Encore Stage & Studio last week paid tribute to local photographer Cindy Kane, who for most of the past decade has chronicled its youth-theater performances.
Kane has proved “very special to our organization,” Encore executive director Sara Duke said in a presentation held July 18 during intermission of “The Addams Family” at Thomas Jefferson Community Theatre.
A new coffee truck serving cafe classics and Nepali specialties has opened outside a gas station in Cherrydale.
Located at 4019 Langston Blvd, Coffee Libations has been open for about a month. Owner Anshu Bhusal, a long-time coffee shop employee, told ARLnow he’d been looking for an opportunity to bring customers both authentic Nepali recipes and brews of his own creation.
Advocates for the shuttered Lee Community Center are making a last-minute bid to include renovation funding in the county’s updated capital improvement plan.
Jean Henceroth, president of the Leeway Overlee Civic Association, said $10 million in funding would allow for the upgrades needed to reopen the facility.
A new grocery store at a Langston Blvd shopping center has set an opening date in September.
Sprouts Farmers Market plans to hold a ribbon cutting ceremony on Sept. 25 at 3115 Langston Blvd, in the former home of a Giant supermarket that closed in March 2024, a spokesperson told ARLnow. The grocer has already begun hiring at the location, which was first announced in May 2025.
It was the end of an era Sunday (July 5), as Metro 29 Diner concluded 31 years of dinner service.
The Langston Blvd landmark is keeping breakfast and lunch service starting at 6 a.m. daily, but will now close at 4 p.m. daily rather than 10 p.m.
The former Lee Community Center on Langston Blvd could remain on ice for up to a decade while county officials decide what to do with it.
County Manager Mark Schwartz’s proposed 10-year capital improvement plan (CIP), released in May, calls for waiting until fiscal year 2035 or 2036 before addressing renovations and future programming at the facility. However, both civic leaders and at least one County Board member are hopeful they can shorten that timeline.
Arlingtonians who have long dreamed of soaring between locations by way of an aerial gondola system appear to have a new champion.
A firefighter and lifelong Arlington resident, Danny Wang, has entered the fight for gondola-style transit with a 40-page report sketching out a highly ambitious proposal.
A Capital One branch on Langston Blvd is closing today (Wednesday).
The bank at 4700 Langston Blvd will permanently close its doors at 5 p.m., according to notices posted at the location.
An Arlington deli has opened its second location, bringing New York-inspired fare and East Asian cuisine to the former Bob & Edith’s Diner on Langston Blvd.
Chelsea Market & Deli is now in operation at 5050 Langston Blvd. It serves up many of the same dishes as its sister location in Courthouse — such as breakfast fare, salads, sandwiches, calzones, empanadas and pizza — but also offers new items like sushi, ramen, Korean wings and bento box meals.
Compass Coffee’s ownership transition process is continuing to move forward, months after the U.K.-based coffeehouse chain Caffè Nero purchased the struggling D.C.-area brand.
On Monday, Caffè Nero applied for a commercial building permit at Compass Coffee’s drive-thru location at 4710 Langston Blvd. The permit is part of the ownership transfer process and is “not connected to any change to store appearance,” a Caffè Nero spokesperson clarified.
A group of five men, at least two of whom were brandishing guns, robbed a jewelry store along Langston Blvd late last week.
The robbery happened around 2 p.m. Friday at Sonia Jewelers (5155 Langston Blvd) — a nearly 40-year-old local business specializing in South Asian gold jewelry, with locations in Arlington and Springfield.
Ceremonies honoring two local pioneering Black physicians took place on Saturday afternoon with both descendants and civic leaders in attendance.
A commemorative plaque honoring Dr. Harold Johnson and Dr. Edward Morton was unveiled at a new pocket park located on the grounds of VHC Health at 19th Street N. and N. Edison Street.
