Wesley Seminary may house AU undergrads

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The Northwest Current
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Circulator
audits fault
bus safety
Wesley Seminary may
house AU undergrads
earning their stripes
■ Zoning: University likely
to miss campus plan deadline
By BRADY HOLT
Current Staff Writer
With its cheery red buses following straightforward routes and
simple schedules, the DC Circulator system has won consistent
admiration from District residents.
But D.C. Department of Transportation director Leif Dormsjo
warns that there’s trouble below
the surface.
“There had been a blissful
ignorance about Circulator for
some time, that it was this great,
wonderful thing and we just needed to expand it and expand it,”
Dormsjo told D.C. Council members Friday. “It was as good as
apple pie. We were eating a lot of
pie, and we weren’t gaining any
weight.”
Indeed, it was too good to last.
Dormsjo appeared before the
council’s transportation committee shortly after WTOP radio
revealed embarrassing audits
commissioned by the Transportation Department, which found
glaring safety and maintenance
lapses in Circulator buses. Also at
the hearing, Dormsjo said his
agency has no capacity to implement planned expansions of the
Circulator network that would
have brought the buses to the
Washington National Cathedral
and the Southwest waterfront.
The first of the two audits
looked at the Circulator buses in
August 2015, finding an “exceptionally high” average of 22
defects per bus — a figure that
included an average of 2.9 critical
safety defects per bus, which the
audit deemed “unacceptable by
any standard.” A bus with even
one such safety defect should
immediately be pulled from service until it’s repaired, according
to the audit, and 40 of 42 Circulator buses inspected had at least
one such flaw.
In addition to the safety flaws,
the audit concluded that many
buses were being poorly maintained and that not one was kept
See Circulator/Page 26
Vol. XLIX, No. 15
Serving Communities in Northwest Washington Since 1967
By MARK LIEBERMAN
Brian Kapur/The Current
Wilson High School hosted the second annual Tenley Tiger
Run, which featured a 5K and 2.5K race along with a fun run
for kids. Despite Saturday’s chilly temperatures and snowy
conditions, there was a strong turnout for the event, which
raises funds for the school’s running program.
American University has asked
to rent dormitory-style rooms
from the neighboring Wesley
Theological Seminary for up to 55
undergraduate upperclassmen
next school year, and the seminary’s president said Monday he’s
“inclined to sign” the lease.
Meanwhile, up to 240 students
at American might be spending
the fall 2016 semester in the Berkshire Apartments if construction
on the East Campus project
doesn’t finish in time, the university’s Linda Argo told The Current
on Tuesday, pending Zoning Commission approval.
American has been scouting
off-campus temporary housing
locations since last month due to
concerns that at least one of its
three new East Campus residence
halls won’t be open until October.
Original targets called for all 590
beds at East Campus to be available at the start of this coming
school year. Now, the university
East Campus likely won’t be
ready in August as planned.
believes the largest building, with
279 beds, won’t be ready until
October, and the other two, with a
total of 311 beds, might not be
finished in time for the start of the
fall semester, either, Argo said.
Should the construction not
finish on time, the university
hopes 295 of the 590 students
would be accommodated in the
two off-campus locations, and the
other 295 would live in temporary
triples in the university’s existing
residence halls. Argo said students
living in temporary housing would
stay for a full semester even if
construction wraps up mid-fall.
The university will seek a
minor modification to its campus
See Campus/Page 5
Shelter plans face continued backlash from neighbors
By CUNEYT DIL
Current Correspondent
As Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration
moved plans for citywide family homeless
shelters into a second stage of community
design review, many Northwest residents have
remained opposed to key elements of the proposal to replace D.C. General.
The Bowser administration presented design
renderings for the seven shelters across the city
at individual community meetings in the past
week. The Ward 3 shelter, planned for 2619
Wisconsin Ave. NW, would be three stories and
feature a gabled roof with a facade meant to
blend in with surrounding brick houses.
The meetings were meant to gather feedback on the designs, but critics complained
they were premature and scheduled with little
notice to the public. At the Ward 3 meeting last
Tuesday, about 60 residents staged a walkout
Rendering courtesy of the D.C. government
D.C. officials say the Ward 3 shelter’s design
blends in with nearby single-family homes.
25 minutes into the event, after the Massachusetts Avenue Heights Citizens Association
president called the 38-unit facility “entirely
unacceptable” to the neighborhood.
Meanwhile, in Ward 1 Monday night, protesters unfurled a banner and interrupted the
meeting on the proposed facility at 2105-2107
10th St. NW. That facility will include a renovation of the former Morning Bright Church
and construction of a new six-story structure to
hold 29 families.
“We object to the closed process that created this site,” one protester told Polly Donaldson, director of the Department of Housing and
Community Development.
Chief among the concerns for opponents
remains Bowser’s decision to swiftly forge
ahead with the plan in order to replace D.C.
General with seven smaller family shelters by
2018. Instead of discussing aesthetic features
of the shelter buildings, many residents want to
revisit the site selection process, and they question the high prices of the shelters, which the
city in most wards will lease from developers.
In Ward 1, protesters claim the city will pay
above-market rates to the Sorg Architects firm.
City estimates put the yearly operational cost
See Shelter/Page 18
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SHERWOOD
INDEX
Fighting for Fillmore
Ready to roar
Peek into the shadows
Calendar/20
Classifieds/29
District Digest/6
Exhibits/21
Getting Around/26
In Your Neighborhood/10
Northwest parents want more
than a one-year reprieve for arts
program at five schools / Page 3
Wilson’s softball team hopes to
defend its DCIAA title and try for
the state championship / Page 11
We’ll soon see previously sealed
documents related to the infamous
Gray ‘shadow campaign’ / Page 8
Opinion/8
Police Report/4
Real Estate/15
School Dispatches/14
Service Directory/27
Sports/11
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GOVERNMENT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
MURIEL BOWSER, MAYOR
Join Co-Chairs Mayor Muriel Bowser
and Councilmember Vincent Orange
for the District’s Annual . . .
DCEMANCIPATIONDAY
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Celebrate our progress on this historic day, and join Mayor Bowser and the
DC Council in our ongoing march for DC voting rights and statehood.
Emancipation Day Parade
Saturday, April 16 from 1:00 – 3:00 pm
Parade route starts at 7th and Pennsylvania
Avenue, NW / ends at 1350 Pennsylvania
(to march with the Mayor, visit link below)
Emancipation Day Truck Touch
Saturday, April 16 from 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
1300 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Emancipation Day Concert
Saturday, April 16 from 2:45 – 9:00 pm
(followed by fireworks at 9:00 pm)
Freedom Plaza, 1355 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
For more information, please
visit emancipation.dc.gov.
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Despite one-year reprieve, Fillmore parents battle to preserve arts program
By BRADY HOLT
The Fillmore Arts Center has received a
one-year reprieve from D.C. Public Schools,
which agreed to continue the popular-butpricey program through the end of the next
school year but has vowed to terminate it
for fall 2017.
Parents learned only recently of the initial decision to eliminate Fillmore this com-
ing school year. They decried both the loss
of the program — which provides weekly
arts instruction to about 1,700 students at
Hyde-Addison, Key, Reed, Ross and Stoddert elementary schools — and the lack of
notice.
The school system has repeatedly cited
the program’s cost as a reason to terminate
it, but officials said they can be flexible
about the timing.
“We extended funding for the Fillmore
Arts Program for one more year to allow the
five participating schools and their communities to have ample time to transition bringing arts education into their schools,” D.C.
Public Schools spokesperson Michelle
Lerner wrote in an email to The Current.
“We heard [from] our communities that they
needed more time for this transition, and it
was something we were able to solve for one
more year. … We will use the next year to
work with school principals to ensure a
smooth transition to in-house arts programming, and look forward to communicating
with the community on this transition.”
But parent leaders say the only option is
for the program to continue further, and
they vowed to lobby for that approach.
“The reality is that DCPS has no plan to
solve any of the problems that were created
by their rush to kill Fillmore in the first
place,” said John Claud, president of Friends
See Fillmore/Page 18
The week ahead
Wednesday, April 13
The Woodley Park Community Association will hear a further presentation
from JBG on the development firm’s long-term plans for the Marriott Wardman Park hotel. The agenda also includes discussion of whether to protest
liquor license renewal applications by Hot N Juicy Crawfish on Connecticut
Avenue NW and Bar Civita on 24th Street NW due to complaints about excessive noise. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at St. Thomas Apostle Church,
2665 Woodley Road NW.
Saturday, April 16
The D.C. League of Women Voters will hold its annual meeting, which will
include a talk by WAMU web producer and reporter Martin Austermuhle on
whether the D.C. Board of Elections is ready to manage the city’s 2016
elections. The lunch meeting will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at
Beacon Bar & Grille, 1615 Rhode Island Ave. NW. Tickets cost $48; RSVP at
lwvdc.org by April 13.
■ The District will commemorate the 154th anniversary of D.C. Emancipation
Day with a parade from 1 to 3 p.m. along Pennsylvania Avenue between 8th
and 13th streets NW. The official D.C. Emancipation Day Concert — set begin
at 2:45 p.m. at Freedom Plaza, 13th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW —
will feature performances by Sweet Honey in the Rock, Raheem DeVaughn,
Trouble Funk, Be’la Dona, Rare Essence, Black Alley, April Sampe, 4EY and
more. A fireworks finale will take place at 9 p.m. For details visit
emancipation.dc.gov/events.
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Monday, April 18
The Northwest Neighbors Village and Washington Hebrew Congregation
will sponsor the Healthy Aging Forum, featuring workshops and a talk by clinical psychologist Mindy Greenstein, author of “Lighter as We Go: Virtues,
Character Strengths, and Aging.” The event will be held from 10:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. at the Washington Hebrew Congregation, 3935 Macomb St. NW.
Registration costs $20; visit nwnv.org or call 202-777-3435.
Tuesday, April 19
The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law
will host a meeting to examine possible solutions to the displacement of
elderly, disabled and indigent residents of The Washington Home due to the
facility’s upcoming closure and the site’s purchase by Sidwell Friends School.
The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Moot Court Room 518 of
the law school’s building at 4340 Connecticut Ave. NW. Reservations are
required; visit law.udc.edu/event/WashHome.
■ The Cleveland Park Citizens Association will host a community meeting on
“Toward Quieter, Cleaner Neighborhoods” from 7 to 9 p.m. on the Community
Room at the 2nd District Police Headquarters, 3320 Idaho Ave. NW. Speakers will include Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh, who has introduced
a bill to ban the sale and use of gas-powered leaf blowers by January 2022;
Jamie Banks, executive director of the national organization Quiet Communities; James Fallows, writer for The Atlantic and former presidential speechwriter; and Morgan Stallard, who runs Four Feet to the Yard, a local lawn-care
company.
■ The Chevy Chase Citizens Association will hold its annual “Green” meeting
at 7:30 p.m. at the Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Ave.
NW. Speakers will include Ted Trabue, managing director of the D.C. Sustainable Energy Utility, and Jeffrey Madison, owner of Veteran Compost.
Wednesday, April 20
The D.C. Office of the Tenant Advocate will hold a “Renters 101” training
session. Topics will include an overview of tenant rights and responsibilities,
as well as discussion of leases, rent increases, rent control, evictions, housing code problems and security deposits. The training will be held from 6 to
8 p.m. at the agency’s office in Suite 300N, Reeves Center, 2000 14th St.
NW. To RSVP, call 202-719-6560 or email [email protected]. (The
session will also be offered at the same location on Saturday, April 30, from
noon to 2 p.m.)
Thursday, April 21
The D.C. Water and Sewer Authority will host a Ward 3 town hall from
6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the ballroom of the new Student Center at the University
of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW.
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This is a listing of incidents
reported to the Metropolitan
Police Department from April
4 through 10 in local police
service areas, sorted by their
report dates.
psa
PSA
101 101
■ downtown
Assault with a dangerous
weapon
■ 1000-1099 block, F St.;
7:30 p.m. April 8 (with knife).
Motor vehicle theft
■ 1300-1399 block, I St.;
5:24 a.m. April 10.
Theft
■ 600-699 block, 13th St.;
10:32 a.m. April 6.
■ 1000-1099 block, F St.;
4:19 p.m. April 7.
■ 500-599 block, 14th St.;
2:13 p.m. April 8.
■ 1200-1299 block, G St.;
8:37 p.m. April 8.
■ 600-699 block, 13th St.;
6:39 a.m. April 9.
■ 1200-1299 block, G St.;
9:04 p.m. April 9.
■ 1200-1299 block, G St.;
7:32 p.m. April 10.
Theft from auto
■ 1100-1199 block, F St.;
10:47 p.m. April 5.
psa 102
■ Gallery place
PSA
102
PENN QUARTER
weapon
■ 800-899 block, E St.;
11:23 a.m. April 8.
■ 700-799 block, 7th St.;
3:49 a.m. April 10.
Theft
■ 900-999 block, 9th St.;
12:08 a.m. April 5.
■ 400-457 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 4:26 p.m. April 6.
■ 400-497 block, L St.; 6:09
p.m. April 6.
■ 700-799 block, 7th St.;
9:31 a.m. April 8.
■ 600-699 block, I St.; 3:13
a.m. April 9.
■ 900-979 block, 7th St.;
4:19 p.m. April 9.
■ 400-497 block, L St.; 7:12
p.m. April 9.
■ 400-497 block, L St.;
12:07 a.m. April 10.
■ 700-799 block, 7th St.;
3:03 a.m. April 10.
■ 444-499 block, K St.; 3:55
a.m. April 10.
■ 400-457 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 2:13 p.m. April 10.
■ 600-699 block, F St.; 4:28
p.m. April 10.
■ 700-799 block, H St.; 5:11
p.m. April 10.
Theft from auto
■ 444-499 block, K St.; 4:23
a.m. April 6.
■ 400-443 block, K St.;
11:52 a.m. April 6.
■ 600-699 block, 7th St.;
1:58 a.m. April 8.
■ 600-699 block, I St.; 2:45
a.m. April 9.
■ 600-699 block, I St.; 3:24
a.m. April 9.
■ 800-899 block, 5th St.;
5:12 p.m. April 9.
■ 800-899 block, 9th St.;
7:16 p.m. April 9.
■ 600-699 block, New York
Ave.; 7:59 p.m. April 9.
■ 400-443 block, K St.;
11:24 p.m. April 9.
■ 700-799 block, 7th St.;
3:46 a.m. April 10.
5.
■ 2200-2298 block,
Wisconsin Ave.; 1:12 p.m.
April 7.
■ 2200-2298 block,
April 8.
■ 2700-2899 block, 28th St.;
11:51 p.m. April 9.
■ 2350-2599 block, Connecticut Ave.; 5:11 a.m. April
10.
psa
PSA
201 201
Theft from auto
■ 3400-3499 block, Lowell
St.; 10:52 a.m. April 4.
■ 3000-3099 block, Idaho
■ 2600-2699 block, Woodley
Road; 11:02 a.m. April 10.
■ chevy chase
Burglary
■ 2900-2999 block, Rittenhouse St.; 12:05 p.m. April 9.
Theft from auto
■ 2700-2809 block, Rittenhouse St.; 8:46 a.m. April 5.
psa 202
■ Friendship Heights
PSA
202
Tenleytown / AU Park
weapon
■ 4530-4599 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 4:37 a.m. April 9
(with gun).
Theft
■ 4700-4799 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 10:12 a.m. April 7.
■ 4800-4899 block, 45th St.;
4:19 p.m. April 10.
Theft from auto
■ 4900-4999 block, 44th St.;
11 a.m. April 4.
psa 203
■ forest hills / van ness
PSA
203
cleveland park
weapon
■ 4800-4899 block, Connecticut Ave.; 4:21 p.m. April
9.
Burglary
■ 2900-2999 block, Porter
St.; 8:44 a.m. April 4.
Theft
9.
9.
■ 4000-4199 block, Connecticut Ave.; 12:18 p.m. April 10.
psa 205
■ palisades
/ spring valley
PSA
205
Wesley Heights / Foxhall
Theft from auto
■ 4400-4499 block, Lowell
St.; 5:37 p.m. April 6.
psa
PSA
206206
■ georgetown / burleith
Sexual abuse
■ 3600-3699 block, O St.;
3:26 p.m. April 6.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 3300-3399 block, M St.;
1:29 a.m. April 6.
Theft
■ 1048-1099 block,
April 4.
■ 1200-1237 block,
April 4.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
10:13 p.m. April 5.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
1:37 p.m. April 7.
■ 3600-3699 block, O St.;
6:46 p.m. April 7.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
6:25 p.m. April 9.
■ 3600-3699 block, O St.;
6:39 p.m. April 9.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
8:51 p.m. April 9.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
2:25 p.m. April 10.
■ 3000-3049 block, M St.;
6:42 p.m. April 10.
Theft from auto
■ 2700-2799 block, Albemarle St.; 4:47 p.m. April 7.
Theft from auto
■ 1321-1399 block, 31st St.;
3:43 p.m. April 4.
■ 3500-3599 block, S St.;
4:37 p.m. April 4.
■ 1400-1499 block, 34th St.;
3:59 p.m. April 6.
■ 3100-3199 block, N St.;
8:04 p.m. April 10.
psa 204
psa
PSA
207 207
■ Massachusetts avenue
heights / cleveland park
woodley park / Glover
PSA 204
park / cathedral heights
Theft
■ 2600-2649 block, Connecticut Ave.; 5 p.m. April 5.
■ foggy bottom / west end
Sexual abuse
■ 1100-1199 block, New
Hampshire Ave.; 2:41 p.m.
April 4.
Burglary
■ 900-999 block, 25th St.;
1:31 p.m. April 9.
■ 1100-1199 block, New
Hampshire Ave.; 3:27 a.m.
April 10.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 1000-1099 block, Vermont
Theft
■ 2000-2099 block, L St.;
5:07 p.m. April 4.
■ 1100-1199 block, 19th St.;
6:06 p.m. April 4.
■ 2400-2499 block, M St.;
10:34 a.m. April 5.
■ 2000-2099 block, F St.;
12:21 p.m. April 5.
■ 1600-1615 block, H St.; 2
p.m. April 6.
■ 1100-1199 block, 19th St.;
12:57 a.m. April 7.
■ 2000-2099 block, L St.;
7:10 p.m. April 9.
■ 1400-1499 block, I St.;
4:59 a.m. April 10.
Theft from auto
■ 1200-1299 block, 23rd St.;
12:45 p.m. April 5.
■ 2000-2099 block, H St.;
11:09 p.m. April 7.
psa 208
■ sheridan-kalorama
PSA
208
dupont circle
Robbery
■ 1700-1799 block, Church
St.; 9:14 p.m. April 7.
■ 2000-2016 block, P St.;
10:08 p.m. April 7.
weapon
■ 1218-1299 block, Connecticut Ave.; 12:50 a.m.
April 4.
Theft
■ 1800-1899 block, S St.;
11:23 a.m. April 4.
■ 1400-1499 block, P St.;
8:18 p.m. April 4.
■ 2200-2299 block,
California St.; 9:24 p.m. April
6.
■ 1400-1499 block, P St.;
12:24 p.m. April 7.
■ 1518-1599 block, 17th St.;
6:16 p.m. April 7.
■ 1300-1699 block,
Connecticut Ave.; 4:41 p.m.
April 8.
■ 1500-1579 block, 21st St.;
6:26 p.m. April 8.
■ 1800-1899 block, M St.;
9:26 p.m. April 9.
■ 1400-1499 block, Rhode
Island Ave.; 1:06 a.m. April
10.
■ 1400-1499 block, 17th St.;
12:12 p.m. April 10.
■ 1400-1499 block, 14th St.;
8:45 p.m. April 10.
Theft from auto
■ 1400-1499 block, Rhode
Island Ave.; 10:09 a.m. April
4.
■ 1500-1599 block, New
Hampshire Ave.; 1:57 p.m.
April 4.
■ 1600-1699 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 11:42 p.m.
April 7.
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CAMPUS: Construction delays at AU leave officials scrambling for housing options
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plan this week in order to account
for potentially housing fewer than
67 percent of its undergraduates
and 100 percent of its freshmen
and sophomores on campus as
outlined, Argo said.
“If we could make the world
the way we wanted it to be, we
would have all these beds open on
East Campus,” Argo said. “Since
we know that’s a distinct possibility that we won’t, we’ve put
together a contingency program.”
Wesley Theological Seminary
President David McAllister-Wilson told The Current that American approached him at the end of
last year about the possibility of
signing a lease for undergraduate
housing. The AU undergraduates
would take over the currently
unoccupied residences in the seminary’s Straughn Hall. No Wesley
students would be displaced,
McAllister-Wilson said.
American undergraduates living on the Wesley campus would
be given keycard access to the gate
separating the two campuses, and
resident assistants from American
would patrol the floors in Straughn
Hall occupied by its students,
according to Argo and McAllisterWilson. Each room would have no
more than two beds.
Next year wouldn’t be the first
time American University students
have taken advantage of the Wesley campus, McAllister-Wilson
noted. Wesley opened its New
Residence Hall in August 2013,
and its own students departed
Straughn Hall for its more modern
replacement. Since then, the seminary’s housing office has arranged
leases with some graduate students at American, though AU
itself had no involvement in these
lease agreements.
McAllister-Wilson said he now
realizes he should have sought a
minor modification to the school’s
master plan from the Zoning Commission before leasing out the
unused rooms. He plans to do so
for the undergraduate plan, assuming he signs the lease with AU for
next school year.
McAllister-Wilson said he
responded favorably to the lease
request because it provides a
financial buttress for the seminary,
where enrollment has declined
recently, and he wants to honor the
Methodist spirit by assisting a
neighbor in need.
Residents in the neighborhoods
that surround the campuses have
already expressed trepidation
about the Wesley proposal. Advisory Neighborhood Commission
3D chair Tom Smith told The Current he heard about the possible
deal with the seminary from
another resident. He’s frustrated
that the university has, in his view,
gone behind his back to take action
he wouldn’t have recommended
and doesn’t condone.
“I can’t even begin to tell you
how many hours I’ve spent talking
to AU about ways to solve their
housing problem,” Smith said. “To
find out from a constituent as
opposed to AU what some of their
solutions are, it’s a little discouraging.”
(ANC 3D includes Foxhall, the
Palisades, Spring Valley and Wesley Heights.)
Argo said she had planned to
tell Smith about the plan when
discussions were further along,
and said she apologized that he
heard about it elsewhere.
Smith also thinks the seminary
move will anger residents who
already took issue with the construction of Wesley’s new residence hall a few years ago. Given
that the university has already
sought four minor modifications
to its campus plan, the prospect of
another one for another institution
seems undesirable, Smith said.
“AU shouldn’t be looking to
other institutions to solve a problem that they created for themselves,” Smith said.
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University alumnus, said that for
years he has appreciated that the
university’s hockey field and track
separate the neighborhood from
student noise. He supports the university in general but doesn’t want
to see that gap lessened.
“We’ve got a very nice setback.
Having that setback and the dorms
on the other side makes the area
more livable and more contained,”
Paul said. “I think we’d like to
continue that.”
McAllister-Wilson points to the
negligible impact of the graduate
students on the Wesley campus as
an indicator that a temporary
arrangement with the university
won’t disturb the status quo.
“We want to make sure the students are not an intrusion,” McAllister-Wilson said. “I don’t think
that they will be.”
ANC 3D will take up the issue
once a modification proposal
comes before the Zoning Commission, Smith said. Overall, Smith
wants to see more transparency on
ballooning enrollment numbers
and construction delays. “We want
to be helpful, but you can’t be
helpful if AU’s not willing to be a
partner,” he said.
Argo said the school is trying to
plan for every scenario and pull
the project forward. “We’re working on a relatively complex project
with multiple structures. We’re
working on an accelerated schedule,” Argo said. “Cross your fingers for good weather.”
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District Digest
Association opposes
rec center landmark
The idea of designating the
Palisades Recreation Center as a
historic landmark generated overwhelming opposition from a local
community group last Tuesday,
with most members favoring a
“state-of-the-art” replacement
building at the 5200 Sherier Place
NW site.
Some residents and community leaders feel the original 1930s
facility should be retained due to
its architectural and historical significance, or are concerned that
the District’s planned $9.5 million
replacement would attract too
many people from outside the
community. But the Palisades Citizens Association voted 24-5 at
their most recent meeting to reject
the idea of granting the building a
historic landmark designation.
The area’s advisory neighborhood commission also discussed
the planned renovations last
week, but postponed a vote on the
landmarking issue. It has sched-
uled a special meeting for April
25 to consider the landmark
application.
Project architect Don Gregory
said he plans to hold community
workshops to help him develop a
design concept, which he would
then bring back to residents for
feedback.
Race, gala benefit
fire safety initiative
Events this weekend will raise
funds for fire safety efforts
around Georgetown University,
honoring the memory of Daniel
Rigby, a student who died in an
off-campus fire in 2004.
The 12th annual “Rigby Weekend” involves a 5K race and 3K
walk starting at 5 p.m. Friday at
Georgetown’s Healy Lawn. Then
on Saturday evening, the semiformal “Rigby Ball” takes place
downtown from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.
at the Mayflower Hotel, 1127
Connecticut Ave. NW. Details,
including registration details, are
available at 2016rigbyweekend.
eventbrite.com.
The goal of the two events is
to raise $10,000 for life-saving
fire safety equipment — smoke
alarms, fire extinguishers and carbon monoxide detectors — for
the joint campaign run by the
Friends of Rigby Foundation and
Georgetown’s Office of Neighborhood Life.
This year’s door-to-door cam-
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‘Main Street’ groups
Mayor Muriel Bowser this
week formally recognized the
newest members of the DC Main
Streets program: Tenleytown
Main Streets, Van Ness Main
Streets and Destination Congress
Heights.
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the DC Main Streets program
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finalist for the national Great
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Corrections
In the April 6 issue, an article
on the Takoma Theatre misstated
the theater’s recent history. It
closed as a movie theater in 1983
but was frequently used by various groups for performing arts
until 2005. The article also misidentified Faith Wheeler as a current member of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 4B; Frank
Jones replaced her on the commission in January 2015.
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High marks for citizenship
Lightning has struck twice: A second private school — Sidwell
Friends — recently went before the Board of Zoning Adjustment seeking a major expansion, and not one neighbor turned up to complain.
But it was not a matter of chance. Sidwell followed in the footsteps
of the Jewish Primary Day School of the Nation’s Capital by working
closely with residents and community groups.
Both schools were receptive to feedback and amended their plans
accordingly. Both schools launched aggressive transportation management programs, including buses for students, as part of their efforts to
minimize traffic impacts. Sidwell even agreed to fund up to $100,000 to
improve the safety of neighborhood streets near its campus, located at
3825 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
Now a third major Northwest private school — Georgetown Day
School — is also working its way through the zoning process. Like
Sidwell, its goal is to move its lower grades from a satellite campus to
to a unified location — in this case, at 4200 Davenport St. NW.
Sadly, we haven’t yet seen Georgetown Day demonstrate the aboveand-beyond community engagement that yielded positive results for
Sidwell and Jewish Primary Day. In the Tenleytown community, the
project remains divisive, and key stakeholders like Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3E aren’t on board.
Granted, this project is more ambitious: In addition to a new school
building, Georgetown Day also hopes to construct two large mixed-use
buildings that would help finance its campus plan. The primary objection of some neighbors was recently eased when the school quietly
reduced their planned heights to 65 and 68.5 feet. But at the same time,
the school removed plans for a small public park.
The school’s decision should be a red flag about its community
engagement process. Officials made that choice on their own, not in
consultation with community leaders. There also has been no recent
progress in addressing ANC 3E members’ concerns about traffic or
community amenities; in fact, the now-eliminated park had been one of
the much-touted amenities.
We would like to congratulate Sidwell and Jewish Primary Day for
setting a sterling example for collaborating with neighbors. We hope
Georgetown Day’s leadership does indeed learn from their successes.
We would be remiss if we did not note a separate controversy that
remains for Sidwell: The school’s expansion will incorporate the Washington Home and Community Hospice facility adjacent to its campus.
The nursing home is closing for financial reasons unrelated to Sidwell,
but the displacement of elderly residents has cast a cloud over the
school’s plans. We hope Sidwell will work to help ease the transition.
Speaking for the trees
The Current
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Paging through the proposed D.C. budget isn’t many people’s idea of
a good time. So we’re impressed that supporters of the District’s tree
canopy took the time to check it carefully — and to highlight what
appeared to be major reductions for the Urban Forestry Administration.
Indeed, in Friday’s D.C. Council budget oversight hearing for the
city’s Department of Transportation, which includes the forestry office,
the majority of the attendees turned out specifically to talk about trees.
These included advocacy groups, such as Casey Trees and Restore Mass
Ave, but also ordinary citizens from across the city who spent their Friday with the council’s Committee on Transportation and the Environment. They spoke passionately about the vital role trees play for aesthetic beauty, carbon reduction and all-around quality of life in the District.
Transportation Department director Leif Dormsjo responded that
there isn’t actually a budget cut to Urban Forestry. Rather, he testified,
the agency is just changing how it classifies certain types of spending:
Moving forward, Urban Forestry expenses will be part of the transportation agency’s annual operating budget rather than its six-year capital
plans — almost eliminating Urban Forestry’s capital budget.
Regarding a reduction in next year’s operating budget, the director
said the agency will plug the gap using unspent money from previous
fiscal years, a maneuver that doesn’t appear in the budget document. Mr.
Dormsjo also pledged to continue today’s levels of tree-planting.
We appreciate that committee members did not simply accept this
answer and move on. We don’t suspect the Transportation Department
of quietly trying to defund our street trees. But we’re fortunate to have
interested citizens and legislators who will hold the agency to its word.
A peek into the ‘shadows’ …
T
he legal doors slammed shut last December
on that infamous “shadow campaign”
investigation.
But this week, on Friday, we expect to get a
peek inside the probe whose aftermath still roils
city politics.
Let’s first set the scene.
Just four months ago — on Dec. 9 — then-new
U.S. Attorney for the District Channing Phillips
announced that “the
admissible evidence is
likely insufficient” to
charge anyone else in
the four-year-old investigation of Vincent
Gray’s 2010 campaign
for mayor. Phillips shut down the probe.
That was great news for former Mayor Gray.
He had lost his 2014 re-election bid and as of
December was now clear of potential criminal
charges. Gray is trying to restart his political
career with a Ward 7 council campaign.
Gray viewed the shutdown as vindication for
him, and legally it was. But others note that qualifying phrase “admissible evidence” and still wonder, fairly or not, what Gray knew or did.
Seven people pleaded guilty in the shadow
campaign probe. That campaign poured more than
$650,000 into Gray’s successful 2010 defeat of
then-Mayor Adrian Fenty. Principal among the
seven guilty is Jeffrey Thompson. He pleaded
guilty to funding the whole effort and in court had
implicated Gray.
But Gray was never charged. He denies any
knowledge of the shadow campaign or any
wrongdoing.
And that brings us to this week.
On Friday, barring any last-minute legal snag,
a federal court will unseal dozens of documents
related to search warrants carried out during the
shadow campaign investigation. It’s all in
response to a suit filed by The Washington Post.
The Post successfully argued that results of the
search warrants — under seal during the investigation itself — now should be made public, as
other warrant results generally are.
“The election investigations had — and continue to have — a profound impact on D.C. politics,” lawyers for The Post wrote. The lawyers
contend the public has a limited right to see at
least redacted results of the search warrants.
Sources close to Gray said any documents
released Friday are unlikely to contain “smoking
gun” allegations against Gray. But the sources say
there could be new insights into all the campaign
cash sloshing around, and who benefited from it.
And the sources say there could be embarrassing
disclosures about personal behavior.
The Post raises in its 26-page filing the key
question that your Notebook has been asking in
our speeches, columns and interviews. We’ve
asked more than once why Thompson wasn’t considered a credible witness. What is it about
Thompson that his word on Gray’s involvement
— if any — might be disbelieved by a jury? Lawyers close to the case say it’s unclear whether
those questions about Thompson will be answered
on Friday, but there could be more hints about it.
Here’s how The Post lawyers put it: “Access to
warrant materials may help shed light on a key
question of vital public
importance that
remains unresolved:
why the [U.S. Attorney] never brought
charges against Mayor
Gray, despite sending
clear public signals that an indictment was likely
forthcoming.”
The Post went on to argue that with the investigation formally concluded, and Gray running for
another public office, “the need for greater public
understanding [of the shadow campaign investigation] lies in much more than idle curiosity.”
Some of our curiosity may be satisfied on Friday. But your Notebook suggests the disclosures
may raise more questions than they answer.
■ Our vacation week. It was stay-at-home, and it
mostly was great. But it seemed like a lot happened. In no particular order:
■ The popular DC Circulator bus system was
trashed as unsafe in a new audit.
■ The Nationals stumbled through the home
opener and then suffered a rainout postponement
because it was too cold. Yes, too cold.
■ The Cherry Blossom Festival fireworks also
were canceled because of high winds and cold.
■ Bernie Sanders finally made it onto the D.C.
June 14 primary ballot after local Democratic
Party fumbling and bumbling.
■ The Wizards finally bounced themselves
from the NBA playoffs after teasing us all season.
■ The checkbook came out to write the IRS a
tax check. No refund this year.
■ We won tickets to “Jersey Boys” at the
National Theatre but couldn’t go.
■ The D.C. Council again voted, it seemed for
the millionth time, to keep the unusual McMillan
Reservoir redevelopment project going with special dispensation.
■ Congress continues to have a bad week,
every week. A new McClatchy-Marist poll says
public disapproval of congressional Republicans
is the highest in two years. While 21 percent of
registered voters approve of the Republicans,
according to Marist, a whopping 73 percent disapprove. As for registered voters’ views of Democrats in Congress, 36 percent approve and 59 percent disapprove.
Next week, maybe a spring in our step.
Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.
TOM SHERWOOD’s
Notebook
Letters to
the Editor
DDOT has increased
road repair spending
Thanks so much for your
kind words about Potholepalooza in your April 6 editorial
“Proactive on roads.” It is a
campaign that we are very
proud of and one that enjoys
tremendous community support.
However, Potholepalooza is just
one of the many street maintenance tools that the District
Department of Transportation
uses to extend the life of pavements, and our efforts are being
recognized through additional
funding.
In fiscal year 2015, the
District spent $10.6 million for
local paving (40 percent more
than the previous fiscal year
average) and $11.9 million on
sidewalks (60 percent more).
This increased funding clearly
demonstrates the mayor’s
commitment to improve
infrastructure in the District. As
a result of the Department of
Transportation’s success in
managing the increased
capacity, Mayor Muriel Bowser
and the D.C. Council provided
additional capital funding for
fiscal year 2016. Our agency is
on track to spend more than $30
million for both local paving
and sidewalk replacements. The
paving schedules can be found
at ddotfiles.com/db/WPFY16.
In addition, the preliminary
schedules for fiscal year 2017
and fiscal year 2018 for paving
and sidewalks can also be
viewed on the same website.
D.C. residents can feel confident in knowing that the Bowser
administration and the Department of Transportation are
keenly focused on improving
our infrastructure, and welcome
the community’s input on how
we can do our job even better.
Leif A. Dormsjo
Director, District Department
of Transportation
The Current
Mayor’s plan delays modernization of West
VIEWPOINT
erica mongelli
M
ayor Muriel Bowser recently released her
proposed budget, which included an extra
$220 million for school modernizations
over the next two years. According to the D.C. Public Schools chief operating officer, Nathaniel Beers,
the proposed budget includes more realistic cost
estimates and applies a standard ranking system to
determine the order in which schools are renovated.
But for many parents, teachers and students, the
proposed modernization plan is one more disappointment courtesy of the school system, the mayor
and the D.C. Council.
Last year, Chancellor Kaya Henderson encouraged Education Committee chair David Grosso to
help overhaul the system by creating a task force
that would create some “logical” criteria rather than
“how loudly your community screams” to determine
the order in which schools were renovated — giving
many hope that their dilapidated school would finally be prioritized. Unfortunately for some schools,
including West Education Campus in Ward 4, there
has been nothing “logical” about the process.
West is one of the last remaining schools in D.C.
with an open floor plan. Its renovation was originally scheduled for the 2014-15 school year, but it has
been consistently and steadily pushed back. While
the 1970s-era school building is newer than D.C.’s
many historic schools, its dated open floor plan
requires most classes to share large spaces without
walls between them. This is not only distracting to
both students and teachers, but it also provides little
safety should any issue arise that requires a lockdown. Many classrooms have no windows despite
numerous studies demonstrating that the effects of
natural light include better health, as well as
improved workplace productivity and performance.
The current facility is extremely inefficient in its
energy consumption, as demonstrated by Department of General Services statistics. West’s $183,000
Letters to
the Editor
Takoma Theatre still
in use after 1980
The Current’s April 6 article
on the reuse plans for the Takoma
Theatre was excellent and much
appreciated. Located in the heart
of D.C.’s Takoma Park Historic
District, it is an icon of our neighborhood with a storied history
dating to its founding in 1922.
However, despite the caption
under the front-page photo and
the reporter’s statement, the theater has not been vacant since
1980. When the ownership
changed in 1980, it did not close
but remained a movie theater
until Milton McGinty bought it in
1983. He renovated it, expanded
the stage for live theater, and produced his own plays there for
several years.
In the late 1980s and into the
1990s, the Takoma Players, a
nonprofit theater group, performed on the stage, after which
annual energy cost equals $600 per student per year;
in comparison, the newly renovated Powell Elementary School is less than $300 per student per year.
Additionally, even though West’s HVAC system has
been replaced many times, the building’s structure
and design leads to inconsistent heating and cooling,
which is extremely distracting and frustrating.
These conditions led to the rankings introduced
last year that listed West as the third-most-deserving
school of renovations among the 112 schools in the
D.C. Public Schools system. But the school’s renovation was still deferred to fiscal years 2019-21. The
mayor’s latest budget proposal drops West to the
fifth-most-deserving school and pushes its renovation back once again, this time to fiscal years 202022. The new “standard” and “objective” ranking
only weights the schools’ building condition/educational effectiveness as 10 percent of the criteria to
determine the order of modernizations.
West has the dubious distinction of having its
building condition ranked as one of the worst in the
District, yet year after year its modernization has
been delayed. Current PK3 students will be in fifth
grade when the renovations are complete. West families deserve better; all D.C. students deserve to
attend school in a facility that meets basic standards
including adequate heating, cooling and lighting.
Despite these inadequate facilities, West scholars
continue to improve year after year with some of the
largest gains citywide in reading and math. Imagine
what they could do in a facility that reflected the
positive environment we expect in our schools.
If you want to get involved in the school modernization process and support the members of the West
Parent, Staff, and Community Organization in our
push to move up the scheduled renovation, please
write to Ward 4 D.C. Council member Brandon
Todd and at-large D.C. Council member David
Grosso and/or testify at the council’s D.C. Public
Schools and Department of General Services fiscal
year 2017 budget hearings on April 14 and 22.
Erica Mongelli is a parent at West Education
Campus in Ward 4.
it was rented out to others. In
1996, Chris Rock’s Emmy
Award-winning “Bring the Pain”
was filmed by HBO at the Takoma Theatre. The special was
regarded as one of the finest
recorded stand-up comedy performances of all time. Entertainment
Weekly called it “a classic.”
In 2002, the Takoma Theatre
Arts Project was founded by
community residents who
arranged for a variety of events,
from Catholic University’s symphony orchestra and a sold-out
Bulgarian Jazz performance to a
well-reviewed “Ain’t Misbehavin’” musical and shows by
Lumina Studio, a children’s theater that did Shakespearean plays.
Unfortunately, a falling-out
between McGinty and the Takoma Theatre Arts Project caused
the closing of the theater in 2005.
In 2007, when McGinty proposed to demolish the theater for
an office building, several of us
formed the Takoma Theatre Conservancy, a nonprofit organization
to save and revive the historic
theater. We obtained pro bono
legal counsel and successfully
stopped its demolition.
We also obtained grants from
the District government, private
foundations and individual donors
to study the feasibility of saving
and reviving the theater. All the
studies showed its potential viability. But when McGinty died in
2013, his family again sought to
turn it into an apartment building,
which we again opposed.
That’s why, when the Rock
Creek Property Group bought the
theater in 2015 and indicated
interest in commercial use with a
less intrusive design, we looked
at this with some favor. At our
request, they reached out to many
theater groups in D.C., but none
had the financial resources to take
on the entire theater. But now
they are still willing to examine
the possibility of having a smaller
“black box” in the theater along
with other commercial uses. We
hope that can work, and we will
do what we can to help them.
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ANC 2C
ANC 2C Quarter
Downtown/Penn
■ downtown / penn quarter
The commission will meet at
6:30 p.m. Monday, May 9, in
Room A-3, Martin Luther King
Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St.
NW.
For details, visit anc2c.us or
contact [email protected].
ANC 2D
ANC 2D
Sheridan-Kalorama
■ sheridan-kalorama
7 p.m. Monday, May 16, at Our
Lady Queen of the Americas
Church, California Street and
Phelps Place NW.
For details, visit anc2d.org or
contact [email protected].
ANC 3B
ANCPark
3B
Glover
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■ Glover Park / Cathedral heights
7 p.m. Thursday, April 14, at
Stoddert Elementary School
and Glover Park Community
Center, 4001 Calvert St. NW.
Agenda items include:
■ police report.
■ presentation by the D.C. Board
of Elections regarding the June 14
primary and Nov. 8 general elections, including information on
new electronic technology and
early voting options.
■ discussion of grant requests:
Boy Scouts (tentative) and the
Metropolitan Police Department’s
2nd District Citizens Advisory
Council ($750 to purchase award
plaques for its upcoming banquet
to honor outstanding law enforcement officers).
■ consideration of a resolution to
the D.C. Council and Mayor Muriel Bowser regarding the Advisory
Neighborhood
Commissions
Omnibus Amendment Act of 2016
and respect for the role of advisory
neighborhood commissions.
■ update on funding for the Fillmore Arts Center programs.
■ status report on plans for the
Ward 3 shelter for homeless families.
■ update on the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board hearing on the
Glover Park liquor license moratorium and the challenge from Rite
Aid.
■ update on filling the vacancy for
single-member district 3B03 in
western Glover Park.
■ announcement of the D.C. Water
and Sewer Authority’s town hall
meeting on April 21 and presentation on the Clean Rivers Project
on May 12.
■ open forum.
For details, email info@anc3b.
org or visit anc3b.org.
ANC 3C
ANC 3CPark
Cleveland
■ cleveland park / woodley Park
Woodley
Park
massachusetts avenue heights
Massachusetts
Avenue Heights
Cathedral Heights
7:30 p.m. Monday, April 18, at
the 2nd District Police Head-
quarters, 3320 Idaho Ave. NW.
■ consent-calendar review of
Alcoholic Beverage Control
renewal applications for RAKU
Asian Diner, Barcelona, Siam
House, the Shoreham Hotel,
Medaterra, Medium Rare, Alero
Restaurant, Mr. Chen’s, Italian
Pizza Kitchen, Cactus Cantina,
Two Amy’s and Indique.
■ consent-calendar review of a
resolution for a Historic Preservation Review Board application for
3203 Macomb St. to construct a
second story over a one-story garden room addition to a noncontributing house in the Cleveland Park
Historic District.
■ consent-calendar review of a
resolution regarding a Board of
Zoning Adjustment application to
waive the parking requirement at
the new Cleveland Park Library at
3310 Connecticut Ave. NW.
■ presentation by the D.C. Office
of Planning regarding plannedunit developments and the review
process given plans to seek additional height and density for the
Wardman Park property on Woodley Road NW.
■ presentation by the D.C. Board
of Elections on voter registration,
the introduction of new election
technology and changes to the
election process.
■ consideration of an application
by the Bozzuto Group for a minor
modification of a Zoning Commission order that limits restaurants in the Cathedral Commons
development to no more than 20
percent of the linear footage of the
property.
■ consideration of a resolution to
urge the D.C. Council to provide
$1.1 million of additional funding
for the new Cleveland Park
Library to cover higher costs that
resulted in a decision to eliminate
a large part of the proposed basement, including an additional
assembly room.
■ consideration of a resolution
regarding a Historic Preservation
Review Board application for
2939 Macomb St. NW to construct
side dormers on each side of a
contributing house in the Cleveland Park Historic District.
regarding a Historic Preservation
Review Board application for a
two-story addition to the main
house to replace a noncontributing
existing one-story addition, and
renovation to the facade of a twostory garage.
regarding lack of notifications to
advisory neighborhood commissions and community groups for
meetings regarding the proposed
transitional housing facility at
2619 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
For details, visit anc3c.org.
ANC 3D
ANCValley
3D
Spring
■ spring valley / wesley heights
Wesley
Heights
palisades / kent / foxhall
The commission will hold a
special meeting from 7 to 9 p.m.
Monday, April 25, at Mann Elementary School, 4430 Newark
St. NW. The agenda will feature
discussion of and consideration
of a recommendation on a pending application for landmark
designation of the Palisades
Playground and Field House.
The commission will hold its
next regular meeting at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, May 4, at the Sibley
Memorial Hospital Medical
Building, 5215 Loughboro Road
NW.
For details, call 202-957-1999
or visit anc3d.org.
ANC 3E
ANC 3E
Tenleytown
■ american university park
American
University Park
friendship heights / tenleytown
7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, in
the Ceremonial Classroom at
the Washington College of Law,
American University, 4300
Nebraska Ave. NW.
■ announcements/open forum.
■ police report.
■ discussion of and possible vote
on resolutions regarding renewal
of liquor licenses for the Cheesecake Factory, Satay Club, Burger
Tap & Shake, Masala Art, Tartufo,
Le Chat Noir and Maggiano’s.
on a resolution regarding an Alcoholic Beverage Control application for a Class D liquor license at
Wagshal’s, 4855 Massachusetts
Ave. NW.
■ update by Georgetown Day
School on plans for expanded
school and mixed-use development on the Safeway and Martens
lots.
on a resolution regarding a public
space application for Beefsteak
restaurant on Wisconsin Avenue
NW.
For details, visit anc3e.org.
ANC 3F
ANCHills
3F
Forest
■ Forest hills / North cleveland park
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 19, at
Forest Hills of DC, 4901 Connecticut Ave. NW.
■ police report.
■ open forum.
■ consideration of a grant application from the Forest Hills Connection.
■ consideration of a liquor license
settlement agreement for Acacia
Bistro, 4340 Connecticut Ave.
NW.
■ consideration of a liquor license
settlement agreement for Comet
Ping Pong, 5037 Connecticut Ave.
NW.
■ update on the construction traffic
plan for the Tilden Hall Apartments, 3945 Connecticut Ave. NW.
■ presentation regarding Chickfil-A, 4422 Connecticut Ave. NW.
For details, call 202-670-7262
or visit anc3f.com.
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Bulldogs end skid with two wins
By BRIAN KAPUR
The St. Albans baseball team is used to
being a perennial contender for the Interstate Athletic Conference crown. But the
Bulldogs started out this season with seven
straight losses. The latter two defeats against
Bullis, an IAC foe, were a wake-up call as
the team found itself in an early hole in the
race for the league
crown.
After that second
Bullis game on Friday, team captains
Will Murphy and
Griffin Coulter gathered the players
together to try to sort
out the mess and
search for answers.
“We really wanted
to get the message
across that we want
to give 100 percent of
energy throughout
the game,” Coulter
said. “We want to be
the aggressors. We want to put teams in a
hole.”
The post-game pep talk seemed to work
on Saturday, as the Bulldogs shrugged off
chilly temperatures and snow flurries to
throttle Sidwell 8-3.
“We came out with a chip on our shoulder,” said Murphy. “That [last loss] stung.
We were able to get fired up and continue
the momentum from the last couple of
innings and not give them a chance to get
going.”
It was a game that St. Albans likely
would’ve had to postpone on their old
grassy Stewart Field. But their new digs,
complete with an artificial turf field, let
them play on despite wet conditions.
“It’s fun playing out here,” said Bulldogs
coach R.J. Johnsen. “We’re fortunate to
have a school and community that helped
raise money for this gorgeous facility.
Every day is a game day because we
haven’t had any issues with the weather. It
was snowing and freezing cold when we
started, but the field was great and we were
ready to go.”
On Saturday, St. Albans jumped on the
Quakers from the onset. The Bulldogs
started the bottom of the
first with Murphy getting
on base with a walk. He
then stole two bases to get
into scoring position.
Moments later, Ethan
Roth and Coulter each
notched RBIs and Coulter
stole home on a wild pitch
to give St. Albans a 3-0
lead by the end of the first
inning.
Sidwell battled back
with a pair of RBIs in the
top of the second inning
by senior Tyrone Patterson and sophomore Robbie Goodman to cut St.
Albans’ lead to 3-2.
But the Quakers couldn’t come any
closer. After a quick and scoreless third
inning, St. Albans exploded for four runs in
the fourth inning when Coulter, Clark Klitenic and Andrew Keane all recorded RBIs
and a score on a steal.
“We were taking good at-bats and getting the pitch count up, and hitting the ball
up the middle and putting pressure on their
fielders,” said Murphy.
The win ended St. Albans’ losing streak
and shifted the momentum, with the team
taking care of Potomac School 4-3 in the
second game of the double-header.
The Bulldogs will look to stay on the
winning track when they travel to play
Georgetown Prep on Thursday at 4:30 p.m.
St. Albans seniors Griffin Coulter, above, and Will Murphy pulled the Bulldogs together
to try to rally the team following a narrow loss on Friday. The team responded with two
wins on Saturday over Sidwell and Potomac School. The Bulldogs were able to finish
both games despite rain and snowy conditions because of their new turf field.
Tigers eye DCIAA repeat, run at state title
By BRIAN KAPUR
Wilson has picked up where it left off in 2015 and has earned a 4-2
record to start the season, which includes wins over two private
schools — Bullis and Stone Ridge.
After capturing their third
straight D.C. Interscholastic Athletic Association softball crown
last year, the Tigers next tried to
take their first state crown, but fell
in the semifinals of that bracket.
This season, Wilson hopes to
make good on that goal of capturing its first D.C. State Athletic
Association title.
“I absolutely think we can get
there,” said first-year coach
Kelsey Curran. “We just have
some things to work on.”
Curran brings a wealth of softball experience that could help the
Tigers take that step forward. She
played catcher at the college level
for SUNY Cortland from 2006 to
2010, and she currently coaches
for the Foggy Bottom Moose softball travel team. Her experience
there has given her a familiarity
with some of the Tigers who play
on that squad, including junior
shortstop Sarah Thompson and
freshman catcher Emry Hankins.
For those players, it was a
smooth transition to have Curran
as coach, since they already had a
sense of her expectations.
“I want them to be super
aggressive at the plate,” the coach
said. “I’m not looking to get
walked. I always want them hitting and when they’re on base,
they’re running. I don’t care how
fast they are — you’re being smart
and fast around the bases.”
At the plate, the Tigers have
several players who can knock in
hits, including Thompson, who
Curran said is the team’s leadoff
hitter and “really, really consistent.” In addition, the team will
rely on junior center fielder Kimberly Manalang as the No. 2 hitter
in the order. “She is really fast.
She can bunt it at any point and
get there,” Curran said. The Tigers
will also depend on Hankins and
junior pitcher Nora Parisi to provide run support.
Meanwhile, the Tigers will
look to Parisi to help lead the
Tigers’ defense from the mound.
The junior helped Wilson roar to a
16-2 record in 2015 and Curran
believes she can lead the team
even farther this season.
“She is doing a great job,” she
said. “She’s our main girl.”
Despite Parisi’s solid play, Curran hopes the defense behind her
picks up after three games where
the Tigers allowed double-digit
runs. “The defense has to back her
up when she is throwing a lot of
pitches. Our defense needs to be
tight and solid,” the coach said.
Wilson will look to improve on
its 4-2 record when it hosts DCIAA
foe Bell at Guy Mason on Thursday at 4 p.m.
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Cadets lax hopes to contend in the WCAC
By BRIAN KAPUR
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team comes into the season with a
young squad after graduating 12
seniors from its 2015 team.
Despite the substantial turnover,
second-year coach Bobby Horsey
hopes to see the Cadets build
toward a Washington Catholic
Athletic Conference title run.
“We finished in the middle of
the pack last year, and we expect
to be better than that,” said Horsey. “We want to be in the top two
or three. We want to try to win the
WCAC. But to do that you have to
give yourself a chance to do that.”
The team will look to its tricaptains: senior midfielders Brendan Fennell and Colin Hinton
along with junior midfielder Joe
Falcone. For the Cadets, Horsey
says that “all three are really good
players and really good leaders.”
But the coach added that each of
them brings a quality that benefits
the team in different ways.
Horsey said that Fennell
“understands the grind and what it
takes to play at the top level.” Falcone is “our leader in the midfield.
He works well in the offense and
defensive end.” Meanwhile, Hinton has “been committed to Maryland for a few years now,” the
coach said. “He brings top-level
stick skills and top-level knowledge.”
The Cadets started the season
slowly and dropped two of their
first three games, but they won
three of their last four to push their
record to 7-4. This includes an 8-6
victory over Paul VI, one of the
teams expected to be among the
WCAC’s best this season.
In that game on Saturday, the
Cadets had several youngsters
step into big roles. Sophomore
attacker Jack Burns racked up four
goals, while freshman midfielder
St. John’s has a 7-4 record so far this season, which includes a win
over WCAC rival Paul VI. The Cadets will play the Heights today,
before going to Flint Hill for a game on Saturday at noon.
Dane Hall added two and freshman midfielder Alan Long and
sophomore midfielder Owen
Cleary each notched a score. It’s a
sign of improvement that Horsey
will continue to look for this year.
“All of them have the opportunity to grow this year,” said Horsey. “It won’t all happen in one
game. It will gradually happen
during the season.”
For the season, the Cadets’
offense has been led by Hall’s 16
goals, while Burns has 15 and
junior attacker Andrew Lantuh has
11 scores. The Cadets overall have
seven players with at least five
goals each and will look to diverse
options to score rather than a single star player.
“Whoever is on the offensive
end, we’ll count on them to do
their job. They have to do it as a
cohesive group, and that’s when
we will be our best,” Horsey said.
Meanwhile, the team is young
but experienced on the other side
of the field. Sophomore defender
Ben Williams returns to the fold
along with senior Caelan Doherty.
“Our defense is the strength of
our team right now,” said Horsey.
“The skill is there. They’re our
most experienced group. They’ve
been through the big games in the
past.”
The Cadets hope to continue to
build when they travel to play the
Heights today at 4:30 p.m.
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Spotlight on Schools
Holy Trinity School
Here at Holy Trinity School,
we do many service projects. In
this article we will give you
information regarding some of
the service projects different
grades are working on. You may
ask, what are service projects?
Service projects are activities we
do as a school to help others. One
of our Jesuit identity goals is
being people for others and
service projects are one way we
do that.
First-graders will be sending
notes and care packages to the
troops. Mrs. Kelly, the first-grade
teacher, said: “We are sending
care packages to troops in Iraq,
including my son. We will send
things that they need and want
like candy, power bars, soap and
shampoo.” First-graders will also
write cards to the soldiers
thanking them for their service.
Ms. Farmer, the one of the
fifth-grade teachers, said that the
fifth-graders donated more than
200 books to children of
immigrants learning to read
English. They did this through
Immigration Legal Services at
Catholic Charities. Students also
wrote mini book reviews, which
were compiled or Catholic
Charities’ lobby.
These are just a few of the
many service projects we do here
at Holy Trinity.
— Maddie Gray, Charlotte
Matiunas and Claire
Patterson, third-graders
School DISPATCHES
Hyde-Addison Elementary
School
This past year at HydeAddison, we have been learning
many things in second grade. In
math, we have been learning how
to add and subtract three digit
numbers with place value charts.
In reading, we have been
studying biographies such as
Daniel Boone, Martin Luther
King, George Washington and
Helen Keller. In our writing class,
we have been learning to write
realistic fiction stories.
In social studies, our teacher
taught us about making laws.
First, somebody makes a bill then
it becomes a law. How does it
become a law? Well, the judges
decide if the law is constitutional.
Then it gets sent to the Capitol. If
it goes onto the floor of the
Capitol then they vote. If it has
enough votes, then it gets sent to
the president. If the president says
it is OK, then he signs it. Then it
becomes a law.
The second-graders have also
been going on many field trips to
learn about many things. We went
to the Air and Space Museum and
the White House. My favorite
was when we went to the White
House. I learned all about the
map room, the red room, the
green room, the blue room, the
Oval Office and where the
president sleeps.
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learning. I love my teacher and I
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third grade.
— Alex Tousimis Thiney,
second-grader
Lafayette Elementary
School
Lots is happening at Lafayette!
We’re going green this year by
doing a recycling competition the
week of Earth Day, April 22. The
student council will weigh
recycling from each class, and the
one with the most collected will
win.
Lafayette is proud of fifthgraders Ella Hunter, Kate
Oliphant, Charlie Pomper and
Ellie Sanders, who advanced to
the final round in the national
Letters About Literature writing
contest.
We are also proud that fifthgrader Claire Thorn advanced to
the citywide spelling bee and will
represent our school there. Good
job!
This isn’t the only victory at
Lafayette. On March 12,
Lafayette’s new Scrabble team
crushed at the Deal tournament.
Congratulations to fourth-graders
Arthur Duval, Will Haray, Eddy
Hoover, Gavin Kennelly and Jack
Pagano and fifth-grader Quentin
Folds for doing amazing in their
first tournament.
Rain or shine, the Spring Fair
is coming on May 7. Every year
our school throws a Spring Fair
where families in the community
can have fun! This year’s may be
a bit different. We don’t have our
school yet so some rides and
games may not be coming. Some
fun activities that will be there are
carnival rides, karaoke machine,
dunk tank, book sale, bike swap
and a bake sale! You won’t be
disappointed.
Finally, small children might
enjoy seeing The Great Zucchini
who is performing here on April
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Our Lady of Victory School
For many years OLV middleschool students have performed a
modern version of the traditional
Stations of the Cross prayers
during the season of Lent. Our
version is called “Born for This.”
Participants must audition for
their parts and be willing and
dedicated. We gladly gave up
many hours of free time to
rehearse and perform the play
twice — in front of our parents
and church community, and in
front of our classmates.
I played the role of Pontius
Pilate, who condemned Jesus to
die on the cross. I sang “Pilate’s
Song,” which expresses Pilate’s
struggles with what he was tasked
to do. My scene was the very first
one but I was not nervous. I was
well-rehearsed and ready to
participate in this very creative
retelling of Jesus’ crucifixion and
resurrection. As I walked onto the
stage as Pilate, I saw Jesus and
asked him why his people had
condemned him. But in the end, I
do nothing to stop it.
— Logan H., sixth-grader
St. Albans School
Over the two-week spring
break, four students from St.
Albans woke up early on a
Saturday morning to represent
our school in the D.C. state
Mathcounts competition. Students
competed both as individuals and
in groups, and the top four
performers overall will now form
the D.C. state team that will
compete in the national
Mathcounts competition May 7 to
10.
In the individual D.C. state
competition, all four of our
entrants placed in the top five. An
eighth-grader, St. Albans’
Matthew Chalk, also a speedy
fish-like swimmer, placed fifth.
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The Bulldogs’ Mark
MacGuidwin, amazing tennis
player and astounding student,
placed fourth. The third-place
spot went to Eton Basser, a
student from Sidwell Friends
School. Nolan Musselwhite,
another fast swimmer from St.
Albans, took the second-place
spot in all of D.C. And our own
David “Hlaceraptor” Hla — the
man, the myth, the legend — won
the individual competition! For
the first time ever, St. Albans will
occupy three of the four spots
representing D.C. in the
Mathcounts national meet.
In addition to the opportunity
to represent D.C., these young
men also each earned a prize: an
all-expenses-paid trip to
Washington, including airfare!
But wait, they don’t need to take
a plane! Even though they won’t
be needing airfare, the four-man
team will go to the Gaylord Hotel
at the National Harbor to practice
their math skills prior to the
competition. Good luck to the
D.C. team, and hopefully we can
win a national championship!
— Andrew Forrester, Form II
(eighth-grader)
Sheridan School
This week Sheridan School
had visitors from Senegal. There
were 12 students, ranging from
age 5 to age 17. We spread our
visitors throughout the
classrooms. Kindergarten, first
and second grade had no visitors.
Other than that, in any classroom
a Senegalese visitor was in, we
tried our best to have at least two
together. They spent the entire
day with us. The day before they
visited, the Student Council spent
a couple hours making cookies
with the Senegalese flag painted
on with frosting. They were a big
hit.
We got to have this wonderful
experience because the director of
the Senegalese school taught one
of our teachers’ kids. Many
students at Sheridan take French,
the language the visitors speak. It
was a great chance for us to speak
French and the Senegalese
students to speak English. This
experience really opened us up.
The younger kids made friends
with the Senegalese kids even
though they speak different
languages.
Our visitors were very
thoughtful and brought us little
gifts: small necklaces with drums
on them. On either side of the
drum, there were three small
beads. They brought them for all
of the classes. Many Sheridan
students have worn their
necklaces every day since our
visitors came. I, for one, really
loved the exposure to a different
culture that we got when they
came, and it was really cool how
some of the Senegalese students
bonded with the students at
Sheridan.
— Ella Farr, seventh-grader
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A Look at the Market in Northwest Washington
April 13, 2016 ■ Page 15
French Country cottage soon for sale in Chevy Chase
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to this quiet, green corner in
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built in 1937, purportedly by a
Frenchwoman who wanted the
type of home she remembered
from her childhood. In the ensuing 79 years, the house has been
sold only twice.
This charming cottage is coming to the market again in a few
weeks, listed for $819,000. Over
time, careful enhancements have
increased the size of the home
and modernized the kitchen and
bathrooms without disturbing the
Old World feel.
A renovated stonework path
leads past flowers and climbing
ivy from the street to the unobtrusive Dutch front door, which
opens separately on the top and
bottom, to keep children or pets
in or pass through a delivery. The
entrance foyer, with hardwood
floors and a coat closet, is one of
two additions made in the 1980s
that blend in seamlessly.
The foyer opens into the family room, where the focal point is
the grand wood-burning
brick fireplace with a
rustic stone hearth.
Exposed rafters open up
the space, and light
streams in from two
windows and separated
French doors. Hardwood
floors and built-in bookcases of the same deephued wood contrast with
the white plaster walls
for a cozy effect. A previous coat closet by the
fireplace has become a
glass-front china cabinet.
The dining room sits two steps
lower, in the second addition to
the home. The new space retains
an authentic look with features
commonly used in the 1920s and
’30s, like exposed rafters and red
hexagon floor tiles.
From the dining room, the
updated kitchen moves a little
further toward the contemporary
— with Carrera marble countertops and backsplash, and mahogany sawgrass veneer wood cabinets and drawers — yet still
echoes the tones of the rest of the
house. Upgraded appliances make
cooking convenient, such as the
Miele induction cooktop, Liebherr refrigerator with drawer
freezer, Bosch dishwasher and
Kitchen-Aid oven. This renovation was completed in 2012.
From the kitchen, one door
opens onto stone steps descend-
Photos courtesy of W.C. & A.N. Miller Realtors
This four-bedroom, two-bath home on 29th Street
NW in Chevy Chase will be listed for $819,000.
ing into the side yard, and a second door accesses a flight of
stairs to the fully finished basement. This space was converted
from a garage into a bedroom or
office and full bathroom, opening
onto the lower level of the lot
through French doors and receiving as much light as the upstairs
spaces. The washer, dryer and
boiler are hidden in a utility closet.
The master bedroom and second bedroom sit on the first level
and share a bathroom, remodeled
with stone-like porcelain subway
tile floor and walls, glass shower
stall over porcelain bathtub and
porcelain pedestal sink. A handy
reach-through door in the wall
opens onto the linen closet in the
hall, which was installed as a way
to provide storage while decluttering the bathroom.
Up the open wooden stairs, the
fourth bedroom is a pleasant getaway, with a built-in bed and
desk and an unusual diamondshaped window. The ceiling is
sloped, so this space might work
best as a small child’s room,
guest room or workroom.
The house is heated through
radiators and a boiler, and cooled
through a mini-duct forced air
system, so the air ducts are small
and almost go unnoticed.
Outside, the stone patio
extends from the side garden,
with flowering bushes, to the
back garden, where a park bench
and fountain wait. Two doors in
the family room and four in the
dining room offer access to this
outdoor space.
The home is perfectly
designed for a family, with its
focal-point family room at the
center of all traffic. Moments
from Rock Creek Park and close
to the commuting arteries of Connecticut Avenue and 16th Street
NW, the location offers an easy
route downtown. Broad Branch
Market, a local hub, is a 10-minute walk away, while the shops
and restaurants of Chevy Chase’s
commercial strip are only 15 minutes away on foot.
This four-bedroom, two-bath
house at 5543 29th St. NW is
being listed for $819,000 by W.C.
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SHELTER: Neighbors upset with cost, location and process for proposed family facilities
From Page 1
of that shelter, including rent and wraparound services, at $2.3 million.
The Ward 3 shelter would cost the city
$4,400 per unit in rent, and that figure
would rise 3 percent annually. The facility
would cost $4.29 million to run in its first
year, according to the city.
Response to the design fell mostly negative at last Tuesday’s meeting, with one
resident shouting out to architect John
Burke that the renderings are “coming
across cheap.”
One of the Massachusetts Avenue
Heights residents who walked out, Anita
Crabtree, says “talking about design is a
little premature” when the D.C. Council
hasn’t yet approved the shelter plan. “Does
the mayor just think she’s going to get a
rubber stamp from the council?” she said.
Critics also took issue with the meeting
itself, saying it was scheduled without
enough community notice. Ward 3 D.C.
Council member Mary Cheh and neighborhood leaders had requested a rescheduling.
“I think it fed into the narrative that this
is being hastily presented,” Cheh said.
Among the few dozen residents who did
not walk out of the Ward 3 meeting was
George Brenkert, a Cathedral Heights resident. Despite staying until the end, when
small groups of residents sat at tables with
city officials to offer architectural feedback,
Brenkert has qualms more fundamental than
the designs.
“First they need to get straight with the
community about where this building
should be, what its function should be, what
its cost will be,” he said.
To gather more feedback, the city will
create a neighborhood advisory committee
in Ward 3, and in other wards where residents request one. The groups will function
similarly to site improvement teams that
work with city agencies during school modernization projects. “The model could be
really productive,” said Jay Melder, chief of
staff at the Department of Human Services.
In an email, Melder wrote that going
forward the agency will “incorporate the
initial feedback from residents into our next
round of designs,” with the advisory committees providing “ongoing feedback and
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Projects requiring zoning relief — the
Ward 3 site needs an exception to build 38
units on land zoned for three houses —
would come before the Board of Zoning
Adjustment in June.
As far as the D.C. Council’s action,
Chairman Phil Mendelson hasn’t yet scheduled a vote on the omnibus shelter bill. His
office on Monday received the Bowser
administration’s responses to the council’s
inquiries on the shelter plan from a March
17 hearing, said Alana Intrieri, special counsel to the chairman.
Mendelson has been aiming for a markup of the bill on April 19, but that may
change as his office goes through Bowser’s
responses.
FILLMORE: Closing looms in 2017
From Page 3
of Fillmore and a Stoddert parent.
“Their position is they’re going to
work with the schools and figure
out how to do that. But there’s a
solution for that: It’s called Fillmore, and it works great.”
Founded in 1974, the Fillmore
Arts Center offers a centralized
location for arts education, in
Georgetown’s Hardy Middle
School, with more specialized
resources, facilities and instruction than they’d receive from one
art teacher assigned to their
school. Supporters say the center
also helps ease space shortages at
participating elementary schools.
However, the program also
costs more than individual art
teachers. The five schools allocate
their collective $1 million arts
funding to Fillmore to cover
instructors’ salaries, and the school
system covers the costs of administering the program, transporting
students and purchasing supplies.
D.C. Public Schools has estimated
that Fillmore costs more than
$1,100 per pupil per year, versus
less than $500 for in-house arts
instruction.
Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson testified at a D.C. Council
hearing last month that the greater
expense wasn’t necessary or
appropriate because relatively few
schools participate.
“When it was schools across
the city, the financial modeling
made a lot of sense, and it was able
to pay for itself,” she testified. But
with fewer schools participating,
“at some point the model becomes
financially unviable.”
Lerner, the school system
spokesperson, added that other
schools have strong arts programs.
“All of our elementary schools
(with the exception of the five
schools that currently participate
in Fillmore) have robust, in-house
arts education,” she wrote. “We
are confident that these five
schools can provide programming
that includes working with clay,
sculpture, print making, photogra-
phy, installation art, strings
instruction, piano instruction, and
even rock bands that exists in our
elementary schools.”
Claud, of the Friends of Fillmore, worries that depiction is
unrealistic for schools that now
use Fillmore.
“The cost of expanding these
schools even more to accommodate what they need pales in comparison, I would bet, to what it
costs to operate Fillmore,” he said.
Claud also estimates that the cost
difference is less than the school
system suggests, especially after
officials transition away from a
costly transportation contract.
And although officials say it’s
unfair for some students to receive
more arts funding than others,
Ward 3 Council member Mary
Cheh countered that per-pupil
funding isn’t the only issue.
“I think the fairness and equity
argument cuts a different way,”
Cheh said. “I would say keep this
while the schools that are still
going to Fillmore are ones that are
so overcrowded that they don’t
have dedicated space for arts.”
Elizabeth Wise, co-president of
the Key Elementary PTA, said the
space shortage there is serious:
“Key already houses the fifth
grade in trailers and at least one
staffer is housed in what was once
a closet,” she wrote in an email.
Wise and Claud both fear that
schools will be left with “art on a
cart,” rather than the rich education students now benefit from.
“You can’t push a diverse program into schools — you can’t
move strings, you can’t move theater space, you can’t move a dance
studio, you can’t move a kiln,”
Claud said. “So the answer is you
get less arts.”
Henderson said at the hearing
that she’s open to finding “creative ways” to fund Fillmore, such
as a public-private partnership or
fundraising efforts akin to Duke
Ellington School of the Arts. “We
have to find a different financial
model, or more schools have to
decide they want in,” she said.
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Concerts
■ Vocalist Nina Casey will perform
blues and swing. 7:30 p.m. Free. Gypsy
Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
■ As part of the S&R Foundation’s
Overtures Concert Series, Kennedy
Center composer-in-residence Mason
Bates will present music by Beethoven
and Mozart juxtaposed with his own
“The Life of Birds.” 7:30 p.m. $35.
Halcyon House, 3400 Prospect St. NW.
overtureseries.org.
■ The Heavy Pets and Litz will perform. 8:30 p.m. $10 to $12. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
Discussions and lectures
■ Author Darrin Lunde will discuss
his book “The Naturalist,” a new
account of how Theodore Roosevelt’s lifelong passion for the
natural world set the
stage for America’s
conservation movement and established
his legacy as a father
of today’s “museum naturalism.” 6:30
p.m. Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords,
1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3871400.
■ Retired Army Col. Andrew Bacevich, professor emeritus of history and
international relations at Boston University, will discuss his book “America’s
War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History,” which investigates why the
region has been the scene of constant
conflict and high U.S. casualty rates in
recent years. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.
■ The “DC Music Salon” series will
focus on “Boogie ’Til You Puke: The Forgotten Legend of Root Boy Slim,” featuring a presentation by the team behind a
new documentary about a musician
whose life was stranger than fiction. 7
p.m. Free. Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library,
1630 7th St. NW. 202-727-1288.
■ The Bowen Center for the Study of
the Family will present a talk on
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goers, starting with the boutique for girls
from 5 to 8 p.m. Free professional services and giveaways if students attend
an HIV/AIDS workshop at 4:15 p.m.
Family Matters of Greater Washington,
425 I St. NW. 202-289-1510, ext. 327.
The men’s shop and workshop for boys
will take place Thursday at the same
times.
“Nature’s Family Health Plan: Neurobiological Benefits in Primate and Rodent
Parental Models” by Kelly Lambert, professor of psychology and department
chair at Randolph Macon College. 7:30
p.m. Free. Bowen Center for the Study of
the Family, 4400 MacArthur Blvd. NW.
202-965-4400.
Films
■ The inaugural Washington DC
Turkish Film Festival will feature Mustafa
Kara’s documentary “Cold of Kalandar,”
about a man living with his family in a
mountain village near the Black Sea
who decided to train one of his animals
for an upcoming bullfight, at 5 p.m.;
Cagan Irmak’s comedy “A Unique Life,”
about a woman searching for happiness
after the death of her husband, at 7
p.m.; and Faruk Hacihafizoglu’s comingof-age story “Snow Pirates,” about three
children who embark on a pursuit of
coal on their school vacation, at 9 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Landmark’s
E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW.
turkishfilmfest.com. The festival will
continue through Thursday.
■ “Into the Mind of Adoor Gopalakrishnan: Indian Cinema Pioneer” will
feature a screening of the director’s
2008 film “A Climate for Crime,” which
tells four stories of characters driven to
misdeeds by the economic and social
crises brought on by World War II. Suranjan Ganguly, author of “The Films of
Adoor Gopalakrishnan: A Cinema of
Emancipation,” will introduce the film. 7
p.m. Free. Doyle/Forman Theater,
McKinley Building, American University,
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202885-2220.
■ The Lions of Czech Film series will
feature Andy Fehu’s directorial debut
“The Greedy Tiffany,” about a treasure
hunt that becomes an all-consuming
activity. 8 p.m. $6.75 to $12. Avalon
Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-966-6000.
Performances and readings
■ Wilson High School and Street
Sense will present a staged reading of
“Devising Hope,” a series of scenes and
monologues about family, love, miscon-
Thursday, april 14
■ Discussion: Author and mindfulness meditation teacher Annie
Mahon will discuss her book
“Things I Did When I Was Hangry:
Navigating a Peaceful Relationship
With Food,” about her path to
mindful cooking and eating. 7 p.m.
Free. Upshur Street Books, 827
Upshur St. NW. upshurstreetbooks.
com.
ceptions, deferred dreams and the definition of “home” based on eight weeks
of theater exercises and conversations
between Wilson students and men and
women experiencing homelessness. 7
p.m. Free. Church of the Epiphany, 1317
G St. NW. 202-347-2635.
■ The Washington Ballet will perform
Orff’s “Carmina Burana” and Balanchine’s “Theme and Variations.” 7:30
p.m. $32.25 to $130. Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
The performance will repeat Thursday
and Friday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday
and Sunday at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m.
■ The Grapevine Spoken Word
Series will celebrate the timeless art of
storytelling with featured performers
Regi Carpenter and Jo Radner. 7:30 to
9:30 p.m. $10 donation suggested. Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St.
NW. 202-726-0856.
■ The inaugural 202 Comedy Festival, a four-day event with stand-up
shows at various venues, will host an
Opening Night Showcase featuring Rob
Cantrell, Andy Haynes, Bengt Washburn,
Kasaun Wilson, John F. O’Donnell, Hillary Scofield, Lafayette Wright, Wendy
Wroblewski and Sean Joyce. 8 p.m. $10.
Big Hunt, 1345 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202comedyfestival.com. The festival will
continue through Saturday.
■ Georgetown University’s Mask &
Bauble Dramatic Society will present the
Sondheim musical “Into the Woods.” 8
p.m. $10 to $15. Stage III, Poulton Hall,
Georgetown University, 1421 37th St.
NW. 202-687-2787. Performances will
continue through April 23.
■ Georgetown University’s Nomadic
Theatre will present Robert Caisley’s
“Happy,” about a man who is generally
satisfied with his life but finds things
spin out of control after meeting the latest woman in his best friend’s life. 8
p.m. $8 to $12. Walsh Black Box Theatre, Georgetown University, 37th and O
streets NW. 202-687-2878. The performance will repeat Thursday through Saturday at 8 p.m.
Special event
■ Family Matters of Greater Washington will present its fifth annual
Dresses4Dreams and Suited4Dreams
clothing giveaway for low-income prom-
Sporting events
■ The Washington Nationals will play
the Atlanta Braves. 7:05 p.m. $10 to
$345. Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE. 888-632-6287. The series will
continue Thursday at 4:05 p.m.
■ The Washington Wizards will play
the Atlanta Hawks. 8 p.m. $18 to $899.
Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-7453000.
Support group
■ PFLAG will host a monthly support
group for parents and friends of children
who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, queer and questioning. 7
to 9 p.m. Free. Metropolitan Memorial
United Methodist Church, 3401 Nebraska Ave. NW. [email protected].
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Children’s programs
■ Penny Warner will launch “The
Hunt for the Missing Spy,” the fifth title
in her award-winning series “The Code
Busters Club,” with a book signing and
code-busting activity. 4 to 6 p.m. Free;
reservations required. International Spy
Museum, 800 F St. NW. 202-393-7798.
■ “Pajama Movie Nite” will feature
“The Aristocats.” 6 p.m. Free. TenleyFriendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave.
NW. 202-727-1488.
Concerts
■ “Celebrating Benny Carter: Jazz
Appreciation Month” will feature a concert by the U.S. Air Force Band’s Airmen
of Note Ensemble. Noon, 1 p.m. and 2
p.m. Free. Coulter Performance Plaza,
National Museum of American History,
14th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW. 202-633-1000.
■ The Washington International
Piano Arts Council will present the 15th
annual Winners Grand Prix 2016, featuring an evening of classical piano music
performed by Michael Cheung of Paris
and Michael Slavin of New York. 6:30
p.m. Free; reservations required. Austrian Cultural Forum, 3524 International
Court NW. wipac.org.
■ The Leading European Composers
series will feature chamber music by
Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir. 6:30 p.m. $15 to $30; reservations
suggested. Phillips Collection, 1600
21st St. NW. phillipscollection.org/
music.
■ The National Symphony Orchestra,
conductor Hugh Wolff and violinist Anne
Akiko Meyers (shown)
will perform works by
Barber and Ives, as
well as a new violin
concerto by Kennedy
Center composer-inresidence Mason
Bates. 7 p.m. $15 to
$89. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600. The performance will
repeat Saturday at 8 p.m.
■ “Acoustic Africa” will feature singers Habib Koite and Vusi Mahlasela. 8
p.m. $35 to $45. Lisner Auditorium,
George Washington University, 730 21st
St. NW. 202-994-6800.
■ “Mad Tea Party Jam Pre-Party” will
feature Elm, Aqueous and Sophistafunk.
8 p.m. $10 to $12. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401
K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ George Washington University
anthropology students Alexis L. Clark
and Isabelle Lobley will discuss their
original research based on objects in
the Textile Museum’s collections —
“Maya Brocade in Chiapas, Mexico” and
“Unity in the Inca Valley, Peru,” respectively. Noon. Free. George Washington
University Museum and Textile Museum,
701 21st St. NW. 202-994-5200.
■ “Race, Religion and U.S. Presidential Politics” will feature national security
and human rights lawyer Naureen Shah,
Washington Post foreign affairs writer
Ishaan Tharoor and Georgetown University professor Engy Abdelkader. 3:30 to
5 p.m. Free. Social Room, Healey Family
Student Center, Georgetown University,
37th and O streets NW. guevents.
georgetown.edu.
■ Tyrus W. Cobb, former special
assistant to the president for national
security affairs and a Soviet specialist
on the National Security Council, will discuss “Reagan and the Russians.” 4 to 5
p.m. Free; reservations required. Suite
412, Elliott School of International
Affairs, George Washington University,
1957 E St. NW. elliott.gwu.edu.
■ Mary Margaret Jones, president
and senior principal of Hargreaves Associates in San Francisco and Cambridge,
Mass., and Hargreaves Jones Landscape Architecture in New York, will discuss “Olympic Landscapes: Green and
Greenest,” about her work on the master concept design for the 2000 Sydney
Olympics and the parklands for the
2012 London Olympics. 5:30 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Music Room,
Dumbarton Oaks, 1703 32nd St. NW.
doarks.org.
■ “The Night Before Taxes: The Global Decline of Tax Justice and What to Do
About It” will feature panelists Brigitte
Alepin, Harold Crooks, Raymond Baker,
Elise Bean, Frank Clemente, Jim Henry,
David Cay Johnston, Blanca MorenoDodson, Ralph Nader and Thomas
Pogge discussing reform strategies
drawn from the book “Global Tax Fairness.” The event will begin with the D.C.
premiere of the new documentary “The
Price We Pay.” 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Room 213, Elliott
School of International Affairs, George
Washington University, 1957 E St. NW.
elliott.gwu.edu.
■ A seminar series on “Matter, Consciousness and Trauma” will feature
Johns Hopkins University and National
Institutes of Health neuroscientist and
researcher Bill Marks and attorney
Jeanine Hull. 6 to 8 p.m. Free. TenleyFriendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave.
NW. 202-727-1488. The seminar series
will continue April 28.
■ Duncan Clark, chairman of BDA
China and a former Morgan Stanley
investment banker, will discuss his book
“Alibaba: The House that Jack Ma Built,”
an insider’s account about the founder
of the e-commerce powerhouse and the
company’s creation. 6:30 p.m. Free. Cullen Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th
St. NW. 202-789-2227.
■ In honor of Deaf History Month, “A
Community Portrait” will explore deaf
culture through selected clips of the film
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“Through Deaf Eyes,” followed by a discussion. 6:30 p.m. Free. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. 202633-1000.
■ Noted Washington area sculptors
Emilie Brzezinski, Jae Ko and Stewart
Watson will discuss their work. 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. $12 to $15. Kreeger Museum, 2401 Foxhall Road NW. 202-3383552.
■ Marcee F. Craighill, director of the
U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic
Reception Rooms, will discuss the recreated period rooms used to entertain
official guests, as well as the museumcaliber collection of 18th- and early19th-century American fine and decorative arts that they contain. 6:45 to 8:45
p.m. $30 to $45. S. Dillon Ripley Center,
1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-6333030. The event will include a daytime
tour of the reception rooms on a selection of dates.
■ Douglas Herman, senior geographer at the National Museum of the
American Indian, will discuss “Under the
Weather: How Climate Works.” 6:45 to
8:45 p.m. $30 to $45. S. Dillon Ripley
Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202633-3030.
■ Fox News political analyst and
commentator Juan Williams will discuss
his book “We the People: The ModernDay Figures Who
Have Reshaped and
Affirmed the Founding Fathers’ Vision of
America,” which looks
at the contributions of
Thurgood Marshall,
Ronald Reagan, Billy
Graham, Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty
Friedan and the Stonewall activists,
among others. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and
■ Communications expert and facilitator Maura Policelli will lead a meeting
of the Tenleytown Memoir & Essay Writing Club. 7 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship
Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202727-1488.
■ Marcia Chatelain, assistant professor of history at Georgetown University,
will discuss her book “South Side Girls:
Growing Up in the Great Migration.” 7 to
9 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Potter’s House, 1658 Columbia Road NW.
pottershousedc.org.
■ As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, American University will
host a talk about combating sexual
assault and advocating for survivors by
World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of
Famer Mick Foley, a volunteer with
Rape, Abuse, Incest National Network
(RAINN). A Q&A and meet and greet will
follow. 7:30 p.m. Free; American University ID required for entry. Doyle/Forman
Theater, McKinley Building, American
University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave.
NW. american.edu/calendar.
Films
■ The West End Library Movie Extravaganza will feature Quentin Tarantino’s
1994 film “Pulp Fiction.” 2:30 p.m. Free.
West End Interim Library, 2522 Virginia
Ave. NW. 202-724-8707.
■ Filmmaker Carey Lundin will present her documentary “Jens Jensen the
Living Green,” about the innovative
ideas of the pioneering conservationist
and creator of the Prairie Style in landscape architecture. A post-screening talk
will focus on Jensen’s activism and relevance today. 7 to 8:30 p.m. $10 to $12;
reservations required. National Building
Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448.
■ The 30th annual Filmfest DC will
open with Australian director Jocelyn
Moorhouse’s comic drama “The Dressmaker,” starring Kate Winslet as a
worldly dressmaker returning to the Australian backwater that
exiled her. The
festival’s
opening night reception will follow. 7
p.m. $45. AMC Mazza Gallerie, 5300
Wisconsin Ave. NW. filmfestdc.org. The
festival will continue through April 24
with screenings at various venues.
■ The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., will host a performance of
“Freedom Songs,” an original one-woman show created and performed by
Sekou Ayo Handy-Kendi. Noon to 1:30
p.m. Free; reservations required. Carnegie Library, 801 K St. NW. dchistory.org.
■ Theater Alliance and Marc Bamuthi
Joseph will present “Word Becomes
Flesh,” a hip-hop performance using
spoken word, dance, DJ-ing and visuals
to examine the experiences of people
about to become parents. 6 p.m. Free;
tickets distributed in the States Gallery a
half hour before the performance. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ The Collective DC will host “StorySLAM,” a live storytelling event featuring tales about diversity, passion and
courage. Proceeds will fund a scholarship for a high school student who has
an interest in performing arts. 7 to 10
p.m. $13.65 to $19.98. Langston Room,
Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW.
busboysandpoets.com.
■ The 2016 “Split This Rock Poetry
Festival: Poems of Provocation &
Witness” will feature readings by Ross
Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Craig Santos Perez
and Sara Brickman, winner of the 2015
Split This Rock Poetry Contest. 7:30 p.m.
Free. Grosvenor Auditorium, National
Geographic, 1145 17th St. NW.
splitthisrock.org.
■ The GW Dance Festival 2016 will
present “JUNKtion,” an evening-length
concert featuring choreography by guest
artist Laura Halzack. 7:30 p.m. $10 to
$20. Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre,
Marvin Center, George Washington
University, 800 21st St. NW.
theatredance.columbian.gwu.edu. The
performance will repeat Friday and
Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
■ Georgetown University will present
a new take on Shakespeare’s comedy
“Twelfth Night” as the final production of
the Davis Performing Arts Center’s 10th
anniversary season. 8 p.m. $7 to $15.
Gonda Theatre, Davis Performing Arts
Center, Georgetown University, 37th and
O streets NW. 202-687-2787. Performances will continue through April 23.
■ “Split This Rock Poetry Festival
2016: Poems of Provocation & Witness”
will host an open mic event. 10 to 11:30
p.m. Free for festival registrants; $5 for
others. Langston Room, Busboys and
Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-3877638.
Special events
■ The American Cancer Society will
host a kickoff event for the inaugural
Ming dynasty featured at Sackler
“Paintings With Words: Gentleman
Artists of the Ming Dynasty,” highlighting the three perfections of poetry,
painting and calligraphy that were
On exhibit
regarded as the ultimate expressions
of Chinese literati culture during the
Ming dynasty (1369-1644), will open
Saturday at the Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery and continue through July
24.
Located at 1050 Independence
Ave. SW, the gallery is open daily from
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000.
■ “Panacea’s Box,” presenting a
series of miniatures by Zofie Lang
that contemplate various aliments
and present imagined “cures” based
on the principle of correspondence,
will open Friday with a reception from
7 to 9 p.m. at the DC Arts Center.
The exhibit will close with a reception
and artist’s talk July 10 at 5 p.m.
Located at 2438 18th St. NW, the
center is open Wednesday through
Sunday from 2 to 7 p.m. 202-4627833.
■ “CNN Politics Campaign 2016: Like,
Share, Elect,” an interactive exhibit in
partnership with CNN that tells the
story of the 2016 presidential campaign in real time, will open Friday at
the Newseum and continue through
Jan. 22.
Located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave.
NW, the museum is open daily from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission costs
Relay for Life of Washington, D.C., a fundraiser scheduled for Sept. 25 to benefit
efforts to end cancer. 6 to 8 p.m. Free.
Pepco Edison Place Gallery, 702 8th St.
NW. relayforlife.org/washingtondc.
■ Takoma Park Library will host an
“Adult Coloring Corner,” with coloring
pages and materials provided. 7 p.m.
Free. Takoma Park Library, 416 Cedar
St. NW. 202-576-7252.
Tour
■ “Gardener’s Focus: Seasonal
Designs” will highlight Hillwood’s spring
plantings, which include over 25,000
blossoming bulbs. 2:30 to 3:15 p.m.
Included in suggested donation of $5 to
$15 for museum admission; tickets distributed at 10 a.m. Hillwood Estate,
Museum and Gardens, 4155 Linnean
Ave. NW. 202-686-5807. The tour will
repeat April 15, 19, 21 and 22 at 2:30
p.m.
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■ The Hustle & Muscle Mat Club will
hold an open practice for youth
wrestlers. 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Free.
Wrestling Room, Activities Building, St.
Albans School, 3551 Garfield St. NW.
hustlemusclematclub.org.
■ “Smithsonian Sleepover at the
American History Museum” will feature
a chance for ages 8 through 12 to participate in an interactive exploration of
the museum with quizzes, puzzles,
games and craft projects. 7 p.m. to 9
a.m. $120 to $135. National Museum
of American History, 14th Street and
$22.95 for adults, $18.95 for seniors
and $13.95 for ages 7 through 18; it
is free for ages 6 and younger. 888639-7386.
■ “She Who Tells a Story: Women
Photographers From Iran and the
Arab World,” challenging the stereotypes that surround the people, landscapes and cultures of the region
and providing insight into political
and social issues, opened last week
at the National Museum of
Women in the Arts, where it will
continue through July 31.
Located at 1250 New York Ave.
NW, the museum is open Monday
through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.
Admission costs $10 for adults and
$8 for students and seniors; it is free
for ages 18 and younger. Free “Community Days” are the first Sunday of
every month. 202-783-5000.
■ “Refreshing and Serene Landscapes,” presenting paintings by Vermont artist Lillian Kennedy that evoke
a vision of nature filled with rhythm
and luminosity, opened last week at
Watergate Gallery, where it will
continue through May 7.
Located at 2552 Virginia Ave. NW,
the gallery is open Monday through
Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. 202-3384488.
■ “Hollywood and TIME: Celebrity
Covers,” original art that portrays
Hollywood personalities who once
graced theater marquees across
America, opened recently at the
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-6333030.
Concerts
■ The Friday Noon Concert series will
feature the Left Bank String Quartet.
Noon. Free. Arts Club of Washington,
2017 I St. NW. 202-331-7282.
■ Derrick Ian Meador of Laurel,
Miss., will present an organ recital.
12:15 p.m. Free. National City Christian
Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW. 202-7970103.
■ As part of the Postclassical
Ensemble’s “Bernard Herrmann: Screen,
Stage, and Radio” festival, the Friday
Music Series will present a world-premiere reconstruction of the classic Norman Corwin/Bernard Herrmann radio
play “Untitled,” with live actors and
Georgetown University Orchestra conducted by professor Angel Gil-Ordóñez.
1:15 p.m. Free. McNeir Auditorium,
Georgetown University, 37th and O
streets NW. 202-687-2787. The event
will continue at 7:30 p.m. in McNeir
Auditorium with presentations and discussions related to the radio play and
other examples of Herrmann’s work;
related performances, screenings and
discussions will take place Saturday and
Sunday at the National Gallery of Art
and the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural
Center.
■ The Maria Schneider Orchestra will
unveil a new Library of Congress commission. 8 p.m. Free; tickets required.
Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building,
Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202707-5502.
■ The Meadows Brothers will
Boushra Almutawakel’s untitled
2001 chromogenic print from
the series “The Hijab,” courtesy
of the artist and the Howard
Greenberg Gallery, is part of an
exhibit at the National Museum
of Women in the Arts.
National Portrait Gallery, where it
will continue through Oct. 2.
Located at 8th and F streets NW,
the gallery is open daily from 11:30
a.m. to 7 p.m. 202-633-1000.
■ The Embassy of Canada recently
opened an exhibit of works from the
Manulife art collection that explores
Canada in pieces from various
regions and genres produced in Canada over the last 165 years. The show
will continue through April 29.
Located at 501 Pennsylvania Ave.
NW, the embassy is open Monday
through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. 202-682-1740.
perform, at 8 p.m.; and the Old Main will
perform, at 10:30 p.m. Free. Gypsy
Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
■ The Crossroads Club will feature
an evening of jazz performed by saxophonist Joshua Redman and longtime
collaborators The Bad Plus. 8 and 10
p.m. $35 to $50. Atrium, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Beat Hotel, the Royal Noise
and Zydeco Jed will perform. 8:30 p.m.
$15. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
■ “DECLASSIFIED: The B-Sides,” an
immersive multimedia symphonic experience, will feature DJ/composer Mason
Bates, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers and
the National Symphony Orchestra. 9
p.m. $39. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600.
■ Biographer Benjamin Moser will
present “The Complete Stories: Clarice
Lispector,” the first comprehensive English translation of Lispector’s short stories. Noon. Free. Pickford Theater, Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101
Independence Ave. SE. 202-707-5397.
■ Daniel Geiger, curator of malacology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, will discuss “Imaging Small
Flowers.” Noon to 1 p.m. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Classroom,
U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave.
SW. 202-225-8333.
■ In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the original publication of
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will discuss “Lewis Carroll in the Mirror
of Surrealism.” Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free.
Room 119, Jefferson Building, Library of
Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-707-5221.
■ The “Lunch Bite” series will feature
a talk on 18th-century board games by
Rachel Jirka, research services librarian
at the Society of the Cincinnati. 12:30
p.m. Free. Anderson House, 2118 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-785-2040.
■ The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., will host an Emancipation Day
discussion on “D.C. Statehood, Gentrification and Race.” Speakers will include
Parisa Norouzi, executive director of
Empower DC; Samuel Jordan, executive
director of Health Care Now and former
chair of the D.C. Statehood Party (now
known as the Statehood Green Party);
D.C. shadow Sen. Michael Brown; Barry
LeNoir, executive director of the United
Black Fund; and Anise Jenkins, executive director of Stand Up! for Democracy
in D.C. 2:30 to 4 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Carnegie Library, 801 K St.
NW. dchistory.org.
■ Philosophy professor Jay Garfield
will discuss “Knots in the Dao,” about a
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set of paradoxes drawn from the
Daodejing and the Zhuangzi. 4 p.m.
Free. Room 151, Duques Hall, George
Washington University, 2201 G St. NW.
calendar.gwu.edu.
■ Joel Kotkin, author of “The Human
City” and a recognized authority on global, economic, political and social trends,
will discuss “A Different Vision for Cities,” about the need for a diversity of
urban forms to serve people at distinct
stages in their lives. 5:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 113, Elliott
School of International Affairs, George
Washington University, 1957 E St. NW.
go.gwu.edu/kotkin.
■ Gregg Thomas, associate professor of black studies and English literature at Tufts University, will discuss
“Sunlight and Sumud: ‘George Jackson
Lives’ at the Abu Jihad Center for the
Palestinian Captives’ Movement,” about
his recently curated exhibition on the
campus of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem. 5:30 to 7 p.m. Free; reservations
required. The Palestine Center, 2425
Virginia Ave. NW. 202-338-1290.
■ Bandleader and composer Maria
Schneider will discuss her Library of
Congress commission, dedicated to the
memory of David Logan. 6:30 p.m. Free.
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Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202707-5502.
■ Boston Beer Co. founder Jim Koch
will discuss his book “Quench Your Own
Thirst: Business Lessons Learned Over a
Beer or Two,” which looks at the craft
beer movement he helped launch and
the unique business model he
employed. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and
■ Alliance Française de Washington
will host a talk by art historian Vanessa
Badré on “L’esprit du Jardin Français,”
about the French garden and its history
(in English). 7 p.m. $10 to $15. Alliance
Française de Washington, 2142 Wyoming Ave. NW. francedc.org.
■ The Tamagawa University Taiko
Group will present traditional Japanese
music, drumming and dance in conjunction with the National Cherry Blossom
Festival. 11 a.m. Free. East Building Atrium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street
and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-7374215.
■ The GW Dance Festival 2016 will
feature “The King Who Danced,” a solo
piece choreographed and performed by
Ben Sanders about Louis XIV’s use of
ballet as propaganda. Noon and 1:30
p.m. Free. Salon D’Ore, Corcoran School
of the Arts & Design, George
Washington University, 500 17th St. NW.
theatredance.columbian.gwu.edu.
■ As part of the National Cherry
Blossom Festival, the Tamagawa University Dance and Taiko Group will present
nearly 30 drummers and dancers in a
performance where taiko drumming
meets traditional Japanese dance. 6
p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
Festival: Poems of Provocation &
Witness” will feature readings by
Jennifer Bartlett, Jan Beatty, Regie
Cabico and Lauren K. Alleyne, winner of
the 2016 Split This Rock Poetry Contest.
7:30 p.m. Free. Grosvenor Auditorium,
National Geographic, 1145 17th St. NW.
splitthisrock.org.
■ The Kennedy Center’s American
College Theater Festival will feature the
Irene Ryan National Acting Scholarship
Auditions. 7:30 p.m. $25. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Theatre du Jour will present “To
Have Done With the Judgement of God,”
Antonin Artaud’s 1947 radio play that
rants against government and religion.
The performance will feature Rachel
Reed, Jerry Herbilla, Jacquelyn Paulin
and Annetta Dexter Sawyer. 7:30 p.m.
$15 to $20. DC Arts Center, 2438 18th
St. NW. 202-462-7833. The performance will repeat Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
■ “Split This Rock Poetry Festival
2016: Poems of Provocation & Witness”
will host an open mic event. 10 p.m. to
midnight. Free for festival registrants; $5
for others. Cullen Room, Busboys and
Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227.
Special event
■ In honor of Emancipation Day, the
Historical Society of Washington, D.C.,
will host an open house at the Kiplinger
Research Library to raise awareness of
collections related to slavery and emancipation, including petitions for freedom,
pamphlets, photographs, lithographs
and jail records. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Carnegie Library,
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■ Class: Composer and bandleader Maria Schneider will lead a jazz
workshop with the Bohemian Caverns Jazz Orchestra and the Levine
Music Premier Jazz Combo. 2 p.m.
Free; tickets required. Coolidge
Auditorium, Jefferson Building,
Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE.
202-707-5502.
801 K St. NW. dchistory.org. The open
house will continue Saturday from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
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■ “Saturday Morning at the National”
will feature “NRITYA: Rhythms of India,”
featuring an introduction to classic
South Indian dance forms. 9:30 and 11
a.m. Free; reservations suggested.
Helen Hayes Gallery, National Theatre,
1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
thenationaldc.org/events.
■ “First Studio: Story + Workshop”
will feature a gallery tour, a story and an
art-making experience (for ages 3
through 5 with an adult companion). 10
to 11 a.m. $7 per child; free for adult
companion. Kreeger Museum, 2401
Foxhall Road NW. 202-338-3552.
■ A park ranger will lead a planetarium program on American Indian star
stories and constellations (for ages 5
and older). 1 to 1:45 p.m. Free. Rock
Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road
NW. 202-895-6070.
■ Swedish artist and art teacher
Karin Lithell will hold an arts and crafts
workshop for ages 4 through 10. Noon
to 3 p.m. Free. Embassy of Sweden,
2900 K St. NW. swedenabroad.com/
washington.
■ Children will hear a story about
Rachel Carson and then create a special
piece of art. 1 to 4 p.m. Free. National
Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW.
202-633-1000. The program will repeat
Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m.
Classes and workshops
■ Instructor Luz Verost will lead a
casual Spanish Conversation Club session designed to grow, revive or develop
Spanish language skills. 10 to 11 a.m.
Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St.
NW. 202-727-0232. The weekly sessions will continue through May.
■ Ariele Foster will present “Give
Love Haiti,” a yoga class to benefit
groups working to empower Haitian girls
and women. 10 a.m. to noon. $20 minimum donation suggested; reservations
required. Potter’s House, 1658 Columbia Road NW. pottershousedc.org.
■ Inspired by the special exhibition
“She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers From Iran and the Arab World,”
guest artist Nicole J. Georges will lead a
hands-on “Zine Making Workshop.” 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. $15 to $25; reservations
required. Kaiser Board Room, National
Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250
New York Ave. NW. 202-783-7370.
■ Instructor Jeneen Piccuirro will
present “Outdoor Yoga at the Kreeger
Museum.” 10:30 to 11:30 p.m. $10;
reservations required. Kreeger Museum,
2401 Foxhall Road NW.
visitorservices@kreegermuseum.
■ The National Gallery of Art’s Drawing Salon will present a workshop on
“Contextualizing Contemporary Sculpture,” a look at how contemporary artists explore and combine materials in
their work (for ages 18 and older). 1 to
3:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. nga.gov. The
program will repeat Sunday from 1 to
3:30 p.m.
Concerts
■ Washington Performing Arts will
feature the San Francisco Symphony, mezzo-soprano Sasha
Cooke (shown) and
tenor Simon O’Neill
presenting works by
Schubert and Mahler.
4 p.m. $55 to $120.
Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ Participants in the National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship training program — horn player Susannah
Greenslit, violinist Amelia Bailey and cellists Isabella Lorenzo-Giguere, Joha Kim
and Joshua Choi — will perform solos. 6
p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Paderewski Scholarship Concert will feature Polish-born pianist Martin Labazevitch
(shown) and American-born cellist
Michael Mermagen.
6:30 p.m. $25 to
$50. Auditorium,
Embassy of Poland, 2640 16th St. NW.
padpiano.org.
■ The American University Symphony
Orchestra and the AU Chorus will perform an all-Russian program, featuring
masterpieces by Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. 8 p.m. $5 to $10. Abramson
Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center,
American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-3634. The concert will repeat Sunday at 3 p.m.
■ The Pan American Symphony
Orchestra will present “Gotan Tango,”
featuring Rodolfo Zanetti and Emmanuel
Trifilio on bandoneons, Martin de Leon
on vocals and an internationally
acclaimed cast of tango dancers. 8 p.m.
$40 to $45. Lisner Auditorium, George
Washington University, 730 21st St. NW.
202-994-6800.
■ Particle and Drop Electric with Jon
Brady. 9 p.m. $15. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401
K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ A panel including displaced individuals, State Department and nonprofit
experts, and representatives from Christian ministries will discuss the global
refugee crisis. 9:45 a.m. Free. Stone
Hall, National Presbyterian Church, 4101
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■ “The National Park Service: A Centennial of Stamps” will feature a discussion of how the U.S. Postal Service has
honored America’s national parks. 10
a.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature Center,
5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.
■ Artists featured in the exhibit “Stories of Migration: Contemporary Artists”
will discuss the inspiration for and creation of their works. 11 a.m. to noon.
Free. George Washington University
Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st
St. NW. 202-994-5200.
■ Dr. David A. Kessler, former commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration, will discuss his book
“Capture: Unraveling the Mystery of
Mental Suffering,” which examines the
impulses that drive substance abuse,
mass violence and suicide. 1 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Joan Quigley will discuss her book
“Just Another Town: Mary Church Terrell
and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the
Nation’s Capital,” about the octogenarian activist whose battle to desegregate
Jim Crow restaurants in D.C. paved the
way for school integration nationwide. 2
p.m. Free. Chevy Chase Library, 5625
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-0021.
■ George Washington University
associate professor Margaret Soltan will
present “Flying off into nothing: Poetry
as Death,” the third of three lectures in
a series on “A Seasonal Exploration of
Poetry.” The discussion will feature Gerald Manley Hopkins’ “Spring and Fall”
and Sylvia Plath’s “Berck-Plage.” 2 p.m.
Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St.
NW. 202-727-0232.
■ Artist Janet Echelman will discuss
how she creates her woven pieces and
how she was inspired by the architecture of the Renwick Gallery for “1.8,” a
suspended net that surges across the
Grand Salon in waves evoking a tsunami. 2 to 3 p.m. Free. Second floor, Renwick Gallery, 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. 202-633-1000.
■ Ondřej Schneider, senior economist at the Institute of International
Finance, will discuss “To Euro on Not to
Euro: The Czech Republic’s Dilemma.”
2:30 to 4 p.m. $5 to $10 donation suggested; reservations required by April
14. Embassy of the Czech Republic,
3900 Spring of Freedom St. NW.
czechdilemma.eventbrite.com.
■ Tony Hynes will discuss his memoir
“The Son With Two Moms.” 3 p.m. Free.
Takoma Park Library, 416 Cedar St. NW.
202-576-7252.
■ The Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd
Park Library’s History/Biography Book
Club will discuss “The Girls of Atomic
City: The Untold Story of the Women
Who Helped Win World War II” by Denise
Kiernan. 3:30 p.m. Free. Juanita E.
Thornton/Shepherd Park Library, 7420
Georgia Ave. NW. [email protected].
■ Antoine van Agtmael, senior adviser at Garten Rothkopf, and Fred Bakker,
former business journalist for a Dutch
publication, will discuss their book “The
Smartest Places on Earth: Why Rustbelts Are the Emerging Hotspots of Global Innovation,” which contends former
industrial hubs are poised to become
the next “brainbelts.” 3:30 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Stephen O’Connor, writing teacher
at Columbia University and Sarah Law-
teers. 1 to 5 p.m. Free. Conservatory
West Gallery, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100
Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.
■ “Obscura Day 2016: Twilight at
Tudor Place” will feature a garden bash
with music, drinks, merriment and selfguided tours in the immaculate Box
Knot Garden (for ages 21 and older).
5:30 to 8:30 p.m. $35; reservations
required. Tudor Place Historic House
and Garden, 1644 31st St. NW.
tudorplace.org.
rence College, will discuss his novel
“Thomas Jefferson Dreams of Sally
Hemings,” drawing on extensive
research to imagine their relationship
and weave it into the politics of the time.
6 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015
Festivals
■ Events DC will present the National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade with
colorful balloons, elaborate floats,
marching bands, celebrities and performers. 10 a.m. to noon. $20 for grandstand seating; free to stand along the
parade route. Constitution Avenue
between 7th and 17th streets NW.
nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/
parade2016.
■ The 56th annual Sakuri Matsuri
Japanese Street Festival will feature performances, cultural groups, vendors and
food booths. 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. $10;
free for ages 12 and younger. 1st and N
streets SE. sakuramatsuri.org.
Films
■ In honor of the National Cherry
Blossom Festival, the Smithsonian
American Art Museum will join with the
Freer and Sackler galleries to host a festival of popular Japanese films — Keiichi
Hara’s 2015 movie “Miss Hokusai,” at 1
p.m.; Goro Miyazaki’s 2011 movie “From
Up on Poppy Hill,” at 3 p.m.; and Hiroyuki Okiura’s 2011 movie “A Letter to
Momo,” at 5 p.m. Free. McEvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian American Art Museum,
8th and G streets NW. 202-633-1000.
■ As part of a symposium on the
film, television, radio and concert hall
music of Hollywood composer Bernard
Herrmann, the National Gallery of Art
will present Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film
“Psycho,” which features a musical
score by Herrmann. A discussion with
additional film clips will follow. 3 p.m.
Free. East Building Auditorium, National
Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-842-6799.
Games
■ Tenley-Friendship Library’s new
monthly “Game On!” Event will feature a
bevy of board games and video games
for all ages — from Connect Four to Battleship to Super Smash Bros. for the Wii
U. 1 to 3 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship
Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202727-1488. The program will also be held
May 14, June 11, July 23 and Aug. 20.
■ As part of a symposium on composer Bernard Herrmann, the National
Gallery of Art will host a presentation of
“Whitman,” a 1944 radio play about
Walt Whitman that features Hermann’s
music, followed by “The Music of Psycho,” a presentation on Hermann’s iconic musical score consisting solely of
stringed instruments. 1 p.m. Free. East
Building Auditorium, National Gallery of
Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW. 202-842-6799.
■ The Ballet Folklórico Mexicano de
Georgetown will perform “La Plaza Hoya:
Fiestas de mi Pueblo (Hoya Square: Celebrations of My Town).” A reception will
follow. 4:30 p.m. Free. Gaston Hall,
streets NW. 202-687-2787.
Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness” will feature readings by Dominique Christina, Martha Collins and
Dawn Lundy Martin, at 4:30 p.m.; and
Sporting event
■ D.C. United will play Toronto FC. 5
p.m. $20 to $55. RFK Stadium, 2400
East Capitol St. SE. 800-745-3000.
Saturday, April 16
■ Family program: Swedish contemporary circus group Cirkus
Cirkör will present trial sessions for
participants to try juggling, acrobatics and tight-wire walking (for
ages 5 and older). 3 to 5 p.m.
Free. Upper Tier, Meridian Hill
Park, 2330 15th St. NW. 202-4672645.
readings by Reginald Dwayne Betts,
Nikky Finney and Ocean Vuong, at 8
p.m. Free. Grosvenor Auditorium, National Geographic, 1145 17th St. NW.
splitthisrock.org.
■ New York City’s Jody Oberfelder
Projects will perform “The Brain Piece,”
which uses dance, music, sound, set
and film to explore how the mind perceives the world. 8 p.m. $15 to $30.
Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. 202269-1600. The performance will repeat
Sunday at 7 p.m.
■ Stand-up comedian Jen Kirkman
will present funny
and cringe-worthy
personal stories in
celebration of her
new book “I Know
What I’m Doing and
Other Lies I Tell
Myself.” A reading
and a Q&A will follow. 8 p.m. $20 to
$25. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I
St. NW. 877-987-6487.
■ “Chinese Menu” will feature an
evening of improv with Terry Withers
from the Upright Citizens Brigade and
Patrick Gantz from the Richmond Comedy Collective. 10 p.m. $10 to $12. DC
Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW. 202462-7833.
Sale
■ St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church will
host a rummage sale. 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Free admission. Gym, St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School, 4701 Whitehaven
Parkway NW. 202-342-2800.
Special events
■ Tudor Place will present a Cherry
Blossom Tea and Garden Tour, featuring
a traditional English tea and a guided
garden tour to see sturdy trunks and
fragile flowers. 10 a.m. to noon. $35 to
$40; reservations required. Tudor Place
Historic House and Garden, 1644 31st
St. NW. tudorplace.org.
■ The DC Beer Festival will feature
spring seasonal beers plus food trucks,
lawn games, DJs and more. Noon to 3
p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m. $40. Nationals
Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE.
dcbeerfestival.com.
■ The U.S. Botanic Garden will host
an open house for prospective volun-
Walk
■ Washington Walks “Get Local!”
series will explore Rock Creek Cemetery,
first established in 1719 at St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church and later opened to
the public as a burial ground and park
after being landscaped in line with the
Rural Cemetery Movement. 11 a.m. $15
to $20. Meet at the Rock Creek Cemetery visitor parking lot at 201 Allison St.
NW. washingtonwalks.com.
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■ A park ranger will lead a planetarium program about the season’s brightest stars, planets and constellations (for
ages 5 and older). 1 to 1:45 p.m. Free.
Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover
Road NW. 202-895-6070.
■ A park ranger will lead a planetarium program on “Revolutionary Skies:
Deflating Patriot Myths,” about the night
sky during famous events of the American Revolution (for ages 7 and older). 1
to 1:45 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature
Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-8956070.
Concerts
■ Washington Performing Arts will feature Indian classical
musician Zakir Hussain (shown) and
Masters of Percussion. 1 p.m. $25 to
$65. Concert Hall,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The U.S. Marine Band’s Chamber
Music Series, featuring selections influenced by composers’ faith, will highlight
Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End
of Time,” which he composed as a World
War II prisoner of war and performed for
the first time in Stalag VIII-A. 2 p.m.
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Marine Barracks Annex, 7th and K
streets SE. 202-433-4011.
■ The Georgetown University Concert
Choir will perform works by Mozart and
Fauré. 3 p.m. Free. Dahlgren Chapel of
the Sacred Heart, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. 202-6872787.
■ PostClassical Ensemble will perform music by Bernard Herrmann at a
concert presented in honor of “Three
Centuries of American Prints From the
National Gallery of Art.” 3:30 p.m. Free.
West Building, West Garden Court,
National Gallery of Art, 6th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ The classically trained duo Organized Rhythm, featuring organist Clive
Driskell-Smith and percussionist Joseph
Gramley, will present Holst’s “The Planets” and other works written for this rare
combination of instruments. 4 p.m.
Free. Chevy Chase Presbyterian Church,
1 Chevy Chase Circle NW. 202-3632209.
■ Taiwanese-American violinist Paul
Huang (shown) will
perform works by
Vitali, Stravinsky, Pärt
and Franck with
pianist Jessica Xylina
Osborne. 4 p.m. $15
to $30; reservations
suggested. Phillips
Collection, 1600 21st St. NW.
phillipscollection.org/music.
■ Vandaveer and Dead Professional
will perform. 8 p.m. $10 to $13. Gypsy
Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ Eric Fair will discuss his book
“Consequence: A Memoir,” which
recounts his role as an interrogator in
Iraq, chronicles its effect on him and
questions the nation’s principles. 1 p.m.
Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Vidya Dehejia, professor of Indian
art at Columbia University, will discuss
“Portrait of a Queen: Patronage of Dancing Shiva, circa 941-1002” as part of a
series of lectures on sacred bronzes in
Chola, India. 2 p.m. Free. East Building
Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
202-737-4215. A screening of the lecture will be presented Wednesday at
noon in the East Building Auditorium.
■ Jonathan Chaves, professor of Chinese at George Washington University,
will discuss “Immortals and Fishermen:
Poetry, Painting, Calligraphy in the Wu
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School.” 2 p.m. Free. Pavilion, Arthur M.
Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence
Ave. SW. 202-633-1000.
■ The James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Artist Series will present a talk
by ceramicist Eric Serritella, who specializes in trompe l’oeil works that reflect
the natural world. 2 to 3 p.m. Free. Renwick Gallery, 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. 202-633-1000.
■ Artist Cynthia Henebry will discuss
her work “Mavis in the backseat,” featured in the exhibition “The Outwin
2016: American Portraiture Today.” 3
p.m. Free. Meet at the exhibition
entrance, National Portrait Gallery, 8th
and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.
■ Authors Sarah Rafael Garcia, Heidi
Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, Majda Gama
and Raquel Gutiérrez will discuss their
contributions to the anthology “Pariahs”
and their experiences of exclusion from
the writing industry based on gender,
race and stereotypes. 3 to 4 p.m. Free.
Potter’s House, 1658 Columbia Road
NW. 202-232-5483.
■ Ron Fournier, editor and senior
columnist for the
National Journal, will
discuss his book
“Love That Boy: What
Two Presidents, Eight
Road Trips, and My
Son Taught Me About
a Parent’s Expectations,” about the challenges of parenting a child with Asperger’s syndrome. 5
p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Joel Kotkin, presidential fellow in
urban futures at Chapman University,
will discuss his book “The Human City:
Urbanism for the Rest of Us,” which
argues that cities could be more livable
if they borrowed a few ideas from the
suburbs, including family-focused and
environmentally sound spaces. 6:30
p.m. Free. Cullen Room, Busboys and
Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227.
■ Raji Sourani, director of the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza,
and Shawan Jabarin, director of al-Haq
in Ramallah, will discuss “Palestine:
Human Rights and Humans Wronged.”
7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Free. Langston Room,
Films
■ “Sunday Movies at Middle C” will
feature Irving Berlin’s 1950 musical
“Annie Get Your Gun.” 2 p.m. Free. Middle C Music, 4530 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
202-244-7326.
■ In a preview of Monday’s performance of “KC Jukebox: New Voices, Old
Muses,” Kennedy Center composer-inresidence Mason Bates and Chicago
electric violist and DJ Dominic Johnson
will present “Beats, the Bauhaus, and
the Birth of Abstract Film,” a survey of
animated 1920s shorts with a
soundtrack composed and performed
live by Johnson. 6 p.m. Free. 6 p.m.
Free. Millennium Stage, Terrace Theater,
■ National Theatre Live will present
Shakespeare’s comedy “As You Like It,”
featuring Rosalie Craig as Rosalind. 7:30
p.m. $20. Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F St.
NW. 202-547-5688.
Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness” will feature readings by Amal AlJubouri, Rigoberto González and Linda
Hogan. 11:30 a.m. Free. Grosvenor
Auditorium, National Geographic, 1145
17th St. NW. splitthisrock.org.
■ “In Your Ear,” a monthly series of
poetry readings and performances, will
celebrate the anthology “What I Say:
Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in
America.” 3 p.m. $5; free for members.
DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW.
dcpoetry.com/iye.
■ Rose Metal Press will present a
reading by Anthony Michael Morena,
author of “The Voyager Record: A Transmission.” The event will also feature
readings by authors Shaun Gannon, Reb
Livingston and Rion Amilcar Scott. 6
p.m. Free. Upshur Street Books, 827
Upshur St. NW. upshurstreetbooks.com.
■ “Sunday Kind of Love” will feature
readings by emerging and established
poets, followed by an open mic segment. 5 to 7 p.m. $5. Langston Room,
202-387-7638.
Special events
■ To celebrate Earth Day and Arbor
through the Georgetown Waterfront Park
and discuss how Georgetown went from
an active port town to a vibrant
community in the nation’s capital. 11
a.m. Free. Meet near the fountain at the
Georgetown Waterfront Park, Wisconsin
Avenue and K Street NW. 202-8956070.
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■ Discussion: Author and NPR
broadcaster Scott Simon (shown)
will discuss his memoir “Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the
Lessons of a Lifetime,” and publicist and photographer Maureen
Schulman will discuss her cookbook “The Eli’s Cheesecake Cookbook.” The event will culminate
with a cheesecake tasting (of a flavor created for Simon’s daughters
and discussed in his memoir) and
a hands-on decoration demonstration. 5 p.m. Free. Upshur Street
Books, 827 Upshur St. NW.
upshurstreetbooks.com.
Day, Tudor Place will kick off its annual
sale of heirloom plants with free entry
for picnicking on the grounds. Noon to 3
p.m. Free; reservations suggested. Tudor
Place Historic House and Garden, 1644
31st St. NW. tudorplace.org.
■ The Washington DC Jewish Community Center and the Human Rights
Campaign will host the National LGBTQ
Rainbow Seder, dedicated to the theme
of “The Hidden Hungry” and led by Cantor Jason Kaufman of Beth El Hebrew
Congregation. 3 to 7 p.m. $24 to $36;
free for children and volunteers. Human
Rights Campaign, 1640 Rhode Island
Ave. NW. dcjcc.org/GLOE.
■ “Politics, Taxes — & All That Jazz”
will be the theme of the Dupont Circle
Village’s 2016 annual gala, which will
feature the spirit and music of the Jazz
Age, along with dinner and silent auction. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. $100. Woman’s
National Democratic Club, 1526 New
Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-436-5252.
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Man will present “Rise + Rhyme,” a storytelling and performance series for
ages 5 and younger. 9:30 to 11 a.m. $5
per child. Busboys and Poets Takoma,
235 Carroll St. NW. 202-726-0856.
■ Author Jennifer Chambliss Bertman will discuss her mystery “Book
Scavenger,” about Emily, 12, who gets
swept up in the aftermath of an attack
on the publisher of an online booksearching game (for ages 9 to 13).
10:30 a.m. Free. Politics and Prose,
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3641919.
■ Pianist and composer Abdullah
Ibrahim will conduct a workshop and
Q&A for students from the Duke Ellington School for the Arts. 4 p.m. Free; tickets required. Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st
St. SE. 202-707-5502.
■ The D.C. Department of Consumer
and Regulatory Affairs will present a
seminar on “The Regulatory Process for
Starting a Small Business.” 6:30 p.m.
Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th
St. NW. 202-671-3121.
Concerts
■ The Embassy of Italy will present
Banda dell’Arma dei Carabinierias in
“Protecting Our Heritage: A Musical Tribute,” which will feature the Carabinieri
Corps Band in sharp uniforms and formal precision playing traditional marches and classical music to honor those
who lost their lives to protect Italian cultural heritage. 6 p.m. Free; tickets distributed in the Hall of Nations beginning
about an hour before the performance.
Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ Vocal Arts DC
will present soprano
Julia Bullock (shown)
and pianist Renate
Rohlfing performing
works by Fauré, Wolf,
John Cage and Pierre
Revel. 7 p.m. $50.
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
■ Kennedy Center composer-in-residence Mason Bates will present “KC
Jukebox: New Voices, Old Muses,” featuring large-scale vocal works by Donnacha Dennehy and Anna Clyne. 8 p.m.
$20. Atrium, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ Larkin Poe will present a CD
release concert on a double bill with
Cara Kelly and the Tell Tale. 8 p.m. $10
to $12. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
■ In honor of World Heritage Day, a
symposium will report on efforts to document, protect and preserve cultural
heritage sites in the Near East. 8:30
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Ring Auditorium, Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, 7th
Street and Independence Avenue SW.
tinyurl.com/HeritageSymposiumRing.
■ As part of the Healthy Aging Forum
sponsored by Northwest Neighbors Village and Washington Hebrew Congregation, author and clinical psychologist
Mindy Greenstein will discuss her book
“Lighter As We Go:
Virtues, Character
Strengths and Aging,”
about aging well and
remaining engaged in
the community. The
event will also feature
workshops on topics
such as “Creative Aging,” “De-cluttering
and Home Safety” and “Intimacy & Sex.”
10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. $20, which
includes lunch; registration required.
Washington Hebrew Congregation, 3935
Macomb St. NW. 202-777-3435.
■ The Ward Circle Chapter of AARP
will host a talk by Iona Senior Services
executive director Sally White on her
group’s work. 12:30 p.m. Free. Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist
Church, 3401 Nebraska Ave. NW. 202363-4900.
■ Hanan Ashrawi, member of the
Palestinian Liberation Organization
Executive Committee and Palestinian
Legislative Council, will discuss “Reflections on Palestinian Politics and Society.” 12:30 to 2 p.m. Free; reservations
required. The Palestine Center, 2425
Virginia Ave. NW. thejerusalemfund.org.
■ Architect Frank Gehry and architecture critic Paul Goldberger will discuss
Goldberger’s book “Building Art: The Life
and Work of Frank Gehry” in a conversation moderated by Harry Cooper, curator
and head of the National Gallery of Art’s
modern art department. 1 p.m. Free.
East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ “Freedom in the 21st Century: A
Conversation on Social Justice and
Washington, DC” will feature
Georgetown University’s four recent
Legacy of a Dream awardees — Mary
Brown, George Jones, Lecester Johnson
and Nakeisha Neal Jones. 3 to 5:30
p.m. Free. Riggs Library, Healy Hall,
streets NW. guevents.georgetown.edu.
■ The Richard W. Blackburn
Endowed Lecture on Civility and Integrity
will feature a talk on “Can Civility Survive? Lessons From Private Business
and Public Life” by Thomas F. McLarty
III, chairman of McLarty Associates and
McLarty Cos. and an adviser to Presidents Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and
Jimmy Carter. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Free. Lisner
Auditorium, George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. 202-994-3746.
■ Jack Shenker, former Egypt correspondent for the Guardian, will discuss
his book “The Egyptians: A Radical
Story.” 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Cullen Room,
202-789-2227.
■ VICE weed columnist and former
High Times editor David Bienenstock will
discuss his book “How to Smoke Pot
(Properly),” which features cannabis
tips, customs and history. 6:30 p.m.
Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords, 1517
■ Constitutional scholar Linda R.
Monk, author of “The Words We Live By:
Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution,” will discuss “Why James Madison
Changed His Mind: The Birth of the Bill
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2438 18th Street NW. 202-462-7833.
of Rights.” 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. $30 to
$45. Warner Bros. Theater, National
Museum of American History, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
202-633-3030.
■ University of Hawaii geobiologist
Hope Jahren will discuss her memoir
“Lab Girl,” which recounts how she overturned stereotypes of women in science
to win three Fulbright awards and features vivid accounts of the plants she
has studied from the Arctic to the Pacific. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015
■ “Feeder’s Advisory: A Book Club for
Those Who Love Food” will discuss
“Burma: Rivers of Flavor” by Naomi
Duguid. 7 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library,
1630 7th St. NW. dclibrary.org/
node/52419.
■ The Rev. Gary Hall will lead a discussion of “Olive Kitteridge” by Elizabeth
Strout as part of the monthly “Fiction
Fun!” series. 7 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. [email protected].
■ Wayne Pacelle (shown), president
of the Humane Society of the United
States, will discuss
his book “The
Humane Economy:
How Innovators and
Enlightened Consumers Are Transforming
the Lives of Animals,”
which surveys the history and economics of animal exploitation and argues that systemic shifts can
promote both animal and human wellbeing. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and
Washington Post columnist Kathleen
Parker will join the conversation. 7 p.m.
$5 to $35. Sidwell Friends School, 3825
Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
Special event
■ Journalist Simran Sethi will celebrate the release of her book “Bread,
Wine, Chocolate: The Slow Loss of Foods
We Love,” with a chocolate tasting by
Ben Rasmussen of Potomac Chocolates
and complimentary hors d’oeuvres. 5:30
to 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Ristorante i Ricchi, 1220 19th St. NW.
goldentriangle.com.
■ Writer and literary activist E.
Ethelbert Miller will read from his new
publication, “The Collected Poems of E.
Ethelbert Miller.” 6:30 p.m. Free. Room
316, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-1211.
■ Laugh Index Theatre will present
“Improv Wars,” a friendly competition
among area improv troupes with audience members voting for the winners.
7:30 p.m. $8 to $10. DC Arts Center,
Films
■ Producer Barr Weissman will present his 1988 documentary “A View From
the Street: The Art of Lily Spandorf” and
discuss how he worked to win the local
watercolorist’s confidence in order to
make a film about her. Noon. Free.
George Washington University Museum
and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW.
202-994-5200.
■ “Marvelous Movie Mondays” will
feature the 1962 film “To Kill a Mockingbird,” starring Gregory Peck. 2 and 6:30
p.m. Free. Meeting Room, Chevy Chase
Library, 5625 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202282-0021.
■ The D.C. Department of Energy
and Environment and National Geographic will present “The Birds & the
Bees,” an evening of short environmental films and discussions. 6 to 8:30 p.m.
Free; registration required. Grosvenor
Auditorium, National Geographic, 1145
17th St. NW. birdsandbees.splashthat.
com.
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Children’s program
■ Children’s author Henry Cole will
share the story of “Spot, the Cat,” his
wordless book featuring black-and-white
illustrations and “seek-and-find” elements that recount the tale of a cat on
an adventure and a boy who looks for
him (for ages 4 through 7). 10:30 a.m.
Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ “Food for Life: The Power of Food
for Type 2 Diabetes Treatment and Prevention,” a six-week plant-based cooking
and nutrition course, will open with an
introductory lecture by Barnard Medical
Center clinicians. 6 to 8 p.m. Free; reservations required. Suite 400, Barnard
Medical Center, 5100 Wisconsin Ave.
NW. 202-537-7314. The course will continue through May 17.
■ ArtJamz will present a guided
“Landscape Lovers” art class. 7 to 9
p.m. $32 to $35. ArtJamz Dupont
Studio, 1728 Connecticut Ave. NW.
artjamzdc.com.
Concerts
■ As part of the Tuesday Concert
Series, pianist Martin Labazevitch will
perform Mussorgsky’s monumental “Pictures at an Exhibition.” 12:10 p.m. Free.
Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW.
202-347-2635.
■ Gunston Middle School Jazz Band
from Arlington County, Va., and West
Springfield High School Jazz Guitar
Combo of Fairfax County, Va., will perform as part of “Music in Our Schools
Month.” 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
■ The 37th Young Concert Artists
Series will feature Ziyu Shen on viola
and Jessica Osborne on piano performing works by Brahms, Clarke, Prokofiev,
Guan and Brahms. 7 p.m. $35. Terrace
Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ Pianist Alexei Kornienko will perform works by Bach, Brahms and
Schubert, as well as the American premiere of Gabriele Proy’s piano piece
“Kigen.” 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Austrian Cultural Forum,
3524 International Court NW. acfdc.org.
■ Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge will host
its weekly open mic show. 8 p.m. Free.
Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St.
NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ Clyde Prestowitz, founder and
head of the Economic Strategy Institute,
will discuss his book “Japan Restored,”
about how the country is likely to reestablish its regional dominance and
economic prominence. Luncheon at
12:15 p.m.; program at 1 p.m. $10 to
$30. Woman’s National Democratic
Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW.
202-232-7363.
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■ Workshop: Career coach Alison
Cardy will present a workshop
based on her newly published book
“Career Grease: How to Get
Unstuck and Pivot Your Career.” 6
to 8 p.m. $11.54; reservations
required. Cullen Room, Busboys
and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW.
busboysandpoets.com.
■ The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at American University will present
a talk by Robert Hitlin, who has taught
political science at American and
Georgetown universities and has 45
years of experience conducting surveys,
on “Everything You Always Wanted to
Know About Presidential Polls But Were
Afraid to Ask.” 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. Free.
Temple Baptist Church, 3850 Nebraska
Ave. NW. 202-895-4860.
■ The “Books That Shaped America”
series will feature a discussion of F.
Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby,” led by Marianne Noble, associate
professor of literature at American University. 1 to 2 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Training and Events Room,
Bender Library, American University,
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202885-3847.
■ U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas
Perez will discuss “Playing the Long
Game: Creating Shared Prosperity
Through Conscious Capitalism.” 1 to 2
p.m. Free; reservations required by April
15. Formal Lounge, Copley Hall, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW.
guevents.georgetown.edu.
■ Coventry University professor
Heaven Crawley will discuss a research
project underway in Malta, Italy, Greece
and Turkey exploring the experiences of
migrants crossing the Mediterranean. 2
to 3:30 p.m. Free. Herman Room, Healey Family Student Center, Georgetown
University, 37th and O streets NW.
■ Carl P. Borick, director of the
Charleston Museum and author of
“Relieve us of this Burthen: American
Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary
South,” will discuss the fates of nearly
6,000 men captured during the Siege of
Charleston in 1780 and the role they
played in the British failure in the South
during the Revolutionary War. 6 p.m.
Free. Society of the Cincinnati, Anderson
House, 2118 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
societyofthecincinnati.org.
■ A panel discussion to benefit Lumina Studio Theatre will focus on labor
and climate issues and how they intersect with art. Sarita Gupta of Jobs With
Justice, Mike Tidwell of the Chesapeake
Climate Action Network and David Minton of Lumina Studio Theatre will participate, with Maryland State Sen. Jamie
Raskin as moderator. 6 to 8 p.m. $5 to
$15. Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235
Carroll St. NW. 202-726-0856.
■ Novelist Bill Beverly will discuss his
book “Dodgers,” which tells the story of
the coming of age of a young Los Angeles gang member sent to the Midwest to
kill a witness. 6:30 p.m. Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords, 1517 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-387-1400.
■ Syrian commentator Robin YassinKassab and Leila Al-Shami, a founding
member of the Tahrir-ICN network, will
discuss their book “Burning Country:
Syrians In Revolution and War,” which
weaves together analysis and firsthand
accounts from Syrian freedom fighters,
exiles and human rights activists. 6:30
p.m. Free. Langston Room, Busboys and
Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-3877638.
■ Historian Ralph Nurnberger will
discuss “Superman: American Golem,
The Jewish Origins of the Man of Steel.”
6:45 to 8:45 p.m. $30 to $45. S. Dillon
Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW.
202-633-3030.
■ Author Adina Hoffman, a resident
of Jerusalem for two decades, will discuss her book “Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architects of a New City,” a portrait
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of modern Jerusalem that focuses on
the contributions of architects Erich
Mendelsohn, Austen St. Barbe Harrison
and Spyro Houris. 7 p.m. Free. Politics
and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
■ The 2016 Henry Mitchell Lecture
will feature a talk on “Making Our Gardens Resilient, Beautiful, and Good for
the Potomac Watershed” by Carla Ellern,
a LEED-certified landscape architect at the
Montgomery County
Environmental Protection Department. 7 p.m. Free. TenleyFriendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave.
NW. 202-727-1488.
■ Jewish Lit Live will present a book
talk by essayist and literary critic Phyllis
Rose, author of “The Shelf: From LEQ to
LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading.” 7
p.m. Free. Marvin Center, George Washington University, 800 21st St. NW. 202994-7470.
■ Larry Appelbaum of the Library of
Congress will lead a conversation with
South African pianist and composer
Abdullah Ibrahim and jazz writer Dan
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The Current
A Look at Transportation in Northwest Washington
Mazda’s Miata is a
sports car for the city
CIRCULATOR: Service at issue
From Page 1
A city-friendly sports car is hard to come by.
Today’s performance machines are often built to
reach high limits for speed, acceleration and han-
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dling on a racetrack — but often fail to deliver true
driving pleasure when you’re unable to approach
those limits.
The Mazda MX-5 Miata has always bucked that
trend, and the all-new 2016 model further refines its
mission of providing sublime driving pleasure wherever you’re motoring. It’s also affordable for a convertible, priced from $25,750; the tested model,
priced at $31,015, adds niceties like leather seats
and a navigation system.
The first indication that the Miata is different
from other modern sporty cars is its engine: a 2.0liter four-cylinder with 155 horsepower. That’s only
mid-pack among compact economy cars, and you
can buy souped-up small hatchbacks, like the
252-horsepower Ford Focus ST, for less than this
Mazda.
Still, the relatively small engine means you can
actually put your foot down sometimes even in the
midst of a crowded, speed-camera-monitored city.
Especially with the standard six-speed manual transmission, driving enthusiasts can get simple thrills
while just keeping up with traffic away from a stoplight, without risk to other road users or to their own
driver’s licenses. (A six-speed automatic is also
offered.)
To be clear, the MX-5 Miata isn’t a slow car by
most reasonable standards. It’s a petite, ultra-light
two-seater weighing just 2,332 pounds, which is
roughly 25 percent less than a Honda Civic, or even
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The 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata doesn’t need empty
back roads or a closed course to be fun to drive.
a Porsche Boxster. With less weight to lug around,
Mazda doesn’t need a huge engine to deliver lively
acceleration. It also delivers economical fuel economy, rated at 30 miles per gallon in mixed conditions
by the Environmental Protection Agency.
The engine isn’t the main focus of the MX-5
Miata anyway. The car’s lightness also helps it
achieve delightfully responsive handling. Quick
steering makes the car feel playful in routine commuting, while many performance cars feel more distant until you’re exceeding the legal speed limits of
any public street.
The 2016 redesign brought fresh styling — it’s
more aggressive, less bubbly than other Miatas of
the last 25 years. It also brought modern interior
decor and electronics, along with a minimalist dashboard layout that suits the car well, plus slightly
more interior space. The excellent fuel economy ratings are also a new upgrade.
Keep in mind that it isn’t a convertible designed
for relaxing, open-top cruising — it’s a sports car.
The ride quality isn’t terrible, but it’s hardly cushy;
you’ll want to be careful on potholed streets.
There’s no rear seat, and only a modest trunk. The
cup holders are removable pieces of plastic trim.
You sit especially low, which makes for more awkward entry and egress than you’d find in something
like a drop-top Mini Cooper or Audi A3. Tall or
portly folks risk not fitting at all.
But if you do fit, this fun-yet-attainable Mazda
could, in turn, fit nicely into your life as a spare car
that doesn’t have to be reserved for the weekends.
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clean, which decreases their lifespan and also rider satisfaction.
The second audit, a follow-up
conducted in January 2016, found
a marked improvement — an
average of nine defects, including
0.5 critical safety flaws, on 22
buses inspected. The audit notes
that part of the improvement
comes from including fewer older
buses in the January sample, but
points to improvement practices
that led to the changes.
“However, although the
improvements could be considered impressive, a closer look at
the day to day operations records
reveals that an average of 15-20
buses are consistently down on
any given day for repairs,” the
January audit adds. “This number
of buses down and unavailable for
service … still highlights needs
for additional improvements to the
fleet conditions.”
The DC Circulator buses are
managed by the firm First Transit,
and the city pays the Washington
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority $750,000 per year to oversee
the contract. Ward 3 Council
member Mary Cheh, chair of the
transportation committee, faulted
all three layers.
“You
weren’t
watching
WMATA, and WMATA wasn’t
watching First Transit,” she told
Dormsjo. “How much oversight
does it take to say, ‘The buses are
dirty; clean the buses.’” She also
faulted the Transportation Department for not immediately sharing
the audits’ findings publicly.
Added Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans: “I don’t want the
Circulator to end up being Metro,
where we ignore it and pretend it’s
going to be OK, and all of a sudden it just blows up on us.”
“This isn’t an abstract discussion,” Evans continued. “Would
you put your child on that Circulator bus, knowing what you know?”
Dormsjo said all specific safety
defects identified on audited buses
were quickly addressed. Also,
there are now three maintenance
bays for Circulator buses, rather
than two, and there’s additional
dedicated maintenance staff.
A third audit will be conducted
next month to ensure continued
progress, he said, and the agency
is also working to improve its contracts with Metro and First Transit
to allow greater transparency.
But an ongoing problem has
been a lack of a proper Circulator
facility with covered storage and
six maintenance bays for the
fleet’s 67 buses, Dormsjo said.
Not only does it hamper operations, but it means that prospective contractors for Circulator’s
management must already have
their own facilities to compete;
First Transit, he said, was the only
such bidder. The department has
struggled to identify funding and
even a location for such a facility.
“We’re trying aggressively
right now,” said Dormsjo. “But
siting a bus garage is a difficult
project. There aren’t many people
waving furiously to have us bring
Plans to expand DC Circulator
service are indefinitely on hold.
buses into their backyard.”
The lack of the maintenance
facility is the leading argument
against adding or extending lines,
he said: “We certainly can’t contemplate expansion if we have a
maintenance facility that only supplies 50 percent of our needs.”
And regarding an extension of
the Georgetown line up Wisconsin
Avenue NW to the National
Cathedral, Dormsjo said the
change would duplicate existing
Metrobus service and likely hurt
the Circulator’s reliability.
The announcement prompted
rebukes from council members
who had expected Circulator service for their constituents. “That’s
a surprise, and I think it’s going to
be a surprise to the people in
Glover Park and Cathedral
Heights,” Cheh said of the Wisconsin line.
Meanwhile, Ward 6 member
Charles Allen said he’s counting
on the Circulator to serve the area
around the D.C. United stadium
due in 2018 at Buzzard Point.
“This is a commitment that we
made as a city — this is part of
legislation that we have passed.
We don’t have an option to not do
it,” Allen said. “We’ve got two
years, but I’m not seeing any steps
now, and that gives me concern.”
The hearing also aired concerns about Circulator employees’
pay, which employees testified
trails their counterparts at Metrobus, decreasing job satisfaction
and retention rates.
At the hearing Dormsjo also
restated his agency’s commitment
to expanding the District’s H
Street NE streetcar line east to the
Benning Road Metro station and
west to Georgetown. A planning
meeting next month will likely
showcase a new alternative for the
Georgetown line, he said.
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Morgenstern. 7 p.m. Free; tickets
required. Montpelier Room, Madison
Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. loc.gov/concerts.
■ Derek Hyra, associate professor at
American University, and Sabiyha Prince,
researcher and data analyst at the Anacostia Community Museum, will discuss
their book “Capital Dilemma: Growth
and Inequality in Washington, DC,” featuring an interdisciplinary look at the
dynamics that have influenced the city’s
contemporary economic advancement.
7 to 9 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Potter’s House, 1658 Columbia
Road NW. 202-232-5483.
■ Co-editors Cathy Alter and David
Singleton will discuss their book
“CRUSH: Writers Reflect on Love, Longing and the Lasting Power of Their First
Celebrity Crush” in conversation with
contributor Michelle Brafman. 7 p.m.
$15 to $35. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487.
■ The Palisades Book Club will discuss “Good Poems” by Garrison Keillor.
7:30 p.m. Free. Palisades Library, 4901
V St. NW. 202-282-3139.
Films
■ The West End Library Movie Extravaganza will feature “The Shawshank
Redemption.” 2:30 p.m. Free. West End
Interim Library, 2522 Virginia Ave. NW.
202-724-8707.
■ The “Film and Beer” series will feature Josef Gruss’ 1948 film “The Stone
Table Inn.” 7 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Bistro Bohem, 600 Florida Ave.
NW. [email protected].
■ The Washington DC Jewish Community Center will present Rani Sa’ar’s
2014 documentary “Sabena Hijacking,”
about the human, military and political
drama that unfolded inside and outside
of the plane hijacked in May 1972 by
the Palestinian organization Black September. 7:30 to 9 p.m. $13.50. Washington DC Jewish Community Center,
1529 16th St. NW. washingtondcjcc.org.
■ National Theatre Live will present
the Donmar Warehouse’s highly anticipated new production of “Les Liaisons
Dangereuses,” directed by Josie Rourke
and featuring Elaine Cassidy, Janet McTeer and Dominic West. 7:30 p.m. $20.
Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F St. NW. 202547-5688.
■ The Order of the Hippo will present
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Washington University alumna Liz
Acevedo. 7:30 p.m. $5 donation
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1835 14th St. witdc.org.
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■ The 2016 Smithsonian Craft Show
Preview Night Benefit will feature a
reception, shopping, a dinner buffet, an
auction, an award ceremony and a preview of the exhibition of works by 121
distinguished craft artists in 12 media —
from furniture and ceramics to glass and
wearable art. 5 to 9:30 p.m. $200 to
$250. National Building Museum, 401 F
St. NW. 202-633-3030.
Children’s program
■ “All Jazzed Up: A Jazzy Story Time”
will celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month
with stories for preschoolers that explore
rhythm, melody and syncopation. The
event will feature live jazz music by the
Phelps ACE High School Brass Ensemble. 11 a.m. Free. Great Hall, Martin
Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G
St. NW. 202-727-0321.
■ Instructor Alexis Chen will lead a
“Hatha Yoga” class. 10:30 a.m. Free.
Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488. The class
will also be offered April 27, May 4 and
May 11.
■ ArtJamz and The Graham Georgetown will present a pop-up art class for
attendees to create an original work of
art inspired by the view from the hotel’s
rooftop lounge. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. $33 to
$38. Observatory Rooftop Lounge, The
Graham Georgetown, 1055 Thomas Jefferson St. NW. artjamzdc.com.
■ Poets on the Fringe will host a
weekly poetry workshop. 6:45 p.m. Free.
Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW.
[email protected].
■ Susan Lowell will lead a tai chi
class. 7:30 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship
Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202727-1488.
Concerts
■ Marriotts Ridge High School String
Orchestra of Howard County, Md., and
Woodbridge Senior High School’s Viketones of Prince William County, Va., will
perform as part of “Music in Our
Schools Month.” 6 p.m. Free. Millennium
Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Fortas Chamber Music Concerts will feature the Grammy-winning
Takács Quartet performing works by
Dvorák, Webern and Beethoven. 7 p.m.
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202-467-4600.
■ Musicians Friedrich Kleinhapl and
Andreas Woyke will perform works by
Brahms, Beethoven, Bruch, Webern,
Piazzolla, Mendelssohn and Gulda. 7:30
to 9:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Austrian Cultural Forum, 3524 International Court NW. acfdc.org.
■ Singer-songwriter Aaron Parnell
Brown will perform. 7:30 p.m. Free.
Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St.
NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ Washington Performing Arts will
present the Brad Mehldau Trio in concert. 8 p.m. $47. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487.
■ Better Off Dead will present “420
Jam.” 8 p.m. $12 to $14. Gypsy Sally’s,
3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ Two D.C. chapters of the National
Association of Active and Retired Federal Employees will host a talk on “Overcoming the Challenges of Hearing Loss”
by the Hearing Loss Association’s Russ
Micheloff and Lon Rosenman, who will
describe assistive devices, helping family members and dealing with noisy restaurants. Noon. Free. Iona Senior Services, 4125 Albemarle St. NW. 202-7442874.
■ Seán Brady, chair of the Department of Entomology at the National
Museum of Natural History, will discuss
Jennifer Angus’ artwork “In the Midnight
Garden.” Noon to 1 p.m. Free. Meet at
the first-floor information desk at the
Renwick Gallery, 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. 202-633-1000.
■ “DC’s Historic Sites: Welcome to
Northeast,” a six-session lecture series,
will feature a talk on Union Market by
Tiffany Branum, a human geographer,
market vendor and author of “Union
Market: A Story of People and Food in a
Changing Place.” Noon to 1:30 p.m. $20
to $30. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Georgetown University’s Leadership & Advocacy for Women in Africa Fellowship Program will host a briefing on
“Women’s Human Rights in Africa,” featuring presentations by the 2015-16 fellows. 3 to 4:30 p.m. Free. Room 701,
Bunn Intercultural Center, Georgetown
University, 37th and O streets NW.
■ Witold Beres and Krzysztof Burnetko will discuss their book “Marek Edelman: Being On the Right Side,” the first
biography of the hero of the Warsaw
Ghetto uprising, renowned physician and
defender of human rights. 6 p.m. Free.
The Kosciuszko Foundation, 2025 O St.
NW. 202-785-2320.
■ A book launch for “Inside Campaigns: Elections Through the Eyes of
Political Professionals” will feature
authors Joe Abbey, managing director of
Purple Strategies LLC; Jim Bognet of the
Glover Park Group; Chris Durlak, managing director of Purple Strategies LLC;
and Katie Merrill, founder and president
of the Merrill Strategy Group. 6 to 8 p.m.
Free. Room 309, Marvin Center, George
202-994-3199.
■ Author, hitchhiker, Arctic backcountry ranger and Alaska tour guide Ken
Ilgunas will discuss his book “Trespassing Across America: One Man’s Epic,
Never-Been-Done-Before (and Sort of
Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland,” in
which he chronicles his hike of the
1,500 miles the proposed Keystone XL
Pipeline would have run, and another
1,700 miles to the Texas Gulf Coast.
6:30 p.m. Free. Busboys and Poets
Takoma, 235 Carroll St. NW. 202-7260856.
■ Author Nathalia Holt will discuss
her book “Rise of the Rocket Girls: The
Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles
to the Moon To Mars,” which tells the
history of a specialized team of women
mathematicians who, in the early
decades of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, figured velocities, plotted trajectories
and helped develop rocket design. 6:30
p.m. Free. Cullen Room, Busboys and
Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227.
■ “Your Sweetheart: Diabetes” will
feature a talk by Suburban Hospital
endocrinologist Mihail Zilbermint on the
risks for diabetic patients and how to
improve cardiovascular health. 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. Free; reservations required by
April 15. Conference Room 2, Sibley
Medical Office Building, 5215 Loughboro Road NW. 202-537-4145.
■ Historians Annette Gordon-Reed
and Peter S. Onuf, authors of “‘Most
Blessed of the Patriarchs’: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination,” will discuss “Beyond the Jefferson
Enigma.” 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. $30 to $45.
S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson
Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Veteran Richmond Times-Dispatch
reporter William Geroux will discuss his
book “The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler’s
U-Boats,” about seven Merchant
Marines, all sons from one Mathews
County, Va., family, who hunted U-Boats
from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean
and the Barents Sea. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Writer, speaker and activist Susan
Silverman will discuss her book “Casting
Lots: Creating a Family in a Beautiful,
Broken World,” a memoir in which she
recounts raising spirited daughters and
adopting two Ethiopian boys. 7 p.m.
Free. Children & Teens Department, Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-364-1919.
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St. Patrick’s Church. Sat. only:
April 16: 8am – 2pm Indoors.
4701 Whitehaven Parkway NW,
school gym, (btw. Foxhall & MacArthur Blvd nr. Reservoir). Housewares, toys, games, upscale boutique, child/adult clothing, baby
items, jewelry, books, DVDs, CDs,
small furn., kitchenware, sports
equip., linens. 202-342-2800.
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■ The D.C. Public Library’s “Books &
Bars” modern-day book club will discuss
“If Beale Street Could Talk” by James
Baldwin. 7 p.m. Free; reservations
requested. Gordon Biersch Brewery, 900
F St. NW. [email protected].
■ Christopher Elenstar, horticulturist
at Brookside Gardens, will discuss the
proper method for pruning woody plants
at a talk presented by the Takoma Horticultural Club. 7:30 p.m. Free. Takoma
Park Library, 416 Cedar St. NW. 202576-7764.
Films
■ As part of the fifth annual V4 Film
Series, the Embassy of the Czech
Republic will present a screening of Petr
Václav’s 2014 movie “The Way Out,”
about a Romani couple trying to live a
normal life in a community obscured by
prejudice. 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Embassy of the Czech Republic, 3900 Spring of Freedom St. NW.
v4screening.eventbrite.com.
■ George Washington University will
host a screening of Seth Kramer and
Daniel A. Miller’s documentary “The
Anthropologist,” about an American
teenager who travels alongside her
month, an anthropologist studying the
impact of climate change on indigenous
communities. A discussion with Susan
Crate, the anthropologist featured in the
film, will follow. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Free.
Amphitheater, Marvin Center, George
202-994-8747.
■ The French Cinémathèque series
will feature Denis Dercourt’s 2015
movie “In Harmony.” 8 p.m. $6.75 to
$12. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.
■ Local poets Barrett Warner and
Donald Illich will read from their work. 7
p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R
St. NW. 202-727-0232.
■ Press Play’s “Hump Days” will feature improv by Dudes on Dudes, Cake
Bagel, and John Watkins and Porter
Ryan of Bloody Onions. 7:30 p.m. $8 to
$12. DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW.
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■ MedStar National Rehabilitation
Network will host its 30th anniversary
Victory Awards Gala, featuring a seated
dinner and recognition of honorees for
their courage in facing the challenges of
overcoming disabilities. This year’s
award winners include RJ Mitte, actor
from the AMC-TV show “Breaking Bad”;
Bensten Schone, a 7-year-old former
pediatric patient; and Mark French, D.C.
businessman. 6 p.m. $500. Mellon Auditorium, 1301 Constitution Ave. NW. 202877-1784.
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202.930.6868
301.222.0050
301.983.6400
703.317.7000
540.687.6395
540.675.1488
INTERNATIONAL OFFERING
MASS AVE HEIGHTS, WASHINGTON, DC
Turn-key perfection! Exquisite finishes throughout this renovated Tudor. 5BR up including
terrific master suite; light & lovely LL. $4,250,000
Anne Hatfield Weir
202-243-1635
Heidi Hatfield
202-243-1634
WESLEY HEIGHTS, WASHINGTON, DC
Gorgeous renovation by Chryssa Wolfe & Hanlon
Design with top of the line finishes, Geothermal
heating and cooling, generous rooms, stunning
rear yard and attached garage! $3,895,000
Nancy Taylor Bubes
202-256-2164
WEST END, WASHINGTON, DC
Stunning upper-level 3BR+Den/3.5BA at 22West,
amazing view of Washington Cir. Rooftop pool,
24-hour concierge, 2-car reserved prkg. $3,595,000
Patrick Chauvin
202-256-9595
Brad House
571-344-0203
KENT, WASHINGTON, DC
NEW PRICE! Gracious six bedroom on spectacular half acre lot of lush parkland. Generous
public rooms, gorgeous views, five fireplaces,
two car garage. $2,995,000
Margot Wilson
202-549-2100
PALISADES, WASHINGTON, DC
New 5BR/5.5BA Craftsman featuring high ceilings, extensive trim work, custom built-ins, two
balconies plus rooftop terrace, Sub-Zero & Wolf
appliances, elevator, 2-car garage. $2,599,000
Matt Cheney
202-465-0707
WEST END, WASHINGTON, DC
Upper-level corner unit at 22West. 2 bedrooms
plus den, 2 baths. Open concept floor plan with
1,829 SF. Two car reserved parking. $1,980,000
Patrick Chauvin
202-256-9595
Brad House
571-344-0203
N. CLEVELAND PARK, WASHINGTON, DC
NEW LISTING! Recently built with open floor plan,
spacious & bright family room on main level, five
bedrooms, four baths, and many modern amenities. Two car garage. Walk to metro. $1,849,000
Margot Wilson
202-549-2100
DELAPLANE, VIRGINIA
NORTHFIELD - 53 plus acres country propertyPiedmont Hunt. Lovely 4BR/4.5BA. First floor
Master BR. Two stall stable + wk shop. Open land
with stream, pond, & fabulous views. $1,495,000
Carole Miller
540-687-2233
N. CLEVELAND PARK, WASHINGTON, DC
NEW LISTING! Semi-detached Colonial on corner lot with tremendous light, high ceilings, HW
floors. 4BR, 3.5BA, fireplace, garage. $1,100,000
William F. X. Moody
Robert Hryniewicki
202-243-1620
GEORGETOWN, WASHINGTON, DC
Stunning two bedroom, two bath condo with
high ceilings, large windows and an open floor
plan. Updated kitchen and baths. Storage and
garage parking! $995,000
Nancy Taylor Bubes
202-256-2164
BLOOMINGDALE, WASHINGTON, DC
NEW LISTINGS! Condos of highest quality. Three
new 2/3BR units with 2.5+BA. High ceilings,
modern finishes, roof decks, monument views!
Robert Hryniewicki
202-243-1622
Nate Guggenheim
202-333-5905
INTERNATIONAL NET WORKS AND OFFICES
CHEVY CHASE, WASHINGTON, DC
NEW LISTINGS! 8 brand new luxury condos each
with 2BR, 2.5BA, SS Bosch appliances, custom
Italian cabinetry, private outdoor spaces, & more.
Robert Hryniewicki
202-243-1622
Nate Guggenheim
202-333-5905
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Kate & Kevin Brennan | 540.999.8895 | BryceGetaway.com
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Bret Brown | 202.552.5663 | BretBrownHomes.com
Welcome Lyndsi Sitcov!
We are proud to welcome the newest member of the McEnearney
team! If you are thinking of buying or selling a home, please
contact Lyndsi today!
[email protected] | 202.534.9397
LyndsiSitcov.com
McEnearney.com
202.552.5600
4315 50th Street NW • Washington, DC
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