No.30 July 24, 2013 - The Current Newspapers

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Serving Dupont Circle, Kalorama & Logan Circle
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
The Dupont Current
GWU adds
new housing
requirement
Developers unveil ideas
for Walter Reed parcels
C H E S S mate S
■ Georgia Avenue: All three
proposals envision Wegmans
By JULIA O’DONOGHUE
Current Correspondent
Starting with freshmen who enter
in the fall of 2014, George Washington University will require most
students to live on campus through
their junior year of college. Currently, most students must live on campus only through their sophomore
year.
The new housing mandate has
surprised and irritated some students. Critics say the university
didn’t seek enough student input
before making the decision and that
the new requirement will drive up
the cost of attending an alreadyexpensive school.
“If I was living in student housing, I would be paying 50 to 100
percent more than I do living in my
apartment building right next to a
residence hall,” said Jackson Carnes,
a George Washington student and
advisory neighborhood commissioner who represents students living both on and off campus.
But the university contends that
the change will improve students’
quality of life.
See Dorms/Page 14
Regardless of who wins the right
to develop the city’s swath of the
old Walter Reed Army Medical
Center campus, the plans will likely
include town houses, condominiums, an institution of higher education or research, and, many hope, a
Wegmans grocery store.
Three developers presented proposals for the site to a packed house
at Tifereth Israel Congregation on
■ Education: Organizers
Bill Petros/The Current
Thirteen-year-old chess aficionado Joel Crooms-Porter, a
freshman at Wilson High School, is spending much of his
summer vacation defeating his opponents in Dupont Circle.
By ALIX PIANIN
Current Staff Writer
NEWS
Bill Petros/The Current
The Lab School hosted a pizzamaking event this month.
through the end of July.
Earlier this month, Liseth and
Andres were embracing and goofing
around together at a play area at the
— Page 3
Woolly Mammoth,
Second City extend
summertime show
— Page 17
seek to expand participation
By ELIZABETH WIENER
Lab School, which was hosting a
Kidsave pizza-making event. Host
families compared notes, and a
translator was there to help address
language barriers. Most of the children did not speak English, and not
every adult spoke Spanish, but cooking side-by-side allowed everyone to
at least interact tactically.
The next event, the Kidsave
Olympics, will take place in Annandale, Va., from 1 to 3 p.m. this coming Saturday (To reserve a spot,
contact [email protected]).
Kidsave works with children
ages 8 to 13 — older than the typical
adoption age — from countries
including Colombia, Russia and
Kazakhstan. Organization president
See Kidsave/Page 14
EVENTS
GWU to host hoops
showcase featuring
ex-college stars
Thursday. All have similar visions
for a mixed-use center that would
combine residential, retail and some
sort of intellectual powerhouse on
the property. And each of the three
groups specifically referred in their
presentation to the high-end grocery store Wegmans.
All proposals included building
town houses of a similar size and
scale to the existing homes on the
edge of the property. The tallest and
largest buildings in the development, including condominium
complexes, would be at the core of
the site, as to not disturb the look
and feel of the quiet streets that abut
See Walter Reed/Page 16
Parents, Ward 2 activists
lobby to bolster offerings
Group seeks ‘summer miracles’ with adoptions
Last year, 10-year-old Andres
came to the U.S. from Colombia as
part of the annual Kidsave Summer
Miracles program, which brings
orphans and foster children to the
States in search of adoptive parents.
Andres, now 11, was adopted
and lives with a family in Northwest
D.C. And now the Palisades-based
group is hoping for another miracle:
a D.C.-area home for his 14-year-old
sister, Liseth, who was left behind in
Colombia.
Liseth is one of nine Colombian
children staying with volunteer host
families in the D.C. area through the
program, which will continue
Vol. XII, No. 8
Having averted the threatened
closure of Francis-Stevens Education Campus and Garrison Elementary School, some Ward 2 parents
and activists are working to improve
their local schools — and to make
sure neighborhood families feel
comfortable staying in the public
school system as their kids move on
to the upper grades.
An informal education collaborative started in the Logan Circle area
last winter, galvanized around the
proposed closing of Garrison. But
the group now includes members
from Dupont Circle, and last week
recruited the Foggy Bottom-West
End advisory neighborhood commission to join the cause.
“The ideal goal,” said Dupont
advisory neighborhood commissioner Stephanie Maltz, “is for all
neighborhood schools to be a good
option — to make sure they’re viable up and down the line.”
Maltz, a policy consultant for the
Bill Petros/Current file photo
Garrison Elementary, once slated
for closure, will stay open and is
scheduled for modernization.
National Council on Teacher Quality, has been volunteering at Ross
Elementary across the street from
her home, and has seen the little
school thrive. She and her husband
don’t have children yet, but when
they do, she said, “We want to stay
in the neighborhood and send our
kids to public school.” She notes that
many parents at Ross worry about
where their kids will go once they’re
ready for middle school.
Since the winter, the education
group coalesced in Logan Circle has
been holding monthly Saturday
morning forums at a local church
— with parents, activists and speakSee Schools/Page 5
INDEX
NEWS
Entrepreneur takes
to bike to deliver
farm-fresh beef
— Page 3
Calendar/18
Classifieds/25
District Digest/4
Dupont Circle Citizen/11
Exhibits/17
In Your Neighborhood/10
Opinion/8
Police Report/6
Real Estate/15
Service Directory/22
Theater/17
Week Ahead/3
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The Current
Basketball league at GWU
will feature ex-college stars
By BRIAN KAPUR
For most pro basketball prospects, once college is over there are
only a few options to continue playing — catch on with an NBA team,
go into the NBA’s D-league system,
or play on the international circuit.
But now there’s a new choice:
The Basketball Alumni Legends
League, which gives Mid-Atlantic
stars a chance to continue their hoop
dreams close to home. The-BALL,
as it is known, will consist of D.C.,
Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland
and Philadelphia teams, each featuring former regional college stars.
The District’s team, christened
the “D.C. Dobermans” on July 11,
showcases a roster of big names
from Georgetown, George Washington, American and George Mason
universities. Alums of Howard and
James Madison are also eligible for
the team.
The league will present a fourgame showcase beginning Saturday
at George Washington University’s
Charles E. Smith Center. Next year
the league plans to expand to a full
20-game schedule, which will run
from June through mid-August.
“With the expansion of TheBALL this summer and the launch
of our Washington, D.C team, we
are committed to bringing college
hoops entertainment to local fans
during what was once the off-season,” founder and CEO Michael
Wranovics said in a recent news
release.
The D.C. Dobermans feature a
lineup of familiar local faces, including former Georgetown stars Austin
Freeman, Jonathan Wallace, Henry
Simms and Chris Wright, who also
See League/Page 14
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Wilson alum offers grass-fed beef to local area
Will Mitchell might be the only person to grow up
in Upper Northwest D.C. who can get away with riding his bike around town in a cowboy hat.
Clad in plaid and handsomely stubbled, the
20-something looks like he would be more at home
in Portland, Ore., than Washington, D.C. Mitchell
studied sustainability at Pennsylvania State University, and after graduating last year, he decided to bring
a bit of the local farm to the D.C.’s dinner table.
Last week, Mitchell launched Tenleytown Meat
See Meat/Page 13
Julia O’Donoghue/The Current
Intern Will Lane and owner Will Mitchell show
the bike Mitchell will ride for Tenleytown Meat.
The week ahead
Wednesday, July 24
The D.C. State Board of Education will hold a working session to hear a briefing on revisions to annual report cards on performance prepared by the D.C.
Public Schools system and charter schools. The meeting will begin at 4:30 p.m. in
Room 842, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW.
■ The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health will hold a community
meeting to present findings from the 2013 Follow-Up Spring Valley Public Health
Study and Community Health Assessment Survey for ZIP codes 20015 and
20016. The meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in Room 355, School of
International Service Building, American University, Nebraska and New Mexico
avenues NW. For details visit jhsph.edu/springvalley or email [email protected].
Thursday, July 25
The D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board will meet at 9 a.m. in Room 220
South, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW. Agenda items will include construction of a new house at Rosedale, 3501 Newark St. NW, and a rear addition and
renovation at 2012-2014 Kalorama Road NW.
■ The D.C. Health Benefit Exchange Authority will host a Ward 3 town hall meeting on DC Health Link, a new online marketplace for comprehensive health coverage. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Tenley-Friendship
Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
Saturday, July 27
The D.C.-based education group Archaeology in the Community will host the
second annual Day of Archaeology Festival, with participation by the D.C. Historic
Preservation Office. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Turkey
Thicket Park, 1100 Michigan Ave. NE. For details call 202-442-8800 or email
[email protected].
■ At-large D.C. Council member David Catania, chair of the Education Committee,
will hold a Ward 3 community meeting on “The Future of Public Education in the
District of Columbia.” The meeting will begin at 10:30 a.m. at the TenleyFriendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
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American University will hold a special meeting of its Community Liaison
Committee to discuss issues related to the university’s transportation demand
management study. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Abramson Family
Founders Room, School of International Service Building, American University,
Nebraska and New Mexico avenues NW.
Wednesday, July 31
The District of Columbia Bar will hold a seminar on “Beyond the Consumer
Protection Procedures Act: Little Used Consumer Statutes,” including the D.C.
auto lemon law and the computer fraud act. The seminar will be held from 6 to 9
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Metro to roll out new
‘low-floor’ vehicles
Metro recently signed a contract
that will help transition the agency’s
bus fleet to 100 percent “low-floor”
vehicles, making boarding easier for
disabled riders.
The transit agency awarded a
five-year contract to the Alabamabased NABI firm to procure 654
new buses, according to a news
release last week. The “low-floor”
buses, which don’t have steps,
allow passengers to board and ride
on the same level as the curb.
Although Metro’s existing bus fleet
is already fully accessible for customers with disabilities, about 18
percent now are so-called “highfloor” buses that require ramps or
lifts for some riders to board.
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Police seek suspect
in sexual assault
The Metropolitan Police Department is seeking help in finding the
suspect in a first-degree sexual
assault that took place July 16 in
Tenleytown.
At about 11:45 p.m. that day, an
unknown male approached a
woman walking in the area of the
4200 block of
Wisconsin Avenue NW and
forced her into a
building, where
he sexually
assaulted her,
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The suspect — as shown in a
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police department — has been
described as a Hispanic male who
weighs about 200 to 250 pounds
and stands between 6 feet and 6 feet
2 inches tall. He has a muscular
build and tattoos on both arms.
Anyone with information should
call 202-727-9099 or text 50411.
Raccoon with rabies
found in Georgetown
A lactating raccoon picked up in
a Georgetown alley near 34th and R
streets NW on July 10 has tested
positive for rabies and may have
left behind infected babies, according to the D.C. Health Department.
The department is warning pet
owners not to allow cats and dogs
to run free in the woods. It also suggests that all residents secure trash
cans and other food sources to help
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control the raccoon population, and
patch holes in attics and crawl spaces to deter animals from entering.
Mayor taps García to
lead health agency
Health care consultant Dr. Joxel
García — who previously served as
assistant secretary of health in the
U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services — will serve as
the new head of the D.C. Department of Health starting Aug. 1.
Mayor Vincent Gray named
García to the post last week. He
replaces Dr. Saul Levin, who filled
the position temporarily after Dr.
Mohammed Akhter left to serve on
the executive board of D.C.’s new
Health Benefit Exchange Authority.
García is currently a founding
partner at two health care consulting
firms: Faunus Global and Aegis
Health Security. He has also served
as president and dean of medicine
at the Ponce School of Medicine
and Health Sciences in Ponce, Puerto Rico, where he earned his medical degree. He is a native of Puerto
Rico.
New boutique coming
soon to Cady’s Alley
Clothing boutique Steven Alan
will open in Cady’s Alley in September, taking over a space formerly occupied by the furnishings and
fashion retailer Muléh.
The 670-square-foot store at
3319 M St. in Georgetown will be
the company’s first in Washington,
according to a news release. Steven
Alan’s flagship store opened in
New York in 1994, offering the
work of emerging designers, and
Alan launched his own line of casual wear in 1999.
Hardware store adds
options during work
While the parking lot at Glover
Park Hardware is unavailable due to
construction work, the store is offering a curbside pickup program and
various options for shopping.
Customers can:
■ call ahead and have everything
waiting within 45 minutes;
■ call ahead and pay by credit card,
picking up the items at the car without getting out;
■ shop in person and then return
with a car for curbside pickup; or
■ have items delivered for free
within a quarter mile of the store.
The services will be available
through the construction completion, expected in September 2014.
For details contact store manager
Jay Rushing or assistant manager
Noe Delgado at 202-333-6378 or
[email protected] or noe@
acehardwaredc.com; allow one to
two days for a reply via email.
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SCHOOLS: Community leaders, parents press for improvements to Ward 2 programs
From Page 1
ers in one room, and child care
offered in a room next door. With
invited speakers like Ward 2 D.C.
Council member Jack Evans and
deputy mayor for education Abigail
Smith, there’s been much discussion
about the feeder patterns of the various schools in Ward 2, and how to
make sure the designated middle and
high schools fulfill students’ needs.
The group has focused not only
on Garrison, but other area schools
that feed into Cardozo High School
— which has a less than sterling
reputation, with nearly a third of its
students scoring “below basic” on
math and reading tests last year.
Now known as Cardozo Education
Campus, the school has been reconfigured to begin at sixth grade; it’s
listed as the post-fifth-grade destination for both Ross and Garrison, as
well as the post-eighth-grade destination for Francis-Stevens.
Members of the Ward 2 education group, led by Logan advisory
neighborhood commissioner Matt
Connolly, intend to explore concerns
about the Cardozo feeder system,
seek community input, and eventually propose reforms to the mayor,
Chancellor Kaya Henderson and the
Education Committee of the D.C.
Council.
“DCPS doesn’t organize itself
around feeder systems. Everybody
looks out for their own school,”
Connolly said in an interview. “In
Ward 2, the elementary schools
work, but the middle schools don’t.”
He said the group hopes to have
some hard recommendations, such
as appointing a superintendent for
each feeder system, in about six
months.
The Dupont neighborhood commission joined the cause in May, and
the informal group soon found force
in numbers. Both the Dupont and
Logan neighborhood commissions,
for example, passed resolutions
seeking $8 million to fully fund the
modernization of Garrison, and the
proposal ultimately succeeded in
speeding up the timetable. And some
Francis-Stevens parents are already
participating, Maltz said.
Because feeder patterns vary
widely, and may change again when
a promised study of school boundaries and feeder patterns winds down,
the group wants to focus more
broadly on all public schools that
serve Ward 2 students — including
Hardy and Deal middle schools, and
Wilson High.
“I never intended sending my
children to Cardozo,” one FrancisStevens parent said at the Foggy
Bottom meeting.
The group is finding models in
similar collaboratives elsewhere in
the city — like the Ward 5 Council
on Education as well as the Capitol
Hill Cluster Schools, where parents
have banded together to focus on
neighborhood schools.
“There’s a lot of momentum to
help these schools succeed,” Maltz
said. “We want to see what we can
do with all this energy.”
There are other ideas, such as
replicating the walk-throughs that
Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh
takes in every public school in her
ward in August. “She flushes toilets,
turns the lights on and off, and gives
a list” to the Department of General
Services, which handles school
maintenance, Maltz said. The
Dupont commissioner suggested a
similar walk-through of Ward 2
schools before the beginning of each
academic year.
“Who would flush the toilets?”
asked Foggy Bottom commission
chair Florence Harmon. “Jack
Evans,” a number of people in the
room responded. The Ward 2 council member has already spoken to the
group, and an Evans staffer who
attended the meeting indicated he
would pass the idea on to his boss.
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Police Report
This is a listing of reports
taken from July 15 through
21 by the Metropolitan Police
Department in local police
service areas.
Theft from auto
■ 2500-2880 block, Porter
St.; 7:53 p.m. July 18.
■ Reno Road and Tilden
Street; 8:03 p.m. July 18.
psa
PSA
101 101
Theft
■ 3000-3379 block, Ordway
St.; 8:51 a.m. July 18.
■ 2900-2999 block, Van
Ness St.; 11:27 p.m. July 20.
■ downtown
Motor vehicle theft
■ 14th and K streets; 7:55
a.m. July 21.
Robbery
■ 900-999 block, G St.; 5:22
p.m. July 16.
Theft from auto
■ 700-799 block, 13th St.;
11:13 p.m. July 21.
Theft
■ 1300-1399 block, New
York Ave.; 10 a.m. July 15.
■ 1200-1299 block, G St.;
4:14 p.m. July 15.
■ 900-999 block, New York
Ave.; 10:37 a.m. July 16.
■ 900-999 block, G St.; 4:21
p.m. July 16.
■ 700-723 block, 14th St.; 4
p.m. July 18.
■ 1000-1099 block, F St.;
7:20 p.m. July 18.
■ 500-599 block, 10th St.; 1
p.m. July 19.
psa 102
■ Gallery place
PSA 102
PENN QUARTER
Robbery
■ I and 5th streets; 1:54 p.m.
July 18.
■ 13th and G streets; 6:45
p.m. July 21.
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Theft
■ 544-599 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 12:37 p.m. July
15.
■ 400-499 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 7:53 p.m. July 15.
■ 700-799 block, 7th St.;
11:01 p.m. July 15.
■ 700-799 block, H St.; 9:32
p.m. July 16.
■ 800-899 block, F St.; 10:52
p.m. July 17.
■ 500-599 block, 9th St.;
3:58 p.m. July 18.
■ 400-499 block, 4th St.;
6:28 p.m. July 18.
■ 500-599 block, K St.; 6:45
p.m. July 18.
■ 1000-1089 block, 5th St.;
8 p.m. July 18.
■ 462-599 block, Indiana
Ave.; 12:48 p.m. July 19.
■ 400-499 block, F St.; 1:55
p.m. July 20.
■ 600-699 block, H St.;
12:45 a.m. July 21.
■ 400-499 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 12:17 p.m. July 21.
psa 203
■ forest
PSA
203 hills / van ness
cleveland park
Burglary
■ 3500-3599 block, Connecticut Ave.; 8:55 a.m. July 19.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 3700-3799 block, Quebec
St.; 1:04 p.m. July 19.
psa 204
■ Massachusetts avenue
heights / cleveland park
woodley park / Glover
PSA
204
park / cathedral heights
Theft from auto
■ Woodley Road and 27th
Street; 8:57 a.m. July 15.
Theft
■ 2301-2499 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 10:09 p.m. July 15.
■ 3050-3099 block, 39th St.;
11:45 a.m. July 16.
■ 2600-2649 block, Connecticut Ave.; 3:36 p.m. July
17.
■ 2800-2899 block, 35th St.;
11 p.m. July 21.
psa
PSA
206 206
■ georgetown / burleith
Robbery
■ 3200-3277 block, M St.; 8
p.m. July 16.
■ 1000-1025 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 1:35 a.m. July 21.
Theft from auto
■ 3100-3199 block, N St.;
2:44 p.m. July 17.
Theft
■ 3600-3699 block, O St.;
7:48 p.m. July 15.
■ 2800-2899 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 1:50 p.m. July 16.
■ 3101-3299 block, S St.;
7:40 p.m. July 16.
■ 2800-2848 block, M St.;
1:09 p.m. July 17.
■ 3000-3049 block, M St.;
3:28 p.m. July 17.
■ Wisconsin Avenue and K
Street; 4 p.m. July 17.
■ 71-1099 block, Wisconsin
Ave.; 12:59 p.m. July 18.
■ 3600-3699 block, O St.;
6:19 p.m. July 18.
■ 3808-3899 block, Reservoir Road; 4:10 p.m. July 19.
■ 2800-2899 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 8:04 p.m. July 19.
■ 1000-1003 block, Thomas
Jefferson St.; 11:38 a.m. July
20.
■ 3200-3277 block, M St.;
2:37 p.m. July 20.
■ 31st and K streets; 3:40
p.m. July 20.
■ 3300-3399 block, Reservoir Road; 9:42 a.m. July 21.
■ 3000-3049 block, M St.;
1:30 p.m. July 21.
■ 3000-3049 block, M St.;
3:59 p.m. July 21.
■ 1564-1601 block, Wiscon-
sin Ave.; 8:48 p.m. July 21.
psa
PSA
207 207
■ foggy bottom / west end
Robbery
■ 2000-2099 block, K St.;
10:15 a.m. July 16.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 1400-1433 block, K St.;
9:37 a.m. July 15.
Theft from auto
■ 1700-1765 block, Constitution Ave.; 10:43 a.m. July 16.
■ 1600-1699 block, K St.;
10:54 a.m. July 18.
Theft
■ 1100-1199 block, 15th St.;
5 a.m. July 15.
■ 1700-1799 block, I St.;
1:31 p.m. July 15.
■ H Street and Jackson
Place; 9:59 p.m. July 16.
■ 2000-2099 block, F St.;
10:02 a.m. July 17.
■ 1800-1899 block, L St.;
12:50 p.m. July 17.
■ 1000-1050 block, Connecticut Ave.; 12:02 p.m. July 18.
■ 2400-2499 block, N St.;
6:10 p.m. July 16.
■ 1900-1999 block, K St.;
4:06 a.m. July 21.
■ 1710-1799 block, K St.;
6:07 p.m. July 21.
7:33 p.m. July 18.
■ 1406-1427 block, Hopkins
St.; 8:45 p.m. July 18.
■ 1-6 bl
ock, Dupont Circle; 7:25 p.m.
July 19.
■ 1400-1499 block, P St.;
1:11 p.m. July 20.
■ 2100-2199 block, N St.;
6:39 p.m. July 20.
■ 2100-2199 block, O St.;
8:01 a.m. July 21.
psa
PSA
301 301
■ Dupont circle
Robbery
■ 1700-1799 block, T St.;
3:30 a.m. July 20.
■ 17th and T streets; 3:30
a.m. July 20.
Burglary
■ 1400-1499 block, T St.;
8:08 a.m. July 15.
Theft from auto
■ 1600-1699 block, U St.;
3:19 p.m. July 16.
■ 700-799 block, O St.;
10:30 a.m. July 20.
Theft
■ 1600-1617 block, 14th St.;
8:26 p.m. July 18.
psa
PSA
303 303
■ adams morgan
■ sheridan-kalorama
PSA
208
Robbery
■ 2400-2499 block, 18th St.;
2:40 a.m. July 21.
Robbery
■ 19th and Swann streets;
3:59 a.m. July 20.
■ 1200-1299 block, 20th St.;
10 a.m. July 20.
Assault with a dangerous
weapon
■ 2400-2499 block, 18th St.;
3:40 a.m. July 20 (with
knife).
Burglary
■ 1300-1699 block, Connecticut Ave.; 5:19 p.m. July 15.
■ 1300-1699 block, Connecticut Ave.; 2:40 a.m. July 19.
Burglary
■ 1810-1899 block, Connecticut Ave.; 9 a.m. July 16.
■ 2200-2499 block, Ontario
Road; 2:41 a.m. July 20.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 1700-1799 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 12:59 a.m.
July 20.
Theft from auto
■ 2000-2045 block, Belmont
Road; 9:49 a.m. July 16.
psa 208
dupont circle
Theft from auto
■ 2200-2299 block, N St.;
7:34 a.m. July 15.
■ 2100-2199 block, N St.;
9:30 a.m. July 16.
■ 2200-2399 block, Decatur
Place; 9:30 p.m. July 18.
■ 1700-1799 block, Church
St.; 5:28 p.m. July 20.
■ 1800-1899 block, N St.;
1:50 a.m. July 21.
Theft
■ 1700-1799 block, Connecticut Ave.; 1 a.m. July 15.
■ 1200-1299 block, 20th St.;
1:14 p.m. July 15.
■ 1500-1599 block, M St.;
5:19 p.m. July 15.
■ N and 23rd streets; 5:46
p.m. July 15.
■ 1906-2025 block, Florida
Ave.; noon July 16.
■ 1125-1225 block, New
Hampshire Ave.; 10:08 p.m.
July 17.
■ 1700-1799 block, P St.;
Theft
■ 1600-1625 block, Fuller
St.; 11:40 a.m. July 15.
■ 1738-1776 block, Columbia Road; 8:01 p.m. July 16.
■ 1604-1699 block, Belmont
St.; 10:15 a.m. July 19.
psa
PSA
307 307
■ logan circle
Burglary
■ 1500-1599 block, 13th St.;
8:18 a.m. July 20..
Theft from auto
■ 1400-1499 block, 11th St.;
5 p.m. July 16.
■ 1202-1220 block, Q St.;
10:25 a.m. July 20.
Theft
■ 1200-1299 block, 12th St.;
11 a.m. July 15.
■ 1513-1599 block, 14th St.;
9 p.m. July 15.
■ 1300-1399 block, Green
Court; 5:23 a.m. July 20.
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Rules of the road
The bike safety bill that the D.C. Council recently passed institutes
useful protections for cyclists and pedestrians on our city’s streets. It
was common sense to create the same driver penalties for striking a
cyclist as a pedestrian, for instance, as well as to demand alternate
routes when construction blocks a sidewalk or bike lane.
But we wish legislators had gone further, pairing the new rules
with some restrictions on inappropriate biker behavior.
Cyclists who run red lights and stop signs endanger all road users
(including pedestrians crossing the street), and fines for those infractions should be increased to reflect the hazard. Enforcement, too,
should be amped up to send the message that the laws must be followed.
One way to encourage cyclists to stick to the rules of the road is to
provide better infrastructure, and we’re pleased with the ongoing
striping of new bike lanes around town. Giving bicyclists their own
space makes the roads safer for everyone.
Disagreement arose recently over a city plan to create a northbound bike lane on New Mexico Avenue NW. Opponents feared further crowding on the street, where trucks already cause obstructions
while making deliveries. But proponents noted that bikers currently
either block cars as they slowly traverse the steep hill, or ride on sidewalks where they can cause problems for pedestrians.
In general, we like to see bikes on the road, rather than on sidewalks, even though the latter is prohibited only downtown. In fact, we
wonder if that rule might warrant revision; where a safe, unobstructed
bike lane exists, perhaps the sidewalk should be off limits for adults.
Play ball
When the New York Mets hosted Major League Baseball’s AllStar Game last week, it was the franchise’s first chance at the gig
since 1964. That 49-year drought was the longest in the history of the
Midsummer Classic.
But D.C.’s gap is just about approaching that length: We last hosted the game in 1969, at RFK Stadium. Of course, for most of the
years since then, we didn’t have a team. But now that the Nationals
are a fixture in the nation’s capital — with a five-year-old stadium
still sporting its new shine — we think it’s time for baseball’s best to
swing through town.
We can’t take credit for this idea; Mayor Vincent Gray argued the
point well in his latest weekly radio address, and others have made
the case, too. But we couldn’t agree more.
A Major League Baseball selection committee makes the call,
choosing among cities that bid for the job each year. The league loves
to have a story to tell at its chosen venue, and what better tale than of
the loss and return of the nation’s pastime to the nation’s capital?
Plus, the area around Nationals Park is well poised for its supporting role. The next All-Star game up for bid will be in 2016 — 2014’s
will be in Minneapolis and 2015’s in Cincinnati — but since that
year’s game will likely go to an American League team, D.C. has its
sights set on 2017. And by then the development that’s already churning around the Navy Yard and in Southwest will be even further
along, meaning lots to do for game-going guests — and lots of places
for visitors to spend their money. In some ways, waiting until 2017
would be particularly ideal. The temporary structures currently entertaining fans around the ballpark may be popular, but we’d rather
showcase our town when construction’s complete.
Mayor Gray notes that along with the residential buildings, shops
and restaurants opening around the ballpark, we also have recreation
and infrastructure in the neighborhood, including Yards Park, Diamond Teague Park, the DC Circulator bus, Capital Bikeshare stations
and the Navy Yard/Ballpark Metro station. And of course, Washington’s attractions extend far beyond the waterfront. Do we even need
to argue that there’s more for fans here than in most other Major
League cities?
The Current
So long, St. E’s …
B
ack in the late 1800s, St. Elizabeths Hospital
was on the cutting edge of treatment for the
insane.
Its campuslike Gothic Revival buildings offered
space and light in a natural setting to ease troubled
minds. The hospital provided enlightened treatment
of the mentally ill, even if some of those treatments
would make practitioners of modern-day medicine
cringe.
Now, after a long hiatus of neglect and ruin,
the campus is being
revived as hyper-secure
headquarters for the
Department of Homeland Security. Imposing
steel fences, bomb-proof glass and all sorts of security apparatus are sprouting all over.
What will it all cost? The current price tag is $4
billion — billion with a “b” — to house the many
agencies of Homeland Security.
The U.S. Coast Guard headquarters building, the
first to move onto the campus, officially opens next
week. The building is a multitiered structure cut into
a hillside. It offers the latest in both security and
environmental touches.
And it’s nearing $500 million in costs.
The Notebook made two trips to St. Elizabeths in
the past week. On Monday we toured the new Coast
Guard building with D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton.
On Saturday, we had been part of a tour sponsored by the DC Preservation League. After showing
our identification cards to the guards, we were
allowed to walk throughout the old grounds, even
visiting a cemetery with gravestones dating to the
Civil War.
We walked past columned buildings with “Fallout Shelter” signs rusting in the sun. We walked up
to high-ceilinged screened porches that once offered
fresh air to patients. And we peered into doorways
through which thousands of patients and attendants
once walked.
The sense of history emanates from the ground
and from every corner you turn. Something remarkable happened here in the annals of medicine and
cures.
But that St. Elizabeths is long gone. And you
won’t get much chance to see or visit the new one.
In place of the historic St. Elizabeths will be the burgeoning bureaucracy born out of the 9/11 fears. Congress combined 22 different agencies — Emergency
Management, Secret Service, Coast Guard, Immigration and Customs, Transportation Security, et
cetera – under the umbrella of Homeland Security.
It will be years and maybe decades before we
know whether this bureaucratic reshuffling was a
good idea. There already have been some calls to
trim back the consolidation, with proponents saying
it was done too quickly out of fear.
Congress has cooled to the costs of creating the
Homeland Security campus. Some funds have been
cut back and others indefinitely delayed.
But the campus is a true beehive of activity. Construction vehicles rumble to and fro.
The plan is that construction will last into 2021
and another 10,000 federal workers will join
the 4,000 from the
Coast Guard on site.
Bureaucracies, once
underway, are hard to
rein in or stop. The cost
is ticking up every day. The only sure thing is that
there is a level of site-specific construction not seen
since the Pentagon was erected in the 1940s. Whether it makes us safer — or just makes us feel safer —
we’ll have to wait and see.
■ Environmental success. While it’s unclear whether America’s embrace of astounding security changes will make us better, there’s no question the
Homeland Security construction is more enlightened
than ever.
The Coast Guard headquarters has won recognition for its control of rainwater runoff. The tiered
roofs are filled with 550,000 square feet of green
plants, grasses and trees that offer natural insulation
and soften the impact of the imposing brick, steel
and stone structure. The contractors also are building
roadways with proper storm drains and a two-acre
pond to collect that stormwater. About 86 percent of
the construction debris — 5 million pounds — is
being recycled.
■ Local economic benefits? Del. Norton, who led
Monday’s tour, insists that the security bureaucracy
will embrace the struggling neighborhoods outside
its doors and walls.
The Notebook worries because a direct access
road off of I-295 into the secure complex means
employees will be able to drive onto and off the
property without ever visiting the neighborhoods.
Norton said the Coast Guard’s building has a limited
number of parking spaces and food outlets, specifically to force workers into the neighborhood, where
the city is rushing to build food and retail opportunities.
Norton also said local citizens will be invited to
job fairs.
But as with the future of Homeland Security
itself, citizens who live in Southeast will believe in
job training, jobs and retail growth when they see
them.
Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.
TOM SHERWOOD’s
Notebook
Letters to
the Editor
Safeway project can
enhance Palisades
The Viewpoint piece in The
Current’s July 10 issue [“Safeway
development should add, not
detract”] is offensive in so many
ways — starting with the informative-sounding headline being followed with a litany of hyperbolic
terms and phrases like “gargantuan,” “enormity” and “incredibly
ill-conceived project.”
It would be great one day to
hear and read Palisades residents
addressing issues in measured and
logical tones, and not acting like
Scarlett swooning in distress upon
learning that Sherman is on the
way. I am reminded of all the
folks who buy in the Palisades
and then are shocked to find that
airplanes make noise! Or those
who buy in the Palisades and then
are aghast to find traffic on what
is clearly a main commuting
artery from Potomac, Md., to K
Street!
Our society is awash in hyperbole and incendiary rhetoric, so
one could excuse the writer for
falling in line. What cannot be
abided, however, is the paragraph
starting “from my family’s point
of view.” It’s not about you! You
chose to live in the city. For some
years you lived next to the proverbial “empty lot,” and now the
owner of the lot chooses to build
on the lot. Be thankful for the
quiet times and grasp the concept
that following disruption you will
have additional amenities in the
neighborhood. And it matters not
a bit whether you like the amenities, as they may further the common good. Absolutely there
should and needs to be discussion
and negotiation to achieve “substantial countervailing benefit to
the community,” but please do not
attempt to support that macro goal
with a diatribe about personal
(micro) impacts.
I do not write to lambaste the
author personally, but rather to
point out that people — and they
are legion — who talk about
“community” and then base what
is good and bad on their personal
loves and hates are not advancing
productive discussion.
Redevelopment of the Safeway
site is necessary and has all the
potential to enhance the Palisades.
It is not a sign of the Apocalypse.
David M. Carr
The Palisades
The Current
Parking changes should be fair and balanced
VIEWPOINT
juliet g. six
M
any residents have voiced concern over the
proposed elimination of parking requirements
for new developments. On July 16, Harriet
Tregoning, director of the D.C. Office of Planning,
announced several very minor changes to her agency’s
earlier parking proposals for the ongoing rewrite of
D.C.’s zoning regulations.
Ms. Tregoning would drop the label “transit zone”
but would retain the definition of which areas of D.C.
would see few parking requirements for new development. The area where little parking would be required
continues to include half a mile from a Metro station or
a quarter of a mile from a major bus route or streetcar
line. In D.C. these areas are narrow corridors running
through residential neighborhoods, which will feel the
full impact of new residents and customers to commercial establishments searching for parking.
In these areas, where most development is likely to
occur, the requirement would be for less than one parking space for every six units — 33 spaces for a 200-unit
building, rather than the 100 spaces currently required.
This is a drastic reduction — and it’s worth noting that
more than one person can live in each unit.
D.C. already has one of the lowest requirements for
parking — lower than Portland, Ore.; San Francisco;
New York City; or Arlington County. There is no statistical or demographic underpinning for the Office of
Planning’s proposal. Statistically, D.C. has nine vehicles
for every 10 households. In Ward 3, 79 percent of
households own a vehicle; Logan Circle has 65 percent
vehicle ownership. The number of vehicles registered
in the District has increased each year, not gone down.
The Zoning Commission can already waive or lower
any minimum requirements if deemed unjustified.
The Office of Planning’s July 16 announcement did
not alter its proposal to eliminate parking requirements
in new developments in the now very broadly defined
“downtown.” Many people living in this area —
stretching from 22nd Street NW to 3rd Street NE or 4th
Letters to
the Editor
Ratepayers should
have meter options
As a resident of D.C., I have
been informed by Pepco that it has
the right to shut off my power if I
refuse to have a smart meter
installed in my basement cabinet,
where my current meter now
resides.
Not only do I not want the
once-per-second pulses of microwave energy that smart meters
broadcast 24/7, but I also do not
want the extra heat they produce to
increase the risk of a fire. Will I
get headaches? Sleep problems?
Dizziness? Loss of hearing? Why
risk it?
D.C. Council members Yvette
Alexander and Kenyan McDuffie
have introduced legislation that
would allow us to opt out of smart
meters, a freedom that Maryland
and an increasing number of jurisdictions are allowing. We all need
to let the D.C. Council know that
Street SE, and N Street NW to M Street SW, excluding
federal sites — probably would not refer to their neighborhood as “downtown.”
There is no need to drastically reduce or eliminate
parking requirements in order to achieve greater density
near transit. This is purely an attempt to push residents
to bike or use transit by making car ownership very
inconvenient. Metro ridership and bikes (as well as bike
lanes) are very worthy of support, but such support
does not have to exclude accommodation of cars.
According to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit
Authority, thousands of people drive to the Metro every
day. We are a multimodal society that should support
people in all phases of life and people with disabilities.
Some argue that drastically reducing or eliminating
parking requirements will yield more affordable housing. There are no published papers to support this theory. The developers will charge what the market bears.
Others argue that when the Office of Planning and
the zoning rewrite create the predictable parking crisis,
the D.C. Department of Transportation will fix it by
charging more to those competing for the limited
remaining spaces.
Finally, the Comprehensive Plan — which was
adopted by our elected officials, and which is being
implemented by the zoning rewrite — does not support
drastic reduction of parking requirements almost anywhere in the city where development will occur. The
Comprehensive Plan calls for mitigating the impact of
new development on surrounding residential neighborhoods; not exacerbating existing traffic and parking
problems; reducing parking requirements only where a
reduction in demand is clearly demonstrated; and promoting walkability by locating parking behind or under
buildings.
We urge our elected officials to represent us in this
process by pressing the D.C. Office of Planning to stop
this negative campaign against parking and by testifying at the D.C. Zoning Commission for more fair and
balanced parking requirements that protect our neighborhoods.
Juliet G. Six is president of the Tenleytown Neighbors Association.
we would like the freedom to opt
out.
Even though Pepco has already
consumed millions in federal stimulus money (although stimulus
money covers only half the cost of
meter replacement — guess who
pays the rest!), we should not be
forced to have “smart” meters.
There are cheaper, more effective
(smarter) ways to save energy.
Judy Kosovich
Washington, D.C.
Federal agency right
to protect park trees
I am writing to offer kudos to
the National Park Service for protecting the trees under its jurisdiction in Glover Archbold and Soapstone Valley parks [“Park Service
questions sewer work,” July 17].
If Pepco and the D.C. Water
and Sewer Authority had their way,
D.C. could no longer be called
“The City of Trees.” Moving the
sewer pipes outside the park could
spare many trees and would certainly be worth the cost.
Trees are nature’s air condition-
er, water runoff preventer, habitat
for many creatures and provider of
beauty. Thank you, National Park
Service!
Bonnie Coe
American University Park
Wisconsin Avenue is
safer with new setup
As a 26-year Glover Park resident, I fully support the new traffic
configuration on Wisconsin Avenue, which has provided safer left
turn lanes and greater safety for
pedestrians.
The people complaining from
outside of our Glover Park community have been using Wisconsin
Avenue as their “expressway” to or
from Georgetown. They should
enjoy the slower speeds and maybe
even visit one of the great businesses in our dynamic community.
I applaud the efforts of Ward 3
D.C. Council member Mary Cheh
and the D.C. Department of Transportation for supporting these
much-needed improvements.
Buddee CH Clinton
Glover Park
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House, 24th and N streets NW.
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meeting:
■ commissioners voted unanimously to support a liquor license for Fuel
Pizza at 1747 Pennsylvania Ave.
■ commissioners voted to support a
change in hours for the Luna Grill at
1301 Connecticut Ave. Luna has
requested to be open from 8 a.m. to
midnight Sunday through Thursday
and 8 a.m. to 3 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
■ commissioners voted to object to a
new liquor license for the National
Tap House, which seeks to replace a
former dry-cleaning business at
1331 Connecticut Ave. Nearby residents were concerned about noise
coming from the proposed bar’s
back garden.
■ commissioners voted to oppose a
proposal from Washington Deluxe
Bus to park at 1333 New Hampshire
Ave. Commissioner Mike Feldstein
was worried about the impact to
nearby sidewalk cafes and restaurants. Commissioners asked that the
bus service try to find another location that would not be right next to a
sidewalk cafe.
public space application and a Historic Preservation Review Board
rehearing for a renovation at 1785
Massachusetts Ave.
renovation project planned for 2112
R St.
■ commissioners voted to support
the proposed renovations at 1817
Riggs Place, with the caveat that the
owner spend more time talking to
the neighbors about the plans.
■ commissioners voted 9-0 to
oppose a project at 1412 T St.
because they were not provided adequate documentation in advance to
review the plans.
proposed renovations for 1431
Swann St., despite one neighbor’s
objections to the large scale of the
plans.
planned renovations at 905 16th St.,
particularly since the proposal for
the massing was more modest than
before.
■ commissioners voted to accept
Elizabeth Lindsay, general manager
of The Board Room at 1737 Connecticut Ave., as a member of the
commission’s liquor license committee.
p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 14, at the
Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
The commission has been holding a series of “listening sessions”
on the 17th Street liquor license
moratorium, which will expire
later this year unless the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board renews
it. The third and final meeting will
be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug.
7, in the Ballroom at The Chastleton Cooperative, 1701 16th St.
NW.
For details, visit dupontcircleanc.
net.
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p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, at Our
Lady Queen of the Americas
Church, California Street and
Phelps Place NW.
For details, visit anc2d.org or
contact [email protected].
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p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 7, at the
Washington Plaza Hotel, 10
Thomas Circle NW.
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Woodley
Park
massachusetts avenue heights
Massachusetts
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Cathedral Heights
The commission will meet at
7:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 16, at the
2nd District Police Headquarters,
3320 Idaho Ave. NW.
For details, visit anc3c.org.
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At the commission’s July 10
meeting:
■ commissioners voted 8-0 to support a certificate of need application
from Sibley Memorial Hospital to
add pediatric radiation oncology to
its existing cancer programs. Commissioner Tom Smith was absent,
and Penny Pagano recused herself
because she is a member of the Sibley board.
■ a motion to support the installation
of sidewalks in the 4300 block of
Lowell Street failed on a 4-4 vote,
with Stuart Ross, Rory Slatko, Kent
Slowinski and Joe Wisniewski in
support, Tom Smith absent, and
Gayle Trotter abstaining.
Proponents argued that the street
needs pedestrian facilities and noted
that the majority of the block’s residents signed petitions in support.
Opponents said the three households
on the five-house block that support
the sidewalk all requested that it be
located on the other side of the street,
which residents there oppose, due to
concerns about drainage and other
issues.
Commissioners encouraged the
two sides to work with the D.C.
Department of Transportation
toward a compromise.
■ commissioners voted 8-0, with
Tom Smith and Nan Wells absent, to
support a public space application by
George Washington University,
which is relocating the W Street
entrance to its Mount Vernon campus. The existing entrance is already
closed to most car traffic, and it will
be demolished and replaced with a
new entrance about 30 feet to the
east.
There will be a motorized gate
and controlled pedestrian access,
and the entrance will be open to cars
only in rare circumstances, such as
for emergency vehicles. Relocating
the campus’s main entrance to
Whitehaven Parkway and closing W
Street’s access point was a key component of the school’s campus plan.
Commissioners questioned the
pedestrian access, noting that some
residents enjoy walking on the campus. University officials said access
cards will be available to neighbors
upon request.
Tom Smith absent, to request additional enforcement of delivery truck
loading on New Mexico Avenue.
Michael Gold, Kent Slowinski,
Gayle Trotter and Nan Wells
opposed, to raise no objection to
D.C. Department of Transportation
plans for a bike lane on northbound
New Mexico Avenue. The resolution
further asks that the Transportation
Department study possible impacts
and alternatives, but the commission’s position of non-objection is
not contingent upon a study.
Penny Pagano, Rory Slatko and Joe
Wisniewski opposed, to withhold
their earlier conditional support for
an accessory apartment in a row
house at 4463 Greenwich Parkway
until the homeowner demonstrates
that the project meets the commission’s earlier requirements.
Pagano argued that the earlier
resolution automatically withholds
support for the project until it can be
demonstrated that the home’s attic
meets the legal thresholds for living
space. Commissioner Gayle Trotter
said she wanted to avoid confusion.
■ Jessica Demoise of the D.C. Water
and Sewer Authority discussed the
authority’s plans to replace aging
sewer mains in Glover Archbold and
Soapstone Valley parks.
The commission will hold a
special meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 1. The agenda and location have not been announced.
The commission will hold its
next regular meeting at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 11, in the
Abramson Family Founders
Room, School of International
Service Building, American University, Nebraska and New Mexico avenues NW.
visit anc3d.org.
The Current ANC 2B to Conduct Third Listening Session on the
Renewal of the 17th Street Liquor Moratorium
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Wednesday, August 7 , 7:00 pm
The Chastleton Cooperative – Ballroom, 1701 16th Street, NW
The ANC 2B will be conducting a third listening session to hear the
opinions of residents and the business community about the 17th Street
liquor license moratorium, which is up for renewal in September. The
meeting will be an opportunity for the neighborhood to speak directly to
their elected officials who will be voting on whether to support renewal
of the moratorium.
Don't Miss Movie Night at Stead Park!
Tuesday, July 30 - Meet the Parents
1625 P Street, NW between 16th & 17th Streets
Bring Stuff! Buy Stuff! Help Animals!
Monday through Friday between 9am- 4:30pm
Nanci Alexander Center for Animal Rights, 1536 16th St NW
Now gratefully accepting donations for the sale. Proceeds to benefit spay
and neuter programs. Katie Crebo 202-540-2190 or [email protected].
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in the Circle. Also, your membership entitles you
to discounts at many Dupont shops and businesses,
including Teaism, G-Star Raw, Bedazzled, FIT – to
name a few. (Please go online for the current list of
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Day of Archaeology Festival, Saturday, July 27th,
10am-3pm, Turkey Thicket (Brookland metro)
Part of a worldwide celebration of archaeology, the
D.C. festival will be hosted by Archaeology in the
Community, a District-based nonprofit educational
organization. It is free to the public. Archaeology
organizations from D.C., Maryland, and Virginia will
be present as well as the DC Historic Preservation
Office. The public will be able to talk to
archaeologists in person and learn about the
science and art of doing archaeology as well as
volunteer opportunities in the field. There will be
engaging activities for children, including mockexcavation, hands-on artifact displays, crafts, and
lectures. The archaeology of local prehistoric and
historic inhabitants of the area will also be
featured. Visitors will have an opportunity to enjoy
live music, face painting, and visits from some of
D.C.'s best food trucks.
For more information, please call DCHPO at (202)442-8800 or email [email protected] or
[email protected]
July 24, 2013
The CurrentWednesday, July 24, 2013
MEAT: Firm offers local products
From Page 3
Co. — a distributor of local, grassfed beef — from his childhood
home on Van Ness Street. He has
partnered with Glen Mary Farm,
about 65 miles south of the city in
Maryland, to provide the cattle, and
he hopes to supply anywhere from
500 to 1,000 families with cuts this
fall. The first D.C. deliveries should
take place by the end of August.
“I’ve got about two and a half
cows ordered so far, and the first
round of cattle goes to slaughter in a
couple of weeks,” said Mitchell.
“I’m able to help the farm grow, and
as the farm grows, I grow, too.”
Tenleytown Meat has no physical
storefront. Mitchell, who graduated
from Wilson High School in 2008,
plans to take orders online and deliver the frozen beef to customers on
his bike. Last week, he finished
building a special bike trailer with
room for two coolers. The trailer
will eventually be decorated with the
company name and logo, and he
plans to wear the cowboy hat while
dropping off the packages. If customers send a picture of him on the
bike with the cowboy hat, they’ll get
a discount on their next order.
“I thought it would be a noticeable thing,” Mitchell said.
His next-door neighbor, a rising
freshman at the University of Michigan, is helping him with market
research this summer. But come fall,
Mitchell will be doing all the deliveries himself.
“I did my thesis on bicycles and
bicycle commuting. I sold my car as
soon as I got home from school,” he
said. “Bikes should be at the forefront of people’s minds when they
think about how to get around the
city.”
Mitchell became interested in
sustainability and the local food
movement as a college student.
When he was a sophomore, he traveled around the world to study agriculture, food and eating as a member
of the “Semester at Sea” study
abroad program. Later, he was part
of a group of students at Penn State
who tried to get the university dining
halls to use locally grown food.
“It was insane how difficult it
was to get food grown 10 miles
down the road into our school kitchens,” Mitchell said.
The D.C. native became familiar
with Glen Mary Farm last summer
while working as a hired hand there.
At the time, he was a vegetarian and
more interested in growing plants
than cattle. But Mitchell learned a lot
at the farm about how to graze cattle
and what type of food they need. He
has even resumed eating meat, as
long as it’s locally sourced and
raised at an environmentally conscious farm.
“Even at Whole Foods, it can be
very difficult to find local, grass-fed
beef,” he said. “You can get local
beef, and you can get grass-fed beef,
and you can get organic beef. But it’s
hard to find local, grass-fed beef.”
Orders via tenleytownmeatcompany.com range from about 50
pounds of meat at $456.88 to about
200 pounds at $1,722.50. Various
cuts are available.
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played in high school locally at St.
John’s. Wright will also reunite with
St. John’s teammate Vlad Moldoveanu, who played collegiately for
American University. Rounding out
the roster are ex-George Washington
standouts Pops Mensah-Bonsu,
Chris Monroe, Tony Taylor and
Danilo “JR” Pinnock.
“The-BALL is a great concept
and gives players like me a chance to
compete in high-level games and
gain some valuable exposure during
the off-season,” Freeman said in the
release. “We’re also looking forward
to putting on a good show for the
local fans, and I assure you that we’ll
be playing to win.”
Dan Peterson, president of the
D.C. Dobermans, said in the release
that the team name “represents
strength, speed, toughness, and loyalty. Trust me when I say the rest of
the league will know exactly what
bit ’em.”
The Dobermans will take the
court for the first time against Maryland’s team on Saturday. Then they’ll
take on North Carolina’s squad on
Aug. 1, followed by an Aug. 3 date
with Virginia’s team. The Dobermans will close out their showcase
by playing Philadelphia Aug. 5. All
games will take place at 7 p.m. at
George Washington University’s
Smith Center, 22nd and G streets
NW.
“We are thrilled to be hosting this
world-class city’s newest professional sports team at our Charles E.
Smith Center,” Patrick Nero, director of athletics at George WashingSee League/Page 16
KIDSAVE: Orphans visit D.C. from Colombia
From Page 1
Terry Baugh said Summer Miracles, now in its 15th year,
has brought more than 1,700 children to the U.S., with 80
percent of them adopted.
That rate of success in placing youths in adoptive
families, Baugh said, has been “remarkable.”
The group pays particular attention to repeats, she
said. Two of the nine Colombians at the Lab School
event — 14-year-old Carolina and 11-year-old Alejandra
— also participated last summer but were not adopted.
“It’s through no fault of their own,” said Baugh.
“They seem like they’d be a good fit for a family. We’d
like to advocate particularly hard for them.”
Liseth is another priority. It wasn’t until Andres
became more comfortable with English that his adopted
family learned that he still had family back in Colombia.
Baugh was taken aback when she learned that Andres
and Liseth had been separated. Her program works
closely with the Colombian government, and most governments try to prevent sibling separation. After several
inconclusive meetings with representatives from the
country, Baugh ventured a guess that Liseth might have
been kept there over concerns that she had become too
old for adoption.
All the children in Kidsave stay with Summer Miracles volunteer host families, who spend the next month
making a full-court press for their visitors.
The host families bring their Colombian visitors to
weekly events with prospective adopting parents and
encourage the adults to spend time with the children —
taking them to family dinners and engaging them in
summer activities, such as outings to local swimming
pools or board game nights.
Baugh believes pairing volunteer families with these
children, if even for a month, motivates the adults to find
a permanent place for the kids. “When people have children in their homes, a lot of them fall in love,” she said.
“They’re more than willing to do outreach to help the
child. Some go to extraordinary lengths.”
Liseth — along with Esperanza, 13 — is staying with
hosts Elisa Rapaport and Michael Schoenbaum in
Bethesda. Liseth and Esperanza, whom Baugh described
as quiet and artistic, speak only Spanish — but there’s an
app for that. Rapaport says she has been communicating
through her own limited Spanish, charades and a translator program on her iPad.
This is Rapaport’s second summer hosting a child
from Colombia. Her last guest was an 11-year-old girl
who was adopted by a family earlier this month.
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“We believe students who live on
campus an additional two semesters
will benefit academically as well as
be more engaged socially and connected to the overall GW experience,” Peter Konwerski, senior associate provost and dean of student
affairs, said in a news release on July
15.
University officials were unavailable for further comment.
In the release, the university said
its campus housing prices are comparable to the housing options in the
neighborhood. But several students
and community activists said this
isn’t the case.
“It is significantly cheaper, in
most cases, to live off campus,” said
Patrick Kennedy, a rising senior at
the university and an advisory neighborhood commissioner.
Time spent studying abroad will
count toward the six-semester oncampus requirement for students.
Those who are already exempt from
the current policy — veterans, commuters, and people who are married
or have children — still won’t be
required to live in George Washington housing.
The university is obligated to
house most of its undergraduates on
campus as part of a binding campus
plan submitted to the city. Implementing the new mandate could help
the school reach that goal.
Still, some said they thought the
decision was financially motivated.
They said the university stands to
make a lot more money if students
live on campus for an extra year.
“I believe, in a lot of ways, the
primary motivation with this kind of
thing is financial,” said Asher Corson, an advisory neighborhood commissioner and George Washington
alumnus. “I think this type of step is
only appropriate in the context of
having affordable, market-rate
options on campus.”
Some students claim that offcampus housing is not only more
affordable, but also more upscale.
“Living in an apartment building
or condo in Foggy Bottom is a lot of
the time nicer than GW housing,”
said Carnes.
Kennedy said some of his constituents have told him that the new
housing mandate could help improve
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town-gown relations in Foggy Bottom. They think if more students are
living in school housing, the surrounding community will see fewer
disruptions and less noise.
“I don’t know that it could necessarily hurt. I don’t know if it is a
panacea either,” said Kennedy.
But not all community members
are interested in removing students
from the community. Students who
are good, responsible neighbors
pose no problems, said Corson. “I
consider students to be part of the
community,” he said.
George Washington’s student
leaders have already started setting
up meetings with the administration
about the new housing rule.
“The decision has been made,
and the policy is being taken into
effect. Now it is our responsibility to
work together,” said Julia Susuni,
George Washington’s student body
president.
“So many current students are
concerned about the future Colonials that will attend GW,” said
Daniel Egel-Weiss, the student association’s senate president pro tempore. “We want to be part of the
discussion as it takes place.”
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A Look at the Market in Northwest Washington
July 24, 2013 ■ Page 15
The art’s also on sale in this California contemporary
W
hen you’re looking for a
new home, weekends are
often filled with a flurry
of open houses, and it’s easy to lose
you’ll find an expansive space
spanning four levels. This open and
airy California contemporary takes
full advantage of views of Battery
Kemble Park, which abuts the
home’s backyard.
From the foyer, one can see
through to the step-down great
room, where two sets of French
doors, each flanked by windows on
the sides and above, show off
sweeping views of the park’s lush
greenery. The room has 14-foot
ceilings and a wood fireplace with a
fieldstone mantel that stretches
from floor to ceiling.
Also gracing the walls are several large paintings from Zenith. One
by local artist Joan Konkel, called
“Morning of the Magician,” is an
abstract that incorporates shades of
green and blue. Other artists whose
work is featured throughout the
home include Chris Hayman, Robert C. Jackson and Bradley Stevens.
“It’s been so much fun to see the
house with all new artwork,” said
Donna Uberman, who came up
with the idea of the combined
event. “It’s like living in a museum
or being on vacation — it’s great.”
The home is also ideal for entertaining. A formal dining room off
the sleek and bright eat-in kitchen is
large enough for about 16 guests.
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track. That’s why local homeowners
Donna and Eric Uberman are taking a fresh approach to making their
open house in Kent stand out.
Working with the Zenith Gallery, the Ubermans are combining
their open house with an art exhibit.
Both the home at 2816 Battery
Place and more than 30 pieces of
art are available for purchase.
The seven-bedroom, five-and-ahalf-bath home is on the market for
$1,995,000. The pieces from Zenith
— mostly contemporary paintings,
and many by local artists with
national reputations — range in
price from $450 to $13,500. (Several pieces from the Ubermans’ collection are also on display, and
some could convey with the sale.)
The combination open house/art
show is planned for Sundays
through the end of August.
Tucked at the end of a quiet culde-sac, the house appears modest
from the front, but walk inside and
For larger parties, the Ubermans have seated about 65
people in the
great room and
almost as many
on the adjacent
wood deck,
which they have
tented for outdoor events.
An expansive master
suite can be found on the uppermost level. It features a fireplace
and a cathedral ceiling in natural
cedar. French doors open to a private deck. There are deep closets
along one wall and a walk-in closet
along another. The master bath is
swathed in marble, and it features a
double vanity and Jacuzzi tub. Skylights overhead bring lots of natural
light to the space.
There are three additional bedrooms on this level; one has an en
suite bath, while the other two share
a Jack-and-Jill bath.
Two levels sit below the main
floor, and because of the house’s
sloped lot, both are above ground in
the rear. The first houses a bedroom
with en suite bath, and the second
includes a large guest suite with a
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kitchenette (currently used as a
family room), as well as another
bedroom with an en suite bath, now
used as a home office.
There are plenty of outdoor
spaces for the new owners to enjoy
the backyard and park, including
two stone patios, one outside the
guest suite and one alongside the
great room. There’s also a deck that
runs alongside the kitchen.
The home is located within an
enclave of 16 houses on Battery
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and landscaping services, as well as
property taxes. The home is located
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The seven-bedroom house with
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down play.
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include a four-point shot from 25
feet from the basket, and all-ornothing free throws — which means
only one free throw is allowed,
worth two, three or four points
depending on where the shooting
foul occurred. Also, in an effort to
save time, when a foul occurs in a
penalty situation, the offensive team
can either keep the ball with a fresh
shot clock or choose to take a free
throw worth up to four points.
Other changes include hockeystyle substitutions in which players
come in and out on the fly, looser
traveling rules and no zone defense.
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or not The-BALL’s new rules make
the game more exciting and enjoyable,” the league says on its website.
“They have definitely been designed
to do so. ... The rule changes have
been thoughtfully considered, analyzed, and debated with the purity of
the game in mind.”
Tickets range from $8 to $20 per
game. There are VIP floor seats and
group packages available as well. To
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the property, they said.
The developers and city officials
also made a pledge to keep the public in mind when moving forward
with the project. The city had been
unusually tight-lipped about details
of the plans presented last week,
refusing to release information in
advance of the public meeting.
“We are committed to an open
and transparent process,” Ward 4
D.C. Council member Muriel
Bowser said at the unveiling of the
proposals for the sprawling Georgia
Avenue campus, which were created in accord with the master plan
forged by the city and community.
While the plans from each group
are similar, there were a few substantive differences.
Above: A rendering
from the the HinesUrban Atlantic plan
shows an arts district
planned for the site;
below left, Roadside
Development’s
proposal shows a
retail hub.
Forest City Washington
All of the officials leading the
Walter Reed project for the Forest
City Washington team live in D.C.
“I grew up in this neighborhood,
in 16th Street Heights, and now I
live [elsewhere] in Ward 4,” said
Aakash Thakkar, senior vice president of development at EYA, a
home-building company that is part
of the Forest City team.
The group, which was responsible for developing The Yards, an
entertainment and residential project along the Anacostia River near
Nationals Park, would create five
distinct neighborhoods on the Walter Reed site and build an “innovation campus” around an outpost of
Georgetown University. The university could partner with an entity
like the Rockefeller Foundation or
the Clinton Global Initiative to open
a international facility and education hub, according to Alex Nyhan,
the company’s vice president of
development.
Forest City has worked with
several institutes of higher education — including the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University and University of
Pennsylvania — on neighborhood
development projects in the past,
Nyhan said.
In terms of retail, Forest City
would hope to attract a high-end
grocery store like Wegmans, Whole
Foods or Harris Teeter to the site.
The group would also focus on getting local and regional retailers to
populate the space.
At The Yards development, Forest City has managed to woo companies including Vida Fitness and
Sweetgreen — not to mention Harris Teeter — even though that site
had far more challenging demographics than the Walter Reed site
has, said Nyhan.
“We believe in local and regional retailers. We put those type of
retailers in at The Yards,” he said.
Though all of the developers
included green space in their proposals, Forest City placed a lot of
emphasis on its suggested six-acre
park. Nyhan said the team built a
similar space at The Yards.
Hines-Urban Atlantic
The Hines/Urban Atlantic team
already has a name for the development: “The Parks at Walter Reed.”
Instead of an “innovation campus,” the company would develop a
“Walter Reed Commerce and Science Center,” which would house
bioscience and health research
companies. A French firm that
works in this field has already committed to moving into the space,
said Victoria Davis, president of
Urban Atlantic Development.
Davis said her group also plans
to put a full-service senior living
community on the property and to
make half of its units affordable.
The team would call this facility
“The Benjamin Davis Senior Village” in honor of the first black
general in the U.S. Army.
The group’s retail partner, Weingarten Realty, has worked with several sought-after national retailers
— including Whole Foods, Target
and Trader Joe’s — on other projects. It is one of the largest retail
developers in the country.
“Weingarten developed the
Alexandria Wegmans,” said Victoria Davis.
In order to make way for a large
town center, Hines and Urban
Atlantic would have to demolish
the expansive 1970s hospital building on the property, said Hines
senior vice president Chuck Watters.
Still, the group would find ways
to make the property beneficial to
the community during the years of
construction, by hosting a farmers
market, movies on the green and
other activities. Davis said she
wants residents to get used to visiting the campus for arts and entertainment events.
Roadside Development
While the other teams talked
about Wegmans, Roadside Development actually brought a Wegmans representative to last week’s
presentation, just to show that the
team has already secured a commitment from the grocery store.
“This is also about jobs. [Wegmans] is one of the top five places
to work in the country,” said Richard Lake, a founding partner of
Roadside. “We have worked with
them on other projects, and we
brought them here today.”
Roadside would use part of the
existing hospital building, known as
Building 2, for the new Wegmans,
integrating the grocery store facility
into the existing facade.
“We don’t need to demolish
everything,” said Lake. He added
that the original hospital, known as
Building 1, would be the centerpiece of his development.
Roadside has talked to Children’s National Medical Center,
George Washington University and
Howard University about establishing facilities on the site. The National Organization for Rare Disorders
is also interested, Roadside said.
“We have over half a million
square feet of users identified,” said
Lake, whose company is building
the CityMarket at O, a mixed-use
development near the Washington
Convention Center.
In honor of Walter Reed’s history, Roadside would include an
interactive caregiver and firstresponder museum on the property.
The company also plans to provide
senior housing and services, partnering with an existing organization, Iona Senior Services in Tenleytown.
Roadside would work with a
local firm, Clark Construction, on
the development.
To learn about the proposals
visit walterreedlra.com. The city is
seeking public input via email at
[email protected] until 5 p.m.
Aug. 19.
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Events Entertainment
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Exhibit documents increasingly mobile society
“L
andscapes in Passing:
Photographs by Steve
Fitch, Robbert Flick,
and Elaine Mayes,” featuring 48
photographs from the 1970s and
1980s that depict the American
On exhibit
landscape in passing and invoke an
increasingly mobile society, will
open Friday at the Smithsonian
American Art Museum and continue through Jan. 20.
Located at 9th and G streets
NW, the museum is open daily
from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. 202-6331000.
■ “Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes,” presenting original costumes,
set designs, paintings, sculptures,
prints, drawings, posters and film
clips in a multimedia installation
about the famed avant-garde Parisian ballet troupe, has been extend-
ed through Oct. 6 in the East Building of the National Gallery of Art.
Located at 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, the museum is
open Monday through Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday
from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 202-7374215.
■ “Mynd Up,” an installation by
D.C. native BK Adams, opened
recently at Honfleur Gallery and
will continue through Aug. 30.
Located at 1241 Good Hope
Road SE, the gallery is open Tuesday through Friday from noon to 5
p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5
p.m. 202-580-5972.
■ “Chocolate City Rest in Peace,”
featuring photography by Steven M.
Cummings that documents the
many changes the District has seen
since 1991, opened recently at the
Gallery at Vivid Solutions and will
continue through Aug. 30.
Located at 2208 Martin Luther
King Jr. Ave. SE, the gallery is open
Tuesday through Friday from noon
to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m.
to 5 p.m. 202-365-8392.
■ “Grace and Measure,” presenting
abstract paintings by Robert Stuart
that incorporate painted strips of
paper, opened recently at Long
View Gallery and will continue
through Aug. 11.
Located at 1234 9th St. NW, the
gallery is open Wednesday through
Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and
Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. 202232-4788.
■ “Peter Coffin: Here and There,”
featuring sculpture, video, photography and lithography by New York
artist Coffin, opened recently at the
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, installed throughout
the building and on the plaza. The
exhibit will continue through Oct.
6.
Located at Independence Avenue
and 7th Street SW, the museum is
open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30
Woolly Mammoth extends ‘America All Better!!’
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he Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and Chicago’s The Second City have
extended “America All Better!!”
through Aug. 18.
Targeting everything from poli-
p.m. 202-633-1000.
■ “Genome: Unlocking Life’s
Code,” an interactive exhibit about
advances in genomic science,
opened recently at the National
Museum of Natural History and
will continue through Sept. 1.
Also recently opened at the
museum is “Nature’s Best 2012
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the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company through Aug. 18.
Thursday through Saturday and 3
p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $10 to
$20. The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop is located at 545 7th St. SE.
202-547-6839; chaw.org.
■ The Capital Fringe Festival will
run through July 28, bringing 129
“uncensored” performances to 19
venues throughout D.C.
All tickets cost $17, plus a onetime purchase of a Fringe button
($7). Tickets can be bought at the
Fort Fringe box office, at 607 New
York Ave. NW, or by phone or
online: 866-811-4111; capitalfringe.
org.
■ The Studio 2ndStage will stage
the horror comedy musical “Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror
Show” through Aug. 4 in the
Metheny Theatre.
Performance times are 8 p.m.
Wednesday through Saturday and 7
p.m. Sunday. Tickets start at $40,
with some discounts available. The
Studio Theatre is located at 1501
14th St. NW. 202-332-3300;
studiotheatre.org.
■ Ambassador Theater will pres-
ent the U.S. premiere of “The Third
Breast” through Aug. 4 in the Mead
Theater Lab at Flashpoint.
Performance times are generally
8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday
and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $20
to $40. Flashpoint is located at 916
G St. NW. aticc.org.
■ Arena Stage will reprise last
year’s hit show “One Night With
Janis Joplin” through Aug. 11 in the
Kreeger Theater.
7:30 p.m. Sunday, Tuesday and
Wednesday; 8 p.m. Thursday
through Saturday; and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $45 to
$99. Arena Stage is located at 1101
6th St. SW. 202-488-3300;
arenastage.org.
■ The Kennedy Center will host
the hit Broadway musical “The
Book of Mormon” through Aug. 18
in the Opera House.
7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday
and 1:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Tickets cost $43 to $250. 202-4674600; kennedy-center.org.
Photography Awards: Windland
Smith Rice International Awards,”
highlighting top amateur and professional nature photographers. It
will remain on view through March.
Located at 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, the museum
is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30
p.m. 202-633-1000.
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and online dating, the new production will feature Woolly Mammoth
company members and other local
performers as well as actors from
The Second City.
Tuesday through Saturday, 3 p.m.
Saturday, and 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets cost $35 to $67.50. Woolly
Mammoth is located at 641 D St.
NW. 202-393-3939;
woollymammoth.net.
■ Warner Theatre will host “Africa Umoja: The Spirit of Togetherness” July 30 through Aug. 4.
The pulsating celebration of
South African song and dance provides a journey through the country’s indigenous music — from the
jazz of Sophiatown to the inspirational joy of gospel and the pounding energy of Kwaito.
Tuesday through Saturday, 2 p.m.
Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $35.50 to $85. The Warner
Theatre is located at 13th and E
streets NW. 202-783-4000;
warnertheatredc.com.
■ The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
will present Gilbert and Sullivan’s
comic opera “The Pirates of
Penzance” Aug. 1 through 10.
The summer production continues a tradition of “slightly twisted”
versions of Gilbert and Sullivan
offerings.
Elaine Mayes’ “Autolandscape, Nevada,” 1971, gelatin silver print, is
part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s new exhibit.
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Classes
■ The Downtown Business Improvement District’s “Workout Wednesdays in
Franklin Park” will offer a weekly fitness
class. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations
requested. Franklin Park, 13th and I
streets NW. downtowndc.org. The classes
■ The Vajrayogini Buddhist Center will
host a weekly class on “Who Am I? Who
Are You? A Buddhist Perspective.” 7 to
8:30 p.m. $12. Vajrayogini Buddhist Center, 1787 Columbia Road NW. 202-9862257. The classes will continue through
Aug. 14.
Concerts
■ D.C. musical groups Son Cosita
Seria, Los Gallos, Nueva Cosecha and
Anexo Social will perform in conjunction
with the #Not1MoreDeportation exhibit of
poster art and photography from the immigrant rights movement in Arizona and
around the country. 5 to 9 p.m. Free. Freedom Plaza, 14th Street and Pennsylvania
Avenue NW. notonemoredeportation.com.
The exhibit will continue Thursday until 2
p.m.
■ Brazilian group Casuarina will perform original samba and choro music. 6
p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Marine Band’s jazz combo will
perform works by Charlie Parker, Peter Erskine and Pat Metheny. 8 p.m. Free. West
Terrace, U.S. Capitol. 202-433-4011.
Discussions and lectures
■ Artist James Huckenpahler will present “Welcome to Chocolate City: A contrary
visual history of the District.” 6 p.m. Free.
Hemphill Fine Arts, 1515 14th St. NW.
202-234-5601.
■ Printer Melanie Ouellette Karlins will
discuss her influences and creative process. 6:15 p.m. Free. Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and F streets NW.
202-633-1000.
■ Author Daniel
Silva (shown) will discuss his book “The
English Girl” in a conversation with NBC
correspondent (and his
wife) Jamie Gangel. 7
p.m. $12. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-9876487.
■ Mark Kurlansky will discuss his book
“Ready for a Brand New Beat: How ‘Dancing in the Street’ Became the Anthem for a
Changing America.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics
and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
The Current
202-364-1919.
Films
■ The NoMa Summer Screen outdoor
film series will feature the 2010 film “True
Grit,” starring Matt Damon and Jeff Bridges. 7 p.m. Free. Loree Grand Field, 2nd
and L streets NE.
nomabid.org/noma-summer-screen.
■ The Women’s Learning Partnership
will host a screening of the documentary
“Because Our Cause Is Just,” about the
backlash against women’s rights in the
aftermath of the Arab Spring. A discussion
will follow. 7 to 9 p.m. Free; reservations
requested. Langston Room, Busboys and
Poets, 2021 14th St. NW.
learningpartnership.org.
■ The March on Washington Film Festival will present the documentary “Crisis:
Behind a Presidential Commitment,” followed by a panel discussion. 7 to 9:15
p.m. Free; tickets required. Performance
Hall, National Museum of Women in the
Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW.
marchonwashingtonfilmfestival.org.
■ The Petworth Library will screen the
1932 film “Island of Lost Souls,” based on
the H.G. Wells novel “The Island of Dr.
Moreau.” 7 p.m. Free. Petworth Library,
4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202-243-1188.
■ The Reel
Israel DC series
will feature
Shemi Zarhin’s
2012 film “The
World Is
Funny.” 8 p.m.
$8.50 to $11.50. Avalon Theatre, 5612
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.
■ The “Films on the Vern” outdoor
series will feature Sam
Raimi’s 2013
movie “Oz the
Great and Powerful,” starring
James Franco
and Rachel Weisz. 8:30 p.m. Free. Quad,
George Washington University Mount Vernon Campus, 2100 Foxhall Road NW. 202242-5117.
Performances
■ The collective LYGO DC will host a
stand-up comedy show featuring Tommy
Sinbazo and Daylon Morrison. 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. $10. The Codmother, 1334 U
St. NW. lygodc.com.
■ The Wonderland Circus will feature
musician Deb Felz, storyteller Jennifer
Tress, burlesque artist Private Tails and
comedians Mariya Alexander and Becca
Steinhoff. 8:30 p.m. $5 donation suggested. The Wonderland Ballroom, 1101 Ken-
yon St. NW. 202-431-4704.
■ Busboys and Poets will host an open
mic night focused on LGBT-dedicated
poets. 9 to 11 p.m. $5. Cullen Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202789-2227.
Sale
■ St. Alban’s Opportunity Shop will
host a “Half Price Sale.” 9:30 a.m. to 3
p.m. Free. 3001 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202966-5288. The sale will continue through
Saturday.
Special event
■ Beer historian Richard Wagner will
present “Beer Tasting and Brewing in the
Age of Pirates,” featuring a demonstration
of Colonial-era brewing techniques and a
tasting of pirate- and seafaring-themed
Heavy Seas brews. The event will include
access to the “Real Pirates” exhibition. 5
p.m. $40. Grosvenor Auditorium, National
Geographic, 1600 M St. NW. 202-8577700.
Sporting events
■ The Washington Nationals will play
the Pittsburgh Pirates. 7:05 p.m. $5 to
$65. Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol
St. SE. 888-632-6287. The series will continue Thursday at 12:35 p.m.
■ The Washington Kastles will play the
Boston Lobsters in Mylan World TeamTennis competition. 7:10 p.m. $15 to $35.
Kastles Stadium at The Wharf, 800 Water
St. SW. 800-745-3000.
Teen programs
■ Local poet Candice Danielle Iloh will
discuss and perform her spoken-word
work. 5:30 p.m. Free. Petworth Library,
4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202-243-1188.
■ The Albus Cavus artist collective will
lead a workshop on fractals and natural
structures in art. 5:30 p.m. Free. TenleyFriendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave.
NW. 202-727-1488.
■ Local comics writer Rachel Scheer
will discuss autobiographical comics and
offer instruction on writing and drawing. 6
p.m. Free. Chevy Chase Library, 5625 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-0021.
Thursday, July 25
Thursday july 25
Children’s program
■ Park rangers will lead “Indiana Jones
in Rock Creek Park,” a hands-on archaeology program. 4 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Park
Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW.
202-895-6070.
Class
■ The Cleveland Park Library will host
Thursday, july 18
■ Concert: The 14th Street
Uptown Business Association’s summer concert series will feature singer-songwriter Margot MacDonald. 7
to 8:30 p.m. Free. Plaza, 4700 14th
St. NW. summeroftheartsdc.org.
a fiber arts workshop. 7 p.m. Free. Cleveland Park Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-282-3080.
Concerts
■ Mandy Harvey, a jazz vocalist with
hearing loss, will perform a concert to celebrate the 23rd anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ The Fort Reno concert series will feature The Buzz and Capital Ghost. 7:15 p.m.
Free. Fort Reno Park, 40th and Chesapeake streets NW. fortreno.com.
■ The Marine Band’s jazz combo will
perform works by Charlie Parker, Peter Erskine and Pat Metheny. 7:30 p.m. Free.
Yards Park, 355 Water St. SE. 202-4334011.
■ The Bombadil quartet will perform
inventive pop-rock music. 8 p.m. $10 to
$12. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I
St. NW. 800-745-3000.
■ The U.S. Army Band’s party band,
Downrange, will perform. 8 p.m. Free. West
Steps, U.S. Capitol. usarmyband.com. The
concert will repeat Friday at 8 p.m.
■ Oscar-winning actor Shirley Jones will
discuss her memoir, her legendary Hollywood co-stars and her interactions with
the cast of “The Partridge Family.” 12:30
p.m. Free. McGowan Theater, National
Archives Building, Constitution Avenue
between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202357-5000.
■ The U.S.-Korea Institute at the
School of Advanced International Studies
will hold a forum to commemorate the
60th anniversary of the armistice that
ended the Korean War. 1:30 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Room HVC-201, U.S.
Capitol Visitor Center, 1st and East Capitol
streets. uskoreainstitute.org/events/
koreanwar072513.
■ A gallery talk will focus on “Kindred
Spirits: Duncan Phillips and Georges
Braque.” 6 and 7 p.m. $10 to $12; free for
members and ages 18 and younger. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. 202387-2151.
■ A panel discussion on “Foraging:
Finding Food at Your Feet” will feature
Matt Cohen, local forager and foraging
educator; Holly Poole-Kavana of Little Red
Bird Botanicals of Maryland; Nathan
Zeender of WildCraft Sodas; and Lincoln
Smith, a production forest ecosystems
specialist with Bowie, Md.-based Forested
LLC. 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Victory Garden,
National Museum of American History,
12th Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
202-633-1000.
■ Robert Wolke, a former Washington
Post columnist and professor emeritus of
chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh,
will discuss “A Scientist in the Kitchen:
Demystifying the Science of Cooking.” The
event will include a demonstration and a
book signing. 6:45 to 8:15 p.m. $25 to
$30. Atrium Cafe, National Museum of
Natural History, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-633-3030.
■ Armstrong Yakubu, partner at Foster
+ Partners, and Bill Alsup, senior managing director with Hines, will discuss the
master-planning and design process for
CityCenterDC, the 10-acre neighborhood
taking shape at the site of the former convention center. 7 to 8:30 p.m. $10 to $20.
Reservations required. National Building
Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448.
■ A panel of artists and local gallery
owners will discuss collecting sculpture,
glass and 3-D art. 7 p.m. Free. Abramson
Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center,
American University, 4400 Massachusetts
Ave. NW. 202-885-1300.
■ Novelist Philipp
Meyer will discuss his
book “The Son,” about
the lives and times of a
Texas family from the
1850s to the present.
7 p.m. Free. Politics
and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Rose A. Neal, a Swansea University
doctoral candidate, will discuss “Mrs.
E.D.E.N. Southworth: Teacher With a Golden Pen,” about a 19th-century Georgetown
resident who was the most popular female
writer of her era. 7 p.m. Free. Peabody
Room, Georgetown Library, 3260 R St.
NW. 202-727-0233.
Films
■ The March on Washington Film Festival will present Keith Beauchamp’s 2005
film “The Untold Story of Emmett Louis
Till.” 7 p.m. Free; tickets required. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th
St. NW. marchonwashingtonfilmfestival.
org.
■ “Canal Park Thursday Movies” will
feature an outdoor screening of Christopher Nolan’s 2008 film “The Dark Knight,”
starring Christian Bale and Heath Ledger.
Sundown. Free. Canal Park, 2nd and M
streets SE. capitolriverfront.org.
Performances
■ The Vibe Collective will present AfroCuban jazz improvisation. 6:30 p.m. Free.
Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. 202-2691600.
■ Wolf Trap Opera Company will present “Vocal Colors: A Musical Exploration of
Visual Art,” featuring performers responding to art at the Phillips Collection. 6:30
p.m. $8 to $20; reservations required.
Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW.
phillipscollection.org/events.
Special events
■ Food historian Matthew Jacob,
author of “What the Great Ate: A Curious
History of Food and Fame,” will lead a tasting exploring American cuisine from Colonial times to the Gilded Age. 6 to 8 p.m.
$15; reservations required. Anderson
House, 2118 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
202-785-2040.
■ The Divine Science Church of the
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Healing Christ will present a special meditation series. 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free. 2025
35th St. NW. 202-333-7630.
■ The Woman’s National Democratic
Club will celebrate D.C. budget autonomy
with hors d’oeuvres and drinks. Participants will include D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes
Norton, Ward 4 D.C. Council member Muriel Bowser and at-large D.C. Council member Anita Bonds. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $15 to
$25. Woman’s National Democratic Club,
1526 New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-2327363.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Kastles will play in
the Eastern Conference playoffs in Mylan
World TeamTennis competition. 7:10 p.m.
$15 to $35. Kastles Stadium at The
Wharf, 800 Water St. SW. 800-745-3000.
Tour
■ Education technician Alex Torres will
lead a tour of the U.S. Botanic Garden’s
National Garden. 10:30 to 11:15 a.m.
Free. National Garden Lawn Terrace, U.S.
Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW.
202-225-8333.
Friday, July 26
Friday july 26
■ The Georgetown Library will present
a workshop on dinosaurs and archaeology
(for ages 4 through 7). 11 a.m. Free.
Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202727-0232.
Concerts
■ The Washington Guzheng Society will
present music inspired by mythical Chinese legends about the phoenix, performed on the 21-stringed guzheng zither.
1 p.m. Free. Sackler Gallery, 1050 Independence Ave. SW. 202-633-1000.
■ Latin guitar ensemble
Incendio will
perform world
fusion jazz. 5 to
8:30 p.m. Free.
Sculpture Garden, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-289-3360.
■ Students from the National Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute will
perform chamber music. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ Detroit duo Jamaican Queens will
perform. 9:30 p.m. $8. Comet Ping Pong,
5037 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3640404.
Discussion
■ Baltimore-based astrophysicist Mario
Livio will discuss his book “Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein — Colossal
Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed
Our Understanding of Life and the Universe.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose,
Films
■ “DC Drive-In” will feature Rob Reiner’s 1995 film “The American President,”
starring Michael Douglas and Annette Bening. Lot opens at 7 p.m. for cars with reservations and 8 p.m. for others; pre-show
activities begin at 7:30 p.m.; film starts at
9 p.m. Free admission. Union Market, 305
5th St. NE. dcdrivein.com.
■ The 18th annual Made in Hong Kong
Film Festival will feature Derek Yee’s 1996
film “Viva Erotica,” about a down-on-hisluck filmmaker who agrees to direct a softcore porn flick. 7 p.m. Free. Meyer Auditorium, Freer Gallery of Art, 12th Street and
Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-1000. The
film will be shown again Sunday at 2 p.m.
■ The Golden Triangle Business
Improvement District
and the Heurich House
Museum will present
Billy Wilder’s 1959 film
“Some Like It Hot” as
part of the weekly
“Golden Cinema
Series” of outdoor
screenings. 8 p.m. Free. Courtyard, Heurich House Museum, 1307 New Hampshire Ave. NW. goldentriangledc.com.
Meeting
■ A weekly bridge group will meet to
play duplicate bridge. 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
$6. Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601
Performances
■ The Coyaba Dance Theater will perform African dance and drumming. 6:30
p.m. Free. Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE.
202-269-1600.
■ The U.S. Marine Corps will host a
weekly Friday Evening Parade with music
and precision marching. 8:45 to 10 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Marine Barracks, 8th and I streets SE. 202-4336060.
Special event
■ Teen participants in the “Investigating Where We Live” project will unveil an
exhibition of their writing, photography and
artwork about the Shaw neighborhood and
its importance in the District’s history. 6:30
to 8:30 p.m. Free. National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Nationals will play
the New York Mets. 1:35 and 7:05 p.m. $5
to $65. Nationals Park, 1500 South Capitol St. SE. 888-632-6287. The series will
continue Saturday at 3:05 p.m. and Sunday at 1:35 p.m.
Tour
■ Gardener Nathan Bartholomew will
lead a tour of the U.S. Botanic Garden
focusing on plants suitable for a home vertical garden. 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Free;
reservations required. Conservatory Terrace, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland
Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.
Saturday, July 27
Saturday july 27
Children’s programs
■ “Saturday Morning at the National”
will feature “Molly Moore’s Midsummer
Night’s Dream.” 9:30 and 11 a.m. Free;
tickets required. Helen Hayes Gallery,
National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave.
NW. 202-783-3372.
■ Geologist Chelsea Lewis will present
“Rocky Rocks and Crystalline Cousins,”
featuring a two-mile hike to Rock Creek
with time for some rock-skipping and
hands-on learning (for ages 7 through 12
and their families). 10 a.m. to noon. Free.
Rock Creek Park Nature Center, 5200
Glover Road NW. 202-895-6227.
■ A park ranger will lead a night sky
tour in Rock Creek Park’s planetarium. 1 to
1:45 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Park Nature
Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-8956224. The program will repeat Sunday at
1 p.m.
■ Children will hear a story about base-
St. NW. 202-629-4535.
Saturday, july 27
■ Special event: Hip-hop
troupe Culture Shock, tap duo the
Manzari Brothers, the Afro Latin Jazz
Orchestra and percussionist Tito
Rodriguez Jr. (shown) will join other
performers for National Dance Day,
with shows throughout the day on
the South Plaza and in the Grand
Foyer. 1 to 11:30 p.m. Free. Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
ball great Jackie Robinson. 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.
■ U.S. Botanic Garden volunteer Todd
Brethauer will discuss “The Right Water:
Not Too Wet and Not Too Dry.” 10:30 a.m.
to noon. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Classroom, U.S. Botanic Garden,
100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.
■ As part of the Architecture 101 lecture series, Catholic University School of
Architecture and Planning dean Randall
Ott will discuss expressionism in architecture, which emphasizes a distortion of
form for emotional effect. 11 a.m. to 12:30
National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW.
202-272-2448.
■ Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Matt Davies will discuss his children’s book “Ben Rides On,” at 1 p.m.;
and former Senate historian Richard A.
Baker will discuss “The American Senate:
An Insider’s History,” which he co-authored
with the late Neil MacNeil, at 6 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-364-1919.
■ “Groundbreaking: Funeral and Burial
Choices” will feature experts in the field. 2
p.m. Free. Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd
Park Library, 7420 Georgia Ave. NW. 202-
541-6100.
■ Freelance visual journalist and writer
Zoeann Murphy will discuss “Vietnam: Our
Father Daughter Journey,” a book she coauthored with her father. 2 p.m. Free.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW.
gallerytalkzoeannmurphy.eventbrite.com.
■ Park ranger Michael Zwelling will
present a planetarium program on “Fire
and Ice: Moons of the Solar System” (for
ages 7 and older). 4 to 4:45 p.m. Free.
Rock Creek Park Nature Center, 5200
Glover Road NW. 202-895-6227.
Films
■ West End Cinema will screen Franco
Zeffirelli’s production of Verdi’s “Aida” at
Teatro alla Scala. 11 a.m. $18.80. West
End Cinema, 2301 M St. NW. 202-4193456.
■ The Ciné-Concert series will feature
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1926 film “The Lodger,”
with live accompaniment by the Mont Alto
Orchestra. 2 p.m. East Building Auditorium,
National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ The Black and White Classics Film
Series will screen Elliott Nugent’s 1949
film “The Great Gatsby,” starring Alan
Ladd. 2 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship
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Classes and workshops
■ Sandy Lerner, founder and chair of
trustees of Chawton House Library and the
Centre for the Study of Early English Women’s Writing, will lead a seminar on “Life at
Pemberly: Ever After With Mr. Darcy and
Elizabeth.” 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. $90 to
$130. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ The Corcoran Gallery of Art will host
a family workshop for participants to
respond artistically to works in the “War/
Photography” exhibit. 10 a.m. to noon.
Free; registration suggested. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW. 202-6391700. artresponsefamilywrkshp.eventbrite.
com.
■ The Corcoran Gallery of Art will host
an art workshop on woodblock prints, from
10 a.m. to noon; and silk screens, from 1
to 3 p.m. Free. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500
17th St. NW. 202-639-1700.
■ Executive chef Javier Romero will
lead a master cooking class on making
paella. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. $110. Taberna
del Alabardero, 1776 I St. NW. tabernawdc.
eventbrite.com.
■ Master dyer and educator Mary Edna
Fraser will lead “Mapping Your Personal
Landscape,” a two-day batik workshop. 10
a.m. to 4 p.m. $100 to $125; reservations
required. Textile Museum, 2320 S St. NW.
202-667-0441, ext. 64. The workshop will
continue Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.
Concerts
■ The Petworth Jazz Project will present concerts by Iya and the Kuumba Kids,
at 6 p.m.; and the Feedel Band, at 7 p.m.
Free. Lawn, Petworth Recreation Center,
8th and Taylor streets NW.
petworthjazzproject.com.
■ The Fort Dupont Park summer concert series will feature R&B bands Cops
Come Knockin and Be’la Dona. 6 p.m.
Free. Fort Dupont Park, 3600 F St. SE.
202-426-7723.
■ “Festival au Desert: Caravan for
Peace” will feature Malian musicians Tartit,
Imarhan and Mamadou Kelly performing
traditional songs and contemporary tunes.
8 to 10:30 p.m. $10. Tropicalia, 2001 14th
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■ The Phillips Collection will present
Marcel Carné’s 1945 film “Les Enfants du
Paradis.” 2 p.m. $10 to $12; free for members and ages 18 and younger. Phillips
Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. 202-3872151.
■ Filmmaker Paula Gladstone will
screen and discuss her movie “The Dancing Soul of the Walking People.” 4:30 p.m.
Free. East Building Auditorium, National
Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ The National Campaign to End the
Korean War will present Deann Borshay
Liem and Ramsay Liem’s documentary
“Memory of Forgotten War,” about the continuing impact of the Korean War. A panel
discussion will follow. 7 p.m. Free. Festival
Center, 1640 Columbia Road NW.
[email protected].
■ Busboys and Poets will screen
French director Céline Sciamma’s film
“Tomboy,” followed by a discussion about
gender history and identity by College of
William & Mary history chair Leisa Meyer.
6 to 8 p.m. Free. Cullen Room, Busboys
and Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-7892227.
Performances
■ The Bowen McCauley Dance company will present “Afoot in Vienna,” a modern
and minimalist multimedia piece, as part of
the eighth annual Capital Fringe Festival. 7:45
p.m. $17 plus Fringe
admission button ($5).
GALA Theatre, 3333
14th St. NW. tinyurl.
com/afoot-in-vienna. The performance will
repeat Sunday at 2 p.m.
■ Dance Place will host the Choreographers Collaboration Project, featuring
works inspired by various iconic sites
around Alexandria. 8 p.m. $8 to $22.
Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. 202-2691600. The performance will repeat Sunday at 7 p.m.
Special events
■ The D.C.-based nonprofit Archaeology in the Community will host the DC Day
of Archaeology 2013 Festival, part of a
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include mock excavation, artifact displays,
craft activities and lectures. 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. Free. Turkey Thicket Park, 1100 Michigan Ave. NE. archaeologyincommunity.
com/festival.html.
■ The Petworth Library will host
“Librari-Con” for comic book and anime
fans to celebrate their favorite graphic stories. Noon. Free. Petworth Library, 4200
Kansas Ave. NW. 202-243-1188.
■ As part of a celebration of the life of
master craftsman Thomas Day, furniture
maker Jerome Bias will demonstrate Day’s
techniques and use period-specific tools to
re-create historic designs, and storyteller
and historian Fred Motley will present dramatic readings of Day’s letters to his
daughter. Noon to 3 p.m. Free. Renwick
Gallery, 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. 202-633-1000.
■ Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry, co-founders of The Book Doctors, will
host “Pitchapalooza!” — where writers hoping to sell their book ideas to publishers
will have the opportunity to practice and
hone their pitches. 3:30 p.m. Free. Politics
and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
■ Insatiable Bites will present “The
Wiz: A Food and Art Pop Up Experience,”
featuring food, drinks, art, a trunk show
and a live cook-off competition. 7 to 10
p.m. $55 to $85. Epic Yoga Center, 1323
Connecticut Ave. NW.
insatiablebitesthewiz.ticketleap.com.
■ Politics and Prose and Modern
Times Coffeehouse will host a trivia night.
8 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
Sporting events
■ The 2013 Citi Open tennis tournament will feature Angelique Kerber, Juan
Martin del Potro, Tommy Haas and Denis
Kudla, among others. 10 a.m. $10 to $80.
William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center, 16th
and Kennedy streets NW. 800-745-3000.
The tournament will continue through Aug.
4 at various times.
■ D.C. United will play the New England
Revolution. 7 p.m. $26 to $55. RFK Stadium, 2400 East Capitol St. SE. 800-7453000.
Walks and tours
■ A half-hour tour of Peirce Mill and its
grounds will feature a look at the 1820s
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“Confronting Suburban Poverty in
America,” will discuss the rapid rise
of poverty in the suburbs, and how it
intersects with the changing location
of affordable housing, jobs, services
and transit. 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Free.
National Building Museum, 401 F St.
NW. 202-272-2448.
technological marvel. 11 a.m., noon, 1
p.m. and 2 p.m. Free. Peirce Mill, Tilden
Street and Beach Drive NW. 202-8956227. The tour will repeat Sunday at 11
a.m. and 1 p.m.
■ Washington Walks will present a
walking tour of Watts Branch and Marvin
Gaye Park. 11 a.m. $15. Meet outside the
Capitol Heights Metro station.
washingtonwalks.com.
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■ The National Zoo will celebrate Global Tiger Day with educational activities and
opportunities to meet animal keepers and
scientists. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free. National
Zoo, 3001 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-6334462.
■ National Park Service volunteer Libby
Moulton will introduce games and toys that
children played with during the 1770s (for
ages 6 through 12 and their families). 3
p.m. Free. Old Stone House, 3051 M St.
NW. 202-895-6070.
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Showcase Concert,
featuring students of
Elena Arseniev, at
6:45 p.m.; and Alessio
Bax (shown), first prize
winner at the Leeds
and Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, at 7:30 p.m. $10 to $20. Ward
Recital Hall, Catholic University, 620
Michigan Ave. NE. washingtonpianofest.
com.
■ The Aria Club of Greater Washington’s 15th annual Opera Gala Concert will
feature national and local opera signers
performing selections from “Carmen,” “Die
Fledermaus,” “Don Pasquale,” “La
Boheme,” “Manon,” “Otello,” “Porgy &
Bess,” “Rigoletto,” “Romeo & Juliette” and
others. 5 p.m. $25. Tifereth Israel Congregation, 7701 16th St. NW. 202-723-1659.
■ Students from the National Symphony Orchestra’s Summer Music Institute will
perform works by Wagner, Schumann and
others. 6 p.m. Free. Concert Hall, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Dahlak Restaurant will present its
weekly “DC Jazz Jam” session. 6:30 to
9:30 p.m. Free. 1771 U St. NW. 202-5279522.
■ Washington National Cathedral
organists Christopher Betts and Benjamin
Straley will discuss their work. 10:10 a.m.
Free. Washington National Cathedral,
3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-537-6200.
■ Self-published authors will discuss
their experiences with Opus, Politics and
Prose’s print-on-demand book machine, at
1 p.m.; and Bonnie Benwick, deputy editor
of The Washington Post’s food section, will
discuss her book “Washington Post Cookbook,” at 5 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose,
■ National Gallery of Art lecturer Wilford W. Scott will discuss “Vaudeville and
Popular Dance in American Art.” 2 p.m.
Free. East Building Auditorium, National
Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
Film
■ Archivist Jon Gartenberg will screen
short films by Andy Warhol, Warren Sonbert, David Wojnarowicz, Jack Waters, Ken
Jacobs and Beryl Sokoloff. 4:30 p.m. Free.
East Building Auditorium, National Gallery
of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW. 202-737-4215.
Performances
■ The National Building Museum’s
Sunday Concert Series will feature a performance by the Kan Kouran West African
Dance Company. 2 to 3 p.m. Free. National
Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-2722448.
■ Split This Rock will hold a youth poetry contest with an environmental theme. 5
to 7 p.m. Free. Cullen Room, Busboys and
Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227.
■ The collective LYGO DC will present a
stand-up comedy show featuring Haywood
Turnipseed Jr., Max Rosenblum, Natalie
Shure and Mike Finazzo. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
$10. Desperados, 1342 U St. NW.
lygodc.com.
Walks and tours
■ Rock Creek Park will present a “Fun
Run,” featuring a three- to four-mile loop
and a five- to seven-mile option. 10 to 11
a.m. Free. Rock Creek Park Nature Center,
5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6227.
■ Ranger Tony Linforth will lead a
horseback tour through Rock Creek Park.
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. $45; reservations
required. Rock Creek Park Horse Center,
5100 Glover Road NW. 202-362-0117.
■ A behind-the-scenes tour will focus
on the Washington National Cathedral’s
gargoyles and grotesques. 2 p.m. $5 to
$10. Washington National Cathedral, 3101
Wisconsin Ave. NW. nationalcathedral.org.
Monday, July 29
Monday july 29
Concerts
■ The “Live! on Woodrow Wilson Plaza”
series will feature guitarist Tom Principato.
Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free. Ronald Reagan
Building and International Trade Center,
1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-3121300. Performances will continue through
Aug. 27 each Monday and Tuesday at
noon.
Showcase Concert, featuring students of
Bok Hwa Kim, at 6:45 p.m.; and the 2013
faculty recital, at 7:30 p.m. $10 to $20.
Ward Recital Hall, Catholic University, 620
com.
■ The choirs of the Washington National Cathedral and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
will perform works by Mendelssohn, Allegri
and other composers. 7 p.m. $40. Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin
Ave. NW. nationalcathedral.org.
■ The Fort Reno concert series will feature Priests, Humble Fire and The Accidentals. 7:15 p.m. Free. Fort Reno Park, 40th
and Chesapeake streets NW. fortreno.com.
■ The U.S. Navy Concert Band will perform at the Capitol. 8 p.m. Free. West
Steps, U.S. Capitol. navyband.navy.mil.
■ The group 40Plus of Greater Washington will present a talk by Tom Morris on
“Good News for Gray Hairs: Marketing
Yourself After 50.” 9:45 to 11:30 a.m.
Free. Suite T-2, 1718 P St. NW. 202-3871582.
■ Experts will discuss “The Politics of
Repair: Restitution and Reparations in the
Wake of the Holocaust.” 2 to 4 p.m. Free;
reservations requested. Rubinstein Auditorium, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum,
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW.
ushmm.org/events/restitutionworkshop.
■ Civil rights attorney Johnny Barnes
and Howard University professor Michael
E. Fauntroy will discuss the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 and its relevancy today. 6 p.m.
Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.
■ Barbara A. Perry, a senior fellow at
the University of Virginia, will discuss her
new biography “Rose Kennedy: The Life
and Times of a Political Matriarch.” 7 p.m.
Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
Films
■ “Mr. Stewart Comes to Washington,”
a salute to legendary actor James Stewart,
will feature Otto Preminger’s 1959 film
“Anatomy of a Murder,” co-starring Lee
Remick, George C. Scott, Ben Gazzara and
Eve Arden. 6:30 p.m. Free; tickets
required. Helen Hayes Gallery, National
Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202783-3372.
■ West End Cinema will host an
advance screening of AMC’s new crime
drama “Low Winter Sun,” starring Mark
Strong. 8 p.m. Free; reservations required.
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West End Cinema, 2301 M St. NW.
westendcinema.com.
■ The Screen on the Green festival will
feature Martin
Ritt’s 1979
drama “Norma
Rae,” starring
Sally Field and
Beau Bridges.
8 p.m. Free.
National Mall between 7th and 12th
streets. friendsofscreenonthegreen.org.
Performance
■ Split This Rock’s DC Youth Slam
Team will feature local teens performing
poetry about social justice issues. 6 p.m.
Free. Theater Lab, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
Special event
■ The Washington Wizards will host a
final audition showcase featuring 30 finalists to become Wizard Girls. 7 p.m. $10 to
$15. Howard Theatre, 620 T St. NW.
wizardgirls.com.
Teen program
■ Performance poet Candice Danielle
Iloh will lead a workshop on verse and
song lyrics. 5:30 p.m. Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-6713121.
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July 3030
Tuesday
■ The Blue Sky Puppet Theater will perform “The Time Capsule,” a show designed
specifically for the D.C. Public Library system (for ages 3 through 12). 11 a.m. Free.
Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Library,
7420 Georgia Ave. NW. 202-541-6100.
The program will repeat at 1 p.m. at the
Takoma Park Library, 416 Cedar St. NW;
202-576-7252.
■ The Roald Dahl Book and Film Club
will meet to discuss works and films by the
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classic children’s book author (for ages 7
and older). 4 p.m. Free; reservations
requested. Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Library,
1630 7th St. NW. [email protected].
Classes and workshops
■ Teacher and therapist Heather Ferris
will lead a weekly yoga class. Noon. Free.
Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Library, 1630 7th St.
NW. 202-727-1288.
■ An AARP driver safety course will
offer instruction in proven safety strategies.
12:30 to 4:30 p.m. $12 to $14; reservations required. Hattie Holmes Senior Center, 324 Kennedy St. NW. 202-291-6170.
The class will continue Wednesday from
12:30 to 4:30 p.m.
■ Instructor Jillian Penndorf will lead a
gentle yoga class. 4 p.m. Free; reservations required. Georgetown Library, 3260
R St. NW. 202-727-0232.
■ The group Yoga Activist will present a
weekly yoga class geared toward beginners. 7 p.m. Free. Cleveland Park Library,
Concerts
■ The “Live! on Woodrow Wilson Plaza”
series will feature the band Cubano
Groove. Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free. Ronald
Reagan Building and International Trade
Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202312-1300.
■ Organist Pamela Meys Kane will perform works by Belgian composer Firmin
Swinnen. 12:10 p.m. Free. Church of the
Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. 202-347-2635.
■ The New Jersey Intergenerational
Orchestra will perform. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
Showcase Concert, featuring prize winners
of the 2013 International Young Artist
Piano Competition, at 6:45 p.m.; and Brian
Ganz, a laureate of the Marguerite Long
Jacques Thibaud and the Queen Elisabeth
of Belgium International Piano Competi-
tions, at 7:30 p.m. $10 to $20. Ward Recital Hall, Catholic University, 620 Michigan
Ave. NE. washingtonpianofest.com.
■ The U.S. Navy Band will perform as
part of its Concert on the Avenue series.
7:30 p.m. Free. U.S. Navy Memorial, Pennsylvania Avenue between 7th and 9th
streets. navyband.navy.mil.
■ The U.S. Air Force Band’s Airmen of
Note ensemble will perform. 8 p.m. Free.
West Steps, U.S. Capitol. 202-767-5658.
■ Curator Erin Kuykendall will discuss
Tudor Place’s doll collection after a full Victorian tea service with scones, sandwiches
and petite desserts. 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.
$25 to $30. Tudor Place Historic House
and Garden, 1644 31st St. NW. 202-9650400.
■ William Roger Lewis will discuss
“Another Dimension of Empire: The History
of the Oxford University Press.” 4 p.m.
Free. Room 119, Jefferson Building,
Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202707-5510.
■ Wil Haygood will discuss his book
“The Butler: A Witness to History,” which
has been adapted to an upcoming film
starring Forest Whitaker. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
■ Lea Carpenter will discuss her debut
novel “Eleven
Days.” 7 p.m.
Free. Great
Hall, Martin
Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St.
NW. 202-727-0321.
Films
■ The Popular Movie Series will screen
Fede Alvarez’s 2013 movie “Evil Dead,” a
gory remake of the 1981 cult horror favorite. 6 p.m. Free. Room A-5, Martin Luther
King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW.
202-727-0321.
■ The Groundbreakers film series will
screen Walter Salles’ 2004 movie “The
Motorcycle Diaries,” about a
motorcycle
road trip Che
Guevara went
on in his youth
that showed
him his life’s calling. 6 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-7270232.
■ “Movies in the Park,” sponsored by
Lindsay Reishman Real
Estate, will feature Jay
Roach’s 2000
film “Meet the
Parents,” starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller. 8:30
p.m. Free. Stead Park, 1625 P St. NW.
202-491-1275.
Meetings
■ 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. 202-3642680. The group meets every Tuesday.
■ The Creative Juices Writing Club will
hold a monthly workshop led by author
Ginger Ingalls. 7 p.m. Free. Georgetown
Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.
Performance
■ Busboys and Poets will host an open
mic poetry night. 9 to 11 p.m. $5. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th
St. NW. 202-387-7638.
Teen program
■ Performance poet Candice Iloh will
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lead a lyrics workshop. 5:30 p.m. Free.
Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202727-0232.
Wednesday, July 31
Wednesday july 31
■ A storytime at Peirce Mill will explore
children’s books related to milling heritage.
11 a.m. to noon. Free. Peirce Mill, Tilden
Street and Beach Drive NW. 202-8956070.
■ Youth employees of the Common
Good City Farm will discuss their experiences as urban farmers. 1 p.m. Free. Children’s Division, Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-7270321.
Classes
■ The Downtown Business Improvement District’s “Workout Wednesdays in
Franklin Park” will feature a weekly fitness
class. 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations
requested. Franklin Park, 13th and I
streets NW. downtowndc.org. The classes
■ The Vajrayogini Buddhist Center will
host a weekly class on “Who Am I? Who
Are You? A Buddhist Perspective.” 7 to
8:30 p.m. $12. Vajrayogini Buddhist Center, 1787 Columbia Road NW. 202-9862257. The classes will continue through
Aug. 14.
Concerts
■ Scottish folk musician Alasdair Roberts will perform a mix of his own compositions and traditional songs. 6 p.m. Free.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
Festival will present the Adult Pianist
Showcase Concert, at 6:45 p.m.; and
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ADORABLE SUN-FILLED studio,
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Tanya Gabrielian, recipient of prizes in the
Scottish, Sydney, Aram Khachaturyan and
Bosendorfer international piano competitions, at 7:30 p.m. $10 to $20. Ward
Recital Hall, Catholic University, 620
com.
■ The Marine Band will perform works
by Reineke, Chabrier and Sousa. 8 p.m.
Free. West Terrace, U.S. Capitol. 202-4334011.
■ Bonnie “Prince” Billy and Dawn
McCarthy will perform idiosyncratic indie
rock. 8 p.m. $30 to $35. Sixth & I Historic
Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 800-745-3000.
■ Digital media specialist Laura Hoffman will discuss selected items in the
exhibit “Awake in the Dream World: The
Art of Audrey Niffenegger.” Noon to 12:30
p.m. Free. National Museum of Women in
the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW. 202783-7370.
■ Tunisian curator and art historian
Ikram Lakhdhar and Palestinian-American
artist Manal Deeb will discuss the role of
art in shaping national consciousness
and the Palestinian identity. 12:30 to 2
p.m. Free. The Palestine Center, 2425 Virginia Ave. NW. 202-338-1290.
■ Catholic University’s summer lecture series on architecture will feature
Andrea Leers of Boston-based Leers
Weinzapfel. 5:30 p.m. Free. Gensler’s
Washington Conference Space, 2020 K
St. NW. architecture.cua.edu.
■ Rosalie Riegle will discuss her
books “Doing Time for Peace: Resistance,
Family, and Community” and “Crossing
The Line: Nonviolent Resisters Speak Out
for Peace.” 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free. Cullen
Room, Busboys and Poets, 1025 5th St.
NW. 202-789-2227.
■ ESPN fantasy sports analyst Matthew Berry will discuss his book “Fantasy
Life: The Outrageous, Uplifting, and Heartbreaking World of Fantasy Sports From
the Guy Who’s Lived It.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-364-1919.
Films
■ The NoMa Summer Screen outdoor
film series will feature Gary Ross’ 2012
film “The Hunger Games.” 7 p.m. Free.
Loree Grand Field, 2nd and L streets NE.
nomabid.org/noma-summer-screen.
■ The “Films on the Vern” outdoor
series will feature Tim Burton’s 2010
movie “Alice in Wonderland.” 8:30 p.m.
Free. Quad, George Washington University
Mount Vernon Campus, 2100 Foxhall
Road NW. 202-242-5117.
Meeting
■ The Tenley-Friendship Library’s
“Young Prose Book Group,” for ages 21
through 35, will meet to discuss “Room”
by Emma Donoghue. 7 p.m. Free. Kitty
O’Shea’s D.C., 4624 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
[email protected].
Performances
■ The collective LYGO DC will host a
stand-up comedy show featuring Sara
Armour and Adam Friedland. 6:30 to 8:30
p.m. $10. The Codmother, 1334 U St.
NW. lygodc.com.
■ The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Poetry magazine and the Corcoran
Gallery of Art will present “I am the beggar of the world,” a reading of Afghan folk
poetry by journalist Eliza Griswold and
filmmaker Seamus Murphy. A screening
of Murphy’s short film “Snake” will follow.
6:30 to 8 p.m. Free; reservations suggested. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St.
NW. afghan-women-poetry.eventbrite.
com.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Mystics will play
the New York Liberty. 7 p.m. $12 to
$300. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800745-3000.
Teen program
■ The P.E.T. Clique Anime Club will
meet to talk about and watch Japanese
animated movies. 4 p.m. Free. Petworth
Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202-2431188.
Volunteer event
■ Volunteers will help build the new
Southwest Community Garden. 7 a.m. to
4 p.m. Free; registration requested. Lansburgh Park, 1098 Delaware Ave. SW.
swgardens.org.
Thursday, Aug. 1
Thursday august 1
■ An exercise activity will teach participants how to train like astronauts. 4 to
4:45 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Park Nature
Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-8956070.
Concerts
■ The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial
Library will host a chamber music concert. Noon. Free. Room A-5, Martin Luther
King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW.
202-727-0321.
■ The fifth annual Washington International Piano Festival will present its
Young Pianist Showcase. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600. The concert will repeat Friday
at 6 p.m.
■ The Fort Reno concert series will
feature Stop Worrying and Love the
Bomb, The Sniffs, and Nervous Impulse.
7:15 p.m. Free. Fort Reno Park, 40th and
Chesapeake streets NW. fortreno.com.
■ The Marine Band will perform works
by Reineke, Chabrier and Sousa. 7:30
p.m. Free. Yards Park, 355 Water St. SE.
202-433-4011.
■ The U.S. Army Concert Band will
perform classic tenor arias. 8 p.m. Free.
West Steps, U.S. Capitol. usarmyband.
com. The concert will repeat Friday at 8
p.m.
Demonstration
■ Gardening specialist Adrienne Cook
and nutritionist Danielle Cook Navidi will
lead a cooking demonstration focused on
late-summer produce. Noon and 12:45
p.m. Free. Conservatory Garden Court,
U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave.
SW. 202-225-8333.
■ Scholar Patricia O’Brien will discuss
“English Colonialism and Piracy From the
Atlantic to the Pacific.” Noon. Free. Room
113, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-707-5510.
■ Seng Luangrath, head chef at Bangkok Golden Thai Restaurant, will discuss
how food is prepared in her native Laos
and offer samples of several dishes. 6
Textile Museum, 2320 S St. NW. 202667-0441, ext. 64.
■ University of Washington law professor Ronald K.L. Collins will discuss his
book “On Dissent: Its Meaning in Ameri-
ca.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015
■ Palestinian-American author and
political commentator Susan Abulhawa
will discuss her recent experiences in
Gaza and present her forthcoming poetry
collection “My Voice Sought the Wind.” 8
to 10 p.m. Free. Langston Room, Busboys
and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-3877638.
Films
■ “Canal Park Thursday Movies” will
feature an outdoor screening of Joss
Whedon’s 2012 film “The Avengers,” starring Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett
Johansson. Sundown. Free. Canal Park,
2nd and M streets SE. capitolriverfront.
org.
■ The Corcoran Gallery of Art will hold
a short film competition inspired by the
museum’s exhibition “Ellen Harvey: The
Alien’s Guide to the Ruins of Washington,
D.C.” 7 p.m. Free; reservations suggested.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW.
aliensguidefilmfest.eventbrite.com.
Meeting
■ The Mystery Book Group will discuss “Midnight in Peking” by Paul French.
6:30 p.m. Free. Barnes & Noble, 555
12th St. NW. 202-347-0176.
Special events
■ “Phillips After 5” will feature a jazz
performance by violinist David Schulman
and Quiet Life Motel; a gallery talk about
“Sensorial Space: Braque’s Reimagining
of the Still Life”; and “A Moveable Feast,”
featuring locally sourced foods, a handson art activity and a talk by area distillers
about cocktails. 5 to 8:30 p.m. $10 to
$12; reservations suggested. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW.
phillipscollection.org/events.
■ The Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
will host a “milkshake happy hour” for
interns and recent college graduates.
5:30 p.m. $5. Good Stuff Eatery, 303
Pennsylvania Ave. SE.
tinyurl.com/milkshake-happy-hour.
■ Celebrity chefs Carla Hall, Bart Vandaele and Victor Albisu will compete in
the “Chef Challenge” as part of the 2013
Citi Open tennis tournament. 6 to 8 p.m.
$100. William H.G. FitzGerald Tennis Center, 16th and Kennedy streets NW. 202721-9500.
■ The Washington DC Jewish Community Center will host a game night with
drink and appetizer specials. 6 to 9 p.m.
$27. The Board Room Game Bar, 1737
Connecticut Ave. NW. washingtondcjcc.
org.
Tour
■ A close-up tour will focus on ironwork at the Washington National Cathedral. 3 p.m. $10; reservations suggested.
Washington National Cathedral, 3101
Wisconsin Ave. NW. nationalcathedral.org.
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Stunning Potomac River views! Overlooking the
Potomac River with Opportunity to develop
land and build your custom dream home on
almost 1 acre lot. $1,500,000
William F. X. Moody
Robert Hryniewicki
202-243-1620
COLONIAL VILLAGE, WASHINGTON, DC
6,000 square feet of turnkey executive living
near Metro. 7 bedrooms, 5 full and 1 half baths,
gourmet island kitchen, level rear garden, central air conditioning, oak floors, 2 car garage.
Open Sunday 2-4. $1,475,000
Marilyn Charity
202-427-7553
PALISADES, WASHINGTON, DC
Spacious 3 bedrooms, 2 full baths row house
close to everything! Hardwood floors on upper
two levels, finished lower level with large recreation room and built-ins, beautiful yard and
more. $799,900
Marsha Schuman
301-299-9598
ADAMS MORGAN, WASHINGTON, DC
Meticulously maintained, 1,300 SF duplex penthouse with gracious entertaining floor plan,
2 bedrooms, 2 baths, and 3 private terraces.
Garage parking. $719,000
William F. X. Moody
Robert Hryniewicki
202-243-1620
INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS AND OFFICES
ACTIVE LISTINGS
Experience This First
UNDER CONTRACT
Success Pending!
Visit the NEW tayloragostino.com
Chevy Chase, MD 7208 Bybrook Lane.
Under contract in 4 days! Spacious,
convenient home set amidst fabulous tall
trees. Large screen porch, spacious first
floor family room and huge lower level.
Read more on our website.
Close-In Arlington 3840 N Tazewell St.,
$995,000. Minutes to Chain Bridge. Elegant
townhouse in handsome community. Grand
formal rooms, elevator, 3 fireplaces, 3BR, 2
full and 2 half baths. Lovely patio garden, too.
!
NEW
American Beauty! 5611 Nevada Avenue
NW, $715,000. 1920s 3BR frame Colonial
in move-in condition with brand new
hardwood floors. Minutes to shops, schools,
Metro & parks! Read more on our website.
New Solar Carousel at
the National Zoo
Experience Our New Home on the Web
Desirable Glover Park 2403 Tunlaw Road NW
End-unit townhouse in Glover Park near
Georgetown & Downtown DC. Three levels
with 2+ bedrooms and 2 baths.
The Taylor Agostino Group is pleased to announce our new website—
redesigned with you in mind! Visit our site to browse our latest listings,
keep up on unique activities in your neighborhood, or search through
all active properties on the market. Do all that and more at our new
online hub!
TAYLORAGOSTINO.COM >
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There’s a new “exhibit” at the entrance
to Lion/Tiger Hill at the Smithsonian
National Zoo, with 58 different species of
animals on display under a brightly colored,
open-air pavilion. The hand-carved and
hand-painted carousel animals – divided
into aquatic, forest, grassland, and desert
habitats – are part of the Speedwell
Foundation Conservation Carousel.
“The inspiration behind the carousel was
our conservation efforts,” says the National
Zoo’s Devin Murphy. “Many of the animals
on the carousel are based on photos of
animals that we have at the Zoo and at the
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
in Front Royal, Virginia.”
read more at
tayloragostino.com/blog >
SUCCESS STORY!
Steve Agostino
202.321.5506
Nancy Taylor
202.997.0081
Keene Taylor Jr.
Barnaby Woods 3135 Worthington Street NW
Classic 5 bedroom Colonial in the heart of
Barnaby Woods. A beautifully updated and
expanded home close to Lafayette School
and Broad Branch Market.
Chevy Chase Beekeeper
With city traffic humming in the
background, Milt Shapiro pulls a
honeycomb out of one of his bee hives and
hands it to his 10-year old son, Sam.
202.321.3488
CALL 202.362.0300 OR VISIT TAYLORAGOSTINO.COM
read more at
tayloragostino.com/blog >

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