Get $75 in freebies with purchase of a one-year Costco Wholesale Club membership for $60 from two daily-deal websites.
LivingSocial.com and Groupon.com are offering regular Gold Star memberships for $60 a year for new members (existing memberships must have expired by Feb. 1). The offer includes…
Sunday will be the last day for Geppi’s Entertainment Museum, which showcases comic books and other pop cultural artifacts next to Camden Yards. But a large chunk of the museum’s collection will soon find a new home in Washington, D.C. The museum, which opened almost 12 years ago in the historic Camden Station, suffered from low attendance despite its proximity to the baseball stadium, owner Stephen A. Geppi said. “When we chose to go to Camden Station, there were great expectations for west…
With nothing left of their celebrated Main Street business “E.C. Pops” following Sunday’s tragic flood, a series of small miracles has lifted two Ellicott City businessmen to a path of hope. Within two hours Tuesday, E.C. Pops owners Lance Sovine and Dougles Yeakey signed a lease to reopen in temporary digs in nearby Columbia after the landlord extended a 1,600-square-foot storefront — rent free. A vendor called and donated $10,000 worth of candles to sell in their new location. A Howard County…
The speakeasy that tried so hard not to be on the radar when it opened last year is getting some national attention. The Elk Room — the swanky bar in Baltimore’s Harbor East — was named to Esquire’s “21 Best Bars in America 2018” or as the magazine puts it “Twenty-one exemplary places to start a tab.” Esquire sent its “lead barflies” Jeff Gordinier and Kevin Sintumuang and their friends to find bars that fit the bill. They obviously ended up in Baltimore where they raved about The Elk Room…
Peoples Bank & Trust Co. is laying off 82 employees.
Cured may be the newest restaurant in Columbia, one of Maryland’s best-known suburbs, but owner Steve Wecker is focused on making it a destination for the urban set. “We want this to be a place where people leave Baltimore and Washington to come here rather than the alternative,” Wecker said recently. Cured officially opened its doors to the public on May 21 and a sister restaurant in the same building, 18th & 21st, is set to follow soon. Both eateries are the first dining options to open in…
Bankers said the bill passed by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump last week will help community banks ramp up mortgage lending.
