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Here I am in Columbia, Maryland and virtually stuck in my hotel room because of the weather – Snow and lots of it. I was here last year in June, when the weather was perfect and there was this great Jazz Fest , I mean it was great! Chaka Khan was there, Al Jarreau was there and tons of other fantastic performers. But, now, there’s really nothing to do. It seems as if Columbia shuts down for the winter.

I went to down to the lobby of one of the better columbia luxury hotels , and asked them where I could go, besides the movies. They told me to check out the Columbia Art Center, that the current exhibit is the annual Faculty and Students exhibition. They told me if I went tonight that I’d get a potluck dinner. But, for something to do today, they recommended that I should see the African Art Museum . I told them that I did visit the African Art Museum last year and that I really loved all of the exhibits, but not enough to go there again. I then brought up how I really enjoyed the Jazz Festival last summer and how it’s too bad there’s not something like that in the wintertime.

The concierge desk at the hotel recommended that if I like jazz, I should check out a club call the Silver Shadow Lounge. They told me the jazz is excellent there and that I’d have a great time meeting with the locals of Columbia and that the club is upscale for young professionals and an older crowd in need of getting their groove on. I’m not much into ‘clubbing’ it, but supposedly there will be an older crowd, so I’m thinking the jazz might be good.

I headed back up to my hotel room, again, with nothing to do during the day, and waited for night to fall so I can go see a Faculty and Student exhibition with a great potluck for my dinner, and then head on over to a nightclub in hopes of listening to some great jazz.