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If you want to watch your alma mater or your favorite pro team you might want to gather your group at Crystal City Sports Pub which features over 100 televisions on three levels. Check their website for schedules and special events like March Madness, Baseball’s Opening Day Party, and Trivia Kings. They also have pool tables, foosball tables, video games, off-track betting, pinball machines, dart lanes and a silver strike bowling game.
Sushi Rock on Clarendon Boulevard features menu items include the springsteen, the zappa, the ziggy stardust roll and stairway to heaven. According to their website, “Sushi Rock is a modern, up to date, take on two things that just about everyone seems to enjoy in their lives; fun music and sharing food together.”
The Rosslyn Jazz Festival is an annual event typically held the second Saturday in September at Gateway Park and features several local and national artists as well as a street fair along Lee Highway with food and artisan vendors.
For 2021, there will be some pop up events on September 8th, a jazz supper club on September 9th at Amuse, and the event at Gateway Park on September 18th. Check the Rosslyn BID site for this year’s schedule.
Jaleo is Jose Andres’ acclaimed tapas restaurant in Crystal City. Menu items include their signature tapas, savory paellas, superb sangria, and a wide selection of Spanish cheeses and cured meats. They also have happy hour prices weekdays from 4:00 – 7:00 in their bar lounge with $4 select wines, beers and tapas.
Come to Central Library at 7 PM 9/9/10 to listen to John Paul Liebertz discuss his Arlington County Historic Preservation Office monograph “Columbia Pike, The History of an Early Turnpike”. Columbia Pike is now 200 years old. Co-sponsored by the Arlington Historical Society and the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization. For more information, call 703-228-5955.
Need to stock up on school supplies? Need mulch, poker chips, guinea pig food, knitting needles, a ladder, mason jars and a tea pot, too? Tee shirts and Rit Dye for Tie Dye? And a Radio Flyer wagon? Believe it or not, there is ONE store in Arlington you can find all these things and more. It’s Ayers Variety and Hardware at Westover, an Arlington institution since 1947.
