No.14 April 06, 2016 - The Current Newspapers

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The Northwest Current
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Nonprofit to
debut Ward 2
shelter shortly
Tenleytown’s Safeway
to shut at end of April
pounding the pavement
■ Development: GDS had
wanted store to stay longer
By MARK LIEBERMAN
Current Staff Writer
When Mayor Muriel Bowser
introduced her comprehensive
“All Eight Wards” plan to tackle
family homelessness in January,
Ward 2 stood out as the only one
without a proposed new family
shelter. Instead, the proposal listed
the women’s shelter at 810 5th St.
NW in Gallery Place, which was
already in the works.
In March, the city announced
that the nonprofit N Street Village
would be that shelter’s service
provider, offering space for more
than 200 women in the new facility. The first shelter under the
mayor’s broad homelessness initiative will open its doors to 54
women by April 14, according to
N Street Village executive director
Schroeder Stribling. If everything
goes according to plan, the shelter
will be fully functioning by May.
The five-story Patricia Handy
Place for Women will offer several different types of housing in
“mini-villages,” which will be
organized to gather people of simSee Shelter/Page 3
By BRADY HOLT
Safeway is abruptly closing its
Tenleytown supermarket at the
end of this month, more than a
year before Georgetown Day
School will be ready to raze the
site as part of its campus consolidation project.
The school purchased the 4203
Davenport St. NW site from Safeway in June 2014, at which point
the grocer signed a 10-month
leaseback agreement for the site.
Safeway then extended the agree-
ment through spring 2017, with
the option to terminate the lease
with 60 days’ notice.
Safeway took the termination
option last Thursday. The store
will close to the
public April 30, ■ BUSINESS:
and Safeway School signs
will then spend interim leases
the remainder with two retail
of its 60 days tenants. Page 2.
emptying the
building. Most items are already
on a liquidation clearance at 30
percent off, with liquid dairy items
and tobacco products being the
main exceptions, according to
Safeway spokesperson Chris Wilcox.
See Safeway/Page 16
Board allows commercial
reuse of Takoma Theatre
Brian Kapur/The Current
■ Preservation: Neighbors
Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh joined Mayor Muriel
Bowser to kick off the annual “Potholepalooza” campaign
on Friday along the 3200 block of Brandywine Street NW.
had fought residential option
By MARK LIEBERMAN
C&O Canal lock due for disruptive repair
By BRADY HOLT
An 18-month rehabilitation of
the C&O Canal’s Lock 3 will
begin this fall, requiring the D.C.
stretch of canal to be drained for
the duration of the work and
blocking off canal access between
30th and Thomas Jefferson streets
NW.
The canal’s system of locks
isn’t currently in use in Georgetown, as the replica canal boat that
traversed it stopped operating several years ago. But the Georgetown Heritage nonprofit, an arm
of the neighborhood’s business
improvement district, ultimately
hopes to resume that tourist attraction.
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The rehabilitated locks will allow
boats to resume using the canal.
The National Park Service concluded last summer that Lock 3
needed a $5.5 million investment
before those boat trips can take
place, and that Lock 4, a block
away, also needed $1 million in
repairs. The agency now has fund-
ing for the Lock 3 work, C&O
Canal National Historical Park
superintendent Kevin Brandt said
at Monday’s meeting of Advisory
Neighborhood Commission 2E
(Georgetown, Burleith).
“When we took that [boat] out
of service, we knew we had some
problems with the locks the boat
typically passes through,” Brandt
said at the meeting. “In the intervening years, the lock has continued to deteriorate at a very rapid
rate.”
At Lock 3, the Park Service
will carefully deconstruct the original 1830s lock, store the salvageable materials on the open lawn
the agency owns adjacent to the
canal, and then meticulously
See Canal/Page 8
Developers of the historic
Takoma Theatre site secured key
support from the Historic Preservation Review Board on Thursday
for their plans to restore the longvacant building for commercial
use.
Rock Creek Property Group
purchased the revival-style building for $2.2 million last May and
reversed course from previous
developers’ plans for an apartment
building. Built in 1923, the movie
theater at 6833 4th St. NW closed
in 1980, and the building has been
empty ever since. Original owner
Milton McGinty tried several
times to demolish the building,
only to be rebuffed by the preservation board each time.
McGinty died in September
2013. Shortly before that, his
daughter submitted a plan to the
preservation board for a two-story
residential building with a third-
The former theater at 6833 4th
St. has been vacant since 1980.
floor dormer on the site. Board
members approved the project in
concept but asked for design and
location revisions, which never
came.
Last week, the preservation
board voted unanimously to find
the Rock Creek firm’s proposed
concept consistent with the neighborhood’s historic character and
delegated final approval to Historic Preservation Office staffers.
“I know this has been a long
and tortured process, but I think
See Theater/Page 9
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SPORTS
INDEX
Ward 4 race
Aberfoyle Baroque
NFL goals
Calendar/20
Classifieds/29
District Digest/4
Exhibits/21
In Your Neighborhood/18
Opinion/10
Todd faces three challengers in
bid to retain D.C. Council seat
that he won last year / Page 2
Chevy Chase neighbors present
renowned harpsichord performers
in their homes / Page 19
Former Maret standout, now at
University of Maryland, prepares
for professional draft / Page 13
Police Report/6
Real Estate/17
School Dispatches/26
Service Directory/27
Sports/13
Week Ahead/3
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Car dealership, bike store set to open with temporary leases from GDS
By MARK LIEBERMAN
Georgetown Day School scaled back
long-term plans for two mixed-use developments at the former Martens car dealership
in Tenleytown last week, but in the meantime, two local businesses are taking over
the space for two years.
Classic Motors and City Bikes have both
signed two-year leases for the Martens
space at 4810 Wisconsin Ave. NW, according to school spokesperson Alison Grasheim.
Classic Motors will occupy the southernmost of the two buildings, while City Bikes
will occupy the northern one. Both businesses are already in the process of moving
in and plan to open this weekend.
The decision to establish short-term leases came when the school realized that
securing the permits and other preliminary
steps toward building the mixed-use developments would take approximately two
years, Grasheim said.
“GDS prefers that the space at the former
[Martens] site not remain empty during our
planning process, and instead provides
dynamic retail for the neighborhood,”
Grasheim wrote in an email.
For Classic Motors president and Chevy
Chase resident Robert Peacock, the Tenleytown opening has proved a significant
upgrade from his previous facility on Old
Georgetown Road between Bethesda and
Rockville. After the old Classic Motors site
a few blocks north at 5220 Wisconsin Ave.
NW was purchased by Pepco in 2013, Peacock was hoping to find a nearby spot to
relocate his business, a used car dealership
that specializes in classic cars but services
all types. He approached Harry Martens,
who sold the space at 4810 Wisconsin Ave.
NW to Georgetown Day in June 2014,
about the possibility of renting the idled
space from the school, but Martens wasn’t
looking for tenants at the time.
Peacock said his team struggled to find
an adequate space before settling on the
Maryland location, which resided across the
street from major construction for the new
Pike & Rose neighborhood. “It was just
See Leases/Page 5
Three vie to
unseat Ward 4
incumbent
By CUNEYT DIL
Current Correspondent
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When Brandon Todd won the
special election last April to succeed Muriel Bowser as the Ward 4
D.C. Council member, things were
back to square one in a way. In his
first radio interview the day after
his victory, Todd said, “I’m very
excited about running for re-election.”
Now the incumbent is back
plastering campaign signs and
knocking on doors again, this time
for a full four-year term.
Last year Todd had the backing
of his former boss, Mayor Bowser,
to fend off 12 other candidates and
win 43 percent of the vote. This
year he faces just three opponents,
but strong fundraising and potential vote splitting gives Todd an
advantage. His campaign has
$228,000 cash on hand, according
to fundraising reports from March.
Leon Andrews and Ron Austin
have returned to challenge Todd,
and perennial citywide candidate
Calvin Gurley rounds out the field
for the June 14 Democratic primary. Andrews came in third last
April, with 15 percent, but this
time he says he can benefit from
the narrower field. Meanwhile,
Austin’s campaign isn’t totally
secure now, as he faces a challenge to his nominating petitions
count from Sean Metcalf, according to a March 26 filing with the
D.C. Board of Elections.
In terms of fundraising,
Andrews has enough to be competitive against Todd, but there’s a
caveat: $140,000 out of his campaign’s $156,000 is a loan from
himself. Austin, chair of Advisory
Neighborhood Commission 4B,
has raised about $2,000 and Gurley has $300 on hand.
A self-proclaimed outspoken
character on neighborhood listservs, Gurley, 54, has run previously for council chairman and the
Ward 4 seat, and most recently for
an at-large council position in
2014. He dings Todd for spending
too much time dealing with the
hyperlocal nitty-gritty, like potSee Ward 4/Page 8
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ednesday, April 6, 2016
ABC Board lifts moratorium
on Georgetown restaurants
By CUNEYT DIL
Current Correspondent
Georgetown’s moratorium on
liquor licenses for restaurants is
about to expire, with last Wednesday’s Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board decision not to extend it
coming after a monthslong neighborhood push for a controlled
expansion of local nightlife
options.
At 27 years old the moratorium
is both the oldest in the District
and the largest, sprawling 1,800
feet in all directions from the
intersection of Wisconsin Avenue
and N Street NW. It had capped
the number of liquor licenses
available for restaurants and multipurpose facilities (such as theaters and galleries) at 68 over the
years, but the city’s alcohol board
voted unanimously last Wednesday to let it expire on April 9.
Joe Sternlieb, president of the
Georgetown Business Improvement District, said ending the
moratorium fixes a “market distortion.” During the moratorium,
when the 68-license cap was hit,
businesses would have to purchase a license from an existing
establishment. Sternlieb says
some used to camp outside the
Frank D. Reeves Center of Municipal Affairs, home to the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board, to be the
first in line when open licenses
were auctioned.
“Our hope is that more highquality restaurateurs will be
attracted to Georgetown … and
will find less friction in the marketplace to open up,” Sternlieb
said. He adds Georgetown could
see an expanded restaurant scene
in the coming years, but “it won’t
happen overnight.”
A separate law limiting the
number of liquor licenses that can
See Restaurants/Page 4
The week ahead
Wednesday, April 6
The D.C. State Board of Education
will hold a working session at 4:30
p.m. in Room 1114, One Judiciary
Square, 441 4th St. NW. Discussion
items include health education standards and the passing score on the
General Education Development
(GED) exams.
■ The D.C. Public Library will host a
community meeting on the Palisades
Library renovation. The meeting will
begin at 6 p.m. at the Palisades
Library, 4901 V St. NW.
■ The D.C. Water and Sewer Authority
will host a Ward 4 town hall from 6:30
to 8:30 p.m. in the multipurpose room
at Roosevelt High School at MacFarland, 4400 Iowa Ave. NW. Discussion
items will include water quality and
conversation, wastewater treatment,
new projects, community outreach,
the D.C. Clean Rivers Project and customer service.
Thursday, April 7
The D.C. Water and Sewer Authority will host a Ward 2 town hall from
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the lower-level
meeting room at the Georgetown
SHELTER: Ward 2 women’s site set to open April 14
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ilar situations together into
cohorts. “We’ve tried to make a
design for the program that will be
both comfortable and empowering
for the women who are there,”
Stribling said.
She said the goal is to offer a
wide range of housing, from emergency non-permanent to affordable long-term.
A key component of the shelter’s operations will be support
services for individuals with special needs and health care provided by Unity Health Care, a longtime N Street Village partner,
according to Stribling.
N Street Village responded to a
recent request for proposals from
the mayor’s office with an “aggressive” plan that draws from the
model that has been successful at
the nonprofit’s other locations,
Stribling said.
The shelter is the first tangible
mark of progress for Mayor Bowser’s Homeward DC initiative,
which pledges to make homelessness rare, brief and non-recurring
in the District by 2020.
In a news release, Bowser said
the Ward 2 shelter’s operations
pave the path for citywide efforts
going forward.
“The District’s partnership with
N Street Village to operate the
Patricia Handy Place is a model
for how the District plans to fight
homelessness in our city,” Bowser
said. “We will build facilities that
fit into their communities and will
work with top-notch providers to
implement programs that will help
those in need.”
N Street Village has been working on homelessness issues in the
city since the 1970s, when an
interfaith group came together to
tackle the growing epidemic on
the streets, Stribling said. The
group was small at first, with only
a few members operating on a
volunteer basis. Eventually,
though, the organization expanded
its ranks, incorporated as a nonprofit and purchased the property
❝We’re not going to do
this alone. It is going to
take a village.❞
— Schroeder Stribling
at its flagship location, 1333 N St.
NW — hence the name.
From the beginning, the organization has focused on women,
given their particularly vulnerable
position in the homeless community and the relative dearth of
other services available to them.
The mayor’s involvement has
been key to getting the new Ward
2 shelter off the ground, according
to Stribling, who’s also a member
of the DC Interagency Council on
Homelessness. Previous attempts
to tackle the city’s homelessness
issues have left plenty of work still
to do, she said.
“I’ve been here a long time.
This administration I can really
feel optimistic about,” Stribling
said. “I’m excited about the plans.
I’m excited about the new wave of
collaboration that we have in the
city between the providers.”
This shelter will be the first N
Street Village location partially
funded by the city government,
but Stribling said she doesn’t
anticipate operations proceeding
any differently from the shelters
the organization has funded on its
own. “There are challenges in
either direction, and I’m really not
sure that, at least with these government partners that we’re working with now, that I foresee any
significant challenges,” she said.
As a byproduct of being part of
the mayor’s campaign, this shelter
will also come under far more
media scrutiny than any previous
N Street Village, Stribling
acknowledges. But so far, she said,
the people of Ward 2 have seemed
receptive to the plans. She speculates that the site’s previous function as a homeless shelter for men
has eased the transition.
“There will be concerns. That’s
just a part of what happens in
neighborhoods,” Stribling said.
“I’m expecting that that will be the
case, and that’s one of the reasons
we would really like to engage
them now so when those concerns
do come up, everyone has an avenue to address them.”
John Tinpe, a member of Advisory Neighborhood Commission
2C (downtown, Penn Quarter),
told The Current that his colleagues will be paying close attention to sanitation, safety and security around the new shelter, but
overall he thinks it will serve as a
solid model for the rest of the city.
“We welcome the homeless to our
neighborhood with open arms,”
Tinpe said.
Stribling hopes to see the shelter fulfill the Homeward DC mission, providing “excellent quality
services to every woman who has
a need or is in a crisis” and ultimately getting to a place where
homeless shelters like this one are
no longer necessary.
“We’re not going to do this
alone,” Stribling said. “It is going
to take a village.”
Library, 3260 R St. NW.
Saturday, April 9
The D.C. Department of Housing
and Community Development, Equal
Rights Center, D.C. Office of Human
Rights, D.C. Developmental
Disabilities Council and La Clínica del
Pueblo will hold a seminar for renters
and advocates regarding fair housing
rights and responsibilities. The event
will begin at 10 a.m. at All Souls
Unitarian Universalist Church, 1500
Harvard St. NW. To RSVP, visit
dcfairhousing15.eventbrite.com.
Tuesday, April 12
The Brightwood Community Association will hold its monthly meeting
from 7 to 9 p.m. at St. John United
Baptist Church, 6343 13th St. NW.
Wednesday, April 13
The Woodley Park Community
Association will hear a further presentation from JBG on the development
firm’s long-term plans for the Marriott
Wardman Park hotel. The agenda also
includes discussion of whether to protest liquor license renewal applica-
tions by Hot N Juicy Crawfish on Connecticut Avenue NW and Bar Civita on
24th Street NW due to complaints
about excessive noise. The meeting
will begin at 7 p.m. at St. Thomas
Apostle Church, 2665 Woodley Road
NW.
Tuesday, April 19
The Cleveland Park Citizens Association will host a community meeting
on the subject of “Quieter, Cleaner
Neighborhoods” from 7 to 9 p.m. on
the Community Room at the 2nd District Police Headquarters, 3320 Idaho
Ave. NW. Speakers will include Ward 3
D.C. Council member Mary Cheh, who
has introduced a bill to ban the sale
and use of gas-powered leaf blowers
by January 2022; Jamie Banks, executive director of the national organization Quiet Communities; James Fallows, writer for The Atlantic; and Morgan Stallard, who runs Four Feet to
the Yard, a local lawn-care company.
■ The Chevy Chase Citizens Association will hold its annual “Green” meeting at 7:30 p.m. at the Chevy Chase
Community Center, 5601 Connecticut
Ave. NW.
Spring is
Fabulous
Now on view
Don’t miss the special exhibition,
Kostantin Makovsky: The Tsar’s Painter
Take a spring garden tour and
see what’s blooming
Now open every Sunday Hours: Tues – Sun 10am – 5pm HillwoodMuseum.org
4155 Linnean Ave. NW, Washington DC Free parking
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The Current
District Digest
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Nonprofits to present
April 18 aging forum
The Healthy Aging Forum,
offering a daylong schedule of
workshops, activities and vendors
on April 18, will feature clinical
psychologist Mindy Greenstein,
author of “Lighter as We Go: Virtues, Character Strengths, and
Aging.”
Greenstein will be reading
from and discussing her
acclaimed book, which defies
conventional wisdom by focusing
on how a person’s sense of wellbeing can actually increase in his
or her later years, according to a
news release from the forum’s
organizers.
The Healthy Aging Forum will
take place from 10:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. at the Washington
Hebrew Congregation, 3935
Macomb St. NW. The congregation is co-sponsoring the event
along with the Northwest Neighbors Village. A variety of other
nonprofits and institutions are
participating, including the Sibley
Senior Association, Iona Senior
Services and Johns Hopkins Medicine.
The forum, emphasizing active
and positive aging for adults over
50, will offer eight informational
and interactive workshops with
expert panelists. Selected vendors
also will be on hand.
A $20 registration fee includes
Greenstein’s presentation, two
workshop selections and lunch.
Online registration is available at
nwnv.org. For questions, call 202777-3435.
across the city.
Throughout the month of
April, the D.C. Department of
Transportation will be adding
extra crews to attend to potholes,
with the goal of repairing identified locations within 48 hours
instead of the normal response
time of 72 hours. This year’s Potholepalooza also incorporates
mobile geographic information
system technology, whereby
crews can connect with a live service request database and post
pictures of their completed repair
work on a map. Their progress
will be tracked online at ddot.
dc.gov/service/pothole-repair,
with the transportation agency
posting daily updates on the total
potholes filled.
Residents can report potholes
by visiting the online pothole
repair site listed above, phoning
the mayor’s call center at 311,
using the 311 phone app, or tweeting @DDOTDC (and/or using the
hashtag #potholepalooza). Another option is texting “DC 311” and
typing “Pothole” followed by the
service request location; then typing “Status” later for an update.
The city’s crews have filled
more than 64,000 potholes during
the past seven Potholepalooza
campaigns, according to a news
release from Mayor Muriel
Bowser’s office. Last spring, the
transportation agency received
more than 6,000 service requests
and filled more than 27,000 potholes during the campaign.
Prior to the start of this year’s
campaign, Transportation Department workers filled nearly 12,000
potholes in March.
D.C. kicks off yearly
‘Potholepalooza’ blitz Children’s Chorus
names new director
For the eighth year running,
the District has launched its “Potholepalooza” campaign, a concentrated effort to fix potholes
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A new director will step to the
helm of the Children’s Chorus of
Washington this summer, suc-
ceeding the program’s founder
and longtime artistic director,
Joan Gregoryk.
Margaret Nomura Clark, who
comes with a range of experience
supervising pre-collegiate choral
programs in San Francisco, will
take over the Washington chorus
on Aug. 1, according to a news
release. The acclaimed program
provides music education opportunities for kids ages 6 through
18 throughout the metropolitan
area, with five auditioned ensembles performing both locally and
internationally. Gregoryk, who
has headed the program for its
entire 20-year existence, will be
stepping down at the end of this
season.
Her successor, Clark, has
worked for the past several years
as associate artistic director of the
San Francisco Boys Chorus, and
last fall was appointed to the choral faculty at the San Francisco
Conservatory of Music’s pre-college division.
Clark has also served as a middle school music teacher at the
Hamlin School for Girls in San
Francisco for the past 11 years,
directing the choral program
there. According to the release,
she also has experience with children’s choirs in Ohio, New York
and Japan.
A tribute to Gregoryk is
planned for Friday, April 15, at
the Columbia Country Club in
Chevy Chase, Md. The event will
include cocktails, dinner and performances “by surprise guest artists,” according to the group’s
website. Tickets cost $150 and
are available through Aug. 12 at
childrenschorus.com.
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be issued to taverns and nightclubs to six remains in effect. That
cap was passed by the D.C. Council and would require council
action to be changed.
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E (Georgetown, Burleith), the Citizens Association of
Georgetown and the Georgetown
BID backed letting the restaurant
moratorium expire.
Business-friendly groups also
supported an end to the moratorium, as part of a broader push to
eliminate liquor license caps in
place elsewhere.
“The value of [the board’s]
decision is that it’s a clear signal
that the time to terminate all liquor
license moratoriums in the city
has arrived,” said Mark Lee, executive director of the D.C. Nightlife
and Hospitality Association.
The original intent of the
Georgetown moratorium was to
stem noise and litter issues from
bars and restaurants. But neighborhood groups have said the
moratorium has lately held back
Georgetown while other city destinations have developed thriving
restaurant scenes.
“While Georgetown was
imposing that moratorium, the rest
of the world moved on,” Lee said.
“Georgetown, by their own devices, has sort of been left behind.”
Sternlieb also noted that the
neighborhood, and specifically
ANC 2E, can still deter potential
noise and trash impacts by protesting individual applications or
crafting settlement agreements
with local establishments. ANC
2E and the Citizens Association of
Georgetown have prepared a template agreement to use when negotiating with establishments.
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kind of a disaster,” Peacock said.
“We really struggled from how we
were doing here in D.C.”
Peacock spent the dealership’s
Rockville tenure trying to return to
D.C., where most of his client base
lives. Six months ago, he was eating dinner at a restaurant near the
Martens site when he saw a sign
advertising an available lease.
Securing the spot required protracted negotiations with Nissan’s
corporate offices, which also had
its eye on finding a dealership
partner in the Martens space. Peacock offered his larger Rockville
space as an alternative that better
fit their needs, and Nissan eventually teamed up with the dealership
Reedman Toll to accept that offer.
The arrangement works well
for all involved, Peacock believes.
“I don’t know if Nissan would
have worked here,” Peacock said.
“They’re so big. It would have
been kind of a giant mess.”
The dealership, which had been
vacant since Euro Volvo left a little more than a year ago, needed
some upgrades when Peacock
took over the space. The bathroom
walls had rotted, the ceiling tiles
needed repairs, and the roof had
sprung several leaks, Peacock
said. But Peacock said the school
has been quick to initiate repairs.
“They’ve been just great, really
nice to work with,” Peacock said.
The dealership’s grand opening is
planned for later this month.
Now Peacock is focused on reestablishing his foothold in upper
Northwest, offering the same full
range of services as always, for
vehicles of all makes and models
— car-washing and detailing inhouse, as well as broader maintenance options at the existing auto
body repair shop in Bethesda. Peacock also plans to offer the dealership’s 35-space underground park-
ing lot as a resource for community members who don’t want to
park on the street. The Ourisman
auto dealership will sublease the
dealership’s back lot for storage as
well, Peacock said.
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3E (Tenleytown, Friendship Heights) chair Jon Bender
said he’s not certain the car dealership is the best use of that space
for his constituents. “The classic
car company often had interestinglooking old cars in the lot when
they were in Friendship Heights,
but I do think there are many types
of businesses the neighborhood
would appreciate more than a used
car lot, even a nice one,” Bender
wrote in an email.
Meanwhile, the City Bikes deal
came together more recently, with
the store starting talks with the
school at the beginning of this
year, according to general manager Saul Leiken. The store’s staff
had been hoping to expand to Tenleytown since hearing that Hudson
Trail Outfitters had left a hole in
the market for outdoor equipment.
Leiken was sad to see the store
go, having met and even hired
some of its employees, but he also
saw an opportunity to flesh out
City Bikes’ Northwest presence,
supplementing stores in Adams
Morgan and Chevy Chase, Md.
The Hudson site is too big for City
Bikes, he said. The 4,000-squarefoot Martens space offered “great
space, great deal, really good sight
lines,” Leiken said.
Leiken said City Bikes initially
expected the Tenleytown location
would expand the store’s portfolio, but when lease negotiations at
its Capitol Hill location broke
down at the end of March, the
store decided to leave that neighborhood and let the Wisconsin
Avenue site serve as its replacement.
Though the starting lease is
only two years, Leiken plans to
seek alternative space in the neighborhood once the school is ready
— but he doesn’t think Georgetown Day will be ready to redevelop the Martens site quickly.
“They are particularly ambitious about the timeline. I wish
them the best of luck,” Leiken
said. “We don’t really anticipate it
happening that quickly, within two
years. We’re going to want to stay
as long as we can in that particular
space.”
Bender said he thinks City
Bikes will serve the market as
Leiken expects. “I’m happy to see
them, and would be happy to see
them stay in the neighborhood
long-term,” he wrote.
With its storeroom floor and
overall dealership feel, Leiken
said the new space will mark a
departure from other City Bikes
locations. It also afforded his team
the opportunity to try something
they’ve been envisioning for
years: D.C.’s largest independently owned electric bike shop,
dubbed ElectriCity Bikes, which
will take up the southern half of
City Bikes’ Tenleytown territory.
In the coming days, Leiken’s
staff will put the finishing touches
on shelving and inventory before
opening the store’s doors. A grand
opening is tentatively planned to
coincide with Tenleytown’s Earth
Day celebration in late April.
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Robbery
■ 1300-1399 block, New
York Ave.; 2:38 a.m. April 2
(with gun).
Burglary
■ 1000-1099 block, H St.;
8:28 p.m. March 29.
Theft
■ 900-999 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 1:36 p.m. March
28.
■ 600-699 block, 11th St.;
7:21 p.m. March 28.
■ 500-599 block, 14th St.;
9:54 p.m. March 28.
■ 900-999 block, 10th St.;
8:12 p.m. March 29.
■ 1000-1099 block, E St.;
4:35 p.m. March 30.
■ 900-999 block, H St.;
11:54 p.m. March 30.
■ 1000-1099 block, H St.;
12:54 a.m. March 31.
■ 900-999 block, G St.; 2:39
p.m. March 31.
■ 900-999 block, G St.; 9:27
p.m. April 1.
■ 1300-1399 block, F St.;
10:20 p.m. April 1.
Theft from auto
■ 1200-1299 block, New
York Ave.; 11:13 p.m. March
30.
■ 1200-1299 block, New
York Ave.; 11:33 p.m. March
30.
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Robbery
■ 400-497 block, L St.; 4:34
a.m. March 30.
Assault with a dangerous
weapon
■ 600-699 block, F St.;
11:22 p.m. March 28 (with
knife).
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■ 700-899 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 10:45 p.m. March
28.
■ 600-699 block, E St.; 5:54
p.m. March 29.
■ 400-497 block, L St.; 1:27
p.m. March 30.
■ 400-497 block, L St.; 1:02
p.m. March 31.
■ 400-457 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 1:14 a.m. April 1.
■ 800-899 block, 7th St.;
5:31 p.m. April 1.
■ 800-899 block, H St.; 3:50
p.m. April 2.
■ 900-999 block, 9th St.;
5:30 p.m. April 2.
■ 600-699 block, K St.;
10:47 p.m. April 2.
■ 700-799 block, 7th St.;
7:32 p.m. April 3.
Theft from auto
■ 1000-1013 block, 6th St.;
12:17 a.m. March 30.
■ 400-443 block, K St.;
10:54 p.m. March 30.
■ 400-443 block, K St.; 2:26
p.m. March 31.
■ 400-443 block, K St.; 7:05
a.m. April 2.
■ 500-599 block, 9th St.;
5:52 p.m. April 3.
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Burglary
■ 2900-3099 block,
Northampton St.; 9:30 p.m.
April 2.
■ 3700-3799 block, Morrison
St.; 1:35 a.m. April 3.
Theft
■ 3900-3944 block, Morrison St.; 6:01 p.m. March 29.
Theft from auto
■ 3700-3743 block, Jenifer
St.; 12:39 p.m. April 1.
■ 3700-3799 block, Ingomar
St.; 8:51 p.m. April 2.
psa 202
■ Friendship Heights
PSA
202
Tenleytown / AU Park
Sexual abuse
■ 4500-4537 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 3:38 a.m. April 1.
Theft
■ 5400-5499 block, Western
Ave.; 7:56 a.m. March 28.
■ 5254-5299 block, Western
Ave.; 10:34 p.m. March 28.
■ 4530-4599 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 9:22 a.m. March 29.
■ 5300-5399 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 2:12 p.m. March 29.
■ 4600-4699 block, 41st St.;
6:49 p.m. March 31.
■ 4908-4999 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 7:59 p.m. April 1.
■ 4500-4537 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 5:05 p.m. April 3.
Theft from auto
■ 3800-3899 block, Van
Ness St.; 1:52 p.m. March
31.
■ 3800-3899 block, Upton
St.; 3:07 p.m. March 31.
■ 4700-4799 block, 41st St.;
3:46 p.m. March 31.
■ 5100-5199 block, 41st St.;
8:26 p.m. March 31.
■ 5226-5299 block, 42nd
St.; 1:02 p.m. April 1.
■ 5200-5225 block, 42nd
St.; 3:16 p.m. April 1.
■ 3800-3899 block, Warren
St.; 5:35 p.m. April 2.
psa 203
■ forest hills / van ness
PSA
203
cleveland park
Burglary
■ 2900-2999 block, Brandywine St.; 1:19 p.m. March
28.
■ 3500-3599 block, Connecticut Ave.; 7:19 p.m.
March 30.
■ 3700-3707 block, Reno
Road; 10:59 p.m. March 31.
Theft
■ 3000-3098 block, Gates
■ 2900-2999 block, Van
Ness St.; 9:13 p.m. March
31.
■ 4200-4399 block, Connecticut Ave.; 8:51 p.m. April
3.
Theft from auto
■ 3600-3699 block, Davenport St.; 4:39 p.m. March 28.
■ 2856-2899 block, Tilden
St.; 5:18 p.m. March 28.
■ 3500-3599 block, Cumberland St.; 5:33 p.m. March 28.
■ 2500-2880 block, Porter
St.; 5:33 p.m. March 30.
■ 3600-3699 block, Macomb
St.; 4:05 p.m. March 31.
St.; 5:55 p.m. April 2.
psa 204
■ Massachusetts avenue
■ 1700-1799 block, P St.;
1:45 p.m. April 3.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 1700-1799 block, P St.;
9:21 p.m. March 28.
■ 2015-2099 block, P St.;
7:12 p.m. April 2.
Theft
■ 2100-2199 block, N St.;
4:11 a.m. March 28.
■ 1300-1699 block, Connecticut Ave.; 7:58 p.m. March
28.
■ 2200-2299 block, M St.; 4
p.m. March 30.
■ 2200-2299 block, M St.;
1:29 p.m. March 31.
■ 1300-1399 block, 18th St.;
8:56 p.m. March 31.
■ 1600-1699 block, P St.;
12:01 a.m. April 1.
■ 2100-2199 block, O St.;
4:02 p.m. April 2.
Theft from auto
■ 2600-2699 block, Woodley
Road; 10:43 a.m. March 28.
■ 2800-2899 block, 29th St.;
3:38 p.m. March 28.
■ 3100-3199 block, 35th St.;
2:22 p.m. March 31.
Theft from auto
■ 1800-1819 block, 19th St.;
3:11 p.m. March 28.
■ 2000-2099 block, Q St.;
8:13 p.m. March 28.
■ 1500-1599 block, O St.;
10:10 a.m. March 29.
■ 1500-1524 block, 18th St.;
11:46 p.m. March 29.
■ 1800-1899 block, Riggs
Place; 10:25 a.m. March 30.
■ 1200-1399 block, 16th St.;
6:21 p.m. March 30.
■ 1250-1299 block, 22nd
St.; 12:44 a.m. April 1.
■ 1300-1499 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 8:39 a.m. April
1.
■ 1300-1321 block, 15th St.;
3:20 p.m. April 2.
psa 205
psa
PSA
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Wesley Heights / Foxhall
Assault with a dangerous
weapon
■ 1650-1691 block, Lanier
Place; 5:04 a.m. April 1.
heights / cleveland park
woodley park / Glover
PSA
204
park / cathedral heights
Theft
■ 2600-2649 block, Connecticut Ave.; 4:05 p.m.
March 30.
■ 3700-3749 block, Newark
St.; 5:28 p.m. March 31.
■ palisades / spring valley
PSA
205
Robbery
■ 1704-1799 block, Hoban
Burglary
■ 3000-3099 block, Arizona
Ave.; 5:31 p.m. March 30.
Theft
■ 4400-4599 block,
Edmunds St.; 1:08 p.m.
March 30.
St.; 3:15 p.m. March 30.
■ 4800-4899 block, Rodman
St.; 4:30 p.m. March 31.
■ 4400-4499 block, Dexter
St.; 12:16 p.m. April 1.
psa 208
■ sheridan-kalorama
PSA
208
dupont circle
Robbery
■ 1200-1249 block, 22nd
St.; 4:05 a.m. April 1.
■ 1700-1799 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 12:59 a.m.
April 3.
Burglary
■ 1400-1499 block, Rhode
Island Ave.; 8:46 a.m. March
29.
■ 1517-1599 block, 14th St.;
12:36 p.m. March 31.
■ adams morgan
Burglary
■ 2120-2323 block, Ontario
■ 2800-2828 block, Ontario
■ 1650-1798 block, Harvard
St.; 3:49 p.m. April 1.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 2300-2499 block, Champlain St.; 3:48 p.m. March
30.
Theft
■ 1737-1776 block, Columbia
■ 2500-2599 block, Champlain St.; 8:10 a.m. March
30.
■ 1730-1797 block, Lanier
Place; 10:27 a.m. March 30.
■ 2000-2099 block, Kalorama Road; 10:17 a.m. April
1.
■ 2400-2499 block, 18th St.;
4:14 a.m. April 2.
■ 2400-2499 block, 18th St.;
9:32 a.m. April 3.
Theft from auto
■ 2800-2899 block, 18th St.;
10:39 a.m. March 28.
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holes and speed bumps. “When
you find your ward person doing
those kinds of jobs, he missed the
boat,” Gurley says.
Todd, 32, does have plenty of
experience with such matters. He
served as constituent services
director when Bowser was Ward 4
council member, and he takes
pride in listing off such “bread and
butter issues” for residents as tree,
sidewalk and street improvements.
Andrews’ criticism of the
incumbent echoes Gurley’s. He
contends that he hasn’t seen “one
meaningful legislation that [Todd]
has proposed” and that the ward
needs “independent leadership.”
Andrews, who talks up the impor-
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tance of renewable energy, says he
was disappointed with Todd’s support of the Pepco-Exelon merger.
“We want to connect the conversation of education to how it
impacts crime [and] how it impacts
our economic development in our
region,” says Andrews, 40. For the
past 10 years he’s been active
working on urban issues with the
National League of Cities, which
he says gives him the policy chops
to serve on the council.
For Todd, one of his campaign
pitches last year was that as council member, he would have the ear
of the mayor on important issues.
He maintains that his alliance has
produced results. “I’m in line with
Ward 4 voters,” he says.
Since kicking off his re-election campaign March 23, Todd
says he’s been knocking on doors
A remarkable heritage.
to “tremendous” response from
residents. With a full term, Todd
says he can shepherd the “great
amount of opportunity” presented
by places like Georgia Avenue,
Kennedy Street and the Walter
Reed campus.
But Austin says the council
member pays more attention to
one “clique” than other residents.
“I just don’t think that it’s spread
all over the ward,” Austin says.
Austin, 59, was once himself
part of a political inner circle. He
served as constituent services
director to Adrian Fenty, then the
Ward 4 council member, who gave
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rebuild it to its original form. An
exception is that wood framing,
not visible from the outside,
appears to have deteriorated and
will be replaced with concrete,
Brandt said. The agency has
already done similar reconstruction efforts at a half-dozen C&O
Canal locks over the years.
The Park Service hopes to
begin the Lock 3 project in October and finish it by April 2018.
Brandt said the agency will need
to drain the canal east of Lock 5,
located just over the Maryland
line, to safely carry out the work.
He said he’s working with the
Georgetown Business Improvement District on temporary beautification efforts to offset the effect
of the drained canal, such as planting wildflowers on portions of the
canal bed.
To accommodate construction,
sidewalks and the towpath will be
closed on the block where the
work is taking place, the bust of
Supreme Court Justice William O.
Douglas will be temporarily relocated, and the tree above the bust
will be removed.
Meanwhile, repairs to Lock 4
aren’t yet funded, Brandt said, and
he didn’t yet have a timeline for
the work. But because that lock is
in better shape, the project will be
less intrusive — requiring only
improved grout and rebuilt curved
walls — and won’t completely
block off access to that area.
Community members at Monday’s meeting noted that some
businesses’ main entrances are
accessed from the canal near Lock
4; Brandt said customers will still
be able to get through despite
some disruptions. He also said the
project will reduce the leaks that
have plagued residents living
along the canal.
Once the work at the two locks
is complete, the canal will again
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“When Georgetown Heritage is
able to have a boat back on the
canal, it’s going to be able to go
through these locks very safely,”
Brandt said.
He also noted that major reconstruction of Lock 3 involves an
unusual scale of disruption.
“To my knowledge, it’s never
been done, so it’s lasted from the
1830s until 2016,” Brandt said.
“So in our lifetimes it should
never need to be done again.”
The Old Georgetown Board
will consider the plans for the two
locks at its monthly meeting
tomorrow. ANC 2E unanimously
voted to raise no objection to the
proposal, and commissioners
noted that restoring the canal has
been among their top priorities in
recent years. “The careful work
done by the Park Service on this
and many other projects is very
much appreciated,” commission
chair Ron Lewis said.
Commissioners did emphasize
that their support for these rehabilitation projects does not extend
to future proposals to activate the
C&O Canal in Georgetown, which
it will consider once specific proposals come before ANC 2E.
Brandt said that this summer,
stakeholders likely will begin a
yearlong master planning process
for the canal area, but this particular project will only restore the
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where this project and where this
building are now is something that
should make everyone happy
about the hard work you put into it
over these decades,” board historian Andrew Aurbach told project
backers at Thursday’s hearing.
The project will add an interior
second floor — formed by reducing the first-story ceiling height
rather than raising the building’s
roof — as well as new windows,
skylights and gutters. The theater’s lobby, outdoor marquee and
landscaping will be restored. The
most controversial aspects of previous plans (adding a third floor or
constructing an addition on the
side) have been removed.
Interior schematics for the project have been drawn up, and construction is expected to begin later
this spring and last six months,
wrapping up by the end of the
year, development principal Gary
Schlager said in an interview.
Schlager said his staff thought
the size and location of the building was better suited to commercial use than to residential, especially given the volume of residences in that portion of Takoma.
Plans for the occupants haven’t
been finalized, but Schlager said
the first floor’s high ceilings could
work well for a theater, music
venue, restaurant or neighborhood
market, while the new second
floor’s exposed trusses and skylights lend themselves to office
space.
Several neighborhood groups
testified in support of the project
at the hearing, a marked contrast
from
previous
interactions
between theater owners and the
public. Takoma Theatre Conservancy president Loretta Neumann
said she’s pleased with the focus
on commercial as opposed to residential, and she continues to push
for a black box theater serving upand-coming arts groups in the new
facility.
Neumann and several other
community members testified that
they want to see the preservation
board consider even the smallest
alterations from the current plan,
rather than allowing minor matters
to be delegated to staff members
for an administrative review.
Board chair Gretchen Pfaehler
told the team she recognizes their
desire to oversee the project at an
intricate level and promised consultation with key stakeholders on
relevant matters going forward.
Despite the ongoing concern
about small revisions, community
sentiments at Thursday’s hearing
swung heavily in favor of the
developer. Historic Takoma vice
president Lorraine Pearsall said
the Rock Creek Property Group
has properly treated the theater as
the “significant resource” that she
believes it is.
“We are absolutely thrilled with
the developer,” said Pearsall. “The
developer has worked with us in a
manner that is really great, that we
don’t usually see. We have had
very good communication.”
Takoma resident Sara Green, a
former member of Advisory
Neighborhood Commission 4B,
testified that she was among a
group of volunteers who ran community screenings and helped with
other theater business back in the
1970s. She maintains a special
fondness for the building’s history.
“We clutch these resources to our
bosom with extraordinary affection and reverence,” Green said.
Green said she stands by ANC
4B’s supportive resolution on the
project. Current ANC 4B member
Faith Wheeler testified that she
thinks the plan portends “a cohesive unit and a lovely building.”
Going forward, Schlager told
The Current his team’s ultimate
goal is to revitalize the neighborhood that surrounds the former
Takoma Theatre.
“When you go south of the
Metro, it kind of dies there,”
Schlager said. “We’re hoping to be
the southern anchor of the whole
neighborhood.”
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A cleaner Potomac
Under most circumstances, a grade of B-minus isn’t especially
impressive. But when it follows nearly two decades of report cards
showing Cs or lower, it’s a heartening sign of progress.
Such is the case with the Potomac River, which has long been an
embarrassment for our nation’s capital. Long after tightened regulations
clamped down on industrial pollution, we’ve still allowed our municipal
sewers to overflow into the river that’s vital to many of Washington’s
bucolic sights — not to mention to a host of local ecosystems.
But there is hope. Evaluating the river’s health based on pollution
levels, plant and animal life, and public usage, the Potomac Conservancy group last week granted the river the highest grade it’s ever received
on the nonprofit’s nine biennial report cards. As recently as 2011, the
Potomac had earned a D by the nonprofit advocacy group’s metrics. In
that context, 2015’s B-minus is indeed cause for celebration.
In what the group called “a key indicator of river health,” populations of fish species, including shad and white perch, are on the rise in
the Potomac. The group also found declining levels of the three major
types of pollution the river faces: nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment.
The improvements haven’t gone unnoticed by area residents and visitors, according to the report. Riverside parks have seen attendance rise,
and sport fishing license sales are roughly double their levels of years as
recent as 2008 and far above miniscule numbers in the 1990s.
The Potomac Conservancy credits a host of programs with the various improvements to the river’s quality, including the District’s restrictions on Styrofoam and educational programs that helped D.C. schoolchildren hatch and release shad into the river. We applaud the legislators
and others who helped bring these visions to life.
Also notable is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s crackdown on sewer overflows, which is yielding a multibillion-dollar investment by the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority to increase its capacity
and reduce stormwater runoff into combined sewers.
Of course, a B-minus grade means there’s still great room for progress. The conservancy’s report raises concerns about increasing polluted
urban runoff, the slow pace of improvements to aquatic habitats and
water clarity, and the rise of invasive fish species. We would encourage
the District to work with its regional partners to address these issues.
We also want to thank the Potomac Conservancy for its 23-year history of advocacy, and look forward to seeing the river’s 2017 report
card. We hope the positive trend continues.
Proactive on roads
Every spring since 2009, the District’s heralded “Potholepalooza”
event has worked to repair the seasonal damage that winter weather
wreaks on our aging roadways. By adding extra crews, the city cuts pothole repair times from the usual 72 hours from a 311 report to 48 hours.
Mayor Muriel Bowser kicked off the 2016 Potholepalooza on Friday,
while introducing a new system that lets crews post photos of their
repairs to an online map of pending and completed pothole requests,
available at ddot.dc.gov/service/pothole-repair.
But we’re disappointed that the Bowser administration still isn’t
more proactive. We have repeatedly called upon the District government
to implement a regular schedule for repaving or replacing its roadways
as soon as they reach the end of their useful lives. We urged such an
approach this time last year, and we repeated the call a month ago when
D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson also brought forth the idea.
Yet time and again, the District puts off the costs and disruptions of
properly rebuilding our roadways and tries to make up for that during a
monthlong blitz with a hashtag-friendly name. We endure downright
hazardous conditions when water seeps into last year’s patchy repairs,
then freezes and causes a fresh pothole. And to add insult to injury, we
have to pay once more to go out and repair it.
There’s obviously great value to Potholepalooza. The District clearly
can’t replace all its streets at once, and even a road that’s generally in
good repair is still vulnerable to suffering damage over the winter. And
we do appreciate Mayor Bowser’s efforts to continuously improve the
transparency of the District’s repair efforts.
But our roads need more than Band-Aids. We hope the council,
under Mr. Mendelson’s leadership, can find additional capital funding
for much-needed road rebuilding. And if repaving continues consistently, over time we would expect to see less emergency cleanup work.
The Current
Yesterday, today and …
News came this weekend that Ivanhoe Donaldson has died.
Donaldson was the right hand, no, the right
arm, of Marion Barry.
From their optimistic civil rights days to their
time as embattled incumbents in the District government, they shared the successes and excesses
of nascent political power of African-Americans
in the 1960s through the 1990s.
Donaldson had been
ill for several years.
Your Notebook never
knew anyone more
adept in gauging what
was needed at any
given time. Nor was
there anyone like Donaldson, who could turn
inquiries from reporters into depositions on their
biases, their misinformation and their misunderstandings of what was really going on.
That Donaldson fell off the legal wagon as
deputy mayor sullied what otherwise was a brilliant career in politics and political thinking.
Services were not set by our deadline.
■ Still closed after all these years. We drifted
down on Saturday to Lafayette Square across
from the White House. Advocates were holding a
protest appealing to President Barack Obama to
remove marijuana from the harsh Schedule 1 narcotics list.
Millions of people have been imprisoned and
fined, their lives ruined, because of federal penalties for marijuana possession and use. It may be a
civil penalty now in the local parts of the District,
but it remains a federal crime anywhere on federal
property or in federal buildings.
Activist Adam Eidinger made certain there was
a “visual” for the TV media and legion of cellphone photos. He and his numerous supporters
carried aloft a 51-foot inflatable “joint.” On its
side, a written appeal to Obama to do the right
thing on reclassifying marijuana. (So far, Obama
appears ready to leave it to the next president.)
Apart from the demonstration, your Notebook
wandered around the still-closed portion of the
street in front of the White House that used to be
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Oh, yes, it’s still
technically the same place, but it has been closed
to free American traffic since May 1995.
A bomb went off in Oklahoma City that April,
and the U.S. Secret Service moved swiftly to shut
down what once was known as America’s Main
Street.
“We are an open society, a nation of freedom
found in very few parts of the world,” began thenTreasury Secretary Robert Rubin, just before he
said the world was too dangerous to keep the
thoroughfare open. Rubin noted that Americans
could still drive by the White House, only from
the far side of Lafayette Square.
Little did we know then that closing down this
and other parts of America would become the preferred way to “protect” it.
Now more than ever, downtown traffic snarls
on both sides of the White House, not just
because of closing Pennsylvania Avenue but also
E Street on the south
side of the presidential
mansion.
Then-Secretary
Rubin acknowledged
the disruption to come.
“To the citizens of
the Washington metropolitan area who will be
inconvenienced by the need to adjust to new traffic patterns, we share your concerns.” He promised “long-term solutions” would be sought.
That may have been true, but nothing in the
interim 20 years has ever been done around there
to embrace American commerce in the face of terrorism fear.
■ Opening day, then and now. The Nats officially return to the ballpark on Thursday to open the
first home stand of the 2016 season. (At the
beginning of the week, it looked like a rainout.)
We’re reminded of the first season at RFK in
2005 — now 11 seasons back.
Then-Mayor Tony Williams had announced
only months earlier that the city had won the battle for the Montreal Expos.
Williams, making the announcement in September 2004, quoted one-time Washington resident Walt Whitman: “I see great things in baseball. It’s our game. It’s the American game.”
While the new Nats went on to struggle in the
win column after some early success, the mayor
and council overcame tough opposition to build
the new Nats ballpark in Southeast. Despite a
debilitating national recession that also struck
Washington in 2007-2008, the expensive stadium
has proved to be an economic draw for the old
Navy Yard area. Some of the sites would have
been developed anyway — ballparks are not panaceas — but critics who said the stadium was a
bad idea essentially have been proved wrong.
More than 50 percent of ballpark fans are from
Virginia. They are spending discretionary dollars
that otherwise likely would have stayed in Virginia. The ballpark was expensive, maybe too expensive, but it has not been the economic drag critics
predicted. It has been the opposite.
Play ball.
Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.
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Local poet’s works
deserve attention
The 2015 publication of “Sic
Transit,” a slim volume of
poems by Howard Bray from
New Wine Press, is cause for
celebration. Bray is a poet from
the Palisades who writes with a
journalist’s eye for detail and a
poet’s search for meaning.
These talents work well in free
verse, especially when tempered
by the wisdom of a senior who
has seen and lived it all.
He writes in verse shaped
into stanzas that lead the reader
down the page to an illumination — some major, some
minor, all pleasurable. He is a
member of the tribe that thinks
poetry should be both immediately understandable and immediately moving. In the title
poem “Sic Transit,” winds
blowing through the planks of
the abandoned trestle of the old
trolley line sound like the laughter of kids on their way to Glen
Echo Amusement Park, now
long gone.
Both journalist and poet are
apparent in his skill at making
universal some personal experience such as “Crossing Bay
Bridge.” The poet driving
through dense fog is reassured
by the taillights of the car just
ahead. In the fog of these confusing times, all hold hands!
Perhaps his best is “Yard
Sale,” which puts you in the
shoes of a senior couple who
are downsizing. They are dis-
posing of items that are freighted with memories. The catalog
of things for sale is a history of
the couple’s relationship. Once
sold, they lead you to ask, What
happens to memories when the
objects that prompt their recall
are no longer there? “Yard Sale”
also shows Bray’s skill with
internal rhyme that creates the
music of his verse: “Let’s buy it
all back, you say, though/ you
both know that everything must
go.”
You come away from these
poems with a deeper appreciation for gloria mundi as you
sigh over sic transit.
Howard Bray’s verse also
makes you wonder how many
other Palisades poets we should
know about and celebrate?
Frank Staroba
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GDS plans to continue to engage community
VIEWPOINT
russell shaw
W
hen Georgetown Day School filed our
original planned-unit development application last November, we anticipated that
the D.C. Office of Planning would write its report
soon after, and recommend that the case be put on
the Zoning Commission calendar for consideration.
However, it became increasingly clear as the months
wore on that the agency had concerns about supporting our application.
The Wisconsin Avenue site (known as “Martens”) is zoned C-2-A, which allows for 65-foot
height. Our application called for a zoning map
amendment to change the site to C-2-B, which
would allow for the 80-foot buildings we had proposed.
Through meetings with the Office of Planning,
we understood that agency officials were reluctant
to support the map amendment. The Georgetown
Day School’s board and I took this under advisement and determined the best course of action
would be to revise the application.
Perhaps some developers would have fought
harder to maintain their original plans — and even
gone to the Zoning Commission without the Office
of Planning’s support — but Georgetown Day
School is not a typical developer. The board of trustees and I agreed that scaling back the height, and
not seeking a map amendment, was a more appropriate course for us to take.
I personally believe that more density on Wiscon-
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sin Avenue NW makes sense for the city, but I still
believe that this latest, scaled-down project design
will be very positive for the neighborhood, bringing
new retail, beautiful architecture and additional
amenities.
Our revisions maintain the Davenport Steps, an
amenity that is a critical part of transforming this
area. These steps will provide public space for various “place-making” activities, such as outdoor markets, movie nights and other community activities.
We also still plan to remove the slip lane, and we
will reconfigure intersections around the property to
increase pedestrian and bicycle safety.
In the nearly two years since we began working
on this project, we have attended six public advisory
neighborhood commission meetings, met privately
with the members of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3E (Friendship Heights, Tenleytown) eight
times, and had more than 60 other community meetings.
Through all of it, we have encountered a broad
range of opinions and perspectives on our project.
While we recognize that no single plan will satisfy
all constituencies, we embrace the opportunity to
engage in community discourse, as this is reflective
of our school’s values and mission.
Georgetown Day School remains excited by the
future of this project. We will continue to engage
with the residents of Tenleytown and with ANC 3E.
We look forward to input from the District and ultimately to presenting our case to the Zoning Commission.
Russell Shaw is Georgetown Day School’s head
of school.
Indeed, one academic study
showed that lotteries’ successes
create pockets of poverty.
Timothy A. Jones
Washington, D.C.
Lotteries harm black,
low-income residents DCRA ought to meet
In the March 16 issue, Tom
Sherwood describes the D.C. Lot- spirit of sunshine law
tery as “a good bet.” However, it
is only a good bet for the city.
This should be no surprise as the
lottery was designed to mirror the
traditional numbers game popular
among African-Americans.
For decades, studies have
shown African-Americans spend
more per capita on lotteries. Of
the states that conduct lotteries,
the District has the highest percentage of African-Americans in
its population.
The reason for the lottery’s
success is that it is a cash cow fed
by black and low-income players
who see their money go into an
amorphous general fund. For
these communities, this spending
even becomes an endogenous factor that hinders their development.
Compounding the matter is
that the value of the payouts to
winners is less under the popular
three-way numbers games operated by D.C. Lottery (the three-digit game called DC-3) than it was
under the traditional three-way
game.
The Current notes in a March
30 article that a rooftop structure
in Adams Morgan that was supposed to be just 9 feet tall,
appeared, “after construction was
finally underway,” to be almost
twice that height. We have had
similar experiences in Mount
Pleasant, discovering the consequences of unfortunate “determinations” by the Department of
Consumer and Regulatory
Affairs’ zoning administrator only
after construction has made them
faits accomplis.
The central problem here is
that zoning administrator “determination” letters are published
only on the agency’s website,
nowhere else, not even in the
D.C. Register, and are not sent to
affected advisory neighborhood
commissions. These commissions
are supposed to be a neighborhood’s defense against unfortunate District agency actions, but
they cannot do that job if they
don’t know what actions a District agency has taken.
ANC 1D (Mount Pleasant) has
formally advised the zoning
administrator to send determination letters to affected ANCs, like
any other “proposed District government action,” following D.C.
Code Section 1-309.10, but he
has declined to do so, arguing
that only District actions that
require public hearings may warrant “notice” to ANCs (email
from zoning administrator Matt
LeGrant to ANC 1D, June 8,
2015).
The zoning administrator’s
argument may make sense to lawyers accustomed to arguing
crabbed points of law, but it is
clearly contrary to the public
intent of ANC law. Why, I ask, is
it an unreasonable burden for the
zoning administrator to inform
ANCs of actions affecting their
neighborhoods, giving commissioners a fair chance to object,
before construction is underway
and allowing an objection would
be, as The Current reports,
“unfair to the developers”? Whatever the legal validity of the
obscure rationale given by the
agency’s lawyers for refusing to
provide such notice, communicating “determinations” to affected
ANCs would be the right thing
for the department to do, as an
agency that is supposed to serve
the residents of the District.
Jack McKay
Commissioner, ANC 1D03
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Former Frog hopes to make NFL leap
By BRIAN KAPUR
Former Maret football star Sean Davis worked out for NFL scouts at
the University of Maryland’s Pro Day last Wednesday. The former
Frog hopes to be selected in the NFL draft, which begins on April 28.
When Sean Davis took the field
for his first contact practice at
Maret, the ninth-grader — then 5
feet 6 inches tall — might have
looked out of place.
But Davis quickly proved to
Maret coach Mike Engleberg that
he belonged.
“We had this kid who was
probably 240 pounds — a big,
strong, physical kid — and Sean
laid him out,” Engleberg said.
“Nobody does that. It was a freshman and the first contact practice.
From the get-go, he was just in
another world physically.”
Davis went on to become one
of the most decorated football
players in Maret’s history before
taking his talents to College Park
for the University of Maryland,
where he developed into a hardhitting safety measuring in at 6
feet 1 inch tall and 201 pounds.
Last Wednesday, Davis was
once again trying to prove himself, this time for National Football League scouts as part of the
Terrapins’ Pro Day.
“I felt good today,” Davis said
after working out for the scouts. “I
was well-prepared, looked crisp
and looked sharp. It’s a dream
come true. I’m finally in the midst
of it, and it’s finally hitting me that
in less than a month I’m going to
be a professional football player.
I’m just blessed and loving the
process right now.”
Davis had a light day on
Wednesday and didn’t do too
many of the on-field tests and
instead did more drills. The Terps
senior had performed well at the
NFL Combine in February, where
he ran a 40-yard dash time of 4.46
seconds (ninth among defensive
backs); notched 21 reps in the
bench press (the best in his position group); leapt 37.5 inches in
the vertical jump (seventh among
his position group) and 126 inches
in the broad jump (fifth in the
group); and pulled off 6.64 seconds in the cone drill (best among
the defensive backs), 3.97 seconds
in the 20-yard shuttle run (third in
the positional group) and 11.53
seconds in the 60-yard shuttle run
(good for 10th among corners).
The former Frog’s terrific combine testing further padded his
resume after his time at Maryland,
where he notched more than 100
tackles in two of his four seasons
in College Park. Davis wrapped
up his time with the Terps with a
stellar senior year, during which
he recorded 88 tackles, forced five
fumbles, grabbed three interceptions and notched a sack while
earning Big Ten honorable mention honors at the end of the season.
According to a scouting report
on cbssports.com by Rob Rang —
a prominent NFL talent evaluator
— Davis’ strengths include “an
imposing frame with prototypical
size, including long arms and a
chiseled frame.” It further
describes him as “an absolute
lights-out hitter who generates terrific closing speed and bonecrushing collisions on a regular
basis, attacking the line of scrimmage whether he is coming from
safety or cornerback. Downhill
closing speed shows up in coverage as well, where he can zip in
front of receivers on underneath
routes.”
Meanwhile, Rang also details
Davis’ weaknesses: “a better hitter
than cover man and seems to know
it, opting to try to knock the ball
out of the hands of receivers as
they catch it rather than eliminate
the catch with his ability to remain
between the ball and quarterback.
Too often loses track of his receiver, sneaking peeks back at the
quarterback. Struggles with double-moves, lacking ideal balance
and recovery speed.”
Davis’ strong combine effort
and career at Maryland have
helped make his draft stock soar.
Lindy’s Sports Pro Football Draft
magazine projects him as a thirdround pick, while Rang lists him
as a fourth- or fifth-round pick.
“I’m one of the top [defensive
backs] out there, but who knows
where I’m going to go,” said
Davis. “I’m going to be happy
with wherever I land. I feel like I
should be off the board relatively
early, but we’ll wait and see.”
One advantage that Davis could
have is his versatility. He played
See Maret/Page 14
‘One shining moment’: Jenkins’ buzzer-beater nets title
By BRIAN KAPUR
Throughout the season, Villanova’s
men’s basketball team practiced a variety of
plays for late-game situations. And when
the Wildcats found themselves tied 74-74
with the University of North Carolina in the
NCAA title game on Monday night with
just 4.7 seconds to go on the clock, the team
knew exactly what to run with the title on
the line.
Former Gonzaga star Kris Jenkins
inbounded the ball to senior guard Ryan
Arcidiacono. Rather than slowly following
Arcidiacono up the court, Jenkins sprinted
to keep up.
“I always take the ball out,” Jenkins said
at the postgame press conference. “From
previous games I realized that when I followed the ball up, defenders always follow
the ball. I knew if I got in his line of vision
that he would find me.”
Jenkins’ intuition was right.
Arcidiacono was swarmed by defenders,
but Jenkins got open and the senior dished
the ball to the former Eagle.
“I wanted to be aggressive, and if I could
get a shot I was going to shoot it,” said Arcidiacono. “But I heard someone screaming at
the back of my head, and it was Kris, and I
just gave it to him and he let it go with confidence.”
Jenkins rewarded that faith by swishing
a three-pointer to lift Villanova to a 77-74
victory over the Tar Heels and the NCAA
championship.
“For him to be so unselfish and to give
up the ball, it just shows what type of teammate he is,” Jenkins told reporters. “When
Arch threw me the ball, one, two step, shoot
’em up, sleep in the streets.”
At the trophy presentation, Villanova
coach Jay Wright was asked about the
clutch play, and his response was simple:
“Kris Jenkins lives for that moment.”
Moments later at the press conference,
he added that Jenkins’ heady play to trail the
ball made all the difference.
“For him to realize that the inbound
[defender] wasn’t staying with him … he’s
one of the smartest basketball players we
have ever had,” said Wright.
It was the type of play that Jenkins routinely made at Gonzaga, where he hit lategame buckets to beat the likes of Patterson
(of Baltimore), DeMatha, St. John’s,
O’Connell and Paul VI, among a slew of
others.
“I knew it was good as soon as he let it
go,” Gonzaga coach Steve Turner said in an
interview Tuesday. “I was like, ‘That’s a
wrap.’ In four years, I saw that shot too
many times. I knew it was good. He’s hit
many of them, to say the least.”
Jenkins finished Monday’s game with 14
points and two rebounds.
Meanwhile, Jenkins was joined by
Sidwell grad and Villanova junior forward
Josh Hart, who scored 12 points, grabbed
eight boards and was named to the All-Final
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Kris Jenkins delivered a slew of clutch
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on the Terps’ special teams units
throughout his college career;
played safety, developing a reputation as a big hitter; and also played
cornerback.
“All the teams know I can play
safety,” said Davis. “A lot of teams
like me at corner. I have the quickness and speed to play corner. I’m
raw at it, with only a year under
my belt at it.”
It’s versatility that he has had
since high school. On offense,
Davis played receiver, running
back and quarterback, and he
scored 30 touchdowns as a senior
for the Frogs. On defense, he
played free safety while averaging
20 tackles per game.
“Getting ready for college,
from a football standpoint, playing
both sides of the ball is the way to
go,” Engleberg said. “It puts you
on film in every possible way and
really shows off your athleticism.
If you really, truly love football,
you don’t want to come off.”
Davis’ athleticism goes beyond
the gridiron. At Maret he also
earned varsity letters in baseball,
track and wrestling.
“He was a phenomenal baseball
player,” said Engleberg, who was
on hand for Davis’ Pro Day workout. “If he stuck with baseball, he
would probably be getting ready
to be drafted there. He was an allleague in track in the one year he
ran; he was a heck of a wrestler in
the two years he did. He’s a phenomenal athlete.”
While Davis excelled in sports
with the Frogs, academics were
often a struggle. But rather than
opting to go to a school with less
rigorous school work, Davis dug
in, and it’s a quality that Engleberg
points to as one of the former
Frogs’ best intangibles.
“He’s not going to give up
Maret football coach Mike Engleberg, left, was in College Park, Md.,
to watch his former player Sean Davis perform in front of NFL scouts.
ever,” Engleberg said. “Maret was
hard for him; he had to work. He
could’ve left. But he kept pushing
and never stopped. When he got to
college, he made the honor roll all
four years, and he was one of the
top students on the team. He really
benefited from learning how to do
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the work in high school and graduated from Maryland in three-anda-half years and was a helluva
football player on top of it.”
Davis hopes that hard work will
pay off in the form of a stellar NFL
career like his all-time favorite
player, Sean Taylor, the former
Washington Redskins safety who,
like Davis, was known for being a
big hitter before his untimely
death in 2007.
“That’s the guy I idolized growing up and the way he hit people
and instilled fear in receivers.
That’s why I wear 21,” he said.
If Davis does get selected by
his hometown team, it would be
dream scenario.
“The Redskins would be great,”
he said. “I’ve always been a Redskins fan. That would be really
nice.”
However, the biggest difference in the NFL draft process and
the college selection process is
who does the picking. It was a
reminder Davis got a few moments
after entertaining a Redskins question, when a reporter from the
Baltimore Ravens website asked
about his interest in playing for
that squad.
“Ravens are cool,” Davis said
with a smile. “They have the
Maryland flag on them. Playing in
Baltimore and staying at home
would be great, too. Whoever
picks me, I’m happy to play.”
NCAA: Former Gonzaga and Sidwell stars deliver
From Page 13
Four team for his efforts.
For Sidwell basketball coach Eric Singletary, who
was at the game in Houston, it was a special moment
after working with Hart from his first day at Sidwell
and consistently traveling to Villanova games over
the last few years.
“The biggest stage — that we all grow up watching and aspiring to — to be there, front and center
with 75,000 people, it was surreal,” the coach said in
an interview Tuesday. “I knew it was real because he
earned it.”
For Jenkins, the win also gives him bragging
rights over his former Gonzaga teammate and legal
brother Nate Britt, who scored two points in nine
minutes of play for the Tar Heels.
“I’m not going to say too much tonight, but tomorrow I’ll be right on him,” Jenkins said. “Nate is my
brother, and I love him. To play against each other in
the national championship was something special for
our family. I’m happy we won, for sure, so I don’t
have to hear him talk smack.”
Photo courtesy of Eric Singletary
Sidwell boys basketball coach Eric Singletary, left,
flew to Houston to support Josh Hart, a former
Quaker, throughout the Final Four.
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“That location specifically has
been underperforming, and we’re
constantly evaluating every aspect
of our business,” Wilcox told The
Current. “While closing the store
is a tough decision, we intend to
invest our resources in remodeling
existing stores and adding new
locations.”
Wilcox said she didn’t know of
any plans for new Safeway locations near Tenleytown. Customers
interviewed Monday at the Tenleytown store generally said
they’ll likely shift to the Giant
Food locations in Cleveland Park
or Van Ness, or Tenley’s Whole
Foods Market. But most shoppers
who spoke to The Current live
nearby and appreciated having a
neighborhood grocery; at one
point, neighbors bumped into each
other at the store during an interview.
Tenleytown resident Jackie
Murphy said she has been patronizing the store for five decades.
“Well, bummer,” she said, describing her reaction to the closure.
“This is where I always shop.”
David Yudin, who said he lives
just three blocks from the Tenley-
town Safeway, said he’d consider
shopping at the grocer’s Chevy
Chase store, located about a mile
and a half away at 5545 Connecticut Ave. NW. But he criticized the
decision to close the Davenport
Street supermarket, especially as
two new businesses — a bike shop
and a classic car dealership — are
just now debuting in another
Georgetown Day-owned property
across 42nd Street NW from Safeway.
“There’s businesses opening
right over there. They’ll be there
for at least a year, so why not keep
this open?” Yudin said. “I’m so
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disappointed in Safeway that they
want to make the jump this soon.”
Georgetown Day is also unhappy with the decision, according to
Alison Grasheim, spokesperson
for the school.
“We had just hoped ... to keep
the structure full until we are able
to begin construction, and we
don’t know why they chose to do
this early on in the agreement,”
Grasheim said in an interview,
also noting “the service [the store]
provides to the neighborhood.”
Georgetown Day’s students
also will be affected, according to
freshman Claire Wolsk. For students who can’t drive, the Safeway located next door to their
campus has been a valuable amenity, and “we love the people who
work there,” she said.
Several customers also questioned the idea that the Tenleytown Safeway has been hurting for
business; there was a steady
stream of customers midday Monday. Wilcox, the Safeway spokesperson, didn’t have further details
on the location’s performance. She
also didn’t immediately know
what would happen to the store’s
employees or the size of its staff.
“Our Associate Relations team
will be diligently working with
each affected associate and the
labor unions to attempt to find
other work,” she wrote in an email.
The store also will continue to
stock enough inventory to serve
customers: “Fresh product will be
replenished/reordered as the store
winds down,” Wilcox wrote.
Asked about the short notice
before the closure announcement,
Wilcox said the timing “just
Safeway is closing the store
earlier than most expected.
depends on the division and the
situation.”
Grasheim said Georgetown
Day is now trying to decide what
to do with the Safeway property
until the anticipated groundbreaking of its new lower/middle school
building on the site in 18 to 24
months. “That [short period] may
somewhat limit the tenants who
would be interested, but this was
just since yesterday; we’re still
considering our options,” she said
Friday.
The school hadn’t reached any
further decisions this week, but
Grasheim did say that Georgetown
Day won’t make the Safeway
parking lot available for neighbors
or nearby businesses due to liability concerns.
The Davenport Street Safeway
site fits into a broader redevelopment for that section of Tenleytown. In addition to expanding its
campus — accommodating lower
grades that will move from
Georgetown Day’s Palisades location — the school plans to construct two mixed-use buildings
fronting Wisconsin Avenue on the
site of the former Martens car
dealerships. The school’s plans are
all subject to approval by the Zoning Commission, which will consider the proposal later this year.
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April 6, 2016 ■ Page 17
Bloomingdale row house offers Victorian atmosphere
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110-year-old row house at
143 U St. NW have created a beautiful living space that
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revives the grandeur of a bygone
era of D.C. while providing
upgrades for modern living. This
Queen Anne Victorian between
LeDroit Park and Bloomingdale,
with four bedrooms and threeand-a-half bathrooms, is now on
the market for $1,075,000.
Originally built in 1906, the
house was preserved as much as
possible during a sequence of
renovations. Even the inset-tile
floor and tile wall of the entrance
foyer have survived, as have as
the pine floors, wood millwork
and carved stone accents on the
interior and exterior. Past residents have repainted the original
flower and leaf plaster friezes that
run along the eaves of the home
and around the elegant turret in
cheerful colors.
The front foyer door opens
onto a long entrance hall and the
formal living room to the right.
The fireplace with an elegantly
carved wood mantel and the
curved plaster of the walls, where
the living room gives way to the
turret, are details that showcased
quality in turn-of-the-century
Washington. Because early central heating was coming into use
then, the hearth was tiled instead
of open and fitted with a cast-iron
heating register — which is now
purely decorative. Original hardwood pocket doors roll shut for
privacy. In the turret space, tall,
custom-made window frames follow the curve of the wall. All the
woodwork in the room has been
stripped of paint, revealing the
warm oak beneath.
The second room is a formal
parlor, lit from elongated windows flanking a second fireplace
— similarly tiled and fitted with
an inset copper heating register.
An extra-wide pocket door slides
back to create an open space.
From the parlor, the grand oak
staircase leads upstairs and a third
doorway leads into the spacious
dining room, featuring the third
tiled fireplace.
At the back of the house is the
updated kitchen with a discreet
powder room and large pantry.
White custom cabinetry, white
subway-tile backsplash and light
gray granite countertops — as
well as stainless steel Jenn-Air
refrigerator, four-burner gas range
and microwave — reflect the
light from two exposures to create a bright workspace. The center island has a sink and breakfast
bar. Out the back door, painted
posts and railings give a storybook feel to the elevated porch
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The 110-year-old Victorian row house at 143 U St.
NW in Bloomingdale is priced at $1,075,000.
and private garden below.
On the second floor, the master bedroom features crystal chandeliers and a multitude of southfacing windows, including four in
the curved turret. The black-andwhite-tiled master bathroom provides some old and some new,
with a refurbished cast-iron clawfoot tub across from a glass
shower stall.
The second bedroom has a bay
window and is currently fitted as
a large dressing room and closet,
but can be returned to a bedroom
for a larger family.
The third bedroom overlooks
the yard and sits next to a full
bath on the hall with another
refurbished clawfoot tub.
The third level is a Hobbit-like
bonus getaway, suited for a children’s room, office or as guest
quarters. Guests will need to
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duck, however, because the original rough-hewn ceiling beams are
a little low by the staircase. Adding charm here is the circle of
windows in the turret overlooking
the neighborhood, perfect for
viewing the flowering cherry
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The English basement is a versatile area, fitted with a contemporary floating metal staircase
designed by the current owner’s
architect brother. Although the
basement is one open space, ceiling-height cabinets wall off a portion to create a bedroom with
plentiful storage. The basement is
accessible through doors in the
front, back and inside of the
house and also has a utility room
with a sink, stacked Maytag
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recessed lights and contemporary
lighting along the wall make this
space brighter than average.
Though it’s located in a quiet
corner of the neighborhood, the
home is just a few blocks from
Howard University, as well as
cafes, restaurants, markets, yoga
studios and Crispus Attucks Park.
It’s also just a 15-minute walk
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Downtown/Penn
■ downtown / penn quarter
The commission will meet at
6:30 p.m. Monday, April 11, in
Room A-3, Martin Luther King
Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St.
NW.
Agenda items include:
■ consideration of a Historic Preservation Review Board application for reconstruction at the Sixth
& I Historic Synagogue, 606-608 I
St. NW, to build a glass exterior
and incorporate the adjacent building into the new design.
For details, visit anc2c.us or
contact [email protected].
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7 p.m. Monday, May 16, at Our
Lady Queen of the Americas
Church, California Street and
Phelps Place NW.
For details, visit anc2d.org or
contact [email protected].
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■ Glover Park / Cathedral heights
7 p.m. Thursday, April 14, at
Stoddert Elementary School
and Glover Park Community
Center, 4001 Calvert St. NW.
■ police report.
■ presentation by D.C. Board of
Elections public affairs and outreach specialist Tamara Robinson
regarding the June 14 primary and
Nov. 8 general elections, including
information on new electronic
technology and early voting
options.
■ consideration of a resolution to
Mayor Muriel Bowser regarding
respect for process, transparency
and community engagement in
response to the scheduling of
informational meetings of critical
importance to the Glover Park and
Cathedral Heights community
without consultation with elected
neighborhood leaders, consideration of conflicts with regularly
scheduled community meetings or
sufficient notice to community
members to assure their attendance.
■ update on funding for the Fillmore Arts Center programs.
■ status report on plans for the
Ward 3 shelter for homeless families.
■ update on the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board hearing on the
Glover Park liquor license moratorium and the challenge from Rite
Aid.
■ update on filling the vacancy for
single-member district 3B03 in
western Glover Park.
■ announcement of the D.C. Water
and Sewer Authority’s town hall
meeting on April 21 and presentation on the Clean Rivers Project
on May 12.
■ open forum.
For details, email info@anc3b.
org or visit anc3b.org.
ANC 3C
ANC 3CPark
Cleveland
■ cleveland park / woodley Park
Woodley
Park
massachusetts avenue heights
Massachusetts
Avenue Heights
Cathedral Heights
At the commission’s March
21 meeting:
■ a resident complained that the
D.C. Department of Transportation has disrupted the community
with a “horrible set of sidewalk
replacements” from Connecticut
Avenue to 33rd Place NW. Commissioner Nancy MacWood said
the agency has not been informing
ANC 3C of this work and the
commission wants to have a public meeting with the department.
■ commissioners voted 8-0 to
adopt items on their consent calendar: support for a Historic Preservation Review Board application
for a rear dormer at 3403 Macomb
St. NW; support for Alcoholic
Beverage Control renewal applications for Class C restaurant
licenses at La Piquette, Hot and
Juicy Crawfish, Woodley Cafe and
Umi Japanese Cuisine; and support for an Alcoholic Beverage
Control application for a new
Class B retailer license for Yes!
Organic Market, 3424 Connecticut Ave. NW.
■ Metropolitan Police Department
Lt. Gary Durand advised residents
not to leave laptops, phones, purses, jackets and other valuables in
their cars, even for a few minutes,
due to an uptick in thefts from
vehicles.
■ D.C. Department of Transportation construction manager Jeff
Pelletier announced that work in
the creek on the Klingle Valley
trail project is 98 percent complete, with work on the trail itself
to follow shortly after. Work will
continue on the ramp to Beach
Drive for the next two months or
so, Pelletier said.
Pelletier also said work in the
creek generated more noise than
most other aspects of the project,
though pavement removal coming
up in April, May and June will also
be noisy. The agency hopes to have
the project finished, with the trail
ready for use, by early next year.
■ commissioners voted 8-0 to support an updated design proposal
for the Cleveland Park Library,
3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. The
commission also requested the
opportunity to review landscape
plans as they evolve. The latest
library design has a slightly greater height and mass; a smaller curtain wall on the south facade; an
exterior emphasis on brick with
some limestone panels; and several other minor upgrades.
express serious concerns about
numerous aspects of a Historic
Preservation Review Board application for a rear addition to and
renovation of a home at 3512
Lowell St. NW. Commissioners
criticized aspects of the proposal
including demolishing the garage,
widening the driveways, replacing
wooden windows with metal ones,
interrupting the rhythm of the
neighborhood’s front yards and
“irreparably” damaging an elm
tree on the property.
oppose a Historic Preservation
Review Board application for
demolition and new construction
of a house at 3700 Connecticut
Ave. NW, objecting to the proposed expansion of the house’s
square footage. The commission
also urged the Historic Preservation Office not to consider the current proposal until the National
Park Service acknowledges the
project’s adherence to a 1998
easement agreement requiring
prior approval for exterior changes
to the property.
■ commissioners voted 6-0, with
two abstentions and David Valdez
recusing himself, to oppose a public space application for 17 parking spaces at Embassy Church,
3855 Massachusetts Ave. NW. The
commission also objected to 13
parking spaces in the front of the
church property located within the
public space setback.
7:30 p.m. Monday, April 18, at
the 2nd District Police Headquarters, 3320 Idaho Ave. NW.
For details, visit anc3c.org.
ANC 3D
ANCValley
3D
Spring
■ spring valley / wesley heights
Wesley
Heights
palisades / kent / foxhall
7 p.m. Wednesday, April 6, in
Elderdice Hall, Kresge Building,
Wesley Theological Seminary,
4500 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
■ police report.
■ community concerns.
■ consideration of a historic landmark application for the Palisades
Playground and Field House.
■ update on leaf blowers by
Haskell Small.
■ presentation on the Palisades
Recreation Center Design Team
by Jackie Stanley of the D.C.
Department of General Services.
■ consideration of a D.C. Board of
Zoning Adjustment application for
a special exception at 5236 Sherier
Place NW.
■ consideration of liquor license
renewals for Bambu, 5101 MacArthur Blvd. NW and Al Dente, 3201
New Mexico Ave. NW; and a new
license application for Lupo Alimentari & Vineri, 4814 MacArthur Blvd. NW.
■ discussion of upcoming and
pending cases, including American University housing issues,
Superfresh development and
George Washington University
Mount Vernon Campus filing
update.
For details, call 202-957-1999
or visit anc3d.org.
ANC 3E
ANC 3E
Tenleytown
■ american university park
American
University Park
friendship heights / tenleytown
7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, in
the Ceremonial Classroom at
the Washington College of Law,
American University, 4300
Nebraska Ave. NW.
■ announcements/open forum.
■ police report.
■ discussion of and possible vote
on resolutions regarding renewal
of liquor licenses for the Cheesecake Factory, 5345 Wisconsin
Ave. NW; Satay Club, 4654 Wisconsin Ave. NW; Burger Tap &
Shake, 4445 Wisconsin Ave. NW;
Masala Art, 4441-A Wisconsin
Ave. NW; Tartufo, 4910 Connecticut Ave. NW; Le Chat Noir, 4907
Wisconsin Ave. NW; and Maggiano’s, 5333 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
on a resolution regarding an Alcoholic Beverage Control application for a Class D liquor license at
Wagshal’s, 4855 Massachusetts
Ave. NW.
■ update by Georgetown Day
School on plans for expanded
school and mixed-use development on the Safeway and Martens
lots.
on a resolution regarding a public
space application for Beefsteak
restaurant on Wisconsin Avenue
NW.
For details, visit anc3e.org.
ANC 3F
ANCHills
3F
Forest
■ Forest hills / North cleveland park
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, at
Forest Hills of DC, 4901 Connecticut Ave. NW.
For details, call 202-670-7262
or visit anc3f.com.
ANC 3/4G
ANCChase
3/4G
Chevy
■ CHEVY CHASE
7 p.m. Monday, April 11, at the
Chevy Chase Community Center, Connecticut Avenue and
McKinley Street NW.
For details, call 202-363-5803,
email chevychaseanc3@verizon.
net or visit anc3g.org.
Northwest Passages
The Current
The People and Places of Northwest Washington
One block, two harpsichords
This month in ...
■ 1971 — The Chevy Chase Community Council appealed to neighborhood
residents to help furnish the Chevy Chase Community Center, scheduled for
completion by the end of the summer. The Recreation Department had a
$20,000 allocation for basic equipment, but the council hoped to identify
another $35,000 from private sources.
Two neighbors play
host to concert series
■ 1976 — Superintendent Vincent Reed submitted a proposal for a four-year
academic high school at the site of the shuttered Gordon Junior High School
at 34th Street and Wisconsin Avenue
NW (now home to Hardy Middle
From Our archives
School). At the school board’s hearing, speakers split on the plan, Ward
3 school board member Carol Schwartz reported. Most of those who lived in
the central corridor, an area served by Western High School, supported the
plan. Some opponents complained that it would take good students away
from Wilson High; others charged that the plan was elitist and racist.
By MARK LIEBERMAN
C
arolyn Winter and Jessica
Honigberg have been nextdoor neighbors on Aberfoyle Place NW in Chevy Chase
for more than a decade. Winter’s
two sons and Honigberg’s two
daughters, now in their late teens
and early 20s, grew up together
and remain friends. And Winter
and Honigberg have always
shared a passion for music.
But it wasn’t until late 2014
that Winter and Honigberg realized they both wanted to pursue
an unusually specific interest: the
harpsichord. Winter had just
retired from her job at the World
Bank and was looking for a musical hobby to fill her time. Honigberg’s kids had left for college,
and the longtime piano teacher
and Yale music major also wanted
to expand her musical repertoire.
“We’re convinced there’s
something in the water in the
Pinehurst Tributary,” Honigberg
joked, referring to the stream that
parallels Aberfoyle Place. “There
may be other harpsichordists
evolving on the street. We’ll all
have harpsichords before long.”
After the neighbors joined
forces to shop for harpsichords
April 6, 2016 ■ Page 19
Carolyn Winter, left, and Jessica Honigberg pose with Winter’s
harpsichord, which was shipped to her house from Rhode Island.
and work on their own skills, they
decided they wanted to share
their passion with others. They
came up with the idea of the
Aberfoyle Baroque, a concert
series that has brought worldrenowned harpsichordists for intimate performances in their homes
since March 2015.
Tickets are on sale now for
their latest event, featuring
award-winning French harpsichordist Jean Rondeau and lute
player Thomas Dunford this Saturday at 6 p.m. in Winter’s home.
The event will also feature a fourcourse French meal and fine
wines, all prepared by Winter and
Honigberg.
Each woman has a harpsichord
prominently displayed on the
main floor of their home, a rarity
for the seldom-seen instrument.
Honigberg and Winter quickly
found out that learning to play the
harpsichord at a high level can
take years, so in the meantime,
they wanted to let others in on the
fun.
“We’ve got such wonderful
instruments,” Winter said. “It’s a
shame not to be sharing them.”
They modeled the events after
the traditional harpsichord experiences that often took place in intiSee Aberfoyle/Page 19
■ 1986 — Wilson High School student Tessa Vaughan spent her senior year
at Beijing Normal University, where her studies included intensive classes in
both spoken and written Chinese. Vaughan and St. Albans student Bill Patrick
— the first recipients of the John Fisher Zeidman Memorial scholarships
awarded by the Chinese university in conjunction with the Chinese Studies
Program at Sidwell Friends School — lived with students in a dormitory for foreign students. Wilson, St. Albans and Sidwell participated in a language consortium of area schools, and both Vaughan and Patrick had attended daily
Chinese classes at Sidwell for two years prior to receiving their scholarships.
■ 1996 — Northwest dog owners seeking greater flexibility from the National
Park Service in enforcement of the leash law won an ally in Congress. Illinois
Rep. Sydney Yates, the ranking Democrat on the House appropriations subcommittee for the Interior Department, submitted questions for the record
about the treatment of dog owners at Military Field and other national parks.
Yates demanded to know why park visitors said they had been harassed.
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Wednesday, April 6
Wednesday April 6
Concerts
■ The University of the District of
Columbia’s “JAZZalive” series will feature a senior recital by tenor saxophonist Jordon Dixon, a jazz studies major.
7:30 p.m. Free. Recital Hall, Building
46-West, University of the District of
Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-274-5803.
■ Roots rock band Goin’ Goin’ Gone
will perform. 7:30 p.m. Free. Gypsy
Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
■ Town Mountain and the Brummy
Brothers will perform. 8 p.m. $14. Gypsy
Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
Discussions and lectures
■ The D.C. Public Library and Friends
of the Tenley-Friendship Library will present a book talk by Pulitzer-winning
Washington Post dance critic Sarah
Kaufman, author of “The Art of Grace:
On Moving Well Through Life.” 7 p.m.
Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450
Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.
■ Monica Hesse will discuss her
book “Girl in the Blue Coat” (for ages 13
and older). 7 p.m. Free. Children &
The Current
Events Entertainment
Teens Department, Politics and Prose,
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3641919.
■ Judith Welles will discuss her book
“Lilly Stone,” about a woman who
changed the landscape of business and
culture in the rural countryside near the
nation’s capital. 7 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-7270232.
■ Homeland security expert and
mother of three Juliette Kayyem will discuss her book “Security Mom: An
Unclassified Guide to Protecting Our
Homeland and Your Home.” 7 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Ellen R. Malcolm, author of “When
Women Win: Emily’s
List and the Rise of
Women in American
Politics,” will discuss
this year’s elections
in conversation with
Sen. Dianne
Feinstein, D-Calif. 7
p.m. Free; reservations required. Room
1, Ward Circle Building, American
University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave.
NW. whenwomenwin.eventbrite.com.
■ Israeli writer Eshkol Nevo will
discuss “Home and Wandering” as
themes in his latest books, “Neuland”
and “Homesick.” 7:30 to 9 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Doyle/Forman
Theater, McKinley Building, American
NW. american.edu/cas/israelstudies.
Films
■ Goethe-Institut Washington will
present “The German Shepherd,” which
uses animation to explore the human
capacity to forgive acts of evil, and
“Zurückkommen,” which follows Israeli
immigrants in Berlin where Holocaust
memorials bring forth painful memories.
A discussion on German-Jewish relations
today will follow. 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Goethe-Institut
Washington, Suite 3, 1990 K St. NW.
goetheinstitutwashington.eventbrite.com.
■ The Avalon Docs series will feature
Mark Craig’s 2014 film “The Last Man
on the Moon,” about Apollo astronaut
Gene Cernan. 8 p.m. $6.75 to $12. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-966-6000.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Wizards will play
the Brooklyn Nets. 7 p.m. $18 to $899.
Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-7453000.
Thursday,April
April 7 7
Thursday
9th Annual
Taste of Dupont
Saturday, April 9th 1:00-4:00 p.m.
Dupont Circle area restaurants will open their doors to
showcase their signature appetizers, entrées, drinks, and
desserts for the ninth annual Taste of Dupont.
This progressive lunch, sponsored by HDCMS, encourages
patrons to walk from restaurant to tavern with a master ticket
to discover new places to try.
Tickets are $20 in advance; $30 at the door.
Tickets go on sale at 12:30 on
the west side of Dupont Circle.
(Rain Date: April 16th)
www.DupontCircleMainStreets.org
Historic
Dupont Circle
Main Streets
Taste
of
Dupont
Concerts
■ The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library will host its monthly Brown
Bag Chamber Recital. Noon. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901
G St. NW. 202-727-0321.
■ “Celebrating Benny Carter: Jazz
Appreciation Month” will feature a concert by the U.S. Air Force Band’s Airmen
of Note Ensemble. Noon, 1 p.m. and 2
p.m. Free. Coulter Performance Plaza,
National Museum of American History,
14th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW. 202-633-1000.
Columbia’s “JAZZalive” series will present “Meet the Artist in a Master Class,”
featuring jazz drummer and educator
Ralph Peterson. 12:30 p.m. Free. Recital
Hall, Building 46-West, University of the
District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-274-5803.
■ The Conservatory Project will feature the Eastman Musica Nova Ensemble from the Eastman School of Music
at Rochester University performing
works by American composer Steve
Reich. 6 p.m. Free; tickets distributed in
the States Gallery a half hour before the
performance. Terrace Theater, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The DC Punk Archive Library Basement Show will feature Foul Swoops,
Thaylobleu and Mission Creep. 6:30
p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-7270321.
■ The National Symphony Orchestra,
conductor Nikolaj Znaider and pianist
Benjamin
Grosvenor
(shown) will
perform works
by Mozart and
Mahler. 7 p.m.
$15 to $89.
Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600. The performance will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m.
■ Keith Kenny will perform. 7:30
p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge,
Thursday, april 7
■ Discussion: Stephen Hess,
senior fellow emeritus in governance studies at the Brookings
Institution, will discuss his book
“America’s Political Dynasties.”
Luncheon at 12:15 p.m.; program
at 1 p.m. $10 to $30. Woman’s
National Democratic Club, 1526
New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202232-7363.
3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ The American University Chamber
Singers will present “The Terezin Project:
Art When All Is Lost,” featuring rarely
heard works and traditional Jewish song
arrangements by Gideon Klein and Viktor Ullmann. 8 p.m. $5 to $10.
Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen
Arts Center, American University, 4400
Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-8853634. The performance will repeat Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Kay Spiritual Life
Center.
■ The Dom Flemons Duo (of Carolina
Chocolate Drops) and the Herd of Main
Street will perform. 8 p.m. $14 to $16.
Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
Demonstration
■ Gardening and cooking writer Adrienne Cook and nutritionist Danielle
Cook will explain how to prepare plants
such as sweet potatoes and beets that
are entirely edible, from top to toe. Noon
and 12:45 p.m. Free. Conservatory Garden Court, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100
Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.
■ As part of the “Iconoclash” initiative, panelists will discuss “Looting and
Trafficking of Antiquities in the Middle
East.” 9:30 a.m. Free; reservations
required. Wilson Center, Ronald Reagan
Building and International Trade Center,
1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
wilsoncenter.org/events.
Columbia Law Review will host a symposium on “From Protest Movements of
the 1960s to #BlackLivesMatter: Legal
Strategies for an Emerging Civil Rights
Movement.” 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Fifth-floor Moot
Courtroom, University of the District of
Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law,
4340 Connecticut Ave. NW. law.udc.edu.
■ Hollie Russon Gilman, visiting
scholar at the McCourt School of Public
Policy at Georgetown University and a
fellow at the New America Foundation,
will discuss her book “Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and
Civic Innovation in America.” 11 a.m. to
1 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Grand Conference Room 205, Old
North, Georgetown University, 37th and
O streets NW. guevents.georgetown.edu.
■ Historian James Traub will discuss
his book “John Quincy Adams: Militant
Spirit,” which draws on Adams’ diary, letters and writings to evoke his life as
ambassador, secretary of state, president and congressman. Noon. Free.
McGowan Theater, National Archives
Building, Constitution Avenue between
7th and 9th streets NW. 202-357-5000.
■ Margie Ruddick, winner of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, will
discuss her book “Wild by Design.”
12:30 to 1:30 p.m. $10; free for members. Reservations required. National
Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202272-2448.
■ Pete MacDonald, a former Foreign
Service officer who served in Iran, will
discuss Edward FitzGerald’s rendition of
Omar Khayyam’s “Rubaiyat” verses,
which took the English-speaking literary
world by storm at the end of the 19th
century. 2:30 p.m. Free. Room A-3, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901
G St. NW. 202-727-0321.
■ In honor of the 10th anniversary of
the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace,
and World Affairs at Georgetown
University, former U.S. Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright will discuss the role
of religion in international relations, .
4:30 to 6 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Gaston Hall, Georgetown
University, 37th and O streets NW.
berkleycenter.georgetown.edu.
■ A discussion on “Art in Captivity:
Today’s Relevance of Art at Terezin” will
feature American University faculty
members, musicians, scholars and
other guests. 5:30 p.m. Free. Abramson
Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center,
American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. american.edu/auarts.
■ Tania El Khoury, an artist working
between London and Beirut, will discuss
her work, which challenges existing
power dynamics, and offer her take on
the role of the arts in the time of Arab
uprisings. 6 to 7 p.m. Free; reservations
required. National Building Museum,
401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448.
■ Mike Springmann will discuss his
book “Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts
That Rocked the World — An Insider’s
View.” 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Cullen Room,
Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW.
202-789-2227.
■ As part of a yearlong celebration
of the 225th birthday of the nation’s
capital, HumanitiesDC will sponsor a
“Humanitini” happy hour focusing on
“The Man With the (Urban) Plan,” about
the legacy of Brig. Gen. Montgomery
Meigs’ work in D.C. before and during
the Civil War. Panelists will include
Tanya Washington Stern, deputy director
for planning, engagement and design at
the D.C. Office of Planning; Sue Taylor,
public anthropologist-in-residence at
American University and independent
consultant in oral history and cultural
heritage; and Dean Herrin, chief historian for the National Capital Region of the
National Park Service. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Langston
Room, Busboys and Poets, 235 2021
14th St. NW. wdchumanities.org.
■ As part of the “Iconoclash” initiative, a global panel will discuss “Trafficking Cultural Materials — Appropriation of
Mankind’s Property.” 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Free. New York University Washington,
DC, 1307 L St. NW. events.nyu.edu.
■ Jewish Lit Live will present a book
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talk by Molly Antopol, author of “The
UnAmericans.” 7 p.m. Free. Marvin Center, George Washington University, 800
21st St. NW. 202-994-7470.
■ Writer and composer James
McBride will discuss his book “Kill ’Em
and Leave: Searching for the Real James
Brown and the
American
Soul,” which
traces the life
of the legendary Godfather
of Soul and
celebrates his six-decade path from gospel to his lasting place at the top of soul
music. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose,
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3641919.
Films
■ The West End Library Movie Extravaganza will feature Martin Scorsese’s
2013 film “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
2:30 p.m. Free. West End Interim
Library, 2522 VIrginia Ave. NW. 202724-8707.
■ “Thursdays at La Luna”— a silveranniversary showcase of Teatro de la
Luna’s best stage performances over
the last 25 years — will feature a video
of Mexican playwright’s “Rosa de Dos
Aromas/Two-Scented Rose” (in Spanish).
7 p.m. Free; reservations suggested.
Casa de la Luna, 4020 Georgia Ave. NW.
202-882-6227.
Performances and readings
■ Shu-sui Tanaka, a master of the
Satsuma-style biwa, and Erika Akoh, an
acclaimed Japanese modern dancer, will
perform. 5 p.m. Free; reservations
required. George Washington University
Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st
St. NW. 202-994-7394.
■ The Happenings Happy Hour series
will feature The Welders’ “Transmission,” an immersive, participatory “performance essay” on the viral evolution
of culture from the radio age to the present. 6 p.m. Free. Sidney Harman Hall
Forum, 610 F St. NW. 202-547-1122.
■ The First Thursday Evening Poetry
Reading Series will resume with Herb
Guggenheim hosting Poets on the
Fringe. 7 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library,
3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.
■ The Washington Improv Theater
will continue its 10th annual Fighting
Improv Smackdown Tournament, an
elimination-style competition with teams
competing for audience favor. 7 and
9:30 p.m. $15 to $18. Source, 1835
14th St. NW. washingtonimprovtheater.
com. The competition will conclude over
the weekend with shows Friday at 8 and
10 p.m. and Saturday at 4, 6 and 8 p.m.
Special events
■ In honor of the Washington Nationals’ first home game of the 2016 season, 106.7 The Fan will host an Opening
Day Festival will live music, food trucks,
craft beer and the station’s live pregame
show. 1 to 4 p.m. Free. Canal Park, 2nd
and M streets SE. capitolriverfront.org.
■ This month’s “Phillips After 5”
installment — “Sensory Overload,”
presented in partnership with FreshFarm
Markets — will include a chance to
create multi-sensory collages, explore
the “Seeing Nature: Landscape
Masterworks From the Paul G. Allen
Family Collection” exhibition, listen to
tunes, taste treats from local vendors,
and hear chef Nora Pouillon discuss her
book “My Organic Life.” 5 to 8:30 p.m.
$10 to $12; reservations suggested.
Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW.
phillipscollection.org/events.
■ AIA/DC Architecture Week 2016
will kick off with an opening party, “Sip
& Sketch With Moleskine!” 6:30 to 8
p.m. $10 to $20. District Architecture
Center, 421 7th St. NW. aiadc.com/
ArchitectureWeek. The festival will continue through April 16 with a variety of
tours, lectures and other events.
Sporting events
■ The Washington Nationals will play
its first home game of the season,
against the Miami Marlins. 4:05 p.m.
$10 to $345. Nationals Park, 1500
South Capitol St. SE. 888-632-6287.
The series will continue Saturday at
4:05 p.m. and Sunday at 1:35 p.m.
■ The Washington Capitals will play
the Pittsburgh Penguins. 7 p.m. $58 to
$369. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW.
800-745-3000.
Friday, April 8
Friday
April 8
Children’s program
■ Destiny Clark, Miss Maryland
2015, will entertain children with stories
and songs about plants and flowers.
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Free. National Garden Amphitheater, U.S. Botanic Garden,
100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.
Class
■ The National Gallery of Art’s Writing Salon will present a workshop on
“Story: The Multilayered Narrative,” with
participants mining the richness of a
17th-century Dutch genre painting to
experiment with storytelling, point of
view and symbolism. 10:30 a.m. to 1
p.m. Free; reservations required. National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. nga.gov. The program
will repeat Saturday from 1 to 3:30 p.m.
Concerts
■ Fringe Music in the Library will feature the three-piece post-punk band Puff
Pieces. Noon. Free. Martin Luther King
Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202727-0321.
■ The Friday Morning Music Club will
present works by Grieg and Prokofiev.
Noon. Free. Calvary Baptist Church, 755
8th St. NW. 202-333-2075.
■ James Kosnik of Norfolk, Va., will
present an organ recital. 12:15 p.m.
Free. National City Christian Church, 5
Thomas Circle NW. 202-797-0103.
■ The Friday Music Series will present pianist Ralitza Patcheva, flutist Nikolai Popov and cellist Vasily Popov performing works by Weber, Villa-Lobos and
Prokofiev. 1:15 p.m. Free. McNeir Auditorium, Georgetown University, 37th and
O streets NW. 202-687-2787.
■ The Conservatory Project will feature students from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music performing
works by Bach, Alec Roth and Ravel. 6
p.m. Free; tickets distributed in the
States Gallery a half hour before the
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Friends of Guy Mason and Erin
Sobanski of Long & Foster Real Estate
will host a concert by the Crush Funk
Brass Band, with food trucks Chix N Stix
and Big Cheese on hand. 6 p.m. Free.
Playground, Guy Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St. NW. 202-727-7527.
■ The Washington Bach Consort will
Hirshhorn features Irwin
“Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change,” featuring
groundbreaking 1960s works and a new large-scale installation by one of the leading postwar American artists, will
On exhibit
open tomorrow at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and continue through Sept. 5.
Located at Independence Avenue and 7th Street SW,
the museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202633-1000.
■ “Dean Fisher: Recent Work,” presenting new figurative
and still-life paintings by an artist whose works weave in
and out of reality, will open Friday at Susan Calloway
Fine Arts with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. The exhibit
will continue through May 7.
Located at 1643 Wisconsin Ave. NW, the gallery is
open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
202-965-4601.
■ “Three Centuries of American Prints From the National
Gallery of Art,” an international traveling exhibit that
explores the major events and movements in American art
through some 150 prints from the Colonial era to the present, opened Sunday at the National Gallery of Art,
where it will continue through July 24.
Located at 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, the
gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 202-737-4215.
■ “Cuba 2015: Before the Change,” presenting photographs by Alex Keto that try to record everyday life in Cuba
before the inevitable changes that will occur as the U.S.
normalizes relations with the country, opened last week at
Washington Printmakers Gallery, where it will continue
through April 23.
Located at 1641 Wisconsin Ave. NW, the gallery is open
Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 202669-1497.
■ Studio Gallery opened four shows last week and will
continue them through April 23. An artists’ reception will
take place Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.
“Cuba on My Mind, Again” features works by Harriet
Lesser.
“In the Flow” presents new works by Eleanor Kortlarik
Wang that explore the repetitive motions found in tai chi.
“To Look for America” highlights abstract paintings by
present Bach’s “Coffee Cantata” and
selections from his “Anna Magdalena
Notebook,” featuring soprano Amy
Broadbent, tenor Nicholas Fichter and
bass Richard Giarusso. 7 p.m. $35; $10
for ages 18 and younger. First Congregational United Church of Christ, 10th and
G streets NW. bachconsort.org.
■ “Discovery Artist in the KC Jazz
Club” will feature
vocalist Integriti
Reeves, a graduate of
the Duke Ellington
School of the Arts,
and her alma mater’s
resident student jazz
ensemble, New Washingtonians. 7 and 9 p.m. $20 to $25.
Terrace Gallery, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
■ The vocal big band Afro Blue will
kick off the Levine Music JazzFest 2016
in a concert featuring music similar to
the styles of Take 6 and Manhattan
Transfer. 7 to 9 p.m. $15 to $20. Lang
Recital Hall, Levine Music, 2801 Upton
St. NW. levinemusic.org.
■ The S&R Foundation’s Overtures
Concert Series will feature violist Gareth
Lubbe and pianist Ryo Yanagitani
performing works by Rebecca Clarke,
Maurice Ravel and Nikolai Kapustin, as
well as Lubbe’s own compositions. 7:30
p.m. $65. Evermay, 1623 28th St. NW.
overtureseries.org.
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Photo © 2015 Philipp Scholz Rittermann
Robert Irwin’s “Ocean Park,” from the collection
of Betsy and Bud Knapp, is part of an exhibit at
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
Thierry Guillimen related to an impression.
“Making a Mark: Addition and Subtraction” showcases
works by Julie Koehler that transform imagery through a
series of marks made and erased.
Located at 2108 R St. NW, the gallery is open Wednesday through Friday from 1 to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 11
a.m. to 6 p.m. 202-232-8734.
■ Long View Gallery recently opened an exhibit of paintings by Ryan McCoy in a new series that maintains his
iconic geometric margins but removes the materials of his
past and reconnects with paint and color to deal with the
present. The show will continue through April 25.
Located at 1234 9th St. NW, the gallery is open
Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and
Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. 202-232-4788.
■ “French Doors,” presenting mixed-media works by 16th
Street Heights artist Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter that
question the implication of opulence in Parisian architecture, opened recently at Honfleur Gallery, where it will
continue through May 13.
Located at 1241 Good Hope Road SE, the gallery is
open Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 7 p.m.
202-631-6291.
■ Iranian pop singer-songwriter Reza
Sadeghi will perform. 8 p.m. $49 to
$150. Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. 202994-6800.
■ The Folger Consort will present
“Shakespeare and Purcell: Music of ‘The
Fairy Queen’ and Other Works.” 8 p.m.
$25 to $40. Folger Shakespeare Library,
201 East Capitol St. SE. folger.edu. The
concert will repeat Saturday at 5 and 8
p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
■ Aaron Tinjum and the Tangents will
perform folk rock. 8 p.m. Free. Gypsy
gypsysallys.com.
■ People’s Blues of Richmond and
Roosterfoot will perform. 9 p.m. $13.
Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
Demonstration
■ “Cooking Up History: The MexicanAmerican Table” will feature guest chef
Amelia Morán Ceja, who will share the
signature flavors and styles of cooking
she learned from her grandmother in
Jalisco, Mexico. 2 p.m. Free. Coulter Performance Plaza, National Museum of
American History, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-633-1000.
■ The Berkley Center for Religion,
Peace, and World Affairs will mark its
10th anniversary with a conference on
“Rethinking Religion and World Affairs.”
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Copley Formal Lounge, Copley
Hall, Georgetown University, 37th and O
streets NW. berkleycenter.georgetown.
edu.
■ Alexandra Walsham, professor of
modern history at the University of Cambridge, will discuss “Chronicles, Memory
and Autobiography in Early Modern England.” Noon. Free; reservations required.
Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East
Capitol St. SE. folger.edu.
■ Naturalist and author Jim Fowler
will discuss “A Photographer’s Quest for
North America’s Wild Orchids.” Noon to
1 p.m. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Classroom, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-2258333.
■ “Art for Humanity and Peacebuilding: Stories From Syria” will feature
Tania el Khoury, Lebanese-British artist
and author of “Gardens Speak”; Bassam
Haddad, director of the Middle East
Studies Program at George Mason University, visiting professor at Georgetown
University and co-founder of the independent e-zine Jadaliyya; JJ el Far, arts
program officer at the British Council,
USA; and Natasha Hall, director of Art in
Exile Washington D.C. Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Free; reservations required. National
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Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202272-2448.
■ April Flores will discuss her book
“Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement.” 2 to
3:30 p.m. Free. Conference Room 245,
Mary Graydon Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202885-2402.
■ Tania el Khoury, Lebanese-British
artist and author of “Gardens Speak,”
will discuss “The Arts as a Global Connector.” 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Room 241, Bunn Intercultural Center, Georgetown University,
37th and O streets NW. guevents.
georgetown.edu.
■ José Angel Hernández of the University of Houston and Angana Chatterji
of the University of California at Berkeley
will discuss “Academic Freedom in a
Global Context.” 6 to 7:30 p.m. Free;
reservations requested. Auditorium,
Bunn Intercultural Center, Georgetown
guevents.georgetown.edu.
■ The George Washington University
Women’s Studies Program will present a
talk by Aminatta Forna, author and visiting chair of poetics at Georgetown University. 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Room B07,
Media and Public Affairs Building,
George Washington University, 805 21st
St. NW. calendar.gwu.edu.
■ Helen Simonson, author of the
bestselling novel
“Major Pettigrew’s
Last Stand,” will discuss her second
novel, “The Summer
Before the War,”
which tells the story
of change coming to
a small English village in 1914. 7 p.m.
Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
Films
■ “Lunch and a Movie” will feature a
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screening of Franco Zeffirelli’s 1967 film
“The Taming of the Shrew,” starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Lunch
at noon; film at 1 p.m. Free; reservations required by April 6 for lunch. Guy
Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert
St. NW. 202-727-7703.
■ “Into the Mind of Adoor Gopalakrishnan: Indian Cinema Pioneer” will
feature a screening of acclaimed Indian
filmmaker Girish Kasaravalli’s film
“Images and Reflections: A Journey Into
Adoor’s Imagery,” an exploration of the
work of his esteemed contemporary and
friend of four decades. The event will
include an opening-night reception and
a talk by University of Colorado professor Suranjan Ganguly. Reception at 6:15
p.m.; screening at 7 p.m. Free. Doyle/
Forman Theater, McKinley Building,
American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-2220.
■ The Potter’s House and Indie Lens
Pop-Up will present Scott Christopherson
and Brad Barber’s documentary “Peace
Officer,” about police-civilian relations
through the eyes of a former sheriff who
established Utah’s first SWAT team, only
to see the same unit kill his son-in-law
in a controversial standoff 30 years
later. 7 to 9 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Potter’s House, 1658 Columbia Road NW. pottershousedc.org.
■ The Georgetown University dance
ensemble Ritmo y Sabor will present its
spring showcase. 7 p.m. $5. Gaston
Hall, Georgetown University, 37th and O
streets NW. 202-687-2787.
■ The Coil Project will present “April
Fool’s Laughstravaganza,” featuring four
short, original comedies. 7:30 p.m. $15
to $18. DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St.
NW. 202-462-7833.
■ American University dance students will present “Style and Pattern,”
featuring fresh and seasoned perspectives on modern and jazz dance. A postconcert discussion with the choreographers will follow. 8 p.m. $10 to $15.
Greenberg Theatre, American University,
4200 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-8852587. The performance will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m.
■ Georgetown University’s Nomadic
Theatre will present Robert Caisley’s
“Happy,” about a man who is generally
satisifed but finds things spin out of
control after meeting the latest woman
in his best friend’s life. 8 p.m. $8 to
$12. Walsh Black Box Theatre, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW.
202-687-2878. The performance will
repeat April 9 at 2 and 8 p.m. and April
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■ UrbanArias will present “After Life”
and “Josephine,” a double bill of works
by composer Tom Cipullo. 8 p.m. $27 to
$29.50. Atlas Performing Arts Center,
1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993. The performance will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m.
Special events
■ “What’s the Buzz? The Science of
Fermentation & Mead” will feature Ryan
Bixenmann, co-founder of Dick and
Karl’s World Famous Beer. The event will
include a tasting of two different fermented honey beverages and small
bites. 6:30 to 8 p.m. $25 to $35; reservations required. Conservatory Garden
Court, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.
■ Alliance Française de Washington
will host a “Wine & Cheese” happy hour.
7 p.m. $15 to $20. Alliance Française
de Washington, 2142 Wyoming Ave. NW.
francedc.org.
Tours
will feature a tour of the newly opened
Tenley campus of the American University Washington College of Law. Noon to
1:30 p.m. $10 to $35; reservations
required. Washington College of Law,
American University, 4300 Nebraska
Ave. NW. aiadc.com/ArchitectureWeek.
will feature a tour of the Renwick Gallery. 3:30 to 5 p.m. $10 to $35; reservations required. Renwick Gallery, 17th
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW.
aiadc.com/ArchitectureWeek.
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Children’s programs
■ “Saturday Morning at the National”
will feature Virginia Rep on Tour’s “Frog
Prince,” based on the classic folk story.
9:30 and 11 a.m. Free; reservations
suggested. Helen Hayes Gallery, National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
thenationaldc.org/events.
■ “Tudor Tots: Cherry Blossoms” will
feature songs, stories and movement
(for ages 2 through 4). 10 a.m. $5; free
for accompanying adults. Tudor Place
Historic House and Garden, 1644 31st
St. NW. tudorplace.org.
■ Eileen Wold will lead a workshop
on how to use items such as eggs, flowers and feathers to create works of art
that celebrate the changing of the seasons (for ages 10 and older). 10 a.m. to
noon. $15 to $20. Kreeger Museum,
2401 Foxhall Road NW. 202-338-3552.
■ The Embassy of Sweden will host
a weekly story time for children and
families to experience Swedish children’s literature. 2 p.m. Free. Every Saturday. Embassy of Sweden, 2900 K St.
NW. swedenabroad.com/washington.
Classes and workshops
■ Astrophysicist Mario Livio will lead
a seminar on “Our Place in the Cosmos.” 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. $90 to
$140. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ The Mount Pleasant Library will
present “Saturday Morning Yoga.” 10
a.m. Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160
16th St. NW. 202-671-3122.
■ The Petworth Library will host a
“Home Buying 101 Workshop.” 10 a.m.
to 3:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW.
[email protected].
■ Instructor Luz Verost will lead a
casual Spanish Conversation Club ses-
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■ Concert: Dumbarton Concerts
will present the Russell Malone
Quartet in collaboration with the
DC Jazz Festival and Jazz Appreciation Month. 8 p.m. $30 to $35.
Dumbarton United Methodist
Church, 3133 Dumbarton St. NW.
202-965-2000.
sion designed to grow, revive or develop
Spanish language skills. 10 to 11 a.m.
Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St.
NW. 202-727-0232. The weekly sessions will continue through May.
■ Yoga Activist will present a class
for beginners. 11 a.m. Free. Petworth
Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202243-1188.
Concerts
■ As part of the Conservatory Project, students from the Manhattan
School of Music Chamber Choir will perform a diverse repertoire featuring
works by Byrd, Haydn and Stephen
Sondheim. 6 p.m. Free; tickets distributed in the States Gallery a half hour
before the performance. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Smithsonian Associates and
Washington Performing Arts will present
“What Makes It Great?” with commentator, conductor and composer Rob Kapilow focusing on Beethoven’s “String
Quartet No. 1, Op. 18.” The event will
include a performance by musicians
from the Curtis Institute of Music, followed by a Q&A. 6 to 8 p.m. $20. Baird
Auditorium, National Museum of American History, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-785-9727.
■ Aberfoyle Baroque will present
internationally renowned musicians Jean
Rondeau on harpsichord and Thomas
Dunford on lute at an intimate soirée of
French and English music of the
Baroque and Renaissance. A four-course
seated French dinner with wine will follow. 6 p.m. $110. Specific location in
Chevy Chase provided upon registration.
aberfoylebaroque.com.
■ Levine Music’s JazzFest 2016 will
present an open jam session, including
coaching, performance tips and historical context for instrumentalists and
vocalists of all ages and skill levels. 7 to
9 p.m. Free; reservations required. Lang
Recital Hall, Levine Music, 2801 Upton
St. NW. 202-686-8000.
■ Vibraphonist Stefon
Harris and his
electric
groove-based
band Sonic
Creed will perform. 7 p.m. $32. Family Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Thad Wilson Jazz Orchestra
and the GW Jazz Orchestra will perform.
7:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran School of
the Arts & Design, George Washington
University, 500 17th St. NW. calendar.
gwu.edu.
■ “Spring Sing,” a high-energy a cappella concert featuring Georgetown
Superfood, the Georgetown Saxatones
and other local groups, will benefit Cure
SMA, a group dedicated to the treatment and cure of spinal muscular atrophy. 7:30 p.m. $7. Gaston Hall, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW.
202-687-2787.
■ The Choral Arts Chamber Singers
and the American University Chamber
Singers will present “The Terezin Project:
Reflections & Reconciliation,” featuring
“The Ethics” by Ittai Shapira, “Songs of
Children” by Robert Convery and other
chamber works. 8 p.m. $10 to $20. Kay
Spiritual Life Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202885-3634.
■ Kevin Michael Foster, associate
professor at the University of Texas at
Austin and founder of the Institute for
Community, University and School Partnerships, will discuss efforts to bring
about fundamental school reform. 9 to
11 a.m. Free; reservations requested.
Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll
St. NW. busboysandpoets.com.
■ Jan Johnsen, principal of Johnson
Landscapes & Pools and author of
“Heaven Is a Garden,” will discuss
“Serenity by Design.” 10:30 to 11:30
a.m. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Classroom, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-2258333.
■ Jamie Stiehm, a Creators Syndicate columnist and contributor to
usnews.com, will speak on “Frederick
Law Olmsted: Designing Democracy’s
Great Outdoors” and discuss how America’s first landscape architect made the
U.S. Capitol’s grounds, gardens and
veranda sing of democracy. 1 p.m. Free.
Peabody Room, Georgetown Library,
3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.
■ Larry Haas, a senior fellow at the
American Foreign Policy Council, will discuss his book “Harry and Arthur: Truman, Vandenberg, and the Partnership
that Created the Free World,” about the
country’s emerging foreign policy during
the Truman administration. 1 p.m. Free.
Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ The DC Preservation League will
present “Energy Efficiency and Old
Homes,” with architect Nakita Reed and
architectural historian John Sandor discussing energy audits and cost-effective
home improvements. 1 to 3 p.m. Free.
St. Martin’s Catholic Church, 7 T St. NW.
dcpreservation.org.
■ George Washington University
associate professor Margaret Soltan will
present “Stirring dull roots with spring
rain: Poetry as Life Itself,” the second of
three lectures in a series on “A Seasonal
Exploration of Poetry.” The discussion
will focus on James Schuyler’s long
poem “Hymn to Life,” set in spring in
Washington. 2 p.m. Free. Georgetown
Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.
■ Michael Kane, professor of environmental horticulture at the University
of Florida, will discus “Bridging the Gap
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Ecology.” 2 to 3:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Classroom,
U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave.
SW. 202-225-8333.
■ Zenith Gallery will present a panel
discussion on “Appraising, Maintaining
and Cataloging Art,” featuring collectors
and accredited appraiser Suzanne Alessi. 2 to 4 p.m. Free. Zenith Gallery, 1429
Iris St. NW. 202-783-2963.
■ Historical crime fiction writer Philip
Kerr will discuss his
11th Bernie Gunther
mystery, “The Other
Side of Silence,”
which has a plot
involving W. Somerset
Maugham and a Soviet mole. 3:30 p.m.
Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ “The New Community: A Conversation and Celebration” will commemorate
the republication of Elizabeth
O’Connor’s 1978 account of pivotal
years in the life of the Potter’s House,
including the birth of Jubilee Housing
and the scattering of the Church of the
Saviour into smaller faith communities.
4 to 6 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Potter’s House, 1658 Columbia
Road NW. pottershousedc.org.
Family programs
■ The Smithsonian American Art
Museum’s Cherry Blossom Celebration
will feature a taiko drumming performance and other traditional Japanese
music and dance, as well as face painting and blossom-themed crafts. 11:30
a.m. to 3 p.m. Free. Kogod Courtyard,
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th
and G streets NW. 202-633-1000.
■ “Family Afternoon: Newspaper Fort
Challenge” will offer a chance for participants to learn about the triangle and to
create tetrahedral caverns. Noon to 3
p.m. Free. National Building Museum,
401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448.
Film
■ The National Gallery of Art will
present Al Reinert and Cina Alexander’s
2015 film “Rara Avis: John James Audubon and the Birds of America,” documenting Audubon’s life and legacy. 2:30
p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium,
National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ Opera Lafayette will present a
musical performance and educational
workshop on “dangerous love” as an
aspect of mythology used by early opera
composers to create uniquely dramatic
characters. 3 p.m. Free. Great Hall, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901
G St. NW. 202-727-0321.
■ One Acts This Way Theatre Company will present “Pivotal Encounters: 3
One-Act Plays About Family Surprises.”
7:30 p.m. $15 to $20. DC Arts Center,
2438 18th St. NW. 202-462-7833. The
performance will repeat Sunday at 3
p.m.
■ The 2016 Dance Place Youth Festival will feature young performers from
the Washington area and beyond. 8 p.m.
$15 to $20. Dance Place, 3225 8th St.
NE. 202-269-1600. The performance
will repeat Sunday at 7 p.m.
Special events
■ OWN IT, a women’s leadership
organization founded in 2013 by undergraduates at Georgetown University, will
hold its second annual summit with over
80 speakers from medicine, technology,
fashion, journalism, policy, sports, military service, documentary filmmaking
and more. As part of the event, “CBS
This Morning” co-host Norah O’Donnell
will interview two-time Olympic gold
medalist and FIFA Women’s World Cup
champion Abby Wambach. 8 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. $15 to $20; reservations
required. Healy Hall and Gaston Hall,
Georgetown University, 37th and O
streets NW. ownitsummit.com.
■ Washington National Cathedral will
offer special access for photographers
to take pictures on the main level of the
world’s sixth-largest cathedral. 8:30
a.m. $30. Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. nationalcathedral.org.
■ The second annual Tenley Tiger
Run — featuring 5K and 2.5K races, as
well as a fun run for children — will
benefit Wilson High School’s six
championship running teams. 9 a.m.
$10 to $40. 40th and Chesapeake
streets NW. tenleytigerrun.com.
■ “Slow Art Day” will offer a chance
to examine at least five works of art for
15 minutes each and then meet with
other participants over lunch to talk
about their experience. 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. Free with museum admission; reservations suggested. National Museum
of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York
Ave. NW. nmwa.org/events/slow-art-day.
■ The Tenley-Friendship Library will
host an “Adult Coloring” event. 2 p.m.
Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450
Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.
■ The ninth annual Taste of Dupont
event, organized by Historic Dupont Circle Main Streets, will feature a progressive lunch at 15 restaurants. Proceeds
will benefit the group’s job training program. 1 to 4 p.m. $20 to $30 for a master ticket for appetizers, entrees, drinks
and desserts. Purchase in advance at
dupontcirclemainstreets.org or starting
at 12:30 p.m. on the day of the event on
the west side of Dupont Circle park.
■ The Washington Jesuit Academy
will host “Northeast Eats: A Celebration
of Neighborhood Food and Beverage,” a
fundraiser featuring live music, children’s activities and donated products
for tasting from six local breweries and
five restaurants. 4 to 8 p.m. $50. Washington Jesuit Academy, 900 Varnum St.
NE. northeasteats.splashthat.com.
■ The Kosciuszko Foundation will
host a Polish vodka tasting and karaoke
night, featuring several kinds of vodka
and traditional food. 6 p.m. $30 to $35;
reservations required. Kosciuszko Foundation, 2025 O St. NW. 202-785-2320.
■ Luke’s Wings will host its fifth
annual Heroes Gala, honoring retired
U.S. Army Capt. Florent Groberg, a
Medal of Honor recipient for his actions
in Afghanistan. 7 p.m. $263.49 to
$471.45. The Ritz-Carlton, Washington,
D.C., 1150 22nd St. NW. lukeswings.org.
Sporting event
■ D.C. United will play Vancouver
Whitecaps FC. 5:30 p.m. $20 to $55.
RFK Stadium, 2400 East Capitol St. SE.
800-745-3000.
Walks and tours
■ Washington Walks “Get Local!”
series will feature a “Cherry Tree Walk
With Casey Trees,” offering a look at
notable trees along the National Mall, in
the Smithsonian’s Enid Haupt Garden
and on the grounds of the U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters. Proceeds will benefit Casey Trees. 11 a.m.
$15 to $20. Meeting location provided
upon registration. washingtonwalks.com.
■ Washington Walks will present a
“Blossom Secrets Stroll.” 2 p.m. $15 to
$20. Meet outside the Independence
Avenue exit to the Smithsonian Metro
station. washingtonwalks.com. The walk
will repeat Sunday at 2 p.m.
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■ Swedish artist and art teacher
Karin Lithell will hold an arts and crafts
workshop for ages 4 to 10. Noon to 3
p.m. Free. Embassy of Sweden, 2900 K
St. NW. swedenabroad.com/washington.
Another workshop will be held April 16.
■ “Kids@Katzen Family Day” will feature a family art-making workshop
based on the “Look at It — Think About
It” exhibition of work by local artist William Dunlap (for ages 5 through 12). 1
to 3 p.m. $15 for a family of four; $5 for
each additional child. Reservations suggested. Katzen Arts Center, American
NW. 202-885-1300.
Class
■ A teacher from Yoga Activist will
present a “Soothing Sunday Yoga” class
for adults. 1:30 p.m. Free. Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library, 1630 7th St. NW. 202727-1288.
Concerts
■ Pianist Ralitza Patcheva, cellist
Vasily Popov
and flutist
Nikolai Popov
will perform
duets and
trios by
Beethoven,
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■ Concert: The Steinway Series
will feature pianists Stephanie Ho
and Saar Ahuvia — collaborating as
Duo Stephanie & Saar — in a fourhand performance featuring works
by Bach, Beethoven and other
composers. 3 p.m. Free. McEvoy
Auditorium, Smithsonian American
Art Museum, 8th and G streets
NW. 202-633-1000.
p.m. Free. Metropolitan Memorial United
Methodist Church, 3401 Nebraska Ave.
NW. nationalchurch.org.
■ The Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic’s “Spring Into Spring!” concert
will feature Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring,” as well as works by Carl
Nielsen and Robert Schuman. 3 p.m.
$20; free for ages 17 and younger.
Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW.
wmpamusic.org.
■ The “3 Trebles Festival” concert
will feature the Children’s Chorus of
Washington, Boston Children’s Chorus
and Princeton Girlchoir performing individual programs and combining for three
final songs. 3:30 p.m. Free. St. Patrick’s
Episcopal Church, 4700 Whitehaven
Parkway NW. childrenschorus.com.
■ The Rose Ensemble will perform
“American Roots: A Journey Through Our
Country’s Folk, Old-time, and Gospel Traditions,” presented in honor of “Three
Centuries of American Prints From the
National Gallery of Art.” 3:30 p.m. Free.
West Building, West Garden Court,
■ Pianist Ingolf Wunder will perform
works by Schubert, Chopin and Liszt. 4
p.m. $15 to $30; reservations suggested. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St.
NW. phillipscollection.org/music.
■ The Georgetown University Gospel
Choir will present its spring concert. 5 to
7 p.m. Free. Gaston Hall, Georgetown
guevents.georgetown.edu.
■ As part of the Conservatory Project, students from the Peabody Institute
will perform works by Brahms, Waxman
and others. The concert will feature
baroque. 6 p.m. Free; tickets distributed
in the States Gallery a half hour before
the performance. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Embassy of Turkey will present
a concert by Ahmet Ozhan and the whirling dervishes, featuring a Mevlevi Sema
Ceremony based on ancient Turkish customs and the teachings of the 13th-century mystic Rumi. 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Lisner Auditorium,
George Washington University, 730 21st
St. NW. lisner.gwu.edu.
■ Barefoot Movement and the Honey
Dewdrops will perform. 8 p.m. $10 to
$12. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
■ Richard Cizik, president of the New
Evangelical Partnership for the Common
Good, will discuss “Thou Shalt Care for
the Earth,” about his group’s agenda
that fosters values consistent with an
open and free society. 10:10 a.m. Free.
Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW.
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■ Collector Raoul Tschebull will discuss “Zeikhur” weaving from the northeast Transcaucasus. 10:30 a.m. Free.
George Washington University Museum
and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW.
202-994-5200.
■ David A. Doheny, former general
counsel at the National Trust for Historic
Preservation and author of “David Finley: Quiet Force for America’s Arts,” will
discuss “The National Gallery of Art at
75: Andrew W. Mellon, David Finley, Paul
Mellon,” reassessing the work of the
principal creators. Noon. Free. East
Building Auditorium, National Gallery of
Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW. 202-737-4215.
■ Thomas Frank will discuss his
book “Listen,
Liberal: Or,
What Ever
Happened to
the Party of
the People?”
— about his
contention that, though Democrats have
held the White House for most of the
past two decades, there has been little
achievement in social justice issues. 1
p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Tina Thieme Brown, nature artist,
illustrator and co-author of “An Illustrated Guide to Eastern Woodland Wildflowers and Trees: 350 Plants Observed at
Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland,” will discuss “Art & Nature.” 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Conservatory Classroom, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100
Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.
■ Vidya Dehejia, professor of Indian
art at Columbia University, will discuss
“‘Victor of Three Forts’: Battling for
Empire, 855-955” as part of a lecture
series on sacred bronzes in Chola India.
2 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium,
The series will continue through May 11.
■ Artist Jennifer Angus and entomologist Seán Brady will discuss the brilliantly colored insects in Angus’ piece
“In the Midnight Garden” and the importance of insects. 2 to 3 p.m. Free. Renwick Gallery, 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. 202-633-1000.
■ Modern jazz guitarist Pat Martino,
recording artist with Blue Note Records
and faculty member at University of the
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Arts in Philadelphia, will present a master class lecture as part of Levine Music
JazzFest 2016 on the nature of the guitar and new approaches to understanding the challenges of the instrument. 2
to 4 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Lang Recital Hall, Levine Music, 2801
Upton St. NW. 202-686-8000.
■ Black Presbyterians United will discuss “Between the World and Me” by TaNehisi Coates. 3 to 5 p.m. Free. Northminster Presbyterian Church, 7720 Alaska Ave. NW.
■ Anthony Schneider will discuss his
novel “Repercussions,” about a former
African National Congress activist now living in New York who
encourages his
grandson to travel to
South Africa and
make a documentary
about the people
involved in the country’s liberation. 3 to
5 p.m. Free. Studio Gallery, 2108 R St.
NW. 202-232-8734.
■ James Traub, columnist for
Foreignpolicy.com and contributor to The
New York Times Magazine, will discuss
his biography “John Quincy Adams:
Militant Spirit,” which weighs Adams’
achievements as president, diplomat
and anti-slavery advocate, using his
diaries and correspondence. 3:30 p.m.
Free. Politics and Prose, 5015
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Cheryl E. Matias will discuss her
book “Feeling White: Whiteness, Emotionality, and Education.” 5 to 7 p.m.
Free; reservations requested. The Loft,
Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW.
busboysandpoets.com.
■ David Cole, professor of law and
public policy at Georgetown University,
will discuss his book “Engines of Liberty:
The Power of Citizen Activists to Make
Constitutional Law,” which argues that
citizens can be crucial agents of constitutional change. 6 p.m. Free. Politics
and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
■ Gerald Anderson will discuss his
memoir “Still Standing: How an Ex-Con
Found Salvation in the Floodwaters of
Katrina” in conversation with Street
Sense editor Susan Orlins, who helped
him write the book. 6 to 8 p.m. Free.
Busboys and Poets Brookland, 625
Monroe St. NE. 202-636-7230.
Film
■ “Bernard Herrmann: Stage,
Screen, and Radio” will feature Alfred
Hitchcock’s 1956 film “The Wrong
Man,” preceded by the 1959 episode
“Walking Distance” from Rod Serling’s
CBS series “The Twilight Zone.” 4 p.m.
Free. East Building Auditorium, National
Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
Special events
■ Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic will hold
its annual “Walk for Wishes,” featuring a
fundraising walk and festivities such as
inflatable games, crafts, face painting
and music. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free registration. 17th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW. walkforwishesdc.org.
■ The Makers’ Mart Arts & Craft
Show will showcase handcrafted wares
from local women artisans. Noon to 5
p.m. $8 to $10; free for museum members. National Museum of Women in the
Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. 202-7837370. The show will continue Monday
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Tuesday
Sunday, april 10
■ Discussion: Dolen Perkins-Valdez will discuss her novel “Balm,”
about the trauma of the Civil War
and the end of slavery. 2 p.m.
Free. Takoma Park Library, 416
Cedar St. NW. 202-576-7252.
from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
■ The Saint Andrew’s Society of
Washington, D.C., will march into Washington National Cathedral for the 76th
annual Kirkin’ o’ the Tartan accompanied by its Pipes and Drums and Colour
Guard. The Cathedral Choir of Men and
Boys will sing the service of Choral Evensong. 4 p.m. Free. Washington National
Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. nationalcathedral.org.
Sporting events
the Charlotte Hornets. Noon. $18 to
800-745-3000.
■ The Washington Capitals will play
the Anaheim Ducks. 7:30 p.m. $43 to
800-745-3000.
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■ Yoga teacher Robin Glantz, owner
of Vibrant Health, will lead a “Viniyoga”
class. 10:30 to 11:45 a.m. Free;
reservations requested. TenleyFriendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave.
NW. [email protected].
■ Angela Matysiak will lead a gentle
yoga class. 6:30 p.m. Free. Guy Mason
Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St. NW.
202-727-7527.
■ Poets on the Fringe will host a
weekly poetry workshop. 7 to 9 p.m.
Free. Stoddert Recreation Center, 4001
Calvert St. NW. [email protected].
Concert
■ The Maryland Youth Chamber
Orchestra will present the seven-member MCYO Harp Ensemble and the Liedergeld String Quartet, national chamber competition finalists. 6 p.m. Free.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
■ Carlene Stephens, curator at the
Smithsonian’s National Museum of
American History, will discuss “Alexander
Graham Bell in Washington” and report
on a collection of recently rediscovered
early recordings made in the 1880s by
Bell in his Volta Laboratory in Georgetown. Noon. Free. George Washington
University Museum and Textile Museum,
701 21st St. NW. 202-994-5200.
■ Archivist Pamela Anderson will discuss “Diets, Textiles and Electricity:
Records That Impacted the Domestic
Lives of Americans.” 2 p.m. Free; reservations suggested. McGowan Theater,
National Archives Building, Constitution
Avenue between 7th and 9th streets
NW. 202-357-5000.
■ The 2016 “Jit” Trainor Award and
Lecture for Distinction in the Conduct of
Diplomacy will feature U.S. Secretary of
Energy Ernest Moniz discussing his work
building a partnership between science
and diplomacy. 4:30 to 6 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Auditorium, Bunn
Intercultural Center, Georgetown
trainor-award.eventbrite.com.
■ Domnica Radulescu will discuss
her book “Country of Red Azaleas,” a
novel about one Serbian and one Bosnian woman whose power of friendship
spans decades, continents, war and
peace, and shows the way to find meaning in the face of devastation. 6:30 p.m.
Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords, 1517
■ David Swanson will discuss his
book “War Is a Lie,” which refutes arguments to justify war and offers ways to
resist, reduce and eliminate it. 6:30 to 8
p.m. Free. Cullen Room, Busboys and
Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227.
■ Former National Geographic Magazine writer and editor Joel L. Swerdlow
will discuss “So as I Was Saying …: My
Somewhat Eventful Life,” the memoir of
his friend and former NPR director Frank
Mankiewicz, which Swerdlow helped
shape and complete. 6:30 p.m. Free.
Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll
St. NW. 202-726-0856.
will feature a talk on “The Stories
Buildings Tell” by CityLab staff writer
Kriston Capps, winner of the 2016
Sarah Booth Conroy Prize for Journalism
and Architectural Criticism. 6:30 to 8
p.m. $10 to $35. District Architecture
Center, 421 7th St. NW. aiadc.com/
ArchitectureWeek.
■ “Behind the Science With Joe
Palca: Insights from Scientific Innovators” will feature the NPR science correspondent discussing “The Science of
Addiction” with Nora Volkow, director of
the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
6:45 to 8:15 p.m. $20 to $30. S. Dillon
Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW.
202-633-3030.
■ National Book Award finalist Dana
Spiotta will discuss her fourth novel
“Innocents and Others,” which follows
the lives of three women. 7 p.m. Free.
Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ “Archaeology as a Practice of
Cultural Identity: The Work of
Archaeologists in Yemen” will feature
moderator Alexander Nagel and
panelists Sabina Antonini, Iris Gerlach
and Michael Harrower. 7 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Auditorium,
Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St.
NW. www.iicwashington.esteri.it.
■ National Geographic explorer-inresidence Lee Berger will recount the
trailblazing expedition that resulted in
his headline-making discovery of Homo
naledi, a previously unknown hominin
species. 7:30 p.m. $25. Grosvenor Auditorium, National Geographic Museum,
1600 M St. NW. 202-857-7700.
Films
■ “Marvelous Movie Mondays” will
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feature the classic French film “Jean de
Florette,” about two conniving men who
block a farm’s only water source in order
to force a new farmer to sell his land. 2
and 6:30 p.m. Free. Meeting Room,
Chevy Chase Library, 5625 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-282-0021.
■ The inaugural Washington DC Turkish Film Festival will feature Tolga
Karacelik’s 2015 psychological thriller
“Ivy,” set
aboard a ship
stranded off
the coast of
Egypt whose
skeleton crew
comes into
potentially deadly conflict as supplies
run low and tensions rise. 7 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Landmark’s E
Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW.
turkishfilmfest.com. The festival will continue through Thursday.
■ The Washington DC Jewish Community Center will present Tamara
Erde’s 2015 documentary “Teaching
Ignorance,” which follows Israeli and
Palestinian teachers over the course of
an academic year to explore how values
of religion, politics and nationalism are
taught. 7:30 to 9 p.m. $13.50. Washington DC Jewish Community Center, 1529
16th St. NW. washingtondcjcc.org.
Performance
■ Laugh Index Theatre will present
“Improv Wars,” a friendly competition
among area improv troupes with audience members voting for the winners.
7:30 p.m. $8 to $10. DC Arts Center,
2438 18th St. NW. 202-462-7833.
Special event
■ The Library of Congress will present its Living Legend award to Mario Vargas Llosa, the renowned Peruvian novelist, journalist, public intellectual and
political commentator. The presentation
will follow an afternoon symposium in
his honor featuring novelists and scholars of Latin American literature. 2 to
8:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building,
Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202707-1616.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Nationals will play
the Atlanta Braves. 7:05 p.m. $10 to
$345. Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE. 888-632-6287. The series will
continue Tuesday and Wednesday at
7:05 p.m. and Thursday at 4:05 p.m.
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April
■ “Tudor Tots: Sky & Rain” will feature songs, stories and movement (for
ages 2 through 4). 10 a.m. $5; free for
accompanying adults. Tudor Place Historic House and Garden, 1644 31st St.
NW. tudorplace.org.
■ Cartoonist James Sturm will tell his
wordless story “Birdsong: A Story in Pictures,” a tale inspired by the Japanese
art of kamishibai, or “paper theater” (for
ages 5 to 8). 10:30 a.m. Free. Politics
and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
■ Music scholar Saul Lilienstein will
begin a six-session course on “Mozart:
Final Notes on a Musical Life.” Noon to
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Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202633-3030. The class will continue weekly through May 17.
■ ArtJamz will present a guided art
class on painting cherry blossoms. 7 to
9 p.m. $32 to $35. ArtJamz Dupont
Studio, 1728 Connecticut Ave. NW.
artjamzdc.com.
■ Yoga Activist will present a class
for beginners. 7:30 p.m. Free. Petworth
Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202243-1188.
Concerts
■ As part of the Tuesday Concert
Series, “I Dilettosi Fiori” will feature
musician Corina Marti performing 14thcentury music. 12:10 p.m. Free. Church
of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. 202347-2635.
Columbia’s “JAZZalive” series will feature a concert by the UDC Small Jazz
Ensembles. 12:30 p.m. Free. Recital
Hall, Building 46-West, University of the
District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-274-5803.
■ As part of the Embassy Series, the
Esterházy Trio will commemorate the
60th anniversary of the
1956 Hungarian uprising
with a concert
featuring
works by
Haydn, Tomasini and Abel. The event will
include a buffet reception. 7:30 p.m.
$90. Embassy of Hungary, 3910 Shoemaker St. NW. 202-625-2361.
■ The Atar Trio, a leading Israeli
chamber ensemble, will present “Dream
Within a Dream,” featuring music by
20th-century
masters such
as Ives,
Bartók,
Alexander and
Ravel as well
as newly
commissioned work by Israeli prodigy
Talia Amar and acclaimed American
composer Judith Shatin. 7:30 to 9 p.m.
$20 to $25. Washington DC Jewish
Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW.
washingtondcjcc.org.
■ Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge will host
its weekly open mic show. 8 p.m. Free.
Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St.
NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ Washington Performing Arts will
feature the Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra and violinist Leonidas Kavakos performing music by Korngold and
Mahler. 8 p.m. $60 to $125. Concert
Hall, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Tudor Place curator Grant
Quertermous will discuss one family’s
efforts to preserve and protect a
significant collection of Washington
objects throughout the 19th and 20th
centuries and the opening of Tudor
Place as a historic house museum.
Noon to 1 p.m. Free. Daughters of the
American Revolution Museum, 1776 D
St. NW. [email protected].
■ “Deutsch am Mittag: Future of
Remembrance,” a discussion of how
young people view World War II, the Nazi
era and the Holocaust, will feature
Action Reconciliation Service for Peace
communications director Katharina von
Münster and Action Reconciliation Service for Peace fellows Leonie Vandersee
and Thomas Siurkus. Noon to 1:15 p.m.
$5; reservations requested. Goethe-Institut Washington, Suite 3, 1900 K St. NW.
goetheinstitutwashington.eventbrite.
com.
■ The “Business in the Capital”
series will feature a talk on “The Business of Sports” by Ted Leonsis, CEO of
Monumental Sports & Entertainment
and majority owner of the Washington
Capitals, the Washington Wizards, the
Washington Mystics and the Verizon
Center. 4 to 5:30 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Kogod Student Lounge, American University, 4400 Massachusetts
Ave. NW. kogod.biz/tedleonsis.
■ Michael Barnett, professor of political science and international affairs at
George Washington University, will discuss his book “The Star and the Stripes:
A History of the Foreign Policies of American Jews” at a panel discussion with
Shibley Telhami, professor of peace and
development at the University of Maryland, and Tamara Wittes, director of the
Center for Middle East Policy at the
Brookings Institution. 5:30 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Room 602, Elliott
School of International Affairs, George
Washington University, 1957 E St. NW.
go.gwu.edu/barnettamericanjews.
■ A panel discussion on hunger
relief will feature Diana Aviv, president
and CEO of Feeding America; Michael
Curtin, CEO of DC Central Kitchen and
the Campus Kitchens Project; Allan Jury,
vice president of public policy at World
Food Program USA; and Kerry Sullivan,
president of the Bank of America Charitable Foundation. 5:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Fisher Colloquium,
Hariri Building, Georgetown University,
37th and O streets NW. guevents.
georgetown.edu.
■ Mikhail Ovchinnikov, the first deputy director of Fabergé Museum, will
share an overview of the museum, its
collection and the history that connects
it to St. Petersburg. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
$7 to $20. Hillwood Estate, Museum
and Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW.
202-686-5807.
■ “Gun Policy: Progress Is Possible”
will feature Matthew Bennett of Third
Way, Jonathan Lowey of the Brady Campaign and Robyn Thomas of the Law
Center to Prevent Gun Violence. 6 to
7:30 p.m. $17 to $22 (includes appetizer buffet). Woman’s National Democrat-
Monday, april 11
■ Reading: The O.B. Hardison
Poetry series will present “The
New Sonneteers,” featuring Malachi Black, Laurie Ann Guerrero and
A. Van Jordan (shown), three
diverse poets who write in the centuries-old sonnet form. 7:30 p.m.
$15. Folger Shakespeare Library,
201 East Capitol St. SE. folger.edu.
ic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW.
202-232-7363.
■ Author Corinna Nicolaou will discuss her book “A None’s Story,” which
examines how those with no religious or
faith affiliation are changing American
society, politics and culture. 6:30 p.m.
Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords, 1517
■ Roxana Ehsani, Giant Food nutritionist, will discuss “Mindful Eating:
Nutrition Workshop for Adults,” featuring
tips and tricks to help you recognize how
your environment influences what and
how much you eat. 6:30 p.m. Free. Takoma Park Library, 416 Cedar St. NW.
202-576-7252.
■ Poet E. Ethelbert Miller will discuss
his newly published collection of two
memoirs and poems that form a panorama of D.C. life over the last several
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decades. 6:30 p.m. Free. Langston
Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th
St. NW. 202-387-7638.
■ The World Affairs Council will present a book talk by Nicolas Pelham,
author of “Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East.” 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Horizon
Ballroom, Ronald Reagan Building and
International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. worldaffairsdc.org.
■ Charles Wheelan, senior lecturer
and policy fellow at Dartmouth College,
will discuss “Naked Money: A Revealing
Look at What It Is and Why It Matters,”
his third volume in a series that takes
on the intricacies of banking and monetary policy. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.
■ As part of the Gender + Justice
Event Series, Candace Gibson and
Palwasha L. Kakar will discuss the work
of the Institute for Inclusive Security to
transform decision-making about war
and peace, including an account of
Kakar’s work in Afghanistan. 7 to 9 p.m.
Free; reservations requested. Potter’s
House, 1658 Columbia Road NW.
pottershousedc.org.
■ Claire Lerner, director of parenting
resources at Zero to Three national center for infants, toddlers and families, will
discuss “Parenting Without Power Struggles.” 7 p.m. Free. Community Preschool
of the Palisades, 5200 Cathedral Ave.
NW. palisadespreschooldc.org.
■ Alliance Française de Washington
and Reporters Without Borders will present a talk by Saudi human rights activist
Ensaf Haidar, author of “Raif Badawi,
the Voice of Freedom” (event in French
with English translation). 7 p.m. $10 to
$15. Alliance Française de Washington,
2142 Wyoming Ave. NW. francedc.org.
■ Photographer Bill Aron will discuss
the book “New Beginnings: The Triumph
of 120 Cancer Survivors,” which pairs
his portraits with narratives from the
survivors. 7:30 to 9 p.m. $14.50 to
$16.50. Washington DC Jewish
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given students a lot of information and we have been working
on it for a long time.
— Adrian Stuphan, eighth-grader
Murch Elementary School
The fifth-graders at Murch
recently took a trip to the U.S.
Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Fifth-graders have been studying
World War II and the impact of
the Holocaust on Europe and the
world. On this trip, students visited just one exhibit called
School DISPATCHES
“Remember the Children: Daniel’s Story.” It tells the story of a
young boy named Daniel, who
survived the Holocaust and the
terrible things the Nazis did to
anyone who was not like them. In
this exhibit, you view a replica of
his life in his home, in the ghetto
and in the concentration camp
where he was sent.
Josephine Diggs-Galligan and
Rubi Andreata, two students who
participated in the trip, say that
they liked it because it was “like
a simulation.” Emmitt Gerstein,
another student, said, “It was fascinating to learn what Daniel
went through.”
One fifth-grade teacher, Vicki
Otten, organized the trip because,
“After thinking about and discussing the Holocaust in class,
this was an opportunity for students to learn about the Holocaust
through the eyes of a child just
like them.” This trip was an
amazing experience and we
would like to thank everyone who
made it possible.
— Ella Gumbinner and Kiran
Mahurkar, fifth-graders
Our Lady of Victory School
March 19 and 20 were two
very busy days for the OLV band
program. Our school band played
in the annual Archdiocesan Music
Festival, and Kate L. in eighth
grade and myself (in seventh
grade) were chosen to represent
OLV in Honors Band. We both
play the flute.
Honors Band consisted of five
two-hour rehearsals and a big
seven-hour rehearsal the day of
the performance at Bladensburg
High School. We played five
pieces of music: “March of the
Machines” (robots, advancing
from afar, slowly getting closer
and crescendoing), “At a Turkish
Market” (lightly played with staccato), “Tango Mariana” (played
with gusto!), “Simple Gifts” (a
traditional dance) and “Crazy
Train” by Ozzy Osbourne.
At the Band Festival, which
was held at St. John’s College
High School, we played two piec-
es in a combined band with
Annunciation, Saint Francis Xavier, Saint Mary’s (Rockville) and
Our Lady of Mercy. We played
“Russian Dance” and “Infinity
March,” both directed by OLV
band director Rose Weich. The
judges were James Roper from
DeMatha High School and Kenneth Hammann from St. John’s,
who also directed Honors Band.
Our combined band received an
“Excellent” and we were happy
to get it!
In all, it was a busy weekend,
but it was definitely enjoyed by
the OLV band!
— Adelaide M.-U., seventh-grader
Sheridan School
Do you wonder about your
sleep? A sleep specialist came to
Sheridan School to talk to students in fifth through eighth
grades about the importance of
sleeping and good bedtime foods.
Her name was Dr. O. She
answered many of our classmates’
interesting questions. She told us
about how, if you snore at night,
you probably have a cold and
your windpipe is blocked up. She
also explained that if you are
aged 8 to 12, it’s good to sleep at
least nine or 10 hours each night.
Dr. O helped us understand how
important it is to get enough sleep
and rest. She said that not getting
enough sleep can also cause you
to have bad moods.
She told us that sleep is like a
submarine. You are in a deep
sleep in the middle of the night,
and it’s like you are at the bottom
of the ocean. Sometimes when
you hear a loud noise the submarine rises toward the surface, but
then it goes down again.
We need to have a healthy
amount of sleep so we can be
bright and awake for our classes.
Dr. O told us very interesting
facts about dreams, too. If you
have recurring dreams it’s just
your mind going over a memory. She told us to not eat too much
before bed because it can cause
nightmares. She talked about
things like sleepwalking, too. It
was very cool and interesting!
— Chloe Rosenbaum and
Gabriela Bobo, fifth-graders
ABERFOYLE: Chevy Chase neighbors team up for harpsichord concerts
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mate settings like salons and
unfolded over food, drink and
light conversation. Getting the
word out proved the biggest challenge early on, as well as subverting people’s preconceptions about
the harpsichord. The instrument
peaked in prominence during the
17th and 18th centuries, with a
few brief revivals — including
one in the 1970s — so it’s safe to
say that popular interest isn’t currently at its height.
“Unfortunately some people
have heard bad harpsichords in
the past — crashy, hurdy-gurdy
stuff,” Winter said. “We’re trying
to dispel those myths,” Honigberg
added.
On the other hand, connecting
with well-known harpsichordists
proved less difficult than the two
imagined. Harpsichordists are
eager to share their gifts in intimate settings like the ones Aberfoyle Baroque has provided, Winter said. Instrumentalists as farflung as Boston have even
reached out to them directly.
In the case of Rondeau, the
pair had some initial conversations with him at a Phillips Collection concert, then via email
before they traveled to Paris to
meet him at a bistro before one of
his concerts earlier this year.
Purchasing the instruments in
the first place required a significant time commitment. Honigberg’s harpsichord came from a
workshop in The Plains, Va., run
by local harpsichord gurus Barbara and Thomas Wolf. Winter and
Honigberg took a trip there to
peruse the offerings, but Honigberg was most impressed by an
instrument tucked in a corner of
the store under a cloth.
“I was completely smitten,”
Honigberg said. “I just fell in love
with the sound of the instrument.”
The Wolfs told Honigberg that
the instrument, built by legendary
harpsichord maker William Dowd
in 1976, was a loaner, occasionally rented out to venues like the
Kennedy Center. By chance, a
few months later, she met the
owner of that harpsichord at an
event in D.C., and he offered it to
her on a trial basis. She ended up
purchasing it.
Winter’s harpsichord, built a
few years earlier in 1972, also
came from the Dowd collection.
She found hers at a clearinghouse
in Providence, R.I. Like all harpsichords, it requires tuning every
two weeks, as well as other periodic maintenance to make sure
the strings are functioning properly. Winter gets help on that from
Mark Adler, who lives in Chevy
Chase, Md., and runs a harpsichord store in Gaithersburg. Adler
estimates that only 80 such instruments exist in the D.C. area.
On Monday morning, he was
hard at work in Winter’s living
room preparing the harpsichord
for Saturday’s performance. Of
Courtesy of Carolyn Winter
The neighbors visited musicians
Jean Rondeau, left, and Thomas
Dunford in Paris last month.
particular interest to him were the
pins holding the strings, which
play a major role in shaping the
instrument’s sound. “Loose pins
are the kiss of death,” Adler said.
Honigberg brings a deeper
musical background to the pair,
while Winter tends to take the
lead on organizational and marketing matters. Down the road,
they’re looking to continue with
their traditions as well as expand
to include more events like the
upcoming master classes aimed at
piano players and children.
The Aberfoyle Baroque team
isn’t in it for the money — revenue from ticket sales goes to generously compensating the visiting
artists and funding some of the
costs of the food and drink offerings. They get to spend the days
leading up to each event learning
from the artists, and then they
share what they’ve discovered
with their event’s guests.
“We ask people to entrust us
with an evening, and we will give
them an experience that is unforgettable,” Honigberg said. “An
elegant and intimate evening of
music and camaraderie.”
Tickets for Saturday’s event at
Winter’s home are available at
tinyurl.com/JeanRondeau for
$110 per person.
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a preview of “Every 28 Hours,” consisting of more than 30 one-minute plays
inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, featuring playwrights and theaters
across the nation. 6 p.m. Free; tickets
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7:30 p.m. Free. Arts Club of Washington,
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Life of Birds.” Performers will include
violinists Nurit Bar-Josef and Heather
LeDoux Green, violist Dan Foster, cellist
Mark Evans, flutist Aaron Goldman and
clarinetist Eugene Mondie. 7:30 p.m.
$35. Halcyon House, 3400 Prospect St.
NW. overtureseries.org.
■ The Heavy Pets and Litz will perform. 8:30 p.m. $10 to $12. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ Lilien Robinson, professor of art
history at George Washington University,
will discuss Serbian artists Uroš Predić
and Pavle Paja Jovanović. Noon. Free.
George Washington University Museum
and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW.
202-994-5200.
■ Curatorial assistant Stephanie
Midon will discuss several works in the
special exhibition “She Who Tells a
Story: Women Photographers From Iran
and the Arab World.” Noon to 12:30
p.m. Free. National Museum of Women
in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW.
202-783-7370.
■ “DC’s Historic Sites: Welcome to
Northeast,” a six-session lecture series,
will feature a talk on Gallaudet University by Meredith Peruzzi, manager of the
Gallaudet University Museum and curator of the exhibition “Gallaudet at 150
and Beyond.” Noon to 1:30 p.m. $20 to
$30. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ The Lincoln Ideas Forum 2016 will
feature speakers Ted Maris-Wolf, Katherine Chon, Richard Vedder, Olivia Dreier,
Katie Mansfield and Raymond Zeigler
discussing the intersection of their contemporary work with President Abraham
Lincoln’s life and legacy. 1:30 to 3:30
p.m. Free; reservations required. President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’
Home, Upshur Street at Rock Creek
Church Road NW. lincolncottage.org.
■ Ambassador Thomas Pickering —
whose diplomatic career spanned five
decades and included stints as ambassador to the Russian Federation, India,
Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria and Jordan —
will discuss “Envisioning the Future of
the United Nations.” 3 to 4 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Abramson Family
Founders Room, School of International
Service Building, American University,
Nebraska and New Mexico avenues NW.
american.edu/sis/events.
■ Jean Casella and James Ridgeway,
co-founders of Solitary Watch and coeditors of “Hell Is a Very Small Place:
Voices From Solitary Confinement,” will
participate in a panel discussion to mark
the book’s publication. 6 to 8 p.m. Free.
Langston Room, Busboys and Poets,
2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
■ Author Darrin Lunde will discuss
his book “The Naturalist,” a new account
of Theodore Roosevelt’s lifelong passion
for the natural world. 6:30 p.m. Free.
Kramerbooks & Afterwords, 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-387-1400.
■ The Sibley Institute of Bone & Joint
Health will present a seminar by orthopedic surgeon Noah Raizman on “Carpal
Tunnel Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis
and Osteoarthritis of the Hand, Thumb
and Wrist.” 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free; reservations required. Conference Room 2, Sibley Medical Office Building, 5215 Loughboro Road NW. 202-660-6683.
will feature a talk by architects Ann Beha
and Philip Chen on their collaborative
design approach and the introduction of
compelling new identities to modernist
classics and well-established landmarks.
6:30 to 8 p.m. $10 to $35. District
Architecture Center, 421 7th St. NW.
aiadc.com/ArchitectureWeek.
■ Sean Solomon, director of the
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and
professor of earth and planetary sciences at Columbia University, will discuss
“First Rock From the Sun: Exploring Mer-
cury by Spacecraft.” 6:45 p.m. Free; reservations required. Carnegie Institution
of Washington, 1530 P St. NW. 202328-6988.
■ William Egginton, professor of
humanities at Johns Hopkins University,
will discuss his book “The Man Who
Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered in the Modern World.” 6:45 to 8:45
p.m. $30 to $45. S. Dillon Ripley Center,
1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-6333030.
■ Retired Army Col. Andrew Bacevich, professor emeritus of history and
international relations at Boston University, will discuss his book “America’s War
for the Greater Middle East: A Military
History,” which investigates why the
region has been the scene of constant
conflict and high U.S. casualty rates in
recent years. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.
■ “African American Life in Washington, DC, Before Emancipation” will feature panelists Mark Auslander of Central
Washington University, Maurice Jackson
of Georgetown University and Nancy Bercaw and Mary Elliott of the National
Museum of African American History
and Culture discussing slavery and slave
dealers in the nation’s capital before the
1862 Compensated Emancipation Act. 7
p.m. Free; reservations suggested.
McGowan Theater, National Archives
Building, Constitution Avenue between
7th and 9th streets NW. 202-357-5000.
■ Composer and bandleader Maria
Schneider will convene a panel discussion on artists’ rights and the digital
music marketplace. 7 p.m. Free; tickets
required. Montpelier Room, Madison
Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. loc.gov/concerts.
■ The “DC Music Salon” series will
focus on “Boogie ’Til You Puke: The Forgotten Legend of Root Boy Slim,” featuring a presentation by the team behind a
new documentary about a musician
whose life was stranger than fiction. 7
p.m. Free. Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library,
1630 7th St. NW. 202-727-1288.
■ Authors and activists Annie Clark
and Andrea Pino will discuss their book
“We Believe You: Survivors of Campus
Sexual Assault Speak Out,” which spotlights the cover-up of assaults on college
campuses through the stories of 30 survivors. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y.,
will join the authors in conversation. 7
p.m. $12 to $20. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. sixthandi.org.
■ The Bowen Center for the Study of
the Family will present a talk on
“Nature’s Family Health Plan: Neurobiological Benefits in Primate and Rodent
Parental Models” by Kelly Lambert, professor of psychology and department
chair at Randolph Macon College. 7:30
p.m. Free. Bowen Center for the Study of
the Family, 4400 MacArthur Blvd. NW.
202-965-4400.
Films
■ “Into the Mind of Adoor Gopalakrishnan: Indian Cinema Pioneer” will
feature a screening of the director’s
2008 film “A Climate for Crime,” which
tells four stories of characters driven to
misdeeds by the economic and social
crises brought on by World War II. Suranjan Ganguly, author of “The Films of
Adoor Gopalakrishnan: A Cinema of
Emancipation,” will introduce the film. 7
p.m. Free. Doyle/Forman Theater,
McKinley Building, American University,
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-8852220.
■ The Lions of Czech Film series will
feature Andy Fehu’s directorial debut
“The Greedy Tiffany,” about a treasure
hunt that becomes an all-consuming
activity. 8 p.m. $6.75 to $12. Avalon
Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-966-6000.
■ As part of the 2016 Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival,
national finalists for the Gary Garrison
Ten-Minute Play Award will perform. The
show will also feature a selection from
the recipient of the Harold and Mimi
Steinberg National Student Playwriting
Award. 6 p.m. Free; tickets distributed in
the States Gallery a half hour before the
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe
Herrera will host an event celebrating
U.S. Hispanic culture and literature to
kick off the 2016 “Split This Rock Poetry
Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness,” a four-day event featuring readings, workshops, youth voices and activism. 7 p.m. Free. Coolidge Auditorium,
Jefferson Building, Library of Congress,
10 1st St. SE. 202-707-5394.
■ The Washington Ballet will perform
Orff’s “Carmina Burana” and Balanchine’s “Theme and Variations.” 7:30
p.m. $32.25 to $130. Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
The performance will repeat Thursday
and Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday
and Sunday at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m.
■ The Grapevine Spoken Word Series
will feature Regi Carpenter and Jo Radner. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. $10 donation
suggested. Busboys and Poets Takoma,
235 Carroll St. NW. 202-726-0856.
■ The inaugural 202 Comedy Festival, a four-day event with stand-up
shows at various venues, will host an
Opening Night Showcase featuring Rob
Cantrell, Andy Haynes, Bengt Washburn,
Kasaun Wilson, John F. O’Donnell, Hillary Scofield, Lafayette Wright, Wendy
Wroblewski and Sean Joyce. 8 p.m. $10.
Big Hunt, 1345 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202comedyfestival.com. The festival will
continue through April 16.
■ Georgetown University’s Mask &
Bauble Dramatic Society will present the
Sondheim musical “Into the Woods.” 8
p.m. $10 to $15. Stage III, Poulton Hall,
Georgetown University, 1421 37th St.
NW. 202-687-2787. Performances will
continue through April 23.
Special event
■ Family Matters of Greater Washington will present its fifth annual Dresses4Dreams and Suited4Dreams clothing
giveaway for low-income promgoers,
starting with the boutique for girls from
5 to 8 p.m. Free professional services
and giveaways if students attend an
HIV/AIDS workshop at 4:15 p.m. Family
Matters of Greater Washington, 425 I St.
NW. 202-289-1510, ext. 327. The men’s
shop and workshop for boys will take
place Thursday at the same times.
Sporting event
the Atlanta Hawks. 8 p.m. $18 to $899.
Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-7453000.
Support group
■ PFLAG will host a monthly support
group for parents and friends of children
who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, queer and questioning. 7
to 9 p.m. Free. Metropolitan Memorial
United Methodist Church, 3401 Nebraska Ave. NW. [email protected].
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