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A Walk for Suicide Awareness in Fairfax

11th Annual Fairfax Out of the Darkness Walk draws 1,200 participants.

LTA Stages “Plaza Suite”

Slapstick comedy by Neil Simon about love and marriage is sure to please.

The Little Theatre of Alexandria is staging the Neil Simon slapstick comedy, “Plaza Suite,” June 14-July 5.

‘The Boys Next Door’ at Port City Playhouse

Show features mentally challenged characters who are funny and poignant.

Club Pilates Burke Has Grand Opening

Julie Karickhoff of Fairfax starts her own franchise.

For about six years, Jim Bellas, 65, of the district, has organized the Open Mic Night on Wednesdays at Kate’s Irish Pub in Springfield’s Concorde Shopping Center. Anyone can sign up to play for free on Mondays and Wednesdays from 7:30 to 11 p.m. The sets usually last between 10-15 minutes and include three to five songs.

Smith Named Principal of Drew Model School

Jacqueline Smith leads melting pot of school in Montessori training.

The students know her for her engaging smile. And after serving as interim principal for more than a year, Jacqueline Smith, 53, is the new principal of Drew Model School, a Montessori school in South Arlington. It helps that the Arlington View resident speaks fluent Spanish and French. She also has two master’s degrees in curriculum and instruction, and education leadership, with a focus on multicultural bilingual education – a necessity for leading the melting pot that is Drew.

Melissa Porfirio Is Teacher of Year

Crestwood first-grade teacher “humbled” to be singled out for honor.

Melissa Porfirio, 38, of Springfield’s Crestwood neighborhood was named Virginia’s 2014 Region 4 Teacher of the Year by the Virginia Department of Education. The first- and second-grade teacher at Crestwood Elementary since 2005 will be honored on Friday, Oct. 11, at a banquet and awards program in Richmond.

Local Filmmakers at Bethesda Film Fest

Films include art of painting with wax, history of collard greens, and a doctor walking the line of his own morality.

Filmmakers from Alexandria, Arlington

Wanted: Fixer-Upper for Historic Home in Lorton

Hannah P. Clark property is part of the Resident Curator Program.

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Expanded Dance Classes at Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton

With new hire Mimi Glass, they’re launching more kids’ and adult classes.

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McLean AAUW Turns 50

19 past branch presidents attend; Supervisor Foust gives Proclamation honoring club.

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100-Year-Old’s Perspective

Lee Wilson Palmer recalls Mount Vernon’s early years.

‘About a Girl’ at Capital Fringe Fest

Play got its start and support from Little Theatre of Alexandria.

Sex, Drugs and Texas 1985 — What’s not to like? A lot if you’re abused, pregnant and still in high school. That pretty much sums up “About a Girl,” which is set in the fictionalized town of Highland, Texas, and dramatizes what happens when everything you have been taught about the world is challenged.

A Visit to ‘August: Osage County’ in Alexandria

LTA presents drama about dysfunctional family in rural Oklahoma.

‘Community of Friends’ in Springfield

Lynne Maloney runs a boutique fitness studio.

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Little Theatre of Alexandria Presents ‘The Audience’

Story of Queen Elizabeth’s behind-the-scenes meetings with her prime ministers.

David Fee to Lead Hunt Valley

Easy-going, approachable principal offers inclusive style of leadership.

After 18 years in education, David Fee was named new principal of Hunt Valley Elementary School in Springfield on July 1, taking over the position from former principal Pat Small who retired on June 30.

Chess Champ Wins by Strategy

At the age of 9, Fair Lakes Crossing resident is ranked 4th nationally.

At the age of 9, Aasa Dommalapati, a fourth-grader at Greenbriar West Elementary, competed against the top chess players in Brazil and Canada during the summer months. She is currently ranked fourth nationally in the girls U-9 category.

In Harmony With Celebration Singers

Springfield show choir has been going strong 40 years.

The all-volunteer Celebration Singers performed their final holiday concert of the year on Sunday, Dec. 15 at St. John’s United Methodist Church in Springfield. The group started at Springfield Methodist Church in the 1960s by the name of the Wesleyan Singers. Some of the ladies have been singing together for 40-plus years. And through the years, membership has reached 66 people, but has since dwindled to 18.

The Arlington Players Presents ‘A Chorus Line’

Talented cast of 24 actors reveal their souls through song and dance.

Under the direction of Susan Devine, 56, of Fairfax, The Arlington Players is staging the iconic dance-musical “A Chorus Line,” through Oct. 12 at the Thomas Jefferson Community Center off Glebe Road in Arlington. The complex show features a cast of 24 actors, singers and dancers on a bare stage with only a wall-length mirror during their audition for a musical. The director Zach, played by formidable real-life director and actor Blakeman Brophy, moves freely through the audience, while running the auditions and putting actors through their paces. As the play progresses, Zach gets them to reveal their souls through song (“What I Did for Love,” and “I Can Do That”) and dance. Devine wanted to convey the feeling of Zach directing from an empty auditorium — even though he was moving around the audience. She said, “I wanted to make this feel like this was as real an audition as possible.”

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