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Inside This Week In Case of Snow, W&OD Trail Will Be Cleared
The Falls Church Public works office welcomed the news that the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority will clear the 45-mile Washington & Old Dominion Trail, which runs through the City of F.C., of snow this winter. See page 5
City of F.C. Revises Hours For Holiday Season During the holiday season, many City of Falls Church government offices and services will run on a revised schedule with closings and shorter hours through the next two weeks and into the new year.
17th Annual ‘Watch Night’ on New Year’s Eve Will Teem With Activity S anta’s H elpers
Upper 30s, Some Chance of Rain Or Snow Forecast by Patricia Leslie
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cess becoming only the second Democrat since the 1960s to hold the slot. She ran against Comstock in 2013 and lost by just 422 votes, but that was when Comstock was seeking a third two-year term. This time, Murphy faces no incumbent. The Republican seeking to fill Comstock’s shoes is Craig Parisot, who obviously enjoys Comstock’s
Falls Church and area residents can renew “auld” acquaintances (and make new ones) on New Year’s Eve when the 17th annual Watch Night party lights up downtown starting at 7 p.m. The sponsors call it a “Big Night in the Little City,” which takes place within Broad and Washington streets, from the State Theatre to the Historic Falls Church. And there’s no need to hire a babysitter since many activities are geared for children, who may be so enamored by the puppets, the face painting, the caricaturist and the obstacle courses that they outlast mom and dad. Watch Night is a good place to use up extra calories consumed over the holidays – there will be dance halls available throughout the five hour event. Northern Lights Big Band Orchestra with 17 pieces will play at the Falls Church Presbyterian Church at 225 East Broad from 8:30 – 10:30 p.m. They are one of nine bands, with many Falls Church residents among their members, that will rock the city until 12:30 a.m. at eight venues, indoors and out. You don’t like dancing? Then, how about climbing walls? A scavenger hunt? Bounce “on the moon.” A “Mega Challenge Obstacle Course,” an “Adrenaline Rush Obstacle Course,” a Velcro wall and a Castle-Slide combo will all be available for any seeking an adventure at Watch Night. A balloon hats competition will
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David Brooks: The Subtle Sensations Of Faith
You’d think faith would be a simple holding of belief, or a confidence in things unseen, but, in real life, faith is unpredictable and ever-changing. See page 12
Press Pass with Badfish
When Badfish first formed in 2001, they were filling a void left by the sudden end of Sublime following Brad Nowell’s untimely death in 1996. See page 23
FOR THE PAST 13 YEARS, the Falls Church Police Department has hosted and coordinated a Toys for Tots drive to permit citizens, residents, City employees and police officers to gift families in need in Virginia by bringing new, unwrapped toys to be donated to less fortunate children. On Monday, Dec. 22 the toys from this year’s drive were assembled and brought to Dumfries, Virginia where the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve sorted and distributed them to families and churches. Falls Church police officers shown here are (left to right) Detective Symoun, Officer Laina Vittone, Sergeant Frank Hicks, Corporal Jiwan Chetri and officer James Brooks. (Photo: courtesy City of Falls Church)
Dems Hopeful of Reclaiming 34th Assembly District Seat by Nicholas F. Benton
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With the election last month of sitting State Delegate Barbara Comstock to fill the 10th District U.S. Congressional seat vacated by the retirement of Frank Wolf, Comstock’s 34th District seat in the Virginia House of Delegates is now up for grabs in a special election that will be held Tuesday,
January 6. That is, in less than two weeks. It’s been a short but punchy campaign for the two candidates chosen by their respective parties in “firehouse primaries” last month. Democrat Kathleen Murphy is running a high-profile and aggressive campaign and is looking to turn the district from Republican to Democratic control, in the pro-
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active support. But Parisot moved to in the district relatively recently, coming from Cheverly, Maryland, where he ran for mayor in 2004 and received only four votes (the winner got 50). The 34th district butts up against Falls Church in McLean and extends into Loudoun County, and has gone back and forth between Republicans and Democrats ever since the late Del. Vincent Callahan Jr. vacated it after 40 years in 2008. Having retired, Callahan, a popular moderate Republican, died this Sept. 30 at age 82 from exposure to the West Nile virus. In 2007, voters elected the first Democrat in the district in decades when Margaret Vanderhye was elected over Callahan’s hand-picked successor. But in 2009, Barbara Comstock won the first of three races for the seat, in all cases gaining an advantage based on
support from Callahan. That advantage will not hold for Parisot, which is one reason that Murphy feels she has a good chance of winning. The district was split evenly between Obama and Romney in the 2012 presidential election, therefore personal energy and the ability to tap into voter interest will be key to its outcome. On the surface, each candidate fits a classic profile of their party. Murphy, a graduate of American University, was a senior adviser to the U.S. Department of Commerce and an aide to U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson. She is the current president of the consulting firm Johnson Murphy and Associates. Parisot is in his fourth year on the board of Volunteer Fairfax and the board of the 2015 World Police and Fire Games to be held in Fairfax next year. Murphy has the endorsements of NARAL Pro-Choice
Virginia, the Virginia Education Association, EMILY’S List and the LGBT Democrats of Virginia and lists education, women’s rights, voter rights and transportation as among her key issues. Parisot, according to his website, has a “passion to broaden the community of people actively engaged in the conservative dialogue by focusing on the core values of limited government, strong national defense, humanity and liberty.” He is a member of the board of advisors of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance. He is described on his website as “a firm believer in American exceptionalism,” adding that he “is running to make state government smaller, more efficient and more open... using his private sector experience to cut wasteful spending, and balance the budget without raising taxes....reducing regulations and taxes.” A Murphy campaign flier states that she “will stand up for
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In Case of Snow, 45-Mile W&OD Trail Will Be Cleared by Patricia Leslie
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The Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority will clear the Washington & Old Dominion Trail of snow this winter, says Chris Pauley, the director of park operations. The trail, owned and operated by the park authority, runs through Falls Church and is widely used by bikers, runners, walkers, skaters, and dog walkers. Pauley said park crews will use snow blowers and other equipment and start clearing the trail one or two days after a snowfall. “Mother Nature” always helps out at the end, Pauley said. The park authority has a new snow blower and another fairly new one which has not been used much in the past few years, since there has been little demand. Crews avoid operating heavy plows and other equipment to remove the snow since they might damage the trail’s surface. The Fall Church Public Works
office welcomed the news. Mike Collins, the director of public works said in a statement: “The City of Falls Church is pleased to learn that NOVA [Northern Virginia] parks will be a part of regional snow removal this winter, helping the D.C. metro area get back to normal as quickly as possible after a snowstorm.” Pauley said the park authority “blew snow last year from the trail completely,” but it takes a while to clear the 45 miles of trail. “Probably the biggest reason,” he said, to remove the snow from the W&OD, is “to promote it as a commuting route. In winter a lot of folks still ride and commute [on it]. We want to make it safer for people to walk, too, since a lot like to get out in the snow and walk in it.” The park authority’s snow crew’s shop is in Ashburn. Before any snow removal is undertaken crews have to be able to safely reach Ashburn, Pauley said. What about ice removal? “That’s a different story,”
THe NoRTHERN VIRGINIA REGIONAL PARK AUTHORITY will clear the 45-mile Washington & Old Dominion Trail, which runs through the City of Falls Church, in case of snowfall this winter. (Photo: News-Press)
Pauley said. Elizabeth Acosta is a senior administrative assistant at the Falls Church public works office which has received several calls from trail users who want the snow removed when it eventually
falls. The city lacks the resources to do that, she said, hailing the news that the park authority will do the job. You can’t please everyone, which Acosta knows well enough.
She said one phone call she received came from a man who requested the trail not be cleared since he is training for Alaska’s long-distance sled dog race, the Iditarod, and favors conditions “as is.”
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Rape Requires Criminal Prosecution
The last two weeks, in the interest of open dialogue and fairness, the News-Press lent its pages to two scathing attacks on our paper for its opinion editorial on the Rolling Stone magazine’s article about allegations of a gang rape at the University of Virginia. For almost 24 years, we’ve welcomed serious issue-oriented letters and commentaries critical of our editorial point of view, as in this case. But with valid points taken, nonetheless our problem is that while concern in passing for the rape allegation were touched on, the focus of both pieces was something else, namely the passion expressed in the NewsPress opinion editorial, “Should UVA Even Exist?” Exemplary of what seemed a misplaced focus, the enemy in both pieces was not the criminal act of rape so much as our crying out for reform in an impassioned way. In both cases, protecting the reputation of the University of Virginia seemed the real cause for their own vehemence. Oddly, when discrepancies in the Rolling Stone account of what happened emerged, this newspaper was then attacked for not having independently substantiated the allegations before writing our opinion editorial. This deflected from the core question of whether or not a student at UVA had been brutally raped. It is ironic that in numerous subsequent nationally televised interviews with UVA students who talked with the victim after the alleged rape, the focus was on discrepancies in her account that appeared in Rolling Stone, but in no case did the students deny that “something really bad” happened to her. While such interviews intended to discredit the Rolling Stone account, the students actually affirmed the likelihood that the victim, indeed, had been viciously raped. So, isn’t that the point? Our editorial passion was directed not against the university, per se, but against the criminal act that apparently took place, and collaterally the university for failing to have measures in place to adequately address such cases. We concur with an opinion piece published Dec. 17 in the C-VILLE newspaper in Charlottesville, home of UVA. Jeffrey C. Fracher, Ph.D., with a 42 year career as a clinical and forensic psychologist, and Bruce R. Williamson, Jr., who has practiced law in Charlottesville since 1979, wrote, “The recent controversy over the Rolling Stone article does nothing to change the fact that the Sexual Misconduct Board (SMB) at the University of Virginia is a system broken beyond repair. It needs to be discarded. The only way to respond to all rape is with criminal prosecution.” “In the SMB, the punishment for those individuals found to have committed a rape at UVA is expulsion. The punishment for rape in Virginia courts is five years to life in prison and mandatory registration as a sex offender.” The authors offered a series of correctives and concluded, “Rape is rape. Rape is an extremely serious crime. It is time to call it, and treat it, for what it is.”
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Schools Exist Because of City, Not Other Way Around Editor, To follow up on my earlier letter concerning the Falls Church School System, the arrogance and superior attitude shown by the school administrators/board towards the Falls Church City Council demonstrates how power corrupts people and hampers sound thought, logic and joint efforts. The constant wail that Falls Church’s schools are vastly superior to other local school sys-
tems is akin to Citibank’s testimony that they would never need financial help from anyone. Falls Church’s students are surely competitive with others but, vastly superior. The data does not support that assertion. As stated before, we cannot continue to compete with other school systems here as they have many more resources than Falls Church has. The school administrators do not want to give up their
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“power” positions. By becoming part of another system they would not have the same influence, prestige or salary potential. They are like many of today’s civic leaders who put personal agendas ahead of organizations, citizens and the community. They cloak these self-important activities in the guise of “Our children are the future,” “We must provide the best for our students” and similarly formulated expressions designed to tug at the emotions of parents, students, citizens and administrators. The election demonstrated their ability to “get out the vote” as they have a built in method to rally the voters through the PTA, school notices and an
emotional appeal for “the best for the students.” I am questioning the actions of the both boards and not arguing for cheap/mediocre education for our youth. It appears that the school board has been given “carte blanche” for many years and their actions, methods and agendas demonstrate their inability to see the crisis that is inevitable if the same procedures continue. We need to address other options concerning our school system before our taxes are so exorbitant that most retirees and numerous other citizens will be forced to leave if we can sell our
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How do we create a health care system that: (1) includes everyone, (2) improves everyone’s health, and (3) brings escalating costs under control? In March, 2010 the President signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). This 2,000 page law was crafted to answer those three simple questions. It passed because our old health care system was broken. Millions could no longer afford insurance as costs rose 8.6 percent annually for twenty years. Employers cut back on benefits. Big business lost competitive advantage globally. Escalating health costs threatened to bankrupt Medicare and indeed the nation. We had little choice but to act. The law was designed to take effect over ten years. After four years, the law is beginning to do its job. It is revolutionizing health care while controlling costs. Universal Coverage: Based on our deepest value, the sanctity of life, the ACA affirms that every American has an inherent right to health care. This comprehensive plan is leading to universal coverage for 32 million citizens without health insurance. The 2014 enrollment brought almost ten million of these into the system. The 2015 enrollment period, just getting started, promises to enroll several million more. 76 percent of new enrollees, both Democrats and Republicans, are satisfied with their policies.
Improved Health Outcomes: The basics of improved health care are embedded in every policy. For the first time women get treatment that meets their needs. In 2013 hospitals had 1.3 million fewer patient infections and other harmful mistakes than in 2010, with 50,000 fewer patient deaths
“After four years, the law is beginning to do its job. It is revolutionizing health care while controlling costs.” as a result. The ACA offers financial incentives to both hospitals and doctors for higher quality outcomes. The country is shifting from treatment to prevention, from a sickness model to a wellness system of health care. The Senate just confirmed Vivek Murthy as Surgeon General. He is committed, for example, to dealing with obesity, as required in the ACA, through public awareness, nutrition information on food in restaurants and on grocery packages, along with better school lunches. In the past 50 years similar public awareness programs and new laws reduced smoking
from 50 percent of the population to 20 percent. We have also confirmed an amazing truth predicted in the law: As the quality of health care goes up the cost of that care goes down. Cost control: Rate of growth in health care spending has dropped each year under the ACA. For 2012 and 2013 health care spending rose 3.7 percent and 3.6 percent respectively, and 2014 promises to be the lowest rate of growth in 53 years of keeping records. There are 23 built-in savings, each worth at least a billion dollars annually with combined savings of at least $100 billion annually. As examples, under the ACA insurance companies’ overhead and profits are by law limited to 20 percent for individual policies and 15 percent for large group plans, whereas before the ACA they averaged 25 to 28 percent. State exchanges save money when insurance companies compete against each other in a transparent marketplace. Prior to the ACA physicians, hospitals, medical device makers and drug manufacturers were free to charge whatever the market would bear. Now prices are monitored and price gouging is transparent through comprehensive computer records. In 2010, 1percent of the population spent 21 percent of health money and 14 percent spent 70 percent of the total. The ACA looks at the total system and asks who these people are and why their care is so costly. Most have been found to be mentally or chronically ill persons with uncoordinated care. These ill persons with
little money populate expensive emergency rooms. Visiting nurses and health aides are now going into these homes to provide ongoing support and are dramatically reducing the need for expensive hospital care. By August 2013, the hospital readmission rate had dropped by 130,000 as compared to January 2012. By 2014 four million young adults had obtained insurance on their parents’ policies. Seniors saved $7 billion or $1,000 per person on prescription drugs. Ten thousand persons each month averted financial ruin because their insurance policies could no longer be cancelled after devastating illnesses. Beginning January 1, 2014 every insurance policy offers annual checkups, inoculations, family planning and other basic services at no added cost to the policy holder. As individuals we want the best coverage at the lowest cost, with ease in signing. We tend to judge the ACA on that basis. As responsible citizens we want good health care for the entire country. We also want policies that encourage good health. Finally, we want reasonable controls over the nation’s spending on health care. America now has a plan to manage our health care. It is working! Bob McCan is author of the recently published book “Citizens’ Guide to Health Care Reform, 2nd Edition: The Affordable Care Act Explained and Updated.”
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our property! This has happened in other areas. Is it possible a 10 percent – 30 percent savings on taxes would be achievable if we joined another school district? The data is surely available in someone’s computer. School systems across the country are facing the same issues and have taken positive steps by combining with neighboring districts to insure continued effective and timely development of their schools, communities and students. Remember School Board and City Council members: the school exists because of the city not the other way around. John Boeddeker Via the Internet
F.C. Schools ‘Lobby’ Doesn’t Respect NonSchool Budget Items Editor, The editor refers to a “colossal edge the City has and stands to gain from its schools” in supporting the School Lobby’s campaign to flaunt austerity via the School Board’s budget request. That type commentary attempts to delude the readership into believing
that the F.C. Schools are already superior to schools in surrounding jurisdictions, a claim that is pretty difficult to support. If there are any colossal elements of Falls Church politics, the most colossal is the colossal lack of respect the School Lobby has for non-school related items in the Falls Church budget. This being the case, I challenge the City Council to make their decisions accordingly; decisions that also have colossal impact on other colossally important City needs such as road maintenance, police, staff, buildings, library, parks, to name just a few. Duane Myers Falls Church
New Development May Price Out Small F.C. Businesses Editor, As plans are made for a potential new development at the corner of West and Broad, I would urge all to keep in mind one of the downsides of that development. New, more expensive construction may price out the businesses currently located in the area developed. As a result, we may lose those small independent busiT:7”
nesses, in favor of larger corporate chains that can afford the higher rents. These small independent business are labors of love that give a community its particular feel, and often provide the best service to their customers. I’d particularly like to single out Bikenetic, a terrific shop that not only sells and fixes bikes, but also promotes biking and biking culture. I’m sure others have their own favorites. I hope that as plans go forward, the city can find a way to work with these small businesses that help to keep Falls Church special. Robert Matz Falls Church
Kudos to Benton for Column On Helping Those in Need Editor, Regarding Nicholas F. Benton’s “Reclaiming the ‘Ecumenical,” Part 3,” it’s an outstanding column – right on. Benton is so correct in “identifying this critical point of departure” as critical. Consider the impact if each one of us (that are so privileged) could help just one neighbor in need each month of the New Year. I hope to do my small part as one individual by trying to help that neighbor in need – especially the Widow and Orphan – whatever their race, creed (religious beliefs and values), color or world view may happen to be. David Blanchard Via the Internet
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News Briefs City of F.C. Issues Holiday Schedule The City of Falls Church issued a City government schedule of closings and revised hours through the end of the year. On Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, the courts and clerk’s office and sheriff’s office will be closed, and all other City government offices and services at City Hall, the Community Center and library will close at noon, while trash and recycling pickups will go as scheduled. On Christmas day Dec. 25, all government activities will be closed. On Boxer Day Friday Dec. 26, all City government offices, services, the library, senior center and sheriff’s office will be closed; the Community Center will be open on a revised schedule from 8:30 a.m. – 11 p.m. On Wednesday, Dec. 31, the courts and sheriff’s office will be closed, the court clerk’s office and library will close at noon, and other City government offices and services, including at City Hall, will be open: the Community Center will be open from 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. and trash and recycling collection will be as usual. On New Year’s Day, Thursday, Jan. 1, all City government offices and services, including City Hall, the Community Center, library and senior center will be closed. On Friday, Jan. 2, most City government offices and services, including the library and senior center, will be closed and the Community Center will be open from 8:30 a.m. – 11 p.m. Christmas trees will be collected free of charge on Wednesdays in January and February.
Gardner Trial Date Moved Into January In a pre-trial hearing at the Arlington Circuit Court on Dec. 18, the next hearing date for the trial of Falls Church resident Michael Gardner on charges of sexual abuse of a minor was postponed until Jan. 15, and a motion by the prosecution to introduce evidence based on a secretly-taped phone call from Gardner’s wife, former Falls Church Mayor Robin Gardner and the father of the alleged victim of the assault, a relative, was disallowed for use in the trial by Judge Louise M. DiMatteo, who listened to the tape but declared it was “hearsay.” While a D.C. TV news report claimed the phone conversation suggested that Robin Gardner “apparently admitted that her husband has admitted to the crime,” Robin Gardner issued a brief statement to the News-Press late last week saying, “I fully support Michael and believe he is innocent.”
Arlington: Armed Robbery Suspects Arrested The Arlington County Police Department reported that it has taken into custody and charged Lamont Jackson, 49, and Anthony Robinson, 29, of Arlington with armed robbery following an incident which occurred in the Buckingham neighborhood of Arlington during the early morning hours of Sunday, Dec. 21. Both suspects were denied bond and are currently being held in the Arlington County Detention Facility. At 3:15 a.m. on Dec. 21, police say a 40-year-old man was walking in the area of the 200 block of N. Piedmont Street when he was approached by a suspect, later identified as Robinson, who displayed a knife and demanded the victim’s wallet. The second suspect stood as the lookout during the robbery. The victim immediately called 911 and responding officers quickly located the suspects. Jackson, the initial lookout, was apprehended immediately and Robinson fled the scene on foot through the neighborhood. Arlington County Police Canine Unit and the Fairfax County Police Helicopter Division conducted a search of the area, but were unable to locate Robinson. Detectives from the Arlington County Police Department’s Robbery/Homicide Unit were able to identify Robinson through their investigations and obtained a warrant charging him with armed robbery. Robinson turned himself in at the Arlington County Police Department on Monday morning, Dec. 22.
Ballston Area Package Thief Suspect Arrested The Arlington County Police Department reported that it has charged a suspect with multiple theft offenses, following his arrest in the Ballston area. The suspect is responsible for the theft of numerous delivered packages stolen from the front doorsteps of residences. On Monday, Dec. 22, at approximately 2:45 p.m., undercover, plain-clothes officers assigned to the Arlington County Police Department’s Tactical Unit were conducting directed-patrols, in response to multiple package thefts in the 1100-block of N. Vermont Street, when they observed a suspect acting suspiciously. The Tactical Unit then observed the suspect opening packages he took from doorsteps and removing the contents. Arrested was Keith Moore, 22, of District Heights, Md. and Washington, D.C. The investigation by the Burglary/Larceny Unit is ongoing; however it is believed that the suspect is responsible for at least 40 thefts of packages over the last several months. The suspect was charged with two counts of grand larceny, four counts of petit larceny, credit card theft, credit card fraud, and identity theft. Additional charges are pending. Moore was denied bond and is currently being held in the Arlington County Detention Facility.
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Community News & Notes Volunteers Needed for VPIS Watch Night Event
Tinner Hill Celebrates NAACP Branch Centennial
The Village Preservation and Improvement Society is asking for volunteers to help with its Dance Orchestra (Northern Lights) event during Falls Church’s Watch Night celebration next Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 31 and Jan. 1. Volunteers are needed to help with set-up from 2 – 5 p.m., first shift from 7 – 9 p.m. and second shift from 9 – 11 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 31, and to help with cleanup on Thursday, Jan.1, from 1 – 3 p.m. The event will held at the Falls Church Presbyterian Church, located at 225 E. Broad St., Falls Church.For details or to help with the event, call Chuck Hobbie at 703-534-7223 or Mike Volpe at 703-408-7541.
The Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation will be celebrating the 100th anniversary of the formation of the first rural branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People with a gala and site dedication. There will be an awards dinner gala on Friday, Jan. 9, at the Hilton Garden Inn, located at 706 W. Broad St., Falls Church. Roslyn M. Brock, chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s board of directors, will be the keynote speaker at the gala. On Saturday, Jan. 10, the Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation will dedicate a site at 106 Tinner Hill Road in Falls Church to commemorate the centennial of the first rural branch of the civil rights
organization. For more information about the centennial celebration, visit tinnerhill.org.
Mary Riley Styles Library Announces Holiday Hours Mary Riley Styles Public Library, located at 120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church, closes at noon, Dec. 24, for the Christmas holiday. The library will reopen this Friday, Dec. 26, and resume normal business hours through next Tuesday, Dec. 30. Next Wednesday, Dec. 31, the library will close at 5 p.m. instead of 9 p.m. and will remain closed until next Saturday, Jan. 3.
will be featured on an upcoming episode of the National Public Radio program “From the Top,” which is hosted by acclaimed pianist Christopher O’Riley and features young classical musicians from across the nation. The episode will air nationally this week and on WETA 90.9 this Sunday, Dec. 28, at 6 p.m. The episode was taped before a live audience at the Peace Center for Performing Arts in Greenville, SC. Broom and O’Riley collaborated on “Euphonium Fantasy,” a Spanish-flavored composition by Scottish composer Bruce Fraser. “Performing with Mr. O’Riley
was an incredible experience,” Broom said. “I hope listeners have as much fun hearing the show as we did playing.” From the Top’s music director Tom Vignieri heaped praised on Broom, who is a student at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. “To hear Joe Broom play is to hear something truly astonishing,” Vignieri said. “He makes the euphonium seem limitless in its expressive possibilities, both lyrically and virtuosically. I have a new appreciation for the instrument and a great deal of respect for Joe’s abilities.”
McLean Euphonium Player to be Featured on NPR Joe Broom, a 17-year-old euphonium player from McLean,
Team Bikenetic celebrates after hosting the Sportif Cross Cup Series Finale on Sunday, Dec. 13, at Occoquan Regional Park in Lorton. The cyclocross race was sponsored by Bikenetic Full Service Bike Shop in Falls Church. Over 260 racers from across the region competed for $1200 in cash, plus prizes from local business such as Clare & Don’s Beach Shack and Dancing Mind. (Photo: Courtesy of Ty Long/No Film Photography)
Two students at George Mason High School, Brent Clarke (left) and Graham Stubbs, bring food to the Friends of Falls Church Homeless Shelter last week. Mason students have been cooking and delivering dinner for the residents of the shelter every Tuesday for four years. The boys said fundraisers produce the money to buy food for the meals at the shelter. (Photo: News-Press/Patricia Leslie)
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McLean Community Center Announces January Events
The McLean Community Center announced its January events schedule earlier this month. Residents of the community center’s and the Dranesville tax districts are eligible for discounts on fees for some of the events. Two comedy-related events are at the top of the bill. The Capitol Steps, a Washington, D.C.-based political satire performance group, is kicking off the community center’s January schedule with a performance at The Alden next Saturday, Jan. 3, at 8 p.m. The group is made up of former Congressional staffers who decided to turn the system on its head through song and dance. Tickets for that event are $35 for McLean tax district residents and $45 for everyone else. The Monday after that performance there will be a Chicks Rule Comedy Workshop held at the The Alden. Tickets for the workshop are $10 for McLean tax district residents and $20 for everyone else. Other events include Family Fun Bingo night on Jan. 16, a Martin Luther Day Celebration on Jan. 18 and a new edition of Jazz Masters with John Eaton. For more information, visit mcleancenter.org or call 703-7900123.
Arlington Artists Alliance Announces January Shows The Arlington Artists Alliance announced its January shows at Gallery Underground, located at
2100 Crystal Drive, Arlington, last Wednesday. The Focus Gallery will feature a seasonally-themed exhibit, while the Main Gallery will feature a members show. Both shows will be on display from Jan. 5 – 31 with opening receptions for both shows happening on Friday, Jan. 9, from 5 – 8 p.m. The winter-related work of local artists will be featured in The Wonder of Winter show in the Focus Gallery. The artwork featured in the show will explore the different facets of beauty in the winter season – winter light and activities and the effect of cold weather on our environment. The Main Gallery will feature the work of the Arlington Artists Alliance including sculpture, glass, ceramics, watercolor, oil, acrylic, jewelry and mixed media. The Gallery Underground’s hours are 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. on Monday – Friday and 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Saturdays. Parking is available in metered spots on nearby streets and in public garages, which are free all day Saturdays and after 4 p.m. on weekdays. For more information, visit galleryunderground.org.
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Shirlington Library Screening All 8 Harry Potter Films The Shirlington branch of the Arlington Library, located at 4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington, is inviting everyone to end 2014 and start 2015 with Harry Potter, his friends and his enemies. The library will screen all eight Harry Potter films starting with a showing of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” this Saturday, Dec. 27, at 2 p.m. The other seven films will be shown in succession every day through Sunday, Jan. 4, excluding Jan. 1 and 2 when the library will close for New Year celebrations. All screenings will start at 2 p.m., except for “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part II,” which will be shown at 6 p.m. on Jan. 4. For more information, visit library.arlingtonva.us/ eventscalendar.
Pianist Brian Ganz Plays Chopin for Children’s Fund
Aurora Hills Library Hosts Winter Crafts for Kids Event
Pianist Brian Ganz will play a benefit concert this Sunday, Dec. 28, from 6:30 – 7:30 p.m. at McLean Baptist Church, located at 1367 Chain Bridge Road, McLean. Ganz will be playing the compositions of Chopin with a reception to follow his performance.
The Aurora Hills branch of the Arlington Library, located at 735 S. 18th St., Arlington, is hosting a winter crafts for kids event next Tuesday, Dec. 30, from 2 – 4 p.m. Kids can drop in at the free event and make seasonal crafts. For more information, call 703-228-5715.
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The Subtle Sensations of Faith
With Hanukkah coming to an end, Christmas days away, and people taking time off work, we are in a season of quickened faith. When you watch people exercise that faith, whether lighting candles or attending midnight Mass, the first thing you see is how surprising it is. You’d think faith would be a simple holding of belief, or a confidence in things unseen, but, in real life, faith is unpredictable and ever-changing. It begins, for many people, with an elusive experience of wonder and mystery. The best modern book on belief is My Bright Abyss by my Yale colleague, Christian Wiman. In it, he writes, “When NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE I hear people say they have no religious impulse whatsoever ... I always want to respond: Really? You have never felt overwhelmed by, and in some way inadequate to, an experience in your life, have never felt something in yourself staking a claim beyond yourself, some wordless mystery straining through word to reach you? Never?” Most believers seem to have had these magical moments of wonder and clearest consciousness, which suggested a dimension of existence beyond the everyday. Maybe it happened during childbirth, with music, in nature, in love or pain, or during a moment of overwhelming gratitude and exaltation. These glimmering experiences are not in themselves faith, but they are the seeds of faith. As Wiman writes, “Religion is not made of these moments; religion is the means of making these moments part of your life rather than merely radical intrusions so foreign and perhaps even fearsome that you can’t even acknowledge their existence afterward. Religion is what you do with these moments of over-mastery in your life.” These moments provide an intimation of ethical perfection and merciful love. They arouse a longing within many people to integrate that glimpsed eternal goodness into their practical lives. This longing is faith. It’s not one emotion because it encompasses so many emotions. It’s not one idea because it contains contradictory ideas. It’s a state of motivation, a desire to reunite with that glimpsed moral beauty and incorporate it into everyday living. It’s a hard process. After the transcendent glimpses, people forget. Their spirits go dry and they doubt anything ever happened. But believers try, as Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, to stay faithful to those events. They assent to some spiritual element they still sense planted in themselves. The process of faith, of bringing moments of intense inward understanding into the ballyhoo of life, seems to involve a lot of reading and talking – as people try to make sense of who God is and how holiness should be lived out. Even if you tell people you are merely writing a column on faith, they begin recommending books to you by the dozen. Religion may begin with experiences beyond reason, but faith relies on reason. In his famous fourth footnote in Halakhic Man, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik writes, “The individual who frees himself from the rational principle and who casts off the yoke of objective thought will in the end turn destructive and lay waste the entire created order. Therefore, it is preferable that religion should ally itself with the forces of clear, logical cognition, as uniquely exemplified in the scientific method, even though at times the two might clash with one another.” Or as Wiman puts it more elegantly: “Faith cannot save you from the claims of reason, except insofar as it preserves and protects that wonderful, terrible time when reason, if only for a moment, lost its claim on you.” All this discerning and talking leads to the main business of faith: living attentively every day. The faithful are trying to live in ways their creator loves. They are trying to turn moments of spontaneous consciousness into an ethos of strict conscience. They are using effervescent sensations of holiness to inspire concrete habits, moral practices and practical ways of living well. Marx thought that religion was the opiate of the masses, but Soloveitchik argues that, on the contrary, this business of living out a faith is complex and arduous: “The pangs of searching and groping, the tortures of spiritual crises and exhausting treks of the soul purify and sanctify man, cleanse his thoughts, and purge them of the husks of superficiality and the dross of vulgarity. Out of these torments there emerges a new understanding of the world, a powerful spiritual enthusiasm that shakes the very foundations of man’s existence.” Insecure believers sometimes cling to a rigid and simplistic faith. But confident believers are willing to face their dry spells, doubts, and evolution. Faith as practiced by such people is change. It is restless, growing. It’s not right and wrong that changes, but their spiritual state and their daily practice. As the longings grow richer, life does, too. As Wiman notes, “To be truly alive is to feel one’s ultimate existence within one’s daily existence.”
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Conquest is for Losers More than a century has passed since Norman Angell, a British journalist and politician, published The Great Illusion, a treatise arguing that the age of conquest was or at least should be over. He didn’t predict an end to warfare, but he did argue that aggressive wars no longer made sense – that modern warfare impoverishes the victors as well as the vanquished. He was right, but it’s apparently a hard lesson to absorb. Certainly Vladimir Putin never got the memo. And neither did our own neocons, whose acute case of Putin envy shows that they learned nothing from the Iraq debacle. Angell’s case was simple: Plunder isn’t what it used to be. You can’t treat a modern NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE society the way ancient Rome treated a conquered province without destroying the very wealth you’re trying to seize. And meanwhile, war or the threat of war, by disrupting trade and financial connections, inflicts large costs over and above the direct expense of maintaining and deploying armies. War makes you poorer and weaker, even if you win. The exceptions to this dictum actually prove the rule. There are still thugs who wage war for fun and profit, but they invariably do so in places where exploitable raw materials are the only real source of wealth. The gangs tearing the Central African Republic apart are in pursuit of diamonds and poached ivory; the Islamic State may claim that it’s bringing the new caliphate, but so far it has mostly been grabbing oil fields. The point is that what works for a fourth-world warlord is just self-destructive for a nation at America’s level – or even Russia’s. Look at what passes for a Putin success, the seizure of Crimea: Russia may have annexed the peninsula with almost no opposition, but what it got from its triumph was an imploding economy that is in no position to pay tribute, and in fact requires costly aid. Meanwhile, foreign investment in and lending to Russia proper more or less collapsed even before the oil price plunge turned the situation into a full-blown financial crisis. Which brings us to two big questions. First, why did Putin do something so stupid? Second, why were so many influential people in the United States impressed by and envious of his stupidity? The answer to the first question is obvious if you think about Putin’s background. Remember, he’s an
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ex-KGB man – which is to say, he spent his formative years as a professional thug. Violence and threats of violence, supplemented with bribery and corruption, are what he knows. And for years he had no incentive to learn anything else: High oil prices made Russia rich, and like everyone who presides over a bubble, he surely convinced himself that he was responsible for his own success. At a guess, he didn’t realize until a few days ago that he has no idea how to function in the 21st century. The answer to the second question is a bit more complicated, but let’s not forget how we ended up invading Iraq. It wasn’t a response to 9/11, or to evidence of a heightened threat. It was, instead, a war of choice to demonstrate U.S. power and serve as a proof of concept for a whole series of wars neocons were eager to fight. Remember “Everyone wants to go to Baghdad. Real men want to go to Tehran”? The point is that there is a still-powerful political faction in America committed to the view that conquest pays, and that in general the way to be strong is to act tough and make other people afraid. One suspects, by the way, that this false notion of power was why the architects of war made torture routine – it wasn’t so much about results as about demonstrating a willingness to do whatever it takes. Neocon dreams took a beating when the occupation of Iraq turned into a bloody fiasco, but they didn’t learn from experience. (Who does, these days?) And so they viewed Russian adventurism with admiration and envy. They may have claimed to be alarmed by Russian advances, to believe that Putin, “what you call a leader,” was playing chess to President Barack Obama’s marbles. But what really bothered them was that Putin was living the life they’d always imagined for themselves. The truth, however, is that war really, really doesn’t pay. The Iraq venture clearly ended up weakening the U.S. position in the world, while costing more than $800 billion in direct spending and much more in indirect ways. America is a true superpower, so we can handle such losses – although one shudders to think of what might have happened if the “real men” had been given a chance to move on to other targets. But a financially fragile petroeconomy like Russia doesn’t have the same ability to roll with its mistakes. I have no idea what will become of the Putin regime. But Putin has offered all of us a valuable lesson. Never mind shock and awe: In the modern world, conquest is for losers.
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Pope Francis Slams Vatican Bureaucrats
Somebody needs to give a dressing down to the U.S. Congress like Pope Francis did in his annual Christmas message to his highest level Vatican bureaucrats this week. Francis unloaded a scathing attack on the central administration of the church, charging cardinals, bishops and priests at the Vatican with “using their Vatican careers to grab power and wealth, of living ‘hypocritical’ double lives” and “suffering” from “spiritual Alzheimer’s,” forgetting what drew them into the priesthood in the first place. It was an unprecedented speech and no one he was delivering his remarks to was smiling. Reform and renewal, he was telling them, needs to come from within. Not what these entitled bureaucrats have ever heard before, according to Falls Church news-press observers. These leaders of the 1.2 billion member Catholic Church, were assailed for the gossiping, careerism and power intrigues. He started off his talk referring to “the ailment of feeling immortal, immune or even indispensable,” moving on to the sins of “being rivals and boasting, wanting to accumulate things, having a ‘hardened heart,’ wooing superiors for personal gain, having a ‘funereal face’” and being too rigid, tough and arrogant, especially toward underlings. He took on the control freaks in their midst, too, who plan everything so much that “they don’t allow themselves to be surprised by the ‘freshness, fantasy and novelty’ of the Holy Spirit.” He said “the terrorism of gossip” can “kill the reputation of our colleagues and brothers in cold blood,” and spoke of “how cliques can enslave their members and become a cancer that threatens the harmony of the church body and eventually kill it off by friendly fire.” The remarks of this new Argentinean pope were described as unprecedented and scathing. All his comments spoke to the disposition of the souls of his audience, not to any specific projects or proposals. It is a matter of the human spirit, he intoned, even as Vatican finances are in the midst of an overhaul and there are plans being drawn up to revamp the whole Vatican bureaucratic structure, including by merging offices to make them more efficient and responsive, according to the Associated Press. He concluded by asking everyone there to pray “that the wounds of the sins that each one of us carries are healed.” Indeed, this is a message that would do just as well being delivered to the entire human race, and Francis apparently realizes that there is no way his church can ever aspire to do this unless its leadership internalizes the message from the top. And just as it is a message for the entire human race on this planet, so it is for each and every individual who needs to internalize it himself or herself as a grounding point for personal moral renewal. We do not need to fear embracing such criticism, because it is for the purpose of bringing us all closer to a profound human endeavor. It is a sad state of affairs when the world’s most powerful nation must defend its people’s right to self-expression by asserting the right of Seth Rogan and James Franco to spread their sophomoric scatological humor all over the globe, and to showcase a tasteless assassination scene in the process. Far better for the world’s attention to be focused on the inherent human dignity achieved by the restoration of relations between the U.S. and Cuba, and before that, the action by President Obama to cease the family-rending deportation of up to five million people. Add to those life-affirming steps the enormous public response to the Affordable Care Act as reported this week, and you have some hugely important steps to enhance the lives and moral stature of millions among us. Here are great steps to celebrate this holiday season for anyone who has the eyes, ears and spiritual vitality to appreciate them. Don’t count on deadened bureaucrats in Washington, be they politicians or journalists, or at the Vatican for any of that, however. Too many have hearts hardened by slavish obedience to partisan party lines or angry, arm-twisting patrons to acknowledge the simple beauty of the many human lives brightened and enhanced by these moves.
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Pursuing Justice for All He is prisoner No. 260. He stares into the camera for his mug shot, head cocked, eyes forlorn of hope. It is the kind of picture that haunts. He is 14. His name is George Stinney Jr. He is a child, someone’s baby. He is a black boy arrested in the murder of two white girls in the rural town of Alcolu, South Carolina. He is tried for the murders just a month after the arrest. An all-white, all-male jury is empaneled. That same afternoon, the trial commences. It lasts only a few hours. The white lawyer assigned to Stinney’s defense cross-examines no witnesses and calls none of his own. The jury deliberates for only 10 minutes before finding Stinney guilty. That same day, the boy is sentenced to death by electrocution. There are no appeals. There are no requests for a stay. When the day comes for the boy’s execution, less than two months after the trial, guards reportedly had a hard time fitting the small boy into the big chair. He was just 5 feet 1 inch. As Laura Bradley wrote in Slate, “He weighed 95 pounds when he was arrested, NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE and was so small he had to sit on a phone book in the electric chair when he was executed within three months of the murders.” Some say the book he sat on wasn’t a phone book but the Bible. (Note to humanity: When the person in your death machine requires a booster seat, maybe you should reconsider what you are about to do.) As Jesse Wegman of The Times’ editorial board wrote on the Taking Note blog: “Reports from the execution chamber said he was so small that the jolt of electricity knocked the mask from his face.” That day, June 16, 1944, Stinney became the youngest person executed in America in the 20th century. This unconscionable cruelty the execution of children used to be routine. As The Times pointed out in 2005, in the 1940s juveniles were executed at a pace of “nearly once every two months.” It’s not clear whether Stinney saw the faces of anyone who loved him when he was marched into that execution chamber and strapped into that chair. His sister, Aime Ruffner, told The Guardian this year that the family was run out of town the day her brother was taken away. She is quoted as saying: “I never went back there. I curse that place. It was the destruction of my family and the killing of my brother.” Last week, a South Carolina judge threw out the
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conviction, saying “I can think of no greater injustice than a violation of one’s constitutional rights, which has been proven to me in this case” and finding “by a preponderance of the evidence standard, that a violation of the defendant’s procedural due process rights tainted his prosecution.” This was a victory of sorts: a 70-years-too-late admission that the justice system failed that black child, and that the failure culminated in short order in the taking of his life. Yet something about it feels hollow and discomforting, like the thunder that rolls long after the lightning has cracked the sky and split the tree. It boldly announces itself in all its noisy nothingness. It was the white flash that did the damage and produced the splinters. That is all too often what “righting” racial injustice looks like in this country: a hollow pronouncement that follows the damage but doesn’t prevent its recurrence. The overturning of this particular conviction comes at a most profound time following the decisions by grand juries not to indict police officers in the killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner and John Crawford III and preceding the ambush and murder of two police officers in Brooklyn. The decision provides a generational through-line of sorts for questions about judicial fairness in this country, about the speed with which people can be judged a threat or an enemy and have their lives taken. The heart aches for every life lost. Why are there so many touchstones of outrage to mark the African-American experience in this country? Why is there so much tension between officers of the law and minority neighborhoods? We have seen many polls recently examining race relations, policing and bias in the justice system. In general, we as a nation are thinking more about these issues at least at the moment. That is quite encouraging and is a potential starting point for some needed acknowledgments, as well as some needed changes. All lives are valuable, those of the public and the police. We can and must condemn the deranged suicidal cop killer (who also shot his former girlfriend) as well as the cops who kill. There is no contradiction there. Humanity is the common thread. The cries of ancestors mingle with those of activists and those of dead officers. Anguish stretches across generations and across the racial gulf. Equal justice demands its proper place. The taking of life on both sides of the badge must be redressed.
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A Penny for Your Thoughts
News of Greater Falls Church By Supervisor Penny Gross
Merry Christmas! In the true spirit of the holiday season, a long-time friend and constituent shared with me an experience that perfectly reflects both the humanity and the spirituality of the common man, something that so often gets lost in the cacophony of commercialism and politics. I’d like to share it with you. ***** “Mister Dan, I am happy.” Then the phone went dead. In January, it will be four years since I got that phone call from Guatemala. It was Jaime, my friend and a day laborer, who had helped maintain my yard during the summer. I live in Northern Virginia and there is a line-up of day laborers each morning along Little River Turnpike. I am retired Navy and when my wife and I returned from the Philippines 32 years ago, we bought an old house with a big yard, our seventeenth, and final, home. The idea was to do my own yard work and stay healthy. I did until I reached 74, and found things were getting difficult. The day laborers have a helping hand named Arnoldo, and I asked him to recommend someone to assist me. He introduced me to Jaime, a man in his 30s, who looked like a boy. A man who Arnoldo said was dependable and honest. A man who probably did not have papers. I did not ask. “Dependable and honest” was good. A man with a wife and four little girls in Guatemala. A man who did all I asked as we worked together. A man who sent home
most of what I paid him. A man who was studying English. A man who told me his wife was building them a house. A man who later told me she was building a wall for protection. A man who had not seen his little girls since leaving his county. A man who talked to them each day by cell phone. In 2010, just before Christmas, Jaime said he was going home. He had been six years in the U.S. without his family. The house and wall were finished. I never asked him how he got here. I never asked how he was going home. I put some money in an envelope. We shook hands and said “good bye.” It was after Christmas when I got the call from Jaime. “Mister Dan, I am happy.” Then silence. It was clear that his house, like mine, was now a home. I cried. ***** Jaime’s story is not unique. There are many similar stories of day laborers who are trying to support their families back home, whose work ethic is incredible, who are trying to learn English, and who face enormous odds in their quest for a better life. I read that story last week to a group of community representatives and county employees who have been working with me on day laborer issues. And we all cried! Penny Gross is the Mason District Supervisor, in the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. She may be emailed at mason@fairfaxcounty.gov.
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By James P. Moran In the wake of Senator Feinstein’s revelation of torture abuse by CIA contractors under the leadership of executives in the Bush Administration, it may be enlightening to reflect on a time and place where we interrogated successfully. As you drive south down the GW Parkway in Northern Virginia to George Washington’s Mt. Vernon Estate, you’ll drive by Fort Hunt. This National Park was called Project - P.O. Box 1142. It served as a top secret military intelligence center to gain intelligence from high profile Nazi prisoners. This camp included the prisoners from U Boat 234 which carried German secrets originally destined for Japan including their research to develop an atomic bomb, a jet engine, and V2 rocket plans; and Reinhard Gehlen, another prisoner who ran the German intelligence operations in the Soviet Union. Our military needed interrogators who spoke German but many German Americans were suspect at the time over their loyalty to the U.S. versus their country of origin. So, in many cases, they
know them personally. The result of this approach was astounding. I have been told that this camp yielded such a treasure trove of invaluable information that it may stand as the most effective interrogation experience in our military’s history. Incidentally, the camp commander was John Kluge, who went on to make billions in media and become one of America’s most generous philanthropists.
chose German/Jewish Americans who had extreme motivation to gain information from these prisoners. Some had lost relatives in the Holocaust. But, it was a collective decision led by their camp commander, not to mistreat any of the prisoners. Instead, they chose to befriend these men, playing checkers with them, going on long walks through the park with them and getting to
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Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is sticking his toe in the presidential waters. Unfortunately, the media doesn’t seem to be willing to give him a fair shake and consider his important ideas. Instead of judging Sanders on his merits, reporters are quick to inaccurately pigeonhole him as the left wing opposite of Tea Baggers. The New York Times writes “He has virtually no chance of winning the nomination, but he does have a chance to shape the debate…With his fiery populist attacks on Wall Street and ‘the billionaire class,’ he could become either a nettlesome thorn to Hillary Rodham Clinton or a convenient foil for her, if she runs.” Then the Times quotes pundit David Yepsen, who says “Sanders could become the vessel for the anger of the Democratic left.” Sadly, they have reduced Sanders to an old angry dude that serves as an outlet for bitter, disillusioned hippies wearing tie-die shirts and sandals, while listening to “Give Peace a Chance.” Progressives – please don’t let the lazy mainstream media tell you that your ideas are “far out” or impractical. Don’t let them stereotype you, or dismiss you, or offer you that stupid conservative grin and goofy cackle they use on TV when they casually schluff off smart progressive policies. America has repeatedly tried conservative ideas and they have predictably failed. They have harmed this nation socially, economically, culturally, and spiritually. They have brought nothing but gain for the few, while providing pain for the many. Then, a wise leader like Bernie Sanders offers to correct these grave injustices, and all he gets is derision and dismissal for wanting to serve his country. The Times article eventually points to what Bernie actually stands for: “He railed against big banks (‘Break ’em up!’), fretted over climate change and income inequality, and deplored the high cost of a college education (‘Totally moronic.’). He embraced a single-payer health system (‘Guess what everybody! Health care is a right!’), proposed strengthening labor unions and lamented a lack of voter participation (‘All over this country people are throwing up their hands in despair.’).” But Mr. Sanders reserved his greatest ire for what he called “one extreme right-wing billionaire family,” the brothers Charles and David Koch. In his view, they are the root of what is wrong in American politics. Why does the mainstream media consider it radical and left wing to suggest that the greedy banks that crashed this economy six years ago might be too large and shouldn’t be gambling with the public’s money? Why is it considered extreme to suggest that students should be able to graduate college without being saddled with massive debt before they even hold their first job? Why does the media think it’s bizarre to suggest that a person’s dignity and worth should not be tied to whether their life or death makes an health insurance company money? Is Sanders wrong about the corrosive influence of outrageous amounts of money flooding into politics? Is he off base when he says that the Koch Brothers (and other oligarchs) have too much power over elections? Bernie Sanders is simply telling the truth. It is an indictment of our political system that such honesty and courage is considered radical or abnormal. The far right and their allies in the media want you to believe that Sanders is somehow weird and lefty – because they want you left out of the economy and want your family left behind, so they can continue exploiting you and profiting at your family’s expense. Isn’t it bizarre how the media depicts the intelligent Sanders as an oddity, yet portrays ignoramuses like Sen. Marco Rubio or Texas Gov. Rick Perry as serious candidates? These Republicans don’t believe in climate change or evolution, yet, we are led to believe that they are worthy of consideration to run a modern nation. While Hillary Clinton is the frontrunner and has earned that distinction, don’t underestimate Bernie Sanders. I spent three years in Vermont. It’s more libertarian than liberal. It is a rural state, and Sanders has won by connecting with farmers and small town folk. This will serve him well running in early primary or caucus states like Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. It would be wonderful to have Sanders on the campaign trail to explain progressive issues in a way that people can easily understand. We need a champion who can spread the gospel across the country – so people understand that progressive causes are mainstream, not the radical agenda that the media often misrepresents.
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Our Man in Arlington By Charlie Clark
I retain memories of roughly 60 Christmases spent here in Arlington. Those sugarplum visions range from family trips to buy a Christmas tree at churches or the Optimist Club lot, to early visits to the laps of Santa impersonators at Hecht’s or Kann’s department stores. But when I drive through my boyhood neighborhood to admire the familiar homes decked out to warmly glow, the memory that resurfaces most readily is the Christmas my brother and sister and I learned (not without pain) the grown-ups’ notion of tact and timing. I was perhaps eight years old when the tensions erupted during an early ‘60’s Christmas Eve family sing-along. We were sitting Indian-style around a tree that, in that era, would have been stuffed underneath with boxes containing such treasures as the board game Stratego or a Remco bulldog tank. As we went through the carols, inevitably it occurred to us kids to “play around” with the lyrics as we had done so often within our peer group. So we sang: “We three kings of orient are. Tried to smoke a rubber cigar.”
I probably thought I had received tacit permission for such antics from my mother, who had once read parodies to us from a book of modern English verse. British children in the 1930s, reacting to the news that Edward VIII had abandoned the throne to marry an American divorcee, were heard to sing, to the tune of “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing,” a rejoinder: “Mrs. Simpson’s pinched our king.” In Arlington we may have tossed in the number I still hear from today’s elementary school kids: “Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin laid an egg…” Now, here we were: my father, mother, brother and sister, in a moment of rare familial solidarity, butterflies in the belly over Santa’s ETA in just a few hours, marking a joyful cultural tradition that transcends the generations. That’s the moment I chose to “edit” the famous French carol, like a budding journalist. In lieu of the line, “Shepherds, why this jubilee?” I paraphrased it as “Shepherds, basically what’s the scoop?” To which my sister replied, without missing a beat: “Who, what, when, where, why and how?” Boom! I can still feel the crash of my father’s use of my name, shall we say, in vain. My mother
joined him in a scolding lecture, probably addressing maturity, respect, discipline honoring the occasion etc. Tough for a child to grasp, in the giggle of the moment, that at another day, another time, the humor might have gone over better. Appropriateness was something that grownups decide. Lo, a half-century later, my parents’ lesson hasn’t really endeth. To paraphrase the Book of Ecclesiastes, there’s a time to parody, and a time to sing carols right. Try saving the gags for the day after Christmas. *** Tired of risking life and limb up on ladders decking your house with Christmas lights? Technology has a solution: products called Sparkle Magic Holiday Laser Lights and BlissLights. I noticed it on a neighbor’s home that their beautiful multicolored splash looked a tad distorted—as if viewed through a fish-eye lens. When I drew close, I realized the lights weren’t actually there. They were projected on the brick via a set of projectors disguised in a gift box in the front yard. “A revolutionary, time saving, portable laser light that comes in three colors and allows you to decorate any surface in a kaleidoscope of brilliant color,” says one ad. To boot, it’s energyefficient!
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On Dec. 20, police received a report of a stolen purse.
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Driving Under the Influence, Refusal to Submit to a Blood or Breath Test, 800 block E. Broad St. On Dec. 21, a male, 45, of Vienna, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence, and Refusal to Submit to a Blood or Breath Test.
Week of December 15 - 21, 2014 Trespass and Public Drunkenness, 7124 Leesburg Pike (George Mason High School) On Dec. 15, a male, 31, no fixed address was arrested for Public Drunkenness and Trespassing. Shoplifting, 701 W. Broad St. (Point of View Optical) On Dec. 17, several merchandise items were stolen. Assault, 400 block S. Washington St. On Dec. 17, police received a report of an assault. The victim suffered minor abrasions to the face. Assault on a Law Enforcement Officer, Driving Under the Influence, Possession of False ID, 100 block N. Washington St. On Dec. 18, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a male, 23, of Sterling, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence. A pas-
senger, a male, 19, Silver Spring, MD, was arrested for Assaulting a Law Enforcement Officer, and Possession of False ID. Driving Under the Influence, 2300 Great Falls St. On Dec. 20, an officer conducted a traffic stop for a motor vehicle violation. The driver, a male, 36, of McLean, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence. Smoking In a Non-Designated Area, 6757 Wilson Blvd. #16 (Le Mirage) On Dec. 20, a male, 50, was cited for Smoking for a NonDesignated Area. Larceny, 900 block W. Broad St.
Driving Under the Influence, 1000 block E. Broad St. On Dec. 21, a male, 40, of Rockville, MD, was arrested for Driving Under the Influence. Larceny from Building, 300 W. Broad St. (Stratford Motor Lodge) On Dec. 21, cash was reported stolen from the building. Smoking In a Non-Designated Area, 6757 Wilson Blvd. #16 (Le Mirage) On Dec. 21, a male, 34, of Sterling, was cited for Smoking In a Non-Designated Area.
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be conducted on the “stealth” by secret judges who will walk around and take notes with the winners to be announced around 11 p.m. If swing ain’t your thing and some events call for more physical exertion than some may be willing to put out, there is always a tour of the Historic Falls Church from 7 – 8 p.m. Event attendees can also make a clay sculpture during free studio time at Clay Studios. Coordinating all this effort is Barb Cram, a volunteer who has worked on the event since 2006. And she knows her stuff. For sure, weather will not stop the greatest show in Falls Church, Cram said, although the forecast calls for a 40 percent chance of rain and snow that day (with a projected high of 36 according to the Weather Channel). Watch Night is a walkable event with accessibility for the disabled – the streets allow mobility and First Presbyterian Church is especially equipped for handicapped persons. And if walking is not your thing, free shuttles which will run every 30 minutes from 7 p.m. – 1 a.m. to each of the venues, starting with the East Falls Church Metro station.
To combat the cold, Watch Night participants may warm their tootsies at fireplaces and fire pits at “hot spots” at the Grand FunAlley and on the 100 block of West Broad, courtesy of Sisler’s Stone, according to Cram. Watch Night is anchored at the intersection of Washington and Broad Streets, but there is plenty of free parking at the Falls Church Presbyterian Church, Falls Church Episcopal and the top floor of the parking deck at Kaiser-Permanente at the 100 block of Park Avenue. Gary LaPorta and Jeffrey Garafalo will be the evening’s masters of ceremonies. For photo ops, station your subjects at the 16 x 6 foot rendition of the LOVE artwork, on display at the George Mason Square from Dec. 26 – Jan. 2 in conjunction with the “Virginia is for Lovers” campaign. If you get hungry, food trucks and restaurants lining Broad will be open for business and free popcorn will be available. Some of the restaurants will have free snacks, like Local Market at 246 West Broad and Ireland’s Four Provinces at 105 West Broad, which will offer free Irish
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Eating in the New Year
It’s going to take a full stomach to party all the way into 2015. Here is a lineup of downtown Falls Church restaurants providing December 31 revelry and nourishment to last you all the way into the New Year.
Argia’s
124 N. Washington St., 703-534-1033
A special New Year’s Eve chef’s menu featuring sherry crab soup, tagliatelle with duck confit, wild rockfish, braised veal ossu buco, black truffle risotto with lobster and lobster ravioli. Reservations recommended. potato soup and hot chocolate while supplies last. No alcohol is permitted in the outdoor public spaces. The bands set to play on the Main Stage in front of the CVS are Thirteenth Story, 60 Feet Tall, Cactus Liquors and Lu and the Blues Crew, the last act from 10:30 p.m. – 12 a.m. before the “Countdown Spectacular.” The Unity Club will feature Jackwagon Band to play rock and roll for dancing and the club will have free popcorn and a refreshment tent. Other bands scheduled for Watch Night are Big Tow on the balcony of Family Medicine and at Falls Church Foot and Ankle at 104-106 East Broad Street, Cowboy Hay and Andrew Acosta and Friends. Daniel Schlitt, the director of parks and recreation for Falls Church, praised the efforts of Cram and her crew which have steered the night successfully for many years. About 4,300 attended Watch Night last year, Cram said, and she anticipates more attendees this year. Major Watch Night sponsors are the City of Falls Church, the Falls Church Economic Development Authority, the Village Preservation and Improvement Society, Falls Church News-Press, Falls Church Chamber of Commerce, the Young Group, Atlantic Realty, Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation and Tori McKinney of Rock Star Realty. In addition to the venue hosts, other sponsors are Dr. Gordon Theisz, Dr. Paul Cannon, Avalon Communities, New Editions Consulting, Dr. Melanie Love, Dr. Mark Miller and Burke & Herbert Bank. Supporters are Viget, Foxes Music Company and the Oshinsky Family Partnership. Contributors are Drew Pelton, Tax & Retirement Solutions, Dr. William Dougherty, and Clay Café Studios. For more information, check out the Watch Night website, www.fallschurchva.gov/ watchnight.
Clare & Don’s Beach Shack
130 N. Washington St., 703-532-9283
Music by Shangoband & DJ Suber b from 9:30 p.m. – 1:30 a.m. No cover and champagne toast at midnight.
Dogwood Tavern
132 W. Broad St., 703-237-8333
A “Back to the Future 2 New Years Eve” theme highlighting the classic movie set in the year 2015. Guests are asked to dress in their favorite 80s attire or just the normal 2015 way. Plus a complimentary champagne toast at midnight.
Garden Grille Restaurant & Bar 706 W. Broad St., 703-237-8700
The Hilton Garden Inn restaurant is offering a late night meal starting with a champagne toast at midnight followed by buffet ($22.95/adults, $14.95/children) from 12:30 – 3 a.m. with roast beef and ham carving stations, smoked salmon, omelette and waffle stations and more.
Ireland’s Four Provinces
105 W. Broad St., 703-534-8999
The Irish pub will feature both a special three-course dinner for $39.95 plus the regular menu. The Dirty Pints begin playing at 6:30 p.m. and then at 10 p.m. a DJ will take over with music and dancing in the dining room. Complimentary champagne toast at midnight.
Mad Fox Brewing Company 444 W. Broad St., 703-942-6840
Mad Fox’s New Year’s Eve party includes live music by Tom Principato and his band plus passed appetizers, dinner and dessert buffets, party favors and a midnight toast. Tickets are $80 per person. Doors open at 8 p.m.
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Jessie Thackrey Preschoolers said goodbye to their home at Mary Ellen Henderson last Friday. They’ll start school in a brand new building on North Cherry Street on Monday, Jan. 5, when school comes back from winter break. (Photo: Courtesy of FCCPS Photo/Seidah Ashshaheed)
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George Mason senior Beth Cashin sings with the jazz band for the senior citizens at the Falls Church Community Center. The performance was one of two shows for the George Mason Jazz Band last Tuesday. (Photo: Carol Sly)
GMHS Jazz Band Performs Two Shows in One Day The George Mason High School Jazz Band was busy last Tuesday spreading holiday cheer in Falls Church City. In the morning they performed for the seniors in the Senior Room at the Community Center. The group was very well received by the more than 50 seniors and staff who were there to hear them. After returning to school for their afternoon classes, the band met up at The Italian Cafe. They played for the Falls Church and Annandale Lions Clubs who were
hosting their annual holiday dinner. Don Farrow, head of the FC Lions, introduced the group and acknowledged how many great musicians Mason music teacher Mary Jo West had sent to the Lions music competitions over the years. The band’s music was enjoyed by the sixty plus Lions and guests, and the sing-along portion had the whole group caroling.
Ballroom Dancing Classes Offered to 6th Graders at MEH The Victorian Society of Falls Church is offering promenade
dance classes to sixth graders at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School starting in January. Registration for the classes costs $100, but a limited number of scholarships are available for those in need. Students learn contemporary ballroom dancing and etiquette during the classes, which will be held every Friday from Jan. 23 – March 6. At the March 6 session, there will be a final party where students can show off their newly learned skills. For more information or to obtain registration materials, contact Beth West at elizabethawest@hotmail.com.
Students have began helping Jessie Thackrey Preschool teachers transition from classrooms at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School and Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School to their new building on North Cherry Street last week. In addition to the school building, which opens at the start of the Spring semester, there will be new bus routes for students starting up on Monday, Jan. 5. There will also be an open house for parents of Jessie Thackrey students on Thursday, Jan. 8, at 6 p.m. For more information about the new bus routes, call 703-248-5630.
11 Mason Students Audition Into District Honor Band Eleven students at George Mason High School were among those who auditioned into the District X Honor Band on Saturday, Dec. 13. Hundreds of students from Fairfax County, Alexandria City and Falls Church City participated in the audition, which consisted of an extensive
prepared etude, 12 major scales and sightreading scored by adjudicators. The following students were among those chosen to join the band: Dominique Barna, Lena Burleson, Guthrie Edson, Tim Gilmour, Peter Haensel (alternate), Max Hendrix, Lucy Hoak, Michelle Kim, Kit Richards (alternate), Arijeet Sensharma and Abby Smith. Smith and Kim received top rankings, which enable them to audition for the state band on Feb. 28 at James Madison University.
FCCPS Elementary School Students Learn About Ballet Students at Thomas Jefferson and Mt. Daniel Elementary Schools were given a ballet demonstration last week by Cady Jardine, a Falls Church City Public Schools parent and ballet teacher. The students read The Nutcracker and the King of Mice, touched a traditional wooden nutcracker, watched some clips of professional ballet companies performing and learned ballet positions such as bow, curtsy and pointe.
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Community Events
Thursday, December 25 Government and City Offices Closed. Falls Church City offices and services are closed for the holiday. Through Dec. 26. fallschurchva.gov.
Friday, December 26 Invasive Plant Removal. Join community volunteers in protecting the local environment from invasive plant species. This is a ongoing project that occurs the fourth Saturday of every month to reclaim the natural area at Benjamin Banneker Park. Benjamin Banneker Park (6620 N. 18th St., Arlington). Free. 10 a.m. – noon. 703-228-1862.
Saturday, December 27 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. $5 Comedy Night. Come see local comics at an affordable price. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $5. 8 p.m. 703237-0300. thestatetheatre.com.
Sunday, December 28 Master Gardeners Clinic. The Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia will give a clinic to
gardeners of all experience levels. Fairlington Community Center & Park (3308 S. Stafford St., Arlington). Free. 8 a.m. – noon. 703-228-6414. Senior Ice Skating. Senior ice skating is held weekly at the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Ballston. Plenty of parking for $1 on Level 8 (roof level) of the Ballston Common Mall parking garage. Kettler Capitals Iceplex at Ballston (627 N. Glebe Rd. #800, Arlington). $1. 8 – 9 a.m. 703-228-4745. Invasive Plant Removal. Join 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. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly). TOPS is a weight loss support group of warm and caring seniors. Weekly meetings include private weigh-ins and interesting programs. Lee Community & Senior Center and Park (5722 Lee Hwy., Arlington). $28/year for membership. 10 – 11:30 a.m. 703-228-0555. Diamond Tappers. This senior dance troupe performs throughout the local area, tap dancing to Big
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Band music. Their lively steps and costumes are designed to keep the audience engaged. They always accept newcomers and will provide coaching to newcomers as well as those of you who are in need of a refresher on the steps. Culpepper Garden Senior Center (4335 N. Pershing Dr., Arlington). Free. 10 a.m. – noon. 703-228-4403. Aqua Exercise. The majority of this class for seniors is in deep water, putting zero impact on your joints while working against the water’s resistance. Participants wear a buoyancy belt to hold the body vertical and chest-deep in the pool. You can’t touch the bottom so you effectively weigh just 25 percent of your weight on land. You must be able to swim to take this class. Yorktown High School (5201 N. 28th St., Arlington). $60 for 15 sessions. 12:30 – 1:20 p.m. 703-228-4745. Flying Squirrel Lore & More. Join the nature experts at Long Branch Nature Center & Park to learn about the nocturnal flying squirrels that can be found throughout neighborhoods in Northern Virginia, but are seldom seen. Registration required. Long Branch Nature Center & Park (625 S. Carlin Springs Road, Arlington). $5. 5 – 6 p.m. 703-228-6535.
Tuesday, December 30 Annual Burning Bowl Ceremony. This is a special meditation which centers on the transition from one year to the next. Celebration Center for Spiritual Living (2840 Graham Road, Falls Church). Free. 7 p.m. celebrationcenter.org.
Wednesday, December 31 17th Annual Watch Night New Year’s Eve Party. Nine bands are booked to provide live music at the 17th annual Watch Night, where there will be indoor and outdoor entertainment, free popcorn and family-friendly activities. Downtown Falls Church (Broad and Washington Sts., Falls Church). 7 p.m. – 12:30 a.m. watchnightfallschurch.com. Spaceball. The El Reys will be playing this New Year’s Eve celebration at Spacebar. Spacebar (709 W. Broad St., Falls Church). $20. 8 p.m. – 12:30 a.m. spcbr.com. Mad Fox’s New Year’s Eve with Tom Principato. F.C. bluesman Tom Principato will be joined by Tommy Lepson at this event featuring a full dinner and desert buffet created by Mad Fox executive chef Travis Weiss and his team. Mad Fox Brewing Company (444 W. Broad St. #I, Falls Church). $80. 8 p.m. – 2 a.m. madfoxbrewing.com.
Theater Fine Arts Thursday, december 25
“Diner.” This is the debut of nine-time Grammy Award winner Sheryl Crow and Academy Award winner Barry Levinson’s musical adaptation of the 1982 landmark film about a circle of childhood friends who reunite around Christmas time in 1959 Baltimore for an upcoming wedding. Three-time Tony Award winner Kathleen Marshall joins Crow and Levinson as the director and choreographer of this production. Through Jan. 25. Signature Theatre (4200 Campbell Ave., Arlington). $29 – $80. 8 p.m. signature-theatre.org.
Friday, december 26
“Bad Jews.” This savage comedy written by Joshua Harmon follows three cousins and their verbal battle royale over a family heirloom. There is
Daphna the pious, volatile, self-assured and unbending cousin and Liam, who is secular, entitled and just as stubborn as Daphna. Then there is Liam’s brother Jonah, who tries to stay out of the fray and honor his grandfather’s memory in his own way in this show about family, faith and identity politics. Through Jan. 11. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C). $20 – $68. 8 p.m. studiotheatre.org.
saturday, december 27
“Madeline’s Christmas.” Matt Conner is directing this production featuring author/illustrator’s Ludwig Bemelman’s famous character Madeline, a precocious little girl whose curiousity takes her on all sorts of adventures. In this musical adaptation, it’s Christmas Eve and Madeline’s schoolmates and their tutor Miss Clavel are all sick in bed. Brave and resourceful, Madeline comes to the
rescue with help from a magical rug merchant who takes them all on a Christmas journey they’ll never forget. Through Dec. 28. ArtSpace Falls Church (410 S. Maple Ave., Falls Church). $12 – $20. 7:30 p.m. creativecauldron.org.
sunday, december 28
“Terminus.” Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe wrote this supernatural vision, directed by Tom Story, featuring a serial killer with an angelic voice, a demon in love and startling web of connections stretching above the Dublin skyline. O’Rowe’s grotesque and brutal feast of language illuminates the quietest fears and most intimate desires of the three chracters – a teacher, a young woman and homicidal sociopath – through interlocking monologues. Through Jan. 4. Studio Theatre (1501 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C). $20 – $30. 7 p.m. studiotheatre.org.
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live_music&nightlife THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25 D���� A����� S����. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 9:30 p.m. 703-237-8333. I�’� � F��*�� SUPER ��� C�������� ��������� SUPER ��� ���� S��� D����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). $12 – $15 in advance. $15 day of the show. 6:30 p.m. 703255-1566. JR C���� ��� ���� �� T�� R�������� ��� G�����. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26 W���� �� A����� ���� F��� G�� C������ ��� A�������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). $15 – $18. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. M���� A��������. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.). $50. 8 p.m. 202-337-4141. L����� C���� B��� ���� J���� L���� B��� ��� L��� S���� B���. Iota Club and Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $12. 8:30 p.m. 703-5228340. E����� F��� S��������: S���� D���: T�� DC P��� R���������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $8. 9 p.m. 202-667-4490. T�� T����������� ���� J����� C�����. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9 p.m. 703-241-9504. B��� N����� H������ P���� ��������� D����������� ���� T����P���� ��� F�� S��������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 9 p.m. 202-
265-0930. K��� S����. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703237-8333.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27 T�� H����������. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4:30 p.m. 703-241-9504. E����: 2�� A����� R������ S��� ���� H�� B������� E���� ��� W���� W������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). $15 – $18. 7 p.m. 703-255-1566. $5 C����� N����. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $5. 8 p.m. 703-237-0300. E� Q�����. Iota Club and Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 9 p.m. 703-522-8340. B�� H�����! S������� � B��������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $15. 9 p.m. 202-667-4490. T�� D���. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703237-8333.
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28 O������: A B������ ��� “S��� T�� C�����.” Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). $10. 1 p.m. 703-2551566. S�� R����. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 4 p.m. 703-241-9504. D����� B����� B��� ���� K���� O����. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). $20. 6 p.m. 703-2551566.
G���� B������� ���� M�� M��. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $35. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. M������ G��� A�� S��� J��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-241-9504. 6�� A����� C�������� C�������� S��� ���� S������ C��������, W��� ��� P����, D������ ��� Z�����. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10. 8 p.m. 202667-4490.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 29 C������ ���� T�������� ��� C��������� F��������. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). $10 – $15 in advance. $13 – $15 day of the show. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. B���� M���� R���� B��� ���� T�� O����������. Iota Club and Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $10. 8 p.m. 703-522-8340. W��� B���� J��. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30 p.m. 703-241-9504.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30 S��-R���� S������� “B�� H����” CD R������ S��� ���� F��������� A����� ��� S����’� R��. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). $10 – $15 in advance. $13 – $15 day of the show. 6:30 p.m. 703-255-1566. H��� G����! ���� B����. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 7 p.m. 202-265-0930. S���� J����� B��� ���� B�� B�� L�����. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 8:30
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31 N�� Y���’� E�� P���� ���� M���� A��������. Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.). $110 – $150. 6:30 p.m. 202337-4141. N�� Y���’� E�� P���� ���� DJ T���. Dogwood Tavern (132 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 8 p.m. 703-237-8333. N�� Y���’� E�� ���� T�� L���������. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $50. 8 p.m. 703-237-0300. N�� Y���’� E�� B��� ���� P������ O’D��� � H�� O�������� ��� T��� A������ � H�� M���������. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $30. 8 p.m. 202-667-4490. GOOD VIBES N�� Y���’� E�� P���� ��������� MELODIME ���� S���� E������ ��� P��� P���. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E., Vienna). $25 – $35 in advance. $30 – $35 day of the show. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566. N�� Y���’� E�� ���� C�����, T����� ��� L������. 9:30 (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $55. 8:30 p.m. 202-265-0930. N�� Y���’� E�� T���� D��� ��������� T�� B�������� L������ ���� T�� C������ C���� ��� T�� F��� T������. Iota Club and Cafe (2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington). $20. 9 p.m. 703-522-8340. N�� Y���’� E�� ���� S������ ��� H��� B���. JV’s Restaurant (6666 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). 9:15 p.m. 703-241-9504.
P������� A����... Saturday, January 10 – Tinner Hill Centennial Gala. The Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation
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ew Year’s resolutions don’t start until you wake up New Year’s Day so it’s best to go balls to the wall until you finally crash in the wee hours of January 1. There’s plenty of places in Falls Church to party hearty and ring in 2015 including family-friendly Watch Night, dinner and dancing at the Four P’s and more. My recommendation? Kick off Wednesday night with a dinner and dessert buffet and excellent selection of craft beer at Mad Fox before heading over to Dogwood Tavern for a champagne toast at the best Back to the Future party this side of Hill Valley. Then, firmly planted in the New Year, waddle up to the Hilton Garden Inn’s late-night buffet and stuff your face for the last time before treadmill and salad time takes over in 2015.
What: New Year’s Eve in Falls Church When: Wednesday, December 31 Where: Multiple locations in the City of Falls Church
will be dedicating a site at 106 Tinner Hill Road in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the first rural branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Hilton Garden Inn (706 W. Broad St., Falls Church). tinnerhill.org.
Saturday, January 17 – Town Hall. Senator Dick Saslaw and Delegate Marcus Simon will be
discussing the 2015 General Assembly, their legislative agendas and answer questions from constituents. Coffee and doughnuts will be served. Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St., Falls Church). Free. 10 a.m. – noon. 571-327-0053.
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In a controversial move to push it out of its long-time W. Broad Street location in the City of Falls Church in the summer of 2013, the legendary Anthony’s Restaurant had to wait a year until last summer to have its new location at Route 50 and Annandale Road ready. But the agony over the lost old space and the yearlong hiatus in the business is now long and forgotten, as the new location at 3000 Annandale Road is thriving in a big way. To many in the City of Falls Church, including the over 500 who signed petitions to keep the restaurant open where construction of a major new mixed use project (that will be anchored by a large Harris Teeter supermarket) is now well underway, the loss of Anthony’s which grew into its old location over more than 40 years of service, was painful and hard to take. But rather than just sink into history, the tenacity of the family of Greek immigrants has surprised everybody. Led by patriarch and matriarch Anthony and Faye Yiannarakis, the family business is now also being augmented by the work of their grown children and the spouse of daughter Penny, Peter Zoutis, who also hails from Greece. Thriving in their new location, a spacious 4,400 square feet not far from the major Route 50 at Annandale Road intersection, the modestly-priced family-style restaurant seems like a better fit in its new location, serving a large community on the south side of Rt. 50, than it was on W. Broad, where it was fast becoming a bit of an aging anomaly in an area of high commercial and mixed use growth. Anybody who has lived in Falls Church for any period of time is undoubtedly familiar with the core Anthony’s menu, with abundant portions of spaghetti dishes, submarine sandwiches and outstanding pizza. But the menu developed to attend the reopening at the new location is also larger and more comprehensive, beginning with 10 appetizer choices – including calamari, stuffed grape leaves, spinach and feta cheese turnovers, tzatziki and pita, a combo tzatziki, hummus and eggplant dip with pita bread. In addition to a “soup of the day,” a staple at the old location often being either navy bean or split pea, the menu now includes french onion and avgolemono as regular items, the latter being traditional Greek-style chicken, lemon and rice soup. The array of salad options has grown to nine and there are an abundance of sandwiches, ranging from classic BLT, turkey, bacon, avocado and aged provolone, to crab cake, pastrami, corned beef and turkey reuben, three club sandwich choices (turkey, ham and cheese, roast beef and cheese and tuna and egg), the burger, cheeseburger and Greek burger (beef and pork infused with fresh herbs), pita bread sandwiches and 14 varieties of subs. Signature dinners include 10 Greek choices, six seafood options, six steak, pork and chicken choices and 13 pasta options, with arrays of toppings options (whole wheat pasta being available upon request for an additional $1.50). Then there is their classic New York style pizza in three sizes (nine, 12 and 16 inches) with 22 topping options, including four “premium” toppings, and white pizza that features extra virgin olive oil, fresh garlic, mozzarella cheese and fresh basil. There is a kids menu, and 18 dessert choices, including six homemade desserts (baklava, rice pudding, flan, bugatsa, tiramisu and Greek yogurt topped with candied fruit). Finally, unlike the old location, there is a full bar.
— Nicholas F. Benton
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When Badfish first formed in 2001, they were filling a void left by the sudden end of Sublime following Brad Nowell’s untimely death in 1996. “There was that absence…every party we went to people were playing Sublime’s music,” said Badfish drummer Scott Begin. “It was everywhere and there was no band playing it… we figured it we’d just play a set of Sublime’s music and see how it goes. We didn’t expect it to take off the way it did.” Begin said that fans of the band at the University of Rhode Island, where Badfish was founded, loved hearing the music played live. And so Begin and his some of his University of Rhode Island classmates continued playing tribute sets to the Southern California ska punk/reggae band throughout college. “People had the hunger to experience that music live,” Begin said. “There’s no way better way to experience music, so I guess it did fill that void.” Begin said he was “late to the party,” when it came to learning about Sublime. A friend of Begin’s hipped him to the band around the time of Sublime’s major-label debut 40oz. to Freedom. “It was a lot different than any of the other music I was listening to at the time,” Begin said. “That really struck me.” He was sort of a passive fan of the group while their original lineup of Nowell, Eric Wilson and Bud Gaugh was active, he said. He’d hear their stuff on the radio, and was intrigued by Nowell’s death, but it wasn’t until Begin got to the University of Rhode Island that he became a “hardcore” Sublime fan. “I knew their radio songs but it wasn’t until a couple years after the band ended when I met the guys in our band that I really was exposed to all of Sublime’s music,” Begin said. “I was
Badfish (Courtesy Photo) like ‘Wow, this is really cool.’ There was this whole catalog beyond what I’d heard on the radio that was even more diverse than what I heard before.” After the members of Badfish graduated from college they began touring and eventually became one of the biggest club and theater acts in the Northeast and Midwest. Now, they all have families and/or day jobs and tour sporadically throughout the year. They’re playing The Fillmore in Silver Spring on Friday, Jan. 2. Badfish haven’t suffered from the 2009 reunion of Sublime with the new front man Rome, Begin said. As someone who toured and performed regularly in tribute of the original band, Begin heard his fair share of complaints about the band’s reconfiguration when they first came back together. But he’s happy they got back together.
“I think it’s cool. They’re musicians, they want to play,” Begin said. “And they have this great music and were part of creating this great music and of course they want to be out there playing this music they helped create.” That was the music that first inspired the formation of Badfish and the essence they possess today – having a good time while playing great music. Begin said he hopes that people in the Washington, D.C.-region are “ready to have a good time” at the Jan. 2 show. “We want to have the party happening and going off and have people dancing,” Begin said. “And just getting out and having fun with us. That’s the mindset we go out there with every night. We just want to have a blast.” • For more information about Badfish, visit badfish.com.
The Legwarmers State Theatre
These singles whet the appetites of the FCNP editorial team this week:
8 p.m. 220 N. Washington St., Falls Church
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Nicholas Benton – Messiah by George Frideric Handel
Jody Fellows – Christmas Eve in Washington by Maura Sullivan
Drew Costley – A Mess... by Shabazz Palaces
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Mason’s Spinello Named HS Boys Soccer Coach of the Year by Drew Costley
Falls Church News-Press
Last week George Mason High School’s varsity boys soccer head coach Frank Spinello was named National High School Boys Soccer Coach of the Year for 2014 by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. Two of his players – one former, one current – told the NewsPress that they weren’t surprised to hear that news. Spinello said he was humbled by it. “I feel honored and lucky to be surrounded by great people who make any award possible,”
Spinello said. “My assistant coaches, Nathan Greiner and Bobby Penland, are amazing and make my job so much easier and are huge reasons for any personal accolades that I get…I know an individual award is only achieved due to having long term team success.” Former and current players have been contacting Spinello since the news of the award spread. “I hear from at least fifty former players after we win championships and have heard from even more after this award. To know that they are happy for
mason head coach frank spinello (center) with assistant coaches Nate Grenier (left) and Bobby Penland at the 2014 state championships. (Courtesy Photo)
any coaching awards I receive means so much to me, it has been overwhelming and humbling,” Spinello said. “We consider Mason Soccer more than a program, it is an extended family. When the current team wins anything our alumni are always supportive. They laid the foundation for the program and take pride in the program, and that makes it so much more special.” Mason’s senior goalkeeper Daniel Donovan is one of the players who have been in touch with Spinello in the past week. Donovan, a four-year varsity player for the Mustangs, said that his head coach is “very deserving” of the award. “Out of all the amazing coaches at Mason I don’t know anybody who puts in as much work as he does. Not just during the season, but year round,” Donovan said. “All year he’s checking in with us as far as grades, off-season workouts and during the season he takes trips to see opposing teams to make sure we’re wellprepared…I’m really glad that he got it.” Spinello’s celebration of the news that he got the award is also a testament to the work ethic Donovan referenced. “I celebrated by having an off season conditioning and training session with this year’s prospects and returning players,” Spinello said. There isn’t a ton of time to celebrate for Spinello and his gang. The Mustangs have won the last two Virginia High School League state championships for their division, so they’ll have a lot to defend when they step onto the pitch in a few months. And they’ll have a lot of teams trying their hardest to
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scholastic bowl The scholastic bowl team continued their win streak last Monday, Dec. 15, with two wins at their meet at Manassas Park Community Center against William Monroe and Warren County High Schools. The Mustangs walloped Warren County 415-10 before beating William Monroe 260-90. The Mustangs’ will take on Rappahannock County and Strasburg High Schools on Monday, Jan. 12, in their final meet of the regular season. girls basketball The girls basketball team is 5-2 after win-
ning four of their last five games. The Mustangs beat William Monroe High School 42-17 on Wednesday, Dec. 10, and edged out Central High School 43-40 on Friday, Dec. 12. The next day the Mustangs lost to Luray High School 65-52 at home. But they returned to the winner’s circle in grand fashion. They trampled Rappahannock County High School in a 57-26 win last Monday, Dec. 15, and soundly defeated Strasburg High School 48-30 last Friday, Dec. 19. The Mustangs will play in a holiday tournament at Broad Run High School with their first game set for this Saturday, Dec. 27, at 1 p.m.
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F.C. Father-Son Team Wins Golf Tournament At East Potomac Park A father-son team from Falls Church, Brian and Jack Goggin, won the Snowman Scramble 9-Hole Tournament at East Potomac Park in Washington, D.C. last Sunday, Dec. 14. Team Goggin shot 34 on East Potomac’s par-33 white course and walked away with $60 worth of gift certificates and prizes. Jack also on the longest drive contest at the tournament. Jack is a sophomore at George Mason High School, where he plays on the varsity golf team. Brian is an agricultural economist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. knock them off and for good reason – last season they set Virginia state records in any division for goals scored (153) and goal differential (139). Paul Darmstadter, a 2014 Mason graduate and former team captain who was vital in the Mustangs’ success over the last two seasons, is currently going to George Mason University parttime while playing for the D.C. United U-18 Academy team. He said that Spinello is a great mentor beyond soccer. “He gave me a lot of advice on my college search and what he thought was best for me,” Darmstadter said. “He also would include us in a lot of things outside of school whether it was potential soccer opportunities like coaching youth teams and just helping out in the community. He really wanted us to be active in the community.” Among the achievements noted in the press release announcing the coaches of the year was the
Mustangs’ 3.5 grade point average last year. Both Donovan and Darmstadter talked about Spinello’s emphasis on academics outside of eligibility requirements. He said he’s so involved in his player’s lives on and off the field because of how much the team means to him. “Mason soccer is one of the most precious things in my life. The best part of my day is being with the team, whether it is game day or a practice. I love the fact that many of our former players have gone into coaching and have had success at it,” Spinello said. “I think that if the game has been important to you and given you joy, then you should give something back to it, to pass that passion on to others in some way. I have forged great and lasting friendships with coaches, players and parents that would have never been possible without Mason Soccer. Mason Soccer is family to me.”
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Mustang Boys Beat Strasburg 60-45, Remain Undefeated by Liz Lizama
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The George Mason High School varsity boys basketball team remains undefeated after a 60-45 win against Strasburg High School at home last Thursday. This was a key game for both teams as George Mason came in with a 6-0 record and Strasburg 5-0. “They always play good fundamental man-to-man defense, and we need to be much better running our offense to get good shots,” said Mason head coach Chris Capannola of their opponents ahead of the game. Mason lead early on with the first quarter ending 17-9. While Mason held a strong lead in the second quarter at 31-14, Strasburg managed to shorten the lead and end the half at 31-21. During the third quarter, Strasburg picked up 12 more points and held their defense
allowing Mason to only score two points. The game was then tied at 33 until Mason hit a 17-0 run, bringing the score up to 50-33. Mason sealed the game from there and maintained the lead, finally ending with a 15-point lead. Mason junior forward Robert Tartt led the team with 16 points, followed by junior guards Elliot Mercado with 13 points and Josh Allen with 10 points. In the last two matches against Luray and Rappahannock County, Capannola expressed concern with the team’s outside shots, as Mason only scored one three-pointer in each game. On Thursday, the team made four of six three-point shots, with Allen scoring two, Mercado with one and junior guard Devin Thomas also with one. “The last two games combined we were 2-31 from three, so I was glad to see the shot selection improve and it was nice to knock a
Junior forward robert tartt defends the baseline during Mason’s full court press against the Rams last Thursday. Tartt led the Mustangs in scoring against the Rams with 16 points. Both teams went into the matchup with undefeated records. (Photo: Drew Costley/News-Press) couple of them down,” Capannola said. “Overall, we were 24-49 from the field and 8-12 from the free throw line, both big improvements over the last couple of games. We
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also had 15 steals as a team and forced the tempo in the second half.” With a holiday tournament ahead of them, Capannola is focused on improving the team’s
offensive play. “We still aren’t real good in our half court offense. But again, if we get turnovers and fast break points, that’s where we are at our best,” he said.
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Are you getting your PFV? Powerhouse Fruits and Vegetables, that is. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has discovered a way to classify the nutrient value and health benefits in fruits and vegetables, and it released a study that identifies “powerhouse� foods that can help reduce and prevent chronic disease. It’s the “nutrient density� that does the trick: how many of 17 necessary nutrients are present in each food. The CDC used an elaborate classification system to determine how to score each food item tested, based on kilocalories and grams, and involving terms like bioavailability, nutrient adequacy and energy density. Thankfully it is summed up for us in a handy chart (see www.cdc.gov/ pcd/issues/2014/13_0390.htm). The results: The most nutri-
ent-dense foods are watercress, Chinese cabbage, chard, beet greens and spinach. Still important but near the bottom of the list of 41 powerhouse foods were grapefruits, sweet potatoes, leeks and blackberries. Ask your doctor if it would be helpful to add some of these foods to your diet. And there’s another reason to try to stay healthy, especially now: Flu season is setting up to be a whopper. It recently was reported that one of the three viruses covered in the shot has “drifted.� That means it’s mutated slightly away from what it is supposed to be covered. The other two vaccines are providing coverage for their particular strain, but the big one isn’t 100 percent affective against that one strain of flu. Still, if you haven’t had a flu shot yet, get one. If you’re around children and grandchildren, encourage them to get their shots as well ... so they don’t bring it
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City Manager David Lasso and his staff are well on their way to identifying $650,000 in savings needed as a result of the City Council directive to prepare a flat budget for next fiscal year which will still provide for a two percent cost of living adjustment plus merit steps for City employees. “We’re now up to about $550,000 now,” said Lasso of the cuts which he describes as “painful.”
The Vienna, Virginia-based Atlantic Reality Company, with plans to play a major role in the redevelopment of the City of Falls Church’s downtown, won final site plan approval for its large scale mixed use project at 500 S. Maple St. from the Planning Commission here Monday. Jonathan Myers of Atlantic Reality also announced the mostly residential of the two buildings composing the project will be called “Simon Pearson Square”....
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THIS IS SAMI, a female tabby brought home from the Lost Cat Foundation in 2013. Her name is an acronym: Sometimes Affectionate, Mostly Indifferent; which described her behavior pretty accurately for her first year in Falls Church, although now she might have to be renamed MASI because she has turned into a full-time lap cat when she gets her way. She also enjoys sitting on the News-Press when everyone else has read it.
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