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ON THE COVER Michael Kahn, artistic director of the Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Michael Urie, who plays Hamlet in the current production, stand in the second-floor lobby of the Harman Center for the Arts on F Street NW. Georgetown Night at “Hamlet” is March 1. Photo by Ricardo Jimenez.
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Posing in front of their portraits by painters Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, a vibrant former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama spoke to friends and colleagues at the National Portrait Gallery Feb. 12.
Former French First Lady Brings ‘French Touch’ to Washington BY STEPH AN IE GR EEN “A few years ago, I was here in a totally different position,” joked Carla Bruni, the former first lady of France, her reference not lost on the Washington-area crowd Feb. 13. “I’d rather be doing this, here at the Birchmere.” She was here to sing. Carla Bruni. Photo by Mathieu Zazzo. Courtesy the Birchmere.
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH LECTURE
Hamlet and Ophelia.
The C&O Canal Trust and the C&O Canal National Historical Park will host a free lecture by public historian Josh Howard about two African American Civilian Conservation Corps camps that existed along the canal from 1938 to 1942. An open house at Lockhouse 10 and guided tours will follow. For details, visit canaltrust. org. Great Falls VFW Post 5633, 11511 Macarthur Boulevard, Potomac, Maryland.
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EVENING @ DUMBARTON OAKS Area residents are invited to the second event in the Evenings @ Dumbarton Oaks series, with music by classical guitarist Celil Refik Kaya, early-career musician in residence. An installation of Martha Jackson Jarvis’s nature-inspired mixedmedia sculpture and works on paper will be on view. Admission to this 21+ event is $15 (includes drinks). For details, visit doaks.org. 1703 32nd St. NW.
FEBRUARY 23, 24 AND 25 AMERICAN CRAFT SHOW IN BALTIMORE
The nation’s largest juried indoor craft show, showcasing the work of more than 650 of the country’s leading contemporary artists, returns to the Baltimore Convention Center. Passes are $14 (one day) and $34 (three days). For details, visit craftcouncil. org. 1 W. Pratt St., Baltimore, Maryland.
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CATHEDRAL CHORAL SOCIETY: ‘SOLITUDE AND JOY’ Donald Nally guest-conducts a program of hymns, chants and anthems that provoke awe in the brilliance of the stars and earth. Organist Scott Dettra and cellist Thomas Mesa will be featured. Tickets are $25 to $80 ($15 for students). For details, visit cathedralchoralsociety.org. Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
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‘DEEP RIVER: THE ART OF THE SPIRITUAL’ Bass-baritone Kevin Deas will be the soloist at this PostClassical Ensemble concert, written and produced by Joseph Horowitz, conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez and hosted by Khembe Eichelberger. The performance will also feature the Cathedral Choir and 150 choristers from the Metropolitan AME Church and area high schools. Tickets are $25 to $65 ($15 for students). For details, visit postclassical.com. Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Avenue NW.
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Georgetowners can purchase discounted seats in the grand tier orchestra section for this performance of “Hamlet” by the Shakespeare Theatre Company, directed by Michael Kahn and starring Michael Urie. To purchase tickets, visit shakespearetheatre.org or call 202-547-1122 and use the promo code: GEORGETOWNER55. The price per ticket is $55, which includes a preperformance reception. Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F St. NW.
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SOUTH MOON UNDER OPENS IN GEORGETOWN Known for its ever-evolving and eclectic mix of women’s clothing, swimwear, accessories, beauty items and gifts, South Moon Under is opening its first location in Washington, D.C., proper. The new Georgetown store will carry brands like Free People, ASTR, Cupcakes and Cashmere, Wildfox, Citizens of Humanity, Jeffrey Campbell, Tori Praver, Kendra Scott, Blank NYC and L*Space. For details, visit southmoonunder.com. 1065 Wisconsin Ave. NW.
CELEBRATION OF WOMEN CHEFS “Turn Up the Heat DC” is a savory and sweet evening of tastings featuring D.C.’s top female chefs, mixologists and restaurateurs. Net proceeds benefit the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund Alliance’s research and programs for women with ovarian cancer. Tickets are $275 ($325 VIP, $150 for young professionals). For details, visit ocrfa.org. Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW.
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Deputy Mayor for Education Resigns, Chancellor Follows Deputy Mayor for Education Jennifer Niles resigned Feb. 16. Four days later, at close of business on Tuesday, Feb. 20, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the resignation of Public Schools Chancellor Antwan Wilson. Wilson went on administrative leave effective immediately pending agreement on the terms of his departure. Wilson, who replaced Kaya Henderson, had served a total of one year and three weeks. After the inspector general’s office reportedly alerted Mayor Muriel Bowser that Niles had helped Wilson’s daughter make a midterm transfer to the popular Wilson High School without participating in the My School DC Lottery, the writing, it seems, was on the wall. The transfer broke a strict policy banning preferential treatment for the children of government officials that the chancellor himself wrote just months earlier. It was instituted to ensure that “No past or current public officials will receive such a placement, to limit any possibility of favoritism or improper use of public office.” Three months later, Wilson violated that
Jennifer Niles, former deputy mayor for education, was criticized in Georgetown for her handling of the Hyde-Addison School project. Courtesy E.L. Haynes Public Charter School.
School Chancellor Antwan Wilson at the Duke Ellington School rededication in August. Photo by Ari Golub.
very policy. Calls for his removal began soon after Niles’s departure, though the mayor ordered Wilson to write a public apology to parents, taking full responsibility for his wrong decision and asking for forgiveness. The first Council member to suggest that Wilson resign was Robert White on Feb. 17; others came on board over the next few days.
Wilson’s family moved from California to D.C. last summer. Two of his children gained entrance into J. O. Wilson Elementary School through the lottery. His oldest child enrolled in the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, but, according to the Washington Post, it wasn’t a good match. Wilson had his wife arrange through Deputy Mayor Niles to transfer his
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D.C. Tuition Assistance Program at Risk
Albright Honored by Georgetown University
The District is facing the possible termination of a program that subsidizes up to $10,000 of college tuition for D.C. high school graduates who attend a public university in any state in the U.S. Established in 1999, it is called the DC Tuition Assistance Grant. More than 26,000 D.C. high school graduates have received the funds to help bridge the gap between in-state and out-of-state tuition at state universities, mostly in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Delaware. But the new 2019 federal budget passed by Congress and signed by President Trump on Feb. 8 would defund the entire $40-million program. Developed because of D.C.’s unique status as a separate district established in the U.S. Constitution and partially overseen by Congress, the program is a component of the District’s effort to offer its 682,000 residents all the higher education benefits of a state. In 1977, the public University of the District of Columbia was formed, merging the District of Columbia Teacher’s College, Federal City College and Washington Technical Institute. In 1996, the District of Columbia School of Law became part of UDC. In 2009, a community college offering associate’s degrees and vocational and professional certificate programs was added to the umbrella UDC system, which offered bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
“Rising isolationist sentiment poses a significant threat to democracy,” said Madeleine K. Albright on Feb. 12 at “Diplomacy in the Defense of Democracy,” an event held in Georgetown University’s Gaston Hall. The former secretary of state was there to receive the 2018 Raymond “Jit” Trainor Award for Excellence in the Conduct of Diplomacy from the School of Foreign Service. From 1993 to 1997, Albright served as the 20th United States ambassador to the United Nations. She then became the first female secretary of state, from 1997 to 2001, under President Bill Clinton, a 1968 School of Foreign Service graduate. Since 2016, she has been Michael and Virginia Mortara Distinguished Professor of Diplomacy at the school. In her remarks, Albright, 80, said her diplomacy and policy advocacy have focused on the need to unite theory and practice. “One of the reasons why I was really excited to come to Georgetown to teach was that I had seen that disconnect, and I really was very happy to be a part of working on some connection.” She expressed concern that the current administration is threatening key tenets of past American international policies by “stepping away from America’s historic commitment to human rights,” withdrawing from agreements such as the Paris Accords and Trans-Pacific Partnership and transforming the U.S. “from
Mayor Muriel Bowser set up a petition to save D.C.’s Tuition Assistance Program. Courtesy Office of the Mayor. However, tuition was high compared to in-state tuition for residents of other states. And D.C. residents had to pay hefty out-of-state charges to enroll outside of D.C. The Tuition Assistance Grant was created to help remedy the situation. “In 2018, when the cost of college is at an all-time high, it is unfathomable that any leader working to build a safer, stronger, and more competitive country would choose to cut a program like this rather than expanding it,” Mayor Bowser wrote in a Feb. 15 letter. But budget documents about the program claimed: “While this program has helped many D.C. residents afford college, the financial position of the D.C. government has significantly improved since 1999 providing D.C. with flexibility to allocate local funds to support its residents.” The mayor has urged all residents to sign a petition at savedctag.dc.gov.
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Georgetown University professor Madeline Albright was the 64th secretary of state. Courtesy Department of State. a partner to a pariah at the United Nations.” She added that the administration “also has tried, unsuccessfully so far, to slash the State Department budget.” Albright introduced the world to the art of diplomatic pin wearing, Dean Joel Hellman noted with relish. He was referring to her habit of wearing one of her ever-growing collection of brooches to express her attitude toward a negotiation or an event in which she was participating. It became known as a diplomatic technique called “Read My Pin,” Hellman said. On Monday, Albright was wearing a pin depicting the Statue of Liberty.
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Fans: Reopen Whole Foods Almost 1,000 fans of the Whole Foods Market at 2323 Wisconsin Avenue in Glover Park have had it. They want their store back and they want it now! “It is time to come together as a community to take action,” wrote Emily Appel in a Feb. 12 email. “I have created an online petition to the landlord, S.C. Herman & Associates, and Whole Foods with a goal of pressuring them to come to a resolution on their lease. PLEASE support our neighborhood by signing. It’s very quick.” The store has been closed since March of last year. Initially, it closed temporarily to deal with roving rodents. Then, while they were at it, some remodeling was begun. That escalated into a conflict with the landlord over the terms of the lease and permits, leading to lawsuits. Adding to the uncertainty, Whole Foods was acquired by Amazon last June. No one seems clear on the plans for the store. But neighbors are fed up. Some are not in support of the petition, however. “No need,” wrote Jessica Hill in an email response. “The new Trader Joe’s opening on Wisconsin Ave will be even closer to Georgetown.” Coming to the former Holiday Inn site at 2101 Wisconsin Avenue, Trader Joe’s is expected to open next year. The Whole Foods petition is available at: chn.ge/2H3i1s3.
Mugging on M Street
Pot Bust at Mason Inn
From the Metropolitan Police Department: On Feb. 12, approximately 10:15 p.m., the complainant was walking toward their car located in the 3100 block of M St NW when they noticed an individual following them. As the complainant attempted to get into their vehicle the unknown male pulled out a handgun and pointed it toward the complainant. The complainant began screaming at which point the unknown male ran away. The lookout is for a brown skin male in his twenties with a slim build and a mustache who was wearing a black knit cap and a dark in color hoodie. The investigation is still ongoing.
A Feb. 1 pot party at Mason Inn at 2408 Wisconsin Ave. NW got three individuals arrested and charged with possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. According to court documents, Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration enforcement officers, members of the Narcotics and Special Investigations division, the Second District Club Action Team and the Second District Crime Suppression Team entered the restaurant around 6:45 p.m. “Upon their arrival, the officers encountered a vendor table with 102 assorted edibles, five capsules containing brown liquid, nine bags of marijuana and two jars of marijuana,” Fox5 News reported.
Robbery on P Street From MPD: Robbery [snatch] at around 7:11 p.m., in the 2600 block of P Street NW. Lookout for black male, 6’0”, wearing dark clothing and driving a white sedan.
One down, one to go. The Valero gasoline station at the intersection of M Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW and 28th Street was razed last week to make way for EastBanc’s apartments on the site next to Rock Creek Park and across from the Four Seasons. Next gas station up for demo? The Key Bridge Exxon at 36th and M Streets NW, next to the Exorcist Steps and the Car Barn, to make way for — that’s right — condos. Georgetowner photo.
Man Pulled from Car in Rock Creek On Feb. 16, the D.C. Fire and EMS Department rescued a man from his car when it was driven off Rock Creek Parkway around 9 a.m. and plunged into Rock Creek. The car was heading south. The accident occurred near the P Street entrance to the parkway. According to D.C. Fire, the man was taken to the hospital as a precaution but he is expected to survive. No one else was injured.
KEEP YOUR TEETH FOR LIFE! OBITUARIES
Tennis Guru Ravi Shankar, 49 Ravi Shan kar died on Feb. 4 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Though he shared a name with the world-famous musician, he didn’t hold a sitar; he held a tennis racket (actually lots of them). At age 19 in Delhi, India, he opened his own tennis academy. It became the third largest in the region of over 20 million people. Shankar became a wellknown tennis personage in Washington, D.C.,
after moving here in the mid-1990s, teaching the sport he loved and becoming the go-to expert for restringing and repairing tennis and squash racquets. He had a sophisticated knowledge of string types and racquet differences — something area players at all levels, from beginners to professionals, came to appreciate. He could make a big difference in how you played. Shankar worked at the Drilling Tennis Shop in downtown D.C. for eight years before opening his own shop, the Tennis Zone, first in Chevy Chase and then at 2319 Wisconsin Avenue in Glover Park. Many who knew him used the words “kind and caring” to describe him.
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Jack Evans Report
DCTAG Makes a Big Difference BY JAC K EVAN S
A Life in Arts and Education
Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan. Washington, D.C., is a city of some who — with ambition and originality — are champions of both beauty and justice. When we lose such champions, the loss is felt sharply and deeply. After all, there are none too many and never enough. The city has lost a major figure in the areas of beauty and justice, in the field of taste, in the appreciation of the need to use art to battle for civil rights and to create paths for others to do the same. Peggy Cooper Cafritz was that figure. She died Feb. 18 at the age of 70 from complications from pneumonia. When you learned the news, it was an immediately felt loss, a whack against the ribs, because for many reasons she was a rare spirit. She was a fighter first — a member of a well-to-do, socially prominent black family from Mobile, Alabama. Despite their position, she and her family were not spared the slings of the Jim Crow mentality. At George Washington University, she was a spark in the civil rights movement, organizing students against segregation. She was often referred to as a “doyenne,” “a grande dame,” a woman with distinctive
tastes, her own style and a distinct look. She found ways for her interests to intersect, notably as head of the D.C. school board and earlier, perhaps most important of all, as cofounder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Cooper Cafritz married, divorced and became her own kind of socialite, moving in an eclectic orbit as a major collector of African American and African Art and as a hugely effective cultural and political fundraiser. When contemplating influential figures, people often look for hidden signs. Not so with Cooper Cafritz. You don’t have to look far. Simply behold the Duke Ellington School, now in its reconstructed brilliance, cutting-edge architecture incubating artistic creation of every type. One is surrounded by the joy of young people challenging themselves and their classmates. Mirabile visu! Cooper Cafritz leaves our city this unique legacy. It is her artistic valedictory, one we shall always remember and for us to continue.
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The president recently unveiled his federal budget priorities for 2019 and one item was the gutting of the popular DC Tuition Assistance Grant program (DCTAG). This $40-million program is essential for many District residents to attend public universities across the country. DCTAG was established because many of our families, including many in the middle class, just didn’t have the options that families outside the District had when the time came to search for higher education. Unlike most states, D.C. has no “in-state” tuition for residents because we have only one public university, the University of the District of Columbia. This program provides up to $10,000 per applicant, helping to make up the difference in tuition costs at public universities. There was a time when this wasn’t even an option for our children. I have some serious concerns about the president’s desire to cut it entirely. Page 96 of the president’s “An American Budget: Major Savings and Reforms” report lists a “justification” for zeroing out the grant: While this program has helped many D.C. residents afford college, the financial position of the D.C. government has significantly improved since 1999 providing D.C. with flexibility to allocate local funds to support its residents. There are many Federal programs available to all Americans that help ensure continued college access.
The president suggests that the District is doing well (which it is) and we should be able to afford DCTAG. I don’t buy into this suggestion. The District doesn’t have an extra $40 million. Cutting this program would come at a tremendous cost to residents, either in higher tuition or in higher taxes. These perennial budget conversations in Congress will often look at what programs can be cut, always negatively impacting District residents. In the greater context of the federal budget, DCTAG is a drop in the bucket, but the availability of these dollars makes a big difference in whether or not a large number of graduating high school seniors pursue higher education. The District does a lot for the federal government. The federal government doesn’t pay any property taxes, we guard the president with minimal reimbursement for the expenses and D.C. residents pay taxes with no federal representation. I’m optimistic that DCTAG will remain in the budget as Congress starts debating. It’s still important, however, for residents to speak up and make their voices heard to protect the program. If you have a moment, sign the mayor’s petition to save DCTAG at dcforms. dc.gov/webform/pledge-savedctag. Jack Evans is the District Council member for Ward 2, representing Georgetown and other neighborhoods since 1991.
Peggy Cooper Cafritz Dies at 70 BY R IC H AR D SEL D EN Peggy Cooper Cafritz, 70, a mover-andshaker in Washington, D.C., for decades, died Feb. 18 at a local hospital. The cause was complications from pneumonia. She had undergone at least one earlier bout with the disease, along with an emergency gall bladder operation several years ago. She and real estate heir and developer Conrad Cafritz divorced in 1998. Born Pearl Alice Cooper on April 7, 1947, in Mobile, Alabama, she went to Catholic boarding school in Indiana and came to Washington in 1964 to attend George Washington University. There, she launched its black student union and successfully fought to integrate the school’s fraternities and sororities. She earned a degree in political science and went on to law school, graduating in 1971. While she was in law school, her father, whose Alabama chain of funeral homes and life insurance businesses was struggling, committed suicide. In 1968, she organized a summer arts festival attended by local teenagers that evolved into the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, which she cofounded with choreographer Mike Malone. Among the alumni of the public magnet school, which opened in 1974 in the former Western High School on 35th Street NW, are comedian Dave Chappelle and mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves. Duke Ellington reopened last fall after a major renovation and expansion. Architect Chris Graae of Cox Graae + Spack commented on Cooper Cafritz’s ongoing involvement, down
to the interior color scheme. “She was a very strong guide in this project,” he said. Education and the arts were her consuming interests. Cooper Cafritz became the youngestever fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center. Committed to D.C., she helped to create the University of the District of Columbia and, beginning in 2000, served six years as an outspoken president of the board of education. She also chaired the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and worked at WTOP as a television producer and at WETA as an arts reviewer. She and Conrad Cafritz stood out as a mixedrace couple actively involved in philanthropy. The couple raised a family and convened a high-powered salon in an eight-bedroom hilltop estate they built in the 1980s on Chain Bridge Road in the Kent neighborhood. The house was filled with works by African and African American artists, including Kehinde Wiley, whose portrait of President Barack Obama was unveiled last week. But more than 300 artworks, worth millions of dollars, were lost in a fire in the summer of 2009, when Cooper Cafritz was in Martha’s Vineyard. She sued DC Water for $30 million for not maintaining the neighborhood’s fire hydrants; the case was finally settled in 2014. Cooper Cafritz rebuilt her art collection (a catalogue is about to be published) and installed it in a condominium on Massachusetts Avenue near Dupont Circle, purchased in 2011 for $3.25 million. The 5,400-square-foot, four-bedroom unit was listed last year for $5.5 million.
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GBA NETWORKING MEETING The Georgetown Business Association will hold its monthly reception at 6:30 p.m. at Good Stuff Eatery, 3291 M St NW. Parking will be discussed. For details, visit georgetownbusiness.org.
ADVISORY NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION 2A ANC 2A represents the West End and Foggy Bottom. The monthly meetings begin at 7 p.m. at the West End Library, 2301 L S. NW. For details, visit anc2a.org.
THURS., FEBRUARY 22 HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEW BOARD
The District’s Historic Preservation Review Board will meet at 9 a.m. at 441 4th St. NW in Room 220 South. For details, visit planning.dc.gov.
MON., FEBRUARY 26
ADVISORY NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION 2E ANC 2E represents the Burleith, Georgetown and Hillandale neighborhoods and reviews development in the historic district and local liquor licenses. The monthly meetings begin at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation Prep, Heritage Room, 2nd floor, 35th Street and Volta Place NW. For details, visit anc2e.com.
TUES., FEBRUARY 27 CAG MONTHLY MEETING
The Citizens Association of Georgetown will meet for a 7:30 p.m. reception and 8 p.m. program at the Healey Family Center in New South residence hall on the campus of Georgetown University, 3700 O St. NW. Associate professor of history Marcia Chatelain will speak about institutional racism and steps the university is taking to address its history of slavery through reconciliation. For details, visit cagtown.org.
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OLD GEORGETOWN BOARD OGB meetings are held at 9 a.m. on the first Thursday of every month except August at the National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW, Suite 312. For details, visit cfa.org.
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ADVISORY NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION 3B ANC 3B represents the Glover Park and Cathedral Heights neighborhoods. The monthly meetings begin at 7 p.m. at Stoddert Elementary School, 4001 Calvert St. NW, visit anc3b.org. Send your community event listing to editorial@georgetowner.com or call 202-338-4833.
THE VILLAGE: PSA 206
Police Focus on ‘Georgetown’s Heartbeat’ B Y P E G GY SAN D S Police Capt. Ashley Rosenthal has been with the Metropolitan Police Department for more than 20 years, serving in different police service areas throughout the District. In January, she became captain of the three PSAs comprising Georgetown/Burleith (206), West End/Foggy Bottom (207) and part of Dupont Circle (208). “Every neighborhood of the District has its own nuances, its own kind of heartbeat,” Rosenthal said in a post-midnight interview with The Georgetowner. Now the captain is focusing on learning what she calls “Georgetown’s heartbeat.” Rosenthal is part of a network of police services that reaches out and down to every resident in the District of Columbia. There are 56 PSAs in D.C.’s seven police districts. Each PSA is headed by a lieutenant and has a team of police officers and officials assigned to it. The Second District, led by Cmdr. Melvin Gresham, has eight PSAs in three sectors. “We communicate constantly and meet together at least once a week,” Rosenthal said of her Sector 3 PSA teams. PSA public meetings generally are held monthly. Dustin Bellavance is the new lieutenant of the Georgetown/Burleith PSA, which has approximately the same boundaries as Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E. Working the 9:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m. shift, as does Rosenthal, he “is responsible for the PSA 24 hours a day,” Rosenthal said. Bellavance oversees investigations and complaints in the PSA and tracks crime patterns. He is responsible for developing a crime prevention strategy for Georgetown. Bellavance replaces Officer Antonial Atkins, who served the Georgetown PSA for more than a decade. The PSAs are residents’ direct link to the department. “Residents should get to know their PSA team members and learn how to work with them to fight crime and disorder in their neighborhoods,” recommends MPD. The department itself offers a wide variety of services, many of them immediately accessible via its robust and frequently updated website. There are options, for instance, to text the police directly, to file or request a police report online and to access hotline and tip lines. Also provided are descriptions and access to numerous community and crime prevention and safety programs. There are a number of victims’ assistance programs, including a “Crime Victim’s Bill of Rights” (available in seven languages from Amharic to Vietnamese), a victims’ compensation program and a link to relevant community agencies. The department oversees D.C.’s firearm registration and licensing process. Programs include training instructors for transporting
“Every neighborhood of the District has its own nuances, its own kind of heartbeat.” — MPD Capt. Ashley Rosenthal
MPD Second District Commander Melvin Gresham. Georgetowner photo.
neighborhood’s vulnerability to crimes like auto and home break-ins. MPD provides a Major Case/Unsolved Homicides webpage and a YouTube channel with videos of individuals. Residents who provide information that helps capture “D.C.’s Most Wanted” are eligible for various rewards. Still, Georgetown’s PSA has its unique aspects. Some residents have already commented on how welcome Rosenthal’s interest in the food-truck issue on K Street has been. “That is a special nuance of Georgetown than I didn’t see so much in other PSAs I’ve been in,” the captain said. And Georgetown will miss its former PSA Officer Atkins. An everyone-is-invited retirement party will be held to celebrate Atkins’s 28 years in the department on Friday, March 2, from 6 to 9 p.m. at House of Sweden, 2900 K St. NW.
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MPD Lt. Justin Bellavance. Courtesy Justin Bellavance. and carrying concealed firearms, mace, stun guns, pepper spray and other defense sprays, as well as a program for the disposal of unwanted weapons. MPD also manages the special events permitting process, a recovered property program (items can be seen on video), the District’s sex offender registration program and an online auction of city assets such as vehicles, police automobile accessories, computers, communications equipment, office furniture and other supplies. School and campus safety programs include crime tracking (including hate crimes) and common-sense training to reduce crimes against property and persons. The PSAs also support participation by residents in community crime-stopping programs. Officer Atkins offered popular walkthe-beat opportunities for residents to see the
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Danya Sherman. CEO Yaman Coskun. Courtesy Yamanair.
Moved: Yamanair Creative At the Feb. 15 “Farragut Shackwarming” on 17th Street: Luke’s Lobster cofounders Luke Holden and Ben Conniff with Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) and Russell Smith of the Ocean Foundation. Photo by Bill Starrels.
In: D.C. Gets 3rd Luke’s Lobster Fast-growing Luke’s Lobster — in Georgetown and Penn Quarter — has set up a third Washington, D.C., spot near the White House and Farragut Square at 800 17th St. NW. Now a partner with the Ocean Foundation, Luke’s also celebrated its certification as a B Corp (the nonprofit B Lab’s certification for companies that meet “rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency”). Founded in 2009 in New York’s East Village by Maine native Luke Holden, a Georgetown University business school grad, the company has more than 30 locations, including six in Japan.
This company, which helps craft audio, video, digital and graphic design content, is smitten with Georgetown — even after making plans to move to a new location, the company chose to move to another Georgetown space — instead of being in the Canal Square complex on 31st Street. Yamanair Creative signed a five-year lease for 3238 Prospect St. NW. “None of my team members wanted to leave Georgetown. Neither did I. We are thrilled with our new address,” said Yaman Coskun, CEO of Yamanair Creative. Among its clients are WTOP and Comcast SportsNet.
Available for PreSale: KnoNap Danya Sherman, KnoNap’s founder, who presented at Halcyon Incubator last fall as a fellow, is getting ready to launch her product: KnoNap, a napkin designed to detect specific rape drugs in drinks. The product’s creation helps give this George Washington University student, a victim of drug-facilitated assault herself, closure on her betrayal by someone she considered her friend. The napkins, slated to launch this fall, are available for pre-sale at knonap.com.
In (after Lent): Reformation No, not the one started by Martin Luther 500 years ago — but the Reformation brand, founded by Yael Aflalo in 2008. Touted as “an Eco Label the Cool Girls Pick,” the fast-fashion clothing line with its vintage and sustainable fabrics will set up its ninth shop at 3033 M St. NW. Look for the simple, feminine bodycon dresses hanging next to tight jeans and off-the-shoulder tops. So, Georgetowners, along with Rihanna and Taylor Swift, “Change the World Without Changing Your Style,” as Ref proposes your OOTD in its unique, high-tech fitting rooms.
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Out: Sports Zone Out: P Street Gallerie Elite P Street Gallerie owner Lisa Brown has closed her art oasis at 3235 P St. NW. The California native, who described herself as having “a passion for art and its unique capacity to transcend the bounds of culture, geography and socioeconomic status,” is moving her art-selling online.
Under Construction: Unnamed Restaurant Near Boulangerie Christophe, the retail space for 1424 Wisconsin Ave. NW intends to change into restaurant space, as a sign indicates. Though it’s not clear what the restaurant will be as of now, it is possible to catch a glimpse of the reincarnation going on inside.
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No more giant posters. The business at 3140 M St. NW, where men and women could buy sports-related and athletic clothing and shoes, is closed. The explanation for the closure of this Sports Zone Elite store was posted out front: “Our lease has expired and we have decided to move on.” Other nearby locations include 14th Street NW and Fairfax, Virginia.
Out: Mephisto It turns out that having comfortable footwear for sale isn’t a surefire way to keep a store’s doors open. Mephisto, formerly located at 1329 Wisconsin Ave. NW, has closed its doors in Georgetown. The business is still open in online form. Also, next to the former space, now available for lease, is Comfort One Shoes, which touts the Mephisto brand.
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Zenith Gallery Marks 40 Years in D.C.
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This recently redeveloped, fully stabilized property in the highly sought-after Georgetown submarket contains a newly constructed 7,997-square-foot, six-unit apartment building and a historic building converted into two luxury apartment units. An excellent investment opportunity, it is adjacent to the three-story Nike store and surrounded by outstanding dining and entertainment venues. The renovated Graham hotel is directly across the street and the upscale restaurant Fiola Mare is one block away in Washington Harbour.
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Hearing the name Zenith Gallery, one pictures a pristine-looking space that embodies a certain gravitas. However, starting from the front yard of what turns out to be Zenith Gallery, at 1429 Iris St. NW — owner Margery Goldberg’s house — one sees artworks placed much closer to each other than expected. The house exudes a creative vibrancy that makes the property stand out along this residential stretch of Northwest D.C. Inside lies more art, including jellyfish lamps and pieces of woodwork. “I’m picky about my woodworkers,” Goldberg said. As evidenced by the neon fireplace, it becomes very clear that Goldberg eats, sleeps, drinks and breathes art. For her, every detail matters in displaying a piece of art, down to the way the item is hung. On a recent Saturday, she was having a discussion about what could be done to hang something where French cleats would not work. The solution? D-rings — ideally medium-sized ones, but she was open to an employee buying large D-rings from a store to deal with the problem. Zenith Gallery’s 40th anniversary celebrations will be going on all year long. There is currently an exhibition at the gallery’s downtown outpost at 1111 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, “In the Beginning: The Rhode Island Years, 1978-1986,” on view through April 28. The group show of work by 11 artists, including Goldberg, serves as a tribute to the gallery’s early years, when “many traditions of Zenith such as, neon, humor, sculpture, threedimensional art, fabulous painters and photographers, fashion, and video shows were exhibited here more than anywhere else in the District.” At the Iris Street location, the exhibition “Light Up Your heART” — a group show of 13 artists, again including Goldberg, who work in neon or with other light technology
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— Margery Goldberg on choosing artists for Zenith Gallery
— opened on Valentine’s Day and will be on view through March 24. When choosing artists to represent in her gallery, Goldberg takes her work seriously. “You have to knock my socks off,” she said. One way to make that happen is by not having a penchant to imitate another artist. Goldberg well understands the path of the artist. Born in Rochester, New York, a place she describes as “one of the hotbeds of the craft world,” she took art classes while growing up. She later got a bachelor’s degree in art from George Washington University. Her passion in artwork is in sculpting. At GW, she was close to her sculpture professors. “I always knew I was a sculptor,” Goldberg said. She opened up a studio in Georgetown, but that studio was caught up in a severe fire. After the fire, a man named Michael Klein suggested that they open a gallery together, which they did in March of 1978 in the 14th Street NW area. That gallery closed nine years later due to a zoning dispute with the D.C. government, she said. Despite the closure, the gallery’s history continues to this day, 40 years later, though in different locations. For details about current and upcoming exhibitions and related artist talks, visit zenithgallery.com.
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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.
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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 7 p.m., and, our outdoor courtyard is one of DC’s best kept secrets.
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A Georgetown landmark for over 30 years featuring styles and recipes passed through generations. Balanced cutting-edge culinary creations of modern Italy using the fresh ingredients and made-from-scratch sauces and pastas. Seen on The Travel Channel, Awardwinning Filomena is a favorite of U.S. Presidents, celebrities, sports legends, political leaders. “Don’t miss their bakery’s incredible desserts” - Best in D.C.
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Rob Campbell, executive chef at BlackSalt, grew up in Colorado, but he has an affinity for Southern cooking. Inspired by a culinary trip to Charleston, Campbell introduced a Low Country seafood stew to Jeff Black’s Palisades seafood kitchen and fish market, located at 4883 MacArthur Boulevard. The dinner entrée is particularly suited for chasing away the cold on winter nights. While seafood is clearly the star of the dish, Campbell traces its origin to what he calls a “mild obsession” with smoked ham hocks. “I’m the type of chef that seizes on an ingredient and tries to learn about it and squeeze every drop out of it,” he says.
BLACKSALT’S LOW COUNTRY SEAFOOD STEW Yield: 4 quarts
To make the broth:
To make the finished stew:
• 4 smoked ham hocks (8 oz. each) • 1 green bell pepper, roughly chopped • 1 yellow onion, roughly chopped • 3 celery stalks, roughly chopped • 10 cups chicken stock • 3 cups tomato juice • 1 tsp. cayenne pepper • 2 tsp. paprika • 2 tsp. onion powder • 2 tsp. garlic powder
• 4 head-on prawns • 4 Gulf shrimp, shelled and deveined • 4 large sea scallops • 8 shucked oysters (meats only) • 20 blueshell mussels, washed and debearded • 2 cups cooked Carolina Gold rice • 2 cups braised collard greens (braise with onion, garlic, chili flakes, apple cider vinegar and chicken stock)
• 1 tsp. dried thyme
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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 familyowned
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The dish is also something new for the BlackSalt menu, and that’s no accident. “It’s always important if you take over to try to get some different things in there to make people realize there’s someone different at the helm,” says Campbell, who assumed the restaurant’s executive chef position last August after several years as the executive sous chef. Campbell shares his recipe below, which he says can be adapted to include whatever fresh fish or seafood you have available. What’s most important, he says, is taking the time to make the initial broth. “Once you have this wonderful broth, you can almost just put anything in there you want.”
In a heavy bottomed stock pot, sauté vegetables in vegetable oil or bacon fat at medium high heat until translucent, about five minutes. Add ham hocks, thyme and spices. Continue to sauté for five minutes more until the spices are fragrant. Add stock and tomato juice. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to a low simmer. Cook until ham hock meat is falling from the bone, two to three hours. Skim the fat from the surface with a ladle while simmering (this will have to be done several times throughout the cooking time). Once the hocks are ready, strain the stock through a fine strainer (cheesecloth is preferred). Set aside the ham hocks. Pick the usable meat from the hocks, discarding the skin, fat and bones.
Season the scallops, shrimp and prawns with salt and pepper. Heat a large sauté pan or rondeau. Add two tablespoons of vegetable oil (not extra virgin olive oil) until very hot. Quickly sear the shrimp, prawns and scallops on both sides just to color the exterior, about a minute on each side. Set aside. Add mussels to hot pan. Deglaze with ham hock broth. Bring to a simmer. When the mussels begin to open, add cooked rice, collards, ham hock meat and all remaining seafood. Season with salt and pepper to taste. (A dash of Tabasco never hurts.) When the shrimp are firm and curled, divide the broth and rice into four large bowls, setting the seafood on top. Serve with warm corn bread.
FOOD & WINE
Chatting with Chefs
Gerald Addison
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BY KATE OC ZYPOK
BY EVA N CAP L AN Each month, Evan Caplan speaks with a chef of a local eatery. In February, he chatted with Gerald Addison of Maydan. Addison is a homegrown D.C. native who started his culinary career at Restaurant Nora. He’s passionate about working with local farmers and producers in his new role as executive chef at Compass Rose, where he’s excited to take on the challenge of global flavors. Addison loves green tea everything, his two cats and cooking with wise old women in the mountains of Nepal. At Maydan, a new, conceptual Middle Eastern restaurant in the 14th Street corridor, from his perch near the stunning open-fire clay oven, he muses with coworkers on his travels to devise the restaurant’s menu. Addison seeks to tell the stories of people from around the region through his food, welcoming guests as family to break bread baked in that very oven. Tell us a bit about yourself. Gerald Addison: I was born in Washington, D.C. I grew up in Adams Morgan and Cleveland Park. I started working in restaurants in D.C when I was 15 at Restaurant Nora. Dig deeper into that background. What’s influenced you? GA: I have been heavily influenced by all the different people around me. D.C. being such an international city has been a huge part of why I was interested in cooking. More than anything else, cooking has been a gateway for me to learn about other people’s cultures. I never felt like I had my own food culture, so I sort of adopted the other food cultures around me. Every city I have lived in, I’ve always been much more interested in trying food from different communities around me. How has growing up in D.C. affected you? Tell us about your family’s work in art and in Georgetown. GA: My parents opened their gallery around 35 years ago on Hillyer Court in Dupont. It was tucked away in an alley. I always really loved that space, because it was a little hidden and you had to find it. Funnily enough, Maydan is now in an alley, so I really love that. They moved the gallery to Georgetown in the early 2000s and have been there ever since. They do a lot of different shows, from local artists to 18th-century Tibetan art. Growing up around artists and creative types has had a big impact on me. Seeing people making a living doing what they love is incredibly inspiring.
Up front at the Feb. 13 bridge groundbreaking: Ward 6 Council member Charles Allen, Ward 8 Council member Trayon White, Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton. Photo by Patrick G. Ryan.
What does it mean to you to cook and serve in Washington, D.C.? GA: Cooking in D.C. now after growing up here and starting my career means so much to me. As a kid, I never had any intention of living here as an adult. But when I moved back it really just felt right. I love being close to my family, and I sort of love being a local in the sea of transplants — remembering the old D.C. when so much has changed here. I am very proud of being from here, because it’s such a rarity these days. What’s the best part about your job? GA: I light a huge fire every day. What’s the coolest thing you saw on your travels? GA: Cooking with Syrian refugees was pretty amazing. Istanbul has a million Syrians living there and, as tragic as everything is with the conflict, seeing these people trying to rebuild their lives there is incredible. Not to mention the Syrians are exceptional cooks. Any celebs you’ve served? GA: Most recently, Michelle Obama. What’s the most important thing we should know when we sit down at Maydan? GA: We cook food from Morocco to Iran. Everything is cooked over a woodfired hearth in the middle of the restaurant. Everything is meant to be eaten with bread that we cook out of the oven. Overall, it’s going amazing. We’ve had so much support from so many people. Opening restaurants is extremely difficult, but I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. We have the most incredible team here. Every day I am so grateful to have the people I have around me.
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Ground Broken for New Frederick Douglass Bridge The groundbreaking for the new Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge over the Anacostia River — and the reconfiguration of connections to South Capitol Street, Potomac Avenue, Q Street SW, Suitland Parkway and Interstate 295 — a $441-million project, took place Feb. 13 with the mayor in attendance. The new bridge, with traffic circles at each end and dedicated lanes for pedestrians and cyclists, will be built parallel to the old one, which dates to 1950. Completion is set for the fall of 2021.
Will FBI Stay on Pennsylvania Ave?
Bill to Remake Federal Parks
Earlier this month, the General Services Administration issued a report recommending that FBI headquarters remain at 935 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, with the existing J. Edgar Hoover Building demolished and replaced. Estimated price tag: $3.3 billion. The new headquarters will house 8,300 employees, down from 11,000; the remainder would relocate to West Virginia, Alabama and Idaho. An earlier plan had the headquarters moving to Greenbelt or Landover in Maryland or to Springfield, Virginia.
The DowntownDC Business Improvement District supported the passage of H.R. 2897, a bill sponsored by Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton and authorized by Mayor Bowser and the director of the National Park Service. If passed by the Senate, the bill will authorize cooperative management agreements for federally-owned parks in D.C. Plans for Franklin Park, the largest downtown, include the fixing of broken sidewalks, a new fountain and children’s play garden and programming such as exercise classes and movie screenings.
Impact Hub Shutting Down
Fair Elections Act Passes
After four years, business incubator Impact Hub closed its doors at 419 7th St. NW at the end of January. Court documents from November and December show missed rent and utility payments and a stay preventing eviction prior to Feb. 1. The network’s parent, San Francisco-based social entrepreneurship firm Mission Hub, is also closing up shop in D.C. The landlord, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, filed an eviction notice after Mission Hub failed to pay nearly half a million dollars.
After years of organizing and campaigning, the Fair Elections Act passed the District Council unanimously. The Working Families Party is calling for the mayor and the Council to fully fund the program, which will provide matching funds to local candidates who focus on fundraising from D.C. residents in lieu of accepting big donations. The Working Families Party hopes the program will promote economic and racial equity.
D.C. General Shelter Closing Mayor Bowser released a plan and a timeline for closing the D.C. General Family Shelter by the end of the year, keeping her promise to close the outdated shelter on the way to replacing it with safer, service-enriched facilities. D.C. General houses about 250 families on a daily basis. In the coming months, the Department of Human Services will reduce the hospital’s use as a shelter, gradually moving families to permanent housing or to other locations.
D.C. Continues to Flirt with Amazon Mayor Muriel Bowser took Brian Kenner, deputy mayor for planning and economic development, along on a Silicon Valley business trip. Bowser and Kenner are working to get Amazon to choose D.C. as its second headquarters, known as HQ2. According to Bowser, it was D.C.’s first trip targeting the West Coast as a source of business development. It comes after the D.C. government put out a request for information regarding a new “inclusive innovation fund.” GMG, INC.
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BY G ARY T IS CHL ER Talking with Washington actress Holly Twyford about the play “Becoming Dr. Ruth,” which runs from Feb. 21 to March 18 at Theater J, a lot of zigs and zags start to make themselves felt. A much-honored actress, Twyford is wearing a relatively recent, less prolific hat for this one-woman production: director. The show is about the remarkable talk-show host who gave blunt sexual advice to millions of people over the radio and television waves, with Naomi Jacobson in the title role. Twyford’s directing resume is nothing like her acting credits, which seem unbelievably long, excellent and varied. Making things even more treacherous is the fact that it’s a one-character play, which means that, though Twyford may be present, she is in the dark (so to speak). You can talk about process — how things are done, and why certain things are seen and heard in different ways. Or you can talk about Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the diminutive 87-yearold doctor, philosopher, celebrity — New York and national style — Holocaust survivor and Haganah fighter and sniper. Or you can talk about two highly affecting, uniquely gifted actresses, who give a glow to Washington’s reputation for spirited, diverse and energetic theater. Or you can talk about women, a subject
Ruth Westheimer. Photo by Harald Bischoff. that seems to rear its head in almost dizzying ways these days. “Becoming Dr. Ruth,” by playwright Mark St. Germain, is indeed about a remarkable woman (she’s expected to be on hand for one of the performances), whose life experience is tangled up in a rich tapestry. Raised in Germany, near Mainz, she was sent to an orphanage in Switzerland as part of a Kindertransport — a rescue operation for child refugees — as the specter of the Nazis loomed. She emigrated to the British mandate in Palestine and joined the Haganah, the
military branch of the Israeli state in waiting. Later, after a stay in Paris, she emigrated to the U.S., where she received a master’s degree in sociology. She worked for Planned Parenthood, then got a job giving advice on a show called “Sexually Speaking.” The rest is a certain kind of familiar history. As many will recall, she spoke with a thick accent, dispensed advice on all sorts of sexual matters and was strong, tough, smart, intellectually probing and funny. Dear Abby she was not. “Becoming Dr. Ruth” is about her life, but, in a sense, it is also about Jacobson and Twyford and their lives in the Washington theater community. “Well, Dr. Ruth, she has lived a remarkable life, she’s just astonishing. She has our history ringing and bursting loudly through her voice,” Twyford said. “That’s not just because of the content, or her celebrity. It’s about her spirit, her courage and I think her originality. There is nobody like her.” But there is also nobody like Jacobson, who stamps Shakespeare with her mark often, and brands just about every part she plays with a fierce approach. “The trick is you have to see this part first as herself, then embodied by Naomi,” Twyford said. “You — meaning I as director — can’t
think in terms of how I would do the part, which would be wrong.” The more the talk turns to theater, the more memory makes itself felt. I recalled seeing Twyford in an early role at Studio Theatre in 1999. The play was called “The Steward of Christendom,” about the Irish rebellion of the previous century. She was young but already had a stage presence hard to forget. She had (and has) a distinct voice, with a shade of rasp in it that can become anything she wants it to be. She became part of a group of noted actors, including Ed Gero, the late Tana Hicken, with whom she appeared in Athol Fugard’s “The Road to Mecca,” Floyd King, Sarah Marshall, Nancy Robinette and Ted Van Griethuysen. Just talking on the phone ignites a parade of characters, including director and friend Joe Banno’s version of “Hamlet,” in which Twyford held a pistol to her head and began: “To be or not to be.” “Becoming Dr. Ruth” will be one of the plays that bears Twyford’s still-growing directorial mark. But, with a large batch of Helen Hayes Award nominations (add two for “A Little Night Music” at Signature and “Or,” at Round House this year), her legacy as an actress is secure and still swiftly growing.
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The Pilot District Project, 1968–1973 Opens March 31
Do Ho Suh: Almost Home March 16 – August 5 Internationally renowned for his “fabric architecture,” which explores the global nature of contemporary identity, memory, migration and our ideas of home, Do Ho Suh creates spaces at once deeply familiar and profoundly alien. “Do Ho Suh: Almost Home” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum will feature the artist’s brightly hued “Hub” sculptures — intricate, hand-sewn fabric recreations of homes where Suh has lived, experienced by visitors from within — along with drawings and semitransparent replicas of household objects called “Specimens.” One of the “Hubs” will be a new work depicting the artist’s childhood home in Seoul.
In 1968, the eyes of a worried nation were on Washington, D.C., after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and the ensuing destruction in the District and nationwide. Would D.C.’s political and community leaders rise to the occasion? Part of a citywide commemoration of the 50th anniversary of King’s assassination, this exhibition will explore the Pilot District Project, an experiment in community policing that centered on several African American residential and business neighborhoods damaged by fires, looting and unrest. Displaying a newly discovered collection of posters, maps and other materials, the show will introduce visitors to this compelling and timely story.
vi sual arts National Gallery of Art Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings March 4 – May 28 Born in Lexington, Virginia, Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac and hauntingly beautiful photographs — including figure studies, still lifes and landscapes — for more than 50 years. “Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings” will explore how her relationship with the South has shaped her work. Some 115 photographs, many of which have not been exhibited or published previously, will offer a sweeping overview of Mann’s artistic achievement and a focused exploration of the South’s continuing influence on her work.
No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man Opens March 30 Each year in Nevada’s Black Rock Burning Desert, a city of more than 75,000 people rises for a single week. Enormous experimental art installations are erected and many are ritually burned to the ground. “No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man” will bring the large-scale work from this desert gathering to Washington, taking over the entire Renwick Gallery. Room-sized installations, costumes, jewelry and ephemera will transport visitors to the famed “Playa,” while photographs and archival materials from the Nevada Museum of Art will trace Burning Man’s bohemian roots and growth. In addition, the Renwick will expand beyond its walls with a display of sculptures throughout the neighborhood. 16
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For centuries, peoples from the Arabian Peninsula, Asia, Africa and Europe have crossed the Indian Ocean. On the east African coast, this confluence of peoples gave rise to diverse communities often called “Swahili” — after the Arabic word meaning “edge” or “coast.” Swahili coast artworks have been shaped by complex migrations across great distances and the making and unmaking of empires, communities and social identities. “World on the Horizon” will explore works from different regions and time periods as objects of mobility, outcomes of encounter and products of trade and imperialism, revealing the movement of artistic forms, motifs and preferences and identifying their changing meanings.
To Dye For: Ikats from Central Asia March 24 – July 29 The name ikat, from the Malaysian word for “to tie,” refers to the distinct technique of making these brilliant Central Asian textiles, in which bundles of threads are patterned by repeated binding and dyeing. Ikats caught the attention of contemporary designers, notably Oscar de la Renta who, in 2005, included ikat designs in his collections. Since then, ikat motifs have become ubiquitous — from couture gowns to T-shirts and from carpets to stationery. “To Dye For: Ikats from Central Asia” will bring together about 30 of the finest hangings and coats from the Freer and Sackler collections, as well as seven of de la Renta’s creations.
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National Museum of African Art World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean Opens May 9
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UnSeen: Our Past in a New Light Opens March 23 Cézanne Portraits March 25 – July 1 Bringing together some 60 examples from collections around the world, “Cézanne Portraits” is the first exhibition devoted to Paul Cézanne’s portraits. The exhibition — including some works never before shown in the U.S. — provides the first full visual account of the pathbreaking French master’s portrait practice, exploring the pictorial and thematic characteristics of his works in the genre, the chronological development of his style and method and the range and influence of his sitters.
Ken Gonzales-Day and Titus Kaphar illuminate the historical contributions and sacrifices made by people of color. Kaphar defaces, cuts and peels back his paintings to show how portraits of American historical figures have coded racial difference, hidden systemic prejudices and omitted African Americans. Gonzales-Day photographs portrait busts, sculptures and ethnographic casts to create installations that reveal how scientific studies, artistic conventions and collecting tendencies have reinforced inappropriate notions of race and “Otherness.” Brought together, their work will demonstrate how the absence of certain figures and communities in art has preempted their recognition in national history and, in the process, reclaim a space for them in the art-historical context.
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Georg Baselitz June 21 – September 16 The Hirshhorn presents the first major U.S. retrospective in more than 20 years of one of Germany’s greatest living artists, marking his 80th birthday. Over his six-decade career, Georg Baselitz pushed the limits of painting and sculpture, beginning with the postwar Art Informel movement, to which he contributed a unique figurative vocabulary. The show will include one of Baselitz’s most notable works of that period — so controversial that it was confiscated by authorities — “The Naked Man,” in which the artist used a shocking image of a male figure to express the pervasive discontent with Germany’s socialist politics.
The Phillips Collection Marking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia June 2 – September 9 “Marking the Infinite” will spotlight nine leading Aboriginal women artists from remote communities across Australia: Nongirrnga Marawili, Wintjiya Napaltjarri, Yukultji Napangati, Angelina Pwerle, Lena Yarinkura, Gulumbu Yununpingu, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, Carlene West and Regina Pilawuk Wilson. The subjects of their art are broad, yet each work is an attempt to grapple with fundamental questions of existence, asking us to slow down and pay attention to the natural world. These are marks made upon an “ancient endless infinity,” revealing humanity’s insignificance against the steady movement of time and the cosmos.
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This spring, The Washington Ballet will present three world premieres — by Gemma Bond and Marcelo Gomes of American Ballet Theatre and Clifton Brown of Jessica Lang Dance — at the Harman Center (March 14-18) and works by Balanchine, Ashton and Robbins at the Kennedy Center (April 11-15). Diane Coburn Bruning’s Chamber Dance Project will celebrate five years in D.C. at Fab5Bash, a March 3 gala featuring a preview of “Ballet, Chant & Song,” a collaboration with Washington National Cathedral Music Director Michael McCarthy heading to the Lansburgh Theatre (June 21-23). Bowen McCauley Dance will present “Une Soirée de Danse” at the Kennedy Center (March 2-3), which will also host New York City Ballet performances and workshops (March 26-April 1) and a visit by Ballet Nacional de Cuba (May 29-June 3).
Verdi’s “Don Carlo” returns to Washington National Opera after 20 years, conducted by Philippe Auguin and directed by Tim Albery (March 3-17). Later on, Maurizio Benini will conduct Rossini’s “The Barber of Seville,” directed by Peter Kazaras (April 28-May 19) and — since, you may have noticed, it’s the Bernstein centennial — Nicole Paiement will conduct “Candide,” directed by WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello with Denyce Graves as the Old Lady (sic). Also at the Kennedy Center, Opera Lafayette will present “Visitors to Versailles,” a program of music by Lully and Grétry inspired by an exhibition opening April 16 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (May 2).
PostClassical Ensemble will wrap up its season at Washington National Cathedral with “Secret Music Skirmishes of the Cold War: The Shostakovich Case,” featuring pianist Benjamin Pasternack, Ashley Smith as JFK and commentary by Vladimir Feltsman and other well-informed guests (May 23). The season-ending concert of the Russian Chamber Art Society at the Embassy of France will be a performance of highlights from Tchaikovsky’s "Queen of Spades," sung in Russian with English narration (June 7).
Choral Music Donald Nally will guest-conduct “Solitude & Joy,” a Cathedral Choral Society concert of hymns, chants and anthems, including the world premiere of “Lincoln” by Alex Berko (March 4). Jessye Norman is honorary chair of the April 27 gala, “Sing a New Song,” with the Hot Club of Baltimore in the house (the cathedral, that is). The society’s May program is “Bernstein the Humanitarian,” with guest conductor Lawrence Loh, also a chance to hear Beethoven’s Ninth (May 20). The day before, Antony Walker will conduct a Choral Arts Society of Washington performance of Rossini’s “Stabat Mater” (“Grieving Mother”) at the Kennedy Center (May 19).
Orchestral Music New National Symphony Orchestra Music Director Gianandrea Noseda will conduct three programs in March: “The Gospel According to the Other Mary” by John Adams (March 8 and 10); a concert of Brahms, Kodály, Dvorák and Richard Strauss, with Yefim Bronfman playing Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major (March 15 and 17-18); and the Verdi Requiem with Choral Arts, the Washington Chorus and soloists Leah Crocetto, Russell Thomas and Eric Owens (March 22-24). Washington Performing Arts will present The Philadelphia Orchestra at Strathmore (March 6) and what’s now known as LA Phil at the Kennedy Center (April 26).
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Jazz The 2018 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert at the Kennedy Center will honor pianist Joanne Brackeen, guitarist Pat Metheny, vocalist Dianne Reeves and Todd Barkan, who founded San Francisco’s Keystone Korner (April 16). Among the legends coming to Blues Alley are: Monty Alexander (April 5-8), McCoy Tyner (April 19-20), Ravi Coltrane (April 21-22), Joshua Redman (May 3-6) and Arturo Sandoval (May 10-13). Returning in June, as always: DC JazzFest (June 8-17). Continued on next page...
Hard to Categorize The Kennedy Center will present “Between the World and Me,” a live performance event at which excerpts from the book by Ta-Nehisi Coates will be read monologuestyle by guest artists with music by Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz Jason Moran and interactive visual storytelling by projection media artists (April 7).
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Pop, Rock and Hip Hop The “In the Beginning Dance Party” at the Kennedy Center will welcome Grand Wizard Theodore and Grandmaster Caz (March 16). A few of the big names docking at The Anthem at the ever-expanding District Wharf: Lorde (April 8), Beck (April 27), Alice in Chains (May 3), David Byrne (May 12) and Brandi Carlile (May 19-20). Strolling onstage at The Birchmere: Dave Mason (March 14), Robin Trower (March 21) and Steve Earle (April 3). The Birchmere will also present Patti LaBelle at the Warner Theatre (April 7). The season-opening festivals at Merriweather Post are the M3 Rock Festival with Queensrÿche (May 4-5) and the M3 Southern Rock Classic with the Marshall Tucker Band (May 6). Franz Ferdinand (April 11) and They Might Be Giants at the 9:30 Club are sold out, by the way, but maybe you know somebody. Seats are still available for Weird Al at Strathmore (March 20).
MICHAEL URIE: Michael Kahn’s Last Prince?
Theater “The Great Society,” the second half of Robert Schenkkan’s LBJ saga, is finishing up at Arena Stage (closing March 11); August Wilson’s “Two Trains Running” (March 30-April 29) and “Snow Child,” a world-premiere musical set in 1920s Alaska (April 13-May 20), will follow. Extended at Woolly Mammoth: “Familiar” by Danai Gurira, part of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival, about a Zimbabwean immigrant family in Minnesota (closing March 11); then the Obie Award winner for best new American theater work, the Ars Nova production of “Underground Railroad Game,” will roll in (April 4-29). “Translations,” a play by Brian Friel set in 1830s County Donegal, is coming to Studio Theatre (March 21-April 22). Keeping things Irish, next up at the Shakespeare Theatre Company is the production of “Waiting for Godot” by Galway’s Druid Theatre Company (April 17-May 20). GALA Hispanic Theatre is presenting “En el tiempo de las mariposas” (“In the Time of the Butterflies”), based on a novel by Julia Álvarez set in the Dominican Republic during the Trujillo regime (April 12-May 13). Did someone say dictator? John Malkovich will be at Strathmore in the role of Satur Diman Cha, head of state of the Republic of Circassia, in the musical drama “Just Call Me God” (April 26). Workaholic Theater J Artistic Director Adam Immerwahr (who directed “Familiar” at Woolly), will direct “Roz and Ray,” a medical drama that takes place during the early years of AIDS (April 3-29). On a lighter note, how about “Paper Dolls,” a karaoke musical about “five gay male Filipino nurses in Tel Aviv who care for elderly Orthodox and Chasidic men six days a week — and headline a drag show on their day off” at Mosaic Theater Company (March 29-April 22)? 18
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B Y GARY TISC H L ER P H O TOS BY R IC AR D O JIM EN EZ Over the phone, Michael Urie sounds young, an enthusiast in his 20s perhaps. There is something both excited and exciting in his voice. In photographs, he looks about that age, eyes ready for contact or action. He looks a little like a schoolboy, which, in a way, the actor is playing — albeit a very unsettled and unsettling schoolboy, who has seen his happy school days come to an end. When the young prince of Denmark comes home to Elsinore, everything has changed. His much-beloved father is dead. His mother is set to marry his uncle, who will then become king. And he has seen a ghost, the most storied ghost in all of theatrical literature: the ghost of his father, telling him with haunting visage that he was murdered by his brother Claudius, Hamlet’s uncle, and that Hamlet must be ready for revenge. This is the task for Prince Hamlet, no small thing, no small task, one we all know about. It is also the task for Urie, a gifted actor who is taking on probably the most challenging part in stage history. Urie — known to the TV-watching public for his role in the “Ugly Betty” series a few seasons back — understands the challenge, and loves it, for several reasons. He laughs when you tell him how youthful he sounds over the phone. “I’m 37, not quite so young. But I understand. Hamlet is a prince, he’s still at college and so forth, so most of the time he’s considered to be heroic, young. Until the catastrophe.”
The death and murder of his father, the betrayal of his mother, the villainy of his uncle changes everything. Hamlet came home for a funeral. Now it’s a wedding, which is an abrupt change of tone, also for the play. For everything out in the open, there is now an underlying aspect. Urie is heading a remarkable cast directed by the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s legendary, endlessly-full-of-fresh-ideas Artistic Director Michael Kahn, who founded the company in 1986 when it was still at the Folger Shakespeare Library on Capitol Hill. “One of the things, the main appeal, is being able to work with Michael [Kahn],” Urie said. “I was never directly in a play which he directed, but he was one of my teachers at Juilliard.” The large cast includes Shakespeare Theatre Company veteran Keith Baxter playing the ghost; Robert Joy, who was just here to play the title role in “Charles III,” this time playing Polonius, Ophelia’s advicegiving dad; Madeleine Potter as Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude; Alex Cox as his
murderous uncle and stepfather Claudius; and Oyin Oladejo, seen in “Star Trek: Discovery,” as Ophelia (of get-thee-to-a-nunnery fame). “It’s quite a great gathering, right,” agreed Urie, who recently starred in “Torch Song Trilogy” off-Broadway. “Confronting
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‘Hamlet,’ and therefore confronting Shakespeare, is just a great experience, because you’ve forgotten what he can do, how witty, how funny he is, how potent the lines are, how beautiful the poetry. And how complicated, deep and human the characters are. “People, I think, get put off by the size, the reputation, the play, the language. And that’s not what we wanted,” he continued. “Michael wanted this to be accessible to everybody, not just people who might be overly familiar with ‘Hamlet,’ who’ve memorized the lines and think they know how things should go and be played.” For that reason (and because this is almost certainly Kahn’s last “Hamlet”), we have a modern take — doormen at the castle, cell phones and ringtones, very fashionable costumes — but also the dark, cold, overbearing and forbidding atmosphere of the spy and police state that the uncle has installed. It should ring true for modern audiences, not as a gimmick or tricked up, but as an echo of how we live today and how our world looks. Hamlet is required to operate on different levels — as the normal, troubled young man and as the mad Hamlet, which allows him to spy on his family. “This production has a richness, a clarity to it all,” said Urie. “Even Hamlet, who seems confused, but reaches in the end a kind of great pity and understanding of what it is to be human in his plight.”
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Ryan Spahn as Rosencrantz and Kelsey Rainwater as Guildenstern in Hamlet. Photo by Scott Schuman. Courtesy Shakespeare Theatre. Georgetown Media Group has arranged for the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Thursday, March 1, performance of “Hamlet” — directed by Michael Kahn and starring Michael Urie — to be designated Georgetown Night. A block of seats has been reserved in the grand tier orchestra section of Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F St. NW. Georgetowners are encouraged to purchase discounted tickets, while they last, at shakespearetheatre.org or by calling 202547-1122. The curtain goes up at 8 p.m. and a private, pre-show reception is planned.
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Urie, the production’s Hamlet, played Marc St. James on the ABC television series “Ugly Betty.” Another Michael, Kahn, the company’s celebrated artistic director, is the guiding hand behind this attentiongetting, modern-dress production, possibly the last Shakespeare production he will direct (he has announced that he will retire at the end of the 2018-19 season). When booking tickets for March 1, Georgetowners should use the promo code: GEORGETOWNER55. The price per ticket is $55.
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Looking to re-MOOve dairy from your diet? Are you exploring a plant-based diet, sensitive to dairy, trying to lose weight? Are you interested in animal welfare? In discovering a new trend? Sales of organic milk are declining and the alternative-milk market is expected to grow by $28 billion over the next four years. THE PROBLEM WITH COW’S MILK Plant-based alternatives are growing more popular because some find cow’s milk hard to digest and want to avoid hormones and antibiotics. Dairy is an acidifying food; it leaches alkalizing minerals from your bones as it is metabolized. Additionally, it is known to cause inflammation, since all animal fats contain a proinflammatory fatty acid called arachidonic acid. THE TOP 7 PLANT-BASED MILKS For those who want or need to stay away from cow’s milk, the good news is that you can do so with a number of nondairy milk alternatives. Almond Milk. Rich in nutrients such as fiber, vitamin E, magnesium, selenium, manganese, zinc, potassium, iron, phosphorus and calcium. Soy Milk. Researchers are in conflict over the pluses and minuses of soy. Pros: soy milk is high in protein and low in saturated fat. Cons: soybeans contain high levels of phytic acid, an anti-nutrient compound that inhibits
the body’s absorption of essential minerals like calcium, magnesium, iron and zinc and may cause digestive problems. Cashew Milk. Made by blending water-soaked cashews with water, this is a good source of fiber, antioxidants, copper and magnesium. Hemp Milk. The mild flavor makes it a good allergen-free option, especially for baking. Coconut Milk. This milk has natural and creamy thickness. It’s loaded with easily digested, healthy-fat, medium-chain triglycerides (so consume in moderation), potassium and vitamins. Rice Milk. Upside, it’s the most hypoallergenic of the milk alternatives. It’s free of soy, gluten and nuts. Downside, it has a lower amount of nutrition. Pea Milk. Made from split peas, it contains iron, vitamin D and omega-3s — and it has as much protein as dairy milk. Ripple Foods’ pea protein-based milk is a fast-growing milk alternative. HOMEMADE ALMOND MILK
RECIPE STEPS 1. Soak 1 cup of almonds in water overnight, then rinse and drain. 2. Place in a Vitamix blender with 4 cups of spring water and blend. Optional: For a little sweetness, add a few stone-dried dates, agave nectar, honey or stevia to taste. Adding vanilla and sea salt rounds out the flavor. 3. Pour the mixture through a muslin cloth and squeeze, removing the leftover pulp. Refrigerate until chilled. Shake before serving, since it separates over time. Homemade almond milk only lasts a couple of days in the fridge. When purchasing nondairy milk from the store, ideally avoid products with labels that list artificial flavors, artificial sweeteners, carrageenan (a polysaccharide that can cause inflammation in the digestive tract) and extra sugar. Stick with organic, non-GMO brands to avoid unnecessary pesticide consumption. Rebekah Kelley is the creator and founder of Virtue Skinfood, a wholistic luxury skin care line. For details, visit virtueskinfood.com.
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The Watergate rooftop, looking west to Georgetown. Courtesy the Watergate.
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hose IRS refunds and tax cuts on your paycheck are trickling in. Fortunately, you don’t need to go far to treat yourself and your family to a staycation — or a vacation from the kids. Perfect for a couple’s getaway, the Watergate Hotel has launched a Chalet Winter Wonderland in its Kingbird restaurant. Designed to evoke the feeling of a Swiss après-ski club, it comes complete with snow-covered picnic tables, a heated igloo and a fire pit for indoor cuddling, By day, it will be a Grab & Go Chocolate
Shop, with bonbons, blonde chocolate bark with banana and shaved coconut and cocoa nibs, to name a few delectables. By night, you’ll see the shop transformed into a Chocolate Bar, with spiked hot chocolate; a “chocolate mixologist” is on hand to create chocolateinfused bourbon, vodkas, whiskies and the pièce de résistance, the Death by Chocolate Bourbon. If you haven’t collapsed into a sugar coma, I highly suggest the s’mores on the Watergate rooftop, after a round of ice skating at the new
Top of the Gate rink. The melted marshmallows are worth a few busts on the ice. For the political history buff, the famed hotel is offering a special package for Room 214, ground zero in the investigation that brought down President Richard Nixon. Affectionately known as the scandal room, it comes with an assortment of vintage accoutrements to remind guests of the turbulent “dirty tricks” era. Those wanting to leave the sordid past behind them can be treated to some refreshing refinement with etiquette coach Maggie
Oldham at her new signature tea times, Saturdays and Sundays from 2 to 4 p.m. I had a chance to take a workshop with Oldham over some Earl Grey last fall in the Watergate library. Her tips on modern courtesy — in this age of texting while fine dining — is something everyone, even veteran Georgetown hostesses, need. If you’re looking to go back to an era when having tea and manners really meant something, try a weekend at the Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach, reopening March 7 after a massive four-year renovation. Originally completed in 1927, every detail of the five-star Marriott property has been revived to reflect its jazz-age heritage. Elizabeth Taylor, Frank Sinatra and Benny Goodman are just a few of the glam squad to have breezed through the Cavalier’s Art Deco corridors. Set on 21 acres overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, the hotel’s four-columned portico and brick porte-cochère are straight out of a Fitzgerald novel, as is the grand salon or Raleigh Room, perfect for pre-dinner drinks around the central fireplace among billiard and games tables. Maybe my favorite details, however, are the claw-foot bathtubs and monogrammed slippers — “Old School” at its best. The 62 guest rooms start at $264 a night.
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Saving the Birthplace of Jesus
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BY C HR IS T INE WA RNK E Supporters to restore the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, West Bank, Palestine, gathered at the Willard Hotel Feb 6. The American Friends of the Bethlehem Development Foundation reached out to Robert Mosbacher, Jr., Princess Aisha bint Hussein and former White House officials to celebrate a milestone in the church renovation phase with confirmed support to complete this most revered place of Christianity.
BY M ARY BIR D The Women’s Committee of the Washington Ballet presented “Balletto & Vino in Verona,” a wine tasting, dinner and raffle, at the Embassy of Italy Feb. 9 to celebrate the production of John Cranko’s “Romeo & Juliet” at the Kennedy Center’s Opera House. Women’s Committee member Charo Abram’s RSVP Catering prepared a dinner accompanied by fine Italian wines handpicked by Doug House, owner of Chain Bridge Cellars. Ambassador of Italy Armando Varricchio welcomed guests and stressed the importance of common history and dance. Women’s Committee President Marsha Muawwad introduced the evening’s energetic co-chairs Sarah Foster, Natalie von Seelen and Jacqueline Henry. TWB Artistic Director Julie Kent said she wanted to share with young dancers in D.C. love and support of the human experience.
Chairman of the Bethlehem Development Foundation, Samer Khoury, former Colombian Ambassador Carolina Barco and Rob Mosbacher, Jr. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.
Palestinian-American businessman Zahi Khouri and Tim Shriver, chairman of the Special Olympics. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan
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Marsha Muawwad, President of the Women’s Committee of the Washington Ballet, Jacqueline Henry, Julie Kent, Artistic Director of the Washington Ballet, and Sarah Foster. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.
Choreographer Mimmo Miccolis with Italian Ambassador Armando Varricchio. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.
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BY MARY BIRD “Romance Around the Table” was the theme at a Valentine’s reception in the Visitor Center to celebrate the current exhibit, “The Artistic Table,” at Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens. Designers including Timothy Corrigan, Barry Dixon and Charlotte Moss created table settings inspired by Marjorie Merriweather Post’s exceptional flair for entertaining. The reception included a tour of the exhibit in the Dacha, as well as the Mansion and Greenhouse. The Visitor Center provided sweet and savory buffets, an open bar and vodka luge. A silent auction offered such temptations as dinner for six hosted by the Ambassador of Malta, dinner for four at the Inn at Little Washington and a Russian imperial porcelain plate.
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Co-chair Ed McAllister and artist Marla Morgan.
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CARE: Her Harvest, Our Future BY M ARY BIRD CARE Global Leaders Network presented “From the Arctic to Africa: Her Harvest, Our Future” at a reception at the Embassy of Finland Feb. 13 hosted by Ambassador Kirsti Kauppi. The ambassador acknowledged guests from embassies and the Mayor’s Office and said that 100 years ago Finland benefited from CARE assistance and now wants to give back by assisting developing countries through food supply and security as well as empowering women. CARE Chief Operating Officer Heather Higginbottom, Ambassador Ray Mabus and CARE Chef Ambassador Spike Mendelsohn spoke of the monetary benefits of CARE’s programs in contrast to the instability caused by food shortages that can escalate into fighting and war. CARE’s humanitarian award was presented to Kauppi. 22
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The Greater Washington Region Heart Ball brings together more than 500 of the region’s most prominent medical, corporate and community leaders. The evening includes heart and stroke survivor celebrations, dinner, dancing, live band and exceptional live and silent auctions. The American Heart association seeks to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke. Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Contact Kara Laing at Kara.Laing@heart.org or 703-248-1745.
MARCH 3 NIGHT OF VISION GALA ‘EYES ON BROADWAY’
CARE COO Heather Higginbottom with Finnish Ambassador Kirsti Kauppi. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.
NBC4 News chief meteorologist Doug Kammerer will serve as master of ceremonies at this year’s gala — dinner, live and silent auctions and dancing. The gala honors prominent members of the ophthalmology field and others who aid in the organization’s sight-saving effort and benefits local sightsaving programs. Watergate Hotel. Visit nightofvision.org or call 202-234-1010.
A fabtastic evening features a film on the creation of the new ballet, “Chant,” with live Gregorian chant performed by singers with National Cathedral Music Director Michael McCarthy. Enjoy cocktails, dancing, an hors-d’oeuvres buffet and a silent auction to benefit Chamber Dance Project’s artistic and community engagement programs. The Atrium at One Metro Center, 701 13th St. NW, 7th floor. Call 202-499-2297 or visit www. chamberdance.org.
MARCH 8 LATINO STUDENT FUND GALA Colombian Ambassador Camilo Reyes and his wife Gloria Reyes are honorary patrons of the 18th Annual Latino Student Gala that will honor José Andrés and the World Central Kitchen — cocktails, Latin music, a silent auction, followed dinner and a live auction. The Latino Student Fund was founded in 1994 to address educational access for Hispanic students in Washington, D.C., and has served more than 4,000 youths. Organization of American States. Contact Maria Fernanda Borja at mfborja@latinostudentfund.org.
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