lifestyle and leisure

On Sept. 18, Wegmans will open its eighth Maryland store at Foundry Row, a new 350,000-square-foot retail center at the intersection of Reisterstown and Painters Mill roads, previous home of Solo Cup's manufacturing site.

Does it sometimes feel as if your doctor is spending more time looking at the computer than engaging with you?

The Ravens have a new partnership with Dunkin' Donuts designating the brand as the "Official Coffee and Breakfast" of the team.

Temptations are everywhere at Mount Vernon Marketplace, Baltimore's newest ode to gastronomy. It's essentially a big food court without the mall — and with better options.

Johnny's Restaurant has another new face at the head of its kitchen, replacing the executive chef and co-owner who came on board six months ago.

The buffet brunch, which will meet capacity at 150 patrons, will feature dishes created by Blue Bistro Restaurant, crafted from ingredients grown or baked by more than ten of the Farmers' Market producers. Menu items include Evermore Farm sausage and gravy over JeannieBird Baking Company biscuits as well as French toast made from Old Valley Farm artisan bread and topped with fruit from Orchard Company. The coffee will be freshly brewed by Furnace Hills Coffee Company. Even the centerpieces will

PSG Kid's Fishing Derby

Tuesday, Sept. 6: Deadline for signing up for Saturday's Kid's Fishing Derby, hosted by the Pasadena Spor

Edward E. "Bud" Itter Sr., a retired Baltimore Sun commercial artist who was also an acclaimed decoy carver and painter, died Monday from complications following surgery at his Pasadena home. He was 86.

Family Meal, Bryan Voltaggio's modern diner at the Inner Harbor, has closed its doors after less than two years in business. 

'Chirp' technology

After several years of renovations, the Elephant is about to make its grand entrance.

A Columbia widow wanted to update her Oakland Mills home with better views of the outdoors and more natural light inside. And fresh colors. And new furniture. She made it her own.

The Finksburg-based motorcycle club The Unchained Few MC has helped children with disabilities get through life a little easier.

An artisanal burger joint has joined the vendors at the Mount Vernon Marketplace.

Chef David Garcia Reyes has taken over the kitchen at Johnny's and joined the ownership team of the Roland Park restaurant.

Hundreds of Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts converged on the grounds of the Carroll County Agriculture Center in Westminster Saturday, braving the cold, windy weather to partake in some outdoor fun at the Carroll District of the Boy Scouts of America's annual Klondike Derby.

For up-and-coming and established restaurateurs in the Baltimore area, creating the environment that diners see, feel and hear is almost as important as concocting the food they'll taste and smell. As the local food scene grows, restaurateurs are tapping professional designers as well as employing their own tastes and skills to create singular dining experiences that stand out in the marketplace.

This was the court of honor for Ryan Rippeon, 17, of Westminster, and it was held to formally mark his attainment of the rank of Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America. It may have been a cold afternoon outside the doors, but it was warm in that room, and not just due to the heating, but the warmth of feeling, like a family gathering, of those that had come out to witness something special.

Sykesville resident Virginia Harrison, who is involved in numerous community organizations throughout Carroll County, was recently named the 2015 Carroll County Good Scout of the Year. She was honored at a special breakfast earlier this month by the Carroll District Boy Scouts of America.

Anyone who is in need this Thanksgiving and cannot share a holiday meal with family or friends has their pick of meals offered by local community groups and houses of worship around Harford and Cecil counties.

Harford County officials and the Historical Society of Harford County are working to move and preserve the historic Joesting-Gorsuch House, which had been slated for demolition to make way for five new houses to be built on the north side of the Winters Run Golf Club property near Bel Air.

There are few anglers more revered than Frederick native Bernard "Lefty" Kreh. Kreh, who turned 90 last month, has fished for nearly 70 years with everyone from Ted Williams to Fidel Castro, and from President Jimmy Carter to Ernest Hemingway. Enshrined in numerous fishing Halls of Fame, he has been honored by the U.S. Postal Service, which issued a stamp commemorating a fly that Kreh made.

Move over, chile peppers. Make way for Shichimi Togarashi and Shawarma spice blends, highlighted in McCormick & Co.'s annual list of the coming year's food trends and flavors.

9 Master Gardenres, 2 volunteers tend to Eldersburg library's native plant garden in preparation for winter's arrival

The new Japanese restaurant from Alex Smith, will open Monday at the Four Seasons Baltimore Hotel.

After a lackluster Black Friday weekend — spending fell 11 percent from Thanksgiving through Sunday, according to the National Retail Federation — some big retailers were under more pressure to have a sales blowout.

As holiday shopping begins, Catonsville's local mom-and-pop businesses are looking for ways to lure consumers from large chain stores and online shopping.

After his wife Josie and son Jeff passed away last year, Greg Ritter grew determined to create a lasting memorial in their honor. When his son Mike, an elder at St. Paul's Independent Church in Millers, mentioned that the church planned to replace the stained-glass window above its front door, Greg found his legacy project.

Toki Underground chef Erik Bruner-Yang is returning to Baltimore for another temporary restaurant takeover.

As Black Friday has now morphed into a two-day event with the addition of shopping deals on Thanksgiving, Cyber Monday has in many cases similarly stretched into an extended affair.

An otherwise laudable effort by the City Council to restrict e-cigarette use suffers from a fatally broad loophole.

Jiffy Lube International founder and former Western Maryland football coach talks about his new book on battling macular degeneration

Early holiday promotions and rising online shopping took a toll on in-store U.S. sales during the Thanksgiving weekend as shoppers on average spent 6.4 percent less than they did a year earlier, according to data released Sunday by an industry group.

The O'Donnell Square barbecue restaurant is now known as The Smokehouse.

As patrons at a Fells Point restaurant dined on oysters as part of its annual festival for the slippery mollusks, Tommy Price of the Oyster Recovery Partnership emphasized the importance of saving the shells

Bess Caplan went grocery shopping Saturday at Whole Foods in Columbia and found an unexpected bonus – five boutiques on wheels parked just outside the grocer's door.

Josh Suchter, 29, and the other five anglers aboard Fishtank arrived at the water at 7:30 a.m. and caught the winning fish, a 46.6-pound striped bass, by 7:50.

Video advertising technology company Videology is weighing an IPO, but it faces stiff competition from rivals that have seen mixed results on the stock market or been bought up by tech giants.

Arlynne S. Stark, a dancer who was a pioneer in the field of dance movement therapy, died Nov. 17 at the Collier Center Hospice at Lutheran Hospital in Denver. She was 71.

Howard County support groups

Plantbar, a new juice and smoothie bar from Daniela Troia, the executive chef and owner of Zia's Cafe in Towson, opens Friday at Belvedere Square

Ugly fruit is perfectly edible fruit that might have scabs or dark spots, or be small or otherwise marred or misshapen. Yet when sufficiently ugly, many people consider such fruit "rejects," which is not just a pity — in a city where one in four families with children is living in poverty, it is simply wrong. Astonishingly, 31 percent to 40 percent of all harvested food gets wasted — including about 81 pounds of fruit per capita.

For many Thanksgiving chefs, organizing a meal with one turkey — let alone 44 — is daunting. For Booker T. Washington cafeteria manager Sheila Travers, whose kitchen serves hundreds of students, the job is "every day."