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George Washington Birthday Parade and Weekend Festivities VisitAlexandriaVA.com WashingtonBirthday.net/Events 703-746-3301 Largest parade in the country celebrating the 280th anniversary of the birth of the nation’s first president takes place on Washington’s Birthday holiday, Monday, February 20, 1 to 3 p.m. in Old Town Alexandria. Part of a weekend of events that includes the Birthnight Banquet & Ball and a Madeira Wine Tasting at Gadsby’s Tavern, an historic reenactment at Fort Ward Park, a 10-K race, a 1-mile race just before the parade, plus free open houses at historic attractions on parade day.

“I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you…” Roy Croft. The literary work of local Alexandria poet Erik Estabrook has been selected to appear as part of a banquet of original love stories and poems from uniquely talented writers from around the world, aptly named Speaking of Love.

The T.C. Williams Modern Dance Society held a Winter Recital at TC Williams High School on Friday night. The show featured nine modern dance numbers and two musical selections.

Fun noun \ˈfən\ what provides amusement or enjoyment; specifically: playful often boisterous action or speech Used in a sentence: The Little Theater of Alexandria’s production of The 25th Annual Putnam county Spelling Bee is the definition of fun.

A select group of teen students will follow in the footsteps of sketch-comedy legends to create their own version of Saturday Night Live at Wobble Rocket Stage.

The Alexandria Commission for the Arts is seeking nominations for the 2012 Alex Arts Awards. The Alex Awards’ program recognizes individuals, organizations, schools, and businesses that have made exceptional contributions to cultural life in the City of Alexandria, and promotes interest and involvement in the arts by recognizing those who have excelled in their contribution to the arts in Alexandria. The deadline to nominate is 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, 2012.

Alexandria Winter Restaurant Week returns, January 13 - 22, 2012. 60 restaurants throughout the city will feature a $35 prix-fixe three-course dinner or $35 dinner for two.

Wine Enthusiast Magazine has named Virginia as one of the 10 best wine travel destinations for 2012. The article, listed online and in the February issue of Wine Enthusiast Magazine, highlights Virginia as one of only three domestic destinations to make the list of wine regions that are ideal for wine lovers to visit in 2012.

Three years of Living Legends of Alexandria portraits by artist-photographer Nina Tisara are currently being exhibited at the offices of Prudential PenFed Realty, 300 N. Washington St., Suite 100.

Three Northern Virginia Community College students displayed their photographic skills during the recent portraitDC exhibition. Alexandria resident Judy Heffner and Woodbridge residents Rose Virgil-Jones and Michelle Wittkoff were encouraged by their photography professors, Sarah Raymond and Gail Rebhan, to enter the show. Heffner is a graduate of the photography program at NOVA’s Alexandria Campus and continues to take courses at the campus. She entered “Chinatown Alley” in the exhibit because “the shapes and colors in the image had an appealing ...