The Georgetowner: October 10, 2018

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NEWS · 4-6, 9 Up & Coming Events Town Topics Community Calendar The Village

EDITORIAL/OPINION · 8 Editorials Jack Evans Report Letters to the Editor

BUSINESS · 10-11 Ins & Outs Business Profile

ON THE COVER From our favorite cover girls and boys, so to speak, to historic figures, VIPs and our own contributors, please indulge us as we have some fun for The Georgetowner’s 64th anniversary, as we sing the Beatles’ “When I’m Sixty-Four” from their Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

Can you name everyone on the cover? Whom did we miss? Want to send in your own memory of the town and its newspaper? There’s always next year for our bigger anniversary.

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REAL ESTATE · 12-13 Le Decor Real Estate Sales Featured Property

COVER STORY· 16-17 WILL YOU STILL NEED ME WHEN I’M 64 FOOD & WINE · 18-19 Dining Guide Cocktail of the Month

G.U. Professor on Leave After Hateful Tweet

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Politics Onstage at Ford's, Keegan

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INCOUNTRY · 20-21 The Cavalier’s Spiried Rebirth

ARTS · 22-23 Playing Dick Gregory at Arena Stage

BOOK CLUB · 25 Kitty Kelley Book Club

GOOD WORKS & GOOD TIMES · 26-27 Gala Guide continued Social Scene Events

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Paint the Town Red — featuring specialty cocktails, light food bites, music, dancing and a silent auction — is dedicated to raising muchneeded funds to support the mission of the American Heart Association: to be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives. For details, visit pulsedc.org. AIA, 1735 New York Ave. NW.

Now in its 21st year, the festival transforms the streets of downtown Bethesda into an outdoor gallery of ceramics, fabrics, work in wood, metal and glass, jewelry, paintings, pastels, drawings, graphics, prints, photography, sculpture and mixed media. Admission is free. For details, visit bethesdarowarts.org.

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OCTOBER 13

PALISADES VILLAGE HOUSE TOUR The tour, a sampling of vintage, traditional and renovated homes in Foxhall and the Palisades, benefits Palisades Village, a nonprofit that helps our neighbors live in their homes and remain actively engaged as they age. Tickets are $35 ($30 in advance). For details, visit palisadesvillage.org. Lab School, 4759 Reservoir Road NW.

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SOCIAL MEDIA WEEK FAIRFAX Presented by Fairfax County Economic Development Authority, this one-day event aims to provoke discussion and debate on the changes in human connectivity through engaging, entertaining, educational and diverse content and experiences. For details, visit smwfairfax.com. Tickets are $50 ($40 for government employees and $20 for students).

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OCTOBER 19 & 21 BOO AT THE ZOO

At the 20th annual Boo at the Zoo, sponsored by Mars Wrigley Confectionery, trick-or-treaters will see animals, haunt more than 40 delicious treat stations, groove to Halloween musical favorites and delight in the feats of magicians and jugglers. Tickets are $30. (Note: Saturday night is sold out.) For details, visit nationalzoo. si.edu. 3001 Connecticut Ave. NW.

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OCTOBER 19

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OCTOBER 21

The Butterfly Bash, an evening of live music, dancing, cocktails and hors d’oeuvres, is Fair Chance’s signature event to raise funds and honor leaders committed to improving the lives of children and youth. For details, visit fairchancedc.org. Tickets are $225 and $275 ($125 for age 35 and under). Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW.

Founded in Boston in 1815, the Handel + Haydn Society, the oldest continually performing arts organization in America, will present sonatas and cantatas by Corelli, Bach, Vivaldi and Handel with soprano Margot Rood. Tickets are $40. For details, visit stjohnsgeorgetown.org.

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Holy Trinity School to Mark 200 Years

BY K A R E N M C C O OA E Y To celebrate 200 years of “students for others,” Holy Trinity School is inviting its Georgetown neighbors to take part in a 200th Anniversary Celebration Weekend, Oct. 20 to 22.

Holy Trinity School was founded in 1818 by the first pastors of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Francis Neale, S.J., and Benedict Fenwick, S.J. The Jesuit priests began offering a free education to young parishioners and other neighborhood boys. When they opened the Free School for Boys (Holy Trinity School’s original name), the Jesuits made it possible for the sons of working families to obtain an education. Enrollment quickly grew to more than 100 boys.

One hundred years later, the girls from the Benevolent School joined the boys to form the current coeducational Holy Trinity School.

Holy Trinity Parish undertook fundraising to construct new buildings for the school, reportedly raising the money from parishioners and Georgetown neighbors in just one week.

With 503 students, Holy Trinity School moved into its current upper and lower school buildings on 36th Street in 1918. All the teachers but one were nuns, and tuition was free for baptized children of Holy Trinity parishioners (tuition for non-Catholics was $1 per month).

Today, the school welcomes 340 students from prekindergarten through eighth grade.

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Annual tuition is $14,250 for Catholics and $18,250 for non-Catholics.

Under the leadership of Principal Kevin McShane, Holy Trinity School remains committed to the Jesuit traditions of educational excellence, the service of faith and the promotion of justice. The Holy Trinity community — school, parish and families — seeks to develop students who will manifest these traditions in an awareness of self, a love of learning and a desire to serve others. The school continues, 200 years later, to educate students in the Jesuit tradition to be students for others.

The anniversary weekend will kick off on Saturday, Oct. 20, with a Street Fair & Reunion from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on 36th and O Streets NW. Guests will enjoy food, games and entertainment. Admission is free.

On Sunday, Oct. 21, at 2:30 p.m., there will be a 200th Anniversary Mass in Holy Trinity Church, 3513 N St. NW, celebrated by the Rev. William H. Muller, S.J., executive director, Jesuit Schools Network. A catered reception, featuring performances by students and alumni, will follow in Trinity Hall.

The celebration concludes on Monday, Oct. 22, with the 27th Annual Golf & Tennis Classic at Army Navy Country Club in Arlington, Virginia.

For more information about the anniversary events, visit trinity.org/hts200.

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NEWS

Georgetown Rats Beware: The Iceman Cometh

BY PEGGY SANDS

Fair Wage Initiative Repealed After weeks of demonstrations and a hearing that lasted 16 hours — until 3 a.m. on Sept. 17 — the D.C. Council on Tuesday, Oct. 2, voted 8 to 5 to repeal Initiative 77, which would have raised the minimum wage for the District’s tipped employees to match that of non-tipped employees by 2026.

The initiative passed, with 56 percent of voters in favor, in D.C.’s June 9 primary election. But the yes-votes represented less than 10 percent of the total electorate. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson and Mayor Muriel Bowser had both gone on record favoring repeal. Georgetown’s Council representative Jack Evans had told The Georgetowner weeks ago: “Don’t worry. The initiative vote will be repealed.”

The repeal requires a second affirmative vote later in the month before being signed into law by the mayor. Emergency legislation was also passed to prevent Initiative 77 from taking effect on Oct. 9.

The initiative was part of a state-by-state “One Fair Wage” campaign sponsored by Restaurant Opportunities Centers United, a pro-union group that is seeking to impose a minimum wage for all service personnel, including tipped workers, nationwide. Currently, D.C.’s tipped employees must receive a fixed hourly wage of $3.75 and a guaranteed hourly wage of $15,

with the “credit” balance to be made up by the employer if not earned in tips as recorded on credit-card payments.

Complaints that some employers don’t honor the credit wage were addressed by a compromise amendment introduced by Council members Elissa Silverman and Mary Cheh.

Ward 3’s Cheh was the only elected official to publicly support Initiative 77 before the June primary. The compromise measure failed, also by an 8-5 vote. But the repeal bill that passed included concessions requiring employers to use a third-party payroll system to report wage information and to undergo training on sexual harassment and wage-theft laws.

Hundreds of tipped workers turned out to support the repeal of Initiative 77 under the “Save Our Tips” banner, arguing that the initiative that would raise prices at the expense of their tips. Some make up to six-figure incomes in D.C., where there are comparatively few chain restaurants, ROC United’s main national target.

“The ROC coalition was weighing options after the repeal, including a push for another ballot initiative or lawsuits,” said ROCDC Director Diana Ramirez. “We might even consider mounting recall campaigns against Council members who voted to repeal Initiative 77.”

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The newest way to kill rats and other burrowing pests was introduced by Gerard Brown of the Department of Health’s rodent control division at the Oct. 1 meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E: dry ice.

Yes, dry ice — that magical lump of material we refer to as ice but is actually a solidified form of carbon dioxide. When its vapors hit the air, they turn into thick, white, billowy, smoky-looking clouds. It’s frequently used for theatrical effects and in Halloween displays.

“Dry ice is noncorrosive, nontoxic and nonconductive, generally,” said Brown at the meeting, held at Georgetown Visitation School. “But in its not-very-toxic gas state, it can cause abnormally elevated carbon dioxide levels in the blood of an exposed organism, especially in confined locations. And that can cause them to suffocate and to die.”

Hence, the new campaign to apply (in other words, stuff) dry ice down and into known rat burrows, seal the burrow entrances completely and let the product do its thing.

It takes about two pounds of chipped dry ice or dry ice pellets scooped into a single rat burrow to be effective, according to Brown. And as rodent abatement methods go, dry ice is relatively humane and cheap: only 50 cents per burrow, per some estimates. It can be bought at most local grocery stores.

To suffocate rodents, dry ice can be put in their burrows. Courtesy D.C. government.

But because it’s much colder than regular ice — minus 109.3 degrees Fahrenheit — it can burn human skin or cause frostbite. Heavy insulated gloves or tongs should be used when handling dry ice, warned Brown. Other warnings re handling dry ice include never to mix it with any kind of liquid or put it in a tightly closed or sealed container (it may rupture the package or explode). Dry ice should only be worked with in open or well-ventilated areas, according to health department guidelines.

Leftover dry ice should be allowed to melt and evaporate at room temperature. Cats and dogs are unlikely to ingest it.

While the idea of killing rats where they live and breed is dramatic, the District is continuing to seek more efficient ways to dispose of the rats’ food supply: humangenerated garbage.

in the Tuesday, November 6, 2018 General Election

During the General Election, all registered voters and District residents eligible to register, may vote.

CONTESTS ON THE BALLOT:

Delegate to the United States House of Representatives Mayor of the District of Columbia Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia At-large Member of the Council of the District of Columbia Ward Member of the Council of the District of Columbia (Wards 1, 3, 5 and 6) Attorney General of the District of Columbia United States Senator United States Representative Ward Member of the State Board of Education (Wards 1, 3, 5 and 6) Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner

POLLS WILL BE OPEN FROM 7AM TO 8PM WANT TO VOTE EARLY? Early Voting will start at One Judiciary Square (OJS) on October 22, and at satellite Early Voting Centers on October 26. Early Voting Centers are open daily (including weekends) through November 2, from 8:30 am until 7 pm.

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EARLY VOTING CENTERS Satellite Early Voting Centers will open on October 26, and they will have touchscreen ballots only. Eligible voters may vote at any Early Voting Center during Early Voting, regardless of their address or Election Day polling place. Early Voting Center locations can be found online at https://earlyvoting.dcboe.org/.

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Small Cell Guidelines to Be Tested in Georgetown For weeks, some Georgetown residents, including advisory neighborhood commissioners, have been warning the neighborhood not to be rushed into approving inappropriate guidelines for small cell facilities, the next generation of communications technology. Once approved, the guidelines will determine how thousands of big and small boxes, with a tangle of wires emanating from them, will be installed on utility poles and roofs throughout the District.

At its Oct. 1 meeting, the advisory neighborhood commission approved a resolution with suggested guidelines, to be reviewed in the next few months by the Old Georgetown Board and the D.C. Public Space Committee, among other local authorities. For instance, the

ANC asked review boards to demand that each carrier applicant supply full-scale mock-ups of its small cell installations, make real-time maps of pole locations publicly available and be required to submit yearly photographs of their installations to ensure compliance. On Oct. 2, Gibbons emphasized the need to keep Georgetown’s sight lines free from the clutter of small cell poles.

At the meeting, an official from Verizon, one of the four approved signatories to the master license agreement, presented sketches of its small cell poles, which soon will be installed as tests in a few locations around Georgetown. They could also be located on rooftops, a feature the ANC seemed to approve of.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11 GEORGETOWN WRITES: WOMEN IN WRITING

This year’s event, focusing on women writers, will take place in Georgetown University’s Intercultural Center Auditorium, 37th and O Streets NW, from 4 to 6 p.m. For details, visit guevents. georgetown.edu.

SUSTAINABLE COMMUTE CHALLENGE This discussion on how to reduce automobile usage while encouraging walking, biking and scooter use, will be held at WeWork, 1875 K St. NW, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Visit ddot.dc.gov.

PUBLIC EDUCATION MASTER FACILITIES PLAN This meeting concerning the Public Education Master Facilities Plan will take place at Woodridge Library, 1801 Hamlin St. NE, at 6:30 p.m. Feedback from the public is encouraged. For details, visit dme.dc.gov.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20

CADY’S ALLEY OKTOBERFEST Area residents can celebrate Oktoberfest from 1 to 5 p.m. along Cady’s Alley — enter at 3314 M St. NW — with craft beers, German-inspired bites, live music and games. Visit georgetowndc.com.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 ANC 2E MEETING

Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E will meet at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation School, 1524 35th St. NW. Agenda to be announced. For details, visit anc2e.com.

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MPD Report At the Oct. 1 Georgetown-Burleith Advisory Neighborhood Commission meeting, the Metropolitan Police Department reported that burglaries are down 32 percent compared to last year at this time: 19 in 2018 and 32 in 2017.

There were three burglaries in September.

Assaults with a deadly weapon were down 33 percent compared to last year. Thefts from cars continue to be a major problem, whether along commercial M Street or along more residential P Street. Also, MPD said it has beefed up its teams on traffic enforcement and auto theft.

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Oct. 17 CAG Public Safety Meeting The Citizens Association of Georgetown will hold a public safety meeting on Oct. 17 at 7 p.m. at the City Tavern Club, 3206 M St. NW. A panel will share updates on CAG’s patrol officer and camera surveillance programs, tips on personal safety and efforts to deter vehicle break-ins. All are welcome. The schedule is: 7 p.m. – Reception to meet and greet CAG Patrol Officer Yao; 7:30 p.m. – 2nd District MPD Commander Melvin Gresham; 7:50 p.m.

– Ryan Geach, Special Agent, U.S. Department of Justice; and 8:10 p.m. – Chip Dent, CAG Public Safety Program.

Oct. 23 Crime Prevention Training If you would like to learn ways to reduce your likelihood of becoming a crime victim and find out how to begin a Neighborhood Watch Program on your block, attend the free Crime Prevention/Neighborhood Watch Training on Oct. 23 at 7 p.m. at the Jelleff Recreation Center, 3265 S. St. NW. Actual crime scenes will be shown. This is not a program suitable for young children. To register, send an email with your name and police district to Samantha Nolan at nolantutor@gmail.com.

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EDITORIAL

OPINION JACK EVANS REPORT

Solving Ward 2’s Rat Problem

BY JAC K EVAN S Send Your Feedback, Questions or Concerns, Tips and Suggestions to editorial@georgetowner.com or call 202-338-4833

Our Interesting Times These days, one is reminded almost daily of a phrase described long ago as a Chinese curse. That would be the one that goes something like: “May you live in interesting times.”

We are certainly “living in interesting times,” and for journalists who normally thrive on controversy and excitement, the times are something of a curse, difficult to fight.

Every day we — and by we, we mean no presumption — journalists have to deal with the issue of nothing less than answering questions put to ourselves by ourselves.

Questions as daunting as: What is truth?

And what is a lie? An opinion or merely a mistake? Questions of trust, of how to respond to attacks on the legitimacy of what most journalists of whatever stature still think of as a noble and necessary profession.

Journalists everywhere have given a lot of thought to this issue, partly because there is a perception, raw and real, that the leader of the land thinks and says the media is fake, false, an enemy of the people and sometimes even treasonous, as if disagreement is unpatriotic at best.

This stems from a reasonable assumption that the so-called mainstream press tends to be biased, and before some of us scream bloody murder at even the thought of this, we should think hard. Many, if not most journalists, writers, editors and publishers and television mavens are biased — in politics, in cultural tastes and in other matters.

In journalistic reporting, however, objectivity is prized and achieved more often than not. Bias, like opinion, has its place on

the editorial and op-ed pages, in the style and feature sections of publications. Not only that, but that bias should be clearly stated just as objectivity should be maintained — just the facts, perhaps — on the front pages and the streaming television leads.

There are problems with all of that, of course — in the case of print, the position of a story on the page, the headline, obvious leads being buried in the middle of a story, the space allotted; in the case of broadcast, the tone of voice, the sense of debate, the emphasis, the time allotted. Not to mention the rush toward judgment in the 24-7 news cycle, in which everything new grows swiftly old.

Pretend journalists and bloggers on the internet who were all given the same name at birth — anonymous — are excused from this discussion, be they ninja-wannabes who invade restaurants or radio blowhards of the Limbaugh ilk.

Nevertheless, we shouldn’t overly censor ourselves in the pursuit of the truth, especially when it becomes self-evident. We have a president who has divided the country purposefully and almost fully. That is on him. The hatred and anger that he stokes at his rallies are a self-evident truth.

We should say that without fear, favor or bias — but with accuracy and in no uncertain terms. That’s our job.

To say we’ve had the know-nothings, the radical left and the Tea Party means nothing if we cannot move forward toward becoming a united country again, a country overcoming its flaws at birth by the unwavering pursuit of its democratic intent. That goes for its inkstained wretches, too.

One Swell Head This tribute to a Georgetowner staffer will be on the short side, because he didn’t write it.

It’s not that he has a swelled head. Or maybe he does. The head of Gary Tischler is a font of memorable, metaphorical language (it also holds an arsenal of slings and arrows, which he wouldn’t use frivolously).

Let’s just say that Tischler, who has written for The Georgetowner for close to 40 years — more than half the paper’s 64-year existence — has one swell head.

Turn it on, and out comes fluent writing about theater, opera, books, sports, law enforcement and politics. Editorials, too, have flowed from his pen. Word counts be damned!

No one calls him Mr. Tischler. Interns, mayors and stars of stage and screen call him Gary. Some of us know that’s short for Gerhard. German-born, he came to the U.S. as a child, was raised in small-town Ohio, served in the Army and spent a decade writing for San Francisco-area newspapers.

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Residents in Ward 2 and the rest of the District are searching for a solution to the city’s rat problem. According to the Washington Post, calls made to 311 “are soaring” and city officials are using every method available to rid the city of the rodents.

However, targeting rats where they live is only one part of the issue.

When the city evaluated the top problem areas, rats were found to be more prevalent along commercial corridors. In Ward 2, our commercial and residential zones are close together, adversely affecting residents.

This assessment describes the entirety of Ward 2, which is why I continued to support funding of the Commercial Waste Compactor Demonstration Project Grant Program.

Rats have always been a problem for residents and businesses across Ward 2.

As more people move to the District, more businesses open, ultimately leading to more trash — and more meals for rats. In 2016, I was successful in identifying funds to start the trash compactor grant program, which helps commercial properties afford a more sanitary and efficient means of disposing of garbage. I’m proud to continue this effort.

Several properties have taken advantage

of the grant, including Duke’s Grocery on 17th Street NW. Duke’s and other businesses share a commitment to promoting healthy and safe communities.

A unified approach is the key to eradicating this citywide health and sanitation problem.

The Department of Health has worked to combat the proliferation of rats. One success story has been in Dupont Circle, where DOH partnered with the National Park Service.

This targeted effort resulted in largely ridding the park of burrows and rats.

I want to thank the members of DOH’s rodent control division for their hard work and responsiveness in Ward 2.

The Department of Health can take the fight to the rats where they live, but going after their food source is equally important.

The compactor grant program is a positive step in that direction.

Please note that the grant application for 2019 is now available. To review the instructions, visit dslbd.dc.gov/compactor.

The submission deadline is Friday, Dec. 7, at noon.

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

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Handicapped Parking I am willing to pay to park as required, even though there are less parking areas than before.

My personal concern is there is no place for handicapped parking. What are the plans to include these areas?

— Regards, Marvin Segel

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Georgetowner’s Dave Roffman hired him was with Baltimore strip-club proprietor Blaze Starr. The stage, in other words, was his Georgetowner beat from the start. Over the years, in our pages, he has chronicled the Washington theater scene as it went from meager if bold beginnings to become, arguably, the nation’s most vibrant.

At this point, he could relax in the Adams Morgan apartment he shares with his wife, Carole Muller, reading mysteries and watching Turner Classics. He does that, but keeps on cranking out story after story for The Georgetowner newspaper (and, now, its twice-weekly newsletter), often reviewing shows he saw a night or two before.

If he wrote this tribute, it would be longer. But it would also have something it’s missing, a quality one needs a lifetime of experiences to acquire. Gary Tischler has brought that quality — let’s call it soul — to a thousand issues of The Georgetowner, give or take, and counting. Here’s looking at you, Kid!

A Place for Runners, Not Dogs As an avid runner I used to use the Georgetown Community Track (Ellington Field) at 1600 38th St. NW‬, only to result to running now on smog covered streets because nearby residents consider it to be a dog park.

I am an animal lover, and I don’t want to restrict where animals roam. However, this track was built for athletes, and the insects and bugs that canine activity has brought to the track is a result of lazy and inconsiderate animal owners.

Not to mention that the soccer and football field the track goes around is destroyed with massive holes that dogs dig up. It is also dangerous that owners let their dogs off their leash in this “not a dog park,” and often dogs run after athletes and runners.

Glover Archbold-Whitehaven Park, just 100 feet away, has beautiful dog parks, I just don’t see the necessity to ruin an athlete’s corner with such carelessness, disrespectful and indecent behavior on behalf of dog owners.

— Adriano Tarantola, Highwood Court

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THE VILLAGE

FPHG:

Protecting Georgetown’s Historic Fabric

BY ALIS ON S CHA F ER The work of the Foundation for the Preservation of Historic Georgetown reaches from the quaint little cottage down the street to the giant Beaux-Arts mansion high above the Potomac. The round gold plaques such houses wear on their facades are a testimony to the owners’ — or perhaps the previous owners’ — desire to preserve Georgetown’s historic appeal.

In 1950, on Georgetown’s 200th birthday, Congress created the Old Georgetown Act to protect and preserve the historic fabric of the neighborhood. It was the first historic district in D.C. and only the sixth in the nation.

But by the mid-1960s, historic houses were being demolished and new buildings were popping up on open spaces. Commercial buildings were creeping onto residential streets.

In response, a group of worried Georgetowners created the Foundation for the Preservation of Historic Georgetown.

Easements are, or used to be, one of FPHG’s main preservation tools. Since the late 1960s, the nonprofit foundation has been granted easements on 110 properties in the Georgetown Historic District.

Potential homebuyers, locals and tourists walking around the neighborhood can tell which houses are under easement to FPHG. Easement buildings wear round gold plaques on their facades. An easement gives the foundation an interest in land or a building owned by someone else. The foundation exists to protect the integrity of properties under easement, so your nice new neighbor can’t raze her 18th-century Federal house and replace it with a Brutalist high-rise.

Needless to say, without FPHG, Georgetown would look substantially different, and not nearly as historic. But the work is changing.

As FPHG President Peter Jost notes: “Today, changes in the tax rules have caused a reduction in the interest of donors to grant historic preservation easements. As a result, FPHG is undertaking other preservation steps, such as contributing funds to preserve Tudor Place and restore Mt. Zion Cemetery.”

Mt. Zion is a historic cemetery on 26th Street, abutting Rock Creek Park. Founded in 1808, it served a mostly African American population, and is the burial ground for members of the Female Union Band Society. It was abandoned in the 1950s and neglected for decades. Now the foundation is working to clean it up and return some dignity to the lovely but neglected space.

FPHG has also been instrumental in navigating the sometimes fraught relationship between the two famous Georgetowns: the university and the neighborhood it occupies.

The foundation has acted as a bulwark against the expansion of the university into residential areas.

Because the foundation is invested in preservation, some of its tasks take place away from the neighborhood’s busy streets and brick facades. Working with the Historic American Buildings Survey, FPHG is using large-format photographs and drawings to document the

In May 2016, Peter Jost and his foundation were honored by the Citizens Association of Georgetown — shown: Peter Jost of FPHG and council member Jack Evans. Georgetowner photo. properties with easements. These will be put in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.

Not just about the past, FPHG is about life in Georgetown right now. And preservation isn’t anti-change, it is about creating a community with its roots — and facades and wrought-iron bannisters and wooden doors — in the past, but with its inhabitants focused on the future.

“The work of FPHG fosters a vibrant community honoring its traditions and architecture, benefiting both residents and visitors,” said Celia Lovell, a foundation trustee.

“In my 40-plus years of living in Georgetown, I’ve found that the physical characteristics of the area support and encourage personal interactions and neighborliness. Block by block, and perhaps dog by dog, we meet our neighbors, talk on the sidewalk and often gather to celebrate whatever might be available to celebrate.”

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Coming: Greek Food in the West End

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Chef Argiro Barbarigou, well-known by foodies for her excellent Greek cuisine, will open an eatery at 1118 23rd St. NW in the West End next week. The restaurant, which will seat about 150 including patio service, will focus on the authentic Greek dishes that Barbarigou promotes on her television show in Athens and in her cookbooks. The name of the place is still being negotiated, but Mamma Mia’s has a nice ring to us.

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In: Johnny Spero’s Reverie The long-anticipated Reverie restaurant by chef Johnny Spero opened Oct. 6. In an alley off 3210 Grace St. NW, next to Dog Tag Bakery, the 64-seat Reverie — with its spare, clean look in line with Japanese and Nordic designs — should become the town’s hot reservation. There is no dress code. Its official address is 3201 Cherry Hill Lane NW. Nearby eateries include Sundavitch, South Block Juice Co., Grace Street Coffee, Neopol Savory Smokery and Chaia tacos.

With the Drink Company’s help, it is Spero’s first solo restaurant. He calls its cuisine “new American.” Spero has worked at José Andrés’s Minibar, so expect his menus to be packed with creative ingredients and modern twists. Working at stellar European spots like Mugaritz in Spain and Noma in Denmark, he learned to experiment and create exceptional culinary experiences.

Reverie’s a la carte menu has items ranging from $12 to $30 on up to bigger ones around $100. There will also be a pay-what-you-can tasting menu for two diners per night. It will be open from 5 to 10 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday, and from 5 to 11 p.m., Friday and Saturday. The general manager is Evan Zimmerman.

Rebekah Kelly of Virtue Skincare and The Georgetowner and Charles Paloux, Vice President, Asset Management for Hersha Hospitality Trust, at St. Gregory reception. Courtesy St. Gregory Hotel.

In: St. Gregory’s New Look Friends and patrons of the St. Gregory Hotel at 2033 M St. NW gathered on Oct. 3 to check out the hotel’s makeover of 156 rooms and suites, along with — good news for their canine pals — new pet-friendly programs. The new penthouse floor has a stunning view of the city, which you can take in on an Indian summer night with whiskey and cigars, a couple of the elegant amenities now available to guests.

In: ‘Tech-Driven’ Reformation Chef Johnny Spero, owner of Reverie.

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Environmentally conscious and tech-savvy fashion brand Reformation opened at 3035 M St. NW. on Oct. 10. The store will feature “a tech-driven retail concept,” according to a press release, which basically means lots of computer screens throughout the two floors.

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Rosewood Washington, D.C. — at 1050 31st St. NW — will close Oct. 17 for renovations, including the addition of Cut steakhouse

by Wolfgang Puck. The property will also expand to six neighboring townhouses, south of the hotel on 31st Street, offering even more luxurious accommodations. The new and improved Rosewood will be back next spring.

Afloat in More Ways Than One As one local business marks its first year, another is just getting started (or, shall we say, paddling). Jack Maher and Jack Walten have launched their Potomac Paddle Pub company, billed as the first “Cycleboat” experience on the Potomac River. The BYOB journey with human power — there’s an engine when needed — departs from Washington Harbour on the Georgetown waterfront. Coming up: visit georgetowner.com for the review of our river adventure.

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Coming: High Street Café, Café Georgetown A future bistro called the High Street Café hung a small sign at the former Paolo’s Ristorante at 1305 Wisconsin Ave. NW. The adjacent property at the corner, once part of Paolo’s and, earlier, a Little Tavern hamburger joint, is being leased separately. Around the corner at 3141 N St. NW is Café Georgetown, fixing to open in about a week — much sooner than High Street.

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Shop Made in DC, the retail incubator that sells goods by local artisans, is celebrating its first anniversary — and its community partner, Kimpton Hotels, is helping out with the party.

Stop by the Dupont Circle storefront at 1330 19th St. NW on Oct. 18 for cocktails, cake and the requisite party favor: a photo booth.

Since its opening a year ago, Shop Made in DC has promoted 185 local creatives and invested $600,000 back into the local economy. The shop’s products are used and promoted at all 10 of Kimpton’s boutique hotels in D.C.

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Orange Fires Up D.C. Chamber

BY R OBE RT DEVA NEY Businesses in Washington, D.C., have a relentless champion and cheerleader in Vincent Bernard Orange, president and CEO of the District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce, which is celebrating “80 Years of Delivering the Capital.”

The energetic Orange has the contacts, ideas and energy to deliver the goods, it seems, whether by dealing with small businesses or by looking at concepts to redevelop the area at and around RFK Stadium.

Sitting with Orange at the 21st Street office of the D.C. Chamber at Lafayette Center — in a building occupied mostly by Medstar Health, with its Caps and Wizards workout and medical facility across from his office — we ask the question on everyone’s mind: Will retail behemoth Amazon choose D.C. for its second headquarters?

Orange says he does not know — but that it would be great for the nation’s capital. “Yes, there is a lot of activity happening in our economy,” he says.

Orange looks to the RFK footprint and east of the Anacostia River for significant growth.

Noting the work of former mayor Anthony Williams, Orange envisions connecting RFK, the D.C. Armory and Langston Golf Course to the National Arboretum. “My dream is a PGA clubhouse at the Arboretum. It is a golden opportunity,” he says. “It would take the nation’s capital to another level … an Olympic level.” (And, while you’re at it, get another Metro stop on Benning Road.)

For this Chamber president, to ensure such successes, three essentials must be addressed: education, workforce and housing. His group provides its members with the necessities of “visibility, networking, advocacy and business growth and development initiatives.”

Two-thirds of the city’s workforce comes from outside the District, says Orange, who wants to reverse that to two-thirds of the workforce living in D.C. “We need a resident workforce.”

In education, he says emphatically, “We need the basic steps. Students must be totally ready for middle school and beyond.”

For more housing, he asks, why not relax the height restrictions on buildings, not downtown, but at the northern border of the District?

Naturally, Orange is keen to tout the D.C. Chamber, founded in 1938 — and which is holding an 80th anniversary celebration on Oct. 19 at the Marriott Marquis. Formed to provide services for African American businesses in the city, the group changed its name to the Negro Chamber of Commerce in 1946, but in 1956 reestablished itself as the District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce, for all D.C. businesses.

Orange took over after Barbara Lang’s tenure and the group’s three years in the doldrums in a surprising fashion: he lost an election. After serving as the District Council representative for Ward 5 from 1999 to 2007, and then as an at-large council member from 2011 to 2016, Orange stumbled in the primary and now says it was “a blessing in disguise.”

Vincent Orange, president and CEO of the D.C. Chamber of Commerce, at his 21st Street headquarters. Georgetowner photo.

The former politician — picked by the Chamber in August of 2016 — now deals with businesspersons, educators, association heads, decision-makers, creatives and, yes, elected officials, most of whom he knows well. He uses his skills to affect change in a different way, and cannot wait to get up in the morning. “I’m in a good place,” he says.

On Oct. 5, the Chamber presented its inaugural State of the District & Region Conference, with five panels at the University of the District of Columbia. Heavy hitters opined on “Economic Development, Business, Health and the Metropolitan Region.” Panelists included Sharon Pratt (Kelly) and Vincent Gray, both former mayors; Council members Phil Mendelson and Kenyan McDuffie; Deputy Mayor Brian Kenner; Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax; economist Stephen Fuller; and the Chamber’s chair, Marie Johns.

Still, many like Orange recall the economic debacle of the 1990s, when a control board took over the D.C. government. A CPA, Orange had been hired by then-Mayor Marion Barry earlier to codify the D.C. Tax Amnesty Program. He looked at the books and saw a deficit coming, he says.

Today, D.C.’s booming economy has a problem many big U.S. cities face: how to keep affordable housing within its boundaries.

“D.C. is here for everyone … along with each neighborhood’s characteristics … and beyond the National Mall,” says Orange, who wants his business organization to work with others to stabilize the social fabric. “Our economic prosperity and robust employment levels depend on addressing the disruptive effects of population growth and development that have remade our neighborhoods.”

The teenager from Oakland, California, who got a Better Chance scholarship to attend a prep school in Colorado, is now an evangelist for the necessity of a good education for all.

Orange holds a B.S. in business administration and communications from the University of the Pacific, a master’s degree in taxation from Georgetown University and a J.D. from Howard University.

He was the baby brother with seven sisters and two brothers, fishing from a dock on the bay — a shipyard at the East Bay (usually for yellow perch).

Now, at age 61, Orange is a grandfather. The baby’s name is Layla Elizabeth Orange. His children are Vincent, Paul and Jamie. His wife, Gwen, “keeps me on track,” he says.

With a happy heart, a top-notch staff and a gym across the hall, Orange says his job is to “keep this train moving forward.”

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Will You Still Need Me ...When I’m

BY GARY TISC H L ER

We’ve come to celebrate.

Across from the newspa per office at 1050 30th St. NW, some of the Geo sta ffers jump for Beatles rgetow ner que joy at the 64th ann iversar y of the newspaper Director Aidah Fontenot, : Creative Editor -in- Chief Robert Dev ane Publisher Sonya Bernha y, Copy Editor Richard Seld rdt, Features Editor Gar en, y Tischler and Associate Cha rlene Lou is. Photo by Publisher Patrick G. Rya n.

Feels like forever that I hav e known The Georgetow ner and been a part of the George tow n com mu nity, but it must have been in the ’70s!

As far as a Georgetow ner story or memory I ref lect fondly on, there have bee n so ma ny. But I can’t help bei ng particu larly fond of The Georgetow ner’s coverage of Stuart (Davidson) and Joh n (La ytham). The story coveri ng Clyde’s 25th An niversary (over 25 yea rs ago!), featuring our good friends at the Georgetow n Sen ior Center wil l alw ays be ver y specia l to me.

— Gin ger Lay tha m, sen ior executive officer to the pre sident, CEO and cha irman of the boa rd, Clyde’s Restau ran t Group

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And in so doing, we’ve come to praise ourselves — or rather The Georgetowner, which is marking its 64th birthday.

Celebration — with some antic fondness for and a broad hint of the Beatles’ wonderfully, helplessly hopeful 1967 song “When I’m Sixty-Four,” from the “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album — is in order, along with a pat on the back, giving credit where and for what it’s due.

For a newspaper of our size and type to still be publishing in these perilous times for print — black and colored ink on paper pages — is no small achievement.

We began as and continue to be a community newspaper, covering and celebrating our neighborhood, Georgetown. Ours is a unique community, docked next to the gateway to the Virginia and Maryland suburbs and attached to the larger culture and energy of Washington, D.C. — by affinity, taste and preference, and by deeply rooted physical and historical connections to the beginnings of our still democratic democracy.

We serve this community, the institutions, members and residents of which we respect and love, with professionalism as writers, editors, designers and salespeople — and also with energy, joy, intelligence and enthusiasm, with due diligence and in the awareness that with each issue we have a responsibility to our readers.

We think we’ve achieved something special, having moved through our own place in history with three very different publishers: our dogged, irrepressible founder, the late Ami Stewart, the irreverent, impatient-to-move-forward Dave Roffman and the high-energy Sonya Bernhardt, whose infectious enthusiasm and graceful taste inspire us daily.

However different, the three shared a common quality that leaders of publications such as ours need to have — not only a love of community, but participation in the community, from knocking on doors to spearheading projects and leading organizations.

Like all newspapers big and small, The Georgetowner faces economic and cultural challenges and is beset with a multitude of questions: Where do we fit into the digital world? How do we manage costs, especially those of printing

and distribution? How do we divide our interests and efforts between the print product and our web presence? Who are our readers and how do we best serve them? How do we stay up to date in a rapidly changing world, in terms of news, politics, business, fashion, the arts? Can we be hip and classic at the same time?

It’s difficult not to ask, but to answer such questions. Certainly, thanks to the daily contacts made possible by the intimate nature of Georgetown as a historic village, through walking about, picking brains and taking part in community gatherings, we both absorb and generate new ideas and approaches.

The publication and printing of newspapers — other than those owned by the likes of a Jeff Bezos, with seemingly limitless resources — is a struggle in these times, a struggle that’s not helped by a climate in which no less a personage than the president of the United States has branded the media “an enemy of the people,” dealing in “fake news.”

It’s not an accusation any newspaper should have to defend. We should rather consider the value of what we do where we do it. In the case of The Georgetowner, that includes not only the immediate community, but the larger capital city, in which Georgetown remains influential.

That connection allows coverage of the arts and of local and national politics and events that enriches our publication, even as we are always mindful of Georgetown itself, its history, its university, its special nature and values.

We’ve been engaged — for 64 years — in providing an ongoing portrait of a particular world, Georgetown and its environs, in words and pictures, an effort that’s augmented by our newsletter and website.

We think we can make it richer still by including our readers in that effort, through more outreach and interaction, focusing on what makes our community visible in the eyes of the rest of the city: its citizens, its doers, its trendsetters, its gloriously varied merchants.

In the end, a newspaper — and ours is a 21st-century newspaper — is a reflection of its time, a basket of bouquets in the garden of history. At 64, we still love you, our readers. And we need you, too — just as, we trust and believe, you need us.

The Georgetowner asked a few influential Georgetowners about their neighborhood and their newspaper, which celebrates its 64th anniversary this month.

over a I’ve know n The Georgetowner for strong a decade. The Georgetowner has been has and es ness busi y supporter of communit & Long nicle chro ing help les artic written great gly, my risin Surp any. comp a as ry histo er’s Fost me, but the favorite article wasn’t the one about Betty from Aunt and Wes e one about my Uncl ten. writ wellso was h 2013, whic ever.

Stay ing informed is more critical than that news ides prov only The Georgetowner not local t rtan impo on ted upda stay to we all need a look matters, but also prov ides readers with ing ound surr the and wn at ever ythi ng Georgeto y unit comm the g brin s help and area has to offer together.

The Phoenix has been part of the Geor getown com mun ity for almost as long as The Georgetowner itself! Established in 1955, we turn 63 this year.

I liked the Georgetowner stor y featu ring me, of course! Also featu red in the article were two other prom inent women busi ness own ers: Hope Solomon of Anthony’s Tuxedos and Kare n Ohri of Georgetown Floorcoverin gs. It was such a pleasure to be featu red with such stro ng women as the next generation brin gs shap e and new life to our neig hborhood.

The Georgetowner is a wonderfu l reso urce as a community newspaper that keeps Geor getown residents informed of happenin gs righ t here in our neig hborhood, but also the larger city that surrounds us. I look forward to ever y issue to see what’s new in and arou nd Georgetown.

I have been living in our house on N Street for 36 years, but my devotion to The Georgetowner goes way back to when I first lived in the Hamilton Arms Village on 31st Street 50 years ago, which was the only slum in Georgetown. I had a studio apartment that was so tiny that when the sofa bed was opened I had to crawl over it to get to the other side of the room. And the roaches were enormous. I would walk past the house I now live in on my way to work every day and wonder who lived in that big house, never dreaming that it would someday be mine.

There have been a number of Georgetowner stories about my husband and me, so it’s hard to choose one that I reflect more fondly upon. I just remember that the pictures of Ben were always more flattering than the pictures of me!

I read The Georgetowner religiously. I learn so much about what is going on in the community, socially, culturally and politically. Who’s cut down too many beautiful trees, which shops are opening and closing, where the best restaurants are, what’s happening to the canal and the waterfront, the building of the labyrinth, the farmers market, crime reports and safety tips ... It makes me feel so much more connected to the community than I would if I didn’t have that. You all do a fabulous job of, more than just connecting, but creating a community. That’s invaluable.

— Samantha Hays Gusher, owner of the Phoenix boutique

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It is almost 20 years since Washington Fine Properties opened our doors in 1999, and we have had a very special partnership with Sonya and her team ever since. We are always excited to see what is going to be on the Georgetowner cover, and I have so many favorites. Several years ago, The Georgetowner captured our four founding partners being silly with real estate signs in the middle of the streets of Georgetown. Also, who didn’t love the issue with Nancy Taylor Bubes featured as “Georgetown’s Sweetheart” for Valentine’s Day? In so many ways, The Georgetowner provides its readers relevant and useful information on community events, restaurants, real estate, editorial pieces, etc. Sonya and her team have done a great job keeping the newspaper young and fun in a time when so many publications have moved only to online. Everyone loves to pick up and read The Georgetowner! Happy Birthday, Georgetowner, and congratulations to Sonya for being such a great leader!

— Dana Landry, Washington Fine Properties

I was born in Georgetown in 1939, and in 1964 I opened Georgetown Tobacco, just 10 years after The Georgetowner publ ished its first edition. I have been a regu lar supporter of this fine paper since the begi nnin g of my career — first with Ami, then David Roffman and in 1998 with my adm irable friend Sonya Bern hardt.

Sonya and I have been dear friends for many years and I was so relieved and impr essed when she purchased the newspaper. It was a bold step for her to take, but she made it possible to have this wonderfu l publ ication continue for our community.

The Georgetowner is the glue that keeps the readers and advertisers together, with excellent editorials and current loca l new s and, under Sonya`s leadersh ip, is one the fines t publ ications of its kind.

I have many fond social memories of Sonya and her staff, but most of the memories are how to make that damn publication deadline with my advertising and burning the midnight oil to make it.

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David Berkebile, Georgetown Tobacco

I arrived in Washington in April 1989, living in Foggy Bottom as I had a position at the Peace Corps. Georgetown was love at first sight, even though I had trouble parallel parking! By 1992, I had found a house that was right for me on Dumbarton Street. From day one I looked forward to having The Georgetowner.

I reflect fondly on many Georgetowner stories.

Of course, I loved when you featured the CAG Gala each year, especially when we were on the front page. I am a serious person so when you tackle the issues that impact our historic district, I am particularly interested. AND I FIND YOUR REPORTING ALWAYS FAIR. I see The Georgetowner playing an important role in keeping the community apprised of District decisions that effect our lives. As the Federal government also has a role in what happens in Georgetown, I think reporting on their actions is a plus.

— Pam Moore, president of the Citizens Association of Georgetown

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While they are better known for fancying psychedelic substances, the Beatles also partook of scotch. In his (ghostwritten) memoir “A Cellarful of Noise,” manager Brian Epstein recalled that when the group got an audition with Decca, “we all celebrated with rum and Scotch and Coke, which was becoming a Beatle drink even then.” And Paul McCartney, describing in Michael Braun’s book “Love Me

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Captivating customers since 2003, Cafe Bonaparte has been dubbed the “quintessential” European café, featuring awardwinning 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.

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Forged from brandy, crème de cacao and cream, the brandy Alexander’s dessertlike taste can hide its potency. The original Alexander, made with gin, appeared in the early 20th century. Its popularity was surpassed by the brandy version, which became well-loved by midcentury.

While the origin of the Alexander is unclear, one of the most credible stories comes from the Wall Street Journal. The gin cocktail was supposedly invented at the New York restaurant Rector’s at a dinner celebrating Phoebe Snow, an advertising character who rode the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad in her white dress to emphasize that the locomotives used clean-burning coal.

Rector’s bartender Troy Alexander came up with a new, white drink for the occasion.

Some believe that brandy was swapped for gin at the wedding of Princess Mary and Lord Lascelles in London in 1922. Personally, I find the brandy to be a better meld with the sweet notes of crème de cacao and cream, adding a soft, warm touch. Other variations include the coffee Alexander, made with coffee liqueur, and the añejo Alexander, fashioned with aged tequila.

When enjoyed in moderation, a brandy Alexander makes a lovely after-dinner drink.

And it’s easy to make your own at home.

2 oz. cognac or aged brandy 1 oz. dark crème de cacao 1 oz. heavy cream Add the ingredients to a cocktail shaker and fill with ice. Shake, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Garnish with freshly grated nutmeg.

Do!” how Bob Dylan turned the band on to marijuana, comments: “Up till then we’d been hard Scotch and Coke men.”

Perhaps the most storied pairing involving the Beatles and cocktails is John Lennon’s penchant for brandy Alexanders. It is said that Lennon was introduced to this creamy potion by songwriting pal Harry Nilsson. It happened in Los Angeles, during Lennon’s so-called “lost weekend,” his 18-month separation from Yoko Ono in 1974. Apparently impressed with the concoction, Lennon exclaimed: “wow, it’s like a milkshake!”

The two were attending a Smothers Brothers concert at LA’s famed Troubadour nightclub.

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INCOUNTRY

The Cavalier’s Spirited Rebirth

BY ST E P HANIE GREE N

I

f you Google “The Cavalier Virginia Beach,” you are likely, interestingly, to find references to this five-star hotel being haunted.

One of the alleged ghosts, Coors Brewing Company founder Adolph Coors, leapt to his death from the hotel’s sixth floor in 1929, devastated by the effects of Prohibition.

Coors was one of the many glamorous figures to have frequented the hotel in its illustrious history, dating back to 1927. So if you do have a supernatural sighting, it’s likely to be of someone very cool.

On every floor, there are black-and-white portraits of glam-squad guests like Frank Sinatra, but, unfortunately, I never ran into Old Blue Eyes.

Front facade of The Cavalier.

In fact, after spending a weekend at the Cavalier, I can safely report that the only spirits you’ll encounter are the ones flowing freely during cocktail hour in the richly ornate Raleigh Room or at the Cavalier’s in-house distillery, called Tarnished Truth.

Here you can enjoy the flagship bourbon in the tasting room with friends, thFinking about how silly that whole Prohibition idea was.

(Poor Adolph … if only you could see us now!)

Sunken garden of Becca.

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A remarkable property located within a private enclavejust minutes from town • Stone and stucco manor house with main level master suite • 7 additional BR • 5 stone FP • Beautiful gardens, terraces, salt water pool, cabana, carriage house & stable with 2 paddocks • Lovely finishes throughout & sweeping lawn to private trails to Goose Creek • 31 acres • Private, elegant & convenient

Circa 1755, prime Fauquier County location, between Middleburg and The Plains • Additions in early 1800’s & 1943 • Home recently restored • 62 gently rolling acres in Orange County Hunt • 4 bedrooms, 4 1/2 baths, 6 fireplaces • Improvements include salt water pool, pool house, large party house/studio, 2 tenant houses, stone walls and pond

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Infinity pool overlooking the ocean. Photos by Stephanie Green.

Starting next month, Tarnished Truth begins its first Virginia Bourbon Invitational, which will feature 18 distilleries and 50 bourbons.

This year marks many new beginnings for this storied hotel. After a four-year, $85-million renovation, the Cavalier reopened in March, while still retaining its, ahem, spirited past.

And it’s back at the perfect time. More travelers have more money for weekend getaways, and that capital can filter into areas that need a little lift. To wit: Virginia Beach has suffered from a seedy reputation, but with the Cavalier’s renaissance, this beachfront destination is worth the four-hour drive.

Besides ghost hunting and drinking, you’ll also be doing a lot of heavy eating at the Cavalier. I started out in the Hunt Room, the hotel’s dark-paneled, equestrian-vibe tavern, for a Friday-night dinner. You’ll want to polish

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10,000 sf. • Carriage house • Garage • 27 acres Paul MacMahon

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Cavalier’s Eatery and pancakes from brunch.

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Hume, Virginia • $1,650,000

Hill top setting with beautiful distant views • Farm house circa 1920, completely restored and enlarged, • 3BR, 3 BA, 2 fireplaces, wood floors, large country kitchen • 129.15 rolling & useable acres • Improvements include 3-bay equipment shed/work shop, guest house, 4-stall barn complex, riding ring, spring fed pond & stream.

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“North House” at Rutledge Farm • 17+/-acres in highly desired location, minutes to Middleburg • Contemporary home with high ceilings and tons of light • 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, 2 fireplaces • Wonderful 5-stall courtyard stable, tack room and wash stall

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off the iceberg salad with spiced pecans and the filet mignon, laden with mushroom sauce, before you head to the tasting room.

The next morning, I enjoyed the most adorably prepared blueberry compote pancakes in the sunken gardens of Becca, the hotel’s garden-to-table restaurant, which serves all meals.

There’s also a new restaurant on the Virginia Beach dining scene, the Atlantic on Pacific, which you can walk to from the hotel while taking in the boardwalk breezes. The boardwalk is a slice of Americana, with lots of photo opportunities along the route. You’ll want to take advantage of the Cavalier’s free bike rentals.

One of the hippest feathers in the Cavalier’s cap is the new Cavalier Beach Club, with hot tub and infinity pool overlooking the ocean. A full-service bar and café creates a Miami Beach feel in this Southern oasis. Plush seating and chic umbrellas await you on the beach below.

SeaHill Spa, also with views of the Atlantic, hasn’t lost its sense of humor amid all of its luxury: its signature treatment is the Bourbon Facial, using “product” from Tarnished Truth.

Try as it might, the Cavalier just can’t seem to shake those spirits.

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Its a beautiful season to visit!

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Enjoy the beautiful countryside, equestrian sports, wineries & shopping.

Step back in time and explore the villages and historical sites, all within about an hour’s drive of Georgetown.

Champagne in the Raleigh Room.

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Marshall, VA 22.5 Acres $1,987,500

BUCKSKIN MANOR

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Call to see these or any other property in Virginia’s hunt country.

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Beach view.

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GONE AWAY FARM

The Plains ~ Set on a knoll with views of the Blue Ridge Mtns, this 83 acre farm offers every amenity. The main house has 4BR/7BA, 4 fireplaces, gourmet kitchen & gracious entertaining spaces inside and out. There is a 3 Bedroom tenant house, charming guest house, swimming pool, outdoor kitchen, 4 ponds & extensive landscaping.

For the equestrian, the farm offers 2 barns, a riding ring & 3 run in sheds. Located in Orange County Hunt territory, the farm has miles of ride out opportunities. Protected by a conservation easement. $4,495,000

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Clarke County ~ Historic 1830 brick country house on 86.5 acres.

Three acre stocked pond, with sweeping views of mountains and open fields. Main house, which includes a 1987 addition, has 3 Bed room, 2 Bath & 2 half baths. The Living room & Dining room have elegant mantels, deep windows, & original heart pine floors. The large kitchen has a fireplace, there are seven working fireplaces in the old house, including one in the fully finished basement. A second building, constructed in 2006 is about 1,700 square feet of custom built space. A stone and wood bank barn overlooking the pond is in excellent condition. $1,500,000

10 S. MADISON

HANDSOME COMMERCIAL BUILDING + TURN-KEY ESTABLISHED BUSINESS & INVENTORY in the center of Historic Middleburg. Stunning upscale home items, crystal, unique gifts, cards, custom stationery, gourmet chocolates & much more. Approx. 1/2 of inventory is offsite and is included in the sale. $1,400,000

POSSUM HOLLOW

Delaplane ~ Stunning estate on 27 gorgeous acres of rolling countryside with breathtaking views of the magnificent Blue Ridge Mountains. Stone pillars and a long tree lined drive mark the entrance. The all brick 3 level residence features 5 bedrooms and 5 full baths, with spacious rooms and incredible views from huge floor to ceiling windows. The manicured grounds include a spectacular pool with stone terraces, a center aisle stable, a huge indoor riding arena and a tenant/guest house. Trails are nearby for hiking and riding. Ideally located with easy access to Upperville and Route 17, Possum Hollow Farm is approximately 15 minutes to Middleburg and within an hour’s drive to the nation’s Capital. $1,150,000

WINDY RIDGE

Windy Ridge-classic 1880’s farmhouse restored and renovated on 82 secluded acres. Interior details like original heart pine floors, high ceilings, many built ins. New eat in kitchen and appliances in 2015. 4400 sq.ft, 4 Bedroom, 3 Bath, 2 offices with built-ins, library off Master Bedroom. Large dining room, living room and Master bedroom. Fabulous Master Bath. 3 Fireplaces, large wrap around porch. Custom wood siding. 45 min to Dulles. 1 DUR $1,095,000

BEAVER HILL

Snickersville Turnpike ~ Outstanding equestrian property on 27 acres of open fields & lush board fenced paddocks. Charming and beautifully maintained three/four bedroom historic colonial (circa 1850) features spacious rooms, four fireplaces, wood floors and enclosed side porch. Great center aisle barn and lighted riding arena, make this a horse enthusiasts dream. Additional 19 acres available. $850,000

61 SMITH HERITAGE LANE

For the last ten years this Washington, DC couple have loved this property. They have updated the mechanicals, appliances, & baths. Recently, they had outdated wallpaper stripped & the walls repainted in several rooms. French Doors from lower level into the gardens & the pool provide the perfect access & privacy for in-law or au pair quarters. Sited 10 minutes from Sperryville or Culpeper, the property is 12 minutes from the Culpeper Hospital, which is partnered with the University of Virginia Hospital. $565,000

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Dawoud Bey’s ‘The Birmingham Project’

BY ARI POS T On Sunday morning, Sept. 15, 1963, members of the Ku Klux Klan planted dynamite with a time delay beneath the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African American church in the center of Birmingham, Alabama. Just before 10:30 a.m., the bomb went off near the basement, where five young girls were changing into their choir robes. Four of them were killed: 11-year-old Carol Denise McNair and 14-year-olds Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins.

The murder of these four young girls is ingrained now in the conscience of our country — probably not as well as they should be, but well enough for a nation of our evidently limited domestic hindsight. It was a turning point in the civil rights movement, which galvanized a national sympathy for the plight of the African American people. Within 10 months of the bombing, President Lyndon Johnson had signed the Civil Rights Act into effect. (John F. Kennedy, a vocal civil rights advocate, was shot just two months after the bombing, and the effects of his murder on the movement should not be overlooked.)

Fewer people are aware of what happened in the immediate aftermath of the bombing, or of what happened to the fifth young girl caught in the explosion. Dawoud Bey remembers, and it has been burning in his consciousness for over 50 years.

Bey was 10 years old in 1963. As a child in Queens, he recalls “the ground-shifting trauma” of seeing a photograph of Sarah Jean Collins, the survivor.

Sarah, the younger sister of Addie Mae, had glass debris embedded in her face. A photograph captured her in a hospital bed, with a robe pulled up to her chin and a large white cotton ball taped unevenly over each eye. But for the cotton balls and lacerations across her cheeks and forehead, it is the perfect image of a sleeping child, blanket pulled up to her chin, the evening-tea vision shared by every parent who

"Michael-Anthony Allen and George Washington," 2012. Dawoud Bey. Courtesy NGA. has ever stolen a glance at their child sleeping through a cracked door.

In many ways, Bey’s “The Birmingham Project” is a deep meditation upon that memory, upon what was lost that day in Birmingham, the alternative future that might have reverberated from that moment. It is a powerhouse of a show, with just four photographs and one video throughout two small galleries that together contain multitudes.

A photographer that walks the line between documentary and fine art, Bey has photographed American youth and marginalized communities for 40 years, revealing a sensitivity and complexity rarely ascribed to his subjects.

At the National Gallery of Art, “Dawoud Bey: The Birmingham Project” is an excerpt from the series, a tribute to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Bey

visited Birmingham several times over seven years and solicited sitters from the city’s present-day African American community.

After photographing people individually, he paired two portraits, one of a younger black adolescent and a similar looking subject of late middle age. The adolescents were the same age as a victim in 1963, the adults 50 years older, marking the children’s ages had they survived.

As is his usual practice, he invited his subjects to dress and pose freely. Yet through this process he found pairs of subjects that, though separated by half a century, seem to share remarkable spiritual connections.

There are four portrait sets on view in the gallery, two sets of women, two sets of men.

The men represent two teenage boys killed the day after the bomb by Klan members and white nationalists (including a police officer) who

had gathered publicly to celebrate the church bombing.

Betty Selvage and Faith Speights sit in the same chair in the same place. Selvage, the elder, leans toward the camera, arms folded on an armrest, bold, defiant, in a smart and fashionable blazer. Speights, the younger, assuming a near identical posture, turns this pose into something resembling a school portrait. She is slightly stiff and studious, the way you imagine she has been taught to sit at the dinner table. She is wearing a silk blouse and glasses that lie crooked across her face. It is endearing and kind of adorable, conjuring the empathic admixture of love and pity one feels for an awkward preadolescent from the vantage of maturity. In the context of “The Birmingham Project,” it is devastating.

The portrait titles use the subjects’ real names. They are not actors assuming the roles of the bombing victims. Rather, they are prisms through which the lost lives of the past resonate through the geography and community that connect them to this history.

Finally, Bey’s video “9.15.63” is a split-screen projection juxtaposing a recreation of the drive to the 16th Street Baptist Church, shot from the window of a moving car looking up at trees and the roofs of houses from the perspective of a young child. On the left, slow pans move through everyday spaces — some familiar (a beauty parlor, a barbershop), some politically charged (a lunch counter, a schoolroom). They look as they might have that Sunday morning in September 1963. Devoid of people, these views poeticize the innocent, mundane existences ripped apart by violence.

It is 2018, but as Bey shows us through the lens of his camera and with a surprising political restraint for the current moment, the reverberations of that long-ago day in Birmingham are still strongly present among us all.

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CAFRITZ ART TO ELLINGTON SCHOOL

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Co-founder of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts Peggy Cooper Cafritz, who died on Feb. 18, has left about 200 works of art by artists of color to the school, which opened in 1974. Some 400 other works are going to the Studio Museum in Harlem.

The collection, rebuilt after a 2009 fire, is a focus of her book, “Fired Up! Ready to Go!: Finding Beauty, Demanding Equity.”

Melanie Mathewes, executive director of the National Sporting Library & Museum since 2013, resigned from the Middleburg, Virginia, institution, dedicated to the “literature, art and culture of equestrian, angling and field sports.” On Oct. 1, Mathewes became director of development at Shenandoah Conservatory, the music, theater and dance school of Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.

Peggy Cooper Cafritz.

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ARABIAN SIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL

On Oct. 17, artist Marie Watt, a member of the Seneca Nation, will give the 2018 Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s McEvoy Auditorium, 8th and F Streets NW (enter on G). Watt, who has an M.F.A. from Yale, uses the medium of blankets to explore issues of personal possession and cultural heritage. Free tickets will be available at 6 p.m. in the Kogod Courtyard.

The Embassy of the United Arab Emirates presents the 23rd annual Arabian Sights Film Festival, featuring screenings and discussions from Oct. 18 to 28 at AMC Mazza Gallerie, 5300 Wisconsin Ave. NW, and the Freer Gallery of Art, 1100 Independence Ave. SW. Tickets are generally $14. On Oct. 28, there will be a free Filmfest DC+ presentation: “ASWAT: Short Films By & About Arab Women.”

H STREET FESTIVAL On Oct. 13, the Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE, will be the hub of the free, 11-block long H Street Festival, offering music, dance, youth-based performances, children’s programs, fashion, heritage arts and poetry at 14 staging areas. There will also be activity stations, information stations and exhibitor stations showcasing D.C. based artists.

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KITTY KELLEY BOOK CLUB

‘Just a Journalist: On the Press, Life, and the Spaces Between’

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he Pulitzer-winning reporter recounts the pitfalls of proffering an opinion.

If Linda Greenhouse is “just a journalist,” then Secretariat is just a horse.

With a Phi Beta Kappa key from Radcliffe (1968) and a Pulitzer Prize (1998) “for her consistently illuminating coverage of the United States Supreme Court” for the New York Times, Greenhouse is the gold standard of journalism.

(Full disclosure: Greenhouse is a friend, and I admire her — personally and professionally.

She’s the woman so many would like to be: smart, accomplished and principled.)

Her book, not so much memoir as treatise, took root from a set of lectures she delivered in 2015 at her alma mater. She used herself as an example to pose provocative questions about the shifting boundaries in journalism and whether the old shibboleths remain effective in the 21st century — questions especially prescient now that we’re in the era of “fake news” and “alternative facts.”

Sparking her reflections on the subject was her personal experience following a speech she gave after receiving her college’s highest honor, the Radcliffe Medal. It was 2006, during the second term of George W. Bush, when, she told her audience: “Our government had turned its energy and attention away from upholding the rule of law and creating law-free zones at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Ghraib … and let’s not forget the sustained assault on women’s reproductive freedom and the hijacking of public policy by religious fundamentalism.”

She also talked about how the world had in some important ways gotten better, especially in the workplace for women and through the Supreme Court’s recognition of the rights of gay men and lesbians to “dignity” and “respect.”

Greenhouse took heat for expressing herself on these matters of verifiable fact, all part of the public record and covered in depth by the media. She did not reveal state secrets or endanger national security. She simply offered her opinion on the world at that time. Still, her peers pounced.

National Public Radio’s website ran a story headlined “Critics Question Reporter’s Airing of Personal Views.” Among the critics was the Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, who (like Claude Rains in “Casablanca”) was shocked — shocked! The dean of the journalism school at the University of Maryland pronounced her remarks “illadvised” and the former chair of the Pulitzer Prize Board’s executive committee said, “The reputation of Greenhouse’s newspaper is at stake when the reporter expresses her strong beliefs publicly.”

The coup de grace was delivered by her own newspaper’s public editor, who recommended she not cover the Supreme Court on topics she addressed in her speech. “Ms. Greenhouse has an over-riding obligation to avoid publicly expressing these kinds of personal opinions

… [and] giving the paper’s critics fresh opportunities to snipe at its public policy coverage.”

They all sounded like Chicken Little, convinced the sky was going to fall on the Times because one of its reporters had expressed herself on public policy. Actually, the sky had fallen two years before, when Jayson Blair was forced to resign for fabricating or plagiarizing half of the 72 stories he had written.

The newsroom was still reeling from that debacle, which may have been why no one stepped forward to defend Greenhouse. To the Times’ credit, she continued covering the court until she retired in 2008, when she accepted an offer to teach at Yale Law School.

Greenhouse blows holes through the current theory of objectivity that journalists are expected to maintain. According to these old rules, journalists should not contribute to their community because it might reflect negatively on their employer or tempt others to see bias in their work. Leonard Downie took this to pious extremes as executive editor of the Washington Post, announcing that he would not vote and would stop having “private opinions about politicians or issues.”

Downie felt that would give him a completely open mind in supervising the newspaper’s coverage, and I suppose it would in Brigadoon.

But what about the real world, where journalists might want to participate in parentteacher associations, volunteer for community organizations, contribute to nonprofits and — God help us — register to vote?

Greenhouse asks how journalists can be objective in their coverage by adhering to “he said, she said” reporting, as if there are only two sides to every story, when, in fact, there are usually several. Under deadline, reporters, trying to be neutral, frequently run to official sources to get their quotes for “on the one hand, on the other hand” presentations. The advocates’ words could be lies (to use the newspaper euphemism, “factual untruths”) or benign lobbying for their particular causes.

If their words come to the reader without context or correction, they gain credibility simply by being quoted in the news. This is the opposite of neutral reporting, since these journalists, striving to be fair and balanced, are, according to Greenhouse, doing what they most dread: deferring to power.

Normally, a journalist writing about journalism is like a golfer writing about golf — interesting only to those who play the game. In this case, though, we’ve got a Babe Didrikson Zaharias holding forth on a subject for which she holds the field, and her subject is not “just” journalism.

While her questions are provocative and meant to be pondered, her style is cool, analytical and without hyperbole. She offers no harsh criticism of her former employer.

To the contrary, she recognizes the premier position the New York Times holds and wants nothing more than for the “paper of record” to excel in its mission to inform.

Journalism affects all of us — locally,

nationally, internationally. Journalists are our eyes and ears, and without seeing and hearing we’d be blind and deaf, unable to function.

Linda Greenhouse’s little 192-page book is a big contribution and deserves our attention.

Georgetown resident Kitty Kelley has written several number-one New York Times best-sellers, including “The Family: The Real Story Behind the Bush Dynasty.” Her most recent books include “Capturing Camelot: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the Kennedys” and “Let Freedom Ring: Stanley Tretick’s Iconic Images of the March on Washington.”

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GALA GUIDE FALL 2018 OCTOBER 11

SPIRIT OF GEORGETOWN Sara Stone-Psihas and James Blue are co-chairs of the benefit, celebrating and supporting Georgetown Ministry Center, which for 31 years has provided continued service to neighbors experiencing homelessness. Nancy and Alan Bubes are hosting the event at their home. Call Liza Ballantine at 917-257-3762 or visit georgetownministrycenter.org.

Ambassadors Ball: Cherry Blossoms Inspire Hope for a Cure B Y C H RISTIN E WAR N KE Ambassador Shinsuke and Yoko Sugiyama of Japan co-chaired the 40th Anniversary of the Ambassadors Ball to support the National Multiple Sclerosis Society at The Anthem Oct. 2. The cherry blossom themed event, this year honoring Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA (Ret.), has united thousands of of people from around the world to support breakthroughs that advance us ever closer to a cure.

Ambassador Shinsuke and Yoko Sugiyama of Japan. Photo by Tony Powell.

OCTOBER 12 MERIDIAN BALL

The ball, now in its 50th year, supports Meridian International Center, a nonprofit global leadership and public diplomacy organization dedicated to improving a shared global future. Meridian International Center.

Contact Olivia Dorieux at 202-939-5892 or odorieux@meridian.org.

The Anthem at the Wharf was the new venue for the gala. Photo by Tony Powell.

OCTOBER 14

SHAKESPEARE THEATRE COMPANY GALA Paul and Rose Carter are chairing the gala, which provides funding for the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s education and outreach programs. Call Kathryn Burns-Yocum at 202547-3230 or email stcgala@shakespearetheatre. org.

OCTOBER 15

ARTS FOR THE AGING GALA Nancy Peery Marriott will present Lolo Sarnoff Founder’s Awards to Teresa Heinz and Jehan El-Bayoumi, M.D. Chris Lawrence of NBC4 will emcee. The 30th anniversary gala funds AFTA’s programs to inspire older adults to express their creativity through multidisciplinary arts programs. Top of the Hay at the Hay-Adams. Email Event Manager Stephanie Heishman at events@aftaarts.org.

Awardee Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal, MD, MPA (Ret.). Photo by Tony Powell.

50 More Years of D.C.’s Art Explosion B Y C H RISTIN E WAR N KE Mayor Muriel Bowser kicked off a memorable night at the Lincoln Theatre commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities by presenting the 2018 Life Time Achievement Award to acclaimed native Washingtonian GoGo band – Rare Essence. The Sept. 25 gala honored artists throughout the city for their many contributions to film, music, mixed media and literary work. Winners of the 33rd Annual Mayor’s Arts Awards included the Young Playwrights Theatre, the DC Jazz Festival, Chloe and Maud Arnold, the African American Civil War Museum, Cory L. Stowers, Elizabeth Acevedo and Madeline Freedberg.

Mayor Muriel Bowser. Photo by Patricia McDougall.

OCTOBER 20

HUMANE RESCUE ALLIANCE’S BARK BALL The Humane Rescue Alliance is D.C.’s only animal welfare organization that supports the animals and communities of Washington.

Bedecked canines proudly escort their people.

Washington Hilton. Call 202-735-0342 or email events@humanerescuealliance.org.

OCTOBER 21

MARK TWAIN PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR Now in its 21st year, the annual event will honor Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Call 202-416-8335 or email mtp@kennedy-center.org.

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Angie Gates, director of the Office of Cable Television, Film, Music and Entertainment, Jose Albert Ucles, D.C. Arts Commission Chair Kay Kendall and Marianne Miller. Photo by Patricia McDougall.

Raymone Bain and Joe Coleman. Photo by Patricia McDougall.

Golfing With the Chance Foundation

The Fourth Annual Chance Foundation Golf Tournament was held Oct. 7 at Bristow Manor Golf Club. The Georgetowner is a proud partner of the Chance Foundation and looks forward to a continuing partnership with the nonprofit which benefits dogs. Sign up to play next year. Call Wally Greeves at 703-888-8003 to get involved with a great cause.

First place team — Dan Tierney, Dick DeLong, Jeff Fraser, and Bill Chow. Longest drive – Wally Greeves.

Closest to the pin – Dan Tierney.

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‘First Man’ Debut at Air & Space, Flag or Not

Smithsonian Craft2Wear 10th Anniversary Preview Night

PHO TOS B Y PAT RICK G . RYA N The D.C. premiere of “First Man” at the Air and Space Museum Oct. 4 gathered the film cast that tells the story of Neil Armstrong, first man to step on the surface of the moon. Some protest that the American flag is not shown on the lunar surface in the movie. Ryan Gosling, who plays Armstrong, and Claire Foy, who plays his wife Janet Shearon, stood at the red carpet, but had no comment.

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Claire Foy and Ryan Gossling.

Olivia Hamilton and Director Damien Chazelle.

The Oct. 4 Preview Night of Craft2Wear at the National Building Museum afforded an early lookat limited-edition, hand-crafted clothing, jewelry and accessories before opening to the general public. Guests enjoyed first-choice shopping and several food and beverage stations. Art on the Runway featured professional modeling of artists’ work. This year featured students from Savannah College of Art and Design. Craft2Wear is a volunteer fundraising project of the Smithsonian Women’s Committee to support education, outreach and research at the SmithsonianInstitution.

Betsy Emes with Mary Hughes of Mary Hughes & Caro-Gray Bosca.

Mary Douglas Drysdale and Dedi Liem Gunawan.

Wilson Celebrates 50th at Four Seasons

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars — which touts itself as “the nation’s key non-partisan forum for global issues, independent research, open dialogue, and actionable ideas” — celebrated its 50th anniversary and the Kissinger Institute’s 10 anniversary Sept. 13 at the Four Seasons Hotel.

Auctioneers & Appraisers Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, greets Henry Kissinger at the Wilson anniversary gala. Photo by Neshan Naltchayan.

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An Evening to Benefit Innocents at Risk

The nonprofit which fight human trafficking held its annual gala at the Mayflower Hotel on Sept. 18.

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Jeffrey Brown, Staci Capuano, Tony Capuano with Innocent at Risk founder Deborah Sigmund. Photo by Neshan H. Naltchayan.

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