Have you found your quarantine oasis? Are you tired of paying down someone else’s mortgage? Please join us for a Rent vs. Buy Happy Hour on Wednesday, March 31 at 6 p.m. via zoom (link to be provided upon RSVP).

Sip on your drink of choice and learn from Washingtonian and Northern Virginia Magazine top producing agents on how you can get $1,500 towards your closing costs immediately! We will discuss the Home Buying Process and Rent vs. Buy cost savings. Please RSVP by clicking on the link by March 30. Call/text Manavi at 703-869-6698 with any questions!


Try an online chess camp (or club!) with Silver Knights — started by a pair of brothers who grew up loving chess and wanted to share their enthusiasm with kids. After more than 10 years and over 100,000 students at hundreds of schools in and around Arlington, they’re now running classes and camps online!

Camps have a mixture of live lessons, practice games and puzzles. On the last day of camps there’s a tournament! Campers are divided by skill so that everyone gets useful lessons and fair games. A few more things to know:

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(This Community Post was written by Study Japanese in Arlington (SJA) and underwritten by Embracing Arlington Arts.)

Study Japanese in Arlington (SJA) is hosting Japan Day 2021 on March 27 and 28. The virtual event will bring Japanese traditional arts and pop culture to your home! Fold cherry blossoms and tulips with your kids at origami workshop. Would your kids and teens like to make yummy soufflé pancakes at cooking class? Nintendo and Mario fans, enter Smash Bro Tournament to win a special prize! Or are your teens anime enthusiasts? Join an anime watch party and a post-watch chat with Japanese students in Tokyo. If you and your teens feel like tidying up, check out Marie Kondo Method’s Workshop by Ms. Suzuki. Missing traditional arts? No worries, we got you covered with tea ceremony and calligraphy workshops. At Japanese art seminar, you will learn Japanese gods of wind and thunder. All activities are free. Registration required. Spaces are limited. Hurry, register here today!

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Cody Chance and Dick Nathan of Long & Foster are hosting an online workshop on the topic of “down-sizing” Wednesday, March 24 from 5-6:30 p.m. Every great endeavor begins with a great plan. This workshop will give you the tools to design your plan. We have created a workbook with an extensive planning guide to enable you to design a personalized written plan for your move, and more than twenty pages of resources specific to Northern Virginia to help you along the way!

These resources will help you to find the best people to assist you in your move, and help you get the belongings that won’t move with you into the hands of people who will value them. The workshop format is a “guided group discussion” of the workbook, with a chance for the participants to ask their own questions, and special guest presenter Alexandra Fry of Orchestrated Moves will be joining us to share her many years of expertise in organization and moving.

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Art House 7 has a new art supply store, right next to its studio. Our Winsor-Newton oil paints are 35-40% off list price! In addition to oils, we have acrylics, watercolors, gouache, paper, painting accessories and drawing supplies. Our prices beat Michaels and are comparable to Blick Art and Plaza Arts.

We’re located near the Lee Harrison Shopping Center, in the commercial townhouse strip immediately past the new drive-thru Starbucks, as you head west on Lee Highway. The store entry is at 5535 Lee Highway — to the right of Art House 7’s studio. Free parking is outside the door. We limit entry to one family unit at a time due to COVID. Masks are required. Hours: Monday-Thursday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m.-1 p.m. arthouseseven.com/supply-store 703-402-5017


Experienced on line tutoring for the SAT and ACT exams with an instructor with over 30 years of experience. We have seen improvements of over 100 points per part on the SAT and up to 8 points on the composite ACT.

References available upon request. Contact [email protected].


Are you considering selling your home? Are you somewhat unsure how COVID has been affecting the market and the selling process? Please join us for an engaging Selling During COVID discussion via Zoom (link to be provided upon RSVP). Click on the website link to RSVP and reserve your slot for this personalized consultation.

In this discussion, you will learn from Washingtonian and Northern Virginia Magazine top producing realtors in the area on what you will need to do to ensure your property is in the best shape possible to draw in the most traffic and get you offers quickly while COVID concerns linger. Whether you’re looking to downsize and find your perfect retirement home, or you’re looking to upgrade from your current living arrangements, this information is for you! COVID has absolutely created challenges in its wake, but that doesn’t mean that opportunity has been lost. For any questions, please call Manavi at 703-869-6698. See you then!


Have you recently tested positive for COVID-19 virus? ResourcePath is validating a second generation antigen point of care test. We are running a study to compare the sensitivity of our new antigen test with that of gold-standard RT-PCR.

We are offering $50 gift cards to anyone who has been diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 in the last 7 days and who is willing to participate in our study by allowing us to collect additional nasal swab samples. Participation is purely voluntary. Call or email us today for more information: 571-375-0755 [email protected]


(This Community Post was written by Studio 10 Artists, a Creative Collaborative, and underwritten by Embracing Arlington Arts.)

After a dark year, we’re beginning to see a little light around us.

Over these past months, five local artists sought creative inspiration as a guide out of darkness into the light. These painters — Elisabeth Hudgins, Kat Jamieson, Linda Maldonado, Elise Ritter and Deborah Taylor — formed the Arlington-based collaborative, Studio 10 Artists, and met via weekly Zooms to discuss, explore and create a new exhibition entitled “Ambient Light.”

“Ambient” light is the atmosphere that surrounds and illuminates any environment. Using their own style, unique vision, and medium of choice (watercolor, oil, acrylic, collage and ink), these artists have interpreted ambient light in various ways: physical and spiritual; external or internal; real or imagined.

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Have you found your quarantine oasis? Are you tired of paying down someone else’s mortgage? Please join us for a Rent vs. Buy Happy Hour on Wednesday, March 10 at 6 p.m. via zoom (link to be provided upon RSVP).

Sip on your drink of choice and learn from Washingtonian Magazine top producing agents on how you can get $1,500 towards your closing costs immediately! We will discuss the Home Buying Process and Rent vs. Buy cost savings. Please RSVP by clicking on the link by March 9. Call/text Manavi at 703-869-6698 with any questions!


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