Falls Church and Northern Virginia's Premier Weekly Newspaper Saturday, January 28, 2023
By Lois Elfman The year after an Olympic Winter Games is typically a time of new names and fresh ambitions in the sport of figure skating. There are a few 2022 Olympians competing at the 2023 U.S. Figure Skating Championships, taking place January 23–29 in San Jose, California, but much […]
Talking to Pamala Stanley, you wouldn’t believe she’s been getting people on the dance floor for over forty years.
In “Glinda of Oz,” a classic book in Frank L. Baum’s “Wonderful Wizard of Oz” series, one reads these opening lines: “Glinda, the good Sorceress of Oz, sat in the grand court of her palace, surrounded by her maids of honor—a hundred of the most beautiful girls of the Fairyland […]
As the holiday season is coming to a close and the new year just around the corner, Signature Theatre is finishing up 2022 with their eye-opening, tear-inducing and applause-worthy production of the beloved musical “Into the Woods.” A 1987 production, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, “Into the Woods” […]
Christmas Revels is a forty-year Christmas tradition in Washington, with the Washington Revels (the performance group) dedicated to fostering community through the celebration of a variety of cultural traditions. Although there is another like event in May, and throughout the year classes for children, community sings, and even parades, the […]
You can bless folks with your talent for a night, or you can draw forth the talents lurking within themselves that will bless them and many around them for a lifetime. And, moreover, such a cultivated talent can be the cornerstone of a sense of community bringing people together. It […]
In recent years, craft shows and holiday markets have grown in popularity among people looking for gifts to give their families, friends or themselves. Whether it be a festival, fair or bazaar, these shows and markets offer a wide range of items, manufactured or homemade, for anyone’s delight. Of the […]
The collection currently at Falls Church Arts Gallery is of “Bits and Pieces,” but the whole may hold much more for the visitor than the sum of its bits and pieces. Collage in all media is what ties together this mélange of creative artworks, with a decided emphasis on the […]
Falls Church’s Meridian High School students are presenting the Tony Award-winning musical play, “Pippin,” in performances this weekend in the new school’s auditorium. Charlemagne, we read in Einhard’s early life of the medieval Frankish king, “wrote out the barbarous and ancient songs, in which the acts of the kings and […]
By Preet Manukonda of Westfield High School Finding one’s purpose in life shouldn’t typically entail tyrannical fathers, intense battles, dying ducks, or even a scheming stepmother. Well, that sure wasn’t the case for the cast and crew at Justice High School’s production of Pippin, who went through all the above and […]
