Tuesday, April 30, 2013
About 2,000 runners competed in the Iron Girl Half Marathon and coed 5k in Downtown Columbia on Sunday.
Over 2,000 runners competed in the Iron Girl Half Marathon and coed 5k in Downtown Columbia on Sunday Bridget Holt, of Gambrills, MD, finished first in the half marathon. Holt finished with a time of 1:21:22, a whole five seconds ahead of second place finisher Suzanne Serpico, 32, of Columbia. The half marathon and 5k were held for the second year in Downtown Columbia. The race takes place to benefit the Claudia Mayer Cancer Resource Center at Howard County General Hospital. "We could not have asked for a more beautiful day or a more energized crowd for this special event," said Keri Ebeling, chief operating officer of TriColumbia, in a statement. "The morning started off with a moment of silence to pay tribute to those tragically …
Friday, November 30, 2012
The 2012 Republican candidate for U.S. Senate is considering a run for governor.
The Republican who took on Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin and lost this election season is eyeing Maryland's 2014 governor's race as his next political move. Dan Bongino split the conservative vote 28 to 17 percent with independent Rob Sobhani earlier this month. Bongino said he thinks he could fare better in another statewide campaign. "We probably have the largest [Republican] fundraising base in the state," Bongino said. "We kept data on every door we knocked on, on every phone call we made. That's data that's easily reusable in a statewide campaign and certainly something we are thinking about." Bongino admitted to being an unknown when he launched his bid for Maryland's Senate seat in May 2011. Now he's got more than 7,000 donors, 11,…
Monday, October 1, 2012
Michael Chabon's latest novel "Telegraph Avenue" is based on his relationship with race, which began in Columbia.
Novelist Michael Chabon's last novel, released Sept. 11, has the critics abuzz. Chabon, 49, who split his time between Pittsburgh and Columbia while growing up, won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for his novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay. His latest novel, Telegraph Avenue, is about two friends, one white and one black, who operate a records store on Telegraph Avenue, a street that seperates Berkeley, CA and Oakland. But when a new megastore is proposed on the street, the two friends worry about the fate of their business. At its heart, according to Chabon in a New York Times opinion article, is the question of the relationship between white and black people, one that Chabon said he explored at an early age in …
Monday, September 24, 2012
The Baltimore Sun reports some athletes in the event aren't excited about Armstrong's presence, but participation has increased.
Lance Armstrong's announcement that he would be racing in Howard County next month has increased participation, but it also has brought criticism to the race's organizers. According to the Baltimore Sun, at least one of the race's former competitors, along with others, are not pleased with Armstrong's presence because in order to host him the race had to be de-sanctioned by USA Triathlon, meaning results from the race will not count toward pro athletes' rankings. Because Armstrong has been banned for life from competing in sports governed by organizations that adhere to the World Anti-Doping Code, he can not compete in any USA Triathlon sanctioned events. However, the decision has increased participation in the event, according to event …
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
Popular hunting magazine described residents' efforts as 'foolishly trying' to change name.
Last week, a blogger for the popular hunting magazine Field and Stream took issue with Coon Hunt Court residents who were working to have their street name changed. "Some residents on a certain street in Columbia, Md. are foolishly trying to change the name of their street from one of the coolest names ever, to one of those boring, generic, over-used, whitebread subdivision street names that have zero sense of real place," wrote Field and Stream blogger Chad Love. He went on to quote a news story about the residents' efforts and then wrote the following: Are you kidding? Coon Hunt Court? That's a real street name, and they're actually trying to get it changed to... April Wind Circle? That's not a street name: that's the setting for a …
Friday, June 22, 2012
'Columbia ... was an experiment.' - Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon.
Michael Chabon, native son of Columbia and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has a new novel due to be released in September called Telegraph Avenue. In advance of the book, he talked to the Wall Street Journal about his Columbia roots and how they shine through in the new novel. The novel is set in Berkeley, CA, in a world “where used jazz soul records are a form of currency, and where Blaxploitation stars make special appearances at sports-card conventions,” according to the WSJ description. He told the newspaper the idea for the novel came from watching the O.J. Simpson verdict and reflecting on how his own life seemed at the time compared to his childhood in Columbia. “The moment that I came of age,” said Chabon, according to the WSJ, “…
Monday, March 26, 2012
Talking To My Kids About Trayvon Martin
As someone who was forbidden to sport the punk looks of the 1980's, I like to let my kids enjoy them – up to a point. Temporary hair colors. No permanent tattoos. No gauges. I dread the day one of them comes home with a piercing, but at least you should be able to remove whatever studs you put through the holes. I don't people to get the wrong idea about my kids, you see. I don't want them not to get jobs based on bad-but-permanent fashion statements. I don't want them hassled by cops because they look like they ought to be stealing things. What white people don't get about the Trayvon Martin thing is that “looking wrong” is a lot more likely to get you killed a lot more often when you're black than when you're white. Certainly, being …
Robert Villanueva
9:22 am on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
I am the former racer who was quoted in the Sun and I was/am terribly disappointed in the decision to unsanction the race. As I have learned over the last five days, there are many who feel that being against the decision to desanction the race is to want cancer patients to suffer or Half-Full to suffer...With a shocking torrent of emails, FB Messages, and Twitter DM's that I have received, many … more ›