Two screenings of an international short film festival are coming to a Falls Church movie theater this weekend and next.

Paragon Theaters will host two screenings of the Manhattan Short Film Festival on Founders Row at 5:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 27 and Sunday, Oct. 4.


Clarendon Day is back this weekend, bringing music, vendors and several road closures around the neighborhood’s Metro station.

The event, which starts at 11 a.m. on Saturday, will feature live rock, yacht rock and ska music through the day, in addition to 175 vendors and booths from local organizations.


A panel, booth and fair focused on best practices for raising kids around technology are taking place in Arlington this week.

All three events are organized by the local chapter of The Balance Project, “which equips and mobilizes families, schools and communities to shift cultural norms around technology and bring modern childhood into balance,” according to a press release.


Oktoberfest season opens in Arlington and Falls Church this weekend, with a three-day festival in Courthouse, a five-brewery run in Shirlington and — a bit incongruously — a mechanical bull at a restaurant in Crystal City.

Ten celebrations of note are on the local calendar between now and Oct. 3, most of them free. Munich’s original festival runs from Saturday through Oct. 4.


Samuel Beckett’s is hosting its annual Celtic Festival on Saturday, bringing Irish music, drinks and vendors to Shirlington.

The annual event will take place from noon to 6 p.m., closing off Campbell Avenue from S. Randolph Street to 28th Street S.


The Falls Church Festival is coming back for its 50th year this weekend, with music, food and a scavenger hunt.

“We’re celebrating it very much like a big bash,” Falls Church spokesperson Mary Catherine Chase told ARLnow. “We want an anniversary or a birthday party. I think that’s going to play up a whole lot, is the celebratory mood of this.”


Rosslyn Jazz Fest is back for its 34th year this weekend, bringing food trucks, local vendors and live performances to Gateway Park.

With a lineup featuring Americana, Latin Jazz, funk and global sounds, Arlington’s largest free outdoor music festival is expected to bring big crowds from 1-7 p.m. on Saturday.


Some routes between Arlington and D.C. will be impacted by a bike ride this weekend.

The 10th annual D.C. Bike Ride will mostly take place in the District on Saturday, but will take two detours across the Potomac, according to a list of road closures.


Roughly 1,500 shoppers are expected at the I-66 parking garage tomorrow (Saturday) for Arlington’s monthly flea market.

More than 150 vendors will set up across multiple levels of the covered garage, next to Washington-Liberty High School at 15th Street N. and N. Stafford Street, according to the Arlington Civitan Club. The market runs from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m., and admission and parking are free.


A music festival for local nonprofits is returning next month to benefit the Animal Welfare League of Arlington.

The Reason to Rock Music Festival is happening at Solace Outpost in Falls Church (444 W. Broad Street) on Saturday, Sept. 19. Tickets are $20 in advance, dogs are welcome and the schedule is as follows:


A memorial 5K marking 25 years since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, is taking place this weekend.

The annual Arlington Police, Fire, Sheriff, & ECC 9/11 Memorial 5K is taking place on Saturday evening, closing the following roads for the race that loops around the Pentagon:


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