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Detroit’s Sponge Robbed on the Road: Guitars and Gear Stolen
This totally sucks. Detroit’s own Sponge was robbed while on tour in Maryland, with guitars and other gear stolen from the band’s trailer. The band is currently on the road with Candlebox on the Can't Quit You Tour. I was so bummed this morning when I saw the...
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La Plata Native Betsy Cooksey Shares Life-Changing Mongolia Journey In New Memoir
SOLOMONS, Md. — For Betsy Cooksey, the hardest part of a three-week horseback expedition across Mongolia came before she ever climbed into a saddle. It was finding the courage to go. The La Plata native was 65 when she said yes to an adventure that challenged her fears about...
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Old Town Rises as ‘Thriller’ Flash Mob Takes Over King Street for Lucky Dog
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Just before dusk on Saturday, Oct. 17, King Street went quiet. Then the zombies danced. Organizers estimated that more than 1,000 people gathered near the Old Town waterfront to watch 105 costumed performers take over the street with Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”—a flash mob organized to benefit Lucky Dog Animal Rescue.
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Reston Winterfest set for 2026 return with new, kid-friendly ‘Polar Play Park’
Tickets are now up for grabs to this year’s Winterfest, Reston Association’s increasingly popular holiday tradition. According to RA, last year’s festival drew more than 10,000 people over three days, and even more attendees are expected when it returns to Brown’s Chapel Park (1525 Brown’s Chapel Road) for a fourth year on Dec. 3-5 from 5-9 p.m.
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New Workhouse Arts exhibit revisits complex past of the Lorton Reformatory
When photographer Lloyd Wolf sought to document a substance abuse rehabilitation program at Lorton Correctional Complex nearly four decades ago, his request was met with outright hostility. It was the late 1980s, and Washington, D.C., was grappling with a crack cocaine epidemic and violent turf wars. At the sprawling facility...
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Tonight at The Birchmere in Alexandria: Lace and Lee bring folk-friendship to the stage
Washington, D.C. (7News) — Rising musical duo Lace and Lee, made up of Olivia Lee Ondrasik and Caroline Lace McPherson, are on the road as the opening act for Five for Fighting’s String Quartet Tour, including a stop tonight at The Birchmere in Alexandria. The pair performed their...
The Detroit Free Press
Coleman Young is headed to the U.S. Capitol. We all should remember why
Coleman Young has been gone for almost three decades, and he's still getting blamed for things he didn't do and overlooked for things he did. “I had a conversation with a neighbor just Sunday night,” Marvin Beatty said a few days ago, and it was the same old grumbling that Detroit’s only five-term mayor tried to run all the white people out of town. Beatty knew Young, and he knows better. And, as board chair of the Coleman A. Young Foundation, he knows this: Come Tuesday, Oct. 20, he and his old friends are going to have a very big night, the liftoff for a campaign that will ultimately place a statue of Young at the U.S. Capitol. A gathering of notables at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History will hear details of a fundraising campaign, meet the sculptor, see a 26-inch-tall version of what will ultimately be close to nine feet of bronze, and learn what a staggering honor it is to be upright in the National Statuary Hall. "It's been four years in the making," Beatty said, establishing a base after the Michigan Legislature voted unanimously in 2022 to send Young to join President Gerald
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PWLiving
Halloween Family Fun at the National Museum of the Marine Corps This Saturday!
Families looking for Halloween activities in Northern Virginia can spend the day at the National Museum of the Marine Corps on Saturday, Oct. 24, with costumes, candy, crafts, games, a Trunk-or-Treat Car Show and Halloween movies. Halloween Family Day is free and open to the public. Halloween Family Day activities...
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Boosie took Set It Off all the way to the White House! The Baton Rouge rapper performed his hit song outside the iconic landmark, bringing some Louisiana energy to Washington, D.C. #CaughtOnCamera #FirstVideoChallenge
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Did you know the largest free-standing concrete bridge in the world is in DC?
Did you know the world’s largest free-standing concrete bridge is in the nation’s capital?. In Thursday’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP investigated the fascinating history of D.C.’s Taft Bridge. Arching gracefully over Rock Creek Parkway, you’ve probably walked by or driven on the...
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A New Creative Home for Kids Has Opened Its Doors in Fairfax
Fairfax families now have a vibrant new destination for creative exploration — a dedicated children’s art studio has officially opened its doors, bringing with it one of the largest selections of children’s art programs in the area. A Vision Rooted in Community. The journey behind this new...
Fairfax Times
Stealth fighter will be on display at Udvar-Hazy Center
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will add a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk, the world’s first operational stealth combat aircraft, to its national collection, with the aircraft scheduled to go on display later this month at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly. The donation was announced at...
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Ryan’s Annual Halloween Haunt
When Ryan, now a high school student, was around 7 years old, his grandmother first took him to a Spirit Halloween store. And that’s when it all started – his love of animatronics. Over the next couple of years, his parents bought him several animatronics from Spirit Halloween...