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Serving Communities in Northwest Washington Since 1967
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Vol. XLV, No. 20
The Northwest Current
City to study
intersection of
Military, 42nd
Council budget keeps
social services funding
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■ Finance: Measure includes
limited late-night ABC sales
By BRADY HOLT
Current Staff Writer
Neighbors tend to agree that the
intersection of 42nd Street and
Military Road can be dangerous.
Northbound 42nd Street drivers who
ignore the requirement to turn right
onto Military — and instead try to
turn left or continue straight — are
frequently struck by drivers heading
west on Military, residents said, as
regularly as twice a month.
But when the D.C. Department
of Transportation said it would solve
the issue by installing barriers that
would force all 42nd Street traffic
— northbound and southbound —
to make right turns onto Military,
some neighborhood residents
objected. This would send cutthrough traffic onto their streets,
they argued, which would be a
disaster without additional mitigation.
After extensive discussion
among residents of different streets,
the Friendship Heights advisory
neighborhood commission voted
unanimously last week to advocate
for a compromise plan, crafted by
See Traffic/Page 19
By ELIZABETH WIENER
The D.C. Council yesterday
adopted a revised budget proposal
for next year that boosts funding for
affordable housing, immigrant
health care and various social services, but places a repeal of municipal bond taxes at the bottom of an
unfunded “wish list.”
Patched together by Council
Chairman Kwame Brown, the newly
adopted budget also provides fund-
Developer plans affordable
housing for Wisconsin site
By ELIZABETH WIENER
Bill Petros/The Current
Deal Middle School presented Rodgers and Hammerstein’s
classic musical “Oklahoma!” last week. The production had the
largest cast ever in the school’s history, with more than 130
sixth- through eighth-graders.
World record attempt starts at Lab School
By KATIE PEARCE
Alex Malchow started off the
marathon Thursday by stepping up
to a podium to read the first sentence
of his own book.
“Evil,” the 17-year-old said into a
computer mic, before pivoting away
to let the next student come up.
“Within this simple word lies a
vast collection of deeds,” the second
reader said into the mic.
With their words broadcast live
on the Internet, a long line of students from the Lab School of
Washington took turns reading
through the first 47 sentences of
“The Sword of Darrow,” a youngadult fantasy novel. When they were
NEWS
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— Page 3
ing for his own initiative to increase
the college readiness of public
school students, and includes $2.1
million to buy books and other materials for public libraries.
Though affordable housing was a
dominant issue yesterday, there
wasn’t much discussion of what
Brown cut from Mayor Vincent
Gray’s original $5.8 billion budget
for fiscal 2013 into order to fund it.
The biggest chunk of “found”
money came from Brown’s decision
to shift an estimated $18 million in
proceeds from sale of a city-owned
building at 35-41 K St. NE from
park improvements in the surroundSee Budget/Page 19
A Lab School alumnus wrote the
relay’s centerpiece novel.
done, another school took over the
live reading.
By the end of the event, more
than 470 students from 26 schools
across the country had read through
the entirety of the book, sentence by
sentence. The “extreme reading
relay,” a fundraiser and promotional
event for the International Dyslexia
Association, ended around 11:25
a.m. at the Jemicy School in Owings
Mills, Md.
Though results aren’t official —
there’s paperwork involved — participants believe they’ve broken the
Guinness World Record for the largest number of people in a reading
relay for a single book.
The most notable detail of the
effort is that all of the 26 schools
involved specialize in programs for
students with learning disabilities
and dyslexia.
Marty Cathcart, director of institutional advancement at the Lab
See Reading/Page 15
SPOR TS
St. Albans falls
to Prep in IAC
baseball title
game
— Page 11
Ever since developer Mark
Kaufman bought the 1905 woodframe house on Wisconsin Avenue
in 2004, he’s sought unsuccessfully
to win approval to raze it or move it
elsewhere in the Cleveland Park
Historic District.
But the little green house still sits,
more dilapidated with each passing
year, and now more incongruous
than ever, wedged between two
apartment buildings and a block
from the site of an impeding mixeduse development, to be anchored by
a new Giant supermarket. The twostory home sits on a lot zoned for
90-foot-tall buildings.
Now Kaufman is back with a
new plan to demolish the longvacant house at 3211 Wisconsin
Ave. and replace it with a six-story
condominium building, but with a
big sweetener: 40 percent “affordable housing.”
That perk probably still won’t get
the project by the city’s Historic
Preservation Review Board, which
has never allowed demolition of a
contributing building in the
Cleveland Park district. But
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Preservation board approval is
required to demolish the house.
Kaufman and his co-developer, a
respected affordable-housing firm
called Urban Matters Development
Partners, are banking on the Mayor’s
Agent for Historic Preservation, an
administrative judge who can overrule the board, to approve their proposal as a project of “special merit.”
Ray Nix, managing partner of
Urban Matters, said the current plan
is for 18 condo units, eight of them
“affordable.” Two units, affordable
to households earning up to 50 percent of area medium income, will
meet inclusionary zoning law
requirements, and one more will be
priced for those earning up to 80
percent of the medium income. Five
See House/Page 13
INDEX
Calendar/20
Classifieds/29
District Digest/4
Exhibits/23
In Your Neighborhood/10
Opinion/8
Police Report/6
Real Estate/17
School Dispatches/14
Service Directory/25
Sports/11
Theater/23
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Lawyers seek class-action status in lead suit against D.C. water authority
By ELIZABETH WIENER
A lawsuit over lead in the District’s water is
advancing. Lawyers last week asked a judge to
certify class-action status for families with
children who may have been harmed between
2000 and 2004 because D.C. Water and Sewer
Authority officials allegedly failed to notify
the public that lead levels had spiked due to a
change in treatment methods.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Anita JoseyHerring previously refused to dismiss the suit,
filed by Sanford Wittels & Heisler in 2009. It
seeks $200 million in compensatory damages,
unspecified punitive damages and “free intellectual and psychological testing” for children
who drank city-supplied water during those
years. It also seeks medical monitoring and
treatment, and special education for those who
suffered intellectual or developmental damage.
The boutique law firm, which specializes in
class-action cases, originally filed the suit on
behalf of John Parkhurst, a Capitol Hill father
whose twin sons drank formula made with tap
water, and still suffer from attention deficit
disorder and learning disabilities. Parkhurst
has said he would not have used tap water if
water authority officials had disclosed the lead
problem.
The suit has since been expanded to include
four other families, with five more children, as
named plaintiffs. If certified, the class would
include any child who was 6 or younger
between 2000 and 2004, who “consumed
WASA-supplied water that passed through a
line containing lead and had blood-lead levels”
of 10 micrograms per deciliter, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention’s “level of
See Water/Page 9
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Late-stage traffic changes to Giant development draw crowd to meeting
By KATIE PEARCE
With most details of the Cathedral
Commons development cemented by now,
officials gave updates Monday on final tweaks
to the project’s two Wisconsin Avenue intersections.
Construction is expected to start next month
on the mixed-use development, which centers
around a brand-new Giant grocery store on
Newark Street.
But despite the project’s advanced stage
after years of negotiations and review, neighbors continue to voice strong opinions about it.
The intended narrow scope of Monday’s meet-
The week ahead
Wednesday, May 16
The D.C. State Board of Education will hold a public meeting to discuss the
District’s requirement that students complete 100 hours of community service to
graduate from high school. The meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. in Room 412 of
the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
■ The D.C. Department of the Environment will hold a public meeting to discuss
its draft D.C. Environmental Literacy Plan, which outlines ideas for implementing
environmental education throughout the curricula from kindergarten through
12th grade. The meeting will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Room A-03, Building
41, University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW.
■ Trees for Georgetown will hold its spring fundraiser from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at
the historic “Cox’s Row” home of Patrick McGettigan, 3327 N St. NW. For details,
contact Betsy Emes at [email protected].
■ The American Legion will host a veterans town-hall meeting on the quality of
health care at the Washington DC VA Medical Center and the Southeast outpatient clinic. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at American Legion Post 8, 224 D St.
SE.
Thursday, May 17
AARP District of Columbia will sponsor a Ward 4 Active Living Workshop,
which will include discussion of how walkability and livability benefit communities
and how an active community environment can be achieved. Speakers will
include Dan Burden, executive director of the Walkable and Livable Communities
Institute. The event will be held from 8:45 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Brightwood Park
United Methodist Church, 744 Jefferson St. NW. To register, call 877-926-8300 or
visit aarp.cvent.com/DC_Activelivingworkshop.
■ The Friends of the Georgetown Library group will host a reception to celebrate
two art donations to the newly renovated library — Arthur Day’s rendition of
Georgetown streets, donated by the artist; and Sidney Lawrence’s cityscape
depicting the original plan of L’Enfant, donated by advisory neighborhood commission chair Tom Birch. The event will begin at 5 p.m. at the library, 3260 R St. NW.
For details, contact [email protected] or [email protected].
■ The D.C. Office of Planning will hold a community meeting on the Walter Reed
Army Medical Center Small Area Plan. Discussion items will include proposed
urban design guidelines and Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map designations for
the site. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Shepherd Elementary
School, 7800 14th St. NW.
■ The Cleveland Park Citizens Association will hold its monthly meeting, which will
include a discussion of public safety and crime prevention. Speakers will include
Metropolitan Police Department Assistant Chief Diane Groomes, 2nd District
Police Cmdr. Michael Reese and Georgetown advisory neighborhood commissioner Bill Starrels. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Cleveland
Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW.
■ The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority will hold a public meeting to
discuss the potential consolidation of bus stops to improve efficiency and on-time
performance, particularly on Metro’s 70s and 90s routes. The meeting will begin
at 7 p.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 7005 Piney Branch Road NW.
■ The Kalorama Citizens Association will hold its monthly meeting, which will feature presentations by D.C. Office on Aging executive director John Thompson on
aging in place and D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation chief of staff John
Stokes on the agency’s three facilities in Adams Morgan. The meeting will begin
at 7 p.m. at Good Will Baptist Church, 1862 Kalorama Road NW.
Saturday, May 19
The D.C. Department of Health will hold an animal health fair in Ward 3 from
9 to 11:30 a.m. at the Newark Street Dog Park, 39th and Newark streets NW.
■ The D.C. Department of Health will hold an animal health fair in Ward 4 from
1:30 to 4 p.m. at the Upshur Recreation Center, 4300 Arkansas Ave. NW.
Wednesday, May 23
The Humanities Council of Washington, DC, will present “Conversations on
Great Streets: Celebrating Historic Georgia Avenue.” The program will honor the
Industrial Bank of Washington, Jones Haywood Dance School, Morgan’s Seafood,
and Sankofa Video, Books & Cafe; a panel discussion on “The Seventh Street
Turnpike: D.C.’s Longest Commercial Corridor” will feature Maybelle Bennett,
Haile Gerima, Sandra Fortune Green, Romeo Morgan and B. Doyle Mitchell Jr.
The event will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Chez Billy, 3815 Georgia Ave. NW.
Tickets cost $50. For details, visit georgiaave.eventbrite.com.
■ The D.C. Federation of Citizens Associations will hold its annual awards reception. The event will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Undercroft of All Souls
Memorial Episcopal Church, 2300 Cathedral Ave. NW. Tickets cost $40; reservations are required. For details, contact [email protected].
ing didn’t stop residents from packing the
room and, in some cases, bringing up past sore
spots that are no longer within the realm of
negotiation.
When one resident asked D.C. Department
of Transportation official Sam Zimbabwe to
“admit that this project could have been done
better,” he declined.
“I’m a little less convinced that this is going
to be a disaster for everybody of epic proportions,” said Zimbabwe, the agency’s associate
director of planning, policy and sustainability.
With such a dense development in the center
of a residential area, he said, “it is very difficult, if not impossible, to please 100 percent of
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District Digest
District adds 27 sites
for speed cameras
The Metropolitan Police
Department has added 27 new locations for speed-enforcement cameras throughout D.C. this month.
The department began issuing
warnings on May 7 for drivers
caught speeding by the cameras, but
the city will begin sending out citations as of June 6.
The sites in Northwest include
the 3000 block of Foxhall Road
(southbound); the 1800 block of
Harvard Street (northwestbound);
the 1700 block of North Portal
Drive (southwestbound); and the
4800 and 7600 blocks of Georgia
Avenue (southbound). The speed
limit near the two Georgia Avenue
sites is 30 mph; it is 25 mph at the
other three locations.
A full list of camera locations is
available at mpdc.dc.gov.
Local residents buy
$100 million in bonds
Roughly a third of the $314 million in municipal bonds the District
issued earlier this month were purchased by D.C. residents, the Office
of Tax and Revenue announced
Friday.
The D.C. Council passed legisla-
tion last year taxing income from
newly purchased bonds from other
states, but District residents can still
purchase D.C. bonds tax-free. The
average interest rate of the newly
issued D.C. bonds was around 2.5
percent, according to a release.
The new 15-year-bonds were
issued as part of a refinancing program for existing debt, the release
states, and the change will save the
city more than $35 million.
District ranks last on
national science test
The District’s eighth-grade public school students ranked a distant
last behind their counterparts in all
50 states in a nationwide standardized science test, according to U.S.
Department of Education results
released last Thursday.
D.C. students’ score for their
science knowledge was 112 points
out of 300, compared to 137 points
for the next-worst state
(Mississippi) and 151 points for
the national average, according to
the “Nation’s Report Card” issued
by the department. The scores
cover both D.C. Public Schools
and public charter schools.
Maryland and Virginia’s eighthgraders each ranked above average
in the science test.
In a news release, D.C. State
Superintendent Hosanna Mahaley
called the report “a sobering reality-check,” but states that it makes
more sense to compare the
District’s test scores to other cities
than to states.
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A Mann Elementary School student is seeking donated hair that
will be made into wigs for women
and girls undergoing cancer treatment, according to a news release.
Third-grader Madeleine Voth
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event because her aunt has breast
cancer, the release states.
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Whole Foods pledges
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Park Whole Foods Market tomorrow will benefit Horace Mann
Elementary School, as the grocery
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revenue to the school, according to
a flier from the supermarket.
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Army finalizes plans to raze
home on Glenbrook Road
Current Staff Report
Army officials will likely grant
final approval this month to demolish the house at 4825 Glenbrook
Road, the site of a suspected burial
pit of World War I-era debris.
The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers plans to raze the house in
July and excavate the site through
summer 2013, the Spring Valley
Restoration Advisory Board learned
at its meeting last week.
The Army’s go-ahead to demolish the home was originally expected to come in March. But an agreement with American University,
which owns the property, is still
needed before work can begin, said
Brenda Barber of the Army Corps.
Barber said the Army doesn’t anticipate a problem, adding that the university hopes the demolition can be
completed before the fall semester.
During World War I the Army
used American University as a
weapons testing site. The property
that is now 4825 Glenbrook is
thought to have been a dumpsite for
chemical and explosive munitions
and related debris. Officials believe
a pit was disturbed there when a
home was built in 1992.
The cleanup work at the property,
which will remove the potentially
contaminated soil down to bedrock,
will also encroach on the neighboring house at 4835 Glenbrook, now
occupied by American University’s
president. The Army Corps believes
that property may include a possible
“hot spot” of hazardous material
beneath a retaining wall.
Once the 4825 house is demolished, a protective cover will go over
the excavation area to shield workers and neighbors from direct contact with possible contaminants.
Workers will also install a chemical-agent filtration system, along
with a generator and noise-control
devices. The system will be turned
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this universally awkward and always complicated
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Hughes’ classic film “The Breakfast Club,” where a
principal asks a group of disparate high-schoolers in
detention to write essays telling him who they think
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renowned local artist, Dana Tai Soon Burgess. On
Tuesday, the students — part of the school’s Asian
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identity called “Our Stories: Asian American Youth
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Police Report
This is a listing of reports
taken from May 6 through 12
by the Metropolitan Police
Department in local police
service areas.
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PSA
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■ chevy chase
Theft (below $250)
■ 5500 block, Connecticut
Ave.; drugstore; 6:47 p.m. May
8.
psa 202
■ Friendship Heights
PSA
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Robbery (stealth)
■ 5200 block, Wisconsin Ave.;
restaurant; 12:30 p.m. May 8.
Assault with a dangerous
weapon (miscellaneous)
■ 4300 block, Military Road;
hotel; 10:07 p.m. May 10.
Theft (below $250)
store; 7:48 p.m. May 7.
■ 4800 block, Yuma St.; tavern; 12:30 a.m. May 9.
■ 5200 block, Western Ave.;
Theft from auto (below $250)
■ 5300 block, 43rd St.; residence; 11 p.m. May 6.
■ 4700 block, Chesapeake St.;
street; 11 p.m. May 6.
■ 4900 block, Albemarle St.;
residence; 3 p.m. May 7.
psa 203
■ forest hills / van ness
PSA
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cleveland park
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Theft (below $250)
■ 3600 block, 35th St.; residence; 5 p.m. May 6.
■ 3600 block, Chesapeake St.;
residence; 9 a.m. May 8.
■ 3400 block, 33rd Place;
psa 204
■ Massachusetts avenue
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PSA
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Theft ($250 plus)
Theft (below $250)
■ 2600 block, Woodley Road;
hotel; 8:30 p.m. May 10.
■ 4000 block, Beecher St.; residence; noon May 11.
■ 3600 block, Macomb St.;
■ 3400 block, Woodley Road;
street; 7:30 p.m. May 6.
■ 3600 block, Davis St.; street;
9 p.m. May 6.
psa 205
■ palisades
/ spring valley
PSA
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Burglary
■ 4800 block, Tilden St.; residence; 6 p.m. May 8.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 5000 block, Lowell St.; residence; 2 p.m. May 6.
Theft (below $250)
■ 4400 block, Massachusetts
Ave.; university; 12:30 p.m.
May 9.
Theft from auto ($250 plus)
■ Tilden and Sedgwick streets;
street; 10 a.m. May 11.
psa
PSA
206 206
■ georgetown / burleith
Burglary
■ 3500 block, Reservoir Road;
Theft ($250 plus)
office building; 5:30 p.m. May
8.
alley; 5 p.m. May 9.
■ 3800 block, Reservoir Road;
storage facility; 7:05 p.m. May
10.
Theft (below $250)
■ 3200 block, M St.; store;
8:09 p.m. May 7.
■ 3100 block, M St.; store; 2
p.m. May 8.
12:30 p.m. May 9.
■ M Street and Wisconsin
Avenue; bank; 12:39 p.m. May
9.
noon May 10.
2:30 p.m. May 10.
■ 37th and O streets; university; 5:45 p.m. May 10.
■ 1200 block, Potomac St.;
■ 3000 block, M St.; store; 6
p.m. May 12.
■ 3200 block, M St.; alley; 6
p.m. May 9.
psa
PSA
207 207
■ foggy bottom / west end
Burglary
■ 2100 block, F St.; store;
12:50 a.m. May 11.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 1400 block, K St.; unspecified premises; 9 p.m. May 10.
Theft (below $250)
■ 1000 block, Vermont Ave.;
office building; 1:30 p.m. May
7.
Ave.; store; 12:32 p.m. May 8.
■ 1800 block, L St.; office
building; 1:05 p.m. May 9.
■ 1100 block, 24th St.; store;
8 a.m. May 10.
■ 800 block, 18th St.; store;
7:55 p.m. May 10.
Ave.; sidewalk; 11 a.m. May
11.
■ 1100 block, 17th St.; restaurant; 12:01 a.m. May 12.
Theft (shoplifting)
Ave.; drugstore; 6:30 p.m. May
8.
■ 2100 block, I St.; university;
3 p.m. May 7.
psa 208
■ sheridan-kalorama
PSA
208
dupont circle
weapon (knife)
Ave.; sidewalk; 5:56 p.m. May
12.
weapon (miscellaneous)
Ave.; tavern/nightclub; 1:32
a.m. May 12.
Burglary
■ 2100 block, Florida Ave.; residence; 8:40 a.m. May 9.
Stolen auto
■ 2200 block, Q St.; street; 11
p.m. May 9.
■ Connecticut Avenue and
Rhode Island Avenue; street;
10 p.m. May 10.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 1500 block, 17th St.; residence; 2:30 p.m. May 7.
■ 1200 block, 18th St.; tavern/
nightclub; 4:26 p.m. May 10.
Theft (below $250)
■ Unit block, Dupont Circle;
restaurant; 6:15 p.m. May 7.
Ave.; restaurant; 6:45 p.m. May
7.
■ 1400 block, 16th St.; church;
7 p.m. May 8.
■ 1300 block, 16th St.; parking lot; 11:30 a.m. May 10.
Ave.; sidewalk; 6 p.m. May 11.
■ 1400 block, P St.; store;
8:42 p.m. May 11.
■ 1400 block, P St.; store; 10
p.m. May 11.
Ave.; restaurant; 6:35 p.m. May
12.
Theft (tags)
Ave.; parking lot; 9:30 a.m.
May 12.
■ 1500 block, Church St.; parking lot; 7 p.m. May 10.
■ 1700 block, P St.; parking
lot; 11 p.m. May 11.
Theft from auto (attempt)
■ 1500 block, 14th St.; parking lot; 11 a.m. May 9.
psa
PSA
301 301
■ Dupont circle
Robbery (snatch)
■ 1500 block, R St.; alley; 1:50
p.m. May 8.
Burglary
■ 1700 block, V St.; residence;
6 p.m. May 9.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 1700 block, 17th St.; residence; 2:30 p.m. May 7.
■ 1400 block, Q St.; residence;
9:30 p.m. May 10.
Theft (below $250)
■ 1600 block, R St.; restaurant; 9 p.m. May 9.
■ 1800 block, 17th St.; parking
lot; 12:30 a.m. May 7.
■ 1700 block, Swann St.;
■ 1600 block, Riggs Place;
■ 1700 block, 16th St.; street;
1:15 p.m. May 10.
psa 303
PSA
303
■ adams morgan
Robbery (force and violence)
Ave.; hotel; 5:50 p.m. May 10.
Theft (below $250)
Ave.; sidewalk; 4:30 p.m. May
11.
Theft (attempt)
Ave.; store; 6:15 a.m. May 9.
■ 2300 block, Champlain St.;
parking lot; 7:30 p.m. May 7.
■ 2300 block, Ashmead Place;
street; 9:30 a.m. May 9.
psa 307
PSA
307
■ logan circle
Theft (below $250)
■ 1300 block, M St.; parking
lot; noon May 11.
■ 1100 block, M St.; alley; 7
a.m. May 12.
■ 1300 block, Riggs St.; parking lot; 9:30 a.m. May 12.
■ 900 block, M St.; parking lot;
6 p.m. May 6.
■ 900 block, R St.; street; 8:50
a.m. May 8.
noon May 8.
8 p.m. May 9.
■ 1700 block, Vermont Ave.;
■ 1200 block, 13th St.; parking lot; 8 a.m. May 12.
psa 401
■ colonial village
PSA
401
shepherd park / takoma
Robbery (attempt)
■ 6600 block, Georgia Ave.;
weapon (knife)
■ 7400 block, Georgia Ave.;
unspecified premises; 10 a.m.
May 10.
Stolen auto
■ 900 block, Dahlia St.; street;
3 p.m. May 11.
■ 800 block, Aspen St.; street;
6:30 p.m. May 8.
■ 7900 block, Eastern Ave.;
church; 1 p.m. May 7.
psa 404
■ 16th Street HEIGHTS
PSA
404
crestwood
Robbery (force and violence)
■ 4400 block, Iowa Ave.;
school; 11:15 a.m. May 8.
Burglary
■ 4000 block, Arkansas Ave.;
residence; 10:01 p.m. May 10.
Theft (below $250)
■ 3700 block, 10th St.; government building; 1:30 p.m. May
9.
■ 1200 block, Crittenden St.;
Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7
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Children left behind
We were dismayed — as were school officials and parents across
the city — to hear that the District came in dead last in a national
test that measures eighth-graders’ command of science. Students
attending the District’s public schools scored far below their neighbors in Virginia and Maryland, and 76 percent logged scores
deemed “below basic.”
As some have already noted, the “Science 2011: National
Assessment of Educational Progress at Grade 8” report compares
the District to states, when a more equitable match-up would pit
D.C. against schools in other cities. That’s a fair point, but it does
not address the reality that District students fared poorly in absolute
terms, not only in comparison with other jurisdictions.
We know what the problem is not, at least. In February, the
Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an educational nonprofit, ranked the
District’s science education standards, along with California’s, highest in the nation.
The standards that the Fordham Institute evaluated have been
around a while, too — since 2006, with some updates in 2010.
We’re not sure what the reason is behind the disconnect between
the city’s standards and its performance, but we hope that D.C.
Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson and charter school officials are
on the case.
After all, the goal is not simply to get D.C. out of the basement
in national rankings. The news is also of concern because it comes
as Mayor Vincent Gray is attempting to position the city as an East
Coast Silicon Valley, a tech hub that will attract innovators — and
jobs — for decades to come. If graduates of the District’s schools
are unprepared for these jobs in the STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering and math), employers will look elsewhere, and
the city will have failed to prepare another generation of students to
succeed in its own economy.
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The Petworth advisory neighborhood commission recently
backed the applications of two charter schools vying to take over
the shuttered Randolph Elementary School building at 5200 2nd St.
NW.
Of the two applicants, we’re more familiar with Washington
Latin Public Charter School — and we very much like what we’ve
heard.
Last year the fifth-through-12th-grade institution was designated
a “Tier 1” school by the D.C. charter board because of its strong
test results, with more than 80 percent of students testing “proficient” or “advanced” on the D.C. Comprehensive Assessment
System reading test, and more than 75 percent logging those scores
in math. The middle school students had the highest proficiency rating in reading of all the city’s charter middle schools in both 2010
and 2011; the upper school students ranked second among charters.
We recently highlighted the school’s relatively new college counselor, Crys Latham, and her success in ensuring that 40 out of 42 of
next month’s graduates — the school’s first graduating class — will
enroll in four-year colleges or universities in the fall. Students were
accepted at 70 percent of the schools to which they applied, and
they drew more than $1.5 million in scholarship offers.
The classically focused school, which draws students from all of
the city’s eight wards, is housed in three facilities on 16th Street, but
it will lose one of them in December 2013.
Thus far, we don’t know enough about the other applicant — DC
Bilingual Public Charter School — to judge whether it would be as
well-suited to the Randolph campus. But we are sufficiently comfortable with Latin to cheer for its success in finding a new home
there. D.C. should do everything it can to encourage schools like
Latin to stay here and grow, extending their inspiring reach to more
and more students.
It’s not spring break … !
T
he National Law Enforcement Memorial in
downtown Washington has matured as a solemn, respectful place, with leafy shade trees
softening the marble and bronze walkways.
Now if only a handful of this week’s visiting
police officers could do a bit of maturing themselves.
Tens of thousands of officers and their family
members and organizations have been in town for
National Police Week. They attend memorial services, renew old friendships
and gather together to
socialize.
Unfortunately, some
of them also park brazenly where ever they
want, turn on their sirens
to burn through red lights and, apparently, drink
openly on some city streets — all illegal activities.
“It’s a double standard,” said one passerby as she
observed a line of out-of-town cruisers and motorcycles, each one parked illegally on 12th Street NW.
Mayor Vincent Gray told NBC4, “We would hope
that there would be no public drinking. … These are
law-enforcement officials!”
The good news is that National Police Week is a
lot calmer than it used to be, when many officers
treated it like a blue spring break. It was so bad in
2007 that then-newly appointed Metropolitan Police
Department Chief Cathy Lanier had her officers passing out leaflets warning that misbehaving officers
would be treated the same as any citizen.
Now Lanier sends an annual letter to law enforcement agencies all around the country.
In this year’s letter, Lanier urged that any visiting
officers “consider the role they play in upholding the
high honor that our profession deserves by acting
with dignity and respect during their stay.”
She wrote that the “unacceptable behavior of
some participants … can have negative consequences
on our city and reflects poorly on the policing profession as a whole.” In bold-face sentences, this letter
specifically notes that blocked city streets and alleys,
disorderly conduct and public drunkenness would
draw enforcement.
“If you see someone acting inappropriately,” she
wrote, “please remind him or her of their duty to
uphold the highest standards.”
Again, apparently only a handful of officers feel
the need to act out. They should take a closer look at
the memorial to remember why they’re here.
■ Another shoe drops. There’s enough political
scandal, and hints of scandal, in the District that the
Notebook frequently jokes that we’re waiting on a
centipede’s worth of shoes to drop.
The latest came last week when Danita Doleman,
a nonprofit president, pleaded guilty to filing a false
tax return.
Turns out she was caught up in former Ward 5
Council member Harry Thomas Jr.’s scheme to steal
more than $350,000 from city youth programs.
Doleman, who faces six months in prison and a
$5,000 fine, is cooperating with authorities, according to U.S. Attorney
Ronald Machen Jr. No
sentencing date has been
set.
Doleman was the
head of a group called
Youth Technology
Institute. Her organization helped funnel $100,000 to
Thomas so he could put on a January 2009 inaugural
ball. Two leaders of another nonprofit also have
pleaded guilty in the case.
The latest plea “is one more step in our efforts to
hold accountable those who collaborated with Harry
Thomas Jr. to divert tax dollars to his own pockets
and his pet projects,” Machen said in a statement.
People who believe in good, honest government
will never tire of the sound of soiled shoes dropping.
Bring on the rest of them.
■ Let there be light. It was nice that Monday was a
dark, overcast day.
Mayor Vincent Gray joined other city officials in
a Mount Pleasant alley to herald the completion of a
program to install about 1,300 light-emitting diode
lights in hundreds of alleys across the city.
The million-dollar program uses LED bulbs that
last up to 15 years instead of the six months to a year
of regular bulbs.
A worker in the alley of the 1700 block of Hobart
Street NW used a cherry picker lift to install the last
light. Mayor Gray then dramatically counted down
and flipped a switch, and … nothing.
For a second or two everyone looked embarrassed
until the light suddenly began to glow. There were
relieved smiles all around.
Officials said the new LED lights cost less, last
longer and are better for the environment than traditional lights. A few residents wandering into the alley
— who we had expected to complain about all the
officials blocking it for the ceremony — said they
welcomed the lights.
We’ll drop by in a few days to see how they look
at night.
Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.
TOM SHERWOOD’s
Notebook
Letters to
the Editor
City should require
underground wires
The Current’s April 25 editorial “Arboreal progress” refers to
local residents who have been
“dogged in pushing Pepco to preserve neighborhood trees by
undergrounding power lines
whenever possible, for example,
during major road projects.”
The “doggedness” of those residents, however, has been overpowered by Pepco’s consistent
resistance to undergrounding
power lines and its perpetual overmutilation of trees during its power-line-related tree “trimming.”
Given Pepco’s resistance in
that regard, I support your editorial’s suggestion that “the D.C.
Council should consider mandating [such undergrounding].”
Perhaps Mary Cheh and/or Phil
Mendelson will take the lead in
that regard. I hope so.
Jonathan Strong
Forest Hills
Fixed cameras don’t
maximize safety
Montgomery County is to be
commended for its program of
movable traffic speed cameras.
After having seen this used in
Australia in the 1990s, I have
repeatedly recommended it to
D.C. Council members, who have
never seemed to understand its
effectiveness.
One city had only two cameras, which were moved regularly,
with every dangerous intersection
or roadway marked with a warning sign and a camera box. With
the public not knowing where the
cameras were on any given day,
there was widespread compliance.
For the price of those two cameras, residents had a safer city, and
all seemed to appreciate it!
Years ago, I testified to the
D.C. Council about how effective
(and cost-effective) a movable
camera plan would be. The committee chair seemed mystified as
to how such a plan could work; he
told me that we could not do that
in D.C. When asked why, he said
it was because we “have to”
inform the public, on a website,
about where the cameras are
placed. I have never understood
that rationale, wondering why we
want to warn speeders to slow
down only at those places, leaving
them to speed at all others.
Maryland is now adopting
what leaders there call a well-tried
“European plan.”
Wherever it comes from, it
seems a useful plan for any city:
never having to buy another traffic camera, using the ones we
already have in a better way, with
drivers always and everywhere
being more careful — just in case.
Sally MacDonald
Woodley Park
WATER
From Page 2
concern.” New court papers say the
group includes “at least 1,000 children,” justifying a class-action suit.
In their motion, attorneys say the
named plaintiffs, identified only by
initials, “all had blood-lead levels
above the Center for Disease
Control’s level of concern. Each
now exhibits neuropsychological
and cognitive symptoms of lead
poisoning.”
The motion also lists experts who
will testify on the correlation
between lead in the water and elevated blood-lead levels in young children, and the effects. A practicing
psychologist who assessed all seven
named plaintiffs will testify that they
all exhibit “significant cognitive,
academic and behavioral deficiencies … common and typical” among
children with elevated blood-lead
levels, according to the motion.
The lawsuit, echoing a conclusion reached by the D.C. Office of
the Inspector General this spring,
alleges that the Water and Sewer
Authority knew lead levels were rising after a 2000 change in treatment
chemicals caused lead to leach from
many old pipes in the city, but failed
to adequately warn the public until a
2004 Washington Post article
revealed the problem.
Officials at the water authority,
now known as DC Water, have
declined to comment on pending
litigation. They have emphasized,
however, that both the agency’s
treatment methods and its top officials have changed since the 2004
scandal, and that the city’s water
now meets federal safety standards.
“Levels of lead in the water have
been below federal action levels
since 2005, and have essentially
been in decline ever since,” said DC
Water spokesperson Alan Heymann.
It’s unlikely the lawsuit will be
resolved quickly. Water authority
responses to the latest motion are
due in June. Judge Anthony Epstein,
who is now assigned the case, could
then hold a hearing or decide based
on submissions whether to certify
the class.
An actual trial is months or even
years away, according to a spokesperson for Sanford Wittels.
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three years ago to create a space where students could
talk with each other about what it means to be an Asian
American or a Pacific Islander American, what it means
to be biracial or adopted, and how to define their identity
— which can be at once very American yet also rooted
in a strong Asian heritage.
“For me, [the teenage years were] a crucial time to
think through issues of diversity and inclusion,” said
Burgess, who is Korean-American. The group “allows
students to express their thoughts about their lives as they
pertain to these issues.”
He said the students “have a high sophistication level
when it comes to
talking
about
immigration, race
and community,”
and the film gives
them “a platform
to express themselves.”
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youth
group receives
funding through a
community grant,
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D.C. Office on
Asian and Pacific
Islander Affairs to
Burgess’ dance company, Dana Tai Soon Burgess &
Company, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this
year. The Cherry Blossom Giving Circle Fund and Wells
Fargo bank also help fund the group’s projects.
“Our Stories” will be the fourth video the group has
created. Anatol Steck, a junior in his third year with the
program, said the short music video the students produced last year was “similar, but it was almost like a
warm-up” for the more in-depth film they will premiere
this month.
The film, which will run about 20 minutes, intersperses one-on-one interviews with group discussions
about identity. Students share stories about their own
lives and those handed down to them from their parents,
and discuss how their cultural heritage has shaped them.
Family photos and music written and performed by the
students round out the storytelling.
Students chose the film’s theme after Burgess guided
them through brainstorming sessions. The group meets
weekly at the George Washington campus.
“This year we asked the basic question about identity
and how do you know who you are as a person, which is
very relevant to our group especially with all the mixed
people that we have,” said Steck, who is Austrian,
Filipino and American. “It becomes difficult to answer:
Are you white, are you Asian, are you neither, are you
just American? These are questions I will probably ask
myself my entire life — the answer is not complete yet.”
Emily Fullerton, another junior in her third year with
the outreach program, said that some of the stories in the
film are funny, while others are serious. Many are about
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Members of the School Without
Walls’ Asian American Youth
Outreach Program have produced
a video about identity.
being biracial, and that “kind of cultural confusion of being American
and being Asian.”
“I’m more aware of my AsianAmerican background now,” said
Fullerton. “My mom was adopted
from Korea, but I didn’t really
become interested in the fact that I
was half-Korean until joined the group. I’ve learned
more about my background, I care more about it, and I
relate more to other people.”
While Fullerton and Steck are excited about the video
they helped produce, both say they place the most value
on the connections they’ve formed through the group.
Steck said the group members are almost all “people
I probably wouldn’t talk to otherwise, but we’ve made
strong friendships.”
“It’s cool to learn about new people — from freshmen to seniors I’ve never met before,” said Fullerton.
“The stories were so surprising. You never expect to hear
the kinds of things people are going through.”
Both students described Burgess as a role model.
“He’s so optimistic — he sees the good in everybody and
everything. … I hope to be more like him,” said Steck.
The screening of “Our Stories” will begin at 7 p.m.
May 22 at Busboys and Poets’ 1025 5th St. NW location.
It will include a question-and-answer session with
Burgess and the students, and a showing of the group’s
earlier videos.
“I hope that people will enjoy it and connect to it,”
said Fullerton. “Not just people of Asian-American
descent — we wanted it to be something everyone can
relate to.”
When the youth outreach program resumes in the fall,
Burgess plans to expand the group to include students
from other schools in the District.
“This age level is great,” he said. “They are so honest
and creative. It makes me feel like there is so much hope
for the future!”
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meeting:
■ Paul Hoffman of the D.C.
Department of Transportation updated commissioners on the Wisconsin
Avenue streetscape project: It’s
about 20 percent complete, and
Saturday work will start to take place
more regularly soon. The agency has
established a website for the project,
at wisconsinavenueproject.com, that
will provide news and updates along
with two-week “look ahead” reports.
■ Paul Kadlick, representing the
new owners of JP’s, a strip club at
2412 Wisconsin Ave., gave details
about their plans moving forward.
Kadlick said the new owners
want to be good neighbors and hope
the establishment’s liquor license
won’t be protested when they file to
transfer it. While Kadlick recognized
that some in the neighborhood might
not be comfortable with the business, he said, “It is what it is.” He
added later that since the Alcoholic
Beverage Regulation Administration
already approved the license at this
address, his position is that a potential neighborhood protest “can’t stop
us.”
■ commissioners voted 4-0 to write
to the D.C. Department of Parks and
Recreation supporting the application of a community group, Dogs of
Guy Mason Alliance, to establish a
formal dog park at Guy Mason
Recreation Center.
■ commissioners voted 4-0 in favor
of amending their voluntary agreement with Breadsoda at 2233
Wisconsin Ave. The restaurant and
bar was previously restricted from
selling alcohol past 1 a.m. Sundays
through Thursdays, and 2 a.m. on
Fridays and Saturdays. The new
agreement will allow alcohol sales
inside the restaurant to be extended
by one hour on weekdays and weekends — reflecting the full hours
permissible under D.C. law. The
changes will not apply to the patio
area, where alcohol service will stop
at 1 a.m. Commissioner Jackie
Blumenthal introduced the resolution by noting that Breadsoda has
been a “good neighbor.”
■ commissioners voted 4-0 to write
to the D.C. Department of Parks and
Recreation supporting the Glover
Park Citizens Association’s request
for permission to raise money during
Glover Park Day. The event will take
June 12 at Guy Mason Recreation
Center. Last year the D.C. Council
enacted legislation that authorizes
the parks department to decide
whether groups can raise money on
city park property. The citizens association is proposing to donate half of
the day’s proceeds toward improvements at the recreation center.
p.m. Thursday, June 14, at
Stoddert Elementary School and
Recreation Center, 4001 Calvert
St. NW.
For details, call 202-338-2969,
contact [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, May 21, at the
2nd District Police Headquarters,
3320 Idaho Ave. NW.
Agenda items include:
■ community forum.
■ consent-calendar review of a
Board of Zoning Adjustment application to waive side-yard and lotoccupancy restrictions at 2938
Macomb St.; a Historic Preservation
Review Board application for concept approval at 3411 Quebec St.;
and a Historic Preservation Review
Board application for concept
approval at 3523 Quebec St.
■ presentation by the D.C. Fire and
Emergency Medical Services
Department regarding a proposed
parking deck behind the Cleveland
Park firehouse.
■ discussion with Metropolitan
Police Department 2nd District
Cmdr. Michael Reese regarding
crime in the commission’s area.
■ introduction to the Friends of the
Macomb Recreation Center.
■ consideration of a grant request
from the Eaton Elementary School
PTA.
■ consideration of a Historic
Preservation Review Board application at 3215 Newark St.
■ consideration of a Historic
Preservation Review Board application for a new fence to enclose a new
residential lot on Klingle Road within the Tregaron Conservancy.
■ consideration of a resolution
regarding D.C. Council legislation to
remove the ban on advisory neighborhood commissioners pursuing
litigation.
For details, call 202-657-5725 or
visit anc3c.org.
ANC 3D
ANCValley
3D
Spring
■ spring valley / wesley heights
Wesley
Heights
palisades
/ kent / foxhall
p.m. Wednesday, June 6, in Room
B108, West Hall, George
Washington University Mount
Vernon Campus, 2100 Foxhall
Road NW.
visit anc3d.org.
ANC 3E
ANC 3E
Tenleytown
■ american university park
American
University Park
friendship heights / tenleytown
At the commission’s May 10
meeting:
■ a representative of the D.C.
Committee to Restore Public Trust
group discussed the effort to ban
corporate campaign contributions.
The group is seeking petition signatures to put the issue on the Nov. 6
general election ballot.
■ Metropolitan Police Department
Sgt. John Loveday reported that
officers made same-day arrests in
the two robberies that occurred in the
area in the last month. General thefts
and thefts from cars have increased
in the previous 30 days compared to
the corresponding time last year, he
reported.
■ developers of the Babe’s Billiards
site discussed their planned six-story
mixed-use building, which they said
will be called “The Bond at Tenley.”
The Zoning Commission is set to
decide next month whether the plans
are ready for a hearing, Douglas
Development representatives said.
■ commissioners agreed to support a
stipulated liquor license at Tanad
Thai, 4912 Wisconsin Ave., while its
owner applies for a permanent
license.
Tanad Thai will be nearly identical to the restaurant 4912 Thai that
closed in that space last year because
of tax issues, Tanad’s owner said.
■ commissioners voted 5-0 to
request that the D.C. Department of
Transportation proceed with its plan
to install a barrier forcing northbound 42nd Street traffic to turn
right onto Military Road, as is
already required.
The commission’s resolution also
asks the agency to find ways to mitigate traffic issues on nearby streets,
and to not to install a similar barrier
on southbound 42nd Street.
■ commissioners voted 5-0 to
request that the Metropolitan Police
Department increase its use of traffic-enforcement cameras.
■ commissioners voted 5-0 to support budget proposals to allow liquor
sales on Sundays.
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 19, at St.
Mary Armenian Apostolic
Church, 42nd and Fessenden
streets NW.
For details, visit anc3e.org.
ANC 3F
ANC
3F
Forest
Hills
■ Forest hills / North cleveland park
7:30 p.m. Monday, June 11, at the
Capital Memorial Seventh-Day
Adventist
Church,
3150
Chesapeake St. NW.
visit anc3f.us.
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Softball champs: Rain or
shine, it was Walls’ time
By BRIAN KAPUR
Many of the softball players at
School Without Walls and Wilson
are close friends; several played the
game together at Deal Middle
School before moving on to high
school.
Last week, those friendships
weathered a controversial D.C.
Interscholastic Athletic Association
softball championship game that
started and stopped Wednesday, then
picked up again Thursday.
By the end of it, School Without
Walls stood victorious, celebrating
both a 16-12 win over Wilson and
back-to-back DCIAA championships. As the players walked off the
field at Watkins Recreation Center,
several players from the two different teams embraced.
“By the end it was a really good
game, and we both played our best,”
said Walls senior pitcher Tai
Schroeder. “It doesn’t change any
friendships. We both understand
what happened here today.”
The title game was slated to start
Wednesday at 6 p.m. at Guy Mason
Recreation Center. The presentation
of the middle school championship
trophy to Deal delayed the start of
the game until nearly 6:30. That’s
when a light drizzle — and the controversy — began.
Despite the rain, Wilson, which
was designated the home team
because of a better regular-season
record, elected to start the game. But
the drizzle turned into a heavy downpour and disaster for the Tigers.
Wilson sophomore pitcher
Sophia Cordes struggled with control in the storm, while the Penguins
hitters benefited from a slew of
walks to load the bases.
Then Walls’ batters went to work.
Junior shortstop Julia Mitchell
ripped a double, and sophomore
second baseman Jordan Fingerhut
hit in an RBI. The Penguins built an
8-0 lead with only one out as the rain
continued to drench the athletes.
“I couldn’t pitch,” said Cordes.
“You can’t pitch the ball when it’s
raining like that. ... It doesn’t work
because it’s all about the release
point. It was a pretty hard inning,
and we just had to go with it until
Left: Brian Kapur/The Current; above: Matt Petros/The Current
Walls, above, celebrated back-to-back DCIAA championships Thursday. The Penguins have beaten the
Tigers twice in a row in the postseason. Tigers sophomore pitcher Sophia Cordes, above left, tried to use
a towel to dry the ball and her hands Wednesday, but the umpires wouldn’t let her keep it at the mound.
they canceled the game.”
That call finally came after
Cordes slipped off the mound while
pitching. The umpires decided to
suspend the game.
Wilson head coach Chuck
Caspari promptly filed an appeal
with District officials for a restart
and a new game on Thursday, rather
than a continuation of the 8-0 score.
When the appeal came to DCIAA
athletics director Stephanie Evans on
Wednesday evening, she decided to
uphold the umpires’ decision and
continue the game.
“What went into that decision
was that at the start of the game the
home coach always has the ability to
say we want to start the game or
not,” Evans said in an interview.
“Wilson did not say they didn’t want
to start the game. Once the umpire
calls ‘play ball,’ then it becomes the
umpire’s decision to call the game. ...
Per the rules, I upheld what their
decision was. I didn’t have a reason
to overturn what the umpire said.”
Several Walls players even asked
the umpires for a restart before
Thursday’s play.
“We decided that we wanted it to
be 0-0 at the beginning of the game,”
said senior pitcher Tai Schroeder.
“But the umpire said he didn’t want
that.”
So the game resumed with Walls
ahead 8-0. The Penguins picked up
right where they left off the day
before, scoring two more runs to
take a commanding 10-0 lead at the
end of the first inning.
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St. Albans falls to Georgetown Prep in IAC baseball final
By BRIAN KAPUR
Matt Petros/The Current
St. Albans senior pitcher Danny Swad held
Prep scoreless through four innings.
After a disappointing 2011 season with an
8-20 overall record, the St. Albans baseball
team went back to the drawing board and plotted how to get back to the Interstate Athletic
Conference title game.
The Bulldogs reached that goal Saturday,
but they were ultimately unable to bring the
title back to D.C., losing to Georgetown Prep
4-1.
“If you look at our last six or seven games,
I think we were one of the best teams in the
area,” said St. Albans coach Jason Larocque.
“The improvement our team [made] in just
two months is incredible. To be here today and
play a really good team is a sign of our
improvement.”
St. Albans posted a respectable 13-17 overall record, which included a 6-4 mark in conference play to earn the No. 3 seed in last
week’s IAC tournament.
The Bulldogs began Saturday’s game well
at the plate, notching two hits in the first inning
to get runners on third and second base with
two outs. But they couldn’t capitalize, leaving
the game scoreless.
“It’s hard when you have two outs and a
man in scoring position,” said Larocque. “You
have to get a hit; there’s really no small ball
you can play with two outs. That’s a tough
situation.”
After the missed opportunity, the game
turned into a pitchers’ duel as St. Albans senior
Danny Swad forced several groundouts and
allowed just two hits through the first four
innings.
“He was around the plate and forced contact,” said Larocque. “We time our innings,
and he had several three-minute innings. That’s
good for keeping the defense off the field and
keeping us at bat.”
In the fifth inning, the St. Albans offense
found its groove. First, the Bulldogs earned a
walk. Then senior center fielder Gabe Roark
hit a screamer into the fence for an RBI and a
1-0 lead.
During St. Albans’ next at-bat, a bizarre
play halted what could’ve been a high-scoring
inning for the Bulldogs. Senior shortstop Joe
Dobbins hit a fly ball deep into the outfield,
and Prep couldn’t make the catch. At first, St.
Albans’ runners were unsure whether it had
been dropped or not, but the Bulldogs coach
waved his runners to continue and signaled for
Roark to run for home. Still, the Little Hoyas
threw a perfect relay and the catcher tagged the
senior out as he slid into home.
“We try to run the bases and put pressure on
defenses,” said Larocque. “The kid made a
perfect throw from about 200 feet; I’ll take that
risk every time.”
The Bulldogs’ next batter struck out to
bring the Little Hoyas up to bat. Prep was able
to ring up four runs by the end of the inning,
and that proved to be the difference in the
game. The Bulldogs notched just one more hit
the rest of the way.
“I think we beat them for six innings and
they beat us for one,” said Larocque.
“Unfortunately, they scored four in that inning.
I told our guys to hold their heads up. It was
one of those games — you just have to learn
and move on.”
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NCS routs Holton-Arms to win ISL ‘A’
By BRIAN KAPUR
Before first-year coach Anya
Adams took over National
Cathedral’s softball program, the
team’s veteran players were largely
in charge of teaching their younger
counterparts. This made for an awkward dynamic, hindering the Eagles
from reaching their full potential.
That all changed when Adams
came on board. The coach brought
an encouraging outlook to the team
as well as an ability to teach the
players fundamentals. The change
has allowed more experienced team
members to improve their game,
while the younger players can develop their abilities.
“She’s been a huge reason why
we’ve done so well this season,”
said senior shortstop Chase Conroy.
“In the beginning we were making
so many errors, but now we haven’t
made any the last few games. That’s
big.”
Adams’ back-to-basics approach
proved to be the right touch for the
Eagles Sunday, when the team dominated Holton-Arms 13-1 to win the
Independent School League ‘A’ division championship. The game ended
in five innings because of a mercy
rule.
With the post-season championship and regular-season banner
comes a spot in the ISL’s upper division next season.
“It’s huge,” said Adams. “They
had their goals set high at the beginning of the season. They just worked
extremely hard, and we were able to
achieve those two goals as a true
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Cathedral seniors Shelia Handler, left, Chase Conroy and Katie Spaller
team with everybody stepping up.”
The Eagles wasted no time setting the tone for the game. In the
bottom of the first inning, Cathedral
sent a whopping 13 batters to the
plate and built a 9-1 advantage.
“We hit, hit and hit some more,”
said Adams. “It was just unbelievable. They probably hit the best they
have all season.”
While the Eagles’ bats lit up the
scoreboard, the team’s play at the
mound and in the outfield kept
Holton-Arms from doing much.
Sophomore pitcher Sarah Ing
allowed just two hits, while the field
committed no errors for the fifth
straight game.
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Wilson tried to rally, and the Tigers cut the lead to
13-5 going into the bottom of the third. But Schroeder
notched two strikeouts to keep the lead intact, and she
continued to defuse Wilson’s scoring runs and rallies.
The senior finished with six strikeouts.
“I try my best. My catcher is very good, and she likes
to square it up,” said Schroeder. “We got used to how the
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batters like to swing, and I think that really helped.”
Going into the bottom of the sixth, Walls’ lead was
down to 16-7. Wilson’s first baseman Bridget Sherman
hit a triple to help Wilson close the gap to 16-10 going
into the final inning.
Cordes held Walls scoreless at the top of the seventh.
But Schroeder held off the Tigers offense and allowed
just two runs in the final inning to preserve the win.
“It’s great. Everything came together like I wanted it
to,” said Schroeder. “I really wanted to lead the team to
a win.”
League championship game. The
Cubs will play St. Stephen’s & St.
Agnes for the championship at St.
Andrew’s at 5:30 p.m.
Gonzaga advances to
WCAC lax title game
The Eagles clinched a spot in
May 8 through 14
Maret 8, Saint James 1
St. Albans 10, Bullis 3
Wilson 11, Anacostia 0
Sidwell 6, GDS 5
Prep 5, St. Albans 1
Sidwell 9, Maret 1
Ryken 8, St. John’s 4
Gonzaga 9, Good Counsel 4
Flint Hill 7, Sidwell 3
Baseball
Boys lacrosse
Visitation 8, Potomac 7
Walls 16, Wilson 12
Bullis 10, GDS 5
Scores
St. Albans 7, Episcopal 5
Maret 10, St. Andrew’s 0
Gonzaga 20, Ireton 1
Saint James 13, GDS 6
Softball
time,” said Adams. “The past two
weeks in practice and games have
been our best ever. We’ve had five
errorless games in a row, and that
wasn’t the case earlier. Everything
just came together today.”
For the squad’s three seniors —
third baseman Shelia Handler, outfielder Katie Spaller and Conroy —
the championships were a fitting end
to a four-year run in the Eagles’
softball program.
“This is my last year, and this is
the year we’re moving up,” said
Conroy. “It has definitely been a
battle, but it’s going to help us grow
as a team. I’m definitely happy to
leave a legacy like that. … I like to
go out with a bang.”
the Washington Catholic Athletic
Conference championship game
Thursday by beating Good
Counsel 9-4.
To win a third consecutive
WCAC title, Gonzaga will have to
get past DeMatha tonight at 7 at
the University of Maryland.
St. Stephen’s 11, Maret 0
Visitation 8, Potomac 2
Flint Hill 12, Sidwell 5
Flint Hill 5, Visitation 2
Cathedral 10, Madeira 2
Cathedral 13, Holton-Arms 1
Girls lacrosse
Bullis 18, GDS 7
Visitation 20, Stone Ridge 11
St. Stephen’s 17, Cathedral 4
O’Connell 21, St. John’s 11
Maret 17, Wilson 9
Bullis 20, Sidwell 12
Episcopal 12, Cathedral 8
Saint James 15, GDS 13
Cathedral 7, Sidwell 5
Visitation 17, Stone Ridge 5
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other units will be deemed “workforce housing,” for those earning up
to 120 percent of the medium
income.
“Firefighters, police, teachers —
people being priced out of the area
will be able to walk to work,” said
Nix. “It’s a vibrant community, with
a lot of amenities, and it would be
awesome to have workforce housing. I just feel like, if you look at the
whole Wisconsin Avenue corridor,
you can’t point to a lot of affordable
housing.”
The 10 other units would be
market-rate. But, Nix noted, “it’s
very rare that a non-public project
proffers 40 percent affordable. Our
team is confident that 40 percent
affordable and workforce housing is
pretty dynamic for Ward 3.”
Nix said his firm was started in
conjunction with the Washington
Interfaith Network and has partnered
with that church-based group, as
well as the District government, to
develop affordable and senior housing elsewhere in the city. The firm’s
latest project, in partnership with the
city, replaced five vacant, dilapidated buildings in Deanwood with 63
units of affordable housing.
But there will surely be pushback
in Cleveland Park.
Nancy MacWood, a longtime
advisory neighborhood commissioner who represents the area, said
it’s clear that the issue warrants further conversation.
“The critical issue is whether a
good example of a Queen Anne
house that represents the [historic]
housing patterns on Wisconsin
Avenue … should be demolished.
No contributing house in Cleveland
Park has been destroyed, and I am
not aware that any contributing
house in an historic district has been
demolished in DC — unless it was
condemned,” she wrote in an email.
MacWood said she recognizes
the need for family housing, with
three-bedroom units “so that our
police, fire fighters and teachers can
have the option of living in a neighborhood where they work.” But her
concern is “the historical importance
of the existing house at that location,
and the precedent that would be set
by supporting the demolition
request.”
The proposal is currently slated
for review by the preservation board
June 28. If the board says no, it will
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“provide comments” for an expected
appeal to the mayor’s agent, deputy
preservation officer Steve Callcott
wrote in an email to The Current.
“The applicants will be making an
argument … that the project is one
of special merit because it will provide for-sale affordable housing.”
The little house has a long, and
relatively well-documented, history.
According to preservation office
reports, it’s part of Cleveland Park’s
oldest subdivision, Oak View, carved
out of the summer estate of Grover
Cleveland. With its little side porch
and half-moon window, it was
designed and built by Donald
MacLeod, a Treasury Department
bookkeeper, for his sister, a teacher.
A two-story apartment building
went up to its north in 1925, as
streetcar service attracted new residents to what was then Rockville
Road, and an eight-story apartment
house was built to the south several
decades later. The Cleveland Park
Historic District, with its strictures
on demolition and new construction,
was not established until 1986, and
the home’s last occupant died in
2003.
Kaufman has argued that the
house’s awkward location makes it
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undesirable as a single-family residence, and that it’s unlikely a buyer
would be willing to put in the money
to restore it to livability. He did not
respond to requests for comment.
Kaufman’s idea of moving the
house to Quebec Place, a few blocks
northeast in the historic district, was
shot down in 2009 by the preservation board, along with residents there
who thought the little house would
also be out of place on their street.
Now the property’s fate is even
more pressing, since its recent classification as vacant has made property taxes skyrocket. City property
tax records show a tax due of
$59,935 as of early May. The proposed assessment for 2013 is
$744,460. The house, clearly in disrepair, is assessed at only $176,060
— down about $30,000 from the
previous year — though its desirable
little lot is assessed at $568,400.
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Spotlight on Schools
Beauvoir School
At Beauvoir there is a red-tailed
hawk that lives in or near the playground. You can usually see the
hawk flying around the playground.
Hawks are carnivores, which mean
that they eat meat, not vegetables.
In some places the red tailed-hawk
is known as the “chicken hawk.”
The average wingspan is about 110
to 145 centimeters. Did you know
that females weigh 25 percent more
than males?
Red-tailed hawks have red under
the brown part of their wings. The
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red part under the hawk’s wing is a
dark deep red. The hawk is a common, beautiful bird found in many
parts of the United States. Most
people think this species is rare, but
it is not.
The hawk that lives at Beauvoir
is usually found by the big oak tree
near the tennis courts that belong to
the National Cathedral School.
Nobody knows if the hawk lives in
the Beauvoir playground, but some
students think it does. I personally
think that our hawk is a male
because of the way its beak is
shaped. Hawks are beautiful creatures and we are lucky that we have
one in Beauvoir’s playground. So
keep your eyes peeled!
— Bilena Dabalen, third-grader
British School
of Washington
We visited Whole Foods. First,
Pamela showed us some vegetables.
The best thing she showed us was
broccoli. It makes your teeth and
bones strong! Next, we went to the
fruit section. I was surprised to see
my favourite fruit there — pineapple.
After that, we went to visit Chris
to see the fish. I found out that fish
makes your brain strong! Then, we
had some snacks and they were
delicious! We ate cheese, a brownie,
dried mango and some nuts. Finally,
we got a goodie bag with more
yummy snacks. I learned a lot of
new things from Pamela. She is a
very nice lady.
— Maxime Williamson,
Year 1 Glasgow (kindergarten)
Edmund Burke School
At Edmund Burke School, any
student with an adult proctor and
willing, consistent members can
create a club. When you start a club
at the beginning of the year, you get
some funds to buy materials. Clubs
can be anything, as long as they’re
school-appropriate. Lego Club,
Smoothie Club and Stage Combat
Club are just a few examples of the
40-some clubs at Burke. Clubs take
place during the day, about once
every week, at a designated time.
However, a club can also agree to
meet during lunch, after school or
any time that won’t interfere with
academics.
In Lego Club, you can create
different things with Legos. One
student has even built a Lego crossbow and planes and more. In
Smoothie Club, you can experiment
Ride
on.
Gorgeous scenery and no hills
on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Escape. Less than an hour from the Bay Bridge.
with different fruits and juices to
create smoothies, for a small fee. In
Stage Combat Club, two highschoolers with years of stage-fighting lessons teach younger students
the art of fake-killing each other.
Some clubs do things to benefit
the school, like Yearbook and
Student Government. Some also do
things for community, like
Environmental Club, which holds
movie nights that raise funds to
plant trees and help clean up.
Students love clubs because they
are fun, and it’s a great way to learn
new things and to meet other
friends with the same interests.
— Jamie Ross, Aidan Bryar and
Joe Burney III, sixth-graders
Jewish Primary Day School
On March 29, our Student
Council (Moetzet Talmidim) participated in the National Hunger Seder
on Capitol Hill, sponsored by
MAZON and the Jewish Council of
Public Affairs. It is an event based
on the Jewish Passover Seder, but
dedicated to ending hunger and lobbying Congress to help put a stop to
American hunger. At the seder,
everyone received a Haggadah, or
Passover liturgy book, containing
prayers, songs and stories about
hunger in the U.S. and how to fight
it.
“For those of us who do not usually suffer the agony of hunger,
today is the day to stand in the
shoes of others, to remember that
every one of us should be free from
hunger,” the Haggadah states.
Members of our school’s Student
Council said they enjoyed the event.
“I thought that the unique
Haggadah added to the experience,”
said Rebecca Ingber, chair of social
events.
Rabbi Steve Gutow, a wellknown activist in the Jewish community, led the seder. Many members of Congress participated.
Student Council members led
several prayers in English and in
Hebrew, including the blessing over
the matzah or wine. We sang two
songs, “Eliahu Ha’navi” and “Kol
Ha’Nishama.”
“There was a special connection
in the room in the nation’s capital,
knowing that we were all there to
represent and defeat the huge problem of hunger,” Rebecca said.
Sixth-grader Shira Graubart, the
chair of charity and fundraisers, said
she “liked hearing what the organizations do to help prevent hunger
and why they want to stop hunger.”
— Kate Sosland, fifth-grader
Maret School
Our class recently went to
Martha’s Table for two visits. For
our first visit, we went there to
work with the preschool children in
the Class B “Teddy Bear” group.
We brought books and games to
entertain them and to help them
learn. The children did a really good
job listening to us. Then they got to
play with us.
After we worked and played
together, we sang a song to them. It
was called “Whisper.” At the end of
the song, when we were leaving,
we whispered something in their ear
about what they had done well that
day.
For our second visit, we chopped
vegetables to bring for soup. We
chopped potatoes, carrots, parsnips,
onions, zucchini and turnips. All the
ingredients go into big pots in the
kitchen at Martha’s Table. The
workers there do not eat the delicious soup. They make it to give to
people who do not have lunch.
They bring it to the hungry people
in a big truck, like an ice-cream
truck. Everybody who wants soup
gets in a line at the truck. They all
get a bowl of soup.
— Ms. Tomasi-Carr’s first-graders
Murch Elementary
First-grade Murch Elementary
teacher Kathleen Bergin will have
the honor of running a leg of the
Olympic Torch. She will start in
Edinburgh, Scotland, and run 300
meters to Almwick, Scotland.
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ing all of their royalties to the
International Dyslexia Association,
for which Hal is a board member.
And their publisher, BenBella
Books, gives half of the book’s profits to the Lab School.
In printing the hardcover edition,
the publisher and author also used
lessons from the Lab School to
make the book “easier to read for
kids with learning disabilities,” Hal
said. “We took passages and formatted them in different ways. We asked
the kids, what is easier to read?”
School of Washington, said participating in the relay “was a natural.”
The first-through-12th-grade school,
which has two campuses in the
Palisades and Foxhall areas, “has
many students with reading disabilities, about 80 percent,” she said.
Joining the relay made even
more sense since the event’s centerpiece, “The Sword of Darrow,” originated with one of the
school’s alums.
Alex
Malchow,
who is dyslexic, started
working on the book
with his father when he
was 8 years old and a
student at Lab (he’s
now a junior at St.
John’s College High
School). At the time,
he didn’t know how to
read.
“Me and my dad
used to make up stories
with each other,” Alex
said. “One day we
started writing the stoLab
School
students
lined
up
Thursday in
ries down.”
His father, Hal pursuit of a Guinness World Record for
Malchow, recalls that reading relays.
sometime after the two
had read “The Hobbit” together, The result, Hal said, is an edition
“Alex came up to me and said, ‘I with simpler type, a larger font and
want to write a book.’”
more space between the lines than
“I chuckled to myself,” Hal said, traditional books.
“but thought, well, I’m certainly not For Hal, what started out as a
going to say no. So I said, ‘OK, fella, way to help his son enjoy reading
give me a character and situation.’” and writing has now spawned a sec The end result — after years of ond career.
writing and rewriting, and a long Though Alex doesn’t spend
search to find a publisher — is a much time brainstorming fantasy
fantasy novel that’s won high plots with his dad anymore, Hal is
reviews on Amazon.
busy wrapping up the sequel to
The story takes place in a magi- “Darrow,” about a twin prince and
cal kingdom overrun by evil goblins. princess.
The unwitting savior is Darrow, a Once a full-time political consulphysically weak but mentally strong tant, the Arlington resident now
character who organizes an army to devotes most of his time to writing.
protect his kingdom. Aiding him is a “I’d never thought about writing a
featherweight sword with special book of fiction,” Hal said. “Now I’m
powers and a quirky princess named sitting here with my laptop … hours
Babette.
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202-944-8400
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A Look at the Market in Northwest Washington
May 16, 2012 ■ Page 17
Classic Georgetown row house is centrally located charmer
A
stone’s throw from Volta
Park waits a row home
decked out in classic
Georgetown good looks: a red-
ON THE MARKET
carol buckley
brick exterior with bright white
trim and a glossy black front door.
Inside is a move-in-ready twobedroom home that will suit many
types of buyers, including small
families, empty nesters and those
who live full-time elsewhere but
have always wanted a Georgetown
pied-à-terre.
Hardwood floors line both levels here. On the ground floor, sun
streams in through a large front
window to light a high-ceilinged
seating area. In the winter, the spot
would be a cozy one, thanks to the
wood-burning fireplace that features a richly veined
Arabascato marble
surround.
A dining area
comes next in the
open-plan main room,
followed by a separate
kitchen. White cabinetry and black countertops get a shot of
color from celadon walls. But
there’s function as well as visual
appeal here; stainlesssteel appliances from
brands such as Bosch
and GE Profile will
attract buyers who
like to spend time in
the kitchen. A stacked
washer and dryer wait
in a closet.
The home’s wood
floors continue
through the kitchen as
well, a small detail
that nevertheless
makes the space seem
larger because there’s
no stopping and starting of materials.
A door from the
dining area leads via a
slate and brick path to
a rear garden that’s
just the right size for
morning coffee for one or two, or
for an intimate dinner. A mature
Japanese maple
shades the area, its
planting bed artfully
highlighted by stacked
stones.
Two bedrooms and
a bath wait upstairs,
as does a surprising
amount of storage for
a home of this size
and vintage. A linen closet in the
upstairs hallway is joined by a
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very large walk-in space. In addition, both bedroom closets feature
customized rods and shelving to
help owners maximize every inch.
The larger of the two rooms
faces Q Street and features two
windows that brighten the space
considerably.
The home’s bathroom is a classic in black and white, its vintage
fixtures in spotless condition. A tub
and shower combination gets definition from a line of black accent
tile, and black-and-white floor tiles
are charmingly retro.
Potential buyers are likely to be
drawn to the highly walkable
neighborhood as much as the
home. Volta Park, with its tennis
courts, playground and green
space, is just beyond the front
door. Also within a few blocks are
the Georgetown Library, a
Safeway grocery store and all the
shops and restaurants along
Wisconsin Avenue.
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MUNITIONS
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off during the weekends and evenings.
Plans call for test pits to be dug in the backyard, requiring relocation of a sewer line during August and September. Workers are
expected to address the areas considered most
dangerous in October, continuing the excava-
tion until the following June, Barber said. Less
dangerous areas are scheduled for cleanup
next summer.
Once all of the possibly dangerous material
is removed, workers will backfill the site with
clean soil.
In 1993, investigators found 54 “points of
interest” — potential sites of hazardous munitions — in Spring Valley and nearby areas
based on a review of aerial photographs, docu-
ments and ground photos from 1918. Between
2002 and 2007, investigators added 28 “areas
of interest.”
Of the latter list, investigations of 19 of the
sites are complete and four are under way.
A plan for investigating the final five sites
should be presented at the Spring Valley
Restoration Advisory Board’s June meeting,
and that work is expected to be completed this
summer, said board co-chair Dan Noble.
GIANT
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the people.”
Zimbabwe later added: “Frankly,
that’s the way it should be,” pointing
out that no party to the project —
whether the developers, Giant or
neighbors — will be getting exactly
what they want out of it.
Transportation officials and
developers from the Bozzuto Group
were on hand that night to talk about
recent changes to plans for the two
major intersections of the development, which spans Wisconsin
Avenue from Macomb Street and
Questions remain about a property in the
3700 block of Fordham Road, where a homeowner has denied the Army access to what
officials believe may be the site of a burial pit.
John Owens, an attorney with the Army
Corps, pointed out that the former owner of
4825 Glenbrook Road was also recalcitrant
until a “last-chance letter” was sent.
“There is authority if the situation is serious
enough. It can be forced,” he said
Idaho Avenue.
In addition to the new grocery
store, the development incorporates
nearly 150 new residential units and
80,000 square feet of retail space.
Newark Street will cut down the
center of the project’s two blocks as
its main thoroughfare, offering
access to two parking garages with
519 spaces total.
In response to concerns from
residents, the Transportation
Department recently widened
Newark’s planned intersection with
Wisconsin Avenue.
Previous plans envisioned
extended curbs, or “bulb-outs,” to
make that intersection more pedes-
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trian-friendly. Planners have now
removed those features, to “ease
[car] traffic from getting in and out
of the site,” James Cheeks, the
Transportation Department’s chief
engineer, said after the meeting.
The intersection will “essentially
be the equivalent of what’s there
now,” Zimbabwe told residents.
That change revived a familiar
tension between two different groups
of neighbors.
Many residents who live on or
near Newark Street have pushed for
a more walkable environment on the
thoroughfare. Those who live on or
around 38th Street, however, have
tended to prefer a more car-friendly
Newark. Some have feared that 38th
— planned as a secondary access
point to one of the project’s garages
— would take the brunt of traffic if
Newark is constricted.
One attendee said residents had
launched a letter campaign to “keep
Newark Street as intended, as a fully
running commercial street.”
Northward, at the intersection of
Wisconsin and Idaho avenues and
Ordway Street, transportation planners have now tried to “make it unattractive for [drivers] to make that
through movement” east across
Wisconsin onto residential streets,
Zimbabwe said.
Vehicles will still be able to cross
safely when necessary, but the transportation agency recently made
plans to tighten the intersection by
extending curbs and adding a raised
feature that Zimbabwe called a
“pork chop” at Idaho and Ordway.
One element that came up repeatedly at the meeting is the $100,000
the Bozzuto Group has pledged,
through an escrow account, to fund
future mitigation efforts. Zimbabwe
described this arrangement as
“unique for the District.”
To determine what type of
improvements will be necessary,
Bozzuto is required to undertake a
traffic study about six months after
the complex gets up and running.
The firm’s vice president, Jeff
Case, told residents that Bozzuto
intends to give its mandated 45 days’
notice of demolition within the next
two weeks. Construction work is
expected to take about 22 months.
To concerns about construction
workers taking up parking in the
neighborhood, Case said the firm is
planning for a number of satellite
parking locations elsewhere, and
will provide the specifics soon.
Cheeks reiterated that construction vehicles are prohibited from
traveling on neighborhood streets,
and must access the site only via
Wisconsin Avenue.
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commissioner Tom Quinn. It adopts recommendations from a 2004 Transportation
Department study to give 41st Street a shorter
green light at Military to lessen its appeal as an
alternative cut-through and requests that only
northbound 42nd Street traffic be restricted,
among other recommendations.
Transportation Department spokesperson
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ing NoMa neighborhood into affordable-housing programs.
The revised budget directs those
funds to the Housing Production
Trust Fund, which was set up to
encourage construction and rehabilitation of low-cost housing, but has
been depleted — and raided for
other purposes — in recent years.
Brown said restoring housing
funds will “make sure affordable
housing is not just a myth in this
city,” and could “kick-start” construction of hundreds of new units.
“Some people may prefer parks
over affordable housing,” at-large
member Michael Brown told The
Current. “We thought affordable
housing is more important.”
The revised budget also boosts a
city rent supplement program by $4
million to help homeless families
leave shelters and motels for permanent housing, and adds $2.5 million
to the Home Purchase Assistance
Program for lower-income residents.
Advocates for affordable housing
packed the council chamber as
members debated Chairman
Brown’s various fund shifts.
In recent days, the chairman also
jettisoned Gray’s proposal to prioritize repealing the tax on interest
from out-of-state municipal bonds.
Gray had said that the tax, which
took effect last January, should be
repealed if revenue projections
increase.
Brown’s action followed reports
that District investors eagerly bought
up the city’s latest bond issue — bolstering arguments that the tax on the
out-of-state bonds makes city bonds
more attractive to investors.
When Mary Cheh of Ward 3 and
Jack Evans of Ward 2 tried to get the
tax repeal higher on the “wish list,”
it was clear the idea had only thin
support. Only after Evans offered to
make it “last on the list” — meaning
the bond tax would be repealed only
if hundreds if millions in additional
revenue materializes — did the
council agree, on a narrow 7-5 vote.
The council, after some debate,
also adopted Brown’s compromise
proposal to boost sales tax revenue
by extending only limited late-night
hours for alcohol sales.
Instead of the mayor’s proposed
closing times of 3 a.m. every weekday and 4 a.m. every weekend night,
Brown’s idea would limit the
extended hours to 19 holiday nights,
agency had determined that any impact on
nearby streets “would be minimal in relationship to the accident problem at 42nd and
Military.”
Nonetheless, wrote Lisle, “DDOT has
secured the services of Sam Swartz Engineering
to review our original Safety Study for 42nd
and Military, review the impact of [the agency’s own] recommendations and review some
of the specific Traffic Signal and Roadway
operational requests in the ANC resolution.”
According to neighbors, the issue with the
intersection is that eastbound Military Road
including weekends “adjacent” to
Memorial Day, Labor Day,
Independence Day and New Year’s
Eve.
The compromise allowed the
council to omit a controversial excise
tax increase on alcohol proposed by
Ward 1 member Jim Graham.
Graham said he still fears extended bar hours on even 19 nights
would be “a huge imposition on the
peace, order and quiet” of Adams
Morgan and other such de-facto
entertainment zones.
But with the council unable to
come up with the extra funding to
replace the estimated $1.5 million in
sales tax from the extended hours,
members agreed to support a proposal from Cheh that would require
officials to report back in a year on
the impact of the change.
The other major revision to
Gray’s original budget proposal was
actually hammered out Tuesday
routinely backs up while waiting at the 41st
Street traffic light, and those stopped cars
block the view of faster-moving westbound
traffic from northbound 42nd. Insufficient
enforcement of the right-turn-only signage
leads to accidents when drivers try to illegally
cross the street, they said, and some argue that
the planned barrier is the best solution.
But eliminating 42nd Street as an option
for cut-through commuters — practically, in
addition to legally —would send those drivers
to 41st and other nearby streets, other residents
said. “When you put one barrier in one place,
morning by Gray himself and atlarge member David Catania. Both
wanted to restore some $20 million
to the DC Healthcare Alliance, largely to cover hospitalization and emergency care for undocumented immigrants, but were unable to agree on a
funding source until yesterday.
In his budget proposal, Chairman
Brown also created a task force to
study the possibility of granting a
“neighborhood preference” in charter school admissions, starting in the
2013-2014 school year.
The budget also provides about
$200,000 for a dog park at a to-bedetermined site in Ward 4, as well as
funds for the renovation of more
than 20 playgrounds across the city.
Among those slated for upgrades are
the Palisades, Macomb, Emery, Fort
Stevens, Upshur Park, Hamilton,
Takoma, Banneker, Harrison, Rose
Park, Key Elementary School and
Newark Street playgrounds.
it’s just ... going to create problems on a block
that already has speed and volume problems,”
41st Street resident Dora Chen said at
Thursday’s meeting.
Once the Transportation Department’s consultant has completed its review of the options
for 42nd Street and nearby intersections, the
agency will provide a written summary of its
findings, according to Lisle.
“We’ve been asking for an engineer to look
at these things together going back more than
a year,” Quinn wrote in an email. “So if that is
what they are finally going to do that is great.”
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Concerts
■ The Crossfire Percussion Duo will
perform works by Matt Sargent. 6 p.m.
Free. Hemphill Fine Arts, 1515 14th St.
NW. 202-234-5601.
■ The chamber ensemble Concertante
will perform. 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations
required. National Museum of Women in
the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. 202783-7370.
Discussions and lectures
■ Gary Younge will discuss his book
“Granta 119: Britain,” and Tania James will
discuss her book “Aerogrammes and Other
Stories.” 6:30 to 8 p.m. Langston Room,
Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW.
202-387-7638.
■ Yangzom Brauen
will discuss her book
“Across Many
Mountains: A Tibetan
Family’s Epic Journey
From Oppression to
Freedom.” 6:30 to 8
p.m. Free. Cullen
Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St.
NW. 202-387-7638.
■ Calder C. Loth, senior architectural
historian at the Virginia Department of
Historic Resources, will discuss “Schinkel,
von Klenze, and the Grecian Image in
Europe and America.” 6:45 p.m. Free; reservations required. Goethe-Institut, 812
7th St. NW. 703-242-8840.
■ As part of the “Ancient Greeks/
Modern Lives” program, Gettysburg
College classics professor Brett Rogers will
discuss “The Art of Storytelling,” about the
similarities between ancient Greek poets
and modern storytellers, such as filmmakers, hip-hop artists and writers of comic
books. 7 p.m. Free. Watha T. Daniel-Shaw
Library, 1630 7th St. NW. 202-727-1288.
■ Author Terry
Tempest Williams will
discuss her book
“When Women Were
Birds: Fifty-four
Variations on Voice.” 7
p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
Films
■ The D.C. International Human Rights
Film Festival will feature Christopher
Morris’ film “Four Lions.” 6 p.m. Free; reservations required. West End Cinema,
23rd Street between M and N streets NW.
[email protected].
■ “Yilmaz Güney: Master of Euro-Asian
Film Culture” will feature the director’s
1970 film “Hope.” A panel discussion will
follow. 6:30 p.m. $4 to $7. Goethe-Institut,
812 7th St. NW. 202-289-1200, ext. 160.
■ The Human Rights Watch Film
Festival will feature Luc Côté and Patricio
Henríquez’s 2010 film “You Don’t Like the
Truth — 4 Days Inside Guantanamo.” A
question-and-answer session with Andrea
Prasnow of Human Rights Watch will follow. 7 p.m. $9 to $11. West End Cinema,
202-419-3456.
■ The French Cinémathèque series will
feature Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc
Dardenne’s
2011 film “The
Kid With a
Bike,” about
the emotional
life of a troubled 11-yearold whose father abandons him. 8 p.m.
$11; $9 for students; $8.25 for seniors;
$8 for children ages 12 and younger.
Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-966-6000.
Performances
■ The Washington Performing Arts
Society will present young student musicians and dancers in performance with
professional artists. 6 p.m. Free.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
■ “Fieldwork for Mixed Disciplines” will
feature works in progress. 8 p.m. $10.
Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. 202-2691600.
Sporting events
■ The Washington Nationals will play
the Pittsburgh Pirates. 7:05 p.m. $5 to
$65. Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol
St. SE. 888-632-6287. The series will continue Thursday at 7:05 p.m.
■ D.C. United will play the Colorado
Rapids. 7:30 p.m. $20 to $52. RFK
Memorial Stadium, 2400 East Capitol St.
SE. 202-397-7328.
Thursday, May 17
Thursday may 17
Benefits
■ “Art and Libations,” a benefit for the
Lisner-Louise-Dickson-Hurt Home, will feature fine wine and craft beers, hors
d’oeuvres, artwork by the home’s residents, photographs of fashion weeks in
New York and Berlin by Walter Grio, and a
performance by the Duke Ellington School
of the Arts Jazz Ensemble. 6 p.m. $75; reservations required. 5725 Western Ave.
NW. lldhhome.org.
■ The Alliance Française de
Washington will present “Urban Corps
Inaugural Gala,” which will raise funds for
the organization and launch a dance festival showcasing the best of contemporary
French hop-hop. 7:30 to 11 p.m. $150 to
$350. Mexican Cultural Institute, 2829
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Thursday, may 17
■ Book signing: Toni Morrison will
sign copies of her novel “Home.” 4
to 5 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose,
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.
16th St. NW. 202-234-7911, ext. 833. The
festival will continue at various venues
through May 25.
Concerts
■ The Golden Triangle Summer
Concert Series will feature the group
Lethal Peanut performing hard rock and
blues mixed with folk, bluegrass and alternative sounds. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Free.
Farragut Square, 17th and K streets NW.
goldentriangledc.com.
■ The Capitol Jazz Project — a music
education program sponsored by the
Washington Performing Arts Society, Jazz
at Lincoln Center and D.C. Public Schools
— will present a performance. 6 p.m. Free.
■ The Shanghai Quartet and pianist
Peter Serkin will perform works by Mozart
and Dvorák and the
D.C. premiere of Bright
Sheng’s “Dance
Capriccio.” 7:30 p.m.
Free; tickets required.
Meyer Auditorium,
Freer Gallery of Art, 12th Street and
Independence Avenue SW. 202-633-1000.
■ “New Music at the Atlas” will feature
the International Contemporary Ensemble.
7:30 p.m. $15 to $25. Atlas Performing
French Movie Nights
(2nd Tuesday of Month)
Half off Belgian Beers
with Mussels entree
(Wednesday)
Champagne Nights
featuring special
Champagne of the week
(Thursdays)
Wine Specials on
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(Sundays)
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■ R&B performer Nick Waterhouse will
perform. 8 p.m. $10 in advance; $12 on
the day of the show. Sixth & I Historic
Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 800-745-3000.
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■ The first-ever Dupont Green Week
will feature panel discussions on aspects
of sustainability. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free; reservations suggested. Room 500,
Bernstein-Offit Building, Johns Hopkins
University School of Advanced International
Studies, 1717 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
dupontgreenweek2012.eventbrite.com.
Events will continue through Sunday at
various venues.
■ Saru Jayaraman, co-founder and codirector of Restaurant Opportunities
Centers United and assistant professor of
public law at the City University of New
York, will discuss “Tipped Over the Edge:
Gender Inequality in the Nation’s
Restaurant Industry and the Minimum
Wage.” 11:30 a.m. $30. Woman’s
National Democratic Club, 1526 New
Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.
■ U.S. Botanic Garden volunteer Beth
Burrous, a biochemist, will discuss
“Caffeine: Friend and Foe to People, Plants
and Insects.” Noon to 1 p.m. Free; reservations required. U.S. Botanic Garden, 100
Maryland Ave. SW. usbg.gov.
■ Panelists will discuss “Algeria After
the Elections: Now What?” 4:30 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Room 736,
Bernstein-Offit Building, Johns Hopkins
eventbrite.com/event/3508017575.
■ Gary Tinterow will discuss his experience as chair of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art’s department of 19th-century, modern and contemporary art, as well as his
vision for the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, where he now serves as director.
6 p.m. $20; reservations required. Phillips
Collection, 1600 21st St. NW.
phillipscollection.org/calendar.
■ Nicolette Kressi and Joachim Poss,
members of the German Parliament, will
discuss “Fiscal Austerity and European
Realities: How to Cut Debts and Grow
Europe’s Economies.” 6 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 500, BernsteinOffit Building, Johns Hopkins University
School of Advanced International Studies,
1717 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
eventbrite.com/event/3525361451.
■ In honor of the 200th anniversary of
the arrival of George Peabody in
Georgetown, the Peabody Room will host a
talk by Michael Lee Pope, author of
“Hidden History of Alexandria, D.C.” 6:30
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Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St.
NW. 202-727-0232.
■ John Whyte,
Discovery Channel’s
chief medical expert,
will discuss “It’s Not
the Same Old Story: A
Guide to Rational
Aging.” 6:45 to 8:45
p.m. $40. S. Dillon
Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW.
202-633-3030.
■ Michael Erard will discuss his book
“Babel No More: The Search for the
World’s Most Extraordinary Language
Learners.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose,
■ The Georgetown Book Club will discuss the second half of “Midnight’s
Children” by Salman Rushdie. 7:30 p.m.
Free. Georgetown Neighborhood Library,
3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.
Special event
■ “Found in Translation: an 84000
Sutra Resounding” will feature a participatory reading of the Buddha’s words in
English. 7 to 9 p.m. Free. Friends Meeting
of Washington, D.C., 2111 Florida Ave. NW.
[email protected].
Films
■ The D.C. International Human
Rights Film Festival will feature Denis
Villeneuve’s film “Incendies.” 6 p.m. Free;
reservations required. West End Cinema,
[email protected].
■ The Corcoran Gallery of Art will host
a screening of the 2011 documentary
“Where Soldiers Come From,” about three
childhood
friends as they
grow and
change from
carefree teenagers in a
northern
Michigan town to National Guard soldiers
stationed in the mountains of Afghanistan
to 23-year-old disillusioned veterans. A discussion afterward will feature film director
Heather Courtney and Dominic “Dom”
Fredianelli, a veteran who appears in the
film. 6 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW.
202-639-1770.
Performance
■ The Mansaku-no-Kai Kyogen
Company will perform “Suminuri,” “Tsukimi Zato” and “Kubi Hiki.” 7:30 p.m. $40.
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600. The performance will repeat
Tour
■ A slide show and outdoor tour will
focus on the whimsical stone gargoyles
and grotesques that decorate the
Washington National Cathedral. 6:30 p.m.
$10; $5 for children ages 12 and younger;
$30 per family. Seventh-floor auditorium,
Washington National Cathedral,
Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues
NW. 202-537-6200. The tour will also be
offered Sunday at 2 p.m.
Friday, May 18
Friday may 18
Benefit
■ The Academy of Hope’s “2012 Bee
& Bubbly Bash” — featuring a cocktail buffet reception and a game show-style spelling bee — will raise funds for the group’s
adult education services. 6 to 9:30 p.m.
$150. Katzen Arts Center, American
University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
202-269-6623.
Concerts
■ The Friday Morning Music Club will
present a concert of works by Dvorák,
Poulenc and Kinoshita. Noon. Free. Calvary
Baptist Church, 755 8th St. NW. 202-3332075.
■ Elmo Cosentini of Vienna, Austria,
will present an organ recital. 12:15 p.m.
Free. National City Christian Church, 5
Thomas Circle NW. 202-797-0103.
■ Members of the National Symphony
Orchestra will perform works by Philip
Parker and Grant Cooper. 6 p.m. Free.
■ Former D.C. mayor Anthony Williams
will deliver keynote remarks at a conference on “Visualizing the Nation’s Capital:
Two Centuries of Mapping Washington,
D.C.” 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Coolidge Auditorium,
Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10
1st St. SE. 202-707-1616. The conference
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3:30 p.m.
■ As part of the first-ever Dupont
Green Week, panelists will discuss “Green
Economy: Green Jobs, Pathways to Low
Carbon Growth,” at 10 a.m.; and “Carbon
Markets: Bringing Your Carbon to Market,”
at 1 p.m. Free; reservations suggested.
Washington Center, University of
California, 1608 Rhode Island Ave. NW.
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■ Fuad Aliyev, a Fulbright Scholar at
the School of Advanced International
Studies, will discuss “Islamic Finance in
Central Asia-Caucasus Region: Risks,
Challenges and Opportunities.” 12:30 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Room 806,
Rome Building, Johns Hopkins University
School of Advanced International Studies,
1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
[email protected].
■ Archivist Valerie Sallis will discuss a
pair of engravings and other materials
highlighting the 1782 Siege of Gibraltar, a
little-known saga of the Revolutionary War.
12:30 p.m. Free. Society of the Cincinnati,
required. Embassy of Austria, 3524
International Court NW. 202-895-6776.
Open house
■ The U.S. Botanic Garden and the
Endangered Species Coalition will host an
open house, featuring tours, children’s
activities and more than 20 booths focusing on endangered plants and plant conservation. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free.
Conservatory, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100
Maryland Ave. SW. usbg.gov.
Performance
■ The Dance Institute of Washington’s
pre-professional ensemble, Positive
Directions Through Dance, and community
students will perform classical ballet, modern, hip-hop, jazz and African dance works.
7:30 p.m. $15. Columbia Heights
Education Campus, 3101 16th St. NW.
brownpapertickets.com/event/245080.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Nationals will play
the Baltimore Orioles. 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.
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Saturday may 19
Children’s programs
■ Tiny Chefs will offer a 90-minute
cooking class for children ages 4 through
8, at 11 a.m.; and for ages 9 through 13,
at 1 p.m. $40. Chevy Chase Baptist
Church, 5671 Western Ave. NW. 301-8717395.
■ GALA Hispanic Theatre’s IberoAmerican Children’s Film Festival will feature the 2009 animated film “Cuentos de
Cipotes,” based on childhood stories about
Salurrué. 1 p.m. $8 for children; $10 for
adults. GALA Theater, 3333 14th St. NW.
202-234-7174.
Classes
■ In conjunction with Choralis, British
composer Bob Chilcott will lead a choral
workshop, culminating in a performance of
his “Salisbury Vespers.” 9 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. $75; $35 for students. National
Presbyterian Church, 4101 Nebraska Ave.
NW. 703-237-2499.
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■ Festival: St. Sophia Greek
Orthodox Cathedral will hold its
annual spring festival, featuring
Greek food and pastries, attic treasures, a Greek market, international
arts and crafts, religious icons, children’s activities and live Greek
music and dancing. Noon to 10 p.m.
Free admission. 36th Street and
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■ Stephen Vinson, associate professor
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Femmes Fatales in Victorian Popular
Novels, Short Stories and Poetry.” 6:30
p.m. Free; reservations required. Rome
Building Auditorium, Johns Hopkins
arce.org.
■ Buzz Bissinger will discuss his book
“Father’s Day:
A Journey Into
the Mind and
Heart of My
Extraordinary
Son.” 7 p.m.
Free. Politics
and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
■ Jen Lancaster will discuss her book
“Jeneration X: One
Reluctant Adult’s
Attempt to Unarrest
Her Arrested
Development; Or, Why
It’s Never Too Late for
Her Dumb Ass to Learn
Why Froot Loops Are
Not for Dinner.” 7 p.m. Free. Barnes &
Noble, 555 12th St. NW. 202-347-0176.
■ Arthur Blumenthal, director emeritus of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at
Rollins College, will discuss “In the Light
of Naples: Francesco de Mura in
America.” 7 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Auditorium, Embassy of Italy,
3000 Whitehaven St. NW.
www.iicwashington.esteri.it.
■ Washington National Cathedral and
the PEN/Faulkner
Foundation will present
“An Evening With Ann
Patchett,” featuring the
author of “Bel Canto,”
“Truth & Beauty” and
“State of Wonder.”
7:30 p.m. $22.
Washington National Cathedral,
Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues
NW. 202-537-2228.
■ Judith Scheine, author of “Schindler,
Kings Road, and Southern California
Modernism,” will discuss American architect Rudolph Schindler and the significance of the Los Angeles house he
designed. 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations
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familiar recipes without sacrificing taste or
nutrition. 10 a.m. Free; reservations suggested. Whole Foods Market, 1440 P St.
NW. dupontgreenweek2012.eventbrite.
com.
■ “Tango Practicum” will offer a
chance for novices and experts to practice
their dance moves. 2:30 p.m. Free. West
End Library, 1101 24th St. NW. 202-7248707.
Concerts
■ Cellist Narek
Hakhnazaryan will perform. 2 p.m. Free; tickets required. Coolidge
Auditorium, Jefferson
Building, Library of
Congress, 10 1st St.
SE. 202-707-5502.
■ In conjunction with Choralis, British
composer Bob Chilcott will present a performance of his “Salisbury Vespers.” 3:30
p.m. Free. National Presbyterian Church,
4101 Nebraska Ave. NW. 703-237-2499.
■ The Westmoreland Congregational
United Church of Christ Chancel Choir will
perform “Sacred Music Across the English
Channel.” 7 p.m. Free; donations will benefit Bethesda Cares. Westmoreland
Congregational United Church of Christ, 1
Westmoreland Circle. 301-229-7766.
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■ The Washington Jewish Music
Festival will feature the group Moshav performing a mix of rock, folk and reggae. 9
p.m. $18; $15 for students and seniors.
Adas Israel Congregation, 2850 Quebec
St. NW. wjmf.org.
■ Roger Gilbertson will offer tips on
how to make a great presentation. 10 a.m.
Free. Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Library, 1630
7th St. NW. 202-727-1288.
■ Philadelphia dealer and collector
Dennis Dodds will share a sampling of his
favorite items from decades of collecting.
10:30 a.m. Free. Textile Museum, 2320 S
St. NW. 202-667-0441, ext. 64.
■ As part of its 300th anniversary celebration, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church will
host a forum on “The Episcopal Church in
Partnership With Its Community.”
Speakers will include the Most Rev.
Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop
of the Episcopal Church; the Rev. Dexter
Nutall, director of the D.C. Office of
Religious Affairs; and Minnie Green, community activist. Noon to 2 p.m. Free. St.
Paul’s Episcopal Church, Rock Creek
Church Road and Webster Street NW. 202726-2080. An anniversary festival
Eucharist and reception will be held
Sunday at 10 a.m.
■ Ken Budd will discuss his book “The
Voluntourist: A Six-Country Tale of Love,
Loss, Fatherhood, Fate, and Singing Bon
Jovi in Bethlehem,” at 1 p.m.; and Tim
“Rufino Tamayo and Mexican Modernism.”
3 p.m. Free. Mexican Cultural Institute,
2829 16th St. NW. 202-728-1628.
■ Artist Sandra Cinto will discuss
“Untitled (After the Rain),” an installation
now at the Phillips Collection as part of the
Intersections program. 4 p.m. $12; $10 for
seniors and students; free for ages 18 and
younger. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St.
NW. 202-387-2151.
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■ Concert: The Washington
Performing Arts Society will present
pianist Jeremy Denk in concert. 8
p.m. $40. Sixth & I Historic
Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 800-7453000.
Noah will discuss his book “The Great
Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality
Crisis and What We Can Do About It,” at 6
p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015
■ The National League of American
Pen Women, District of Columbia Branch,
will present a talk by interior designer Joan
Carpenter. 1 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Pen Arts Building, 1300 17th St.
NW. [email protected].
■ Anna Indych-Lopez will discuss
Festival
■ The National Asian Heritage Festival
will feature culinary specialties, cooking
demonstrations, arts and crafts, and live
performances. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Free
admission. Pennsylvania Avenue between
3rd and 6th streets NW.
asiaheritagefoundation.org.
Films
■ “1940: America Goes to the Movies”
will feature Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rebecca,”
starring
Laurence
Olivier and
Joan Fontaine.
Noon. Free.
McGowan
Theater,
National Archives Building, Constitution
Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW.
202-357-5000.
■ A “Reel Portraits” double feature will
include Lee Garmes’ 1932 film “Shanghai
Express,” about romance and intrigue
aboard a train during the Chinese civil war,
at 1 p.m.; and Martin Ritt’s 1963 film
“Hud,” about a Texas ranching family coming apart at the seams, at 3 p.m. Free.
National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets
NW. 202-633-1000.
■ “In Praise of Independents: The
Flaherty” will feature a selection of experiments, documentaries and shorts from the
2011 “Sonic Truth” seminar, programmed
by historian and curator Dan Streible. 2
p.m. Free. East Building Information Desk,
National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
Performances
■ The Alliance Française de
Washington’s “Urban Corps” hip-hop festival will feature “Le Petit Bal 2 Rue,” featuring two De Fakto Company dancers auditioning in front of a 1950s film actor. 2
p.m. Free. Kalorama Park, Columbia and
Kalorama roads NW. francedc.org. The fes-
tival will continue through May 25 with
events at various venues.
■ The Joy of Motion Dance Center’s
elite pre-collegiate student company will
present a mixed repertory program featuring works by Helanius Wilkins and Helen
Hayes, among others. 6 p.m. Free.
■ Joy of Motion Dance Center youth
companies will perform. 7 p.m. $20 to
$25. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H
St. NE. 202-399-7993. The performance
will repeat Sunday at 5 p.m.
■ AXIS Dance Company will perform. 8
p.m. $25; $15 for students and seniors.
Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St.
NE. 202-399-7993.The performance will
repeat Sunday at 7 p.m.
■ The Capital City Showcase will feature hip-hop artist Bob Jankans, musician
Adrian Krygowski and comedians Ahmed
Huidobro, Pat Riley and Chelsea Shorte.
10 p.m. $10 to $15. District of Columbia
Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW.
capitalcityshowcase.eventbrite.com.
Special event
■ The 11th annual Dragon Boat
Festival on the Potomac River will feature
a sport that began in China more than
2,000 years ago. The 45-foot-long boats,
painted to resemble the scales of a dragon, will race along a course between the
Kennedy Center and Thompson Boat
Center. 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free.
Thompson Boat Center, Virginia Avenue
and Rock Creek Parkway NW.
dragonboatdc.com. The festival will continue Sunday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
■ The seventh annual DC Yoga Week
will culminate with an outdoor “Yoga on
the Mall” practice led by area teachers.
1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Free. Sylvan Theater,
Washington Monument grounds, 15th
Street and Independence Avenue SW.
dccy.org.
Sporting events
■ The Washington Mystics will play the
Chicago Sky. 7 p.m. $17 to $300. Verizon
Center, 601 F St. NW. 202-397-7328.
■ D.C. United will play Toronto FC. 7:30
p.m. $20 to $52. RFK Memorial Stadium,
2400 East Capitol St. SE. 202-397-7328.
Walks and tours
■ The Cultural Landscape Foundation
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Exhibition reflects on last year’s Arab Spring uprisings
“T
he Subliminal Seduction of
On exhibit
Spring,” featuring paintings by
Chevy Chase artist Mona El
floor, the gallery is open Tuesday through
Bayoumi that explore uprisings like last
Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-994-1525.
year’s Arab Spring, will open Friday at the
■ “Capturing the Verve: Prints and Bronzes
Jerusalem Fund Gallery and continue
by Robert Cook,” presenting the artist’s
through June 22.
An artist’s reception will take place Friday attempts to interpret motion, will open Friday
with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Old
from 6 to 8 p.m.
Print Gallery. The exhibit will continue
Located at 2425 Virginia Ave. NW, the
through July 14.
gallery is open Monday
Located at 1220 31st St.
through Friday from 9 a.m. to
NW, the gallery is open
5 p.m. 202-338-1958.
Tuesday through Saturday
■ George Washington
from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
University’s Luther W.
202-965-1818.
Brady Art Gallery will open
■ Cross MacKenzie Gallery
an exhibit today of abstract
will open an exhibit of cerampaintings by British artist
ics by Anthony Stellaccio and
Howard Hodgkin, many of
paintings by Mary Armstrong
which evoke landscapes. The
Howard
Hodgkin’s
abstract
with an artists’ reception
show will continue through
“Lagoon” is on exhibit at
Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. The
July 13.
An opening reception will Luther W. Brady Art Gallery. exhibit will continue through
June 30.
take place today from 5 to 7
Located
at
2026
R St. NW, the gallery is
p.m.
Located at 805 21st St. NW on the second open Wednesday through Saturday from noon
to 6 p.m. 202-333-7970.
■ “I Dream a World: Paintings Inspired by
the Poems of Langston Hughes,” presenting
works by portrait painter Simmie Knox and
his protégés Mason Archie and Morris
Howard, will open Friday with a reception
from 6 to 8 p.m. at Parish Gallery. The
exhibit will continue through June 12.
Located at 1054 31st St. NW, the gallery is
open Tuesday through Saturday from noon to
6 p.m. 202-994-2310.
■ Zenith Salon Gallery will open a new
sculpture garden Saturday with a reception
from 2 to 8 p.m. that will include a fire-painting demonstration by Peter Kephart at 5 p.m.
Located at 1429 Iris St. NW, the gallery is
open Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. 202-7832963.
■ Jackson Art Center will hold its spring
open house Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. at
3048 1/2 R St. NW. 202-306-1722.
■ “Space Is the Place,” featuring site-responsive installations by Mariah Anne Johnson
and John Watson, opened last week at
Carroll Square Gallery and will continue
through Aug. 24.
Mona El Bayoumi’s “Confined Tangerines in
the Winter of 2012” is part of an exhibit at
the Jerusalem Fund Gallery.
Located at 975 F St. NW, the gallery is
open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to
6 p.m. 202-347-7978.
■ Duke Ellington School of the Arts opened
its 2012 Senior Art Exhibition last week and
will continue it through June 18.
Located at 3500 R St. NW, the school is
open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m. 202-282-0123.
Studio Theatre puts ‘Bachelorette’ on D.C. stage
S
tudio Theatre will present
Leslye Headland’s
“Bachelorette” May 23
through July 1.
Ten years out of high school,
On STAGE
three unhappy friends celebrate a
classmate’s wedding with a purse
full of pills, acid wit and a few
eager men.
Performance times are 8 p.m.
Tuesday through Saturday and 7
p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $35 to
$60. Studio Theatre is located at
1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300;
Studio Theatre’s “Bachelorette,” about three unhappy friends 10
studiotheatre.org.
years out of high school, will run May 23 through July 1.
■ American Ensemble Theater
ments are broken and lovers are
347-4833; fordstheatre.org.
will stage David Mamet’s comedy
reunited in Carlo Goldoni’s com■ Scena Theatre will close Conor
“Bobby Gould in Hell” May 24
media dell’arte masterpiece.
McPherson’s “The Seafarer” May
through June 9 at the Capitol Hill
Mayhem erupts when the wily —
20 at the H Street Playhouse.
Arts Workshop.
and chronically hungry — servant
Performance times are 8 p.m.
The play opens as the title charTruffaldino hatches a zany scheme
Thursday through Saturday and 3
acter, a recurring figure in Mamet’s
p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $25 to
work, is confronted by an interroga- to double his wages (and meals) by
$35 ($15 for students). The theater
tor determined to get him to confess serving two masters at once.
Performance times are 7:30 p.m. is located at 1365 H St. NE. 703his sins. With Bobby Gould strugSunday, Tuesday and
683-2824; scenatheater.org.
gling to argue his case,
Wednesday; 8 p.m.
■ Studio Theatre 2ndStage will
a woman he has
Thursday through
close Dan LeFranc’s epic “The Big
wronged appears and
Saturday; and 2 p.m.
Meal” May 20.
turns up the heat.
Saturday and Sunday.
Performance times are 8:30 p.m.
Performance times
Tickets cost $39 to $95. Wednesday through Saturday and
are 8 p.m. Thursday
The Lansburgh Theatre 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $38
through Saturday.
is located at 450 7th St. to $43. Studio Theatre is located at
Tickets cost $10. The
NW. 202-547-1122;
1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300;
Capitol Hill Arts
shakespearetheatre.org. studiotheatre.org.
Workshop is located at
■ Ford’s Theatre will
■ Theater J will close Matthew
545 7th St. SE. 800close the Tony AwardLopez’s “The Whipping Man” May
838-3006;
winning musical
20 at the Washington DC Jewish
americanensemble.org.
“The Servant of Two “1776” May 19.
Community Center.
■ Shakespeare
Masters” is playing
Performance times are 7:30 p.m.
Performance times
Theatre Company
Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday;
are generally 7:30 p.m.
at the Lansburgh.
opened “The Servant
8 p.m. Saturday; and 3 p.m.
Wednesday through
of Two Masters” this
Sunday. Tickets cost $25 to $60.
Saturday and 2 p.m. Saturday.
week and will continue it through
Tickets cost $44 to $60. The theater The center is located at 1529 16th
June 24 at the Lansburgh Theatre.
St. NW. 800-494-8497; theaterj.org.
is located at 511 10th St. NW. 202 Identities are mistaken, engage-
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will host “What’s Out There Weekend,” featuring two days of expert guided tours of
key D.C. works of landscape architecture,
such as Tregaron, Tudor Place, Dumbarton
Oaks Park and the Washington National
Cathedral. Free; registration suggested.
Various times and locations.
tclf.org/event/wotw-washingtondc.
■ A park ranger will lead a walk
through Dumbarton Oaks Park while
explaining how
to identify birds
through sight
and sound and
why migratory
birds choose
Rock Creek
Park as a stopover on their long seasonal
journey. 7:30 a.m. Free. Dumbarton Oaks
Park, R Street between 30th and 31st
streets NW. 202-895-6070.
■ Gail Griffin, director of gardens and
grounds at Dumbarton Oaks, and
Suzanne Bouchard, director of gardens
and grounds at Tudor Place, will lead a
guided tour of two of the city’s most historic gardens. 10:30 a.m. $15; reservations required. Tudor Place Historic House
and Garden, 1644 31st St. NW.
oakstudorplacegardentour.eventbrite.com.
■ Washington Walks will present
“Dupont Conservancy: Preserving
Neighborhood Character,” led by tour guide
Carolyn Crouch and former conservancy
board member Richard Busch. 11 a.m.
$15; free for children ages 2 and younger.
Meet outside the Dupont Circle Metro station’s Q Street exit. 202-484-1565.
■ The Chevy Chase Citizens
Association’s annual Garden Tour will
showcase shade and rain gardens in both
cottage and formal garden environments,
with experts on hand to discuss the
design, plant choices and drip irrigation. 1
to 4 p.m. Free. Start at Lafayette
Recreation Center, 5900 33rd St. NW.
[email protected].
Sunday, May 20
Sunday may 20
Concerts
■ Stellae Boreales, Canada’s premier
youth violin ensemble, will perform classical works. 2 to 3:15 p.m. Free.
Conservatory Garden Court, U.S. Botanic
Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. usbg.gov.
■ The Washington Girls Chorus will
present “This Shall Be for Music.” 3 p.m.
$30. Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen
Arts Center, American University, 4400
Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-3634.
■ Local musicians and singers will perform traditional and modern Scandinavian
folk music. 4 p.m. Free; donation suggested. First Trinity Lutheran Church, 501 4th
St. NW. 703-734-0319.
■ The Chevy Chase Chancel Choir will
join soloists, orchestra and organ to present sacred choral masterworks. 4 p.m.
Free. Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church, 1
Chevy Chase Circle NW. 202-363-2202.
■ The Raphael Trio will perform works
by Italian operetta composer Ermanno
Wolf-Ferrari. 4 p.m. $20. Phillips Collection,
1600 21st St. NW. 202-387-2151.
■ Accompanied by a full orchestra,
Choralis will perform Bob Chilcott’s
“Requiem,” conducted by the composer,
and Beethoven’s “Mass in C.” 4 p.m. $25
to $40; $5 for students ages 13 through
22; free for children ages 12 and younger.
National Presbyterian Church, 4101
Nebraska Ave. NW. 703-237-2499.
■ The Citizens Association of
Georgetown’s Concerts in the Parks series
will feature local singer/songwriter
Rebecca McCabe. 5 p.m. Free. Volta Park,
34th and Q streets NW. 202-337-7313.
■ Concert pianist Christopher Schmitt
will perform works by Bach, Prokofiev,
Liszt and Schumann. 5 p.m. Free. Church
of the Annunciation, 3810
Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-441-7678.
■ The professional Choir of Christ
Church will perform works by Richard
Ayleward, Alfred Herbert Brewer and
Edward C. Bairstow as part of its Choral
Evensong series. 5 p.m. Free. Christ
Church, Georgetown, 31st and O streets
NW. 202-333-6677.
■ The Washington Chorus will present
“The Essential Wagner,” featuring soprano
Othalie Graham and baritone Brent Stater.
5 p.m. $15 to $65. Concert Hall, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Gary Desmond from Bristol, England,
will perform an organ recital. 5:15 p.m.
$10 donation suggested. Washington
National Cathedral, Massachusetts and
Wisconsin avenues NW. 202-537-6200.
■ Cuarteto Quiroga will perform works
by Gerhard and Schoenberg in honor of
the exhibit “Joan Miró: The Ladder of
Escape.” 6:30 p.m. Free. West Garden
Court, National Gallery of Art, 6th Street
and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-
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■ Concert: The Washington Jewish
Music Festival will feature a concert
by rocker Peter Himmelman, followed by a barbecue dinner. 4 p.m.
$10; $25 per family. Ohev Sholom —
The National Synagogue, 1600
Jonquil St. NW. wjmf.org.
4215.
■ Tenor B. Jackson Caesar (shown),
the Symphony Chamber Orchestra of
Arlington,
Patrick Lundy
and the
Ministers of
Music, and the
Children of
Metropolitan
Memorial will perform “Sacred Arias II.” 7
p.m. Free. Metropolitan Memorial United
Methodist Church, 3401 Nebraska Ave.
NW. 202-363-4900.
■ The Washington Jewish Music
Festival will feature the Brooklyn-based
transgender, Jewish rock band Schmekel
performing a mix of punk, klezmer, jazz,
rock and polka. 7 p.m. $15; $12 for students and seniors. Chief Ike’s Mambo
Room, 1725 Columbia Road NW. wjmf.org.
■ D.C. Office of Planning director
Harriet Tregoning, architect Bing Thom and
other panelists will discuss the legacy of
author Jane Jacobs and her ideas on livable, walkable and diverse neighborhoods.
10 to 11:30 a.m. Free; reservations
required. National Building Museum, 401
F St. NW. 202-272-2448.
■ Fred Rowan, chair of the Committee
of Seventy of the Washington National
Cathedral, will discuss “Serving Christ:
Making Room for the ‘Least of These.’”
10:10 a.m. Free. Washington National
Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin
avenues NW. 202-537-6200.
■ Meredith Goldstein will discuss her
novel “The Singles,” at
1 p.m.; and Steve Coll
(shown) will discuss his
book “Private Empire:
ExxonMobil and
American Power,” at 5
p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015
■ The Sibley Senior Association,
National Eye Institute and Prevention of
Blindness Society of Metropolitan
Washington will present a talk by National
Eye Institute director Dr. Paul Sieving on
current research. 2 to 3:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Conference Rooms 1
and 2, Medical Building, Sibley Memorial
Hospital, 5215 Loughboro Road NW. 202234-1010.
■ Art critic Andrew Graham Dixon will
discuss his book “Caravaggio: A Life
Sacred and Profane.” 2 p.m. Free. East
Building Auditorium, National Gallery of
Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW. 202-737-4215.
■ Buddy Elias, Anne Frank’s cousin,
and his wife, Gerti Elias, will discuss the
book “Anne Frank’s Family.” 3 to 5 p.m.
$12. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I
St. NW. sixthandi.org.
Film
■ The National Gallery of Art will present Greek director Michael Cacoyannis’
1999 film “The Cherry Orchard.” 4 p.m.
Free. East Building Information Desk,
National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
Performance
■ The dance company Par-Allèlles will
present “The Three Wise Monkeys.” 6 p.m.
Free. Millennium Stage, 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.
Special events
■ “Dolley Madison’s Birthday Party &
Fashion Show” will feature tea, punch,
lemonade and vanilla and caramel
“Dolley Cake,” as well as children’s activi-
ties and a runway show featuring Federalera clothing. 1 to 3 p.m. Free; reservations required. Belle Vue Room,
Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW.
dolleymadisonsbirthday.eventbrite.com.
■ The National Museum of American
Jewish Military History will present “Family
Stories: Daughters, Mothers, and Bubbes,”
featuring a chance for attendees to portray
beloved female relatives through skits,
scrapbooks, readings, videos, and song
and dance routines. 1 to 5 p.m. Free.
National Museum of American Jewish
Military History, 1811 R St. NW. 202-2656280.
Tour
■ The Shepherd Park Citizens
Association’s eighth annual garden tour
will feature residential spaces in the
Shepherd Park, Colonial Village and North
Portal Estates neighborhoods. 2 to 5 p.m.
$15. Shepherd Elementary School, 7800
14th St. NW. shepherdpark.org.
Monday, May 21
Monday may 21
Concerts
■ Emmy-nominated singer/songwriter
ellen cherry will perform. 6 p.m. Free.
■ Harmonia, a
trans-European folkroots band, will perform in a concert
sponsored by the
Folklore Society of
Greater Washington. 8
p.m. $20. Washington
Ethical Society, 7750 16th St. NW.
[email protected].
■ Alexandra Hoare, research associate
at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art,
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discussion of Harper Lee’s “To Kill a
Mockingbird” and a screening of the 2011
documentary “Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and
‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’” 5:30 p.m. Free.
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library,
901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.
■ Historian Harold Holzer will discuss
his book “Emancipating
Lincoln: The
Proclamation in Text,
Context, and Memory.”
6:30 p.m. $10; reservations required.
President Lincoln’s
Cottage, Upshur Street
and Rock Creek Church Road NW. 202829-0436, ext. 31232.
■ Winifred Conkling will discuss her
children’s book “Sylvia & Aki.” 6:30 to 8
p.m. Free. Langston Room, Busboys and
Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
■ James Fallows will discuss his book
“China Airborne.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.
■ As part of the citywide “Live to Read”
celebration, the Watha T. Daniel-Shaw
Library will host a discussion of Harper
Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” and a screening of the film adaptation. 7 p.m. Free.
Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Library, 1630 7th St.
NW. 202-727-1288.
■ Lauren Strauss, assistant professor
of history and Judaic studies at George
Washington University, will discuss “Jewish
Civil Life at a Time of Civil War: American
Jewry in the Mid-19th Century.” 7:30 p.m.
Free. Auditorium A-5, Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-7271238.
Films
■ “The Importance of Oscar Wilde” will
feature Oliver Parker’s 1999 film “An Ideal
Husband.” 6:30 p.m. Free; tickets required.
Helen Hayes Gallery, National Theatre,
1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-7833372.
■ “Yilmaz Güney: Master of Euro-Asian
Film Culture” will feature the 1982 film
“Yol,” about five prisoners allowed to return
home for a week. 6:30 p.m. $4 to $7.
Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St. NW. 202-2891200, ext. 160.
■ Klezmer fiddler Alicia Svigals will premiere an original score to
Pola Negri’s
1918 silent
film “The Yellow
Ticket” on the
closing night of
the Washington Jewish Music Festival. A
reception will follow. 7:30 p.m. $15; $12
for seniors and students. Washington DC
Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St.
NW. washingtondcjcc.org.
■ The Washington Psychotronic Film
Society will present Kuroda Yoshiyuki’s
1968 film “Yokai Monsters: Spook
Warfare.” 8 p.m. Donation suggested.
McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon, 2401
Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-462-3356.
Tuesday, May 22
Tuesday may 22
Concerts
■ The Tuesday Concert Series will feature baritone Lewis Freeman, mezzo-soprano Katherine Osborne and pianist James
Jenkins performing works by Schumann,
Brahms and Mahler. 12:10 p.m. Free.
Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW.
202-347-2635, ext. 18.
■ The D.C. Youth Orchestra will perform
works by Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and
Sibelius. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Robert Rice, a research scientist at
the Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, and
Andy Sprenger, head roaster at Ceremony
Coffee Roasters, will discuss “ShadeGrown Coffee: It’s for the Birds.” 10 to
11:30 a.m. $40. S. Dillon Ripley Center,
1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Katherine Spillar (shown), executive
editor of Ms. Magazine
and executive vice
president of the
Feminist Majority, and
Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens
for Responsibility and
Ethics in Washington,
will discuss “Feminist Investigative
Reporting.” Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free.
Clearinghouse on Women’s Issues, eighth
floor, 1 Dupont Circle NW. 202-744-6592.
■ The West End Book Club will discuss
“A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s
Court” by Mark Twain. 12:30 p.m. Free.
West End Library, 1101 24th St. NW. 202724-8707.
■ Jared Koller, a researcher for the
Asian cultural history program at the
National Museum of Natural History, will
discuss “Indonesia and Islam: Roots of
Cultural Creativity.” 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $30.
S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson
Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Fawaz A. Gerges will discuss his
book “Obama and the Middle East: The
End of America’s Moment?” 7 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-364-1919.
■ As part of the “Ancient Greeks/
Modern Lives” program, University of
Maryland at College Park professor Judith
Hallett will lead a discussion on “Rites of
Passage: Changing Worlds, Transforming
Lives.” 7 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library,
3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.
■ Time columnist Joel Stein will discuss
his book “Man Made: A Stupid Quest for
Masculinity.” 7 p.m. $10. Sixth & I Historic
Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-435-9849.
■ Iconic designer Jonathan Adler will
discuss “Happy Chic Design,” about the
evolution of his signature style. 7 p.m.
$15; $7.50 for students. Corcoran Gallery
of Art, 500 17th St. NW. 202-639-1770.
Film
■ The D.C. Public Library’s popular
movie series will show the 2012 horror film
“The Devil Inside,” starring Fernanda
Andrade. 6 p.m. Free. Auditorium A-5,
901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.
Reading
■ In conjunction with Jewish American
Heritage Month, poet Jody Bolz will read
from her work. 6:30 p.m. Free. Room 220,
901 G St. NW. 202-727-1238.
Wednesday, May 23
Wednesday may 23
Classes
■ The Woman’s National Democratic
Club will host a talk on financial literacy as
part of a monthly series. 6 to 7:30 p.m.
$15; reservations required. Woman’s
National Democratic Club, 1526 New
Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363. The
series will continue June 27 and July 25.
■ As part of the “Wednesday’s Chef:
Seven Servings of Healthy Recipes and
Tips” series, chef Juliette Tahar will discuss
healthy snack ideas and demonstrate a
black bean salsa dish. 7 to 8:30 p.m. $8
materials fee per class. Guy Mason
Community Center, 3600 Calvert St. NW.
202-727-7736. The series will conclude
June 13.
Concerts
■ The Congressional Chorus will perform. Noon. Free; reservations required.
Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F St. NW. 202547-1122.
■ The Washington National Opera will
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Program. 6 p.m. Free. Opera House,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Joyce Carol Oates
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“Mudwoman” at a
three-course luncheon.
11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
$85; reservations
required. The Top of
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■ Joe Jackson will discuss his book
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and the Race to Cross the Atlantic.” Noon.
Free. McGowan Theater, National Archives
Building, Constitution Avenue between 7th
and 9th streets NW. 202-357-5000.
■ Mark N. Ozer will discuss his book
“Northwest Washington, D.C.” Noon. Free.
Mary Pickford Theater, Madison Building,
Library of Congress, 101 Independence
Ave. SE. 202-707-5221.
■ Choral Arts Society of Washington
founder and artistic
director Norman
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his career highlights
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reservations required.
Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I St. NW.
202-331-7282, ext. 16.
■ Paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall will
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Human Origins.” A book signing will follow.
6:45 to 8:15 p.m. $25. Baird Auditorium,
National Museum of Natural History, 10th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202633-3030.
■ The Glover Park Village will present a
talk on “Planning for Long-Term Care” by
Howard Gleckman, author of “Caring for
Our Parents.” 7 p.m. Free. Stoddert
Elementary School, 4100 Calvert St. NW.
202-436-5545.
■ Richard Ford will discuss his novel
“Canada.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose,
■ “Slate Political Gabfest — Live” will
feature Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson and
David Plotz discussing the presidential
campaign, President Barack Obama and
the mammoth Supreme Court cases of the
spring term. 7 p.m. $12 in advance; $15
on the day of the event. Sixth & I Historic
Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. sixthandi.org.
■ The “Fate or Free Will?” discussion
series will focus on “The Poisonwood
Bible” by Barbara Kingsolver. 7 p.m. Free.
Chevy Chase Library, 5625 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-282-0021.
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Ms. Bergin was invited to run
because our wonderful fifth-grade
teacher Vicki Otten nominated her.
How, you may ask? D.C. Public
Schools sent an email to teachers
asking if they thought anyone
would be a good representative, and
Ms. Otten responded.
When Ms. Bergin found out she
was selected, she was flabbergasted.
The only downside to this amazing opportunity is that she will miss
the last week of school. Her class is
very excited for her, but sad
because she has to miss some
school. But it’s a small price to pay
to get to do something this great.
She will run while carrying the
lit torch, so she has a few worries
about it. “I’m a little worried about
how heavy the torch could be, and I
could trip because of it.”
But we all have great confidence
that Ms. Bergin can do this without
any trouble. She doesn’t have to
train for this event, but she is training for a half Ironman Triathlon
that’s coming pretty soon. She also
runs with the Girls on the Run
team, which she started at Murch
last year.
“I would like to give a shout out
to Ms. Otten for nominating me,
and the whole Murch community
for being so supportive,” Ms.
Bergin told us.
— Jacqueline Nadeau and
Sophie McInerney, fifth-graders
National Presbyterian
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On May 2 through 4, National
Presbyterian School performed
Disney’s “Aladdin” (for kids). This
amazing musical was directed by
Mr. Nolan, substitute drama teacher; Mrs. Hull, substitute music
teacher; Mrs. MacSlarrow, kindergarten teacher; and Mrs. Bravo, art
teacher. Students in fourth through
sixth grades have been working
very hard on this musical since
January. They had practices on
Tuesday afternoons and Thursday
and Friday mornings.
“Aladdin” takes place in the
magical city of Agrabah, and it’s
about a beautiful princess who falls
in love with a beggar. On May 1,
the cast had a full-day rehearsal to
run through the show three times.
On May 2, the whole school got a
taste of all 65 cast members’ hard
work with a morning matinee performance.
This could not have happened
without the National Presbyterian
parents who created the amazing
costumes and helped with the
makeup. The cast members were
very thankful for the 10 students
who were the tech crew. The musical was a huge success and it was
worth all the hard work.
— Elizabeth Marsh, sixth-grader
Ross Elementary
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A week after we had our own
class election to select a task master,
a teacher helper, a hall monitor and
a line leader, Ms. Mary Lord came
to visit our classroom. She shared
her experience as a current member
of the D.C. State Board of
Education and explained the importance of the upcoming election in
which she will run for the same seat
again. A few weeks back we had
Mr. Jack Jacobson doing a presentation in our classroom; he is a candidate for the same seat.
Some of us made a few comments about Ms. Lord’s visit.
Lauren Batson Roberts enjoyed her
stories about her life and how she
wants every kid to have an education. Max said that it was amazing
how her son was bullied and now
she wants to build an anti-bully club
and end bullying. We were very
grateful that Ms. Lord took the time
to get to know us.
— Third-graders
St. Albans School
This April the St. Albans lower
school held its annual Science Fair.
The students in Form II worked
especially hard, as it was their last
one. On Science Fair day, the scene
is very hectic, with students viewing other people’s projects and waiting for their own projects to be
judged, all the while rehearsing
what they will say when questioned
by the judges. Students then have a
chance to show off all of the hard
work put into their Science Fair
projects to their grandparents on
Grandparents’ Day, which is always
held the day after the fair.
As the Science Fair ends, everyone in Form II prepares for the
long-awaited outdoor four-day
“Woodlands” trip. On the trip the
form divided into two groups, one
heading to an island at Calleva
called Adventure Island and the
other to Annapolis Rocks. At
Adventure Island we learned about
invasive species in the area, went
white-water swimming, rode a giant
swing and played pretty fun memory games. At the end of each day
everyone hurried as fast as they
could to get in their tents and ready
for bed before the sunset, as once it
set the only light would be from
flashlights, and they don’t compare
to the sun. At Annapolis Rocks we
embarked on a dreadful two-and-ahalf-mile hike with heavy packs on,
followed by exciting activities such
as rock-climbing and rappelling.
After the Science Fair and
Woodlands, Form II is ready to finish up the rest of the year.
— Daniel Bowes and Judd
Linscott, Form II (eighth-graders)
St. Ann’s Academy
Science has become an interesting subject in the third grade. We
have learned about many new
things in science this year.
We did many science experiments in class. They were fun. We
planted a seed to see how it
becomes a plant. After we planted
the seed, we gave it water and put it
next to the window to give it sunlight. The seed germinated and
grew into a plant. It was fun to
watch it. Some of the bean plants
grew fast!
We also did a race-car experiment. Everybody in the class made
a race car. We used paper towel
rolls, bottle caps and toothpicks
with cut straws to build the different
parts of the car. During the experiment, everyone in class was excited. We learned how the parts of the
car show examples of simple
machines, such as screws, wheels
and axles. We practiced racing them
on carpet and on tile, to see which
floor made the car go slower
because of friction.
Our teacher was very impressed
with our work.
— Christopher Saddler,
Sidique Thomas-Suelley and
Thomas Russell, third-graders
School Without Walls
Monday was the start of
Advanced Placement testing week,
a wonderful time of four-hour
exams and other such educational
wonders. Most classes, even nonAP courses, are functioning on a
reduced rate this week as students
are either preparing for or taking
exams during the school day. But
this week was not merely devoted
to testing and studies. It was also a
pretty interesting week in sports for
the School Without Walls community as well as foreign events.
Following up on the Germany
trip earlier in the year, in which a
group of students traveled to Berlin
and shadowed a local school for
several days, our German compatriots returned the favor. This week it
was Walls’ turn to host, though the
Germans only shadowed classes
briefly on Thursday. They’ve spent
the rest of their stay in slightly more
interesting places, like museums
and Georgetown.
The girls lacrosse team ended its
great season last Friday with a second win against Woodrow Wilson
High School on Wilson’s home
field. On Wednesday inclement
weather postponed the WallsWilson softball game until the following day. When Walls softball
returned to the field, the players,
like the girls lacrosse team, managed to finish the season with a victory over the Wilson Tigers.
But the winning streak stopped
there. Boys lacrosse ended both its
Tuesday game against the Lab
School and its Thursday game
against Oxon Hill with losses. The
team has one more chance to add a
win to its season in its final game,
against St. Albans next week.
— Keanu Ross-Cabrera,
12th-grader
Shepherd Elementary
The third-grade Science Club
and some fourth-graders walked in
Rock Creek Park after school last
Thursday, May 10. We got there
walking from Shepherd. We went to
Rock Creek to get water samples to
see what was living there. We got to
see a duck and frogs and tadpoles.
Tony Wilson found a snake hole
and Mr. King confirmed it. We took
the water samples back to school.
There is a part in Rock Creek
where there are logs and two huge
roots and something like steps that
you can walk down, and it’s all
muddy and you can see a little puddle on the far end. And there was a
huge tree branch that broke off and
it’s in the middle of the Rock Creek
water, and that’s where I got my
water sample from.
One student lost his shoe
because he went into a really
muddy part and it came off. And
then he had to go running after it or
else it was going to float away.
Somebody else fell in the mud. Mr.
Velez said, “If all of us fall in the
water, I’m going to save myself
first!”
This coming Thursday, May 17,
the school is having another Family
Dinner Night at Ledo Pizza on
Georgia Avenue. The PTA gets 20
percent back from what you spend
if you say you’re from Shepherd.
The hours are 4 to 10 p.m. Ledo
Pizza is cool. It’s my favorite pizza
and a lot of my classmates like it,
too.
— Cyntia Pattison, third-grader
Sidwell Friends School
Fifth-grade squires at Sidwell
Friends Middle School go through
each day with the longing to ride
into battle as a true knight wearing
their coat of arms. Each knight-tobe goes through a series of valiant
quests in order to enter chivalry. As
the knighting ceremony draws near,
squires race to complete their quests
while the pressure gets higher and
higher.
In the proud kingdoms of
Lauthelot, Saunderton, Dufourville
and Nicholsbury, strange happenings are going on. Playwrights, artists with style and bakers try to
impress their queens with all their
might. Some squires have outdone
themselves by baking 100 crepes,
writing newspapers, running four
miles or creating wonderful movies.
These are all part of the quests the
young fifth-grade squires are
assigned to complete in the last half
of the school year.
Afterward, the glorious knights
have a ceremony in which they
wear their very own coat of arms
and exhibit their most treasured
quests. The fifth-graders make at
least one part of their beautiful
medieval costumes to wear after the
ceremony. The quest to knighthood
is on!
— Toby Dorfman,
Patrice McGloin and
Rachel Blatt, sixth-graders
Washington Latin Public
Charter School
Echo Hill is the long-anticipated
camping trip for seventh-graders at
Washington Latin. This trip to
Maryland has been the main event
of our school year, and the seventhgraders are excited for activities like
fishing and learning about the
swamp. We are staying for three
days on the campgrounds, in basic
cabins with bunk beds and no bathrooms. This will be a new experience for many students who aren’t
used to roughing it in nature.
We are going to have activities
like kayaking and exploring the bay.
The most fun part, I think, is that at
about 4:30 in the morning, our history teacher plans to take us fishing.
The trip counts for part of our science grade, but I just like to be with
nature and away from the city.
— Taariq Saadiq, seventh-grader
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Quiet Delight
Burning Tree. Spacious home tucked away in
secluded neighborhood.4 BR, 3 BA
+ in-law suite. Renovated kitchen, family
rm w/frpl. Easy commute to Beltway or DC.
Walk to Burning Tree Elementary. $769,000
Laura McCaffrey 301-641-4456
Suzanne Blouin 301-641-8448
Georgetown. Sun
filled 2 bedroom
gem in the desirable
West Village.
Kitchen w/Bosch
& GE appliances.
2nd flr offers
monument views.
Hrwd flrs, frpl.
Lovely brick & slate
patio. $750,000
leslie suArez
202-246-6402
Brightwood.
Quality
renovation of
this bright and
sunny end unit
townhouse on
pretty street.
4 bedrooms,
live Big
in toWn treAt
2 baths, granite Adams Morgan. Charming 1 bedroom in
McLean
Gardens. Spacious one
counters & dual Euclid Mews. Lives like a small house!
bedroom w/renovated kitchen.
system CAC.
Good light, open kitchen, frpl, amazing Hardwood floors, W/D. Lovely views
Fenced yard
remodeled spa bath. Private balcony,
of the Cathedral. On site pool. Walk
& off street pkg.
garage pkg. Set in quiet landscaped
$429,000
to shops, restaurants. $329,900
courtyard off the street. Pet friendly. Near
Shawn Goldstein
Catarina Bannier 202-487-7177
2 Metros, Harris Teeter. $368,500
202-329-1493
Marcie Sandalow 301-758-4894
Bonnie roBerts-Burke
202-487-7653