Okay. Okay. I know this is not supposed to be a book review column. But every once in a while I come across a book that is so exceptional, so moving, I can’t keep it to myself.
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News Briefs
October 11 – 17, 2007
Community News and Notes
Pilin Thai Restaurant accepts the 2007 Best Overall Restaurant Award on Saturday, Sept. 15 at the 32nd Annual City of Falls Church Fall Festival and Taste of Falls Church. (PHOTO: COURTESY GARY MESTER)
Helen Thomas: Bush Is Leaving Judgment Of His Presidency To History
WASHINGTON — As if there were any doubt, a new book titled “Dead Certain” asserts that President Bush is deeply convinced that he did the right thing by invading Iraq.
‘Victorian Falls Church’ Book Signing Friday at Area Store
A book signing will occur at the Tysons Corner Barnes and Noble bookstore Friday night featuring some of the dedicated citizens of Falls Church who collaborated for the publication of a handsome new paperback volume, “Victorian Falls Church.”
Author & Falls Church Driver Take Readers ‘Once Around the Track’
Sharyn McCrumb’s new auto racing novel, “Once Around the Track,” owes its existence to not only the New York Times best-selling author, but also to Adam Edwards, an ARCA RE/MAX Series racecar driver. Edwards, whose hometown is Falls Church, contributed to the development of the novel, serving as a resource […]
Teen Wizard Turns Falls Church Into Harry-est Town in America
Harry Potter mania has struck Falls Church like the lightning bolt on the kid-wizard’s forehead. Dubbed “Harry-est Town in America” by Amazon.com, the City of Falls Church holds the record of pre-ordering the most copies per capita of J.K. Rowling’s highly-anticipated “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh book […]
Helen Thomas: Lady Bird: A Great First Lady
WASHINGTON — Lady Bird Johnson knew the demands on a first lady long before she was catapulted into that role after the tragic assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Comic Book Guys Try to Knock Judges ‘Dead’ in Competition
The witty banter and casual mannerisms of Jon and Dave Milstein as they jokingly bicker and chow down at an Armenian coffeehouse is hardly consistent with what is expected from the creators of the dark, brooding superhero of their comic book “The Assembly of the Dead.” But it is this […]
News Briefs
June 21- 27, 2007
