Growing up in Baltimore, Ahmad Onyango, then 12, remembered there were several theaters in the city, but none of them were as large and popular as the Royal Theater. It was thrilling, he said, because it was the only place to see legendary Black performers like James Brown, Louis Armstrong, Redd Foxx and Billie Holiday. February marked the 100th anniversary of the Royal Theater, a star of a bygone era of Black entertainment in Baltimore.
WaveDancer (Nasdaq: WAVD), a provider of enterprise-grade zero trust software solutions, specializing in blockchain-enabled platforms for IOT and supply chain management, asset tracking and security, visits the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square. In honor of the occasion, Jamie Benoit, CEO rings the Closing Bell.
The complimentary waffle station opened early on Tuesday at the Bozzuto Group’s headquarters in Greenbelt. It was the first day back at the office for the nearly 350 workers after the pandemic sent many to home-based workstations in March 2020. A treat was in order, said Toby Bozzuto, CEO. “It’s going to take some getting used to,” Bozzuto said, of the 34-year-old company’s new flexible work plan.
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County announced Thursday it received the largest gift in university history, a $21 million donation from the Sherman Family Foundation to expand the reach of UMBC’s K-12 and early childhood education work. The gift will provide funding to launch the Betsy & George Sherman Center as a national model to advance excellence in urban schools. This new center will expand and integrate UMBC’s work in teacher preparation, school partnerships and applied research focused on early childhood education and improving learning outcomes for Baltimore’s students.
Blockbusters will return to the Rotunda this fall. Warehouse Cinemas plans to move into the Hampden development’s vacant CineBistro space, president and CEO Rich Daughtridge said this week. The local movie theater chain already operates cinemas in Frederick and Hagerstown. In Hampden, it will take over the 33,000-square-foot CineBistro building, as well as 2,500 square feet of neighboring space that once housed craft beer bar Growler USA.
Who wants to drink the bay? No, not that one. Baltimore’s signature Old Bay flavor is now bottled in a vodka made from corn and distilled in Frederick through a partnership between the spice giant McCormick & Co. and George’s Beverage Company, a purveyor of cocktail mixes based in Hanover.
Several Eastern Shore crab processing companies rallied together this past week with a familiar battle cry: They need more foreign worker visas to operate this summer. The H-2B visas allow seasonal workers to pick and pack crabs, employees these local businesses say they can’t find elsewhere. Cheryl Costello explains, this year is looking so dire that one well-known packing house is selling their business and giving up.
Donna Durante-Miller cautiously opened the doors to Elroy, her H Street NE bar and hookah lounge, as D.C. lifted its indoor mask mandate on Tuesday — and hoped for the best. Like many proprietors in the city and Prince George’s County, where the mandate ended Monday, she will ask her four employees to keep wearing masks, for now. “I’m just not sure about the free-for-all just yet,” said Durante-Miller, who has an autoimmune disease. “We’ve all gotten our vaccines, and some of us have gotten the booster, but to expose ourselves to unvaccinated people all at once is a little daunting.”
The U.S. government’s cybersecurity experts are warning owners of businesses, large and small, to step up precautionary measures as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues. With punitive sanctions by Western countries meant to cripple Russia’s economy, businesses and institutions across the globe face increased cyber threats. “We are not aware of any specific threat right now,” John Durkin, Region II director for the government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), said during a Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce member webinar Wednesday morning. “That being said, you don’t fix your roof in the rain.”
Rick Kohr is still excited about the development at Port Covington — even though he decided against moving his company there. The CEO of Evergreen Advisors had previously considered the $5.5 billion project from Weller Development Co. as the next home base for his investment bank and corporate advisory firm when the development was still in its planning stages.
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