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• Baltimore City

HonFest is back, with an oyster shucking contest and a sweet new sponsor

The 21st annual HonFest, an ode to the working women or "honeys" of Baltimore, will take over West 36th Street, The Avenue, on Saturday and Sunday, June 13-14. The festival will feature high-haired hons, feather boas, Best Hon and Little Miss Hon contests, a Best Mustache contest, a new oyster shucking contest, and lots of crafts, food and live music.

• Baltimore City

Hampden leaders negotiating to use Hopkins parking garage

Hampden merchants to use Hopkins parking lot for public on evenings and on weekends

• Maryland

Hampden Junque store celebrates 20th year on The Avenue

Hampden Junque store celebrates 20 years in business. Kitsch is its niche and Peewee Herman is its unofficial mascot.

• Food & Drink

Valentine's Day dining options in and around Baltimore

See which restaurants are offering Valentine's Day menus and specials

• Baltimore City Paper

Wandering Eye: The many sides of parking in Hampden, the NFL's empty domestic violence response, and more

• Baltimore City Paper

Wandering Eye: Videos from Baltimore's own #blackbrunch protests, the hard-edged views on race from one Baltimore writer, and more

• Features

Chris Rock stops by Cafe Hon, Rotunda Cinemas

Comedian publicizes new film

By Chris Kaltenbach

Dec 9, 2014

• Baltimore City Paper

'The Future for Curious People' is the print equivalent of a shitty rom com

• Baltimore City Paper

An attempt to trademark a logo with "hon" and the Oriole "O" creates another hontroversy

• Opinion

Minor privilege, major disincentive [Editorial]

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's veto of a proposed change to Baltimore's minor privilege system raises the question of whether these fees have outlived their purpose.

• Baltimore City

Rawlings-Blake vetoes bill aimed at reducing small-business fees

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake used her first veto since taking office in 2010 to strike down a bill passed by the City Council aimed at reducing or eliminating many of the so-called "minor privilege" fees the city charges.

• Baltimore City

New walking tours offer glimpse of Hampden history

New walking tours offer a hit parade of Hampden history, from Stieff Silver to abolitionist Elisha Tyson's old house to hidden Hampden Falls, a water source for a former mill.

• Bars and Clubs

Great Baltimore cocktails: The Pink Flamingo at Hon Bar

In the mood for a comically oversized, fruity, refreshing cocktail? Hon bar has you covered.

• Baltimore City

HonFest to celebrate 20th year June 14-15

HonFest turns 20. This will be an advance interview with founder Denise Whiting about what a long strange trip it's been and where it goes from here.

• Baltimore City

HonFest turns 20 and John Waters gets 'Carsick' [Hampden]

This is traditionally the time of year when I use this column to give the HonFest update. And I'll get to that in a bit, but before we do, there are a number of other awesome events going on in Hampden to highlight first.

• Baltimore City

Church leadership changing in Hampden area

The Rev. Bonnie McCubbin, 27, will be celebrating her first Easter next month as pastor of Good Shepherd, a United Methodist congregation of 60 members. While it's the biggest UMC in Hampden, that's not saying much, as mergers in recent years have left only two UMC churches in Hampden. She is one of only three full-time pastors in the area of any denomination. We profile her.

• Baltimore City

Sex toy shop moving into former HONtown space in Hampden

HONtown, a gift shop run by Cafe Hon owner and HonFest founder Denise Whiting, has moved out of its space at 1001 W. 36th Street (The Avenue) in Hampden and is moving across the street to Cafe Hon, 1004 W. 36th St.

• Periodicals

Maryland entrepreneur runs into trouble for using the word 'entrepreneur'

Median company sues local entrepreneur for her use of a business name with the word entrepreneur

• Baltimore City

Rash of break-ins on affluent St. George's Road [North Baltimore crime log]

Crime Log

• Lifestyle and Leisure

Family center spruces up for annual Taste of Hampden fundraiser

Annual Taste of Hampden fundraiser to benefit the Hampden Family Center is Oct. 24.

• Opinion

The "hon" ruckus remembered

• Baltimore City

Construction projects give new meaning to the word 'groundbreaking' [Hampden]

Crews of contractors with jack hammers ripping up our Hampden streets and making a general mess of things, due largely to the past month's emergency water main repair by Baltimore City along The Avenue and surrounding streets..

• Food & Drink

Restaurants in Hampden and Little Italy pitch in for fundraisers

Late October events to benefit community outreach programs

• Baltimore City

Jack Barr, 79, a fixture on The Avenue with a nose for news

Longtime Hampden resident Jack Barr, a colorful, well-remembered character who trolled The Avenue for news and passed it on as a beloved town crier, died Sunday at the Manor Care nursing home in Towson, of heart disease and a colon infection at 79. Denise Whiting of Cafe Hon said he was "Hampden's original Facebook page."

• Lifestyle and Leisure

Here's a shout-out to the contest winners of Hampdenfest 2013

Hampden Column

• Baltimore City

Baltimore City's new planner aims to optimize Hampden parking

Hampden is the first project for Jennifer Leonard, who was hired in May to the newly created position of parking planning manager, responsible for studying parking problems in neighborhoods citywide.

• Baltimore City

Family finds way to celebrate Hampdenfest and observe Yom Kippur

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• Baltimore City

Need for foot patrol in Hampden stymied by lack of resources, police say

Merchants say they need a foot patrol officer on and around The Avenue to solve rising crime, but Northern District commander says she doesn't have the resources, even though she agrees a foot patrol officer is needed.

• Baltimore City Paper

Gallery 788 moves to Hampden

• Business

State business loan program praised and criticized

A proposed loan to the Greene Turtle in Towson has helped shine a spotlight on a program that lends millions of dollars each year to businesses that can't fully finance their openings, renovations or expansions through private financing. The program's track record in Cambridge shows its potential, though other loans have been criticized.

• Baltimore City

An early peek at this year's Hampdenfest, including karaoke competition

Hampden Column

• John Travolta

Story branching test

• Baltimore City

Village Flower Mart in Hampden closes after 45 years

The Village Flower Mart went out of business Saturday afternoon, after 45 years at 3601 Chestnut Ave., just off The Avenue in Hampden.

• Baltimore City

Hampden hosts a 'family-friendly' HonFest

Coverage of HonFest 2013 in Hampden on The Avenue.

• Restaurant and Catering Industry

Woodberry to open diner and canning kitchen in Belvedere Square

• Food & Drink

Food Market to host first birthday party

Food Market's June 5 birthday party will benefit the Hampden Family Center.

• Opinion

BNote's success is BNotable

BNote's success is something to cheer about

• Business

Baltimore's local currency, the BNote, is 2 years old

The Baltimore BNote, a local currency, has been circulating for two years and is now accepted at more than 200 local businesses.

• Baltimore City

Word has it Scrabble fundraiser is Saturday in Roland Park

The 12th annual Scrabble tournament and fundraiser coinciding with National Library Week is April 12. Sponsored by Greater Homewood Community Corp., the tournament and dinner is expected to raise more than $10,000 for Greater Homewood's Adult Literacy Center

• Food & Drink

2012 in dining: An era of expansion

• Opinion

A happy ending for Cafe Hon on 'Kitchen Nightmares'

Chef Gordon Ramsay returns, and proclaims all wounds healed.

• Features

Gordon Ramsay's 'Kitchen Nightmares' returns to Cafe Hon

"Kitchen Nightmares" airs at 8 p.m. Friday on Fox -- WBFF, Channel 45, locally.

• Features

Baltimore artist creates poster to help Sandy relief

Randall Gornowich's Hurricane Sandy Knocks poster of Fells Point doors will benefit storm victims in Hoboken

• Food & Drink

Charm City Cake's Iwo Jima cake for Mission BBQ

Veterans Day is a red-letter day on a few restaurant calendars.

• Opinion

Sun's PC police need to lighten up on Cafe Hon incident

The Sun's PC police need to lighten up on black-face Halloween costume

• Opinion

Unhappy Halloween, Hon

The apology from Cafe Hon owner Denise Whiting after a photo of a woman in blackface was posted on the restaurant's Facebook page was too little, too late.

• Features

After complaints, Cafe Hon removes blackface photo from Facebook page

The Hampden restaurant had posted the photo on its Facebook page. It showed an employee, in blackface, apparently dressed for Halloween as Whitney Houston, singing with a smudge of white powder around the nose.

• Restaurants

Family center fundraiser gives sold-out crowd 'A Taste of Hampden'

A Taste of Hampden is a fundraiser for the Hampden Family Center, which has programs and services for the needy, after-school tutoring for public school students and programs for seniors.

• Baltimore City

Twenty restaurants serving up Taste of Hampden

The annual Taste of Hampden is Thursday, Oct. 25 held at and to benefit the Hampden Family Center, which supplies services to area poor.Twenty restaurants will participate; organizers hope to raise $10,000.

• Restaurant and Catering Industry

Slow restaurant waiters won't cut it in new Hampdenfest race

Sidebar to ph-ms-hampdenfest-0906, focusing on the toilet races and a new race for waiters, plus a mac & cheese cookoff