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Brew Pursuit
‘Beer Nerd’ combines trivia and beer drinking in an appropriately geeky board game. Photo by Mike Ramm Blending “Trivial Pursuit” rules with beer sampling, the board game “Beer Nerd” taps into the...
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Five snow day activities on the Orange Line
shutterstock.com / Rob Byron You got the call/text/e-mail around 6 this morning: don’t come in, office is closed. Like any normal human being, you threw your car keys in the trash and immediately went...
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Pirouetting with the greats
Professional dancer, choreographer and Manassas Ballet’s Artistic Director Amy Grant Wolfe talks business. –Tim Regan Photo courtesy of Stolbov Pavel/Shutterstock.com What’s your day-to-day job at the...
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Margot MacDonald’s Indiegogo-funded album, ‘Canvas,’ debuts at the Black Cat...
Photo courtesy of Margot MacDonald The last time we talked to Margot MacDonald, she was working on a new album funded by IndieGogo. In November, she released “Canvas,” the product of her crowdsourced...
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Business is Brewing
Just five years ago, an all-local beer like Native Son might have been nearly impossible to brew. But thanks to the New industry growing around NoVA brewers, such a beer might just be the norm in the...
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Fossil Finders
Jason Osborne and Aaron Alford examining the walls of a ravine for artifacts. Photo by Erick Gibson. Prowling Shores, diving in swamps, Paleo Quest researchers’ expeditions for prehistoric treasure...
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Local Money Makes New Honey
GMU’s New Century College raised over $12,000 in an Indiegogo campaign to … put beehives on their parking garage? Photo courtesy of manfredxy/Shutterstock.com The honeybees are dying, and in great...
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Playing on the Metro
Stuck at home? Don’t want to drive? Battle boredom with these walkable Metrorail stops in NoVA. —Tim Regan Orange Line Dunn Loring Angelika Film Center (.9 Miles away)Catch an indie film and grab a...
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Mike Mann
By Tim Regan The dot-com king has bought and sold some popular domain names, but now he’s on a different kind of mission: to change politics—and the world. Photo by Erick Gibson. From his offices in...
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Profile: Homeless Heroes
A cancer diagnosis and medical discharge from the Reserves put “Jas” Boothe close to being homeless. Now she’s fighting the Battle for All Homeless Female Vets. By Tim Regan Photo by Aaron Spicer What...
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Beers, Bones and Biology
By Tim Regan A partnership between a brewer and a paleontologist creates a beer you can actually learn from. Jasper Ackerboom at Lost Rhino. Photo by Erick Gibson Beer and education usually only go...
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Synetic Theater’s Money Man
By Tim Regan Synetic dreams big. Development Director Morey Epstein pays for it. Photo by Erick Gibson. Last year, non-profit Synetic Theater raised $31,000 on Kickstarter to turn an abandoned...
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Brunch Battles
We sent our writers into the ring to determine which of our favorite morning staples is the best brunch dish. —Brendan Spiegel, Warren Rojas, Tim Regan and Carten Cordell (May 2014) The Brunch...
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Northern Virginians of the Year
The future of Northern Virginia is one that will focus on how we interact with our children and the life lessons we teach them now. This year all of our Northern Virginians of the Year have given back...
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Color-Coded Soul
Taking a break from recording a new album, Reston’s indie-go-go band RDGLDGRN talks beats, Colors and Pharrell Williams. By Tim Regan Photo courtesy of Andrew Markowitz. RDGLDGRN doesn’t have a...
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Books Mean Business
How a former charter school teacher and ex-Google employee dove into “Shark Tank” and snagged a billionaire backer. Photography By Aaron Spicer By Tim Regan • Photography By Aaron Spicer In May 2013,...
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Hop Dreams
Solomon Rose (dog is named Hawk), Organarchy Hops, Dylan Krzywonski, Organarchy Hops, Jonathan Staples. Photo by Mollie Tobias. How a new hop farm and processing plant could make local hops the next...
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Curl Power
Photo courtesy of Joe Carabeo. How one Fairfax artist preserves her inner child with comic strips and cartoons. Most cartoonists remember the exact moment they realized they wanted to draw for a...
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Mike Mann
By Tim Regan The dot-com king has bought and sold some popular domain names, but now he’s on a different kind of mission: to change politics—and the world. Photo by Erick Gibson. From his offices in...
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Profile: Homeless Heroes
A cancer diagnosis and medical discharge from the Reserves put “Jas” Boothe close to being homeless. Now she’s fighting the Battle for All Homeless Female Vets. By Tim Regan Photo by Aaron Spicer What...
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