Written By Sherwood Kohn Three years ago, Steve Flynn quit his well-paying job as a senior district manager in the marketing department of the Aon insurance corporation and started singing like Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and...

Written by Lisa Breslin Oscar-Winning Movie Opens Foreign Film Festival The Academy Award-winning South African film, “Tsotsi” (below), opens the Carroll County Arts Center’s 4th Annual Foreign Film Festival on February 2 and 3....

Written By Sheila Herbst What has 12-year-old Samantha Pollino, who appeared on the cover of Carroll Magazine’s June/July issue, been doing since she played Emma in the Broadway musical, “Hot Feet?” “I’m busy and I love it!”...

Written By Sherwood Kohn The “niche” phenomenon, in which services are aimed at specific demographic groups, has pervaded our consumer society. Once based on intuitive assessments of the market, appeals to portions of the...

Written By Cathy Drinkwater Better Memory is a funny thing. We all cherish warm recollections of family holidays, but we edit them in our minds so they wind up looking like a TV commercial for JCPenney–everyone gathered...

Written By Cari Pierce This year, don’t do it. Don’t make that New Year’s resolution to get in shape. We all know that come the stroke of midnight, after the confetti falls and the party horns go silent, we never keep our...

Written By Anne Blue John O’Meally and his wife, Wendie, who live in Westminster, have been skiing since they were teenagers. They have passed on their love of the sport to their three children by starting each child on skis at...

Written By Patricia Rouzer With lively blue eyes, silver-flecked, long, brown tresses, dressed in a modestly Bohemian jacket over black slacks and blouse, Sue Ruddick Bloom looks every inch the artist and college professor that...

Written by David Greisman On a crisp autumn morning in Carroll County, near the old Shriver farm off Route 31, a cacophony of yelps breaks the quiet, echoing through the forest for almost a minute before the silence returns....

Written By Vicki Anzmann Opening the door to any of these Carroll shops is like opening a toy box. Here is a sampling of playthings available around the county: TAKE ME TO YOUR HUMAN Robosapien, a “humanoid robot,” will delight...

Written By Linda Morton Silver Run: An intriguing name for a place, filled with innuendo and metaphorical possibilities for the imaginative mind. In reality, the name fits the community perfectly. There is mystery, allegiance,...

Written By Sherwood Kohn Not too many years ago, world health and agriculture experts were deeply concerned that the exploding population of the earth would soon exhaust food producers’ ability to feed everyone. Pundits wrung...