Halcyon House wins nonprofit nod

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Halcyon House wins nonprofit nod
■ Zoning: Group reaches
compromise with neighbors
By ELIZABETH WIENER
Current Staff Writer
Plans to turn Georgetown’s iconic Halcyon House into a nonprofit
won swift approval from the Board
of Zoning Adjustment Tuesday.
The S&R Foundation hopes to
use the historic property at 3400-
3410 Prospect St. as the headquarters for its international work. The
scale of its planned events there had
generated community concern, but
the controversy dissolved after foundation representatives worked out a
compromise with neighbors.
The revised plans, negotiated
over the final weeks of summer,
limit the number, hours and size of
events. They also address concerns
about traffic and parking. One innovative idea is to install a turntable in
the house’s driveway so trucks can
enter and then turn around on the
property rather than backing out
onto busy 34th Street.
The Georgetown advisory neighborhood commission had unanimously added its support last week
after opposing the previous plans in
July.
“I’m optimistic,” said commission chair Ron Lewis. “Over the past
few weeks we’ve arrived at a sigSee Halcyon/Page 5
Facilities issues arise at Stoddert, Janney
By KATIE PEARCE
Bill Petros/The Current
Hundreds of children, parents and medical staff gathered
Saturday at Georgetown University Hospital for a reunion of
former patients from the neonatal intensive care unit. The
festivities included balloons, clowns, games and music.
The start of the school year has revealed facility
glitches at two recently renovated Ward 3 elementary
schools, which D.C. Council member Mary Cheh’s
office continues to track.
At Stoddert Elementary in Glover Park, a long-running drainage issue has left hazardous debris exposed on
the school’s playground, forcing the principal to close
the area. At Janney Elementary, the problem is broken
air conditioning on the third floor of the Tenleytown
school.
Cheh and her staff got a glimpse of both issues
through her annual “School Readiness” tour last month,
which checked in on the conditions at all Ward 3 public
schools. In general, she said, the schools she visited are
in good shape, but these two problems have risen to the
top of her radar. “These are the ones that have made us
See Schools/Page 14
After finding trash and debris on the westernmost
edge of Stoddert’s playground, the principal has
blocked off the area pending a permanent fix.
Cleveland Park sprouts
a ‘Little Free Library’
Zoning panel set to discuss
proposed land-use rewrite
By GRAHAM VYSE
■ Development: Parking
For Linda Greensfelder, it all started with a trip to
Wisconsin. The Cleveland Park resident was visiting
family in Madison this past June when she first came
across a Little Free Library — one of the 10,000 miniature lending libraries that have cropped up all over the
world since 2009.
Often resembling mailboxes, birdhouses or tiny
wooden sheds, these hyperlocal book lenders sit on front
lawns and business properties — and outside schools
and churches — in places as diverse as Middle America
and the Middle East. Built by individual citizens, neighborhood groups and formal organizations, they aim to
connect communities by allowing unregulated donating
and borrowing of books on an honor system.
NEWS
debate expected at hearings
By BRADY HOLT
Photo courtesy of Linda Greensfelder
A Cleveland Park resident started up her own Little
Free Library on Newark Street.
Many of the libraries were supplied by Little Free
Library Ltd., and most of those are registered with the
Wisconsin nonprofit, which was founded four years ago
See Library/Page 14
SPOR TS
Renovation in store
for Duke Ellington
School of the Arts
— Page 2
National Cathedral
spoils debut of new
Wilson High coach
— Page 11
The proposed rewrite of the District’s zoning laws has inched one
step closer to fruition, with the Zoning Commission voting Monday to
hold several weeks of public hearings on the matter.
The new zoning revisions include
such controversial items as reduced
parking minimums for certain new
developments, allowing “corner
stores” in some residential neighborhoods, and streamlining the process
to add an accessory apartment to a
single-family home.
The latest proposal, a 997-page
document released in July, has also
faced some criticism for items that
are not currently slated to change.
Some activists have sought greater
affordable housing provisions and
measures that would further restrict
redevelopment in neighborhoods of
single-family homes.
Monday’s “setdown” vote was
not an endorsement of the proposed
new zoning code — merely a deciSee Zoning/Page 7
INDEX
NEWS
Jewish Primary Day
School adds second
16th Street campus
— Page 3
Calendar/44
Classifieds/54
District Digest/4
Exhibits/49
In Your Neighborhood/10
Opinion/8
Police Report/6
Real Estate/13
School Dispatches/43
Service Directory/51
Sports/11
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Planned Ellington School renovation faces myriad concerns from neighbors
By ELIZABETH WIENER
The promised renovation of Duke Ellington School of the Arts is not yet underway, but
already the possibility of additions and major
construction at the 1897 school building at
35th and R streets is making surrounding residents nervous.
A spokesperson at the D.C. Department of
General Services said Friday that the agency
has just hired an architectural team — a joint
venture of Lance Bailey & Associates and Cox
Graae+Spack — but that no further plans have
been solidified. “We’re just in the preliminary
stages … the concept/design phase,” said
spokesperson Darrell Pressley. “We don’t have
any details right now.”
Pressley added that his agency — which
manages public school modernization and
maintenance as well as other D.C. government
construction projects — is planning a commu-
nity meeting in late September to seek input.
“We want to engage all the stakeholders,” he
said. A precise date has not yet been set.
But at a Georgetown advisory neighborhood commission meeting last week, neighbors voiced fears — and also complaints about
the lack of information.
Although Pressley wouldn’t confirm the
plans, talk of an 800-seat theater with a roof
deck for patrons, as well as associated traffic
and parking changes, seemed to be the biggest
concern. “The vast majority of neighbors
know nothing about this project,” said a resident of the adjacent Cloisters community. “I
found out by happenstance.”
The design, she added, “will have a profound impact” on nearby residents. “Please
give us a voice.”
Residents also expressed fear that a large
theater could be used as a venue for nonschool events.
See Ellington/Page 7
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In less than a year, two yoga businesses — each with different offerings — have found homes on the
busy Wisconsin Avenue commercial
strip of Glover Park.
Local nonprofit Yoga District
opened its fifth studio at 2201 Wis-
Since there are more older residents in Glover Park, the studio
there offers more gentle yoga classes, which have a slower pace,
Chehrazi said.
Starting this month, she will also
be adding a yoga-nidra class, also
known as “yogi sleep,” to the schedule. The military calls the practice
“integrative restoration,” using it to
kat lucero
help soldiers deal with symptoms of
post-traumatic stress.
consin Ave. in May. A few doors
Corporate-owned CorePower,
down, at 2233 Wisconsin, Core- another growing yoga venture, with
Power Yoga, a Denver-based chain 80 studios in 12 states, chose Glover
that specializes in “hot yoga,” will Park in part due to its central locaopen its third location in the D.C. tion between the chain’s two other
area sometime this fall.
D.C.-area spots in Georgetown and
The studios join other health- and Bethesda. The new studio will be on
recreation-related businesses — the main level of the Georgetown
both
corporatePlaza building.
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Andrew Shnidercosting $20 for a
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ager of Balance
Gym,
attributes Yoga District is one of the
Audra Conard,
some of that growth newest studios to call
the
company’s
to the population of Wisconsin Avenue home.
regional manager
students and young
for the D.C. area and
professionals moving into the neigh- Boston, said CorePower also homed
borhood. But he also said that over- in on Glover Park for its population
all, people of all ages in the D.C area and proximity to other businesses.
have become more interested in
“We look for locations that are
healthy lifestyles.
neighborhood-friendly,” she said.
“The location has changed over
Conard echoed Shniderman on
the past few years,” said Shnider- why Glover Park has attracted health
man. “We have a younger demo- and wellness businesses: Young prographic moving in, but you also have fessionals, families and others who
people who are more health-con- naturally gravitate to yoga live in the
scious.”
neighborhood.
Jasmine Chehrazi, founder of
Chehrazi said the arrival of a
Yoga District, said she expanded to second yoga studio near hers will be
Glover Park at the suggestion of positive. “We’ll complement each
some of her instructors who already other,” she said, since each offers
live there and wanted to spread the different styles of the practice.
benefits of yoga to their neighbors.
Glover Park advisory neighborSince 2006, the nonprofit has aimed hood commissioner Jackie Blumento offer affordable classes — $11 thal remarked that the area’s busiper session at its simple-designed ness scene seems equipped to fill a
studios all over the city — and even variety of niches.
free classes at public libraries.
“From sushi and pho to wiener
Chehrazi also said each studio schnitzel, from organic cereal and
reflects the neighborhood in which artisanal soap to exotic bourbon and
it’s located. For example, the Dupont craft beer,” she wrote in an email.
Circle and Foggy Bottom outposts “We have two bagel places, two
offer more classes catering to the modern furniture stores, two nudeschedule of working professionals.
dancing clubs, and now two yoga
“We’re an expression of the com- studios. I look forward to trying both
munity we serve,” she said.
of them.”
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Jewish Primary Day School Walls merger debate continues as classes start
adds new 16th St. campus
By GRAHAM VYSE
By KAT LUCERO
The Jewish Primary Day School
of the Nation’s Capital this week
unveiled its second campus, created
to accommodate a student population that has doubled since the school
found a permanent location in 2003.
The new facility — located just a
mile south of the original campus,
both on 16th Street — houses three
kindergarten classes on the main
floor, with pre-kindergarten in the
basement.
The new location offers new features including a learning studio
called a “sadnah” in Hebrew, where
students can conduct a variety of
projects from science to art, and a
spacious indoor community space
called a “kikar,” where students can
gather and play.
An upcoming development is a
custom-made playground, which
will include an amphitheater, edible
garden, sand area and water pump
system with a bridge over it. Construction on the playground is
expected to start in the fall.
“We’re so excited,” said head of
school Naomi Reem. “It’s a dream
come true. It’s exactly what we
planned.”
The new space at 4715 16th St. is
not far from the school’s other building, at 6045 16th St., where students
from grades one through six attend
classes. The south campus will ultimately house the school’s early
development program. Next year,
three first-grade classes will move to
the second floor there, sharing a
space with a few administrative
offices.
This year, the school enrolled 318
students, a 100 percent increase in
enrollment since officials at the District’s only Jewish day school found
their initial 16th Street location in
2003. Last year, the school accepted
278 students and had only two kindergarten classes.
In the past few years, there has
been a growing demand for Jewish
education from young families in the
area, according to Greg Shron, president of the school’s board of trustees.
The school purchased the new
building for $3.9 million two years
ago. A $3 million donation from
longtime D.C. resident and Chloraseptic inventor Robert Schattner
boosted the efforts to expand the
school. To honor the benefactor and
his late wife, the school named the
See Opening/Page 7
The week ahead
Wednesday, Sept. 11
The D.C. State Board of Education will hold a working session to discuss a
timeline and procedure for considering the Next Generation Science Standards,
and to review and discuss revised bylaws for the board. The meeting will begin at
4:30 p.m. in Room 842, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW.
■ The D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation and the Trust for Public Land will
hold a community meeting to present schematic designs for the planned renovation of the Rose Park Playground. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
in the Fellowship Hall at Jerusalem Baptist Church, 2600 P St. NW.
Thursday, Sept. 12
The D.C. Department of Transportation will hold a community meeting and
workshop to discuss the Cleveland Park transportation study from 6:30 to 8:30
p.m. at the Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW.
■ The D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities will hold its 2013 annual
meeting at 6:30 p.m. in the multipurpose room at 200 I St. SE. Reservations were
requested by Sept. 6; visit dccah2013annualmeeting.eventbrite.com.
■ Advisory Neighborhood Commission 4B will hold a community information
meeting with the three finalists to become the master developer for the Walter
Reed campus. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Emery
Recreation Center, 5701 Georgia Ave. NW.
■ The D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation and the Trust for Public Land will
hold a community meeting to present schematic designs for the planned renovation of the Forest Hills Playground. The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. at the
Capital Memorial Seventh-day Adventist Church, 3150 Chesapeake St. NW.
Tuesday, Sept. 17
The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will hold a public hearing
on proposed changes for various bus routes, as reflected in the agency’s Docket
B13-02. D.C. routes slated for reduction or elimination are 5A, 34, 74, 80, M2,
M8 and M9; those slated for improvements include 31, 32, 36, 42, 96, 97, D6,
E2, E4, E6, H1, H3, H8, U2, V7, V8, V9 and W1. The hearing will begin at 6 p.m.
in the second-floor conference room at the D.C. Department of Treasury, 1101
4th St. SW.
Thursday, Sept. 26
The Ward 3 Democratic Committee will hold precinct caucuses to fill vacancies for delegate positions in precincts 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32,
34, 50, 136 and 138. The caucuses will be held from 6:45 to 7:15 p.m. at the
Methodist Home of D.C., 4901 Connecticut Ave. NW. To vote or run for precinct
delegate, you must be a registered Democrat in the relevant precinct. For details
visit ward3democrats.com.
School Without Walls began the new school year
in the glow of the national spotlight last month, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March
on Washington with an event featuring some of
America’s most recognizable civil rights leaders.
But the back-to-school season has not been without some anxiety: There are lingering concerns over
the recent merger between School Without Walls, the
high school at 2130 G St., and Francis-Stevens, the
lower school at 2425 N St. Several parents continue
to worry about their teenagers sharing space, resourc-
es and a sought-after principal with students in prekindergarten through eighth grade.
The principal in question, Richard Trogisch, has
drawn praise for his leadership at School Without
Walls, the District’s highest-performing public high
school in last year’s Washington Post rankings.
In an interview, Trogisch said the start of the
school year could not have gone better. He described
the merger as a “win-win” that will benefit students
at both campuses, explaining that high school students will be able to make use of additional facilities
at the Francis-Stevens campus. Meanwhile, Trogisch
said he and his staff are trying to change the atmoSee Walls/Page 5
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Construction work to
shut Canal Road lane
Work on the Arizona Avenue
Bridge — which carries the Capital
Crescent Trail over Canal Road —
will require single lane closures on
Canal Road between Arizona and
Clara Barton Parkway on Sept. 14
and 15 between 8:30 a.m. and 5
p.m., according to the National Park
Service.
Workers will be completing
punch-list items and painting the
bridge, and the lane closures are
necessary to prevent debris from
falling on cars.
Work moves forward
on Franklin Park plan
The D.C. Office of Planning has
partnered with the National Park
Service and the Downtown Business Improvement District — and
hired landscape architecture firm
OLIN Studio — to update Franklin
Park, a 4.79-acre downtown square
bordered by I, K, 13th and 14th
streets NW.
Working with the community,
the team will develop a new design
for the park. Options will include
adding food offerings, restrooms,
events and programs, as well as
highlighting historic resources.
Planners will consider sustainable
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“Franklin Park has the potential
to host options for creative play,
formal and informal recreation, outdoor dining, and a wide range of
programs and events, as well as
provide a cool, shady, natural, green
respite in the center of the city,”
said Harriet Tregoning, director of
the Office of Planning.
An initial public meeting will be
held from 6 to 8 p.m. Oct. 2 at the
Four Points by Sheraton, 1201 K St.
NW.
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Those statistics are just a few of
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people, employment, offices, retail,
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Part of Georgetown’s future will
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number of 25- to 34-year-olds living in the area, according to the first
annual “State of Georgetown”
report, developed by a local business group.
“Within a three mile radius of
Wisconsin and M, a rapidly growing cohort of 25 to 34 year olds
now comprises 54,000 households
with $3.6 billion of disposable
income,” the report found, according to a news release. “Determining
how to remain relevant to this powerful group of consumers will
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WALLS: Merger comes to fruition
From Page 3
sphere at Francis-Stevens, removing
metal detectors and insisting on
mutual respect between adults and
kids. He said he wants students to
believe in their abilities.
Many Francis-Stevens parents
are pleased with the new setup and
the promise of a School Without
Walls-level education for their children.
“The whole culture of the school
has changed,” said Erin Martin, the
president of the Francis-Stevens
Home and School Association.
“There’s just a feeling of openness.
As time has gone on, I think we’re
finding more parents at the high
school who are not wholesale against
the merger — they’re just concerned.”
One of the high school parents
who remains concerned is Walls
Home and School Association vice
president Melanie Gisler. She said
many parents worry that two campuses sharing a budget could
adversely affect their children. Concerns also persist about Trogisch
overseeing two campuses, she
added.
Tania Shand, mother of a Francis-Stevens kindergartner, said she
believes Trogisch will have no trouble managing two campuses. “For
parents like me who are really concerned about a quality education,
everything else is just noise,” she
said.
HALCYON: Compromise reached
From Page 1
nificantly reduced schedule, and
gotten a better handle on transportation.”
Halcyon House is the second
major Georgetown property purchased by S&R, a foundation founded by pharmaceutical company
owners Ryuji Ueno and Sachiko
Kuno in order to plow some of their
fortune into philanthropic endeavors. Their use of the Evermay Estate,
largely for musical and other cultural
events, has won wide support from
neighbors.
But initial plans for Halcyon,
spelled out in a mid-May zoning
application, caused some concern.
The Federal-style house, built in
1787 with several later additions,
would become headquarters for the
International Institute of Global
Resilience, a think tank dedicated to
improving response to and management of natural disasters. The institute was founded in response to the
2011 earthquake and tsunami that
devastated the couple’s native Japan.
The sprawling mansion would
also house a program called Illuminate, an “incubator” of sorts for
young entrepreneurs. For both programs, it will host a variety of seminars, meetings, lectures and retreats,
as well as fundraising events to support the mission. The May application envisioned a broad array of
events throughout the year, with
most limited to 10 or 20 attendees,
but a few attracting more than 50
people.
That, and the attendant traffic
concerns, upset immediate neighbors as well as the Georgetown
advisory neighborhood commission,
which voted in July to withhold support because of what Lewis termed
the “intensity of use” — especially
on a narrow and congested residential street. But then neighbors and
some of the commissioners sat down
with S&R’s attorney, Alice Haase, to
work out a compromise.
Changes spelled out at the neighborhood commission’s Sept. 3 meeting include: a “significant reduction” in the number of events
planned — a maximum of 75 a year
for all programs, with no outside
groups allowed to lease the premises. “And only a tiny fraction are
social events,” Lewis added.
With most attendees and fellows
coming from outside the Washington area, and shuttle service for
major events, few participants will
arrive by private car. “We worked
very hard to eliminate events that
bring cars and parking,” said Haase.
She said Georgetown University and
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory
School have discussed providing
off-site parking when necessary.
And for the 20 or so larger events
that might attract more than 50 people, the revised agreement spells out
a multilayered traffic-management
scheme that includes complimentary
valet parking, shuttle vans and directives to attendees to use off-site
parking. Events for more than 200
people will be scheduled only during
the summer or at times when nearby
Georgetown University is on holiday or recess.
“The final plan will be a tremendous improvement over what’s happening now,” said one resident who
said she lives diagonally across the
street from Halcyon House.
“I think you guys will be great
neighbors,” added commissioner
Bill Starrels.
S&R Foundation purchased
Evermay in July 2011 for $22 million, and the Halcyon House a few
months later for $11 million. Both
houses, impractical for modern single-family use, had played host to
numerous special events, weddings
and fundraisers over the years —
many without formal approval from
District zoning authorities. S&R has
pledged it won’t rent out either property for weddings.
The zoning board voted to issue a
“summary order” of approval. That
means, Haase said, that the foundation can use the building as soon as
it gets a certificate of occupancy. But
it won’t host any events — per the
revised agreement — until the driveway turntable is designed and
installed, a process that she said
could take several more months.
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psa 102
■ Gallery place
PSA
102
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Robbery
■ 600-699 block, H St.; 12:45
a.m. Sept. 3.
■ 1000-1099 block, 6th St.;
noon Sept. 8.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 600-699 block, F St.; 1 p.m.
Sept. 2.
Theft from auto
■ 700-899 block, Pennsylvania
Ave.; 10:50 p.m. Sept. 3.
■ 400-499 block, 8th St.; 6:35
a.m. Sept. 5.
Theft
■ D and 7th streets; 6:23 p.m.
Sept. 6.
■ 700-799 block, 7th St.; 7:56
p.m. Sept. 6.
■ 400-499 block, 7th St.; 8
p.m. Sept. 6.
psa
PSA
201 201
■ chevy chase

Burglary
■ 3800-3899 block, Legation
St.; 6:45 p.m. Sept. 6.
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Motor vehicle theft
■ 3400-3599 block, Morrison
St.; 12:30 p.m. Sept. 2.
Theft from auto
■ 5300-5329 block, Broad
Branch Road; 5:50 p.m. Sept.
3.
■ 5523-5599 block, Connecticut Ave.; 5:40 p.m. Sept. 4.
■ 3012-3099 block, Legation
St.; 10:16 a.m. Sept. 6.
■ 6100-6113 block, Western
Ave.; 3 p.m. Sept. 8.
Theft
■ 3700-3741 block, Jocelyn St.;
6:30 p.m. Sept. 3.
■ 3021-3099 block, Military
Road; 8:15 p.m. Sept. 4.
psa 202
■ Friendship Heights
PSA
202
Tenleytown / AU Park
Burglary
■ 3900-3999 block, Garrison
St.; 8 p.m. Sept. 4.
■ 5300-5399 block, Wisconsin
Ave.; 4:50 a.m. Sept. 7.
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■ 3800-3899 block, Fessenden St.; 1:05 p.m. Sept. 3.
■ 4100-4119 block, River
Road; 1:04 a.m. Sept. 6.
■ 4600-4699 block, 43rd
Place; 9:54 p.m. Sept. 8.
Theft
■ 5400-5417 block, 42nd St.;
1:55 p.m. Sept. 3.
Ave.; 4:01 p.m. Sept. 4.
■ 3814-3989 block, Chesapeake St.; 11:30 p.m. Sept. 4.
Ave.; 7:57 p.m. Sept. 5.
psa 203
■ forest hills / van ness
PSA
203
cleveland park
Burglary
■ 3700-3899 block, Connecticut Ave.; 11 p.m. Sept. 3.
■ 3500-3599 block, Ordway
St.; 2:17 p.m. Sept. 6.
Theft from auto
■ 5250-5299 block, Linnean
Ave.; 7:35 a.m. Sept. 3.
Branch Terrace; 9:20 a.m.
Sept. 3.
■ 5100-5149 block, 36th St.;
5:37 p.m. Sept. 3.
■ 3100-3198 block, Brandywine St.; 9:19 a.m. Sept. 6.
■ 4900-4999 block, 30th
Theft
■ 2900-2999 block, Van Ness
St.; 5:32 p.m. Sept. 2.
Branch Terrace; 9:51 p.m.
Sept. 2.
■ 5100-5241 block, Nebraska
Ave.; 9 a.m. Sept. 4.
■ 2900-2999 block, Van Ness
St.; 9:31 p.m. Sept. 6.
psa 204
■ Massachusetts avenue
heights / cleveland park
woodley park / Glover
PSA
204
park / cathedral heights
Burglary
■ 3000-3099 block, Woodland
Drive; 8:43 p.m. Sept. 2.
■ 2700-2799 block, 35th
Theft from auto
Theft
Ave.; 6:34 p.m. Sept. 6.
■ 3100-3199 block, 38th St.;
6:56 p.m. Sept. 7.
psa 205
■ palisades
/ spring valley
PSA
205
Wesley Heights / Foxhall
Motor vehicle theft
■ 4711-4799 block, Reservoir
Road; 4:41 p.m. Sept. 3.
■ 4600-4699 block, Tilden St.;
11 a.m. Sept. 5.
Theft
■ 4000-4299 block, Cathedral
Ave.; 11:21 p.m. Sept. 4.
■ 4700-4799 block, Whitehaven Parkway; 2:38 p.m. Sept. 8.
psa
PSA
206 206
■ georgetown / burleith
Burglary
■ 1640-1699 block, 33rd St.;
3:45 p.m. Sept. 2.
■ 3278-3299 block, M St.;
10:41 p.m. Sept. 2.
■ 3100-3199 block, O St.;
12:22 a.m. Sept. 3.
■ 1227-1299 block, 30th St.;
3:36 p.m. Sept. 3.
■ 2900-2999 block, P St.;
6:26 a.m. Sept. 6.
■ 1500-1599 block, 32nd St.;
3:45 p.m. Sept. 6.
■ 3000-3399 block, Volta
Motor vehicle theft
■ 3229-3299 block, P St.;
10:43 a.m. Sept. 4.
Theft from auto
Ave.; 1:23 p.m. Sept. 3.
■ 3000-3041 block, P St.; 8:30
a.m. Sept. 5.
■ 2700-2799 block, Dumbarton St.; 10:59 a.m. Sept. 5.
■ 1200-1299 block, 27th St.;
10:39 a.m. Sept. 7.
Theft
■ 3100-3199 block, M St.;
12:41 a.m. Sept. 3.
■ 3100-3199 block, O St.;
10:16 a.m. Sept. 3.
Ave.; 5:50 p.m. Sept. 4.
■ 3100-3199 block, M St.;
8:57 p.m. Sept. 4.
■ 3000-3041 block, P St.; 10
a.m. Sept. 5.
■ 1000-1003 block, Thomas
Jefferson St.; 9:51 a.m. Sept.
6.
■ 3000-3049 block, M St.;
2:21 p.m. Sept. 6.
■ Q and 29th streets; 2:51
p.m. Sept. 6.
■ 3600-3699 block, O St.;
8:45 p.m. Sept. 6.
Ave.; 4:06 p.m. Sept. 7.
■ O and 31st streets; 12:13
p.m. Sept. 8.
Ave.; 3 p.m. Sept. 8.
psa
PSA
207 207
■ foggy bottom / west end
Robbery
■ 1100-1199 block, Vermont
Ave.; 12:46 a.m. Sept. 2.
Assault with a dangerous
weapon
■ 1200-1299 block, 25th St.;
3:30 a.m. Sept. 6.
Sexual abuse
■ 1800-1899 block, M St.;
8:28 p.m. Sept. 4.
Burglary
■ 1900-1949 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 12:16 a.m. Sept. 4.
■ 800-899 block, New Hampshire Ave.; 3:41 p.m. Sept. 6.
■ 1000-1099 block, 23rd St.;
5:47 p.m. Sept. 6.
Motor vehicle theft
Theft from auto
■ 1900-1999 block, L St.; 5:26
p.m. Sept. 3.
■ 2600-2699 block, L St.; 2:48
a.m. Sept. 8.
■ 26th and L streets; 4:50
a.m. Sept. 8.
Theft
■ 2200-2299 block, H St.;
3:59 p.m. Sept. 2.
■ 1100-1199 block, 16th St.;
2 a.m. Sept. 4.
■ 1100-1129 block, 17th St.;
8:25 p.m. Sept. 4.
■ 1100-1199 block, 20th St.;
12:34 p.m. Sept. 5.
■ 1700-1799 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 2:39 p.m. Sept. 5.
■ 1700-1799 block, G St.; 8
p.m. Sept. 5.
■ 1000-1050 block, Connecticut Ave.; 11:17 a.m. Sept. 7.
■ F and 9th streets; 5:27 p.m.
Sept. 7.
■ 1000-1099 block, Vermont
Ave.; 6:46 p.m. Sept. 7.
■ 1500-1599 block, K St.;
5:28 p.m. Sept. 8.
■ 900-999 block, 19th St.;
5:50 p.m. Sept. 8.
psa 208
■ sheridan-kalorama
PSA
208
dupont circle
Robbery
■ 1900-1999 block, Q St.;
4:51 p.m. Sept. 4.
■ 1-6 block, Dupont Circle;
12:39 a.m. Sept. 6.
Burglary
■ 2100-2199 block, Newport
■ 1802-1899 block, Corcoran
St.; 10:38 p.m. Sept. 6.
■ 32-99 block, Kalorama Circle; 9:16 p.m. Sept. 8.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 15th Street and Highland
Terrace; 5:16 p.m. Sept. 2.
Theft from auto
■ 1600-1619 block, Rhode
Island Ave.; 10:20 a.m. Sept. 2.
■ 1400-1499 block, Church
St.; 9:30 p.m. Sept. 2.
■ N and 18th streets; 8:15
a.m. Sept. 6.
■ 1400-1499 block, P St.;
11:14 p.m. Sept. 6.
■ O and 17th streets; 10:14
a.m. Sept. 8.
Theft
■ 1400-1479 block, 20th St.;
8:20 p.m. Sept. 2.
■ 2200-2299 block, N St.;
11:47 p.m. Sept. 2.
■ 1200-1217 block, 18th St.;
9:25 p.m. Sept. 3.
■ 1800-1899 block, R St.;
6:55 p.m. Sept. 5.
■ 2100-2115 block, M St.;
6:36 a.m. Sept. 7.
■ 2014-2099 block, P St.; 7:55
p.m. Sept. 7.
The CurrentWednesday, September 11, 2013
ELLINGTON: Update planned
From Page 2
But commission chair Ron Lewis
said that in preliminary meetings
he’s learned that the General Services Department plans to renovate
the existing school rather than building a new one on a nearby field.
Plans for a theater and deck overlooking adjacent homes are “just
ideas up for discussion,” he said.
Ellington, an acclaimed high
school that draws aspiring artists,
actors, dancers and musicians from
all over the city, is badly in need of
an update. The former Western High
School, with its distinctive columned
front porch, was built in 1897 to
serve students in the western part of
the city. (The building was named to
the National Register of Historic
Places in 2003.)
A gradual decline in school-age
population threatened to close Western in the mid-1970s. But arts
patrons, including Peggy Cooper
Cafritz, pulled together support to
open it as an arts school serving
students citywide. There are now
roughly 500 students in grades nine
through 12.
Three years ago parents and students were alarmed by news reports
that the city planned to relocate
Ellington to a “more central location” near Union Station, using the
historic building again as a neighborhood high school. Some officials
supported that plan in light of overcrowding at Wilson High School,
and the renewed popularity of public
schools.
But in the ensuing outcry, thenChancellor Michelle Rhee denied
any “immediate plan” to relocate
Ellington, saying she hoped eventually to build a new facility for the
school. Ellington was placed in the
long queue of public schools due for
modernization.
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From Page 3
new site the Kay and Robert
Schattner Center South Campus.
At the time of the purchase, the
Washington Latin Public Charter
School occupied the building, which
the charter was leasing from the British School of Washington. The charter relocated to the former Rudolph
Elementary after the end of the
2012-2013 school year, and Jewish
sion that no further changes are
needed before the Zoning Commission launches hearings.
“Nothing is definite. Everything
is subject to change,” commission
chair Anthony Hood said at the
body’s Monday meeting.
“We’ll just take what we have for
now and then talk about how to fix
it,” added commission member
Peter May.
The zoning code update, conducted by the D.C. Office of Planning, is the first full-scale rewrite of
the District’s land-use regulations
since 1958. The comprehensive
changes seek to reflect the city’s
increased use of public transportation, modern environmental standards and reduced household sizes,
the Planning Office’s Jennifer Steingasser told the commission. The
agency also aims to foster increased
density in parts of the city that planners feel can best support the growth.
The public hearings — due to
start later this year — will be the
culmination of the years-long rewriting process. During that process, the
Planning Office convened a task
force of experts, including citizen
activists, to vet several draft proposals. The agency also shared the proposals at more than 100 community
meetings across the city, according
to Steingasser.
Zoning commissioner Robert
Miller praised the process, which
has led to numerous changes to the
Planning Office’s proposal, based on
community feedback. “We’ve gotten to a better point along the way,
and we’ll get to an even better point
when we get through our public
hearing process,” he said.
At Monday’s meeting, Steingasser acknowledged the controversies
surrounding some of the proposed
changes, but she said her agency has
incorporated all of the feedback it
can. “There are a lot of pent-up opinions that are waiting to get to the
commission and be voiced,” she
said.
The Zoning Commission, a fivemember body with three mayoral
appointees and two federal representatives, will hold final say on any
changes to the code. The Office of
Planning serves as an expert adviser,
and D.C. Council members regularly lobby for particular items, but
commissioners are free to make their
own decisions.
Hearing dates haven’t yet been
set, but the commission intends to
set aside three weeks of daily hearings (Monday through Thursday
nights), with each night dedicated to
a particular aspect of the zoning
rewrite. Particularly controversial
topics, such as parking, will be
scheduled for two nights. The hearings are expected to begin sometime
later this year, but they must be
scheduled around the commission’s
regular business of reviewing proposed projects.
Commissioner Marcie Cohen
suggested that the body also hold
additional hearings in different parts
of the city, to reach residents unable
to attend those at One Judiciary
Square downtown — an unusual
method her colleagues said they
would support if it proved logistically feasible.
Written testimony is also accepted online at app.dcoz.dc.gov.
Some residents weren’t willing
to wait for the hearings to make their
voices heard. During Monday’s
meeting, several held up signs calling for the commission to “redefine
affordability,” according to Office of
Zoning staff. Hood threatened to
remove them from the meeting
room.
“There’s going to be plenty of
time for there to be discussion and
comments. Let’s not start it off
wrong,” said Hood.
The proposed zoning regulations
are available at dczoningupdate.org
and in hard copies at every D.C.
Public Library branch.
Primary Day started work in June.
The $2.5 million update constructed
an operable school just in time for
this week’s opening.
Despite having two campuses,
faculty and administrators emphasized that the Jewish Primary Day is
still one school. That means they will
continue to maintain a tight-knit
community with parents, teachers
and students.
The new site’s opening happened
to fall during the school’s 25th anniversary. It was founded in 1988 at
Adas Israel Congregation in Cleveland Park, but it temporarily moved
out of D.C. before returning in 2003.
The new building also has a
familial connection to its current
occupants: It was originally the
home of Annette and Paul Himmelfarb, great-grandparents of school
board member Steve Himmelfarb,
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The wrong call
There’s been some debate in the District about how to use the 911 line.
The Office of Unified Communications, which oversees the 911 and 311
call centers, favors directing all police-related calls — emergency or not —
to 911. The operators there are specially trained in police matters and can
connect to a police dispatcher. Calling 911 also means that residents who
don’t realize the importance of their call will be put through quickly.
But what can’t really be debated is the city’s law: Last year, the D.C.
Council voted 11-0 to mandate that the 911 lines be reserved for emergency
calls. The 911 Purity Amendment Act, introduced by now-Chairman Phil
Mendelson, was crafted to keep non-emergency calls from consuming precious resources while callers trying to report a crisis are left on hold.
We’re concerned that, notwithstanding its statements to the contrary, the
Unified Communications Office is not complying with the law.
The agency has acknowledged the law’s existence, as far as changing the
advice it gives about where to call. Residents are now instructed to call 911
only for emergencies, and 311 for non-emergency police issues, such as
reporting car break-ins and noise complaints.
But the Office of Unified Communications is configured so that only a
911 call-taker can reach a police dispatcher. Do you want an officer to check
in on the party next door, or look over your shattered car window? Call 311,
then wait on hold for an operator who can do nothing but send you over to
911. Residents who follow the agency’s advice spend more time on the
phone, but a 911 operator still must process them in the end.
“That’s just the way the system currently works,” Stephen Williams, the
Office of Unified Communication’s chief of operations, told The Current.
That hardly justifies the noncompliance.
While it’s true there are pros and cons to both ways of handling nonemergency police calls, it is not the place of a city agency to unilaterally substitute its judgment for a law adopted by the D.C. Council.
Rather, we would like to see those pros and cons evaluated at a public
hearing of Ward 6 Council member Tommy Wells’ Committee on the Judiciary and Public Safety. Mr. Wells should also question the Unified Communications Office’s decision to continue with “the way the system currently
works” even when the law mandates an operations change.
Extra hours
The hours of operation for D.C. libraries have fluctuated widely over the
years, with Sunday hours often getting totally slashed. Recently, only the
central Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library has opened on Sunday,
though neighborhood libraries have stayed open until 9 p.m. twice a week.
Many feel that’s not enough. Our public libraries provide vital services,
from serving as community gathering spaces to providing resources for literacy, job-hunting and enrichment. They offer free programs including children’s story hours and film screenings. And of course, they lend out books.
Many have noted that a 9-to-5 operating schedule is illogical for facilities
meant to serve all residents — including, obviously, those with day jobs.
Thus we’re thrilled that starting Oct. 1, all D.C. libraries will include Sunday afternoons and an extra extended day on their schedules.
Most branches will be open from 9:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through
Wednesday, 1 to 9 p.m. Thursday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans and Mayor Vincent Gray
deserve credit for the change. Last summer, Mr. Evans introduced a bill that
would require seven-day-a-week service at all branches.
Mr. Evans said he was hearing persistent complaints that libraries weren’t
open enough, and he concluded that only a law would keep hours from slipping through the cracks of the city’s budget negotiations.
Mayor Gray heard the call, and he included funds to expand hours in his
fiscal year 2014 budget, which takes effect next month. Many libraries are
getting an additional 14.5 hours, for a total of 62.5 per week.
We welcome the change, and we wonder if a similar extension could be
considered for outdoor pools and spray parks.
The Department of Parks and Recreation recently lengthened the season
for several brand-new spray parks, allowing children’s water play through
the end of this month, rather than stopping on Labor Day as usual. But why
not keep all city spray parks operable through September? It’s typically a
warm month, so there’s no reason to shut off the fountains just as it begins.
Perhaps a few outdoor pools could get an extended year as well. There’s
no reason adults — and kids, on the weekends or after school — shouldn’t
enjoy a few more weeks of outdoor swimming.
Smoldering ruins … of freedom …
A
dozen years after 9/11, America has yet to
come to grips with a loss that goes beyond
that terrible day’s destruction in New York
City, at the Pentagon and on a field in Pennsylvania.
That other loss is far less direct, but real nonetheless.
In the name of security, we have lost privacy and
freedom in almost too many ways to count.
First, there are the innumerable security barriers
that have pockmarked
our streets, our sidewalks, our building
entrances and even
access to revered public
spaces like the grounds
of the U.S. Capitol and
the Ellipse near the White House. And who could
tally all of the security cameras whirring away?
Planes fell out of the sky on 9/11, and America
rushed to close down its public streets here in the
nation’s capital and around the country. Every government office or installation went into lockdown and
still suffers from what your Notebook calls bureaucratic “security envy.”
“Security envy” stems from the White House and
Congress. They shut themselves off from the citizens
they serve, and soon all federal agency bureaucrats
reasoned that they, too, weren’t important unless they
adopted super-strict security measures. We might as
well put an asterisk next to any reference to “the land
of the free and the home of the brave.”
The “securicrat” era has affected private companies, too, with fences and gates and ID checks and
thousands of private security guards who often are
ill-informed or clueless about their real authority,
which is not much beyond the property boundaries
they patrol.
Your Notebook’s TV persona still encounters the
occasional private guard who wanders out onto public space, telling us erroneously that we can’t shoot
this or that. You should see the look in their eyes
when we say that not only can we shoot footage, but
we are shooting them interfering with us.
But your Notebook doesn’t blame the individual
guards. We blame the officials in charge, with their
bureaucratic impulse to at least appear like they are
in control of things. It’s compounded by their lack of
understanding or knowledge of individual and press
freedoms.
The physical barriers — and we can only hope
that one day they will be outdated relics equivalent to
the 1950s/’60s bomb shelters — are not the only
assaults on our liberty.
Every day brings some new disclosure that your
every move online, or on the telephone, is exposed to
secret government monitoring.
As the media reported this summer, spy agencies
can remotely activate your phone’s microphone and
listen in on your conversations even when the phone
is not being used. That’s creepy.
President Barack Obama has ordered a review of
privacy intrusions, but skeptics say there is little confidence that much will
be accomplished.
On this 9/11 anniversary, the good news is
that it’s possible that the
privacy issue may unite
left- and right-wing
adversaries in Congress. At least then the warring
factions will be fighting for the same important goal
— the freedoms all our security is supposedly in
place to protect.
■ No vote on Syria. It’ll come as no surprise to regular readers of this column, but the 630,000-plus citizens of the District have no say in whether the United States attacks Syria for its reported use of chemical weapons.
On Monday, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
said that as of that moment, she would vote against
the president’s plan for warlike action against Syria.
But the key point is that she doesn’t have a vote on
the floor of the House. And, therefore, the citizens of
the District have no voice.
“The outcry that the president not strike Syria
without a vote from the Congress,” Norton said,
“spotlights intensely the denial of the democratic
rights that our citizens have faced in every war the
nation has fought except, ironically, the Revolutionary War.”
Norton, who was joined by Mayor Vincent Gray,
spoke at the D.C. War Memorial, the structure that
sits almost anonymously just steps from the grander
World War II Memorial. The D.C. memorial remembers the 499 District citizens who died in World War
I.
Norton said Congress may well reject the president’s appeal. “If the vote fails, and the president proceeds anyway, the citizens of the 50 states … will
have just a taste of what the residents of this city
have experienced for more than two centuries,” she
said. “For us, it is taxation without representation
every single time there is a vote in the House of Representatives … and Senate.”
Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.
TOM SHERWOOD’s
Notebook
Letters to
the Editor
21st Street addition
fails visibility test
Further to letters written over
the past year regarding construction at 1321 21st St., it is time for
our concerned agencies to act,
since the D.C. Historic Preservation Office chooses to allow visibility of new construction within
the boundaries of the Dupont Circle Historic District.
Transformation of a singlefamily row house into a six-unit
condo was accepted by the Historic Preservation Review Board and
other concerned agencies (the
Dupont Circle Citizens Association, the Dupont Circle Conservancy and the Dupont Circle advisory neighborhood commission)
only on the condition that no part
of the new construction be visible
from the street, including Newport
Place. Although construction is
now clearly visible, the Historic
Preservation Office states that it
doesn’t “have the standing to
request further changes.”
As visible as this construction
is from Newport Place today, it
will be far more visible during the
six months of the year when the
trees do not have leaves. This
information was shared widely
when the neighbors pointed out
that the developer’s visibility test
was seriously flawed as demonstrated by our own visibility test
last winter (conducted by an
architect and an engineer on the
identical house next door).
The developer’s test already
showed some visibility as it
approximated the roof deck parapet, but it failed to reflect the
design addition of an enclosed
roof deck access stair subsequent
to Historic Preservation Office
review. The roof deck access has
since been modified, but the construction remains visible.
Try as we did to make our
expert opinions known to the Historic Preservation Office through
last spring, this agency began to
listen only once actual construction made itself apparent, and
when we pointed out the developer’s attempt to construct the front
of the new roof contrary to the
reviewed design (illegally raising
the roof for more headroom for a
top-floor unit).
With construction ongoing,
timing is now critical, and the
neighbors have reached out to our
concerned agencies to follow
through with the Historic Preservation Review Board’s directive
— to ensure that any new construction at 1321 21st St. is not
visible from Newport Place.
Or could it be that neither our
Ward 2 D.C. Council member, our
at-large council members, nor our
concerned agencies (i.e., the powers that be) really care?
Steve Nelson
Dupont Circle
The Current
Spring Valley health study was too limited
VIEWPOINT
kent slowinski
I
n his Aug. 14 letter to the editor, Malcolm Pritzker
quarrels with The Current’s Aug. 7 editorial, which
criticized the recently completed Johns Hopkins
School of Public Health community health study
because it “failed to scratch the surface” of a “host of
rare health problems among Spring Valley residents.”
The D.C. Department of Health awarded one contract to the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health for a
2007 study, and five years later the D.C. Department of
Environment awarded another to the school. Both studies reviewed existing reports and concluded by declaring: “Community health status of Spring Valley ... is
very good.” Upon closer inspection, neither study is
useful for preventing further illness.
Hopkins 2007 narrowed the disease sample by considering only seven types of cancer found in the D.C.
Cancer Registry. This registry is relatively new and certified only for years after 1996. Hopkins’ convenient
reliance on the registry means the study ignored all
non-cancer cases such as immune deficiency, autoimmune disorders and blood disorders (including aplastic
anemia, pernicious anemia and multiple myeloma);
ignored all cases from the 65 years prior to the registry;
and ignored clusters of rare diseases that struck residents living on the same properties over a period of
time.
Hopkins claimed to look for a relation between registry cases and known contamination. Hopkins instead
looked for a relation between cancer and “boundaries of
interest.” However, due to extensive re-grading, cutting
and filling during road and home construction, most
properties within areas of interest are clean, while many
properties located outside are contaminated.
Hopkins used Chevy Chase as a control, even
though all D.C. drinks from Dalecarlia Reservoir, the
grounds of which were shelled and used for burial of
chemical warfare materiel. In comparing Spring Valley
with D.C. and the nation, Hopkins didn’t adjust for ethnicity, gender or socioeconomic status; even though
Spring Valley is whiter, more female and more affluent
— factors that reduce incidence and mortality.
Hopkins 2013 is also suspect since this “assessment”
relied on the registry, thereby eliminating all non-cancer, pre-registry and cluster cases. Again Hopkins used
Chevy Chase as a control and made no adjustment for
Letters to
the Editor
Noisy parties show
lack of consideration
Peter Schaefer writing from rural
Kent posits that neighbors are supposed to tolerate noisy parties, especially on a Saturday night, because
one is celebrating a very special
occasion in one’s own home. In an
earlier letter, Michael Greene correctly noted that the wedding in
question occurred in a “densely
packed residential area,” and there
is the real issue.
In such dense neighborhoods
everyone must take into consideration the effects of their actions. If
at 10 p.m. there’s a house with 200
guests on the front lawn, party
lights all over and a band just finishing its sixth number, I see red
ethnicity, gender or socioeconomic status. Hopkins also
created a community “outreach” survey. This survey
was not conducted door-to-door nor was there a mailing; it was instead posted online. Few people heard of
it. This is the worst kind of non-probability sample:
self-selecting, self-reporting and low-participation.
Hopkins ignored an important pathway for chemical
warfare materiel exposure: the inhalation of poison gas!
Why? Because Hopkins based its exposure pathways
model on the Risk Assessment Guidance for Superfund,
which is not appropriate for toxins designed to kill people. Based on such fake science, Hopkins again comforts us: “Community health in the Spring Valley …
continues to be very good.”
Archival records indicate that 4,000 shells, many
large burial pits and countless duds remain. Should we
stop looking for them? Perchlorate has been detected
both in Spring Valley’s groundwater and in D.C.’s treated water. The perchlorate plume is east and upgradient
of Dalecarlia Reservoir. Shouldn’t we care that contamination may enter the reservoir?
In 1992 the Environmental Health Network and the
National Toxics Campaign Fund issued a scathing
report, “Inconclusive by Design,” that charged the federal Centers for Disease Control and the Agency for
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry with fraud:
“Both of these agencies have routinely funded and conducted studies of effects of toxic pollution on public
health which are inconclusive by design. These intentionally inconclusive studies have been used by polluters and government officials to mislead citizens into
believing that further measures to prevent toxic exposures are unnecessary.” The time has come to level the
same charge against the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
Around 2009, Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary
Cheh asked a reasonable question: “Can you use anecdotal health issues to identify properties needing cleanup?”
What went wrong? In short, if you forget that your
mission is to protect against further illness, don’t be surprised if you draft an incomplete statement of work,
select the wrong contractor and obtain a useless result.
Weak contract management, with no requirement for
in-progress reports and no review process, can only
make matters worse.
Kent Slowinski is a member of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3D and a former member of the
Spring Valley Restoration Advisory Board.
flags. As a District resident who has
had to call the police over student
parties in my neighborhood even
without a band, I am in complete
sympathy with Mr. Greene. Good
for him and congratulations that the
police shut down this inappropriate
noisy party.
Maybe the next family special
occasion could be planned for Kent,
where I am sure the neighbors
would enjoy the noise.
Jerry Barrett
Washington, D.C.
Speed cameras do
slow down drivers
I write in response to Jack McKay’s recent letter to the editor
[“Drop in fatalities is result of safer
cars,” Aug. 7].
Mr. McKay contends that
increasing the number of speed
cameras will fatten up the District’s
revenues but do nothing for actual
safety.
As a full-time pedestrian, I have
observed speeders slow to nearlegal speed limits when within camera range. If a driver doesn’t habitually speed, what’s the concern about
speed cameras?
Jane Howard
Woodley Park
Market patrons clog
Safeway parking lot
Something should be done to
discourage patrons of the farmers
market from clogging up the
MacArthur Boulevard Safeway
parking lot on Sunday mornings.
These law-violators are making it
difficult for the elderly and handicapped to do their grocery shopping.
Edwin Rockefeller
Glover Park
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ANC 2E
ANC 2E
Georgetown
■ Georgetown / cloisters
Cloisters
burleith / hillandale
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Abrielle, Fine Linens & Lingerie
Ace Beverage
Barkley, Ltd. Fine Gifts
Isabella & Ferdinand –
Academia de Espanol
Foxhall Square Cleaners
Jean-Paul Mordoian Hair Salon
Pam K. Bambini-Children’s
Boutique
Pamela Barkley
Rite Aid
Shemali’s Café
Shemali’s Grocery
Starbucks Coffee
SunTrust Bank
Voorthuis Opticians, Inc.
At the commission’s Sept. 3
meeting:
■ commissioners discussed the
upcoming renovation of Duke
Ellington School of the Arts. Some
neighbors expressed concern that
they know little about the D.C.
Department of General Service’s
plans for the school, but commission
chair Ron Lewis said plans are preliminary and that the agency is
promising to hold community meetings starting this month.
■ commissioners voted unanimously to ask the D.C. Department of
Transportation to delay implementation of a new citywide visitor parking permit system. Commissioners,
backed by both the Citizens Association of Georgetown and Burleith
Citizens Association, said distribution of visitor permits to all households in residential permit parking
areas would add cars to the street
rather than freeing up spaces for
permanent residents.
■ commissioners discussed the D.C.
Department of Transportation’s policy on removing female ginkgo trees.
Commissioner Charles Eason said
homeowners can request tree removal, but must submit petitions signed
by at least 60 percent of property
owners on a given block. The Urban
Forestry Administration, part of the
Transportation Department, also
requires referral to the relevant
neighborhood commission before it
removes a street tree.
■ commissioners unanimously
approved a settlement agreement
that will allow El Centro restaurant
to take over the 1216 Wisconsin Ave.
space long occupied by the Third
Edition tavern. Commissioners said
conversion from a tavern to a restaurant will mean less noise and disorder. El Centro opened last weekend.
■ commissioners voted unanimously to withdraw earlier objections to a
zoning application that will convert
the Halcyon House at 3400 Prospect
St. from residential to nonprofit use.
The S&R Foundation, which wants
to use the historic home as headquarters for its International Institute of
Global Reliance, worked out a compromise plan with neighbors limiting the number of events and traffic
impact of the new use.
■ commissioners voted unanimously not to object to a zoning variance
to allow nonresidential use of a 1903
carriage and stable at 1063R Wisconsin Ave. The building, which
fronts on an alley, has had no permanent use since the 1930s, said attorney Martin Sullivan.
■ commissioners voted unanimously not to object to a zoning special
exception to allow a small rear addition at 3128 P St.
■ commissioners voted unanimously to support a new sliding gate,
fence and widened drive at the west
entrance to Tudor Place — the first
step to be implemented in a master
plan for the historic house museum
at 1644 31st St.
Citizens Association of Georgetown
Last week my husband and I drove from the Rocky Mountains to
Georgetown. We were on interstate highways until we reached the
outskirts of Georgetown. The miles covered reminded us of the vast
and beautiful country in which we live. We passed hundreds of miles
of farmland and in the distance barns, frame houses, small communities with a school sports field, a church steeple and a main street.
What made us stop and consider the joy of living in Georgetown
was what we encountered when we left the highway. Every exit put us
on a road of fast-food chains. It was the same in every state we crossed.
Only one night was the hotel desk clerk able to direct us to an independently owned restaurant. It was located on a street you would not discover on your own. We had a good meal and an interesting conversation with the owner. She told us of her challenge to stay in business
with the competition from the brightly lit chains “just off the interstate.”
We are fortunate in Georgetown to have well over 120 restaurants
independently owned or part of a small restaurant group. You can dine
at a table on the waterfront or beside the canal, in a garden or next to a
fireplace. My wish is that while we explore the new and trendy places
to dine across the city, we remember and frequent the eating establishments right outside our front doors. Supporting a longtime favorite or
trying a new spot helps keep Georgetown prosperous. Dine locally!
— Pamla Moore
The commission will meet at
6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 30, at
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, 1524 35th St. NW.
For details, call 202-724-7098 or
visit anc2e.com.
ANC 3B
ANCPark
3B
Glover
■ Glover Park / Cathedral heights
The commission will meet at 7
p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, at Stoddert Elementary School and Glover Park Community Center, 4001
Calvert St. NW.
Agenda items include:
■ police report.
■ discussion of a request by JP’s for
a valet staging area.
■ discussion with the D.C. Water
and Sewer Authority and the National Park Service regarding the Glover
Archbold Park sewer line project.
■ discussion with Jarrett Ferrier
regarding the Glover Park Citizens
Association’s plan for benches at the
Calvert Street and Wisconsin Avenue triangle.
For details, call 202-338-2969,
email [email protected] or visit anc3b.
org.
ANC 3C
ANC 3C
Cleveland
Park
■ cleveland park / woodley Park
Woodley
Park
massachusetts avenue heights
Massachusetts
Avenue Heights
Cathedral Heights
The commission will meet at
7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, at the
2nd District Police Headquarters,
3320 Idaho Ave. NW.
■ discussion with the D.C. Water
and Sewer Authority regarding the
Glover Archbold Park and Soapstone Valley sewer line projects.
■ update from the Metropolitan
Police Department regarding recent
burglaries and home invasions, as
well as a report from the new traffic
enforcement officer.
■ consideration of a Historic Preservation Review Board application by
JBG regarding renovation of the
Wardman Park Tower at 2660
Woodley Road and its conversion
from hotel use to a condominium.
■ consideration of a Board of Zoning Adjustment application for a
variance to add a screened porch at
3006 32nd St.
■ consideration of a Historic Preservation Review Board application for
a pool and pool house at 3210 Newark St.
■ consideration of a Historic Preservation Review Board application
regarding pool installation at 3207
Highland Place.
For details, visit anc3c.org.
ANC 3D
ANCValley
3D
Spring
■ spring valley / wesley heights
Wesley Heights
palisades / kent / foxhall
The commission will meet at 7
p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 11, at the
Lab School of Washington, 4759
Reservoir Road NW.
■ police report.
■ community concerns.
■ presentation by the Lab School on
the proposed construction of a high
school. (A tour of the proposed construction site, open to the public and
led by Lab School director of operations Peter Braun, will be held before
the meeting, departing from The
Commons room at 6:15 p.m.)
■ discussion of the D.C. Water and
Sewer Authority’s plans to rehabilitate sanitary sewers in Glover Archbold Park.
■ consideration of a public space
application for a new driveway and
sidewalks at 1834 47th Place.
■ consideration of the proposed
closing of a public alley between
Chain Bridge Road and the right of
way on which the trolley once ran
between Georgetown and Glen
Echo.
■ consideration of a public space
application for a permit at 4814
MacArthur Blvd. to permit a patio
(made of porous concrete and pervious pavers), a wall/fence over 42
inches high, an areaway entrance, a
stoop and steps.
For details, call 202-363-4130 or
visit anc3d.org.
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Cadets spoil Alexander’s coaching debut at Sidwell
By BRIAN KAPUR
Brian Kapur/The Current
Cadets junior midfielder Sam Scaffidi,
above, scored two goals in Friday’s game.
Meanwhile Sidwell coach Ryan Alexander,
far right, coached his first game for the
Quakers after taking over for Martin Dell,
who led the team to two straight ISL
banners. The new coach is working with a
young roster with a lot of upside.
St. John’s senior goalie Elizabeth Dunn
sees something in Cadets girls soccer team that
she didn’t see last season — hunger.
“We’ve literally lost the whole team and
completely restarted,” she said. “I was here
when we won the championship [in 2011].
I’ve literally seen the team be as high up as
possible and very low. Now I think we are
coming back stronger.”
That chemistry was on display Friday when
the Cadets used a strong second-half to knock
off Sidwell — which won the Independent
School League banner last year — 5-2.
The St. John’s scoring barrage was led by
junior Rachel Alexander, who had a hat trick.
Junior midfielder Sam Scaffidi made two
goals, and freshman middie Ashley Ventura
had a pair of assists.
Although St. John’s won by three scores,
Sidwell — under first-year head coach Ryan
Alexander — proved to be a tough test. The
Quakers jumped out to a 1-0 lead midway
through the first half when senior midfielder
Meg Cunningham fired in a goal.
But after intermission, St. John’s adjusted
and Rachel Alexander — no relation to
Sidwell’s coach — took over the game with
three goals with an assist coming from junior
midfielder Karen Aye to give the Cadets a
commanding 3-1 advantage.
“It took us a while to kind of break them
down,” said St. John’s coach Devin Payton. “I
thought that we did a good job of countering
and figuring out how to get in behind them and
score some really good goals.”
Sidwell made one final rally when senior
forward Olivia Michael made St. John’s pay
for a handball with a goal to cut the Cadets’
lead to 3-2 midway through the second half.
But Sidwell wouldn’t come any closer. For Sidwell, the game was a good lesson
for a program undergoing a lot of changes.
Ryan Alexander took over the squad during the
summer after Martin Dell left to coach at Rich-
ard Bland College in Petersburg, Va. Aside
from the leadership shift, the team also lost an
impressive senior class including Joan Fleischman, who helped win back-to-back banners.
“The good and bad thing for me is there
was a lot of turnover, so I feel like I have a bit
of a blank slate as far as putting my stamp on
the team,” said coach Alexander.
Alexander — who played in college for
Wake Forest and Michigan — points to seniors
Nina Asfar, Cunningham, Michaels and Tori
Dunn as the ones helping the team forge a new
identity.
“We have some great senior leadership on
this team,” he said. “They definitely lend a
great backbone to the team because they’ve
had some success in the program.”
For St. John’s, Friday’s match was an
important one, as the team aims to return to the
WCAC championship for the first time since
2011 after falling short last season.
“We were an extremely young team last
year, and we had several players injured,” said
coach Payton. “I feel that we have a lot more
firepower this year to go at teams.”
The Cadets have a strong defense this season, led by Dunn, who may be one of the most
vocal goalies in the area. She constantly communicates with the Cadets’ back line and helps
get the defenders into position.
“My defense is my family,” said Dunn. “I
know them in and out. I know their habits. I
know where they need to be.”
The Cadets’ explosive offense is led by
several talented scorers, including Scaffidi and
Rachel Alexander, who have started the season
on fire.
Scaffidi, who has a slew of college offers, is
“a world-beater and a national-level player,”
Payton said. “She is very unselfish and continues to work off the ball.”
Payton is also high on Alexander, who was
impressive against Sidwell. “When we need
her to be an attacking force, she can be a
force,” the coach said. “I call her a freight train
with skill. She makes good runs and puts away
chances when she gets them.”
The Cadets also have several other players
who stand to be contributors this season,
including Aye and senior Makela Davison.
With the loaded roster, Dunn wasn’t shy
about the Cadets’ aspirations. “I honestly think
that we could go to the championship,” she
said. “You literally have to have the want. I
think it’s dead-even this year; I think it’s anybody’s game.”
Eagles soar past new-look Wilson 5-0
By BRIAN KAPUR
National Cathedral’s soccer team
— which last season won the Independent School League postseason
and D.C. State Athletic Association
titles — began this year with a bang
by thumping Wilson 5-0 at home last
Thursday.
“Emotions were high just because
it was the first game,” said secondyear coach Danielle Malagari. “We
did a good job of staying composed.
We did a good job to preserve the
zero on the scoreboard.”
The Eagles’ scoring was led by
junior middie Marta Sniezek, who
made two goals. Junior Rubii Tamen
had a goal and an assist; senior middies Monica Spafford and Erin
Napoleon each added a goal; and
senior midfielder Rebecca Tucci and
junior middie Emma Boyd both had
assists.
For Wilson, it was a disappointing opener under new head coach
Daniel Drickey, who was The Washington Post’s All-Met boys soccer
coach last spring at Hayfield in Virginia. Although the Tigers went
scoreless, Drickey sees plenty of
potential to work with at Wilson and
says he would welcome a DCSAA
game against Cathedral.
“NCS is a good team,” said
Drickey. “All kudos to them. I would
like to see them again late.”
It was a dominant win for the
Eagles, who lost only two starters
from last year’s championship team
and have high aspirations once again
this season. Cathedral has games
scheduled against several local powerhouses, including Malagari’s alma
mater, Good Counsel, the reigning
Washington Catholic Athletic Conference champions.
“We want to just continue to get
better as a team from the first game
through to the last,” said Malagari.
“Last season is over with. We are
moving on and trying to do some
bigger things this year.”
The Eagles now have a healthy
Sniezek back in the fold after the
junior missed the majority of her
sophomore season with a broken
nose.
“We definitely missed her last
season,” said Malagari. “She works
hard. She’s kind of like a bull in a
china shop, but she’s fun to watch.”
While Sniezek may be the team’s
playmaker, nine seniors will guide
the squad this season. Those include
the three team captains: Spafford,
Hallie Horvath and forward Bella
Blosser.
The Eagles’ defense is expected
to be a strong backbone, with junior
centerbacks Sarah Lipson and Hannah Menard playing important roles.
“They hold down the fort back
there,” Malagari said.
The goalie post is filled by sophomore Erica Sanders, who Malagari
said is playing like a grizzled veteran. “She is a little more conscious of
what’s going on on the field and
more vocal,” the coach said. “We’re
seeing some good things out of her.”
While the Eagles look ready to
soar in the ISL, the Tigers hope to
defend their D.C. Interscholastic
Athletic Association championship
and make noise in the DCSAA tour-
After missing most of last season with an injury, Marta Sniezek, left,
scored two goals in the Eagles win Thursday afternoon.
nament under Drickey. “I expect us
to win the [DCIAA] title again,” he
said.
But winning championships isn’t
the only reason Drickey will spend
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After hovering around .500 last
year, the St. John’s field hockey
team hoped to take a step forward
this season. The Cadets instead took
a leap forward by knocking off
National Cathedral 1-0 on the road
Thursday afternoon. It was a big
turnaround after the Eagles drubbed
the Cadets 5-0 a year ago.
“I thought they did a great job
with today being the first game,”
said Cadets second-year coach Katie
Grant. “They did a great job of helping each other out and playing with
good fundamentals.”
After a scoreless stalemate in the
first half, St. John’s found a crack in
the Eagles’ defense. The Cadets outbattled Cathedral for a loose ball in
the circle, and senior midfielder
Anna Wright fired it into the goal for
the only score of the game. “She just
came in and gave it a swing and
fought for it,” said Grant.
It’s a win that the Cadets believe
could set the tone for this season.
“Our expectation from last season to this season is to improve
every day,” said Grant. “A lot of
them put in a lot of work over the
offseason, and it’s paid off. Throughout the year it has to continue on that
path. We have to continue to get better with our skills and fundamentals.”
The Cadets will rely on senior
captains Wright, Kate Worthy and
Lolly Steuart, all of whom bring different qualities to the position.
Grant pointed to Wright as a
quiet leader. “She knows when to
speak up, but she has a way with
other players and they know they
can come and talk to her.”
Worthy rallies the team and gives
it swagger. “Kate Worthy is very
vocal,” Grant said. “She’s always
leading by her actions and with her
voice. She’s always getting everyone pumped up.”
And Grant says Steuart, the third
captain, leads through her yearround commitment to the sport.
The team’s defense is anchored
by a pair of goalies — senior Joanna
Fisher and sophomore Katie Wright
— who each played a half in the
opener against Cathedral.
“They’re both talented,” said
Grant. “That’s why right now we’re
splitting time. They’re both confident in goal. I feel good with them in
goal.”
The Cadets will look to stay on
the winning path when they host
Visitation Friday afternoon at 4.
Cadets senior Kate Worthy
celebrates as the final horn
sounds. St. John’s will host
Visitation Friday afternoon.
Football roundup: Sidwell wins, Bulldogs fall
Sidwell thrashes Randolph-Macon to win
its season opener 35-6
The Quakers began their football season at home by
thrashing Virginia’s Randolph-Macon 35-6 Saturday
afternoon.
Sidwell’s offense was led by sophomore quarterback
Ted Hefter, who completed 11 of 20 passes for 103 yards
and a score. His go-to guys were senior wideout Diamente Holloway and freshman receiver Dylan Greynolds, who combined for eight catches and 74 yards.
Hefter also found senior running back Turner Kim for a
touchdown.
The Quakers used a two-headed rushing attack led by
14 carries from sophomore running back Terrance
Horne, who racked up 72 yards. The other runner, freshman Ricardo Facey, had 11 touches for 82 yards and two
scores.
The defense was just as potent; junior defensive end
Miles Brown took a fumble recovery back five yards for
a touchdown, and sophomore defensive lineman Lindon
Harris had a tackle for a safety.
Sidwell controlled the game from the opening kick
and led 15-0 going into the fourth quarter. While Randolph-Macon managed a touchdown, it wasn’t enough
to stop the Quakers, who tacked on 20 more points.
Sidwell will look to push its record to 2-0 when hosting Victory Christian of Bowie, Md., Saturday at 4:30
p.m.
St. Albans falls in shootout
The Bulldogs couldn’t keep up with Baltimore’s
Mount St. Joseph in their home opener Saturday afternoon, falling 48-28.
Senior wideout Matt Sniezek had a hand in three
touchdowns — one scoring reception, one on the ground
and another on a kick return. The senior had 11 catches
for 168 yards, while senior quarterback James McJunkin
had 215 yards in the air and one score.
On the ground, St. Albans’ rushing attack was led by
senior running back Max Miller, who had 93 yards.
Although the game ended in defeat, the Bulldogs
showed moxie as they battled back from a 14-0 hole
midway through the second quarter. Senior quarterback
Hyun Lee found Sniezek for a five-yard touchdown to
get the Bulldogs on the scoreboard. Mount St. Joseph
answered with another touchdown to balloon the margin
to 21-7, but the Bulldogs kept the pressure on the visitors. Sniezek returned the ensuing kickoff 99 yards, cutting the deficit to 21-14 at halftime.
After the break, the Bulldogs knotted the game at 21
when McJunkin scampered for a 7-yard touchdown.
But St. Albans’ momentum was short-lived, as Mount
St. Joseph’s overwhelmed the Bulldogs and scored four
second-half touchdowns to turn the game into a rout.
The Bulldogs will have a bye week before returning
to the field on Sept. 21 at Severn School in Severna Park,
Md.
SOCCER: Wilson’s girls soccer coach pulls double duty
From Page 11
the fall with the Tigers before returning to Hayfield for his eighth season
there. Drickey is able to coach at
both schools because some Virginia
high school soccer leagues operate
in the spring. The coach confirmed
that both schools approve of the
arrangement.
“I wanted a new challenge,” he
said. “I’m a full-time soccer coach;
it’s what I do. I do it for the love of
the sport. I enjoy taking a team and
trying to mold them into playing an
attractive style of play.”
Drickey hopes to have the Eagles
playing a European-style of soccer
predicated on ball movement. “By
the end of this season these girls will
be knocking the ball side to side and
letting the ball do the work,” he said.
Senior captains Eileen Connor
and Marianne Burst have been quick
to buy in and help lead the team.
“They do a good job of focusing
everybody and leading by example,”
Drickey said. “[Burst] is a hardnosed defender. Eileen has improved
leaps and bounds already in just
three weeks with me.”
Wilson has shown growth since
its loss to Cathedral by scoring its
first wins of the season against
Burke, 8-0, on Friday, and St.
Andrew’s, 7-3, on Saturday.
A Look at the Market in Northwest Washington
September 11, 2013 ■ Page 13
Corner town house brings out bright in Brightwood
A
refurbished town house sitting on the corner of Madison Street and 3rd Place is
a piece of property that aptly
ON THE MARKET
kat lucero
reflects its burgeoning neighborhood, known variously as Brightwood and Manor Park.
In the past few years, preservationists have worked to maintain the
historical integrity of local gems,
pushing, for instance, to shine more
light on Fort Stevens, where the
only Civil War battle within the
District of Columbia took place. At
the same time, Ward 4 is facing
major changes in the form of a new
Walmart and impending redevelopment of the Walter Reed campus.
The newly renovated property at
317 Madison St. represents a balance between old and new. While
owner Maureen Flanagan gutted the
entire house this year, she kept
much of the Federal-style home’s
vintage charm. Now, this four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath brick
home is on the market for
$699,000.
The exterior is the first giveaway
of the house’s old-world charm.
Built in 1931, the property still has
plenty of its original details, such as
the custom-brick facade. The wraparound porch also still has the period concrete balustrades, while a
mature tree provides generous
shade on the front lawn.
Another outdoor perk of this
home is the parkland across the
street, where there’s room for a
game of Frisbee, touch football or
kickball — or space for the pooch
to run.
Once inside the first floor, one
quickly sees the results of the recent
renovation: recessed lighting; granite countertops in the kitchen; stainless steel Frigidaire appliances;
restored crown moldings on the
ceiling, doors and windows; stained
maple cabinetry; and an open floor
plan that allows a seamless flow
from the kitchen to the dining the
room.
But many original details were
left alone or enhanced to gracefully
coexist with their contemporary
counterparts. They include the
French doors leading to the study
that overlooks the back and connects to the powder room; the sanded and stained wooden stairs going
up to the second floor; and the
wooden stair banister with a distinctive swirling post.
Photos courtesy of Washington Fine Properties
This four-bedroom, three-and-a-half-bath
corner town house is priced at $699,000.
In the living room, the woodburning brick fireplace with a largetiled hearth and white mantel looks
to be new. But upon closer inspection of this painted feature, one can
see a small flue damper just above
the firebox, revealing that this fireplace was also part of the original
design.
The second floor is in keeping
with the name Brightwood. Light
pours in from skylights Flanagan
built above the landing. In refinishing the hallway bathroom, she also
added skylights to brighten the
once-windowless space. A contemporary mirror and sink complement
the custom-made tiles in the shower
area and the 1930s beveled tub.
Also on this level are four sunlit
SELLING THE AREA’S FINEST PROPERTIES
bedrooms. Facing the parkland, the
master bedroom is connected to its
own contemporary bathroom.
Back down to the first floor, the
kitchen leads to a generous mudroom at the back of house. This
feature is already complete with
high wooden cabinets and a wall
rack.
The basement also showcases
more of the home’s modern charm.
Like the stairs above, the wooden
steps leading down to this large
recreation space are original. This
main area has a built-in wet bar,
with wooden cabinets, butcher
block and a wine refrigerator. The
laundry room also has more of
these warm maple cabinets and a
butcher block, which can serve as
a folding counter and linen storage.
This level also includes another
full bath and a window-filled space
that can be used as a library or sitting room. It has a smaller area
available for storage, and toward
the back is the entrance to a spacious two-car garage.
This four-bedroom, three-and-ahalf-bath house at 317 Madison St.
is offered for $699,000. For details,
contact Marilyn Charity of Washington Fine Properties at 202-4277553 or [email protected].
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LIBRARY: Resident stocks books
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by entrepreneurs Todd Bol and Rick
Brooks.
“I thought they were just darling,” said Greensfelder, a retired
nurse who has lived in Northwest
D.C. since 1970. Within weeks of
returning from her trip, she had purchased a wooden model derived
from an Amish barn, set it up in front
of her home and enlisted the help of
her granddaughters — Sadie, 8, and
Theo, 6 — to stock it full of books.
Greensfelder drew 25 neighbors
to her July 9 unveiling of the library,
which now sits in the shade of a
dogwood tree at 2940 Newark St.
“You stock it initially, and you
hope people will make it a living
thing,” said Greensfelder, estimating
that 50 books have moved through
the library so far. She said some
passersby are reluctant to borrow
and require her encouragement. Others are less hesitant, such as young
children who grab picture books to
take with them for a day at the nearby National Zoo.
There are already several Little
Free Libraries in D.C., including
those registered at 1434 F St. NE and
408 Aspen St. NW. Greensfelder
said she hopes the novelty of these
libraries won’t wear off. She, for
one, believes they have enduring
appeal.
“When you get a book from a
Little Free Library, it’s like opening
a present,” she said. “The idea is
you’re getting a book someone else
has endorsed.”
There’s no one who shares
Greensfelder’s fondness for the concept more than Todd Bol, the cofounder of Little Free Library Ltd. In
a phone interview from Hudson,
Wis., Bol said the movement he
helped start has been called a global
sensation. He noted that Little Free
Libraries have been featured in thousands of media outlets, including
The New York Times and Reader’s
Digest, which recently listed the
libraries as one of their “50 Surprising Reasons We Love America.”
“I think there’s a primal need for
us to feel close to each other,” said
Bol, who credits the libraries with
bringing neighborhoods together.
According to Bol, Little Free
Library has directly sold about 25
SCHOOLS: Stoddert, Janney eyed
From Page 1
Photo courtesy of Linda Greensfelder
About 50 books have moved
through the library so far, says
Linda Greensfelder.
percent of the 10,000 libraries currently in existence. They cost buyers
between $170 and $280, on average.
The nonprofit also charges $34.95
for each library that wishes to formally register as a Little Free Library,
and those libraries receive a special
sign and charter number.
Bol said his organization has also
donated hundreds of libraries,
including to communities ravaged
by the recent hurricanes Irene and
Sandy. He considers himself a man
with a larger mission.
“There are 11,000 small towns
without libraries — and we’re going
to change that,” he said.
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bang our shoe against the table,”
Cheh said.
The D.C. Department of General
Services has provided some temporary fixes, but Cheh said she’s waiting on longer-term solutions and
detailed reports.
Representatives from the General Services agency didn’t respond
to questions from The Current yesterday.
At Stoddert, drainage issues on a
field beside the school building
have been an “ongoing issue,”
flooding the playground whenever
it rains, according to principal Don
Bryant. “The solution for this seems
to be re-grading the playground, followed by the installation of artificial
[turf],” he wrote in an email, adding
that the PTA is willing to help fund
that solution with help from the
D.C. government.
This month, though, the drainage
problem has led to a more immediate safety concern — when dirt in
the playground erodes, dangerous
items like shards of glass and beer
bottles are rising to the surface.
As a quick fix, Bryant wrote, city
officials helped install a temporary
fence to keep students out of that
area. “I am grateful for that temporary solution,” he wrote, “but obviously still concerned because this
reduces the square footage of playground available to our students.”
Cheh said she’s waiting on the
General Services Department to put
up a more permanent fence “and
finish the process of fixing it.”
For the larger problems with
drainage, “it will take a longer fix,”
Cheh said, adding that she wants to
see a report about what needs to
happen.
Stoddert, at 4001 Calvert St.,
underwent a $34 million renovation
before the start of the 2010 school
year.
At Janney, which was updated
through a $30 million modernization project two years ago, the new
air-conditioning system has never
functioned quite as it should, Cheh
said.
At the start of this school year at
4130 Albemarle St., the specific
problem was on the third floor,
where the air conditioner seemed to
be broken.
Cheh said yesterday that the
General Services Department and
engineers visited over the weekend
to try to fix it, and will “see today or
tomorrow” if it’s working properly.
In a recent email to Chef’s office,
Janney principal Norah Lycknell
questioned whether a larger fix was
needed. “It often seems as if all the
players are disconnected and putting out small fires rather than coming up with a prevention plan for the
future (if the HVAC system breaks
once every two days, and one room
has never cooled properly, shouldn’t
we be considering wider repairs or
even replacement?)” she wrote.
Cheh said that after visiting Janney last week she told the General
Services Department that “I wanted
a report on why two-year-old air
conditioning in a $30 million renovated school would not work.”
With the problems at both Janney and Stoddert, she said, it’s
worth investigating whether “builders and equipment makers [from the
recent modernizations] should be
responsible for replacements.”
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Calling the police: The 411 on 311 and 911
By BRADY HOLT
Who ya gonna call?
t’s a lesson drilled into our
heads from an early age:
When you have an emergency,
you dial 911.
But what is an emergency? A
fire or pressing medical problem is
an easy call. So is a crime in progress.
Residents’ most common uncertainty is over whether their call is
urgent, according to officials at the
D.C. Office of Unified
Communications, which oversees
both the 911 and 311 call centers.
The test recommended by the
Unified Communications Office
and the Metropolitan Police
Department: “If there’s an inkling
in your mind that you need police
for something, we want [you] to
call to 911,” Stephen Williams,
chief of operations at the communications agency, said in an interview.
With your 911 call, you’ll be
placed through to a specially trained
operator who will evaluate your
issue and either contact a police dispatcher or, if no police response is
necessary, transfer your call to 311.
Reports of suspicious activity
are particularly crucial, safety officials say, because officers need to
be able to respond quickly to the
scene. Callers to 311 spend much
more time on hold, and 311 calltakers can’t connect to a police dispatcher.
“I can play you dozens of 911
calls that start: ‘I don’t think this is
an emergency, but … ,’” said
Williams. “And then officers get
there and it’s serious.”
But there are times when the
Office of Unified Communications
asks residents to call 311 instead. If
you want to make a police report
for a minor crime, like a car breakin or stolen license plates, a 311
call-taker can take your information.
Things get hazy when you don’t
have an emergency but you want
police to respond — in the case of a
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■ Medical emergencies
■ Crimes in progress or
that just occurred
■ Serious crimes,
regardless of when they
occurred, including burglaries, stolen autos,
robberies/muggings and
assaults
■ Cases with the potential for identity theft,
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311
■ Minor property crimes,
such as thefts and car
break-ins, unless the
incident is in progress or
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■ Lost or found property
valued at $5,000 or less
■ Noise complaints
■ Questions about
emergency services
■ Non-emergency city
service requests
mpdc.dc.gov
■ Lost property
■ Lost vehicle tags
■ Thefts and car breakins
■ Destruction of property
■ Damage to property
■ Use only when you’re
certain no police followup is needed
noise complaint, for instance, or
when you want an officer to take a
look at your shattered car window
in person.
Until recently, the communications agency advised residents to
call 911 for such incidents — any
time a police response was needed.
But the 911 Purity Amendment Act,
passed last year by the D.C.
Council, prohibits the city from
using or marketing the 911 line for
anything but emergencies.
So Williams now advises residents to call 311 for non-emergency
police matters. However, those who
request an officer to respond will
then be transferred to 911, because
311 operators don’t have a link to
police dispatchers. (Council
Chairman Phil Mendelson, who
authored the 911 Purity law, recently told The Current that this system
does not follow the law. Williams
said his agency is in compliance.)
An average of 13 calls are transferred daily from 311 to 911, and
while an average of seven calls are
Police watch
commanders
■ 24/7 hotline to reach
a supervisor in a particular police district with
an urgent complaint
regarding police services
received
■ 1st District, 202-4377632
■ 2nd District, 202-4384421
■ 3rd District, 202-2767462
■ 4th District, 202-3917177
More Metropolitan
Police Department nonemergency contact
information is available
on the department’s
website, mpdc.dc.gov.
transferred daily from 911 to 311,
according to Williams. The Office
of Unified Communications handles
1.4 million 911 calls and 2 million
311 calls per year, he said.
The communications agency
further recommends that residents
register for the free Smart911 service, which links telephone numbers to online user profiles. When a
Smart911 user places a 911 call, the
operator can see the profile associated with that phone, with as much
detail as the user chose to share.
This can include the caller’s
name, home and work address,
medical history, a description of the
home and who lives there, and even
special instructions for how to
locate and access the property (such
as a security code).
Visit smart911.com to register.
Besides 911 and 311, there are a
few other ways to get in touch with
police. Some incidents, such as a
car break-in, can be reported on the
department website, mpdc.dc.gov,
instead of by phone. Residents are
urged not to file the same report in
both places, and only to file online
when they’re sure the incident
doesn’t require police follow-up.
Contact information for police
service area lieutenants and other
police officials is also available
online, and residents can message
them directly with questions or to
report ongoing safety concerns. And
when residents have an urgent problem with the service they’re receiving from an officer who responded
to their 911 call, they can call the
24/7 hotline for each police district’s watch commander.
But 911 remains the place for
emergencies — and many police
officers have tales of residents who
didn’t get that memo. One officer
recounted at a recent community
meeting that a crime victim had
emailed him personally to report the
incident.
The officer, who was on vacation at the time, saw the message
only days later.
The Current ■ Community Guide 2013
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On eve of battle’s 150th anniversary, group aims to preserve Civil War forts
ance’s vice president Loretta
Neumann reported last Thursday
that her organization has drafted a
bill to ensure the Park Service has
resident Abraham Lincoln
funding to maintain these forts. The
escaped death nearly 150
legislation would establish the Civil
years ago at Fort Stevens,
located in what is now part War Defenses of Washington
National Historical Park, with a visof the Brightwood neighborhood.
During the sole Civil War battle that itor station at Fort Stevens to educate the public on the significance
occurred within the boundaries of
of both the battle and the war.
the District of Columbia, he stood
“When all of [the commemoraatop the fort’s parapet to witness the
tion events are] all over ... we want
action and became a target for
these forts to be well-protected,
Confederate sharpshooters — the
well-managed,” she said. “The only
only time in U.S. history that a sitway we’re going to get that is
ting president came under direct
through legislation.”
enemy fire. If Lincoln had been
Neumann announced that two
killed or the Confederates succeedmembers of Congress are already
ed in taking D.C., the course of the
on board as sponsors. The alliance
nation would have been drastically
first reached out
altered.
to Republican
The Alliance
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to Preserve the
Wolf of
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Virginia, who
Defenses of
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tion 12 years
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— especially in
part of the
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sesquicentennial
Valley
of the Civil War, Children play at Fort Stevens,
Battlefields
where a preservation group
and on the eve
National
of the 150th
wants greater recognition of the
Historic
anniversary of
site’s historic significance.
District.
the Battle of
According to Neumann, Wolf
Fort Stevens on July 11 and 12.
will also be working with D.C. Del.
Last Thursday, the alliance held
Eleanor Holmes Norton, who plans
a planning workshop with the
to introduce the bill this fall.
National Park Service at the Rock
“As Monocracy [in Maryland]
Creek Nature Center with several
has a law and as Cedar Creek has a
community organizations from the
law ... we want the Civil Defenses
D.C. area to brainstorm events for
of Washington to have a law,” she
the commemoration that they plan
said of the other historic Civil War
to roll out starting this fall, until
sites that have received support
October next year.
from Congress. “There will be a
Participants’ suggestions for
well-protected Civil War Defenses
events and activities ranged from
guided tours — biking and walking of Washington.”
In the past few years, the allito the sites — to lectures, poster
ance and the Park Service have
contests at schools, historical reworked together to maintain and
enactments and music concerts.
publicize the Civil War sites in the
One event already planned for
D.C. area — 17 of which still surNovember is a presentation on the
Battle of Fort Stevens, among other vive within city limits, including
Fort Reno, Fort Totten, Fort Slocum
topics, at the annual Conference on
and Fort DeRussy. Neumann said
D.C. Historical Studies. The Park
history books rarely mention the
Service will also continue its
monthly programming at the Robert importance of these sites — which
is among the reasons that not many
E. Lee Memorial in Virginia, in
people, even locals, know about
which rangers will discuss the
them.
defensive strategy used by local
Realizing they couldn’t tackle
Civil War forts.
Last week’s brainstorming meet- the preservation efforts all by theming also served to raise more aware- selves, the activists sought help
from the local community. Last
ness of those forts, which formed a
spring, the alliance and Park
defensive ring around the nation’s
Service held two smaller meetings
capital during the war.
that introduced interested individu“Because of the dwindling
als to the forts and to the
resources of the federal governBattleground National Cemetery
ment, we have to look beyond …
near Fort Stevens.
funding. So how can we tap into
The third gathering last
our partners to develop partnerships
Thursday allowed organizations to
to produce great programming?”
share plans, both detailed and
said Kym Elder, the Park Service’s
abstract, for the commemoration.
Civil War Defenses of Washington
The two-hour workshop attracted
program manager, in a separate
30 representatives from organizainterview.
tions such as the Washington Area
On the legislative front, the alli-
By KAT LUCERO
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Bicyclist Association, the Sierra
Club, the D.C. Preservation League,
the Washington Revels, the
National Parks Conservation
Association, President Lincoln’s
Cottage and the D.C. Commission
of the Arts and Humanities.
As the meeting wrapped up,
Benjamin Frank Cooling, a local
Civil War historian who has written
extensively about Fort Stevens,
announced that more local and federal government agencies also need
to get involved to make the effort
successful.
The next step will be to follow
up with these agencies, as well as
meet individually with the workshop participants to iron out the
details of their planned events,
Neumann said in an interview. She
also said the alliance and Park
Service will consult with several
other groups that were unable to
attend last week’s meeting.
Formed in 2008, the alliance has
gathered scholars, activists and city
government representatives to
advocate the preservation of Civil
War forts in D.C. The group’s latest
watchdog project is the redevelopment of the Walter Reed Army
Medical Center.
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Nationals boost interest in local youth baseball
By MATT SWENSON
Current Correspondent
W
hen Tal Alter was
working at a baseball camp recently,
the native
Washingtonian saw a sea of red,
with names like Harper, Strasburg
and Zimmerman on the backs of
jerseys. It wasn’t D.C.’s big league
club, but rather local kids emulating
players from their hometown team.
Alter has been around the
national pastime his whole life,
even though Major League
Baseball wasn’t available nearby
until he was long out of college. He
longed for a local team not named
“Baltimore” to root for growing up,
a scenario the children at that camp
may never be able to comprehend.
“Their reality is so different
than mine was,” said Alter, the
executive director of the new
Washington Nationals Youth
Baseball Academy.
Nine years after the Montreal
Expos relocated to Washington and
Above: Courtesy of Capitol City Little League; left: courtesy of the Washington Nationals
Youth leagues have seen participation rise since the return of professional
baseball to the District. Washington Nationals shortstop Ian Desmond, shown
greeting Ward 7 kids during batting practice at Nationals Park, is involved in
efforts to boost interest further with the nonprofit Youth Baseball Academy.
became the Nationals, the reality of
having a Major League team has
trickled down to the city’s youngest
players.
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changing demographics — and the
economic development related to
both — there is a surge in participation in D.C.’s youth baseball offerings.
The most significant progress
can be seen in neighborhoods
where organized baseball hardly
existed before. But the change is
noticeable even in long-established
organizations such as Capitol City
Little League in Northwest.
Stephen Ganote, co-president of
Capitol City, estimated that the
league has grown by 10 percent
since the Nationals’ inaugural season in 2005. Having a team to
watch each night has clearly created
more fans of the game, added Scott
Gold, Capitol City’s other co-president.
“It’s not just the kids; more par-
ents are interested,” said Gold.
“Parents are connecting with their
kids through this common interest.”
The numbers are dramatic closer
to Nationals Park on Capitol Hill,
where many young families have
settled in the past decade. Capitol
Hill Little League president Seth
Shapiro said the group has grown
from 75 kids in 2005 to about 500
currently.
“It’s ballooned the last few
years,” said Shapiro, who noted
that the league — which did not
have a Little League charter until
three years ago — created a new
four-team program for 6-year-olds
this year.
Of course, much of the interest
can be traced to the Nats’ 98-win
season a year ago, a run that led to
the National League East crown
and solidified Bryce Harper,
Stephen Strasburg and Ryan
Zimmerman as among D.C.’s most
popular athletes.
“Last year was very big for us,
on and off the field,” said Shawn
Bertani, the Nationals’ senior director of community relations.
Beyond the excitement generated last season, the Nats for years
have attempted to connect with
D.C. communities, sometimes with
mixed results. Among the notable
efforts are a program begun in
2009 allowing D.C. public high
school teams a chance to practice
once per season at Nationals Park,
and clinics for younger players at
the waterfront stadium.
But the center of their effort is
the ambitious Washington
Nationals Youth Baseball Academy,
headed by Alter since April.
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Playground upgrades abound across city
By BETH COPE
F
amilies are flocking to the
new Takoma playground,
which reopened late last
month after a $1.8 million
renovation. Late morning on Labor
Day, the new splash park was
crawling with about 20 kids, while
several dozen more scampered
around the two adjacent play areas,
one each for younger and older
ages.
Folks had come from near and
slightly far — Silver Spring — to
check out the new hotspot, and the
question on many minds was: Is it
about to close?
“I had heard that it might be —
today’s the last day,” parent
Marybeth Stiles said of the splash
park, which, along with all city
pools, was slated to close for the
season on Labor Day.
Stiles, who came to the park for
both the water features and the dual
play areas, said her 2-year-old and
4-year-old were having a great time.
“We’ve been here for two hours
and they’re not done,” she said.
“As long as the weather’s warm
enough, I would love for [the fountains] to stay on.”
According to John Stokes of the
parks department, they will: He
reported last week that the splash
park — along with four others in
the city — would stay open until
Sept. 29.
Other than the impending water
shut-off — and concern about the
locked bathrooms, which Stokes
reports are not yet complete —
parents had only enthusiasm for the
new playground.
“I think it’s wonderful. I mean,
I’m very impressed with the whole
thing,” said Liska Friedman, whose
son, Gabriel, 3, was playing in the
spray on Labor Day.
Friedman said she’d previously
driven to Chevy Chase to find a
splash park. “I’m very happy that
it’s this close to us, because all the
fancy ones [were across town
before],” she said. “There’s two
fancy ones over there.”
Thanks to a major citywide
effort to upgrade local playgrounds,
there are now “fancy” parks all
around town.
Last year, the D.C. Department
of Parks and Recreation launched
“PlayDC,” a program to rebuild 32
playgrounds across the city. Nearly
all of them will be done by next
month — and many already are —
meaning residents won’t have to go
far to find a good spot for outdoor
play. And Takoma isn’t the only
neighborhood to get a new spray
park.
Here’s a rundown of all the
upgraded — or nearly upgraded —
playgrounds in Upper Northwest,
based on information from the
parks department’s website and
interviews with agency officials:
■ Banneker, 2500 Georgia Ave.:
expected completion late
The newly renovated Takoma Playground, pictured, is part of the city’s “Play
DC” initiative to rebuild 32 sites across the city. Most of the new playgrounds
will be done by next month.
September/early October.
Equipment is oriented primarily to
6- to 12-year-olds, and upgrades
include a new skate plaza with
ramps and benches. Other work has
focused on improving the parking
area, building a new walkway to
separate the playground from other
site facilities — there’s also a pool,
tennis courts, a track, a baseball
field — and adding new shade
structures.
play spaces for younger and older
children, and it serves as a spot for
unstructured play. The park, which
features basketball and tennis
courts, is also getting new raised
garden beds, exercise equipment
and shade.
■ Garrison, 1200 S St.: not yet
started; first meeting date to be
determined. This elementary school
playground is also being updated
through a partnership with the Trust
for Public Land.
■ Hamilton, 1340 Hamilton St.:
complete. The site has a new “futsal” court — a hard-surface soccer
court — because there’s “a lot of
interest in that community with
soccer,” said Aguirre. That new
space replaces a tennis court and
shuffleboard court. The department
added a new surface in the play
area and some new play equipment,
as well as an enhanced entryway
and new garden. It also resurfaced
basketball courts, and the park
includes a field. A ribbon-cutting
See Playgrounds/Page CG23
■ Emery, 5801 Georgia Ave.:
complete. Renovations upgraded an
existing playground, where new
play areas for little and big kids are
separated by a low hill with a builtin slide. A tricycle path loops
around the site, and a new shade
structure and fitness equipment sit
between the playground and an
adjacent basketball court.
■ Forest Hills, 32nd and
Chesapeake streets: still in planning stages. This update is being
conducted through a partnership
with the national nonprofit Trust
for Public Land. “We wanted to
leverage their expertise,” said Parks
Department director Jesus Aguirre,
explaining that work there probably
won’t be done until late this calendar year. The fifth in a series of
community meetings on the plans
will be held tomorrow from 6:30 to
7:30 p.m. at Capital Memorial
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
3150 Chesapeake St. NW.
Aguirre said the theme of the
updated park will relate to its forested location, and plans will
include “more nature play” than
elsewhere. For instance, instead of
the rubberized ground surface that
the department is aiming to install
in all city playgrounds for safety
reasons, Forest Hills will have synthetic turf.
■ Fort Stevens, 1327 Van Buren
St.: expected completion by late
September/early October. A new
play space is being built around an
artificial mound designed to replicate the Civil War fort’s historic
ramparts. The mound also separates
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Area’s historic houses bring in modern visitors
By JENNY ROGERS
T
ucked among private
homes at the corner of
31st and Q streets in
Georgetown stands a
much more public house. Tudor
Place, a national historic landmark
open to the public, saw 6,000 people visit in 2004. Last year, nearly
20,000 people came.
It’s a trend that many historic
house museums in Northwest D.C.
are experiencing. Strained under
the Great Recession and the costly
expense of maintaining the homes,
similar facilities around the country
have fought to maintain their visitors and, more importantly, their
relevance. Despite facing those
challenges, Northwest D.C.’s historic houses are now drawing
increasingly large crowds.
“When I first started, we were
mostly attracting older adults looking just for a regular tour or a book
lecture,” said Talia Mosconi, Tudor
Place’s director of public programs.
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Georgetown’s historic Dumbarton House, above, and Tudor Place have
begun drawing more visitors in recent years.
“In the past seven years, we’ve
tried to diversify that audience.”
At Tudor Place, an early 19thcentury neoclassical house once
home to Martha Washington’s
granddaughter, that has meant
diversifying their programs as well.
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audiences of history enthusiasts,
young professionals and families.
Tudor Place isn’t alone in
counting on new programs to bring
in new faces. Hillwood Estate near
Rock Creek Park added larger
exhibitions to its lineup in 2011
and has attracted more people
because of it, says Lynn Rossotti,
Hillwood’s director of marketing
and communications. In 2010, the
estate had just over 52,000 visitors.
Thanks in part to a popular wedding gown exhibit the next year,
the mansion had more than 64,000
visitors. Last year, that number
grew to more than 74,600, and the
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that number again, Rossotti said.
Despite those growing numbers,
Hillwood House and many like it
in the area cannot rely solely on
admission fees to fund restoration
and keep homes open to the public.
That’s not uncommon, according to
Katherine Malone-France, the
director of outreach, education and
support at the National Trust for
Historic Preservation, a D.C.-based
nonprofit.
“Certainly the model of ‘tour
admissions are going to keep a
place open’ was probably flawed
from the start,” she said. “As the
makeup of volunteer corps changed
and problems that might have started out small turned into larger,
urgent preservation needs and more
expensive preservation needs when
they weren’t met, I think that
model just came under more and
more strain.”
Hillwood currently depends
largely on an endowment set up by
its former owner, philanthropist
Marjorie Merriweather Post,
though Rossotti says the estate
hopes to draw less on the endowment in the future.
The same is true with
Georgetown’s Dumbarton House,
which opened to the public in
1932. In 2005, the house had 9,000
visitors. Last year, it had 19,000 —
growth driven by adding new programs and events. Even with a
growing number of visitors,
Dumbarton survives largely
through a mixed income of invested funds that function like an
endowment, as well as donations
and grants.
“We can’t be a Mount Vernon,”
said Karen Daly, Dumbarton’s
executive director. “I say that from
a business perspective. We can’t all
fund our operating expenses purely
through admissions.”
Many of Northwest D.C.’s historic houses also fund themselves
in part through money made by
renting out the property itself.
Heurich House Museum, a
Victorian mansion in Dupont, relies
on both a small endowment and
the income generated by hosting
private events, like weddings and
corporate receptions. It will also
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CG7
Neighborhood watch groups
work hard to avoid ‘red flags’
By JENNY ROGERS
E
very day Marianne
Becton, a block captain in
Chevy Chase’s neighborhood watch group, keeps
an eye out for her neighbors’ stray
newspapers as she walks her dog.
“A neighborhood that is well
lived in and well cared for is not
inviting to crime,” Becton said. “I
want people to lock doors, to turn
porch lights on, to pick up newspapers.”
In communities throughout
Northwest D.C., neighborhood
watch groups are relaying that same
mantra to residents to help prevent
crime. They’re part of a citywide
push to get captains on every block
in the District. But getting watch
groups kick-started and keeping
them going can be tough work, and
what happens with each group
depends on its members.
“The best way to have a safe
city is to have participation by all
residents,” said Samantha Nolan,
the city’s neighborhood watch program trainer. “We all have an equal
duty to work towards making our
city safer.”
The keys to a strong group,
according to Nolan, are strong leaders and active communication. “If
you have a director who drops out,
often the program can fall apart
because the communication line
dies,” Nolan said. “What keeps
them sustained is seeing how effective the program is.”
Nolan, like Becton, got her start
in neighborhood watch groups in
Chevy Chase more than a decade
ago. Nolan and her neighbors
launched their own group after an
area woman was mugged on her
way home from a bus stop. That
pilot program started with 25 block
captains and 100 people on its listserv. It now has 240 block captains
and more than 5,000 people on the
listserv.
Since then, Nolan, a volunteer
working with the Metropolitan
Police Department, has trained
more than 1,000 block captains
across the city, she estimates, and
that old flagship watch group has
become a model for other neighborhoods — and, for the first time this
year, universities.
That model relies on a relay system of information. Police reports
trickle down to neighborhood program coordinators, who communicate with block captains; the captains then relay information about
burglaries and assaults and tips on
crime prevention to the residents on
their block. Nolan and area block
captains said the network creates
stronger connections between police
and residents.
But program directors say they
must walk a fine line between using
their block captains effectively and
overburdening those volunteers.
“We try to keep people engaged
without overwhelming them with
email and requests to do things,”
said Diane Colasanto, the block
captain coordinator for Georgetown
and co-chair of the Citizens
Association of Georgetown’s public
safety committee. So far, the
group’s turnover rate is very low,
she said.
Georgetown’s program, supplemented by hired security guards and
surveillance cameras on residential
streets, has grown from 35 block
captains in 2007 to 80 this year. The
program now has captains for 71
percent of the neighborhood,
according to Colasanto.
The program grew as Colasanto
and others recruited new captains at
neighborhood events and through
cold calls, she said. “It really takes
individuals who are willing to give
it some thought to reach out to people they know and get the message
out and really work at it,” she said.
“It doesn’t happen unless someone
is willing to do that.”
Those who have been a victim
of a crime are more likely to participate, said Nolan. But many others
who are civic-minded or simply
looking to get involved with their
neighborhood also join watch
groups.
Not all communities have watch
groups, though, and some have lost
them after directors quit or moved
away. Cleveland Park residents, for
instance, simply haven’t expressed
enough interest in recent years to
start a group, according to Susan
Taylor, president of the Cleveland
Park Citizens Association. Some
residents there have expressed interest in hiring security guards instead.
Adjacent Woodley Park has 20
block captains, which area watch
program director Nour Jurgenson
says is enough to get by, though
more are “always welcome.”
“What is difficult is not to
engage [the block captains], but to
emphasize how important it is to
consistently inform the neighborhood about alertness,” Jurgenson
said. “The only difficult situation
has been that people become lethargic a little bit.”
In other words, Jurgenson has
urged residents to remember to do
simple things like lock their doors
and close their windows. Residents
sometimes become complacent
about crime because the neighborhood appears so safe, she said.
Those sorts of warnings are
common coming from block captains. The belief behind the system,
and one of Nolan’s mantras, is that
most crime is preventable. Small
details like broken window glass,
dark streetlights or snow that hasn’t
been shoveled are “red flags” for
potential future crime. “It is
through neighborhood watch that
we watch out for those things,”
Nolan said.
Or, as Becton of Chevy Chase
put it, “You should know who your
neighbors are.”
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Theater season abounds in comedies, musicals
By MARK LONGAKER
C
omedies and musicals
predominate in the
upcoming theater season,
with dozens slated for
D.C. stages. There are also a wide
variety of other offerings, along
with four world premieres.
Among the musicals is a return
to the Kennedy Center of “Million
Dollar Quartet,” about a famous
recording session that included
Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry
Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins. Also
coming to the Kennedy Center are
“Disney’s ‘The Lion King’” and
two adaptations of popular movies:
“Elf: The Musical” and “Flashdance
— The Musical.”
Baby boomers may want to
relive the ’60s with “Hair,” which
Keegan Theatre will present next
spring. Romantics will be drawn to
“The Gershwins’ ‘Porgy and Bess’”
and “West Side Story” at the
National Theatre.
In the category of “most improb-
able subject for
a musical” is
“Carrie: The
Musical,” based
on the Stephen
King shocker
and mounted by
Studio Theatre.
Other musical
highlights
include “The
25th Annual
Putnam County
Spelling Bee” at
Ford’s Theatre
and “A Funny Thing Happened on
the Way to the Forum,” staged by
the Shakespeare Theatre Company.
The Shakespeare Theatre
Company will also present a number of comedies, including
“Measure for Measure” by its
namesake, as well as Oscar Wilde’s
“The Importance of Being Earnest”
and Noël Coward’s “Private Lives.”
The Folger Theatre will stage the
Bard’s “Romeo and Juliet.”
England’s Bristol Old Vic and the
Handspring Puppet Company will
Left: Photo by Paul Natkin; Above: Photo by Joan Marcus
“Million Dollar Quartet” and “Disney’s ‘The Lion King’”
anchor the Kennedy Center’s 2013-14 theater season.
bring the Shakespearean fantasy “A
Midsummer Night’s Dream” to the
Kennedy Center’s “World Stages:
International Theater Festival 2014”
in March.
Keegan Theatre will present
Neil Simon’s “The Sunshine
Boys,” a comedic portrayal of two
old cantankerous Vaudevillians
who performed together for many
years only to come to hate each
other. In other comedies, Peter Sinn
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“Love in Afghanistan,” which follows a couple trying to find happiness amid the chaos of war.
Australian playwright Declan
Greene will bring “Moth,” a drama
about two high school outcasts, up
from Down Under for its U.S. premiere. It all adds up to an exciting
season on the boards.
RECENTLY OPENED
“Torch Song Trilogy.” Harvey
Fierstein comedy about marriage,
family and self-acceptance in the
gay community and beyond, directed by Michael Kahn. Studio Theatre
through Oct. 13.
“The Velocity of Autumn.” Eric
Coble drama about a lonely woman
with explosives, featuring Estelle
Parsons and directed by Molly
Smith. Arena Stage through Oct. 20.
“After the Revolution.” A woman
must confront a troubling secret
about her blacklisted grandfather,
which leads her to question her
family’s progressive legacy and her
own path. Theater J through Oct. 6.
“Detroit.” This Pulitzer Prize finalist takes a darkly comic look at a
couple trying to survive in an economically challenged city. Woolly
Mammoth Theatre Company
through Oct. 6.
SEPTEMBER
12 — “Measure for Measure.”
Shakespeare’s dark comedy of complex and controversial ideas
explores ethics, morality and the
corrupting nature of power.
Shakespeare Theatre Company,
Lansburgh Theatre through Oct. 27.
12 — “Cabaret Barroco.” Bawdy
and playful cabaret featuring interludes by Spanish masters on themes
of love, jealousy, deception and
entanglements, in Spanish with
English surtitles. GALA Theatre
through Oct. 6.
24 — “Million Dollar Quartet.”
Return of the Broadway musical
inspired by the famed recording
session that brought together Elvis
Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee
Lewis and Carl Perkins. Kennedy
Center through Oct. 6.
25 — “Red Speedo.” Lucas Hnath
play about an Olympic hopeful and
See Theater/Page CG15
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Exhibition season highlights big-name artists
By MARK LONGAKER
B
ookending the new exhibition season are two
blockbuster shows.
In October, the
Phillips Collection will open “Van
Gogh: Repetitions,” the first
Vincent van Gogh exhibition in
Washington in 15 years. It will
take a fresh look at the artist’s process, presenting some 30 of his
paintings alongside related drawings and technical photographs.
Timed tickets will be required for
entry.
At the other end of the season,
in May, the National Gallery of Art
will open “Andrew Wyeth:
Looking Out, Looking In,” which
explores the frequent use of windows in the artist’s works. While
perhaps not of the same stature as
van Gogh, Wyeth is still a popular
favorite, and this show will certainly be well-attended.
Another must-see will open at
the National Gallery of Art around
the same time as the Wyeth exhibit. This is “Degas/Cassatt,” an
exploration of how Mary Cassatt
influenced Edgar Degas and paved
the way for his warm reception in
the U.S.
Other highlights at the National
Gallery include the first exhibit in
this country devoted to 19th-century French photographer Charles
Marville, and a look at 20th-century American photographer Gary
Winogrand. The gallery will also
feature an exhibit of Byzantium art
and launch a series of three shows
focusing on prints from an extensive bequest by Ruth Cole Kainen,
wife of former Dupont Circle artist
Jacob Kainen.
There will be an exhibition
about the evolution of yoga at the
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and the
Renwick Gallery will document
the central role of baskets in the
everyday life of Americans.
Historical quilts will be highlighted
at the National Museum of Women
in the Arts, which will also feature
an exhibit about the censorship
battles waged by Anita Steckel,
who sparked a media scandal in
1972 by refusing to self-censor her
erotic figures.
The role of destruction in contemporary art will be investigated
in a groundbreaking exhibit at the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden. On a related theme, man’s
destruction of the natural environment is the focus of a show by Mia
Feuer at the Corcoran Gallery of
Art.
Exhibits at the National Portrait
Gallery will explore the ways
modern abstraction has revolutionized the art of portraiture, as well
as the relationship between dance
and the evolution of a modern
American identity. Another Portrait
Gallery show will examine the
meaning of “cool,” and two exhibits there will continue the commemoration of the 150th anniver-
sary of the Civil War, one
featuring images of
Washington, D.C., during
the war and the other profiling generals Grant and
Lee.
SEPTEMBER
15 — “Tell It With Pride:
The 54th Massachusetts
Regiment and Augustus
Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw
Memorial.” Honors one of
the first regiments of
African-Americans formed
during the Civil War, documenting the creation and
continuing inspiration of the
Shaw Memorial. National
Gallery of Art through Jan. 20.
17 — “Portraits of Planet Ocean:
The Photography of Brian
Skerry.” Images of the undersea
world by photojournalist Skerry.
National Museum of Natural
History through an unspecified
close date.
Left: Courtesy of the Phillips Collection; Above: Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art
The Phillips Collection will present an exhibit of works by Vincent van
Gogh, including the 1888 oil on canvas “Portrait of Camille Roulin.”
Also on tap is the National Gallery of Art’s Andrew Wyeth exhibition,
which will include his 1947 painting “Wind From the Sea.”
21 — “American Journeys —
Visions of Place.” A new installation of the Corcoran’s pre-1945
American paintings and sculpture
collection. Corcoran Gallery of Art
indefinitely.
22 — “World of Stamps.” An
exhibit of stamps that have shaped
history and honored people and
places around the world. National
Postal Museum through an unspecified close date.
28 — “Off the Beaten Path:
Whistler’s Early Works on
Paper.” Prints from Whistler’s trip
to the Rhineland reveal its influence
on his mature style and choice of
subject matter. Freer Gallery of Art
thorough September 2014.
29 — “Charles Marville:
Photographer of Paris.” The first
U.S. exhibit about the renowned
19th-century French photographer.
See Exhibits/Page CG21
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Music season celebrates birthdays of Wagner, Verdi, Britten and others
Closing its season in May will be
Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” an
“Opera in the Outfield” simulcast.
Continuing the Verdi celebration,
Washington Concert Opera will
present two of his early operas,
including “I masnadieri” and the
swashbuckling “Il corsaro,” and the
In Series will close its season with
“La Traviata.” The Cathedral
Choral Society will present a program called “Viva Verdi!” in
October, and the Washington
Chorus will offer “The Essential
Verdi” in March. The Choral Arts
Society of Washington will perform
Verdi’s “Requiem” on a November
program that includes the premiere
of a work commemorating the 50th
anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s
assassination.
As for Wagner, the National
Symphony Orchestra will join forces with the Washington Chorus in a
concert version of Act III of
“Parsifal” at the Kennedy Center,
and the PostClassical Ensemble will
feature music by both Wagner and
Britten in a program at
Dumbarton United
Methodist Church.
The same group will
sampling of what’s in
present music by
store for music lovers
Richard Strauss in a
during the season ahead
different program
reveals a strong focus
there. Strauss is also
on Wagner and Verdi in celebration
highlighted on two of
of the 200th anniversary of their
the nearly two dozen
births, as well as many performancprograms by the
es of music by Benjamin Britten on
National Symphony
the centennial of his birth. Other
Orchestra, including a
composers attaining significant
concert version of
birthday milestones are Richard
“Der Rosenkavalier.”
Strauss, turning 150 next year, and
But there is much
C.P.E. Bach, who will reach the
more. The Kennedy
three-century mark in the spring.
Center is presenting a
Opening the season for the
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of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.”
and Isolde,” with Swedish soprano
Fleming in November,
Iréne Theorin and British soprano
Fantasy” and Vivaldi’s “Four
Theatre through Sept. 29.
as well as one that pairs the
Alwyn Mellor singing the role of
Seasons” in three of his “What
National Symphony Orchestra with
the Irish princess Isolde. The comMakes It Great?” programs, pre29 — The National Symphony
various dance ensembles in May.
pany will follow this with Verdi’s
sented by the Washington
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Performing Arts Society.
Opening Ball Concert with cellist
will look at Beethoven’s “Kreutzer
staging by the company’s artistic
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director, Francesca Zambello.
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15 — “Tristan and Isolde.”
Washington National Opera opens
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Sept. 27.
22 — “Bach, Vivaldi & the Italian
Influence.” The Washington Bach
Consort begins its season by demonstrating the influence of Italian
composers on its namesake.
National Presbyterian Church.
22 — “I masnadieri.” Washington
Concert Opera opens its celebration
of the 200th anniversary of the birth
of Verdi by presenting this early
opera by the composer. Lisner
Auditorium.
27 — “Map of the World.” The
Folger Consort presents music from
13th- and 15th-century Spain, with
soprano Emily Noël and tenor
Aaron Sheehan. Folger Elizabethan
6 — “Abyssinian: A Gospel
Celebration.” Washington
Performing Arts Society presentation of the Jazz at Lincoln Center
Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
Kennedy Center.
Orchestra performs Act III of
“Parsifal” in concert to celebrate the
200th anniversary of Wagner’s
birth, with vocal soloists and the
Washington Chorus. Kennedy
12 — “The Force of Destiny.”
Washington National Opera presents a new production of the Verdi
tragedy staged by the company’s
artistic director, Francesca
Zambello. Kennedy Center through
Oct. 26.
12 — “The Goldberg Variations.”
Performed by Jeremy Denk and
presented by the Washington
Performing Arts Society. Kennedy
Center.
14 — The Mariinsky Orchestra.
Presented by the Washington
Performing Arts Society, the orchestra performs Stravinsky works,
including “The Firebird,”
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CG11
With summit, school officials D.C. school test results incorporate new index
stress responsibility of parents
By GRAHAM VYSE
D
teachers and a variety of other metrics.
When the site launches next
month, students and their families
for the first time will be able to find
comprehensive data about charter
schools and traditional public
schools in the same place. They will
also be able to see how an individual school compares to the average
District public school on an array of
measurements.
The site will also have more indepth data on individual schools,
including the number of AfricanAmerican students in a particular
high school who enroll in college,
or the number of economically disadvantaged students who do so,
based on data from the past few
years.
“The LearnDC site will put all
the information in one place,” said
Athena Hernandez, a spokesperson
for the office who ran breakout sessions on the new portal. She said
access to this data is particularly
.C. education officials
highlighted the responsibility of parents for
their children’s success
at a six-hour event Saturday, while
also previewing new online tools
that promise streamlined access to
data on the city’s public schools.
The Office of the State
Superintendent of Education’s second annual “Parent and Family
Engagement Summit” drew hundreds to the Walter E. Washington
Convention Center.
The summit began with a morning keynote address from Chicagobased education consultant Sunny
Chico, the author of the book series
“You: Your Child’s First Teacher.”
Noting that 92 percent of an average child’s life is spent outside of
school, Chico urged parents to consider the disproportionate influence
they have on their kids.
“You have all probably realized how
much more our children learn from us
than they’ll ever learn
in school,” she said.
“We teach them how
to live in this world,
how to treat each
other, how to work
hard every day and
what to value. As
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important as school
An afternoon panel of D.C. Public Schools
subjects are to know,
parents shared experiences at the summit.
what our children
learn at home can set
important because the District is a
them apart, raise them up and hold
“school district of choice,” where
them down.”
parents can send their children to
In an interview after her talk,
any public school that enrolls them,
Chico also stressed that her meseven one halfway across the city.
sage isn’t reserved for parents and
This makes comparing schools critfamilies from economically disadical.
vantaged neighborhoods.
“It is truly our goal to make it as
“In the most affluent areas,
which we don’t seem to discuss, we easy for parents as possible,
because choosing a school for your
have bullying, we have drug addicchild is complex,” Hernandez said.
tion, we have high suicide rates,
because a lot of the focus is on chil- Throughout the summit, speakers described the ideal relationship
dren achieving,” she said. “You
between schools and families as a
have many students who are highpartnership, but Coolidge High
performing but have issues.”
School parent coordinator Terry
The superintendent’s office
Goings summed up the event’s
holds an annual summit in part
main message, insisting that
because of a commitment to
improving his child’s education is
increasing parental involvement in
largely up to him.
exchange for flexibility in imple “That is my responsibility,” he
menting the federal No Child Left
said. “Not the school’s responsibiliBehind Act of 2001, said chief of
ty. Not the city council’s responsistaff Jose Alvarez.
bility. Not the neighbor’s or the
“Every parent wants to be
teacher’s responsibility. My responinvolved,” he said. “They’re trying
sibility.”
to find ways to do it.”
Chico commended the District
The agency spent several of the
summit’s breakout sessions offering for holding the weekend summit,
attendees a preview of a new online saying large events of its kind are
uncommon.
portal on its website, learndc.org.
She said schools must give parThe portal will soon allow anyone
with an Internet connection to com- ents and families feedback on how
they can improve their children’s
pare District schools in terms of
education. “It’s important for parstandardized test scores, graduation
ents to feel empowered,” she said.
rates, extracurricular activities, and
availability of Advanced Placement “It’s important for parents to feel
they’re not alone.”
classes, number of highly qualified
The D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of
Education has released the standardized test performance of each D.C. public and public charter
school, as well as their rankings in a new “accountability” system.
Citywide, public school students’ scores jumped
4 percentage points from the spring 2012 D.C.
Comprehensive Assessment System tests to the
2013 tests. The data were released July 29.
The new accountability system uses a formula to
rate schools based on “student proficiency, growth,
graduation rates, attendance and participation rates,”
according to a news release from the superintendent’s office. Schools are judged to be Reward,
Rising, Developing, Focus or Priority (in declining
order).
See full school-by-school results for wards 1, 2,
3 and 4 on page CG26.
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Out of the studio; into parks, churches, libraries
By KAT LUCERO
Y
oga is not just for slim,
athletic young women
who look perfect in a
pair of skin-tight fitness
pants. It’s also not restricted to people who can afford studio or health
club fees.
More and more, yoga teachers
and studios are trying to make it
clear that the practice is open to students of any fitness level,
economic background,
age, race and gender,
from senior citizens to
children to veterans to
pregnant women.
Locally, various studios and fitness-focused
businesses are working to
spread the healthy effects
of yoga by hosting sessions — sometimes free
or donation-based — in community
spots like libraries, churches and
parks.
“The community feels that yoga
is for everyone,” said Penny Bell, a
board member of DC Community
Yoga, the group that organizes DC
Yoga Week and Yoga on the Mall
every spring. “The more people do
yoga, the better for everyone. …
We think they’ll find peace, joy and
relaxation and acceptance in their
lives. That can be a positive thing.”
Though often practiced at health
clubs, fitness centers, stand-alone
studios and even in the privacy of
one’s home, yoga can also be practiced outside the confines of such
spaces. Some recreation-oriented
businesses have also incorporated
yoga into other fitness activities to
diversify their offerings, like mixing
yoga with a hike through the wooded terrain of Rock Creek Park, or
adding it after a long bike ride and
paddle boating.
“If people want to supplement
their [yoga] practice with outdoor
practice, that’s wonderful, too,” said
Bell. “You literally feel the connection to the ground and nature and to
the earth — which is important to
yoga, to feel connected to the natural world. It enhances your practice,
no doubt.”
Below are several places in
Northwest D.C. where yoga can be
found outside of a regular studio.
Public libraries
From the Palisades to Shaw,
yoga classes can now be found at
several branches of the D.C. Public
Library. These classes, typically
held in meeting rooms or community spaces, are one of the ways
D.C. libraries are seeking to transform themselves into multiuse centers that offer more than just books.
“This ties in with our mission in
lifelong learning and being part of
the community,” said Eric Riley,
program coordinator with the
library system.
In the past few years, the library
system has partnered with several
yoga teachers to bring the practice
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to some of the neighborhoods it
serves. Several of the instructors
belong to Yoga Activist, a nonprofit
that connects certified yoga teachers with community-based and
social-service organizations to
spread the practice’s health and
wellness benefits.
While everyone is always welcome at yoga studios, said Jasmine
Chehrazi, president of Yoga
Activist’s board of directors, some
don’t feel comfortable going to
them. Since “people from
all walks of life are comfortable going to libraries,” these public venues
are ideal locations to
reach out to a greater
variety of individuals, she
said.
Chehrazi started the
organization when she
founded Yoga District,
another nonprofit that
now has six studios offering lowcost classes throughout the city.
Yoga Activist instructors currently teach free classes at nine
libraries throughout the city. In
Upper Northwest, the program is
active at the Cleveland Park
(Tuesdays at 7 p.m.), Petworth
(Saturdays at 11 a.m.) and Watha T.
Daniel-Shaw (Tuesdays at noon)
branches.
For a full schedule for all yoga
classes available at public libraries,
visit dclibrary.org/calendar.
Churches
Some local places of worship
have started offering yoga classes in
their common rooms. Organized by
congregation members, the classes
are open to both regular church
attendees and other community
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Yoga Hikes founder Danielle M. Reyes leads a session during one of
her hiking treks through Rock Creek Park.
members interested in the practice.
Glover Park resident Cherie
Jones coordinates a yoga program
held every Wednesday from 6 to
7:30 p.m. at Christ Church
Georgetown, 3116 O St.
Jones and her friends were looking for a way to continue the yoga
practice they learned from
Bodysmith, a boutique fitness studio that left its Wisconsin Avenue
location a year ago. Jones discovered the church hall was available
at Christ Church, where she worships, and won the clergy’s permission to use the space. Then she got
hold of yoga instructor James
Foulkes, an integrated wellness specialist who focuses on alignment
and teaches a slow-paced practice.
“Besides daily prayers, numerous times each day, we find yoga
another form of community building and a good care of the body,”
Christ Church rector Stuart
Kenworthy wrote in an email.
Open to the public, the classes
cost $15 for a drop-in or $72 for a
pack of six. For more information,
contact Jones at 202-352-7529 or
[email protected].
Starting this week, the
Metropolitan Memorial United
Methodist Church, 3401 Nebraska
Ave., is offering a four-part introduction to yoga to church members
and others in the area. The hourlong
sessions are being held Wednesdays
at 11 a.m. through Oct. 1.
The program grew out of a
series of yoga classes last spring.
The goal was to offer an accessible
exercise to a broad segment of the
church community and possibly to
individuals who wouldn’t be able to
go to a studio for physical reasons.
“It’s an outgrowth of well-being
for the community [and is a program] that’s accessible to a broader
group of people,” said Cathryn
Gunnerson, a congregation member
and a yoga teacher for 16 years.
And it worked. Gunnerson has
signed on to continue teaching for
the fall session. The suggested
payment is a $10 to $15 donation
per class. To register or for more
information, contact Gunnerson at
[email protected] or
301-946-7045.
Bike shops
The minds behind
BicycleSPACE believe that yoga is
a good way to unravel, especially
after work or a long bike ride. The
shop, located at 1019 7th St., offers
yoga classes twice a week: Monday
at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday at 8:15
a.m.
The sessions are held before and
after shop hours so participants
won’t get distracted by the regular
stream of customers. The rolling
cash register cart and for-sale bikes
that are normally laid out in the
middle of the store are set aside.
Five volunteer instructors rotate the
teaching assignments.
About 20 people typically show
up to practice amid the bike accessories, said Jordan Mittelman, the
shop’s general manager. From
beginners to expert practitioners,
anyone can walk into the store and
participate. If participants don’t
have a yoga mat, the shop can provide one.
Since the shop opened three
years ago in the Mount Vernon
Square neighborhood,
BicycleSPACE owners have wanted to provide activities to the community, as well host a variety of
offerings — including bike maintenance classes and themed bike rides
— to draw more people to their
store.
“It’s something we started as a
way to bring people to the shop and
also use the space to get people
active and engaged,” said
Mittelman.
Each class is donation-based, so
participants can choose their payment. According to Mittelman, the
shop uses the money to help bikerelated organizations such as Black
Women Bike and Pathfinders Club,
a nonprofit that introduces health,
wellness and cycling to young people.
“It’s been rewarding. We’ve
been able to support different
groups,” he said.
For more information, visit
bicyclespacedc.com/yoga-class.
Parks
Lululemon Athletica’s Logan
Circle shop at 1461 P St. offers free
Wednesday yoga classes at 6 p.m.
on the grassy southern area of
Dupont Circle during the warmweather months.
The apparel store has been offering the sessions for four years,
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How much is too much? Firms, groups offer ways to give your clutter a sendoff
By DEIRDRE BANNON
E
veryone knows that moving can be among the
most stressful of life’s
events — sorting through
belongings, figuring out which
items will work in your new home
and what to do with the things that
won’t.
Whether you’re relocating,
downsizing or just need to reorganize your home to make it more
functional, several local companies
specialize in making such transitions smoother. Here are a few who
make it their business to help. (See
sidebar on page CG24 for contact
information for the companies, as
well as other local organizations.)
they are home,” she said.
Often with such moves, there’s
also the matter of what to do with
the items that won’t fit in the new
place. TAD can help clients decide
which items should be donated to
family, friends or charity, which
might be salable, and which just
need to be hauled to the landfill —
then the company can oversee each
step.
When the adult children of
Danick’s early clients requested her
help with their own moves, the
company expanded its reach, and it
now provides moving management
services to clients relocating anywhere in North America and to certain international cities.
Danick says if a move is on the
horizon, it’s never too soon to start
preparing. Bringing in a professional to strategize can make the process more manageable, she says.
She also advises clients to start
going through their belongings,
tackling one drawer or cabinet a
day, and deciding what to keep, sell
or give away.
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College Hunks Hauling Junk is
the brainchild of two Northwest
D.C. natives, friends Omar Soliman
(who grew up in Dupont Circle)
and Nick Friedman (from Forest
Hills), who started their company
when they were home from college
in the summer of 2003.
Borrowing Friedman’s mother’s
van, they hauled unwanted items to
the city dump for about four to six
customers a week. The next year
Soliman entered a business plan for
the company in an entrepreneurial
contest, and won $10,000. Fastforward a decade, and the company
has exploded: College Hunks handles 30 to 40 junk removals a day
in the Washington area; it has
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TAD Relocation
Susie Danick describes her company, TAD Relocation, as “the wedding planners of the moving industry,” fashioning herself and her staff
as full-service event coordinators
— with the big event being your
move, and the company managing
everything from start to finish.
Danick founded TAD, which
stands for Transitional Assistance &
Design, 14 years ago, after helping
her grandmother move into an
assisted-living facility in Chevy
Chase. She made sure the new
apartment had all the familiar
touches of home, but also that the
furniture moved in functioned well
in the space. Her grandmother’s
new neighbors buzzed about the
apartment, and soon Danick was
asked if she could help other
seniors with their moves. A business was born.
Danick, an American University
graduate who had been a nurse for
20 years, always loved interior
design, and she also was sensitive
to how moving can be especially
traumatic for older adults who may
have lived in their home for 30 or
more years. “Seniors often really
need our help — family members
might not live nearby and the need
to move can sometimes be immediate due to health reasons,” she said.
The Gaithersburg-based business
specializes in re-creating a client’s
home in a new space, which Danick
says can be huge for seniors. They
offer a “turnkey-move” service,
which means they help pack and
unpack, and can take care of everything in between. When clients
open the door to their new home,
it’s completely set up and ready for
them to settle in.
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with a free consultation, where staff
can help a client plot his or her
move and think about which items
are most important to bring with
them. The staff takes photos of the
client’s current home, and when
possible, uses floor plans of the new
home to strategize. With those reference points, the company can set
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Across D.C., a trail of lost movie theaters
By KATIE PEARCE
T
he Washington area has
been home to more than
400 movie theaters over
the years, starting in the
1890s with experimental screenings of the new projection technology downtown.
The first glamorous “movie
palaces” flourished on 9th Street
before a shift to F Street in the
1920s. With the Great Depression,
the scene transitioned to Art Deco
movie houses in D.C. neighborhoods outside the downtown core,
persisting until multiscreen theaters cropped up in the suburbs in
the 1960s.
Today, it’s still possible to get a
taste of what past movie experiences must have been like in D.C.,
in elegantly restored historic theaters like the Avalon in Chevy
Chase and the Uptown in
Cleveland Park. Other famous D.C.
venues that now
host music,
comedy or
plays originally
started life as
movie theaters,
including the
Lincoln on U
Street, the Warner downtown, and
the Tivoli in Columbia Heights.
The fate of some old movie
houses — like the Ontario in
Adams Morgan and the Takoma
Theatre — remains up to developers. And a small number of old theaters have recently returned to their
original functions, like the former
Inner Circle Cinema, which
reopened as the West End Cinema
in 2010.
Above: Photos from the Library of Congress; below: Current File Photo
The 1922 collapse of the Knickerbocker, left, was a dark hour for D.C.
Above, Keith’s Theatre downtown offered vaudeville before movies.
Below are the signs at the MacArthur when it closed in the 1990s.
Less recognized are the many
buildings and sites around town
that once hosted movie theaters,
but have since been demolished or
redeveloped. These places share
one commonality, wrote Robert K.
Headley in his
1999 book
about
Washington’s
theater history:
“an ultimate
end as a pile of
disarticulated
bricks, concrete, plaster and metal.
Truly old theaters are an endangered species.”
The Current looked into the stories of some notable “forgotten”
movie theater sites around
Northwest, using materials provided by the Historical Society of
D.C. — including Headley’s book,
“Motion Picture Exhibition in
Washington, D.C.” — along with
information from the website
cinematreasures.org.
THE MACARTHUR
4859 MacArthur Blvd.
Today: CVS
Built in 1946, the single-screen,
800-seat Art Deco theater was run
jointly by Warner Brothers’ film
empire and the local K-B Chain,
which owned a string of neighborhood screens, or “nabes.”
In the 1950s, the MacArthur’s
owner tried to avert financial troubles with specialty fare: a “Best of
Britain” series featuring Peter
Sellers comedies and dramas with
Alec Guinness and Laurence
Olivier. A second-floor lounge
served coffee, tea and biscuits.
When that concept lost steam
by the mid-1960s, the MacArthur
switched to first-run bookings
(some long-lasting, like the movie
“Oliver!” which ran for more than
a year). In 1979 the theater
famously hosted the world pre-
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miere of “Star Trek: The Motion
Picture.”
In 1982 K-B sold the theater to
the prolific local Circle Theatre
chain, which converted it into a triplex that turned out to be not particularly profitable. Plans to redevelop the building as a CVS surfaced in the mid-1990s, facing
neighborhood opposition.
The CVS, which opened in
1997, still operates with the
MacArthur Theatre’s original Art
Deco signage and balcony intact.
THE KNICKERBOCKER
2454 18th St.
Today: SunTrust Bank
The story of the Knickerbocker
is no doubt the darkest in
Washington’s movie theater history. The Georgian Revival-style theater, which could seat 1,700,
opened in 1917 on a narrow lot at
18th Street and Columbia Road. Its
owner was Harry Crandall, the
king of a small empire of a D.C.area movie theaters at the time.
Tragedy struck the night of Jan.
28, 1922, following a two-day blizzard. The theater’s ceiling collapsed beneath the weight of heavy
snow, along with its balcony, killing 98 moviegoers and injuring
133 who were there to see the popular comedy “Get-Rich-Quick
Wallingford.”
At the time, the accident ranked
as the worst in Washington’s history. The ensuing investigation
resulted in tighter building codes
for all of the city’s theaters.
Crandall opened a new theater
called “The Ambassador” on the
site in 1923. But Crandall’s suicide
in 1937 — along with the earlier
suicide of the Knickerbocker’s
architect — are both associated
with the accident.
The Ambassador shut down in
1965. Two years later, the building
went through a brief phase as a
psychedelic concert hall, opening
with a band called The Peanut
Butter Conspiracy.
KEITH’S
619 15th St.
Today: Metropolitan Square office
building
The theater began life as
“Chase’s Polite Vaudeville
Theatre” in 1912, located within
the eight-story Albee Building that
also included offices, stores and
even Turkish baths. The theater
reopened as “Keith’s” a year later,
becoming the leading vaudeville
theater in D.C. and drawing many
luminaries — including President
Woodrow Wilson, a regular attendee.
The theater converted to motion
pictures in 1929 and underwent a
major renovation in the 1950s.
Developer Oliver T. Carr was
allowed permission to demolish the
interior of the Albee Building in
the 1970s. Despite the building’s
national landmark status, a historic
preservation officer deemed Carr’s
project one of “special merit.” The
ensuing Metropolitan Square
development (now home to the Old
Ebbitt Grill) preserved the building’s original facade.
THE SAVOY
3030 14th St. NW
Today: Columbia Heights Metro
station corner The Savoy, built in 1914, was
one of the most popular movie theaters on upper 14th Street in its
early days. Dwarfing others with
its 810-seat auditorium, the theater
was known as the largest in
Washington outside of downtown.
For many years a popular open-air
theater also operated behind the
building during summer months.
In 1916, movie theater king
Harry Crandall acquired the Savoy,
expanding it and refashioning it in
beaux-arts style. However, when
another Crandall project, the Tivoli
Theatre, opened just two blocks
north in 1924, the Savoy’s profits
declined, and the theater turned to
showing second-run films.
Severely damaged in the 1968
riots following the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr.’s assassination, The
Savoy was never rebuilt.
A few other noteworthy
sites in Northwest:
THE APEX
4813 Massachusetts Ave.
After opening in 1940, the Apex
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performance-enhancing drugs.
Studio Theatre through Oct. 13.
27 — “The Laramie Project.”
Portrait of a community’s response
to the 1998 murder of Matthew
Shepard, a young gay man living in
Laramie, Wyo. Ford’s Theatre
through Oct. 27.
28 — “The Sunshine Boys.” Neil
Simon comedy about the reluctant
reunion of two former
Vaudevillians, who performed as a
team for many years but came to
hate each other. Keegan Theatre
through Oct. 19.
OCTOBER
11 — “Love in Afghanistan.”
World premiere of Charles
Randolph-Wright drama about a
couple trying to navigate the pitfalls
of romance, religious differences
and political unrest. Arena Stage
through Nov. 17.
15 — “Romeo and Juliet.”
Shakespeare’s classic tale of starcrossed lovers. Folger Theatre
through Dec. 1.
23 — “The Argument.” A
40-something couple is rocked
when the woman learns she is pregnant and both are forced to recognize the profound differences
between them. Theater J through
Nov. 24.
23 — “The Night Watcher.” Ten
vignettes written and performed by
Charlayne Woodward about raising
children. Studio Theatre through
Nov. 17.
24 — “36 Views.” An art dealer
and an art historian discover what
they believe is an ancient manuscript and try to learn whether it’s
authentic. Constellation Theatre
Company, presented at Source
through Nov. 24.
Tom Kitt. National Theatre through
Dec. 8.
13 — “The Apple Family Plays.”
The first two plays in Richard
Nelson’s quartet about the Apple
siblings and their extended family,
set at successive meals over the
course of four years. Studio Theatre
through Dec. 29.
15 — “Maurice Hines Is Tappin’
Thru Life.” Hines teams up again
with the Manzari Brothers to tap
through his 40 years in show business. Arena Stage through Dec. 29.
21 — “A Christmas Carol.” Stage
adaptation of the Dickens classic.
Ford’s Theatre through Jan.1.
21 — “A Funny Thing Happened
on the Way to the Forum.” A
Roman slave schemes to win his
freedom in this Sondheim musical.
Shakespeare Theatre Company,
Sidney Harman Hall through Jan. 5.
29 — “Guess Who’s Coming to
Dinner.” TV star Malcolm-Jamal
Warner makes his Arena debut in
this new adaptation of the 1960s
film. Arena Stage through Jan. 5.
29 — “Woody Sez: The Life and
Music of Woody Guthrie.” An
encore presentation of last season’s
Helen Hayes Award-winning celebration of Guthrie’s life, blending
musical numbers, scenes from the
folk singer’s life and excerpts from
his progressive newspaper column.
Theater J through Dec. 14.
DECEMBER
10 — “Just the Two of Each of
Us.” Comedy duo the Pajama Men
present their trademark blend of wit,
characters, improv and fast-paced
physical comedy. Woolly Mammoth
Theatre Company through Jan. 5.
11 — “Edgar and Annabel.” A
dark and cheeky look at the future
by British playwright Sam Holcroft,
directed by Holly Twyford. Studio
Theatre through Jan. 5.
29 — “Sister Act.” Musical about
a wannabe diva who witnesses a
crime and hides out in a convent.
Kennedy Center through Nov. 10.
13 — “An Irish Carol.” Dickens’
“A Christmas Carol,” loosely adapted and set in an Irish pub. Keegan
Theatre through Dec. 29.
31 — “The Woman in Black.”
Stephen Mallatratt’s adaptation of
Susan Hill’s Gothic-style story
about ghostly events surrounding a
mysterious woman. Keegan Theatre
through Nov. 30.
17 — “Elf: The Musical.” Stage
version of a film about an orphan
who leaves the North Pole to find
his true identity. Kennedy Center
through Jan. 5.
NOVEMBER
4 — “Appropriate.” Sorting
through the belongings of their
recently deceased patriarch, family
members discover a gruesome relic
that opens up a dark history. Woolly
through Dec. 1.
5 — “If/Then.” World premiere of
a musical about how choice and
chance collide in Manhattan, starring Idina Menzel with music by
19 — “Our Suburb.” World premiere of Darrah Cloud’s homage to
“Our Town” set in suburban Illinois
in 1977, when Nazis marched on
Skokie. Theater J through Jan. 12.
25 — “The Gershwins’ ‘Porgy
and Bess.’” This new staging of the
legendary love story won the 2012
Tony Award for Best Revival of a
Musical. National Theatre through
Dec. 29.
25 — “Flashdance — the
Musical.” Celebrating the hit mov-
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Mario Vargas Llosa looks back at
the failed young love of a 90-yearold spinster, in Spanish with
English surtitles. GALA Theatre
through March 9.
Courtesy of National Theatre
The rock musical “American Idiot” will make its long-awaited visit to
D.C. with a National Theatre engagement Feb. 18 through 23.
ie’s 30th anniversary, this stage
adaptation includes favorite songs,
plus 16 new ones. Kennedy Center
through Jan. 19.
JANUARY
8 — “Tribes.” Co-production with
Gallaudet University about a deaf
man trying to define his identity.
Studio Theatre through Feb. 23.
10 — “The Tallest Tree in the
Forest.” World-premiere tribute to
the singer and actor Paul Robeson.
Arena Stage through Feb. 16.
that take her children from her.
Directed by Molly Smith. Arena
Stage through March 9.
FEBRUARY
4 — “Stomp.” The international
percussion sensation. National
Theatre through Feb. 9.
6 — “La Señorita de Tacna/The
Young Lady From Tacna.” Nobel
Prize-winning Peruvian playwright
10 — “We Are Proud to Present a
Presentation About the Herero of
Namibia, Formerly Known as
South West Africa, From the
German Sudwestafrika, Between
the Years 1884-1915.” Three black
and three white actors come together to tell the little-known story of a
conflict between the Herero tribe
and its German colonizers. Woolly
through March 9.
18 — “American Idiot.”
Broadway musical by the rock band
Green Day about three lifelong
friends forced to choose between
their dreams and the safety of suburbia. National Theatre through
Feb. 23.
18 — “An Evening With Patti
LuPone & Mandy Patinkin.” Two
Broadway veterans team up for the
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16 — “Scapin.” An adaptation of
Molière’s “The Deceits of Scapin,”
which follows the escapades of a
crafty servant who aids in the
romantic pursuits of two gentlemen.
Constellation Theatre Company,
presented at Source through Feb.
16.
16 — “The Importance of Being
Earnest.” Oscar Wilde’s comedy
about class, courtship and connection. Shakespeare Theatre
Company, Lansburgh Theatre
through March 2.
24 — “Violet.” Musical about a
disfigured woman who travels
across the American South looking
for a televangelist’s healing miracle.
Ford’s Theatre through Feb. 23.
25 — “The Best Man.” Gore Vidal
play about two U.S. presidential
candidates, one ethical and the other
unscrupulous. Keegan Theatre
through Feb. 22.
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Hwang comedy about the practice
of casting Caucasians to portray
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first time since “Evita” to present a
musical love story. Kennedy Center
through Feb. 23.
MARCH
4 — “Mamma Mia!” A musical
that combines ABBA’s greatest hits
with a tale of love, laughter and
friendship. National Theatre through
March 9.
5 — “Water by the Spoonful.”
2012 Pulitzer Prize winner about an
Iraq War veteran’s struggle to adjust
to civilian life. Studio Theatre
through April 13.
14 — “The 25th Annual Putman
County Spelling Bee.” A musical
comedy that follows six awkward
adolescents through their daunting
and hilarious championship quest.
Ford’s Theatre through May 17.
15 — “Hair.” The 1960s rock
musical about hippies, drugs, love
and anti-war activism. Keegan
Theatre through April 12.
20 — “A Midsummer Night’s
Dream.” Shakespeare’s immortal
fantasy is staged by England’s
Bristol Old Vic and South Africa’s
Handspring Puppet Company —
the collaboration responsible for
“War Horse” — as part of “World
Stages: International Theater
Festival 2014.” Kennedy Center
through March 23.
20 — “The Admission.” An Israeli
homage to “All My Sons” set in
Haifa during the first intifada.
Theater J through April 27.
21 — “Camp David.” President
Jimmy Carter entertains Menachem
Begin and Anwar Sadat at Camp
David in an attempt to broker peace
in the Middle East, directed by
Molly Smith. Arena Stage through
May 4.
Studio Theatre through June 29.
14 — “Side Show.” This new
Kennedy Center revival of the hit
musical follows the story of conjoined twins Daisy and Violet
Hilton as they grow from circus
attraction to famous stage performers. Kennedy Center through July
13.
25 — “Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2.”
Shakespeare doubleheader about
the young King Henry IV coming
of age, directed by Michael Kahn
and starring Stacy Keach as
Falstaff. Shakespeare Theatre
Company, Sidney Harman Hall
through June 8.
31 — “Arguendo.” An Elevator
Repair Service production about the
1991 Supreme Court case Barnes v.
Glen Theatre, brought by a group of
go-go dancers petitioning for their
right to perform completely naked.
Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Company through April 20.
APRIL
4 — “Hal Holbrook in Mark
Twain Tonight.” Holbrook impersonates the iconic American writer.
National Theatre through April 5.
9 — “Moth.” U.S. premiere of
Australian playwright Declan
Greene’s drama about two outcast
high school students and their travails in growing up. Studio Theatre
through May 4.
17 — “The Two Gentlemen of
Verona.” New York’s inventive
Fiasco Theater presents the
Shakespeare comedy. Folger
Theatre through May 25.
24 — “The Love of the
Nightingale.” Timberlake
Wertenbaker’s adaptation of an
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The National Theatre will host a revival of the hit musical “West Side
Story” June 3 through 8.
Ovid myth about a rape, its coverup and its ultimate exposure.
Constellation Theatre Company,
presented at Source through May
25.
24 — “Living Out.” Lisa
Loomer’s seriocomedy about the
shared humanity of a nanny and her
employer and the differences
wrought by race, class and immigration status, in English with
Spanish surtitles. GALA Theatre
through May 18.
25 — “Smoky Joe’s Café: The
Songs of Leiber and Stoller.”
Broadway musical revue, choreographed by Parker Esse. Arena
Stage through June 8.
MAY
3 — “Things You Shouldn’t Say
Past Midnight.” Peter Ackerman’s
bedroom farce about three New
York couples, two straight and one
gay. Keegan Theatre through May
24.
6 — “Blue Man Group.” Three
blue humanoid characters combine
experimental music, comedy and
multimedia. National Theatre
through May 11.
6 — “A Midsummer Night’s
Riot.” World premiere of a work by
Rosemary Jenkinson. Keegan
Theatre through May 25.
14 — “Cock.” The relationship
between two gay men is threatened
when one of them discovers
women. Studio Theatre through
June 22.
14 — “Freud’s Last Session.”
Long-running Off-Broadway hit
about a clash between Sigmund
Freud and author C.S. Lewis.
Theater J through June 29.
29 — “Private Lives.” Noël
Coward comedy about a divorced
couple booked in same hotel with
their new spouses. Shakespeare
Theatre Company, Lansburgh
Theatre through July 13.
30 — “The Prostate Dialogues.”
World premiere of a play written
and performed by Jon Spelman
about the effects of prostate cancer
and its treatment on sexuality and
relationships. Theater J through
June 29.
JUNE
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2 — “The Totalitarians.” Peter
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absurdity of political rhetoric.
Woolly Mammoth Theatre
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3 — “West Side Story.” Revival
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Theatre through June 8.
5 — “Puro Tango II.” A dazzling
cast of tango artists from Argentina
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creators and stars of the passionate
dance. GALA Hispanic Theatre
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10 — “Beats.” A teenager discovers raves in an era when they are
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17 — “Disney’s ‘The Lion
King.’” The winner of six Tony
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Center through Aug. 17.
JULY
9 — “Carrie: The Musical.” Rock
musical adaptation of the Stephen
King novel about a high school outcast with unusual powers. Studio
Theatre through Aug. 3.
Theater information
Arena Stage
1101 6th St. SW
202-488-3300; arenastage.org
Folger Theatre
201 East Capitol St. SE
202-544-7077; folger.edu
Ford’s Theatre
511 10th St. NW
202-426-6924; fords.org
GALA Theatre
3333 14th St. NW
202-234-7174; galatheatre.org
Keegan Theatre
1742 Church St. NW
703-892-0202;
keegantheatre.com
Kennedy Center
2700 F St. NW
202-467-4600; kennedy-center.org
Lansburgh Theatre
450 7th St. NW
202-547-1122;
shakespearetheatre.org
National Theatre
1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
800-447-7400; nationaltheatre.org
Sidney Harman Hall
610 F St. NW
202-547-1122;
shakespearetheatre.org
Source
1835 14th St. NW
202-204-7800; sourcedc.org
Studio Theatre
1501 14th St. NW
202-332-3300; studiotheatre.org
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Performance space: Washington DC
Jewish Community Center
1529 16th St. NW
800-494-8497; washingtondcjcc.org
Woolly Mammoth
641 D St. NW
202-393-3939; woollymammoth.net
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Local house museums
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soon rent out part of its property to
other nonprofit organizations,
according to Kimberly Bender,
Heurich’s executive director.
“It’s my theory that it’s a bad
idea to rely on admissions for funding,” said Bender. Heurich started
tracking visitorship only this year,
but the operation has grown from
one staff member to five since
2012, after restructuring its board
of directors. The house was once
home to the owner of one of the
only D.C. breweries to survive
Prohibition, and the museum has
capitalized on that history. This
year it has partnered with local
breweries for beer tastings and
house tours to attract a broader
crowd, and it will be celebrating
Oktoberfest this fall.
But getting people through the
doors of a historic home isn’t just
about funding the operation, house
directors say. “More importantly,
it’s an indicator of our success and
our relevance to our audience,”
said Robert Enholm, executive
director of the Woodrow Wilson
House, which had about 12,000
visitors this past fiscal year.
That question of cultural relevance weighs on the minds of
Enholm and other historic house
directors as they continually seek
new ways to reach their audiences
amid shifting demographics. It’s a
Northwest boasts a variety of house museums.
Here are descriptions of what several offer, along with
the location, phone number and website for each.
Decatur House on Lafayette Square
1610 H St. NW; 202-842-0920; decaturhouse.org
Completed in 1818, Decatur House is one of the
city’s oldest homes. Owned by the National Trust for
Historic Preservation, it is also one of three remaining
residential buildings designed by early American architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe. The museum promises
insight into nearly 200 years of Washington history, as
well as a glimpse at Lafayette Square’s residential past.
Dumbarton House
2715 Q St. NW; 202-337-2288; dumbartonhouse.org
Dumbarton House, headquarters of the National
Society of the Colonial Dames of America and a museum open to the public since 1932, dates to 1799 and is
hailed as a stellar example of Federal architecture. The
stately brick mansion briefly hosted Dolley Madison in
1814 during her flight from the White House. Today’s
visitors see furniture, paintings, textiles, silver and
ceramics that were made and used in the early years of
the American republic.
Dumbarton Oaks
1703 32nd St. NW; 202-339-6400; doaks.org
Dumbarton Oaks — once the home of the seventh
U.S. vice president, John C. Calhoun of South Carolina —
is now an extensive research library that specializes in
question at the heart of many of the
targeted programs and exhibitions
at the area’s historic homes.
“Over the years, people, I think,
have had a shifting belief about
whether people age into these
Byzantine, garden and landscape, and pre-Columbian
studies. The 10 acres of gardens are filled with a number of terraces that were designed by the noted landscape architect Beatrix Ferrand.
Heurich House Museum
1307 New Hampshire Ave. NW; 202-429-1894;
heurichhouse.org
The Heurich mansion, considered one of the most
intact Victorian houses in the country, was built in the
1890s by German immigrant, local brewer and philanthropist Christian Heurich. The home is open for docentled public tours Thursday through Saturday, as well as a
variety of special events.
Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens
4155 Linnean Ave. NW; 202-686-5807;
hillwoodmuseum.org
Keeping in sync with its slogan, “Where Fabulous
Lives,” the Hillwood estate of the late Marjorie
Merriweather Post contains her collections of Russian
imperial art and 18th-century French decorative art.
Tapestries and Fabergé eggs fill the rooms of the mansion of the Post cereal empire heiress. The 25 acres of
manicured gardens are also open to the public.
Kreeger Museum
2401 Foxhall Road NW; 202-337-3050;
kreegermuseum.org
This museum shows the private collection of modern art that David and Carmen Kreeger started in their
former residence. While the exhibit itself showcases
exquisite paintings and sculptures, the house, too, is
things,” said Hillwood’s Rossotti.
“We’ve learned that they don’t. It’s
not that today’s 40-year-old will be
today’s 60-year-old 20 years from
now. Your interests don’t necessarily change.”
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interesting, with its striking architecture. Art and music
are intertwined in the museum, both in the painted
scenes and the building itself. The home was also used
as a recital hall, showing the Kreegers’ dedication to art
in all forms.
President Lincoln’s Cottage
Rock Creek Church Road and Upshur Street NW;
202-829-0436; lincolncottage.org
“Take a Vacation in the Country Right Here in D.C.!”
is the beckoning call of the President Lincoln’s Cottage.
Situated picturesquely at the top of an expansive hill,
the cottage is the most significant historic site directly
associated with the presidency of Lincoln aside from
the White House. The Lincoln family lived here from
June to November of 1862, 1863 and 1864. It opened
to the public in February 2008.
Tudor Place Historic House and Garden
1644 31st St. NW; 202-965-0400; tudorplace.org
Tudor Place is a historic home with lush gardens.
The property used to belong to Martha Washington’s
granddaughter, Martha Curtis Peter. The extensive gardens have been maintained according to Peter’s original
plans.
Woodrow Wilson House
2340 S St. NW; 202-387-4062;
woodrowwilsonhouse.org
The home of the 28th president remains
untouched, offering visitors a chance to see the rooms
as they were when President Woodrow Wilson spent the
last three years of his life there.
Broadening audiences now,
therefore, could also help historic
houses a generation from now.
More simply, strong attendance
reflects a healthy program,
Woodrow Wilson’s Enholm says
— one that can “emphasize the
poignancy” of historic stories for
modern audiences.
“If people aren’t coming here,”
Enholm said, “we’re not doing
what we should be doing.”
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“Petrouchka” and “The Rite of
Spring.” Kennedy Center.
18 — “The French Così:
Mozart’s ‘Così fan tutte.’” Opera
Lafayette presents Mozart’s opera
“Così fan tutte” in French. Kennedy
19 — “Grace.” String quartet Ethel
offers a program whose centerpiece
is their adaptation of the score for
the Academy Award-winning film
“The Mission.” Dumbarton United
Methodist Church.
20 — “Viva Verdi!” The Cathedral
Choral Society celebrates the 200th
anniversary of Verdi’s birth with a
program of his works. Washington
National Cathedral.
27 — “Beethoven Kreutzer
Sonata.” NPR commentator Rob
Kapilow program “What Makes It
Great?” explores the famous piano
sonata, presented by the Washington
Performing Arts Society. Baird
Auditorium.
Orchestra plays Barber’s Violin
Concerto and other music. Kennedy
Center through Nov. 2.
NOVEMBER
3 — “The Concord of Heaven.”
The Washington Bach Consort presents an all-Bach program of instrumental and vocal works. National
Presbyterian Church.
3 — “Britten: ‘War Requiem.’”
The Washington Chorus celebrates
the 100th anniversary of Britten’s
birth by performing the 1962 work
with the Children’s Chorus of
Washington. Kennedy Center.
Orchestra performs Shostakovich’s
First Cello Concerto and other
works. Kennedy Center through
Nov. 9.
10 — “Legacy and Life: A
Musical and Visual Reflection.”
The Choral Arts Society of
Washington presents the East Coast
premiere of a work written by
Steven Stucky to commemorate the
50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, as well as
Verdi’s “Requiem.” Kennedy
Center.
12 — The Enso String Quartet
previews its upcoming recording
“String Quartets by the Great Opera
Masters — Verdi, Puccini, and R.
Strauss.” Kennedy Center.
Orchestra plays Liszt’s Piano
Concerto No. 2 and other music.
Kennedy Center through Nov. 16.
15 — “Something to Sing About.”
Soprano Kathleen Battle joins pianist Cyrus Chestnut in music by
Gershwin, Ellington, Joplin and
others. Kennedy Center.
16 — “Tales From the Vienna
Woods.” The PostClassical
Ensemble, which describes itself as
an “experimental musical laboratory,” presents its own takes on waltzes by Johann Strauss and other
music. Dumbarton United
Methodist Church.
22 — “American Voices.” Soprano
Renée Fleming hosts a festival
exploring the past, present and
future of American singing with
master sessions, discussions and
performances. Kennedy Center
through Nov. 24.
23 — In Series Pocket-Opera
Double Bill: Puccini’s opera-ballet
“Le Villi” (“The Spirits”) and the
zarzuela “Heart of Madrid.” GALA
23 — Béla Fleck and Brooklyn
Rider, presented by the Washington
Performing Arts Society. Sixth & I
Historic Synagogue.
30 — “Family Reunion.” In Series
presents the premiere of an
American opera-musical by Chris
Patton and Bill Moses about a family dealing with their aging grandmother. GALA Theatre through
Dec. 8.
DECEMBER
Orchestra plays Mozart’s Violin
Concerto No. 4 and Brahms’
Symphony No. 1. Kennedy Center
through Dec. 7.
5 — “All Is Calm: The Christmas
Truce of 1914.” Male choral
ensemble Cantus performs arrangements of carols and war songs that
recall the remarkable World War I
truce between Allied forces and
German soldiers. Kennedy Center.
7 — “A Celtic Christmas.” The
Barnes and Hampton Celtic Consort
presents the perennial Washington
favorite. Dumbarton United
Methodist Church through Dec. 15.
7 — “The Christmas Revels.” The
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The Enso Quartet will preview its recording of works by opera masters
at a concert Nov. 12 at the Kennedy Center.
Washington Revels celebrates the
season with traditional music, dance
and stories from the Balkan region
and Turkey. Lisner Auditorium
through Dec. 15.
7 — “NPR’s ‘A Jazz Piano
Christmas.’” Top jazz performers
play Christmas favorites. Kennedy
Center.
12 — “Happy Holidays!” Steven
Reineke conducts the NSO Pops in
this annual program of holiday classics, with baritone Brian Stokes
Mitchell. Kennedy Center through
Dec. 14.
13 — “Christmas in New Spain.”
The Folger Consort highlights early
music from Mexico and Peru, with
instrumentalists Charles Weaver and
Tom Zajac. Folger Elizabethan
14 — “The Joy of Christmas.”
The Cathedral Choral Society’s
annual Christmas program.
Washington National Cathedral
through Dec. 15.
15 — “Schubert — Wanderer
Fantasy.” NPR commentator Rob
Kapilow program “What Makes It
Great?” explores the famous fantasy
with pianist Yuliya Gorenman, presented by the Washington
Auditorium.
15 — “A Candlelight Christmas.”
The Washington Chorus presents its
annual tribute to the season.
Kennedy Center through Dec. 22.
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Music for Christmas.” The City
Choir of Washington celebrates the
season. National Presbyterian
Church.
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16 — “An Enchanted
Christmas.” The Choral Arts
Society of Washington’s annual holiday celebration. Kennedy Center
through Dec. 24.
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Orchestra presents Handel’s
“Messiah.” Kennedy Center
through Dec. 22.
20 — “Sparkle, Jingle, Joy.” The
Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington
celebrates the holiday season.
Lisner Auditorium through Dec. 21.
22 — “Ceremony & Celebration:
Christmas With the Consort.”
The Washington Bach Consort performs Christmas music by
Benjamin Britten and John La
Montaine. National Presbyterian
Church.
30 — “An Evening of
Shakespeare in Words and
Music.” The Last Stand Quartet, an
ensemble of National Symphony
Orchestra musicians, joins actors in
an evening of sonnets, scenes and
music by Byrd, Purcell, Beethoven
and others. Kennedy Center.
31 — “Straighten Up and Fly
Right: The Nat King Cole
Tribute.” A New Year’s Eve jazz
program with pianist Ramsey Lewis
and guitarist-vocalist John
Pizzarelli. Kennedy Center.
JANUARY
10 — “Brave New World.” The
Folger Consort presents a musical
celebration of Shakespeare’s “The
Tempest,” with Philadelphia
baroque orchestra Tempesta di
Mare, soprano Rosa Lamoreaux
and baritone William Sharp.
through Jan. 11.
Orchestra performs Liszt’s Piano
Concerto No. 1 and other music.
Kennedy Center through Jan. 18.
17 — “The French Così:
Philidor’s ‘Les Femmes
Vengées.’” Opera Lafayette presents Philidor’s opera “Les Femmes
Vengées,” one of the precedents for
Mozart’s “Così fan tutte.” Kennedy
Center.
17 — “La Vie en Rose.” In Series
program of French art songs and
cabaret chansons. GALA Theatre
through Jan. 19.
21 — The Takács Quartet plays
Bartók’s string quartets Nos. 1, 3
and 5. Kennedy Center.
22 — The Takács Quartet plays
Bartók’s string quartets Nos. 2, 4
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and 6. Kennedy Center.
Orchestra performs Dvorák’s
“New World” Symphony, Mozart’s
“Haffner” Symphony and other
music. Kennedy Center through
Jan. 25.
25 — “Ah, Bach!” Israeli-born
musician Matt Haimovitz performs
all six of Bach’s cello suites.
Dumbarton United Methodist
Church.
27 — “De schöne Müllerin.” The
Schubert song cycle is performed
by pianist Christian Eschenbach and
baritone Matthias Goerne. Kennedy
Center.
Orchestra performs Mendelssohn’s
Violin Concerto, with violinist
Joshua Bell, and other music.
Kennedy Center through Feb. 1.
FEBRUARY
3 — Time for Three, selfdescribed as the world’s first classically trained garage band, plays
music from Bach to the Beatles.
Kennedy Center.
Orchestra performs Schumann’s
Cello Concerto and
other works. Kennedy
Center through Feb. 8.
In Series celebrates the
songwriter. Source
through March 9.
8 — “Don’t Box Me
In.” The Grace Kelly
Quintet performs jazz
in collaboration with
the DC Jazz Festival.
Dumbarton United
Methodist Church.
22 — “Scenes From
Childhood.” Selfdescribed “experimental musical laboratory”
PostClassical
Ensemble presents
music by Wagner,
Britten and Fauré.
Dumbarton United
Methodist Church.
9 — The Kennedy
Center Chamber
Players perform
works by Paganini,
Beethoven, Grieg and
Leisner. Kennedy
Center.
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22 — “Voices of
Light: The Passion of
Joan of Arc.” The
Cathedral Choral
Society performs
Einhorn’s “Voices of Light,” written
to accompany the silent film “The
Passion of Joan of Arc.”
Washington National Cathedral.
Mandy Patinkin and Patti LuPone, former castmates in
“Evita,” will perform a musical love story Feb. 18 through
23 at the Kennedy Center.
9 — Simone Dinnerstein plays
Bach, Crumb, Muhly and
Beethoven on the piano, presented
by the Washington Performing Arts
Society. Kennedy Center.
Orchestra performs Dvorák’s
Violin Concerto, with violinist
Anna-Sophie Mutter, and other
Feb. 15.
15 — “Passion.” The Gay Men’s
Chorus of Washington presents passionate choral arrangements.
Church of the Epiphany.
16 — “Living the Dream …
Singing the Dream.” The
Washington Performing Arts
Society’s Men, Women and
Children of the Gospel Choir join
with the Choral Arts Society of
Washington to celebrate the legacy
of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Kennedy Center.
18 — “An Evening With Patti
LuPone & Mandy Patinkin.” Two
Broadway veterans team up for the
first time since “Evita” to present a
musical love story. Kennedy Center
through Feb. 23.
22 — “Moby-Dick.” Washington
National Opera stages Jake
Heggie’s version of the Melville
classic. Kennedy Center through
March 8.
22 — “The Cole Porter Project.”
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24 — “An Evening of Jewish
Music and Poetry.” Pianist Evgeny
Kissin presents the music and poetry of East European Jewry.
Kennedy Center.
26 — “Celebrate Youth!” The
Cathedral Choral Society’s ninth
annual high school choir festival
and concert. Washington National
Cathedral.
Orchestra plays Widmann’s Violin
Concerto, with violinist Christian
Tetzlaff, and Beethoven’s first and
second symphonies. Kennedy
Center through March 1.
27 — The Kalichstein-LaredoRobinson Trio plays Previn’s Trio
No. 2 and works by Beethoven and
Mendelssohn. Kennedy Center.
MARCH
2 — “The Essential Verdi.” The
Washington Chorus honors the
Verdi bicentennial with selections
from his operas and choral works.
Kennedy Center.
8 — “Der Rosenkavalier.”
Celebrating the 150th anniversary
of Richard Strauss’ birth, the
National Symphony Orchestra performs the composer’s comic opera
in concert with soprano Renée
Fleming and the Washington
Chorus. Kennedy Center.
9 — “Il corsaro.” Washington
Concert Opera closes a season celebrating the 200th anniversary of the
birth of Verdi by presenting his
early opera about pirates on the
high seas. Lisner Auditorium.
Orchestra performs
Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a
Theme of Paganini” and other
March 15.
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Men’s Chorus of Washington celebrates “The Sound of Music.”
Lisner Auditorium through March
16.
15 — The Linden String Quartet
and pianist Michael Brown play
music by Mozart and Elgar.
Church.
18th-century France, with soprano
Jolle Greenleaf, violinist Krista
Bennion Feeney and harpsichordist
Joseph Gascho. Folger Elizabethan
Theatre through March 23.
APRIL
1 — The Nash Ensemble travels
from its home in London to perform
Brahms’ Clarinet Quintet and music
by Mozart, Richard Strauss and
Schoenberg. Kennedy Center.
16 — “St. John Passion.” The
Washington Bach Consort performs
the Bach oratorio. National
Orchestra performs Korngold’s
Violin Concerto, with violinist Gil
Shaham, and other works. Kennedy
Center through April 12.
18 — The Los Angeles
Philharmonic performs
Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1 and
Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5,
presented by the Washington
Performing Arts Society. Kennedy
Center.
11 — “A Polish Renaissance.”
The Folger Consort presents Polish
music from the Renaissance, with
guests the Western Wind and organist Webb Wiggins. Folger
Elizabethan Theatre through March
13.
20 — “The Elixir of Love.”
Washington National Opera mounts
Donizetti’s comic opera about a
love potion. Kennedy Center
through March 29.
12 — “Schubert & Goethe.” In
Series salon-style concert-discussion about German romanticism.
Heurich House Museum through
April 13.
Orchestra salutes the 150th anniversary of Richard Strauss’ birth by
performing his tone poem “Don
Juan” and selections from “Elektra”
and “Salome.” Kennedy Center
through March 22.
Orchestra performs Mozart’s
Symphony No. 40, Prokofiev’s
Piano Concerto No. 3 and a work
by Mendelssohn. Kennedy Center
through April 19.
21 — “Le Jardin Chinois.” The
Folger Consort presents music of
18 — “Forte.” The Gay Men’s
Chorus of Washington pairs its
vocal ensembles Rock Creek
Singers and Potomac Fever in
everything from pop to Broadway
to classical. Various locations.
21 — “Tango, Song, and Dance.”
Violinist Augustin Hadelich, pianist
Joyce Yang and guitarist Pablo
Sáinz present a multimedia program
that includes works by Previn,
Falla, Piazzolla, Ginastera, VillaLobos and others. Kennedy Center.
Orchestra plays Mendelssohn’s
“Italian” Symphony and other
works. Kennedy Center through
April 26.
27 — “Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.”
NPR commentator Rob Kapilow
program “What Makes It Great?”
explores the Vivaldi work with the
Peabody Chamber Orchestra, presented by the Washington
Auditorium.
27 — “Tango! Soul and Heart.”
The Choral Arts Society of
Washington celebrates Argentine
music and dance. Kennedy Center.
30 — “Celebrating Rameau, Part
I: The Salon.” Opera Lafayette
begins its commemoration of the
250th anniversary Rameau’s death
with vocal and instrumental chamber works by the French composer.
Kennedy Center.
MAY
3 — “The Magic Flute.”
Washington National Opera stages
Mozart’s final opera, includes an
“Opera in the Outfield” simulcast.
Kennedy Center through May 18.
4 — “Revolution & Evolution:
The Music of C.P.E. Bach.” The
Washington Bach Consort celebrates the 300th anniversary of the
birth of C.P.E. Bach. National
7 — “NEW MOVES: Symphony
+ Dance.” A festival that combines
dance with popular music and
orchestral works performed by the
National Symphony Orchestra.
Kennedy Center through May 17.
8 — “New Music for a New Age.”
The Washington Chorus presents
music by Tarik O’Regan. Church of
the Epiphany.
18 — “Mozart: Grand Mass in C
Minor.” The City Choir of
Washington performs the Mozart
mass, along with the North
American premiere of Britten’s
recently rediscovered “Two
Psalms.” National Presbyterian
Church.
18 — “Gay Man’s Guide to
Broadway.” The Gay Men’s
Chorus of Washington looks at
Broadway musicals. Location to be
announced.
18 — “Classical Showcase.” The
Cathedral Choral Society presents
music by Beethoven, Mozart and
Photo by Ovidiu Micsik
The Washington Performing Arts Society will present pianist Sam
Haywood in concert at the Kennedy Center on May 31.
Haydn. Washington National
Cathedral.
23 — 19th Annual Mary Lou
Williams Jazz Festival. Celebrates
the pianist and composer. Kennedy
Center through May 24.
29 — “Carousel Latino.” In Series
presents a “carousel ride” of Latino
programs and artists, including cabaret, congas, tango, zarzuela, bolero,
opera and more. Source through
June 1.
31 — Sam Haywood plays Bach,
Beethoven, Chopin and Villa-Lobos
on the piano, presented by the
Washington Performing Arts
Society. Kennedy Center.
JUNE
1 — The Kennedy Center
Chamber Players perform Bach’s
“Goldberg Variations” arranged for
string trio, plus Rheinberger’s
Nonet in E-flat major. Kennedy
Center.
ebrates the 200th anniversary of
Verdi’s birth by presenting his tragic
portrayal of a fallen woman. GALA
Theatre through June 28.
Venue Information
Baird Auditorium
History
Constitution Avenue and
10th Street NW
202-633-1650; mnh.si.edu
Church of the Epiphany
1317 G St. NW
202-347-2635; epiphanydc.org
Folger Elizabethan Theatre
201 East Capitol St. SE
202-544-7077; folger.edu
GALA Theatre
3333 14th St. NW
202-234-7174; galatheatre.org
Heurich House Museum
1307 New Hampshire Ave. NW
202-429-1894; heurichhouse.org
Orchestra performs Brahms’
Double Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s
“Pathétique Symphony. Kennedy
Center through June 7.
Church
3133 Dumbarton St. NW
202-965-2000;
dumbartonconcerts.org
9 — “Voices of Our Nation:
Celebrating the Choral
Tradition.” A free initiative celebrating the rich diversity of choral
artistry with more than 50 choruses
from across the nation. Kennedy
Center through June 15.
Lisner Auditorium
730 21st St. NW
202-994-6800; lisner.org
11 — “Made in America: Three
Generations of Master and
Emerging Composers.” The
Choral Arts Society of Washington
joins forces with the Washington
Chorus, the Children’s Chorus of
Washington and the Great Noise
Ensemble in a concert that includes
a world premiere by Armando
Bayolo, as part of Chorus America’s
annual conference. Kennedy Center.
Orchestra plays Bruckner’s
Symphony No. 6. Kennedy Center
through June 14.
14 — “La Traviata.” In Series cel-
Kennedy Center
2700 F St. NW
202-467-4600;
kennedy-center.org
National Presbyterian Church
4101 Nebraska Ave. NW
202-537-0800; natpresch.org
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
600 I St. NW
202-408-3100; sixthandi.org
Source
1835 14th St. NW
202-204-7800; sourcedc.org
Massachusetts and Wisconsin
avenues NW
202-537-6200;
nationalcathedral.org
EXHIBITS
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National Gallery of Art through Jan.
5.
OCTOBER
1 — “Pakistani Voices: A
Conversation With ‘The
Migration Series.’” Presents the
results of a Pakistani workshop cosponsored by the Phillips Collection
and the U.S. Department of State
that drew on Jacob Lawrence’s
“The Migration Series” (1940-41)
as a catalyst for the creation of artworks. Phillips Collection through
Jan. 5.
4 — “Infinite Place: The Ceramic
Art of Wayne Higby.” Highlights
one of the most innovative secondgeneration artists coming out of the
post-World War II American ceramic studio movement. Renwick
Gallery through Dec. 8.
4 — “A Measure of Earth: The
Cole-Ware Collection of
American Baskets.” A collection
of modern baskets that reveal the
central role basketry has played in
Americans’ everyday lives.
Renwick Gallery through Dec. 8.
4 — “Dancing the Dream.”
Images of performers, choreographers and impresarios explore the
relationship between dance and the
evolution of a modern American
identity. National Portrait Gallery
through July 13.
4 — “Wanderer: Travel Prints by
Ellen Day Hale.” Presents exquisitely detailed etchings of the cities,
landscapes and people encountered
by the widely traveled Hale (18551940). National Museum of Women
in the Arts through Jan. 5.
6 — “Heaven and Earth: Art of
Byzantium From Greek
Collections.” Some 170 rare and
important works will offer a
glimpse into the soul and splendor
of the mysterious Byzantium
Empire. National Gallery of Art
through March 2.
Exhibit.” Features props, costumes
and footage from the 2004 hit comedy “Anchorman: The Legend of
Ron Burgundy,” prior to the release
of the sequel “Anchorman 2: The
Legend Continues” in December.
Newseum through Aug. 31.
10 — “Women of Vision:
National Geographic
Photographers on Assignment.”
More than 100 images and multimedia works highlight 11 women
photographers. National Geographic
Museum through March 9.
12 — “Van Gogh: Repetitions.”
The first Vincent van Gogh exhibition in D.C. in 15 years takes a
fresh look at the artist’s process,
presenting some 30 paintings alongside related drawings and technical
photographs. Phillips Collection
through Jan. 26.
19 — “Yoga: The Art of
Transformation.” Yoga’s evolution
through time is revealed in more
than 120 works, including an illustrated compilation of asanas made
for a Mughal emperor in 1602 and
never before shown in the United
States. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
through Jan. 26.
19 — “Strange and Wondrous:
Prints of India From the Robert
J. Del Bonta Collection.” Fifty
prints show how perceptions of
India changed through the centuries,
from the Enlightenment to the colonial period and into modernity.
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery through
Jan. 5.
21 — “L.A. Constructs the
Future, 1940-1990.” Traces Los
Angeles’ transformation into an
internationally recognized destination with its own design vocabulary,
canonized landmarks and coveted
way of life. National Building
Museum through March 10.
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23 — “Alex Prager: Face in the
Crowd.” Works by Los Angeles
photographer Prager that feature
elaborately staged crowd scenes,
along with other photographs and
videos. Corcoran Gallery of Art
through March 9.
DECEMBER
Photo courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery
Frank Sinatra is among the celebrities featured in the National
Portrait Gallery’s “American Cool” exhibition, opening Feb. 7.
Garden through Feb. 9.
25 — “Our America: The Latino
Presence in American Art.” More
than 90 works show how Latino artists tackled classic American themes
and participated in the artistic
movements of their day.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
through March 2.
NOVEMBER
2 — Mia Feuer: An Unkindness.”
Part of the “NOW at the Corcoran”
series, the exhibit features three
site-specific installations by Feuer
about the relationships between
failed infrastructure, the natural
world and environmental catastrophe. Corcoran Gallery of Art
through Feb. 23.
4 — “Equal Exposure: Anita
Steckel’s Fight Against
Censorship.” Personal papers,
photographs and art highlight a
woman who sparked a media scandal in 1972 by refusing to self-censor an exhibit of her exuberant and
shameless female and male erotic
figures. Betty Boyd Dettre Library
and Research Center at the
National Museum of Women in the
Arts through May 9.
5 — “Siberia in the Eyes of
Russian Photographers.”
Photographs of Siberia, many
shown in the West for the first time,
that span more than 150 years.
American University Museum
through Dec. 15.
7 — “Africa Re-Viewed: The
Photographic Legacy of Eliot
Elisofon.” A retrospective of the
Life magazine photojournalist who
first popularized post-World War II
images of Africa and its leaders in
American media. National Museum
of African Art through March 2.
14 — “Anchorman: The
13 — “Mr. Lincoln’s
Washington: A Civil War
Portfolio.” Photographs, prints,
drawings and maps reveal how the
Civil War affected life in the
District of Columbia. National
Portrait Gallery through Jan. 25,
2015.
14 — “Recent Acquisitions:
American Art From the Johns
Collection.” Celebrates a recent
gift to the Corcoran of 61 prints
and drawings. Corcoran Gallery of
Art through Feb. 9.
20 — “‘Workt by Hand’: Hidden
Labor and Historical Quilts.”
Showcases 35 quilts from the 18th
through the 20th centuries, examining them through the lens of contemporary feminist theory. National
Museum of Women in the Arts
through April 27.
FEBRUARY
7 — “American Cool.” Explores
the definition of cool as a state of
mind. National Portrait Gallery
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24 — “Damage Control: Art and
Destruction Since 1950.”
Groundbreaking exhibit on the
theme of destruction in international
contemporary visual culture.
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through Sept. 7.
15 — “Passion of the Empress:
Catherine the Great’s Art
Patronage.” Decorative art in gold,
silver, porcelain and enamel reveals
the power and patronage that
marked the reign of the famous
tsarina. Hillwood Estate, Museum
and Gardens through June 8.
22 — “Made in the USA:
American Masters in the Phillips
Collection.” After a four-year world
tour, more than 100 works by some
75 American artists return to the
Phillips Collection. Phillips
Collection through Aug. 31.
23 — “Modern German Prints
and Drawings From the Kainen
Collection.” The second of three
exhibits to highlight a major gift to
the National Gallery of Art by Ruth
Cole Kainen. National Gallery of
Art through June 29.
MARCH
2 — “Gary Winogrand.” The first
retrospective of the 20th-century
American photographer’s work features some 180 images. National
Gallery of Art through June 8.
6 — “Pacific Exchange: China
and U.S. Mail.” Explores the relationship of China and the United
States through stamps. National
Postal Museum through Jan. 4.
APRIL
18 — “Face Value: Portraiture in
the Age of Abstraction.” Reveals
how mid-20thcentury artists
reinvented portraiture as a progressive art
form for a new
generation.
National Portrait
Gallery through
Jan. 11.
25 — “Meret
Oppenheim at
the National
Museum of
Women in the
Arts.”
Highlights surrealist artist
Oppenheimer
— best known
for her fur-lined
teacup and saucer from 1936
Courtesy of National Gallery of Art
— with artist’s
Mary Cassatt’s “Girl Arranging Her Hair,” 1886 oil on
book prints and
canvas, is part of a National Gallery of Art exhibit
paintings.
National
opening May 11.
Museum of
duction and prepared the way for
Women in the Arts through Nov. 9.
his warm reception in the United
States. National Gallery of Art
MAY
through Oct. 5.
2 — “Ralph Fasanella: Lest We
JULY
Forget.” Shows how artist
Fasanella (1914-1997) addressed
4 — “Grant and Lee.” Paintings,
issues of postwar America.
Smithsonian American Art Museum photographs, documents and objects
reveal the personal lives and profesthrough Aug. 3.
sional rivalries of two Civil War
generals. National Portrait Gallery
4 — “Andrew Wyeth: Looking
through May 25.
Out, Looking In.” Highlights
Wyeth’s frequent use of the window
AUGUST
as the subject of his art. National
Gallery of Art through Nov. 30.
8 — “The World of James
Castle.” Presents a sampling of the
11 — “Degas/Cassatt.” Explores
oeuvre of artist James Castle (1899the extent to which Mary Cassatt
1977). Smithsonian American Art
shaped Edgar Degas’ artistic pro-
Museum through Jan. 4.
Museum Information
American University Museum
Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Hours: Tuesday through Sunday
from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
202-885-1300;
american.edu/cas/museum
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
1050 Independence Ave. SW
Hours: Daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30
p.m.
202-633-1000; asia.si.edu
Betty Boyd Dettre Library and
Research Center
National Museum of Women in
the Arts
1250 New York Ave. NW
Hours: Monday through Friday
from 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5
p.m.
Admission: $10 for adults; $8 for
seniors and students; free for ages
18 and younger. Free Community
Days are the first Sunday of every
month.
202-783-5000; nmwa.org
Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 17th St. NW
Hours: Thursday through Sunday
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday
seniors and students; free for military and ages 11 and younger.
202-639-1700; corcoran.org
Freer Gallery of Art
12th Street and Independence
Avenue SW
p.m.
202-633-1000; asia.si.edu
Hillwood Estate, Museum and
Gardens
4155 Linnean Ave. NW
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and selected
Sundays from 1 to 5 p.m.
seniors; $10 for students; $5 for
ages 6 through 18; free for ages 5
and younger.
202-686-5807;
hillwoodmuseum.org
Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden
7th Street and Independence
Avenue SW
p.m.
202-633-1000; hirshhorn.si.edu
National Building Museum
401 F St. NW
Hours: Monday through Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday
youth, students and seniors.
202-272-2448; nbm.org
National Gallery of Art
4th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW
202-737-4215; nga.gov
National Geographic Museum
1145 17th St. NW
Hours: Daily from 10 a.m. to 6
p.m.
seniors, students and military; $7
for ages 5 through 12.
202-857-7588;
events.nationalgeographic.com
National Museum of African Art
950 Independence Ave. SW
p.m.
202-633-4600; africa.si.edu
History
10th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW
p.m.
202-633-1000; mnh.si.edu
National Museum of Women in
the Arts
1250 New York Ave. NW
from noon to 5 p.m.
seniors and students; free for ages
18 and younger. Free Community
Days are the first Sunday of every
month.
202-783-5000; nmwa.org
National Portrait Gallery
8th and F streets NW
Hours: Daily from 11:30 a.m. to 7
p.m.
202-633-1000; npg.si.edu
National Postal Museum
2 Massachusetts Ave. NE
Hours: Monday through Friday
from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
202-633-5555; postalmuseum.si.edu
Newseum
555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Hours: Daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission: $21.95 for adults;
$17.95 for seniors, students and
military; $12.95 for ages 7 through
18; free for ages 6 and younger.
888-639-7386; newseum.org
Phillips Collection
1600 21st St. NW
Hours: Tuesday through Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday
until 8:30 p.m., and Sunday from 11
a.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission: Varies.
202-387-2151;
phillipscollection.org
Renwick Gallery
17th Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue NW
p.m.
202-633-1000;
americanart.si.edu/renwick
Smithsonian American Art
Museum
9th and G streets NW
Hours: Daily from 11:30 a.m. to 7
p.m.
202-633-1000; americanart.si.edu
The CurrenT ■ CommuniTy Guide 2013
Wednesday, sepTember 11, 2013
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PLAYGROUNDS: City invests millions in renovations, new equipment
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ceremony is slated for Friday at 10
a.m.
slowed the timeline. The existing
space has two play areas, tennis
courts, a basketball court and a ball
field.
■ Harrison, 1330 V St.: complete.
The design of this upgraded park
incorporates musical instruments
to reflect the history of the nearby
U Street corridor. A new misting
station joins updated play equipment, a multipurpose backstop on
a small sport court and new seating. The park also includes a baseball diamond and a basketball
court.
■ Takoma, 300 Van Buren St.:
complete. There’s a new splash
park and two new play areas, as
well as a new shade structure, adult
exercise equipment and a skate
spot. The park was designed to
reflect the wooded community, and
new play structures look like treehouses. There are also large Legolike blocks housed in the field
house that will occasionally be
■ Macomb, 3409 Macomb St.:
playground complete, but additional work being done on field, with
expected completion in mid-September. Work here added a spray
park, linked two separate play spaces by adding new stairs and an
incline with climbing ropes, and
moved a shaded gazebo to create a
“more pronounced entry,” according to the parks department’s website. There’s also new equipment
throughout the site and a new rubberized surface. The park also features a basketball court and baseball field.
■ Newark, 39th and Newark
streets: expected completion in
October. “We’re moving a little bit
slower on this design … just to
make sure [we have an] adequate
plan to protect those trees,” said
Aguirre, referring to old-growth
trees around the site. “One neat
thing about that one is that we’ll
have our first equipment specifically designed for little bitty ones,
because we know demographically
there’s little ones there,” he added.
The playground will also feature
a handicap-accessible path, a new
stroller parking area and new seating. New equipment will include
climbing apparatuses and small
boulders, and a rubberized play surface will be installed. The park also
features a large community garden,
a dog park and tennis courts.
■ Palisades, 5200 Sherier Place:
complete, with ribbon-cutting held
in July. The park now features a
Native American theme, paying
homage to the area’s history.
There’s a “lot of natural-looking
equipment — things that look like
logs, rocks,” said Aguirre, as well
as a replica of the Potomac River
“flowing” through the equipment.
The park previously had a wading
pool but now has a new spray park,
as well as new play equipment, a
new shade structure, a small skate
park, an expanded garden area and
new fitness equipment for adults.
■ Rose, 26th and O streets: in the
design phase, with a fifth community meeting to be held tonight at
6:30 at Jerusalem Baptist Church,
2600 P St. NW, and a groundbreaking date to be determined. This
playground is also being redone via
a partnership with the Trust for
Public Land, which has somewhat
brought out by park staff.
“As of Oct. 1 we’re going to be
hiring what we call play specialists,” said Aguirre. The three staffers will make regular announced
visits to parks to help residents take
advantage of the amenities.
“They’ll go out and set a schedule across the city … , [saying, for
instance], ‘From 10-12 come meet
our play specialists and take advantage of the site.’”
Nearby are tennis and basketball
courts, fields and an aquatic center.
■ Upshur, 4300 Arkansas Ave.:
not yet started; first meeting set for
Nov. 20. “We just redid that playground a year and a half ago or two
at the most,” said Aguirre. So the
current work is “just kind of finishing the site.” Work included adding
a new synthetic turf soccer pitch,
resurfacing the basketball court,
removing exercise equipment and
refurbishing the sandbox.
■ Volta, 34th Street and Volta
Place: complete, with a ribbon-cutting held in July. This project was
done through a partnership with the
Friends of Volta Park. The work
The new Palisades playground
has a Native American theme.
replaced equipment and benches,
refurbished the sandbox and
installed a rubberized surface.
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DOWNSIZING: Varied ways to de-clutter at home
From Page CG13
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they have almost 50 franchises
across the country, with a call center
headquartered in Florida.
The company guarantees availability within 48 hours, and sometimes can do same-day pickups.
The brand is centered on providing
stress-free service from friendly,
trustworthy workers, Friedman
says.
Helping the community and the
environment have always been core
values for the company, so it aims
to divert items in good condition
away from the landfill and instead
find ways to donate them whenever
possible. This idea got even more
traction when the two young business owners met Brendan Hurley,
vice president of Goodwill of
Greater Washington, at a local networking event about five years ago.
There, they learned that
Goodwill was losing out on donations because while it offers a free
pickup service, there’s often a six-
to eight-week wait because it
doesn’t have enough trucks. Donors
on a tighter timetable hoping to give
away larger items that they couldn’t
drop off themselves, like mattresses
or furniture, had to be turned away.
Within a few months, a partnership was formed between the two
organizations whereby College
Hunks will take customers’ unwanted items in good condition to
Goodwill. The company offers a
discount to customers who opt to
donate items, and after dropping
them off, they will take care of the
paperwork and supply customers
with a donation receipt. On average,
College Hunks makes nearly 100
deliveries to Goodwill of Greater
Washington per month, valued at
more than $20,000 each, according
to Friedman.
“We see it as a win-win-win —
for the donor, for Goodwill, and for
the environment,” said Friedman.
Through its franchisees, College
Hunks has partnered with more than
20 Goodwill locations across the
country. Friedman wants people to
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know that Goodwill still provides
free pickup services, but for people
working on a tighter deadline,
College Hunks can pick up donations for a fee. And whereas
Goodwill typically requires items to
be on the first level or by the curb,
College Hunks will remove items
from anywhere on a property.
A Wider Circle
Another local organization that
accepts donated household items is
A Wider Circle, a nonprofit founded
in 2001 by Mark Bergel, a part-time
faculty member at American
University. Its mission is to end
poverty by providing social services, adult and children’s education
programs, and job training — in
addition to furnishing homes for
those transitioning out of homelessness or living without life’s necessities.
Bergel was inspired to start his
nonprofit while working as a volunteer delivering food to low-income
households. He saw that many had
no beds to sleep on or no kitchen
table.
“There’s no reason that one in
five people in the District should
live in poverty,” Bergel said. “We
approach it as if it were our family
member living in poverty — what
would you do to help them get
out?”
A Wider Circle began by collecting furniture and home goods for
those in need, and that’s still one of
the organization’s core services —
the nonprofit now helps furnish
about 15,000 households a year,
according to Bergel.
For those interested in donating,
A Wider Circle offers free pickup
services. The organization has four
trucks, up from just one two years
ago, which are sent to homes and
businesses around the region to collect donations. The nonprofit works
to schedule pickups as quickly as
possible, but depending on truck
availability, it can take anywhere
from one day to four weeks. Donors
can also drop off items in person at
a warehouse at 9159 Brookville
Road in Silver Spring, Md.
The items A Wider Circle needs
most are beds (mattresses, box
spring and frames), dressers, kitchen tables and chairs, sofas, baby
items (diapers, cribs, strollers, car
seats), linens, nonperishable food,
tissues and toilet paper. A wish list
can be found at awidercircle.org.
Just That Simple
For assistance with moving, or if
you just need to get organized, Just
That Simple, a Takoma-based home
and office organizing business
founded by Judy Tiger in 2006, can
lend a hand. The full-service firm
helps clients with a wide range of
projects, from organizing a closet or
tackling an unruly home office or
an entire home. She also helps clients with relocations or downsizing
— figuring out which items to keep
in the move, and helping organize
the new home.
This summer, Tiger gave series
Photo courtesy of College Hunks Hauling Junk
College Hunks Hauling Junk was founded in 2003 by two Northwest
residents on summer vacation. The company partners with Goodwill of
Greater Washington to donate customers’ unwanted goods.
of talks on organizing principles at
D.C. public libraries, and she regularly leads seminars on the topic for
local groups including area civic
associations, community centers
and senior residences.
Just That Simple specializes in a
“personalized, nonjudgmental, creative approach to organizing solutions,” Tiger said. “It’s not about
‘Good Housekeeping’ or Martha
Stewart; it’s about living well, and
the boost in health and wellness that
can be gained from being more
organized.”
“Clutter is not a moral failing,”
Tiger added, saying that most of her
clients are “relieved to find out it’s
manageable and something we can
work on.”
Many people get excited about
their organizing projects by going
shopping first — for containers,
cubes or shelving that could house
their belongings — but Tiger advises against that. She calls containers
“the icing on the cake,” and says,
“First you have to do the work and
bake the cake.” Tiger recommends
taking the time to evaluate what you
have and what you can get rid of
before working out storage options.
For those anticipating a relocation, Tiger offered similar advice to
Danick: It’s never too early to start
planning, particularly for those who
might be moving from a house
they’ve lived in for decades. Most
moving guidelines, Tiger says, work
from a six- to eight-week timeline
from start to finish, but for some
that might not be enough.
“Especially with older clients,
they deserve the time and [help] to
review what they have to then
decide what will work in their new
home so they can fully enjoy it,”
she said.
Resources
College Hunks Hauling Junk
and College Hunks Moving
collegehunkshaulingjunk.com
800-586-5872
condition such as sofas, beds and
dressers)
dccfh.org
202-347-8870
Just That Simple
just-that-simple.net
202-726-8667
DC Habitat for Humanity (wish list
on website)
dchabitat.org
202-882-4600
TAD Relocation
helpseniorsmove.com
240-403-0177
A Wider Circle
awidercircle.org
301-608-3504
Goodwill of Greater Washington
dcgoodwill.org
202-636-4225
Turning the Page (accepts books)
turningthepage.org
202-347-9841
Martha’s Table (non-perishable
food, gently used clothing and new
school supplies)
marthastable.org
202-328-6609
Black Student Fund (school
supplies, toys, office supplies, clothes)
blackstudentfund.org
202-387-1414
DC Coalition for the Homeless
(clothing, household items in good
Food & Friends (non-perishable
food, office supplies, small
housewares, vehicles)
foodandfriends.org
202-269-2277
Jubilee Jobs (gently used
professional clothing appropriate for
corporate interviews)
jubileejobs.org
202-667-8970
Miriam’s Kitchen (non-perishable
food, seasonal clothing, disposable
cutlery and plates)
miriamskitchen.org
202-452-8926
N Street Village (travel-size
toiletries, women’s clothing, cleaning
supplies; wish list on website)
www.nstreetvillage.org
202-939-2076
Neighbors Consejo (furniture and
appliances, toiletries, housewares)
neighborsconsejo.org
202-234-6855
BASEBALL: Youth leagues flourish
From Page CG4
Construction is expected to finish
in October at Fort Dupont Park in
Ward 7 on three fields and a
4,800-square-foot indoor facility
that will host education initiatives.
While affiliated with the ballclub, the youth academy is a separate, nonprofit organization. The
academy — modeled after New
York’s heralded Harlem RBI,
which is run by Maret School graduate Richard Berlin — will focus
on education, nutrition and, naturally, baseball, serving solely children
east of the Anacostia River.
It will begin modestly this fall,
with after-school programs offered
three days a week to 90 third- and
fourth-graders from three elementary schools in wards 7 and 8. Alter
said there will be full-day programming five days a week in the summer, and the academy will eventually expand to include kindergartners through 12th-graders once
there are enough resources.
Currently, Alter is searching for
volunteers to serve as mentors.
“Baseball was my education,”
said Alter, who played at Landon
High School in Bethesda and
Haverford College in Lower
Merion, Pa. “It offers a unique
opportunity to teach life lessons.”
Nationals shortstop Ian
Desmond shares a similar perspective about baseball, said Alter, and
has taken an active interest in the
program. The all-star sits on the
board of directors and has sent
Alter emails late at night with ideas
for growing the academy. “He
relates very much to this program,”
Alter said.
Bertani, who previously worked
in community development with
the Houston Astros, calls the
Nationals’ efforts “leaps and
bounds better than most teams,” but
not everyone involved in
Washington’s youth baseball is
impressed.
Antoine Williams, who is entering his 16th year as Maret’s baseball coach, said the Nats have yet
to do enough to make a long-lasting community impact.
“It’s frustrating,” he said. “The
first three, four, five years, they
hardly did anything but give out
tickets to games that weren’t selling
out.”
Williams founded DC Dynasty
in 2002 to develop competitive
baseball players in Washington, and
he assists with many of D.C.’s
Little League organizations.
While acknowledging that
things are finally headed the right
direction, Williams said the
Nationals’ false starts cost the team
chances to make inroads in the city.
He said the sport still loses many of
the area’s best athletes to football
and basketball.
And he called for the Nationals
to find ways to make its players
more available to the community,
to allow youth players more access
to Nationals Park, and to show a
stronger financial commitment
across the city.
Williams noted that the D.C.
Baseball Classic, an annual tournament held at the South Capitol
Street stadium that Maret has won
the past two years, isn’t likely to
return to the venue now that the
event is run by the D.C. State
Athletic Association. The city
group, which took over from the
D.C. Sports and Entertainment
Commission, may balk at the
$50,000 the Nationals charge to use
using a rotation of instructors from various yoga studios
in the city. The events draw dozens of participants,
from beginners to veteran practitioners. Since the exercises are performed on the grass, participants are
encouraged to bring mats.
Inspired by yoga’s health-conscious mission,
Lululemon requires each of its stores across the country
to host free athletic activities for residents and customers.
In addition to introducing beginners to yoga, the outdoor classes in Dupont Circle are a way to connect with
people, says the company.
“It’s part of creating and engaging the community in
new and different ways,” said Lululemon spokesperson
Amanda Casgar.
The outdoor sessions last through Sept. 30 and will
pick up again next spring. During the colder months,
this activity will be held indoors at a regular fitness studio. For more information, visit lululemon.com/
washington/logancircle.
Hiking
Danielle M. Reyes, founder of Yoga Hikes, started
her organization this past spring to incorporate the practice with her love for the great outdoors. The nature setting makes the exercise more authentic, as some names
of the poses are related with the open air, said Reyes, a
certified yoga instructor.
“When I tell people to ‘root down the earth’” —
CG25
THEATERS: Bygone venues
From Page CG14
became one of the most successful
Art Deco theaters in Washington. It
was demolished in 1976, despite
fierce local opposition, to make
way for the Spring Valley
Shopping Center.
THE BIOGRAPH
Brian Kapur/Current File Photo
The DCSAA title game may be
moved from Nationals Park
because of a $50,000 fee.
the ballpark, Williams predicted. In
prior years, it took fundraising
efforts by parents to meet the high
cost, according to Williams.
Capitol City and Capitol Hill
Little League officials agree that
the Nationals’ outreach efforts are
not the sole reason for their programs’ growth, but they say it’s
hard to ignore the excitement that
the team has built up even in a disappointing season.
Capitol Hill’s Shapiro marvels at
the many kids he sees trading cards
at the school near his home. “I
thought that was a lost art,” said
Shapiro, who grew up in Boston.
And while many D.C. little
leaguers still root for the Orioles,
Red Sox and Yankees, it’s easy to
see the change when the kids take
the field to practice, said Capitol
City’s Ganote: “There is a lot of
red.”
YOGA: Practice spreads through non-studio settings
From Page CG12
which means to stand firm before transitioning to a different standing pose — “you’re actually doing it,” she
said.
Combining the two activities also creates a wellrounded fitness routine, she said. Hiking provides the
aerobic element, while yoga helps strengthen the muscular system with various poses to develop the core
muscles in the abdomen, lower back and pelvis.
Yoga Hikes offers two types of excursions in
Northwest that usually last around 90 minutes each. An
urban hike, held in the early evening on varying weekdays, starts at Dupont Circle and winds through a few
neighborhoods. During the weekend, nature treks travel
through two different areas of Rock Creek Park.
In each session, Reyes leads participants through a
brisk hike with 15-minute yoga intervals. She said the
short-length yoga sessions make the experience “compelling” because people “can give it their all.”
Reyes also said the combination gives people
“options to explore yoga.” Individuals who are curious
about the practice, but not yet willing to dedicate at
least an hour to class, can diversify their fitness regimen.
“It’s very accessible to new people because [the
yoga poses] get broken down,” she said.
Reyes carries small strips of yoga mats in her backpack for exercises that require sitting or lying on the
ground. She also recommends that participants wear
comfortable clothing and shoes.
The schedule is available at yogahikesdc.com,
where participants can also RSVP. Classes cost $25.
2819 M St.
Through the 1960s and 1970s,
The Biograph in Georgetown ran
foreign and specialty movies and
hosted film festivals. In 1989 the
management started offering
X-rated matinees to stabilize finances. The Biograph closed in 1996,
replaced by a CVS.
THE COLONY
4935 Georgia Ave.
Harry Crandall’s last movie theater opened in 1926 as part of a
mixed-use building including apartments and stores. Acquired by the
K-B Chain in 1953, it became a
first-run house. Later the space
hosted live performances from the
D.C. Black Repertory Theater. The
building in Brightwood remains.
THE JANUS
1660 Connecticut Ave.
The Janus, one of the first “twin
theaters” in D.C., opened in 1965 in
the ground floor of a Dupont Circle
office building. It became known
for playing avant-garde and offbeat
films and later earned the nickname
“Heinous Janus” for its shabby conditions. Loews shuttered the theater
in 2002, and the office building is
now home to Sette Osteria restaurant.
WARDMAN PARK
2669 Woodley Road
An intimate theater with
Spanish-inspired décor was part of
the original Wardman Park Hotel
complex, built in 1924 by prolific
D.C. developer Harry Wardman.
The space later hosted one of
Washington’s first TV studios starting in the late 1940s. Today the site,
minus the movie theater, is home to
the Marriott Wardman Park hotel.
CG26
Spring DC-CAS Results
For details about D.C.’s
scores, see page CG11
Bancroft Elementary
Ward 2
DCPS
Charter
Ward 1
DCPS
Benjamin Banneker Academic High
Charter
DCPS
Ward 3
DCPS
Math Scores
Reading Scores
CLASSIFICATION
2013
2013
2012
CHANGE
2013
2012
Change
2013
2012
RISING
52.3
47.4%
42.2%
5.2%
52.0%
49.4%
2.6%
42.9%
35.1%
Change
7.8%
REWARD
103.0
98.1%
91.7%
6.4%
100.0%
96.8%
3.2%
96.1%
86.6%
9.5%
REWARD
53.5
48.5%
34.2%
14.2%
56.5%
40.6%
15.9%
40.5%
27.9%
12.6%
Cardozo High at Meyer
PRIORITY
30.6
26.1%
28.6%
– 2.4%
32.6%
31.6%
1.0%
19.7%
25.5%
– 5.8%
Cleveland Elementary
RISING
73.6
69.7%
70.9%
– 1.2%
68.1%
74.5%
– 6.4%
71.3%
67.3%
3.9%
Columbia Heights Education Campus
RISING
55.4
49.3%
44.0%
5.4%
51.9%
47.6%
4.3%
46.8%
40.3%
6.5%
H.D. Cooke Elementary
FOCUS
40.1
37.1%
29.9%
7.2%
33.3%
29.1%
4.2%
40.8%
30.7%
10.1%
Marie Reed Elementary
RISING
60.1
58.4%
53.8%
4.6%
63.6%
58.0%
5.6%
53.3%
49.6%
3.7%
Shaw Middle at Garnet-Patterson
FOCUS
32.3
28.6%
32.3%
– 3.7%
26.5%
32.6%
– 6.2%
30.7%
31.9%
– 1.2%
Tubman Elementary
RISING
74.6
71.0%
58.4%
12.6%
79.3%
65.0%
14.3%
62.7%
51.9%
10.8%
– 14.1%
Booker T. Washington
PRIORITY
23.8
17.5%
26.3%
– 8.8%
17.5%
21.1%
-3.6%
17.5%
31.6%
Capital City — Lower
FOCUS
48.9
45.8%
N/A
N/A
44.0%
N/A
N/A
47.5%
N/A
N/A
Cesar Chavez — Chavez Prep
RISING
71.2
65.6%
60.2%
5.4%
78.0%
72.9%
5.2%
53.1%
47.4%
5.6%
D.C. Bilingual
RISING
64.6
60.2%
50.2%
10.0%
57.6%
45.5%
12.0%
62.9%
55.0%
7.9%
E.L. Haynes — Georgia Avenue Campus
RISING
68.1
62.6%
62.3%
0.2%
64.5%
65.8%
– 1.3%
60.5%
58.9%
1.7%
Howard University Middle School of Math and Science
RISING
78.8
75.7%
76.0%
– 0.3%
78.5%
78.9%
– 0.4%
73.0%
73.0%
– 0.1%
Inspired Teaching Demonstration
RISING
61.4
60.8%
34.6%
26.2%
64.9%
23.1%
41.8%
56.8%
46.2%
10.6%
Meridian
FOCUS
62.1
56.8%
50.0%
6.8%
56.6%
53.7%
3.0%
56.9%
46.3%
10.5%
Duke Ellington School of the Arts
REWARD
84.3
77.8%
66.1%
11.8%
75.4%
58.3%
17.1%
80.3%
73.9%
6.4%
Francis-Stevens Education Campus
RISING
58.7
51.6%
50.7%
0.9%
46.7%
49.6%
– 2.9%
56.6%
51.8%
4.8%
Garrison Elementary
FOCUS
36.0
31.9%
47.8%
– 15.9%
32.8%
50.7%
– 18.0%
31.0%
44.8%
– 13.7%
Hardy Middle
RISING
71.7
64.6%
65.6%
-1.0%
66.8%
68.4%
– 1.6%
62.5%
62.8%
– 0.3%
Hyde-Addison Elementary
REWARD
81.1
78.7%
82.2%
– 3.5%
80.0%
81.2%
– 1.2%
77.4%
83.2%
– 5.8%
Ross Elementary
REWARD
84.6
80.9%
68.8%
12.1%
78.7%
72.9%
5.8%
83.0%
64.6%
18.4%
School Without Walls
REWARD
104
98.3%
98.2%
0.1%
97.3%
98.2%
– 0.9%
99.3%
98.2%
1.1%
Seaton Elementary
FOCUS
56.6
50.5%
43.0%
7.5%
67.0%
45.2%
21.9%
34.1%
40.9%
– 6.8%
Thompson Elementary
RISING
63.3
62.2%
51.9%
10.3%
68.1%
54.5%
13.6%
56.3%
49.3%
7.0%
REWARD
84.2
79.2%
N/A
N/A
77.0%
N/A
N/A
81.3%
N/A
N/A
RISING
54.0
42.9%
38.8%
4.0%
45.2%
41.3%
4.0%
40.5%
36.4%
4.1%
Community Academy Butler Bilingual
RISING
76.2
73.7%
61.0%
12.7%
77.2%
63.2%
14.0%
70.2%
58.8%
11.4%
KIPP DC — WILL Academy
RISING
74.5
70.2%
60.9%
9.4%
78.5%
66.8%
11.7%
62.0%
55.0%
7.0%
Deal Middle
REWARD
92.2
85.6%
83.4%
2.2%
88.4%
84.7%
3.6%
82.8%
82.1%
0.7%
Eaton Elementary
REWARD
85.3
84.5%
84.6%
– 0.1%
84.8%
83.8%
1.0%
84.2%
85.5%
– 1.2%
Hearst Elementary
RISING
72.1
68.9%
61.7%
7.2%
67.0%
60.2%
6.8%
70.9%
63.3%
7.6%
Janney Elementary
REWARD
97.4
93.4%
91.2%
2.2%
92.5%
89.1%
3.4%
94.2%
93.2%
1.0%
0.4%
Center City — Shaw Campus
Key Elementary
REWARD
95.9
90.6%
91.6%
– 1.0%
89.9%
92.3%
– 2.5%
91.3%
90.9%
Mann Elementary
REWARD
94.7
90.5%
85.1%
5.4%
89.5%
83.1%
6.4%
91.6%
87.1%
4.5%
Murch Elementary
REWARD
86.0
80.8%
83.4%
– 2.6%
79.7%
81.3%
– 1.5%
81.9%
85.5%
– 3.6%
Oyster-Adams Bilingual (Oyster Campus)
REWARD
87.0
82.9%
82.8%
0.1%
84.0%
82.2%
1.8%
81.8%
83.4%
– 1.7%
Stoddert Elementary
REWARD
91.0
87.4%
81.2%
6.2%
89.7%
84.8%
4.9%
85.0%
77.6%
7.4%
Wilson High
FOCUS
67.1
60.6%
59.9%
0.7%
60.0%
59.5%
0.4%
61.3%
60.3%
1.0%
Barnard Elementary
RISING
56.5
50.9%
57.1%
-6.2%
48.5%
58.3%
– 9.8%
53.3%
55.8%
– 2.6%
Brightwood Education Campus
FOCUS
50.4
45.1%
34.1%
11.0%
47.7%
34.8%
13.0%
42.4%
33.3%
9.0%
DEVELOPING
38.6
31.3%
33.1%
– 1.8%
27.3%
31.6%
– 4.3%
35.2%
34.6%
0.7%
Lafayette Elementary
REWARD
92.7
91.1%
90.5%
0.7%
92.2%
90.8%
1.3%
90.1%
90.1%
0.0%
Coolidge High
Lasalle-Backus Education Campus
PRIORITY
38.3
32.7%
18.8%
14.0%
30.9%
17.6%
13.2%
34.6%
19.9%
14.7%
Macfarland Middle
REWARD
60.9
50.8%
30.9%
19.9%
54.6%
34.5%
20.2%
46.9%
27.3%
19.7%
Powell Elementary
RISING
56.6
54.0%
43.8%
10.2%
63.0%
50.8%
12.2%
45.0%
36.9%
8.1%
Raymond Education Campus
RISING
51.1
43.9%
41.2%
2.7%
41.5%
42.0%
– 0.5%
46.3%
40.3%
6.0%
PRIORITY
29.0
20.4%
16.7%
3.7%
19.7%
17.9%
1.7%
21.1%
15.4%
5.7%
Roosevelt High
N/A
N/A
92.5%
90.5%
2.0%
95.0%
85.7%
9.3%
90.0%
95.2%
– 5.2%
Shepherd Elementary
RISING
78.7
73.6%
72.7%
0.9%
71.0%
69.1%
1.9%
76.1%
76.3%
– 0.2%
Takoma Education Campus
FOCUS
50.0
43.4%
37.2%
6.2%
40.2%
37.2%
3.1%
46.5%
37.2%
9.3%
Truesdell Education Campus
RISING
52.7
50.0%
42.8%
7.2%
52.8%
47.2%
5.6%
47.2%
38.4%
8.8%
West Education Campus
RISING
62.5
57.5%
49.1%
8.4%
60.2%
50.4%
9.7%
54.9%
47.9%
7.0%
Whittier Education Campus
FOCUS
44.5
37.7%
41.2%
– 3.4%
40.6%
42.9%
– 2.4%
34.9%
39.4%
– 4.5%
Capital City High
RISING
74.9
67.1%
N/A
N/A
62.0%
N/A
N/A
72.2%
N/A
N/A
Capital City Middle
RISING
60.7
56.5%
N/A
N/A
50.7%
N/A
N/A
62.3%
N/A
N/A
Center City — Brightwood Campus
RISING
66.8
62.8%
48.7%
14.0%
68.6%
51.8%
16.8%
56.9%
45.7%
11.3%
Center City — Petworth Campus
FOCUS
61.6
60.9%
53.6%
7.3%
63.8%
57.5%
6.4%
57.9%
49.6%
8.2%
Community Academy — Amos I
RISING
54.1
47.3%
44.0%
3.3%
47.3%
44.8%
2.5%
47.3%
43.3%
4.0%
Community Academy — Online
RISING
69.8
65.0%
63.7%
1.3%
60.9%
61.3%
– 0.4%
69.1%
66.1%
3.0%
RISING
60.8
54.5%
N/A
N/A
50.6%
N/A
N/A
58.3%
N/A
N/A
DEVELOPING
41.5
38.6%
49.0%
– 10.5%
37.1%
46.2%
– 9.0%
40.0%
51.9%
– 11.9%
Sharpe Health
E.L. Haynes — Kansas Avenue Campus
Charter
Composite Scores
Bruce Monroe Elementary at Park View
Basis DC
Ward 4
Accountability index
Hope Community — Lamond Campus
Hospitality
FOCUS
44.4
32.7%
27.0%
5.7%
34.6%
26.7%
7.9%
30.8%
27.3%
3.5%
Ideal Academy — North Capitol Street Campus
RISING
55.4
50.0%
40.6%
9.4%
50.0%
37.6%
12.4%
50.0%
43.6%
6.4%
Latin American Montessori Bilingual
RISING
77.3
73.8%
66.3%
7.6%
71.4%
62.5%
8.9%
76.2%
70.0%
6.2%
Mary McLeod Bethune Day Academy — Slowe Campus
RISING
53.3
46.0%
38.4%
7.6%
49.0%
36.6%
12.4%
42.9%
40.1%
2.7%
Paul Junior High
RISING
75.7
71.1%
64.0%
7.2%
81.2%
68.1%
13.1%
61.1%
59.9%
1.2%
Roots
RISING
60.4
59.7%
59.1%
0.6%
54.8%
47.7%
7.1%
64.5%
70.5%
– 5.9%
Washington Latin High
REWARD
80.4
73.0%
61.3%
11.6%
68.9%
62.7%
6.1%
77.0%
60.0%
17.0%
Washington Latin Middle
REWARD
83.9
79.0%
78.8%
0.2%
78.1%
77.1%
1.0%
79.9%
80.6%
– 0.7%
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Worthy of best supporting setting: District hosts countless books and films
By CAROL BUCKLEY
W
ashington is a constant in our popular
culture, whether it’s
a brief flyover of the
Capitol dome in a political thriller; a
detailed invocation of Civil War-era
D.C. for a historical novel; or
another of the dozens of ways the
city has been deployed in the service of storytelling. Below are just a
few of the hundreds of books and
films that have used the District as a
silent, though significant, character.
BOOKS
■ “The Beautiful Things that
Heaven Bears” by Dinaw
Mengestu: Set in the 1990s, this
novel exploits the storytelling possibilities that come with gentrification. Ethiopian immigrant Sepha
Stephanose operates a rundown
grocery store in Logan Circle,
where his fellow immigrants gather
to recall pasts filled with dictators
and revolutions. Judith, a white
woman, and her 11-year-old daughter move to the neighborhood and
begin renovations on a home as
well as on the expectations that
Sepha has for his life in America.
■ The “Capital Crimes” series
by Margaret Truman: This murdermystery collection of more than 20
books was penned by the daughter
of President Harry Truman over the
course of nearly three decades.
Each novel spotlights a section of
the city, and though there’s no one
character who appears in every
book, there are some who appear in
many, such as Mac and Annie
Smith.
■ “Fail-Safe” by Eugene
Burdick and Harvey Wheeler:
Published in the wake of the Cuban
missile crisis, this Cold War thriller
captured the imaginations of a
tense American public. The novel
also explores the anxieties sparked
by the growing importance of technology, as a machine-generated
glitch sets the stage for an
American nuclear strike on
Moscow.
■ “Gob’s Grief” by Chris
Adrian: In an imagined post-Civil
War D.C., Gob is a doctor still traumatized by the death years earlier
of his twin brother, an 11-year-old
bugler for a Union army regiment.
Aided by poet Walt Whitman, Gob
works obsessively to construct a
time machine to resurrect his brother, Abraham Lincoln and all the
Civil War dead.
■ “Lost in the City” by
Edward P. Jones: This collection of
14 short stories earned Jones a
National Book Award nomination
for his portrayal of black
Washington in the 1960s and ’70s.
Instant classics, the stories explore
characters working to maintain
hard-won gains that always seem to
be slipping away.
■ “The Revisionists” by
Thomas Mullen: In this high-concept novel published in 2011, Zed
is an agent dispatched from an
ideal future to ensure that events
leading to that future — including a
modern-day disaster — happen
according to schedule. But Zed has
gotten lonely while protecting his
“Perfect Present,” leading him to
entanglements with a former spy
and a young D.C. lawyer — and to
questions of whether the future is
as ideal as he believes.
■ “River, Cross My Heart” by
Breena Clarke: Set in the aftermath
of 5-year-old Clara Bynum’s
drowning death in the Potomac
River, this novel captures the grief
and growing up of her sister
Johnnie Mae. In the background
are the Bynums’ move from rural
North Carolina to early 1900s
Georgetown and a society that bans
the neighborhood’s black children
from the public pool — driving
them to wade in the river instead.
■ “Six Days of the Condor” by
James Grady: With three more days
than the movie adaptation (though
no Robert Redford), this novel follows mild-mannered CIA operative
Malcolm after he returns to his
office to find all of his colleagues
murdered. Published in 1974, this
multilayered conspiracy tale in
which no one can be trusted is a
creature of its Watergate-obsessed
time.
■ “Soul Circus: A Derek
Strange Novel” by George
Pelecanos: An example of the
author’s many works set in the city,
this is the third to feature the private detective Derek Strange as he
explores the criminal side of present-day D.C. Hired to help a drug
lord avoid death row, Strange
delves into a world of cops-turnedgun peddlers, thugs who are little
more than children and a gang battle sparked by the drug lord’s arrest.
■ “Two Moons” by Thomas
Mallon: Cynthia May is a 35-yearold war widow in 1870s D.C. when
she passes the exams to become a
human “computer” at the Naval
Observatory. Lured by handsome
astronomer Hugh Allison and pursued by a politician decidedly more
concerned with temporal matters,
Cynthia is the planet at the center
of those two men’s — or moons’
— orbit.
■ “You Are the Love of My
Life” by Susan Richards Shreve:
This 2012 novel is set in 1973 in a
fictional D.C. enclave near the
Maryland line where an impression
of openness masks tightly guarded
secrets. For protagonist Lucy
Painter, whose father was a presidential aide before he committed
suicide, her neighbors’ secrets and
the unfolding Watergate scandal are
only the latest chapters in a life full
of evasions and lies.
MOVIES
■ “All the President’s Men”
(1976): This dramatization of Bob
Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s
reporting of the Watergate scandal
has held up well over the years, but
that doesn’t mean it isn’t showing
its age. Watch it again for the fashion, the flowerpot and the fact that
people were able to do research
without the Internet.
■ “The American President”
(1995): Michael Douglas plays the
president and a widower who falls
for Annette Bening in this romantic
drama. Fans of Aaron Sorkin’s
small-screen treatment of White
House life will appreciate his
screenplay, which explores what
happens when a popular president
falls into an unpopular relationship.
■ “Breach” (2007): Based on
the true story, young FBI agent
Eric O’Neill begins the film as an
assistant to agent Robert Hanssen
and later helps expose Hanssen as a
spy of more than two decades.
■ “Broadcast News” (1987):
William Hurt, Holly Hunter and
Albert Brooks received Academy
Award nominations for their performances in this film, though none
won. The story, about what it takes
to succeed in a D.C. television
news bureau — style or substance
— still feels relevant today.
■ “Burn After Reading”
(2008): This Coen brothers film
removes the seriousness that
attends most political thrillers, and
the result is a black comedy that
has a cast of stars scrambling after
the memoirs of disgruntled CIA
employee Osbourne Cox. Though
filmed mainly in New York, locals
will easily pick out the scenes shot
in the city, particularly in
Georgetown.
■ “Dave” (1993): Dave, played
by Kevin Kline, is a presidential
lookalike who gets drafted for the
top job after the president has a
stroke while canoodling with a
young staffer. Soon even first lady
Sigourney Weaver is taking a second look at the charming optimist
in the Oval Office.
■ “The Exorcist” (1973): The
film adaptation of the novel of the
same name, this horror classic follows two priests as they attempt to
exorcise a young Linda Blair. If
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you haven’t watched it in the
decade since more footage was
added, now’s your chance. And to
burn off calories from the popcorn,
there’s always the Georgetown
steps immortalized in the film’s
ending.
■ “Mr. Smith Goes to
Washington” (1939): This Frank
Capra film was reviled by
Washington insiders for its portrayal of a corrupt Congress when it
was released. But it was a huge hit
everywhere else and remains possibly the best dramatic rendition of a
parliamentary procedure — the filibuster — in film.
■ “St. Elmo’s Fire” (1985):
This Brat Pack classic features a
group of self-absorbed Georgetown
University graduates who are finding it hard to let go of their college
days. The characters, who find
themselves time and again at hangout St. Elmo’s Bar and Restaurant,
may be hard to love, but at least the
theme song isn’t.
■ “State of Play” (2009): A
remake of a British miniseries, this
American version follows journalists played by Russell Crowe and
Rachel McAdams as they try to
unravel the murder of a congressman’s mistress. This retelling,
which features scenes in Adams
Morgan and Mount Pleasant,
includes a few American twists
other than to the accents, including
a storyline about the privatization
of American military operations in
the Middle East.
This article originally appeared
in The Current’s 2012 Community
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Spotlight on Schools
British School
of Washington
I woke up and thought “first day
of school, uh-oh,” but really everything turned out fine. In class, we
discussed some things like our topics over the year and how Year 6
works. We played some games to
get to know each other, and we
talked about our vacations and what
we were most looking forward to.
Then we worked together to create some rules/guidelines linked
with our nine personal learning
goals: resilience, adaptability,
morality, communication, cooperation, internationalism, thoughtfulness, respect and enquiry.
We also had our first P.E. lesson.
Our topic will be ‘Invasion Games’.
We played some catch to test our
throwing and catching skills and
then played team tag to test our
reactions and speed.
We talked about our first topic
‘The Holiday Show’, which is
about tourism. We are having our
first field trip next Tuesday. We will
be making A to Z books on D.C.,
and we will visit the 26 places we
picked as a group to make up our
book.
— Diego Zavarce,
Year 6 New York (fifth-grader)
Georgetown Day School
The 2013-2014 school year is
well underway for Georgetown Day
students. High school students
returned on Tuesday while the
lower and middle schools returned
the following day. As is tradition at
the high school, the senior class
executed a “run-in” in which we
stormed into the forum area of the
school during the opening assembly. This year, the class of 2014
donned customized and camouflage
T-shirts. In addition, we obtained
water balloons, water guns, candy
and confetti to hurl at the unsuspecting juniors, sophomores and,
especially, freshmen. After the hubbub and hullabaloo died down, it
was back to the grind for high
school students.
School DISPATCHES
Another tradition at the high
school is the annual “First Friday”
celebration. As last Friday was the
first Friday of the school year, classes were suspended in the afternoon
for fun and games, a barbecue and
grade bonding. Some events this
year included speed texting, knockout, cup-stacking and race-walking.
As a school, we have much to
live up to after last year’s successful
school year. We have championship
banners to defend, new banners to
capture, math meets to win, theater
performances to present, band concerts to put on and a plethora of
other endeavors to succeed in. With
hard work, both physical and mental, and the help of our peers and
mentors we will surely reach our
goals.
— Carlton Marshall II,
12th-grader
St. Ann’s Academy
As eighth-graders, we are in our
last year at St. Ann’s. This year we
will graduate and go on to high
schools. We are busy now with the
process of choosing high schools
and applying to them.
In social studies, we are learning
about the Middle Colonies, the New
England Colonies and the back
country. In science, we are learning
the metric system and how to convert from customary to metric.
In language arts, we are reading
“Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott
Card and starting to write personal
essays, which we’ll include in our
high school applications.
In math and algebra, we are
reviewing exponents and preparing
for the High School Placement Test.
To stay sharp in math over the summer, each of us solved problems on
a website (ixl.com) that monitored
our progress and adjusted the skill
level based on how well we were
doing.
In art, we are working on silhouette drawings. First, we get our pic-
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reading. Then we cut them out.
Finally, we will draw them.
In music, we are writing fallthemed tales and putting music to
our stories.
— Claudio Espinoza and
Ellis Davis, eighth-graders
St. Patrick’s Episcopal
Day School
The start of school means many
changes for children across the
country. It means waking up early,
seeing friends from the previous
year, meeting new kids, settling into
new classrooms, perhaps new classes, the start of sports and activities,
and new experiences. On the first
day of school, everyone is excited
and running around asking their
friends about their summers and
where they went on vacation or
maybe camp.
At St. Patrick’s, all the teachers
are nice, funny and welcoming.
Once after-school sports start,
kids get the opportunity to interact
with students from other grades.
This can be a great opportunity to
make new friends. At St. Patrick’s,
there is a variety of sports that range
from soccer to track and field. For
kids who don’t play sports, there are
some great after-school activities,
such as a knitting class for those
who want to make a cool hat or
blanket.
Toward the beginning of October, the sixth-graders take a twonight field trip to Echo Hill, Md.,
where they participate in outdoor
learning activities — always a fun
highlight of the year. Probably the
most anticipated event of the beginning of the school year, however, is
Family Fun Day! Family Fun Day
is a carnival that features activities
like the Dunk Tank, where kids can
dunk staff members.
The beginning of the school year
is an exciting time and this year
promises to be the best year ever at
St. Patrick’s!
— Olivia Lyall, sixth-grader
at Francis-Stevens
“Me nomen Maya” is “My name
is Maya” in Latin. My Latin teacher, Mr. Prinzbach, taught my class
how to say our names in Latin during the first week of school. All students at my school are going to
learn Latin. “Me llamo Maya” is
“My name is Maya” in Spanish. I
learned to speak and write Spanish
at my old school. I like Spanish.
My parents said that Latin will help
me with my English and Spanish
and something called the SATs.
My first week I had gym and my
mommy came to the school to have
lunch with me. She works close by.
I was happy to see her. Principal
Trogisch calls the teachers at our
school “all-stars.” Mommy got to
see a few of them at lunchtime.
— Maya M. Hendricks,
kindergartner
High School
In honor of the 50th anniversary
of the March on Washington, Operation HOPE and the King Center
collaborated to remember the iconic
march through a panel at our Francis-Stevens campus. The arrangements started with a welcome by
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne
Duncan. The panel was moderated
by Kevin Powell, and consisted of
eight debaters: Dr. Angela Farris
Watkins, Ambassador Andrew
Young, Carolyn McKinstry, William Leventhal, Doris Crenshaw,
Ernest Green and D.C. Public
Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson. In addition, one of our own
classmates, Sinclair Blue, appeared
as a voice of current and future
leaders.
The panelists all contributed in
different ways to the Civil Rights
movement, and many of them were
See Dispatches/Page 55
Wednesday, Sept. 11
Wednesday september 11
Classes
■ The Downtown Business Improvement District’s “Workout Wednesdays in
Franklin Park” will feature a weekly fitness
class. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations
requested. Franklin Park, 13th and I
streets NW. downtowndc.org. The classes
will continue through Sept. 25.
■ The Vajrayogini Buddhist Center will
host a weekly class on “How to Solve Our
Human Problems,” about Buddha’s teachings on the Four Noble Truths. 7 to 8:30
p.m. $12 per class. Vajrayogini Buddhist
Center, 1787 Columbia Road NW. 202986-2257. The classes will continue
through Oct. 16.
Concerts
■ Chilean folk singer Patricio Zamorano will perform “9/11 — 11 de Septiembre: A Message of Historical Memory, Justice and Peace,” commemorating the
40th anniversary of the 1973 coup in
Santiago, Chile. 8 to 10 p.m. Free. Auditorium, Bunn Intercultural Center, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW.
11septiembre.eventbrite.com.
■ Water Liars will perform roots-minded indie rock, and South Rail will fuse
Americana and rock. 8 p.m. $10 to $12.
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW.
800-745-3000.
Discussions and lectures
■ University of Maryland at College
Park professor Shibley Telhami, Princeton
University professor Daniel Kurtzer and
University of Virginia professor William
Quandt will discuss their book “The Peace
Puzzle: America’s Quest for Arab-Israeli
Peace, 1989-2011.” 6 to 7:30 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Room 602, Elliott
School of International Affairs, George
Washington University, 1957 E St. NW.
tinyurl.com/mqj4atq.
■ Jason Gedeik, head of greenhouse
and design operations at Hillwood, will discuss “Perennial Traditions: Marjorie Post’s
Floral Designs.” 6 to 8 p.m. $7 to $20; reservations required. Hillwood Estate, Muse-
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um and Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW.
202-686-5807.
■ London- and Milan-based architect
Claudio Silvestrin will discuss “Can Architecture Uplift Our Spirit and Prevent the
Weight of Materialism From Crushing Us?”
6 p.m. Free. Crough Center for Architectural Studies, Catholic University, 620 Michigan Ave. NE. architecture.cua.edu.
■ Stephen Kimber
will discuss his book
“What Lies Across the
Water,” about the
events leading up to
the arrest of the Cuban
Five. 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Free. Langston Room,
Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW.
202-387-7638.
■ The World Affairs Council will present
a talk by John Zogby, author of “First Globals: Understanding, Managing & Unleashing the Potential of Our Millennial Generation.” 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Free; reservations
required. University of California, Washington Center, 1608 Rhode Island Ave. NW.
202-293-1051.
■ Congregants from Masjid Muhammad will discuss the life of the local Muslim community in the aftermath of the
Sept. 11 attacks. 7 p.m. Free. Watha T.
Daniel-Shaw Library, 1630 7th St. NW.
202-727-1288.
■ Slate’s Emily Yoffe, author of the
advice column “Dear Prudence,” will discuss her most memorable and controversial letters, as well as lessons she has
learned from letter writers and readers. 7
p.m. $20. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue,
600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487.
■ Donna DeCesare, author of “Unsettled/Desasociego: Children in a World of
Gangs,” will discuss “The Unsettling Impact
of War and Its Aftermath.” 7 p.m. $5 to
$10; reservations required. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW. 202-6391700.
Film
■ The Lions of Czech Film series will
feature Petr Jancárek’s 2009 documentary “Václav Havel, Prague-Castle,” about the
earliest days of Havel’s presidency. 8 p.m.
$8.50 to $11.50. Avalon Theatre, 5612
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.
Performances
■ Los Texmaniacs will perform traditional conjunto dance music from Texas. 6
p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Busboys and Poets will host an open
mic poetry night. 9 to 11 p.m. $5. Cullen
Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St.
NW. 202-789-2227.
Thursday, Sept. 12
Thursday september 12
Art event
■ The Woman’s National Democratic
Club’s fall art exhibition reception will mark
the opening of Micheline Klagsbrun’s
“Undergrowth” and Melchus A. Davis’ “The
Many Colors of Expressionism.” 6 to 8 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Woman’s
National Democratic Club, 1526 New
Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.
Children’s program
■ The junior scientist series will feature
an interactive turtle discovery program (for
ages 6 through 12). 4 to 4:45 p.m. Free.
Rock Creek Park Nature Center, 5200
Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.
Classes
■ Mike Feerick, chair of Ireland Reaching Out, will discuss how the reverse genealogy program helps trace and locate all
the people who left Ireland and invites
them to become part of a new extended
Irish society. 10 a.m. Free. Room G-25,
Research Center, National Archives Building, Pennsylvania Avenue between 7th and
9th streets NW. 202-357-5000.
■ The Golden Triangle Business
Improvement District will present a “Pilates
in the Park” class. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Free.
Farragut Square Park, Connecticut Avenue
and K Street NW. goldentriangledc.com.
The class will repeat weekly through Oct.
10.
Concerts
■ The “Music on the Lawn” series will
feature the swinging jazz vocal ensemble
Cloudburst. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Free. Grace
Episcopal Church, 1041 Wisconsin Ave.
NW. 202-333-7100.
■ D.C. funk band The Good Thing will
perform. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Musician Leonardo Lucini will perform Brazilian jazz. 6:30 p.m. Free. Monroe
Street Market Arts Plaza, 8th Street and
Monroe Street NE. 202-269-1600.
■ The U.S. Navy Band’s Cruisers
ensemble will perform. 7:30 p.m. Free.
Yards Park, 355 Water St. SE. 202-4334011.
Demonstration
■ Gardening specialist Adrienne Cook
and nutritionist Danielle Cook Navidi will
lead a cooking demonstration on ways to
use eggplant in its myriad forms. Noon and
12:45 p.m. Free. Conservatory Garden
Court, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland
Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.
■ Scientists, humanists, journalists
and science fiction authors will participate
in a symposium on whether the longevity
of human civilization on Earth will be
imperiled or enhanced by world-changing
technologies. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Free.
Room 119, Jefferson Building, Library of
Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-707-1639.
Wednesday, september 11
■ Discussion: Alice McDermott
will discuss her novel “Someone.” 7
p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3641919.
■ Jens Lund, folklorist and program
manager emeritus at Washington State
Parks and Recreation, will discuss “I Done
What I Could: Occupational Folk Poetry in
the Pacific Northwest.” Noon. Free. Mary
Pickford Theater, Madison Building, Library
of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE.
202-707-5510.
■ Panelists will discuss “Accountability,
Transitional Justice and the Case of Northern Ireland.” Noon to 1:15 p.m. Free.
Room 100, American University Washington College of Law, 4801 Massachusetts
Ave. NW. wclcenterforhr.org.
■ Kimberly Marten of Barnard College
and Robert Orttung and Cory Welt of
George Washington University will discuss
“Reset the Reset: The Future of U.S.-Russia
Relations.” Noon to 2 p.m. Free; reservations required. Suite 412, Elliott School of
International Affairs, George Washington
University, 1957 E St. NW. go.gwu.edu/
USRussia.
■ Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Mark
Mazzetti will discuss his book “The Way of
the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a
War at the Ends of the Earth.” 12:30 to
1:45 p.m. Free. Mortara Building, Georgetown University, 3600 N St. NW.
guevents.georgetown.edu.
■ Registered nurses Melanie Lamar
Hancock and Marcia Foxx will lead a seminar for seniors on how to prevent falls and
how best to recover if one does occur. 1
p.m. Free. Seabury at Friendship Terrace,
4201 Butterworth Place NW. 202-3620704.
■ Denver Brunsman, assistant professor of history at George Washington University, will discuss his book “The Evil
Necessity: British Naval Impressment in
the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.” 6
p.m. Free. Society of the Cincinnati, Anderson House, 2118 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
202-785-2040.
■ Julia Lynch, associate professor of
political science at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss “Of Death and Taxes:
The Politics of Health Inequality in Comparative Perspective.” 4:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 736, Bernstein-Offit
Building, Johns Hopkins University School
of Advanced International Studies, 1717
Massachusetts Ave. NW. [email protected].
■ A gallery talk will focus on “A Day in
the Country: Renoir’s ‘Luncheon of the
Boating Party.’” 6 and 7 p.m. Free. Phillips
Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. 202-3872151.
■ Japanese textile scholar Ann Marie
Moeller will discuss “Jakarta Stripes and
Japanese
Kimono: Indonesian Influence on Japanese Textiles.”
6 p.m. $20 to
$25. Textile
Museum, 2320 S St. NW. 202-667-0441,
ext. 64.
■ “Livable Communities: Healthy
Neighborhoods” will feature panelists Terry
M. Bellamy, mayor of Asheville, N.C.; Scott
Ball, planner with Duany, Plater-Zyberk &
Co.; Irena H. Yen, associate professor at
the University of California at San Francisco; and Ted Eytan, director of the Permanente Federation. 6:30 to 8 p.m. $12 to
$20. National Building Museum, 401 F St.
NW. 202-272-2448.
■ Biographer A. Scott Berg will discuss
his book “Wilson,” about the passionate
and enigmatic man who served as the
28th president. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.
■ Steve Fitch, Robert Flick and Elaine
Myers — the photographers featured in the
exhibition “Landscapes in Passing” — will
discuss their work, which in the 1970s
challenged traditional representations by
acknowledging the country’s increasingly
mobile society. 7 p.m. Free. Smithsonian
American Art Museum, 8th and F streets
NW. 202-633-1000.
■ Sara Farizan will discuss her book “If
You Could Be Mine.” 7 p.m. Free. Children
& Teens Department, Politics and Prose,
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3641919.
■ Graphic novelist Jeff Smith will discuss his book “RASL.” 7 p.m. Free. Auditorium, Wilson High School, 3950 Chesapeake St. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Author Kitty Kelley (shown) will discuss the newly published “Let Freedom
Ring: Stanley Tretick’s
Iconic Images of the
March on Washington,”
featuring Tretick’s previously unpublished
photographs alongside
Kelley’s text. The discussion will feature
journalist Soledad O’Brien and Children’s
Defense Fund president Marian Wright
Edelman, a March on Washington participant. 7 p.m. Free. McGowan Theater,
National Archives Building, Constitution
Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW.
202-357-5000.
■ The local nonprofit Parent Encouragement Program will
present a talk on “The
New Rules of Boy
World” by parenting
expert Rosalind Wiseman, author of “Queen
Bees and Wannabes”
and “Masterminds and
Wingmen.” 7:30 p.m. $25; reservations
required. Maret School, 3000 Cathedral
Ave. NW. 301-929-8824.
Films
■ The National Gallery of Art will present “The Rite of Spring” as part of a series
of filmed performances of dances originally premiered by Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.
12:30 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium,
National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ The Goethe-Institut will present Yasemin Samdereli’s 2010 film “Almanya —
Willkommen in Deutschland,” with introductory remarks by Georgetown University
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streets NW. 202-633-1000.
will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m.
visiting professor Asiye Kaya. 6:30 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St. NW.
goetheinstitutwashington.eventbrite.com.
■ “Washington Project for the Arts —
Experimental Media 2013” will feature
video work by local, national and international artists exploring cybersecurity, data
collection and imaging surveillance practices in the digital age. 6:30 p.m. Free. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. 202387-2151.
■ In conjunction with the Mutual Inspirations Festival, the West End Cinema will
screen Jana Chytilová’s 2002 documentary “The Plastic People of the Universe.” 7
p.m. $8 to $11. West End Cinema, 2301
M St. NW. 202-419-3456. The festival, a
celebration of the life and legacy of dissident, playwright and former Czech president Václav Havel, will feature events at
various venues through Oct. 31.
Wine seminar
■ Master sommelier Fred Dexheimer
will present a wine seminar about the quality and diversity of the Pays d’Oc IGP
wines. 7 p.m. $50 to $65. Napoleon Bistro, 1847 Columbia Road NW.
francedc.org.
Sporting events
■ The Washington Mystics will play the
Connecticut Sun. 7 p.m. $12 to $300. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.
■ The Washington Nationals will play
the Philadelphia Phillies. 7:05 p.m. $5 to
$65. Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol
St. SE. 888-632-6287. The series will continue Saturday at 7:05 p.m. and Sunday at
1:35 p.m.
Meetings
■ The Talking Book Club will discuss
“Shadows of Glory” by Owen Parry. 11 a.m.
Free. Room 215, Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-7272142.
■ The Literary Book Group will discuss
“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak. 2:30
p.m. Free. Room A-9, Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-7270321.
Performance
■ Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara and KARAS will perform the
North American premiere of “Mirror and
Music.” 8 p.m. $19 to $45. Eisenhower
Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Topaz Hotel Bar’s weekly standup show will feature local comics. 8 to 10
p.m. Free. 1733 N St. NW. 202-393-3000.
Reading
■ The eighth annual Small Nations
Poetry Night will feature ambassadors
from Austria, Bulgaria, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Malta and Slovenia reading works
from their home countries. 6:30 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Katzen Arts Center,
American University, 4400 Massachusetts
Ave. NW. smallnationspoetrynight2013.
eventbrite.com.
Special event
■ The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Library will provide chess sets for players
of all ages and abilities. 9:30 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321. The
event will continue daily during the
library’s operating hours.
Tours and walks
■ Birder Sheila Cochran will lead a
walk through the Olmsted Woods. 8:30
a.m. Free. Meet at the George Washington
statue on Pilgrim Road on the grounds of
the Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW.
202-537-2319. The walk will repeat Sept.
19 at 8:30 a.m.
■ U.S. Botanic Garden education technician Alex Torres will lead a tour of the
National Garden. 10:30 to 11:15 a.m.
Free. Conservatory Garden Court, U.S.
Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW.
202-225-8333.
■ Historian James Barber, curator of
the National Portrait Gallery’s Time collection, will lead a tour of the exhibit “Mr.
Time: Portraits by Boris Chaliapin.” Noon.
Free. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F
Friday, Sept. 13
Friday september 13
Concerts
■ Organist Daria Burlak of Moscow will
perform works by Alain, Florentz and Duruflé. 12:15 p.m. Free. National City Christian
Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW. 202-7970103.
■ The U.S. Army String Quartet will perform works by Walter Piston, Roy Harris
and Samuel Barber. 4 p.m. Free. Coolidge
Auditorium, Jefferson Building, Library of
Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-707-5502.
■ The D.C. group Alma Tropicália will
perform a re-imagined version of the
psych-samba sounds of 1960s tropicália
music from Brazil. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium
Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Brazilian guitarist Rogério Souza
(shown), bassist Leo
Lucini, clarinetist Andy
Connell and percussionist Bruno Lucini will
perform works by late19th-century composer
Ernesto Nazareth. 7
p.m. Free. McNeir Hall,
Georgetown University, 37th and O streets
NW. 202-687-2787.
■ Concordia DC will present George
Washington University
faculty pianists Jeffery
Watson (shown) and
Molly Orlando performing works by Scarlatti,
Mendelssohn,
Schubert, Liszt,
Debussy and Kabalevsky. 7:30 p.m. Free. The United Church,
1920 G St. NW. 202-331-1495.
■ Claudia West of North Creek Nurseries Inc. will debunk the myth that native
plants are weedy and messy. Noon to 1
p.m. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Classroom, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100
Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.
■ “The Case of the Cuban Five: Justice
or Injustice?” will feature Danny Glover,
actor, producer and humanitarian; Richard
Klugh, trial and appellate attorney on the
Cuban Five legal team; Mara VerheydenHilliard, executive director of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund; Crisarla Houston, associate professor at the University of
the District of Columbia David A. Clarke
School of Law; and Gloria La Riva, coordinator of the National Committee to Free
the Cuban Five. 6 p.m. Free; reservations
requested. Moot Court Room, University of
the District of Columbia David A. Clarke
School of Law, 4340 Connecticut Ave. NW.
law.udc.edu/event/Cuban5.
■ A panel discussion on “Directors’
Approach to Havel” will feature Oscar
Award-winning Czech director Jirí Menzel,
prominent Czech physical theater actress
and director Mirenka Cechová and U.S.
theater director Gail Humphries Mardirosian. 7 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Embassy of the Czech Republic, 3900
Spring of Freedom St. NW.
mutualinspirations.org.
Film
■ The “Pages of Beauty and Madness:
Friday, september 13
■ Concert: The S&R Foundation’s Overtures Summer Concert
Series will feature pianist Ryo Yanagitani. 6:30 p.m. $65. Evermay, 1623
28th St. NW. overtureseries.org.
Japanese Writers Onscreen” series will feature Mikio Naruse’s 1954 film “Sound of
the Mountain.” 7 p.m. Free. Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art, 12th Street and
Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-1000.
Meeting
■ A weekly bridge group will meet to
play duplicate bridge. 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
$6. Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601
Performances
■ Coyaba Dance Theater will perform
African-style dances. 6:30 p.m. Free. Monroe Street Market Arts Plaza, 8th Street
and Monroe Street NE. 202-269-1600.
■ SpeakeasyDC and Atlas Performing
Arts Center will present “Crank & Groove: A
Go-Go Love Story,” featuring storytellers,
musicians and dancers. 8 p.m. $30 to
$35. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H
St. NE. 202-399-7993. The performance
Tour
■ U.S. Botanic Garden conservation
and sustainability horticulturist Ray Mims
will lead a tour and present an overview of
the 2013 summer exhibit “Food for
Thought.” 10 to 11 a.m. Free; reservations
required. Conservatory Terrace, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202225-8333.
Saturday, Sept. 14
Saturday september 14
Children’s programs
■ A park ranger will lead a night sky
tour in the Rock Creek Park planetarium. 1
to 1:45 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Park Nature
Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-8956224. The program will repeat Sunday at
1 p.m.
■ Park ranger Tony Linforth will lead a
planetarium program about the weather in
the solar system. 4 to 4:45 p.m. Free. Rock
Creek Park Nature Center, 5200 Glover
Road NW. 202-895-6070.
Classes
■ Vincent Giarrano, a former illustrator
for Marvel and DC Comics and an Outwin
Boochever Portrait Competition finalist, will
lead a workshop on “Drawing From Your
Head.” 10:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $50; registration required. National Portrait Gallery,
8th and F streets NW. [email protected].
■ Instructor Catherine Fleishman will
lead a yoga class in Rock Creek Park, from
2 to 3 p.m.; and a Zumba fitness class,
from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Free; reservations
45
required. Rock Creek Park Nature Center,
5200 Glover Road NW. followyogadc@
gmail.com.
Concerts
■ Music students from American University will perform. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ Toronto’s New Country Rehab, an altcountry band
led by singersongwriter John
Showman, will
perform. 7:30
p.m. $10 to
$15. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
Demonstrations
■ “It’s Miller Time: Peirce Mill in Action”
will offer visitor a chance to watch the conversion of corn to cornmeal using water
power and to explore four stories of Rock
Creek’s most successful gristmill. 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m. Free. Peirce Mill, Tilden Street
and Beach Drive NW. 202-895-6227.
■ Cherie Lester, healthy eating specialist at Whole Foods Market, will present ideas for “Lunch Box Builders” as part
of a back-to-school series. 1 to 3 p.m.
Free. Whole Foods Market Georgetown,
2323 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
[email protected].
■ U.S. Botanic Garden volunteer Todd
Brethauer will discuss “Arums: Spathe,
Spadix and All That.” 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Free; reservations required. Conservatory
Classroom, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100
Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.
■ Therapist and workshop facilitator
Rebecca Wilkinson will discuss “Reducing
Stress: Keeping Positive at Work and at
Home.” 1 to 2:30 p.m. Free; reservations
requested. Cleveland Park Library, 3310
■ Karla Dakin, co-author of “The ProSee Events/Page 46
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and principal of K. Dakin Design Inc., will
discuss “The Creative Now in Green Roof
Design: Taking a Look at Who’s Pushing
the Boundaries.” 2 to 3 p.m. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Classroom,
U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave.
SW. 202-225-8333.
■ Vincent Giarrano, a finalist in the
Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition,
will discuss his technique and work. 2 p.m.
Free. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F
streets NW. 202-633-1000.
Family day
■ “Cerámica de los Ancestros,” a Central American Family Day, will feature food
demonstrations, hands-on activities and a
Maya pottery-inspired dance performance.
10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free. National Museum of the American Indian, 4th Street and
Independence Avenue SW. 202-633-1000.
Films
■ The Global Lens Film Series will feature Sebastian
del Amo’s
2012 film “The
Fantastic World
of Juan Orol.” 2
p.m. Free.
Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-6713121.
■ “A Day With Jirí Menzel” will feature
the director’s 1966 black comedy “Closely
Watched Trains,” at 2 p.m.; and his 1969
satire “Larks on a String,” at 4 p.m. Free.
East Building Auditorium, National Gallery
of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW. 202-737-4215.
■ The group Friends of Rose Park will
host an outdoor screening of Chris Noonan’s 1995 film “Babe,” at 8 p.m.; and Phil
Aidean Robinson’s 1989 film “Field of
Dreams,” at 9:30 p.m. Free. Rose Park,
26th and O streets NW. roseparkdc.org.
Performances
■ Teatro de la Luna will present an
open-air production of the bilingual familyfriendly play “Happy and Healthy (Sanos y
Contentos)” by Hispanic playwright Neher
J. Briceño. 10 and 11 a.m. Free. Columbia
Heights Civic Plaza, 14th Street and Park
Road NW. The performance will repeat
Sept. 21 at 10 and 11 a.m.
■ SpeakeasyDC will present a longform story performance featuring “No
More Helen Keller Jokes” by Anne Thomas
and “Lose the Kid” by John Donvan. 3 p.m.
$20 to $25. Mead Theater Lab at Flashpoint, 916 G St. NW. speakeasydc.com.
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28 at 3 p.m.
■ The Network of South Asian Professionals will present “Fusion 2013: Infuse
the Arts,” featuring comedy, dance, music
and more. 7:30 p.m. $25 to $35. Terrace
Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Capital City Showcase will present “The Pink Collar
Comedy Tour,” featuring D.C. comedian Jessica Brodkin (shown)
and New York-based
comedians Erin Judge,
Carrie Gravenson, Abbi
Crutchfield and Kaytlin
Bailey. 10 p.m. $15 to $20. District of
Columbia Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW.
pinkcollarshowcase.eventbrite.com.
Special events
■ “STAR Family Festival: Sing, Talk and
Read” — about how singing, talking and
reading with a baby or young child can
help them later in school — will feature
workshops, craft activities, games, live
entertainment and free children’s books.
11 a.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.
■ The Maru Montero Dance Company
will present the second annual series of
Latin Nights festivities, featuring Latin
dance, music and games. 4 to 9 p.m. Free.
Columbia Heights Civic Plaza, 14th Street
and Park Road NW. 202-258-5283. The
event will repeat Sept. 21 and 28.
Sporting event
■ D.C. United will play the Los Angeles
Galaxy. 4 p.m. $26 to $55. RFK Stadium,
2400 East Capitol St. SE. 800-745-3000.
Walks and tours
■ National Zoo keepers at the Reptile
Discovery Center will lead a behind-thescenes look at critically endangered species. 9 to 11 a.m. $95. National Zoo, 3001
Connecticut Ave. NW. nationalzoo.si.edu.
The tour will repeat Sept. 25 and 28 at 9
a.m.
■ Writer Rocco Zappone will lead a
weekly “Ulysses-esque” walking tour of
Washington, filled with his reminiscences
and impressions of a lifetime in D.C. 10
a.m. $20. Meet at the statue of Andrew
Jackson in Lafayette Square, 16th and H
streets NW. 202-341-5208.
■ A Civil War-themed tour of Tudor
Place will focus on the lives of the predominantly Southern-sympathizing Peter family,
which opened a boarding house for Union
officers and their families during the war,
at 10:30 a.m.; and a walking tour of
Georgetown will point out the final resting
place of three renowned Civil War spies, a
Union hospital, the residences of military
leaders and a neighborhood of enslaved
and free African-Americans, at 1 p.m. $8
to $10 for one tour; $12 to $15 for both.
Tudor Place Historic House and Garden,
1644 31st St. NW. tudorplacecivilwartour.
eventbrite.com.
■ The Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy will present a walk through the picturesque landscape designed
by Beatrix Ferrand and
explain how the
naturalistic garden is being
restored to its former glory. 2 to 3 p.m.
Free. Meet at Lovers Lane near 31st and R
streets NW. 202-895-6227.
■ Emily Porter, contractor with the U.S.
Botanic Garden’s Project BudBurst, will
lead a “Fall Into Phenology Tour.” 2 to 3
p.m. Free. Meet on the terrace near the
conservatory entrance, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-2258333.
Sunday, Sept. 15
Sunday september 15
Benefit
■ St. John’s Community Services will
host a benefit concert featuring violin/
piano duo Holly Hamilton and Carol Barth
and solo pianist Sara Daneshpour. An
accompanying art auction will feature work
by participants in the ART Options program. 4 to 6 p.m. $40. Hearst Auditorium,
National Cathedral School, 3612 Woodley
Road NW. 202-274-3460.
Children’s programs
■ In honor of the ropewalk in Montrose
Park during the War of 1812 that made
rope for oceangoing vessels, park ranger
Michael Zwelling will lead a program on
rope-making and how to tie knots (geared
for ages 6 through 12). 10 to 10:45 a.m.
Free. Montrose Park, 31st and R streets
NW. 202-895-6070.
■ Park ranger Tony Linforth will lead a
planetarium program about the solar system, the Milky Way galaxy and deep space.
4 to 4:45 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Park
Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW.
202-895-6070.
Class
■ A weekly Ukulele Circle led by Liz
Ennis will offer beginners a chance to
learn a few easy chords and more
advanced players an opportunity to improvise and jam. 4 to 4:30 p.m. Free. Middle
C Music, 4530 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202244-7326.
Concerts
■ Young jazz saxophonists will perform
in the semifinals of the 26th Thelonious
Monk International Jazz Competition. 1 to
5 p.m. Free; tickets required. Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History,
10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
202-633-3030.
■ Guitarist Michael Raitzyk’s Challah
Day ensemble will perform improvisational
Jewish soul music. 1 p.m. Free; donations
suggested. Church of the Holy City, 1611
16th St. NW. 202-262-7571.
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museum — will feature a reading and book
signing by the author, as well as related
activities. 1 to 4 p.m. $5 to $15; free for
ages 5 and younger. Hillwood Estate,
Museum and Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave.
NW. 202-686-5807.
■ Hispanic Heritage Month Family Day
will feature an exploration and demonstration of salsa music and dance. 3 to 6 p.m.
Free. Smithsonian American Art Museum,
8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.
Saturday, september 14
■ Festival: The fourth annual
17th Street Festival will feature an
art show, live entertainment,
business specials, a pet zone and
children’s activities. Noon to 6 p.m.
Free. 17th Street from Riggs Place to
P Street NW. 17thstreetfestival.org.
Washington, D.C., will inaugurate its new
organ — one of the largest in the area —
with a recital by organist and choirmaster
Lawrence P. Schreiber. 4 p.m. Free. First
Baptist Church of the City of Washington,
D.C., 1328 16th St. NW. 202-387-2206.
■ Guest organist Pierre Zevort will
present a recital. 5:15 p.m. $10 donation
suggested. Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. nationalcathedral.org.
■ Dahlak Restaurant will present its
weekly “DC Jazz Jam” session. 6:30 to
9:30 p.m. Free. 1771 U St. NW. 202-5279522.
■ Gen. Michael V. Hayden, former
director of the Central Intelligence Agency
and the National Security Agency, will discuss “The Tension Between Security and
Liberty.” 10 a.m. Free. St. John’s Episcopal
Church, Lafayette Square, 16th and H
streets NW. 202-347-8766.
■ Marianne Szegedy-Maszak will discuss her book “I Kiss Your Hands Many
Times: Hearts, Souls, and Wars in Hungary,” at 1 p.m.; and Stephen Emmott will
discuss his book “Ten Billion,” at 5 p.m.
Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Renée Ater of the University of Maryland at College Park and Nancy Anderson,
Sarah Greenough and Lindsay Harris of
the National Gallery of Art will discuss the
exhibit (and companion book) “Tell It With
Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment
and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw
Memorial.” 2 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street
and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-7374215.
■ U.S. Botanic Garden volunteer Todd
Brethauer will discuss carnivorous plants.
2 to 3:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Conservatory Classroom, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-2258333.
■ Dana Frank, professor of history at
the University of California at Santa Cruz,
will lead a discussion about human rights
and U.S. policy in post-coup Honduras.
5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Free. Cullen Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202789-2227.
Family days
■ A Family Fun Day — inspired by Mary
Ann Allin’s tale “Anna and the Hermitage
Cats,” about a visit to the St. Petersburg
Film
■ In conjunction with the exhibit “Tell It
With Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw
Memorial,” the National Gallery of Art will
present the Washington premiere of the
digital restoration of the 1989 film “Glory,”
with introductory remarks by director Ed
Zwick. 4 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
Performances
■ Elaine Flynn will star as Alice Roosevelt Longworth in “Scandals in the City,”
featuring many decades’ worth of Washington gossip as dished by Theodore Roosevelt’s eldest daughter. 3 p.m. Free. Seabury at Friendship Terrace, 4201 Butterworth Place NW. 202-362-0704.
■ The Duke Ellington School of the
Arts, African Continuum Theatre Company,
Howard University Theatre Department
and Project1Voice will present a staged
reading of “Four Little Girls” Birmingham
1963,” written by Christina Ham and
directed by Phylicia Rashad. 6 p.m. Free;
tickets required. Family Theater, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
Reading
■ “Sunday Kind of Love” will feature
emerging and established poets, followed
by an open mic segment. 5 to 7 p.m. $5.
Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021
14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Mystics will play the
New York Liberty. 4 p.m. $12 to $300. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.
Walks and tours
■ Rock Creek Park will host a “Fun
Run,” featuring a three- to four-mile loop
and a five- to seven-mile option. 10 to 11
a.m. Free. Rock Creek Park Nature Center,
5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6227.
■ The Kalorama House and Embassy
Tour will include stops at the residence of
the ambassadors of the Austria and Portugal, the modern Embassy of Slovenia and
the Andrew Mellon Building. Noon to 5
p.m. $35 to $150; registration required.
Woodrow Wilson House, 2340 S St. NW.
woodrowwilsonhouse.org/events.
■ Park ranger Michael Zwelling will
lead a 2.5-mile walking tour about Georgetown’s connections to George Washington
and Abraham Lincoln. 1 to 2:30 p.m. Free.
Montrose Park, 31st and R streets NW.
202-895-6012.
■ A behind-the-scenes tour will focus
on the Washington National Cathedral’s
gargoyles and grotesques. 2 p.m. $5 to
$10. Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW.
nationalcathedral.org.
Monday, Sept. 16
Monday september 16
Class
■ An AARP driver safety course will
offer instruction in proven safety strategies.
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10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $12 to $14; reservations
required. National Presbyterian Church,
4101 Nebraska Ave. NW. 301-365-0630.
Concerts
■ Sonic Circuits, a local promoter of
experimental music, will present cuttingedge, genre-defying contemporary music.
6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Young jazz saxophonists will perform
in the finals of the 26th Thelonious Monk
International Jazz Competition. 7:30 p.m.
$50 to $75. Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Gospel Music Heritage Month
Foundation will present “The Evolution of
Gospel.” 8 p.m. Free; tickets required. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 832-428-8252.
■ Panelists will discuss “Prospects for
Gender Equality in Iran Under President
Rouhani.” 9 to 11 a.m. Free; reservations
required. Room 602, Elliott School of
International Affairs, George Washington
University, 1957 E St. NW.
go.gwu.edu/GenderEqualityUnderRouhani.
■ The group 40Plus of Greater Washington will present a talk by a representative of the D.C. Health Benefit Exchange on
“Your Health Insurance Options Under
Obamacare.” 9:45 to 11:30 a.m. Free.
Suite T-2, 1718 P St. NW. 202-387-1582.
■ The Sibley Senior Association will
open a four-week lecture series on “Understanding Computers and the Internet” with
an introductory session on “How Do They
Work?” 11 a.m. to noon. $10 to $15 per
session; $30 to $45 for the series. Private
Dining Room 3, Sibley Memorial Hospital,
5255 Loughboro Road NW. 202-3647602. The series will continue weekly
through Oct. 7.
■ Law professor Garrett Epps will discuss his book “American Epic: Reading the
U.S. Constitution.” Noon. Free. McGowan
Theater, National Archives Building, Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th streets
NW. 202-357-5000.
■ Susan Reyburn and Athena Angelos
will discuss their book “Football Nation:
Four Hundred Years of America’s Game.”
Noon. Free. Mary Pickford Theater, Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101
Independence Ave. SE. 202-707-5221.
■ A Latino Heritage Month event will
feature a discussion with author and poet
Bobby Gonzalez. Noon to 3 p.m. Free.
Room 203, Mary Graydon Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave.
NW. 202-885-3651.
■ The Ward Circle Chapter of AARP will
present a talk by Don Turnbull on “Lesser
Known Memorials and Monuments of
Washington.” 12:30 p.m. Free. Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church,
3401 Nebraska Ave. NW. 202-363-4900.
■ Imani M. Cheers, assistant professor at George Washington University, and
Nina Oduro, founder of African Development Jobs, will discuss the importance
and impact of investing in women and
girls in Africa and in the African diaspora.
3 to 5 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Alumni House, George Washington University, 1918 F St. NW.
go.gwu.edu/womenonthemove.
■ At a fundraiser for the Lombardi
Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University, blogger and speaker Sean
Murphy will discuss his memoir “Please
Talk About Me When I’m Gone,” about cancer’s impact on his family. Afterward, Dr.
John Marshall will discuss his work as the
&
The Current
Lombardi Center’s director of clinical
research. 6 to 8 p.m. Free; donations
requested. Langston Room, Busboys and
Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. seanmurphy.net.
■ Adel Iskandar will discuss his book
“Egypt in Flux: Essays on an Unfinished
Revolution.” 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free. Cullen
NW. 202-789-2227.
■ Charles Jones, associate dean for
graduate studies at Catholic University, will
discuss “Defining Humanity: Western and
Asian Religious Perspectives.” 6:45 to
8:45 p.m. $30 to $42. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-6333030.
■ “The Art and Style of Graphic Novels”
will feature panelists Laura Lee Gulledge,
Rutu Modan, Matt Phelan and Gene Yang.
7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Dr. D. Theodore George, clinical professor of psychiatry at George Washington
University and associate clinical director at
the National Institutes of Health, and coauthor Lisa Berger will discuss their book
“Untangling the Mind: Why We Behave the
Way We Do.” 7 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
202-727-1488.
Films
■ The Fantasy Flicks series will feature
Ridley Scott’s 1982 dystopian thriller
“Blade Runner.” 6 p.m. Free. Room A-5,
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library,
901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.
■ The Goethe-Institut will present Margarethe von
Trotta’s 2012
film “Hannah
Arendt,” about
the influential
German-Jewish
philosopher
and political theorist. 6:30 p.m. $4 to $7.
Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St. NW. 202-2891200.
■ The Washington Psychotronic Film
Society will present Alan J. Levi’s 1982 film
“Blood Song.” 8 p.m. Donation suggested.
McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon, 2401
Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-462-3356.
Meetings
■ The Fiction Lover’s Book Club will
discuss “The Supremes at Earl’s All-YouCan-Eat” by Edward Kelsey Moore. 6:30
p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-1295.
■ The Film Discussion Group will focus
on the best films of the summer and look
ahead to fall and winter releases. 7 p.m.
Free. Barnes & Noble, 555 12th St. NW.
202-347-0176.
Performance
■ The Cultures in Motion Program will
present “Singing Praises: Mahalia & Martin,” featuring Julia Nixon as Mahalia Jackson and Michael Mack as the Rev. Martin
Luther King Jr. 7 p.m. Free; reservations
suggested. McEvoy Auditorium, National
Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. 202633-8520.
Sporting event
the Atlanta Braves. 7:05 p.m. $5 to $65.
Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE.
888-632-6287. The series will continue
Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:05 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 17
Tuesday september 17
Benefit
■ BLT Steak chef Jon Mathieson,
901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.
■ The group Yoga Activist will present a
weekly yoga class geared toward beginners. 7 p.m. Free. Cleveland Park Library,
Monday, september 16
■ Discussion: Bo Lidegaard will
discuss his book “Countrymen.” 4
p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3641919.
Rogue 24 chef RJ Cooper, Bayou Bakery
chef David Guas, 1789 chef Anthony Lombardo and Green Pig Bistro chef Scot Harlan will participate in “86 Summer, 86
Bucks,” a rooftop grill-out to benefit the
Children’s National Medical Center. 6 to 11
p.m. $86. BLT Steak, 1625 I St. NW. 202689-8989.
Classes and workshops
■ Joseph Scanlon of the National
Archives will discuss Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act issues and give
advice on access. 11 a.m. Free. Room
G-25, Research Center, National Archives
Building, Pennsylvania Avenue between
7th and 9th streets NW. 202-357-5000.
■ Teacher and therapist Heather Ferris
will lead a weekly yoga class. Noon. Free.
Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Library, 1630 7th St.
NW. 202-727-1288.
■ Michael Ward of CloudHands T’ai Chi
will lead an introductory class. 6:30 p.m.
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library,
Concerts
■ The Tuesday Concert Series will feature the U.S. Air Force Band Chamber Players. 12:10 p.m. Free. Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. 202-347-2635.
■ The U.S. Navy Band’s newest ensemble, The Skipjack Quartet,
will perform
with vocalist
Shana Sullivan.
6 p.m. Free.
Millennium
■ The U.S. Army Concert Band will perform. 6 p.m. Free. National World War II
Memorial, 17th Street between Constitution and Independence avenues. usarmyband.com.
■ “Seabury Presents” will feature international musician Vladimir Rozenblat. 7
p.m. Free. Seabury at Friendship Terrace,
4201 Butterworth Place NW. 202-3620704.
■ The Friday Morning Music Club will
present a chamber music concert featuring works by Bach, Danzi and other composers. 7:30 p.m. Free. Dumbarton House,
2715 Q St. NW. 202-333-2075.
■ Josh Ruebner, national advocacy
director of the U.S. Campaign to End the
Israeli Occupation, will discuss “Shattered
Hopes: Obama’s Failure to Broker IsraeliPalestinian Peace.” 12:30 to 2 p.m. Free.
The Palestine Center, 2425 Virginia Ave.
NW. 202-338-1290.
■ Robert Sutter, professor of practice
of international affairs at George Washington University, will discuss his book “Foreign Relations of the PRC: The Legacies
and Constraints of China’s International
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Politics Since 1949.” 12:30 to 1:45 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Room 602,
Elliott School of International Affairs,
George Washington University, 1957 E St.
NW. go.gwu.edu/Sutter.
■ In recognition of Constitution Day,
University of Virginia
law professor Risa L.
Goluboff will discuss
“How the Constitution
Changes: Social and
Political Aspects of the
Law.” 1 p.m. Free.
Montpelier Room,
Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101
Independence Ave. SE. 202-707-4642.
■ “Wars of Necessity or Wars of Discretion? Iraq, Afghanistan and Beyond” will
feature Ryan Crocker
(shown), former U.S.
ambassador to Iraq
and Afghanistan and
dean of the Bush
School of Government
and Public Service at
Texas A&M University;
Andrew Bacevich, chair of international
relations at Boston University; and Robin
Wright, a joint fellow at the U.S. Institute of
Peace and Woodrow Wilson International
Center. 5 to 6:30 p.m. Free. Lohrfink Auditorium, Hariri Building, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. guevents.
georgetown.edu.
■ “The Situation in Egypt” will feature
panelists Yasser Elnaggar, deputy chief of
mission at the Embassy of the Arab Republic
of Egypt; Khaled Elgindy (shown), a Brookings Institution fellow;
and Dina Guirguis,
director of advocacy at
the Tahrir Institute for
Middle East Policy. Cocktails and hors
d’oeuvres at 6 p.m.; discussion at 6:45
p.m. $10 to $25. Woman’s National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave.
NW. 202-232-7363.
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■ Landscape architect Chip Callaway
will discuss his work restoring the gardens
and grounds of historic properties from
Maine to Florida. 6 to 8 p.m. $50 to $100.
Conservatory Garden Court, U.S. Botanic
Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-2258333.
■ Actress Barbara Sukowa will discuss
“Interpreting History on the Screen.” 6:30
p.m. Free; reservations required. GoetheInstitut, 812 7th St. NW.
■ Callan Bentley, associate professor
of geology at Northern Virginia Community
College, will discuss “The Snowball Earth
Theory,” about a paradigm-shifting concept
that addresses modern climate change
and human existence on Earth. 6:45 to
8:45 p.m. $30 to $42. S. Dillon Ripley
Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202633-3030.
■ Classical scholar, commentator and
television personality Mary Beard will discuss her book “Confronting the Classics:
Traditions, Adventures, and Innovations.”
6:45 to 8:15 p.m. $18 to $25. Navy
Memorial, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
202-633-3030.
■ Gene Luen Yang will discuss his
graphic novel “Boxers & Saints.” 7 p.m.
Free. Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-3080.
■ Haitian-American
author Edwidge Danticat will discuss her
book “Claire of the Sea
Light.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015
Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
■ Georgetown University professor
Daniel Madigan will discuss “The Qur’an:
Book or Voice?” 7 p.m. Free. Martin Luther
King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW.
202-727-0321.
■ The Center for Environmental Filmmaking and Filmmakers for Conservation
will present a talk on “Substance Versus
Sex Appeal” by Jared Lipworth, executive
producer of specials at National Geographic Television. 7 p.m. Free. Wechsler Theater, Mary Graydon Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
202-885-3408.
■ As part of American University’s
Books That Shaped America series, physics professor Nathan Harshman will lead a
discussion of “Experiments and Observations on Electricity” by Benjamin Franklin.
7 p.m. Free. Abramson Family Founders
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Room, School of International Service
Building, American University, Nebraska
and New Mexico avenues NW. 202-8853847.
■ Mollie Katzen, an inductee to the
James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame, will
discuss her book “The Heart of the Plate,”
featuring 250 healthful, unfussy vegetarian dishes. 7 p.m. $15. Sixth & I Historic
Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487.
■ “The State of the Constitution: What
Americans Really Know” will feature a
panel discussion with Akhil Reed Aar, professor of law and political science at Yale University; U.S. Sen. Amy
Jean Klobuchar
(shown), D-Minn.; and
Edwin Meese III,
author, law professor
and former U.S. attorney general. 7:30 p.m. Free. McGowan
Theater, National Archives Building, Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th streets
NW. 202-357-5000.
Films
■ “Stoppard on Screen” will feature the
1990 film “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
Are Dead,” starring Gary Oldman, Tim Roth
and Richard Dreyfuss. 6 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-7270232.
■ The Popular Movie Series will feature
Marc Forster’s
2013 film
“World War Z.”
6 p.m. Free.
Room A-5, Martin Luther King
Jr. Memorial
Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.
■ A Czech film series will feature Jirí
Menzel’s 1981 film “Cutting It Short” 7
p.m. Free. Bistro Bohem, 600 Florida Ave.
NW. bistrobohem.com.
■ The Washington DC Jewish Community Center will screen the fifth episode of
the Israeli television show “Hatufim,” which
inspired the American hit “Homeland.”
7:30 to 8:30 p.m. $9. Washington DC Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW.
washingtondcjcc.org.
■ Aquila Recovery, Caron Foundation
and Cumberland Heights will present Greg
Williams’ documentary “The Anonymous
People,” about the birth and growth of
America’s addiction recovery movement. A
panel discussion will follow. 8 p.m. $10
donation suggested. Avalon Theatre, 5612
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-244-0962. The
film will be shown again Sept. 24 at 8 p.m.
Meeting
■ The Science Fiction and Fantasy
Book Club will discuss “Fledgling” by Octavia E. Butler. 7 p.m. Free. Martin Luther
King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW.
202-727-0321.
Performance
■ Busboys and Poets will present an
open mic poetry night. 9 to 11 p.m. $5.
14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
Tours
■ Biochemist Beth Burrous will lead a
walking tour highlighting African plants that
are used to make everything from life-saving medicines to sweet and savory foods
and coffee. Noon to 1 p.m. Free. Conservatory Garden Court, U.S. Botanic Garden,
100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.
■ An in-depth tour of the Washington
National Cathedral will precede a traditional English tea. 1:30 p.m. $30. Washington
Tuesday, september 17
■ Reading: The Lannan Center
will present a reading by poet Mark
Doty. 8 p.m. Free. Formal Lounge,
Copley Hall, Georgetown University,
37th and O streets NW.
guevents.georgetown.edu.
National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave.
NW. nationalcathedral.org. The tour will
repeat Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 18
Wednesday
september 18
Auditions
■ The Children’s Chorus of Washington
will hold auditions for its vocal programs
for ages 9 through 18. Various times. Free;
reservations required. Wisconsin Avenue
Baptist Church, 3920 Alton Place NW.
202-237-1005.
Concert
■ Serbian flutist Andjela Bratic and
Serbian pianist Jasna Popovic will perform.
6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Peggy Wagner of the Library of Congress will discuss “Religion in America During the Civil War.” Noon. Free. “The Civil
War in America” exhibition, second floor,
Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10
1st St. SE. 202-707-4604.
■ “An American Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration” will feature a
viewing of the “Civil War Battlefields” film
on Manassas (Bull Run) and a talk by Sam
Smith of the Civil War Trust. Noon. Free.
National Museum of American Jewish Military History, 1811 R St. NW. 202-2656280.
■ Richard Rashke will discuss his book
“Useful Enemies: John Demjanjuk and
America’s Open-Door Policy for Nazi War
Criminals.” Noon. Free. Newspaper and
Current Periodical Reading Room, Madison
Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. 202-707-3012.
■ “Is Europe Joining the International
Religious Freedom Bandwagon?” will feature Pasquale Annicchino, a fellow at the
European University Institute and the University of Salerno, and David Reeves Taylor,
chair of Christian Solidarity Worldwide and
a former British diplomat. Noon to 2 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Georgetown
University Berkley Center, Suite 200, 3307
M St. NW. berkleycenter.georgetown.edu.
■ National Museum of Women in the
Arts digital media specialist Laura Hoffman will discuss selections from “American People, Black Light: Faith Ringgold’s
Paintings of the 1960s.” Noon to 12:30
p.m. Free. National Museum of Women in
the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. 202783-7370.
■ Homa Sabet Tavangar will discuss
her book “Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be at Home in the World.” 12:30
to 2 p.m. $35. Cullen Room, Busboys and
Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. e-collaborate.
eventbrite.com.
■ Scott Scholz, deputy director and
curator of Dumbarton House, will discuss
the newly acquired New York Easy Chair
and its important place in the historical
interpretation of Dumbarton House. 12:30
p.m. Free; reservations encouraged.
Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW.
dumbartonhouse.org.
■ John Zogby will discuss his book
“First Globals: Understanding, Managing &
Unleashing the Potential of Our Millennial
Generation.” 3:30 to 5 p.m. Free.
Abramson Family Founders Room, School
of International Service Building, American
University, Nebraska and New Mexico avenues NW. american.edu/calendar.
■ Former New York City Mayor David
Dinkins will discuss his book “A Mayor’s
Life: Governing New York’s Gorgeous
Mosaic.” 6:30 p.m. Free. Barnes & Noble,
555 12th St. NW. 202-347-0176.
■ Jim Zimbelman, an astrophysicist at
the National Air and Space Museum, and
Linda Welzenbach, curator of the meteor
collection at the National Museum of Natural History, will discuss “The Sky Is Falling:
Following the Trail of Meteorites.” 6:45 to
8:45 p.m. $30 to $42. S. Dillon Ripley
Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202633-3030.
■ The Humanities Council of Washington, DC, will present Richard McCann and
Danielle Evans reading from their fiction
and discussing why D.C. is such an important setting for their work. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Free. Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Library, 1630
7th St. NW. dcbythebook.org.
■ Sheri Fink will discuss her book “Five
Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a
Storm-Ravaged Hospital.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
■ New York artist Teresita Fernández
will discuss “Bamboo Cinema, Blind Landscape, and Stacked Waters.” 7 p.m. Free.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th
and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.
■ Rainbow Rowell will discuss her book
“Fangirl.” 7 p.m. Free. Children & Teens
Department, Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Bob Shacochis will discuss his book
“The Woman Who Lost Her Soul.” 7 p.m.
Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.
■ Artists Lilian Thomas Burwell,
Marilee Shapiro and Carmen Torreulla
Quander — participants in the 2012-2013
Art Cart: Saving the Legacy project — will
discuss “Flourishing in the Creative Life.” 7
p.m. Free; reservations required. Corcoran
Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW.
eventbrite.com/event/7684098345.
■ The Chevy Chase Citizens Association Garden Club will host a talk by Chrissy
Moore, curator of the 2.5-acre National
Herb Garden of the U.S. Arboretum. 7:15
p.m. Free. Chevy Chase Community Center,
5601 Connecticut Ave. NW.
[email protected].
Films
■ The Global Lens Film
Series will feature Mani
Haghighi’s
2012 film
“Modest
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of Chile,” featuring tapestries created by the Chilean people to
depict the harsh realities under the Pinochet
regime, will open today with a reception from
On exhibit
6 to 7 p.m. in the rotunda of the Katzen Arts
Center. Continuing through Oct. 20, the
exhibit commemorates the 40th anniversary
of the military coup that brought the ruthless
dictator to power.
Located on the campus of American University at 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW, the
center is open daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
202-885-1300.
■ “Art Cart: Cherishing the Legacy,” presenting works by artists between the ages of 63
and 100 who live in D.C. and New York, will
open today with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m.
at Corcoran Gallery of Art’s free Gallery 31.
The exhibit will continue through Sept. 29.
Located at 500 17th St. NW, the gallery is
open Wednesday through Sunday from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday until 9 p.m. 202639-1700.
■ “Pieces of History — The Collage Art of
John M. Williams,” highlighting collages by
an artist with autism, will open Saturday with
a reception from 1 to 4 p.m. at Off-Rhode
Studio. The show will close with an artist’s
reception Sept. 28 from 1 to 4 p.m.
Located at 2204 Rhode Island Ave. NE,
the gallery is open Monday through Friday
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-554-9455.
■ “Believer,” featuring paintings by Washington-area artist Christine Gray that juxtapose
the banal and the spectacular, will open Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8:30 p.m. at
Project 4. It will continue through Oct. 26.
Located at 1353 U St. NW on the third
floor, the gallery is open Wednesday through
Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. 202-232-4340.
■ “Text/Message,” presenting ceramic vessels
and wall pieces by Chevy Chase artist Kanika
Sircar that focus on the aesthetic and visual
impact of writing, opened yesterday at the
Waverly Street Gallery, where it will continue through Oct. 5.
An opening reception will take place Fri-
day from 6 to 9 p.m.
Located at 4600 East-West Highway in
Bethesda, the gallery is open Tuesday through
Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. 301-951-9441.
■ “Our Lady of Perpetual Exhaustion,” a
group show on the theme of getting motivated in the morning for the day’s activities,
opened last week at Watergate Gallery and
will continue through Oct. 5.
Receptions will be held Sept. 18 and 26
from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., and a closing party
will take place Oct. 5 from 5 to 8 p.m.
Located at 2552 Virginia Ave. NW, the
gallery is open Monday through Friday from
10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from noon to
5 p.m. 202-338-4488.
■ Cross MacKenzie Gallery opened an
exhibit last week of abstract expressionist
prints by the late Helen Frankenthaler and
clay vessels by one of her disciples, Beth
Kaminstein. It will continue through Oct. 2.
Located at 2026 R St. NW, the gallery is
open Wednesday through Saturday from noon
to 6 p.m. 202-333-7970.
■ The National Air and Space Museum will
begin exhibiting Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex
Chilean tapestries like this one, shown in
detail, are part of a display at American
University’s Katzen Arts Center.
on the Flight of Birds” Friday as part of “The
Year of Italian Culture in the United States.”
On view through Oct. 22, the extraordinary
document, created circa 1505, shows da Vinci’s interest in human flight by exploring bird
behavior and aerodynamic principles.
Located at 6th Street and Independence
Avenue SW, the museum is open daily from
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000.
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“Measure for Measure,” the Bard’s dark comedy
about the dual nature of humanity as both tragic
and comic, Sept. 12 through Oct. 27 at the Lansburgh
Theatre.
Director Jonathan Munby places Shakespeare’s
story in late 1930s Europe — steeped in cabaret culture, and with Fascism on the rise. When the Duke of
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Vienna takes a leave of absence and hands his power
over to the iron-fisted Angelo, a new regime brings the
very definitions of vice and virtue into question.
The production contains partial nudity, violence and
adult situations; the Shakespeare Theatre Company recommends it for ages 18 and older, but says it may be
suitable for mature 16- and 17-year-olds.
Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday; 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday;
and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $40 to
$100, with some discounts available. The Lansburgh
Theatre is located at 450 7th St. NW. 202-547-1122;
shakespearetheatre.org.
■ National Geographic will host journalist and author
Jim Lehrer’s one-man play “Bell” Sept. 12 through 21.
Starring veteran Washington actor Rick Foucheux,
the play reveals the extraordinary genius of inventor
Alexander Graham Bell — including the fierce rivalries, tender relationships and bittersweet triumphs that
helped shape his life.
Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday through
Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday. Tickets start at $30.
National Geographic is located at 17th and M streets
NW. 202-857-7700; events.nationalgeographic.com.
■ GALA Hispanic Theatre will present the world premiere of “Cabaret Barroco: Interludes of Spain’s Golden Age” Sept. 12 through Oct. 6.
The pieces offer a peek into the underside of Spain’s
17th-century society. The production, the result of a
partnership with Madrid’s artists collective Acción Sur,
is performed in Spanish with English surtitles.
Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $20 to $42.
GALA Theatre is located at 3333 14th St. NW. 202234-7174; galatheatre.org.
■ American University and Global Performing Arts
will present Akbar Ahmed’s “Noor” Sept. 14 and 15 in
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who are faced with the kidnapping of their younger sister by unidentified soldiers during Ramadan. As the
brothers grapple with how to rescue Noor while preserving their honor, they undergo the same crisis within
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Kumar; and an Indian, Pakistani and Afghan cast. A
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bags of money on the poor. 6:30 p.m.
Free. Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave.
NW. 202-243-1188.
■ The French Cinémathèque series will
feature Pierre
Schoeller’s
2011 political
thriller “The
Minister,”
about the
transformation
of an idealist into a pragmatist. 8 p.m.
$8.50 to $11.50. Avalon Theatre, 5612
■ Dumbarton House will continue its
Jane Austen film festival with the 2005
adaptation of “Pride & Prejudice,” starring
Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen.
8:30 p.m. Free; donations accepted.
Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW.
prideandprejudiceatdumbartonhouse.
eventbrite.com.
Meeting
■ A support group for job seekers will
hold its weekly meeting in Tenleytown. 2
p.m. Free. Panera Bread, 4501 Wisconsin
Ave. NW. [email protected].
Performances
■ The Happenings at the Harman
series will feature a performance by Dakshina/Daniel Phoenix Singh Dance Company. Noon. Free. Sidney Harman Hall, 610
F St. NW. 202-547-1122.
■ The Happenings Happy Hour series
will feature “Burlesque Meets Cabaret”
with Shortstaxx and friends. 5:30 p.m.
Free. Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F St. NW.
202-547-1122.
■ Story League will hold a storytelling
contest about “Dunces,” with a $100
The Current
grand prize. 9 to 11 p.m. $10. Langston
NW. storyleague.org.
■ Artist, activist and performer Jonathan B. Tucker will host an open mic event.
9 to 11 p.m. $5. Cullen Room, Busboys
and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-7892227.
Special events
■ Corcoran College of Art + Design students, alumni and faculty members will
join local journalists, activists and writers
as they respond to the “War/Photography”
exhibit through poetry and spoken word. 6
p.m. Free. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500
17th St. NW. 202-639-1770.
■ The National Press Club will host a
“Centennial Spelling Bee,” a rematch of a
1913 event pitting members of Congress
against Washington reporters. Proceeds
will benefit the club’s nonprofit Journalism
Institute. 8 p.m. $15 to $25. National
Press Club, 529 14th St. NW.
press.org/spelling-bee.
Wine tasting
■ A wine tasting led by Jeremy Silva will
feature artisan French wines selected by
custom importer Ansonia Wines. 6 to 8:30
p.m. $20 to $25. Woman’s National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave.
NW. 202-232-7363.
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Classes
■ The National Archives will present a
talk on how to use its online resources. 11
a.m. Free. Room G-25, Research Center,
National Archives Building, Pennsylvania
202-357-5000.
■ Cherie Lester, healthy eating specialist at Whole Foods Market, will lead a class
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and political activist Joe Madison will
discuss “What Are YOU Going to
Do?” Luncheon at 12:15 p.m.;
program at 1 p.m. $10 to $30.
Woman’s National Democratic Club,
1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202232-7363.
on reading and understanding nutrition
labels. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Whole Foods Market
Georgetown, 2323 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
[email protected].
Concerts
■ “Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement”
will feature Nasar Abadey and Supernova
performing works by Max Roach, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus and Cal Massey. 5
to 7 p.m. Free. Smithsonian American Art
Museum, 8th and F streets NW. 202-6331000.
■ The U.S. Navy Band’s Commodores
ensemble will perform. 7:30 p.m. Free.
Yards Park, 355 Water St. SE. 202-4334011.
■ The Chevy Chase and Georgetown
chapters of the National Active and Retired
Federal Employees Association will present
a talk by member Jeffery King on his book
“Kill-Crazy Gang: The Crimes of the LewisJones Gang,” about one of the first gangs
to use the automobile. Noon. Free. TenleyFriendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave.
NW. 202-727-1488.
■ David Robertson will discuss his
book “The Original Compromise: What the
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■ University of Maryland at College
Park professor Shibley Telhami, George
Washington University professor Nathan J.
Brown and George Washington University
professor Marc Lynch will discuss new
trends in Arab public opinion. 5:30 to 7:30
p.m. Free; reservations required. Room
602, Elliott School of International Affairs,
George Washington University, 1957 E St.
NW. tinyurl.com/loqvwr7.
■ Yve-Alain Bois, a professor at Princeton University specializing in 20th-century
European and American art, will discuss
Ellsworth Kelly’s works. 6:30 p.m. Free.
Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. 202387-2151.
■ The World Affairs Council will present
a talk by retired American diplomat Chas
Freeman, author of
“Interesting Times:
China, America, and
the Shifting Balance of
Prestige.” 6:30 to 8
p.m. Free; reservations
required. 11th Floor, 1700 K St. NW. 202293-1051.
■ Peniel Joseph, professor of history at
Tufts University, will discuss his book “Dark
Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to
Barack Obama.” 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free.
14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
■ Graffiti historian and author Roger
Gastman will discuss “Graffiti and Street
Art” and introduce a screening of the documentary “The Legend of Cool ‘Disco’ Dan.”
6:30 to 8:45 p.m. $20 to $25. S. Dillon
Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW.
202-633-3030.
■ Sabrina Alcorn Baron, visiting assistant professor of history at the University of
Maryland at College Park, will discuss
“Richard III, Then and Now,” about the
myriad questions surrounding the mysterious monarch. 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. $30 to
$42. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Reza Aslan will
discuss his book “Zealot: The Life and Times
of Jesus of Nazareth.”
7 p.m. Free. Politics
and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.
■ Elizabeth Wein will discuss her book
“Rose Under Fire.” 7 p.m. Free. Children &
Teens Department, Politics and Prose,
■ Jim Ziolkowski, a former corporate
financier, will discuss his book “Walk in
Their Shoes: Can One Person Change the
World?” 7 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library,
3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.
■ Robert Wilson will discuss his biography “Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation.”
7 p.m. $5 to $10. Corcoran Gallery of Art,
500 17th St. NW. 202-639-1770.
■ Juliet Bellow, assistant professor of
art history at American University, will discuss “Afterlives of the Artwork of the
Future,” about Richard Wagner’s artistic
aspiration to unify various media. 7:30 to
9:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St. NW.
■ The Visiting Writers series will feature
a reading and talk by American University
alumna Linda Daly, author of “The Last Pilgrimage: My Mother’s Life and Our Journey
to Saying Goodbye.” A discussion with non-
fiction writers Glen Finland, Richard
McCann and Rachel Louis Snyder will follow. 8 p.m. Free. Battelle-Tompkins Atrium,
American University, 4400 Massachusetts
Ave. NW. american.edu/visitingwriters.
Films
■ The Third Thursday Film Series will
feature Mehreen Jabbar’s 2008 film
“Ramchand Pakistani.” 6 p.m. Free.
Abramson Family Founders Room, School
of International Service, American University, Nebraska and New Mexico avenues
NW. 202-885-1747.
■ The Pulitzer Center Film Festival —
“Global Crises, Human Stories,” a weeklong celebration of reporting from around
the world — will open with the D.C. premiere of “The Abominable Crime,” about
homophobia’s deadly consequences in
Jamaica. A discussion with director Micah
Fink will follow. 7 p.m. Free; reservations
required. West End Cinema, 2301 M St.
NW. [email protected]. The festival
will continue through Sept. 26 with screenings at various times.
Meeting
■ The Classics Book Group will discuss
“A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” by
James Joyce. 7 p.m. Free. Barnes & Noble,
555 12th St. NW. 202-347-0176.
Performances
■ As part of the Local Dance Commissioning Project, the Good Foot Dance Company, Urban Artistry, Emily Oleson and Baakari Wilder will perform “The Meaning of
Buck Dance.” 6 p.m. Free. Millennium
The performance will repeat Friday at 6
p.m.
■ NSO Pops will present Cirque de la
Symphonie’s acrobats, contortionists, jugglers and illusionists performing feats choreographed to the music of Wagner, SaintSaëns, Tchaikovsky, Bernstein, Rossini and
Sibelius, among others. 7 p.m. $20 to
$85. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600. The performance will repeat
Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday
at 3 p.m.
■ The Alliance for New Music-Theatre
will present “TranSoul,” featuring composer Michael Bowie’s music ensemble Siné
Qua Non and Shawn Short’s Dissonance
Dance Theatre in a dance-theater journey.
8 p.m. $20 to $30. Sprenger Theatre,
Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St.
NE. 202-399-7993. The performance will
repeat Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
Special event
■ The Woman’s National Democratic
Club will host a reception in honor of the
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s
43rd annual legislative conference. 6:30
to 8:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Woman’s National Democratic Club, 1526
New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.
Sporting event
the Miami Marlins. 7:05 p.m. $5 to $65.
Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE.
888-632-6287. The series will continue
Friday and Saturday at 7:05 p.m. and Sunday at 1:35 p.m.
Walk
■ Birder Sheila Cochran will lead a
walk through the Olmsted Woods. 8:30
a.m. Free. Meet at the George Washington
statue on Pilgrim Road on the grounds of
the Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW.
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present at the actual march half a
century ago. They gave advice,
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students got the chance to ask the
panelists their own questions. At the
end of the program, the Rev. Bernice King encouraged the body to
become young activists and continue to work hard.
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Shepherd Elementary
Hi. My name is Henry Trimble. I
am in the fourth grade in Ms.
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forward to this coming year at
Shepherd.
This year I will be joining Safety
Patrol where I will work with Ms.
Holt and Ms. Guldin and other students to help kids cross the streets
safely.
Over the summer the Shepherd
building got a lot of renovations.
My favorite renovation is the new
Washington Latin Public
Charter School
Our school opened its new
building this week, for the first time
combining the middle school and
high school into a single school
with grades five through 12. Previously our classes were spread
between multiple campuses on 16th
Street NW.
This single campus allows upper
school students to continue to visit
and stay in touch with our middle
school teachers. It’s a bigger building, and now all the students share a
single cafeteria. The upper school
eats lunch together. The rooms are
better lit, and it makes students
more alert to have so much sun-
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Sept. 15 through 27 in the Kennedy Center Opera
House.
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transformative power of love, the beautiful Irish maiden
Isolde is sailing to Cornwall to marry King Marke. But
first she must avenge the death of her former lover by
killing Tristan, a dashing knight and nephew of the
king.
In a late casting change, Swedish soprano Iréne Theorin will perform alongside noted Wagnerian tenors Ian
Storey and Clifton Forbis. British soprano Alwyn Mellor will take over the role of Isolde for the final performance.
Performance times are 2 p.m. Sept. 15 and 6 p.m.
Sept. 18, 21, 24 and 27. Tickets start at $25. 202-4674600; kennedy-center.org.
■ The In Series will present a new adaptation of
Mozart’s “The Abduction From the Seraglio” through
Sept. 22 at Source.
Bari Biern’s version transplants the story to the
1800s Wild West. Belmont must rescue his beloved, the
famous English actress Lillie Langtry, from the clutches
of her obsessed admirer, the notorious “Hanging Judge”
Roy Bean. Meanwhile, the villainous Osmond has Lillie’s assistants within his power — or so he thinks.
Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Sept. 12; 8 p.m.
Sept. 14, 20 and 21; and 3 p.m. Sept. 15 and 22. Tickets
cost $20 to $40. Source is located at 1835 14th St. NW.
202-204-7763; inseries.org.
■ Palestinian arts group Freedom Theatre will perform
the South African anti-apartheid play “The Island” Sept.
16 and 17 at Georgetown University’s Davis Performing Arts Center.
Written by Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston
Ntshona and inspired by a true story, the play revolves
around two prison cellmates — one about to be
released, the other serving a life sentence. The two
spend their days at mind-numbing physical labor; at
night they rehearse for a production of Sophocles’
“Antigone.”
Part of Freedom Theatre’s inaugural U.S. tour, the
performances follow sold-out shows at its theater and
cultural center in Jenin Refugee Camp, Palestine. A discussion with the artists and policy experts will follow
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light. The air conditioning is better,
which also keeps us alert and
focused.
The library is a new space in the
building, with enormous glass windows that extend up two floors and
face the sports fields. There is more
room to use the library as a place
for homework, and there is more
light, too. At our old building we
used the library for activities like
dance class and clubs, so it was
hard to do work there, but the new
library is filled with quiet space for
silent work. Now we have other
meeting spaces like conference
rooms for community council meetings. We also now have our own
fields exclusively for sports, so we
don’t need to hold practices on the
blacktop or in classrooms.
Now we can combine middle
school students and upper school
students in classes and clubs and all
students can take music, drama and
dance. With our new building, it
really is clear that we are one
school.
— Niara Tarleton-Allen,
10th-grader
each performance.
Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. Tickets cost $7 to $15. The Davis Performing Arts
Center is located on the Georgetown University campus
at 37th and O streets NW. 202-687-2787;
performingarts.georgetown.edu.
■ The Keegan Theatre has extended Aaron Sorkin’s
drama “A Few Good Men” through Sept. 14.
First produced on Broadway in 1989 and inspiring
an Academy Award-nominated film of the same name,
the play tells the story of military lawyers who uncover
a high-level conspiracy in the course of defending their
clients, two U.S. Marines accused of murder.
Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Tickets cost $30 to $35. The Andrew Keegan
Theatre (formerly known as the Church Street Theater)
is located at 1742 Church St. NW. 703-892-0202;
keegantheatre.com.
■ Theater Alliance has extended Nathan Louis Jackson’s family drama “Broke-ology” through Sept. 15 at
the Anacostia Playhouse.
William King, a single father, has successfully raised
two children despite challenging circumstances. Overcoming the death of his wife, King has instilled responsibility, loyalty, love and obligation in his sons. As his
illness slowly takes over, the King sons are charged
with decisions about his care.
Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday and 7 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost
$15 to $25. The Anacostia Playhouse is located at 2020
Shannon Place SE. 202-241-2539; theateralliance.com.
■ The Shakespeare Theatre Company will host “Potted Potter: The Unauthorized Harry Experience”
through Sept. 15 in the Sidney Harman Hall.
Written and performed by Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner, the family-friendly parody condenses all
seven Harry Potter books (and a real-life game of Quidditch) into 70 minutes.
Performance times vary. Tickets start at $45. The
Sidney Harman Hall is located at 610 F St. NW. 202547-1122; shakespearetheatre.org.
■ Rorschach Theatre will present Robert Kauzlaric’s
adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel “Neverwhere”
through Sept. 15 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center.
In this urban fantasy, a wounded girl appears on the
London sidewalk in front of Richard Mayhew. Quickly
he’s plunged into an underworld where heroes and
monsters are real and where death awaits.
Performance times are generally 8 p.m. Monday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets cost $15 to $30. The Atlas Performing Arts
Center is located at 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993;
rorschachtheatre.com.
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