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• Features

Hold up, 'Hon': Baltimore's black vernacular youthful, dynamic if less recognized than 'Bawlmerese'

"Baltimorese" or "Bawlmerese" is typically ascribed to a white working class — often of an earlier generation — and is relatively static, say experts and locals. But within Baltimore's African-American community is a vernacular that, though less prominent nationally, is youthful and highly dynamic, they say.

By Brittany Britto

Feb 10, 2017

• Features

Hold up, 'Hon': Baltimore's black vernacular youthful, dynamic if less recognized than 'Bawlmerese'

"Baltimorese" or "Bawlmerese" is typically ascribed to a white working class — often of an earlier generation — and is relatively static, say experts and locals. But within Baltimore's African-American community is a vernacular that, though less prominent nationally, is youthful and highly dynamic, they say.

• Obituaries

Karen Anne Fitze, staple of city's Honfest, dies

Karen Anne Fitze, a marketing executive and singer whose portrayal of Darlene, a Baltimore hon, at Honfest led to a recording spot on David DeBoy's "Crabs for Christmas --- Live" compact disc, died Oct. 23 from liver disease at Stella Maris Hospice. She was 64.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

Nov 4, 2016

• Features

As 'beehive' inventor Heldt dies, Honfest creator Whiting reflects

Margaret Vinci Heldt, who created the beehive hairdo in 1960, died Friday at the age of 98.

• Baltimore City

Popular annual Honfest to take over the streets of Hampden this weekend

Honfest, the offbeat street festival that celebrates the beehive hairdo and the daffy, sweet-natured women who wear them, celebrates its 23rd year.

• Baltimore City

Honfest 2015 is celebrated this weekend in Hampden

Sue Ebert has been presiding over the Glamour Lab and building beehive hairdos for 21 years

By Mary Carole McCauley

Jun 13, 2015

• 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 Paper

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

• Features

Designer seeking trademark for 'hOn' design

A Baltimore apparel designer is seeking trademark for his "hOn" hat

• 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

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

• 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 Paper

The Café Hon Episode of Kitchen Nightmares Debuts Tonight

• Baltimore City Paper

Food Shows Focus on Baltimore

• Baltimore City Paper

Speak Up, Hon

• Baltimore City Paper

The Honslaught Continues

• Baltimore City Paper

Denise Whiting

• Baltimore City Paper

NOH More TM, Hon

• Baltimore City Paper

Unclean! Unclean!

• 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.

• Baltimore City

Sex toy shop moving into former HONtown space in Hampden

• 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

• Opinion

The "hon" ruckus remembered

• 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."

• 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

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

• 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

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.

• 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.

• Opinion

Unhappy Halloween, Hon

• 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.

• Denise Whiting

Aug. 29: Baltimore comebacks

• Features

And Baltimore's Funniest Celebrity is....

In the competition to name Baltimore's Funniest Celebrity, former Lt. Gov. Michael Steele brings the funny

• Politics

Steele looking for comedy tips?

• Politics

Steele looking for comedy tips?

• Features

Denise Whiting, Michael Steele vying for Baltimore's funniest

Cafe Hon's Denise Whiting and former Lt. Gov. Michael Steele and others will compete to be named Funniest Celebrity in Baltimore.

• Arts and Culture

Hons flock like flamingos to 19th annual HonFest

Two-day HonFest estival takes over The Avenue in Hampden for 19th year

• Arts and Culture

With hon-troversy over, will Honfest flourish?

Organizers expect 50,000 over the course of the weekend, on par with previous years

• Restaurants

HonFest caps a rocky year for founder Denise Whiting

HonFest caps a rocky year for founder and Cafe Hon owner Denise Whiting after controversy over "Hon trademarking and Gordon Ramsay's makeover of her restaurant on "Kitchen Nightmares."

• Arts and Culture

Hampden: Time to get hon-ey for HonFest, as we celebrate city's working women

Hampden Column HonFest

• Features

Gordon Ramsay's 'Kitchen Nightmares' revisits Cafe Hon

Gordon Ramsay's 'Kitchen Nightmares' revisits Baltimore's Cafe Hon

• Features

Hon trademark dead...or is it?

Gordon Ramsay helped Cafe Hon owner Denise Whiting decide to kill the Hon trademark, and yet, mention of it appears in this year's Honfest literature.

• Features

Gordon Ramsay's 'Kitchen Nightmares' heading back to Cafe Hon

Chef Gordon Ramsay's makeover show 'Kitchen Nightmares' will revisit Baltimore's Cafe Hon.

• Tourism and Leisure

Organizer of skateboard park rolling toward city funding deadline

$17,000 short in matching funds with less than three weeks to go

• Food & Drink

Denise Whiting speaks: What you didn't know about 'Kitchen Nightmares'

The Cafe Hon owner says it wasn't Gordon Ramsay that changed her mind

• Food & Drink

Tears, then hugs on Cafe Hon episode of 'Kitchen Nightmares'

The "Kitchen Nightmares" episode featuring Cafe Hon is an absorbing account of a restaurant in crisis.

• Food & Drink

Cafe Hon on 'Kitchen Nightmares': Where Whiting will be watching

Denise Whiting will be watching the Kitchen Nightmares show featuring "Cafe Hon" at the Hon Bar