Fairfax County - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com The website that Washington lives by. Fri, 08 Dec 2023 15:35:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.washingtonian.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/cropped-washingtonian-favicon-gigantic-138x138.png Fairfax County - Washingtonian https://www.washingtonian.com 32 32 Meet the Winner of Netflix’s Real-Life ‘Squid Game’ https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/12/07/meet-the-55-year-old-fairfax-county-woman-who-just-won-squid-game/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=meet-the-55-year-old-fairfax-county-woman-who-just-won-squid-game https://www.washingtonian.com/2023/12/07/meet-the-55-year-old-fairfax-county-woman-who-just-won-squid-game/#respond Thu, 07 Dec 2023 19:11:43 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1666779 Mai Whelan—also known as Player 287 on Netflix’s Squid Game: The Challenge—is one of the DMV’s newest multimillionaires. Last night, she took home the top $4.56 million prize in the game show’s finale, beating out 455 other contestants, including Falls Church native Shelby Hoefling. The game show, which is based on Netflix’s South Korean hit […]

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Fairfax Could Build a Memorial to Covid Victims. We Spoke to the Politician Behind the Proposal. https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/02/10/fairfax-could-build-a-memorial-to-covid-victims-we-spoke-to-the-politician-behind-the-proposal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fairfax-could-build-a-memorial-to-covid-victims-we-spoke-to-the-politician-behind-the-proposal Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:51:33 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1567593 In the nearly two years since its onset, the covid crisis has claimed more than 900,000 American lives, sickened millions of others, and triggered a cascade of economic misfortune and disruption. Now, one Northern Virginia community is thinking about how to honor the local victims of this historic pandemic. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors […]

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You Can Now Read Virginia’s Civil War Trails Signs in Korean and Spanish https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/05/04/you-can-now-read-virginias-civil-war-trails-signs-in-korean-and-spanish/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-can-now-read-virginias-civil-war-trails-signs-in-korean-and-spanish Tue, 04 May 2021 14:32:47 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1514087 In recognition of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Civil War Trails, Inc. launched a new bilingual sign at Ox Hill Battlefield Park that interprets the history of the battle in Korean. Also featuring a Spanish translation, the Ox Hill Battlefield sign is the first bilingual Civil War Trails sign in the nation out […]

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How Did Your City Do on LGBTQ Protections? https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/12/15/dc-area-cities-score-high-on-protections-for-lgbtq-workers-and-residents-hrc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dc-area-cities-score-high-on-protections-for-lgbtq-workers-and-residents-hrc Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:35:58 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1365358 The DC suburbs garnered high scores in Human Rights Campaign’s annual index cataloging protections for LGBTQ residents and workers in 506 cities across the country. While DC itself is not included in the report, five local jurisdictions totted up perfect scores: Arlington County and Alexandria in Northern Virginia, as well as College Park, Frederick and […]

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A Notorious DC Prison Is Now a Classy Suburban Development. Here’s What It Looks Like. https://www.washingtonian.com/2020/05/22/notorious-dc-prison-lorton-classy-suburban-development-heres-what-it-looks-like/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=notorious-dc-prison-lorton-classy-suburban-development-heres-what-it-looks-like Fri, 22 May 2020 22:00:29 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=1123827 The development off Silverbrook Road offers a lot to anyone looking for somewhere to live in the suburbs that doesn’t feel too remote—a mix of single-family homes and apartments, nice recreational facilities, and, remarkable for a property so close to I-95, plenty of places to walk. There are townhouses and an apartment complex where one-bedrooms […]

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What’s It Like to Live in America’s Biggest Re-Urbanization Project While It’s Still Being Built? https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/11/22/tysons-americas-biggest-re-urbanization-project-while-its-still-being-built/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tysons-americas-biggest-re-urbanization-project-while-its-still-being-built Fri, 22 Nov 2019 12:00:46 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=915323 It’s been nearly a decade since the audacious vision for the future of Tysons was unveiled: Planners want to turn the 4.3-square-mile swath of Fairfax County known for shopping malls, office parks, and snarled eight-lane highways into a beacon of 21st-century living. By 2050, the goal is for Tysons to be a genuine 24-7 city […]

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The Washington Post Endorsed No Female Candidates in Fairfax. What’s Up With That? https://www.washingtonian.com/2019/05/28/the-washington-post-endorsed-no-female-candidates-in-fairfax-whats-up-with-that/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-washington-post-endorsed-no-female-candidates-in-fairfax-whats-up-with-that Tue, 28 May 2019 20:02:19 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=726231 Hey, here’s a headline no one wants in 2019: “WaPo Endorses All Men in Fairfax County,” as the progressive blog Blue Virginia wrote Tuesday. And indeed, the Post‘s editorial board did endorse Jeff C. McKay, James R. Walkinshaw, Walter L. Alcorn, Rodney L. Lusk, and Phillip A. Niedzielski-Eichner for contested Democratic primaries in Board of Supervisor races on […]

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He Was the Beloved Mayor of a Tidy Washington Suburb. Then He Got Busted for Meth. https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/10/29/scott-silverthorne-was-the-beloved-mayor-of-a-tidy-washington-suburb-then-he-got-busted-for-meth/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=scott-silverthorne-was-the-beloved-mayor-of-a-tidy-washington-suburb-then-he-got-busted-for-meth Sun, 29 Oct 2017 22:00:21 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=240855 From the moment Mayor Scott Silverthorne began planning the meth-fueled sex party, something seemed off. It all started, according to the Fairfax County Police Department’s investigative report, on July 28, 2016. That’s when Silverthorne, using the profile name anotherfundcbttm, received an “oink” from another man, Tony, on the gay hookup website BarebackRT.com. “What’s Up?” the […]

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Look Inside McLean’s First New Residential Development in Over a Decade https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/04/04/look-inside-mcleans-first-new-residential-development-decade/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=look-inside-mcleans-first-new-residential-development-decade Tue, 04 Apr 2017 13:14:56 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=221389 As other Washington suburbs have doubled down on creating vibrant, walkable, transit-oriented downtowns, McLean has remained largely unchanged. Its “downtown” mostly consists of parking lots and low-rise commercial buildings. But JBG’s new project, the Signet, seeks to bring McLean at least a baby-step closer to the mixed-use ideal that prevails elsewhere around the DC-metro. The luxury condo […]

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Capital Bikeshare Is Expanding to Fairfax County https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/01/12/capital-bikeshare-is-expanding-to-fairfax-county/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=capital-bikeshare-is-expanding-to-fairfax-county https://www.washingtonian.com/2016/01/12/capital-bikeshare-is-expanding-to-fairfax-county/#respond Tue, 12 Jan 2016 22:44:09 +0000 https://www.washingtonian.com/?p=182996 UPDATE, 10/17: Capital Bikeshare will finally debut in Fairfax County on Friday, with 15 stations in Reston and 14 in Tysons, the bike-rental system announced. The Reston stations are clustered around the Wiehle-Reston East station on the Silver Line and Reston Town Center, with access to the Washington & Old Dominion bike trail. The Tysons stations are […]

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