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The Foggy BoTTom CurrenT
Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Vol. X, No. 24
Serving Foggy Bottom & the West End
Council revises mayor’s shelter plan
MELLOW TUNES
■ Homelessness: Bowser
fears delay in construction
By CUNEYT DIL
Current Correspondent
The D.C. Council yesterday
overhauled Mayor Muriel Bowser’s plan to replace the D.C. General homeless shelter, giving initial approval to a new plan to
relocate a number of the proposed
family shelters to city-owned land
and taking cost-cutting measures.
Engineered by Council Chairman Phil Mendelson, the approved
plan would build all of the seven
new shelters on land owned by the
District government, rather than
leasing most of the facilities back
from developers as Bowser proposed originally. The chairman
and mayor fought over the details
Tuesday, with Bowser administration officials arguing that the
changes will set back their 2018
target year to close D.C. General.
Mendelson blasted the mayor’s
handling of her plan’s rollout, saying her administration spread
“misinformation” and didn’t
respond to “repeated and continual requests” for more project
details. The chairman said that his
plan would “speed up the acquisition, design and construction process” of the shelters and that he
See Homeless/Page 21
‘Cap park’ project advances in Dupont
By MARK LIEBERMAN
Current Staff Writer
Brian Kapur/The Current
The Fillmore Arts Center hosted its 11th annual art show
and concert on Friday night. The event featured work by
Fillmore students who attend five local elementary schools,
including Ross and Marie Reed.
Neighborhood leaders and residents in Dupont
Circle have long been hoping for a park to cover the
tunnel space between the circle and Q Street, above
that underground section of Connecticut Avenue NW.
As of last week, city agencies say the project has
progressed to the next stage.
The formal feasibility study for the “cap park” that
began in August concluded earlier this month with
favorable results, D.C. Department of Transportation
program manager Rick Kenney told residents at last
Wednesday’s meeting of Advisory Neighborhood
Commission 2B (Dupont Circle). Consultant Joyce
Tsepas of the construction group AECon described
the tentative design as a “deck plaza” that offers
“flexible, programmable space for the community to
use.”
See Park/Page 5
Brian Kapur/Current file photo
The section of Connecticut Avenue NW beyond
the Q Street overpass shown here may be
decked over to become a public plaza space.
GWU due to renovate
Corcoran this summer
New plans for WIS building
still face neighbors’ criticism
By MARK LIEBERMAN
■ Cleveland Park: School
George Washington University is moving forward
on plans to make the most of its 2014 acquisition of
the Corcoran Gallery of Art, with major renovations
scheduled for this summer and beyond to the building
that houses what is now the university’s Corcoran
School of the Arts & Design.
The Corcoran’s Flagg Building, at 500 17th St.
NW, will undergo extensive infrastructural repairs
this summer, school director Sanjit Sethi said in an
interview. Construction crews will pay particular
attention to accessibility and compliance with the
Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as the electricity, plumbing, and heating and air conditioning
systems, Sethi said. Individual upgrades to those
features have been made over the last century, but
hopes to add science center
Brian Kapur/Current file photo
The building at 500 17th St. NW is scheduled for
major interior renovations during summer break.
this renovation marks the most comprehensive
upgrade plan yet, Sethi said.
Work will be completed on every floor of the
building, with other projects including the removal of
an antiquated freight elevator, refinement of the
entrance on New York Avenue and restoration of the
historic oak doors at the building’s 17th Street
entrance — the latter thanks to a “generous gift” from
See Corcoran/Page 16
By MARK LIEBERMAN
Plans for a new academic
building and underground parking
garage on the Washington International School campus in Cleveland Park hit another snag Monday night, when neighborhood
leaders and community members
raised numerous concerns and
frustrations about building height,
landscaping and historic preservation.
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3C (Cleveland Park, Massachusetts Avenue Heights, Woodley Park) voted unanimously to
oppose the school’s latest Historic
Preservation Review Board application for the project, saying the
proposal “negatively affects key
features of the landmark and is
thus incompatible with the preservation and protection of the landmark.” Commissioners and community members said they’re willing to work with the school on
mutually agreeable plans but concluded that these plans don’t meet
that standard.
See Tregaron/Page 18
NEWS
EVENTS
PASSAGES
INDEX
Spring Valley cleanup
‘Our View From Here’
‘Labyrinth Journeys’
Calendar/22
Classifieds/30
District Digest/4
Exhibits/23
Foggy Bottom News/13
In Your Neighborhood/20
Some homeowners push for
testing priority for homes due
to go on the market / Page 3
Hirshhorn debuts site-specific
wall drawing by local artist from
Mount Pleasant / Page 23
Filmmaker explores the benefits
of local labyrinths in documentary
premiering this month / Page 15
Opinion/10
Police Report/6
Real Estate/17
School Dispatches/8
Service Directory/28
Week Ahead/2
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The week ahead
Wednesday, May 18
Wilson High School’s SciMaTech Academy will host a
blood drive from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the gym at Wilson
High School, 3950 Chesapeake St. NW.
■ The D.C. State Board of Education will hold its monthly
public meeting, which will include a report from Deputy
Mayor for Education Jennifer Niles on the Bowser administration’s school modernization and facilities plans, as well
as an update on schools with elevated lead levels in the
water. The meeting will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Old Council Chambers, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW.
Thursday, May 19
Janney Elementary School, 4130 Albemarle St. NW, will
host a blood drive from 2:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the school’s
gymnasium. To schedule an appointment, visit redcrossblood.org and search by sponsor code JANNEY or ZIP code
20016.
Saturday, May 21
The D.C. Democratic Party will hold a pre-presidential
preference caucus to select and rank congressional district delegates and alternates for each presidential candidate. The event — open to all D.C. registered Democrats —
will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place NW.
Voting will also take place from 9 to 10:30 p.m. to accommodate those unable to attend the earlier session, including voters whose religion prevents them from coming during the day.
Tuesday, May 24
The Foggy Bottom Association will hold its monthly
meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. at School Without Walls, 2130 G
St. NW. The guest speaker will be Brenda Donald, the D.C.
deputy mayor for health and human services.
■ The Citizens Association of Georgetown will hold its
annual awards and elections meeting at 7 p.m. in the Heritage Room at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School,
1523 35th St. NW. Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack
Evans will give opening remarks. A special reception for
new members will be held at 6 p.m.
Wednesday, May 25
The D.C. Office of the Tenant Advocate will hold a special stakeholder meeting on mold in residential rental
housing, including new legal requirements and qualifications for remediation specialists. The meeting will be held
from 1 to 3 p.m. at the agency’s office in Suite 300N,
Reeves Center, 2000 14th St. NW. Reservations are
requested at 202-719-6560 or [email protected].
■ The Ward 3-Wilson Feeder Education Network will meet
at 7 p.m. at the Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. Jason
Kamras, chief of instructional practice for D.C. Public
Schools and the 2005 National Teacher of the Year, will
discuss the school system’s new teacher-training model.
Reservations are requested; email [email protected].
Thursday, May 26
The D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board will meet
at 9 a.m. in Room 220 South, One Judiciary Square, 441
4th St. NW.
■ The New Columbia Statehood Commission will hold a
public engagement meeting to discuss the draft constitution. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in Room
G-9 at the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW.
Tuesday, June 7
The New Columbia Statehood Commission will hold a
town hall meeting to discuss the draft constitution. The
meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum, 1925 Vermont Ave.
NW.
Wednesday, June 8
The New Columbia Statehood Commission will hold a
town hall meeting to discuss the draft constitution. The
meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Raymond Recreation Center, 3725 10th St. NW.
A remarkable heritage.
Guapo’s restaurant to remain
at prominent Tenley location
By MARK LIEBERMAN
Last month, Tenleytown residents and neighborhood leaders
groaned with dismay upon hearing
that the popular Mexican restaurant Guapo’s would be moving
three blocks down from its prime
Wisconsin Avenue spot by the end
of the year.
But concerns about the viability of the new Guapo’s location
and the gap left by the old one
may have been premature. After
hearing complaints from the community, the restaurant has canceled its plans to move and will
remain in its existing location at
4515 Wisconsin Ave. NW, according to several members of Guapo’s
management team.
The decision not to relocate to
the former Firelake Grill space at
4200 Wisconsin, as previously
announced, was finalized two
weeks ago, according to Guapo’s
general manager Ismael Rosa. The
restaurant plans to find creative
solutions to save a little money in
order to remain viable in the costly current space, according to
Rosa, who said he couldn’t identify those solutions yet.
Though Guapo’s managers previously cited the sparsely fre-
Brian Kapur/The Current
The neighborhood staple will
remain at 4515 Wisconsin Ave.
quented upper floors of the building as a motivation to move to a
smaller space, Rosa said the restaurant’s landlord has no plans to
rent out any portion of its building
to another tenant.
“We love that place,” Rosa
said. “There is a lot of history in
that restaurant.”
David Moran, manager of the
Tenleytown Guapo’s, told The
Current that “some issues” proved
significant obstacles to signing the
new lease. As soon as the restaurant announced it would be moving, Moran said the outcry of
complaints was far more overwhelming than he and his team
anticipated.
‘We appreciate so much love to
our restaurant,” Moran said. “We
See Guapo’s/Page 18
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Tenley office building eyed Superfresh redevelopment proposal tweaked
for large mixed-use project
By BRADY HOLT
By BRADY HOLT
The transformation of Wisconsin Avenue NW in Tenleytown is
now on track to include yet another redevelopment project, this one
located just north of the new Tenley View building just constructed
on the Babe’s Billiards site.
Urban Investment Partners purchased the office building at 4620
Wisconsin earlier this year from
American University, and has also
incorporated the two smaller commercial buildings next door —
4624 and 4626 — into its plans.
The firm is proposing a new
90-foot-tall apartment house that
would have 155 units and 15,000
to 20,000 square feet of groundfloor retail. The new building
would incorporate the structures
of the 50-foot-tall building at 4620
and the lower one at 4624, though
4626 would be razed.
Courtesy of Urban Investment Partners
The project will sit adjacent to
the new Tenley View building,
shown at left in the rendering.
Developers expect that 35 percent of the units will be studio
apartments, 35 percent one-bedrooms, 20 percent one-bedrooms
with a den, and 10 percent twobedrooms. The project will use the
site’s existing 75-space garage,
which exceeds the minimum zoning requirements, though developers said they’re open to preventing
their tenants from getting ResiSee Tenley/Page 5
Developers of the Superfresh site in the Spring
Valley shopping area presented revised proposals
last Thursday, designed to respond to community
concerns about the project’s scale.
Valor Development hopes to convert the vacant
grocery and its expansive parking lot at 48th and
Yuma streets NW into a mixed-use complex
dubbed The Lady Bird. The firm is proposing
about 230 housing units — 200 rental apartments
and 30 condos — of which 20 to 25 units would
be designated as affordable. The project would
also include a new supermarket and other retail
space, public gathering areas and a 330-space
parking garage. Developers presented their latest
plans at the May 12 meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3E (American University
Park, Friendship Heights, Tenleytown).
Developers said the latest changes are an effort
to respect the low-density residential homes that
sit across 48th and Yuma, while remaining dense
enough to make the project viable. The sections of
the two new buildings closest to those two streets
are four stories tall, designed to resemble town
houses rather than just a section of a large structure. There would be seven levels facing the Massachusetts Avenue commercial strip, including a
penthouse level with greater setbacks from the
edge.
“We’ve heard a lot of feedback about people
wanting us to respect the neighborhood, and so
we’ve done that,” said Valor’s Will Lansing.
But many immediate neighbors in American
University Park remain opposed.
“This is a better design than we saw in the past,
but it’s still too big,” one neighbor said. “This is
not Wisconsin Avenue. I am fully in favor of
renewing Wisconsin Avenue … but this is two
residential streets.”
When another neighbor criticized the building’s “mock-French Champs-Élysées of D.C.”
appearance, ANC 3E chair Jon Bender asked her
what she might prefer.
“I would like the existing character of the
neighborhood not to be transformed,” she replied,
citing nearby houses and the Spring Valley Shopping Center. “I’m talking about a two-story Neocolonial style.”
Bender warned opponents that even though the
See Superfresh/Page 5
Workers recount Glenbrook Road hazards
Current Staff Report
A recent report reached few
strong conclusions about the
health risks to residents and construction workers at 4825 Glenbrook Road NW, which was
severely contaminated by chemical munitions left over from a
World War I-era Army testing
facility at American University.
But when the federal team
behind the report presented their
limited findings at last Tuesday’s
Restoration Advisory Board meeting, the audience included three of
those workers who built the house
at the Spring Valley property —
workers whom the researchers had
been unable to reach.
Interviewed after the meeting,
the three said they suffered fairly
serious health problems while
working at the site, and that they
believe the worst contamination
also affects the American University president’s house next door at
4835 Glenbrook. “There’s all
kinds of stuff under it, stuff that
could explode under you,” one
worker said.
But the men were unwilling to
go into much detail, either in the
interview or with Michelle Watters, a medical doctor who was
part of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
research team. “I don’t want to
jeopardize any potential litigation,” said one of the workers; the
three attended the meeting with
their attorney.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been cleaning up Spring
Valley for more than two decades
and tore down the house at 4825
Glenbrook to excavate the entire
property down to bedrock. That
project is ongoing and slated to
wrap up in summer 2017, with the
site restored to residential standards and returned to American
University, the landowner. The
Army has removed large amounts
See Glenbrook/Page 5
RAB seeks set of priorities for cleanup effort
Current Staff Report
As the Army Corps of Engineers investigates
properties in Spring Valley for possible remaining
hazards, the community’s Restoration Advisory
Board is asking that the Army develop a system for
prioritizing the properties on its work list, with some
residents pushing for priority to be given to owners
hoping to sell their homes.
Although the Army’s work in the neighborhood
— investigating and addressing contamination from
World War I-era chemical munitions testing — is
largely complete, officials last year identified about
100 properties that they wanted to look into further.
At last Tuesday’s board meeting, one resident complained that he can’t sell his house anywhere near its
full value due to the cloud hanging over his property,
and he asked to be “at the front of the line” to have it
tested.
The board unanimously asked the Army to report
back in July with a description of how it will prioritize properties. Dan Noble, who heads the cleanup
effort for the Army, said before the vote that he was
unsure which factors would be used. With the current
testing methods, he said it could take the Army as
long as three years to look at all 100 suspect properties and remove all potentially dangerous items.
Board member Kathleen Connell said that sellers
of suspicious properties “are taking a bath” if they
sell now. “I want to know how [properties are] to be
expedited,” she said. Connell said the Army could
use a lottery or give first dibs to owners who have an
emergency.
Board member Larry Miller called for a “fair system” with justification for those “going to the front of
the line.”
Board member Tom Smith said the Corps should
“come up with criteria for priority” that might not
just be technical in nature.
Another board member suggested that some residents might not be in any hurry for the information as
they plan to live there for many years to come. He
suggested the Army ask residents if they need to have
the information soon and then why.
As part of the investigation, the Army is partnering with the Naval Research Laboratories to pilot
some new technology that could make the process a
great deal faster and also less expensive.
Currently, magnetometers, or electromagnetic
detectors, are used to identify all spots on a property
that have underground metallic objects, which are
then dug up. Most of the objects turn out to be items
See Testing/Page 16
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District Digest
Local parks to host
BioBlitz activities
BioBlitz — a two-day race to
identify as many species of
plants, animals and other organisms as possible — is taking
place this Friday and Saturday in
D.C.
Sponsored by National Geographic and the National Park
Service, this year’s BioBlitz will
span more than 20 different parks
in the region, including Rock
Creek, Glover Archbold, Dumbarton Oaks and Battery Kemble. In
each park, teams of scientists,
students, teachers and the general
public will take inventory and
photos of various species using
the iNaturalist app.
The first BioBlitz took place in
2007 in Rock Creek Park, and
now the event has spread to 250
parks across the country. In D.C.,
the event is paired with the twoday Biodiversity Festival at Constitution Gardens on the National
Mall, featuring hands-on science
exhibits, food, art and activities.
Information about the event is
available at nationalgeographic.
org/projects/bioblitz. Registration
is required to participate in the
biological inventories, which vary
in the difficulty of the terrain but
generally last about two hours.
Bike to Work Day
scheduled for Friday
As part of national Bike to
Work Day this Friday, the D.C.
area is hosting a number of activities to encourage commuters to
ditch their cars in favor of twowheeled rides.
Across the region, 83 spots
will serve as pit stops where
cyclists can stop for refreshments,
free T-shirts and other prizes on
their way to and home from
work. One of those is Farragut
Park downtown, where bike technicians, fitness trainers, masseuses and cycling advocates will be
on hand between 7 and 9 a.m.
The Golden Triangle Business
Improvement District is also
marking the event by beginning
to install 60 more bike racks in
the area between the White House
and Dupont Circle, according to a
news release.
Other pit stops in Northwest
include sites in Adams Morgan,
Columbia Heights, Franklin
Square and the Georgetown
Waterfront Park.
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Association and Commuter Connections are in charge of organizing the local events for Bike to
Work Day, which the D.C. area
has celebrated since 2001. Last
year, a record-breaking 17,500
commuters participated.
To register and obtain details,
visit biketoworkmetrodc.org.
Leading District pols
give nod to Clinton
A cadre of D.C. leaders —
including Mayor Muriel Bowser,
D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
and 10 D.C. Council members —
have announced their endorsements for Hillary Clinton.
In a release from the Clinton
campaign’s press office, Norton
says she aligns with Clinton’s
views on “issues from income
inequality to debt free college,”
but says the presidential candidate specifically sealed her
endorsement in promising to
champion the cause of D.C. statehood. “She looked me in the eye
and said, ‘Eleanor, I’ve always
supported statehood,’” Norton
says in the release.
Mayor Bowser, in the release,
expresses her faith in Clinton’s
advocacy for working families,
women’s rights and lowering
unemployment, in addition to the
D.C. statehood cause.
The release notes that every
Democratic D.C. Council member who is able to endorse Clinton in the Democratic primary
has done so, listing Council
Chairman Phil Mendelson and
members Kenyan McDuffie, Jack
Evans, Vincent Orange, Mary
Cheh, Yvette Alexander, Charles
Allen, Brianne Nadeau, LaRuby
May and Brandon Todd as supporters. The remaining Democrat
on the D.C. Council, Anita
Bonds, chairs the D.C. Democratic Party; the other two members
are independents.
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Annual fundraiser supports D.C. students
The eighth annual fundraiser for the DC College Access Program (known as “DC-CAP”) raised more than $800,000 at this
year’s April 26 event at the Kennedy Center, according to a news
release.
The theme of the “DC-CAPITAL STARS” event was “The
Sounds of Movie Music,” with 10 student finalists from D.C.
public and charter
schools performing in
an “American Idol”style competition. The
top three winners were
all seniors from Northwest schools. Opera
singer Saloni Rao, from
Wilson High School,
won the first prize of a
$10,000 college scholarship; dancer Eriq
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Ellington School of the
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place $6,000 scholarship; and opera singer Samira Plummer, Saloni Rao and Eriq
Samira Plummer of Bridgett won the top three awards.
Duke Ellington won the
third-place $4,000 scholarship. The remaining finalists each
received a $2,000 scholarship.
The guest judges, who helped audience members decide on the
winners, were DJ and video jockey Donnie Simpson, musician
Mark Rivera, “So You Think You Can Dance” winner Fik-Shun,
and actress Kellie Shanygne Williams.
Dozens of local corporations, foundations and individuals
helped sponsor the event, including the Clark Charitable Foundation; and foundations run by Ted and Lynn Leonsis, according to
the release. The evening was dedicated to the memory of local
businessman and philanthropist A. James Clark, a supporter of
DC-CAP who died in 2015.
DC-CAP is a privately funded nonprofit that has worked for
the past 17 years to help D.C. high school students prepare for and
graduate from college.
Emergency exercise
simulates hazards
Across the District today, first
responders will be testing their
emergency preparedness through
exercises that simulate a train
derailment and hazardous chemical spill.
The exercises — planned in
collaboration with CSX, MedStar
Georgetown University Hospital
and the American Red Cross —
will take place from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. Wednesday, with simulations
“designed to test and evaluate
District emergency operations,
techniques, procedures, and command and control relationships
among first responders and District partners and stakeholders,”
according to a news release. The
goal is “to ensure that government agencies and our partners
are prepared to protect the public
in an event of a similar derailment or spill,” the release states.
The six exercise locations
include the simulated “incident
site,” at the Benning Rail Yard in
Southeast, and the Georgetown
hospital site, at 3800 Reservoir
Road NW, which will test patient
intake and decontamination techniques. Though residents and
businesses should expect to see
increased fire and police presence
at the exercise sites, the simulations won’t involve any street
closures, according to the release.
Ingleside hires new
executive director
The Ingleside at Rock Creek
retirement community has a new
executive director at its helm:
Catherine Scott, who most recently served as president of the Philadelphia-based Senior Housing
consulting firm.
In total, Scott has over 30
years of experience managing different types of senior housing and
programs, according to a news
release from Ingleside. Her previous work included positions with
Symphony Senior Living, New
Dawn Memory Care, Sunrise
Senior Living and Presbyterian
Homes of New Jersey.
Scott joins Ingleside as the
retirement community undergoes
a major addition bringing 105
new independent living residences and 12 assisted living residences to its 3050 Military Road NW
site.
Corrections
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GLENBROOK: Construction workers of two Spring Valley homes report personal illnesses
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of buried material and contaminated soil
from the site over the years, but officials
reported last week that nothing material had
been found recently.
Spring Valley neighbors have said the
house’s former residents suffered medical
problems, but Watters said that she “couldn’t
draw any specific conclusions” as to their
health risks related to the munitions, and the
team could not obtain the residents’ medical
histories. The chance of risk to workers at
the site was considerably stronger, she said,
but researchers were unable to get any specific information from the workers other
than transcripts of past interviews with
Ginny Durrin, a Spring Valley filmmaker
who is working on a documentary about the
testing and the decades-long cleanup project.
In those transcripts, the workers express
grave concerns about 4835 Glenbrook.
They alleged that contaminated soil from
4825 next door was buried there after being
rejected by a landfill, and that the soil and
SUPERFRESH: Plans revised
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Superfresh property is across the
street from single-family homes,
its zoning designation allows for a
50-foot-tall building.
And if Valor proceeded simply
based on that rule, rather than
seeking zoning relief for greater
design flexibility, Bender said it
wouldn’t need to negotiate with
neighbors over design, traffic and
parking issues, or community
amenities.
ANC 3E members were generally supportive of the latest concept, with Bender calling the
drawings “beautiful” and emphasizing the importance of a new
supermarket to the community,
particularly given the recent closure of the Tenleytown Safeway.
Fresh & Greens, which replaced
the 48th Street Superfresh in 2011,
closed just two years later.
“It looks a heck of a lot better
than the first set of drawings we
saw,” added commissioner Amy
Hall, whose district includes the
project site.
Some nearby residents also
support the plans, and one said
there’s a silent majority of young
families who were unable to attend
Thursday night’s ANC 3E meeting
but see the project as a boost to the
neighborhood’s vibrancy and
walkability.
TENLEY: Redevelopment eyed
From Page 3
dential Parking Permits.
This project adjoins the Tenley
View building and is within a
block of three planned new buildings: Georgetown Day School’s
redevelopment of the Martens car
dealership site into two new
mixed-use structures that will
stand about 65 feet tall, and a
more modest project on the site of
Osman & Joe’s Steak ’n Egg
Kitchen.
Urban Investment Partners presented its preliminary plans at last
Thursday’s meeting of Advisory
Neighborhood Commission 3E
(Friendship Heights, Tenleytown),
where the project team said the
building’s scale is in line with
policies that call for greater density around Metro stations. “We
think it makes sense to have a bigger building at this location,” the
firm’s Brook Katzen said.
ANC 3E member Anne Wallace agreed. “The existing buildings are small and underused and
ugly, so it’s exciting to see them
put to better use bringing in more
people and activity,” she said.
However, some meeting attendees noted that, unlike other major
projects nearby, this site backs
directly to single-family homes.
The Martens site is buffered by
Georgetown Day School, and Tenley View by the Friendship Hospital for Animals. “You’re going to
be 110, 115 feet on the 42nd Street
side, stepping down immediately
to 20-foot buildings. That’s a huge
change,” one resident said.
Katzen said his firm has been
working with those immediate
neighbors and hasn’t heard complaints, and ANC 3E members
expressed little concern. Commissioner Tom Quinn said residents
should expect to make sacrifices
for their convenient location. “It’s
a tradeoff that you have this transition, but it’s a pretty great amenity in our neighborhood that you
can have a house with a yard so
close to the Metro,” he said.
The developers will return at
the June 9 ANC 3E meeting to
further discuss the project details,
including possible amenities associated with its planned unit development application. The firm
hopes to go before the Zoning
Commission in late fall or early
winter of this year.
Urban Investment Partners also
recently purchased two other commercial buildings in the neighborhood from American University:
the former WAMU radio station
headquarters at 4000 Brandywine
St. NW and a three-story commercial building at 4545 42nd St. NW.
Katzen said his firm intends to
convert the Brandywine Street
office building into fairly large
apartments by expanding it horizontally rather than making it taller. On the 42nd Street property, he
said many commercial tenants still
have leases that run through 2019
or 2020, but that site too will ultimately be redeveloped.
suspicious items were covered over with a
layer of concrete.
Army Corps spokesperson Christopher
Gardner said investigators did thoroughly
check 4835 in 2007 and 2008. The Army
dug 76 test pits, removed about 539 cubic
yards of arsenic-affected soil and recovered
a small amount of poison gas material from
14 of the pits. He said that based on the
work, as well as several previous investigations, “there are currently no plans to conduct any further remedial actions at 4835
Glenbrook Road.”
Regarding the workers’ claims, Gardner
said, “We have encountered some evidence
that appears to sync with some parts of the
transcript excerpts … and other evidence
from the actual excavation that contradicts
the content of the excerpts,” though he said
the Army would be happy to meet with the
workers.
There has been no excavation beneath
the house itself, but American University
said in 2010 that it had been conducting
periodic air monitoring of its president’s
home and that the results were normal.
PARK: Dupont plaza concept clears feasibility study
From Page 1
The study found that the park
could offer approximately 12,000
square feet, give or take a little
depending on how Q Street’s sidewalks are integrated into the plaza.
The tentative design would place a
40-foot gap between the south end
of the plaza and Dupont Circle
NW itself, a necessary measure for
ventilation purposes.
Some tangential elements of
the design, including tree placement, will be worked out in subsequent studies, according to Kenney. The prospect of uniting two
previously disconnected sides of
Connecticut Avenue is an enticing
one for his agency, he said. If
funding and permits are available
on schedule, construction could
begin two and a half years from
now and take between 12 and 18
months, according to agency
spokesperson Terry Owens.
Current estimates put the project cost at around $12.5 million,
Kenney said. He hesitated to say
with certainty that the necessary
funding for the entire project is
available, but he assured meeting
attendees that the project is currently funded at least through the
design portion of the process.
“Based on the way this estimate
looks, it’s not looking like an unrealistic number,” Kenney said.
Ward 2 D.C. Council member
Jack Evans previously designated
$10 million for the cap park budget in his budget request. Evans’
communications director Tom
Lipinsky said at the meeting that
Evans considers the project a priority and would be willing to kick
in additional funds, if necessary.
Lipinsky said yesterday that the
funding is included in the budget
given initial approval this week by
the D.C. Council.
The project has taken on a poignant significance in light of the
recent death of ANC 2B member
Mike Feldstein, who had been the
commission’s most enthusiastic
cap park champion. Commissioners agreed last week that the plans
would have made Feldstein happy
— Mike Silverstein called them
“wonderful,” and Daniel Warwick
said, “I love that this is feasible,
and I can’t wait to use it.”
Warwick also asked the Transportation Department to further
consider improvements to nearby
19th and 20th streets NW, as well
as the possibility of restricting
vehicle traffic from the sections of
Connecticut on either side of the
tunnel that connect Q Street and
the circle.
All of these steps could unite
the disparate elements of the block
leading to the circle, he said.
“This is such an important
pedestrian thoroughfare,” Warwick said. “It could be a grand
entrance to Dupont Circle and a
grand boulevard for our neighborhood.”
Next steps for the project
include a yearlong “multimodal”
analysis with an in-depth study of
the design’s compliance with the
National Environmental Policy
Act.
After that, final designs will be
drawn up and budgets laid out.
Funding issues may come up
down the road, but Kenney says
the agency is currently focused on
one step at a time.
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f
The Current
Police Report
This is a listing of incidents
reported from May 9 through
15 in local police service
areas, sorted by their report
dates.
psa
PSA
101 101
■ downtown
Theft
■ 900-999 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 7:35 p.m. May 9.
■ 1000-1099 block, F St.;
4:08 p.m. May 10.
■ 900-999 block, H St.; 7:36
p.m. May 10.
■ 1200-1299 block, G St.;
6:44 p.m. May 11.
■ 700-723 block, 14th St.;
3:46 p.m. May 12.
■ 1300-1399 block, F St.;
9:34 p.m. May 12.
■ 1200-1299 block, G St.;
1:55 p.m. May 13.
■ 700-799 block, 11th St.;
4:08 p.m. May 13.
■ 1000-1099 block, F St.;
noon May 14.
■ 500-599 block, 14th St.;
3:42 p.m. May 14.
Theft from auto
■ 1200-1299 block, K St.;
11:15 a.m. May 13.
■ 700-899 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 7:46 p.m. May 15.
■ 1300-1399 block, L St.;
9:18 p.m. May 15.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
10:14 p.m. May 12.
■ 3000-3049 block, M St.;
12:22 p.m. May 13.
■ 3000-3049 block, M St.;
3:45 p.m. May 15.
■ 3000-3049 block, M St.;
4:04 p.m. May 15.
Theft from auto
■ 1200-1229 block, Potomac
St.; 9:11 p.m. May 12.
■ 3030-3099 block, K St.;
3:34 a.m. May 13.
■ 3200-3256 block, N St.;
2:31 p.m. May 13.
■ 3100-3199 block, N St.;
5:47 p.m. May 13.
psa
PSA
207 207
■ foggy bottom / west end
Assault with a dangerous
weapon
■ 1900-1999 block, I St.;
8:33 p.m. May 10.
■ 1700-1717 block, L St.;
7:46 a.m. May 15 (with
knife).
Motor vehicle theft
■ 1000-1099 block, 17th St.;
1:45 p.m. May 9.
■ 900-915 block, New Hampshire Ave.; 12:04 p.m. May
14.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 3300-3399 block, Prospect
St.; 4:24 p.m. May 9.
Theft
■ 800-899 block, 22nd St.;
2:03 p.m. May 10.
■ 1600-1699 block, K St.;
4:19 p.m. May 10.
■ 1800-1899 block, I St.;
5:56 p.m. May 10.
■ 1900-1999 block, G St.;
1:28 p.m. May 11.
■ 1800-1899 block, I St.;
1:56 p.m. May 11.
■ 1000-1099 block, Connecticut Ave.; 7:47 p.m. May 11.
■ 800-899 block, New Hampshire Ave.; 11:57 a.m. May
12.
■ 1800-1899 block, L St.;
4:55 p.m. May 12.
■ 2400-2499 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 9:35 p.m. May
12.
13.
■ 1100-1129 block,
Connecticut Ave.; 5:52 p.m.
May 13.
■ 1200-1299 block, 24th St.;
7:56 p.m. May 13.
13.
■ 2100-2199 block, H St.;
9:24 p.m. May 15.
Theft
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
2:41 p.m. May 10.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
5:35 p.m. May 11.
■ 1851-2008 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 5:51 p.m. May 11.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
7:04 p.m. May 11.
■ 1020-1199 block, 33rd St.;
1:27 p.m. May 12.
■ 3036-3099 block, M St.;
6:04 p.m. May 12.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
8:01 p.m. May 12.
Theft from auto
■ Unit block, Thomas Circle;
5:46 p.m. May 9.
■ 2400-2499 block, N St.;
10:32 a.m. May 10.
■ 1000-1099 block, 23rd St.;
1:34 p.m. May 11.
■ 900-999 block, 23rd St.;
6:19 a.m. May 12.
■ 1800-1899 block, I St.;
2:48 a.m. May 14.
■ 2400-2429 block, H St.;
2:49 a.m. May 14.
■ 1100-1199 block, Vermont
Ave.; 4:16 a.m. May 14.
psa 205
■ palisades / spring valley
PSA
205
Wesley Heights / Foxhall
Robbery
■ 3900-4048 block, 52nd
St.; 10:02 p.m. May 13.
Theft
■ 3200-3299 block, New
Mexico Ave.; 8:49 p.m. May
10.
■ 4400-4499 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 9:59 a.m. May
15.
Theft from auto
■ 2900-3099 block, University Terrace; 1:41 p.m. May 10.
■ 4825-4899 block, W St.;
5:48 p.m. May 10.
psa
PSA
206 206
■ georgetown / burleith
Burglary
■ 1100-1199 block, 34th St.;
8:01 p.m. May 12.
psa 208
■ sheridan-kalorama
PSA
208
dupont circle
Burglary
■ 1400-1499 block, 14th St.;
5:38 a.m. May 10.
Theft
■ 1300-1699 block, Connecticut Ave.; 2:39 a.m. May 9.
■ 1400-1499 block, P St.;
6:03 p.m. May 9.
■ 1400-1499 block, P St.;
9:08 p.m. May 9.
■ 1800-1899 block, M St.;
7:09 a.m. May 10.
■ 2200-2299 block, M St.;
6:32 p.m. May 11.
■ 1300-1399 block, 14th St.;
4:25 p.m. May 13.
■ 1818-1899 block, 18th St.;
5:36 p.m. May 13.
■ 1800-1899 block, M St.;
4:09 a.m. May 14.
■ 1400-1499 block, P St.;
8:45 p.m. May 14.
■ 1800-1899 block, Jefferson Place; 4:12 a.m. May 15.
■ 1500-1549 block, Rhode
Island Ave.; 5:53 a.m. May
15.
Theft from auto
■ 2202-2299 block, Q St.;
1:50 p.m. May 10.
■ 1700-1799 block, 20th St.;
12:47 a.m. May 11.
■ 1600-1622 block, 19th St.;
1:42 a.m. May 11.
■ 1200-1399 block, 16th St.;
7:37 a.m. May 11.
■ 2000-2099 block, Hillyer
Place; 4:13 p.m. May 12.
■ 2100-2199 block, O St.;
6:45 p.m. May 12.
■ 1900-1999 block, N St.;
11:32 p.m. May 13.
■ 1200-1399 block, 16th St.;
11:38 p.m. May 13.
■ 1800-1899 block, R St.;
12:02 a.m. May 14.
■ 1821-1828 block, Phelps
Place; 1:41 a.m. May 14.
■ 2300-2599 block, P St.;
2:33 p.m. May 15.
psa
PSA
301 301
■ Dupont circle
Assault with a dangerous
weapon
■ 2000-2099 block, 15th St.;
6:32 a.m. May 10.
Theft
■ 1600-1699 block, Q St.;
2:31 p.m. May 10.
■ 1700-1789 block, Corcoran
St.; 3:02 p.m. May 10.
■ 2000-2099 block, 14th St.;
6:59 p.m. May 10.
■ 1900-1920 block, 14th St.;
7:36 p.m. May 10.
■ 1600-1699 block, V St.;
10:42 p.m. May 10.
■ 1620-1699 block, 15th St.;
6:36 p.m. May 11.
■ 1500-1599 block, U St.;
1:16 a.m. May 14.
Theft from auto
■ 1500-1599 block, U St.;
2:05 a.m. May 13.
■ 1400-1499 block, W St.;
11:48 a.m. May 15.
psa
PSA
303 303
■ adams morgan
Robbery
■ 2700-2799 block, Ontario
Road; 3:18 a.m. May 14.
Burglary
■ 1850-1947 block, Biltmore
St.; 7:40 p.m. May 12.
■ 1800-1899 block, Belmont
Road; 10:50 p.m. May 12.
■ 2400-2499 block, 18th St.;
3:46 p.m. May 13.
■ 1800-1899 block, Mintwood Place; 8:28 p.m. May
13.
Theft
■ 1610-1631 block, Columbia Road; 12:08 p.m. May 9.
■ 1811-1899 block, Connecticut Ave.; 3:56 a.m. May 10.
■ 1823-1827 block, Harvard
St.; 12:04 p.m. May 10.
■ 1737-1776 block, Columbia
Road; 3:49 a.m. May 11.
■ 1630-1699 block, Euclid
St.; 4:46 p.m. May 11.
■ 2300-2399 block, 17th St.;
3:49 p.m. May 14.
■ 1690-1741 block, Lanier
Place; 3:40 a.m. May 15.
■ 1600-1699 block, Kalorama Road; 5:56 p.m. May
15.
Theft from auto
■ 1800-1881 block, Kalorama Road; 7:14 a.m. May
9.
■ 1801-1898 block, Calvert
St.; 10:25 a.m. May 12.
■ 1740-1799 block, Kalorama Road; 11:06 p.m. May
12.
psa
PSA
307 307
■ logan circle
Robbery
■ 1100-1199 block, M St.;
11:40 a.m. May 15.
Theft
■ 1700-1737 block, 11th St.;
12:20 p.m. May 12.
■ 1100-1199 block, 10th St.;
1:09 p.m. May 13.
■ 1300-1399 block, R St.;
8:06 p.m. May 13.
Theft from auto
■ 1330-1399 block, Q St.;
6:35 a.m. May 9.
■ 1101-1199 block, 11th St.;
9:35 p.m. May 9.
■ 1100-1199 block, 14th St.;
9:20 a.m. May 10.
■ 1200-1299 block, 10th St.;
4 p.m. May 12.
■ 1300-1399 block, 14th St.;
5:32 p.m. May 12.
■ 1400-1499 block, 12th St.;
5:45 p.m. May 12.
■ 1101-1199 block, 11th St.;
1:34 p.m. May 13.
■ 1300-1399 block, O St.;
12:45 a.m. May 14.
■ 1101-1199 block, 11th St.;
8:06 p.m. May 14.
■ 1700-1709 block, 9th St.;
9:17 p.m. May 15.
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Spotlight on Schools
Annunciation Catholic
School
In Mrs. Streat’s second-grade
class we are learning about geometry — solid figures and polygons. We are also learning about
their attributes, vertices, edges,
faces, sides and angles. In language arts we are dividing words
into syllables, creating poetry and
writing in our journals, answering
questions like: “If I were the
color blue, what would I look
like, sound like and feel like?” In
religion we are celebrating the
jubilee year of Mercy. This week
we learned about the different
types of mercy: tender mercy,
great mercy, unfailing mercy and
undeserved mercy.
— Caleb Acuna, Grace Bowers,
Kausar Burks, Stephane Cantuti,
Fran Centanni, Jasmine Destry,
Babacar Diop, Leilani Kiptoo,
Melanie Ondara, Alex Ouzts and
Mattteo Scano, second-graders
Blessed Sacrament School
This Mother’s Day, my family
and I went to Eastern Market. I
attend school at Blessed Sacrament, where my seventh-grade
Spanish class has been talking
about all different kinds of indigenous markets. Spending a few
hours in the Eastern Market area
reminded me that we live in a
great, international city that we
should explore more often.
Eastern Market is only 20 to
25 minutes away from our neighborhood, with all kinds of things
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elry to fresh-picked fruits and
vegetables, and flowers. For me,
my favorite part was the food.
There were food trucks serving
all kinds of international fare,
including fresh-made doughnuts,
crêpes, burritos, and more. I had a
great time experiencing an openair market, realizing that just 4.5
miles from our Northwest neighborhood, we have a multicultural
center featuring elements from
different places around the world.
I recommend this place to anyone
because it is a great family outing
and there are many things to do
and see. You can enjoy listening
to street musicians while you
stroll around and browse at the
different vendors with all sorts of
merchandise.
— Cole Anderson, seventh-grader
Holy Trinity School
Mrs. Yvonne Irving just celebrated her 20th year working at
Holy Trinity School. Her favorite
part is working with the children
and all the love she gets from the
students. She started out as a
pre-K assistant teacher and helped
out with after-care. Then she
worked with second grade for a
many years. Now she is an assistant teacher in first grade and during the summer she works with
Mrs. Smith in the office. One of
the best things that happened to
her at Holy Trinity was meeting
her husband, Mr. Irving!
She was born in Washington
and grew up on Capitol Hill. Her
favorite subject to teach is language arts. Her favorite book is
“James and the Giant Peach.”
Our principal, Charlie Hennessy, says of Mrs. Irving, “Holy
Trinity has been blessed to have
the caring commitment of Ms.
Yvonne Irving for the last 20
years. She has earned the respect
of the students and her colleagues
with her gentle loving manner
with the children. She is always
ready to help each student and
help the school in any way she
can.”
Mrs. Irving has taught hundreds of kids at HTS. She loves
HTS more than anything, and we
love her too.
— Lucy Oetgen and Charlotte
Matiunas, third-graders
Hyde-Addison Elementary
School
We have been doing some
really fun things this year at
Hyde! Mrs. DeVine, our fifthgrade reading and writing teacher,
sorted the whole fifth grade into
the four houses of Harry Potter:
Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw
and Hufflepuff. I got sorted into
Hufflepuff. The students in each
house will have their own common traits. Each house will get
points by doing something good
at school or for our community
and at the end of the year the
house with the most points will
win the house cup. For example,
you could get five points if you
turn in an assignment on time.
But, you can also have points
taken away for breaking a rule.
The prize of the house cup is
still being thought of, but Mrs.
DeVine has suggested a pizza
party and possibly bringing in her
Xbox and PlayStation 4.
We are having the annual fifthgrade overnight trip on June 2.
The overnight trip is going to be
at Hemlock’s Overlook and is a
camping trip where we will do all
sorts of activities and learn about
the environment and go zip lining. All of fifth grade is excited to
go! I can’t wait!
Sadly, graduation is right
around the corner. My friends and
I will all miss Hyde-Addison very
much.
— Sofia Podini, fifth-grader
Jewish Primary Day School
of the Nation’s Capital
Recently, the sixth-graders
attended the Yom HaShoah
(Holocaust Remembrance Day)
Commemoration at the Lincoln
Theatre. We had the privilege of
hearing from two inspiring Holocaust survivors, Marione Ingram
and Rubin Sztajer. Rubin was in
three concentration camps,
including Bergen-Belsen. He
cried while he described the day
he was taken away from his
mother and sisters in the ghetto to
go to the camps. He never saw
his parents again. Marione told
about being the child of a nonJewish father who worked for the
resistance and a Jewish mother
who, at one point, tried to commit
suicide (she thought it would
keep her children safer for them
not to have a living Jewish parent). Later, Marione and her family were deported to Terezin for
the rest of the war.
After speaking about their
experiences during the Holocaust,
Marione and Rubin talked about
their lives. Marione joined the
civil rights movement in the United States because she saw that
blacks were treated badly the way
she was treated in Germany. It
was moving to hear about all the
good that they put into the world,
even after they endured such horrors and hardships.
Now we hold the story secondhand. It is now our responsibility
to tell the story to the next generation. To spread the hope of those
who survived. To live by love and
not hate. And to fill the emptiness
of evil with the wholeness of
hope and love.
— Johanna Lane and Gabriel
Brumberg, sixth-graders
Lafayette Elementary
School
Due to construction at Lafayette, the annual Spring Fair was
held at the Episcopal Center for
Children on May 7. The location
was very convenient for Lafayette
families and our community. The
massive rain did not keep the sun
from appearing. Though the fields
were muddy, the fun continued.
The venue also offered a shack
for karaoke, a basketball court, a
Book Nook and a large field for
sports.
Though there were were no
moon bounces or dunk tanks this
year, the Spring Fair was a huge
success. It was very well organized and provided many Lafayette families an opportunity to see
the inside of the Episcopal Center
for the first time. Once again, it
was very healthy for our community.
— Brendan McKalip, fifth grader
Maret School
The Publishing Party is held
every year in May and each student in grades kindergarten
through fourth grade gets to write
at least one book. We began with
each Kindie picking a favorite
nonfiction book. Then we chose
six facts we learned from our
books; wrote them down in our
own words; and added pictures, a
title page, a cover page and
author information.
When the big moment finally
came this year, the Kindies,
dressed up in our nice clothes,
stood at tables in the gym with
our books. A crowd of family
members, friends and members of
the school community came
through to see all of our work.
We enjoyed many different
parts of the process, like adding
illustrations. One student said, “I
liked starting with little details,
then I moved to the big details.”
Others had fun focusing on the
words. “I like to write, to learn
how to write, and other things,”
said another student. We even
liked the editing process, with
one writer saying that she enjoyed
making the book, “even though I
had to do the first page a hundred
times.”
All the Kindies were proud of
their finished products, and
looked forward to sharing them
with the Maret community. One
student said making books is
important because, “It’s like
teaching people facts.”
— Ms. McHugh and Mr. Scott’s
kindergartners
National Presbyterian
School
National Presbyterian School
is a very special place, with a
great focus on core values and
helping the community. Every
year, each grade participates in a
Service Learning Project that ties
in with our core values of responsibility, respect, honesty, love and
safety.
This year, my fifth-grade class
has been working toward helping
the homeless in our community.
We had a collection drive, and
every fifth-grader brought in toiletry items. On May 10, the
whole fifth-grade class, along
with our teachers Ms. Cox, Mr.
Murphy and Mr. Sumner; our
head of school, Dr. Hendrix; and
our chaplain, the Rev. Dunfee,
took all of our collected items to
the Tenley-Friendship Library.
At the library, we were introduced to some of the staff, and a
very special man named Mr.
Banks. Mr. Banks was at one time
homeless, but thankfully he no
longer is. He now works at
Friendship Place, which is a wonderful organization with a mission
to empower people experiencing
homelessness to rebuild their
lives with the involvement of the
community. After Mr. Banks’
inspiring story, we sorted our collected items into Ziploc bags. Our
bags are now going to be distributed to the homeless in our community.
We have all learned so much
from this project. I know the
National Presbyterian School
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less. I know that I will always
remember that the homeless are
people just like you and me.
— Rose Papadopoulos,
fifth-grader
Our Lady of Victory School
“Like the Scripture says: /
‘Everyone shall sit under their
own vine and fig tree / And no
one shall make them afraid.’ ... I
want to sit under my own vine
and fig tree. / A moment alone in
the shade. / At home in this nation
we’ve made.”
As I walked around Mount
Vernon on a field trip with my
fourth- and fifth-grade classmates, I kept humming George
Washington’s song about returning home to his Virginia farm
from my favorite Broadway musical, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Hamilton.” On our visit we learned
that Mount Vernon, where Washington died of a throat infection
less than two years after leaving
the presidency, wasn’t a safe
moment alone in the shade for
everybody.
“We learned that George
Washington had his slaves and
Mrs. Washington had her own
slaves. Once George Washington
died, Mrs. Washington freed her
husband’s slaves, but kept hers so
that some families were separat-
ed. It was very sad,” said fourthgrader Lailah F.
But Mount Vernon can also be
very inspiring. Washington gave
our country a huge gift by voluntarily stepping down after eight
years as president. There weren’t
term limits yet. He could have
been president a lot longer,
maybe his whole life. He could
have been the American version
of the king his army defeated.
Give up power voluntarily? “I
wasn’t aware that was something
a person could do,” sings Hamilton’s King George. Our nation is
lucky George Washington was
that kind of person.
— Charles C., fifth-grader
St. Albans School
Earlier this month, the eighth
grade at St. Albans traveled to
Maryland for a four-day camping
trip called Woodlands. On the
first day, we split into two groups
and one canoed to an island. During the journey, students and
teachers alike attempted to flip
each other’s canoes, sending their
occupants into the Potomac River.
Later, that same group swam in
the river’s rapids and then rotated
through three different activities:
fire building, “helping hands” (a
team-building challenge) and rope
swinging.
The other group had the challenging task of hiking three miles
to Annapolis Rocks while carrying their personal supplies and
equipment as well as tents, climbing gear, pots, stoves and food for
their entire group. They then went
rock climbing and rappelling over
steep cliffs. During the first night,
it rained heavily, and anything
left out was completely soaked.
In the morning, the group that
had camped on the island woke to
find the river they needed to cross
flooded, and everyone arrived to
breakfast with their pants and
shoes drenched. The two groups
then switched locations.
On the third day, both groups
convened at the Calleva Farm in
Poolesville, where we toured the
farm, meeting friendly goats and
seeing Markoff’s haunted forest,
and played capture the flag. The
next morning, we all went whitewater rafting down the Potomac,
and then we returned to D.C. that
afternoon.
Despite the weather, Woodlands, though challenging, was a
fun and friendship-building experience.
— Nolan Musslewhite, Form II
(eighth-grader)
St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day
School
Each year, fifth- and sixthgraders put on a musical show for
the community. This year, we performed “A Musical Odyssey:
Journey Through the Decades.”
The play showcased famous and
memorable songs and dances performed in order from oldest to
most recent. Before the songs
from each decade, Grade 6 students provided an overview of
details from the years to come.
Grade 5 students all participated
as dancers from the ’20s, ’30s,
’60s, ’80s or ’90s. The creativity
of the show wowed the audience
and had them wanting more.
The music teachers choreographed the dances. Each day for
several weeks, fifth- and sixthgrade students rehearsed from
1:15 to 3:15 p.m. to prepare their
dances and songs. We wore costumes representative of every
decade, ranging from feathered
headbands and beads on Charleston dancers to sports jerseys for
Motown Philly.
Our dances showcased a variety of hits, including “Singing in
the Rain,” “The Charleston,”
“Surfin’ USA,” “Tuxedo Junction” and many more! We sang
tunes from ragtime to rock and
got the audience to sing along to
several songs. For the finale, we
were excited to sing along to
modern hits including “Roar,”
“Happy” and “Call Me Maybe.”
It was so much fun and we will
never forget it.
— Samantha Tate, Whitney Shaw
and Jake Iacobucci, fifth-graders
Sheridan School
Sheridan’s second grade celebrated our study of the Maya with
a Maya Breakfast. We felt like
real Maya because we made it all
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ourselves. We actually cooked
over an open fire. There were
plantains, beans, tortillas, guacamole and a chocolate drink.
We tried the chocolate that
wasn’t sweet because in the time
when the Maya lived, they used
honey to sweeten their chocolate.
At first we tasted it without any
sugar, then we added some ingredients. Some people added water.
Some people added a lot of sugar,
and some people added a lot of
honey. A lot of honey made it
taste good.
To make the tortillas we got a
bit of Maseca dough that was
about the size of a pingpong ball.
We flattened it with the heel of
our hands until it grew to be a bit
bigger circle-shape. Then our
teacher put in on a comal, which
is a Maya cooking plate and it
cooked for a couple of minutes.
Next we made guacamole. We
had to get the insides out of an
avocado. We mashed it into guacamole. Then we heated up the
beans.
We also cooked plantains,
which are like bananas. We
peeled the skin off and cut the
plantains into circles. We cooked
them in a frying pan and took
turns flipping them with a spatula.
When we were all finished
cooking, we ate our Maya Breakfast sitting on the stone wall outside. It was very good.
— Sam Colvin, second-grader
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Improving ANCs
The District’s advisory neighborhood commissions play a vital role
in local civic affairs. An ANC is a direct pipeline to community sentiment, and the commissioners are elected public officials who can be
expected to truly represent their neighborhoods.
However, the system doesn’t always work perfectly. Sometimes,
ANCs are ignored; sometimes, their well-meaning efforts are strangled
by red tape; sometimes, meager budgets are swallowed up by overhead.
Accordingly, we’re pleased to see that at-large D.C. Council members David Grosso and Anita Bonds last month introduced an omnibus
ANC reform bill — a weighty piece of legislation with dozens of provisions aimed at improving the ANC process. We can’t agree with every
proposal, but it clearly represents a serious attempt to look at the issues.
Perhaps the most valuable reform will come in terms of clarifying
the “great weight” that’s already granted to advisory neighborhood commissions. This policy requires a city agency or board to justify in writing certain decisions that conflict with ANC recommendations. But
today’s system frequently results in confusion. The bill cleverly addresses this flaw by ordering that these various governmental bodies designate ANC liaisons, who can serve as points of contact for commissioners and who will receive special training on ANC-related matters.
We also see potential value in provisions that would allow for multiple ANCs to share office space and administrative staff, which could
free up more funds for grants and other expenditures that benefit the
community. We’ve seen several Ward 2 commissions successfully share
a capable administrator, Peter Sacco, and think such a model could
work more broadly. We’d want to ensure, however, that this proposal
doesn’t disrupt ANCs that are already working smoothly.
In general, we’d like to avoid second-guessing an ANC that’s functioning well. To that end, we’re also cautious about proposals for citywide uniformity among ANCs’ operational procedures, and would also
suggest that the reforms should allow more flexible grant spending by
commissions. We’ve seen this problem strike several Northwest ANCs
in recent years, forcing them to jump through hoops or suffer financial
penalties as they tried to fund legitimate, worthy neighborhood causes.
We’ve heard several advisory neighborhood commissions weigh in
on aspects of the legislation, and we look forward to seeing the council
work to incorporate their feedback — in keeping with the bill’s spirit.
Prioritizing safety
Earlier this month, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority released its draft SafeTrack proposal, an accelerated maintenance and repair schedule put forth by general manager Paul Wiedefeld
and endorsed by the Metro board.
Last Wednesday, federal oversight authorities within the U.S. Department of Transportation said that this plan needed to change. Among
other factors, the feds called for a different set of tunnel repair priorities. These include two work areas — outside of Northwest but nonetheless affecting Orange, Blue and Silver Line service here — that federal
authorities want addressed immediately, rather than late summer and
late fall as Metro proposed. They also called for a third work area —
which Metro envisioned as requiring nighttime single-tracking on the
Red Line north of Friendship Heights starting next year — to begin
more promptly and to expand south to Van Ness-UDC.
This could feel like a meddlesome lack of faith in Mr. Wiedefeld,
who has impressed us with his aggressive work to improve Metro’s
safety since he joined the transit authority in November.
But at the same time, the new general manager is still overseeing the
same sprawling staff of managers and employees who have contributed
to Metro’s poor safety record. Even during his tenure — in fact, on the
day before SafeTrack was announced — some within Metro still prioritize immediate convenience over passenger safety and long-term reliability. In the dramatic May 5 incident, Metro’s operations center
refused to stop train traffic to allow investigation of a track explosion.
With that in mind, we can’t blindly trust the Metro team that came up
with SafeTrack, especially when federal authorities publicly disagree.
We’re pleased that Metro appears willing to adopt the new schedule,
rather than trying to turn the issue into a turf battle that would be
unhelpful for all involved. However, the better solution is to establish a
regional panel to oversee Metro safety — as has been recommended
repeatedly — to reduce ambiguity about who gets the final say.
The Current
Two radical changes …
M
ayor Muriel Bowser’s ambitious — and
expensive — plan to close the homeless
shelter at D.C. General is getting a
major rewrite.
And a key House committee on the Hill is
showing District citizens who’s boss of the city’s
budget.
First, the mayor’s housing plan.
The D.C. Council on Tuesday approved a
move to scrap Bowser’s plan to build
smaller, alternative
housing on five privately owned sites
around the city and
close the decrepit D.C.
General shelter in 2018.
Council Chairman Phil Mendelson instead
offered a substitute bill moving three of those five
projects onto parcels already owned by the city.
That move alone would save millions of dollars
and deny lucrative profits to private developers.
(That was a big criticism of Bowser’s plan in the
first place.)
Under Mendelson’s revised homeless plan, the
remaining two sites on private land would be purchased by the city upfront, again denying huge
profits to current owners. If the owners don’t want
to sell at a given price, the Mendelson bill allows
for eminent domain to seize the properties.
The council move irritated the mayor, who
says it jeopardizes her ability to close D.C. General in 2018. WAMU reporter Martin Austermuhle
reported overhearing Bowser scream an obscenity
— “f---ing liar!” — at Mendelson for saying that
the changes wouldn’t impact the 2018 closing and
that the mayor hadn’t consulted with the council
enough. The mayor’s office declined to comment
on the reported slur.
From Mendelson’s committee report: “The
Committee closely examined its cost-effectiveness, its potential for complications due to zoning
disputes, its long-term impact on the District’s
ability to meet its obligation to shelter families
experiencing homelessness, the adequacy of individual proposed sites for the intended purpose,
and the overall feasibility of the plan to close
D.C. General as rapidly as possible.”
That’s a long way of saying the Bowser plan
was too expensive and had not had enough community involvement with picking sites.
The report, in particular, said the proposed
Ward 3 site on Wisconsin Avenue NW (and now
moved adjacent to the 2nd District Police Headquarters on Idaho Avenue NW) would have created “windfall” profits for private owners.
Both the mayor and the council agree D.C.
General is no proper home for anyone. But the
mayor and council still will need to work out
details on the scattered-site homeless plan. And
community groups — and zoning concerns —
still need to be heard.
Visit tinyurl.com/shelter-draft-bill and tinyurl.
com/shelter-committee to read the revised bill and
the committee report, respectively.
Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill Tuesday, the city’s
bold move to radically change how Congress
reviews the city’s annual budget may be hitting
the wall many have expected.
The House Government Oversight and Reform
Committee on Tuesday approved on a partisan
vote a bill to nullify local legislation allowing
“budget autonomy.”
In short, the city decided it would change the
congressional charter under which the local government has operated
since 1974. Instead of
awaiting formal
approval of the budget
each year, as it has
done for more than
four decades, the city
decided the local budget need only be subject to a
30-day review period, like most D.C. legislation.
City voters backed the change to the charter,
and it survived its own legislative review period
on the Hill. But the Government Accountability
Office and Republican leaders of the House said
all along the move was illegal. D.C. officials disagree, citing a court case decided by a D.C. Superior Court judge.
The full Republican House likely will move
the bill nullifying the city’s grab of more independence. If it comes up for a vote in the Senate, it
may pass. And if it is attached to some must-pass
legislation, Democratic President Barack Obama
is unlikely to put up a fight based on his treatment
of the city in the past.
At a press conference Tuesday, D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton vowed to fight on. “We are by
no means giving up on Congress,” she said, noting only full statehood would get the city out
from under congressional rule.
■ Bourbon & Bluegrass. The Notebook was out
at President Lincoln’s Cottage on Sunday for the
Friends of the Soldiers Home fundraising concert.
The weather cooperated, and about 300 people
showed up for bluegrass, lawn games and Rocklands Barbeque.
With our friend Pepin Tuma, we walked the
grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Home,
on which the cottage sits. It is remarkable space,
but much of it is in disrepair. The stately Grant
Building is empty and fenced off.
As much fun as we had at the Bourbon and
Bluegrass event, we couldn’t help but think a new
tune needs to be played to save the old buildings.
Take a walk on the grounds the next time you
visit President Lincoln’s Cottage. The buildings
are magnificent to see; just look past the fencing
of the Grant Building. It needs a savior.
And here’s your chance — the upcoming
Memorial Day holiday on May 30 is a perfect day
to go. There’s a wreath-laying ceremony at the
Logan Mausoleum and guided tours of the cemetery where Abe Lincoln himself would walk,
struggling with the grief of the Civil War dead
and wounded. The cemetery is beautiful and
haunting and far less crowded than other national
cemeteries on this important day.
Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.
TOM SHERWOOD’s
Notebook
Letters to
the Editor
City should prioritize
roadway repaving
Thank you for your April 6
editorial “Proactive on roads.”
You have pointed out the obvious problem, but you have also
advocated for the real solution,
regularly scheduled repaving!
Technology exists that allows
specially equipped vehicles to
travel D.C. roadways to monitor
and record roadway surface
conditions so that repaving may
be prioritized. Certainly, starting
with emergency routes, snow
routes and bus routes would be
a logical choice.
Your editorial correctly
points out that the problems our
roads currently face can’t be
fixed by filling potholes alone;
resurfacing is often what is
needed. Some road conditions
are so bad that they have now
become unsafe for cyclists and
motorcycles. In fact, I brought
this issue to the attention of
Ward 3 D.C. Council member
Mary Cheh in March 2015.
Until city leaders get serious
with a long-term, proactive
approach for properly maintaining our city’s streets, those who
use D.C. roads may be left with
a revision to the Adele song
ringing in their heads: “Should I
give up / Or should I just keep
chasing [smooth] pavements?”
Robert Hyman
Glover Park
The Current
Embracing public space benefits everyone
VIEWPOINT
susan kimmel
I
f you value the active urban streets and great
public spaces happening in District neighborhoods like Columbia Heights and walkable cities
across the country, three recent items may be of
interest:
1. “The Psychological Cost of Boring Buildings,”
newly published in New York magazine, notes that
“a growing body of research in cognitive science
illuminates the physical and mental toll bland
cityscapes exact on residents.” It seems that “there
could be more than an economic or nostalgic price
to impersonal retail and high-rise construction: Boring architecture may take an emotional toll on the
people forced to live in and around it.” The science
is new but unsurprising, since engaging public spaces — streetscapes in particular — have long been
recognized by progressive urbanists as a key component to urban vitality and sustainability.
2. In Friendship Heights, Md., the Chevy Chase
Land Co. announced a renovation of Chevy Chase
Center and The Collection (of high-end shops) to be
more pedestrian-friendly and inviting. In other
words, they are improving the streetscape. It is so
interesting how developments in Friendship Heights
get built on a suburban shopping-mall model, then
falter or fail and are renovated on a more urban,
walkable model. Chevy Chase Land Co. is cutting
back on parking, reducing the amount of pavement
and width of curb cuts along Wisconsin Avenue,
making plaza spaces more active, and creating more
viable retail spaces. These are very much the same
sort of measures Chevy Chase Pavilion and Mazza
Gallerie did in their retrofits. These retrofits are
expensive, and the landlords would not be doing
them unless they made the places attract more people. Good streetscapes are good for the retailers,
good for the community and good for tax rolls.
3. In Tenleytown, Georgetown Day School’s proposal for a planned unit development that included
innovative and promising features in public space
was shot down in part because Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3E and the D.C. Office of Planning did not recognize the opportunity to enhance
the neighborhood. Georgetown Day and its design
team were actively engaging with the community
and advocacy groups to work with the Department
of Transportation and the Office of Planning to reimagine and transform public spaces such as streets,
sidewalks and park areas around the new multi-use
Letters to
the Editor
Scout troops still
seeking donations
Thank you to your readers for
responding to the Helping Other
Scout Troops Incorporate Needed
Gear (HOSTING) project mentioned by The Current in a March
30 article. This citywide effort to
collect Cub Scout and Boy Scout
uniforms, camping equipment,
hiking boots and other gear for
needy troops in D.C. is being led
locally by Troop 100 in Tenleytown and Troop 52 in Chevy
Chase.
The goal of the project is to
buildings and the school’s campus using a progressive “Complete Streets” approach that would calm
vehicular traffic and create a much more pedestrianfriendly urban environment. This was an unusual
and difficult public-private effort with some features
such as the dramatic Davenport Steps on private
property and other efforts — such as raised intersections to slow cars and protect people — in the public right-of-way. It had a long way to go, but progress was being made.
Sadly, it all came to a crashing halt when Georgetown Day had to cut back the project. (Georgetown
Day has announced it will resubmit a new application after June 1 in order to come under the city’s
new zoning regulations, though school officials say
the details of the project are not changing.)
For reasons inconsistent with past actions on its
part, contrary to good planning practice that emphasizes walkability and transit-oriented development,
and despite the mayor’s commitment to increasing
housing affordability, the Office of Planning elected
not to support the school’s request for slightly denser, taller residential buildings on Wisconsin Avenue.
This decision is odd, since an almost identical zoning request had once been granted for the Tenley
Hill condominium building across the street.
ANC support was tepid at best. Members downplayed the positive impact of the streetscape efforts,
pretty much refusing to participate in discussions
about public space and choosing instead to stake out
extreme negotiating positions such as insisting on a
zero increase in car trips despite the addition of a
new lower school. So to assuage the Office of Planning, GDS backed down and reduced the size of the
apartment buildings. This is unfortunate for all: A
unique opportunity for extraordinary street-level
placemaking is lost, and a neighborhood that needs
more density to support retail and a city looking to
increase its housing supply in response to growth
will lose 50 units, including affordable housing.
For those of us who understand the potential of
great streets and public spaces to enrich urban life,
the retrofit in Friendship Heights is welcome —
albeit too-little-too-late for a development that
should have included residential uses and been more
urban — and the failure of vision and leadership in
Tenleytown is lamentable. Maybe there’s hope when
that retrofit happens. Better yet, the Office of Planning should reconsider the merits of the original
application now, while adding much-needed housing
is still possible.
Susan Kimmel chairs the Ward3Vision Steering
Committee.
remove any barrier to participating in scouting, especially outdoor programs and summer camp.
Donations are being cleaned,
refurbished and donated to troops
throughout the D.C. area.
The response from the community has been terrific; however, donations are still being
accepted. If you’re doing any
spring cleaning in your attic,
basement or garage, please know
the Scouts need the following:
■ Uniforms — Cub Scout shirts,
Boy Scout shirts and Scout pants,
though uniform parts of any age
or size are welcome.
■ Hiking boots — All sizes welcome, but we especially need
men’s sizes from 9 to 13.
■ Camping equipment — Back-
packs, sleeping bags, tents, cooking gear, compasses, camp saws
and first-aid kits.
■ Usable gear — Hiking or wool
socks, headlamps, water bottles,
tarps and camping pants.
■ Scout gear — Pinewood derby
kits, merit badge pamphlets, scout
patches, Scout belts, T-shirts and
hats.
Many thanks to the volunteers
who have donated time to mend,
clean and sort uniforms, as well
as to inspect and clean all the
gear. To arrange for a donation,
email [email protected]
or call 301-656-3600.
Will Stone
Scoutmaster, Troop 52
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Letters to
the Editor
Teachers deserve fair
pay, not just respect
National Teacher Appreciation
Week is a chance for the broader
community to honor those whose
work touches the lives of young
people every day and who dedicate themselves to helping students achieve their dreams.
But teachers are sending a
resounding message to D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson that it’s not enough to say
“thank you” and then move on
with business as usual. Expressing appreciation for teachers rings
hollow if it is not accompanied
by the respect that teachers earn
every day and a true commitment
to work together.
Both teachers and parents
agree that the best expression of
appreciation D.C. Public Schools
teachers could receive right now
would be for the chancellor’s bargaining team to return to the
negotiating table and resolve the
few issues holding up a new collective bargaining agreement.
When you work with students
in the D.C. Public Schools,
almost any day can bring a
moment when you can see how
much your work means to the
young people whose lives we
touch and whose dreams we
encourage.
The chancellor commends our
union’s members as the best
teaching cadre in any district in
America. If she really wanted to
show her appreciation and support her assertion that our teachers have meaningful economic
opportunity, she would agree to a
compensation offer commensurate with what other District of
Columbia and D.C. Public
Schools employees have received.
The chancellor’s teacher
appreciation letter highlights a
fundamental misunderstanding
about the profession of teaching.
I see great things happening all
over this city, and not only
because of those blessed with an
innate talent to teach, but also
those who are skilled and continue to build their pedagogical
skills every day. While talent may
be easily and passively observed
and lauded by leaders, skill must
be actively built and supported.
Year after year, the District loses
an inordinate number of great
teachers, many of whom accepted
some of our schools’ most challenging positions but found little
support to be great.
The chancellor is right about
one thing: Teachers make possible everything else that the school
system does. Teacher Appreciation Week would be a good time
for officials to show true recognition for teachers’ work by returning to the bargaining table.
After decades of experience as
a teacher here, my frequent visits
to schools across our city always
renew my wonder over the mira-
cles that occur every day in our
classrooms. I am so proud to be
able to honor and represent teachers — the miracle workers.
Together, we will keep pushing to
achieve a contract that is good for
students and fair to teachers —
and that embodies the respect and
appreciation teachers deserve.
Elizabeth Davis
President,
Washington Teachers’ Union
ANC 3D led astray by
chair on rec center
Both D.C. law — Section
1-309.11(b)(3) — and Advisory
Neighborhood Commission 3D’s
bylaws (Article V, Section 7)
direct that the commission incorporate the views of residents in
the positions it takes. The members of ANC 3D thus have a
responsibility to listen to and
abide by their constituents. In the
case of historic landmarking of
the Palisades Field House, four
ANC 3D members utterly failed
to meet their duty and responsibility to their constituents.
At the commission’s April 25
special meeting on the subject,
the commissioners voted 4-3
(with two commissioners absent)
in favor of historic landmarking.
To reach this vote, chair Tom
Smith hijacked the meeting, failing to follow D.C. law and ANC
3D’s own bylaws.
In spring 2015, 449 neighbors
weighed in on a survey on the
field house. The survey was
developed to identify neighborhood concerns and to better
inform groups like the Department of Parks and Recreation, the
Department of General Services
and ANC 3D. Only 13 percent of
the 449 respondents favored preserving the field house in its
entirety. When presented with
these findings at the April 25
meeting, the chair dismissed
these results, alleging that the
survey was “biased.” Yet he
failed to present any evidence to
support his assertion.
At its April 2016 meeting, the
Palisades Citizens Association
overwhelmingly voted to adopt a
resolution opposing historic designation of the field house. When
presented with these findings at
the April 25 meeting, the chair
also dismissed these results, this
time on the basis that only “a few
interested” residents attended the
association’s meeting. Yet he
failed to present any evidence
that the majority of association
members, if they had been present, would have supported historic landmarking of the field house.
At the ANC 3D special meeting, four persons spoke up,
including two architects, opposing historic designation on the
basis that the field house has no
redeeming historical or architectural importance. Only one person (not a resident of the Palisades) spoke in favor of landmarking. Again, the chair dismissed the opponents as “a few
loud voices,” implying that there
was a mythical “silent majority”
out there in favor of historic landmarking. As one of those “loud
voices” who cares passionately
about his community, I find the
chair’s comments insulting and
disrespectful. Not surprising, he
failed to present any evidence of
such a “silent majority.” Fortyfive years ago, politicians touted
the “silent majority” in leading
the country down a disastrous
path. ANC 3D has repeated the
same mistake to the detriment of
the Palisades community. It is
time for the commission to support the community and represent
the interests of its constituents,
rather than some personal agenda.
Gordon Kit
The Palisades
Chick-fil-A safety
concerns feel flimsy
While I would oppose the
drive-thru near Van Ness, my reasons are different [“Van Ness
drive-thru jeopardizes Vision
Zero,” Viewpoint, April 27]. We
don’t really need another fastfood operation, do we?
But the arguments regarding
safety seem to be opinions without facts backing them up. It
would be very helpful to know
how safety has been affected by
the addition of restaurants and
supermarkets in the area. Have
there been traffic fatalities, injuries and car crashes above the
level that existed before these
businesses opened?
What is the level of pedestrian
injuries or fatalities from the car
wash that crosses the sidewalk or
the alleyway next to it or behind
the wash? Were preschoolers or
seniors involved?
How many fatalities or injuries
occurred in Bellevue, Wash., or
Birmingham, Ala. (two cities
cited in the open letter to Mayor
Muriel Bowser)? Were those injuries demonstrably higher than the
number of fatalities and injuries
in that neighborhood before the
drive-thrus went in?
A few years ago, Advisory
Neighborhood Commission 3E
got feedback from some American University Park residents
who didn’t want there to be parking on Yuma Street NW on both
sides of the street, for safety reasons. A petition argued that children were going to dart between
the additional parked cars, that
police and fire equipment would
be hindered, and parked cars
damaged. Nobody bothered to
ask how this was going on the
majority of streets that allowed
parking on both sides. A question
to the local police indicated no
knowledge of statistics available
to measure the difference in injuries or car damage, and the local
fire department had no information about access difficulties.
How much more powerful
these arguments would be and
would have been if they only had
some facts.
Craig Hoogstra
Washington, D.C.
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The Current
May 18, 2016 ■ Page 15
Filmmaker explores labyrinths as ‘powerful tool’ for solace, recovery
By GEORGE ALTSHULER
Current Correspondent
O
nce a month, employees at the
Washington National Cathedral
unfurl three canvas designs. They
place two that are more than 40 feet in
diameter in the transepts of the church and
another smaller one downstairs in St. Joseph’s Chapel.
At 6:30 p.m., live harp
and flute music fills the
Cathedral, and a diverse set
of people begin walking
along patterns painted on the
canvases. Those walking on
the two larger ones are following the same design people have followed since the
13th century.
These patterns are known
as meditative labyrinths. As
filmmaker Cintia Cabib documents in her
30-minute film “Labyrinth Journeys,” this
centuries-old practice has made a comeback in the Washington area. In hospitals,
schools, churches and workplaces, people
are walking curving paths into and then
back out of labyrinths. Whether they’re
patients suffering from illnesses, veterans
overcoming traumatic brain injuries or
simply rambunctious children, these practitioners are benefiting in their own way
from what Cabib calls a “powerful tool.”
Julia Langley, who helped create a labyrinth outside the surgery waiting room at
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital,
explained that labyrinths
aren’t mazes or puzzles, but
instead provide people with
a set “pathway.” Outside the
surgery waiting room, following this route offers medical professionals, patients
and visitors waiting for their
loved ones a respite from
stressful situations.
“Something about the
design of labyrinths provides
a framework that makes you
feel safe and allows you to
let go of the outside world,” said Langley,
who is the director of the hospital’s Arts
and Humanities Program. “You’re in a safe
space, even though it’s only marked with
paint. I think that’s the magic of it.”
In her film, Cabib emphasizes how labSee Hospitals/Page 21
Proton centers to alter D.C. cancer treatment
By BRADY HOLT
T
hroughout the United States, there are only a
dozen proton therapy centers, which offer a
sophisticated, relatively new cancer treatment
that concentrates radiation on cancerous cells while
minimizing the effects on healthy ones nearby.
But within about three years, D.C. will see two
such centers open less than three miles apart — at
Sibley Memorial and MedStar Georgetown University hospitals.
Physicians say proton therapy is particularly beneficial to children, as well as to patients with tumors
in sensitive areas such as
the brain, spine and various tissue near the heart,
including breasts and
lungs.
“I think proton therapy is the future of radiation oncology,” MedStar
Georgetown oncologist
Brian Collins said in an
interview. “The reason
why it hasn’t been utilized to date is because
it’s been extremely
expensive. But there’s
been a steep decline in the cost of the technology,
and it’s my prediction that in 10 years, the majority
of facilities will have proton.”
Georgetown won’t wait a decade. The hospital is
on track to open the Washington area’s first proton
therapy center in early 2017. In February, officials
took delivery of their proton accelerator — the
device that creates the proton beam that physicians
will direct at cancer cells.
The hospital is now constructing its facility with
9,000 square feet of clinical space around the new
equipment. Officials expect to serve 300 new
patients per year, with about 30 coming to George-
Photos courtesy of Cintia Cabib
Above, visitors to the Washington National Cathedral stroll one of the canvas labyrinths
there; left, filmmaker Cintia Cabib takes a break from shooting her new documentary
“Labyrinth Journeys” at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
This month in ...
■ 1971 — Dunbarton College, a four-year liberal arts college for women
(located on what would later become the site of the Howard University law
school), inaugurated Paul Gordon Buchanan as the first male president in its
35-year history. D.C. Del. Walter Fauntroy was the principal speaker at the
inauguration ceremony.
■ 1976 — Georgetown University pollsters found that District residents were
less satisfied with city services than they were in 1974. The public schools
and street maintenance turned up
the greatest dissatisfaction. Of 830
From Our archives
persons polled, 64 percent were not
satisfied with schools; 19 percent
were satisfied; and 17 percent were not sure. The pollsters found 58 percent
dissatisfied with street maintenance and repair, 37 percent satisfied and 5
percent unsure. The fire department drew a 72 percent satisfaction rating;
garbage collection, a 60 percent rating; and the police department, a 58 percent rating.
■ 1981 — Former D.C. auditor Matthew Watson argued that too many
department heads were spending time on superfluous programs rather than
more pressing areas. “The acting superintendent of schools has enough
unsolved problems in elementary and secondary education that his time
should not be spent establishing a master’s degree program,” Watson wrote
in a commentary published in The Washington Star and later The Current.
“The recreation director could be fully occupied in minimizing the loss of services at recreation centers instead of planning a marathon.”
Photos courtesy of MedStar Georgetown University Hospital
MedStar Georgetown University Hospital received
the proton accelerator on Feb. 13.
town per day, according to MedStar spokesperson
Marianne Worley. Collins estimates that proton therapy will quickly represent 20 percent of the hospital’s radiation oncology patients, with the rest sticking to conventional photon treatment or the hospital’s CyberKnife radiosurgery.
Sibley’s pace isn’t as aggressive as GeorgeSee Hospitals/Page 21
■ 1986 — The District reissued street grading and improvement permits to
allow the proposed paving of Glover Archbold Parkway and Upton Street for
the building complex at 4000 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Mayor Marion Barry suspended the permits in February in order to receive community comments, but
planning director Fred Greene said the city could not find any basis to deny
the permits. Ward 3 D.C. Council candidate Ruth Dixon criticized the decision,
saying that administrators should have waited until a scheduled Board of
Zoning Adjustment hearing took place. She also repeated her request for citizen participation in street opening decisions, similar to the process already
used for alley closings.
■ 1996 — Georgetown residents won a pledge from Mayor Marion Barry to
scrutinize an application to open a Papa John’s restaurant on Reservoir Road
NW at 35th Street. The Georgetown Homeowners Alliance appealed the District’s decision to grant an interior building permit to Papa John’s, which
opponents described as a takeout and delivery operation ineligible to occupy
the site under the existing zoning. Company officials said they would alter the
company’s traditional concept to provide a sit-down restaurant with delivery
as a secondary use.
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TESTING: Army Corps plans to try new technique to speed up work, improve efficiency
From Page 3
such as horseshoes, scrap metal or
other non-hazardous debris.
With the new system to be tested, it should be possible to create
an electromagnetic pulse over a
metal object and listen for the
item’s “decay curve,” officials
said. The testers have a library that
identifies objects with different
decay curves. The decay curves on
objects found by the devices will
be compared with the information
in the library, and only the items
that match a dangerous substance
would have to be excavated.
The Army plans to test five
diverse properties with the devices
by the end of this summer. All
discovered objects, whether suspicious or not according to their
decay curves, will be dug up and
thoroughly investigated to ensure
the new technology properly identifies the items that are, in fact,
hazardous. After the five property
tests are completed, officials will
prepare an evaluation and report
by the end of the year. The report
will provide an outline for removal action for the rest of the possibly dangerous sites.
Should there be some close
calls, the old method would be
used for those items and also be
available for backup efforts, as the
Army does not want to take any
unnecessary risks, officials said.
But if the experimental devices
correctly identify the objects that
are potentially dangerous on the
five properties, the new system
will be used on the rest of the 100
properties where it is thought there
might be dangerous buried materials. The result would be a much
faster cleanup at a far lower cost
than the current system, officials
said.
CORCORAN: George Washington University plans major renovations for gallery building
From Page 1
the American Express Foundation, Sethi
said.
This first phase of the multi-year renovation process, which kicks off this summer,
will cost $47.5 million. Its exact scope
hasn’t yet been determined, but Sethi
expects it will also include converting some
gallery spaces into classrooms in an effort
to inch toward integrating the educational
and exhibitive aspects of the gallery.
“We have to make sure these classroom
spaces are functioning and, at the same
time, respond to the historic quality of the
building,” Sethi said. “It’s about aesthetics,
but it also has to provide the functionality
that we need to be an expanding art and
design institution.”
George Washington University signed a
deal with the Corcoran to operate its art
school in 2014. At the same time, the
National Gallery of Art arranged to receive
most of the Corcoran’s art. The D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board conferred
landmark status on much of the building’s
interior last year.
Students and faculty will be out of the
building during construction, and public
access to the atrium and gallery spaces in
the Flagg Building also will be closed until
the fall, Sethi said. Work will continue into
the fall, but Sethi said he’s hopeful that construction at that point will mainly be focused
on the exterior, in order to minimize disruption to classroom activity and public perusal.
Sethi hesitated to provide a concrete
timeline for the first phase of the project,
noting that he’s impatient to get it done
quickly. He would prefer to see it finished
by early 2018 but thinks it might be a bit
later if contractors discover aspects that
require careful work to avoid diminishing
the building’s historic character.
Most of the building’s current classroom
spaces lie within the building’s basement
and sub-basement levels. Sethi hopes to see
classrooms in the rest of the building, with
the new spaces more flexible and technologically equipped.
“Gallery spaces are a learning environment, too. But the ability to have room to
practice, whether you’re an interior architect or a graphic designer, to have those
classroom environments not just in the
basement and sub-basement, is a remarkable change,” Sethi said. “I don’t think
either one of those communities should live
in a vacuum.”
As for the Corcoran’s integration into
George Washington University, Sethi hopes
the upgraded gallery building will make
way for more deep-rooted connections.
“One of my goals is to make sure that crosspollination occurs in a more intentional
fashion in the years to come,” Sethi said.
Patrick Kennedy, chair of Advisory
Neighborhood Commission 2A (Foggy Bottom, West End), told The Current he thinks
the renovation is a positive step for what he
calls “a breathtakingly gorgeous building”
and a vital part of the neighborhood and
city’s cultural scene. The gallery’s local
focus marks a departure from several of its
prominent counterparts nearby, which have
national aims, he said.
“GW made a commitment to maintain a
gallery space when they acquired the building,” Kennedy said. “Hopefully, it will
restore the Corcoran’s place as a pivotal part
of the arts community in D.C.”
In another change to the Corcoran, the
school laid off more than half its faculty on
Monday, the Washington City Paper reported. Sethi told the paper that the changes
were based on “curricular focus and projected enrollment.”
A Look at the Market in Northwest Washington
The Current
May 18, 2016 ■ Page 17
Entrepreneur finds passion for renovating old houses
M
ichele Dombo’s onewoman business, MMD
Construction Management, specializes primarily in
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large projects, such as apartment
buildings, retail spaces and school
buildings. But she also has found
a niche rescuing old houses in
Northwest D.C. from the bulldozer.
“I’m a construction manager
and developer for residential and
commercial projects,” she said,
“with a passion for renovating old
homes.”
Dombo studied architecture at
Catholic University, eventually
working as a teaching assistant
for a class in which a Clark Construction Group executive was
finishing her degree. Impressed
with her work, the executive
offered Dombo a job at Clark,
one of the largest development
companies in the Washington
area. She accepted and began
moving back and forth between
construction and architecture,
including an eight-year stint at
Coakley & Williams Construction, where she felt she received
crucial mentoring.
Eventually, friends began calling Dombo halfway through renovation projects asking for
advice. The requests for advice
soon turned into pleas to take
over management of construction
projects. Dombo realized it was
possible to do that type of work
full time, which would give her
more opportunities to develop her
talent for saving old homes.
“I would love to get hold of
people before they renovate or
restore an old home. I can save
them money and time,” she said.
“In the end, my clients get something they like and get clarity on
the process. I’m trying to streamline the process to give people
design, contractors and solutions
to get the work they want done,
educating them on how complex
projects can become.”
Now with more than 10 years
of experience in building design
and construction management,
Dombo selects and oversees
design teams, contractors, subcontractors and consultants to
coordinate all aspects of commercial and residential construction
projects.
While homeowners and buyers
often come to her, having heard
about her services through word
of mouth, Dombo said she is
sometimes even approached by
contractors who want her
involvement in projects. Developers also will seek her out when
they find themselves stymied in
their tear-down plans by outcry
from neighborhood residents.
Dombo completely renovated
the circa-1933 Tudor-style home
Photos courtesy of Michele Dombo
The homes at 3212 Stephenson Place NW, left, and
3750 Northampton St. NW in Chevy Chase are
among those Dombo has renovated.
at 3212 Stephenson Place NW,
updating the electrical and
plumbing systems, exposing original brick, installing marble countertops in the kitchen and adding
other high-end features to suit
contemporary tastes throughout
the house. The owners of this
home still periodically send
thank-you notes for the work
Dombo did.
The 1908 American foursquare
house where Dombo’s mother
currently lives, at 3750
Northampton St. NW in Chevy
Chase, is a home Dombo renovated. To increase the size of the
house without altering the footprint, Dombo added dormers,
bringing the total to three. She
had intended to sell it upon completion, but her mother liked it so
much, she purchased it herself.
Her mother has received many
compliments on the renovations,
and even a handwritten note asking for the name of her designer
and builder.
Dombo’s own home, at nearby
3724 Northampton, is also a
showcase of her skill. The
100-year-old home suffered a fire
and a poor restoration job, so
Dombo spent a good chunk of
time undoing slapdash work. The
American foursquare is now a
spacious seven-bedroom home
with an updated kitchen, four full
bathrooms and one half-bath.
MMD recently won a bid for
the renovation of a roughly
100-year-old American foursquare at 5717 32nd St. NW,
probably because of her personal
letter to the owners pledging to
renovate the house instead of
tearing it down to build a larger
one. Dombo is pleased with the
raw material of the house and
predicts she can maintain the
overall look while increasing the
size and convenience. The floor
in the open-plan living and dining
room is uneven, however, which
Dombo intends to remedy by
moving a wall in the basement to
shore up the sagging portion.
Dombo plans to build a threestory addition onto the back of
the house, finish the basement,
convert the dining room into a
large family room, expand the
kitchen and add a new master
suite. In the end, the house will
have far more square footage, as
well as the contemporary interior
design and amenities homebuyers
expect.
For more information, visit
mmdconstruction.com, or contact
Michele Dombo at 202-731-1177
or michele@mmdconstruction.
com.
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decided to stay and just try to
make everyone happy.”
A few children even started
crying upon hearing that the restaurant would move, Moran said.
Guapo’s lies nearly equidistant
from three neighborhood schools:
Janney Elementary, Deal Middle
and Wilson High.
Meanwhile, the former home of
the now-defunct Firelake Grill, in
a building owned by American
University, remains vacant,
according to university spokesperson Kelly Alexander. “Guapo’s
would have been a great tenant but
in the end they decided to stay at
their current location,” Alexander
wrote in an email.
The groundswell of support
wasn’t a surprise to anyone who
has lived in or stopped by Tenleytown during the restaurant’s more
than two decades in the space,
according to Tenleytown advisory
neighborhood commissioner Jon
Bender. The restaurant has been a
standout in the neighborhood’s
commercial offerings, he said.
“There’s no way to know
whether they would have succeeded wildly down there,” Bender
said. “But you have a golden
goose — why do you even want to
think about killing it?”
Middle C Music owner Myrna
Sislen said she’s pleased the restaurant has decided not to move
away. She had previously expected the move to impact her busi-
ness, since Guapo’s customers
often stop by her store across the
street before or after their meals.
“My first thought was, ‘Wonderful; we can call the dogs off,’”
Sislen said. “We were really mobilizing to do what we could to keep
them there.”
It’s too early to tell if staying in
the old space will mean that the
restaurant will undergo any changes, Moran said. But any alterations
would be mainly for maintenance
and repairs to the aging building.
The public has spoken, Moran
said, and Guapo’s is responding.
“Every single day I had someone who spoke to me about the
moving plan,” Moran said. “We’re
just trying to make the whole community happy.”
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In particular, ANC 3C criticized the “wall-like structure” and
location of the proposed two-story
academic building, which would
sit on the north slope of the campus at 3100 Macomb St. NW and
extend into the portion of the land
owned by the historic Tregaron
Conservancy. The commission’s
resolution also opposed plans to
re-landscape the north slope, arguing that the design plan doesn’t
compensate for the loss of historic
character elsewhere in the project.
The school’s expansion project, originally presented to the
community in October, has
already gone through several revisions as a result of negative feedback. After receiving substantial
opposition to the proposed building height late last year, the school
scaled it back from three stories to
two. Then the school pulled those
plans for further revisions after
receiving criticisms in a Historic
Preservation Office staff report.
The plans presented Monday
night represent the school’s latest
bid for favor from the community.
ANC 3C chair Carl Roller said
he’s gotten more emails, both positive and negative, from constituents about this single issue than he
has received in total on the various
issues he has handled in his five
years on the commission. Some of
them, mainly from Washington
International School parents,
praised the project design and
argued in favor of a plan that adds
much-needed facilities.
But the community response at
the ANC 3C meeting didn’t tilt in
the school’s favor. Tregaron Conservancy executive director Lynn
Parseghian blasted the proposal,
saying the 27-foot-tall, 215-footlong building would “derail and
undermine” the historic character
of the Tregaron land and loom
over the heavily used driveway
entrance on Macomb Street. The
building would appear five stories
tall from certain vantage points,
Parseghian argued, as it would sit
on a 30-foot elevation.
Parseghian also noted that
some of the landscape improvements promised in the project
plans merely fulfill the school’s
prior obligations to the Tregaron
Conservancy, rather than directly
relating to the expansion project.
“Some of the school’s landscape proposals are overdue, but
none of them require a new building on the landmark,” Parseghian
said. “They don’t overcome our
objections to the intrusiveness of
the building or its imposition on
the character of the landmark.”
Head of school Clayton Lewis
said at the meeting that the current
plan represents the least disruptive
project that still meets the growth
goals established in the school’s
2012 comprehensive plan. The
school’s current science facilities
consist of a “substandard carriage
house” built in 1912, Lewis said,
with some students needing to
complete projects at home because
they have more space there. The
new building would connect to the
existing science building, as well
as the middle school.
❝Some of the school’s
landmark proposals are
overdue, but none of
them require a new
building on the
landmark.❞
— Lynn Parseghian
A project architect noted at
Monday’s meeting that half the
footprint of the new development
will cover previously developed
areas, like parking lots, dumpsters, generators and utilities. Part
of the existing gym will be
removed to make sure the new
building can connect as tightly to
the adjacent buildings as possible.
More than 16,500 square feet of
new planting areas and enhanced
existing landscapes make up a
“critical and integral part” of the
plans, the architect said.
Several Macomb Street residents said they moved to the
neighborhood because of its aesthetic features, which they believe
this new building will compromise. One resident said he wishes
the school would consider burying
more of the new facilities to minimize visible disruption. Another
lamented that more than two
dozen trees could be lost in the
construction process. And several
residents said they no longer trust
the school after a breakdown in
communication in recent months.
Lewis attributes the recent lack
of transparency to the school’s
surprise at the degree of blowback
to the two-story building proposal.
“We have really been in a tailspin
because of that,” he said.
Parseghian and her predecessor, Bonnie LePard, countered
that the conservancy has reached
out to the school at various points
in the past decade only to see
progress on promised improvements delayed.
ANC 3C member David Valdez said he wants to see the school
actively take residents’ concerns
into account before he’s willing to
support the project designs. And
Roller said he’s sympathetic to
both sides but hopes the school
will “go back to the drawing
board” in response to persistent
community concern. In the meantime, the Historic Preservation
Review Board will review the
application later this month or
early next.
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ANC 1C
ANCMorgan
1c
Adams
■ adams morgan
The commission will meet at
7 p.m. Wednesday, June 1, at
Mary’s Center, 2355 Ontario
Road NW.
Agenda items include:
■ consideration of a committee
recommendation to protest the
renewal of the Alcoholic Beverage
Control restaurant license for El
Nuevo Migueleno, 1721 Columbia Road NW.
For details, call 202-332-2630
or visit anc1c.org.
ANC 2A
ANCBottom
2A
Foggy
■ Foggy bottom / west end
At the commission’s April 20
meeting:
■ commissioners voted 6-0 to call
for the West End Interim Library
at 2522 Virginia Ave. NW at the
Watergate to continue on a trial
basis even after the new, fullfledged facility at 1101 24th St.
NW opens.
■ commissioners voted 6-0 to
express dissatisfaction with the
Washington Gas project on Snows
Court NW and ask that it be
revised under the supervision of
the Historic Preservation Office.
The commission’s resolution
urges city agencies to withhold
granted construction permits for
the project, which involves new
gas meters with surrounding protection that residents believe is
obtrusive and carelessly installed.
The resolution also authorizes
ANC 2A to provide commission
funds to the residents for legal
counsel should negotiations
require it.
■ Chris Sondreal from the Ward 2
Education Network invited residents to attend a community yard
sale at School Without Walls at
Francis-Stevens, 2425 N St. NW,
on May 21.
■ commissioners voted 6-0 to support a certificate of need application for the acquisition of the nonprofessional assets of Washington
Radiology Associates, 2141 K St.
NW, by Solis Mammography.
■ representatives from the Kennedy Center discussed the current
status of the expansion project for
the performance venue, which will
boast several new pavilions and
significantly more indoor space at
the end of construction.
Current work is focused on a
bridge and ramp connection from
the Kennedy Center down to the
Potomac River, which will allow
pedestrians to get from the Lincoln Memorial to the Kennedy
Center and then across the Roosevelt Bridge. Some residents at the
meeting expressed concern that
the bike ramp will create dangerous situations for passersby on
foot, and others said they don’t
like that the ramp will obscure part
of the view from the Kennedy
Center toward the Georgetown
waterfront and beyond.
■ commissioners voted 6-0 to support a public space application for
external renovations at the Washington Marriott Georgetown, 1221
22nd St. NW.
The commission’s resolution
will go into effect once commissioners and hotel representatives
agree on the exact size and design
of the remodeled porte-cochere at
the hotel’s entrance.
■ commissioners voted 6-0 to support a public space application
from George Washington Univer-
sity to install permanent “No
Smoking” signs on its campus.
■ commissioners voted 6-0 to support a special event application for
the Army Ten-Miler race, which
will run through the neighborhood
on Oct. 9. To address previous
commission concerns regarding
temporary blockage of the streets
surrounding the Watergate complex, the race’s operations manager George Banker said he plans to
increase the number of soldiers
acting as course marshals along
the route, coordinate with Metropolitan Police Department officers, and meet with representatives of the Watergate to discuss
their concerns.
■ commissioners voted 5-0, with
Florence Harmon recusing herself,
to support the concept of providing additional Capital Bikeshare
availability near the intersection of
Constitution Avenue and 22nd
Street NW, and to ask the D.C.
Department of Transportation to
work with the neighborhood to
determine the exact location of a
new bike station.
■ commissioners voted 6-0 to ask
the Public Space Committee for a
30-day delay on consideration of a
public space application for a sidewalk cafe at Whole Foods, 2201 I
St. NW.
■ commissioners voted 6-0 to protest the renewal of a liquor license
for the outdoor cafe at the St.
Gregory Hotel, 2033 M St. NW,
on the basis of peace, order and
quiet. Residents at the meeting
complained about hearing music
on the sidewalk at times during the
past six months.
Commissioner Florence Harmon reported that the hotel never
applied for an entertainment
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not have been playing any music.
■ commissioners voted 6-0 to support the Department of Parks and
Recreation permit application for
the seventh annual Duke Ellington
Birthday Concert in Duke Ellington Park — at the intersection of
New Hampshire Avenue NW, M
Street NW and 21st Street NW —
on April 29.
7 p.m. Wednesday, May 18, in
Room 108, Funger Hall, George
Washington University, 2201 G
St. NW.
■ police report.
■ reports from the offices of
Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ward 2
D.C. Council member Jack Evans.
■ report from the Ward 2 Education Network.
■
commissioner
updates,
announcements and public comments.
■ presentation by the D.C. Board
of Elections regarding new voting
equipment for the 2016 elections.
■ presentation by Goodwill of
Greater Washington regarding the
new adult education school Goodwill Excel Center, 1776 G St. NW.
■ update from George Washington
University Hospital regarding
interior renovations to the hospital’s sixth floor.
■ consideration of a resolution
thanking George Washington University professors Jim Levy and
Peter Fraize for their support during the seventh annual Duke
Ellington Birthday Concert.
regarding the use of the “Georgetown” name for hotels located in
the West End.
■ follow-up on a library services
discussion from the April meeting.
■ consideration of several renewal
applications for current alcohol
license holders.
regarding the historic landmarking
nomination for the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board Building (currently the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau building), 1700
G St. NW.
regarding a Zoning Commission
minor modification application for
the planned unit development at
2100 K St. NW.
■ discussion regarding traffic
issues of 24th Street NW between
L and M streets due to construction work.
regarding a public space application for an enclosed sidewalk cafe
at Whole Foods, 2201 I St. NW.
■ discussion regarding D.C. Council Bill B21-0697, the Advisory
Neighborhood
Commissions
Omnibus Act of 2016.
For details, visit anc2a.org.
Brookings Institution, 1775
Massachusetts Ave. NW.
For details, visit dupontcircleanc.net.
ANC 2B
ANCCircle
2B
Dupont
7:30 p.m. Monday, June 20, at
the 2nd District Police Headquarters, 3320 Idaho Ave. NW.
For details, visit anc3c.org.
■ dupont circle
7 p.m. Wednesday, June 8, at the
ANC 2C
ANC 2C Quarter
Downtown/Penn
■ downtown / penn quarter
6:30 p.m. Monday, June 13, in
Room A-3, Martin Luther King
Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St.
NW.
■ presentation by David Do, director of the Mayor’s Office on Asian
and Pacific Islander Affairs,
regarding Asian American and
Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
■ discussion of plans for the twobuilding Techworld Plaza complex at 800 K St. NW and 801 I St.
NW.
■ consideration of an Alcoholic
Beverage Control license application for Free State, 700 5th St.
NW.
For details, visit anc2c.us or
contact [email protected].
ANC 2D
ANC 2D
Sheridan-Kalorama
■ sheridan-kalorama
7 p.m. Monday, June 20, at Our
Lady Queen of the Americas
Church, California Street and
Phelps Place NW.
For details, visit anc2d.org or
contact [email protected].
ANC 2E
ANC 2E
Georgetown
■ Georgetown / cloisters
Cloisters
burleith / hillandale
6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 31, at
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, 1524 35th St. NW.
or visit anc2e.com.
ANC 2F
ANCCircle
2F
Logan
■ logan circle
7 p.m. Wednesday, June 1, at the
Washington Plaza Hotel, 10
Thomas Circle NW.
or visit anc2f.org.
ANC 3B
ANCPark
3B
Glover
■ Glover Park / Cathedral heights
7 p.m. Thursday, June 16, at
Stoddert Elementary School
and Glover Park Community
Center, 4001 Calvert St. NW.
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
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HOSPITALS: Facilities planned
From Page 15
yrinths can be meaningful for a
wide range of users. In one part
of the documentary, Cabib follows a soldier who walks through
an outdoor labyrinth at the Walter
Reed National Military Medical
Center after surviving breast cancer. In the film, the soldier
describes feeling anger and frustration, but also joy.
On the other end of the spectrum, the film also shows children
playfully enjoying a labyrinth in
Garrett Park, Md. “I wanted to
emphasize that labyrinths aren’t
only used in a contemplative
manner,” Cabib said. “Kids love
to run around in them.”
In another vignette, Cabib
interviews a man at the National
Cathedral who is navigating
unemployment and homelessness.
“The labyrinth gave him the feeling that there was some hope in
life,” Cabib said.
Terri Lynn Simpson, director
of the Cathedral Crossroads program at National Cathedral that
started in 2002, said that for
attendees, walking the labyrinth is
a “very important part of their
spiritual practice.” Other people
simply wander into the Cathedral
and discover the labyrinths.
“Since walking a labyrinth
isn’t a prescribed practice for any
one tradition, it appeals to a wide
range of people,” Simpson said.
The two large labyrinths at the
National Cathedral are modeled
after the labyrinth in the Chartres
Cathedral in France, which dates
back to the year 1200.
The origin of labyrinths is not
known, but there is evidence that
they existed as long as 4,000
years ago. The ancient Romans
and Greeks used them, and they
were also popular in medieval
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From Page 15
Photo courtesy of Cintia Cabib
Cintia Cabib’s documentary includes filming locations on labyrinths
in the D.C. area, including the roof of the American Psychological
Association headquarters in NoMa.
and Renaissance churches in
Europe.
Despite the beauty of many
ancient and medieval labyrinths,
Cabib emphasized that they don’t
have to be elaborate. She pointed
out that the School for Tomorrow,
a private school with campuses in
Reston, Va., and Silver Spring,
Md., created a labyrinth in a classroom by using just green tape.
The labyrinth at MedStar
Georgetown University Hospital
was painted in black on concrete
outside the surgery waiting room
in October 2014. Langley
explained that the labyrinth is
modeled after one from a cathedral in Reims, France. (Ironically,
this labyrinth was destroyed in
1779 by clergy upset that children
were running through it, according to French historian Yann Harlaut.)
In her documentary, Cabib also
features a labyrinth on the green
roof of the American Psychological Association downtown headquarters. Klia Bassing, who leads
a mindfulness class for 15 to 20
employees at the association, said
having a labyrinth is especially
helpful in a workplace.
“Having a labyrinth in an
office can allow for a different
type of mindset to emerge,” she
said.
Bassing, who teaches various
mindfulness practices, said that
labyrinths are especially engaging
because of the movement they
require. She added that their long
history gives people a sense that
they are participating in something sacred.
“It’s about setting aside time,”
she said. “And that can offer a
different perspective on our
lives.”
Cintia Cabib’s film “Labyrinth
Journeys” will premiere at 7:30
p.m. on Tuesday, May 31, at the
Washington National Cathedral
as part of the monthly Cathedral
Crossroads evening, which
includes labyrinth walks beginning at 6:30 p.m. The event is free
and open to the public.
town’s, but its planned facility is
substantially larger. When its proton therapy center opens during
the 2019 fiscal year, it will be
80,000 square feet and serve 125
to 150 patients per day, according
to spokesperson Gary Stephenson. Within about four years of
its opening, Sibley expects 900
patients per year.
Since 2010, Sibley has been
part of Johns Hopkins Medicine,
and its proton therapy center will
be the first in the Hopkins network, according to Ted DeWeese,
head of radiation oncology at
Johns Hopkins.
“This center is extremely
important to the citizens of ... the
area around Sibley, but it is also
very important to what Johns
Hopkins does,” DeWeese said in
an interview. “We gather patients
from around the country and
around the world.”
Even so, he added, the most
value will likely come to nearby
residents, who won’t have to
travel far to receive the treatment
five times a week for four to six
weeks. Today, the nearest proton
therapy center to D.C. — the
Maryland Proton Treatment Center, which treated its first patients
in February — is located an hour
north in Baltimore; the next closest is three hours away in southern Virginia.
DeWeese said that Johns Hopkins will also dedicate a portion
of the Sibley proton therapy center to medical research, testing
animals or individual cells for
how they respond to a mix of
proton therapy and other treatments. He hopes that researchers
there will confirm doctors’ hopes
that because proton therapy has
fewer side effects, patients won’t
be blocked from taking other
helpful drugs while they’re
undergoing it.
Sibley is also partnering with
Children’s National Medical Center to provide pediatric oncology,
and will have one of its three proton therapy treatment rooms
geared toward children, DeWeese
said.
Asked how the proton therapy
centers at Sibley and MedStar
Georgetown will differ, the hospitals’ respective oncologists
described various advantages.
DeWeese said that in addition
to Sibley’s extra patient capacity,
Johns Hopkins intends to install
costlier, more advanced equipment than Georgetown, which
will take up more space but provides a greater precision to its
treatment. “It’s literally just the
most advanced way that one
could do it that’s available at all,”
he said of the Sibley system.
Collins declined to speculate
on whose equipment will be superior, but he said Georgetown has a
history of providing nationally
recognized oncology programs,
including pediatric oncology. And,
as with CyberKnife 15 years ago,
Georgetown has a record of effectively incorporating the latest
technology into its treatments.
“Whenever you have new technology, your level of care has to
be elevated, so we spent many
weekends making sure everything
was optimal,” he said of his experience rolling out CyberKnife.
Both oncologists said there is
room for two renowned D.C. hospitals to offer proton therapy.
“I don’t like the way that people think there’s going to be a
glut of proton therapy,” Collins
said. “I think there’s going to be
good care for many patients by
different practitioners.”
HOMELESS: D.C. Council overhauls mayor’s shelter plans, shifts site for Ward 3 facility
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was more hopeful of reaching the 2018
completion deadline under the council’s
plan.
The revised proposal would relocate
shelters in wards 3, 5 and 6 to land already
owned by the District. In Northwest, Bowser’s plan called for the Ward 3 shelter to be
built at 2619 Wisconsin Ave. NW, across
from the Russian Embassy, but the councilapproved plan would place it on property
that’s currently the parking lot of the Metropolitan Police Department’s 2nd District
Headquarters, at 3320 Idaho Ave. NW. The
Ward 1 and Ward 4 shelter locations are
unchanged from the mayor’s plan, but the
council’s legislation calls on the mayor to
negotiate the purchase of the land or acquire
these locations through eminent domain.
The drive to construct the family homeless shelters on city-owned land came after
residents and some council members complained that the city would pay pricey leases
on the facilities to developers. Under the
mayor’s plan, the city would have leased the
facilities for up to 20 or 30 years in all the
wards except ones east of the Anacostia
River, where the shelters were already proposed on government-owned lots. An independent real estate analysis released on
Monday, commissioned by Mendelson,
concluded that the proposed leases negotiated between the Bowser administration and
developers for the wards 3 and 6 sites were
“significantly above market.” The report, by
Integra Realty Resources, also found that
the city would be leasing the Ward 1 site at
an above-market rate and recommended the
city acquire the land.
The plan approved by the council showcased a rift between Mendelson and Bowser
on the issue. The council chairman said his
plan was drafted in collaboration with council members, but top Bowser aides voiced
frustration that they were cut out of the
process. Administration officials said they
were first notified of Mendelson’s plan on
Monday morning, and hours of private
meetings ensued among officials. The
Bowser administration accused the chairman of pushing through a plan without
committing enough “due diligence.”
Tensions boiled over in a Wilson Building hallway on Tuesday afternoon between
council sessions, when Bowser reportedly
responded to Mendelson with an expletive,
according to two reporters who overheard
the exchange. “You’re a f---ing liar,” the
mayor yelled at Mendelson, adding that he
should know the council plan would not
enable D.C. General to close by 2018.
Bowser spokesperson Michael Czin told
reporters that afternoon that using eminent
domain to acquire shelter land would set a
“problematic precedent,” and City Administrator Rashad Young said the process could
delay the closing of D.C. General. The
council’s relocated Ward 6 site, aides said,
could take at least three years to secure.
“We had a nine- to 14-month process that
we engaged council members, including the
chairman, on. ... And what we’re left with
today is a plan [that] we found out about 26
hours before,” said John Falcicchio, the
mayor’s chief of staff. “For that, there is a
bit of frustration, that we’re not both dealing
with each other at level footing.”
The council on Tuesday also took a first
vote on the District’s 2017 budget, and
Mendelson, in the capital budget, set aside
$60 million for the family homeless shelter
plan, shifting those funds from the Coolidge
High School modernization.
In Ward 3, some community members
had leveled complaints about the original
Massachusetts Avenue Heights shelter site
for months. Ward 3 Council member Mary
Cheh voted yesterday for the council’s plan
and said she supports using the police headquarters property for the new 38-unit shelter.
At the Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3B (Glover Park, Cathedral Heights)
meeting last Thursday, before the council’s
plan went public, residents peppered Bowser with questions and concerns about her
proposed Wisconsin Avenue site, including
criticism that she hadn’t adequately consulted the ANC or the broader community.
One woman complained that the mayor’s
aides had set up a process that would inevitably become adversarial. Several audience
members objected to last week’s filing of a
Board of Zoning Adjustment application for
the Wisconsin Avenue site.
“Some of the people in the administration don’t seem to understand our role,” said
commission chair Jackie Blumenthal when
asking Bowser more generally about
responsiveness to ANC concerns.
Staff writer Chris Kain contributed to
this report.
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Classes and workshops
■ Apana Sadananda will lead a gentle yoga class. 6:45 p.m. Free. Guy
Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert
St. NW. 202-727-7527.
■ Poets on the Fringe will host a
weekly poetry workshop. 7 to 9 p.m.
Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St.
NW. [email protected].
■ The Vajrayogini Buddhist Center
will host a weekly class on meditation. 7
to 8:30 p.m. $6 to $12. Vajrayogini Buddhist Center, 1787 Columbia Road NW.
202-986-2257.
■ A Jewish Study Center class on
“Guns and Gun Violence — Is There a
Jewish Answer?” led by Tom Diaz will
focus on existing federal and state laws
regulating firearms, as well as historical
experiences of Jews and points of reference from Jewish thought about violence and self-defense. 7 p.m. $15 to
$20; reservations suggested. Adas Israel Congregation, 2850 Quebec St. NW.
jewishstudycenter.org.
■ Susan Lowell will lead a tai chi
class. 7:30 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship
Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202727-1488.
Concerts
■ As part of “Ireland 100: Celebrating a Century of Irish Arts and Culture,”
the musical trio Open the Door for Three
will showcase its signature Irish sound,
featuring Liz Knowles on fiddle, Kieran
O’Hare on uilleann pipes, and Pat
Broaders on bouzouki and vocals. 6
p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ As part of the Kennedy Center’s
“Ireland 100: Celebrating a Century of
Irish Arts & Culture,” the Wild Irish
Roses will perform Celtic music with a
bluegrass and American style. 6:45 p.m.
Free. North Plaza, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
■ Singer, songwriter and pianist
Chris Urquiaga will perform. 7:30 p.m.
Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K
St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ Capitol Hill Jazz Jam, hosted by
Herb Scott, will feature a piano cutting
contest. 8 to 11 p.m. No cover; $12
minimum. Mr. Henry’s Restaurant, 601
Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-546-8412.
■ Strange Machines and Mister F
will perform. 8:30 p.m. $10 to $12.
Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
Discussions and lectures
■ Michael Riordan, professor emeri7+(:25/')$0286
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Santa Cruz, will discuss “A Bridge Too
Far: The Demise of the Superconducting
Super Collider.” 4 to 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 505, Elliott
School of International Affairs, George
Washington University, 1957 E St. NW.
elliott.gwu.edu.
■ Jung Yun will discuss her debut
novel “Shelter,” the story of a once-affluent professor whose
fortunes have failed,
and the conflicts that
come when he wrestles with asking his
parents for help, until
the parents are victims of a violent
home invasion and the son must take
them in. 6:30 p.m. Free. Kramerbooks &
Afterwords, 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-387-1400.
■ The West End Library Friends will
present a discussion series with Georgetown University professorial lecturer Ori
Z. Soltes on “Faces of War in Western
Literature,” featuring a lecture on “The
Ghost Road” by Pat Barker. 6:30 p.m.
Free. West End Interim Library, 2522
Virginia Ave. NW. 202-724-8707.
■ The Arts Club of Washington will
host Michael Riedel, author of “Razzle
Dazzle: The Battle for
Broadway,” for a conversation about
Broadway and its larger-than-life characters
with Peter Marks,
drama critic for The
Washington Post.
6:30 p.m. Free. Arts Club of Washington,
2017 I St. NW. 202-331-7282.
■ The Sibley Institute of Bone & Joint
Health will present a seminar by hip and
knee replacement surgeon Gautam
Siram on “Hip and Knee Joint Preservation and Outpatient Joint Replacement.”
6:30 to 8 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Conference Room 2, Sibley
Medical Office Building, 5215 Loughboro Road NW. 202-660-6838.
■ The D.C. Public Library’s “Books &
Bars” modern-day book club will discuss
“All the Light We Cannot See” by Anthony Doerr. 7 p.m. Free; reservations
requested. Gordon Biersch Brewery, 900
F St. NW. [email protected].
Film
■ The French Cinémathèque series
will feature Nicolas Pariser’s 2015 political thriller “The Great Game.” 8 p.m.
$6.75 to $12. Avalon Theatre, 5612
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.
Performances and readings
■ Press Play will present “Hump
Days,” featuring comedy, music and
storytelling acts. This month’s
performers are Dudes on Dudes, Cake
Bagel, and Jon Watkins and Porter Ryan
of the Bloody Onions. 7:30 p.m. $8 to
$12. DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW.
pressplaydcac.bpt.me.
Irish Arts & Culture,” the Abbey Theatre
will present its restaging of Seán
O’Casey’s classic “The Plough and the
Stars.” 7:30 p.m. $35 to $60. Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600. The performance will repeat
Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
■ Mary Bowman will host an open
mic poetry event. 9 to 11 p.m. $5. Cullen Room, Busboys and Poets 5th & K,
1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227.
Special events
■ The Georgetown Library will host
an evening of “Friend Speed Dating,” a
platonic version of regular speed dating
designed to introduce you to potential
friends in a high-energy, low-pressure
way. 7 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW.
202-727-0232. bit.ly/geofrienddate.
■ Upshur Street Books will host a
talk and tasting with chef, food stylist
and photographer Mathew Ramsey,
author of “Pornburger: Hot Buns and
Juicy Beefcakes.” 7 to 9 p.m. $37.92;
reservations required. Third floor, 4200
9th St. NW. upshurstreetbooks.com.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Mystics will play
the Dallas Wings. 7 p.m. $19 to $300.
Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-7453000.
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Children’s programs
■ “Preschool Series: Gardens Alive!”
will explore one of Hillwood’s gardens
with art projects and imaginative play.
10:30 to 11:15 a.m. $10 to $12. Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens,
4155 Linnean Ave. NW. 202-686-5807.
■ Children’s authors Sophie Blackall
and John Bemelmans Marciano will
present their book “Witches of Benevento: Mischief Season,” a new series that
takes place in 1820s Italy where Janara
— humans by day but flying beings by
night — make mischief (for ages 7 to 9).
10:30 a.m. Free. Politics and Prose,
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3641919.
■ Laura Shovan will discuss her novel-in-verse, “The Last Fifth Grade of
Emerson Elementary” (for ages 6
through 12). 4 p.m. Free. Georgetown
Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.
■ An afternoon of science and art
activities will mark the opening of an
exhibit of “BioArt,” featuring images produced by scientific investigators but
rarely seen outside the laboratory, curated for the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology’s competition (for ages 6 and older). 4 p.m. Free.
Children’s Room, Palisades Library,
4901 V St. NW. 202-282-3113. The
exhibit will continue through Aug. 19
during library hours.
■ Friends of the Cleveland Park
Library will present weekly chess
instruction for kids of all ages. 5 p.m.
Free. Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-3080.
■ Children’s author Sherman Alexie
will share his book “Thunder Boy Jr.,”
which tells the story of the son of a gentle giant who wonders why he can’t have
a name of his own, and suggests
Drums, Drums and More Drums or
maybe Mud in His Ears as possibilities
(for ages 5 to 9). A Q&A will follow. 6:30
p.m. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-7270321.
■ Housing Counseling Services Inc.
will present an orientation session for
prospective homebuyers. 11 a.m. Free;
reservations requested. Suite 100, 2410
17th St. NW. housingetc.org.
■ The Take Charge/Age Well Academy will hold a class on “Understanding
Public Benefits: Benefits and Eligibility
for the LGBTQ Community,” with Murray
Scheel, senior staff attorney at Whit-
Wednesday, may 18
■ Discussion: Sidney Blumenthal,
a national political reporter and
editor and a senior adviser to Hillary and Bill Clinton, will discuss his
book “A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, 18091849,” the first in a multi-volume
biography that focuses on Lincoln’s political thinking. 7 p.m.
Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
man-Walker Health, discussing retirement, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and more. 3:30 p.m. Free; registration required. Iona Senior Services,
4125 Albemarle St. NW. 202-895-9420.
■ Instructor Nina Dunham will lead a
“Gentle Gyrokinesis” class to improve
posture, balance and agility. 4 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Guy Mason
Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St. NW.
202-727-7527.
■ The Northwest One Library will
host a weekly yoga class for adults and
teens of skill levels. 7 p.m. Free. Northwest One Library, 155 L St. NW. 202939-5946.
■ A twice-monthly program by the
Upper NW Knitters will explore how to
knit and crochet. 7 to 9 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin
Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.
■ A weekly Introduction to Flamenco
class will feature an intense, full-body
warmup followed by a lesson in basic
flamenco technique and choreography.
7 to 8:15 p.m. $20 per session. Chevy
Chase Baptist Church, 5671 Western
Ave. NW. [email protected].
Concerts
■ As part of the European Month of
Culture, pianist Aphrodite Mitsopoulou
will perform music by Chopin, Liszt, Konstantinidis and Skalkottas. 12:30 p.m.
Free. West Garden Court, West Building,
National Gallery of Art, 6th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ Busboys and Poets and the DC
Laborfest will present a concert by labor
singers Magpie and George Mann. 5 to
8 p.m. $10; reservations suggested. Cullen Room, Busboys and Poets 5th & K,
1025 5th St. NW. busboysandpoets.
com.
■ Participants in the National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship Chamber Groups will perform a program
including Malcolm Arnold’s “Quintet for
Brass, Op. 73” and “Three Shanties for
Wind Quintet.” 6 p.m. Free. Millennium
Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
Irish Arts & Culture,” the trio Capital
Celtic will perform traditional Irish jigs,
pub songs and ballads. 6:30 p.m. Free.
North Plaza, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ Musician Mary Fagan will perform.
7:30 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl
Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.
com.
■ Mozart in Vienna will present “Le
Nozze di Figaro,” Mozart’s comic masterpiece about love and marriage in the
castle of the Count and Countess Almaviva. 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. $42; reservations required. Embassy of Austria,
3524 International Court NW. afcdc.org.
■ A recital will feature guitar students of Dave Baise. 8 p.m. Free. Middle
C Music, 4530 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202244-7326.
■ “Thursday Night Bluegrass” will
feature newgrass musicians By & By. 8
to 11 p.m. No cover; $12 minimum. Mr.
Henry’s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania
Ave. SE. 202-546-8412.
■ The
Hackensaw
Boys (shown)
and Herb &
Hanson will
perform. 8:30
p.m. $15 to
$20. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
■ Joel Goldstein, professor at Saint
Louis University School of Law, will discuss his book “The White House Vice
Presidency: The Path to Significance,
Mondale to Biden,” in which the author
presents a comprehensive account of
the modern vice presidency, its evolution and the role of political leadership
in institutional development. Noon. Free.
McGowan Theater, National Archives
Building, Constitution Avenue between
7th and 9th streets NW. 202-357-5000.
■ George Yin, professor of law and
taxation at the University of Virginia and
former chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, will discuss his research
in the committee’s records and how the
panel has shaped U.S. tax policies.
Noon. Free. Research Center, G-25,
National Archives Building, Constitution
Avenue between 7th and 9th streets
NW. 202-357-5000.
■ Historian James Barber will lead a
conversation about Boris Chaliapin’s
portrait of “Dallas” actress Barbara Bel
Geddes. Noon. Free. G Street Lobby,
National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F
streets NW. 202-633-1000.
■ Tom Goehner, curator of education, will compare the ikat robes on view
in “Old Patterns, New Order: Socialist
Realism in Central Asia” made before
and after the Soviet Revolution. Noon.
Free. George Washington University
Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st
St. NW. 202-994-5200.
■ Scholar Bruce Jentleson will discuss “Profiles in Statesmanship: 20th
Century Breakthroughs for Global Peace
and Security and 21st Century Challenges.” 4 to 6 p.m. Free. Kluge Center
Meeting Room, Jefferson Building,
Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202707-1616.
■ The Cottage Conversation series
will feature Sidney Blumenthal, author
of “A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of
Abraham Lincoln.” Reception at 6 p.m.;
lecture at 6:30 p.m. $10 to $20. President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’
Home, Upshur Street at Rock Creek
Church Road NW. 202-688-3735.
■ Scott Sheppard, staff scientist at
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the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution for Science, will discuss “Beyond Pluto: The
Hunt for Planet X.” 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Broad
Branch Campus, Carnegie Institution for
Science, 5251 Broad Branch Road NW.
carnegiescience.edu/events.
■ Best-selling horror novelist Joe Hill
will discuss his book “The Fireman,”
about an epidemic of
Dragonscale,
a bacteria
that causes
its victims to
burst into
flames. 6:30 p.m. Free. Busboys and
Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St. NW. 202726-0856.
■ The Goethe-Institut Washington
will present a discussion on “How’s It
Going, Germany? Growing Far-Right Sentiments in Europe and the U.S.,” with
panelists Heidi Beirich of the Southern
Poverty Law Center; Sophie Heine of
Egmont Institute in Brussels; Michael
Minkenberg of Europe University
Viadrina in Frankfurt, Germany; and
Thomas Grumke of the University of
Applied Sciences for Public Administration and Management of North RhineWestphalia, Germany. 6:30 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Goethe-Institut
Washington, Suite 3, 1990 K St. NW.
goetheinstitutwashington.eventbrite.com.
■ The Botstiber Foundation will host
a discussion on “The Politics of Migration in America and Austria” with Farid
Hafez, a researcher in the Department
of Political Science at the University of
Salzburg; James Hollifield, professor of
political science and director of the
Tower Center at Southern Methodist University; and Tara Zahra, a professor of
East European history at the University
of Chicago. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Embassy of Austria,
3524 International Court NW. afcdc.org.
■ Joel E. Dimsdale, professor emeritus and research professor in psychiatry
at the University of California at San
Diego, will discuss his book “Anatomy of
Malice: The Enigma of the Nazi Criminals.” 6:30 p.m. $8 to $10. International
Spy Museum, 800 F St. NW. 202-3937798.
■ Mark Kurlansky, former foreign
correspondent for the International Herald Tribune, Chicago Tribune, Miami Herald and Philadelphia Inquirer, will discuss his book “Paper: Paging Through
History.” 6:45 to 8:45 p.m. $30 to $45.
S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson
Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Annette Gordon-Reed (shown), winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National
Book Award for “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American
Family,” and Peter
Onuf, the Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Foundation professor
of history emeritus at
the University of Virginia, will discuss
their book “‘Most Blessed of the Patriarchs’: Thomas Jefferson and the
Empire of the Imagination,” which provides new insights into Jefferson’s views
on Christianity, slavery, race and philosophy. 7 p.m. Free. McGowan Theater,
National Archives Building, Constitution
Avenue between 7th and 9th streets
NW. 202-357-5000.
■ Thad Carhart, author of the bestselling memoir “The Piano Shop on the
Left Bank,” will discuss his sequel “Finding Fontainebleau: An American Boy in
France,” which recalls his boyhood years
in France in the 1950s and the development of his later appreciation for French
art, architecture and style. 7 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ 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.
■ Joyce Ladner, Betty Garman Robinson, Judy Richardson and Jean Smith
Young, contributors to the book “Hands
on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts
by Women in SNCC,” will discuss their
work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on the front lines of
the civil rights movement. 7 to 9 p.m.
Free. Potter’s House, 1658 Columbia
Road NW. 202-232-5483.
■ Siddhartha Mukherjee, assistant
professor of medicine at Columbia University and Pulitzer Prize-winning author
of “The Emperor of All Maladies,” will
discuss his new book “The Gene: An Intimate History,” a comprehensive study
that charts the questions, discoveries
and mysteries that led to the formulation of modern genetics. 7 p.m. $18 to
$35. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I
St. NW. sixthandi.org.
■ The Takoma Park Library’s Adult
Book Club will hold its monthly meeting.
7 p.m. Free. Takoma Park Library, 416
Cedar St. NW. 202-576-7252.
■ R. Larry Todd, professor of music
at Duke University, will discuss “Revisiting Mendelssohn’s Octet, or the Maturing of Precocity.” 7 p.m. Free; tickets
required. Montpelier Room, Madison
Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. loc.gov/concerts.
■ The Georgetown Book Club will discuss Rabih Alameddine’s 2014 novel
“An Unnecessary Woman,” which follows
Aaliya Sohbi, a 72-year-old translator in
Beirut, as she reflects upon her life, her
work and her city. 7:30 p.m. Free.
Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW.
[email protected].
■ Author, speaker and psychiatrist
Norman E. Rosenthal
(shown) will discuss
his book “Super
Mind: How to Boost
Performance and Live
a Richer and Happier
Life Through
Transcendental
Meditation,” with moderator Candy
Crowley. 8 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Avalon Theatre, 5612
Connecticut Ave. NW. tinyurl.com/
supermind-dc.
Film
■ Preservation specialists Criss
Kovac, Audrey Amidon and Heidi Holmstrom will share federal government
films they love, from the historically significant to the delightfully misguided. 2
p.m. Free. McGowan Theater, National
Archives Building, Constitution Avenue
between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202357-5000.
■ Slovenian poet Cvetka Lipus will
read from her work. Noon to 1 p.m.
Free. European Reading Room, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st
Exhibition eyes dollhouses
“Small Stories: At Home in a Dollhouse,” featuring 12
dollhouses that span 300 years (dating back to the 1760s)
from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London will open
Saturday at the National Building Museum. On view
On exhibit
through Jan. 22, the houses survey the history of British
domestic life, architecture and design. The exhibit will also
showcase the artistic interpretations of a dollhouse by 24
diverse American architects, designers and artists.
Located at 401 F St. NW, the museum is open Monday
through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission costs $10 for adults and $7
The Hopkinson House, sold in England in the
for students, seniors and ages 3 through 17; it is free for
1980s and ’90s but set in the 1940s, is on loan
ages under 3. 202-272-2448.
■ “Senses of Time: Video and Film-Based Works of Africa,” from the Victoria and Albert Museum for the
highlighting six African artists who examine how time is
National Building Museum exhibit.
experienced by the body, will open today at the National
Museum of African Art. Continuing through Jan. 2, the
■ “Ladies First,” a group exhibit of women working today in
works are by Sammy Baloji, Theo Eshetu, Moataz Nasr,
various media, will open Saturday with an artists’ reception
Berni Searle, Yinka Shonibare MBE and Sue Williamson.
from 5 to 7 p.m. at Gallery Neptune & Brown. On view
Located at 950 Independence Ave. SW, the museum is through July 16, the show features artists Carol Barsha,
open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-4600.
Raya Bodnarchuk, Cianne Fragione, Emily Francisco, Janis
■ A one-night-only show of works by artist Nima Veiseh will Goodman, Tazuko Ichikawa, Linn Meyers and Beverly Ress.
be open tomorrow from 6:30 to 10 p.m. at Fathom
Located at 1530 14th St. NW, the gallery is open
Gallery. Veiseh — also known by his street name, the
Wednesday through Saturday from noon to 7 p.m. 202Enigma of Newyork — is affected by a rare condition known 986-1200.
as hyperthymesia that leads him to replay every moment
■ 52 O Street Artist Open Studios: Spring 2016 will
of his life like a movie, which he then translates into art.
take place Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at
Fathom Gallery is located at 1333 14th St. NW. 20252 O St. NW, highlighting the work of the artists and
588-8111.
designers who work and live there. 52ostreet.com.
■ “Light, Shadow & Time,” presenting contemporary prints ■ The Phillips Collection will open an exhibit Monday of
by 16 emerging and
works by young artists in its D.C. partner
established printschools from the culmination of this year’s Art
makers, will open FriLinks to Learning: Museum-in-Residence proday at the Old Print
gram. The schools include Takoma Education
Gallery and continCampus, Turner Elementary School and King
ue through Sept. 10.
Elementary School, and the exhibit will contin Located at 1220
ue through Aug. 14.
31st St. NW, the galLocated at 1600 21st St. NW, the museum
lery is open Tuesday
is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10
through Saturday
a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday until 8:30 p.m. and
from 10 a.m. to 5:20
Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission on
p.m. 202-965-1818.
the weekends costs $12 for adults and $10
■ “Flourish: Inside
for seniors and students; it is free for ages 18
Linn Meyers’ “Our View From Here”
and Out,” showcasand younger. Admission during weekdays is
(shown in detail), is now on view at
ing the proven
free. 202-387-2151.
human health bene■ “Our View From Here,” a site-specific wall
the Hirshhorn Museum.
fits of interacting
drawing by Mount Pleasant artist Linn Meyers,
with nature, will open Saturday at the U.S. Botanic Garwent on view in the inner circle of the Hirshhorn Museum
den, which developed the indoor and outdoor exhibit in
and Sculpture Garden last week and will remain there
consultation with the Chicago Botanic Garden. It will confor a year. The artist will give a talk May 25 at 6:30 p.m.
tinue through Oct. 2.
Located at Independence Avenue and 7th Street SW,
Located at 100 Maryland Ave. SW, the Botanic Garden
the museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-225-8333.
633-1000.
St. SE. 202-707-4515.
■ The Happenings at the Harman
Happy Hours series will feature a Shakespearean cabaret in connection with
“The Taming of the Shrew,” featuring
classical actress Cam Magee and cabaret singer Bev Coshem with a look at the
battle of the sexes through a mix of the
Bard and jazz standards. 5:30 p.m.
Free. Mezzanine Lobby, Sidney Harman
Hall, 610 F St. NW. 202-547-5688.
■ Soprano Vanessa Vasquez, an
artist-in-residence at Philadelphia’s
prestigious Academy of Vocal Arts and
winner of the 2015 VocalArts DC “Art
Song Discovery” Competition, will
perform works by composers such as
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss,
Fernando Obradors, Rebecca Clarke and
Ben Moore who were inspired by
artworks by Paul DuBois, Arthur Dove,
George Inness, Marjorie Phillips and
Ernest Lawson, among others. 6:30 p.m.
$8 to $20; reservations suggested.
Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW.
phillipscollection.org/events.
■ The Wilson Players will present
“columbinus,” a play written in response
to the April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School. 7 p.m. $5 to $10.
Black Box Theater, Wilson High School,
3950 Chesapeake St. NW. wilsonhs.org.
The performance will repeat Friday at 7
p.m. and Saturday at 2 and 7 p.m.
■ “The Life of a Poet” — a discussion
series moderated by Ron Charles, editor
of The Washington Post’s Book World —
will feature Mary Jo Bang. 7 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Hill Center at the
Old Naval Hospital, 921 Pennsylvania
Ave. SE. hillcenterdc.org.
■ Washington Improv Theater will
present “Road Show: Pandemonium,” a
longform performance by ensembles of
experienced improvisers who create
entire worlds spontaneously, spurred by
a single audience suggestion. 7:30 p.m.
$10 to $15. DC Arts Center, 2438 18th
St. NW. 202-462-7833. Performances
also will be held Friday and Saturday at
7:30 p.m.
Special events
■ “History & Hops,” a monthly series
of house tours and beer tastings at the
Heurich House Museum, will feature
brews from Caboose Brewing Co. of
Vienna, Va. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $35.
Heurich House Museum, New
Hampshire Avenue and 20th Street NW.
heurichhouse.org.
■ ZooFari will feature food from 100plus area restaurants, wine, entertainment, animal demonstrations and a
silent auction. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. $160
to $200. National Zoo, 3001 Connecticut Ave. NW. nationalzoo.si.edu.
Tour
■ Alexandra Torres, an education
specialist at the U.S. Botanic Garden,
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and Claire Alrich, a staff member at the
National Fund for the U.S. Botanic Garden, will lead a guided nature walk
focusing on “Nature in Motion” and
incorporating stretching and calming
exercises. 12:15 to 1 p.m. Free; reservations required. U.S. Botanic Garden, 100
Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.
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Art events
■ Artists Dan Treado, Steve Cushner,
Chip Richardson and Christopher Addison will discuss their work, and a sound
performance with local musicians will
debut Treado’s invention, the Random
Noise Generator. 6 p.m. Free; reservations required. Addison/Ripley Fine Art,
1670 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-3385180.
■ Contemporary artist Vian Shamounki Borchert will present her latest
paintings, from figurative work to landscapes inspired by the nature of the
D.C. area. The event will include a DJ
playing a mix of international music. 7 to
11 p.m. $20 to $25. Penthouse Pool
Club and Sunset Rooftop Lounge, 1612
U St. NW. internationalclubdc.com.
■ Children’s authors Sophie Blackall
and John Bemelmans Marciano will
present their book “Witches of Benevento: Mischief Season,” a new series that
takes place in 1820s Italy where Janara
— humans by day but flying beings by
night — make mischief (for ages 7 to 9).
9:30 a.m. Free. Busboys and Poets 14 &
V, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
■ Children’s graphic novelist Maris
Wicks, author of “Human Body Theater,”
will present her new nonfiction work
“Coral Reefs: Cities of the Ocean,” the
latest in her Science Comics series that
explores the biology, ecological importance and fascinating inhabitants of
coral reefs (for ages 9 to 13). 10:30
a.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Linny Giffin of the Lemon Bowl will
present “Make and Take: Weaving for
Beginners.” 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. $45. Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F St. NW. 202547-1122.
■ Artist Will Fleishell will present a
drop-in figure drawing class. 6:30 to
9:30 p.m. $15. Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, 545 7th St. SE. 202-547-6839.
■ Capitol Hill Arts Workshop will host
“Knit & Sip,” an evening of knitting and
wine. 7 to 9 p.m. $30. Capitol Hill Arts
Workshop, 545 7th St. SE. 202-5476839.
Concerts
■ Alan Hommerding of Chicago will
present an organ recital. 12:15 p.m.
Free. National City Christian Church, 5
Thomas Circle NW. 202-797-0103.
■ Arts@Midday will present the
Washington Revels’ Gallery Voices performing Renaissance madrigals, partsongs and humorous P.D.Q. Bach works.
12:15 to 1 p.m. Free. St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 3001 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
revelsdc.org.
■ Participants in the National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellowship Chamber Groups will present a program
including Dvorák’s “Serenade for
Strings, Op. 22” and Beethoven’s “String
&
The Current
Quartet No. 4 in C Minor, Op. 18.” 6
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ A recital will feature guitar students of John Linn. 6 p.m. Free. Middle
C Music, 4530 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202244-7326.
Irish Arts & Culture,” a performance and
demonstration of uilleann pipes will feature Gay McKeon, Emmett Gill and Amy
Campbell, with Catherine McEvoy
accompanying on Irish flute. 6:30 p.m.
Free. North Plaza, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600. The performance will repeat
Saturday at 1:30 and 6:30 p.m.
■ The Yards Park Friday Night Concert Series will feature a lineup presented by the Tour de Fat. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Free. The Yards Park, 355 Water St. SE.
capitolriverfront.org.
■ The School Without Walls concert
choir will present a benefit concert “Zarzuela!” to help raise funds for its participation in an upcoming Cuban choral
music exchange program. The concert
will include renowned opera singers
Anamer Castrello and Peter Burroughs
performing Cuban songs. 6:30 p.m. $10
to $50. The United Church, 1920 G St.
NW. swwhs.org.
■ The Embassy Series will host a
farewell concert and buffet reception for
Jean-Louis Wolzfeld, ambassador of Luxembourg to the United States. 7:30 p.m.
$75. Embassy of Luxembourg, 2200
Massachusetts Ave. NW.
202-6252361.
■ Singersongwriter
Michaela
Anne will present a CD release show. 8
p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge,
3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ NSO
Pops will feature iconic
R&B group
Boyz II Men in
an evening of
smooth harmonies and award-winning No. 1 hits. 8
p.m. $45 to $125. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. The performance will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m.
■ “Jazz on the Hill” will feature Herb
Scott. 8 to 11 p.m. No cover; $15 minimum. Mr. Henry’s Restaurant, 601
■ The Everyone Orchestra and Of
Tomorrow will perform. 9 p.m. $20 to
$24. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
required. Conservatory Classroom, U.S.
Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW.
202-225-8333.
■ In a Lunch Bite Object Talk, Society
of the Cincinnati curator Emily Schulz
Parsons will share the story of a portrait
miniature of Gen. Henry Clinton, commander of the British army in America,
painted by John Ramage in New York,
circa 1778 to 1782. 12:30 p.m. Free.
Society of the Cincinnati, Anderson
House, 2118 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
202-785-2040.
■ Eric Ripert (shown), award-winning
chef and co-owner of
top restaurant Le Bernardin, will discuss
his book “32 Yolks:
From My Mother’s
Table to Working the
Line,” which recounts
his unhappy childhood and the instinct that drove him to
spend time in the kitchen. Ripert, who
recently opened Westend Bistro in D.C.,
will be joined in conversation by Sally
Swift, co-creator and managing producer
of American Public Radio’s “The Splendid Table.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.
Discussions and lecture
■ Jessica Brantley, associate professor of English at Yale University, will discuss “Poetry and Prayer: Wynkyn de
Worde’s Literary Hours.” Noon. Free;
reservations suggested. Folger Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE.
folger.edu.
■ Cecilia Garcia Akers will discuss
her new biography on her father, “The
Inspiring Life of Texan Hector P. Garcia.”
Noon to 1 p.m. Free. Whittall Pavilion,
Jefferson Building, Library of Congress,
10 1st St. SE. 202-707-9824.
■ Gerry Moore of the U.S. Department of Agriculture will discuss “Where
Are All the Wildflowers Going?” and
describe the recent changes in plant
distributions for many species in the
U.S. Noon to 1 p.m. Free; reservations
■ The Dick Budson Jazz Sextet will
perform a benefit concert for the Osher
Lifelong Learning Institute Future Fund.
Reception at 5:45 p.m.; concert at 7:15
p.m. $85. Abramson Family Recital Hall,
Katzen Arts Center, American University,
4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202895-4860.
“Ireland 100:
Celebrating a
Century of
Irish Arts &
Culture,” Theatre Lovett will
present storyteller Louis Lovett’s one-man show “The
Girl Who Forgot to Sing Badly,” about a
brave Irish lass who crosses snow-
Festival
■ The two-day Biodiversity Festival —
part of the cornerstone BioBlitz in the
Washington area — will feature hands-on
science exhibits, food, art, and familyfriendly activities and entertainment. 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. Free admission. Constitution Gardens, 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. nationalgeographic.
org/projects/bioblitz. The festival will
continue Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Films
■ The Petworth Library will host its
“Retro Film Matinee” series. 10:30 a.m.
Free. Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas
Ave. NW. 202-243-1188.
■ The Woman’s National Democratic
Club’s Film Night will feature Aviva
Kempner’s documentary “Rosenwald,”
about how philanthropist Julius Rosenwald partnered with African-American
communities to build 5,300 schools in
the South during the Jim Crow era. 6 to
8:30 p.m. $10 to $25. Woman’s National Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.
■ The outdoor Golden Cinema series
will kick off with Rob Reiner’s 1995
comedy “The American President,” starring Michael Douglas and Annette Bening. Sunset. Free. Farragut Square Park,
Connecticut Avenue and K Street NW.
goldentriangledc.com.
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■ Concert: The Friday Noon Concert series will feature the duo
Marcolivia performing works by
Bartók, Martinu and Igudesman.
Noon. Free. Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I St. NW. 202-331-7282.
capped mountains and treacherous
seas to unleash her true voice. 7 p.m.
$20. Family Theater, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600. The performance will
repeat Saturday and Sunday at 1:30
and 4 p.m.
Irish Arts & Culture,” Irish dancer/choreographer Colin Dunne will present his
multidisciplinary solo show “Out of
Time,” which integrates virtuoso dance
technique, electronic sound manipulation, archival film footage and spoken
word. 7 p.m. $45. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. The performance will repeat Saturday at 7 p.m.
■ GALA Hispanic Theatre’s Paso
Nuevo Youth Ensemble will present
“Running the Fight/Controlando la
pelea,” an original work of monologues
and scenes about the impact of guns
and gun violence on the community
(performed in English, with some Spanish; strong language). Guest artists
include Raymond Barquero and Elijah
Lenix of the Aged Out Poets and pianists
Michelle Vasquez and Clarke Paty of the
Duke Ellington School of the Arts. 8 p.m.
Free. GALA Theatre, 3333 14th St. NW.
202-234-7174.
Special events
■ Religious leaders and scholars
Imam Johari Abdul-Malik, Bishop
Mariann Edgar Budde, Bruce Feiler and
Imam Mohamed Magid will hold an
interfaith service on “Faith Over Fear:
Choosing Unity Over Extremism,” with a
“Dinner of Dialogue” to follow. 6 p.m.
Free for service; $18 for dinner.
Registration required. Washington
Hebrew Congregation, 3935 Macomb
St. NW. whctemple.org/
congregationalconversations.
■ National Geographic and the
National Park Service will host “Bugs,
Bats & Brews,” a beer garden and
festival celebrating biodiversity. The
event will feature DJ Ecotone, who mixes
animal sounds with exotic beats; a look
at the wild side of animal behavior with
Anand Varma and Danielle N. Lee; and a
performance by French Horn Rebellion.
6 to 10 p.m. Free admission.
Constitution Gardens, 17th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. events.
nationalgeographic.com.
■ Alliance Française de Washington
will host a Wine & Cheese Happy Hour.
7 p.m. $15 to $20. Alliance Française
de Washington, 2142 Wyoming Ave. NW.
francedc.org.
■ Brightest Young Things and the
National Museum of Women in the Arts
will present “Exclusively Inclusive,” an
after-hours event with music, cocktails
and art. 8 p.m. to midnight. $60 to $65.
National Museum of Women in the Arts,
1250 New York Ave. NW. nmwa.org.
■ Members of “The President’s Own”
U.S. Marine Band will perform at an evening parade with 75 minutes of music
and precision marching also featuring
“The Commandant’s Own” drum and
bugle corps, a silent drill platoon, ceremonial marchers and Cpl. Chesty XIV,
the official mascot of Marine Barracks
Washington. 8:45 p.m. Free; reservations required. Marine Barracks, 8th
and I streets SE. 202-433-4011. The
parades will continue every Friday evening through Aug. 26.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Mystics will play
the Los Angeles Sparks. 7 p.m. $19 to
$300. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW.
800-745-3000.
Tours
■ The American University Museum
will present a docent-led tour of one of
its spring exhibitions. 12:30 p.m. Free.
American University Museum, Katzen
Arts Center, American University, 4400
Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-1300.
■ U.S. Botanic Garden volunteer and
rosarian Sharon Hanes will lead a tour
of the U.S. Botanic Garden’s Rose Garden. 3 to 4 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Meet on the National Garden
Lawn Terrace, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100
■ A curator’s tour of Dumbarton
Oaks’ “75 Years/Objects: Revealing”
exhibition will focus primarily on works
of art that have a built-in, concealed
interior that is not visible at first glance.
3 p.m. Free. Dumbarton Oaks Research
Library and Collection, 1703 32nd St.
NW. doaks.org.
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Saturday, May 21
■ A park ranger will lead a planetarium program about the season’s brightest stars, planets and constellations (for
ages 5 and older). 1 p.m. Free. Rock
Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road
NW. 202-895-6070.
■ Children will hear a story about
Mary Cassatt 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.
■ The Embassy of Sweden will host
a weekly storytime for children and families to experience Swedish children’s literature. 2 p.m. Free. Embassy of Sweden, 2900 K St. NW. swedenabroad.
com/washington.
■ A park ranger will lead a planetarium program about the solar system, the
Milky Way and other deep space objects
(for ages 7 and older). 4 to 4:45 p.m.
Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200
Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070. The
program will repeat Sunday at 4 p.m.
■ A writing workshop to “Create
Space for Creative Writing in Your Busy
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Life” will focus on how to renew your
creative spirit and set new goals. 9:30
a.m. $69; registration required. Cove,
1817 M St. NW. willonasloan.com.
■ Guy Mason Recreation Center will
host an exercise and dance class with
Gayla April. 9:30 a.m. Free; reservations
required. Guy Mason Recreation Center,
3600 Calvert St. NW. 202-727-7527.
■ Art historian Nancy G. Heller will
lead a seminar on “Masters of the FineArt Print: Dürer to Warhol.” 9:30 a.m. to
4:15 p.m. $90 to $140. S. Dillon Ripley
Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202633-3030.
■ Cookbook author Monica Bhide
(shown) will lead a
seminar on “The
Right Ingredients for
a Winning Cookbook,”
which will include a
panel discussion with
Joan Nathan, awardwinning cookbook
author and frequent New York Times
contributor; Domenica Marchetti, cookbook author and contributor to The
Washington Post, Fine Cooking, and
Food and Wine; Nevin Martell, food, travel and lifestyle writer and author of “The
Founding Farmers Cookbook” and “It’s
So Good: 100 Real Food Recipes for
Kids”; and Bonnie Benwick, Washington
Post food section deputy editor and writer of the “Dinner in Minutes” column
and cookbook reviews. 9:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m. $90 to $140. S. Dillon Ripley
Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202633-3030.
■ The Mount Pleasant Library will
present “Saturday Morning Yoga.” 10
a.m. Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160
16th St. NW. 202-671-3122.
■ 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.
NW. 202-727-0232.
■ Volunteer teachers from the Washington English Center will hold a weekly
conversational practice circle for adults
who already have some English speaking ability. 10 to 11:30 a.m. Free. TenleyFriendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave.
NW. 202-727-1488.
■ The Petworth Library will host a
“Home Buying 101 Workshop.” 10 a.m.
to 3:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW.
[email protected].
■ Architectural historian and
photographer Bill Leibovich will lead a
workshop on “Insights Into Architectural
Photography” as part of the Street
Photography Series organized by the
Historical Society of Washington, D.C. 10
a.m. to noon. $20 to $30; reservations
required. Kiplinger Research Library,
Carnegie Museum, 801 K St. NW.
dchistory.org.
■ Bill Johnson, Hillwood’s horticulturist, will lead a “Herb Garden Container
Workshop.” 10 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to
3:30 p.m. $55 to $65. Hillwood Estate,
Museum and Gardens, 4155 Linnean
Ave. NW. 202-6865807.
■ The Thomas Circle Singers will host a
choral workshop with
composer Ola Gjeilo
as part of the group’s
40th-anniversary concert weekend. 10 a.m. $10 to $25.
National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW. 202-232-3353.
■ Instructor Jeneen Piccurrio will
present “Outdoor Yoga at the Kreeger
Museum.” 10:30 to 11:30 p.m. $15;
reservations required. Kreeger Museum,
2401 Foxhall Road NW.
kreegermuseum.org.
■ Heather Markowitz, founder of
WithLoveDC, will lead a “Practice With
Love” yoga class. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Free. Conservatory West Gallery, U.S.
202-225-8333.
■ Yoga Activist will present a class
for beginners. 11 a.m. Free. Petworth
Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202243-1188.
■ Colors of Happiness Coaching &
Healing facilitator Florencia Fuensalida
will present “Living in Harmony: a Revitalizing Guided Meditation to Find Daily
Joy and Balance.” 11:30 a.m. Free.
Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St.
NW. 202-671-3122.
■ Aaron McGovern, owner of
Alphonse Italian Market & Osteria, will
present a cooking class on “Mangla
Mangla/Italian Sauces” as part of a
monthly Italian culinary series. Noon to
2 p.m. $45. Alphonse Italian Market &
Osteria, 1212 U St. NW. 202-735-0525.
Concerts
■ The Beau Soir Ensemble will perform works by Georg Philipp Telemann,
Andre Jolivet, Ian Krouse and others on
flute, viola and harp. 1 p.m. Free. Society
of the Cincinnati, Anderson House, 2118
■ The Adams Morgan Summer Concert Series will feature a performance by
Oxymorons. 5 to 7 p.m. Free. Corner of
18th Street and Columbia Road NW.
202-997-0783.
■ As part of “Ireland 100: Celebrating a Century
of Irish Arts
and Culture,”
Boston husband-and-wife
duo Matt and
Shannon Heaton will perform masterfully crafted Irish
music with sweet harmony singing. 6
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ A recital will feature guitar students of Alicia Kopfstein-Penk. 6 p.m.
Free. Middle C Music, 4530 Wisconsin
Ave. NW. 202-244-7326.
■ Jazz@Wesley will present a concert
by the Rick Alberico Jazz Project. 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. $7 to $10; free for ages 12
and younger. Wesley United Methodist
Church, 5312 Connecticut Ave. NW.
wesleydc.org.
Irish Arts & Culture,” Camerata Ireland,
the Codetta chamber choir and the Harmony North Choir will perform a varied
repertoire, including a specially commissioned work. 7:30 p.m. $15 to $40.
Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600.
concert by violinist Laufey Sigurdardóttir
and pianist Beth Levin featuring works
by Schubert, Grieg and Beethoven. 7:30
to 10:30 p.m. $110. Residence of the
Icelandic Ambassador, 2443 Kalorama
Road NW. 202-625-2361.
■ John Lawton and High Society will
perform. 8 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl
Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.
com.
Saturday, May 21
■ Performance: Actress, standup comic and writer Dani Klein
Modisett, author of “Take My
Spouse, Please” and creator of the
show “Afterbirth … Stories You
Won’t Read in a Parenting Magazine,” will share funny and honest
stories about marriage and parenting. 7 p.m. $18 (includes wine,
beer and heavy hors d’oeuvres);
registration required. Washington
Hebrew Congregation, 3935
Macomb St. NW. whctemple.org/
comedynight.
■ “Ladies of Jazz” will feature Di
Daly. 8 to 11 p.m. No cover; $15 minimum. Mr. Henry’s Restaurant, 601
■ “School’s Out Reggae Jam” will
feature Jahman Brahman, Nappy
Riddem and the Captivators. 9 p.m. $12
to $14. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
Demonstrations
■ The Hawaii State Society of Washington D.C. will present a lei-making
demonstration in honor of the upcoming
Kamehameha Day. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Free. Conservatory Terrace, U.S. Botanic
Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202225-8333.
■ The Potomac Unit of the Herb Society of America will demonstrate the
making of jewelry with rose petals, as
well as the planting of ornamental and
hot peppers in containers. The event will
include rose-bead necklaces and herbs
for sale. 1 p.m. Free. National Herb Garden, U.S. National Arboretum, 3501 New
York Ave. NE. 202-966-4087.
Discussions and readings
■ Elizabeth Williams, a post-doctoral
teaching fellow in Byzantine art history
for Dumbarton Oaks and George Washington University, will discuss “Medieval
Textiles in Early Twentieth-Century
Design.” 10:30 a.m. to noon. Free.
Myers Rooms, George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum,
701 21st St. NW. 202-994-5200.
■ U.S. Botanic Garden science education volunteer Todd Brethauer will discuss “The Fascinating World of Carnivorous Plants.” 10:30 a.m. to noon. Free;
reservations required. Conservatory
Classroom, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100
■ Author Gerald Marzorati, former
editor of The New York Times Magazine
and now editorial director of Times Live,
will discuss his second book “Late to the
Ball: Age. Learn. Fight. Love. Play Tennis.
Win.” — about how he decided to
become a competitive tennis player at
age 60 and what he learned about
aging, resilience and perseverance. 1
p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Local author Tracy Chiles McGhee
will read from her debut novel “Melting
the Blues,” a literary drama set in 1957
Arkansas about a farmer and bluesman,
and the complexities of identity, racial
tension and yearning for acceptance. 2
p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R
St. NW. 202-727-0232.
■ Magazine editor and university
writing teacher Margaret Guroff (shown)
will discuss her book
“The Mechanical
Horse: How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life,” which
offers a social history
of American bicycling, which contributed
to the paving of roads and the freeing of
women from long, bulky dresses. Guroff
will be in conversation with Martin Austermuhle, a reporter for WAMU 88.5.
3:30 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015
■ Theodore Leinwand, a professor of
English at the University of Maryland
and consulting editor for The Shakespeare Quarterly, will discuss his book
“The Great William: Writers Reading
Shakespeare,” which studies how seven
writers read Shakespeare and ponders
the intellectual and personal meanings
the Bard held for them. 6 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-364-1919.
■ In conjunction with the exhibit
“Kevin MacDonald: The Tension of a
Suspended Moment,” Lee Fleming, Ben
Forgey and Jack Rasmussen will lead a
discussion of the significance of the late
Kevin MacDonald as one of Washington’s most important, critically
acclaimed artists. 6 to 7 p.m. Free.
American University Museum, Katzen
Arts Center, American University, 4400
Festivals and family programs
■ A celebration of International
Migratory Bird Day will feature children’s
arts and crafts, family-friendly entertainment, guided bird walks for beginning
and advanced birders, information
booths and more. Festival from 10 a.m.
to 3 p.m.; bird walks from 7 to 10 a.m.
every half hour and at noon and 2 p.m.
Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200
Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.
■ The 11th annual Fiesta Asia Street
Fair will feature performances, craft
exhibits, food and market vendors,
interactive displays, a martial arts
demonstration, a talent show, a cooking
demonstration and more. 10 a.m. to 7
p.m. Free admission. Pennsylvania
Avenue between 3rd and 6th streets
NW. fiestaasia.org.
■ New Belgium Brewing’s “Tour de
Fat” festival will begin with a bicycle
parade through city streets, followed by
a festival with live entertainment, a
dance contest, and a variety of food and
beer. Ride registration at 10 a.m.;
bicycle ride from 11 a.m. to noon;
entertainment from noon to 5 p.m. Free
admission. Yards Park, 355 Water St.
SE. bit.ly/26kMxVH.
■ Maret School’s 63rd annual Fête
Champétre, promising the amusements
and treats of the boardwalk as well as
the charm and delights of a country fair,
will feature carnival games, foods and a
flea market. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free
admission, Maret School, 3000 Cathe-
dral Ave. NW. maret.org.
Irish Arts & Culture,” a family program
celebrating Redhead Day will feature
music acts, dance performances, demonstrations and family activities, culminating in a redhead kids’ parade and
photo gathering. 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Free. North Plaza, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
Films
■ The National Gallery of Art will
present the Washington premiere of
Rima Yamazaki’s 2014 film “Rackstraw
Downes: A Painter,” about an English
artist who paints urban environments as
well as industrial backyards, roadways
and empty terrain with precision. The
event will include a discussion with
Downes and curator Harry Cooper. 2:30
p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium,
National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-842-
6799.
■ “Bard in the Park,” a two-night film
series presented by Folger
Theatre and
the Capitol
Riverfront
Business
Improvement
District in honor of 400 years of Shakespeare, will feature the 2004 film “The
Merchant of Venice,” Al Pacino’s
acclaimed take on Shakespeare’s problem play. 7:30 p.m. Free. Canal Park,
2nd and I streets SE. folger.edu.
Irish Arts & Culture,” the Culkin School
of Traditional Irish Dance will perform.
11:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Free. North
Plaza, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
The performance will repeat Sunday at
1:30 p.m.
■ The Los Quetzales Mexican Dance
Ensemble will perform in honor of International Migratory Bird Day. 2 p.m. Free.
Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover
Road NW. 202-895-6070.
■ The Malpaso Dance Company from
Havana will perform Cuban contemporary dance, including the works “Why
You Follow” and “Bad Winter,” featuring
recorded music by Zap Mama (Congo);
Gordheaven & Juliano (South Africa); the
Allenko Brotherhood (Nigeria/Ghana);
and the popular 1930s song “Pennies
From Heaven.” 8 p.m. $15 to $30.
Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. 202269-1600. The performance will repeat
at 7 p.m. Sunday.
■ The Capital City Showcase will feature comedians Nicki Fuchs, Pat Riley
and Danny Rouhier, co-host of “Grant &
Danny” on 106.7 The Fan; hip-hop artists Bo Jankans and DJ Ragz; and musician Andy Shea. 9 p.m. $10. Acre 121,
1400 Irving St. NW. 202-431-4704.
Sale
■ A community yard sale will benefit
the School Without Walls at Francis-Stevens Home & School Association. 9:30
a.m. to 1 p.m. Free admission. Side yard
(or cafeteria in case of rain), School
Without Walls at Francis-Stevens, 2425
N St. NW. goo.gl/90MMUL.
Special events
■ The Acton Children’s Business Fair
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will feature an outdoor market where
children ages 6 to 14 will become entrepreneurs for a day, creating a business,
selling to real customers for real money,
and keeping the profits. The event will
feature over 30 children’s businesses
offering jewelry, original art, cupcakes,
bath soaps, pet treats, hair braiding and
face painting, with cash prizes for four
age groups. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free.
Cleveland Park commercial strip, 3400
block of Connecticut Avenue NW.
[email protected].
■ Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage and Operation Paws for Homes
will present the Come Home to Happiness Adoption Event, featuring a variety
of breeds, sizes and ages. 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. Free. Washington Harbour, 3050 K
St. NW. 202-333-6100.
■ Whole Foods will host the Washington Humane Society’s mobile pet
adoption center Adopt Force One with
adoptable cats and dogs. Noon to 3
p.m. Free. Whole Foods, 1440 P St. NW.
washhumane.org/adoptionevents.
■ The Opera Camerata of Washington’s spring gala will feature a cocktail
reception, silent auction and dinner buffet followed by a performance of Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore.” 6:30 p.m.
$250. Center for Hellenic Studies, 3100
Whitehaven St. NW. operacamerata.org.
■ “Nerds! Trivia Night” will feature
three rounds of questions, with beer and
wine available and prizes awarded. 8
p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
Sporting event
■ A “SwimJitsu” event presented by
USA Swimming and the North American
Sports Group will have participants demonstrate the sacred traits of speed, agility and wisdom by completing entertaining obstacles such as balancing across
beams, swimming through trenches and
cannonballing off the top of Mt. Swimja.
9 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. Free; registration
required. Takoma Aquatic Center, 300
Van Buren St. NW. swimjitsu.com.
Tours and walks
■ Rosarian and U.S. Botanic Garden
volunteer Sharon Hanes will lead a tour
of the U.S. Botanic Garden Rose Garden.
10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Free. Meet on the
National Garden Lawn Terrace, U.S.
202-225-8333.
■ “Poetry in the Park” will feature a
walk and poetry-writing adventure led by
poet Jennifer Atkinson and a park ranger. 12:30 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature
Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202895-6070.
■ Washington Walks’ “Get Local!”
series will present a two-part walking
tour, “In Search of the James Creek
Canal: From Capitol South to Buzzard
Point.” 10 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to
3:30 p.m. $15 to $20 per tour segment.
Meeting locations provided upon registration. washingtonwalks.com.
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Art event
■ Wonder Graphics will present an
art sale and car social in connection
with James Landry’s 12 color photographs of 1960s and 1970s cars in San
Francisco and Miami. The event will
include car-themed refreshments, music
and a meet and greet with the artist.
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2:30 to 5 p.m. Free. Wonder Graphics,
1000 Vermont Ave. NW. 202-898-1700.
Irish Arts & Culture,” children’s entertainer Matt Heaton will perform kidfriendly folk songs, original music and
reworked classics. 11:30 a.m. and 3:30
p.m. Free. North Plaza, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600.
■ A park ranger will lead a planetarium program about “Animals of the Night
Sky” (for ages 5 and older). 1 p.m. Free.
Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover
Road NW. 202-895-6070.
■ Children’s author Sara Pascoe,
who has a background in psychology
and neuroscience, will read from her
new book “Oswald, the Almost Famous
Opossum,” a tale set in D.C. and Prince
George’s County of an opossum who
must decide whether the promise of
fame is more important than sticking by
his friends (for ages 7 to 9). 1 p.m. Free.
Upshur Street Books, 827 Upshur St.
NW. upshurstreetbooks.com.
■ In conjunction with the opening of
“Small Stories: At Home in a Dollhouse,”
local contemporary artist Sushmita
Mazumdar will lead a book- and storymaking workshop on “The Story of a
Place” (for ages 8 and older). 1 to 4
p.m. $15 to $20. Classroom 224,
National Building Museum, 401 F St.
NW. 202-272-2448.
■ The Vajrayogini Buddhist Center
will host a class on “Advice for Life.” 10
and 11:30 a.m. Free; $5 to $12 donation suggested. Vajrayogini Buddhist
Center, 1787 Columbia Road NW. 202986-2257.
■ Dumbarton House will host an
“English Country Dance” workshop.
12:30 to 2:45 p.m. $5. Dumbarton
House, 2715 Q St. NW. 202-337-2288.
■ Rachel Westfall, a licensed instructor in Surviving Assault Standing Strong
(SASS) Defense, will lead a women’s
self-defense course (for ages 12 and
older). 1 to 5 p.m. $35. Hera Hub DC,
Suite 100, 5028 Wisconsin Ave. NW. bit.
ly/1TVu5fs.
■ Instructors from the Metro Washington Association of Blind Athletes will
lead a yoga class designed for adults
who are blind or visually impaired. 1:30
p.m. Free. Room A-10, Martin Luther
King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW.
202-631-2426.
Concerts
■ The Marine Chamber Orchestra
will perform an all-strings program featuring works by Pärt, Schoenberg, Paganini and Schumann. 2 p.m. Free. John
Philip Sousa Band Hall, Marine Barracks
Annex, 7th and K streets SE. 202-4334011.
■ The JACK
Quartet will
perform a new
rendering of
Pulitzer-winning composer
Roger Reynolds’ multimedia work-in-progress,
“FLiGHT I: Imagining.” 4 p.m. $15 to
$30; reservations suggested. Phillips
Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. phillipscollection.org/music.
■ In honor of founder Joan
Gregoryk’s retirement, the Children’s
Chorus of Washington will present a
musical concert travelogue “Around the
World in 20 Years,” featuring songs from
the group’s tours to the British Isles,
Italy, China, South America and South
Africa, with performances by all
ensembles and an alumni chorus. 4
p.m. $25 to $50. Lisner Auditorium,
George Washington University, 730 21st
St. NW. gwutickets.com.
■ The Thomas Circle Singers will celebrate its 40th anniversary by featuring
the music of four composers — two
American and two Norwegian — who are
under 40. Featured works will include
the world premiere of a new work by Ola
Gjeilo, commissioned by the Thomas Circle Singers in 2014 to commemorate
artistic director James Kreger’s 25 years
with the group. 4 p.m. $20 to $25.
National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW. 202-232-3353.
■ A recital will feature the piano,
voice and harp students of Mandy
Brown. 5 p.m. Free. Middle C Music,
4530 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-2447326.
■ The Citizens
Association of
Georgetown’s annual
Concerts in the Parks
series will feature
local singer-songwriter Rebecca McCabe.
5 to 7:30 p.m. Free. Volta Park, 34th
and Q streets NW. 202-337-7313.
the local Danny Burns Band will perform
a program highlighting Burns’ narrative
songwriting, unique vocals and soulful
delivery. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Emerson String Quartet will
perform works
by Schubert,
Barber and
Tchaikovsky. 6
to 8 p.m. $56
to $68. Baird
Auditorium,
National Museum of Natural History,
10th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW. 202-633-3030.
■ Poet, painter, former Jesuit and
appellate Justice Department criminal
attorney Tom Gannon will discuss his
collection of poetry, “Food for a Journey,” which doubles as a memoir of his
diverse experiences; and Carol Jennings,
a former Federal Trade Commission lawyer and now a full-time writer and poet,
will discuss her first book “The Dead
Spirits at the Piano,” which explores the
connections and cadences in art and
life. 1 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose,
■ Scholars will discuss “Unfinished
Works and the Creative Process,” about
symphonies, novels and paintings that
were never completed. 2 p.m. Free.
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave. SW. 202-633-1000.
■ The James Renwick Alliance Distinguished Artist Series will present a talk
by sculptor Sibylle Peretti, who explores
the temporal experience of humans
through her work with cast glass. 2 to 3
p.m. Free. Grand Salon, Renwick Gallery,
17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
NW. 202-633-1000.
■ Kerry Wallach, a professor at
Gettysburg College, and Jane Freundel
Levey, consulting curator for the George
Washington University Museum and
of pairing nationally recognized writers
with local musicians, Bill Beverly, a Trinity College writing and literature teacher,
will discuss his coming-of-age novel,
“Dodgers,” set on the American highway.
He will be joined by Soccer Team, a
band whose albums include “Real Lessons in Cynicism” and “‘Volunteered’
Civility and Professionalism.” 6:30 p.m.
Free. Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235
Carroll St. NW. 202-726-0856.
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■ Concert: As part of the Kennedy Center’s “Ireland 100: Celebrating a Century of Irish Arts & Culture,” vocalist, actress and musician Camille O’Sullivan will perform. 7 p.m. $29. Terrace Theater,
Textile Museum will explore Austrianborn watercolorist and journalist Lily
Spandorf’s career with a focus on her
newspaper work in Washington and the
role of editorial illustration in today’s
media landscape. 2:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Free with Newseum admission;
reservations suggested. Knight TV
Studio, Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW. newseum.org.
■ The Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd
Park Library’s History/Biography Book
Club will discuss “The Warmth of Other
Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great
Migration” by Isabel Wilkerson. 3 p.m.
Free. Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd
Park Library, 7420 Georgia Ave. NW.
202-541-6100.
■ Ellen Prentiss Campbell (shown), a
book reviewer for the Washington Independent Review of Books and a practicing psychotherapist,
will discuss her first
novel “Bowl With Gold
Seams,” which tells
the story of the lessons a hotel worker
learns when the
resort becomes the
detainment center for a Japanese
ambassador; and former singer-songwriter Garine B. Isassi will discuss her
novel “Start With the Backbeat: A Musical Novel,” which confronts issues of
racism and sexism as they play out in
the search for the next rap star. 5 p.m.
Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ An interfaith forum on ending gun
violence will feature panelists such as
Daniel Webster, director of the Johns
Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and
Research; Dr. Samuel Kessel, University
of Maryland professor and former
assistant U.S. surgeon general;
representatives from Everytown for Gun
Safety; elected officials; survivors of gun
violence; and family members who have
lost loved ones to gun violence. 5 to 7
p.m. Free. Washington Hebrew
Congregation, 3935 Macomb St. NW.
whctemple.org.
■ Busboys and Poets and the Capitol
Innovation Forum will present a discussion of “Racial Trauma — The Real Cost
of Implicit Bias” as part of their collaborative #SocEnt project. 6 to 9 p.m. Free.
Busboys and Poets Brookland, 625
Monroe St. NE. 202-636-7230.
■ As part of the Story/Stereo project
Films
■ The Korean Film Festival DC 2016
will feature Hong Sang-soo’s 2015
movie “Right Now, Wrong Then,” winner
of the coveted Golden Leopard at the
2015 Locarno International Film Festival, at 1 p.m.; and Jin Mo-young’s 2014
documentary “My Love, Don’t Cross That
River,” the highest-grossing independent
movie in Korean history, at 3:30 p.m.
Free. Warner Bros. Theater, National
Museum of American History, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
202-633-1000. The film series will continue through June 26 at various venues.
■ The National Gallery of Art will
present “Kannapolis: A Moving Portrait,”
featuring an original live score by Jenny
Scheinman set to Depression-era documentary filmmaker H. Lee Waters’ footage of people in 118 towns in the smalltown South, and reworked into a new
film by director Finn Taylor. 4:30 p.m.
Free. East Building Auditorium, National
Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-842-6799.
■ “Bard in the Park,” a two-night film
series presented by Folger Theatre and
the Capitol Riverfront Business Improvement District in honor of 400 years of
Shakespeare, will feature the 1961
musical “West Side Story,” Robert Wise
and Jerome Robbins’ timeless take on
“Romeo and Juliet” starring Natalie
Wood and Richard Beymer as starcrossed lovers caught up in fighting
between two New York street gangs.
7:30 p.m. Free. Canal Park, 2nd and I
streets SE. folger.edu.
■ DC IdeasFest will present “StorySlam: Stories of Home,” a fast-paced
storytelling competition featuring D.C.
residents expounding on the theme of
“home.” 6 to 9 p.m. Free. Cullen Room,
Busboys and Poets 5th & K, 1025 5th
St. NW. 202-789-2227.
■ Petworth Citizen will host a comedy showcase. 8 to 10 p.m. Free. Reading
Room, Petworth Citizen, 829 Upshur St.
NW. petworthcitizen.com.
Special event
■ Pleasant Pops will host the
Washington Humane Society’s mobile
pet adoption center Adopt Force One
with adoptable cats and dogs. Noon to 3
p.m. Free. Pleasant Pops, 1781 Florida
Ave. NW. washhumane.org/
adoptionevents.
■ The 10th annual Seabury Leadership in Aging Celebration will feature a
silent auction, a cocktail reception, dinner and recognition of Ward 5 resident
Romaine Thomas, chair of the D.C. Commission on Aging and former president
of the executive council of AARP DC.
4:30 to 7:30 p.m. $150. National Press
Club, 529 14th St. NW. 202-414-6315.
Tours and walks
■ The Metro DC Walk to Cure ArthriSee Events/Page 27
tis, the area’s contribution to the Arthritis Foundation’s national fundraising
event, will feature more than 500 participants walking a 1- or 3-mile course to
raise money to find a cure for the
nation’s leading cause of disability and
help those afflicted with the disease.
Local honorees will include Adeline Furlow, 14, who has juvenile arthritis, and
Dr. Justin Peng, a rheumatologist at
Arthritis & Rheumatism Associates. 8
a.m. Free; registration required. Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE.
walktocurearthritis.org/metrodc.
■ The Shepherd Park Citizens
Association will host its annual garden
tour, a self-guided walking tour
spotlighting creative landscapes of
homes within Shepherd Park, Colonial
Village and North Portal Estates.
Proceeds will benefit the association’s
beautification projects. 2 to 5 p.m. $7 to
$15. Shepherd Elementary School,
7800 14th St. NW. shepherd-park.org.
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■ The Dupont Circle Village’s monthly “Live and Learn Seminar” will feature
Jean Gross-Bethel, consumer outreach
specialist with the D.C. Office of the People’s Counsel, who will discuss saving
money on home utilities, handling utilityrelated complaints and tapping into utility resources. 3:30 p.m. $10; free for
Dupont Circle Village members. Human
Rights Campaign, 1640 Rhode Island
Ave. NW. 202-234-2567.
■ Professional dancers will present
Argentine tango and folk dance lessons,
with a social dance to follow. 6:30 to
9:30 p.m. $15 to $20; reservations
required. Woman’s National Democratic
Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW.
202-438-4612.
■ Washington Improv Theater will
host an introductory “Improv for All”
workshop. 7 to 9 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Reading Room, Petworth
Citizen, 829 Upshur St. NW.
petworthcitizen.com.
■ The Science of Spirituality Meditation Center will begin a four-week class
on Jyoti meditation, a discipline focusing
on the experience of inner light. 7 to
8:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Science of Spirituality Meditation Center,
2950 Arizona Ave. NW. [email protected].
Concert
Irish Arts & Culture,”
mezzo-soprano Tara
Erraught (shown) and
tenor Anthony Kearns
will perform. 7 p.m.
$35. Terrace Theater,
Conference
■ In honor of the 50th anniversary of
the publication of “Unsafe at Any
Speed,” Ralph Nader and the Center for
Study of Responsive Law will host a fourday “Breaking Through Power Conference,” featuring community activists,
journalists and artists discussing how to
secure democratic solutions to longstanding problems. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. $20
to $25 per day; $75 for a four-day pass.
DAR Constitution Hall, 1776 D St. NW.
breakingthroughpower.org. The event
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will continue Tuesday through Thursday
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
■ Art historian Bonnie Yochelson will
discuss her book, “Jacob Riis: Revealing
New York’s Other Half.” Noon. Pickford
Theater, Madison Building, Library of
Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE.
202-707-5221.
■ A symposium on “Celebrating a
Milestone: 75 Years of the National Gallery of Art and the Samuel H. Kress
Foundation” will feature discussions of
restoration and framing, leveraged gifts,
historic images and provenance. 2 p.m.
Free. East Building Auditorium, National
Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ Sibley Memorial Hospital will present a guided Whole Foods nutrition tour
led by oncology dietician Lynda McIntyre
and focusing on foods that are beneficial during and after cancer treatment.
3 to 4 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Location provided upon registration.
ti.to/smh-cancer/guided-nutrition-tour.
■ “Reading Club: Politicized Bodies”
will feature a chance to examine a photograph from the exhibition “She Who
Tells a Story,” read a short story and
explore a nonfiction article that grounds
the creative works in lived realities. 6 to
8 p.m. Free; reservations required. Meet
by the information desk, National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New
York Ave. NW. 202-783-7370.
■ Peter Selgin will discuss his book
“The Inventors,” which recounts Selgin’s
love for his eighth-grade teacher and his
relationship with his genius inventor
father, and how those men shaped Selgin’s journey to manhood. 6:30 p.m.
Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords, 1517
■ Patrick Baker will discuss his children’s picture book “My Father Is in Prison.” 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Free. Cullen
Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St.
NW. 202-789-2227.
■ The World Affairs Council will host
a talk by Hamdullah Mohib, ambassador
of Afghanistan to the United States, on
his country’s transformation, AfghanU.S. bilateral relations and regional
security challenges. Ronald Neumann,
former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan
and current president of the American
Academy of Diplomacy, will be the discussant. Reception at 6:30 p.m.; program at 7 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Horizon Ballroom, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade
Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
worldaffairsdc.org.
■ Barry Meier, journalist for The New
York Times and author of “Pain Killer”
and “A World of Hurt,” will discuss his
book “Missing Man: The American Spy
Who Vanished in Iran,” which explores
the shadowy world of espionage, terrorism and arms-dealing involved in the
case of Robert Levinson, a former FBI
agent who disappeared in Iran on a mission for the CIA. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.
■ “Feeder’s Advisory: A Book Club for
Those Who Love Food” will discuss
“Near and Far: Recipes Inspired by
Home and Travel” by Heidi Swanson. 7
p.m. Free; reservations required. Watha
T. Daniel/Shaw Library, 1630 7th St.
NW. dclibrary.org/node/52895.
■ Jacob Weisberg, chairman of The
Slate Group and author of a new Ronald
Reagan biography, and his brother Joe
cooking in American cuisine as part of a
celebration of the publication of a 25thanniversary
edition of his
book “Chesapeake Bay
Cooking.” The
event will conclude with a
light reception of Chesapeake Bay specialties, including a raw bar supplied by
Rappahannock Oyster Co. 6:45 to 8:45
p.m. $35 to $50. S. Dillon Ripley Center,
1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-6333030.
Tuesday, may 24
■ Concert: As part of “Ireland
100: Celebrating a Century of Irish
Arts and Culture,” the Tossers, a
six-piece Celtic punk band from
Chicago, will showcase their command of song structure and instrumentation. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium
Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
Weisberg, creator of FX’s hit series “The
Americans,” will discuss “Reagan, FX’s
‘The Americans,’ and the 1980s,” about
their evolving views of the era during
which they came of age. 7 p.m. $15 to
$28. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I
St. NW. 877-987-6487.
Films
■ “Marvelous Movie Mondays” will
feature Ron Howard’s 2015 film “In the
Heart of the Sea,” about a New England
whaling ship’s
sinking by a
giant whale in
1820, an
experience
that inspired
the novel
“Moby Dick.” 2 and 6:30 p.m. Free.
Meeting Room, Chevy Chase Library,
■ The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library will host “The Sharing Extravaganza,” with attendees encouraged to
bring in a home movie or photographs
for a communal viewing. 7 p.m. Free.
Room A-5, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-7270321.
the Gothard Sisters of Seattle will perform a program of dance, music and
storytelling
that blends
Celtic folk and
classical
music with
new arrangements. 6 p.m.
Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600.
■ Laugh Index Theatre will present
“Improv Wars,” a friendly competition
among area improv troupes with audience members voting for the winners.
7:30 p.m. $8 to $10. DC Arts Center,
2438 18th Street NW. 202-462-7833.
Special event
■ Baltimore native John Shields,
owner of Gertrude’s restaurant at the
Baltimore Museum of Art, will discuss
the growing importance of regional
Sporting event
■ The Washington Nationals will play
the New York Mets. 7:05 p.m. $10 to
$345. Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE. 888-632-6287. The series will
continue Tuesday at 7:05 p.m. and
Wednesday at 1:05 p.m.
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Children’s program
■ Children’s author Jacqueline Jules
will tell the story of her picture book
“Feathers for Peacock,” inspired by the
Puerto Rican folk tale “The Owl’s Plumage” (for ages 5 to 8). 10:30 a.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ A certified yoga instructor will lead
a walk-in class targeted to ages 55 and
older. 10 a.m. Free. Georgetown Library,
3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.
■ The Georgetown Library will present a walk-in yoga class practicing introductory viniyasa techniques. 11:30 a.m.
NW. 202-727-0232.
■ The Glover Park Village and the
D.C. Public Library will present “Money
Smart for Older Adults: Preventing Financial Exploitation,” led by Idriys Abdullah,
a consumer protection advocate with
the D.C. Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking. 3:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Georgetown Library,
3260 R St. NW. 202-436-5545.
■ A five-week “Food for Life: Foods
for Cancer Prevention” 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 June 28.
■ Yoga Activist will present a class
for beginners. 7:30 p.m. Free. Petworth
Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202243-1188.
Concerts
■ Pianist Jocelyn Swigger will perform works by Chopin. 12:10 p.m. Free.
Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW.
202-347-2635.
Irish Arts & Culture,” singer Conor
Malone will perform. 6:45 p.m. Free.
North Plaza, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ The
Diderot String
Quartet will
perform
“Death and
the Maiden”
by Franz
Schubert and a new work by Lembit
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Beecher. 7 p.m. $20 to $40.
Washington National Cathedral,
Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues
NW. cathedral.org/event/
death-maiden-schubert-beecher.
concert by bass-baritone Juan Vasle and
pianist George Peachey featuring operatic arias, lieder, tangos, and South
American and Slovenian folk songs. 7:30
p.m. $90. Embassy of Slovenia, 2410
California St. NW. 202-625-2361.
■ 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.
■ Jason P. Dworkin, chief of the
Astrochemistry Laboratory at NASA’s
Goddard Space Flight Center, will discuss “OSIRIS-Rex: The First U.S. Mission
to Return Samples From an Asteroid to
Earth,” highlighting the physical and
chemical properties of material from
asteroid Bennu, an asteroid that is highly likely to impact the Earth late in the
22nd century. 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Free. Dining Room A, Madison Building,
Library of Congress, 101 Independence
Ave. SE. 202-707-1212.
■ Historian Abby Smith Rumsey will
discuss her book “When We Are No
More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping
Our Future.” Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free.
Mumford Room, Madison Building,
Library of Congress, 101 Independence
Ave. SE. 202-707-5221.
■ As part of its series on “Sustaining
the Political Revolution,” the Institute for
Policy Studies will hold a discussion on
“How Do We Tackle Climate Change and
Equity in a Transformative Way” with
speakers examining ways to promote
equity in a finite planet. 12:30 to 2 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Institute for
Policy Studies, Suite 600, 1301 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-234-9382.
■ Performance artist and anti-consumerism activist Reverend Billy will discuss “The Earth Wants You,” his motivational handbook meant to inspire readers to challenge consumerism, racism
and militarism. 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021
14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
■ Lauren Belfer, best-selling author
of “A Fierce Radiance” and “City of
Light,” will discuss her new novel “After
the Fire,” which tells about the influence
of a Bach choral masterpiece; and musicologist Michael Marissen will discuss
his book of essays “Bach & God.” Both
authors will be in conversation with J.
Reilly Lewis, founding conductor of the
Washington Bach Consort and music
director of the Cathedral Choral Society.
6:30 p.m. Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords, 1517 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202387-1400.
■ Charles Jones, associate professor
of theology and religious studies at
Catholic University, will discuss “How Did
Zen Become Zen?” 6:45 to 8:45 p.m.
$30 to $45. S. Dillon Ripley Center,
1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-6333030.
■ Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper
will discuss his candid memoir “The
Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and
Politics,” which traces his route from
being the owner of a national chain of
brew pubs to the Colorado state house,
and the development of his reputation
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Call 301-977-0358.
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Picturesque Gem
High Style
Wesley Heights. Fabulous flow & light in this charming
home on quiet cul de sac. Ideal for entertaining. 6 BRs, 4.5
BAs. Family & sun rms, gourmet kit & brkfst rm. Private
terrace & garden. $2,695,000
Lynn Bulmer 202-257-2410
Town of Chevy Chase. Dramatic renovation of Classic
colonial features gourmet kitchen, breakfast room, and
family room;game room; gorgeous MBR suite, 5 bedrooms,
4 full and 2 half baths. $1,929,000
Eric Murtagh- 301-652-8971
Dramatic Spaces
Greenwich Forest. Spacious light filled home w/quality
craftsmanship & grand proportions on 4 fabulous levels. 6
BRs, 5.5 BAs. MBR suite w/sit rm. 2 car garage. Walk to
Bethesda. $1,849,000
Eric Murtagh 301-652-8971
Classic Grace
Chevy Chase Village. Beautifully maintained & thoughtfully renov.
home.1st flr library & BA,fam rm w/frpl, LR w/French drs to garden. TS
kit w/SS & silestone. 2nd flr MBR suite + 3 add. BRs & 2 BAS. 3rd flr BR&
BA. LL Rec rm, BA & kit.Lush landscaped grounds w/fountain. $1,849,000.
Beverly Nadel 202-236-7313
Melissa Brown 202-469-2662
Distinctive Details
Kenwood. Stately 1981 custom home. Elegant foyer. 1st flr Lib. w/frpl
& wet bar, BR & BA, Bay windowed eating area in kitchen. Above:2 rm
MBR suite w/2 BAS, sit rm w/frpl. + 2 addit. BRs & BA. LL w/2 level
rec rm w/frpl, built ins, Pub area & sliding drs to patio.$1,990,000.
Melissa Brown 202-469-2662
Beverly Nadel 202-236-7313
Worth Waiting For
Private Oasis
Chevy Chase, DC. Grand proportions w/bright open
spaces inside & out. 4 BRs, 4.5 BAs. 2 story wall of windows
in dining room. Expansive 10,000 sf lot w/personal park in
rear. Walk to Rock Creek Park. $1,859,000
Marina Krapiva 301-792-5681
A Perfect 10!
Town of Ch Ch, MD. Expanded & renovated 4 BR, 2.5
BA gem. Chef ’s kit & family rm addition. 10,000 sf lot.
Large rear yard, patio w/blt in grill. Less than a mile from
dwntwn Bethesda & Metro. $1,729,000
Bannockburn Estates. Exquisite 5 BR, 4.5 BA home on
almost 1/2 acre lot. Fabulous kit, breakfast & family rooms.
Gracious LR, DR & library. Fin. LL. Heated 2 car garage.
$1,695,000
Ellen Sandler 202-255-5007
Susan Berger 202-255-5006
Country In The City
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Fabulous Flair
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fenced yard, det. garage. Near Van Ness Metro. Move in
condition w/new kit or renovate to greatness. $1,600,000
Guy-Didier Godat 202-361-4663
Bethesda, MD. Stunning high end kitchen, fabulous great
room. Open floor plan. 4 BRs, 4 BAs. Amazing location.
Walk to dwntwn Bethesda & Metro. Whitman Cluster.
$1,429,000
Potomac, MD. Spacious (5,000+ sf) Colonial w/5BRs,
4BAs up. Walk out LL w/BR, BA, family rm & art rm open
to 2 story atrium in addition off kitchen. 2 MBR suites, 3
frpls. $1,050,000
June Gardner 301-758-3301
Kent. Beautiful sunlit colonial with lovely garden,
Renovated kitchen and bathrooms; 3 bedrooms, 2 full and
2 half baths; finished walk-out lower level. Walk to shops &
restaurants. $949,000
Nancy Hammond- 202-262-5374
Welcoming Charm
Southeast DC. Spacious 4 BR, 4 BA Farmhouse. Gorgeous
hrdwd floors. Country kitchen w/granite. LR & MBR
frpls. LL w/in-law suite & kitchen. Side & patio entries.
Many community amenities. $789,000
Eric Cooksey 202-246-0640
Uptown
202-364-1700
Downtown
202-464-8400
Bright & Crisp
Bethesda, MD. Contemporary Rambler w/flowing open
concept. Renov. kit open to DR & LR which has a wall
of windows overlooking gorgeous yard.3 BRS, 2 updated
BAS up. LL w/huge walk out rec rm, 4th BR, updated BA
& office. Walk to Wildwood shops. $699,000
Linda Chaletzky 301-938-2630
The Sky’s The Limit
Vintage Charm
Bethesda, MD. One of the largest 1 BR + den, 2 BA units
at The Adagio. Unique one of a kind flr plan. Top of the
line finishes. Custom kitchen. Private roof terrace. Steps to
Metro. $679,000
Noel Fisher 301-919-1379
Mount Pleasant. City living at its best. Updated Junior
1 BR co-op w/high ceilings & hrdwd floors. Stunning
roof top terrace w/seating, city views. Across from Park,
steps to Zoo. Pet friendly. $279,000
Dorothy Stein 202-230-1081
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