For harmonica player Magic Dick and guitarist and vocalist Shun Ng, it was about time they released a record together, so appropriately, the debut album from the duo is called About Time. They have been playing together for a couple of years and are now touring across the country in […]

“Ruthless! The Musical,” which opened the new season at Falls Church’s Creative Cauldron last week, is a raucous, laugh-a-minute hoot. The Cauldron’s producing director Laura Hull wrote in the program that she chose it for this time frame six months ago as she “suspected we might be in the throes […]

THIS IS SHERU, a 4-year-old Golden Retriever who has never met anyone he didn’t like…well except the squirrels and rabbits in his yard. He makes sure they know who’s the boss of the yard. Most of the days he spends time contemplating on mysteries of life, strolling his yard, taking […]

Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers are currently working on a new album that they are aiming to release in early summer 2017. But they are also celebrating the 20th anniversary of Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy, the major label debut of Clyne when he was The Refreshments, the predecessor of […]

Tommy Castro, leader of Tommy Castro and the Painkillers, produced the group’s 2015 album, Method to My Madness, which was a first for the Bay Area-based blues, rock and R&B man. The album saw Castro and his band return to form after adding rock to their repertoire in earnest on […]

Falls Church 4th grader Henry Behrens and his beloved beagle Boy pose for a photo on a dock. Henry found Boy two winters ago wandering the streets of Falls Church, starving and freezing. Boy hasn’t gone hungry for food or love since!

“Guys and Dolls” won’t “Shrek” in “Urinetown” if they “Don’t Drink the Water” served by a “Sea Cook.”

THIS IS MILO, a 3-year old silver Labrador Retriever who makes his home in Falls Church City.  Besides reading FCNP and watching TV he enjoys catching balls, chasing his feline siblings, Gibbs and Jethro, and playing with his canine siblings, Boodah and Morgan.

by Alana Noelle Black Andrew Leahey and the Homestead are slated to perform 120 gigs in 2016 – an average of one about every three days. But of the band’s numerous shows, Andrew Leahey, the group’s namesake and front man, looks forward to the ones in Virginia and D.C. especially, […]

Maneki Neko recently won the Best Sushi category in the News-Press’ “Best of Falls Church” contest and is definitely one of the more popular lunch spots in The Little City. But did you know that it opened up a location in Arlington in late 2015? That’s right, Maneki Neko branched […]