Fresh energy is everywhere you look at Pumpernickel + Rye, the creation of sister-owners Amy Nesbit, executive chef, and Megan Hook, general manager. Urbana is in for a real treat with this first-of-its-kind scratch kitchen, new school deli and neighborhood…
Dr. Gary Carver’s trio of passions—woodcarving, the American chestnut tree and birds—fit together like a puzzle. A retired physicist, he incorporates his extensive knowledge of trees and woods into a bird carving art and shares a 60-acre property with his…
With enthusiasm and style, Jordan Knicley recently brought her Urban Violet Boutique to Urbana. Originally from Hagerstown where she started out in marketing, beauty and fashion as co-owner of the Sagittarius Salon & Spa, Knicley described the boutique as “my…
Dedicated is what springs to mind when I think about my conversation with Urbana High School’s Spanish teacher, guitar teacher and orchestra director Hector Ayerdiz. “My job as a teacher—students come in at different levels—is to help them improve their…
The world of color and how it speaks is what painter Bernadette Miller is all about. Her latest exhibit of vibrant landscapes in eye-catching hues of aqua and green and mauve is at the Urbana Library hall gallery. New Market…
Urbana High art teacher Tracey Ellis-Guss pushes all the right buttons. “I’m a big advocate of reaching out to other teachers and their students and the community at large,” she said, to show what our students can do. In fact,…
With age, art and life become one, said the French master of cubism George Braque. So, too, is the artwork represented at the Delaplaine’s sparkling show “Over 70,” which highlights the work of 163 of the area’s experienced artists. The…
Tucked off MD 355 down Hyattstown Mill Road at the edge of Little Bennett Regional Park is Hyattstown Mill, home of the Hyattstown Mill Arts Project (HMAP) that celebrated its 20th anniversary during the recent Heritage Days Festival with the…
Artist Goodloe Byron needs no introduction, especially if you’ve seen his murals on the Church Street Parking Garage in Frederick, at the Red Line Metro in Silver Spring, in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon area—or more locally at The Surf House, Kannavis…
For 16 seasons, Anne Bertinuson has been growing specialty cut flowers, flowering plants and herbs on Rosebud Estates, a farm she rents on Route 80 in Monrovia. “I specialize in lilies and grow them from April to November,” she said…
