FANS OF CAFFEINE AT DUNKIN’ & STARBUCKS NO LONGER NEED TO FEEL GUILTY ABOUT A STRONG CUP OF JAVA Popularity of high-octane coffee pushes pastry to back burner at Dunkin’ Donuts shops EXPANSION PROSPECTS FOR COFFEE-SERVING FRANCHISES KEEP GETTING BETTER & BETTER   By David Maril   Doctors, nutritionists, dieticians and fitness trainers have […]

  WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF EVERYONE TOOK UP TWO PARKING SPACES INSTEAD OF JUST ONE? Democrats, with too few candidates, and Republicans, with too many, offer voters minimal quality for picking a president ‘KARS4KIDS’ JINGLE BECOMES A NUISANCE (tinyurl.com/mkv3w4m) A LAUNDRY LIST OF PET PEEVES   By David Maril   As the final vestiges of […]

  ANOTHER STEP, FOLLOWING EMAIL, TOWARD FURTHER REDUCTION OF PERSONAL CONTACT But at least it’s quiet and doesn’t disturb everyone within earshot of the user PATHETIC AND EMBARRASSING RINGTONES   By David Maril   I was recently talking to the director of an art gallery who is pretty much old-school when it comes to modern […]

  GHOULISH BROADWAY MUSICAL BASED ON 1960s HIT TV SHOW, AT TOBY’S DINNER THEATRE THROUGH MID-APRIL Characters originated by Cartoonist Charles Addams in New Yorker magazine come to life onstage   By Eddie Applefeld   It was a few seasons ago, as best I can recollect, I saw a production of “The Addams Family” at […]

  MERGERS AND AUTOMATION HAVE CHANGED THE WAY THE BANKS DO BUSINESS Familiar branch managers and tellers have all but disappeared from sight   By David Maril   A merger announcement in the Baltimore Sun, about Howard Bank purchasing Patapsco Bank caught my eye the other day. The story said the deal putting two banks […]