The Georgetowner's January 25, 2017 Issue

VOLUME 63 NUMBER 8

JANUARY JANUARY25 25-- FEBRUARY FEBRUARY7,7,2017 2017

What ’s New, Pussyhat ?

A FT E R T H E IN A U G U R AT ION , T HE W OM EN’S M ARCH: THIS IS W HAT DEM OC R A C Y L OOK S L IK E

RIP: WILLIAM PETER BLATTY, POLLY KRAFT EX-DHS BOSS JEH JOHNSON SELLS HOUSE, LEAVES TOWN DOWNTOWNER NEWS: RIOTERS FACE TIME IN JAIL HAUTE & COOL: TRUMPING WITH STYLE SOCIAL: SISTER CITIES, CAFE MILANO, FIOLA MARE

IN T HIS IS SUE N E W S . 4 -7

Calendar Town Topics Overheard at Lunch

E DI T ORI A L /OPI N IO N 8 DC SC E N E . 9

ON THE COVER Amy Bakken, who came to Washington D.C. in support of the Woman's March, held Jan. 21, took the photo from a building on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Inauguration

BUSI N E S S . 11 Ins & Outs

H AU T E & C OOL . 12 Trumping With Style

DOW N T OW N E R DC . 13 Town Topics

RE A L E S TAT E . 14 Feature Property

F I N A NC E . 15

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It’s Time to Get Fiscally Fit

C OV E R . 18 -19

What’s new, Pussyhat?

F OOD & W I N E . 20 -21

Hello and Goodbye: The Restaurant Bubble

I N C OU N T R Y & G E TAWAY . 22 In Country Feature

BODY & SOUL . 25 Murphy’s Love

A R T S . 26 -27

Herman Leonard’s Jazz Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery Albee’s ‘Woolf’ Comes to Ford’s at Last

T HE A N T IQUE S A DDIC T . 28

Herman Leonard’s Jazz Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery

GOOD WORK S & GOOD T IME S . 29 -31

Winter Gala Guide, Winter Show Highlights ‘The Art of Style’, Ourismans’ Fete at Café Milano, Creative Coalition Gathers on Inauguration Night, Kellyanne Conway Saluted at Four Seasons, Sister Cities Gala Salutes Slovenia, Melania Trump, and Cap File Toasts Team Rubicon at Fiola Mare

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President Donald Trump at his inaugural address Jan. 20. Photo by Jeff Malet.

Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in the movie "Fences."

Courtesy Paramount Pictures.

A wax statue of President Donald Trump at Madame Tussauds at 10th & F Streets downtown. Photo by Jeff Malet.

The Speech and the March: What a Difference

The Oscars: Not Quite So White

Wax Trump Debuts at D.C.'s Madame Tussauds (photos)

BY G A RY T I S C H L E R If the campaign seemed finally over on Friday, on Saturday a new campaign seemed to have begun.

BY G A RY T I S C H L ER Among the nominees for the 2017 Academy Awards — to be held Feb. 26 at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood — were “Fences” star Denzel Washington and five other black actors, for a change.

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UP & COMING JANUARY 27

Opulence Revealed Cognac Tasting

Urban Salon: Bombs to Beer

In Washington, D.C., the two-hour Opulence Revealed cognac experience is only available at i Ricchi. After a welcome cocktail and hors d’oeuvres, guests will be ushered into another room, where they will be overwhelmed by a unique sensory cognac experience. Tickets are $59. For details, visit iricchidc.com. Ristorante i Ricchi, 1220 19th St. NW.

Discover how a Southeast D.C. factory, built in 1919 to manufacture munitions and ship parts for the U.S. Navy, has been converted into Bluejacket Brewery. After the tour, continue the conversation on adaptive reuse, historic preservation and urban production spaces at Bluejacket’s attached restaurant. Tickets are $15 (food and beverages not included). For details, visit go.nbm. org. National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW.

JANUARY 28

Mogwai Play ‘Atomic’

Pianist Ryo Yanagitani will join Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Jonathan Carney and principal cellist Dariusz Skorazewski to perform Brahms’s “Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major,” Op. 83. Tickets are $35.

For details, visit dumbartonconcerts.org. Dumbarton United Methodist Church, 3133 Dumbarton St. NW.

“Atomic,” the new album by Scottish experimental rock legends Mogwai, is composed of reworked versions of the music recorded for the soundtrack to director Mark Cousins’s documentary “Atomic: Living In Dread and Promise,” which first aired on BBC Four last summer. Tickets are $35 ($30 in advance). For details, visit sixthandi.org. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW.

Jonathan Carney Piano Trio

JANUARY 30

GatherDC’s Rebrand Launch Party

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Gather the Jews is changing its name to GatherDC. This 21-and-over Rebrand Launch Party will feature specialty cocktails and chocolates from Co Co. Sala, music from DJ Aurigami, a photo booth and door prizes. Admission is free.

For details, visit eventbrite.com. Co Co. Sala, 929 F St. NW.

Story Time at the Postal Museum

Jonathan Carney.

The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum invites adults and 2- and 3-year-olds to discover the world around them.

Children will build important developmental and social skills through books, activities, songs and self-guided

seize your window of

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gallery exploration. Admission is free. For details, visit postalmuseum.si.edu. National Postal Museum, 2 Massachusetts Ave. NE.

FEBRUARY 1 AND 2 International Guitar Night

One of the most important showcases for contemporary finger stylists, International Guitar Night will feature Gypsy jazz virtuoso Lulo Reinhardt, Italy’s Luca Stricagnoli, Brazil’s Chrystian Dozza and India’s Debashish Bhattacharya.

Tickets are $25 and $27. To learn more, visit wolftrap.org.

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FEBRUARY 9

‘Peter and the Starcatcher’ Preview Tony Award-winning musical “Peter and the Starcatcher” is a mesmerizing, grown-up prequel to the treasured story of Peter Pan. Tickets for this pay-what-you-can preview will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.

A donation of at least $10 is suggested. For details, visit constellationtheatre.org. Constellation Theatre Company, 1835 14th St. NW.

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VOCES8 at St. John’s Making its debut in Washington, D.C., this eight-voice British ensemble has become one of the best-loved singing groups in the world. Its repertoire extends from Renaissance polyphony to contemporary commissions and arrangements.

Tickets are $40. For details, visit stjohnsgeorgetown.org. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 3240 O St. NW.

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NEWS

BY RO B E R T D E VA N E Y, P EG GY S A N D S , R I C H A R D S E L D E N A N D G A RY T I S C H L E R

Leslie Maysak Named CAG Executive Director

Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission from 2014 to 2016. She succeeds Betsy Cooley, who retired last month, having worked at CAG for 13 years. Originally from Boston, Maysak has lived in Georgetown and been a CAG member since 1999. She and her husband Paul, who works for PNC Bank, live on the west side of town on P Street with their sons Jack and Liam. She is a CAG board member, has worked with Concerts in the Park since 2012 and was a CAG Gala chair in 2015.

ANC 2E to Meet Jan. 30; Gibbons Likely to Become Chair Leslie Maysak, executive director of the Citizens Association of Georgetown. Photo by Robert Devaney.

The Citizens Association of Georgetown has a new executive director: Leslie Maysak, who was executive director of the

The 2017-2019 members of the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC 2E) — Joe Gibbons, Mara Goldman, Rick Murphy, Lisa Palmer, Monica L. Roaché, Zachary Schroepfer, Ed Solomon and Jim Wilcox — will meet for the first time Jan. 30. At the public meeting, the commission will elect its 2017 officers.

Gibbons is reportedly the leading candidate to become ANC 2E chair.

Discussions will include DDOT work on the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, support of the Rose Park Farmers Market, a Class A liquor license for Dixie Liquor and a zoning exception for &pizza, as well as several homeowners’ renovation plans.

ANC 2E will meet 6:30 p.m., Monday, Jan. 30, in the Heritage Room (second floor) of Georgetown Visitation Prep, 1524 35th St. NW. The commission’s new website is under construction. The archived website can be found at anc2e.com/index.html. Executive Director Peter Sacco can be reached at 2e@ anc.dc.gov or 978-882-5013.

Artist Polly Kraft Dies at 89 Polly Kraft, a painter whose still lifes and landscapes graced the Corcoran and Addison/Ripley galleries as well as the Jackson Art Center, died of cancer Jan. 1 at her Georgetown home. She was 89.

Born Rhoda Norton Winton in Spokane, Washington, Kraft was also known as a Georgetown hostess for a time; she was married to columnist Joe Kraft, who died in

Polly Kraft. Courtesy Jackson Art Center.

1986, and then to Lloyd Cutler, Carter and Clinton White House counsel, who died in 2005. While she knew the city’s movers and shakers, she loved the artist’s life best. Her first marriage, to Whitney Stevens, produced sons Mark and David Stevens. She is also survived by a brother and four grandchildren.

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Final Chapter for ‘Exorcist’ Author, 89 Author and noted Georgetown University alumnus William Peter Blatty died Jan. 12 at the age of 89. “The Exorcist,” on the other hand, will live forever — which means that Blatty will have achieved that status here on earth. But that’s been the case for a long time, ever since his horror novel, “The Exorcist,” appeared, telling the tale of a duel to the (literal) death with the devil’s demon, right here in

Georgetown, as two priests fight for the soul of a young girl.

The 1973 movie “The Exorcist” also became a smash hit, noted for its then-shocking and now-dated special effects — head swiveling, green slime — and, locally, for the filming of the death of one of its characters falling down the stone staircase next to the Car Barn, steeping descending from Prospect Street to M Street.

The Exorcist Steps are now an unholy shrine for visitors and locals alike.

A devout Roman Catholic of Lebanese descent, Blatty endured a difficult childhood.

Raised by his mother (his father left home when Blatty was three), he went to Brooklyn Preparatory School on a scholarship, then attended Georgetown University, also on scholarship.

On the day before Halloween in 2015, Georgetown and Washington, D.C., observed a full-blown celebration of the Exorcist Steps, complete with the installation of a commemorative plaque at 36th Street and M Street. Crowded with fans and students, the event also welcomed “Exorcist” director William Friedkin, Mayor Muriel Bowser, Council member Jack Evans, Georgetown University President John DeGioia and Blatty himself.

Sanctuary City D.C. Allots Funds to Fight Deportation

Author William Peter Blatty and director William Friedkin at the Nov. 30, 2015, Exorcist Steps ceremony. Photo

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Last November, a scared and angry group of immigrants confronted Mayor Muriel Bowser. “We feel unsafe,” they declared. They demanded she protect them from possible deportation should the just-nominated Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump become president. They acknowledged they were “undocumented” — living in the country illegally — a misdemeanor offense.

But they also demanded protection for those immigrants facing mandatory deportation: convicted felons.

Bowser responded immediately. “We are a sanctuary city and our policies are clear,” she wrote in an official statement. “Every resident of Washington, D.C., should continue

Announcing a Holy Trinity Church program, a sign on 35th Street welcomes all. to go about [their] day-to-day lives knowing that the government of Washington, D.C., is here to serve residents and to keep them safe.” As a sanctuary city, D.C. police and

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TOWN TOPICS law enforcement officers were ordered not to cooperate with federal immigration officials to deport any of the District’s estimated 25,000 illegal immigrants, even those facing federal deportation orders as a result of criminal convictions.

Advocates said it wasn’t enough. Last week, 10 days before the inauguration of President Trump, Bowser announced she was “doubling down” on the District’s status as a sanctuary city. She would establish a $500,000 special fund to help pay for legal aid for any immigrant facing deportation by the Trump administration.

The money is offered in grants by the D.C. Office of Latino Affairs to defense lawyers and to nonprofit organizations to help illegal immigrants apply for asylum.

The grants, which became available Jan. 23, will also help those with green cards who are facing deportation — almost always after being convicted of and serving time for a serious felony — to obtain U.S. citizenship instead.

Jeh Johnson’s Secure Location Is Sold Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson has sold his home at 27th & O Streets NW, according to neighborhood sources. The house sold after just three days on the market and just one day after Johnson’s term of office ended, upon the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

The buyer is unknown.

Johnson, 59, is returning to the 900-pluslawyer, New York-based firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where he became the first African American partner in 1994. He will work as a litigator in New York and Washington, the American Lawyer reported, moving into the office once used by Ted Sorensen, White House counsel in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Before taking the top spot at the Department of Homeland Security in 2013, Johnson was general counsel to the Department of Defense.

The move will also be a return to his old home in Montclair, New Jersey, the large basement of which is filled with Johnson’s beloved model railroad. He (and his 24/7 Secret Service entourage) will be missed, neighbors affirm.

Your Chance to ‘Walk the Beat’ The chance to walk a community police beat with one of Georgetown’s Metropolitan Police Department officers — or perhaps with a U.S. Park Police officer — is being organized by Ed Solomon, member of the Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission, and MPD officer Antonal Atkins of the 2nd District.

“There is overwhelming interest in the ‘Walk the Beat’ initiative,” Solomon told The Georgetowner. He is asking block captains to offer three dates during the hours of 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. or during evening beats.

“This is a great opportunity to get to know your local police officers and to see what they see,” Solomon said. “Many crimes are just waiting to happen with unlocked cars and bicycles, and valuable items like laptop computers, phones and even wallets left unattended in plain sight.”

Overheard at Lunch:

BY KATE OCZYPOK

Ain’t Nuthin’ But a (White) Bryce Weds Kayla, For Real Apatow: Trump Will Run Washington Nationals right fielder Bryce U.S. Like “The Apprentice” House Party Harper is no longer playing the field. Harper, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Hamm, Sheryl Crow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew Broderick, Brad Paisley, Chrissy Teigen, John Legend, Gloria Estefan, Don Cheadle, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Meryl Streep, George Clooney — no, the White House Correspondents’ Dinner wasn’t moved up so President Obama could attend one more. The A-list celebrities were in town Jan. 6 to bid the president farewell. The Daily Mail reported that the partying went on until 4 a.m., with Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks cutting a rug.

Breakfast was chicken and waffles.

24, married his on-again, off-again fiancée Kayla Varner, also 24, at the Mormon Temple in San Diego in late December, Washingtonian reported. The sweetest touch was his tuxedo jacket, which the 2015 National League MVP had silk-screened with photos of Varner and of the two together from the couple’s engagement session.

Holliday Pulls Out of Inauguration

Judd Apatow, director of “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” and “Trainwreck,” believes that Donald Trump will run the country like his reality show, the Hill reported. Apatow said he thinks the incoming president’s management style is to sit in his office, send his kids out to do his work, then make impulsive decisions based on what they tell him. That sounds pretty much like the premise of “The Apprentice,” the reality show that Trump is still getting an executiveproducer credit on.

After agreeing to perform at the inaugural ceremonies for Donald Trump, Broadway’s Jennifer Holliday reneged on the deal just a day later, saying she didn’t take into consideration that appearing would be “taken as a political act against her own personal beliefs,” NPR reported. Best known for her performance in “Dreamgirls,” which won her a Tony, Holliday has sung for Democratic and Republican presidents going back to Ronald Reagan.

After 108 Years, Cubs Return to White House

Barack Pins Joe, Memes Multiply

The Chicago Cubs, 2016 World Series champions, visited the White House last week to celebrate their big win. The Huffington Post reported that President Obama joked with the players that it took them long enough to get there. (The Cubs’ previous World Series victory occurred in 1908, with Teddy Roosevelt in the White House.) The team made it just under the wire, since Obama — a former Chicagoan, though a White Sox fan — was down to his last four days in office.

President Barack Obama awarded Vice President Joe Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction at a surprise event in the State Dining Room Jan. 12, the Hill reported. The tearful Biden and lighthearted Obama — who referred to “our bromance” — were instantly turned into memes, including one spoofing “Titanic” and Britney Spears’s “Oops! … I Did It Again” song, which references “Titanic.”

Sasha and Maisy to SoBe Sasha Obama recently went on a girls’ trip to Miami Beach with outgoing Vice President Joe Biden’s granddaughter Maisy, staying at the Setai Hotel, US Weekly reported. The Setai describes itself as an “oasis of tranquility amidst the vibrant energy of South Beach.” The Sidwell Friends schoolmates have been buddies for years, traveling together to sporting events such as the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada championship in 2015.

Obama turns 16 in June.

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EDITORIAL / OPINION Jack Evans Report

How Can We, the People, Unite? A Big Weekend, Well-Handled

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ou will find all kinds of references to you, the people, we the people, us, again we, the moment belongs to you, your country, the people, we are one nation. There was even a Bible quote: “How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity.”

This should make our hearts soar with optimism about the future.

Except … all those phrases somehow seemed less inviting than they might. In the wake of what may well have been A cookie (courtesy Ridgewells Catering) from the Sister Cities Gala, found at the Georgetowner news desk. Photo by Aidah Fontenot. the most contentious election in modern times, our country popular vote, and not by a small margin either remains divided.

— though he blames, without evidence, voter President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech fraud on a massive scale. broke no ground on the path to unity that The administration’s opponents should take many of us hope for. Unity requires respect for care not to go the way of Senate Majority others. Respect for their beliefs. Respect for Leader Mitch McConnell, who saw his task their principled opposition. Respect for their as making sure that President Obama did religions. Respect for their gender. not succeed at anything. Nor should our The pressing question is, what can our representatives, on both sides of the aisle, new president bring to the table in the way “go along to get along” with Trump simply of unity, or even amity? He is famous for because he is president. The admonition would never apologizing — why should he, since be to respect the office, to feel free to disagree he never makes mistakes? — and for his and, when there is an opportunity to reach loose relationship with truth (alternative facts, agreement, to seek to do so. anyone?). Can he temper his temper, agree to As for President Trump, let’s start focusing disagree, work with others? on what he does, not just on what he says — or, It’s important to remember that Trump did worse, tweets — and how he says it. not win a mandate or in a landslide. He lost the

How did you spend Inauguration Weekend?

Your opinion matters. Email your response to editorial@georgetowner.com.

This past weekend, Washington, D.C., hosted both the 58th Presidential Inauguration and the Women’s March on Washington.

With hundreds of thousands of attendees at the two events, I want to thank the thousands of hardworking Metropolitan Police Department officers, D.C. government employees, Metro workers and volunteers from other police departments and elsewhere who helped these major events run smoothly.

The plans for the inauguration were months in the making, with Mayor Bowser, MPD Interim Chief Peter Newsham and D.C. Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director Chris Geldart working with the Secret Service, the FBI and other federal agencies to ensure a safe and successful event. There were some protests in parts of the city during the day.

While they were mostly peaceful, there were a few in the crowds who turned to violence and were arrested. For the most part, however, the city remained safe.

The Women’s March on Washington brought an unbelievable number of people to the National Mall and the surrounding area. The crowd was so large that the march route was almost totally filled in with people standing for the rally beforehand. As a result, people ended up marching from the rally stage at 3rd Street SW and Independence Avenue to the Capitol, the Washington Monument and the White House, all around the Mall. Despite the larger than expected crowd (reports put it somewhere between 500,000 and a million), all remained safe and peaceful.

I was able to attend both the inauguration ceremony and the Women’s March. I joined

Mayor Bowser to observe the peaceful transfer of power from President Obama to President Trump, as well as to thank President and Mrs. Obama for their service to our country.

Not only was I able to join the hundreds of thousands of peaceful marchers on Saturday, but my colleague Mary Cheh and I opened the John A. Wilson Building — D.C.’s city hall — as a meeting place and warming space for marchers.

Metro’s performance over the weekend, which was nothing short of excellent, deserves special mention. The plan for Inauguration Day had been developed well in advance. Metro coordinated with federal and local law enforcement agencies and the Presidential Inauguration Committee to ensure everything went smoothly.

However, there wasn’t the same kind of advance planning by Metro for the Women’s March. Hundreds of people reached out to Metro (and to me) about the expected crowds, and Metro responded to their concerns. General Manager Paul Wiedefeld quickly came up with a plan to provide extra service, opening the system early at 5 a.m. and adding trains. It’s a good thing we did, as Saturday was the second busiest day in the history of the system, with 1,001,613 trips. (The busiest day was Jan. 20, 2009, for President Obama’s first inauguration.)

There were definitely huge crowds at Metro stations on Saturday, which led to some delays, but riders seemed to be in good spirits, respectful and patient while they waited. This went along with the mood of the march itself, which, as far as I know, did not result in any arrests or acts of violence.

Jack Evans is the District Council member for Ward 2, representing Georgetown and other neighborhoods since 1991.

$500,000 to Protect Convicted Immigrants?

On Monday, Jan. 23, the D.C. government began allocating $500,000 of taxpayer money for lawyers to prevent immigrants convicted of serious felonies from being legally deported.

The special fund also can be used to help convicted criminal immigrants with green cards defy deportation orders by obtaining citizenship (making them no longer at risk of deportation).

While D.C. officials may believe the fund will also defend non-criminals who fear deportation, the fact is that the only immigrants facing immediate orders of removal are convicted felons.

The timing of the $500,000 fund suggests it was driven by overreaction to two possible changes in federal immigration policy by

the Trump administration: (1) the ending of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), Obama’s executive order giving a temporary two-year waiver from deportation to the so-called DREAMers — millennials aged 18 to 32 who came into the country illegally before the age of 15, and (2) President Trump’s promise to expand, expedite and give top priority to the deportation of convicted criminal felons.

Almost everyone knows and agrees that not all the estimated 12 million immigrants currently residing illegally in the United States can or should be removed (25,000 reside in D.C.). Legislatively, Congress must decide who can stay and who must go. In the meantime, operationally, the president PUBLISHER Sonya Bernhardt

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has the right to declare priorities on how to use limited taxpayer resources to execute immigration laws — including deportation — as efficiently as possible.

President Trump, like President Obama before him, is unlikely to order the removal en masse of illegal immigrants who have not been convicted of a felony. DACA will not be repealed until it is replaced by Congress in the next year or so. There is no need for a special fund to “protect” non-criminal DREAMers when they are not going to be deported.

However, probably within a few days or weeks, President Trump will order the expeditious removal of immigrants convicted of serious felonies. That was President Obama’s stated priority as well.

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D.C. has declared itself a sanctuary city.

It already forbids all D.C. law-enforcement officers from cooperating with immigration authorities to deport immigrants. And now the District is funding taxpayer grants to help. It is possible the city could lose crucial federal funds if it aggressively blocks federal immigration law enforcement.

The misuse of taxpayer funds to obstruct the lawful removal of convicted criminal immigrants undermines our criminal justice system and threatens community well-being.

Furthermore, we can think of far better uses for the half-million dollars that seem to be burning a hole in D.C. officials’ pockets.

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Donald John Trump, 70, was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States at the U.S. Capitol under seasonably mild temperatures, cloudy skies and tight security on Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.

Donald Trump is sworn in as 45th president by Chief Justice John Roberts.

Former President George W. Bush, next to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The NYPD Emerald Society Pipes and Drums in the inaugural parade.

After the swearing-in, with first lady Melania Trump holding the Lincoln bible, President Trump prepares to speak.

The West Front of the U.S. Capitol.

Jackie Evacho sings the national anthem.

Below: Several military academies and army units marched in the inaugural parade.

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For details, visit bid.georgetowndc.com.

MONDAY, JANUARY 30 Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E Meeting

The monthly ANC 2E public meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation Prep, 35th Street NW at Volta Place, main building. For details, visit ANC2E.com/ meetings.html.

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15 GBA Monthly Networking Meeting

The Georgetown Business Association will host its monthly reception at 6:30 p.m. at a location to be determined. For details, visit georgetownbusiness.org.

FEBRUARY — TBD

CAG Meeting on the West Heating Plant

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31

The Citizens Association of Georgetown will host a meeting on the West Heating Plant project with updates from architect David Adjaye and landscape designer Laurie Olin, at the House of Sweden, 2900 K St. NW.

Ed Lazere, executive director of the DC Fiscal Policy Institute, and Jared Bernstein, senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, will discuss D.C.’s 2018

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Ins & Outs

In: Das Ethiopian Gets CNN’s Attention

BY R OBE RT DEVA NEY

Das Ethiopian restaurant at 28th and M Streets NW and its food were captured by CNN cameras two weeks ago for the network’s adventurous food series with Washington City Paper’s Laura Hayes commenting on the spicy Georgetown favorite. Sileshi Alifom of Das welcomed some of his favorite customers to the restaurant for the midday shoot.

In: Rumors Now District Anchor Remember dancing or hanging out at Rumors? Of course, you don’t. The longtime standard bar at 19th and M Streets NW has been transformed to District Anchor, thanks to the same people who own the Quarterdeck in Arlington. The menu will be changing — here come the crabs the Arlington place is known for — and the Rumors tradition of drinking and dancing into the night is on the way back.

Das Ethiopian restaurant owner Sileshi Alifom and City Paper’s Laura Hayes on M Street with the CNN cameras. Photo by Robert Devaney.

In: & Other Stories (Clothing) Another ampersand-abusive business makes the scene in Georgetown. Part of the H&M retail group, the pricier & Other Stories will open noon, Feb. 3 with gifts for the first 50 customers. Across the street is H&M and

around the corner will be Cos, another H&M business, in the corner building at Wisconsin Avenue & M. At 3241 M St. NW, formally the space for Bandolero and earlier Hook, the new store will sell women's clothing, accessories, etc. It is the fifth such store by the Swedish clothing conglomerate in the U.S.

For Sale: Bo Blair’s Smith Point The boisterous, preppy hangout, Smith Point, at 1338 Wisconsin Ave. NW, is for sale, owner Bo Blair told the Washington Post, which had reported earlier, as had The Georgetowner, that he would be revamping the place for the new administration because of the bar’s reputation as the young Republican place to be during the George W. Bush years. Jenna and Barbara Bush visited — as did Ivanka and Eric Trump, when they were students at Georgetown University. Blair says that he will focus on his other places, such as Surfside and the soon-to-open Millie’s, and that Smith Point’s tavern-class liquor license is a selling point. The spot will be open on weekends.

Out: P Street Pictures Closes on O St.

my house. I’m hopeful that I can continue to work with you on your framing projects. The parking will certainly be easier. I’ll also have the time and availability to come to you — pstreetpix@gmail.com or 202-337-0066.”

Coming Soon: More, Nicer Sidewalk Widening

by BID The Georgetown Business Improvement District is looking to continue its temporary sidewalk widening program with more weekends and better-looking traffic barriers — such as large potted plants — besides a railing.

"We want to soften it," said Georgetown BID CEO Joe Sternlieb, who adds that the BID is talking to traffic coordinators, landscapers and merchants. Pedestrians were found not to using the newly opened area on the street as much as they could, staying on the brick sidewalks. Business owners want temporary sidewalk widening in the spring and fall, but not in the summer, and an extended holiday season, Sternlieb said. The widening will occur along parts of M Street and Wisconsin Avenue for the next year and beyond. BID will present its plans to the Georgetown Advisory Neighborhood Commission at its Jan. 30 meeting.

A classic Georgetown business has departed, after moving to 3204 O St. NW five years ago.

Business owner Judy Schlosser said, “The P Street Pictures design studio has moved to

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Trumping With Style

BY ALLYS ON BURK HA R D T Can we all agree on bipartisanship when it comes to style?

There is much anticipation regarding the fashion trends that will emerge with a new administration. The first lady inevitably becomes a style icon.

What she wears makes a statement, sends a message and sets trends.

And her designers have the opportunity to go down in history, as their looks are encased in the exhibition “The First Ladies” at the Smithsonian Institution.

Fashion watchers are curious to observe how top designers will be dressing the first lady and the first daughter these next four years.

Melania, a former model, has already demonstrated some serious fashion dedication. Her style credentials are accomplished: a perfect blowout combined with rigid tailoring and complementing colors.

And Ivanka has secured a strong position in the fashion industry herself. She has built her brand on a platform that champions working women. Ivanka’s image is easy chic and includes a high-level approach to coordination.

Designer fashions can inspire you whether they are applicable to your lifestyle or not. And remember: everything can — and probably should — be tailored if you want to put your best look forward.

The first lady appears to be a fan of Ralph Lauren and Michael Kors as well as couture designers. The first daughter has been seen in Carolina Herrera and often showcases her eponymous brand.

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New Housing for Homeless Veterans, Others Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Bob McDonald and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser opened the John and Jill Ker Conway Residence at North Capitol Commons earlier this month. The 14-story building — named after World War II veteran John Conway and his Australian-born wife, an author who was the first female president of Smith College — contains 60 units of permanent supportive housing for homeless veterans and 64 units for District residents who meet income requirements.

Mayor Muriel Bowser.

New Chef at Hay-Adams The Hay-Adams Hotel on Lafayette Square has hired Brian Drosenos as its chef de cuisine. In his new role, Drosenos will lead the culinary team in creating fare for the Lafayette restaurant and Off the Record, the popular downstairs bar. Formerly executive sous chef at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles, Drosenos also has worked at a multitude of dining establishments within the Commune Hotels group.

Crowds in front of the U.S. Capitol on the National Mall for President Donald Trump's inauguration Jan. 20. AP photo by Patrick Semansky.

Turning Out For (and Against) Trump D.C.’s Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency was expecting 800,000 to 900,000 people to attend the Jan. 20 inauguration of President Donald Trump. Turns out there were fewer — about more than half a million — but not according to the Trump team, which claims about a million and a half. The 1.8 million who came out for Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009 is the record. For the Women's March, on the next day, estimates run from more than 500,000 to beyond one million in D.C.

Inauguration Rioters May Face 10 Years in Prison, Fine More than 200 men and women protesting at the inauguration of President Donald Trump were arrested when their demonstrations turned violent Friday, Jan. 20. Those protesters charged with felony rioting will face up to 10 years in jail and a $25,000 fine, the Daily Mail reported.

The protests occurred just outside the security zone for the ceremonies, near McPherson Square, particularly around 13th and K Streets NW. Rioters vandalized a Starbucks and other businesses, set a limousine on fire, threw rocks at a Secret Service vehicle and smashed car windows, including those of TV and radio host Larry King’s hired SUV, shaking up his driver (King was in his studio at the time).

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Capitol Hill Burglary Suspect Nabbed

Johns Are Don’s, But Not That Don’s

A 21-year-old man was arrested Jan. 11 and charged with a string of break-ins in the Capitol Hill neighborhood — from Lincoln Park to Eastern Market to near Union Station — from last September to December, the Washington Post reported. The burglar used unlocked doors or windows to gain entry, sometimes while homeowners were sleeping.

Credit cards, SmarTrip cards, passports and a car were among the items reported stolen.

DCist reported last week that someone was covering up the company name on thousands of port-a-potties stationed on the National Mall for Inauguration Day. “Don’s Johns” was being blocked out systematically while the names of other companies, such as “Gene’s Johns,” were not. Robert Weghorst, COO of Virginia-based Don’s, told DCist he hadn’t had to deal with anything like the name issue before. According to the company’s website, “Don’s Johns, Inc. was established in 1964 by Thelma and Don Rainwater as a small septic company.” At press time, the identity of the potty-defacers remained obscure.

View of the Capitol Building from Southeast, DC.

Wheelchair-Bound Woman Killed in Shooting 68-year-old Vivian Marrow was killed in a daytime shooting Jan. 16 outside her apartment complex on Elvans Road SE, the Washington Post reported. Marrow, a mother of three and grandmother of 11, was struck while in her wheelchair. She was apparently on her way to the corner store when the shooter, who was not identified or apprehended, approached and fired, also striking a man.

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It’s Time to Get Fiscally Fit

BY J O H N E . G I RO UA R D

The top New Year’s resolutions are to lose weight, get organized, spend less, save more and get fit and stay healthy.

It’s the end of January. How’s that going for you?

At the start of every year, more than 40 percent of Americans make resolutions. Yet fewer than 10 percent of those who make them achieve them.

That is most likely because a goal without a plan is just a thought. And sometimes the conditions under which we set goals make following through seem impossible (like trying to lose weight over the holidays).

The same goes for getting fiscally fit.

A retired colleague of mine, Michael Campbell, devised a set of principles he calls “Conditionomics.” Over the years, I have found these principles to be the secret sauce of success in financial planning.

The key premises of Conditionomics are: • Happiness is achieved by integrating, not separating, your personal, professional and financial lives.

• Life is about achieving more of the things you value sooner, not later.

• You will only do more if your confidence in your future increases.

For clients, I’ve always found the best time to start is January. Named for Janus, the twoheaded Roman god of gateways, Janus could look simultaneously in both directions — back at the old year and forward to the new.

Getting “fiscally fit” means you need to know where you’ve been as well as where you’re going before you take action. It means creating a plan, complete with desired outcomes.

A goal requires an equally compelling motivation. Instead of setting a number, isn’t it more motivational to say you want enough

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• Life is about achieving more of the things you value sooner, not later.

• You will only do more if your confidence in your future increases.

money to travel the world at age 65 and retire to a life of luxury and leisure, however you define it?

As Steve Jobs once said, “If you are working on something you really care about, you don’t have to be pushed. The vision pulls you.”

Wealth is not about the amount of money; it is about the purpose for which it is acquired.

Financial independence is first and foremost about articulating the purpose of money in your life.

My role as a financial planner is to be my clients’ Conditionomics Coach: to guide them through the process of aligning personal and professional goals with financial ones, then empower them to create wealth as a foundation for unlimited opportunities.

Instead of saying you want to “retire comfortably,” decide what that means, specifically. Where do you want to live? In what kind of house? What do you want to do with your free time?

It is never too early or too late to get fiscally fit. So take the first step and write down your personal and professional goals. Otherwise, how can you tie a financial goal to them?

In honor of the Presidential Inauguration, I will leave you with this: the alternative is to play it by ear and hope you pull a Trump card from life’s deck.

Seems like an easy choice to me.

A Roman Empire coin depicting the two-faced god Janus — looking backward and forward — is an apt metaphor for planning in the month of January which bears his name.

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What ’s New, Pussyhat ?

A F T E R T H E IN A U GU R AT ION, THE W OM EN’S M ARCH: THIS IS W H AT D EM OC R A C Y L OOK S L IK E

WHERE WILL THE WOMEN’S MARCH GO FROM HERE?

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t the end of Inauguration Day in Washington, D.C., people who weren’t dancing at the various balls around the city barely had enough energy left to stay up and watch TV, let alone wonder what the following day’s Women’s March on Washington held in store.

To reach for another Washington, Dinah: What a difference a day makes.

On Saturday, I walked down Lanier Place and saw a group of mostly young people moving down the street.

Among them were two children and a dog. They wore pink “pussyhats” (referencing an infamous Trump quote) and they seemed buoyed by energy, holding signs, heading for the march. Somebody said, “Go get ‘em, guys,” and their eyes lit up and they cheered.

Maybe this wouldn’t be just another Saturday march.

It wasn’t. Washington was ground zero for a national and worldwide explosion of woman power that redefined the term and the gender and gave a major thumbs-up to the future.

It quickly became clear that something was afoot, bigger than anyone had imagined. If ever there existed the ingredients for a potentially powerful movement, here they were. Every city in the United States that had the right to call itself a city hosted a women’s march, from New York — in a jam-packed Times Square, not far from Trump Tower — to Austin to Boston to Detroit to Chicago to LA and many smaller places.

The signs and the pink went up in, among other international locales: Mexico City, Toronto, Sydney, Paris, Berlin and London (in the land of Brexit).

There were an estimated half a million marchers in Washington, and they were crowded in so thickly it seemed the world stood still. This was woman power, to be sure, but there were quite a few men, more children, dogs, workers and middle-class folks and educators and immigrants. It was not just about women’s rights, or abortion rights, but about other rights threatened by the new government and the new President Trump.

Savvy Democrats, who had just lost an election with a woman at the head of the ticket, looked around ruefully and wondered if this could be the basis for a movement of their own. “Let’s Tea Party them,” said Michael Moore, the provocateur and documentarian. Cher was there, and so were Steinem and Fonda and a glowing Alicia Keys singing “Girl on Fire.”

Trump at first ignored the march, then finally tweeted: “Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy. Even if I don’t always agree, I recognize the rights of people to express their views.”

Trump couldn’t trump the march. There was a determination that perhaps all was not lost, that there was a new campaign to launch.

That’s the real question about the Women’s March. For a change, the real news today isn’t what President Trump is doing as we speak or write. It is what remains in the wake of the sea of pink and where it rolls and goes from here.

Members of the Michigan congressional delegation, Rep. Dan Kildee (left), Rep. Debbie Dingell and Sen. Debbie Stabenow, gather with their constituents near the National Mall for the Women’s March on Washington.

Three "nasty kids": During the third presidential debate, Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a "nasty" woman while she was talking about social security and raising taxes.

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"Respect where you came from," says this demonstrator.

"How Real Men [depicting Bernie Sanders] Grab a Pussy," says this demonstrator, referring to the infamous comments Donald Trump made about sexually assaulting women in a 2005 recording that surfaced during the election.

Over 500,000 protesters gathered on the National Mall for the Women's March on Washington, D.C.

‘PUSSYHATS’ FLOOD THE MALL FOR WOMEN’S RIGHTS

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It was a sight both amazing and historic. Early Saturday morning, Jan. 21, the streets and public transportation of downtown Washington, D.C., began to fill with crowds of women of all ages and stages, headed for Capitol Hill. Most wore something pink, often the knitted pink hats with kitten ears that came to be known as “pussyhats.”

By 11 a.m., almost 100,000 rides had been recorded on Metro. By afternoon, hundreds of thousands of laughing, wahoo-ing, chanting women stood in gridlock from Capitol Hill (where the programmed events took place) along Independence Avenue all the way down the National Mall.

They had come for the Women’s March on Washington.

It began as a kind of flashmob idea, posted on Facebook by an appalled Clinton supporter in Hawaii on election night. Going viral on social media, it evolved into a worldwide gathering of decidedly liberal women to rally for what the New York Times called “rights they fear are at risk” — threatened, they believe, by the success of nationalist and protectionist movements like Brexit.

President Donald Trump’s speech on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, a continuation of his populist “America First” campaign rhetoric, only energized their fears.

The “marchers” stood and inched along the packed streets with thousands of male supporters and their children. They chanted and waved handmade signs with pithy political slogans: “Love Trumps Hate,” “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights, Human Rights Are Women’s Rights,” “We’re Here For Bodily Integrity,” “We Have Pussy Power And We Will Use It.” “Women Rule” read one carried by a young man who trudged behind his sisters and mom on the way to the Dupont Circle Metro.

More than 50 famous and not so famous women speakers stood in line for the microphone at a hastily erected grandstand on Capitol Hill, where there were chants such as: “We will not go back to the ’50s.” “I am a Golden Oldie,” women’s rights icon Gloria Steinem, now 82 years old, said. “One of the advantages of a long life is I’ve seen when things were worse.” Now, she implied, they can get that way again if women do not actively resist.

Some of the speakers — Madonna, for instance — were loudly defiant, using unladylike language, to say the least. “Too vulgar for children in the crowd,” critics said later, and “too threatening” (the Material Girl announced that she had thought often after Trump’s election about “blowing up his White House”).

One young marcher encourages "Just Love"at the Women's March.

But few at the march heard the speeches. It was too crowded.

“The wonderful thing was to be here. To be part of the crowd.

To walk and to have participated in the event if just for a few blocks,” a multigenerational group of women from Ohio wearing pussyhats told The Georgetowner. “To give voice to our issues.”

“We’re worried about the future of public schools,” said mother and daughter Norma and Monica Hanna. They had grown up in a middle-class African American community in Montgomery County, with good public schools that led to college educations.

“Now we worry that Trump will deprive public schools of funds in favor of selective charter-school alternatives.”

“It’s been a fabulous day,” sighed one of the Ohio family members. “We had reserved flights months ago for Hillary’s inauguration. Then after the election we decided not to cancel but come for this instead. Yesterday [Inauguration Day], we cried and prayed. But today, we laughed and shouted. It’s been very cathartic. Very therapeutic.”

And tomorrow, what happens? she was asked.

“Tomorrow we go home and start organizing,” several family members said together. “It’s time now to stop grieving and start moving.”

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Hello and Goodbye: The Restaurant Bubble

BY CH ARL E NE L OUIS

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hange often means having to say goodbye. This is also true for restaurants. Last year, D.C. saw the closing of roughly 136 restaurants. And less than a month into 2017, some local D.C. favorites have thrown in the towel.

With the rising costs of labor and rent and the pandemic of look-alike establishments, there are fears that D.C. is in the midst of a restaurant bubble.

One of the first to fall was the highly anticipated and very expensive Shaw Bijou, which closed after being open for just two and a half months. On Jan. 15, its website read: “The Shaw Bijou is closed. We thank you for your excitement and enjoyed being part of the vibrant Shaw community and serving our wonderful guests.” This came after the $185-per-person tasting menu price tag was lowered (to $95) and a la carte options added.

On Jan. 12, the Dairy Godmother, an Obama hot spot, announced on its blog, run by owner Liz Davis, that the shop would not reopen after its traditional JanuaryFebruary break. Another big surprise was the announced closing of the Clyde’s location in Tysons Corner. Though it’s being shuttered to

allow developers to move in, Feb. 5 will still be seen as a sad day for Clyde’s lovers.

With the rising costs of labor and rent and the pandemic of look-alike establishments, there are fears that D.C. is in the midst of a restaurant bubble.

December’s bad news included the closing of Vidalia, a longtime favorite of restaurantgoers who enjoyed its unique Southern-style cooking. The Washington Post reported that chef and owner Jeff Buben and his wife Sallie decided not to renew the restaurant’s lease.

Also, after just two and a half years, STK, the “female-friendly” steakhouse located at 1250 Connecticut Ave. NW (a space known to be a restaurant death trap), closed its doors Dec.

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A chef prepares an appetizer at the Shaw Bijou. Photo courtesy Shaw Bijou.

17. This did not come as a total surprise, since it was criticized for “petite” portions, poor lighting and a club-like atmosphere that made it hard to dine. Even City Center took an “L” in December with the closing of Mango Tree, a Thai chain restaurant.

But perhaps we should look at all these

changes in terms of the bubble taking on a new shape, rather than bursting. With the many anticipated restaurant openings — including the return of Frank Ruta with Mirabelle (in February or March) and Johnny Spero’s Reverie (this summer) — it’s clear that dining out is not a dying industry.

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Ashok Bajaj and chef Vikram Sunderam will open a second location of Bindaas, their Indian street-food concept, at 2000 Pennsylvania Ave.

NW, where Johnny Rockets was. A fall 2017 opening is expected. This Bindaas (the word means ‘carefree’ in Hindi) will differ from the original in that it will have curries on the menu and offer lunch service as well as carryout.

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Bed-and-breakfasts and inns have long been considered the perfect setting for a cozy night’s stay, with a delicious morning meal for two.

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, a quick trip for a night in is the perfect way to say, “I love you.”

1840s Carrollton Inn 50 Albemarle St., Baltimore 1840scarrolltoninn.com

Located at the center of Heritage Walk in Baltimore’s historic Jonestown neighborhood, the 1840s Carrollton Inn is within a short walk of the Inner Harbor, Little Italy and the nightlife at Power Plant Live. Retreat to the lavish comfort of rooms and suites with in-room fireplaces, beds featuring handcrafted Kingsdown mattresses and large baths with whirlpool tubs. A full breakfast is served each morning in the historic first-floor parlor, a charming outdoor courtyard or the privacy of your guest room. Romantic, all-inclusive and spa packages can be added to your reservation to create the perfect escape.

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No need to worry about tripping over your fellow guests; each room has a private bathroom and all but one have private exterior entrances. Breakfast is served in the open, light-filled Gathering Room. Choose your seat at the café tables and eat your fill of crepes, Belgian waffles, omelets, quiches and other hot breakfast treats made right before your eyes.

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30 Trevanion Road, Taneytown, Maryland | antrim1844.com Antrim 1844’s antebellum ambiance and nationally acclaimed cuisine have earned the hotel a place in connoisseurs’ hearts. Guest rooms and suites are appointed with canopy feather beds, antiques, fireplaces and/or Jacuzzis. Guests start the day with freshly baked muffins, a morning newspaper and the choice of coffee or tea served by “James,” the wooden butler, followed by a full countrystyle breakfast. Half an hour of evening hors d’oeuvres leads to an elegant six-course, prix-fixe dinner featuring regional cuisine.

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Just two miles off Interstate 81, this imposing Queen Anne Victorian sits atop the town’s highest hill, nestled in the mountain highlands of southwest Virginia. Beautiful landscaping provides an ever-changing backdrop for the five historic oak trees, one of which is believed to be one of the largest white oaks in the Commonwealth. The entire history of the house is steeped in romance.

Major W.L. Pierce built the inn in 1889 as a wedding gift for Julia Baird. Seven Pierce offspring were born at the Oaks. Julia, who devoted her entire life to the keeping of her wedding gift, died in the house just shy of 99 years of age.

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Experience beautiful Virginia wine country and savor our three- or five-course menu or chef’s tasting menu, featuring freshly picked vegetables and herbs from the garden. Choose the perfect addition from our award-winning wine list. This enchanting Shenandoah bed-and-breakfast is perfect for awakening or rekindling romance, a proposal, an anniversary, a birthday or an exceptional D.C. weekend getaway from today’s hectic world.

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Stay close to home and enjoy world-class hospitality while relaxing in the splendor of one of Washington’s grand private residences. This elegant boutique bedand-breakfast is housed in a beautifully renovated former embassy in Dupont Circle.

The Land Trust of Virginia, in conjunction with the Goose Creek Association and Blue Ridge Wildlife Center, will host a free screening of “Saving Grace, Saving Place,” a documentary chronicling the story of a Trappist monastery’s struggle to retain their Shenandoah River home.

For details, visit goosecreek.org. Hill School Performing Arts Center, 130 South Madison St., Middleburg, Virginia.

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Washington Area Animal Adoption Group (WAAAG) is an all-volunteer animal rescue nestled in the beautiful rolling hills of Delaplane, Virginia, next to Barrel Oak Winery. Attendees will meet and greet adoptable animals and help find them forever homes. Wylie Wagg, 5B East Washington Street, Middleburg, Virginia.

Hans Christian Andersen’s much-loved story has been given an original, musical twist by Loudoun County playwright Joe Campanella. Produced by Jerri Wiseman and directed by Scott Olson, the hour-long show is aimed at children between the ages of 4 and 9. Cascades Library, 21030 Whitfield Place, Sterling, Virginia.

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BYOV (Bring Your Own Vinyl) Night

Enjoy an exclusive four-course dinner, paired perfectly with selections from a local vineyard, in an intimate, private dining room at Harrimans. Tickets are $150. To reserve, call 540-326-4070. For details, visit salamanderresort.com. 500 North Pendleton St., Middleburg, Virginia.

Lost Rhino Brewing Company is hosting vinyl night every Tuesday. This is not a DJ night; all you need is a love for music and a vinyl collection you are willing to share with everyone. Sets will be 15 to 30 minutes depending on the number of people who sign up. 21730 Red Rum Road, #142, Ashburn, Virginia.

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Learn something new during your next getaway by spending a weekend cooking at Briar Patch Inn. Classes are held during the inn’s low/winter season. The January cooking class weekend will feature chef Ray Ellis. To reserve, email info@ briarpatchbandb.com or call 703-327-5911.

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6th Annual Winter Weekend Sale During Middleburg’s 6th annual Winter Weekend Sale, visitors will be able to hunt for some wonderful gifts for themselves and others while experiencing the smalltown charm of Middleburg. The sale is sponsored by the Town of Middleburg and the Middleburg Business & Professional Association. For details, visit visitmiddleburgva.com.

It’s All About the Bubbles Breaux Vineyards invites visitors to try its sparkling rosé and its newest bubbly, the extended aged sparkling brut, alongside handmade macarons from Best Buns Bread Company. Seatings at noon, 2 and 4 p.m.

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Your life is not an afterschool special. So, no, I’m not going to say you must come clean and have a touching, heartfelt moment with Friend — even though sharing that kind of vulnerability really builds intimacy and could result in a much deeper friendship. More important, I think you need to share this experience with yourself, meaning: Get inside

it and truly look at it as a turning point.

I am guessing this wasn’t the very first lie you’ve ever told; perhaps there is a pattern here. Pay close attention to the sensations in your body when you think about the depth of this lie. Notice your internal thoughts. Discern the thought process that took you to the point of creating this lie. Become familiar with the story you told yourself that made it both okay and necessary to tell the lie. Record all of it, because these are important data that will help you never get into this situation again.

The way you describe your two options — tell Friend and lose Friend, or don’t tell Friend and lose both Friend and your self-respect

— seems like a horrible choice. Learn from that dilemma so you can avoid a bigger one in the future.

Stacy Notaras Murphy is a licensed professional counselor in Georgetown.

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VISUAL ARTS

Herman Leonard’s

Jazz Portraits at the National Portrait Gallery

BY A R I P O ST

In all of American art, there is no contribution more significant to history than jazz.

It is difficult to overstate this. The evolution of this electrifying new sound at the beginning of the 20th century was more revolutionary to music than any movement has ever been to fine art since, probably, the Renaissance. In fact, it is arguable that jazz was as significant to the idea of abstraction and instinctive expression in visual art as any painterly innovation.

Go find any random piano recording of Art Tatum and tell me that it is not a spiritual companion on a level with the best Jackson Pollock.

Jazz also came about at the right time, emerging when recording technology first allowed musical performances to be preserved. Instead of it being an exclusively live experience, the sensation of music could suddenly be reproduced and distributed, allowing the genius of individual artists to be enjoyed regularly around the world.

But when it comes to visualizing jazz, no one captured the feeling of the music quite like photographer Herman Leonard.

Through his photographs of its major players, the jazz era of the 1940s and ’50s — the cradle of this creative explosion — comes to life. The emotion and physicality of performance pulse through Leonard’s work, along with the clink of glasses from the audience, the whispering sizzle of cigarettes and stage lights, the intoxicating atmosphere that the jazz scene bred.

Born in 1923, Leonard devoured and documented that scene in New York City for about a decade beginning in the late 1940s. His images of jazz musicians are widely regarded as the definitive portraits of many of the 20th-century’s greatest artists.

At the National Portrait Gallery through Feb. 20, “In the Groove: Jazz Portraits by Herman Leonard” showcases 30 of his blackand-white photographs, iconic pictures of Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Nat “King” Cole, Duke Ellington, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington, to name a few. These are artists whose styles and stories are woven into our cultural fabric.

Leonard apprenticed to portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh, accompanying him to portrait sessions with famous sitters such as Albert

Einstein and Martha Graham. After launching his first studio in 1948 in Greenwich Village, Leonard was led by his infatuation with jazz to clubs and performance venues all over the city. With his camera in tow, he began to make images that soon started to appear on album covers and in leading music magazines.

Considering how much life pulses through Leonard’s photographs, it is unfortunate that the Portrait Gallery handles the exhibition with such scholarly dryness. The labels go over each musician’s history, covering the timelines of his or her career, but somehow everything that made them important as artists is missing.

The show forgoes any effort to communicate the energy and virtuosic bravura that makes jazz so thrilling, not to mention the particular beauty of Leonard’s photographs. The artistry of the photographs isn’t even referred to, save for a short line in the introductory panel.

Here is how the panel for Louis Armstrong reads: “A trumpet virtuoso and innovative vocalist, jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong helped to transform jazz into an international phenomenon.”

There is nothing wrong with that statement, except that Louis Armstrong is a god, a giant, an honest-to-goodness American miracle sent to earth to transform music forever. Without Louie, there is no modern music: there is no Chuck Berry, no Elvis, no Beatles, no Bruce Springsteen, no Beyoncé or Kanye or anything.

Before Louie, America’s most significant contribution to music was the foxtrot. This seems like an opportunity missed.

And what of Leonard’s photograph of Armstrong? Here we see not the venerable showman who transcended the vaudevillian caricatures into which the entertainment industry first boxed him, who paved a new road for black entertainers by finding dignity in the most demeaning of work. (Go right now and YouTube “Louis Armstrong performs Shine” to watch an artist rise above the constraints of stereotypical schlock like you’ve never seen.)

Leonard’s portrait shows an exhausted warrior, a gladiator resting between battles, forever stained by the spotlight, even as he sits offstage. He slumps in a chair with his hands resting on his trumpet, his weapon and his shield, this coiled engine of radiant brass his salvation and his prison. It is a remarkable and surprising image.

"Duke Ellington," 1958. Herman Leonard. Courtesy NPG. All of the portraits are profoundly beautiful (if not equally revealing), managing to capture something unique about the rich interior lives of each artist. Perhaps most wonderful of all are his portraits of Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and Billie Holiday, each a master class in tone, mood and visual narrative. The photograph of Ellington is like a living elegy,

showing the giant in shadow and light.

The history these stunning works contain is almost heart-wrenching. It’s a privilege that they even exist. Put on your headphones, crank up the Satchmo and enjoy this journey into the heart of our musical history.

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PERFORMANCE

Albee’s ‘Woolf ’

Comes to Ford’s at Last

BY G ARY T ISCHL ER Paul Tetreault, artistic director of Ford’s Theatre since 2004, was pumped.

The opening at Ford’s of a new production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” was only a week away. Tetreault and rising-star director Aaron Posner were talking about playwright Edward Albee, his daunting classic and the challenges and joys of mounting it at the historic theater.

If Ford’s Theatre, with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln at its core, is an American theater steeped in its own history, Albee’s frighteningly funny and shockingly dramatic play occupies a critical place in American theater history.

Lincoln”) during the 150th anniversary commemoration of the assassination.

Tetreault was also one of the D.C. theater leaders instrumental in putting together the Women’s Voices Theater Festival in 2015, in which just about all the local theaters opened their seasons with new plays by female playwrights.

This production comes less than a year after the death of Albee, who passed away at age 88 last March, having lived a life as productive as it was long. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” was his breakthrough play, hitting Broadway like a bomb in 1962. In “Woolf,” the acerbic, caustic, deeply troubled and dangerous George

and everybody that’s done it brings some sort of sense of their own vision to it. Every play is about the storytelling. It’s unflinching, it’s difficult. He holds your feet to the fire.

“He’s hard. Lots of people have mixed emotions about him,” Posner continued. “No one doubts his genius, but there’s people that can’t stand him. I had a great deal of admiration for him, but I hadn’t learned to love him. Until now.”

Posner has built a reputation adapting classics and making them feel and sound contemporary. Chekhov’s “The Seagull” became “Stupid F---ing Bird” at Woolly Mammoth, Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” became “District Merchants” at the Folger.

The lineup for this production is: the incomparable Holly Twyford as Martha (Posner and Twyford have worked together many times), Gregory Linington as George, Danny Gavigan as Nick and Maggie Wilder as Honey.

“Holly is one of our greatest treasures in Washington,” Tetreault said. “We’ve been talking about this for a while. And then I saw her in a production of “Sex With Strangers”

directed by Aaron, and it came together. We needed him on this.”

We asked Tetreault if this was a risky proposition. “Every play is risky,” he said.

“But this is an American classic. You have to do that. It’s not just about box office.

“It’s funny. One thing you never asked him,” he said, speaking of Albee, “is what his plays were about. He doesn’t answer all the questions.”

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For Tetreault, the production is a project long dreamed of. Become coming to Ford’s, he had been managing director of Houston’s Alley Theatre for more than 100 productions, including several of works by Albee, with whom he had forged a friendship.

The tourist-, family- and tradition-friendly Ford’s Theatre, which had been presided over by the late Frankie Hewitt, wasn’t known as a cradle of edgy material. At the time Tetreault arrived, we offered that he might not be doing “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” anytime soon, and he agreed. But even then you could tell he was thinking: not soon, but someday.

Someday has arrived — a convergence of art and artists and the growth of the Washington theater community and of Tetreault himself.

During his tenure at Ford’s, Tetreault has mounted productions of enduring quality and heart, inquisitiveness and boundary stretching.

He has brought a spirit of collaboration with local groups and artists to the theater. The results have included a terrific, ground-up co-production with Signature Theatre and its artistic director Eric Schaeffer of a musical version of Frank Capra’s “Meet John Doe,” a stirring production of “Big River” from the National Theatre of the Deaf and several outstanding Lincoln-theme plays (“The Heavens Are Hung in Black,” “The Widow

and Martha — he is a professor, she is the daughter of the university’s president — invite an ambitious young professor named Nick and his nervous wife Honey over for drinks, games, revelations and truth-telling. It’s a social gathering as mortal combat.

“It moves from comedy to drama and finally tragedy,” Tetreault said. It’s also a three-act (“Fun and Games,” “Walpurgisnacht” and “The Exorcism”) exploration and exposure of the undercurrents in American culture and society circa the early 1960s.

When it opened — starring Arthur Hill and Uta Hagen as George and Martha — it got the kind of reviews and attendance that meant gold. While there have been many revivals, most people know the play from the Mike Nichols-directed movie version of 1966 starring Elizabeth Taylor (who won her second Oscar), Richard Burton, George Segal and Sandy Dennis.

This will mark the first production of “Woolf” at Ford’s as well as the first production there of an Albee play. That also goes for Posner, who has directed or adapted or revised more than 100 plays in his time, many of them in the D.C. area. “Never, this is my first time, ever,” he said. “And, sure, there’s a sense of responsibility here. It’s a challenge

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ANTIQUES ADDICT

Through the Looking Glass

BY M I C H E L L E G A L L ER Although our Puritan ancestors scorned the pretense of personal vanity, mirrors were part of their early colonial households — if used only to glimpse their appearance before they wended their way to Sabbath service.

The Venetians undoubtedly made the first looking glasses, having discovered the art of coating plates of glass with an amalgam of tin foil and mercury. But it was not until 1673 that the first English-made looking-glass plates were cast.

In 1835, a German, Justus von Liebig, invented the modern mirror-making technique of chemically coating glass with silver (now often aluminum). In the nascent United States, looking glasses were mostly imported from England, and were expensive. With the exception of a few crude homemade examples, there is little indication that mirrors were made here before the second half of the 18th century.

The introduction of glass mirrors gave rise to a new industry: the making of mirror frames.

Many cabinetmakers in colonial America were versatile men, willing to do anything for their customers, from taking down and setting up beds and making and repairing furniture to

Although antique mirrors retain their practical value for us to see ourselves, they also provide a decorative feature that enhances the style of a room by increasing a sense of light and space and even adding a touch of glamour. fashioning the coffins for their last journey.

Among them were men who knew how to carve a frame and even how to re-silver mirrors.

The different styles are characteristic of certain periods or designers. It is the frame and the date of manufacture, rather than the glass, that indicate value. Distinct looking-glass styles are associated with important 18th-century English cabinetmakers and designers such as Thomas Chippendale, George Hepplewhite and Thomas Sheraton.

As mirror styles changed, long frames with two glasses, one above the other, became popular (even though glass was still cast in one piece of limited size). Mirrors of this type became coveted wall decorations and it was

fashionable to remodel the old ones. Craftsmen advertised their willingness “to alter and amend old looking glasses.”

If you broke a mirror, it really was bad luck, since they were so expensive. Many times a new mirror frame was fashioned to conform to the shape of the broken fragment. These “make-dos” can command high prices in the antiques marketplace.

The glass is often an indicator of a mirror’s time period and age. A slight waviness or random bubbles may indicate that the glass is old, but does not guarantee that the piece is an antique. The reflective coating on the back of the glass is what makes a sheet of glass a mirror, and the materials used to create this effect have changed greatly over the years. Old mercury glass was This Shaker rosewood framed mirror and hanger sold at created by a reaction between mercury auction for $3,776. Courtesy Willis Henry Auctions. and tin, causing the mirror-like substance to adhere to the glass. When old mercury mirrors age, they become somewhat sparkly; if a mirror has a crystalline appearance Although antique mirrors retain their behind the glass, it likely is an antique. practical value for us to see ourselves, they also Whether made with tin and mercury or provide a decorative feature that enhances the with a thin sheet of silver, glass tarnishes or style of a room by increasing a sense of light oxidizes over time. A true antique mirror in a and space and even adding a touch of glamour. frame typically shows oxidation that is greatest Based in Georgetown, Michelle Galler is near the bottom, as moisture from cleaning the an antiques dealer, a design consultant mirror seeps down behind the frame and may and a realtor. Her shop is in Rare Finds, soak the backing at times. If the oxidation or in Washington, Virginia. Reach her at the mirror glass looks too even or uniform, the antiques.and.whimsies@gmail.com. piece may not be antique.

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With its original silver glass, this 18thcentury mahogany with a phoenixcarved crest, was probably made in Maine. It sold at auction for $150.

Winter Gala Guide FEBRUARY 7

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater The gala kicks off Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater’s annual engagement at the Kennedy Center. Dinner and dancing follow the opening-night performance. Proceeds support Ailey’s Washington, D.C., programs, including the creation of new works, arts-in-education activities and scholarships to talented young dance students in the Washington area to attend the Ailey School in New York. Kennedy Center Opera House. Call 202-518-6908, ext. 5.

FEBRUARY 10

Washington Ballet Amuse Bouche The Women’s Committee of the Washington Ballet presents an evening benefiting the Washington Ballet. The festivities will begin at 7 p.m. with a champagne reception, followed by a three-course, French-inspired meal. Each course will be prepared by a different local celebrity chef and paired with a special wine selection announced by a master sommelier.

Embassy of France. Email fostersarah@mac. com.

FEBRUARY 16

Environmental Film Festival Georgetown residents Flo and Roger Stone will be honored at a benefit to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital. Flo Stone founded the festival in 1993 in Georgetown. Roger Stone is president of the Sustainable Development Institute. Embassy of New Zealand. Purchase tickets at dceff.org/benefit.

SOME Junior Gala This annual evening of cocktails and dancing for young professionals raises funds to support So Others Might Eat’s affordable housing programs for homeless and very-low-income families. National Museum of Women in the Arts. Contact Ingrid Feigenbaum at 202-7978806, ext. 1129, or ifeigenbaum@some.org.

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St. Jude Gourmet Gala The 18th St. Jude Gourmet Gala, presented

by WH Administrators, showcases some of the finest food in the area with tastings from leading celebrity chefs alongside live and silent auctions and other presentations. The event supports the lifesaving work conducted at St. Jude Children’s Research at St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.

National Building Museum. Email alexis.polakoff@ stjude.org or call 703-650-4515.

MARCH 4

2017 Night of Vision “Oh, Say Can You See?” is the title of this year’s gala, benefiting the Prevention of Blindness Society of Metropolitan Washington. The evening includes cocktails and a silent auction, followed by dinner and dancing. NBC4 Chief Meteorologist Doug Kammerer will be master of ceremonies.

The society, the largest local blindness prevention agency in the U.S., is dedicated to the improvement and preservation of sight by providing services, education, advocacy and innovation. Four Seasons Hotel. Call 202-234-1010 or email events@youreyes.org.

MARCH 9

Latino Student Fund Puerto Rico will be showcased at this year’s gala, which includes cocktails, a silent auction and a dinner featuring the best of Spanish and Latino cuisine. The event raises awareness and funding for LSF’s academic programs, benefiting local Hispanic students from pre-K to grade 12. Organization of American States.

Contact Maria Fernanda Borja at 202-244-3438 or mborja@latinostudentfund.org.

MARCH 11

GOOD WORKS & GOOD TIMES

Winter Show Highlights ‘The Art of Style’

BY M A RY B I R D

The Washington Winter Show’s “The Art of Style” featured “Coco Chanel: A New Portrait by Marion Pike, Paris 19671971,” a loan exhibition curated by Amy de la Haye that paired a selection of Pike’s portraits of the designer, who became a close friend, with Chanel fashions. The preview night afforded a first glimpse of collectors’ items from more than 40 leading dealers. Fashion and lifestyle designer Lela Rose was the speaker at the luncheon lecture, which opened with a performance by choristers from the Bishop John T. Walker School, a recipient of show proceeds along with THEARC and the Founders Board of St. John’s Community Services.

Washington Performing Arts 50th Anniversary

Jeffie Wesson and curator Amy de la Haye.

The gala will honor and celebrate Reginald Van Lee, chairman of the board of directors, and the 50th anniversary season. Proceeds benefit Washington Performing Arts’ artistic and educational art initiatives focusing on Washington-area children and families. Mellon Auditorium. Contact Roger Whyte at 202-5331891 or rwhyte@washingtonperformingarts. org.

Leukemia Ball The 30th annual Leukemia Ball supports the world’s largest voluntary health agency dedicated to blood cancer. The evening will include dinner, a silent auction and entertainment by comedian Jim Gaffigan and pop star Andy Grammer. Walter E. Washington Convention Center. Contact Kelly Kent at kelly.kent@lls. org or 703-399-2930.

MARCH 12

Wacky & Whimsical Tea for THEARC This fantasy-filled Sunday afternoon tea features adventurous delight for the entire family. All proceeds benefit the Town Hall Education Arts Recreation Campus (THEARC), located east of the Anacostia River, providing children and adults living in underserved communities access to quality, free and low-cost educational, health, music, dance and art programs and social services.

The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C. Email Rahsaan Bernard at rbernard@thearc.org.

Social Secretary to the Ambassador of France Francesca Craig, Izette Folger, Kevin Chaffee and Tony Powell.

MARCH 24

N Street Village N Street Village’s largest annual fundraising event, the gala provides an opportunity to recognize members of the community who exemplify the organization’s spirit. The evening of cocktails and dinner will include presentation of the Founder’s Award to Sen. Barbara Boxer for her personal and professional efforts on behalf of individuals who live on the margins of society. The Ritz-Carlton, Washington, D.C. Contact Stuart Allen at sallen@nstreetvillage.org or 202-939-2085.

Sheila Gross, Kyle Samperton and Isin Ludlow.

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Ourismans’ Fete at Café Milano Caps Inauguration Day

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Ambassador Mary Ourisman and her husband Mandell invited some special guests — such as Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Missouri) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida) — to celebrate President Donald Trump at an “Inaugural Afterglow Party” Jan. 20 at Cafe Milano. The festive night, with several hundred attendees, was proclaimed by quite a few to be just about the best party of the week. Ann Hand’s Trump pin was the party favor.

Sen. Roy Blunt and his wife Abby with Council member Jack Evans. Photo by Robert Devaney.

Energy secretary nominee Rick Perry and his wife Anita greet Ann Hand (center), creator of the President Donald Trump inaugural pin.

Photo by Robert Devaney.

Laura Ingraham and Sen. Marco Rubio. Photo by Robert Devaney.

Creative Coalition Gathers on Inauguration Night

Carolina and Ignacio Permuy, a Florida architect. Photo by Robert Devaney.

Co-host Ambassador Mary Ourisman and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Photo by Tony Powell.

Kellyanne Conway Saluted at Four Seasons

The Creative Coalition — lobbyists for the arts and entertainment industry — threw its “Inaugural Ball for the Arts: Honoring and Supporting Arts in America” at the Harman Center for the Arts Jan. 20. Among the host committee: Tim Daly of “Madam Secretary”, Christina Hendricks of “Mad Men”), Cheryl Hines of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and Danielle Panabaker of “The Flash.” Blues Traveler performed.

Summer Zervos, former contestant on Donald Trump’s "The Apprentice," and attorney, Gloria Allred.Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.

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Tim Daly, actor and president of The Creative Coalition, holds up the TCC T-shirt “ The Right to Bear Arts.” Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.

Kelly Emberg, former model and mother of one of Rod Stewart’s children, and actress Tina Hillstrom take a selfie with presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway, who was honored at a pre-inaugural breakfast by RightNow along with other women leaders at the Four Seasons Hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue Jan. 19.

Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.

GOOD WORKS & GOOD TIMES

Sister Cities Gala Salutes Slovenia, Melania Trump

Cap File Toasts Team Rubicon at Fiola Mare

The Organization of American States was the scene for the Jan. 17 opening party of inauguration week, at which Sister Cities International, with honorary hosts from Afghanistan, Austria, Mexico and beyond, saluted the birthplace of first lady Melania Trump: Slovenia. Founded in 1956, the diplomatic group has gotten presidents since Dwight Eisenhower to serve as honorary chairmen. “We are delighted to celebrate this tradition of presidential support as well as showcase the important role of people-to-people citizen diplomacy in furthering peace and prosperity on a global scale at our inaugural gala,” said Sister Cities’ CEO Mary Kane. Along with great food, guests enjoyed traditional Slovenian music and danced to the high-energy Mood Swings.

You know you’re at quite the bipartisan affair when Marla Maples, Willie Robertson, Sheila Johnson and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) are in the same room. For the 58th Presidential Inauguration, Capitol File magazine honored Team Rubicon Global, an international disaster response organization, at a “Celebration of Service” Jan. 19 at Fiola Mare, restaurant on the Georgetown waterfront, in partnership with the Artists & Athletes Alliance, Ernst & Young LLP and BP America. Yes, the food was great — and some early birds got to glimpse the fireworks at the Lincoln Memorial.

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Korie and Willie Robertson. Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Sen. Rand Paul and his wife Kelley. Photo by Paul Images for Capitol File Magazine.

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Sister Cities CEO Mary Kane, Slovenian Ambassador Božo Cerar and gala co-chair Christine Warnke.

Photo by Robert Devaney.

Fiola Mare’s Maria Trabocchi, the Washington Ballet’s Julie Kent Sheila Johnson of Salamander Resort & Spa. Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images and Loran Aiken of Story Partners. Photo by Robert Devaney. for Capitol File Magazine.

Former mayor of Kensington, Maryland, Jayne Plank, and her sister Madonna Miller flank Miss District of Columbia Cierra Jackson. Photo by Robert Devaney.

Sharon Maloof, Jeff Case and gala co-chair Carol Lopez-Robinson. Photo by Robert Devaney.

Meredith Merrill of Capitol File and Steve Ross of The Artists & Athletes Alliance. Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Capitol File Magazine.

Marla Maples, second wife of Donald Trump, mother of Tiffany Trump. Photo by Paul Morigi/ Getty Images for Capitol File Magazine.

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ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA Sun-filled, semi-detached brick townhouse just steps to the Potomac & Mount Vernon Trail! Three bedrooms, three and a half baths with upgrades throughout 4 levels. Two-car garage. $1,735,000 Mark McFadden 703-216-1333

BETHESDA, MARYLAND Spacious rooms abound wonderful open floor plan with renovations! LL with high ceilings, office/study, lovely terrace & garden. 2-car garage. 3BR/3BA up, in community w/ pool, sidewalks & common greens.

Kay McGrath King 202-276-1235

EAST VILLAGE, WASHINGTON, DC Unique Georgetown house with terrific East Village location. Two bedrooms, one and a half baths, elevator, separate dining room, living room, library and private garden. $1,295,000 Jamie Peva 202-258-5050

ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA Exceptionally beautiful 3BR/2.5BA 4-level Highgate townhome. Superb Rosslyn location w/ lovely views of the Potomac + DC shoreline. Custom kitchen, grand master suite, patio. 2-car gar.age $1,167,000 Susan Koehler 703-967-6789

GEORGETOWN, WASHINGTON, DC Charming restoration with open living room and dining room, 2BR, 1.5BA. Cool, spacious kitchen with stainless steel appliances, exposed brick walls, beam ceiling opens to private patio. $949,000 Karen Nicholson 202-256-0474

COLONIAL VILLAGE, WASHINGTON, DC Sun splashed and spacious four bedroom, three full bath rambler facing Rock Creek Park. Sunroom, lower level family room, CAC, fully fenced rear yard, deck, and garage. $819,000 Marilyn Charity 202-427-7553

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