This weekend in NoVA: The McLean Chocolate Festival, Improvicon, Jurassic Quest, Lunar New Year celebrations and maple-syrup boils.
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This weekend in NoVA: The McLean Chocolate Festival, Improvicon, Jurassic Quest, Lunar New Year celebrations and maple-syrup boils.
BreadBreakers dinners like this one — five days before the re-inauguration of Donald Trump, 19 miles to the east — were their chance to “practice” engaging with people they might disagree with.
Graham’s goal: to stoke a movement of U.S. depolarization through connection.
“Families have been split apart” by worsening polarization, Graham said, and the six tables full of people in deep-blue Fairfax County seemed to agree. “There are so many important issues that we should be talking about, but we can’t even get there, because we can’t ... have a civil conversation.”
He greeted the participants as they entered — more returning faces this time; that was good — and, before their pasta dinner was served, took the microphone to explain the night’s program.
Michael Graham arrived at the Reston community center 43 minutes before his latest attempt to heal the discourse of the nation, wearing the three-day stubble of a young dad and the smile of a dogged American optimist.
Here are 17 ways to spend the weekend around NoVA, if you’re up to brave the cold — including a massive records sale, the NoVA Wine Expo, and MLK weekend service events:
A little more snow is coming, so The Machine hopes everyone is following the time-honored Northern Virginia tradition of stockpiling food and toilet paper for a rapture-level event.
Here’s the latest forecast and 12 weekend happenings around NoVA:
I wrote about Gannett’s plan to kill off one of the last pieces of American legacy media to resist financialization: The Associated Press.
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Snow is coming this weekend. Before it does, stop by Herndon’s Beach Resort day and pretend it’s summer.
Here’s the detailed forecast and our weekly list of things to do around NoVA — including the Big Flea, tribute shows and the Capitals’ Kids Day in Ballston.
This weekend in NoVA: Menorah lightings, comedy shows, a Harry Potter movie-theater marathon, and the last gasps of Christmas:
Santa comin
NewsGuard, which prizes its nonpartisan criteria, has become a prime target of the GOP’s battle against disinformation watchdogs.
Happy Friday! Here’s the forecast for the weekend in NoVA and 17 ways to spend it, from caroling at Reston Town Center to an oddly timed lobster festival to the annual Stafford Christmas Parade.
Mike Graham, Tysons Corner Center’s 38-year Santa, has watched the mall and the world change from his Christmas set.
The Machine visited to ask him 10-ish Questions.
Looking for something fun and wintry to do this weekend?
Here are a dozen ways to spend it around NoVA and D.C. — from Del Ray’s Candy Cane Bar Crawl to Swissmas in Springfield to the latest round of holiday markets.
Massive energy use by data centers could lead to higher electric bills.
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Last month, I fell down an absolutely bizarre rabbit hole trying to figure out who was ripping off articles from Oregon journalists.
What I found was identity theft, plagiarism and an absolutely terrifying future for local journalism led by AI scammers.
My latest:
NoVA has a packed slate of holiday events this weekend — from Christmas in Middleburg to holiday craft markets to boat parades in Reston and Alexandria.
Happy (Black) Friday, all. Here are the top local headlines of the week, a chilly forecast for this weekend and 15 ways to spend it — from tree lightings and parades in Reston and Mosaic District to brewery holiday markets to Old Town Alexandria’s Plaid Friday sales.
Teachers and staff of Fairfax County Public Schools voted this week to approve three-year contracts, after the first collective bargaining in decades.
Here’s what to know about what it means for employees and for schools, and where taxes (and maybe that Tysons casino) factor in:
Sometimes called the “fourth trimester,” the postpartum period is mostly an afterthought in the United States, despite the physical and mental challenges that accompany the life-altering experience of having a baby.
That's where Sanu comes in.
There’s a chance of snow today in NoVA — but it wouldn’t be the fun kind.
Here are the week’s top local headlines, the forecast for the weekend and 14 ways to spend it around the area, from Mosaic District’s holiday market to the Old Town Cookie Crawl (if you can get off the waitlist):
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