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Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Vol. XLIII, No. 31
Serving Communities in Northwest Washington Since 1967
THE NORTHWEST CURRENT
Town hall
airs tenant
concerns
City plans new signals
to help at crosswalks
HAIL TO THE CHEF
■ Safety: Lights planned for
By JESSICA GOULD
Palisades, Cleveland Park sites
Current Staff Writer
At the third annual Citywide
Tenant Town Hall last week, affordable-housing advocates touted
recent progress in city policies
affecting renters. But they said D.C.
must do more to ensure low-income
residents can afford to live in the
city.
Speaking before nearly 200
renters at First Trinity Lutheran
Church near Judiciary Square
downtown, Farah Fosse, affordable-housing preservation program
director for the Latino Economic
Development Corp., said the
District has made strides in how it
deals with housing code violations.
According to Fosse, the
Department of Consumer and
Regulatory Affairs has stepped up
inspections, working to proactively
inspect every building in the city
instead of simply responding to
complaints.
Meanwhile, she said, tenants
now have the opportunity to sue
landlords who fail to abate housing
code violations.
In May, the D.C. Superior Court
debuted the Housing Conditions
Calendar, which meets every
See Tenants/Page 16
By BRADY HOLT
Current Correspondent
New pedestrian crossing signals
are coming to the Palisades and
Cleveland Park, which residents and
the
D.C.
Department
of
Transportation hope will make it
safer to cross the street in the two
neighborhood shopping areas.
In the Palisades, a new “rapid
flashing crosswalk beacon” is
scheduled to be in place on
Agency study explores
revamping Ward Circle
■ Traffic: Site’s ownership
might limit major changes
Bill Petros/The Current
Kaz Sushi Bistro chef Kaz Okochi, above, competed against
Equinox Restaurant chef Todd Gray for the “King of the
Kitchen” title at Monday’s Legg Mason Tennis Classic at the
William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center in Rock Creek Park.
By IAN THOMS
nonprofit that seeks to enhance and
protect the city’s tree canopy.
A mayoral spokesperson said
the city’s planting efforts will conIn an effort to balance next
tinue nevertheless, funded from
year’s budget, Mayor Adrian Fenty
other sources, but she declined to
has drained a fund the city uses to
provide specifics.
plant trees.
This summer, Casey Trees has
The District fills the “Tree
been lobbying D.C. Council memFund” by collecting fees from
bers to revisit the budget and
those who remove healthy large
Bill Petros/Current File Photo replenish the fund. In June, the
trees for construction or other purcouncil passed the 2011 Budget
poses, and it uses the money to Mayor Fenty promises to keep
Support Act, which made the legal
fund replacements. But the financing new trees.
changes needed to implement the
mayor’s 2011 budget transfers
mayor’s spending plan.
$539,000 from the account to the city’s general fund.
“Hopefully, they’ll think twice and maybe restore
“It is damaging. It’s a loss of 2,000 trees,” said
See Trees/Page 26
Mark Buscaino, executive director of Casey Trees, a
■ Proposed changes at
Hank’s Oyster Bar draw
objections. Page 5.
■ D.C. adopts national
school standards.
Page 8.
SPORTS
■ Capitol City Little
Leaguers head to
regionals. Page 15.
■ Gonzaga to kick off
football season at I-95
Classic. Page 15.
By BRADY HOLT
City chops down funds for tree planting
NEWS
MacArthur Boulevard at U Street by
the end of the month, improving the
existing crosswalk at the neighborhood Safeway, according to pedestrian program coordinator George
Branyan.
The signal — which is new to the
District — consists of yellow lights
that flash beneath a crosswalk sign,
activated by a pedestrian who pushes a button, Branyan said.
The beacon is designed to alert
drivers that a pedestrian is crossing,
giving drivers more warning that
they may need to stop ahead. Under
District law, pedestrians have the
See Signals/Page 27
Ward Circle, at the intersection
of Massachusetts and Nebraska
avenues, has emerged as one of
Upper Northwest’s biggest traffic
trouble spots in an ongoing D.C.
Department of Transportation
study.
The agency is hoping short-term
improvements to signage and pavement markings at the circle will cut
down on driver confusion and accidents,
according
to Anna
Chamberlin, manager of the Rock
Creek West II Livability Study. But
Chamberlin said it’s not clear what
large-scale fixes would be feasible.
“Our traffic consultant has run
an analysis on reconfiguring the circle, and options aren’t looking so
good,” she said.
For now, Chamberlin said, the
Transportation Department intends
to improve pavement striping and
markings; add signs that indicate
crosswalks and warn drivers to
PA S S A G E S
■ Brides-to-be race for
bargains at Filene’s
Basement. Page 17.
■ Soccer tournament
targets homelessness.
Page 17 .
Many motorists get confused
navigating the circle because
through lanes on Nebraska
Avenue complicate left turns.
watch for pedestrians; and trim
trees that block existing traffic
signs.
But those improvements would
not change the traffic circle’s “cat’s
eye” layout — in which Nebraska
Avenue motorists bear left to continue straight or bear right to turn
onto either northbound or southbound Massachusetts Avenue —
which Chamberlin said confuses
many motorists, who often try to
bear left to make a left turn.
See Circle/Page 18
INDEX
Business/11
Calendar/28
Classifieds/38
District Digest/4
Exhibits/31
In Your Neighborhood/24
Opinion/12
Passages/17
Police Report/6
Real Estate/21
Service Directory/33
Sports/15
Theater/32
Week Ahead/3
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Gray, Brown blast Fenty Pepco resists blame for park cost overruns
at UDC candidates forum
By CAROL BUCKLEY
By ELIZABETH WIENER
Organizers of a mayoral/council
chairman candidates debate at the
University of the District of
Columbia last week wanted an
orderly, “in-depth discussion” of
issues that face the city. They delivered as promised, in large part
because only one candidate for each
post showed up.
D.C. Council Chairman Vincent
Gray, who is running for mayor, and
at-large Council member Kwame
Brown, who wants Gray’s post,
hammered at the same themes and
backed each other’s positions like
comfortable old allies before an
audience of several hundred antipoverty activists, statehood advocates and ordinary voters.
Their clearest target was current
Mayor Adrian Fenty, who told
organizers he had “other commit-
ments” and couldn’t make it to the
Thursday night event. That was perhaps a mistake, as Gray and Brown
slammed the incumbent mayor time
and again, with no one to speak in
his defense.
“This mayor is unable to relate in
a collegial relationship,” Gray said
in response to a question about how
he would increase cooperation
between the mayor and council.
“There’s nowhere to go but up.” The
crowd laughed.
Former Ward 5 Council member
Vincent Orange, who is running
against Brown for council chairman, also failed to show. His campaign did not respond to a question
about his absence.
The forum — organized by DC
Appleseed, DC Vote, the D.C. Open
Government Coalition, the Defeat
Poverty DC and several other
activist groups — is only one in a
See Forum/Page 14
Graham, opponents square
off at Ward 1 council debate
By KATIE PEARCE
The have-nots of diverse Ward 1
came into focus at a forum last week
featuring 12-year incumbent Jim
Graham and the three opponents
vying for his D.C. Council seat.
The four candidates offered differing perspectives — but shared
concerns — on issues like affordable housing, labor policies, unemployment and homelessness at the
Thursday event, held at the True
Reformer Building on U Street.
But the crowded forum started
with two prominently empty seats:
Only Jeff Smith and Bryan Weaver
arrived on time for the first question; Marc Morgan and Graham slid
in later.
Graham, who heard applause
when he showed up, immediately
explained his tardiness: He said he
was celebrating with tenants at 1372
Kenyon St. NW, who after years of
work had purchased their building
for $580,000.
It was a fitting starting point for
Graham, who used the forum to
remind voters of his past achievements — like transforming
Columbia Heights from an area
with “vacant lots and chain-link
fences” to one that now provides
3,000 jobs.
“I’m here to run on my record,”
he said.
Smith, who has worked in various D.C. government agencies and
now directs the DC VOICE education advocacy group, stood out as
the candidate to attack Graham most
directly. Smith, a forceful presence
with a vocal group of supporters,
said that “16 years would be way
too many” for the incumbent.
Smith said that Graham has
become “too comfortable, too cozy”
with developers, who drive the
agenda in the ward with big-box
stores and “a bunch of new condos
... [that] none of our neighbors can
See Ward 1/Page 23
The week ahead
Wednesday, Aug. 4
The Ward 4 Democrats group will hold a candidates forum in the mayoral race
and an endorsement vote for mayor, D.C. Council chairman, at-large council member and delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives. The meeting will begin at
7 p.m. at St. George’s Ballroom and Conference Center, 4335 16th St. NW. Voting
will take place from 6 to 8 p.m., with Ward 4 residents registered with the D.C.
Board of Elections and Ethics as of July 28 eligible to participate.
Thursday, Aug. 5
The Walter Reed Local Redevelopment Authority Committee will meet from 7 to
9 p.m. at the Fort Stevens Recreation Center, 1325 Van Buren St. NW.
■ The Wilson Pool Advisory Board will meet at 7 p.m. in the community room at
the Wilson Aquatic Center, 4551 Fort Drive NW. Officials with the D.C. Department
of Parks and Recreation will address residents’ concerns about the pool’s operation and suggestions for improvement.
A local group’s efforts to get utility provider
Pepco to pay for what members say are costly mistakes at the under-construction portion of
Georgetown Waterfront Park have met resistance
from the power company.
“It is the opinion of Pepco that your representatives received the design that was requested of our
company,” Pepco regional president Thomas
Graham wrote recently to the Friends of
Georgetown Waterfront Park.
Not so, say members of the community group
dedicated to completing the long-delayed waterfront
project. In a 2006 contract between Pepco and the
National Park Service, which is responsible for constructing and operating the park, planners noted the
need for a higher-voltage transformer to service the
new park.
But the utility did not reveal until 2008 that the
power load to the park site could not be increased,
according to Friends president Bob vom Eigen. The
resulting redesigns for the park’s fountain — determined to cost less than bringing more power down
from M Street — led to about $300,000 in cost overruns, he said.
National Park Service representative Bill Line
confirmed in an interview that the delay in information from the utility “until well after the Phase 2
design was complete and the contract was awarded”
led to costly redesigns.
The Park Service “is appreciative of [the Friends
group’s] work to seek a resolution so that construction can continue,” Line added.
With a cushion of about $700,000, those
redesigns alone wouldn’t have busted the budget of
the park’s second phase. But other surprise needs,
such as having to remove tons of construction debris
See Park/Page 10
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Amnesty program to
collect back taxes
The 42,000 businesses and individuals that owe $170 million in
taxes to the District are getting a
second chance to pay what they
owe through a tax amnesty program that will run through Sept. 30.
The amnesty applies to all taxes
administered by the D.C. Office of
Tax and Revenue except for realproperty-related taxes and the
Nationals Park fee, according to a
release from the office. Penalties
and fees will be waived, and taxpayers will avoid criminal prosecution for back payments due before
this year.
For more information on eligibility and documentation, visit
dctaxamnesty.com. Residents can
also e-mail [email protected]
or visit the service center at 1101
4th St. SW, Suite W270, between
8:15 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
D.C.’s website gets
home page redesign
The District government has
revamped is main page of dc.gov in
an effort to make the site more
user-friendly and to better integrate
it with social networking sites,
according to a news release.
The “DC.Gov 2.0” redesign
includes larger text and colorful
icons, as well as prominent displays of frequently requested information, such as trash pickup schedules and street closure information.
“This is one way we’re fulfilling
our mission to make government
work better for citizens through
technology,” D.C. chief technology
officer Bryan Sivak says in the
release.
Later this month, the District
plans to launch a version of its new
site designed for mobile phones.
Residents can weigh in on the
changes at feedback.dc.gov.
Set of tennis courts
to receive upgrades
A national program led by the
U.S. Tennis Association and
American Express will spend
$30,000 to renovate two tennis
courts in Columbia Heights starting
this month, according to a news
release.
The new “Fresh Courts” program will improve 17 courts in five
cities during the Olympus US Open
Series events, including the two at
3149 16th St., the release from the
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The renovations — resurfacing
the playing surface, replacing the
nets and fences and adding new
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announced Monday as part of the
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coincides with the Legg Mason
Tennis Classic.
Renovated library
now open in Shaw
After three years in a temporary
space, the Watha T. Daniel/Shaw
Neighborhood Library opened
Monday in a new, permanent $15
million facility.
The neighborhood was without
any library at all for two weeks
while books and equipment were
transferred from the interim space
to the new three-story, 22,000square-foot building, according to a
release from the D.C. Public
Library.
The new facility, at 1630 7th St.
across from the Shaw Metrorail
station, has space for 80,000 books,
DVDs, CDs and other materials. It
offers 32 public-access computers,
free wireless Internet and seating
for 200 people. The building is
expected to earn the LEED Silver
designation for its environmental
credentials.
The District also plans to open
Georgetown’s new library in
October and Tenleytown’s new
library in December.
how it should expand its DC
Circulator bus system, according to
a news release.
The Circulator carries 4 million
passengers a year along five routes,
with a focus on downtown and
nearby tourist sites. According to
the release, the study will consider
the future of the Circulator over the
next five to 10 years to identify
possible new lines.
Residents who wish to weigh in
can visit dccirculator.com.
New CVS opens near
Petworth Metro
A new CVS drugstore opened
last week on Georgia Avenue, with
D.C. officials lauding the development in a news release as another
key upgrade to the corridor.
CVS signed a 25-year lease for
10,000 square feet of retail space at
Georgia and New Hampshire
avenues, near the Georgia
Avenue/Petworth Metrorail station.
The store was aided by $2 million
in tax-increment financing from the
city, according to a release from the
mayor’s office.
The new CVS features a fullservice pharmacy, health and beauty departments, basic groceries and
digital photo processing.
Mayor Adrian Fenty, Ward 1
Council member Jim Graham and
Ward 4 Council member Muriel
Bowser were among the attendees
at the July 27 opening ceremony.
City to weigh plans
for DC Circulator
D.C. breaks ground
for Upshur Dog Park
The D.C. Department of
Transportation will spend the next
six months working with residents
and other city agencies to evaluate
The District’s newest dog park
will open in October in 16th Street
Heights, according to a news
release.
The Department of Parks and
Recreation began work yesterday
on the $286,000, 9,000-square-foot
facility at 4300 Arkansas Ave. in
Ward 4, and Mayor Adrian Fenty
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attended the groundbreaking ceremony, according to the release.
A partnership between the parks
department and the Friends of 16th
Street Heights community group
will be responsible for maintaining
the facility.
Nordstrom Rack is
headed to Friendship
Discount store Nordstrom Rack
will open its first District outpost in
2011 in Friendship Heights,
according to the store’s future landlord, Federal Realty Investment
Trust.
A representative of the firm confirmed that the store will take over
the former Linens ’N Things site in
Friendship Center at 5333
Wisconsin Ave.
Nordstrom Rack is also expanding its Northern Virginia presence
this month with new stores in
Arlington and Fairfax.
Donation vacation at
Chevy Chase library
The Chevy Chase DC Friends
of the Library will not be accepting
book donations during the month
of August at the Chevy Chase
Neighborhood Library, according
to a release from the group.
The hiatus will allow the volunteers who sort and shelve the
donated books to take some time
off, the release says.
Despite the “donation vacation,”
the branch’s used-book store,
FOLio, will continue with normal
operating hours, every Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Stimulus funds aid
Brightwood project
Construction began last week on
36 units of federally funded affordable senior housing in Brightwood,
according to a news release from
the mayor’s office.
Development of Vida Senior
Residences, at 1330 Missouri Ave.,
has been funded by $6.9 million
from the American Rescue and
Recovery Act and a $150,000 loan
from the D.C. Housing Finance
Agency, the release says.
According to the release, the
apartments will be available to residents 55 and older who earn no
more than 50 percent of the area
median income when the facility
opens next spring.
It will also create the equivalent
of 55 full-time jobs during 11
months of construction, the release
says.
Mayor Adrian Fenty, Ward 4
Council member Muriel Bowser
and U.S. Treasurer Rosie Rios were
among the attendees at the July 27
groundbreaking ceremony.
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Hank’s request nets debate Project collects books for Wilson students
over voluntary agreement
By KARA BRANDEISKY
By JESSICA GOULD
Fans rave about Hank’s Oyster
Bar at 1624 Q St. NW. But some
neighbors say there’s something
fishy going on at the seafood
hotspot.
Back when chef Jamie Leeds
first opened the restaurant in 2005,
she signed a voluntary agreement
with a group of proximate neighbors and the Dupont Circle Citizens
Association.
The agreement governs everything from the establishment’s
hours of operation to how the
restaurant stores its tables and chairs
after closing. It’s one of many such
agreements in the license-rich community, and in the city at large.
But after five years following the
agreement’s guidelines, Leeds is
applying to terminate it.
For years, the Chevy Chase DC Friends of the
Library group has informally put aside books for students in need at Wilson High School, said Bette
Landish, a Friends volunteer.
But this summer, the group formally organized its
undertaking. Friends members teamed up with the
Wilson Parent Teacher Student Association to start
the Bookshelf Project, an initiative that encourages
residents to donate lightly used books to Wilson
Hank’s is asking to terminate its
existing voluntary agreement.
The application to terminate
doesn’t speak to the specific
requirements of the voluntary agreement. Instead, it says Hank’s request
stems from a change in the neighborhood.
Since the original document
went into effect, it says, many busiSee Hank’s/Page 26
Georgia Avenue restaurant
wades through ABC issues
By KATIE PEARCE
A liquor-license glitch has left
the new owners of El Tamarindo
restaurant, at 7331 Georgia Ave.
NW, without the operating hours
they thought they had when they
purchased the business.
New
owners
Alganesh
“Sunshine” Kidane and her son Sam
Hailu, who bought the former
Salvadoran restaurant a little over a
month ago, believed they could stay
open until 2:30 a.m. on weekends,
as their license seemed to dictate.
But on their first day of business,
they learned that they actually had
to close down every night at midnight.
“The day we started, like a week
ago, this issue came up that we had
to shut down early,” Hailu said at
the July 26 meeting of the Takoma
advisory neighborhood commission.
That night, the commission had a
through the Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library.
The project’s goal is to collect more than 800
books — all on Wilson’s required reading list. Some
will be used in the classroom, and others will be
given to students to help them start their own personal collections.
While the school provides textbooks, students
must obtain their own copies of novels for English
classes.
Landish said the idea behind the Bookshelf
Project is to encourage reading by “putting books
See Books/Page 25
clear-cut issue to deal with: whether
to support the restaurant’s liquorlicense renewal. “The decision we
have to make tonight is very simple,” commissioner Sara Green told
her colleagues, who ended up supporting that renewal.
But the presence of an Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board attorney at
the meeting gave a sign of the case’s
complex history.
Martha Jenkins, general counsel
for the alcohol board, explained that
the new owners of the restaurant
had slipped into “an unfortunate
perfect storm” of procedural
mishaps.
More than two years before
Kidane and Hailu took over, the previous owners of El Tamarindo had
applied for the 2:30 a.m. weekend
closing hours and an entertainment
endorsement, the neighborhood
commission’s records show. And
the alcohol board approved the
application.
See Tamarindo/Page 10
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This is a listing of reports taken
from July 25 through 31 by the
Metropolitan Police Department
in local police service areas.
PSA
PSA
201
201
■ CHEVY CHASE
Stolen auto
■ 33rd and McKinley streets;
street; 1:30 a.m. July 30.
Property damage
■ 2900 block, McKinley St.;
residence; 4 p.m. July 25.
■ 6600 block, Barnaby St.;
street; 10:30 p.m. July 27.
■ 3900 block, Morrison St.;
■ 2900 block, Legation St.;
street; 5 p.m. July 30.
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Robbery (pocketbook snatch)
■ 4500 block, Wisconsin Ave.;
restaurant; 9:20 p.m. July 27.
Burglary
■ 4900 block, Massachusetts
Ave.; residence; 3:20 a.m. July
28.
Theft ($250 plus)
restaurant; 3:53 a.m. July 28.
■ 4900 block, 45th St.; residence; noon July 28.
Theft (below $250)
■ 4400 block, Jenifer St.; medical facility; 7:30 a.m. July 26.
■ 4600 block, Asbury Place;
street; 9:45 a.m. July 27.
grocery store; 3 p.m. July 27.
■ 4200 block, Butterworth
Place; residence; 8:30 a.m.
July 30.
Simple assault
Destruction of property
store; 1:55 a.m. July 26.
■ 4100 block, River Road;
church; 11 a.m. July 27.
■ 4400 block, Yuma St.; residence; 3 a.m. July 31.
Property damage
■ 5300 block, 43rd St.; street;
3 p.m. July 25.
■ 4500 block, Albemarle St.;
residence; 12:58 p.m. July 26.
■ 4500 block, 40th St.; parking
lot; 4:16 p.m. July 27.
PSA
PSA
203
203
■ 2900 block, 29th St.; residence; 9:25 a.m. July 29.
Stolen auto
■ 4000 block, Tunlaw Road;
parking lot; 8:15 p.m. July 29.
parking lot; 2:30 a.m. July 30.
Stolen auto (attempt)
■ 2200 block, 42nd St.; street;
9:15 p.m. July 29.
Theft (below $250)
construction site; 7 a.m. July
26.
■ Connecticut Avenue and
Woodley Road; sidewalk; 3
p.m. July 26.
grocery store; 8 p.m. July 28.
Theft from auto (below $250)
■ 42nd Street and Tunlaw
Road; street; 2 a.m. July 25.
■ 2200 block, Cathedral Ave.;
parking lot; 10:30 p.m. July 28.
street; 7 p.m. July 29.
Unlawful entry
Property damage
■ Beach Drive and Rock Creek
Parkway; street; 3:30 p.m. July
25.
■ 2700 block, Devonshire
Place; street; 5 p.m. July 25.
■ 2300 block, 40th St.; street;
11:30 p.m. July 25.
■ 3500 block, 39th St.; parking
lot; 9 p.m. July 30.
■ 2900 block, Connecticut
Ave.; alley; 2:10 p.m. July 31.
Fraud
■ 3200 block, Klingle Road;
unspecified premises; 3 p.m.
July 26.
PSA 205
■ PALISADES
/ SPRING VALLEY
PSA
205
WESLEY HEIGHTS/ FOXHALL
Burglary
■ 5700 block, MacArthur Blvd.;
■ 1500 block, 44th St.; residence; 1 a.m. July 29.
■ 5200 block, Loughboro Road;
construction site; 4:30 p.m.
July 27.
■ 2900 block, Chain Bridge
Road; residence; 9 p.m. July
29.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 3900 block, 52nd St.; residence; 8 p.m. July 30.
■ 1500 block, Foxhall Road;
unspecified premises; 9:30
p.m. July 28.
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Property damage
■ 3000 block, Van Ness St.;
parking lot; 7 p.m. July 30.
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Burglary
PSA
PSA
206 206
■ GEORGETOWN / BURLEITH
Robbery (fear)
bank; 10:40 a.m. July 30.
Assault with a dangerous
weapon
■ 3400 block, N St.; sidewalk;
11:55 p.m. July 29.
Burglary
■ 3500 block, Water St.; office
building; 6:30 p.m. July 26.
■ 3000 block, Dumbarton St.;
Stolen auto
■ 3400 block, R St.; street;
12:15 a.m. July 29.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 2900 block, M St.; store;
4:30 p.m. July 28.
Theft (below $250)
3:30 p.m. July 28.
4:15 p.m. July 28.
■ 3200 block, M St.; unspecified premises; 4:45 p.m. July
28.
7:40 p.m. July 28.
4:11 p.m. July 29.
store; 11:30 a.m. July 31.
■ 3000 block, Q St.; sidewalk;
1 p.m. July 31.
Theft (shoplifting)
■ 3100 block, M St.; store; 3
p.m. July 26.
Theft from auto ($250 plus)
■ 3000 block, P St.; parking
lot; 6:40 p.m. July 30.
Simple assault
■ Unspecified location; sidewalk; 3 a.m. July 31.
3:15 p.m. July 31.
Destruction of property
■ 3200 block, M St.; street; 3
a.m. July 31.
Property damage
■ 1600 block, 35th St.; alley;
3:30 p.m. July 25.
■ 3100 block, Dumbarton St.;
■ 31st and K streets; street;
4:15 p.m. July 25.
■ 37th and O streets; unspecified premises; 7:15 a.m. July
27.
1:45 p.m. July 27.
1:45 p.m. July 29.
gas station; 12:58 p.m. July
30.
■ 3300 block, N St.; street;
9:30 a.m. July 31.
■ 3300 block, M St.; street;
1:30 p.m. July 31.
Fraud
■ 37th and O streets; medical
facility; 12:30 p.m. July 28.
PSA
PSA
207 207
■ FOGGY BOTTOM / WEST END
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 600 block, 21st St.; restaurant; 11:43 p.m. July 28.
Theft (below $250)
■ 2100 block, Pennsylvania
Ave.; medical facility; 1 p.m.
July 26.
■ Unit block, Washington Circle;
medical facility; 1 p.m. July 27.
■ 2100 block, Pennsylvania
Ave.; parking lot; 10 a.m. July
29.
Stalking
■ 2200 block, F St.; hotel; 7:30
p.m. July 27.
Property damage
■ 24th and M streets; street;
5:55 p.m. July 29.
PSA 208
■ SHERIDAN-KALORAMA
PSA
208
DUPONT CIRCLE
Robbery (carjacking)
1100 block, 17th St.; street;
3:50 p.m. July 26.
Robbery (pocketbook snatch)
■ 1800 block, S St.; sidewalk;
12:52 p.m. July 26.
Robbery (snatch)
■ 1100 block, 17th St.; sidewalk; 7:39 p.m. July 27.
■ 1700 block, M St.; sidewalk;
7:39 p.m. July 27.
Assault with a dangerous
weapon
■ 1500 block, 22nd St.; sidewalk; 1:50 a.m. July 29.
■ 1200 block, Connecticut Ave.;
sidewalk; 1:40 a.m. July 30.
Ave.; street; 1:50 a.m. July 31.
■ 1400 block, U St.; tavern;
2:10 a.m. July 31.
Burglary
■ 1100 block, 16th St.; office
■ 1300 block, 18th St.; office
Stolen auto
11:30 p.m. July 27.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 1100 block, 20th St.;
p.m. July 26.
■ 1800 block, Swann St.;
p.m. July 31.
Theft (below $250)
■ 1800 block, S St.; unspecified premises; 7 p.m. July 25.
■ Unit block, Dupont Circle;
restaurant; 7:30 a.m. July 26.
■ 1600 block, R St.; sidewalk;
7 p.m. July 26.
■ 1800 block, K St.; restaurant; noon July 27.
■ 2100 block, R St.; store;
noon July 27.
■ 2100 block, K St.; medical
facility; 5 p.m. July 27.
Ave.; street; 9:15 p.m. July 27.
sidewalk; 3:20 p.m. July 28.
■ 1700 block, L St.; sidewalk;
12:30 p.m. July 29.
■ 1800 block, 18th St.; restaurant; 6:30 p.m. July 29.
■ 2000 block, K St.; sidewalk;
9 a.m. July 30.
■ 1600 block, M St.; office
■ 2000 block, Florida Ave.; tavern; 9 p.m. July 30.
Ave.; store; 11:15 a.m. July 31.
■ 1700 block, Swann St.;
■ 1400 block, 21st St.; street;
midnight July 28.
2:42 a.m. July 29.
Simple assault
■ 1800 block, M St.; office
building; 5 p.m. July 28.
■ 1200 block, 18th St.; restaurant; 6:45 p.m. July 31.
Drug possession (cocaine)
■ 1300 block, 23rd St.; park
area; 11:12 p.m. July 28.
Drug possession (marijuana)
park area; 6:10 p.m. July 28.
park area; 4:20 p.m. July 31.
■
THE CURRENT
String of package thefts rattles Georgetown
By CAROL BUCKLEY
Adding to the frustration of a
long, hot summer has been
Georgetowners’ realization that a
common type of crime — thefts of
packages from doorsteps — has
become almost a daily occurrence in
their neighborhood.
The thieves, whom many residents suspect are an organized
group, have stolen packages con-
taining books, birthday gifts and at
least one dog bed. Floral arrangements have not been spared, and
mailboxes have been rifled for
greeting cards that could contain
cash or gift cards.
Although some said the oftenunreported thefts in Georgetown
and Burleith have been going on at
a similar level for years, the neighborhood listserv lit up this summer
with complaints, suggestions and
tips on how to avoid the thieves.
The easiest fix — to require a
signature for delivery — has not
thwarted every Georgetown thief,
according to the victims. One resident’s June delivery was signed for
by someone he didn’t know, then
stolen.
Another delivery disappeared
after a thief took the deliveryattempted slip from a front door,
then went online to change the
delivery address to a nearby condoSee Thefts/Page 25
Graffiti vandals strike Adams Morgan alley
By KARA BRANDEISKY
In early July, Adams Morgan resident Josh Gibson
noticed some gang-related graffiti in the alley behind the
north side of Lanier Place’s 1700 block. Two of the tags
covered about half of two different garage doors.
Another marking spanned the entire side of a car.
“That was kind of troubling because it went beyond
the social mores,” Gibson said. “There are things you do
paint graffiti on and things you don’t, and normally cars
are not hit. It’s sort of like a boundary was passed.”
Gibson has lived on Lanier Place since 2005. He said
that while the alley has always had some graffiti, lately
there has been an alarming spike.
Gibson’s wife discovered the most recent graffiti one
night while coming home. Since then, she has become
uncomfortable coming in the back door while carrying
the couple’s 9-month-old daughter. So Gibson turned to
the Adams Morgan listserv for help.
While other alleys in Adams Morgan have been
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his apartment building has fallen into disrepair. He said
in the past four years about 10 bikes have been stolen
from the building’s basement, and other residents have
recently spotted kids smoking marijuana in the alley.
Gibson said that while all three incidents are probably not related — since the bike thefts seemed professional — graffiti makes the alley look like a place that
welcomes crime.
“That alley in general feels like kind of a lawless
time-space that the world has forgotten,” he said.
Nancee Lyons, public affairs specialist for the D.C.
Department of Public Works, agreed in an e-mail to The
Current that crime can increase in blighted areas where
it seems no one is watching.
Fortunately, Lyons wrote, the District is “one of the
few major cities” that provides free graffiti removal
services. The Public Works Department manages
removal crews that clean up reported cases of graffiti
and graffiti the crews find on patrols. Additionally, the
Metropolitan Police Department has a gang task force
that notifies the Public Works Department about gangSee Graffiti/Page 23
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hopes to continue promoting reforms that are
already under way. “I think
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guide schools as they Wright
combine Head Start and
other pre-kindergarten classes this fall.
At the same time, Wright said she hopes to
By JESSICA GOULD
The District has appointed a new chief academic officer. Schools Chancellor Michelle
Rhee announced last month that Carey M.
Wright would be taking on the previously
vacant position.
“Dr. Wright is a smart, problem-solving
leader who will help us ensure that everyone
in the school system feels supported,” she
wrote in a letter to parents.
In a recent interview, Wright said she
help advance improvements to the city’s secondary schools. The Office of Secondary
School Transformation has held a series of
community meetings in recent months to
engage parents about what kinds of reforms
they want to see in the District’s high schools.
The feedback will be included in a comprehensive plan for improvement.
In response to the D.C. Comprehensive
Assessment System (DC-CAS) preliminary
scores released last week, Wright pledged to
“analyze the data” and “respond to it.” While
secondary school students made gains on the
test scores, elementary school students saw
their scores decrease from last year’s results.
Specifically, on the 2010 tests, 43.3 percent
of D.C. Public Schools secondary students
tested proficient in reading, up 3.2 percentage
points from 2009. In math, 43.7 percent of
secondary students tested proficient in math,
up 4.1 percentage points from 2009.
Meanwhile, 44.4 percent of elementary students tested proficient in reading, down 4.4
percentage points from 2009, and 43.4 percent
of elementary school students tested profiSee Wright/Page 14
D.C. State Board of Education
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The D.C. State Board of
Education voted late last month to
join dozens of states across the
country in adopting a common set
of math and English standards for
students in kindergarten through
12th grade.
“These standards are to establish
a uniform set of expectations for
what the nation’s students, and particularly the District’s students,
should know by the time they graduate from high school,” board president Ted Trabue said at the board’s
July 21 meeting. “They are
designed to be robust and relevant
in the real world, and reflect the
knowledge and skills our young
people need for success in college
and careers.”
The
National
Governors’
Association for Best Practices and
the Council of Chief State School
Officers initiated the “common
core” effort several years ago, and
31 states and the District have
signed on so far.
Under the new guidelines, over
the course of kindergarten through
fifth grade, students will be expected to master whole numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication,
division, fractions and decimals. In
high school, students will learn how
to apply those concepts to subjects
like social policy and economics.
In English Language Arts, students from kindergarten through
12th grade will be expected to read
classical myths, primary sources,
American
literature
and
Shakespeare. They will explore
opinion writing, do research and
conduct presentations. The standards include protocols outlining
the level of complexity of the texts
students are asked to master at each
grade level, and a list of texts that
exemplify each complexity level.
But schools will still be able to
exercise flexibility in how to present
the standards, and what to teach outside the basic parameters.
Speaking on behalf of State
Superintendent Kerri Briggs, Cathie
Carothers urged the board to take
action now. She said adopting the
standards would strengthen the
city’s chances of winning federal
funds from the Race to the Top
competition, and would allow D.C.
to participate in a consortium of
states leading the effort to design
new assessments that will eventually replace individual statewide tests
like the D.C. Comprehensive
Assessment System (DC-CAS).
“We cannot afford to let this opportunity pass us by,” she said.
The board voted 6-1 to adopt the
standards, with Ward 8 member
William Lockridge opposing. “I’m
concerned as we move down the
road with cost for implementation
of assessments and textbooks,” he
said. “The students, when the rubber
hits the road, are being impacted by
a lack of dollars. While we’re
spending millions of dollars [on the
new standards], we could put almost
two teachers in every classroom.”
But Keith Gayler, director of
standards with the Council of Chief
State School Officers, said most
states anticipate renewing their standards periodically and budget
accordingly.
“It’s something states already
do,” Gayler said.
He acknowledged that for some
states, adopting the standards means
moving up a timeline, but he said
some of the costs associated with
the move will be shared as states
develop assessments together.
D.C. still has some time to work
out the finer points of the initiative.
For the 2010-11 school year, D.C.
Public Schools will continue to use
the D.C. standards, which recently
received high marks from the
Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an
education nonprofit.
And the D.C. standards may
continue to guide student learning.
Ward 6 State Board of Education
member Lisa Raymond introduced
an amendment calling on the
District to add some of its own standards to the common core, as long
as those additional standards do not
exceed 15 percent of the total. The
amendment passed.
Ward 2 board member Mary
Lord introduced an amendment
calling for stakeholder participation
as the District moves toward implementation, which also passed.
Ward 3 member Laura Slover
abstained from the July 21 vote
because of her work at Achieve, an
organization involved in the common core effort.
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from the site and hammer piles through a concrete remainder of a demolished structure, led to
a $2.9 million shortfall.
Pepco’s Graham hinted at those unexpected
costs in his response. A “more comprehensive
engineering review” could have prevented cost
overruns, he wrote.
Pepco representatives did not reply to questions by The Current’s deadline.
THE CURRENT
City and federal funds have filled much of the
gap, and construction is proceeding toward a
hoped-for mid-2011 end. But the Friends group
must raise another $150,000 — to be matched by
federal dollars — to complete the project.
So the organization has begun a new fundraising effort, soliciting donations first from neighbors who have already supported the park. A few
weeks in, the requests have brought in $5,600,
and vom Eigen noted that the total should rise as
members return from vacation.
But, “if we do not raise the $150,000 by this
fall, we run the risk that the opening of the final
portion of the Park will be further delayed beyond
next summer,” he wrote.
So he’s not giving up on Pepco. “We continue
to believe that PEPCO had an obligation to disclose the power limitations at the Park site in
2006,” vom Eigen wrote to the utility.
If the new goal is met, the two-phase
Georgetown Waterfront Park will have a total
price tag of $3.8 million. When complete, the second, more active phase of the park will feature a
fountain, pergola and river stairs where spectators
can gather for regattas. The first segment opened
in 2008 and includes a pathway and benches.
GW COMMUNITY CALENDAR
A selection of this month’s GW events—neighbors welcome!
August 30 at 8 p.m.
Student Performance Showcase
Lisner Auditorium
730 21st St., NW
Marvin Center first floor
800 21st St., NW
Wednesdays through Nov. 24
FRESHFARM Market
Eye Street between New Hampshire Avenue and
24th Street, NW
For more information
on the GW community
calendar, please
contact Britany Waddell
in the Office of
Community Relations at
202-994-9132
or visit us at
www.neighborhood.
gwu.edu
Come see this annual showcase of many of GW’s
performance groups for a night of singing, acting, dancing,
comedy and more. After the performances, join these
groups in Columbian Square for dessert and a meet n’
greet. Co-sponsored by The Link. Free and open to the public.
Save the Date:
Fall shows at Lisner Auditorium
730 21st St., NW
Sept. 3 at 8 p.m.
The United States Air Force Band presents
Airmen of Note
This concert will feature several Airmen of Note
alumni and is part of the ensemble’s 60th anniversary
celebration. Free and open to the public.
Jessica McConnell
AUGUST
The Foggy Bottom market returns for another season.
Offerings include fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs, organic
and grass-fed meats, handmade cheeses, breads/
desserts, preserves, herbs, flowers, plants and more.
Every Wednesday from 3–7 p.m. through Nov. 24.
For more information, visit www.freshfarmmarket.org.
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Films on the Vern 2010: “Page to Screen”
Wednesday evenings, Aug. 4–18 at 8:30 p.m.
Mount Vernon Campus
2100 Foxhall Road, NW
The “Circle of Praise: Blessings!” concert is part of the
company’s 27th annual National African Dance and
Drum Conference in honor of Dr. Sherill BerrymanJohnson. Tickets $25-$30 at Ticketmaster, Blue Nile
Trading Co. at 202-232-3535, Salon Obsessions
at 301-565-4247 and Hair Studio at 703-769-9288.
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Three movies showcasing fictional and nonfictional
stories will be shown at GW’s Mount Vernon Campus.
Movies will be shown Wednesday nights on the Mount
Vernon Campus Quad, with the exception of the last
film, which will be shown at the outdoor pool on the
Mount Vernon Campus. Rain location for all dates
is the Eckles Library Auditorium, also on the Mount
Vernon Campus. For more information, visit
http://gwired.gwu.edu/mvcl/whamv/fotv.
August 4 – The Blind Side
August 11 – The Kite Runner
August 18 – Where The Wild Things Are
Reaching GW’s Mount Vernon Campus
Free shuttle service is provided daily between
the Foggy Bottom and Mount Vernon campuses.
Visit http://gwired.gwu.edu/mvcl for schedule
information, or call 202-242-6673 Monday through
Friday, 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Sept. 4 at 8 p.m.
KanKouran West African Dance Company
Circle of Praise: Blessings! Concert
Sept. 26 at 7 p.m.
Angèle Dubeau & La Pietà
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for piano uniquely composed of women, bringing
together some of the finest musicians in Canada.
They are known for their exceptional virtuosity
and impeccable precision, their rich interpretations,
but above all the contagious happiness that
enlivens their stage presence. One of Canada’s most
prominent virtuoso violinists, Dubeau has performed
on the world’s greatest stages in a spectacular career
that has spanned more than 30 years and more than
30 countries. Tickets TBA.
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Sept. 29 at 7 p.m.
Smithsonian Resident Associates Program
presents President Jimmy Carter
In this evening lecture, former president Jimmy
Carter will discuss entries he made to his private
diary, where he offered unvarnished assessments
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TAMARINDO
From Page 5
But neighbors and the advisory
neighborhood commission, objecting to the board’s decision, took the
case before the D.C. Court of
Appeals, Jenkins said.
In an interview, attorney Samuel
Sharpe, who lives around the corner
from El Tamarindo, said neighbors
were concerned then about the
restaurant’s threat to the area’s
“peace and tranquility.”
“We documented numerous incidents of people parking in the
neighborhood, blocking people’s
driveways, having conversations,
urinating in the neighborhood,”
Sharpe said. He said the parking situation was particularly troublesome
because El Tamarindo has only four
spaces available for its customers
and staff.
Ultimately, Jenkins said at the
meeting, the Court of Appeals
remanded the case back to the alcohol board, which then reversed El
Tamarindo’s extended hours and
reinstated the old midnight closing
time.
According to Sharpe, implementation of the change took another
eight or nine months. During that
lag, the new owners took over El
Tamarindo with the understanding
that the 2:30 a.m. closing time was
in effect.
In an interview, neighborhood
commissioner Green called the case
“an example of government at its
worst.”
The misunderstanding has cost
the restaurant thousands of dollars,
according to Hailu. “We’ve had to
cancel parties,” such as wedding
receptions, he said at last week’s
commission meeting.
New placards affirming the midnight closing time went up at El
Tamarindo on July 23, Jenkins said.
The license renewal the commission approved last week also
requires the midnight closing.
But Hailu said he intends to
apply for extended hours in the
future. In addition to later closing
times, El Tamarindo will try to open
earlier to serve breakfast; Hailu said
family members of patients at the
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
have expressed interest in the
option.
In an interview, Hailu’s mother,
Kidane, said she hopes to transform
the restaurant into the “Sunshine
Lounge and Bar,” adding a variety
of international cuisine to the menu.
“We’re not opening a nightclub,”
she said, “but we do want to sometimes have a party.”
She said she understands neighbors’ longstanding concerns, but
wants “the community to consider
us, too ... and the investment we
made.”
Attorney Sharpe said another
request for extended hours would
put residents “back in the same situation” with El Tamarindo, despite
the new ownership.
“I don’t see that there’s any reason the neighbors would change
their mind ... although that’s just my
speculation,” he said.
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Georgetown Scoops dishes it out on M Street
O
ne might think the
Georgetown shopping district has enough treats to
offer, but when Georgetown
Scoops opened its doors, neighborhood anticipation was high.
“The day we opened — we
opened at night July 3 — people
were standing and waiting for us
to open the lights and doors,” said
Pinar Alsamawi, who owns the
shop with her husband, Walleed.
“We were panicking and trying to
put the signs up of the flavors.”
Despite the high threshold of
that blockbuster opening, business
has increased every week of operation since, said Alsamawi.
“A lot of people are coming
back, and that’s a good sign,” she
said. “They like the ice cream.”
The new shop at 2818 M St.,
whose name and spare style recall
the uber-popular Georgetown
Cupcake up the street, certainly
joins a number of sweet shops in
the neighborhood. But
Georgetown is a busy place, and
residents who live well east of
Wisconsin seem to have wanted
more choices for dessert.
“Georgetown neighborhood
people [said], ‘We were looking
for a real ice cream shop.’ ... They
were like, ‘We’ve been waiting for
you guys to open,’” said
Alsamawi.
The success is welcome for a
couple who was initially looking
simply to open a business — any
business — and picked ice cream
ON THE STREET
BETH COPE
product, which includes some special flavors concocted specially for
Georgetown Scoops. Alsamawi
said she helped devise the
Napoleon, Ginger and Dark
Chocolate Decadence flavors.
Scoops start at $3.40 (kiddie)
and increase to $5.75 (large). There
because the launch would come
during the warm months.
It was “the beginning of summer, pretty hot weather, [and we
thought,]
‘What can we
do? What
would sell
best?’” said
Pinar
Alsamawi.
To draw
customers
year-round,
they are adding
a custom-made
espresso
machine and a
second-floor
Georgetown Scoops ice cream shop owner Pinar
Internet cafe.
“We’re shootAlsamawi, right, took over the M Street space from
ing to open
her mother, Songul Eren, who ran a salon there.
[the cafe]
are a number of toppings available
before September,” said
(50 to 75 cents apiece), and a host
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They’re also selling treats popu- of ice cream-based treats, like sundaes ($5.99 to $6.99), milkshakes
lar in any season: pastries, smoothies, fruit salads and, of course, cup- ($4.50 to $5.50) and even ice
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ly cool.”
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Chris Kain/Managing Editor
An accountability lesson
Unsurprisingly, the Washington Teachers’ Union has raised a stink
over Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee’s recent dismissal of 226
D.C. teachers for poor performance.
The union says the school system’s IMPACT evaluation system is
subjective and unfair, and officials have already announced plans to
protest the firings of about 80 teachers.
We believe the chancellor’s action was well warranted — and
exactly what we expected when the city signed up for major reform.
Certainly there may be legitimate questions about some aspects of
IMPACT. And we hope it will continue to improve. But we are confident that the teachers union would have questioned any firings, no
matter how strong the reasoning behind them.
The union says IMPACT should have been piloted before being
fully implemented — or at least that there should have been better
communication about expectations, and training on the framework.
But teachers received detailed information and training on the
assessments at the beginning of the year. Along with test scores, they
were to be judged on their classroom performance through a series
of five visits — three by their principal and two by “master educators,” professionals who were recruited, in fact, because teachers
requested independent evaluators.
Three times throughout the year — each one after classroom sessions — evaluators were to meet with the teachers to go over the
scores, answer questions and develop plans for professional development.
Not only that, but also before the evaluations began, teachers
were given a list of exactly what qualities they would be judged on.
That rubric included extremely specific factors, such as how many
types of learning (three) a teacher should address to earn a top score.
And the school system held explanatory sessions on the evaluations
throughout the year.
Any teacher who was surprised by his or her classroom evaluation in the end-of-year report was so indifferent as to have ignored a
year’s worth of input.
Another contribution to the final classification of teachers as
“ineffective,” “minimally effective,” “effective” or “highly effective”
was test scores. There have been charges that the score data was analyzed improperly, and we would certainly like to hear a detailed
response to that allegation. But we support the principle of using
scores in judging teachers. Teachers who follow proper procedures
deserve credit, but their results are crucial, too.
George Parker, president of the teachers union, has called for an
independent audit of the IMPACT system, as is required in the new
teacher contract. The chancellor, whose staff and contractors put
considerable effort and expertise into developing the program,
should — and we believe will — welcome ideas on improvement. In
fact, we understand that some aspects of the classroom performance
rubric are already being updated.
We also hope that the school system will provide a clear and fair
opportunity for fired teachers to appeal the decision. While we
believe IMPACT already includes many checks and balances, a final
fail-safe could help prevent inappropriate dismissal, such as of a
teacher who was unfairly assessed by his or her principal because of
a personality conflict.
At the same time, we’re looking forward to reports that teachers
rated highly effective have received their promised bonuses. While
we view the IMPACT system as fair, it is also quite rigorous, and a
teacher with a high score is likely a superior educator. The system
should follow through on its pledge to offer both sticks and carrots.
Everything considered, we support the chancellor in her efforts to
remove teachers who are not serving our students — and reward
those doing a spectacular job. We think she may have said it best in
a May interview with The New York Times: “When I came here, all
the adults were fine; they all had satisfactory ratings. But only 8 percent of eighth-graders were on grade level for math. How’s that for
an accountable system that puts the children first?”
THE CURRENT
Endorsements do matter …
The Washington Post editorial page this week
endorsed Mayor Adrian Fenty for a second term.
It said that despite some missteps and questions
about some city contracts, Fenty has kept the city on
a firm course toward improvements in city schools,
crime, social services and economic development.
The editorial writers concluded, “Those who
believe the District is headed in the right direction
should maintain that
momentum with a vote
for Adrian Fenty.”
There were predictable, sneering reactions that The Post’s editorial page editors had
backed Fenty in part because of their too-chummy
relationship with and investment in Schools
Chancellor Michelle Rhee.
Gary Imhoff of DCWatch, a popular but caustic
observer of city politics, dismissed The Post editorial, saying, “The Adrian Fenty campaign published
its latest (but far from its last) press release today in
the Washington Post ... .”
Of course, Fenty told NBC4 on Monday that he
was proud to have The Post’s endorsement. He
called it an “independent voice” unlike those of
interest groups that lobby candidates for endorsements in exchange for support on this issue or that.
Fenty challenger Council Chairman Vincent
Gray, appearing at the reopening of the Watha T.
Daniel/Shaw Neighborhood Library at 7th and R
streets NW, hid any disappointment at not getting
The Post’s backing.
Several months ago, the editorial page had urged
Gray to get into the race so the city would have a
full discussion of the issues. But a series of followup editorials examining those issues always wound
up backing Fenty, not Gray.
“Certainly wasn’t a surprise,” Gray told NBC4 in
reaction to the Sunday editorial. He said The Post
had not prompted his entry into the race. And in
classic campaign response, he said the only poll that
really matters is that of Election Day.
That may be true (Fenty agrees), but Gray’s campaign is keeping close track of endorsements. He
may not have gotten The Post’s backing, but the
Gray team said it has received 18 out of the 20
endorsements announced so far.
Here’s the list provided by the Gray campaign:
“AFSCME, AFGE, AFL-CIO Washington Labor
Council, Carpenter’s Union, DC Chamber of
Commerce, FOP, FOP-DOC, FOP District of
Columbia Lodge #1, Firefighters Local 36, Gertrude
Stein Club, Latino Caucus, National Association of
Government Employees, National Association of
Social Workers, Nurses Union, Teamsters Local
Union 639, Teamsters Local 689, TENAC (DC
Tenant’s Advocacy Coalition), Washington DC
Realtors.
“Straw poll wins for Gray: Ward 3, Ward 8,
Citywide, Ward 7, and Ward 6.”
That’s an impressive list. Still, nearly half are
from labor groups that are furious with Fenty, a
mayor who has fired workers, battled unions over
job performance and bluntly ignored labor leaders.
So do all these endorsements matter? Political
professionals say
endorsements can bring
any candidate money,
campaign workers and
media attention.
The Post, despite the
howls of those who are
spurned, also plays a role for many citizens who
don’t follow politics closely. This group of voters
cares more what a candidate does than whether he’s
nice (a big issue with organizations that say Fenty
routinely and regularly snubs them).
■ A nicer Fenty? Fenty watchers have observed the
mayor’s often-haughty dismissal of media questions,
people and organizations. He seems to feel that as
mayor he doesn’t have to meet with or consult people with whom he disagrees. He dismisses business
organizations and labor unions, saying they have
narrow interests and just want to get this or that person hired.
But the Notebook seems to be seeing a friendlier
Fenty on the campaign trail. That means his advisers
are getting to him about how he comes across in
public. The mayor at recent campaign stops has been
more like the smiling candidate who ran in 2006.
The fear for many, though, is that should he win
re-election, Fenty will revert to his dismissive ways.
The opposite is said of Gray. Even some of his
strongest supporters say Gray has a friendly personality and approach that people like, but they worry
he gets bogged down in process rather than focusing
on results. As mayor, he wouldn’t have time to mull
things over for days or weeks before commenting.
And worse, some say, he still needs to show that
he’s more than just the anti-Fenty candidate.
■ Barry wins one. The Office of Campaign Finance
says Ward 8 Council member Marion Barry did not
violate the law when he gave a city contract to a
woman with whom he was having, or had had, a
personal relationship. But the office — which is
charged with regulating the conduct of D.C. official
— said Barry violated personnel rules by not disclosing his relationship to the D.C. Council.
The council earlier this year censured Barry, saying he violated the rules. The latest ruling won’t
affect that. But it’s another indication that the U.S.
Attorney’s Office will not file any criminal charges
against Barry.
Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.
TOM SHERWOOD’S
NOTEBOOK
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
D.C. library officials
erred with layoffs
It is likely that Cleveland
Park Neighborhood Library programs will be affected by the
recent firing of five part-time
library employees [“Library layoffs irk patrons at Cleveland
Park branch,” July 28].
Unfortunately, the D.C.
Public Library — and the D.C.
Council, when it approved the
fiscal year 2011 library budget
— didn’t fully recognize the
impact of firing 40 employees
from the branch libraries.
Council member Harry Thomas,
who chairs the library oversight
committee, said he understood
that no children’s programs
would be impacted by the library
system’s suggested budget
reduction decision. It’s hard to
imagine how losing the two
Cleveland Park children’s librarians would not result in disruption. Hiring 17 new full-time
employees next fiscal year will
not change the outcome at
Cleveland Park if these new
hires are to be assigned to newly
constructed libraries, as has been
reported.
The manner in which these
layoffs occurred is as disturbing
as the consequences. There was
no notice to the community and
no opportunity to discuss
impacts or alternative budget
decisions. There was no apparent
consideration of the service these
employees were providing to the
branch libraries. The implication
is that the central library office is
making top-down decisions and
not consulting with its branch
staff or with library patrons.
Making sure that there is parity among the basic services provided at the branch libraries is
good policy. Firing an entire
class of employees with no
regard to their contribution to the
functioning of a branch library is
not equity. What this unfortunate
incident may reveal is that there
is a bigger problem in how the
central office is making decisions that affect the neighborhood libraries, like the very popular and successful Cleveland
Park branch.
Nancy MacWood
Commissioner, ANC 3C09
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Voluntary agreements offer many benefits
VIEWPOINT
ROBIN DIENER
I
am surprised that The Current ran what amounted
to an ad hominem attack on Kalorama Citizens
Association president Denis James, a tireless,
responsible, respected and unpaid leader who’s simply trying to preserve and improve his community.
Commentary like that from Madam’s Organ owner
Bill Duggan is not just unfair; it’s unproductive
[“Voluntary agreements aren’t good for city,” Letters
to the Editor, July 21].
Avoiding such rancor is one of the many reasons
Ward 1 Council member Jim Graham called for the
D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration
to form a Task Force on Noise. The task force, of
which I am a member, has already heard a great deal
about voluntary agreements. Neighbors, advisory
neighborhood commissions and civic groups often
use voluntary agreements to attempt to control noise
and other detrimental impacts from bars and restaurants through such means as limiting hours.
The claim that a voluntary agreement is “not voluntary,” as Mr. Duggan asserted, is a tired PR tagline.
In fact, no applicant need accept such an agreement.
While the negotiation of voluntary agreements is
facilitated by the Alcoholic Beverage Regulation
Administration, a full on-the-record hearing is always
available at which all parties — the applicant, the
community and others — can make their points and
be judged accordingly. Operators who accept voluntary agreements they consider unduly restrictive must
feel the pluses outweigh the minuses.
A bar or restaurant operator can always move to a
location where fewer restrictions are likely. But operators want to be in our historic districts, where charm
and customers abound. These areas are pretty, populated and well-maintained.
Among the most contentious issues between
neighbors and businesses is rowdiness by patrons
leaving liquor-serving establishments at a late hour.
Businesses say they can’t control the bad behavior —
public urination, trampling of geraniums, sex in the
alley, recreational screaming — of some customers
after they leave their premises. That’s technically
LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Clark Ray deserves
at-large council seat
I highly value The Current’s
coverage of local issues and its
editorial content, which is the reason I must write to express strong
disagreement with its July 28 editorial and state my wholehearted,
unequivocal support for Clark
Ray’s D.C. Council at-large bid.
I have lived in the city since
1977 and have seen innumerable
local candidates and politicians
come and go. With Mr. Ray, my
assessment is that he is undoubtedly the hardest-working and
most exciting candidate to emerge
on the local scene since Adrian
Fenty promised attention-starved
Ward 4 residents back in 2000
some real constituent services —
and then actually delivered on his
promises! Clark Ray, like Fenty,
true, but would it hurt to ask?
Believe it or not, that’s exactly what some universities — tired of being the source of so much local ire
— are doing. According to information received by
the task force, schools are actively urging their young
charges to behave better.
Voluntary agreements work. Jack’s on 17th Street
reopened this spring as the well-reviewed Agora, with
permission to expand, after working closely with
neighbors to address their needs. Java House on Q
Street converted smoothly to an alcohol-serving
establishment using guidelines suggested by neighbors. Just recently, one restaurateur proffered his own
ideas as the basis for a voluntary agreement intended
to control noise from smokers standing outside his
popular watering hole — ideas warmly endorsed by
residents.
And here’s another interesting tidbit from the task
force: The science of acoustics can’t predict exactly
who will be affected by sound and noise. Neighbors
midway up the block may hear nothing while those
diagonally across may be forced to close their windows and use earplugs to sleep. In the task force
meetings, we have heard about new developments in
sound abatement, including special plantings that
owners may want to install.
We need new ideas to deal with the advent of the
24/7 city, and to solve issues that have long alienated
businesses and frustrated residents. Businesses may
feel constrained when residents exercise their legal
rights, but such issues as lowered property values,
noise, rats, trash, reduced parking, bad public behavior and crime can’t be ignored. And ultimately, they
can damage businesses as well as residents. Our
mutual interests can be better aligned through the voluntary agreement process.
I am grateful to Jim Graham for establishing the
Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration Task
Force on Noise and to The Current for its usually
excellent reporting and commentary. I am sure the
task force findings, when released, will be amply
covered in this paper and that the D.C. government
will be able to use them to make voluntary agreements even more valuable for all concerned.
Robin Diener is president of the Dupont Circle
Citizens Association.
is clearly a doer.
He’s been doing from the time
he came to D.C. Like many, he
arrived in town owing to national
interests — in Clark’s case, working for the Clinton administration.
Yet he readily adopted the city as
his own, working federally but
living and breathing the local city,
planting roots and buying a home.
After doing all he could to help
the Clinton/Gore administration
succeed, he stepped up to the
plate locally under the Williams
administration to provide grassroots constituent services. Instead,
he might have opted to go to all
sorts of national outfits or head
back home to Arkansas.
His obvious love for the city
and its residents showed with his
ceaseless efforts during the
Williams years, and it continued
when he helped guide the work of
the Fenty transition team (on
which I had the privilege to
serve). Later, he directed the
Department of Parks and
Recreation. The subject of dog
parks was a lot of talk — until
Clark got them done.
First-class, state-of-the-art
recreation centers were only a
dream, but the Wilson pool’s 15plus years of periodic closures
came to an end owing to Clark’s
efforts. Time and again, he has
not let bureaucracy stand in the
way of services to the community.
I use city services all the time.
My children attend public
schools. My family goes to the
libraries. My children use the
fields and playgrounds. Like
everyone, I like to see my alley
cleaned, trash picked up on time,
and the police and fire departments fully ready and responsive
should I need them. I have no
doubt that Clark Ray is the bestqualified candidate. Given his
broad experience and innate drive
to deliver and succeed, I will be
voting Clark Ray on Sept. 14.
Terry Lynch
Mount Pleasant
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From Page 3
string of debates leading to the Sept.
14 primary. This one was a bit different, not only because there was
no straw poll, but also because
organizers did not invite minor candidates.
“We wanted just the leading candidates, so they can have an indepth conversation with each
other,” said Walter Smith, executive
director of DC Appleseed. “The
irony is that only two of them could
come.”
Moderated by former Ward 3
Council member Kathy Patterson
and Bruce DePuyt of NewsChannel
8, the discussion turned wonky at
times.
On budgeting, Patterson asked
how the city could “replenish rainyday funds” spent down in the past
few years of recession.
Brown and Gray said the council
had created a system this year to
automatically deposit some surplus
funds back into the city’s reserves,
and is also trying to use its own
“pay-go” funds rather than borrowing to pay for some capital projects.
Gray said the city’s fund balance
stood at $1.5 billion when Fenty
took office, and has since been spent
down by $600 million. “We met
with the bond rating agencies, and
the mayor said we’re not going
below $900 million. Two weeks
later we got his budget [proposal],
spending down the balance by $200
THE CURRENT
million more,” Gray said. “I’m
extremely concerned about our
bond rating.”
On voting rights and statehood,
DePuyt asked if Gray, as mayor,
“would be willing to lead more vigorously”
than
Fenty.
“Unequivocally yes,” Gray replied.
Gray relayed the story of the
failed struggle for a single vote for
the District in the House of
Representatives, torpedoed when
some senators attached a “poison
pill” amendment that would have
gutted the District’s gun laws and
prohibited the council from making
new ones.
“If one vote is that hard to get, I
would put the chips down and go for
statehood,” Gray said, adding that
the city should put more money and
resources into the lobbying effort.
“If we can’t say by 2014 that we
have more ability to control our own
destiny — enough is enough, and
we have to throw coffee into the
Potomac.”
“We have to get a little more
energized. Congressmen need to see
real people at their offices every
day,” said Brown. With a Nevada
senator pushing the amendment to
strip the District’s gun laws, Brown
said, “I thought we should ban interstate prostitution in Nevada.”
Patterson asked how the two
would improve relations between
the council and the mayor.
“If I become chair, whoever the
new mayor is, I’d be meeting with
him within 24 hours, just to lay the
ground rules,” Brown said. “If
Mayor Fenty wins, I would do the
exact same thing.”
“If Fenty is mayor, how would
you get along?” DePuyt asked
Brown.
“There’s a lot of ‘ifs’ in that,”
Brown responded. “I’d definitely
have a better relationship with Mr.
Gray.”
Gray said “cooperation and collaboration” between the council and
mayor are important, but he noted,
“I haven’t had a one-on-one meeting with this mayor in seven
months, and that is amazing.”
In response to a question from
DePuyt, Gray said he has had no
conversation with Fenty about a
last-minute proposal to extend the
summer jobs program, presented
while the council was in recess last
week.
DePuyt asked a now-familiar
question about the continued tenure
of Schools Chancellor Michelle
Rhee. Trying to force a response, he
prefaced the query by saying that
Rhee had “had the courage to get rid
of incompetent teachers,” and to
“right-size” the system by closing
schools. “Do you understand why
so many people” back her? he
asked.
The responses were nonetheless
vague.
Gray said he supports school
reform, and he noted that the council “set the stage” by voting to abolish the school board and have the
chancellor report directly to the
mayor. He said he supports some of
Rhee’s actions, but that she used “a
questionable budget deficit” to justify firing teachers last October and
an untested teacher evaluation system to fire more of them this summer.
“I support school reforms, but I
also support justice and fairness,” he
said.
Brown noted that his two children attend D.C public schools, that
his wife has taught at a charter
school and that he himself is a product of the much-maligned system. “I
am Mr. DCPS. I’m personally
invested.”
Brown said the school system
had mistreated teachers for years,
with little support and “raggedy
buildings,” and he criticized the way
the recent firings were handled. “It’s
tough to be chancellor, but the
teachers should have been treated
with dignity and respect.”
Patterson asked Gray if he had
interfered with Rhee after a popular
Wilson High School science
teacher, Art Siebens, was abruptly
fired last year.
“Parents and students came to
me and raised questions, and given
the outcry, it would have been insensitive to ignore them,” Gray said. “I
went to [Ward 3 Council member]
Mary Cheh, and we met individually with the chancellor. But we didn’t
do anything to reverse that decision.”
Now that the elected Board of
Education no longer runs the school
system, “I don’t think it’s inappropriate if people come to the council,” Gray said.
WRIGHT
From Page 8
cient in math, down 4.6 percentage
points from 2009.
“We continue with what we’re
doing in terms of academic intervention,” Wright said. “We’re gaining ground at the secondary level.”
Wright began her career as a
teacher in Prince George’s County
Public Schools and went on to serve
as principal of three elementary
schools in Howard County. From
2003 to 2009, she was an associate
for the Montgomery County Public
Schools.
Then, until last month, Wright
served as deputy chief for teaching
and learning in D.C. Public Schools,
where she managed the offices of
Curriculum and Instruction, Early
Childhood Education, Secondary
School Transformation, Bilingual
Education, Out of School Time,
Athletics, Educational Technology
and Library Media Services.
According to school system
spokesperson Jennifer Calloway,
Rhee established the chief academic
officer position last year as part of
an effort to streamline teaching and
learning practices. The position is
responsible for overseeing the
offices of Teaching and Learning,
Professional Development, Youth
Engagement, School Innovation,
Federal Programs and Grants,
School Restructuring, Strategic
Academic Initiatives and School
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ATHLETICS IN NORTHWEST WASHINGTON
With new leaders, Gonzaga football prepares for season opener
By BORIS TSALYUK
Led by a new head coach and a senior
quarterback committed to a top Division I college, the Gonzaga Eagles will open their season next month in the first annual I-95 Kickoff
Classic at Towson University’s Johnny Unitas
Stadium.
The Eagles will kick off the two-day event
Sept. 3 with a game against Baltimore’s The
McDonough School under the lights at 7 p.m.
Aaron Brady will hit the sideline for his
first game as head coach, taking over for Joe
Reyda, the school’s athletic director who
stepped down as football coach after last season.
Earlier this summer the team’s signal
caller, Kevin Hogan, committed to Stanford
University, a school that produced one of the
greatest NFL passers of all time — former
Denver Bronco John Elway — and is now
coached by former NFL starting quarterback
Jim Harbaugh.
Coach Reyda said he sees the I-95, a showcase that pits top Washington Catholic
Athletic Association schools against top
Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association
programs, as a great opportunity for his team
to compete against a tough team.
“We’re excited about doing it. The competition out there is very good and it’ll be a good
opening season test for us to see where we
stand,” he said.
Nonprofit group Extra Point Productions
founded the I-95. Group president Tony
Kennedy said the organization was proud to
invite schools with strong athletics and equally strong academics.
“You put it together and you show the kids
you have to have your books and be good athletes,” he said.
Kennedy, who was a star running back at
Bladensburg High School and Virginia Tech,
said the primary purpose of the event is to give
athletes a chance to display their skills.
“I’ve been there, I’ve done it, I know
exactly where they’re coming from, and we
want to show them there are people like me
trying to do the right thing and show them we
haven’t forgotten about them.
“Visibility,” he continued, “will eventually
lead to scholarships and a better chance, using
sports.”
The other WCAC schools in the event are
defending conference champion Good
Counsel, 2009 winner DeMatha and Bishop
McNamara.
“I think it’s good for the programs,” Reyda
said. “It’s in the early stages — we’ll see what
happens in the first year and just keep building
upon it. What they’ve done so far is a great
thing, and I just hope it continues.”
Gonzaga looks to build on a season in
which it went 6-4 and made the playoffs
before losing to DeMatha in the first round.
Tickets for the I-95 Gonzaga contest will be
available on-site.
Matt Petros/The Current
Gonzaga, which has a new head coach and quarterback, will launch its football season at
the first annual I-95 Kickoff Classic, a new area tournament.
Cap City heads to Connecticut
By BORIS TSALYUK
Matt Petros/The Current
Capitol City Little League, which won
the 12-and-under D.C. title, heads to
Bristol, Conn., tonight to compete in
a regional tournament.
After winning the 12-and-under
D.C. title last month, the Capitol City
Little League players will head
tonight for Bristol, Conn., for a week
and a half of baseball at the regional
competition.
Capitol City defeated Northwest
Little League to earn the trip to the
regional competition, where it will
play its first game Friday at 11 a.m.
There will be four games of pool play
over six days, and the winning team in
each pool will advance to the semifinals on Aug. 13.
Both the semifinals and the finals,
which will take place on Aug. 16, will
be single-elimination play. They will
be televised on ESPN.
Head coach Brice Plebani, a
Sidwell graduate who played for
Capitol City in 2001, said it’s a wonderful opportunity for the kids to travel, meet new people and play the game
they love.
“It’s awesome; it’s a lot of fun,” he
said. “The most fun they are going to
have” is that they will be treated “like
celebrities over there.”
Plebani said the games will be
played in a 5,000-seat stadium, and
the kids will “stay in a compound
without their parents.”
“There are 11 different teams with
players they’d otherwise never meet
and hang out with,” said Plebani. He
said his team will “make friends with
kids from Vermont, Maine — places
most of these kids have never even
been.”
The team will practice for its final
time today before leaving tonight for
Bristol. “I have some tips and little
hints for them in preparing for the
tournament, but in reality they’re
playing the game and they are the ones
that have to perform,” Plebani said.
“I tell them, ‘If you play well, you
can win games,’ and as long as they
have the confidence hopefully they
can go out there and do it,” he added.
Stuart Reed, 12, of Chevy Chase,
hit a home run in the D.C. title game.
He said he’s excited to play in the
regionals.
The Little League World Series
will take place Aug. 20 through 29 in
Williamsport, Pa. Plebani said even if
his team does not make it that far,
players will have a joyous summer
and a remarkable run to look back on.
“Everyone comes home really
happy about their summer and Little
League experience,” Plebani said.
Sports Desk
Hoes called up to Bowie Baysox
Former St. John’s baseball standout L.J. Hoes got a
taste of the next playing level last week when he was
called up to the Baltimore Orioles Double-A affiliate,
the Bowie Baysox. The outing turned out to be a productive two-game stint.
Hoes (St. John’s class of
2008) plays for the Class-A
Advanced Frederick Keys and
was called up when a Baysox
player had to take leave. Hoes
had two hits in his first outing
and finished 2-9 with an RBI
over the two games.
In a phone interview Friday
after returning to Frederick,
Hoes said he had a great opportunity to see a better caliber of
players. “... The pitchers —
they’re a lot smarter, a lot more
mature,” he said.
“It’s definitely a big adjustL.J. Hoes
ment moving from High-A to
Double-A,” said the Bowie
native, who was an Orioles third-round pick in the 1998
amateur draft.
Hoes said he continues to battle mononucleosis,
which caused him to miss a month of action earlier this
year. Still, he batted over .300 in July before heading to
Bowie, and is hitting .289 for the team overall this year.
— Boris Tsalyuk
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his building — he has begun to see
improvements.
“Our housing complex was
filled with lots of problems,” he
said. “Doors were not locked.
Stairwells were not lit properly.”
And unwelcome visitors — from
cockroaches to criminals —
skulked
in
the
stairwells.
“Interestingly,” he said, “I ran into a
gentleman one time when I went
home from work who was eventually apprehended by police and he
had a gun and a knife on him.”
But Lencho said things are better
now. At the urging of the Latino
Economic Development Corp., he
testified before the D.C. Council
and formed a tenants association.
“There was a corrective action the
landlord took because of that,” he
said. “Tenants can get together and
make their voices known.”
But other renters who attended
the summit said plenty of problems
remain.
Residents
of
Lincoln
Westmoreland II, a subsidized
housing complex in Shaw, said
they’re worried about what will
happen if their landlord starts
charging market rates.
From Page 1
Monday in Courtroom 200.
“We talk with landlords and tenants to determine what the problems are and see if we can get the
problems resolved,” explained
Associate Judge Melvin Wright.
“So if you want something fixed,
and you’re trying to get the landlord
[to fix it] and he hasn’t, you can file
a complaint and the court has the
authority to compel the landlord ...
to make repairs.”
There were other success stories,
too.
Yasmin Romero, president of
the tenants association at 3145
Mount Pleasant St. — formerly
known as the Deauville —
announced that her group has
bought the property, which was
destroyed by a five-alarm fire in
2008. “We are working together for
affordable rents,” she said. “It’s justice.”
And Tesfaye Lencho, who lives
north of Military Road on 16th
Street, said that — after struggling
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“Right now there are no lowincome properties for me and my
children to go to,” said resident
CaVonn Ellis Smith.
Smith said she’s been on some
subsidized housing lists for as long
as 14 years, and she’s worried she
and her family will have to leave
the District. “I’m a native
Washingtonian,” she said. “I feel
that I should have the choice to stay
in Washington. Just because I’m
low-income doesn’t mean that I’m
not a productive citizen.”
According to Fosse, shoring up
the city’s stock of affordable housing is her group’s top priority. And
she said tenant purchase is one of
the best strategies for maintaining
affordable housing in the District.
“The buildings that are purchased
as co-ops are affordable for at least
40 years,” she said. “Some are put
into a permanent housing trust so
that they are affordable in perpetuity.”
Under
D.C.’s
Tenant
Opportunity to Purchase Act, landlords wishing to sell their buildings
must give renters the first option to
buy. But Fosse said the city’s
Housing Production Trust Fund,
which loans money to tenants, has
diminished during the economic
downturn.
“The catch is that now that we’re
in bad economic times, there’s actually a bigger opportunity for tenants
to negotiate good prices to be able
to purchase their buildings,” she
said. “But there’s less money to
actually buy them. Because the
fund for tenant purchase is tied to
the tax on real estate.”
Fosse said she and fellow affordable-housing advocates are calling
on the city to provide a dedicated,
local revenue stream to support the
Housing Production Trust Fund.
“We’re asking to start with $15
million in 2012, and add $2 million
a year until it gets to $25 million,”
she said.
The
Latino
Economic
Development Corp., which sponsored the town hall, is also calling
on the D.C. Council to:
• pass legislation to make rent control permanent;
• conduct stringent oversight of the
Regulatory Affairs’ inspections program and the Superior Court’s
Housing Conditions Calendar;
• pass the Increase in Housing
Affordability Act of 2009, which
would target government funding
for affordable housing at D.C.
median income levels instead of
area median income;
• ensure that all agencies dealing
with tenant issues make information available in all six languages
included in the D.C. Language
Access Act;
• ensure formal participation by tenant associations in planning for
affordable-housing redevelopment;
• institute quarterly stakeholder
meetings between tenants and the
Regulatory Affairs to improve residential inspections; and
• include mold as a housing code
violation.
The People and Places of Northwest Washington
Brides-to-be race for
quick-moving discounts
By PAUL D. SHINKMAN
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lad in tactical gear and customized uniforms and with
steely
focus, members
of each team
eyed their target
as the countdown commenced.
At zero hour,
the gates
opened and the
charge began.
This particular
incursion
required not
only a swiftness
of feet but also a mental resolve to
put trust in teammates and follow
through on individual assignments.
D.C.’s annual Running of the
Brides had begun.
The roughly 1,500 participants
arrived from far-reaching points
along the East Coast as early as 5
p.m. the previous day to stake out
the best place in line at Filene’s
Basement in Mazza Gallerie last
Friday. By the time the store
opened at 8 a.m., the line snaked
through the Friendship Heights
mall, out the parking lot and along
44th Street and
Wisconsin
Avenue.
There was
great tension in
the air immediately before the
race as a DJ
booth blared
dance music,
and platoons of
bridesmaids
put the finishing touches on
their plans of
attack.
“I’m finding a position, she’s
grabbing our mirror and those three
are going to grab dresses,” Sarah
Long of Leesburg, Va., said of her
teammates a few minutes before
the race began. “We’ve been talking to people who are either a size
bigger or a size smaller so we can
make trades nicely with one anoth-
Homeless reach
goals with soccer
By JESSICA GOULD
I
f you’d asked him a few years ago, the
last place Juan Fuentes thought he would
ever be was on a soccer field.
Back then, a good day involved scoring a
few extra drinks — anything, really, to satisfy his alcohol addiction.
Now a good day means scoring a few
extra goals — or preventing the other team
from doing so.
And Friday was a very good day.
On Friday, Fuentes and his team, the D.C.
Knights, beat back advances from the reigning champions — a homeless team from San
Francisco — to win the opening match at the
2010 Street Soccer USA Cup Tournament.
“We’re very happy because when we start
training, you know, we came with the idea to
Paul Daniel Shinkman/The Current
Top, shoppers line up for the annual Running of the Brides event at Filene’s Basement. Above, bride-to-be
Sarah Long brought a team of uniform-clad friends to help her find a dress. Left, Long’s team made it clear
they were looking for a size six. Succeeding often involves bartering, and size information is crucial.
er, form alliances and make friends
with everyone around us.”
Long pointed to a key element
of the Running of the Brides,
where the initial footrace quickly
transforms into a fast-paced trading
floor reminiscent of Wall Street.
After gathering an initial stockpile
of any dresses team members can
collect, one designee parades the
field of battle shouting what they
have to trade and what dresses they
are looking for specifically, hoping
to get their hands on the perfect
gown for their captain.
Patrell Hibbert from New Jersey
established an ideal beachhead near
foot traffic and close to a mirror.
“Now we’re sorting and trading,” she said.
Hibbert, tasked with organizing
her team to find the bride a dress,
boasted a bright blue T-shirt with
“Manager” written in glitter across
the back.
“We’re going to keep our sizes
and use the larger sizes as negotiation and trade them,” added her
uniformed teammate, Yemisi
See Brides/Page 37
In exhibit, a focus on ‘Where We Live’
menting the selected neighborhoods as part
of the museum’s 14th annual “Investigating
Where We Live” program. The culmination
of their studies is the exhibit, which opened
ith a picture worth a thousand
July 30.
words, the
“They’re challenged
dozens of
with learning about the
photos that 33 area stuneighborhood based on
dents took of three D.C.
what they see in photoneighborhoods are
graphs, what they see
worth, well, a lot.
when they’re on-site,
Through more than
what they learn from
60 photographs, 30
community members
pieces of writing and
when they talk to
several interactive elethem,” explained Jamee
ments on display at the
Bill Petros/The Current National Building
Telford, outreach proOn Saturday morning, Minneapolis took on Museum through Jan.
Courtesy of the National Building Museum grams coordinator at
Sacramento in the 2010 Street Soccer USA 17, the kids show the
the museum. “And then
Kareem Seals took this shot as part
we ask the kids to crequirks and perks of the
Cup Tournament.
of “Investigating Where We Live.”
ate an exhibit about that
Petworth, Southwest
win,” Fuentes said. “We did it by playing
neighborhood from their perspective.
Waterfront and Trinidad neighborhoods.
very hard. I know this thing was very diffi“It’s their point of view,” she continued.
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adding that the Park Service might
be simply unwilling to accept a significant redesign.
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discussion about changes at the circle. “Doesn’t the District
Department of Transportation have
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Community leaders representing
the areas around Ward Circle
agreed with Chamberlin that the
intersection needs work. Tom
Smith, a Spring Valley advisory
neighborhood commissioner, said
❝Essentially, what
they’re saying is …
that it should be just a
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— Anna Chamberlin
he routinely sees drivers get thrown
off while navigating the circle. “It
can be funny except for the fact that
people’s lives are being put at risk,”
he said.
Smith said he is also concerned
about pedestrian safety at the circle’s crosswalks, several of which
lack stoplights. He said he would
like to see pedestrians encouraged
to cross the street at safer locations,
rather than being expected to count
on the D.C. law giving them the
right-of-way.
“When a car comes in contact
with a human body, the human
body loses whether it’s the law or
not,” he said.
Chamberlin said the first impact
of the livability study should hit
Ward Circle within the next year or
two, with modest upgrades — still
subject to final review — within the
existing format of the roadways.
The ongoing Rock Creek West II
livability study involves collecting
comments from residents about
“trouble spots” or “transportation
barriers” throughout the study area,
which runs between Nebraska and
Western
avenues
from
Massachusetts Avenue to Broad
Branch Road in Chevy Chase, and
between Wisconsin Avenue and
Rock Creek Park as far south as
Upton and Tilden streets.
“We have 105 locations where
we have complaints, so it’s a giant
spreadsheet,” Chamberlin said at
the July 22 meeting, where commissioners and residents also noted
additional traffic problems in their
neighborhoods.
“We’re collecting all this data
and we’re going to come up with a
large amounts of complaints and
we’re obviously not going to be
able to address every one of those
complaints,” Chamberlin added,
noting that safety concerns will take
first priority.
Data from the livability study
will ultimately identify short-term
fixes across the study area that
would take one or two years —
such as changing signal timing, signage and lane striping — as well as
long-term major changes that
would require physical reconstruction of an intersection and would
likely take five to six years,
Chamberlin said.
The Transportation Department
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to tackle three per year. The Rock
Creek West II study is the first one
in Northwest D.C. The agency is
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Chevy Chase home mixes vintage elements, Western flair
C
hevy Chase resident Robin
Tuttle has owned her 1933
home since 1971, so it’s not
surprising that the space offers
ON THE MARKET
CAROL BUCKLEY
some hints of its longtime owner’s
post-D.C. destination: the high
desert of New Mexico.
The clues aren’t obvious ones,
but a living room’s sunset-warm
color palette subtly suggests a more
arid climate than the humid soup
waiting outside Tuttle’s arched
front door. And a large steam room
that connects to the home’s great
room features colorful Mexican
tiles that Tuttle handpicked.
There are other westward-looking touches, too. Tuttle retained the
gas fireplace’s stone surround but
decided that the mantel was too
puny. A chunky wooden plinth
painted to resemble verdigris and
decorated with two terra-cotta
medallions makes the fireplace the
centerpiece of the room.
Other alterations have been
practical as well as decorative.
Tuttle replaced all windows here
with Pella Architect Series windows. The mullioned replacements
are energy-efficient and match the
character of the house.
Systems have been improved in
recent years as well — including
electrical upgrades and a new hot
water heater — but little has been
done to alter the home’s vintage
charm. Original sconces, hardwood
floors, door hardware and substantial moldings throughout are clues
to the 1930s construction date.
The dining room’s original
details include two corner cabinets.
In the adjacent kitchen, Tuttle
removed layers of linoleum to
uncover pine floors. A tumbledmarble backsplash adds an earthy
note to the warm kitchen, which
also gets light from glass blocks
that look into the great room addition.
There’s a door close by to
access the vaulted great room, but
owners who want a direct connection from that space to the kitchen
could easily replace the glass
blocks with a doorway.
The expanse of the great room
gets definition from wooden beams
that cross walls and ceiling. A door
to the rear deck establishes a circular flow to the home that’s great for
entertaining, said Tuttle. A powder
room on this level is another useful
feature for guests, she added.
F O R
Other ground-floor
amenities are more
about luxury than
utility. A cedar-lined
sauna can accommodate up to five people,
and next door is a
steam and shower
room lined in Tuttle’s
Mexican tiles. Both
are accessed off the
Courtesy Robin Tuttle
great room and could
be welcoming after an This three-bedroom Utah Avenue house is
excursion in Rock
priced at $764,000.
Creek Park, which
can be easily accessed via a nearby — the room’s windows would still
provide ample natural light.
trailhead.
Particularly for a 1930s home,
A final ground-floor space is a
there’s ample storage here, noted
flexible one. Now used as a sitting
Tuttle. The master bedroom is no
room, the spot’s built-in shelving
exception: A closet accessed here
and door to a screened porch and
runs the full width of the house.
deck make it suitable for that use.
A second bedroom is sizable
But the sunny room is included in
and features a dormer window.
the home’s three-bedroom count
There’s another option for sleeping
and could easily be put to that purquarters on the home’s bottom
pose.
The second floor hosts two bed- level. Though it doesn’t figure in
rooms and a full hall bathroom that the official count, this level has
been used as a bedroom, said
showcases more of the kitchen’s
tumbled-marble tiles. Tuttle pushed Tuttle. A double closet, sitting area
up ceilings in that bath as well as in and half-bath are other amenities
on this level, which is also used for
the master bedroom, where one
wall opens up to overlook the great
room below. Even if new owners
closed that gap — an easy process
laundry and storage.
Outdoor areas are particularly
inviting. The rear deck leads to a
landscaped lawn and a storage
structure that still hints at its former
use as a children’s playhouse. A
two-car garage is accessed via an
alley and includes an automatic
door and a storage space.
This three-bedroom home at
6115 Utah Ave. with one full bath
and two half-baths is offered for
$764,000. For details, contact
Realtor Steve Agostino of the
Taylor Agostino Group with Long
& Foster Real Estate at 202-3215506 or [email protected].
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that neighborhood.
Program staff chose Petworth,
Southwest Waterfront and Trinidad
based on the theme of change.
“We try to pick neighborhoods
that are on the brink of change,
whether that’s overall physical
had to apply; repeat customers
were welcome. The program,
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which is free, provides lunch,
sketchbooks, water bottles, cameras
“They’re not trying to please anyand other supplies. This year, stuone. They’re not trying to tell a
dents got to keep their cameras —
specific story except for what they
8-megapixel Nikon L22s — as
learn.”
well as their photos and the memoThroughout the course, which
ry cards. Students could also get
started June 29, the stucommunity service credits
dents spent five hours per
for school, Telford added.
day, three days a week at
Levi Mason, 11, who is
the museum or in their
entering seventh grade this
assigned neighborhoods
fall at John Burroughs
with four adult chaperones.
Education Campus,
They learned photo-taking
worked on the Southwest
techniques and composition
Waterfront. His main confrom museum staff and
tributions to the exhibit
local professional photograincluded a large painting of
phers who volunteered with
an opened lock and gate
the program.
accompanied by the text
The participants also
“... you’ve unlocked the
contributed at least once to
secrets of Southwest.”
a blog, iwwl.blogspot.com,
Courtesy of the National Building Museum
“It was the best experiwhere they shared what
ence of picture taking and
Levi Mason took this photo of the Southwest
they were learning as they
Waterfront during the building museum program. drawing of my life,” said
went, adding photos,
Mason, who lives in
thoughts and ideas for the
Northeast.
exhibition.
change or a ... perspective change,”
Palisades resident Jasmine Marr,
In the exhibit, they had to
said Telford, the program’s lead
14, a veteran participant who
include creative writing — like 14- instructor.
worked on Columbia Heights last
year-old Bryant Anthony’s poem
For instance, Trinidad saw a
year, was also part of the
“The Peeling House,” about an old
spike in crime in recent years, but
Southwest Waterfront project.
brick structure that longed to be as
students found that the problems
Besides learning about the area’s
beautiful as its better-kept neighmade the community stronger, as
well-known fish market, she disbors — and interactive elements.
residents banded together to fight
covered some of D.C.’s A-list
For instance, the Petworth section,
back.
roots.
titled “A Stroll Through Petworth,”
“They felt welcomed, they felt
“I feel bad that as a
opens with a garden of paper flowpart of the Trinidad community
Washingtonian, I did not know
ers on which visitors can write,
every time they went out there,”
that Marvin Gaye was from
with the pencils that serve as stems, Telford said of the kids. “There was here,” said Marr, who credits her
their thoughts about the neighbora great sense of pride. Those are
involvement in museum programs
hood or the kids’ work.
some things they didn’t expect but
with landing her a spot at St.
The Trinidad section is divided
they found in Trinidad.”
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related graffiti. Residents can request graffiti
removal services by calling 311.
Gibson said the graffiti behind his building
has since been cleaned up, though he did not
personally see the Public Works Department
crews. Lyons did not comment on the Lanier
Place graffiti specifically, but said crews
respond to all requests for graffiti removal.
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afford.”
Weaver, who has become known
as a staunch Graham critic during
his years on the Adams Morgan
advisory neighborhood commission, focused less on the incumbent
and more on his own platform
Thursday.
He identified poverty as a
“moral crisis” in Ward 1. Earlier in
the day, Weaver said, he had attended the funeral of a community
organizer who “brought in hundreds of thousands of dollars” for a
local housing project, but died
unable to afford a burial plot.
“We’ve diminished the value of
people within this community to a
level that is unacceptable to me,”
Weaver said. “We are quickly
becoming a ward of the haves and
According to Lyons, the amount of graffiti
in the District varies each month, and trends
tend to be cyclical. There can be more occurrences of graffiti during warm weather, for
example. Last fiscal year, the Public Works
Department responded to about 1,500 cases of
graffiti, she said.
New legislation, which will go into effect
in September, allows the Public Works
Department to remove graffiti without seeking the property owner’s consent. The agency
currently has no authority to remove graffiti
have-nots.”
Morgan, the sole Republican
candidate, offered quiet, succinct
responses at the forum. “I’m a little
bit different when it comes to this
race,” he said. “I appreciate that Mr.
Graham has a strong record that
goes back 12 years, but in my opinion, 12 years is enough.”
He pointed to crime and the survival of small business as chief concerns in the ward.
According to his Facebook page,
Morgan is the director of the
Carbon War Room, a newly formed
nongovernmental
organization
founded by Virgin owner Richard
Branson.
The candidates revealed divergent views when Graham brought
up the “millionaire’s tax” — a proposal to help fill the city’s budget
gap by raising taxes for D.C. residents who make $1 million and
above.
on abandoned properties when the owner cannot be located, Lyons said.
The agency also runs a couple programs
aimed at stopping graffiti before it is created.
The Not in OUR DC awareness campaign
has produced public service announcements
and mini-documentaries encouraging communities to prevent graffiti and litter.
Lyons also helps coordinate the MuralsDC
program, a collaboration between the Public
Works Department, the D.C. Commission on
the Arts and Humanities, and Ward 1 Council
Graham has not yet won council
support for the proposal, which he
said would raise $17 million during
its first year, but he vowed to revive
the issue this fall.
Smith agreed with the tax, but
noted that “where the rubber hits
the road” for politicians is “what
they’re able to get their colleagues
to support.”
Weaver argued that the city
should look more closely at lowincome earners. Right now, he
pointed out, a family breadwinner
making $40,000 a year is taxed at
the same rate as someone making
10 times that.
Morgan, meanwhile, disagreed
with the millionaire’s tax, arguing
that high-income earners “are automatically moving out of the city”
due to taxes. Instead, he suggested,
the city could build revenue by
finding “a way to collect $9 million
in unpaid fees” such as for vehicle
member Jim Graham’s office. Started in 2007,
MuralsDC connects youth with artist groups
such as the Midnight Forum, Albus Cavus and
Words Beats & Life to create artistic murals in
blighted areas throughout the city.
So far, 20 murals have been painted, and
seven more are planned for this year.
Businesses interested in a MuralsDC painting should e-mail [email protected].
Artists and youth interested in creating the
murals should contact Dominic Painter at
202-640-2040.
registration.
All candidates agreed that the
city needs stronger enforcement of
labor agreements with developers
that get tax subsidies from the city.
“If we’re giving tax breaks ... ,”
Weaver said, “we have to make sure
that everyone on that project is
being paid a livable wage” and that
at least 50 percent of the workers are
D.C. residents, as required by law.
Smith pointed to an auditor’s
findings that seven of nine recent
Ward 1 projects failed to comply
with that requirement. “All of these
people coming up to your buggy
asking for a job,” he said to
Graham, “could have had these jobs
here.”
But Graham later touted his
record of creating and preserving
jobs in his ward. “Jobs don’t come
from the head of Zeus like Athena,”
he said, but “from places that are
built and businesses that are
offered.”
“Some say as much as 80 percent of the jobs” created recently in
Columbia Heights have gone to
nearby residents, he said.
Morgan challenged that figure:
“If they were all D.C. residents that
live in Ward 1, when we had a big
snowstorm, why can’t Target and
Best Buy open?”
Smith said jobs at places like
Target “are great for kids after
school or people just starting their
careers ... but if we don’t have a
holistic approach ... toward workforce development, all we’re doing
is relegating people to a life of
poverty.”
A variety of local advocacy and
labor groups — including the DC
Jobs Council, Empower DC, the
Fair Budget Coalition and
Washington Legal Clinic for the
Homeless — hosted Thursday’s
forum.
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■ ADAMS MORGAN
The commission will meet at
7 p.m. Sept. 1 at Mary’s Center,
2355 Ontario Road NW.
For details, call 202-332-2630 or
visit anc1c.org.
ANC 2A
ANCBottom
2A
Foggy
■ FOGGY BOTTOM / WEST END
7 p.m. Sept. 15 at St. Stephen
Martyr
Church,
2401
Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
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7 p.m. Aug. 11 in the Brookings
Institution building, 1775
Massachusetts Ave. NW.
Agenda items include:
■ announcements.
■ public safety report.
■ introduction of Joyce Tsepas, the
Office of Planning’s Ward 2 community planner.
■ consideration of a request by
Carlos Rosario Public Charter
School to relocate its satellite campus from 1501 Columbia Road to
2001 S St.
Johns Hopkins University to occupy
public space at 1619 Massachusetts
Ave. for the purpose of paving the
sidewalk and installing bike racks
and tables.
■ consideration of an application by
Rosemary’s Thyme, 1801 18th St.,
to open its outside patio one hour
earlier (to 4 p.m. Monday through
Thursday and to 10 a.m. Saturday).
■ consideration of an application by
Scion, 2100 P St., for a substantial
change to include the extension of
hours of operation and sales
(Monday through Friday from 11
a.m. to 2 a.m. and Saturday and
Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 a.m.)
Policy, 1904 14th St., for an amendment to its voluntary agreement.
■ consideration of comments on the
city’s proposed vending regulations.
■
presentation by the D.C.
Department of Transportation on an
experimental bicycle crossing at the
intersection of New Hampshire
Avenue, 16th Street and U Street.
■ consideration of a request for a
trash compactor at Ross Elementary
School.
■ committee reports.
■ community feedback on the
impact of new street lighting on
17th Street.
For details, visit dupontcircleanc.net.
ANC 2D
ANC 2D
Sheridan-Kalorama
■ SHERIDAN-KALORAMA
7 p.m. Sept. 20 at Our Lady
Queen of the Americas Church,
California Street and Phelps
Place NW.
For details, call 202-246-5155, email [email protected] or
visit anc2d.org.
ANC 2E
ANC 2E
Georgetown
■ GEORGETOWN / CLOISTERS
Cloisters
BURLEITH / HILLANDALE
6:30 p.m. Aug. 30 at
Georgetown
Visitation
Preparatory School, 1524 35th
St. NW.
visit anc2e.com.
ANC 2F
ANCCircle
2F
Logan
■ LOGAN CIRCLE
7 p.m. Sept. 1 at Washington
Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle
NW.
visit anc2f.org.
ANC 3B
ANCPark
3B
Glover
■ GLOVER PARK/CATHEDRAL HEIGHTS
7 p.m. Sept. 9. The location has
not been determined.
For details, call 202-338-2969,
contact [email protected] or visit
dcnet.com/anc/3b.
ANC 3C
ANC 3C
Cleveland
Park
■ CLEVELAND PARK / WOODLEY PARK
Woodley
Park
MASSACHUSETTS AVENUE HEIGHTS
Massachusetts
Avenue Heights
CATHEDRAL HEIGHTS
7:30 p.m. Sept. 20 at the 2nd
District Police Headquarters,
3320 Idaho Ave. NW.
visit anc3c.org.
ANC 3D
ANCValley
3D
Spring
■ SPRING VALLEY/WESLEY HEIGHTS
Wesley Heights
PALISADES/KENT/FOXHALL
7 p.m. Sept. 1 in the community
center at Mann Elementary
School, 4430 Newark St. NW.
visit anc3d.org.
ANC 3E
ANC 3E
Tenleytown
■ AMERICAN UNIVERSITY PARK
American
Park
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HEIGHTS/TENLEYTOWN
At the commission’s July 22
meeting:
■ commissioners assured a resident
that though series of schedule conflicts have moved many of the
commission’s recent meetings, the
body does try to meet on the second Thursday of each month.
■ Metropolitan Police Department
Lt. Alan Hill told residents that
despite a spree of iPhone robberies,
violent crime has gone down in the
area. He also mentioned unusual
incidents of “retailer rage,” in
which store clerks have assaulted
rude customers. And he told residents to be aware of magazine sellers with burglary backgrounds who
are knocking on doors. Officers
also announced the Aug. 3 local
National Night Out celebration at
Turtle Park.
■ commissioners unanimously
voted to award $1,000 to the 2nd
District Citizens Advisory Council
to help pay for plaques for police
officers and civilians who are being
commended for their crime-prevention work. The advisory council
will distribute the plaques at its
annual banquet.
■ Debbie Lyle, development coordinator for the Lisner-LouiseDickson-Hurt Home, requested a
$760 grant to fund arts and crafts
supplies for a community day
planned for this fall. The commission will vote on the grant request
at its Sept. 23 meeting.
■ Ruth Ernst of the Deal Middle
School PTA requested a $4,000
grant to fund materials for the new
sixth grade’s science courses. The
PTA funded the first half of the
materials’ cost as part of a pilot
program and would like the commission to contribute as well. The
new materials, which allow for
hands-on experiments, are beyond
what the public school system was
willing to fund, but Ernst said they
are helpful to students. The commission will vote on the grant
request on Sept. 23.
■ Anna Chamberlin of the D.C.
Department of Transportation discussed the ongoing Rock Creek
West II Livability Study and
requested input on traffic trouble
spots in the neighborhood that the
study should evaluate. Residents
and commissioners offered complaints or suggested changes for 12
sites, including making 42nd Place
one-way between Jenifer Street and
Military Road, adding a sidewalk
to Belt Road along Fort Reno Park,
and making the intersections of
42nd and Van Ness streets and 46th
and Fessenden streets four-way
stops.
7:30 p.m. Sept. 23 at St.
Mary’s Armenian Apostolic
Church, 42nd and Fessenden
streets NW.
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and McKinley Street NW.
For details, call 202-363-5803
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minium building. The next day, the thief met the delivery driver and signed for the package.
For a recipient who is thinking ahead, though, diverting a delivery to another address, such as a business, is
a good solution, noted Ed Solomon, an advisory neighborhood commissioner who owns a business on P Street
in Georgetown.
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into students’ hands to keep, permanently.”
“Taking them out of the library is
fine, except you have to return them,
and you can’t write in them,” she
said. The project is “a very direct
way that the Wilson community
here could contribute to these kids
building their own libraries, having
books that they own.”
So far, Landish said, the effort
has netted about 200 books. The
group has also bought at least 200
books using a $2,000 grant from the
Chevy Chase advisory neighborhood commission and $2,000 from
the Friends group, with plans to purchase more.
Wilson parent association member Leslie Cordes said she had
planned to submit a grant request for
books on behalf of Wilson. Instead,
Landish helped “leverage books
that are available in the community.
... Bette really deserves kudos for
expanding this initiative.”
Landish said she sees this summer’s project as a pilot program.
Chevy Chase Friends members are
talking with the citywide Federation
of Friends of the D.C. Public
Library and encouraging other
library groups to partner with local
PTAs.
“There are some kids at Wilson
where it’s a hardship to have to buy
10 books a year,” Landish said.
“And if it’s a hardship at Wilson,
we think it’s a need that is citywide.”
Cordes said the PTA at nearby
Alice Deal Middle School is interested but waiting to see how the
project goes at Wilson.
Community members who wish
Suggestions on the listserv included shipping to stayat-home friends or neighbors, but some residents got
more creative. A sting operation performed by police or
ordinary citizens, noted one poster, could easily nab the
daytime bandits.
Citizens Association of Georgetown president
Jennifer Altemus said her favorite proposed solution is
for a neighborhood business to accept packages. “Then
when the neighbor goes to pick it up I’m sure they
would buy something,” she wrote in an e-mail to The
Current.
Bookshelf Project titles
These are books on the Wilson High School reading list being collected
through the Bookshelf Project drive at the Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library.
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Chinua Achebe: “Things Fall Apart”
Julia Alvarez: “How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents”
Jane Austen: “Pride and Prejudice”
Ishmael Beah: “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier”
Ray Bradbury: “Fahrenheit 451”
Albert Camus: “The Stranger”
Truman Capote: “In Cold Blood”
Charles Dickens: “Great Expectations”
Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Crime and Punishment”
Sharon Draper: “Romiette & Julio”
Laura Esquivel: “Like Water for Chocolate”
Thomas Hardy: “Tess of the D’Urbervilles”
Nathaniel Hawthorne: “The Scarlet Letter”
Hermann Hesse: “Siddharta”
S.E. Hinton: “The Outsiders”
Khaled Hossein: “The Kite Runner”
Aldous Huxley: “Brave New World”
Sue Monk Kidd: “The Secret Life of Bees”
Barbara Kingsolver: “The Poisonwood Bible”
Jon Krakauer: “Into the Wild”
Ian McEwan: “Atonement”
Henry Miller: “The Crucible”
Toni Morrison: “Beloved”
Toni Morrison: “The Song of Solomon”
Toni Morrison: “The Bluest Eye”
Sonia Nazario: “Enrique’s Journey”
George Orwell: “1984”
Erich Maria Remarque: “All Quiet on the Western Front”
Jean Rhys: “Wide Sargasso Sea”
J.D. Salinger: “Catcher in the Rye”
Eric Schlosser: “Food Nation”
John Steinbeck: “East of Eden”
John Steinbeck: “The Grapes of Wrath”
Amy Tan: “The Joy Luck Club”
Alice Walker: “The Color Purple”
Edith Wharton: “Ethan Frome”
Elie Wiesel: “Night”
Markus Zusak: “The Book Thief”
to donate should refer to the list of
books at ccdclibraryfriends.org or
the group’s Facebook page at facebook.com/foliodc. Books can be
dropped off at the Chevy Chase
Neighborhood Library, 5625
Connecticut Ave. NW, during
library hours. Librarians can provide a receipt for tax purposes upon
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those funds,” said Buscaino.
Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh said
she didn’t know the mayor had emptied the
Tree Fund prior to voting for the budget act.
“If I had known about this, I would have gotten $540,000 from somewhere,” said Cheh.
“I wouldn’t have let this go through.”
But Cheh said she isn’t sure she wants to
reopen the budget debate. “It won’t happen
again, I can assure you that,” she said.
At-large
Council
member
Phil
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nesses have relocated from 17th
Street to 14th Street, taking attendant foot traffic along with them.
In addition, the application says,
an ongoing liquor-license moratori-
Council member Carol Schwartz wrote the
2002 law that established the Tree Fund, said
he hopes his colleagues will agree to reexamine the budget.
“These are the types of funds that the
mayor has been raiding for the past two
years,” said Mendelson. “And this is evidence of the larger debate of spending down
the fund balance, and it’s very troubling.”
The Tree Fund was established as part of
the Urban Forestry Act of 2002. Under the
law, those who wish to cut down a tree with
a circumference of 55 inches or more must
pay a fee of $35 per inch. The city then uses
the money to plant replacement trees.
“The intent of the law is to protect the tree
um along 17th Street has “stifled”
the development of new restaurants.
The application asserts that terminating the voluntary agreement
will only help Hank’s better serve
its neighbors. And, it says, doing so
“will not have an adverse impact”
on the community.”
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removing trees,” said Buscaino. “If a tree is
removed, you would plant many trees to
replace it in hopes that some of those trees
would survive into the future.”
Both Mendelson and Cheh took shots at
the mayor for claiming to back environmentally beneficial policies while failing to fund
them.
“There’s a bit of posturing that goes on
here about tree canopy,” said Cheh. “It puts
the lie to your commitment.”
Jennifer Nguyen, a spokesperson for the
mayor, said the city’s tree planting and maintenance operations will continue without
interruption, despite the depletion of the Tree
Kline said Leeds has proved herself
to be a trustworthy operator. “We
don’t think she needs a VA,” he
said.
But Dupont Circle Citizens
Association president Robin Diener
said her group opposes abolishing
the agreement because the association has found the documents to be
“very helpful.”
Specifically, she said, the agreements offer protections to nearby
residents who bear the brunt of
ambient noise made by patrons
when they enter and exit establishments. Neighbors “have special
standing in the law because of their
proximity,” Diener said.
On top of that, she said, it doesn’t seem like Hank’s — which is
seeking permission to expand into
the space next door — is having
trouble getting people to buy its
bivalves. “It seems that Hank’s has
prospered,” said Diener.
“Everyone loves Hank’s and
wants them to flourish,” she added.
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getting better at using them.”
And she’s not the only one who
feels that way. Five area residents
submitted a statement to the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
June 7 arguing that the petition to
terminate is flawed, and that the
voluntary agreement should stand.
In a letter, David Mallof and
Alexis Rieffel — representing the
group — said an action by the
board to terminate an “appropriately and legally promulgated, valid
and in-force, mutually and contractually agreed upon voluntary agreement” would be “sweeping,
Draconian, unwarranted and overreaching.”
In an interview, Rieffel added
that problems do exist in the area
surrounding Hank’s, and he’s not
convinced the establishment and its
landlord are doing their utmost to
mitigate them.
He also said that he is willing to
renegotiate elements of the voluntary agreement — the hours, for
example — but is opposed to
wholesale termination.
In June, the Dupont Circle advisory neighborhood commission
considered the matter, and commissioner Bob Meehan said the Hank’s
request must be viewed in a larger
context.
“Voluntary agreements are
under attack,” he said, alluding to
reports that the alcohol board is
coming down harder on the agreements these days. “This is a good
voluntary agreement.”
But his motion to oppose termination failed on a split vote.
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Commissioner Victor Wexler
noted that the original agreement
was between Hank’s, the citizens
association and a group of neighbors. “The ANC was not a party to
this agreement,” he said. “In a way,
this strikes me as academic.”
Meanwhile, commissioner Jack
Jacobson said he didn’t think the
commission should get involved in
a “food fight.”
“I’ve been a commissioner for
two and a half years, and I’ve never
heard a complaint about Hank’s,”
he said.
The commission voted to take
no action on the termination.
Hank’s representative Kline said
the establishment is now meeting
with protestants as part of a mediation effort. He said the issue will
likely move on to a board hearing
scheduled for Oct. 13.
Last week, 22 neighbors submitted a letter to the alcohol board
protesting Hank’s request for a substantial change to expand into the
space next door.
The letter states that the corner
of 17th and Q streets is already
overconcentrated, and that the
expansion would be in “direct contravention” to the voluntary agreement.
Hank’s is seeking to add approximately 60 seats indoors and 20
seats outdoors. Kline said the precise number of seats would depend
on the layout of the space.
At its July 14 meeting, the
neighborhood commission voted to
take no action on the expansion
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of District and federal funds. No services
will be cut.” She did not answer questions
regarding funding specifics.
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right of way once they are in a crosswalk. A pilot program of the new
signal in 2008 on New Hampshire
Avenue in the Petworth-Columbia
Heights area boosted compliance
with that law from 26 percent to 80
percent, Branyan said.
Palisades advisory neighborhood
commissioner Ann Heuer said while
the new MacArthur signal might not
be the perfect solution for that intersection, it seems like it could help.
“So many cars come speeding
down MacArthur Boulevard and
they don’t bother to stop, and maybe
this might call the attention to it,”
Heuer said. “At one point, [the
neighborhood commission] asked
for a stop sign there, and we never
got it. I still think a stop sign would
be better than the flashing yellow
lights, because the cars would actually stop, but anything is an
improvement over what’s there.”
The 2008 pilot location for the
signal — New Hampshire Avenue
at Otis Place — is also slated to have
one permanently installed this
month, as are two locations in
Southeast, Branyan said. The
Transportation Department installed
another in June on Minnesota
Avenue in Northeast, he said. All of
the signals were placed on moderately trafficked through streets.
For busier roadways, the department needs something more
“aggressive” — like the “Highintensity Activated crossWalK,” or
HAWK signal, Branyan said. It
hopes to install a HAWK signal on
Connecticut Avenue in Cleveland
Park between Ordway and Macomb
streets next year, he said, and preliminary plans for long-term
improvements along the Wisconsin
Avenue corridor recommend adding
several more HAWKs there as well.
The HAWK — a triangle with
two red lights atop a yellow light —
stays dark except when a pedestrian
pushes a button to cross, improving
traffic flow compared to a conventional stoplight, Branyan said.
The Cleveland Park location
would be the District’s second for a
HAWK, and Branyan said he is
“reasonably satisfied” with the performance of a HAWK installed last
August in the Shepherd ParkTakoma area as a pilot program to
study the signal’s effectiveness.
Residents there initially complained that their HAWK — on
Georgia Avenue at Hemlock Street
— didn’t give them enough time to
cross and that many drivers ignored
it; Branyan and neighbors said
motorists have grown more accustomed to the signal, and the
Transportation Department added
10 seconds of red light to help
pedestrians cross.
Sara Green, an advisory neigh-
borhood commissioner who represents that stretch of Georgia Avenue,
said that while some drivers still
seem to ignore the HAWK, it has
been mostly positive for the neighborhood and she would like to see
more installed.
“I would love to see more of
these lights scattered throughout the
city, because then the driver will
understand to use them,” she said.
Green said she remains very cautious when she crosses Georgia at
the HAWK, but that it is an
improvement over the past
unsignalized crosswalk. She also
conceded that while she might have
preferred a more conventional stoplight at the intersection, the HAWK
is less disruptive to through traffic.
On Connecticut Avenue, the
planned HAWK would interrupt a
780-foot stretch of a commercial
district that has no crosswalk, on a
block just south of the Cleveland
Park Metrorail station.
The Transportation Department
estimated it will spend $240,000 for
the Cleveland Park HAWK, but
Branyan said the cost is worthwhile
because crosswalks with no signals
are hazardous on busy streets
regardless of D.C. pedestrian laws.
“I have to convey this to neighborhood folks all the time — they
say, ‘Well, just put some paint
down,’ and I have to say, ‘No, I’m
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A weekly workshop will offer instruction in “Sahaja Yoga Meditation.” 7 p.m.
Free. West End Neighborhood Library,
1101 24th St. NW. 202-724-8707.
■
Concerts
■ The DeVos Institute of Arts
Management at the Kennedy Center and
the U.S. Department of State will present
an international lineup of classical musicians, including cellist Bora Kim from
Seoul, South Korea; trumpeter Sasis
Jitrangsan from Bangkok, Thailand; flutist
Octavian Moldovean from Bucharest,
Romania; violist Walid Shanab from
Alexandria, Egypt; violinist Anthony Vivas
from Caracas, Venezuela; and pianist
Huiqin Zhang from Wuhan, China. 6 p.m.
Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600.
■ The
seven-piece
chamber pop
group Hey
Marseilles
(shown) and
alt-folk project
Vandaveer will perform. 8 p.m. $10. Sixth
& I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 202408-3100.
■ The U.S. Marine Band will perform
works by Robert E. Jager, Vincent Bach and
Leonard Bernstein. 8 p.m. Free. West
Terrace, U.S. Capitol. 202-433-4011.
Discussions and lectures
■ A preview of the Australian general
election will feature panelists Lesley
Russell, senior fellow at the Center for
Australian and New
Zealand Studies at
Georgetown University;
Bruce Wolpe, senior
adviser to Rep. Henry
Waxman, D-Calif.; E.J.
Dionne (shown), senior
fellow at the Brookings
Institution and Washington Post columnist;
and Michael Brissenden, Washington correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting
Corp. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Room 662, Intercultural Center,
Georgetown University, 37th and O streets
NW. 202-687-7464.
■ Mary Roach will discuss her book
“Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of
Life in the Void.” 6:45 p.m. $25. S. Dillon
Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW.
202-633-3030.
■ Jamie Ford will discuss his debut
novel “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and
Sweet,” about a young man’s coming of
age during World War II. 7 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-364-1919.
Films
■ The “Voices of Palestine” film series
will present Katherine Bruens’ film “Corner
Store,” about beloved shop owner,
Palestinian immigrant and long-distance
father Yousef Elhaj. 6:30 p.m. Free. The
Jerusalem Fund, 2425 Virginia Ave. NW.
202-338-1958.
■ “NoMa Summer Screen” will present
Richard Kelly’s 2001 film “Donnie Darko,”
starring Jake Gyllenhaal. 7 p.m. Free. L
Street between 2nd and 3rd streets NE.
nomasummerscreen.com.
■ The “Panorama of Greek Cinema”
series will feature the 2009 film “Plato’s
Academy,” about a Greek shopkeeper who
discovers something about his family’s
past. 8 p.m. $10.50; $8.50 for students;
$8 for seniors; $7.50 for ages 12 and
younger. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.
■ The “Films on the Vern” outdoor film
series will feature the 2009
film “The Blind
Side,” starring
Sandra Bullock.
8:30 p.m. Free.
Quad, George
Washington University Mount Vernon
Campus, 2100 Foxhall Road NW. 202-2426673.
Sporting event
■ The 2010 Legg Mason Tennis Classic
will feature James Blake, Robin Soderling,
Tomas Berdych and Andy Roddick, among
others. 4 p.m. $40 to $65. William H.G.
FitzGerald Tennis Center, 16th and Kennedy
streets NW. 202-397-7328. The tournament will continue through Sunday at various times.
Tour
The U.S. Capitol Historical Society will
host a guided tour of historic pubs on
Capitol Hill. 6 to 8:30 p.m. $25; reservations required. Meeting point to be provided
upon registration. 202-543-8919, ext. 13.
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Children’s program
■ A park ranger will discuss horses on
a visit to the stables. 4 p.m. Free. Rock
Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road
NW. 202-895-6070.
Concerts
■ “Live! on Woodrow Wilson Plaza” will
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Museum, 8th and F streets NW. 202-6331000.
Films
Thursday, AUGUST 5
■ Discussion: Andrew Bacevich will
discuss his book “Washington Rules:
America’s Path to Permanent War.” 7
p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
feature The Starlight Orchestra performing
big-band sounds. Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free.
Ronald Reagan Building and International
Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
202-312-1300.
■ The Brown Bag Recital Series will feature cellist Vasily Popov and pianist Ralitza
Patcheva. Noon. Free. Martin Luther King
Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202727-1291.
■ “Jazz on Jackson Place” will feature
vocalist Bobbe Shore and her band, First
Call. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $25. Decatur
House, 748 Jackson Place NW. 202-2184332.
■ The Next Wave, the U.S. Naval
Academy Band’s jazz ensemble, will perform. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The “Sunset Serenades” series will
feature The Grandsons performing a mix of
New Orleans
R&B, rockabilly,
swing and country two-step.
6:30 to 8 p.m.
Free. Lion/Tiger
Hill, National
Zoo, 3001 Connecticut Ave. NW. nationalzoo.si.edu.
■ The Fort Reno concert series will feature performances by The
Nighthawks,
The NRI’s
(shown) and
Sound Limit. 7
p.m. Free. Fort
Reno Park, 40th and Chesapeake streets
NW. fortreno.com.
works by Robert E. Jager, Vincent Bach and
Leonard Bernstein. 8 p.m. Free. Sylvan
Theater, Washington Monument grounds,
15th Street and Independence Avenue SW.
202-433-4011.
■ Matthew M. Aid, a visiting fellow at
the National Security Archives, will discuss
“The Secret Sentry: The Untold History of
the National Security Agency.” Noon to 1
p.m. Free. International Spy Museum, 800
F St. NW. spymuseum.org.
■ The “Let’s Talk About Books” group
will discuss “Olive Kitteridge” by Elizabeth
Strout. 2:30 p.m. Free. Martin Luther King
Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202727-1281.
■ Ron Schick will discuss his book
“Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera.”
■ Busboys and Poets will host a screening of “Prince Among Thieves: The True
Story of an African Muslim Prince Enslaved
in the American South,” followed by a talk
by Howard University professor Sulayman
Nyang. 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Langston Room,
Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW.
202-387-7638.
■ “Family Book to Movie Night” will feature a discussion of “Alice in Wonderland”
by Lewis Carroll and a screening of the cinematic version. 6:30 p.m. Free.
Georgetown Interim Library, 3307 M St.
NW. 202-724-8783.
Performances
■ Students at Sitar Arts Center will perform the hit
Broadway musical “Hello,
Dolly!” 7 p.m.
Free; reservations required.
Sitar Arts
Center, 1700 Kalorama Road NW. 202797-2145. The performance will repeat
Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday
at 2 p.m.
■ The Topaz Hotel Bar’s weekly standup
comedy show will feature local comics. 8 to
10 p.m. Free. 1733 N St. NW. 202-3933000.
Special events
■ “Phillips After 5” will feature a talk by
curator Vesela Sretenovic on the Robert
Ryman exhibition; music by DJ Danny
Harris; a gallery talk on “Pousette-Dart’s
Abstraction: Motion and Machines”; and a
beer tasting led by Greg Engert, co-founder
of ChurchKey and Birch & Barley. 5 to 8:30
p.m. Cost varies by activity; reservations
suggested. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st
St. NW. 202-387-2151.
Tour
■ Lupe Rodriguez of the U.S. Botanic
Garden will lead a tour of the garden and
point out his favorite plants for creating a
backyard cutting garden. 10 to 11 a.m.
Free; reservations required. Conservatory
Terrace, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100
Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-1116.
Friday,
August
6
Friday
AUGUST
6
Class
■ “Surf the Internet” will teach ages 18
and older how to navigate the Web with
ease. 10 a.m. Free. Takoma Park
Neighborhood Library, 416 Cedar St. NW.
202-576-7252.
Concerts
feature the Lynn Veronneau Trio. Noon to
1:30 p.m. Free. Ronald Reagan Building
and International Trade Center, 1300
Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-312-1300.
■ The “Jazz in the Garden” series will
feature Norwegian jazz guitarist Bjorn Solli.
5 to 8:30 p.m. Free. Sculpture Garden,
National Gallery of Art, 7th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ Singer, poet, actor and emcee W.
Ellington Felton, a D.C. native, will perform.
6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
Discussion
■ Experts will discuss “Contemporary
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Antisemitism in Higher Education.” 2 to 4
p.m. Free; reservations required.
Rubinstein Auditorium, U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul
Wallenberg Place SW.
ushmm.org/events/antisemitism2010.
Festival
■ The Living Earth Festival will feature a
symposium on water, wind and salmon; a
marketplace featuring arts and crafts from
Native American vendors; hands-on family
activities; and food demonstrations. 1 to 9
p.m. Free. National Museum of the
American Indian, 4th Street and
Independence Avenue SW. 202-633-1000.
The festival will continue Saturday from
10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Sunday from
10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Film
■ The National Museum of the
American Indian will present Kevin
McMahon’s 2010 film “Waterlife,” about
the Great Lakes. 7 p.m. Free; reservations required. Rasmuson Theater,
National Museum of the American Indian,
4th Street and Independence Avenue SW.
[email protected].
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Art activity
■ Participants will work collaboratively
on a Chuck Close-inspired portrait project.
11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th
St. NW. corcoran.org/programs.
■ “Smithsonian Sleepovers” will feature
a guided tour, a scavenger hunt, arts and
crafts activities and a screening of
“Galapagos 3D” (for ages 8 through 12
with an adult chaperone). 7 p.m. $125; registration required. National Museum of
Natural History, 10th Street and
Class
■ Evelin Saxinger will lead a class on
“The Passion Test: Discover What You Were
Meant To Do.” 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. $45. First
Class Inc., 1726 20th St. NW. 202-7975102.
Concerts
■ Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk will perform New
Orleans funk
band music. 5
to 7 p.m. Free.
Welcome Plaza,
National
Museum of the
American Indian, 4th Street and
■ The U.S.
Air Force
Band’s Singing
Sergeants will
perform in a
special alumni
concert. 7:30
p.m. Free. New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church, 1313 New York Ave. NW. 202-7675658.
■ Architect and planner Roger K. Lewis,
a columnist for The Washington Post and
professor emeritus at the University of
Maryland, will discuss the Postmodern
movement and its adherents’ use of wit,
ornament and historical reference in
response to the formalism of the
International Style of modernism. 1 to 2:30
p.m. $20; $12 for students. National
Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-2722448.
■ A symposium on “Living Earth/Living
Waters” will feature scientists, leaders and
innovators offering presentations on the latest climate change science. 1:30 p.m.
Free. Rasmuson Theater, National Museum
of the American Indian, 4th Street and
■ Jamie Ford will
discuss his book “Hotel
on the Corner of Bitter
and Sweet.” 2 p.m.
Free. Renwick Gallery,
17th Street and
Pennsylvania Avenue
NW. 202-633-1000.
Festivals
■ The Arts on N Festival, sponsored by
the D.C. Commission on the Arts and
Humanities and the Walter E. Washington
Convention Center, will feature work by
local artists, musical performances, gardening tutorials, painting workshops and
cupcake decoration. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Free. Walter E. Washington Convention
Center, N Street between 7th and 9th
streets NW. The festival will continue Aug.
8, 14 and 15 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
■ A National Inventors Month family festival, “Music and Sound Innovations,” will
celebrate invention and creativity and promote the contributions inventors make to
society. 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Free.
National Museum of American History, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202633-1000. The festival will continue
Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday, AUGUST 7
■ Concert: Billy Jonas, using
“industrial re-percussion” instruments made from found objects, will
perform singalong and improvised
songs. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium
Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
of their vibrant, artistic neighborhood. 6 to
8 p.m. $10. Cullen Room, Busboys and
Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. dcblacktheatrefestival.com.
■ Sharna Fabiano Tango Company will
perform. 8 p.m. $22; $17 for students,
teachers, artists and seniors; $8 for ages
17 and younger. Dance Place, 3225 8th St.
NE. 202-269-1600. The performance will
repeat Sunday at 7 p.m.
202-895-6070.
Special event
■ The DC Anime Club will present video
game tournaments, an anime swap meet
and other activities (for ages 13 and older).
2 to 5 p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-2622083.
■ A park ranger will lead ages 5 and
older on a stroll around the Rock Creek
Nature Center, and participants will create
a field guide with drawings of their favorite
plants and animals in the park. 2 p.m.
Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200
Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.
Walks and tours
■ Dumbarton House will present “Mr.
Nourse’s Georgetown Neighborhood c.
1800.” 10 to 11 a.m. $10; free for ages 3
and younger. Meet at Dumbarton House,
2715 Q St. NW. 202-337-2288.
■ A Rock Creek Park volunteer and his
therapy dog will lead ages 7 and older on a
walk to Montrose Park and Dumbarton
Oaks. 10 a.m. Free. Meet at the Woodley
Park Metro station. 202-895-6070.
■ A park ranger will lead a walking tour
on the “Guano Empire,” about a precious
natural resource often described as the
crude oil of the 19th century. 12:15 p.m.
Free. C&O Canal National Historical Park
Visitor Center, 1057 Thomas Jefferson St.
NW. 202-653-5190.
■ A park ranger will lead ages 7 and
older on a two-mile hike to Milkhouse Ford
and discuss the diverse natural and cultural resources that surround the historic
water crossing. 2 p.m. Free. Rock Creek
Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW.
Performances
■ “New Street Poets” will feature a spoken-word drama about six dynamic poets
who struggle against the forces of gentrification that threaten to redevelop the center
Concerts
■ Susan Goldenberg, violinist with the
Kansas City Symphony, and William
Goldenberg, distinguished professor of
piano at Northern Illinois University, will perform works by Bridge, Barber, Debussy and
Beethoven. 3 p.m. Free. Smithsonian
American Art Museum, 8th and F streets
NW. 202-633-1000.
■ “Latin Jazz and
the Apollo Theater” will
feature Latin jazz musician and historian
Christopher Washburne
(shown) and percussionist and Apollo
Theater house band
member Candido Camero. 6 p.m. Free.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
■ Dahlak Restaurant will host its weekly
“DC Jazz Jam” session. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
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■ The National Gallery of Art will present Dominique Monféry’s 2009 animated
feature “Eleanor’s Secret,” about a young
boy who learns to read with help from characters from classic fairy tales (for ages 6
and older). 10:30 a.m. Free. East Building
Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202737-4215. The film will be shown again
Sunday at 11:30 a.m.
■ “From Vault to Screen: Il Cinema
Ritrovato” will present Michelangelo
Antonioni’s 1955 film “Le Amiche (The
Girlfriends),” about class conflict and shifting relationships inside an elite clique of
Turin fashionistas. 2:30 p.m. Free. East
Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art,
4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
202-737-4215.
■ The Smithsonian American Art
Museum and the National Portrait Gallery
will present the 1923 silent film “Salomé”
with a score performed live by Silent
Orchestra. 3 p.m. Free. 8th and F streets
NW. 202-633-1000.
■ “Pix on
the Plaza” will
feature an outdoor screening
of the 1952
film “Singin’ in
the Rain,” starring Gene Kelly, Donald O’Connor and
Debbie Reynolds. 9 p.m. Free. Woodrow
Wilson Plaza, Ronald Reagan Building and
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Discussion
■ National Gallery of Art lecturer Diane
Arkin will discuss “Andrew Wyeth:
Transforming the Familiar.” 2 p.m. Free.
East Building Auditorium, National Gallery
of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW. 202-737-4215.
Films
■ The National Gallery of Art will present Alain Fleischer’s 2007 film
“Fragments of Conversations With Jean-Luc
Godard,” about the French New Wave
founder’s musings on a range of topics.
4:30 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium,
National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and
■ The “5 Eye Asian Film Series” will
feature the 2008 movie “Cape No. 7 (Háikak chhit-ho),” about five ordinary
Hengchun residents who form an impossible bond (in Mandarin with English subtitles). 8 p.m. Free. 5th and I streets NW.
202-247-5113.
■ The “Focus-In! Cinema for a
Conscious Community” series will feature
the film “Slingshot Hip Hop,” about young
Palestinians in
Gaza, the West
Bank and Israel
as they discover hip-hop and
employ it as a
tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and
poverty. 8 to 10 p.m. Free. Langston
Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St.
NW. 202-387-7638.
Special events
■ “Open Source” will offer a chance for
all ages to explore theater, improv, music
and dance through workshops and performances. 11:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Free.
Source, 1835 14th St. NW. sourcedc.org.
■ A cooking competition celebrating the
use of Native foods will feature Mitsitam
Cafe executive chef Richard Hetzler and a
local celebrity chef. 3 to 4 p.m. Free.
Outdoor Amphitheater, National Museum of
the American Indian, 4th Street and
Walks and tours
■ An exhibition tour will focus on 26
small-scale works by Robert Ryman and
the artist’s ongoing examination of painting, including the effects of light and shadow. Noon. $12; $10 for seniors and students; free for ages 18 and younger.
Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. 202387-2151.
■ A park ranger will lead a walking tour
of Herring Hill, a Georgetown neighborhood
once home to a thriving African-American
community. 12:15 p.m. Free. C&O Canal
National Historical Park Visitor Center,
1057 Thomas Jefferson St. NW. 202-6535190.
■ Washington Walks will present a tour
of the historic Mount Pleasant neighborhood. 3 p.m. $15. Meet in the park across
from Capital City Public Charter School,
3047 15th St. NW. washingtonwalks.com.
Monday,
August
9
Monday
AUGUST
9
Class
A weekly workshop will offer instruction in qi gong, a Chinese practice that
uses movement, breathing and meditation
techniques. 7 p.m. Free. West End
Neighborhood Library, 1101 24th St. NW.
202-724-8707.
■
Concerts
feature Reverb
performing a
cappella. Noon
to 1:30 p.m.
Free. Ronald
Reagan
Building and
■ The Fort Reno concert series will feature performances by The Public Good, The
Black Sparks and Dot Dash. 7 p.m. Free.
Fort Reno Park, 40th and Chesapeake
streets NW. fortreno.com.
■ The U.S. Navy Band’s Concert Band
will perform. 8 p.m. Free. West Side, U.S.
Capitol. 202-433-2525.
Discussion
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and marketing consultant and a certified
life and career coach, will discuss “The
Power of Choice.” 9:45 to 11:30 a.m. Free.
Suite T2, 40Plus of Greater Washington,
1718 P St. NW. 202-387-1582.
■ Justin Kramon will discuss his novel
“Finny.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose,
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
Films
■ “Marvelous Movie Mondays” will feature the Israeli film “Ushpizin.” 2 p.m. Free.
Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library, 5625
■ “Cary Grant: A Star To Remember,” a
summer movie series, will feature Howard
Hawks’ 1938
film “Bringing
Up Baby,”
about a befuddled paleontologist who
becomes mired
in the madcap escapades of a free-spirited
eccentric with a pet leopard. 6:30 p.m.
Free; tickets required. Helen Hayes Gallery,
National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave.
NW. 202-783-3372.
■ “For the Love of Sound,” a music
documentary
series, will
present the
2009 film
“Pianomania,”
about the life of
the chief technician and head tuner at Steinway & Sons (in
German with English subtitles). 6:30 p.m.
$6. Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St. NW. 202289-1200.
Performance
■ Cast members from the national tour
of “Mary Poppins,” led by Jacob ben
Widmar, will perform with pianist William
Johnson. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
Tuesday,
August
10
Tuesday
AUGUST
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Concerts
■ Soprano Jennifer Suess and pianist
Carlos Rodriguez, faculty members at the
Levine School of Music, will perform. 12:10
p.m. Free. Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G
St. NW. 202-347-2635, ext. 18.
■ The U.S. Navy Band, Sea Chanters
and Cruisers will perform. 8 p.m. Free. U.S.
Navy Memorial, 701 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
202-433-2525.
Discussion
■ Ellen Bryson will discuss her book
“The Transformation of Bartholomew
Fortuno.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose,
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
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and oboist Harrison Hollingsworth and clarinetist Johnny Teyssier — will perform. 6
p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
works by Sousa, Offenbach and
Tchaikovsky. 8 p.m. Free. West Terrace,
U.S. Capitol. 202-433-4011.
■ AMC Summer MovieCamp will feature
the 2010 film “How To Train Your Dragon.”
9:30 a.m. $1. AMC Loews Georgetown 14,
3111 K St. NW. 202-342-6033.
■ The U Street Movie Series will feature
an outdoor screening of Joe Wright’s 2009
film “The Soloist,” about a Los Angeles
journalist who befriends a Juilliard-trained
musician who is homeless. 8:30 p.m. Free.
Harrison Recreation Center, V Street
between 13th and 14th streets NW.
movies.ustreet-dc.org.
Performance
■ Voice of America will present Sierra
Leone Theatre’s production of “True
Friendship,” about a man who is sentenced
to die in two days and the only person who
can change his fate. 6 p.m. Free.
Tuesday, AUGUST 10
■ Concert: “Live! on Woodrow Wilson
Plaza” will feature jazz saxophonist
Marshall Keys. Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Free. Ronald Reagan Building and
Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-3121300.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
■ A brown-bag lunch chat will focus on
a tall case clock in the Dumbarton House
collection. 12:30 to 1 p.m. Free.
Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. 202337-2288.
■ Nikolas Kozloff
will discuss his book
“No Rain in the
Amazon: How South
America’s Climate
Change Affects the
Entire Planet.” 6:30 to
8 p.m. Free. Langston
Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St.
NW. 202-387-7638.
■ Musician Rosanne Cash will discuss
her book “Composed: A Memoir.” 7 p.m.
$10. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I
St. NW. 202-364-1919.
Films
Special event
■ Tudor Place will host a traditional
Victorian afternoon tea, complete with tea
sandwiches, scones, desserts and historic tea blends. A guided tour through the
1816 mansion will follow. 1 p.m. $25; registration required. Tudor Place Historic
House and Garden, 1644 31st St. NW.
tuesdayteas.eventbrite.com/.
Sporting events
■ The Washington Mystics will play the
Connecticut Sun. 7 p.m. $17 to $125.
Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 202-3977328.
■ The Washington Nationals will play
the Florida Marlins. 7:05 p.m. $5 to $80.
Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE.
888-632-6287. The series will continue
Wednesday and Thursday at 7:05 p.m.
Tour
■ Adam Pyle of the U.S. Botanic Garden
will lead a walk around Bartholdi Park and
discuss plants well-suited to the
Washington area. 10 to 11 a.m. Free;
reservations required. Conservatory
Garden Court, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100
Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-1116.
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Classes
■ Housing Counseling Services Inc. will
offer a workshop to help distressed homeowners understand their options and find
alternatives to foreclosure. Noon. Free.
2410 17th St. NW. 202-667-7006.
■ David Bourgeois will lead a class on
“Getting Paid To Talk: An Intro to
Professional Voice-Overs.” 6:30 to 9 p.m.
$45. First Class Inc., 1726 20th St. NW.
202-797-5102.
■ A weekly Bible class will focus on “A
Study of Consciousness.” 7 p.m. Free.
Divine Science Church, 2025 35th St. NW.
202-333-7630.
■ The “Voices of Palestine” film series
will present Rashid Masharawi’s 2008 film
“Laila’s
Birthday,”
about the toll
that the
IsraeliPalestinian
conflict
extracts from civilians clinging to elements
of everyday life amid chaos, missile attacks
and bursts of gunfire. 6:30 p.m. Free. The
Jerusalem Fund, 2425 Virginia Ave. NW.
202-338-1958.
■ The “Films on the Vern” outdoor film
series will feature the 2007 film “The Kite
Runner,” based
on the book by
Khaled
Hosseini. 8:30
p.m. Free.
Quad, George
Washington
University Mount Vernon Campus, 2100
Foxhall Road NW. 202-242-6673.
■ The “Lions of Czech Film” series will
feature Juraj Jakubisko’s 2008 film
“Bathory,” about the notorious Countess
Elizabeth Bathory. 8 p.m. $10; $8.50 for
students; $8 for seniors; $7.50 for ages
10 and younger. Avalon Theatre, 5612
Special event
■ The “We Are Africa Road Tour” will
feature a talk by Gina Paige, founder of
African Ancestry, about DNA-based ancestry tracing for people of African descent; a
dance performance by StepAfrika; and
appearances by former “Top Chef” contestant Carla Hall and photographer Kea Taylor,
author or “I Still Do — A Celebration of
African-American Weddings.” 6:30 to 9
p.m. Free. Embassy of the Federal Republic
of Nigeria, 3519 International Court, NW.
202-726-0287.
Walk
Concerts
feature vocalist Kyonté. Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Free. Ronald Reagan Building and
■ The sixth floor trio — made up of
■ A park volunteer and his therapy dog
will lead a short hike around the Rock
Creek Nature Center, Woodland Trail and
horse stables and discuss what Rock
Creek Park has to offer. 10 a.m. Free.
Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover
Road NW. 202-895-6070.
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On EXHIBIT
three shows today and continue them through Aug. 29.
nificance of Chinese export porce“Dupont Circle Scenes” is a
juried non-member show of scenes lain in Victorian England, will open
Saturday at the Freer Gallery of
by local artists portraying the
Art, where it will remain on view
gallery’s Dupont Circle neighborfor a year.
hood.
Featured are 23 works of art,
“Community of Fire” features
including eight
wood-fired potwash drawings
tery.
of Kangxi
A third
porcelain proexhibit presents
duced by James
work by gallery
McNeill
members.
Whistler for a
An opening
collector’s catareception will
log; related
take place
examples of
Friday from 6
blue-and-white
to 8 p.m., and
porcelain from
ceramic artist
the Freer’s
Kevin Crowe
“Peacock
will give a talk
Room”; and
Aug. 27 from 6
paintings, pasto 8 p.m.
tels and etchLocated at
ings by
1314 18th St.
Whistler reflectNW, the gallery
“A Chinese Porcelain Square
ing his interest
is open
in Chinese
Wednesday
Canister,” a 1878 drawing by
porcelain.
through Friday
James McNeill Whistler, is on
Located at
from 1 to 7 p.m. display at the Freer Gallery.
12th Street and
and Saturday
Jefferson Drive SW, the gallery is
and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m.
open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30
202-463-0203.
p.m. 202-633-1000.
■ “Chinamania,” exploring the sig-
“Cool!” will open tomorrow at
Gallery 10, featuring works by 24
local artists on the subject of “cool”
in all its various meanings, including notions of hip, chillin’, cold
and more. The exhibit will continue
through Aug. 28.
An opening reception will take
place Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. with
“cool cuts” by hair stylist Sushada
and beers from Colorado and
Switzerland. Located at 1519
Connecticut Ave. NW, the gallery
is open Thursday through Sunday
from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-2323326.
Marie Bennett Hock’s “Chess Players” is part of a Foundry Gallery
■ Long View Gallery will open an
exhibit tomorrow of new work by
exhibit featuring images of Dupont Circle.
Tony Savoie with an anti-war
theme and continue it through Sept. 9th St. NW, the gallery is open
The photographs in the exhibit
12.
deliberately misrepresent the scene
Wednesday through Saturday from
Savoie
— they are out of focus, are over11 a.m. to 6
paints onto
or underexposed, or show camera
p.m. and
clear acrylic
movement.
Sunday from
pieces, which
Located at 2459 18th St. NW,
noon to 5 p.m.
he lays onto
the coffeehouse is open Monday
202-232-4788.
backgrounds
■ Tryst will
through Wednesday from 6:30 a.m.
composed of
open an exhibit
to midnight, Thursday from 6:30
found photoof non-reprea.m. to 2 a.m., Friday and Saturday
graphs and
sentational pho- from 6:30 a.m. to 3 a.m. and
other artifacts.
tography by
Sunday from 7 a.m. to midnight.
Warren Williams’ “N’ecrivez
An opening
Alex Pergament 202-232-5500.
Jamais” is part of an exhibit at
reception will
with a reception ■ Hillyer Art Space will open two
take place
Gallery 10.
tomorrow from
shows Friday and continue them
tomorrow from
7 to 9 p.m. and
through Aug. 28.
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Located at 1234
continue it through Aug. 31.
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Theatre Company will
present “In the Next
Room, or the vibrator play,” written by Sarah Ruhl and directed by
Aaron Posner, Aug. 23 though
Sept. 19.
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At the dawn of the electrical
age, a new medical device is
developed to pacify “hysterical”
women, but it produces a shockingly different result. Pulitzer
finalist Ruhl, creator of “Dead
Man’s Cell Phone” and “The
Set designer Dan Conway shows off the set model for Woolly
Clean House,” returns to Woolly
Mammoth Theatre Company’s “In the Next Room, or the vibrator play”
with a comedy about marriage,
motherhood and the charged ener- as director Aaron Posner and composer James Sugg look on.
gy between our bodies.
Performance times are 8 p.m.
and Sullivan’s “The Mikado” Aug. performances by local and nationWednesday through Saturday and
al artists, writers and producers
5 through 14.
3 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
that will take place during the
Tickets cost $30 to $65, except on
weeklong DC Black Theatre
Thursday through Saturday and 3
Aug. 23 and 24, when they will be p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $20,
Festival, to be held at various area
pay-what-you-can. Woolly
venues through Aug. 8.
except for the Aug. 7 matinee,
Mammoth is located at 641 D St.
Performance times for “Fly,
when they cost $10. The Capitol
NW. 202-393-3939; woollymamGirl!” are 6 p.m. Friday and
Hill Arts Workshop is located at
moth.net.
Saturday. Tickets cost $15. The
545 7th St. SE. 202-547-6839;
■ Theater J will present Willy
theater is located at 900
chaw.org.
Holtzman’s “Something You Did”
■ The Sitar Arts Center’s stuMassachusetts Ave. NW.
Aug. 28 through Oct. 3 at the
dents will present “Hello, Dolly!”
dcblacktheatrefestival.com;
Washington DC Jewish
Aug. 5 through 8.
sistastyle.net.
Community Center.
The culmination of an intensive ■ dog & pony dc will present
A stellar student from a good
summer session, the show gives
“Separated at Birth,” a clown
family, Alison Moulton is serving
inner-city students the opportunity show in a train station, Aug. 11
her third decade behind bars for an to explore all facets of a theatrical
through 29 at Mead Theatre Lab at
anti-war action she participated in
production. The musical follows
Flashpoint.
as a member of a 1960s radical
the story of Mrs. Dolly Levi, a
group that resulted in the death of
matchmaker intent on marrying
Wednesday through Saturday and
an African-American police offithe wealthy Horace Vandergelder.
3 p.m. Sunday, as well as 3 p.m.
cer. Now petitioning for parole,
Through a comedic series of twists Monday, Aug. 23. Tickets cost
she is visited by the daughter of
and turns involving Mr.
$15. Flashpoint is located at 916
the slain officer.
Vandergelder’s shop clerks, a hatG St. NW. For tickets, e-mail
Performance times are 7:30
shop owner and her assistant, Mr.
[email protected].
p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and
Vandergelder’s niece, a famous
■ The Broadway, puppet-studded
Sunday, 8 p.m. Saturday and 3
New York City restaurant and
musical “Avenue Q” will run
p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $35 to
more, Dolly emerges victorious.
through Aug. 15 at the Lansburgh
$55. The theater is located at 1529
Theatre.
16th St. NW. 800-494-8497;
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
The Tony Award-winning show
theaterj.org.
and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are
tells the story of Princeton, a
■ The Studio Theatre 2ndStage
free, but reservations are required.
bright-eyed college grad who
has extended the Tony Award-win- The Sitar Arts Center is located at
moves to New York City with big
ning musical “Passing Strange”
dreams and a tiny bank account.
1700 Kalorama Road NW. 202through Aug.
The only apartment he can afford
797-2145;
22.
is way out on Avenue Q, where
sitarartscenThe show
everyone is looking for the same
ter.org.
follows a rock
■ SistaStyle
things he is: a decent job, a stable
musician on his
Productions
relationship and a “purpose.”
quest for
will present
authenticity.
“Fly, Girl!” as
p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and
Singer, songpart of the
Sunday; 8 p.m. Thursday through
writer and perinaugural DC
Saturday; and 2 p.m. Saturday and
formance artist
Black Theatre
Sunday. Tickets cost $75 to $85.
Stew presents a Studio Theatre 2ndStage has
Festival Aug. 6 The Lansbugh is located at 450
new kind of
extended “Passing Strange”
and 7 at the
7th St. NW. 202-547-1122; harmusical full of
Mount Vernon
mancenter.org.
through Aug. 22.
sex, drugs and
■ The Keegan Theatre and new
Place United
rock ’n’ roll.
island project is presenting the
Methodist Church Theater.
world premiere of “Stella
Mary McCallum’s “Fly, Girl!”
p.m. Wednesday through Saturday is a fictional story based on the
Morgan,” a play by Rosemary
and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost life of Bessie Coleman, the first
Jenkinson, one of Northern
$33 to $43. Studio Theatre is
Ireland’s most respected female
African-American to become a
located at 1501 14th St. NW. 202playwrights, through Aug. 18 at
licensed airline pilot and the first
332-3300; studiotheatre.org.
American of any race or gender to the Church Street Theater.
■ The GLBT Arts Consortium
Set in modern-day Belfast, the
hold an international pilot’s
and the Capitol Hill Arts
play examines the lives of two
license.
Workshop will present Gilbert
It is one of 70-plus theatrical
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for the downtown Filene’s
Basement. Harmon came to
Friendship Heights to help mitigate
the decades-old company tradition,
which began in Boston and will
return to that town on Aug. 20, followed by Cleveland a week later.
The D.C. store supplemented
its inventory with experts to
advise the embattled women as
they hunted for the perfect garment. One table offered a team of
seamstresses and tailors to help
with alterations, and Barbara
Drury of Arlington’s Wedding
Gown Specialists had her own
booth to provide advice on cleaning and maintaining dresses.
“The selection of dresses this
year is even better than last year,”
she said. “It’s all across the board,
haute couture to simple dresses.”
The department store was selling 1,700 dresses usually priced at
37
$900 to $10,000 for $249, $499
and $699 during the event.
“You just have to be patient, and
have a good sense of humor,”
Drury advised.
Roughly 15 minutes after the
siege commenced, cheers of victory began to ring out across the sales
floor as some teams emerged with
the perfect dress.
“I found exactly what I was
looking for, exactly my price
range,” said Suki Deen of Newark,
Del., who arrived at 4 a.m. and
tracked down her gown in 20 minutes. “My friends are awesome
because they ran and got all the
dresses they could.”
Another salvo of applause interrupted Deen.
“We’re going to go home and
go to bed, now,” she added, riding
up the exit escalator with her storeissued “I Survived ... ” T-shirt.
have to be sober and focused,” he said. “And to be
accountable to your teammates, you have to do the
same thing.”
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In addition, he said, the exercise comes with its
cult. But we did it. We did it right.”
own brand of healing power. “It really eases their menIn many ways, the tournament had all the trappings
tal side not to think about their problems for a while.”
of a typical soccer competition. The players sang “The
Others, he said, reap the physical benefits of the
Star-Spangled Banner,” and raucous fans lined the
program. “There are a lot of people with serious health
stands. Even members of La Barra Brava — boosters
issues,” he said. “Athletics is a great way to manage
for D.C.’s pro team D.C. United — were there, beating that.”
their drums and belting out chants to support the D.C.
One player, he said, begged to be on a team
Knights.
because it helps him keep his diabetes under control.
But there was something decidedly different about
But, at its most basic level, Cann said, the prothis tournament, which took place at Kastles Stadium
gram is about helping the homeless regain stability.
at the corner of 11th and H streets NW.
And, on that score, he said, it has been very successEvery one of the
ful. One hundred perplayers, from cities
cent of the players are
across the country, had
homeless when they
been homeless sometime
join the program, but
in the past year.
— according to Street
“What you guys are
Soccer statistics — 75
proving is that the
percent of its graduates
human spirit is
move off the street into
indomitable,” Lawrence
permanent housing, get
Cann said as the athletes
jobs or reconnect with
readied for their match.
their families by the
“We’re building a comend of their yearlong
munity that has your
tenure.
back.”
“One of the outCann founded Street
comes we see is people
Soccer six years ago in
moving off the streets
an effort to help the
into apartments togethNew York-based Street Soccer USA partners with
homeless get back on
er,” said Cann. “It’s a
shelters in 19 cities, such as Minnesota and
their feet.
great solution to homeSacramento, whose players, above, met Saturday.
“When you’re
lessness if you can find
homeless and in a shelpeople you know and
ter, you don’t trust anybody. This team helps people
trust to live with.”
build trust not only with the case workers, but with
Street Soccer board member Andrew Mack said he
each other,” he said.
thinks soccer is an ideal avenue for uplift. “Soccer is a
And it doesn’t just strengthen relationships among
team sport, and in a lot of ways life is a team sport,” he
the homeless, he said; it builds a bridge to a global
said.
community of soccer enthusiasts.
That’s why, Mack said, he brought his community
“Soccer is really great because all you need is a
— dozens of boisterous La Barra Brava members —
ball,” Cann said. “When you talk about being hometo watch Friday’s kickoff game. “We take for granted a
less and isolated and having a lack of community, the
lot of the things that are communities in our lives,” he
soccer community is the biggest community in the
said. “Our homes, the neighborhoods in which we live.
world. ... So it’s a message to our players that you’re
... If you’re not connected to them, life is a lot more
not alone.”
difficult.”
The group, which maintains a small central office in
Mack said he finds the players inspiring. “They’ve
New York City, partners with shelters in 19 cities
really touched my life,” he said. “They’re trying to
across the country. It provides training to shelter staff
make something new, something big, something differand recruits volunteers to help coach the teams. Players ent in their lives.”
then practice several times a week and play regular
In the end, a visiting team from Russia won the
games in recreational leagues. At the same time, the
final match, placing it at the top of the tournament. But
program connects players with educational opportunithe setback did nothing to dim Fuentes’ spirit. After all,
ties, internships and jobs.
when it comes to the Street Soccer, he’s more than a
Cann said the qualities you need to succeed in
player. He’s a fan. “Street soccer helps people because
sports are similar to those you need in the workplace.
they forget all the past,” he said. “They start a new
“You have to be prepared for work every day. You
life.”
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“Ruptured Walls: Flower Paintings” presents paintings by Alexandria artist Corwin Levi with ruptured
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■ “The Cinecitta Chapel,” featuring six large-scale
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Chapel fresco, will open Friday at Flashpoint Gallery
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and continue through Sept. 4.
Mann’s series replaces Giotto’s religious iconography with cowboys and cartoon violence to create popculture allegories.
An opening reception will take place Friday from 6
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■ “SynchroSwim 2010,” a synchronized-swimming
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outsiders — an Irish fortuneteller
and her drug-dealing son —
through intermingling monologues.
Performance times vary.
Tickets cost $20 to $25. The
Church Street Theater is located at
1742 Church St. NW. 703-8920202; keegantheatre.com.
■ Shakespeare Theatre
Company will present “Twelfth
Night” as its 20th annual “Free
For All” production Aug. 19
through Sept. 5 at Sidney Harman
Hall.
A shipwreck separates twins
Viola and Sebastian, but tragedy
quickly turns to comedy when
they wash up in a land turned
upside-down by love. Performers
include Christina Pumariega as
Viola, Sarah Agnew as Olivia,
Gregory Wooddell as Orsino,
Randy Harrison as Sebastian,
Floyd King as Feste and Philip
Goodwin as Malvolio.
Thursday through Sunday; 7:30
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and Sunday. Tickets are free; they
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Sidney Harman Hall box office,
610 F St. NW, with each person in
line allowed two tickets. 202-5471122; shakespearetheatre.org.
■ The Keegan Theatre is presenting Michael Frayn’s “Noises
Off” through Aug. 22 at the
Church Street Theater.
Called the “funniest farce ever
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cast of second-rate actors rehearsing a flop called “Nothing’s On.”
p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $30;
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■ The Kennedy Center is presenting “Mary Poppins” through
Aug. 22.
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kennedy-center.org.
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“Earnest.” After “true” identities
are revealed, will all live happily
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p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $10.
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Kathy Purchase
202.441.8850
Kathy's goal is to provide experience, knowledge, support, advice
and as smooth and stress free a
transaction as possible for her
clients.
www.Hagner.com/KathyPurchase
Beautiful 2BR 2BA in Georgetown
Park. Gorgeous oak h/w floors, new
CAC, private stone patio, pkg space.
Washer/dryer in unit. $639,000
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CLEVELAND PARK
McLEAN GARDENS
Sunny, corner 1 BR w/3 exposures,
new kitchen appliances, wood floors,
washer/dryer, CAC & private parking.
Quiet tree-lined street just 1/2 block to
METRO, movies, restaurants & shops.
Most pets are permitted. $359,900
Gorgeous 1,175 sq ft 1BR + loft (2nd BR)
w/cathedral ceilings, 3 skylights, great
kitchen, washer/dryer, CAC & excellent
storage. Tennis, tot lots, pool & gardens.
1 dog+1 cat or 2 cats permitted. Private
parking avail: $30,000. $425,000
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Mintewab Bulcha
Marjorie Dick Stuart
240.731.8079
Mintewab understands that with
each client comes an opportunity to
listen closely, work diligently, &
deliver the best results. You can
count on getting the job done right,
efficiently, & always with a smile.
www.hagner.com/MintewabBulcha
HISTORIC CLEVELAND PARK
Classic, 1927 5BR brick Colonial with five
bedrooms. Great curb appeal, gracious
floor plan, high ceilings & hardwood
floors. Ready for your custom touches.
Located on a quiet street near METRO,
dining, shops & movies. $950,000
KALORAMA
Perfect pied-à-terre in sought after
building, on quiet one way street w/
updated BA & Kit. Easy access to
rear patio & laundry area. $159,000
BETHESDA/MONTGOMERY MALL
Great 1BR w/balcony at Chelsea
Tower. Kit opens to spacious LR &
DR. Lge BR. Enjoy pool, tennis &
exercise rm. Close 495/270 $179,000
David Kranich 202.262.2055
[email protected]
OFFICE 202-243-0400
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CLEVELAND PARK
Home Sellers: I Make It Easy
to Get Top Dollar Quickly
My Track Record since 1999:
100.4% of list price
Median of 10 days on market
www.marjoriedickstuart.com
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CLEVELAND PARK
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CATHEDRAL HEIGHTS
Immaculate, large 1BR 1BA at the
Westchester. Recently painted, large
foyer w/2 closets, light-filled LR with
beautifully finished hardwood floors,
updated Kit with plenty of counter &
storage space, renovated BA, BR
with double closet. $289,500
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Historic 1926 home with 4 BR’s + office
& 3½ BA’s. Foyer, living room w/marble
fireplace, dining room w/bay window &
French doors to study, library, sunny updated kitchen, lovely back yard w/brick
terrace and 2 car garage. High ceilings,
wood floors & CAC. $1,390,000
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WOODLEY PARK
Large, beautiful garden apt w/open
floorpln. Chef’s Kit w/high end appl’s,
granite island, HWF’s, porcelain tile,
French dr to priv, fenced-in garden/
patio. Renov BA w/cherry cabs, pet
friendly, Nr METRO $439,000
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HAWTHORNE
Perfect pied-à-terre in sought after
building, on quiet one way street w/
updated BA & Kit. Easy access to
rear patio & laundry area. $649,900
Teddy Sonner 301.943.5049
[email protected]