Canton

A body was located in the Baltimore Harbor near Canton on Wednesday evening, according to city police. About 6:43 p.m., a police marine unit was dispatched to the water near the intersection of Boston and Leakin streets for reports of a body. Police are investigating the discovery as a suspicious death, said Detective Nicole Monroe, a police spokeswoman. A cause of death will be determined by the medical examiner, and the person has not been identified. No further information was immediately available.

Verde Pizza Napoletana is open in Canton. The South Montford Avenue location was the home for years of Birches, and before that, the Wild Mushroom. The dining room and bar, which formerly had a woodsy New England appearance, have been thoroughly remodeled. The redone interior, a sleek hybrid of European brasserie fixtures and midcentury American furnishings, is ready for its shelter magazine close-up. The specialty at Verde is Neapolitan pizza, with toppings like prosciutto di Parma, imported buffalo mozzarella and wild mushrooms.

Jacqueline M. "Jackie" Zajdel, a popular Canton cosmetologist who was a maestra of the shag, beehive, French twist and teased hair for decades, died Aug. 24 of cancer at Mercy Medical Center. The longtime Highlandtown resident was 67. Jacqueline Mary "Jackie" Zajdel was born in Baltimore and raised on Old North Point Road in Dundalk. She graduated in 1962 from Sparrows Point High School. "When she got out of high school, hairstyling was what she wanted to do, and she worked in a couple of shops in Dundalk," said her brother, Edwin "Zip" Zajdel, who lives in Joppa.

Delmarva's Southern Cafe is set to open Friday in Canton. The new comfort food restaurant, located in the Harbor Enterprise Center, also known as the Broom Factory, will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. And they will serve breakfast at dinner, if you get my drift. On the menu - biscuit sandwiches, baked cheese skillets,  country-fried rib eye, cheesy shrimp and grits, burgers and Tenderjack's chicken tenders, a specialty at Tenderjack's, the Virginia-based restaurants Delmarva's owners, Paul Stratmeyer and David Levitt, have a share in. Levitt was an owner of the Tenderjack's in Leesburg, Va., with two other partners.

In honor of Patrick 'Scunny' McCusker, restaurants and bars in an around O'Donnell Square in Canton will be donating 30 percent of all daily sales on Wednesday to Believe in Tomorrow Children's Foundation. McCusker was perhaps best known as the owner of Nacho Mama's, the Tex Mex restaurant he opened in 1994 on O'Donnell Street in Canton, which was then unfamiliar territory. But he has also been lauded, in the days, following his death, as a tireless philanthropist. He was particularly devoted to Believe in Tomorrow National Children's Foundation, a Baltimore-based nonprofit that provides hospital and housing services to critically ill children and their families.

Traditional Irish music filled O'Donnell Street Square on Wednesday evening as a group of men hauled a blue racecar off a tow truck. A crowd cheered when the men wheeled the car onto the grassy square, which was imprinted with the National Bohemian Beer logo. When racecar driver Patryk Tararuj participates in the Grand Prix of Baltimore this weekend, the vehicle will carry the name of restaurateur Patrick “Scunny” McCusker, who died Friday in a traffic accident in Ocean City. Tararuj, a 33-year-old Canton resident, never met McCusker but said he has heard many stories of his philanthropy and love for the neighborhood.

A mourner showed up decked out in full Elvis splendor. A beer truck emblazoned with the Mr. Boh logo led the funeral procession. And more than 2,000 people packed the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen — it was standing-room-only in the rear vestibule and the transepts — to mourn Nacho Mama's owner Patrick "Scunny" McCusker and, as one longtime friend said, to put the "fun in funeral. " "This is what Scunny would have wanted — an audience," said Sean Leahy, who spoke Wednesday at the Mass for the Canton restaurateur hailed for his camaraderie, his philanthropy and his drive to revitalize the neighborhood.

Patrick "Scunny" McCusker, the 49-year-old owner of Nacho Mama's and a force in the revitalization of Canton, was remembered Saturday by friends, employees, patrons and local leaders for his outsize personality, philanthropy and pioneering contributions to the community. "The neighborhood is what it is because of him," said Gianene Musotto, 43, who gathered with other customers at Nacho Mama's, one of the neighborhood's first popular destinations. Police said McCusker died Friday after being hit by a bus as he rode his bicycle along Coastal Highway in Ocean City . The Cockeysville resident was treated at the scene by emergency personnel.

Canton's Plug Ugly's Publick House picked a prime spot in O'Donnell Square. It falls in between Looney's Pub and Claddagh Pub, two well-established Irish haunts where most Baltimoreans know what to expect: cheap beer, Top 40 hits ad nauseam and hordes of young professionals. Replacing the old Helen's Garden restaurant with a shiny two-level bar would seem like a great way to make a splash. Yet every time I've visited Plug Ugly's since its March grand opening - 10 or more, at least - I've been consistently underwhelmed.