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18 WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 2007
THE CURRENT
Lifestyles
HOME & GARDEN
Making his own soil is elementary to budding third-grade botanist
This story is part of “C’mon. Let’s
Talk,” a project that takes the author to
events in and around Washington, D.C.
She is ready to listen to people who
want to talk into a tape recorder about
anything they want to talk about. The
project debuted at the 2007 Glover Park
Day.
At first Micah holds back, but
reluctance evaporates when his
thoughts turn to science.
“So far this year I’ve just been
studying electricity and plants and
stuff, and I’m going to make my own
strawberry planting by seed. It should
sprout in about a month or two. The
cool part is that I’m going to make
By JOHNNIE PRATHER
my own soil. I learned in my science
Current Correspondent
class how to make a decomposing
chamber.”
Courtesy of Johnnie Prather
icah Vekstein is a third-grader
A decomposing chamber? I am a
Micah Vekstein taught a reporter
with big things on his mind:
gardener — and have no idea how to
Making his own soil is one of how to make soil from scratch.
make one.
them; how flowers produce seeds is
Micah obliges me.
another. Micah (pronounced Meeka) has curly dark hair,
“I need a piece of paper to draw on.”
an old-fashioned scattering of freckles and eyes as green
I oblige Micah.
as his emerald Sidwell Friends summer camp T-shirt. He
You start with two soda bottles, he says. And he picks
is shy. And he approaches “C’mon. Let’s Talk” only
up a pen to draw a diagram.
because his friend Steve waves him over.
Now comes the best part of this extraordinary
M
See Senior Care in a Whole New Light
encounter. From his perspective, Micah draws the diagram
upside-down to make sure that I, sitting on the other side
of the table, can see the drawing right side up.
Here’s what I learned. You need two large soda bottles,
tape, a pair of scissors and a spray bottle.
Assembly is easy if you follow the diagram — and
remember Micah was drawing it upside-down. And he’s in
the third grade.
First, you cut Bottle A into two unequal parts. The top
part should equal about two-thirds of the whole. That
leaves the bottom as a cuplike container equal to about
one-third of the bottle. Set these two aside.
Then you cut Bottle B around the “shoulders.” Keep
the shorter part that includes the pour spout. Throw away
or recycle the rest.
Next you tape the top part of Bottle B onto the bottom
of the larger portion of Bottle A, with the opening of
Bottle B pointing down. You have created a torpedolike
contraption with an opening at the top and one at the bottom.
See Botanist/Page 31
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y favorite place in
Washington is my old
condo on T Street in
Dupont Circle. I bought it when I
had a fantastic dream job as a staff
writer for an engineering society. It
had beige carpeting and a great
view of the Washington Monument
from a big window, and a beautiful
bathroom that looked like a hotel
bathroom with sponge-painted yellow walls and a fabulous large vanity and sink.
I hung up a Mark Rothko-like
painting of a pink and green square
on the wall, and put my Babar doll
and my Barbie doll on the bookcase
next to sophisticated books that I
never read. George Winston’s
“December” played on my CD
player constantly. I had a leafy
plant that I named Tim Russert. The
condo had a huge closet in which I
stored a huge amount of rumpled
old clothes and ancient papers.
Then I had a huge amount of
problems and lost my dream job,
but an old friend gave me an
immediate job as a receptionist at
his law firm. I was fired on a
Monday, and I started my new job
the next morning, so fortunately I
didn’t have any time to cry.
My condo was my sanctuary
where I would microwave Swedish
meatballs for one every night and
dream about promotion and meeting Mr. Right. My mother bought
me a Mr. Right doll, and if you
squeezed him he said, “You look
great — have you lost weight?” I
hid the doll every night that I had a
date, which wasn’t very often.
Myra, a friend from accounting at
Bill Petros/The Current
Jennie Ganz and her fabulous dream condo
my law firm, would come over a
lot after work and we’d have delivery pizza together in my condo and
eat it on my Scooby Doo plates,
and she would try — unsuccessfully — to convert me to Catholicism.
A year passed, and Myra fixed
me up with a friend of hers named
Ben. She said, “You’re preppy and
Ben’s preppy so you two should
meet.” I was so thrilled that I had
my condo professionally cleaned,
which it desperately needed. Myra
waited with me until Ben arrived,
and he was tall and handsome with
great hair. He was wearing a red
polo shirt and khaki pants and had
perfectly manicured nails. It was
like at first sight!
Ben and I met at my condo constantly, and we went out to a million good restaurants in Dupont
Circle and fortunately he never
looked in my closet. I knew things
were serious when he offered to
pick me up at Dulles and drive me
back to my condo when I flew
home from my younger sister’s
Ph.D. graduation ceremony in
California. No one had ever picked
me up from Dulles before! I was so
happy that I cleaned out my closet!
I got promoted, and we got married a few years later. I had to sell
my condo and move to Ben’s town
house in Alexandria. I found a fabulous Realtor who sold it to an
investor very quickly.
I cried when I moved, because
my condo and I had been through
so much together. I hope that the
new resident looks out the window
at the monument in the night sky
and dreams glorious dreams.
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1789 pastry chef Fabrice Bendano began his career at age 16 in a Cannes restaurant. “I have always been
in this environment,” he says.
Parisian brings classic pastries to 1789
By JULIA WATSON
W
alk down the last block of 36th Street
NW before it reaches Prospect Street
early in the morning and peer into the
big, glass window overlooking the sidewalk a few
doors from 1789 Restaurant’s entrance. You’ll probably see Fabrice Bendano kneading enormous
amounts of dough or working on desserts.
The French pastry chef who has been with 1789
since March makes 38 loaves a day for the
Georgetown restaurant and 15 cheesecakes for the
Old Ebbitt Grill and Clyde’s of Tysons Corner
(owned, like 1789, by Clyde’s Restaurant Group).
Chef Fabrice Bendano shared with The
Current his recipe for Apple Tart with
Sweet Almond Milk. It serves eight to
10.
For the sweet almond milk:
3.5 ounces sugar
7 ounces water
6.5 ounces almond syrup (the Orgeat
brand is available from Whole
Foods)
1 tablespoon kirsch liqueur
Boil water and sugar together over medium heat, stirring frequently until most of
the apple juices have evaporated and
the sauce has thickened to a golden
stickiness. Then add almond syrup.
Remove from heat. Once the mixture is
cold, add kirsch. Place it in the refrigerator.
For the marinated apples:
3.5 ounces Fuji apples, peeled and
sliced
3 ounces sugar
3 ounces butter
That’s before he has even begun creating the pastries and desserts destined for 1789, with names like
Chaud-Froid Pineapple, Raspberry Napoleon and
Golden Chocolate Dome.
Born in Paris, Bendano has always been around
food. “My parents used to have a restaurant in Paris
and also a hotel restaurant in Cannes. I have always
been in this environment.” He began his own career
at 16, at the Hilton hotel in Cannes.
“In the beginning, I wanted to be a chef. But I
went one month for training in a bakery and I fell in
love with pastries.” He throws his head back, closes
his eyes and takes a long sniff. “Aah, the smell! The
creativity!”
See 1789/Page 29
CHEF’S CHOICE
3 ounces crushed walnuts
2 ounces pine nuts
3.5 ounces golden raisins
4 ounces sweet almond milk (recipe
above)
Half a peeled Fuji apple grated on the
large holes of a grater or finely
julienned by hand
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grinder till pulverized)
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 vanilla bean (or 1 teaspoon vanilla
extract)
5 eggs
Place butter in a bowl and add confectionary sugar, then mix it gently. Add
almond powder, eggs, vanilla, flour and
salt and mix gently to form a ball. Cover
the dough and place it in the refrigerator
for one hour.
Melt butter and add apples and sugar.
Cook slowly over medium heat until
apples begin to color lightly and then
remove from the stove. Add pine nuts,
raisins, walnuts and sweet almond milk.
Stir slowly and place in the refrigerator.
It’s best to make this a day in advance.
After an hour, roll out the dough and
place it in a shell and make small punctures all over with a fork. Put it back in
the refrigerator for 30 minutes, then
bake it for eight minutes at 350 degrees
until it is becomes very lightly golden.
For the sweet dough:
16 ounces all-purpose flour
10 ounces butter
7 ounces confectioners’ sugar
2.5 ounces almond powder (available
from Whole Foods or grind 2.5
ounces of almonds in a coffee
Place marinated apples in the shell and
cover it with shredded or julienned
pieces of apples. Bake tart at 300
degrees for 15 minutes. Take it out of
the oven and let it cool down for 30 minutes, then serve it with vanilla ice
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A Look at the Market in Northwest Washington
July 18, 2007
Colonial in Kent offers private garden, sunroom
T
rees and foliage envelop
the leafy back yard of 5136
Macomb St. in Kent, allowing viewers in the house’s sunroom and patio area to enjoy sub-
ON THE MARKET
VICTORIA SOLOMON
urbanlike serenity within the city’s
limits.
The Colonial home, built in
1956, sits on a 7,500-square-foot
lot in a residential neighborhood
off MacArthur Boulevard. Inside,
the main level includes a living
room, dining room, kitchen,
breakfast room and sunroom. The
second floor of the roomy house
has three bedrooms and two bathrooms. More space is easily accessible in the basement’s recreation
room, laundry room, bathroom
and unfinished bedroom.
Dark hardwood floors line
most of the rooms on the main
level of the home with the exception of the kitchen, which has
beige ceramic tile.
In the kitchen is a double oven
mounted on the wall, a door to the
back yard and a bar counter. The
kitchen opens to a second room
that could be a breakfast room and
is next to a hallway powder room.
The spacious living room has
windows overlooking the front
yard and a working fireplace. It
leads into the
separate dining
room, which
has white
French doors
leading out to
the sunroom.
The sunroom, also
known as a
“Florida”
room, fits several pieces of
furniture easily, and it leads
out to a patio
area of gray
slate. Panel
windows line
the sunroom,
with views to
the surrounding trees and greenery.
Also in the back yard is a stairway that leads down into the basement’s laundry or mudroom,
which houses a washer and dryer,
a sink, shelves and a bathroom
with standing shower.
Off the mudroom are an unfinished bedroom and the main recreation room, which is lined with
durable, beige carpet. The room
has a working fireplace, a large
closet with shelves, and an interior
stairway leading to the upstairs
entryway.
The second floor of the home is
accessible from a split-level stair-
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This Colonial just off MacArthur Boulevard in Kent is
priced at $1,450,000. Features include a sunroom that
looks onto a leafy back yard.
case with two landings.
At the top of the stairs to the
left is the master bedroom. It has a
large closet area with sliding doors
as well as two closets on the opposite side of the room. Four square,
evenly spaced windows line one
wall of the bedroom, overlooking
the front yard, and a full, private
bathroom detailed with light- and
dark-blue tiles is connected.
The second floor includes two
other bedrooms. Both have two
windows and a closet, with the
windows in the second overlooking the sunroom and back yard.
One entire wall of this bedroom is
covered with floor-to-ceiling
shelving.
In the hallway are a linen closet, a hanging closet and a full
bathroom with rose-colored tile.
This house at 5136 Macomb St.
in Kent is listed at $1,450,000
with W.C. & A.N. Miller Realtors,
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These sales are among those recorded from March 19 through 30 by the D.C.
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SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES
4525 Arkansas Ave. in 16th Street
Heights. Sold to Adalberto Rubio for
$585,000.
n 1642 Avon Place in Georgetown. Sold
to Elizabeth Shriver for $2,750,000.
n 2218 Cathedral Ave. in Woodley Park.
Sold to Thomas M. Cutler Jr. for
$1,000,000.
n 4612 Charleston Terrace in Berkeley.
Sold to Marwan Muasher for
$1,800,000.
n 5729 Colorado Ave. in 16th Street
Heights. Sold to Sybil J. Lewis for
$552,318.
n 1317 Emerson St. in 16th Street
Heights. Sold to Christopher L. Williams
for $589,000.
n 1330 Farragut St. in 16th Street
Heights. Sold to Ismael Diaz for
$320,000.
n 3902 Georgetown Court in Hillandale.
Sold to Dale R. Meers for $1,350,000.
n 3932 Georgetown Court in Hillandale.
Sold to Clive A. Armstrong for
$1,037,500.
n 1230 Hamilton St. in 16th Street
Heights. Sold to Oscar Segovia for
$500,000.
n 3708 Harrison St. in Chevy Chase.
Sold to Leila M. Baheri for $939,000.
n 2101 Huidekoper Place in Glover Park.
Sold to Andre L. Le Sage for $820,000.
n 2400 I St. in Foggy Bottom. Sold to Will
Lansing for $340,000.
n 2356 Massachusetts Ave. in SheridanKalorama. Sold to Michael J. Rider for
$1,875,000.
n 5259 Nebraska Ave. in Chevy Chase.
Sold to Vincent W. Bartozzi for
$500,000.
n 5308 Nevada Ave. in Chevy Chase.
Sold to David Maudlin for $615,000.
n 4517 River Road in American University
Park. Sold to Tegist A. Telahun for
$829,000.
n
JUST SOLD
4305 Reno Road in North Cleveland
Park. Sold to Daniel A. Schaffer for
$793,000.
n 5019 Sedgwick St. in Spring Valley.
Sold to John D. Graubert for $3,495,000.
n 516 Somerset Place in Brightwood.
Sold to Mafara Hobson for $395,000.
n 5135 Tilden St. in Spring Valley. Sold
to Lawrence C. Grossman for
$2,500,000.
n 2030 Tunlaw Road in Glover Park. Sold
to Nathan A. Scott for $615,000.
n 2545 Waterside Drive in SheridanKalorama. Sold to Christopher L.
Helminisk for $775,000.
n 4428 Westover Place in Wesley
Heights. Sold to Ruxandra Burdescu for
$830,000.
n 2216 Wyoming Ave. in SheridanKalorama. Sold to James M. McCann for
$2,725,000.
n 2308 Wyoming Ave. in SheridanKalorama. Sold to Daniel M. Zelikow for
$3,550,000.
n 6910 8th St. in Brightwood. Sold to
Alyssa J. Denzer for $550,000.
n 7419 12th St. in Shepherd Park. Sold
to Yohannes Abebe for $550,000.
n 1525 26th St. in Georgetown. Sold to
Ian Lesser for $650,000.
n 2934 28th St. in Woodley Park. Sold to
Don M. Blandin for $1,150,000.
n 1661 32nd St. in Georgetown. Sold
John Mahieux for $855,000.
n 1802 35th St. in Burleith. Sold to Paul
B. Bonner for $866,500.
n 4204 38th St. in North Cleveland Park.
Sold to Matthew Berman for $730,000.
n 2326 39th St. in Glover Park. Sold to
Shanthi A. Kalathil for $736,000.
n 4824 41st St. in Tenleytown. Sold to
Jelena Spasojevic for $605,000.
n 4825 41st St. in Tenleytown. Sold to
Joshua D. Mahan for $490,000.
n 4420 44th St. in American University
Park. Sold to Rochelle E. Rubin for
$801,000.
n 4234 47th St. in American University
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Park. Sold to Cynthia A. Metzler for
$795,000.
CONDOS
1812 Calvert St. Unit A in Adams
Morgan. Sold to Blair T. Naifeh for
$625,000.
n 3701 Connecticut Ave. Unit 609 in
Forest Hills. Sold to Taniya Nayak for
$257,000.
Forest Hills. Sold to Ross M. Fasano for
$495,000.
Forest Hills. Sold to Myron Lieberman for
$385,330.
Forest Hills. Sold to Shannon Yu for
$365,000.
Forest Hills. Sold to Michael Lanzara for
$390,000.
n 2737 Devonshire Place Unit 527 in
Woodley Park. Sold to Kimberly Y. Nash
for $295,500.
n 2425 L St. Unit 624 in the West End.
Sold to Christopher T. Goodwin for
$655,000.
n 4200 Massachusetts Ave. Unit 715 in
Wesley Heights. Sold to David E. Rust for
$750,000.
n 2119 N St. Unit 6 in Dupont Circle. Sold
to Patrick R Davis for $324,000.
n 1330 New Hampshire Ave. Unit 313 in
Dupont Circle. Sold to Ron G. Schonberger
for $390,000.
n 3033 New Mexico Ave. Unit 303 in
Wesley Heights. Sold to Ingrid M.
Molander for $325,000.
n 3101 New Mexico Ave. Unit 808 in
Wesley Heights. Sold to Francisco A.
Gazek for $562,500.
n 2007 O St. Unit 404 in Dupont Circle.
Sold to Sarah E. Lowery for $377,500.
n 2718 Ordway St. Unit 39 in Cleveland
Park. Sold to Wendy E. Castro for
$327,000.
n 2141 P St. Unit 805 in Dupont Circle.
Sold to Deborah Schreiber for $385,000.
n 3880 Porter St. Unit 349 in Cleveland
Park. Sold to Raymound J. Howas Jr. for
$434,000.
n 3251 Prospect St. Unit 415 in
Georgetown. Sold to Janet Donovan for
$669,000.
n 2500 Q St. Unit 236 in Georgetown.
Sold to Jennifer R. Stanley for $395,000.
n 3024 R St. Unit 3 in Georgetown. Sold
to David T. Flournoy for $640,000.
n 2107 S St. Unit C in Sheridan-Kalorama.
Sold to David S. Ligon-Miller for
$462,650.
n 1 Scott Circle Unit 9 in Dupont Circle.
Sold to Dhiraj Waidande for $258,000.
n 1822 T St. Unit 1 in Dupont Circle. Sold
to Christopher E. Macks for $435,000.
n 1811 Vernon St. Unit 202 in Adams
Morgan. Sold to Robert W. Chamberlain Jr.
for $355,000.
n 2111 Wisconsin Ave. Unit 202 in Glover
Park. Sold to Ashok Kumar for $345,000.
n 1115 12th St. Unit 203 in Logan Circle.
Sold to Lindsey E. Mask for $208,000.
n 1115 12th St. Unit 701 in Logan Circle.
Sold to Christopher H. Van Dyke for
$340,000.
n 1916 17th St. Unit 509 in Dupont
Circle. Sold to Andre M. Mura for
$398,900.
n 1077 30th St. Unit 410 in Georgetown.
Sold to Michael T. Flanigon for $760,000.
n 3760 39th St. Unit 144 in Cleveland
Park. Sold to Debprasad Dasgupta for
$485,000.
n 2325 42nd St. Unit 403 in Glover Park.
Sold to Guy Williams for $315,000.
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FRINGE
From Page 17
that, she based about 90 percent of
the main characters’ experiences on
real people she has read about in
her research on abortion.
“The characters are a collage of
true experiences,” she said. “Their
dreams are real.”
Long said she also hopes that
the audience will identify with the
characters and that every woman
will find something to relate to.
It is clear Long has sympathy
with women who face unwanted
pregnancies. She said they have
lost their freedom: They can have
the baby and keep it, have the
baby and give it up for adoption,
or have an abortion. “None of
these choices are absolutely free,”
she said.
While she sees the play as dramatic — “Every scene has a surprise,” she said — its purpose is to
do more than entertain. “My goal is
to have it healing people,” she said.
She also wants the play to help
debunk some of what she calls the
myths of abortion, namely, that
most women who have abortions
do not use birth control, that married women do not have abortions,
and that women with children do
not have abortions.
Despite her efforts to avoid
broaching the politics of abortion,
it is hard to imagine a play that can
approach the third-rail subject
without attracting some controver-
sy.
In fact, the three main characters are introduced as they simultaneously receive abortions — in the
first scene. Long’s approach to the
subject is not for the faint-hearted,
but it is calculated to grab audiences from the opening curtain.
The road to this festival and to
the play’s opening has been circuitous for Long. She wrote it for a
competition, the winners of which
were to be part of a festival in New
York last year. But when she won,
she found that she didn’t know
much about producing a play, and
she decided to spend some time
developing the script with a professional director before staging it.
Like Long, the Capital Fringe
Festival itself does not shy away
from controversy. During the 11day series of events, which will
start tomorrow and run through
July 29, eight plays and solo acts
out of over 100 approach the issues
of the modern Middle East. There
is also a play called “Feminazi.”
This is the second year for the
Fringe Festival, which will include
more than 500 performances. Most
of the venues will be near the
Washington Convention Center or
around the Gallery PlaceChinatown Metro.
Starting July 25 at 8 p.m.,
“One in Two” will be performed
at the Atlas Performing Arts
Center, 1333 H St. NE. Tickets
cost $15. Details on this and
other Capital Fringe Festival
plays are at capfringe.org.
PLAYWRIGHT
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into fashion trends without knowing why I wear
spandex.”
Although her play ends in revolt, she says the
goal is not necessarily to reject trends, but to question and understand them. “There’s nothing wrong
with doing [what others do] as long as you are
aware of why you’re doing it.”
Because she first laid out her vision on paper,
Rothfeld was fascinated to see it transformed into a
live production. “Some lines are too long, and too
short, and the dialogue is off, and I wonder how that
sounds when people say it.”
Rothfeld ended up changing some of her dialogue to make it work better in the theater, and she
was also surprised by some aspects of Forman’s
staging, in which the director imagined the characters as soldiers in “Mother Goose’s army.”
“She modeled it as more militant than I’d imagined it, and I thought that was an interesting take on
it,” Rothfeld said.
Forman said Rothfeld did a great job of listening to
suggestions and adapting the play. “She took [our] criticism to heart without changing the spirit,” she said.
“Hey, Diddle Diddle” was not Rothfeld’s only
play to have been honored in Arena’s contest, and it
was not the only one she wrote to end in rebellion.
“That’s probably because I’m like 15, [a] ‘Catcher
in the Rye’-reading adolescent,” she said.
In “A Proper Lady’s Guide to Manners,” the
characters revolt not against the authority of another
character, but against that of the playwright who
determines their actions. It was among 20 plays that
received an honorable mention (Rothfeld was the
only double winner) and were performed in a stage
reading with professional actors.
Short stories and plays are not all that Rothfeld
writes. She entered her first poetry contest, the
Parkmont Poetry Festival, in the spring, and was
one of 25 winners. Does she want to be a writer?
“That’s all I actually want to be, and that’s all I ever
wanted to be,” she said.
For now, Rothfeld is also a debater. A member of
Georgetown Day School’s debate team, she is using
her Arena Stage prize money to hone her skills at a
policy debate camp at Stanford University this summer. “A lot of things that in life are sort of burdens
are good in debate,” she said. “In life, I talk quickly
... in debate that’s a good thing.”
Although she put the $2,500 to good use,
Rothfeld says the best part of her Arena Stage experience was “just that it was a very interesting
process.”
“I’m lucky and I’m grateful that I got to experience that,” she said.
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utilize all the tools available, including subpoena powers, to ensure their
participation.”
Last week, the council confirmed Allen Lew to head Mayor
Adrian Fenty’s school modernization plan, and in an interview
Monday, Ward 3 Council member
Mary Cheh said Fenty plans to
grant Lew authority over a longdelayed project to reconstruct the
public indoor pool at Wilson as
well.
Fenty nominated Lew in light
of his success in directing the construction of the Washington
Convention Center, which opened
on time in 2003. Lew was working
on the Nationals’ new baseball stadium before his reassignment.
During the roundtable, Cheh
asked that the Department of
Parks and Recreation not hire the
Temple Group, which participants
said has been involved with a
number of delayed or faulty projects, for any future construction or
maintenance projects.
Many of Thursday’s questions
were directed at Wanda Durden,
interim director of the Department
of Parks and Recreation and the
only city official to testify. Cheh
said her position “gives new
meaning to the term ‘hot seat.’”
“I’m sorry you’re in the seat,
but I’m entirely frustrated by how
things have gone,” said Cheh.
Along with the pool at Wilson,
much discussion centered on the
nearby athletic fields at Fort Reno
Park. Both sites are administered
by the Department of Parks and
Recreation and are open to the
public as well as students at the
school.
Henry Champ, a representative
of Friends of Fort Reno Athletic
Fields, criticized what he called
the parks department’s “abysmal”
performance in renovating the
fields.
The National Capital Planning
Commission approved the Fort
Reno project nearly a year ago, but
❝You have to plan for
ordinary maintenance
like you would change
the oil in your car.❞
—Council member Mary Cheh
the department has not yet hired a
contractor.
“It’s now a case of driving the
first nail,” Champ said, describing
the process as prevented by
“choked bureaucracy.”
In terms of the pool, which
closed in 2003 after a wall began
to crumble and requires demolition
before rebuilding, Cheh said she
has attempted since she took office
in January to initiate demolition.
But six months later, the department has not hired a contractor and
cannot finish the job before school
reconvenes in the fall, she said.
Attendees also criticized the
Department of Parks and
Recreation for failing to fix a leak
that preceded the pool wall’s partial collapse.
Albert Pope, a contractor who
has worked on capital projects
with the city government, testified
that agencies often overlook basic
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to its collapse.
“Somebody, somebody along
the line should be fired,” Cheh said
of the lack of attention to the leak.
Cheh further criticized the
department for what she said is a
lack of attention to maintenance,
calling its system “reactive” rather
than “proactive” and preventative.
“You have to plan for ordinary
maintenance like you would
change the oil in your car,” she
said. “You don’t wait until somebody calls and says, ‘The oil has
leaked out and the engine has
ceased.’ I think we could use some
oil over here.”
Durden attributed some of the
delays to an overworked staff, saying she needs a new capital projects chief, two additional project
managers and an additional community planner.
Both Thomas and Cheh were
sympathetic to the department’s
staffing needs, saying they would
ensure that necessary personnel are
hired. But they also pointed to
problems that go beyond staffing
shortages.
In response to Durden’s explanation that some problems “fall
through the cracks” because project managers have too much to
juggle, Cheh criticized the Wilson
pool project as inexcusably late.
With the demolition planned since
January, Cheh said, “that gets you
to February, it maybe gets you to
March. But it doesn’t get you to
July.”
Thomas said a lack of citywide
plans for public facilities is problematic. He pointed to two city
pools — in Takoma and Brookland
— saying they have very different
systems, so the same maintenance
personnel cannot work on both.
“We need some basic plans” for
these type of projects, he said.
Council members also talked
about contractual and maintenance problems. Ward 1’s Jim
Graham said the Temple Group, a
program and construction management service, installed a shower system and an irrigation system
at the recently constructed
Columbia Heights Youth Center
but the shower is now broken and
the irrigation device was never
activated.
Temple is also working at the
Chevy Chase Community Center,
which Cheh said was plagued by
leaks until a recent intervention by
the mayor. And the company is
working on renovations at
Banneker Recreation Center,
which Graham said is far behind
schedule.
Temple is under contract to
refurbish Hearst Recreation
Center’s playground as well.
Cheh asked Durden to ensure
that Temple will not be hired for
further projects, and Durden said
she will report the request to the
city administrator.
Thomas said his committee
will hold a second roundtable on
capital projects in September.
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ratism of D.C. Public Library land.”
“The developers are out of control,” he said. “The only thing left
for developers to do is to acquire
and develop the D.C. city council.”
“They already have!” one audience member shouted.
Many have challenged in particular the council’s use of emergency
legislation, which moves at a fast
pace through the council and does
not require a public hearing.
Council members justified the
legislation’s emergency status due
to a looming legal deadline for the
Tiverton apartment building, locat-
ed near the library on Square 37.
Under District tenant laws,
Tiverton residents have first right of
refusal to purchase their building —
a right that will expire in September,
before the council meets again.
“These are time-sensitive projects,” said Ward 2 Council member
Jack Evans in an interview. “You
just can’t take the summer off on
these deals.”
The Tiverton tenants association
has agreed to enter talks with
EastBanc about the building’s
future, but the legal formality of
these discussions is uncertain.
EastBanc founder Anthony
Lanier, in his July 3 testimony, said
the Tiverton had selected his development company “to exclusively
negotiate ... a redevelopment agreement with them and include their
building in our [planned-unit development] plans.”
Mike Malloy, president of the
Tiverton tenants association, said
the arrangement with EastBanc is
not an official or binding contract.
Deborah Akel, a 15-year resident
of the Tiverton, said the Tiverton’s
relationship with EastBanc has been
misrepresented and misunderstood,
with the company falsely cast as the
building’s sole chance at survival.
The discussion she heard in the
council session “implies that
Anthony Lanier is the only one that
could rescue us,” said Akel.
In an interview, at-large Council
member Carol Schwartz said she
would have voted against the legislation “had it not been for the compelling argument” of the Tiverton
situation.
The Tiverton’s deadline did not
persuade at-large Council member
Phil Mendelson to support the legislation. Mendelson, in an interview,
stressed the need for competitive
bidding when dealing with the
District’s land.
“How do we know that this proposal is the best proposal?” he
asked. “This is a big deal. There are
significant city assets involved.”
Mendelson also criticized the
haste of the legislative process, saying Mayor Adrian Fenty “was
wrong” in asking the council to
adopt the resolution among “a
dozen other” emergency bills he
requested.
Schwartz, chair of the council’s
government operations committee,
said she learned of the emergency
legislation on the afternoon of June
29, a Friday, and the next Monday
Tutt, Taylor
& Rankin
quickly scraped together a public
roundtable session with at-large
Council member Kwame Brown,
head of the economic development
committee.
Critics have pointed out that the
council did not provide adequate
notice for the roundtable session and
missed an opportunity for community input. According to Schwartz,
no one at the roundtable session
spoke out against EastBanc’s project.
In last week’s legislative session,
Schwartz said, “There’s no reason
why [the legislation] couldn’t have
come to us a few months ago so we
could have had a real public hearing
... and done this in a more responsible, responsive way.”
According to Joe Sternlieb,
EastBanc’s vice president of acquisitions, the project is not moving
forward as quickly as many believe.
At a discussion with members of
the Friends of the West End Library
following the rally, Sternlieb said
EastBanc has held “about a dozen
meetings” with affected community
groups as well as “about 15 meetings with city officials.”
“For many people, this is no surprise at all,” Sternlieb said of the
project. “And for others, who heard
about it the first time when the city
acted ... this is very much a surprise,
and we understand.”
Sternlieb also emphasized that
the emergency vote is just the first
step of extensive legal procedures
involving community input.
Dupont Circle resident Raltson
Cox challenged Sternlieb, saying
the process felt “upside down” to
him, with the community forced
into a supplicant position.
Sternlieb stressed that “EastBanc
has no interest in being secretive
about this” and said the company
had not learned of plans for emergency legislation until about two
weeks before.
“If indeed EastBanc does not
want to be secretive, then I take that
to mean EastBanc is for good government,” said activist Dave Mallof,
who suggested that EastBanc
denounce the legislation through a
letter. Sternlieb said he would discuss the idea with other parties.
The legislation has also inspired
some accusations of cronyism.
Some have said, for example, that
Sternlieb’s marriage to D.C.
Attorney General Linda Singer
presents a conflict of interest. And
Nader, at the rally, called for the resignation of John Hill as president of
the D.C. Board of Library Trustees,
citing conflicting duties as chief
executive officer of the Federal City
Council.
Others have cast the land sale as
a sweetheart deal between Evans
and Lanier.
Evans rebuffed the criticism, noting that the legislation calls for an
independent appraisal to establish
the fair market value. He also noted
the project includes substantial public amenities, including a brand-new
library, and cited Lanier’s record of
improving Georgetown and the
West End.
“I, for one, would rather have
Anthony and EastBanc, who I
know, than to have someone I don’t
know,” Evans said in an interview,
pointing out that “Anthony’s done
such good work in the neighborhood.”
EastBanc has carved a foothold
in the area over the past two
decades, with major projects including the Cady’s Alley retail strip off
M Street in Georgetown and the
Ritz-Carlton hotel and luxury condominiums on 22nd Street in the
West End. The company has developed over 1 million square feet of
property in the West End, according
to Lanier’s testimony.
Both Lanier and Evans plan to
speak with the public at tonight’s
meeting of the Foggy Bottom-West
End advisory neighborhood commission at the State Plaza Hotel,
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In 1992, he earned his C.A.P.
de Patisserie, the vocational certificate necessary to practice his
skill in France and the result of a
two-year course. Drafted next
into the French military, he was
directed to the officers dining
room at Draguignan barracks to
make their desserts.
Eventually released to pursue
his career, he worked at La Bella
Otero at the top of the
InterContinental Carlton Cannes
before deciding to move
to Paris.
There he progressed to the
internationally renowned
Taillevent,
which he
described as,
“very intense,
very stressful.
I start at 7:30,
don’t leave till midnight,” he says
in his seductive French burr.
There was even more stress
under Alain Ducasse at Le Louis
XV in Monaco, a Michelin threestar restaurant. He, too, was “very
intense, very precise on quality
— and time and creation. He is
the one who checked what we
create.”
He found it not much different
from working for a corporate
chef, so he took himself off to
London, where a friend had
found him a job as a kosher pastry chef. Bendano marvels at the
regulations.
“Butter is not allowed, only
margarine. No milk from the cow.
No cream, just palm cream. The
only way to use it, you have to
add one-third water. The rabbi
used to come over in the morning
to switch on the oven. We had to
adapt recipes. No white chocolate. You can use a substitute
made of rice, but it doesn’t taste
that well. There is a big difference” — Bendano’s eyes stretch
wide in emphasis — “between
cow and vegetable. But it gives
me a knowledge if I have to do
kosher catering.”
Then followed a position at
the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park
hotel in
London.
When it
closed for a
year for renovation, a
friend put him
in touch with
the chef at
Washington’s
Les Halles. So
in 1999, he
found himself
in the U.S. capital.
Next came a stint with fellow
Frenchman Michel Richard at
Citronelle, an interesting and
valuable experience, Bendano
says. “You work with different
pastry chefs, you are given different techniques. When you
become a pastry chef, from these
techniques you combine and create your own technique. The first
time you make something, with
every step you create a different
way to work, different habits.”
But both Frenchmen had the
same approach to their work. “I
like to be in charge. He also likes
to be in charge,” says Bendano.
So with his craft now finely
honed, he moved on to 1789
Restaurant, where he is in charge
of a team of six creating desserts
and pastries. He acknowledges
himself as a taskmaster.
“I am kind of strict. I say,
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way it is going to be unless you
can show me better.’”
He likes to create contemporary desserts — but not so deconstructed that their origins are lost,
in the new way of molecular gastronomy. “That’s not me. I like to
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His Raspberry Napoleon is a
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Army officials, who said they
have sampled most properties in the
area, told a resident who lives across
the street from the site that they do
not believe there are munitions on
the west side of Glenbrook Road.
The Army plans to build a modular aluminum containment structure on top of the pit and a vapor
containment structure to control any
release of chemical material, officials said. Construction of the safety
devices will begin in the next two to
three weeks. The entire excavation
process should last about 14 weeks
plus time for site restoration.
The excavation was supposed to
begin this summer but was delayed
so that the Army and American
University could finalize the details
of the cleanup on the university’s
property, according to Gary
Schilling, the Army Corps’ Spring
Valley Project manager.
The munitions excavation has a
shelter-in-place protocol for precautionary measures, though the release
of a chemical “is very remote,”
according to the Army. The steps
involve going or staying indoors,
sealing air paths, shutting off all
ventilation systems and remaining
in place until the Army gives an
“all-clear” signal.
Safety measures for the containment structure are also tight because
there is a high likelihood of finding
munitions, and include measures
such as back-up generators.
Thursday’s community meeting,
held on a temperate evening in
D.C.’s prime vacation season,
brought out only a handful of residents, two of whom are advisory
neighborhood commissioners.
Commissioner Nan Wells urged
the Army officials to meet with the
community again this fall before
excavating 4825 Glenbrook.
An Army spokesperson said the
corps would schedule a second
meeting for the fall.
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Robinson said multiple agencies
— including the D.C. Water and
Sewer Authority — are involved in
the permitting process. During the
most recent delay, Bloom complained that he had to pay twice to
document the condition of an underground sewer pipe because officials
lost the initial videotape.
Waiting for permission to build
did more than frustrate Bloom; it
cost him a lot of money, too, according to Stella Kestell, Bloom’s direc-
tor of operations. Because of the
delays, the project’s cost increased
from an estimated range of $2 million to $3 million to a likely $3 million to $4 million, Kestell said in a
previous interview.
Bloom’s good will with the community also took a hit. Community
support was at a high when Bloom
purchased the property and promised to revive the market, but it had
dwindled of late as rumors surfaced
that Bloom was planning to sell.
But on Saturday the mood was
celebratory. More than two-dozen
people turned out to cheer the market’s impending return.
STREETS
From Page 1
of the White House was closed to cars after the 1995
Oklahoma City bombing. E Street south of the White
House was also closed briefly, reopened and then closed
permanently after Sept. 11, 2001.
In 2003, Congress appropriated funds to study traffic
problems in the immediate vicinity of the White House
and ways to alleviate congestion resulting from the
street closures. The study is finally swinging into full
gear.
But the task force, which includes officials from the
National Park Service, Secret Service, Washington
Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and city transportation and planning departments, clearly has a long way to
go to agree on solutions.
Many of the options now on the table would require
multiple reviews by the agencies that guard historic
buildings, federal parks and monuments and the environment. Costs have not yet been calculated.
Mark Kehrli, D.C. Division administrator of the
Federal Highway Administration, told the commission
the task force is still evaluating the impact of the street
closures — where the cars went, for example, and
whether some people simply decided not to drive downtown.
“We still don’t know the degree of the problem,”
Kehrli said. “Has it gone to other modes [of transportation], other streets? Is it well-absorbed?” The task force
must also evaluate the impact of any changes it proposes not just on traffic, but also on business, security, even
the president’s inaugural route, he said.
Even on the basic issue — the impact of the street
closures — there was dissension.
Mike McGill, a General Services Administration
official who serves on the planning commission, said a
group that studied the initial closure of Pennsylvania
Avenue “concluded that there was not that much impact,
that we only needed to adjust traffic signals.”
“Is there a congestion problem?” McGill asked. “If
there’s no major impact, then the rest of this study is
unnecessary.”
But Rob Miller, who represents the D.C. Council,
sharply rebuked him, citing estimates that Pennsylvania
Avenue carried 29,000 cars a day before the closure and
E Street, 13,000. “Those cars went somewhere, Mr.
McGill,” he said. Miller said he was late for the meeting
in part because he sat in stalled traffic near the White
“It’s long overdue and greatly
anticipated,” said neighborhood
commissioner Samantha Nolan. “I
come from a family of mom and
pop markets. And I like the idea of
having that back in our neighborhood.”
Perhaps the only group involved
not greatly inconvenienced by the
delays was Wonders Day Care,
which will operate out of the renovated market’s second floor. Eric
Fedowitz, chair of the day care’s
board, said the timing worked well
because Wonders’ lease at the All
Saints Church on Chevy Chase
Circle will expire in 2009.
House.
William Dowd of the commission’s staff noted there
were no “before studies” when Pennsylvania Avenue
was abruptly closed. But, he emphasized, “there was
significant traffic, clearly rerouted.” From Constitution
Avenue up to H Street, no crosstown route is open, he
said. “That obviously disjoints east-west travel.”
As to solutions, the task force is looking at seven
options, including their costs and impacts. The options
are:
• reopen E Street to traffic;
• depress E Street slightly south of the White House,
then covering it over with a turfed “park deck” that
would make it look like an extension of the Ellipse;
• build a short tunnel for E Street, with entries perhaps
at 15th and 17th streets;
• build a long tunnel for E Street, with entries as far
away as 18th Street or 19th Street in the west and 13th
Street or 14th Street in the east;
• build a tunnel for Pennsylvania Avenue north of the
White House;
• create new street configurations, including the city’s
request to study conversion of one-way streets back to
two-way, and possibly open up some short blocks that
are now closed near the old convention center; and
• do nothing.
Kehrli noted the task force also must take into
account changes that have occurred downtown since the
major street closures — the circulator buses, use of carsharing services and better rush-hour traffic enforcement.
The task force will continue analyzing its options and
plans a final report by the year’s end, Kehrli said.
On the local level, Transportation Department
spokesperson Karyn LeBlanc said city transportation
planners asked that the possible conversion of some
one-way streets downtown to two-way be included in
the larger analysis. She emphasized that no decisions
have been made and that the District Department of
Transportation has not yet received any results from the
White House area study.
But Harriet Tregoning, the city’s planning director,
applauded the idea. Tregoning said converting one-way
streets to two-way is “a principle of good urbanism.”
One-way streets date to an era when officials were
just trying to get commuters through downtown,
Tregoning said in a brief interview. Two-way streets create better traffic flow and encourage retail activity
because it is easier to access businesses on both sides of
the street, she said.
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CHANGE
From Page 17
or “Do you find it unusual that
William D. would have a birthday party for his car?” No. They
said things like, “That sounds
perfect, and how old is the car?”
or “I’d love to come, but I have
to be home by 6.” (William D.’s
car is a light-blue Willys Jeep
that has been tootling around the
beach for longer than many of us,
and apparently it is turning 47
this afternoon. I am skipping the
party to write this column, but
my friend Julie is escorting her
mother-in-law — who knew
William D.’s mother when they
were girls — and taking RustOleum as a gift.)
My own parents, who consider
themselves impervious to external influences, are among the
most tradition-bound. By assiduously shunning for decades any
gesture or activity that might suggest friendship or a social life,
they have earned renown, my
mother for her reclusiveness and
my father for his independent
ways and temper. (Imagine Emily
Dickinson married to Christopher
Walken.) When my sisters and I
were young, rumors swirled
about us of which we were
unaware until years later: that the
whole family slept in one room,
that we had no phone, that we
subsisted exclusively on bluefish
(this latter part was true).
Things haven’t changed much;
there are ways to do things and
ways not to do things. Yesterday I
borrowed my father’s boat carrier
to get my Sunfish down to the
water. Envision a rolling rack with
a 200-pound boat on it, deck side
down, and me pulling the squeaky
contraption down a sandy road in
my bathing suit and flip-flops. As I
set out, I sense that something is
amiss. My 78-year-old father is
standing in the driveway with that
special glowering look on his face
— I don’t even have to see it; I can
feel it burning like a brand into my
back.
What’s the problem? It turns
out you are supposed to push the
boat carrier, not pull the boat carrier. Why? Because that’s the
way we’ve always done it.
When I walk along our beach
on Sunday, I see the following: 1)
The three sisters who are still as
trim and fit as they were when they
graduated Hotchkiss in the late
1940s (one was captain of the field
hockey team). Unfortunately, not
being the brother, they didn’t inherit the “big house” and are forced to
share the “cottage,” but they have
kept stiff upper lips and made the
best of it for decades; 2) Beverly
and Gavin in their folding chairs,
she in her bathing cap. Like
Victoria and Albert, they set the
social tone and have married off
BOTANIST
From Page 18
Fill the contraption about three-fourths full with
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You can then plant seeds — strawberries, per-
their five children strategically, so
that half the under-15 set on the
entire beach calls them Grandma
and Grandpa; 3) Fred Stanley, who
weekdays keeps an eye on beachbound foot traffic from his kitchen
table and runs out at lunchtime to
barter tomatoes for quahogs, which
he eats on the half shell and chases
with vodka for the rest of the afternoon. If I stop to chat with any of
them, we might speak in present
tense about Carr Tucker, who died
in 1973 and loved Fresca, or how
you used to be able to get to the
Point on the inside channel (but not
since 1987). The history of this
community stretches backward into
the mists that rise from the clam
flats, and its future is certain to
bring more of the same. It is soothing, lulling, perhaps a bit boring.
On Nantucket, I hear, neighbors are preparing to spend $25
million to pump 2.6 million cubic
feet of material from the ocean
floor onto the eroding beach in
Siasconset, in an effort to make
sure the village doesn’t wash
away. They want to keep things
the same as ever. Understandable,
but expensive slurried sand won’t
do it. It’s making sure that you
never fail to have the argument
about wet potato salad versus dry
potato salad at the annual neighborhood association picnic that
does it. In other words, less about
money and more about mayonnaise. That’s the tie that binds.
haps, like Micah is doing, or a vegetable would be
nice, or maybe you’d prefer to plant flowers.
In that case, Micah has additional insights about
nature.
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he asks.
“I know something about flowers, but tell me
what you know.”
“The boy parts of the flower make the pollen,”
he explains. “And the bees buzzing around carry the
pollen to the girl parts. I don’t know if you noticed,
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process now under way, is “no
action.” That would simply continue current plans to rebuild or renew
some exhibits, including a new “elephant trail” that is already under
way.
Attention so far has focused on
the novel idea of building an aerial
tramway to get visitors up the long
hill from the Zoo’s Adams Morgan
site to Connecticut Avenue, a trek
officials note is equivalent to climbing a 14- to 16-story building.
But the neighborhood commissioners were more concerned about
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details that affect traffic and parking.
Tim Buehner, the Zoo’s design
manager, said both options include
new traffic circles inside the eastern
and western entrances of the Zoo.
The turnarounds would allow Zoo
staffers to stop cars when the Zoo’s
parking lots are full and redirect
them to available parking outside
the Zoo, he said, ending the traffic
jams that clog Connecticut Avenue
on some busy weekend days.
The turnarounds might also
make it easier to run shuttle buses
from the Cleveland Park and
Woodley Park Metro stations, an
option that could persuade some
Zoo patrons to leave their cars at
home. The shuttles could drop off
and pick up patrons at the traffic circles, Buehner said.
But the most dramatic proposal,
part of Alternative A, is for a sixlevel parking structure on what is
now Parking Lot C, about midway
down the slope between the
Connecticut Avenue and Harvard
Street entrances to the Zoo. Patrons
would cross over North Road on a
raised bridge, where they would
find an entry pavilion and plaza with
visitor services, including information kiosks, restrooms and food.
The parking structure would
allow the Zoo to “reclaim” land at
some of its other lots. Lot B near the
elephant house would become
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exhibit space, for example, and Lot
D at the bottom of the Zoo would be
turned into a “wetland education
area” more germane to the Zoo’s
mission than warehousing cars.
Still, this alternative would raise
the total number of parking spaces
at the Zoo from 868 to 1,426. “That
takes care of 95 percent of our
demand,” Buehner said, adding that
the new structure could also accommodate the many tourist and school
buses that visit the Zoo.
The idea had the neighborhood
commission salivating. George
Idelson, president of the Cleveland
Park Citizens Association, noted the
severe parking shortage in both
Cleveland and Woodley Park. “You
are creating a huge parking asset,”
he said, wondering if the new structure could be used for other purposes, such as nighttime parking when
the Zoo is closed.
Another resident suggested making valet parking available in the
new structure to serve patrons of the
many restaurants and bars who clog
Connecticut Avenue now. “We have
a staggering number of people out
on [the streets],” he said, referring
both to the crowds and the number
of intoxicated patrons. “Do the community a favor and suck those people into your garage.”
Buehner said Zoo officials had
not yet studied outside use of the
garage. “We’re not looking to
replace all the parking in Cleveland
Park,” he said. “We’re just trying to
pull our [parking] problem out of
Cleveland Park.” But he and BakerMasson said they were willing to
consider the idea.
Alternative B includes a new
200-space underground lot near
Connecticut Avenue instead. But by
closing some other lots it would
shrink the total number of spaces at
the Zoo from 868 to 648. That
seemed to be a non-starter for the
neighborhood representatives.
Buehner said the concept is that
limiting parking spaces would
encourage more patrons to use public transportation, but he acknowledged that might not work.
Baker-Masson said initial feedback from the mostly local membership of the Friends of the
National Zoo is “if we eliminate
parking, FONZ members will just
go into the neighborhood.” Tourists
from outside the area can be
advised to use Metro, she said, “but
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people who live here think they
know where to find parking.”
The audience was also skeptical.
“I’d applaud this, if I thought eliminating parking would get people
out of their cars,” said John
Goodman of the Woodley Park
Community Association. “But I just
don’t think people will get out of
their SUVs when they come with
three kids — and strollers — from
Burke [Va.].”
“B is a recipe for disaster,” said
Peter Espenschied of Cleveland
Park. “If you build more parking,
they will come. If you reduce it,
they will not go away.”
Some lingering neighborhood
resentment over construction of the
Asia Trail is coloring the debate.
That project used tiny Hawthorne
Street as its truck entrance, and the
massive construction activity kept
apartment dwellers there and on
nearby Connecticut Avenue awake
for nights and fuming.
When Buehner said the Zoo
now has a maximum capacity of
about 23,000 visitors a day and he
believes it will be able to accommodate 28,000 when new facilities
are completed, neighborhood commissioner Dia Black was skeptical.
“You’re adding 600 parking spaces
for 5,000 people?” she asked.
“I represent the neighbors, and I
cannot stress how concerned they
are,” Black continued. She said
neighbors are worried that the
tramway will be noisy and allow
visitors to peer into their apartments. “There’s a lot of bad blood,
from the way Asia Trail went. We
have not found you to be very
responsive,” she said.
Baker-Masson replied that Zoo
officials “learned a lot” from the
Asia Trail controversy. Now, she
said, “We address every single
neighborhood concern. Every time
we get a concern, we’re on it.”
Another neighbor said signage
to the Zoo is inadequate, leaving
cars and pedestrians wandering the
neighborhood and exacerbating
tensions. “They need signs now,
that tell them where the Zoo is,” she
said. Even at the Cleveland Park
and Woodley Park Metro stops,
Zoo patrons emerge not knowing
which way to go. “There is no signage anywhere now,” she said.
The Zoo officials said they will
try to address that problem in the
facilities master plan, but the residents wondered why they don’t fix
it now.
Comments on the master plan
alternatives are being accepted
through July 30. Buehner said officials will decide on their “preferred
alternative” by mid-September,
which could include “mixing and
matching” elements from the three
scenarios. Then it will commission
either an environmental assessment
or full-blown environmental impact
statement.
In answer to a question, Buehner
said either study would consider
“impacts on the neighborhood.”
The commission urged residents
to submit comments to [email protected]. The full facilities plan
is available at nationalzoo.si.edu.
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From Page 5
Sumner, who attends Thomas
Pullen Middle School in Landover,
Md., said she heard about the camp
through a family friend and thought
the arts focus — particularly dance
— sounded cool.
Then her interest expanded
beyond just the camp. “I want to go
to the school,” she said of Ellington.
Sumner, who has been dancing
since she was 8, has a solo performance in the culminating show of the
camp, which will be Friday
evening.
Blancho Drummond, 14, also
said the camp — and consequently
the school — attracted him
because of his budding interest in
visual arts. “I’m thinking about
coming here,” Drummond said.
He currently attends Riverdale
Baptist School in Upper Marlboro,
Md.
“You get an idea about the profession” of the arts during the
camp, Drummond said, noting that
his favorite part so far has been the
singing.
Part of the purpose of the camp,
LIBRARY
From Page 3
2008. Officials have said they
expect reconstruction of the firedamaged library to take three or
four years.
Library officials are hoping for a
location “in close proximity” to the
Georgetown library’s site at
Wisconsin Avenue and R Street.
They would also prefer a groundfloor space that offers plenty of natural light and measures between
3,000 and 5,000 square feet, Lewis
wrote.
The interim library will not contain the entire collection from the
Georgetown Neighborhood Library
since it will undoubtedly be smaller
in square footage, she noted.
While officials are discussing
potential sites for the interim library,
library service is being provided
through the recently opened bookmobile, located in the Jelleff Boys
& Girls Club parking lot, at 3265 S
St.
The bookmobile, which got off
to a slow start due to contracting and
procedural complications, will operate until the city establishes an interim library. It includes computer stations with Internet access, a modest
book selection and space for children’s programs. Residents can
request books from other library
branches for pickup there.
Despite the public library’s
desire to stay mum, officials have
hinted during public meetings at
potential sites, mentioning The
Shops at Georgetown Park as a possibility.
A staff member at Western
Development Co., the company that
owns Georgetown Park, confirmed
that its owners had offered the public library system a site inside the
expansive mall at 3222 M St. The
Duke Ellington Fund executive
director Ellen Coppley said, is to
teach diversity through the arts.
“These kids are really engaged,
and it’s the arts,” she said. “It’s
summer camp, but it’s serious.”
Coppley said she struggled with
how exactly to create an arts camp
at the school, which she said is
“desperate for money” and facing
a slew of problems, such as a roof
that has leaked for 10 years.
She wanted to do something
that would be available to all, but
in the end, Coppley and Rory
Pullens, Ellington’s head of
school, decided to hold a tuitionbased camp. They got a $15,000
grant from the D.C. Commission
on the Arts and Humanities for
scholarships for some of the children and to market the program.
“It’s smaller than we expected,
but we’re fine with that,” Coppley
said of the camp. Next year, the
school expects enrollment to double.
The campers’ performance will
be held in the auditorium of the
Duke Ellington School of the Arts,
35th and R streets NW, on Friday,
beginning at 7 p.m. It is free and
open to the public.
Current could not reach Ben Miller,
the developer involved in the offer,
by deadline, because he is traveling.
Some residents outside of
Georgetown have taken the initiative to work with the public library
to find a temporary space.
The Glover Park advisory neighborhood commission recently sent a
letter to chief librarian Ginnie
Cooper asking her to consider opening the interim facility in Glover
Park, just north of Georgetown. She
has not yet responded, commissioner Brian Cohen said, although
library officials said during the commission’s June 13 meeting that they
would consider the suggestion.
“We were hopeful we would get
some kind of a commitment,”
Cohen said.
In the June 6 letter, the commission quoted a May 31 column by
The Washington Post’s Marc Fisher
that named potential barriers to putting an interim library in
Georgetown: “Given the expense
and lack of available properties in
Georgetown, that sounds like a real
longshot,” he wrote.
The commission cited the advantages of locating such a facility in its
neighborhood: “The Glover Park
commercial district is less than a
mile from the Georgetown library,
located along Wisconsin Ave., N.W.
in a location that would conveniently serve Georgetown library
patrons. Commercial rents in our
neighborhood are less expensive
than Georgetown, and we currently
have several available spaces that
would provide an excellent interim
home for the library.”
Glover Park advisory neighborhood commissioner Cathy Fiorillo
is currently in touch with several
management companies about
potential sites in Glover Park,
according to commission chair
Melissa Lane.
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TENLEY
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The practice of nominating areas
for merely potential designation is
not unprecedented, Williams said.
The board has approved similar recommendations for apartments and
monuments.
The recommendations stem from
a study completed in 2003 of nearly
900 properties by the historical society and a professional historian. It
was funded by a $24,990 grant from
CH
the National Park Service through
the Historic Preservation Office.
“Historic preservation has been
said by the Office of Planning to be
an excellent planning tool,”
Waldman said. “It retains the character of a place.”
Williams admitted her office has
a backlog of nominations, hence the
four-year gap, due to emergency
nominations that were rushed to the
board.
The board will consider two
properties from the initial survey —
the 1926 Eldbrooke United
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Methodist Church and neighboring
1855 Methodist Cemetery — for
historic designation at the
September hearing. Both were submitted by the historical society.
Eldbrooke is under contract to
an undisclosed potential buyer,
according to Dr. Charles Parker,
who presides over Metropolitan
Memorial United Methodist
Church, which owns the property.
The congregations merged two
years ago when the building off
River Road was shuttered due to
its poor condition.
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Concerts
■ Eastern Music Festival Piano Program
students will perform. 6 p.m. Free.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
■ Rock
musician Peter
Himmelman will
perform. 7:30
p.m. $25. Sixth
& I Historic
Synagogue,
600 I St. NW. 202-408-3100.
■ The U.S. Marine Jazz Combo will perform jazz selections by Herbie Hancock,
Miles Davis, Johnny Mandel, Wayne
Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, Sigmund Romberg,
Don Raye and Gene DePaul. 8 p.m. Free.
West Terrace, U.S. Capitol. 202-433-4011.
■ “‘Out
With It’: A Night
of Out Guys
With Guitars”
will feature gay
singer/songwriters Eric
Himan, Tom Goss (shown) and Jon
Bozeman. 8 p.m. $5. Solly’s U Street
Tavern, 1942 11th St. NW. 202-232-1252.
Discussions and lectures
■ S. Frederick Starr, editor of the book
“The New Silk Roads: Transport and Trade
in the Greater Central Asia,” will join contributors to review the factors that are
enabling continental trade spanning the
Eurasian land mass. 5:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Kenney Auditorium, Nitze
Building, Johns Hopkins University School
of Advanced International Studies, 1740
Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-663-7721.
■ Dan Pitera, executive director of the
Detroit Collaborative Design Center at the
University of Detroit Mercy School of
Architecture, will discuss “Architecture as
an Act of Civil (Dis)Obedience.” 6 p.m.
Free. Koubek Auditorium, Catholic
University, 620 Michigan Ave. NE. 202-3196861.
■ Rutgers
University anthropologist Helen Fisher will
discuss “Falling in
Love: Why You, Why
Me?” 6:45 to 8:45
p.m. $40. S. Dillon
Ripley Center, 1100
Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Opera expert Denise Gallo will discuss “The Operas of Puccini.” 6:45 to 9
p.m. $40. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100
Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ David Straub, former director of the
Office of Korean Affairs at the U.S. State
Department, will discuss “The Future of
U.S. Policy Toward the Korean Peninsula.”
6:45 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Room 500, Bernstein-Offit Building, Johns
Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies, 1717 Massachusetts
Ave. NW. [email protected].
■ Robyn Meredith will discuss her book
“The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of
India and China, and What It Means for All
of Us.” 7 p.m. Free. Olsson’s Books &
Records, 1307 19th St. NW. 202-7851133.
■ Chicago SunTimes columnist
Robert D. Novak will
discuss his book “The
Prince of Darkness:
Fifty Years Reporting in
Washington.” 7 p.m.
Free. Politics & Prose,
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
Films
The “Voices of Palestine” film series
will feature Tawfik Abu Wael’s 2004 film
“Atash (Thirst),” about a scandal-plagued
family that ends up settling in an abandoned Israeli military outpost. 6:30 p.m.
Free. Jerusalem Fund, 2425 Virginia Ave.
NW. 202-338-1958.
■ The “Women Directors at the Oscars”
series will feature Jane Campion’s 1993
film “The Piano.” 7 p.m. $5; $4 for seniors
and students. Reservations required.
National Museum of Women in the Arts,
1250 New York Ave. NW. 202-783-7370.
■ Films on the Hill will present the
1938 film “Kidnapped.” 7 p.m. $5. Capitol
Hill Arts Workshop, 547 7th St. SE. 202547-6839.
■ The French Cinémathèque series will
feature Rabah
AmeurZaïmeche’s
2006 film
“Bled Number
One,” about
conditions in
Algeria as seen by a man released from
■
Thursday, JULY 19
■ Concert: The Fort Reno concert series will feature performances by Beauty Pill,
Carol Bui (shown) and The Alphabetical Order. 7:15 p.m. Free. Fort Reno Park, 40th
and Chesapeake streets NW. fortreno.com.
prison in France and deported to his country of origin (in French with English subtitles). 8 p.m. $9.75; $7 for seniors, students and military personnel. Avalon
Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202966-6000.
■ “Films on the Vern: Heroes and
Villains” will present the 2005 film “Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire.” 8:30 p.m.
Free. George Washington University Mount
Vernon Campus, 2100 Foxhall Road NW.
202-242-6673.
Performance
■ Comedian
Suzanne Willett will perform in “The Feminazi.”
A discussion on feminism will follow. 8 p.m.
Free. Modern Times
Coffeehouse at Politics
& Prose, 5015
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-362-2408.
Special event
■ Rosemary E. Reed Miller, author of
“Threads of Time, The Fabric of History: 37
Profiles of African American Dressmakers
and Designers From 1860 to 1960,” will
host an informal fashion show and panel
discussion. 5 to 9 p.m. Free. Historical
Society of Washington, D.C., 801 K St. NW.
202-383-1850.
Thursday,
July 19JULY 19
Thursday
Class
■ Lynn O’Connell will lead a class on
“The Art of Writing Grant Proposals.” 7 to 9
p.m. $39. First Class Inc., 1726 20th St.
NW. 202-797-5102.
Concerts
■ The fifth annual Washington
International Piano Arts Competition will
open with preliminary rounds. 10:30 a.m.
to 6 p.m. Free. Arts Club of Washington,
2017 I St. NW. 703-728-7766. The preliminary rounds will continue Friday from 10:30
a.m. to 6 p.m.
■ Boys’ Night Out will perform Southern
music. Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free. Wilson
Plaza, Reagan Building and International
Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
202-312-1300.
■ The “Sounds in the Square” concert
series will feature Frederic Yonnet on jazz
harmonica. 5 to 7 p.m. Free. Farragut
Square Park, Connecticut Avenue and K
Street NW. 202-463-3400.
■ Participants in the Blues Alley
Summer Jazz Camp will perform. 5 p.m.
Free. Portico Café, Reynolds Center for
American Art and Portraiture, 8th and F
streets NW. 202-633-1000.
■ Ecuador’s Jazz Envoys will perform a
blend of jazz and the indigenous sounds of
their homeland. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium
Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The “Sunset Serenades” concert
series will feature the local
band Relic
Effect performing classic rock.
6:30 to 8 p.m.
Free. Lion/Tiger
Hill, National Zoo, 3001 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-633-4480.
■ The U.S. Marine Jazz Combo will perform jazz selections. 8 p.m. Free. Sylvan
Theater, Washington Monument grounds,
15th Street and Independence Avenue SW.
202-433-4011.
Discussions and lectures
■ Copley News Service reporters Jerry
Kammer, Marcus Stern and George Condon
Jr., recipients of a 2006 Pulitzer Prize for
their investigation that landed Rep. Randy
“Duke” Cunningham, R-Calif., in prison, will
discuss “Corruption in Congress.” 11:30
a.m. $25; reservations required. Woman’s
National Democratic Club, 1526 New
Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.
■ Bill Adair of Goldleaf Studios will trace
the development of period frames on display at the Smithsonian American Art
Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.
6 p.m. Free. F Street lobby, Reynolds
Center for American Art and Portraiture, 8th
and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.
■ Curatorial assistant Amy Baskette will
discuss George Catlin’s portrait of Osceola.
6 to 6:30 p.m. Free. Reynolds Center for
American Art and Portraiture, 8th and F
streets NW. 202-633-1000.
■ The “Artful Evenings” series will feature a talk on “A Passion for Painting: From
El Greco to Picasso.” 6 and 7 p.m. $12;
$10 for seniors and students; free for ages
18 and younger. Phillips Collection, 1600
21st St. NW. 202-387-2151.
■ Michael Jacoby
Brown will discuss his
book “Building Powerful
Community
Organizations: A
Personal Guide To
Creating Groups That
Can Solve Problems
and Change the World.” 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Free. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets,
2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
■ Randolph Hock will discuss his book
“The Traveler’s Web: An Extreme Searcher
Guide to Travel Resources on the Internet.”
6:30 p.m. Free. Candida’s World of Books,
1541 14th St. NW. 202-667-4811.
■ Etiquette expert
Letitia Baldrige will discuss her book “Taste:
Acquiring What Money
Can’t Buy.” 7 p.m.
Free. Olsson’s Books &
Records, 418 7th St.
NW. 202-638-7610.
■ A panel discussion about the new
three-volume collection “Jews and American
Popular Culture” will feature contributors
Michael Kazin, Aviva Kempner, Douglas
Century and Nathaniel Popper. 7 p.m. $10.
Washington DC Jewish Community Center,
1529 16th St. NW. 202-777-3268.
■ Architect Joshua
Prince-Ramus will discuss his firm’s design
methodology, which
generally rejects conventional responses to
the constraints, conditions and challenges of
a given project. 7 to 8:30 p.m. $20; $12
for students. Registration required. National
Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-2722448.
■ Michael Eric
Dyson will discuss his
book “Know What I
Mean? Reflections on
Hip Hop.” 7 p.m. Free.
Politics & Prose, 5015
Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
Film
■ The Summer Foreign Film Series
will present Chinese director Tian-Ming
Wu’s 1999 film “The King of Masks,”
about an aging street performer known
for his mastery of Sichuan change art (in
Mandarin with English subtitles). 1 p.m.
Free. Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library,
5625 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-2820021.
Performances
■ The Washington Reflections Dance
Company will present “The Beat, the
Rhyme, the Rhythm,” which combines hiphop music with ballet and modern dance. 8
p.m. $25; $20 for seniors and students.
GALA Hispanic Theatre-Tivoli, 3333 14th
St. NW. 800-494-8497. The performance
will repeat Friday at 8 p.m.
■ SpeakeasyDC ensemble members
Kevin Boggs, Stephanie Garibaldi, Amy
Saidman, Eva Salvetti and Travis Wright will
present “Chocolate Jesus,” an exploration
of faith and identity through original, personal narrative. 8 p.m. $15. 1409 Playbill
Cafe, 1409 14th St. NW. 866-811-4111.
The performance will repeat July 20, 26
and 27 at 8 p.m. and July 28 at 10 p.m.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Nationals will open a
home stand against the Colorado Rockies.
7:05 p.m. $5 to $45. RFK Memorial
Stadium, 2400 East Capitol St. SE. 202397-7328. The series will continue Friday
at 7:05 p.m., Saturday at 3:55 p.m. and
Sunday at 1:35 p.m.
Friday,
July 20
Friday
JULY 20
Class
■ A beginner workshop will make use of
digital photographs to produce postcards of

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