Tales Of Two Cities

This afternoon I spotted this QR code stuck to one of the windows of the former Produce Galore space in the Wilde Lake Village Center ...

Initially I pined for the day that the iPhone might become available on Verizon. Back in 2009, when Apple’s revolutionary phone hit the m...

David Gertler should be on the school board. He is funny, smart and has a passion for mathematics yet twice now HoCo voters have chosen ...

Occasionally I get asked about a post I wrote back on December 20, 2011 concerning a lawsuit filed against HoCo über realtor, Creig Northro...

My friend, and HoCo loco political operative, Roger Caplan has generally dismissed the notion of Ken Ulman playing backup quarterback to ...

On more than one occasion I've encountered an empty scanner rack at Giant. I hate this. No scanners mean no Scan It for me, not on this...

From my experience, the best way to sum up the politics of the HoCo Fire Department is to say it’s complicated. Whenever a major issue crops...

The blog has slipped down my priority list lately. It’s not that I don’t have the time is just that I've chosen to spend that time diffe...

When the Howard Hughes Corporation purchased the former Ryland Headquarters building last August, it was more than half empty. Yesterday, ...

This weekend, the 2 nd annual Spring Celebration in Ellicott City featured four comedy acts in addition to a wide assortment of bands ...

On Tuesday shareholders of Columbia based Arbitron voted overwhelming in favor of being acquired by New York based Nielsen , combining th...

This Saturday the Ellicott City Business Association will host their 2 nd Annual Spring Celebration in the historic district. Live ente...

Some people can spend their entire working life in the same office with the same morning commute and the same view. Not me. Since beginnin...

The only thing I dislike about spring is that many of the acts of natures great color show end too soon. A week or sometimes just days can d...

A couple of months ago I discovered Busboys and Poets for the first time. I was in Hyattsville on a work assignment and came across their ne...

While cleaning out my desk for our move last week I found a copy of The Sun from June 9, 2002. Presumably I saved this particular paper be...

Peanut told me this short clip garnered over 20 million hits in five days on YouTube. Its classic slapstick stuff and I got a good lau...

Jean Parker has served as General Manager of Merriweather Post Pavilion for almost thirty years. She’s held the same job even as the opera...

Maryland Juice, a widely read Maryland political blog, has suggested that Courtney Watson is on Anthony Browns short list for lieutenant ...

When I visited the new Turf Valley Town Square  last weekend, I noticed two more restaurants were joining Facci and Petite Cellars in the ...