DC Party Box will be showing WW84 tonight at 9PM at their drive in theater located at 6011 Executive Blvd. in Rockville.
After the movie they’ll switch straight over to Times Square coverage in NYC for the ball drop.
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As Dr. Anthony Fauci left work at the NIH in Bethesda Wednesday evening, quite the surprise was waiting for him as he stepped outside.
Emergency Medical Technicians, Firefighters, and Paramedics from the Bethesda-Chevy Chase Rescue Squad and the NIH’s own Fire Department stood outside to surprise him and wish him a happy birthday.
Jurassic Wonder is Coming to MoCo
The popular “dinosaur drive-through” is coming to the Montgomery County Fairgrounds this weekend, December 26th and 27th, for just $10 per car.
Holiday Drive-In Movies in Rockville
Two very popular holiday movies will be showing this Wednesday night at the DC Party Box drive-through movie night at the Wilco Drive-In.
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Taylor Momsen is well known for her role as Cindy Lou Who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Jenny Humphrey on Gossip Girl, but did you know she grew up in Potomac? Momsen attended Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in Bethesda for elementary school and then Hoover Middle School.
She was cast in her first national commercial as a four year old and later her first major motion picture– The Prophet’s Game with Dennis Hopper. In 2002, she played Gretel in Hansel and Gretel and Alexandra, the President’s daughter, in Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams. After a three year stall, she landed the lead in a WB series titled Misconceptions that never made it to the air.
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Did You Know that MoCo Has a Virtual Reality Arena?
VR Zone DC recently launched their Virtual Reality Arena in North Bethesda. They’re located off of Nebel Street, not far from Pike & Rose.
Chef David Chang, Recent Winner of Who Wants to be a Millionaire, Has MoCo Ties
You might have heard the news that celebrity chef David Chang won the million dollar prize on Who Wants to be a Millionaire’s most recent episode this past Sunday night. Did you know that he went to high school in MoCo?
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Last November, the Netflix show “The Crown” reached Netflix’s top 10 most watched shows. The hit drama follows Queen Elizabeth II’s long reign of Great Britain. Unfortunately, the show didn’t cover the Queen’s tour to the United States and Canada in 1957. On October 19, she and the Duke of Edinburgh cheered among 45,000 other fans at a University of Maryland (UMD) football game.
The Maryland Terrapins were playing against the North Carolina Tar Heels. While watching her first game of American football, the Queen stood next to Maryland governor Theodore McKeldin (to the right in the photo) and University of Maryland president Wilson Homer “Bull” Elkins (to the left in the photo).
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“Remember that guy that used to paint at Rio?” We sure do. If you ever walked through Rio between 2000-2016, you probably spotted George Petridis working on one of his beautiful paintings with a lot of his other artwork on display in the atrium of Rio just outside of the movie theater. For over 15 years, Petridis displayed his art and worked on new pieces surrounded by the bustle of the Rio crowd– often interacting with those who stopped to enjoy some of the work he had on display.
You’d be surprised to learn that Petridis didn’t actually live in MoCo, though he spent much of his time here while his art was on display at Rio. He was born and raised in Athens, Greece and didn’t pick up art until later in life while he was looking to become a cardiologist and fell in love with the daughter of a prominent artist in Belgium, who introduced him to painting. After participating in a show in Paris, he decided his passion would become his career and he joined his brother in Toronto, Canada.
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Inside the Squared Circle Returning for One Night Only
Inside the Squared Circle was on the air in Montgomery County from 1989 until 2014. ITSC started off as a radio program broadcasting out of a tiny AM station on Watkins Mill Rd. in Gaithersburg before moving to Montgomery County Cable Access television in 1992, where it ran for over twenty years.