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The annual Lotus and Water Lily Festival and Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens is this Saturday and Sunday. (Photo: Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens)

Weekend Guide

Don’t Let Rain Dampen Your Weekend Fun The lotuses and water lilies at Kenilworth Park and Aquatic Gardens are blooming, but it looks like Mother Nature may rain on the party with 80 percent chance of showers on Saturday and 60 percent of thunderstorms on Sunday. But in between,
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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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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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