Reality in Rockville: A Guide for Kate Gosselin

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YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD the news: Kate Gosselin, of TLC's saddest reality show ever, "Jon and Kate Plus 8," might be moving to Rockville (although some reports say she isn't). We want to be good neighbors either way, so we'd like to extend a hand of friendship and a few quick suggestions for local stops she might like to hit while she's minus Jon.

» L.A. Boxing Gym (192A Halpine Road, Rockville; 301-881-4269, laboxing.com)
Kate gets a lot of flak for being, um, a grouch. But we'd be ticked, too, if our husband wore that much Ed Hardy and turned out to be a giant manchild and made us be the grown-up all the time. Kate probably has a lot of anger she needs to work out, so we'd send her straight to a punching bag, since it looks like her old one's made other arrangements.

» Orange Ball Billiards and Cafe (430 Hungerford Drive, Rockville; 301-309-6440, obbilliards.com)
Hey, even single moms need to have fun. Rockville is short on meet markets — and many of the bars that exist are messy buffalo wing places that would give neatnik Kate a coronary — but we think she could shake loose at the Orange Ball, which boasts cheap drinks and some of the best-kept pool tables in the Metro area. Really, we're just hoping little Aaden grows up to be an adorable pool hustler. Oh, and that we get to make lots of eight ball puns in the upcoming weeks.

» Stonestreet Museum of 19th Century Medicine (103 W. Montgomery Ave., Rockville; 301-340-6534)
Kate's going to have to introduce the kids to her new digs eventually. We're hoping that instead of a spin through CalTort and the park, she opts for the unconventional Stonestreet Museum. It's full of gruesome/fascinating artifacts about what medicine was like before we really knew anything about the human body, and it's just the sort of thing young, slightly morbid kids would love. Plus, imagine how sweet that episode would be.

» Chicken Out (1560 Rockville Pike, Rockville; 301-230-2020, chickenout.com)
Because that's what Jon did.

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