Sometimes, babies have something to say but can't use words to do it. Many parents use basic sign language skills to help infants and toddlers communicate. Get a chance to learn some signing during "Baby's Signing Day with Kathy MacMillan" at 10:30 a.m.

By Chris Kaltenbach, The Baltimore Sun Jul. 11--For more than 90 years, until it was demolished on a snowy January day in 2004 to make way for the Enoch Pratt Free Library's Southeast Anchor branch, the glorious Grand Theatre stood on Conkling Street as the pride of Highlandtown.

By Chris Kaltenbach, The Baltimore Sun Jun.

By Chris Kaltenbach, The Baltimore Sun Apr. 18--The 2008 Johns Hopkins Film Festival runs through Sunday on the university's Homewood campus, 3400 N. Charles St.

By Chris Kaltenbach, The Baltimore Sun Apr. 11--The student-run 2008 Johns Hopkins Film Festival, with a lineup that includes features, documentaries and shorts, unspools on the school's Homewood campus Thursday through April 20. The festival opens Thursday at 8 p.m.