🧘‍♀️ Meet YogaSix Potomac’s new lead teacher. Lana Boone shares how she grew from memorized routines to teaching frameworks that unlocked real confidence and deeper student connection. Read the interview [Sage Roundtree]

🔥 Song Dog Farm Distillery heats up winter. Their inaugural Winter Fest lands this weekend in the Ag Reserve with new fire pits, hot toddies, Santa photo ops, food trucks, and dog-friendly vibes. Reserve a pit

✍️ Winter writing calendar is live. The Writer’s Center just released its Winter–Spring lineup with 100+ workshops, from memoir to query letters, offered in person and online starting in January. Claim a seat

🏈 Churchill goes All-County. The Bulldogs landed eight players across the 2025 All-County Offense and Defense teams, capping a strong season with well deserved recognition. See the full rosters [The MoCo Show]

There is a moment every December—usually late, usually inconvenient—when the idea of hosting Christmas dinner begins to feel ambitious in the way only Christmas can make it feel.

This is where The Market at River Falls enters the story.

Behind the glass case sits a Christmas menu that reads like a well-kept family secret: jumbo shrimp and stone crab claws arranged with intention, crab cakes that vanish on contact, bacon-wrapped scallops that solve arguments before they begin.

Then the centerpieces: garlic-herb whole beef tenderloins, Pennsylvania Dutch turkeys, and Spiral Bone-In Virginia Hams that slice with confidence.

You select carefully. You serve casually. Everyone assumes you planned this for weeks.

Order by Saturday from The Market at River Falls

*This section is sponsored by a friend of the Loop

Har Shalom's Jewish Film Festival | 12–1pm @ Congregation Har Shalom
Enjoy Hanukkah on Rye, a cozy deli-set rom-com where rivalry meets romance, then let donuts and latkes do their holiday diplomacy. 🎬

Potomac Library Book Discussion | 6:30–7:30pm @ Potomac Library
Dig into Alexis Henderson’s An Academy for Liars, a dark-academia tale of secret admissions, persuasive power, and campus charm that bites back. 📚

PCV Speaker Series: Murder, Inc. | 3–4:30pm @ Potomac Community Center
Local Author and former Senate Intelligence Committee counsel Jim Johnston examines CIA assassination plots, Castro blowback, and how the JFK-era narrative took shape. Register in link 🕵️‍♂️

Intergenerational Graphic Novel Book Club: The Faint of Heart | 6:30–7:30pm @ Potomac Library
Teens and older adults read The Faint of Heart together, discovering how a graphic novel lands differently when shared across generations. Register in link 🗯️

Winter Fest | Fri-Sun @ Song Dog Farm Distillery
The County’s newest grain-to-glass distillery goes full hygge with farm fire pits, Hot Toddies, tours, food trucks, crafts, and Santa photo ops for humans and pups. Fri 5-9pm, Sat & Sun 12-7pm, reservations in link🔥

Nail Art for Tweens & Teens | 4:30–5:30pm @ Potomac Library
A hands-on DIY mani lab for ages 10–18 with non-toxic polish, tools, and stickers, because Fridays deserve a little unapologetic sparkle. 💅

Winter Solstice Hike | 10am–12pm @ Riley’s Lock (Lock 24)
Celebrate the year’s shortest day with a volunteer-led stroll along the C&O Canal, past mill ruins and Potomac views that make winter feel luminous. Dress warmly & bring water 🌞

Vintage (Real) Heart Cake Decorating | 1pm @ Dov & Company
Guest cake artist Lorena teaches vintage piping and dreamy borders on a real heart-shaped cake, so you leave with a bakery-pretty dessert you made yourself. Tickets in link 🎂

Winter Jubilee | 1–4pm @ F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre
Rockville’s Civic Center Park turns into a kid-approved winter wonderland with crafts, face painting, costumed characters, karaoke, sing-alongs, and Rockville Science Center cardstock “gingerbread” houses. Tickets in link ❄️

Candle Making at Grusendorf Log House | 10am–12pm @ Seneca Creek State Park Office
Step into Seneca Creek’s 1855 Grusendorf Log House for old-time hand-dipped candles with a volunteer ranger for history you can light and gift. “Not suitable for young children” 🕯️

Free Vinyasa Flow Yoga Class | 4–5pm @ Potomac Flow Yoga
Catch a free all-levels vinyasa flow with Padmini Rajan, a lifelong practitioner nearing her 200-hour training certification. Drop-ins welcome 🧘

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