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From chalk art to life-sized Hungry Hippos: What we’re looking forward to this week

This week, the editors at Northern Virginia Magazine are looking forward to the Fifth Annual Chalk on the Water Festival, watching a team of adults try to snag balls with a laundry basket and kicking off summer with concerts.

By Editorial June 5, 2018 at 8:23 am

Photo by Eve & LeRoy Wallin, courtesy of Public Art Reston

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By Lynn Norusis, Rachael Keeney and Michael Balderston

Fruits, veggies, coffee and chalk art
While searching for a farmers market earlier this spring, I was taken aback not only by how much the Reston Farmers Market has to offer, but by the beauty of Lake Anne. This weekend, the plaza is adding to its appearance by hosting the Fifth Annual Chalk on the Water Festival, which appropriately coincides with Public Art Reston’s 10^th anniversary. After picking up my fruits and veggies for the week, I plan on grabbing a latte from the Lake Anne Coffee House and checking out what the professional and amateur artists come up with. –RK // Lake Anne Plaza: 1609 Washington Plaza W., Reston

Life-size board game
I love the classic board games that I had as a kid: Operation, Clue, Sorry and more than a few others. Another one that I remember fondly is Hungry Hungry Hippos, where you tried to have the most gluttonous hippo, gobbling up those little white balls. Well, DC Fray has come up with a life-sized version of the game and moved it from the board to the ice of the Kettler Capitals Iceplex, replacing the hippos with a team of adults trying to snag balls with a laundry basket. If you thought those board games could get competitive, just wait till these Hungry Human Hippos take the ice. –MB // Kettler Capitals Iceplex: 672 N. Glebe Road, Arlington

Starting off summer with loads of concerts
Technically it is not summer just yet, but I’m the one in my family who is already thinking school is over though there are still more than a handful of days left. We’ve already jumped in and purchased our first of many concert tickets with the June 8 Def Leppard/Journey concert at Jiffy Lube Live. (Negotiations had to take place between my 11-year-old and I. He wanted to go to the Whitesnake concert. I wanted Def Leppard. Mom: 1 Kids: 0.) Then we are also trying to fit in one, maybe two, nights over at Celebrate Fairfax! to catch some high school favorites: Good Charlotte, Gin Blossoms and Sugar Ray. –LN