COMMUNITY • BY JULIE WIATT Bill Murphy’s life course shifted when he took in a homeless man to share his dorm room in a Catholic college in Worcester. Bill

EDITOR'S VOICE • BY ERIC BOND This year marks a quarter century of the Voice. For the past 25 years, this has been an independent monthly tabloid, dedicated to

ENVIRONMENT • BY AMANDA ZIADEH On April 10, Cassie Meador, artistic director of Takoma Park’s Dance Exchange, began a 500-mile hike through Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia to

HEALTH & FITNESS • BY KIRSTY GROFF As people develop, they move through different stages in their lives.  The names and terms for these stages can differ from

BIZ BUZZ • BY SARAH KRAUT Scroll to the bottom of the page to see a slideshow. In the basement of an unassuming Latino-owned cyber store on University Boulevard

SPORT REPORT • BY TEIGHLER DOAK There’s a cliché in sports that almost every athlete hears eventually: “Win, lose or tie, keep your chin up.” Last week, the

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT

Dear Readers,

The next time councilmember Seth Grimes asks someone to correct any misconceptions he might have, would somebody please get

EDUCATION • BY TIM EBNER, CNS Maryland schools are moving closer to overhauling the way that they evaluate teachers, putting more emphasis on student performance and test scores. The

GRANOLAPARK • BY GILBERT Dear Readers, Takoma Park's new councilmembers want a sustainability coordinator and they want it now! Freshly seated and not yet saddle-sore, they

AT HOME IN SILVER SPRING • BY STEVE KNIGHT & KAREN BURDITT Last month we wrote about adding onto historic homes in our community and cited two

When Ype Von Hengst showed up at the Marine Corps Marathon in October 2008, the then-58-year-old wondered what he had gotten himself into: Before the 26-mile race, the

by Greg Kohn The Montgomery County Parks Department will consider public opinion and the environmental impact in deciding whether sharpshooting some of the overpopulated deer in the Sligo Creek-area

THE HEART OF PARENTING  Dear Emory, I’m writing to ask you for your advice about how to get my seven-year-old son to accept that I mean, “No,” when

COMMUNITY VOICE: EVAN GLASS Most people might be surprised to learn that pedestrians are struck by moving vehicles on a daily basis here in Montgomery County.  And as the

SIN OF THE MONTH — When I began writing this monthly column a gazillion years ago, it was in order to discuss each of the Seven Deadly Sins. 

Let's say we all want to have a road outside our houses.  We can each hire someone to come out, do an estimate, and then bring

When I visited Kyoto in the early '80s, I immediately declared it my favorite place on earth, and almost nowhere I've been since then has shaken it from

by Abby Bardi

Last month, just before I left for Japan, the Japanese prime minister resigned, having lost popular support because of his failure to negotiate the

On the night the health-care bill passed, I had gotten home from work at ten, and I was starving; on the nights of my evening class, I tend