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A hidden gem of Salvadoran representation is tucked away in Northern Virginia 10/10/2024 03:39pm • Parts of Northern Virginia's Potomac Yard, Del Ray and Crystal City converge in community where generations of immigrants have set roots to escape the dangers of their home countries and seek out opportunities in hopes of a better future. Along Mount Vernon Avenue, between South and West Glebe ro Things to do in the DC area: Capital Art and Craft Festival, Vintage Market … and more! 10/10/2024 10:36am • For a weekend filled with arts and crafts, head to the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, Virginia. From Oct. 11 through 13, the Capital Art and Craft Festival is bringing over 225 artisans of jewelry, clothing, furnishings, pottery, decor and much more together in one place. Check back every T 'It's time to go': Residents flee as Milton barrels toward Florida 10/09/2024 10:25am • As Hurricane Milton barrels toward Florida as a tremendously powerful storm, officials in the Sunshine State are preparing for yet another disaster in a span of less than two weeks. Officials are ordering mandatory evacuations in Florida, which many are heeding.  Several major hubs shut down a Supreme Court lets Anne Arundel County gun safety law stand 10/09/2024 08:49am • The U.S. Supreme Court let stand an Anne Arundel County ordinance that requires gun shops to provide buyers with information on suicide prevention, gun safety and conflict resolution. The court, without comment, declined Monday to hear a challenge to the law from a Maryland gun-rights group and Copper Canyon Grill adds a barge to its Rio at Gaithersburg location 10/08/2024 09:28am • Longtime Rio lakefront shopping center restaurant Copper Canyon Grill in Gaithersburg, Maryland, has extended its seating over the Lake Rio water with a barge addition. It is called The Lake House at Copper Canyon. The barge doesn’t actually go anywhere now, but it is, nonetheless, a real ba Man faces 4 felony charges after Fairfax Co. shopping center shooting leaves 1 wounded 10/08/2024 07:58am • A 25-year-old man faces a series of felony charges after police say he shot another man at Worldgate Shopping Centre in Herndon, Virginia, Sunday night. Herndon police said Mohamed Abdalla was taken into custody Monday night without incident. He's charged with four felonies, including malicious w Did you know there are fossils from the time of the dinosaurs hidden at the National Zoo? 10/08/2024 04:58am • Did you know there are hidden fossils from the time of the dinosaurs buried at the Smithsonian National Zoo? In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” WTOP’s Matt Kaufax slithered over to the zoo — where he found there is more than meets the eye at the Reptile House. The fossils a ZooLights event to transform National Zoo into 'winter wonderland' 10/08/2024 04:14am • The Smithsonian National Zoo in D.C. is bringing back its annual ZooLights event next month. The event boasts thousands of LED lights depicting all kinds of animals and the habitats they call home. The after-hours, "family-friendly winter wonderland," as described by the institution, returns t How a DC bookstore is helping students avoid linguistic isolation 10/07/2024 05:14am • When a Vietnamese student was ready to checkout at Tempo Books in Northwest D.C., owner Betulia Sanchez paused. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to sell him the books, she told the customer. But, the books, which are aimed at helping nonnative English speakers learn the language, were advanced Long drama over BWI concessions contract may be nearing a close 10/05/2024 09:01pm • The state is moving closer to awarding a lucrative 20-year contract to run the concessions operations at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport — a year and a half after Gov. Wes Moore (D) pulled the plug on the initial procurement process, which was laden with controversy. Maryland Matters has learned Montgomery Co. renters raise alarm over high levels of nitrogen dioxide in apartments 10/05/2024 01:36pm • Leila invites a reporter into her two-bedroom apartment at Cider Mill, an 864-unit complex in Montgomery Village, where she lives with her three school-age children in a largely African immigrant and Latino neighborhood. She walks into her tiny kitchen and fires up all four gas burners on the sto Raising Cane's brings its chicken fingers to Seven Corners 10/03/2024 08:55am • Chicken finger restaurant chain Raising Cane's, which only recently began opening locations in the D.C. region, has opened its newest restaurant in Falls Church, Virginia, at the Seven Corners Shopping Center. Grand openings attract long lines of customers, in part for the chicken, and in part fo Forget the Met. Forget the Louvre. The world's most unique museum is right here in DC at the USDA building 10/03/2024 05:34am • At first glance, D.C.'s U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters, with its vast corridors (measuring 7 miles in total) and looming facade, give off the same vibes as many other massive government buildings in the heart of downtown: imposing, impossibly large and mysterious. At one time, th DC gets another holiday market 10/02/2024 12:00pm • The D.C. holiday market scene will have more options this year with the addition of another market in the Dupont Circle area, which will be operated by the company that used to run the longstanding holiday market at Penn Quarter. The Dupont Circle market is called the DC Holiday Market and it's r 'You give me hope': Montgomery Co. man repairs hundreds of old bikes to donate 10/01/2024 03:52am • A 74-year-old man in Montgomery County, Maryland, takes old, unwanted bikes that have been collecting dust and refurbishes them in his backyard. Then, he gives them away to refugees, immigrants or others in need of some wheels. Over the past couple of years, Manuel Vera has given away 700 old