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The Gaithersburg-Germantown Chamber of Commerce (GGCC) with the help of its donors, awarded four Montgomery College students with Montgomery College Scholarships at its Annual Celebration Dinner & Awards Ceremony on December 3. It was a great evening for the Chamber. $12,000 was awarded to four Montgomery College students, with different majors– electrical engineering & computer […]

It’s a great week for Montgomery County music aficionados. A ton of great artists are performing at local venues and Sound Check has all the details. Influenced by reggae, hip-hop, alternative rock and his Jewish heritage, Matisyahu is marking 10-years of his breakthrough album Live at Stubb’s at The Music Center at Strathmore this Wednesday […]

As we move through the hiring process and prepare contracts for each company member, we ask the essential question, Why should we hire you for a job in the opera company? This question serves to enlighten and inform our decisions as to whom will be best suited as electricians, performers, composers, writers, public relations officers, […]

Riderwood retirement community announced the promotion of Andrew Kundrat, M.D. to Medical Director. Dr. Kundrat joins the executive leadership team with over thirty-three years of internal medicine and geriatric experience. He has served with the Erickson Health Medical Group as a Staff Physician at Riderwood since 2008, and previously, he was the Vice President of […]

First, there was Black Friday, then Small Business Saturday and, of course, Cyber Monday. December 1st is Giving Tuesday. Have you considered Montgomery Community Media when making your end of the year donation? MCM is all about informing, connecting, engaging and educating communities. MCM also serves the community thru economic development, nonprofit partnerships and collaborations, and […]

It’s pretty difficult to imagine the holiday season without Tchaikovsky’s score for “The Nutcracker” playing in the background at the mall, in commercials or watching an actual performance of the ballet. Now, imagine adding a DJ and a modern dance twist to the traditional score. That might sound a little odd, but it’s exactly what Director […]

It seems that almost every holiday has its own soundtrack, except for Thanksgiving. There are Halloween songs and Christmas songs, but nothing really catered to Thanksgiving, unless you count children’s music. So, in the spirit of celebrating Thanksgiving, I’ve compiled a very literal list of songs that give thanks. While the songs listed below aren’t specifically about […]

Thank ABC’s Wide World of Sports and broadcaster Jim McKay for one of sports television’s greatest spoken phrases: “… the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.” It is always at this time of year during state championship playoffs when this part of sports phraseology becomes so real. The money shot for sports photographers […]

I don’t know about you but Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. I grew up in south Florida and we always spent the morning watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on television as my mom prepped the turkey. Today, my own kids have never been too keen on watching the parade on TV but I still […]

In order to truly take off our masks, we first need to design and make a physical representation of our metaphors. Nina Muys, retired art teacher, led the company in a session of mask making that taught not only the artistic process of creating an actual mask, but also the care and respect the artist […]