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GAITHERSBURG - The recent Gaithersburg book festival included local authors from Derwood, the first wave of MTV VJ's to a Kennedy grandchild talking about the Peace Corps. Join us as we take a look at a growing local phenomenon.
ROCKVILLE - Interested in knowing which Metro station is closest to you? Got a hankering to travel the C & O canal? Want to spend a day traveling the little...
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OLNEY – Homeowners are left cleaning debris and Pepco is trying to return power to customers after a tornado struck down near Olney. According to the National Weather Service, the tornado...
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OLNEY – Homeowners are left cleaning up and removing debris while Pepco is trying to return power to customers after a tornado struck near Olney Thursday afternoon. According to the National...
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Congressman Dutch Ruppersberger, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, called Edward Joseph Snowden, who recently leaked classified information about the National Security Agency, “a legend in his own mind,”...
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GAITHERSBURG –Though it was not how they expected it to happen, the Giants sent their fans home happy Friday with a 6-5 win against the Alexandria Aces in the 10th...
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Local comedian Dave Coyne is up to his old mischief. Long known for his YouTube videos and local comedic stylings, the master of a thousand voices offers some of his most recent celebrity impressions.
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In the coming weeks, the National Orchestra Institute, currently at the University of Maryland, is preparing for several full length concerts, which will include everything from a Mahler symphony to a Mozart concerto. But as a prelude to these full...
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Round House Theater ends the season with a smart and well-acted production of the recent off-Broadway hit comedy “Becky Shaw.” The production is very well done – but at two and a half hours, the play (like its titular character)...
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Edward Snowden’s disclosures, the New York Times reported on Sunday, “have renewed a longstanding concern: that young Internet aficionados whose skills the agencies need for counterterrorism and cyberdefense sometimes bring an anti-authority spirit that does not fit the security bureaucracy.” Read more
The latest news about the National Security Agency, its ability to tap all of your phone record…
In Washington, where the state of war and the surveillance state are one and the same, top offi…
Dear Senator Feinstein: On Thursday, when you responded to news about massive ongoing …
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(Updated to include names) ASPEN HILL - Three people are dead and three more injured following a thr... Read more
ROCKVILLE - Local county police say they are changing drivers' behavior and making the roads sa…
ROCKVILLE - A once-prominent swimming coach who trained thousands of children was sentence…
MONTGOMERY VILLAGE (www.montgomeryvillage.com) – Fresh quality produce will be available again …
"Mars is not a dead planet -it undergoes climate changes that are even more pronounced than on Earth," says James Head, planetary geologist, Brown University. The prevailing thinking is that Mars is a planet whose active climate has been confined to the distant past. About 3.5 billion years ago, the Red Planet had extensive flowing water and then fell quiet - deadly quiet. It didn't seem the climate had changed much since. Now, recent studies by scientists at Brown University show that Mars' climate has been much more dynamic than previously believed.
Standup comedy has probably been around since man learned to grunt; and while earlier efforts in this art form have never been fully chronicled, at least we have John DeBellis’s brilliant work on which we can rely.
“Standup Guys,” a memoir by John DeBellis takes us to the heart of a comedian’s tortured soul and at the same time is such an entertaining read you actually taste the stale beer and feel the sticky bar counters from the 70s when Debellis began his life as a comedian.
On May 31, 2013, asteroid 1998 QE2, which is believed to be about 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers) or nine Queen Elizabeth 2 ship-lengths in size, will sail serenely past Earth, getting no closer than about 3.6 million miles (5.8 million kilometers), or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the moon. And while QE2 is not of much interest to those astronomers and scientists on the lookout for hazardous asteroids, it is of interest to those who dabble in radar astronomy and have a 230-foot (70-meter) -- or larger -- radar telescope at their disposal.
David Bowie made his mark with the song "Space Oddity", but Chris Hadfield, a real astronaut for NASA and pretty fair guitar player and singer upped the ante this week with his revised version of the Rock n' Roll classic.
He recorded it on his last day aboard the International Space Station and it's now available on YouTube:
ANGUS/Foster Shepherd mix, male, 5 mos., When Angus first cam into his foster family's home he was a little nervous and shy. He quickly became a lot of fun once he knew...
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June 15, 1958 Four men were arrested at what police described as a “poker and whiskey” club next to the new Atomic Energy Headquarters in Germantown. The men were charged with...
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