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Alexandria's Birthday Celebration on July 7 concludes with fireworks set off from a barge in the Potomac River. (Photo: Victor Wolansky Photography)

Weekend Guide

Continue Your Holiday Celebration With Independence Day in the middle of the week, you get two weekends to celebrate the holiday. This is your last weekend to visit the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall until next summer, and both Laurel and Alexandria host their
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Alexandria's Birthday Celebration on July 7 concludes with fireworks set off from a barge in the Potomac River. (Photo: Victor Wolansky Photography)

Celebrate Independence

Your Fourth of July Holiday Guide Independence Day is Wednesday, and what is more American that fireworks? A Capitol Fourth on the National Mall is always a great time, but it is always packed and you have to stake out your spot by noon. But if fighting the crowds is your idea of
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The gegants (giants) from Catalonia lead a process across the National Mall. Created in 1977 by the Casa Ingenio studio, these giants represent a queen and a king named after Oliana’s patron saints, St. Andrew and the Virgin of Angels (Photo: Daniel Martinez Gonzales/Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives)

Weekend Guide

It Is Going to Be Hot This Weekend It is going to be a scorcher this pre-July 4th weekend with temperatures in the upper 90s Saturday and Sunday and on into Monday with no rain in sight. If you are going to be out at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall or the
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