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“The Newspaper Whose Influence Far Exceeds Its Size” About the Cover: Kitty Kelley, author of “Oprah: A Biography” Photo by Tom Wolff
Vol. 57, No. 17
About our Publisher Sonya Bernhardt Editor at Large David Roffman Feature Editors Garrett Faulkner Gary Tischler Publisher’s Assistant Siobhan Catanzaro Contributors Andrew O’Neill Alexis Miller Jack Evans Jody Kurash Bill Starrels Linda Roth Jordan Wright Mary Bird Kathy Corrigall Claire Swift Ari Post Pam Burns John Blee Michelle Galler Jennifer Gray Lauretta McCoy Donna Evers
Garrett Faulkner (right) edits and reports for The Georgetowner and Downtowner, racing around the city in an effort to devour as much free press preview food as humanly possible. A recent graduate of Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and a native of Utah, he has no logical reason for ending up in Washington, but loves it anyway. Though he focuses primarily on Georgetown’s community news, his feature stories have covered everything from native wine grapes to fly fishing to Christmas flowers, imbuing him with a wide breadth of scattered knowledge and a fearsome aptitude for pub trivia contests. He detests semicolons.
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The Georgetowner is published every other Wednesday. The opinions of our writers and columnists do not necessarily reflect the editorial and corporate opinions of The Georgetowner newspaper. The Georgetowner accepts no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts or photographs and assumes no liability for products or services advertised herein. The Georgetowner reserves the right to edit, re-write, or refuse material and is not responsible for errors or omissions. Copyright, 2009.
6-7 — Education 2010 Summer Camp Guide
10-11 — Real Estate Mortgage Ask the Realtor Featured Property 12 — Feature Lessons from a Military Dad: A Memorial Day Rememberance 13-14 — Performance/Art Wrap Darrell Parsons (left) has been a realtor for 27 years, 25 as a real estate office manager, and 20 as the manager of the Georgetown Long & Foster office. He has worked through several real estate cycles, problem-solved with innumerable real estate transactions and supervised thousands of sales cases. One of his greatest pleasures is to share the knowledge he has acquired over these 27 years. Before entering the real estate business, he was a professional classical singer for 15 years here and in Europe, his most memorable time spent as a soloist with the Vienna State Opera. He still sings around the metro area, but more for the joy of it than the income!
Advertising Director Charlie Louis
4-5 — GT Observer
8-9 — Editorial/Opinion
contributors
Photographers Yvonne Taylor Tom Wolff Neshan Naltchayan Jeff Malet Malek Naz Freidouni Robert Devaney
contents
15 — Haute & Cool 16-17 — Cover Story Summer Must Reads 18-19 — In Country 22-23 — Food & Wine 24-25— Body & Soul 28 — Calendar
Jeff Malet (right) is a photojournalist. Pictures often can tell a story better than words. As a student he became proficient shooting sports for the University of Pennsylvania. He subsequently pursued a career as a money manager and international investment analyst, which took him (and his camera) literally everywhere, including a brief residence in Hong Kong. He recently moved to the D.C. area for family reasons, and to devote more time to photography, following politics and visiting museums. His work has appeared on the cover of The Georgetowner and Downtowner numerous times, along with countless photos appearing inside the papers. Jeff’s photographs are viewable online at www.maletphoto.com.
29-31 — Social Scene WPAS Gala Safeway’s Social Debut Lani Hay’s Mixology/ Book Party Newsbabes at the Ritz Make-A-Wish Tea Evening of Hope for Afghanistan
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