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Serving Dupont Circle, Kalorama & Logan Circle
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
The Dupont Current
Vol. X, No. 21
West End projects win early support
heels and all
■ Development: EastBanc
designs clear fine arts panel
By ELIZABETH WIENER
Current Staff Writer
The U.S. Commission of Fine
Arts last week voted tentative
approval for two mixed-use complexes in the West End, enthusiastically supporting a striking 10-story
building that will house the neigh-
borhood library, and also endorsing
— with less enthusiasm — a stacked
eight-story project that will include
affordable housing atop a fire station and squash club.
Plans for the library complex are
“quite brilliant,” said one commissioner of the blocky asymmetrical
building the EastBanc firm has proposed for 24th and L streets. It features eight stories of residential
units “warped and twisted” on top
of each other, looking like an unsta-
ble stack of blocks over a glassy
two-story library that will stretch
along L Street.
The innovative design by architect Enrique Norten includes
ground-floor retail space on 23rd
Street, with a corner storefront to be
occupied by a privately run cafe that
will be accessible from the library,
and two levels of underground parking.
“Our intention is to bring a cerSee West End/Page 46
Enforcement effort sparks license convo
By KATIE PEARCE
Bill Petros/The Current
Thousands of spectators — and many participants — turned
out for the 25th anniversary of the Dupont high heel race on
Tuesday night along 17th Street. The annual Halloween-season
event began in 1986, when, as the story goes, a couple guys
dressed in drag raced from one 17th Street bar to another.
A status update on “Operation Adams Morgan” last
week evolved into a discussion on how to resolve what
many see as an overconcentration of liquor licenses on
18th Street.
Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham, at the
Oct. 19 public meeting, said he plans to “put forward a
proposal to reduce the number of licensees in the neighborhood,” since he is “absolutely convinced this is the
central issue” behind Adams Morgan’s problems.
Various city officials, including Metropolitan Police
Department Chief Cathy Lanier, hosted Wednesday’s
meeting to report on the progress of Operation Adams
Morgan. The program, which kicked off in late July to
control nightlife chaos, has placed extra cops and
enforcement officers on and around 18th Street on
weekend nights.
See Licenses/Page 38
Friends group plans to plant
daffodils at Book Hill Park
Panel OKs steps linking
Kennedy Center, park
By ELIZABETH WIENER
■ Landscape: Other group
The U.S. Commission of Fine Arts voted approval
last week for a long-awaited double stairway to connect
the Kennedy Center’s west terrace with the parkland
and Potomac River below. The preferred design involves
two glass staircases, each surrounding an elevator, that
will descend from the front terrace to a new plaza
wedged between Rock Creek Parkway and a popular
riverfront trail.
That design differs only in minor detail from one
proposed — and also approved in concept — four years
ago. In the interim, funding issues slowed the project,
while negotiations among four entities — the National
Park Service, Federal Highway Administration, District
Department of Transportation and Kennedy Center —
NEWS
■ Board staff advises
against landmarking
for Walmart site. Page 9.
■ Group works to save
original D.C. boundary
markers. Page 7.
Bill Petros/Current File Photo
Both city officials and area residents reported on
the successes of “Operation Adams Morgan” but
discussed the need for long-term fixes.
targets Rock Creek for plants
By JESSICA GOULD
Courtesy of the Kennedy Center
Plans for the Kennedy Center steps have been in
the works for years, but were slowed by funding
and agency negotiation issues.
also prolonged planning.
“It’s a very complicated project, involving four agencies, all with slightly different agendas,” Peter May, an
associate regional director for the Park Service, told the
fine arts panel last Thursday.
See Stairs/Page 46
EVENTS
■ Studio Theatre
presents ‘The Golden
Dragon.’ Page 37.
■ National Portrait
Gallery opens ‘Black
List’ exhibit. Page 37.
As a winter chill begins to set in,
some residents are already preparing for spring.
As they do every year, the
Friends of Book Hill Park will hold
a daffodil planting at the park
Saturday morning from 9 to 10:30.
Friends co-president Ginny Poole
said the group plans to plant 500
bulbs to replace the flowers that
PASSAGES
Rebellious DJs at
Georgetown radio
station reunite. Page 17.
■ New program makes
storytellers of memoryimpaired seniors. Page 17.
■
have been lost or stolen over the
past year.
“Kids, families, all are welcome,” she said, adding that the
annual planting is a key part of the
group’s ongoing efforts to keep the
park clean and attractive.
Meanwhile, the Rock Creek
Conservancy is raising money for
another Georgetown beautification
project. The group is seeking funds
to support the planting of 5,000 daffodil bulbs, 2,250 coneflower bulbs,
and 2,250 wild blue indigo bulbs
along Rock Creek Parkway at the
Pennsylvania Avenue exit.
See Flowers/Page 46
INDEX
Business/11
Calendar/32
Classifieds/45
District Digest/4
Dupont Circle Citizen/15
Exhibits/37
In Your Neighborhood/26
Opinion/13
Passages/17
Police Report/6
Real Estate/25
School Dispatches/18
Service Directory/41
Theater/37
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Park Service, locals work through tensions
By ALLISON BRENNAN
Current Correspondent
“When is the preservation of the park’s history more
important than someone getting run over?” Dupont
Circle advisory neighborhood commissioner Mike
Silverstein asked of a panel of National Park Service
personnel Saturday.
D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton called a town-hall
meeting that day to address local tensions with Park
Service officials regarding spaces under the federal
agency’s jurisdiction but located in District neighborhoods.
“One of the complaints people had was reaching
anybody with any authority,” Norton said.
And that was one of Silverstein’s concern when it
came to the small triangular park at 20th Street and
Connecticut Avenue.
Community efforts to rehabilitate the Dupont park
haven’t always meshed well with National Park Service
historic preservation mandates.
The most recent concern, Silverstein told Park
Service officials, is the width of a sidewalk that runs
along the park’s Connecticut Avenue side, which he said
is insufficient to handle its heavy foot traffic. The park
sits just north of one of the entrances to the Dupont
Circle Metro stop, and its Connecticut Avenue sidewalk
houses a bus stop, so pedestrian activity is busy.
“That particular park was built in 1929, and since
See Parks/Page 30
Residents back away from support of AU dorm
By BRADY HOLT
American University hasn’t been
willing to work with neighbors on
design modifications to its planned
North Hall dormitory, community
leaders told the Zoning Commission
last Thursday, saying the panel
should reject the building plans until
the school resolves the issue.
The school hopes to house about
358 students and a fitness center on
the site of a parking lot between the
President’s Office Building and the
Wesley Theological Seminary property, atop a tree-lined hill overlooking
Massachusetts
Avenue.
University officials said at the hearing that they hope to have the residence hall open by fall 2013, and
neighbors have said the site is a
good location for housing.
But to the apparent surprise of
university officials and zoning commissioners, the Spring Valley/
Wesley Heights advisory neighbor-
hood commission backed away
from supportive statements made at
its Oct. 5 meeting and in a subsequent Zoning Commission filing.
Commission chair Tom Smith testified that the tall building would, as
proposed, have a large, unsightly
facade facing neighbors and
Massachusetts Avenue passersby.
“What we see is basically this industrial drab gray that is not in character
for the community,” he said.
The university recently redesigned the planned L-shaped North
Hall, pulling it back farther from
Massachusetts Avenue and adding
an eighth story to only the section
facing existing residence halls. At
the neighborhood commission’s
Oct. 5 meeting, Smith hailed the
revisions as the result of “a model
working relationship between
American University and the community.”
The neighborhood commission
voted 7-1 to support the project on
the conditions that the university
minimize the proposed eight-story
building’s “visual impact”; work
with the community to improve the
planned facade; and submit construction, landscaping and stormwater management plans.
But at last week’s hearing, neighborhood commission chair Tom
Smith said those conditions had not
been met. “If AU is unable to design
an attractive building that minimizes the visual impact along
Massachusetts Avenue, one solution
would be reduce the height of the
building and increase the setback
required from Massachusetts
Avenue,” Smith testified.
Smith’s testimony provoked a
lively exchange with zoning commissioner Peter May. “I find your
testimony nothing short of shocking
given the letter we’ve gotten,” May
said. “The letter says, ‘We support it
with these conditions.’ The conditions are pretty straightforward and
seem to be achievable, but you’re
See Dorm/Page 28
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The week ahead
Thursday, Oct. 27
The National Park Service will hold a public meeting to discuss proposed safety
improvements to the Rock Creek Parkway at Waterside Drive. The meeting will be held
from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW.
Saturday, Oct. 29
Volunteers will plant daffodils from 9 to 10:30 a.m. in Book Hill Park, at Wisconsin
Avenue and R Street. For details, contact Ginny Poole at 202-944-2753.
■ The Newark Street Park K-9 Friends will hold a one-year anniversary celebration and
fundraiser for the Newark Street Dog Park. Activities will include training demonstrations, a storytime for children, a silent auction, a raffle, and collection of donated
items for local animal shelters and rescue organizations. The event will be held from
10 a.m. to noon at the park, located at 39th and Newark streets NW.
■ The West End Citizens Association will hold its fall meeting, which will feature guest
speaker Donovan Morris, manager of the new Whole Foods Market in Foggy Bottom.
The agenda also features a presentation by Peter Chew on George Washington
University’s proposed museum, including the relocated Textile Museum collection. The
meeting will be held at 2 p.m. at the School Without Walls, 2130 G St. NW.
Tuesday, Nov. 1
The D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board will hold a Ward 1 community meeting on plans for iGaming DC, its online gambling program. The meeting will be
held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Marie Reed Learning Center, 2200 Champlain St.
NW.
■ The Palisades Citizens Association will hold its monthly meeting, which will feature
remarks by D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson. The meeting will begin at
7:30 p.m. at the Palisades Recreation Center, Sherier and Dana places NW.
Wednesday, Nov. 2
The D.C. Council Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary will hold a public
hearing on enforcement of pedestrian and bicycle safety policies. The hearing will
begin at 11 a.m. in Room 412 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave.
NW.
■ The State Health Planning and Development Agency will hold an information hearing on the application by Brinton Woods of Rock Creek LLC for the acquisition of Rock
Creek Manor Nursing Home, a 180-bed skilled nursing facility at 2131 O St. NW. The
hearing will begin at 11 a.m. in Room 407, 899 North Capitol St. NE.
■ The D.C. Council Committee on Public Safety and the Judiciary will hold a public
hearing on police response to reports of hate crimes. The hearing will begin at 2 p.m.
in Room 412 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
■ The D.C. Office of the People’s Counsel will hold a town-hall meeting on “D.C. Utility
Quality of Services and Reliability.” The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the
Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Ave. NW.
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District Digest
Teenagers charged in
separate homicides
The Metropolitan Police
Department last week arrested two
teens suspected in recent Northwest
homicides, according to news
releases from the department.
Police arrested Derek Johnson,
17, of Northwest, on Oct. 18 in
connection with an Oct. 8 homicide
in the Petworth area, the department announced last Wednesday.
Johnson is charged with seconddegree murder in the stabbing death
of Jamar Michael Freeman, 17, of
Southeast, states a release.
On Thursday, police arrested
Christian Navarette-Rivas, 16, of
Riverdale, Md., in connection with
an Oct. 6 homicide in the 16th
Street Heights area, according to a
second news release. Police allege
that Navarette-Rivas intentionally
struck Miguel Angel Drullard Jr.,
22, of Northwest, with a car on
14th Street. Navarette-Rivas was
charged with second-degree murder.
Both teens were identified
because they were charged as
adults.
Microsoft looking at
St. Elizabeths site
Victor Hoskins, the city’s deputy
mayor for planning and economic
development, told two local busi-
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is considering establishing an
“innovation center” on the St.
Elizabeths Hospital site in
Southeast.
Hoskins said the company has
built such centers, which its website describes as “applied research”
facilities, in China and in Europe,
but not in the United States.
A big advantage of the St.
Elizabeths site is that it is within
view of and easily accessible from
the U.S. Capitol building. Among
the site’s visitors has been
Microsoft’s director of innovation.
Federal aid sought
for quake damage
The District is requesting federal
funding for repairs to public facilities and landmarks damaged during
the Aug. 23 earthquake, according
to a news release from Mayor
Vincent Gray’s office.
D.C. government facilities —
mostly schools — collectively sustained more than $6.8 million in
damage, the release says, and the
Washington National Cathedral’s
repair bill is estimated at $15 million.
Mayor Gray sent a letter to
President Barack Obama on Friday
asking him to issue a disaster declaration, which would let the
District apply for reimbursement
from the Federal Emergency
Management Agency.
AIDS Walk celebrates
25th anniversary
Whitman-Walker Health will
hold its 25th annual AIDS Walk
Washington fundraiser on Saturday,
honoring three individuals who
have been part of the event’s histo-
ry as “Grand Marshals,” according
to a news release.
The marshals will be Ward 1
D.C. Council member Jim Graham,
who served as the health center’s
executive director from 1984 to
1998; Whitman-Walker psychotherapist Joe Izzo, who has participated in the AIDS Walk every year;
and former Army nurse Maudie
Jones, who worked with AIDS
patients.
Residents can donate or register
to participate at aidswalkwashington.org. As of yesterday morning,
the event had raised slightly more
than $642,000 out of a $1 million
goal, according to the website.
D.C. Chamber doles
out business awards
The D.C. Chamber of
Commerce handed out several
awards Saturday at its annual
Chamber’s Choice gala at the
Marriott Wardman Park hotel.
Mark Ein, founder and chief
executive officer of the technology
holding company Venturehouse
Group, was named Business
Leader of the Year, and the Kaiser
Foundation Health Plan of the MidAtlantic States Inc. was named
Business of the Year.
EagleBank received the
Economic Impact Award, and B.
Smith of B. Smith’s Restaurant in
Union Station won the Chamber’s
Choice Award.
The Chair’s Choice Award went
to W. Christopher Smith, chairman
and chief executive officer of the
William C. Smith + Co. real estate
firm.
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Rec Center to kick off soon
By KATIE PEARCE
Reconstruction of the Raymond
Recreation Center in Petworth is on
track to begin next month, following a brief and unpopular suggestion
to fold a new headquarters for the
D.C. Department of Parks and
Recreation into the plan.
The project is now proceeding as
originally planned, as a two-story,
24,000-square-foot new recreation
center at 915 Spring Road, behind
the Raymond Elementary School
and within walking distance of the
Petworth Metro station.
Jesús Aguirre, director of the
parks department, told Petworth
community members recently that
the project — though lacking about
$2 million in funds — should break
ground within a few weeks.
The agency had temporarily
explored the idea of relocating its
headquarters, now located in
Columbia Heights at 3149 16th St.
NW, into the renovated Raymond
building. According to several
sources, that change would have
required another year or more of
preparations.
But the department “backed off”
this concept quickly, according to
local advisory neighborhood commissioner David Tumblin. “They
were just exploring the idea, and it
See Raymond/Page 30
Current Staff Report
In an address before the Washington Circle
Business Association last week, Department of
Consumer and Regulatory Affairs director Nicholas
Majett said complaints about the agency have
declined sharply in recent years.
“Back in 1995, it was different,” he said. “Now,
it’s a new DCRA.”
Majett described many ways in which his department has increased efficiency by streamlining or
simplifying processes.
The agency is now doing a better job, for exam-
Georgetown University is investing in quality
of life initiatives, to benefit our students, our
neighbors and our entire community.
Oregon Ave. reconstruction
plans divide local residents
By BETH COPE
A handful of Oregon Avenue
residents are so unhappy with the
city’s plans to reconstruct their
street that they have organized as a
group and secured pro bono legal
assistance to fight for a shift in
direction.
The Neighbors United to
Preserve Oregon Avenue and Rock
Creek Park, a seven-member committee with more than 250 signatories to a general petition of concern, formed after the D.C.
Transportation
Department
released its environmental assessment on the project. The assessment weighed four options for
reconstruction, three of which
involve adding sidewalks and
straightening the roadway.
“We all read the EA,” said Beth
Lamoreaux. “Not only were we
shocked at the massive change that
was proposed for the street, but
many of us felt … it was not environmentally sound.”
The group has retained support
from the law firm Arnold and
Porter, where one Oregon Avenue
resident is head of the environmental division. Members said they
sought the legal help simply to sift
through all of the information and
figure out how to proceed.
Of course, not all residents
agree with Neighbors United. One
point of contention has been sidewalks, which the group opposes as
an unappealingly urban change for
their bucolic parkside road. Others
say they’re crucial to improving
safety along the street.
“Literally, moms with their
strollers will stop me and say, ‘Boy
do we want a sidewalk on Oregon
Avenue,’” said Gary Thompson,
See Oregon/Page 27
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the city. And the number of vacant properties has
been reduced — from 3,200 properties on the list in
2010 to 2,200 now, he said.
Owners of vacant properties have to pay $5 per
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The director got a laugh when he told the group
about a D.C. Council member who called him to
See DCRA/Page 29
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011T
he Current
Police Report
This is a listing of reports taken
from Oct. 16 through 22 by the
Metropolitan Police Department
in local police service areas.
psa
PSA
201
201
■ chevy chase
Burglary
■ 3700 block, Jocelyn St.; residence; 3 a.m. Oct. 22.
Theft from auto (below $250)
■ 3300 block, Military Road;
street; 8 p.m. Oct. 18.
■ 3700 block, Morrison St.;
psa 202
■ Friendship Heights
PSA
202
Tenleytown / AU Park
Robbery (snatch)
■ 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.;
store; 7:15 p.m. Ot. 20.
Assault with a dangerous
weapon (knife)
sidewalk; 2:30 p.m. Oct. 20.
Stolen auto
■ 42nd and Brandywine streets;
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 3900 block, Chesapeake St.;
school; 2:07 p.m. Oct. 16.
store; 10:01 a.m. Oct. 17.
Theft (below $250)
store; 12:45 p.m. Oct. 17.
■ 3900 block, Chesapeake St.;
school; 12:30 p.m. Oct. 19.
government building; 11 a.m.
Oct. 20.
psa
PSA
203
203
■ forest hills / van ness
Burglary
■ 4600 block, Connecticut Ave.;
residence; 9:30 p.m. Oct. 19.
■ 3600 block, Albemarle St.; residence; 3 p.m. Oct. 17.
psa
PSA
206
206
■ georgetown / burleith
Robbery (snatch)
■ 3200 block, Prospect St.; sidewalk; 7:20 p.m. Oct. 17.
weapon
■ 3700 block, T St.; residence;
12:55 a.m. Oct. 23.
Burglary
■ 1900 block, 35th St.; residence; 9 a.m. Oct. 19.
■ 3000 block, M St.; store; 1:35
a.m. Oct. 19.
■ 2800 block, N St.; residence;
1 p.m. Oct. 21.
■ 2800 block, Olive St.; residence; 9 p.m. Oct. 21.
Stolen auto
Theft (below $250)
■ 37th and O streets; university;
9 p.m. Oct. 17.
■ 3000 block, M St.; store; 6:15
p.m. Oct. 17.
■ Wisconsin Avenue and S
Street; parking lot; 5:30 p.m.
Oct. 17.
■ 2500 block, P St.; residence;
9:50 p.m. Oct. 18.
■ 3200 block, M St.; unspecified
weapon
■ 1700 block, F St.; sidewalk;
9:35 a.m. Oct. 19.
Burglary
■ 2100 block, I St.; residence;
1:40 a.m. Oct. 21.
Theft (below $250)
■ 2600 block, I St.; sidewalk; 1
p.m. Oct. 21.
■ 2500 block, M St.; street; 11
p.m. Oct. 21.
■ 1100 block, 25th St.; street;
8:30 p.m. Oct. 21.
1:30 p.m. Oct. 22.
premises; 1 p.m. Oct. 17.
■ 1600 block, K St.; unspecified
premises; 5 a.m. Oct. 18.
Theft (below $250)
■ 1800 block, I St.; office building; 1:54 p.m. Oct. 16.
6:15 a.m. Oct. 17.
street; 2:30 p.m. Oct. 18.
■ 1500 block, 17th St.; restaurant; 8:30 p.m. Oct. 18.
■ 1800 block, M St.; sidewalk;
12:30 a.m. Oct. 20.
■ 1700 block, Rhode Island Ave.;
sidewalk; 5:45 a.m. Oct. 20.
street; 7:20 a.m. Oct. 20.
■ 1900 block, Pennsylvania Ave.;
store; 3:42 p.m. Oct. 20.
■ 2100 block, K St.; tavern; 1:30
a.m. Oct. 21.
■ 1400 block, U St.; tavern;
11:30 p.m. Oct. 22.
■ 1500 block, 16th St.; church;
10:55 a.m. Oct. 23.
■ 1500 block, 15th St.; street; 6
p.m. Oct. 17.
■ 1500 block, 15th St.; parking
lot; 9 p.m. Oct. 18.
■ 1500 block, Church St.; parking lot; 11 p.m. Oct. 18.
p.m. Oct. 19.
■ Florida Avenue and Q Street;
gas station; 9:40 p.m. Oct. 21.
■ 1500 block, T St.; street; 2:15
p.m. Oct. 22.
■ 1900 block, N St.; street; 4:15
p.m. Oct. 22.
■ 19th Street and Riggs Place;
Theft from auto (attempt)
■ 1500 block, Church St.; street;
6 p.m. Oct. 18.
Robbery (pocketbook snatch)
■ 14th and L streets; sidewalk;
11:25 p.m. Oct. 22.
Robbery (snatch)
■ 1300 block, 14th St.; sidewalk; 2:31 p.m. Oct. 23.
Burglary
■ 900 block, P St.; residence;
6:40 a.m. Oct. 23.
Stolen auto
p.m. Oct. 16.
■ 11th and O streets; street;
10:30 p.m. Oct. 17.
Theft (below $250)
■ 1400 block, P St.; unspecified
premises; 11:16 a.m. Oct. 17.
■ 1400 block, P St.; restaurant;
6:30 p.m. Oct. 19.
■ 1400 block, Corcoran St.; sidewalk; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 21.
■ 1300 block, Riggs St.; street;
9:30 p.m. Oct. 16.
■ 1700 block, Johnson Ave.;
■ 900 block, R St.; street; 6:27
p.m. Oct. 17.
■ 1400 block, R St.; street; 7:30
p.m. Oct. 17.
■ 1400 block, Church St.; parking lot; 4:30 a.m. Oct. 17.
7:30 p.m. Oct. 91.
■ 1300 block, S St.; parking lot;
7 p.m. Oct. 20.
■ 1400 block, Corcoran St.;
street; noon Oct. 20.
p.m. Oct. 21.
■ Unspecified location; street; 4
p.m. Oct. 22.
■ 1200 block, L St.; street; 8
p.m. Oct. 22.
psa 208
psa
PSA
303
psa 401
premises; 7 p.m. Oct. 18.
restaurant; 3:30 a.m. Oct. 22.
■ 1200 block, 36th St.; tavern;
12:01 a.m. Oct. 22.
■ 3100 block, M St.; unspecified
premises; 3:30 p.m. Oct. 22.
■ 37th and O streets; unspecified premises; 9 p.m. Oct. 22.
■ 31st and K streets; street;
11:15 a.m. Oct. 23.
Theft from auto ($250 plus)
■ 2800 block, Dumbarton St.;
street; 11:30 a.m. Oct. 21.
parking lot; 9 p.m. Oct. 17.
11:30 a.m. Oc. 18.
■ 3200 block, M St.; parking lot;
9 p.m. Oct. 19.
parking lot; 12:01 a.m. Oct. 22.
■ 1200 block, Potomac St.; alley;
6 p.m. Oct. 22.
11 p.m. Oct. 22.
street; 1 a.m. Oct. 23.
psa
PSA
207
207
■ foggy bottom / west end
■ sheridan-kalorama
PSA
208
dupont circle
Robbery (armed)
office building; 10:40 a.m. Oct.
17.
Robbery (force and violence)
■ 1200 block, New Hampshire
Ave.; sidewalk; 5:05 a.m. Oct.
22.
■ Unspecified location; sidewalk;
1:30 a.m. Oct. 22.
weapon
■ 1500 block, K St.; store; 4:05
p.m. Oct. 19.
■ 1900 block, K St.; unspecified
premises; 1:15 p.m. Oct. 20.
■ 19th and N streets; sidewalk;
2 a.m. Oct. 23.
Burglary
■ 1500 block, O St.; residence;
2:45 a.m. Oct. 21.
■ 1000 block, 19th St.; unspecified premises; 4:58 p.m. Oct. 18.
Stolen auto
■ 16th Street and Riggs Place;
■ 1500 block, T St.; alley; 6:30
p.m. Oct. 22.
Theft ($250 plus)
■ 1000 block, 16th St.; hotel; 10
a.m. Oct. 16.
■ 1400 block, U St.; unspecified
303
■ adams morgan
■ 1800 block, Summit Place;
residence; 7 p.m. Oct. 22.
Robbery (snatch)
■ 1800 block, Summit Place;
sidewalk; 1 a.m. Oct. 18.
Burglary
■ 2400 block, Ontario Road; residence; 6 a.m. Oct. 23.
Theft (below $250)
unspecified premises; 6:30 p.m.
Oct. 18.
p.m. Oct. 18.
■ 1600 block, Fuller St.; street; 4
p.m. Oct. 19.
psa
PSA
307
307
■ logan circle
Robbery (knife)
■ 1200 block, 11th St.; alley;
4:27 p.m. Oc. 23.
Robbery (assault)
■ 1200 block, M St.; sidewalk;
2:23 p.m. Oct. 23.
■ 1700 block, 13th St.; sidewalk;
6:15 a.m. Oct. 17.
■ colonial village
PSA
401
shepherd park / takoma
Robbery (gun)
■ 7th and Dahlia streets; street;
9:40 p.m. Oct. 17.
■ 6900 block, Blair Road; restaurant; 11:19 p.m. Oct. 19.
weapon
■ Aspen Street and Georgia
Avenue; street; 1:30 a.m. Oct. 18.
Burglary
■ 7800 block, Eastern Ave.;
store; 4:15 a.m. Oct. 19.
Stolen auto
■ 800 block, Dahlia St.; street; 9
p.m. Oct. 17.
■ 400 block, Butternut St.;
street; 2 a.m. Oct. 17.
Theft (below $250)
■ 6900 block, Georgia Ave.; residence; 9 p.m. Oct. 19.
Theft (shoplifting)
■ 100 block, Carroll St.; drugstore; 8:20 a.m. Oct. 20.
■ 7800 block, 14th St.; residence; 10:30 p.m. Oct. 17.
■ 1700 block, Tamarack St.;
■ 1300 block, Holly St.; street;
8:15 p.m. Oct. 20.
■ 500 block, Cedar St.; street;
1:30 a.m. Oct. 23.
The CurrentWednesday, October 26, 2011
7
GWU presents designs for On D.C. border, history hides along wayside
intended museum building
By CARL STRAUMSHEIM
By BRADY HOLT
The museum George Washington
University hopes to construct on its
campus will be three stories of limestone topped with a level of glassfaced office space, according to
design renderings officials presented last week.
As part of its campus plan, the
university received preliminary
zoning approval to construct a
65-foot-high museum on the site of
an existing rose garden in the 700
block of 21st Street. The museum
will house a donated collection of
Washingtoniana artifacts and materials the university already owns.
Additionally, the Textile Museum
will relocate from SheridanKalorama to space in the new facility.
As planned, the museum will
attach to the historic Woodhull
House, and part of that building will
also become exhibit space. Streetlevel access to the block’s central
plaza space would remain. The
museum’s primary visitor entrance
and internal loading dock would be
accessed from 21st Street.
Both the District’s Zoning
Courtesy of George Washington University
The museum will include textile
and Washingtoniana collections.
Commission
and
Historic
Preservation Review Board must
sign off on design details before the
university can get building permits
to start construction. The school
hopes to open the museum in mid2014.
Officials presented the plans for
the building at last Wednesday’s
meeting of the Foggy Bottom/West
End advisory neighborhood commission, saying they expect to go
before the preservation board Nov.
17. The Zoning Commission will
review the impact of the building
plans at a later date, but the historic
review aims to ensure the plans
See Museum/Page 38
In 2005, Stephen Powers took his daughter to
visit some of the 40 boundary stones marking the
original border of the District. The occasion: a second-grade homework assignment about Arlington
County.
Surprised by the lack of upkeep, Powers went on
to survey every stone, compiling notes about locations and conditions. More than 3,500 photos and
several months later, he reached an overwhelming
conclusion: The historic sites were falling into disre-
pair.
Powers’ findings inspired volunteers across the
region, and since the spring of 2010, a group of civil
engineers, land surveyors and concerned neighbors
has been working to renovate the sites on a regular
basis. Their work is part of a greater push by the
National Capital Boundary Stones Committee to
raise public awareness about some of the nation’s
oldest monuments.
“‘Stone fever’ is what I like to call it,” said
Powers, who serves as a director for the National
Capital Section of the American Society of Civil
See Markers/Page 10
Mayor talks budget, schools in Chevy Chase
Mayor Vincent Gray told the
Chevy Chase Citizens Association
Thursday evening that the District
expects to record a surplus of
between $100 million and $125 million for the just-completed 2011
fiscal year.
He also discussed issues in education, public safety and job creation, as well as health care for the
city’s less fortunate.
Establishing a stable fiscal environment, Gray told the group, is one
of his four top priorities, especially
as the city has not had a truly bal-
anced budget for several years.
The city’s fund balance, he said,
fell from $1.6 billion to $800 million during the Fenty administration. Most of the remainder cannot
be touched, he added, as it is
required either for protecting outstanding bonds or by order of
Congress.
Thanks to the city’s strong credit
rating and favorable market conditions, Gray said, the District was
able to sell $800 million worth of
short-term bonds at an interest rate
of 0.27 percent to finance its expenses until tax revenues are received.
But Gray stressed that those revenues must be collected fairly: To
applause, the mayor said he disapproved of the idea of taxing out-ofstate municipal bonds that had been
purchased prior to the legislation
taking effect, as it is inappropriate to
have a retroactive tax.
Gray also touted his bona fides
in promoting education reform, particularly early-childhood schooling.
“People doubted my commitment to
education reform” during the mayoral campaign, Gray said, in spite of
“shepherding education reform
See Gray/Page 10
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The CurrentWednesday, October 26, 2011
9
Preservation staff advises against car-barn designation in Walmart case
By ELIZABETH WIENER
The dispute over a planned Walmart on
Georgia Avenue is moving to the city’s
Historic Preservation Review Board Thursday,
with board staffers recommending against
landmarking the old car barn that Walmart’s
developer wants to tear down.
The staff recommendation posted Friday is
an important part of the proceedings, but the
board will make its own formal decision. A
hastily formed group of anti-Walmart residents known as the Brightwood Neighborhood
Preservation Association will also mount its
case at the board’s hearing Thursday.
And the local advisory neighborhood commission voted Monday to seek a one-month
delay to allow a historian retained by the
Brightwood group to flesh out research on the
century-old street car barn at 5917-5929
Georgia Ave.
New program teaches kids
about water conservation
By JESSICA GOULD
Students across the city are soaking in information about sustainability through a new program called
“Be Water Wise D.C.”
“Be Water Wise helps kids
engage in a real-world issue, which
is water conservation and water
management,” said Diane Wood,
president of the National
Environmental
Education
Foundation.
The foundation created the program two years ago in Miami as a
way to integrate water issues into
typical math, science, reading and
geography lessons.
This year, 15 D.C. schools —
including Eaton Elementary, Mann
Elementary, E.L. Haynes Public
Charter School and Washington
Latin Public Charter School in
Northwest — are participating.
The program, replete with training sessions for teachers, is scheduled to last 18 months, with support
from HSBC Bank and Johnson
Controls Inc.
“As the kids learn about water in
their schools, they’re using real
data, they’re looking at real water
bills, and they’re learning where
water comes from, where it goes,
what it costs and things that they can
do right in their schools to manage
See Water/Page 38
Ward 2’s Evans faces friendly
fire at Georgetown fundraiser
At a charity fundraiser last week,
Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack
Evans got “roasted and toasted” for
everything from his desire to be
mayor to his failed attempts to tax
highly paid athletes when they compete in the District.
To help raise money for the
Wounded Warrior Project, the
Georgetown Business Association
and political satire troupe Hexagon
hosted the Oct.
19 roast of Evans
at the Four
Seasons Hotel.
The
night
kicked off with
D.C.
Del.
Eleanor Holmes
Norton remind- Evans
ing Evans that he
is the only D.C. Council member
who can remember back when she
was a “first-termer.” Norton became
delegate months before Evans was
first elected to the council just over
20 years ago.
The master of ceremonies, Bob
Madigan of WTOP radio, made fun
of Evans’ penchant to always wear
the same tie, reporting that in fact he
owns more than one.
Former Virginia U.S. Rep. Tom
Davis, who stated that he had retired
from Congress “undefeated and
unindicted,” said Evans was once
given the choice between $20, a
bottle of whiskey or some Biblical
scriptures. Evans walked out with
all three options, Davis said, demonstrating that he would definitely
become a politician.
Poking fun of Georgetown’s reputation for affluence, Davis said
Evans represents “the one group in
the District who can truthfully claim
there is taxation without representation.”
He compared Evans’ part-time
job with the Patton Boggs law firm
to the post of U.S. vice president,
“because nobody knows what either
one does.”
Linda Greenan, Georgetown
University’s associate vice president
for community affairs and a former
Evans aide, remembered when she
first met Evans back in 1980. “Jack
came as a guest and never left,” she
said.
Greenan said her major memory
of a visit to Dewey Beach was when
Evans, in a singing session at Bottle
& Cork, twisted the lyrics of “Mack
the Knife” to “Jack the Knife.”
Everyone muffled their ears with
cocktail napkins, she said, but Evans
was undisturbed by the reaction.
Current columnist and NBC4
reporter Tom Sherwood said Evans
likes to brag about being the longest-serving council member. “It
See Evans/Page 38
“They came to a conclusion without even
hearing our insight,” Baruti Jahi, leader of the
Brightwood group, said of the board’s staff
report. “We all know the Walmart folks don’t
want it landmarked. They’re basically saying
no without hearing our historian’s argument
or presentation.”
The old brick car barn has become the latest battleground over Walmart’s plans to open
four stores in the District, largely because a
landmark designation by the preservation
board would create major obstacles — or at
least, major delays — for developer FoulgerPratt as it prepares the Georgia Avenue corner
for a one-story, 106,000-square-foot retail
store.
“We look forward to a favorable decision”
from the preservation board, Walmart spokesperson Steve Restivo said in an email. Restivo
said he could not give a timeline for opening
the store until construction begins, but he
See Walmart/Page 28
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MARKERS
From Page 7
Engineers — one of the organizations featured on the committee.
The stones were placed in 1791
and 1792 after a heated debate about
where the new federal district
should be located. Following astronomer and mathematician Benjamin
Banneker’s calculations, Andrew
Ellicott led a team of surveyors that
placed a stone for every mile they
traveled.
Back then, the stones rested in
fields and forests. As the city grew,
some of the stones became part of
more modern landscapes: people’s
front yards or, in the case of the
northernmost boundary stone, an
area between town houses and the
stretch of East-West Highway that
runs through Silver Spring.
On Saturday, volunteers —
armed with paint scrapers, primer
The Current
and stories about the stones’ history
— were working to restore six
stones along the District’s northern
border.
Like many Washingtonians,
neighbor Allen Browne stumbled
across the northernmost stone by
accident.
“I got stuck in traffic right here
one day about 15 years ago, and I
looked over to my right and saw this
and thought, ‘That has to be the
smallest cemetery I’ve ever seen!’”
Browne said.
On Saturday morning, the stone
was covered by a thick layer of
fallen leaves — invisible but for the
wrought-iron fence surrounding it.
The Daughters of the American
Revolution added fencing around
this and other stones in 1915 as part
of a pledge to maintain the sites. But
after nearly a century, some are
showing signs of serious neglect.
Powers’ group therefore faced
little opposition when it set out to
Volunteers help restore the fence
surrounding the northernmost
boundary stone.
restore the fences in 2007. So far, 13
of the original 40 sites — 36 of
which now remain — have been
renovated, their fences scraped and
repainted.
Other sites were not as lucky.
One mile southeast of the northernmost boundary stone, a marker was
accidentally bulldozed in 1952.
Today, its absence is commemorated by a plaque.
Although the remaining stones
were added to the National Register
of Historic Places by 1996, the
Nation’s Capital Boundary Stones
Committee is pushing for the sites
to be designated as National Historic
Landmarks.
“With that designation, the
National Park Service would have
to take care of them. They’d have to
be funded, maintained — and
they’d get awareness through that,”
Powers said.
Now one stone — SW No. 9 —
is recognized as a National Historic
Landmark. It sits in Benjamin
Banneker Park in Falls Church, Va.,
in memory of the original planner.
Further attempts to grant individual
stones that status have been turned
down.
With the fences celebrating their
centennial in 2015, Powers and the
rest of the volunteers appear to be
on track with their plan to renovate
every site. “It’s either all or nothing
now,” Powers said.
GRAY
From Page 7
through the city council.”
The mayor pointed out he had
pushed legislation through the
council for all District 3- and 4-yearolds to have access to preschool,
noting that key brain development
takes place before age 5.
Answering a question about
ensuring the quality of the programs, he said the programs would
increasingly fall under the auspices
of public or charter schools rather
than nonprofits, which have offered
inconsistent results. “There was a
group of very nice people who were
not prepared,” Gray recalled.
The mayor said he plans to
expand the city’s offerings to
include a program for children as
young as six months. The children
will be read to and enjoy what children from better educated families
receive, said Gray, adding that nonprofits could be very helpful in this
area.
“If you reach the kids earlier,
you’re going to do better. ... Hearing
words is how you build vocabulary.”
The city, he said, will reap the
benefits 10 to 15 years down the
road.”
Gray also announced progress in
special-education spending. By next
September, he said, the city will
reduce expenses by $25 million to
$30 million; it now spends $160
million on private schools plus $90
million on transportation. The savings, he said, will be reinvested in
education.
Gray also boasted of an area in
which he has increased spending
— reopening the city’s police academy, which was temporarily shut
down due to budget cuts when Gray
entered office.
Now, the academy will train 300
new officers to more than make up
for the 120 who leave the system
each year. By year’s end there will
be 3,200 officers; the goal, he said,
is to have 3,800.
Despite those hires, the key to
ending the city’s 11 percent unemployment rate lies in the private
sector, said Gray, who added that he
is personally calling on firms to
come here and to stay here.
And one project — stalled in that
pipeline for years — is already
doing so, he noted. After a massive
infusion of capital from the government of Qatar, construction is finally under way at the site of the old
convention center. According to
projections, CityCenterDC will lead
to 3,000 construction jobs and 3,000
new permanent jobs.
And there’s more good news in
Shaw, Gray noted: The O Street
Market development will break
ground in mid-November.
Gray also reported progress in
keeping residents healthy. Asked
about health care in wards 7 and 8,
he said there soon will be three new
clinics east of the Anacostia River.
With only 3.2 percent of the
District’s children not covered by
some kind of insurance, “the problem is access, not coverage.”
The Current
11
Mellow Mushroom concept lands on 18th Street
W
hen a lawyer ditches her
nonprofit career and
starts a pizzeria called
the Mellow Mushroom, you can bet
people make assumptions about her
new lifestyle.
“I’ve never had so many people
jealous of me in my entire life —
and it’s mostly my lawyer friends,”
said 33-year-old Pooja Mehta, who
opened the restaurant at 2436 18th
St. in Adams Morgan last week.
But in fact, Mehta is working so
hard that she’s been driven to new
means of fending off exhaustion —
like dancing with delirium. In front
of her staff. In the middle of the
night. “It’s either laugh or cry,
man,” she said, laughing. “What do
you want to see?”
Mellow Mushroom is a chain of
pizzerias — launched nearly four
decades ago by three friends in
Georgia — but each shop is a franchise, and Mehta and her co-owner,
her 30-year-old brother, Amit, have
franchising in their genes. Their
father, Ashok, went from working
as assistant manager of a Burger
King in 1980 to owning 26 outposts
in multiple states today. And both
kids spent time helping out.
“I loved it,” said Pooja Mehta. “I
thought it was so fun. I would make
my Whopper Jr.’s look so pretty.”
The comfort food at Mellow
Mushroom looks appealing, too:
The shop offers 14 specialty pies
and scores of choose-your-own-topping options — all of them handtossed pies with a little molasses in
regulars and two rotating choices
— as well as 50 bottles.
Mehta encountered the Mellow
beth cope
Mushroom concept years ago while
visiting a relative at Auburn
the crust “so it caramelizes a little
bit” when it’s baked on a stone, said University. Later, when considering
a franchise, she and Amit took a
Mehta.
tour of the chain’s outposts.
Mehta says she’s partial to the
“We got fat,” she said. “I really,
Philosopher’s Pie, which has an
really loved the food.” She also
olive oil and garlic base, topped
with grilled steak, portobello mush- loved the attitude of the owners. “I
really felt the
rooms, artipeople we met
choke hearts
[were], not like
and kalamata
Kool-Aid
olives, as well
happy, but they
as three cheeses:
felt like they’d
provolone, feta
made the right
and mozzarella
decision.”
($13.95 for a
The newest
10-inch pie to
Bill Petros/The Current Mellow
$25.95 for a
Mushroom —
Siblings Pooja and Amit Mehta
16-inch).
and D.C.’s
She says
own the 18th Street franchise.
only; the closother popular
est location otherwise is in
choices are the Kosmic Karma,
Charlottesville, Va. — opened at 6
which combines mozzarella, sunp.m. Friday to crowds of the chain’s
dried tomatoes, spinach, feta and
Roma tomatoes on a red-sauce base, fans. It “was packed with people
from Atlanta, people from South
and tops it all off with a pesto swirl
($12.95 to $24.95); and the Magical Carolina, people from North
Carolina,” said Mehta.
Mystery Tour, which takes a pesto So is her dad proud? “Oh, he’s
base crust and sauce and covers it
over the moon,” she said. And he’s
with button and portobello mushrooms, mozzarella, spinach, feta and also on the floor: “[He’s] been here
every day.”
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Preserving predictability
D.C. has a strong preservation law that contributes mightily to protecting our architectural and historical legacy, whether it be entire
neighborhoods like Dupont Circle and Cleveland Park or individual
landmarks like the Avalon Theatre and the old Columbia Hospital for
Women. There’s also a vigorous historic preservation community.
Yet there are recurring instances in which anti-development forces
seek to harness the process for their own ends, irrespective of the historic value of their targets. In some cases, the board has rejected the
suggested landmark; in most instances, staff members weed out questionable applications, though the process still engenders delays.
In the case of the century-old Georgia Avenue car barn, the newly
formed Brightwood Neighborhood Preservation Association has
sought to protect the structure from Walmart and developer FoulgerPratt. We are glad to learn that the D.C. Historic Preservation Office
staff has recommended against approval — in part because the “utilitarian brick structure” has been so heavily altered over the years. But
the decision rests with the Historic Preservation Review Board.
In our minds, the timing is as problematic as the request itself.
Walmart’s plans to open a store at the Ward 4 site have been in the
news since late 2010, but the landmark request was not filed until last
month. The backers organized after Foulger-Pratt began dismantling
the car barn’s roof beams and filed for demolition permits.
Though the Historic Preservation Office has moved quickly since
to consider the application, it is now six weeks later, with the board
slated to consider the application Thursday.
The District needs to hone the process to avoid last-minute
requests that do much to bolster an anti-business reputation for the
city. We suggest that the city set up a way for property owners to seek
board guidance early in the process — with an opportunity for public
input — on whether a particular structure is a potential landmark. A
“no” vote would preclude a landmark application later on. That
would help offer developers certainty and avoid unnecessary delays
and costly design revisions late in the game.
Making progress
Back when Mayor Vincent Gray hired Victor Hoskins as deputy
mayor for planning and economic development, the mayor told his
new employee that the CityCenterDC project at the old convention
center site had been in the planning stage for 11 years.
“It needs to be done,” Mr. Hoskins recalled the mayor telling him.
Now, 10 months later, the financing has been arranged and construction has started, which will include some 200,000 square feet of
retail, 500,000 square feet of offices and 700 housing units.
While Mr. Hoskins should not receive all of the credit, his drive
and sense of optimism are major reasons the business community has
such praise for the mayor.
Said the former Maryland economic development official, “I’ve
never been in a place with so many optimistic signals” as the District.
Mr. Hoskins has worked to hone the city’s focus, using a tiered
system to evaluate the 158 projects he faced when joining the office
to concentrate on 24. And under his leadership, long-planned project
after project has moved to the fore, with shovels in the ground.
Given our high unemployment rate, nothing could be better. The
CityCenterDC project alone will offer thousands of jobs, many of
which will be filled by District residents.
Unlike the agency’s past leaders, Mr. Hoskins has arranged for our
mayor to meet with decision-makers who have shown an interest in
locating here as well as local businesses considering leaving.
As a result, Microsoft is now considering opening its first “innovation center” in the United States at the St. Elizabeths site in Ward 8.
As Mr. Hoskins related at a recent D.C. Chamber of Commerce
board meeting, when he first met his wife, he thought she was out of
his league. But he asked, and she accepted.
“You have to ask!” he told the chamber members.
What’s shaking … ?
M
ayor Vincent Gray is shaking the federal
money tree.
The mayor last week asked federal
emergency management officials for $21.8 million in
disaster relief funds because of the August earthquake.
But only a small part of that money is for District
government damage.
The mayor’s request includes $15 million for the
Episcopal Church’s
Washington National
Cathedral. The rest is for
damage to public schools
and city government
buildings.
“We look forward to
working with the federal government to identify the
best ways to recover from damages to our infrastructure and facilities like roads, bridges, schools and
landmarks like the National Cathedral,” the mayor
said in a prepared statement.
Mayor Gray did a well-publicized tour of the
Cathedral grounds last week.
“We support the restoration,” he said, noting that
the Cathedral is “far more than a religious institution.” He called it an “iconic structure [that plays] an
enormous role in the nation, not just the District of
Columbia.”
Cathedral officials are struggling to cover the
repair costs, which they estimate will be at least $15
million.
The last few years have been tough on the
Cathedral’s finances. Aside from the quake damage,
the annual operating budget has dropped from about
$20 million to about $12 million.
But Cathedral officials promised that any donations given for building repair will be used for such
work and not for operations of the Cathedral itself.
“I would like to dispel any rumors that we’re
using capital funds to support our operating budget,”
said Andrew Hullinger, senior director of finance and
administration.
Hullinger acknowledged that it’s possible the
Federal Emergency Management Agency may turn
down the city request.
“If we need to, if we do not receive FEMA funding … we will go coast to coast” in search of donors
to help restore the Cathedral, he said.
The Cathedral has been draped in chain-link fencing since the earthquake in August. Officials hope to
reopen it the weekend of Nov. 12 and 13.
■ Shaking the shackles. Yet another midlevel government worker is headed to jail for corruption and
theft.
U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen’s staff reported last
week that 47-year-old Mary Ayers-Zander, a former
tax examiner for D.C., pleaded guilty to wire fraud
involving more than $400,000 in fraudulent tax
refunds.
She won’t be sentenced until February. Now, we
really don’t understand the sentencing procedures,
the delays and all that, but that’s not the point of this
item.
We want to repeat the quote from the U.S. attorney that accompanied
the news release about
Ms. Ayers-Zander, who
faces fines and imprisonment.
“This tax examiner
was supposed to be protecting the public’s tax dollars, not squandering them
on herself and her friends,” said Machen. “Today’s
guilty plea demonstrates how vigilant we must be to
detect abuses of the public trust in government agencies and how committed we are to prosecuting those
who seek to enrich themselves at taxpayer expense.”
That kind of tough language could have a few city
officials doing their own shaking.
■ Rolling snake eyes? The prospect of online gaming in the District has some citizens riled up. It began
when activist Marie Drissel and others noted that the
city passed the authorizing legislation — to allow
“hot spot” gambling on computers all around town
— almost in secret.
Now the whole shebang has been delayed until
community meetings can be held in each of the city’s
eight wards. Three have been held so far.
But there was more suspicion and outcry last
week after the planned Ward 6 meeting was postponed. The lottery’s notice didn’t reach many people,
leading to complaints that the delay was an effort to
cut down the size of the crowd. Lottery officials
denied that, apologized and rebooted.
After lottery officials talked to Ward 6 D.C.
Council member Tommy Wells, the Ward 6 meeting
was rescheduled for Nov. 21 to give people more
time to plan. It’ll be held in the North Hall of Eastern
Market on Capitol Hill.
In all, there will be five iGaming meetings in the
remaining five wards in November. After that, we
may have a better idea of whether the city government feels comfortable going forward.
The whole iGaming gig got off on the wrong foot,
and every misstep — particularly in the current city
atmosphere of corruption — just undermines the
money-making idea.
Don’t place your bets on iGaming happening yet.
Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political
reporter for News 4.
TOM SHERWOOD’s
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Letters to
the Editor
Noël deserves seat
on D.C. commission
There is very strong support
for Elizabeth Noël’s confirmation
to the Public Service Commission
throughout the District, especially
among tenants. Why? Because
she has provided fair, impartial
and distinguished service throughout her public life, notably during
her long tenure as head of the
D.C. Office of the People’s
Counsel.
Every citizen in this city has
benefited from her work. Tenants
seek no special treatment, only
fairness in utility rate paying and
the ability to live in an affordable
city. The rich can live anywhere;
tenants can’t. Runaway rents and
utility rates are forcing the most
vulnerable among us out of the
city — and nobody understands
these demographics and hardships
better than Ms. Noël.
The “conflict of interest” and
“functionality” arguments against
this nomination are completely
bogus and were debunked by the
vast majority of witnesses, lay and
professional, at the D.C. Council’s
recent confirmation hearing. Each
is a red herring contrived by
entrenched special interests, with
Pepco in the lead.
Ms. Noël has called this giant
utility to account on unfair and
excessive costs, and Pepco’s strident opposition is nothing less
than “get even” time. The definitive answer to both of these arguments against Ms. Noël was provided by the D.C. attorney general, the city’s top lawyer, who
found no impediments whatsoever
to Ms. Noël’s nomination.
The most compelling reasons
to confirm are Ms. Noël’s outstanding qualities and the great
need for them on the Public
Service Commission now. She is
an outstanding litigator, combining legal brilliance with extraordinary integrity, decency and commitment to the public weal. As
such, she would fill a key gap in a
critical agency that has become
largely moribund.
As people’s advocate, she has
befriended the tenant cause countless times. Our organization’s
board has unanimously supported
her confirmation. We have testified many times before the council and endorsed many outstanding nominees for public office.
We believe Ms. Noël is the finest
one to date, and we respectfully
urge the council to act promptly
and favorably on her behalf.
Jim McGrath
Chair, D.C. Tenants’
Advocacy Coalition
The Current
Letters to
the Editor
Ward Circle poses
major safety risks
I am concerned about the traffic
in Ward Circle next to American
University and the U.S.
Department of Homeland Security.
I feel like the crossings and
intersections have become a dangerous place not only for pedestrians, but also for drivers.
If I’m driving, I worry I’ll get
rear-ended when I stop for students
and other pedestrians in the crosswalks. When I’m walking, I fear
for my life trying to cross Nebraska
and Massachusetts avenues.
From my observations, some
drivers have difficulty navigating
which lanes of the circle they
should be in. All in all, it’s very
confusing and dangerous, I
believe.
Thomas R. Snowden
McLean Gardens
Residents support
wider sidewalks
The Current’s Oct. 12 article
“Businesses balk at plan for sidewalks” was poorly written and
researched and did not accurately
report what happened at the Oct. 6
meeting of the Adams Morgan
advisory neighborhood commission.
The Current failed to mention
that community members spoke in
favor of the resolution to keep as
much of the newly constructed
sidewalk as possible available for
the public to walk on.
Of the members of the business
community quoted in the article,
only one, the Amsterdam
Falafelshop, operates a sidewalk
cafe in Adams Morgan. Located on
private space in front of the business, it will remain unaffected by
the streetscape.
Adams Morgan’s sidewalks
must serve the 16,000 neighborhood residents, as well as the visitors drawn by the many restaurants; there are approximately
7,000 seats at Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board-licensed establishments in the neighborhood, and
many more at restaurants that don’t
serve beer, wine and spirits.
These sidewalks have historically been grossly inadequate to
accommodate the volume of visitors and residents on busy weekends and other nights. Pedestrians
routinely walk in the streets due to
sidewalk crowding. A prime purpose of the 18th Street streetscape
project is to create safe, walkable
sidewalks that will benefit residents, visitors and business owners
alike.
Under the advisory neighbor-
hood commission’s recommendation to the D.C. Public Space
Committee, none of the 15 existing
cafes in the area affected by the
streetscape project would be
reduced in size, so there is no
threat of loss of seats. The additional sidewalk width gained in
many places will only bring the
width into the typical ranges in the
city’s current public space regulations (10 feet of clear unobstructed
passageway, which the committee
can reduce to 6 feet in its discretion). So, under even the existing
rules, very few restaurants that
don’t already have sidewalk cafes
would be eligible to create them.
This is due to the physical details
of the street and has nothing to do
with fairness.
Denis James
Adams Morgan
University has taken
valuable measures
As residents of the communities
near Georgetown University, we
want to applaud the recent steps
the university has taken to maintain the quality of life in our neighborhoods.
Since school started this year,
the university has deployed twicedaily trash patrols on the streets of
West Georgetown and Burleith,
collecting more than 100 tons of
trash — including non-university
trash. The university has hired
seven Metropolitan Police
Department officers to patrol on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday
evenings, working with campus
security officers to prevent and
deter crime on our neighborhood
streets. In addition, the university
has started a new shuttle bus service to take students to and from
M Street, which means fewer students traveling on foot through our
neighborhoods late at night.
Each of these new initiatives
benefits residents who live near the
university. But all District residents
benefit from the economic development and services that the university provides to the city.
Georgetown University is the
largest private employer in the city,
employing more than 9,800 people
— 40 percent of whom live in
D.C. Last year, the university spent
$86 million on goods and services
from D.C. businesses. Georgetown
University undergraduate and
graduate students provide countless hours of volunteer public service to District residents each year
at free health clinics, soup kitchens
and other social service agencies.
Overall, Georgetown University’s
positive impact on our city is broad
and deep. When the university
prospers, it enhances all of our
lives.
We also applaud the university
for listening to its neighbors to the
west by removing the so-called
“loop road” proposal from the
campus plan. The university is
now proposing an approach to providing better internal circulation
for its commuter shuttle buses that
will reduce the number of buses on
neighborhood streets without
building the loop road. It’s a win
for everyone.
Whether we moved here recently or years ago, we each made a
decision to live near Georgetown
University, knowing that there are
pluses and minuses to living near
any large institution. On balance,
we continue to think that the benefits of living near the university far
exceed any negative impacts.
We appreciate the importance
of Georgetown University to our
neighborhood and support its campus plan, which includes these new
community initiatives. And we
thank Georgetown University for
its continuing efforts to enhance
our city and to be a good neighbor.
Grace Bateman
Georgetown
Elliott Crooke
Foxhall
John Doolittle
Cloisters
Erika Higley
Glover Park
Charlie Skuba
Hillandale
Tom and Sarah Strike
Burleith
Area merchants can’t
forget to be friendly
The new Brooks Brothers outlet
at 31st and M streets is a distinct
asset to the neighborhood, with
excellent displays and professional,
courteous and helpful sales associates.
Unfortunately, the same cannot
be said for Sara’s Market at 30th
and P streets, now under new ownership. The former longtime
owner, a neighborhood resident,
employed friendly clerks who
made it a pleasure to stop by and
pick up a few items. Since the
business has been sold, there has
been a distinct change for the
worse.
The new clerk, whom I believe
to be the owner as well, is
unfriendly and seems to enjoy
arguing. His communication skills
are poor. Although the addition of
an on-site dry cleaning establishment is a plus, unfortunately the
same attitude and lack of customer
service prevails there. There
always seems to be an extraordinary spot/stain removal problem
requiring extra (read: expensive)
treatment. I removed the soil on
one such area with a moist tissue!
After six years as a loyal customer, I won’t be returning.
Betty M. van Iersel
Georgetown
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he depth of public anger and loss of confidence
in the conduct of D.C. elected officials cannot
be overstated. The D.C. Council is now considering legislation proposed by some members to deal
with this conduct. Generally, each bill focuses on one
to three issues, but this type of piecemeal action will
not result in real ethics reform or satisfy the current
disillusionment.
What is needed is comprehensive reform of our ethics laws and regulations. To make a real difference, it
must curb the huge influence of money spent by special interests, eliminate conflicts of interest, and raise
the standards of ethical conduct of elected officials.
Also essential is a truly effective mechanism — now
woefully lacking — to enforce ethics and conflict-ofinterest laws.
Many of the recent scandals involve violations of
current laws that can only be explained by the fact that
public officials assume the laws are not enforced. We
need to consolidate all ethics oversight under a new
independent ethics commission that includes the current responsibilities of the Board of Elections and
Ethics, but expands them significantly.
DC for Democracy, a leading progressive group, is
proposing 18 specific measures that, if adopted, would
help achieve real, comprehensive ethics reform.
Our suggestions include:
■ Prohibit any business or nonprofit entity that solicits
or has a contract with the city from making contributions to elected officials or candidates for elected
office. Most states have some form of this requirement
to thwart so-called “pay-to-play” schemes used to
obtain contracts.
■ Ban contributions by lobbyists and lobbyist employers to candidates for public office.
■ Bar elected officials from receiving free or discounted legal advice.
■ Prohibit council members from outside employment,
effective Jan. 1, 2014. The current salary of $125,500
exceeds that of almost 90 percent of District households; it also exceeds the pay for city council members
anywhere in the United States except Los Angeles.
■ Ban elected officials from receiving free or reduced
prices that are not available to D.C. residents for
sports, entertainment and other events.
Letters to
the Editor
Careful development
appropriate for plant
The U.S. General Services
Administration is going to be selling the unused West Heating Plant
in Georgetown. The heating plant
— the equivalent of an eight-story
building — runs the length of an
entire city block alongside the
C&O Canal National Historical
Park. South of the plant building is
a large, mostly open coal yard and
tank facility that runs on the east
along Rock Creek and on the west
along 29th Street down to its intersection with K Street.
The question is whether we can
make this an opportunity of the sort
that gave us our great Georgetown
Waterfront Park and the C&O
Canal Park, both created out of
19th-century industrial zones.
These public spaces contribute
immeasurably to the character and
profile of Georgetown today. The
opportunity before us is to take at
least the area south of the plant
■ Require council members to state on the record
whether they have a conflict of interest or potential
conflict prior to consideration of any proposed legislation before a council committee or the full body. Any
member with such a conflict would be required to
refrain at all times from participating in the matter in
any way.
■ Require any elected official with knowledge that
another elected official or District employee has violated the conflict-of-interest laws to report it immediately
to the D.C. inspector general and a new D.C. ethics
commission.
■ Establish an independent commission to strictly
enforce all ethics matters, conflict-of-interest laws and
financial reporting requirements of elected officials and
candidates. The commission would not only look into
allegations raised by others but also initiate its own
investigations to determine potential violations. Of its
seven members, four should come from community
organizations, labor and business. The mayor and city
council should each fill one seat; the D.C. attorney
general (who will be elected beginning after the 2014
election) should be the seventh member.
■ Eliminate council member constituent services
funds. At present, members can raise up to $80,000 a
year, most of which comes from special interests.
When soliciting funds, members say these accounts
will be used to assist residents with emergency needs,
such as paying rent to avoid an eviction or an electricity bill to avoid a cutoff of service. The fact is these
funds are used mostly for activities to enhance their reelection.
■ Ban contractors and others from doing business with
the city if they have misrepresented their experience,
qualifications or abilities during a contract-award process in the past five years.
■ Ban anyone from doing business with the city who
has been convicted or financially penalized in the past
five years for insurance, financial, contracting or other
types of fraud.
■ Prohibit contributions for expenses of an elected
official’s transition (instead use available government
facilities, phones and supplies), and limit contributions
for inaugural activities to $100. Currently, special
interests can make contributions of $25,000 or more to
both transition and inaugural committees, and no public reporting is required.
Dan Wedderburn is chair of the government reform
committee of the group DC for Democracy.
building — the large open-land
portion of the site — and make it
into parkland. This would create a
broad lawn stretching from 29th
Street to the bank of Rock Creek.
We cannot let this opportunity
pass. This will be our only chance
to give our community access to a
beautiful stream that for decades
has been walled off by ill-conceived industrial development.
Right now, Georgetown’s only
access to Rock Creek is a narrow
cement path behind two office
buildings. Plans for the Waterfront
Park drawn up around 2000 specifically called for the heating plant
site ultimately to become parkland
— a community goal for decades.
Given the General Services
Administration’s need to raise cash,
some development appears inevitable. A win-win solution would be:
■ develop just the plant building,
with its huge footprint, as condos
or a hotel;
■ preserve some of the building’s
art deco architectural features,
while allowing the developer to cut
open substantially more window
space than the fortress-like plant
structure has now;
■ develop the area south of the
plant as an open-field, passive park
with access to a “soft” bank of
Rock Creek; and,
■ allow the developer to build a
multilevel underground parking
structure under the parkland given
that the developer cannot realistically dig needed parking underneath the massive plant building.
Additionally, removing the soil
under the yard and tank area for
underground parking, and then
covering it with fresh topsoil,
would likely solve various environmental issues for the developer.
If we can agree that such an
approach makes sense, picking a
developer with a track record of
quality projects and sensitivity to
Georgetown issues will be critical.
Certainly Anthony Lanier’s
EastBanc would fit this profile
based on its successful redevelopment of the Georgetown incinerator
plant at 31st and K streets; there
may well be others.
As long as public-interest principles are respected, a compromise
on development can benefit all.
Steve Crimmins
Georgetown
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October 26, 2011 ■ Page 17
Rebel DJs reunite at WGBT,
once-controversial GU station
By DEIRDRE BANNON
T
he Georgetown University radio station that Spiro Agnew once skewered
as “the voice of third-world communism” celebrated its provocative history with
a first-ever reunion of disc jockeys, station
managers and fans during the university’s
homecoming events this past weekend.
WGTB, which was founded in 1946, was
once known as one of the most controversial
college radio stations in the country, thanks
to its progressive music and news programming, which in the 1970s covered topics
such as anti-Vietnam War protests, the labor
movement and gay and lesbian issues. The
station also aired ads for contraceptives.
By 1979, conflicts between the university
and the students and staff running the station
climaxed, and the administration pulled the
station off the air and sold the signal to the
University of the District of Columbia for $1.
In 1997, that school sold the signal to
C-SPAN for $13 million.
Georgetown’s radio station was regenerated in the 1980s, and it went digital in 1996.
Caroline Klibanoff, who has been a DJ
since her freshman year and is now the station’s general manager as a senior, organized
the reunion after she stumbled across some
of the station’s archives when cleaning out
the broadcast space this summer.
“I heard that the alumni of the station had
an active network, so their enthusiasm and
the incredible history of the station combined
with the archives I found -- I thought, ‘Wait,
we have to do this,’” said Klibanoff. “We had
something to show the alumni, we had people that wanted to come back and talk, and
we have DJs that don’t know their history.”
On Saturday in a room next to station’s
broadcast center, more
than 75 people gathered
for a two-hour open-mic
session that was
streamed live and
included alumni, former
staff and current students sharing stories
about working at the
station. For many
alums, the station was
the cornerstone of their
undergraduate experience at Georgetown and
impacted the careers
they have today.
John Paige, one of the founders of the
9:30 Club, was a DJ in the 1970s while an
undergraduate at Georgetown. He stayed on
after graduating in 1973 until the station was
shut down in 1979.
“Because of the relationships we were
able to build with importers, we had the first
and sometimes the only copies of certain
records on the entire East Coast,” said Paige,
including work by David Bowie, Tubular
Bells and Bob Marley and the Wailers.
“Some of the music was really underground
stuff that you couldn’t hear anywhere else,
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Alumni of Georgetown University’s WGTB
radio station, which was shut down for
years, gathered at a reunion last weekend.
and we became known as a progressive station.”
Paige added that when the university
threatened to shut down the station in 1979,
the petition to keep WGTB alive was the
largest that had ever been presented to the
Federal Communications Commission.
But it was the news coverage and the ads
for contraception that truly tested the
Catholic university’s patience.
In 1971, the university hired Ken Sleeman
as a station manager to help “fire the troublemakers and hire squares,” according to
Sleeman, who now lives in Rockville and
attended the reunion. But he said the same
kinds of students gravitated to the station, so
its message remained the same.
Sleeman was fired at the end of 1975
and banned from campus. “They probably
don’t know I’m here,” Sleeman said during
the live broadcast. The final straw during
his tenure came when the university
opposed ads the station was running for a
clinic in the District that offered referrals to
abortion services.
Sleeman noted that to this day,
Georgetown’s radio station is still not
allowed to discuss contraception on air.
Today the station is completely studentrun, and it airs exclusively online.
“I hope that we bring a diverse voice to
campus,” said Klibanoff, who competes for
an audience these days with iTunes and
iPods. “We give 200 people a chance to talk
every week, and we hope we fill a need in
the campus community that they can’t get
anywhere else.”
Program makes storytellers out of memory-stricken seniors
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Liz Nichols runs the TimeSlips
storytelling program at Iona
Senior Services.
t Iona Senior Services, the
lunchroom is humming
with memories.
“The best time in my life was
when I got married and had a family,” one woman recalls. But when
she tries to remember her children’s
names, her smile fades.
“My kids’ names,” she trails off.
“My God. I can’t start thinking
about that. It’s too hard.”
Sharon O’Connor oversees the
Tenleytown facility’s adult day center, which provides seniors with a
suite of services. “They come here
to our program if they need some
extra assistance during the day, or
maybe some oversight from a
nurse,” she said.
And according to O’Connor,
many of the participants struggle
with various forms of memory loss.
“It could be something as simple
as mild cognitive impairment,
where you would say, ‘Gosh, I can
never remember where I put my
keys,’” she said. “Or it could be
memory loss that would be more
dementia or Alzheimer’s, where
you would say, ‘I’m not quite sure
what these keys are for.’”
That’s why, O’Connor said, she
was so excited when she learned
about a storytelling program
designed specifically for people
with memory loss.
According to the program’s
website, a University of Wisconsin
professor named Anne Basting
established TimeSlips in 1996 to
“replace the pressure to remember
with the freedom to imagine.” This
fall, with support from the National
Storytelling Network, facilitator Liz
Nichols began offering TimeSlips
sessions at Iona.
“It works by getting people
together in a circle, in a quiet place,
and starting with a photograph or
something else to prompt everyone
to make up a story together,”
Nichols said. “And then we have
someone write down and echo back
what they’ve said. Because if people have short-term memory loss,
10 minutes later they might not
remember what they’ve said.”
On a recent morning, a group of
seniors settled into a circle at Iona.
Nichols handed out a photo of an
old-fashioned airplane, gliding into
the sunset.
“Charles Lindbergh,” one participant called out.
And so the story began. Words
turned into sentences, and sentenc-
es became paragraphs. As each participant spoke, Nichols wrote down
their contributions and echoed them
back. Soon a full story emerged.
“Charles Lindbergh and his wife
are flying from New York to Paris,”
Nichols said. “They visit museums
and look at beautiful portraits. ...
Then they’re out, strolling the
streets of Paris, and they’re singing
‘Frère Jacques.’”
The seniors sang along.
“The idea behind TimeSlips is
that, aside from the fact that people
lose their language ability, even
more so they lose their confidence
in their ability to express themselves,” Nichols said. “But with the
right encouragement and the right
setting, people can reveal a lot of
creativity they still have, especially
if you don’t press them to remember.”
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Aidan Montessori School
On Oct. 14, the Aidan
Montessori upper elementary class
went to the Civil War battlefield
called Monocacy where the last
Confederate invasion of the North
happened. The students also saw
the slave quarters at Best Farm.
Fourth-grader Edvin Leijon said,
“I thought the museum was cool. I
also liked the artifacts.”
Fifth-grader Elliot Sealls said, “I
thought it was cool to know what
happened back then.”
Ms. Shirley said, “I learned a
lot, and it was my first time going
there.”
“I think it was really cool, and I
learned a lot,” fifth-grader Lukas
Leijon said.
Everyone liked different things.
Fourth-grader Julian
Cunningham said, “I liked the
museum and the canons.’’
Fourth-grader Stephen Sealls
said, “I liked the bullet exhibit.’’
Sixth-grader Lucia Braddock
said, “I liked the museum because
of the scavenger hunt, and I learned
a lot from it.”
Fourth-grader Alexandria
Bullock said, “It was awesome and
fun!”
— Sebastian Lenart and
Marshall Cooperman,
fourth-graders
British School
of Washington
There are five Year 13 students
taking higher-level International
Baccalaureate French, and I enjoy
our small class because it allows us
to casually discuss topics in French
with each other.
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radio” and “la publicité,” or advertising. We learned about advertising by creating our own product
and making posters to advertise it.
We had to use techniques for persuasion such as l’imperatif and the
new vocabulary we learned. After
we completed our posters, we presented them to the rest of the class,
which is good practice for the oral
presentations we will have to do as
part of our final IB grade in
French.
It was interesting (and in some
cases very funny) seeing what others had done. Henry presented his
product, a 1969 Ford Mustang;
Laia and Robbie made an out-ofthe-ordinary poster persuading consumers to buy a somewhat bizarrelooking green cereal called
“Uranios”; and Savannah talked
about her anti-smoking poster. My
product was a personalized robotécole that does students’ homework
for them!
We then did a timed writing
exercise, similar to what we will
have to do in the end-of-year exam,
writing letters of complaint to each
other about the faults of each other’s products. Inventing and presenting our products on posters was
very fun. I am looking forward to
the next unit, in which we will be
learning about social problems such
as homelessness.
— Anna Serrichio,
Year 13 Berkley (12th-grader)
Deal Middle School
At Alice Deal Middle School,
there is never a shortage of excitement. Just in the past couple of
weeks, we have had new activities,
fundraisers and even some major
news.
African, Chinese, American,
Spanish and Mediterranean — we
have all types of cultures at Alice
Deal. These cultures come together
on International Night, an event
where all five of these backgrounds
are featured. Everybody brings in
one food dish from one of these
cultures. Two Thursdays ago, all of
the school came at night to enjoy
these exciting and interesting foods.
We raised $5,000 in support of
school activities.
Just this month the students at
Alice Deal received some shocking
news: Our beloved principal is
leaving Deal to go on to do bigger
and better things (although I ask
myself, “What could be better than
Deal?”). Principal Kim is leaving
after six years as the head of our
school. She leaves her principal’s
role in good hands, though, because
our vice principal, Mr. Albright,
will be taking over. Ms. Kim’s final
day as a true Alice Deal Viking will
be in December. But she will
always be a Viking in the hearts of
the students.
Just last week we started Viking
Time, a favorite at Deal. Viking
Time is a period at the end of the
day when students do different
activities with a teacher. The purpose is to get to know a teacher
outside of the classroom. The activities include World Responders,
Garage Band, Walking Club and
even an intense workout called
Insanity.
— Ben Korn, sixth-grader
Duke Ellington School
of the Arts
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praised Cuban children’s theater
group La Colmenita came to Duke
Ellington as part of a nationwide
tour.
The group, which is a UNICEF
goodwill ambassador, performed
“Abracadabra,” a play that mixes
rock ’n’ roll, fairy tales and justice
to tell the story of the relationship
between the United States and
Cuba. The cast members were a
wide range of ages, and the highoctane performance was engaging
and interactive. The group has visited more than 25 countries. Carlos
Alberto Cremata founded and
directs La Colmenita.
The school also had a special
visitor this week when Ralph
Johnson, of the legendary group
Earth, Wind & Fire, came to the
school to give a master class with
percussion students.
On Wednesday, Duke Ellington
held its first open house of the
school year. Students and parents
from across the city got the chance
to visit classes, meet teachers and
view performances. There will be
two more open houses, on Nov. 7
and Dec. 6. Students from the
Literary Media and
Communications Department took
part in a press conference with
journalists from the White House
press corps. The event featured
Time Magazine contributor
Michael Scherer, and students were
given the opportunity to put questions to him and others.
On Oct. 22, the Duke Ellington
ceremonial band had its inaugural
performance at the Howard
Homecoming Parade. The day
before the event the school held a
pep rally at Ellington Field to show
its support for the band.
— Kat Patrong, 10th-grader
Edmund Burke School
The eighth-graders have been
visiting preschoolers. One of the
schools they go to is BCDC, a day
care across the street from Burke.
The eighth-graders have made only
two visits so far, but they loved
every minute of them. Both times,
they all came back to school chattering away about who was the
most adorable child, who was the
smartest and what fun they had
together.
The eighth-grade students visit
the kids to teach them things.
The first time, they taught the
kids about biking safety, since the
preschoolers were having a small
event that involved riding bikes.
The older kids read stories such as
“Froggy Rides a Bike” while asking questions such as, “What do
you think Froggy is doing wrong?”
The kids would respond with:
“He’s not looking in front of him!”
or “He needs to hold both of the
handles.” The children loved it and
bonded quickly with the Burke
kids.
The second class was about
math. One group focused on teaching the kids about patterns and
shapes using handmade worksheets
and tiles with different colors.
Surprisingly, all the preschoolers
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our future visits.
— Catherine Boyd, eighth-grader
Hearst Elementary
We spent the month of
September reading biographies and
learning about many famous people. We read about Harriet Tubman,
Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick
Douglass, Rosa Parks, Jimmy
Carter, Abraham Lincoln,
Sacagawea, Harry Houdini,
Georgia O’Keeffe and many, many
others! We enjoyed learning about
Harriet Tubman and Abraham
Lincoln most of all.
In library, Mrs. Vandivier taught
us how to create time lines on the
Smart Board to summarize a person’s life. In the classroom, our
teacher read us biographies and we
were able to read several biographies on our own.
At home, we completed a citizenship project. We picked a person to research, and we shared how
the person served as a good citizen
in the community. Some people
chose to do the project on famous
people, and others did their projects
on family members or people in
their community. These projects
taught us how Oprah Winfrey,
Steve Jobs, George Washington,
Herbert’s dad and many other people have used their lives to help
people. Now that we’re done with
the unit, we realize that even when
people are mean to us we should
keep on trying to be kind and helpful. We can try this at school, at
home and when we go out in our
community.
— Mazen Sheppard and
Noah Wood, second-graders
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Bolts wrote their first realistic fiction stories of the year. After all
their hard work of writing their stories, they decided to have a publishing party and a bake sale.
Earlier, they had read a true
story called “Fourteen Cows for
America,” about how the Masai
gave us 14 cows when our tragedy
of 9/11 happened.
When the horrible fire happened
in Kenya and more than 70 people
died, the Lightning Bolts thought
of having a bake sale to raise
money for them because they had
helped us. So when the publishing
party started, the parents came in
and read the students’ stories. After
the publishing party, the parents
and kids bought a few goodies that
the Lightning Bolts had brought in.
When the parents left, there was
still a bit of work to do until the
students went to their regular
schedule, including counting the
money they all gathered up. Ms.
Salute brought the box out and
started counting $1, $2 … $100.
Everyone screamed! Then they got
it together again. In the end, they
ended up with $103.04.
They were all so excited. The
fifth-graders were very kind and
had a bake sale, too. All the money
that they raised they gave to us to
give to Kenya. They raised $200.
We ended up with $300. When
David Auerbach, the man who
helped us deliver the money to
Kenya, told the students that they
had just bought a water container
for each of 250 families, the students were all very happy with
their help and work.
— Fiona Madrid, fourth-grader
Jewish Primary Day
School
On Oct. 12, the Jewish Primary
Day School tried to help make a
world record. The record that we
were trying to set was for the most
people doing jumping jacks for one
minute within a 24-hour period.
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Halloween Costume Parade on the
blacktop. The whole Key School
community walks around campus
in costume to cool songs like
“Monster Mash.” The costumes are
fun and creative, and many are
homemade. Last year, our friend
Jackson dressed up like a milk carton. Another unique costume was
Poseidon, god of the sea. Idris
wrapped an old sheet around himself like a toga and put a patch on
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First lady Michelle Obama brought
up this idea because it helps kids
and adults pay attention to the
importance of exercise.
At our school, the third-, fourth-,
fifth- and sixth-graders were divided into groups of 50. Then, one
grown-up volunteer watched each
group while we were doing jumping jacks. This was because the
rules from the Guinness Book of
World Records say that we need to
have a complete tally of everyone
who participates.
The volunteers also needed to
make sure to count only people
who kept jumping. The younger
kids jumped with their own classes
and were also monitored. Teachers,
administrators and a couple of parents jumped, too.
We also brought coins to school
as another part of the activity. The
money will be donated to help buy
sports equipment for people who
don’t have very much. We raised
$28.01.
The kids at our school thought
trying to make a world record was
very exciting. They also thought
that doing jumping jacks in the
morning was really cool. In order
to make the record, there needed to
be 20,000 or more people doing
jumping jacks within a 24-hour
period. We don’t know yet whether
we made the record or not. We
hope we made a difference and set
the world record!
— Ellie Goldenberg,
fourth-grader
crown. And he made a trident out
of cardboard. Our friends Zack and
Brett dressed up as Mario and
Luigi (the Mario Brothers)! It was
fun for everyone.
Another exciting Key School
activity to look forward to is the
annual Fannie Mae Homeless Walk
in the Palisades, on Nov. 4. Did
you know that nearly 12,000 people in the Washington area are
without homes? This walk raises
money to support organizations that
help to prevent or end homelessness in the D.C. area. Since 1988,
the walk has gathered more than
$85 million toward this cause.
Everybody from Key walked in it
last year. We are excited to help out
again this year, and we hope the
money we raise will make a difference.
— Idris Hasan-Granier and
Mica Gelb, fifth-graders
Lafayette Elementary
There are many clubs at
Lafayette. Three of them are
Jewelry Club, International Club
and Math Club.
At Jewelry Cub, you make jewelry with glass beads. You also
make different patterns with the
beads. This club is held on
Tuesdays from noon to 12:30 p.m.
There are no club officers, but the
two teachers who run the club are
Ms. Kerry Cassidy and Ms. Erin
Brooks. Usually five to 10 students
attend the club, which is held in
Ms. Cassidy’s room. Third-, fourthand fifth-graders are welcome.
Another club is International
Club, which has been at Lafayette
for a really long time. At
International Club, you learn about
places all over the world. This club
has four fifth-grade officers and
two teachers who sponsor it, Ms.
Erika Pereira and Ms. Irene
Taguian. The club meets every
other Friday from noon to 1 p.m.
and usually has 10 to 20 members
attend.
Last but not least is Math Club.
Math Club is held on Wednesdays
at 8 a.m. The three teachers who
run this club are Mr. Robert
Thurston, Ms. Erin Betz and Ms.
Blake Yedwab. In this club, as you
might expect, you have fun with
math, play games and find patterns.
Usually 20 to 40 students go to
Math Club.
These are only three of the
teacher-led clubs for students at
Lafayette. There are lots more
exciting clubs here. If you ever go
to Lafayette, you should participate
in one of these clubs.
— Therese Dombo, Ally Heinrich
and Rose Kelleher, fifth-graders
Murch Elementary
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In the fall, we know parents try
to find the best school for their
kids. We are going to tell you why
we think you should choose Murch.
Murch is a great school for
learning, and the school lunch is
very healthy. Every child is getting
a good education from the teachers.
The teachers are always happy to
answer questions that children have
so that they can understand. The
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— Zara Kovner and Sigita
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kids who are doing well get harder
worksheets to move to the next
level, and they also help kids who
might need just a little extra help so
the class does well together.
Specials, like music, art, P.E.
and library, also teach your child
about many different things.
In music, we learn about musical symbols and national anthems.
In art, we learn how to make
cool things, using materials like
paper, paint, tape and scissors.
In P.E., we get a fitness test and
play exercising games. In library,
the librarian reads a story and then
the children then do an activity
related to that book.
At recess, your child will have
half an hour to play with friends,
which still leaves a lot of time to
learn in the classroom. If it is raining at recess time, your child will
have indoor recess with free time
indoors to write, draw, play games
(like “Sorry!”), and not get wet or
catch a cold.
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On Oct. 13, National
Presbyterian School hosted its
fourth annual Diversity and
Community Dinner. In total, there
were around 150 people. Some parents pitched in by arranging delicious food that fed the whole
crowd. Also, some teachers helped.
Ms. Williams, the math specialist,
organized a big chunk of the event.
A guest author, Paula Young
Shelton, read her amazing book
and true story about her troubles
with segregation and how she personally knew Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. The book’s title is “Child
of the Civil Rights Movement.” It
was published in 2010.
After the storytelling, the kids
were invited to travel a short distance over to the gym. There, they
colored on paper houses, tents or
castles and wrote what would be
inside theirs and why that’s important. Then, the kids proceeded to
the gym wall where a giant piece of
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“I love seeing Mayra; she is
always cheerful and polite,” said
Mayra’s mentor.
Teachers enjoy teaching at Ross
because the children are always
nice.
“It’s rewarding and exciting
because I get to educate students
and the students teach me life lessons every day,” said Ms. Reilly, a
fifth-grade teacher.
“I feel good cleaning and I love
coming to work and it’s not spooky
in the building here at night,” said
Mr. Lancaster, our custodian.
Students love Ross because
paper was and taped their structures
on. All the students helped create a
masterpiece of houses. All in all,
the dinner was a very successful
one.
— Elisa McCartin, sixth-grader
Ross Elementary
We have a program at Ross
called Everybody Wins!
“I like EW! because I get to see
happy kids that are reading,” said
the director, Emie.
“I enjoy EW! because I get to
see my reading buddy,” said Becky,
a mentor.
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in the kitchen,” said John, a preschooler.
Jonathan V. summed it up when
he said, “Teachers are very nice
here, and I love Ross.”
— Students and teachers
St. Albans School
School has gone smoothly since
the drama of the crane collapsing at
the Washington National Cathedral.
The school has hosted visitors from
the Association of Independent
Maryland & DC Schools, otherwise known as AIMS, a group of
teachers from many private schools
in Maryland and nearby areas that
evaluate other schools and make
sure they follow their “mission”
statements. St. Albans also celebrated homecoming and “beautified” the entrance to our main gym.
Over the last week, there have
been many visiting teachers from
AIMS. AIMS rates the school’s
facilities and athletic and artistic
offerings. In almost every class,
there was a visiting teacher watching while we solved a problem, or
asking us, “How do I get to this
room?” They were very nice to all
the students they encountered.
Perhaps the best part was the fact
that the teachers weren’t allowed to
give tests or quizzes during that
week.
This year we had a great homecoming. The soccer game that was
scheduled for Friday against
Landon was rained out. But the
football game against Episcopal
went on, drawing a great crowd.
Led by captains Arthur Jones, Matt
McJunkin and Charles Cato, the
team was in great hands. It seemed
as if St. Albans would win the
game by a narrow margin, but
Episcopal managed to kick a field
goal in the closing minutes to win
the game. Even though we lost to
Episcopal, our chances of winning
our third-straight Interstate Athletic
Conference championship aren’t
spoiled yet.
— Donal Mullane, Form II
(eighth-grader)
St. Ann’s Academy
In science, we have been learning about pulling forces and
motion. We even did a lab with toy
cars to calculate acceleration. In
social studies, we have been learning about the physical geography of
Latin America. In language arts, we
have been doing a lot of fun activities, including creating scary or
suspenseful stories. In Spanish, we
have been learning about verbs and
body parts, and speaking using
mostly Spanish. In math, we have
been learning about adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing
integers.
— Rudy Acree, sixth-grader
I am new to this school, and so
far it is going great. A week or two
ago, the sixth-graders went to
Camp Calleva. The first activity
was the trapeze. We had to climb a
tree, stand on a platform and then
jump to try to reach the bar. The
next activity was called Think
Tank. We had to run down one by
one to look at a design made of
blocks, then come back to our stations and re-create what we saw.
Our next activity, after lunch, was
the Giant Swing. We used a rope
and pulley system to elevate our
classmates, and when they felt
comfortable and high enough, they
released a tag to allow them to
swing through the trees. Our last
and final activity was the X-games.
We had to imagine that a big blob
was taking over our planet.
— Sainphorine Ewale,
sixth-grader
School Without Walls
On Tuesday the entire student
body took a trip to the D.C.
College Fair. Set in the vast Walter
E. Washington Convention Center,
the event had an overwhelming
number of college representatives.
However, students managed to
make their way around successfully, and no one was lost on the trip
back. A success!
Minor note: A fight did occur as
we were leaving, but no Walls students were involved.
This week after school, most of
the senior class reported to the
common room to serve a near
grade-wide detention. The previous
week, while the rest of the school
was engaged with the PSATs, the
senior class was to have gone on a
tour of the George Washington
University campus and listened to
an information seminar on the college application process. Only 34
out of a class of more than 100
were present.
In other news, the jazz combo
played a gig Wednesday night at
Ben’s Next Door on U Street. D.C.
government officials as well as
George Washington University faculty members were present.
Hopefully the lively music made
up for any hard feelings sown by
the previous week’s lack of senior
attendance.
Meanwhile, the school is gearing up for homecoming and spirit
week. The spirit days have been
announced, the pep rally events are
set, and tickets for Friday’s dance
are being sold. Sadly, after the
promise of a crazy-fun spirit week,
it looks like things will return to
normal in November with the onset
of second advisory.
— Keanu Ross-Cabrera,
12th-grader
Shepherd Elementary
On Oct. 6, Shepherd Elementary
had its first Girl Scout meeting in
the library for parents and students.
Ms. Pethtel, one of our kindergarten teachers, was speaking about
what we should do in order to have
a Shepherd Elementary Girl Scout
troop. She is an adult Girl Scout
and would like to become a troop
leader for Shepherd’s girls.
At the meeting, there were about
20 students and parents who are
interested in starting a Girl Scout
troop. Ms. Pethtel asked us to sit in
groups by grade levels to plan for
our future troop. Girls in kindergarten and first grade are called
Daisies, second- and third-graders
are Brownies, and the fourth- and
fifth-grade students are Juniors.
There are also Girl Scout troops
for students in middle school and
high school. They are called,
respectively, Cadettes and
Ambassadors. The adult Girl
Scouts, like Ms. Pethtel, can
become troop leaders. I am a Junior
from another troop. But I plan to
participate in field trips with
Shepherd’s Girl Scout Junior troop.
Fellow Mustangs, like the Girl
Scout slogan says, “Do a good turn
daily”!
— Sophia-Rose Herisse,
fourth-grader
Sheridan School
On Oct. 17, the Sheridan first
grade went to Mountain Campus in
the Shenandoah Mountains for a
day trip. The students had a lot of
fun and did a lot of activities. First,
they played nature bingo. We
searched for natural things like
leaves, acorns and mushrooms. We
also looked for insects and animal
tracks. We drew pictures and
checked off what we found on a
bingo board. Nature bingo was a
lot of fun!
After a lunch of mac and
cheese, chicken tenders, carrots and
celery, we headed to the field to
solve team-building challenges.
One team-building challenge
involved getting out of a trap made
by a rope. We had to go under the
rope without using our hands!
After team building, the firstgraders played games. One game
we loved was called People to
People. Finally, we went to the
pond to build rafts. We collected
sticks and used twine to tie the
sticks together. Then, we sailed the
rafts across the pond. The rafts carried bread that had to stay dry.
The first grade had a great trip
full of fun and exploration!
— First-graders
Sidwell Friends School
On Oct. 13, the sixth-grade class
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October 26, 2011 ■ Page 25
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meeting:
■ commissioner Mike Silverstein
reflected on the life of gay-rights
activist Frank Kameny, who died
Oct. 11 at age 86. “Those who
believe in human rights lost a great
champion
yesterday,”
said
Silverstein.
■ commission chair Will Stephens
announced that the commission is
posting its annual reports dating to
1976 on its website.
■ Curtis Farrar of the Dupont
Circle Village announced that the
organization is selling calendars for
$15 to benefit its senior services.
■ commissioner Jack Jacobson
announced that the 17th Street
Festival on Sept. 24 was a success.
“And we’ll have a bigger and better
one next year,” he added.
criticized a new policy of Safeway
to check the receipts of all customers leaving the store. “It treats
everyone as a criminal instead of
assuming you’re not,” he said.
announced that Lt. Scott Dignan
has retired from the Metropolitan
Police
Department.
John
MacDonald is serving as the acting
lieutenant for Police Service Area
208, Jacobson said.
■ commissioners voted 7-0, with
Phil Carney and Ramon Estrada
absent, to support permits for a
Nov. 5 all-star competition of the
Stonewall Kickball league in Stead
Park at 1625 P St.
Mike Silverstein opposing, to support the temporary closure of
Vermont Avenue near Lafayette
Park on Oct. 16. The Right2March
event, promoting regulations on
labeling organic foods, needed the
site as a staging area for parade
vehicles. Silverstein opposed
because organizers didn’t attend
the meeting.
■ commissioners voted 7-0 to support any permits needed for the
25th annual 17th Street High Heel
Race on Oct. 26.
■ commissioners complained that
they hadn’t received enough information about work planned for the
south entrance of the Dupont Circle
Metrorail station. A Washington
Metropolitan
Area
Transit
Authority representative was
scheduled to speak at the commission’s meeting but did not attend.
■ commissioners voted 7-0 to ask
the city and the U.S. State
Department to take action against
the Embassy of the Republic of
Congo, 16th and Riggs streets, for
its removal of trees and green space
without a public-space permit.
■ commissioners voted 7-0 to support a Board of Zoning Adjustment
application for renovations to an
apartment building at 1250 New
Hampshire Ave. The International
Monetary Fund, which uses the
property to host foreign guests,
plans to gut the building to make it
more modern and bring it into compliance with the Americans with
Disabilities Act.
The renovations will result in a
requirement for 30 parking spaces
instead of the existing 26, but representatives said the existing spots
are rarely used. The building also
needs a special exception for a roof
structure housing the elevator shaft.
■ developers of the Third Church
of Christ, Scientist, site at 16th and
I streets discussed their plans to
construct an office building incorporating a new church. The commission will vote on various aspects
of the plan at future meetings.
■ chair Will Stephens said a group
of restaurants seeking permission
for valet parking are still working to
amend their plan based on the commission’s previous concerns, and
they will present the changes at the
commission’s November meeting.
Phil Carney, Ramon Estrada, Mike
Silverstein and Victor Wexler
absent, to support a restaurant
liquor license for Boqueria, 1837
M St. The restaurant hopes to be
open until 1 a.m. Sunday through
Thursday and 1:45 a.m. Friday and
Saturday nights and to include a
32-seat sidewalk cafe.
The small chain is expanding its
high-end Spanish cuisine outside
New York for the first time, a representative said.
Phil Carney, Ramon Estrada and
Mike Silverstein absent, to protest
a liquor license application for El
Tamarindo, 1785 Florida Ave.,
unless the restaurant agrees to
reduce the hours of operation for a
planned sidewalk cafe by one hour
— to 1 a.m. Sunday through
Thursday nights and 2 a.m. Friday
and Saturday.
■ commissioner Mike Feldstein
announced that the Washington
Metropolitan
Area
Transit
Authority moved a bus stop a block
south from the Dupont Triangle
Park at Connecticut Avenue and Q
Street, resolving problems of
crowding there.
suggested the commission sponsor
a community meeting to discuss
bicycling in the neighborhood.
Commissioner Mike Feldstein suggested the commission also sponsor such a discussion about parking.
■ commissioners voted 7-0 to
request that the D.C. Department of
Transportation discuss with the
commission and the National Park
Service any permits required to use
D.C.-owned land adjacent to
Dupont Circle Park.
The Park Service, which owns
the park, has threatened to shut
down some activities at the site that
also use the D.C. space unless they
see evidence of a permit.
■ commissioner Kevin O’Connor
reported that Irish Whiskey, 1207
19th St., has agreed to seek shorter
hours from the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board, so the commission
will no longer protest its license.
reported that the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board accepted
the commission’s voluntary agreement with Penthouse Bar, 1612 U
St., with only minor changes.
■ chair Will Stephens said the community still needs a polling location for D.C. Precinct 141.
reported that the Alcoholic
Beverage Control Board decided
not to shut down Marrakesh Palace,
2147 P St. but placed conditions on
its operation that are very favorable
to the community.
■ commissioners Mike Silverstein
reported that the commission has
closed its savings account because
a service charge exceeded the interest earned.
p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the
Brookings Institution building,
1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
For details, visit dupontcircleanc.net.
ANC 2C
ANC 2C
Shaw
■ SHAW
The commission will meet at
6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, at
the Watha T. Daniel-Shaw
Neighborhood Library, 1630 7th
St. NW.
For details, call 202-387-1596.
ANC 2D
ANC 2D
Sheridan-Kalorama
■ sheridan-kalorama
p.m. Monday, Nov. 21, at Our
Lady Queen of the Americas
Church, California Street and
Phelps Place NW.
For details, contact [email protected] or visit anc2d.
org.
ANC 2F
ANCCircle
2F
Logan
■ logan circle
Washington Plaza Hotel, 10
Thomas Circle NW.
For details, call 202-667-0052
or visit anc2f.org.
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who chairs the Chevy Chase advisory neighborhood commission.
Thompson also noted that
there’s a similarly adamant group
of neighbors — residents of the
Moreland Place cul-de-sac and
adjacent Oregon Avenue block —
who do want sidewalks on the
street.
“They could band together and
start a group and call it ‘Community
for Safety on Oregon Avenue,’”
said Thompson.
One of those residents, Henry
Custis, said he has a pro-sidewalk
petition signed by everyone on
Moreland Place and all the houses
in the 5700 block of Oregon. “We
need a sidewalk to get out,” he
said, noting that there are 26 kids
living on the cul-de-sac, who have
no sidewalks for walking to school.
The division over sidewalks has
lessened recently: The Neighbors
United group has shifted to supporting some sort of “natural surface walking trail,” and the neighborhood commission in July
backed construction of “an adequate sidewalk or other walkway.”
“In substance, we’re almost all
in total agreement,” said Thompson.
What remains to be seen is what
the Transportation Department will
propose after sifting through public
comments on the environmental
assessment.
For its part, the neighborhood
commission declined to support
any of the four alternatives
described in the assessment, but
instead listed what the commission
would like to see done, including
curbs, gutters and stormwater control — but no change in the road’s
basic footprint.
The four options discussed in
the assessment are a pro forma nobuild “alternative,” and then three
varying proposals for widening and
straightening the road while adding
sidewalks, curbs, retaining walls,
lighting and stormwater management.
Neighbors United believes all
but the no-build option go “overboard,” proposing far more reconstruction work than is necessary.
The group, as well as some
other residents, says straightening
the road and adding more paved
surfaces would detract from the
pastoral character of their road,
which runs alongside Rock Creek
Park. They also question whether
the proposed stormwater management would adequately address the
runoff that spills onto the street and
park from communities to the west.
Shortly after joining together to
question the assessment, Neighbors
United submitted a Freedom of
Information Act request to the
related federal and local agencies,
Some residents object to city plans to reconstruct and widen Oregon
Avenue.
seeking all documents regarding
Oregon Avenue. All but the city’s
Transportation Department have
responded with the requested
papers; the transportation agency
told Neighbors United last month
that copying and search efforts
would cost at least $1,800.
The residents hope to have the
fee waived, and they have sought
help from the neighborhood commission and other local elected
officials. But at its meeting
Monday, the commission refused
to write a letter of support, with no
commissioner even seconding
chair Thompson’s proposal to send
such a missive.
Neighbors United member Tim
Ritzert said yesterday that the
group is “deeply disappointed that
the commissioners failed to comprehend the benefits of NU’s efforts
to shine light on what is now
understood to be a poorly conceived set of proposals.”
On the other hand, two local
D.C. Council members — Ward
4’s Muriel Bowser and Ward 3’s
Mary Cheh — have weighed in.
Both sent emails this month to the
Transportation
Department:
Bowser asked the director to work
with the residents on “reasonable
fees,” while Cheh asked him to
consider “modifying” the fee,
according to staffers.
Les Sotsky, the Oregon Avenue
resident who works at Arnold and
Porter (he is not on technically a
member of Neighbors United, but
works with the group), said the
residents could go “door to door”
seeking donations to cover the fee,
but they shouldn’t have to: D.C.
regulations say the department can
waive Freedom of Information
costs when the request is “in the
public interest.”
If the group’s request “isn’t in
the public interest, I don’t know
what is,” said Sotsky. “To me it’s a
matter of principle.”
Another matter of principle, the
group might say, is the way the
Transportation Department has
conducted the project. The residents say their concerns haven’t
been sufficiently heard — nor have
they had a chance to ask questions.
Neighborhood commissioner
Carolyn Cook, who is helping
Neighbors United with its efforts,
said she’s working to set up a
question-and-answer session for
residents and department officials.
“We need to just get the parties
… together to have a real dialogue
— a Q and A that has never happened,” she said.
Cook said such a meeting would
be more productive than sifting
through the agency’s paperwork on
the matter, which is why she did
not back Thompson’s proposed letter regarding Freedom of
Information Act fees.
Regarding the procedures,
Transportation Department spokesperson John Lisle wrote in an
email, “DDOT has had 3 public
meetings in addition to attending
ANC meetings. DDOT has never
declined to meet with community
members.”
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calling for a complete redesign of the building. You cannot tell me that those are somehow consistent positions.”
“My testimony is very clear that the conditions we have laid out have not been met,”
Smith replied. “What we are saying is if [university officials] can’t meet these conditions,
then they need to go back and redesign the
building.”
In considering the North Hall project, the
Zoning Commission must decide whether it is
likely to create objectionable conditions for
neighbors. University attorney Paul
Tummonds said the school is confident the
building would not, even as it’s now designed.
He added that the school can make minor
design revisions based on further feedback.
“We do not believe this is a project that
needs to go back to the drawing board,”
Tummonds told the zoning commissioners.
“We believe this is a project that has the
appropriate massing, scale and height, and we
can work with community comments that
coalesce around an idea of what the facade
should be.”
But that may be difficult, Tummonds
added: “We’d heard earlier tonight that there
were some residents of the community who
wanted it to look like Katzen [Arts Center].
Some wanted it to look like the Kogod School
of Business. Some wanted it to look like
Wesley [Seminary].”
Jeffrey Kraskin of the Spring Valley/
Wesley Heights Citizens Association testified
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that the neighbors just want something more
attractive than the rather blank wall they fear
the school will construct. “If the facade facing
Mass Ave was a facade that reflected the
nature of the residential area and the area surrounding it, I think we could be very happy
with it,” Kraskin said.
Despite the complaints about the facade,
the North Hall proposal hasn’t seen the level
of community objection that has arisen against
some aspects of the university’s development
plans, such as for its Nebraska Avenue parking lot site and its Tenley Campus. Smith,
Kraskin and a representative of Neighbors for
a Livable Community were the only residents
to testify, in contrast with dozens who have
appeared at other recent hearings.
“It does seem to me that there is room for
agreement between the university and neigh-
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noted that a poll commissioned by
his firm last November found that
“67% of Ward 4 residents” support
Walmart’s plan.
The 1909 car barn, one of 29
built to house streetcars that once
plied the District’s major corridors,
could be eligible for landmark status
despite its “plain, utilitarian brick
structure,” according to the report
by city architectural historian Tim
Dennée and city landmark coordinator Kim Williams. Four of the
city’s car barns are in fact listed in
the D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites,
providing “a good representative
sample,” the report says.
But the fact that the Georgia
Avenue structure was heavily
altered when it was converted to a
Chevrolet dealership in the mid1950s, and again altered this fall
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have jousted over permits issued
this summer that allowed the partial
demolition, with city officials backing the legality of the developer’s
work. Work on the site was halted
when the landmark application was
filed. If the board rejects the application Thursday, Foulger-Pratt
would apparently have the green
light to resume demolition and construction.
Despite uncertainty about the
landmarking, Walmart recently
signed a lease with Foulger-Pratt,
signaling its intention to move forward at the Georgia Avenue site. Spokesperson Restivo said the
company “continues to have good
discussions with the city about ways
Walmart can be a good community
partner for years to come. The truth
is we already do most things residents want from development, such
as hiring locally, supporting community organizations and offering
competitive wages and benefits.”
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of the roof, seems the biggest argument against landmark designation.
The building has lost “significant
integrity,” the staff report says:
“More recent work has further
diminished the building’s historic,
even physical integrity,” the report
states. “The roof decking, skylight
and ventilators of the original and
largest shed have been removed in
accordance with a recent building
permit. What remains of the roof are
just the steel trusses, which appear
to be merely resting on the walls
below.” The report notes that one
collapsed wall and “serious cracking” further jeopardize the car barn’s
original structure.
That comment makes Jahi especially angry. “It’s blatant disrespect
to Ward 4 residents to say the car
barn is not historic based on demolition of the roof, which was authorized illegally,” he said.
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bors on how this building should look without
having to start completely from scratch,” said
zoning commissioner May. “So I would
strongly urge the university to get together
with the neighbors and the ANC on this,
because we have some time before we can
make a decision.”
Additionally, zoning commissioners
requested renderings that more clearly show
the proposed building from Massachusetts
Avenue and asked that the school consider
offering more than the planned 54 bicycle
parking spaces.
Before the Zoning Commission can take a
position on North Hall, it must vote on the
university’s 10-year development goals as
part of the broader campus plan process.
Hearings on the plan will continue — and
likely conclude — Nov. 3.
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Jewish Primary Day buys second 16th St. building to house more students
By DEIRDRE BANNON
The Jewish Primary Day School of the
Nation’s Capital will soon be expanding,
thanks to the purchase of a second 16th Street
building this month.
The school bought the property at 4715
16th St. for $3.9 million, bolstered by a $3
million donation from Robert Schattner, a
longtime D.C. resident. The gift, received
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complain about a vacant property.
Majett followed up on the property,
found it to be indeed vacant, and
added it to the list. Then, when the
tax notices came out, the owner
complained to the same council
member, who passed the complaint
on to Majett. The director had to
remind the council member that his
complaint was the reason the property made the list in the first place.
Vacant properties, he reminded
association members, typically
bring down the values of adjoining
properties by about 5 percent.
Another big department initiative has been allowing property
owners to apply for building permits electronically. Typically, with
major projects, up to six agencies
must sign off before permits can be
granted.
Now, the property owner can
apply to the regulatory agency electronically, and the system forwards
earlier this month, includes a $1 million donation and a $2 million challenge grant, meaning
Schattner will match every dollar the school
can raise up to $2 million.
The newly acquired building is currently
home to Washington Latin Public Charter
School, which has been leasing the property
from the former owner, the British School of
Washington, since 2008.
The charter school’s lease, which will
remain intact, is set to expire in December
the application to the others for
simultaneous review. The other
departments can comment online.
The entire process normally takes
less than a month, he said.
By New Year’s Day, the online
system will expand to businesses in
need of a Basic Business License,
he said. When asked if businesses
would be required to use the online
applications, Majett answered that
they will “always be able to do it by
hand” if they choose, adding that
many small businesses in particular
find it difficult to apply online.
When restaurants apply for
license renewals, the regulatory
agency no longer requires a release
from the Department of Health,
which often caused delays of up to
three weeks. The Health Department
inspects restaurants on a regular
basis, so Majett’s agency assumes
all is fine after seeing problem-free
Health Department records.
When asked about possible new
regulations for food trucks, Majett
said they are now under review in
the attorney’s general’s office.
2013. The Jewish Primary Day School then
plans to renovate the building before moving
in the pre-k and first-grade classes. Grades
two through six will remain at the school’s
current location at 6045 16th St., according to
Naomi Reem, head of school for the Jewish
Primary Day School.
“For years we haven’t been able to accept
all the children in the area that wanted a
Jewish education,” said Reem. Adding that
JPDS, as it is known, is the only Jewish school
in the city, Reem said, “Now we can accept
three full kindergarten classes instead of two.”
Jewish Primary Day plans to continue
enrolling the same grades, pre-k to sixth, with
the goal of increasing enrollment to 350 students from its current student body of 273.
Martha Cutts, head of school for the
Washington Latin Public Charter School, said
that the school hopes to stay in the area. It will
look for a new facility to lease long-term or
buy.
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got out more quickly than they wanted it to,”
he said. “They apologized for getting that
information out when it was just an idea.”
The proposal caught many Petworth residents off-guard. The renovation project had
already endured some delays (it was originally scheduled to launch in October 2010), and
many have associated the recreation center’s
poor condition with crime problems.A letter
from residents, posted recently on the Prince
of Petworth blog, describes drug dealers who
park themselves around the center at night,
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and men sleeping and urinating in the playground area.
“This criminal element has a safe haven at
Raymond Rec, as it is full of dark corners and
numerous entry points for people to get in and
out,” wrote authors who signed their letter
“Friends of Raymond Recreation.”
The letter also pointed to a recent homicide
in the alley abutting the recreation center. On
Oct. 8, 17-year-old Jamar Michael Freeman of
Southeast D.C. was stabbed to death on the
900 block of Quincy Street; the Metropolitan
Police Department announced last week that
17-year-old Derek Johnson of Northwest has
been arrested and charged with second-degree
murder in the case.
Neighbors feared that continued delays to
the recreation center’s renovation would mean
continued crime.
Neighborhood commissioner Tumblin said
the community was assured recently that the
project would move forward. According to
Tumblin, the city has committed to finding the
additional $2 million or so necessary due to
updated design estimates, while the mayor’s
office has helped expedite permits.
Parks department spokesperson John
Stokes said yesterday that the current $11 million budget for the project “doesn’t include
money for the field and lights,” but that work
would proceed. Construction is expected to
take 12 to 16 months, he said.
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The new Raymond Recreation Center,
which will replace a facility slated for demolition, is planned as a limestone-and-brick-clad
building housing a gym, weight and fitness
room, computer room, game room and multipurpose rooms. Outside, the project will
include a new multipurpose athletic field, tennis court and basketball field, as well as an
entry plaza featuring a playground and small
amphitheater. The center will attach to
Raymond Elementary School through a future
addition to the school’s western wing.
“It gives [the school] a gymnasium and a
safe place to play,” said Tumblin, and “it gives
the community the ability to finally do some
programming.”
then we’ve put in a Metro stop that
takes 23,000 people a day, in and
out. The sidewalk at one point was
26 inches wide,” and therefore in
violation of Americans with
Disabilities Act
guidelines,
Silverstein said, noting that the rules
mandate at least 36 inches in width.
Silverstein tried unsuccessfully
for three years to get the sidewalk
widened. “All we heard was, ‘We’re
not interested in changing the 1929
design,’” he reported.
He also said that a fence was
proposed to preserve the grass in the
park, but it would have restricted
movement at the sidewalk’s slimmest point, where the Park Service
also placed a trash can, funneling
foot traffic from the Metro and bus
stops into the street.
After his repeated queries to the
Park Service went unaddressed,
Silverstein had had enough.
“I did the only thing I could do,
which was to contact the Justice
Department and file an ADA issue
… and miraculously two weeks
later, the trash can was removed, the
sidewalk is a little bit wider and they
are talking about moving the bus
stop.”
Bob Vogel, superintendent of the
National Mall and Memorial Parks,
responded to Silverstein: “I apologize if we gave you the impression
we were stonewalling,” he said. “I
think it gets to a deeper issue …
which you allude to, and again it’s
how are we communicating or not
communicating.”
Vogel, who took on the position
two months ago, said he is working
to foster relationships between the
National Park Service and District
residents. He said the Park Service
wants to be more involved with the
community, and other superintendents at the meeting agreed.
Norton said after the meeting
that this attitude has changed the
dynamic for future relations.
“I think that the National Park
Service officials, all of them relatively new, either brand-new or
close to it, created an entirely
changed tone between the Park
Service and District residents,
something of a breakthrough in
their responsiveness,” she said.
The Park Service is in a difficult
position, Norton said, because it is a
federal agency working at a local
level, and residents can get irritated
Residents have sparred with the
Park Service over this small park.
with bureaucratic red tape. But the
meeting served to create space for
dialogue.
“By the time that meeting was
over, I think people had heard a far
more responsive, people-friendly
group of National Park Service officials,” she said.
Concrete changes also came out
of the meeting. The Park Service
will now post contact information
for and maps of all its local parks on
its website. Vogel is also working on
a new model in which each park
will have one contact point, to
increase communication and reduce
confusion.
“We’re working on a system
here at the National Mall where
people can have one staff person
that they call rather than, if there’s a
trash situation, they call our chief of
maintenance; if there’s a permit situation, they call our permit office,”
Vogel explained. “Sometimes when
they are calling different people, we
don’t hear how it is coming together.”
With increased participation in
the community, Norton hopes that
the Park Service will get involved in
more public-private partnerships
that can give District residents more
ownership of public parks and also
help maintain the spaces.
“I think that’s the best thing to
happen bottom line from the town
hall meeting — that you are going
to see a more flexible, friendly
National Park Service when it
comes to our neighborhood parks
and the Mall,” she said.
“We’ve turned a corner,”
Silverstein said after the meeting.
“We have people who want to work
more closely with the citizens of
Washington … . We’ve made enormous progress.”
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went to the Heifer Global Village,
which is a grouping of seven
homes typical of places all around
the world. The homes were from
Tibet, Appalachia, Kenya,
Guatemala, Mozambique, Thailand
and a refugee camp that did not
have a set location.
The family groups were chosen
by a lottery, and I ended up in the
family from Appalachia with about
10 other students and one teacher.
Each family was given a water balloon to take care of as if it were a
baby.
Every family was given resources that they would have in real life.
My group had carrots, potatoes and
some silverware and dishes, including a pot. We had to cook over an
open fire, which was very difficult
to do in the rain.
While some members of our
group started the fire, others traded
with others for resources such as
water and rice. We let the refugee
family use our fire because they
didn’t have one. My family had
some plans for our meal, but we
ended up mixing our ingredients
with the refugees’ in the pot over
the fire.
After three hours of cooking and
eating our meals, we discussed our
experience and headed back to
campus. We returned at 7:30 p.m.,
extremely tired after a 13-hour trip.
The trip to Heifer Global Village
made me think about how other
people live, and how lucky I am
compared to so many others. This
was a wonderful field trip that I
really enjoyed.
— Isabel Kirsch, sixth-grader
danced under it and up and back
through a line — do si do. We did
circle dances where we clapped
hands and took steps forward and
backward. We danced with partners, too. We also did some funny
dances like the gorilla dance (the
kindergarten joined us for this one)
and an elephant dance, along with
the electric slide, cha-cha slide and
the swim. Mr. McCall made the
dancing fun.
It was a unique experience, and
we think everyone had fun.
— Casey Bressler and Tamer
Whittle-Hage, fifth-graders
Washington International
Our 11th- and 12th-grade
Spanish classes recently went to
see “¡Ay, Carmela!” at the Gala
Theatre. The play portrays the
effects of the Spanish Civil War
from the point of view of the protagonists Carmela and Paulino. The
director showed us the past, when
the two were alive, and the present,
when Carmela’s ghost appears.
With his management of space, his
use of lighting and the performances by Paulino and Carmela, director
José Luis Arellano-García presented a fantastic play.
The Gala Theatre is relatively
small, and that limits the quantity
of objects that can be used.
Likewise, it is very difficult to
show the changes in time periods
— the switches between past and
present. Considering these limitations, José Luis Arellano-García
used a screen to differentiate
between the past and the present.
When a scene takes place in the
past, the lights are very bright; this
helped the audience know the difference between time periods. The
script is quite complete, but the
play is performed by only two
31
characters. The details of the play
were enhanced by the music, lighting, costumes and much more. It
was easy to make a personal connection with the leads.
Playwright José Sanchis
Sinisterra and director José Luis
Arellano-García have collaborated
well to present this historic tragicomedy. I recommend that all who
have an interest in history or in the
Spanish Civil War see this play —
you won’t be disappointed!
— Ezti Fricano, 12th-grader
(translated from
the original Spanish)
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Today we had a visitor from the
Washington Square dance group.
His name is Mac McCall. He
knows all about square dancing. He
knows the history and the dances,
and he dances a lot with his wife,
Phyllis. He said he was going to be
camping out and dancing with a
group in Virginia over the weekend.
We had Mr. McCall visit as part
of our unit on Western Expansion
(or Indian Eastward
Encroachment). We are reading
“Dear Levi.” It’s a book about a
young boy named Austin who
leaves Independence, Mo., to go
west with his adopted family
because his mom and dad are dead.
He writes letters home to his brother.
The Indians, or Native
Americans, were here first, then
white people in America wanted
more land in the west, so they started taking over. As they traveled by
wagon train, they traded things. If
they ran out of food, they could
trade oxen for food. They also
worked very hard and sometimes
they’d get together with other
wagon trains, and to relax and have
a little fun they square danced.
We learned lots of dances from
Mr. McCall. We made a bridge and
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Wednesday, Oct. 26
Wednesday october 26
Class
■ A weekly workshop will offer instruction
in “Sahaja Yoga Meditation.” 7 p.m. Free.
West End Neighborhood Library, 1101 24th
St. NW. 202-724-8707.
Concerts
■ The Tokyo
String Quartet
will perform
works by
Mozart,
Szymanowski
and Dvorák.
7:30 p.m. $45. Terrace Theater, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Washington Performing Arts
Society will present the Budapest Festival
Orchestra performing works by Bartók and
Schubert. 8 p.m. $39 to $105. Concert Hall,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Real
Vocal String
Quartet will perform. 8 p.m.
$25. Melton
Rehearsal Hall,
Woolly
Mammoth Theatre Company, 641 D St. NW.
202-393-3939.
Discussions and lectures
■ “Outreach Evening With Extraordinary
Artists” will feature a salute to Judith Terra,
chair of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and
Humanities. 5:30 p.m. $20; reservations
required. Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I St.
NW. 202-331-7282, ext. 16.
■ Rita Dove will discuss her book “The
Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century
American Poetry.” 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free.
Langston Room, Busboys and Poets, 2021
14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
■ Anthropologist
Nina G. Jablonski,
author of “Skin: A
Natural History,” will discuss “Skin Color
Evolution and
Significance.” A book
signing will follow. 6:45
p.m. $20. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100
Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Cornell University professor Robert H.
Frank will discuss his book “The Darwin
Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the
Common Good.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3641919.
■ Folger Shakespeare Library director
Michael Witmore will discuss his recent
work in Shakespeare studies, which combines computer analysis of texts, linguistics
and traditional literary history. 7 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Folger Shakespeare
Library, 201 East Capitol St. SE.
folger.edu/folgertalks.
■ Lawrence Douglas, professor of law,
jurisprudence and social thought at Amherst
College, will discuss “Demjanjuk in Munich:
War Crimes Trials in Historical Perspective.” 7
to 8:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Rubinstein Auditorium, U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg
Place SW. uhmm.org/events/
meyerhofflecture2011.
■ Daniel McFadden (shown), the 2000
Nobel Laureate in Economics Studies, and
Jared Diamond, the
Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of “Collapse” and
a National Geographic
explorer-in-residence,
will discuss “The Big
Idea: The Power of
Choice,” about why people make decisions the way they do. 7 p.m.
$20. Grosvenor Auditorium, National
Geographic, 1600 M St. NW. 202-857-7700.
■ The annual Hyman S. & Freda
Bernstein Jewish
Literary Festival will feature a talk by Charles
King on his book
“Odessa: Genius and
Death in a City of
Dreams.” 7:30 p.m.
Free. Washington DC
Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St.
NW. washingtondcjcc.org/litfest.
Film
■ The Reel Israel DC series will feature
Erez Tadmor and Guy Nattiv’s 2007 film
“Strangers,” about a star-crossed romance
between two sports fan rivals. 8 p.m. $11;
$9 for students; $8.25 for seniors; $8 for
ages 12 and younger. Avalon Theatre, 5612
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.
Fresh Seafood
Delivered Daily
Performances
■ The Kids
Euro Festival will
feature Spain’s
renowned puppet theater
Bambalina in
“Kraft.” 6 p.m.
Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600.
■ The Beijing Dance Theater will present
“Haze,” in which dancers perform in the
midst of a smog cloud on a padded stage. 8
p.m. $22 to $60. Eisenhower Theater,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. The performance will repeat Thursday at 8 p.m.
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All you can eat Sunday-Thursday
11am – 8:30pm
Special event
■ The Friends of Rose Park will host
“Pumpkin Fest,” featuring pumpkin painting,
Lunch Specials
With a $5 Feature
Monday – Friday 11am – 4pm
Malt Shop
Late Night Drink Specials
10pm – Close
Trivia Wednesday
Happy Hour
Nightly 4-7pm
1 Block from the Tenleytown Metro
4615 41st Street, NW
Washington, DC
202-244-1882
apple cider, snacks and a costume parade
for children of all ages. 4 to 6 p.m. Free
admission. Rose Park, 26th and O streets
NW.
Thursday, Oct. 27
Thursday october 27
Book signing
■ George Norfleet will sign copies of his
book “A Pilot’s Journey,” about the Tuskegee
Airmen. Noon to 5 p.m. Free admission.
Museum Store, National Museum of
American History, 14th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW. 202-633-1000.
Children’s program
■ A park ranger will lead children ages 3
and older on a scavenger hunt for autumn
leaves during a half-mile Woodland Trail hike.
4 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200
Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.
Classes
■ Trio Con Brio Copenhagen will present
a master class, featuring a performance by
musicians from the National Symphony
Orchestra Youth Orchestra and a discussion
of interpretation and technique. 3 to 4 p.m.
Free. Kreeger Museum, 2401 Foxhall Road
NW. 202-338-3552.
■ Meditation expert William Smith will
teach simple and effective meditation techniques. 7 p.m. Free. Georgetown
Neighborhood Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202727-0232.
Concerts
■ Conductor Lorin Maazel will lead the
National Symphony
Orchestra and pianist
Simon Trpceski (shown)
in a performance of
works by Berlioz, Grieg
and Mussorgsky/Ravel.
7 p.m. $20 to $85.
Concert Hall, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600. The concert will
repeat Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
■ A small ensemble of the Wolkersdorf
Municipal Band will perform typical
Bohemian-Moravian music. 7:30 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Embassy of Austria,
3524 International Court NW. 202-8956776.
■ Iranian singer and composer Sussan
Deyhim will perform. 7:30 p.m. $25.
Grosvenor Auditorium, National Geographic,
1600 M St. NW. 202-857-7700.
■ Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel
Wilkerson, professor of
journalism at Boston
University, will discuss
her book “The Warmth
of Other Suns: The Epic
Story of America’s Great
Migration.” 11:30 a.m.
$30. Woman’s National
Democratic Club, 1526 New Hampshire Ave.
NW. 202-232-7363.
■ The fall 2011 fellows in the
International Reporting Project at the School
Thursday, october 27
■ Concert: Violinist Doren Dinglinger
will perform. 7:30 p.m. Free. The
United Church, 1920 G St. NW. 202331-1495.
of Advanced International Studies will discuss their experiences overseas. Noon. Free;
reservations required. Room 806, Rome
Building, Johns Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies, 1619
Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-663-7726.
■ Biologist and nature writer Joan Maloof
will discuss her book “Among the Ancients:
Adventures in the Eastern Old-Growth
Forests.” Noon to 1 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Conservatory Classroom, U.S.
Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202225-1116.
■ Sam Huff will discuss his book
“Controlled Violence: On the Field and in the
Booth.” 12:30 p.m. Free. Barnes & Noble,
555 12th St. NW. 202-347-0176.
■ Evangelos Liaros, a visiting scholar at
George Washington University, will discuss “A
Barrage of Grievances: Electoral Reform and
Patterns of Ethnic Voting in Turkey.” 4 to 5
p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 412,
Elliott School of International Affairs, George
Washington University, 1957 E St. NW.
tinyurl.com/LiarasGWU.
■ Historian David Ward will discuss
Sacco and Vanzetti. 6 to 6:30 p.m. Free.
National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets
NW. 202-633-1000.
■ A gallery talk will focus on “Bodies in
Motion — From Degas to Lawrence,” about
how artists such as Edgar Degas and Jacob
Lawrence have used line, color and shape to
capture the kinetic energy of human movement. 6 and 7 p.m. $12; $10 for seniors and
students; free for ages 18 and younger.
Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. 202387-2151.
■ Dave Madden will discuss his book
“The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and
Obsessive World of Taxidermy.” 7 to 9 p.m.
Free. 826DC, 3233 14th St. NW. 826dc.org.
■ Isabel Wilkerson will discuss her book
“The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story
of America’s Great Migration.” 6:30 p.m.
Donation suggested. Phillips Collection, 1600
21st St. NW. 202-387-2151.
■ Yale University professor David Blight
will discuss his book
“American Oracle: The
Civil War in the Civil
Rights Era.” 6:30 p.m.
$10; reservations suggested. President
Lincoln’s Cottage,
Upshur Street and Rock
Creek Church Road NW. 202-829-0436, ext.
31232.
■ A panel discussion on “The Puerto Rico
Status Question” will feature Robert Pastor,
professor of international relations at
American University; Franklin D. Lopez, former state-democratic chair of Puerto Rido;
Marcos Rigau, lawyer and former senator of
the Popular Democratic Party; and Erick
Negron Rivera, lawyer and leading member
of the Independence Party. 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Free. Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen
Arts Center, American University, 4400
■ U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Stephen
Breyer will discuss his
book “Making Our
Democracy Work.” 7
p.m. $22. Sixth & I
Historic Synagogue, 600
I St. NW. sixthandi.org.
■ Dava Sobel will discuss her book “A
More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus
Revolutionized the Cosmos.” 7 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-364-1919.
■ “Food Frights! Food Safety Then and
Now” will feature Philip Derfler, deputy
administrator of the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection
Service; Suzanne Junod, senior historian for
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration;
Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of the Food
Safety Program at the Center for Science in
the Public Interest; and José Andrés, chef
and chief culinary adviser for the “What’s
Cooking, Uncle Sam?” exhibit at the National
Archives. 7 p.m. Free. McGowan Theater,
National Archives Building, Constitution
Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW.
202-357-5000.
■ The Hyman S. & Freda Bernstein
Jewish Literary Festival
will feature panelists
Robert Lipsyte, John
Bloom (shown) and Dan
Steinberg discussing
“Telling It Like It Is: Jews,
Sports & Writing.” 7:30
p.m. $10. Washington
DC Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th St.
Films
■ The 16th annual Arabian Sights Film
Festival will open with the American premiere
of Olivier Baroux’s film “The Italian,” about an
Algerian man living in France
who has perfected a false
facade as a
genuine Italian.
A wine and
cheese reception will follow. 7 p.m. $20. La
Maison Française, 4101 Reservoir Road NW.
202-234-3456. The festival will continue
through Nov. 5 at various venues.
■ Cinematic Titanic Live, featuring the
original creator and cast of the television
show “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” will
present commentary throughout a showing
of the 1976 horror film “Rattlers.” 8 p.m. $25
to $35. Lisner Auditorium, George
Washington University, 730 21st St. NW.
202-397-7328.
■ The Avalon Theatre will host the world
premiere of Janks Morton’s film “Dear
Daddy: A Message to Our Fathers,” starring
Jonetta Rose Barras, Jasmine Bowden and
Landy Thompson. 8 p.m. $10; registration
required. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut
Ave. NW. deardaddy.eventbrite.com.
Performances
■ The Kids Euro Festival will feature the
Czech Republic’s Tony D in a theatrical performance depicting a Western-style showdown between musical genius Antonín
Dvorák and communist politician Zdenek
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Nejedly. 11 a.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
■ The Kids Euro Festival will feature the
DC Youth Orchestra performing Czech composer Antonín Dvorák’s “From the New
World.” 6 p.m. Free. Terrace Theater,
Special event
■ “Tudor Place History Haunt” will feature
a guided tour through Tudor Place’s ghostly
garden, followed by chilling cocktails and
refreshments. 6 to 8 p.m. $15; reservations
required. Tudor Place Historic House and
Garden, 1644 31st St. NW. tudorplace.org/
calendar.html.
Friday, Oct. 28
Friday october 28
■ A Halloween party will feature spooky
stories, a costume parade, pumpkin decorating and trick-or-treating in the library. 4 p.m.
Free. Petworth Neighborhood Library, 4200
Kansas Ave. NW. 202-243-1188.
Concerts
■ The Arts Club of Washington will host
its Friday Noon Concert Series. Noon. Free.
Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I St. NW. 202331-7282, ext. 16.
■ The Friday Morning Music Club will
present a concert of works by Chopin,
Schubert, Cassado and Brahms. Noon. Free.
Calvary Baptist Church, 755 8th St. NW. 202333-2075.
■ Eric Dombrowski of Grace Episcopal
Church in the Plains, Va., will present an
organ recital. 12:15 p.m. Free. National City
Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW. 202797-0103.
■ The Friday Music Series will feature the
Washington Saxophone Quartet performing
original compositions and works by Bach,
Mozart, Barber and Francaix. 1:15 p.m. Free.
McNeir Auditorium, Georgetown University,
37th and O streets NW. 202-687-3838.
■ Oboist William Wielgus, bassoonist
Lewis Lipnick and pianist Lisa Emenheiser of
the National Symphony Orchestra will perform works by Still, Ben-Heim, Schulhoff and
Poulenc. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
■ The Cathedral Choral Society, soprano
Alexandra Berti, mezzosoprano Magdalena
Wór, tenor Corey Bix and
bass Aleksey Bogdanov
(shown) will perform
Dvorák’s “Te Deum” and
Janácek’s “Glagolitic
Mass.” 7:30 p.m. $25 to
$80. Basilica of the National Shrine of the
Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave.
NE. 202-537-2228.
■ Trio Con Brio Copenhagen will perform
works by
Haydn,
Norgard and
Tchaikovsky.
7:30 p.m. $35.
Kreeger
Museum,
2401 Foxhall Road NW. 202-338-3552.
■ Scottish singer Euan Morton, a veteran of “Sondheim on Sondheim” and
“Taboo” on Broadway, will perform as part
of a theater cabaret series curated by
Broadway legend Barbara Cook. 7:30 p.m.
$45. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
■ Violinist Daniel Auner will perform
works by Berg, Mozart, Mendelssohn and
Brahms. 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Embassy of Austria, 3524
&
The Current
International Court NW. 202-895-6776.
■ Swedish singer
Sarah Riedel will perform jazz selections.
7:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. House of
Sweden, 2900 K St.
NW. rsvp-hos@foreign.
ministry.se.
■ Violinist Daniel Hope will present “East
Meets West,” featuring works by De Falla,
Takemitsu, Ravel, Mazumdar and Bartók. 8
p.m. Free; tickets required. Jefferson
Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE.
202-707-5502.
■ U.S. Botanic Garden landscape architect Nick Nelson will discuss how to put into
practice the techniques of sustainable design
without compromising aesthetics. Noon to 1
p.m. Free; reservations required.
Conservatory Classroom, U.S. Botanic
Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-2251116.
■ Gordon A. Martin Jr. will discuss his
book “Count Them One by One: Black
Mississippians Fighting for the Right to Vote.”
Noon. Free. Jefferson Room, National
Archives Building, Constitution Avenue
between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202-3575000.
■ Beth Keck, senior director of sustainability at Walmart, will discuss “The Role of
the Private Sector in Sustainable Agriculture.”
12:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Room 806, Rome Building, Johns Hopkins
University School of Advanced International
Studies, 1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202870-6677.
■ Lauren Feldman, assistant professor of
public communication at American University,
will discuss “The Effects of Partisan and
Satiric News on Public Engagement With
Climate Change.” 3 to 5 p.m. Free. Library
Training and Events Room, Bender Library,
American University, 4400 Massachusetts
Ave. NW. [email protected].
■ Amanda Nelson, program director of
the Rare Book School at the University of
Virginia, will discuss “Paperworks: Incipit Vita
Nova,” a 16-foot-long, 200-pound work created in collaboration with more than 100 members of the Wellesley College community. 6
p.m. Free; reservations required. Corcoran
Gallery of Art, 500 17th St. NW. 202-6391770.
■ Artist Nicole Eisenman will discuss her
work. 6:30 p.m. Free. Abramson Family
Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center, American
University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
202-885-2787.
■ The American Research Center in Egypt
will present a talk by Betsy Bryan, professor
of Egyptian art and archaeology at Johns
Hopkins University, on “Execution in the Mut
Temple: Precinct Execration Ritual, Human
Sacrifice or Capital Punishment?” 6:30 p.m.
Free. Rome Building Auditorium, Johns
Hopkins University School of Advanced
International Studies, 1619 Massachusetts
Ave. NW. arcedc.org
■ The University of the District of
Columbia’s “Big Read” will feature a panel
discussion on Rebecca Skloot’s “The
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.” 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. Free. Auditorium, University of the
District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave.
NW. udc.edu.
■ Gilad Sharon — an Israeli columnist
and an adviser to his father, Ariel Sharon,
before and during his term as Israeli prime
minister — will discuss his book “Sharon: The
Life of a Leader,” about the elder Sharon’s
political and military career. 7 p.m. Free.
NW. 202-364-1919.
$10; $5 for students. Auditorium, African
American Civil War Museum, 1925 Vermont
Ave. NW. afroamcivilwar.org.
Friday, october 28
■ Concert: Pianist François-Frédéric
Guy (shown) and violinist Tedi
Papavrami will perform Beethoven’s
complete sonatas for violin and piano
over three nights. 7:30 p.m. $25; $20
for students. La Maison Française,
4101 Reservoir Road NW.
InstantSeats.com. The concert series
will continue Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
and Sunday at 5 p.m.
■ Hari Jones, curator of the African
American Civil War Museum, will discuss
“African Foundation” as part of a lecture
series on “For Light and Liberty: African
Descent Spies of the Rebellion.” 7 to 9 p.m.
Films
■ The Japan Information and Culture
Center will show
Yosuke Fujita’s
2008 film “Fine,
Totally Fine.”
6:30 p.m. Free;
reservations
required. Japan
Information and Culture Center, 1155 21st St.
NW. [email protected].
■ The National Museum of the American
Indian will present Georgia Lightning’s film
“Older Than America,” about the dark reality
behind Indian boarding schools. 7 p.m. Free.
Rasmuson Theater, National Museum of the
American Indian, 4th Street and
Independence Avenue SW. 202-633-1000.
Meeting
■ The Cleveland Park Chess Club will
review historical games, study scenarios and
play chess. 3:30 p.m. Free. Cleveland Park
Neighborhood Library, 3310 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-282-3080. The group meets every
Friday.
Saturday, Oct. 29
Saturday october 29
Bazaar
■ A church bazaar will feature handcrafted jewelry and gifts, a white elephant sale,
baked goods, chili dogs and drinks. 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Free admission. Divine Science
Church, 35th Street and Wisconsin Avenue
NW. 202-333-7630. The bazaar will continue
Sunday from noon to 4 p.m.
Book signing
■ Thomas Kaufman will sign copies of
his book “Steal the Show.” Noon. Free.
Barnes & Noble, 3040 M St. NW. 202-9659880.
Children’s programs
■ “Saturday Morning at the National” will
feature “Barrymore Eagle’s Costume
Parade” and Black Cherry Puppet Theater
performing “Hansel and Gretel.” 9:30 and
11 a.m. Free; tickets required. Helen Hayes
Gallery, National Theatre, 1321
Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-783-3372.
■ Children’s performer John Henry
England will present his
seventh annual
“Halloween Bash,” featuring live music and a
costume party. 10 a.m.
$6.50. Avalon Theatre,
5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.
■ A park ranger will help children ages 5
and older create a corn-husk doll like those
made by Colonial children. 11 a.m. Free.
Peirce Barn, Tilden Street and Beach Drive
NW. 202-895-6070. The program will repeat
Sunday at 2 p.m.
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■ House of Sweden will present a
“Family Day: Pippi Longstocking at the Kids
Euro Festival,” featuring performances by
Swedish jazz singer Sarah Riedel, a screening of “Laban the Little Ghost” and Swedish
treats for children. 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free;
reservations required. House of Sweden,
2900 K St. NW. [email protected].
■ “Halloween Fun With The Jimmies” will
feature the New
York City-based
kindie rock
band. 1 p.m.
$16; $12 for
children ages
12 and younger.
Grosvenor Auditorium, National Geographic,
1600 M St. NW. 202-857-7700.
■ Children ages 5 and older will listen to
a story about Girl Scouts founder Juliette
Gordon Low and create a special piece of art.
1 to 4 p.m. Free. National Portrait Gallery,
8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000. The
program will repeat Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m.
■ Children ages 5 through 12 will make
their own African masks using cardboard,
paint and raffia, combining elements and
features from the human, animal and spirit
worlds. 2 to 4 p.m. Free. Textile Museum,
2320 S St. NW. 202-667-0441, ext. 64.
■ Children ages 4 and older will have a
chance to play with classic 19th-century toys
and make their own crafts to take home. 2
p.m. Free. Peirce Mill, Tilden Street and
Beach Drive NW. 202-895-6070. The program will repeat Sunday at 11 a.m.
■ A Halloween celebration will feature
guest performer Ray
Owen. 2:30 p.m. Free.
Cleveland Park
Neighborhood Library,
3310 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-282-3080.
Class
■ Suzanne Farrell will lead an “Exploring
Ballet” class for non-dancers. 11 to 12:30
p.m. $35. Rehearsal Room, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600.
Concerts
■ Guitarist Dorado Schmitt and the
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Django Reinhardt Festival All-Stars will lead a
participatory jam session. 11:30 a.m. $5.
Terrace Gallery, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ The U.S. Army Band Contemporary
Music Ensemble will perform works by Huang
Ruo, Andrew Edwards and Dan Roberts. 1:30
p.m. Free. Society of the Cincinnati, 2118
■ As part of the Franz Liszt Bicentenary
Project, cellist Tamás Zétényi will present
“Gray Clouds: Late Chamber Music of Franz
Liszt.” 2 p.m. Free; tickets required. Coolidge
Auditorium, Jefferson Building, Library of
Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-707-5502.
■ Violinist Regino Madrid, cellist Ben
Wensel and pianist Alejandro HernandezValdez — performing as the B.A.R. Piano Trio
— will present works by Mendelssohn,
Babajanian and Piazzola. 7 p.m. Free.
Westmoreland Congregational United Church
of Christ, 1 Westmoreland Circle. 301-6578565.
■ The Django Reinhardt Festival All-Stars,
featuring guitarist Dorado Schmitt, will perform jazz selections with guest harpist Edmar
Castaneda. 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. $45. Terrace
Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Singer Nancy Scimone will perform jazz
selections. 7:30 to 11:30 p.m. Free. Blue Bar
Lounge, Henley Park Hotel, 926
■ The Founder’s Day Concert will feature
piano duo
Aglika Genova
and Liuben
Dimitrov performing works
by Schubert,
Arensky, Liszt
and Milhaud. 8 p.m. Free; tickets required.
Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building,
Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-7075502.
■ The Vermont-based indie rock band
Chamberlin will perform. 9 p.m. $8 in
advance; $10 on the day of the show. Sixth &
I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 800-7453000.
■ Textile Museum trustee and collector
Wendel Swan will discuss “Shahsavan Pile
Weaving.” 10:30 a.m. Free. Textile Museum,
2320 S St. NW. 202-667-0441, ext. 64.
■ The Slovak American Society of
Washington, DC, will present a talk by
University of Ottawa professor Mark M.
Stolarik on his book “The Prague Spring and
the Cursed Snake,” a traditional shadow theater performance. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium
Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ SpeakeasyDC will present storytellers
sharing tales about frightful encounters, terrifying moments and spooky predicaments.
7:30 and 10 p.m. $22; $10 for students.
Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. speakeasydc.
com. A family-friendly version of the show will
take place Sunday at 4 p.m.
■ The Institute for Spiritual Development
will host a Halloween party, talent show and
evening buffet. 7:30 to 10 p.m. $22. Institute
for Spiritual Development, 5419 Sherier
Place NW. 202-363-7106.
Sunday, october 30
■ Concert: The Amerigo Trio will
perform works by Beethoven, Cras and
Sibelius. 4 p.m. $20. Phillips
Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. 202387-2151.
the Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia,
1968: Forty Years Later.” 2:15 p.m. Free.
Embassy of the Slovak Republic, 3523
International Court NW. 703-751-1456.
■ Paul Starr will discuss his book
“Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar
American Struggle Over Health Care Reform,”
at 1 p.m.; Christine Jahnke will discuss her
book “The Well-Spoken Woman: Your Guide
to Looking and Sounding Your Best,” at 3:30
p.m.; and Dr. Justin Frank will discuss his
book “Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind
of the President,” at 6 p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3641919.
■ Nurhan Atasoy, an expert on Ottoman
art and architecture, will discuss “Costumes
of the Ottoman Sultans.” 2 p.m. $25; reservations required. Textile Museum, 2320 S St.
NW. 202-667-0441, ext. 64.
■ Mark Auslander will discuss his book
“The Accidental Slaveowner: Revising a Myth
of Race and Finding an American Family.” 5
to 7 p.m. Free. Cullen Room, Busboys and
Poets, 1025 5th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
■ The annual
Hyman S. & Freda
Bernstein Jewish
Literary Festival will feature a talk by Ursula
Hegi on her novel
“Children and Fire.” 8
Films
■ The “Opera in Cinema” series will feature “Adriana Lecouvreur,” performed at the
Royal Opera House in London. 11 a.m. $20.
West End Cinema, 23rd Street between M
and N streets NW. 202-419-3456.
■ “The Met: Live in HD” will feature the
Metropolitan Opera’s new production of
Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.” 12:55 p.m. AMC
Mazza Gallerie, 5300 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
fathomevents.com.
■ “Le Cinéma Fantastique” will feature
Jean Epstein’s 1928 film “La Chute de la
Maison Usher” and Eric Rohmer’s 1965 film
“Edgar Allan Poe: Histoires Extraordinaires,”
at 2:30 p.m.; and Jean Renoir’s 1959 film
“The Testament of Doctor Cordelier,” at 4:30
p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National
Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
Performances
■ As part of the Kids Euro Festival,
Cyprus will present “Alexander the Great and
Special events
■ Boy Scout Troop 100’s 23rd annual
Pancake Breakfast will feature pancakes,
fruit, sausage, ham, juice and coffee. 8 to 11
a.m. $5 per child; $8 per adult. St. Ann’s
Catholic Church, 4001 Yuma St. NW. 202421-4863.
■ “RFK Stadium Appreciation Day” will
feature a 50th-anniversary memorabilia display, player appearances, giveaways and
behind-the-scenes tours of team locker
rooms and the field. 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., with
tours at 10 a.m., noon and 2 p.m. Free; reservations required for tours. RFK Memorial
Stadium, 2400 East Capitol St. SE.
rfkstadium50.com/events.
■ The Xi Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority will present “The Pink Project
2011: Asthma Prevention and Management,”
featuring exhibits, demonstrations, flu shots
and a panel discussion. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Free admission; reservations required. Xi
Omega Center, 4411 14th St. NW.
pinkprojectxo.eventbrite.com.
■ A celebration of the opening of “A Song
for the Horse Nation” will feature ledger art
and beading workshops, storytelling with children’s book author S.D. Nelson and special
tours of the exhibition. 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Free. National Museum of the American
Indian, 4th Street and Independence Avenue
SW. 202-633-1000. The activities will continue Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
■ The LeDroit Park Civic Association and
Common Good City Farm will host
“OktoberFest,” feature live music and entertainment, games, food, children’s activities
and local vendors. 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free
admission. Elm Street between 3rd and 5th
streets NW. ledroitparkdc.org.
■ A “Pumpkin Celebration” will feature
pumpkin carving and a tasting of seasonal
specialties, including pumpkin ice cream,
pumpkin pie, pumpkin soup and spiced
pumpkin cocktails. Proceeds will benefit the
D.C. Central Kitchen. Noon to 3 p.m. $20
donation suggested; $10 for children.
Reservations required. Ris, 2275 L St. NW.
202-730-2508.
■ Artomatic’s third annual “SurrealDC
Halloween Masquerade” will feature a costume contest, an open bar, art installations
and performances by Monroe, Atoms Apart,
Color School SNRG and DJ Asu Rock. 8 p.m.
to 2 a.m. $25. Washington Harbour, 3050 K
St. NW. surrealdc2011.eventbrite.com.
Walks and tours
■ A park ranger will lead ages 7 and
older on a two-mile hike to Milkhouse Ford
and discuss the diverse natural and cultural
resources that surround the historic water
crossing. 10 a.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature
Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-8956070.
■ A bus tour will visit D.C. locations used
as backdrops in more than 50 television
shows and movies, including “The Exorcist,”
“The West Wing” and “Wedding Crashers.”
10 a.m. $34; reservations required. Tour
departs from a location near Union Station.
800-979-3370.
■ Native Washingtonian and freelance
writer Rocco Zappone will lead an interactive
“Walking Tour
as Personal
Essay,” filled
with his reminiscences and
impressions of
a lifetime in
D.C. 10 a.m. or by appointment. $25. Meet
at the statue of Andrew Jackson in Lafayette
Square, 16th and H streets NW. 202-3415208.
■ A park
ranger will lead
a tour of the
newly restored
Peirce Mill and
discuss the
many machines
and steps necessary to make flour using
water power. Noon. Free. Peirce Mill, Tilden
Street and Beach Drive NW. 202-895-6070.
Sunday, Oct. 30
Sunday october 30
■ “Monthly Storytime at Ms. Kirby’s Kids”
will focus on autumn, leaves, farms, the harvest and Halloween (best for children ages 1
through 5). 4:30 p.m. Free. 2410 37th St.
NW. 202-821-5464.
Concerts
■ Organist Robert Church, flutist Kerm
Towler, violist Kristin Gomez and pianist
Maritza Sadowsky will perform “Flights of
Fancy and Fantasy,” featuring works by Bach,
Reineke, Ravel, Stephen Schwartz and Randy
Newman. 2 p.m. Free. Metropolitan Memorial
United Methodist Church, 3401 Nebraska
Ave. NW. 202-289-1216.
Swedish jazz singer
Sarah Riedel will present
“Pippi in America,” a
largely acoustic performance combining wellknown Swedish children’s songs with jazz. 6
p.m. Free. Millennium
■ The Genova and Dimitrov Piano Duo
will perform works by Liszt and other composers. 6:30 p.m. Free. West Garden Court,
National Gallery of Art, 6th Street and
■ Dahlak Restaurant will host its weekly
“DC Jazz Jam” session. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Free. 1771 U St. NW. 202-527-9522.
■ Josh Rolnick and Will Boast (shown)
will discuss their books
“Pulp and Paper” and
“Power Ballads,” respectively, at 1 p.m.; and
Amos Oz will discuss his
book “Scenes From
Village Life,” at 5 p.m.
Free. Politics and Prose,
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Carmen C. Bambach, professor at the
Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts
at the National Gallery of Art, will discuss
“Leonardo da Vinci: Artist of Sketchbooks
and Notebooks.” 2 p.m. Free. East Building
Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street
and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ Lorrae Jordan will discuss her book
“God Kept Me: My Story Told Through
Poetry.” 5 to 7 p.m. Free. Langston Room,
Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202387-7638.
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Jewish Literary Festival will present a panel
discussion on
“Glasnost’s Children,”
featuring novelists
David Bezmozgis,
Nadia Kalman and
Haley Tanner (shown).
7:30 p.m. $10.
Washington DC Jewish
Community Center, 1529 16th St. NW.
washingtondcjcc.org/litfest.
Films
■ “Le Cinéma Fantastique” will feature
Marcel Carné’s 1942 film “Les Visiteurs du
soir” and Georges Méliès’ 1904 film “Voyage
à Travers l’Impossible.” 4:30 p.m. Free. East
Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art,
4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202737-4215.
■ “Cinema Français á Mount Vernon” will
feature François
Ozon’s 2010
film “Potiche,”
starring
Catherine
Deneuve,
Gérard
Depardieu and Fabrice Luchini. 4:30 p.m.
Free. Eckles Library Auditorium, George
Washington University Mount Vernon
Campus, 2100 Foxhall Road NW. 202-2426673.
Special events
■ The annual Hyman S. & Freda
Bernstein Jewish
Literary Festival will feature a morning of crafts,
folk tales and fun with
Vicki Weber, author of
“It’s Too Crowded in
Here!” 10 a.m. $10; $8
per family. Washington
■ Halloween festivities will include
“Spooky Tales From the Pet Cemetery” by
storyteller Marianne Meyers and a chance for
families to decorate their own mini pumpkins, using whimsical wigs, hats and other
creative trimmings. 1 to 5 p.m. $15; $12 for
seniors; $10 for college students; $5 for
ages 6 through 18. Hillwood Estate, Museum
& Gardens, 4155 Linnean Ave. NW. 202-6865807. A “Spooky Pooch Parade,” featuring a
walk along the woodland trail and a costume
contest, will be held from 3 to 5 p.m.; admission costs $15 per dog with one or two owners.
Walk
■ A park ranger will lead ages 7 and
older on a two-mile autumn hike and discuss
presidential visits to Rock Creek Park. 10
a.m. Free. Peirce Mill, Tilden Street and
Beach Drive NW. 202-895-6070.
Monday, Oct. 31
Monday october 31
Class
■ Teacher and therapist Elizabeth Muniot
will lead a weekly yoga class. 5:30 p.m. Free.
Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Neighborhood Library,
1630 7th St. NW. 202-727-1288.
Concert
■ Participants in the Washington
National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young
Artist Program will perform. 6 p.m. Free.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ Jeffrey Eugenides will discuss his novel
The Current
“The Marriage Plot.” 7 p.m. $12 in advance;
$15 on the day of the event. Sixth & I Historic
Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 202-364-1919.
Jewish Literary Festival
will feature a talk by
Alicia Oltuski on her
book “Precious Objects:
A Story of Diamonds,
Family, and a Way of
Life.” 7:30 p.m. $10.
Washington DC Jewish
Films
■ The Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library
will present the 1990 film “Journey of Hope.”
2 p.m. Free. Chevy Chase Neighborhood
Library, 5625 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-2820021.
■ A film series on challenges presented
by globalization
and scientific
progress will
feature Jens
Schanze’s 2010
film “Plug and
Pray.” 6:30 p.m.
$7. Goethe-Institut, 812 7th St. NW. 202289-1200, ext. 160.
■ The “Gentlemen Prefer Marilyn” series
will feature Billy Wilder’s
1959 film “Some Like It
Hot,” starring Marilyn
Monroe, Tony Curtis and
Jack Lemmon. 6:30
p.m. Free; tickets
required. Helen Hayes
Gallery, National
Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202783-3372.
■ “Alfred Hitchcock Filmfest” will feature
the 1963 film “The Birds.” 6:30 p.m. Free.
Chevy Chase Neighborhood Library, 5625
Special events
■ “Historic Halloween Spooktacular: Trick
or Treat at Tudor Place” will offer a chance
for children to don their Halloween costumes,
trick-or-treat through Tudor Place’s gardens
and create tasty Halloween treats to take
home. 3 to 6 p.m. $7 for children; $3 for
adults. Reservations required. Tudor Place
Historic House and Garden, 1644 31st St.
NW. tudorplace.org/calendar.html.
■ “Harvest Fest and Halloween Fun” will
feature pumpkin painting, a costume parade,
treats and hot cider. 3 p.m. Free. Takoma
Neighborhood Library, 416 Cedar St. NW.
202-576-7252.
■ A Halloween party will feature karaoke,
snacks, a monster fashion show and trick-ortreating. 3:45 p.m. Free. Palisades
Neighborhood Library, 4901 V St. NW. 202282-3139.
Tuesday, Nov. 1
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Book/CD signing
■ Harry Belafonte will sign copies of his
memoir “My Song” and the companion CD
“Sing Your Song: The Music.” 1 p.m. Free.
NW. 202-364-1919.
Classes
■ Teacher and therapist Heather Ferris
will lead a weekly yoga class. Noon. Free.
Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Neighborhood Library,
1630 7th St. NW. 202-727-1288.
■ Yoga Activist will present a weekly yoga
class geared toward beginners. 7 p.m. Free.
Cleveland Park Neighborhood Library, 3310
■ The Jewish Study Center will present a
Monday, october 31
■ Concert: Mats Carlsson, leading
tenor of the Swedish Royal Opera, will
present “A Tribute to Jussi Björling.” 7
p.m. Free; reservations required.
House of Sweden, 2900 K St. NW.
[email protected].
four-week class on “‘You Shall Pursue
Justice’: Textual Foundations for Jewish
Social Action,” featuring instructor Batya
Steinlauf. 7 to 8:15 p.m. $75. National
Museum of American Jewish Military History,
1811 R St. NW. jewishstudycenter.org. The
class will continue Nov. 15, 22 and 29.
Concerts
■ The Tuesday Concert Series will feature
the Washington Bach Consort and soloist
Todd Fickley. Noon. Free. Church of the
Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. 202-347-2635,
ext. 18.
■ The Orion
String Quartet
will perform
works by Bach,
Schubert,
Brahms and
Webern. 7:30
p.m. $38. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600.
■ The Embassy
Series will present
Israeli pianist Ran Dank
performing works by
Beethoven and Chopin.
7:30 p.m. $50. Venue to
be announced. 202625-2361.
■ Jonathan S. Landay, senior national
security and intelligence correspondent for
McClatchy Newspapers, will discuss the current situation in Afghanistan and whether the
United States should declare victory and
withdraw. 11:30 a.m. $30. Woman’s
National Democratic Club, 1526 New
Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.
■ Ernesto Cordero, National Action Party
contender for president of Mexico, will discuss “Mexico’s Success Facing Global
Economic Crisis.” Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free;
reservations required. City View Room, Elliott
School of International Affairs, George
Washington University, 1957 E St. NW.
tinyurl.cc.ErnestoCordero.
■ Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at
American University will present a talk by
Ruth Nemzoff on “Don’t Bite Your Tongue:
How to Foster Rewarding Relationships With
Your Adult Children.” 12:15 to 1:15 p.m.
Free. Temple Baptist Church, 3860 Nebraska
Ave. NW. 202-895-4860.
■ Kasper Monrad, chief curator of the
National Gallery of Denmark, will discuss
“Vilhelm Hammershoi and His
Contemporaries.” 2 p.m. Free. East Building
Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street
and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ Alyssa Ayres, deputy assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, will
discuss “India and the United States: Forging
a Global Strategic Partnership.” 3 to 4:30
p.m. Free; reservations required. Mortara
Building, Georgetown University, 36th and N
streets NW. [email protected].
■ Caroline Preston will discuss her book
“The Scrapbook of Frankie Pratt.” 6:30 p.m.
Free. Barnes & Noble, 555 12th St. NW.
202-347-0176.
■ Physicist Peter Volkovitsky will discuss
“Scientists and Spies: The Soviet Nuclear
Weapons Program.” 6:30 p.m. $9.
International Spy Museum, 800 F St. NW.
202-393-7798.
■ Travel expert Kristina Schreck will discuss “Explore Chile: From the Atacama
Desert to Easter Island.” 6:45 to 8:45 p.m.
$40. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson
Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Peter Sís will discuss his book “The
Conference of the Birds.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics
and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.
■ Richard Thompson, creator of “Cul de
Sac” and “Richard’s Poor Almanac,” will discuss the world of comic strips and highlight
some of his favorites. 7 p.m. $20; $10 for
students. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th
St. NW. 202-639-1770.
■ Izabella Tabarovsky will discuss
“Sacred Fragrances of the Tanach.” 7 to 8:30
p.m. $35; reservations required. National
Museum of American Jewish Military History,
1811 R St. NW. jewishstudycenter.org.
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■ Harry Belafonte will discuss his life as a
performer and participant in the civil rights
movement. A book signing will follow. 7:30
p.m. $20. Baird Auditorium, National
Museum of Natural History, 10th Street and
Jewish Literary Festival will present a panel
discussion on “Israel,
Loose Nukes and the
End of the World,” featuring authors Avner
Cohen (shown) and Ron
Rosenbaum and journalist Marvin Kalb. 7:30
Films
■ The Georgetown Neighborhood Library
will present the 1992 film “Unforgiven.” 6
p.m. Free. Georgetown Neighborhood Library,
3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.
■ National Geographic will present a
screening of the new National Geographic
Channel film “Secrets of the Lost Gold,”
about the discovery of a trove
of treasures and
battlefield items
that constitute
England’s most
important AngloSaxon archaeological find. A post-screening
panel discussion will feature Caroline
Alexander, author of the National Geographic
book and magazine article about the discovery; David Symons of the Birmingham
Museums and Art Gallery; and Deb
Klemperer of the Potteries Museum and Art
Gallery. 7:30 p.m. $20. Grosvenor
Auditorium, National Geographic, 1600 M St.
NW. 202-857-7700.
Meeting
■ Recovery International will host a group
discussion for people suffering from stress,
anxiety, panic, depression, sleep problems,
anger, fear and other mental, nervous or
emotional problems. 7 p.m. Free. Chevy
Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-364-2680. The group meets
every Tuesday.
Performances
Hungary will present magician Gábor Holcz in
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“Power of Magic.” 6 p.m. Free. Millennium
■ Busboys and Poets will host “Tuesday
Night Open Mic,” a weekly poetry event. 9 to
11 p.m. $4. Langston Room, Busboys and
Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Capitals will play the
Anaheim Ducks. 7:30 p.m. $46 to $138.
Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 202-3977328.
Wednesday, Nov. 2
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Class
■ Housing Counseling Services, a local
nonprofit, will present an orientation session
to help first-time home buyers take advantage of loan programs offered by the D.C.
government. 6 p.m. Free. Suite 100, 2410
17th St. NW. 202-667-7712. The class will
repeat Thursday at 11 a.m.
Concerts
■ Michael Lodico, associate choirmaster
and organist at St. John’s Episcopal Church,
Lafayette Square, will present “Toccatas and
Carillons.” 12:10 p.m. Free. St. John’s
Episcopal Church, Lafayette Square, 16th
and H streets NW. 202-347-8766.
■ The Monadnock Music Trio will perform
works by Bogdanovic, Garner, Lindroth,
Norman and Simpson in honor of the exhibit
“The Gothic Spirit of John Taylor Arms.”
12:10 p.m. Free. West Lecture Hall, National
Gallery of Art, 6th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW. 202-737-4215.
■ European Jazz Motion — Austria’s
Angela Tröndle on vocals, Switzerland’s
Tobias Meier on alto sax and alto clarinet,
Estonia’s Marek Talts on guitar, Finland’s
Antti Kujanpää on piano, Italy’s Mattia
Magatelli on bass and Denmark’s Christian
Windfeld on drums — will perform. 7:30 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Embassy of
Austria, 3524 International Court NW. 202895-6776.
■ Avanti, the Orchestra of the Friday
Morning Music Club, will perform works by
Beethoven and Tchaikovsky. 7:30 p.m. Free;
tickets required. Terrace Theater, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Deepa Rao, research assistant professor at the University of Washington and a
licensed clinical psychologist, will discuss
efforts in China and India to reduce HIVrelated stigma. Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free.
Mortara Building, Georgetown University,
36th and N streets NW.
[email protected].
■ Political scientists John P. Entelis, Chris
Alexander and Melani Cammett will discuss
the Tunisian election and possible outcomes.
Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Room 602, Elliott School of
International Affairs, George Washington
University, 1957 E St. NW. bit.ly/mXKVzN.
■ Keegan de Lancie, displacement monitoring officer for the International
Organization for Migration — Iraq Mission, will
discuss “Crafting Durable Solutions to Iraqi
Displacement.” Noon. Free; reservations
required. Room 241, Intercultural Center,
Georgetown University, 37th and O streets
NW. eventbrite.com/event/2339549656.
■ Author Meir
Shalev will discuss his
book “My Russian
Grandmother and Her
American Vacuum
Cleaner: A Family
Memoir.” 12:30 p.m.
Free; reservations
required. Copley Formal Lounge, Copley Hall,
NW. eventbrite.com/event/2142534378/.
■ The Shepherd Park Book Club will discuss Wes Moore’s memoir “The Other Wes
Moore: One Name, Two Fates,” about two
children with the same name growing up in
the same decaying city. 1:30 p.m. Free.
Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park
Neighborhood Library, 7420 Georgia Ave.
NW. 202-541-6100.
■ Hideo Levy, the first westerner to
become a critically acclaimed novelist in
Japanese, will discuss “The World in
Japanese.” 2:30 to 4 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Japan Information and Culture
Center, 1155 21st St. NW.
[email protected].
■ Panelists will discuss “Views From the
Frontlines: First Accounts From Burma’s
Conflict Zones.” 5 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Room 602, Elliott School of
International Affairs, George Washington
University, 1957 E St. NW.
go.gwu.edu/BurmaNov2.
■ Experts will discuss “Prevention of
Prescription Drug Misuse Among Youth.” 6 to
8 p.m. Free; reservations required. House of
Sweden, 2900 K St. NW. rsvp-hos@foreign.
ministry.se.
Friday, October 28, 7 p.m.
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Minister, draws on the elder Sharon’s diaries from all
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Harman Hall, 610 F St. NW. 202-547-1122.
Ireland will present puppeteer Miriam
Lambert’s rendition of “The Gingerbread
Man.” 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage,
Thursday, Nov. 3
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Wednesday, november 2
■ Discussion: Spencer Wells, explorer-in-residence at National Geographic
and director of the Genographic
Project, will discuss his team’s work in
collecting and analyzing DNA samples
to create a genetically based map of
human migration. 7:30 p.m. $18.
Grosvenor Auditorium, National
Geographic, 1600 M St. NW. 202-8577700.
■ Theda Perdue, professor emerita of
Southern culture at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, will discuss “Andrew
Jackson and the Trail of Tears.” 6:45 to 9
p.m. $40. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100
Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ As part of the Friends of the TenleyFriendship Library’s Local Author Series,
Giles Kelly and Ann Stevens will discuss their
book “Sequoia: Presidential Yacht.” 7 p.m.
Free. Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library,
4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1225.
■ Author Simon
Sebag Montefiore will
discuss his book
“Jerusalem: The
Biography.” 7 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015
Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
■ Meir Shalev will discuss his book “My
Russian Grandmother and Her American
Vacuum Cleaner: A Family Memoir.” 7 p.m.
$10 in advance; $12 on the day of the event.
Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW.
sixthandi.org.
■ Artist Julie Mehretu will discuss her
work, which uses images or architectural
plans of public spaces from around the globe
as a point of departure to create sprawling
drawings with colorful, geometric abstractions, iconic imagery and loosely figurative
markings. 7 p.m. Free; tickets required.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and
F streets NW. 202-633-1000.
■ The closing night of Hyman S. & Freda
Bernstein Jewish
Literary Festival
will feature a
talk by Lucette
Lagnado on her
memoir “The
Arrogant Years.”
7:30 p.m. $20. Washington DC Jewish
Film
■ “The Met: Live in HD” will feature
Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena.” 6:30 p.m. $18.
AMC Mazza Gallerie, 5300 Wisconsin Ave.
NW. fathomevents.com.
Performances
■ The “Happenings at the Harman” performance series will feature work by local
choreographers, curated by Dance/MetroDC
director Peter DiMuro. Noon. Free. Sidney
Concerts
■ Grammy-winner Rahim Al-Haj will perform. 5:30 to 8 p.m. Free. Langston Room,
Busboys and Poets, 2021 14th St. NW. 202387-7638.
■ The National Symphony Orchestra and
pianist Peter Serkin will
perform works by
Shepherd, Messiaen,
Benjamin and
Stravinsky. 7 p.m. $20
to $85. Concert Hall,
Kennedy Center. 202467-4600. The concert
will repeat Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
■ Pro Musica
Hebraica will present
Jascha Nemtsov &
Friends performing “The
Last Romantics: Jewish
Composers of Interwar
Europe.” 7:30 p.m. $38.
Terrace Theater,
■ The Greater Washington Board of
Trade will present Tom Brokaw discussing his
book “The Time of Our Lives: A Conversation
About America.” 8 to 10 a.m. $115.
Newseum, 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
bot.org.
■ Gerald Darsch and Kathy Evangelos of
the U.S. Army Natick Solder Research,
Development and Engineering Center will discuss the history of feeding the military and
creating usable combat rations that are both
nutritious and tasty. Noon. Free. McGowan
Theater, National Archives Building,
Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th
streets NW. 202-357-5000.
■ Scholar Mark Geiger will discuss his
book “Financial Fraud and Guerrilla Violence
in Missouri’s Civil War, 1861-1865.” Noon.
Free. Room 119, Jefferson Building, Library
of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-707-7678.
■ Panelists will discuss “President
Obama’s Upcoming Trip to Australia.” Noon
to 1 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room
141, Intercultural Center, Georgetown
University, 37th and O streets NW.
auspol.eventbrite.com.
■ “Who Should Govern the Internet?” will
feature panelists Severine Arsene, a fellow at
the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at
Georgetown University; Bertrand de La
Chapelle, board member of the Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers and program director at the
International Diplomatic Academy in Paris;
and Laura DeNardis, associate professor at
American University and a fellow at the Yale
Information Society Project. 2:30 to 5 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Mortara Center
Conference Room, Mortara Building,
Georgetown University, 36th and N streets
NW. internetgovernance.eventbrite.com.
■ Robert Bailis, assistant professor of forestry and environmental studies at Yale
University, will discuss “Arresting the Killer in
the Kitchen: The Promises and Pitfalls of
Commercializing Improved Cookstoves.” 5:30
to 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations requested.
Room 505, Elliott School of International
Affairs, George Washington University, 1957
E St. NW. bit.ly/rkc49g.
■ Political theorist Timothy Mitchell, a
professor at Columbia University, will discuss
“Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the
Age of Oil.” 6 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Room 241, Intercultural Center,
NW. eventbrite.com/event/2278683604.
■ “The Fight to Be Heard From Susan B.
Anthony to Hillary Clinton” will feature panelists Rep. Tammy
Baldwin (shown), D-Wis.;
Christine Jahnke, author
of “The Well-Spoken
Woman: Your Guide to
Looking and Sounding
Your Best”; and Ann
Lewis, president of the
No Limits Foundation. 6 p.m. $15. SewallBelmont House and Museum, 144
Constitution Ave. NE. sewallbelmont.org.
■ Elizabeth Ferrer will discuss the creative and cultural exchanges between
Edward Weston and Manuel Álverez Bravo,
two pioneers of modern photography. 6:30
p.m. Free; reservations required. Mexican
Cultural Institute, 2829 16th St. NW.
[email protected].
■ Felix Matos Rodriguez, president of
Hostos Community College, City University of
New York, will discuss the social history of
Puerto Rico in the 1940s. 6:30 to 9 p.m.
Free. Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen
Arts Center, American University, 4400
■ Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist
Adam Guy Riess will discuss “Putting Some
Light on Dark Energy.” 6:45 to 8:45 p.m.
$40. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson
Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Tom Brokaw will
discuss his book “The
Time of Our Lives: A
Conversation About
America.” 7 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015
Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
■ Shinique Smith and iona rozeal brown,
two of the artists featured in the “30
Americans” exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery
of Art, will discuss their work and reflect on
the role that artistic community plays in their
artwork and process. 7 p.m. $20; $10 for
students. Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th
St. NW. 202-639-1770.
■ Journalist Scott Wallace will discuss
“The Unconquered: Brazil’s People of the
Arrow.” 7:30 p.m. $18. Grosvenor Auditorium,
National Geographic, 1600 M St. NW. 202857-7700.
Performances
Portugal’s Cativar will present “The Poles of
Our Earth,” a play that uses puppets, stories
and songs to tell about the polar regions. 6
p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
Special event
■ “Phillips After 5” will feature interactive magic demonstrations by David London
and a gallery talk on Phillips Collection
founder Duncan Phillips’ exploration of the
work of emerging artists. 5 to 8:30 p.m. Cost
varies by activity; registration suggested.
Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW.
phillipscollection.org/phillipsafter5.
■ “Many Stories, One Night,” a celebration of D.C.’s immigrant communities, will
feature the release of a preliminary report on
immigrants’ experiences accessing public
benefits and the screening of Robert Winn’s
film “Communities in Transition,” about the
impact of language barriers during emergencies such as a 2008 fire that destroyed a
Mount Pleasant apartment building. 6 to 9
p.m. $10 donation suggested. Gala Theatre,
3333 14th St. NW. 202-621-1001.
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Portrait Gallery exhibition depicts African-American life
“T
he Black List: Photographs by
On exhibit
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders,”
presenting portraits of 50 AfricanAmericans to illustrate the struggles, tria.m. to 4 p.m. 202-342-1298.
umphs and joys of black life in the United
■ “A Song for the Horse Nation,” a traveling
States, will open Friday at the National
exhibition about the importance of horses
Portrait Gallery and continue through April over the centuries to Native people, will open
22.
Saturday at the National
Located at 8th and F
Museum of the
streets NW, the gallery is
American Indian and
open daily from 11:30
continue through Jan. 7.
a.m. to 7 p.m. 202-633Located at 4th Street
1000.
and Independence
■ The Ralls Collection
Avenue SW, the museum
will open an exhibit today
is open daily from 10
of colorful abstract painta.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202ings by two artists,
633-1000.
including John Blee’s
■ “Anglo-Saxon Hoard:
Gold From England’s
“Orchard Suite” series
Dark Ages,” featuring
and Adam Swart’s
pieces from the largest
“Crimes and
“Sainkho’s Nomads” by Adam
Celebrations” series. The
and most valuable collecSwart is at the Ralls Collection.
show will continue
tion of Anglo-Saxon treathrough Dec. 31.
sure ever discovered, will
Located at 1516 31st St. NW, the gallery
open Saturday at the National Geographic
is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11
Museum and continue through March 4.
Located at 1145 17th St. NW, the museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Admission costs $8 for adults; $6 for seniors,
students and military personnel; and $4 for
ages 5 through 12. Tickets are required. 202857-7588.
■ “Eclectica,” presenting thematically
diverse photography by John Potter, will
open with a reception Saturday from 6 to 8
p.m. at the Church of the Holy City and
continue through Nov. 30.
Located at 1611 16th St. NW in the
upstairs chapel, the exhibit is open Monday
through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
Tuesday until 9 p.m. 202-462-6734.
■ “Agnes Bolt: Dealing,” highlighting new
artwork by Bolt that documents her interactions with two art collectors, opened last
week at Project 4, where it will continue
through Nov. 26.
Located at 1353 U St. NW on the third
floor, the gallery is open Wednesday through
Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. 202-232-4340.
■ “Autumn Mix,” presenting sculpture by
Michael Gessner and paintings by Lucy
Clark, Kathryn McDonnell and Stuart
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders’ 2007 photo of
Toni Morrison is part of the National
Portrait Gallery’s exhibit “The Black List.”
Greenwell, will close Tuesday at PASS
Gallery.
Located at 1617 S St. NW, rear, the gallery is open Tuesday and Saturday from 1 to
5 p.m. 202-745-0796.
‘Golden Dragon’ mines unexpected connections
S
tudio Theatre will present
Roland Schimmelpfennig’s
“The Golden Dragon” Nov. 2
through Dec. 11.
In the cramped kitchen of an
On STAGE
Asian restaurant, four cooks pull
the tooth of a young Chinese coworker. His tooth ends up in the
Thai soup of a flight attendant, who
overhears the fight of a young couple who live above the restaurant,
whose fighting disturbs the shopkeeper of the dry goods store next
door, who is more connected to the Studio Theatre will stage “The Golden Dragon” from Nov. 2 through
young Chinese man than anyone
Dec. 11.
suspects.
234-7174; galatheatre.org.
■ GALita, a family program from
Performance times are 8 p.m.
■ The Washington Ballet will
GALA Hispanic Theatre, will
Tuesday through Saturday; 2 p.m.
revive artistic director Septime
present “Las aventuras de Don
Saturday and Sunday; and 7 p.m.
Webre’s adaptation of “The Great
Quijote de La Mancha” Oct. 31
Sunday. Studio is located at 1501
Gatsby” Nov. 2 through 6 at the
through Nov. 10.
14th St. NW. 202-332-3300; stuKennedy Center.
Based on the novel “Don
diotheatre.org.
Quijote,” this bilingual adaptation
■ The Chevy Chase Players will
Wednesday through Saturday, 2:30
follows the mispresent Neil
p.m. Saturday and 1:30 and 6:30
adventures of
Simon’s “The
p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $20 to
the gentleman
Gingerbread
from La Mancha $125. 202-467-4600;
Lady” Oct. 28
kennedy-center.org.
and his loyal
through Nov. 12
■ Howard University will present
squire Sancho
at the Chevy
Panza. Obsessed Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored
Chase
Girls Who Have Considered
with chivalrous
Community
Suicide When the Rainbow Is
ideals, Don
Center.
Quijote takes up Enuf” Nov. 2 through 12 in the
Performance
Environmental Theatre Space.
his lance and
times are gener A series of poems choreosword to set
ally 7:30 p.m.
graphed to music express the tribuwrongs to right,
Friday and
lations of seven African-American
defend the helpSaturday, with a
women in their lives and loves.
less and destroy
noon matinee on
Performance times are 7:30 p.m.
The Washington Ballet will stage the wicked
Nov. 12.
Wednesday through Saturday; 2:30
throughout the
Tickets, avail“The Great Gatsby” at Nov. 2
able at the door, through 6 at the Kennedy Center. Spanish country- p.m. Saturday; and 10 a.m. Friday,
Nov 4. Tickets cost $5 to $15.
side.
cost $15; $13
Howard University is located at
Performance times are 10:30
for students and seniors. The com2455 6th St. NW. 202-806-7050;
a.m. Tickets cost $10. GALA is
munity center is located at 5601
See Theater/Page 40
located at 3333 14th St. NW. 202Connecticut Ave. NW.
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don’t compromise the protected Woodhull
House.
The university hadn’t yet filed its application with the preservation board, so the neighborhood commission took no action at last
week’s meeting. But Barbara Kahlow of the
West End Citizens Association recommended
working to block the application until the
EVANS
From Page 9
sounds like a prison sentence to
me,” Sherwood quipped.
He also lampooned Evans for
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university can demonstrate that the plans
won’t tie up traffic on 21st Street.
The road is already congested, said
Kahlow, and museum visitors and delivery
trucks would exacerbate the problem.
“Obviously we want the Textile Museum in
our neighborhood, but it is the wrong place,”
she said.
Officials said the planned internal loading
setup — which would be screened from the
street except as a truck is entering or leaving
— would be essential for protecting delicate
running for mayor in 1998, when he
“failed miserably.” Radio host Mark
Plotkin later chimed in that Evans
actually did pretty well, getting support from one of every 13 voters.
At the end of the event, Evans
took advantage of his time at the
WATER
From Page 9
it,” said Wood.
For example, at Eaton, students spent a day last week
scoping out stormwater runoff on the school’s grounds.
“We did one of our first audits on the outside to see
where water was pooling,” said fourth-grade teacher
Susan Coti. “They can see right outside their doorstep
what’s happening.”
Meanwhile, with clipboards in hand, students visited
the school’s bathrooms to get a sense of the amount of
water flowing out of sinks and toilets.
Coti said the students will use the information in
textiles. Only small trucks would be able to
use the loading dock, they added. University
attorney David Avitabile said the school will
address traffic concerns later with the Zoning
Commission, not with the Historic
Preservation Review Board.
Susan-Anne Cora, the university’s campus
planning director, said she thinks the neighborhood will benefit from the planned museum. “It’s open to the public, and I think there
will be a lot of really fun family-type programs there,” she said.
mic to reply with digs at all those
who had jabbed at him.
The roast raised between $12,000
and $13,000, which will go to
Hexagon as well as the Wounded
Warriors Project, which aids to
severely injured soldiers.
special projects designed to help conserve water and
address runoff. The students will also make presentations to D.C. leaders about their efforts next year.
In a statement, Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson
said she’s excited to see students develop their own
solutions to such a pressing environmental problem.
“We’re excited to have schools in our district participate in the program this year and apply the problemsolving skills they have developed in the classroom to
improve the local environment,” she said.
Eaton fourth-grader Pearl Benjamin said the program has already made her think twice about how she
brushes her teeth and does the dishes. “At first I thought,
‘Oh, there’s tons of water on Earth.’ Now I see that we
really have to start saving water,” she said.
In another George Washington University
campus plan project, the school broke ground
Thursday on its eight-story Science and
Engineering Complex, which is replacing a
parking garage at 22nd and H streets and several nearby buildings on the block. Officials
hope to open that facility in 2015.
Neighbors generally supported the planned
complex but expressed disappointment that
the large-scale construction on the Square 55
site wouldn’t include a second entrance to the
Foggy Bottom Metrorail station.
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According to city officials and
residents, it’s been a success so far.
During September, Chief Lanier
said, Adams Morgan saw a 40 percent reduction in overall crime and
a 20 percent reduction in violent
crime.
Neighbors, meanwhile, talked
about a change in perception in the
area, with bad behavior on the
decline due to the increased police
presence. One woman who lives on
18th Street said she’d overheard
people saying things like “We’re not
coming here next weekend; there’s
too much police.”
According to Capt. Aubrey
Mongal, the police department puts
30 to 40 officers in the neighborhood on weekend nights, while
businesses separately fund several
other officers. So far during the
operation, said Assistant Police
Chief Patrick Burke, police have
made 225 arrests for violations like
drinking or urinating in public.
The program also involves other
city enforcement officials, like alcohol inspectors. Alcoholic Beverage
Regulation Administration director
Fred Moosally said his agency’s
responsibilities include checking
bars to “make sure they’re not overserving” or “extending their space
outside.” Inspectors have found 21
violations since July, he said.
Though neighbors at the meeting
praised the operation, they also
questioned how the long the city can
direct extra resources toward the
broader, ongoing problems in
Adams Morgan.
“I get the feeling that we’re treating Operation Adams Morgan as …
a one-time surge of undetermined
length,” one resident said. “From a
resident’s standpoint, it’s a system
problem. … You have too many
liquor licenses in one place.”
The resident also noted that the
operation’s identified “targets” —
visitors who come to tailgate and
harass paying customers of 18th
Street’s businesses, while never setting foot inside any themselves —
aren’t the only ones damaging the
area’s quality of life.
“It’s the patrons, not the predators,” the resident said of the crowds
that straggle through the streets after
hitting the bars — “peeing, dumping pizza boxes, having a party on
the front stoop.”
Resident Bella Rosenberg
echoed those sentiments. “From our
point of view, we need [the operation] to continue as long as the
problem continues … but that’s also
unrealistic,” she said.
The city needs to “address this
structurally,” Rosenberg said, “not
as a police matter, but as an economic development matter.”
Comments like these spurred
conversation about the concentration of liquor licenses in Adams
Morgan — 87 total in one police
service area, according to Chief
Lanier.
Denis James, president of the
Kalorama Citizens Association,
noted that a five-year moratorium
on liquor licenses in Adams Morgan
took effect in 2008, prohibiting any
new licenses. But he said, “I can’t
imagine that the time could be more
ripe than now” for discussing a
lower target number of licenses for
the future.
Council member Graham also
talked about how Adams Morgan
could use alcohol regulations to its
advantage.
The neighborhood could follow
the lead of Georgetown, for example, and make a certain number of
liquor licenses non-renewable once
a business moves out. “If this neighborhood is ready to say … OK, as
our nightclub licenses, as our tavern
licenses, as our restaurant licenses
expire … then they can’t be renewed
in this particular neighborhood,”
Graham said.
“There’s been no appetite for this
previously,” he said of the idea, but
he added, “Maybe Adams Morgan
is at that point.”
Later in the meeting, Graham
spoke more firmly of his plans to
introduce a proposal — “hopefully
in a way that will spark a lot of discussion” — to reduce the number of
licenses in Adams Morgan.
Graham said the topic would
surely come up during sessions of
the task force he’s convened to discuss and possibly revamp the
District’s alcohol laws. “We’re
going to involve businesses, involve
residents, ANCs and so forth,” he
said of such conversations.
Another idea Graham mentioned
more theoretically was to enforce
earlier closing times in Adams
Morgan. “The real restaurants
would be happy, but the bars would
be at a disadvantage,” he said.
One woman argued against tactics that could punish restaurant
owners. “You’re going to have a
street full of empty vacant lots” if
restaurants close, she said.
Bill Thomas, who owns both
Bourbon and Jack Rose Dining
Saloon on 18th Street, said Adams
Morgan needs to focus more on
economic-development strategies,
like financing support, to “attract
good, quality establishments.”
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■ George Washington University
will present “The Merchant of
Venice” Nov. 3 through 6 at the
Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre.
Believed to have been written
between 1596 and 1598,
Shakespeare’s “Merchant” is classified as a comedy, though it is probably best remembered for its dramatic scenes and for the towering
character Shylock and his famous
“pound of flesh” speech.
Thursday through Saturday and 2
$15. The Marvin Theatre is located
at 800 21st St. NW. 202-994-8072;
gwu.edu/~theatre.
■ Washington Stage Guild will
present “Wilder Sins,” an evening
of Thornton Wilder, Nov. 3 through
27 at Mount Vernon Place United
Methodist Church.
In portraits of ordinary people
whose failings affect themselves
and those around them, Wilder, by
turns comic and serious, never fails
to surprise his audience with the
cosmic implications of the commonplace.
Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday. Tickets cost $40 to
$50. The church is located at 900
Massachusetts Ave. NW. 240-5820050; stageguild.org.
■ Shakespeare Theatre Company
will present a special concert version of “The Boys From Syracuse”
Nov. 4 through 6 at Sidney Harman
Hall.
Based on “The Comedy of
Errors,” the play tells the story of
two identical twin brothers separated in a shipwreck as children.
When the brothers, their wives and
their servants (also long-lost identical twins) meet in Ephesus, confusion and comedy lead them to discover each other’s true identities.
Adapted in the late 1930s, “The
Boys From Syracuse” features
music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart.
Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday and 7:30 p.m.
Sunday. Tickets cost $55 to $75.
Sidney Harman Hall is located at
610 F St. NW. 202-547-1122;
shakespearetheatre.org.
■ Theater J will present Arthur
Miller’s “After the Fall” Oct. 26
through Nov. 27 at the Washington
DC Jewish Community Center.
In the wake of the tragic death
of his famous second wife, Maggie,
Quentin desperately tries to move
forward in his life and to pursue a
relationship with Holga. Yet he is
compelled to revisit his childhood
losses, failed marriages and his
actions in connection with the policies of the 1950s black list.
Performance times vary. Tickets
cost $25 to $35. The center is located at 1529 16th St. NW. 800-4948497; theaterj.org.
■ Active Cultures will present
“Hellspawn” Oct. 27 through 30 at
Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Company’s Melton Rehearsal Hall
after a run in Riverdale, Md.
Thursday and Friday; 8 p.m. and
midnight Saturday; and 4 p.m.
Melton Rehearsal Hall is located at
641 D St. NW. 800-494-8497;
activecultures.org.
■ The Mead Theatre Lab at
Flashpoint will present Timothy
Guillot’s “We Fight We Die” Oct.
27 through Nov. 12.
$15, with a pay-what-you-can performance Oct. 27. Flashpoint is
located at 916 G St. NW. 202-3151305; flashpointdc.org.
■ Catholic University will present
Leonard Bernstein’s “On the
Town” Oct. 28 through 30 in
Hartke Theatre.
Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m.
Hartke Theatre is located at 3801
Harewood Road NE. 202-3195416; drama.cua.edu.
■ American University will close
its presentation of the rock musical
“The Who’s Tommy” Oct. 29 at the
Greenberg Theatre.
p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $10 to
$15. The theater is located at 4200
Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-8852587; american.edu/auarts.
■ Georgetown University will
close “Visible Impact” Oct. 29 at
the Davis Performing Arts Center.
Performance times are generally
8 p.m. Wednesday through
Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday.
Tickets cost $7 to $18. Georgetown
University is located at 37th and O
streets NW. 202-687-2787;
performingarts.georgetown.edu.
■ The In Series will close “Love
Potion #1” Oct. 29 at GALA
Theatre.
Friday and 7 p.m. Saturday. Tickets
cost $20 to $40. GALA Theatre is
located at 3333 14th St. NW. 202204-7763; inseries.org.
■ Ford’s Theatre will close the
Washington premiere of the Tony
Award-winning musical “Parade”
Oct. 30.
Wednesday through Saturday, 11
a.m. Thursday and 2 p.m. Saturday
and Sunday. Ticket prices start at
$15. Ford’s Theatre is located at
511 10th St. NW. 202-347-4833;
fordstheatre.org.
■ A new 25th anniversary production of “Les Misérables” will close
at the Kennedy Center Oct. 30.
Wednesday through Sunday and
1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Saturday and
202-467-4600; kennedy-center.org.
■ Studio Theatre will close an
extended run of Alan Bennett’s
comedy “The Habit of Art” Oct.
30.
Wednesday through Saturday; 2
p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and 7
$69. Studio Theatre is located at
1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300;
studiotheatre.org.
■ Arena Stage is presenting Karen
Zacarías’ “The Book Club Play”
through Nov. 6 in the Arlene and
Robert Kogod Cradle.
Performance times are at 7:30
p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and
Sunday; 8 p.m. Thursday through
Saturday; and 2 p.m. Saturday and
Arena Stage is located at 1101 6th
St. SW. 202-488-3300;
arenastage.org.
■ Rorschach Theatre is presenting
“After the Quake” through Nov. 6
at the Atlas Performing Arts Center.
8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday
and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost
$15 to $25. Atlas is located at 1333
H St. NE. 202-399-7993;
atlasarts.org/events.
■ The Apron Theatre Company
is presenting Kyle Encinas’ “The
Continuing Adventures of John
Blade, Super Spy!” through Nov. 7
at the Letelier Theater.
Performance times are 8 p.m. on
Oct. 28 and 29 and Nov. 4, 5 and 7.
Tickets cost $16. The Letelier
Theater is located at 3251 Prospect
St. NW. theaprontheatre.com.
■ Woolly Mammoth Theatre
Company has extended “A Bright
New Boise” through Nov. 13.
8 p.m. Wednesday through
Saturday, 3 p.m. Saturday and 2
and 7 p.m. Sunday. Ticket prices
start at $30. Woolly Mammoth is
located at 641 D St. NW. 202-3933939; woollymammoth.net.
■ Keegan Theatre is presenting
Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”
through Nov. 19 at the Church
Street Theater.
$35. The Church Street Theater is
located at 1742 Church St. NW.
703-892-0202; keegantheatre.com.
■ Constellation Theatre
Company is presenting George
Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the
Man” through Nov. 20 at Source.
Performance times generally are
$20 to $40. Source is located at
1835 14th St. NW. 202-204-7741;
constellationtheatre.org.
■ Scena Theatre is presenting
“Greek,” a modern retelling of
“Oedipus Rex,” through Nov. 27 at
the H Street Playhouse.
$27 to $40. The H Street Playhouse
is located at 1365 H St. NE. 703683-2824; scenatheater.org.
■ The Folger Shakespeare
Theatre has extended “Othello”
through Dec. 4 in the Elizabethan
Theatre.
7:30 p.m. Tuesday through
Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday and
Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and
Sunday; and 7 p.m. Sunday. Ticket
cost $30 to $60. The Folger is
located at 201 East Capitol St. SE.
202-544-7077; folger.edu.
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facade facing neighbors and
Massachusetts Avenue passersby.
“What we see is basically this industrial drab gray that is not in character
for the community,” he said.
The university recently redesigned the planned L-shaped North
Hall, pulling it back farther from
Massachusetts Avenue and adding
an eighth story to only the section
facing existing residence halls. At
the neighborhood commission’s
Oct. 5 meeting, Smith hailed the
revisions as the result of “a model
working relationship between
American University and the community.”
The neighborhood commission
voted 7-1 to support the project on
the conditions that the university
minimize the proposed eight-story
building’s “visual impact”; work
with the community to improve the
planned facade; and submit construction, landscaping and stormwater management plans.
But at last week’s hearing, neighborhood commission chair Tom
Smith said those conditions had not
been met. “If AU is unable to design
an attractive building that minimizes the visual impact along
Massachusetts Avenue, one solution
would be reduce the height of the
building and increase the setback
required from Massachusetts
Avenue,” Smith testified.
Smith’s testimony provoked a
lively exchange with zoning commissioner Peter May. “I find your
testimony nothing short of shocking
given the letter we’ve gotten,” May
said. “The letter says, ‘We support it
with these conditions.’ The conditions are pretty straightforward and
seem to be achievable, but you’re
calling for a complete redesign of
the building. You cannot tell me that
those are somehow consistent positions.”
“My testimony is very clear that
the conditions we have laid out have
not been met,” Smith replied. “What
we are saying is if [university officials] can’t meet these conditions,
then they need to go back and redesign the building.”
In considering the North Hall
project, the Zoning Commission
❝It does seem to me
that there is room for
agreement.❞
— Zoning commissioner Peter May
must decide whether it is likely to
create objectionable conditions for
neighbors. University attorney Paul
Tummonds said the school is confident the building would not, even as
it’s currently designed. He added
that the school can make minor
design revisions based on further
feedback.
“We do not believe this is a project that needs to go back to the
drawing board,” Tummonds told the
zoning commissioners. “We believe
this is a project that has the appropriate massing, scale and height, and
we can work with community comments that coalesce around an idea
of what the facade should be.”
But that may be difficult,
Tummonds added: “We’d heard ...
that there were some residents of the
community who wanted it to look
like Katzen [Arts Center]. Some
wanted it to look like the Kogod
School of Business. Some wanted it
to look like Wesley [Seminary].”
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Todd Beckwith noted in an interview, and the nearby
Dalecarlia Reservoir hasn’t shown significant perchlorate levels. Perchlorate has been found to disrupt thyroid
functions, but only when taken internally. “Based on the
data so far, I don’t expect that we’ll identify unacceptable risks to the public that require remedial action, but
we’ll have to let the process play out,” said Beckwith.
Although perchlorate can come from a variety of
natural and manmade sources, officials believe the contamination in Spring Valley and on the American
University campus stems from the area’s World War
I-era use as a chemical weapons testing site.
Perchlorate concentrations are highest near the university’s Kreeger Hall, where the Army Corps will dig
for what officials call “potential buried objects” this
winter. Concentrations have also been detected near
Sibley Memorial Hospital; the corps is planning to analyze samples to determine whether both findings come
from the same perchlorate source.
The Army Corps has spent more than $200 million
in the Spring Valley area since 1993, including $150,000,
officials said, for the two new wells — one installed
Friday and the other earlier this month. Fifty-one wells
in the area monitor groundwater closer to the surface.
Water samples will be drawn from the new wells
every few months beginning this winter, according to
Beckwith. These 6-inch-wide wells, which sit between
the street and sidewalk, will be abandoned if no deep
contamination is found.
If the monitoring wells find a human health hazard
from the perchlorate, the Army Corps would develop a
Jeffrey Kraskin of the Spring
Valley/Wesley Heights Citizens
Association testified that the neighbors just want something more
attractive than the rather blank wall
they fear the school will construct.
“If the facade facing Mass Ave was
a facade that reflected the nature of
the residential area and the area surrounding it, I think we could be very
happy with it,” Kraskin said.
Despite the complaints about the
facade, the North Hall proposal
hasn’t seen the level of community
objection that has arisen against
some aspects of the university’s
development plans, such as for its
Nebraska Avenue parking lot site
and its Tenley Campus. Smith,
Kraskin and a representative of
Neighbors for a Livable Community
were the only residents to testify, in
contrast with dozens who have
appeared at other recent hearings.
“It does seem to me that there is
room for agreement between the
university and neighbors on how
this building should look without
having to start completely from
scratch,” said zoning commissioner
May. “So I would strongly urge the
university to get together with the
neighbors and the ANC on this,
because we have some time before
we can make a decision.”
Additionally, zoning commissioners requested renderings that
more clearly show the proposed
building from Massachusetts
Avenue and asked that the school
consider offering more than the
planned 54 bicycle parking spaces.
Before the Zoning Commission
can take a position on North Hall, it
must vote on the university’s
10-year development goals as part
of the broader campus plan process.
Hearings on the plan will continue
— and likely conclude — Nov. 3.
way to remove it. “That could include pumping the
water out and putting it through a treatment system; it
could include injecting sugars and edible oils into the
groundwater that would promote biological activity that
would reduce the contamination levels — there’s a wide
range of options for cleaning up groundwater,” Beckwith
said. “But it’s a little bit premature to be talking about
cleanup now.”
Kent Slowinski, a Wesley Heights advisory neighborhood commissioner who is active on the contamination issue, said he worries the Army Corps’ monitoring
practices are designed to avoid finding perchlorate, and
he criticized the Corps for not removing what it’s
already found. “They’ve detected perchlorate in the
groundwater, but nothing’s being done about the issue,”
he said.
Allen Hengst, who works at American University
and maintains a blog about the Army Corps’ work, said
he isn’t as worried about the health risk from perchlorate. “It’s primarily for us a signal, or a sign, that something’s going on under the ground,” said Hengst. “If you
have that kind of perchlorate, then it’s got to be coming
from somewhere.”
The planned Kreeger Hall excavation should determine that source, according to Beckwith. A survey over
the summer with advanced metal detectors found
“anomalies” that could be buried Army waste causing
the contamination, he said.
The Army Corps is holding a public meeting tonight
about an unrelated project: the cleanup of 4825
Glenbrook Road, where the corps is proposing demolishing a vacant home to remove soil contamination
down to bedrock. The meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m.
at the Tenley-Friendship Neighborhood Library, 4450
Wisconsin Ave. NW.
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