Target Gallery Celebrates 25
The Torpedo Factory Art Center’s Target Gallery presents 25, which opens Sept. 8 and runs through Sept. 30.
At Alexandria Art Market
The market features original work for sale for painters, watercolorists, jewelry designers, potters, glassworkers and more.
Calendar: Aug. 29, 2012
Upcoming events and activities.
Notes from the Producer: Jacques Brel is Alive and Well at MetroStage
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living is Paris is a classic. It landed in New York in 1968 with an English translation and played at the Village Gate for four years.
‘Best Little Whorehouse in Texas’ at Signature Theatre
It was known as The Chicken Ranch, a century-old “business” in La Grange, Texas, that earned its nickname for accepting chickens as payment for services rendered.
Mayhem and Marathons
LTA performance raises $7,500 for local charities.
The madness and mayhem, not to mention the meat pies, were the theme of the night as Brooke Curran and ACT's Running Brooke Fund raised more than $7,500 for local charities including ACTion Alexandria, Community Lodgings, The Reading Connection, Child and Family Network Centers and Girls on the Run at a special benefit performance of “Sweeney Todd” Aug. 7 at The Little Theatre of Alexandria.
Dog Days of August
Celebrate the Dog Days of August in poems and pictures. Alexandria's poet laureate, Amy Young, invites the residents of Alexandria to visit their local dog parks from Aug. 18-26 to view poems written and submitted by Alexandria residents in honor of the dogs in their lives.
Making Ice Cream, Colonial-Style
As the temperature and humidity raced toward 90 on Aug. 4, chocolate ice cream was being made in the green house at the Mount Vernon Estate.
Calendar
Alexandria Harmonizers Concert. 7:30-8:30 p.m. The Alexandria Harmonizers, men's barbershop group, perform a variety of musical harmony. Sit around Market Square on bench seating, or bring a folding chair to enjoy the music. Market Square, 301 King St. Call 703-746-5592.
Tiny Dancers Receives Top Honors
Tiny Dancers, located on S. Washington Street in Old Town, has been voted “Best Ballet or Dance Studio”' in the July 2012 issue of Washington Family Magazine. This is the third year in a row that the company has received this award.
Poetry AX 8/15/2012
3 poems about The Athenaeum's current art show
55 Restaurants Offer $35 Menus
For 10 days this summer, restaurants throughout Alexandria will offer a $35 prix-fixe three-course dinner or $35 dinner for two.
Summer Sidewalk Sale Returns to Old Town
The streets of Alexandria will be buzzing with shoppers on Saturday, Aug. 11 at The Third Annual Old Town Summer Sidewalk Sale.
Alexandria Bulletin Board 8/8/12
Announcements
'Sweeney Todd'
LTA serves up Sondheim's macabre musical.
The story hasn't changed, the music is hauntingly familiar and of course the body count remains the same. But with The Little Theatre of Alexandria's production of “Sweeney Todd,” you will be seeing the macabre musical of Stephen Sondheim as if it were for the first time.