No.18 May 04, 2016 - The Current Newspapers

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The Georgetown Current
Wednesday, May 4, 2016
Vol. XXV, No. 40
Serving Burleith, Foxhall, Georgetown, Georgetown Reservoir & Glover Park
Palisades Park gets landmark status
original oval office
■ Preservation: Board calls
both building, site significant
By BRADY HOLT
Current Staff Writer
The Palisades Recreation Center won landmark designation
Thursday, with a majority of Historic Preservation Review Board
members saying the property is
significant for both its 1930s
development and also for the
archaeological artifacts believed
to be on the site.
The designation follows heated
debate within the neighborhood,
with the local citizens association
saying that an overwhelming
majority of Palisades residents
opposed preserving the 1935 field
house at 5200 Sherier Place NW.
Many neighbors feared that designation would greatly complicate
plans to construct a replacement
community center — driving up
costs and forcing an addition to be
constructed on valued green space
rather than the existing footprint.
In designating the landmark,
most preservation board members
said that even though the field
house isn’t grand, it represents the
early history of modern recreation
in the District. Furthermore, they
said, it was carefully designed
both to fit in with its surroundings
See Landmark/Page 6
Latham Hotel redevelopment proceeds
By MARK LIEBERMAN
Brian Kapur/The Current
As part of the Tudor Place Bicentennial, the historic
Georgetown estate hosted a replica of Gen. George
Washington’s Revolutionary War Tent, made of similar
materials to those Washington would have used on the
battlefield. The event began with a sneak peek Friday night
and an open-house-style viewing on Saturday.
The Latham Hotel site in Georgetown is now
slated to be restored as a new hotel, instead of the
residential project that a previous developer won
approval for a few years ago.
The 3000 M St. NW property — the hotel facing
30th Street and retail storefronts along M — has
stood vacant for several years after suffering severe
water damage in 2012. Neighborhood leaders and
residents are generally receptive to the latest plans
despite concerns about elements like a large rooftop
deck and a loading area.
Developer Thor Equities purchased the property
for more than $50 million earlier this year and subsequently announced plans for a renovated 82-room
hotel with several floors of above-ground retail on the
street. Current designs include 24 parking spaces
accessible by car elevator and a valet parking pro-
Georgetown gardens
ready for yearly tour
Rendering courtesy of Thor Equities
The developer is imagining rebuilt retail spaces at
3000 M St. NW along with a restored hotel.
gram. The developer also hopes to incorporate a
small bar or lounge on top of the hotel, which will
require a special exception from the Board of Zoning
Adjustment, to be decided at a hearing June 21.
See Hotel/Page 5
Library officials reluctant to
maintain Watergate location
By MARK LIEBERMAN
By MARK LIEBERMAN
Visitors to Book Hill Park in Georgetown last
week might have noticed a new plaque on the fence
along Reservoir Road NW: “Historic Book Hill park
fence restoration made possible through the generosity of the Georgetown Garden Club.”
That sign leaves out the monetary extent of the
garden club’s contributions: more than $25,000 over
the last decade.
The funds for that substantial contribution came
from the garden club’s annual Georgetown Garden
Tour, now in its 16th year run by the club and 88th
year overall. On Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
nine gardens spread across both sides of Wisconsin
Avenue will be featured in this year’s tour, showcasing the neighborhood’s hidden beauty, according to
A community bid to keep the
West End Interim Library open
past the completion of the new
permanent facility has stalled —
but residents remain intrigued by
the possibility of smaller libraries
in general.
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2A (Foggy Bottom, West
End) last month called on the D.C.
Public Library to retain the interim
branch in the Watergate at 2522
Virginia Ave. NW, even after the
renovated permanent branch at
1101 24th St. NW opens next year.
Book Hill Park’s Reservoir Road fence, above right,
is one of the many projects funded by the annual
Georgetown Garden Tour.
Garden Club conservation chair Lee Child.
“The thrill of this is that you never know what’s
behind the beautiful stone walls that line the streets,”
Child said. “When you walk in, it’s always such a
paradise.”
See Tour/Page 2
But library spokesperson George
Williams says his agency doesn’t
have room in the budget for two
nearby branches.
Williams also said his agency is
now drafting a strategic plan that
will address neighborhood needs
and evaluate possible locations for
new branches systemwide. That
plan will be completed by the end
of the year and will address a
range of issues, including facilities’ needs. Williams said the
library system doesn’t want to
haphazardly keep a temporary
branch like West End open without first making a citywide sweep.
See Libraries/Page 9
NEWS
SPORTS
PASSAGES
INDEX
Shelter alternatives
Meaningful win
A win to sing about
Calendar/22
Classifieds/29
District Digest/4
Exhibits/23
In Your Neighborhood/18
Opinion/10
Agency, Cheh spar over viability
of three suggested options for
Ward 3 facility / Page 3
St. Albans and Cathedral row to
regatta victory before emotional
post-race ceremony / Page 13
Ellington School’s show choir
picked as national champions in
Orlando competition / Page 8
Police Report/12
Real Estate/19
School Dispatches/16
Service Directory/27
Sports/13
Week Ahead/3
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TOUR: Georgetown Garden Club to show off leading local landscaping in annual fundraiser
From Page 1
All of the proceeds from ticket
sales for the tour go back to the
community. Since the event’s
inception, the Garden Club has
donated more than half a million
dollars to beneficiaries as wideranging as Book Hill, the Georgetown Library, the Georgetown
Waterfront Park, Habitat Garden
at Volta Park, Rose Park, Trees for
Georgetown, Tudor Place, and the
Student Conservation Association
for its efforts at Dumbarton Oaks
Park.
Julia Diaz-Asper, chair of the
neighborhood group Friends of
Book Hill Park, started restoring
the park with her neighbor Ed
Thomson in 1999. The effort has
expanded since then, with more
than $250,000 of planting made
possible by donors like the
Georgetown Garden Club. DiazAsper gives particular credit to the
club for financing restoration of
the Reservoir Road fence.
“It’s a very small park that was
neglected,” Diaz-Asper said. “We
made it into a beautiful spot that
has been used and enjoyed.”
Work on the park continues
despite the improved aesthetics,
Diaz-Asper said. The friends
group pays a crew every week
during the summer months to
beautify the park, and she wants to
complete more planting on the
sides of the park.
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Proceeds from this year’s Garden Tour will go to Book Hill
Park, among other beneficiaries.
Planning for the tour starts in September. This year, the club whittled down 25 contenders to the
nine on the tour, Child said. And
some residents who haven’t finished their gardens have already
made arrangements to be in consideration for next year.
“It’s a hard process because
there are so many beautiful gardens around, but this year we feel
like we’ve really got nine gems,”
Child said.
This year’s gardens include one
designed by Washington Post garden writer Adrian Higgins and
another situated at the former
home of the Georgetown Garden
Club’s founder and first president,
according to the tour brochure.
One garden includes a special lift
to the pool and soft walkways
made of shredded tires to provide
access for people with disabilities.
Docents accompany visitors at
each garden on the tour, and landscape designers appear as well at
some of the gardens. Refreshments are available from 2 to 4
p.m. on the day of the tour in Keith
Hall at Christ Episcopal Church,
3116 O St. NW.
The club’s 35 active members
all play a vital role in putting
together the tour, Child said: “We
couldn’t do it without everyone
pitching in.”
Tickets for this year’s Georgetown Garden Tour cost $40 and
can be purchased on the day of the
event at Christ Church or any of
the garden sites, or online at
georgetowngardenclubdc.org.
Georgetown Village
to hold fundraiser
The Georgetown Village will
host an evening fundraiser Thursday at the Washington Harbour, on
the rooftop of the 3000 K St. NW
building.
The Foley & Lardner law firm
donated the venue for the event,
which will take place from 6 to 8
p.m. that Thursday, with Fiola
Mare providing food.
The evening honors Bob vom
Eigen, a founding board member
of the Georgetown Village and an
active member of other neighborhood groups, including the Friends
of Georgetown Waterfront Park
and the Citizens Association of
Georgetown.
Proceeds will support the operations of the Georgetown Village,
a nonprofit membership organization providing services and programs to help residents age in
place in their homes. The village’s
executive director, Lynn GolubRofrano, said the event will specifically focus on subsidies to
keep memberships affordable for
all income levels.
For tickets or information contact [email protected]
or call 202-999-8988.
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Cheh urges another look at
alternative sites for shelter
By BRADY HOLT
Proposed alternative sites for
Ward 3’s new family shelter have
been rejected by the D.C. Department of General Services, leaving
the controversial Massachusetts
Avenue Heights location as the
only one still under consideration.
But Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh said Monday that
the agency should review the three
alternatives more thoroughly
before proceeding with plans at
Wisconsin Avenue and Edmunds
Street NW. These alternative sites
are the grounds of the 2nd District
Police Headquarters, at 3320 Idaho
Ave. NW; the former residence of
the Polish ambassador, at 3101
Albemarle St. NW; and The City
Church, at 4100 River Road NW.
The back-and-forth comes as
Mayor Muriel Bowser is urging
council members to quickly adopt
her seven proposed shelter sites so
that the D.C. General homeless
facility can close by 2018. She has
warned that delaying the process
leaves vulnerable residents in
unacceptable conditions for too
long, and could even jeopardize
the effort to shutter the old shelter.
But the specifics of Bowser’s
proposals have faced heightened
scrutiny over costs and the impacts
of large developments on the proposed locations. In Ward 3, the
Wisconsin Avenue facility would
cover an empty lot that’s surrounded by single-family homes,
and the city would pay more than
$4,400 in monthly rent for each of
the 38 units to a private developer.
In an effort to address the concerns, community members identified the three other sites, and
Cheh formally passed them along
to General Services Department
director Christopher Weaver on
See Shelter/Page 20
Murch community awaits
decision on project budget
By MARK LIEBERMAN
Murch Elementary parents are
urging city officials to reach a verdict on the disputed budget for the
school’s renovation project after a
month and a half without new
public information.
Though the city originally set a
May 1 deadline for working out
the budget issues, D.C. Public
Schools has not yet made a formal
statement. The agency has plans in
place to send a letter to the community outlining its budget decision, according to spokesperson
Anna Gregory. The school system
has previously said that construction on the renovation and addition for the school at 4810 36th St.
NW is set to begin this summer.
D.C. Public Schools declined
to comment further on the budget
discussions.
In March, the D.C. Department
of General Services established the
May 1 deadline for the city to provide an additional $10 million to
the $78 million budget or for community stakeholders and project
architects to agree on project cuts.
Later that month, parents met
with the school system, architects
and Ward 3 D.C. Council member
Mary Cheh to explore possible
cuts to the $78 million design that
would allow room for the costlier
original design elements, such as
larger classrooms and an underground parking garage.
Potential changes discussed at
the meeting included reducing the
number of parking spots, lowering
the height of the garage and cutting extraneous elements of the
electrical plan, stakeholders say.
Cheh said in April that she thought
the meeting revealed as much as
$5 million of budget reductions,
and that she would look for the
additional $5 million to help fund
the original design.
But the Murch school improvement team has spent weeks after
the March meeting wondering
when they would hear back,
according to team member Maggie Gumbinner, who is also copresident of the Murch Home and
School Association. She told The
Current Friday that she’s nervous
about the oncoming start date and
frustrated that the city agencies
haven’t been as transparent as parents would like.
Mayor Muriel Bowser responded to the concerns about Murch at
a recent meeting of Advisory
Neighborhood Commission 3/4G
(Chevy Chase). The mayor noted
that she stands by her decision to
grant Murch as much money as
any other elementary school modernization in the city, tied only
with Lafayette.
“Murch will have everything
that all of our fully renovated
buildings have,” Bowser said.
“There’s nothing that’s been cut
out of Murch.”
As for some parents’ request
for underground parking as an
aesthetically and logistically superior option to an above-ground
garage, Bowser said she’s wary of
setting a precedent like that for
other schools in the District, especially in light of a D.C. auditor’s
report last year that cautioned
against overspending on school
modernizations.
The week ahead
Wednesday, May 4
The D.C. State Board of Education will hold a working
session at 4:30 p.m. in Room 1114, One Judiciary Square,
441 4th St. NW.
■ The D.C. Office of Cable Television, Film, Music and
Entertainment will hold a public town hall as part of a
study of the cable-related needs of District residents, in
preparation for franchise negotiations and programming
efforts. The meeting will be held from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at
Emery Recreation Center, 5701 Georgia Ave. NW. (Another
town hall will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday,
May 11, in the Old Council Chambers at One Judiciary
Square, 441 4th St. NW.)
Thursday, May 5
■ The Georgetown Village will hold its fourth annual fundraising party from 6 to 8 p.m. at Washington Harbour,
3000 K St. NW. The event will honor Bob vom Eigen for his
work on behalf of the membership organization for older
residents living at home. Tickets cost $150; call 202-9998988.
■ The Cleveland & Woodley Park Village will hold its second annual Spring Fling gala, featuring noted writer and
journalist Judith Viorst. The event will be held from 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. in the Kennedy-Warren Ballroom, 3133 Connecticut Ave. NW. Tickets cost $150; call 202-615-5853.
Friday, May 6
The D.C. Office of the People’s Counsel will host an
Energy Efficiency Aggregation Workshop for faith-based
groups and houses of workshop, small-business owners,
and property managers and owners of small multi-family
residential buildings on “How to Save Money With Collaborative Renewable Energy Projects.” The workshop will be
held from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in Suite 500, 1133 15th
St. NW. For details, call 202-727-3071.
Wednesday, May 11
The D.C. Public Library will hold its third community
meeting on the Palisades Library renovation. The meeting
will begin at 7 p.m. at the library, 4901 V St. NW.
Saturday, May 14
Sibley Memorial Hospital will host a “Journey to Hope
DC Conference” to help inform care partners about
Alzheimer’s and provide practical tips on how to manage
Alzheimer’s disease. The event will be held from 8:30 a.m.
to 2 p.m. in the Sibley Medical Building, 5215 Loughboro
Road NW. Participants will receive breakfast and lunch;
admission is free for care partners and $150 for senior
service professionals. To register call 888-456-5622; the
deadline is May 9.
Tuesday, May 17
The D.C. Department of Transportation, the Federal
Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration will hold a public meeting to discuss an upcoming
environmental assessment for the proposed Union Station
to Georgetown streetcar transportation improvements. The
study will examine alternative approaches for extending
the existing D.C. streetcar line. The meeting will be held
from 6 to 8 p.m. on the first floor of the Carnegie Library,
801 K St. NW.
Tuesday, May 24
The Citizens Association of Georgetown will hold its
annual awards and elections meeting at 7 p.m. in the Heritage Room at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School,
1524 35th St. NW. A special reception for new members
will be held at 6 p.m.
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Statue rededicated
near Sheridan Circle
A re-dedication ceremony took
place last week for the statue of
Irish patriot Robert Emmet near
Sheridan Circle in Kalorama.
The April 27 ceremony included an unveiling of a new wayside
that explains Emmet’s importance
to both Irish and American history, as well as the background of
sculptor Jerome Connor, who
completed the statue for the
Smithsonian in 1917. The sculpture was later erected at the Massachusetts Avenue and S Street
NW site in April 1966.
Featured speakers at the event
included Irish Ambassador Anne
Anderson and U.S. Rep. Joseph
Crowley, D-N.Y., along with representatives of the National Park
Service and the Smithsonian. The
event also marked the centennials
of both the National Park Service
and Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising,
according to a release from the
D.C. chapter of the Irish American Unity Conference.
Foggy Bottom arts
program set to return
The biennial Arts in Foggy
Bottom program starts up May
14, showcasing contemporary
sculptures, new media installations and performances throughout the neighborhood through
Oct. 22.
Local curator Danielle O’Steen
organized this year’s exhibition,
titled “Turf and Terrain.” The free
program features 13 artworks on
private properties within the
Foggy Bottom Historic District,
as well as 14 performances by
local and international artists during the next six months.
“This year’s exhibition is
focused on creating expanded
landscapes, which will stand in
direct dialogue with the neighborhood’s architecture and rich history,” O’Steen says in a release.
Events for the May 14 and 15
opening weekend include a 4
p.m. walking tour on Saturday,
led by O’Steen and the artists,
followed by a 5:30 p.m. reception
at the Watergate Gallery at 2552
Virginia Ave. NW. On Sunday
starting at 6 p.m., exhibition artist
Eames Armstrong will perform
“Fog” along the exhibition’s path.
The Arts in Foggy Bottom program was founded by three neighborhood residents in 2007. A full
guide to the 2016 event is available at artsinfoggybottom.com.
Hitchcock highlighted
at screenings, benefit
The Avalon Theatre in Chevy
Chase is hosting an Alfred Hitchcock-themed spring benefit on
Sunday, following a three-day
Hitchcock/Truffaut Film Festival.
This year, the annual benefit is
titled “The Genius of Hitchcock”
and includes a screening of the
documentary “Hitchcock/Truffaut,” followed by a conversation
between the film’s director, Kent
Jones, and local film critic Arch
Campbell. The 2015 documentary, which premiered at the Cannes
Film Festival, chronicles the
week in 1962 that young French
film director and critic Francois
Truffaut spent interviewing
Hitchcock in Los Angeles, with
Truffaut later publishing a book
that elevated Hitchcock’s status
as “master of suspense.”
A $250 ticket for the event,
held at the historic theater at 5612
Connecticut Ave. NW, includes a
catered reception starting at 5
p.m. A $50 ticket is also available
for the screening and discussion
only, starting at 7 p.m. Proceeds
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Corrections
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plaza” misidentified the workplace of Licking Creek Bend
Farm’s Esther Siegel and Mike
Tabor. They have a house in
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HOTEL: Developer discusses latest plans for Georgetown’s long-vacant Latham property
From Page 1
Representatives from Thor
Equities presented the plans to
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E (Georgetown, Burleith) on
Monday. The representatives said
the firm intends to spend the rest
❝It will bring people to
eat, dine and spend
money in the city.❞
— ANC 2E member Bill Starrels
of May working with ANC 2E, the
Citizens Association of Georgetown and other neighbors on issues
like transportation and loading
management.
The neighborhood commission
voted unanimously to oppose the
proposed rooftop lounge, arguing
that
the
2,700-square-foot
enclosed portion is too large and
noting that the Old Georgetown
Board, which must register design
approval before the project can
proceed, typically opposes rooftop
establishments as well. Commissioner Bill Starrels recommended
the developer shrink the perimeter
of the roof deck and said a settlement agreement will be required
before ANC 2E signs off on an
alcohol license for the spot.
Beyond that — aside from
requests for more information and
small tweaks on aspects like the
south facade and a cooling tower
— ANC 2E generally expressed
appreciation to the developer for
the project’s goal and for working
cooperatively.
“It’s going to take essentially
an eyesore and an abandoned
building and make it into a center
of activity,” Starrels said in a follow-up interview. “It will bring
people to eat, dine and spend
money in the city.”
Starrels told The Current that
the developer hasn’t yet indicated
a timeline for the project.
At Monday’s meeting, resident
John Lever, representing the citizens association, opposed the roof
deck and questioned whether the
street-level entry and exit will create a “logical flow,” but added his
thanks for the developer’s agreeable nature as well. “It’s really rare
to see a developer who actually
cares about what they’re doing,”
Lever said.
The Georgetown Business
Improvement District also expects
the redevelopment to boost the
commercial fortunes of the busy
shopping district on M Street,
according to Jamie Scott, the
group’s economic development
manager.
The retail frontage on the block
will be particularly lucrative, Scott
expects.
“Having the space activated is
good for the experience of shoppers in Georgetown and good for
the commercial district overall,”
Scott said.
Some residents had raised concerns about the previous plan for
the Latham site: a proposal by
developer SB-Urban to turn the
hotel into 140 “micro” apartment
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and with Depression-era financial
constraints. The landmark passed
on a 5-2 vote.
Chair Gretchen Pfaehler, who
supported the landmark nomination, repeatedly told residents at
the hearing that the board could
not consider theoretical new buildings that weren’t part of a formal
application. But she sought to
reassure them that designation
doesn’t freeze the existing building in place.
“Nomination of a building or
site does not preclude change,
addition, modification to the site
[or] the building, or demolition,”
Pfaehler said. “All of those things
are potential actions, and this is
strictly about the application being
meritorious for the nomination for
the local and national registers [of
historic places].”
The Department of General
Services, which oversees D.C.
building projects, does not expect
the landmark designation to interfere with the project’s target completion date of summer 2017,
according to agency spokesperson
Jackie Stanley.
“DGS has extensive experience
working on Historic Buildings,”
she wrote in an email to The Current. “At this point we do not
anticipate any impact on the budget or timeline for the project,
however, we will have a better
idea as the project designs are
developed.”
Stanley didn’t take a position
on whether the simple brick field
house building has historic value,
which many neighbors doubt.
But most preservation board
members agreed with a Historic
Preservation Office analysis conducted by Tim Denee.
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the nomination is just a codification of what’s sort of obvious to
everybody,” Denee testified
Thursday. “We have big, iconic
buildings in the District that everybody says, ‘Sure, that’s a landmark.’
“A lot of nominations sort of
ask us to take a look at properties
with new eyes,” he continued.
“There’s a tendency to … take
them as a given, if not take them
for granted. But the primary significance when we’re talking
about the field house is that it’s
part of this small class of the
original purpose-built D.C. playground field houses. It’s easy to
dismiss that, but if you’d never
had purpose-built playgrounds and
playground facilities before, how
do you do it?”
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3D, which includes Foxhall, the Palisades, Spring Valley
and Wesley Heights, supported the
application last Monday on a 4-3
vote. A majority of commissioners
said they had faith in the city’s
experts; others said they believed
the community’s preference was
clear. Some of the dissenting ANC
3D members also contend that the
commission incorrectly followed
its bylaws in scheduling the April
25 special meeting on the issue.
Joseph Taylor and Andrew
Aurbach were the dissenting votes
on the preservation board. Taylor
said he considered the field house
building as secondary to the park’s
outstanding location, and Aurbach
questioned whether this particular
structure was actually uniquely
important.
“We have a lot of park structures across the city that have been
landmarked and have been preserved,” he said.
Board members did all agree
that the grounds of the property,
believed to contain Native American artifacts dating to 8,000 B.C.,
had clear historic — and prehistoric — significance.
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The Current
May 4, 2016 ■ Page 8
For Duke Ellington Show Choir, a 30th anniversary to sing about
Local school prevails
in April competition
By MARK LIEBERMAN
A
s students in the Duke
Ellington Show Choir
stood onstage after a
recent competition in Orlando,
Fla., they had but one
wish: “Don’t call our
name.”
The announcer
was reading the
names of the runnersup first, and the
Ellington students
didn’t want to be
among them. Sure
enough, the announcer didn’t name them
for second place, and
the kids got excited.
And sure enough, for
the first time in its 30-year history, the Ellington Show Choir
claimed the grand prize over
more than 10 other schools at the
Show Choir America competition
on April 2. Ellington also won
awards for choreography, sound
and instrumental combination.
The students did it by embracing the pageantry of show choir
competitions in a way they had
previously avoided, according to
director Monique Holmes. At past
competitions, Holmes and her
students noticed that the judges
generally favored performances
outfitted with flashy choreography, elaborate sets and dazzling
costumes. This year,
they brought all
three.
The theme,
Holmes decided early
on, would be “Warriors for Jesus.” Girls
wore warrior dresses,
boys donned shinguards and both
accessorized with
armbands and headbands. The makeup
was “dramatic,” with
bold splashes of
black, gold and burgundy,
Holmes said. Six instrumentalists
accompanied the singers, as
another path to the judges’ hearts.
To accompany the eye-catching presentation, the performers
presented a four-song gospel set
that stood apart from competitors’
choices, which mainly hewed
toward Broadway classics or pop
hits like “Uptown Funk.” Ellington’s selections included two
songs from local D.C. performers: “Anthem of Praise” by Richard Smallwood and “Even Me”
by Patrick Lundy.
Judges emailed feedback to
the choir immediately after their
first performance, so they came
back in the final round with an
adjusted version of the same set.
“The students across the board
performed extremely well,”
Holmes said.
Eleventh-grader Yasna Khademian told The Current that the
road to winning the competition
was long but rewarding, and the
performance itself produced a
variety of emotions.
“It was definitely a lot of
nerves, but it was also a lot of
excitement,” Khademian said.
“We started singing in the green
room before we went onstage,
and you could feel we were definitely ready to perform.”
Khademian said she couldn’t
see how many people were in the
Photos courtesy of Monique Holmes
The Ellington Show Choir picked up a championship win in Orlando
last month, coinciding with the group’s 30th anniversary.
audience, but it wouldn’t have
mattered anyway. “When you’re
onstage, you have to focus more
on what you’re giving to them,
and not how people are receiving
it. It’s just all about giving your
all,” she said.
Holmes and the students began
preparing for the competition at
the end of last year and started
putting together a song list a
month before showtime. They
had help throughout the process
from the school’s founding show
choir director Samuel L.E. Bonds,
who taught Holmes when she
attended the school and who now
works in the music department
part-time. Holmes said Bonds
deserves credit for the idea to go
gospel this time around.
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But some Foggy Bottom residents are hopeful. A permanent
library in the interim location
would serve an older population
distinct from patrons of the West
End facility to the north, ANC 2A
chair Patrick Kennedy said at the
meeting. Several residents said the
interim Watergate branch exceeded their expectations in terms of
size, quality and variety of services offered, and commissioner Philip Schrefer said he frequents the
library and sees a “full house” of
parents and children in attendance
almost every weekday.
Fellow ANC 2A member William Kennedy Smith, a Watergate
resident, said in a follow-up interview that the facility immediately
distinguished itself as “extremely
well-done and attractive” when it
opened in June 2014.
Popular programs, like yoga
and children’s storytelling, as well
as desirable meeting space for
organizations like the Foggy Bottom Association, are among the
features the neighborhood appreciates most, Smith said. “I think
anything we can do that moves
forward programming and library
presence in the ANC is a net positive for everybody,” Smith said.
Setting aside the library’s budget concerns, Smith said another
obstacle would be convincing the
Friends of the West End Library
that adding a second branch in the
neighborhood wouldn’t take time
and attention from the main facility.
Susan Haight, president of the
West End Library Friends and the
Federation of Friends of the DC
Public Library, told The Current
she appreciates the community
interest but thinks it’s too early to
seriously consider extending the
interim library’s tenure at the
Watergate. After all, issues like
staffing and collections haven’t
been taken into account, she said,
and a smaller branch also can’t
accommodate the range of technology that many libraries now
offer. Once the new library opens,
Haight thinks the community will
be able to better assess the need.
As of now, the West End interim branch is scheduled to close
three or four weeks before the
new, two-level facility, complete
with a cafe, opens in spring 2017,
according to Williams.
But the concept of small libraries like the West End interim location is an appealing one for many.
Last month, The Washington Post
published a commentary piece
advocating for smaller libraries as
community resources. And Robin
Diener of the Library Renaissance
Project, an advocacy group founded by former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, points to a
group of five “kiosk” libraries that
were open in neighborhoods like
Deanwood, Rosedale and NoMa
before being incorporated into
larger branches as successful
examples of the model.
Each of the kiosk locations
took up only a few hundred square
feet and required a couple staffers
at most, but they proved ideal for
quick in-and-out trips for neighbors, especially those with young
children. A similar approach in
neighborhoods across D.C. would
provide more opportunities for
community hubs, Diener said.
Diener also thinks the library
system should keep an eye on
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The Watergate’s interim library
branch is due to close in 2017.
homelessness issues when planning next steps for library development. At the Martin Luther
King Jr. Memorial Library in Gallery Place, her group has been
advocating for a separate day center for homeless residents who
need more services than the library
can provide. In general, she thinks
homeless populations ought to be
factored in, given that many homeless residents frequent libraries.
Overall, Diener looks forward
to a time when the library system
encourages community discussions of where additional library
branches might fit. “There is not a
clear process that anyone has ever
elucidated for how you go about
requesting a new library,” Diener
said.
Williams said it’s not unusual
for residents to advocate for a temporary branch to become a permanent one — it happened most
recently with the interim branch
on M Street NW in Georgetown,
he said. A strategic plan will help
the system address community
demand in a more purposeful and
structured manner, he thinks.
“It’s always wonderful when
the community loves a library, and
it’s reaching people and bringing
them into being served by the
library,” Williams said. “We’re at
a point where we want to be more
intentional with where we’re putting new libraries.”
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Protecting aesthetics
Many D.C. residents take great pride in the appearance of their
homes, expending considerable effort and expense to ensure that they’re
at their best. Similarly, many residents — along with many D.C. government officials — take great pride in this city’s beautiful neighborhoods, and zealously guard their appearance and character.
But we’ve noticed disheartening exceptions that can sneak under the
radar and undermine the beauty of an individual home, or even an entire
neighborhood: utility projects that are designed by engineers rather than
architects, and that lack the scrutiny that affected homeowners would
ordinarily apply. It’s particularly upsetting when a historic district is
affected, given the meticulous review typically applied even to relatively minor modifications to historic buildings.
The latest example struck the quaint 19th-century row houses of
Snows Court NW, part of the Foggy Bottom Historic District that’s in
place to protect the neighborhood’s few remaining single-family homes.
In this case, Washington Gas is working to relocate homes’ gas meters
from indoors to outdoors — a laudable safety initiative, but one that
butchered the timeless appeal of this classic narrow street.
The meters themselves are small and unobtrusive. But to protect each
one, the Washington Gas contractor installed two large black bollards
that stick up roughly 3 feet from the ground. They block doors from
opening fully. They extend above the bottom of windows. They detract
from Snows Court’s historic character. Residents and the local advisory
neighborhood commission are rightfully appalled, and we’re pleased to
hear Washington Gas promise — belatedly — to find a better solution.
It’s not just Foggy Bottom. Georgetowners had to face down Comcast a few years ago after the telecom company installed large metal
boxes on the neighborhood’s street corners. Chevy Chase residents have
railed against Pepco for oversized and abandoned utility poles.
We recognize that the issue is hard to address. All D.C. homes and
neighborhoods must fulfill today’s living needs, and our utility companies play an important part. Practical considerations and economic realities often conflict with — and sometimes must override — aesthetics.
But, sometimes, there can be mutually agreeable situations. Comcast
ultimately buried its utility boxes underground in Georgetown. Some
Snows Court residents who already had outdoor gas meters were able to
use smaller bollards, and painted them to match the color of their houses. But under the current system, utility companies receive permits
based purely on engineering requirements, and then do the work as they
please. Residents have no voice.
We would like the D.C. Council to hold a hearing on this issue, to
hear from residents about the aesthetic affronts their neighborhoods
have faced. And council members should also hear from the companies
and from regulators about which steps are feasible, particularly (but not
exclusively) in our historic districts.
We won’t presume to have all the answers, but the mess Washington
Gas made of Snows Court suggests the status quo is untenable.
An ounce of prevention
The District’s health efforts are seemingly neglecting a long-known
but still common issue: cigarette smoking. An estimated 95,000 D.C.
residents smoke, according to the American Lung Association of the
Mid-Atlantic, and every year more young people pick up the dangerous
habit. According to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation’s analysis,
16.4 percent of D.C. adults smoked every day or some days in 2014.
The association warns that although the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention recommend that the District spend $10.7 million yearly
on programs that discourage tobacco use and help smokers quit, D.C.
instead allocates just $1.3 million — less than 20 percent of the target.
The proportion of tobacco use may be lower in the District than it is
in many areas of the country (and slightly below the national average of
17.4 percent), but it’s still higher than it ought to be. And even those
who understand the connections to diseases and health conditions, such
as cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, may need help deciding
to quit — and sticking with the decision.
More funding would not only help D.C. residents live longer, healthier lives, but it would also be a sound fiscal investment. The association
estimates that smoking-related health care costs exceed $350 million per
year in D.C. We urge local officials to provide the rest of the $10.7 million, ensuring that smoking isn’t overlooked as a leading health hazard.
The Current
Another bandwagon … ?
H
ere we go again.
District citizens are going to be asked
this November to vote on whether they
support statehood for the District.
Before the fall, the city intends to hold public
hearings on a proposed constitution that would be
the foundation for the state of New Columbia.
As a citizen, your Notebook wants the full voting rights enjoyed by other Americans. There’s no
practical reason New
Columbia couldn’t
carve out a modest federal enclave for the seat
of government. There
are plenty of political
reasons against statehood. There’ll be no shortage of opposition.
The Notebook just wants to point out that
statehood efforts and excitement have risen and
fallen more than the Kennedy Center curtains.
Mayor Muriel Bowser has helped set off the
latest — and most aggressive — round in a couple of decades. She is supporting the creation of
the constitution, its passage in November and its
presentation to Congress. The city could make
public the constitution later this week. There’ll be
public hearings and, possibly, revision during the
summer. Even the name “New Columbia” is not
set in constitutional stone.
WAMU reporter Martin Austermuhle has done
a good job of wrapping up this entire subject in an
easy-to-read report. You can find it at tinyurl.com/
wamu-statehood.
■ Bowser on WAMU. And you can join the
Notebook and host Kojo Nnamdi by tuning in on
Friday at noon. Mayor Muriel Bowser will be our
guest on the Politics Hour, WAMU 88-5. We welcome your questions. Email us at [email protected]
or tweet us at @kojoshow.
■ LGBTQ suicide. At-large D.C. Council member David Grosso is being honored Friday night
for his work with suicide prevention. The Trevor
Project is honoring Grosso at the Monaco Hotel
for the first law in the nation that requires school
suicide prevention policies to specifically address
gay and lesbian students. The Trevor Project is a
national group focused on crisis intervention and
suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth.
■ Security camera cash. It seems with cellphones and security cameras, we’re all on camera
all the time. Ward 6 Council member Charles
Allen has been to more community meetings than
you can count. He said when it comes to crime,
anxious community members come back time and
again to the idea that home and business security
cameras help prevent and solve crimes.
Now, the city is in the midst of Allen’s
$500,000 security camera rebate program. More
than 200 individuals and businesses have applied
for rebates that are given once the cameras are
installed. Homeowners neighborhoods can get up
to $500 for their cameras, commercial and nonprofit groups $750, with priority given to police
service areas with known crime issues; in Northwest, these are PSAs
103, 202, 207, 208,
302, 303, 305, 307,
308, 402, 403, 404,
405, 406, 407, 409 and
501. Visit tinyurl.com/
ovsjg-cameras to learn
more and apply through the Office of Victim Services and Justice Grants.
■ Resisting Trump. As we’ve pointed out before,
the TV version of the Notebook is going to the
Republican National Convention in Cleveland in
July. We’ve been watching Maryland Republican
Gov. Larry Hogan. He was an early supporter of
Chris Christie in his party’s presidential sweepstakes. But since Christie dropped out, Hogan has
steadfastly avoided endorsing anyone else.
At a news conference last Friday, the governor
had had it with questions about whether he’d end
up supporting Donald Trump, who is closing in on
the nomination.
“I’m not going to answer any more stupid
questions about Donald Trump,” said Hogan, as
quoted in The Baltimore Sun. The newspaper
reported Hogan restated his intention not to
endorse a candidate or be involved in the presidential race.
Back in mid-March, Hogan had told The Associated Press he didn’t think Trump should be the
nominee.
“I’m not a Trump fan,” Hogan told the AP. “I
don’t think he should be the nominee. At this
point in time, I have no idea who the candidates
are going to be or who I’m going to vote for.” The
Maryland governor said he had no plans to attend
the Republican National Convention this summer
in Cleveland. “I don’t even want to be involved,”
he said. “It’s a mess. I hate the whole thing.”
You can’t blame him. Hogan has tried to keep
to a moderate-conservative, Maryland-oriented
path. He’ll want to run for re-election in 2018. As
a Republican in a mostly Democratic state, he
doesn’t want to unnecessarily muddy his own
political waters.
Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.
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Letters to
the Editor
New group seeks
area’s revitalization
I write on behalf of Revive
3E, an independent group of
neighbors committed to a
vibrant, revitalized Tenleytown,
Friendship Heights and American University Park. Revive 3E
supports new housing, new
retail and greater density close
to the Metro and our primary
transport corridor. We advocate
for public spaces and responsible commercial and residential
development within the boundaries of Advisory Neighborhood
Commission 3E. All of our
members live within ANC 3E,
which includes Georgetown
Day School’s high school and
its proposed development.
Revive 3E has reviewed the
school’s planned unit development proposal and its recent
amendment. Many of our members have attended the ANC 3E
meetings on this subject over
the past several months. We
believe that throughout the hearings process, GDS has been
responsive to community feedback, and has presented a vision
and plan that will improve and
revitalize our community. As a
result, we strongly support the
school’s proposed development.
We are disappointed in the
resistance offered by the Office
of Planning. The fact that GDS
felt compelled to reduce the size
and scope of its project, including the elimination of muchneeded public space, is a loss for
the school, the entire neighborhood and the city. We believe
that Georgetown Day School’s
proposal balanced the interests
of both existing and prospective
neighbors and businesses, and
that it would have had a tremendously positive impact.
As the immediate neighbors
of the project, we have a unique
interest in its development. We
urge the Office of Planning to
recommend that the Zoning
Commission schedule a hearing
soon to seriously consider the
school’s original planned unit
development proposal. It is in
the public interest that the community has an opportunity to
formally weigh in. We believe
that GDS has engaged meaningfully with the community and
has been responsive to neighborhood concerns. We are confident
that the project will improve the
community and enhance the
retail opportunities offered along
Wisconsin Avenue.
Benjamin Nussdorf
On behalf of Revive 3E
The Current
Letters to
the Editor
ANC chair stifled
community input
I wish to set the record straight
on a matter discussed in The Current’s April 27 article “Landmark
for Palisades Park draws backers.”
In discussing Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3D’s April
25 special meeting, the last paragraph of the article presents an
incomplete account of a “testy
exchange over procedural issues.”
For some reason, only ANC 3D
chair Tom Smith was quoted by
name on this matter, not the two
other commissioners involved in
the “testy exchange.” According
to the article, Mr. Smith “lambasted his colleagues for placing
‘theatrics’ ahead of substantive
discussion of the case.”
I am saddened, but not surprised, that Mr. Smith chose to
insult his fellow commissioners
rather than address the substance
of their concerns.
Discussion of the historic designation issue was supposed to
take place at the commission’s
regular monthly meeting on April
6. Instead, with less than 48
hours’ notice prior to the regular
meeting, the ANC 3D chair postponed that discussion until a
“special meeting” scheduled for
April 25. Neighbors had already
made plans to attend the April 6
meeting, and as a result I understand attendance was limited at
the “special” meeting. To this
day, Mr. Smith has not provided a
clear rationale for the postponement of the previously scheduled
discussion.
Meanwhile, some ANC 3D
members — proponents of their
community — were unable to
attend the special meeting. Further, the meeting itself probably
was convened in contravention of
ANC 3D’s own bylaws.
And, of course, the real goal
of these shenanigans was to ratify
a personal view over the overwhelming sentiment of the Palisades community. To name only
one example, the Palisades Citizens Association had passed a
resolution in opposition to historic designation and was ready to
present its case in force at the
regularly scheduled April 6 meeting, before the matter was postponed.
The postponement de facto
means that community participation was suppressed and key
commissioners could not vote.
And by likely cutting corners
with ANC 3D bylaws, Mr. Smith
has raised serious questions
regarding both the legitimacy of
ANC 3D as an institution and the
commission’s 4-3 decision supporting historic designation.
William Spence Spencer
Commissioner, ANC 3D01
City budget ought to
fund senior villages
Mayor Muriel Bowser’s fiscal
year 2017 budget proposes to
fund programs for many in need
in the District, including our
senior citizens, an important constituency. However, the villages
of Washington, D.C. — neighborhood nonprofit volunteer organizations dedicated to enabling
older adults to remain in their
own homes and communities as
they age — have been overlooked.
The villages, essential to the
mayor’s goal of achieving an
Age-Friendly City, are value-added to the District, and the individuals and communities they serve.
The villages proactively fill in the
gaps in public services and
reduce the impact on the public
treasury and, therefore, deserve
assistance from the mayor and
D.C. Council in this and future
funding cycles.
The villages:
■ mitigate and reduce the costs
associated with social isolation.
■ provide emotional and practical
support to seniors in need of
medical assistance by providing
rapid response to residents in
times of emergency, both personal and communal.
■ provide dependable and friendly, low- or no-cost transportation,
relieving reliance on city-funded
transportation services.
■ provide educational programs
on topics such as wellness and
technology, as studies show that
seniors who continue to learn and
challenge themselves mentally
are best able to delay the onset of
dementia.
■ act as known and trusted grassroots organizations to connect
residents to city-provided services
and programs.
■ can help when there are medical emergencies by evaluating
whether calling the D.C. Fire and
Emergency Medical Services
Department is necessary, as paramedics may be needed in more
dire medical emergencies.
■ promote businesses and vendors in the local community,
helping the area’s economy.
■ promote cost-effectiveness by
using village-trained volunteers
as an augmentation of the city’s
workforce.
The D.C. Office on Aging provides many programs and services to assist the senior population
of the District of Columbia. However, the villages anticipate when
help is needed and react quickly.
Villages are the first line of
defense for seniors because they
provide reliable, friendly assistance with confidence, comfort
and knowledge of resources
already available in their community. This local resource should
be funded in the 2017 budget and
beyond, because villages can rapidly assist seniors who are not
inclined to reach out to a city services. The sense of community
that villages deliver helps negate
isolation, increases well-being
and helps seniors remain vital in
the communities where they have
lived for many years.
Lois F. Berlin
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Susan B. Haight
President,
Foggy Bottom West End Village
Gail Nordheimer
President, Georgetown Village
Host parents sought
for youths in need
Last year’s weeklong census
on the homeless in the District
showed that on any given night
7,200 residents live on the street,
many of them teenagers or young
adults. Latin American Youth
Center’s Host Homes and Transitional Living Program offers temporary housing to homeless and
runaway youth ages 12 to 21 in
the D.C. metro area by placing
them in homes of local families
and individuals who serve as host
parents. The need for individuals
and families who are willing and
interested in hosting a local youth
in their home is substantial in the
area.
Host Homes is designed for
homeless and runaway youth
between the ages of 12 and 17,
and placement lasts only three
weeks with a goal of family
reunification at the end. Transitional Living is a program for the
youth ages 16 to 21 who will
receive placement with a host
family for up to 18 months with
case management and counseling
services. Having access to this
support and network represents
an immense opportunity for the
youth to better their lives and
pursue a path that would lead
them to improved well-being, stability and success.
Host parents come from all
backgrounds with the common
desire of helping the area’s homeless and runaway youth population. If you are looking for a way
to make a positive impact on a
young person’s life, becoming a
host parent is a rewarding way to
accomplish this goal. For details
on how to do so, call 202-6431754 or visit layc-dc.org.
Denise Auffant Ryan
Family Resource Specialist, Latin
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Police Department from April
25 through May 1 in local
police service areas, sorted
by their report dates.
psa
PSA
101 101
■ downtown
Theft
■ 1000-1099 block, F St.;
7:49 p.m. April 25.
■ 900-999 block, G St.;
10:54 p.m. April 25.
■ 900-999 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 12:55 p.m. April
26.
■ 1200-1299 block, G St.;
9:06 p.m. April 26.
■ 900-999 block, F St.; 2:59
p.m. April 27.
■ 600-699 block, 13th St.;
7:51 p.m. April 28.
■ 1200-1299 block, G St.;
9:22 p.m. April 28.
■ 900-999 block, F St.; 9:57
p.m. April 28.
Theft from auto
■ 1200-1299 block, New
York Ave.; 3:51 p.m. April 28.
psa 202
■ Friendship Heights
PSA
202
Tenleytown / AU Park
Robbery
■ 4500-4599 block, Grant
Road; 1:08 p.m. April 25
(with knife).
■ 4200-4299 block, Davenport St.; 5:22 p.m. April 27.
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Burglary
■ 4600-4699 block, 41st St.;
2:28 p.m. May 1.
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■ 5300-5399 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 3:23 p.m. April 25.
■ 4000-4099 block, Albemarle St.; 4:55 p.m. April 30.
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Theft from auto
■ 5300-5399 block, 43rd St.;
7:21 p.m. April 26.
■ 4300-4349 block, 39th St.;
8:20 p.m. April 26.
■ 4200-4299 block, Butterworth Place; 9:49 p.m. April
26.
■ 3800-3899 block, Warren
St.; 3:11 p.m. April 30.
■ 5300-5399 block, 43rd St.;
5:41 p.m. May 1.
psa 203
■ forest hills / van ness
PSA
203
cleveland park
Burglary
■ 3500-3599 block, Connecticut Ave.; 10:39 a.m.
April 28.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 4500-4529 block, Connecticut Ave.; 11:25 a.m.
April 26.
■ 2900-2999 block, Tilden
St.; 6:03 a.m. April 29.
Theft
■ 2900-2999 block, Van
Ness St.; 8:34 p.m. April 25.
■ 3319-3499 block, Connecticut Ave.; 12:27 p.m. April 28.
■ 3600-3699 block, 37th St.;
2:58 p.m. April 28.
■ 4300-4449 block, Connecticut Ave.; 5:50 p.m. April
29.
Theft from auto
■ 3400-3499 block, Yuma
St.; 4:30 p.m. May 1.
psa 204
■ Massachusetts avenue
heights / cleveland park
woodley park / Glover
PSA
204
park / cathedral heights
Burglary
■ 2900-3099 block, Cathedral Ave.; 10:28 a.m. April
29.
Theft
■ 3200-3299 block, 38th St.;
3:56 p.m. April 26.
■ 2600-2699 block, Woodley
Road; 1:33 p.m. April 27.
■ 3600-3699 block, 38th St.;
2:54 p.m. April 27.
■ 2600-2699 block, Woodley
Road; 2:46 a.m. April 30.
Theft from auto
■ 2700-2899 block, 28th St.;
9:24 a.m. April 25.
■ 2400-2798 block, Calvert
St.; 5:26 p.m. April 30.
psa 205
■ palisades / spring valley
PSA
205
Wesley Heights / Foxhall
Assault with a dangerous
weapon
■ 5210-5299 block, Loughboro Road; 8:31 p.m. April
28.
Burglary
■ 1400-1499 block, Foxhall
Road; 10:34 p.m. April 28.
Theft
■ 2103-2199 block, Foxhall
Road; 10:48 a.m. April 25.
■ 5210-5299 block, Loughboro Road; 3:40 a.m. April
28.
psa
PSA
206 206
■ georgetown / burleith
Robbery
■ 3100-3199 block, M St.;
3:56 a.m. April 26.
Burglary
■ 1026-1099 block, 31st St.;
10:58 p.m. April 26.
■ 3600-3699 block, O St.;
6:53 p.m. April 27.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 1700-1799 block, 36th St.;
1:20 p.m. April 27.
Ave.; 6:09 p.m. May 1.
■ 2200-2299 block, I St.;
6:55 p.m. May 1.
Theft
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
9:48 p.m. April 26.
■ 1224-1299 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 8:59 a.m. April 27.
■ 1200-1237 block, Wisconsin Ave.; 6:43 a.m. April 29.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
9:43 p.m. April 29.
■ 3000-3099 block, O St.;
1:13 p.m. April 30.
■ 3200-3275 block, M St.;
10:10 p.m. April 30.
■ 1851-2008 block,
Wisconsin Ave.; 10:23 a.m.
May 1.
Theft from auto
■ 2200-2299 block, M St.;
9:06 p.m. April 26.
■ 2000-2099 block, F St.;
5:54 p.m. April 27.
■ 2400-2499 block, M St.;
9:44 p.m. April 27.
■ 900-999 block, 15th St.;
8:22 a.m. April 28.
Theft from auto
■ 3200-3231 block, Reservoir Road; 5:02 p.m. April 27.
■ 3200-3231 block, Reservoir Road; 5:53 p.m. April 27.
■ 1500-1599 block, 31st St.;
5:03 p.m. April 28.
■ 3100-3199 block, Dumbarton St.; 4:46 p.m. April 30.
■ 1500-1533 block, 27th St.;
7:51 p.m. May 1.
■ 3100-3199 block, N St.;
7:59 p.m. May 1.
Burglary
■ 2000-2016 block, P St.;
9:55 a.m. April 25.
■ 1320-1399 block, 22nd
St.; 11:47 p.m. April 26.
■ 1400-1499 block, N St.;
12:38 a.m. April 30.
psa
PSA
207 207
■ foggy bottom / west end
Robbery
■ 2200-2299 block, I St.;
8:48 p.m. April 27.
■ 2500-2599 block, L St.;
2:11 a.m. April 30 (with gun).
■ 1400-1499 block, I St.;
2:15 a.m. May 1.
Burglary
■ 1130-1199 block, 17th St.;
11:47 a.m. April 27.
Theft
■ 2100-2199 block, L St.;
1:14 p.m. April 25.
■ 1500-1599 block, K St.;
2:50 p.m. April 25.
■ 1800-1899 block, L St.;
8:23 p.m. April 25.
■ 1100-1199 block, Vermont
Ave.; 9:13 p.m. April 25.
Ave.; 12:20 p.m. April 26.
■ 1600-1699 block, K St.;
1:52 p.m. April 26.
■ 718-799 block, 15th St.;
4:03 p.m. April 27.
■ 1700-1799 block, I St.;
10:48 a.m. April 28.
■ 2100-2199 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 6:32 p.m. April
28.
■ 1800-1899 block, I St.;
7:16 p.m. April 28.
■ 1800-1899 block, L St.;
10:57 p.m. April 28.
■ 2200-2299 block, M St.;
2:28 a.m. April 29.
■ 1800-1899 block, L St.;
4:28 p.m. April 29.
■ 2200-2299 block, I St.; 7
p.m. April 29.
■ 1500-1599 block, K St.;
3:02 p.m. April 30.
■ 700-723 block, 14th St.;
3:21 p.m. May 1.
psa 208
■ sheridan-kalorama
PSA
208
dupont circle
Robbery
25.
Motor vehicle theft
■ 2100-2199 block, P St.;
8:13 p.m. April 28.
Theft
■ 1250-1299 block, 22nd
St.; 9:53 a.m. April 25.
■ 1300-1699 block,
Connecticut Ave.; 9:24 a.m.
April 27.
27.
■ 1300-1699 block, Connecticut Ave.; 11:29 a.m. April
28.
■ 1300-1379 block, 20th St.;
11:56 a.m. April 28.
■ 1400-1499 block, P St.;
5:31 p.m. April 29.
■ 1300-1319 block, 22nd
St.; 6:52 p.m. April 29.
■ 1250-1299 block, 22nd
St.; 5:15 p.m. May 1.
Theft from auto
■ 1300-1499 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 7:36 a.m. April
25.
■ 1200-1299 block, 23rd St.;
1:01 p.m. April 25.
■ 2100-2199 block, Wyoming
Ave.; 5:35 p.m. April 25.
■ 2100-2199 block, Bancroft
Place; 6:21 p.m. April 25.
■ 1400-1499 block, 21st St.;
4:46 p.m. April 26.
■ 1400-1499 block, N St.;
5:05 p.m. April 26.
■ 1320-1399 block, 15th St.;
12:30 a.m. April 28.
■ 1400-1499 block, Hopkins
St.; 2:29 p.m. April 28.
■ 2100-2199 block, Bancroft
Place; 3:56 a.m. April 29.
■ 1500-1599 block, New
Hampshire Ave.; 10:23 a.m.
April 29.
■ 1700-1799 block, N St.;
3:58 p.m. April 30.
■ 2000-2099 block, Hillyer
■ 2000-2099 block, Hillyer
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St. Albans, National Cathedral race to victory, christen new vessels
By BRIAN KAPUR
For St. Albans’ and National
Cathedral’s crew teams, the annual Charlie Butt Regatta was much
more than a race on Saturday.
While the teams initially focused
on capturing their last victories on
the Potomac River before championship season begins, they were
more enamored with the planned
post-race ceremony where their
boats would be blessed and dedicated to two members of their
school community — Vadim
Medish and Edward Magoba.
Both the Bulldogs and the
Eagles handled their business on
the water before the festivities by
rowing to victories.
On the boys side, St. Albans’
varsity eight boat — senior Daniel
de Castro, senior Matthew Andreoli, senior Parker Lombardo,
sophomore Barton Trimble, junior
Nathan Manrique, junior Hugh
Jia, junior Ryan Friberg, senior
Magruder Dent and senior Daisuke
Shimada — took the crown with a
blazing time of 4 minutes 32.4
seconds. Washington-Lee was in
second place with a time of 4:37.1.
St. Albans also had its second
eight boat and junior four boats
win their respective brackets.
Meanwhile, on the girls side,
National Cathedral’s varsity eight
of sophomore Camilla Ryder,
sophomore Beata Corcoran, junior
Serena Irwin, sophomore Hannah
Yazdani, senior Isabel Bogart,
senior Hadley Irwin, junior Amelia Parizek, junior Sophie Bredenkamp and senior Kendall Green
captured the girls championship
with a time of 5:12.9, ahead of
McLean’s second-place time of
05:20.3. In addition, Cathedral’s
second eight won its division, and
the Eagles’ freshman eight boat
took silver.
Other Northwest boats that
found success were Sidwell’s girls
junior eight, which earned third
and the Quakers’ four-girl lightweight boat won its event.
For the St. Albans’ rowers, the
The St. Albans, left, and National Cathedral, right, varsity eight boats rowed to victory at the prestigious Charlie Butt Regatta on the Potomac
River on Saturday. Following the race, they christened their new boats in a ceremony. St. Albans dedicated its vessel to 2012 graduate Vadim
Medish, who led the Bulldogs to the Stotesbury Cup in 2011. The Eagles named theirs after Edward Magoba, shown below, a longtime
employee at Cathedral. He is the Eagles’ biggest fan and does a lot of behind-the-scenes work to support the school’s athletics programs.
race was all about honoring the
namesake of their new shell —
Vadim Medish. He was a 2012
graduate of St. Albans who led the
Bulldogs to the prestigious Stotesbury Cup in 2011. He went on to
row at Harvard for a year before
being diagnosed with paraneoplastic syndrome — an autoimmune
disorder that has led to brain damage and has left him incapacitated.
“It was beyond special,” Dent
said of the win. “It was really
important to us. Our strongest
strokes were when our cox called
it for Vadim. We didn’t go into it
with a race plan to crush it. We
went into it thinking what would
Vadim have done and what principles he would’ve stood for. That
was our mindset — to be calm,
quick, collected and disciplined.”
St. Albans coach Ted Haley,
who worked with Medish during
his time at the Close, was especially touched by seeing him at the
ceremony.
“He was a captain of the team,”
said Haley. “He’s just a fabulous
kid from a fabulous family. He
was a hard worker and everything
you’re looking for. It’s moving,
powerful.”
The christening of the boats
also offered a chance for the
Medish family to be surrounded
by the St. Albans community.
“It’s just so moving for us,”
said Mark Medish, Vadim’s father.
“St. Albans and the crew teams at
St. Albans and NCS meant so
much to Vadim. We’ve always felt
like part of the family. We’ve been
reminded of it today in such a
warm and compassionate way. It’s
really extraordinary. It’s rare that
we are able to go out. It’s probably
the second time that we’ve ventured out, and it’s not to go to the
hospital. So this is very special.”
Mark Medish also expressed
the passion Vadim had for rowing.
“He lived for the sport,” he
said. “He loved the sport. He
inherited the passion from his
grandfather, who rowed in high
school and college. His grandfather [Randle Edwards] rowed for
Harvard, and Vadim did, too.”
For St. Albans’ rowing program, Saturday’s race was signifi-
cant both on and off the water. In
addition to honoring Medish, the
rowers also helped to prepare
themselves for championship season, which begins on May 20.
“It’s very special,” said Haley.
“Winning today was important
because it’s the Charlie Butt
Regatta — but also more important because of the dedication. It’s
also important because of our
development as a team. We’re
looking to get better. This is one
step along the way. We’re gearing
up for Stotesbury and nationals,
and I feel that the team is going in
the right direction.”
Meanwhile, National Cathedral’s new boat was dedicated to
Edward Magoba, a longtime
school employee. For the last three
decades, he has been to nearly
every Eagles sporting event cheering on the team, driving school
buses, cleaning up before and after
events, and doing multiple tasks to
keep the school and athletics program functioning.
“It’s really special for us,” said
Cathedral coach Greg King. “He’s
a guy who has been working at the
Cathedral for a very long time. He
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Northwest Sports
Maret, Gonzaga grads picked in NFL draft
By BRIAN KAPUR
On Friday night, football fans
watching the NFL Draft on television saw Hall of Famer Lynn
Swann announce that Sean Davis
— a defensive back for the University of Maryland at College
Park, and a 2012 Maret alumnus
— was the Pittsburgh Steelers’
second-round pick.
While that was unfolding on
TV, Davis was gathered with family and friends at a D.C. restaurant
when his phone rang. In an interview on steelers.com, the former
Frog said he couldn’t believe that
the Steelers’ coach Mike Tomlin
was on the other line.
“It was the greatest phone call,”
he told the team’s website. “I
really didn’t expect it to happen. I
saw a 402 number and I said this
can’t be a telemarketer. This is a
terrible time to get a call. I just
didn’t expect it.”
After he was selected, Davis
took to Twitter to share his excitement, writing: “So blessed and
grateful for this opportunity.
#SteelersNation.”
The pick, which was announced
live on the NFL Network and
ESPN simultaneously, was met
with good reviews from the onhand draft gurus.
On the NFL Network, noted
analyst Mike Mayock said,
“Height, weight and speed — he
checks all of those boxes. He
tested really well and rose up late
in the process. Once coaches got
involved in the workouts, Sean
Davis really started to rise up.”
Mayock did question some of
Davis’ abilities, but ultimately
thinks he can succeed in the
league: “I think he is very raw, but
the upside is tremendous.”
In addition, longtime CBS
Left: Brian Kapur/Current file photo; right: courtesy of Gonzaga College High School
Safety Sean Davis left, and quarterback Kevin Hogan played high
school football for Maret and Gonzaga respectively. Both were picked
in the NFL draft over the weekend.
Sports NFL reporter Pete Prisco
tweeted: “Sean Davis is a damn
good safety. He will be a perfect
pick for the Steelers. Grade: A+”
At a post-draft press conference available on the team’s website, Steelers defensive back coach
Carnell Lake also spoke highly of
the former Frog and Terrapin.
“He has been a really productive player in two positions —
safety and corner,” Lake said. “He
has been very productive in the
tackling department and has a
good eye for playing the ball in the
passing game.”
Davis will have the chance to
play his first regular-season game
at FedEx Field against the Washington Redskins — the team he
told The Current last month he
grew up rooting for.
Davis wasn’t the only local
product to be selected in the NFL
draft. Former Gonzaga quarterback Kevin Hogan, who graduated
from the I Street school in 2011,
was picked by the Kansas City
Chiefs in the fifth round on Saturday. Hogan, who played for Stanford after his time at Gonzaga, left
college as the Cardinal’s all-time
winningest quarterback with 36
victories.
A Sports Illustrated article by
NFL draft analyst Chris Burke
hailed Hogan as “‘NFL ready’ — a
reference to the intangible measurement of how quickly a college
prospect can adapt. In this category, Hogan is near the top of his
class. Besides his proficiency with
a snap, Hogan excels at handling
the mental demands of the position.”
The former Eagle will have a
chance to learn from coach Andy
Reid, a noted offensive mind, and
sit behind starting quarterback
Alex Smith to learn the position
from a former No. 1 overall pick.
Hogan took to Twitter to share
his excitement of his selection,
saying: “So excited and blessed
for the opportunity in Kansas
City! Can’t wait to get to work!”
ROWING: Bulldogs, Eagles hold emotional ceremony
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is a behind-the-scenes everyman. He does just about
everything. He is the most selfless person you could
know.”
For Magoba, Saturday was set up as a major surprise. Cathedral athletics director Heather Dent asked
him to come to help out with the ceremony, but the
team and many in attendance knew the Cathedral
boat was going to be in his name.
When a D.C. flag, which was draped over his
name was removed during the ceremony, Magoba
didn’t initially realize it was his name emblazoned on
the shell. But once it became clear, the longtime
Cathedral employee sported an ear-to-ear smile and
was in disbelief as he told those gathered, “I don’t
know what to say. Wow!”
After the ceremony, he elaborated further. “I was
very surprised,” he said. “I had no idea. They asked
me to help bring flowers for the seniors, but I had no
idea. I didn’t see my name on the boat until they
showed me. NCS is my life. It’s a very beautiful place
to work. I feel that it’s just a fantastic place to be.”
Magoba started working at the Close in the early
1980s after immigrating from Africa to the United
States as a child in the ’60s. He grew up with the
Right Rev. John Thomas Walker and the Walker family. The Walker name and legacy were eventually
honored by the Episcopal Diocese of Washington,
which created the Bishop John T. Walker School for
Boys in Southeast. That institution has been connected to St. Albans, as the Bulldogs host an annual
basketball tournament to help aid the school’s funding.
When Magoba started at the school, he wasn’t big
on sports, but the students turned him into an avid
fan.
“Sports came after I came to National Cathedral
School,” said Magoba. “The girls are the ones that
taught me sports.”
For National Cathedral, the victory on the water
was twofold. “It’s great to get a win on a day that’s so
special to our community,” King said. “Earning the
W adds a lot of smiles to the whole event. We have
been building momentum in the program.”
Cathedral will join St. Albans in Philadelphia on
May 20 for the Stotesbury Regatta and then compete
in nationals on May 26 in Zanesville, Ohio.
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA OFFICE ON AGING NEWS
Spotlight on Community Living
Serving D.C. residents who are age 18+ with a disability or age 60+ and their caregivers
An Older Americans Month Message from Muriel Bowser, Mayor District of Columbia
Celebrating & Supporting Our Living Treasures
Each May, the District of
Columbia joins the nation in
celebrating ‘Older Americans
Month.’ Designated in 1963 by
President John F. Kennedy, this
is a month when we pay tribute
to our older friends, family and
neighbors. The theme this year
is ‘Blazing a Trail,’ in recognition
of the many contributions our
elders have made to our country,
and to our society.
We have some great activities lined up for Older Americans Month, including senior
proms, senior games, forums,
art shows and community days.
Our seniors are central to the
vibrancy and success of our city,
and I look forward to honoring
you. I hope you’ll come out and
join me and members of my
team at events in all 8 Wards,
as we celebrate the diverse and
invaluable contributions of our
older residents. You can find a
list of events at DCOA’s website
at http://dcoa.dc.gov/.
Here in DC, we don’t just
honor our seniors during May.
We honor them every single
month by creating an environment in which they can thrive.
As Mayor, I am focused on
making the District a world class,
age-friendly city. It is our creed
that any person, of any age,
should be able to have a great
life in DC – whether you’ve
been here for five minutes, or
five generations. We are proud
that DC has one of the most
active and widely recognized
age-friendly efforts in the world.
We are constantly looking for
new ways to support our older
residents, so that people can live
independently - in their homes
and communities - as long as
they choose.
For example, this year we
launched ‘Safe at Home,’ a
program that provides up to
$10,000 in financial support to
seniors and people with disabilities, for home adaptations.
To date, more than 240 people
have started the process to
enroll in the program, and the
list continues to grow. I recently
had a chance to meet Sidney
Glee, who was one of the first to
contact us for help. After multiple hip surgeries, Mr. Glee has
a hard time climbing the stairs
in his home. He saw an ad for
‘Safe at Home’ and called right
way. 18 days after a consultation
with an occupational therapist,
the DC Office on Aging installed
a stair lift and grab bars at his
home. And Mr. Glee now has
peace of mind that his house
will always be his home.
We are also on the lookout
for new laws and regulations
that can help our seniors. It
recently came to my attention
that recently passed federal
regulations had hampered the
ability of older resident to get
proper DC identification. You
may remember Virginia McLaurin, the beautiful 107 year old
who enjoyed a dance with the
President. Because of her age,
some of the newly required
forms of documentation weren’t
even around when she was
born. So we righted that wrong
by issuing a new DC regulation
that will help seniors like Mrs.
McLaurin get the proper ID to
access the many activities, benefits and services they deserve. I
had the great privilege of helping Mrs. McLaurin finalize her
paperwork, and I look forward
to watching her continue to
dance and thrive.
As we prepare for Older
Americans Month, we are
looking ahead to our annual
‘Mayor’s Senior Symposium.’
The symposium will take place
on August 4, 2016 at the historic
Paul Laurence Dunbar Senior
High School. The theme,
Healthy Homes. Healthy Hearts.
Healthy Living, will touch on my
Administration’s priorities for
an age-friendly DC. With input
from the community, we are
putting together a great lineup
of workshops related to health
care, housing, transportation,
estate planning, nutrition, and
technology. To sign up, please
contact DCOA at 202-724-5622
or [email protected].
We are committed to enhancing the lives of older Americans,
and supporting independent living in the community. I believe
that living well means more
than just taking care of our basic
needs. It means fostering a
community where everyone is
able to live their fullest life.
But we cannot do it alone.
We want your input and your
ideas, so please send in any
thoughts, questions or comments
to [email protected]
Thank you for joining me
in celebration of Older Americans Month, as we build on our
progress to make DC the most
age-friendly city in the world.
COMMUNITY
EVENTS CALENDAR
on May 24. Visit dcoa.dc.gov/page/
caregiver-chat at noon or visit at your
convenience and hit replay to see the
chat. For more information, contact
[email protected] or call 202-5351442.
11th • 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
teenth Street Baptist Church, 4606 16th
St. NW. For more information, contact
Alice Thompson at 202 535-132.
MAY EVENTS
10th and 13th • 11 a.m.
A doctor from Howard University’s
Geriatrics Division will speak on “LivingHealthy” on May 10 at Edgewood
Commons, 635 Edgewood St., NE. The
program will be repeated on May 13 at
Petersburg, 3298 Fort Lincoln Dr. NE. For
more information, call Norma Hardie at
202-529-8701.
10th+ • 11 a.m. to noon
Seabury Resources for Aging Ward 5
presents a free six-week diabetes selfmanagement workshop by the DelMarva
Foundation. The first session begins on
May 10 and will continue each Tuesday
for the next five weeks. It will take place
at Vicksburg, 3005 Bladensburg Rd. NE.
For more information, call Norma Hardie
at 202-529-8701.
10th and 24th • noon
Join the DC Caregivers Online Chat at
Noon to discuss caregiving for an older
adult on May 10 and caregiving for
someone with a mental health problem
10th • 2 to 4 p.m.
Take part in a session called “Constituent Services: Who Do You Call?”,
part of Iona’s spring Advocacy Series.
This session will educate you on the
how-to’s — from filing a 311 report, to
dealing with uneven sidewalks, reporting street lights that are out, sewer
and tree problems, nuisances related to
businesses, etc. Guest speakers include
Commissioner Jackie Blumenthal,
ANC3B chairperson; Dee Smith, director
of Constituent Services and deputy chief
of staff to Council member Mary Cheh;
Anthony Cassillo, deputy director of
Constituent Services; and Michael Matthews, from the Mayor’s Office of Community Outreach Services for Ward 3. It
will take place at the Tenley-Friendship
Neighborhood Library, Second Floor.
4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Registration is
appreciated! Call 202-895-9448.
DCOA, in collaboration with Resident
Council Community Preservation &
Community Development and the
Edgewood Commons Community, will
present a Community Health andWellness Fair. It will take place at Edgewood
Commons, Crawford Hall, 9th Floor, 635
Edgewood St. NE. For more information,
call Norma Hardie at 202-529-8701.
12th and 26th • 11 a.m.
A breast cancer awareness program
by MedStar’s Get2BreastCareProgram
will be held at two times. On May 12 it
will be at Delta Towers, 2412 Franklin
St. NE. On May 26, it will be held at Ft.
Lincoln I, 2855 Bladensburg Rd. NE. For
more information, call Norma Hardie at
202-529-8701.
13th • 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Ft. Stanton Recreation Center’s Second
Annual DCOA-sponsored Community
Health, Wellness and Informational Fair
will be held at Martha’s Table, 1812 Erie
St. SE. To learn more, contact Mr. Jones
at 202-671-1040
14th • 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A caregiver forum with social workers
and exhibitors will take place at Nine-
19th • 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Train to become a DCOA Ambassador,
an initiative to train community residents
about the programs and services offered
by the DC Office on Aging and its Senior
Service Network. The ambassadors serve
as points of contacts for distributing
information about the programs and
services available to seniors, people
living with disabilities and caregivers in
their wards and communities. To register,
call 202-724-5622 or email Darlene.
[email protected].
19th • 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A celebration for Older Americans Month
will be hosted by Terrific, Inc. at Nineteenth Street Baptist Church, 4606 16th
St. NW. To learn more, contact Edwinta
Jenkins at 202-882-1824.
19th • 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A celebration for Older Americans Month
with the theme “Let’s Blaze a Trail” will
be held at Ward 5 Senior Community Day
at North Michigan Park Recreation Center,
1333 Emerson St. NE. For more information, call Norma Hardie at 202-529-8701.
GOV ERNM E NT OF THE DI S T R I C T O F C O L UMB I A — MUR I E L B OW S E R , M AY O R
Vol 5, No 6
Older Americans Month
Activities “Blaze a Trail”
May 6th, 2pm–4pm
In Observance of Mother’s Day
Hattie Homes Senior Wellness Center in
conjunction with Washington Performing Arts Society will present a concert
by Bernard Mavritte - http://bernardmavritte.com. Also a table decorating
contest will be included. Hattie Homes
Senior Wellness Center, 324 Kennedy
Street, NW. For more information,
contact 202-291-6170.
May 14th, 2pm–4pm
Artists’ Reception to celebrate the
participants in IONA’s Adult Day Health
Program for those with memory loss or
other dementias, or physical challenges.
IONA Wellness & Arts Center, 4125
Albemarle St NW. For more information,
call 202-966-1055.
May 19th, 11am–2pm
Ward 5 Senior Community Day.
Seabury Aging Services, Ward 5, at
North Michigan Park Recreation Center,
1331 Emerson Street NW. For more
information, call 202-529-8701.
May 19th, at 5pm
East River Family Strengthening Collaborative Annual Senior Prom. For
tickets and info, call 202-534-4880.
May 20th, 10:30am–2:00pm
TERRIFIC, Inc. Older American’s Month
Health & Wellness Fair. Celebrate Older
Americans Month, featuring entertainment, fun, health and wellness exhibits,
free health screenings and more. The
19th Street Baptist Church, 4606 16th
Street NW. For more information call
202-882-1383.
May 20th, 1pm–3pm
Congress Heights Senior Wellness
Center Anniversary Celebration. Congress Heights Senior Wellness Center is
located at 3500 Martin Luther King, Jr.
Avenue, SE. Call 202-563-7225 for
more information.
Senior Health and Fitness Day at Bernice
Fonteneau, showcasing the activities
that take place at the wellness center.
Bernice Fonteneau Senior Wellness
Center, 3531 Georgia Avenue, NW. Call
202-727-0338 for more information.
Older Americans Month Senior Health
and Wellness Fair hosted by Model
Cities Senior Wellness Center and DCOA
with free screenings, resources and
information exhibits. Model Cities
Senior Wellness Center is located at
1901 Evarts Street, NE. For more
information, call 202-635-1900.
Celebrate Older Americans Month with
Hayes Senior Wellness Center. Hayes
Senior Wellness Center is located at
500 K Street, NE. For more information
call 202-727-0357.
The Current
Spotlight on Schools
Annunciation Catholic
School
In the beginning of the spring
concert, there was a wonderful
band performance directed by
Ms. Rose Weich. The advanced
band played “When the Saints Go
Marching In” and “Hard Rock
Blues” by John Higgins. Their
last piece was the “Batman”
theme song!
“Wind’s in the East” was the
name of our spring concert, with
music from “Mary Poppins.”
After weeks of practice you could
hear half the school singing with
each other in classes and After
School Arts. The best part of the
whole concert was that Ms. Gorecki dressed up as Mary Poppins.
Each class had its own special
song to sing! Ms. Gorecki made a
wonderful choice of putting the
whole middle school together to
perform the song “Jolly Holiday,”
and I know what you are thinking: “Did they do it together?”
The answer is no, the middle
school ladies came in the middle
of the song and snapped to keep
the beat! Then my class with third
and fourth grades sang “Step in
Time.” Last, the whole school
ended with singing “Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.”
— Abyssinia Ayalew and
Leah Idoniboye, fifth-graders
Blessed Sacrament School
Blessed Sacrament School cel-
School DISPATCHES
ebrated the 21st annual Levie Arts
Festival this week. It is an annual
tradition at our school. Kindergarten through fourth grades spent
the week learning things about a
different country or part of the
United States. In fourth grade this
year, we took a “Road Trip
Across America.” Other grades
studied the rainforest, Africa,
Mexico and Japan. Kids in fifth
through eighth grades did different art workshops. Some kids got
to go to Imagination Stage and
learn acting.
Fourth-graders did tons of art
projects, such as building skyscrapers out of scrap wood and
glue guns, making kachina dolls,
drawing portraits of Abraham
Lincoln and painting American
flags out of egg cartons. We also
got to see an a cappella performance from the St. John’s College High School group called
AVS, which stands for Advanced
Vocal Studies. They were really
good singers and sang a lot of different types of songs like show
tunes and patriotic songs. We also
got to sample food from across
America. We had fried chicken,
lemonade, popcorn and mini
apple pies. On Friday, we had a
variety show with kids from the
entire school.
— Lee White, fourth-grader
Eaton Elementary School
This year will be the second
annual John Eaton Movie Night
organized by the student council.
Last year, our student council
president Ava Koerner’s campaign promise was to have a
movie night. She was elected and
kept her promise. This year we
are continuing the tradition
because everyone liked movie
night last year. On May 5 at 8
p.m. we are showing “Kung Fu
Panda 3.”
In order to have movie night,
the student council had to raise a
lot of money because we want a
lot of people to come and enjoy
the night and not have to pay anything. We mostly had bake sales
to raise money. We sold snacks to
all the students and parents after
school. One bake sale raised more
than $300! We even sold out of
everything at the last bake sale.
We also had “Penny Wars” where
everyone brought in coins and the
class that brought in the most
money got to tape Mr. Mitchell,
our PE teacher, to the wall!
On movie night, students
bring comfy pillows and blankets,
spread them out on the field and
watch the movie. Also while
watching that movie kids play tag
and all those fun games. There
are also snacks and refreshments
at the movie. One student is coming back. She told us that she had
a lot of fun last year even though
she thought it would be boring!
— Camille Anderson, Sophie
Bergfalk, Nadia Blankenship,
Talia Ehrenberg and
Liberty Kessler, fifth-graders
The Field School
With spring here, there has
been a lot of outdoor physical
activity recently at school. Middle
schoolers took part in a four-mile
hike along the Billy Goat Trail
near Great Falls. During the hike,
we encountered a lot of steep
rocks along the trail. “I thought it
was so fun; I had a blast,” said
eighth-grader Sophia Davison. “It
was interesting and fun,” said
Khalia Horton, also an eighthgrader.
After we returned, the middle
school gathered outside for more
games as well as a riddle contest.
On Earth Day, the entire school
took part in Field Day. Each student was a member of either a
blue (representing water) or green
(representing land) team. The
green team won by a small margin.
— Adrian Stuphan, eighth-grader
Hearst Elementary School
Every month, our school holds
a community meeting in the gym.
At the end of the day, all of the
students and teachers join together
as a group. Our principal reads
out the names of everyone who
celebrated their birthday that
month. Sometimes there is a chorus performance. This month, our
class sang a song about the
months of the year with Ms. Molino’s class. We practiced for days
before the community meeting.
We loved getting up in front of all
of our friends to sing for them.
Our voices sounded so loud over
the microphone. Asked about the
song, Jonatan Alvarado said, “My
favorite month is April!” Dilan
Martinez-Hernandez’s favorite
part of the song was when we
clapped. Jason Kaberia and Aiden
Williams were so happy that their
mothers came to watch our performance. Yesenia Sorto-Ventura
enjoyed spending time and singing with one of her good friends,
Briana Roye-Jones. It was a great
way to close out Autism Awareness Month at Hearst Elementary
School.
— Ms. Marber, Mrs. Hicks and
Mrs. Montgomery’s K-2 CES class
Hyde-Addison Elementary
School
In Ms. Barros’ first-grade class
we are studying American symbols like bald eagles, the Statue
of Liberty and the American flag.
Each person gets to pick a symbol
to study. I am studying George
Washington. I know that he was
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ANC 2E
ANC 2E
Georgetown
■ Georgetown / cloisters
Cloisters
burleith / hillandale
At the commission’s May 2
meeting:
■ commission chair Ron Lewis
announced that Peter Sacco has
taken over executive director
duties from Leslie Maysak and
that commissioner Kendyl Clausen has resigned from the commission as of May 3, as she is graduating from Georgetown University
and moving away to attend Yale’s
law school in the fall. Commissioners later voted 7-0 to formally
commend Maysak and Clausen for
their services to ANC 2E.
■ a Metropolitan Police Department representative told community members there was no suspected foul play in the April 24
death of a Georgetown University
student. He also said police are
seeking information about the
recent robbery of the coffee shop
Dolcezza at 1560 Wisconsin Ave.
NW.
■ commissioners voted 7-0 to
authorize resident Rick Murphy to
represent ANC 2E on various
Board of Zoning Adjustment matters.
■ Tamara Robinson from the D.C.
Board of Elections announced that
residents who have moved since
the last time they voted need to
update their address before May
16 if they want to vote in the city’s
upcoming primary election without having to cast a special ballot.
Robinson also demonstrated her
agency’s new voting machines to
interested residents outside the
meeting room.
■ Megan Kanagy of the D.C.
Department of Transportation
encouraged residents to attend a
community meeting about the
future of the D.C. Streetcar on
May 17 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the
Carnegie Library, 801 K St. NW.
Kanagy promised new details on
logistics for the planned expansion
of the streetcar to run from Union
Station to Georgetown.
■ resident Jim Wilcox invited the
community to attend a free tennis
clinic hosted by Washington Kastles coach Murphy Jensen in early
June at the courts in Rose Park.
■ John Lever of Friends of Volta
Park invited residents to attend his
group’s annual gala on June 10 in
the conference hall at Georgetown
Visitation Preparatory School,
1524 35th St. NW.
■ commissioners voted 7-0 to protest the liquor license renewal
application for Malmaison, 3401
K St. NW, on the basis of peace,
order and quiet. Residents reported periodic disturbances in the late
evening and early mornings.
■ at-large D.C. Council member
Elissa Silverman offered an overview of her initiatives during her
first 16 months on the council,
emphasizing her paid family leave
bill, which would provide compensation to city employees who
need time off for family matters.
She has also proposed bills to
reform campaign finance for local
elections and increase unemployment compensation.
■ commissioners voted 7-0 to support a Board of Zoning Adjustment application for a one-story
residential addition at 3015 P St.
NW.
■ commissioners voted 5-0, with
chair Ron Lewis recusing himself
and commissioner Bill Starrels
abstaining, to oppose a Board of
Zoning Adjustment application for
an addition at 3420 P St. NW, citing concerns from neighbors and
“conflicting information” from the
applicants.
oppose a Board of Zoning Adjustment application for a roof deck at
the former Latham Hotel, 3000 M
St. NW, while requesting further
details on loading and architecture
but generally supporting redevelopment plans.
oppose an Old Georgetown Board
application for construction of a
railing on the second-story level of
the vacant building at 1413 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
■ commissioners voted 7-0 to support an Old Georgetown Board
application for screens around
rooftop mechanical equipment at
1525 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
■ commissioners voted 7-0 to support an Old Georgetown Board
application for new windows and
doors at the retail store House of
KAS, 1081 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
The commission’s resolution also
included support for the design of
planned signage for the store but
asked the board to consider
requesting a smaller sign.
The commission will meet at
6:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 31, at
Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, 1524 35th St. NW.
For details, call 202-724-7098
or visit anc2e.com.
Citizens Association of Georgetown
The weather has been lousy and depressing over the last week
or so. I think someone has stolen the sun. The one bright side has
been our Washington Nationals, with a three-game sweep against
the St. Louis Cardinals in their home stadium. The Nats have never
achieved that landmark in the team’s history.
President Obama brightened up Saturday evening with his hysterically funny monologue at the White House Correspondents’
gala at the Washington Hilton, but that did not hold back the rain.
The Ein family reception on Sunday afternoon provided plenty of
treats for Georgetown residents, including a wonderful art display
and delicious food, but again a light mist continued into the evening. We finished the evening with Georgetown friends over dinner. Upon reflection — our weekend was wonderful!
The Citizens Association of Georgetown’s annual meeting will
be held on May 24 at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School in
the Heritage Room with a reception at 7 p.m. and program to commence at 7:30 p.m. We will be honoring members of our community, including Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E member
Jeff Jones, Metropolitan Police Department Officer Antonia
Atkins, the staff of The Georgetowner newspaper and Peter Jost.
We will also make a posthumous award to Annie Louise Bayly
Berman for dedicated and distinguished service to the Georgetown
community, which will be accepted by members of her family. We
look forward to seeing you at the meeting.
— Bob vom Eigen
Center, 4001 Calvert St. NW.
For details, email info@anc3b.
org or visit anc3b.org.
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Cleveland
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Woodley
Park
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Massachusetts
Avenue Heights
Cathedral Heights
ANC 3B
ANCPark
3B
Glover
7:30 p.m. Monday, May 16, at
the 2nd District Police Headquarters, 3320 Idaho Ave. NW.
For details, visit anc3c.org.
7 p.m. Thursday, May 12, at
Stoddert Elementary School
and Glover Park Community
ANC 3D
ANCValley
3D
Spring
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Wesley
Heights
palisades / kent / foxhall
■ Glover Park / Cathedral heights
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At the commission’s April 6
meeting:
Spence Spencer abstaining, to
support a Board of Zoning Adjustment application for a new backyard shed structure at 5236 Sherier
Place NW, conditioned on dimensions of 19 feet by 23 feet and an
8-foot setback between the structure and a lot shared with the nextdoor neighbors at 5238 Sherier.
The original application requested
a 21-foot-by-23-foot structure
with a 6-foot setback.
■ commissioners voted 7-0 to support renewing the liquor licenses
at Bambu, 5101 MacArthur Blvd.
NW, and at Al Dente, 3201 New
Mexico Ave. NW.
■ commissioners voted 7-0 to support an Alcoholic Beverage Control application for a liquor license
at the new restaurant Lupo Alimentari, 4814 MacArthur Blvd.
NW.
■ representatives from Cox Graae
+ Spack Architects and the Department of General Services made a
preliminary presentation about
their construction plans for a renovated Palisades Recreation Center,
5200 Sherier Place NW. Designs
haven’t been drawn up yet, but the
stakeholders plan to hold several
community meetings over the next
few months to gather feedback.
Tom Smith abstaining, to abandon
a planned appeal to the Board of
Zoning Adjustment regarding a
fence at George Washington University’s Mount Vernon Campus
that commissioner Stephen Gardner says violates the school’s campus plan. Gardner, who was not
present at the meeting, had advised
his colleagues that a time-consuming appeal wasn’t worth the trouble.
■ commissioners discussed the
possibility that American University will house some undergraduate students in housing on the
Wesley Theological Seminary
campus, 4500 Massachusetts Ave.
NW.
7 p.m. Wednesday, May 4, in
Conference Room 2 at the Sibley
Memorial Hospital Medical
Building, 5215 Loughboro Road
NW.
Agenda items include:
■ demonstration from the D.C.
Board of Elections.
■ community concerns.
■ consideration of Alcoholic Beverage Control renewal applications by Wagshal’s, Chef Geoff’s,
7th Hill Pizza, Bistroquet, Black
Salt Fish & Market, Et Voila,
Kotobuki, Sur La Place, Makoto
Restaurant, DC Boat House and
Le Pain Quotidien.
■ consideration of an application
for historic designation of the former Mount Vernon Seminary for
Girls, 3801 Nebraska Ave. NW.
■ consideration of a D.C. Board of
Zoning Adjustment application for
5517 Carolina Place NW for a
special exception to establish an
accessory dwelling within an
existing rear structure.
■ consideration of a public space
application at 3000 44th Place
NW for a new driveway and apron.
For details, call 202-957-1999
Northwest Real estate
A Look at the Market in Northwest Washington
The Current
May 4, 2016 ■ Page 19
Apartments near Verizon Center offer luxury touches
T
he Ashton Judiciary Square
is a conveniently located
residential building at 750
3rd St. NW in the rapidly grow-
ON THE MARKET
LEE cannon
ing Judiciary Square neighborhood.
Built in 2009 by the Hanover
Co., it offers 48 luxury apartment
units for rent, with a range of
floor plans and prices, from a
one-bedroom floor plan with a
study and just under 1,200 square
feet, to the three-bedroom floor
plan with 2,715 square feet. Rents
vary from unit to unit, beginning
around $3,300 and running to
around $7,400 per month. The
building contains 20 one-bedroom, 22 two-bedroom and six
three-bedroom units, plus one
hotel-style guest suite, all of
which are subject to availability.
Each unit varies slightly, but
the high-end appliances and
attractive finishes run throughout
the building. The floors are carpeted in bedrooms and, in the living spaces, are finished with
engineered wood, with the look
of solid oak and comparable
resistance to wear and tear.
The kitchens feature granite
countertops, spacious islands with
induction cooktops and Jenn-Air
ceiling-mounted hoods. Miniature granite
tiles form a
mosaic-like
backsplash and
complement
the dark, walnut-finish cabinetry and
brushed-steel
Maytag refrigerator, oven,
microwave and
dishwasher
suites.
The bathrooms are finished with travertine
tile floors, walls and backsplashes
on the vanities and bathtubs. The
vanities are topped with dark
green or light gray granite and
feature the same cabinet finishing
as the kitchens. Some units have
glass walk-in showers and separate soaking tubs, while others
have bathtub and shower combinations.
Floor-to-ceiling windows give
panoramic views of downtown
and let in sunlight. Recessed
lighting in the kitchens and track
lighting in the living/dining
rooms and bedrooms provide
plentiful light at night. Bedrooms
have large walk-in closets. Some
units feature balconies, studies,
computer desk niches, built-in
shelves, dry bars and/or powder
Photos courtesy of Long & Foster Real Estate
The 48-unit Ashton Judiciary Square building offers
floor-to-ceiling windows with panoramic views.
rooms. All units offer a Whirlpool
washer-and-dryer set, some inside
closets and some in full, walk-in
laundry rooms.
The Ashton’s amenities are a
major selling point; they include
a rooftop pool, as well as access
to the larger pool and rooftop
deck area of the neighboring
building, Mass Court. A concierge is available at the front
desk 24 hours a day, and residents
can reserve the conference room,
hotel-style guest suite, or the
gourmet kitchen and party space,
all on the first floor. A fitness
center with machines and free
weights will satisfy the fitnessconscious, and a business center
allows residents to take care of
their printing needs without leaving home.
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Chevy Chase, MD. Storybook residence
meticulously restored & expanded. Impressive
open spaces inside & out. Gourmet kit, stunning
family rm, amazing game rm. 5 BRs, 4.5 BAs.
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Landon Woods. Stunning new home w/4 levels of
quality workmanship. 7 BRs, 5.5 BAs. Superb chef ’s
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Proximity to Verizon Center,
the National Mall, and the shopping, dining, entertainment and
nightlife of Chinatown and Penn
Quarter, as well as the convenience to Interstate 395 make The
Ashton a very attractive spot. The
Judiciary Square, Gallery Place
and Union Station Metro stations
are all within walking distance.
The immediate neighborhood is
growing, too, with new construction underway nearby for a
mixed-use complex similar to
CityCenterDC, bringing even
more high-end retail and restaurants.
The Ashton is managed by
TIAA-CREF — Greystar Management. Parking is $300 per
month in the resident-only parking garage beneath the building.
Up to two pets per unit are welcome with a deposit and pet rent.
The units are available furnished
or unfurnished. Residents can
even choose from a selection of
fashion-forward Quartz furnishing sets, use of which is figured
into rent.
This 48-unit luxury apartment
building at 750 3rd St. NW offers
units with one, two and three bedrooms and varying amenities for
between $3,306 and $7,395
monthly. For details and to
schedule tours, contact Salley
Widmayer of Long & Foster Real
Estate at 202-215-6174 or
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w/updated kit & baths. 4 BRs, 2 BAs up. Family rm
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w/5BRs, 4BAs up. Walk out LL w/BR, BA, family
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SHELTER: Cheh calls for further review of three alternative Ward 3 locations for facility
From Page 3
April 6. Weaver replied to her letter on Friday. “Unfortunately, due to funding, availability, or other factors, these sites are not
suitable for our purposes within [our] allotted budget and timeframe,” he wrote.
Weaver’s letter said using the Idaho Avenue site would force the police to relocate;
and because the City Church site has only
just become available and hasn’t been evaluated previously, it would take too long to
fully determine its pros and cons. Both sites,
he wrote, are therefore fraught with uncertainty that could lead to considerable delays
and unforeseen consequences. Meanwhile,
Weaver said the city previously considered
the Albemarle property but weren’t able to
come to an agreement with the landowner.
In a news release Monday, Cheh said the
General Services Department’s evaluations
were cursory at best. With the police station
site, she said the agency failed to consider
the amount of open space that could be
redeveloped without affecting police operations. She said the agency didn’t make an
effort to consider the City Church proper-
ty’s potential, and it didn’t explain why the
Albemarle negotiations didn’t work out.
“Not only does the report appear to lack
proper analysis and effort, but it features the
earmarks of an agency intent on saying ‘no’
without any intention of serious consideration,” Cheh says in the release.
In the release, Cheh said she was requesting further consideration of the three sites.
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He also deserves credit for
creating the entire show choir
program at Ellington. In 1986,
Bonds gathered a group of students to perform a tribute to singer and actress Lena Horne. Those
students enjoyed their performance so much they wanted to
continue with that tradition, and
so the show choir was born.
Thirty years later, the choir’s
competition success was boosted
by teamwork from Ellington faculty members and parents, who
donated their time to cook meals
for the students during afterschool rehearsals. Two parents
even drove the choir’s gear from
D.C. to Florida while the students
took a plane, Holmes said.
“It really took a village to
make this particular event happen, and I couldn’t be more
thankful for the consistent support of not only the faculty, but
also the parents,” Holmes said.
Show choir students rehearse
every day after school for over an
hour. The current choir has 23
students from all four grades, and
21 of them competed in Orlando.
The team arrived in Florida the
Wednesday before the competition and left the Sunday after,
with students spending some of
their downtime at the nearby Universal Studios and Islands of
Adventure. Khademian said her
favorite part of the trip — other
than winning — was a trip to the
Wizarding World of Harry Potter.
Just because the Show Choir
America competition is over
doesn’t mean the Ellington students are done for the year,
though. They spent April preparing for a trip to Sweden, where
they peformed last week with students from Adolf Fredrik’s Music
School, who had traveled to D.C.
in October for a similar rendezvous in the States.
Further out, Holmes is preparing for changes as several key
players in this year’s choir are set
to graduate. “I plan on doing a lot
of rebuilding next year. I’m going
to allow the class to determine
what they can handle,” she said.
But for the moment, Holmes
and her students are basking in
their hard-earned victory.
Holmes, who recalls performing
in the same competition when she
was an Ellington student in the
late ’90s, is particularly pleased
that the win came on this major
anniversary for the program.
“To be able to culminate the
year with this grand prize after
competing in this competition for
so long, and to finally get this in
our 30th anniversary year, is a
blessing,” Holmes said. “We just
feel that there’s nothing else that
could dampen the year.”
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can Revolutionary War. He lived
in a house called Mount Vernon
that is in Virginia. I learned that it
is across the Potomac River from
Washington. I also know that he
was a friend of Alexander Hamilton.
— Peter Isles, first-grader
Lafayette Elementary
School
It’s springtime at Lafayette and
things are blooming! Thanks to
our neighbors at the Episcopal
Center for Children, on the corner
of Utah and Nebraska avenues
NW, for agreeing to host our
spring fair. The fair will take
place there on May 7 from 11 a.m
to 4 p.m., and it’s only a few
blocks from Lafayette. Save the
date! For all those bakers out
there, the bake sale needs you.
Everything will sell for $1. If you
like a healthier choice, there will
also be salads to buy — or to
bring in for sale if you’d like. We
will also have the book sale, so
stop by pick up a book or drop
one off. There will also be the
flower sale for those flower lovers and gardeners out there. Still
not enough information? Learn
more at lafayettehsa.org
We had a track meet a few
weeks ago, and fifth-grader Ella
Davis did something amazing.
Ella was running when she was
pushed over. She fell, breaking
her wrist on one hand and her
arm on the other! You can only
imagine the pain. The amazing
thing is that Ella got back up and
ran the rest of the race. Not only
did she beat the time of the person who knocked her down, she
beat lots of others, too! Way to
show your determination, Ella!
— Addy Darnell, fifth-grader
before. Some of the tag games are
Cookie Monster, Turtle, Wizard,
Pac Man, Pizza and Seaweed.
Recently we have been doing a
dance unit. We learn lots of different dances. The dances go with
different songs. You get to do
crazy dances. You get to take off
your shoes and choose a dance
partner. Some of the dances we
do are Popcorn, Chicken and Cha
Cha. We dance to “Everybody
Clap Your Hands” and other
songs. We also have a dance party
with free choice dancing. That’s
when we do the Gekkie Line
where we all hold hands.
Before the dance unit, we have
a soccer unit. In the soccer unit
we work on dribbling, passing
and shooting. We learn that you
can kick with the side of your
foot. We learned to try to keep the
ball under the control. We put it
all together in a game of soccer to
have fun.
We also have a game day,
where we choose our favorite tag
games or we play Capture the
Treasure, dodgeball or kickball.
— Ms. Tomasi-Carr’s first-graders
Our Lady of Victory School
Another year has passed and
the day comes again. Every year,
10 teachers from the Archdiocese
of Washington win a Golden
Apple award. This year a fascinating teacher, Mrs. Hochhausler
from Our Lady of Victory School,
has accomplished the goal of winning the Golden Apple award!
Mrs. Hochhausler is able to
teach math and science very efficiently. “One of the many reasons
why she won this award is
because she is one of the most
helpful teachers to work with during and after school,” said seventh-grade student Joseph Y.
This is a huge accomplishment
for her after working at OLV for
eight years. Another thing that
people adore about her is that she
is always there when you need
help after school. If you are confused about a lesson you learned,
she will not stop working with
you until you successfully understand the assignment. She is
always helpful but humorous at
the same time. Although material
can be boring at times, she incor-
porates her humor and makes it
more fun. She is one of the most
respected and well-known teachers at OLV. Maybe Mrs. Hochhausler should win it again in the
future, but it is a great honor to
win once.
— Steven R., seventh-grader
Ross Elementary School
On Monday, there was Fillmore. As usual, we got to choose
which art class we wanted to do.
On Wednesday the STEM fair
judges came to judge our projects
and the principal announced the
winners.
The first-place fifth-grade winners were John Maberry, Elizabeth Esaw and Raven Williams.
The second-place fifth-grade winners were Julia Black and Keane
Stack-Loney. The third-place
fifth-grade winners were Beverly
Coronado and Romy Smith. The
first-place fourth-grade winners
were Jonathan Lurie, Sebastian
Dubey and Lucy Mencimer. Second-place fourth-grade winners
were Lila Touchette, Sadie Sullivan and Alice Gilmore. The third-
place fourth-grade winners tied.
They were Ellen Lurie, Aniya
Mathis, Valerie Cruz, Sanu Pandey and Rosella Donlan. The
first-place third-graders were
Elena Milivojevic, Jenna Mahmoud, Daria Flabbi-Fruttero and
Skye Folger David. The secondplace winners were Iris Cruz,
Gael Merida, Noelle Gertz,
Heathcliff-Aman Quioco and
Michael Todero. The third-place
winners were Mikael Wube, Jaylin Ventura, Stefania Falconer and
Ayman Chowdhury.
All students were given certificates of participation. The winners will now go on to the citywide STEM Fair on June 4 at the
Takoma Education Campus.
Meanwhile, the first-graders
made a five senses garden creation this week.
Three students — Sadie Sullivan, Lucy Mencimer and Julia
Black — will be performing their
ukuleles at the D.C. Public
Schools annual music festival
held at the Kennedy Center!
Good luck!
— Ellen Lurie, fourth-grader
Maret School
One of our favorite classes in
first grade is PE. We go to the
gym four days each week. Our
teachers are Ms. Wilson and Ms.
Melfi. They teach us many different units for PE, but we always
start out class with warm-up tag
games. We learn new tagging
games that we have never played
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Discussions and lectures
■ Alexandre Vidal Porto, a leading
figure in Brazil’s “New Urban” fiction
movement, will discuss his novel “Sergio
Y.,” the story of a renowned therapist’s
investigation of the death of a transgender patient. 6:30 p.m. Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords, 1517 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-387-1400.
■ Former Wilson High School teacher
Joe Riener will discuss his books “Teach
Me How to Work and Keep Me Kind”
and “Puzzle Me the Right Answer to That
One,” about teaching literature and
composition to students. 7 p.m. Free.
Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.
■ Jennifer Weiss and Lauren Franklin, founders of the children’s clothing
company babyPolitico, will discuss their
book “Hurts Like a Mother: A Cautionary
Alphabet.” 7 p.m. Free. Children’s and
Teens Department, Politics and Prose,
5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-3641919.
■ Art historian Vanessa Badre will
discuss “French Garden Spirit.” 7 p.m.
Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St.
NW. 202-727-0233.
■ Mark Zwonitzer will discuss his
book “The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise
of American Imperialism,” which
explores the sharply divergent temperaments and world views of the two
friends. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose,
Films
■ The Chevy Chase Library will celebrate “Star Wars Day” with a screening
of “Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force
Awakens.” 6 p.m. Free. Chevy Chase
Library, 5625 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-282-0021.
■ The Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library
will host a screening of Prince’s iconic
1984 film “Purple Rain” in memory of
the rock icon. 6:45 p.m. Free; tickets
distributed beginning at 6 p.m. Watha T.
Daniel/Shaw Library, 1630 7th St. NW.
202-727-1288. The film will be shown
again Saturday at 2 p.m., with tickets
distributed at 1:30 p.m.
■ The Programmer’s Choice series
will present Robert Budreau’s film “Born
&
The Current
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to Be Blue,” featuring Ethan Hawke as
jazz legend Chet Baker. 8 p.m. $6.75 to
$12. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.
Performances
■ University of Maryland students
will present a contemporary Broadway
cabaret, created by the students and
featuring musical theater songs and
duets from the modern stage. 6 p.m.
Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600.
■ The Washington Ballet will present
“Bowie & Queen,” featuring two works
by choreographers Trey McIntyre and
Edwaard Liang showcasing the music of
rock icons David Bowie and Queen. 7:30
p.m. $32.25 to $130. Eisenhower Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
Performances will continue through May
15.
Special event
■ The Poetry Out Loud national
finals will feature nine high schoolers
from across the country competing in an
event created by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation to help teens learn about classic
and contemporary poetry. The event will
feature host Elizabeth Acevedo and a
performance by hip-hop artist Christylez
Bacon. 7 to 9:15 p.m. Free. Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University,
730 21st St. NW. arts.gov.
Thursday, May 5
Thursday may 5
Classes and workshops
■ The D.C. chapter of SCORE and
Sam’s Club will host a “Grow Your Business” training session for small-business owners and entrepreneurs. 8 a.m.
to 3:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut
Ave. NW. bitly.com/growyourbizdc.
■ Baby boomer-friendly tech guru
Pam Holland of Tech-Moxie.com will
present a workshop on online learning
opportunities, including ways to study at
Ivy League institutions from your home.
3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Iona Senior Services, 4125
Albemarle St. NW. 202-895-9420.
■ The Parent Encouragement Program will present a workshop for parents of children ages 5 to 14 on “Power
Tools for Power Struggles.” 7 to 9 p.m.
$35. Temple Micah, 2829 Wisconsin
Ave. NW. 301-929-8824.
Concerts
■ The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library will host its monthly Brown
Bag Chamber Recital. Noon. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901
G St. NW. 202-727-1291.
■ “Music, Miles, Mari-Liis and More”
will feature violinist Mari-Liis Uibo, pianist Shuhui Zhoi, cellist Iva Casian Lakos
and accordion player Simone Baron performing compositions by Arvo Pärt, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Handel Halvorsen
and Aleksey Igudesman. 6 p.m. Free.
Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202467-4600.
■ The National Symphony Orchestra,
conductor Andrew Litton and violinist
Vadim Gluzman
(shown) will perform
works by Tchaikovsky
and Shostakovich. 7
p.m. $15 to $89.
Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. The performance will repeat Friday and Saturday
at 8 p.m.
■ The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop and
Atlas Performing Arts Center will present
“Suede in Concert,” featuring the performer’s first concert in the area in eight
years. 7:30 p.m. $30 to $50. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE.
chaw.org/suede-concert. Suede will also
perform Friday at 7:30 p.m. at an intimate benefit concert at Capitol Hill Arts
Workshop; tickets cost $160, with special offers available for tickets to both
concerts together.
■ The Encore Rocks DC and Encore
Rocks Glen Echo singers will present
“Let’s Rock,” a choral concert featuring
more than 120 singers, all ages 55-plus,
singing rock classics and a medley of
rock ’n’ roll oldies by Elvis and Frankie
Valli. 7:30 p.m. Free. Church of the
Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. 301-2615747.
■ Singer, songwriter and guitarist
Eric Sommer will perform. 7:30 p.m.
Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K
St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ Georgetown University student
Antonia Stabile will perform works by
Haydn, Bach, Ernst von Dohnányi, Ravel
and more in a senior capstone perfor-
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■ Film: Akbar Ahmed, professor of
Islamic studies at American University and former Pakistani high
commissioner to the United Kingdom and Ireland, will screen and
discuss his film “Journey into
Europe: Islam, Immigration and
Identity.” 7 p.m. Free. Washington
Hebrew Congregation, 3935
Macomb St. NW. whctemple.org.
mance. 7:30 p.m. Free. Gonda Theatre,
Davis Performing Arts Center, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW.
202-687-2787.
■ Honey Island Swamp Band and
Con Brio will perform. 8:30 p.m. $18 to
$20. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
■ National Portrait Gallery educator
Geri Provost will lead a discussion of
Judith Shea’s portrait of Marisol. Noon.
Free. Meet in the G Street lobby, National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW.
202-633-1000.
■ Evangelos Venizelos, a member of
the Greek parliament who has served as
Greece’s deputy prime minister, finance
minister and foreign affairs minister, will
discuss “The Dangers of Brexit and
Grexit.” Noon to 2 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Suite 412, Elliott
School of International Affairs, George
Washington University, 1957 E St. NW.
go.gwu.edu/venizelos.
■ “High Stakes for State Democracy”
will feature Michele Jawando of the Center for American Progress, Susan Liss of
Justice at Stake and Carolyn Fiddler of
the Democratic Legislative Campaign
Committee. Luncheon at 12:15 p.m.;
program at 1 p.m. $10 to $30. Woman’s
National Democratic Club, 1526 New
Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.
■ The Goethe-Insitut Washington will
host a discussion on “How’s It Going,
Germany? Germany’s Brand.” 12:30
p.m. Free; reservations required. GoetheInstitut Washington, 1990 K St. NW.
goetheinstitutewashington.eventbrite.
com.
■ Josh Levs, author of “All In: How
Our Work-First Culture Fails Dads, Families, and Businesses — And How We Can
Fix It Together,” will discuss issues facing modern families at an event hosted
by the National Parents Organization of
Virginia. 3 to 5 p.m. Free. Cullen Room,
Busboys and Poets 5th & K, 1025 5th
St. NW. 202-789-2227.
■ Panelists will discuss “Through Our
Eyes: Insights From Syrian Refugees in
the United States.” 4 to 6 p.m. Free; reservations requested. Riggs Library, Healy
Hall, Georgetown University, 37th and O
streets NW. guevents.georgetown.edu.
■ “Free Parking: Salon Style Conversation at the Alper” will feature a discus-
sion with Bill Warrell and Michael
Olshonsky on the punk and new wave
music scene during the 1970s and
1980s in D.C. 5:30 to 7 p.m. Free; reservations required. American University
Museum, Katzen Arts Center, American
University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave.
NW. tinyurl.com/Alpertickets.
■ Award-winning Philadelphia artist
Ed Bing Lee, who has been making art
pieces in macramé for more than 30
years after having retired from a career
in commercial fabric design and manufacturing, will discuss “Knotting, Making
Ends Meet.” 6 p.m. $10; reservations
required. George Washington University
Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st
St. NW. 202-994-7394.
■ Tula Connell of the AFL-CIO will discuss her book “Conservative CounterRevolution: Challenging Liberalism in
1950s Milwaukee,” about the battle
between the city’s Socialist mayor and
right-wing conservatives. 6:30 p.m. Free.
Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll
St. NW. 202-726-0856.
■ As part of a yearlong celebration
of the 225th birthday of the nation’s
capital, HumanitiesDC will sponsor a
“Humanitini” happy hour focusing on
“Who’s the Boss?” — about the history
of Alexander “Boss” Shepherd, the
Gilded Age politician who defined local
government for a generation. 6:30 to
8:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Langston Room, Busboys and Poets
Brookland, 625 Monroe St. NE.
wdchumanities.org/whos-the-boss.
■ Historian and novelist Simon
Sebag Montefiore,
whose books bring to
life the outsize personalities of Russia’s
past, will discuss his
latest book “The
Romanovs: 16131918,” which draws
on newly available archival material to
chronicle Romanov rule. 7 p.m. $5 to
$37. Sidwell Friends School, 3825 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Art historian Amy E. Herman will
discuss her book “Visual Intelligence:
Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your
Life,” which explains techniques for
improving communication by redirecting
the visual focus. 7 p.m. Free. Politics
and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
■ Jessica Gordon Nembhard, associate professor of community justice and
social economic development at John
Jay College, City University of New York,
will discuss her book “Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice.”
7 to 9 p.m. Free. Potter’s House, 1658
Columbia Road NW. 202-232-5483.
■ Communications expert and facilitator Maura Policelli will lead a meeting
of the Tenleytown Memoir & Essay Writing Club. 7 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship
Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202727-1488. The club will meet again May
19.
■ In celebration of Asian Pacific
American Heritage Month, Leta HongFincher will discuss “Chinese Spoken
Language Is Easier Than You Think!” 7
p.m. Free. Chevy Chase Library, 5625
Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-0021.
■ Chris Anderson will discuss his
book “TED Talks: The Official TED Guide
to Public Speaking,” about everything
from how to craft your talk’s content to
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p.m. $18 to $30. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487.
■ The Bowen Center for the Study of
the Family will present a talk on “Why
Bishops Only Move Diagonally: Systems
Leadership Lessons From the Church”
by the Rt. Rev. Stacy F. Sauls, bishop
and chief operating officer of the Episcopal Church in New York. 7:30 p.m. Free.
Bowen Center for the Study of the Family, 4400 MacArthur Blvd. NW. 202-9654400.
Films
■ The Avalon Theatre’s three-day
Hitchcock/Truffaut Film Festival will kick
off with screenings of Alfred Hitchcock’s
movies “Rear Window,” at 3 p.m.; “The
39 Steps,” at 5:30 p.m.; and “Notorious,” at 7:45 p.m. $6.75 to $12 per
screening. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.
■ The Smithsonian Associates will
present “Marvel Men: Directors Joe and
Anthony Russo on Bringing ‘Captain
America’ to the Screen,” featuring a talk
by the filmmakers on their experience in
translating the adventures of the iconic
superhero from the page to the screen.
The program will include film clips. 6:45
to 8:15 p.m. $25 to $35. Theater of the
Arts, University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202633-3030.
■ In honor of Victory in Europe Day,
the Embassy of France will present the
premiere of “After Hitler,” a look back at
the aftermath of World War II. A postscreening discussion will feature U.S.
Army Col. Walter M. Hudson, a military
and Cold War historian, and Stephen
Harding, editor of Military History magazine. 7 p.m. Free; reservations required.
Embassy of France, 4101 Reservoir
Road NW. frenchculture.org/events.
■ Teatro de la Luna will show a video
of “Amor Al Aire Libre (Love in the Open
Air)” by Argentine playwright Carlos Pais,
presented as part of a showcase of its
best stage performances over the last
25 years. 7 p.m. Free. Casa de la Luna,
4020 Georgia Ave. NW. 202-882-6227.
■ The Italian Cultural Institute will
present Mauro Caputo’s 2014 film
“L’Orologio di Monaco,” about a central
European family whose ranks include
the names of some of the leading historical figures of the last two centuries. 7
p.m. Free; reservations required. Auditorium, Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St. NW. www.iicwashington.esteri.it.
Special events
■ Ann Mashburn Georgetown will
host a trunk show featuring spring items
from New York-based jewelry designers
Elizabeth and Kathryn Fortunato. 10
a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Free admission. Ann
Mashburn Georgetown, 3251 Prospect
St. NW. 202-864-0367.
■ This month’s “Phillips After 5”
installment — “Saving Nature” — will feature “Captain Planet” episodes, fare
from Shake Shack, music from BAND
and a chance to design your own vision
with recycled plastic balls from Dupont
Underground’s “ReBall!” exhibit. 5 to
8:30 p.m. $10 to $12; reservations suggested. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St.
NW. phillipscollection.org/events.
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Concerts
■ The Friday Morning Music Club will
National Gallery exhibit highlights benefactor
“In Celebration of Paul Mellon,” marking the 75th
anniversary of the National Gallery of Art by presenting 88 of the finest pastels, watercolors, drawings, prints and illustrated books selected from the
On exhibit
donations of one of the gallery’s leading benefactors, will open Sunday and continue through Sept.
18.
Located at 4th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW, the gallery is open Monday through Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to
6 p.m. 202-737-4215.
■ The Foundry Gallery will open an exhibit
Wednesday of new paintings by Kathryn Wiley that
reveal a new lightness, assurance and freedom in
her first solo show since 2013. An opening reception
will take place Saturday from 5 to 8 p.m., and the
show will continue through May 29.
Located at 2118 8th St. NW, the gallery is open
Wednesday through Sunday from 1 to 7 p.m. 202232-0203.
■ Touchstone Gallery is celebrating 40 years by
opening three shows Wednesday and continuing
them through May 29. A gala reception will take
place May 13 from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
A 40th anniversary All Member Artists Show,
including work by former members, will be held in
Gallery A.
“Do I Know You?,” presenting part of Paula
Lantz’s ongoing theme of boldly painted and collaged
present works by Schubert, Spohr and
Brahms. Noon. Free. Calvary Baptist
Church, 755 8th St. NW. 202-333-2075.
■ The Friday Noon Concert series will
feature the Opera Studio performing
works by Britten, Massenet and Rossini.
Noon. Free. Arts Club of Washington,
2017 I St. NW. 202-331-7282.
■ The Washington International
School Jazz Band will perform an outdoor concert. Noon to 12:45 p.m. Free.
Guy Mason Recreation Center, 3600
Calvert St. NW. 202-727-7703.
■ Performers Soumya Chakraverty
and Devapriya Nayak will present “Traditional Hindustani Music From Virginia.”
Noon. Free. Whittall Pavilion, Jefferson
Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St.
SE. loc.gov/concerts.
■ Willem Hörmann of Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, will present an
organ recital. 12:15 p.m. Free. National
City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle
NW. 202-797-0103.
■ The Mack Avenue SuperBand —
featuring National Endowment for the
Arts Jazz Master Gary Burton and bassist Christian McBride — will perform. 7
p.m. $30. Terrace Theater, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ As part of the
Embassy Series, cellist Edgar Moreau
(shown) and pianist
Jessica Osborne will
perform works by
Bach, Franck,
Schnittke and Chopin. 7:30 p.m. $150. Belmont Mansion,
1618 New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202625-2361.
■ Guitarist Paul Doffing will perform.
8 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge,
3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ “Shorts and Boots Party” will feature Yarn, the Will Overman Band and
Mountain Ride. 8 p.m. $14 to $16.
Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW.
abstracted figures, will be mounted in Gallery B.
“A Few of My Favorite Things,” featuring all-new
work completed by Colleen Sabo within the last two
years in oils, will be held in Gallery C.
Located at 901 New York Ave. NW, the gallery is
open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6
p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m.
202-347-2787.
■ “Paysage Exposé, Paysage Figurant,” featuring
paintings by the Cuban-born French-national Rafael
Torres Correa in partnership with the Cultural Service of the Embassy of France, will open tomorrow at
Cross MacKenzie Gallery and continue through
June 1. An opening reception will take place Friday
from 6 to 8 p.m. There will also be an exhibit of new
ceramics by Virginia Pates, concurrently.
Located at 1675 Wisconsin Ave. NW, the gallery
is open Wednesday through Sunday from noon to 5
p.m. 202-333-7970.
■ “100 Canvases for 100 Years,” the Arts Club of
Washington’s centennial fundraiser, will take place
Friday from 6 to 8:30 p.m. There will be a preview at
6 p.m.; from 6:30 to 7 p.m., all works will be priced
at $250; from 7 to 7:30 p.m., all works will be priced
at $175; and from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m., all works will
be priced at $100.
The club will also feature two exhibits in its
MacFeely and Monroe galleries from May 6 through
May 28: Sandra Gobar’s “Coded Marks in the Geographic Landscape” explores connections between
natural and constructed systems, and “Centennial:
The Beginnings” continues the club’s 100-year celebration with a display of rarely seen pieces from its
Winslow Homer’s “Boys Wading,” an 1873
watercolor and gouache from the collection
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, is part of the
National Gallery of Art’s new exhibit.
archive. A reception for the shows will take place Friday from 6 to 8:30 p.m.
Also, the club’s Spilsbury Gallery will concomitantly show mixed-media pieces by Martine KhadrVan Schoote and other artists.
Located at 2017 I St. NW, the gallery is open
Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. 202-331-7282.
■ Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith
Center for Healing and the Arts will present a closing
reception for “Alchemical Vessels 2016” Friday from
7 to 9 p.m. The show features 123 new and emerging artists selected by 15 curators finding inspiration
from a simple cigar box.
Located at 1632 U St. NW, the gallery is open
Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. 202-483-8600.
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14th streets NW. s.si.edu/CookHistory.
Demonstration
■ In honor of Asian Pacific American
Heritage Month, Wegmans chef Kevin
Lee will present “The American Story of
Sushi,” a hands-on demonstration. 2
p.m. Free. Demonstration Kitchen,
Coulter Performance Plaza, National
Museum of American History,
Constitution Avenue between 12th and
■ Paul Dover, associate professor of
history at Kennesaw State University,
will discuss “The Reign of Paper: Information in the Early Modern Age.” Noon.
Free; reservations suggested. Folger
Shakespeare Library, 201 East Capitol
St. SE. folger.edu.
■ Speaker, author and garden
designer Kerry Ann Mendez will discuss
“The Gardening ‘Easy Button,’” about
stress-reducing, time-saving strategies
for low-maintenance, high-impact perennial gardens. Noon to 1 p.m. Free; reservations required. Conservatory Classroom, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.
■ Fouad Moughrabi, professor
emeritus of political science at the
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will discuss “Palestinian Education for
the 21st Century.” 12:30 to 2 p.m. Free;
reservations required. The Palestine
Center, 2425 Virginia Ave. NW.
thejerusalemfund.org.
■ Baltimore crime novelist Laura
Lippman will discuss her latest book
“Wilde Lake,” which tells of the prosecution by the first woman state’s attorney
in Howard County, Md., of a drifter who
beat a woman to death, which triggers
the prosecutor’s memories of a death in
her own past. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.
■ Mark Wilkerson will discuss his
book “Tomas Young’s War,” about a paralyzed Iraq War veteran who spent his
last 10 years battling heroically with his
injuries, while speaking against America’s wars. Joining the conversation will
be Martha Raddatz, chief global affairs
correspondent for ABC News and author
of “The Long Road Home,” about the
day Young was injured. 7 to 9 p.m. Free.
Potter’s House, 1658 Columbia Road
NW. 202-232-5483.
Performances and readings
■ The Millennium Stage will host a
preview of the Funk Parade, a D.C. day
fair, music festival and parade taking
place Saturday along the U Street Corridor in celebration of the city’s cultural
past and current artistic community. 6
p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Deal Middle School students will
present a production
of the Broadway
musical “Bye Bye
Birdie,” featuring 150
students from grades
6 to 8. 6:30 p.m. $5
to $10. Auditorium,
Deal Middle School,
3815 Fort Drive NW. alicedeal.org. The
performance will repeat Saturday at 2
and 6:30 p.m.
■ The music and spoken word series
Liner Notes will present “Worldwide
Underground,” featuring Paige Hernandez, Akua Allrich, Baye Harrell and Kris
Funn’s Corner Store Jazz Quintet. 8 p.m.
$22. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333
H St. NE. atlasarts.org. The performance
will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m.
■ Comedian Dylan Meyer will perform as part of the Sublime Stand-Up
Comedy Series. 8 p.m. $10 to $15. Hill
Center at the Old Naval Hospital, 921
Pennsylvania Ave. SE. hillcenterdc.org.
Festival
■ The Washington National Cathedral will host its 77th annual Flower
Mart spring festival, featuring music, floral and art displays, vendors, children’s
games and food. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free
admission. Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. 202-537-2228. The event will
continue Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Films
Hitchcock/Truffaut Film Festival will feature screenings of Alfred Hitchcock’s
movies “North by Northwest,” at 12:15
p.m.; “Notorious,” at 3:15 p.m.; “Rope,”
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■ The Embassy of Switzerland will
host a benefit for Hospitality and Information Service for Diplomats (THIS for
Diplomats), featuring dancing, a silent
auction, live music, hors d’oeuvres and
wine. Proceeds will benefit the group’s
mission of citizen diplomacy. 7:30 to
11:30 p.m. $125. Residence of the
Ambassador of Switzerland, 2900
Cathedral Ave. NW. thisfordiplomats.org.
Sporting event
■ The Washington Mystics will play
the Indiana Fever in a preseason matchup. 11:30 a.m. $9 to $150. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.
Tours
■ In honor of National Public Gardens Day, Tudor Place will offer free garden visits and tours, as well as its annual garden sale. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., with
guided tours offered at 11 a.m., 1 p.m.
and 3 p.m. Free. Tudor Place Historic
House and Garden, 1644 31st St. NW.
tudorplace.org.
■ U.S. Botanic Garden curator Bill
McLaughlin will lead a National Public
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and environmentally friendly, forwardthinking approach to gardening. 10:30
to 11:30 a.m. Free; reservations
required. Meet by the entrance to the
National Garden on the Conservatory
Terrace, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.
■ A curator’s tour of Dumbarton
Oaks’ “75 Years/Objects: Revealing”
exhibition will focus primarily on works
of art that have a built-in, concealed
interior that is not visible at first glance.
3 p.m. Free. Dumbarton Oaks Research
Library and Collection, 1703 32nd St.
NW. doaks.org. The tour will repeat May
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Children’s programs
■ Playworks will hold a “Rally for
Recess 2016,” featuring a day of games
and healthy food to promote recess. The
event will include a jump rope giveaway
and demonstration, speakers, birthday
cake, a DJ, games, parent training, DC
Central Kitchen tasting stations, and a
healthy food demonstration by a chef for
the Washington Capitals and Washington Wizards. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Free;
complimentary Play Pack available with
registration. J.O. Wilson Elementary
School, 660 K St. NE. 202-882-0097.
■ Arts on the Horizon will present
“Blossom’s Rainbow,” a nonverbal theater piece celebrating Japanese culture
and incorporating dance, vibrant colors
and dynamic music to tell the tale of
Blossom’s journey from the red mountains to the indigo city (for ages 2 to 5).
6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy
Center. 202-467-4600
■ Lorella Brocklesby, adjunct professor of humanities at New York University’s School of Professional Studies, will
lead a class on “Enduring Splendors:
Four Historic English Cities,” about York,
Oxford, Cambridge and Bath. 9:30 a.m.
to 4:15 p.m. $90 to $140. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW.
202-633-3030.
■ Drew Asbury, Hillwood’s greenhouse and cutting garden grower, will
lead a workshop on how to make a
moss-lined hanging basket. 10 a.m. to
noon and 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. $55 to $65.
Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens,
4155 Linnean Ave. NW. 202-686-5807.
Concerts
■ Washington Performing Arts will
present a concert by pianist Yury
Shadrin and Tian Lu conceived as a
“journey,” progressing from solo piano to
four-hand piano to two pianos. 2 p.m.
$48. Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center.
202-467-4600.
■ The Adams Morgan Summer Concert Series will kick off with a concert by
Boat Burning. 5 to 7 p.m. Free. Corner
of 18th Street and Columbia Road NW.
202-997-0783.
■ The 18th Street Singers will present “Unexpected Journeys:
New Rhythms
From New
Composers,”
featuring an
exploration of
new rhythms and innovative melodies by
21st-century composers. 7:30 to 9:30
p.m. $20; free for students. National
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■ Performance: “Make Someone
Happy: A 60’s Cocktail Party” — a
musical glimpse into the era of the
cocktail party, a time of social
refinement, artful conversation
and masterful flirtation — will feature performers Erik Altemus, Nova
Payton, Nicholas Rodriguez
(shown) and Hayley Travers. 8 p.m.
$35 to $65. Lisner Auditorium,
George Washington University, 730
21st St. NW. 202-994-6800.
City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle
NW. 18thstreetsingers.com.
■ Paul Santori’s Random Opponent
will perform, at 8 p.m.; and Olivia Millerschin will perform, at 10:30 p.m. Free.
Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St.
NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ Hot Buttered Rum and the Herd of
Main Street will perform. 9 p.m. $15 to
$18. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
■ The Civil War Roundtable will feature a talk by Martin T. Jones on people
of color and Southern whites loyal to the
Union who opposed the Confederacy in
words, subterfuge and combat from
North Carolina to Texas. 9:30 a.m. Free.
Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover
Road NW. 202-895-6070.
■ “Rug and Textile Appreciation
Mornings” will feature a talk on prayer
rugs by Jeff Spurr, scholar of Islamic textiles and rugs. 10:30 a.m. to noon. Free.
George Washington University Museum
and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW.
202-994-5200.
■ Anne McLean of the Library of
Congress will offer a close-up view of
Johann Christoph Heckel’s 1815 portrait
of the composer Ludwig van Beethoven
and discuss other Beethoven artifacts in
the library’s collection, including a lock
of his hair. 11 a.m. Free; tickets
required. Whittall Pavilion, Jefferson
Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St.
SE. loc.gov/concerts.
■ Historian Richard Zacks will discuss his book “Chasing the Last Laugh:
Mark Twain’s Raucous and Redemptive
Round-the-World Comedy Tour,” which
recounts a little-known chapter of the
humorist’s later years when he was
bankrupt and embarked on a five-year
lecture tour to India, Australia and the
American West to remake his fortune. 1
p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Author Donna Urbikas will discuss
her book “My Sister’s Mother,” an
account of her mother’s nightmare of
deportation and starvation in Siberia
during World War II, and her struggles
as a Polish immigrant to build a new life
in America. 4 p.m. Free. The Kosciuszko
Foundation, 2025 O St. NW. 202-7852320.
■ Actress Diane Guerrero, star of
such hit shows as “Orange Is the New
Black” and “Jane the Virgin,” will discuss her memoir “In the Country We
Love: My Family Divided,” which tells
how she was left alone at 14 when her
undocumented immigrant parents and
brother were arrested and deported,
and how she finished school and managed to escape the fear and hardship
facing the undocumented in the U.S. 6
p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
Festivals and family programs
■ Cultural Tourism DC will present
the “Around the World Embassy Tour,”
featuring open houses, entertainment
and cultural programs at about 40
embassies. Activities will focus on the
food, art, dance, fashion and music of
participating countries. 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. Free admission. culturaltourismdc.
org.
■ The Heurich House Museum will
present “Frühlingsfest,” a spring family
celebration featuring a maypole, garden
games, a scavenger hunt and more. 11
a.m. to 2 p.m. $2 to $5. Heurich House
Museum, 1307 New Hampshire Ave.
NW. heurichhouse.org.
■ “Korea Day: A Family Festival” will
feature hands-on art activities, a musical performance, tae kwan do demonstrations, storybook readings, trunk
shows and food trucks. 11 a.m. to 4
p.m. Free. Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,
1050 Independence Ave. SW. 202-6331000.
■ The National Portrait Gallery and
the Ivymount School will host a “Perspectives” family day with opportunities
for attendees to create their own portraits and dance to the lively tunes of
Sean Lane and Bay Jazz Project. 11:30
a.m. to 3 p.m. Free. National Portrait
Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. 202-6331000.
■ The Armed Forces Retirement
Home will hold its fourth annual Spring
Fling, featuring live music, food trucks,
beer and sodas, a nature walk, face
painting and ballet dancers. Noon to 5
p.m. Free; parking available for $10
donation. Lower grounds of the Armed
Forces Retirement Home, Rock Creek
Church Road and Randolph Street NW.
friendsofsoldiers.org.
■ As part of the Funk Parade’s daylong celebration of the spirit and soul of
U Street, an afternoon street fair will
feature music, performances, art displays and workshops. Noon to 7 p.m.
Free. Various sites along and near U
Street NW. funkparade.com. A participatory parade from 4 to 5 p.m. will begin
near 7th and T streets NW and proceed
to 13th and U streets NW; a music festival from 7 to 10 p.m. will feature free
shows in various neighborhood venues;
and official Funk Parade after-parties
will start at 10 p.m. at Black Cat Backstage and Tropicalia.
Films
Hitchcock/Truffaut Film Festival will feature screenings of the directors’ movies
“The 39 Steps,” at 12:30 p.m.; “Jules &
Jim,” at 2:30 p.m.; “North by Northwest,” at 5 p.m.; and “Rear Window,” at
8 p.m. $6.75 to $12. Avalon Theatre,
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■ The National Gallery of Art will
screen director Jacques Rivette’s film
“Paris Belongs to Us/Paris Nous Appartient,” a 1961 work that follows entanglements among a group of actors in
bohemian Paris. 2:30 p.m. Free. East
Building Auditorium, National Gallery of
Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW. 202-842-6799.
■ Local poet Edna Small will read
from her recently published collection
“Listening Still” at a book signing and
reception. 2 to 4 p.m. Free. Georgetown
Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.
■ This year’s graduates of American
University’s Master of Fine Arts program
in creative writing will read their poetry
and fiction. 3:30 p.m. Free. Politics and
Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.
■ The Church of the Holy City will
present “A Mother’s Day Celebration,”
featuring a recital of poetry and music
dedicated to motherhood, under the
baton of Dimitar Naumoff. 6:30 p.m.
$10 donation suggested. Church of the
Holy City, 1611 16th St. NW. 202-4626734.
■ Joy of Motion Dance Center’s hiphop and street dance youth program
H.Y.P.E. will present an evening-length
concert. 8 p.m. $20 to $25. Greenberg
Theatre, American University, 4200 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-885-2587.
■ Glade Dance Collective will perform a contemporary mixed bill featuring
new work and live music. 8 p.m. $15 to
$30. Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE.
202-269-2600. The performance will
repeat Sunday at 7 p.m.
Special events
■ The annual Georgetown Garden
Tour will feature various private gardens,
including one with a large pond full of
koi and another that offers handicap
access with a special lift for the pool
and soft walkways made of shredded
tires. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. $40. Keith Hall,
Christ Church, Georgetown, 3116 O St.
NW. georgetowngardentour.com.
■ D.C.’s inaugural Blessing of Bicycles will help kick off National Bike
Month with a non-denominational event
that also will feature speakers from bicycle organizations, the National Museum
of Women in the Arts and the D.C.
Department of Transportation. 11 a.m.
Free. Church of the Ascension & St.
Agnes, 1217 Massachusetts Ave. NW.
dcbicycleblessing.org.
■ The National Building Museum will
host a Montgomery C. Meigs 200th
Birthday Party in honor of the historic
Pension Building’s architect and engineer, who was the Union Army’s quartermaster general in charge of provisions
during the Civil War. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Pension
Commissioner’s Suite, National Building
Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202-272-2448.
■ The National Capital Astronomers
Association will present “Exploring the
Sky,” featuring a night of stargazing
through the lens of a telescope. 9 p.m.
Free. Military Field near the Picnic Grove
13 parking lot, Glover Road near Military
Road NW. 202-895-6070.
Tours and walks
■ “Beatrix Farrand’s Masterpiece: A
Tour of Dumbarton Oaks Park” will feature a look at the landscape architect’s
signature on the land. 10 a.m. Free.
Meet at the top of Lover’s Lane near
31st and R streets NW. 202-895-6227.
■ Washington Walks “Get Local!”
series will explore the historic Dupont
Circle neighborhood. 11 a.m. $15 to
$20. Meet outside the Dupont South
exit to the Dupont Circle Metro station.
Washingtonwalks.com.
■ “Seasonal Stroll From Peirce Mill”
will feature a 2.5-mile hike to Pulpit
Rock and Boulder Bridge and back. 2
p.m. Free. Peirce Mill, Tilden Street and
Beach Drive NW. 202-895-6070.
■ A park ranger will lead a tour of
the Old Stone House and explore the
influence of women on the house since
Colonial days. 2 p.m. Free. Old Stone
House, 3051 M St. NW. 202-895-6070.
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■ A park ranger will lead a planetarium program about “Animals of the Night
Sky” (for ages 5 and older). 1 p.m. Free.
Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover
Road NW. 202-895-6070.
■ A drop-in Mother’s Day program for
children will explore how to design and
plant a cook’s garden, with tips on preparing two recipes from nutritionist and
cooking instructor Danielle Cook. 1:30
to 3:30 p.m. Free. Conservatory West
Gallery, U.S. Botanic Garden, 100 Maryland Ave. SW. 202-225-8333.
Concerts
■ The Marine Latin Jazz Ensemble
will perform an array of Latin jazz styles,
including selections by Chick Corea,
Michel Camilo, Tito Puente, Oscar Hernandez, Consuelo Velázquez, Airto
Moreira, Paquito D’Rivera, Wayne Wallace and Heraclio Fernandez. 2 p.m.
Free. John Philip Sousa Band Hall,
Marine Barracks Annex, 7th and K
streets SE. 202-433-4011.
■ The Kennedy Center Chamber
Players will perform works by Takemitsu,
Hindemith, Ravel, Villa-Lobos, Bartók
and Fauré. 2 p.m. $36. Terrace Theater,
Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ The Steinway Series will feature
the Mendelssohn Piano
Trio completing their
three-part
cycle of
Beethoven
piano trios. 3 p.m. Free. McEvoy Auditorium, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and G streets NW. 202-6331000.
■ The Grammy-nominated Metropolis
Ensemble will present the premiere of
its site-specific project “Brownstone.” 4
p.m. $15 to $30; reservations suggested. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St.
NW. phillipscollection.org/music.
■ The Capital City Symphony and violinist Lara Boschkor, winner of the
Johansen International Competition for
Young String Players, will present “Great
Masters, Young Stars,” featuring works
by Brahms and Beethoven. 5 p.m. $15
to $25. Atlas Performing Arts Center,
1333 H St. NE. atlasarts.org.
■ Guest organist Benjamin LaPrairie
of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception will perform a recital.
5:15 p.m. $10 donation suggested.
Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW.
cathedral.org.
■ The McLean Youth Orchestra will
present a concert version of Mozart’s
opera “Don Giovanni,” featuring soloists
Mandy Brown, Elizabeth Mondragon, Jeffrey Gates and Patrick Kilbride, and
accompanied by original narration by
dramaturg Robin Phillips. 6 p.m. Free.
■ The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC will commemorate its 35th anniversary with “Carmina 35,” in which the
chorus will partner with New York’s Gallim Dance and 40 members of the New
York City Master Chorale to perform Carl
Orff’s canonical “Carmina Burana,” featuring soprano Paige Cutrona, tenor
Robert Baker and baritone Young Kwang
Yoo. 8 p.m. $25 to $81. Concert Hall,
■ Tina Tchen, chief of staff to first
lady Michelle Obama, will discuss the
upcoming White
House summit on
“The United State of
Women” and efforts
to advance women’s
health, economic and
educational opportunities and other key
gender equality issues. 10:10 a.m. Free.
Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW.
cathedral.org.
■ Molly Sinclair McCartney, widow of
senior Knight Ridder national security
reporter James McCartney and a former
Washington Post reporter herself, will
discuss her husband’s analysis of the
American military, “America’s War
Machine: Vested Interests, Endless Conflicts,” a manuscript she completed and
published after his death. 1 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Vidya Dehejia, professor of Indian
art at Columbia University, will discuss
“Worship in Uncertain Times: The Secret
Burial of Bronzes in 1310,” as part of
the series “The Thief Who Stole My
Heart: The Material Life of Sacred Bronzes in Chola, India, c. 850-1280.” 2 p.m.
Free. East Building Auditorium, National
Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-737-4215. A
screening of the lecture will be present-
whose films used parable, irony, satire,
comedy and melodrama to illuminate
Africa’s problems. 4 p.m. Free. East
Building Auditorium, National Gallery of
Art, 4th Street and Constitution Avenue
NW. 202-842-6799.
Sunday, may 8
■ Concert: Jazz artist and composer Oran Etkin will present “Reimagining Benny Goodman.” 3 and
4:15 p.m. Free. West Garden
Court, National Gallery of Art,
National Gallery of Art, 6th Street
and Constitution Avenue NW. 202737-4215.
ed Wednesday at noon in the East Building Auditorium.
■ Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative
reporter Seymour M. Hersh will discuss
his book “The Killing of Osama bin
Laden,” which questions the official
story behind the Abbottabad SEALS mission and the circumstances of bin Laden’s assassination, as well as the U.S.
role in Syria’s unrest. 5 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave.
NW. 202-364-1919.
■ In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, British author Wendy Holden will discuss her book “Born Survivors:
Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and
Hope,” joined by Hana Berger Moran, Dr.
Mark Olsky and Eva Clarke, the three
children whose mothers defied the
Nazis in order to give them life. 5 p.m.
$8 to $24. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue,
600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487.
Film
■ The National Gallery of Art film
series “The Vision of Ousmane Sembène” will feature the Washington premiere of “Sembéne!,” a new documentary about acclaimed Senegalese novelist
and filmmaker Ousmane Sembéne,
Special events
■ The Sheridan School will host its
first-ever Sheridan Irrational 5.8k Run in
Rock Creek Park to raise funds for
Friendship Place’s programs for people
in the city who are homeless or at risk
for homelessness. 8 a.m. $20 per person; $60 per person. Advance registration required. William H.G. FitzGerald
Tennis Center, 16th and Kennedy streets
NW. sheridanschool.org/mathrun.
■ “The Genius of Hitchcock,” the
Avalon Theatre’s 2016 benefit, will feature a screening of the 2015 documentary “Hitchcock/Truffaut,” followed by a
conversation between director Kent
Jones and film critic Arch Campbell on
why Alfred Hitchcock continues to captivate audiences and filmmakers around
the world. Hors d’oeuvres reception at 5
p.m.; screening and discussion at 7 p.m.
$250; $50 for screening and discussion
only. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-966-6000.
Sporting event
■ D.C. United will play New York City
FC. 7:30 p.m. $20 to $200. RFK Stadium, 2400 East Capitol St. SE. 800-7453000.
Monday, May 9
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Concerts
■ The award-winning Woodrow Wilson High School Vocal Music Program
will perform a varied repertoire of music
directed by Lori Williams. The performance will feature the school’s concert
choir, women’s choir, vocal jazz ensemble and The Wilson Singers. 6 p.m. Free.
■ Distant Cousins and Jonny Grave
will perform. 8 p.m. $15 to $17. Sixth &
I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877987-6487.
■ Attorney Mark Griffin will discuss
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■ Magda González, curator of “Elsa
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West Building Lecture Hall, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Constitution
Avenue NW. 202-737-4215
■ Issa Amro, coordinator of Youth
Against Settlements, will discuss
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of Hebron and Beyond.” 12:30 to 2 p.m.
Free; reservations required. The
Palestine Center, 2425 Virginia Ave. NW.
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■ Author Beth Hahn will discuss her
book “The Singing Bone,” a literary thriller about the imminent parole of a convicted killer and a woman forced to confront the nightmarish past she spent 20
years escaping. 6:30 p.m. Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords, 1517 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-387-1400.
■ “Behind the Science With Joe
Palca: Insights from Scientific Innovators” will feature the
NPR science correspondent discussing
“Climate and Weather” with Kathryn Sullivan (shown), administrator of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 6:45 to 8:15
p.m. $20 to $30. S. Dillon Ripley Center,
1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-6333030.
■ Politics and Prose will host three
veteran war reporters to discuss their
books and their work in Syria and
Afghanistan: Janine Di Giovanni, author
of “The Morning They Came For Us: Dispatches From Syria”; Christina Lamb,“
author of “Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan to a More Dangerous World”; and
Kim Barker, author of “The Taliban Shuffle,” on which the film “Whiskey Tango
Foxtrot” is based. 7 p.m. $5 to $10.
Sidwell Friends School, 3825 Wisconsin
Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ Pulitzer Prize-winning author Rich-
ard Russo, whose stories of down-at-theheel upstate New York towns combine
compassion and humor, will discuss his
ninth novel “Everybody’s Fool,” about a
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NW. 202-364-1919.
■ The National Endowment for the
Humanities will present the 45th annual
Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities,
featuring filmmaker Ken Burns. 7:30
p.m. Free; reservations required.
Concert Hall, Kennedy Center.
[email protected].
Film
■ The National Archives will host a
screening of the new documentary “Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second
Inaugural,” featuring historical analysis
after a dramatic reading by actor Richard Dreyfuss. A post-screening Q&A will
feature filmmaker Ken Kebow and
author Ronald C. White Jr. 7 p.m. Free.
McGowan Theater, National Archives
Building, Constitution Avenue between
7th and 9th streets NW. 202-357-5000.
■ As part of the O.B. Hardison Poetry
series, a Folger Poetry Board reading
will feature Sir Andrew Motion, author of
“Peace Talks” and 11 other books of
poetry and co-director of the Poetry
Archive (UK). 7:30 p.m. $15. Folger Theatre, Folger Shakespeare Library, 201
East Capitol St. SE. folger.edu.
■ Laugh Index Theatre will present
“Improv Wars,” a friendly competition
among area improv troupes with audience members voting for the winners.
7:30 p.m. $8 to $10. DC Arts Center,
2438 18th Street NW. 202-462-7833.
Special events
■ A panel discussion on collaboration brewing and historical styles of beer
will feature Jonathan Reeves, head
brewer for Port City Brewing Co., and
Stephen Hale, ambassador brewer for
Schlafly, The Saint Louis Brewery. The
event will include tastings of Port City
and Schlafly beers. 6 to 8:30 p.m. $25.
Heurich House Museum, 1307 New
Hampshire Ave. NW. heurichhouse.org.
■ Petworth Citizen and Upshur Street
Books will host a look at the history of
America’s cocktails, featuring a talk and
tasting with David Wondrich, author of
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$6.27 to $27.37. Third floor, 4200 9th
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St. NW. petworthcitizen.com.
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the Detroit Tigers. 7:05 p.m. $10 to
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continue Tuesday and Wednesday at
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Delacre will discuss her book “Olinguito,
de la A a la Z!,” which celebrates the
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a Smithsonian zoologist (for ages 7
through 10). 10:30 a.m. Free. Politics
and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.
202-364-1919.
■ Children’s author Deborah Kalb
will present the story from her book
“The President and Me: George Washington and the Magic Hat,” about a boy
who loses out on the role of George
Washington in the school play but finds
a magic hat in Mount Vernon’s gift shop
that helps him navigate the difficulties
of fifth grade (for ages 9 through 12). 7
p.m. Free. Children & Teens Department, Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
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■ Resident sommelier Vicki Reh will
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Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. 202-3472635.
■ Students of the DC Youth Orchestra’s chamber music program will join
the DC Youth Orchestra’s Children’s
Orchestra and Washington Performing
Arts’ Capitol Strings Students for a collaboration featuring works by Telemann,
Mozart and Haydn. 6 p.m. Free; tickets
distributed in the States Gallery a half
hour before the performance. Terrace
Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.
■ Washington Performing Arts will
present a concert by violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Emanuel Ax featuring
works by Mozart, Fauré and Strauss. 7
p.m. $55 to $135. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.
■ Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge will host
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Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St.
NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ The Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington and the
Washington National Eye Center at MedStar Washington Hospital Center will
present “Blurred Vision: Common and
Uncommon Causes,” featuring Dr. Zoey
Stoumbos, an ophthalmology resident at
MedStar Washington Hospital Center.
11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Free; registration
required. Suite 1A-19, Eye Center, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, 110
Irving St. NW. 202-877-6159.
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gress will discuss “The Place of Music in
a German Renaissance Liberal-Arts Education.” Noon. Free; reservations suggested. Whittall Pavilion, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE.
loc.gov/concerts.
■ Anne McDonough, library and collections director at the Historical Society
of Washington, D.C., and Jane Freundel
Levey, managing editor of Washington
History and curator of the exhibit “For
the Record: The Art of Lily Spandorf,”
will present a hands-on look at Spandorf’s archives and selected additional
works from her “Washington Never
More” collection. Noon to 1 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Carnegie Library,
801 K St. NW. dchistory.org.
■ As part of a spring advocacy “Take
Charge and Live Well in DC” series, Iona
Senior Services will present a seminar
on “Constituent Services: Who Do You
Call?” Speakers will include Jackie Blumenthal, chair of Advisory Neighborhood
Commission 3B; Dee Smith, director of
constituent services and deputy chief of
staff to Ward 3 D.C. Council member
Mary Cheh; Anthony Cassillo, deputy
director of constituent services for Cheh;
and Michael Matthews, Ward 3 liaison
for the Mayor’s Office of Community
Relations & Services. 2 to 4 p.m. Free;
reservations requested. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
202-895-9448.
■ As part of a series on “Sustaining
the Political Revolution,” the Institute for
Policy Studies will hold a discussion on
“Demilitarization, Disarmament, Drugs
and Diplomacy of the Decade,” examining how to pursue peaceful internationalism and challenge current U.S. policies
regarding terrorism and drugs. 4 to 6
p.m. Free; reservations required. Institute for Policy Studies, Suite 600, 1301
■ Glover Park Village and the
Georgetown Library will present a talk by
author Earl P. Williams Jr. on “The Stars
& Stripes: Little-Known Origins of the
U.S. Flag.” 6:30 p.m. Free; reservations
required. Georgetown Library, 3260 R
St. NW. 202-436-5545.
■ Randall B. Woods, professor of history at the University of Arkansas and
author of “Prisoners of Hope: Lyndon B.
Johnson, the Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism,” will discuss “LBJ’s
Great Society: Possibilities and Limits of
Visionary Politics.” 6:45 to 8:45 p.m.
$35 to $50. S. Dillon Ripley Center,
1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-6333030.
■ Susan Willens, professor emeritus
in English at George Washington University, and Virginia Newmyer, former lecturer at American University, will lead a discussion of Pat Barker’s “Regeneration”
to conclude a four-session course on
“World War I: A Literary Legacy.” 6:45 to
8:45 p.m. $30 to $45. S. Dillon Ripley
Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202633-3030.
■ Meg Jacobs, a research scholar at
Princeton’s Wilson Center and author of
“Pocketbook Politics,” will discuss her
book “Panic at the Pump: The Energy
Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s,” examining
the lasting political consequences of the
1973 Arab oil embargo and lessons
learned for avoiding similar crises in the
future. Joining Jacobs in conversation
will be Evan Thomas, author of “Being
Nixon.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose,
■ MacArthur “genius grant” recipient
Angela Duckworth, a professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, will discuss her book “Grit: The
Power of Passion and Perseverance.” 7
p.m. $16 to $30. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. 877-987-6487.
Film
■ The Martin Luther King Jr. Library
will host a screening of Prince’s iconic
1984 film “Purple Rain” in memory of
the seven-time Grammy winner. 6 p.m.
Free. Room A-5, Martin Luther King Jr.
Library, 901 G St. NW. 202-727-0321.
Performance
■ Story District will present its
monthly show, “Ugly Duckling: Stories
about drastic transformation.” 8 p.m.
$15. Town Danceboutique, 2009 8th St.
NW. storydistrict.org.
Wednesday, May 11
Wednesday
may 11
■ Instructor Alexis Chen will lead a
“Hatha Yoga” class. 10:30 a.m. Free.
Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.
■ Career coach Joan Sherman will
lead a job search and career workshop
on “Networking — Creating a Path to the
‘Right’ Job Destination.” 2 to 3:30 p.m.
Free; reservations required. TenleyFriendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave.
NW. [email protected].
Concerts
■ “An Afternoon of Music” will feature a performance by Adult Music Student Forum members Allan Reiter, Ilya
Rabinovich and Anne Williams. 2 p.m.
Free. Guy Mason Recreation Center,
3600 Calvert St. NW. 202-727-7703.
■ As part of the fourth annual European Month of Culture, “100 Years of
Classical Croatian Music” will feature
cellist Dorotea Racz, pianists Javor Bracic and Dmitry Samogray, flutist Ginevra
Petrucci, clarinetist Gleb Kanasevich,
violinist Lydia Chernikoff and guitarist
Yisak Lee. 6 p.m. Millennium Stage,
■ Singer-songwriter Stephen Spano
will perform. 7:30 p.m. Free. Gypsy
Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW.
gypsysallys.com.
■ Midnight Snack and Wylder will
perform. 8 p.m. $10 to $12. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.
■ Authors Ren and Helen Davis will
discuss their book “Landscapes for the
People: George Alexander Grant, First
Chief Photographer of the National Park
Service,” describing his mid-20th-century photographs and his love of America’s
preserved natural and historic places.
Noon. Free. McGowan Theater, National
Archives Building, Constitution Avenue
between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202357-5000.
■ National Museum of Women in the
Arts digital editorial assistant Emily
Haight will discuss selections from the
exhibition “Salon Style: French Portraits
From the Collection.” Noon to 12:30
p.m. Free. National Museum of Women
in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave. NW.
202-783-7370.
■ Nemata Blyden, associate professor of history and international affairs at
George Washington University, will discuss the history of African immigrants in
the United States beginning in the late
19th century. Noon to 1 p.m. Free.
202-994-5200.
■ “DC’s Historic Sites: Welcome to
Northeast,” a six-session lecture series,
will feature a talk by Kathleen Lane, a
visiting lecturer at Catholic University, on
“Historic Swampoodle” and her own
family’s deep roots within the neighborhood that provided a place for refuge for
Irish immigrants fleeing the Potato Famine. Noon to 1:30 p.m. $20 to $30. S.
Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson
Drive SW. 202-633-3030.
■ Author Patricia Engel will discuss
her book “The Veins of the Ocean,” a
novel set in Miami, the Florida Keys,
Cuba and Colombia that delivers a PanAmerican story of fractured lives finding
solace and redemption in the natural
world and in one another. 6:30 p.m.
Free. Kramerbooks & Afterwords, 1517
■ Ben Lindbergh, staff writer for
FiveThirtyEight and co-author of the
book “The Only Rule Is It Has to Work:
Our Wild Experiment Building a New
Kind of Baseball Team,” will discuss the
year he and co-author Sam Miller ran
operations for the independent minor
league Sonoma Stompers. Joining Lindbergh will be Barry Svrluga of The Washington Post. 6:30 p.m. Free. Cullen
Room, Busboys and Poets 5th & K,
1025 5th St. NW. 202-789-2227.
■ Neal Bascomb will discuss his
book “The Winter Fortress: The Epic Mission to Sabotage Hitler’s Atomic Bomb,”
about the daring and successful commando raid on Vemork, Norway, that
destroyed Hitler’s nuclear ambitions.
6:30 p.m. $8 to $10. International Spy
Museum, 800 F St. NW. 202-393-7798.
■ Historian Nathaniel Philbrick will
discuss his book “Valiant Ambition:
George Washington, Benedict Arnold,
and the Fate of the American Revolution,” which recounts the strained relationship of the two men. 7 p.m. Free.
Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut
Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.
■ David Miller, associate director for
academic programs at Georgetown University’s Pellegrino Center for Clinical
Bioethics, will discuss bioethics training
for health professionals. 7 p.m. Free.
Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW.
202-727-0233.
■ The Italian Cultural Institute will
present a talk by Laura Mattioli, founder
and president of the Center for Italian
Modern Art in New York City, on
“Unlocking Giorgio Morandi’s Mysteries:
A Personal Perspective.” 7 p.m. Free;
reservations required. Auditorium,
Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St.
NW. www.iicwashington.esteri.it.
Support group
■ PFLAG will host a monthly support
group for parents and friends of children
who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, queer and questioning. 7 to
9 p.m. Free. Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church, 3401 Nebraska
Ave. NW. [email protected].
Tour
■ American University will host a tour
of the campus grounds, designed originally by landscape architect Frederick
Law Olmsted Sr. and designated officially as an arboretum in 2004. 5 to 6 p.m.
Free; reservations required. Meet in the
lobby of the School of International Service Building, American University,
Nebraska and New Mexico avenues NW.
202-885-2167.
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