“I think when you want to pursue music or any arts you should always have a backup plan, Business always seems super cool to me… because you can’t really drift away. It’s straightforward; I like that,” he said. Quintanilla plans to use his business degree to secure his finances and to market himself in the music world. Quintanilla may be working towards a business degree, but he has his heart set on becoming a world-famous pop star.

As a full-time student also making time to work and practice music, Quintanilla considerers himself as a busy person. “It’s hard sometimes, you get anxiety, and there’s so much to do. It’s all about time management and priorities,” he said. Ihigh school, Quintanilla used to practice for about six hours a day. Today, it’s closer to one or two hours.


Hollywood Casino At Charles Town Races is less than an hour away from about half of MoCo (approximately 40 miles and 45 minutes away from Clarksburg).

According to the West Virginia Lottery Managing Counsel, Danielle Boyd, the sportsbooks will be ready for both the NFL and NCAA football seasons. Boyd expects sports betting to be in place by September 1st.


This past weekend, she took the recent high school graduates and their management team (20 in total) out to dinner to celebrate their success. This wasn’t just a regular dinner, as the team dressed up, met at Chick-fil-A, and were picked up by a limo that took them all to dinner at Copper Canyon in the Rio Washingtonian Center.

“We are in the people business. As much as it’s about pushing chicken sandwiches and fries across the counter, it’s more about investing in the lives of our guests and team members.” Smith told The MoCoShow.


We decided to take a different approach and create a D.C. sports Mount Rushmore. Going with sports opens it up to more than just athletes, as you’ll see on our list.

Since your author was born in the early 80s, we decided not to include anyone whose career was primarily in the 70s or earlier.


• Sting and Shaggy (who actually released an album together, titled 44/876, earlier this year) will be performing near one of the G street entrances a couple hours before the game (Fall Out Boy is scheduled to perform prior to Game 4).

• Wheel of Fortune host, Pat Sajak, will be announcing the starting lineups for Game 3 (he actually lives in Severna Park, MD). No word on if Vanna White will join him.


“Ovi always orders the same thing — Mamma Lucia, which is this pasta dish that’s like chicken parm with noodles, bread, cheese, the kind of thing you want to take a five-hour nap after eating. He makes a big display of it too. There’s no shame. It’ll be eleven in the morning, way before anyone is really thinking about eating lunch, and Ovi will walk into the dining area yelling, “Mamma Lucia! Mamma Lucia!”

David Kottler, who manages the Bethesda location, told me, “We’ve been feeding Ovi for over a decade.” He said, “It used to be about 1/3 of the team, but the Caps ended up getting their own chef over at Kettler. So we were asked if we could do it just for Ovi…and you don’t say no to Ovi.”


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