Kiki Obadal writes from Old Town Alexandria on a variety of lifestyle subjects in her column, "Meanderings". She has written for community media for several years, including the Old Town Crier and the Alexandria Times, and most recently for Local Kicks. On Local Kicks, watch for "Meanderings" and Kiki's articles about local leaders and events. Kiki is also an Arabic linguist.
“She is indeed a winner with fluid, effortless technique, rhythmic acuity and alertness and genuine musical insights and feeling.”
So says the San Francisco Chronicle about Alexandria Symphony Orchestra’s visiting artist, DC-based Yuliya Gorenman.
With a lineup that will make your heart
Alexandria residents Tom Hewitt and his wife Candice Bennett found a letter by Thomas Jefferson at the American Legion Post 24 in Old Town earlier this month.
The Lorton, Va. couple were going through historical photos kept by the Legion in the upstairs office, when something caught Bennett’s eye. She turned to her husband.
Alexandria City Councilman Rob Krupicka provided Local Kicks with his 2010 Legislative Agenda this week.
Krupicka addressed a number of issues that the Council will address in the forthcoming year, including HOT Lanes, BRAC, the Budget,
It’s a long way from the Union Street Pub, which Old Town resident and missionary Frank Thorp once frequented.
Thorp had been working in Haiti on a Catholic Mission for the last several years and was a mere hundred miles from the epicenter
The Little Theater of Alexandria in Old Town has opened "Scapino," an edgy comedy based on a work by Thomas Moliere.
Adapted for modern audiences in 1974 by Jim Dale and Frank Dunlop, Scapino is what they used to call comedia dell’arte. It has a quirky, avant-garde quality,
Once the stimulus dollars are spent, where doeth the knife fall?
That question seemed to be the on everyone's mind last Thursday at City Hall, when Alexandria’s delegates to the state legislature Charnielle Herring (D-46th) and David Englin (D-45th) listened to the concerns
Many business owners held their breaths as December approached, wondering what the shopping season would bring.
Last week, Local Kicks spoke to several business owners and small business advocates to get a read on how the season went during the severe recession.
There are places you can go for a cup of coffee, such as Starbucks; and then there are places you can go to socialize, read, have a good conversation, or just think over a good cup of joe.
St. Elmo’s Coffee Pub is the latter, a true coffee house and neighborhood meeting place.
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