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September 28th, 2007 | Category: Celebrations,Development,Entertainment

Real Estate in MoCo
This morning on the Today Show, Matt Lauer was talking to a couple of guests about the dramatic drop in home sales. Unfortunately you can’t see it online until after 11:00am (I assume because of our West Coast Gangsta friends), so this is a loose recollection of the conversation. One guest said, “Whatever you do, don’t buy a house.” Matt, in his infinite wisdom, responded by asking about the fact that so many fo the real estate issues are local, and some markets aren’t as bad. The response: “Okay, Matt. Maybe Seattle, 10005 (Manhattan), and Montgomery County, Maryland would be the only places I would buy anything.”

They love us! They really love us!

UPDATE: MSNBC has posted the video.

Rock for RenovationWake Up Wakefield
The Old Blair Auditorium Project is os putting on a “Rock for Renovation” Benefit Concert this Saturday, September 29, from 7-10pm featuring Featuring Derek James (from NYC), The Fighting Janes, Neil Foley (Irish Fiddle), and Blair High School’s InToneNation (a cappella singing). That last one almost sounds like a local incarnation of Jazz Times 10, the omnipresent band on SNL’s “Wake Up Wakefield.” Man, nothing gets me out of a funk faster than Jazz Times 10 going klezmer.

Doug Who?
Who does Doug Duncan think he is, anyway? Trying to nab funding from Montgomery County to help build The Birchmere in College Park? I would have expected more from him. Thankfully, we have a County Executive who won’t let that happen and a Governor on our side:

Leggett raised the issue yesterday in a meeting with O’Malley (D). Afterward, Leggett spokesman Patrick Lacefield said, “We are wholly unconcerned about the future of the project.” O’Malley spokesman Rick Abbruzzese said the governor told Leggett “that he would follow his lead on the important revitalization efforts taking place.”

Looks like they’ll tweak the language in the legislation to make sure the money stays where it should.

Magical Montgomery
As if there wasn’t enough to do this weekend, Magical Montgomery Cultural Fair is coming back on Saturday from 1-7pm.

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  1. Bonifant more sinister than Thayer September 28th, 2007 8:18 am

    As much as Ike will/should put the smackdown on him, you gotta admit that it was a shrewd political move by Duncan Doughnuts. He won’t get our slice, but he’s set him self up for his own chunk of gubment cheese.

    Also, I wonder if the hip hop and R&B fans in P.G. are complaining on their community listservs about how the new venue is going to bring the undesirable folk music crowd into their neighborhood.

  2. Sligo September 28th, 2007 9:01 am

    Well, that is good to hear. I just keep telling myself my house is still worth what I paid for it. There is a house near me that is listed for 889,000! I would be shocked if they got that even in a good market.