Falls Church News-Press - May 8, 2008 edition

Virginia history was made in the Falls Church city election Tuesday. By being elected to the City Council, Lawrence Webb has become the first openly gay Afro-American elected official in the history of the commonwealth.

Webb, 33, an assistant dean of admissions at Mary Washington University, ran on a slate endorsed by the City’s venerable civic organization, the Citizens for a Better City (CBC) along with Incumbent

Mayor Robin Gardner, Incumbent Vice Mayor Lindy Hockenberry and three School Board candidates.

He wound up with 1,215 votes, 39 ahead of Hockenberry, to win one of the three seats up for grabs in the election, along with Gardner and independent Nader Baroukh.

In a statement to the NewsPress following his victory, Webb said, “My sexuality is one aspect of my life and it has not or does not hinder me from completing my job.

I hope my election opens the door for others to get involved

in public service. It doesn’t matter if you’re gay or black or both. What matters is your dedication to building a better community, and your willingness to work hard at it.”

Since moving to the City of Falls Church four years ago, Webb has been involved in volunteer service as a City Council appointee to the City’s Recreation and Parks Advisory Committee, and with the CBC and Village Preservation Society. He notified the NewsPress of his decision to run for Continued on Page 4

City of Falls Church voters returned Mayor Robin Gardner to a third term on the City Council Tuesday, providing her the highest vote total among seven candidates, and soundly defeated a ballot referendum aimed at deterring the pro-development direction of her leadership.

The anti-development referendum, which would have placed strict and arbitrary restrictions on projects in the City’s commercially-zoned corridors, went down to a 14-point defeat, 57% of voters casting “No” votes, to 43% voting “Yes.” “The City as a whole knows we need mixed use development,” Mayor Gardner told a crowd assembled at a victory party after polls closed Tuesday night. “The vote against the referendum is a signal to us to continue to move forward judiciously and with great care.”

Winning election to the City Council for the first time were Nader Baroukh and Lawrence Webb, who with his election becomes the first openly gay Afro-American elected official in the history of Virginia (see story, elsewhere this edition).

Coming up short in her bid for a third term was current Vice Mayor Lindy Hockenberry.

Joan Wodiska, Charlotte Hyland and Kieran Sharpe were elected to the School Board.

In this municipal election cycle in Falls Church, there were three seats contested on both the Council and School Board. In two years, four seats on each body will be up for election. Those elected this time will be sworn in on July 1, the same day each seven-member body Continued on Page 5

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“Are you satisfied with the outcome of the Falls Church election?â€? • Very much • Somewhat • Not so much Continued from Page 1

City Council last fall, and received the nod from the CBC at its nominating convention in February.

Webb said he informed the CBC leadership that he is gay prior to the convention and that they were supportive. But he chose not to make an issue about it as a member of the six-candidate CBC slate until just two weeks before the election.

On April 23, he notified the News-Press that he’d sought and received the financial backing and support of the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund in Washington, D.C., an advocacy group that works for the election of openly-gay candidates at all levels of government.

Webb later said he’d also approached the Virginia Partisans Gay and Lesbian Club, based in Arlington. Monday, the board of directors of the Partisans formally endorsed Webb, and a widely-disseminated e-mail was sent out to Partisan supporters and friends in Falls Church and

elsewhere reporting the news.

On Election Day, the Victory Fund delivered with five young adult volunteers who arrived in Falls Church from Washington, D.C., before the polls opened at 6 a.m. to work for Webb at the five voting precincts in the City.

Led by the Fund’s political manager, Shawn Werner, and Adam Martin, they stayed until the polls closed, and then joined Webb and the other CBC-backed candidates and their supporters at a victory party in the social hall at the Center for Spiritual Enlightenment.

Yesterday, the Victory Fund reported, “Lawrence ran a fantastic campaign, our donors stepped up, and the Victory Fund staff was on the ground before the sun rose Tuesday morning to help turn out our voters. In the end, Lawrence won by just 39 votes.�

In remarks at the party, Webb not only thanked the CBC and its supporters, and promised a hard-working, productive four years on the City Council, but

he singled out the Victory Fund volunteers who were standing to the side with his partner, Clifton.

They received a thunderous applause.

Other openly-gay elected officials in Virginia include Arlington County Board member Jay Fisette and State Delegate Adam Ebbin. But Webb is the first who is also Afro-American.

Webb will be sworn into formal duties on the Council, where he will serve a four-year term, on July 1. At that time, the seven-member Council will also elect a mayor for the next two years and a new vice-mayor.

In his victory statement, Webb said, “Since moving to the City of Falls Church I have been involved civically and as I gained further knowledge about the city and its leadership, I felt that I could serve on the governing body. I am grateful that the citizens of Falls Church have entrusted me with the responsibility to help guide the direction of our City’s future, and I thank them.�

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will also elect a mayor and vice-mayor, and a School Board chair and vice-chair.

It is expected that Gardner will be re-elected to a second two-year term as mayor, although with the defeat of Vice Mayor Hockenberry, it is uncertain who will move into that slot. Gardner first became mayor in 2006 when six-year Mayor Dan Gardner chose not to seek re-election.

Baroukh, 36, a government attorney, won the second highest vote total for City Council.

He was an outspoken critic of the recently approved $317 million Atlantic Realty City Center Project even though he served on a City task force that reviewed and proposed changes to the plan. He also favored passage of the referendum.

Other Council candidates supporting the referendum, Ed Hillegass and Margaret Housen, came in distant fifth and sixth place, ahead of Patrice Lepczyk.

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By the numbers, Gardner had 1,273 votes (20%), Baroukh 1,226 (19%), Webb 1,215 (19%), Hockenberry 1,176 (18%), Hillegass 807 (12%), Housen 590 (9%) and Lepczyk 231 (4%).

For the School Board, Wodiska got 1,464 votes (29%), Hyland 1,423 (28%), Sharpe 1,181 (23%) and Kim Maller

1,058 (21%).

For the referendum, the “Yes” vote total was 1,017 (43%), “No” 1,345 (57%).

The Falls Church Chamber of Commerce spearheaded the effort to defeat the referendum, which was also opposed by all the CBC candidates. The NewsPress editorialized forcefully against its passage.

Baroukh was the top votegetter for City Council in his home precinct, where his home is located adjacent to where the new City Center project will go.

In comments to the NewsPress yesterday, Baroukh said that, foremost, he wanted to thank those who supported him in the election. “I look forward to working with other members of the Council the next four years. There will be challenges in the coming years and I look forward to addressing them.”

He added that as an Iranianborn citizen, “I get choked up at the thought of being elected to public office in this land. I’ve gotten choked up every time

I’ve been in a voting booth.”

Since the Iranian revolution in the late 1970s, Baroukh said he and his family have been unable to return to Iran because of their Jewish heritage.

In a written statement to the News-Press issued yesterday, Mayor Gardner said, “I want to thank the citizens of Falls Church for supporting me this year. It is an honor to again be asked to serve. I take this responsibility seriously and will

continue to do the best that I can.”

She added, “I especially want to thank Lindy Hockenberry, who has served this community for over 40 years, the last eight on the City Council, for her service. She has had a tremendous impact on our City and I am proud to have served with her and to call her my friend.”

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4 Say They’re Eager to Win 11th District Dem Nomination The four Democrats vying to win the Democratic nomination in a June 10 primary to compete for Virginia’s 11th District Congressional seat vacated by Rep. Tom Davis in November appeared at an Annandale event Sunday, all eager to win voter support for the key election now just a month away. In order, Iraq War veteran Doug Denneny, physical therapist Lori Alexander, Former U.S. Rep. Leslie Byrne and Fairfax County Board Chair Gerry Connolly addressed scores attending a brunch hosted by the Virginia Partisans Gay and Lesbian Club. All said they felt chances to elect a Democrat from the district, represented by the Republican Davis since 1994, were excellent, although not a “slam dunk,� despite Republican-controlled re-districting in 2002 aimed at making it more secure for the GOP. Byrne noted that she won 55% of the vote in the district when she ran for lieutenant governor in 2005, and Connolly said he won 59% in the district in his run for county board re-election in 2006. Denneny said he’s a “new generation Democrat,� touting progressive values and fiscal discipline. Alexander said she’s acutely aware of “discrimination on the basis of economic class,� while Byrne said she wants to make sure “there’s no war without end in Iraq.� Connolly said that, among other things, 10 years’ experience as a staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee qualifies him.

Arrest Made in Stabbing Death of F.C. Teen The fatal stabbing of a Harbi Adam, 18, a senior at J.E.B. Stuart High School in Falls Church, in the early hours of Sunday, April 27, has resulted in the arrest of a suspect, Fairfax County Police said Tuesday. The stabbing occurred during a fight between two groups and involved at least a dozen people, which police say was not gang related. Arrested and charged with murder Monday was Joshua S. Puryear, 21, of Manassas. He was apprehended by the U.S. Marshals Service in Southeast Washington. Police were called to the 3700 block of Powell Lane at 4 a.m. on the morning of April 27 and found two young men lying in the street. Both had been stabbed, and Adam died a short time later. The second victim, a 20-year-old from Annandale, remains in the hospital.

F.C. Area Man Robbed While Sitting in Car Just after midnight on Saturday, May 3, a 31-year-old Falls Church-area man was robbed while sitting in his car and talking on this cellular phone. The incident occurred in the 3600 block of Barcroft View Terrace. Two men approached the victim’s car, according to Fairfax Police, one displaying a handgun, and demanded money. The man complied and the suspects fled toward Columbia Pike. The suspects were described as white or possible Middle Eastern men, 25 to 30 years, 5 ft. 7 in. tall and 140 pounds. Both wore dark clothing and black skull caps. Persons with information are urged to contact Crime Solvers at 1-866-411-8477.

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Again, the City Hall chambers were filled to overflowing with citizens who signed up to testify both for and against the project. The matter will now come back to the Council, which gave its preliminary approval to the required “special exceptions� in March. The Council is slated to hold a work session on May 19, and a public hearing and final vote on May 27. While everyone agreed that the safety and welfare of the children at St. James was a paramount concern, some St. James parents raised fears of dire danger posed by the hotel. “We all know what happens in hotels,� City resident Ken Blanco said, alleging that people go to them to do things “anonymously� and “secretly� and that they are havens for crime, prostitution, guns, drugs and “preying on vulnerable children.� However, developer Bob Young cited law enforcement experts who told him that the Hilton Garden Inn would “make the entire area safer and more secure for the community� and a National Center for Safe Routes to School “Walkability Checklist� that included “no warnings about hotels.� Issues of traffic, parking and pedestrian safety were also argued from both sides.

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Life is short, but campaigns are long. And during the course of them, each candidate will have impressive and pathetic moments. But underlying the highs and lows, there are the fundamentals. The fundamentals of the Obama-Clinton race were on display Sunday morning.

Hillary Clinton went on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” incarnating her role as the first Democratic Rambo.

The Clinton campaign seems to want to reduce the entire race to one element: the supposed masculinity gap. And so everything she does is all about assertion, combat and Alpha dog dominance.

A few questions in, Clinton rose from her chair and loomed over Stephanopoulos. The country hasn’t seen such a brazen display of attempted middle-aged physical intimidation since Al Gore took a walkabout on the debate stage with George Bush. It was like watching someone get elbowed in a dark alley by their homeroom teacher.

But her attempt to take over the show was nothing compared with her attempt to dominate the truth.

For the first 30 minutes, she did not utter a single candid word, including, as Mary McCarthy would say, “and” and “the.”

She peddled her sham gas-tax holiday and repeated her attempt to blame Indiana’s job losses on outsourcing and NAFTA. Stephanopoulos asked her to name a single economist who thinks a tax-holiday plan would work, and the daughter of Wellesley and Yale took the chance to shove the geeks into their lockers: “I’m not going to put my lot in with economists.”

When Stephanopoulos pointed out that Paul Krugman, a New York Times columnist, has raised doubts about the plan, Clinton lumped Krugman in with the Bush administration and said she wasn’t going to listen to the people responsible for the last seven years.

This wasn’t just shameless spin, it was shamelessness with a purpose. Clinton signaled that she wasn’t going to concede even an inch to the vast elitist conspiracy. She wasn’t going to feel guilty about ignoring the evidence. She was going to stomp on it, flay it and leave it a twisted mass of jelly quivering on the ground. She was going to perform the primordial duty of an alpha dog leader -- helping one’s own.

Barack Obama gave off an entirely different vibe

on “Meet the Press.” His campaign has been in the doldrums for the past few months. He’s never come up with an explanation about how he would actually transform politics, and his conventional substance is beginning to overshadow his unconventional style.

But, as Sunday’s contrast made clear, Obama still seems like a human being. He still seems to return each night to some zone of normalcy where personal reflection lives. He wasn’t fully candid when answering questions about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, but there are some inner guardrails that prevent the spin from drifting too far from the truth.

Thoughtful and conversational, he doesn’t seem to possess the trait that Clinton has: automatically assuming that critics are always wrong.

Obama still possesses his talent for homeostasis, the ability to return to emotional balance and calm, even amid hysteria. His astounding composure has come across as weakness in the midst of combat with Clinton, but it’s also at the core of his promise to change politics.

He vows to calm hatred and heal division.

This contrast between combat and composure defines the Democratic race. The implicit Clinton argument is that politics is an inherently nasty business.

Human nature, as she said Sunday, means that progress comes only through conquest. You’d better elect a leader who can intimidate. You’d better elect someone who has given herself permission to be brutal.

Obama’s campaign grows out of the longstanding reform tradition. His implicit argument is that politics doesn’t have to be this way. Dishonesty and brutality aren’t inevitable; they’re what gets in the way. Obama’s friend and supporter Cass Sunstein described the Obama ideal in The New Republic: “Obama believes that real change usually requires consensus, learning and accommodation.”

That’s regarded as naive drivel in parts of Camp Clinton.

Campaign issues come and go, but this is a thread running through the race. One believes in the raw assertion of power, the other the power of communication.

They are imperfect messengers for their creeds.

Clinton rails against “Wall Street money-grubbers,” but her policies are often drawn from the Wall Street wing of the party. Obama talks about postpartisan compromise in the abstract, but rarely in the particular.

Still, amid the storms of the presidency, their basic worldviews would shape their presidencies. Obama is instinctively a conversationalist and community-mobilizer. Clinton, as she says, will fight and fight. If elected, she’ll have the power to take the Hobbesian struggle she perceives, and turn it into remorseless reality.

WASHINGTON -- Some readers resented The Washington Post for publishing an Associated Press photograph of a critically wounded Iraqi child being lifted from the rubble of his home in Baghdad’s Sadr City “after a U.S. airstrike.”

Two-year-old Ali Hussein later died in a hospital.

As the saying goes, the picture was worth a thousand words because it showed the true horrors of this war.

Neither side is immune from killing of Iraqi civilians. But Americans should be aware of their own responsibility for inflicting death and pain on the innocent.

The Post’s ombudsman, Deborah Howell, said about 20 readers complained about the photo, while a few readers praised the Post for publishing the stark picture on page one.

Some mothers said they were offended that

their children might see the picture, though one wonders whether their youngsters watch television and play with violent videos in a pretend world.

From the start of the unprovoked U.S. “shock and awe” invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, the government tried to bar the news media from photographing flag-draped coffins of American soldiers returning from Iraq. A Freedom of Information lawsuit forced the government to release pictures of returning coffins.

Howell said some readers felt the photo of the Iraqi boy was “an anti-war statement; some thought it was in poor taste.” Well, so is war.

Howell said her boss, Executive Editor Len Downie, “is cautious about such photos.”

“We have seldom been able to show the human impact of the fighting on Iraqis,” Downie was quoted as saying. “We decided this was a rare instance in which we had a powerful image with which to do so.”

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Knock on wood: it’s possible, though by no means certain, that the worst of the financial crisis is over. That’s the good news.

The bad news is that as markets stabilize, chances for fundamental financial reform may be slipping away. As a result, the next crisis will probably be worse than this one.

After the financial crisis that ushered in the Great Depression, New Deal reformers regulated the banking system, with the goal of protecting the economy from future crises. The new system worked well for half a century.

Eventually, however, Wall Street did an end run around regulation, using complex financial arrangements to put most of the business of banking outside the regulators’ reach. Washington could have revised the rules to cover this new “shadow banking system” -but that would have run counter to the market-worshiping ideology.

Instead, key officials, from Alan Greenspan on down, sang the praises of financial innovation and pooh-poohed warnings about the growing risks.

And then the crisis came. Last August, as investors began to realize the scope of the mortgage mess, confidence in the financial system collapsed.

We’ve been lucky to have Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve chairman during these trying times. He may lack Greenspan’s talent for impersonating the Wizard of Oz, but he’s an economist who has thought long and hard about both the Great Depression and Japan’s lost decade in the 1990s, and he understands what’s at stake.

Bernanke recognized, more quickly than others might have, that we were in a situation bearing a family resemblance to the great banking crisis of 1930-31. His first priority, overriding every other concern, had to be preventing a cascade of financial failures that would cripple the economy.

The Fed’s efforts these past nine months remind me of the old TV series “MacGyver,” whose ingenious hero would always get out of difficult situations by assembling clever devices out of household objects and duct tape.

Because the institutions in trouble weren’t called banks, the Fed’s usual tools for dealing with financial trouble, designed for a system centered on traditional banks, were largely useless. So the Fed has cobbled together makeshift arrangements to save the day. There was the TAF and the TSLF (don’t ask), there were credit lines to investment banks, and the whole thing culminated in March’s unprecedented, barely legal Bear Stearns rescue -- a rescue not of Bear itself, but of its “counterparties,” those who were on the other side of its financial bets.

It’s still far from certain whether all this improvisation has resolved the crisis. But it was the right thing to do, and for the moment things seem to be calming down.

So, two cheers for Bernanke. Unfortunately, his very success -if he has succeeded -- poses another problem: it gives the financial industry a chance to block reform.

We now know that things that aren’t called banks can nonetheless generate banking crises, and that the Fed needs to carry out bank-type rescues on their behalf. It follows that hedge funds, special investment vehicles and so on need bank-type regulation. In particular, they need to be required to have adequate capital.

But while our out-of-control financial system has been bad for the country, it has been very good for wheeler-dealers, who collect huge fees when things seem to be going well, then get to walk away unscathed -- indeed, often with large severance packages -- when things go wrong. They don’t want regulations that would stabilize the economy but cramp their style.

And now that the financial clouds have lifted a bit, the pushback against sensible regulation is in full swing. Even the Fed’s very modest proposal to curb abusive mortgage lending with new standards is under fire, and there are signs that the Fed may back down.

Maybe a Democratic sweep can revive the cause of financial reform, but it looks as if we’ll soon return to business as usual.

The parallel that worries me is what happened a decade ago, after the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management failed, temporarily causing the whole financial system to freeze up.

Through luck and skill, that crisis was contained -- but rather than serving as a warning, the episode nurtured the false belief that the Fed had all the tools it needed to deal with financial shocks. So nothing was done to remedy the vulnerabilities the LTCM crisis revealed -- the same vulnerabilities that are at the heart of today’s much bigger crisis.

And if we don’t fix the system now, there’s every reason to believe that the next crisis will be bigger still -- and that the Fed won’t have enough duct tape to hold things together.

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The man in the eye of the storm has written a book entitled, “In the Eye of the Storm.” The Rev. Gene Robinson, Episcopal Church Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire, was in Washington, D.C. this week, hosted by the Human Rights Campaign to pitch his new book that includes a foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

The subtitle of the new volume is “Swept to the Center by God.” Bishop Robinson is a bespectacled, diminutive, soft-spoken but articulate, and gentle man, just the type of devout person you’d expect a bishop to be. His discourse is laced with constant references to God and love and a puckish sense of humor.

It’s hard to imagine that this person is, indeed, at the proverbial center of the storm, the man that has convulsed the entire global Anglican Communion, and led to an ugly rift within the Episcopal Church, U.S.A. Bishop Gene Robinson is, you see, gay. That is, he is openly gay. As he was introduced prior to making remarks Monday, he is “far from being the first or only gay bishop,” only the first to publicly affirm his sexual orientation.

Since he was elevated to standing as a bishop in 2003, there have been dozens of so-called “breakaway” congregations in the U.S. Episcopal Church led by conservatives and homophobic reactionaries. Most of these defectors have aligned under a new umbrella association led by the bigoted right-wing Bishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, a man who thinks that gays are an “abomination” and any gay behavior should be punishable by stiff prison sentences.

The mild-mannered Robinson said that he’s heard his detractors say they wished he wasn’t such a nice guy. “It would be a lot easier for us if he wasn’t,” they’ve said.

Tongue in cheek, he said he first knew he was gay when, as a youth, he discerned that a painting of a blond, blue-eyed Jesus knocking on a heart-shaped door printed on the back of fans handed out during open-air summertime religious revivals was “tacky.”

But then he went on to affirm the truth behind that “tacky” painting, noting that Jesus does knock at the heart, and that there is only one door knob, which is on the inside. “You have to open that door.

He won’t open it for you,” he said.

He talked about his prison ministry, and what it was like to spend Christmas Eve with hardened women convicts. “It’s a terrible night to be in a prison,” he said. “But it’s where the church should be, because these people know they’re in need of God.” He also told of his travels around the Pacific Rim to learn more about the lives and oppression of lesbians and gays in the Anglican Communion. In Hong Kong, he said, gays met to worship in secret due to the harsh oppression there. But he realized that all of those assembled there were paying very close attention via the Internet to the struggles for equality and affirmation within the Episcopal Church in the U.S. “They’re all following our debate. They know their liberation is tied to ours.”

“Everyone around the world is paying attention to us,” he said.

“We are animated by hope, which is better than optimism, because it affirms what the outcome will be in the long haul. We have to toughen up as a community and not let setbacks discourage us.”

Citing the positive reception he got from speaking to the Black Justice Coalition days before, and Bishop Tutu’s foreword to his book, he said that as “a child of the civil rights movement of the 60s,” he knows the key to progress is to “connect the dots.”

By that he meant to imbue with the same hope all the “discounted, despised and marginalized” people of the world. He cited one prisoner, a straight person who’d committed a heinous crime, who chose to worship with a lesbian group. “This is the only community that could love me despite what I’ve done,” she said.

That involves a resolve not to walk away from our enemies, he said. “Don’t just go home. The truth will prevail if you just hang around long enough.” There are parts of the world, he said, where they’ve never sat with unashamedly gay people.

“They want to leave the table, and we can’t make them stay. But we have to have the courage to stay at the table of our enemies. God won’t end his work until everyone’s in.”

He cited the transformative effect of Bishop Tutu’s foreword, where Tutu wrote, “May I wholly inadequately apologize to my sisters and brothers who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgendered for the cruelty and injustice that you have suffered and continue to suffer at the hands of us, your fellow Anglicans; I am sorry. Forgive us for all the pain we have caused you and which we continue to inflict on you.”

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INDIANAPOLIS -- In his memoir, the legendary Elia Kazan wrote about directing Vivien Leigh in “A Streetcar Named Desire.”

While he did not think that Leigh was a great natural actress, he was impressed that she would crawl through glass to get the role right.

Hillary Clinton may not be a great natural politician, but traveling across the country on her own Bus Named Desire, she has crawled through glass to get the role right.

She showed again with her squeaker win in Indiana that for many white working-class men, she is The Man -- more tenacious and less concerned with the judgments of the tony set, economists and editorial writers. Talking up guns, going to the Auto Racing Hall of Fame, speaking from the back of pickup trucks and doing shots of populism with a cynicism chaser, Hillary emerged from a lifetime of government limos to bask as queen of the blue-collar prom.

Nobility is for losers.

Just as Obama spent his youth trying not to be threatening, so as not to unnerve whites, Hillary spent her life learning to be threatening so she could beat back challenges to her and her husband -- from Republicans and from “bimbo eruptions” and now from a charmed younger rival.

As Obama learned to accommodate, the accommodating Hillary learned to triangulate and lacerate. As he learned that following the rules could get you far with adoring mentors, she learned from Bill and Dick Morris and Mark Penn that following the rules was for saps.

Hillary is less Blanche than Scarlett. “Heaven help the Yankees if they capture you,” Rhett told the willful belle at the start of her rugged odyssey.

And heaven help the Democrats as they try to shake off Hillary. On top of her inane vows to obliterate Iran, OPEC and the summer gas tax, she plans “a nuclear option” during her Shermanesque march to Denver. Tom Edsall reported on The Huffington Post that the Hillaryites will try, at a May 31 meeting of the Democratic Rules and Bylaws Committee, to renege on their word and get the Michigan and Florida delegations seated. As she addressed supporters, she urged counting the votes of Florida and Michigan, noting “it would be a little strange to have a nominee chosen by 48 states.”

“It’s full speed onto the White House,” she said.

Fox News reports that the Clintons are planning a summer campaign with TV appearances, fliers and rallies, between the end of the primary and the convention, to drag back superdelegates trying to flock to Obama.

The Democratic race has been a scorpion and a

butterfly in a bottle. Hillary tore Barry’s wings off, and so psyched him out with her silly goading “Enough about the speeches and the big rallies!” she cried -- that he gave up his magical trump cards.

Wandering around Indiana, appearing in neighborhoods and at diners without any advance notice, talking to handfuls of people, Obama strived to seem less lofty and more mortal. Hounded by Hillary, Bill and Rev. Wright, he just looked sort of numb.

When Obama went to an 11:30 p.m. shift change at an auto components plant here, a Newsday reporter on the scene noted that many of the white men “were less likely to smile or look him in the eye or seem impressed with him.”

In a restaurant in Greenwood on Tuesday, Obama approached an older white guy sitting alone who waved him off, muttering afterwards to a reporter: “I can’t stand him. He’s a Muslim. He’s not even pro-American as far as I’m concerned.”

Even though people at diners kept trying to fatten Obama up, he drew the line at gravy -- he looked increasingly diaphanous, like anti-matter to Hillary’s matter. She’s more appealing when she’s beaten down; he’s less imposing. Even his strategists admit that he will now need to “step it up,” as one said. And he started his victory speech in Raleigh, N.C., on Tuesday night with a vivid paean to patriotism and “telling the truth forcefully, repeatedly, confidently.”

It’s hard to believe that this Hillary is the same Wellesley girl who said she yearned for a more “ecstatic and penetrating mode of living.” What would that young Hillary -- who volunteered on Gene McCarthy’s anti-war campaign; who cried the day Martin Luther King Jr. was killed; who referred to some of her “smorgasbord of personalities” in a 1967 letter to a friend as an “alienated academic,” an “involved pseudo-hippie”; who once returned a bottle of perfume after feeling guilty about the poverty around her -- think of this shape-shifting, cynical Hillary?

She’s so at odds with who she used to be, even in the Senate, that if she were to get elected, who would voters be electing?

Obama is like her idealistic, somewhat naive self before the world launched 1,000 attacks against her, turning her into the hard-bitten, driven politician who has launched 1,000 attacks against Obama.

As she makes a last frenzied and likely futile attempt to crush the butterfly, it’s as though she’s crushing the remnants of her own girlish innocence.

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No matter who wins the presidential election, it is quite clear that the big loser in campaign 08 is religion. By far, the most strident political voices have come from renegade reverends that seem a bit hot under the collar. These cantankerous characters (or caricatures) have transformed their houses of worship into a harbor of war ships with loose cannons lobbing invective into an otherwise serene national conversation.

The most cloying of the clergy is Barack Obama’s self-promoting preacher, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright. While he claims to represent the interests of African Americans, he may be remembered for giving a black eye to the black church, while sabotaging America’s first legitimate African American presidential contender.

Wright has clearly turned the sanctuary into a sanitarium. When I see him jumping around the pulpit and flapping his wings like a chicken, I want to call Colonel Sanders, so Wright’s ridiculous routine will finally come home to roost.

I’m half past fed up with hearing about how we should respect Wright and his ilk because he has an AIDS ministry and helps the poor. The good work that people do in life does not automatically negate the bad. For example, President Bush has helped fund the fight against AIDS in Africa. However, this does not cancel out his disinformation campaign against condoms, which helps increase infections. Likewise, Wright’s sickening sermons are so obnoxious and divisive that they overshadow his laudable contributions.

At this point, the best thing this shameless shaman can do is continue stabbing his former parishioner in the back. The further apart they grow, the more difficult it will be for McCain to conflate the positions of Wright and Obama in political ads.

While the eyes of the nation were focused on Wright’s sinful spectacle, they largely ignored a stinging denunciation of gay unions

by Hillary Clinton’s church. The United Methodists voted to uphold church law that says gay relationships are “incompatible with Christian teaching.” If there was a vote opposing interracial marriages on scriptural grounds, is there any doubt Clinton would leave her church?

Clinton averted our gaze to her church’s bashing of gays by sending Chelsea on a gay pub-crawl in Philadelphia. While her daughter frolicked with bar patrons pounding shots – her church took pot shots at loving same-sex couples. It would have been refreshing if the possible Democratic standard-bearer, would have taken a stand against the gay double standard and left her church.

Of course, the “liberal media” has been so consumed with the Democratic demolition derby, that they barely noticed radical reverends on the right. Now that Rev. Jerry Falwell has departed, McCain has latched onto Rev. John Hagee to prove his conservative credentials. Hagee has called the Roman Catholic Church the “the great whore of Babylon.”

Hagee also believes that God spawned Hurricane Katrina to stop a “homosexual parade there [New Orleans]on the Monday that Katrina came.” This messianic meteorologist/madman appears twice daily on Trinity Broadcasting network, which reaches 75 million homes. As New York Times columnist Frank Rich saliently points out, “any 12-year-old with a laptop could have vetted this preacher in 30 seconds, tops.” Unfortunately, McCain’s crass political needs, trump Hagee’s dirty deeds and the worrisome words he imparts to millions of worshippers.

And, of course, we must not forget Rev. Pat Robertson endorsing the multiple marriage machine, Rudy Giuliani, during his ill-fated campaign. The 700 Club host once predicted that natural disasters would destroy Orlando if the city flew gay pride flags. He also – along with Falwell – tried to blame 911 on gays, abortion practitioners and the ACLU. While the politicians have worked diligently to appear mainstream, the pugnacious preachers have done nothing but sell the candidates – and the religions they represent - down the river.

It remains to be seen whether Clinton, Obama or McCain will ultimately benefit or suffer from their affiliations with ranting reverends. However, this circus-like exhibition (or, in Wright’s case, theological exhibitionism) may have a lasting impact on America’s image of religion.

The rhetorical inanity combined with the scriptural insanity is nothing short of a theological calamity. I can’t imagine the next generation drawing inspiration from this clerical conflagration. Far from appearing as if they stand on hallowed ground, these ministers of mindless, hollow madness are driving civility and common decency into the ground.

Basking in the warm glow of the election spotlight, these pastors must feel quite popular. I’m willing, however, to bet they will ultimately lose the popular vote, as today’s youth eventually walk out in droves and find churches where bile doesn’t come with the Bible.

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The pain at the pump continues as gas prices spike to record highs, surpassing $4 a gallon in parts of the country and heading towards becoming the national average by the summer driving season.

There are two main reasons for the high price of oil. The first is instability in the major oil producing nations such as Nigeria, Venezuela and the Middle East. When the Iraq War began, the price of oil was $27 a barrel. Today, it stands over 300% higher, topping $110 a barrel.

The second reason for high oil prices is that China and India, which represent 35% of world population, are experiencing economic booms that are draining world supplies--a situation not likely to change anytime soon. They represent a whopping 70% of the increase in demand over the past two years.

Oil is a finite resource. The oil producing nations, including the U.S., are producing at or very near full capacity. Despite the rhetoric that exploiting the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge or off-shore drilling would make an appreciable impact on gas prices, those actions would take at least a decade to bring online and would barely make a dent in the 250 billion gallons we are on track to import between now and 2050.

The only realistic way to meet our long term energy demands is through the aggressive pursuit of conservation, alternative technologies (hybrid, electric, hydrogen fuel cell) and cleaner renewable fuels. Improving

energy efficiency is the key to minimizing the impact of oil shocks on the overall economy.

The federal government has a critical role to play on these issues by setting standards that reduce consumption and support research yielding greater energy efficiencies and cleaner alternative sources like wind, solar, and even nuclear power.

Congress, with passage of the Energy Independence and Security Act in December, has taken some steps in right direction, most importantly requiring that all new cars and trucks sold in U.S. achieve a 35 mile-pergallon standard for fuel efficiency by 2020. It’s the first increase in the corporate average fuel efficiency (CAFE) standard in over 30 years--a long overdue action, but a big step in the right direction.

With this provision in place, the U.S. will reduce its daily oil consumption by 4 million barrels per day by 2030, twice the amount we import from the Persian Gulf today. Economists believe these new CAFE standards will save consumers somewhere between $700 to $1,000 per year in fuel costs per year and net $22 billion in annual savings. Also by 2030, this legislation will result in nearly 25 percent of the green house gas reductions that most scientists say will be needed by 2050 to reduce the threat of global warming.

Meeting our nation’s energy demands in a cleaner, responsible manner is a long-term problem requiring inventive solutions to perhaps the most pressing threat to our environment and economy. The longer we rely on foreign oil, the longer we borrow money from China to buy energy that drives up the price of oil to the benefit of Iran. National security, energy and the environment are all inextricably intertwined.

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The sky over the Fairfax County Public Safety Center was bright blue with a few puffy white clouds for the Fairfax County Police Fallen Officers Memorial Service on Monday. The American flag swayed gently in the breeze as Sheriff’s Deputy Rob Deer played a traditional dirge of “Amazing Grace” on the bagpipe. Elected officials and public safety officers looked on as family members of the fallen officers placed red roses at the base of a simple black marble cenotaph in the memorial rose garden.

The memorial originally was dedicated in 2002 to commemorate three fallen officers – Officer Karen Bassford, killed in an automobile crash while responding to a burglary call in1977; Special Officer Hendrick “Sandy” Gideonse, killed in a crash on Interstate 95 while working in1998; and Captain Tommy Bernal, killed in 2001 when a vehicle struck his motorcycle during a training exercise. Officer Bassford’s parents, Special Officer Gideonse’s sons, and Captain Bernal’s widow attended this week’s ceremony, as they did two years ago on May 8, when the only names engraved on the cenotaph were those of their loved ones.

May 8, 2006, also was a beautiful spring day for the quiet memorial observance. Little did we know at the time that, within hours, the names of two more officers, sadly, would qualify for remembrance on the cenotaph. That afternoon, a mentally ill teen attacked the Sully District Police Station, killing Detective Vicky Armel and mortally wounding Master Police Officer

The race for Virginia’s U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Senator John Warner got off to a strong start this week. Mark Warner barnstormed the state on Monday and Tuesday to make official what most have known for months – he is running!

He covered Northern Virginia in one event at the Carlyle Club in Alexandria.

On Monday evening. The club was jammed by 7 p.m., and more than jammed by the time the Warner entourage took the stage at about 7:30. To say that we were enthusiastic would be an understatement.

A large number of Northern Virginia Democratic officeholders were there – largely from Arlington, Alexandria and Falls Church – too many to list here. Warner’s future colleagues in Congress - Senator Jim Webb, and Representatives Jim Moran and Bobby Scott – were also much in evidence.

Former Lt. Governor Don Beyer opened the meeting, welcoming us all and recognizing the dignitaries. He then turned the podium over to soon-to-be senior senator Jim

Michael Garbarino in a shootout in the parking lot of the station. On Monday, Detective Armel’s husband, mother, and sisters placed roses beneath her name, and MPO Garbarino’s wife and teenage daughters also placed roses in memory of a beloved husband and father who died in the line of duty.

Now there are five names on the memorial. I pray that no more names will need to be added. Police Chief David Rohrer noted that these officers made the ultimate sacrifice in the performance of their duties to the citizens of Fairfax County. “They shall always be remembered and held with honor and esteem by the Fairfax County Police Department,” Chief Rohrer said. The community shares that feeling, too.

The World Children’s Choir (WCC), a crosscultural voice for children worldwide, performs locally at many community events, and seeks new members age four through eighteen (girls and boys with unchanged voices). Most recently, WCC members performed at the Culmore Awareness Day at Bailey’s Park, and the Children’s Day Celebration at Hidden Oaks Nature Center. WCC has three performing ensembles for children and teens. The WCC repertoire includes singing, choreography, West African drumming, and dancing.

Auditions are held throughout the concert season.

Call 703/883-0920 or log onto info@worldchildrenschoir.org for more information about auditions and upcoming concerts.

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Senator Webb introduced Warner with a rip-snorting speech of his own. Poking fun at his “decline” in titles from “His Excellency” as Governor, to future “commander-in-chief” during his brief flirtation with a presidential race, down to the future “junior senator” to Webb’s new senior senator status.

Webb then launched into a passionate speech about the absolute necessity of changing the leadership in Washington from top to bottom.

Quoting former Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, Webb said “any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.” He continued, “that’s the Democrats, that’s Mark Warner!” he said to thunderous applause.

Warner then took the stage, to more thunderous applause.

He gave an impassioned speech about the race, outlining the main issues that will drive him during the campaign. He pointed out that he inherited a state that was on the verge of bankruptcy and built it into a state that Forbes magazine cited as the best run in America, and Education

Weekly saying that Virginia had the best education system, top to bottom, in the country.

Warner also had some very warm things so say about retiring Senator John Warner, whom he cited as a mentor and a great public servant. It will be interesting to see what role John Warner will play in the race.

Representative Jim Moran 126980 that said in his brief (!) remarks the race will pit Virginia’s best governor against Virginia’s worst governor, referring to the fact that former governor Jim Gilmore will likely be the Republican nominee.

This, and the fact that Mark Warner is one the most popular governors ever to hold the seat, probably means that Warner will sweep to victory in November. I would be surprised if he got less than 75% of the vote in Arlington, and probably more.

None of this can be taken for granted, though, and Mark Warner clearly understands this. We can look forward to a lively race this fall.

A Diamond and performed by Anniversary the Carters. A.P.’s Weekend before niece, June, marlast, Barter Theater ried Johnny Cash, in Abingdon, who brought even Virginia, celebratgreater fame to their ed its 75th birth“Clinch Mountain day. Nancy and I Home.” traveled the 357 After the marrige

By Jim Scott miles from Fairfax Thanks in in approximately large measure to seven hours and Delegate Johnson, enjoyed the eveBarter Theater conning celebrating tinues to celebrate with several hunthe heritage of the dred attendees, including area and serve as a home for Delegates Joe Johnson, Brian high quality drama and music.

Moran, Frank Hall and Terry It is a treasure in its own right, Kilgore. Delegate Johnson and it brings many visitors to received a well-deserved see local and national artists. award for his long and outAs a native of Southwest standing service to southwest Virginia (born in Galax) I was Virginia, to Barter Theater especially delighted to have and to Abingdon. been invited to the celebration Originally constructed on April 26. I had not visited as a Presbyterian Church, Barter Theater since I was a the building became Barter child.

Theater in 1933 when Robert The evening featured a Porterfield, a native of south- delightful dinner in the hiswest Virginia, brought some toric Martha Washington furnishing from a failed Inn and the performance of New York City theatre to “Keep on the Sunny Side,” a Abingdon. play by Douglas Pote about Since the Depression A.P. Carter and his family, limited money available to and their efforts to perform, area residents, Porterfield record and preserve mountain suggested that people could music. bring food and other items as Unfortunately, we were admission, thus “bartering” to not able to visit the famous see the plays.

Carter Family Fold in Mace Since its founding, the Springs. Conceived by A.P. theater has been the source as an outdoor summer conof great pride to Southwest cert stage, and finally created Virginia, and was a venue for by Maybelle, it remains as a performances by the famous refurbished venue. for mounCarter family, led by patri- tain music by many famous arch, A.P. Carter. A.P., his performers. Originally built wife, Sara, and Maybelle on a hillside with wooden sang, collected and per- seats without backs, it was a formed mountain music for weekend refuge for Johnny decades. Largely because of and June, the Nitty Gritty their efforts, songs like “Will Dirt Band and numerous oththe Circle Be Unbroken”, ers.

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McLean Rotary Awards Four Scholarships The McLean Rotary Club Foundation awarded scholarships to four students from Pimmit Hills High School at a luncheon of the McLean Rotary Club on Tuesday, April 29. Pimmit Hills is one of three Fairfax County adult/alternative high schools, designed to assist students who might not be able to complete high school in a regular setting because of age, language proficiency or other life circumstances. The four winners were Mohamed Hashi, Kim Ngoc Tang, Yetmwork Adnew and Marjorie Flores, and they all plan on using their scholar-

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ship money to continue their education at Northern Virginia Community College. Hashi, from Somalia, received $1,000 to study medicine, Tang, from Vietnam and Flores, from El Salvador, each received $500 to study business administration and Adnew, from Ethiopia, received $1,000 to study dentistry.

‘In My Arms’ Opening Reception Just in time for Mother’s Day, Linda Rose Larochelle’s “In My Arms,” an exhibit of relief block prints opened at the Loft Gallery (311 Mill St., Occoquan) on May 6 and will be running through June 1. For

FOUR CANDIDATES SEEKING the Democratic nomination in a June 10 primary to run for Congress from the 11th Congressional District of Virginia all showed up Sunday at a brunch hosted by the Virginia Partisans Gay and Lesbian Club in Annandale. Left to right: Partisans President Charlie Conrad, candidates Former Rep. Leslie Byrne, Fairfax County Board Chair Gerry Connolly, Iraq War Vet Doug Denneny and Lori Alexander, and event host Terry Mansberger. All the candidates proclaimed their staunch support for full equality for GLBT citizens. (PHOTO: NEWS-PRESS)

those that missed the grand opening of the gallery, there will be an opening reception for “In My Arms” on Sunday, May 11, from 1 – 4 p.m. at the Loft Gallery, very fittingly falling on Mother’s Day. Larochelle, a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute in printmaking, is a Falls Church resident and a member of Falls Church Arts.

High School Football Officials Needed The Northern Virginia Football Officials Association (NVFOA) is currently searching for new members for its 2008 training class, who would ultimately become onfield game officials and electronic clock operators for games at the youth, middle

school and high school levels in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area. NVFOA solely supplies officials for the Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, Loudoun and Fauquier counties. No experience necessary, must be 18 or older. Information and application forms are available at www.nvfoa.com or contact Commissioner Dennis Hall at 540-837-1316 or commissioner@nvfoa.com.

Household Hazardous Waste Collection The City of Falls Church is holding its first collection event for Household Hazardous Waste at the Falls Church Property Yard, across from the Recycling Center (217 Gordon Rd.,

Falls Church). Open to City of Falls Church residents only and proof of residency, such as a driver’s license, utility bill or a Falls Church vehicle decal must be provided.

Free of charge. Items such as acids, antifreeze, bug sprays, paint thinner, pesticides and furniture polish, among others, will be collected for free, transported and properly disposed of.

Mommy Needs a Glass of Wine Moms looking to spend a night out on the town for Mother’s Day have Winery at La Grange (4970 Antioch Rd., Haymarket) to thank for a Saturday night of fun, as the winery will be having a Mother’s Day event

THE U12 RESTON STRIKERS were runners-up in the Fairfax Liberty Cup pre-season tournament in Centreville. For the weekend, the Strikers scored 7 goals to their opponents’ 2 and lost the championship 0-1 in a hard fought game that went down to the final minute. In their two years of existence, the Strikers have been finalists in almost two thirds of the tournaments they have entered and they were undefeated in league play in the autumn. (PHOTO: COURTESY ERIC

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Tickets are $49 each, plus tax, and advance reservations are required. Please call Melissa at Melissa@wineryatlagrange. com or at the winery at 703753-9360 for information and reservations.

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Mason Student Wins State-Fish Art Contest JiaLi Ma, a student at George Mason High School, recently submitted her work into the Wildlife Forever State-Fish Art Contest and won for her age group in Virginia. Her artwork is available to see online at www. statefishart.com.

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Mason Student Receives Music Scholarship Yusof Becker, a senior at George Mason High School, recently received a four year scholarship from the University of WisconsinMadison School of Music to go towards a music major.

Becker received the scholarship on the basis of his talent and his musical achievements.

Premier AC Teams win ODSL Awards Premier AC, the local Falls Church based travel soccer club, had two teams recognized at the DC United soccer game vs. Real Salt Lake as winners of fall 2007 Old Dominion Soccer League (ODSL) Randy Rawls Sportsmanship Awards.

Referee report cards, red and yellow cards accumulated throughout the season and coaches votes all go into consideration for the Randy Rawls award. Both the U10 Attack and the U14 Strikers won the award for Premier AC.

STATING THAT HE’S BEEN following closely the struggles of non-defecting “continuing Episcopalians” exiled from their Historic Falls Church home by breakaway congregants, Episcopal Bishop Eugene Robinson (right) on Monday greeted News-Press’ Nicholas Benton, whose newspaper he said he reads on-line regularly from his New Hampshire home. Bishop Robinson asked Benton to convey his personal greetings to the “continuing Episcopalians” in Falls Church. He was at the headquarters of the Human Rights Campaign in D.C. Monday to discuss his new book, “In the Eye of the Storm, Swept to the Center by God.” Robinson’s consecration as an openly-gay bishop in 2003 sparked the movement of many members at The Falls Church and other parishes to defect from the denomination, and to banish from worshipping on the church property other members who chose to remain with the denomination.

HELPING TO BUILD MOMENTUM for the annual Cystic Fibrosis Walk in Falls Church coming up on Saturday morning, May 17, supporters gathered at the American Legion Hall last Sunday to hear music by two George Mason High School bands, Basmati and High Minded, and plan for a successful fundraising walk. Next up, a Mr. and Ms. Mason pageant at the high school the night before the walk. (Photo: Nate Taylor)

PROVIDENCE DISTRICT SUPERVISOR Linda Smyth pointed out features of the new Beltway “Hot Lanes” to a constituent prior to a briefing on the massive transportation development project at the Luther Jackson Middle School in Falls Church last week. (Photo: News-Press)

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Seniors looking to relive the old days should head to Langley High School’s Main Gym (6520 Georgetown Pke., McLean) on Friday, May 9, for a free senior citizen dance from 6:30 – 9:30 p.m. There will be music from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s for the whole night. The crew from Forever Young TV will be on hand to videotape the event for an upcoming episode of their show. For more information, email LHSofLHS@gmail.com.

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Curves of Falls Church is hosting a grand reopening on Sunday, May 11 at 240 W. Broad Street. New owner, Kathy Hamor has revamped the workout facility and is offering new members a $100 discount off of the service fee on Friday and Saturday, May 9 and 10. A number of local businesses are participating in the reopening which will include a raffle for beauty supplies, $50 gift certificates for Vitalia Medspa, refreshments by Edible Arrangements, Natalia’s Elegant Creations and What’s for Dinner? Attendees will also receive a special offer from Falls Church Pilates. A ribbon cutting with Mayor Robin Gardner will take place at 11 a.m..

Curves works every major muscle group with strength training, cardio and stretching in every 30 minute workout. With more than 11,000 locations in dozens of countries, Curves is the world’s largest fitness franchise. Curves of Falls Church is located at 240 W. Broad Street. For more information, please visit: www.curves.com. ∗∗∗ The Original Pancake House is hosting a Dine Out Day for The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation of Greater Washington on Thursday, May 15. On that date, OPH will contribute 15% of its sales for the foundation’s ongoing efforts to find a cure for cystic fibrosis and to help those afflicted live a better quality of life. The Falls Church Original Pancake House is located at 370 W. Broad Street. For more information, call 703-891-0148. ∗∗∗ The American Cancer Society is seeking sponsors and in-kind donors for its second annual Relay For Life in Falls Church. Almost 350 people with more than 35 teams have signed up to date for the overnight event to be held May 31 to June 1 at the track at George Mason High School. Relay For Life is an American Cancer Society-sponsored event designed to raise funds for the battle against cancer, to celebrate cancer survivors and to remember those who have lost their lives to the disease. Business sponsors will be recognized during the event including the opening reception honoring cancer survivors. Stacy’s Coffee Parlor, The Corner Bakery, The Italian Café, Dogwood Tavern, Red, Hot and Blue and Hoang’s Grill and Sushi Bar are among the local businesses who have already committed to providing food for the reception. For more information, check out www.fallschurchrelay.org or contact Chris McCullough of the American Cancer Society at 703-937-1909 or chris. mccullough@cancer.org. ∗∗∗ Dr. Ralph G. Perrino, owner of Falls Church-based Northern Virginia Tutoring Service, and J. Denise Perrino, Theatre Arts teacher and director at McLean High School, have collaborated on an article that has been published in the May issue of Family Magazine. The article, “Bringing Drama to the Core: A Creative Approach to Teaching Core Subject Areas” explores the concept of bringing new, innovative methodologies to the classroom to enhance the teaching process and to encourage students to think beyond the traditional confines of learning. To read the article see page 36 of the magazine which is available in hard copy and online at www.washingtonfamily.com. ∗∗∗ Burke & Herbert Bank & Trust Company reported that first quarter 2008 results in total assets increased over the year prior by $12 million while loans increased $72 million and earnings reached $5.3 million. Earnings per share for the private, locallyowned corporation were $27.54 vs. $23.21 for the same period in 2007. In addition to strong financials, Burke & Herbert again earned an “excellent” rating from TheStreet.com (www.thestreet.com/tscratings) placing the financial institution in an elite group of fewer than 900 banks nationwide representing the top 10.5% of the industry. Established in 1852, Burke & Herbert is the oldest bank in Virginia and the oldest continuously operating bank in the Washington, DC area. The Bank operates 18 branches in Northern Virginia including a Falls Church branch located at 225 W. Broad Street. For more information, visit www.burkeandherbert.com. ∗∗∗ According to just-released Census Bureau data for fiscal 2006, Fairfax County ranks first among all U.S. counties in the value of federal government contracts performed locally. Companies in Fairfax County performed $14 billion worth of procurement contract work in fiscal 2006 – the most recent data available – compared to $13.6 billion in fiscal 2005. The annual Consolidated Federal Funds Report compiled by the Census Bureau also shows that Fairfax County businesses received more federal procurement dollars for work done locally in fiscal 2006 than all but five states (California, Virginia, Texas, Maryland and Florida) and Washington, D.C. For more information about the FCEDA or the recently announced data, visit www.FairfaxCountyEDA.org. ∗∗∗ The Falls Church News-Press has a special offer for its advertising customers in its May 22 edition, which will include the annual Memorial Day Parade Supplement.

For information about the special offer or for general information about advertising, call 703-532-3267 or visit www.fcnp.com. ∗∗∗ Vista Graphics, Inc. has launched Virginia Wine Lover, a quarterly magazine dedicated to celebrating Virginia’s wine industry. Wine tourism has become big business in Virginia. There are now 140+ wineries in the state and the number grows annually. Wine events are also growing and are attracting record crowds around the state. Vista Graphics is a publishing company based in Hampton Roads. For more information about this new magazine visit www.vawinelover.com.  The Business News & Notes section is compiled by Sally Cole, Executive Director of Greater Falls Church Chamber of Commerce. She may be emailed at sally@ fallschurchchamber.org

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Local governments are going to have to deal with the transportation problem or be faced with massive social issues as people become isolated from places of employment. A large decline in personal mobility is likely to result in considerable economic hardship and job losses as much discretionary travel will simply stop due to excessive costs or the inconvenience of other arrangements.  Tom Whipple is a retired government analyst and has been following the peak oil issue for several years.

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Are you satisfied with Roger Clemens’s apology? Are your boys in the media going to leave him be now? Or will this witch hunt continue?

Barry Does anyone else think that Roger Clemens is turning into the Britney Spears of the sports world? Every day it feels like there’s something new and disturbing coming out on him. I almost half expect him to shave his head and get out of his Hummer sans jock strap.

Concerning your question, Barry, usually when news breaks that a star athlete may have cheated on his wife by having an affair with a 15-yearold, it doesn’t just go away.

And I believe this is particularly true following Clemens’s apology.

Clemens apologized to his fans, wife and family for bad decisions in his personal life, however he flatly denied any kind of sexual relationship with Mindy McCready and using steroids. So ... what exactly is he apologizing for?

If Clemens is to be believed, it’s for decisions that have not yet come to light. Tell the media that there’s still dirt out there and they perk up like Manny Ramirez eyeing a 3-1 fastball down the heart of the plate.

If Clemens is not telling the truth, well then the steroid allegations may be the least of his concerns.

What the heck were a 28year-old star athlete and 15-yearold karaoke singer doing hanging out together? McCready’s mother said that Clemens used to come over to the house every once in a while. What were they doing? Was McCready reading Clemens her favorite passages from “Baby-sitter’s Club?”

Were they sitting on the floor of her bedroom, eating Pop-Rocks and listening to Fine Young Cannibals belt out “She Drives Me Crazy?”

Look, there is certainly the chance that the relationship was platonic and nothing untoward (or illegal) happened. However, that scenario does not seem too believable. And to this point, Clemens has not done much to suggest he deserves to be believed.

Oh, one more thing. Why doesn’t Barry Bonds have a contract yet? Are the MLB owners colluding in your opinion?

Barry’s “Friend”

I read that the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) is going to be investigating whether or not owners are colluding to keep Barry Bonds and other older free agents out of the game. Geez, yeah, I can’t think of any good reasons that would prevent a lead-footed, injury-riddled, over-the-hill, defensive liability with a looming federal perjury trial from being signed to a roster.

This story says two things about the MLBPA. First, if they’re actually willing to pursue this, then they really will fight any fight for their members, which is amazing if you’re a player paying dues to the organization. Of course, stories like this are why most fans believe that if Satan ever came to trial, it would be Donald Fehr and the MLBPA that would defend him.

The Olympic torch reached the top of Mt. Everest this week.

Does that make up for all of the protests that have marred its travels thus far?

Juan Antonio Here’s the thing about the Olympic torch: It’s a symbol of endurance. A decade, 20, 50 years down the road, I don’t think that the significant memories of these games will be the ones we saw as the torch traveled the globe. That said, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has no one to blame for these images but themselves.

What we’re seeing is political protest and advocacy groups using these Olympics to publicize their causes, which have usually focused on Chinese human rights violations. Of course, the first group to attach a political context to these game was the IOC. When the IOC first awarded the games to China, a controversial decision given China’s spotty record on free speech and its history in Tibet, the IOC mentioned that they believed these games would serve as a catalyst for China to change its repressive ways. Maybe it will, but thus far it seems the Chinese have just tightened their grip. For example, Chinese police and soldiers were authorized to fire on any protesters on Everest.

Now that would have been an enduring image that would stain both these games and the torch.  Mike Hume may be emailed at mhume@fcnp.com.

Two straight shut-out losses to Bull Run District opponents has George Mason High School Baseball Head Coach Adam Amerine stewing about his team’s lack of offense and the Mustangs sagging in the standings after a 3-2 start in district play.

Last Friday, the first-place Madison County Mountaineers defeated the Mustangs 6-0 at George Mason and Tuesday the Strasburg Rams again shut out the Mustangs on their home turf, this time by a 5-0 margin.

“Abysmal,” Amerine said, clearly frustrated, when asked to appraise his offense following Tuesday’s loss. “The kids have no idea what approach to take at the plate.”

While he didn’t cross into Ozzie Guillen tirade territory during or after the game, Amerine was clearly displeased with his team’s efforts after the third inning and spent the entire inning break in the mid-fourth inning huddled with his team.

The result: A one, two, three inning for the Mustangs.

One inning later, Amerine again preached patience at the plate and again his hitters were retired in order, all of them swinging early in the count and at tough pitches out of the strike zone.

“You tell these kids something in the on deck circle, then they walk 10 feet to the batter’s box and forget it,” Amerine lamented.

If Mason is to mount any kind of serious post-season run, the Mustangs will have to figure out exactly what happens in that 10 feet. At the very least, Mason batters will need to show more patience at the plate and work the count better than they did on Tuesday. Facing Strasburg’s pitchers, the majority of Mason’s batters showed about as much restraint as Cookie Monster confronted by a plate of Oreos.

Amid the flailing, the Mustangs managed to mount a few potential rallies, as twice seniors Lonnie Millard and Alex Prewitt reached base with consecutive hits. Leading off the bottom of the sixth, Millard blasted a double to deep right that just glanced off the outstretched glove of the Strasburg left fielder. Prewitt then beat out an infield single to third base.

Junior first baseman Andrew Lieber followed those hits with an unlucky smash (on a 3-1 pitch) that was wailed directly at the Rams’ center fielder.

The rally was fully squelched two batters later, as both Mustangs struck out swinging at pitches over their eyes.

The second consecutive offensive outage for Mason wasted a decent day on the mound from Prewitt and starter Tyler Roth.

After allowing three runs in the first inning and another in the second, Roth settled down. He recorded a scoreless third and retired the side in order in the fourth before venturing into trouble in the fifth. Three walks bracketed a pop-out to short, loading the bases and bringing Prewitt on in relief. The senior induced a ground ball to third, fielded by senior Mike Straub for the force out at home, and then another grounder to short-

stop to veer away from trouble.

Strasburg finally broke through for its final run in the seventh to account for the 5-0 final score and leave Amerine to contemplate how to jump start his lineup.

“Our offense is clearly the problem,” Amerine said. “I have tried one million things, but the kids are the ones that have to learn and make the adjustments.”

Note: Mike Straub, the Mustangs’ top starting pitcher entering the season, has not pitched since the April 25 game against Clarke County.

He departed midway through that contest due to back spasms. Amerine listed his ace as “day-to-day.”

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The George Mason High School boys varsity soccer team negotiated two more obstacles to their pending perfect season in the past week, topping both Madison County and Strasburg by 2-0 margins to clinch the Bull Run District regular season title.

The games were the sixth and seventh shutouts of the year for freshman Mason goaltender Tyler Back, and the Mustangs badly needed his stellar play last Friday against Madison County.

Back made several breakaway and point blank saves to keep his team in the game early while the Mustang offense took its time warming up.

Both teams were kept off the

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board when the halftime whistle sounded, but in the match’s 60th minute, senior defensive back Wesley Frank broke the scoreless tie with a boot from 12yards out. The goal capped what Mason Assistant Coach Frank Spinello estimated as a 65-yard run from the back with the ball.

Frank beat two Mountaineer defenders, then faked out three more before ripping the twine behind the Madison County keeper.

Ten minutes later, sophomore midfielder Alex Casteuble gave Mason some insurance when he scored on a free kick into the upper right corner of the goal.

Back finished the Madison game with eight saves and repeated the clean sheet against Strasburg on Tuesday. The Mustangs dominated posses-

MASON HIGH’S ANTHONY ANDRIANARISON controls the ball earlier this season against Manassas Park, while teammate Wesley Frank (right) looks on. (Photo: News-Press)

For the first time in the program’s history, the Falls Church High School girls varsity lacrosse team will compete for the National District Championship after beating Washington-Lee 9-4 in Tuesday evening’s semifinal.

The Jaguars (10-3) pounced early and never trailed in Tuesday’s game, learning from their earlier game against the Generals that they could not ease back on the throttle. In the teams’ meeting on April 30, Washington-Lee nearly rallied from a 10-4 halftime deficit, forcing Falls Church to fight them off for a 13-10 victory.

“The key to winning tonight’s game was draw control,” Falls Church Head Coach Sabrina Yarie said. “We took the lead early and

sion, recording 39 shots to the Rams’ seven and earning 14 corner kicks to the Rams’ 0. It was only the sterling play of Strasburg goalie Phil Ramsey that kept the score close.

Mason’s Matt Gresko put the Mustangs ahead 1-0 when he headed home a cross from Nick Smirniotopoulos in the 48th minute. The Mustangs struck again in the 64th minute when freshman Patrick Rollo buried a cross from Frank.

Mason (9-2-1 overall, 8-0 Bull Run) has just two games remaining on its regular season slate at home against Rappahannock (Friday, May 9) and on the road at Clarke County (Tuesday, May 13).

Friday’s game will serve as the team’s Senior Day, and also marks the 1,000th game of Head Coach Art Iwanicki’s coaching career.

“I came into the job with a lot of soccer knowledge and experience, but what Coach I has really helped me with is organization and team management issues, which I lacked,” said Spinello, who has worked with Iwanicki since 2000.

“Coach I has definitely made George Mason High School Boys Soccer the premier Single A soccer program in the state.

He does it all with pride, class and integrity.”

Note: Perhaps as satisfying as the pair of district wins was last Wednesday’s tie against highly touted AAA Robinson Secondary School, who brought a mark of 5-2-1 into the match with the Mustangs.

Casteuble and senior Antonio Randrianasolo helped Mason build a first-half, two-goal lead with tallies in the sixth and 20th minutes, but the Rams answered with two goals in the second half to knot things up.

never looked back.”

The win over Washington-Lee sets the stage for an exciting championship against perennial favorite Yorktown Friday, May 9 at 7:30 p.m. at Yorktown. The two teams met at Falls Church on May 1, with the Patriots prevailing 12-9.

A number of Jaguars were honored with spots on the All-National District First and Second Teams, including senior Valerie Gibbons, who led the team with 47 goals and 27 assists through 13 games. Her 74 points are the most ever in the nine-year history of the Falls Church High School girls lacrosse program. Joining Gibbons on the First Team were seniors Jessica Thatcher and Minh Le, as well as junior Jackie Jubien. Junior Sarah Kane and sophomores Sarah Cortez and Hannah Wilkerson were named to the second team.

The Mustang boys lacrosse team finished its season on the same note as it began — a dominant string of victories, firmly entrenching the team in the upper echelon of the Dulles District.

The Mustangs brutalized Park View in the first matchup on March 24, 19-2, and the Wednesday re-match on the road closely resembled the first game, with the Mustangs dominating the entire way in a 17-1 victory. Mason had a shutout going into the fourth quarter on the shoulders of a three-goalie rotation comprised of senior Ewan Oglethorpe, junior Tim Koning and Sam Dittmar, when Park View finally scored with a few minutes left.

The Mustangs built upon their success at Park View the next day, as they headed back home last Thursday night to play Briar Woods on their senior night. Again, Oglethorpe and Koning put the team on their backs, only allowing two goals en route to a 12-2 Mason victory. The offense, anchored by sophomore Mike Duning, junior Josh Mann and junior Josh Brew, continued their flawless appearance, scoring early

and often on Briar Woods. The defense, led by seniors Russell Intermaggio, Sean Mondragon and Andrew Breen, played another phenomenal game.

In their final regular season matchup, the Mustangs traveled to Loudoun County High School on Saturday for their final tuneup before district playoffs. In a hard-fought game, the Mustangs ultimately escaped with their sixth straight win, 13-10. The Mustangs entered halftime with a three goal lead, but penalties almost became their undoing in the second half. Loudoun County tied the game in the third quarter, but behind Josh Mann, who led the team with six goals, Brew (with five) and Duning (two), the Mustangs scored three goals in the final quarter to finish off their feisty district rivals.

Starting midfielder Charlie Mann sat out the game and Oglethorpe left with a back injury in the second half, making the heroics all the more necessary.

The Mustangs, with a 131 season record, now turn their attention to the Dulles District playoffs. They begin the Dulles District quarterfinal at home Thursday, May 8 against Potomac Falls as the tournament’s No. 2 seed.

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After all the intensity, after all the build-up, after all the anticipation from last year surrounding this year’s grudge match between Clarke County and the George Mason High School’s girls varsity soccer team, it ended in a tie.

After meeting four times last season, the historic George Mason-Clarke County rivalry added another chapter to its lengthy story in the first matchup of 2008, as the Mustangs and the Eagles battled to a 3-3 tie in Berryville last Monday.

In a contest that was rescheduled from last month due to inclement weather, it became apparent from the opening whistle that the last three months of practices and games for each team were all building up to this.

The last time Mason and Clarke battled it out on the pitch was in the Region B final, the fourth time the Eagles downed the Mustangs last season. However, after graduating numerous core players from their state runner-up squad, Clarke was a different team with only one common denominator entering Monday: Danielle Moyer.

Moyer, a senior who recently was honored with a special citation at the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame, scored just five minutes into the game, kicking off what would be a see-saw match between the two squads.

While Clarke had Moyer,

After starting off slow in Bull Run District dual meets, the George Mason High School varsity girls track team looks poised to make a run down the stretch and, if last Saturday’s Caroline High School Invitational is any indication, the revamped Mustangs are on a steady path of improvement.

After forgoing some of the team’s previous meets at head coach Bianca White’s suggestion, senior Susanna Sullivan returned to the track and exerted her dominance instantly, winning the 3200m run by nearly 40 seconds. Joining Sullivan atop the Mason leader board was fellow senior Karina Robarge, who finished in a tie for second in the 100m hurdles and fifth in the 300m hurdles.

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Mason countered with Olivia Scott. The senior midfielder answered her Eagle counterpart, netting one in the 21st minute off a beautiful cross by classmate Rachel Kazman to even up the score.

Although checking Moyer proved to be a daunting task for the Mustang defenders, sisters Alexa and Nicole Peyton, as well as junior Abby Stroup — who marked Moyer for the entire contest — stepped up admirably in front of keeper Lauren Jekowsky.

Junior Tegan Argo, two years removed from an all-state season, was given a red card late in the first half for tacking a defender who had a clear shot at the goal. While the play stopped the immediate Clarke scoring opportunity — at least until the ensuing free kick — the Mustangs were forced to play the rest of the game one player short. Even so, coach Jennifer Parsons’ squad held its own, keeping possession and creating numerous scoring opportunities.

Following Argo’s penalty, Eagle midfielder Christel Tanner launched the free kick into the goal to send her team to the lead. With 5:28 left in the half, Moyer found the back of the net for her second goal of the night.

On the offensive end, Mason had to contend with Clarke’s eight-man defense, all of whom they stacked past midfield in an attempt to quell the Mustang attack. Just two minutes after Moyer’s second goal, Mason

Sophomore Chantal Thomas narrowly edged Robarge in the 300m, taking fourth by .17 seconds. Thomas also finished fifth in the high jump and 13th in the 100m hurdles. Senior Amelia Nystrom rounded out the strong depth of the Mustang hurdlers, taking ninth in the 100m and 18th in the 300m.

Chantel Bailey finished third in the 400m dash and 11th in the 100m dash, a feat for the sophomore competing against some of the top AAA and AA runners in the region. Senior Lydia Fairfax rounded out the meet by taking 14th in the 1600m run and 17th in the 800m run. In a solid allaround team effort, the 4x400m relay team placed third out of nine teams.

On the boys’ side, Sam Parker finished 18th in the 1600m run, while senior Will Douthitt placed

answered right back with a rocket Kazman shot from 35 yards out.

For the rest of the game, while Stroup held Moyer in check, the Mustangs were able to claw back into contention. Jekowsky held her own between posts, playing in place of Rebecca Jackson, who suffered what could possibly be a season-ending knee injury. The senior saved four shots in the second half, including a couple near misses by Moyer.

When it seemed that Clarke would prevail on their home field, junior Kim Kenny found a streaking Scott who promptly scored the equalizer with two minutes left in the game.

For two overtimes the Mustangs and Eagles fought, but neither side could muster up a final goal to earn the win.

The two teams will meet again on May 13 for Mason’s senior night in Falls Church, but it almost certainly will not be the last time Clarke (9-2-2, 6-0-1) and Mason (8-2-1, 6-0-1) will square off this season.

Scott continued her torrid district play last Friday, racking up a hat trick in a 5-0 win over Madison County. After Parsons rewarded the effort with a day off on Tuesday, Mason returned to the field at home in a non-district matchup with AA Park View on Wednesday. Results were not available at press time.

On Friday, the team looks to remain undefeated as they travel to Rappahannock.

13th in the 3200m. Senior Yusof Becker, back after his state-qualifying season last year, took 13th in the 110m hurdles and 17th in the 300m hurdles. Matt Geurtsen hurled his way to an eighth-place finish in the discus and a 14thplace finish in the shot put.

The Mustangs returned to district action on Wednesday against Rappahannock High School.

Results were not available at press time. This weekend, Sullivan will compete in the prestigious Southern Track Classic, a meet featuring many of the top runners from across the southern U.S. Clarification: Last week’s article suggested that Susanna Sullivan may miss time due to injury. While she was held out of several meets as a precaution by Mason Head Coach Bianca White, she is expected to participate in the remainder of Mason’s meets.

The Mason High girls lacrosse team ended their regular season in strong fashion, winning their final two Dulles District games last week in preparation for the upcoming district playoffs.

Last Wednesday, the girls headed to Park View for an away game against their district rivals, which they won soundly, 18-7. Junior midfielder Sally Blakemore led the charge against Park View with six goals, with freshman Abby Johansen and sophomore Christina Perez each adding three of their own. Sophomores Gwen Edwards and Courtney Ready, as well as freshman Amanda Rolander helped the Mason cause with two goals a piece. The Mustang defense stifled Park View consistently throughout the game, limiting

the Park View girls to a paltry 10 shots on goal.

The girls couldn’t spend too much time soaking in their victory, with their final district game against Briar Woods looming the next day.

The Lady Mustangs traveled to Briar Woods last Thursday and emerged with a 10-7 victory. The Mustang defense continued to play extraordinarily well, with sophomore defender Chelsea Wilkes contributing quick steals and senior goalie Emily Perry blocking shots from all different directions.

Blakemore led the team in scoring for the second straight game.

The Lady Mustangs now turn towards the playoffs, where they travel to Dominion on Thursday, May 8 for the start of the District tournament. They enter the postseason as the fifth seed in the Dulles District.

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MAJORS

After winning their first eight games of the season, the Falls Church High School varsity boys lacrosse team dropped two straight in the final week of April, none more painful than the 7-6 loss to Yorktown on April 28.

That game gave the Jaguars their only district loss of the season, and in turn gave Yorktown the National District regular season crown. In analyzing the close contest, Falls Church Head Coach Geoffrey Young pointed to the Yorktown goaltender, junior Sam Ridgely, who made 16 saves.

The loss to Yorktown followed a 17-5 beating at the hands of Westfield, the Jags’ first loss of the year.

“Our heads were getting big and we were feeling really good about ourselves and we needed to get handled to see where we really stand. That game did that for us,” Young said.

While the Yorktown game marked the return of standout Keith Long for Falls Church, the Jags weren’t firing on all

On Saturday, the Boys U13 team traveled to Springfield and jumped out to an early lead en route to a 5-0 win to bring their record to 3-3. Five players scored — Keenan Glahn, CT Tyeryar, Sean Cormany, Peter Kress and Austin Nooter.

Goalie Nathaniel Schwarz anchored a stingy defense, limiting Springfield to only a few shots on goal. Falls Church midfielders controlled possession of the ball keeping pressure on Springfield’s defense throughout the game.

Also on Saturday, the U11 Boys traveled to unbeaten Fort Hunt and fell, 5-1, for their first loss of the year.

After Fort Hunt scored four quick goals in the first period, the teams played the remaining three periods evenly, with each team scoring a goal.

Jackson Cogar scored the lone goal, while Myles Cobb led the team with six ground balls followed by Cogar’s three.

On Sunday, the Falls Church U11 girls hosted Alexandria and won for the fourth time in six games this year, 15-3. Claire Saunders

cylinders until their regular season finale against WashingtonLee. The Generals were riding a six-game winning streak into that contest, before being stopped by the Jaguars behind three goals and four assists from Long. Young labels that game as the best his team has played all season.

“We played our game to a ‘T’ and took Washington-Lee out of it and made them rush,” Young said.

The Jaguars began play in the National District Tournament Wednesday, again facing Washington-Lee. A win would advance Falls Church to the finals on Friday, May 9 at 5:30 p.m.

Note: Falls Church placed seven members of its squad onto the All-National District First Team, with Connor Simmons, Alex Nanthavong, Keith Long, Andrew Frank, Chi Chi Eap, James Hulette and Paul Cossack all earning spots on the honorary roster.

Jeremy Jones, Nick Engquist, Evan Hanson and Dat Ho were each named to the second team, while Matt Evans was named “Rookie of the Year.”

led the scoring with four goals, while Claire Tourkin and Samie Boryan had three each.

Tia Dahl chipped in with two goals and Maeve Donnelly, Sarah Lubnow and Maddie Hof had one each. Lauren Wilson, Rae Mondragon and Caroline Kerrigan got several ground balls. Caroline Duffett and Maria Torregrosa played well in goal to secure the win.

Also on Sunday, the U13 Girls traveled to Alexandria and played with toughness and determination against a perennially strong team, coming up just short in an 8-7 defeat.

Alexandria pulled ahead 61 at half time, but Falls Church played the second half with more determination, scoring six goals to Alexandria’s two, but the clock ran out before they could complete the comeback. Scoring for Falls Church were Victoria Nnaji with three goals, Abby Van Buren with two and Ellen Francis and Emma Washa with one each. Goalie Brooke Strong anchored a strong second-half defense along with Katie Seitz, Jeeha Kamran, Julia Western, Emily Bell and Susannah Whittle.

Nationals 4 - Red Sox 3: Jesse Jones pitched 4 1/3 strong innings for the Nats, striking out seven, including fanning the side in the second, as the Nats triumphed over the Sox on April 30. The Red Sox’ Richard Marsh pitched 4 2/3 innings, striking out nine. In the fifth inning, Devon Johnson knocked in the game-winning run with a single.

In the bottom of the sixth, with two outs and runners on second and third, Ted Terwilliger was robbed of a game-winning hit by Chris Meador in center field.

Red Sox 8 - A’s 4: The visiting A’s jumped out to a 4-0 lead over the Sox in the first, on Saturday, May 3. Brought on in relief, the Sox’ Brennan Jones proceeded to pitch 5 1/3 innings of no-hit baseball, giving the Sox the room they needed to punch out the win. The Sox were led on defense by the strong catching of Austin Clark and the stellar play of Richard Marsh at shortstop. Key hits were contributed

by Stevie Lethbridge, Clark and DuBro. William O’Hora, George DeMars and Maggie Goldsmith contributed RBI hits for the A’s.

Yankees 4 - Mason District Pirates 1: The Yankees’ Andrew Messner and Anthony Wagner made their mound debuts on Saturday, May 3, and led their team to victory. Alex McMillen handled the other end of the battery for all six innings, calling a very effective game, as the Yankees gave up only two hits and no earned runs. Evan Tracey gave heroic defensive support in the outfield, with diving catches in both left and right field.

Colton Hodge was the offensive hero, collecting his second homer of the season. He missed another earlier in the game by about two feet, collecting a double instead. Tracey and McMillen each had two hits as well.

Yankees 19 - Cubs 7: On Wednesday, April 30, the Yankees exploded for nine runs in the fifth inning, breaking through with a combination of solid pitching from Jon Strader and Evan Davis, speed and timely hitting on offense. Ten Yankees reached base in the game, with Evan Davis, Colton Hodge and Jordan Cole (single and two doubles) picking up multiple hits.

Alex McMillen reached base five out of five trips to the plate and scored four times.

The Cubs collected some big hits from Ryan Leonard (double, triple), Ben Torpey (two doubles) and Will Iacobucci (single, double).

Cubs 8 - Mason District Phillies 3: The Cubs used solid pitching

from Austen Adcock and timely defense to walk away with a victory over the Mason District Phillies on May 3. Adcock finished the outstanding outing with eight strikeouts over five complete innings. The Cubs used a great throw from shortstop Jacob Eye and a diving tag from catcher Ben Torpey to nail a Phillies runner at the plate to end an attempted rally. Torpey had two doubles and three RBI on the day, while Eye finished with two hits for the Cubs.

Cubs at Challengers: The Challengers, an integral part of the Falls Church Kiwanis Little League, used the strong pitching of Daniel Monahan to limit the Cubs’ offensive capabilities, striking out four and surrendering just three hits on May 4. Jack Passalacqua, Ryan Hill, Andy Quezada and Regina Vranesh supplied great defense and timely hitting in support of Monahan’s outstanding pitching performance.

The Cubs all contributed to a great day with the Challengers, including Daniel Anderson, Jacob Eye, David McAllister, Ryan Leonard, Vincent Kanyan, Will Iacobucci, PJ Kern, Ben Torpey and Wesley Coupard.

AAA Cardinals 8 - Pirates 7: The Cardinals beat the Pirates in a nailbiter under the lights at Westgate Park on Tuesday, April 29. The entire Cardinals pitching staff was spectacular, accounting for 14 of the 18 outs required for the win. Thomas Beddow had four strikeouts in the first two innings.

Brant Cole struck out three in the fourth inning, and another in the fifth. Logan Nesson was perfect in the sixth, with a put-out at first, and two strikeouts to close out the game. Ten Cardinals contributed hits, including a single by Beddow, a double and a single

by Cole, a single by Nesson, a double by Drew Turner and a triple by Zachary Welch.

For the Pirates, Michael Behrens was superb on the mound, striking out six batters over two innings. He also hit a double in the fifth inning, adding an RBI, and scoring on the next hit.

Cardinals 11 - Rangers 7: The Cardinals came from behind to beat the Rangers, Saturday, May 3. The Cardinals had a big fifth inning, with Annie Ferguson following a single in the second inning with a double, and later scoring for the third time in as many at-bats. Zachary Welch followed a single in the third inning with a single in the fifth.

The Cardinals’ pitching staff was excellent, with Matthew Livingston striking out five.

Thomas Beddow also struck out three, but it was Grant Goodwin’s all-around effort that most stood out. Goodwin had a hit and contributed five outs over the course of the game, including two strikeouts, and a huge catch in right field for the final out of the fifth inning.

For the Rangers, Thomas Conroy had two big hits.

Mets 13 - Marlins 6: The Mets got their fourth win on May 3, beating the Marlins. Harry Slonim started the Mets off strong, with five strikeouts in the first two innings. The game remained scoreless through two innings, but in the third inning Justin Trainor doubled and drove in the first run for the Mets. Jonathon Hoyns and Joseph DePrez also drove in runs in the third. The Marlins got on the board in their half of the third inning with an RBI

by Nicholas George and doubles by Billy Smith and Charlie Bernicke, both of whom then stole home to score.

Johnny Peterson closed the game for the Mets by pitching three strikeouts.

AA Riverdogs 14 - Scrappers 7: Led by the pitching of Dylan Galt, the Riverdogs held the Scrappers scoreless in the top of the first inning. The timely hitting of Nicholas Hutzell allowed the Riverdogs to take the lead 5-0 in the bottom of the first.

Mike Curtain, relief pitcher for the Riverdogs, was able to hold the Scrappers to only one run in the top of the second inning.

Timmy Winters tripled in the top of the third inning bringing in three runs. Alex Dorsey, pitching for the Scrappers, held the Riverdogs scoreless in the bottom of the third. An awesome catch and double play made by the Riverdogs Dylan Galt and Mike Savory held off the Scrappers for the Riverdogs win.

Storm 15 - Sand Gnats 1: The Storm jumped out to a five-run lead in their first at-bat against the Sand Gnats on May 3, the first in a three-game series the two teams will play. Kaylyn Truesdale led the team’s strong pitching, striking out three and not allowing a walk, while Lou Lindsay and David Gartner each retired four batters. Sand Gnats slugger Sam Luten smashed two singles.

The Storm’s defense suppressed Sand Gnats’ rallies.

Jack Foster added an RBI, Jack Gieseler contributed two singles and Anthony Cantanio and John Laszakovits each added a single and a double, with Laszakovits accounting for an RBI.

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39 votes bore an uncanny resemblance to a 16-vote loss by then popular Vice Mayor Steve Rogers in 2002. “It ranks her with other highly-effective, progressive leaders in Falls Church history, such as Steve Rogers, Jeff Tarbert and Ed Strait, three great CBC councilors who also suffered re-election disappointment in 2002, 1996 and 1988, respectively,” wrote long-time F.C. community activist Phil Duncan.

“Such occasional disappointment at the polls is the price CBC pays for electing people of vision who are always pushing the City and schools forward, trying to make our local economy more modern and diversified, our community more inclusive, our services to the less fortunate more robust and, above all, our commitment to the children and teachers in our public education system the strongest in Virginia. Typically, this dedication to progress and excellence requires innovation and change, which discomfits some voters,” Duncan wrote yesterday.

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Beverly (Bev) Ann DeaconMcNickle, 60, resident of Falls Church, Va. since 1976, passed away in her home Sunday, May 4, 2008 of congestive heart failure.

Bev, a fourth generation Washingtonian was born December 4, 1947, daughter of the late Charles A. and Julia (Melling) Deacon. In addition to her parents, Bev was preceded in death by her brother, Paul E. Deacon of Arlington.

Bev is survived by her loving and devoted husband of 30 years, Larry A. McNickle and their son, Scott Deacon McNickle (graduate of George Mason High School, class of 1999). Bev is also survived by her two brothers, Charles A. Deacon of Alexandria, Va. and George M. Deacon and his wife Vickie of Boca Raton, FL, and

“BEV” DEACON-MCNICKLE numerous nieces and nephews.

A graduate of Sacred Heart Academy of D.C., attended Georgetown University and received her degree from George Mason University in political science. Bev was active in various political campaigns and positions throughout her professional

career, including a Congressional Legislative Assistant, the National League of Cities, U.S. Conference of Mayors, Peter Hart Research Associates, and several consulting roles. At the time of her death, Bev worked with her husband as consultants with affordable senior housing and services.

Friends will be received on Friday, May 9, 2008, from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. at Murphy Funeral Homes, 1102 West Broad Street, Falls Church, Va. where funeral services will be held Saturday at 10 a.m. with her cousin, the Rev. Wm. Worcester officiating.

Interment will be in Columbia Gardens, Arlington, Va. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Capital Hospice, 6565 Arlington Boulevard, Falls Church, Va 22042.

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Longtime Falls Church resident Carol Ann Good passed away on April 30 in Chantilly, Va. Mrs. Good lived in Falls Church for 23 years, raising two sons Michael and Frank who attended Falls Church City schools.

With her marriage to Berryman Good, she became part of the Good-Piggott family, who are deeply rooted in Falls Church history.

Mrs. Good was also a member of the Virginia

Carol Jensen Turnage, 60, of Lanexa, Va., died peacefully at her home on April 23, 2008 after a long, hard-fought battle with breast cancer.

A native of Falls Church, Va., she was born on July 18, 1947 to Charles Andrew Jensen and Arlene Haslam Jensen.

She is survived by her mother; her devoted, loving husband, Russel Turnage; her sisters, Judy Jensen of Falls Church and Sandra Jensen Polk of Hanover, Va. She graduated from George Mason High School in 1965, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1969, and graduate degree from Rhode Island School of Design in 1977.

From 1972 to 1976, she was the Director of Education at the Hand Work Shop, now called the Visual Arts Center of Richmond. Since 1982, Carol and Russ have been the well-known creative team of Jensen-Turnage pottery. They

CAROL ANN GOOD Chapter of the Daughters of America.

Mrs. Good was the devoted daughter of William and Margaret Bean, sister of Bob Bean, Linda Gadd, Bill Bean, Kaye Grubbs, and Bonnie Edwards. She is also survived by her dogs Nanni, Peaches, Jack and her cat Kitty.

Mrs. Good was interred at King David National Memorial Park in Falls Church.

have made reproduction earthenware pieces for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and have designed their own handmade, one-of-a-kind porcelain pottery of great beauty, which they have sold at art and craft shows from Michigan to Florida. Their work has been eagerly collected by many people who seek them out each year to see what new pieces have been created in their everevolving repertoire.

Carol loved her trips to the Outer Banks of North Carolina, to Florida and to the coast of Maine. She loved her garden, her dogs, her cats and her many pet chickens and ducks. But most of all, she loved her family and friends, all of whom loved her back.

A private memorial service was held for family and friends. Donations may be made in her name to the PCI FUND/Integrative Medicine, 120 Kings Way, Suite 3100, Williamsburg, Va., 23185.

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F.C. Fetes Sister City Bond With Kokolopori

THE SECOND ANNUAL RECEPTION celebrating the Sister City Partnership between the City of Falls Church and the Kokolopori region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo was held last week at the Meadowlark Gardens Atrium in Vienna, attended by key leaders in Falls Church and representatives from the DRC. Congolese music was performed by Bana Ndule and a buffet featured food items from the DRC. Falls Church resident William J. Garvelink, the U.S. ambassador to the DRC, sent his greetings to the large gathering. (Photos: Shaun Van Steyn)

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Chantilly Cleans House at NSPA Chantilly High School took two first place awards at the National Scholastic Press Association conference held recently in Anaheim, Calif.

Chantilly High’s “Andromeda” snagged first place for literary magazine. The magazine is overseen by Advisor Bretton Zinger, with An Ly serving as its editor. The school’s yearbook also placed first in the 325+ page-yearbook category.

The “Odyssey” is overseen by Advisor Mary Kay Downes, with Joe Fratter, Kelly Tarrant and Maya Ahronovich serving as the yearbook’s editors. Four additional Fairfax County public schools were honored with national awards for their publications, including Westfield High School, Oakton High School, Annandale High School and McLean High School.

Fashion Meets Dance at West Potomac Students at West Potomac Academy are presenting a fashion show and dance performance, “Behind the Curtain,” that combines the efforts of all Academy Communication and Arts courses on Thursday, May 8, and Friday, May 9, at 7 p.m. in the Springbank Auditorium at West Potomac High School.

Fashion Design two students will showcase their clothing design collections consisting of eight or more original, handmade garments based on personal inspiration.

Students work both as the designers and producers behind the scenes. First-year Fashion students are helping with each collection and will contribute one garment to the line.

Auditions were held for models from West Potomac and neighboring Fairfax County high schools. Dance students will perform ballet, jazz, and modern dances inspired from interviews with the Fashion Design students about their collections, presenting a theatrical glimpse of each fashion line.

Belvedere Named Title I School Belvedere Elementary School has prestigiously been named a 2008 Distinguished Title I School by the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE). The school is one of 118 schools statewide chosen for the honor, which is based on student achievement on state

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assessments during the 2006-07 school year. The VDOE cited Belvedere for maintaining full state accreditation under the Virginia Standards of Learning program for two consecutive years and for meeting federal benchmarks in reading and mathematics, having average test scores in both subjects at the 60th percentile or higher.

Title I recognition represents goals behind the same title of the No Child Left Behind Act that funds schools in support of programs that raise achievements of at-risk students by meeting annual objectives on statewide assessments.

‘Artists and Authors’ at Rose Hill Some elementary students are finally getting the chance to let their inner-artist shine for all to see. Rose Hill Artists’ and Authors’ Night will be held Thursday, May 8, at 6:30 p.m. at Rose Hill Elementary School. Student artists and authors will share books, stories and art work with their families. Students’ work will be on display throughout the school. A band and strings concert will follow at 7:30 p.m.

Big Wins at VA Science Olympiad Chantilly High School students Abigail Acio and Kanishk Jain finished first in the Forensics category at the 2008 Virginia State Science Olympiad held recently. Second place finishers were Thuy Ho and Shahleen Ahmed in the Food Science category and Sharese Jefferson and Eric Yang in the Disease Detective category. Stephanie Ball and Sharese Jefferson placed third in the Ecology category. Fourth place finishers were Thuy Ho, Kanishk Jain, and Weily Shay in the Experimental Design category; Eric Yang and Aaron Isaacman in the Robot Ramble category; and Abigail Acio and Karen Shou in the Herpetology category. Quynh Nguyen and Shahleen Ahmed finished in fifth place in the Cell Biology category. As a team, Chantilly finished in sixth place overall after competing in 23 events.

nament in the Latin I category.

Certamen is an academic quiz game similar to “It’s Academic” and “Jeopardy.” Public and private school students from across Virginia competed in the state tournament, though this is the first year Fairfax High has sent a team to the state competition.

Teacher Puts Sixth Book On the Market Lee High School history teacher Mike Cecere has just published his sixth book in five years on the American Revolution. Cecere’s newest book examines Virginia’s role in the American Revolution.

Five of his books focus on the role Virginians had in the war. Inspired by his interest in Revolutionary and Civil War reenacting, Cecere’s first three books focus on specific Virginia officers viewed as forgotten patriots and their units. The fourth book is based on American riflemen in the American Revolution, and the fifth book focuses on the role that Northern Virginia played in the Revolution. Cecere has taught for the Fairfax County Public School system for 17 years, 15 of which have been at Lee High.

FCPS Teachers Did the Math and Won Three Fairfax Couny Public

Chesterbook elementary students celebrate their annual “GRECO Day,” in honor of countries Greece, Russia, China and other ancient cultures. Students immersed themselves in the cultures by wearing costumes and participating in activities that focused on an aspect of a certain culture. (Photo:

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School teachers are among 53 teachers nationwide named winners of the Edyth May Sliffe Award for Distinguished Junior High School Mathematics Teaching by the Mathematical Association of America. Meagan O’Neill of Frost Middle School, Clarence Fairbrother of Lake Braddock Secondary School, and Melissa Paul of Longfellow Middle School were all recognized for their efforts.

Oakton Band Gets Their Mickey Ears Based on a performance by the Oakton High Symphonic Band at Festival Disney, the band has been invited to the Disney Honors program,

considered to be the pinnacle of music festivals, next year.

Oakton High bands received two best in class designations, two gold medal placements, one bronze medal placement, and recognition of outstanding solo performances by Sarah Atkinson on clarinet, Ben Elliott on oboe and Jenna George on alto saxophone.

GMHS Student Wins for Best Catch Art George Mason High School student JiaLi Ma won the State-Fish Art Contest for Virginia in the grades 10-12 category. Her work and others’ from around the country will be on display at the coordination 10th anniversary expo on July 19 at the Mall of America.

First Time, First Win for FHS The Fairfax High School team of Sasha Cottle, Blain Cytryn, Dennis Mahoney, and Phil Murphy won the Virginia Junior Classical League State Championship Certamen tour-

The Kintz-Mejia dancers tell the story of Klyatva, a young Russian girl who finds a way to succeed in the classroom with the help of Prince Vladimir and a cast of magical characters.

The Kintz-Mejia Academy of Ballet presented “Klyatva” last weekend at the George Mason High School Theater. (Photo: David Vitt)

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It is extremely rare, since the days of Our Gang and Freddy Bartholomew to the present, for child performers to transition to successful adult careers in entertainment. Far more are the crashand-burn accounts of used and abused kids whose lives wind up in the toilet as adults.

Even rarer are the cases of an entire group that hangs together through the transition.

Enter Hanson, an original “boy band” of three brothers who grew up playing together in their garage, on street corners and at churches in Tulsa, Okla., who scored their first big hit “Mmmbop,” when they were barely teenagers, and now, 10 years later, they’re on yet another national tour, one that brought them to Falls Church’s State Theatre last week.

At their sold-out concert here, they rocked the house with all original songs, a combination of lively acoustical, electronic and a-cappella performances. Even otherwise cynical rock purists, there for a variety of reasons besides any desire to see Hanson, could be spotted gettin’ their groove on big time. These guys were really very good.

Their original music takes off from late 1950s, early 1960s pop and ranges from gentle ballads to high-energy rock. There is a lot of harmony and very little attention to individual parts.

“We’re a real boy band,” said Isaac, the oldest, in a pre-concert

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interview with the News-Press on cushy couches in the modest back-stage lounge at the State set aside for performers. “The other so-called ‘boy bands’ are really ‘man groups,’ formed by grown men to mass market.”

Isaac is now in his mid-20s, and he was joined by the youngest, Zac, just turned 21, for the first part of a very casual, and cerebral, interview. Taylor, the one in the middle, turned 24 in March. He’s the real ringleader, as exhibited during concerts and in an unusual Pied Piperlike walk the brothers led on a sunny afternoon before the May 1 concert.

Hundreds of young Hanson fans, many of whom have been fanatically loyal to the group for over a decade and now “grown up” like their heroes, gathered in the parking lot beside the State Theatre starting around 2 p.m. At 3 p.m., they got an instructional talk on a bullhorn from Taylor, and began walking quietly behind the three Hanson brothers up North Washington Street.

The idea was to walk in bare feet as a symbolic form of putting them in others’ shoes, so to speak, or more correctly, others’ lack of shoes.

The current Hanson tour is called, “The Walk.” The brothers got the idea after a trip to perform in southern Africa. Upon their return, they learned of a small shoe company that wanted to donate 50,000 pairs of soft walking shoes to poverty-ridden people in Africa, but could

afford to do so only if they sold 50,000.

The Hanson brothers decided to take this up as a cause. They’ve organized walks on every city they go to, urging their fans to show up to both walk and buy the shoes. They accomplished the goal on their tour last year, and are at it again now.

In Falls Church, Taylor led them with his bullhorn up N. Washington, right onto Columbia Road and right again on Lawton to Madison Park.

There, he climbed onto a large rock as hundreds of fans gathered around in the afternoon sun, and he told them about their potential for good.

“Look at what you’ve got on you right now. You have cell phones and I-Pods, you have access to the Internet, these are tremendously powerful resources at your fingertips, each of you,

to make a change for the better in the world,” he intoned.

He said it was not enough to wait until everything’s ready or in place to do something. The purpose of the walk, he said, was to demonstrate that you just have to start, even if it is just by taking off your shoes, walking or buying a pair of shoes. “Your tremendous energy must be harnessed for good,” he said.

Prior to this, in the interview with the News-Press, Taylor admitted that having such a fanatically loyal fan base “can be kind of intimidating,” because music has “such power to evoke emotions in someone else, to conjure them up. It enables you to connect your feelings to other persons.”

“It makes you feel like you have such power to influence them. It makes you think how important it is to have the right kind of influence,” he said. “You can screw it up, or do it well.”

“All celebrities are faced with the same thing,” he went on.

“Some react one way to it, others another. Some just flaunt it, some get very withdrawn.

Ultimately, they either turn into a pompous ass or something better. The power can be used and abused.”

Taylor said he and his brothers first stumbled on the idea of helping needy folks in Africa when a friend developed a new computer software, called Doc Via, that he donated to an African organization. It turned out to have an almost revolutionary impact on being able to, very inexpensively, detect and thereby help prevent the transmission of the HIV virus from mother to child.

This model of a small contribution having an enormous impact in Africa led the brothers

to discover the shoe company that also wanted to help.

Their fans, they remarked, have maintained a “fervent” and “fever pitch” for many years, and are somewhat unique. “They’re not jocks or cheerleaders, they’re a little ‘out there,’ something a little quirky about them. The most popular kids tend not to be Hanson fans,” Zac said. “With us, you either love us or don’t like us at all. We’ve watched our fans grow up with us, and change the way kids do as they grow older. Some become very clean cut, others become Goth, they all change some way. There’s a lot of diversification now in their cultural elements. But they remain loyal to us.”

They don’t think a lot of “American Idol,” by the way, noting that Paula Abdul’s screw up on the show last week had to do with the fact that not everything is truly live, but that some of the songs are pre-recorded.

“It’s entertainment. It’s more like a quiz show than a music show.

It’s designed at best to identify one particular kind of singer, the solo pop singer, that can be mass-marketed successfully,” Isaac noted. “Many of the great singers who’ve been around the longest, like Billy Joel or Bruce Springsteen, would never have made it on that show. For me, it’s painful to watch.”

Since their first hit, “Mmmbop,” written by the brothers in the same way they have continued to write all their own material to this day, Hanson endured the years of being on the countless covers of teeniebopper “Tiger Beat” and “Pop Star” magazines, appearances on Saturday Night Live and soldout crowds of mostly pre-teen, Continued on Page 36

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the river. Cross at Chain Bridge, go to the top of the hill, make a right on Nebraska Ave, go half a dozen blocks and you’re there. Underground parking is always available, and free on weekends. I’ll say it again, there is no admission fee ... And they hang great shows. It’s a firstrate venue that for an urban area is easy to deal with.

Art-omatic May 9 through June 15.

Gallery located at 1200 First St. NE, D.C., on the corner of First and M Streets NE. The nearest Metro is the New York Ave. stop on the Red Line. The Metro is strongly recommended for opening night. Hours: Wed. - Thurs.: 5 - 10 p.m.; Fri. - Sat.: noon - 2 a.m.; Sun.: noon - 10 p.m.; closed Mon. – Tues.

It’s crunch time for artists showing in Art-omatic. This year’s edition is housed in a brand new 12-story office building, with all but two floors dedicated to Art-omatic exhibition space. To put this in perspective for you: Stretched out in a straight line, this year’s Artomatic would form a wall eight feet high that starts at George Mason High School, and almost reaches Koon’s Ford at Seven Corners. For those outside the area, that’s approximately two miles, or the entire length of Falls Church City. Imagine that “wall” covered in art created by artists from all over the greater D.C. metro area. It’s big.

Seriously big.

In fact, the typical art reviews for this show consistently include lines like, “Wow, it sure is a lot of stuff.” That observation was a valid commentary the first couple of times, but with Art-omatic now attempting to make this an annual event, it seems to me that 1,000 folks putting themselves on the line deserve better than that. So, I’m going to try and make some constructive comments about it over the next few weeks.

It would be nice to be able to review the show, but taking all the space I’m given four weeks running would still only be 700 words per half mile of art.

Hitting the highest of high spots is all we can hope to do here.

This is the heavy part of the art calendar, and Art-omatic throws everything into overload.

Willem de Looper Through May 18 at the Katzen Center American University Museum (4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, D.C.). Museum hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m. For further information, call 202-885-1300, or see www. american.edu/academic.depts/ cas/katzen/museum/.

Williem de Looper immigrated here from Holland in 1950.

He graduated from American University Art Department in 1957 and worked as a guard at the Phillips collection, eventually becoming a curator there.

Known as a second generation Washington Color School artist, de Looper had a distinctive style that continued to evolve over the years. Working with large scale abstractions, de Looper did stain paintings that evolved into his trademark use of paint rollers.

Reproductions of his work can’t possibly do them justice.

The canvases tend to be full of intricate and wonderfully subtle nuances that must be seen at full scale and close range to be fully appreciated.

I’m not a big fan of the Washington Color School work in general. It’s largely formulaic work that suffers horribly when judged on design and compositional merits. Some — but not all — of the artists operating under that umbrella were getting away with high-schoollevel design sensibilities. That certainly did not apply to de Looper however.

De Looper cut his teeth walking the galleries at the Phillips collection and clearly he absorbed a great deal in the process. Here we see work that scores very well on design, composition and technique. I haven’t had a chance to dig far enough into this story to figure out why de Looper isn’t a household name, but for my money he’s one of the best in this genre. I’m curious to find out what influence Augustus Vincent Tack — one of the main holdings of the Phillips Collection — had on de Looper.

Those are two Washington artists whose work I could definitely live with.

Anyone who takes their abstraction seriously needs to catch this show before it closes. This is one of those rare opportunities you really don’t want to miss.

I also have to say a few words about the Katzen Center Museum in general. This is one of the best venues in town. It’s a new 30,000 square-foot museum that spans three floors and many folks around town don’t even have it on their radar screen.

It’s free. You don’t have to hunt for parking, or fight midtown traffic. It’s right across

The Divas and Iron Chefs of Encaustic; Four Months: Paintings

by Deena Feigelsom Margolis;Donald Depuydt: Recent Prints Through June 7 at McLean Project for the Arts, on the second floor of the McLean Community Center (1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean).

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m., and Saturdays, 1 - 5 p.m. For more information, call 703-7901953, or see www.mpaart.org.

MPA currently hosts two shows featuring encaustic (loosely defined as a wax medium for

paintings — as opposed to oil, acrylic, watercolors, etc.) art works. “Divas and Iron Chefs” offers us a medley of ways that encaustic art works can go.

While “Four Months” shows us one artist’s development and learning process with encaustic, having made one “painting” a day for four months.

This show is a rare treat, as we don’t see much encaustic work, though there is an increasing amount being done these days. The works shown range from fairly traditional paintings, to highly sculptural effects that explore the medium in a more direct fashion. Another mustsee show.

Donald Depuydt, an art printing professor at the Loudoun Campus of Northern Virginia Community College, shows his masterful prints in the Ramp gallery. They are fairly dark images that require close inspection to fully appreciate the layers and layers of printing techniques and imagery he uses.

NOTE: There will be an Encaustic Slide Lecture and

Demonstration held Saturday, May 31, 10 a.m. - 1 p.m., $10 per person. Call number above, or email info@mpaart.org for reservations.

Willem de Looper and Sondra N. Arkin Through May 31 at Pass Gallery (At the rear alley way of 1617 S St. NW, D.C.). Call 202-745-0796, or see community.webtv.net/PASSGALLERY/ WillemdeLooper for more information.

The de Looper show is upstairs, while the Arkin works are downstairs. A small but supporting de Looper show made up of later works. Sondra Arkin shows her encaustic abstractions. Both artists work the edges of forms, and revel in textural layers.  The Northern Virginia Art Beat is compiled by Kevin Mellema. See www.fcnp.com for photos and more. To e-mail submissions, send them to mulsane@aol.com.

‘The Duke’ by William de looper. Acrylic on board, shown here in black and white.

(Courtesy American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center)

May 8 - 14, 2008

There was a time when Falls Church resident Steven Lukis spent his nights scraping plates and washing dishes. Today, however, he’s filling them with some of the finest cuisine the area has to offer as the Executive Chef of Wildfire Steak, Chop and Seafood restaurant in Tysons Corner.

At the ripe age of 14, Steven secured a work permit and was hired as a dishwasher at the renowned Louis Bon Appetit in Crown Point, Ind. Chef Louis Retailleau recognized Steven’s passion for food and started formally training his protégé via a 3,000 hour French Apprenticeship. No need to hop across the Atlantic for a stint at Le Cordon Bleu; the budding chef learned his impeccable French skills working after school. Those skills range from making a buerre blanc to taking a goose from pen to plate (yes, a pen in the backyard of the restaurant).

In four years he completed his apprenticeship pulling in around $110 a week but received an education that would have cost close to $100,000. His hard work paid off and, at 18, was made head chef.

Thus began the rapid rise that brought Lukis and his family to Falls Church last August, when Lettuce Entertain You Enterprise (LEYE) asked him be the executive chef at their second East Coast Wildfire restaurant at the Tysons Corner Galleria. The 400 seat restaurant opened this past December.

The Lukis family, which includes wife Stacey and eightyear-old son Spencer, enjoys living in Falls Church but hasn’t had much time to explore since dad has been busy the last eight months getting the restaurant up and running. They hope to start exploring local sights and hear that Argia’s is the place for pizza.

The biggest attraction to Falls Church was the reputation of the schools, safe neighborhoods, bike paths and the 10 minute commute to work. Stacey also has a long time friend that lives just down the street. The mild winters don’t hurt either. These hardy Chicago folk donned nothing more than fleece jackets all through the winter months.

The move to Virginia and the opportunity to run the newest Wildfire was also a quality of life choice. Even though the chef works long hours (5 am to 5 pm

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and more on Fri and Sat), he’s home five nights a week to have dinner with his family. Spencer, a student at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, is partial to Dad’s skirt steak (this kid knows his cuts of beef), macaroni and cheese and broccoli, which he likes to dip in the drippings. Mom gets kudos for her matzo ball soup, which according to the boys in the family, takes Stacey all day to make. Spencer helps mom by shaping the matzo balls.

Patrons can sample Chef Lukis’s fare for themselves at Wildfire, a 1940’s Chicago style steak, chop and seafood house with both an executive and family feel. The latter is easily observed by the presence of a kids’ menu, a rarity at most steakhouses.

Chef Lukis has something to please every member of your dining party, with diversity and freshness throughout the menu.

The chopped salad boasts bigtime flavor with roast chicken, blue cheese, avocado and citrus vinaigrette. So, if you’re dining with a herd of carnivores and you’re more the flexatarian type, this restaurant is for you. Roasting fresh fish in a 600 degree wood-burning oven gives the macadamia/panko crusted halibut an audible crunch. The fish cooks a mere five minutes and comes out lusciously moist.

Chef Lukis gets to stretch his creative culinary muscle developing menus for Wildfire wine dinners. The wines are sent directly from the vineyard, tasted and assigned their placement in the progressive dinner. The May 18 Simi Winery menu includes a sauvignon blanc to go with a trio of seafood appetizers and a zinfandel to complement braised short ribs with truffled mashed potatoes.

The two-and-a-half hour tasting experience includes five courses and pours. Priced at $95, think of it as a dinner and a show without having to change venues.

Chef Lukis learned a bit about vino when he took a temporary hiatus from the kitchen at the age of 22, hanging up his toque to seek adventure, food and Spanish wines. Only knowing how to say “hola,” he moved to Spain and landed a job teaching English at a local television station. He now speaks fluent Spanish and his wife Stacey says, “Steven thinks he’s Spanish.”

Lukis returned to the states after exploring Portugal and the Caribbean, relocating to Miami where he met Stacey in South Beach. The two both worked at the posh Art Deco Astor Hotel.

Steven received a degree in Culinary Arts (it only took him one year to complete due to all his experience) at Johnson and Wales University. When it was time to get married they moved back to Steven’s hometown of Chicago, where they wanted to raise their family.

Lukis applied for and was offered a job at Brasserie T, a French/Italian restaurant run

by Rick Tramonto and Gayle

Gand. Food Network fans know Gand as the pastry chef host of “Sweet Dreams.”

In 1999, Tramonto and Gand opened the upscale, jacketrequired Tru. Chef Lukis took over the kitchen at Brasserie T until its close in 2001. Lukis was then recruited by LEYE to work at Wildfire in Chicago before heading east to Falls Church.

So what does this Chef do in his off time? He cooks at home,

spends quality time grocery shopping, cooking and eating with family and friends. Chef Lukis believes that “good food is the best way to bring people together.” Now we have the opportunity to dine on his good food with our family and friends.

Wildfire, Tysons Galleria 1714U International Drive McLean, VA 22102 (703)442-9110

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Send community event submissions to the News-Press by e-mail at calendar@fcnp.com; fax 703-532-3396; or by regular mail to 450 West Broad Street #321, Falls Church, VA 22046. Please include any photos or artwork with submissions. Deadline is Monday at noon for each week’s edition.

Community Events THURSDAY, MAY 8 Mom and Daughter Day. Moms and daughter are invited for photographers, catwalks and make-up artists. Wellness bags will be assembled for the non-profit organization Life With Cancer. Complimentary makeovers. First come, first serve. Tysons Corner Center, Level 3 Food Court (1961 Chain Bridge Rd., McLean).10+ years.

Free. 7:30 – 9 a.m. 703-8939401.

Story Hour. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 a.m. 703-248-5077 (TTY 711).

“We Love Moms!” Celebrate Mother’s Day with stories honoring moms. Aladdin’s Lamp Children’s Bookstore (2499 N Harrison St., Arlington). Ages 2 ½ - 6. 11 a.m. 703-241-8281.

Rotary Club Dinner Meeting.

Dr. Robert Cosby, from the Washington DC Health Dept., will speak about Healthcare Challenges particularly for the disabled. Harvest Moon (7260 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church). $10. Visitors welcome. 6:30 p.m. 202-268-5089.

“Lighting to Unite.” Illumination, with artist Gerry Hofstetter, of the Cathedral’s south side which overlooks the city and illumination of the west side which faces Wisconsin Avenue.

Washington National Cathedral (3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.) Free and open to public. 8 p.m. 202-3646616.

SATURDAY, MAY 10 Farmers’ Market in Falls Church.

Falls Church City Hall (300 Park Ave., Falls Church). 9 a.m.

– noon.

$1 per ticket. 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.

301-588-6894.

Bike Collection. To benefit Bikes for the World, a non-profit organization that collects thousands of unwanted bicycles for donation and re-use in developing countries. Trinity United Methodist Church (1205 Dolley Madison Pkwy., McLean).

Each donor is asked to contribute $10. 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. 703-8736128.

Children’s Music. Band of Billy.

Local musician Billy Triplett will play bluegrass, blues and rocka-billy for children of all ages.

Outdoors at the Palladium Civic Green (1445 Laughlin Ave., McLean). Free. 4 – 6 p.m. 703288-9505.

Household Hazardous Waste Collection. Licensed contractor will collect your items for free and properly dispose of them according to local, state and federal regulations. Falls Church City Property Yard (217 Gordon Rd., Falls Church). Free and open to Falls Church community.

9 a.m. – 1 p.m. 703-248-5210 (TTY 711).

SUNDAY, MAY 11

Plant Sale. Silver Spring Garden Club’s annual Garden Mart plant sale is for bargain-seekers and plant-lovers. Brookside Gardens Visitor Center (1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton Md.). Plant raffle

TUESDAY, MAY 13

Four-Minute Dating. Speed dating every Sunday night hosted by Professionals in the City. Stacy’s Coffee Parlor (709 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 7:30 p.m. 703-538-6266.

FRIDAY, MAY 9

“The School for Scandal.”

Comedic theatre performance

by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and directed by Richard Clifford. Folger Elizabethan Theatre (201 East Capitol St. SE, Washington, D.C.). Tickets starting at $25. 8 p.m. 202544-4600.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14 Opera Theater of Northern Virginia. Group of senior singers to perform ragtime songs. Culpepper Garden Senior Center (4435 N. Pershing Dr., Arlington). 1 p.m. 703-2284403.

THURSDAY, MAY 15 Story Hour. Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave., Falls Church). Free. 10:30 a.m. 703-248-5077 (TTY 711).

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Al Madrigal. From “Comedy Central Presents” and CBS’s “Welcome to the Captain.” The Improv (1140 Connecticut Ave. NW, D.C.). $15. 8:30 p.m.

202-393-3939.

Lions Club Meeting. Elden Wright of the Virginia Lions Eye Institute is the featured speaker. La Côte D’Or Café (6876 Lee Hwy., Falls Church). Meetings open to general public. 6:45 p.m. 703 599-1549.

NARFE Meeting. Guest speakers include Sen. J. Chapman

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Theater Fine Arts THURSDAY, MAY 8

Peterson (D-Va.) and Del. 35th District Stephen C. Shannon (DVa.). Vienna Community Center (120 Cherry St., Vienna). Free.

1:30 p.m. 703-205-9041.

SATURDAY, MAY 10 Evening of Improv. Comedy with Daystallion Improv, a seven-member troupe from New York City. DC Arts Center (2700 F St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $10 regular , $8 members. 10 p.m. 202-4627833.

MONDAY, MAY 12

“Tamerlano.”

Washington National Opera. The tale of Tatar the Conqueror is performed in Italian with English subtitles. Kennedy Center (2700 F St. NW, Washington, D.C.). Tickets starting at $45. 7 p.m. 202467-4600.

THURSDAY, MAY 15 “A Few Good Men.” Zem�ira Stage will proudly present Aaron Sorkin’s classic military courtroom drama. The Lyceum (201 South Washington St., Alexandria). Pay-what-youcan preview. Tickets regularly $15 adults, $10 students/ seniors/military. 8 p.m. 703838-4994.

John Pinette.

Stand-up comedian from Comedy Central and “Seinfeld.” The Improv (1140 Conneticut Ave. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20.

8:30 p.m. 202-393-3939.

James Lee Center, Falls Church, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m., Sunday at 2 p.m.

Through May 17.

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This is Falls Church’s very own theatre troupe, the Providence Players, performing at the new and very attractive little theatre at the James Lee Community Center, on Annandale Road between Rt. 29 and Rt. 50. This is a very dedicated and talented troupe intent on entertaining you! Falls Church residents, in particular, should take these folk under their wing as their own, and support them enthusiastically. For some who whine that the James Lee Center is not inside the city limits of the City of Falls Church, for heaven’s sake, get over such teacup xenophobia! The world does not fall off a cliff when you leave the city limits. This is a highly entertaining show, very easy access, plenty of parking and a wonderful, almost brand new venue. For more info and tickets, check out www.providenceplayers.org.

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live_music&nightlife THURSDAY, MAY 8 L��� J���. Sign of the Whale (7279 Arlington Blvd., Falls Church).

703-573-1616.

W���� J������. With special guest Brooks Williams. Rockabilly/Rock/Country. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $15 in advance, $18 at the door. 7:30 p.m. 703-255-1566.

B������ S�� P����. With The Rosebuds and Jeffrey Lewis. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington D.C.). $13 advance. $15 at the door. 8 p.m. 202-667-7960.

FRIDAY, MAY 9 S����� B�����. Blues. Bangkok Blues (926 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 7 p.m. 703-534-0095.

T�� C���. This is a rescheduled concert. Tickets from original date of Sept. 19 will be accepted.

George Mason University Patriot Center (4400 University Drive, Fairfax). $57.50. 8 p.m. 703-9933000.

E���� ��� H�����. With Kill the Alarm. Acoustic Celtic Rock. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $14. 8 p.m. 703-255-1566.

D����-�� T�������. With The Dexateens. The 9:30 Club (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 9 p.m. 202-265-0930.

T�� R�������. With TR3. Americana. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $16.

Doors open 7 p.m. Showtime at 9 p.m. 703-237-0300.

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Progressive Rock. Hosted by Artomatic. Capitol Plaza I building (1200 First Street NE, Washington, D.C.) 8 p.m. at Electric Stage.

202-271-4748.

W���� P�����. With Natalia Zukerman. Folk/Pop. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $20 advance, $23 at the door. 8 p.m.

703-255-1566.

W�������� O��������. Tribute to Phish. The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $10 advance. $12 at the door. Doors open 7 p.m.

Showtime at 9 p.m. 703-5731616.

B��������. Blues. (926 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 10 p.m. 703534-0095.

SUNDAY, MAY 11 P��� B��� B���. Rock. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $25. 7:30 p.m. 703-2551566.

T�� S����. With Police & Thieves

and Lion of Judah. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington D.C.). $8. 9 p.m. 202-667-7960.

MONDAY, MAY 12 C������ M�����. With The Medic Droid and Baumer. Indie. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10. 7 p.m. 703-255-1566.

M��� W�����. Country. Benefit concert for fallen police officers hosted by J.A.G.’s Karri Turner.

The State Theatre (220 N. Washington St., Falls Church). $35.

Meet & Greet 7 p.m. Doors open 7:30 p.m. Showtime at 8:30 p.m.

703-573-1616.

T�� B���� K���. With Buffalo Killers. The 9:30 Club (815 V St. NW, Washington, D.C.). $20. 7:30 p.m.

202-265-0930.

W��� F������. With Drew Danburry and Lode Runner. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington D.C.). $8. 9 p.m. 202-667-7960.

TUESDAY, MAY 13 H�� S�������. Bangkok Blues (926 W. Broad St., Falls Church).

7:30 p.m. 703-534-0095.

Red Racer. With Mother. Black Cat (1811 14th St. NW, Washington D.C.). $8. 9 p.m. 202-6677960.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14 I��� A��������. Swing Blues.

Bangkok Blues (926 W. Broad St., Falls Church). 7:30 p.m.

703-534-0095.

Katie Herzig. With Steven Delopoulos. Acoustic. Jammin’ Java (227 Maple Ave. E, Vienna). $10 advance, $12 at door. 7:30 p.m.

703-255-1566.

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It’s Mother’s Day Sunday and it’s your job to dote and pamper Mom for the day. In addition to showering her with flowers and hugs, you also need to keep her out of the kitchen. That’s right, she’s off duty. Whether you decide to give her breakfast in bed or take her for a Mother’s Day brunch, it’s your call. Plenty of area restaurants are offering up special deals for the occasion, a quick glance through the paper will alert you to some.

If you’re looking to venture outside City limits, I recommend checking out the Blue Iguana in Fair Lakes. Their brunches are outstanding, service is top notch and they have a full, make-your-own Bloody Mary bar. What more could Mom ask for?

What: Mother’s Day When: Sunday, May 11, 2008 Where: Everywhere

See www.theblueiguana.com for more info on Mother’s Day brunch and dinner ideas

Sunday, May 25 — All Prince Music Dance Party. Themed “Turn Me Loose,” the dress code is come as you are. Ages 21+. Chief Ike’s Mambo Room (1725 Columbia Rd. NW, Washington, D.C.). Free. 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. 703-241-8281.

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by David Tattersall. Edited by Zach Staenberg and Roger Barton. Music by Michael Giacchino.

Running time: 129 minutes.

Classified: PG (for sequences of action, some violence, language and brief smoking).

developed for extremely brief exhibition in multiplexes (and IMAX) on its way to more appropriate platforms such as DVD (later, Special Edition DVD) and video games, which provide the principal justification for its manufacture in the first place.

Neither is “Speed Racer” a commercial avant garde film (though fans of the Wachowski brothers may wish to make such claims), unless you still consider Laserium shows of Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” to be cutting edge. Or there’s something adventurous about Eisensteinian montage treated as if it were William S. Burroughs’ “cut up” technique -- with digital bits randomly scrambled and reassembled like pixellated confetti. Nor is it some kind of subversive commodity, unless the outre strategy of pandering to a lowbrow retro-nostalgic crowd (with a packaged multinational corporatist widget that promotes the anthropomorphized evil of corporatism) can be considered anything but business-as-usual in 2008. The faux naivete on display here -- right down to the imitationfruit-flavored-FDA-food-dye coloring -- is both shamelessly quaint and shamelessly cynical.

For a certain generation of American kids, “Speed Racer” was our introduction to the lofi animated form now known as “anime.” At the time, we just thought it was cheapo Japanese animation: flat, static, dubbed into badly translated English and barely “animated” at all, given that the frame seemed to change only about two times per second and the “moving” backgrounds were made up of about four cyclically repeating drawings instead of the eight or so we were used to seeing in Hanna-Barbera cartoons. The faster Speed went, the slower the sequence of backgrounds.

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mildly amusing tale of love and loss, with a $3 million payday. Rating: Two and a half stars. (Bill Zwecker)

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you essentially cannot look like a model in a fashion magazine and be healthy or, it would appear, happy.

Rating: Three stars.

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reruns of “Gilligan’s Island” and “The Munsters” or “The Beverly Hillbillies.” We watched it because it was on, and it was in color.

Now the Wachowski brothers (of the “Matrix” movies) have spent $100 million on a mixture of photography and digital animation and called it “Speed Racer.” In the process, they have captured (almost) all the chintziness, inexpressiveness and incoherence of the TV show in two hours and nine minutes, or about two hours too long, give or take. That is an achievement, no doubt. Yet some of us would rather just re-rent “Tron” (1982), which was not only a more immersive, dimensional and original take on the Commodore 64 video-graphics aesthetic, but funnier and more exciting.

The live-action components of “Speed Racer” include Speed himself (Emile Hirsch, consigned to anonymity again after a breakout performance in “Into the Wild”), who lives with his mom (Susan Sarandon), Pops (John Goodman), mischievous little brother Spritle (Paulie Litt), pet chimp Chim-Chim (Kenzie and Willy) -- as well as, apparently, his mechanic Sparky (Kick Gurry) and his rarely-if-ever-kissed gal-pal Trixie (Christina Ricci). They all love Mom’s pancakes.

Speed once idolized big brother Rex Racer (Scott Porter), who died in a fiery car crash as idolized big brothers named “Racer” do. Rich, evil, purple-clad industrialist Mr. Royalton (Roger Allam) woos Speed with a lucrative offer, but when the young hotshot turns it down in favor of sticking with Pops, Royalton

threatens to destroy all Racers.

Fortunately, the mysterious Racer X (Matthew Fox, displaying fewer emotions than Jack on “Lost”) zips in to help out.

As an elementary schooler, Speed is afflicted with foottapping hyperactivity and ADD, so the movie is, too. A lot of fluorescent, 7-Eleventinted images flash by, any of which could be removed or rearranged without significantly disrupting the film’s continuity. If you can determine the spatial relationship between Speed’s Mach 5 and any other racecar for more than a few consecutive seconds, then good for you. As in the TV show, the pictures don’t seem to move so much as repeat.

Transitions are handled, again and again, with wipes in which large close-ups pass from one side of the screen to the other without ever getting anyone anywhere.

If non-pixel illumination was used in the (mostly greenscreen) shooting of the picture at all, it appears to have been black light, which gives everything a phosphorescent, psychedelic-poster sheen. At various times the visuals resemble “Blade Runner” reinterpreted

by Roger Dean (of Yes album cover fame), or “The Jetsons” rendered by Maxfield Parrish, or a bag of Skittles designed

by Shag.

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NTRACEABLE (Thriller, R, 100 m., 2008). “Untraceable” is a horrifying thriller, smart and merciless. A psychopath devises ways to slowly kill people online, in live streaming video. The more hits he gets, the further the process continues, until finally his captive is dead.

On his trail: Diane Lane as the head of the Portland Cyber Crimes unit, Colin Hanks as her partner and Billy Burke as a Portland detective. Well made and acted; a sadistic nightmare.

Rating: Three stars.

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OUTH WITHOUT YOUTH (Drama, R, 125 m., 2007). An incomprehensible metaphysical muddle by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Tim Roth as an aged professor who is struck by lightning and starts growing younger, only to meet the double of his long-lost love (Alexandra Maria Lara), who is struck by lightning and starts to grow older.

A confusion wandering in a maze, but it sure looks good. Rating: One and a half stars.

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HE GREAT DEBATERS (Drama, PG-13, 127 m., 2007).

An affirming and inspiring film, retelling the story of a remarkable team and their coach. Little Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, in the heart of the Jim Crow 1930s South, fielded a debate team coached by Melvin Tolson (Denzel Washington) that won the national championship.

But there’s much more to the story than just their victory; the film, directed

by Washington, portrays the racist society against which they endured and prevailed. One of the year’s best.

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Curiously casual caper starring Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes and Ted Danson.

The women are service workers at a Federal Reserve Bank who find a way to smuggle a fortune out of the building. Their plan is simple, the complications are few, and they don’t get excited much beyond some high-fives and hugs and giggles. La-di-da. Rating: One and a half stars.

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’M NOT THERE (Biography, R, 135 m., 2007). An attempt to consider the contradictions of Bob Dylan by building itself upon contradictions. Todd Haynes’ approach is to use six actors to play facets of the Dylan image. This way each Dylan is consistent on his own terms, and the life as a whole need not hold together. Cate Blanchett is uncanny as the Dylan of the “Don’t Look Back” period, Christian Bale is the young Village folksinger, and Heath Ledger, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere and Ben Whislaw play other aspects of the legend. Wallto-wall with Dylan songs, performed by himself and others, and more fascinating the more you care about Dylan. Not for those who don’t.

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Rating: Four stars.

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HE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY (Drama, PG-13, 112 m., 2007). The story of Jean-Dominique Bauby, a French fashion editor, who after a stroke could move only his left eyelid and used it to dictate, one blink at a time, a memoir. Julian Schnabel’s wonderful film looks out through his eye, sees what he sees, remembers and imagines, and is filled with life and color -- not nearly as depressing as it sounds. With a supporting cast of warm and loving women, and Max von Sydow as his wise old father.

Rating: Four stars.

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The sailing has never been entirely smooth for South African hard rockers Seether and the recent years have been especially rocky. Guitarist Pat Callahan walked away from the band. Lead singer Shaun Morgan endured a rather public break up with Evanescence lead singer Amy Lee, the co-crooner on Seether’s smashhit “Broken.” In August of 2006, Morgan admitted himself into rehab.

But through all of the changes and challenges, Dale Stewart, the band’s bassist has stood by Morgan’s side, the lone member that has stuck it out since Seether’s founding under the name Saron Gas back in their homeland.

At times, Stewart has had his doubts about the course his own journey was taking. He’s wondered if all of the sacrifices

he’s made are worth it. And each time he keeps coming back to the band and its position as the center of his life. And there he finds his answer.

“I think the band is the most important thing,” Stewart says. “It’s what drives us. It’s what gets us out of bed in the morning. The band is the most important thing we’ve ever done with our lives. We’re proud of it and it comes first and we’ll do anything for it.

“I’ve never really questioned the existence of the band, or my participation in the band. It’s always been pretty clear cut to me. This is all I’ve wanted to do since I was a little kid ... It’s my dream basically.”

That dream scenario turned particularly real for Stewart in 2006 when Seether returned to South Africa to perform alongside Metallica. One of the stops was Centurian Center, a cricket stadium in Stewart’s home town.

“I used to walk there as a little kid to go

watch cricket matches. It was like a homecoming. It was right down the road from my high school. These were my old stomping grounds,” Stewart says.

His family and friends were in attendance, as was the band that inspired him to play music in the first place. In fact, Stewart jokes that they may have been a little too close for comfort.

“During our set, James Hatfield was sitting on the side of the stage watching us play,” he recalls. “It was absolutely terrifying.”

As terrifying as any dream come true can be anyway.

For Stewart, the bottom line is this: For all of the the tabloid troubles and lineup turmoil, he’s having a lot of fun. And that enthusiasm was particularly rekindled when he, Morgan and drummer John Humphrey regrouped to work on their latest album, Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces, released last fall. The album, which breaks from their previous homogeneous hard-rock offerings, has been sited as flaunting a more popinspired sound in particular.

“I think we all knew that and it’s something that we embraced. If anything, we wanted to make an album that had limitations,” says Stewart, who was especially interested to begin work on what became the lead single, “Fake It.” That hook-laden song skews more towards Nickelback than Nirvana, with its sing-songy intro and catchy chorus.

“I didn’t know if people were going to like it, because it was so different from anything we’d done in the past. But it ended up working out in the end and the label loved it and everything,” he says.

The open-minded approach of the album was a liberating experience for Stewart, who enjoyed the unorthodox additions of sitar, piano, keyboards and drum samples to the tracks. It was also an award-winning approach for the band, as the album snagged the group’s first South African Music Award in the category of “Best Rock: English.”

“Bringing [the songs] to life in the studio was the most fun, without any pressure, that I’ve personally felt,” Stewart says.

As Seether rolls on with their current tour, which stops into D.C. for a Saturday, May 10, date at the D.C. Chili Cookoff, Stewart has his career in perspective. The missteps, the trials, the tribulations — it all comes with the territory. It’s all part of the price you pay to play out your childhood dream.

“To be in a band, you pretty much have to sacrifice the rest of your life, if you really want to be serious about it, and we’ve all done that,” Stewart says. “It’s what we do, and it’s what we want to do.”

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squealing girls at larger venues such as the Nissan Pavilion, where they performed in 1998.

They’ve also performed at the Warner Theatre in D.C. and the Birchmere in Alexandria.

“There have been terrific pressures to break us up as a group, even to this day,” Isaac said. “But through it all, we’ve

been able to make good decisions because we’ve always judged our options from the standpoint of what will be best for us over the long haul, and not for the moment. Our barometer is what will help us for years to come.”

Isaac and Zac talked a lot about longevity. Zac joked that they’d have to keep on performing because “we don’t

know how to do anything else.”

But the careers of the Rolling Stones, all now well into their 60s, and even older performers like Bob Hope, who toured into his 90s, are looked on with envy by the Hanson brothers. “Music keeps you young,” Taylor said. “Bob Hope in his 90s talked about how he loved to make people happy. It

brought him joy and kept him in good health, also.”

They’ve gone from being tossle-headed middle school phenoms to semi-scruffy young adults. Isaac is clean cut, but Taylor and Zac dress in leather and denim with beads, earrings and modest amounts of facial hair. All three are now married, and all either have kids, already, or are expecting.

All three, also, live with their young families in Tulsa, although that’s a big town and it doesn’t mean they’re on top of each other. They’ve had stints living in Los Angeles and New York, but they have excellent recording capabilities in Tulsa, and enjoy for the time being in the city where they grew up.

Asked how they get along so well, in such close proximity as concern tours require for so many years, they all

piped up. “We don’t, necessarily. It’s just that we work well together,” Isaac said.

All their writing is a collaborative effort, worked out on paper and in rehearsals, where changes are introduced.

And when they’re on tour, they stay on tour. “We’re not weekend warriors,” Taylor said. “We stay on the tour for the duration.” Their tour bus was parked outside. That’s where they were headed right after the State Theatre concert, which didn’t end until after midnight. The plan was to take off right away and steam north to some new venue in Pennsylvania for concert the next night.

“You have to love this to do it,” Taylor said. “It’s too much work if you don’t love it. The fact is, I’m afraid I couldn’t do anything else without wishing I was doing this.”

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Insurance Fraud Awareness Week: May 4-10

The Honorable Tim Kaine, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, declared May 4-10 as Insurance Fraud Awareness Week in Virginia. This annual event encourages citizens to become more aware and more active in the understanding, prevention and reporting of insurance fraud.

Together, let’s stamp out insurance fraud.

Insurance fraud is not only a serious crime, it is an expensive crime—one that robs our nation of nearly $85 billion each year. Here in Virginia, insurance fraud is estimated to annually cost the average household more than $1,000. So whether it’s a staged auto accident or arson, a padded insurance claim or faked workers’ compensation request, insurance fraud negatively impacts you, the consumer.

Ultimately, you’re the one who pays through increased premiums and higher costs for goods and services purchased every day.

Innovative crime schemes continue to emerge in all corners of the state, but the Virginia State Police Insurance Fraud Program (IFP) thwarts these activities with ever-increasing success.

In the nine years since the IFP was established, special agents have conducted 1,944 insurance fraud investi-

gations, more than 550 cases have been prosecuted and court-ordered restitutions have topped $12 million.

In fact, last year the fight against insurance fraud reached record-breaking numbers compared to the previous year: Insurance fraud special agents made 310 arrests, representing a 204 percent increase.

Agents initiated 458 investigations, totaling a 24 percent increase.

“IFP’s remarkable success stems from hard work as well as partnerships forged with law enforcement, the commonwealth’s attorneys and the insurance industry,” said Lt. W. Roger Rector, IFP coordinator. “We’ve also benefited by citizens with a watchful eye and a willingness to report suspicious activities.”

Through the Sharp Eye Reward program, citizens receive financial

rewards for information leading to the arrest of individuals who commit insurance fraud in Virginia. Last year alone, five citizens’ anti-fraud efforts netted close to $25,000 in total rewards, representing almost 54 percent of the Sharp Eye rewards paid out since the program’s establishment in 2004.

“Though insurance fraud has become America’s second most costly

white-collar crime, Virginians are fighting it head on,” Lt. Rector continued. “Every day we’re reducing insurance fraud – and its costs – as together we investigate, educate and cooperate.”

To report suspected fraud, call tollfree 1-877-62-FRAUD (623-7283) or visit www.StampOutFraud.com.

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Instead of becoming a victim, become aware.

These tips may help: • Avoid tailgating to allow reaction time.

• Carry a disposable camera to record accident damage.

• Choose a reputable shop for vehicle repair and get a written estimate.

• Be wary of anyone who approaches with recommendations of a doctor or lawyer.

• Don’t exaggerate current damage or include past damage when reporting a claim.

• Ignore suggestions to “get rich” through a padded insurance claim. It’s not just risky, it’s illegal.

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Vehicular insurance fraud comes in many forms – from staged car crashes to overstated repair claims. If you suspect fraud, respond with two simple steps: report it and then refuse to take part in it.

The Fraud Fighters Awards program annually recognizes individuals who made exemplary efforts to reduce insurance fraud in Virginia. Nominees usually represent the categories of law enforcement, commonwealth’s attorneys and the insurance industry. The Fraud Fighters Awards are presented during the Va. Chapter of the International Association of Special Investigation Units Annual Training Seminar. The awards program, which began in 2004, is sponsored by the Virginia Department of State Police, Insurance Fraud Program (IFP).

2008 Fraud Fighter Awardees $8.5 million! That’s the exorbitant loss that 28 investors faced due to an elaborate embezzlement and money-laundering scam. It all came to light when the fraudster failed to pay insurance premiums for his employees and forged insurance claim settlement checks to the tune of $120,000.

Fortunately, Kathy Handley and John Parthum of the State Corporation Commission Securities Division, who played a significant role in the investiga-

tion of the crime; were able to help obtain enough evidence for 20 felony charges for one person. Prosecutions conducted by commonwealth’s attorneys C. Jeffers Schmidt Jr. of Lancaster County and R. Michael McKenney of Northumberland County then secured a 32-year prison sentence for the suspect. The four who successfully collaborated on this high-profile case were each recognized with a 2008 IFP Fraud Fighters Award, as were the following recipients: Robert L. Bushnell Commonwealth’s Attorney Henry County, Virginia Increased awareness about insurance fraud by spearheading an educational session for commonwealth’s attorneys at a recent training event.

James L. Camblos III Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Waynesboro, Virginia As commonwealth’s attorney for Albemarle County, committed substantial resources for the investigation and prosecution of a professional fraudster.

Fred Champ Senior Investigator - Virginia Farm Bureau Insurance Company Uncovered alleged auto theft, conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretense, resulting in restitutions and claim denials exceeding $100,000.

Dale Durrer Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Culpeper County Virginia Prosecuted a couple’s fraudulent workers’ compensation claims, false tax returns, obtaining money by false pretense and grand larceny, netting 71 felony indictments.

John Hawse Winchester Denise I. Lawhorn Fredericksburg Criminal Investigators Virginia Department of Taxation Investigated a couple’s fraudulent workers’ compensation claims, false tax returns, obtaining money by false pretense and grand larceny, netting 71 felony indictments.

Wayne Hunnicutt Detective Fredericksburg Police Department Solved cases involving stolen credit cards, counterfeiting and insurance fraud, saving more than $55,000 in losses and securing indictments of suspects.

Peter W. Lazear Special Agent- Virginia State Police Richmond Investigated and collaborated with an insurance company to prove fraud by arson, saving $100,000 in claim payment.

Raymond LaFountain Senior Special Agent (Retired) Nationwide Insurance Richmond Hired in 1983 as the first investigator for Nationwide’s Special Investigations Unit in Virginia; fought insurance fraud for almost 25 years resulting in significant savings for Nationwide and its policyholders.

Sean P. Morgan Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Loudoun County, Virginia Raised the awareness level about insurance fraud among commonwealth’s attorneys by developing an educational presentation and serving as a panel member during a recent training opportunity.

Zachary Lee Assistant United States Attorney Western District of Virginia Abingdon Secured indictments and prosecution for arson and insurance fraud, which resulted in imprisonment for defendant and potential restitution of $169,000.

J. L. Peters Trooper Virginia State Police Norfolk Took the initiative to investigate an alleged stolen motorcycle, confirming a fraudulent insurance claim and a false police report.

Henry P. McDaniel Detective City of Roanoke Police Department Worked with two insurance companies to prove residence and business arson, saving $31,000 in insurance pay-outs.

Tim Self Lieutenant Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office Investigated an alleged stolen truck, recovering $23,000 in fraudulent claim payment; two current cases’ potential restitutions total $316,000.

Lieutenant Mark Nash & ATF K-9, Axel Bristol, Virginia Fire Department Investigated and provided expert testimony involving vehicle arson, netting defendant six years on probation, court fines and a denied insurance claim.

Jason Taylor Investigator Town of Wise Police Department Diligently investigated and solved a case of auto insurance fraud with a claim of $45,000.

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Anthony’s Restaurant 309 W. Broad St., Falls Church • 703-5320100 •Type of Food: Greek, American & Italian Cuisine • Features: Breakfast (Sat & Sun Only) • Hours: Mon-Thurs -10 am - 11 pm, Fri - 10 am -12 am, Sat - 8 am - 12 am, Sun - 8 am - 10 pm

Argia’s Restaurant 124 N. Washington St., Falls Church • 703-5341033 • www.argias.com • Type of Food: Italian • Washingtonian’s 100 Very Best Restaurants, Zagat Rated, Full Bar, No Reservations • Hours: Lunch: Mon - Sat 11:30 am - 5 pm; Dinner: Mon - Thur 5 - 9:30 pm, Fri & Sat 5 - 10:30 pm, Sun 5 - 9 pm.

Bubba’s BBQ & Catering 7810-F Lee Hwy, Falls Church • 703-560-8570 • Type of Food: American/Family, Salads w/ Meat & Ribs • Features: Best BBQ East of Mississippi • Hours: Mon-Sat- 11 am - 9pm

Celebrity delly 7263-A Arlington Blvd. (Loehmann’s Plaza), Falls Church • 703-573-9002 • Type of Food: Delicatessen • Features: Catering, Sandwiches, Submarines, Soups & Salads • Hours: Mon-Fri - 9 am - 9 pm, Sat - 8 am - 9 pm, Sun - 8 am - 4 pm

Chicken Corner 2816 Graham Rd., Falls Church (Next to Magruder's) • 703-573-0112 • Type of Food: Peruvian Pollo • Features: Rotisserie Chicken, subs, salads, fresh fish • Hours: Mon-Thu - 10:30 a.m. - 9 pm - 9 pm, Fri-Sat - 10 am - 930 pm.

Frozen Dairy Bar & Boardwalk Pizza 6641 Arlington Blvd. (Sleepy Hollow Shopping Center), Falls Church • 703-534-4200 • Type of Food: Ice Cream and Pizza Parlor • Features: Catering, Homemade Frozen Custard, Pizza Subs. • Hours: Sun-Thur - 11 am - 10 pm, Fri & Sat - 11 am - Midnight

Harvest Moon Restaurant and Lounge 7260 Arlington Blvd. (Graham Center across from Loehmann’s Plaza), Falls Church • 703573-6000 • www.harvestmoon.com • Type of Food: Chinese • Features: Lunch / dinner buffets, banquet facilities up to 700 people • Hours: 11:30 a.m. - 9 p.m. daily.

Hoang’s Grill and Sushi Bar 502 W. Broad St., Falls Church • 703-536-7777 • Type of Food: Pan-Asian • Features: Single and Mingle Thursday Nights. • Hours: MonThurs 11 am - 10 pm, Fri-Sat 11 am - 10:30 pm, Sun - 11:30 am - 9:30 pm

Ireland’s Four Provinces 105 W. Broad St., Falls Church • www.4psfallschurch.com • 703-534-8999 • Type of Food: Irish • Features: Full Bar, Live Entertainment, Sunday Brunch • Hours: Daily - 11 am – 2 am

Koi Koi 450 W. Broad St., Ste. 117, Falls Church • 703-237-0101 • Type of Food: Japanese • Features: Sushi, Sashimi, Grill BBQ, Party Platters • Hours: Mon.–Thur. - 11 am – 10 p.m.; Fri. 11 a.m. - 11 p.m., Sat.: Noon - 11 p.m., Sun. 4 - 10 p.m.

Ledo Pizza Restaurant & Pub 7510 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church • 703-8475336 • Type of Food: Pizza & Pasta, American/ Family • Features: Full Bar, Wine Menu, 5 TV’s-Sports • Hours: Mon-Thur - 11 am-10 pm; Fri-Sat - 11 am-11 pm; Sun - 12-10 pm

The Original Pancake House 370 West Broad Street, Falls Church • 703891-0148 • www.originalpancakehouse.com • Type of Food: American/Family • Features: Breakfast, Weekday Specials - Breakfast & Lunch • Hours: 7 am - 3 pm Daily

Red Hot & Blue 169 Hillwood Ave., (Hillwood Square), Falls Church • 703-538-6466 • Type of Food: Memphis Style Bar-b-que • Features: Full Service Catering and Delivery • Hours: Sun. - Thu. 11 am - 9 pm, Fri. & Sat. 11 a.m. - 10 p.m.

Robeks 1063 W. Broad St., (West End Plaza), Falls Church • 703-538-4111 • www.robeks.com • Type of Food: Smoothies, Juices, Wraps & Salads • Features: Catering • Hours: Mon. - Fri. 6 am - 9 pm, Sat. & Sun. 8 am - 9 pm.

Sign of the Whale 7279 Arlington Blvd. (Loehmann’s Plaza), Falls Church • 703-573-1616 • Type of Food: American • Features: Seafood Night and Steak Night • Hours: 11:30 am - 2 am, 7 days a week

Sunflower Vegetarian Restaurant 6304 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church • 703-2373888; 2153 Chain Bridge Rd., Vienna • 703319-3888 • www.crystalsunflower.com • Type of Food: 99% vegan • Features: Japanese, Chinese, Continental • Hours: Mon-Sat 11:30 am - 10 pm; Sun 12 pm - 10 pm.

Sweet Rice Thai Restaurant 1113 W. Broad St. (next to Don Beyer Volvo), Falls Church • 703-241-8582 • Type of Food: Thai Cuisine • Features: Free delivery ($15 min., limited area) • Hours: Mon. - Thu. 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m., Dinner 5 p.m. - 10 p.m.; Fri. 11:30 am - 11 p.m.; Sat. Noon - 11 p.m.; Sun. Noon - 10 p.m.

Velocity Five 8111 Lee Hwy. (Merrifield Plaza, Lee Hwy. and Gallows Rd.), Falls Church • www.velocityfiverestaurant.com • 703-207-9464 • Type of Food: American Grille • Features: 50 HD TVs, Private Banquet Rooms, DJ after 9:30 p.m. • Hours: Sun-Mon - 11 a.m. - 2 a.m.

By Bryan Toporek With warm weather in the air, baseball season fully in swing and gas prices rising daily, many people are due to be searching for a new local sports bar and restaurant with low prices and great food, preferably with coverage of virtually every live sporting event.

While this man-topia sounds incredible in theory, Rhodeside Grill in Arlington has set out to cater to the basic summer needs of the sports enthusiast.

Located on the corner of Wilson Boulevard and Rhodes Street, Rhodeside earns its name based off its physical location. The management took advantage of their unique environment, opening outdoor dining space adjacent to the restaurant. Inside, Rhodeside is half-bar, half-restaurant, with enough TVs over the bar and littered around the restaurant to satisfy the most devout sports fans.

Not only does Rhodeside offer a casual atmosphere, it also serves up some delicious, well-priced portions of mainly American and continental selections.

The Spinach and Artichoke Dip ($7.25) made a great starter. The dip was a blend of fresh spinach and artichoke hearts melded with mixed cheeses and topped with still more warm, melted cheese, served with crispy tortilla chips for dipping. The appetizer proved plenty for two people. For those looking for a more traditional bar-food appetizer, Rhodeside offers Buffalo & Honey Pepper Wings ($7.45), crispy fried chicken tossed in Rhodeside’s Buffalo and sweet-spicy pepper sauce, or a gigantic plate of nachos ($8.25), loaded with cheddar and Jack cheeses, pico de gallo, sour cream and choice of chili, grilled chicken or steak.

Along with the appetizer, I tried a cup of Rhodeside’s soup of the day, the Cream of Potato soup ($3.25). While the soup did not have the tender lumps of potatoes that I typically enjoy in a potato soup, the broth, chives, cheese and cracker crumbs swirled together in a great pre-meal combination.

Rhodeside mainly specializes in sandwiches and wraps, offering a variety of sandwiches including the French Dip ($8.45), sliced roast beef and cheddar cheese on a toasted sub roll served au jus or the California Turkey Sandwich ($8.25) with lettuce, tomato, mayo, sprouts, avocado slices and Monterey Jack cheese on multi-grain bread.

I settled on the Pulled BBQ Chicken Sandwich ($7.95), topped with crispy onions, with coleslaw and waffle fries on the side. The BBQ sauce at Rhodeside might be the best outside of Memphis, arguably the most delicious BBQ in the area. Another person ordered the Pasta Marsala with Chicken ($16.95), Penne pasta tossed with sautéed mushrooms, shallots and garlic in a creamy Marsala wine sauce. While Rhodeside features mainly traditional bar foods, don’t let the overall atmosphere trick you. The Marsala dish proves that they’re plenty capable of delivering a delicious, quality meal you could expect to pay double the price for elsewhere.

Rhodeside lives up to its bar reputation on the weekends as well, offering Acoustic Thursdays in the upstairs section of the restaurant, with “Rhodeside Spin” every Thursday, Friday and Saturday night, where a DJ lends his talents to get Rhodeside moving. With 9 p.m. – midnight karaoke on Wednesday, Rhodeside is a party on almost any given night of the week.

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Announcements EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER PROGRAM The City of Falls Church has been selected to receive $3430 in order to aid the City’s emergency food and shelter programs. These funds are for rental assistance only. Any public or private voluntary agencies who wish to apply for funds from the Emergency Food and Shelter Program should contact Mike Lanigan of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Arlington (200 N. Glebe Road, Suite 506, Arlington) by calling 703-841-3830. Interested agencies may also get an application by emailing webmaster@ ccda.net. All applications must be received by May 20, 2008.

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CBIRT PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE Wednesday, 14 May 2008 – 9 AM City Hall – Planning Conference Room (G-04) The City’s Chesapeake Bay Interdisciplinary Review Team (CBIRT) will review the following project for compliance with the Chesapeake Bay Protection Ordinance’s (CBPO) General Performance Criteria to ensure that the development disturbs the environment and water quality as little as possible.

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(TO8-06) An Ordinance to Amend the Official Zoning District Map of the City of Falls Church, Virginia, by Rezoning Approximately 0.68 Acres of Land from T-1, Transitional District to B-1, Limited Business District for the properties with the Real Property Code Numbers 51-131-020, 51-131-021, 51-131-022, 51-131-023, and 51-131-029 by Jefferson Park LLC. (TR8-18) A Resolution to Grant a Special Exception for Commercial Height Bonus for Approximately 1.12 Acres of Land With the Real Property Code Numbers 51-131006, 51-131-007, 51-131-020, 51-131-021, 51-131-022, 51-131-023, and 51-131-029 by Jefferson Park LLC. All public hearings will be held in the Council Chambers, 300 Park Avenue, Falls Church, Virginia. Copies of legislation may be obtained from the City Clerk’s office (703248-5014) or at cityclerk@fallschurchva.gov.

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Mayor Robin S. Gardner . . . . . . . . . .

Vice Mayor M. R. Lindy Hockenberry . . . .

City Council David C. Chavern . . . . . . . . . .

Harold Lippman. . . . . . . . . . .

Daniel Maller . . . . . . . . . . . . .

David F. Snyder. . . . . . . . . . . .

Daniel X. Sze . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

City Manager Wyatt Shields. . . . . . . . . . . . .

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city calendar

MAY 8 Story Hour, 10:30 a.m.

Retirement Board, 5:30 p.m.

Aurora House Citizens’ Advisory Committee, 7:30 p.m.

10 Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-Noon

Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Property Yard

Spring Dance Recital

11 Mother’s Day 12 Yard Waste, Bundled Brush, & Special Collections

Summer Hobby Class Registration Begins for City Residents

Story Hour, 10:30 a.m.

City Council, 7:30 p.m.

Volunteer Fire Department Business, 8 p.m.

13 Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court in Session

Story Hour, 10:30 a.m.

Housing Commission, 7 p.m.

School Board, 7:30 p.m.

14 General District Court in Session

Story Hour, 7 p.m.

Citizens Advisory Committee on Transportation, 7:30 p.m.

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15 Story Hour, 10:30 a.m.

Human Services Advisory Council, 7 p.m.

Board of Zoning Appeals, 7:30 p.m.

Environmental Services Council, 7:30 p.m.

17 Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-Noon

Civil War Day at Cherry Hill Park, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Property Yard Open House, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Dance Recital

Saturday, May 17 is Family Fun Day in Falls Church City!

Start your day at the 6th Annual Property Yard Open House (9 a.m.-1 p.m.) and then head over to Cherry Hill Park for Civil War Day (10 a.m.-3 p.m.). Both events are free and feature kid-friendly activities for the entire family to enjoy.

Visit www.fallschurchva.gov for details.

Household Hazardous Waste Collection Event This Saturday This Saturday, May 10, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., the City of Falls Church will hold its first collection event for Household Hazardous Waste at the City’s Property Yard, 7100 Gordon Road. (Gordon Road is located next to Don Beyer Volvo near the intersection of Shreve Road and Route 7.) This event is free of charge and is open to City of Falls Church residents only (no business use).

Proof of residency must be provided (utility bill, driver’s license, Falls Church City vehicle decal, etc.).

Many types of household, automotive, and lawn care products contain toxic or hazardous chemicals that require proper disposal. Bring the following: acids, antifreeze, bug sprays, button batteries, rechargeable batteries, gasoline, compact or tube fluorescent bulbs, floor care products, fungicides, furniture polish, furniture strippers, herbicides, insecticides, mercury products, motor oil, oil-based paint and stain, oven cleaner, paint thinner, pesticides, poisons, pool chemicals, rug cleaners, solventbased glue, and more. A licensed contractor will collect your items for free, transport them, and properly dispose of them according to local, state, and federal regulations.

Bring items in original containers if possible and make sure containers are leak-proof. At the event, please stay in your car and allow the licensed contractor to remove the items.

The following items are not hazardous and can be disposed of with your regular trash: alkaline household batteries, legal fireworks (soaked in water), smoke detectors, syringes (place in rigid containers with tight fitting lids, such as soda bottles), fertilizer, shoe polish, and lime. Waterbased latex paint and stain is not hazardous but should be disposed of properly by adding sand or kitty litter to the paint and allowing it to fully dry before calling 703-534-6509 for a special collection (there is no fee if paint is water-based and properly prepared).

Pharmaceutical waste will not be collected at the event. Most pharmaceutical waste may be disposed of in the trash. Contact your pharmacy to determine if they have a take-back program. NEVER flush pharmaceutical waste down the toilet.

NEVER throw hazardous waste in the regular trash, on the ground, down the drain, or into storm drains.

Doing so may result in injury to sanitation workers; increased risk of accidental poisoning or injuries to children, pets, and wildlife; and degradation of the water, air, and soil.

2008 Falls Church Open Tennis Tournament • May 19- June 22 The Falls Church Recreation & Parks Division is sponsoring the Annual Falls Church Open Tennis Tournament, which will be played in Falls Church and is open to everyone.Trophies/T-shirts will be awarded to the top two finishers in each category.

Registration Fees: Singles: $8 Residents, $10 Non-Residents Doubles: $16 Residents, $20 Non-Residents (Fee per team) Registration forms and fees must be postmarked by Tuesday, May 13.

The drawing will take place on Friday, May 16 by noon. Players are responsible for obtaining their draw information by calling 703-248-5077 (TTY 711).

• Players must play matches by the designated deadline. Please do not enter this tournament if you foresee any conflicts in being available for matches from May 19-June 22.

• The winner of each match will be responsible for reporting scores to the Front Desk at the Community Center.

• Each match will consist of the best of two of three sets. A 12-point tiebreaker will be used if/when any set reaches 6-6. Must win by two points.

• Each player needs to bring a new unopened can of balls. The winner will keep the new balls and the loser will keep the used balls.

Fill out an entry form at www.fallschurchva.gov or at the Falls Church Community Center (223 Little Falls St.).

Recreation & Parks Online Registration Coming Soon!

Register for the City’s Online Newsletter at www.fallschurchva.gov

Register to Receive Emergency Alerts

The Falls Church Recreation & Parks Division is preparing to launch WebTrac, an online registration system, by this summer. Any household that has signed up for an activity with Recreation & Parks since Jan. 1, 2006, will have an active account in the database. In order to utilize the online system, all households will need to update current household information to include a valid e-mail address and listed birthdates for family members. Please call 703-248-5077 (TTY 711) or visit the Community Center (223 Little Falls St.) to update your information or create an account.

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Classes and Events Special Events

Household Hazardous Waste Collection Saturday, May 10, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

Property Yard, 7100 Gordon Road Residents can dispose of many types of household hazardous waste at this free event. See the article on this page for details.

Property Yard Open House Saturday, May 17, 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Rain Date May 31 Property Yard, 7100 Gordon Road The Falls Church City Department of Environmental Services invites you to bring the kids and check out the equipment used by our staff and see some fun demonstrations. There will be refreshments and door prizes.Have your picture taken on equipment! For more information, call 703-248-5081 (TTY 711).

Civil War Day at Cherry Hill Park Saturday, May 17, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

Cherry Hill Park, 312 Park Ave. History comes alive as reenactors portray civilians and soldiers on the Falls Church homefront during the Civil War. Drilling and firing demonstrations, living history presentations, Civil War music concert, box lunches, bus tour of historic sites, and free tours of the Civil War era farmhouse are some of the featured activities at this annual event.Free admission. Call 703-248-5171 (TTY 711) for more information.

Memorial Day Festival and Parade Monday, May 26, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

City Hall Grounds, 300 Park Ave. Celebrate Memorial Day in the City of Falls Church with amusement rides, arts and crafts, food, civic and business organization, live stage entertainment, a Don Beyer Volvo 3K Fun Run, and more!

Growing Green Lectures

Wildflower Guide Thursday, May 15, 7:30-9 p.m.

Community Center, 223 Little Falls St. This class will introduce participates to Newcomb’s Wildflower Guide by Lawrence Newcomb and how to “key out” unknown plants. Call 703-2485077 (TTY 711) to register for this free lecture.

Classes

Paid registration required. All classes meet at the Community Center (223 Little Falls St.) unless otherwise indicated. Call 703-248-5077 (TTY 711) for fees and more information.

Adventure Park (Ages 14-18) Friday, May 9, 3:30-10 p.m.

A Western theme infiltrates the park’s store fronts, golf courses, laser tag, and even the paintball field. Please bring money for games, food, and souvenirs.

Rock Climbing (Ages 16 & older) Saturdays, May 10 & 17; May 24 & 31, or May 10 & 31, 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

Spend two full days rock climbing and learning the basics of technique, belaying, and safety.

Tubing on the Shenandoah River (Ages 10-18) Saturday, May 17, 9 a.m.-7 p.m.

Enjoy a relaxing Saturday afternoon floating on an inner tube down the Shenandoah River in Luray, Va. Please bring a lunch.Waivers are required.

Miniature Golf (Ages 10-15) Tuesday, May 20, 3:30-7:30 p.m.

How’s your golf game? Think you can beat Tiger Woods? Prove your skills at Jefferson Falls Mini Golf.

Pilates With Props (Ages 18 and older) Tuesdays, June 3-Aug. 5, 7-7:55 p.m.

Pilates With Props employs small apparatus including resistance rings, flex bands, spongeballs, and weighted bars to extend the range of intensity of Pilates mat exercises.

Yoga for Fitness (Ages 18 and older) Tuesdays, June 3-Aug. 5, 8-8:55 p.m.

Participants work to safely and gently increase or restore flexibility and range of motion, build stamina, and improve coordination and balance.

No previous yoga experience necessary; all levels welcome.

City of Falls Church Farmers Market Every Saturday from 8 a.m. - Noon

Submit Comments on the Zoning Ordinance Rewrite Report The Planning Division is seeking comments on a draft Diagnosis/Annotated Outline for the Zoning Ordinance Rewrite Project.The report is part of a comprehensive review, update, and rewrite of the City’s zoning ordinance to make it more clear, concise, current, creative, flexible, and comprehensive.

Comments must be submitted in writing to Principal Planner Gary Fuller by May 21, 2008. Visit www.fallschurchva.gov for more information and a copy of the report. Copies are also available in the reference section at the Mary Riley Styles Public Library (120 N. Virginia Ave.) and in the Planning Division office (300 Park Ave.). For more information, contact Gary Fuller at 703-248-5039 (TTY 711) or gfuller@fallschurchva.gov.

Attention Skaters! The Mobile Skate ParkisnowlocatedattheCherryHillPark basketball court. Open daily until dark.

Skaters must wear protective helmets and are encouraged to wear elbow and knee pads. Children age 10 and younger must be accompanied by an adult.

Falls Church Recreation & Parks Division 223 Little Falls Street Falls Church, VA 22046 703-248-5077* Phone Numbers Open Gym/Weather Hotline 703-248-5125* Special Events Hotline 703-248-5178* Fax 703-536-5125 Senior Center 703-248-5020*/21* Community Center Hours Monday-Thursday 8 a.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Friday 8 a.m. - Midnight Saturday 8:30 a.m. - Midnight Sunday Noon - 6 p.m.

Open Gym Hours Open Gym hours are updated on a bi-weekly basis and are also posted on the Open Gym Hotline, 703-248-5125*. All hours are subject to change. * Indicates TTY 711 Accessibility

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Chairman: Craig Cheney . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Vice Chairman: Ronald Peppe II . . . . . . . . . .

School Board Rosaura Aguerrebere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kathryn Chandler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Susan Kearney. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kieran Sharpe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Joan Wodiska. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Superintendent: Dr. Lois Berlin . . . . . . . . . . .

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For more news about the Falls Church City Public Schools visit: www.fccps.org

TJ Honors Taylor with Storyteller Chair Retiring Thomas Jefferson Elementary Principal Trudy Taylor is being honored for her years of service by the Falls Church Elementary PTA by affixing an honorary plaque to the new storyteller chair recently installed at the school’s outdoor classroom.

In April, the Falls Church City School Board approved the PTA’s recommendation of a plaque to read “In honor of Mrs. Trudy Taylor.” The plaque will also include the dates of her tenure as a Falls Church City teacher, assistant principal and principal.

“Mrs. Taylor was a very early, enthusiastic supporter of creating an outdoor venue for students, and the Falls Church Elementary PTA considers the storyteller chair a most fitting tribute,” said elementary PTA president Catherine Beddow in a letter to the school board last month.

“Mrs. Taylor was particularly interested in providing an inviting venue for classes to engage in reading and dialogue, of which the storyteller chair is the central feature.”

In 2006 the elementary PTA raised $10,000 to support outdoor classroom development at both Mount Daniel and Thomas Jefferson elementary schools.

The Storyteller Chair is a beautifully handcrafted piece that will be permanently installed in the outdoor classroom area Taylor began on the Thomas Jefferson her career at grounds.

TJ in 1982 as a special education teacher. She was named principal of Thomas Jefferson in 2003 and announced her retirement in January of this year. Taylor is a former Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher Award recipient and is the school division’s most recent recipient of the Washington Post Distinguished Educational Leadership Award.

FCC-TV Spotlight: Spanish For Educators

The students’ knowledge of the event that led to President Richard M. Nixon’s downfall helped propel them to victory at the recent Virginia National History Day (NHD) competition in Colonial Williamsburg.

The annual competition provides students with opportunities to learn historical content and to develop research, thinking and communication skills through the study of history. The theme for this year’s challenge is “Conflict and Compromise in History.”

“I have seen students completely transformed by this process,” Virginia NHD Coordinator Tab

Norah Overby (l) and Fae Montgomery are all smiles after winning the Virginia National History Day competition. Their advisor is Rory Dippold.

Broyles said. “The competition stimulates them to strive for excellence and develops lifelong thinking and presentation skills.”

Because Montgomery and Overby took top honors in group performance in the state contest, they’ve earned the privilege of competing at the national level in College Park, Maryland in June. In that contest, they will face the best 99 groups culled from more than 600,000 students in grades six through 12 from across the United States.

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Tune in to Falls Church Community Television (FCC-TV) to watch Spanish for Educators. Aimed towards teachers and school staff, SFE is a great way for anyone to learn basic Spanish language skills. Spanish for Educators airs on FCC-TV at the following times: • Mondays at 3:00 p.m. (Level 1)

• Wednesdays at 6:00 p.m. (Level 2)

• Fridays at 3:30 p.m. (Level 1)

• Saturdays at 3:00 p.m. (Level 2)

FCC-TV airs on Cox Channel 12, RCN Channel 2, and Verizon Channel 35. For more information about FCC-TV, or complete schedule of the variety of community programs on FCC-TV, visit www.fcctv.net or call 703-248-5538.

BIE Partner of the Week Charlie Moore Moore Architects School involvement: Sponsored the Falls Church Education Foundation Run for the Schools.

Why Charlie is a BIE partner: “I am delighted again to have the opportunity to support the 2008 Falls Church City Elementary PTA Home & Garden Tour. The highly successful inaugural tour in 2006 proved the compatibility of linking our love for our kids with our passion and interest in our homes, all for the benefit of our community.

“Having grown up in Falls Church City and been a student here, I know the benefit of supporting and promoting the school learning environment. The tour produces a platform for us to give back to our community.”

For more information about sharing your expertise through the BIE Partnership, visit www.fccps.org or contact Marybeth Connelly at connellym@fccps.org.

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Henderson Students Win State History Competition Very few can claim much good ever came as a result of the Watergate scandal of the 1970s. Yet Mary Ellen Henderson students Fae Montgomery and Norah Overby, who weren’t even born when the burglars broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters on that early June morning, can site chapter and verse on both the good and the bad.

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Kindergarten teacher Peggy Payne and the entire Mount Daniel School student body recently celebrated the 49th birthday of their beloved mascot, Danny the Purple Hippo.

The day was complete with a purple birthday cake during lunch, birthday songs during an assembly and purple ice cream during class parties.

TJ Named Title I Distinguished School Thomas Jefferson Elementary is among 118 schools being honored by the Virginia Board of Education for raising the academic achievement of economically disadvantaged students.

The awards are based on student achievement on state assessments during 2006-2007 and the previous school year.

To earn the designation of “Title I Distinguished Schools” Thomas Jefferson maintained full state accreditation under the commonwealth’s Standards of Learning (SOL) program for two consecutive years, met federal benchmarks in reading and mathematics and had average test scores in both subjects at the 60th percentile or higher.

“We are proud at Thomas Jefferson of all the hard working students who have met grade level benchmarks in reading and we celebrate the dedicated teachers who have helped these students develop a love for reading,” said TJ principal Trudy Taylor. “All students are capable of learning and being successful as long as they are given good instruction and adequate support so they can believe in themselves as successful readers.”

Thomas Jefferson Elementary is Falls Church City’s only Title I school. The school will receive a certificate celebrating its status and achievement.

SCHOOL CALENDAR DATES ARE SubjEcT To chAngE Testing now–5/23 – K-3 PALS Testing (MD/TJ) now–5/30 – AP & IB Testing (GM) now–5/23 – SOL, MC, and CSH (TJ/MEH/GM) 5/12–5/23 – SOLEOC, DRA & Q/SRI (MD/TJ/MEH) May now-9 Teacher Appreciation Week 8 5:00 p.m. Agnes Meyer & Support Staff Award Reception (MEH) 6:30 p.m. Family Literacy Night (MD) 7:30 p.m. JV Show (GM) 9 5:00 p.m. Mason @ Rappahannock (Baseball/Softball) 5:30 p.m. Mason @ Rappahannock (G Soccer) 7:00 p.m. Rappahannock @ Mason (B Soccer) 7:30 p.m. JV Show (GM) 10 12:00 p.m. Wooden Racket Tour. @ Mason (B Tennis) 12 5:00 p.m. Briar Woods @ Mason (Softball) 5:30 p.m. Strasburg @ Mason (G Soccer) 7:30 p.m. Gifted & Talented Advisory Committee (TJ) 13 5:00 p.m. Clarke Co. @ Mason (Baseball/Softball) 6:30 p.m. Ice Cream Social & Art Show (TJ) 6:30 p.m. School Board Work Session (City Hall) 7:00 p.m. Mason @ Clarke Co. (B Soccer) 7:00 p.m. Clarke Co. @ Mason (G Soccer) 7:30 p.m. School Board Regular Meeting (City Hall) 14 3:00 p.m. Mason @ Manassas Park (Track) 6:30 p.m. Art Show (TJ) 17 7:30 p.m. Prom (GM) (MD) Mt. Daniel Elementary (TJ) Thomas Jefferson Elementary (MEH) Mary Ellen Henderson Middle (GM) George Mason High Check the FCCPS Web site for more calendar information.

Summer Enrichment Registration Ends May 16th The Falls Church City Public Schools’ 2008 Summer Enrichment Camp offers FCCPS students in grades 2-7 the opportunity to pursue individual interests during a 9-day enrichment academy. All instructional activities will be developed and delivered by FCCPS educators.

Registration deadline is Friday, May 16th. For more information visit: www.fccps.org/sec.

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‘PEOPLES DRUG SET TO OPEN NEW STORE HERE’ “Proximity to Existing Pharmacies Raises Concerns for Local Impact” “The Peoples Drug Store chain has received a building permit from the City of Falls Church to make over $82,000 in alterations to the old D&F Furniture building at 134 W. Broad Street. The proximity of the site to the city’s two locally-owned pharmacies...”

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“rare.” After five years of war, there is finally one photo that is supposed to say it all?

Howell said she checked hundreds of U.S. front pages on the Internet but saw the AP photo nowhere else.

This makes me wonder why the media have shied away from telling the story about Iraqi civilian casualties. News people and editors were more courageous during the Vietnam War. What are they afraid of now?

Who can forget the shocking picture of the little Vietnamese girl running down a road, aflame from a napalm attack?

And who can forget the picture of South Vietnamese police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan putting a gun to the temple of a young member of the Viet Cong and executing him on a Saigon street?

I don’t remember any American outcry against the press for showing the horror of

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‘VIRGINIA TECH & CITY SCHOOLS FORGE HISTORIC ‘TECHNOLOGY LEARNING CENTER’ JOINT VENTURE’ “In an historic precedent for relations between institutions of secondary and higher education in Virginia, a partnership has been forged between Virginia Polytechnic University and the FC Public Schools that will result in a quantum leap forward in educational opportunities for students of both.”

war when these photographs were published. Were we braver then? Or maybe more conscience stricken?

Of course, the Pentagon did not enjoy such images coming out of Saigon in that era. Most Americans found them appalling, as further evidence of our misbegotten venture in Vietnam. Americans rallied to the streets in protest and eventually persuaded President Lyndon Johnson to give up his dreams of reelection in 1968.

Some Americans believe the media were to blame for the U.S. defeat in Vietnam. Nonsense.

Johnson knew the war was unwinnable, especially after the 1968 Tet offensive and the request by Army Gen. William Westmoreland for 200,000 more troops, in addition to the 500,000 already in Vietnam.

The Pentagon made a command decision after the Vietnam War to get better control of the dissemination of information in future wars. This led then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to create an

office of disinformation at the start of the Iraqi war. It was later disbanded after howls from the media.

More recently we have seen the Pentagon’s propaganda efforts take the form of carefully coaching retired generals about how to spin the Iraq war when they appear on television as alleged military experts. The New York Times’ revelations about these pet generals have cast a pall over their reputations.

Too often in this war, the news media seem to have tried to shield the public from the suffering this war has brought to Americans and Iraqis.

It’s not the job of the media to protect the nation from the reality of war. Rather, it is up to the media to tell the people the truth.

They can handle it. © 2008 Hearst Newspapers

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RILEY REBOUNDS: Ignoring his owner’s trash talk, hard fouls, technicals, potential ejection and past suspentions, Riley led the Falls Church SnowDogs past the Owners with 27 points.

Riley was everywhere in the Falls Church Snowball playoffs. Of course, that’s just because Riley, the power-forward pooch of the Johnson family, loves playing into the snow. Inside the front door, well, that house might belong to the Johnsons, but out in the snow, that is Riley’s house! This doggie dribbler learned all the tricks in his book from his owners, among them Jake Johnson, a senior at George Mason High School and member of the varsity basketball team.

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