South Block Juice Company, a “micro-juicery,” will be opening in a few months at 2121 N. Westmoreland Street in the East Falls Church area of Arlington. It will be a juice production facility which will supply juice to the Urban Pantry which is located next door and make it available for pickup and local home delivery. The offerings include the three-day juice cleanse, which consists of 18 bottles of juice, to be drank in specific order, for $150. South Block Juice Company is owned by Amir Mostafavi who founded South Block Café in the Clarendon Center in 2011 and Campus Fresh at the GW Lerner Health & Wellness Center in 2004.

Otakon Convention, a Major Cultural Event in Washington
The annual Otakon Convention held this past weekend was overwhelmingly magnificent! Indeed, the four-day-long event broke the convention’s prior attendance record, surpassing the 46,000 who attended the 2024 celebration of



