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After eight years as principal at George Mason High School, Tyrone Q. Byrd announced Tuesday that he has offered his resignation effective June 30. SEE NEWS BRIEFS, PAGE 9
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chair Michael Novotny – for the intense focus session on the Little City yesterday. “Falls Church is a great place to be developing,” Hitt told his colleagues in the real estate development business. “The right leadership is in place and it’s predictable. (That’s one of the most important things for a developer to hear – ed.).
A standing-room-only throng of parents and teachers in the Council chambers at the Falls Church City Hall Tuesday night vented anger and frustration at the Falls Church School Board, assailing the choices the board was faced with and initially made in the first hours after the F.C. City Council cut almost $1 million from the School Board budget request last week. Assailed for lack of transparency and communication, the School Board and Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones were accused by angry parents of “ripping the heart out of a living organism” for proposing cuts that would diminish teacher raises and result in larger classroom sizes. The budget cut proposals were exacerbated by the announcement earlier in the day that eight-year Principal Tyrone Byrd of George Mason High School has resigned as of June 30 (see story, elsewhere this edition). The surprise announcement marked the third resignation of a principal out of the four schools in the Falls Church school system, and was targeted by some angry parents who spoke at Tuesday’s meeting of “mismanagement” in the leadership of the system. One specific proposal for a cut in the budget that the School Board floated last week involved the removal of an assistant principal position at the Mt. Daniel Elementary School. That brought the Mt. Daniel principal Kathleen Halayko to the speaker’s podium to object to the idea.
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Ted White, copy editor at the News-Press, has lived most of his life in Falls Church City and took time to reflect on his career as a writer and The Little City. SEE PAGE 24
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Americans have always put great emphasis on individual choice. But even by our own standards we’ve had a choice explosion over the past 30 years. Americans now have more choices over more things than any other culture in human history. SEE PAGE 14
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X Ambassadors have been on fire since March 2015 when they released the single “Renegades” off of their first full-length album VHS, and are coming to Echostage on May 12. SEE PAGE 25
CITY OF FALLS CHURCH EMPLOYEES installed nifty bike racks like this one seen on the corner of Washington and Broad Streets around the City on Thursday, April 28 donning the Falls Church nickname in an effort to encourage more bicycle ridership in and around the City. (P����: N���-P����)
City of Falls Church Gets Its Day
In Front of 200 Developers
BY NICHOLAS F. BENTON
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In case anyone didn’t already know, developer Todd Hitt of Kiddar Capital, who has three major real estate development projects going on in the City of Falls Church right now, made plain his passion for Falls Church to the over 200 sets of intently focused real estate developer eyes that concentrated for better
than an hour on all things City of Falls Church at the luncheon of NAIOP, the Commercial Real Estate Development Corporation, at the fancy Ritz Carlton in Tysons Corner yesterday. Hitt joined three other powerful advocates for the City and its economic development potential – Mayor David Tarter, City Planning Department chief James Snyder and the City’s Economic Development Authority (EDA)
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Parents Express Frustration with F.C. School Board at Recent Meeting
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“Much to my surprise, included in this list (of initially-proposed cuts – ed.) was the Mt. Daniel assistant principal, a position that has been serving the school for six years. This decision was made without the courtesy of a discussion prior to the announcement, nor were pros and cons entertained,” she said. “As the one person in this room who has worked both with and without an assistant principal, I am especially concerned about the impact this cut to the budet will have on our program,” she added, saying, “I am asking that you consider that a majority of personnel cuts come from Mt. Daniel in these budget cuts. Please consider the suggestion to reduce the amount of funding for salary improvements across the division so that cuts are fairly distributed and not felt disproportionately in one building.” When she concluded her defense of the need for an assistant principal, she received a loud standing ovation from the tightlypacked in audience.
Following the public hearing component of the Tuesday meeting, the School Board began a budget work session, with many in the audience remaining. But as the work session went on and on, not finishing until 11:30 p.m., many parents and teachers left. In the end, no final vote on the modified budget, to include the $912,600 in cuts, was taken, but it was decided to retain the assistant principal position at Mt. Daniel and to keep the initially-proposed 20 percent cut to increased salaries across the board that it had initially proposed last week. School Board member Phil Reitinger lamented, “We’re down to a bunch of bad choices,” and suggested that this might be the “new normal” that the system faces. “Every cut will have a longterm impact because the cuts need to be sustainable,” added Board member Michael Ankuma. But Board member Erin Gill complained that the options before the board were pre-vetted, meaning that “We’re being told what we can put in our take out of the budget” without having access to the
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whole thing. Dr. Jones responded, “I am trying to do the will of the School Board in what I present.” “The bottom line is the kids,” said Board vice-chair John Lawrence, who was filling in as the chair of the meeting for Justin Castillo, who was traveling on business. At the conclusion of Tuesday’s lengthy meeting, Jones and Chief Financial Officer Hunter Kimble were tasked wlith bringing back a revised list of possible reductions by the close of business on Thursday so that School Board members can build their own scenarios and come together next Tuesday, and the final vote will probably be May 17. During the public petition period at the beginning of the meeting this Tuesday, parents had assailed a “lack of trust” and “lack of transparency” rooted in poor communication with the teachers, themselves. “Teachers need to be valued every day and not face fear of retaliation,” one said without being more specific. Another cited vague “scare tactics,” citing poor morale as a result and a failure to “value diversity of opinions and openness.”
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Hitt described the “very complicated process” that it took to get one of his premiere projects going, the 301 W. Broad (with over 300 rental apartments and a world-class 60,000 square foot Harris Teeter soon to be operational), he said. With a good working relationship with the city manager, city attorney, the City Council, boards and commissions and the public, the process worked smoothly, he said, and from start to finish the process was all approved in nine months. “Of course, the City was no pushover,” he added, but he reiterated, “I believe in Falls Church,” noting that growing up nearby in Arlington, “I kissed my first girl at the State Theater in Falls Church, and to prove that location matters, I was able to do it in the balcony.” Among other praises Hitt sang about Falls Church were that “it is terrific for living,” its density ratio targets “make sense,” it is close to the Metro, has a small city charm and is driven by a demographic that sports the highest percentage of its population under age 18 in
the region. Mayor Tarter began the panel discussion by noting the City is the second fastest growing in overall population in the region with a high “walking score” of 90, lots of improvements now underway, including LED street lights, bus shelters, a downtown pocket park coming, sidewalk improvements, bike racks and the “Little City” brand adding to the environment for economic development. He added special and unique features like the historic live music venue the State Theatre, the Eden Center with its 165 mostly-Vietnamese-American owned businesses the largest center of its kind east of the Mississippi, the Creative Cauldron live theater center, the nationally known Quinn Auctioneers and its own community newspaper, the Falls Church News-Press. He said there are challenges represented by the need for a renovated City Hall and public library and a new high school, underscoring the City’s need for a lot more economic development, but the City is moving forward “while maintaining a sense of place.”
Among its unique features, he said, is the City’s development of its own fiscal analysis tools to assess the impact of proposed new projects. Snyder, praised highly by the host organization’s moderator Allen Hanson for his work in Arlington before coming to Falls Church, described the City’s inhouse project for defining “planning opportunity areas,” with a series of “small area plans” developed by his planning staff in collaboration with boards and commissions and the public. He described the vision for and development potential of the North Washington and South Washington, Downtown and West Broad plans that have already been approved, and of such opportunity areas yet to be considered for this, such as the Gordon Road area, the Eastern Gateway area encompassing the Eden Center, and the 36-acre school-related property that was annexed into the City as part of the deal to sell the City’s water system to Fairfax County. Ten acres of that 36 acres located adjacent the West Falls Church Metro can be dedicated to commercial economic devel-
THE CITY OF FALLS CHURCH was the focus of a panel held at the NAIOP Luncheon on Wednesday, May 4. (P����: N���-P����) opment, he noted, and Novotny added in his comments that the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) has another 10 acres at that spot that it is considering committing for economic development, as well. Location is the key to Falls Church’s potential, he said, and the development of clearly delineated steps for a potential developer has been designed to encourage submissions. He said a manual is now being authored on “how to get your building built and open in Falls Church.” Novotny noted the 95 restau-
rants in the City, and 165 medical practices, with only a two percent vacancy rate for retail. He summarized the 11 new projects and their $500 million in investment that have sprung up in Falls Church in the last decade. In the audience at the luncheon event were Falls Church City Manager Wyatt Shields, Rick Goff and Becky Witsman of the City’s Economic Development office, Falls Church City Council members Phil Duncan and Letty Hardi, Planning Commissioner Ruth Rodgers, and a full table of movers and shakers from the Falls Church Chamber of Commerce.
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Mark May 3, 2016 on your calendar of American history. That was the day, this Tuesday, when Donald Trump effectively wrapped up the nomination for president of the United States of the Republican Party. Never before in the storied history of this land has such an bigoted demagogue made it to the point where he could actually be elected president. For those who have not already taken pause about this, we think it is in order. Blithely, we've all thought that somehow this could not, or would not, happen. But as Sinclair Lewis titled his 1934 book, It Can't Happen Here, it indeed can and has happened. Lewis' book was a cautionary novel about how the United States turns fascist, step by step, drip by drip. We're seeing it happen right now, and as some of us were warning, every one of those steps and drips seems less than extraordinary when they happen. The only thing is, the process devolves to the point that the next logical action is akin to a police state. A domestic enemy, a nationality or an ethnicity, is targeted to alleviate the pain that a general economic devolution causes and the next thing you know, we've become fascist. The biggest component of this is, of course, not the figure head, although he must be sufficiently thuggish and crude, but it is a population that has been whipped into a frenzy of hatred, finger-pointing and illusory hopes. This mood resembles a Salem in search of a witch, an insatiable hunt that thirsts for gory and fiery resolution. Maybe this is the Donald Trump End Time for civilization as we know it. For those of us who've been around awhile, the Kennedy assassination marked a turning point in our culture. The optimism that was still dominant in the New York World's Fair of 1964 and the moon walk in 1969 was gradually eroded by prophets of dystopia, the radical postmodernists who sneered and gestured obscenely against every civilizing and humanizing influence. Set loose in this were the greed-driven enemies of morality and ethics in the money world and the politics world. So now you can see what our national landscape has come to look like. Don't dismiss a Trump victory in November. Our national cultural bar has descended precipitously, as the dialogues on any TV sitcom or reality show, cage fighting or Mad Maxgenre movie mega-hit will demonstrate. It's the dialogue, the language we speak, that defines our civility, our commitment to the power of reason, to a genuinely better future. It is not the world interpreted like a fantasy football league. The only remedy to where we, as a wider culture including on the street corners where we wait for our buses, have come is to work on striking a kinder, gentler, more considerate pose, to turn off the TV at night and open a good book, and, of course, to purge the nation of Donald Trump in November.
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News-Press Math Is Off In Regards to City's Fund Editor, Your 28 April editorial claimed if the City's fund balance were cut from roughly $14.7 million (17 percent of the annual budget of $87 million) to $10.4 million (12 percent of $87 million), this would free up an additional $4.3 million for spending this year and again in every year thereafter. If we carried this lower $10.4 million balance into the next budget year, and again raised and spent another $87 million, how
would we access yet another $4.3 million without cutting the fund balance to $6.1 million? The extra spendable amount each year is roughly 5 percent (17percent – 12 percent) of each year's budget increase, not of the total. You may disagree with Council's decision to maintain the 17 percent ratio, but to write that they were misled is to insult their intelligence. Jon Ward Falls Church
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I Just Don't Understand the Thinking Editor, Reading the FCNP one gets the impression that the Scrooges on the FC Council are dumping on the teachers. I particularly liked your paraphrase of Dr. Jones: "symbolic goal of no real estate rate hike." There is nothing symbolic about a property tax rate increase particularly on top of a required annual valuation which results in an automatic property tax increase even without a change in the rate. The FCNP has been leading the cheering for all the new
development which, as I recall one story, led to 70 percent of last year's increase in property valuation. Perhaps it is past time for the City Manager to re-examine the premise that new development leads to increased revenue without a parallel increase in new costs. The continued increase in school enrollment strongly suggests either an increase in population within the city or massive fraud in registration. I am not a long term resident having lived here only six years, but the City Manager has requested rate increases in five of the six. The cow of property owners cannot be both milked and butchered. Henry J. Gordon Falls Church
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McAuliffe's Lift of Voting Ban Allows My Dad to Vote B� D��� C������
I opened up my phone on Monday, April 25 and checked Facebook. It was a normal tick that I have, that many people in my generation have, of checking a favorite mobile application when nothing else is going on. But one of the first headlines I saw on my newsfeed turned an ordinary moment into one I hope I never forget. “Virginia Governor Restores Voting Rights to Felons,” the New York Times headline read. The fact that the story was from Friday, April 22, meant that I was a bad journalist – late to hear about a story happening in my own backyard. Despite that, my duty as a human overrode my duty as a professional and as soon as I read that headline I instantly understood what that meant for someone special in my life: my father. My father, a Virginia resident for the gross majority of his life and an ex-felon, was disenfranchised by Virginia’s law banning former felons from voting. He committed a felony and served time for that crime over 45 years ago, when he was in the same age range that I’m in now, his late 20s. He was one of over 200,000 convicted felons in Virginia to have his right to vote restored by the executive order that Governor Terry McAuliffe signed into law. Before that, he was one of over 5.85 million Americans, according to the Sentencing Project, to have his voting rights stripped from him.
My father and mother aren’t politically active on a grassroots level, but politics, typically mainstream politics, are a constant conversation in my household. My parents both have their political opinions
“When this systematic opression is overcome in even the slightest way, like how it was when I found my dad can now vote, my initial reaction is elation.” that are balked at by the other. But, before April 22, only one of them could actually go out and express their politics in the form of a vote. My father’s inability to vote has been a persistent thread in his life and mine. He is the eldest son of Phyllis Costley, my grandmother, who fought for the desegregation of Arlington’s schools, and had crosses burned in his yard as a result of her part in that struggle. So he understood from an early age the importance of the achievement and conservation of civil rights.
And I think the knowledge that he couldn’t vote freed him to hold and express political opinions others might not if they had their vote, and perhaps their ideology, tied to a mainstream political party that asks them to concede some of their interests every two, four and six years. He listened to “Democracy Now” daily while carting me to school and freely expressed his opposition to the war in Iraq after 9/11. His politics became reborn in a positive nihilism that allowed him to imagine a world of his own choosing because he had no right to participate in the political world of his country. At times the denial of those rights was frustrating. I saw the reserved frustration on his face when George Bush was elected to office twice and he couldn’t help sway the swing state he lived in. And in 2008, while black Americans of his generation all over the country proudly cast a ballot for Barack Obama to become the first black President, my father watched from the sidelines. He was spurred by the prospect of a Barack Obama presidency to inquire about appealing to get his rights restored. But Virginia’s process, which then consisted of a stack full of paperwork just for a hope and a prayer, was enough to discourage my father, who works 70 hours or more a week, from attempting to get his rights restored. At that point he had been what’s called an “upstanding citizen” for decades, but couldn’t participate in the society that
he was enhancing as a citizen Today millions of others across the country have a similar reality that my dad faced in 2008 and this reality disproportionately affects blacks. According to the Sentencing Project, one out of every 13 black people has lost their right to vote due to felony disenfranchisement as opposed to 1 out of every 56 non-black people. This is just the tip of the iceberg in a phenomena that’s called the New Jim Crow, which denies blacks, and other people of color, the same rights as whites through systematic oppression. When this systematic oppression is overcome in even the slightest way, like how it was when I found out my dad can now vote, my initial reaction is elation. I posted a photo of a letter saying that his rights were restored to Facebook and it got over 200 likes. Parents of some of my lifelong friends commented on the post, congratulating my dad and wishing him well, saying they knew him to be a good man. I got choked up at the news of Governor McAuliffe's executive order and called my dad and told him that I got choked up. He said that he had, too. Then we chuckled about how his political opinions were no longer benign. But we both knew, as we chuckled and enjoyed that moment, that there is still a long way to go. Drew Costley is the News Editor of the Falls Church News-Press.
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2 Candidates Vie for GOP 8th District Nod At their Eighth District convention this Saturday, Republicans will choose between two candidates for a nominee to run against incumbent first term Democrat Don Beyer for the 8th District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives: Charles Hernick, 34, an economist and environmental consultant, and Michael Webb, 50, a former Army officer. Hernick considers himself a moderate with concerns for climate change. Webb is pro-life, pro-gun and anti-debt, the son of a Christian pastor. The GOP district convention will be held at the Kenmore Middle School in Arlington. Candidates vying at that convention to be elected delegates to the Republican National Convention are Sam Amber, Erin Anderson, Jack Blakely, Tom Bolvin, Barbara BowieWhitman, Scott Cameron, Gerry Chandler, Ford Chinworth, Bill Cleveland, Doug Faulkner, Charlie Keller, Michael Maibach, Dan Rinzel, John Scally, Tommy Valentine and Angie Younger. Delegates can vote for six, with the top three going to the convention and the next three as alternates. No one has filed to challenge Beyer’s bid for the Democratic endorsement for re-election at the Democrats’ 8th District convention May 14.
Deceased Man Found in Tripps Run The Fairfax County Police Department announced Tuesday that the deceased man found in Tripps Run Creek on Sunday, May 1, was identified as Edward Stephen Hamilton, 30, of Springfield. Hamilton’s next of kin has been notified, according to police. The cause and manner of death are still pending and will be determined by the Office of the Medical Examiner once laboratory results have been completed, but detectives do not suspect foul play. The Fairfax County Police Department have stated they will provide further updates as soon as additional information becomes available. Police ask that anyone with information about this incident contact Crime Solvers electronically by visiting fairfaxcrimesolvers.org or text-a-tip by texting “TIP187” plus your message to CRIMES(2746370 or by calling 1-866-411-TIPS(8477) or 703-6912131.
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After eight years as principal at George Mason High School in Falls Church, Tyrone Q. Byrd announced Tuesday that he has offered his resignation effective June 30. “Today I write to you to say that my time as a proud member of the Mustang Nation has come to an end,” he wrote in a letter circulated via email. “I have resigned my position as principal to accept the opportunity to serve as Director of Secondary Education for the Arlington Public School System.” Byrd had been named a 2015 recipient of the Washington Post Distinguished Educational Leadership Award. An Arlington native, he served as an assistant principal at Arlington’s Washington-Lee High School before taking the GMHS principal position in April 2009. A graduate of Yorktown High, he began his education career in Arlington in 1991 as a classroom teacher at his high school alma mater, also serving as the football coach there. In 2002, he was appointed assistant principal of Williamsburg Middle School, and became assistant principal at Washington-Lee in 2006. Byrd’s family moved from Illinois to Northern Virginia in 1977, when he was in elementary school. He earned a B.A. in art from Hampton University, was credentialed to be a special education teacher at the University of Virginia, and earned his master’s degree in educational leadership at George Mason University. As GMHS principal, he replaced Bob Snee, who announced his retirement in May 2008 and became the 14th principal of GMHS since the school opened in 1952.
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Community News & Notes Falls Church Garden Club Holds Plant Sale The Falls Church Garden Club will hold its annual plant sale on Saturday, May 7 from 8 a.m. – noon in the Falls Church Community Center’s gym at 223 Little Falls Street. Locally grown flowering perennials, natives, hostas, ferns, shrubs and small trees and more will be on sale at the event. There will also be a children’s butterfly craft table at the plant sale. Admission to the plant sale is free and open to the public. For more information, call 703-248-5077.
Au Pair Scavenger Hunt Slated for May 11 at Tysons The Falls Church, McLean and Oakton au pair groups are hosting an international scavenger hunt for over 50 au pairs on Wednesday, May 11 from 7:30 – 9:30 p.m. at Tysons Corner Center. The
scavenger hunt will kick off in the upstairs food court near the movie theater at the mall. The scavenger hunt will take place throughout the mall as au pairs try to figure out clues by talking to local businesses and searching around the mall for answers. The local coordinators for the three au pair groups will be waiting in the upstairs food court to award prizes at the end of the hunt. The au pairs are all living with their local host families for their program year but the public is welcome to stop by to learn more about them. There is no fee for the event. For more information or to participate, contact Nancy Baker at 703-608-1150 or Nancy. Baker608@gmail.com.
Teen Police Academy to Be Hosted at F.C. High School The Fairfax County Police Department, organized by the
department’s Citizens Police Academy, is hosting the Teen Police Academy from July 18 – 23 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. on July 18 – 22 and 9 a.m. – noon on July 23 at Falls Church High School, located at 7521 Jaguar Trail, Falls Church. The program is free and is open to boys and girls in high school who are enrolled in criminal justice classes. Participants will learn about patrol, SWAT, crime scene investigations, use of force, careers in law enforcement, police vehicles, public safety communications and more. Class size is limited to 25 participants and participants are expected to provide their own transportation and lunches. The application deadline for the program is Friday, May 13. For more information or to apply, visit fairfaxcounty.gov/police/services/ teenpoliceacademy.htm. The police department is also hosting the Future Women in Law
Enforcement Program, which is open to high school girls in 10 – 12 grades in the Northern Virginia area. That program is being held at Falls Church Public Schools’ Gatehouse Administration Building, located at 8115 Gatehouse Road, Falls Church from August 1 – 6 from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. This program features a dedicated group of women in law enforcement sharing their experiences and conducting practical scenarios and demonstrations. The class size for this program is limited to 40 participants and the application deadline is also Friday, May 13. For more information or to apply, visit fairfaxcounty.gov/ police/services/062215fwlle.htm.
F.C. Resident Ryan Fields Finishes Run of ‘The Island’ Falls Church resident and 2014 graduate of George Mason High School Ryan Fields just com-
pleted his professional stage debut as John, the main character in Allentown Public Theatre’s production of “The Island,” which wrapped on Sunday, May 1 in Allentown, Penn. The play, written by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona, is an apartheid-era drama in one act about two political prisoners in South Africa, one of whom was played by Fields. Fields, a sophomore at Muhlenberg College, received praise for his portrayal of John from the Lehigh Valley Press, who said “Fields plays the role of John with the right touch of levity.” For full reviews of the Allentown Public Theatre’s production of “The Island” and Fields’ performance in it, visit The Morning Call at mcall.com and the Lehigh Valley Press at eastpenn.thelehighvalleypress. com.
A SPECIAL RECOGNITION at the annual meeting of Falls Church’s Citizens for a Better City (CBC) organization at the Hilton Garden Inn Sunday night was presented by CBC President Tom Clinton (right) to Barry (left) and Kathy Buschow for their many years of tireless and selfless volunteerism U.S. REP. DON BEYER (left) spoke at an event hosted by Kathy and David Padilla and public service in the City of Falls Church. The couple is planning a move at their home in Falls Church last week. At the far right is Huck Browne, one of to Culpepper. Also recognized at the CBC event were the late Richard Allen three young musicians who performed there, and will perform at the First Friday and Nancy Perry and Nicholas Benton upon the 25th anniversary of the event in Falls Church on May 6. (Photo: News-Press) Falls Church News-Press.. (Photo: News-Press)
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Byrne, Hecht-Levy Open New Show at Art and Frame
Falls Church Senior Forum Scheduled for May 17
Local artists Donna Byrne and Eileen Hecht-Levy are the featured artists this month at Art and Frame of Falls Church at 205 W. Jefferson Street and have an opening reception at the store on Friday, May 6 from 6 – 8 p.m. An artists talk for the show, called Whose Woods These Are: Abstract Interpretations, starts at 7:10 p.m. The show, a collection of paintings by Byrne and Hecht-Levy, is inspired by the Robert Frost poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” The painters embarked on a journey to capture nuances of the forest environment through their colorful and whimsical paintings. For more information, visit artandframeoffallschurch.com.
Senior citizens and persons with disabilities can get information about resources that the City of Falls Church and Fairfax County provide, such as transportation accommodations, at a Senior Forum on Tuesday, May 17 from 1:30 – 3 p.m. at the Falls Church Community Center at 223 Little Falls Street. There will be refreshments, prizes and a raffle at the free event. For more information, contact Housing and Human Services at 703-248-5005 or HHSinfo@ fallschurchva.gov.
New Location Planned for Bike to Work Day Pit Stop The City of Falls Church announced a new location for the City’s pit stop location for this year’s Bike to Work Day, which is being held on Friday, May 20. From 6:30 a.m. – 9 a.m. on May 20, riders can enjoy free food, beverages, giveaways, demonstrations and raffles on the Washington & Old Dominion Trail at Little Falls Street. This year’s pit stop is sponsored by Bikenetic, Dancing Mind Yoga and 24 Hour Fitness. Registration is now open at fallschurchva.gov/BTWD and the first 15,000 bicyclists who register and attend the pit stop they select at registration will receive a free Bike to Work Day t-shirt. Businesses interested in sponsoring the City of Falls Church pit stop through donations of in-kind goods or monetary support should contact Jeff Sikes at jsikes@ fallschurchva.gov or 703-2485296 (TTY 711).
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Civil War Day Slated for May 21 at Cherry Hill Farmhouse The City of Falls Church’s annual Civil War Day, a living history event depicting Falls Church during the Civil War, is slated for Saturday, May 21 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. at Cherry Hill Park and Farmhouse at 312 Park Avenue. There will be spy stories, letter readings, period music, soldier drilling exercises, free bus tour, children’s tent and much more at the free, family-friendly event. This event is sponsored by the Recreation and Parks Department, the Victorian Society at Falls Church, the Falls Church Historical Commission, the Village Preservation and Improvement Society and the Friends of Cherry Hill. For more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/Civilwarday, call 703-248-5171 or email Cjannicelli@fallschurchva.gov.
Choralis Cantus Youth Choirs Present ‘A Gleeful Time’ Choralis’ Cantus youth choirs are presenting the concert “A Gleeful Time,” on Saturday, May 7 at 5 p.m. at The Falls Church Episcopal at 115 E. Fairfax Street.
KAREN BROWN, the accountant played by Brianna Goode, and Of�icer Eric Sheridan played by Scott Landsman, end up in an amorous tussle during a rehearsal for the McLean Community Players’ production of “Uneccesary Farce,” which is slated to run through Saturday, May 14. (P����: C������� �� I���� E��� P���������� �� T���) The choirs will present a variety of fun music, including choral arrangements from the hit television show “Glee.” Children ages 12 and under can get into the concert for free. Tickets are $5 for students ages 13 – 22 and $ 20 for everyone else. Free parking is available. For more information, visit choralis. org or call 703-237-2499.
The Women of Temple Rodef Shalom Host Blood Drive The Women of Temple Rodef Shalom at 2100 Westmoreland Street will sponsor a blood drive on Sunday, May 22 from 8:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. Emotional support and refreshments will be provided by the Women of Temple Rodef Shalom. Blood donors can make their appointment at redcrossblood. org and use the sponsor code TEMPLERODEFSHALOMVA
Nancy Still Features at McLean Art Society Meeting Nancy Still, an artist specializing in and teaching the painting of miniatures, will be the featured presenter at the Friday, May 20 meeting of the McLean Art Society from 10 a.m. – noon at McLean Community Center, located at 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean. Still will do an oil painting demonstration. Artist members who also do miniatures are asked by event organizers to bring samples of their own work to display. Guests are welcome. For more information, visit mcleanartsociety.org or call 703-7900123.
Illuminare Play at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church Illuminare, an early music women’s vocal ensemble, and Japanese harpsichordist Atsuko Watanabe will play a concert called “Treasures of Italian Baroque” at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, located at 3241 Brush Dr., Falls Church on Sunday, May 22 at 4 p.m. Illuminare and Watanabe will play works by Milanese nun Chiara Margarita Cozzolani as well as musical selections by her better-known contemporaries Claudio Monteverdi, Alessandro Grandi and Giovanni Gabrieli at the concert. A wine and cheese reception will follow the concert. Admission to the concert is free, but a $20 donation is suggested. For more information, visit odeonchambermusicseries.org, email marikohiller@gmail.com or call 703-200-7489.
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The Choice Explosion
LANSING, W.Va. – A few years ago, social psychologist Sheena Iyengar asked 100 American and Japanese college students to take a piece of paper. On one side, she had them write down the decisions in life they would like to make for themselves. On the other, they wrote the decisions they would like to pass on to others. The Americans filled up the side for decisions they want to decide for themselves. Where to live. What job to take. The other side was almost blank. The only “decision” they commonly wanted to hand off to others was, “When I die.” The Japanese filled up the back side of the sheet with things they wanted others to decide: what they wore; what time they woke up; what they did at their job. The Americans desired choice in four times NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE more domains than the Japanese. Americans have always put great emphasis on individual choice. But even by our own standards we’ve had a choice explosion over the past 30 years. Americans now have more choices over more things than any other culture in human history. We can choose between a broader array of foods, media sources, lifestyles and identities. We have more freedom to live out our own sexual identities and more religious and nonreligious options to express our spiritual natures. This opening has produced much that is wonderful. But making decisions well is incredibly difficult, even for highly educated professional decision-makers. As Chip Heath and Dan Heath point out in their book “Decisive,” 83 percent of corporate mergers and acquisitions do not increase shareholder value, 40 percent of senior hires do not last 18 months in their new position, and 44 percent of lawyers would recommend that a young person not follow them into the law. It’s becoming incredibly important to learn to decide well, to develop the techniques of self-distancing to counteract the flaws in our own mental machinery. The Heath book is a very good compilation of those techniques. For example, they mention the maxim, assume positive intent. When in the midst of some conflict, start with the belief that others are well intentioned. It makes it easier to absorb information from people you’d rather not listen to. They highlight Suzy Welch’s 10-10-10 rule. When you’re about to make a decision, ask yourself how you will feel about it 10 minutes from now, 10 months from now and 10 years from now. People are overly biased by the immediate pain of some choice, but they can put the short-term pain in long-term perspective by asking these questions. The Heaths recommend making deliberate mistakes. A survey of new brides found that 20 percent were not initially attracted to the man they ended up marrying. Sometimes it’s useful to make a deliberate “mistake” – agreeing to dinner with a guy who is not your normal type. Sometimes you don’t really know what you want and the filters you apply are hurting you. They mention our tendency to narrow-frame, to see every decision as a binary “whether or not” alternative. Whenever you find yourself asking “whether or not,” it’s best to step back and ask, “How can I widen my options?” In other words, before you ask, “Should I fire this person?” Ask, “Is there any way I can shift this employee’s role to take advantage of his strengths and avoid his weaknesses?” The explosion of choice means we all need more help understanding the anatomy of decision-making. It makes you think that we should have explicit decision-making curricula in all schools. Maybe there should be a common course publicizing the work of Daniel Kahneman, Cass Sunstein, Dan Ariely and others who study the way we mess up and the techniques we can adopt to prevent error. This is probably especially important for schools that serve the less fortunate. The explosion of choice places extra burdens on the individual. Poorer Americans have fewer resources to master decision-making techniques, less social support to guide their decision-making and less of a safety net to catch them when they err. As researchers Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir have shown, the stress of scarcity itself can distort decision-making. Those who experienced stress as children often perceive threat more acutely and live more defensively. A school principal I met in Pittsburgh observed that living in an area of concentrated poverty can close down your perceived options, and comfortably “relieve you of the burden of choosing life.” It’s hard to maintain a feeling of agency when you see no chance of opportunity. In this way the choice explosion has contributed to widening inequality. It’s important to offer opportunity and incentives. But we also need lessons in self-awareness – on exactly how our decision-making tool is fundamentally flawed, and on mental frameworks we can adopt to avoid messing up even more than we do.
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David Brooks
The Diabetic Economy LISBON, Portugal – Things are terrible here in Portugal, but not quite as terrible as they were a couple of years ago. The same thing can be said about the European economy as a whole. That is, I guess, the good news. The bad news is that eight years after what was supposed to be a temporary financial crisis, economic weakness just goes on and on, with no end in sight. And that’s something that should worry everyone, in Europe and beyond. First, the positives: The euro area – the group of 19 countries that have adopted a common currency – posted decent growth in the first quarter. In fact, for once it was better than growth in the U.S. NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE Europe’s economy is, finally, slightly bigger than it was before the financial crisis, and unemployment has come down from more than 12 percent in 2013 to a bit over 10 percent. But it’s telling that this is what passes for good news. We complain, rightly, about the slow pace of U.S. recovery – but our economy is already 10 percent bigger than it was pre-crisis, while our unemployment rate is back under 5 percent. And there is, as I said, no end in sight to Europe’s chronic underperformance. Look at what financial markets are saying. When long-term interest rates on safe assets are very low, that’s an indication that investors don’t see a strong recovery on the horizon. Well, German five-year bonds currently yield minus 0.3 percent; in fact, yields are negative out to eight years. How should we think about these incredibly low interest rates? Recently Narayana Kocherlakota, the former president of the Minneapolis Fed, offered a brilliant analogy. Responding to critics of easy money who denounce low rates as “artificial” – because economies shouldn’t need to keep rates this low – he suggested that we compare low interest rates to the insulin injections that diabetics must take. Such injections aren’t part of a normal lifestyle, and may have bad side effects, but they’re necessary to manage the symptoms of a chronic disease. In the case of Europe, the chronic disease is persistent weakness in spending, which gives the continent’s economy a persistent deflationary bias even when, like now, it’s having a relatively good few months. The insulin of cheap money helps fight that weakness, even if it doesn’t provide a cure.
Paul Krugman
But while monetary injections have helped to contain Europe’s woes – one shudders to think of how badly things might have gone without the leadership of Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank – they haven’t produced anything that looks like a cure. In particular, despite the bank’s efforts, underlying inflation in Europe seems stuck far below the official target of 2 percent. Meanwhile, unemployment in much of Europe, very much including my current location, is still at levels that are inflicting huge human, social and political damage. It’s notable that in Spain, which these days is being touted as a success story, youth unemployment is still an incredible 45 percent. And there’s nothing in reserve to deal with a fresh shock. Suppose that Greece blows up again, or the British public votes to leave the European Union, or China’s economy goes off a cliff, or whatever. What could or would European policymakers do to offset the blow? Nobody seems to have any idea. The thing is, it’s not hard to see what Europe should be doing to help cure its chronic disease. The case for more public spending, especially in Germany is overwhelming. There are large unmet needs for infrastructure and investors are essentially begging governments to take their money. Did I mention that the real 10-year interest rate, the rate on bonds that are protected from inflation, is minus 0.8 percent? And there’s good reason to believe that spending more in Europe’s core would have big benefits for peripheral nations, too. But doing the right thing seems to be politically out of the question. Far from showing any willingness to change course, German politicians are sniping constantly at the central bank, the only major European institution that seems to have a clue about what is going on. Put it this way: Visiting Europe can make an American feel good about his own country. Yes, one of our two major parties is poised to nominate a dangerous blowhard for president – but it has been obvious for a while that the GOP was in the process of going mad, and the odds are that he won’t actually end up in the White House. Meanwhile, the overall economic and political situation in America gives ample grounds for hope, which is in very short supply over here. I’d love to see Europe emerge from its funk. The world needs more vibrant democracies! But at the moment it’s hard to see any positive signs.
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Fall’s Harbinger In Fairfax County
If the contagious enthusiasm on display last weekend at the annual Democratic Party banquet in Northern Virginia’s million-strong Fairfax County, just across the Potomac from the nation’s capital, is any indicator, then the Democrats are primed for an explosive outburst of campaigning this fall that they hope will compel them to the White House and turn their one GOP-controlled House district blue. Nationally, as political insiders know, Fairfax County is absolutely pivotal for turning the absolutely pivotal state of Virginia blue. In no less than eight statewide races since 2001 in once deeply red Virginia, Democratic candidates have won with margins of victory accounted for entirely in Fairfax County, buoyed by its immediate neighbors Arlington, Alexandria and Falls Church. FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS It began with the election of current U.S. Senator Mark Warner as governor in 2001, followed by the election of current U.S. Senator Tim Kaine as governor in 2005, then the shocking upset U.S. Senate victory in 2006 over the then-presumptive GOP presidential contender George Allen by Democrat Jim Webb (remember when one racial slur could ruin a candidacy? Compare Allen’s careerending “macaca” comment then to Donald Trump’s routine slurs this year). In 2008, Warner won election to the U.S. Senate as President Obama became the first Democrat since 1964 to win Virginia for the U.S. presidency, and in 2012 President Obama carried Virginia by an even wider margin to win re-election to the presidency and with Webb not seeking a second U.S. Senate term, Kaine stepped up to fill that slot. Then, in 2013 Democrat Terry McAuliffe won the race for governor. So, from 2001 to the present, in statewide elections in Virginia, Democrats have won eight out of nine top of the ticket runs – their only loss amid that entire stretch being for governor in 2009. As in each case, Fairfax County was decisive, so in 2009, the same was proven in reverse, when amid the Great Recession and carry over election fatigue from 2008, enthusiasm visibly waned in Fairfax and so the Democrats took their only ticket-topping statewide loss in the last 15 years. But that 2009 pause in enthusiasm was the farthest thing from what had the Hilton ballroom in Tysons Corner rocking and rolling last Sunday night. The cheers and shouts were louder and longer, and the standing ovations more frequent and animated, from the cream of the crop of Democratic activists in this vitally important little corner of the nation on Sunday night. Pumping up the enthusiasm were the county’s two Democratic U.S. congressmen, Gerry Connolly and Don Beyer, and LuAnn Bennett, their choice to snatch from the GOP its one congressional seat in the county, one of what party strategists think may be potentially enough nationally to take control of the House, much less the Senate, this November. Appropriately, Beyer cautioned the euphoric crowd to “take nothing for granted.” “Fairfax is the key to the White House,” he said, “But never trust the conventional wisdom. Run as if we’re 20 points down.” The two keynote speakers were extraordinary living examples of what sets the Democratic Party apart. Both current U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro and Governor McAuliffe’s former Secretary of the Commonwealth Levar Stoney epitomized the rising young leadership of the party coming only a generation from poverty and lack to now tout the virtues of their party as “providing opportunity for everyone, not a few,” and providing “a voice for the voiceless.” Castro, considered a possible choice for the Democratic vice presidential nod, grew up in San Antonio, where he became mayor, his mother being the first member of his family to graduate high school since it came from Mexico in 1922. Stoney, raised by his grandmother with a ninth grade education, was the beneficiary of Democratic initiatives like the Pell Grant and is now championing the extraordinary initiative by Gov. McAuliffe to grant full civil rights, including voting rights, to over 200,000 felons in Virginia who’ve served out their time. The impassioned and articulate young man is now running for Mayor of Richmond. His optimism, energy and deep sense of purpose rubbed off on everyone in that room.
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Trump-Sanders Coalition? Nah. Donald Trump has gone from blaming Bernie Sanders’ supporters for disruptions at his rallies to making overtures to them – saying Sanders has been “treated terribly by the Democrats,” saying that he would harvest attacks on Hillary Clinton from Sanders’ speeches, and even urging Sanders to run as an independent. And, to take it further, CNN reported Friday that “Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said the campaign is ready to bring into the fold anyone in the ‘Feel the Bern’ movement who is not inclined to support Clinton in the general election.” The network quoted Lewandowski as saying: “You have two candidates in Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders which have reignited a group of people who have been disenfranchised and disappointed with the way Washington, D.C., and career politicians have run the country.… Bernie Sanders has large crowds... and so there is a level of excitement there for people about his messaging and we will bring those people in.” This is a fascinating political ploy, but rife with folly. NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE First, it is important to acknowledge that both movements are born of the same populist source: white working- and middleclass voters’ fear, anger, anxiety and disappointment over what they see as a broken political system. According to a Pew Research Center report published March 31, Trump’s supporters are more likely than supporters of his Republican opponents to say that life in the United States has gotten worse for people like them compared with 50 years ago, and Sanders’ supporters were more likely than Clinton’s supporters to say the same. This is a largely white American lament. A majority of white voters believe that things have gotten worse, while a majority of black voters and a plurality of Hispanic voters believe that things have gotten better for people like them in the last 50 years. Furthermore, the Pew report found that Trump’s and Sanders’ supporters were the most likely on their respective sides of the ideological divide to be angry at the government; believe that the economic system unfairly favors powerful interests; and are more isolationist, believing that America’s involvement in global problems makes those problems worse. And lastly, there is an implicit, or even explicit, critique of President Barack Obama present in both camps, which seem to see him as a disappointment:
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either as feckless or fainthearted, either because he went too far or not far enough, either because he was not tough enough with our international adversaries or not tough enough with his congressional opponents. This view of the Obama presidency as, at best, a disappointment, or at worst, a failure, is a pernicious and unsupportable lie that did quite a bit to sour minorities on Sanders and to rally opposition to Trump. Obama wasn’t perfect. He didn’t accomplish all that he thought he would or could. He made mistakes. But, all told, he was true to the deliberative, center-left pragmatist that he has always been. Indeed, according to PolitiFact, Obama has kept twice as many promises as he has broken. He was never a superhero, but some of the hurt feelings come from him allowing people to believe that he was. As Obama wrote in the prologue to The Audacity of Hope: “I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views.” The thing is, he did not become what some people projected. He remained himself. That said, these Trump and Sanders supporters are looking at the dragon from different vantage points and seeing fundamentally different dangers. Trump’s supporters seem to see a country in decline, a government that is out of control and incompetent, an influx of immigrants that represent an existential threat and a culture that is hamstrung by political correctness. Conversely, Sanders’ supporters see a democracy slipping into oligarchy, a country that has utterly failed to keep pace with its global peers on social structure issues and has gone completely off the rails on many others, like criminal justice and mass incarceration. These are not crowds that are likely to lie down together. Indeed, I would imagine that Trump’s brand of xenophobia, racism, Islamophobia, misogyny and fascism would not go down easily with the faction of left progressives that swell the ranks of Sanders’s supporters. Indeed, The Washington Post reported in March: “Polling shows little evidence that Trump has a shot to win large pockets of Sanders voters in November, should Clinton maintain her lead and win the Democratic nomination. Among Democraticleaning voters who… prefer Sanders to win the party nod, only 13 percent have a favorable view of Trump, compared to 86 unfavorable, according to a Washington Post-ABC News national poll earlier this month.” If these numbers are correct, any substantial Trump-Sanders coalition is a nonstarter.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
Senator Dick Saslaw’s
News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
Our region’s often fast-paced lifestyle is a signature component of the “personality” of NOVA, the dynamic economic engine of the Commonwealth of Virginia. But Virginia is a big state – demographically, socially, and geographically. What about the “rest of Virginia,” what some pundits call ROVA? Truth be told, there’s a lot more of ROVA than NOVA, and it’s good to explore, and compare, other parts of the state occasionally. Last weekend, the Virginia Association of Counties (VACo) held its quarterly board meeting in Smithfield, in Isle of Wight County. This year’s VACo president is Judy Lyttle, a Supervisor from Surry County, but the closest hotel accommodations were in Smithfield, so our formal meeting was in Smithfield, and the afternoon and evening was spent “Savoring the Secrets of Surry.” The county is decades older than Fairfax, having been created in 1652. Current population is a little less than 7,000 people, almost evenly divided racially between Caucasian and African-American residents. The entire county budget is about $23 million, with $12 million transferred to schools, about the same ratio as in Fairfax County. However, Surry County’s entire school population of about 800 students would fit into an average elementary school in Mason District. Like many local governing bodies, Surry’s five member Board of Supervisors has focused on economic opportunities for growth. The major employer in the county is Dominion Power, which has owned and operated the Surry Nuclear Power Plant, located on the James River, since 1972. When our group toured on Saturday, we noted the absence of the big cooling towers usually associated with a nuclear
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plant. The manager explained that the plant draws its cooling water directly from the James River, eliminating the need for the familiar towers. The plant provides about $12 million in taxes annually for Surry County, coincidentally the same amount as the school transfer. Two newer projects are the Hampton Roads Winery, which opened to the public just two weeks ago, and a marina and restaurant on Grays Creek, which will be designed to attract boaters, fishermen, and ecotourism to Surry. The county purchased the latter, and leased it to private operators. If the dinner we had on Saturday at The Surry Seafood Company is any indication, folks will flock to Grays Creek for the food and nature vistas very soon. Why tell you about a weekend trip to Surry? The 30 or so VACo Board members hail from all over the state, but our similarities are so much greater than our differences. All county boards grapple with budgets, school transfers, tax rates, public safety, parks, libraries, and general governance. With few exceptions, constituents want safe streets, clean air and water, good schools, a community to live, work, play, learn, and grow old together. It’s the same in Accomack, Hanover, King and Queen, Louisa, or Wythe Counties. Admittedly, the pace may be slower in other counties, but the real difference is simply the scale. Whether NOVA or ROVA, it’s helpful to see, and understand, the breadth and depth of this vast Commonwealth we all share.
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We are celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week in Virginia. I join the Governor and Secretary Anne Holton in applauding those dedicated to Virginia’s children and molding them into their best. Thank you for your commitment to excellence, your patience and your perseverance. The adopted biennial budget is a step in the right direction for teacher compensation and education in general. It’s long overdue but sets the priority for future funding. This month I would like to focus on high school innovation and building a 21st century workforce in our Commonwealth. Increasingly, we know that the keys to Virginia’s continued economic success must include diversifying our economy, fostering an entrepreneurial culture that will enhance job creation, investing early in the education pipeline, and addressing gaps between existing workforce skills and high-demand middle-skill jobs. For example, middle-skill jobs account for 49 percent of Virginia’s labor market, but 40 percent of the state’s workforce is trained to the middle-skill level. Put simply, we must do a better job of creating and resourcing innovative industry certification and career training pathways for our high school students. In Virginia, much groundwork has been laid in recent years with great momentum for the future. In 2008, we developed a career pathways strategic plan to bridge business and education in the 21st century. In 2010 and 2011, the work continued with the College & Career Readiness Initiative and the Top Jobs legislation. In 2013, we mapped the Virginia Workforce System’s 24 programs to improve coordination. In 2014, Governor McAuliffe’s executive order established the New Virginia Economy Workforce Initiative and the General Assembly responded with the establishment of the bipartisan Standards of Learning Committee. The Committee’s focus is to ensure Virginia has a school accountability system that is fair, balanced, and supportive of preparing our students for success beyond their high school years. One of several early recommendations of this group was to look towards redesigning high school. The General Assembly supported this work with five
high school innovation grants in FY 2016, that encourage practices connected to individualized instruction, workforce development, alignment with higher education, and blended learning. Here in Northern Virginia, one of the first year grants, Global STEM Challenges is based at Edison High School in Fairfax County. This is a three-year, interdisciplinary program in which students rotate freely between subjects and classrooms as they prepare for college and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The program will offer industry certification while integrating computer science within the curriculum. The growing importance of cultivating workforce skills in high school students can also be seen here in the 35th District at the Governor’s STEM Academy at George C. Marshall High School. The academy’s objectives include, among others: increase the number of industry certifications earned by academy students by 5 percent each year, 95 percent of academy students will complete the Workplace Readiness Skills and Career Technical Education course competencies, 75 percent of graduating seniors will create an electronic career portfolio, and all qualified and eligible students will participate in a valuable internship, job shadowing or work-based learning experience with local business and industry partners. The impressive list of objectives speaks to the significant progress that’s already been made at some places in Virginia. However, we must work to translate “pockets” of innovation and excellence to equity of such opportunities in every school division in Virginia. We must ensure that every high school student in the Commonwealth has a pathway to earn the skills necessary to compete and thrive in a 21st century global economy. I am also pleased to report we will be funding 1,820 slots at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Additionally, bold steps have been taken in our community college system as well. Finally, I want to extend best wishes to all Mothers this week as we celebrate their special day. Senator Saslaw represents the 35th District in the Virginia State Senate. He may be emailed at district35@senate.virginia.gov.
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CRIME REPORT Week of April 25 - May 1, 2016 Driving Under the Influence, 700 block S. Washington St. On Apr. 25, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a male, 39 of Silver Spring, MD, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence and Refusal to Submit to a Blood or Breath Test. Larceny from Building, 7124 Leesburg Pike (George Mason High School) On Apr. 25, a laptop was reported stolen.
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piano in the PBS Civil War drama “Mercy Street.” Cool bands from countywide O’Connell High included the Axmen and Quaker Blues. In 1967, O’Connell freshman Jim Matthews – now co-owner of the Birchmere – put on a dance at St. Agnes School featuring the English Setters (later famous as the Cherry People). Word got out that the band’s guitarist Punky Meadows was stealing the girlfriend of an O’Connell football player, Matthews recalls. “So just as the band was loading out, 20 members of the O’Connell team arrived.” The freshman impresario called the police to head off trouble – “the best call I ever made,” he said. In recent years Matthews ran into band members Doug and Chris Grimes (still active musicians). Like all those rockers from the ‘60s now in their 60s; they recalled every detail. *** Due to its nearness to D.C and southern flavor, Arlington has long attracted controversial white supremacist groups. From the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s to the American Nazi Party in the 50s80s. Now there’s one with a subtler touch, profiled last month in Time magazine: The National Policy Institute, a “think tank” dedicated to “the advancement of people of European descent,” is run by a social-media-savvy man named Richard Spencer. A magazine photo shows him in the Nam Viet restaurant in Clarendon. But its website offers only a P.O. box for an address.
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Creative Cauldron’s Caroline Sponsored by Diener & Associates Diener & Associates CPAs is sponsoring Creative Cauldron’s new performance, “Caroline, or Change,” which will run Thursdays through Sundays, May 5 – May 29 at ArtSpace Falls Church. Set against the dramatic backdrop of political and social change in 1963 Louisiana, this TONY-nominated musical score blends blues, gospel and traditional Jewish klezmer music, to tell the story of the Gellman family and their African-American maid, Caroline, a hard-working single mother of four. The show is presented through special arrangement with Music Theatre International. ArtSpace Falls Church is located at 410 S. Maple Avenue. For more information, visit www. creativecauldron.org.
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CubeSmart is hosting a grand opening open house on Saturday, May 7 from noon – 4 p.m. at its newest location in Arlington, just over the Falls Church boundary. CubeSmart offers a variety of storage solutions, including household, business, and vehicle storage, and partners with companies to help with organization, transportation, and the moving process. Attendees will be provided refreshments and the opportunity to tour the new self-storage facility. CubeSmart is located at 6875 Lee Highway, Arlington. For more information, visit www.cubesmart.com.
Arc of NoVa, DCMetro Biz Network to Present Business Seminar DCMetro Business Leadership Network and The Arc of Northern Virginia are hosting “Talent Acquisition: Building Successful Community Partner Pipelines” on Wednesday, May 11 from 8:30 a.m. – noon. At the seminar, made possible by the Alexandria Fund for Human Services, Myra Wilder, Marriott International’s Senior Manager of HR Compliance will provide the keynote address. Panelists will include representatives from Hyatt, Lockheed Martin, Sodexo, Virginia Department of Aging and Rehabilitative Services, City of Alexandria Workforce Development Center, ServiceSource, Army and Air Force Exchange Service, Pathways to Careers National Initiative, and Evolver. For more information, visit www.dcmetrobln.org or www. thearcofnova.org.
Homestretch Benefit Breakfast is Next Thursday The 2016 Homestretch benefit breakfast, Making Dreams Come True, will take place Thursday, May 12 from 7:30 – 9 a.m. at the Fairview Park Marriott. Homestretch was designed to empower homeless families with children to attain self-sufficiency, systematically address barriers in the paths of homeless families, and end the cycle of homelessness. Speakers will include Homestretch executive staff, board members, sponsors, and clients to showcase Homestretch’s work to help their clients climb from and stay out of poverty. For more information, visit www.Homestretchva.org.
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Mason Robotics Team Ranks Among World’s Best by Hermela Hailemariam Falls Church News-Press
George Mason High School’s robotics team, Team 1418, competed in the FIRST Robotics World Championships where they earned a spot as captains of the 8th seeded alliance to play in the divisional finals, then lost in the quarterfinals to the top seeded team in the tournament. “We return from St. Louis after the longest and most successful season of our 12 years of robotics competitions. Our students worked extremely hard between every match, making constant adjustments and repairs, rewriting code to improve our autonomous programming, and planning strategies with alliance partners in preparation for the next round,” said John Ballou, the team’s mentor. “We have lived and breathed this game long enough. It might take us a little time to return to regular academic life, but one thing is certain – this has been an experience of a lifetime, one we hope brings pride of accomplishment along with a better appreciation for how united and competitive our team is with other programs from all over this country and around the world.” During the competition, Team 1418 was placed in the Newton division, ranked as the group of teams with the highest level of competition. By Friday, April 29, Team 1418 had accumulated enough points to be ranked 12 out of the 75 teams there. This allowed them to become captains of the 8th ranked alliance during finals of the competition. As captains, they got the opportunity to choose three teams they believed they would work best with. Alongside team 229 from New York, team 3314 from New Jersey and their backup team 3663 from Washington, they would make it to the top seeded alliance in the quarterfinals before they’d lose, marking their 70th game of the season. This was a great step up from the 14 matches the team played the previous year. In addition to their victories on the field, the team won several awards this season. Along with their three gold medals, Team 1418 also received the Industrial Design Award and Innovation in Control Award. In national rankings, they’re currently rated in the top 11 percent of the teams that went to the World Championships, top 4 percent of teams that advanced to subdivision of the playoffs and
MASON’S FIRST ROBOTICS Team 1418 poses with their well-worn robot at the FIRST Robotics World Championships in St. Louis in the photo above. Team 1418 is in action during the World Championships in the photo to the right. The team emerged as captains of the 8th seeded alliance to play in the divisional finals at the competition, which was held last week. The team is currently ranked in the top 11 percent of the teams that went to the World Championships, top 4 percent of teams that advanced to the subdivision of the playoffs and the top 1 percent of teams that were alliance captains. (Courtesy Photos) top 1 perent of the teams that were alliance captains. Throughout the whole season, the robot also withstood 70 heavy impact matches and has driven 9.5 miles in competition alone. The season also positively impacted many members of the team. “Worlds was really an eyeopening experience,” said Mason junior Rachel Beak. “Aside from being able to play with the best teams in the world, I was able to speak with mul-
tiple different teams of people who were interested in recruiting me for a number of different programs as well as colleges and internships.” Even greater experiences were made as some of the seniors on the team, who have been a part
of Team 1418 since the 8th grade, were attending Worlds for their first and last time as members of the team. “I’m really glad that our team was able to make it to the World Championship in my final year of robotics,” said Mason senior
Jacob Bruner, a co-captain of the team. “It was the perfect ending to a team I’ve spent five years with.” The season has been truly remarkable and the Falls Church community is excited to see all amazing things Team 1418 will accomplish in the future.
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George Mason Boys Soccer Team Defeats Strasburg High 5-0 by Matt Delaney
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George Mason’s varsity boys soccer team built on their perfect record with a 5-0 win over Strasburg High School on Friday, April 29. Just one game this past week allowed Mason to focus solely on their second meeting with Strasburg, which, if the score didn’t already tell you, was different from their first match on April 5 when the Mustangs handled the Rams 10-0. “They definitely played a better game than they did last time,” senior forward Elliot Mercado said. “They were more organized, but I guess that happens at the end of the season.” Strasburg made things difficult for Mason, especially when backed up to their own goal, but they still failed to present a real threat. The Mustangs dominated time of possession and were con-
stantly pressing the issue around the Rams net. That persistence paid off. Mercado’s penalty kick seven minutes in put Mason ahead and a through ball from senior midfielder Grant Goodwin opened the door for Mercado again in the 14th minute, who went on to score his second goal of the game. A Mason corner kick in the 28th minute landed in heavy traffic before senior midfielder Samsudeen Sallah found the loose ball and knocked a grounder inside the left post. Mercado completed his hat trick on a cross from senior midfielder Olo Sembera Baracco in the second half. Sophomore forward Kevin Valle scored the game’s final goal after gathering a deflection in a soft spot in Strasburg’s defense. Exemplary as the Mustangs were against Strasburg, head coach Frank Spinello always understands there’s room for improvement, even in sizeable victories.
MASON SENIOR ELLIOT MERCADO dribbles the ball down the field during a recent Mustangs’ win over Madison County High School. Mercado scored a hat trick against the Mustangs’ most recent opponent, Strasburg High School, during the team’s 5-0 win over the Rams on Friday, April 29. (Photo: Carol Sly) “We tried to get a little too cute at times, a little too much flare and not enough substance out there.” Spinello said. “Just trying to do something fancy every time. We got a little bit too into that mindset tonight.” Spinello’s comments may refer to a few of the Mustangs who used no-look heel passes when leading
teammates into Strasburg’s box, or to a few other players who repeatedly tried to dribble their way through the defense. Regardless of who or what exactly Spinello was concerned with, the fact remains that he saw something of concern and addressed it. When a team like Mason is having a flawless season,
it’s hard to find problem areas, let alone tackle them. But Spinello identified a bad seed and squashed it, showing the difference between a contender and a three-straight 2A state soccer champ in the process. Mason welcomes Central High School to Falls Church for their next game on Friday, May 6.
Mustang Girls Soccer Throttles Strasburg, Madison County 8-0 by Matt Delaney
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Continuing their month-long upward trend, George Mason’s varsity girls soccer team claimed a pair of 8-0 wins over Conference 35 opponents this past week, beating Strasburg High School last Friday and finishing with Madison
County High School on Tuesday. Mason was in full control against Madison County. They had the lion’s share of possessions and were hovering deep in the Mountaineers zone throughout most of the game. The score reflects their offensive activity. Junior midfielder Rebecca Crouch glided through Madison County’s defense en
MASON SOPHOMORE IZZY ARMSTRONG dribbles the ball during a recent Mustang win. She scored a hat trick against Madison County High School. (Photo: Carol Sly)
route to Mason’s first goal just two minutes in. Sophomore forward Izzy Armstrong followed suit on her own scoring chance five minutes later and midway through the second half booted her second goal in from 25 yards out. Crouch and senior midfielder Corrine Carson added two more quick goals right before halftime. Freshman midfielder Maura Mann added another goal before Armstrong and Crouch completed their hat tricks, with Crouch’s being the decisive eighth goal that permitted the game’s early conclusion. While Mason did put on another strong performance, it was no easy accomplishment. “Madison County just never gives up,” Crouch said. “When we played them at their field they just kept going to the last second, which is good because it’s good competition.” Determination on Madison County’s part almost spelled
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MASON SOPHOMORE CLAIRE TRUNDLE craddles the ball during the Mustangs’ win over Park View High School. (Photo: FCCPS Photo/Jen Cipriano)
GMHS Girls Lax Tramples 2 Foes, Boast 8-4 Record by Jeffrey Wojtala
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Thursday, April 28 was Falls Church Youth Lacrosse night at George Mason High School. Various age youth teams were on hand to support the Mustangs, escorting players to the field and playing scrimmages during half time.
The Mustangs routed the Park View Patriots from Sterling 22-0 at home in front of the young Falls Church lacrosse players. As the game began it was apparent the Patriots would be short handed in the match with only three substitute players on their sideline. The Mustangs played a conservative
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Students at the New School of Northern Virginia are holding a day of fundraisers on Saturday, May 7 at the school, located at 9431 Silver King Ct., Fairfax, to raise money to build a library in Ghana. The school is collaborating with Read to Lead to raise money for the library. Members of the school’s community will host a yard sale, bake sale and car wash at the school from 8 a.m. – 1 p.m. on May 7. For more information, visit newschoolva.com.
Timber Lane Elementary School, located at 2737 West St., Falls Church, is celebrating its 60th anniversary on Saturday, May 14 from noon – 3 p.m. with a fair at the school. The Timber Lane ParentTeacher Association organized an effort to create a commemorative t-shirt to honor the occasion featuring a logo designed by Timber Lane students Georgia Pirrello and Nathaniel Manarin. For more information, visit fcps. edu/TimberLaneES.
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THURSDAY, MAY 5
SATURDAY, MAY 7
Early Literacy Center. Explore educational and manipulative items to teach early literacy through play on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday every week. This program is for ages birth to 5 years. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5034. Book Reading. Falls Church NewsPress Editor-in-Chief and Publisher Nicholas F. Benton will share from his book Extraordinary Hearts: Reclaiming Gay Sensibility’s Role In the Progress of Civilization. One More Page Books (2200 N. Westmoreland St. #101, Arlington). Free. 7 p.m. onemorepagebooks. com.
Plant Sale. The Falls Church Garden Club will hold its annual sale of locally grown flowering perrenials, natives, hostas, ferns, shrubs and small trees. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free admission; prices vary. 8 a.m. – noon. 703-533-1945. F.C. Farmers’ Market. Vendors offer fresh locally grown fruits and vegetables, cheeses, meats, baked goods, plants, and wine. City Hall Parking Lot (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 8 a.m. – noon. 703248-5077. Lorenzo the Great!. Local magician Lorenzo the Great will mix comedy and magic with audience participation for a 45 minute show that will amuse and amaze children and adults. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m. 703-248-5034. Spring Dance Recital. There will be two performances – 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. George Mason High School Auditorium (7124 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church). 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. 703-248-5077. Public Workshop: Bicycle Master Plan. Learn about bike routes
FRIDAY, MAY 6
Art Show Opening. Inspired by the Robert Frost poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” this month’s featured artists, Donna Byrne and Eileen HechtLevy, embarked on a journey to capture nuances of the forest environment through their colorful and whimsical paintings. Art and Frame of Falls Church (205 W. Jefferson St., Falls Church). Free. 6 – 8 p.m. artandframeoffallschurch.com.
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under consideration around the city: Park Ave.; Little Falls St. and S. Maple Ave.; and N. Cherry St. and S. Cherry St. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – noon. pstoddard@ fallschurchva.gov.
SUNDAY, MAY 8
Mother’s Day Tea. Hosted by a costumed docent, there will be a discussion about the mother’s role in the mid-19th century. Guests will dine on sandwiches, assorted sweets, scones and hot tea. Reservations required. Cherry Hill Farmhouse (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). $30. 2 – 4 p.m. cherryhillfallschurch.org.
MONDAY, MAY 9
Preschool Storytime. Stories, finger plays and songs for children ages 2 – 5 on Monday and Thursday every week. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 – 11 a.m. 703-248-5034. ESL Conversation Group. An English as a second language conversation group focusing on English Language and American culture. No registration required. Mary Riley Styles Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8:30 p.m.
TUESDAY, MAY 10 Preschool Storytime. Songs, movement, and stories for ages 1836 months. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Youth Services Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 10:30 – 11:15 a.m. 703-248-5034. 1-on-1 Computer Tutoring. Receive personalized assistance using computers, Internet and e-books. Registration required. To schedule an appointment, stop by the reference desk or call 703-2485035. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 2 – 4 p.m. 703-248-5035. Great Books Discussion. A bimonthly discussion concentrating on literary classics will take on portions of the Experience by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mary Riley Styles Public Library’s Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave. Falls Church). 7 – 9 p.m. 703-248-5034.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11
Au Pair International Scavenger Hunt. The Falls Church, McLean and Oakton au pair groups are hosting an international scavenger for more than 50 au pairs through Tysons Corner Center. Tyson Corner Center (1961 Chain Bridge Road #305, McLean). Free. 7:30 – 9 p.m. 703-608-1150.
Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, MAY 5
“Caroline, Or Change.” Set in Louisiana, 1963, “Caroline, or Change” is the story of Caroline Thibodeaux, a black maid who forms an unexpected bond with a young Jewish boy, Noah Gellman, while working for his family. Utilizing Kushner’s signature aesthetic that combines down-to-earth humanism with unabashed fantasy, “Caroline, or Change” features a chorus of radios and a singing washing machine. Through May 29. ArtSpace Falls Church (410 S. Maple Ave., Falls Church). $24 – $26. 8 p.m. creativecauldron.org.
FRIDAY, MAY 6
“Unnecessary Farce.” In an economy motel room, an embezzling mayor is supposed to meet with his female accountant. In the room
next door, two undercover cops are supposed to catch the meeting on videotape. But there’s some confusion as to who’s in which room, who’s watching the video, who’s taken the money, who’s hired a hit man, and why the accountant keeps taking off her clothes. Suitable for ages 15 and up. Through May 14. McLean Community Center (1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean). $18 – $20. 8 p.m. mcleanplayers. org/MCP.
“The Mystery of Love & Sex.” Complete opposites, Charlotte and Jonny have been best friends since they were children. Now, as college students on the eve of graduation, they toy around with taking their friendship romantic. Or not. Why decide? After all, neither is sure they are even attracted to the other. Meanwhile, Charlotte‘s parents, an unlikely couple themselves, push the kids for a de�inition
even while their own relationship founders. Gradually, secrets and truths emerge as playing grown-up turns into actually growing up. Through May 8. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington). $40 – $85. 8 p.m. sigtheatre.org.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11
“Hedda Gabler.” Hedda Tesman returns from her honeymoon to the brutal banality of domestic life: an antagonizingly bland husband; a living room full of dying �lowers; and a house that is too large, too cluttered, too bourgeois for the once unstoppable Hedda Gabler. Both tormented and merciless, she is caught between her appetite for sensation and acute awareness of public perception. Through June 19. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $59 – $75. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.
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live_music&nightlife THURSDAY, MAY 5 J������� K���� ���� R���� � R����������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $18. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. T�� B���� J�������� M�������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. C������. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $20 in advance; $25 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300. D������ Z���� � T�� Z���� P���� Z���� B��� ���� R������� W�����. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $35. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. F��� C����� S������� ��������� DMV’� B��� C�����. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-532-9283. J����� L���. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $22. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. T�� S������� J�����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340.
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F���F��� A������� D��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-532-9283. HUMP! F��� F������� C������ �� D�� S�����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20 (Mainstage). 7 p.m. 202-667-7960. COMMUNION ��������� BASECAMP, B��� H�����, T����� A�� B�� F�� H�����. Jammin’ Java (227
Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $18 in advance; $15 – $18 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703-255-1566. J���� J��� W����� ���� P������ D����. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $65. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. 29�� A����� E������ �� C�����. Wolf Trap (1645 Trap Road, Vienna). $25 – $28. 8 p.m. 703-255-1900. S���� F���� A������ ���� C���� F������ � T�� S���� M���� B���. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 8 p.m. 202-265-0930. T���������: 70’� �� 80’� D���� P����. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). Free until 10 p.m.; $5 after 10 p.m. 8 p.m. 703-237-0300. W���������� ���� L����. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. S������� O���� B��������: O�� �� H�� H��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $12 in advance; $15 day of the show (Backstage). 9 p.m. 202-667-7960.
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(227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $18 in advance; $13 – $18 day of the show. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. O�� 97’� � H�������� B������� ���� BJ B�����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $30. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. C���� I����. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $95. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. T�� S���� S����� ���� B��� S�����, B�� M���� ��� L����� D�������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960.
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T�� C������ C���� ���� T�� D���������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $12 – $20. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. C���� I����. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $95. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. O���� ���� P������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15 (Backstage). 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11
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P������� A����... Tuesday, May 17 – Feng Shui & Summer: The Summer of Action. A workshop on how to use the practice of feng shui during the summer season to spark enthusiasm
and inspire action. Mary Riley Styles Public Library Conference Room (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8:45 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Library.
Saturday, May 21 – Civil War Day. The City of Falls Church will host a living-history event depicting the Falls Church home front during the Civil War with spy
stories, letter readings, period music, soldier drilling exercises, free bus tour and children’s tent. Cherry Hill Farmhouse (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Civilwarday.
Monday, May 30 – Memorial Day Parade and Festival. Live music, amusement and pony rides, arts and crafts, food, civic and business booths and so much
more sponsored by the Falls Church Department of Recreation & Parks. City Hall Grounds (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. fallschurchva. gov./MemorialDay.
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Where to Celebrate Mother’s Day In & Around The Little City BY DREW COSTLEY
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Is playing your mom “Dear Mama” by Tupac Shakur or “I’ll Always Love My Mama” by The Intruders while cooking up her favorite dish in the kitchen getting played out? Freshen up the Mother’s Day celebration for your grandmother, mom, wife, godmother or any of the other moms in your life whom you want honor with one of these goings on in and around the Little City on Sunday.
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And for those dessert lovers, Dysart is preparing a Chocolate and Raspberry Bouquet with raspberry mousse, chocolate crémeaux, marshmallow, chocolate biscuit, pansy petals, and a StrawberryRhubarb Pie with caramelized butter crust, Virginia strawberry compote, rhubarb caramel, lemon-thyme ice cream, just to highlight a few. The cost of the meal is $75 per person. Reservations can be made for between 11 a.m. – 8 p.m.
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Along with the a la carte menu at Dogwood Tavern, the restaurant will be featuring several brunch specials for Mother’s Day. In addition to their regular menu, they will be offering Poached Salmon and Asparagus Benedict with a Roasted Tomato Hollandaise, Poached Eggs served on Grilled Bread with breakfast potatoes and Bananas Foster French Toast, Dark Rum and Maple Caramel, Bruleed Bananas, Toasted Walnuts and Vanila Ice Cream. Dogwood Tavern’s brunch on Mother’s Day runs from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Shake Shack is offering a sweet treat for all of the moms out there on Mother’s Day. Any mom who stops by the D.C., Maryland or Virginia locations of Shake Shack will receive a free frozen custard. This deal includes all of Shake Shack’s regular flavors and their special flavor of the week, Oatmeal Creme Pie. Also, Shake Shack partnered up with No Kid Hungry to raise awareness and help end childhood hunger across America. All guests who donate $2 or more to No Kid Hungry will recieve a card for a complimentary hand-spun shake, redeemable on their next visit.
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Executive Chef Bertrand Chemel, Pastry Chef Caitlin Dysart and the 2941 team are excited to welcome diners to enjoy a seasonal 3-course prix fixe menu that celebrates some of spring’s most exciting and coveted ingredients. Featured signature dishes from the special Mother’s Day menus include a Spring Vegetable Terrine with goat cheese, tomato, grilled zucchini, asparagus, tomato gelée, aged balsamic and Grilled Halibut with ramps, asparagus, roasted corn and cherry tomato vinaigrette.
Executive Chef Bertrand Chemel and team are excited to bring a new line of brunch-inspired pizzas to neighborhood Neapolitan pizzeria and Italian hotspot Pizzeria Orso in Falls Church, VA. This Mother’s Day, families, kids and friends are welcome to experience any of Chef Chemel’s four new brunch pizza creations, which feature everything from spring’s favorite ingredients like ramps and asparagus to a dessert pie loaded with Nutella and fresh fruit. Offered all day on Saturday and Sunday.
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F.C.’s Ted White Reflects on Comics, Sci-Fi and the Little City by Drew Costley
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Falls Church native Ted White was born in 1938, the same year that what’s called The Golden Age of Comic Books began. He said that when he was a child he and his friends used to pass around comic books of the day, sometimes to the point where they would lose their covers. Because of an incident involving Wonder Woman, his mother and an incinerator, White became an avid comic book collector, eventually amassing a collection of over 10,000. But despite his and other Falls Church children’s love for comic books, educators and other adults in the City had a disdain for this burgeoning form of literature, saying that it would make children illiterate. According to White, they had an even lower opinion of science fiction, which he discovered while in the third grade at Madison Elementary School. Reading and writing literature in that genre became his life’s calling during his teen years, starting in 1951 when he was 13. He became a prolific contributor to science fiction fanzines during that time and eventually won the 1968 Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer, wrote 16 novels (including a Captain America novel in 1968), edited two anthologies of science fiction writing, served as the editor of the comic book magazine Heavy Metal for a year and edited for several science fiction magazines. He was also a professional jazz critic in New York City in the the late 1950s and early 1960s before beginning his career as a novelist. He currently lives and writes in the Falls Church home that he grew up and raised a family in, serves as the copy editor for the Falls Church News-Press and performs with a band called Conduit. Recently, he was an special guest of honor at the science fiction and fantasy convention RavenCon in Williamsburg. Ahead of the 15th annual Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, May 7, White took some time to speak with the News-Press about comic books, science fiction, his career as a writer and, with the exception of living in New York City for sometime, being a lifelong Falls Church resident. News-Press: What sort of things did you read as a child? White: The very first things I read or was exposed to I would categorize in the broad category of fantasy – fairy tales. My mother
used to read me Winnie the Pooh and when I was able to read, the Oz books, things like that. Actually, by the third grade I had read all of the fairy tale books that were available at the library – the Grimms and the other classical Andersens – and then there was this husband and wife team who did books, the titles of which were color-themed and there were a half dozen or more of them….I exhausted them all by the time I finished third grade, at which point I discovered science fiction. N-P: How were you introduced to comic books? White: They were there. I found them. I mean, I can’t remember what the first comic book I ever saw was but it was probably one that one of the neighborhood kids had and it very likely didn’t even have a cover….We’re talking the war years, the ‘40s, early on [and] comic books just sort of passed from hand-to-hand. It was a long time before I bought my first comic book. There’s an interesting story involved in all of this….One day, I think it was between the first and second grade, the summer, and...Madison had a swimming program for the summer. And I would walk over to the school, which was a mile away but it didn’t matter because I used to walk everywhere, at a certain time in the morning and join up with a motley crew of other kids and be taken into Washington, D.C. to 14th and K Streets where there was the Statler Hotel….At the end of that we were brought back to Madison and it was time for me to walk home. But I didn’t walk directly home. For some strange reason I followed N. Washington Street north...I’m not sure where I was headed to but north of Columbia Street there is a bank that used to be a Safeway, a tiny Safeway...and I’m walking in that direction and I’m almost opposite that Safeway when I meet a friend of mine who is pushing his bicycle up the sidewalk...and in the basket of his bicycle he has several comic books. And we stopped and we talked and he showed me the comic books and I don’t know how I did it, but I talked him out of them and he gave them to me and one of them was an issue of Wonder Woman. Now I had never seen Wonder Woman before – this was a brand new comic book to me. And it was strange. The art was strange…it was almost Rococo and the writing was even stranger….I started reading this comic book as I was
FALLS CHURCH RESIDENT TED WHITE (left) speaks with his son Aaron White in the living room of his house on Tuckahoe street. Ted grew up in the house and raised his children, including Aaron in the house. (Photo: Drew Costley/News-Press) coming along Columbia Street to Tuckahoe and I’m just sort of very slowly walking, reading intensely. It would be the equivalent of someone obliviously reading their cell phone while walking down a sidewalk….I was about halfway home when I look up and I see my mother rapidly approaching and she does not have a happy look on her face. I am hours late because I’ve been spending all my time dawdling, reading comic books. And my mother took the comic books out of my hand and took the ratty dozen or so that I already had, most of them coverless, and took them out to our incinerator and burned them all. This profoundly upset me but it also changed me. I was six or seven then, and I decided two things which I was happy to share with my mother. One of them was that she was never ever going to destroy anything of mine again and she never did….and the other thing it did was make me into a collector…from that point on I became a comic book collector... and by time I was in high school...I was written up in a newspaper called the Washington News as the boy with 10,000 comic books. N-P: How did your lifelong interest in science fiction begin? White: I read my first science fiction book when I was in the third grade and I liked it enough that I did a book report on it and probably read it a couple dif-
ferent times. It was called The Angry Planet by John Keir Cross, a British writer….It wasn’t very good science fiction, it was kind of silly science fiction about this pair of kids who get accidentally taken in this spaceship to Mars and on Mars everyone was able to breathe and walk around normally. Even at the time it wasn’t very realistic. It was sort of a children’s fantasy called science fiction, but when I was in the fourth grade I read my first real science fiction book….It was Robert A. Heinlein’s first juvenile, Rocket Ship Galileo. I loved that book. The instant I finished the last word on the last page I turned to the first page and began rereading it. And that made me science fiction fan. N-P: Why do you think you drawn to science fiction? White: Because it showed the world I had always known was there. I had always been really into science. I had a superstitious belief that after I died I would know all of the answers. Everything. And at that time the world was just full of questions, all science questions. Why this, why that? How this, how that? But also I knew that there was a great universe out there. I knew there were these other planets. I knew that it should be possible, eventually, for us to go to them. And believe me, as an eight- or nine-year-old kid in the late 40s,
this was not a shared opinion. This was not a popular opinion. My teachers told me that reading comic books would make me illiterate and they told me that science fiction was trash….That’s what I was up against, even from the teachers who liked me and who I liked. N-P: Why did you start writing? White: I started writing in fanzines. I started writing letters to people and it was hard at first. I would actually handwrite it first and then hunt and peck it out on the typewriter. I didn’t even know to space after a period, but I learned because it didn’t look good that way. After a couple of years of doing that, from 13-15, I had developed both typing facility and some writing ability. I wouldn’t say that I was that good. I learned how to put my thoughts down in words and I don’t think I was particularly stylistically elegant, but at least my grammar was largely correct. In my fan writing, I see the turning point as 1958 and I started in ‘51. After ‘58 I can look at my stuff and it’s not embarrassing to me….I would say it was all apprenticeship up until then. N-P: Why did you become a professional Jazz critic? White: I was always a Jazz fan. I started out being a fan of Les Paul and Mary Ford somewhere
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X Ambassadors have been on fire since March 2015 when they released the single “Renegades” off of their first full-length album VHS, which was released on Interscope Records in June 2015. The song, which has been featured in a Jeep Renegade commercial, is certified platinum, reached 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and reached 1 on the Billboard Adult Top 40, Hot Rock Songs and Rock Airplay charts. The band, which consists of four guys, three of whom are from Ithaca, NY, last played in the Washington, D.C. region in July 2015, opening for Milky Chance at Echostage. And they’re coming back to Echostage for a show on Thursday, May 12. But this time they are headlining. “It feels awesome. It feels like just yesterday that we were at Echostage opening for Milky Chance….It’s been such a busy year,” said Adam Levin, the group’s drummer who is from Los Angeles. “And when you’re so busy it really tends to fly by. “But it’s been an amazing year and we just feel so lucky to do what we do. It’s almost hard to believe that we’re coming back just a year later to headline. It’s really wild.” Levin said that despite the group’s busy schedule – they’ve been on tour non-stop since last year – they have been able to cherish the moment that they are in. “I mean it’s hard to totally appreciate and cherish it while you’re in it,” Levin said. “But we do. You really do look back and it’s amazing. It’s a lot of pressure and work when you’re doing it everyday but even when you have a couple days off it’s like wow. You kind of look back and think about all the experiences you’ve had and sharing them with the people you love. It’s a really special thing.” X Ambassador is made up of frontman, guitarist and saxophonist Sam Harris, his brother
X AMBASSADORS. (C������� P����) Casey Harris (keyboards), Noah Feldshuh (guitar) and Levin. Sam and Casey Harris have known Felshuh since they were children in Ithaca and Sam met Levin while attending the New School in New York City in 2006. The group, which has been together since 2009, was discovered by Imagine Dragons after a member of the group heard an X Ambassadors song on the radio in Norfolk. It’s fitting that they were discovered by Imagine Dragons because they are related to the group musically in the sense that there is a discernable hip-hop influence in the band’s sound. Incubus and Red Hot Chili Peppers, two other groups with that same musical heritage, have been cited as influences for X Ambassadors. But Levin claimed the hip-hop influence outright for the band. “A lot of hip-hop is a big thing for us. We are all really big hip-hop fans and we grew up listening to Biggie and Tupac and Jay Z and
contemporary rappers as well,” Levin said. “We all have different influences. Casey is big into Jazz. He doesn’t listen to a lot of contemporary music, he listens to a lot of Jazz and prog rock, and he listens hip-hop, but the rest of us listen to a lot of hip-hop and rock.” So when Jay Z hopped on a remix for X Ambassadors’ “Jungle,” the first single from VHS, the band was elated. “It was insane. It was the coolest thing ever, to tell you the truth,” Levin said. “That was one of those pinch me moments for us. It was just absolutely insane.” Levin said that the group has been writing material for their next album and will get into the studio with their producer, the Grammy Award-winning Alex Da Kid, after their tour to record. He said there is no set timeline for when that music will be ready for the masses. • For more information about X Ambassadors, visit xambassadors.com.
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Creative Cauldron Presents “Caroline, or Change” BY PATRICIA LESLIE
“I remember as a young black girl seeing my grandmother (Queen Dunbar), as well as my “Caroline, or Change,” the aunts returning home a from a long recipient of six Tony nominations day caring for white folks” whose and the recipient of British the- needs superseded their own. Like her other grandmother, atre’s Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 2007 will open Thursday Hazel Garner who traveled around at Creative Cauldron where theater- the world singing gospel, Blake is goers will hear all music ranging an international singer, too, and from spiritual to Motown, classical, also teaches musical theater at Howard University. Jewish klezmer and folk. “This story isn’t a new story,” No other female composer has composed as many Broadway Blake wrote in an email, but “it’s musicals or received as many my history” and that of many Tony nominations as “Caroline’s” others. Caroline is a victim of Jeanine Tesori. The music sets the domestic abuse, a single mother stage to carry out the plot set in raising four children alone, while 1963 right after JFK’s assassina- working as a domestic and earning tion when the U.S. underwent cul- $30 a week. Blake began her acting career tural and racial clash and change. Calling it “one of the most at the YMCA in South Arlington powerful and unique musicals and participated in Arlington’s ever written,” Cauldron’s produc- Street Theatre. She attended DC’s ing director, Laura Connors Hull, Duke Ellington School of the describes the production as “so Arts and studied at Shenandoah much more” than the relationship Conservatory. If the 1960s seem between a black maid and a young like an easier period to “dress” than other eras, it actually can Jewish boy in a Louisiana home. “It’s somewhat of a history les- be more difficult, according to son about the forces of change and costumer and set designer, Margie how those forces can impact indi- Jervis who’s in her seventh season viduals.” The playwright, Pulitzer at Creative Cauldron. That’s because the time is Prize winning Tony Kushner, drew from his own experiences growing “well documented and still within up in Louisiana, which “hit home many audience member’s memowith me on so many levels,” wrote ry,” however, one advantage is the SS_Falls Church_BOGO_9.75x5_05052016_L1.pdf 1 4/28/16 “are not 3:17 veryPM Iyona Blake, an Arlington native, clothing lines then complicated or detailed” like, for who plays Caroline. FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS
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BACK IN THE DAY
20 & 10 Years Ago in the News-Press Falls Church News-Press Vol. VI, No. 7 • May 2, 1996
Tuesday’s Election Will Be Referendum on Public Satisfaction With City Government Next Tuesday’s election in the City of Falls Church will amount to a referendum on the effectiveness of the City’s current leadership, as incumbent mayor and vicemayor lead a slate of City Council and School Board candidates with their record of performance against a slate of independent challengers who contend that record is not as good as it should be.
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trouble for Mason in a few instances in the first half. Early on when Mason only led 2-0, the Mountaineers earned a free kick just outside of Mason’s box but directly in front of sophomore goalkeeper Laura Whitaker. Luckily, the shot sailed high over the crossbar. The next instance was even more alarming. A Madison
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game and worked on their plays against the Patriots. At halftime the score stood at 15-0 in favor of the Mustangs. Claire Hiscott, Amy Roche, Sarah Lubnow, Maeve Donnelly, Elizabeth Dodge, Selwyn Hemingway, Meredith Johnson, Olivia Cipriano, and Alex Biggs scored goals for the Mustangs in the first half. Assists were credited to Roche, Lubnow, Harmony Lajeunesse, Heminway and Hiscott. The half time festivities consisted of two youth lacrosse teams playing a ten minute scrimmage. At the end of the scrimmage the score was tied at two goals. The second half of the varsity game began with most of the starters resting on the sidelines having been subtituted midway through the first half. The Mustangs continued to work on their skills with the whole team being able to handle the ball. Cipriano, Biggs, Anna Dubro, Heminway, Claire Trundle, and Lajeunesse scored goals in the second half of the match.
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13% of Voters Show Only 13.4% of the registered voters in the City of Falls Church took the trouble to go to the polls for the municipal election Tuesday where four City Council candidates ran unopposed. The total marked a stunning contrast to the City’s proud tradition of civic involvement and its string of highest voter turnout totals in Virginia through the most recent statewide and national elections. In a contested School Board race, all four candidates endorsed by the civic group, the Citizens for a Better City, won.
County corner kick found a fellow Mountaineer in the crowd who launched a low shot past Whitaker. A Mustang guarding the post prevented the shot from breaking the plane, but another Madison County player scooped up the rebound and got off a clean shot, but only to hit the post and go out of bounds. “Sometimes, we get caught on our toes,” head coach Allison Klink said. “But luckily, some of our players stepped up and were urgent in that situation and saved
those goals from happening.” Against Strasburg, Mason had less scares and quicker scores. Armstrong, Crouch and Carson helped lead the offensive charge along with midfielders senior Kate Mills and sophomore Victoria Rund. The patchwork defense assembled in light of injuries effectively warded off the hair-raising chances that Madison County received when facing Mason. The Mustangs travel to Central High School for their next game on Friday, May 6.
The Mason Varsity Girls lacrosse team headed west Monday night for a game against the Heritage High School Pride in Leesburg, where they beat the Pride 25-8. The game, originally scheduled for a 6 p.m. start, was moved ahead due to the growing threat of thunderstorms in the area. The game was also to be a test for the Mustangs, being the first game this season for them on a natural grass field. Mason won the first two draws to quickly hold a 2-0 lead one minute 20 seconds into the game with goals by Roche and Hannah Hiscott, but the Pride offense quickly responded with two of their own to tie the game with 23:10 left in the half. Mason’s head coach Courtney Gibbons then took advantage of the official timeout to switch out a majority of the starting squad for her reserves. Mason then went on a 15-2 run against the Pride to pull away at the half with a score of 17-4. The remaining Mason goals were scored by Hannah Hiscott, Lydia Gorman (3), Dodge, Roche (4), Lubnow (2), Claire Hiscott (2), Donnelly, and Biggs. Assists were recorded by Hannah Hiscott (2), Roche (2) and Lajeunesse.
Mason Goaltender Annette Schlitt stood tall in net and recorded numerous saves and the remaining Mason squad, Bridgett Rorrer, Trundle, Lydia Grund, Kalena Wojtala, Caroline Duffett, Rae Mondragon and Heminway stood firm to limit the Pride to the two goals. The second half began with much of the same players as the first half taking the field against the Pride. Dodge performed her custom crease roll and scored the first goal of the half at the 24:02 mark. Cipriano capped a quick giveand-go from Lubnow two minutes later to make it 19-4, and Johnson, Claire Hiscott assisted by Biggs, and Lubnow assisted by Roche placed three more behind the Pride goalie to make it a 22-4 score with 17:16 left in the game. At the 18:10 minute mark Coach Gibbons substituted Schlitt with freshman goaltender McKenzie Brady to finish the game. The Pride would go on to score another four goals in the half and Mason would score another three, two more by Dodge and one more by Johnson (2) to finish the win just as the rain began to fall.
THESE EASTERN BLUEBIRD EGGS were found nesting next to a ledge in Arlington recently, no doubt ready to hatch soon enough and begin the journey to become full-grown critters! Just because you’re not famous doesn’t mean your pet can’t be! Send in your Critter Corner submissions to crittercorner@fcnp.com.
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around 1950 or so and from there it spread. And in 1951 or 52 I got into the Sauter Finegan Orchestra, whose music I still love. It was Eddie Sauter and Bill Finegan. They had been Jazz arrangers for more than ten years. They had arranged for Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller and people like that. Then they cut loose and did really neat stuff, really interesting stuff. [They made] the first high fidelity music….They were into exploring sound….And then there was Duke Ellington and these were progressions because of the sounds that I was hearing. The sounds were pulling me in. Duke Ellington’s arrangements blew me away….Well, once I got into Duke Ellington, I really opened the door to Jazz in general and I just kept exploring. N-P: The 1950s and ‘60s were an innovative time in Jazz music. What was it like writing about that genre in that time? White: I have always thought that the ‘50s were the peak in Jazz. It’s the time when Jazz was most
experimental and most diverse…. [And] it was fun because I would review whatever records I was given to review. The thing about Metronome that annoyed me was that I had to give the records back after I had reviewed them. And I didn’t like that at all because it meant that if I liked the record I had to go out and buy another copy. N-P: Let’s switch topics. You were part of the first class of spend their entire high school career at George Mason High School. What was that school like back then? White: Much smaller. I mean they expanded several times in the course of the four years that I was going there….They had these different rooms and they kept moving stuff around because they were still building the school and it was crowded all the time because it was never quite enough yet. But [there were still] small class sizes. N-P: What’s one word or phrase you would use to describe Falls Church when you were a child? White: More rural. Much more rural. N-P: How about now? White: Urban.
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