Generations of residents who have contributed to the Green Valley community were honored this month at festivities held at Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School.
The event on Nov. 7 — Celebrating Families in Our Green Valley Community — brought to life stories from some of the 200-plus families that helped build the neighborhood during a century of segregation through the present day.
Wintry wordsmiths, now is your time.
Arlington’s Department of Environmental Services (DES) has begun its annual ritual of seeking new names for the county’s fleet of snowplows.
The new Concourse E at Dulles Airport includes popular restaurants from Arlington, Falls Church and elsewhere in the D.C. area.
The 435,000-square-foot facility, which formally opened this week, features new locations for brands including Ballston-based Good Company Doughnuts & Cafe and Falls Church’s Ellie Bird.
Listeners who tune into 96.7 FM almost anywhere in Arlington can now hear broadcasts from the county’s home-grown radio station.
WERA has returned to broadcasting at its full authorized power out of its home base at 2300 Clarendon Blvd — a significant turnaround for the station that went dark for a year and was, until recently, operating as a self-described “bare minimum of a broadcast.”
Banditos Tacos & Tequila appears to have shuttered in Pentagon City, the latest closure for the D.C.-area chain.
The Mexican restaurant is listed as “temporarily closed” on Google, but the location at 1301 S. Joyce Street was removed from the business’s website sometime in the last 24 hours.
Veterans, active-duty service members and military spouses in the D.C. area can get free car washes tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday.
Mr Wash Car Wash is honoring Veterans Day with free services at 10 locations in Northern Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. This includes the car washes at 4148 S. Four Mile Run Drive, in the Douglas Park neighborhood, and 101 N. Glebe Road in Ashton Heights.
It may not even be Thanksgiving yet, but Santa Claus is about to arrive in Pentagon City.
Jolly Ol’ Saint Nick is flying into Fashion Centre at Pentagon City starting next weekend.
About a year ago, Ibrahim Al-Amin was walking along Columbia Pike and decided to make a video.
One of the owners of Charga on the Pike, Al-Amin was as frustrated as other business leaders in the area with years of disruptive roadwork that were affecting commerce in the area. When he uploaded the video to the restaurant’s Instagram, it got a lot of positive feedback.
A restaurant space and large outdoor dining area in Crystal City could be getting a new dining concept — but it probably won’t be a beer garden.
The former Athena Pallas space at 556 22nd Street S. has sat vacant since summer 2022. For a time, a restaurant and bar called Scapegoat Beer Garden was eyeing the space and working with the county to set up shop — but those plans ultimately crumbled and the site went back on the market earlier this year.
A takeout sushi restaurant near the Ballston Metro station is getting a new look and a spicy new name.
Sushi2Go at 901 N. Stuart St. has closed and is being rebranded as WasaB, according to signs posted on the windows.
A former salon on Langston Blvd has come down to make way for two new single-family homes.
The former New Image Hair Designs at 5800 Langston Blvd was a small pile of rubble as of this morning (Wednesday). Permit records indicate plans to build two new single-family homes facing N. Madison Street.
A new breakfast concept is coming to a Japanese restaurant on Columbia Pike next week.
Motto Cafe is hosting a soft opening inside Ryu Izakaya on Wednesday, Nov. 11. The cafe plans to bring a Japanese twist to classic breakfast and brunch options, along with a variety of Japanese-inspired smoothies, lattes and matcha drinks.
