Greetings, Prince William.
The holiday season is a time for giving. Volunteer Prince William’s Untrim-A-Tree & Senior Basket Program brought cheer to about 4,000 children and 800 seniors last year. All kids are adopted; the focus is now on more seniors. Ways to help:
On Oct. 15, the IKEA store in Woodbridge filled with teenagers. They were not shopping. They played board games, listened to live music and went back for seconds on meatballs.
The free event was put on by Communities for Youth, a local youth-led group that hosts gatherings so students have a place to meet outside school and work. Founder Owen Meyer counted about 100 students.
Triune Entertainment will present Finding Neverland at Journey Theater in Vint Hill, the company said.
The production runs October 23 through November 1. With music and lyrics by Gary Barlow and Eliot Kennedy and a book by James Graham, the show explores how playwright J.M. Barrie found inspiration for Peter Pan through his friendship with the Llewelyn Davies family. It is described as a celebration of creativity, friendship, courage, and childlike wonder.
Comedian Dewayne White joined Uriah Kiser on the Potomac Local News podcast to talk about his 50-state stand-up goal, leaving a government job for full-time comedy, and the shows he produces at Electric Palm in Woodbridge.
Thirteen years ago, the ghost of a little boy was reported at the Puzzle Palooza in Occoquan, InsideNoVa reported.
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The National Park Service and National Park Foundation are inviting people to enter the free ticket lottery for the 2026 National Christmas Tree Lighting at The White House and President’s Park.
The ceremony will take place Dec. 3 on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. The lottery opens at 10 a.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 28, and closes at 3 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Nov. 4. Enter online at the National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony page on Recreation.gov. There is no charge to enter or receive tickets. Winners will be notified on Thursday, Nov. 12, and each may receive up to five tickets. Entering does not guarantee tickets. Tickets are free and may not be sold or transferred for commercial gain.
Haunt: Dark Encounters opens Saturday at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, sending guests into the woods after five friends who vanished in 1996. Carla Welborn, the center’s marketing director, told Potomac Local News the trail is in its 13th year and runs Oct. 3 through Oct. 30 on Fridays, Saturdays and select Sundays at 9518 Workhouse Way.
The release lists tickets at $25 to $35 and recommends ages 13 and older, but Welborn’s cover note says $39 plus discounts, and the email’s pricing sheet offers $10 off Oct. 3, 9, 10 and 11 with code 10OFFHAUNT and $5 off Oct. 16, 18 and 25 with code 5OFFHAUNT. The release does not name the Sundays or the public hours. A sensory-friendly hour is set for Saturday, Oct. 17, from 6 to 7 p.m. Families reserve at [email protected]. The center sits on the former Lorton Prison grounds.
Watch the interview:
Greetings, Prince William.
This weekend, stop by the Historic Manassas Farmers Market to see Volunteer Prince William at the Emergency Preparedness Month event. In October, they will be at Hispanic Heritage Friends & Family Day in Woodbridge. Come say hello, learn more about what they do, ask questions, and get to know the team.
At Riverside Center for the Performing Arts, the plates are still on the tables when the razors come out.
Uriah Kiser put that problem to the cast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street the morning after he sat through Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s musical thriller in a Stafford County dinner house. What happens, he asked, when the bloodiest show in the American musical catalog shares a room with dessert?
