Eagan

Hometown: Baltimore Current members: Martin O'Malley, vocals, acoustic guitar, songwriter; Jared Denhard, harp, highland pipe, trombone; Jamie Wilson, drums; Ralph Reinoldi, guitar; Jim Eagan, fiddle; Sean McCominskey, button accordion; Pete Miller, bass. Founded in: 1988 Style: Traditional and contemporary Irish music Influenced by: Shane MacGowan Notable: It's the mayor's band. Quotable: Jared Denhard on being in the mayor's band: "People often assume that we must work for the city."

Kathryn R. Archibald, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. James K. Archibald, of Hunt Valley, MD, and Timothy D. Stakem, son of Mr. & Mrs. Ronald E. Stakem, of Oklahoma City, OK, were married on June 26, 2004. The ceremony took place at The Marikle Chapel of the Annunciation, College of Notre Dame of MD, followed by a reception at the Baltimore Country Club, Roland Park. Fr. Robert Leavitt, S.S. performed the Nuptial Mass. Honor attendants were Tiffany Feagin, Carey Baugher, Laura Coultas, Olivia De Loach, Dayna Dwyer, Alexandra Eagan, Ali Gravier, Lindsay Levine and Tamara Passano; Chris Stakem, John Archibald, Jay Balfour, Andrew Himoff, Clark Madison, Neal Meyer, Steven Rouse, Brian Stubbs, and Patrick Walsh.

Sometimes it's hard to imagine kids volunteering to go to class during the summer - but that's exactly what more than 300 children in Police Athletic League centers all over Baltimore County will be doing through Aug. 10. Since Monday, each of the nine PAL centers in Baltimore County has offered the new "Catch The Ball" reading program for interested young people ages 8 to 13, the first time the county police-sponsored neighborhood centers have presented...

The Columbia Foundation's 18th annual Spring Garden Party wasn't held in a garden. But that didn't seem to matter to guests. "It's a great party," said Jim Eagan, Lakeview Title Co. president. "You get to see people you haven't seen in ages, all your old neighbors." "It's the epitome of what Columbia is all about," agreed George Hunter, Merrill Lynch vice president, as he scanned the gathering of 580 Howard County business and nonprofit folk in the Rouse Co.'s Spear Center. Among those in the throng: Barbara Lawson, Columbia Foundation executive director; Bruce Rothschild, foundation president; Dr. Robert Sheff, Steve Adler, David Forester, Charmaine Gordon, Judy Koloski and Malynda Madzel, foundation board members; Gary Hughes, executive director of Foreign Born Information & Referral Network; Helen Szablya, U.S. Treasury external affairs officer; Drew Sandberg, owner of Colosseum Gym and Fitness; Richard Falkin, Columbia attorney; Ilana Bittner, Pixel Workshop president; Maggie Brown, vice president of Columbia Association; and Andy Barth, WMAR-TV reporter.

NEW YORK -- Stephen Sondheim isn't known primarily as a purveyor of Broadway froth and fun. But a giddy playfulness was the dominant mood of the gala benefit, "Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall," a fund-raiser for the hall.The event Wednesday night was taped for the PBS series "Great Performances" and recorded by RCA.The show featured more than three dozen performers of varying luminosity, including Liza Minnelli, Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, Glenn Close and Madeline Kahn. Paul Gemignani, a longtime associate of Mr. Sondheim, conducted the American Theater Orchestra.

You could say the St. Joseph Medical Center Foundation gala ran hot and cold this year. After all, its theme was "Fire & Ice." And you needed to look no further than the mezzanine of the Hyatt Regency. Huge sculptures of flames -- carved in ice -- towered above the more than 750 guests as they mingled during the cocktail hour. Inside the ballroom, a stage flanked by "icebergs" waited. There were also dinner tables with centerpieces of candles set in globes of -- you got it -- more of the frozen stuff.

Before this season, freshman goalie Brooke Carey only knew of the rich girls soccer tradition at Glenelg. Last night, she became part of it. After Glenelg and Sparrows Point played 100 minutes of scoreless soccer in the Class 1A state title game at UMBC Stadium, Carey turned back two Pointers penalty kicks and the Gladiators showed poise in finishing off four chances to come away with a 4-3 decision in the shootout that gave the program its third straight...

A new cable TV commercial launched by the sitting judges' campaign depicts the likely front-runner in the Howard County Circuit Court race, District Judge Lenore R. Gelfman, as a lenient judge and a hypocrite, and the challengers promptly labeled the ad misleading.The 30-second spot -- which will run 122 times from late last week through Sunday on Comcast cable stations CNN, TNT, Discovery and A&E -- tries to poke holes in the challengers' tough-on-crime campaign theme by charging that:Gelfman is one of District Court's strongest proponents of criminal rehabilitation.

Feeser hired as assistant to commission president Carroll County Board of Commissioners President Julia Walsh Gouge has hired Tim Feeser as a special assistant. A lifelong county resident, Feeser, 44, has been a manager in the grocery retail industry for the past 26 years. He lives near Manchester with his wife, Lynne, and their two daughters. Feeser will earn $32,339 annually for the 30-hour-a-week position. He succeeds Frank Johnson, who was named the county's director of legislative services in August.

Although Circuit Judge James Macgill may not have fulfilled his high school and college dream of becoming a poet, his life itself was poetry, friends said yesterday at his memorial service in Columbia.The chief judge of Maryland's 5th Circuit Court from 1954 to 1980, Judge Macgill died of cancer at age 80 June 27 at his Mount Airy home.Yesterday at the Oakland Mills Interfaith center, about 300 lawyers, judges, artists and family members celebrated his life with humorous anecdotes and fond reminiscences.