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January 2010 Articles (17)

"Down to Business" Announces Guests for February Show

Michael A. Mobley, executive director of j-ref, a small business financier in Howard County, announces the line-up for the February episode of the television program, Down to Business. The guests are:

Main Guest: Beverley Francis, Columbia Foundation

Advice Segment: Kylie Berry, Kylie Berry Photography

Entrepreneur: Robert Wasilewski, RW Investment Strategies

The show begins February 1, 2010, airing on Comcast Howard County Channel 98, Mondays, & Fridays:… Continue

Added by Lisa Brusio Coster on January 27, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

Volunteer Opportunities for Mentors, Tutors & Educators

"To the world, you might be just somebody. But to somebody, you just might be the world." – Unknown

Remember that teacher in high school who took the time to get to know you, who supported you and believed in you? The one who took the time to make learning fun and didn’t mind making the effort to help you understand the lesson?

What about the coach who constantly urged you to do your best, who didn’t compare you with others on the team but held you to a standard all… Continue

Added by Mickey Gomez on January 26, 2010 at 11:03pm — No Comments

Howard County General Hospital Ranked in Top Five Percent in Nation According to Quality Study

Recognized for Outstanding Clinical Performance by HealthGrades, the Leading Independent Healthcare Ratings Organization

COLUMBIA, MD. – Howard County General Hospital: A Member of Johns Hopkins Medicine (HCGH) announced today that a new study ranks its clinical quality among the top five percent of hospitals in the nation for the second consecutive year. HCGH is one of only 269 hospitals in the nation that received this distinction from HealthGrades for 2010.

The national… Continue

Added by Will Davis on January 26, 2010 at 11:22am — No Comments

Camp Expo 2010

Come to a free Camp Expo on January 31 from 2:30-5:00PM. Day and overnight camps for all ages will be at Kahler Hall to provide information about their programs.flyer 10.pdf

Added by Harper's Choice Community Assn. on January 21, 2010 at 4:37pm — No Comments

Twelfth Night Review

“Most wonderful!” Marriotts Ridge High School's production of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night was certainly so. Its contemporary setting and frequent pop songs made it a show an audience can sing-along to.

The play takes place in the land of Illyria (modernized into Hollywood) where ship-wrecked Viola has taken on the male persona of Cesario so that she may serve the Duke Orsino. Through her service, she falls in love with Orsino who is desperately in love with the Lady Olivia who in… Continue

Added by Alex Press on January 19, 2010 at 7:18pm — No Comments

"Twelfth Night" at Marriots Ridge High School

Only in a Shakespeare production can one find a woman disguised as a man wooing her lord’s beloved more successfully than he ever could, a normally upright (and even uptight) steward making advances upon his lady in yellow cross-gartered stockings, and a lively rendition of A.R. Rahman’s Jaya Ho. “If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.” Wait a second good Fabian. Improbable, maybe- yet mere fiction, never! Marriots Ridge High School’s… Continue

Added by Nihal Singh on January 18, 2010 at 4:51pm — No Comments

Marriotts Ridge's Twelfth Night!

Glitz, glamour, and style are three words that epitomized Marriotts Ridge’s version of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Fabulously set in Hollywood, the characters became the rich and famous of today.

Twelfth Night begins as twin brother and sister Sebastian and Viola are shipwrecked and separated from one another. Viola washes up in Illyria and decides to disguise herself as a man and calls herself Cesario. She goes to work for Duke Orsenio, whom she falls in love with. However, Orsenio is… Continue

Added by Rose Wallace on January 17, 2010 at 8:00pm — No Comments

Twelfth Night

Who would have expected iambic pentameters in the 9-0-2-1-0? With a little help from the words of William Shakespeare, Marriotts Ridge High School’s production of “Twelfth Night” is a solid show with a fresh setting.

“Twelfth Night” has a story so complex, that it would take a character web for everything to make sense. Twins, Viola and Sebastian, are separated at sea. Viola washes ashore in Illyria, Los Angeles where she soon becomes entangled with Orsino, a duke vying for the… Continue

Added by Kris Keochinda on January 17, 2010 at 4:51pm — No Comments

Silhouette Stages' Cabaret Night Features Broadway Talent

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Cabaret Night features Broadway Talent

The first Cabaret Night of the New Year is gearing up to be a star-studded evening! Silhouette Stages’ Cabaret Night will be held on Saturday, January 30th at 8:00 PM at the Slayton House Theater in the Wilde Lake Village Center, Columbia,… Continue

Added by Wendy Meetze on January 16, 2010 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Preschool and Child Care Infomation Fair

“Children On Board” the annual Preschool and Child Care Information Fair sponsored by Howard County Department of Citizen Services’ Child Care Resource Center, will be held at Ten Oaks Ballroom located at 5000 Signal Bell Lane, Clarksville on Saturday, January 23, 2010 from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Admission is free but attendees are encouraged to bring a nonperishable food item for the Howard County Food Bank.

“Children On Board”, will provide parents, guardians and grandparents with a… Continue

Added by Debbie Yare on January 15, 2010 at 11:32am — No Comments

The Columbia Mall Wayback Machine

My wife found a hanger in our coat closet. An old one. It must have belonged to my parents.

"Oh, wow!" I said. "Yeah, Hutzlers. They were one of the original anchors at Columbia Mall, along with Hochschild Kohn." I knew this to be true, having lived my entire life in Howard County and Columbia. I could picture the store in my mind. I was absolutely certain. I was also absolutely wrong.

She posted the photo of the hanger to FaceBook, and… Continue

Added by Dave Bittner on January 13, 2010 at 5:51pm — 6 Comments

A Midsummer's Night Dream

Claire Fremuth

Atholton’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream

“The ear of man hath not seen”, but the eye of man has seen a striking display of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Performed by Atholton, directed by Nathan Rosen, Shakespeare’s green world piece came alive with 1960s style.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy about four lovers. Hermia, daughter to Egeus, is courted by an Athenian man named Demetrius of whom her father approves for marriage. Hermia,… Continue

Added by Claire Fremuth on January 12, 2010 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Exhibits: Maryland Society of Portrait Painters; Pat Dillon

The Columbia Art Center presents:

Maryland Society of Portrait Painters

MAIN GALLERY IN COLUMBIA ART CENTER

PAT DILLON: TRAVELOGUE

Oil Painting Exhibition

IN COLUMBIA ART CENTER WINDOW GALLERY

January 7 – February 14, 2010

A reception for the show will be held Thursday, January 14, 6-8pm, free of charge and open to the community.

The Columbia Art Center Galleries are open for viewing, Monday-Thursday 9:30am-9pm, Friday-Saturday,… Continue

Added by Michelle Dunn on January 11, 2010 at 9:54pm — No Comments

Drama Learning Center presents FAME!

Drama Learning Center

proudly presents

FAME

FAME, the musical based on the motion picture and the long-running television series is set to take the stage at Drama Learning Center! This production, performed by Teaching Young Actors, DLC’s Teen Professional Company, is the bittersweet but ultimately inspiring story of a diverse group of students as they commit to four years of grueling artistic and academic work at New York City's celebrated High School for the Performing… Continue

Added by Drama Learning Center on January 11, 2010 at 5:03pm — No Comments

Atholton's "A Midsummer's Night Dream" Review

The audience begins to quiet as the lights of Atholton’s auditorium dim and the curtains peal back to reveal a bare stage consisting of only about nine cast members. Thrown off by the lack of set and the thoroughly modern garb, I focus in, now made very curious as to how the director, Nathan Rosen, had decided to spin Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. As it turns out Rosen chose to go with a very fun 1960’s setting, all made very clear on the emergence of the fairies, decked out in tie… Continue

Added by Alli Kahan on January 8, 2010 at 5:42pm — No Comments

Exhibit: Pat Dillon

PAT DILLON: TRAVELOGUE

Oil Painting Exhibition

IN COLUMBIA ART CENTER WINDOW GALLERY

The Columbia Art Center Window Gallery is presenting “TRAVELOGUE” a solo exhibition of oil paintings by artist Pat Dillon, January 7 – February 14, 2010. The collection of paintings was inspired by Pat’s travels through the United States and overseas. A reception for the show will be held Thursday, January 14, 6-8pm, free of charge and open to the community.

The Columbia Art… Continue

Added by Michelle Dunn on January 7, 2010 at 11:57pm — No Comments

Y'all Come. Bridges Open House

Bridges to Housing Stability cordially invites the Howard County community to drop in to its new offices at 9250 Berger Road, Suite 311, Columbia, on Thursday, January 7 from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm. The Bridges' Board of Directors and staff welcome county residents, business people and nonprofit colleagues that serve people in need within our community. The Open House will provide an opportunity to learn more about homelessness in Howard County as well as the Bridges planned program expansion to… Continue

Added by Jacqueline Eng on January 5, 2010 at 5:32pm — No Comments