300 acres of formal gardens to explore. nemoursmansion.org

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competition at the annual Mushroom Festival (this year, Sept. 9-10). Roughly 65 percent of U.S. mushrooms are grown in the region.

WHERE TO SHOP WHERE TO STAY The Fairville Inn (fairvilleinn.com) is centrally located and offers an array of lodging options, from rooms in the sunny main house to private cottages. I could hear the chorus of spring peepers from my back deck. Breakfast includes made-to-order omelets and an array of bite-size baked goods. Formerly part of the Winterthur estate, The Inn & Spa at Montchanin Village (montchanin.com) boasts elegant period rooms in 11 historic, restored buildings. The local Hilton Garden Inn (hilton.com) has its own restaurant that has won second place twice in the local mushroom-soup

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At Phillips Mushroom Farms (phillipsmushroomfarms.com), you’ll find exotic mushrooms—pom pom, lion’s mane, maitake—growing and learn why this area is known as “the mushroom capital of the world.” The store carries on the motif with everything from glittery mushroom ornaments to mushroom supplements and cookbooks. You can take home some fresh fungi for cooking, too. The eclectic gift shops at Longwood Gardens, the Brandywine River Museum of Art and Winterthur offer everything from fresh plants and native seeds to gorgeous coffee table books and prints.

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Andrew, who was known to locals as “Andy,” didn’t have millions to manifest his vision, but he did have the luxury of time. He often worked in egg tempera, an ancient medium made with dry pigments mixed with egg yolk and distilled water. Painstaking layering allowed him to produce rich landscapes with warm and varied surfaces. During a visit in late March, I take advantage of the shuttle-bus tour of the Wyeths’ homes and studios (now part of the museum collection) as well as the nearby Kuerner Farm, which Andy found endlessly fascinating and immortalized in many of his masterpieces. Fans of the Wyeth legacy will appreciate the charming family photos, original furniture and Wyeth artwork that fill the crowded homestead where Andy and his siblings grew up. Just steps up the hill, with a huge Palladian window and good north light, is N.C.’s studio. Aficionados

Winterthur has 175 rooms decorated in period styles, and one of the most renowned collections of American furnishings and antiquities.

will recognize familiar props such as the tricorn hat and glassware that appear in some of his paintings. Stepping into Andy’s modest work space, which he occupied from 1940 until 2008, I almost expect to find the artist at his easel. His brushes remain at the ready on a palette, while various sketches and studies are tacked to the walls and scattered across the wooden floorboards. It

still looks like a working studio. Afterward, I spend a few hours admiring all generations of Wyeth art hanging in the museum. The exhibit “Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect,” with 100 of the artist’s finest works, from early watercolors and rarely seen studies to his final tempera, “Goodbye,” runs through Sept. 17. The Wyeth house, studios and farm tours are one hour each

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WINTERTHUR

It’s hard to imagine another nearby attraction rivaling Longwood Gardens in the big-spending category, but the estate of Henry Francis du Pont does just that— albeit with an obsession of a different sort. Winterthur is an imposing nine-story, 175-room house that can only be called gargantuan. (Downton Abbey comes to mind.) And it contains one of the world’s most renowned collections of American furnishings and antiquities. I decide on arrival to take the tram through the gardens. They’re less formal than those of Longwood but no less lovely. An antiques collector and trained horticulturalist, du Pont preferred natural landscaping that blended with the hills and forest. Swaths of blue blooms (scilla

and chionodoxa, our tram driver informs us) blanket the March Bank, which is blooming right on schedule. As we reach the mansion’s grand front door, I imagine being a party guest back in the day. Four generations of du Ponts lived on this nearly 1,000-acre estate, from 1837 to 1951, until the house was opened to the public and its incumbent residents moved into the “cottage” (now the gift shop). With 90,000 objects inside, Winterthur is considered the world’s premier museum of 17th- through 19th-century American antiques and decorative arts. Much of the collection is on display in both the period rooms and the galleries. Once inside, a guide leads us into rooms decorated to represent different historic genres, with a focus on the spaces the family used when entertaining in the 1930s and 1940s. A quick elevator ride

and we’re suddenly immersed in opulence, later making our way down to an Empire-style room from 1933, all marble and gilt. As my eyes dance from priceless object to priceless object, I have to confess that my senses are a bit overwhelmed after the relative simplicity of the Wyeth sites. Winterthur’s collections are so vast that you can even book a customized tour of, say, Chinese export porcelain or just Chippendale furniture. Soon, the sunny gardens lure me back outside to wander and think about how we humans interpret and play with our surroundings. n Local writer Amy Brecount White adores all things that bloom, the evocative paintings of Andy Wyeth and anything sautéed with mushrooms.

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KEVIN BEVERLY Kevin Beverly is the president and CEO of Social & Scientific Systems, Inc. (SSS), a health research organization with federal and commercial client portfolios spanning clinical and biomedical research, epidemiology and public health research, health policy, and program evaluation. Mr. Beverly joined SSS in 2003 as vice president for business development. He later became executive vice president, then president, and, in 2015, was named president and CEO. Before that, his career took him to the National Library of Medicine, the World Health Organization, and firms including PSI International, Computer Sciences Corporation, Tracor Corporation, BAE Systems, and Abt Associates. He has served on for-profit and non-profit boards, including the Professional Services Council, The Universities at Shady Grove, CareFirst of Maryland, Inc., and the Bethesda-Chevy Chase YMCA. He is the current board chair of the Community Foundation of Montgomery County and of CollegeTracks, and board co-chair of Montgomery Moving Forward. Mr. Beverly received the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington’s 2013 Philanthropist of the Year award and founded the Mildred Beverly Memorial Family Fund, which provides college scholarships for underprivileged youth. Mr. Beverly holds an undergraduate degree in criminal justice and a master’s degree in library science and information services, both from the University of Maryland.

NORMAN DREYFUSS Norman Dreyfuss is an influential player in area real estate development. Armed with a mechanical engineering and liberal arts degree from Rutgers University and a law degree from American University, he has been involved in major developments across the region. Norman currently serves as executive vice president of IDI Group Companies, where he has worked since 1981. He’s headed development of Leisure World of Maryland and Virginia, Leisure World Plaza and projects throughout the DC region. Norman currently serves as a member of the Montgomery County Planning Board and recently received the Ron Resh Business Advocacy Award, honoring him for his efforts to ensure that the Bethesda Chevy Chase community is regarded as the preeminent place to do business. He previously served as president of the Suburban Maryland Building Industry Association. Norman has received the Milton E. Kettler Award to honor a long history of civic contributions, the American Immigration Law Foundation Public Service Award, Doc Kapiloff Private Sector Affordable Housing Award, Housing Honor Award and the Inspire Award from the Housing Opportunities Commission, as well as the Joseph Ottenstein Award for excellent community service leadership. Norman lives in Potomac with his wife Debi.

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CIDALIA LUIS-AKBAR Cidalia Luis-Akbar is a top-performing senior executive with 25+ years of experience leading multi-million dollar organizations. Currently, she serves as CEO, owner and co-chairman of M. Luis Construction Co., Inc. and M. Luis Products, LLC. She has received many awards, including the MDQi Award of Excellence in Construction, SmartCEO Brava Award, GOMA WBE Winner, Small Business Leader of the Year, U.S. Department of Justice FBI Directors Award for Community Leadership and Maryland’s Top 100 Women Award. Cidalia serves on the board of the Children’s National Medical Center Foundation, FBI Washington Field Office Citizens Academy, Conselho da Diáspora, Portugal-United States Chamber of Commerce and on the Advisory Board of the Portuguese Embassy in Washington, D.C. She is co-chair of the Corporate Advisory Council and the Chairwomen of the Young Presidents Organization. Cidalia is a Fulbright-Hayes Scholar and holds a double master’s degree in Spanish and Latin American, Portuguese and Brazilian languages and literatures from the University of California, Santa Barbara. She earned bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Spanish/Portuguese from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has also attended executive business programs at Harvard University, Wharton and Tuck Business Schools. Cidalia is happily married to Masud Akbar and the proud mother of a daughter, Sophia.

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