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November 28, 2007 ■ Page 17
The People and Places of Northwest Washington
ALL FORM,
NO SUBSTANCE
David Brown
D.C.’s ‘Iron Chef’
Indebleu’s Moore hits prime time
By AILEA SNELLER
Thanksgiving: the
new Christmas
I
t’s the week after Thanksgiving,
so I’m assuming you have all the
jokes about how much turkey
you ate out of your system. We’ve
all regaled each other endlessly with
the nightmare travel scenarios we
braved, the crazy family members
we tolerated and the ill-advised
shopping excursions to big-box
retailers teeming with hordes of
lunatics desperate to pay $24 for a
DVD player that makes waffles.
OK, now it’s out of my system,
too. Time to get geared up for
Christmas. This is where the fun
really starts: the anxiety, the spending, the travel, the cooking and on
and on. We all know Christmas has
gotten completely out of hand, yet
we’re helpless to do anything about
it. Rail against
the commercialism of the
season and
you’re a firstclass Scrooge.
Give in, and
you’re broke
and hooked
on a cocktail
of Paxil and
cabernet
before
Hanukkah.
Well, as
usual, I’ve got
a better idea.
And it makes
so much sense
you’ll be
shocked you
never thought
of it. And it
doesn’t involve anything radical or
sacrilegious or violent, unlike most
of my good ideas. It’s very simple:
We make Thanksgiving the new
Christmas.
Christmas has become the biggest
holiday on the calendar. Forget the
fact that a sizable portion of the population doesn’t even celebrate it.
Ignore the detail that Easter is actually the most important holiday in
the Christian faith. People who want
to sell you things have hijacked
Baby Jesus’ manger and are
demanding a huge ransom: spend
and spend big, or your economy will
fall like Babylon.
And despite our loathing of such
a crass display of greed, we eat it up.
See Christmas/Page 25
Rail against
the commercialism and
you’re a
first-class
Scrooge.
Give in, and
you’re broke
and hooked
on a cocktail
of Paxil and
cabernet
before
Hanukkah.
Current Correspondent
E
xecutive chef Ricky Moore strolled
from the kitchen into the Tantra
Lounge at Indebleu on a recent Sunday
evening to the roar of applause. On a large
flat-screen TV behind him, his likeness fried a
turkey in the Kitchen Stadium of “Iron Chef
America.”
Moore had been picked to be a competitor
on the Food Network’s culinary showdown,
which welcomes the country’s most celebrated chefs to battle the likes of Bobby Flay,
Mario Batali and, for the first time last
Sunday, new Iron Chef
Michael Symon. The
competing chefs get one
hour and a designated
special ingredient to create an offering of dishes
that would most impress a panel of judges,
who give points for things like taste and presentation. TV audiences are then treated to a
frantic hour of chopping, steaming, braising
and frying, all commentated upon in the style
of a major-league sporting event.
Indebleu invited friends and investors to
enjoy appetizers while watching the broadcast
of a Thanksgiving-themed face-off featuring
the restaurant’s new chef. The atmosphere was
ebullient yet relaxed — until Moore’s nemesis
appeared on the screen, greeted by rambunctious boos. Meanwhile, the chef floated
through the lounge, grinning and shaking
hands with friends and supporters, whose
enthusiasm was palpable.
The watch party provided a perfect opportunity for Indebleu staff to welcome Moore to
their ranks less than a week after he started,
having been recruited from his previous post
Bill Petros/The Current
Indebleu executive chef Ricky Moore competed on “Iron Chef America” earlier this month.
as executive chef at Agraria.
“It’s really a lot of fun to have someone
from D.C. on the show,” said Mark
Gundersen, chief of communications and marketing for Enterprise Bleu, the restaurant’s
parent company. “What better opportunity to
celebrate our new chef?”
Moore was trained at the Culinary Institute
of America, and he has worked locally with
Roberto Donna at Galileo and Jeffrey Buben
at Vidalia. He cites influences that range from
actor Sidney Poitier to hip-hop innovator
Grandmaster Flash, and he describes his cooking style as a “modern maverick interpretation
of classical and global cuisine, dictated by seasonal and local ingredients.”
“I’m feeling great,” Moore said of his new
culinary home. “It’s a different style of cooking [than at Agraria], but at the end of the day,
I know how to cook. ... I’ve been training all
these years to be a craftsman, and I think the
food is going to evolve nicely here.”
In a particularly rowdy corner of the
lounge, Moore’s old friends from Agraria
were among his most vocal supporters.
“He did a great job with us. He’s a tremendous person,” said John Gibson, former acting
general manager at Agraria.
Aaron Scales, who worked with Moore at
Agraria, watched himself on the screen, working alongside Chef Moore as his sous chef. He
said the intensity of working under pressure in
an unfamiliar kitchen was offset by Moore’s
direct style. “I learned a lot working with
him,” he said.
Moore’s strategy during the Iron Chef
competition, he explained, was inspired by his
See Chef/Page 31
Nigersaurus discoverer talks about how he got into bones
By STEPHANIE M. KANOWITZ
S
Mark Thiessen/National Geographic
Paul Sereno, who announced his latest dinosaur discovery earlier
this month, is an “explorer-in-residence” at National Geographic.
ome people feel their life’s calling in their bones. For paleontologist Paul Sereno, an explorer-in-residence at National
Geographic, it’s in the bones of dinosaurs, which he has discovered on five continents. He announced his latest find two weeks ago at
National Geographic: Nigersaurus taqueti, a Mesozoic “fern mower”
that lived 110 million years ago in present-day Niger. Its down-turned
skull and flat jaw are unlike anything seen in dinosaurs before.
Sereno’s past discoveries have included Sarcosuchus imperator, also
known as “SuperCroc,” a 40-foot prehistoric crocodile; and Rajasaurus
narmadensis, a predator that roamed India. In all, Sereno has discovered 11 dinosaur species.
Like the fossils he studies, Sereno’s evolution has been rather disjointed. Although he teaches paleontology, evolution and human anatomy at the University of Chicago (where he is based), there was a time
when Sereno doubted he would graduate from high school.
“I remember distinctly in sixth grade thinking, ‘I’ve only gone
through six years and if I can calculate correctly ... [I have] six more
years,’” he said during a recent lecture titled “Extreme Dinosaurs” at
National Geographic’s M Street headquarters. “I’m not going to make
it out of high school. A lot of people didn’t think I would make it out of
See Explorer/Page 24
18 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2007
THE CURRENT
Lifestyles
HOME & GARDEN
Logan house tour highlights include 500-sq.-ft. condo, koi pond
By CAROL ABERNATHY
L
ooking around James and Diane Huning’s 500-squarefoot apartment, a visitor would never guess that the
owners are avid and active nature lovers. The lone
vegetation, a slightly anemic potted palm, is allowed to stay
only because it can survive the long stretches while its owners are at their home in Maine, exploring islands in the
Caribbean or vacationing in southern France.
But the Hunings, who will open their home Sunday as
part of the Logan Circle Community Association’s 2007
Holiday House Tour, were not invited to take part in the tour
because of their green thumbs. Rather, their compact home
on Rhode Island Avenue offers an impressive model for
cramped city-dwellers and all who want to live more efficiently. Though tiny, the studio apartment features smart
design that allows the couple to live as comfortably as they
did in their earlier home, a town house five times larger.
A Murphy bed, custom-made by artisans in Northern
Virginia, is simply a handsome cabinet when not in use. The
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Michael Marriott and Toby Sanchez had renovated two
homes before buying their current condo, which the
previous owners had updated. They blend decades and
styles in the two-story space, which also has a koi pond.
sofa can also be used as a bed. “We put a screen between the
two, and the living room becomes a guest room,” said James
Huning. Nor has the lack of a formal dining room prevented
the lively couple — clearly natural hosts — from presiding
over larger gatherings. “We’ve had dinner for 12 there,” said
James, pointing at a sleek little table.
The Hunings have become the ruthless editors that living
small requires: “One thing comes in, another must go,” said
James. But the couple has found that not all comforts must
be downsized. Because the living and sleeping area is so
small, the space boasts a kitchen and bathroom much larger
than are typically found in studios, and a small closet hides
— luxury! — a stacked washer and dryer.
Visitors to the Huning home on the tour looking for ideas
for their own small spaces will note the secrets of the
Hunings’ success: clean lines, good lighting and thoughtfully
arranged art. Black-and-white photographs (taken by the
couple’s son-in-law) of architectural elements unify one wall
in the living space, while large pieces in the kitchen and
foyer dominate, but do not overwhelm, their settings.
See Tour/Page 22
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Top: Bill Petros/The Current; bottom: courtesy of Elise Milstein
Elise Milstein, below, is mourning the sale of “The Awakening,” which will move from its post at Hains Point.
A giant of a sculpture — soon to awaken
By ELISE MILSTEIN
I
was home for a visit when my
brother told me the news: “The
Awakening”
— a sculpture of
a hundred-foot
giant emerging
from the earth —
is leaving. The
giant will be
released from his
perpetual struggle, “awakened” at
last from the earth at Hains Point.
Futilely, he has strained for
decades, mouth agape in a primal
roar, hand clawed in a desperate
clutch, surfacing from the under-
world that would not let him free.
As a child, he scared me in a delicious way as I climbed into his
maw and tickled his toes, secure in
the knowledge that he could not
move.
Despite my conviction of his
immobility, “The Awakening” was
intended to be a temporary installation. It creator, J. Seward Johnson
Jr., cast the five-part aluminum
sculpture for the 1980 International
Sculpture Exhibition and
Conference, which brought 500
works of art to sites across the city.
All works were installed under the
authority of a short-term permit,
and when the exhibition ended, the
other sculptures were removed.
The giant stayed.
Though the years, the giant has
survived near-disasters. Its left
hand has been damaged at least
three times when struck by cars,
and its right leg was undermined
when Hains Point flooded in 2003
during Hurricane Isabel. The giant
was repaired each time, and its perpetual struggle continued. It is
progress, however, that will ultimately uproot the giant.
In 1987, Congress approved the
creation of a National Peace
Garden at Hains Point, which is in
East Potomac Park and part of the
National Park Service system. The
Park Service, along with the
See Awakening/Page 22
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2007
Restaurants
NORTHWEST CHEFS
Chef offers up traditions at Kotobuki
By JULIA WATSON
I
t was fortunate for Hisao Abe’s
adventurous spirit that he was
the last child in the family.
With five brothers and sisters
ahead of him, when he told his
parents he wanted to see the world,
his mother said, “Go wherever you
like.”
The last time he went back
home to Tokyo was 10 years ago.
And his mother doesn’t like to fly.
So they e-mail; they talk. “If
something happens, I can go
back,” Abe says. He seems to
accept it.
What’s kept him away are the
demands of his restaurant,
Kotobuki. For fans of sushi, this
modest 20-seat Japanese establishment is a closely guarded secret.
After all, how easy is it to find the
freshest maguro tuna and eel nigiri
for a dollar a piece? Even its location has an air of mystery. You’ll
find it tucked away above the
unrelated, rather more expensive
and elegant Japanese restaurant
Makoto on a tree-lined stretch of
MacArthur Boulevard close to the
Georgetown Reservoir.
Nigiri sushi (fish on top of rice),
maki sushi (fish wrapped in a sheet
of pressed and dried seaweed) and
sashimi isn’t all that Abe serves.
He’d like more people to know
about kamameshi. It’s a traditional
hot-pot dish of chicken or eel or
vegetables served over delicately
flavored rice in a wooden-lidded
iron kettle slipped inside a wooden
base.
In Japan, people may tell you
they’re taking a trip to Nagano to
see its seventh-century Buddhist
temple. But it’s just as likely
they’re traveling for the exceptional
kamameshi “ekiben,” or station
lunch, sold at Nagano’s railway stations. Renowned throughout the
country, it comes with three small
cups of side dishes, sashimi and a
CHEF’S CHOICE
Chef Hisao Abe shared with The
Current his dipping sauce for
dumplings.
Ingredients:
3 ounces miso (soybean) paste
2 tablespoons goma (sesame)
paste
3 tablespoons sugar
4 tablespoons vinegar
2 tablespoons sake (rice wine)
Mix all the ingredients vigorously
together and serve in individual
dipping saucers.
Chef Hisao Abe, who owns Kotobuki on MacArthur Boulevard, learned
the art of sushi-making after years of observing.
bowl of miso soup.
Abe wanted to add kamameshi
to his menu because “all Japanese
people eat this one.” In his sometimes-patchy English, he says,
“American people learn this is
good or not.”
His restaurant’s seating may be
limited. But with everything made
to order, the work is intensive.
Perhaps the endless background
murmur of Beatles songs keeps
Abe’s head clear.
Abe learned his craft like all
Japanese sushi chefs: “Watch.
Nose, eye, tongue.” He points to
each. “We learn from there.” It
takes years of observing, sniffing
and tasting before sushi chefs are
allowed near a knife. A Westerner
might think that once the aspiring
chefs can prepare every fish in each
of its different fashions and present
vegetables according to season,
they are trained enough to be let
loose on the discerning Japanese
public. But they still have years
toiling in the background ahead of
them. And if they want to tackle
the potentially life-threatening fish
fugu, they then must apply to the
health department for a license and
follow it with a further five years
of practice.
Eating good sushi and sashimi
made from a broad range of fish
can be expensive in Japan —
“$100 for a lunchbox, all handmade,” says Abe. “We don’t think
about money, how much it can be.
We think, I want to learn from
that.”
His mother had a friend with a
restaurant in the United States. One
day, she told her son this friend
was looking for help. “‘You want
to go, you can go,’” Abe recalls her
saying.
So in 1984, he arrived in
Washington and spent the next 10
years in a sushi restaurant that has
since shut. He returned to Tokyo
planning to settle back in with his
family, learn some more, catch up
with developments over there.
From 1993 to 1998 he worked
at the Sofitel Hotel in Tokyo, now
closed, and studied Chinese and
French cuisine. But he felt homesick for the States. “Tokyo isn’t
comfortable. Everybody pushing in
train.”
Abe was offered work in different countries, but he chose to return
to Washington. “The seasons are
close to Japan seasons.” He opened
his own restaurant in McLean, Va.
Four years ago, he moved
Kotobuki and his cat to the
Palisades to escape the burden of
Virginia taxes.
Working with fish that will be
eaten raw means his ingredients
must be at the peak of freshness.
“My teacher teaches me: very
important — food put in here.” He
points into his open mouth.
“Parasite is poison. You must be
very careful. You can’t see bacteria.
My mother is also expert” in
choosing perfect fish.
He orders his fish every day
from New Jersey and sometimes a
small amount from Baltimore. And
locally, he can’t resist intervening
with Washingtonians he encounters
buying not-so-fresh fish for sushi.
See Kotobuki/Page 31
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November 28, 2007 ■ Page 21
A Look at the Market in Northwest Washington
Split-level Barnaby Woods home is ready for HGTV
ON THE MARKET
BETH GILBERT
were built in response to homeowners’ desire to have a common
space to gather around the TV.
Along with its very-’50s features, this home will be featured
on “Designed To Sell,” a
makeover show on Home and
Garden Television. It will focus on
a pink bathroom and a funky
green-tiled breezeway that connects the main house to the twocar garage. The crew is arriving
today and will work for about a
week, with an open house to follow.
Located on a large, hillside lot
overlooking Rock Creek Park in
Barnaby Woods, the home has an
address of 6900 Oregon Ave.,
although its front door faces
Dogwood Street.
A flagstone path leads from the
driveway up to a covered porch
and the front door. Inside is a spa-
cious foyer with hardwood floors,
which run throughout most of the
first level and all of the second. To
the left is the spacious living/family room with a soaring beamed
and angled ceiling. A fireplace
composed of thin, horizontally
sliced stones rises to the highest
portion of the ceiling along the
north wall, and a large picture
window on the west wall creates
even more drama in this 17-by-25foot room.
Adjoining the family room
through a doorway on the south
wall is the dining room. It is spacious and has a picture window
overlooking Dogwood Street. A
door off the dining room opens to
a breezeway with another picture
window as well as a door to a
back flagstone patio.
The renovated, eat-in kitchen is
accessible from the dining room
and foyer. From a large window
on the east wall, one can watch
comings and goings at the front
door while enjoying an elevated
and unobstructed view of Rock
Creek Park across the street. The
white kitchen has 16-inch marblelike ceramic tiles on the floor,
white-tiled countertops and white
raised-panel cabinets. All the
appliances except the refrigerator
are stainless-steel.
Off
the foyer
to the
right is a
hallway
that
includes
a classic
1950s
pink
powder
room
with a
porthole window; a large walk-in
closet with pull-down stairs to the
attic storage area; and, at the end
of the hall, a library/study/office
with an east-facing bay window
overlooking Oregon Avenue and
Rock Creek Park.
The second level is reached via
an open staircase off the foyer.
The master suite is exposed on
two sides and has a north-facing
picture window, two double closets and an additional, walk-in
closet. An updated and expanded
bathroom includes a jet tub and
double vanity.
Two more bedrooms and a hall
bathroom in another 1950s-era
color scheme of green and yellow
are located at the opposite end of
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this level.
Another
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another family room with a brick
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From Page 18
National Capital Planning
Commission and the Commission
of Fine Arts, settled on a design
consisting of a plaza, a pool and
some trees. In 2001, the National
Park Service was prepared to evict
the giant to make room for the
Peace Garden. But funding never
materialized, the project went dormant and the giant remained.
After its installation, Johnson
generously offered to donate it to
the National Park Service to remain
on the site. The Park Service
declined, however, because it does
not take site-specific donations.
Also, a 1986 law requires that any
sculpture on Park Service land
must be either “commemorative”
in nature or in place temporarily.
As a result, the giant went up for
sale with a six-figure asking price.
The giant was claimed this year.
Developer Milt Peterson purchased
him for $750,000, planning to
make him a feature of the ambitious National Harbor project, the
revitalization of the waterfront in
Prince George’s County. And
although the D.C. metro area is
spared its loss, Hains Point will not
be the same without the giant.
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a pool, a golf course, a tennis center, cherry trees and miles of clear
roads and fishing spots. The
Washington Channel runs past to
the east, carrying the detritus of the
city on smooth green waters.
Across the channel you can
smell the fish market; you can see
the fishing boats, sailboats and
houseboats bobbing on the waterfront. To the west, the Potomac
rages past, carrying the inevitable
logs, leaves and froth on its choppy
surface. Planes circle in and out of
the airport on the far side. Dozens
line the walkways to try their luck
fishing, without benefit of licenses
and without concern for pollution.
And at the tip of the land has been
the powerful giant: a solid amid
liquid, a constant in face of change.
When I grew too old to be
scared of him, he came to represent
other qualities: perseverance, determination, continuity. During the
17th mile of the Marine Corps
Marathon, I took strength from his
tenacity. I relied on him, too, when
I moved away, alone in an unfamiliar city. I hung a photo of the giant
on the wall. “The Awakening” was
my symbol of home: a city of
strength and drive and resolution.
I will grieve for the giant, even
though he’ll be installed elsewhere
before too long — all shined and lit
and new-and-improved. But his
relocation cannot dissolve his
power. For me, “The Awakening”
will always be a symbol of will, an
example of endurance and a
reminder to press on.
TOUR
From Page 18
While possessions may not
define the individual, the items
kept when many others must go do
have a certain emblematic value,
particularly in this tiny boîte of an
apartment. Not every couple, after
all, would make room in 500
square feet, amid the photographs
of grandkids and the obviously
prized art, for snorkel gear, lying in
wait for the next adventure.
The owners of another home on
the tour — Michael Marriott and
Juan “Toby” Sanchez — are as
likely as the Hunings to be found
dashing off on their next trip, but
feathering their Corcoran Street
nest has obviously been a recent
priority. The previous owners had
expertly renovated the condominium, which occupies the lower
floors of a historic building, and
Marriott and Sanchez, who had
rehabilitated two homes together,
found it blessedly move-in ready.
Those former owners, who are
on the board of the community
association, are also responsible for
the home’s presence on the tour,
which benefits the association, said
Marriott, who stayed in contact
with the couple due to a strange
inheritance. “There’s a koi pond in
the back, and we had no idea what
to do with it,” he said, laughing,
“and now we’re on the tour.”
The new owners did know,
however, what to do with the bold,
clean lines of the space, now filled
with a seamlessly eclectic blend of
decades and styles. A slight deco
timbre sounds throughout but never
dominates: The brocaded sofa is
leavened by a zebra-print rug, and
crystal lamps and curule stools in
the master bedroom have as a modernist counterpoint Philippe
Starck’s iconic Ghost chair.
Anyone thinking of renovating
a bathroom, particularly in an older
home, will want to see the examples here. A textured plaster adds
interest without busyness to the
walls, the floor has a pebble texture
and custom cabinetry completes
the calming space.
Many participants in a house
tour prepare frantically before the
hordes of strangers come traipsing
through, but Marriott is comfortable that his house is a work in
progress. Although the couple’s art
collection is extensive, the space
over the sofa — where even people
who don’t collect art hang something — is empty. He’s waiting for
the perfect piece.
It’s a home tour, then, that has it
all: clever tips for the space-challenged, drool-worthy design for the
décor voyeur, and acceptance of
imperfections — and just in time
for the holidays.
The Logan Circle Holiday
House Tour will run from 1 to 5
p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $15 at
logancircle.org and $20 the day of
the event at 1324 Vermont Ave. NW.
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said the restoration work will probably take the entire time the collection is at the central library.
Greek added that the library system hopes to find a volunteer calligrapher to help label the Georgetown
house files, a popular part of the collection that contains deeds and other
information on every Georgetown
house. The “beautifully labeled”
folders, which were damaged during the fire, will be replaced with
folders made of acid-free paper
because those are better for preservation, said Greek.
The library staff hopes to put the
files about individual houses on display by January. Velazco said some
of them go back hundreds of years.
“The homeowners in Georgetown
find it fascinating to find a history of
their home,” she said.
Prospective volunteers are asked
to call William Turner at 202-7274968.
While volunteers can do the bulk
of restoration, library staff will have
to send out some items to professional conservators, said Greek.
Velazco said about 10 percent of the
documents will need “extensive
professional restoration,” about 80
percent will need “some kind of
work” and another 10 percent are
not recoverable.
Library staff said donations that
have been pouring in to the
Georgetown Library Recovery and
Restoration Fund, administered by
the D.C. Public Library Foundation,
helped ensure the Peabody collection’s speedy return to the District.
The library system used donations
from the fund to send two archivists
to the Texas conservation facility to
triage the collection and help prepare for its return.
Georgetown resident Frida
Burling, who co-chaired a library
fundraising event at St. John’s
Georgetown Episcopal Church that
raised about $45,000, said through a
library press statement: “I am
thrilled to see such a quick response.
And delighted that our fundraising
efforts are already bearing fruit. I
hope everyone will continue to support this effort and to ensure quick
access to this historic collection.”
So far, the library system has
raised close to $75,000 for the
Georgetown restoration efforts,
Velazco said. Donations to the fund,
and to other D.C. library branches,
can be made at dcplfoundation.org
or by calling 202-727-4943.
Velazco said residents should
also call her if they would like to
“adopt a painting.” Along with
paper documents, the Peabody collection includes about 44 historic
paintings, most of which were damaged by the fire. Contractor Page
Conservation recently told the
library system that painting restorations would range from $1,200 to
$23,000 — about $120,000 altogether. The names of those who
help fund restorations will be listed
on plaques next to the paintings.
STANDARDS
From Page 3
tion is supporting the requirement
for fifth-graders to learn about
HIV/AIDS.
“We feel strongly that the
school system can play a strong
role in reducing the stigma
attached to HIV/AIDS,” said
Tenner. “Where the stigma flourishes ... people will not protect
themselves and not seek care,” he
said, referencing a District study
released this week that shows a
significant percentage of people
delay getting tested.
The world language standards,
which
are
adapted
from
Massachusetts and Indiana, state
that students should graduate “with
communicative and intercultural
competence in one or more languages other than English.”
D.C. schools already require
two years of study in the same
world language. The standards do
not require any different requirements; they simply delineate the
different types of world language
instruction.
For example, partial immersion
language study is when 50 percent
of subjects are taught in a nonEnglish language.
A full immersion program
teaches kindergartners through
second-graders all subjects in a
non-English language and then
teaches English in 20 to 50 percent
of the classes in the third through
sixth-grades.
Dual-language immersion programs, on the other hand, provide
equal emphasis on English and
another language in classes in
which one-third to two-thirds of
the students are native speakers of
the non-English language and the
others are native English speakers.
Oyster Bilingual School in
Woodley Park is an example of a
dual-language program.
“Traditional” language instruction begins in middle or high
school with instruction in a nonEnglish language for one class
period a day.
The physical education standards include basic motor skill
benchmarks for pre-kindergarten
through eighth-graders and broader descriptions of athletic activities
for high school students. Firstgraders, for example, should be
able to catch a self-tossed ball, a
self-bounced ball and a gently
thrown ball; eighth-graders should
be able to “participate as a leader
and a follower during group physical activities, and identify the
responsibilities of a leader in physical activity.”
The standards are available to
the public on the Office of the
State
Superintendent
of
Education’s osse.dc.gov.
The hearing will begin at 5:30
p.m. at 441 4th St. NW in the old
D.C. Council chambers, and the
record will be open to written testimony through Friday. To speak at
the hearing, call 202-741-0884.
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high school.”
Although the classroom didn’t
agree with him, he was an engaged
learner outside of school. “I ended
up really learning about science
and getting a love for biology and
actually a feel for adventure and all
the things I was doing outside of
the classroom,” said Sereno, who
has five siblings, all of whom
became college professors.
He got his first taste of biology
when his father bought him a butterfly-collecting kit. But a turning
point came when he finished his
first painting on canvas. “I saw for
the first time that I could do something,” he said. “I felt I had a
career. I was going to be an artist.”
That meant college. He bought a
dictionary and studied it because he
was so far behind in vocabulary
that college admission was iffy.
Nevertheless, he got into Northern
Illinois University, where he
majored in art and biology. Early
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“something else going on subliminally,” he said, referring to a drawing he did of a torso with an
exposed rib cage. “I was seeing
bones when I shouldn’t be.”
But it wasn’t until he took a
behind-the-scenes tour of the
American Museum of Natural
History in New York that he
became fascinated with fossils. He
decided studying them would combine several of his passions: biology, art and travel. He earned a doctorate in geology at Columbia
University, and now he develops
programs and carries out fieldwork
in paleontology.
“The line between science and
art is a very fuzzy one and a very
short one,” said Sereno. “I think
[art] comes into play in every
aspect of what we do. I think that’s
why I can find things in the field
because I can take the anatomy of
bones and when I see only part of it
I can think about the other part
that’s in the ground. ...
“I’m a distortionist, basically,
and try to organize the distortion
evolutionarily,” he said.
Sereno said his interest in
dinosaurs started late. “I decided I
just loved the adventure of paleontology. I hadn’t particularly decided
what kind of animal I would work
on. Well, I did like vertebrates.”
At Columbia, he worked up
seven dissertation topics, one of
which was on reptilian dinosaurs.
“It rose to the top because it was
such a great topic. No one had put
together the evolutionary history of
the group and at that time, our field
was sort of experiencing a revolution in how we put evidence
together ... computerizing things.”
But Sereno still wasn’t sure
about his career path. “I considered
leaving the discipline even after
three incredible years in New York
and starting a degree in history or
something,” he said. “Quite
frankly, I was having doubts about
paleontology because I couldn’t
relate it to the public. That’s always
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been an issue, I think.”
He joined the University of
Chicago faculty in 1987 and in
1988, he conducted his first fieldwork in Argentina, where his team
found remains of the first dinosaurs
to roam the earth. “I went down
and found the first dinosaur on the
first expedition and the career
began,” he said. “It wasn’t a plan,
and why I stayed with it is not
because I love dinosaurs. I’ve gotten to like them, I’ll admit, but
what’s kept me in it is adventure,
the way I can combine all these
things, and because there’s a lot of
theory behind what we’re trying to
do that I am trying to work on.”
With his path finally established, Sereno wanted to give back.
In 1999, he and his wife, Gabrielle
Lyon, founded Project Exploration
to get high school students interested in science.
“We’re already experiencing a
shortage of scientists, and the more
general question is what are we
going to do as a species if we don’t
raise science literacy,” he said.
“Before long, we saw the magic
that was occurring,” he said.
Project participants graduate high
school at twice the rate of students
of equal socioeconomic status, and
they become science majors at
twice the national average, he said.
His work has brought him much
acclaim. He has won the Boston
Museum of Science’s Walker Prize
for extraordinary contributions in
paleontology and Columbia
University’s University Medal for
Excellence. In 1997, he was one of
both People magazine’s 50 most
beautiful people and Esquire’s 100
best people in the world.
Since his daughter was born
three years ago, Sereno has scaled
back his trips abroad. He said he
used to visit two continents a year
to hunt for dinosaur bones, but now
he tries to keep his expeditions to
one a year. He also goes for shorter
stays: two or three months at most,
rather than four, he said.
“I go where I think there’s big
science story where I could really
make a major contribution, and I
am trying to do that not from fragments but from more complete
specimens because I like reconstruction,” Sereno said.
No one place stands out for him.
“I enjoy really out-of-the-way
places — the Sahara, Tibet, Inner
Mongolia. India was actually the
most dangerous expedition because
I had to drive.”
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Hey, it’s Christmas! ‘Tis the season to guilt the masses into grossly conspicuous consumption.
But Thanksgiving feels so
much more like what Christmas
ought to be. Sure, we dwell on the
food and the football. But ultimately it’s just about being with
your family and friends, dysfunctional as they may be.
Try explaining Thanksgiving to
a 3-year-old. They can’t make
sense of the whole Pilgrims and
Indians story. And you really
don’t want to get into what happened in the ensuing centuries
that followed that brief lovefest.
So instead, you boil it down to the
basics: You go to visit Grandma
and Grandpa, and Cousin Betty
and Uncle Larry come over, and
you eat turkey and see everybody
and have a good time. Pretty
wholesome stuff, with a simple
message.
Now explain Christmas to a 3year-old. Unless you’re a religious
zealot, you’re probably not going
into the whole birth-of-the-son-ofGod thing until they’re a bit older.
You’re going to cut right to the
chase: Santa Claus is going to
enter your home while you sleep
and leave you a ton of presents.
Presents! Quick, where’s that
Target toy circular?
Face it — Thanksgiving is a
superior holiday. Sure, we can
still have Christmas, but it’s time
to start de-emphasizing it. Take a
stand against consumerism!
Promote Thanksgiving as THE
biggest holiday of the year. Just
look at all the other reasons why
it makes sense:
• It’s non-denominational.
Rumor has it that Jews don’t celebrate Christmas. I don’t really get
it — it’s tremendous fun, despite
the aforementioned drawbacks.
They’re just not into it. But
Thanksgiving has nothing to do
with religion. Everybody can
enjoy it. No exclusion and no
awkward ambiguous seasonal celebrations.
• It’s distinctly American. They
don’t have Thanksgiving in
Europe, do they? Maybe they do,
or maybe they call it something
else, but Turkey Day feels allAmerican to me. I think they have
it in Canada, but they steal all our
good ideas anyway, so why sweat
it?
• It fits the work week. Because
Christmas is locked in for Dec.
25, the whole holiday is affected
by the calendar. If it falls on a
weekend, everything is great. If it
falls on a Wednesday, it screws up
everything. Do you take off
Monday and Tuesday or Thursday
and Friday? Or maybe your
employer just gives you one day
off and makes you drag your
sorry butt into work on the 24th
and 26th. With Thanksgiving,
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But my sense of
entitlement aside, the
only hard part about
Thanksgiving is
getting home. Just get
home. And if home is
your own home, then
it’s even easier.
to enjoy yourself but not so long
that you’re ready to ship your kids
off to a Peace Corps assignment
in Burkina Faso.
• No pressure. Aside from the
meal, Thanksgiving is just about
getting home. Yes, I’m overlooking the time and preparation
involved in getting a massive
feast for 20 on the table. Yes, I’m
an overpriviliged man who never
lifts a finger. You’re right. But my
sense of entitlement aside, the
only hard part about Thanksgiving
is getting home. Just get home.
And if home is your own home,
then it’s even easier. Then sit back
and wait for someone to feed you
like I do.
So, how do we make
Thanksgiving the new Christmas?
First, stay home this Christmas.
Second, don’t buy anyone any
gifts. Just send your family members letters explaining your
motives and saying you’re making
a nice donation to charity in lieu
of gifts this year. Tell you kids
that Santa is having a lean year
and that they’re only getting two
presents (I was going to make it
one, but I just can’t help myself
— it’s Christmas!) And make sure
you get as many family and
friends together for Thanksgiving
next year as possible. No staying
home for a quiet dinner in your
apartment. No going out for
Chinese. And no whining. Get
home, cook the food and enjoy
yourself.
And if you see any of those
giant inflatable Santas in your
neighbor’s yard, get a butcher’s
knife and teach these Philistines
the new meaning of Christmas:
Give it a rest.
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Spotlight on Schools
Blessed Sacrament School
Our school and church are
holding the annual Greg Gannon
Canned Food Drive. We distributed bags to houses throughout
the community. If you received a
bag at your doorstep, please fill it
with canned food because on
Saturday, Blessed Sacrament volunteers will collect the bags from
your doorstep and take them to
the poor and homeless who may
not have enough to eat.
School DISPATCHES
For the volunteers, the process
will start with a prayer service at
the church on Saturday morning.
Following the service, the volunteers will spread out to collect
donated canned food items from
neighbors. Then they will take the
food to the Geico parking lot, in
Friendship Heights, where it will
be collected and hauled away in
large trucks.
When the volunteers finish collecting and delivering the bags,
they will get to warm up and have
something to eat and drink in the
school auditorium. The food drive
is hard work but a lot of fun and
helps those in need of food. All of
us at Blessed Sacrament hope that
the community will contribute
canned food and make this year’s
drive another great success.
— Fred Kardos, fourth-grader,
and Vincent Kardos, fifth-grader
British School
of Washington
On Nov. 7, I had the honor of
attending the Call to Action
Symposium at the World Bank.
The focus of the event was how
the natural world is being severely
damaged by humanity. It was an
intriguing, educational and inspirational experience.
During the event, I had the
privilege of hearing two passionate environmental activists expose
the treachery of our society, governments and people. Not only
did this inspiring event further
educate me on the aspect of climate destruction, but it also stimulated my mind to think about it
on a deeper level.
One observation I made was
that most people would not have
the desire to accomplish change
unless they are physically affected. Yet I found myself pleasantly
contradicted when I saw 300 citizens with an emanating desire for
change. I found myself with a
sense of relief that I was wrong in
assuming that nobody wants to act
to combat climate destruction.
What impressed me most about
the event was that each participating school was required to come
up with a course of action on how
to fight global warming on a local
scale, and to sign a contract to
ensure that they would actually do
it. There was a passionate speaker
who promised up to $1,000 for
groups who could come up with a
worthy plan and pitch it well.
Representatives from the participating schools also got to talk
to members of organizations such
as the National Geographic
Society about getting involved in
those organizations.
I went home that day with a
feeling of infectious passion about
climate destruction, and I still feel
it now.
— Michael King,
Year 9 (eighth-grader)
Deal Middle School
The student government collected dry and canned goods for
distribution to the District’s neediest families. This annual activity
always brings a generous response
from students, with homerooms
competing to see who can fill the
most grocery bags.
The music department offered
up a feast for the ears with its
Thanksgiving concert held at the
school last Wednesday morning.
Our girls and boys soccer
teams made it to the championship game this season. The final
games were played at Wilson
High School. Congratulations to
the Lady Vikings, who capped off
their stellar season with a win!
While the boys team fell in the
finals, it did not diminish their
exciting play all season long.
With the end of first advisory,
Deal students were thankful for
the holiday break and looked forward to relaxing with family and
friends, eating great food and
working on science fair and
History Day projects! We are
grateful for the help and support
of our parents, teachers and
friends. Most especially, we want
to remember all of those graduates of Deal who are protecting all
of us, as they serve our country in
faraway countries.
— Maggie Roos, eighth-grader
Eaton Elementary
Our class is studying tree
homes and the animals that live in
them, like raccoons, owls and
black bears. We took a trip to the
Cleveland Park Neighborhood
Library, where our librarian, Ms.
Hillary, read us books about black
bears. She read us a story called
“The Bear That Heard Crying.” It
is a true story about a little girl
who was lost in the woods. While
her family searched for her, a gentle black bear that she thought
was a dog was taking care of her.
We also watched a movie about
black bears.
In class, we made paper raccoons and owls. We got to bring
in our stuffed bears from home,
and we pretended to be bear families by putting on as many things
as possible to make us feel warm.
— Ms. Coppedge’s and Mrs.
Maxwell’s first-graders
“Girls on Track” is a running
group for older girls. At 3:30
p.m., members discuss different
issues affecting girls mentally and
Lafayette Elementary fourth-graders inspect a teepee they constructed, above, and make necklaces,
below, during a Thanksgiving project depicting the lifestyle and culture of American Indians.
Lafayette ‘cafetorium’ hosts powwow
By TERESA G. GIONIS
U
nder a colorful handmade banner reading
“The Arts Keep North American
Traditions Alive,” an
energy-filled Indian powwow
— fourth-grade style — lit up
Lafayette Elementary School’s
new multipurpose room last
week. The school billed
Wednesday’s powwow as an
“informance,” which, according to art teacher Laurie
McLaughlin, differs significantly from a traditional performance.
“We’re sharing our knowledge rather than just performing before an audience — and
it’s also about being respectful
to the culture we are honoring,” she said, explaining the education buzzword.
For instance, the costumes — worn by students
and teachers alike — were exercises in self-
physically. Then we run laps
around the block to start training
for a big 5K that we will run in
December. The girls will get to
choose one buddy who will run
the 5K with them. We always feel
very proud after we finish our run.
It is a great program.
— Josie Blanchon and Emma
Walsh-Alker, fourth-graders
Georgetown Day School
Last week was short due to the
Thanksgiving break. Right before
we left for vacation, the secondgraders put on a great harvestthemed assembly. Students did a
terrific job performing many skits
and singing songs about the
American Indians. We have
learned that the American Indians
expression. “It’s considered disrespectful to dress
in imitation of Native American tribes,” said
music teacher Rebecca Stump, “so we decided to
wear clothing that held meaning for us as individuals.”
The performers donned Tshirts covered in images of personal memorabilia, from family
members to musical instruments to favorite sports and
teams — anything that showcased individual personality.
McLaughlin wore a shirt of
her own design, with objects
and photographs pinned all
over it. She proudly sported a
picture of her children, a miniature cello, a tiny gardening
spade and brass colander, as
well as a small apple, in honor
of her role as a teacher.
The event also showcased artwork, song and
dance. Students performed Native American
dances from the Cherokee, Navajo and Chippewa
See Lafayette/Page 30
celebrated many other festivals
before what is known as the first
Thanksgiving.
After a long break, it is nice to
return back to school.
— Samantha Shapiro,
third-grader
Holy Trinity School
Our fourth-grade class visited
an old, one-room schoolhouse in
Poolesville, Md. We tried on
clothes from the 1800s. When we
first got there, we lined up from
shortest to tallest. One line was an
all-boys line and the other an allgirls line. Once in the schoolhouse, we talked about what life
was like in the 1870s. Then we
had recess. We first played hot
potato and then a handkerchief
game. Both games were really
fun!
When we came back inside,
we started working on arithmetic
problems. We used slates and
soapstone. Soapstone is kind of
like chalk but not as powdery, and
it was harder to make words
appear with it. Next, it was time
for our reading lesson. We read
from “McGuffey’s Reader.” The
story we read was about a truant
child who made a bad choice. It
was a story that could have really
happened.
Then we had a spelling bee.
Girls stood on one side of the
room and boys stood on the other.
We all took turns spelling words.
A girl won the spelling bee. At the
end of the day, our teacher for the
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day, Mrs. Darby, passed out our
very own books to keep! I’ve
already read mine and thought it
was really good. I enjoyed our
field trip and traveling back in
time to the 1800s.
— Michael Sloboda,
fourth-grader
Janney Elementary
Halloween is but a memory
now, but what a memory it is.
Look around. An evil fairy, a
witch, Darth Vader, a pair of nerds
... You’re dreaming, right? Some
horribly twisted nightmare? If you
said yes, think again. It was
recently Halloween all over, and
Janney celebrated. All the grades,
from the little pre-kindergartners
to the mature sixth-graders, were
dressed up and on the field. When
the clock ticked 1:30 p.m., the celebrations began.
“Ooh! They’re so cute!” a
group of sixth-grade girls squealed
over the pre-kindergartners. “I’m a
ninja!” explained second-grader
David Vaden. He wasn’t alone.
Ninjas are a yearly hit. We waved
at siblings, friends and book buddies as they strolled past, smiling.
The fourth-grade teachers, all
dressed as M&Ms, passed with
their students. Red, green, purple
— yum!
Finally, it was time for us, the
sixth-graders. Among us there was
a variety of costumes. Star Wars
and ghoulish costumes were
among the top picks for the
school, but our costumes were
more diverse. Our creative costumes included nerds, Miss Piggy
and Princess Leia.
Many teachers dressed up, too.
They dressed up, for example, as a
ghost and a very familiar-looking
Mr. Monopoly. (Is that Mr.
Cartland’s voice?)
A sea of kids swarmed to the
open front door. We had walked
around the block, completing the
famous Halloween parade. “It was
fun!” said sixth-grader Scott
Beumel. Many agreed, but some
experienced technical difficulties
with their costumes. “My costume
hurt my forehead,” admitted fifthgrader Emma Keyes. “I was Big
Ben.”
“I was a mariachi!” first-grader
Killian Cervino exclaimed happily.
No matter what our costume
was, we all agreed the event was
fun indeed!
— Eva Monroe and
Emma Murdock, sixth-graders
Kingsbury
Last week, the middle school
went on a field trip to a farm that
served as a former Underground
Railroad stop in Sandy Spring,
Md. We took a school bus there.
The farm was built in 1832 and
was used to help slaves get to the
north. The man who owned the
farm was a Quaker. He married a
lady who had six slaves. He was
then kicked out of the Quaker religion because Quakers don’t
believe in owning slaves.
The farm has woods behind it.
That was where most of the field
trip took place. It was very cold.
We stopped to look at things that
have to do with the slaves’ escapes
and heard stories about slaves who
ran away. We learned that when
slaves crossed bridges, people
would sometimes hide under the
bridges to catch them. Overall, I
liked the field trip.
— Sari Arafat, middle-schooler
Lowell School
At our school, there are three
kindergarten classes, taught by
Angela Sandford, Audrey
Donaldson and Vera Benjelloun.
We wanted to know what kindergartners think of Lowell, so we
interviewed four of them.
Two of them, Ayer and Iman,
were from Ms. Donaldson’s class.
When we asked, “What is your
favorite activity?” they both said
“painting our names.” We also
asked them what they were learning. Ayer said “our names,” and
Iman said “the food pyramid.”
We also interviewed Louis and
Savannah, two students from Ms.
Sandford’s class. When we asked
about their favorite activity, Louis
said “morning meeting” and
Savannah said “math.” Louis said
his class was learning the colors,
and Savannah said she was “learning money.”
All four liked kindergarten very
much!
— Max Kronstadt and
Ellis Richmond, fifth-graders
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tribes. Fourth-grade interpretations
of Woodland pottery, Navajo textiles and Southwestern Indian pottery shared the stage with multiple
examples of Inuit masks and a
large decorated teepee.
“Each class focused on tribes
from different parts of the country,” explained McLaughlin, who
organized the event with Stump.
“This is what I call arts integration at its best,” said principal
Lynn Main. “Represented in this
informance are writing, drawing,
social studies, dance, history, as
well as music.”
A year ago, before the
improvements to the multipurpose
room — which Lafayette has
dubbed its “cafetorium” — events
in this space were quite different.
In the past year, Lafayette parents
have stepped forward to pay for
new lights, new curtains, a new
rigging system and a refinished
stage. In addition, Lafayette
received a high-achieving-schools
grant from D.C. Public Schools,
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which bought four new sets of risers and will be used to purchase a
new sound system.
Principal Main is pleased with
the renovations thus far. “The
lighting is fabulous now. It looks
professional, and we can actually
see all the performers on stage,”
she said. “There used to be no
light on the back of the stage —
you couldn’t even see the performers standing in the back or on
the side. And it’s nice to have curtains no longer ripped up and full
of holes!”
Lafayette Home and School
Association co-president Linda
Geen said the cafetorium improvements have been led entirely by
parent volunteers. “The original
amount set for this project was
$170,000, with $105,000 coming
from parents,” she said, adding
that the association raised that
money in addition to the funds
used to cover the school’s art and
music programs.
Geen said the cafetorium renovation involves two phases: The
first, nearing completion, is
focused on making the performances look and sound better; the
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Fourth-graders Lizzy Mullaney, Felisa Michael and Rose Marshall try to
shore up the sides of the teepee they constructed.
second will reduce the high noise
levels that disrupt lunch. The new
sound system will be installed
next month, and the Home and
School Association will showcase
all the improvements at a meeting
and performance (or maybe
“informance”) on Jan. 29.
Our library teacher’s name is Ms.
Hensley. She reads us a lot of
funny books. She recently read us
a book about a boy who made a
turkey out of paper and sticks. He
was imagining his dog had turned
into a fox. The name of the book
was “Setting the Turkeys Free.”
We all enjoyed the read-aloud.
We have art every Tuesday
afternoon either before or after
library class. We just made totem
poles in art. Our art teacher is
Mrs. Byrne.
Every Thursday afternoon, we
have music class. It’s really fun
to sing and learn about instruments. Our music teacher is Ms.
Browning.
— Yejin Choi, Ilana Doran and
Miguel Peji, third-graders
St. Albans School
My eyes took a minute to
adjust to the bright lights. I was
standing on the stage of the
Washington National Cathedral.
We weren’t about to sing, not just
yet; this was our 30-second runthrough of how we were going to
go on and off the stage.
Mr. Hutto signaled us to file
off as we would about 30 minutes
later. I led the rest of the St.
Albans Forms I and II Choir off
the stage.
Tonight, we would perform in
front of at least 500 people in the
St. Albans and National Cathedral
School fall concert. But we definitely were not the main attraction. Tonight, quite aside from the
student performances, a new
work of musical literature would
be premiered. Tonight, “The
Peace” would be played.
I tightened my tie, pushed my
hair back and picked up “The
Subtle Knife,” which I had just
checked out of the library that
day. In a few seconds I had
plunged my mind into it. The
chorale started singing as the
pages flew by.
Then the National Cathedral
School Choir sang with all of
their musical beauty and grace,
and before I knew it, I was on
page 100 and it was our time to
sing.
We quickly and quietly filed
onto the stage and took our designated spots, and Mr. Hutto took
his place in front. The piano started playing the accompaniment,
and then we started singing.
The next 10 minutes passed by
quickly as we sang three songs:
“Come Sail Away With Me,”
“Day by Day” and “Somewhere
Out There.”
As we bowed, the applause
filled the Cathedral, and I was
glad to see that Mr. Hutto was
smiling.
We had done our part in the
concert, and now it was time to
sit back down and read a hundred
or so more pages.
— Karl Notturno,
Form I (seventh-grader)
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family’s straightforward meals
when he was growing up. He
offered a smooth pumpkin soup
garnished with bacon, braised
turkey with cornbread dressing,
deep-fried turkey with cranberry
sauce, bacon-wrapped venison and
a sweet-potato streusel with maplepecan ice cream and a side of apple
cider.
Almost every dish drew glowing reviews from the panel. Judge
Jeffrey Steingarten, a columnist for
Vogue magazine, called Moore’s
first dish “the best pumpkin soup
I’ve ever tasted.”
Moore’s Iron Chef opponent, on
the other hand, offered an upscale
version of what looked like
Turducken, and the judges’ reactions were almost inaudible above
the Indebleu crowd’s heckling.
Before and during the on-screen
battle, wait staff walked through
the lounge serving appetizers
inspired by the show and prepared
by Moore. The selections included
demitasse cups of a tangy butternut
squash soup topped with cilantro,
breaded and deep-fried bites of
paneer (an Indian cheese) and
warm apricot naan bread.
The flavors evoked a cross
between Thanksgiving traditions
and modern Indian food, but
Moore avoids the term “fusion.”
“We don’t want to be pretentious,”
he says, instead calling Indebleu’s
cuisine “seasonally driven, Indianinspired and comfortably
American.”
That comfortable feeling
extended to the viewing party,
which seemed more like a holiday gathering with family than an
anonymous bar party. The overwhelming sense of hope in the
room as the results were
announced had just the right
amount of gravitas, and the spectacle that ensued was anything
but pretentious (Moore lost 5143, and the room erupted in outrage).
But talking about his appearance on the show, Chef Moore was
unflappable: “It doesn’t matter
what the outcome is. It was a blast,
and it was a great opportunity to be
showcased.”
KOTOBUKI
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“It’s sometimes good, sometimes
not. I see someone want to buy,
who say, ‘nice belly tuna.’ ‘No, no,’
I say, ‘don’t try it! Not very fresh.’”
He pokes his neck with his finger.
“If gills, from the color I can tell.
Difficult to buy fish for sashimi in
Washington. For cooking, it’s OK.”
He acknowledges the situation is
far better than when he first
arrived, when all fish in Japanese
restaurants was frozen. But he
despairs of anyone being able to
assess freshness from already cut
fillets.
When he chooses to eat other
chefs’ sushi, he goes downstairs to
Makoto, to Sushi-Ko in Glover
Park or to Tako Grill in Bethesda.
But with a small business to
run, he says he is always working.
He has trained his helpers himself
— not for quite as long as a restaurant in Japan would, but he makes
them watch for six months before
he lets them loose with a little of
the preparation work. Only six
months after that will he let them
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assist alongside him.
His cat is the only family he has
here, “and she scratch me this
morning!” he exclaims indignantly.
But it means that if he does find
any free time, he can spend it doing
what he loves best. “I am
Japanese!” he says, laughing enthusiastically. “I play golf!”
Kotobuki (202-281-6679; kotobukiusa.com) is located at 4822
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Book fair
■ The Oyster/Adams Bilingual School
will host the 13th annual Bilingual Book
Fair, featuring a variety of children’s, teen
and adult books in English and Spanish. 8
a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Free admission. 29th
and Calvert streets NW. 202-671-3035.
The book fair will continue Thursday and
Friday from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Saturday
and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
Monday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Concerts
■ The Philharmonic Orchestra of the
Americas, led by 26-year-old Mexican conductor and pianist Alondra de la Parra, will
perform. 6 p.m. Free. Concert Hall,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ George Washington University professors Liz Field, Uri Wassertzug, Joe Gascho,
Lori Barnet and Jeff Koczela will perform
works by Vivaldi, C.P.E. Bach and Scarlatti.
7:30 p.m. $5 donation suggested. Hand
Chapel, George Washington University
Mount Vernon Campus, 2100 Foxhall Road
NW. 202-994-9132.
■ The Georgetown University Chamber
Singers will perform holiday selections dating from the Renaissance to the 20th century. 8 p.m. $5 donation suggested.
Dahlgren Chapel, Georgetown University,
37th and O streets NW. 202-687-6933.
Discussions and lectures
■ Mary Elizabeth King, professor of
peace and conflict studies at the U.N.-affiliated University for Peace and distinguished
scholar at the American University Center
for Global Peace, will discuss her book “A
Quiet Revolution.” 6 to 8 p.m. Free.
Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021
14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
■ Elena Panaritis will discuss her book
“Prosperity Unbound: Building Property
Markets With Trust.” 6 p.m. Free. Reiter’s
Books, 1990 K St. NW. 202-223-3327.
■ Human rights activist Rianne Eisler
will discuss her book “The Real Wealth of
Nations.” 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. National Press Club, 529
14th St. NW. 202-662-7129.
■ Chuck Fisher will discuss his book
“Christmas Around the World: A Pop-Up
Book.” 6:30 p.m. Free. Candida’s World of
Books, 1541 14th St. NW. 202-667-4811.
■ The discussion series “Coming
Home: Re-integrating the Ex-offender” will
feature Betty Gatewood of the Visitors
Service Center, who will discuss the practical aspects of re-integration and the array
of agencies that can help. 7 to 8 p.m. Free.
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Grace Episcopal Church, 1041 Wisconsin
Ave. NW. gracedc.org.
■ Cokie Roberts
(shown), Lynn Sherr,
Sam Donaldson and
Kayce Jennings will discuss the book “Peter
Jennings: A Reporter’s
Life.” 7 p.m. Free.
Borders, 18th and L
streets NW. 202-466-4999.
■ Frank Delaney will discuss his novel
“Tipperary.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics & Prose,
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Wayne Besen, a
former spokesperson
for the Human Rights
Campaign, will discuss
his book “Bashing
Back: Wayne Besen on
GLBT People, Politics,
and Culture.” 7 p.m.
Free. Lambda Rising, 1625 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-462-6969.
■ Georgetown University professor Ori
Z. Soltes will lead a book discussion of
Myla Goldberg’s “Bee Season” as part of a
series on “A Mind of Her Own: Fathers and
Daughters in a Changing World.” 7 p.m.
Free. West End Neighborhood Library,
1101 24th St. NW. 202-724-8707.
■ Medical anthropologist Nancy
Scheper-Hughes, a professor at the
University of California at Berkeley, will discuss “A World Cut in Two: Global Justice
and the Traffic in Human Organs.” 8 to
9:30 p.m. Free. Room 213, Elliott School
of International Affairs, George Washington
University, 1957 E St. NW. [email protected].
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Holiday event
■ “ZooLights” will feature 50 animal
sculptures using environmentally friendly
LED lights, as well as craft-making activities, marshmallow roasting and a performance of “A Midwinter’s Tail” by Evergreen
Theatre. 6 to 8:30 p.m. $10; tickets
required. National Zoo, 3001 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-397-7328. The event will
continue nightly (except Monday and
Tuesday) through Dec. 30.
Performance
■ More than 300 of the District’s public
elementary and middle school students will
perform during the 10th annual citywide
“DC Scores Poetry Slam!” competition. 5
to 7:30 p.m. Free. Elstad Auditorium,
Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Ave. NE.
202-393-6999. The event will continue
Thursday from 5 to 7:30 p.m.
Reading
■ Novelist and
short fiction writer
Mary Kay Zuravleff will
read from her work. 7
p.m. Free. Riverby
Books, 417 East
Capitol St. SE. 202543-4342.
Films
■ The National Education Association
will present the documentary “It’s STILL
Elementary” to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 1997 film “It’s Elementary,” the
first documentary to make the case that all
children are affected by anti-gay prejudice
and that adults have a responsibility to
address it. 6 to 9 p.m. Free; registration
required. National Education Association
Auditorium, 1201 16th St. NW. 800-4053322.
■ A series on Middle Eastern cinema
will feature Israeli director Giddi Dar’s 2004
film “Ushpizin,”
about an
Orthodox
Jewish couple
whose faith is
tested after
praying for a
child on the Succoth holiday. 6:30 p.m.
Free. Room A-5, Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-7271111.
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Friendship Terrace
■ The “Sisters in Cinema” film series
will feature Fanta Regina Nacro’s 2004 film
“Night of Truth,” about a country preparing
to end a decade of civil war. 7 to 9 p.m.
$5; $4 for seniors and students.
Reservations required. National Museum of
Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave.
NW. 202-783-7370.
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A service of Episcopal
Senior Ministries
Wednesday,
December 26th 1:00-3:00pm
Sporting event
■ The Washington Capitals will play the
Florida Panthers. 7 p.m. $9 to $169.
Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 202-3977328.
Thursday,
Nov. 29
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Benefits
■ Klimpton Hotels will sponsor a “Red
Hot Night,” featuring a silent auction,
Italian hors d’oeuvres, red-themed specialty
cocktails and a book signing by Kelly
DiNardo, author of “Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr
and the Striptease Mystique.” Proceeds will
benefit the Whitman-Walker Clinic. 6 p.m.
$10. Urbana Restaurant and Wine Bar,
2121 P St. NW. 202-939-6411.
■ A special preview of the 20th annual
Washington Craft Show will feature a performance by the Levine School of Music
Jazz Quintet and a cocktail reception.
Proceeds will benefit the school’s outreach
and scholarship programs. 6 to 10 p.m.
$100; tickets required. Washington
Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon
Place NW. 202-686-8000, ext. 1051.
Book fair
■ The University
Club of Washington,
DC, will present the
18th annual “Meet the
Author Night and Book
Fair,” featuring 40
authors discussing and
signing their books.
Participants will include Chris Matthews,
Letitia Baldrige , Walter Isaacson (shown),
Jay Winik, Roland Mesnier and Dolores
Kendrick. 5:30 to 8 p.m. Free. The
University Club, 1135 16th St. NW. 202824-1378.
Children’s activity
■ A park ranger will help ages 4 and
Thursday, NOVEMBER 29
■ Film: The 18th annual Washington
Jewish Film Festival will open with
the D.C. premiere of Brazilian filmmaker Cao Hamburger’s 2007 film
“The Year My Parents Went on
Vacation,” followed by a dessert
reception with director Hamburger in
attendance. 7 p.m. $20. Goldman
Theater, Washington DC Jewish
Community Center, 1529 16th St.
NW. 202-777-3248. The festival will
continue through Dec. 9 at various
venues.
older make leaf prints and learn about the
secrets behind the colorful foliage. 4 p.m.
Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200
Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.
Concerts
■ The Three Musketeers, students from
the voice studio of Barbara Hollinshead, will
perform as part of a series of informal
recitals. Noon. Free. Battelle-Tompkins
Atrium, American University, 4400
Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-2787.
■ Organist Stephen Kalnoske will perform. 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. Free. National
City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW.
202-797-0103.
■ Southern Illinois-based The Woodbox
Gang will perform “Trashcan Americana,” a
blend of bluegrass, delta blues, folk, traditional country and punk rock. 6 p.m. Free.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
■ Grammy-winning
maestro Lorin Maazel
(shown) will lead the
National Symphony
Orchestra and cellist
Han-Na Chang in a performance of works by
Fauré, Elgar and SaintSaëns. 7 p.m. $20 to $80. Concert Hall,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. The performance will repeat Friday at 1:30 p.m.
and Saturday at 8 p.m.
■ The Georgetown Jazz Ensemble will
present its fall concert. 8 p.m. $5. Gaston
Hall, Georgetown University, 37th and O
streets NW. 202-687-6933.
■ Patricia Martin,
president of the
Chicago-based LitLamp
Communications
Group, will discuss her
book “RenGen:
Renaissance
Generation,” about the
growing number of cultural consumers who
rely on information and ideas to fuel their
creative self-expression. 11:30 a.m. $30.
Woman’s National Democratic Club, 1526
New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.
■ Deborah Burand, executive vice president of the Grameen Foundation, will join
other panelists to discuss “Gender Bias in
Microfinance: Helping or Hurting the
Development Process?” 12:30 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Room 417, Nitze
Building, Johns Hopkins University School
of Advanced International Studies, 1740
Massachusetts Ave. NW.
[email protected].
■ William F. May will
discuss “Containing
Runaway Fear in
Foreign Policy:
Recovering Our National
Identity.” 4 p.m. Free.
Room 119, Thomas
Jefferson Building,
Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202707-2692.
■ Saul Garlick, executive director for
Student Movement for Real Change, and
David L. Goldwyn, president of Goldwyn
International Strategies and a former U.S.
assistant secretary of energy, will join other
panelists to discuss “Blessing or Curse?
Natural Resources and Development.”
4:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building, Johns
Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies, 1740 Massachusetts
Ave. NW. 202-663-5772.
■ Dr. Robin E. Bell, chair of the Polar
Research Board of the National Academies,
will discuss “International Polar Year:
Exploring the Changing Poles.” 6 to 7:30
p.m. $5. Koshland Science Museum, 500
5th St. NW. 202-334-1201.
■ Curator Wendy Wick Reaves will discuss the portrait of Josephine Baker by
Stanislaus Julian Walery. 6 p.m. Free. F
Street Lobby, Reynolds Center for American
Art and Portraiture, 8th and F streets NW.
202-633-1000.
■ Journalists Will Englund, Ray Locker,
Michael Mosettig and Patrick Pexton will
discuss a recent two-week reporting trip to
Korea sponsored by the International
Reporting Project. 6 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 500, Bernstein-Offit
Building, Johns Hopkins University School
of Advanced International Studies, 1717
■ Sidwell Friends School student Eli
Pollak, a member of the Climate Project,
will discuss “Climate Change: The Facts
and What You Can Do Now.” 6:30 p.m.
Free. First-floor auditorium, Cleveland Park
Neighborhood Library, 3310 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-282-3080.
■ Linda Nochlin, professor of modern
art at New York University, will discuss
“Pleasure and Anxiety on the Normandy
Coast.” 6:30 p.m. $15; reservations
required. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St.
NW. 202-387-2151.
■ Graham Robb will discuss his book
“The Discovery of France: A Historical
Geography, From the Revolution to the First
World War.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics & Prose,
■ Los Angeles Times reporter and political commentator Ronald Brownstein will
discuss his book “The Second Civil War:
How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed
Washington and Polarized America.” 7 p.m.
Free. Olsson’s Books & Records, 418 7th
St. NW. 202-638-7610.
■ Michael Arkush will discuss his book
“The Fight of the Century: Ali vs. Frazier
March 8, 1971.” 7 p.m. Free. Olsson’s
Books & Records, 1307 19th St. NW. 202785-1133.
■ David Peeler, professor of history at
the U.S. Naval Academy, will discuss
“Photography and Biography: Art and Life in
the Work of Ansel Adams.” 7 p.m. Free
with gallery admission. Corcoran Gallery of
Art, 500 17th St. NW. 202-639-1700.
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■ Travel expert Arthur Frommer and his
daughter Pauline Frommer will discuss outof-the-ordinary vacation opportunities, such
as educational travel, fitness vacations and
adventure travel. 7 to 9 p.m. $30.
Jefferson Auditorium, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, 14th Street and Independence
Avenue SW. 202-633-3030.
Films
■ The Chevy Chase Neighborhood
Library will screen Bahman Ghobadi’s
2004 film
“Turtles Can
Fly,” about
refugee children near the
Iraqi-Turkish
border on the
eve of an American invasion. 2 p.m. Free.
Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library, 5625
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-0021.
■ The Smithsonian American Art
Museum will present Dan Graham’s video
“Rock My Religion.” 6 p.m. Free. McEvoy
Auditorium, Reynolds Center for American
Art and Portraiture, 8th and F streets NW.
202-633-1000.
■ A series on Middle Eastern cinema
will feature Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s
1995 film “The White Balloon,” about a little girl who is hustled for money her mother
had given her so she could buy a goldfish.
6:30 p.m. Free. Room A-5, Martin Luther
King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW.
202-727-1111.
■ A screening of the 2007 documentary
“Rwanda Rising,” about reconciliation and
forgiveness in the aftermath of genocide,
will precede a panel discussion with
Paulette Lee, communications officer for
the U.S. Agency for International
Development and the President’s
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief/Rwanda,
and Monique Bagirimvano, a Rwandan
youth activist. 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Rome Building Auditorium, Johns
Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies, 1619 Massachusetts
Ave. NW. [email protected].
■ “Mountainfilm on Tour” will feature six
films shown at this year’s 29th annual film
festival in Telluride,
Colo. — “Trial and
Error: Progression”
(shown), “Rita,” “Shack
Therapy,” “Good
Riddance: Air
Pollution,” “Running
Down the Man” and
“Everything’s Cool.” 7 p.m. $18. Grosvenor
Auditorium, National Geographic, 1600 M
St. NW. 202-857-7700.
Performances
■ St. John’s College High School will
present a dinner-theater performance of
“Arsenic and Old Lace.” 6:30 p.m. $30;
reservations required. 2607 Military Road
NW. 202-363-2316, ext. 3029.
■ American University will present a
reading of Carl Menninger’s “Dysfunction
Spelled Backwards,” a family comedy about
a control freak, a passive aggressive, a
hypochondriac, a crystal meth addict and a
paranoid schizophrenic who confront
polyamory and family secrets while preparing for a back-yard wedding. 8 p.m. $5.
Studio Theatre, Katzen Arts Center,
American University, 4400 Massachusetts
Ave. NW. 202-885-3634. The performance
will repeat Friday at 8 p.m. and Saturday at
2 p.m.
Sale
■ Jewelry artist Shaune Bazner will hold
her 20th annual Studio Sale. 4 to 8 p.m.
Free admission. Library, St. Patrick’s
Episcopal Church, 4700 Whitehaven
Parkway NW. 202-362-2042, ext. 10. The
sale will continue Friday and Saturday from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tree lighting
■ Union Station will light a 30-foot-tall
Christmas tree donated by Norway to
express gratitude for the help the United
States provided under the Marshall Plan
after World War II. 6 p.m. Free. Main Hall,
Union Station, 50 Massachusetts Ave. NE.
Friday,
Nov. 30
Friday
NOVEMBER 30
Class
■ Tudor Place will
offer a wreath-making
class. 10 a.m. and 2
p.m. $35; reservations
required. Tudor Place
Historic House and
Garden, 1644 31st St.
NW. 202-965-0400.
The class will repeat Dec. 7 at 10 a.m. and
2 p.m. and Dec. 8 at 10 a.m.
Concerts
■ Husband-and-wife violinists Marc
Ramirez and Olivia Hajioff will perform.
Noon. Free. Arts Club of Washington, 2017
I St. NW. 202-331-7282.
■ The Friday Morning Music Club will
present a concert featuring works by
Beethoven and Debussy, as well as songs
and arias by Cesti, Rossini, Cimara and
Bellini. Noon. Free. Sumner School
Museum, 1201 17th St. NW. 202-3332075.
■ Soloists from the Turchini Baroque
Orchestra will perform Neapolitan holiday
music by Provenzale, Trabaci, Veneziano,
Nola, Netti, Caresana and Sabino. 1:15
p.m. Free. McNeir Hall, Georgetown
University, 37th and O streets NW. 202687-6933.
■ The Smithsonian
Jazz Cafe will present
the Paul Bollenback
Quartet, featuring guitarist Bollenback
(shown), vocalist Chris
McNulty, bassist James
King and drummer
Lenny Robinson. 6 to 10 p.m. $10; free for
ages 12 and younger. National Museum of
Natural History, 10th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-633-1000.
■ In celebration of the 30th anniversary
of the Kennedy Center Honors, Catholic
University’s Benjamin T. Rome School of
Music will present a selection by Richard
Rogers, a 1978 honoree. 6 p.m. Free.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
■ “Three Mo’ Male Choruses” will feature choral groups from the Zion Baptist
Church, the Alfred Street Baptist Church in
Alexandria and the Mount Zion Baptist
Church in Arlington. 7:30 p.m. Free. Zion
Baptist Church, 4850 Blagden Ave. NW.
202-722-4940.
■ “Fuego Flamenco III” will open with
“Concierto: Aire de abajo” by Barrios
Flamenco & Compañia. 8 p.m. $25; $15
for students. GALA Theatre-Tivoli, 3333
14th St. NW. 202-234-7174. The performance will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m. and
Sunday at 3 p.m.
Conference
■ “Contemporary Conflict and Its
Management” will feature scholars and government officials addressing current situations in Colombia, Israel and Palestine,
Iran, North Korea and Sudan, as well as
Friday, NOVEMBER 30
■ Concert: Pianist Chu-Fang Huang
will perform as part of the Embassy
Series. 7:30 p.m. $75. Embassy of
the People’s Republic of China, 2300
conflicts related to the environment. 9:30
a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building,
Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies, 1740
Dancing
■ The band
Blue Sky 5 + 2
will perform at
a swing dance.
8:30 p.m. to
midnight. $15.
Chevy Chase
Ballroom, 5207 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 703359-9882.
■ Archaeologist Dennis Stanford will
discuss “Ancient Peoples and Ancient
Shorelines: New Discoveries in the Search
for the Earliest North Americans.” Noon.
Free. Baird Auditorium, National Museum
of Natural History, 10th Street and
■ Larry Devlin will discuss his memoir
“Chief of Station, Congo,” about his life as
a master spy in Africa. Noon to 1 p.m.
Free. International Spy Museum, 800 F St.
NW. 202-393-7798.
■ Pierre Vimont, ambassador of France
to the United States, will discuss “France:
Refashioning Its Future.” Noon. Free; reservations required. Rome Building Auditorium,
Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies, 1619
■ Dipankar Gupta, professor of sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New
Delhi and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, will dis-
cuss “Caste Reservation and Social
Mobility in India: Policy and Evidence.”
12:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Room 806, Rome Building, Johns Hopkins
University School of Advanced International
Studies, 1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
202-663-5722.
■ Richard Velkley, professor of philosophy at Tulane University, will discuss
“Primal Truth, Errant Tradition and Crisis:
The Pre-Socratics in Late Modernity” as
part of a lecture series on early Greek philosophy. 2 p.m. Free. Aquinas Hall
Auditorium, Catholic University, 620
Michigan Ave. NE. 202-319-5259.
■ Linda Nochlin, professor of modern
art at New York University, will discuss
“Dislocating Tradition: Painting, Sculpture,
and Self-Imagery in the Work of Women
Artists.” 2 to 2:30 p.m. Free. Abramson
Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center,
American University, 4400 Massachusetts
Ave. NW. 202-885-2787.
■ A.R. Bernard, founder of the 28,000member New York Christian Cultural Center,
will discuss his book “Happiness Is ...” 7
p.m. Free. Olsson’s Books & Records, 418
7th St. NW. 202-638-7610.
Films
■ The 18th annual Washington Jewish
Film Festival will present the landmark
Israeli film “Hill 24 Doesn’t Answer,” with
introductory remarks by local filmmaker
Aviva Kempner. 1 p.m. Free. Goldman
Theater, Washington DC Jewish Community
Center, 1529 16th St. NW. 202-777-3248.
■ “Movie Night” will feature French
director Danièle Thompson’s 1999 film “La
Bûche,” about Christmas, family and infidelity. 7 p.m. $5. Woman’s National
Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire
Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.
Performances
■ St. John’s College High School will
present Joseph Kesselring’s madcap black
comedy “Arsenic and Old Lace.” 8 p.m.
$10; $9 for seniors and students. 2607
Military Road NW. 202-363-2316, ext.
3029. The performance will repeat Dec. 1,
6, 7 and 8 at 8 p.m.
■ Washington Reflections Dance
Company, Coyaba Dance Theater and Step
Afrika! will present “Winter
Heat,” showcasing a variety
of dance forms.
8 p.m. $30;
$15 for children. Lansburgh Theatre, Harman Center
for the Arts, 450 7th St. NW. 202-5471122. The performance will repeat
Saturday at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m.
■ The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington
DC will present “American Carols,” featuring Mosaic Harmony and Tach’shitim. 8
p.m. $20 to $50. Lisner Auditorium,
George Washington University, 730 21st
St. NW. 202-293-1548. The performance
will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday
at 2 p.m.
Saturday,
Dec. DECEMBER
1
Saturday
1
Book sale
■ Friends of the Cleveland Park Library
will hold a holiday book sale. 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. Free admission. Cleveland Park
Neighborhood Library, 3310 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-282-3080. The sale will continue Sunday from 1 to 3 p.m.
Classes
■ Kathryn Coughlin, director of Middle
East and North Africa programs for the
American Islamic Congress, will discuss
ethnic and religious identities in the modern Middle East. 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
$120. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100
Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Bonita Billman, art history instructor
at Georgetown University, will discuss “Art
Nouveau: New Style for a New Century.”
9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. $120. S. Dillon
Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW.
202-633-3030.
■ Margarita Rozenfeld will lead a class
on “Coaching Skills for Work, Fun and
Profit.” 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. $39. First Class
Inc., 1726 20th St. NW. 202-797-5102.
■ Musicologist Daniel Freeman will discuss “Mozart in Vienna.” 10 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. $120. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100
Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
Competition
■ The Levine School of Music will present a competition among its top piano,
string and vocal students to mark the
100th anniversary of the death of
Norwegian composer and pianist Edvard
Grieg. 1:30 p.m. Free. Lang Recital Hall,
Levine School of Music, 2801 Upton St.
NW. 202-686-8000.
Concerts
■ The Levine School of Music will present an honors recital. 1 p.m. Free. Kunen
Theater, Levine School of Music, 2801
Upton St. NW. 202-686-8000.
■ The American University Gospel Choir
will present a holiday concert featuring traditional gospel carols. 2 p.m. Free. Kay
Spiritual Life Center, American University,
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-8852787.
■ The U.S. Air Force Band will present
“An American Holiday,” featuring an appearance by Santa and Mrs. Claus and an audience sing-along. 3 and 7:30 p.m. Free.
DAR Constitution Hall, 1776 D St. NW.
202-767-5658. The performance will
repeat Sunday at 3 p.m.
■ The Catholic University Women’s
Chorus will present a Christmas concert
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featuring works by Brahms, Fauré,
Guerrero, Chesnokov, Haydn, Daley and
Pinkham. 4 p.m. Free. St. Vincent de Paul
Chapel, Catholic University, 620 Michigan
Ave. NE. 202-319-5414.
■ Mark Miller, director of music at the
Drew Theological School, will perform in an
organ recital. 5 p.m. Free. St. Luke’s
United Methodist Church, 3655 Calvert St.
NW. 202-333-4949.
■ Friends of the Orphans will host
“Music & Miracles: Hope for the Orphans,”
a benefit concert featuring performances
by Steve Key and Company, Kim Gordon,
Ensemble of Praise and Agape Christian
Academy Children’s Choir. Proceeds will
benefit children living in Nuestros
Pequeños Hermanos orphanages throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. 5 to
7:30 p.m. $10. Greenberg Theatre,
American University, 4200 Wisconsin Ave.
NW. 703-848-2072.
■ Members of the National Symphony
Orchestra will perform classical works. 6
p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Washington Women’s Chorus will
present a holiday concert with WMAL’s
Chris Core, accompanist Laurie Vivona
Bunn and the Vocal and Handbell
Ensembles from Stone Ridge School of the
Sacred Heart. 7 p.m. $20; $18 for seniors
and students. St. Patrick’s Episcopal
Church, 4700 Whitehaven Parkway NW.
202-244-7367.
■ An a cappella concert will feature the
Georgetown Saxatones, Superfood and
Phantoms. 7 p.m. Free. McNeir Auditorium,
Georgetown University, 37th and O streets
NW. 202-687-6933.
■ Vocalist Joanne Schmoll and pianist
Jon Ozment will present “December Song.”
7:30 p.m. $17.50 to $22.50 (with a twodrink minimum). Atlas Performing Arts
Center, 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993.
■ The Turchini Baroque Orchestra of
Naples, Italy, will present “Angels and
Devils,” featuring sacred and secular music
from the Advent season and Neapolitan
operatic repertory. 8 p.m. $35; $20 for students. Gaston Hall, Georgetown University,
37th and O streets NW. 202-687-2787.
■ The American University Chorus and
Symphony Orchestra will present
“Variations on Brahms and Haydn.” 8 p.m.
$15; $10 for seniors; $5 for students.
Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts
Center, American University, 4400
The concert will repeat Sunday at 3 p.m.
■ Modern Times Coffeehouse will sponsor a benefit concert featuring local musi-
cians The Adrian Outfit, Maureen Andari,
Steven Capozzola, The Champions, File
Under Jeff, Matt
Holsen (shown), Dave
Ihmels, John Lanou,
René Moffatt, The
Petticoat Tea Room,
Joe Shade, Mally
Smith, Ian Walters, Ken
Francis Wenzel and
Whiz Bang Three to raise funds for a forthcoming Modern Times compilation CD. 9
p.m. $10. Comet Ping Pong, 5037
Discussions
■ Quilter Sandra Smith will share her
stories and illustrate techniques using
slides and actual quilts. 1 p.m. Free. Grand
Salon, Renwick Gallery, 17th Street and
Pennsylvania Avenue NW. 202-633-1000.
■ Busboys and Poets will host a discussion of the new documentary “Prince
Among Slaves.” 5 to 7 p.m. Free. Langston
Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St.
NW. 202-387-7638.
Family programs
■ The Washington National Opera will
host gingerbread-making and other children’s activities associated with its upcoming performance of “Hansel and Gretel.”
Noon to 2 p.m. Free. Lincoln Theatre, 1215
U St. NW. 202-294-2400.
■ “Family First Saturdays” will spotlight
young collectors. 1 to 4 p.m. Free. Textile
Museum, 2320 S St. NW. 202-667-0441.
Films
■ The “Avalon Holiday Video Collection”
will feature “In the Month of Kislev,”
“Thomas the Tank Engine: Ultimate
Christmas,” “The Night Before Christmas,”
“Seven Candles for Kwanzaa” and “The
Happy Elf.” 10 a.m. $5. Avalon Theatre,
■ The “Bucharest Stories: New Films
From Romania” series will feature Cristi
Puiu’s 2005 film “Death of Mr. Lazarescu.”
2 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium,
National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and
■ Busboys and Poets will present an
“AIDS/HIV Awareness Mini Film Fest.” 8
p.m. to midnight. $3. Langston Room,
Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW.
202-387-7638.
Health program
■ The National Museum of Health and
Medicine will host a “Safe Toys and Gifts
Month” program. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free.
National Museum of Health and Medicine,
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 6900
Candleman
Saturday, DECEMBER 1
■ Film: Howard University will host
“Prince Among Slaves: The Amazing
True Story of an African Prince
Enslaved in the American South,”
selected as Best Documentary at
the 2007 American Black Film
Festival. 2 p.m. $15. Cramton
Auditorium, Howard University, 2455
6th St. NW. 202-262-1304.
Georgia Ave. NW. 202-782-2200.
Markets
■ The BZB Holiday Gift & Art Show will
feature art, dolls, jewelry and ornaments
reflecting African and African-American traditions. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free admission.
Shiloh Family Life Center, 1510 9th St. NW.
202-610-4188. The sale will continue Dec.
8, 15 and 22 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
■ “Gifts for Good” will feature gift
options benefiting those in need. 11 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Free. St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day
School, 4700 Whitehaven Parkway NW.
dcgiftsforgood.org.
■ A Christmas bazaar will feature
Swedish delicacies, arts and crafts. 11
a.m. to 6 p.m. $2. House of Sweden, 2900
K St. NW. 202-373-9426.
Open house
■ The Abner Cloud House on the C&O
Canal near Fletcher's Cove will open to the
public. 2 to 4 p.m. Canal and Reservoir
roads NW. Free. 301-767-3714.
Performances
■ The
“Saturday
Morning at the
National” series
will present
Theatre West
Virginia’s production of “Miss Nelson Has a Field Day,”
about a mean substitute teacher who
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Hayes Gallery, National Theatre, 1321
Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-783-3372.
■ Justin Roberts
and the Not Ready for
Naptime Players will
perform children’s
songs. Noon and 3
p.m. $16; $12 for ages
12 and younger.
Grosvenor Auditorium,
National Geographic, 1600 M St. NW. 202857-7700.
■ “Dance Project: A Choreography
Showcase” will feature the area’s burgeoning and seasoned talent. 8 p.m. $15. $12
for seniors and students. Jack Guidone
Theater, Joy of Motion Dance Center, 5207
Wisconsin Ave. NW. joyofmotion.org.
Sporting events
■ The Georgetown University men’s
basketball team will play Fairfield. 1 p.m.
$10 to $850. Verizon Center, 601 F St.
NW. 202-397-7328.
■ The American University men’s basketball team will play University of
Maryland, Baltimore County. 2 p.m. $9 to
$12; $7 for ages 3 through 17. Bender
Arena, American University, 4400
■ The American University women’s
basketball team will play Western Michigan.
7 p.m. $5; $3 for ages 3 through 17.
Bender Arena, American University, 4400
■ The Washington Wizards will play the
Toronto Raptors. 7 p.m. $10 to $850.
Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 202-3977328.
■ The Howard University men’s basketball team will play Hampton. 9 p.m. $8 to
$12. Burr Gymnasium, 2455 6th St. NW.
202-806-7184.
Tours and walks
■ The C&O Canal Association will host
a “C&O Canal Frostbite Hike” from
Fletcher’s Cove to Georgetown. 10:30 a.m.
Free. Meet at Fletcher’s Cove, near the
intersection of Reservoir and Canal roads
NW. 301-229-2398.
■ Architect and
urban designer Otto
Condon will lead a
walking tour around
14th and U streets NW
and discuss recent infill
projects in the rapidly
changing neighborhood.
10:30 a.m. to noon. Free; reservations
required. Meet at the 13th Street exit of
the U Street/Cardozo Metro station. [email protected].
Sunday, Dec. 2
Sunday DECEMBER 2
Concerts
■ The Catholic University of America
Town and Gown Community Chorus will
present “Musique de Noël.” 4 p.m. Free.
Church of the Ascension and Saint Agnes,
1217 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-3470370.
■ Violinist Marc Ramirez and violist
Olivia Hajioff will perform works by Rolla,
Bach, Bartók and Schnittke. 4 p.m. $14;
$12 for seniors and students; free for ages
18 and younger. Phillips Collection, 1600
21st St. NW. 202-387-2151.
■ The DC Youth Orchestra will present a
concert by intermediate students. 4 p.m.
Free. Coolidge High School Auditorium,
6315 5th St. NW. 202-723-1612.
■ The Christ Church Choir will perform
works by William Smith, Thomas Attwood
Walmisley and Richard Shephard. 5 p.m.
Free. Christ Church, Georgetown, 31st and
O streets NW. 202-333-6677.
■ St. Paul’s Episcopal Church choirs
will present the Service of Lessons and
Carols for Advent. 6 p.m. Free. St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, 2430 K St. NW. 202337-2020.
■ The Virginia Virtuosi, featuring double
bassist Mark Bergman and violinists Sonya
Hayes and Nancy Jin, will perform. 6 p.m.
Free. Theater Lab, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
■ The University of Maryland School of
Music Opera Studio and National Gallery
Orchestra will present the D.C. premiere of
John Musto’s “Later the Same Evening,”
an opera inspired by five paintings of
Edward Hopper. 6:30 p.m. Free. East
Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art,
4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
202-737-4215.
■ The Georgetown University Orchestra
will present its annual winter concert, featuring violinist Kavitha Bondada. 7 p.m.
$10; $5 for students. Gaston Hall,
Georgetown University, 37th and O streets
NW. 202-687-6933.
■ The New Yorkbased Four Nations
Ensemble (shown) and
Canadian mezzo-soprano Julie Boulianne will
join Opera Lafayette for
“A Rococo Noël,” a holiday chamber concert
featuring works by Cassanéa, Couperin,
Handel, Leclair and Locatelli. 7:30 p.m.
$45. La Maison Française, 4101 Reservoir
Road NW. 202-546-9332.
■ Maureen Fiedler, host of “Interfaith
Voices” on WAMU-FM, will discuss “Building
Bridges, Not Walls: Interfaith Relationships
and Global Peacemaking.” 9:15 a.m. Free.
St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal
Church, 1525 Newton St. NW. 202-2714493.
■ Journalist, author
and foreign policy consultant David Aikman
will discuss “Church
and State: Religion’s
Impact on Politics.” 10
a.m. Free. St. John’s
Episcopal Church,
Lafayette Square, 1525 H St. NW. 202347-8766.
■ Time magazine assistant managing
editor Michael Duffy and Time magazine
writer Nancy Gibbs will discuss “Faith in the
White House: Billy Graham’s Legacy.” 10 to
10:50 a.m. Free. Washington National
Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin
avenues NW. 202-364-6616.
■ Opera composer John Musto and
librettist Mark Campbell with join moderator
Stephen Ackert to discuss Musto’s “Later
the Same Evening,” a new opera inspired
by five paintings of Edward Hopper. 2 p.m.
Free. East Building Auditorium, National
Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW. 202-737-4215. The opera will
be performed at 6:30 p.m.
■ “Speaking Out: What Is the Future of
Feminism?” will feature curators and art
experts Connie Butler, Maura Reilly, Andrea
Barnwell and Helaine Posner. 2 to 4 p.m.
$10; $8 for seniors and students.
Reservations required. National Museum of
Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave.
NW. 202-783-7370.
■ Aidan Delgado, a member of Iraq
Veterans Against the War and the Buddhist
Peace Fellowship, will discuss his book
“The Sutras of Abu Ghraib: Notes of a
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