Well you know what you should be doing on Monday (see Memorial Day special section inside this edition), so I’m going to tell you what to do this Saturday. Sure, you could grill out and get your burger and hot dog on, but that’s so unoriginal. How about staggering around [...]

For the 17th year, D.C.-area restaurants are coming together for a night of fundraising to help battle HIV/AIDS, cancer and other illnesses. Food & Friends’ Dining Out for Life takes place Thursday, April 25, and features over 100 area restaurants that have pledged to contribute between 25% and 110% of [...]

UPDATE: Police issued a correction today, May 1, and have revised Bousbain’s charge to Abduction only. A 32-year old Fairfax County man has been arrested in an assault and abduction incident that occurred Thursday night in the City of Falls Church. Police say on the evening of April 18, Hakim [...]

While I’m certainly enthused that warmer weather has finally decided to pay us a visit, I think I may be more excited for what’s going on in Market Square out front of Mad Fox this weekend. The Falls Church brew pub, taking full advantage of the season, is hosting their [...]

Three Virginia men have been arrested in conjunction with two separate armed robberies in the City of Falls Church last December, F.C. Police reported today. Robert Montgomery, 24, of Manassas, Vincent H. Pizarro, 21, of Haymarket, and Miguel M. Garcia, 21, of Warrenton were arrested and each charged with one [...]

The newest Matchbox restaurant will open in Merrifield on April 12, the restaurant’s group announced in a release toady. Matchbox, best known for its pizza and burgers, will be the first full-service restaurant in the new Mosaic District development, opening up next to the Angelika Theater. The 220-seat Merrifield location [...]

A sexual assault on East Broad Street was reported to City of Falls Church Police last Thursday but the information wasn’t released to the press until it was spotted by the News-Press in the weekly crime report released today.

 To Make Broad Walkable, We Need a New Stop Light Editor, Let me propose a critical next step in the ongoing effort to make Falls Church City’s downtown a genuinely pedestrian-friendly environment: we must demand a traffic light, and two wide, well-marked, pedestrian-friendly crosswalks, at the intersection of Broad St. [...]

Merrifield. Long known as simply the place to go to find bushes and shrubs for your yard or maybe catch a flick in a run-down movie theater, it is now on the verge of becoming a full-blown dining destination. The crossroads of Gallows Road and Lee Highway has erupted in [...]

Who wouldn’t be excited about an evening filled with “acrobats, freaks, roustabouts, barkers, dandies and women of questionable virtue”?