Mt. Vernon Marketplace is keeping up with food trends as it looks to welcome several Asian food concepts soon. The food hall is filling a void left by longtime vendor Pinch Dumplings by bringing three new concepts into the space to offer Asian cuisines such as sushi, Korean fried chicken and Korean-style rice hotdogs.

Carlose DeBose Jr. doesn’t remember a time when he felt like a kid. Not after his mother got sick. Not after he started taking care of his little brother. Not after he started playing the part of a grown-up. “I always had to be serious, like take on a role,” DeBose said. “I just always had it pretty much put together. I had to. I had no choice.” DeBose played that role for more than five years, rising at dawn and heading from the Upton neighborhood to wash car windows on Chase Street or Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

A large boom that shook houses in the Annapolis area Sunday and was heard elsewhere in Maryland was caused by military fighter jets following an “unresponsive” aircraft that later crashed in Virginia, according to defense officials. The noise came from F-16 fighter aircraft that “were authorized to travel at supersonic speeds” as they pursued a civilian business jet over D.C. and Virginia after 3 p.m. Sunday, according to a news release from the North American Aerospace Defense Command.

President Joe Biden on Saturday signed a bill that suspends the U.S. government’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, averting what would have been a first-ever default with just two days to spare. The House of Representatives and the Senate passed the legislation this week after Biden and House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached an agreement following tense negotiations.

 

 

 

Michele and Dave Cookson’s first date was almost an Orioles game. He asked her out to one — but she opted to go to a Coldplay concert instead. Eighteen years later, their umpteen-hundredth date was, however, an Orioles game last week, and there are more on the way. The season ticket-holding couple from Woodberry has attended over 250 games together and they are now visiting Camden Yards more than they did during the team’s recent rebuild.

The Senate late Thursday night passed a bipartisan bill to suspend the debt ceiling and curb federal spending, sending the legislation to President Biden to sign into law in time to avert an unprecedented U.S. government default. The deal cleared the House on Wednesday night and is now on track to take effect by Monday, when the government would no longer be able to pay all of its bills without borrowing more money.

Long-serving Rep. Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) on Thursday backed Prince George’s County Executive Angela D. Alsobrooks (D) for Senate, offering a weighty endorsement in a growing field of contenders. “I ask all Marylanders to join me in sending a strong, experienced and compelling voice to the United States Senate — someone who looks like the state and country she serves,” Hoyer told a crowd in Suitland, touting Alsobrooks’s experience and emphasizing the history she would make as Maryland’s first Black senator.

The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts will appear before the Baltimore City Council Friday evening for a budget hearing that is likely to focus on the quasi-governmental agency’s mission as well as its funding. Tensions between the council and the arts group that mounts city festivals escalated Thursday when an amendment was introduced that would trim $1 million from BOPA’s proposed fiscal year 2024 budget.

Notice a crunch when you walk in the grass or how often you’ve had to water your flowers or garden this spring? You’re not imagining anything; this is one of the driest years on record so far. The D.C. area has only tallied 10.22 inches of precipitation (mostly rain) this year through May 31 — enough to qualify as the fifth-driest year on record through the first five months.

 

The most recent weekly report from City Hall shows spikes in the number of squeegee workers at some Baltimore intersections — Light and Lombard, for instance, and along President Street. But the overall trend since January, when Mayor Brandon Scott rolled out his big plan to address the issue, has been fewer reports and complaints about workers with spray bottles and squeegees in city streets.