by GREG G. WEBER
Preakness,
Preakness,
Preakness
It’s horse-racing season again
To most of the world, the Preakness is
merely a horse race, albeit a famous one,
run each year on the third Saturday in May.
But in Baltimore, it’s a celebration spanning
the heart of the month of May. It starts this
year at 6 p.m., May 9, at Belvedere Square
ave
Date
the
CI TY CENTER
Farmers
Market
Sundays
May 4 marks the beginning of a season of
relishing the Maryland
bounty. 8 a.m. to sellout
(usually noon), East
Saratoga and Holiday,
under the Jones
Falls Expressway.
410-752-8632
FELLS POINT
Haunted
Pubwalk
May 9, June 13
A pub crawl through
the historic maritime
neighborhood. Advance
tickets advised, $20,
tour only. Meet at
7 p.m. at The Whistling
Oyster. 410-522-7400;
fellspointghost.com
CITY GUIDE
Baltimore
(minutes from the Pimlico horse track) with
a concert by the Crawdaddies, and continues
the following morning with the Preakness
Parade through downtown. Then the fun
really begins. Three kinds of critters will
face off for races of their own: The Pee Wee
Preakness (for kids, 11 a.m., May 13, Federal
Hill Park), the Preakness Frog Hop (noon,
May 14, City Hall) and the Preakness Crab
Derby (noon, May 15, Lexington Market). In
bet ween are at least one beer night, another
concert, a balloon festival (the kind you ride
in), and who knows how many unaffiliated,
unsanctioned and unbridled events. Oh, and
lest we run off without mentioning it, the
horse race is May 17, a Saturday, of course.
preakness.com.
‘These
Shining
Lives’
It was the 1920s,
and the women
painting watch
dials with radium
were happy
with their jobs:
good pay and a
favorable work-
ing environment.
But things began
turning unimagin-
ably grim when
the realities of
working closely
with a radioactive
substance (used
to make watches
glow in the dark)
began to emerge.
The women had
been instructed
to sharpen the
points of their
radium-soaked
paintbrushes by
wetting them on
their tongues.
Melanie Marnich
tells the story of
their plight and
fight against
corporate malfeasance in a
new play, These
Shining Lives, being given its world
premiere. Matinees
and evening shows
through June 1
at Centerstage,
700 N. Calvert St.,
410-332-0033.
centerstage.org.
INNER HARBOR
387 Feet Above
Through June 8
New maps of Baltimore
made using views from
the Top of the World
Observation Level. $5,
Wednesday through
Sundays, World Trade
Center. 410-837-VIEW
MOUNT VERNON
Maps: Finding
Our Place in
the World
Through June 8
A landmark exhibit of
maps from ancient to
modern, part of the
Festival of Maps. $12,
Walters Art Museum.
410-547-9000;
thewalters.org
INNER HARBOR
Body Worlds 2
Through Sept. 1
Real human bodies
preserved through the
life work of Gunther von
Hagen and the process
of “plastination.” Seen
by 25 million people
worldwide. Maryland
Science Center.
410-685-5225; mdsci.org
