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1) City Announces Selection of Hendler-Voss as New City Manager, Upcoming Council Vote to Confirm; 2) Starting Tomorrow: Falls Church's First-Ever Summer Restaurant Week, Aug. 21-30; 3) Creative Cauldron Stage Receives FY27 ArtsFairfax Operating Support Grant; 4) Notices & Announcements
....I encourage parents to .... send their child’s teacher a brief introduction email. This is not an email requesting a conference or outlining a list of concerns. Instead, it is a short message that helps the teacher learn something meaningful about your child and establishes, from the beginning, that you value a partnership between home and school.
When I turned 15, I begged to learn to drive, since I could get a provisional license at 15 and a-half. My first teacher was my mother, who it turned out, didn’t have the nerves for it. I remember only one lesson. As I was backing out of our driveway, my mother said, “Carol, watch the car.”
Seriously, I'm embarrassed for The Washington Post. And disgusted by its obsequious, worshipful, non-critical hyping of Christopher Nolan's recent film "The Odyssey." Whether Nolan's movie is good or bad is not the issue here; it's the question of whether Post subscribers are reading actual film critiques....
I didn’t need to go to sleep to visit dreamland during my childhood. All I had to do was take a trip to the movies. I had two choices: the stately Pantheon, with the grand appearance to match its name, which charged 15 cents and usually ran double features. Though old, its red velvet seats and brass fittings were still elegant. My other choice was the less grand, but younger New Moon which charged…
I was so moved by my visit to Falls Church Presbyterian Church, Friday, July 31, for the last day of “Summer’s Best Week Camp,” held by local nonprofit human services organization ‘A Purposeful Day’ (APD). The group's mission is, “to empower individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities by providing them with a sense of daily purpose.”
Within the West Falls development, the tallest building in the Little City – at 15 stories – is slated to open by the spring of 2027. Custom designed as a luxury senior living community by Denver-based NexCore’s Experience Senior Living (ESL), the Hospitality Design Guild, and Perkins Eastman architects, ‘The Reserve of Falls Church,’ will be offering 26,000 sq.-feet of three-tiered senior…
....In contemporary psychology, however, this way of being can lead to what's termed the Hedonic Treadmill. If you haven't heard the term, it’s essentially what Bette Midler perceives Goldie Hawn doing in the film – climbing and climbing, but never getting anywhere. When we chase happiness by seeking momentary gratification as a means of warding of painful experiences, we put ourselves on this…
Did you long for extra money like I did as a kid?.... Like most things in 1950’s America, job choices were gender-linked....The first choice was lawn-mowing in the summertime and snow shoveling in the winter months.
By Annabel Taylor, Sporting a head of long, tousled hair and a flannel shirt, a grungy figure shreds his guitar to the ‘90s alternative-rock hit “Come As You Are” on the stage of The State Theatre in Falls Church. No, it’s not
