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Target recently picked up Oyin Handmade's hair care line, selling the Baltimore-made products in 140 stores around the country.

Residential, commercial and street burglaries and thefts this week in Columbia

Residential, commercial and street burglaries and thefts this week in Howard County

Sales are brisk for the Wild Pea Hummous made by Blake Wollman

Catonsville Cooperative Market is a group with a vision to bring natural and organic foods to its members.

EZ Squeezees are refillable pouches for eating on the go

The initial results of an economic study of eight of Columbia's village centers identified adding more restaurants as the best future use for the centers, some of which have seen a decline in recent years.

Howard Hughes Corp., Howard County in discussion about upgrades for Merriweather

The six-year-old Sudbury School of Arts and Ideas has moved from Hamilton to South Road in Mount Washington and it has about 40 students. It's a very alternative school, where there are no classrooms. The students make their own hours and can hire and fire the staff. But they go to college, which is the proof of the pudding, says a founding parent.

The new plan would concentrate 2,100 residential units, a 250-key hotel, 203,000 square-feet of retail, up to 4,360 parking spaces and 225,000 square-feet of civic uses – which would include a new county library, state-of-the-art swim center, conference center and concert hall – directly south of Merriweather Post Pavilion. In addition, the developer also plans to build 1,125,000 square feet of general and medical office space in three plots west of the pavilion.

Safeway Inc.'s announcement Thursday that private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management would acquire the company in a deal valued at about $9.4 billion is the latest sign from the troubled grocery industry that supermarkets have fallen out of style.

On Saturday, March 1, residents and other interested people will get an opportunity to learn just how different Haven on the Lake will be at a preview event held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Historic Oakland located in Town Center.

Restaurateur's Mount Washington eatery takes a hit as hummus business thrives

In the Valentine's Day of your fantasies, you'd spend hours preparing a gourmet dinner for two, enjoying champagne, and savoring dessert with the object of your affection.

In an effort to jump start Howard Hughes Corp.'s anticipated redevelopment of Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Howard County Executive Ken Ulman has levied a call to action to the developer, which he feels has shown a "lack of urgency" toward its promise to makeover the downtown concert venue.

Four months after taking over the old Village Flower Mart in Hampden and renaming it The Modest Florist, owner Libby Francis Baxter is preparing for the floral industry's biggest day of the year and trying an unusual promotion: Valentine's Day without roses. Baxter wants people to buy flowers that are locally grown, rather than roses that probably come from South America.

We¿ve been hungry for this all season long.

People who love Columbia say the shootings inside the mall last weekend that left three people dead have cast a shadow over their town center that will pass, but not for awhile.

It was in Baltimore, in 2005, that the love triangle among British actors Daniel Craig, Jude Law and Sienna Miller came to a head.

It was in Baltimore, in 2005, that the love triangle among British actors Daniel Craig, Jude Law and Sienna Miller came to a head.

A recap of the Jan. 22 episode of 'Top Chef,' as the final three cheftestants are chosen

A recap of the Jan. 15 episode of 'Top Chef,' a po' boys rule!

According to the draft budget, CA will offer four membership packages for the new club. The first is called the Refresh Membership and will cost $120 annually ($10 per month) for existing PPP members, $600 annually ($50 per month) for new members who are residents, and $840 annually ($70 per month) for non-resident new members.

It's getting down to the wire for the final chefs, and we get the season's tensest episode and one of the most intense episodes to date.

When Sharon and Jacob Benus started Impaq International, a Columbia-based research firm, in their Pikesville basement in 2001, little did they know that just over 10 years later the company would employ more than 275 people at three locations.

University officials say that as the institution has leapt ahead in rankings and prestige, the city of College Park has lagged behind and that the status quo could stymie recruitment of talented faculty and students.

And almost all of the changes, which include the redevelopment of the former Rouse Co. building, the renovation of Clyde's, the addition of a Petit Louis Bistro and the completion of the pathway loop around Lake Kittamaqundi, to name a few, stand to benefit frequenters and residents of the downtown.

New York magazine's profile of actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus knocks the planned community of Columbia as bland, so what?

This week's QuickFire challenge was certainly one I could get behind. The chefs had 15 minutes to create a dish that incorporated Dunkin' Donuts coffee.

The study, which is also being sponsored by the Howard County Economic Development Authority and the county's Department of Planning and Zoning, will recommend future economic uses for eight of Columbia's village centers. It will also evaluate at the Snowden River Parkway and Dobbin Road corridor, which is home to a number of restaurants, grocers and other retail outlets.

The Still Point, a Clarksville-based wellness spa, has been chosen by the Columbia Association to deliver holistic spa and integrative health services at its downtown fitness club, which is scheduled to open in the former Rouse Co. building in the fall of 2014.

Six Fresh & Green's grocery stores in Maryland and Washington, DC will close by the end of the month, their parent company announced Monday.

Symphony Woods in downtown Columbia is a patch of nondescript land used mainly as a pathway for the tens of thousands of people who attend concerts at Merriweather Post Pavilion each year.

Maryland's oyster farming industry is clawing its way back from near oblivion a decade ago, when diseases had decimated the bay's oyster population and its seafood industry

A recap of the Nov. 20 episode of 'Top Chef,' a regular New Orleans pig out!