Columbia Pike Blues Festival 2017

This year's Columbia Pike Blues Festival featured a number of local and nationally-known blues artists, including the Sol Roots band, Jonny Grave, Full Power Blues Band (pictured), Rufus Roundtree  and the B'more Brass Factory, and was headlined by two-time Grammy winner Bettye LaVette.  Also featured was Katherine E. Young, the Poet Laureate of Arlington, reading a piece she has written about Columbia Pike.

Thanks to the festival (and our!) sponsor, the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization (CPRO), especially Cecilia Cassidy and Amy McWilliams, for their hard work in bringing this annual cultural event to our community.

Photography by Lloyd Wolf.

52nd Annual Flores-Gambino Family Memorial Day Picnic

2017 marks the 52nd annual celebration of the Flores-Gambino Family Memorial Day Picnic, in the Penrose neighborhood, just off Columbia Pike. 

Thanks again to Maria Flores, Joe Flores, Maria "Pete"Durgan, and the whole Flores-Gambino clan, who have lived in the same Arlington neighborhood since the 1920's. Great hosts, they know how to create a real homegrown patriotic community/family party, and have been doing so every year since 1965. 
Photography by Lloyd Wolf.

New exhibition suite at CPRO

Thirty-three prints from the Columbia Pike Documentary Project exhibition have just been installed at the offices of our sponsor, CPRO, the Columbia Pike Revitalization Organization, located at 2611 Columbia Pike, Arlington VA 22204.

 We are very pleased to be able to continue sharing our work with the community. The exhibition features photographs by Duy Tran, Xang Mimi Ho, Aleksandra Lagkueva, Lloyd Wolf, and Paula Endo.

Thank you to executive director Cecilia Cassidy and associate director Amy McWilliams of CPRO for their help in bringing the exhibition back home.

Look for an announcement in the near future for an invitation to a reception celebrating the re-opening of the work.

MegaMart Express

Grand Opening of MegaMart Express, now occupying the site of the former Oriental Supermarket.

The store carries a variety of affordable ethnic groceries

It is located in the Columbia Pike Plaza, at 5001 Columbia Pike, Arlington, VA 22204.

Photography by Duy Tran.