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Bethesda! Hotness rankings! NBCwashington.com's ridiculous sidebar poll! Ladies and gentlemen, it was pretty clear what article wins this week's award for highlighting the least news possible in one go. Quoting a blog post which quotes the Atlanta Fox affiliate's website's collaboration with something called TotalBeauty.com, writer Matthew Stabley obviously tried his best, but we can't help but think that he kind of buried the lede here. Isn't the real news that Hagerstown men have "a 30 percent obesity rate" with "fewer than 10 percent holding bachelor's degrees"? On that note, the real kudos goes to whichever editor who came up with the subhead of "Women find Hagerstown men homely." Phew, how the website's readers could rate this boring, I have no idea.

On Wednesday, winners of the regional visual art competition, The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards, were announced. The top four awards were given to René Treviño of Baltimore, who won “Best in Show” and a cash prize of $10,000; D.C.'s Molly Springfield was awarded second place and $2,000; Jessie Lehson of Baltimore was bestowed third place and received $1,000; while the “Young Artist” award of $1,000 was given to Hannah Kim of Falls Church, Va.

All we can say after reading this Washington Post story about Bethesda physician Eric C. Greenberg, 42, whose office was raided by a team of federal and local narcotics agents in April, is ewwwwww. Not only did officials discover Greenberg at his place of business with fresh, bleeding track marks all over his body, but consider this patient description from 2004: "The patient described respondent [Greenberg] as very disheveled looking with sores on his hands and face, dried blood under his nose, unshaven, and hair 'flaky.' His clothes were not pressed, he did not have socks on, his shoes were 'ratty,' his medical coat was dirty and it had what appeared to her to be dried, splattered blood all over the shoulder. The patient further stated that respondent stuttered and mumbled and was very difficult to understand." And it took five more years to shut this guy down? Cripes.

Whilst enjoying a few beers and the weather with friends yesterday, the conversation wiggled its way towards drinking establishments in Bethesda, D.C.'s friendly borough/township/indefinable blob of offices and residences to the north. Personally -- and, of course, this is opinion at best -- I've got nothing against Bethesda on the whole, but there's certainly no gravitational pull marching me closer to the inner Montgomery County suburban area. Sure, there's a couple of bars, a restaurant here or there, and it's certainly Metro-accessible, but really, it's just kind of...there.

While we were resting our hangovers yesterday, we missed word via the Examiner that River Road was at last reopened, a full eight days after a massive water main break caused flooding, substantial damage and led to the rescue of 15 people by boat and helicopter. The delay in reopening the road occurred after engineers discovered three cracked pipes that needed to be replaced in addition to the one that caused the flooding. The road is now open to vehicles, but crews are still working in the area and traffic will continue to be delayed for some time while final repairs are made.

Montgomery County Schools have announced that they are closing 2 and 1/2 hours early today due to the very large Bethesda water main break that damaged River Rd. and forced the rescue of 15 people from about a dozen stranded vehicles. The Post reports that school officials closed the campuses because the main break "has caused widespread water outages in schools across the lower part of the county," affecting the availability of water and heat in numerous schools. Students are being bussed home.

Leave it to the D.C. metro area to turn something as normally humdrum as a winter water main break into a dramatic rescue operation. Tune in to News Channel 8/WJLA for the best views of the large water main break near River Road that's forced Montgomery County authorities to send in helicopters and, yes we're not kidding, boats to rescue stranded motorists caught in roughly 4 feet of rushing water due to the broken main. At least twelve people have reportedly already been rescued.

              

This weekend, Bethesda welcomed the Small Press Expo to town. The event has developed into one of the biggest independent comic conventions there is, bringing comic artists and aficionados from all over the continent to the D.C. area. But despite its relatively high profile, it has a remarkably laid-back, D.I.Y. feel. Unlike the bigger, major comic cons, the level of full-scale geekery is scaled back at SPX: a minimum of costumes and dudes you suspect might still live in their parents' basements. Instead, there's just a huge group of friendly people with a shared interest in comic art. And that art comes in a lot of diverse forms here, so that within a few steps you can see slightly skewed super-hero fare, intensely personal and ornately drawn mini-comics, or even graphic novelizations of old Baby-sitter's Club books. You could make a weekend of just perusing all the work on display in the main hall, but SPX had a full schedule of panels, discussions, and workshops to go along with the exhibition. The highly sought-after Ignatz Award was given in ten categories to some of the best comics of the Expo, as rated by the visitors.

WJLA is all over the news that Montgomery County investigators linked DNA evidence from the crime scene of the homicide of a Bethesda area woman to two other home-invasion burglaries in the neighborhood. There have been a series of six similar home-invasions in the general area from Potomac to The Palisades over the last year, the most recent one resulting in the killing of Mary Havenstein, 63.

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We've been following the case of Collin McKenzie-Gude, 18, of Bethesda since his arrest last week on charges of making and exploding pipe bombs and illegally possessing firearms. At first glance, the circumstantial evidence that's been piling up paints a pretty weird picture. Here's what's happened so far: