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Building on the success of her popular Thai restaurant in Arlington, a Centreville resident plans to open another restaurant this spring — this time, much closer to home.

Nutthana “Nancy” Kittitaraphan, the owner of Soul Thai Kitchen & Bar on Wilson Blvd, will open the doors of Surreal Thai Kitchen & Bar at 5653 Stone Road in Centreville’s busy Village Center shopping plaza around April 3.


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The show will go on at 1st Stage, even as the professional Tysons theater mourns the loss of one of its actors and board members.

William T. Newman Jr. died at his home on Feb. 10, leaving behind a storied legacy as both a civic leader and judge in Arlington and a thespian on both stage and screen.


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A 60-year-old man from Hybla Valley is being held without bond after being arrested for allegedly robbing a jewelry store in Arlington on Monday (Nov. 24).

The man was arrested Monday night (Nov. 24) in Fairfax County, just hours after the reported robbery in the 2700 block of Washington Blvd.


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She’s not yet in high school, but Caroline Tso already is being heralded as an accomplished historical researcher.

Tso, who will enter Carter G. Woodson High School as a ninth-grader in August, created the exhibition “The Family Tea House: Where Culture and Cuisine Met in Arlington” as part of a project for Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.


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A 25-year-old man has been arrested after police allege that he forced his way into two Fairfax County hotel rooms earlier this week.

Arlington resident Eric Isler was taken into custody yesterday (Tuesday), hours after the second of two incidents, the Fairfax County Police Department says.


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A nonprofit music studio in Arlington is hoping to get more donors and supporters to tune in, so it can expand a program that offers free piano lessons to low-income students into Fairfax County.

Piano and More currently has two participants from Fairfax and three from Arlington in its Play It Forward program, which provides free lessons, keyboards and other resources to students at Title I schools.


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Finding better ways for bus networks across Northern Virginia to better collaborate seems to be a priority for local representatives on the DMV Moves task force.

However, the possibility of consolidating the disparate systems into one appeared to be a non-starter, especially for Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeff McKay.


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A fitness chain endorsed by “Friends” star Jennifer Aniston is extending its reach to Northern Virginia.

Pvolve announced this week that it has signed a franchise agreement with Dr. Mona Keshtkaran for two studios in the region. The New York City-based company also has deals for its first franchises in Chicago and Seattle.


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Virginia’s attorney general is apparently seeking to revive a Fairfax indecent exposure case against a person who was subsequently charged with allegedly exposing himself in a girls’ locker room at Washington-Liberty High School in Arlington.

In a Feb. 11 letter to Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano, Attorney General Jason Miyares accused the county’s top prosecutor of undermining public safety after a case charging Richard Kenneth Cox with indecent exposure at a Planet Fitness in Fairfax City was dismissed last summer.


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A longstanding family-owned restaurant in Vienna will soon be converted into a bakery whose website declares that “everyone is family.”

Bakeshop, which got its start 15 years ago in Arlington, is taking over the storefront at 421 Maple Avenue that was vacated last summer by Skorpios Maggio’s Greek Family Restaurant.


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