Tales Of Two Cities

Jessie and I connected on some weird coffee shop vibe this week. I had decided to do a post about the Starbucks Café in the Barnes & No...

Last week I received a mailing for the 30th annual Clyde’s American 10K race in Columbia. Today I’m filling out the application and sending...

They are dismantling the office cubes around me. My laptop is perched on a recycling bin laying on the top step of a step stool. I am hoping...

I attended the Columbia Association Board of Directors Planning & Strategy Committee last night. I went to show my support for increasi...

The Columbia Festival of the Arts needs your help. I know I’ve already made that pitch in this post but now the festival also needs your v...

Mama Wordbones and I just returned from seven days in the British Virgin Islands or more specifically, Little Dix Bay on Virgin Gorda. Li...

The Howard County Blogtail Hour came to Ellicott City this month. The local blogosphere landed at the Ellicott Mills Brewing Company . Jess...

A few months back I was standing in line for coffee at the Mad City Coffee stand in the main lobby of the Howard County General Hospital. I...

I took a departure my usual commentary to make an unadulterated fundraising pitch for the 21st Annual Columbia Festival of the Arts . The f...

The site is stabilized, the deposit money is being returned and the sales center is now by appointment only. The Sun reported today that ev...

“Excuse me sir. You are not allowed to take pictures in the mall.” I was standing on the second level of the mall snapping pictures of what...

The Sun reported today that Greg Hamm, the newly minted “General Manager” of Columbia for GGP , spoke to an “open meeting” of the Columbia...

Last Saturday I packed up the last five years worth of retired computers and related peripherals and headed out to the county dump. Mama Wo...

My good friend Jim Troy who publishes the Howard/Arundel Report , reports that the portfolio of office buildings owned by GGP in Town Cent...

Back in April of last year I wrote a post about a panhandler working the LL Bean plaza of the The Mall In Columbia. This past week I had my...

Is it just me or does anyone else agrees that the Sun has significantly pared down their Howard County coverage? The new tabloid format ca...

I just learned that Santana will be performing at Merriweather Post Pavilion on Sunday April 6th. April 6th? Did I miss something? Have the...

Okay, so I skipped a week there. My bad. I don’t know what it is but since Christmas I seem to have more things to do and less time to do th...

Another of the Mall In Columbia's original local tenants has left. Hyatt & Co men’s clothing store recently closed its mall store a...

There was a story yesterday in the Sun about Wegman’s receiving initial site plan approval for their proposed store in Columbia. The acti...