- Check out these RAD photos from East of Maui, the 1990's-era skatepark once located on Ellsworth Drive where Silver Plaza is today. If you're like me, you'll spend a few minutes wondering what this kid would've flown into today. (My guess is [...]
- Check out these RAD photos from East of Maui, the 1990's-era skatepark once located on Ellsworth Drive where Silver Plaza is today. If you're like me, you'll spend a few minutes wondering what this kid would've flown into today. (My guess is [...]
Mayorga in 2006. Photo by Katmere on Flickr using Creative Commons.
Silver Spring's new Civic Building (you know, the one with the windows) currently under construction at Ellsworth and Fenton shouldn't be named after anyone at all, say the Silver Spring Citizens Advisory Board. The' [...] 



There was a fascinating piece in the Washington Post this weekend about how we are substituting “green gestures” for the political action necessary to clean up our environment. This is particularly true when it comes to the deteriorating Chesapeake Bay.
But perhaps things are changing.
Today, Maryland’s [...]
- From the listservs: Shorpy is an awesome website that catalogs high-resolution historical photos, many of which are from the D.C. area. You might not believe it, but this photo above was taken at the intersection of Georgia and Eastern avenues (today's South [...] 
- A firefighter at the Burtonsville Volunteer Fire Department brought a drunk woman to sleep at the station who woke up in the middle of the night and relieved herself in the bunk of [...] 
Mmm, Wheaton. I believe this yellow cake came from the Little Bitts bakery on Triangle Lane.
Wheaton residents who fear their small-town status is being subsumed by gentrification (or, alternately, dying a slow death) might take solace in this letter to suburban Chicago's Daily Herald from Mary Landreth about' [...]