Heading to Katsucon for some cosplay? If you’re planning on wearing or buying decorative contact lenses, look out for unsafe ones.

Face paints can be fun on Halloween and other special occasions. Here are tips to help keep your fun from leaving you with a rash, swollen eyelids, or other reaction.

Summer music camp registration for band, strings and harp students is now underway at the Alexandria Campus of Northern Virginia Community College. The camp takes place in July with an extended-day jazz camp available.

The day’s events at Roboticon had middle school teams pitting wits against each other in robotic programming and skills competitions, moving from qualification games to more intense elimination rounds.

Arlington native and former Northern Virginia Community College student Callison Slater has started a fundraising campaign for his new animated film, titled Pixey.

MAGFest is an annual event in the Washington, D.C., area dedicated to the celebration of video games and video game music.

Halloween isn’t the only time Northern Virginia residents let their imaginations run wild and dress up as their favorite characters. Anime fans (called Otaku) will be out in force for this year’s Anime USA convention.

Students play MARVEL vs CAPCOM

The Alexandria campus chess championship was held at the end of spring semester and run by the Alexandria Chess Club.
These photos were taken by staff photographer Aleksandra Lagkueva.