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MAYOR, PARENTS JOYFULLY WAVE KIDS BACK TO SCHOOL BY PEGGY SANDS
Mayor Muriel Bowser joined District leaders and community members to celebrate the first day of school for thousands of students across Washington, D.C., by cutting the ribbon on a $71 million modernization of the Adams Campus at Oyster-Adams Bilingual School on 19th Street NW.
GEORGETOWNER PUBLISHER TALKS OF 30 YEARS IN NEWS BIZ BY THE GEORGETOWNER
Sonya Bernhardt, publisher and owner of The Georgetowner, spoke at Georgetown Main Street’s monthly Coffee & Community at Kitchen & Bar 1310 on Aug. 14.
SEPTEMBER EVENTS, NOVEMBER EXHIBITION AT WOODROW WILSON HOUSE BY RICHARD SELDEN
A half-dozen miles apart in distance — but worlds apart in other ways — the Washington, D.C., neighborhoods of Kalorama and Deanwood have a presidential connection.
THANK YOU, SUMMER 2025 INTERNS! BY THE GEORGETOWNER
Now that the season is ending, we wanted to take the time to honor our summer 2025 interns. This group of talented individuals are the future of journalism, and we were grateful to share our experiences while also learning from them. Thank you, congratulations and we look forward to seeing more of your bylines soon!
VOTE NOW: GEORGETOWN BID 2025 BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTION BY THE GEORGETOWNER
It’s time to cast your vote in the 2025 Georgetown Business Improvement District Board of Directors election!
FEATURED PROPERTY: OWN A GEORGETOWNER GEM BY THE GEORGETOWNER
There is a gem in Georgetown currently for sale that was once owned by one of Georgetown’s gems, Mary Bird. Bird was the social scene writer for The Georgetowner for years, covering all the best events and galas in the area, before she passed away in October of 2024.
BY PEGGY SANDS
The eyes of the world were on Washington, D.C., the past four weeks as President Trump deployed National Guard troops from several states to help quell what he called “out of control” crime on the streets and in the parks of our city. So it was no wonder that the Georgetown, Burleith and Hillandale Advisory Neighborhood Commission spent some time during its Sept. 2 meeting talking about crime in Georgetown and the expanded federal presence in the District.
The crime news was basically good. According to Metropolitan Police Department 2nd District Cmdr. Tatjana Savoy, the statistics show that crime in Georgetown decreased in almost every category, with zero reported robberies and assaults during the past month. The only real increase was in thefts from autos. The overall crime rate was down about seven percent from this time last year, with an 88-percent decrease in violent crime.
Thefts from autos continue in parking lots and around S Street and Wisconsin Avenue. Direct evidence is hard to obtain, MPD Capt. Darren Haskis noted. “We had one report from a witness sitting in a car two cars away from the one whose windows were smashed and didn’t see it happen.”
But the police depend on getting good data — fast reporting, possibly with evidence such as a photo. It seems a good proportion of the thefts occur in cars with out-of-state plates, whose drivers aren’t as aware of the need to keep items out of sight.
The surge of federal law enforcement did not appear to be unwelcomed by MPD officers.
“Obviously, we had an existing need to work with federal partners, to work alongside with them,” said Savoy. “The D.C. police chief can’t speak to the federal officers’ needs … especially as we plan to jointly take on other crimes, such as human trafficking.”
According to reports from both Mayor Bowser’s and Council member Brooke Pinto’s spokespeople, the president has authority over the local police during a declared 30-day emergency; the current one ends Sept. 10. Then, MPD Chief Pamela Smith will be fully back in charge, although the president can keep the national troops deployed as needed.
The commissioners planned to send a letter to the mayor, “Asking for Clarification on her Tuesday September 2nd Mayor’s Executive Order and Its Impact on Maintaining the District’s Independent Agencies.”
Fall is also a time of renewed local activities, such as Georgetown Main Street’s Art All Night on Sept. 12 along Wisconsin Avenue. Trees for
Georgetown’s annual garden party will take place on Sept. 14 at a private home; the Citizens Association of Georgetown will hold its annual fundraiser on Sept. 18 at the Sequoia; and Friends of Rose Park will celebrate the park’s 100 birthday at a gala fundraiser on Sept. 25 at a private home in the Washington Harbour.
Georgetown and D.C. are expecting more robust business this coming year, according to the mayor’s report to the ANC. Many government workers are returning to on-site work in downtown offices.
DC Water representatives talked about the Small Diameter Water Main Replacement Project, which involves the replacement of existing 12-inch and smaller cast-iron water mains in various locations to help improve water quality
DC Water begins work at 29th Street and Dumbarton Street. Georgetowner photo.
and system reliability, increase water pressure in some areas and maintain adequate flows. The scope of the work includes: installation of
approximately 8,500 linear feet of four-inch to 12-inch water mains; replacement of service lines, including free private-side replacement of lead and galvanized iron pipe; replacement of fire hydrants and valves; and restoration of all surfaces disturbed by the project upon completion. Crews have already started on P Street and 29th Street and will continue along P to 32nd Street. In spring of 2026, expect crews along Wisconsin Avenue and Volta Place. For more information, contact DC Water Project Manager John Ingle at 202-313-1541 or john.ingle@dcwater.com.
Georgetown University students are back with full fall agendas even as campus infrastructure projects have necessitated the presence of heavy equipment — with traffic and parking disruptions in front of the campus and on nearby streets. The work will continue in various phases this fall, according to Cory Peterson, associate vice president for community engagement and local government affairs.
The Burleith Citizens Association continues to be concerned about traffic and parking around Ellington Field, now deep in its reconstruction phase. One commenter gave a shout-out to the tall field lights being installed; they seem to be unusually well focused on field activities, with no light hitting nearby residences.
BY HAILEY WHARRAM
Yup, “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.” Through Oct. 4, put your pedal to the metal on Light Lane — a public art installation that lets you bike to hits from Washington legends like Marvin Gaye, U2, “Godfather of Go-Go” Chuck Brown and Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters fame. The four light-up stationary bikes are located at 3270 M St. NW. Needless to say, we’ll be there “With or Without You.”
In D.C., in-hand phone use while driving is illegal. Well, apparently Fox News anchor Bret Baier missed the memo. After footage of Baier, 55, being pulled over in Georgetown by the Metropolitan Police Department started circulating on social media, the “Special Report” host took to X to set the record straight. “I picked up my ringing phone as I drove past an officer while driving my wife’s car in Georgetown,” Baier wrote. “He pointed to have me pull over — I did. He was very professional. I had to dig for the registration card. Got a ticket and left. I didn’t know there was paparazzi.”
In the wake of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s digital flirtation with 31-year-old New York Magazine reporter Olivia Nuzzi last year, his wife, “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Cheryl Hines, is clarifying where their marriage currently stands. When Hines, 59, recently relocated from the couple’s home in Los Angeles to the $4.4-million Georgetown property that Kennedy, 71, purchased back in April, many speculated that her move was an attempt to keep a close eye on her unfaithful spouse. However, in an interview with Realtor. com, Hines insisted that she and RFK Jr. are still going strong, saying that they “talk about everything” and “trust each other.”
New year, new dorms! At the end of August, more than 700 junior and senior Georgetown University students moved into the brand-new Byrnes and Hayden Halls (Henle will be ready next semester) — the fruits of a $20-million donation from Bill and Lisa Byrnes. Featuring
fully furnished studio apartments complete with in-unit laundry facilities, full kitchens and a slew of other amenities, these snazzy new dorms are sure to leave recent Georgetown grads green with envy.
Niche’s 2026 Best Colleges in America list is out, and Georgetown University has dropped from 13th to 17th, its 2023 spot. Now
2024 to 2025, Georgetown moved from 22nd to 24th in the U.S. News rankings.
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BY LUCIAN PERKINS
The “We Are All D.C.” march on Sept. 6 — organized by a coalition that included Free DC and the American Civil Liberties Union — was the largest protest yet since President Donald Trump deployed federal troops in the nation’s capital.
Residents gathered in Mount Pleasant, as in other neighborhoods across the city, then walked to Meridian Hill Park, also known as Malcolm X Park. On an unusually hot and humid day, a massive crowd — at least 10,000 by my estimate — marched two miles down 16th Street NW and past the White House. Some participants collapsed from heat exhaustion, either dropping out or pressing on with help from fellow marchers.
The march ended at Freedom Plaza, where many shared stories of violence erupting in their neighborhoods during ICE raids, along with their anger at the heavy presence of federal agents and U.S. troops.
What was this protest about? The signs carried by marchers told part of the story.
Thursday September 25, 2025 @ 6:30 PM
Hosts, Alan and Nancy Bubes
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At The Washington Harbour 3030 K Street NW
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BY ROBERT DEVANEY
Jules Witcover, old-school political reporter, author of 20 books and writer of hundreds of columns — including a few for this publication — died on Aug. 16 in his Georgetown home on Q Street, where he lived with his wife, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. He was 98.
For more than half a century, Witcover wrote for newspapers, most notably, the Baltimore
Sun, the Washington Star, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and the Newark Star-Ledger.
With Jack Germond, who died in 2013, he co-wrote a five-day-a-week syndicated column, “Politics Today,” for over 24 years — perhaps his most famous assignment. Witcover came to be seen as a “journalistic institution,” according to media critic Howard Kurtz.
Born in Union City, New Jersey, on July 16, 1927, Witcover graduated from Columbia University after World War II and worked for Newhouse Newspapers, arriving in Washington, D.C., in 1954. He covered political campaigns for decades. Among his most traumatic moments in reporting was the fatal shooting of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968; Witcover was standing a few feet away.
One of the last columns Witcover wrote was in defense of President Joe Biden, which The Georgetowner published in 2023.
On social media, Biden remarked: “Jules Witcover was one of the most consequential journalists of our time because he understood to his core the fundamental role journalists play in our democracy – and the great responsibility that comes with being one. ...
Jules was a straight shooter. And he listened. For him, journalism was more than just telling a story, it was about telling the hard truths.”
Neighbor Edward Segal long admired the longtime journalist’s insights and observations.
“I had the opportunity to meet and interview Witcover a couple of times when I was researching my 2024 book, ‘Whistle-Stop Politics: Campaign Trains and the Reporters Who Covered Them.’ He was generous with his time and read the draft manuscript,” Segal said. “I was honored that he agreed to write the foreword to the book.”
Among the accolades for the liberal Witcover, cited in the Washington Post, is the following.
“Mr. Witcover ‘is old-fashioned in the sense of being possessed of an empirical eye,’ former journalist and Clinton White House aide Sidney Blumenthal wrote in a New York Times review. ‘He clearly enjoys politics, tries to understand the particular motivations of politicians and observes events to see how it all plays out. His approach is the opposite of using people and circumstances as grist for the turn of phrase, whose object is not really to describe the man in the arena but to polish the image of the spectator.’”
Where’s our billion dollars?
We’re not talking about Powerball. We’re talking about a Congressional power play that stripped $1 billion from the D.C. budget.
The president and the Senate approved the reinstatement — but not the House. That money, which could be used to hire new police officers to reduce crime (among other things), belongs to District of Columbia taxpayers.
We know a lot has happened since that fiscal snatch, what with the federal surge, the police takeover and the over 2,000 arrests in the last 30 days. National Guard troops appeared on our streets in the wrong places and the wrong assignments. Quite unsettling, to say the least.
Sept. 10. Does it look like an emergency out there? Strong-arm-style arrests by DEA and ICE have left neighborhoods scared.
Somehow, the president, pleased for the moment, is calling the nation’s capital nearly 100-percent crime-free. On Sunday, he even told a reporter to go out to dinner in D.C. … on him. However, the reality of the situation is dire. It’s bad for restaurants and retail all around.
We’ve endured tough civic lessons over the last few months, along with countless absurdities and back-and-forths. Ominously, a few Republicans in Congress are talking about revising D.C. laws.
Staying the course and answering her critics, Mayor Muriel Bowser has said: “Our North Star is protecting Home Rule and D.C.’s autonomy. D.C. residents, we are going to continue to make the right decisions — the tough decisions — and we are going to get to the other side of this.”
The mayor’s order Bowser issued on Sept. 2, “Creation of the Safe and Beautiful Emergency Operations Center,” reads, in part: “There is established the Safe and Beautiful Emergency Operations Center (‘SBEOC’) to manage the District’s response to the Task Force, the Presidential declaration of emergency and on a continuing basis.
The SBEOC will coordinate centralized communications; formulate post-emergency planning; formulate post-emergency operations and ensure coordination with federal law enforcement to the maximum extent, allowable by law within the District. Emergency planning will include coordination of any continued enhanced federal law enforcement efforts and shared resources with the United States Marshals Service, Federal Bureau of Investigation, United States Park Police, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the United States Capitol Police and the United States Secret Service.”
that was simply false. I went back and reread that order and then hundreds of words that were in that order. There was no mention of welcome or welcoming. So that headline was false, and sadly I think it was intentionally misleading. Let me tell you without equivocation that the mayor’s order does not extend the Trump emergency. In fact, it does the exact opposite.
“[Residents are] concerned about a lot of things, but they’re concerned that MPD has been compelled to participate with ICE. This is … a requirement of the Home Rule charter when the president requests MPD services for a federal purpose in an emergency, okay. We got to get out of the emergency.”
Same as it ever was — that’s one way to get out of the emergency that ends today.
We have protesters shouting: “End the occupation of D.C. now!”
Mayor Bowser’s strategic response to Trump’s willfulness has led to a good result: the orderly end of the so-called emergency on
A pitched battle between ideology and science took place 100 years ago.
The town of Dayton, with a population of 2,000 or so in 1925, hosted a court case brought by the State of Tennessee. The defendant was a 24-year-old high school teacher named John Thomas Scopes. His crime? The teaching of human evolution.
Scopes’s side was argued by celebrated lawyer Clarence Darrow, hired by the ACLU; Tennessee’s advocate was three-time presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan. Tart-penned skeptic H. L. Mencken (whose 145th birthday is Friday) described the scene on July 11 in a Baltimore Evening Sun column:
“The selection of a jury to try Scopes, which went on all yesterday afternoon in the atmosphere of a blast furnace, showed to what extreme lengths the salvation of the local primates has been pushed. It was obvious after a few rounds that the jury would be unanimously hot for Genesis.”
Though Scopes was fined $100, the landmark case put a temporary damper on religious
Let’s emulate the mayor’s grit as far as “keeping it real” and “keeping it together.”
Democracy will endure, but “the situation” continues.
And, yes, we still want our money back.
fundamentalism in the U.S. But the issue remains divisive: 17 states currently mandate the teaching of creationism alongside evolution.
Fundamentalism is apparently on the rise, energized by President Trump and the Project 2025 backers who advise him. In a blow to the separation of church and state, starting this month, Texas public school classrooms are required to display the Ten Commandments. Which brings us to the Trump administration’s attacks on the Smithsonian Institution, a campaign that seems to share the politically useful reactionary stance of Tennessee’s antievolution Butler Act.
The May 20 executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” begins: “Over the past decade, Americans have witnessed a concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history, replacing objective facts with a distorted narrative driven by ideology rather than truth.”
An Aug. 12 letter notified Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III that the White House “will be leading a comprehensive internal
She defended her approach at a press conference the following day.
“I want the message to be clear to Congress: We don’t need a presidential emergency. People who are like me outraged over the intrusion on our federal autonomy, people who like me ... who see protecting Home Rule and our autonomy as our North Star.”
Bowser continued: “I have to say that there was a Washington Post headline that circulated
review of selected Smithsonian museums and exhibitions.” A list of objectionable works and exhibits was released on Aug. 21. The Smithsonian has responded that its own review is underway.
Established in 1846 after Congress accepted a bequest from British chemist and mineralogist James Smithson, the Smithsonian is an independent trust. It doesn’t answer to the executive branch. However, about 70 percent of its annual budget of over $1 billion is a federal appropriation.
Whether this pressure by the Trump administration will result in a stand-off or in capitulation remains to be seen. The strategy is similar to that faced by federal agencies and presumably independent law firms and universities (not to mention trading-partner nations).
Modern museums do not have prescribed curricula; their exhibitions aren’t textbooks. They aim not to teach in the formal sense but to, for instance: “explore the evolution of the American identity” (National Museum of American History), provide “a national
platform for the art and artists of our time” (Hirshhorn Museum) and “help us understand who we are and remind us of what we can aspire to be” (National Portrait Gallery).
Here’s the mission of another Smithsonian museum: “The National Museum of African American History and Culture captures and shares the unvarnished truth of African American history and culture. We connect stories, scholarship, art and artifacts from the past and present to illuminate the contributions, struggles and triumphs that have shaped our nation. We forge new and compelling avenues for audiences to experience the arc of living history.”
Does this sound “out of control” (Trump’s words) to you?
We feel strongly that decisions about the Smithsonian’s holdings and their display and interpretation should remain exclusively in the hands of professionally trained curators and support staff. Anything less would be a betrayal of Smithson, Scopes and the millions who treasure the Smithsonian as one of the world’s greatest cultural assets.
BY PEGGY SANDS
Rose Park in Georgetown is almost always an active place, no matter what time of day or evening. The nearly two acres of public gardens and groomed lawns boast picnic tables spread throughout; tennis, paddle ball and basketball courts and a softball field; two children’s playgrounds, one for older kids and one for toddlers; a small recreation center with a renovated bathroom; and walkways and bikeways along Rock Creek Park on the east and 27th Street on the west.
All of this is enjoyed by residents and guests of all ages — and their many dogs, too, of course.
Settled between the homes of the east side of Georgetown and a few shops, including Stachowski’s butcher shop and deli, a gourmet market, a wine store, a dry cleaner, an antiques shop, a boutique hotel and the French restaurants on P Street, the updated park is experiencing a kind of renaissance.
The area was once known as Herring Hill, a historically Black community.
“It’s 100 years old now, and we’re going to celebrate!” Friends of Rose Park President Gail Daubert told The Georgetowner. “The fundraiser gala is being planned for Sept. 25 at a supporter’s waterfront home at Georgetown’s [Washington] Harbour. Time and place will be revealed to those who sign up.”
Almost every amenity in the park has been refurbished and upgraded in the past 10 years, thanks to the support of residents and the agencies that have joint jurisdiction over the park: the National Park Service and the District Department of Parks and Recreation.
Rose Park was one of the first District parks
to be completely desegregated in the 1930s. In 2014, a memorial was dedicated honoring Rose Park’s two most famous African American tennis players and coaches, the Peters sisters, who lived on the 2700 block of O Street, won national championships in doubles and taught generations of Washingtonians — Black and white — to play.
“Now, the needs for improvements in the park are a little more mundane, but crucial preservation for the next generation,” Daubert said. With increased use by picnickers and snackers at the weekly Wednesday market, garbage bins are often full, and the rats of D.C. have noticed.
“New trash bins with side disposals and pedal openers are solving the problem in other public areas and we hope to help purchase some for Rose Park,” said Daubert. “The allegedly rat-proof bins cost about $4,600 apiece.”
The Friends of Rose Park organization also seeks funds to increase plantings and maintenance of park trees, rose bushes and a long-dreamed-of shade garden. Another goal: more benches along the walkways.
“We’re hoping to broaden the community of Rose Park board members and donors as well,” said Daubert. The group is seeking active young parents, who increasingly use the park, and members who could help with social media communications.
“It’s actually a fun board,” she said of the Friends group. “We don’t meet very often, sometime on the fly to plan exciting new ideas.” Those interested can find board members at the Wednesday afternoon market or by emailing them at contact@roseparkdc.org.
BY PEGGY SANDS
Since 1989, with strong support from the Georgetown community, Trees for Georgetown has planted and cared for more than 3,000 trees on the streets of Georgetown. Its mission is to maintain the tree canopy on the neighborhood’s residential streets. The group has watered trees in times of drought; inoculated elm trees against Dutch elm disease on Q Street, prolonging their lives; and removed dead trees and stumps to make way for new trees.
The annual Trees for Georgetown Garden Party will take place on Sunday, Sept. 14, from 6 to 8 p.m. This special evening offers friends and neighbors the opportunity to gather to celebrate and support the preservation of Georgetown’s tree canopy. The proceeds fund the long-term care of residential street trees throughout the community.
The fiscal agent for Trees for Georgetown is Casey Trees, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that works to restore, enhance and protect the tree canopy of Washington, D.C., through tree planting, education, community action and land preservation. For more information, email treesforgeorgetown@gmail.com.
GEORGETOWN ART ALL NIGHT
Friday, Sept. 12
This family-friendly event, with live music, art exhibits and interactive workshops, runs from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. along Wisconsin Avenue between N and R Streets. Sites include the Georgetown Neighborhood Library, Addison/Ripley Fine Art and Klagsbrun Studios. Visit georgetownmainstreet.com.
AUTHOR BRIGID SCHULTE
Tuesday, Sept. 16
Best-selling author Brigid Schulte celebrates the paperback release of “Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life” from 6 to 7 p.m. at M.M.LaFleur, 1424 K St. NW. Visit Eventbrite.
CAG COCKTAIL PARTY FUNDRAISER
Thursday, Sept. 18
The Citizens Association of Georgetown’s annual fall fundraiser will be held at Sequoia, 3000 K St. NW, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. This year’s theme is “Embrace the Past and Shape the Future.” Visit cagtown.org.
YOGA WITH CATS Sunday, Sept. 21 Meow Maison, 1336 Wisconsin Ave. NW, hosts a beginner-friendly yoga class surrounded by adoptable cats from 10 to 11 a.m. Visit meowmaison.com.
ANC 2E MONTHLY MEETING
Monday, Sept. 29
Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E, representing Georgetown, Burleith and Hillandale, will hold its next meeting at 6:30 p.m. at Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School, 1524 35th St. NW, and via Zoom. Visit anc.dc.gov.
OLD GEORGETOWN BOARD Wednesday, Oct. 1
The Old Georgetown Board–Commission of Fine Arts will meet at 9 a.m. at 401 F St. NW, Suite 312. The filing deadline is Sept. 11. Meeting documents are posted on the Monday afternoon prior to the meeting. Visit cfa.gov.
BY ROBERT DEVANEY
On Aug. 20, chef Jenn Crovato opened her new 1310 Provisions market within her 1310 Kitchen & Bar on Wisconsin Avenue at the Georgetown Inn. Crovato offers an alternative focused on ethically sourced ingredients, healthy options and affordability. This corner of culinary convenience operates Monday through Friday with its own dedicated entrance.
IN: AMORINO GELATO AT 34TH & M
Amorino Gelato al Naturale opened on Aug. 15 in the space formerly occupied by the Georgetown Running Co. — and, before that, Poseurs bar and Old Mac’s — at 3401 M St. NW. Founded in Paris in 2002 by childhood friends Cristiano Sereni and Paolo Benassi, the company sells 36 flavors of authentic, rose-shaped Italian artisanal gelato and sorbet, as well as gelatofilled macarons, waffles, crepes, affogato, milkshakes, coffee, tea and hot chocolate.
IN: ORNARE OPENS ON SEPT. 25
Ornare, the Brazilian brand recognized for its custom cabinetry and luxury interior solutions, will open its newest showroom and first in Washington, D.C. — on Sept. 25 at 3340 Cady’s Alley NW.
“Opening a showroom in Washington, D.C., is a major milestone for us,” said Ornare founder and CEO Murillo Schattan. “D.C. is such an important city globally, and it’s always been our dream to have a presence here.”
Bigger and better
Flor. Coffee + Books, a Buenos Airesinspired, 28-seat café and bookshop, opened on Aug. 18 at 1220 31st St. NW, just above M Street. Chef Jovana Urriola offers
Argentinian empanadas, chipás, medialunas, sandwiches and bowls. Created by author Florencia Agrazo and her partner Marco Ferrario, the shop offers specialty coffees, including its own blend, Flower Power.
Another cult favorite has arrived in Georgetown. Andy’s Pizza opened at 1065 Wisconsin Ave. NW in the former Baker’s Daughter café spot. The pizza is New York style: 18-inch pies with top ingredients. In 2019, Andy Brown opened his first pizzeria in Tysons Corner. There are now nine spots in the DMV.
IN: CITIBANK CUTS THE RIBBON
Citibank celebrated the grand opening of its flagship Georgetown Citibank Center at 1258 Wisconsin Ave. NW with a ribbon-cutting ceremony, bringing together nonprofit and
community leaders, clients and Citi colleagues.
“The Georgetown Citibank Center offers clients a more personalized full-service banking experience and will serve the region as a vibrant hub for community engagement,” said Mindy Mercaldo, head of Citi’s U.S. branch network.
IN: VICTORIA’S SECRET
After a 13-year absence, Victoria’s Secret has returned to Georgetown at 1220 Wisconsin Ave. NW. The building formerly held a Massimo Dutti shop that closed in 2019. Founded in 1977, the company sells women’s lingerie, activewear, sleepwear and beauty products (if you haven’t heard).
IN: IT’S A SECRET MED SPA
Somebody else’s secret: It’s a Secret Med Spa has opened at 1365 Wisconsin Ave. NW. The corner building previously housed a BB&T Bank. Medical spa procedures available include botox, filler, laser treatments and facials. The company has 14 other locations in Texas, Arizona and Chicago.
Milo & Mav, a coffee shop and dog boutique, will be sitting up — we mean setting up — in Georgetown Court at 3206 N St. NW, Suite C-600A, next to Sid Mashburn and up the steps from Georgetown Veterinary Hospital.
Lil Sweet Treat, founded by Elly Ross in New York, is coming to 3285 M St. NW. Expect high-end gummies from Sweden, Belgium, Spain, Germany and elsewhere that you select and shovel into a bag to be weighed.
“Bringing the Streets of India to Washington DC!” Delhi Belly plans to open at 1560 Wisconsin Ave. NW, formerly home to Oakberry, La Jolie Bleue, Bharati and, earlier, Dolcezza Gelato.
Sacré bleu! One of Georgetown’s beloved sweet spots is défunte. Pâtisserie E. Ladurée, commonly known as Ladurée, opened in April of 2017 at 3060 M St. NW and quietly departed last month. The French macaron emporium, which began in Paris in 1862, is one of the best-known bakeries in the world.
Cavit Ozturk, owner of the eatery at 1834 Wisconsin Ave. NW, tell us: “After 25 years as the owner of Cafe Divan, I have come to the conclusion that it is time to move on. I have loved every minute of working with you to provide the best of Turkish food.” According to Ozturk, the restaurant will be under new management in a few weeks.
Little Words Project, the playful bracelet shop at 1246 Wisconsin Ave. NW, closed last month. The business “aims to inspire and encourage people to be kind to themselves and to pay that kindness forward, one bracelet at a time.”
The clothing line and multi-label designer boutique at 1511 Wisconsin Ave. NW has closed — but remains as an online store.
Smoothie King has left 3122 M St. NW after two years. Founded in Kenner, Louisiana, in 1973, Smoothie King is now South Korean owned, with 1,000 locations worldwide.
Macarons in a dozen flavors and gourmet coffee are the specialties of this upscale, elegant bake shop, located at 3270 M St. NW in the Georgetown Park retail complex.
An Evening with Elizabeth Gilbert Sun, Sept 21
Black Violin –Full Circle Tour with Amythyst Kiah Thu, Sept 25
Hiromi’s Sonicwonder Fri, Sept 26
Lizz Wright Sun, Oct 5
Joss Stone Less Is More Thu, Oct 9
Soweto Gospel Choir Peace Fri, Oct 10
Disney’s MOANA Live-To-Film Concert
The North American Tour Sun, Oct 12
Ben Folds and a Piano Tour with Lindsey Kraft Wed, Oct 15
Gipsy Kings
Featuring Nicolas Reyes Thu, Oct 16
Chris Thile Fri, Oct 17
Patty Griffin & Rickie Lee Jones Fri, Oct 24
An Afternoon with David Sedaris Sun, Oct 26
Compagnie Hervé KOUBI Sol Invictus Thu, Oct 30
American Railroad Silkroad Ensemble featuring Wu Man Sun, Nov 16
Mannheim Steamroller Christmas by Chip Davis Fri, Nov 28
A Swingin’ Little Christmas!
Starring Jane Lynch featuring Kate Flannery & Tim Davis with The Tony Guerrero Quintet Sat, Nov 29
Dave Koz and Friends Christmas Tour 2025 featuring: Jonathan Butler with special guests: Haley Reinhart, Casey Abrams, and Kayla Waters Thu, Dec 4
Lea Salonga Stage, Screen and Everything in Between Sat, Dec 6
Sean Heely’s Celtic Christmas Thu, Dec 11
Béla Fleck and The Flecktones Jingle All The Way featuring Victor Wooten, Roy “Future Man” Wooten & Howard Levy with special guests Jeff Coffin & Alash Sun, Dec 14
¡Adelante! GALA Hispanic Theatre presents Manuel Puig’s “El beso de la mujer araña/Kiss of the Spider Woman,” directed by José Luis Arellano (through Sept. 28).
Theatre Alliance is part of the “rolling world premiere” of “Fire Work,” Mary Glen Fredrick’s play about labor, power and community, directed by Shanara Gabrielle (through Sept. 21). Next: the lyrical “Furlough’s Paradise” by a. k. payne, directed by Autumn Angelettie (Oct. 30 to Nov. 23).
At the Atlas Performing Arts Center: Songs of the Goat’s “Antigone,” translated by Anne Carson and directed by Kate Debelack (through Sept 14); and ExPats Theatre’s “Cold Country” by Relo Finger, translated and directed by Karin Rosnizeck, set in a Swiss village (Sept. 27 to Oct. 19).
Also at the Atlas, directed by Mosaic Theater Company Artistic Director
Reginald L. Douglas: Kareen Fahmy’s “Dodi & Diana,” in which astrological doubles
Call it Ibsen Autumn. Theater J, at the Edlavitch DC Jewish Community Center, presents Amy Herzog’s adaptation of “An Enemy of the People,” directed by János Szász (Oct. 29 to Nov. 23).
In “The American Five,” by Chess Jakobs at Ford’s Theatre, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Bayard Rustin, Stanley Levison and Clarence B. Jones plan the March on Washington. Aaron Posner directs (Sept. 19 to Oct. 12).
If you’re near Herndon: NextStop Theatre presents “Dream Hou$e” by Eliana Pipes, directed by Dylan Arredondo, in which Latina sisters try to sell their house on a reality show (Sept. 11 to Oct. 5).
Since the second Gilded Age has arrived, it’s time to hear from Sam Clemens, as portrayed by Richard Thomas in “Mark Twain Tonight!” at The National Theatre (Sept. 20 and 21).
In “The Heart Sellers” by Lloyd Suh, directed by Danilo Gambini at Studio Theatre, two
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of Dodi Fayed and Princess Di await a convergence (through Oct. 5).
“The Inheritance, Parts One and Two,” Matthew López’s pair of plays inspired by E. M. Forster’s 1910 novel “Howards End,” is at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, directed by Tom Story (through Oct. 19).
In Staunton, the American Shakespeare Center is mounting “Romeo and Juliet,” directed by K.P. Powell (through Nov. 15) and “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” directed by Aidan O’Reilly (Sept. 11 to Nov. 15).
“Everything Is Wonderful” at The Keegan Theatre! Chelsea Marcantel’s powerful Amish drama is directed by Josh Sticklin (Sept. 13 to Oct. 5).
Folger Theatre steps up with “Julius X,” Al Letson’s re-envisioning of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar,” directed by Nicole Brewer (Sept. 23 to Oct. 26).
Celebrating 40 years, Shakespeare Theatre Company kicks off a manysplendored season in Harman Hall with “Merry Wives,” Jocelyn Bioh’s Bard-aptation, directed by Taylor Reynolds (through Oct. 5) and Henrik Ibsen’s “The Wild Duck” in the Klein Theatre, adapted by David Eldridge and directed by Artistic Director Simon Godwin (Oct. 18 to Nov. 16).
Asian immigrants meet on Thanksgiving Day in 1973 (Sept. 24 to Oct. 26). Then, set in the D.C. suburbs of the 1960s, ’70s, ’80s and ’90s, “Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions” is the latest from Paula Vogel. Margot Bordelon directs (Nov. 12 to Dec. 21).
In Reggie D. White’s “Fremont Ave.,” directed by Lili-Anne Brown at Arena Stage, “three generations of Black men face off at the card table” (Oct. 8 to Nov. 23).
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s “Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus” was published anonymously in 1818, when she was 20. Rising up right after Halloween at Synetic Theatre: Nathan Weinberger’s adaptation, directed by Paata Tsikurishvili with choreography by Irina Tsikurishvili (Nov. 1 to 23).
Irish contemporary arts center Solas Nua brings Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s dark comedy “Lie Low” to the Atlas, directed by Rex Daugherty (Nov. 6 to 23). And a small office in Idaho appears on H Street NE when Mosaic presents the world premiere of “A Case for the Existence of God” by Samuel D. Hunter, directed by Danilo Gambini (Nov. 13 to Dec. 7).
On a lighter note: “Ho Ho Ho Ha Ha Ha Ha” by Julia Masli, co-directed by Masli and Kim Noble at Woolly Mammoth (Nov. 13 to Dec.
21). Neil Simon fans can cross the Potomac for “Lost in Yonkers” at The Little Theatre of Alexandria, directed by Chantale Plante (through Sept. 27).
Is it musicals you crave? The Kennedy Center is alive with “The Sound of Music” (through Oct. 5). Batter up at Arena Stage for an updated, relocated adaptation of “Damn Yankees” — subbing the Orioles for the Senators — directed and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo (through Nov. 9). “The Pirate Ballad of Bonny & Read,” a world-premiere musical by Vanessa Marosco and Peter Simon Hilton, sails into ASC, directed by Allie Babich (Oct. 16 to Nov. 16). Sandy, Danny and Rizzo are back in “Grease,” directed by Frank D. Shutts II, with music director Mark Deal
and choreographer Suzy Alden, at The Little Theatre of Alexandria (Oct. 25 to Nov. 15).
Punk rock comes to The Keegan with “Lizzie the Musical,” as in Borden (Oct. 31 to Nov. 30). And heading to The National: “Hadestown,” Anaïs Mitchell’s post-apocalyptic retelling of Greek myth (Nov. 18 to 23).
For the kids: Jonathan Rockefeller’s “The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show” at Bethesda’s Imagination Stage, based on Eric Carle’s books and directed by Nikki Mirza (Sept. 17 to Oct. 12); the world premiere of Cornelia Cody’s “Héctor, el niño eléctrico/The Electric Kid,” directed by Mauricio Pita, at GALA (Oct. 18 to Nov. 1); “Fábulas Fairytales” (Oct. 29 to 31) and “New Squid on the Block” (Nov. 12 to 14) at the Smithsonian’s Discovery
Theater; and, in The Kennedy Center’s Studio K, Treehouse Shakers’ “Flutter,” introducing babies and toddlers to the seasons (Nov. 7 to 9).
Probably not for the kids: The International Nerdlesque Festival at the Atlas, “Where pop culture, fandom and striptease collide” (Sept. 12 and 13); and “Planes, Trains, and ???: The Unauthorized Improv and Musical Parody,” in The Kennedy Center Family Theater, oddly enough (Nov. 7 and 8).
A rare opportunity at the National Museum of Asian Art: I Gusti Putu Sudarta performs a Balinese Wayang Kulit shadow play accompanied by members of Gamelan Raga Kusuma (Sept. 28).
Meanwhile, in the Ken Cen Theater Lab, “Shear Madness” never ends (Oct. 7 to Sept. 30).
This Saturday, Dance Place’s Spirit Week festival finishes with “classes and storytelling circles with legendary DMV Dance Elders, pop-up performances every hour and a block party” (Sept. 13). Coming in early October: Lionel Popkin (Oct. 3 and 4).
Côté Danse performs “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark” in Wolf Trap’s Filene Center in Vienna (Sept. 17).
The place to be for National Dance Day is the Reach at The Kennedy Center
(Sept. 20). Next month, the Opera House welcomes the Stuttgart Ballet, performing John Cranko’s “Onegin” (Oct. 8 to 12), Sergio Buŝlje leads the Pan American Symphony Orchestra in “Tango of the Americas” in the Terrace Theater (Oct. 11) and Bodytraffic presents “This Reminds
Commissioning Project awardee, Chitra Subramanian (Nov. 8 and 9).
For the kids in the Family Theater: “Little Murmur,” a solo dance work about living with dyslexia by Aakash Odedra (Oct. 25 and 26); and “Pulse,” a world premiere by Company | E about our living planet (Nov. 1 and 2).
Me of You,” a program of works by Juel D. Lane, Trey McIntyre and Matthew Neenan, in the Eisenhower Theater (Oct. 29 and 30).
Also in the Terrace: this year’s Local Dance
Following “Dance For All” performances at CityCenterDC (Sept. 26 and 27), The Washington Ballet opens its season with “Moving Forces,” a program of works by
Justin Peck, Dwight Rhoden, Christopher Wheeldon and Artistic Director Edwaard Liang in the Eisenhower (Oct. 24 to 26).
Chamber Dance Project presents “an exploration of music, movement and cultural heritage,” featuring Charlton Singleton’s work for string quartet, “Testimony,” and dances choreographed by Christian Denice, at the Lyceum in Alexandria (Oct. 23).
Dance companies at George Mason University’s Center for the Arts in Fairfax: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago (Oct. 25) and Limón Dance Company (Nov. 1).
Coming in November: Moveius Contemporary Ballet’s seasonopening show (Nov. 8, 9 and 14).
Washington National Opera Artistic Director Francesca Zambello directs Verdi’s “Aida,” conducted by Kwamé Ryan with “hieroglyphic and calligraphy-inspired sets from artist Retna.” The singers: Jennifer Rowley and Amber R. Monroe as Aida, Rachann Bryce-Davis and Agnieszka Rehlis as Amneris and Adam Smith and Robert Watson as Radamès (Oct. 24 to Nov. 2).
Artistic Director Tim Nelson directs In Series’ world-premiere staging of Alessandro Stradella’s “St. John the Baptist” with a new English text by Bari Biern (Oct. 2 to 5 at 340 Maple Drive SW; Oct. 10 to 12 at Baltimore Theatre Project).
In Lisner Auditorium, Washington Concert Opera presents Gluck’s “Iphigénie en Tauride” with Kate Lindsey, Theo Hoffman, John Moore and Fran Daniel Laucerica, conducted by Artistic Director Antony Walker (Nov. 23).
Vocal Arts DC opens its season with a Terrace Theater performance by soprano Erin Morley, tenor Lawrence Brownlee and pianist Gerald Martin Moore, followed by dinner at La Bise (Sept. 28). Next in the Terrace, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and pianist Myra Huang (Nov. 4).
Wolf Trap’s Chamber Music at The Barns series presents mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and pianist Kristian Bezuidenhout (Oct. 9).
As part of the NSO season in the Concert Hall: baritone Matthias Goerne and pianist Daniil Trifonov perform Schubert’s “Winterreise” cycle (Oct. 21). Also that night: Duo Atlantis sings an art-song program in the Terrace; and the Russian Chamber Art Society presents a gala concert of arias and duets from Tchaikovsky’s “Queen of Spades” at the Embassy of France (Oct. 21).
Back in the Terrace: a recital by bass-baritone Nicholas Newton, this year’s recipient of the Marian Anderson Vocal Award (Nov. 3).
The Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, DC brings its annual fall cabaret to the Keegan Theatre. Is it “Bawdy”? You bet (Oct. 11).
Washington Master Chorale’s “Sacred Jewel Box” concert features a new work by Christopher Hoh (Oct. 18 at St. David’s Episcopal Church in the Palisades and Oct. 19 at All Saints Church in Chevy Chase). That Sunday, the Cathedral Choral Society’s Steven Fox conducts Mozart’s Requiem (Oct. 19).
“Undas,” the Filipino Day of the Dead, is the theme of The Choral Arts Society of Washington’s fall performance in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall, under the baton of Artistic Director Marie Bucoy-Calavan (Nov. 2).
In Georgetown on the same day: Londonbased Renaissance ensemble Stile Antico in the Dumbarton Concerts series at Dumbarton United Methodist Church; and Trio Mediaeval from Norway at St. John’s Episcopal Church (Nov. 9).
Looking ahead: The City Choir of Washington sings works by Haydn, Mozart and Marianna Martines in the program “An Apartment in Vienna” at the National Presbyterian Church (Nov. 16) and Stanley Thurston’s Heritage Signature Chorale is “Reaching New Horizons” at First Congregational United Church of Christ (Nov. 22).
After the National Symphony Orchestra’s tributes to John Williams and Steven Spielberg (Sept. 11 to 13), the Bee Gees (Sept. 16 and 17) and “The Princess Bride” (Sept. 23 and 24), Yuja Wang hits the Kennedy Center Concert Hall piano bench to play Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 at the gala (Sept. 27). The following week, Music Director Gianandrea Noseda leads a program including Mélanie Hélène “Mel” Bonis’s “Three Dances,” the complete Ravel ballet “Daphnis et Chloé” and Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Simon Trpčeski (Oct. 2 to 4). Ex-Music Director Christoph Eschenbach conducts an all-Beethoven program, including the Violin Concerto with Isabelle Faust (Oct. 16, 18 and 19).
Joshua Bell plays Saint-Saëns’s Violin Concerto No. 3 at the Baltimore Symphony
Britain’s Philharmonia Orchestra, directed by Santtu-Matias Rouvali, at Strathmore, performing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major with Víkingur Ólafsson and works by Sibelius and Gabriela Ortiz (Oct. 27).
Segueing to chamber music: The Phillips Collection’s Sunday Concerts sell out early, but you can try for rush tickets in-person, by phone or online the Friday afternoon before or, failing that, in-person standby tickets one hour before. First up is the American Brass Quintet (Sept. 28).
Cello at The Kennedy Center: Young Concert Artists presents James Baik in the Terrace Theater (Sept. 30); in the Family Theater, puppet artist Scottie Rowell and NSO cellist David Teie perform “Super Cello!” (Oct. 18 and 19). Also in the Terrace, the Kennedy Center Chamber Players (Nov. 2).
Catch the Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Orchestra’s season-opening gala at Strathmore, conducted by Music Director Jonathon Heyward (Sept. 19). The following Saturday’s concert, with Heyward on the podium, features pianist Inon Barnatan, violinist Stefan Jackiw and cellist Hayoung Choi playing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto (Sept. 27). In Poe-tober, Heyward conducts Mark Simpson’s “Israfel,” based on Edgar’s angelic poem, plus Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with Francesca Dego and Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique” (Oct. 23).
Michael Repper conducts a performance by The National Philharmonic, also in residence at Strathmore, of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 and works by two Coleridge-Taylors, Samuel and Avril, with violinist Curtis Stewart (Sept. 20). The Washington Chorus joins in for “One Song: Exultávit!,” conducted by the chorus’s Artistic Director Eugene Rogers, a program of Bach’s Magnificat in D Major and Reena Esmail’s “This Love Between Us,” featuring tabla player Amit Kavthekar and sitarist Rajib Karmaker (Oct. 25).
Led by Artistic Director Victoria Gau, Capital City Symphony exhorts us to “Persist!” at its season-opener at the Atlas. The program includes Valerie Coleman’s “Fanfare for Uncommon Times,” the overture to Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture” and Symphony No. 5 (Oct. 5).
Washington Performing Arts presents
Chamber Ensemble at GMU (Oct. 3).
The Smithsonian Chamber Music Society’s season starts with the Smithsonian Consort of Viols (Oct. 5) and Winds of the Smithsonian Academy Orchestra (Nov. 2), both at the National Museum of American History.
Performers brought to you by Washington Performing Arts (other than pianists, see below): Third Coast Percussion with Salar Nader on tabla in Lisner Auditorium (Oct. 18); Twincussion at Sixth & I (Nov. 8); and onename-only violinist Midori with pianist Ieva Jokubaviciute, also at Sixth & I (Nov. 15).
Have you experienced the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium? Upcoming opportunities: Consone Quartet playing Haydn and Mozart with fortepianist Kristian Bezuidenhout (Oct. 17); Simone Dinnerstein, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Katherine Needleman and the Baroklyn ensemble playing Bach (Oct. 29); and Mexican percussion ensemble Tambuco (Oct. 30).
The Dumbarton Concerts season begins with Cuarteto Latinoamericano’s farewell tour (Oct. 25).
The Music at Dumbarton Oaks series sounds off with cellist Eric Jacobsen & Friends, this year’s friends — performing works by Mozart, Beethoven, Villa Lobos and Alex Sopp — being violinist Austin Wulliman, violist Kyle Armbrust and Sopp himself, a flutist and singer (Oct. 26 and 27).
Folger Consort collaborates with Folger Poetry to present “Virtuosos of Violin and Verse,” featuring poet, author and actress Rose Solari (Nov. 7 to 9).
Ángel Gil-Ordóñez’s PostClassical Ensemble returns to the Terrace with “The Pale Blue Dot: A Musical Voyage Inspired by Nature.” With The Children’s Chorus of Washington, PCE performs works by Debussy, Delibes, Grieg, Virgil Thomson and “Lord of the Rings” composer Howard Shore (Nov. 19).
Pianists: At GMU, Jeffrey Sigel gives “Keyboard Conversations” concerts focusing on Beethoven (Sept. 14) and Chopin (Oct. 12). Washington Performing Arts’ Hayes Piano Series presents Avery Gagliano in the Hopkins Bloomberg Center Theater (Oct. 25). The NSO hosts Alexandre Kantorow in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall (Nov. 1). Then, in the Library of Congress’s Coolidge Auditorium and Whittall Pavilion: a recital of works by Pierre Boulez, Nikolai Obukhov and Sir George Benjamin by Pierre-Laurent Aimard (Nov. 14).
Save the dates for GALA’s XXI Fuego Flamenco Festival (Nov. 6 to 9, 14 to 16 and 21 to 22).
Summer lasts longer at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, which is hosting the
Music Festival with Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Sheryl Crow and others (Sept. 14) and the three-day All Things Go Music Festival (Sept. 26 to 28).
More music outdoors: Washington Performing Arts presents “Tregaron Unplugged” at Tregaron Conservancy (Oct. 4).
A few of Strathmore’s fall notables: Joss Stone (Oct. 9), Ben Folds (Oct. 15), Chris Thile (Oct. 17), Patty Griffin and Rickie Lee Jones (Oct. 24) and octogenarian keyboard master Herbie Hancock (Nov. 1).
All roads lead to Alexandria, where The Birchmere’s lineup includes: The Robert Cray Band (Sept. 24), The Wallflowers (Sept. 26 and 27), trumpeter Arturo Sandoval (Sept. 28), bluegrassers Sierra Hull and John Craigie (Oct. 8), Squirrel Nut Zippers (Oct. 21), Thomas Dolby (Oct. 23), Jeffrey Osborne (Oct. 24 and 25), Kathy Mattea (Oct. 30) and ex-Monkee Micky Dolenz (Nov. 6).
Wolf Trap’s season in the Filene Center wraps up with Maren Morris (Sept. 12),
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Ziggy Marley and Burning Spear (Sept. 18) and Steve Winwood (Sept. 20). The Barns open their doors with Noel Paul Stookey of Peter, Paul, and Mary (Oct. 16).
At Capital One Arena, Adam Sandler sings “You’re My Best Friend” (Sept. 27). Then, talk about a fearsome foursome: Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Gladys Knight and Stephanie Mills, aka The Queens! (Oct. 3). Fall marches on with Druski (Oct. 9), K-Poppers Seventeen (Oct. 29 and 30) and Playboi Carti (Nov. 11).
Brazilian series (Sept. 10 to 12), a Chilean series (Sept. 17 to 21), an Argentinean series (Sept. 22 to 26) and a Cuban series (Oct. 14 to 19). Also: the Mike Stern Band (Sept. 27 and 28), the U.S. Army Blues with trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis (Oct. 23), Delfeayo Marsalis with the Paul Carr Quartet (Oct. 24) and Eliane Elias (Nov. 8 and 9). Plan to stop in during Hammond B3 Week (Nov. 10 and 12 to 15). (Whaddaya mean, what’s a Hammond B3?)
For Big Band lovers: the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, led by Charlie
Garbage is coming to The Anthem (Sept. 17), and so are: David Byrne (Sept. 27 and 28), Iggy Pop (Sept. 29), Addison Rae (Sept. 30), Lorde (Oct. 4 and 5), The Psychedelic Furs with Gary Numan (Oct. 15), Modest Mouse (Oct. 18), Cage The Elephant (Oct. 26), Jon Batiste (Oct. 31) and Halsey (Nov. 4).
The Howard Theatre welcomes B.o.B. (Sept. 20), Stereolab (Sept. 23), Jesse McCartney (Sept. 30 and Oct. 1), Lil Tracy (Oct. 5) and Jessie J (Nov. 7).
Then there’s The Warner Theatre, presenting Marisela (Sept. 26), Elvis Costello & The Imposters (Sept. 29), Ali Sethi (Oct. 5), Yes (Oct. 11), Gov’t Mule (Oct. 31) and jazz vocalist Samara Joy (Nov. 12).
Speaking of jazz, over at Georgetown’s Blues Alley, Harry Schnipper has put together a
Young, lets loose with a “Jazz and the Armed Services” program at the National Museum of American History (Nov 8); and the Glenn Miller Orchestra serenades the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater (Oct. 17).
Hip hop is still popping into The Kennedy Center Concert Hall, with Tyrese (Oct. 17) and Noochie’s “Live from the Front Porch” (Nov. 9).
Quite a mix at Lisner Auditorium: Iranian Armenian musician Martik (Oct. 11), Russian rockers Mashina Vremeni (Oct. 12) and Pakistani Sufi singers Fareed Ayaz and Abu Muhammad Qawwals (Nov. 1).
Is it pop? Is it classical? Who knows? But “Disney’s Moana Live-To-Film Concert” is coming to Strathmore (Oct. 12) and The National is presenting “PlayStation the Concert” (Oct. 17 and 18) and “Twilight In Concert” (Oct. 24 and 25).
RENWICK GALLERY THROUGH Sept. 7, 2026
The first exhibition of its kind, “State Fairs: Growing American Craft,” curated by Mary Savig, the Fleur and Charles Bresler Curatorin-Charge for the Renwick Gallery, displays over 240 artworks from the mid-19th century to the present. Among the highlights: the size-96 boots of Big Tex from the State Fair of Texas, flanking the Renwick’s entrance; a life-size butter cow, created on-site by Iowa State Fair official butter sculptor Sarah Pratt; a pyramid of more than 700 glass jars of preserved fruits and vegetables by “canning superstar” Rod Zeitler; and, in the Grand Salon, “Capilla de Maiz (Maize Chapel),” a site-specific installation by Justin Favela. Artists and 4-H clubs from 43 states and tribal nations are represented, with all 50 states represented in a photo gallery. Each gallery considers personal stories of craft found in different areas of the fairgrounds, from the art exhibits and heritage villages to the parades, dairy barns and rodeos.
BY RICHARD SELDEN
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
Sept. 21, 2025 – Jan. 11, 2026
Photography was central to the Black Arts Movement, a cultural and aesthetic movement of the 1960s and ’70s that celebrated Black history, identity and beauty. Besides photographers, its artistic contributors included visual artists, poets, playwrights, musicians and filmmakers. Displaying 150 works by such artists as Billy Abernathy, Romare Bearden, Kwame Brathwaite, Roy DeCarava, Doris Derby, Emory Douglas, Barkley Hendricks, Barbara McCullough, Betye Saar and Ming Smith, the presentation traces the Black Arts Movement from its roots to its lingering impacts. Curated by Philip Brookman, the National Gallery’s consulting curator of photographs, and Deborah Willis, university professor at New York University, where she directs the Center for Black Visual Culture and chairs the photography and imaging department at Tisch School of the Arts, the show will travel to the Getty Museum and the Mississippi Museum of Art in 2026.
Directed and Choreographed by Sergio Trujillo
November 23, 2025
Trapped by fate. Freed by compassion. BIZET
The Pearl Fishers
March 14, 2026
Desire. Duty. A bond tested by love.
May 9, 2026
A king torn. A
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS
Sept. 26, 2025 – Jan. 11, 2026
Whether their work was circulated by aristocrats, commissioned by patrons or sold on the open market, women artists molded the world around them in what were known as the Low Countries in the 17th and early 18th centuries. “Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 16001750” showcases paintings, lace, prints, paper cuttings, embroidery and sculpture by more than 40 artists from the areas of present-day Flanders, in Belgium, and the Netherlands — from celebrated painters such as Gesina ter Borch, Judith Leyster and Clara Peeters to unsung women who toiled making exquisite lace. Drawing on recent scholarship, this thematic presentation
considers how status, family and social expectations influenced a woman artist’s training and career choices and shows how women of all classes were part of an artistic economy buoyed by patrons (some of them women) enriched by colonial exploitation and the slave trade.
THE KREEGER MUSEUM
Oct. 16 – Dec. 31, 2025
This presentation of work by Jae Ko, linn meyers, Joyce J. Scott and Renée Stout dovetails with the 2025 group exhibition “Anonymous Was a Woman: The First 25 Years,” curated by Nancy Princenthal and Vesela Sretenović for New York University’s Grey Art Museum. Named for a phrase from Virginia Woolf’s essay “A Room of One’s Own,” the Anonymous Was a Woman grant program for midcareer women artists was established in 1996 by philanthropist and artist Susan Unterberg. The Kreeger exhibition, curated by Sretenović, focuses on recent work by four DMV-based grantees. Ko, a 2012 grant recipient, was born in South Korea and lives and works in Alexandria, Virginia, and Piney Point, Maryland. A 2023 recipient, meyers was born in D.C. and lives and works here and in New York and L.A. Born in Baltimore, where she lives and works, Scott was a 1997 recipient. A 1999 recipient, the Kansas-born Stout lives and works in D.C.
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART
Oct. 18, 2025 – March 1, 2026
“The Stars We Do Not See” offers a rare opportunity to experience some of the most significant examples of modern and contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. The 200-plus works on view, drawn exclusively from the collection of Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria, were created by more than 130 artists. Among them: trailblazing Anmatyerre painter Emily Kam Kngwarray; senior Yolŋu artist Gulumbu Yunupiŋu, known as “Star Lady,” whose works inspired the exhibition title; and contemporary innovators Brook Andrew, Destiny Deacon and Betty Muffler. Curated by Australian Centre for Contemporary Art Artistic Director and CEO Myles RussellCook, former senior curator of Australian and First Nations art at the National Gallery of Victoria, the exhibition presents Australian Indigenous art in all its forms, from ochre bark paintings and experimental weavings to photographs and works of immersive sound and video.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
Oct. 24, 2025 – Jan. 2027
“Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe” is the first major retrospective of the late Hoocąk (Ho-Chunk) artist and former National Museum of the American Indian curator of contemporary art, who was born on a Wisconsin reservation in 1944 and died in 2019. Lowe’s elegant, minimalist sculptures made of willow branches, feathers and other organic materials evoke the rivers, streams and waterfalls of the woodlands where he was raised and the canoes used to traverse them. His sculptures and sensitively rendered pastel and charcoal drawings reflect on cultural traditions, memory and human relationships to place. “Water’s Edge” features nearly 50 of Lowe’s sculptures, drawings and paintings that explore the evolution of and themes within the artist’s work throughout his career. The exhibition brings to light rarely seen monumental works from public and private collections, including more than two dozen from the NMAI’s holdings.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF ASIAN
ART
Nov. 8, 2025
– Feb. 1, 2026
“Korean Treasures: Collected, Cherished, Shared” presents a selection of masterpieces donated to the Korean nation by the family of Lee Kun-hee, the late chairman of Samsung Group, who died in 2020. Spanning ancient times to the present, the objects on view were originally created for a range of settings, including royal palaces, Buddhist temples, Confucian academies, scholars’ studios and modern art spaces. Together, they trace the evolution of Korean innovation, revealing shifts in style, power, belief and technology over time. The voices of those who made, used and collected paintings and objects are displayed through letters, inscriptions and dedications, offering glimpses into their lives and insights into the meanings these objects held before and now. The exhibition will travel to Chicago and London following its premiere in Washington, D.C., where its presentation is supplemented by loans from the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul.
Also of note ...
Through Dec. 7 (ends elsewhere on different dates)
Showing art by over 60 participants, the AU Museum is the central hub for this 16-venue survey curated by Lenny Campello. The mammoth exhibition, featuring hundreds of women artists, is timed to coincide with the university’s biennial Feminist Art History Conference (Sept. 26 to 28).
Through fall 2026
Works by 30 contemporary artists using nontraditional materials and processes — squid ink, Coca-Cola, ostrich eggs, anointing oil, lipstick, discarded metal and animal hides — are on view in more than 20 galleries on the museum’s three floors. Also: “Basil Kincaid: Spirit in the Gift.”
BY RICHARD SELDEN
National Portrait Gallery Director Kim Sajet, who resigned two weeks after being “fired” by President Trump in a May 30 Truth Social post, will start as director of the Milwaukee Art Museum on Sept. 22. Set to open on Sept. 19 at the Portrait Gallery, its third venue, the exhibition “Amy Sherald: American Sublime” — withdrawn by Sherald following a dispute with the Smithsonian over her painting “Trans Forming Liberty” — will instead be presented at the Baltimore Museum of Art from Nov. 2 to April 5. Best known for her portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, Sherald, who earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, won the NPG’s Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition in 2016.
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“The Outwin 2025: American Portraiture Today,” an exhibition of the winning works from the seventh triennial Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, will open at the National Portrait Gallery on Oct. 18, remaining on view through next summer. Organized by Taína
Caragol and Charlotte Ickes, curators at the Portrait Gallery — where the acting director is Smithsonian Under Secretary for Museums and Culture Kevin Gover — the show will display 35 portraits by 36 artists, chosen from more than 3,300 entries. Established in 2006, the competition awards $25,000 and a commission to portray a living American as first prize. The second- and third-place winners receive $10,000 and $7,500, respectively.
Director of Dance Programming Jane Raleigh was fired by Richard Grenell, the Kennedy Center’s Trump-appointed president, on Aug. 21, along with assistant dance programming managers Mallory Miller and Malik Burnet. Possible factors: their unionization activity and the current leadership’s aim to present events of broader appeal. The new director is Stephen Nakagawa, a Washington Ballet dancer since 2020, whose piece “Rising Sun” was premiered by the company the following year. The New York Times reported that Nakagawa wrote to Grenell decrying the “radical leftist ideologies in ballet.” Jeffrey Finn, vice president and executive producer of theater, left the center earlier in August.
The 2025-26 season announcement of Washington Performing Arts notably listed zero events in any of the halls and spaces — Opera House, Concert Hall,
Eisenhower Theater, Terrace Theater, Family Theater, Theater Lab, Millennium Stage and the numerous locations in the Reach — at a venue that was a favored partner in prior seasons: the Kennedy Center. A spokesperson for the prolific music presenter told Washingtonian: “We assessed the variety of artists and performances we have in this upcoming season and decided it was best to explore new spaces that offer
fresh possibilities.” The venues: Strathmore, Lisner Auditorium; Hopkins Bloomberg Center (the ex-Newseum); and Sixth & I.
Based in Arlington, Virginia, WETA, parent of one of the nation’s leading classical music radio stations, 75,000-watt Classical 90.9 FM, has lost roughly $9 million in funding this year and next. The amount is about seven percent of WETA’s budget, according to President and CEO Sharon Percy Rockefeller. The rescission package approved by Congress in mid-July eliminated $1.1 billion in funding from PBS, NPR and their affiliates. Programs of WETA Classical, which switched over from a news-talk format in 2007, include Front Row Washington, NSO Showcase, Choral Showcase and, on Saturday afternoons, Opera Matinee, which presents the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts from December to April. In addition, HD2 Viva La Voce features classical singing. The station will try to make up for the cuts through fundraising.
A Source Theatre tenant since its 2007 founding, Constellation Theatre Company failed to purchase the 120-seat black-box venue at 1835 14th St. NW. On Aug. 13, Theatre Washington posted on Facebook: “We are dismayed by the news that Source Theatre has been sold [for $4.5 million, $400,000 above
Constellation’s offer] by CulturalDC to an affiliated corporation of restaurateurs Geoff Dawson and Curt Large.” CulturalDC and Constellation were unable to resolve issues of financial documentation and restrictions on the building’s possible future sale, with each side blaming the other. Constellation’s last show at Source, “Head Over Heels,” closed on June 1; a new season has not yet been announced.
Children’s theater company Imagination Stage, based in Bethesda, Maryland, was awarded a three-year grant from the Kaiser Permanente Fund at the East Bay Community Foundation in Oakland, California (where the managed care consortium is headquartered). Starting this fall, the new funding will enable Imagination Stage, founded in 1979 as Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts, to bring educational theater programming on the subject of mental health to over 65,000 additional elementary through high school students and educators in markets served by Kaiser Permanente — specifically, along with the Mid-Atlantic region, the states of Georgia, Colorado, California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii.
BY HAILEY WHARRAM
Long before he was a top-ranked real estate agent in the Washington metro area, Christopher Itteilag was a Holy Trinity student who listened closely as his mother negotiated real estate deals for Pardoe-Pardoe & Graham while driving him to school.
He felt confident in his decision. And then the stock market crashed.
In his words: “I remember going to bed that day and thinking, What did I just get myself into? It was a real ‘the sky is falling’-type moment, but I woke up the next day and realized
“My earliest memories of real estate are from when I was around 4 or 5,” Itteilag said. “I would go into the office with my mother and be in the copy room, making photocopies of my hands and face.”
As he advanced from Holy Trinity to Georgetown Prep, Itteilag’s robust real estate education — courtesy of his mother, Nancy — continued alongside his classroom studies. By the time he enrolled at the College of Charleston, he was ready to take the next step: earning his real estate license and joining his mother at Christie’s International Real Estate. Meanwhile, he continued nurturing his diverse academic passions, graduating in 2008 with a degree in geology, Japanese and studio art.
After graduation, Itteilag found himself at a crossroads, having received a variety of job offers, including one from the intelligence community. Still, his heart was set on following in his mother’s footsteps.
this was an incredible opportunity for me.”
Rather than pivoting, Itteilag doubled down, approaching the challenge head-on, with a renewed sense of clarity and purpose.
“In a difficult climate like that, learning how to still put deals together and help your clients succeed was how I learned the business,” he said.
In 2015, Itteilag received a master’s degree in real estate development from Georgetown University, the alma mater of both his parents. Ever the Renaissance man, when he wasn’t writing his thesis on D.C. luxury real estate, he continued to indulge his creative curiosity by studying songwriting under Bill Danoff, the Hoya alum behind hits like “Afternoon Delight” (inspired by a menu item at Clyde’s) and John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.”
“In songwriting, you have a limited amount of time to tell a story, to express something important,” Itteilag said. “Guess what I do in
real estate every day? Tell a story in a limited amount of time.”
With a new degree under his belt, Itteilag joined Washington Fine Properties, where he spent nearly a decade serving clients across D.C., Virginia and Maryland. During that time, he bought back his childhood home and, after several years in Chevy Chase, returned to Georgetown in 2020.
Itteilag has a special term for clients like himself, who move back to Georgetown after leaving for a time: boomerang buyers. He attributes Georgetown’s irresistibility to its status as an “urban village,” a phrase coined by EastBanc CEO Anthony Lanier that reflects Georgetown’s unique blend of metropolitan walkability and residential tranquility.
“There’s really no other area or neighborhood like it,” Itteilag said. “Not just in the United States, but, I would really argue, the world.”
In July, Itteilag became a founding agent of the newest D.C. division of SERHANT. The subject of the Netflix reality show “Owning Manhattan,” SERHANT. is a Manhattanbased luxury real estate company that is
revolutionizing the industry with its innovative marketing strategies and media technologies.
“I really do believe this is the future of our business, and it’s incredibly exciting to help them lead the charge here,” Itteilag said.
In his personal life, Itteilag and his wife, Amanda, recently celebrated another exciting new chapter: becoming parents to their daughter Charlotte.
“I didn’t know how much I would love being a girl dad until I became one, and it’s incredible,” Itteilag said. “Words can’t describe.”
When asked where he sees himself in five years, Itteilag’s response was simple: right here. Through his philanthropic efforts — including a holiday project currently in the works — and his leadership at SERHANT., Itteilag is eager to continue serving the community he loves.
“To quote Bob Dylan, ‘Life isn’t about finding yourself or finding anything. Life is about creating yourself and creating things,’ ” he said. “Every day I’m out there creating, and that is the ultimate success.”
BY CARRINGTON C. TARR
He’s known as the Realtor who bicycles around Georgetown, sporting a bow tie and Panama hat, but lately Jamie Peva has acquired a more unlikely identity: social media influencer.
Since last November, his eponymous Instagram account has been filled with pithy stories of Georgetown houses, their history and the people associated with them. The star of the show is Peva himself, who stands in front of each structure and rattles off facts and figures like an avuncular tour guide.
Yet he credits the account’s popularity — it currently boasts almost 27,000 followers — to his daughter Violet, a social media strategist in New York who, when Peva asked her to help him post his listings, swooped in, put him on camera and started regularly posting 90-second reels.
“She’s in charge of it,” Peva said. “I don’t know what she actually does. It’s her baby in a lot of ways.”
“I don’t always fully understand what he’s talking about,” Violet Peva said, adding that she has loved learning about the historic neighborhood she grew up in. “He does all the research and creates the story, then I transform it into the story for Instagram. He rambles and I just kind of clean it up and keep him in line in the editing process.”
Peva, a history buff, said 33 years of working in Georgetown has yielded a lot of “raw material” about the area. He likes to post unexpected or unusual items, often gleaning tidbits from old newspapers.
“That’s probably my best source for finding random stuff. Most of the time it’s tangential. I’ll be thinking, ‘Oh, there’s a house, I’ll search the address,’” he said. “Then I read about other things in the newspaper.”
He features his own listings, but not exclusively. For instance, in one reel he included the former home of Dean Acheson, President Truman’s secretary of state. It was listed for sale, but through another agent, who he named in the post.
“I try to share the wealth,” Peva said. “It can’t be a self-serving thing. I am a real estate agent and do put mine up, but if there’s an interesting house that’s not my listing, I do it.”
Not surprisingly, he has highlighted Georgetown’s more well-known residents, like former White House counsel C. Boyden Gray, in a post that garnered 350,000 views. A recent “star walk” included the homes of Julia Child, Jackie Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Henry Kissinger and Elizabeth Taylor. He interviewed journalist Sally Quinn about her new book, but only after offering a quick primer on her N Street home’s notable past residents.
Peva has also covered businesses, including Stachowski’s Market, formerly the Griffin Market, at 28th and P Streets, and Tilley’s, the O Street pet shop.
“During the Camelot period, it was a cool little boutique with these ladies and their handbags,” Peva said of Tilley’s. “All these places take on the essence of whatever time period they went through.”
In one post, he even extolled the virtues of Potomac bluestone, the material originally used for Georgetown’s curbs and sidewalks,
ending with a brightly delivered: “How neat!”
This evident enthusiasm — he sprinkles “cool” throughout many posts as well — may be one aspect of his wide appeal. Each reel typically garners at least 10,000 views, according to Peva, no small feat for the bespectacled “guy with the bow tie.” Also unique is having a high concentration of followers from the same area.
“My followers are really engaged,” he said. “I think people are really geared up about Georgetown, about the neighborhood. That’s what it’s really about.”
Longtime Georgetown resident Jane Matz, whose home Peva featured, said she eagerly awaits the latest post and that most people on her block follow the account “religiously.”
“I love it because I learn so much about Georgetown,” she said. Besides admiring his quirky take on history and great delivery, she said, “he always looks very dapper.”
According to Violet Peva, it took a little time to develop the posts’ tone and discern how best to bring out her father’s almost encyclopedic knowledge and singular charm.
“He loves history and storytelling, and I wanted to tap into that,” she said. “He has the history that he’s thinking about in his head as he moves through the modern world. He’s the most curious person I’ve ever met.”
Peva often gets shout-outs from people on the street — “no one ever noticed me before,” he said — as well as requests from residents to research their own houses. Cleo Gewirz, after moving to O Street, became curious about her home’s history.
“I follow him on Instagram and he started doing these little pieces and I would wait for them,” Gewirz said. “I specifically contacted him because I wanted to know when the streets were raised and lowered in Georgetown, because my street was lowered, I believe.”
Peva discovered that one former resident was a bohemian sort who hosted the writer Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas.
“She was this wild chick from the ’20s and ’30s who was obviously a lesbian,” Peva said, “and influenced Gertrude Stein, Hemingway and others.”
Each post contains elements of history, local business or real estate. “Sometimes it’s a little mixture of all, or bait and switch: ‘What do you know, this house is for sale!’” he said with a chuckle.
While his newly found Insta-fame has increased his own sales volume by as much as 20 percent, he said, the most meaningful part of the project is getting to work with his daughter, who drops in monthly to record the reels. The feeling is mutual.
“It’s my favorite job I’ve ever had,” Violet Peva said. “It’s so rewarding to be able to show everyone else my father, who I love so much. He’s just an extra special guy and has a unique way of relating to the world. He has a special vibe to him.”
BY KATE OCZYPOK
This month’s Auction Block features a lithograph by Roy Lichtenstein, a pastel by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, an oil painting on silk by Vietnamese and French artist Le Pho, a pair of hand-painted porcelain vases and an antique pendant necklace.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Pastel on Paper
Sold for: $23,040
Part of Bonhams’ Modern Native American Art & Jewelry auction, this untitled pastel on paper by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith was painted in 1986. Framed under glass, it is inscribed in the lower left corner, “For RC Gorman with admiration,” and signed at lower right, “JQTS Smith.” Smith, who died on Jan. 24, aged 85, was an enrolled citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The highly regarded artist was also an educator, a political activist and a storyteller. and Kootenai Tribes. The highly regarded artist was also an educator, a political activist and a storyteller.
A Pair of Hand-Painted and Gilt Paris
Porcelain Vases
Estimate: $1,000–$2,000
Sold for: $11,520
Part of the Freeman’s | Hindman Collect: Americana auction, this pair of hand-painted porcelain vases sold for over five times the high estimate. One depicts the Marquis de Lafayette and the other Andrew Jackson. The vases, 13 inches tall, were made in Paris around 1830 for the American market. Each has a red-painted accession number reading “83.10.”
“Blonde” from Surrealist Series by Roy Lichtenstein
Estimate: $25,000–$35,000
Sold for: $69,300
Titled “Blonde,” this 1978 lithograph from Roy Lichtenstein’s “Surrealist Series” sold for just under twice its high estimate at Christie’s Contemporary Edition: New York auction. Signed and dated in pencil, numbered 25/38 and published by Gemini G.E.L., the framed piece, in good condition, has Gemini’s stamps on the reverse. A star of the Pop Art movement, painter Roy Lichtenstein died in 1997.
Antique Pendant Necklace
Estimate: $3,000–$5,000
Sold for: $12,800
This antique necklace sold for more than two-and-a-half times its high estimate. The oval pendant displays a pear-shaped turquoise, a cushionshaped ruby and two pear-shaped, rose-cut diamonds. With a chain 19 ¾ inches long, the necklace was the property of a New York art collector.
Estimate: $30,000–$50,000
Sold for: $65,000
This title of this oil painting on silk, mounted on Masonite, translates as “Red Tulips and Apple Blossoms.” Vietnamese and French artist Le Pho developed his technique of painting on silk after a visit to Paris. It allowed him to create subtle, luminous still lifes, mixing Eastern and European influences.
BY EVAN CAPLAN
At the helm of an organization representing one of the most dynamic industries in Washington, D.C., Shawn Townsend, president and CEO of Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington, finds plenty to celebrate about dining in D.C. — while also acknowledging the headwinds that restaurants and bars face in the current social, economic and political climate.
Yet it is resilience and optimism that he brings to the table, ready to serve the service community.
Before joining RAMW in January of 2023, Townsend was director of the D.C. Mayor’s Office of Nightlife and Culture, having served in several prior government affairs and economic development roles.
Pointing out that he occupied the nightlife position during the height of the pandemic, shepherding businesses that were hurting, he said: “I was fortunate to be on the front lines advocating for relief and making sure the hospitality industry’s needs were met despite all the uncertainty.” It was a segue into the RAMW role, in which he works with more than 1,500 member businesses.
From Townsend’s perspective, RAMW’s goal is to “create spaces to nurture that community
while doing the hard work of advocating for policies that strengthen our industry — and opposing those that don’t.”
From exiting the pandemic to today, Townsend notes that the restaurant industry in the D.C. area is facing “an intense series of challenges,
from federal workforce reductions and increased operating costs to policy shifts like Initiative 82.”
Initiative 82 began as a voter-approved ballot initiative in 2022 to phase out the tipped minimum wage, which was to be eliminated completely by 2027; it became law in 2023. However, after difficulty and confusion with implementation — and pushback from stakeholders in the industry — the District Council voted in July to overturn most of Initiative 82, keep the tipped minimum wage and more slowly implement wage hikes.
Regarding the Initiative 82 changes, Townsend said that “the goal for RAMW will always be to support the workers and ensure that restaurants thrive. While Initiative 82 had good intentions, the outcomes became very alarming. After months of advocacy, coalition building and tough conversations over the course of the year, we’re thankful that the Council recognized that the original path forward wasn’t sustainable.”
Townsend stated that “we continue to believe that a full repeal is the clearest and most effective way to address the crisis facing our industry, but the compromise reached does provide immediate relief and a stronger foundation for the future.”
Beyond the challenges surrounding Initiative 82, the city is facing additional headwinds: the deployment of the National Guard to District streets. The original deployment began on Aug.. 11 with 800 troops, and more followed.
Eater cited a report that reservations were down more than 30 percent from this time last year. Restaurant owners and operators were said to be facing quiet patios and subdued dining rooms.
The troop deployment was in effect during Summer Restaurant Week, a RAMW effort to increase dining out during slower periods of the year. Townsend cited an OpenTable report that, while dining numbers have decreased since the beginning of the year, a steeper drop coincided with the National Guard presence.
He remains optimistic for the remainder of the year, however.
“There’s still more work to be done,” Townsend said, “but I’m inspired by how our collective voice is increasingly shaping the legislative and regulatory landscape to help our DMV restaurant industry thrive. We’ll continue to amplify our exceptional dining scene, celebrate our restaurants as anchors of neighborhoods and champion their role as spaces where culture and connection thrive.”
As for finding time himself to try new spots and old favorites: “I’ve had some great meals lately — stops at Café Fiorello, Balos, the Park at 14th and El Presidente. I’ve also been enjoying the fried chicken at Cork Wine Bar & Market and the Fancy Ranch Amish Fried Chicken at Union Market. Over at Marcus DC, the crab rice is incredible.”
“For drinks,” he added, “Ciel and Kata are among the top of my list.”
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BY JODY KURASH
Last month, the White House deployed National Guard troops to the District of Colombia because of alleged lawlessness in the city, even though crime hit a 30-year low last year. Armed military can be spotted around tourist sites and transportation hubs, even picking up trash on the National Mall.
District residents have not taken kindly to this invasion, organizing protests and marches to oppose the deployment and federal control of the city’s police force. A Washington Post poll indicated that around 80 percent oppose the president’s decision to send troops to the city. Many see the deployment as a political power grab by Trump, comparing it to martial law. What if sipping a cocktail were an act of defiance? When France was invaded by the Nazis during World War II, the French people responded in a unique way: they drank a “resistance cocktail.”
German soldiers had confiscated the beloved red wines of Burgundy, leaving the locals shattered and enraged. After the wine was taken, Félix Kir, a priest and resistance fighter, created a new drink by combining the local crème de cassis, a blackcurrant liqueur, with a regional white aligoté wine, which has a dry and acidic flavor profile. The wine
balanced the sweetness of the liqueur, and when the two were mixed the color mimicked the hue of the stolen native treasure.
Soon the locals were downing these red cocktails in an act of opposition, toasting the ingenuity of their favorite priest.
1 PART CRÈME DE CASSIS 4 PARTS DRY WHITE WINE
ADD THE CRÈME DE CASSIS TO THE GLASS, THEN TOP WITH THE WINE.
This rebellious refresher is known today at the Kir cocktail. Father Kir became a heroic figure in the French Resistance and the mayor of Dijon from 1945 to 1968. It is said that Kir aided the escape of nearly 5,000 prisoners of war. Eventually, the Germans caught on to his antics. He was arrested on a couple of occasions and survived an assassination
to popularise the drink among the Hollywood elite.
The Kir evolved into the Kir Royale — essentially the same drink, except it replaces the white wine with Champagne. While the Kir is generally enjoyed as an aperitif before a meal, the “royal” version is often served as a celebratory drink on special occasions.
Versions that swap out the crème de cassis for other fruity liqueurs have come along as well. They include crème de pêche (peach), crème de mûre (blackberry) and crème de framboise (raspberry). One of my favorite variations is made with Chambord.
When mixing these highballs, the general ratio is one part crème de cassis to four parts wine. Be sure to add the liqueur first, as that facilitates the mixing process. If you’re unable to source aligoté wine, try using another dry white such as chablis.
As for glassware, the Kir is traditionally served in a regular white wine glass and the Kir Royale in a Champagne flute. So if you feel annoyed when you see soldiers patrolling M Street or sitting on a bench in a Georgetown park, remember the actions of a brave clergyman and lift a glass in rebellion.
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BY KATE OCZYPOK
A Washington, D.C., outpost of the Hoover Institution, the Stanford University research center and conservative think tank, will soon set up shop at 1128 16th St. NW. Stanford recently filed plans with the District Board of Zoning Adjustment to remodel the 16th Street location, which is expected to include offices and event facilities. Founded in 1919 by Herbert Hoover himself, the Hoover Institution already has a D.C. base at 1399 New York Ave. NW; no word yet on what will happen to that space.
A collective bargaining agreement with the Fraternal Order of Police, DC Police Union, was announced by Mayor Muriel Bowser and Council Chairman Phil Mendelson last week. The agreement provides for a 13-percent
Elias Rodriguez, 31, who fatally shot two Embassy of Israel employees in front of the Capital Jewish Museum on May 21, pleaded not guilty to nine charges, including several that could result in the death penalty. Rodriguez shot Sarah Milgrim, 26, and Yaron Lischinsky, 30, as the soon-to-be-engaged pair were leaving an American Jewish Committee event at the museum, located in Capitol Crossing. Caught on security-camera footage, Rodriguez told police he “did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza.”
Covid shots used to be easy to get at your local pharmacy, much like flu shots. No more, due to controversial policy changes by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Current guidelines: Ages 65+
pay raise, going into effect on Oct. 1. The mayor also shared new initiatives to recruit and retain officers, such as supporting the removal of the mandatory retirement age and partnering with the University of the District of Columbia to provide college credit for police academy training.
Washingtonian loves to take Halloween costume ideas from the headlines. This year, the magazine has called for the DIY costume to be D.C.’s “Sandwich Guy,” aka Sean Charles Dunn, who threw a sub at a Customs and Border Protection agent. Dunn was charged with misdemeanor assault (a grand jury chose not to indict him on the initial felony charge). Street art depicting the local hero — in a pink-collared shirt, khaki shorts and a sandwich in hand, then not in hand — is found throughout the city.
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BY KATE OCZYPOK
Meet our first sports column profile subject: Hilary Phelps.
Phelps, sister to 23-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps, grew up in Towson, Maryland. At one point, she was the fastest distance swimmer in the country for her age. She later went on to swim Division 1 at Richmond University, but partying got in the way. (Eventually, her drinking led her to Alcoholics Anonymous, which she credits for saving her life, according to Today.com.)
Here, Phelps shares her favorite healthy meal and workout advice. You can follow her on Instagram at @ hilaryphelps_ and on TikTok at @hilary_ phelps.
What is your favorite healthy meal?
My favorite meal is an arugula salad with roasted chicken and a simple homemade dressing of just lemon, sea salt and olive oil. It’s fresh, nourishing and easy to throw together. I love meals that feel both grounding and energizing, and this hits both. Also, homemade butternut squash soup is perfect as we transition into the cooler temperatures of fall.
Do you have a favorite type of cardio or strength workout? And what advice would you give to someone to get a maximum workout with minimal time?
As a former Division I scholarship collegiate swimmer and Ironman triathlete, my relationship with movement has evolved over the years. These days, I move intuitively, gravitating toward practices like yoga, Pilates and The Class. They’re so powerful in their ability to build strength, connect breath with movement and reset the nervous system.
My advice? Don’t underestimate the impact of 20 intentional minutes. When you’re fully present and moving with purpose, less can be more. Tune into what your body needs. Sometimes that’s a heart-pumping flow and other times it’s grounding stillness. Either way, consistency and self-awareness go further than perfection or performance.
A Washington, D.C., outpost of the Hoover I Here’s our guide to D.C. balls and galas that fall between the September and October print issues of The Georgetowner. Stay tuned for the next round in our Oct. 8 issue!
SEPTEMBER
Saturday, Sept. 13
2025 HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
NATIONAL DINNER
5 p.m., Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW
The Human Rights Campaign’s annual event celebrates advancements in the fight for full LGBTQ equality
Sunday, Sept. 14
THE CAPITAL JEWISH MUSEUM GALA
An embassy in Northwest D.C., shared upon registration
Hosted by Dana Bash, the event, with the theme “Preserving History and Building Bridges,” will honor Esther Safran Foer and David M. Rubinstein
Thursday, Sept. 18 CITIZENS ASSOCIATION OF GEORGETOWN’S FALL FUNDRAISER
6:30 p.m., Sequoia, 3000 K St. NW
“Embrace the Past and Shape the Future” at CAG’s annual fall cocktail party
THE PREVENT CANCER FOUNDATION’S 40TH ANNUAL ANNIVERSARY AND GALA
6 p.m., National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW
This year’s theme is “The United States: Innovation & Inspiration”
48TH ANNUAL CHCI GALA
Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Allen Y. Lew Place NW
Hosted by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute
SOLAS NUA’S 20TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY
6 p.m., King & Spalding, 1700 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 900
Supporting Solas Nua’s ongoing work to bring the best of Ireland to Washington, D.C.
Saturday, Sept. 20
CLOVERLEAF POLO CLASSIC
12 p.m., Great Meadow, The Plains, Virginia
The Cloverleaf Polo Classic is the largest annual fundraising event supporting the mission of Cloverleaf Equine Center
AMERICAN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY GALA
River Farm, 7931 E. Boulevard Drive, Alexandria, Virginia
Celebrating the work of AHS at an event with cocktails, dinner and dancing
Thursday, Sept. 25
FRIENDS OF ROSE PARK GALA
6:30 p.m., The Washington Harbour, 3030 K St. NW
A delightful evening of food, wine and a silent auction
THE BELTWAY BRAWL
7:30 p.m., The Anthem, 901 Wharf St. NW
Boxers raise funds for Haymakers for Hope
Friday, Sept. 26
THE WOLF TRAP BOLLYWOOD BALL
7 p.m., Filene Center, 1551 Trap Road, Vienna, Virginia
A glamorous evening of dinner and dancing on the Filene Center stage, transformed to capture the culture of India
Saturday, Sept. 27
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SEASON OPENING GALA
7 p.m., Kennedy Center Concert Hall, 2700 F St. NW
The National Symphony Orchestra kicks off its 95th performance season
THE 38TH ANNUAL BARK BALL
5:30 p.m., Washington Hilton, 1919 Connecticut Ave. NW
Area residents and their canine companions cheer on the people and animals of our community, benefiting the Humane Rescue Alliance
BREAK THE CYCLE: SOME’S ANNUAL GALA
6 p.m., Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Ave. NW
Break the Cycle celebrates the successes of So Others Might Eat, its clients’ triumphs and the recipients of its highest honors
10TH ANNUAL CBC BLACK AND WHITE GALA
8 p.m., Marriott Marquis, 901 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Honoring the work of the Congressional Black Caucus
OCTOBER
Friday, Oct. 3
A NIGHT OF HOPE: 45 YEARS OF IMPACT 6:30 p.m., InterContinental at The Wharf, 801 Wharf St. SW
Celebrating 45 Years of Community of Hope’s impact on Washington, D.C.
BY KATE OCZYPOK
Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of every disease’s respective “month.” One caught our eyes — and our hearts — recently: Prostate Cancer Awareness Month. Held every September, it helps to raise awareness about the most common nonskin cancer in men worldwide.
This year, we have a personal connection to the disease. Robert Devaney, The Georgetowner’s longtime editor-in-chief, is currently battling it with strength, grit and his
Americans, for instance, should start discussing screening with their primary care doctor at age 45. The bottom line is: to get diagnosed early, men need to be screened.
“We do have a pretty good screening test, a blood test we call PSA that stands for prostate specific antigen,” said Dr. Leger. “It’s a blood test that detects protein in the blood that tells you how likely it is that you have the disease.”
signature sense of humor.
To help raise awareness about the disease — and hopefully help other men understand how to prevent and treat it — we spoke to Paul Denis Leger, MD, MPH, a medical oncologist at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital who is Robert’s doctor.
“The older men get, the higher risk they have of developing prostate cancer,” said Dr. Leger. “If you test every man over 70 or 80 years old, you will find that more than 10 to 20 percent of them will have prostate cancer.”
Most will die of another cause, but the disease is quite prevalent among the aging male population.
Dr. Leger noted some risk factors, such as having a family member with prostate cancer. If a first-degree family member, such as your father, has prostate cancer, you have a higher risk of developing the disease.
The main point to convey, he stressed, is that most men do not know they have prostate cancer, since there are no symptoms in its early stages.
“The only way to get early diagnosis is screening,” said Dr. Leger, who added that he considers the current recommendations regarding screening to be quite weak. Men at average risk should start talking to their primary care doctor about screening at age 50.
There have been some recent changes for those considered higher risk. African
If your test result is outside of the normal range, which is between 0 and 4, or if you have a rapid increase in the number from one year to the next, there is cause for concern. If the result is considered abnormal, patients typically see a urologist to have an MRI, then a biopsy if there is still concern, to confirm or rule out the presence of cancer.
Dr. Leger personally works with prostate cancer support groups, talking about the importance of screening. His research focuses on the innovative treatment of prostate cancer, particularly metastatic cancer. He also works to understand why certain populations are at higher risk and conducts research on treatments to slow down disease progression.
After receiving his medical degree from the State University of Haiti School of Medicine, Dr. Leger completed his residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. A fellowship in hematology oncology at the National Institutes of Health followed.
He chose to pursue a degree in medicine because he likes human contact and improving a patient’s quality of life.
“I am from the developing world, from the island of Haiti, and before I went to cancer, I was a specialist in HIV,” he said. “When I came here, I had to repeat most of my training to be licensed to practice medicine here, so I wanted to try something new.”
Always interested in genetics, he found even more applications of genetics to cancer than to infectious disease, which is why he decided to work in oncology.
“It’s a great adventure and a lot of challenges, but there is gratification knowing that you can make an impact on someone’s life and have an impact on their journey,” he said. “Even when we cannot prolong a patient’s life, we can at least make their journey easier.”
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How a queer Jewish pauper rose to dominate the Great White Way.
Being poor, adopted, gay and Jewish fueled Jeffrey Seller to become a multimillionaire, then spiraled him into psychotherapy, four days a week for 12 years. “I always felt like an outsider,” he writes in his Broadway memoir, “Theater Kid.”
Growing up in “Cardboard Village,” a housing project east of Detroit, young Jeff auditioned for Temple Israel’s annual Purim play, which tells the Old Testament story of Esther, the clever Jewish queen who saves her people from the villain Haman. Too young then, and not yet “out,” the 9-year-old doesn’t audition for the role of Esther. Instead, he’s cast as a sailor in the chorus, and from that experience he falls in love with theater.
The day after the performance, Seller writes a play for himself and his two fourth-grade pals called “Adventureland.” He shows it to his English teacher and begs her to let him stage it. She agrees, recognizing what she calls “a theater kid.” He acts and directs plays throughout grade school, high school and college at the University of Michigan, which he attends on financial aid, and spends his summers as a theater counselor at Camp Tamarack.
While grateful for his first theater experience with the Purim play, Seller remains resentful of the synagogue in Detroit that humiliated him as a have-not. “This wealthy temple that caters to its many affluent members has underscored my shame at being poor and my feeling that I am less than the other kids and families who attend,” he writes, adding: “We were so broke we went on welfare.”
Today, at 60, Seller is worth millions, having produced hugely successful plays such as “Avenue Q” and “In the Heights” and winning four best-musical Tonys. He’s also the only person in Broadway history to have produced two Pulitzer Prize-winning musicals, “Rent” and “Hamilton.” His producing credits include hits like “The Cher Show,” “Sweeney Todd” and “West Side Story” and clunkers like “The Last Ship” with Sting.
While no longer poor and living in the projects, he remains adopted, gay and Jewish, which, he shares, led him into intense psychotherapy, and finally to writing this book. “I wrote it for everybody who has ever felt left out.”
He divides his memoir into three acts, similar to a theater script. Act I features young Jeff, who’s advised by a friend’s mother to introduce himself as Jeffrey because “it sounds better.”
Before he’s in first grade, Seller learns he’s adopted, which he feels isn’t as bad as being poor and living in a “neighborhood where the parents have less: less money, less education, less stability and the kids are deemed less: less smart, less cooperative, less likely to succeed … I want to escape the poverty that entraps me and my dark dour family.” He calls his father “a loser.”
Act II has Seller graduating from college in 1986, heading for New York City and coming out to his parents, who shrug. “It’s like being right- or left-handed,” says his father. But it’s a devastating time for gays, with the onslaught of the AIDS crisis. “It inhibited me physically,” Seller writes. “I was so afraid of death … of getting sick.”
Thomas Mallon also addresses that paralyzing fear in his new book, “The Very Heart of It: New York Diaries, 19831994.” In rereading his extracts of those years, Mallon writes in his preface that “the relentless spread of AIDS constantly thwarted the happy entries,” adding that the deaths of friends and lovers plunged him into a whirlwind of grief and fear. Pages later, he observes: “To think there was a time when Anita Bryant was all we had to worry about.”
for 26 years, and the two children they adopted and raised together.
Act III for Seller whirls him into the stratosphere of financial success, proving his assumption “that I can bend the world to my will if I try hard enough.” Still, he remains so terrified of AIDS that he signs up with the Gay Community Center for a seminar called “Making Safe Sex Fun!” His conclusion? “Bottom line: the connection between sex and death doesn’t go away.” Yet later on he writes in wildly X-rated detail about a sexual encounter with two strangers in a steam bath on his 30th birthday.
Seller sprinkles the book with name-drops, for example: “When our next-door neighbor Kurt Vonnegut stopped by one afternoon for an informal lunch” and “I called Mike Nichols, acquaintance, supporter, friend.” So many names, but no index.
No footnotes or chapter notes either, despite pages and pages of quotes and verbatim recollections of long conversations from his youth, all of which the author attributes to “my phenomenal memory.” Spotlighting his professional achievements, he makes only slight mention of his personal life, including his former lover, Josh Lehrer, with whom he lived
There are, instead, clever one-liners written by a Broadway obsessive. “Going to see the Shuberts [theater owners Bernie Jacobs and Gerry Schoenfeld] is like going to see the Wizard … They remind me of the Muppet Show hecklers, Statler and Waldorf, except they are not even a little bit funny.” The Shuberts’ competitor, Jimmy Nederlander, gets described as “a crap shooter from Guys and Dolls.”
Seller writes that, ultimately, “Theater Kid” is a book for gays who love musicals: “Musicals make me feel good in a way that no other experience can, except sex. There, I said it. Musicals and sex. I can’t live without sex; I can’t live without musicals.”
Kitty Kelley is the author of seven number-one New York Times Best Seller biographies, including “Nancy Reagan,” “Jackie Oh!” and “Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star.” She is on the board of the Independent and is a recipient of the PEN Oakland/Gary Webb Anti-Censorship Award. In 2023, she was honored with Biographers International Organization’s BIO Award, given annually to a writer who has made major contributions to the advancement of the art and craft of biography.
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