No.35 August 31, 2011 - The Current Newspapers

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Serving Dupont Circle, Kalorama & Logan Circle
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
The Dupont Current
Hurricane
response
wins praise
School Without Walls
sustains quake damage
irene ’ s i m pact
■ Facilities: Students slated
to return today to campus
By KATIE PEARCE
By BRADY HOLT
Current Staff Writer
As D.C. officials wind down
their cleanup efforts from the
weekend’s storm, the common
refrain is that it could have been
worse.
Hurricane Irene’s outer edges
brought down dozens of trees
across the District overnight
Saturday and left standing water
on some D.C. roads, officials
said. Winds gusted to 60 miles
per hour and three to four inches
of rain fell on the city.
But the District avoided the
far-reaching wind damage suffered farther south and the largescale flooding that hit areas to
the north. It also escaped the
widespread and lingering power
outages many residents and officials had feared; at the peak,
about 31,000 Pepco customers
were without electricity, and
most D.C. homes and businesses
See Irene/Page 17
The back-to-school transition
hasn’t been smooth for the 500-plus
students at School Without Walls.
First, an earthquake hit last
Tuesday, damaging the historic
school building’s chimney and bell
tower. Then school was canceled
for three days, even as other D.C.
Public Schools students returned to
class. As the weekend approached
along with Hurricane Irene, Walls
By ELIZABETH WIENER
Bill Petros/The Current
Hurricane Irene’s high winds toppled dozens of D.C. trees over
the weekend, including one that fell on this car parked on 21st
Street in Foggy Bottom.
By DEIRDRE BANNON
Current Correspondent
NEWS
■ Washington Harbour
plan includes ice rink.
Page 3.
■ Computer glitch
delays thousands of
property tax bills. Page 3.
students were told they would
spend Monday at Eastern High
School, across the city from their
home base in Foggy Bottom.
Walls students remained at
Eastern yesterday as earthquakerelated repairs continued, but were
cleared to return to their school at
2130 G St. today.
The Aug. 23 earthquake “shook
up loose mortar that was holding
bricks into place on the [school’s]
chimney and bell tower,” according
to D.C. Public Schools spokesperson Fred Lewis.
Terry Lynch, vice president of
Walls’ home and school associaSee Walls/Page 7
Observatory complex may
get historic-district status
Garrison gets Targeted library makeover
Students at Northwest’s Garrison
Elementary School cheered and
jumped up and down as they entered
their newly renovated school library
for the first time after a ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday.
The library, now painted with
bright colors and quotes on the
importance of reading from writers
including Maya Angelou, Edith
Wharton and E.E. Cummings,
houses 2,000 new books, seven new
computers and 10 iPads — along
with an assortment of kid-sized
beanbag chairs and reading tables.
Each child was also given seven
new books to take home.
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Matt Petros/The Current
Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack
Evans spoke at the ribbon-cutting
event at Garrison Elementary.
“There is so much enthusiasm
about the new library — it’s a place
the kids will want to visit,” said
Garrison PTA president Ann
McLeod. “The students can see that
people care about them and that they
learn how to read and develop a passion for reading.”
Garrison, located at 1200 S St. in
Shaw, was one of five elementary
schools in D.C. selected to receive a
library makeover sponsored by
Target Corp. in partnership with The
Heart of America Foundation, a
D.C.-based nonprofit that promotes
literacy nationwide. AmidonBowen, Davis, Garfield and Orr
elementary schools’ libraries were
also renovated.
“Studies show that access to
books is a determining factor in
whether children will learn how to
read,” said Bill Halamandaris, chair
and co-founder of The Heart of
America Foundation. “We want to
See Library/Page 13
DISTRICT DIGEST
■ Whole Foods store
set to open in Foggy
Bottom complex. Page 4.
■ Dupont Circle’s 17th
Street festival invites
participants. Page 4.
A walled enclave overlooking
the Potomac River could become
the District’s latest historic district.
But unlike other residential and
commercial districts popular with
preservationists, the Old Naval
Observatory complex would remain
largely closed to public view.
The D.C. Preservation League is
pushing for designation of the entire
13-acre site at 23rd and E Streets
NW as a historic district, and the
city’s Historic Preservation Review
Board will decide whether to accept
the nomination. The original observatory building was designated a
national landmark in 1965, but the
preservation league believes the
entire complex — including a collection of century-old Navy medical
buildings — deserves protection.
The complex, wedged between
the Kennedy Center, State
Department and new Institute of
Peace, has long been off limits to the
public because of its military ties.
Preservation League director
Rebecca Miller said her group is
allowed a tour once a year, and
Navy medical historian Jan Herman
EVENTS
Signature musicals
among offerings at
Page-to-Stage event at
Kennedy Center. Page 21.
■ Exhibits feature
Corcoran alums. Page 21.
■
Bill Petros/Current File Photo
The State Department is poised
to take over the complex.
said he also arranges tours, although
photographs are tightly restricted.
The preservation league put the
complex on its list of “most endangered places” in 2007, after thenDirector of National Intelligence
John Negroponte reportedly considered making it his headquarters, and
possibly bulldozing some old buildings in the process.
That never happened, and now
the U.S. State Department is slated
to take over most of the buildings
for temporary office space next
year. The public would still be
barred, although Miller said she will
try to negotiate for more public
See Observatory/Page 14
INDEX
Calendar/18
Classifieds/26
District Digest/4
Dupont Circle Citizen/11
Exhibits/21
In Your Neighborhood/16
Opinion/8
Police Report/6
Real Estate/15
School Dispatches/12
Service Directory/22
Theater/21
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Walmart’s proposed Georgia Avenue store clears interagency city review
By KATIE PEARCE
Developers proposing a Walmart for
Georgia Avenue can apply for building permits now that the D.C. Office of Planning has
concluded its review of the project.
After taking input from several city agencies, the Planning Office determined that the
planned Walmart “addresses the goals” of
District regulations, according to an Aug. 10
report.
The Foulger-Pratt firm has planned a onestory, 106,2430-square-foot retail building for
the corner of Georgia and Missouri avenues in
Ward 4, a former car dealership site. The proposal includes 346 underground parking spots
(to be accessed via Peabody Street), a wider
Georgia Avenue sidewalk, and a pocket park
at the property’s southwest corner.
Despite the development’s steady progress
through the city’s “large-tract review” process, a group called Ward 4 Thrives intends to
continue its fight against the controversial
plan.
“We think this is not finished business,”
said Willy Baker, a Ward 4 Thrives member
who lives within a mile of the project site. He
said his group, which fears the retail giant’s
impact on local business and quality of life, is
planning future protests and conversations
with city officials.
Another Ward 4 Thrives member, Baruti
Jahi — who is challenging Ward 4 D.C.
Council member Muriel Bowser for her seat
next spring — said the group is also looking
into a lawsuit focused on the potential strain
on the Georgia and Missouri intersection.
“We have the attorneys,” Jahi said, adding
See Walmart/Page 13
Ice rink planned for
Washington Harbour
Glitch pushes back mailing
of many property tax bills
By BRADY HOLT
By BRADY HOLT
A plan to overhaul the central plaza of the Washington
Harbour and add an ice rink will transform the area from
a seasonal to a year-round destination, the property’s
owners said Monday.
MRP Realty, which bought the mixed-use site in the
3000 block of K Street last June, is envisioning the first
major change to Washington Harbour since its construction in 1986.
“What we would like to do is take the knowledge
and the lessons learned from the last 25 years to make
minor modifications surgically to the existing design,”
MRP representative Charles McGrath said at Monday’s
meeting of the Georgetown advisory neighborhood
commission.
The firm’s proposed design removes landscaping
from the plaza’s fountain and reshapes the fountain to
provide better walking space around it.
The change would also allow the area to double as an
ice rink during the winter. At 11,000 square feet, the rink
would be D.C.’s largest ice surface, McGrath said,
likely operating from November to March. The firm
hopes to begin construction in the first half of next year.
Nearly a third of the District’s
biannual property tax bills were
issued later than usual this month,
eliciting worries from some taxpayers accustomed to the usual schedule. D.C. Office of Taxation and
Revenue officials blamed a computer glitch for many of the delays.
Although bills for the second
half of the year are typically mailed
out in mid-August, the revenue
office routinely sends out a few of
them later in the month. It takes
extra time to calculate some bills,
and other delays emerge when an
assessment amount is in dispute,
said Natalie Wilson, spokesperson
for the Office of the Chief Financial
Officer.
The delayed bills, which were
mailed Aug. 26, are due Sept. 26
instead of the usual Sept. 15.
Rendering courtesy of MRP Realty
The 11,000-square-foot rink on K Street would be
the District’s largest.
Although the neighborhood commission passed a
resolution generally in support of the plans, some commissioners and neighbors raised concerns about the
appearance and logistics of the reimagined Washington
Harbour plaza.
Some residents at the development’s condominiums
would rather not see extensive winter activity there, said
Martin Sullivan, representing several condo owners.
“They deal with the bar noise for eight months, and the
other four months is their downtime,” he said, adding,
“I think [the plan is] out of scale and not in character
with what’s there now.”
McGrath said MRP envisions the ice rink as a destination for families, rather than the more “singles” crowd
See Harbour/Page 17
The week ahead
Wednesday, Aug. 31
The Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2B Redistricting Task Force will hold a
forum on proposed boundaries for the commission’s single-member districts. The
meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW.
Wednesday, Sept. 7
The Ward 4 Democrats group will hold its monthly meeting, which will feature a
presentation by D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown and an update from Ward 4
D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at Emery
Recreation Center, 5701 Georgia Ave. NW.
Thursday, Sept. 8
The Ward 3 Advisory Neighborhood Commission Redistricting Task Force will meet
at 7:30 p.m. in Room A-03, Building 44, University of the District of Columbia, 4200
Connecticut Ave. NW.
Friday, Sept. 9
The D.C. Department of Real Estate Services will hold a public meeting on the
leasing of 6428 Georgia Ave. The meeting will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. at the 4th
District Police Headquarters, 6001 Georgia Ave. NW.
Monday, Sept. 12
The National Capital Planning Commission will hold a forum on “Redefining
Security a Decade After 9/11.” Speakers will focus on how to maintain a balance
between securing federal facilities and preserving openness and access. The event
will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the auditorium at the U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 14th St. NW. To register, visit ncpc.gov/rsvp.
Tuesday, Sept. 13
The University of the District of Columbia will hold a community meeting to discuss
the launch of the new UDC Community-Campus Task Force. The new group is intended to address a range of physical planning issues relating to university growth and
operations, and to enhance communication about campus-related issues. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in Room A-03, Building 44, University of the District of
Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW. For details, contact Thomas E. Redmond at
202-274-5622 or [email protected].
This year, the office’s automated
system applied a $98 trash credit to
tens of thousands of properties that
weren’t actually eligible for it,
Wilson said. The number of delayed
bills increased nearly ninefold compared to last year, she said, to a total
of 53,579. “A large number” of
those delayed bills were the result of
the erroneous trash credit, she said.
“In reviewing the bills before
they were mailed, we did notice that
some accounts were assessed the
trash credit,” said Wilson. “During
our quality assurance process, the
error was discovered and the bills
were delayed to make the necessary
account adjustment. … We were
glad we caught this before the bills
were mailed.”
Residents unaccustomed to such
delays took to community listservs
for information. Some complained
that they would have appreciated
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City crews will pick
up hurricane debris
The D.C. Department of Public
Works has announced special
debris removal procedures in the
wake of Hurricane Irene.
Through Friday, residents
should place branches that have
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been trimmed to 4-foot lengths and
tied into bundles no more than 2
feet in diameter into the tree boxes
or next to the curbs in front of their
homes.
Other bagged or loose debris —
except for rocks, stones or concrete
— should also be placed in tree
boxes or next to the curb, according
to the agency. Residents should
avoid placing storm debris in the
gutter or street so that street sweepers can operate efficiently and
clogged gutters won’t cause floods.
After Friday, residents should
place storm debris with their trash
for removal, the release states.
The department also encourages
residents who hire workers to cut
fallen trees and limbs to have the
workers remove branches and
debris.
According to the release, residents should not yet discard their
sandbags, as hurricane season
extends through November. If they
can’t keep the bags, residents
should empty the sand and use it to
aerate potting soil or for some other
use; sandbags should not be placed
with trash for removal.
Donations requested
for library book sale
The Federation of Friends of the
D.C. Public Library and the Books
Plus bookstore at the Martin Luther
King Jr. Memorial Library will
hold their annual fall book sale
next month, and organizers are
inviting a final round of donations
of new or like-new books and
DVDs through Sept. 4.
Donations are welcome in all
categories except textbooks, magazines and obsolete nonfiction.
Residents may drop off books
— up to two boxes — any time the
library is open at the donation center across from the circulation desk
in the Great Hall of the Martin
Luther King Jr. Memorial Library,
901 G St. NW.
Larger donations should be
delivered to the library’s G Place
loading dock Wednesday to Friday
between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.; after
the boxes are unloaded, contact
Rob Schneider at 202-727-6834.
The annual sale will be held
Sept. 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
in conjunction with the Penn
Quarter’s “Arts on Foot” festival.
Proceeds will benefit reading programs.
Whole Foods to open
new store next week
Whole Foods will open its new
Foggy Bottom store Tuesday,
launching its fourth D.C. site at 10
a.m. with a traditional bread breaking, followed by food and festivities.
The 2201 I St. NW shop will
feature a coffee/espresso bar, madeto-order burgers, rolled-to-order
sushi from Kaz Sushi Bistro, an
organic salad bar, Neopolitan-style
pizza and, new to Whole Foods, a
prepared-foods kiosk ordering system, among other features. There
will be 27 seats and free Wi-Fi for
those who wish to eat in, according
to the release.
“We’re proud to introduce our
new store to the Foggy Bottom
community and we have worked
hard to bring new features and
products tailored especially for
them,” Donovan Morris, team leader for the Foggy Bottom store, said
in a news release.
Participants sought
for Dupont festival
Organizers of the second annual
17th Street Festival are seeking artists and vendors from the Dupont
Circle area to display and sell their
wares at the Sept. 24 event, according to a news release.
Participants can apply for festival space at 17thstreetfestival.org,
paying $100 for a tent, $50 for a
table or $25 for a shared table, the
release states. The event will run
from 2 to 6 p.m.
“Last year’s Festival was amazingly successful,” Lee Granados,
who co-founded the event, states in
the release. “With more interest
from the community and more
excitement surrounding this year’s
event, we expect a great crowd for
the artists and vendors showcasing
their offerings.”
NCS gets new head
for middle school
Jody Reilly Soja, a former
ninth-grade ancient history teacher
at Millbrook School in Millbrook,
N.Y., is the new director of the
National Cathedral School’s middle
school.
Soja replaced Scott Erickson,
who has been named head of
Phillips Brooks School, an elementary school in Menlo Park, Calif.
Soja previously worked at
Indian Mountain School in
Lakeville, Conn., as dean of faculty, head of the upper school and a
history teacher.
She also has been a visiting
committee member for the
Connecticut Association of
Independent Schools accreditation
program.
“Mrs. Soja’s energy and enthusiasm for working with young
women and faculty will be an asset
to NCS,” head of school Kathleen
O’Neill Jamieson said in a release.
“She has a successful track record
of working with and supporting
teachers, as well as overseeing curriculum development and faculty
evaluation systems.”
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at schools’ drop-off, pickup
By JESSICA GOULD
By DEIRDRE BANNON
Current Correspondent
A pilot program to create safe
drop-off and pickup areas for parents driving students to school started up along with the academic year
as part of the D.C. Department of
Transportation’s Safe Routes to
School initiative.
Four schools in Northwest are
participating in the pilot: Bancroft,
Key and Ross elementary schools,
as well as the Latin American
Montessori Bilingual Public Charter
School.
At issue citywide is the limited
number of parking spaces for parents who drive their children to
school, as well as the traffic congestion and safety concerns that ensue
when a large number of people try
to get to the same place in a short
window of time.
Last spring, the D.C. Council
sought to address parents’ concerns
by bringing in the Department of
Transportation to assess the situation and create a pilot program that
would first look at one school in
each ward.
Jennifer Hefferan, a Safe Routes
to School coordinator who is leading the pilot, said that while there is
no “one-size-fits-all” solution, parents who drive their children to
school typically exhibit one of two
key behaviors. Parents with older
children tend to pull up to the curb,
drop students off and continue driving; parents with younger students
often prefer to, and are sometimes
required to, escort their children to
their classrooms.
“Since there is limited curbside
parking, when parents use the same
spaces for both purposes, neither
work well,” said Hefferan.
So this year at the pilot schools,
separate parking areas have been
designated for drop-offs and for
15-minute parking. New signs are in
place at the participating schools,
and parents received notification
from their schools and PTAs.
“So far, we’ve noticed a big
improvement — overall parents and
school administrators have been
impressed with the changes,” said
Hefferan.
At Key Elementary School in the
Palisades, there are roughly five
spaces in front of the school entrance
on Eskridge Terrace newly designated for drop-off only, and room
for about three 15-minute parking
spots for those who drive pre-kindergarten students, who must be
escorted to their classrooms.
“Congestion and safety [problems] go hand in hand,” said George
Beronio, the Key PTA’s Safe Routes
to School coordinator. “Before, we
had a lot of people parking on both
sides of Eskridge, a two-way street,
tying up traffic in both directions.
We tried to have parents avoid going
upstream, but commuters and others
would often get caught up in the
traffic pattern.”
Key principal David Landeryou
said the school has grown “significantly” in recent years, creating new
issues. Modular classrooms are cur-
The Field School plans to add a sixth grade next
year in an effort to better accommodate area families.
Field, located at 2301 Foxhall Road NW, will
begin offering tours and information sessions to
prospective parents this fall. The new sixth grade
will debut for the 2012-13 academic year.
The announcement at Field, which is a private
school, comes amid calls for additional middle
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school options from Ward 3 parents.
Earlier this month, Ward 3 D.C. Council member
Mary Cheh wrote a letter to D.C. Schools Chancellor
Kaya Henderson expressing concerns about climbing enrollment at area elementary and middle
schools. She asked the chancellor to consider building a new middle school at the Palisades Recreation
Center to accommodate the burgeoning student
population. Deal, the only middle school in Ward 3,
is already overpopulated, she said.
Henderson responded that the city has contracted
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Burglary (armed)
■ 4000 block, Cathedral Ave.;
residence; noon Aug. 26.
Stolen auto
■ 2500 block, Porter St.; street;
9 a.m. Aug. 26.
Theft (below $250)
■ 3800 block, Porter St.; sidewalk; 7 a.m. Aug. 21.
■ 2200 block, Wisconsin Ave.;
office building; 9:58 a.m. Aug.
22.
■ 3000 block, Idaho Ave.; office
building; 3 a.m. Aug. 24.
■ 3900 block, Benton St.; residence; 6 a.m. Aug. 24.
Theft from auto ($250 plus)
■ 3100 block, 38th St.; street; 3
a.m. Aug. 21.
Theft from auto (below $250)
■ 3100 block, Woodland Drive;
residence; 6 a.m. Aug. 21.
a.m. Aug. 22.
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■ Nevada Avenue and Patterson
Street; street; 9:30 a.m. Aug. 24.
Theft (below $250)
■ 5800 block, Chevy Chase
Parkway; residence; 3 a.m. Aug.
23.
■ 6200 block, 29th St.; street;
7:30 a.m. Aug. 22.
■ 3200 block, Worthington St.;
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Burglary
■ 2800 block, M St.; store;
11:45 a.m. Aug. 23.
Stolen auto
8:30 a.m. Aug. 22.
Theft ($250 plus)
office building; 4 a.m. Aug. 24.
store; 4 a.m. Aug. 28.
Theft (below $250)
■ 3800 block, Reservoir Road;
university; 3:12 a.m. Aug. 22.
■ 3100 block, M St.; store; 4
a.m. Aug. 23.
■ 1000 block, 33rd St.; store;
12:01 p.m. Aug. 24.
■ 2900 block, N St.; residence;
7:30 a.m. Aug. 25.
store; 7:52 a.m. Aug. 25.
■ 3100 block, M St.; restaurant;
11:30 a.m. Aug. 27.
■ K Street and Wisconsin
Avenue; street; 1:30 a.m. Aug.
28.
■ 2500 block, P St.; street; 6
a.m. Aug. 21.
■ 2400 block, P St.; street;
10:30 a.m. Aug. 23.
a.m. Aug. 23.
11:40 a.m. Aug. 24.
■ 3500 block, S St.; street; 3:10
a.m. Aug. 27.
a.m. Aug. 27.
psa
PSA
207
207
■ foggy bottom / west end
Theft (below $250)
■ 2100 block, Pennsylvania
Ave.; office building; 3 a.m. Aug.
23.
■ 2400 block, Pennsylvania
Ave.; residence; 10 a.m. Aug.
26.
■ 2400 block, N St.; street; 9
a.m. Aug. 21.
■ 22nd Street and Constitution
27.
psa 208
■ sheridan-kalorama
PSA
208
dupont circle
Robbery (carjacking)
■ 1800 block, Q St.; street; 2:05
a.m. Aug. 27.
Robbery (snatch)
■ 15th and S streets; sidewalk;
6:05 a.m. Aug. 22.
Robbery (stealth)
■ 1700 block, I St.; tavern; 1
a.m. Aug. 25.
Burglary
■ 1200 block, 23rd St.; office
building; 10:45 a.m. Aug. 24.
Stolen auto
■ 1800 block, K St.; street; 10
a.m. Aug. 22.
■ 19th and M streets; street; 11
a.m. Aug. 24.
■ 1600 block, I St.; street;
12:30 p.m. Aug. 26.
■ 2100 block, California St.;
sidewalk; 6:15 a.m. Aug. 26.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 18th and M streets; restaurant; 2 a.m. Aug. 23.
■ 1100 block, Connecticut Ave.;
Theft (below $250)
■ 2100 block, Massachusetts
Ave.; residence; 10 a.m. Aug.
22.
■ 1800 block, I St.; restaurant;
noon Aug. 22.
■ 1800 block, 18th St.; restaurant; 12:30 p.m. Aug. 22.
■ 1500 block, I St.; parking lot;
3 a.m. Aug. 22.
■ 1800 block, I St.; office building; 3:30 a.m. Aug. 22.
■ 1100 block, 17th St.; office
building; 5:05 a.m. Aug. 22.
■ 1100 block, 15th St.; restaurant; 12:30 p.m. Aug. 23.
restaurant; 2:15 a.m. Aug. 23.
restaurant; 6 a.m. Aug. 24.
■ 2000 block, L St.; unspecified
premises; 8 a.m. Aug. 24.
■ 1900 block, M St.; store; 3:30
a.m. Aug. 25.
Theft (below $250)
■ 1800 block, 18th St.; store;
3:49 a.m. Aug. 26.
■ 2100 block, N St.; sidewalk;
1:30 a.m. Aug. 27.
■ 1600 block, R St.; sidewalk;
4:45 a.m. Aug. 27.
■ 1700 block, T St.; street;
11:30 a.m. Aug. 21.
■ 1700 block, Willard St.; street;
6 a.m. Aug. 21.
a.m. Aug. 22.
6:31 a.m. Aug. 22.
a.m. Aug. 23.
■ 1700 block, N St.; street; 5:30
a.m. Aug. 24.
■ 1700 block, Rhode Island
Ave.; alley; 6:30 a.m. Aug. 24.
■ 18th and T streets; street;
8:15 a.m. Aug. 24.
■ 1600 block, O St.; street; 10
a.m. Aug. 25.
■ 1500 block, Q St.; park area;
8 a.m. Aug. 26.
■ 1400 block, U St.; unspecified
a.m. Aug. 27.
a.m. Aug. 28.
psa
PSA
303
303
■ adams morgan
Robbery (gun)
■ 1800 block, Columbia Road;
alley; 3:20 a.m. Aug. 27.
Robbery (force and violence)
■ 2600 block, Mozart Place;
alley; 9:25 a.m. Aug. 24.
■ 2400 block, Ontario Road;
sidewalk; 11:30 a.m. Aug. 25.
Robbery (snatch)
■ 18th Street and Columbia
Road; sidewalk; 12:15 p.m. Aug.
26.
Theft ($250 plus)
Theft (below $250)
■ 1900 block, Biltmore St.; residence; 7 a.m. Aug. 22.
hotel; 9 a.m. Aug. 22.
■ 20th Street and Florida
22.
■ 1600 block, Florida Ave.; residence; 9 a.m. Aug. 23.
■ 1700 block, Seaton St.;
unspecified premises; 3 a.m.
Aug. 25.
■ 2300 block, 18th St.; tavern;
11 a.m. Aug. 27.
unspecified premises; 11:50
a.m. Aug. 27.
■ 2300 block, 18th St.; tavern;
4:30 a.m. Aug. 27.
residence; 12:20 p.m. Aug. 28.
■ 1600 block, U St.; street; 3:30
a.m. Aug. 25.
■ 2200 block, Old Morgan
School Place; street; 8 a.m. Aug.
22.
■ 2600 block, Mozart Place;
■ 1700 block, Euclid St.; street;
3:22 a.m. Aug. 24.
street; 10:15 a.m. Aug. 25.
street; 9:40 a.m. Aug. 25.
psa
PSA
307
307
■ logan circle
Robbery (gun)
■ 1200 block, 10th St.; sidewalk; 9:15 a.m. Aug. 22.
Assault with a dangerous
weapon (gun)
■ 1600 block, 11th St.; park
area; 6:50 a.m. Aug. 23.
Theft (below $250)
■ 1000 block, O St.; residence;
5:30 a.m. Aug. 24.
■ 900 block, O St.; unspecified
■ 1100 block, P St.; unspecified
■ 1600 block, 14th St.; store;
5:20 a.m. Aug. 25.
■ 1300 block, M St.; parking lot;
8 a.m. Aug. 25.
■ 1200 block, Vermont Ave.;
■ 1300 block, Vermont Ave.;
■ 1400 block, Massachusetts
Ave.; street; 7:45 a.m. Aug. 26.
■ 1400 block, M St.; street;
10:30 a.m. Aug. 27.
psa 404
■ crestwood / petworth
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404
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Robbery (force and violence)
■ 400 block, Buchanan St.;
weapon (knife)
■ 500 block, Crittenden St.;
unspecified premises; 11:41
a.m. Aug. 22.
■ 3800 block, 14th St.; residence; 8:19 a.m. Aug. 25.
weapon (other)
■ 4200 block, 3rd St.; sidewalk;
7:35 a.m. Aug. 24.
11:25 a.m. Aug. 27.
Theft (below $250)
■ 500 block, Crittenden St.; residence; 12:22 p.m. Aug. 22.
■ 3700 block, 9th St.; residence; 7 a.m. Aug. 22.
■ 4400 block, 14th St.; unspecified premises; 7 a.m. Aug. 24.
■ 3800 block, Georgia Ave.;
unspecified premises; 6:26 a.m.
Aug. 26.
■ 4400 block, 17th St.; residence; 7 a.m. Aug. 26.
■ 1400 block, Varnum St.; residence; 11:35 a.m. Aug. 27.
■ 1800 block, Quincy St.; street;
7 a.m. Aug. 21.
■ 500 block, Rock Creek Church
Road; street; 11:45 a.m. Aug.
23.
■ 800 block, Quincy St.; street;
12:10 p.m. Aug. 26.
The Current
BILLS
From Page 3
the revenue office telling them what was
going on.
“If you’re in a rhythm of taxes being due
middle of April, middle of September, you
start worrying,” said Foggy Bottom resident
Sally Blumenthal. “Did it get lost? Did it get
put in the wrong box in my building? What’s
going on here? And you’d think the city
would have issued a news release or some-
thing.”
Tenleytown resident Robin Wilson also
reported worrying about a lost bill. “I received
a tax bill for my parking space but not others
so I was concerned and needed to call. At first
I thought it might be a USPS issue,” Robin
Wilson wrote in an email to The Current, adding, “All good, I called up and my bill is one
of the ones being delayed — with the due date
to be delayed as well.”
Natalie Wilson, the taxation office spokesperson, said she wishes the error had been
noticed earlier but that widespread notifica-
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tions would have been impractical. “Even if
we were to mail a notice to the taxpayer, they
would have gotten the delayed bill either
simultaneously or after the bill,” she said. “We
did post a notice on our website.”
The notice, on the Real Property Tax Bills
section of the office’s website, reads in full:
“While most real property tax bills are mailed
at the same time, a range of issues can delay
the mailing of some of these bills. The due
date for these delayed real property tax bills is
adjusted accordingly.”
The website also includes a PDF document
For more information
on the GW community
calendar, please
contact Britany Waddell
in the Office of
Community Relations at
202-994-9132
or visit us at
www.neighborhood.
gwu.edu
$ Sunday, Sept. 18 at 8 p.m.
Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans presents
Passing the Torch of Success to Washington DC
Lisner Auditorium
730 21st St., NW
Support GW Women’s Soccer as they take on Iowa.
This event is free and open to the public.
On Sunday, Sept. 18, 2011, a group of highly accomplished
Iranian Americans will share their stories of success
with the audience, hoping to inspire and empower the
next generation of Iranian Americans. The event will be
co-hosted by Maz Jobrani, well-known Iranian American
comedian and Rudi Bakhtiar, former CNN anchor. Tickets
are $50 for public, $25 for GW students and alumni and
can be purchased at the Lisner Box Office.
Friday, Sept. 23 at 4 p.m.
GW Women’s Soccer vs. Liberty
Mount Vernon Field
2100 Foxhall Road, NW
Support GW Women’s Soccer as they take on Liberty.
Photo: Andrew Foster
SEPTEMBER
A selection of this month’s GW events—neighbors welcome!
Friday, Sept. 2 at 4 p.m.
GW Women’s Soccer vs. Iowa
Mount Vernon Field
$
Saturday, Sept. 3 at 8 p.m.
Kankouran West African Dance Company presents
KanKouran: Legends
Lisner Auditorium
730 21st St., NW
Come celebrate at the KanKouran’s 28th Annual
National Conference of African Dance & Drumming.
A local institution based in Washington DC, KanKouran
West African Dance Company has been an integral
part of the dance community for over twenty years!
This year’s concert production entitled “LEGENDS” is
a celebration of the legacy and artistry of dance’s living
legends, Melvin Deal and Chuck Davis. Tickets are
available for $30, $25 for GW Students and Alumni,
and can be purchased at the Lisner Box Office.
$ Friday, Sept. 9 at 7:30 p.m.
The Washington Concert Opera presents Attila
Lisner Auditorium
730 21st St., NW
Attila may have been one of history’s fiercest warriors,
but he is no match, according to Giuseppe Verdi, for one
woman’s sworn revenge. John Relyea, who proved to be
as stunning an actor as a singer in our WCO production
of Gounod’s Faust, portrays the dreaded Hun, with the
divine Brenda Harris as his nemesis, Odabella, in Attila,
one of Verdi’s most dramatic and compelling operas.
Tickets are available for $40, $45, $50, $85, $100 and
can be purchased at the Lisner Box Office.
GW Men’s Soccer vs. Bryant
Mount Vernon Field
Support GW Women’s Soccer as they take on Bryant.
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listing each delayed property; residents and
other property owners were able to search the
document’s 1,665 pages to see if they should
expect their bill to come late.
Blumenthal said she did find the webpage
but the information there was insufficient.
“There’s no explanation of why, and there’s
no information about when to expect the tax
bills to be sent out,” she said.
Natalie Wilson said resident complaints
did not appear to be widespread, though.
“Very few property owners called the office to
inquire,” she said.
GW COMMUNITY CALENDAR
From Page 1
tion, said workers stabilized both
the chimney and bell tower by yesterday morning and “more permanent repairs can continue while
students occupy the school.”
Despite an extensive renovation
and addition in 2009, the age of
Walls’ building probably contributed to the level of damage, according to Lynch. The public magnet
high school resides in the 1880
historic Grant School building —
which is “20 years older than the
National Cathedral,” he pointed
out.
The day after the quake, D.C.
Public Schools closed all of its
buildings and initially “red-flagged”
several schools — including Walls,
the Columbia Heights Education
Campus, McFarland Middle School
and Lafayette and Eaton elementary schools — as sites of damage.
According to Lewis, principals
and staff at each school gave their
buildings a first look before the
city’s Office of Public Education
Facilities Modernization sent structural engineers to do further analysis, following federal guidelines.
By Thursday, all city schools
were ready to open — except Walls.
Lynch said he was troubled that
the office of D.C. Schools
Chancellor Kaya Henderson didn’t
seem to give more urgency to the
situation at Walls, which he said
was “the most seriously damaged”
school building in the system. But
he said a site visit on Thursday
from City Administrator Allen Lew
helped “jumpstart the needed
repairs and alternative learning
schedule.”
And for the interim, he said,
Eastern High School provided a
perfect temporary home for the
displaced Walls students.
The recently renovated school at
1700 East Capitol St. NE had the
extra space: It’s hosting only ninthgraders this year, with plans to
expand to the upper grades incrementally. “The whole school is a
rebuilt, state-of-the-art facility
that’s being underutilized this year,”
Lynch said.
And its location — right by the
Stadium-Armory Metro station and
close to many Walls students’
homes in Capitol Hill — was also
convenient, he said.
Lewis said D.C. Public Schools
would keep everyone updated on
the repairs at Walls. He could not
provide a cost estimate for the
work.
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GW Men’s Water Polo vs. Princeton
Smith Center Pool
600 22nd St., N.W.
Support GW Men’s Water Polo as they take on Princeton.
$ Saturday, Sept. 24, 8 p.m.
Live Nation presents Arabs Gone Wild
Lisner Auditorium
730 21st St., NW
Tickets for The Comedy Revolution Tour can be purchased
for $30; GW Students: $25 at the Lisner Box Office
Saturday, Sept. 24 at 8p.m.
GW Men’s Water Polo vs. Johns Hopkins
Smith Center Pool
600 22nd St., N.W.
Support GW Men’s Water Polo as they take on Princeton.
Wednesday, Sept. 14 to Friday, Oct. 14
Kay Jackson Exhibition
Luther W. Brady Art Gallery
2nd Floor, 805 21st Street, NW
The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery is the professional
showcase for art at GW. Six to eight exhibitions are
featured each year and include University-related shows
and Permanent Collection exhibitions; as well as shows
of historical and contemporary significance, often with a
focus on the Washington area. The gallery is open Tuesday
through Friday, 10am to 5pm. For more information on
exhibitions please visit www.gwu.edu/~bradyart/home.html.
Wednesdays at 3 p.m.
Foggy Bottom Market
Eye Street Mall
I St. between New Hampshire and 24th Street, NW.
The Foggy Bottom market returns for another season.
Offerings include fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs, organic
and grass-fed meats, handmade cheeses, breads,
desserts, preserves, herbs, flowers, plants and more.
Every Wednesday from 3-7 p.m. through Nov 23. For
more information, visit www.freshfarmmarket.org.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011T
he Current
The Dupont
Current
Davis Kennedy/Publisher & Editor
Chris Kain/Managing Editor
Attracting high-tech
Quite a few high-tech start-ups establish themselves here in the
District and then move to Virginia, where business taxes are lower
and the ability to build a high-rise can help offset land costs.
Thankfully for the city, the District is increasingly popular with
young workers who want to live here to easily take advantage of our
cultural attractions and active nightlife. The Dulles Toll Road has
long been Main Street for the region’s tech industry, but the area is
beginning to lose a bit of steam with the high tolls that are coming to
fund the planned Dulles Metro stop — estimated by the Washington
Business Journal to be as high as $10 each way come 2020.
The biggest advantages Virginia high-tech firms have over those
in D.C. are their comparatively lower tax rates on business real
estate and profits. Virginia’s corporate income tax rate is 6 percent,
while the District’s is 9.975 percent. Fairfax’s commercial property
tax rate is $1.20 per $100 of valuation and Loudoun’s is $1.285,
while the District’s is $1.65 per $100 valuation for the first $3 million and $1.85 above that.
We think it would be wise for the District government to investigate the possibility of lowering real estate and profits taxes for hightech firms to Virginia’s levels. So few of these types of firms are
located here that the short-term tax loss would probably be minimal,
yet the long-term revenue gains would be considerable.
We could also investigate ending the District’s ban on skyscrapers
in some areas, such as parts of wards 7 and 8 — assuming the community agrees — where the need for jobs is tremendous. If the
District were to relax its building height restrictions in these limited
areas, as Mayor Vincent Gray has tentatively explored, we could
then push the federal government to end its ban there.
To see the potential benefits, all we have to do is look across the
Potomac River at Rosslyn. Many of the firms there are refugees
from our high tax rates and skyscraper ban. There is little doubt that
if these issues could be addressed successfully, the District would
over time substantially increase its tax revenue and ease some of its
acute unemployment problems.
Dupont triangle
The small triangle park across from the Dupont Circle Metro station’s north entrance is intended as a green respite along a busy section of Connecticut Avenue. But much of the grass is dead as a result
of well-worn pedestrian pathways.
Thus a planned $62,000 makeover for the space just north of Q
Street is particularly welcome. The work is the result of a plannedunit development negotiated several years ago. Historic Dupont
Circle Main Streets has also helped shape the project in recent years.
The National Park Service has invited public comments on the
plans, which call for installing a 30-inch-high wrought-iron fence on
the park’s southern end.
Other upgrades will include planting a new Chinese fringe tree
and a replacement cherry tree, restoring turf on compacted areas and
adding new trash receptacles. Existing benches will be restored, and
damaged pavement will be repaired.
The Dupont Circle advisory neighborhood commission will sponsor a community discussion on the plans next Tuesday, but so far the
fencing has been the main point of contention. Greater Greater
Washington blogger David Alpert in particular criticized the plan to
block the ad hoc paths, and many of the site’s readers followed suit.
Given the small size of the park, we see little harm in forcing
pedestrians to stay on the pavement in hopes of keeping the grass
alive. But it may well be that the sidewalks on this parcel are too
narrow, especially next to the busy Route 42 bus stop. The Park
Service should work with the D.C. Department of Transportation to
consider whether any of the sidewalks should be widened to enhance
pedestrian safety and accommodate people waiting for the bus. An
alternative approach would be moving the bus stop a block south.
Wrung out to dry …
W
e wrapped up our hurricane work for television early on Sunday, retiring in the
afternoon to the Cantina Marina, an outdoor bar and restaurant on the Southwest Waterfront.
Sitting on the upper deck, we ordered a crab cake
and not one, but two cold Coors.
The first was just a way to exhale from the frenzy
of the past week.
The second bottle was a silent toast to the public
service workers, the
emergency responders
and, yes, the journalists
who tracked and
responded to the hurricane and the earlier
earthquake.
Some notes we made along the way:
■ Earthquake, No. 1. This region proved once
again that it’s everyone for him or herself in a major
disaster or terrorist strike.
It’s just abundantly clear now that without
extraordinary efforts, few people are going to “shelter in place” if they believe they can get out and get
home.
“People are just going to leave,” said
Transportation Department director Terry Bellamy.
“ … Any city in the world. They’re just going to do
it.” Yet Bellamy said the city will continue its
efforts to make “sheltering in place” a reality.
But maybe the region’s effort ought to focus on
organized traffic evacuation, not just urging worried
parents, partners and guardians to sit tight.
There appears to be no coordinated effort in the
District (or ’burbs) to have police, traffic control
aides and other emergency personnel staff critical
intersections or choke points.
“It’s another missed opportunity,” said Greater
Washington Board of Trade president Jim Dinegar.
Despite the decade that’s passed since the horrors of
9/11, this region is still talking about and planning
coordinated emergency responses. And people are
still pouring into the streets.
■ Hurricane, No. 1. No sooner had the sun come
out Sunday than some people were second-guessing
the decision to postpone the Martin Luther King Jr.
memorial dedication. It wasn’t that bad here, they
said, people would have put up with the wet ground,
et cetera, et cetera.
It’s important to say that such sentiments are not
even accurate in hindsight. They’re just wrong.
There were 30,000 folding chairs sitting out in a
wide-open field. They would have been tossed
around like toys in the winds. The ground was saturated. It would have been dangerous. People had to
get back south and to the northeast ahead of the
storm or risk being stuck here. As heartbreaking as
the decision was to postpone, it was the right one.
■ Earthquake, No. 2. After the earthquake hit, the
big question was whether the schools would open
the next day. Inspectors were out looking at all 126
operating D.C. school buildings.
At 10:59 p.m. — a minute before the 11 o’clock
news — journalists were told that all but three
school buildings would open on time. Then somewhere around 4 a.m. everyone was told that all the
schools would be closed.
One of the toughest things to do in a crisis is to
get consistent, accurate information out to the public
and to those clamoring journalists. In the age of
Twitter, snippets of information travel fast.
If the politicians close the schools, parents scream
that they overreacted. If
they leave them open,
parents scream that their
kids might be unsafe. If
they change their minds
and the decision, they
get it from all sides.
The main thing for politicians is to know what
you know and then tell it. The public will accept
uncertainty if you’re clear that you’re trying.
■ Hurricane, No. 2. What would you do with five
sandbags? One person sent me a message that five
bags “would make a nice coffee table.”
We ask because the city’s Department of Public
Works expended a great deal of effort to pass out
7,000 sandbags to the city, but it gave out only five
bags per person. First the lines seriously backed up
when the city first started in Southeast near the baseball stadium. Some people waited for more than an
hour for their five bags.
The next day, the sandbag effort was moved to
RFK Stadium, where the city could accommodate
the long lines. But still, it was only five bags per
vehicle.
Most homes have two entrances and many have
basement-level windows. How five bags really
helped, we’re not sure. That’s one of the reasons we
live on the second floor.
■ A disaster P.R. move? As the city was roiling
from the earthquake and the hurricane, D.C. Council
Chairman Kwame Brown was sending out news
releases about the events. But he wasn’t showing up
at any of the mayor’s multiple news conferences.
When your Notebook tweeted about this absence,
Brown acknowledged he was out of town, saying he
was at a staff member’s wedding.
■ A final word. Former D.C. Council member
Nadine P. Winter has died. She was 87. Winter was
elected in 1974 to serve on the first council under
home rule. She served Ward 6 from 1975 until 1991.
Her body will lie in repose at the John A. Wilson
Building on Thursday night from 5 to 7.
Winter was a feisty and colorful character. She
had a big smile that any caricaturist would love.
She’d flash it whether she was angry or happy.
Winter moved to Washington in 1947 and was an
early housing activist for seniors, youths and the
homeless. She fought for rent control and homeowner rights. She twice served as one of the city’s three
formal electors in presidential contests. Our condolences to her family.
Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.
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ovation for his diligence and
commitment to the improvement
of our neighborhood.
Jackie Blumenthal
Commissioner, ANC 3B02
Resident has helped
battle rat problem
Bond tax may drive
In my comments to your
reporter about rat abatement at
family from District
Guy Mason Recreation Center in
Glover Park [“City renews fight
against rats in Glover Park,” Aug.
24], I neglected to mention the
work of Glover Park resident
Mitch Wander, who has dedicated himself to overseeing the trash
management around the ball field
and playground.
Mitch deserves a standing
I totally agree with the Aug.
24 letter “Any bond tax might
alienate local voters.”
The taxing of non-D.C.
municipal bonds will double,
repeat double, the D.C. income
tax we pay, and therefore it will
eliminate one of the attractions
for D.C. residence.
My wife and I have owned a
home and lived in D.C. for more
than 40 years, and I am now
retired. We have been exploring
downsizing to an apartment. This
tax will weigh heavily in a decision on whether to stay in the
District or choose a location in
Virginia, Maryland or elsewhere,
where the rents and taxes are
more favorable.
Incidentally, it is not just
wards 2 and 3 that will be significantly affected by this tax. We
live in Ward 4. It is our hope that
our D.C. Council member,
Muriel Bowser, wlll become
more active in seeking its repeal.
William B. Kelly
Chevy Chase
The Current
Letters to
the Editor
Parking rules create
much inconvenience
I would caution Northwest residents to think carefully about
changing parking permit rules, particularly extending the hours of
restriction or the days — as is
advocated by Damon Harvey of the
D.C. Department of Transportation
in your recent article on parking in
Glover Park [“Glover Park ANC
tackles parking issues,” July 20].
The Department of
Transportation’s interests are not
necessarily the interests of the residents of Glover Park or any other
Northwest neighborhood, as parking ticket fees appear to be a major
motivator of the D.C. government.
Once you extend parking permit
days or hours, you will never get it
undone, even if unintended consequences convince the residents it is
not working. If you extend hours to
midnight, you essentially cannot
have a dinner party and expect
your out-of-neighborhood guests to
find anywhere legal to park.
Everyone enjoys the nearby restaurants, yet residents do not want
to compete with out-of-neighborhood diners for parking. On the
other hand, if you take away all of
the parking, those restaurants may
not be able to remain in business
for the enjoyment of the neighborhood due to a lack of out-of-neighborhood customers.
Be careful what you ask for.
Hilary Sills
Cleveland Park
Retroactive or not,
bond tax is bad idea
Opinions in The Current about
the new tax on non-D.C. bonds
have focused on retroactivity and
grandfathering. Beyond these basic
issues of fairness, is this tax an
effective way of generating revenue for the city?
Standard & Poor’s recently cautioned that D.C.’s less-than-stellar
bond rating is in danger of being
downgraded. The D.C. chief financial officer and the mayor have
argued that this tax is necessary to
encourage D.C. residents to buy
D.C. bonds. So D.C. residents will
be asked to hold riskier and relatively illiquid D.C. bonds to retain
their tax exemption.
Diversified bond funds hold
fewer D.C. bonds than those of
any state. Individuals will have to
pay a substantial premium when
seeking to invest small amounts in
D.C. bonds that are not easily traded. Unlike such states as Virginia
and Maryland, D.C. does not have
a state-specific bond fund that
offers greater diversification and
lower management costs.
Therefore, D.C. residents who purchase available D.C. bonds will
suffer from historically low yields
and an admittedly higher risk of
losing their principal; however, this
will do nothing to strengthen
D.C.’s bond ratings in a federal
city with a $5.3 billion budget and
uncertain revenues.
D.C. residents who replace their
existing bonds with D.C. bonds
will also pay capital gains taxes,
commissions and markups. Federal
and D.C. taxes on the capital gains
realized by selling a long-term
bond fund purchased 30 years ago
would average about 10 percent of
current principal. Commissions
and markups on D.C. bonds would
cost another 5 percent. A typical
retiree could lose 15 percent of his
principal and thousands of dollars
in the process. This will cost D.C.
residents much more than D.C.
collects in taxes.
D.C. will become the only nonstate that does not exempt interest
income from the bonds of all 50
states. In contrast, U.S. territories
and possessions encourage capital
formation and put their residents
on an equal footing with state
investors. This tax will make D.C.
a less attractive jurisdiction for
investment and drive away much
greater sources of revenue such as
real property and estates.
The new tax should be repealed
— not postponed or modified —
because it will be a net loss for the
city overall. The immediate cost to
the 20,000 D.C. residents who
hold non-D.C. bonds will far
exceed the $13 million in additional revenues that the D.C. chief
financial officer expects in 2011.
In the future the tax will become
even more counterproductive as
investors shift their assets elsewhere.
Neil Williams
The Palisades
Plan for Babe’s site
would harm Tenley
On Sept. 8, representatives of
the developer of the Babe’s
Billiards site at Wisconsin Avenue
and Brandywine Street are scheduled to present their development
plans at the Advisory Neighborhood
Commission 3E meeting.
The developer plans a six-story
condominium of 60 units and two
floors of commercial space. No
parking is to be provided. The condos are extremely small and are
likely to be marketed to American
University students. In addition,
because the site offers no alley
access, the building will be serviced from Brandywine Street.
The impact on the community
of such a development is easy to
imagine:
• There will be no on-street parking
available to area residents or customers of existing businesses.
• Traffic throughout the neighborhoods will increase, as will illegal
parking in private garages.
• Traffic on Brandywine Street will
be disrupted with double-parked
valet parkers, moving vans, trash
trucks and other service vehicles.
The neighborhood commissioners have held at least two closeddoor meetings with representatives
of the developer to discuss this proposal. The commissioners appear
strongly in favor of the proposed
dormitory. No one knows why they
would choose to support a project
that is clearly not in the best interests of their constituents. So far as
is known, no traffic or community
impact studies have been conducted.
The Babe’s site has been an
eyesore, an embarrassment and a
danger to the community for far
too long. The site is valuable and
needs to be developed. However,
any development of the site needs
to be sensitive to the needs of the
community. As currently conceived, this development is remarkably insensitive to those needs.
I would urge anyone with a concern about the development of the
site to attend the commission meeting on Sept. 8 at 7:30 p.m. at St.
Mary’s Armenian Apostolic
Church, 42nd and Fessenden
streets NW, and make those concerns clear to your commissioners.
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Many thanks for The Current’s
Aug. 17 editorial about the new
arrangements at our local agency,
the Georgetown Ministry Center. It
inspired me to go down to their little building just off the C&O Canal
and see for myself.
This is such a fine agency helping our people in need, and now, as
you pointed out, it is even better.
In addition to the outreach,
medical help, telephone and mail
service, shower and bathroom the
center provides, there is now a
pleasant sitting room, where I saw
about five guys sitting at computers, trying to access jobs, shelters
or families. Two others were in sitting in the reading area, presumably awaiting their turns.
Executive director Gunther
Stern and outreach director Roy
Witherspoon were hovering nearby,
ready to handle any questions.
This is certainly an organization
to which we can all give our
wholehearted support.
Thanks so much for calling our
attention to it!
Frida Burling
Georgetown
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School Without Walls
The first week of school is
always interesting. There are new
classes to find, new students to
meet, friends you haven’t seen all
summer, and friends you saw the
day before. Students are nervous,
excited, frightened, intimidated and
steeling themselves for another 10
months.
This year, the School Without
Walls hosts a freshman class that is
one of the largest in its history,
pushing the student population to
more than 500. Classes and corridors seem more crowed, and getting through the front door is a battle, as those without student IDs
must sign in by hand.
There are new faces this year —
and not just in the student body.
Walls has lost several faculty members for various reasons, including
budget cuts. Replacements have
been made in the math and science
departments and the office of assistant principal.
Yet it was neither the influx of
new students nor the attrition to our
faculty that set this beginning
stretch apart from those of the past.
On Aug. 22, an earthquake of a 5.8
magnitude struck the
D.C.-Maryland-Virginia area.
Along with other D.C. schools,
Walls was closed on Wednesday as
inspectors examined the building.
Due to damage to the chimney
and bell tower, the school remained
School DISPATCHES
closed Thursday and Friday. Until
repairs are complete, the School
Without Walls will be temporarily
relocated to Eastern High School,
beginning what will be another
interesting week.
— Keanu Ross-Cabrera,
12th-grader
Shepherd Elementary
Hello, Fellow Mustangs!
For the new students who do not
know me yet, my name is SophiaRose Herisse. I will be the student
correspondent for The Current this
school year. I hope you had a wonderful summer. Our teachers have a
great year of learning and fun
planned for us. Your responsibility
is to do your best every single day
and do it the Shepherd way!
I encourage you to share cool
news tips and comments. Please
contact me at snherisse@yahoo.
com. Thank you for reading my
column.
— Sophia-Rose Herisse,
fourth-grader
Stoddert Elementary
Hi, my name is Kennedy. I’m
new to Stoddert this year. I came
from Whittier Elementary School.
My goal is to get a good education.
I’m in Mrs. Bostic’s fifth-grade
class, and we play math and read-
ing trivia. You pick from either
math or reading for a question. You
can also choose the grab bag. I got
a random question from the grab
bag. If you ask for a math question,
you might get a multiplication
problem. The reading bag includes
questions like, “Who was the first
president?”
I also found out this week that
we get homework passes. All the
teachers are nice, and I’ve met
some nice girls like Addie and
Allyse. We are talking and playing
together.
■ Hi, my name is Robert. My
teacher is Mr. Dingledine. He told
us that they might increase the time
for P.E. I would really like that
more because I don’t like to sit and
learn all day. I want to get some
exercise.
There was an earthquake this
week and that was different for the
first week of school. Now we’re
going to have a hurricane. We were
in the computer lab when the quake
started and everything started shaking. We were taking a typing test.
The computers and the Promethean
board were moving back and forth.
Our teacher came and took us outside.
I’ve met some new people this
year. It’s my second year here. It’s
nice to have new people at the
school.
— Kennedy Monroe and
Robert Williams, fifth-graders
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that further detail would become available if
the developer moves forward.
Representatives from Foulger-Pratt did not
respond to a request for comment yesterday.
The city’s large-tract review of the project
kicked off in March. The administrative process “allows for city and public review” of a
project before the building-permit stage,
according to Planning Office chief of staff
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In its Aug. 10 report, the Planning Office
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help give kids the tools they need to
learn how to read so that they can
succeed in life. If the library’s environment is compelling and attractive, it will be a place kids want to
come and they will develop a love
of books.”
Nationwide, the Target/Heart of
America program renovated 41
school libraries this year.
Reba Dominski, director of
Target’s education initiatives, said
schools eligible for the renovations
were those where over 65 percent of
students are on free or reduced-cost
lunch programs. The program also
looks at a school’s reading scores
relative to state or city averages.
Dominski noted that a number of
other factors were considered, and
that for Garrison, the selection team
was “drawn in by the principal,”
Rembert Seaward. Dominski said
Seaward is an “incredibly passionate leader, very committed to the
school and very eager to see students improve academically.”
Target and The Heart for
America Foundation started renovating school libraries together in
2007. Dominski said on average
they donate $250,000 per library
— which includes the design, renovation, new books and computers
— but the program does not release
figures for individual renovations.
The same teams that design
Target stores go to the school libraries, using 3-D modeling software to
plan new libraries in collaboration
with school leadership. Local Target
employees volunteer their time to
execute the vision.
At Garrison, a design challenge
arose because the library consists of
two small rooms side by side rather
than one large space. The designers,
along with school officials, decided
to keep the two rooms separate with
a wall of windows between them
rather than knock down a wall. The
idea is that older children will likely
use the side of the library that contains the new computers, and the
younger children will congregate on
the side with colorful beanbag
chairs.
“We’re really excited,” said
Seaward, who applied for the renovation on behalf of Garrison. “The
library can help everyone engage in
experiencing the world through
reading.”
There is a new media specialist
on staff, and the library now has a
concluded that the Ward 4 Walmart project
“addresses the goals of [large-tract review]
regulations,” which include minimizing
neighborhood impacts, avoiding unnecessary
public costs and carrying out the policies of
the District’s Comprehensive Plan.
The new Walmart “would accommodate
new retail space that could improve the mix of
goods and services available along the Upper
Georgia Avenue commercial corridor, and
expand employment opportunities for residents,” the report says.
The report includes reviews of the project
from several city agencies, including the D.C.
Department of Employment Services and the
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Transportation issues have been a sticking
point for the project, with many noting that the
Georgia and Missouri intersection already
ranks as “failing” by city standards.
According to the planning report, the
developer has agreed to finance several transportation improvements, including adding
northbound and southbound left-turn lanes at
that troubled intersection and adding a signal
at Georgia Avenue and Quackenbos Street.
But Richard Layman, an urban planner
who helped craft the Takoma/Brightwood
advisory neighborhood commission’s recommendations for the Walmart, said more exten-
sive work is necessary. “That whole intersection needs to be reconstructed,” he said.
The commission voted on a lengthy set of
conditions for the Walmart in June. The Aug.
10 report largely dismisses the recommendations — including a request that Foulger-Pratt
design the Walmart building to allow for
future residential development — as “outside
the scope” of the large-tract review.
But Washington-Stern said on issues like
these, city agencies had no leeway. “The
[large-tract review] process does not empower
a District agency to demand improvements
that are not required by zoning,” she wrote in
an email.
system in place to lend books out to
students, which the school wasn’t
able to do in the past.
Seaward said he’s also looking
forward to the learning opportunities students will have thanks to the
new computers and software. “To
help our students become collegeready, it’s important that they learn
not only how to find information on
the Internet,” he said, “but that they
learn how to present their research
to others using programs like
PowerPoint and Word.”
The new library will also be a
space where Target-sponsored tutoring sessions can take place, along
with a lunchtime reading program
that pairs students and mentors.
In addition to the library renovations, Target is also funding a
“Meals for Minds” food pantry program at all schools that received
library makeovers this year.
At Garrison, on the third
Wednesday of the month for the
entire school year, every student
will be able to take home 22 pounds
of food.
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access if the historic district is
approved.
Meanwhile, the acreage also
known as the Potomac Annex and
Observatory Hill remains a mystery
even to nearby residents.
The landmark application, however, contains stunning photos and
detailed descriptions of the facility
in its several incarnations.
Pierre L’Enfant, laying out the
federal city, recognized the site’s
strategic location on high ground,
with sweeping views of the Potomac
to the north and south, and thought
it an ideal site for a fort. George
Washington envisioned building a
university there, according to the
landmark application.
Instead, in 1844, the Navy built
an imposing two-story brick structure, topped by a circular dome, to
serve as its observatory. The Greek
Revival building played a significant role in research on navigation,
astronomy and oceanography,
according to the application. The
“Great Equatorial Telescope” formerly lodged in the dome was used
to discover the two moons of Mars
in 1877.
But in 1893, the observatory was
relocated to higher ground on
Massachusetts Avenue NW.
The grounds overlooking the
Potomac then became the Navy’s
prime medical facility, with a
Museum of Hygiene and then a
medical school occupying the old
observatory. The Washington Naval
Hospital was established in 1904
and was soon surrounded by a group
of Georgian buildings whose names
reflected medical care of the era: a
Contagious Ward, for example.
A grand staircase, built in 1911,
provided a new formal entrance
from E Street. But it was demolished in the early 1950s to allow
construction of the E Street ramp to
Interstate 66. Other landscape features, including iron grillwork, a
single gas lamp, a circular drive and
a statue of Benjamin Rush, surgeon
general of the Continental Army,
remained even after the Navy hospital moved to Bethesda in 1942.
Since then the buildings have
been largely occupied by the Navy’s
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,
the administrative headquarters for
the force’s medical wing. But the
bureau is slated to move to a renovated office building in Falls Church
next year as part of Congress’ mandate to consolidate military facilities.
Herman said most of the 13-acre
complex will be turned over to the
State Department for office space
when the Navy moves out. He said
he fears maintenance of the old
observatory could suffer. “As a historian, I’m 100 percent behind [the
landmark application], or anything
to preserve this site,” he said.
State Department spokesperson
Beth Gosselin said Tuesday that the
department expects to “accept transfer” of most of the buildings next
year, to be used as temporary space
during renovation of the agency’s
main building across 23rd Street.
Gosselin said restrictions on
public access will continue for security reasons, although tours of the
observatory itself “may be possible.” She said the department
“intends to follow all federal, state
and local codes” involving historic
preservation, and noted that the
department does not intend to use
the already-landmarked observatory
building “at this time.”
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Federal-style home offers proximity to stores, parkland
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of the house at 3416
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ON THE MARKET
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from Politics & Prose bookstore,
and just a bit farther from the trails
of Rock Creek Park. And inside,
there are plenty of cozy spaces for
ruminating on nature or tucking
into a good read.
One such spot
is the sunroom, a
window-lined
former porch
located off the
living room.
White walls set
off by dark wood
trim — and a
wood beadboard
ceiling with a fan in the center —
make the space snug, while windows on all three exterior walls
provide a connection to what lies
outside.
The current owner says that the
surrounding community is a nice
one, too: The neighbors hold regular parties in the alleys between the
homes, and the area is quiet,
despite its proximity to Connecticut
Avenue.
Back inside, the sunroom connects via French doors to an ample
living room centered on a woodburning stove. Both rooms have the
original 1930s hardwood floors, as
does the rest of the first floor.
The living room sits just to the
side of a charming two-part foyer.
A small entry offers coat closets,
and then up a few steps there’s
another central space at the foot of
the stairs. The current owner keeps
a traditional phone table here,
under a window
looking out onto
the sunroom,
which brings
light into the
hallway. There’s
also a small
powder room
here — a particularly nice feature to find in a house of this vintage.
Across from the living area is
the dining room, which has the
same six-over-six windows and
dark wood moldings of the other
first-floor spaces. Attached is an
updated kitchen, where work about
seven years ago added granite
counters, a Kenmore fridge, Bosch
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This 1930s house in Forest Hills is
priced at $890,000.
cooktop and oven, Whirlpool dishwasher, deep sink and a smart storage trick: a wall pantry with pullout drawers.
The second floor is accessed via
a gracious staircase. Here are a
master bedroom with attached bath
— another unusual feature in a
1930s home — and two smaller
bedrooms. All have cedar closets,
and the master bedroom has two.
Both the master bath and a hall
bathroom were updated about six
years ago. The master has a glassenclosed stall shower revealing
blue ceramic tiles, as well as a tall
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ANCMorgan
1c
Adams
■ adams morgan
The commission will meet at 7
p.m. Sept. 7 at Mary’s Center,
2355 Ontario Road NW.
Agenda items include:
■ public safety report.
■ update on the 18th Street reconstruction project.
■ committee reports.
■ consideration of grants to St.
Joseph’s House and the Adams
Morgan Basketball Association.
For details, call 202-332-2630 or
visit anc1c.org.
ANC 2A
ANCBottom
2A
Foggy
■ Foggy bottom / west end
p.m. Sept. 21 at Heart House,
2400 N St. NW.
For details, visit anc2a.org.
ANC 2B
ANCCircle
2B
Dupont
■ dupont circle
The commission’s zoning,
preservation and development
committee will hold a meeting to
discuss the proposed development
by the First Baptist Church of the
City of Washington, D.C., and
Keener-Squire Properties at 17th
and O streets and the restoration/
renovation of the triangle park at
20th and Q streets and Connecticut
Avenue. The meeting will be held
Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. at the Dupont
Circle Hotel, 1500 New Hampshire
Ave. NW.
The commission will hold its
monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Sept.
14 in the Brookings Institution
building, 1775 Massachusetts Ave.
NW.
For details, visit dupontcircleanc.
net.
The commission will meet at
6:30 p.m. Sept. 7 at the Watha T.
Daniel-Shaw
Neighborhood
Library, 1630 7th St. NW.
For details, call 202-387-1596.
building; and 1275 Pennsylvania
Ave., building renovation requiring
Commission of Fine Arts approval
under the Shipstead-Luce Act.
■ discussion of redistricting issues
affecting the commission’s area,
including voting precinct boundaries.
■ discussion of noise complaints
regarding Donovan House.
■ discussion of a community roundtable invitation to D.C. Del. Eleanor
Holmes Norton.
visit anc2f.org.
ANC 2D
ANC 2D
Sheridan-Kalorama
ANC
3B 3B
ANC
Glover
Park
■ Glover Park/Cathedral heights
p.m. Sept. 19 at Our Lady Queen
of the Americas Church,
California Street and Phelps Place
NW.
For details, contact [email protected] or visit anc2d.
org.
p.m. Sept. 8 at Stoddert
Elementary
School
and
Recreation Center, 4001 Calvert
St. NW.
For details, call 202-338-2969,
contact [email protected] or visit
anc3b.org.
ANC 2E
ANC 2E
Georgetown
■ Georgetown / cloisters
Cloisters
burleith / hillandale
ANC 3C
ANC 3C
Cleveland
Park
■ cleveland
Woodley
Parkpark / woodley Park
massachusetts avenue heights
Massachusetts
Avenue Heights
ANC 2C
ANC 2C
Shaw
■ SHAW
■ sheridan-kalorama
6:30 p.m. Oct. 3 at Georgetown
Visitation Preparatory School,
1524 35th St. NW.
visit anc2e.com.
ANC
2F 2F
ANC
Logan
Circle
■ logan circle
p.m. Sept. 7 at Washington Plaza
Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW.
■ announcements.
■ police report.
■ consideration of requested street
closures for the Leukemia &
Lymphoma Light the Night Walk,
So Others Might Eat’s Trot for
Hunger and AIDS Walk Washington.
■ consideration of Alcoholic
Beverage Control matters: Mood
Lounge, 1318 9th St., license revocation; Ghana Cafe, 1336 14th St.;
Tortilla Coast Restaurant, 14541460 P St., voluntary agreement;
and The Pig, 1320 14th St., voluntary agreement.
■ committee reports.
■ consideration of community
development committee matters: a
request by the National Park Service
for the Washington Metropolitan
Area Transit Authority to change the
name of the Smithsonian Metro station to National Mall-Smithsonian;
901 New York Ave., Starbucks,
sidewalk cafe application; 700 14th
St., Starbucks, sidewalk cafe application; 1328 14th St., applications to
the Board of Zoning Adjustment
and the Historic Preservation
Review Board for a new residential
building with ground-floor retail;
1321-1325 Naylor Court, Stables at
Naylor Court, applications to the
Board of Zoning Adjustment and
the Historic Preservation Review
Board for renovation of a former
stable to convert it to a residential
Cathedral Heights
7:30 p.m. Sept. 19 at the 2nd
District Police Headquarters,
3320 Idaho Ave. NW.
visit anc3c.org.
ANC 3D
ANCValley
3D
Spring
■ spring valley/wesley heights
Wesley Heights
palisades/kent/foxhall
p.m. Sept. 7 in the new medical
building at Sibley Memorial
Hospital, 5215 Loughboro Road
NW.
■ police report.
■ presentation by Brenda Barber of
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
on recommendations for the cleanup of 4825 Glenbrook Road.
■ update by Jerry Price, senior vice
president for real estate and construction at Sibley Memorial
Hospital, on the hospital’s master
plan.
■ community concerns.
■ presentation by American
University on the planned North
Hall dormitory, the subject of a further-processing application filed
with the Zoning Commission on
July 19.
■ discussion of a resolution on the
taxation of non-D.C. municipal
bonds.
■ consideration of a public-space
application for 2507 Foxhall Road.
■ consideration of a Board of
Zoning Adjustment for a special
exception to allow a two-story addition at 5133 Sherier Place.
■ consideration of an Alcoholic
Beverage Control application by Al
Forno Pizzeria and Trattoria, 3201
New Mexico Ave., for a restaurantclass license.
visit anc3d.org.
The Current
FIELD
From Page 5
with a firm to study capacity issues
across the District.
At the Field School, the new
sixth grade will allow more families
to consider the school, according to
Will Layman, director of admissions and communication.
When Field first opened its doors
in 1972, serving seventh- through
12th-graders, most elementary
schools ran through sixth grade, he
wrote in an email.
“In recent years, more and more
of the area school systems have
shifted to ending their elementary
schools in 5th grade and running a
6-8 middle school,” Layman wrote.
“As a result, we have heard from
more and more families who wish
that we started in 6th grade as well;
IRENE
From Page 1
had their power restored relatively quickly.
“Overall, I would say D.C. gets an A on this one:
residents, businesses, city government, everyone,” said
Ward 2 Council member Jack Evans, praising residents
for heeding warnings and workers for speedy cleanup.
And Pepco? “They get an A for effort,” Evans
replied. “If my power were off right now, I’d be pretty
angry, but I know they were quite prepared for the storm
and are working diligently to get it restored.”
Ward 4 Council member Muriel Bowser said she
was also impressed with Pepco’s preparations and
response to the storm. “I’m just very pleased that we
had a lot of neighborhoods that have persistent outages
that didn’t lose power this time,” she said. “And I don’t
know if it’s a function of how the storm has hit, or if
the amount of improvements to the infrastructure that
we’ve insisted on are starting to bear fruit.”
There was one hiccup in Pepco’s response, said
Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh: coordination with
the D.C. Department of Transportation when a street
tree had fallen across or was leaning on a live wire. “I
have been dealing with emails from sites where DDOT
was there with their crane ready to go, but Pepco hadn’t
turned off the power yet,” Cheh said. But “by and large
DDOT and Pepco are diligently working through the
they want to consider The Field
School but do not want to have their
student in three different schools in
three consecutive years (an elementary school for 5th, another middle
school for 6th, then Field for 7th).”
He said the school expects to
maintain its current enrollment of
320 students by enrolling fewer new
students in the upper grades. The
school will host information sessions on Sept. 24 and Oct. 18.
problem that we have.”
A Pepco spokesperson didn’t return messages this
week. As of yesterday afternoon, there were 2,968 customers in the District without electricity, according to
the company’s website. According to a news release
from the Transportation Department, 11 traffic signals
were also still without power from the grid yesterday
afternoon, relying on emergency backups.
Transportation Department spokesperson John Lisle,
whose agency is responsible for roadways and street
trees, said all roads blocked by trees or other storm
debris should now be open, and the last roadside detritus
should be cleared away by the end of the week.
“Because of the combination of how much rain we
got and the high winds, that’s when you see a lot of these
trees just start to give way,” Lisle said.
Citywide, the Transportation Department has fielded
80 percent more calls for service than it did in the wake
of a particularly destructive thunderstorm last summer.
“I would say we certainly realize it could have been a lot
worse than it was, but at the same time it did cause a lot
of damage in the city,” he said.
The D.C. government may be found liable for private property damage from a fallen street tree if the tree
toppled because of a District agency’s negligence, said
Phillip Lattimore III, director of the D.C. Office of Risk
Management.
Wind blowing over an otherwise healthy tree, however, is considered an “act of god.”
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HARBOUR
From Page 3
attracted to Washington Harbour’s
outdoor bars. He said the firm would
be willing to close the rink at 9 or 10
p.m., and strict policies would separate skaters and bar patrons. “Most
ice rinks in an urban environment
have businesses that sell alcohol
near them, and we’re confident it’s a
very manageable risk,” he said.
Representatives
of
the
Washington Harbour Condominium
Association said its homeowners
— though divided over the plans
— were glad that MRP has been in
SCHOOLS
From Page 5
rently situated in the school’s parking lot, which has displaced faculty
and staff parking, creating more
competition for street parking
around the school.
“Our biggest concern was that
there wasn’t a place to safely park
and get our children into school,”
said Landeryou. “The new program
has been really great — we’re excited about it, and it’s had a positive
impact so far.”
Beronio noted that the new system “forces cars to get to the curb to
keep traffic flowing,” and called it
“safer and quicker for the kids.”
He referenced a survey the PTA
created in collaboration with
Landeryou and the Safe Routes to
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regular communication with residents. “Overall, I think it’s fair to
say that we’re very appreciative of
the effort to try to move forward and
create a higher use for this property
than it currently is,” said one board
member.
The plan’s most outspoken
opponent at the Monday meeting
was Arthur Cotton Moore, architect
of the original Washington Harbour
design. Moore said he supported the
concept of an ice rink, but he criticized the broader design changes to
the plaza. “The skating rink can be
put in here without the massive
demolition that is being used,” said
Moore.
School program, asking parents
how they chose to transport their
children to school and why. He said
many families that live within the
walk- or bike-to-school boundaries
said they choose to drive because
there aren’t sidewalks on every
street along their route.
Beronio praised Hefferan’s
work, saying she is “went above and
beyond, meeting with us repeatedly
last year.” But he also noted that the
“single most important thing the
city can do beyond easing traffic is
to install more sidewalks.”
If the pilot program continues to
go well, it will be rolled out to additional schools in the city.
Hefferan said any school experiencing problems with drop-off and/
or pickup procedures or walking or
biking to school can contact the
Safe Routes to School office.
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Events Entertainment
Wednesday, Aug. 31
Wednesday august 31
Class
■ A weekly workshop will offer instruction
in “Sahaja Yoga Meditation.” 7 p.m. Free.
West End Neighborhood Library, 1101 24th
St. NW. 202-724-8707.
Concerts
■ New Tricks will perform acoustic
straight-ahead jazz. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium
Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Harbour
Nights concert series
will feature singer/songwriter Jason Masi. 7 to
9 p.m. Free. Plaza, The
Washington Harbour,
3050 K St. NW. 202295-5007.
■ The U.S. Marine Band will perform
works by Patrick S. Gilmore, Herman
Bellstedt and John Philip Sousa. 8 p.m. Free.
West Terrace, U.S. Capitol. 202-433-4011.
Discussions and lectures
■ The Rev. Carolyn Boyd will discuss her
book “The Five Steps to Forgiveness.” 6:30
to 8 p.m. Free. Langston Room, Busboys and
Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
■ Drew Magary will discuss his novel
“The Postmortal.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3641919.
Film
■ NCM Fathom and Universal Studios
Home Entertainment will present a screening
of the cult favorite “Scarface,” starring Al
Pacino. 7:30 p.m. $12.50. AMC Georgetown
14, 3111 K St. NW. fathomevents.com.
Open house
■ Excelsior College — a private, nonprofit,
regionally accredited distance-learning institution — will host an open house with information about its degree programs, federal
financial aid programs, payment plans and
how to transfer previously earned college
credit and military training. 5 to 8 p.m. Free.
Excelsior College D.C. Center, Suite 304,
1150 17th St. NW. 202-506-6007.
Thursday, Sept. 1
Thursday september 1
Book signing
■ George Norfleet will sign copies of his
book “A Pilot’s Journey,” about the Tuskegee
Airmen. Noon to 5 p.m. Free admission.
National Museum of American History, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202633-1000.
Children’s programs
■ A park ranger will lead a scavenger
hunt and hike for children ages 4 and older.
10 a.m. Free. Montrose Park, R Street
between 30th and 31st streets NW. 202895-6070.
■ A park ranger will lead children ages 3
and older on a Discovery Hike along the
Woodland Trail in search of signs of animals.
4 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200
Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.
Concert
■ The Jazz on Jackson Place series will
feature the Yvonne Johnson Trio. 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. $25. Decatur House, 748 Jackson
Place NW. 202-218-4332.
■ American University professor Akbar
Ahmed (shown) and Cambridge University
professor Edward
Kessler will discuss
“Reflections on the Eve
of 9/11: What’s
Changed? What
Hasn’t?” 6:15 p.m. Free.
Founder’s Room, School
of International Service
Building, American University, 4400
Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-1000.
■ Amy Waldman will discuss her novel
“The Submission,” about the controversy
sparked by the choice of a Muslim to design
a 9/11 memorial. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3641919.
895-6776.
Performance
■ The Topaz Hotel Bar’s weekly stand-up
show will feature local comics. 8 to 10 p.m.
Free. 1733 N St. NW. 202-393-3000.
Special events
■ The “Live! on Woodrow Wilson Plaza”
series will feature “Game Show Mania.”
Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free. Ronald Reagan
Building and International Trade Center,
1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-312-1300.
■ “Phillips After 5” will feature a Moscowthemed party with food and drink; a showcase of five Oscar-nominated animated
shorts; a performance by the Alexandria
Kleztet; and a gallery talk on “Moscow:
Kandinsky’s Enduring Muse.” 5 to 8:30 p.m.
Cost varies by activity; registration suggested.
Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW.
phillipscollection.org/phillipsafter5.
■ The Art Museum of the Americas will
hold its second annual after-hours party,
featuring cutting-edge music, video and performance art. 8 p.m. to midnight. $25 in
advance; $30 at the door. Art Museum of
the Americas, 201 18th St. NW.
amamuseum.org/aad11.html.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Mystics will play the
Atlanta Dream. 7 p.m. $10 to $300. Verizon
Center, 601 F St. NW. 202-397-7328.
Tours
■ A Smithsonian horticulturist will lead a
tour of the museum’s heirloom garden and
discuss some of the plants there. 1 p.m.
Free. Mall Terrace, southwest corner,
National Museum of American History, 14th
Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202633-1000. The tour will repeat Sept. 15 at 1
p.m.
■ A park ranger will lead “A Garden
Gathering,” a chance for ages 8 and older to
explore the trees, flowers and other plants in
the Old Stone House’s garden. 2 p.m. Free.
Old Stone House, 3051 M St. NW. 202-4266851.
■ A tour of the Washington National
Cathedral will focus on the Gothic style and
Discussion
■ Activists Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben
and Melina Laboucan-Massimo will discuss
efforts to stop the Keystone XL Tar Sands
pipeline. 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. Free. Cullen
Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW.
202-387-7638.
Films
■ “This Other Eden: Ireland and Film” will
feature Peter Lennon’s 1968 film “Rocky
Road to Dublin” and Paul Duane’s 2004 film
“The Making of ‘Rocky Road to Dublin.’” 2:30
p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National
Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
Thursday, september 1
■ Concert: Roots rocker Eric Lindell
will perform. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium
Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
its unique characteristics, purposes and
building methods. 3 p.m. $5. Meet at the
west end docent station, Washington
National Cathedral, Massachusetts and
Wisconsin avenues NW. 202-537-6200. The
tour will repeat Sunday at 1:30 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 2
Friday september 2
Concerts
series will feature the Tommy Lepson Band
performing blues and soul classics. Noon to
1:30 p.m. Free. Ronald Reagan Building and
International Trade Center, 1300
Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-312-1300.
■ Charles Miller, minister of music at the
National City Christian Church, will present
an organ recital. 12:15 p.m. Free. National
City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW.
202-797-0103.
■ The “Jazz in the Garden” series will feature violinist
Bruno Nasta
and the Next
Wave, a U.S.
Naval Academy
Band ensemble.
5 to 8:30 p.m.
Free. Sculpture Garden, National Gallery of
Art, 7th Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
202-737-4215.
■ Salut Salon — a classically trained
quartet originally from
Hamburg —
Germany, will
perform a mix of
classic, pop,
chanson and
folk music. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Vocalist Elisabeth Lohninger, pianist
Walter Fischbacher, bassist Gary Wang and
drummer Yataka Uchida will perform. 7:30
p.m. Free; reservations required. Embassy of
Austria, 3524 International Court NW. 202-
Performance
■ Bettmann Dances
will present “Quis
Custodiet,” the culmination of a yearlong exploration of security issues
coinciding with the
10-year anniversary of
9/11. 7 p.m. $25.
Woolly Mammoth Theatre, 641 D St. NW.
quis.bettmanndances.com.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Nationals will play the
New York Mets. 7:05 p.m. $5 to $350.
Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE.
888-632-6287. The series will continue
Saturday at 7:05 p.m. and Sunday at 1:35
p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 3
Saturday september 3
Children’s program
■ Ages 5 and older will listen to a story
about scientist Albert Einstein and 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.
Concerts
■ The 23rd annual DC Blues Festival will
feature Preston Shannon, Grady Champion,
Nadine Rae & The Allstars, Anthony “Swamp
Dog” Clark and the DC Blues Society Band.
Noon. Free. Carter Barron Amphitheatre,
16th Street and Colorado Avenue NW. 202426-0486.
■ Singer Nancy Scimone will perform jazz
selections. 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Free. Blue Bar
Lounge, Henley Park Hotel, 926
Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-638-5200.
Films
feature John Ford’s 1952 film “The Quiet
Man” and Sidney Olcott’s 1910 film “A Lad
From Old Ireland.” 1 p.m. Free. East Building
Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street
and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ The Textile Museum will present
“American Experience: Rachel Carson’s
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Silent Spring.” 2 p.m. Free. Textile Museum,
2320 S St. NW. 202-667-0441, ext. 64.
■ “A Polish Quartet: Jerzy Skolimowski in
the 1960s” will feature the director’s 1964
film “Identification Marks: None.” 4 p.m.
Free. East Building Auditorium, National
Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
Performances
■ The 10th annual Page-to-Stage Festival
will feature Arts on the Horizon performing
“Drumming With Dishes,” a nonverbal adventure about a toddler and her imaginary friend
who turn ordinary household items into
extraordinary musical instruments. 6 p.m.
Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600.
■ The Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint
will present a workshop performance of
Ronee Penoi’s “Indian School Stories: An
American Song Cycle.” 8 p.m. Pay-what-youcan. Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint, 916 G
St. NW. 202-315-1305.
■ KanKouran West African Dance
Company will present “Legends,” a celebration of the legacy and artistry of Melvin Deal
and Chuck Davis. 8 p.m. $30. Lisner
Auditorium, George Washington University,
730 21st St. NW. 202-397-7328.
Walks and tours
■ A park ranger will
lead ages 8 and older
on a hike to Fort
DeRussy and discuss
how the fort helped
defend Washington,
D.C., during the Civil
War. 10 a.m. Free. Rock
Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW.
202-895-6070.
■ A park ranger will lead an all-ages
“Paws in the Park” hike in Montrose Park.
Dogs on leash are welcome. 10 a.m. Free.
Montrose Park, R Street between 30th and
31st streets NW. 202-895-6070.
■ A bus tour will visit D.C. locations used
as backdrops in more than 50 television
shows and movies, including “The Exorcist,”
“The West Wing” and “Wedding Crashers.”
10 a.m. $34; reservations required. Tour
departs from a location near Union Station.
800-979-3370.
■ Rocco Zappone, a native
Washingtonian and freelance writer, will lead
an interactive
“Walking Tour
as Personal
Essay,” filled
with his reminiscences and
impressions of a
lifetime in D.C. 10 a.m. or by appointment.
$25. Meet at the statue of Andrew Jackson
in Lafayette Square, 16th and H streets NW.
202-341-5208.
■ Amy Kunz will lead a dog-friendly “Walk
and Wag” tour of Mount Pleasant. 11 a.m.
$15; reservations required. Meet in front of
the Capital City Public Charter School, 3047
15th St. NW. washingtonwalks.com.
■ A park ranger will lead a “Hollywood on
the C&O” walking tour, featuring visits to sites
from “St. Elmo’s Fire,” “The Thief,” “Dick”
and “The Exorcist.” 12:15 p.m. Free. C&O
Canal National Historical Park Visitor Center,
1057 Thomas Jefferson St. NW. 202-6535190.
■ The Gross National Product comedy
group’s “Scandal Tours” will debut an updated version featuring new sites, including the
Congressional Gym and News Corp.’s government relations office. 1 and 3 p.m. $35; $30
for seniors; $25 for students. Meet at the
The Current
Ben Franklin statue in front of the Old Post
Office Pavilion, 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
202-783-7212.
■ A park ranger will lead ages 10 and
older on a tour of Fort Stevens and discuss
the actions in the summer of 1864 that led
to Jubal Early’s raid on Washington and the
two battles that stopped the Confederate
troops. 2 p.m. Free. Fort Stevens, 1000
Quackenbos St. NW. 202-895-6060.
Los Angeles Dodges. 1:05 p.m. $5 to $350.
Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE.
888-632-6287. The series will continue
Tuesday and Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. and
Thursday at 1:05 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 6
Tuesday september 6
Sunday, Sept. 4
Sunday september 4
Concerts
■ The weekly Steel Drummer Sundays
concert series will feature Lennard Jack.
Noon to 3 p.m. Free. Plaza, The Washington
Harbour, 3050 K St. NW. 202-295-5007.
■ Punjabi folk singer Satinder Sartaaj will
perform. 7 p.m. $35 to $100. Lisner
Auditorium, George Washington University,
730 21st St. NW. 202-397-7328.
■ A mass choir featuring approximately
130 singers from across the United States
and Canada will perform works by Wilberg,
Goeller, Mozart and others. 7:30 p.m. Free.
Washington National Cathedral,
Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW.
202-537-6200.
■ The National Symphony Orchestra’s
Labor Day Capitol Concert will feature a
musical tribute to John Philip Sousa, Duke
Elllington and Chuck Brown. 8 p.m. Free.
West Lawn, U.S. Capitol. 202-416-8114.
Films
feature Muriel Box’s 1959 film “This Other
Eden.” 2 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium,
National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ “A Polish Quartet: Jerzy Skolimowski in
the 1960s” will feature the director’s 1965
film “Walkover.” 4:30 p.m. Free. East Building
Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street
and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
Performance
will feature D.C.’s Commedia dell’Arte theater
company Faction of Fools presenting their
new creation. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Mystics will play the
Connecticut Sun. 4 p.m. $10 to $300.
Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 202-3977328.
Walks and tours
older on a tour of Herring Hill, a vibrant 19thcentury African-American community in the
heart of Georgetown. 10 a.m. Free. Old Stone
House, 3051 M St. NW. 202-426-6851.
■ A park ranger will lead a “Tools of the
Trade” tour, featuring a look at the tools used
by construction workers, laborers, engineers,
lock tenders and boatmen on the C&O Canal.
12:15 p.m. Free. C&O Canal National
Historical Park Visitor Center, 1057 Thomas
Jefferson St. NW. 202-653-5190.
■ A park ranger will lead an all-ages “Dog
Day Afternoon” trek to Fort DeRussy and
share stories of dogs as faithful companions
during the Civil War. Dogs on leash are welcome. 2 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature
Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-8956070.
Monday, Sept. 5
Monday september 5
Performance
will feature Signature Theatre’s Musical
Theater Showcase, with selections from
Monday, september 5
■ Concert: A Labor Day concert will
feature Anne Feeney (shown), Joe
Uehlein and the U-Liners, Emma’s
Revolution, Luci Murphy, the DC Labor
Chorus and the Charm City Labor
Chorus. Proceeds will benefit Feeney,
who was recently diagnosed with cancer. 6 to 8 p.m. Free; $20 donation
suggested. Cullen Room, Busboys and
Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-3877638.
world-premiere musicals “The Boy Detective
Fails” and “The Hollow.” 6 p.m. Free.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Nationals will play the
Classes
■ Circle Yoga will begin a weeklong preview of its yoga classes. 7 a.m., 10:30 a.m.,
6 p.m. and 7:15 p.m. Free. Circle Yoga, 3838
Northampton St. NW. 202-686-1104.
Classes will continue at various times
through Sept. 11.
■ Teacher and therapist Heather Ferris
will lead a weekly yoga class. Noon. Free.
Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Neighborhood Library,
1630 7th St. NW. 202-727-1288.
Concerts
■ The Harbour Kids
concert series will feature Mr. Knick Knack.
10:30 a.m. to noon.
Free. Plaza, The
Washington Harbour,
3050 K St. NW. 202295-5007.
series will feature a concert by Vibe Collective
performing smooth jazz. Noon to 1:30 p.m.
Free. Ronald Reagan Building and
International Trade Center, 1300
Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-312-1300.
■ The U.S. Navy Band’s Commodores
jazz ensemble will perform. 6 p.m. Free.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ The German Embassy will present a
concert by the Junge Kammerphilharmonie
Rhein-Neckar. 7:30 p.m. Free. The United
Church, 1920 G St. NW. 202-331-1495.
Demonstration
■ Volunteers from the Annapolis Quilt
Guild will demonstrate quilting, piecing and
other quilt-making techniques. 11 a.m. to 1
p.m. Second floor, National Museum of
American History, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-633-1000.
■ Louisa Thomas will discuss her book
“Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One
Family — A Test of Will and Faith in World War
I.” Noon. Free. McGowan Theater, National
Archives Building, Pennsylvania Avenue
between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202-3575000.
■ National Gallery of Art curatorial assistant Michelle Bird will interview Cuban artist
Carlos Garaicoa. 12:10 p.m. Free. East
Building Small Auditorium, National Gallery of
Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
202-737-4215.
■ Artist Peter Waddell will discuss the
paintings in the exhibit “An Artist Visits the
White House Past: The Paintings of Peter
Waddell.” 1:30 p.m. Free. White House
Visitor Center, 1450 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
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202-737-8292. The talk will repeat weekly
through Sept. 27.
■ Hisham Matar will discuss his novel
“Anatomy of a Disappearance.” 7 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-364-1919.
Film
■ A series of screenings based on “AFI’s
100 Years … 100 Movies” list will feature No.
77 — Alan J.
Pakula’s 1976
film “All the
President’s
Men,” starring
Robert Redford
and Dustin
Hoffman. 6 p.m. Free. Georgetown
Neighborhood Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202727-0232.
Meetings
■ The Cleveland Park Chess Club will
review historical games, study scenarios and
play chess. 3:30 p.m. Free. Cleveland Park
Neighborhood Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-282-3080. The group meets every
Tuesday.
■ Recovery International will host a group
discussion for people suffering from stress,
anxiety, panic, depression, sleep problems,
anger, fear and other mental, nervous or
emotional problems. 7 p.m. Free. Chevy
Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-364-2680. The group meets
every Tuesday.
Performances
■ Wayne Manigo will host a weekly show
featuring local comics. 8 to 10:30 p.m. Free.
RAS Restaurant & Lounge, 4809 Georgia
Ave. NW. 202-291-2906.
■ Busboys and Poets will host “Tuesday
Night Open Mic,” a weekly poetry event. 9 to
11 p.m. $4. Langston Room, Busboys and
Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
Wednesday, Sept. 7
Wednesday september 7
Class
■ Housing Counseling Services, a local
nonprofit, will present a foreclosure-prevention clinic to help homeowners in danger of
losing their homes. Noon. Free. Suite 100,
2410 17th St. NW. 202-667-7712. The event
will repeat Sept. 14 and 21 at noon and
Sept. 28 at 6 p.m.
Concerts
■ The “Live! on
Woodrow Wilson Plaza”
series will feature a concert by YahZarah performing neo-soul. Noon
to 1:30 p.m. Free.
Ronald Reagan Building
and International Trade
Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202312-1300.
■ The Harbour Nights concert series will
feature Hand Painted Swinger. 7 to 9 p.m.
Free. Plaza, The Washington Harbour, 3050
K St. NW. 202-295-5007.
■ Archivist Timothy K. Nenninger will discuss “Way of Duty, Honor, Country: The
Memoir of Charles Pelot Summerall.” Noon.
Jefferson Room, National Archives Building,
Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th
streets NW. 202-357-5000.
■ Joe Allen will discuss his book “People
Wasn’t Made to Burn: A True Story of
Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago.” 6:30
to 8 p.m. Free. Langston Room, Busboys and
Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
■ Hannes Androsch will discuss his book
“Austria: Past, Present and Future.” 6:30 to 8
p.m. Free; reservations required. Embassy of
Austria, 3524 International Court NW. 202895-6776.
■ Washington Post
reporter Dana Priest will
discuss her book “Top
Secret America: The
Rise of the New
American Security
State.” 7 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Susan McCorkindale will discuss her
book “500 Acres and No Place to Hide: More
Confessions of a Counterfeit Farm Girl.” 7
p.m. Free. Barnes & Noble, 3040 M St. NW.
History, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW. 202-633-1000. The tour will repeat
Sept. 22 at 1 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 8
Thursday september 8
Children’s program
older on a Discovery Hike along the
Woodland Trail in search of signs of animals.
4 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200
Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.
Wednesday, september 7
■ Concert: Singer, guitarist and songwriter J Mascis will perform. 6 p.m.
Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
202-965-9880.
■ The Friends of the Tenley-Friendship
Library will present a talk by local author
Mark Stein on his book “How the States Got
Their Shapes Too: The People Behind the
Borderlines.” 7 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship
Neighborhood Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave.
NW. 202-727-1488.
Film
■ The Panorama of Greek Cinema series
will feature Olga Malea’s 1999 film “The
Cow’s Orgasm.” 8 p.m. $11; $9 for students;
$8.25 for seniors; $8 for ages 12 and
younger. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.
Performance
■ The multi-instrumental duo The
Sweater Set and swing band Shotgun Party
will join circus performers Katie Balloons and
Mab Just Mab for a circus-themed night of
entertainment. 8 p.m. $10 in advance; $12
on the day of the show. Sixth & I Historic
Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 800-745-3000.
Tour
■ A Smithsonian horticulturist will lead a
tour of the museum’s “Victory Garden” and
discuss some of the plants there. 1 p.m.
Free. Welcome desk, Constitution Avenue
entrance, National Museum of American
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Concert
■ The “Live! on
Woodrow Wilson Plaza”
series will feature a concert by saxophonist Art
Sherrod Jr. Noon to 1:30
p.m. Free. Ronald
Reagan Building and
International Trade
Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202312-1300.
■ Marvin Kalb (shown) and Deborah
Kalb will discuss their
book “Haunting Legacy:
Vietnam and the
American Presidency
From Ford to Obama.”
11:30 a.m. $30.
Woman’s National
Democratic Club, 1526
New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.
■ Ray Allen, professor of music and
American studies at Brooklyn College and the
City University of New York Graduate Center,
will discuss “New Lost City Ramblers and
Folk Music Authenticity.” Noon. Free. Mary
Pickford Theater, James Madison Building,
Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave.
SE. 202-707-5510.
■ Jack W. Curran, president of LED
Transformations, will discuss “LED Lighting: A
Clash of Cultures.” 12:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. National Building Museum,
401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448.
■ “Religion and the American-Muslim
Community Post-9/11” will feature John L.
Esposito, professor at Georgetown University
and founding director of the Alwaleed Bin
Talal Center for Muslim-Christian
Understanding; David Cole, professor of law
at Georgetown University; Linda Moreno,
attorney; Arsalan Iftikhar, founding managing
editor of The Crescent Post; and Karen
Armstrong, author. 1 to 4:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Fourth floor, Hariri Building,
Georgetown University, 37th and O streets
NW. [email protected].
■ National Portrait Gallery educator
Miriam Szubin will discuss Nancy Reagan. 6
to 6:30 p.m. Free. National Portrait Gallery,
8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.
■ A gallery talk will focus on “Once Upon
a Picture: Lawrence as Storyteller.” 6 and 7
p.m. Donation suggested. Phillips Collection,
1600 21st St. NW. 202-387-2151.
■ National Gallery of Art curator of modern and contemporary art Harry Cooper will
discuss “Color Blast: Morris Louis at the
Phillips.” 6:30 p.m. Donation suggested.
Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. 202387-2151.
■ New York Times
columnist Sacha Z.
Scoblic will discuss her
book “Unwasted: My
Lush Sobriety.” 6:30
p.m. Free. Barnes &
Noble, 555 12th St. NW.
202-347-0176.
■ D.C. Office of Planning director Harriet
Tregoning and other panelists will discuss
how “big box retail” is affecting D.C.’s planning, land use, transportation and economic
policies. 6:30 p.m. $20; $12 for students.
Reservations required. National Building
Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448.
■ Thomas L.
Friedman (shown) and
Michael Mandelbaum
will discuss their book
“That Used to Be Us.” 7
p.m. $12 in advance;
$15 on the day of the
event. Sixth & I Historic
Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Artist Chris Martin will discuss his artistic process, myriad inspirations and preparations leading up to the exhibition “Chris
Martin: Painting Big.” 7 p.m. $15. Corcoran
Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW. 202-6391770.
Films
■ The American
Repertoire series will
feature John Huston’s
1941 film “The Maltese
Falcon.” 6:30 p.m. Free.
National Portrait
Gallery/Smithsonian
American Art Museum,
8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.
■ The Charles Guggenheim Center for
the Documentary Film will present the 2010
film “Lunch Line,” about the national school
lunch program.
A post-screening
discussion will
feature former
Secretary of
Agriculture Dan
Glickman, nutritionist Margo Wootan and filmmaker Michael
Graziano, among others. 7 p.m. Free.
McGowan Theater, National Archives
Building, Pennsylvania Avenue between 7th
and 9th streets NW. 202-357-5000.
Performance
■ The Local Dance Commissioning
Project will feature “Hammock,” a collaborative work that uses movement, text and an
original sound design to examine notions of
rest and restlessness in today’s society. 6
p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600. The performance will
continue Friday at 6 p.m.
Walks and tours
■ A park ranger will lead an all-ages
nature hike in Montrose Park and point out
early signs of autumn. 10 a.m. Free.
Montrose Park, R Street between 30th and
31st streets NW. 202-895-6070.
older on a tour of the oldest house in the
District. Noon. Free. Old Stone House, 3051
M St. NW. 202-426-6851.
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Exhibits highlight work by Corcoran alumni
“T
ransformers,” featuring
On exhibit
new works by 15
Corcoran College of Art
+ Design alumni who graduated
Transformer Gallery, located at
between 2002 and 2010, will open
1404 P St. NW, is open Wednesday
today in Gallery 31, the Corcoran
through Saturday from 1 to 7 p.m.
Gallery of Art’s free
202-483-1102.
exhibition space. It will
■ “Containment and
continue through Oct.
Diversion,” featuring
2.
some 15 mixed-media
An opening recepworks on paper by
tion will take place
Capitol Hill artist
tomorrow from 6 to 8
Thomas Burkett, will
p.m. at Gallery 31.
open tomorrow at
Gallery 31, located
Long View Gallery
at 500 17th St. NW, is
and continue through
open Wednesday
Oct. 2. The artwork
through Sunday from
examines high-profile
topics in the news.
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
An opening recepThursday until 9 p.m.
Ai-Wen Wu Kratz’s
tion will take place
202-639-1700.
work will be shown
In tandem with the
tomorrow from 6:30 to
at Georgetown
exhibit, Transformer
8:30 p.m.
Gallery will simultaLocated at 1234 9th
University Hospital.
neously mount “transSt. NW, the gallery is
formers: the next generation,” an
open Wednesday through Sunday
exhibit of new works by five 2011
from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. 202-232graduates of the Corcoran.
4788.
Thomas Burkett’s “Trap 2 (Fish
Ladder)” is part of an exhibit at
Long View Gallery.
■ “Line Literacy,” featuring largescale works on paper by Ai-Wen
Wu Kratz, will open tomorrow in
the main hallway on the first floor
of the main building of the
Georgetown University Hospital.
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Kennedy Center to turn the page on new plays
T
he Kennedy Center will
host its 10th annual Page-toStage new-play festival Sept.
3 through 5.
More than 40 theaters from the
On STAGE
D.C. area will take part in the center-wide event, presenting readings
and open rehearsals of new plays
and musicals. Offerings will
include a performance by Signature
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and “The Boy Detective Fails.”
Performance times vary. Seating Signature Theatre will present selections from “The Boy Detective
is on a first-come, first-served
Fails” as part of the Kennedy Center’s annual Page-to-Stage festival.
basis, and doors open 30 minutes
prior to the start of each event. 202- inated in the Broadway production. Holocaust survivor, poet and
Performance times are 7:30
investment client.
467-4600; kennedy-center.org.
p.m. Sunday, Tuesday and
Performance times generally are
■ Shakespeare Theatre
Wednesday; 8 p.m. Thursday
7:30 p.m. Sunday, Wednesday and
Company’s Sidney Harman Hall
through Saturday; and 2 p.m.
Thursday; 8 p.m. Saturday; and 3
will host the Broadway musical
Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost
p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $45, with
“FELA!” Sept. 13 through Oct. 9.
$45 to $115. Sidney Harman Hall
certain discounts available. The
Presented by Jay-Z, Will and
is located at 610 F St. NW. 202Washington DC Jewish
Jada Pinkett Smith, and Ruth and
547-1122; shakespearetheatre.org.
Community Center is located at
Stephen Hendel, “FELA!” is the
1529 16th St. NW. 202-777-3230;
true story of the legendary Nigerian ■ Theater J will present Deb
Margolin’s
theaterj.org.
musician Fela
“Imagining
■ The Longacre Lea theater comKuti, whose
Madoff” at the
pany is presenting the world preAfrobeat
Washington DC
miere of Kathleen Akerley’s
rhythms ignited
Jewish
“Something Past in Front of the
a generation.
Community
Light” at Catholic University’s
Inspired by his
Center’s
Callan Theatre through Sept. 4.
mother, a civil
What would you do if the devil
Goldman
rights champion,
wanted to collaborate with you on
Theater Aug. 31
he defied a corSidney Harman Hall will host the through Sept.
a documentary film about himself?
rupt and
Would you fear for your soul, or
25.
oppressive mili- Broadway musical “FELA!” Sept.
just your artistic integrity?
Unrepentant
13 through Oct. 9.
tary govern Performance times are 7:30 p.m.
Ponzi schemer
ment and
Wednesday through Saturday and 2
Bernard Madoff sets the record
devoted his life and music to the
p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $15 to
straight from his prison cell,
struggle for freedom and dignity.
$18, with discounts for students
recounting an all-night study ses Tony nominee Sahr Ngaujah
See Theater/Page 27
stars in the title role, which he orig- sion with Solomon Galkin, a
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■ Shakespeare Theatre Company
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Sunday. Free tickets can be
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Season subscribers and Friends of
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202-547-1122;
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■ Shakespeare Theatre Company
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Lansburgh Theatre.
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The exhibit will continue through
Sept. 30.
Located at 3800 Reservoir Road
NW, the building is open daily 24
hours a day. 202-444-2000.
■ “Systems at Work,” a permanent
exhibit about the workings of the
U.S. Postal Service distribution
system over the last 200 years, will
open tomorrow at the National
Postal Museum.
Located at 2 Massachusetts Ave.
NE, the museum is open daily from
10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-786-2120.
■ “Art After Dark,” an art party
that includes music, video and performance art, will take place tomorrow from 8 p.m. to midnight at the
Art Museum of the Americas,
201 18th St. NW. Admission is $25
in advance and $30 at the door.
amamuseum.org.
■ “War on Terror: The FBI’s New
Focus,” a new section of the
Newseum’s permanent “G-Men
and Journalists” exhibit, will open
Friday.
Located at 555 Pennsylvania
Ave. NW, the museum is open
daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is $21.95 for adults;
$17.95 for seniors, military personnel and students; $12.95 for ages 7
through 18; and free for ages 6 and
younger. 888-639-7386.
■ “September 11: Remembrance
and Reflection,” featuring more
than 50 objects from the three sites
of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist
attacks, will open Saturday at the
National Museum of American
History and continue through Sept.
27
Lansburgh Theatre is located at
450 7th St. NW. 202-547-1122;
shakespearetheatre.org.
■ No Rules Theatre Co. will present Diana Son’s drama “Stop Kiss”
Sept. 7 through Oct. 1 at the H
Street Playhouse.
Performance times generally are
Thursday through Saturday at 8
p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 2
p.m. Tickets cost $25. H Street
Playhouse is located at 1365 H St.
NE. norulestheatre.org.
■ Studio Theatre will present the
U.S. premiere of Alan Bennett’s
comedy “The Habit of Art” Sept. 7
through Oct. 16.
Performance times are 8 p.m.
Wednesday through Saturday; 2
p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and 7
p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $35 to
$69. Studio Theatre is located at
1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300;
studiotheatre.org.
■ Arena Stage is offering a summertime run of its hit production of
“Oklahoma!” through Oct. 2 in the
Fichandler Stage at the Mead
Center for American Theater.
Performance times generally
are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday
and Sunday; 8 p.m. Thursday
Saturday and Sunday. Ticket prices
start at $45, with certain discounts
available. The theater is located at
1101 6th St. SW. 202-488-3300;
arenastage.org.
11. The items will be on display on
open tables, without cases.
Located at 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW, the
museum is open daily from 10 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000.
■ The Freer Gallery of Art will
Works by Shih Chieh Huang are
on display at the National
Museum of Natural History.
open two exhibits Saturday in its
ongoing “Seasons” series and continue them through March 4.
“Seasons: Arts of Japan” presents seasonal Japanese paintings
and calligraphy.
“Seasons: Tea” highlights examples from the Freer’s collection that
show how tea utensils reflect
changes in the weather.
Jefferson Drive SW, the gallery is
open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. 202-633-1000.
■ “The Bright Beneath: The
Luminous Art of Shih Chieh
Huang,” featuring works that evoke
the bioluminescent creatures of the
ocean depths, will open Saturday at
the National Museum of Natural
History and continue through Dec.
4.
Constitution Avenue NW, the
museum is open daily from 10 a.m.
to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000.
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