Community Corner

Blogroll: District Taco, Metro Etiquette and More

An Arlington-focused roundup of what's being said in the blogosphere.

It's a beautiful weekend, so get out and enjoy it!

For our part, we'll limit this week's blogroll to a few quick hits:

District Taco, which started as an Arlington food truck, has opened its third location. The new restaurant is on Capitol Hill. Eater DC has the scoop.

Find out what's happening in Arlingtonwith free, real-time updates from Patch.

Unsuck DC Metro has something of a public service announcement up, reminding riders that it's common courtesy to offer your seat to a pregnant woman. Writes Laurie: "Apparently, 50 percent of Metro riders need a refresher lesson from Miss Manners. It took quite a while for my now-seven months pregnant belly to look more than a post-Chipotle food baby, but the jig is up. I know I’m pregnant, you know I’m pregnant, I know you know I’m pregnant, and my stomach is actually heavy, so I can please have your seat?" Read the full post here.

Affordable housing in Rosslyn: Fifty-five affordable units at Sedona | Slate, the site formerly known as Rosslyn Commons, have been leased, according to Arlington County's Under One Roof blog. The one-, two- and three-bedroom units are considered affordable to families making up to 60 percent of the area median income — about $64,000 for a family of four. The county has special protections in place in the area of the apartment buildings, which required developers to replace any affordable units that had been on the site.

Find out what's happening in Arlingtonwith free, real-time updates from Patch.

The Aurora Hills Branch Library celebrated Star Wars Day on Saturday with R2-D2 manning its book drop. The library blog caught the lovable droid here.

Seeding student entrepreneurs: The Mason Center for Social Entrepreneurship has launched a crowdfunding campaign in hopes of offering more scholarships to young innovators. The center has enough cash to cover the $3,750 tuition for 10 students to participate in an intensive, five-week institute. The campaign's goal is to raise enough money to offer five additional scholarships. Read more here.

Our Local Voices contributions on Arlington Patch and Clarendon Patch continue to grow. A few to check out:

  • Mobility Lab presents a survey of Arlington business leaders on the transportation system here.
  • May programming for Arlington's David M. Brown Planetarium.
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Did you know? Anyone can blog for Patch. On some of our Patches, local bloggers like to post a few paragraphs teasing their own sites and then link out to them. And that's perfectly fine. One of Patch's goals is to be a community hub — and so this this is an effort to showcase some of the contributors to that community.


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