Black Tie/Blue Jeans: The Maryland Food Bank throws its British Invasion-themed Blue Jean Ball on May 2, 7 p.m.-11:30 p.m. in its warehouse. Info on tickets or sponsorship: 410-737-8282, ext. 226 or email smith@mdfoodbank.org.
Fallen Heroes: Maryland’s police officers and firefighters who have died in the line of duty during the past year will be honored at the 23rd Annual Fallen Heroes Day Ceremony on Friday, May 2, 1 p.m. at Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens, 200 E. Padonia Road,

by Jacqueline Watts
editor@baltimoreguide.com

May 1, 1958

Charlie Irish Chevrolet, across from Eastpoint Shopping Center, was hosting the Chevrolet Featurama at the Eastpoint Auto Show and Easy Living Show. The exhibit featured several “see-through” models, including one with a fuel-injection engine.
New Essex Theater scheduled “And God Created Woman,” starring that “undulating French lovely Brigitte Bardot.” The movie was in its 28th week in New York City, and in its 30th in Washington, D.C. The movie was

Members of the Hampstead Hill Association, and 25 students from Hampstead Hill Academy #47, cleaned up around the school at Eastern and Linwood avenues, as well as sprucing up the playground, sweeping the entranceway and planting the garden. The activity was part of Mayor Sheila Dixon’s citywide spring cleaning.
Photo by Jacqueline Watts

Visitors to Fort McHenry’s Civil War Encampment, held last weekend, chatted with reenactors dressed in the uniforms of the Fifth New York State Infantry, also known as “Duryea’s Zouaves.” Many regiments in the Civil War wore Zouave uniforms based on those worn by French Colonial troops.
Photo by Bill Lear

by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com

It’s easy to spot them. They scan the classifieds and read Internet postings. And on Saturdays when the weather is good, you can find them in their cars, cruising slowly up and down the streets.

Their elusive quarry starts to come out this time of year, so the hunters’ senses are heightened as they move through the neighborhoods. And then they see it: The bright sign. The excited knot of passersby. The display of

South Baltimore Little League flea market
May 3, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
Little League fields, 1103 E. Fort Avenue,
$10/space. BYO table and chairs. Info/reservations: Darlene 410-332-0130.

The Butchers Hill Flea Market and Craft Fair, Patterson Park
Saturday, May 10, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
Info: 410-675-4948, tori.simms@kimball.com.
Space reservations: Bev, bhfleamarket@yahoo.com.

Light Street Church Flea Market and Silent Auction,
Saturday, May 17, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m
On the church property, 809 Light

by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com

It’s spring, and that means it must be time for the swarm of Bs: the bands, the beer vendors and the businesses. They, plus a few more of their kind, can be seen at the Federal Hill Spring Block Party, scheduled for Sunday, April 27, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Cross Street, on the south side of the market. The event will go on rain or shine.

According to Hillary Chester, administrative assistant with Federal

The staff of the Baltimore Guide, Times Herald and BMore Live! were the recipients of the following honors at the Maryland Delaware D.C. Press Association’s annual awards program:

Editorial division:

Dunking booth at Locust Point festival
Second place, General News Photo
Bill Lear

First place, Environmental reporting
Mary Helen Sprecher

First place, Arts/Entertainment reporting
Mary Helen Sprecher

Second place, Public Service reporting
Mary Helen Sprecher

Dancers at Creative Alliance festival

First place, Feature Photo
Anna Santana
Advertising division:
First place, Special Section, quarterly or monthly
BMore Live! Entertainment section

Prizes were awarded in various divisions; the Guide, Times Herald and BMore Live! won for non-daily newspapers in several circulation categories.

by Jacqueline Watts
editor@baltimoreguide.com

Water bills are going up again, but not as much as last time.

Water and wastewater bills will go up four percent this year as compared to nine percent for each of the last three years.

The four percent increase is good news, according to Kurt Kocher, spokesman for the Department of Public Works. He said the department has managed to make some economy moves to keep the increases at four percent instead of the

by Mary Helen Sprecher
newsroom@baltimoreguide.com

Darin Crew is walking down the line at Herring Run Natives Nursery. Potted trees and shrubs, some only a few inches tall, some well over five feet, are lined up, as orderly as soldiers ready to go into battle.

“This is our sale stock,” he says proudly. “We probably also have 3,000 in the hopper for the future.”

The nursery, a program of the Herring Run Watershed Association, is nestled in this little corner

by Lynn Williams
maindish@baltimoreguide.com

Could 11 West Preston Street finally have beaten the jinx? The funky little space above the health food store has housed several eateries, but none seemed to garner the following one might expect in a neighborhood overflowing with college students and concertgoers.

I have a good feeling about Soup’s On Baltimore, though. For starters, who doesn’t like soup? Especially soup so good people don’t mind lining up next to the bathroom to order at