City seeks $27M for King Street-Bradlee project
By Sydney Kodama | skodama@alextimes.com
The City of Alexandria is applying for up to $27 million in SMART SCALE funding for its King Street-Bradlee safety...
Titan Robotics team advocates for sufficient workspace
By James Libresco | jlibresco@alextimes.com
Charlotte Ware, 17, has long viewed her school’s abundance of extracurricular and vocational offerings as one of its greatest strengths.
The...
Storytelling and the Mediterranean meet at Elaine’s
By Elona Michael | emichael@alextimes.com
At age 12, Cynthia Farahat promised her grandmother that she would open a restaurant named after her. Thirteen years later,...
Heat mapping to inform Northern Virginia urban planning
By Sydney Kodama | skodama@alextimes.com
July 16 was one of the hottest days of the year in Northern Virginia. A nonprofit and a horde of...
Taylor Run stream project delayed to 2027
By James Libresco | jlibresco@alextimes.com
Revived plans to reconfigure portions of the Taylor Run stream have been temporarily delayed in response to ecological concerns, city...
Teachers union elects David Paladin-Fernandez president
By Julia Gwin | jgwin@alextimes.com
After a turbulent election season and a closely contested runoff, David Paladin-Fernandez has been elected president of the Education Association of...
Out of the Attic: Friendship and Alexandria’s community of firefighters
On Saturday, the Friendship Fire Company marks its 252nd year with the Friendship Firehouse Festival along the 100 block of Alfred Street.
Friendship, established in...
Breathe first, then figure out the rest
By Jess Purtell
A couple of weeks ago, the sky over Alexandria turned the color of an old photograph, a sepia-toned orange. Wildfire smoke from...
Out of the Attic: A summer of history for Alexandria’s Junior Docents
In 2009, Gadsby’s Tavern Museum launched its Junior Docent program. The inaugural class had 15 students. One now works as a part-time Museum Educator...
Onstage Alexandria: August 2026
By Mark Edelman
Though their ranks have thinned a bit before the new season begins, our local theaters nevertheless give us every reason to cool...
Review: ‘Catch Me if You Can’ warns audience of con man
By Thompson Eskew
This is one con that you will be happy to fall for!
This summer, the Little Theatre of Alexandria kicks off its 2026-2027...
Onstage, Alexandria: July 2026
By Mark Edelman
Celebrate our country’s 250th birthday with some of the DMV’s best theater. You don’t need a UFC boxing ring to show your...
Review: ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ comes to LTA
By Thompson Eskew
The beauty of what was once lost can be found again, if we only have the courage to see the good in...
Onstage, Alexandria: June 2026
By Mark Edelman
June is busting out all over, or so Oscar Hammerstein would contend in the picnic scene in “Carousel.” In honor of Oskie’s...
Review: ‘Anastasia’ at ACHS holds the key to your heart
By Harper Herndon, Yorktown High School
“Anastasia,” with music by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens and a book by Terrence McNally, takes place in the...
Olympic boxer Troy Isley returns to Port City
By Jim McGrath | jmcgrath@alextimes.com
Troy Isley is not a boxer to be taken lightly. In fact, Isley is arguably the most decorated pugilist to...
Alexandria Aces hope for late run in playoffs
By Jim McGrath | jmcgrath@alextimes.com
The 2026 season is coming to a close for the Alexandria baseballers, as the Aces wrapped up their regular season...
Alexandria rugby club prepares for Scotland trip to reclaim Mayor’s Cup
By C.J. Hanauer | chanauer@alextimes.com
For the first time since 2009, Alexandria and its Scotland-based sister city Dundee will face off on the rugby pitch...
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Support your neighbors year-round
To the editor:
As many as one in three Alexandrians – disproportionately children – experience food hardship in our city. In a community as...
Turning the ‘Kabuki theatre’ of public input into policymaking
To the editor:
The countless public comment sessions that I’ve sat through at hearings in Alexandria almost all have the same cynical hallmark. They...
Catch the anti-littering bug
To the editor:
If you drive south over the Wilson bridge and enter Alexandria via Exit 177C, your first glimpse of our fine city...
Clarity needed on Callahan Drive
To the editor:
As I waited for my green light at the bottom of Russell Road yesterday, two cars in succession, both from Maryland,...
Alexandria fosters community
To the editor:
I have been living outside the city for almost two years now, and I am looking forward to returning. I had...
My View with Heather Peeler: The promise we make together
By Heather Peeler
Earlier this month when I watched fireworks that celebrated our country and our city’s founding, I felt what I imagined many Alexandrians...
Poor Robert’s Ruminations with Rob Whittle: Glory Daze
By Rob Whittle
As I write this, I’m coming off about 16 games of solitaire. Friends ask me how I can play this game so...
Commentary: What public schools make possible
By Michelle Rief, Ph.D.
This week, after serving three years as chair of the Alexandria City School Board, I will hand the gavel to one...
Commentary: The priest was a spy
By Denise Dunbar | ddunbar@alextimes.com
Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, I worked in the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office of Leadership Analysis. Then housed...
