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Alexandria: Takin’ It to the Streets
Del Ray Music Festival moves to The Avenue.
Changes are brewing for this year’s Del Ray Music Festival, including a new location and the debut of pop-up beer gardens, a first for an outdoor street festival in the City of Alexandria.
Racing Into History
Lyles sets a new American 200m record.
Ever since he starred in track at what is now Alexandria City High School, the 200-meter race was a specialty for Noah Lyles.
Keeping the Spirit Alive in Alexandria
Sons honored in Alexandria Sportsman's Club scholarship drive.
Rick Moon enjoyed country music, boating and being on the water.
Making Cents for Charity in Alexandria
Dining out or volunteering, opportunities abound to help community.
Remembering Rose Berler
Longtime civic activist dies at 95
Gardening was a passion for Rose Berler, who won numerous awards for the Lincolnia Hills garden she first began tending in 1958.
License to Chill
March came in like a lion, with Mother Nature dumping several inches of snow on the region March 3 as city governments and local schools closed in the wake of yet another storm that brought life across Alexandria to a crawl. “I am not a fan of this weather but thought I would try and get some enjoyment out of this last storm,” said @Home Real Estate and Design Center Realtor Christine Sennott. “My boyfriend and I packed on our winter gear and went for a walk about town. The streets were desolate with random residents shoveling walk ways and an occasional barking dog the only sound to be heard.” With snow totals ranging from 2.5 to 8 inches, the latest round of winter weather brought icy conditions and subfreezing temperatures to Alexandria just days after sunshine bathed the city's annual St. Patrick's Day parade.
Alexandria: Jingle Bell Rock 5K to raise arthritis awareness.
It is the leading cause of disability in the United States, with more than 53 million Americans being affected by some form of arthritis.
Alexandria Snapshot: 45th Annual Scottish Walk Weekend
Tens of thousands of visitors crowded the streets of Old Town Dec. 5 for the Campagna Center’s 45th Annual Scottish Christmas Walk Parade.
‘Shakespeare’s R&J’
Tragic tale debuts at Signature Theatre.
At first glance, they are the model of Catholic school conformity, trained to recite in unison as they learn their catechism. But then an illicit copy of William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is discovered, disrupting the lives of four prep school boys in “Shakespeare's R&J,” now playing at Signature Theatre.
Midori and Friends Visit T.C. Williams
It was the chance of a lifetime for members of the T.C. Williams High School youth orchestra as world-renown Midori spent March 27 coaching aspiring musicians as part the legendary violinist's week-long Orchestra Residencies Program.
Alexandria Planning Commission Approves Heritage of Old Town
Redevelopment plan goes to Council Feb. 20
By unanimous 7-0 vote, the Planning Commission approved The Heritage of Old Town project, a 750-unit development in the Southwest quadrant of the Historic District of Old Town.
Good Deeds Day in Alexandria
Agudas Achim, Alfred Street Baptist join forces to combat hunger.
Good Deeds
Alexandria Obituary: Remembering Dorothy Evans Turner
Public housing, Civil Rights activist dies at 87.
To her friends, she was affectionately known as “Peaches.” But the tender moniker belied the fierce, unyielding spirit of Dorothy Turner, a descendant of one of Alexandria’s oldest African American families, when she was fighting for equal rights for public housing tenants.
'The World Is Our Market'
Palmieri to chair Chamber of Commerce
When Andrew Palmieri first moved to Alexandria in 1985, he and two roommates struggled each month to pay the rent on their West End apartment. "We were barely making ends meet," said Palmieri as he reflected back on his early years in the city. "I was in my second year of law school and since that