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A Flood Warning has been issued, replacing the earlier Flash Flood Warning.

1107 PM EDT Fri Jun 13 2025

…FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 2 AM EDT SATURDAY… …REPLACES FLASH FLOOD WARNING…

* WHAT…Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.

* WHERE…A portion of northern Virginia, including the following counties, Arlington, City of Alexandria, City of Falls Church and Fairfax.

* WHEN…Until 200 AM EDT.

* IMPACTS…Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS… – At 1107 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated heavy rain due to thunderstorms. Flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the warned area. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain have fallen.

Parts of Arlington saw several inches of rainfall in a short period of time Friday night, causing streams to quickly rise.

More on the earlier rainfall, from social media, below.

Earlier: A Flash Flood Warning has been issued for Arlington and other parts of the immediate D.C. area.

Storms producing very heavy rain have overspread parts of Northern Virginia including Arlington, potentially leading to life-threatening flash flooding.

From the National Weather Service:

811 PM EDT Fri Jun 13 2025

The National Weather Service in Sterling Virginia has issued a

* Flash Flood Warning for… District of Columbia… Southeastern Montgomery County in central Maryland… Northwestern Prince Georges County in central Maryland… Arlington County in northern Virginia… Northern Fairfax County in northern Virginia… The City of Alexandria in northern Virginia… The City of Falls Church in northern Virginia…

* Until midnight EDT tonight.

* At 811 PM EDT, Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Between 1 and 3 inches of rain have fallen. The expected rainfall rate is 1.5 to 3 inches in 1 hour. Additional rainfall amounts of 1 to 3 inches are possible in the warned area. Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly.

HAZARD…Life threatening flash flooding. Thunderstorms producing flash flooding.

SOURCE…Radar.

IMPACT…Life threatening flash flooding of creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

Turn around, don’t drown when encountering flooded roads. Most flood deaths occur in vehicles.

Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the dangers of flooding.

The Arlington dining scene earned quite a bit of recognition in Northern Virginia Magazine’s new list of the region’s best food spots.

Ten restaurants with Arlington locations won their respective categories, including Best Bagel, Best Deli/Sandwich Shop and Best Crabs, in the “Best of NoVA 2025” list. This is in addition to nine Arlington restaurants named as runners-up.

Category: Best Bagel

The self-described “Jew-ish” bagel shop and deli with D.C. roots opened a kiosk at Water Park in January, serving up egg sandwiches, latkes, pastries and classic Jewish deli fare.

1671 Crystal Drive (Crystal City)

Category: Best Bakery/Pâtisserie

The legacy bakery shop off Langston Blvd is an Arlington staple for custom cakes, decorative pastries, fresh bread, deli items and more. It celebrated its 50th anniversary in February.

2150 N. Culpeper Street (Hall’s Hill)

Category: Best Breakfast Diner

The family-owned establishment serves classic American diner food and Southern cuisine 24 hours a day at its three Arlington locations.

539 S. 23rd Street (Crystal City); 2310 Columbia Pike (Columbia Heights); 5050 Langston Blvd

Category: Best Crabs

This Arlington crab shack has been around since 1979 and is known for its variety of crustacean specialties, including fresh blue crabs and snow crab legs as well as crab dip, crab sliders, crabcakes and Chesapeake crab soup.

1200 Fort Myer Drive (Fort Myer Heights)

Category: Best Deli/Sandwich Shop

Northern Virginia Magazine praised The Italian Store’s “Milano” and “Roma” sub sandwiches. Available to order at The Italian Store’s Westover and Lyon Village locations, the subs are loaded with fresh deli meats like prosciutto and Genoa salami.

5837 Washington Blvd (Westover) and 3123 Langston Blvd (Lyon Village)

Category: Best Doughnut Shop

Good Company specializes in both yeast-raised and cake donuts. It sells classics varieties like honey dipped and cinnamon sugar, along with specialties like maple frosted and blueberry buttercream. The donut shop is also known for its rotating seasonal flavors.

672 N. Glebe Road (Ballston); 1350 S. Eads Street (Pentagon City)

Category: Best Italian

The star of the show at Carbonara is its namesake meal, prepared live in a flaming wheel of Parmesan cheese. The Virginia Square newcomer opened last spring under local restaurateur Mike Cordero.

3865 Wilson Blvd (Virginia Square)

Category: Best Peruvian Chicken

The Northern Virginia restaurant specializing in charcoal broiled chicken opened its first location in a Wilson Blvd strip mall in 1988. The magazine lauded the restaurant for the chicken’s crunchy skin, plus the restaurant’s fried plantains and yuca.

932 N. Kenmore Street (Virginia Square)

Category: Best Pie

The recently relocated Columbia Pike mainstay secured the title with its wide variety of sweet and savory pies. Flavors include sour cherry and coconut custard, in addition to vegan apple and seasonal berry pies.

2406 Columbia Pike

Category: Best Sushi

Yume’s menu features over 26 inventive signature rolls with fillings like shrimp tempura, soft shell crab and salmon belly. Chef’s pick entrees include garlic butter miso scallops and toro tartare made with bluefin tuna, French caviar and gold garnish.

2121 N. Westmoreland Street (East Falls Church)

When Marc Koblentz and his wife bought their Craftsman style home in Arlington’s Maywood neighborhood in early 2020, they were just the second family to own it — even though it was built in 1915. The previous owner had spent 98 of his nearly 101 years in the house, watching horses and wagons deliver blocks of ice for the icebox and slide coal down a chute to the cellar as a child. In the days before modern plumbing, water was stored in a tank in the attic.

Today, the house retains its original woodwork and other historical elements, but its granite kitchen counters and marble-tile bathrooms are fully 21st century. Maywood, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has about 200 homes built between 1909 and 1925, although there are also more than 100 that are more modern, including some condominium buildings. Its narrow, leafy streets belie the rush of traffic on Interstate 66, which borders Maywood to the east and busy Langston Boulevard (formerly Lee Highway) to the south.

“We wanted to be close to the city,” said Koblentz, an attorney for the Department of Homeland Security. “Buying a historic home was not in our minds. I’m not a handyman by any stretch of the imagination. But it was a very unique house, not one of the cookie-cutter McMansions that you find further out west in Falls Church or Vienna. It was right off the bike trail, and it was perfect for us.”

Koblentz is now the president of the Maywood Community Association, which sponsors events throughout the year, including an Easter egg hunt in the spring, a Fourth of July parade and a Halloween costume party. Maywood might be named after the wife of one of the original developers, Hugh Thrift, whose nickname was May, Koblentz said.

“It’s almost a Norman Rockwell type of community. We almost rolled our eyes thinking that can’t really be true, but it turned out to be 100 percent true. The sense of community and the neighborliness of everyone is very strong and very rare these days,” he said.

Maywood’s neighborliness was put to the test 35 years ago as the community grappled with seeking designation as a Local Historic District, which preserves the Queen Anne, Colonial revival, Craftsman and Tudor revival architecture by putting restrictions on exterior changes to homes. Maywood received the designation in 1990 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. While some fought the designations, many embraced them.

“Eventually those opposed moved out, so now it’s a self-selected group of people who value the historicalness,” said Peter Harnik, who moved to Maywood in 1997. “For the most part, you can’t have teardowns like you see in a lot of Arlington.”

Before moving to Maywood, Harnik and his wife, Carol Parker, lived just a few blocks away in a small house in neighboring Cherrydale. When Parker rode her bike past a gray three-story house in Maywood, she would often see an older woman sitting on a wide wraparound front porch. One day Parker asked her to let her know if she was planning on selling the large 1916 home.

A year later, the woman told her she was putting house up for sale. But there was a catch. First, the woman had to see Parker’s garden at her small Cherrydale home to make sure she’d tend the one in the larger yard. Parker and Harnik passed muster. Since then, they purchased half of the yard next door to extend their gardens, one planted with vegetables and another with native plants like milkweed to attract butterflies.

In addition to the house, the avid bicyclists were attracted to the neighborhood because the Custis Trail borders it. The trail runs for four miles from the Key Bridge in Rosslyn to the Washington & Old Dominion Trail. Harnik founded both the national Rails-to-Trails Conservancy and the Washington-Area Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail.

“The bike paths are really why we moved here,” he said.

Despite its historical feel, living in Maywood sounds a lot different from a century ago.

“Noise is on a lot of people’s minds. We’re next to 66 and in the flight path [of Reagan National Airport],” Harnik said. “Planes come over every 90 seconds. It used to wind down for the night, but there’s no longer a curfew, and we’re now hearing them 24/7 more and more often.”

There’s also been a shift in his neighbors. “Years ago, it was home to plumbers, assistant fire chiefs, all working class. You could get all your services done by your neighbors. But that pretty much doesn’t exist anymore,” Harnik said.

As they have throughout the Washington area, prices have escalated, pricing out some of the earlier residents, said Jim Connolly, a Long & Foster agent who lives in Maywood. In addition, repairing homes to the historic preservation standards can be expensive, he said.

Connolly noted how one of Maywood’s oldest houses, built in 1910, has a tin roof, but the owners wanted to put asphalt shingles on an addition. The county disagreed.

“In the end, it would cost something like $60,000 because they’re all handmade. No one does that anymore. But the flip side of that is it’s really beautiful,” he said.

Connolly moved to a 1937 brick bungalow in Maywood 19 years ago from an Arlington condo when he was looking for a single-family house for his growing family.

“One of the things I like about it is that it has a front porch culture. Prior to World War II, people everywhere had a lot of front porches and everyone would say hello,” he noted. “But after air conditioning and tract housing, so many homes were built without that front porch design. But I feel that porch culture is still alive because of the protections of the historic district.”

One example of neighborliness, he said, was that when his daughter was young she loved to jump on a neighbor’s trampoline, which they still had even though their kids were grown. One day, the neighbor offered to give them the trampoline, rolling it down the street. Now Connolly’s kids are grown, and a few years ago a new neighbor with small kids came over almost every day to jump. Then, Connolly rolled the trampoline down the street to give it to them.

“I love those kinds of traditions, seeing those things like trampolines and basketball hoops passed along. It’s fun,” he said. “That’s a very good metaphor for the very congenial feeling here in Maywood.”

Living there: Maywood has two parks: Maywood Mini Park, which is about the size of a house lot, with a playground that hosts a Halloween costume party and Thrifton Hill Park, built along an old streetcar line, with access to the Custis Trail.

In the last year, 13 homes have sold, ranging from a one-bedroom, one-bathroom condo for $325,000 to a five-bedroom single-family house for $2.35 million, according to Connolly. Four homes are for sale, ranging from a two-bedroom, two-bathroom condo for $699,900 to a four-bedroom, four-bath newly constructed home for $2.27 million.

Public schools: Taylor Elementary, Dorothy Hamm Middle and Washington Liberty High School.

Transit: The Clarendon, Virginia Square-GMU and Ballston-MU Metro stations on the Orange and Silver lines are all about 1.7 miles away. Arlington Transit (ART) bus route 55 travels along Langston Boulevard between the Rosslyn and East Falls Church Metro stations.

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Head to these NoVA parks and plazas to watch hits such as "Wicked" and classics like "Singin' in the Rain" under the stars.

June 6, 2025

Summer is a time for free outdoor concerts, workouts and movies under the stars. From Academy Award-nominated pictures to animated and action flicks, you’ll find plenty of family-friendly favorites on big screens throughout the area. Get those picnic blankets ready! Here’s what’s coming.

Cinephiles can catch the classic Singin’ in the Rain at Fuse at George Mason University’s Mason Square on June 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m. The event starts with a talk by Christopher d’Amboise, director of GMU’s LIVE Center, and includes a recorded interview with the wife of star Gene Kelly, plus anecdotes and behind-the-scenes stories about this famous film. Other flicks in GMU’s summer series include The Little Shop of Horrors (July 18, 8:30 p.m.), a TBD family-friendly movie (Aug. 1, 8:30 p.m.) and My Cousin Vinny (Aug. 14). 3401 Fairfax Drive, Arlington (Virginia Square)

Bring the fam (and your dog!) and plunk down on the turf under at the giant screen at Mosaic District’s Strawberry Park on Thursdays from June 12-Aug. 14, 7 p.m., to enjoy 2024 releases including Wicked (June 12), The Wild Robot (June 26) and Moana 2 (Aug. 5). A few classics will also be queued up, including Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (July 24). 2910 District Ave., Fairfax

The Wizard of Oz and Wicked kick off this summer outdoor movie series, with airings at dusk (around 8:30 p.m.) on Fridays at Arlington Mill Community Center (July 11-Aug. 22) and Saturdays at Penrose Square (July 12-Aug. 2). Sit back, relax and bust out the popcorn for a full lineup of films spanning multiple genres. Additional flicks are TBD. Arlington Mill, 909 S. Dinwiddie St., Arlington (Arlington Mill), and Penrose Square, 2501 9^th Road S., Arlington (Penrose)

The 22^nd annual series returns to Cherry Hill Park in the City of Falls Church, with movies on Aug. 22 at 7:45 p.m., Sept. 19 at 7:15 p.m. and Oct. 17 at 6:45 p.m. This year’s lineup features Despicable Me 4, Moana 2 and the People’s Choice winner. Voting for the latter is open now through July 8 and the options are Shrek, Jumanji and Holes. 312 Park Ave., Falls Church

These special shows aren’t free, but they’re worth noting for their cool factor. The National Symphony Orchestra provides a live soundtrack to feature films Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (July 17, 8 p.m.), Back to the Future (Aug. 2, 8 p.m.), and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (Sept. 5, 8 p.m.). You can also check out snippets of Disney classics such as The Little Mermaid, Toy Story and A Goofy Movie on July 6, 8 p.m. These special screenings have star power, bringing Lissa deGuzman, who plays Jasmine in Aladdin and Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway; Susan Egan, the original Belle in Broadway’s Beauty and the Beast; Bradley Gibson (Broadway’s Simba in The Lion King and star of Hercules); and Bill Farmer, the official voice of Goofy, to the stage. Tickets start at $49.50. 1551 Trap Road, Vienna