If you’re willing to brave the Metro, then Ballston has a food festival for you this weekend.

A man walking to a meeting in Ballston fell 15 feet into a ventilation shaft after a steel grate he stepped on gave way.

The 185-seat Greek restaurant will have a large wine program and an outdoor patio.

A woman who placed herself in front of an oncoming train at the Ballston station on Metro’s Orange Line is the first suicide case the transit agency has experienced in 2013.

Over 40 restaurants and area businesses, as well as a large crowd, descended on four blocks of Wilson Boulevard yesterday for this year’s Taste of Arlington food festival.

Photo by GmdVT The sun was shining, a gentle breeze was blowing, and it was an all-around perfect day for this year’s Taste of Arlington food festival on Sunday. Attendees gathered quickly for the noon start time to pick up their $20 tickets purchased online earlier, or to grab $25 day-of tickets. Each ticket allotted you eight “tastes” to be used to sample the offerings of the various participating restaurants. But what a “taste”…