The idea seems preposterous, but it’s true: A quality meal can be had within the walls of the Angelika Film Center.

With its grand opening last November, Leek American Bistro introduced Ballston to its modern American cuisine. And it’s a curious and playful thing, full of refined dishes reminiscent of southern home-style traditions and other regional fare that toys with the influences of other lands in a way both enjoyable and [...]

Olympic Figure Skater and News-Press columnist Johnny Weir will be featured on this season of “Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off,” which premieres Sunday on the Food Network at 9 p.m. EST.

The Melodime legacy can be traced back to an act of kindness that changed the life of a poor rural family, and today the band is trying to pay it forward with a charitable campaign and support from its fans. According to family lore, Sam and Tyler Duis’ great-grandfather discovered [...]

Every year around the end of December and beginning of January, we start to see slogans boasting something like, “New Year, New You!” The actual products being advertised are always different. The words might be attached to a billboard boasting discount membership rates at the gym, or they might be declaring a big sale at your local department store, but the underlying concept is the same: This is the time to reinvent yourself. In with the new, out with the old.

Asian Recipes, a newly opened restaurant in Merrifalls Plaza, joins several similar restaurants in the Falls Church area marked by a miles-long list of Chinese cuisine, carry-out and delivery options, and affordable prices. But at this new restaurant the familiar is done well, and sometimes even gives way to a few surprises. The result may make Asian Recipes a new favorite takeout spot for those looking to satisfy Chinese food cravings.

At the food court outside the AMC Theaters in the Tysons Corner mall where the movie version of the hit musical, “Les Miserables,” opened on Christmas, over a dozen members of the cast of Falls Church’s award-winning George Mason High School production of Les Miz from 2010 assembled in “flash [...]

Monday Night’s Fest To Ring in at Indoor & Outdoor Venues Volunteer coordinator Barb Cram has been fielding a familiar question recently. Is Watch Night happening again this New Year’s Eve? Maybe it’s disbelief that prompts the questioning from those astonished that again businesses and citizens have come together to put [...]

By Kristine Hull The gifts have been opened, the wrapping paper has been cleaned up, and it’s time to look toward the future: 2013. The best way to get ready is by celebrating Father Time handing down the responsibility to Baby New Year with the Watch Night celebration in downtown [...]

With the future of Anthony’s Restaurant uncertain as plans for development in its area of downtown Falls Church continue, a surge of support for the restaurant has come forth from hundreds of citizens and patrons who want to preserve the local establishment’s 40-year legacy and see it thrive. A visit to Anthony’s makes it easy to see why so many have such strong feelings for this restaurant.