A D.C. man has been charged with felony grand larceny after allegedly stealing more than $1,000 of clothing from a popular yoga shop in Old Town last month.
The suspect was arrested on Friday, July 17, after being captured on surveillance footage allegedly stuffing Alo Yoga (814 King Street) merchandise into a white Nordstrom bag and fleeing the store without paying, according to a recently unsealed search warrant affidavit.
The owner of an Old Town office building is asking the city for permission to modify its parking lot to make space for six three-story townhomes.
Merion Group, the owner of 330 N. Washington Street, will present plans to the Board of Architectural Review on Wednesday, Sept. 16. The building is home to a Wells Fargo bank, and Merion Group wants to eliminate two of the three drive-thru banking aisles to make way for six three-story townhomes with rear-loading parking garages and rooftop terraces.
Something wicked — and delightfully funny — this way comes! The Little Theatre of Alexandria’s 2026–27 season continues with Blithe Spirit, Noël Coward’s sparkling supernatural comedy, running August 29 – September 19, 2026.
Show Details
Thursday through Saturday evening performances at 8:00 PM. Sunday matinees at 2:00 PM.
The Little Theatre of Alexandria (LTA), 600 Wolfe Street in Old Town Alexandria. Street parking available. LTA is wheelchair accessible at the main entrance.
Tickets: $26 (plus $4 service fee)
When novelist Charles Condomine invites the eccentric medium Madame Arcati to conduct a séance — purely as research for his next book — he gets far more than he bargained for. The ritual accidentally summons the ghost of his first wife, Elvira, who has no intention of letting a little thing like death keep her from meddling in his marriage to his very-much-alive second wife, Ruth. Caught between one wife who won’t stay dead and one who won’t stand for it, Charles finds himself at the center of Coward’s most deliciously wicked farce.
This classic comedy from the master of British wit brings crackling dialogue, ghostly hijinks and razor-sharp timing to the LTA stage.
Directed by Ward Kay and produced by Meredith Ludwig, and featuring a cast of eight: Caroline J. Berger, Sarah Cusenza, Liz Isbell, Eric Kennedy, Raeanna Nicole Larson, Cameron McBride, Eleanore Tapscott, and Katie Weigl.
Reserve your tickets before they vanish into thin air.
Even though Alexandria Restaurant Week ended Sunday, diners have another chance to score special menus for a second restaurant week.
Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington’s Summer Restaurant Week runs from Monday, Aug. 24 to Sunday, Aug. 30. Participating eateries have a choice of offering $25 or $35-per-person brunch or lunch menus and $40, $55 and $65-per-person dinner menus. Some restaurants may extend specials beyond the weekend.
Alexandria City Public Schools welcomed students back for the first day of school today (Monday) as the district implemented a stricter student cell phone policy and new school boundaries.
More than 15,000 students started school at ACPS, from the incoming kindergarten class who will graduate in 2039, to the seniors graduating next year. Acting Superintendent Grace Taylor, Mayor Alyia Gaskins, School Board Chair Christopher Harris, Alexandria City High School Principal Michael Burch and Police Chief Tarrick McGuire visited classrooms at ACHS’s King Street Campus on the first day.
ALIVE! is hosting Truck-A-Palooza!, a volunteer truck driver recruitment and training event on Sunday, September 20, from 3:00 to 5:00 pm at 801 South Payne Street, and you’re invited!
Whether you’re new to ALIVE! or have volunteered with us in other roles, Truck-A-Palooza is a fun, hands-on opportunity to learn what it takes to be part of our volunteer truck driver team. You’ll discover the different ways our drivers and navigators support the community, from picking up and delivering furniture to rescuing and distributing food throughout Alexandria.
Alexandria officials are working to get to the root of the problem — literally — as they battle the ongoing influx of spotted lanternflies.
The city is among those across Northern Virginia working to cull tree-of-heaven, a tree species that serves as a host to the spotted lanternfly, an invasive pest that arrived in the U.S. from China in 2014 and has been wreaking havoc since.
On This Day in Alexandria History — “On August 24 and 25, 1874, about 50 teachers and other interested parties attended the Teachers’ Institute at the Peabody School building at King and Alfred streets. The superintendent of Alexandria’s schools addressed the audience as did educators from Washington, D.C., and New Orleans, speaking on topics such as ‘The Teaching of History’ and ‘School Hygiene.'” [Historic Alexandria]
First Day of School Today at ACPS — Monday, Aug. 24 marks the start of the school year for Alexandria City Public Schools students. ACPS has a back to school guide with information for the 2026-2027 school year. [ACPS]
Good Friday evening, Alexandria. Let’s take a look back at today’s stories and a look forward to tomorrow’s event calendar.
The following articles were published earlier today — Aug 21, 2026.
Here are today’s most-read articles:
Since it’s Friday, we’ve also compiled a list of the most-read articles of the week, below.
Here is what’s going on Saturday in Alexandria, from our event calendar.
Here are the events planned for Sunday:
Expect showers and possibly a thunderstorm before 2 pm, followed by scattered showers and thunderstorms until 5 pm, with areas of fog in the morning. The high will be near 79°F with east winds at 3 to 7 mph. Rainfall could reach a quarter to half an inch, and there is an 80% chance of precipitation. Saturday night will bring scattered showers and thunderstorms from 8 pm to 11 pm, then isolated showers, with mostly cloudy skies and a low around 68°F. Winds will be light and variable, with a 50% chance of precipitation. See more from Weather.gov.
“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
– Wayne Gretzky
We hope you have a great weekend, Alexandria!
Just in time for school, AT&T gave away 115 free refurbished laptops to students and families at its Potomac Yard location in Alexandria on Thursday (Aug. 20).
With a waitlist of more than 7,000 people, the 115 recipients were pre-selected via lottery. The event was the last of 10 distributions across the country this summer.
In a developed city like Alexandria, residents may soon be surprised to find four-legged landscapers wandering a West End park.
Alexandria’s Department of Recreation, Parks & Cultural Activities is launching a pilot program to bring 35 to 40 goats to All Veterans Park (4725 Duke Street). Starting Sept. 8, the herd of goats will be brought to graze on invasive plants on the slopes of the park. The invasive plants being targeted in the pilot program are kudzu, garlic mustard and multiflora rose.
