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Giant Food and Safeway workers, who are negotiating with management over a labor contract that expires Dec. 20, plan to picket Thursday outside a new Giant store in northwest Washington.

Sloane Brown realized she wasn't the only one singing along to the Beach Boys' 1966 hit at Whole Foods. A person on the other side of the salad bar was singing too, and he looked very familiar. It was actor Gary Cole.

A recap of the Nov. 13 episode of 'Top Chef,' where Shirley fatefully forgets the chili threads

Workers for Giant Food in the Washington suburbs voted Wednesday to authorize a strike against the Baltimore-area's largest grocer

Workers for Giant Food and Safeway supermarkets in the Baltimore-Washington area could vote on a new labor contract as early as Wednesday.

Ian Kennedy's short walk to lunch from his office in Columbia's Town Center takes him through shopping mall parking lots and a parking garage, or along a sidewalk where lampposts block the way. It's enough to make him feel he's in an "alien environment. ... A man on the moon, there are times you feel that way. Almost like you're trespassing."

The spokeswoman said alternative locations for the post office will be discussed at a public meeting scheduled for 3 p.m. on Nov. 6 at the Columbia Main Post Office located at 6801 Oak Hall Lane.

A panel of Baltimore County officials selected a proposal featuring a Royal Farms convenience store and gas station as the winning bid for the Towson fire station and public works property at the corner of York Road and Bosley Avenue.

The family grocery operated by the Santoni family for more than 80 years is closing, but one couple is bucking the trend toward large chain supermarkets by carving out a niche for her inner-city store.

A recap of the Oct. 16 episode of "Top Chef," as the cheftestants try to re-create some New Orleans classics

A recap of week 2 of 'Top Chef," as the chefs cook for Habitat for Humanity

Whole Foods offering more free samples, Wi-Fi and a free spaghetti dinner on Sunday to help communities affected by shutdown

Besides giving a boost to start-ups, the show is a welcome start to the fall convention season for the city

The Columbia Association Board of Directors approved the mind-body wellness concept for the organization's downtown fitness club, which it is planning on opening in the Rouse Company building in September of 2014.

After a contentious series of hearings, the City Council is expected on Monday to grant developer Michael Beatty $107 million in public financing for Harbor Point, the capped hazardous waste site envisioned as home to a new office tower as well as housing, shopping and parks.

Since the 1980s, Baltimore has greatly expanded its Enterprise Zone tax credit program, offering multimillion-dollar tax breaks to developers in many of the city's most popular neighborhoods.

Howard County's Farmers Markets strive to remain relevant and sustainable as markets are expanding more quickly than their consumer base

Kroger Co.'s planned acquisition of Harris Teeter Supermarkets Inc. will allow it to capitalize on Harris Teeter's growing brand presence in the Baltimore-Washington market, but consumers will likely see few, if any changes in Harris Teeter stores.

Celebrities who come to Baltimore frequent Tattooed Heart, Orioles, Center Stage.

Roland Park and Mount Washington will celebrate the Fourth of July in their usual style, with red, white and blue parades and popsicles.

The Howard Hughes Corporation and the Foreman Wolf Restaurant Group announced Monday the signing of a 10-year lease agreement for the restaurateurs to open a new location at the Columbia Lakefront.

The Columbia Association's planned fitness club inside the Rouse Co. building will offer participants a place to "relax, retreat and rejuvenate," and is being billed as mind-body wellness retreat by the consultants hired by CA.

Is Baltimore's traditional downtown hollowing out in favor of shiny, new Harbor East, and is the city subsidizing it all through property tax breaks?

H&S Development Corp.'s plans for an expanded Whole Foods Market and a department store could boost Harbor East real estate and plans for a bustling Central Avenue corridor.

H&S Properties Development Corp. is planning a possible department store, an expanded Whole Foods Market and apartments for two sites that would bring its Harbor East development eastward across Central Avenue, baker-turned-developer John Paterakis said.

The supported plan, which is projected as the least expensive of the three options at $513,075 building cost and $2,110 in annual maintenance, proposes paving 1,800 linear feet of existing dirt trail, creating a 670 feet of new trail, 90 feet of boardwalk in a flood prone area, and 36 feet of bridge across a marshy swale.

To Funlayo Alabi, Shea Radiance is much more than a business. It's a mission.

Hudson's Corner

The blanket of as much as 5 inches of wet, slushy snow that fell across the Baltimore area Monday was the heaviest snowfall of an underwhelming season and the latest measurable springtime snow in a decade.

As Graul's Market lobbies publicly for a store in the Rotunda, another finalist is also eager to succeed Giant Food as the mall's grocer. Scott Nash, founder of the 10-store regional chain MOMS Organic Markets, said mall redeveloper Hekemian & Co. is considering him as a potential tenant.