Falls Church’s own Ibby Acosta, a senior administrative assistant from the City’s Public Works Division, performed at this seasons first ArtALot event at May’s FIRSTfriday festivities. Pictured above at the event are Craig Lawrence; second-place winner of the Beyer Auto Group Cruise-In; Cruise-In Judge Tom Scott; band members Rosser Clark and Harold Richmond; Cruise-In Judge Sheriff S. Stephen Bittle; band members Ibby Acosta and Dave Elliott; Cruise-In Judge Toler; band member Andrew Acosta; first-place winner Nicholas Waller; third-place winner John Murphy; and Bahli the dog. The performance was sponsored by Tori McKinney of Keller Williams Realty. (Photo: Tom Gittins)
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
