The HCSA is pleased
to present our monthly "E-News" with
information on news and upcoming events taking place in the
Charles Street
district.
March 2010
HCSA Events and Programs
Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with us! On
Sunday, March 14 HCSA members are invited to drop
in, meet other members and view the parade from our office at
312 N. Charles Street
. Please give
us a call if you need a place to hang your green hat - 410-332-4144 or michele@charlesstreet.net. For
more information on the parade, visit http://www.irishparade.net/shamrockrun.htm
Save the May Date Let's Eat!
Charles Street
Saturday, May 22. We are in
the planning stages for this festival which will take place
from noon to 6pm on the 300 block of
Charles Street
! If you are
interested in participating as a vendor, please contact michele@charlesstreet.net or call HCSA at 410-332-4144.
HCSA VIP Discount Card Program
HCSA has launched a program to encourage people who
live and work in the area to buy locally. The program is designed
to promote members of the HCSA and compel people to utilize your
establishment!
As an HCSA member, you can offer discounts or
specials which will be listed on our website. In return, VIP
discount cards have been issued with the website http://www.charlesstreet.net/vipdiscounts printed on them so holders can view
participating businesses and their special offers. To start, single-use cards have already
been distributed to fellow members, their employees, tenants and
guests.
Please contact michele@charlesstreet.net or call 410-332-4144 if you would
like your business to be listed as a participating vendor! We want
to get even more people to eat, shop and be entertained along the
Charles Street
corridor!
Things to do
An die Musik Live!
409 N. Charles Street
March 24 7pm Harmonious Blacksmith Early Music
Ensemble, "Music from the
Mediterranean
".
Early music from
Spain
to
Italy
is featured in an exciting program of works by Soler, Scarlatti,
Frescobaldi, and Corelli. Baroque guitarist William Simms joins
HB directors Joseph Gascho and Justin Godoy in a program highlighting
the evocative and colorful music of southern
Europe
.
Tickets: $20/$15 seniors/$5 students. For information on this and
other performances, call 410-385-2638 or visit http://www.AndieMusikLIVE.com/
Baltimore
's Tremonts,
222 St. Paul Street
March 14 and 17 Check out our exciting events! The Plaza Deli, Grand Café and Tug's Bar &
Grille will be hosting a St. Patrick's Day celebration during the parade from 11am to 5pm, as well as offering
specials on St. Patrick's Day itself! We'll be offering free traditional Irish fare, shamrock cookies
homemade by our Pastry chef and great Irish beer drink specials!
Monday
through Friday 4:30
to 7pm Tug's Bar and Grill will be offering happy hour
drink and food specials.
Every
Friday 7 to 10pm Live jazz entertainment. The Plaza Deli and Tug's Bar and
Grille are located in the Tremont Plaza Hotel at
222 St. Paul Place
. The Grand
Café is located at
225 N.
Charles Street
. Call 443.524.1347 for more
information.Visit the website for specials and packages at http://www.tremonts.com/
Brewer's Art, 1106 N. Charles Street
Now Available! La Petroleuse, a
french style Biere de Garde! A portion of the sales will go to
fellow HCSA member Women's
Industrial Exchange, as well as the Women's
Entrepreneurial Business Association. The beer is also
available locally at the following
Charles Street
stores:
Urban Cellars, Mount Vernon Supermarket and Spirits of Mount Vernon @ 900 North Charles (see listing
below). For more information on Brewers Art, visit http://www.thebrewersart.com
Luchansky,
P.A.,
911 N. Charles Street
New
Member, Bruce Luchansky, recently educated and entertained other
HCSA members at a legal seminar hosted at his office entitled "5
Legal Landmines to Avoid". Attendees gave glowing
reviews of content and style. Dave Derewicz from The Prime Rib
wrote to HCSA "Thanks so much for a very well run event. I
always like to learn more and Bruce was an excellent
presenter." A special thanks to Bruce for conducting such an
informative session and we hope there are more seminars to
come! For information about Luchansky, P.A. call 410-522-1010 or visit http://www.luchanskylaw.com/.
Mick
O'Sheas Irish Pub,
328 N. Charles
Street
March 14 10am Pub opens for St.
Patrick's Day Parade. 4pm Live Irish Music with
the Donegal X-Press!
March 17 5pm
to 9pm
St.
Patrick's Day! Life Irish Music
with the Spalpeens!
Call
410-539-7504 or go to http://www.mickosheas.com/
Sascha's 527 Restaurant,
527
N. Charles Street
March
3 6 to 7pm Happy Hour Cooking Class!
Great fun to learn the art of traditional French crepe making with the
originator of
Baltimore
's
first crepe café. No charge.
Just
Started and already a Smash! Oyster Fest at
Sascha's with fresh delivered Blue Points, served freshly shucked on
the half shell and baked or fried each night. Also, maybe a
shoorter at the bar for a little end of the day spice.
Come
and enjoy the end of winter in a festive way, while eagerly awaiting an early spring with our weekday dinner
specials: Mondays-
Fried Chicken for $13; Tuesdays-Filet
and Martini for $18; Wednesdays-Lumb
Crab Cake and Cocktail for $18; Thursdays-Fresh
Seafood Risotto & Cocktail for $18. For more information,
visit http://www.saschas.com/.
Spirits of
Mount Vernon
,
900 N. Charles Street
This shop carries a
great variety of wines from around the world. . . wines from
California
,
Oregon
,
Washington State
,
France
,
Alsace
,
Germany
,
Italy
,
Spain
,
Chile
, and
Argentina
to name just a few. They also carry a variety of specialty beers
and spirits. Inventory changes daily. You can get what you
need for your special dining occasions, visits with friends,
or just to enjoy a fine glass of wine. They special order
too! Stop in any time or visit http://www.spiritsofmtvernon.com/.
The First
Unitarian Church, corner of Franklin and Charles
Streets
March 7 4:00pm In a service filled with pomp
and circumstance, congregants will gather to formally install Rev.
David Carl Olson as minister of the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore
(Universalist & Unitarian). As the 22nd settled
minister to head First Unitarian, he preaches from the spot where
William Ellery Channing delivered his landmark sermon, "Unitarian
Christianity" in 1819. That sermon defined modern
Unitarianism and is often described as the single most important sermon
in Unitarian history.
The 4:00pm
reception will be followed by dinner at 6:00pm.
Program includes an eclectic selection of musicians: operatic soprano
Pia Broden-Williams of
Flint
,
Mich.
, rap group "The Foundation" of
Roxbury
,
Mass.
,
a mass choir assembled for the occasion and First Unitarian's director
of music James Houston. A new hymn by Peter Cutts of
Sheffield
,
England
(to be published by Stainer & Bell of
London
) has been commissioned to
celebrate the occasion. For more information on this event, call
410-685-2330 or visit http://www.firstunitarian.net,
contact Rev. David Carl Olson, Minister minister@firstunitarian.net or Yvette Reyes office@firstunitarian.net.
The
Johns
Hopkins
Carey
Business
School
March 31 7:30 to 9:00am Leaders+Legends
Series presents Bill Sullivan, President and CEO of Agilent Technologies.
Breakfast served. Legg Mason Tower at Harbor East. Tickets
$35. To register, click here http://carey.jhu.edu/landing_pages/leadersandlegends/index.html.
The Prime
Rib,
1101 N. Calvert Street
Every
Friday Live Jazz Trio; Every
Sunday 1/2 Price Wine List; Every Night but Saturdays Restaurant Week menu still available, by request! 3 courses
for $35.10. Call 410-539-1804 or go to http://www.theprimerib.com
The
Walters
Art Museum
,
600 N. Charles Street
March 7 2pm Spotlights With Gary Vikan--The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her
Father's War. In 1990, Louise Steinman discovered a
box of letters and souvenirs of her late father Norman Steinman
who fought in the
Philippines
in 1945 in the 25th Infantry Division. The discovery of a silk Japanese
flag launched her on a journey to
Hiroshima
and the fallen Japanese soldier's home, exposing grim realities of war
and her father's postwar melancholy. Free for members and $10 for
non-members. To learn about this and the many other programs,
call 410-547-9000, ext 238 or visit http://www.thewalters.org/.
The Wedding
Library and Cafe,
518 N. Charles Street
March 14 3pm to 5pm Cake Tasting
March 20 11am to 5pm "Vegas in
Baltimore
" Wedding
Day!
If you're planning any event or party, this is
the place to come. One-stop shopping for everything you need!
Call 410-837-2450 or visit http://www.theweddinglibraryandcafe.com/
The Woman's Industrial
Exchange,
333 N. Charles Street
Saturday,
March 13 12 to 3pm The Craft Exchange Workshop:
Intermediate Crochet Take your crochet skills to the
next level with this workshop. Participants should be comfortable with
foundation, single, and double
stitching. The workshop and materials are free, but space is limited.
Call 410-685-4388 or email wiedirector@gmail.com to register.
Tuesday, March 23, 5:30 to 8 pm Industrious Woman Celebration
The Woman's Industrial Exchange is pleased to announce this year's
recipient of the Industrious Woman of The Year Award will be Nobel
Laureate and Baltimore City resident Dr. Carol Greider, the Daniel
Nathans Professor and the Director of Molecular Biology and Genetics
at the Johns Hopkins Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences and winner
of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. The award
will be
presented as part of our annual Industrious Woman Celebration at The Exchange.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to spend the evening at one of
Baltimore
's
most historic institutions, browse our handmade wares and
meet Dr. Greider! The reception will include wine, beer and food from
Charles Street
restaurants and other local vendors; live music by local band, Hello.
Tickets are $25 and will be available at the door or online at http://www.womansindustrialexchange.org
Theatre Project,
45 W. Preston Street
March
4-14 The award-winning
puppet troupe Sandglass Theater in "All Weather Ballads," a
charming rumination on the seasons. Original music and beautiful
puppets give a flavor of life in
Vermont
throughout the year. Presented in association with QuestFest, this is a
celebration of visual performance art.
March
19-28 Baker Award-winner
Vincent Thomas with VTDance in two stunning dance performances,
"The Grandmother Project" and "Witness." For more
information and to make reservations, 410-752-8558 or http://www.theatreproject.org/.
University
of
Baltimore
,
1420 N. Charles Street
Throughout
March - A four-panel mural based on the song
Baltimore
will be displayed inside
Baltimore
's
Penn Station, created through a collaboration between the University of Baltimore (UB) and the MICA. Project
coordinator Paul Sturm, adjunct professor in UB's Department of Community
Studies and Civic Engagement, conceived the idea after hearing
Baltimore
on the
radio and seeing Stine and Heggins perform it live. "The song
celebrates everyday life in
Baltimore
.
Its message of hope and faith in our city needs to be conveyed as
broadly as possible," Sturm said. "Displaying the mural in
Penn Station will be a great way to welcome visitors and say ‘welcome
home' to returning Baltimore residents." On display through March,
the mural is expected to be seen by thousands of Amtrak and MARC train
passengers during this time.
The
mural is part of the Baltimore Song Project, funded with a grant from
UB as part of its commitment to the revitalization of
Central
Baltimore
. For more information contact Paul Sturm at
410-878-0946 or psturm@ubalt.edu. Also
visit http://www.ubalt.edu.
New
Members
Please welcome
to HCSA!
C. J.
Maintenance of
Columbia
,
MD
provides services to
some of our members and is very supportive of the historic
Charles Street
area! To learn more about what they do, go to http://www.cjmaintenanceinc.com/
David Wiesand of McLain Wiesand Design. David
lives and works in the area, and is a talented artisan in decorative
furniture. Stop by his shop on Cathedral or check out his website
at http://www.mclainwiesand.com/.
Rosalind Heid is active in
the downtown community. She has a website for calendar events
downtown, including the historic
Charles Street
district. Go
to http://www.innerharbornetwork.com/ and see what activities are taking place in the area!
About HCSA
The
Historic Charles Street
Association (HCSA) is a non-profit organization 501 (c) (3), whose
mission is to support and promote the
businesses, cultural attractions, entertainment venues, restaurants and
retail establishments along the
Charles Street
corridor.
HCSA serves as a problem solving and information resource for its
members, as well as provides a forum for networking, communication and
collaboration.
Resources Who to call?
Broken
Glass on the street or sidewalk: From
Pratt Street
to
Centre Street
- contact LaToya Staten at the Downtown Partnership (DPOB) at
410-244-1030, or lstaten@dpob.org.
Above
Centre Street
- contact the Midtown Community Benefits District at 410-528-1512
City
Services - 311 is
Baltimore
's
number to call for all city services. All calls to 311 go through a
One
Call
Center
,
a 75-agent in-bound call and dispatch center manned 24 hours a day
every day of the year.
Exterior
Building
Signs or
Banners - to begin the approval process for any exterior building
sign or banner, a permit application needs to be filed at the permit
counter,
417 E. Fayette
Street
, room 100. For more information
call 410-396-3360
Facade
Improvement Program - contact LaToya Staten (DPOB) at
410-244-1030 or lstaten@dpob.org
Liquor
Licenses - for assistance with all liquor license issues contact
Bob Dengler (DPOB) at 410-605-0451
Malfunctioning
Easy
Park
Meters - contact
Michele Coiron (HCSA) at 410-332-4144
Safety
Escorts - anyone wishing to receive an escort while walking to
their car or bus, or waiting for a taxi after dark should contact
410-244-8778 during business hours or 410-802.9631 after hours.
Downtown Partnerships Public Safety Guides are available within the DMA
District from 10:00 AM to 10:30 PM seven days a week.
Safety
and Security Issues - for non-emergency situations in the
Charles Street
district, contact Deputy Major Avon Mackel at 410-396-2410 or
email avon.mackel@baltimorepolice.org
The
Homeless - for assistance with all issues regarding the homeless
from
Pratt Street
to
Centre Street
contact Tom Yeager or Bertina Silver (DPOB) at 410-244-1030. Above
Centre Street
- contact the Midtown Community Benefits District at 410-528-1512
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