Georgetowner's May 3, 2017 Issue

VOLUME 63 NUMBER 15

MAY 3 - 23, 2017

BEHIND89thTHE WALLS Annual

Georgetown Garden Tour

Gas Leak Anxiety Rats, Drag Racing InCountry: JFK Birthplace Bringing the Salon to You

IN T HIS IS SUE

IN T HIS IS SUE N E W S . 4 -7,9 Up & Coming Town Topics

E DI T O RI A L /O PI N I O N . 8

Jack Evans Report Surplus Should Support Georgetown Projects Trump’s First 100 Days. Check.

ON THE COVER The garden behind this O Street home — built in 1805 and on the Georgetown House Tour in 2016 — is a visual treat with its heron sculpture and use of water elements. Illustration created by Angie Myers. Original photo by Jenny Gorman.

W E B E XCL USI V E S

BUSI N E S S . 10

Council Confirms Newsham as D.C. Police Chief

Ins & Outs

OV E RHE A RD AT L U NC H . 11

BY G ARY TISCHLER

RE A L E S TAT E . 12-15 March 2017 Sales Featured Property Historic DC Antiques Addict Auction Block

On Tuesday, by a nearly unanimous 12-1 vote, the District Council made it official, again: veteran D.C. law-enforcement leader Peter Newsham is the city’s new chief of police.

Photo by Patrick G. Ryan.

C OV E R . 18 -19

Behind the Walls: 89th Annual Georgetown Garden Tour

L E DEC O R . 20

Mother’s Day Gifts

DOW N T OW N E R D C . 21 Town Topics

F OOD & W I N E . 22-23 Dining Guide Cocktail of the Month The Latest Dish

I N C OU N T R Y & G E TAWAY S . 24 JFK’s Birthplace: A Site To See 100 Years Later

BODY & S OU L . 27

French Ambassador to the U.S. Gérard Araud with Ladurée co-owners Elisabeth Holder Raberin and Pierre-Antoine Raberin. Photo by Robert Devaney.

On the Georgetown House Tour, entering an O Street home that has a good story to tell. Photo by Robert Devaney.

French Ambassador Cuts Ribbon at Ladurée on M St.

Georgetown’s Hot Weekend: House Tour, French Market and More

BY KATE OC ZYPOK A little bit of Paris comes to Georgetown ... again. Ladurée, superstar of macarons and other fine fare, welcomed Ambassador Gérard Araud to its grand opening party.

Beauty Apps Bring the Salon to You

A R T S . 28 -29

City Choir and Shafer Hit 10-Year Mark Book Hill Art Walk, May 5

GOOD WORK S & GOOD T I ME S . 29 -30 Social Scene

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BY RO BERT DEVANEY The town and the weather were hot — parties, shopping, checking out other people’s houses and a little celebrity watching.

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Spring Art Walk Seven galleries on Georgetown’s Book Hill — Addison/Ripley, Artist’s Proof, Cross MacKenzie, Klagsbrun Studios, Maurine Littleton, Susan Calloway and Washington Printmakers Gallery — will host an evening stroll and a viewing of their current exhibitions. For details, visit georgetowngalleries.com. Upper Wisconsin Avenue and environs.

MAY 7

Festival Argentino USA in Arlington

“Shar Coulson: Flora Fauna Figure,” an exhibition at Artist’s Proof.

Jackson Art Center Open Studios

MAY 14

Mother’s Day Brunch at Via Umbria

More than 30 studios will be open to the public in the former Victorian-era Jackson School building across from Montrose Park.

Visitors can meet and greet local artists at this afternoon event, which will include refreshments, live music and an outdoor mural workshop for children. For details, visit jacksonartcenter.com. 3050 R St. NW.

This Sunday’s brunch is dedicated to celebrating all the mothers out there. Via Umbria’s authentic Italian kitchen will serve a selection of fresh pastries, delicious sides, a main course of your choosing and a delectable dessert, all paired with bottomless Aperol spritzes, mimosas or bloody Marys.

Tickets are $40. For details, visit viaumbria. com. 1525 Wisconsin Ave. NW

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Baritone Nathan Gunn One of the most celebrated baritones of his generation, Nathan Gunn has appeared in renowned opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera House, the Royal Opera House and the Paris Opera. Gunn will perform with his wife and pianist, Julie Gunn. Tickets are $20. For details, visit stjohnsgeorgetown.org. St. John’s Church, 3240 O St. NW.

This family festival celebrates Argentina with tango, folk and pop music and dance, featuring artists from Argentina and a bilingual DJ. Tickets are $30 ($20 in advance).

For details, visit festivalargentinousa.org.

Thomas Jefferson Theatre, 125 S. Glebe Road, Arlington, Virginia.

“The Tuesday Night Work: Selected Works,” an exhibition at Klagsbrun Studios.

MAY 13

Historic Culverts at the C&O Canal Leslie Carter, author of “Gemstones Beneath the Towpath,” takes attendees on an illustrated tour of the 19th-century stone culverts that support the C&O Canal towpath

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Bach in the Garden at M Institute Baroque violinist Sophie Genevieve will lead a strings master class with a special focus on Bach and baroque pieces. A cocktail reception will follow. Non-participants are invited to watch, learn and listen to Bach

pieces in the garden. Tickets are $15. For details, visit eventbrite.com. M Institute for the Arts, 1038 31st St. NW.

Dvořák, Vaughan Williams and Nico Muhly The Cathedral Choral Society presents a program including the Finale of Dvořák’s “Te Deum,” Vaughan Williams’s “The Lark Ascending” and “Five Mystical Songs” and the premiere of “Looking Up” by Nico Muhly, who will give a pre-concert talk in Perry Auditorium. Tickets are $25 to $79. For details, visit cathedralchoralsociety. org. Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

MAY 25

Children’s Biographies of Dorothea Lange and Gordon Parks For National Photo Month, author Carole Boston Weatherford will discuss her picturebook biographies of two Depression-era photojournalists: Dorothea Lange, who spent her career documenting Americans deeply impacted by the Great Depression; and Gordon Parks, another renowned government photographer and the first black director in Hollywood. This free event is aimed at ages 6 to 9. For details, visit politics-prose.com. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW.

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TOWN TOPICS

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Traffic, Water Discussed at ANC’s May 1 Meeting It wouldn’t be an Advisory Neighborhood Council meeting without a long discussion of parking and traffic flow issues. The monthly Georgetown-Burleith ANC 2E meeting Monday, May 1, did not disappoint. Especially with Michael Lowder, director of the District Department of Transportation’s Office of Intelligence, Security and Emergency Response making a personal appearance.

Lowder outlined various upcoming projects, including the May 2 launch of the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge renovation, which will be disruptive to traffic coming into Georgetown on M Street for the next year or more. He is hoping Mayor Muriel Bowser will highlight LED lighting in her 2017 budget.

Also discussed were two DC Water projects that will impact several neighborhoods over the summer and into 2018. One is the sewer rehabilitation project, beginning this week, that will encompass a quadrant bordered by most of 37th Street (in front of Georgetown University) and Wisconsin Avenue from the waterfront up to O Street. The project to completely rebuild the up- and downstream

structures of the sewer system along the Foundry Branch and Capital Crescent Trail will be felt mainly by bikers and hikers.

Looming on the horizon is a lawsuit against Washington Gas being developed by consumer groups concerned about unannounced and inappropriate removals and displacement of gas meters and underground pipelines with little notice (see story below).

Gas Leaks Rile Georgetown Residents

Georgetown resident Edward Segal stands on the patch on 27th street that has been dug up and partially filled in numerous times by gas company contractors. Photo by Peggy Sands.

Ed Segal and his wife have owned homes and lived and worked on the east side of Georgetown off and on for the past 30 years.

The conundrum of gas leaks has always been part of their Georgetown experience. They have lived through replacement of original pipe joints, the sudden explosion of flying manhole covers that happened in 2000 and calls every few months to the Washington Gas company emergency line with the scariest words of all: “Strong smell of gas!”

“Now I am fed up,” said the mild-mannered senior citizen during an interview in front of numerous “No Parking” signs on 27th Street NW. The signs have cleared the curbs of

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TOWN TOPICS vital parking places for almost a month next to the Rose Park tennis courts and children’s playground, in a residential area with few private garages. Neighbors report that the signs go up and nothing happens until they’re renewed again.

“We call and email and Facebook the gas company with no response,” Segal said. “All we want is to know what is going on, when the work is going to be done and how our reports about regular strong gas smells are being addressed.”

The tipping point for Segal came last month. “I had called the gas company about a strong smell of gas outside my door. A crew responded immediately, confirmed the smells, tore up the street in front and worked late into a freezing night. They then left … never to return. When I finally got ahold of someone at the company, they said that they had no record of my call nor any work done.”

“Gas pipeline issues are a nationwide problem,” writes Segal in his blog, Georgetown Gas Leaks and Repairs. The consequences of ignoring or not dealing immediately and effectively with them can be devastating. In 2010, a gas line explosion in San Bruno, California, a suburb of San Francisco, created

a 50-foot fireball, destroyed dozens of homes and killed eight people. In August 2016, a gas explosion at a Silver Spring apartment complex killed seven people and injured dozens.

Taking Action Against Potomac Rats With the mantra, “Death to the Potomac Rats,” a group of Georgetown neighbors met April 27 with officials from the D.C. Departments of Public Works and Health as well as Chipotle restaurant managers in the alley behind several businesses on the 3200 block of M Street NW. Almost a dozen lidded garbage bins were neatly lined up on the dirt rim next to the driveway.

Suddenly, there was a scream from several in the group. Despite the crowd and a cat sitting nearby, a large rat emerged from somewhere and ran past. “We saw two dead rats, a tremendous amount of flies, a strong stench and several rat holes and traps,” reported neighbor Alexander Meeraus. “I can hear them at night from my bedroom window,” said Mahmoud Gharagozloo, who claims the munching and other sounds keep him awake.

COMMUNI T Y CALENDAR THURSDAY, MAY 4 – SATURDAY, MAY 6 Spring Days of Design

The Georgetown Design District hosts this three-day event for interior designers, design enthusiasts and shoppers to visit participating design and home furnishings stores for new collection launches, trunk shows and design consultations. For details, visit georgetowndc.com/georgetowndesign-district/.

SATURDAY, MAY 6

Grace Church 150th Anniversary

This 150th anniversary party for Grace Episcopal Church, with music, food, games and an appearance by Mayor Muriel Bowser, runs from 2 to 5 p.m. Free and open to the public. 1041 Wisconsin Ave. NW. For details, visit gracedc.org.

TUESDAY, MAY 9

Small Business Awards and Expo

This DC Chamber of Commerce event runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place NW. For details, visit dcchamber.org.

RSVP to Janelle Morris at 202-821-4819.

SATURDAY, MAY 13 Georgetown Garden Tour

Hosted by the Georgetown Garden Club, the tour runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are $40, which includes afternoon tea.

Tickets may be purchased in advance or the day of the tour at Christ Church, 31st and O Streets, or at any tour site. For details, visit georgetowngardenclubdc.org.

The rat problem in Georgetown and elsewhere in Washington, D.C., is an ongoing one. Chipotle will now work proactively to address the problems, including developing an action plan with an aggressive timeline, according to Meeraus. A few ideas that could be included for others to follow would be to lay down a cement slab and build a raised concrete-block enclosure to contain the many trash bins.

A meeting to go over the action plan is scheduled for Thursday, May 4, at 10:30 a.m.

Chipotle, 3255 M St. NW. There will also be a meeting at 2 p.m. at the Georgetown BID offices. 1000 Potomac St. NW.

Water Street Drag Racers Confronted A potentially dangerous problem in Georgetown successfully evolved over the past three weeks from notification to confrontation, with a long-term solution now on the table. It started on April 7 when residents on Water Street reported that the area was increasingly being used for drag racing after about 9 p.m.

“Not only is the almost nightly occurrence dangerous, but the individuals participating have become boisterous when asked to desist,” wrote Cheryl Belle-Deen, general manager of the 3303 Water Street Condominium April 7.

Police responded April 7 around midnight:

“Thank you for this information I will advise my units working at this time,” wrote Lt. Gary Durand of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Second District. “I have asked evening and midnight shift managers to deploy officers at this location at the times noted if possible, but also call 9-1-1,” wrote Capt.

David Sledge, a Georgetown beat officer.

On April 11, Belle-Deen wrote a detailed time report of incidents beginning at 6:59 p.m. and continuing until 12:25 a.m., including police responses (or none). By midnight, Durand emailed that he had assigned a supervisor to take direct control of the situation.

By April 21, police reported, “The waterfront community may have noticed an increased MPD police presence from Second District MPD and the U.S. Park Police. We were able to make multiple arrests during the month of April in this area to include ‘people hanging out’ with open containers of alcoholic beverages on public space. We will continue our joint law enforcement activities and would like to thank Ms. Belle-Deen for providing us with invaluable information, which aided in our enforcement.”

Now a possible solution has been proposed

by Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Lisa Palmer, who represents the area: speed bumps. Various stakeholders will be consulted.

Town Topics continues on page 9

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17 GBA Networking Meeting

The Georgetown Business Association will meet 6:30 p.m. for its monthly reception to discuss the renewal of the C&O Canal at — appropriately enough — il Canale restaurant, 1065 31st St. NW. For details, visit georgetownbusiness.org.

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SUNDAY, MAY 21

CAG Concerts in the Park

Free concerts will take place May 21 and June 18 (Father’s Day) at Volta Park and July 9 at Rose Park. For details, visit cagtown.org.

TUESDAY, MAY 23

Citizens Association of Georgetown

CAG will hold its annual meeting at 7:30 p.m. at Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. A 7 p.m. reception precedes the program, which will include the presentation of annual awards and the election of officers.

For details, visit cagtown.org.

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TOWN TOPICS vital parking places for almost a month next to the Rose Park tennis courts and children’s playground, in a residential area with few private garages. Neighbors report that the signs go up and nothing happens until they’re renewed again.

“We call and email and Facebook the gas company with no response,” Segal said. “All we want is to know what is going on, when the work is going to be done and how our reports about regular strong gas smells are being addressed.”

The tipping point for Segal came last month. “I had called the gas company about a strong smell of gas outside my door. A crew responded immediately, confirmed the smells, tore up the street in front and worked late into a freezing night. They then left … never to return. When I finally got ahold of someone at the company, they said that they had no record of my call nor any work done.”

“Gas pipeline issues are a nationwide problem,” writes Segal in his blog, Georgetown Gas Leaks and Repairs. The consequences of ignoring or not dealing immediately and effectively with them can be devastating. In 2010, a gas line explosion in San Bruno, California, a suburb of San Francisco, created

a 50-foot fireball, destroyed dozens of homes and killed eight people. In August 2016, a gas explosion at a Silver Spring apartment complex killed seven people and injured dozens.

Taking Action Against Potomac Rats With the mantra, “Death to the Potomac Rats,” a group of Georgetown neighbors met April 27 with officials from the D.C. Departments of Public Works and Health as well as Chipotle restaurant managers in the alley behind several businesses on the 3200 block of M Street NW. Almost a dozen lidded garbage bins were neatly lined up on the dirt rim next to the driveway.

Suddenly, there was a scream from several in the group. Despite the crowd and a cat sitting nearby, a large rat emerged from somewhere and ran past. “We saw two dead rats, a tremendous amount of flies, a strong stench and several rat holes and traps,” reported neighbor Alexander Meeraus. “I can hear them at night from my bedroom window,” said Mahmoud Gharagozloo, who claims the munching and other sounds keep him awake.

COMMUNI T Y CALENDAR THURSDAY, MAY 4 – SATURDAY, MAY 6 Spring Days of Design

The Georgetown Design District hosts this three-day event for interior designers, design enthusiasts and shoppers to visit participating design and home furnishings stores for new collection launches, trunk shows and design consultations. For details, visit georgetowndc.com/georgetowndesign-district/.

SATURDAY, MAY 6

Grace Church 150th Anniversary

This 150th anniversary party for Grace Episcopal Church, with music, food, games and an appearance by Mayor Muriel Bowser, runs from 2 to 5 p.m. Free and open to the public. 1041 Wisconsin Ave. NW. For details, visit gracedc.org.

TUESDAY, MAY 9

Small Business Awards and Expo

This DC Chamber of Commerce event runs from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place NW. For details, visit dcchamber.org.

RSVP to Janelle Morris at 202-821-4819.

SATURDAY, MAY 13 Georgetown Garden Tour

Hosted by the Georgetown Garden Club, the tour runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are $40, which includes afternoon tea.

Tickets may be purchased in advance or the day of the tour at Christ Church, 31st and O Streets, or at any tour site. For details, visit georgetowngardenclubdc.org.

The rat problem in Georgetown and elsewhere in Washington, D.C., is an ongoing one. Chipotle will now work proactively to address the problems, including developing an action plan with an aggressive timeline, according to Meeraus. A few ideas that could be included for others to follow would be to lay down a cement slab and build a raised concrete-block enclosure to contain the many trash bins.

A meeting to go over the action plan is scheduled for Thursday, May 4, at 10:30 a.m.

Chipotle, 3255 M St. NW. There will also be a meeting at 2 p.m. at the Georgetown BID offices. 1000 Potomac St. NW.

Water Street Drag Racers Confronted A potentially dangerous problem in Georgetown successfully evolved over the past three weeks from notification to confrontation, with a long-term solution now on the table. It started on April 7 when residents on Water Street reported that the area was increasingly being used for drag racing after about 9 p.m.

“Not only is the almost nightly occurrence dangerous, but the individuals participating have become boisterous when asked to desist,” wrote Cheryl Belle-Deen, general manager of the 3303 Water Street Condominium April 7.

Police responded April 7 around midnight:

“Thank you for this information I will advise my units working at this time,” wrote Lt. Gary Durand of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Second District. “I have asked evening and midnight shift managers to deploy officers at this location at the times noted if possible, but also call 9-1-1,” wrote Capt.

David Sledge, a Georgetown beat officer.

On April 11, Belle-Deen wrote a detailed time report of incidents beginning at 6:59 p.m. and continuing until 12:25 a.m., including police responses (or none). By midnight, Durand emailed that he had assigned a supervisor to take direct control of the situation.

By April 21, police reported, “The waterfront community may have noticed an increased MPD police presence from Second District MPD and the U.S. Park Police. We were able to make multiple arrests during the month of April in this area to include ‘people hanging out’ with open containers of alcoholic beverages on public space. We will continue our joint law enforcement activities and would like to thank Ms. Belle-Deen for providing us with invaluable information, which aided in our enforcement.”

Now a possible solution has been proposed

by Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner Lisa Palmer, who represents the area: speed bumps. Various stakeholders will be consulted.

Town Topics continues on page 9

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17 GBA Networking Meeting

The Georgetown Business Association will meet 6:30 p.m. for its monthly reception to discuss the renewal of the C&O Canal at — appropriately enough — il Canale restaurant, 1065 31st St. NW. For details, visit georgetownbusiness.org.

SUNDAY, MAY 21

CAG Concerts in the Park

Free concerts will take place May 21 and June 18 (Father’s Day) at Volta Park and July 9 at Rose Park. For details, visit cagtown.org.

TUESDAY, MAY 23

Citizens Association of Georgetown

CAG will hold its annual meeting at 7:30 p.m. at Dumbarton House, 2715 Q St. NW. A 7 p.m. reception precedes the program, which will include the presentation of annual awards and the election of officers.

For details, visit cagtown.org.

MONDAY, JUNE 6 ANC 2E

The June public meeting of the Georgetown-Burleith ANC will be held at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation Prep, 35th Street NW at Volta Place, Heritage Room, main building. For details, visit anc2e.com.

Send your community event listing to editorial@georgetowner.com or call 202338-4833.

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EDITORIAL / OPINION

Surplus Should Support Georgetown Projects Let’s play Connect the Dots.

Three facts: •This March, according to the D.C. Office of Budget and Planning, Georgetown’s property assessments and taxes increased by one of the highest percentages in the District: 4.52 percent.

•In April, Mayor Muriel Bowser revealed (not too loudly) that D.C. actually has a large and unexpected budget surplus.

•And, last November, the District of Columbia Public Schools suddenly announced that many of the agreed-upon and budgeted renovations for Georgetown’s one and only public elementary school, Hyde-Addison — for which, in the face of nearly unanimous parental disapproval, our children will be bused out of the neighborhood for almost two years because of lack of planning and funds to “swing” them in Georgetown — were going to be eliminated for budgetary reasons.

Anyone else see a connection here?

It seems logical, rational and fair that, given Georgetown’s contribution to the fiscal health of the District, Georgetown should get some priority in how some of those unexpected surplus funds are spent. Maybe even 4.5 percent of them.

While some residents may lobby for future tax breaks or refunds, to be spent on an individual basis, in the spirit of civic improvement perhaps a better idea is for the publicly collected funds to benefit some Georgetown projects first. It would seem

fair that at least the approved-then-removed renovations to Hyde-Addison School should be put immediately back into the budget. In addition, funds that should have been budgeted for a swing solution in Georgetown should be allotted to our public school students, who are facing a long bus ride in a district committed to non-busing. Certainly, there are other ideas as well.

Georgetown is a community proud to be an essential part of the District. We are generally liberal and supportive of public government endeavors. We provide for a goodly share of the budget. The mayor should make a commitment that some of the surplus should be graciously and immediately allotted to Georgetown projects.

For which we could say, “You’re welcome.”

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Jack Evans Report

Let’s Give Metro’s GM What He Needs

BY JAC K EVAN S

Metropolitan Washington Area Transit Authority GM Paul Wiedefeld put forth a plan recently to adequately fund Metro — so that he can fulfill the expectations that the region has put on him to fix the system. He is calling for dedicated funding, cost controls and significant operating and financial reform to make the agency more efficient.

Specifically, Wiedefeld has called for a dedicated funding source that raises $500 million per year; a capped 3-percent increase on the operating and capital contributions made by local jurisdictions; a 10-year extension of the annual $150 million PRIIA funding from the federal government; an elevation of Metro’s annual capital program from between $900 million and $1.2 billion to $1.5 billion per year; a change from a definedbenefit pension plan for future hires to a defined-contribution 401(k)-type retirement plan; and competitively bidding some staffing functions for new service (e.g., Silver Line phase 2 station operations).

The most important aspect of this plan is Wiedefeld’s call to finally create a dedicated funding source. Dedicated funding has been thought necessary for Metro’s longterm health since the early planning for our regional transit system in the 1960s. Why is dedicated funding critical? It allows for better long-range planning by removing some of the uncertainty that exists with annual appropriations from each of the jurisdictions.

This uncertainty is on full display as we wait to see if federal infrastructure funding will be significant increased, as President Trump

said on the campaign trail, or dramatically cut (along with other domestic spending), as stated in the president’s preliminary budget last month.

Only with the long-range certainty of dedicated funding can Metro borrow the billions of dollars needed to perform the capital improvement work that will return the system to a state of good repair. The dedicated funding would go directly into an account that could only be used for debt service on capital borrowing. It would ensure a higher bond rating, sufficient funding to pay for the debt and, most important, that Metro would finally get the money it needs to be fixed.

It is time to end the 50-year deferment of establishing a dedicated funding source for Metro. The D.C. Council passed legislation more than 10 years ago to dedicate 0.5-percent sales tax to Metro when Maryland and Virginia passed matching legislation — which never happened. I plan to introduce a bill later this year to increase that level to one percent and call on my colleagues in Richmond and Annapolis to move quickly to give the Metro-reliant cities and counties in Northern Virginia and Maryland the authority to do so as well.

Paul Wiedefeld is an outstanding general manager. He’s told us the resources he needs to fix Metro. If we don’t give them to him, then we can’t expect the system to be any different than it is now.

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

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Trump’s First 100 Days. Check.

Somewhere, some place in this country, people — Democrats, Republicans, agnostics and iconoclasts and regular folks alike — are breathing a sigh of relief.

We got through the first 100 days of the Donald Trump presidency and the nation’s infrastructure still stands, more or less. The government is open.

We have been warlike, but avoided war. We made big proposals, but passed no big bills.

We had some disagreements with old friends, but made new friends over chocolate at Mar-aLago and a few phone calls here and there, to Turkey and the Philippines.

There is as yet no wall on the border.

There is as yet nothing that can call itself Trumpcare — and Obamacare, on the ropes like a preexisting condition, still lives. There is a new and conservative member of the Supreme Court. The Environmental Protection Agency appears well on its way to becoming a shadow of its former self. The Trump base

remains solid.

The government will merrily roll along at least until September (a breathing spell that is but the blink of an eye and the length of time it takes to send a tweet).

President Trump took credit because that’s what he does. It wasn’t Trump who stopped the shutdown, but it was, in some quarters, the fear of Trump proposals that led to some bipartisan deals.

The president appears to have made a success with a new style of diplomacy: dinner at eight and don’t be late at Mar-a-Lago. It worked with Shinzo Abe and it appears to have worked with Trump’s newfound, non-currency manipulating friend, Xi Jinping. In both instances, military action was on the menu.

The president impressed his Chinese friend with a decision to make a U.S. bombing attack in Syria over some really great chocolate cake.

One thing that has become apparent is that the president does not yet quite have the hang

of dealmaking in the House of Representative, or other obvious aspects of the legislative process. He has made an impact with numerous executive orders, but failed to close the deal on repeal and replacement of Obamacare, to his chagrin, and the bill appears moribund still.

He delivered a one-page (one-page!) tax reform proposal that has no details to work with.

In the end, to celebrate the 100 days, the president went to where he is loved. While the Washington media were celebrating themselves with a meh, scaled-down version of the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, Trump went to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for a rally with the faithful — trashing the media, praising himself, soaking up the atmosphere of unconditional love. The rallies have always sustained him; it’s 2016 all over again.

In the end, the facts are these: we are still one nation, not so indivisible, under President Trump.

TOWN TOPICS

Jessica Tilson, descendant of the Hawkins, Hill, Scott, Butler and Diggs family lines pours soil from West Oak plantation — where ancestors of Tilson were enslaved in Louisiana — at the base of a white oak tree planted in honor of the 272 slaves at Georgetown University. Photos courtesy Georgetown University.

Georgetown University welcomed more than 100 descendants of the 272 men, women and children of the 1838 sale, orchestrated by the Maryland Jesuits, that benefitted Georgetown University.

Atoning for Slavery Ties, Georgetown University Renames Buildings On April 18, Georgetown University held a Liturgy of Remembrance, Contrition and Hope, performing more penance for its 1838 sale of slaves owned by the Maryland Jesuits, which directly benefited the finances of the fledging college. Following the moving liturgy in Gaston Hall in the school’s landmark Healy Building, mea culpas were offered at the dedications of newly renamed buildings in the Quadrangle near Dahlgren Chapel.

The two buildings, which once bore the

names of the 19th-century Jesuit priests who managed the deal that sent 272 slaves from Maryland to Louisiana, were renamed for former slaves: Isaac Hawkins, whose name is shown at the top of the bill of sale, and Anne Marie Becraft, a freed African American woman who founded a school for Catholic black girls in Georgetown.

At the Gaston Hall ceremony, attended by descendants of the slaves sold off by the university, its president, John DeGioia, said the school — like others on the East Coast — participated in America’s “original sin,” slavery. “We offer this apology for the descendants and your ancestors humbly and without expectations, and we trust ourselves

to God and the Spirit and the grace He freely offers to find ways to work together and build together,” DeGioia said.

On the field, Tara Horowitz and son Finn with Dave Dunning, president of Friends of Rose Park. Photos

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Rose Park’s Spring Fling At the April 23 Spring Fling, numerous neighborhood children, alongside their parents, enjoyed pony rides, a petting zoo, free ice cream and pizza. Organized by the Friends of Rose Park, thanks to Katie Battle and Katherine Nix, as well as financial support of Nancy Taylor-Bubes-Washington Fine Properties.

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Ins & Outs

BY R OBE RT DEVA NEY

In: Dixie Liquor Rises Again Closed since before July 4, 2016, Dixie Liquor, founded in 1934, reopened April 20 — same place, same hours, same property owners, different business owners. The new owners for the business are Jason Lim and his wife Soo Hyun Lim. Frequented by generations of Hoyas and the likes of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and former running back John “The Diesel” Riggins, Dixie — at the intersection of M Street and Key Bridge, at the bottom of the cobblestone hill of 35th Street — is considered the oldest

liquor store in Washington, D.C. The Lims have worked with other family members at the Market at Columbia Plaza apartments, located along Virginia Avenue and 23rd Street, next to George Washington University; they said they have experience with a young clientele. Along with upgrading the store’s interior, the new owners applied for a Class A liquor license and transferred a liquor license from Best DC Supermarket at 1507 U St. NW. The Miller family still owns the property at 3429 M St. NW.

In: Lululemon Back in Original Spot Lululemon Athletica, the yoga-inspired apparel company from Vancouver, British Columbia, has returned to its original Georgetown location at 3265 M St. NW from a temporary spot along the 3300 block of M Street.

According to the company, the 3,920-squarefoot renovated store is inspired by the history of Georgetown, especially Georgetown University, the Potomac River and the popularity of rowing.

There is an expanded men’s section and a multipurpose community space called the Loft on the second floor. The Loft will host workshops and classes and feature local artists each month.

Out: Kit and Ace Closes All U.S. Stores The M Street Kit and Ace store closed abruptly April 26, as founder Chip Wilson — also a founder of Lululemon — said, “We recognize the traditional world of bricks and mortar retailing is changing, which is why we’re shifting strategies.” Canadian stores remain, but stores in the U.K. and Australia also shuttered. The pricey apparel store for “technical cashmere” made its debut in Georgetown last May. The company says it will expand its e-commerce platform.

Out: Bebe to Close All Stores by May 31 The retail meltdown or transformation — call it what you like — continues. Bebe Stores announced last week that it plans to close all of its 175 stores by the end of May. The retailer of “unique, sophisticated and timelessly sexy” clothing for women plans to become an online merchant, as it is “exploring strategic alternatives,” according to a public filing. The Georgetown Bebe, which closed earlier, was located at 1211 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

The soon-to-open Say Cheese! on 29th street, just south of M Street. Photo by Robert Devaney.

Coming Soon: Subway, Greenberry, District Pizza, Say Cheese!

Apart from the nearby rat problem in the alley off Potomac Street, the corner of M and Potomac Streets is about to become livelier.

The new skin care shop Aesop took over the former Subway sandwich joint in December.

Now Subway is set to return across the street, in the corner space at 3277 M St. NW that once housed Capitol Prague and, before that, Morso restaurants. Except for a quick pop-up business or two, the storefront has been empty since April 2014. Under construction next door are District Pizza and Greenberry, a coffee and frozen yogurt shop.

On the east side of town on 29th Street, just south of Ike Behar, will be a grilled cheese joint, named ... Say Cheese! Yes, it’s more than a food truck, but with the melted cheese selections many have come to love.

Dixie Liquor on M Street near Key Bridge.

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OVERHEARD AT LUNCH:

Alyssa Says Nice Things About Ivanka During the Creative Coalition’s April 28 #RighttoBearArts gala and advocacy day, actress Alyssa Milano told reporters on the red carpet that she met first daughter Ivanka Trump when Trump was a guest judge on “Project Runway: All Stars,” the reality show Milano hosted in 2015. Calling Trump lovely and smart, Milano seemed to have nothing but good things to say about Kalorama’s newest resident. However, she apparently made it clear that their politics don’t match up.

BY KATE OCZYPOK

Celebs Sweat Just Like We Do

David Letterman attends game one of the CapitalsPenguins Stanley Cup Playoff series.

Dave Roots for Caps Former late-night host David Letterman showed up in the front row at game one of the Washington Capitals and Pittsburgh Penguins Stanley Cup playoff series, April 27 at the Verizon Center, looking like a skinny Santa with a long, bushy beard (many called it an epic playoff beard). A security guard repeatedly waved away fans, but Letterman seemed to tell him not to worry, posing for photos with eager Washingtonians. Some speculated whether Letterman was in town for events surrounding the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, but on Friday morning, April 28, he met on Capitol Hill with activists involved in the following day’s Climate March instead.

Among the celebrities who took part in “The People’s Climate March” down Pennsylvania Avenue on an uncharacteristically sweltering Saturday afternoon April 29 were Leonardo DiCaprio, a well-known environmental activist, and British businessman Richard Branson. Al Gore was also spotted marching with the sign-carrying crowd.

Haddad Hosts Kinder, Gentler Garden Brunch Tammy Haddad and company’s annual Garden Brunch has been known as a celebrity magnet in recent years. Perhaps in keeping with the overall feel of the weekend, the brunch, which benefited the Democracy Fund and Dog Tag Bakery, seemed more like a gathering of friends. A move to a smaller venue (Connie Milstein’s house on R Street) helped give the event a more intimate vibe. Many attendees chose not to speak to the press and opted to head straight into the home, which boasted a large “doughnut wall.”

The scene at Samantha Bee’s “Not the WHCD.”

Lessons from ActorTweeter Denis O’Hare

Bee’s After-Party Is StarStudded There were multiple celebrity sightings at the after-party Samantha Bee held at the W Hotel (complete with a set from Elvis Costello and his band) following her show’s taping. Ana Gasteyer of “SNL” and her husband Charlie McKittrick snapped photos with fans. Retta of “Parks and Rec” was sitting with friends in the cooler part of the oppressively hot rooftop.

Will Ferrell opted for privacy and chose a roped-off section with wife Viveca Paulin and friends, flanked by a security guard. Is Ferrell this generation’s Chevy Chase — notoriously not that nice a guy? Perhaps Ferrell could take a cue from his characters Buddy the Elf and Ricky Bobby and not take himself so seriously.

Actor Denis O’Hare seems to have a knack for picking shows that end up popular with the American public: “True Blood,” “American Horror Story” and “This is Us,” to name a few.

At the Creative Coalition’s #RighttoBearArts event, the 55-year-old actor talked social media to Overheard at Lunch. The avid Twitter user said he at first questioned what right he had to “spout his opinions,” but realized he is educating others on things he is passionate about. Like many of us, in his political posts he tries to find humor when he can. He said he is always willing to listen and engage in a reasonable argument. As for those who are rude to him, he chooses not to block them and instead just ignores them, so as to not censor anyone. Perhaps we could all learn a little something from Mr. O’Hare …

Business Group Toasts Earth Day

BY ROBERT DEVANEY The Georgetown Business Association, the nonprofit dedicated to helping and promoting local businesses, mixed and mingled April 19 amid the rows of bottles of extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar (and light fare) at the Georgetown Olive Oil Co. at 1524 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Owners Emil and Hristina Merdzhanov greeted GBA members and guests as they explained the different kinds of products. Where is the best olive oil from?

Spain. The one-and-a-half-year-old business, between Cafe Bonaparte and Little Birdies and near the George Town Club, will be opening a second location at National Harbor.

Also on hand were Greg Miller and Sam Palino of Solar Coop, which helps to arrange solar energy set-ups and sharing for property owners. Wrapping up the Earth Day theme was Gloria Garrett of the Rose Park Farmers Market, which opens May 3.

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Historic D.C.

Street Smart in Washington

BY DO NNA EV E RS

rush-hour traffic forever challenging.

The north-south streets are numbered sequentially based on their distance from the Capitol. The alphabetical streets run eastwest and go from A to W, skipping J. But alphabets, unlike numbers, are finite. So when the sequence, initially of one-syllable words, gets to W, it starts over with a two-syllable word beginning with “A,” as in “Adams” Street.

When the two-syllable words corresponding to the alphabet run out, it goes to three-syllable words, such as “Allison” Street.

When the three-syllable words are used up, the naming turns to plant names, so “Aspen” Street follows “Whittier” Street.

This is especially prominent in the Northwest quadrant, which was extended far beyond its original northern border of Boundary Street (now Florida Avenue).

There are interesting anomalies, such as the Reed-Cooke section of Adams Morgan, which has some lake names, including Ontario and Champlain. Kalorama Street was once

The street grid in the District seems so logical that you’d never guess the mess that ensues every day at rush hour. When Pierre L’Enfant made the city plan in 1790, he laid out the original city in four quadrants radiating from the Capitol, forming the Northwest, Northeast, Southwest and Southeast sections of the city. Then he laid out a north-south grid of numbered streets and an east-west grid of alphabetical streets.

However, over this geometric grid is a complex network of angled avenues, circles, squares and parks meant to enliven the vistas for pedestrians and carriages. L’Enfant wanted to capture the grandeur of European cities; when Thomas Jefferson served as ambassador to France, L’Enfant asked him to bring back the plans for several European cities, including Paris, Milan, Amsterdam and Frankfurt. Their elaborate plans were used to formulate the layout of the District, which makes our city forever beautiful and

Pierre L’Enfant’s “Plan of the City of Washington.”

Superior, Euclid was Erie and Fuller was Huron. Columbia Heights had college names for their streets, and still retains Columbia, Harvard and Kenyon.

All the state-named streets are avenues except California Street and Ohio Drive.

Pennsylvania Avenue got its prominent place in the city as a consolation prize after Philadelphia lost its bid to be the nation’s capital, and Massachusetts Avenue has the distinction of being the city’s longest street.

MacArthur Boulevard was originally named Conduit Road because it covered an aqueduct carrying water from Great Falls to the District.

Foxhall Road was named after Henry Foxall, whose foundry in Georgetown supplied the country with armaments in the War of 1812. It was misspelled on an early road sign and never corrected. Last but not least: Tunlaw Road is “walnut” spelled backwards.

Donna Evers is the owner and broker of the largest woman-owned and woman-run real estate firm in the Washington metropolitan area, the proprietor of Twin Oaks Tavern Winery in Bluemont, Virginia, and a devoted student of D.C.-area history. Reach her at devers@eversco.com.

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There comes a time when any antiques aficionado grapples with some insecurity, the kind that comes with determining whether a piece is a legitimate antique or a clever reproduction. Forgers have become ever more adept at using aging agents and other techniques to make an item look like it is 100 years old — even if it was made yesterday.

Since dismantling a chair or a chest at a shop or a flea market to analyze its parts is not an option, some understanding of tools and techniques and the types of markings they leave behind is invaluable when trying to determine when a piece of furniture was made. A buyer needs not just in-depth knowledge of historical styles and construction techniques but powers of deduction worthy of a detective.

From pottery vases to Bakelite bangles, fakes abound in the flea-market fields. A lot of these

fakes are mass produced and obvious to the avid collector, but there are a few surprisingly well-crafted exceptions. Many new sellers have no idea that they are serving up reproductions.

Education is your best defense against getting taken Be wary of the enticement of the obviously underpriced.

Most buyers can delude themselves into thinking the “antique” is a steal, but, remember: when something is a steal, someone else is doing the stealing. Hence, it is always best to buy from a trusted and knowledgeable dealer or auction house.

The way furniture is put together is an important indicator of age. Early craftsmen used hand-cut, mortise-and-tenon joints, dovetail joints and wooden pegs. Found in the sides of drawers, cabinets and other pieces, dovetail joints have been employed in furniture

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making for centuries. Hand-cut dovetails are wider and cruder than dovetails made with machines. A machine-made dovetail means the furniture could be from 1860 on.

Since wood shrinks across the grain but not along it, very old furniture may appear misshapen. A tabletop or a chair leg that was round when it was made becomes slightly oval with age. Wooden pegs that jut out just a bit from the surface of a chair leg or a cabinet side are also indicators of age-related shrinkage.

Shrinkage in a chair or chest leg creates a more oblong than round piece and calipers can help determine whether shrinkage has occurred.

Calipers are one of the best tools that a wise antique buyer should.

Handmade antiques do not have uniform construction. Very small differences in size and shape will give this away. Irregularity is a good thing. Also, the real deal is often heavy.

Old fencing was made of hefty iron, not the light aluminum used today. Garden benches were carved from stone rather than molded from resins. Solid wood weighs less than modern plywood.

Nails tell their own story. Blacksmiths forged square-cut nails individually in the 1700s. After shaping the nail, the blacksmith placed it in a heading tool and delivered several hammer blows to form the distinctive head. Cut nails were prominent from 1790 to 1890. Sharpended wire nails with flat, round heads began to be machine produced around 1880. Staples are hallmarks of late 20th-century manufacture.

Although square nails and worm holes together in a piece of furniture would indicate an antique, somebody could build a new piece with old nails, or use old wood with new nails, so look carefully.

Another tell-tale sign of a reproduction is wood uniformity. It is unlikely that real antique furniture is made with the same type of wood throughout. Years ago, it didn’t make sense to use valuable wood in unseen places. Check the bottoms of chairs and drawers to look for different wood types. If the piece is made entirely from one kind of wood, it is probably a reproduction.

A maker’s mark is another way to authenticate an antique. For furniture, this could be a brand on the underside, a paper manufacturer’s label or a signature in chalk or ink in an inconspicuous place such as a drawer bottom. Back stamps are pressed into a piece of pottery, rather than printed on, indicating an older item that may date between 1850 and 1899. By the early 1900s, most back stamps were printed. Also, if the back stamp of your china item has no country of origin, it was likely made before 1891. If the item has no back stamp at all, it was also likely made before 1891. Red ware was frequently used over fires to prepare food, so look for some blackening on the bottom.

If you are still unsure, look inside the cabinet at the tooling marks. If everything inside the cabinet is smooth, it is probably not a very early piece, since sandpaper did not exist in the 18th century. Check that there are no “circular” machine marks, since circulating saws did not exist before the 1860s.

These are just a few of the most obvious signs to look for. But if you are an educated antique buyer and a piece “speaks to you” ... enjoy it.

Michelle Galler is an antiques dealer, a design consultant and a realtor based in Georgetown. Her shop is in Rare Finds, in Washington, Virginia. Reach her at antiques.and.whimsies@gmail.com.

REAL ESTATE

The Auction Block

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Breaking News: Weschler’s Moving to Rockville After 127 years in Washington, D.C., Weschler’s will move in June from the firm’s historic building at 909 E St. NW to a new location in Rockville, Maryland. A farewell reception will be held Saturday, May 6, at the E Street gallery to preview the Capital Collections and Metro Auctions and learn about the firm’s new location. The last Metro Auction in Washington is slated for Tuesday, May 23, at 9:30 a.m. During the relocation, from Memorial Day weekend through June 11, the offices will be closed.

Sotheby’s “Danaë” Egon Schiele (1890–1918) Estimate: $30 million – $40 million Auction Date: May 16 Painted in 1909 when the artist was just 19 years old, “Danaë” is Egon Schiele’s f irst early masterpiece and an extraordinary example of his daring technique. “Danaë” introduces the artist’s iconic aesthetic and epitomises the Jugendstil movement’s influence at the time. The composition also pays homage to Schiele’s informal mentor, Gustav Klimt. This Modern Art Evening Sale will feature an array of paintings and works on paper by Monet, Klimt, Picasso and other prominent artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Freeman’s “Matière et Mémoire ou Les Lithographes à l’École” Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) Estimate: $40,000 – $60,000 Auction Date: May 16 Christie’s “Femme Assise, Robe Bleue” Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Estimate: $35 million – $50 million Auction Date: May 15 This Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale initiates 20th-Century Week at Christie’s New York with 56 exceptional masterworks and sculptures. Featuring fresh-to-the-market pieces from outstanding private collections, the classic Impressionism of Claude Monet will meet Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, the bronzes of Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore and Auguste Rodin and the modernism of Pablo Picasso and Wassily Kandinsky.

This Modern & Contemporary Art auction will offer a selection of prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture by Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso (10 works), Lynn Chadwick, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Will Barnet, Wolf Kahn, Robert Motherwell, Salvador Dalí and others. The auction will open with works by Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, followed by a complete set of 34 lithographs by Jean Dubuffet, entitled “Matière et Mémoire ou Les Lithographes à l’École.”

Bonhams “Camellia Cake,” 1995 Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) Estimate: $500,000 – $700,000 Auction Date: May 16 Reminiscent of memories celebrating love, life and experience, Wayne Thiebaud’s confectionery portraits embody the warmth and comfort of an old friend and the sweetness of shared excitement and joy. Thiebaud’s “Camellia Cake,” part of this Post-War and Contemporary Art sale at Bonhams, epitomizes his transformative powers of re-envisioning the commonplace into the extraordinary. Like many artists before him, Thiebaud concentrates on food as subject matter, urging the viewer to use a variety of senses to aid in the recollection of past experience.

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Doyle New York “Paris,” 1989 Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928) Auction Date: April 26 Estimate: $3,000 – $5,000 Final Selling Price: $2,375 Sotheby’s “MacNamara,” 1925 Robert Henri (1865–1929) Auction Date: April 7 Estimate: $200,000 – $300,000 Final Selling Price: Unsold

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Exhibition: May 6th - May 11th Christie’s “Le Rebelle,” 1967 Joan Miro (1893-1983) Auction Date: April 19-20 Estimate: $20,000 – $30,000 Final Selling Price: $27,500

Bonhams “Georgia Engelhard in a Red Coat,” 1910–15 Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) Auction Date: April 25 Estimate: $3,000 – $5,000 Final Selling Price: Unsold

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COVER

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aby turtles, weddings, the Whiffenpoofs, a great blue heron, a cat burial ground (really). Life, death and rebirth in every corner of every garden are tucked behind the high brick walls in Georgetown.

In a neighborhood so famous, and so full of people, these pockets of green are Georgetown’s secret. “I always wanted a walled garden,” says Ellen Charles, whose lush backyard hides behind towering brick walls only a block from the chaos of Wisconsin Avenue.

Charles’s garden, along with seven others, will reveal its secrets Saturday, May 13, for the annual Georgetown Garden Tour, which is run by the Georgetown Garden Club and raises money for local projects.

All the gardens have pasts. Kitty Kelley’s elevated (in all senses of the word) garden is all about the circle of life, from book parties to weddings to the aforementioned cats. She lives in former Supreme Court Justice William Brennan’s old house. “So I feel the place showers me with a protective karma,” she says. And there are angels all around to prove it.

A spectacular O Street garden was recently listed in the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Gardens. This garden has not one but two ponds: one formal, one à la nature. An artist’s studio stands next to the garden, hidden, or reflected, in a trompe-l’oeil latticed mirror.

Near Georgetown University, Jane Austen hangs out in a 35th Street gem of a garden.

“When the owner came to us, she said that she would love a garden in which she could read English novels,” explains Leslie Gignoux of Fritz & Gignoux, who designed the space. “In a tiny space, we carefully integrated elements drawn from Jane Austen’s novels to create an authentic cottage garden in which to read great novels under flowering canopies or — in the case of busy people — imagine that she could read her favorite books.”

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All the gardens have pasts, all the gardens have secrets.

And a lot of them have water. Swimming pools, fishponds and fountains grace most of the gardens. Many of them are on more than one level; steps lead to hidden “rooms” and swimming pools. One garden boasts a pea-gravel terrace, to remind one of a Parisian park.

Another garden takes Georgetown’s ubiquitous street trees, ginkgos, and presents them espaliered. Designed by the owners, this garden boasts a British-style conservatory and geothermal swimming pool. Cool.

Not last, our own Tudor Place is on show, the block-wide garden full of history and impressive in its sheer size. Built high to catch the summer breezes, Tudor Place dates from Georgetown’s early days as a busy port. The garden was first used as both a place of quiet and for small-scale farming.

Successive generations were careful to preserve unusual heirloom plants and garden features (though no one farms there anymore).

As every gardener knows, the in-between spots make all the difference, and this is a special bonus of the Georgetown Garden Tour. There are plenty of things to see — lovely front gardens, subtle architectural details and historical secrets — all over our neighborhood. With property owners fussing and tweaking, it is fun just to walk around and stare.

Oh, and that great blue heron? It came to visit one quiet morning and ate all the fish in Ellen Charles’s fishpond.

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ounded in 1924, the Georgetown Garden Club has been responsible for the Georgetown Garden Tour since 2000.

The tour was first organized in 1928 by Edmonia Whitehead as a way of involving the community in educating inner-city children.

It benefited the Georgetown Children’s House, the first integrated childcare center in the city, providing greatly needed funds for the organization through the 1990s.

At that time, due to insufficient subsidies from the United Way and the District’s Department of Human Services, the Georgetown Children’s House closed. By then, many members of the Georgetown Garden Club had become involved in the annual tour, so it seemed only natural for the club to step in and take over the tour’s organization.

Now 51 members strong, the Georgetown Garden Club organizes this springtime tour, showcasing distinctive gardens on the east side and west side of Washington’s oldest neighborhood.

Since 2000, the club has raised more than a half million dollars. These proceeds benefit green spaces and parks throughout Georgetown and provide funds for innercity youth to learn about gardening and conservation through the Student Conservation Association. Their work in Dumbarton Oaks Park has contributed to the revitalization of that park, in the process inspiring lifelong stewardship of the environment in the minds of many young workers.

Other beneficiaries include Book Hill Park, Montrose Park, Tudor Place, Volta Park, Rose Park, Trees for Georgetown, the Georgetown Library and the Georgetown Waterfront Park.

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MOTHER’S DAY

CELEBRATING

BY N ORA S A NDE RBY T H

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Moroccan Madness (or Heavenly Hip Hibiscus) Tea and Card $6 (small bag of loose tea) + $13 (pop-up card)

Start the day celebrating Mom (or Mum, across the pond) with a traditional, yet luxurious breakfast in bed. It will set the tone for her day in the best way possible. You can shop the Georgetown boutiques and surprise her with a tray of treats to enjoy all year long.

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Aromachologie Pillow Mist $20

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Bud Vases $30

BRIDGE STREET BOOKS “All the Light We Cannot See” $14.38 (paperback)

L’OCCITANE ULTRA VIOLET FLOWER SHOP

Jasmine & Bergamote Candle $24.50

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Carlyle Glass Vase (4.75” x 12”) $29.95

Dear Mom: The Miracle That Should Have Happened

BY M AR K P L OT K IN It has been 42 years, but the memory of the match won’t leave me. The year was 1975.

The site was Forest Hills, Queens. On those clay courts, I watched the tennis comeback of the century.

No, I will go further. It was the tennis comeback that had never happened before and will never, ever happen again.

The hero was not flashy or glamorous. He was left-handed and his backhand was pretty to watch and so smooth. He didn’t hit the ball with great force, but he placed his shots with sly skill. Most of all, he just wouldn’t give up.

That’s what I want to express in every way.

The player was Manuel Orantes from Spain. It was the semifinals of the U.S. Open.

Orantes’s opponent was the charismatic lefthander from Argentina, Guillermo Vilas.

The year 1975 was a very rough one for me.

My beautiful, wonderful mother was very ill and could not leave her bed. I would spend most of the day with her, talking and reading to her. I just wanted to be near her and show her my love and appreciation for all she had done for me in my young life. She was my biggest

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fan, and I wanted to let her know how much that meant to me.

Every morning, I would go to the tennis court and play with someone on those green Har-Tru courts in the University of Chicago courtyard. I had played for my college team.

Hitting a clean, sharp, crosscourt forehand still gave me enormous satisfaction and joy. Before I left to play, my mother, whose voice was not strong, always said the same thing, “Have a good game.” She meant it.

We watched that 1975 semifinal match together. Orantes was being outplayed by Vilas. It looked like a total mismatch. The die seemed to be cast. In the early sets, Orantes lacked passion and fire. Vilas was in total command. Vilas won the first set 6-4 and then trounced him in the second set 6-1.

At that point, I thought it was surely over. I remember viewing the third and decisive set as almost a courtesy set. (Orantes did rebound to a 6-2 victory.) It was then my belief that Vilas would finish Orantes off with quick dispatch.

That surely looked like the case. Vilas jumped out to an immediate 5-Love lead. In the sixth

game, it was actually double match point, 40-15, with Vilas all but declared the victor.

Then, seemingly out of nowhere, Orantes came alive. At the darkest hour, without any room for error or mistake, Orantes played brilliantly and stormed back, winning seven straight games. He won the set 7-5. I thought at the time, how did he have the discipline and sheer will to come back at double match point, rescue himself and stay in the match? What was going through his mind? Or were the gods with him? Did some extraordinary power infuse him with superhuman qualities that would not permit him to go down to defeat?

As the deciding fifth set began, I remember thinking that Vilas would now forge all his talents and not allow Orantes to continue. But once again, Orantes focused his game on one goal: winning. And that’s what he did. He won 6-4 in the final and deciding set.

My mother and I watched this marathon struggle together. I remember thinking that life was not supposed to turn out like this. Miracles didn’t happen. That was stuff for the movies.

But we had both watched a miracle, and it

wasn’t a movie. My most clear memory of this event 42 years ago was thinking that maybe my mother’s condition would miraculously improve and she, too, would make a comeback, as Orantes had just done — that life can surprise you and that there are happy endings.

Miracles don’t just happen on the tennis court.

They can happen anywhere and at any time.

Orantes went on to win the U.S. Open the next day, beating Jimmy Connors in straight sets. It was bashert (“meant to be” in Yiddish).

I was overjoyed and thought as Orantes raised the cup over his head that my mom could win a big victory, too. It was not to be. She passed away two days later on Sept. 9. But for a few hours, Manuel Orantes, by his play, gave me hope. For that I will be forever grateful and always treasure that match of September 1975.

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

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MPD’s Groomes to Keep Wharf Safe

Courtesy Biscuit Fest.

D.C. Demands More Fried Chicken and Biscuits After selling biscuits out of a booth at Union Market, the Mason Dixie Biscuit Co. opened up a brick-and-mortar shop on Bladesburg Road. The breakfast eatery offered the first 100 customers a card for a free breakfast sandwich every day for 90 days, Washington City Paper reported. The shop has become so popular that it has extended its hours to 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on weekends (it’s closed Mondays). On opening weekend, April 15 and 16, a reported 3,000 biscuits and 2,500 pieces of fried chicken were consumed.

But No Backyard Chickens, Says Mayor Though some have argued that backyard chickens are legal under D.C. law, Mayor Muriel Bowser, along with other D.C. officials, have said that it is illegal to keep the birds.

Racing pigeons, parrots and caged birds are welcome, but some illegally raised chickens (roosters, hens and chicks) have gotten loose and ended up at local animal shelters, DCist reported. A Chevy Chase family got busted for chicken raising, despite getting written permission from their neighbors and sharing the eggs. An anonymous complaint to the Health Department set off a legal fight.

Long-time Metropolitan Police Department official Diane Groomes will join the Wharf security team as director of security and public safety, maintaining the development — which Diane Groomes will eventually stretch almost a mile along the waterfront — as a safe environment for visitors and residents. With a law-enforcement career spanning nearly 30 years, Groomes spent the last decade as assistant chief of MPD’s Patrol Services and School Safety Bureau.

Park Service Contracts for Parking Meters on Mall The National Park Service awarded a contract to Parkeon US to get parking meters up along the National Mall. Installation of the 90 multi-space pay stations began May 1 and enforcement will begin June 12. Parking fees under the system will be two dollars per hour from 7 a.m. until 8 p.m., weekends and holidays included. The stations will accept debit and credit cards and work with the Parkmobile app used elsewhere in D.C.

Red-Top Meters Aren’t for Everyone

An additional Shake Shack location will be coming to the Wharf later this year. Courtesy Shake Shack.

Shake Shack Shacking Up at the Wharf The Wharf has announced yet another edition to its dining scene. The popular burger and fries joint Shake Shack will set up shop in the massive development and open this fall.

The Wharf outpost will join Shake Shack’s other D.C. locations (Dupont, NoMa, Capitol Hill, etc.). Like them, the Wharf Shack will include D.C.-specific menu items.

Triangular Fitness The Golden Triangle Business Improvement District has brought back its popular outdoor fitness series. TriFit will feature after-work workouts — CorePower Yoga on Tuesdays, Freedom Barre on Wednesdays and pilates on Thursdays — at either Farragut Park or the plaza at 2100 M St. NW. To register, visit goldentriangledc.com.

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Beginning May 8, drivers who do not have disability tags or cards and park next to red-top meters in D.C.’s central business district will be in trouble, WTOP reported. At the more than 300 meters in the area, those with disabilities can park for four hours for $2.30. The new meter rules will be in place at all times, according to Evian Patterson, citywide parking manager for the District Department of Transportation.

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A patron at a local D.C. Freshfarm market checks out the peppers. Courtesy Going Green DC.

Freshfarm Returns to Mount Vernon Triangle This Saturday, May 6, marks the return of the Freshfarm market to Mount Vernon Triangle. The market, open from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. on Saturdays through Oct. 28, has been relocated to a larger site next to Milian Park. At this year’s market: Chicano Sol’s certified organic produce; Orchard Breeze Farm’s beef, lamb, chicken and eggs; Black Rock Orchard’s fruits and berries; Panorama Bakery’s artisan loaves; and more.

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MARTIN’S TAVERN

CAFE BONAPARTE

THE GRILL ROOM

THE OCEANAIRE

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

202–333–8830 | cafebonaparte.com Captivating customers since 2003, Cafe Bonaparte has been dubbed the “quintessential” European café, featuring award-winning crepes and arguably the “best” coffee in D.C.! Other can't-miss attractions are the famous weekend brunch every Saturday and Sunday until 3 p.m. and our late-night weekend hours serving sweet and savory crepes until 1 a.m.

202-617-2424 | thegrillroomdc.com Tucked along the historic C&O Canal, a national park that threads through the Georgetown neighborhood, The Grill Room at Rosewood Washington, D.C., specializes in handcut, bone-in, artisan meats, bracingly fresh seafood and tableside preparations. Framed with a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows and fluid geometric lines, the ambiance is one of relaxed refinement. Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

202–347–2277 | theoceanaire.com Ranked one of the most popular seafood restaurants in D.C., “this cosmopolitan” send-up of a vintage supper club that’s styled after a '40’s-era ocean liner is appointed with cherry wood and red leather booths, infused with a “clubby, old money” atmosphere. The menu showcases “intelligently” prepared fish dishes that “recall an earlier time of elegant” dining.

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MALMAISON

TOWN HALL

ENO WINE BAR

LA CHAUMIERE

202-817-3340 | malmaisondc.com Malmaison opened in June 2013 and features elegant French dining in Washington D.C’s historic Georgetown waterfront. Housed in a majestically refurbished industrial warehouse reminiscent of NYC’s Meatpacking District, the modern restaurant, pastry shop and event lounge features the culinary talents of legendary 2 Michelin Starred French Chef Gerard Pangaud and Pastry Chef Serge Torres (Le Cirque NYC).

202-333-5640 | townhalldc.com Situated just north of Georgetown on Wisconsin Ave, Town Hall has been a neighborhood mainstay in Glover Park since 2005. Whether you’re popping in for dinner, drinks, or weekend brunch, Town Hall is the spot you’ll want to call home to Gulp, Gather & Grub. Free parking is available nightly after 7 p.m., and during warmer months, our outdoor courtyard is one of DC’s best kept secrets.

202–295–2826 | enowinerooms.com HAPPY HOUR: Offered nightly Tuesday - Thursday from 5 – 7 PM & Sunday from 4 – 6 PM. Enjoy select $5 wines on tap. Join us on Sunday’s for 30% off bottles, Wednesday’s for College Nights from 9 – 11 PM, & Thursday evenings for live music starting at 6 pm. Our delightful wines are best enjoyed with local charcuterie, cheese and small plates.

202-338-1784 | lachaumieredc.com Celebrating our 40th Anniversary, La Chaumiere is as close to dining in the French countryside as you can get. Chef Orange serves cassoulet on Thursdays, Hearty Choucroute Alsacienne in the winter, Dover Sole Meuniere, Boudin Blanc, Pike Quenelles and many other French specialties.

Dinner wouldn’t be complete without a luscious Grand Marnier Souffle or warm Apple tart with caramel sauce.

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BY J ODY KURA S H The white Russian has been on a roller coaster ride since its inception — climbing to a peak in the ’70s, falling into a steady slump, shooting up to dizzying heights of underground coolness in the late ’90s and lastly returning as the butt of a joke in 2016.

And unlike our current commander in chief, the cocktail has nothing to do with Russia.

To look at the drink’s earliest origins, one must turn to its sister tipple, the black Russian, a 5-2 mixture of vodka and coffee liqueur.

According to legend, the black Russian first appeared in the late 1940s in Belgium. Liquor. com reports that it was concocted at the Hotel Metropole in Brussels by the establishment’s bartender, Gustave Tops. Tops created the black Russian in honor of Perle Mesta, the American ambassador to Luxembourg, who was hanging out in the bar at the time.

The reason he chose those ingredients is unknown. The “black” in the name is said to come from the dark color of the drink and the “Russian” from the chief spirit. Before the proliferation of international vodkas like Absolut, Finlandia and Grey Goose, vodka was considered quintessentially Russian.

Mesta was a well-known Washington hostess who served black Russians at her frequent parties. It’s said that President Harry Truman played the piano at one of her shindigs, while Gen. Dwight Eisenhower sang at another.

Somewhere along the line, cream was added and, voilà, the white Russian was born. The cream gave the drink a white color, hence the altered name. White Russians quickly became popular, since the cream reduced the alcohol flavor in this rather potent potable. It was the perfect storm: a drink with a lot of alcohol but no rough taste at all.

Another story claims that the white Russian evolved in the 1930s from a drink called simply the Russian, which emerged at the time vodka began to slowly migrate to the west. The Russian was made with vodka, gin and crème de cacao.

According to the makers of Kahlúa, the brand of coffee liqueur most associated with these cocktails, the white Russian was invented in Oakland, California, in 1955.

The name “white Russian” also pops up in the 1960s in a Southern Comfort advert that featured a drink by that name mixed with Coffee Southern liqueur.

Whatever brand of coffee liqueur was used, the white Russian climbed in popularity in

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BY LINDA ROT H Phoenix-based True Food Kitchen is expanding across the bridge. The company’s first metro-area location in Fairfax, Virginia, gets a sister operation in Bethesda, Maryland, this summer, when it opens in the Solaire luxury apartment building at 7100 Wisconsin Ave. Randall Matthews will be executive chef.

The restaurant’s seasonal menu offers glutenfree, organic, vegetarian and vegan options. It will include an outdoor patio with seating for about 30 people. A local artist will create the wall art. Opening day is June 14.

Jordan and Jonathan Stahl will open Tyber Creek Wine Bar & Kitchen in Bloomingdale where Rustik used to be. The name comes from a tributary of the Potomac River. Chef Kerry Tate, formerly of The Heights, reigns over the kitchen and menu. It will seat 45 people with outdoor seating for 45. The renovations included a new floor and lighting and a live wall from Holley Simmons of Sill Life.

Quick Hits: Jaimie Mertz will open her brickand-mortar Red Bandana at 8218 Wisconsin Ave. in Bethesda after introducing locals to her gluten-free baked goods at the Bethesda Farmers Market … Alemayehu Abebe, owner of Chercher Ethiopian Restaurant & Mart on 9th Street NW, plans to open in Arlington (Courthouse) at 2000 N. 14th St., with 100 seats inside and an outdoor patio. A summer opening is planned. A bit more upscale than the D.C. store, it will include a wine bar …

Sports-themed Glory Days Grill will open its 15th restaurant in Virginia at 3141 Duke St. in the Alexandria Commons Shopping Center by the first quarter of 2018. There are 26 Glory Days Grills in four states … District Barbecue will open at Bristow Center in Bristow, Virginia … Pitango will open this summer at 1841 Columbia Rd. NW in Adams Morgan.

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the 1960s and continued on into the disco era.

By the 1980s, however, the drink had become as passé as polyester and wide lapels. It was relegated to the back shelf and considered a drink for amateurs or underage sorority sisters. Its almost milkshake-like texture and rich sweetness was passed over in favor of lighter drinks.

Then, in 1998, “the Dude” emerged and the cocktail shot to legendary status. The antihero of the Cohen brothers’ cult flick “The Big Lebowski” brought his drink of choice, the politically correct “Caucasian Russian,” to the big screen. Lebowski enthusiasts will be able to tell you that the Dude drank a total of eight and dropped on the floor during the course of the movie. Perhaps the best place to order a Caucasian Russian is at the annual Dudefest in Louisville, Kentucky, which celebrates all things Lebowski.

The most recent pop-culture reference I have seen is a well-circulated comical meme that first appeared during the 2016 presidential campaign. The “Donald Trump” is a cocktail described as “a white Russian, under a thick orange skin, garnished with a piece of fake gold leaf.” Another appropriate garnish might be a tiny chili pepper. Perhaps this cocktail has finally found a Russian connection.

a Mexican restaurant, this November at the Wharf project on the Southwest waterfront. It will seat up to 400 and include an outdoor patio and private dining rooms. Knead Hospitality + Design will design and operate the space.

Santibañez owns New York City’s Fonda restaurants. It joins French Mediterranean restaurant La Vie, Spanish and seafood restaurant Del Mar, Requin, Hank’s on the Water, Rappahannock Oyster Bar and Kirwan’s Waterfront Pub. Georgetown Gets Sweeter: Fresh Baguette plans to open in Georgetown where Sweet Frog was, at 1737 Wisconsin Ave. NW. Their first location is at 4919 Bethesda Ave., with a commissary bakery and small retail operation planned for Rockville … Pierre-Antoine Raberin and Elisabeth Holder Raberin just opened Paris-based Ladurée at 3060 M St. NW, filled with their signature macarons as well as cookies and candles, plus brunch menu items and teas.

The Capital Burger, a more casual “brand extension” of Capital Grille, will debut in D.C. at 1005 7th St. NW near the Convention Center (the former Living Social HQ). Darden Restaurants is using D.C. as the testing ground for the new concept.

Aaron Silverman, chef-owner of Rose’s Luxury and Pineapple and Pearls on Barracks Row on Capitol Hill may be taking over David Guas’s second Bayou Bakery, at 901 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. The original Bayou Bakery continues to operate. By this summer, Guas will open a casual cafe called Lil’ B in the Darcy, a new hotel opening on Rhode Island Avenue NW. Compass Rose’s Rose Previte and partners Mike Schuster and Andy Lacy plan to open Maydan in the Manhattan Laundry Building

Jeff Bridges in “The Big Lebowski.”

THE WHITE RUSSIAN • 1 part vodka • 1 part coffee liqueur • 1 part cream Pour over ice and stir carefully. Enjoy.

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at 1346 Florida Ave. NW this fall. It will offer comfort food from Eastern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Maydan describes it as open space where people can gather and dine. Chefs Gerald Addison and Chris Morgan will be co-executive chefs there and at Compass Rose. Chris was previously at The Dabney.

Chef, Somm, GM Update: Thierry Delourneaux was named executive pastry chef at the St. Regis Washington D.C. While at The Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner, he redesigned the brunch menu at the late, great Maestro. He also ran the pastry kitchen at Fairmont Singapore and Swissôtel’s The Stamford. He most recently worked at New York’s legendary Rainbow Room … Andy Powell was named beverage manager at the St. Regis. Previously he was wine director at Central Michel Richard … Eric McKamey now heads up the kitchen at DGS Delicatessen in Dupont Circle. Previously, he was executive chef at Mintwood Place … Jamie Rutherford is the new chef at Petworth Citizen. He was previously at The Dabney and Tail Up Goat … Jennifer Meyer is the new general manager at Bourbon Steak … Jo-Jo Valenzuela is beverage director at Granville Moore’s … Chad Wiese was named chef de cuisine at Occidental Grill & Seafood, which is undergoing significant renovations (new bar and first-level private dining room) to be completed by June.

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JFK’s Birthplace: A Site To See 100 Years Later

BY PEG GY SA NDS Taking small children to historic cities and sites can be a challenge, as just about every parent or grandparent knows. I have faced that challenge many times with my kids over the years. They grow quickly bored with the old things. It is hard for them to relate to the past.

But there is one historic site in the Boston area that children seem to love (it has actually been adopted by the third-grade class of the nearby elementary school): the house in Brookline where John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, was born on May 29, 1917. This month marks his 100th birthday.

The house where the American story of Camelot began is located at 83 Beals Street, a shady and narrow one-way side street with bumpy sidewalks lined by shingled two- and three-story homes, all well cared for and lived in. JFK’s parents, Joe and Rose Kennedy, moved into the three-bedroom home in October 1914 as newlyweds.

By 1920, when they moved to a larger home a few blocks away, they had four children: Joseph, Isaak and Nina Orchowski in front of the John F. Kennedy home. Photos by Peggy Sands. born in 1915; John in 1917; Rosemary in 1918; and Kathleen in 1920. Three more Kennedys JFK’s birthplace became a National Historic as exactly as she could from her memories — Eunice, Patricia and Robert — were born in Site in July 1964, eight months after he was of living there between 1914 and 1920. U.S. the Abbottsford Road house in Brookline. The assassinated in Dallas. Over the next five years, Park Rangers and volunteers give tours of eighth, Jean, and the last of the nine children, Rose Kennedy personally collected household the house from May to October and there are Edward (Ted), were born in Dorchester (within furnishings, photographs and significant audioclips of Rose describing her life there. theT Boston city limits). & T_Georgetowner_5.2017_Layout 1 5/2/17 5:29 PMmementos Page 1 to refurnish and refurbish the house The church she attended twice a day for more

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than 10 years is up the block. The Edward Devotion Elementary School, a public school where John went to kindergarten, is on the next corner.

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and the little table, set equally formally, under the window for the children.

My grandson Isaak can tell you a lot about what JFK did as president. Just last year he participated in the annual “What John F. Kennedy Means to Me” essay and poetry program sponsored by the historic site and his school. “He worked hard to end segregation,” his class wrote. “He felt strongly about helping others, about the space race and equal rights. He created the Peace Corps and worked for peace.”

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the “T” to Coolidge Corners, it is a thriving and liberal town. Brookline residents were among the first in the country to propose extending the vote to women in the 1880s. From a strong Protestant and Catholic demographic, it now has become a cultural hub for the Jewish community of Greater Boston.

Brookline is also home to one of the best community bookstores in the country, Brookline Books. Like D.C.’s renowned Politics and Prose, Brookline Books features almost daily speakers and a large selection of books on current events.

Many stores sport signs saying “We Welcome Refugees” in their windows, reflecting the Kennedy family’s own background as immigrants. In 1958, Jack Kennedy coined the phrase “A Nation of Immigrants” as a title of a short book he authored.

Brookline also holds the title as “the third snobbiest small city in America” (after Palo Alto, California, and Bethesda, Maryland), according to a July 2014 article in the Boston Globe. That designation is based on a Movoto Real Estate survey ranking median home prices, household income, college degrees, private schools, performing arts venues, art galleries and upscale restaurants per capita (high) and the number of fast food restaurants (low). Brookline also is said to have the highest number of Ph.D.s per capita in the United States.

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Seasons come and go and time flies and the cityscape changes — as do tastes in music and the arts and audiences — so that in Washington (as probably elsewhere) constants are hard to find.

But on Sunday, May 7, Washington classical and choral music audiences can bear witness to the fact that in a bountiful and rich performing arts environment there are some constants. That afternoon, at 4:30 p.m. at the National Presbyterian Church, the City Choir of Washington will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a performance of the great 18th-century German composer G. F. Handel’s operatic oratorio “Solomon.”

It will do so under the direction of its founder Robert Shafer, himself a figure of note in the city’s and the region’s musical environment, as director of the Washington Chorus for more than three decades and as director of choral music at Shenandoah Conservatory, where he is professor emeritus.

“Solomon” is the work with which Shafer began his first season directing the City Choir of Washington. “I love this piece, obviously, and to some extent it’s unusual, not necessarily the kind of thing associated with Handel,” he said. “While Handel is the master of the oratorio, it can feel very operatic. It’s a great opportunity for solo singers. It’s as much about story and character within the framework of the music as it is the music itself.”

It’s been duly noted by many leaders in the performing arts community — theater, opera, dance, choral music, orchestral music and so on — that groups large and small can no longer simply rely on superscription support or arts funding, given some of the warnings coming from the new administration’s budget masters.

“It think we’ve done very well,” Shafer said. “But it’s an issue for everyone, from the Kennedy Center — which is somewhat in an area by itself — to all of us. “I do think there is an audience for our work, for the music and its benefits to audiences. Young people especially have resources and choices. They think they can get everything they need from streaming, telephones, the internet, that they have numerous choices and that’s really what you have to take note of. But we offer the live experience, which is unique, and one that can’t be duplicated or repeated.”

Shafer, who began cultural life as a classical pianist, displays eclectic and adventuresome attitudes.

“You have to ask the questions — what’s an older audience interested in? what are young people interested in? — and then you match some of that with your own strengths, your resources and abilities, as to what you can do exceptionally well,” he said.

The City Choir of Washington has 140 members of professional-level ability, volunteer singers drawn from the Washington

The City Choir of Washington. area. Shafer wears numerous hats for the group — as founder and nurturer and artistic director — which often finds him looking at a piece of work from two points. “Choral directors think that orchestra directors know nothing about choral music,” he said. “Of course, orchestra directors feel exactly the same way in reverse.”

The choir offers a subscription season while also performing with the NSO at the Kennedy Center and at Wolf Trap, Strathmore and New York’s Lincoln Center. Its other programs include the City Singers; Partners in Song, in which a high-school choral group performs in the choir’s annual Christmas program (which few performing arts groups can do without); and a Young American Artists program.

The 10th anniversary season has been a reflection of all the possibilities the performance

of choral music can offer. It began with Brahms’ solemn, rich “A German Requiem” in a chamber orchestration directed by Joachim Linckelmann, a program that also featured Shafer’s own “Ubi Caritas,” a 60th birthday gift for the late maestro J. Reilly Lewis.

The season continued with “The Holly and the Ivy” for Christmas, which included as a Partner in Song the Marriotts Ridge High School Madrigal Singers. The March performance was composer Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “Dona Nobis Pacem” (“Grant Us Peace”) at St. Luke Catholic Church, a cantata of reconciliation incorporating Walt Whitman’s poetry, first heard in the anxious times between the two world wars.

And so: 10 years. “Solomon.” Handel. And yes, Robert Shafer.

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VISUAL ARTS

Book Hill Art Walk, May 5

Maurine Littleton Gallery 1667 Wisconsin Ave. NW

David Dodge Lewis and Ephraim Rubenstein: The Quickening Image

BY A R I P O ST

The Georgetown Galleries of Book Hill will host their annual Spring Art Walk this Friday, May 5, from 6 to 8 p.m. The walk has become a staple of the season, an urban harbinger of long, warm evenings and summer’s horizon, never failing to bring out the neighborhood in high and boisterous spirits.

The Spring Art Walk is a chance to experience the value that art brings to our lives, the camaraderie it inspires among us and the common ground it tends. As you walk along Wisconsin Avenue and thread your way through gallery after beautiful gallery, you will realize that there is really nothing else like this in the city. And the best part is, should a work of art so inspire you, you can take a piece of the evening home with you.

Here’s a look at the featured exhibitions. For more information, visit georgetowngalleries.com.

Artist’s Proof 1533 Wisconsin Ave. NW

Shar Coulson: Flora Fauna Figure Shar Coulson is greatly influenced by the interconnection between humanity and nature.

The organic qualities of her work stem from her deep love and respect for nature and its mysterious repetition of line and form.

Working from visual memory, Coulson, a founding member of the Chicago Art Salon, explores through her paintings the notions of perception and reality using allusive figuration, gestural line work and organic forms.

A piece by Beth Kaminstein.

Cross Mackenzie Gallery 1675 Wisconsin Ave. NW

Klagsbrun Studios 1662 33rd St. NW

The Tuesday Night Work: Selected Works Klagsbrun Studios is the newest member of the Georgetown Gallery clan. This first exhibition will display selected work from the Tuesday Night Group, a fluctuating group of 10 to 20 members who have met every Tuesday night for the past 32 years to draw and paint from life. The show will feature work by gallery owner Micheline Klagsbrun, who brings together drawings on vellum, large canvases, three-dimensional wall hangings and sculptural pieces. Populated by hybrid forms — natural and human, animate and inanimate — her weightless and evanescent works are created through the interplay of lines, colors and textures.

“The Quickening Image: The Wax-Resist Drawings of David Dodge Lewis and Ephraim Rubenstein” chronicles a new way to draw.

Wax-resist drawing is a layered, large-scale, mixed-media approach that utilizes wax as a resist for subsequent ink and charcoal washes.

It incorporates both wet and dry materials, as well as linear and painterly elements. The exhibition is also the story of a 20-plus-year collaboration between Lewis and drawing professor Ephraim Rubenstein, who observed Lewis’s wax-resist workshops at the University of Richmond in the early 1990s.

Leslie Parke and Beth Kaminstein: Photographs and Ceramics

Painter Leslie Parke has long used photography as a tool to capture images. She would then translate these ambiguous subjects of reflected insulation foil, saran-wrapped recycling blocks or tire-tread puddles into a language of abstraction. Recently, a museum director asked why she didn’t print the beautiful photographs themselves. Beth Kaminstein deftly wields layers of glaze on her oversized clay vessels, just as her mentor, painter Helen Frankenthaler, stained and poured paint on her canvases. The colors are fluid and watery, her glazes smooth and reflective — pooling in glassy deep pockets then pushing up against raw rough and matte clay.

Susan Calloway Fine Arts 1643 Wisconsin Ave. NW

“Cambalache Paper #2,” 2017. Joan Belmar.

Karen Silve: Beijing Trees

Addison/Ripley Fine Art 1670 Wisconsin Ave. NW

Joan Belmar: Cambalache Organized around the exhibition title “Cambalache,” an Argentinian slang-language tango song written in 1934, Belmar references in his latest work both the musical culture of his birth and the civic communities in which we all reside. The familiar but deceptive simplicity of the circle and line structure of Belmar’s paintings and constructions allows a rich range of palettes, by turns earthy, quietly ashen and rainbow-bright. The sharp tap of a tango heel mingles here with the mellow, smoke-tinged voice of a 1930s cantor.

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Interior of the National Gallery of Art East Building. Courtesy Christopher Johnson.

Presenting at the National Gallery of Art’s April 26 celebration of the 100th birthday of I. M. Pei, architect of the gallery’s East Building, were Susan Wertheim, chief architect and deputy administrator for capital projects, and Pei protégé Perry Y. Chin, who designed the building’s recent renovation, which included the addition of tower galleries and a roof terrace. Born in Canton, China, Ieoh Ming Pei (who was not present) came to the U.S. at age 17 and earned degrees from MIT and Harvard, where he studied with Walter Gropius and his master’s thesis was a museum.

On Thursday, May 4, the Arts Club of Washington will present the 2017 Marfield Prize, a national award for arts writing, to

Rachel Corbett, editor in chief of Modern Painters magazine. Corbett will receive the $10,000 prize for “You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin,” her first book. At the dinner event, mezzo-soprano Melissa Kornacki and pianist Daniel Kuehler will perform Peter Lieberson’s 2001 “Rilke Songs.”

The Cathedral Choral Society’s 75th Anniversary Jubilee will be held Saturday, May 6, at the Omni Shoreham Hotel. At the event, which includes a cocktail reception, dinner, silent and live auctions and performances by soprano Colleen Daly, mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Bishop, tenor Robert Baker, bass-baritone Ben Wager and pianist Joy Schreier, the late J. Reilly Lewis, the ensemble’s music director for 31 years, will be honored.

More than 80 films, nearly all regional, U.S. or world premieres, will be screened during the 27th annual Washington Jewish Film Festival, beginning with the Israeli feature “The Women’s Balcony” on opening night, May 17, at the AFI Silver Theatre in Silver Spring. The 2017 festival’s Visionary Award honorees are Barry Levinson and Polish director Agnieszka Holland. Hollard will receive her award at a May 27 screening of her film “Angry Harvest” at AFI.

Abstract painter Karen Silve recently traveled to Beijing, where ancient traditions and the wisdom of thinking in terms of centuries rather than years were apparent in the way the Chinese nurtured their trees. Each branch was thoughtfully pruned every year. The trunk, the strength of the tree, had everything to do with its foundation. The top of the trees had new life every year. Due to the consistent and careful pruning, they were rife with blossoms.

And so, a state of renewal built on strength and wisdom became the direction of Silve’s new body of work.

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Less Crazy But Still Fun WHCA Weekend

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With the president away, it seemed easier to play. Parties at the Washington Hilton, site of the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, were easier to navigate April 29. Parties around town brought out fewer big names, letting the focus move to the journalists and their work.

At the Washington Hilton pre-parties: Kate Goodall, CEO, Halcyon, and Tom Geddes, CEO, Plank Industries. Photo by Robert Devaney.

Washington Post Publisher Fred Ryan and his wife Genevieve with Carolyn Glanville of Flipboard Inc. Photo by Robert Devaney.

Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner and Dean Cain of Superman fame enjoy the WHCA after party with the cadets of the United States Military Academy at West Point. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.

Top Chefs food fight: Chefs Spike Mendelsohn and Mike Isabella at the Thomson Reuters White House Correspondents’ Sunday Brunch at the Hay Adams April 30.

The bar at the Thomson Reuters party at the Washington Hilton. Photo by Robert Devaney.

Gala Guide

Patrons’ Party at Plank House

MAY 10 March of Dimes Gourmet Gala

Over 50 senators and representatives will serve their favorite recipes to support the March of Dimes’ programs to prevent premature birth, birth defects and infant mortality. National Building Museum. Contact Tina Cavucci at ccavucci@marchofdimes.org.

MAY 11 Washington Concert Opera 2017 Gala

The evening will commemorate the company’s three decades of music-making and honor maestro Antony Walker’s 15 years as artistic director. National Museum of Women in the Arts. Contact Executive Director Caryn Reeves at creeves@concertopera.org or 202364-5826.

Ball for the Mall

Celebrating 10 years of partnership with the National Park Service, this is the only black-tie affair held on the grounds of the National Mall, a monumental party for a monumental cause.

The ball will recognize David Rubenstein with the History, Heroes and Hope Award. The National Mall. Contact Katherine Gordon at kgordon@nationalmall.org or Katie Makris at kmakris@nationalmall.org.

MAY 12 Washington Ballet Ball

Jean-Marie Fernandez and Anna Marie Parisi-Trone will co-chair the ball “We Choose the Moon.” The newly commissioned work “Frontier” will be featured during the John F. Kennedy Centennial Celebration at the Kennedy Center on May 25. Proceeds support the Ballet’s children’s in-school and afterschool programs. National Air and Space Museum. Contact estaley@washingtonballet. org.

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MAY 18 Washington Opera Society Presents “La Cenerentola”

Under the patronage of Ambassador of France Gérard Araud, the Washington Opera Society will present Gioachino Rossini’s opera “La Cenerentola” (Cinderella) in a Michael J. Reilly production. Guests will enjoy preperformance cocktails and light fare. Embassy of France – La Maison Français. Call 202386-6008.

Zoofari

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The annual Patrons’ Party that precedes and benefits the Georgetown House Tour amped up the “wow” factor at the house of Under Armour founder, CEO and chairman Kevin Plank and his wife D.J. (Desiree Jacqueline) Wednesday, April 26. The renovated historic property at 34th and O Streets — named Sagamore South by Plank — has most famously been home to Ambassador David Bruce and his wife Evangeline, a legendary Georgetown hostess.

Debbie Winsor sold the c. 1815 Federal house to the Planks in 2013 for just under $8 million. The Patrons’ Party for the 2010 house tour was held at the same location when the Winsors owned it.

The more than 400 guests enjoyed food and drinks in the garden, patio and house. The rooms — from the man cave with TVs and pool table in the basement to the themed bedrooms — were knockouts. The Planks were not at home.

“Dine for Wildlife” is the Friends of the National Zoo’s biggest fundraising event of the year. Guests can hang out with wild animals, sample food from over 100 of the area’s best restaurants, while supporting the zoo’s conservation programs. Smithsonian National Zoo. Visit fonz.org/zoofari.

MAY 19 Phillips Collection Gala and Contemporaries Party

Ambassador of Germany Peter Wittig will chair an evening of cocktails and dinner while supporting the museum’s award-winning education programs. The Phillips Collection.

Contact Sarah Schaffer at 202-387-2151 or sschaffer@phillipscollection.org.

Elizabeth Miller, the Rev. Gini Gerbasi, Rector of St. John’s Church, and Avery Miller.

Ricardo Jimenez and wife Cecilia Vega.

MAY 20 Halcyon Awards Gala

This inaugural gala replaces the Washington Awards Gala. The Business Luminary Award will go to the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream company, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield. Union Station. For details, visit halcyonawards.org.

Jackie Pletcher, Stephanie Bothwell, Michele Evans and Krista Johnson.

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Women in the Arts Hits 30 PH OTOS B Y TONY POWE LL

The National Museum of Women in the Arts kicked off its 30th-anniversary year with a splendid, flower-filled and art-filled gala on April 21. With a theme inspired by women artists— both past and present — the elegant evening celebrated the museum’s collection and founder, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay.

Gala chairs: Amy Baier, Jamie Dorros, Cindy Jones and Kristin Cecchi.

Innocents at Risk at OAS

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Jane Sullivan Roberts, Chief Justice John Roberts and museum founder and board chair Wilhelmina Cole Holladay.

Tony Podesta and British Ambassador Kim Darroch.

Ambassador of the Dominican Republic José Tomás Pérez and Mrs. Caridad de Pérez were honorary chairs at the Annual Innocents at Risk Gala held at the Organization of American States April 26. Mark and Jennifer Axmacher were event chairs. Founder and President Deborah Sigmund founded Innocents at Risk in 2005 to prevent the horrors of global and local human trafficking through public awareness. The Flight Attendants Initiative proves training in detecting and reporting suspicious behavior. Barbara Harrison of NBC Channel 4 emceed and Operation Underground Railroad was honored as guests enjoyed a Latin-themed dinner before taking to the dance floor.

Mary Haft, Mayor Muriel Bowser, museum board vice president Gina Adams and museum trustee Andrea Roane.

August Georges Opens in Little Washington

D.C. friends joined owner Debbie Winsor for a picnic lunch in the country to celebrate the opening of her August Georges store in Washington, Virginia, April 30.

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Michigan), honoree Matt Osborne of Operation Underground Railroad and Deborah Sigmund, founder of Innocents at Risk.

Yasmine Askalani and Omar Ghorbal. Photos

by Neshan H. Naltchayan.

Great Ladies Luncheon

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The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation raised more than $350,000 for life-saving research at its Seventh Annual Great Ladies Luncheon & Fashion Show at the Ritz-Carlton in the West End April 26. PBS NewsHour anchor Judy Woodruff hosted. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius presented the 2017 Great Ladies Award to Sally Quinn in recognition of her work in the fight against Alzheimer’s. Quinn spoke movingly of the years she spent caring for her late husband Ben Bradlee. Ambassador of Italy Armando Varricchio and his wife Micaela Barbagallo were honorary chairs. Neiman Marcus Mazza Gallerie presented a runway show by designer Brunello Cucinelli. Founded in 1998 by Leonard A. and Ronald S. Lauder, the ADDF is the only public charity solely focused on funding the development of drugs for Alzheimer’s.

First row: Ellen Patterson, Melissa Guiffrida and Tracy Iseler. Second row: Melissa Overmyer, Meg Thompson, Debbie Winsor, Jen Touchette and Leslie Maysak. Photo by Zoë Sieber.

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Judy Woodruff, Sally Quinn and David Ignatius.

Leonard Lauder with Micaela Barbagallo and her husband Italian Ambassador Armando Varricchio.

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