Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts’ Teen Professional Theatre presents Les Miserables at Reservoir High in Fulton. Tickets range from $10 to $60 and performances are scheduled July 24 and 25 at 7:30 p.m. and July 25 and 26 at 2:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.cctarts.com.
Archive for July, 2009
Catch CCTA’s Les Miserables this weekend
Friday, July 24th, 2009Audition for Sleeping Beauty and Seussical
Friday, July 24th, 2009Red Branch Theatre Co., in residence at Drama Learning Center in Columbia, will audition adults and children for their fall shows, Sleeping Beauty and Seussical, next week. Auditions will be held on Monday, July 27, at the theater, 9130-I Red Branch Road. Children will be auditioned at 6 p.m. and adults at 7 and 8 [...]
Great vacation reads for kids
Friday, July 24th, 2009With a seemingly endless string of vacation days stretched before them, young readers long for summer-friendly reading that isn’t on the radar of their school’s reading list. Fortunately, there are plenty of notable titles to hold their interest throughout the summer months — particularly when it comes to book series. To point you in the [...]
Is it human nature, or just nature?
Friday, July 24th, 2009My guest blogger today is my co-editor, Cheryl Clemens: Deer have always been a common site in and around our wooded backyard. But this summer a doe and twin fawns have decided to pay us morning visits, and our whole family races from window to window to follow them as they wander the yard, chase [...]
Growing like a weed
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009We hit a milestone the other day — completely out of boredom. My son, the one from my blog earlier in the week, had “nothing to do and no one to play with” so he followed my husband out to cut the grass. My husband gave him a lesson in how to use the lawnmower, [...]
By the numbers: Closeness counts
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009When times are tight, it’s more important than ever for families to recognize the value of togetherness. Lever 2000 conducted an online survey of 1,018 parents this spring and found that 74 percent are experiencing increased anxiety about their family’s finances. On the other hand: 64% of parents say because of the economy, they are [...]
Catching up at the family reunion
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009Every year on the third Saturday of July, you can find me in a small, wooded picnic area in southwestern Pennsylvania enjoying my annual family reunion. There can be anywhere from 50 to 100 of us on any given year, and we kick off the afternoon by sharing a huge pot luck lunch. There are [...]
New outpatient center opens at Kennedy Krieger
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009Kennedy Krieger Institute recently opened a state-of-the-art outpatient center that will improve and expand services to children and young adults with developmental disabilities and spinal cord injuries. The 115,000-square-foot center has over 7,500 square feet of therapy gyms featuring state-of-the-art technologies for treating patients with disabilities. In addition, there’s an aquatic therapy center with two [...]
Swimming with grace
Tuesday, July 21st, 2009I was so impressed with my 10-year-old daughter the other day. Her little brother and sister qualified for an invitational swim meet earlier in the season, and she was just a fraction of a second away in her best stroke, butterfly. Swimming is her sport — it’s what she is passionate about and she’s good [...]
Dolphins, puffins and jellies — oh my!
Monday, July 20th, 2009If you’ve resisted visiting the National Aquarium in Baltimore because you think there’s nothing on display but fish in tanks, it’s time to point the family car toward the Inner Harbor and check out what you (and your kids) have been missing. Sure, there are still plenty of tanks full of fish. But there are [...]