This car was spotted at the Pentagon Row parking lot, outside Harris Teeter.
Welcome home, soldier.
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It started with a couple of fun races and ended with a performance of “The Arlington Rap.” Clarendon Day 2010 benefited from beautiful weather (okay, it was a bit hot) and plenty of food and entertainment options. Below are some photos captured by ARLnow.com readers.
Photo credits: Amber Wilkie Photography, Chaita_1, Chris Bavaria, Discojing and Tom Petty.
We spotted plenty of people wielding fancy cameras at Clarendon Day on Saturday, and each of those shutter bugs was probably taking better photos than the grainy, haphazard cell phone pics snapped by ARLnow.com.
If you took photos at Clarendon Day, we’d love to showcase your best shots (with credit, of course) tomorrow morning. Add them to our Flickr pool or email them to arlingtonnews[at]gmail.com.
Please resize photos before emailing, and let us know how to credit you.
In case you missed the fake gore of Saturday morning’s elaborate plane crash drill at Reagan National Airport, photographer Tim Lundin took plenty of pictures to satisfy your curiosity. See his photo gallery on Facebook.
Also from Tim comes this description of the drill scenario:
A Bombardier Q400 inbound to land on Runway 4 at Reagan National experiences severe flight control problems for unknown reasons approximately 200 feet prior to the approach end of the runway. The aircraft impacts the water and breaks apart. Parts of the airplane strike three vehicles driving on Thomas Avenue, pushing them into the parking lot south of Runway 4 and creating a debris field. The fuselage bursts into flames as it skids onto the parking area southwest of the runway. Four victims are flung into the Potomac River with multiple victims located in the parking lot. Additional, two airport shuttle buses have collided in the parking lot.
Construction crews have been working feverishly over the summer to get the new Yorktown High School ready for students, while tearing down remnants of the old Yorktown High building. With one week left until students return and with a field full of rubble left to clear, it looks like the work may be coming down to the wire.
Check out the photos below, which show heavy equipment picking through huge piles of debris as well as a worker hosing down the rubble, apparently to keep dust down. Also below: a photo of the old high school, just before the demolition.
Update at 4:35 p.m. — Exclusive: here’s a sneak peak at Fire Works’ temporary menu.
Fire Works Pizza has opened for its second night in business in Courthouse.
As of 4:00 the bar was officially open — even though employees and contractors were still busy putting cash in the registers and arranging glasses. As of 5:00, dinner will be served.
The restaurant is operating under limited hours and with a limited menu while employees get up to speed and while some of the final touches are put into place. Management expects to get all the wrinkles ironed out in 3-4 weeks.
Also worth looking forward to: the open-air fireplace on the outside patio should be working soon.
Here are a few photos we took around the place this afternoon.
After a sparsely-attended, rainy start to the Arlington County Fair on Wednesday, crowds flocked to the Thomas Jefferson Community Center Thursday evening for the fair’s “official” kickoff.
A who’s who of county leaders attended an opening ceremony that featured the U.S. Army Band Downrange, a presentation of the colors and the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps.
Among those in attendance were county manager Michael Brown, Rep. Jim Moran (later spotted scoping out the rides for a subsequent fair visit with the grandkids), police chief M. Douglas Scott, sheriff Beth Arthur, most county and school board members, local military leaders, an ABC7 reporter with cameraman in town and a number of servicemen and women.
Most fairgoers skipped the opening ceremony, however, and instead went straight to the rides, games and food stands. The fair’s famous pig races drew a crowd as well.
Lots of photos of fair fun, after the jump.
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Lightning, booming thunder and pouring rain is affecting much of Arlington as storms head into the area from the northwest.
The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for the area.
Update at 2:20 p.m. — We’re hearing a tree is down at North Quebec Street and Lorcom Lane.
In case you missed nature’s spectacular light show over DC last night, here’s a shot we captured at the Air Force Memorial.
Here’s a look at yesterday’s holiday, through the lens of three of our Flickr poolers.
Photo by Timkelley:
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Gawker has grabbed a bunch of Facebook photos of Mikhail Semenko, the Arlington travel agent who’s accused of being a secret agent for Russia.
As it turns out, Semenko is a fan of parties, ironic t-shirts and Bill Clinton masks. He has just over 400 Facebook friends, although that number is steadily decreasing as his former friends dissociate themselves from him.
The Wall Street Journal didn’t stop at Facebook. It accessed Semenko’s page on a Russian social networking website.
In 2008 a friend of Semenko said on the site, apparently as a joke, “Hi to our valiant spy deep behind the nasty Americans’ lines. Remember the teachings of Mao: destroy the filthy imperialist economy from within!!”
Photo via Gawker.