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Inside This Week U.S. Figure Skater Kwan Visits Eden Center Olympic, U.S. and world champion figure skater Michelle Kwan toured Falls Church’s Eden Center last week as part of her day-long area effort to drum up support for Asian American and Pacific Islander Virginians for Hillary Clinton. See News Briefs, page 9

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The Department of Motor Vehicles mobile customer service center, DMV 2 Go, will return to City Hall next Friday, Sept. 2, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

F.C. School Board Moves Swiftly With Fellows, Madison Options Best of Falls Church 2016

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We’ve clearly had a failure of leadership in this country. The political system is not working as it should. Big problems are not being addressed. See page 12

Press Pass with Skye & Ross

PACKED WITH SEVEN DIFFERENT kinds of meat and a handful of toppings, the Torta Bamba from Taco Bamba is one of the tastiest ways to pack on the pounds in Falls Church. The Pimmit Hill taqueria is just one of Falls Church’s “best,” highlighted inside this 2016 Best of Falls Church special edition of the News-Press. For a complete list of editor and reader Best of Falls Church picks, see pages 15-24. (Photo: Jody Fellows/News-Press)

Falls Church’s Tatianna (Joey) Back On RuPaul’s Drag All-Stars by Nicholas F. Benton

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Falls Church’s own Joey Santolini returns after six years to the popular “RuPaul’s Drag Race” national reality TV show on Logo and VH-1 tonight at 8 p.m. for the start of yet another season. Santolini, who performs as

Tatianna and who came in fourth place when she was on the show’s second season in 2010, returns this season for a gala “All Star” show launching a season. It features 10 of the best contestants from eight seasons of the show involving $1 million in award money. The News-Press had an exclusive interview with Tatianna fol-

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lowing the 2010 show season, and a follow-up interview was conducted in the last week. Tatianna, a graduate of Falls Church High School, still lives in Falls Church. She has been the regular star performer on weekends at the Town Danceboutique in Washington,

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by Nicholas F. Benton

With the fate of the Mt. Daniel Elementary expansion and renovation project remaining in limbo at least until a vote of the Fairfax County Planning Commission on Sept. 14, the Falls Church School Board agreed to move ahead with alternative plan options at its work session Tuesday night. The need for swift action was underscored at the meeting, with Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones having informed the board this month that a 4.6 percent growth in enrollment is possible, according to very preliminary data, when the City’s schools open after Labor Day. The primary focus of Tuesday’s discussion was the Fellows Living Trust Tract at 604 S. Oak St., across from the Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, and Dr. Jones presented three already-completed preliminary design options for a two or three story school structure on that 1.95 acre land that currently has one unoccupied house. But while moving ahead toward possible “condemnation” or the exercise of “eminent domain” on that land, agreeing to proceed to obtain a formal assessment of its fair market value, the board did not rule out exploring the possibility of the former Madison School site on N. Washington, as well. “There is a history of the dust up that neighbors to the Madison School site caused when that location was considered for a middle school,” Board Vice Chair John Lawrence said. But others on the board, includ-

See News Briefs, page 9

When Skye Edwards and Ross Godfrey, two-thirds of the UK trip-hop group Morcheeba, reunited to create a new group called Skye & Ross, it wasn’t just the duo that came together for their debut album. They brought their families into the mix.

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F.C. School Board Mulls New Options for School Expansion Continued from Page 1

ing Margaret Ward and chair Justin Castillo, said that all options need to be explored now, with the only condition being that a location be found inside the 2.2 square mile City limits so that hassles born of a dependency on the approvals of a neighboring jurisdiction, such as the board has faced with the Mt. Daniel situation, won’t be repeated. There was also talk of repurposing the Falls Church Community Center for school system use, but it was agreed that if it were to be considered, it would be much further down the road. Exploration of the acquisition of commercial property in the City was also put on the table. The two main options – the Fellows Tract through “condemnation” and fair market purchase and the former Madison School site, currently a park – each have specific benefits. The Fellows Tract is directly across from an existing school,

freeing it from the need to have the full complement of facilities that an adjacent TJ Elementary has. The former Madison School site is already owned by the City of Falls Church, and therefore it would cost nothing to acquire the land. The cost of acquiring the Fellows Tract could exceed $4 million. (There is already $4 million set aside in the City’s Capital Improvement Fund for the prospective acquisition of that site). The school board’s legal counsel, Tom Horn, told the board Tuesday that if it moves to acquire the Fellows Tract through “condemnation,” it would begin the process by making an offer for purchase, in the context of making it clear an intent to take the land for a public use by “condemnation” as allowed by law. Then there would be an independent appraisal, likely followed by litigation in the courts to establish a fair market value.

A complicating factor in establishing the value may be the approval by the F.C. Planning Commission last month to a subdivision of the Fellows Tract into seven lots for residential development. However, the 5-1 vote by the City Council earlier this month to redesignate the land in the City’s Comprehensive Plan from “low density residential” to “parks and open space,” which potentially degraded the value of the land by virtue of making the sale of individual residential parcels on the land less attractive in the face of potential contrary acts by the City. Concepts of which students will go where and other aspects of a new structure at the Fellows Tract or Madison Park remained totally fluid Tuesday night as a lot of hypotheticals were thrown out to begin the deliberative process. So, the need to act with dispatch, and to limit choices to those in the City limits were the

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FALLS CHURCH SCHOOL Superintendent Dr. Toni Jones (center) presents options for a new school site in the City of Falls Church at a School Board work session Tuesday night. (P��: N��-P��) two major points of consensus Tuesday, including going ahead with an appraisal of the Fellows Tract and a preliminary review of how something at Madison Park might look. The three renderings of options on the Fellows Tract all showed the property taking up far less for building space than would be the case if seven residential homes

were built there, Castillo noted. Meanwhile, Castillo noted that news reports of two new area school construction projects – the Teddy Roosevelt High School and Ron Brown Middle School both in the District of Columbia – were done at costs comparable to the preliminary estimates of costs of similar construction in Falls Church.

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D.C. and she is very proud of RuPaul, the show’s host, as an articulate spokesman on behalf of the LGBT community. RuPaul (real name Andre Charles), born in 1961, has been a drag entertainer for over 30 years, and launched his RuPaul’s Drag Race in February 2009. Drag involves not just dressing up, in his view, but mocks the “egobased world.” In a Huffington Post interview he said, “This is what drag is all about. You are not who you think you are, you’re born naked, and the rest is drag. It’s all a facade. You’re much more than you think you are.” Here’s last week’s interview with Falls Church’s Tatianna: Q. Hello Tatianna/Joey. The last time I interviewed you was in March 2010 when you’d appeared for the first time on Ru Paul’s Drag Race show. At that time you were living in Falls Church, having graduated from Falls Church High School. So, what’s been going on with your life since then? A. Since Season 2 of RuPaul’s Drag Race my life has changed quite a bit! Right after the show

I was balancing my drag career with my career as a hair stylist. About three and half years ago I decided to take on drag full time and leave my position at the salon I had worked at for almost five years. I’ve been able to travel and perform all over which has been really great! Q. What have been some of your most exciting or interesting experiences since you’ve taken Tatianna on tour, and including at your long-term home base club, Town in Washington, D.C.? A. Oh gosh, there are to many to name! But I will say every time I’m at Town Danceboutique or on the road I’m always excited to meet new people. That’s one of my favorite parts of what I do. Especially the drag enthusiasts... they are always a trip! Q. How long do you plan to continue to be an entertainer? Have you developed other interests or skills that will contribute to a career in the future? A. I plan to do this until I either can’t any more or I stop enjoying it, which I feel won’t be for a long time. I have tossed around the idea of opening a boutique or developing a small makeup line. I have

always been interested in makeup and fashion. Q. How about your personal life? Do you have a husband or boyfriend? What do you consider the most important things that contribute to a successful longterm relationship? A. I am single at the moment but I would like to be in a relationship or get married in the future. For me I think the most important factors for a good relationship are trust, communication, and every now and then, space. I’ve always been pretty independent so space and freedom are big things for me. Q. RuPaul has made a name for herself in the past year as an articulate spokesperson on behalf of the LGBT community. What do you think of her in this role? A. I think she is great! She is always coming from a place of love which I think really shines through. Q. Do you still live in Falls Church or come here often? If not, where do you live now? A. Yes, I still live in Falls Church! Northern Virginia/DC is my home so I don’t think I’ll be moving anytime soon!

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So much for the lazy days of summer. It’s always with a slight sense of desperation that time is slipping by and not enough is getting done that the first signs of Labor Day appear on the horizon. How has been your summer this year? How does it rank compared to the year before? Are you ready for it to end? Do you feel renewed by whatever you did in the name of vacations and holidays? Do you feel better about what the fall season holds now than you did at the beginning of the summer? The two biggest events of the summer in the City of Falls Church have been the opening of the Harris Teeter smack in the middle of town after all those many years of merely guessing what it would be like, and the glowing appraisal given our City by commercial developers earlier this month as a conference on how growth in the region should proceed from here on. The Harris Teeter opening speaks for itself. Among other things, it will do wonders for residential property values of everything around it. Now that the apartments above it are being filled, and those just down the street at the Lincoln at Tinner Hill are about to as well, population in “The Little City” is striding toward 14,000, then 15,000, then even higher. Sourpusses complain that this is all a big pain, that new people bring new costs to educate the young, and that means taxes will go up. But there is a new breeze that is flowing through the City now, and it is perceptible. It is the fresh air brought by a younger demographic, even it is only in its beginning phase. These represent the future, don’t fear density but welcome it, because with people comes vibrancy and a diversity of neighbors and classmates that enrich the lives of everybody. Not that old sourpusses have nothing good to offer. After all, it was many of them who fought to maintain and develop the community structure that is Falls Church over many years when its transition from sleepy suburban to new urban community was barely perceptible, if inevitable. Through their efforts, the kind of new urban that Falls Church is now more evidently sporting is what has the regional development community in such awe: an ongoing strong sense of community, of place, of appreciation for a diversity of goals, the primary being education and including open space, walkability, progressive social values, and more. So, thanks to older, grumpier ones, Falls Church has a very bright future grounded in doing it the right way from the get-go. They should appreciate that about themselves, their community and the direction it is now headed. You can’t, and shouldn’t, stop the future. Just keep it cordial, generous and people-centric. For us, the summer has been good. We feel revitalized and revved up to make our town work even better going forward.

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al climate change requires planning to deal with today’s impacts and tough steps to blunt the worsening problems to be faced in the world of our children. How we generate our power is the number one challenge for curtailing carbon emissions and warming, and the comments of Harris and his organization serve only to obfuscate the issue with pseudoscience and semantics. Steps forward to clean, renewable power are to be applauded. Tom Wagner and Erika Myers Falls Church

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Recently the U.S. Justice Department announced a shift in policy around the use of private, for-profit prisons to secure federal inmates. The decree signaled a phasing out of these institutions over the course of an approximately five year period. Prompting this decision was an Office of the Inspector General report comparing federal prisons managed by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Prisons, and those managed by private entities on several key criteria – including safety of inmates, costs and services provided to the incarcerated. The takeaway? Private prisons “compare poorly to [Bureau of Prisons] facilities…do not save substantially on costs…and do not maintain the same level of safety and security”, according to comments from Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates. The timing of the report was in part a reaction to an expose in Mother Jones depicting conditions in private facilities, authored by a writer posing as a security officer. Since the decision, there has been a variety of feedback from the public. Many have rejoiced at putting an end to “profiting on incarceration.” Others have questioned the report’s methodology, given wildly differing uses and demographics in the respective prison populations. But, for the most part, there has been a lack of understanding about what the new policy actually does,

and what the downstream effect will be on broader legal system. First, some numbers to help provide context. There are approximately 115,000 prisoners in privately operated, for-profit pris-

“The broader hope is that this is a bellwether decision that strikes a blow at mass incarceration in the U.S.” ons around the country. Only about 23,000 of those are housed at the 13 private federal facilities, and a subset of those inmates are outside the Bureau of Prison’s purview – utilized by other Justice Department agencies and the Department of Homeland Security. The total prison population in the United States is around 1.5 million. Immediately, the proportions stick out. Less than 1 in 5 inmates in private facilities are at the federal level and impacted by the policy shift – the others are at statelevel private facilities. And less than 1 in 10 inmates around the country are in the federal prison system to begin with, the remainder residing at state level facilities, which are run by state governments.

Overall, the impact on your average prisoner is limited. Symbolically, and in precedent, this is a victory for those subscribing to Hillary Clinton’s and Bernie Sanders’ belief that nobody should have a profit motive for incarceration (see the “Kids for Cash” scheme that added one inmate, Judge Mark A. Ciavarella, to the prison population). There were many who doubted that privatization of a responsibility typically reserved for The Commons would provide better service at a lower cost, and this appears to be validation. And certainly federal policy has influenced actions at the state-level on many different subjects. The broader hope is that this is a bellwether decision that strikes a blow at mass incarceration in the U.S. — a country with the world’s largest prison population. But transfers from private federal facilities will happen over time, and the Bureau will not necessarily be closing any facilities in the immediate-term. The plan is to deny extension of private prison charters when they come up for review, which occurs every five years. And there is no guarantee that every facility will be included in the phase out. Still, the momentum appears to be on the side of reform advocates. The prison population, according Todd Clear and Natasha Frost in their book The Punishment Imperative, has been in decline. Mandatory minimum sentences and “strike rules” have

been phased back in some states. Long prison terms are typically reserved for violent and repeat offenders. And blowback to War on Drugs principles are manifesting in various forms, including ballot initiatives on the docket this December. With few exceptions, the concepts surrounding rule of law and punishment in America have been anchored on our ability to rehabilitate those who stray from accepted behavior. Drug counseling and treatment programs have increasingly become a part of the incarceration experience – something many noted was absent from those detained in private facilities. And with Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s recent restoration of voting rights to former felons who have served out their sentences, the redemptive foundation of the system is on full display. While progressives have championed the announcement as the end of profiteering through ineffectual incarceration, the current status of the system is closer to stasis. Undoubtedly, however, a gauntlet has been thrown, and attention directed clearly upon our over-reliance on the “lock ‘em up” mentality. And with recent focus on police brutality and harsh prison conditions – whose victims and residents remain drastically skewed towards minority populations – look for more prescriptions aimed at alleviating what has been a potential powder keg for inner city residents.

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Shame on Council For Denying Fellows Family Right to Sell Editor, Shame on you, Falls Church City Council! Two weeks ago, the Falls Church City Council voted to reclassify a private property and, in essence, deny the Fellows family the right to sell it at market value. Really?? You’re going to use eminent domain to take away a private property? This is the same city council that has voted for numerous development projects and approved the subdividing of lots for multiple homes – and rightfully so, given our strategic location inside the beltway. Why now the change? This property is easily large enough to support the development. The vote last week showed a lack of leadership, courage,

and integrity, and will likely cost the city dearly in legal fees. The Fellows family has lived on this land for more than 100 years. Let them subdivide to a low density footprint – which is in keeping with the rest of the neighborhood. It’s the right thing to do. Jennifer King Falls Church Editor,

Another Successful Summer Concerts Series in F.C. It was a pleasure to host the annual free Summer Concerts in Cherry Hill Park series again this year. This was the Village Preservation and Improvement Society’s 24th year of concerts featuring local bands with a Falls Church connection. We had healthy crowds, and even packed the community center for the rained out bluegrass performance. These concerts could not possibly go on without a host of

volunteers. Many thanks to City of Falls Church Recreation and Parks staff, especially Chris Madison for coordinating City efforts and William Kargbo for set up and take down of park equipment. From the VPIS side, thanks to Mike Volpe, Bonnie Murphy, Melissa Teates and Keith Thurston for running the booth, and to Devin Divecha, Nathan Cooper and Jon Hundley for running the sound system. I look forward to seeing everyone in Cherry Hill Park again next summer! Gordon Theisz Falls Church

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In this era of gun violence, we are so quick to jump on our political soap boxes whenever another tragedy occurs. Especially in such a divisive election year. I think we are forgetting about the common ground we all share. We have and will suffer the loss of what these children’s lives could have been. I will hold vigil for

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NEWS BRIEFS Figure Skater Michelle Kwan Visits Eden Center Olympic, U.S. and world champion figure skater Michelle Kwan toured Falls Church’s famous Asian American Eden Center complex last week as part of her day-long area effort to drum up support for “Asian American and Pacific Islander Virginians for Hillary Clinton.” Her schedule of activities included a walking tour of small businesses in the Eden Center, participation in a phone bank in Arlington and a campaign event at a popular Thai restaurant in Arlington. The winner of eight Kwan at Eden Center. (Photo: News-Press) U.S. championships, five world championships,12 world championship and two Olympic medals, Kwan has been active in promoting Asian American and Pacific Island (AAPI) causes in the U.S. for the last dozen years since injury forced her to opt out of the 2006 Olympics. She announced a year ago that she would be supporting the Clinton presidential bid. According to a Clinton statement, her appearances today were to “discuss Clinton’s agenda for tax fairness” as well as to launch the AAPI Virginians for Hillary, and to contrast Clinton’s agenda for tax fairness and investing in Virginia to Trump’s plan to give large tax breaks to the wealthy and people like him, including what could be a $4 billion tax break to his own family.

February Murder Still Under Investigation The Fairfax County Police Department’s detectives from the Major Crimes Division are continuing their investigation of the February 23 murder of Babtunde Fadahunsi at the Skyline Towers at 5597 Seminary Road. On Thursday, Aug. 18, the police department released a second video in connection with the homicide. On Friday, June 10 the police arrested Bernardo Eugene Ford, Jr., 25, of Woodbridge, on a federal charge connected to the homicide. He was charged with the Use, Carry, Brandish, and Discharge of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence Causing Death. According to detectives, this arrest was the result of tremendous assistance and cooperation from The Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington Field Office Violent Crimes Task Force, The Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Fairfax County Police Department’s Fugitive Squad. Ford remains in custody.

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The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) mobile customer service center, DMV 2 Go, will be at City Hall (300 Park Avenue) on Friday, Sept. 2, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. The special event is co-hosted by the Commissioner of the Revenue and the Virginia DMV. This event is open to all Virginia residents. No appointments are necessary. The handicapped-accessible, full-service office provides all DMV transactions including applying for and renewing driver’s licenses; obtaining ID cards (including photos) and Virginia’s veterans ID cards; taking road and knowledge tests; obtaining copies of driving records; obtaining vehicle titles, license plates, decals, and transcripts; ordering disabled parking placards or plates; updating an address after a move for DMV and voter registration; and more. Customers should be prepared with the required documents to complete transactions. Remaining 2016 dates for the DMV 2 Go mobile vehicle are Oct. 7, Nov. 4 and Dec. 2.

As of a grand opening yesterday, citizens can now get their TSA Pre-Check at the Tysons Corner Department of Motor Vehicles office, which will save them time in airport security lines when they travel. This is the third TSA enrollment office opened this summer as the Virginia DMV is the first motor vehicle agency in the nation authorized to offer these services.

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Community News & Notes Twin Psychologist to Speak in Falls Church on Sept. 15 Dr. Joan Friedman, an internationally recognized twin psychologist, will speak on Thursday, Sept. 15 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, located at 3022 Woodlawn Ave., Falls Church, at 7:30 p.m. She will give a talk to the Northern Virginia Parents of Multiples organization about how parents and society raise and treat twins, either as a “twinship” or as individuals and its effects on the children themselves. Her book The Same But Different: How Twins Can Live, Love, and Learn to be Individuals explores the unique challenges twins face when establishing independent adult lives. She will offer insights and solutions to these challenges and speak about why mothers of twins and other multiples are more likely to experience postpartum depression. Friedman will answer ques-

tions about twin relationships and any related issues, such as friendships, careers and romance. For more information, visit joanafriedmanphd.com/upcoming-event.

City of Falls Church Hosts Town Hall on Zika Virus The Fairfax County Health Department, which is the City of Falls Church’s health department through a contract, will host a town hall meeting about the Zika virus on Thursday, Sept. 8 at the Falls Church Community Center at 223 Little Falls Street. Fairfax County Health Department staff will discuss Zika, what is known about the virus and what residents can do to prevent it and other mosquitoborne diseases. Representatives will also discuss the agency’s mosquito and human surveillance efforts and possible interventions should a locally acquired case of Zika be identified.

For those who can not attend the town hall, representatives from the health department are available to give brief presentations about the Zika virus at home owners association meetings. To schedule a presentation, call 703246-8931 or email HDLiaison@ fairfaxcounty.gov. The Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) is a possible vector for this disease and is common in Northern Virginia. Mosquito season will not end until the first hard frost of the year, so the City said that it is important that residents remain vigilant about preventing mosquitoes around their homes and protecting themselves from bites for the remainder of the summer and fall. Zika virus is primarily spread to people by the bite of an infected Aedes mosquito, but can also be spread through sexual contact, from a pregnant woman to her fetus and possibly through blood. For more information, call

703-248-5005 or email hhsinfo@ fallschurchva.gov.

Falls Church Now Accepting Housing Grant Applications Falls Church City’s Housing and Human Services department is now accepting applications for two U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – the Community Development Block Grant and the HOME Investment Partnerships Program. Applications are due by Monday, Sept. 19. Applications will be considered during public hearings held by the Housing Commission in October, with final grant awards scheduled to be awarded in November. The funds are available to any public agencies and nonprofit organizations that work to aid low-moderate income households in the City to use for housing development, rental assistance, social services, economic devel-

opment, and public services. Past funded projects have included home repair, rental assistance to prevent homelessness, rehabilitation of housing developments, and more. The City of Falls Church will receive around $55,000 of Community Development Block Grant funds through an agreement with Arlington County. These competitively awarded funds will be used towards public services, housing rehabilitation, homebuyer assistance, and economic development. HOME is also an annual grant that allows the City to carry out a variety of housing activities. This year, the City will receive approximately $20,000 through an agreement with Arlington County. These funds will be given to public agencies and nonprofit organizations for rental assistance to income eligible households. For more information or to apply, visit fallschurchva.gov/HHS.

NAMITA DONGRE, who graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in June is shown on the left with Falls Church Rotary Club president Erica Brouillette at the Rotary Club’s August 18 meeting. U.S. REP. DON BEYER (standing) addressed the monthly meeting of the Falls Namita received a $1,000 freshman year scholarship from the Rotary club to Church City Democratic Committee at the F.C. Community Center last week to begin her college degree program in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in the upcoming semester. (Photo: Courtesy of Dr. John Karickhoff) spur efforts for the fall campaigns. (Photo: News-Press)

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Falls Church News-Press owner Nicholas Benton’s recent book, Extraordinary Hearts: Reclaiming Gay Sensibility’s Central Role in the Progress of Civilization (Lethe Press 2013) has once again risen to No. 1 in the Gay Studies category on Amazon.com. The book is a compilation of 100 short essays written weekly for the Metro Weekly gay magazine in D.C. It is important, Benton says, in the discourse on what it means to be LGBT beyond mere sexual orientation and beyond the current confines of so-called “gay culture.” Gay activist icon Larry Kramer said of the book that it is “a vital moral book about who we are and who we should be. I admire it and its author enormously.” Gay activist Douglas Sadnonick wrote about it in the Gay & Lesbian Review as “a historic step as a contribution to a hoped for new dialogue shaping a fresh, post-postmodern consciousness...an important visionary argument: biological procreation must give way to other, more conscious forms of creativity... an invitation for courageous intellectuals to articulate a redemptive ‘gay science’ capable of salvaging a sustainable future for our otherwise barbaric species.” Benton will make a presentation on the book during the annual Falls Church Fall Festival on Sept. 17 at 1 p.m. in the Community Center.

Local Organization Seeks Volunteers for Fall Programs The National Korean American Service & Education Consortium, who has an office at 7006 Evergreen Ct., Annandale, is recruiting volunteers of all

ages for their non-partisan civic engagement volunteer program. They hope to build a strong base of youth volunteers that are supplemented by multi-generational adult supporters to uplift the voices of Asian American and Pacific Islander community members in Northern Virginia. The Community Action Project is an after-school program for high school students to learn about issues that impact the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities as well as develop leadership qualities and organization skills to direct community management. Students who fully participate in the program will be awarded service hours and potentially be eligible for the President’s Volunteer Service Award. Applications for the program will be accepted until Sunday, Sept. 11. For more information, visit nakasec.org.

The Alden Announces 20162017 Kids’ Performance Series The Alden recently announced its 2016-2017 McLean Kids Performance Series, which will include a mix of performances designed to entertain families with young children. All of the performances will be held at theater’s location at the McLean Community Center, located at 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean. The Okee Dokee Brothers, Grammy Award-winning folk and roots musicians, consist of Justin Lansing and Joe Mailander who have been exploring the outdoors since their childhoods together. The concert will be for ages 4 and up and will take place Sunday, Nov. 6 at 1 and 4 p.m. Tickets for the performance will cost $10 – $15. Dallas Children’s Theater will be performing “Mufaro’s

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Travel Specialist to Speak to Annandale Organization Elsie Cunningham, a luxury travel specialist with Seven Lands and Seas Travel, will speak to the Annandale chapter of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association at its monthly meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 7 at 10 a.m. at the Mason District Governmental Center, located at 6507 Columbia Pike, Annandale. Cunningham will recommend ways seniors can enjoy various types of travel at the meeting. For more information, call 703-690-6861.

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America’s Leadership Fails We’ve clearly had a failure of leadership in this country. The political system is not working as it should. Big problems are not being addressed. But what’s the nature of that failure? The leading theory is that it’s the corruption: There is so much money flowing through Washington that the special interests get what they want and everyone else gets the shaft. Another theory has to do with insularity: The elites spend so much time within the Acela corridor that they don’t have a clue about what is going on beyond it. There’s merit in both theories. But I’d point to something deeper: Over the past few decades, thousands of good people have gone into public service, but they have found themselves enmeshed in a system NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE that drains them of their sense of vocation. Let’s start with a refresher on the difference between a vocation and a career. A career is something you choose; a vocation is something you are called to. A person choosing a career asks, How can I get the best job or win the most elections? A person summoned by a vocation asks, How can my existing abilities be put in service of the greatest common good? A career is a job you do as long as the benefits outweigh the costs; a vocation involves falling in love with something, having a conviction about it and making it part of your personal identity. A vocation involves promises to some ideal, it reveals itself in a sense of enjoyment as you undertake its tasks and it can’t be easily quit when setbacks and humiliations occur. As others have noted, it involves a double negative – you can’t not do this thing. It’s easy to be cynical, but I really do think most people entered public life with this sense of idealistic calling. When you spend time around government officials you are constantly struck by the fact that they are more impressive in private than in public. Somewhere at the base of their personal story you usually find an earnest desire to serve some vulnerable group. The fact is, political lives are simply not that glamorous or powerful or fun. Most politicians wouldn’t put up with all the fundraising, the stupid partisan games, unless they were driven at some level by the right reasons. But over the years, many get swallowed by the system: all the calculating consultants; the ephemeral spin of the media cycle; the endless meetings with supplicants; the constant grind of public criticism; the way campaigning swallows time so they get to spend less time thinking about policy; the way service to a partisan team eclipses service to the cause that brought them into this in the first place. For example, Hillary Clinton seems to have been first inspired by a desire to serve children, but over the decades walls of hard-shell combativeness formed. Mitt Romney seems to be an exceptionally fine person, but when he was campaigning his true nature was often hidden under a film of political formulas. As the poet David Whyte once put it, “Work, like marriage, is a place you can lose yourself more easily perhaps than finding yourself ... losing all sense of our own voice, our own contributions and conversation.” It plays out differently in different cases. But a careerist mentality often replaces the vocation mentality. The careerist mentality frequently makes politicians timid, driven more by fear of failure than by any positive ideal. Such people are besieged by the short-term calculations and often forget about their animating vision and long-term ideal. They rationalize that, since the opposition is so evil, anything that serves their career serves the country. This is not just bad for the people involved but for the system itself. People with a vocation mindset have their eyes fixed on the long game. They are willing to throw themselves toward their goals imaginatively, boldly and remorselessly. People who operate a career mindset, on the other hand, often put self-preservation above all. Nothing gets done because everybody’s doing the same old safe rigid thing. I do think there’s often an arc to vocation. People start with something outside themselves. Then, in the scramble to get established, the ambition of self takes over. But then at some point people realize the essential falseness of all that and they try to reconnect with their original animating ideals. And so I think it possible to imagine a revival of vocation. If Clinton is elected, maybe even she can remind us that we’ve all developed these bad habits, that most of us secretly detest the game we’re in and the way we are playing it. It would be an act of amazing bravery if she could lead people to strip away all the careerist defense mechanisms and remember their original vows and passions.

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The Water Next Time A disaster area is no place for political theater. The governor of flood-ravaged Louisiana asked President Barack Obama to postpone a personal visit while relief efforts were still underway. (Meanwhile, by all accounts, the substantive federal response has been infinitely superior to the Bush administration’s response to Katrina.) He made the same request to Donald Trump, declaring, reasonably, that while aid would be welcome, a visit for the sake of a photo op would not. Sure enough, the GOP candidate flew in, shook some hands, signed some autographs, and was filmed taking boxes of PlayDoh out of a truck. If he wrote a check, neither his campaign nor anyone else has NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE mentioned it. Heckuva job, Donnie! But boorish, self-centered behavior is the least of it. By far the bigger issue is that even as Trump made a ham-handed (and cheapskate) effort to exploit Louisiana’s latest disaster for political gain, he continued to stake out a policy position that will make such disasters increasingly frequent. Let’s back up for a minute and talk about the real meaning of the Louisiana floods. In case you haven’t been keeping track, lately we’ve been setting global temperature records every month. Remember when climate deniers used to point to a temporary cooling after an unusually warm year in 1998 as “proof” that global warming had stopped? It was always a foolish, dishonest argument, but in any case we’ve now blown right through all past records. And one consequence of a warmer planet is more evaporation, more moisture in the air, and hence more disastrous floods. As always, you can’t say that climate change caused any particular disaster. What you can say is that warming makes extreme weather events more likely, so that, for example, what used to be 500-year floods are now happening on an almost routine basis. So a proliferation of disasters like the one in Louisiana is exactly what climate scientists have been warning us about. What can be done? The bad news is that drastic action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases is long overdue. The good news is that the technological and economic basis for such action has never looked better. In particular, renewable energy – wind and solar – has become much cheaper in recent years, and progress

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in energy storage looks increasingly likely to resolve the problem of intermittency (the sun doesn’t always shine, the wind doesn’t always blow). Or to put it a different way, we face a clear and present danger, but we have the means and the knowledge to deal with that danger. The problem is politics – which brings us back to Trump and his party. It probably won’t surprise you to hear that when it comes to climate change, as with so many issues, Trump has gone deep down the rabbit hole, asserting not just that global warming is a hoax, but that it’s a hoax concocted by the Chinese to make America less competitive. The thing is, he’s not alone in going down that rabbit hole. On other issues Republicans may try to claim that their presidential nominee doesn’t speak for the party that nominated him. We’re already hearing claims that Trump isn’t a true conservative, indeed that he’s really a liberal, or anyway that liberals are somehow responsible for his rise. (My favorite theory here, one that has quite a few advocates, is that I personally caused Trumpism by being nasty to Mitt Romney.) But when it comes to denial of climate change and the deployment of bizarre conspiracy theories to explain away the evidence, Trump is squarely in the Republican mainstream. He may be talking nonsense, but anyone his party was likely to nominate would have been talking pretty much the same nonsense. It’s interesting to ask why climate denial has become not just acceptable but essentially required within the GOP. Yes, the fossil-fuel sector is a big donor to the party. But the vehemence of the hostility to climate science seems disproportionate even so; bear in mind that, for example, at this point there are fewer than 60,000 coal miners, that is, less than 0.05 percent of the workforce. What’s happening, I suspect, is that climate denial has become a sort of badge of right-wing identity, above and beyond the still-operative motive of rewarding donors. In any case, this election is likely to be decisive for the climate, one way or another. Obama has made some serious moves to address global warming, and there’s every reason to believe that Hillary Clinton would continue this push – using executive action if she faced a hostile Congress. Given the technological breakthroughs of the last few years, this push might just be enough to avert disaster. Donald Trump, on the other hand, would do everything in his power to trash the planet, with the enthusiastic support of his party. So which will it be? Stay tuned.

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The Ugly Truth About Football

The ongoing descent of the Trump campaign hate rhetoric and attacks spiraling toward places no self-respecting gutter would go owes whatever traction it has in the electorate to a systematic, decades-long decay of core humanitarian American geniality and civility. Where will this stop? It’s clear the November election won’t serve that purpose. If Trump wins, it will explode the rage and prejudice bubbling over into a horrifying end-game for the U.S. and civilization as we know it. If Clinton wins, the Trump phenomenon will continue to grow, but only in part because there are very powerful and very hateful monied forces behind it. We’re in the shape are today in the U.S. because our citizenry has allowed FALLS CHURCH NEWS-PRESS itself to be led blithely down a primrose path toward complete and total disenfranchisement through a sequence of easy decisions over a long period of time. Since World War II, too many Americans allowed their identities to be flipped, in their own minds, from generous producers to spoiled consumers. This is a fundamental goal of the masterminds who seek to undermine democracy. They know that democracy can really work only if its participants are alert, educated and active. So has come the rise of phenomena such as bigger and bigger, theater-style “boob tubes,” ever-plumper “couch potatoes,” epidemic childhood and adult obesity, a wide array of mind-numbing products, from ever more powerful pain killers to really bad dialogue on TV sitcoms, to humor limited to the sophomoric and scatological, and to grossly-falsely inflated egos fed by sitting in underwear in front of computer screens and hurling ignorant insults through online anonymous comments helter skelter. Then, oh yes, there’s also football. What kind of people, other than the ones I’ve described, could allow themselves to become so obsessed with a “sport” that in recent years has been proven to systematically and pervasively inflict serious brain damage on almost all its participants, no matter how young or old? Those who’ve been covering up for this gladiator ritual all these years know that all they need to do is provide any sort of plausible case for continuing business as usual, and a Cheetos-gobbling numbed consumerist population will lap it up. That’s right, make it easy for them to continue as they have been. The superb movie, “Concussion” with Will Smith, has gone almost entirely ignored. So has the New York Times writer Steve Almond’s 2014 book, Against Football. They, and many other sources, have documented the pervasiveness of the problem. From a serious, permanent brain injury standpoint, it’s not the actual concussion, but the play-in, play-out, practice-in, practice-out, game-in, game-out sub-concussive blows to the head that add up to the deterioration, the tortured pain, confusion and dementia that have caused some former pro football players to blow their brains out. “Chronic traumatic encephalopathy” it’s called. CTE. There is no way to insulate football players from this, as long as football is football. Safer helmets are an illusion as a comprehensive solution. The sad thing is that there will continue to be the deniers, the defenders of the game, and the many millions, literally, who will be eager to believe them. But this is not a matter of opinion. It is a matter of fact, of science, of medicine. I don’t like having to face this any more than anyone else. I’m a jock, or was (no one should remain a jock past their playing days). Baseball paid for my college education. However, the more the reality of this spectacle pervades our culture, the more repulsive it’s become, now that the facts are out there. New Yorker magazine writer and author Malcolm Gladwell has equated this problem with the cover-up by mining companies for years of the deadly effects of black lung disease a century ago. The problem is bigger than football. It is bigger than Trump. It is us, and as they say in the campaign against sexual abuse, “It is on us.” Football’s militaristic, male chauvinist format notwithstanding, it’s dangerous not only to its players but to the psyche of a nation, of you and me, we who need to be using, not obliterating, our brains.

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Nicholas F. Benton

 Nicholas Benton may be emailed at nfbenton@fcnp.com.

Trump’s Hollow Regrets Donald Trump is the candidate who is so rigid in his perverted self-righteousness that he doesn’t “like to have to ask for forgiveness.” He says he has never even sought forgiveness from God, the divine author and inspiration of his favorite book, from which he struggled to name a favorite verse. But Trump actually expressed some “regret” last week, saying: “Sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. I have done that. And believe it or not, I regret it. And I do regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain.” Precisely what does Trump regret? Does he regret his comments on Megyn Kelly and the issue of blood coming out of her “wherever”? Does he regret retweeting messages calling her a bimbo? Does he regret attacking a Gold Star family? Does he regret making fun of one of my colleagues with a disability? Does he regret comparing Ben NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE Carson’s temper to the incurable pathology of a child molester? Does he regret suggesting that Ted Cruz’s father associated with John F. Kennedy’s assassin? What, exactly, does he regret? There are so many things from which to choose. I don’t believe, even for a nanosecond, that he regrets the personal impact of what he has said on anyone besides himself. I believe that he only regrets that what he has said has not worked well for him in the general election portion of the campaign. That is the difference between regret as an act of public contrition and regret as an expression of personal disappointment in one’s own flagging fortunes. I believe that Trump regrets that, as Lindsey Graham put it last week, “People are getting pretty nervous about our candidates because he’s in a death spiral here and nobody knows where the bottom is at.” Trump’s “regret” is just a cynical ploy to set a bottom and bounce back. But it will take more than the 75-plus remaining days of this campaign to disassemble what it took 70 years of his life to build. He is who he is. This fragile narcissist, who is a sort of bottomless pit of emotional need and affirmation, is easily injured by even the slightest confrontation.

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He is a man who has said of himself, “I have no friends, as far as I’m concerned,” as he joked that it would be easy to get big money out of politics. But that claim is worrisome, a thing that only a bully would say. Yes, he can work a crowd, work a screen and work a Twitter account. He can channel anger, hatred and bigotry and give it a voice and face and standing. He can make bombast feel like bravado. He can lower discourse and raise the rabble. He has the gifts of a grifter. The problem is that, at the moment, those gifts are proving to be woefully insufficient as he continues to face horrible polling results and other Republican officials begin to reek of fear, panic and impending peril. Furthermore, his team is being remade in the fourth quarter, as reports of corruption begin to swirl. Last week his campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, resigned after The Associated Press reported: “A firm run by Donald Trump’s campaign chairman directly orchestrated a covert Washington lobbying operation on behalf of Ukraine’s ruling political party, attempting to sway American public opinion in favor of the country’s pro-Russian government, emails obtained by The Associated Press show. Paul Manafort and his deputy, Rick Gates, never disclosed their work as foreign agents as required under federal law.” The report continued: “The lobbying included attempts to gain positive press coverage of Ukrainian officials in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press. Another goal: undercutting American public sympathy for the imprisoned rival of Ukraine’s thenpresident. At the time, European and American leaders were pressuring Ukraine to free her.” This email controversy, coming from the same campaign trying to make hay of Hillary Clinton’s email controversy. Oh, the irony. Trump thinks of himself as a great man, but if current trends continue and he suffers a staggering loss on Election Day, his ego will be forever injured as he is assigned to history not as a great man but as a great disaster, a cautionary tale of what comes of a party that picks a con man as its frontman. Trump’s recitation of regret wasn’t so much a ruthless Saul to Apostle Paul transformation as an inverted Jekyll and Hyde monstrous illusion. There is something rotten at the core of this man that no length of script or turn of phrase can ameliorate.

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News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross

the 1870s or earlier. Unlike news in our region, coverage of the national campaigns is sparse in Eugene. No headlines; go to page 3 or 4 to find any articles about national politics. But the choices for president prompt energetic discussion, nonetheless. One woman was incredulous that Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination, but also told me that many men in her tiny traditional timber town east of Eugene supported him. Another woman, who is active with several counter-culture groups, was distrustful of most people in elective office, but said she would support Hillary Clinton, even though she preferred Bernie Sanders in the primary. A couple of frustrated Republicans quietly shared that they would not be voting Republican in November. They also had lots of questions about how “we” (America) got into this predicament. Some blamed a do-nothing Congress, and some letters to the editor blamed both corporate America and public pension systems. At the end of our visit, it was apparent that, although many wanted to hear news from the Capital, national politics ranked pretty far down the ladder in everyday conversation. Of greater import were health, wellness, and exercise (Oregon is a great outdoors state), drought and fire danger, and affordability of just about everything. Voting for any candidate, or not voting at all, seems a decision still far off for many.

They say you can’t go home again, but if you grew up outside of the National Capital Region, sometimes it’s good to get out of the white-hot center of global politics, and reconnect with family and old friends. When you leave behind the intensities of life in Northern Virginia, you might get a broader understanding why there is such “national grumpiness” in public discourse today. On the other hand, you might find that no one else has figured it out either. Eugene, Oregon is a college town, also known as “Tracktown USA” because of its hosting of Olympic track and field trials, and other noted track meets. As a university town, Eugene has many well-educated residents but, centered in the Willamette Valley, Eugene also has been an important agricultural and timber center, which formed the backbone of its economy for decades. Like many communities, those traditional economies are changing, or even dying. These disparate groups make for interesting conversations, and perplexing perspectives, especially in this presidential election year. A look at the daily paper, the Eugene RegisterGuard, reveals issues that are common to most local governments: road and bridge repairs that will disrupt traffic, but only until the end of September; housing and services for an estimated homeless population of 12,000 in a county of about 360,000; and managing rates for trash disposal, raising prices and shutting down one transfer station. An unexpected parallel to the name change controversy for J.E.B. Stuart High School in Fairfax County is a similar campaign to change the name of Deady Hall, the oldest building on campus and named for a founder of the university, because of racist remarks made in

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ur seventh annual Best of Falls Church edition is here featuring News-Press readers’ favorite places in and around The Little City to eat, drink, shop and more. In 2016, we had 50 categories for readers to vote in, more than any other year. And while in years past the Best Of has featured only reader selections, for the first time this year we are including several Editors’ Picks for the best Falls Church has to offer. Read on to find this year’s BEST OF FALLS CHURCH! Photos: J. Michael Whalen, Drew Costley, Jody Fellows & Nicholas F. Benton

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BEST Combination of Beer, Grilled Cheese & Tater Tots

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The #12 at Spacebar, house-made meatloaf (thanks to a recipe from owner Lary Hoﬀman’s mom) with marinara, provolone and mozzrella on sourdough. P��: J�� F��

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never have a more diffibraised chicharrones, the TACO BAMBA cult time deciding what spicy shrimp, the tripe and to order than when I’m a play on poutine with fries, 2190 Pimmit Drive at Taco Bamba. The bacon, baracoa jus, spicy Falls Church Falls Church taqueria mayo, cotija and escabeche tacobambarestaurant.com has been open since 2013 onions. but despite more than three Seriously, I end up orderyears of working my way ing four tacos almost every, through Victor Albisu’s menu, I still have yet to single time. That is, of course, when I’m not batnarrow down my favorites into an appropriately tling one of the Super Tortas. sized order. Instead, my typical Bamba meal ends What’s a Super Torta? Oh, only a sandwich with me moaning on the couch, rueing my too- so big it could feed a family of four. Weighing small pants (never my too-big belly) while my wife in at close two pounds, the fan-favorite Torta casts disapproving looks in my direction. Bamba puts just about every meat in the house See, narrowing down Taco Bamba favorites is between bread – there’s ham, carne asada, an exercise in futility. Plump, overly-stuffed torti- chorizo, al pastor, chicken milanesa, beef milallas means two tacos is enough for most anyone, nesa, a freakin’ hot dog, chihuahua cheese, but even choosing just three items from its all-star pineapple, mayo and jalapenos en escabeche. lineup is a challenge. There’s Bamba’s eponymous No, that’s not a list of the options – that’s ONE taco, putting skirt steak, chorizo, chicharrones, sandwich. grilled guacamole and fresno chiles together for “There are a bold few who can finish the whole a mouth masterpiece, while the Black Pearl is thing,” says Bamba chef-and-owner Victor Albisu. the pinnacle of fish taco-ness combining hotI am not one of those few. While I have ordered and-crispy fried tilapia, black ailoi and a creamy, the scale-tipping sandwich several times, it always spicy slaw. The El Beso – a taco I’ve never failed ends the same way: me on the couch dodging to order on a visit – mixes crispy chunks of pork dirty looks from my wife with a half-eaten torta and beef tongue with charred scallions and chili lying next to me. aioli all together for a kiss I want to last forever. But man, was it worth it. – Jody Fellows Then there’s the simple-but-ridiculously-tasty

ine and cheese. Milk and cookies. Soda and popcorn. All fine food-and-drink combinations but I challenge anyone to find a more perfect mix than a glass of cold beer and a plate full of greasy, cheesy carbs. You could get your fix at any number of Falls Church watering holes but none do it better and more satisfyingly than Spacebar, the cozy, oft-overlooked beer bar tucked away off West Broad Street. With 24 taps loaded up with a SPACEBAR carefully-curated collection of unique brews by owners Erica 709 W. Broad St. and Lary Hoffman, Spacebar’s Falls Church beer selection is one of the best spcbr.wordpress.com around– and, yes, that includes its across-the-street neighbor, Mad Fox Brewing Company. “We try to find, rare, hard-to-find beer,” says Erica and a scan of the constantly-rotating tap list proves this, filled with a variety of offerings from smaller, newer and lesser-known breweries like Evil Twin, Sixpoint, Cigar City and Evolution. And while the beer lineup is top-notch, its menu of 20 – yes, TWENTY – grilled cheese sandwiches along with killer tater tots are why Spacebar is the best place in town to scratch that beer-and-carb itch. From apple-gouda-and-havarti-stuffed multigrain to housemade meatloaf topped with marinara, provolone and mozzarella on sourdough, there’s a hot-and-buttered sandwich for everyone here (all you vegans – rejoice – there’s a load of animal-free substitutions available, too). Throw in some tots and the ability to upgrade them to tatchos – a play on nachos where the spuds play the role of tortilla chips – and, well, I highly recommend wearing some stretchy pants to the bar. (Sorry kids, if you’re under drinking age, Spacebar isn’t for you – you must be at least 21 to even enter the beer-andgrilled cheese haven.) – Jody Fellows

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EDITORS’ PICKS

BEST Vegan Spot to Take Your Meat-Eating Friend

LOVING HUT

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Even the staunchest meat eater will ﬁnd the fried wontons at Loving Hut delicious. P��: D�� C�� oving Hut is one of the largest vegan restaurants in the world, with locations on every continent except for Antarctica, though I’m not sure how they would pull that one off. The restaurant chain offers its vegan eats all over the United States, too, with locations on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, in the Northeast and in the South. With that said, there is only one Virginia iteration of Loving Hut and it’s in Falls Church (well, right outside the borders of Falls Church City in the Falls Church section of Fairfax County). This spot has both raw and non-raw vegan options. So if you take a LOVING HUT meat eater to the Falls Church location of Loving Hut who is leery of faux meat, they will have tasty options available to them, like the Lemongrass 2842 Rogers Dr. tofu and mixed vegetables ($8.50) or the Soba Noodles ($6.95). The lemFalls Church ongrass tofu and mixed vegetables is a sweet and salty treat that is guarlovinghut.us anteed to make a meat eater rethink the stereotype of flavorless tofu. But if your meat eater friend is open eating faux meat, there are tons of wonderful options on Loving Hut’s menu for them to try. These include the fried wontons ($4.95), which include fried soy protein in the filling and is an appetizer I get pretty much every time I go, and the claypot seafood ($8.95) and the club sandwich and side ($9.50). With these options and a several more, Loving Hut just might open your meat eater friend’s mind to a cruelty-free diet. – Drew Costley

BEST $5 Intermission Wine Pour

ooking for a good $5 glass of wine in the City of Falls Church? You can’t do better than a performance night at the ArtSpace of F.C., home to Laura Hull’s incomparable Creative Cauldron teaching and performing theater operation. It’s usually Bill Abel who is behind the concession counter in the lobby pouring your choice of good red or white wines and for only a fiver! This makes Creative Cauldron the editor’s choice for Best Five Dollar Wine Pour in this year’s Best of Falls Church. Of course, there’s more than the wine to enjoy from CREATIVE CAULDRON a visit there on a show night, such as this weekend’s 410 S. Maple Ave. culmination of the Cauldron’s popular summer weekend cabaret nights. The next full season of professional Falls Church and teaching performance offerings there is set to kick creativecauldron.org off next month, and the full schedule is available at the Cauldron’s website. – Nicholas F. Benton

The Daﬀy is a duck burger that rivals even the best beef burgers, not only in Falls Church, but in the whole D.C. area. P��: J�� F��

here’s no beating a burger. Let me rephrase that: There’s no beating a beef burger. No other animal – four-legged, winged or otherwise – can hold a candle to the cow. Not turkey, not chicken and definitely not any kind of bean or fish. I have lived by this credo for most of my adult life, scoffing at turkey burgers, thumbing my nose at salmon patties and flat-out ignoring anything coming out of a Boca box. That is, however, until I made a trip to 2941 Restaurant. The swanky, fine dining joint on Fairview Park Drive has one of the best burgers I have ever eaten. Period. And I eat a lot 2941 RESTAURANT of burgers. 2941 Fairview Park Dr. The burger is amazing. It’s rich, bold, meaty, fatty, lusFalls Church cious, bursting with flavor on 2941.com each bite. It’s everything a burger should be. It’s not only one of the best burgers in Falls Church, it could be the best burger in the whole D.C. area. Oh, did I mention it’s a duck burger? Yes, the Daffy – if the name didn’t give it away – is anchored by a fresh-ground patty made up of duck breast and leg mixed with some Hudson Valley foie gras and then topped with thin slices of even more foie gras. Sending the whole thing to the next level is the onion agrodolce coming on the side, a sweet-sour-and-slightly-spicy mix meant to put on top of the patty. The acid from the agrodolce helps cut through the fat of the duck and makes for one of the most blissful burger experiences I’ve ever experienced. Sorry, cows. – Jody Fellows

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BEST Place to Work Up a Sweat & Meet 3 Friendly Doggies

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and Izzy, the big one. They’re almost always on hand to lighten the spirits in the dungeon of difficulty. Actually, it’s not really like that at all, because the therapeutic exercises directed by Falls Church native Kavon Atabaki and his business partner Tom Abbey, away on vacation when our photographer showed up, specialize on bringing the non-buff and otherwise physically impaired into better fighting shape. Just like Scrapple and Izzy, often accompanied by Archer, the tennis-ball obsessed Boston terrier (also away on vacay), clients at Functional Fitness are encouraged to “come as they are” and limit their showing off. There are great nutritional presentations and many other good things there, too. – Nicholas F. Benton

HIPPEST Block in The Little City hen the Seven Stars convenience store at 105 Park Avenue closed in November 2015, there was a lot of contention between the property owner, Jeff Jeffrey, and his tenants, the Tao family. The Tao family said that they were under “constant harassment” from Jeffrey and Jeffrey said that he attempted to work with the Tao family to allow them to continue MUSIC ROW to oper100 block Park Avenue ate Seven Stars or sell the space to another local business. After they couldn’t come to an agreement, Jeffrey evicted the Tao family from the space. Then he made a symphony out of a cacophony. Jeffrey, the owner of Cue Recording Studios located above the space formerly occupied by Seven Stars, coordinated with the owners of another local business, CD Cellar, to have them move their record shop into the spot at 105 Park Avenue. He brought in another music-oriented local business, the guitar boutique Action Music, to occupy the space right next to CD Cellar, which was formerly occupied by Art and Frame of Falls Church. And Command Performance, a home audio-visual shop, is on the western end of the 100 block Park Avenue, making an audio oasis in the middle of Falls Church. If that’s not enough audio awesomeness, The State Theatre, one of the most popular

MUSIC ROW

With Cue Recording Studios, CD Cellar and Action Music all in one shopping center, the 100 block of Park Avenue is the hippest in Falls Church. P��: D�� C�� live music venues in the region is less than a block away from where Music Row starts. Every month, they host The Legwarmers, arguably one of the best tribute or cover bands in the region, for a romping 80s-themed party. Residents of all ages can gather at CD Cellar to get some musical inspiration and then stroll down to Action Music if they are so moved to start their own journey as a musician. And between Cue Recording, which recently hosted Sheryl Crow and Roger Waters for a session, and The State Theatre, which has hosted Ozomatli, Saul Williams and Sebastian Bach in the last year or so, Music Row probably offers residents and visitors to The Little City their best shot at meeting a celebrity. – Drew Costley

WEST END It’s no Cherry Hill, but The Little City’s West End Park is the best park outside of Park Avenue. P��: D�� C��

herry Hill Park, home to several important City functions throughout the year and the historic Cherry Hill Farmhouse, doesn’t have much competition in terms of what is the best park in the City. So, we eliminated it from contention. Now, out of the 11 parks that are located in the City of Falls Church that aren’t named Cherry Hill Park, West End Park is the newest looking. But that’s not why it’s the best park that’s not located on Park Avenue. In large part, it’s that West End Park has a mini skate park. For this writer, who was an aggressive inline skater in his early teen years, the opening of any sort of skate park is a triumph. But it took WEST END PARK a truly grassroots effort on the part of several concerned 1048 W. Broad St. adults and skaters in the Little Falls Church City to bring the skate park located in West End Park to fruition. When the park reopened in the late summer of 2015, it was definitely fresh, with a brand spanking new facade to punctuate the renovation of the park. The skate park, though, gives the entire park an urban edge that’s kind of missing from the rest of the City. Located between major commercial, residential and commuter areas of the City, West End Park plays an important role in terms of giving the community a space to congregate. It’s small enough to be intimate and large enough for several parties to commune. And did I mention that it has a skate park? – Drew Costley

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BEST Waiting Room Magazine Selection For those not eagerly burying their noses in their smart phones at every opportunity, or dedicated to taking power naps whenever possible, the array of printed materials readily available in a waiting room, at a doctor’s office, for example, FAMILY MEDICINE may offer adventurous gateways to new IN FALLS CHURCH and even fascinating alternative universes. Our editor’s choice as the winner for 124 E. Broad St. the best array of such materials in this Falls Church year’s Best of Falls Church competition fmifc.com goes to Family Medicine in Falls Church Dr. Gordon Theisz reviews the careful choices he and his staff have made to bring interesting and educational options to patients or family members of patients when they’re in the waiting room. Note that Dr. Theisz sports a copy of the historic hard cover history of the City of Falls Church by Brad Gernand and Nan Netherton in his printed materials “play list,” as well as the popular Dr. Seuss book, Horton Hears a Who, appropriate for all ages, and, oh, do we espy a copy of the mighty Falls Church News-Press? – Nicholas F. Benton

Dr. Gordon Theisz has the best selection of waiting room reading material in The Little City. P��: N�� F. B��

BEST SANDWICH Mike’s Deli at Lazy Sundae 112 N. West St., Falls Church

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Dixie chicken sandwich is so good!” “Options galore.” RUNNERS-UP: Cafe Kindred, Open Road, Panera Bread, Spacebar

BEST SEAFOOD

BEST BURGER

BEST PIZZA

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST:

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Delicious and messy.” “Elevation Sauce!!”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “The crust...oh, the crust.” “Great Neapolitan pizza.”

Clare & Don’s Beach Shack 130 N. Washington St., Falls Church

“Best ﬁsh tacos on the planet!” “Like food at the beach without the drive.”

Elevation Burger 442 S. Washington St., Falls Church

Pizzeria Orso 400 S. Maple Ave., Falls Church

RUNNERS-UP: Chaisn’ Tails, Hot n Juicy Crawﬁsh, Sea Pearl, TRIO RUNNERS-UP: Clare & Don’s Beach Shack, Dogwood Tavern, Mad Fox Brewing Company, Smashburger Grill

RUNNERS-UP: Flippin’ Pizza, Mad Fox Brewing Company, Paisano’s, zpizza

BEST SUSHI

BEST ROTISSERIE CHICKEN

Maneki Neko 238 W. Broad St., Falls Church

Crisp & Juicy 7520 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church

BEST VEGAN

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Super fresh sushi.” “The ﬁsh, especially the tuna, is quality.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “‘Cause it’s crisp AND juicy.” “Their secret aji sauce.”

RUNNERS-UP: Jasmine Garden, Koi Koi Sushi & Roll, Sea Pearl, Takumi

RUNNERS-UP: BJ’s Wholesale Club, Caribbean Plate, Giant Food, RUNNERS-UP: Clare & Don’s Beach Shack, Loving Hut, Spacebar, Super Chicken True Food Kitchen

Sunflower Vegetaraian Restaurant 6304 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “So much to choose from.” “Industry standard in vegan eating!”

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BEST LATIN AMERICAN BEST ITALIAN

BEST VIETNAMESE

La Caraqueña 300 W. Broad St., Falls Church

Argia’s 124 N. Washington St., Falls Church

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “One word: Arepas!” “The mojitos, obvi.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Calamari is the best I ever had.” “Lasagna to die for.”

RUNNERS-UP: Blanca’s Restaurant, Luzmila’s Cuisine, Super Chicken, Taco Bamba

RUNNERS-UP: Italian Cafe, Pistone’s Italian Inn, Pizzeria Orso, Sﬁzi RUNNERS-UP: Huong Viet, Pho 88, Pho Sate, Rice Paper Cafe

BEST BRUNCH

BEST BAR FOOD

BEST SPORTS BAR

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Unbeatable buffet!” “Omelet station is very good.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Best fried pickles in town!” “Tots are killer.”

“Love those giant screens.” “The feeling on day of a big game is perfect.”

Ireland’s Four Provinces 105 W. Broad St., Falls Church

Clare & Don’s Beach Shack 130 N. Washington St., Falls Church

RUNNERS-UP: Cafe Kindred, Dogwood Tavern, Mad Fox Brewing RUNNERS-UP: Dogwood Tavern, Ireland’s Four Provinces, Mad Fox Company, Open Road Brewing Company, Spacebar

BEST CRAFT BEER SELECTION Mad Fox Brewing Company 444 W. Broad St., Falls Church

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “‘Simply the best.” “Growlers.”

BEST WINE LIST

Four Sisters Restaurant 8190 Strawberry Lane #1, Falls Church

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Best pho in area.” “Chả giò is the best this side of Ho Chi Minh City.”

Dogwood Tavern 132 W. Broad St., Falls Church

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST:

RUNNERS-UP: Clare & Don’s Beach Shack, Ireland’s Four Provinces, The Locker Room, Open Road

BEST HAPPY HOUR

2941 Restaurant 2941 Fairview Park Dr., Falls Church

Clare & Don’s Beach Shack 130 N. Washington St., Falls Church

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Helpful, knowledgable sommelier.” “Extensive list.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Awesome vibe.” “Cheap beer.”

RUNNERS-UP: Dogwood Tavern, Dominion Wine and Beer, Open RUNNERS-UP: Pizzeria Orso, Red, White & Bleu, Sﬁzi Cafe, TRIO RUNNERS-UP: Dogwood Tavern, Ireland’s Four Provinces, Mad Fox Road, Spacebar Grill Brewing Company, Open Road

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BEST OUTSIDE EATING BEST COFFEE SHOP

BEST BAKERY

Clare & Don’s Beach Shack 130 N. Washington St., Falls Church

Cafe Kindred 450 N. Washington St., Falls Church

Heidelberg Pastry Shoppe 2150 N. Culpeper St., Arlington

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Love the beach ambiance.” “Pet friendly and awesome patio.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Best latte and ﬂat white around.” “Great pastries.”

RUNNERS-UP: Dogwood Tavern, Ireland’s Four Provinces, Mad Fox Brewing Company, Open Road

RUNNERS-UP: The Happy Tart, Mom & Pop, Panera Bread, Star- RUNNERS-UP: Acme Pie Co., Cafe Kindred, The Happy Tart, Panera buck’s Bread

BEST FROZEN TREATS

BEST DELIVERY RESTAURANT BEST FARMERS MARKET VENDOR

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “The gold standard.” “Pastry and brats in one stop!”

Lil City Creamery 114 W. Broad St., Falls Church

Moby Dick House of Kabob 444 W. Broad St., Falls Church

Kate’s Crepes Saturdays at Falls Church Farmers Market, 300 Park Ave.

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Tastes homemade.” “Steam Oil!”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Best lamb kebabs ever!” “Fast. Cheap.”

“Lemon sugar crepes.” “Friendly staff.”

RUNNERS-UP: FDB Eatery, Mike’s Deli at Lazy Sundae, Sweet Frog, RUNNERS-UP: Hunan Chef, Jimmy John’s, Paisano’s, Sweet Rice Zinga!

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST:

RUNNERS-UP: Atwater’s, Black Rock Orchard, Chris’ Marketplace, Donut Heaven

BEST KID-FRIENDLY DINING BEST SPECIAL OCCASION DINING BEST NEW RESTAURANT Clare & Don’s Beach Shack 130 N. Washington St., Falls Church

2941 Restaurant 2941 Fairview Park Dr., Falls Church

Astro Doughnuts & Fried Chicken 7511 Leesburg Pike #103, Falls Church

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Naturally noisy.” “Big kids menu.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Beautiful atmoshphere.” “Romantic.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Truly the best fried chicken.” “Cake donuts are unbeatable.”

RUNNERS-UP: Dogwood Tavern, Ireland’s Four Provinces, Open RUNNERS-UP: Argia’s, La Cote d’Or Cafe, Idylwood Grill, TRIO Grill Road, Pizzeria Orso

RUNNERS-UP: Lucky Thai Restaurant, The Happy Tart, Sisters Thai, Takumi

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BEST ACCOUNTING FIRM BEST LAWYER Diener & Associates 125 Rowell Ct., Falls Church

Erik Pelton Erik M. Pelton & Associates, PLLC, 111 Park Pl., Falls Church

BEST DOCTOR

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Awesome staff.” “Honest. Accurate.”

WHY READERS SAY HE’S THE BEST: “Great, personal service.” “Knowledgeable.”

WHY READERS SAY HE’S THE BEST: “Great listener.” “Friendly.”

RUNNERS-UP: Cato & Associates, Robert A. Radan CPA, Tung T. Tu CPA, Yeakel & Associates

RUNNERS-UP: William M. Baskin, Jr., Gayle B, Matthews, Martha RUNNERS-UP: Elizabeth Gannon, Audrew Kim Lenze, Philip O’ DonMothershead, Marcus Simon nell, Andrea Schmieg

Gordon Theisz Family Medicine in Falls Church,112 N. West St., Falls Church

BEST BANK/CREDIT UNION BEST REAL ESTATE AGENT BEST REAL ESTATE GROUP Burke & Herbert 225 W. Broad St., Falls Church

Tori McKinney Keller Williams Realty, 201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington

Keller Williams Realty 105 W. Broad St. #200, Falls Church

“Helpful staff.” “Small town feel.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST:

WHY READERS SAY SHE’S THE BEST: “Professional and caring.” “She really rocks!”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Highly trained agents.” “Know the area and the market.”

RUNNERS-UP: Apple Federal Credit Union, BB&T, Suntrust, Wells Fargo

RUNNERS-UP: JD Callander, Leslie Hutchison, Merelyn Kaye, Elliott RUNNERS-UP: McEnearney Associates, Oliva Home Group, Re/Max Oliva West End, Rock Star Realty

BEST DENTIST

BEST CHIROPRACTOR BEST HANDYMAN Ted Perih Falls Church Chiropractic, 803 W. Broad St., Falls Church

Harry Shovlin Falls Church

WHY READERS SAY THEY’RE THE BEST: “Kind, gentle and thorough.” “Super friendly ofﬁce.”

WHY READERS SAY HE’S THE BEST: “Superior skills.” “He’s kept me mobile!”

WHY READERS SAY HE’S THE BEST: “Great service from a great guy.” “He can do anything!”

RUNNERS-UP: William V. Dougherty, Peterson Huang, Johana Nieto, Rachael Valltos

RUNNERS-UP: KC Adolph, Joshua Brooks, Andrew Cichosz, Ray RUNNERS-UP: ADR Complete Services, Bruce Buchanan, House Solano Doctors Handyman of McLean, Your Handyman, Peter Trevisan

Drs. Love and Miller 450 W. Broad St. #440, Falls Church

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BEST MOVERS

BEST LAWN SERVICE BEST MAID SERVICE Craig’s Lawn Care 703-385-1641, Fairfax Station

The Maids 9518 Lee Hwy., Fairfax

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Friendly.” “Great service.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Great guys.” “Dependable.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Work hard.” “Well-chosen teams.”

RUNNERS-UP: Best Movers Falls Church, Dan’s Van Lines, Express Moving & Storage, Wiiha Movers

RUNNERS-UP: Natural Scapes, O’Grady’s Landscape, Ortega Con- RUNNERS-UP: The Cleaning Authority, Maids 4 U, New World Cleantractors, Smoot Landscapes ers, Smart Choice Cleaning

1 Guy, 1 Truck, 1 Trailer 112 Oakgrove Rd., Sterling

BEST DRY CLEANERS BEST CAR DEALER Spectrum Cleaners 450 W. Broad St. #130, Falls Church

Don Beyer Volvo 1231 W. Broad St., Falls Church

BEST AUTO SERVICE

“Quick and affordable.” “Very friendly.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST:

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Service is awesome!” “Gives back to the community.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Honest.” “Better than the dealer.”

RUNNERS-UP: Betty Brite Cleaners, Classic Cleaners, Hillwood Cleaners, Potomac Cleaners

RUNNERS-UP: Bill Page Honda, IM Autohaus, Koons Ford, Stohlman RUNNERS-UP: A-A Auto Serice, Curry’s Auto Service, Drive EuroSubaru pean, Integrity Tire & Auto

BEST HAIR SALON

BEST NAIL SALON

BEST FITNESS/SPORTS SHOP

Rex Day Spa 442 S. Washington St., Falls Church

Bikenetic 201 W. Jefferson St., Falls Church

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Convenient and affordable.” “Quality work.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Helen and staff are amazing!” “Great prices.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Friendliest bike shop in the DMV!” “Greatest mechanics on earth.”

RUNNERS-UP: Bibi Salon & Spa, Nash Hair Design, Perfect Endings, Snip Snip Barber Shop

RUNNERS-UP: Aislinn Nails & Spa, ECA Nails & Spa, Nail Bonita, RUNNERS-UP: Dick’s Sporting Goods, Potomac River Runnings, REI, Present Nail Spa Road Runner Sports

Hair Cuttery Multiple Falls Church locations

City Sunoco 934 W. Broad St., Falls Church

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BEST FITNESS STUDIO BEST GYM

BEST SUMMER PROGRAM

Dancing Mind 929 W. Broad St., Falls Church

24 Hour Fitness 1000 E. Broad St., Falls Church

City of Falls Church Recreation & Parks 223 Little Falls St., Falls Church

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “No pretentious coaches.” “Crossﬁt and hot yoga all in one place!”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Best facility and selection of equipment.” “The pool.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Great variety.” “Super counselors.”

RUNNERS-UP: Blue Nectar Yoga, Epiphany Pilates, Little River Yoga, Title Boxing Club

RUNNERS-UP: Curves, Gold’s Gym, Planet Fitness, Title Boxing Club RUNNERS-UP: Creative Cauldron Camps, Congressional Camp, Lee Graham Swim/Dive Teams, VIPS Concerts in the Park

BEST PLACE TO BUY A GIFT

BEST GROCERY STORE BEST BOOK STORE The Local Market 246 W. Broad St., Falls Church

One More Page Books 2200 N. Westmoreland St. #101, Arlington

“One-of-a-kind games and toys.” “Gifts for all ages.”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST:

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Local and personal.” “Like having a CSA anytime!”

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Great author talks.” “Outstanding owner and staff.”

RUNNERS-UP: Bikenetic, Falls Church Antique Annex, L-say Designs, Stylish Patina

RUNNERS-UP: Giant Food, Harris Teeter, Trader Joe’s, Whole Foods RUNNERS-UP: Anime Pavilion, Barnes & Noble, Hole in the Wall Books, Victory Comics

Doodlehopper 4 Kids 228 W. Broad St., Falls Church

BEST NEW BUSINESS The Happy Tart 410 S. Maple Ave. #110, Falls Church

WHY READERS SAY IT’S THE BEST: “Just plain yummy.” “Gluten-free and crepes all week long!” RUNNERS-UP: Bibi Salon & Spa, Conte’s Bikes, Galleria Florist, Lucky Thai Restaurant

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE 2016 WINNERS!

YOU’RE THE BEST!

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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark

The glass-tower village of Rosslyn is known historically for its long-vanished pawnshops and brothels. But back in the first half of the 20th century, it was the scene for a more wholesome activity: bowling. This was among the Arlington heritage tidbits I learned when I sat in on the weekly gathering of three eighty-something siblings from the Davis family. We reminisced about shared memories of growing up in Cherrydale, surfacing nifty details about how Arlington through the generations has changed. Lee, Joan and John Davis are as Arlington as Lee Highway. All were born in the 1930s to a father named Ernest Galt Davis, the bowling alley owner, race horse trainer and nationally recognized marbles champion by age 12. While swimming in the Potomac as a teen, he had taken a shine to Helen (nee Davison), a Cherrydale neighbor who was a tomboy athlete in the first graduating class of Washington-Lee High School. They wed in 1931 and raised the kids on 1729 Nelson Street (originally Fairfield Street). “This probably was Cherrydale’s best time,” said daughter Joan, who went to marry neighbor Russell Amos Hitt, scion of the construction firm family. “When it rained, everyone came to our front porch and played,” recalled eldest daughter Lee, a former Pentagon employee. The Davis kids went to

Cherrydale Elementary (20 years before I did), and attended St. George’s Episcopal Church (as did I). Their father’s Rosslyn Bowling Alley (duckpin) was at 18 Harlowe Ave. (now Moore St.). By the 1950s, nearby competition included the Rosslyn Ten Pin on Moore St., Clarendon Bowling Center on Irving St. and Colonial Village Bowling Center on Wilson Blvd. (In the 1960s, my contemporaries bowled ten-pin at Skor Mor on Quincy St. and duckpin at Pla Mor on Fairfax Drive at Glebe Road.) News clips show the Davis parents starring in a 1930 national duckpin tournament in Washington. They set records in mixed competition. “Rosslyn Girls Real Threat in Pin Test,’ read a headline about the “Bowling Belles.” Galt Davis hired a boy named Billy Stalcup (his family ran the McLean-based furniture and hardware stores), a friend who became a nationally recognized duckpin champ. In 1943, the alley raised $96,000 for the war effort. Daughter Joan recalls accompanying her father into a black neighborhood to pick up the young boys who performed the monotonous job of pin setting. Her father told her, “Don’t even think for one minute that you’re better than those boys – you’re just luckier.” One of the black employees drowned in Potomac – other such tragedies were recorded in the privately published history of the Davis family going back to the late 19th century. Their grandfather was a Potomac tug-

AUGUST 25 - 31, 2016 | PAGE 25 boat captain based in Alexandria before he died at their Cherrydale home. Son John Davis, who worked for the bowling alley and Cherrydale Sports Fair, wowed me with his recollections of nearby businesses: Bernie’s Pony Ring in Lyon Village, Sam Torrey’s Shoe Repair (still around) when it was at Monroe and Lee Highway, the Luzi family (who owned a cleaners, a car wash and a candy store) and Temple’s Barber Shop in Cherrydale. In Rosslyn, he remembers Samaha’s market, Dickey’s Seed Corn, Arlington Trust and the Jewel Gallery. We knew the same Cherrydale families – Newman, Dortzbach, Griffin, their gardens and crops. It was a time and a place, said Lee, “When everyone took care of everyone. And no one locked their doors.” *** A baseball memory from my Arlington youth: “Wanted: Senators Batboy.” The poster in the hallway of my elementary school set off speculation among my pals over whether our parents would let us apply for that job – which we assumed came with tutoring. Today’s Washington Nationals, like all pro teams, hires boys 17 and up from regular schools to serve both the home and away teams. A Nats spokesman tells me the boys’ pre-game duties include cleaning the clubhouse, neatening lockers, stocking refrigerators, scrubbing cleats and collecting laundry. Gameday tasks, besides collecting bats after each at-bat, include setting up gum and seeds in the dugout, plus cleaning the post-game bench.

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CRIME REPORT Week of August 15 - 21, 2016

Assault, Petit Larceny, and Public Drunkenness, 100 block Lounsbury Pl. On Aug. 18, a male, 32, of Falls Church, was arrested for Assault, Petit Larceny, and Public Drunkenness. Larceny, 400 block W. Broad St. On Aug. 19, a bicycle was reported stolen from a rack sometime after Aug. 6. Save a life. Don’t Drive HoMe buzzeD. BUZZED DRIVING IS DRUNK DRIVING.

Stolen Vehicle, 300 block W. Broad St. On Aug. 19, a black

Honda Insight was reported stolen. Abduction and Domestic Assault, 1100 block W. Broad St. On Aug. 21, a male, 29, of Alexandria, was arrested for Abduction and Assaulting a Family Member. Assault on a Law Enforcement Officer and Disorderly Conduct, 502 W. Broad St. #5 (The Locker Room) On Aug. 21, a male, 32, of Washington, DC was arrested for Assaulting a Law Enforcement Officer and Disorderly Conduct.

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Business News & Notes New F.C. Affordable Rental Units Lottery Announced

Fall Real Estate Guide September 8

REAL ESTATE GUIDE

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The City of Falls Church Housing and Human Services Department will hold a lottery for 14 Affordable Dwelling Units on Wednesday, Sept. 28 at 6 p.m. in the Dogwood Room of City Hall at 300 Park Avenue. The units are in the new Lincoln at Tinner Hill building at 455 S. Maple Avenue and applications are available on the City’s website and the department’s office. Applicants must return forms by close of business on Friday and must meet certain qualifications to be eligible for the lottery. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or permanent legal residents, have a total household liquid assets not exceeding $40,000 and have a total household income of 50-80 percent of the area’s median income. The available units include 10 one bedrooms ($1,147 per month plus utilities), three two bedrooms ($1,310 per month plus utilities), and one two bedroom as a City Committed Affordable Dwelling Unit ($869 per month plus utilities). The units will be available starting October 1 for staggered occupancy. For floor plans, details and more information, visit fallschurchva.gov/ADU or call 703-248-5005.

City of F.C. Encourages Businesses & Residents to Pay Taxes

Taste of Falls Church Food & Dining Guide September 15

Senior Living

Business owners and residents in the City of Falls Church are strongly encouraged to pay their 2016 Personal Property taxes on time to avoid a new late payment penalty. Beginning with the 2016 Personal Property tax bills, there will be an additional late payment penalty on bills that remain unpaid after 60 days. The additional penalty amount is 15 percent of the unpaid tax and will be applied on December 5, 2016. A statutory 10 percent penalty is already required on all bills remaining unpaid after the due date of October 5. The 15 percent penalty applied on December 5 will be in addition to this. Bills will be mailed on or before September 1.

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LiLi the First Hosts Fall Fashion Fundraiser for BalletNova LiLi the First is hosting a Fall Fashion Fundraiser to benefit Falls Church’s BalletNova Center for Dance on Sunday, Sept. 25 from 5 – 7 pm at its Georgetown boutique. LiLi The First is located at 1419 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. The event will include refreshments and an informal designer fashion show featuring adult dancers from BalletNova. Illusions of Georgetown is generously providing hair and make-up services for the models. For every purchase made during the event, 15 percent will be donated to BalletNova’s new MOVE outreach program which uses dance as a catalyst to empower children and motivate them towards excellence. Admission is complimentary, but RSVPs are encouraged. For more information visit www.balletnova.org or email specialevents@BalletNova.org.

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What’s “Pho” Dinner?

The Happy Tart wishes to say THANK YOU for voting us the Best New Business in Falls Church! Now Serving Sweet and Savory Crepes and Local Artisan Ciders and Meads!

$20 will get you a delicious and healthy dinner for two at any of Eden Center’s 25 restaurants.

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When Skye Edwards and Ross Godfrey, twothirds of the UK trip-hop group Morcheeba, reunited to create a new group called Skye & Ross, it wasn’t just the duo that came together for their self-titled debut album. They brought their families into the mix. According to Ross Godfrey, he and his brother, Paul, who was the other third of Morcheeba’s original lineup, had a falling out a few years ago and he doesn’t see them working together in the future. But Skye & Ross brought in Skye’s husband, Steve (bass guitar), Skye’s 19-yearold son Jaega (drums) and Ross’ wife Amanda (backing vocals) to play on Skye & Ross, which has a Friday, Sept. 2 release date. “It was really good fun. We obviously love our families so it was great working together,” Godfrey said. “But the other side of it was that it was probably just easier that way because they live in our house. So when we’re recording it’s easier to shout to my wife ‘Come and SKYE & ROSS. (P��: C�� D�� G��) do some backing vocals’ than try to organize some sessions to bring in different singers. But it was just the two of us, so we just decided to we’re all very lucky that all members of our release it under our names and to go out on the road and that was about it. families are talented musicians.” “But we still have about the same live band Ross said that Skye & Ross is somewhat of a “transmutation” of Morcheeba. The duo grew as Morcheeba and we’re going to play about out of the Morcheeba’s touring together over ten old Morcheeba songs and five new tracks the last several years since Edwards rejoined from the new album. So it’ll be kind of a mix the group in 2010. She left the group in 2003 of the old and new.” Skye & Ross are bringing and released solo work, but remained under the their mix of old and new to the 9:30 Club in same management as Morcheeba, which led to Washington, D.C. on Thursday, Aug. 25. Skye & Ross sounds like a natural evolution a chance meeting with the Godfrey brothers in 2009 that eventually led to her reuniting with for the group from their Morcheeba days, given that the evolution does not include the more the her old bandmates. “When we finished the last Morcheeba tour hip-hop inclined Paul Godfrey. The songs are we started writing some songs. They were just less influenced by that genre of music, but the acoustic, folky tracks initially. Then the album mood and tone of the records are similar to slowly built itself up. We added beats and what Morcheeba released. “I think it’s slightly more organic. It’s more orchestras and it was a very natural process,” Godfrey said. “And by the time we finished it, live. There’s a lot more live instruments,” Godfrey

said. “And I also feel like there’s not as much hiphop influence. There’s no scratching. There’s no rapping and the guitars are much louder. You can hear the guitars, which is really nice.” The duo released a second song from their self-titled album, “How to Fly,” on Friday, Aug. 19 (the first song they released is called “Light of Gold” and was released on July 1). It’s a standout on the record because it’s slightly faster paced and densely layered with sound. Godfrey said that Edwards’ lyrics on the record were inspired by the birth of her daughter. “I think…[Skye] was inspired by the fact that she just had a baby,” Godfrey said. “So she was like willing her young daughter to live and stay alive and be strong.” • For more information about Skye & Ross, visit facebook.com/SkyeandRoss.

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For the full benefits checkup, click on Find Help. The questions are much more detailed and a bit intrusive, including questions about whether you’re a veteran, what kind of assistance you already receive, what medical conditions you have, what assets you have and more. However, if you need a full range of help, this questionnaire might be your best bet. The results you get will consist of links to other sites that can answer your questions. For example, if you want to know about home delivery of meals, you’ll be directed to your local food-distribution source, perhaps an organization that creates and delivers meals. If you need help paying utilities or having your home winterized, the links will take you to the right places to

get that information. If you need help paying property taxes, you’ll be directed to your state’s homeowner assistance site. The top of the BenefitsCheckUp website says they’ve helped over 5 million people find $17 billion worth of benefits. Maybe you’re eligible for some of those? If you’re about to retire on a limited income, know in advance some of the possible assistance available. *** When it’s time to sign up for Medicare, we’re advised to start three months in advance. That three months might not be enough time to get all the information you need. Your enrollment period is three months before and three months after the month you turn age 65. Start by going online to www. medicare.gov and look at the dropdown menus under What Medicare Covers and Your Medicare Costs. One thing to consider (and it takes the most time) is whether you need a Medicare Advantage Plan, and whether it should be an HMO or a PPO, or possibly a Private Fee-forService (PFFS) or Special Needs Plan (SNP). Go online to the Advantage Plan search and put in your ZIP code. Enter the names of the drugs you

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stay coverage. Start your search early for Medicare information and what plans are right for you. It might take longer than you think. If you don’t enroll when you’re eligible, your monthly premium could go up as much as 10 percent as a penalty for each year you weren’t enrolled.  Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Send email to columnreply2@gmail.com.

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Community Events

THURSDAY, AUGUST 25

Saving Water, Energy and Recycling at Home. Get tips on how to save water and energy, as well as recycling ideas for reusable items at home. Ages 55 and up. Walter Reed Community & Senior Center and Park (2909 16th St. S Arlington). Free. 1 – 2 p.m. 703228-0955. Summer Book Discussion. Discuss and shares opinions on the book The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. Ages 55 up. Langston-Brown Community & Senior Center and Park (2121 N Culpeper St., Arlington). Free. 1 – 2 p.m. 703-228-6300. Teen Knitting Club. Teens knitters at any level, bring knitting, crocheting or other needle art to work on. For rising grades 6 – 12, registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8 p.m. 703-248-5034

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26

Social Ballroom Dance. Tango, waltz, foxtrot and swing dance with new and old friends. Ages 55 and up, no partner required. Arlington Mill Community & Senior Center (909 S Dinwiddie St., Arlington). Free. 1 – 3 p.m. 703-228-7369.

Summer Farewell Campﬁre. Stories, special animal guests, games, songs and of course, S’mores! Registration Required. Long Branch Nature Center at Glencarlyn Park (625 S Carlin Springs Road, Arlington). $5. 7 – 8 p.m. 703-228-6535.

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community volunteers in protecting the local environment from invasive plant species. This is a ongoing project that to reclaim the natural area at Ft. Bennett Park. Ft. Bennett Park (2133 N. Taft St., Arlington). Free. 10 a.m. – noon. 703-228-1862.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27

MONDAY, AUGUST 29

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. Living History Saturdays at the Cherry Hill Farmhouse. Learn about Falls Church during the 19th century with period appropriate activities. Cherry Hill Farmhouse (312 Park Ave.). Free. 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. 703-248-5171. ACPD Block Party. Join the Arlington County Police Department for a Block Party. Includes 15 Minute Behind the Badge activity, Kids Zone, VIN Etching, Distracted Driving Course, K9 Demo, free food and beverages! Kenmore Middle School (200 S Carlin Springs Road, Arlington). Free. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Preschool Storytime. Stories and activities for children ages 2 – 5 in the Youth Services Room. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 a.m. 703-248-5034 Playtime with the Early Literary Center. Explore educational and manipulative items to teach early literacy through play. Ages birth to 5 years, no registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5034. ESL Conversation Group. An ESL conversation group for adults focusing on “English Language and American Culture.” No registration required, meets in the Conference Room. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

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Tutoring. Learn how to download eBooks and eMagazines, search the internet, customize email, use social media, word process and more. Free personalized session by appointment. Stop by the Reference Desk or call 703-2485035. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. 703-248-5034. Preschool Storytime. Songs, movement, and stories for ages 18-36 months. Drop-in at the Youth Services Room. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. 703-2485034. Playtime with the Early Literary Center. Explore educational and manipulative items to teach early literacy through play. Ages birth to 5 years, no registration required. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 11 a.m. – noon. 703-248-5034.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31

Kids’ Chess Club. Children between the ages 7 – 15 can learn to play chess. All skill levels are welcome. Woodrow Wilson Library (6101 Knollwood Dr., Falls Church). Free. 4 – 5 p.m. 703820-8774.

Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, AUGUST 25

“Jelly’s Last Jam.” Take your seat at the legendary Jungle Inn nightclub for the electrifying, multiple Tony and Drama Desk Award-winning musical that tells the story of jazz through one of its most notorious entertainers: Jelly Roll Morton. Journey from the back alleys of New Orleans to the dance halls of Chicago to the stages of New York with “he who drinks from the vine of syncopation” in a sizzling memoir of pride, lust and a past denied. Through Sept. 11. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Arlngton). $40 – $79. 8 p.m. sigtheatre.org.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26

“Sam Ludwig Presents Sam and the Amazing Quasi-Interesting Dream Date, -or- A Brief Interview with a Hideous Musicals Fan.”

Sam Ludwig, self-described musical theatre ‘expert’, discourses on his favorite subject to an unseen woman who has taken him back to her place after a date. As his lecture progresses it becomes clear that this pair have very different conceptions of a ‘perfect evening’. Will his date’s romantic interest in him outlast his seemingly endless diatribe on “The quintessentially American art form”? Through Aug. 27. ArtSpace Falls Church (410 S. Maple Ave., Falls Church). $15 – $100. 8 p.m. creativecauldron.org.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27

“Born For This: The BeBe Winans Story.” This is the opening night of this performance. Detroit natives BeBe and CeCe Winans, youngest siblings of the Winans family dynasty, experience the ultimate in culture shocks when invited to join Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s “Praise the Lord”

television show. The Winans teenagers have the opportunity to become more than just television celebrities, but to integrate TV evangelism. Through Aug. 28. Arena Stage (1101 6th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $64. 8 p.m. arenastage.com.

“The Lonesome West.” Two brothers + one inheritance = lots of misbehaving. In this dark Irish comedy, two brothers in rural Ireland squabble over the inheritance left by their recently deceased father. Also, there’s a rumor about town that one of them may have murdered the father over a haircut related insult. The local parish priest and a young girl from the community, also their bootleg whiskey supplier, attempt to keep the brothers from quarreling with hilarious results. Through Aug. 27. The Keegan Theatre (1742 Church St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $35 – $45. 8 p.m. keegantheatre.com.

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live_music&nightlife THURSDAY, AUGUST 25 A�� A��. Clare and Don’s Beach Shack (130 N. Washington St., Falls Church). 6:30 p.m. 703-5329283. S�� R�� M��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $27.50. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. W�� D�� G� C�� H�� G�� J��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10. 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. R�� M��. The Barns at Wolf Trap (1635 Trap Road, Vienna). $35 – $125. 8 p.m. 703-938-2404. D�� C�� B��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. T�� S��. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-237-8333.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 26

B�� S�� L�� P�� H�� E��. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $15 in advance; $18 day of the show. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300. T�� S��. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $25. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. B�� B��: M�� 70 G�� A�� P�� Q��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15. 8 p.m. 202-667-7960. A�� F��. The Barns at Wolf Trap (1635 Trap Road, Vienna). $35 – $65. 8 p.m. 703-938-2404.

T�� B�� C��: S�� D�� T�� B�� K�� L�� N�� R�� A��. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 8:30 p.m. 703-522-8340. C�� T�� S�� J��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. I��. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. D�� S��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $5. 10 p.m. 202-667-7960.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27

B�� T�� F��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $12. 10 a.m. 703-255-1566. B�� T�� F��: A�� S��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $12. 1 p.m. 703-2551566. 40 D�� F��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. T�� L��. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $18. 7 p.m. 703-237-0300. T�� C�� L�� P�� T�� A�� C�� J�� T�� T�� C�� G��, L�� H��, O�� D��, O� H� D��, T�� D��, G�� N�� L��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. K�� W��. The Birchmere (3701 Mt.

Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $35. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. B�� R�� R�� T�� T��. The Barns at Wolf Trap (1635 Trap Road, Vienna). $25 – $60. 8 p.m. 703-938-2404. B�� T�� F�� V�� C��, A��, F��Q�� B�� D�� P��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. J�� S�� B��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. R�� H�� B��. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703-237-8333. 1AM V�� M�� S�� S�� T��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 – $15. 11:30 p.m. 202-265-0930.

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B�� M�� R�� B��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. R�� T�� T�� “S�� F��” �� J�� T�� M�� M�� T��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20 – $30. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. T�� O�� R�� B��. The Birchmere (3701 Mt. Vernon Ave., Alexandria). $59.50. 7:30 p.m. 703-549-7500. M�� G�� A�� S�� S��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504. DNA A�� D��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $17 – $30. 9 p.m.

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MONDAY, AUGUST 29 T�� T�� T�� H�� H��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 – $18 in advance; $13 – $18 day of the show. 6 p.m. 703-255-1566. B�� K�� E�� A�� C�� W��. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 in advance; $12 day of the show. 7:30 p.m. 202-667-7960. W�� B�� J��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.

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P��P�� T�� C�. �� M��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $18. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. I�� J�� G�� S��. Iota Club and Café (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). 8 p.m. 703522-8340. S�� S�� S��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31

B��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $12 – $20. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. B�� S��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $25. 7 p.m. 202265-0930. B�� J�� M�� A��. The Barns at Wolf Trap (1635 Trap Road, Vienna). $25 – $60. 8 p.m. 703-938-2404.

P�� A��... Thursday, September 8 – Town Hall: Zika Prevention. Residents can learn about Zika and what they can do to prevent it and other mosquito-borne diseases

at this town hall presented by the Fairfax County Health Department. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 7 – 8:30 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/Blog.aspx?IID=79.

Friday, September 9 – Sunset Cinema. Free ﬁlm screenings of various family friendly movies are shown throughout September. Moviegoers are encouraged to bring

blankets and picnics. The ﬁlm being screened is “Zootopia.” Cherry Hill Park (312 Park Ave., Falls Church). Free. 7:45 – 9:45 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/sunsetcinema.

Saturday, September 17 – Taste of Falls Church at the Fall Festival. Features include live entertainment, pony rides, amusement rides, crafters, businesses and

civic organizations, and cuisine from city kitchens. The children’s activity tent oﬀers craft projects. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. fallschurchva.gov/FallFestival.

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1. Org. that established the Image Awards in 1967 6. Actress Thomas of “That Girl” 11. What a punch may result in, briefly 14. Actor Davis of “Get on the Bus” 15. Exposed 16. In 17. “Don’t cry over spilt milk” 20. Like Granny Smith apples 21. Second-hand 22. Its episodes included “Alice and the Blonde” and “Norton Moves In” 29. Half of Mork’s farewell 30. ____ awkward position 31. ____ the hills (ancient) 33. Full range 35. Flamenco shout 38. Rotary alternatives 41. Clairvoyant’s skill, for short 42. Specks 43. Jack of a nursery rhyme 44. Oscar-winning film set in Iran 45. Dublin’s land 46. Returned to Scotland in 1996, it sat for 700 years under the coronation throne in England 53. Freeze Away target 54. “Would ____ to you?” 55. 2014 hit for Sam Smith ... or what three letters in each of 17-, 22-, 38- and 46-Across could rightfully say about another three letters in those answers 63. Moo goo ____ pan 64. Britain’s Prime Minister until

1. Org. that established the Image Awards in 1967 6. Actress Thomas of "That Girl"

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2007 65. Store featured in “Miracle on 34th Street” 66. NNW’s opposite 67. New England seafood staple 68. Mexican pyramid builder

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1. “Get cracking!” 2. Cigar residue 3. Naked ____ jaybird 4. Abbr. following op. and loc. 5. Sauce made with pine nuts 6. “Sicko” documentarian 7. Family nickname 8. Driver’s assignment: Abbr. 9. Gift that may be presented with an “Aloha!” 10. Pigs out (on) 11. The farther ones 12. Ralph in the Baseball Hall of Fame 13. Pundits’ pieces 18. “Reeling in the Years” rockers Steely ____ 19. “SNL” alum Nora 22. Federal security, for short 23. Some church overhead? 24. Turn out to be 25. McCarthy era org. 26. Actors without lines 27. “Movin’ ____” (“The Jeffersons” theme) 28. Promising words 32. Polo, e.g. 33. Climbed aboard 34. “SNL” alum Gasteyer 35. “Blame It ____” (1984 Michael Caine film)

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Sudoku

36. Discover 37. First name at the cosmetics counter 39. Like some pizza orders 40. Big acronym in energy 44. Regarding 46. Sticks in a nest 47. Gaza group 48. Orange Muppet 49. Sequence sung by kids 50. Prayer starter 51. Flipper 52. 2014 Best Picture nominee that’s set in 1965 56. “American Dad!” airer 57. Doc’s warm treatment 58. Part of a sarcastic laugh 59. Bosox great Carl, familiarly 60. Halloween mo. 61. Dec. 31 62. “Exit full screen” key

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14. Actor Davis of "Get on the Bus" 15. Exposed 16. In 17. "Don't cry over spilt milk" 20. Like Granny Smith apples 21. Second-hand

22. Its episodes included "Alice and the Blonde" and "Norton Moves In" 29. Half of Mork's farewell 30. ____ awkward position 31. ____ the hills (ancient)

LOOSE PARTS

33. Full range

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35. Flamenco shout Solution to last Sunday’s puzzle

NICK KNACK

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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk. © 2016 The Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency. All rights reserved.

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10 Year s Ago

Thr ow it up. Pour it up It now is the time for all go od cows to go the to aid

Paralympics Gold for Falls Church’s Butler

Developers Walk Away, Downsize Plans Reacting to Market Stall & F.C. Rebuffs

He brought home the bronze medal from Barcelona in 1992, but that was not enough. So for the past four years, Falls Church resident Dan Butler, showing the commitment that has driven him ever since an accident deprived him of the use of his legs years ago, rededicated himself to winning the gold and that’s exactly what he did last Sunday in Atlanta at the Paralympics.

Changes in regional and national market conditions combined with an unwelcoming political environment in the City of Falls Church have caused two major developers to withdraw large-scale and large revenue-generating projects in the City over the summer. A third, just outside the City, is now on hold.

Falls Church Native Dies from ALS at 54 Falls Church native Ann Elizabeth Downer-Hazell died in Boston, Massachusetts on November 19, 2015, at the age of 54. The cause of death was ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Ann attended The Seaton Lane School, Madison Elementary, and George Mason High School, from which she graduated in 1978. She graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1982. A daughter of Foreign Service officer Robert E. Downer (deceased), Ann lived with her parents and sister in Manila and Bangkok during the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the family traveled the world together. Through her high school’s Gifted and Talented Program,

Ann traveled to Costa Rica with a group of naturalists from the Smithsonian Institution. The author of the young-adult highfantasy fiction series, The Spellkey Trilogy, Ann started writing the first of her novels in a spiralbound notebook when she was 13. The finished novel was eventually published in 1986, soon followed by the other two books in the series. She also wrote two novels for middle-grade readers and a number of nonfiction books on nature and animals for young readers. Ann studied with the Radcliffe Program in Publishing, as well as attending several writing workshops, including Breadloaf and Kindling Words. In her career, Ann worked for the American

Physical Therapy Association’s publications department, WGBHTV and The Harvard University Press, where she spent many years as an editor. Later, she struck out on her own, starting her own imprint and working as a freelance editor. She was a devoted wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. She is survived by her mother, Vesta S. Downer of Falls Church; her husband, Edward Hazell of Somerville, Massachusetts; her son, Bennet O. Hazell; her sister, Judith E. Downer, her brotherin-law Alan R. Gordon, and her nephew, Robert L. Gordon, of Queens, New York. Donations in her memory may be made to Compassionate Care ALS or The Massachusetts Audubon Society.

THIS IS MAX, a 4-year-old Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, from the Mantua neighborhood in Fairfax County. He likes to sit around and eat, but needs to get some exercise seeing as he is three pounds overweight! Just because you’re not famous doesn’t mean your pet can’t be! Send in your Critter Corner submissions to crittercorner@fcnp.com.

WE EXIST TO MAKE SURE IT DOESN’T

My friend’s uncle’s second cousin’s son has autism. My friend’s uncle’s second cousin’s son has autism. My friend’s uncle’s second cousin’s son has autism. My friend’s uncle’s second cousin’s son has autism. My friend’s uncle’s second cousin’s son has autism.

Autism is getting closer to home. Today, 1 in 110 children is diagnosed. Early diagnosis can make a lifetime of difference.

Multiple sclerosis interrupts the flow of information between the brain and the body and stops people from moving. With the help of people like you, the National MS Society addresses the challenges of each person whose life is affected by MS and helps them stay connected to the great big moving world.

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