Tuesday, April 30, 2013
T.C. Williams High School conducted the performance.
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Tuesday, April 30
By Brenna Carroll, Bishop Ireton High School student All that could be heard coming from T.C. Williams High School’s auditorium on a recent Friday night was laughter and applause as members of "The Wiz" cast delighted audience members with musical numbers from the upbeat redo of a classic tale based on L. Frank Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Decorated with a script full of wit and a libretto filled with endlessly catchy melodies, by Charlie Small and William F. Brown, "The Wiz" was sure to be a night of fun on all sides of the stage lights. The story follows Dorothy on her journey from Kansas to Oz as she encounters creatures unimaginable in the real world. Dorothy, played by senior Samantha Rose Williams, showed off her range of …
Monday, April 29, 2013
Top news of the week from our Patches around Virginia and DC.
Patch has 31 community sites in Virginia and D.C. Here are some of the top stories from around the region over the past week. 16. Mark Wahlberg Visits: Actor Mark Wahlberg visited T.C. Williams High School on Wednesday morning for an assembly presented by Get Schooled, a nonprofit that aims to engage high school students in an effort to improve graduation rates and empower more students to achieve in college. “I had to work really hard to get where I’m at,” Wahlberg said. “And I don’t mind working really hard to try and maintain it." 15. Runner Pledges 30 Races: Arlington resident Lauren Bailey is halfway through a personal challenge that has been daunting and exhilarating — running 30 races in one year, the year of her 30th birthday. …
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Plus, Iguana models, cell towers in disguise, a Ladybug exodus and two birds ask, "Who cooks for you?"
Editor's Note: Patch has 31 sites in Virginia and D.C., and not a day goes by that something weird isn't happening somewhere in the area. Here's a look back at some weird goings on over the past week. Drivers at the Lake Ridge commuter lot near Interstate 95 saw more than the road crews and heavy machinery that have become standard commute scenery. Prince William County Police arrested a man April 19 when they found him dancing naked on the hood of his car. Without question, you should surrender to authorities when police have identified you as the suspect in a grand-larceny case. But we feel compelled to caution suspects about checking their pockets after a 27-year-old Annandale man turned himself in. Police in Falls Church say they …
Sunday, April 21, 2013
PG-13 film starring Tom Cruise opens Friday in theaters.
In director Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion, you can see a love for and desire to expand on the great classics of science fiction on film. With the most impressive use of IMAX for a feature film to date, in that respect he has created something new and exciting, with what is essentially a 3-D movie where you don't need the glasses. • Oblivion is showing this week Regal Potomac Yard 16 and AMC Hoffman Center 22. Click on the theater links for showtimes. Production esigner Darren Gilford (of TRON: Legacy) and cinematographer Claudio Miranda (Oscar winner for Life of Pi) make, to quote the movie, "an effective team." The visual landscapes of the film and the meticulousness taken in the action sequences are extraordinary. Here, the integration …
Friday, April 12, 2013
Rated R for language, violence, nudity.
Director Danny Boyle, fresh off being dubbed a national hero for his triumph directing the Olympic ceremonies in London, took another big directorial risk with his new release Trance. • Trace is showing this weekend at AMC Hoffman Center 22 and AMC Loews Shirlington. Click on the theater links for Trance showtimes. It is a frenetic, haunting genre-bender that grabs hold of and keeps your attention from its first moments to its last with such force you'll feel like you're falling through Alice's rabbit hole after being hurled into it by two burly six-foot bunnies in kilts. This cinematic journey is one filled with confusion, illusions, violence and moral ambiguities, and not a head trip everyone will be willing to surrender to or …
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
MAPP Alexandria project seeks to create interactive map.
Amy Young, Alexandria’s poet laureate, is calling on city residents to submit poems and artwork about the streets they live on and use everyday for a project called Mapping Alexandria in Poems and Pictures, or MAPP Alexandria. The poems and artwork will be collected on the city’s website to create an interactive map of Alexandria. Residents are urged to send their poems and artwork to poet@alexandriava.gov by April 19. Submitted items will continue to be collected on the city’s website after the deadline. Young offers this poem as an example: Stewart Ave. January 12, 2011 The sun went bowling here today. It rolled from the snow-covered lot at one end of the street past picket fences, barking dogs and bird feeders, past bungalows and …
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
The magic show takes place April 6 at Bishop Ireton’s theater.
Prepare for a night of tricks to delight with Magi-Whirl 2013, a magic show performed by nationally recognized magicians to benefit Alexandria’s Bishop Ireton High School and Ring 50, a regional magician’s club. A gala public show will be held at 7:30 p.m. April 6 at the high school, located at 201 Cambridge Rd. Tickets are $15 per adult in advance and $18 at the door. Tickets for students 14 and younger and seniors age 65 and older are $13, and a family pack of four tickets is available for $50. Magi-Whirl 2013 includes magicians Juliana Chen, Brad Ross, Master Payne and John Carlson. Payne has been entertaining audiences in and around the Pacific Northwest with his award-winning magic show for more than 35 years. Chen became the first …
Monday, March 25, 2013
Alexandria Convention and Visitors Association President and CEO Patricia Washington sees a city poised to progress.
People visit Alexandria for its history, art, charm and ambiance, among other things. So when it comes to tourism, the city pretty much sells itself, right? Not exactly, says Patricia Washington, president and CEO of the Alexandria Convention and Visitors Association. “Tourism marketing works,” said Washington, who stepped into her job in late 2012. That’s something she learned from her tenure at the Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation, she said, speaking with Patch at ACVA’s offices on N. Washington Street. “Tourism marketing is a big driver of economic impact for a city. It makes a difference in a city’s economy,” she said. “It generates revenues benefitting everyone in the city.” In fiscal year 2012, visitors to …
Friday, March 22, 2013
The Lower School held its 10th annual “ARTStravaganza” Thursday.
Martin Urbach picks up an empty yogurt container and demonstrates how you can wrap a rubber band around it to create a rubber band guitar. “Depending on how tight or how loose that is, you get a different sound,” Urbach tells a class of first-graders. He lays down the ground rules for the students to make their own “instruments”: Sharing is caring, and no touching anyone else’s work. “But you can ask!” he adds. Urbach was one of more than 20 professional artists who visited the St. Stephen’s & St. Agnes School’s Lower Campus Thursday for “ARTStravaganza,” an entire day devoted to the arts. The artists led grades junior kindergarten through 5 in workshops with hands-on demonstrations and activities in everything from modern dance to …
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Performers include Five Iron Frenzy, the Letter Black, Fran McKendree, the Sloan River Project and Joel Joa.
The Virginia Theological Seminary will hold a Christian rock concert April 13 on its campus, located at 3737 Seminary Rd. The seminary’s Rev. J. Barney Hawkins told members of the Seminary Hill Association Thursday evening that concert attendance will be capped at 2,000 people. The alcohol-free event will begin at 9 a.m. and last until 10 p.m. The day will feature artists including Five Iron Frenzy, the Letter Black, Fran McKendree, the Sloan River Project and Joel Joa. Hawkins said the seminary has filed for all necessary permits and that Alexandria police will help guide traffic. The seminary currently has 161 students, some of whom decided to study at the seminary after listening to Christian music, Hawkins said. “We’re trying to find …
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5:57 pm on Tuesday, April 30, 2013
The Wiz was fantastic - the cast excelled; especially Ben Ribler – the best Scarecrow to come down the yellow brick road lo these many years… more ›