Professional Services

Technovate: Your Ultimate Technology Firm for Smart Living in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, and Northwest DC

Your home should work as hard as you do, and look beautiful doing it. Technovate transforms the way you experience your home or business with expertly designed audio, video, and smart home automation solutions. Serving Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac, and Northwest DC, we create immersive environments that blend cutting-edge technology with effortless control, so everything simply works, beautifully.Whether you're renovating a historic Chevy Chase home, building new in Potomac, or upgrading a...

Food + Beverage

Tastes of The Union

Favorite Spots Article by Hayley Gottesman | Photography by Provided Alessandra Davin's rotation is always evolving — she's constantly seeking out the newest places, with discovering the best local coffee shops, dinner spots, and sweet treat destinations as core staples of her delicious dining adventures. Neighbors Coffee , located in Rockville, is known for its community-centered mentality and warm atmosphere. Find them on Instagram @neighborsmd. Ceremony Coffee Roasters , with locations...

Style + Beauty

The Season

According to GG Jaeger Article and Photography by Collab Collective Giulia Jaeger designs jewelry around a simple conviction, that every woman deserves a piece that tells her own story. For years she has worked quietly out of Chevy Chase, and if you spend time in the right rooms across the DMV, you have likely admired her earrings already, perhaps on a friend at dinner, without realizing they were hers. The gold, the colored stones, the quiet confidence of a well made pair.   Her sensibility...

Professional Services

The Business of Connection

How The Greater Bethesda Chamber of Commerce Has Shaped Greater Bethesda for 100 Years Article by Provided | Photography by Ceylon Mitchell Few organizations have had a front-row seat to Bethesda's transformation quite like the Greater Bethesda Chamber of Commerce. When the Chamber was established in 1926, Bethesda was a small crossroads community. Over the next century, it would grow into one of the nation's most influential business districts—home to Fortune 500 companies, world-renowned...

Local Services

More Than a Dealership

How Sam Weaver Built a Relationship-Driven Business Article by Vivian Mammen On November 11, 1977, a sixteen-year-old high school student stepped onto a truck lot wearing a freshly pressed suit. Young Sam Weaver was eager to begin his automotive career on the very land that would later house Marriott International’s global headquarters. What he didn’t know when he dressed up that morning was that his supervisor’s first order of business would be handing him a hose to wash trucks. Though...

Health + Wellness

A Life Built on Care

How Sara Reges blends family, community, and compassion through hospitality, healthcare, and purposeful leadership. Article by Vivian Mammen For Sara Reges, life has always centered on care—care for her family, her community, and people navigating moments of uncertainty. A wife and mother of four, Reges often reflects on how marriage and motherhood sharpened her sense of responsibility and empathy. “Everything I do comes back to my family,” she said. “When you’re raising kids, you’re...

Arts + Culture

Many Hands, One Land

Artist Luis Del Valle and Story Tapestries turn community memory into art at Agricultural History Farm Park. Article by Story Tapestries | Photography by Provided by Luis Del Valle At Agricultural History Farm Park in Derwood, food is everywhere — cornfields, chickens, cows and goats, gardens and barns. During Community Roots, people talked again and again about the work that kept farm life going. Community Roots is a public art project led by Montgomery County nonprofit Story Tapestries, in...

Arts + Culture

Finding Home in the American Story

Article by Hayley Gottesman When visitors step into Palmer Alley at CityCenterDC, they're likely to notice the color first. Suspended overhead, 17 larger-than-life living rooms stretch across the pedestrian corridor, each layered with bold textiles, architectural forms, and cultural references that invite a second look. Together, they make up Urban Living Rooms, the immersive public art installation by Vietnamese American artist and architectural designer Tung Nguyen. But Nguyen hopes...

Professional Services

Style, Speed, and Substance

There is something undeniably striking about a vintage motorcycle ridden by a person in a three-piece suit. It looks like a scene pulled from Mad Men — Don Draper astride a Triumph Bonneville, tailored and unbothered. That single image, more than a decade ago, sparked a movement that now spans more than 1,000 cities and 120 countries, raises tens of millions of dollars, and — closer to home — fills the streets of the Greater Washington DC area every spring with the low rumble of classic engines...

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Fitness

Why We Train Barefoot | Personal Training Bethesda, MD

Why We Train Barefoot: Building Strength From the Ground UpWalk into Nesfield Performance in Bethesda, Maryland, and you’ll notice something different right away: we train barefoot.It isn’t a gimmick, and it isn’t simply about taking your shoes off. Barefoot training is part of how our personal training studio helps people move better, build foot strength, improve body awareness, and create a stronger foundation for everything they do.Your feet are your connection to the ground. They influence...