Giant Food opens new store in Odenton
Giant Food is opening its new Odenton store Friday, the supermarket chain said today.
The Landover-based chain has taken over a former Super Fresh space at 1155 Annapolis Road in the Odenton Shopping Center. The store will open at 6 a.m. and employ 150 people.
The 62,000-square-foot supermarket…
Baltimore ad firm TBC creates holiday campaign for Sears Canada
Sears Canada Inc. is not related to Sears in the U.S., but the Canadian retailer has a Baltimore connection nonetheless.
The retailer’s newly launched holiday campaign, “For Everything Under the Tree, There’s Sears,” was created in Fells Point at the headquarters of ad firm TBC Inc.
A 30-second…
One in five Americans believe they will never pay off debt, survey shows
As you pull out your credit card yet again this holiday season, consider this: more than one in five Americans with debt believe they will never pay it all off.
That’s the finding of a new CreditCards.com survey out today, conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International.
It shows…
Consumers can recover unused balance on Radio Shack gift cards
Consumers with gift cards from former electronics retailer Radio Shack can file claims to recover unused balances, Attorney General Brian E. Frosh announced today.
To file a claim, Maryland residents can go to a website for a form to submit electronically or by mail. Or call 844-794-3477 to have…
Amazon Prime Now adds 4,000 items in time for holidays
Amazon.com said it has added more than 4,000 items to its Prime Now service and plans to make deliveries until midnight on Christmas Eve.
“We are a procrastinator’s dream, offering tens of thousands of items that can be delivered right to your door in an hour or less,” Stephenie Landry, worldwide…
MIT’s Amazing New App Lets You Program Any Object
The Reality Editor is a Minority Report style AR app that makes programming your smart home as easy as connecting the dots.
The end goal of the Internet of Things is to make every object in your life programmable. But our smart objects are still pretty dumb. They don’t talk to each other, and most are only capable of doing one thing; a smart lightbulb for instance can dim and brighten but it can’t tell your TV to change the channel for you. The result of three years of research at MIT’s Fluid Interfaces Lab, Valentin Heun’s Reality Editor aims to address these problems. It’s an augmented reality app that lets you link the smart objects around you together, just by drawing connections with your finger between them.
Rotterdam’s Grand Experiment With Architecture That Mutates Over Time
Can architecture be future-proof? OMA reckons so and has created a mutable behemoth that combines offices, housing, retail, and more.
There’s no shortage of grand gestures in high-profile buildings tailored like a bespoke suit for a specific client and function. Once the original tenant moves out, however, the structures are often gutted—which is expensive—or demolished—which is taxing on the environment. In designing Rotterdam’s new city hall—dubbed the Timmerhuis—the Office for Metropolitan Architecture opted for a multi-purpose approach. Intended to be future-proof, the pixelated mixed-use structure can morph over time, demonstrating a new paradigm for sustainable urban design.
Peek Inside A Hotel Inspired By Margot Tenenbaum
A boutique hotel in Barcelona is designed to channel everyone’s favorite brooding Wes Anderson character. Where are the cigarette burns?
Margot Tenenbaum—the excessively eyelined, mink-clad Wes Anderson character who’s inspired many a Halloween costume—has expanded her influence into the hospitality industry. Margot House, a boutique hotel in Barcelona, pays homage to the fictional character with a design that supposedly channels Margot’s now iconic preppy bad-girl style.
“Master of None” Co-Creator And “Parks and Rec” Writer Alan Yang On Breaking a Story
One term you’ll hear a lot in the world of TV writing is “breaking the story.” Master of None‘s Alan Yang breaks down how it’s done.
The opening credits on most TV shows often come with a side order of lies. The main offender is the “written-by” credit. It’s a suspiciously narrow designation that suggests one or possibly two story-artisans painstakingly handcrafted every plot-point, every turn, and every string of sparkling banter that make up the episode all on their own. Barring some exceptions, what actually happens is an entire writers room full of interlocking personality types forms like a comedy Voltron to pitch and polish ideas until one or two writers have enough material to go off and write up a draft. It’s a process that’s known as breaking a story, and it is incredibly difficult to do.