As the first spring flowers bloom and warmer weather gradually returns, Pentagon City is welcoming back the Easter Bunny beginning next week.
Photos with the beloved rabbit begin at the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City on Thursday, March 19 and continue through Easter Sunday on April 5. He will be in Nordstrom Court on the mall’s first level.
Yesterday’s winter storm brought quiet streets and winter fun to Arlington, even as fluffy snowfall turned to icy sleet.
Snow blanketed the streets, which were mostly empty except for the occasional car or snowplow, and iconic views, including those in Arlington National Cemetery. At the same time, local kids — who have the day off from school today (Monday) — took to the parks for sledding and other merriment.
A tight-knit construction crew’s months of labor and progress in Ballston are the subject of an online photo album by a neighborhood photographer.
Since the spring, David Moss has captured dozens of scenes conveying the teamwork and physical feats of construction workers at the UrbA phase II redevelopment site next to Harris Teeter, where a 197-unit apartment building is getting built at 600 N. Glebe Road.
With Easter on the way, a familiar, festive rabbit is making his annual return to the Pentagon City mall.
The Easter Bunny will visit the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City at 11 a.m. this Friday, April 4, and he’ll be available for photos at 1100 S. Hayes Street until Saturday, April 19.
As the sun peeked over the horizon this morning, nearly 1,500 shadows danced across Arlington National Cemetery’s 639 acres as soldiers placed flags at each grave, including of those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Starting at 6 a.m., members of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, the Army’s oldest active-duty infantry unit — known as the “Old Guard” — began the solemn task of placing flags at the base of approximately 260,000 headstones as part of their annual “Flags In” tradition, held just before Memorial Day.
It was a banner weekend for those who like gazing up at the sky to witness nature’s splendor.
Locals who were hoping to see the aurora borealis in Arlington Friday night were disappointed by the cloud cover. But those who stayed up until the wee hours of Saturday morning managed to see some northern lights amid the extreme geomagnetic storm.
A new American Legion post with a bar, a conference room, slot machines and an outdoor grill hosted an open house over the weekend.
American Legion Post 13 at 3445 Washington Blvd replaces a previous Legion building with a smaller footprint, which was demolished in 2020. The Virginia Square facility now sits at the foot of 160 units of affordable housing, half of which is set aside for veterans.
Crowds gathered at Rosslyn’s Gateway Park today (Monday) to witness the partial solar eclipse.
The sky became noticeably darker as peak eclipse approached around 3:20 p.m. Scattered applause broke out from visitors donning eclipse glasses to watch the rare celestial event. Beyond Rosslyn, another public viewing was held at the GMU campus in Virginia Square.
This past weekend was spring forward for time. This week as been spring open for cherry blossoms.
Thanks to warm and sunny weather, tree blossoms have been opening at a rapid clip, and that includes those on Arlington’s cherry blossom trees.
Spring is just around the corner and so is the Easter Bunny.
The folkloric rabbit will hop over to the Fashion Centre at Pentagon City (1100 S. Hayes Street) starting next week, for photo opportunities all month long.
This week, Arlington County recognized a handful of public facilities projects and privately developed apartment and office buildings for their sleek designs.
Top projects in honored in the biannual DESIGNArlington competition received “The Excellence Award.” Others were recognized with “Merit Awards” and “Honorable Mentions” for promoting county goals “in affordable housing, biophilic design, public art, historic preservation, or education.”
When Jay Westcott joined ARLnow in September 2019, he said one of his main focuses was covering the arrival of Amazon’s HQ2 and its impact on the local community.
He could not have foreseen that within just seven months, he would be documenting some of the most consequential years not only for Arlington but for the entire world.
