Compiled with input from readers and the newsroom, The Baltimore Sun’s list of 100 essential food experiences encompasses places people talk about, think about and come back to again and again and again.

Inaugural Hope for the Homeless, a charity 5K and 10K run/walk in Southwest Baltimore, raised thousands over the weekend.

Some longtime Lexington Market vendors who can no longer take food stamps say the program's changes are costing them business.

Belvedere Square, a popular market and shopping center in northern Baltimore, has been put up for sale by its owners, War Horse Cities.

Dr. Levy was devoted to fly fishing, the State of Israel and vigorous discussion of sports and politics.

Ernest Sewell rose from the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. to corporate responsibilities as a comptroller at AT&T.

The Baltimore housing department has a new framework for community development using targeted impact areas and new investment funds, under a plan to be released Wednesday by the Pugh administration. Commissioner Michael Braverman said the housing department is zeroed in on addressing blight.

Maria Ramirez, a 31-year-old assistant manager who began working at the restaurant shortly after it opened five years ago, was killed in a car accident Friday at a Southwest Baltimore shopping center, along with her 10-year-old son.

The Ingenuity Project, an advanced match and science program, is expanding to James McHenry Elementary/Middle School in Hollins Market next year.

Walking around the Coppin State University campus, Florine Camphor looks like a octogenarian cheerleader, wearing a sequin hat, blue suit and gold shirt for the school colors.

Three longtime Broadway Market vendors and five newcomers will sell food and drink in the renovated market when it opens next year.

Four people — including a 13-year-old boy — were killed, and three others injured on a violent Halloween in Baltimore, police said, bringing to a close the second-most violent month of 2018, which saw more than a killing a day.

A man was shot to death in Southwest Baltimore on Wednesday, and a separate shooting in Hollins Market caused James McHenry Elementary/Middle School students to be kept in the building after dismissal on Halloween as a safety precaution, officials said.

Two people were taken to the hospital after a house in Southwest Baltimore caught fire.

Two of the Charm City Circulator’s routes will be suspended Thursday, and the other two will have limited service, as Baltimore transitions to a new vendor, which is still testing its buses for safety and has yet to finalize a contract with the city.

Baltimore officials issued new plans for a redeveloped Lexington Market, where a new building will have a smaller footprint and cost less than earlier plans for the revamped market.

Cross Street Market isn't the only public market that's being updated.

When Cross Street Market opens in the spring it will offer a mix of 30 current and new vendors, including meats, fresh fruits and vegetables and freshly prepared foods and coffee.

Dozens of people who host guests in Airbnb-style properties urged the Baltimore City Council Thursday to amend a bill that would impose new regulations and taxes on short-term rentals.

Northeast Market closed Tuesday after a video surfaced showing a pair of rats scampering through one of its aisles.

The top arts and entertainment events in the Baltimore area for the week of July 8-14, 2018.

A city facade improvement program has long benefited more well-off neighborhoods, but a new effort could help the transitional ones a block at a time.

“When people come here, they see this is a community where everyone knows each other and is very tight-knit. You get to see just how involved this neighborhood is.”

The top arts and entertainment events in Baltimore for the week of May 27-June 2, 2018.

Three men were killed in Baltimore on Wednesday, Baltimore police said, continuing a spate of violence from over the weekend.

The Inner Harbor isn’t the only place in Baltimore that will be all lit up for Light City, the annual free lights festival returning this month. Neighborhood Lights, a series of illuminated visual or performance art projects installed in 14 city neighborhoods, is set to open this weekend.

The eateries have new locations in the Lion Brothers Building.

With three new tenants, the Lion Brothers Building in the Hollins Market area is fully leased.

University of Maryland, Baltimore is pumping $1.5 million into a program that encourages employees to buy homes in neighborhoods surrounding the institution’s West Baltimore academic and medical campuses.

The Gun Trace Task Force case, the bribery trial of state Sen. Nathaniel Oaks, and the killings of Phylicia Barnes and McKenzie Elliott are among the trials to watch in Baltimore in 2018

Earlier this year, Lara Sumerson and Mike Cavanagh purchased the former bar Patrick’s of Pratt Street at 131 S. Schroeder St., a neighboring property and an adjacent courtyard,

A Baltimore developer has bought 15 entities along the city's Inner Harbor waterfront, including the Bo Brooks Restaurant, hundreds of boat slips and the Clinton Street heliport.

A man and a woman were shot near the 800 block of West Pratt Street Thursday night around 11 p.m., according to Baltimore police.

The Baltimore native is part of a rap collective, but might be more famous for his skate brand Marino Infantry.

Five people were shot — two fatally — in five separate incidents in Baltimore on Sunday, according to updated information on the day’s violence provided by Baltimore Police on Monday. 

A 43-year-old man was found fatally shot in Northeast Baltimore on Sunday, according to Baltimore Police.

Local vendors are bringing oysters to more relaxed environments.

John Earl Williams shot six Baltimore police officers, killing one, a young father, before surrendering after a about a 40 minute attack that became known as the “Good Friday Shooting.”

Baltimore isn’t called “Charm City” for nothing, and New York-based travel magazine Travel + Leisure has taken note.

Hoop dreams often incubate in dim, cramped gyms, much like the one at the Mount Royal Rec Center.

H.L. Mencken's Cultured Pearl is coming back for one night only.

Calendar of outdoors and recreation events in Central Maryland and Baltimore

Calendar of outdoors and recreation events in Central Maryland and Baltimore

May 28

Southwest Baltimore’s annual festival is one of the city’s best, combining an intimate neighborhood vibe with substantial talent. This year is the 34th running

Eviction, and the threat of eviction, weigh heavily on the lives of many of Baltimore's poorest tenants. They move from one ramshackle rental to the next, migrants in their own city, squeezed by rents that consume most of their meager incomes, intolerable housing conditions, a court system that advocates say is insufficiently responsive to their complaints, and a rate of eviction actions that is among the highest in the nation.

Take a pinch of adventure, add a dash of wanderlust and mix in opportunity. Blend in a passion for deliciousness and what does the recipe yield? For three chefs with Maryland ties — Duff Goldman, Michael Voltaggio and Ryan Coffey — the dish might be called California dreamin'.

Barber Tony Tringali dies