Erik M. Pelton & Associates, PLLC (EMP&A), a boutique IP law firm focused exclusively on trademark protection, has successfully secured more than 5,000 client trademark registrations at the USPTO.
EMP&A has built its practice around understandable and accessible trademark protection for small businesses and growing brands.
Metropolitan Culinary Arts Institute (MCAI) located in Arlington, VA, is proud to announce that it has received approval to accept VA education benefits. Eligible veterans, active-duty military members, and qualified dependents may now use their GI Bill® benefits to enroll in MCAI’s professional culinary programs.
This approval allows qualifying students to apply GI Bill® education benefits toward MCAI’s intensive certificate programs in ‘Culinary Arts’ and ‘Breads & Pastry Arts’, both designed to prepare students for careers in the professional food industry.
When spring arrives, creativity thrives. Art House 7’s April-May Spring Session offers a wide variety of mediums for all ages: painting, drawing, ceramics, printmaking, sculpting, collage, and sewing (embroidery and machine). New for grades 4 to 11: digital art classes, where students learn how to draw, color, and design dynamic digital creations. For the younger set, we have Art Club, crochet, Arts and Crafts Exploration, and more.
Art House 7 offers classes throughout the year, taught by a range of fantastic teachers. You can buy art supplies next door. We’re near the Lee Harrison Shopping Center.
Screening as part of the DC Environmental Film Festival (dceff.org)
Saturday, March 21, 1pm at the Miracle Theatre – Tickets $5 with the code MPEFF50.
Make Agudas Achim your preschooler’s home to learn and grow!
Play-based learning
In its mission to interrogate both the classics and the current days, Avant Bard Theatre proudly presents “The Two Gentlemen of Killarney,” an adaptation by Séamus Miller (“Coriolanus,” “The Margriad”) at Gunston Arts Center – Theatre Two.
The play is a timely immigrant love-comedy with live Irish music. Adapted from Shakespeare’s “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” the story follows friends-turned-rivals from Ireland to America during the Great Famine, blending Shakespeare’s wit with traditional Irish tunes and delivering a rollicking and dynamic celebration of love, immigration, and humanity. All performances are free to APS students and federal employees affected by the DHS shutdown (just show ID); all Saturday matinees are Pay-What-You-Can.
If you want APS to reform its school device use policies and shift to an “ANALOG AS DEFAULT” paradigm, PreK – 12, we ask that you PLEASE SIGN THE ATTACHED LETTER ASAP. Research confirms that the Ed Tech experiment has failed; we need to prioritize face-to-face learning, writing by hand, and reading physical books — not the convenience offered by apps and digital curricula. We ask that APS leaders adopt “ATTENTION AS CURRICULUM” in the same stroke. This means deliberately cultivating school environments that act as antidotes to the attention-shattering, shallowing, screen-saturated world beyond the school walls. It means actively working to enhance students’ attention spans – their capacities to focus, tolerate delayed gratification, and do hard things.
We’re pleased to introduce Julia Batalla, MA, LGPC, the newest counselor in our practice. Our group of four therapists works with adults, young adults and older teens in Northern Virginia and Northwest Washington, DC, with offices in Rosslyn and Spring Valley as well as the option to meet online.
Julia works with clients who are interested in better understanding themselves and making thoughtful, intentional changes in their lives. Her approach draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people recognize patterns in how they think, respond, and navigate challenges, allowing them to move forward with greater clarity and confidence.
New Arlington-Based Business Offers Curated Small-Group Wine Tours to Virginia Wine Country
A new Arlington-based small business is inviting locals to explore Virginia wine country in a relaxed and thoughtfully curated way.
Families in Arlington, McLean, and Falls Church have just a few days left to take advantage of a special offer from Piano & More.
February is coming to a close, and this is the final week for new families to enroll in the studio’s limited-time promotion:
Spring Garden Apartments, LLC is a 207 unit community of rent subsidized one- two- and three-bedroom apartments. The waiting list for the one- and two-bedroom sized apartment units in the Section 8 Housing program for low and extremely-low income individuals and families are currently open.
Applications for housing must be submitted online at:
We are excited to announce that we are kicking off the search for a full-time Executive Director for The Clothesline. Over the past 7 years, we have grown from serving 300 kids in our first year to serving nearly 1,600 in 2025. Thanks to the community’s support of time, clothing donations, and funding, The Clothesline has become an established component of the social safety net in Arlington.
Our goal is to make sure that this resource remains available to local families for the long term. As a result, it’s time to bring in a leader that can build on our solid foundation – extending outreach in the community and bringing energy to providing our essential service.
