The Georgetowner August 10, 2016

VOLUME 62 NUMBER 21

S&R’S SOCIAL ENTERPRISE

Ha lcyon Creatives

Obama’s Georgetown Birthday More ANC Shake-Up Brent Glass on the New Industrial History Museum

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Ins & Outs Computerware: 40 Years Helping Businesses July Sales Featured Property Le Decor S&R Foundation’s Social Enterprise

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Sachiko Kuno, co-founder and CEO of S&R Foundation, Kate Goodall, COO of S&R Foundation, and Ryan Ross, program director of Halcyon Incubator, are in the library of the 18thcentury Federal mansion, Halcyon House, now a launch pad and nurturing space for innovators and creatives in Georgetown and the nation’s capital.

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Kalorama. Sophisticated condo w/3 BRs, one used as office, 2 redone BAs. LR w/floor to ceiling windows & gas frpl, DR easily seats 12. Large kit w/pantry and bar. Bright FR/sitting room w/built-ins. $1,225,000

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UP & COMING AUGUST 12 Jazz in the Garden

Paul Carr, a Houston native and 1985 Howard University graduate, has dedicated his professional career to mastering the tenor saxophone and the art of jazz. Free. For details, visit nga.gov. National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, Constitution Avenue and 7th Street NW.

AUGUST 13 Renaissance Music Talk at M Institute

Royal Academy of Music violinist Sophie Genevieve will speak on Renaissance-era music, with a reception to follow. Tickets are $25 and reservations are required. To reserve, visit m4arts.org. 1038 31st St. NW.

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AUGUST 14 Free Course: Introduction to Reading Music

The M Institute for the Arts is offering a free Sunday-evening introductory course on reading music, beginning Aug. 14. To register, visit m4arts.org. 1038 31st St. NW.

AUGUST 17 Sunset Fitness in the Park

The Georgetown Business Improvement District brings Core Power Yoga to George-

town Waterfront Park every Wednesday evening to lead a free outdoor yoga class. To register, visit georgetowndc.com. Georgetown Waterfront Park, Potomac Street and K/Water Street.

AUGUST 18 Streisand at Verizon

Legendary singer-actress Barbra Streisand will perform hits across the decades in addition to selections from her new album, “Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway.” Tickets are $193 to $513. For tickets, visit ticketmaster. com. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW.

AUGUST 19 to 21 African Diaspora International Film Festival

ArtMattan Films hosts an African Diaspora International Film Festival at George Washington University’s Marvin Center, featuring 18 award-winning fiction and documentary works, including “Destined” and “Stand

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Down Soldier.” Tickets are $11 to $35. For details, visit nyadiff.org. 800 21st St. NW.

AUGUST 20 Comedian Bob Saget at Warner Theatre

Best known from starring in “Full House” as Danny Tanner and later the host of America’s Funniest Home Videos, Bob Saget is also an acclaimed comedian. Tickets are $23 to $47.50. For tickets, visit concerts.livenation.com. 513 13th St. NW.

AUGUST 20 to 22 Comcast Xfinity Outdoor Film Festival

AUGUST 24 Daybreaker DC’s Swedish Invasion

This “morning love-invasion” of the Embassy of Sweden on the Georgetown waterfront includes yoga, a dance party with a Swedish DJ and live performances, plus coffee, juices and breakfast treats. Tickets are $20 to $35.

For details, visit daybreaker.com. House of Sweden, 2900 K St. NW.

AUGUST 26 Open House Sommerfest

All are invited to a summer party at GoetheInstitut’s new building near Foggy Bottom.

Guests can chat with staff and others interested in German culture and language and enjoy typical German drinks and food. Free.

For details, visit goethe.de. 1990 K St. NW.

AUGUST 27 Bonnie Raitt at Wolf Trap Free outdoor screenings will be held at Strathmore on three consecutive nights to benefit the National Institutes of Health Children’s Charities: “Jurassic World” (8/20), “Minions” (8/21) and “The Wizard of Oz” (8/22). Blankets, low-rise chairs and small coolers are welcome. Food from Ridgewells will be available for purchase. 10701 Rockville Pike, N. Bethesda, Maryland.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, popular for her heartfelt, bluesy hits, including “I Can’t Make You Love Me” and “Something To Talk About,” plays the songs that have defined her legendary career and earned her 10 Grammys. Tickets are $40 to $70. For tickets, visit wolftrap.org. Filene Center, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia.

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A History Walk in Rose Park With David Dunning

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U

nless you are vacationing in Paris, there is no place more beautiful than Georgetown on a Saturday morning. The fair weather and bright flowers colored my path as I set off for my next interview.

“Are you David?” I asked a gentleman standing on the steps of Mount Zion United Methodist Church, where Dunning is a board member. We were scheduled to talk about Rose Park, located down O Street from the church. A Georgetown resident since 1974, Dunning has served for 12 years on the 15-member board of the Friends of Rose Park — since 2008 as its president.

“You must be Shelia,” he said, greeting me as if he were the mayor of Georgetown. In many ways, he is, as I discovered while we walked toward the park. He shared his connection to Mount Zion and talked about how important all the churches in Georgetown are to him and to the neighborhood’s other residents.

I realized that Dunning is a walking history book. His love for Georgetown and for preserving its history are as contagious as his warm spirit. Every few steps, he would wave at a neighbor as he continued to explain Georgetown’s history to me — brick by brick, tree by tree.

A partner at a D.C. law firm, Dunning said that one of his top causes is to preserve the history of the park and of the people who once played and walked in this space. He and his wife Margaret and their neighbors understand Rose Park and its legacy. It is important to him that all history be passed down for generations to come —

including the history of African Americans, who have been shortchanged by history books. Some books, such as “Georgetown Remembered,” published 25 years ago, tell such overlooked stories, including that of Rose Park.

Like other places in Georgetown, Rose Park was originally for African Americans. The first official records show a donation from the Ancient Order of the Sons and Daughters of Moses for the plot of land, with instructions for the park to be used by the black children who lived in the area. At one point, the park was called Patterson Park, and then Jacobs Park. No matter the name, Rose Park was the only place people of color could take their children to play during the days of segregation. Black children were not allowed to visit parks with white children — nor could they go to school with them or eat in the same restaurant.

By 1930, the hearts and minds of some of the people in Georgetown had changed; blacks and whites began to play in and enjoy Rose Park together. Little did they know that the Jim Crow laws that plagued the South were also in Washington. The D.C. Parks and Recreation Department attempted to segregate the playground with “For Colored Only” signs.

Maybe the laws had not changed, but people in Georgetown — black and white — had. They protested the new signs and forced the city to remove them. Years later, the city put it on record that Rose Park was one of the first integrated parks in the District of Columbia.

While the “Colored Only” and “Whites

Only” signs are long gone, there are many reminders of African Americans’ rich history in Washington’s oldest neighborhood.

One reminder is now etched in metal, just as Dunning and other members of the Friends of Rose Park hoped. Dunning smiled as he pointed out the monument to honor the tennis greats Margaret and Roumania Peters, and recalled the day the tennis courts were named for them.

“October 24, 2015, was a proud moment for me, when we renamed the Margaret Peters and Roumania Peters Walker Rose Park Tennis Courts,” Dunning said, as I read the marker and thought about the sisters who grew up nearby at 2710 O St. NW. The Peters sisters learned to play tennis at Rose Park and went on to become world champions. Celebrities like Gene Kelly came to Rose Park just to play the famous sisters.

With the help of Mayor Muriel Bowser and Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, Dunning and others pulled the veil off the monument. Roumania Walker’s children Fannie Weekes and James Walker spoke fondly of their mother and aunt, whose record for winning 14 doubles championships has yet to be broken. It was fitting that Johnson, who lives across from the courts, gave the keynote address, expressing pride for his neighbors and the progress they have made together.

Today, the Friends of Rose Park continue their daily duties. These involve a lot of work, such as maintaining the park’s landscaping and looking after the tennis courts, basketball court,

David Dunning, president of Friends of Rose Park. flag pole and tot lot, as well as the farmers’ market every Wednesday afternoon and the occasional outdoor movie in the summer. Recently, the group had to remind neighbors of D.C.’s leash laws, as dogs — who love Rose Park, too — were running loose a little too much.

Dunning and the Friends of Rose Park remain loyal to the people and to the park, which they hope will last for generations to come. With that in mind, the group’s big fundraiser, celebrating the group’s 20th anniversary, will be at Evermay on Oct. 6.

Like the park, the people have survived the worst of times, when others tried to separate them by the color of their skin.

When I finished my walking tour, I had so many things on my heart about Rose Park. Nothing stood out as much as the black and white people who said, “Take down your ‘For Colored Only’ signs.” If only the whole world were that way … well … I guess life would be like a walk in the park.

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Attempted Rape Foiled By ‘Concerned Citizen’ A woman walking along 35th Street in Georgetown near Visitation Prep and Q Street was assaulted early Wednesday morning, Aug. 3, but the attack was stopped by a shouting resident who heard her scream. The suspect had a knife, the woman told police, pushed her to the ground and began to remove her clothing before he ran away, thanks to the man who intervened.

The attack near the playing fields of Visi Prep occurred around 1:10 a.m. and may involve a serial rapist, according to sources familiar with the case. The woman is 25 to 30 years of age, but police did not indicate if she is a student or a resident. Police have reportedly increased patrols in the neighborhood.

The Washington Post identified the good Samaritan as Andrew Scanlon and reported that the 19-year-old “was in his bedroom using his computer when he heard a scream. ‘I looked out and I saw a man on top of someone,’ Scanlon said. ‘It took me a couple seconds to process what was happening. I ran out yelling, “Hey,” in a loud, stern voice. The guy jumped up, swung around to look at me for a halfsecond and then he ran down the street.’” The woman was taken to the Scanlon home, where D.C. police were called.

The following is the report on the assault issued by the Metropolitan Police Department: The Metropolitan Police Department seeks the public’s assistance in identifying and locating a suspect in connection with an Assault with the Intent to Commit 1st Degree Sexual Abuse offense that occurred in the 1600 block of 35th Street, Northwest.

On Wednesday, August 3, 2016, at approximately 1:10 am, while walking in the area, the victim was approached by a suspect from behind. The suspect brandished a knife and assaulted the victim with the intent to sexually assault her. The suspect was chased off by a concerned citizen and was seen fleeing on foot southbound on 35th Street, Northwest. The suspect may have then gotten into a silver vehicle. The victim did not sustain any injuries.

The suspect is described as a black male, approximately 5’9’’ to 5’11” in height, and might have spoken with an accent. He was wearing dark clothing with a hood and gloves.

Anyone who has information regarding this case should call police at 202-727-9099.

Additionally, information may be submitted

Crime Report

to the TEXT TIP LINE by text messaging 50411. The Metropolitan Police Department currently offers a reward of up to $1,000 to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for an assault committed in the District of Columbia.

Morgan’s Pharmacy Robbed; 3 Suspects Sought

SUNDAY, AUGUST 21 Sunday Funday Social

SATURDAY, AUGUST 13 Pancake Breakfast

MONDAY, AUGUST 29 Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E Meeting

The Peabody Room presents “Isabel Briggs Myers: She’s Got Your Type!” at 1 p.m.

Jamie Stiehm and Katharine Cooks Briggs will discuss the life of D.C. native Isabel Briggs Myers, who developed the personality inventory known as the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator. Georgetown Public Library, 3260 R St. NW.

The community is invited to join militaryaffiliated George Washington University students for a 4 p.m. social at Cantina Marina.Nachos and appetizers will be provided. A cash bar will be available. For details, visit calendar.gwu.edu.

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The next ANC 2E public meeting will be held Monday, Aug 29, at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation Prep, 35th Street at Volta Place, in the Main Building.

Vincent Orange Named D.C. Chamber CEO; to Quit Council

Morgan’s Pharmacy is at 3001 P St. NW. Last month, the clothing store Ella Rue at 3231 P St. NW was robbed of several purses, valued at $10,000.

One of Georgetown’s classic businesses, Morgan’s Pharmacy, was robbed Monday, Aug. 1. The 100-year-old business at the corner of 30th and P Streets was robbed midafternoon, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. An initial MPD Twitter alert read: “Lookout is for 3 Black/Males, black sedan.”

Police are calling the startling daytime crime a theft and an assault. At first, one of the suspects in the pharmacy asked for aspirin, then jumped over the counter to grab codeine cough medicine. An employee tried to stop the suspect at the door of the pharmacy and was struck by a stick, wielded by the suspect.

The employee was medically treated at the scene by D.C. Fire & EMS. Three suspects fled in a black sedan, heading northbound on 30th Street.

The assault is a felony. Anyone with information should call 911. MPD asks that residents not confront any suspects.

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AUGUST 1 Report at 3:13 p.m. of robbery of an establishment on 3000 block P St. NW. Report of 3 black males, black sedan

JULY 29 Theft at 9:32 p.m. on 3200 - 3275 block of M St. NW — Theft at 12:52 a.m. on 3000 - 3029 block of K St. NW

JULY 31 Theft at 6:47 p.m. on 3200 - 3275 block of M St. NW

JULY 28 Theft at 3:40 p.m. on 3100 - 3199 block of M St. NW — Theft at 1:14 p.m. on 3100 - 3199 block of M St. NW

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JULY 30 THEFT AT 11:31 a.m. on 1000 - 1099 block of Thomas Jefferson St. NW — Theft at 6:28 p.m. on 3200 - 3229 block of P St. NW

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At-large Council Member Vincent Orange — who lost the Democratic Primary June 14 — has been chosen by the D.C. Chamber of Commerce to become its new president and CEO on Aug. 15. The 59-year-old Orange plans to resign his District Council on the same day.

He was the chairman of the Committee on Business, Consumer and Regulatory Affairs.

The members of his staff will become part of Council Chair Phil Mendelson’s office.

The D.C. Chamber of Commerce was in need of new leadership, Orange told the Washington Business Journal, which first reported the story, saying it had challenges with falling revenue and member retention. According to the story, Orange wants to increase membership to 2,000 from the 1,400 as of 2015.

Several Council members, news outlets and other influencers said that Orange’s remaining on the Council, while taking the helm of the D.C. Chamber, presented a conflict of interest.

D.C. law allows those on the Council to have second jobs.

“I believe that as long as we dot the I’s and cross the T’s I don’t really see a real conflict,” Orange told the Journal. “My positions are well settled on the major issues.”

Orange reconsidered his opinion and announced Aug. 5 that he would resign Aug. 15.

Orange served as Ward 5 Council member from 1999 to 2007. He began his service as an

JULY 27 Theft at 8:32 p.m. on 1200 - 1237 block of Wisconsin Ave. NW — Theft at 6:14 p.m. on 3200 - 3275 block of M St. NW — Theft at 4:42 p.m. on 1200 - 1237 block of Wisconsin Ave. NW — Theft at 1:22 a.m. on 3000 - 3099 block of M St. NW JULY 25 Theft at 9:57 p.m. on 2400 - 2499 block of N St. NW — Theft at 4:29 p.m. on 2500 - 2699 block of K St. NW — Theft at 4:06 p.m. on 1200 - 1229 block of Potomac St. NW — Theft at 12:35 p.m. on 3300 - 3399 block of Reservoir Road NW

Soon-to-be-former D.C. Council Member Vincent Orange will be the new president and CEO of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce Aug.15. at-large Council member — after a special election — on May 10, 2011. (Robert White won the D.C. primary this year and will go on to take the at-large seat.)

Born in Oakland, California, Orange holds a law degree from Howard University and a master’s degree from Georgetown University. He has worked for Pepco, Arthur Andersen, the District government and the Washington Post.

Orange will succeed interim D.C. Chamber CEO Margaret Singleton, who took over after Harry Wingo resigned last year.

In campaign literature for his election eight years ago, Orange, a lawyer and and certified public accountant, proclaimed that he “has the skill set D.C. needs to make the city great again.” Apparently, the D.C. Chamber of Commerce agrees with that.

JULY 23 Theft at 9:10 p.m. on 3200 - 3275 block of M St. NW — Theft at 7:00 p.m. on 3200 - 3275 block of M St. NW — Theft at 6:47 p.m. on 3000 - 3049 block of M St. NW — Theft at 5:26 p.m. on 3400 - 3499 block of Prospect St. NW — Theft at 3:39 p.m. on 1200 - 1229 block of Potomac St. NW — Theft at 9:42 a.m. on 3100 - 3199 block of K St. NW — Theft at 4:06 a.m. on 3000 - 3029 block of K St. NW JULY 22 Theft at 8:36 a.m. on 1600 - 1699 block of 34th St. NW

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Overheard at Lunch: D.C. Gossip Girl

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Jeff Jones Retires; Rick 44 at 55: Obama Murphy, Jim Wilcox to Celebrates at Fiola Mare, Gets Pie Sisters Cuppies Run; Lisa Palmer to Challenge Bill Starrels Another commissioner for the GeorgetownBurleith-Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission has decided not to run for reelection. This time, it is Jeffrey Jones, who represents 2E03 in the center of Georgetown.

Jones is supporting candidate Rick Murphy, who is running unopposed for his district position.

In the district represented by Tom Birch (2E06), Jim Wilcox has thrown his hat into the ring. Wilcox is well known in the neighborhood. He was on the board of the Citizens Association of Georgetown and is on the board of the Georgetown Business Association. He is a member of working groups on parking and DC Water’s Green Infrastructure. There appear to be no opponents for Wilcox.

For another ANC single-member district, however, a challenger has emerged. In 2E05, which is mostly south of M Street to the Potomac River, another candidate, Lisa Palmer, will file by the Aug. 10 deadline to run on the ballot against veteran commissioner Bill Starrels.

Jones sent a message to the community, parts of which follow: “I will not be seeking re-election for ANC2E commissioner. … I believe there have been measurable improvements in our community over the past six years. … It is because of the collective efforts of each of you that our community has grown in such a healthy way.

“I would also like to announce the excellent news that Rick Murphy, a long time resident of Georgetown, has agreed to run for my seat.

This is a significant win for our community. … Rick has been quietly working behind the scenes, participating in the Georgetown Community Partnership, DC Water issues, Historic and Zoning matters and the controversy surrounding the change in flight paths to and from Reagan National Airport. Rick currently serves as counsel to ANC2E. … He will be ready to hit the ground running once he is sworn in as commissioner.”

In the district represented by Starrels, Palmer said that she simply wants to get more involved with the community and feels that she can make a worthwhile contribution. A mother of 4-year-old twins, she has worked for Comcast Sports marketing, Kaboom, a nonprofit, as well as film and financial businesses.

Starrels said losing chairman Lewis and commissioners Birch and Jones will be tough for ANC2E, but he is grateful for all the work they have done to unite the community — residents, businesses and Georgetown University. “It’s a shame they’re all moving on at the same time,” he said. “Hopefully, change will be good.”

Joe Gibbons, who has been involved in CAG’s efforts on historic preservation and zoning, is to represent Lewis’s district.

Georgetown made quite an impression on President Barack Obama on his 55th birthday.

After getting Pie Sisters cuppies topped with candles from Vice President Joe Biden in the Oval Office earlier in the day, Obama wound up after 7:30 p.m. at Washington Harbour’s Fiola Mare for a three-and-a-half-hour birthday dinner. (The black SUVs and sedans had a tough time parking.) As he left the restaurant, next to Georgetown Waterfront Park, a waiting crowd sang “Happy Birthday.” On Friday night, his White House birthday party lasted until 3 a.m. The first family is now vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard.

Angelina Jolie Is Not Teaching at Georgetown … Yet In The Georgetowner’s July 13 issue, this column speculated that actress and United Nations special envoy Angelina Jolie would be coming to Georgetown University to teach a course; Us Weekly reported over the weekend that Jolie, who is deeply engaged with refugee and women’s issues, would be doing just that in the fall. She teaches a course called “Women, Peace and Security” at the London School of Economics and, since LSE shares the program with Georgetown, has the option to lecture here. University officials had to say, hold on, no fall semester course has been set up and she will not be a visiting professor.

“There are no current plans for Ms. Jolie to teach at Georgetown, but Angelina Jolie and [former U.K. foreign secretary] William Hague have an open invitation to share their experiences and perspectives at Georgetown anytime they’re able,” the university stated.

Bradley Cooper Stops

by Walter Reed Fresh off his visit to the Democratic National Convention — where he received quite a few unhappy comments from people who seemed to think he actually is Navy SEAL Chris Kyle (his starring role in 2014’s “American Sniper”) — Bradley Cooper stopped by Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Bethesda to visit with wounded veterans.

Sasha Obama Scores Completely Normal Summer Job First daughter Sasha Obama is employed at Martha’s Vineyard seafood restaurant Nancy’s this summer. Working the takeout window, Obama was in training last week, learning the cash register, bussing tables and getting the eatery ready for its lunchtime crowd. Other servers were curious why this seemingly normal 15-year-old girl had an en-

Vice President Joe Biden got President Obama some birthday cuppies from Pie Sisters on M Street.

Courtesy the White House. tourage of six in tow; turns out it was her Secret Service agents.

Actresses Advocate Against Crude Oil Actresses Shailene Woodley and Riley Keough were in town Aug. 6 with the Youth of the Standing Rock Reservation.

The North

Dakota youth ended their 1,800-mile run from their reservation to D.C. to draw attention to their calls to protect their homes from the Dakota Access crude-oil pipeline. In case you’re wondering, Woodley has starred in the “Divergent” movie series as well as in “The Fault in Our Stars.” Keough, who is also a model, has famous grandparents: Elvis and Priscilla Presley.

Madame Tussaud’s Gears Up for Presidential Election Madame Tussaud’s wax museum at 10th and F streets NW has shared images of its “clay head sculpts” of the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. It’s part of a tradition involving the museum’s U.S. Presidents Gallery, which houses full wax figures of the 43 who have already served. The only question remaining is: Will Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton get arms, legs and feet or remain just a talking head?

Actress Joins AFL-CIO Former “Beverly Hills: 90210” actress Gabrielle Carteris has joined the AFL-CIO’s executive council. Carteris, who has more recently been seen on “Criminal Minds,” “JAG” and “Touched by an Angel,” is a longtime union activist.

D.C. Gets Hollywood’s Help at DNC Hollywood always gets people listening!

The Creative Coalition hosted a lunch on the D.C. statehood issue at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last month.

Actors Elizabeth Banks, Tim Daly, Josh Gad, David Schwimmer and others came out to raise awareness about Mayor Muriel Bowser’s statehood referendum.

Above left: Shailene Woodley.

Bottom left: Angelina Jolie.

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Embracing the Rio Games The 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro come with enough baggage to fill Guanabara Bay, where rowers and sailors are competing — oh, wait, that’s already heavily polluted. When have we seen the opening ceremonies presided over by an acting head of state? This summer’s were, which spoke loudly to the political chaos that exists in Brazil, where an impeachment process against sitting president Dilma Rousseff is moving apace amid a major meltdown of the Brazilian economy (some of it brought on by the cost of the Games).

Rio is a kind of living embodiment of that concept of financial disparity. The city has some of the largest and poorest, although, by all accounts, culturally vibrant, slums in the world. They stand in contrast to some of the wealthiest sections of Rio, which is known for its perpetual samba and carnival parties and parades and for its spectacular vistas, topped by the 98-foot-tall Christ the Redeemer statue on Corcovado mountain, one of the new Seven Wonders of the World.

This summer’s Games had to burst out of a cloud of anxiety and controversy — anxiety

because of the Zika disease, which appears to have been birthed here, controversy and scandal because large numbers of athletes, including the entire Russian track and field team, have been banned from the competition.

Nonetheless, the Olympics are always replete with spectacle and stories, examples of achieving seemingly impossible goals through dedication and perseverance. After a while, in spite of the avalanche of banalities from the “Today Show” commentators, we embrace the occasion. This is about athletes, after all, in peak vitality and condition, who can run and jump and fly, and swim and dive and pole-vault and throw things, and row and swim, and run and jump, and shoot guns and arrows, ride bikes and leap and do amazing things with their bodies on rings and floor mats.

Sure, we’re all proud of the American athletes, especially hometown favorites Michael Phelps and Katie Ledecky. And just when you get tired of another commercial in which a snappy pet store employee explains to a group of dogs why they have been — ahem — fixed, something happens that makes things unexpectedly worthwhile. Maybe tonight ...

Giving it the Old Electoral College Try

BY M A R K P LOT K I N Both conventions are history. Now the real presidential campaign begins.

As you know, the magic number — the number of electoral college votes needed to win the presidency — is 270. (Why it’s called a college remains a mystery to me. There is no campus, I assure you.)

Each state is accorded a specific number of votes, the number of House members plus the two senators. D.C. is treated as a state and has three electoral votes. D.C. voted for president for the very first time in 1964, after the 23rd Amendment was passed. The District has always voted for the Democrat.

If you want to follow the campaign and earn the right to call yourself an expert (or at least a pundit), pay close attention to where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump spend their time.

Nothing is more important than these personal visits to battleground states. They are called battleground states because neither candidate feels that he or she has them in the bag.

Remember: If you win a state by one vote, you get all that state’s votes, the ultimate winnertake-all. This is true except for two states, Nebraska and Maine, which award their electoral votes based on who wins each congressional district. (More about that later.)

The most crucial battleground state is Florida (29 electoral votes), which now has the thirdlargest population in the Union, right after California (55 electoral votes) and Texas (38 electoral votes). California is firmly in Clinton’s column, and Texas is just as firmly in Trump’s column. In fact, the last time the Democrats won Texas was in 1968. Hubert Humphrey carried it, surprisingly.

Obama carried Florida twice, in 2008 and 2012.

Four years ago, he won by less than one percent. The fight for Florida’s vote will center on the center of the state, the I-75 corridor. What helps Clinton is the large number of Latino voters.

More than 650,000 voters of Puerto Rican heritage have moved to central Florida. Clinton is counting on them to turn out and vote for her.

You can bet vice-presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine will be there quite a bit, using his proficiency in Spanish to great advantage.

Trump hopes to do well with the large Republican base. Since Sen. Marco Rubio is running for reelection, Trump hopes to collect Rubio (and GOP) loyalists.

The Miami area and South Florida, with a sizable Jewish population, will be for Clinton.

I noted earlier how Nebraska awards its electoral votes. Last week, Clinton campaigned in Omaha. She hopes to win Nebraska’s second congressional district and get one electoral vote in the state. Obama won it in 2008 but lost it in 2012.

Billionaire Warren Buffett campaigned with her. Michael Bloomberg and Mark Cuban are also for Clinton. A very elite sub-group: Billionaires for Hillary.

My next column: The State of Ohio.

Political analyst Mark Plotkin is a contributor to the BBC on American politics and a contributor to TheHill.com. Reach him at markplotkindc@gmail.com.

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To the Editor:

Cover Art Favors Trump

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Choice?

Your choice of “art” work for the cover of The Georgetowner [July 27, 2016] is very strongly a preference for Donald Trump.

I will no longer be reading your newspaper.

It will go straight into recycling.

Shame!

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An Artistic Response to the Clinton Caricature Criticism Oh my. I guess if they didn’t have a reaction, then I’m not doing it right. Proud to say that this is not the first response I got like this. I received an email of similar ilk the other day. In this particular case, I believe it is being a good neighbor and good politics to respond.

Dear Mrs. Greenway, I regret that you found my cover illustration to be in poor taste. I certainly understand your perspective and, believe it or not, the spirit of my Hillary Clinton portrait came out of these very sentiments, which I happen to share with you. What I mean to say is that my portrayal of Clinton is not a reflection of my opinion of her, but rather a portrait of something more like the way I feel she has been perceived throughout this election — with a further evocation of how I imagine she must feel being embroiled in an election as depraved and hysterical as the one we are in (hence the direly unamused expression).

I have been surprised by the responses I have gotten to this Clinton portrait. Those who admire her have been almost personally affronted by it, while the anti-Clintonites I’ve spoken with have loved it. Obviously, that is not surprising, except when considering that most everyone, even Trump supporters, have seemed to rather enjoy my depic-

tion of Donald Trump as a maniacally happy, evil villain.

This says a lot about how sensitive a trigger this election is to so many of us, and to this I would just say that my drawing has nothing to do with a personal judgment of Clinton.

Political and editorial cartoons have a fairly ubiquitous history of negative depictions of political figures. Mine (of both Clinton and Trump) were meant as reflections of public opinion — and not as personal opinion pieces.

Perhaps this doesn’t matter, but I would just like you to know that I admire Clinton greatly, perhaps more than any living politician. Although it is considered in poor taste to discuss personal politics, I feel no diffidence in saying to anyone that I voted for her in the primaries of 2008 and I voted for her again in the primaries this year.

Best, Ari Post

To the Editor:

Gondola Would Ruin River View I just read Chuck Baldwin’s commentary [The Georgetowner, July 27, 2016] on the proposed Georgetown gondola, and I wholeheartedly agree that the whole plan should be dropped.

Sooner rather than later!

While Chuck cites a number of great examples of the Great Gondola projects that have been tried and failed across our country, one significant factor that hasn’t been addressed is the fact that Key Bridge is a historic and beautiful work of architecture. It is a distinguishing landmark that epitomizes the character of Georgetown.

Are we going to mar that beautiful vision with a

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hideous eyesore of posts stuck in the water and aerial cabins of steel?

I would urge the Old Georgetown Board and the Fine Arts Commission to weigh in. If they believe a tall, abstract sculpture in front of the Sequoia waterfront restaurant would negatively alter the vista of the Potomac, what will a modern gondola do?

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In: Fashion’s Rene Ruiz Brings Miami Heat

Out (for Now): History-Drenched Dixie Liquor Could Be Yours

After an ownership change less than nine years ago, the retail business founded in 1934 as Dixie Liquor is again for sale. The famed

At the new M Street shop, Daniel Simon, sales director for Rene Ruiz.

Rene Ruiz, luxe top-end fashion studio, has set up shop at 2902 M St. NW, formerly the Washington, D.C., regional office of Bonhams auctioneers. The Florida-based Rene Ruiz has a store in Coral Gables and a storeroom in New York City.

According to the company, its fashiondesigner founder “strikes a balance between old-world craftsmanship and modern glamour by blending Miami’s sultry sexiness with graceful elegance. He succeeds in fusing the region’s beauty and diversity with his inspirations for the international social set from Los Angeles to Palm Beach and Zurich to Ontario.”

The new M Street store evokes that kind of style and sentiment. The business is in partnership with Ike Behar Evening. (The Ike Behar store is next door.)

In: Carine’s Bridal Atelier Opens on Wisconsin With Sale

Dixie Liquor, D.C.’s oldest liquor store, on M Street.

liquor store — frequented by generations of Hoyas and the likes of John Kennedy and former running back John Riggins — is at the intersection of M Street and Key Bridge, next to the cobblestone hill of 35th Street.

“Closed for renovation” since before July 4, the store, at 3429 M St. NW, sits on property owned by the Miller family for decades. In earlier years, the family ran the liquor business — now in purchase negotiations, according to a source wishing to remain anonymous. Calls to the store were not returned.

As the oldest liquor store in D.C., Dixie Liquor is known as much for its store’s personalities as for its beers, wines and vodkas.

It carries a liquor license with some extras: the ability to be open 365 days a year and a tasting permit.

Computerware: 40 Years of Helping Businesses Thrive

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BY HANNAH DODD

erving the needs of businesses both large and small since 1976, Computerware is well established in the information technology world.

Founded in McLean, Virginia, by Chuck and Joan Evans, the company began by selling computer supplies, evolving over time into a full-service IT company.

Computerware President Chip Evans and Whitehorse Technology Solutions founder Alan J. Edwards partnered to merge their companies in May of 2015. Edwards is now Computerware’s chief information officer.

Evans and Edwards pride themselves on striving to help their customers’ businesses thrive. “Our goal is for our clients to make money,” says Evans. Computerware maintains flexibility to meet the needs of individual clients, he says, since there is “no single solution that works for everybody.”

Instead of waiting to step in until an emergency occurs at the eleventh hour, Evans explains that it is in their best interest to keep companies running smoothly at all times. They proactively “brush and floss the network” in order to avoid preventable complications.

As a core value, the company takes time to build long-term relationships on the basis of experience and expertise, preferring to be “overly engaged with clients.” When a client relocates, representatives from Computerware are there throughout the entire process.

Experts ensure that everything from interior wiring to internet configuration is executed properly, even accompanying clients to pos-

Carine’s Bridal Atelier, now at 1623 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

After months of preparation, the new location of Carine’s Bridal Atelier eagerly awaits new brides looking for the gown of their dreams. The store, at 1623 Wisconsin Ave. NW, is open Tuesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

The bridal salon has opened with a month-long sale (through Aug. 31), offering designer gowns at up to 90 percent off on a first-come, first-served basis. Featured designers include Oscar de la Renta and Vera Wang.

sible new locations to assess the quality of the systems in place.

Whereas big-name companies send contractors to resolve issues — a practice that Edwards jokingly calls the “Uber of IT support” — Computerware seeks to provide reliable service from people that clients have come to know and trust. “We act as the customer’s technology department,” explains Evans.

Computerware works with every type of organization, from nonprofit groups to schools — private K-12 schools as well as colleges and universities like Georgetown University — to the federal government. Evans and Edwards also have a one-to-one program that provides a laptop for every student.

According to Evans, Computerware is a no-nonsense company that does not try to trick customers; it genuinely cares about each client.

“It’s what we do, it’s how we work things,” he says.

“OUR GOAL IS FOR OUR CLIENTS TO MAKE MONEY.” – Chip Evans

$54-Million Acquisition: Future of Key Bridge Marriott Cloudy The ground leases for the Key Bridge Marriott have been purchased by Host Hotels & Resorts for $54 million. Across the Potomac River from Georgetown, next to the Virginia side of Key Bridge — with stunning views of the nation’s capital — it is the oldest Marriott hotel property still in use.

“The hotel was part of the Host Hotels’ portfolio as a land lease from the time the hotel was built,” wrote Erika Morphy of GlobeSt. com, which first reported the sale Aug. 1. The lodging real estate investment trust was formerly called Host Marriott Corporation.

Host Hotels’ CEO Ed Walter said the company is considering several options, which include “a complete scrapping of the asset and

Alan J. Edwards, Computerware’s chief information officer, and President Chip Evans.

Out: Barneys Co-Op Closes — for Rebranding?

Key Bridge Marriott, the company’s oldest hotel.

a complete redevelopment of the entire parcel, which would involve for us probably selling off a number of those parcels to other parties. We are also potentially redeveloping a part of the hotel and then selling off portions of the hotel to third parties to develop either residential or office.”

The Barneys New York Co-Op at 3040 M St. NW opted out July 17. A 2013 Forbes article reported that Barneys was beginning to rebrand the Co-Op stores, which sell discounted products from luxury labels such as Chanel and Prada. In 2012, Barneys went through a $540 million debt-for-equity swap that saved the 93-year-old company from bankruptcy. Calls to Barneys corporate office were not returned.

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Fabrics to be used in Kelley Proxmire’s “cozy coral family room,” designed by Kelley Interior Design. Courtesy Kelley Interior Design.

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fundraiser for Children’s National Health System, the premier provider of pediatric services in the metro area, the DC Design House has become an annual affair that has attracted more than 70,000 visiKelley Proxmire of Kelley tors. Over the past eight Interior Design. years, the event has generated $15 million for the charity.

Funds are raised from the sale of admission tickets and corporate sponsorships. This

Foxhall Road home, the site of the ninth annual DC Design House. Courtesy DC Design House.

year, Farrow & Ball, Thos. Moser and Fred Home Improvement will sponsor the event.

Additionally, all items displayed throughout the home are available for purchase, with a portion of each sale supporting the cause.

The ninth annual DC Design House will be held from Oct. 1 to Oct. 30. This year’s house, an expansive five-story home, the former French Ambassador’s residence, at 2509 Foxhall Road NW, is currently listed by Nancy Itteilag of Washington Fine Properties for $10.8 million. Special features include exercise and party rooms, a wine cellar and a luxurious sauna.

Among the designers is Kelley Proxmire of Kelley Interior Design, which has been featured

Artist’s rendering of what to expect in Proxmire’s showroom design. Courtesy Ricky Sears/Kelley Interior Design.

in media outlets such as Southern Living and Home & Design. This will be Proxmire’s 25th show house since her first display at the National Symphony Orchestra Show House in 2001.

Kelley Interior Design was represented in the first DC Design House event, making this her fifth time participating. Visitors can look forward to a “cozy coral family room,” adorned with splashes of blue, white and grey to compliment the openness of the room as well as the attractive fireplace, one of five in the house.

Participating designers must fully furnish their respective rooms through individual means, so donors are welcome to loan fabrics and home accessories to each company. Part of

what Kelley enjoys about being involved in the DC Design House is discovering new ways of extravagantly designing a room while remaining fiscally conservative. “I truly love doing it, it’s sort of a game to me,” she says. “It’s a challenge.”

Other featured work includes a dining room executed by Atelier Jonathan Senner, a kitchen

by Frog Hill Designs and Studio Q Designs’ take on a vintage cabana.

This year’s exhibition is sure to impress, with new designers delivering innovative, elegant style.

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S&R FOUNDATION’S SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: Halcyon C reatives

in Georgetown

In an 18th-century mansion, once believed haunted, a new life has begun in the 21st century: A local nonprofit of innovative social enterprise and entrepreneurs with global impact that is getting wide attention — with more programs and places to come.

BY R ICHARD S E L DE N

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ashington, D.C., named the nation’s number-one city for social enterprise?

Ahead of San Francisco, Austin and

Boston?

That likely-to-rankle ranking appears in a study

by Halcyon Incubator and Capital One, “From the Ground Up: Defining Social Enterprise Ecosystems in the U.S.” The data are from a 2015 survey of 388 social entrepreneurs nationwide. With regard to the “four pillars of a social enterprise ecosystem” — funding, quality of life, human capital and regulation/receptivity — D.C.’s composite score was 71.7 out of a possible 100.

San Francisco came in at 65.2, Austin at 63.6 and Boston at 61.6.

What gives Washington its edge in the socialenterprise arena? “This type of expertise we have in D.C. that we really don’t have anywhere else in the world,” says Kate Goodall, COO of the Georgetown-based S&R Foundation, which launched the Halcyon Incubator fellowship program in 2014.

The most convincing evidence in the case for D.C. may be S&R’s own track record: 32 ventures nurtured in two short years. On the way are another eight, focusing on coral reef restoration; digital platforms for rural artists, immigrant chefs and East African farmers; the application of datascience techniques to public agency operations and college debt reduction; personalized crowdfunding for K-12 students; and the use of messaging apps to send free stories to families without books.

Collectively, the 11 new Halcyon fellows — eight men and three women — have MBAs from Georgetown, Stanford and IE Business School in Madrid and degrees from Yale in computer science and environmental studies, in city planning from M.I.T. and in urban education from Johns Hopkins, among others. Their resumes include stints at 3M, HSBC, Yelp, the Brookings Institution and Head Start and in the U.S. Army, plus overseas experience in Belize, Cameroon, India,

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Mauritius and Peru.

“We get to disrupt who gets to be an entrepreneur,” says Goodall, a Cleveland Park mother of two who was born in England, moved to Alexandria (the one in Virginia) when she was 14 and studied literature and marine archaeology in North Carolina.

A public introduction of the new fellows will take place at Halcyon House, 3400 Prospect St. NW, S&R’s headquarters, on Sept. 8. Space is limited, but the public is welcome.

Purchased in March 2012 for $11 million, Halcyon House is one of three Georgetown landmarks owned by the S&R Foundation. Evermay, 1623 28th St. NW, another Federal-period estate, was purchased a year earlier for $22 million.

As with Halcyon House, this was less than half the original asking price. The former Fillmore School, 1801 35th St. NW, acquired by George

Washington University along with other Corcoran assets, was added to the foundation’s holdings for $16.5 million — $2.5 million above the listed price — last year.

The S and the R behind all this repurposing of Georgetown real estate are Sachiko Kuno and Ryuji Ueno, Japanese pharmaceutical entrepreneurs who moved to the Washington area 20 years ago. The pair created the nonprofit S&R Foundation in 2000 to support creativity in the arts, the sciences and enterprise, especially international projects with a social-benefit component.

Both have doctoral degrees, and Ueno has a medical degree. Sucampo Pharmaceuticals, the company they started here — in proximity to the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office — went public in 2007 and is headquartered in Rockville. Married in 2002, Kuno

Top: Kate Goodall, chief operating officer of S&R Foundation; Ryan Ross, program director of Halcyon Incubator, and Sachiko Kuno, co-founder and CEO of S&R Foundation; at the south entrance to Halcyon House. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan. Above: Halcyon House — once also called Stoddert House — at 34th and Prospect Streets in Georgetown has played many roles since its construction in 1787. Georgetowner file photo.

and Ueno, now in their early 60s, filed for divorce in February.

Ueno’s father, founder of a chemical company, passed his love of music on to his son. S&R has sponsored a concert series, Overtures; a chamber music ensemble, Evermay Chamber; and an artist in residence, Canadian pianist Ryo Yanagitani.

Under the foundation’s wing, Evermay’s 1801 mansion and three acres of gardens — owned by the Belin family from 1923 to 2011 — have been the setting for numerous performances, talks, seminars and receptions.

At this year’s S&R Washington Awards Gala, held at Evermay June 4, the grand prize of $10,000 was awarded to composer Lembit Beecher. Three other artists received $5,000 awards: violinist Luosha Fang, mixed-media artist Jorge Mañes Rubio and saxophonist Jonathan Wintringham.

The selection committee included local arts luminaries Jenny Bilfield of Washington Performing Arts, Philip Kennicott of the Washington Post, Jason Moran of the Kennedy Center and Klaus Ottmann of the Phillips Collection.

Kuno, one of the first women to attend Kyoto University, where she earned a doctorate in biochemical engineering, is S&R’s president and CEO, its main motivating force and a mentor to Goodall. A rewarding post-doctoral year she spent at the Technical University of Munich helped to inspire the Halycon Incubator program.

“Halcyon’s risk-tolerant environment encourages individuals with audacious ideas to apply to the program,” Kuno has said. “Applicants aren’t required to know if their idea will spawn a forprofit, non-profit or government solution, but simply be committed to applying new thinking to empower social change.”

In a Washington Post story on the inaugural cohort of seven fellows, Halcyon House, about three blocks from Georgetown University’s main campus, was described as “an elegant, exclusive graduate school of sorts for social innovators.”

(Less respectfully, and probably inaccurately, the headline labeled it “The fanciest dorm in Washington.”) In fact, the house’s large, easy-to-get-

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lost-in interior has a minimalist, high-tech esthetic, with hip touches such as contemporary art, sack furniture and, in one room, walls you can write on. Pitch sessions, with invited guests, are held in the library.

Inside and out, there are reminders of the property’s layers of ownership. What is now the stately garden façade is the mansion’s original front, high above the Potomac. Albert Clemens, a nephew of Mark Twain, purchased Halcyon House in 1900.

A compulsive remodeler, he added the Prospect Street façade and countless extensions. In 1966, after several years as a Georgetown University dorm, the property was bought by Edmund Dreyfuss, who began major restoration work. His son, sculptor John Dreyfuss, completed the task to much acclaim in the mid 1990s. The family sold Halcyon House — built in 1787 by the first Secretary of the Navy, Benjamin Stoddert — to S&R. Dreyfuss’s large, light-filled studio remains with some refining. Above it is a garden terrace with a swimming pool — “inspirational space,” according to Goodall, who notes that Halcyon House functions as residence, workspace and communal retreat, with opportunities for meditation and yoga. The suitability of the house’s name for an incubator is an uncanny coincidence; in Greek mythology, the halcyon is a bird that lays its eggs at sea during a brief period of windless calm.

Program Manager Ryan Ross explains that, while most incubators are horizontally structured, seeding many projects and hoping that a few will take, Halcyon is vertically structured, nurturing small cohorts of young entrepreneurs in “a much more immersive way.” Each fellow receives a $10,000 stipend and free housing in Halcyon House for the first five months of his or her 18-month fellowship. During the remaining 13 months, the members of a cohort continue to use the house as their base of operations.

Each fellow also gets an official mentor, a peer mentor and a leadership coach. Financial, legal and marketing advice comes from Deloitte, Arnold & Porter and Sage Communications, supplemented by guest speakers and one-on-one matchups.

Observing the fellows and former fellows scattered about the house, even in the dead of summer, one appreciates the value of what might be called Halcyon’s “overlapping cohort” approach. It has the feel of a start-up, but with two twists: almost everyone, while facing Kate Goodall, S&R Foundation COO, with the foundation’s similar challenges, is working new artistic director, Septime Webre, at S&R’s Washington on a different project; and the Awards Gala at Evermay in June. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan. core group not only works there but eats and sleeps on site.

Ross is careful to point out that the Halcyon Incubator program is not proprietary and that S&R has no equity in the Halcyon fellows’ ventures. He and Goodall are hopeful that their promising methodology will become a model replicated elsewhere.

In a sense, S&R’s vision for the former Fillmore School is to adapt the Halcyon Incubator model for artists, creating the Halcyon Arts Lab. S&R, says Goodall, sees “human creativity as the linchpin of the 21st century.”

(The Fillmore School is not to be confused with the Fillmore Arts Center, which moved in 1998 to nearby Hardy Middle School. Children from several public elementary schools have arts enrichment classes at the center; the future of this program is in doubt. After the center relocated, the Fillmore School became the Georgetown campus of the Corcoran School of Art and Design for about 15 years, with classrooms for drawing and painting, printmaking, jewelry making, graphic design and digital media design.)

The Halcyon Arts Lab is to be fully up and running in the fall of 2018. Currently, there are 12 artists, four male and eight female, in an eight-month pilot called the Studios Program that wraps up Nov. 11. An end-of-pilot exhibition is scheduled for Dec. 7.

Goodall is looking forward to the removal of the property’s “asphalt sea,” the parking lot off 34th Street behind the school. Barnes Vanze Architects of D.C. and Campion Hruby Landscape Architects of Annapolis lead a team that will design a residential structure for future Halcyon artists and a “landscaped path filled with nature and art” between the buildings. The existing playground will be revamped — its possible loss was a community concern — and the artists in the program will mentor high school students while working on their own projects.

Also on the arts front, S&R announced last May that longtime Washington Ballet artistic director Septime Webre had been named the foundation’s artistic director, tasked with creating an innovative Halcyon Stage performing-arts series to start early next year.

S&R, in other words, has its hands full. When asked if there is yet more expansion on the drawing board, Goodall responds: “We’re only limited by our founders’ imaginations.”

A FEW HIGHLIGHTS FROM A SELECT GROUP Halcyon Incubator will inaugurate its fifth cohort Sept. 8, with fellows it terms the most “diverse and innovative” yet. So far, S&R Foundation has hosted and nurtured 32 ventures. The following is a selection from past groups.

Halcyon fellow Prasoon Kumar of WinterHyde — a life-saving venture involving fully insulated, lightweight emergency tents that provide privacy and protect the homeless and vulnerable from the cold — is flanked by chef José Andrés and S&R Foundation CEO Sachiko Kuno.

Photo by Robert Devaney.

Diana Sierra is co-founder of Be Girl.

Her panties, “designed for womankind,” enable girls to create their own sanitary pads and thus be able to work or study in the everyday world and not be stranded at home during menstruation. Courtesy S&R Foundation.

Phil Wong is co-founder with Ann Yang of Misfit Juicery. Both are graduates of Georgetown University. The new company makes use of “wrongly” shaped or colored fruits and vegetables for juices, which are sold in stores around the city. Courtesy S&R Foundation.

Last week, Eileen Whelan of WJLA’s “Good Morning Washington” interviewed Halcyon fellow Kristof Grina (right), farm director of Up Top Acres, along with Ryan Ross, program director of Halcyon Incubator, and showed viewers a roof farm near Nationals Park. Courtesy ABC7.

Sage Salvo’s Words Liive [sic] uses Contemporary Grammar Integration to help students and teachers “transcend cultural and achievement gaps to make literature relevant and interesting,” such as annotating the text of “Beowulf” or the lyrics of Kendrick Lamar. Courtesy S&R Foundation.

Matt Fischer’s venture, Control A+, is developing an early warning system for children with asthma that will alert the child’s parents and doctors before an asthma attack occurs. He is shown with S&R Foundation CEO Sachiko Kuno. Photo by Robert Devaney.

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Limited-Edition Shoes Come to Shaw

SafeTrack Surges Ahead

Nocturne, the bar will seat just 20 patrons at a time and won’t serve food. Sugar Shack’s Alexandria location has a bar called Captain Gregory’s, which calls itself a speakeasy.

Last Call for Smithsonian Beer Job

Bucketfeet, the Chicago-based footwear business, opened in the Shaw neighborhood late last month. Each limited-edition shoe is designed by a different artist and priced at around $100. Bucketfeet began when two strangers traveling through Argentina became friends. Before they parted ways, one drew an original design on a pair of blank-canvas sneakers for the other.

Police Host National Night Out Events in D.C.

On Aug. 2, the Metropolitan Police and U.S. Park Police hosted events in D.C. in conjunction with National Night Out, when communities across the country take part in barbecues, block parties, candlelight vigils and other neighborhood activities. National Night Out was created to generate support for anticrime programs, strengthen police-community partnerships and heighten drug-prevention awareness. The 33rd annual event, held the first Tuesday in August, took on special meaning with the recent violence involving police officers.

SafeTrack Surge #7 is in full swing. The accelerated Metrorail maintenance, which runs from Aug. 9 to 18, involves single-tracking between the Shady Grove and Twinbrook stations on the Red Line. The Rockville Metro station is also affected by the work. The next SafeTrack surge will target the Blue and Yellow lines, with single-tracking from Franconia-Springfield to Van Dorn Street, Aug. 20 through Sept. 5.

More Best New Restaurants Than Philly or Boston

Blagden Alley’s The Dabney, Tail Up Goat, in Adams Morgan, and Bad Saint, in Columbia Heights can rejoice. Bon Appétit Magazine, put the three D.C. restaurants on its list of 50 finalists for “America’s Best New Restaurant.” Philadelphia and Boston each have two on the list (and the Boston restaurants aren’t even in Boston). The top 10 will be announced Aug. 16.

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Buredo gave away 200 giant sushi rolls last week to celebrate their new Dupont Circle location, at 1213 Connecticut Ave. NW. The restaurant serves sushi rolls as big as burritos, with flavors such as smoky and creamy, spicy and bold and fresh and herby. The Dupont Circle outpost is Buredo’s second in the area; the other is in Franklin Square. Buredo’s hashtag is #eatyourveggies.

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Hoagie Infestation to Hit Farragut Square

Doughnuts Upstairs, Booze Downstairs Taylor Gourmet, a deli from Philadelphia, is opening another location, this time right off the Farragut North and Farragut West Metrorail stations. Home to risotto balls and subs (they call them “hoagies”) named after streets and parks we’ve never heard of, Taylor Gourmet will take over the old Crumbs Bake Shop location at 888 17th St. NW. The soon-to-be-first D.C. location of Richmond’s Sugar Shack Donuts, at 1932 9th St. NW, will have a basement bar. Named

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The National Museum of American History got attention recently for posting a beer connoisseur’s dream job. The salary for what’s being informally called craft beer historian (Historian/Scholar, American Brewing History Initiative), a three-year appointment, is $64,650. One of the Smithsonian museums on the Mall — the one with the Star-Spangled Banner, the first ladies’ gowns and Archie Bunker’s chair — the NMAH is seeking a professional to conduct archival and field research on beer, “with special emphasis on the craft industry.” But you’d better drink up, the application deadline is Aug. 10.

Giant Sushi Rolls Spotted Near Dupont Circle

Popular D.C. burger eatery Shake Shack has signed a lease on the main walkway to Nationals Park. New D.C. locations continue to pop up for the restaurant, home of “Concretes” (really thick shakes), burgers, hot dogs and even fare for dogs. Shake Shack began as a cart in New York’s Madison Square Park in 2004. There’s another Shake Shack inside the ballpark, making for two choices of the same restaurant within feet of one other.

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on Swatchroom, Obama and Giving Back

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eing a creative type in a land of politicians, lobbyists and congressmen can sometimes be daunting. Not for local artist Maggie O’Neill, who brings some spice to the at times monotonous D.C. professional world.

a hotel in Paris.

“Swatchroom has officially taken off both at home and abroad!” O’Neill proclaimed.

With all that’s going on in the world today, artists have a unique ability to bring some happiness and color into the lives of others.

“To be a professional artist in today’s increasingly dynamic and changing world is an honor — you can engage, collaborate and make beautiful work every day if you’ve got that fire in your belly,” O’Neill said.

She mentioned that, as artists, there are more options than ever to see work come to life, such as through social media. “Social media has changed the way people learn, engage and collect art, ultimately bringing the gallery experience to the consumer,” O’Neill said.

Of course, O’Neill has personally delivered her art to the ultimate consumer: President Barack Obama himself. Calling it a surreal experience, she painted the president quickly with few days’ notice. O’Neill designed the restaurant (Lincoln, on Vermont Avenue NW) where Obama planned to have lunch and was “blown away that he was in the same room.”

“I got choked up and completely fumbled

what I was planning to say,” O’Neill said. “To have the president walking around and dining in a design project was one thing. Giving him my painting was another.”

After hugging her, President Obama told O’Neill he loved the painting. She calls that day amazing and something she will be forever grateful for.

Speaking of the president, O’Neill is currently in the midst of painting some currency and postage stamp pieces for the inauguration.

Being a true Washingtonian, O’Neill understands the importance of giving back. Raised with the idea that social justice and community outreach are part of day-to-day responsibilities, she works with Project Soar, a charity associated with a hotel in Marrakech, Morocco, that helps young girls stay in school. O’Neill is also personally touched by autism and Down syndrome research, causes she says are close to her heart.

“Why not give back when you’re doing business? It’s just the right thing to do,” O’Neill said.

To read more about O’Neill, visit maggieo.com.

Left: Swatchroom studio’s owners Warren Wexler and Maggie O’Neill. Right: O’Neill personally delivered a portrait of President Barack Obama to him, who said he loved it.

The Academy of the Holy Cross-bred O’Neill lives and works in the Shaw neighborhood. She loves the neighborhood and even serves on the board of Shaw Main Streets.

“We were just awarded the best main street award in the nation, and that says a lot,” O’Neill said, referring to recognition from the National Main Street Center. “The neighborhood is active and engaged in so many ways that it makes me proud to be a D.C. resident.”

O’Neill also mentioned that her D.C. pride makes her a better artist to capture our community.

At a recent summer open house, O’Neill and brand-new business partner Warren Wexler were able to show off their new Swatchroom studio, which O’Neill calls her second home, in the Lo-

gan Circle/Shaw neighborhood.

“For collectors, I think it is interesting to know more about the environment where my paintings are made, what it feels like to be in the space, and to get a better glimpse into my world,” O’Neill said.

Swatchroom was designed by Wexler and O’Neill, along with a team of 12 designers, artists and fabricators. Wexler said the two agreed that brutal honesty with each other was important; it helps them have the unrestricted ability to carry out creative problem-solving for their business, team and clients.

The studio has created full 3-D experiences, finishing over 15 restaurant projects. Now working on their first hotel opening in D.C., O’Neill and Wexler are taking things overseas next, with

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The Latest Dish

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ike Isabella plans to open a Spanish Zawoysky, who has worked with Voltaggio for restaurant, Arroz, in the Marriott many years, will be the chef.

Marquis Washington, D.C., in early Chef & F&B Pro Update: The Willard 2017, in the space where Chicagoan Alfredo InterContinental named Peter Laufer to lead Sandoval’s Mercadito was slated to open. The the culinary team at both the hotel and at French menu will feature southern Spanish, Portubistro Café du Parc. His 20 years of internaguese and North African influences. Arroz tional culinary experience includes stints as will seat 124 in the dining room, 48 in the bar executive chef at the InterContinental Houston and lounge and 62 in the outdoor terrace. With Galleria … Matchbox Food Group will open its the build-out, will it open in time for January’s 10th Matchbox in Pentagon City with Execuinauguration? tive Chef Ed McIntosh and its 11th in RichSocial Restaurant Group plans to open a mond’s trendy Short Pump section with Execu9,800-square-foot French-Mediterranean restive Chef Michael Linsey … Paride Guerra has taurant called La Vie at the Wharf in Southbeen named director of food and beverage for west D.C. Taking full advantage of being on the Hay-Adams. He was previously food and the waterfront, it will have beverage director for COMO an 1,100-square-foot outdoor Hotels and Resorts five-star patio as well as access to a properties Point Yamu in 5,000-square-foot rooftop Phuket, Thailand, and the terrace. This is the latest resTreasury in Perth, Australia taurant announcement for the … Ben Pflaumer will run the Wharf project. Social Restaukitchen at Osteria Morini at rant Group also has Provision the Navy Yard starting Aug. No. 14 in the 14th Street corri1 … Tom Crenshaw has taken dor, sports bar The Prospect over chef duties at Boss Shepon U Street and Bonfire in herd’s on 13th Street NW. He Dupont Circle. was previously at Paolo’s in Bryan Voltaggio’s Family Georgetown.

Meal will be replaced by his Quick Hits: District Italian fine-dining concept, Taco is opening at 4600 WisAggio, at One Loudoun in consin Ave. NW … &pizza Ashburn. It’s slated to open is opening at 405 8th St. SE Aug. 10, serving dinner on Barracks Row … Wahland weekend brunch. Justin Bryan Voltaggio and wife Jennifer. burgers will open where Ping

Donnie, Paul and Mark Wahlburg of Wahlburgers.

Pong Dim Sum was in Dupont Circle. Brought to you by Mark and Donnie Wahlburg (as well as brother Paul), it’s a franchise store operated

by Maurizio Marfoglia, who also has the Wahlburgers in Coney Island.

Ashok Bajaj of Knightsbridge Restaurant Group is shaking things up. He plans to move his Cleveland Park Bardeo into Ardeo so he can open Bindaas in Bardeo’s space. Bindaas will feature innovative Indian street food dishes. Executive Chef Vikram Sunderam will oversee this new concept. Street food suggests ordering many small dishes, a table full of food to share. The name Bindaas means independent, cool and carefree. Its kitchen will also be able to cater events in Ardeo’s 40-seat private dining room.

Burtons Grill plans to open its second NoVa location in the Cascade Overlook development at Epicerie Plaza. An Aug. 22 opening is targeted. The 6,400-square-foot space with 187 seats will open for lunch and

dinner. An outdoor patio can seat 72 guests.

The restaurant will showcase vegetarian and gluten-sensitive menus along with a new paleo-friendly menu.

Andre McCain’s HalfSmoke aims to open in Shaw in early August. The 100-seat restaurant at 651 Florida Ave. NW will have something for everyone: five large flat-screen TVs, a complimentary library of books and gourmet sausages via an assembly-line format.

Thompson Hospitality spun off Pheast Food Group, which now includes Austin Grill, American Tap Room, Willie T’s Lobster Shack and Be Right Burger. It is also the franchisee for the Dupont Circle location of California-based Pizza Studio. Former Austin Grill spaces in Silver Spring and Old Town Alexandria will transition into Hen Quarter, featuring Southern food. The plan is for Alexandria to open in August and Silver Spring in the fall.

Austin Grill in downtown D.C. will become a new concept, expected to open in spring 2017.

Meghan Baroody is going brick and mortar with her Meggrolls concept. A meggroll is eggroll 2.0, filled with un-eggroll-like stuff like chicken parm or mac ’n’ cheese. Baroody and business partner Alexandra Pare will open a 25-seat space in Old Town, Alexandria, in spring 2017.

Linda Roth is president of Linda Roth Associates, a public relations and marketing firm that specializes in the hospitality industry.

Reach her at Linda@LindaRothPR.com.

Cocktail of the Month: Patrón Mango Margarita

BY JODY KURASH

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here’s no doubt that one of the best summer drinks ever invented is the margarita. It’s cool, tart, a little tangy — with a spicy tequila smack — and salty on the finish. My preferred version would be on the rocks, forged with reposado tequila (for a bolder flavor), with a salted rim.

While my described concoction may taste like a piece of heaven on earth, there’s always room for experimentation and exploration.

Summer being the season of fruitful bounty, it’s only natural that folks began to try fruity variations on this timeless elixir.

Enter the flavored margarita.

Many people, especially bartenders, are divided in their opinions of the flavored margarita. Some refer to it as a bastardization of an immortal cocktail. Others have embraced the chance to play around with new taste combinations.

In the way that flavored daiquiris have been maligned, the flavored margarita has gotten a bad rap. Many people associate it with the premixed, preprocessed frozen version that resembles a 7-Eleven Slurpee or the tawdry variations served at places like TGI Fridays or Tex-Mex chain restaurants.

When prepared with quality ingredients (i.e., fresh fruit), flavored margaritas can provide a rainbow of exciting choices for refreshment, not just in summer, but all year round.

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Some say that flavored margaritas go back to the birth of the margarita itself. The number of stories that exist about the origins of the margarita nearly equal the number of insults hurled at a Donald Trump rally.

One story with credibility is that the margarita evolved from an old cocktail called

the daisy, which dates to the 1870s. In fact, margarita is the Spanish word for daisy.

Jerry Thomas’s 1876 daisy recipe consists of liquor shaken up with some lemon juice and “orange cordial,” then strained into a large cocktail glass and topped off with a little splash of soda. It was originally made with whiskey, but soon other versions popped up made with brandy and — perhaps the most popular version today — gin. Another notable diversion was the use of grenadine (pomegranate syrup).

According to Patrón tequila, at some point in the mid-1920s, a customer approached Henry Madden, bartender at the Turf Bar in Tijuana, and asked for a gin daisy. “In mixing [the] drink,” he told a reporter in 1936, “I grabbed the wrong bottle” — the tequila bottle.

Result: “the customer was so delighted that he called for another and spread the news far and wide.” By the mid-1930s, the drink was all over Mexico.

What remains a mystery is whether this tequila daisy was made with orange liqueur or grenadine. Were it the latter, it could mean that the first margarita was essentially a flavored one.

The secret to a delicious flavored margarita is using fresh fruit. My preferred choices include pomegranate (which has an earthy quality) and mango (my favorite tropical fruit).

The area’s best pomegranate margarita can be found at José Andrés’s Oyamel, one of D.C.’s

Patrón Mango Margarita 1.25 oz. .5 oz.

1.5 oz.

1.25 oz.

Patrón Silver Patrón Citrónge mango liqueur fresh mango puree fresh-squeezed lime juice

Combine ingredients in a dry shaker. Pour over ice and shake an additional six times. Serve over ice or straight up and garnish with lime.

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most authentic Mexican restaurants. Also try their Oaxacan orange, made with sour orange and maraschino liqueur.

Hotspot El Chucho – Cocina Superior in Columbia Heights has a selection of margaritas including a blackberry poblano. The hibiscus margarita at Tico DC has been called “the best drink in the District” by reviewers on Foursquare.

Cuba Libre on 9th Street NW has mixed a mango margarita made with Patrón silver tequila. Another great option is El Centro D.F., in Georgetown or on 14th Street NW, for the restaurant’s signature strawberry and mango concoction or prickly pear margarita.

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Ranked one of the most popular seafood restaurants in D.C., “this cosmopolitan” send-up of a vintage supper club that’s styled after a '40’s-era ocean liner is appointed with cherry wood and red leather booths, infused with a “clubby, old money” atmosphere. The menu showcases “intelligently” prepared fish dishes that “recall an earlier time of elegant” dining.

TOWN HALL

2340 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 202-333-5640 townhalldc.com Situated just north of Georgetown on Wisconsin Ave, Town Hall has been a neighborhood mainstay in Glover Park since 2005. Whether you’re popping in for dinner, drinks, or weekend brunch, Town Hall is the spot you’ll want to call home to Gulp, Gather & Grub.

Free parking is available nightly after 7PM, and during warmer months, our outdoor courtyard is one of DC’s best kept secrets.

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DAS ETHIOPIAN 1201 28TH ST., NW 202–333–4710 dasethiopian.com

DAS Ethiopian offers you a cozy twostory setting, with rare outside dining views and al fresco patio dining. DAS is located at the eclectically brilliant historic corner of the internationally renowned shopping district of Georgetown.

A tent under which all come to feast is the very Amharic definition of DAS. From neighborhood diners, nearby students and journalists to international visitors and performers, all enjoy the casual but refined atmosphere that serves up the freshest Ethiopian dishes from local and sustainable food sources.

MARTIN’S TAVERN

1264 WISCONSIN AVE., NW 202-333-7370 martinstavern.com Fifth generation Lauren Martin learns about the family business from her dad, Billy Martin, Jr. Since 1933, the warm atmosphere of Martin’s Tavern has welcomed neighbors and world travelers looking for great food, service and years of history within it’s walls. Fourth generation owner Billy Martin. Jr. continues the tradition of Washington’s oldest family owned restaurant.

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Tucked up along the historic C&O Canal, a national park that threads through the Georgetown neighborhood, The Grill Room at Rosewood Washington, D.C., specializes in hand-cut, bone-in, artisan meats, bracingly fresh seafood and tableside preparations. Framed with a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows and fluid geometric lines, the ambiance is one of relaxed refinement.

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1054 31ST ST., NW 202–337–8855 seacatchrestaurant.com Overlooking the historic C&O Canal, we offer fresh seafood simply prepared in a relaxed atmosphere. Beautiful waterside outdoor dining available.

Complimentary 3 hours parking.

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FILOMENA RISTORANTE 1063 Wisconsin Ave., NW 202–338–8800 filomena.com

Filomena is a Georgetown landmark that has endured the test of time for over 30 years. Our old-world cooking styles and recipes brought to America by the early Italian immigrants alongside the culinary cutting-edge creations of Italy’s foods of today executed by our Executive Chef and his team. Open 7 days a week 11:30am-11:00pm. Free salad bar with any lunch entrée MonSat and try our spectacular Sunday Brunch Buffet complete with carving stations, pasta stations!

Captivating customers since 2003, Cafe Bonaparte has been dubbed the “quintessential” European café, featuring award-winning crepes and arguably the “best” coffee in D.C.!

Other can't-miss attractions are the famous weekend brunch every Saturday and Sunday until 3 p.m. and our late-night weekend hours serving sweet and savory crepes until 1 a.m.

CLYDE’S OF GEORGETOWN 3236 M ST., NW 202–333–9180 clydes.com

This animated tavern, in the heart of Georgetown, popularized saloon food and practically invented Sunday brunch.

Clyde’s is the People’s Choice for bacon cheeseburgers, steaks, fresh seafood, grilled chicken salads, fresh pastas and desserts.

We look forward to calling you a “regular” soon!

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Malmaison opened in June 2013 and features elegant French dining in Washington D.C’s historic Georgetown waterfront. Housed in a majestically refurbished industrial warehouse reminiscent of NYC’s Meatpacking District, the modern restaurant, pastry shop and event lounge features the culinary talents of legendary 2 Michelin Starred French Chef Gerard Pangaud and Pastry Chef Serge Torres (Le Cirque NYC).

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Bethlehem, Pa.: A New Capital for Industrial Heritage

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he Aug. 2 opening of the National Museum of Industrial History makes Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, about 70 miles north of Philadelphia, the undisputed capital of America’s industrial heritage. The NMIH occupies the former Electric Repair Shop of Bethlehem Steel, a 40,000-square-foot building constructed in 1913, when the company was emerging as the nation’s second-largest steel company.

The new museum tells the story of iron and steel through a rich collection of machines, models, maps, photographs, oral histories and interactive experiences. There are displays about the people — industry leaders, visionary inventors, immigrant workers and union activists — and the process of making steel, paying tribute to the astounding productivity of mills that supplied the steel for such iconic structures as the Panama Canal, the Chrysler Building, Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge.

ers at plants in North and South America.

There is much more to see at NMIH about THERE IS SOMETHING OF the industrial revolution. The museum, an affilINTEREST FOR EVERYONE — iate of the Smithsonian Institution, exhibits an extraordinary collection of machinery from ESPECIALLY FOR FAMILIES the National Museum of American History.

Longtime Washingtonians may recognize some By 1940, nearly half the buildings in New artifacts from the “1876 Centennial Exposition” York City’s skyline used Bethlehem steel. “The exhibition on view from 1976 to 1996 in the Arts Steel,” as it was known locally, played a critical and Industries Building on the National Mall. role World War II as part of1 “the arsenal Other T &during T_Georgetowner_8.2016_Layout 7/28/16 3:08 PM Page 1 galleries are devoted to the history of democracy,” employing nearly 120,000 work- of silk and textile manufacturing and to the

propane industry, which emerged as an energy source in the 20th century. There is something of interest for everyone — especially for families — as NMIH demonstrates how the industrial revolution transformed America and how industry continues to influence and shape the nation’s economic, social and cultural life today.

The museum is located amid the ruins and remains of a stunning industrial landscape: more than forty structures that reflect the origins, rise and decline of a once-powerful corporation. In the 1990s, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and local governments launched a major environmental cleanup initiative, the nation’s largest private brownfield project. In the early 2000s, a performing-arts organization called SteelStacks spearheaded the area’s revival, offering a yearround venue for concerts and festivals.

The most spectacular feature at SteelStacks is five enormous blast furnaces, each more than 200 feet high, that provide a dramatic backdrop for hundreds of events.

Last year, an elevated 1,800foot walkway opened to the public, allowing visitors a unique close-up view of these rare survivors of the industrial age. The walkway follows the route of the Hoover Mason Trestle, a railway that delivered iron ore, coke and limestone to furnaces that each produced from 800 to 3,300 tons of iron daily. This setting is not found anywhere else in America or, quite possibly, in the world.

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Above: On loan from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, this Linde-Wolf ammonia compressor powered the refrigeration for a Maryland brewery. Opposite: The entrance to the new National Museum of Industrial History, on the site of the Bethlehem Steel complex. Opposite, inset: The museum’s steel exhibit, featuring a Nasmyth steam hammer, also on loan from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Photos by Glenn Koehler. Courtesy NMIH.

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Across the Lehigh River in downtown Bethlehem, visitors can experience early industrial history at buildings and sites maintained by the Historic Bethlehem Partnership. Many of these sites are associated with the Moravians who settled here in 1741. This remarkable collection of structures includes a tannery, a gristmill, a blacksmith shop and America’s first municipal waterworks.

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Clearly, a visit to Bethlehem and the Lehigh Valley can consume at least a weekend — maybe even a long holiday weekend. The Historic Hotel Bethlehem and the Sayre Mansion Inn are two excellent places to rest as you explore and discover America’s rich industrial heritage.

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I confronted her about this once, but it didn’t change a thing. Is there any way I can reach a more comfortable détente with her? My husband just seems to want to minimize the time we spend with her, but I keep thinking there must be a better way.

— Solution-Seeker Dear Solution-Seeker: Oh, how I appreciate your instinct to try and fix this problem! Thinking it through, I’m going to veer away from my usual suggestion that you have an honest conversation about how Mother-in-Law’s behavior makes you feel. I’m usually a broken record about how calm dialogue (focusing on feelings, avoiding blaming)

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Without strength training, we lose one percent of our muscle mass every year after age 30. When we lose muscle mass, we degrade our metabolic health and make chronic illnesses more likely. This is primarily because of insulin resistance, which increases as we lose muscle and drives diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, etc.

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Train two days per week. You can work all the muscles in your body with just four exercises. Push exercises (bench presses or push-ups), pull exercises (rows or pull-ups), squats or split squats and dead lifts or lunges.

To put a cherry on top, you can do a plank variation and carry something very heavy.

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Use lower reps. The point of strength training is to get stronger. Using light weights for high reps doesn’t provide enough challenge for this to happen. For the first two to four months, use higher reps like 10 and 12.

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Progress. Track at least some portion of your workouts and work at getting better.

For example, if you start out doing knee push-ups, work towards doing toe push-ups on an incline (and eventually the full thing).

This is the principle of progressive overload in action. Without a progressive challenge for your body, it will stay the same or move backwards.

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For this writer, at least, William Merritt Chase is one of those painters.

He is a painter I worry others won’t understand, overlooked as a popular artist of a certain era whose position among permanent museum collections is taken for granted.

The decisions he made in his work can be so perfect, and executed with such facility, nuance, creativity and expression, that the paintings seem inevitable and their presence becomes oddly invisible.

But this summer, the Phillips Collection has put Chase’s work in the spotlight and demanded all take notice, with “William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master,” on view

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through Sept. 11. It is an incandescent display of Chase’s artistic legacy, charting his themes, styles, influences and evolutions, showing him to be nothing less than one of the defining American artists of the turn of the century.

It is also a treatise on the lasting power and unparalleled beauty of paint, an ideal that Chase embodied over his half-century career.

At a moment when politics threatens to consume our souls and entertainment is a flittering montage of Netflix series and digital media, it is a welcomed and refreshing elixir.

Born in Indiana in 1849, Chase grew up studying under local artists while working for his merchant father. After a stint in the Navy, he moved to New York to study art before being brought back by his family to St. Louis due to financial hardship. But his striking talent was soon discovered by collectors in St. Louis, who sponsored him to study abroad in Munich in 1872 (a prospect over which Chase enthused, “I would rather go to Europe than go to heaven”).

Over the next six years, Chase developed

“The Tenth Street Studio,” 1880. William Merritt Chase. The exhibition, “William Merritt Chase: A Modern Master,” will be on view through Sept. 11 at the Phillips Collection.

a personal artistic language that married the Munich School’s painterly bravura and dark tonal contrasts with the realism and contemporary subjects of the European masters he so admired, among them Frans Hals, Velázquez and Manet.

Chase had a rare talent for rendering brilliant surfaces and rich color harmonies.

In “The Turkish Page” of 1876, he conveys a velvet blanket with such deftness that it could easily be overlooked, precisely because the color and shifting refraction of light off the luxurious fabric is so perfectly captured.

In the following gallery, a painting from nearly 40 years later, “Just Onions” of 1912, offers the chance for a remarkable comparison across time. A handful of small onions scatter over a dim counter amid ceramic ware and a small copper jug, the skins glistening translucently like veiled silk over a pale face.

The whole scene glows out from the surrounding darkness, like Caravaggio’s “The Calling of St. Matthew.”

Over his long career, Chase never lost sight of inspiration in pursuit of mastering his medium. The vitality and freshness with which he pursued this small still life shows a painter eternally determined and in love with his work.

Much like my tour through the exhibition itself, this article threatens to unravel into an overexcited time crunch, where I expend too much energy enthralled among the first couple galleries, then scuttle about the rest of the show tying things together before my time (and space on the page) runs out.

Mind you, I could obviously trim down my commentary on velour blankets and root vegetables to make room for a parade of masterworks. But I wonder if that would in a way ring false. What makes this exhibition so wonderful is how easily you are swept up among Chase’s paintings in any given room.

If you want his wispy scenes of the seashore, they are here. “At the Seaside,” painted

around 1892, is particularly exquisite. If you long to see his formal portraits of women, bold, austere and strong, they will entrance you with their piercing gaze.

Chase could imbue his subjects with rich inner life, and his interiors scenes are full of lived-in space, both intellectually and temporally. Light from windows wash through everything, shadows are subtle but defining, and his subjects always between breathes.

His garden and Plein-Air painting scenes seem like they must have been wildly popular and sold very well. You can envision them in every turn-of-the-century parlor in America.

The exhibition's last gallery might well be its best, devoted to Chase's paintings from his famous Tenth Street Studio. Reputed as one of the finest studios in New York, Chase's lavish studio was a bohemian paradise, brimming with a diverse array of objects, paintings, textiles and bric-a-brac. His painting from 1880, “The Tenth Street Studio,” captures the rhythm and harmony that he imparted to both his life and his art.

From an expansive frontal view of the studio's grand interior we witness an exchange between a young woman and the artist. It is difficult to state this without seeming fawningly hyperbolic, but almost everything about the painting is perfect. The heavenly white of the woman's cascading dress traces your eye down to the paw of Chase's black Russian hound, drawing the viewer into the rouge and darkness of the remaining scene. Off to her right sits Chase, enveloped in shadow with palette in hand.

It is nice to think that this is how the artist wanted to be remembered, as an attentive and observing presence, almost spectral in his influence and indistinguishable from the heart of his work. He gave shape to the darkness and made beauty out of his surroundings. Don't miss the chance to glimpse his spirit through the paint.

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At Olney: Not Your Granddad’s — or Dad’s — G&S

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n the annals of musical theater, or theater of any sort, the works of (W. S.) Gilbert and (Arthur) Sullivan stand, sometimes on purpose, not entirely on strong footing. As comic operas and operettas particular to Victorian times, they are an anomaly in the 21st century.

Yet they are entirely deathless, original and universal, here, there and everywhere.

Even the Wikipedia entry on Gilbert and Sullivan gets somewhat fanciful, describing a world in which “fairies rub elbows with British lords, flirting is a capital offence, gondoliers ascend to the monarchy and pirates emerge as noblemen who have gone astray.” That was the result of hitching a facile librettist, Gilbert, to the absurdly difficult, trippy music of Sullivan.

Together, they built a career upon such works as “The Pirates of Penzance,” “Iolanthe,” “H.M.S. Pinafore,” “Ruddigore,” “The Gondoliers” and “The Mikado.”

To this day, there are companies all over the world who do nothing but G&S, the Victorian Lyric Opera in Rockville and the Washington Savoyards among them. Broadway was lured into the fray with a Joseph Papp production of “The Pirates of Penzance” in 1981 that attracted such stars as Kevin Kline, rock-pop princess Linda Ronstadt, Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits and Jim Belushi (brother of SNL legend John). A hit on the Great White Way, it went on to tour nationally.

Whether you know the tropes and traps of Gilbert and Sullivan by heart or not at all, you should consider making the 30-mile trek out to Olney Theatre Center in Maryland, where the wonderfully named Chicago theater company the Hypocrites are performing “The Pirates of Penzance” and “The Mikado” through Aug. 21 in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theatre Lab. Beware. This is not your granddads’ G&S, or even your dad’s. But it might just be your highly caffeinated cup of tea. What’s more, you can sit and watch in a “promenade,” mix with the cast and have a drink during the play. Oh, and the actors who play the parts also play the

it all comes together.

We’ve toured with this in different parts of the country and audiences have really responded.

For one thing, most straight productions of G&S run well over two hours. Ours go 80 minutes. The language is a little different and, for sure, the sets and settings are. It’s a little subversive.

But it’s also all The Hypocrites, a popular theater company from Chicago, are performing “The Pirates of very inviting for Penzance” and “The Mikado” through Aug. 21 in the Mulitz-Gudelsky Theater Lab at the Olney the audience — to Theater Center. Courtesy the Hypocrites. be this close and musical instruments, so don’t be surprised to be in the middle of it all. It’s an untraditional way find yourself up close and personal with an acof presenting that’s very much a part of theater cordion. traditions. It becomes an experience, an event.”

“No, it’s not your typical Gilbert and SulliThe Hypocrites Theater productions seem to van,” said Sean Graney, the gifted artistic direcdirectly address the issue that’s being discussed tor and founder of the Hypocrites, which began among many leaders and artistic directors of life in 1997. “But we stay true to the music, the live performance venues: how to attract today’s lyrics, the spirit. It’s immersive, I would say. I younger audiences, who take in entertainment think it gives the audience a chance to be a part of things. It’s more intimate. It’s very different, sure.”

The Hypocrites and Graney are a popular and much honored theater company in Chicago, operating out of a small theater with big ambitions. “We’re known for bringing fresh takes on classical theater works, but we hadn’t done too much work in musical theater. Our first forays into the form weren’t entirely successful. It’s a difficult thing to work on a company like ours — there’s copyright issues, and the sheer scope of things, public domain. We did do ‘Threepenny Opera,’ but somehow it didn’t quite work.

“But with these Gilbert and Sullivan works,

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Playwright Seema Sueko, co-founder Museum and The Textile Museum will host a free Celebration of Textiles, and former executive artistic director of San Diego’s Mo‘olelo Performing Arts Sept. 3 and 4 on GW’s mid-campus quad.

Company, has been named deputy artistic Demonstrations by artists (and sheepdirector of Arena Stage. Since January of shearers), hands-on crafts and internation2014, she has been associate artistic director al performances inspired by the exhibiof the Pasadena Playhouse. Arena Stage’s tion “Stories of Migration: Contemporary Artists interpret Diaspora” are planned for own co-founder, Zelda Fichandler, died July 29 at the age of 91. A public memorial Saturday, with art activities continuing on service for Fichandler will be held at Arena, Sunday. For details, visit museum.gwu.edu.

and culture through computers, smartphones and other gadgets with screens.

“I think in that sense younger audiences have been a little underserved in the theater.

There have been all these rules — lights out, don’t say anything, be quiet and well behaved, shut your gadgets off and so on. I think today’s younger audiences want to be a little more a part of things. They like to get in a room and hang out. This way, it becomes a shared experience.

I presume people will turn off their phones, in any case, because there’s too much else going on. We encourage people to bring their children, although not their pets.”

That’s also the kind of theater experience that can’t be replicated on the computer. It’s communal, shared and experienced, with or without drinks.

The Hypocrites received a 2013 Tony Award for best regional theater. Recently, Graney’s “All Our Tragic,” a 12-hour extravaganza comprising all 32 surviving Greek tragedies¸ got six 2015 Equity Jeff Awards, which celebrate excellence in Chicago theater.

“This is the most delicious fun I’m going to have this summer,” said Olney Theatre Center Artistic Director Jason Loewith. “Everyone knows Chicago is home to some of the world’s most inventive companies, and the Hypocrites are one of my favorites.”

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