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Metro Stage brings Blues Alley to this side of the Potomac with the world premiere of Ladies Swing the Blues. Director Thomas W. Jones II has created a clever and entertaining homage--a musical memorial to the legends of the jazz.

Long & Foster® Real Estate, Inc., the largest independent residential real estate company in the United States, welcomes Joy T. Khalil to its Old Town/Historic District office located at 400 King Street, in Alexandria, Va. Khalil will specialize in working with homebuyers and sellers.

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday, Dr. Jimmie McClellan, the Dean of Liberal Arts at Northern Virginia Community College's Alexandria Campus, gave a special lecture on Civil Rights history to the inmates and staff of the William G. Truesdale Adult Detention Center on Thursday, Jan. 24.

While the teams, site and time have been finalized, a local anti-drunk driving organization is urging the public to also develop a game plan to prevent drunk driving during this weekend’s “Super Bowl Sunday.”

The Fourth Annual CAC GALA benefiting the Center for Alexandria’s Children, a child-friendly center that protects children and strengthens families by coordinating the investigation, prosecution, and treatment of abused and neglected children. Its primary mission is to eliminate child abuse in Alexandria.

The Campagna Center of Alexandria recently received a wonderful legacy gift in the amount of $48,000 from the estate of Ms. Shirley Susan Platt. This is the first of two distributions to be given to the organization. Ms. Platt, an Information Research Specialists at the Library of Congress, had a love for organizations that focused on addressing human needs and the arts. "This is truly an unexpected blessing, and one that The Center certainly has need for given the many funding gaps we have to work to overcome every ...

Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille and City Manager Rashad Young, will announce the launch of its new customer service portal, Call.Click.Connect., on Monday, Jan. 28, at 11 a.m. in the Sister Cities Conference, Room 1101, at City Hall.

alexandrianews.org is pleased to welcome Alexandria attorney Gwendolyn M. Hickman as a new columnist. She will provide bi-weekly columns on a variety of legal issues. Beginning today, Jan. 24, her columns will appear every other Thursday under Legal Corner.

A former Alexandria business owner has published a novel about Stonehenge.

By Jancyn Evaluation Shops With unemployment in the state of Virginia hovering around 5.6 percent, the employment situation in that state is not nearly as dire as other regions of the country.