By Eliza Berkon, Winn Duvall, Stefanie Gans, Beth Kellmurray and Lynn Norusis
This week, Northern Virginia Magazine‘s editors are looking forward to getting down to the brass tacks of spring cleaning and purging at an Alexandria garage sale, plus what we’re reading and watching now.
Sending off the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills with a glass of wine
April 25, 9 p.m.
Will Dorit and Erika bury the Pantygate hatchet? What will happen to the regifted bunny? Will Lisa Rinna confess she consistently says her husband’s full name to ensure we never forget she married the dude from L.A. Law? Will Rinna detail her Xanax smoothie recipe? Will Boy George come live at my house?! These are the questions I await answers to during the third and final part of the RHOBH reunion. –BK
Genius
Premieres April 25, 9 p.m.
After my trip up to the Catskills and back down through Princeton (check out our Road Trips story in the May issue, on newsstands now—27 destinations!), a stop in Landau got me interested in learning more about Albert Einstein. Surprisingly, a little corner of the Landau shop is the only museum dedicated to this mastermind. This week, debuting Tuesday at 9 p.m. on National Geographic, the genius is getting his own series in the aptly named Genius, with Goffrey Rush taking the lead. This comes at a great time as Big Little Lies’ departure has left me with a spot open in my screen time. –LN
Under the Tuscan Sun
Through April 30
I had this weird dream last week, and all I remember was saying, “Who doesn’t love a good rom-com?!” Then I went Googling what was on Netflix and saw Under the Tuscan Sun (which I’ve never watched!) is getting the boot at the end of this month. Then I Googled more and read this enchanting piece by my friend Jason Wilson on the book, also titled Under the Tuscan Sun, and how Tuscan became “shorthand for a certain kind of bourgeois luxury and good taste,” and now I need to get to Overdrive and see if can borrow it. –SG
Not dissimilar to an Amazon warehouse
As we prepare to leave our beloved Alexandria for what we hope will become our cherished Arlington, our garage has become a storage unit of boxes and junk. I am very much looking forward to this weekend’s neighborhood-wide yard sale in Cameron Station, helping us clean out and reset for a new chapter. Let me know if you need some baby gear or unwatched DVDs … –EB
Next up on the book club docket: Sally Mann’s memoir
My book club meets this Wednesday, and while I admit I have not stayed true my New Year’s resolution to read more, I’m devouring what’s currently on our agenda: photographer Sally Mann’s 2015 memoir, Hold Still. Impressively, Mann’s prose is as sprawling and vivid as her landscapes (some people are just good at everything, huh?), and I’m captivated most by her retelling of her youth in Virginia. –BK
Spring cleaning (reluctantly)
It’s time to get down to business and give my surroundings a much-needed sprucing up before heading into a busy couple of weeks. Armed with our guide to spring cleaning (I need all the tips I can get), the channel locked on HGTV (the perfect background noise and motivation tool) and sheer force of will, I’ll be scrubbing my apartment from top to bottom throughout the week. Or at least until the sun comes out. –WD
Find out more of what’s going on in NoVA this week at our things to do page.
