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I know, right!!!! It looks like Joy Martin's Lost City Diner is open. The diner, on the corner of Charles and Lafayette street has been a notorious work in progress -- think "Mr. Arkadian" or "Pet Sounds" The restaurant is at 1730 N. Charles St., and the phone number on its Facebook page is 410-547-5678. Take a look inside the Lost City Diner on the Shine Creative site.

A seven-month-old boy died after being hospitalized Dec. 31 with rib fractures and other injuries, making the infant Baltimore's first homicide victim of 2013. On Monday night, homicide detectives charged the child's father, 29-year-old Francois Browne, with first-degree murder, police said. Child protective services had contacted police on New Year's Eve, saying the child, Kendell Browne, was in the University of Maryland's pediatric center with multiple injuries and was unlikely to survive.

In the movies, Gotham City police required a giant spotlight to find Batman. Montgomery County police didn't have to go quite so far, finding him cruising around in a Lamborghini Wednesday in Silver Spring and pulling the unidentified man over for not having proper tags. The bizarre picture was posted to the department's official Twitter page today, followed by a note clarifying that the "Batmobile" wasn't towed.  Officer Janelle Smith, a police spokeswoman, said the driver is a Good Samaritan who dresses up as Batman and visits sick children at local hospitals.

A cake was delivered to the Baltimore Sun's offices one day a few months back. It was a seven-layer cake from Caroline's Cakes in Annapolis. Gosh, was it good. I remember having posted about how good it was somewhere -- Twitter or Facebook or here? -- but now I can't find it. Anwyay, the same cake apparently makes an appeance in the new movie The Help , says Suzanne Loudermilk on Baltimore Magazine's In Good Taste blog. By most accounts, the cake gives a layered performance in the film.

When a person applies for a promotion or a new job, the interviewer is not allowed to ask about their political affiliation or religion. They can't tell the applicant they want to read their mail. So why is there any doubt that employers shouldn't be allowed to force an applicant to give them access to his or her Facebook page, blog or email? Any of these social media sites could easily contain information that, in any other setting, would be protected by privacy laws. We need to move away from the mindset that electronic communications are somehow different from more traditional forms of communication.

That's the Baltimore Sun question of the day -- Which Baltimore person would you like to invite to lunch? Why? You can Tweet your response, wit #SunTalk in your answer. Or go to the Baltimore Sun Facebook page . I'd invite John McIntyre .

The Curbside Cafe is driving off into the sunset. The owners of the popular food truck, one of the first to ply Baltimore's streets on a regular basis, posted a closing message on its Facebook page. "This will be the last week for our little red truck as Curbside Cafe," the message says. "The perfect opportunity has come along that is beneficial to us and the new owners. "  

The Falls has closed. A message posted Tuesday morning on the Mount Washington restaurant's Facebook page says, "Attention friends and neighbors: We're saddened to announce that after almost 2 great years we are no longer open for business, effective immediately. The Falls was never perfect, but it wasn't for lack of effort... "  

Tersiguel's French Country Restaurant, which has weathered more than its share of natural disasters, is open for business on Wednesday. At 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 8, the restaurant posted this message on its Facebook page: "We are safe and dry! We know many EC merchants have not been as lucky. We are keeping an eye on the weather and as long as it's safe for our patrons and staff, we intend to stay open for dinner tonight. "  The restaurant was calling diners with reservations with instructions about how to get to their doors.  Updates on Ellicott City closings and openings will be posted here.

State Sen. Bill Ferguson's car was vandalized overnight, and he said he suspects political enemies are to blame. Ferguson, a first-term Democratic senator representing south and southeast Baltimore, posted a picture on his Facebook page this morning, showing his car badly damaged from what he called "acid. " "Heard I had an opponent next election. Pretty clear its going to be same type of election as last time," Ferguson wrote on his Facebook page. "Last time this happened it was 2 weeks before election day. Not a fun way to start the day, and this time they used acid to destroy my car. " Ferguson said that in 2010, someone dumped food and horse manure on his car. This time, there was also manure on the hood of the car.  Ferguson lives in Canton, and said the incident has rattled his family.