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Hit musical ‘Jersey Boys’ returns to National Theatre. Page 35. Exhibit looks at privileged classes. Page 35.

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By DEIRDRE BANNONCurrent Correspondent

The playground at Key Elementary School in the Palisades is looking a little worse for wear, after 15 years of healthy use by a population of students that has near-ly doubled in as many years. So parents and community members have banded together to renovate the equipment and grounds, calling their initiative “Play It Forward.” The Key School’s PTA, with Julie Scott and Jennifer Felten co-chairing the playground committee, is leading the effort. “We’re taking a proactive approach,” said Felten. “The city has poured a lot of money into the

schools, and we’re trying to be good stewards to what has been put into the Key School.” The school and the grounds, at 5001 Dana Place, were designed to accommodate about 225 students.

But Key now has almost 400 stu-dents, and while school leaders con-sider that growth positive, it has also created challenges — for example, the school now houses two fifth-grade classrooms in modular struc-tures in a parking lot once used by teachers. “The school has grown signifi-cantly over the last 10 years, and we have a lot more kids using the space every day,” said Key principal David Landeryou. The lower playground at Key School was built almost 15 years ago, and the field’s artificial turf was installed in 2003, according to Landeryou. Organizers now hope to replace

PTA to ‘Play it Forward’ at Key Elementary

By BRADY HOLTCurrent Staff Writer

Developers of the former Italian Embassy property in the Adams Morgan area received final Zoning Commission approval last Thursday to build more than 100 apartment units on the site. The commission had offered pre-liminary approval for the Il Palazzo project in September, but noted con-cerns about parking and the possibil-ity of future development blocking views from some units. Moving some of the apartments around with-in the building satisfied the commis-sion, which voted 4-0 to let the project move forward. Developers plan to use the exist-ing three-story embassy building and to attach a new eight-story building on the property, which stretches along Fuller Street between 16th Street and Mozart Place. Allison Prince, an attorney for the developers, said she couldn’t com-ment on the timeline for the project. While deliberating the initial

approval, zoning commissioners said they were concerned with plans to put the new eight-story building’s northern wall very close the site’s property line with an adjacent sur-face parking lot. If that parking lot were developed at a similar density, they said, residents of five units could lose their window views. One of the affected units was set aside for the legal affordable-housing require-ment. “I sympathize with the unsus-pecting condo buyer,” commissioner Konrad Schlater said at that meeting. “If it were to happen, I think it would be our responsibility.” In an Oct. 6 submission, develop-ers said pulling back the building

Zoning Commission OKs project at old embassy site

Bill Petros/The CurrentDustin Passigli and Ashley Gomez teamed up to carve a pumpkin Saturday at RIS in the West End. Proceeds from the Halloween celebration will go to DC Central Kitchen.

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Development: Planned addition will rise eight stories

By JESSICA GOuLD Current Staff Writer

Since it first rose on the banks of the Potomac River, the Watergate complex has been associated with power, affluence and — from time to time — scandal. But for the people who live there, it’s simply home. And the Safeway on the ground floor has been an inte-gral part of their lives. “I shopped there as a student. I shopped there as a young profes-sional. And now I shop there as a senior,” said Watergate resident Marija Hughes. That’s why Hughes was so dev-astated to learn that the Safeway will be closing in a matter of months. “I’m fighting it like mad,” she said. According to Safeway spokes-person Craig Muckle, the Watergate Safeway, which opened in 1966, will close its doors Dec. 3. He said the supermarket’s staffers will be assigned to other stores. “Obviously it’s difficult when we close a store,” he said. “We don’t like to do that. We know the store is a vital part of the community.”

Safeway plans to close store at Watergate


A planned high-rise hotel in the West End will likely offer a much-needed improvement to a vacant lot at 22nd and M streets, members of the Zoning Commission said last week. But despite praising many aspects of the proposed Hilton Garden Inn, commissioners at a hearing Thursday said they shared residents’ concerns about traffic con-

gestion from hotel guests unloading their cars on 22nd Street. The Zoning Commission had approved a similar hotel at the 2201 M St. site in 2008, but developers have since said the market no longer can support a boutique hotel with $800-a-night suites. The 10-story building that OTO Development is now proposing is the same size as the previously approved plan, but it has different architecture, fewer parking spaces and more rooms — 238 instead of 170. The hotel would also include a public restaurant and lounge. “We’re confident that our new

Plan for new hotel in West End nets praise Zoning: Panel concerned with 22nd Street traffic issues

Bill Petros/Current File PhotoIl Palazzo will create more than 100 units.

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Library to host talk about mLK site. Page 3. Shootings mar Halloween festivies in Georgetown and elsewhere. Page 8.

NEWS Boy Scouts abroad: With an ambassador’s help, Tenleytown-based Troop 100 buildsconnection with scouts in Africa. 7.

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Wednesday, Nov. 2 The D.C. Office of the People’s Counsel will hold a town-hall meeting on “D.C. Utility Quality of Services and Reliability.” The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Ave. NW.

Thursday, Nov. 3 The Burleith Citizens Association will hold its annual meeting, which will include elections and remarks by Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the student center at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, 3500 R St. NW.

Saturday, Nov. 5 The D.C. Council Committee of the Whole will hold a hearing on “Youth Perspectives on Middle School Education in the District.” The hearing will begin at 10:30 a.m. in Room 500 of the John A. Wilson Building, 1350 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. To testify, contact [email protected]. The Georgetown Senior Center will hold a reopening celebration from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside St. John’s Episcopal Church, 3240 O St. NW. For details, call 202-316-2632.

Wednesday, Nov. 9 The D.C. Public Service Commission will hold a community hearing for Ward 2 res-idents on Pepco’s application to increase distribution service rates and charges for electric service. The hearing will begin at 11 a.m. in the commission’s seventh-floor hearing room at 1333 H St. NW. The Georgetown Business Association and the Georgetown Business Improvement District will hold a forum on “Economic Development in Georgetown.” Speakers will include Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans and at-large D.C. Council member Vincent Orange, as well as Georgetown business and civic leaders. The event will begin at 6:15 p.m. at the City Tavern Club, 3206 M St. NW. Reservations are required; contact Sue Hamilton by Nov. 7 at 202-333-8076 or [email protected]. The Mayor’s Health Reform Implementation Committee will hold a community dia-logue for Ward 2 residents on the future of health care in the District. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Neighborhood Library, 1630 7th St. NW.

Thursday, Nov. 10 The D.C. Lottery and Charitable Games Control Board will hold a Ward 3 communi-ty meeting on plans for iGaming DC, its online gambling program. The meeting will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Palisades Neighborhood Library, 4901 V St. NW. The University of the District of Columbia’s Community-Campus Task Force will hold a meeting. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Room A-03, Building 44, University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW.

The week ahead


Although the Zoning Commission signed off on the University of the District of Columbia’s 10-year development goals over the summer, some D.C. Council members want to make sure the school remains aware of neighborhood concerns. Six members — Ward 3’s Mary

Cheh and each at-large member — signed a Sept. 29 letter to the univer-sity calling for changes to the adopt-ed campus plan in response to ongo-ing neighborhood concerns. The revisions the council members requested include increased parking and a more gradual phase-in of on-campus student housing. “Of course, [university officials] can simply rely on the approvals that they’ve gotten,” Cheh said in an

interview yesterday, “but it would be helpful if they were aware of the issues and react to them.” The university has said it’s look-ing to transition from a commuter school to a respected state institu-tion, using new amenities like dor-mitories to attract more and better students. The Zoning Commission approved immediate construction of a new student center, future devel-

Council members address UDC expansion

By KATIE PEARCECurrent Staff Writer

There will always be a central downtown library, and it always will bear the name of Martin Luther King Jr., but beyond that the future is up in the air, according to city library officials. The D.C. Public Library system and the Downtown Business Improvement District recently enlisted the Urban Land Institute to study the library property at 901 G St. NW with an eye toward new possibilities. An advisory panel from the education and research institute, which the library hired for $125,000, will pres-ent recommendations to the public on Nov. 18. After tackling renovations of the District’s neighbor-hood libraries, the library system is now moving on to planning “the second half of [its] capital campaign,” said spokesperson George Williams. “We’re starting to think about what should happen with the central library.

Is the MLK building as it’s currently configured the best physical plant [for the system]? Is this the best loca-tion?” Developer inquiries about the prime downtown site are “not uncommon,” said Jeff Bonvechio, the library system’s director of capital construction, but he said no specific proposal is motivating these discussions. “We’re not giving the ULI panel any one specific scenario to study,” he said. “We’re asking them to look at … multiple possibilities and potential scenarios.” In the past, those scenarios have included construct-ing a brand-new library on the site of the old convention center (an idea from former Mayor Anthony Williams that ultimately fizzled) and, more recently, moving library functions into the historic Carnegie building at Mount Vernon Square. The current Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, designed by Mies van der Rohe, opened as the

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Cheh, Bowser offer traffic safety bills Two bills to protect pedestrians and cyclists from the city’s often-fierce traffic were introduced in the D.C. Council Tuesday. Ward 3 member Mary Cheh offered legislation that would require motorists to stop at a cross-walk when another vehicle is stopped there. Under current law, motorists must stop when a pedestrian is in a crosswalk. But, Cheh noted, the driver may not see the pedestrian if another vehicle blocks the view. She reported two instances where pedestrians were killed when one car stopped and a vehicle in the next lane continued. A bill by Ward 4 member Muriel Bowser, perhaps more likely to be controversial, would lower the

speed limit on residential streets to 15 miles per hour. Major roads and primary arteries would not be affected. Bowser said she was responding to many complaints about speeding on neighborhood streets, and con-cerns that safety fears discourage walking and cycling. She noted that lower speeds result not only in fewer crashes, but also in less seri-ous injuries when they occur. The bill picked up no co-spon-sors. “I realize this is a starting point for discussion,” Bowser said.

— Elizabeth Wiener

Tax increase sought for cinema snacks A 5 percent sales tax increase on concessions sold at movie theaters would help fund efforts to attract movie producers to D.C. and to

encourage a cinema to open east of the Anacostia River, according to Mayor Vincent Gray. Gray proposed the bill last week, stating in a news release that he believes it would boost tax revenues while stimulating job growth. As Gray envisions it, 75 percent of the new tax revenue would go toward attracting the new movie theater and the remaining 25 percent would fund incentives to producers who film in the city.

District bonds sale scheduled for today The District hopes to sell nearly $40 million in city tax increment revenue bonds today to help fund the mixed-use City Market at O Street project, the Office of Tax and Revenue announced last Thursday. The bonds will be sold in incre-

ments of $5,000, according to the city website buydcbonds.com, and income generated from them is tax-free for D.C. residents. The interest payout has not yet been determined.

Fall leaf collection to begin Monday The District’s annual leaf collec-tion will run from Monday through Jan. 14, the D.C. Department of Public Works announced last week. Residents can place piles of loose or bagged leaves into tree boxes, and the city will collect those leaves for composting at least twice, according to a news release. The collection schedule is available at tinyurl.com/dpwleaves. Because of the cold weather, the Public Works Department has sus-pended the bulk of its mechanical street-cleaning program through

March 1, according to the release. Street-cleaning parking restrictions will be lifted during this period except on major roadways such as Pennsylvania and Georgia avenues, where overnight street sweeping will continue through the winter.

Online fundraiser to help area nonprofits Organizers of Give to the Max Day hope to raise millions of dol-lars for hundreds of nonprofit orga-nizations in the D.C. area on Nov. 9, according to a news release. More than 800 nonprofits, about half of which are located within the District, had registered to participate through give2max.com as of last week, the release states, and the website will offer searchable infor-mation about the different groups. Give to the Max Day began in Minnesota in 2009, when residents collectively gave $14 million and most participating nonprofits report-ed getting new donors, according to the release.

Council adds more online documents More than 600,000 D.C. Council legislative records from 1989 through 1998 are now available online at dccouncil.us/lims, accord-ing to a news release from Council Chairman Kwame Brown. A contractor scanned in paper records and added key words to allow for searches, the release states. The records were previously available only in person and at a cost of up to 10 cents per copy.

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By ELIZABETH WIENERCurrent Staff Writer

Cleveland Park’s 1916 firehouse is in for a major restoration and modernization. Bids on the long-stalled project are due Nov. 7, with civic activists hopeful that the station will reopen well before they cele-brate its 100th birthday. The Colonial Revival-style sta-tion, the oldest surviving structure in Cleveland Park’s section of Connecticut Avenue, has been shut-tered since November 2010. Even as restoration plans were in the works, District inspectors found no heat,

barely any hot water, vermin and other problems, and closed it down as “unfit for human habitation.” While staff and vehicles relocat-ed to other fire stations, the renova-tion plan languished. Legal reviews, staffing changes, a shift of construc-tion management responsibility to the new D.C. Department of General Services, and finally, a minor change in the scope of project have pushed back the actual work at least a year. “They’ve been talking about ren-ovating Engine Co. 28 forever,” said one former Fire and Emergency Medical Services official. But then

Cleveland Park fire station poised for restoration effort


Site preparation for what will probably be the city’s first Walmart store is under way again, following a unanimous vote by the Historic Preservation Review Board last week not to landmark the century-old streetcar barn that now occu-pies the 5900 block of Georgia Avenue. The board rejected a last-ditch landmark application from the Brightwood Neighborhood Preservation Association, almost entirely on the grounds that the brick car barn had been too heavily changed during old alterations and recent demolition to merit land-mark protection. But throughout the delibera-tions, the proverbial “elephant in the room” was clearly present. “Car barn? What car barn?” said one of the many Brightwood resi-dents who crowded into the board’s hearing room last Thursday. “I

thought I was here for the Walmart.” The skirmish over the Brightwood car barn is the latest in an on-and-off battle over Walmart’s plan to build four urban-style superstores in the District. But the barn’s fate seemed largely sealed after the historic board’s staff reported in mid-October that alter-ations to house a Chevy dealership in the 1950s, and removal of much of the roof by developer and prop-erty owner Foulger-Pratt this fall, had destroyed much of the build-ing’s “integrity.” D.C. Historic Preservation Office staffers repeated that argu-ment before the board Thursday. “When a structure is so simple as to consist of exterior walls and roof, then the condition of the walls and roof become very important,” said city architectural historian Tim Dennée. The car barn could be restored, he said, but a property should not require complete resto-ration to become a landmark.

Preservation board rejects Walmart barn as landmark


The D.C. Council voted tentatively Tuesday to approve salaries above normal government caps for four high-level appointees of Vincent Gray’s mayoral administration. But a bill authored by Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh also ensures that their successors won’t automatically get salaries that exceed regional or national norms. Under Cheh’s bill, Police Chief Cathy Lanier will get the $253,817 annual salary promised by Gray;

Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson will get $275,000; Fire Chief Kenneth Ellerbe, $187,302; and Chief Medical Examiner Marie-Lydie Pierre Louis, $185,000. Under D.C. law, the council must approve within a year any annual salary that exceeds statutory caps. But Cheh said she drafted her measure to ensure that future appointees to those posts are paid within the normal cap absent council approval for higher pay. Gray was heavily criticized earlier this year for offering outsize salaries to numerous political appoin-

City council votes on salary cap exceptions

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This is a listing of reports taken from Oct. 23 through 30 by the Metropolitan Police Department in local police ser-vice areas.

PSA 201

Theft (below $250) 5600 block, Broad Branch Road; store; 5 p.m. Oct. 27.Theft from auto (below $250) 3700 block, Legation St.; street; 1 p.m. Oct. 27. 3100 block, Jocelyn St.; street; 4 p.m. Oct. 29. Connecticut Avenue and Livingston Street; street; 8:30 p.m. Oct. 29.

PSA 202

Assault with a dangerous weapon 4100 block, Ellicott St.; resi-dence; 10:20 p.m. Oct. 23.Burglary 4200 block, 43rd St.; resi-dence; 3:10 a.m. Oct. 29. 4200 block, Fessenden St.; residence; 8 p.m. Oct. 29. 3800 block, Yuma St.; resi-dence; 10:17 p.m. Oct. 29.Theft ($250 plus) 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 1:35 p.m. Oct. 29.Theft (below $250) 5300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 4:30 p.m. Oct. 24.Theft from auto (below $250) 4800 block, Albemarle St.; street; 8 p.m. Oct. 23.

PSA 203

Theft (below $250) 2900 block, Upton St.; school; 5:35 p.m. Oct. 25.Theft from auto (below $250) 3400 block, Fessenden St.; street; 10:30 p.m. Oct. 28. 3100 block, Brandywine St.; street; 2:30 a.m. Oct. 30.

PSA 204

Burglary 3200 block, Klingle Road; residence; 8 a.m. Oct. 26. 2700 block, Woodley Place; residence; 10:45 a.m. Oct. 27.Theft (below $250) 3100 block, Wisconsin Ave.; school; 7 p.m. Oct. 25. 4000 block, Wisconsin Ave.; sidewalk; 3 p.m. Oct. 28.Theft (tags) 3300 block, Cleveland Ave.; street; 5 p.m. Oct. 25.Theft from auto (below $250) Connecticut Avenue and Macomb Street; street; 8 p.m. Oct. 23. 2500 block, Woodley Road; street; 8:30 p.m. Oct. 23. 2300 block, Cathedral Ave.; parking lot; 8 p.m. Oct. 25.Theft from auto (attempt) 3600 block, Calvert St.;

street; 11 p.m. Oct. 24.

PSA 205

Robbery (force and violence) 4600 block, Tilden St.; street; 10:58 p.m. Oct. 24.Stolen auto Unspecified location; street; 7 p.m. Oct. 23. 4900 block, Lowell St.; street; 10:50 p.m. Oct. 27.Theft (below $250) 4400 block, Massachusetts Ave.; university; 8:55 a.m. Oct. 24. 2300 block, King Place; street; 4 a.m. Oct. 23. 5400 block, Macomb St.; res-idence; 6 p.m. Oct. 23.

PSA 206

Robbery (gun) 2900 block, Dumbarton St.; street; 8:10 p.m. Oct. 26.Theft (below $250) 3600 block, Canal Road; store; 3:14 a.m. Oct. 25. 1200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; restaurant; 3:30 p.m. Oct. 25. 1200 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 8:45 p.m. Oct. 25. M Street and Wisconsin Avenue; store; noon Oct. 26. 37th and Prospect streets; university; 2:35 p.m. Oct. 26. 1400 block, Wisconsin Ave.; drugstore; 6:58 p.m. Oct. 26. 3200 block, M St.; unspeci-fied premises; 2 p.m. Oct. 28. 1300 block, Wisconsin Ave.; store; 1:51 p.m. Oct. 29. 3600 block, N St.; residence; 4 a.m. Oct. 30.Theft from auto (below $250) 1200 block, 27th St.; street; 7 p.m. Oct. 25. 1600 block, Wisconsin Ave.; gas station; 10:50 a.m. Oct. 26. 1000 block, Wisconsin Ave.; street; 3:30 p.m. Oct. 26.

PSA 207

Robbery (stealth) 2200 block, I St.; restaurant; 12:15 p.m. Oct. 28.Assault with a dangerous weapon 900 block, 23rd St.; street; 1:54 a.m. Oct. 27.Burglary 1100 block, 25th St.; resi-dence; 9 a.m. Oct. 26.Stolen auto 1800 block, C St.; street; 11 a.m. Oct. 25.Theft ($250 plus) 1200 block, 25th St.; unspecified premises; 10:23 p.m. Oct. 23.Theft (below $250) 800 block, 22nd St.; universi-ty; 4:45 p.m. Oct. 26.

PSA 208

Robbery (knife) 1800 block, Phelps Place; sidewalk; 10:15 p.m. Oct. 27.

Robbery (snatch) 1600 block, Connecticut Ave.; restaurant; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26.Assault with a dangerous weapon 21st and P streets; sidewalk; 2 a.m. Oct. 24. 2100 block, P St.; sidewalk; 2:15 a.m. Oct. 26.Burglary 1300 block, Connecticut Ave.; unspecified premises; 9:17 a.m. Oct. 23.Stolen auto 1700 block, T St.; street; 7:45 a.m. Oct. 26.Theft ($250 plus) 1600 block, 17th St.; restau-rant; 11:30 p.m. Oct. 25. 1200 block, 18th St.; store; 12:15 p.m. Oct. 26. 2000 block, Massachusetts Ave.; hotel; 1:15 p.m. Oct. 28.Theft (below $250) 1200 block, Connecticut Ave.; tavern; 1 a.m. Oct. 23. 1600 block, 17th St.; side-walk; 10:26 a.m. Oct. 25. 1600 block, 19th St.; side-walk; 12:45 p.m. Oct. 25. 1600 block, K St.; store; 4:50 p.m. Oct. 25. 1100 block, New Hampshire Ave.; hotel; 7:15 a.m. Oct. 26. 17th and L streets; restau-rant; 2 p.m. Oct. 62. 1100 block, 19th St.; office building; 4 p.m. Oct. 26. 1100 block, 19th St.; office building; 4 p.m. Oct. 26. 1300 block, 19th St.; office building; 8 a.m. Oct. 27. 2200 block, K St.; restaurant; 12:34 p.m. Oct. 27. 800 block, 17th St.; restau-rant; 3:30 p.m. Oct. 27. 1300 block, Connecticut Ave.; drugstore; 7:45 p.m. Oct. 27. 2200 block, M St.; store; 8:20 p.m. Oct. 27. 1300 block, Connecticut Ave.; store; 4:30 p.m. Oct. 28. 1500 block, Connecticut Ave.; unspecified premises; 4:30 p.m. Oct. 28. 1800 block, M St.; restau-rant; 1 a.m. Oct. 29. 1800 block, M St.; tavern; 1 a.m. Oct. 29. 1700 block, I St.; restaurant; 2:15 a.m. Oct. 29.Theft from auto (below $250) 1600 block, S St.; street; 4 p.m. Oct. 24. 2100 block, Kalorama Road; street; 10 p.m. Oct. 24. 2400 block, California St.; street; 12:01 a.m. Oct. 2. 1900 block, 16th St.; street; 10:43 a.m. Oct. 27. 20th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue; street; 9:20 p.m. Oct. 27. 1800 block, S St.; street; 8 p.m. Oct. 28. 19th and S streets; street; 10:30 p.m. Oct. 28. 1600 block, Q St.; alley; 9 p.m. Oct. 29.

PSA 303

Robbery (force and violence) 2000 block, Allen Place; side-walk; 10:30 p.m. Oct. 27.

2500 block, Champlain St.; sidewalk; 8:30 p.m. Oct. 28.Stolen auto Florida Avenue and U Street; street; 10 p.m. Oct. 27.Theft ($250 plus) 2300 block, 18th St.; tavern; 1:10 a.m. Oct. 29.Theft (below $250) 1700 block, Columbia Road; drugstore; 5:16 p.m. Oct. 24. 1700 block, Columbia Road; sidewalk; 8:20 p.m. Oct. 24. 2300 block, 18th St.; restau-rant; 12:30 a.m. Oct. 30. 2400 block, 18th St.; side-walk; 2:30 p.m. Oct. 30.Theft from auto ($250 plus) 2400 block, 20th St.; street; midnight Oct. 24.Theft from auto (below $250) Allen Place and Waterside Drive; street; 11 p.m. Oct. 24. 1700 block, Lanier Place; street; 12:40 a.m. Oct. 24. 19th and Biltmore streets; street; 1 a.m. Oct. 24. 2300 block, 20th St.; alley; 8 a.m. Oct. 25. Unspecified location; street; 5:15 p.m. Oct. 28.

PSA 307

Robbery (fear) R Street and Vermont Avenue; street; 8:59 p.m. Oct. 25. 900 block, O St.; sidewalk; 9:55 p.m. Oct. 27.Robbery (pocketbook snatch) 12th and N streets; sidewalk; 2:25 a.m. Oct. 31.Burglary 1500 block, 11th St.; resi-dence; 11 p.m. Oct. 25. 1300 block, 12th St.; resi-dence; 4:10 p.m. Oct. 30.Stolen auto 1600 block, Vermont Ave.; street; 5:30 p.m. Oct. 24. 1300 block, O St.; street; 2 p.m. Oct. 25. 1200 block, 13th St.; street; 2 p.m. Oct. 26. 1500 block, 12th St.; street; 11:15 p.m. Oct. 28.Theft (below $250) 1400 block, N St.; residence; 6 p.m. Oct. 23. 1400 block, R St.; unspeci-fied premises; 7 p.m. Oct. 23. 1100 block, 14th St.; hotel; 8:20 a.m. Oct. 26. 1300 block, 14th St.; restau-rant; 7:11 p.m. Oct. 26.Theft from auto ($250 plus) 1500 block, 10th St.; alley; 9:10 a.m. Oct. 26. 1500 block, 11th St.; alley; 11:50 a.m. Oct. 28. 14th and Q streets; street; 6:30 p.m. Oct. 29.Theft from auto (below $250) 1400 block, Church St.; park-ing lot; 1 a.m. Oct. 24. 1400 block, N St.; street; 11:15 p.m. Oct. 24. 1700 block, 11th St.; street; 2:44 p.m. Oct. 25. 14th and P streets; parking lot; 11 a.m. Oct. 26. 1300 block, Riggs St.; street; 2 p.m. Oct. 27. 1200 block, 10th St.; street; 6 p.m. Oct. 27.

psA 201 chevy chase

psA 202 Friendship heiGhts tenleytown / au park

psA 204 massachusetts avenue heiGhts / cleveland parkwoodley park / Glover park / cathedral heiGhts

psA 203 Forest hills / van ness

psA 205 palisades / sprinG valleywesley heiGhts/ Foxhall

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A longtime downtown lunch spot has expanded to the north: Twenty-five-year-

old Washington Deli opened a sec-ond location in the spring at 5830 Georgia Ave., bringing its sand-wiches, pizza and quick-catering offerings to the Brightwood area. “We were looking for areas that we felt were underserved food-wise, and also areas that we thought were up-and-coming,” said co-owner Brett Chamberlin, who worked at the K Street shop before becoming an owner of the new deli. “It’s a great neighbor-hood, and it’s exactly what we hoped it would be.” Chamberlin said the deli serves many of the same items as its K Street partner: pizza by the pie and slice, sandwiches, salads and breakfast items. It also offers breakfast and lunch catering — popular features at the downtown shop. “I think we’ve got a real good niche on catering, being that we’ll do last-minute orders,” Chamberlin said of the downtown operation. “If somebody’s in a bind, we’ll always be there to help them out.” He said the new shop is working to build up its catering reputation as well, reaching out to local businesses and schools. The shop at Georgia and Missouri avenues also does a few things differently. For one, Chamberlin’s team makes its own bagels daily, boiling them the tra-

ditional way, and topping them with standards like poppy and ses-ame seeds, but also with some less-typical choices. “I’ve been experimenting with flavors — like lemon-cranberry, [which is great] with fresh strawberry cream cheese,” he said. The co-own-er said the most popular sand-wich at the new shop — and one not served on K Street — is the shrimp po’ boy, served with tartar sauce and coleslaw made in house, like most of Washington Deli’s offerings. Customers seem pleased with the traditional deli choices too, said Chamberlin. “A lot of people are just excited to have fresh deli meats, sandwiches where they can create their own.” He said many mention Posin’s, a kosher deli/bakery that sat for more than 50 years on the same block, closing in 1998. “I hear

about that pretty much on a daily basis from people that are well-established in the neighborhood,” said Chamberlin. “I get a lot of people that have been here for years and years.” He said customers are also

happy about the deli’s vege-tarian and vegan offer-ings. Chamberlin likes the salads himself — as well as the less healthy options.

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A website for both delis, washingtondeli.com, lists the many dining and catering choices. Click on “Carry out menus” and download “Georgia Ave. Menu side 1” and “Georgia Ave. Menu side 2” for the specific items available on Georgia Avenue. Washington Deli is open seven days a week: 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

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By BRADY HOLTand ELIZABETH WIENERCurrent Staff Writers

A 17-year-old male is in critical condi-tion, and a suspect in custody, after a shoot-ing in the 2800 block of M Street Monday evening — one of five that marred Halloween night in the District. At a press briefing Tuesday, Police Chief Cathy Lanier offered few details about the 10:50 p.m. Georgetown incident, saying the case is still under “very active investiga-

tion.” She said a suspect was apprehended within minutes by police patrolling the area and has been charged with carrying a pistol without a license while the investigation continues. The Georgetown shooting came while the neighborhood’s main streets were packed with revelers participating in the annual Halloween celebration there, during which police close streets to motor vehicle traffic. Photos from the scene show police tape and bloodstains on the sidewalk outside Don Lobo’s Mexican Grill, near the intersection

of M Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. At last night’s Georgetown advisory neighborhood commission, police Capt. Jeffrey Herold said investigators believe the shooter was on the sidewalk. He added that police have recovered three firearms from the scene, including a sawed-off shotgun. Ed Solomon, a Georgetown advisory neighborhood commissioner who heads the body’s public safety committee, said in an interview that he was about four blocks away at the time of the shooting. From what he saw and what police told him, he said, the

scene in general was more chaotic than usual. “There was an element of large groups of young juveniles walking thorough the fes-tive crowds last night, pushing and shov-ing,” Solomon said. “There were a lot of fights being broken up; it was a little differ-ent element than it was in the past.” At the neighborhood meeting, Herold said there were indeed groups of men roving the Halloween festivities — “folks just look-ing for trouble.”

Shootings mar Halloween festivities in Georgetown and other areas

Current Staff Report D.C. Council Chairman Kwame Brown told the D.C. Rotary Club last week that one of the school system’s biggest problems is that teachers working at high-perform-ing schools who have been deemed highly successful fear being shifted to low-performing schools. While working at a low-per-forming school offers an opportuni-ty for a bigger bonus, some teachers worry that such a move would make it harder for them to teach success-fully and could therefore put their jobs at risk, Brown said. Brown told the Rotarians he is working on legislation that would give teachers rated highly in high-performing schools a “pass” if they do not do well in a low-performing school. Brown said he is also working on a parent accountability bill, as too many low-income parents do not meet with teachers or participate in their children’s school activities. Though noting that D.C. has “the nation’s hottest school reform” effort and has successfully modern-ized many school buildings, Brown said the city is lagging in its effort to offer “wraparound services” to chil-dren. Despite big gains, the District is still “nowhere near where we need to be,” he added. The city’s middle schools, he said, remain a huge challenge. The result is that parents often move to Virginia or Maryland when their children reach sixth grade. “The worst experience of my life,” he said, was deciding where to send his daughter to middle school. “Middle school is clearly where we’re failing.” Adult education and job training are also key, Brown noted. The city has added programs for adults on the welfare rolls, who under new rules must participate in job train-ing, he said. On the financial front, Brown noted that the city is looking at a nearly $100 million surplus in the just-completed 2011 fiscal year, while Maryland appears to have a $1 billion deficit. And he echoed statements by Mayor Vincent Gray

Brown: D.C. must continue school reform

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Current Staff Report Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans last week blamed Mayor Vincent Gray for some of the city’s past financial decisions. Evans criticized Gray for “going along,” as chairman of the D.C. Council, with former Mayor Adrian Fenty’s raids on the District’s reserve funds, which reduced the balance from $1.6 billion to $700 million. He also faulted Gray for accepting a tax increase as mayor rather than cutting expenses in the most recent budget. “I think it was irresponsible,” Evans, who chairs the council’s Finance and Revenue Committee, said of last year’s actions, noting that he voted against the Fenty budget — his first nay vote on a budget in 20 years on the council.

Evans made his remarks at the Oct. 24 meeting of the Sheridan-Kalorama advisory neighborhood commis-sion, where he also spoke about a range of other local issues including elections, Internet gambling and coun-cil member pay. Evans said that as chairman, Gray should have got-ten the council to reduce expenses, and now as mayor he should have cut expenses in the 2012 budget rather than allowing the council to increase taxes. Eighty percent of the city’s budget is spent on popu-lar items — human services, public safety and education — so “nobody wants to cut them. My conviction is we have to. ... We spend more money on our school system than anywhere else in America.”

Evans skewers Gray for fiscal policy decisions

Current Staff Report Fiona Greig, a Georgetown resi-dent since 2007, announced Thursday that she will run against Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans in the city’s April 3 Democratic primary. “District residents deserve better government and a full-time council member,” said Greig, 32. Should Greig win, she said, she would resign from her position at international consulting firm McKinsey & Co., where she has worked on increasing the efficiency

and effectiveness of various federal agencies and has led a team devel-oping an eco-nomic strategy for the Wa s h i n g t o n region. She is currently on maternity leave. Greig said Evans recused himself from voting on plans to give city aid to the planned convention center hotel, a Marriott, out of concern for poten-

tial conflicts arising from clients of the law firm he works for. Yet he was “instrumental in carrying the project through the council.” “If someone recuses himself, he is supposed to submit a statement as to the nature of the possible conflict. This rule has not been enforced. ... It may not have been appropriate for him to be so involved,” Greig said. Evans has released a copy of a letter to him from the council’s gen-eral counsel saying that there was no conflict — and no need to submit a

Greig to challenge Evans for Ward 2 seat

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The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, at Mary’s Center, 2355 Ontario Road NW. Agenda items include: recognition of outstanding com-munity service by former advisory neighborhood commissioner Edward Jackson. update on the 18th Street recon-struction project. consideration of Alcoholic Beverage Control and public safety matters, including a cooperative agreement with Tangier Lounge, 2305 18th St. committee reports. consideration of a recommenda-tion regarding a historic landmark application for the Ontario Theater. consideration of a recommenda-tion to the Historic Preservation Review Board regarding develop-ment at 1845 Kalorama Road. For details, call 202-332-2630 or visit anc1c.org.

ANC 2AFoggy Bottom

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, at Heart House, 2400 N St. NW. For details, visit anc2a.org.

ANC 2BDupont Circle

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 9, in the Brookings Institution building,

1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW. Agenda items include: presentation on proposed upgrades to the Dupont Circle Resource Center. consideration of a letter of support for a partnership proposal by the Dupont Circle Citizens Association and Friends of S & T Street Parks. consideration of a Historic Preservation Review Board applica-tion by the Third Church of Christ, Scientist, for approval of concept design review for a new church and office complex at 16th and I streets. consideration of a request by Freshfarm Markets for a letter of support for a 2012 public-space per-mit for the Dupont Circle farmers market. consideration of an amended valet-parking application by several establishments on the 1300 block of Connecticut Avenue, including Kabab-Ji and Heritage India. consideration of a public-space application for rental parking at 1841 16th St. consideration of Alcoholic Beverage Control applications for renewal of grocery-store licenses allowing beer and wine sales at 1500 Market, 1500 Massachusetts Ave.; Dupont Market, 1807 18th St.; and New Hampshire Market, 1900 16th St. consideration of an Alcoholic Beverage Control application by Crown Liquors, 1325 Connecticut Ave., for a Class A liquor-store license (tasting endorsement; operat-ing hours from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday). consideration of an Alcoholic Beverage Control application by Komi Restaurant, 1509 17th St., for an amendment to its 2006 voluntary agreement to allow an addition of 40 seats downstairs in the former Dunkin’ Donuts space and to permit inside dining nightly until 1 a.m. consideration of an application by Board Room, 1737 Connecticut Ave., for a new tavern-class license with a vintage game room and juke-box (occupancy load of 251; seating capacity of 90; hours of operation, sales, service and consumption Sunday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. and Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 a.m.). committee reports. For details, visit dupontcircleanc.net.

ANC 2CShaw

The commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, at the Watha T. Daniel-Shaw Neighborhood Library, 1630 7th St. NW. For details, call 202-387-1596.

ANC 2DSheridan-Kalorama

At the commission’s Oct. 25 meeting: Kindy French reported that a pro-posal to add to a house at 76 Kalorama Circle would be on the

Historic Preservation Review Board’s Oct. 27 agenda as a consent item. Because of the size of the pro-posed addition, the staff cannot sim-ply sign off on the project. Phil Baker reported that the call box restoration group has agreed to renovate four call boxes each year for the next four years. commission chair David Bender announced the appointment of Ron Finiw to chair a commission task force that will serve as a liaison between the neighborhood and the team working on the Chinese Embassy’s construction project. Phil Baker and Sally Berk will also serve on the task force. commissioner Eric Lamar report-ed that the Foreign Missions Board of Zoning Adjustment has not yet released its final report on the Serbian Embassy’s construction project on R Street. The embassy has reduced the parking request from seven spaces to four. The spots will be reduced in width, thereby allow-ing more green space. Lamar said the changes made “for a significant improvement over the original pro-posal.” The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 21, at Our Lady Queen of the Americas Church, California Street and Phelps Place NW. For details, contact [email protected] or visit anc2d.org.

ANC 2FLogan Circle

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 2, at Washington Plaza Hotel, 10 Thomas Circle NW. Agenda items include: consideration of Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration matters: Batch, 1724 14th St., Class A license (liquor store); Whole Foods Market, 1440 P St., license renewal. discussion of bicyclists on side-walks. consideration of community development committee matters: 1612 14th St., Pearl Dive Palace, public space application for a side-walk cafe; Chuck’s Deli, 1221 Massachusetts Ave., application to the Board of Zoning Adjustment for a use variance to permit a delicates-sen on the first floor of an existing apartment house; 1324 14th St., zon-ing and historic review; 934 N St., owner-occupied home with a rental apartment in the basement; 939-941 M St., presentation regarding an application to subdivide one lot into two; 1321-1325 Naylor Court, appli-cation to the Board of Zoning Adjustment for permission to reno-vate a garage as three residential units. consideration of a letter drafted by the commission’s treasurer in response to issues raised by the D.C. Office of the Auditor in its review of the commission’s finances. For details, call 202-667-0052 or visit anc2f.org.


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An ethical approach The D.C. Council faces an important test over the next few weeks. Its chairman, Kwame Brown, has said that legislators will pass com-prehensive ethics reform this year — and time is running out. Ward 4’s Muriel Bowser, chair of the Government Operations Committee, held a key hearing last week on the various measures she and her colleagues have introduced. They address many issues — campaign donations, public disclosure, constituent services funds — but there is no real consensus on many of the fundamental concerns. One such concern is whether the council should create an ethics committee, as Chairman Brown once pledged. The National Conference of State Legislatures recommended creating such a panel as part of a study it conducted a decade ago, as former Ward 3 Council member Kathy Patterson noted in her testimony last week. If the council had acted 10 years ago, perhaps it could have dealt more effectively with the ethical lapses that have besmirched the leg-islature’s reputation this year. It might even have created a milieu in which inappropriate behavior did not take place. But we do not believe that a council ethics committee is the right choice at this juncture. For one thing, the need for strong standards and effective enforcement extends to the executive branch and inde-pendent agencies. And it would be unwise to create separate entities, one overseeing the council and another the rest of the government. The U.S. House and Senate both have ethics committees, but nei-ther is renowned for handing out swift, effective justice. Nor is the House or Senate held in particularly high regard by the public right now. There’s also an inherent disconnect between the structural needs of a legislative body with 100 or 435 members vs. those of the 13-member D.C. Council: How popular would a strong ethics com-mittee chair be among his or her colleagues? The central entity we suggest should have strong powers — and the necessary resources — to administer appropriate rules, monitor compliance and punish misbehavior among both elected and unelect-ed officials. But it is important not to strip the council of the organizational authority that allows it take steps such as removing committe chairs. That power would have been crucial had Ward 5’s Harry Thomas Jr. not resigned his leadership post after agreeing to repay money he had allegedly misdirected to his own use.

Treating the symptoms A recent meeting on “Operation Adams Morgan” revealed that the effort to control nightlife chaos along 18th Street has been successful. The extra police officers and volunteers led to a 40 percent reduc-tion in crime and a 20 percent reduction in violent crime in September, Police Chief Cathy Lanier reported. That’s great news, and we’re thrilled that the city is putting resources toward the problem. But the program — with its 30 to 40 officers deployed each week-end night — is not the ultimate solution to transforming Adams Morgan. In the long run, something more sustainable must be done to shift the neighborhood from party central to a peaceful community. At last month’s meeting, Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham said the neighborhood’s problems stem from an overconcen-tration of liquor licenses. There are 87 establishments licensed to serve alcohol within the police service area covering Adams Morgan. The result, some residents say, is a wild atmosphere where drunk bar-goers and hangers-on commit both serious and nuisance crimes. It’s unclear whether the number of liquor licenses is truly to blame for Adams Morgan’s issues, but it’s certainly worth consideration. Mr. Graham said the neighborhood could make some licenses nonrenew-able once a business moves out. He also mentioned possible tweaks to the city’s overall liquor laws. We hope his efforts will result in some practical ideas for improv-ing 18th Street. Clearly, something more lasting needs to be done.

We only wish we were talking about this dreadful Washington Redskins season. It would be nice if there were just one

more miserable game left instead of nine. But our headline refers to another miserable mess. That’s the ethics cloud engulfing Mayor Vincent Gray’s administration over his 2010 cam-paign for mayor. This week there was good news and bad news for Gray. A U.S. House com-mittee that oversees the District issued a mixed report on allegations by Sulaimon Brown that Gray’s campaign paid him cash and gave him a $110,000-a-year govern-ment job for his attacks on then-Mayor Adrian Fenty. The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform said it “found evidence corroborating claims by Sulaimon Brown that his campaign for mayor received financial backing linked to a senior campaign operative for Mayor Gray.” But committee chair Darrell Issa, R-Calif., said, “The investigation did not, however, find indepen-dent facts verifying claims that Brown had been promised a D.C. Government job … or any evi-dence that Mayor Gray knew or approved of pay-ments going to Brown’s campaign.” Did Gray campaign operative Howard Brooks pay Sulaimon Brown? Did Gray campaign chair Lorraine Green set it up? There’s circumstantial evidence, the committee says. “One money order was purchased the same day that [Sulaimon] Brown first met Green and exchanged his first telephone calls with her,” the committee reported. The report says a number of money orders given to Brown were attributed to members of Brooks’ family. Brooks, of course, is a businessman who has emerged as the key point person in whatever hap-pened. He has lawyered up and declines comment on anything. NBC4 and other news organizations have reported that Brooks is cooperating with a federal criminal investigation by U.S. Attorney Ronald Machen. The House committee report tracks similarly to findings by the D.C. Council investigation, a probe headed by Ward 3 Council member Mary Cheh. So that’s two down. But the one to go is the big-gest one of all. It’s the ongoing probe by Machen into Gray’s campaign activities. On Monday, Cheh told NBC4 that she hopes the U.S. attorney will act quickly on the criminal issues, if any. “I do hope, however, that whatever the U.S. attorney does, that he does it with dispatch,” Cheh said. “It’s enough already. This has been lingering too long. I think at the end of the day what we most need is clarity, a clearing of the air.”

Of course, the U.S. Attorney’s Office declined comment except to say its review is continuing. We’ve noted in this space several times that Machen takes a harsh view of public corruption. We’re anxious to see what he does, too. A side note. Howard Brooks is represented by former Prince George’s States Attorney Glen Ivey, who is now preparing a run for Congress against incumbent Democrat Donna Edwards. It’s not clear

when and to whom Ivey will hand off the Brooks matter. Scandal fallout. Although the House committee found no “smoking guns” of

wrongdoing, it is clearly upset over the hiring scan-dal that engulfed Gray’s early months in office. Top officials resigned after reports that many adult chil-dren of Gray’s team also got well-paying jobs. Other appointees have resigned for other reasons, or been blocked by the council. Out of that mess, House committee chair Issa announced Monday that he’s offering legislation to force tougher background checks of city officials based on federal hiring practices. Although Gray had declined to comment Monday on the new scandal report, he quickly issued a news release saying Issa’s committee should stay out of the city’s hiring process. “This legislation is ill-advised and unnecessary,” Gray said. “The District already runs a more strin-gent background check than the [federal] legisla-tion would require.” Well, if that’s the case, Issa might ask, why have the last 10 months been so chaotic? Whatever the outcome of the latest legislation, it’s just another example of how scandal in the District invites meddling from Congress. More scandal, more meddling, and suddenly this city could have another control board. The scandal cloud, fairly or not, also diffuses any effort by Gray to promote congressional voting rights for the District, let alone statehood. If voting rights were based on well-behaved public officials, a lot of states would lose those rights. It’s unfair to hold the District to a standard other states can’t meet. But the fact of the matter is that people do. Halloween’s over. We know. We know we should be moving on to Thanksgiving. But we did have a Tweet on Sunday about the Redskins that got a lot of response, and we wanted to share it with you. Here’s the text: “For Halloween at work, I’m going as a Redskin. It’ll be easy. I just won’t show up.” Despite the trend lines, we’re still hoping the ’Skins show up on Sunday against the 49ers. Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a politi-cal reporter for News 4.

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TOM SHERWOOD’S notebook

american university growth is not a right It seems that everyone starts the discussion of American University expansion with the assumption that the university has the right to grow and that the only hope of residents is to somehow control that growth in an attempt to retain the quality of the neigh-borhood. I don’t buy that for a minute. Many institutions — Oxford and Cambridge are two obvious examples — excel by concentrat-

ing on quality, rather than growth. In fact, I suspect their prestige would suffer if they allowed themselves to grow. At the other end of the spec-trum, state universities and the like have mandates to serve a population. For example, when I went to the University of Colorado, it was required to accept all those who placed at a certain level in their high school class. American University has no such requirement or obliga-tion. I understand business and the need to reach a certain scale, in some domains, to achieve mean-ingful efficiency. Telecommunications is an exam-

ple of that. American University has no such need. In fact, smaller classes provide a better education. If American University were to offer something to the commu-nity, such as guaranteeing admis-sion and financial assistance to less affluent D.C. students, then some concessions might be appropriate. However, to accept that the American University’s self-per-ceived need trumps everyone else’s interests is nonsense. We all have needs. Societal rules, includ-ing zoning, are intended to ensure that those self-perceived needs don’t trample other’s rights.

Larry SeftorSpring Valley

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repairs necessary for dupont fountain On Aug. 23, the day of the East Coast earthquake, I walked through Dupont Circle after being evacuat-ed from work and immediately noticed that the Dupont Circle fountain looked strange: The water that drained from the dish at the top of the statue was now falling from just one spout, not all three equally. Furthermore, the waterfall from the operating spout was much heavier than normal. This suggested to me that the fountain had been tilted by the tremors. The National Park Service is the steward of the park and the foun-tain. I am heartened by The Current’s recent report that the National Park Service has pledged to be more responsive to District residents’ concerns [“Park Service, locals work through tensions,” Oct. 26]. The Dupont Circle fountain is one of Washington’s treasures and deserves to be kept in optimal

working order. Designed by Daniel Chester French, the sculptor responsible for the Abraham Lincoln statue in the Lincoln Memorial, the fountain has graced the center of the circle for more than 90 years. In its current condi-tion, the fountain is imperiled by possible erosion, and the tranquil ambiance of the park is spoiled. The fountain’s repair should be a top priority, and I encourage other residents to remind the Park Service of the fountain’s need for repairs when meeting about local issues.

Megan BuskeyDupont Circle/Kalorama

ethics reform should restrict free tickets Under a cloud of scandal, the D.C. Council is wrangling over tighter ethics laws. In The Current’s Oct. 26 issue, Dan Wedderburn makes a solid case for fundamental change [“D.C. needs to undertake true ethics reform,” Viewpoint]. The reform agenda should include the council and mayor giv-ing up the two luxury suites they are provided by the owners of the

Verizon Center and Nationals Park. These pricey seats are favors to elected officials whose votes and decisions can impact the owners’ businesses. For example, the owner of the Verizon Center has provided council members and the mayor with two luxury suites since 2007, when they gave $50 million of tax-payers’ money for a Verizon upgrade. Of this obvious conflict of inter-est, Washington Post columnist Colbert King wrote, “The mayor and council wanted in on the lavish life … .” The Nationals, in addition to two luxury suites, give council members 25 field-level tickets and free parking. With D.C. elected officials receiving pay that ranges from $125,000 to $200,000, they should be paying their own way to see the Nats, Wizards or Caps, like the rest of us. It’s worth examining whether council members and the mayor include receipt of these expensive tickets, an employment benefit, on their D.C. and federal income tax returns.

Howard BrayFoxhall Village


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Every day for the past 25 years that I have lived in Washington, my life — and my family’s — has been enriched by the work of D.C. area

nonprofit organizations that make this one of the most vibrant and interesting regions in the country and pro-vide a vital safety net for our most vulnerable brothers and sisters. But I don’t always take the time, as I should, to appreciate their work. Perhaps you don’t either. We can all make up for that on “Give to the Max Day” on Nov. 9. On that day, we can all go online to give2max.org and make a contribution to our favorite charitable causes. The effort, led by the Community Foundation for the National Capital Region, United Way of the National Capital Area and Razoo, seeks to replicate similar efforts in other parts of the country to kick off the charitable giving season with a focused day of community giving and support for a broad range of nonprofits. More than 1,000 are registered and will benefit from individual contributions and addition-al cash awards for those mobilizing the most support. The participating groups represent virtually every type of nonprofit imaginable — including many that my family benefited from when our kids were young. Among them are organizations such as Glen Echo Park, where our children graduated from the carousel to the puppet company to Adventure Theatre, and Joy of Motion Dance Center, which nurtured our daugh-ter’s love of dance. In their teen years, our kids played basketball and soccer at Jelleff Boys & Girls Club and volunteered at Bread for the City, Iona Senior Services and Veronica House, which is run by the Community Council for the Homeless. As a family, we have enjoyed countless bicycle rides made possible by the Coalition for the Capital Crescent Trail. With the older kids off at college, we

have more time for movies at the Avalon Theatre, or performances at any number of terrific local theaters or visits to the city’s many museums. As the economy continues to challenge us all, many of us have hunkered down and tightened our belts. At the same time, Give to the Max Day reminds us that our community is made up of thousands of nonprofit organizations that together employ roughly 16 percent of the D.C. workforce, deliver vital community servic-es, give voice to the people they serve, advance solu-tions for challenges facing society and ultimately con-tribute to our vibrant community. This year’s giving season takes place in the shadow of funding reductions from government and decisions by Fannie Mae and the Freddie Mac Foundation to wind down or substantially scale back the support on which many groups have depended. Having served on the boards of several local nonprofits — Pathways to Housing, Palisades Village and Yachad — I understand the increased demands on our local nonprofits all too well. Through a web-based approach pioneered by the online fundraiser Razoo, Give to the Max makes it easy for casual and first-time contributors to partici-pate, for as little as $10. Of course, the sky is the limit. Here’s the secret about Give to the Max Day: It gives us the opportunity, on a single day, to make a bold statement about how important nonprofits are to our lives. Even if we are fairly private about our phi-lanthropy, when we all contribute on a single day, we show the power of community and we can encourage others to join in a broad effort to improve the lives of all our neighbors. So join me in hugging a nonprofit on Nov. 9. Make a list of the nonprofits that have enriched your life. Then, go to give2max.org, and do what I plan to do: Give to the Max. Michael Allen, an attorney with the civil rights firm of Relman, Dane & Colfax, is a resident of the Palisades.

Next week, take time out to hug a nonprofitviewpointMiCHaEL aLLEn

let’s keep wilson high as good as new I was walking through Wilson High School at the recent arts festi-val to celebrate the school’s 75th anniversary and its modernization. During the self-directed tour, I was particularly wowed by the auditori-um, which has envious sightlines and is graced with refinished origi-nal wooden seats that make for a great blend of old and new. After seeing the great perfor-mance space, I was trying a class-room door when I heard someone behind me ask, “Would you like to see a classroom?” I turned around to see a young man pointing to an open door ahead and offering to give a tour of the room. He explained that this was his geome-try and trigonometry classroom. With great detail, he told us about the Smart Board hanging promi-nently on the wall, and the lights that automatically adjust depend-ing on the amount of natural light from the row of windows. It was apparent from the articulate pre-sentation that this poised young ninth-grader was proud to show off his school. The night before, at the Wilson Gala, parents, adult students, teachers and administrators had come to celebrate together. The atrium, graced with its high glass ceiling, was decked out with small tables with white and green table-cloths. As I entered, music from the Wilson jazz band floated from the opposite side of this huge space, which easily accommodated the sold-out 700-ticket affair. Finally, the jazz band had a perfor-mance space at the school worthy of its talent. I spent many hours in the old building as chair of the local school restructuring team and as a co-chair and founder of the Wilson Management Corporation. I had long dreamed of a space suitable to

the talents of its many students and staff. Both of my daughters attend-ed Wilson, graduating in 2002 and 2005 respectively, and loved it there, regardless of its dilapidated condition, but the building no lon-ger adequately supported its pro-grams. On the night of the gala, my husband and I toured the school with my younger daughter and some of her high school friends. With eyes popping and jaws drop-ping, they revealed their incredulity at the transformation of their school. One even admitted she was jealous of the current students. So now Wilson has a building that can be the pride of our com-munity. The challenge to the Wilson community and the com-munity beyond its walls will be maintaining this fabulous asset. Given the Wilson Management Corporation’s experience with the fields, it should also manage this space. To do the job well, it will need parents and outside commu-nity members with expertise to step up to the plate so that many future generations of students will be proud of their place of learning.

Marlene BerlinForest Hills

city oversight is lax on rental properties D.C. law requires all one-family rental properties to have a safety inspection and acquire a Basic Business License issued by the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs. Unfortunately, many property owners collecting rent either don’t know or refuse to comply with this apparently “honor system” law. How many landlords actually declare this rental income on their taxes is hard to say, but it is clear that the city is losing revenue while the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs seems unable to investigate and enforce this law. Neighborhoods like Burleith, Glover Park, Georgetown and many others across the city have

up to 50 percent rentals. A local real estate agent told me that half of D.C. residents are renters. Over the past year, the Burleith Citizens Association and I have brought this widespread lack of compliance to the attention of reg-ulatory officials and D.C. Council members as an example of waste, fraud and abuse, but very little progress has been made. Regulatory officials have repeated-ly insisted that it is hard to prove that a house is a rental property without a copy of the signed lease agreement. I reject this excuse of why department employees can’t do their job. I’ve suggested that inves-tigators speak with neighbors and mail carriers and look at the license plates on cars parked on the property. The D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue has a list of every residential property and whether the owner is claiming the “Homestead Deduction” and there-fore living (or not living) in his or her home. A majority of those properties not receiving the Homestead Deduction are most likely rental properties. Has the Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs requested data-base information from the Office of Tax and Revenue? The tax office’s Homestead Audit Division places the burden of proof on D.C. property owners to prove they occupy their home and that it’s not a rental property. The Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs needs to do likewise. When dedicated, law-abiding citizens engaged in “community policing” provide the regulatory department with a list of properties that they know are rentals that do not have the required Basic Business License, they deserve — and should be able to expect — enforcement from regulators and the help of their council members. We are getting very little from either.

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One big difference between Boy Scouts in the United States and the scouts in

Lesotho, Africa, is the singing. “We sing … but it’s not a cen-tral theme; it’s mostly reluctant,” said 16-year-old Garrett Gregory, a member of the Tenleytown-based Boy Scout Troop 100. In Lesotho, scouts “don’t have Xbox or anything, so singing is how they pass the time. It’s a cen-tral part of the scouting experi-ence,” he said. “We’d be hiking and they’d just break into song.” Gregory and five of his fellow troop members, along with three adult leaders, got the chance to mingle with Lesotho scouts through a trip to the small African kingdom this August. It all started D.C.-style, with high-level connections. Michele Bond, a mother former-ly involved with Troop 100, became U.S. ambassador to Lesotho in 2010. At an event in D.C. where she ran into the troop, Bond “recommended us taking a trip to Lesotho,” said assistant scoutmaster Michael Kirkpatrick, whose two sons are members of Troop 100. Bond helped connect the troop with officials in the small African kingdom, a landlocked enclave sur-rounded by the Republic of South Africa. After months of fundraising and preparations, a small group from Troop 100 ended up on a 16-hour plane trip from New York City to Johannesburg. From there, they traveled by van and — at one

point — by pony. The 17-day experience was an amped-up version of the “high-adventure” outdoor trips the oldest and highest-ranking of the troop members typically undertake in the summers, according to Kirkpatrick. “It was not the most physically demanding trip we’ve taken, but it was probably the most mentally demanding,” he said. “There’s a bit of a culture shock. … The level of development is so different from what we’re used to. Just seeing the level of poverty was mentally chal-lenging.” The trip involved a five-day excursion into the Kruger National Park in South Africa, where scouts “saw all the animals you can think of — lions and hippos and all that,” said Kirkpatrick. And for a few days, scouts traveled on horseback through “extremely rugged and undeveloped areas” of Lesotho, spending their nights in huts with thatched roofs, Kirkpatrick said. The meat of the experience, though, was five days camping at a

scout center outside of Maseru, the capital of Lesotho. There, “Lesotho scouts from all different parts of the country … came to meet us and camp with us,” said Kirkpatrick. Most spoke at least some level of English, he said. The scouting culture is well-established in Lesotho, which was once a colony of Great Britain — the birthplace of the movement. Aside from the outbursts of song, Gregory observed that Lesotho scouts are “more militaris-tic” than their American counter-parts: They dress in their official uniforms at most times and seem more bound to regimens. “They’d get up early in the morning and run around and exercise,” he said. During their days at the center, Troop 100 scouts helped construct a well-like device at a nearby vil-lage, replacing a more primitive

setup that was prone to contamina-tion. “There was a spring where water just bubbled up out of the ground. That’s where people would go to collect water for all of their needs,” said Kirkpatrick. “But because it just poured out of the ground into a large pool, the ani-mals would come there, too … and there was no protection for it.” “The idea was to provide clean water,” Gregory said of the project. “What we did was build a little enclosure. It basically looks a … stone wall.” The project was celebrated with news stories and a visit from King Letsie III, whose post is ceremonial in the democratic nation. The scouts also received a reward for their work. “In the days when we were finishing up, some-body came by in a car and opened up a trunk,” said Kirkpatrick. “In the trunk, there were two live sheep that they insisted that we take.” The scouts ultimately gave the sheep — which are considered a measure of wealth in Lesotho — to the palace and to Ambassador Bond. Once back home in D.C., Troop 100 started working on a new proj-ect: helping scouts from Lesotho come to the United States for a

visit this summer. The goal, said Kirkpatrick, is to “bring about a half-dozen Lesotho scouts here for about two weeks.” For the first week, they would stay with families and do sightseeing in D.C.; for the second week, they would camp with Troop 100 to the Goshen Scout Reservation in Virginia, participating in traditional American scouting activities like “swimming and canoeing and those kinds of things,” said Kirkpatrick. Gregory said he expects the Lesotho scouts will be in for a major culture shock in the United States. “It would be insane,” he said. “Coming to a place like the U.S. where you have McDonald’s, where people will throw away food, where there’s electricity and computers and Xbox, I don’t know how they’d react to that.” Camp Goshen has agreed to host the Lesotho scouts free of charge, but with plane tickets cost-ing more than $2,000, Troop 100 is now focused on fundraising. Kirkpatrick said a pancake break-fast, Christmas tree sale, spring yard sale and individual donations will all help the cause. More information about Troop 100 and its Lesotho experience is available at centurytroop.org.

The People and Places of Northwest Washington November 2, 2011

Scouting abroad: Tenley-based trooop visits Africa

Bill Petros/The CurrentU.S. Ambassador to Lesotho Michele Bond, top left, helped arrange for members of Boy Scout Troop 100 to visit the African nation over the summer. The troop is now raising funds to bring scouts from Lesotho to D.C. next year. Assistant scoutmaster Michael Kirkpatrick, above, accompanied scouts on the 17-day trip.

It was not the most physically demanding trip we’ve taken, but it was probably the most mentally demanding.

— Michael Kirkpatrick

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Aidan Montessori School On Oct. 21, Mrs. Chakrabarty’s lower elementary class went to the Kennedy Center and saw a musical called “The Amazing Adventures of Dr. Wonderful and Her Dog!” The play was about how Dr. Wonderful and her dog went into outer space and figured out a mystery. “The acting was great, but the songs were loud,” said third-grader Pranav Sethi-Olowin. “I liked the play and the songs,” said third-grader Dolci Gates. “I liked the action in the play and the songs,” said third-grader Tanner Prestholdt.— Edvin Leijon, fourth-grader, and

Elliot Sealls, fifth-grader

British School of Washington This term, Year 6’s International Primary Curriculum topic was titled “The Holiday Show.” It focused on tourism. As a class, we thought about ideal tourist locations, accom-modations, transportation and attractions. Throughout the term, we have learned many facts about

tourism such as where to go on hol-iday. On Oct. 17, Year 6 boarded a private tour bus and began a tour of Washington, D.C. We were all assigned partners and had questions to answer about the famous places we were going to visit, including the U.S. Capitol, the White House, Union Station, the Jefferson Memorial, the FDR Memorial and the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. As we were driving, our tour guide pointed out a small restaurant in Chinatown called Wok and Roll. The tour guide mentioned that that was the boarding house that Mary Surratt owned. She was the lady hanged for helping assassinate President Lincoln. Our first stop was at Union Station. At Union Station, we had to find answers to three questions, including what are three items tour-ists might buy, and when is the next train to New York. Our second stop

was at the Capitol building, where we walked around the grounds. Our final stop was at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, where we looked at all of the quotes that were displayed on the walls. One quote read, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”— Ava and Grace Schutte Lundell,

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Deal Middle School Recently, the sixth-graders went to the National Mall to have a scav-enger hunt. The first clue said, “I have something to do with move-ment. I am red, blue, orange, yellow and green. What am I?” The answer was the Metro. So we went to the Metro. We also saw the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial! This brought history to Deal because now, Alice Deal is one of the first D.C. public middle schools to go see the memo-rial. Sixth-graders also made a parfait of Oreo crumbs on top of pudding on top of a brownie. This is a won-derful way to learn the layers of the earth with a wonderful dessert. In science class, sixth-graders got to model plate boundaries with Oreo cookies! Students modeled convergent boundaries, transform boundaries and divergent boundar-ies. In Team Seoul’s science class, Ms. Hilary Mason’s students tested the terms “brittle” and “ductile” while using Twizzlers, Air Heads, pretzel rods, Cheese-Its and Pringles chips. Last Tuesday, Alice Deal Math Night rocked. Students and parents learned new things and even got prizes. Integers were introduced, and cubes were kind of confusing. Alice Deal debaters brought home two trophies. The debate was at Sidwell Friends. Alice Deal got second place! Good job, debaters. The next debate is at Deal on Dec. 10. Deal’s team of journalists is cov-ering news. Its first newspaper will be out on Nov. 9. Check it out.

— Karim Diaite, sixth-grader

Eaton Elementary In our school, each grade studies a different country. Third grade is studying Italy for the whole school year. Ms. Ramsey’s students are having lots of fun learning about Italy. We started the school year by learning the Italian words “Buongiorno, amici” so that we can greet each other in Italian. We made Italian flags, and we learned that the colors of the flag are red, green and white. We know that Italy is in the continent of Europe, and we can find it on a map because it is shaped like a boot. In library class, we learned about Christopher Columbus. He was Italian, and he discovered the new world. He was from Genoa, Italy,

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— Drake Lewis and Wyatt McCrary, third-graders

Edmund Burke School For the past two years, I have played for the junior varsity volley-ball team at Edmund Burke School

with other middle and high school students. Pre-season started on Aug. 22, and our first game was on Sept. 1. We started the season with prac-tice every day from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and our first game as a team was against Washington International School. Throughout the season, we played Sandy Spring once and Field three times. We beat Field once, and our record was 1-3. Our season is coming to an end, so we don’t have any more practices or games, although we do have our party this Thursday and we will be cheering for the varsity team in its upcoming games. The junior varsity team is coached by Philip Hough and Abby Kernan-Schloss (a Burke graduate), and the varsity team is coached by Daniel Running. The varsity team has its semifinal playoff game this week against Oakcrest. What I like most about volley-ball is that we do fun drills, play good games and have spirit week for our team. This year for spirit week, we had days with themes to get us ready for the games: super-hero, preppy, pajamas and flower/’70s girls. Dressing up helps

us get pumped up for the games and show other people in the school that we support our team! Varsity and junior varsity got pink shirts with “Burke Volleyball” printed on them to wear before games and during warm-ups.

— Isabelle Rennert, eighth-grader

Duke Ellington School of the Arts Last week, students visited Alice Deal Middle School to share their experiences at Duke Ellington and encourage young students to audi-tion for the coming school year. Students explained the audition pro-cess and other important details about the school. Representatives from McKinley Technology and

Wilson High School also spoke at the event. On Thursday, students were given the opportunity to get free STD testing at the school, facilitated by Metro TeenAIDS. Students learned that youth between the ages of 15 and 21 have the highest rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea in the city. Representatives from the D.C. Department of Health presented students with information about these diseases and encouraged stu-dents take advantage of the free testing. Friday marked the first day of spirit week. To celebrate, students and staff wore pink for breast can-cer awareness. Other days this week include Pajama Day, Costume Day, Crazy Hat Day, Blast to the Past

Day and Twin Day.— Malia Williams-Haynes,

10th-grader

Holy Trinity School At an Oct. 20 assembly, Justine Peregoy of Martha’s Table came to teach us all about what the organi-zation does. Every day Martha’s Table workers go out in a wagon to distribute sandwiches and soup to those in need. Our school, among many others, donates sandwiches to Martha’s Table. Every Wednesday one of our classes is in charge of making sand-wiches. Often that class makes 200 sandwiches or more. Each student brings in bread, meat or cheese, and then the sandwiches are assembled

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in the classroom. A generous parent volunteer drops the sandwiches off at Martha’s Table. Martha’s Table delivers the sand-wiches to anyone in need of food. The wagon goes out three times a day, 365 days a year, for breakfast, lunch and dinner. They deliver near-ly 1,200 sandwiches daily. During the summer, Martha’s Table has to make the sandwiches themselves, as schools aren’t donating because they are on vacation. At the end of the summer, Martha’s Table work-ers are pretty excited when the sandwich donations start rolling in again! Everyone at Holy Trinity is happy to help out at Martha’s Table. Many people are hungry in Washington, D.C., and Martha’s Table is there to help them.

— Emily Kehoe and Lizzy Mulvihill, fourth-graders

Jewish Primary Day School On Oct. 17, the third-, fourth- and fifth-graders went to Rock

Creek Park to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Sukkot is the holiday commem-orating when the Israelites spent 40 years wandering in the desert and building huts to sleep in along the way. They had just escaped from Egypt. The holiday began Oct. 12 and ended Oct. 20. And so we cele-brated with special activities on Oct. 17. We went to the park at 10:30 a.m., and the first thing we did was make flat pita bread. While it was cooking, we said Tashlich, a special prayer where we throw microscopic pieces of pita into the water as a sign of “throw-ing” our sins away. After we tasted the pita, we declared it was yummy. Then we had lunch. After lunch, we played tug-of-war and a game where we tried to grab a roll of tape without getting caught. We also went on a nature walk. On the nature walk, we had a list of things to find. We also could spell “Chag Sameach” (Hebrew for “Happy Holidays”) as a way of earning bonus points. Lastly, we went and built our own sukkah. Or we could decorate

or work on the big sukkah at school. My favorite part was the eating, because the food was good. It was a great day!

— Matthew Siff, fourth-grader

Key Elementary Every year, Key School has a green team designed to find ways to make things more green at school. This year, it is directed by our sci-ence teacher, Ms. Johnson, and led by two fifth-graders, Idris and Theo. There are multiple teams this year, and each has its own goals and projects. “I’m really excited about the expansion of the green team this year,” said Ms. Johnson. “We have over 40 students involved. We were able to create four teams to accom-plish our goals of becoming a green school.” The new and improved teams will promote everything that is green — saving energy, recycling, healthy foods and gardening. The energy team will use energy audit tools to take energy readings around the school and devise strate-gies for classes to use the least amount of energy possible. The recycling team will renew its com-mitment to the classroom recycling program and expand recycling to the cafeteria. The healthy foods team will pro-mote healthy food in the cafeteria and make posters and commercials to encourage students to make healthy food choices. The garden-ing team will launch small class-room gardens. It is currently work-ing on a winter garden! All of this would not be possible without the help of Ms. Johnson, a handful of teachers and our two fifth-grade leaders. We hope you see Key School become even more green this year!

— Meghan Ourand, Jasmine Reid and Alex Foley,

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Lafayette Elementary Lafayette has an active student council. Every fall, interested fifth-

graders campaign for three weeks for the offices of president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. This year looks to be one of the most competitive years yet. With so many things to do, the candidates have to be responsible and keep all the chaos under con-trol. Ms. Lisa Jensen and Mr. Joseph Rogall, third-grade teachers who co-sponsor the student council, are there to help guide the candi-dates through the stages of the cam-paign. Student council officers and rep-resentatives play an important lead-ership role at Lafayette, so the elec-tion process is a serious one. Besides designing their own posters and writing their own slogans, can-didates for office have to write cam-paign speeches. They deliver their speeches at an election day rally of third- through fifth-grade voters who assemble in the Great Hall. Then the balloting follows immedi-ately. The race has always been close, and this year should be no exception. Candidates for president are Sari Finn, Johannes Kartano, Izabella Pino, Aaron Rosenthal and Claire Schmitt. Running for vice president are David Ayers, Peter Colevas, Timothy Costello, Alessandra Guy, Greta Jalen, Rose Kelleher, Kylie Thomas and Aidan Trinity. The can-didates for secretary are Nkati Amare, Ethan Bond, Jalen Ciagne, Emma Jacobson, Jelani Machen and Eli Richardson. Running for treasurer are Anna Nachbar-Seckel, Zach Neville, Julia Ravenscroft, Alahna Sabbakhan, Ben Spaeth, Jacob Stocker and Josh Taubman.

— Liliana Edmonds and Sari Finn, fifth-graders

Maret School Since the beginning of the year, the fourth grade has studied archae-ology as a social studies unit. While learning about archaeology and cul-tures of the past, we have been on many different field trips to places like Londontowne, Md., and Alexandria, Va. During our field trips, we learned a ton of interesting

facts. First we had a tour of Alexandria’s Carlyle House, which was a trader’s house in the 18th century. At the Carlyle House, we were able to see different artifacts such as aged books, broken pottery and old toys. Then we passed around some of the artifacts we saw and learned about their uses. A few days later, we went to the Alexandria Archaeology Museum to learn about the multiple excava-tions occurring in historic Alexandria. There we saw a 19th-century musket on display and some other artifacts that will be cleaned and displayed later. We also saw a pair of rusty scissors that were being cleaned, along with a model of a Civil War battle with the people made of Peeps! After this trip, we were aware of the abun-dance of history in our area. On the last field trip, we went to Londontowne and saw the recon-struction of the original Colonial town. We were able to directly par-ticipate in an archaeological dig and sift for artifacts being excavated from the site. Afterward, we under-stood how slow and careful these scientists must be to preserve the past.

— Fourth-graders

Murch Elementary In the late afternoon of Friday, Oct. 14, there was a theft of pump-kins from the Murch Elementary vegetable garden. A parent came running up to a teacher’s aide and stated, “Two children are giving pumpkins from the Murch garden to a complete stranger!” The aide ran to confront the thief, but by the time she got there, the man had fled. The garden had more than a dozen pumpkins at one time, including some that had grown through the fence near Reno Road. After the illegal harvest, four pump-kins were left. Jack Burke, a second-grader who was responsible for planting them last year with his first-grade class, told us, “I felt very angry that



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all of our hard work planting and caring for them over the summer was down the drain! We made a sign for them in the garden and everything!” The five current first-grade classes were planning to harvest the pumpkins to study the pumpkin life cycle and celebrate Thanksgiving. We hope we won’t have to deal with garden thieves at Murch again!

— Isabelle Shook and Becket See, third-graders

National Presbyterian School ‘’Yum! Yum!’’ That’s what peo-ple say when they think or go to Hot Lunch Hoopla. It was held on Friday, Oct. 21. On that day, lunch changed to Hot Lunch Hoopla, and the stu-dents got to chow down on hot dogs, carrots, pretzel sticks, milk and ice cream. The dads got the food one or two days before Hot Lunch Hoopla at an area supermar-ket. Then, at Hot Lunch Hoopla, four to six dads manned the grills cooking hot dogs for every grade. They also gave students carrots and pretzel sticks on their plates. Then, when everyone was about done eat-ing, everybody rushed to get a share of ice cream. Everybody knows that Mr. Neill, our head of school, wears his hot dog costume to the event, but this year he also wore a cape. There was also Mr. Sumner, a fifth-grade teacher, wearing a mustard cos-

tume; Mr. Ketchum, upper division director, wearing a ketchup cos-tume; and David Giannini, a fifth-grader, wearing a hot dog costume. They unloaded the cars in their cos-tumes and all the kids laughed and smiled. When Hot Lunch Hoopla was over, the fourth-, fifth- and sixth-graders cleaned up all the food.

— David Giannini and Finn McCarthy, fifth-graders

St. Albans School Last Friday at St. Albans, a long and famous tradition among stu-dents and faculty continued: the annual St. Albans Lower School Halloween Contest. The judges are faculty members who are usually in a group costume along with all of their colleagues. Last year all of the teachers dressed as chess pieces. There are always a wide variety of costumes among the students. Some people dress up just to get the candy, which is given to anyone who enters the contest. This usually results in some last-minute cos-tumes, which aren’t so great. But most of the kids dress up in hopes of winning the prize for their grade or the grand prize for the best cos-tume in the lower school: a lunch of the winner’s choice for him and a friend, or for him and his group (if it’s a group costume). The winning costume is rarely store-bought, and it is often a play on words, a funny pun, a piece of art, a current event or a combina-tion of these. Last year the grand prize went to “The Peanuts Gang,” which consisted of Charlie Brown (a giant brown crayon), Snoopy

(the rapper Snoop Dogg), Woodstock (a hippie), Peppermint Patty (a giant York peppermint patty candy) and Pigpen (a half-pig, half-pen creature). The winners sometimes choose obscure food for their prize; one year a winner asked for swordfish (but was denied). Usually, however, the winners choose something like Chinese food or sushi. It’s a great tradition that is fun for everyone and that everybody hopes will continue indefinitely.

— Jamie Large, Form II (eighth-grader)

St. Ann’s Academy So far in this first quarter, we

have done many educational and interesting things. Our seventh-grade class went to Camp Calleva, where we learned skills to build trust. We did river rafting, rails, the great swing and the wall, an activi-ty that requires students to safely hoist each other over a 10-foot wall. We also slept in tents. Our academics consist of sci-ence, religion, Spanish, social stud-ies, math and language arts. In sci-ence, we are learning about the early cell explorers. In religion, we are learning the seven sacraments. In Spanish, we are learning formal and informal ways to greet some-one, as well as different vocabulary. In social studies, we are learning

about the early Greek civilization. In math (pre-algebra), we are lean-ing different properties. In language arts, we are learning about indepen-dent and dependent clauses.

— Shelby Thomas and Claudia Silva, seventh-graders

St. John’s College High School St. John’s holds an annual open house at the end of October that gives the community a glimpse of the school’s spirit and tradition. This year’s open house, held on Sunday, Oct. 23, was a positive day overall and a great success for the community of St. John’s as well as



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for all who visited. More than 1,000 families, 300 student volunteers and 250 adult volunteers attended. All volunteers were enthusiastic about supporting and encouraging St. John’s as a great opportunity for potential students to grow academi-cally, spiritually and socially. From its academic rigor to its dominating sports teams, St. John’s has shown that it has a lot to offer to an upcoming seventh- or eighth-grader. The open house was suc-cessful in displaying not only what we currently have to offer, but also our upcoming renovation plans. Starting in January, the school will rebuild and add to its library, and it will also expand and create a mod-ernized and renovated cafeteria.

— Jordan Labbe, 12th-grader

School Without Walls There was an outpouring of school pride this week as the whole school participated in spirit week. The pep rally was a major success and lots of fun for all involved. The

hip-hop and cheerleading teams performed, and there were also relay races and an inter-class bas-ketball game (the winner of which played against the teachers). The senior class was the undeni-able champion of this year’s pep rally. The seniors took first in all the relays, and they defeated the freshmen and sophomores in bas-ketball to play against and beat the teachers. A shoutout should go to the junior class, though, which lost to the freshmen. The class cheers, shouted/sung loudly during the pep rally, expressed varied levels of creativity and humor. The crowning moment was arguably when all of the seniors flocked to the gym floor and, after giving their chant, broke out into a not-so-choreographed dance routine to a go-go beat. Also this week, members of the School Without Walls Global Issues Network returned from a conference in Peru, where the stu-dents represented not just the school but the entire United States of America. Seniors Sophia Hoffacker, Emma Myers, Zoe Zakin, Jacob Bray, Arissa Morrell,

David Heim and Emily Carson pre-sented on the topic “Education for All: A Different Way for Looking at Education.” School Without Walls was also invited to attend next year’s conference in Brazil.

— Keanu Ross-Cabrera, 12th-grader

Sheridan School In fifth-grade science, we learned about pollution in the Chesapeake Bay and discussed ways that we can help stop it. On Oct. 4, our class took a field trip to the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Md. We were accompa-nied by our math teacher, our sci-ence teachers, our homeroom teachers and our school counselor. We went into the main building, where the staff talked to us about the dangers the bay currently faces. There were five stations, so we split up into small groups to explore different topics. There was a plankton station where we learned about two types of plankton (Zooplankton and Phytoplankton) and how they are on the bottom of the food chain. There was a blue-crab station where we tried to catch blue crabs using chicken meat, and there was a third station that involved seining (catching fish with nets carried by people). In the seining station, we went into the Chesapeake Bay in water suits and walked toward the bay, then turned around and walked back toward the shore. One group caught two baby menhaden and a baby striped bass! The fourth sta-tion was oyster investigation. We learned about oysters, and then we examined the oysters and looked for crabs inside that might be using them as shelters. The last station

was the water testing station. In this station, we tested the water quality of the bay. This was such a fun day and we learned a lot about how to keep the bay healthy!

— Barratt Dewey and Luke Colella, fifth-graders

Shepherd Elementary On Oct. 22, Shepherd had its annual Fall Fest, and tons of people came. There were games, rides and food, and the weather was perfect. Some of the fun activities and fea-tures included moon bounces, face painting, pumpkin painting, a bean-bag throw, spin art, and make-your-own candy necklace or bracelet. There were also plenty of yummy treats like cotton candy, popcorn and cupcakes you could decorate yourself and then eat! We even had music provided by Shepherd’s own DJ, Mr. Velez, and kids as well as adults were dancing in the street. All day long, I heard students making comments such as, “This is cool,” or “Awesome.” Well, I hope we made some “awesome” funds for the school. In addition to the Fall Fest, Shepherd also had Family Math Night last Tuesday and Family Dinner Night last Wednesday. There is always something interest-ing and fun going on at Shepherd, and the best way to find out about these activities is to read each issue of the school newsletter, The Mustang. Halloween activities included the Halloween party in the school auditorium, followed by the annual Halloween parade at Shepherd Field adjacent to the school, hosted by the Shepherd Park Citizens Association. Also, in addition to

collecting Halloween candy, you can always collect change for Shepherd’s annual “Trick or Treat for UNICEF” campaign even if it’s November. I hope everyone had great, and safe, Halloween.

— Leo Saunders, fifth-grader

Sidwell Friends School Each year in the middle school, sixth-graders are required to map the world by memory. Obviously sixth-graders don’t do this the first month of school. They have to do many drafts and read many text-book pages before attempting this challenging activity. In addition to the textbook read-ings, sixth-graders create drafts throughout the year that help them practice drawing the outlines of the continents and countries on blank maps. Our first assignment was in September. We were given a blank grid of lines of longitude and lati-tude. On this blank grid we were expected to draw all of the conti-nents along with as many countries, capitals and physical features as we could remember. This was very challenging but fun because we were able to see what we already knew. At the end of the year, sixth-graders will sit down with a blank grid and will be expected to map the entire world from memory. Right now this seems like a daunt-ing task, but we are confident that with a lot of hard work and prac-tice, we will be up for the chal-lenge. Geography can be important in many aspects of life. These maps do not teach us just about geogra-phy, but also about perseverance.

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The Historic Preservation Review Board last week designated American University’s Tenley Circle campus as a historic district, then quickly endorsed the university’s plan to restore and reuse two buildings there, demol-ish several others, and build new classroom and library space to accommodate its law

school on the eight-acre tract just west of Wisconsin Avenue. D.C. Historic Preservation Office staffers had worked with the university to develop the proposal, which they called “an extreme-ly good project” that preserves the most memorable structures while allowing “excit-ing new construction.” The board’s unanimous vote is the latest step in turning the former country estate and

Catholic school for girls into a new home for the Washington College of Law — part of the university’s 10-year plan for its satellite and main campus. But the decision will not quell the contro-versy. Some neighbors flatly oppose reloca-tion of the law school and its projected popu-lation of 2,500 students, staff and faculty to the Tenley campus, which now houses offic-es and dorm space for about 300 students. A

group of residents who live within 200 feet of the campus is gearing up to fight the plan at Zoning Commission hearings Nov. 21 and Dec. 1. In materials submitted to the Zoning Commission, the Tenley Campus Neighbors Association contends that such an intense development of the site will have a negative impact not only on historic properties, but

Preservation board supports American University plans for Tenleytown

By CARL STRAUMSHEIMCurrent Correspondent

After a brief delay because of Saturday’s snow, the Newark Street Dog Park celebrated its one-year anniversary on Sunday. The event drew dog owners and their pets from all across Northwest Washington to socialize in the sun. But the scene was not always so peaceful. When — after years of debate — Mayor Adrian Fenty declared the park officially open in September 2011, a group of protest-ers from the neighboring community garden showed up with signs accus-ing Fenty of wasting $400,000 of taxpayers’ money on the dog park. Some opponents claimed the park cost even more, as much as $600,000. On Sunday, Elaine English, pres-ident of the Newark Street Park K-9 Friends, said she was satisfied with how the park has become a part of the neighborhood. “It’s not to say that we haven’t had problems — I would call them challenges — that we’ve had to cope with,” she said. “Overall, it’s been a really great first year.” Armed with a megaphone, English spent her morning announc-ing winning raffle tickets as well as greeting attendees, helping vendors and managing a silent auction. The event, of course, was not strictly aimed at its four-legged guests. While local vendors adver-tised dog walking services and agil-ity training, the auction featured gift cards and limousine rides. The celebration also served as a push to raise money and recruit new members for the dog park. In the District, dog parks must have a dedi-cated volunteer organization attached before they can be built, and the volunteer groups are respon-sible for maintaining the facilities. While members volunteer to close the park on Newark Street each night on a rotating basis, the group has had to hire someone to open it in the early hours of the morning. English said the group hoped to hit the $10,000 mark by the end of the day — about half of which had been raised before Sunday’s event. “Hopefully, with new members and the silent auction, we’ll make up

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GW COMMUNITY CALENDARA selection of this month’s GW events—neighbors welcome!

Sunday, Nov. 6 at 1 p.m.GW Men’s Soccer vs. Duquesne Mount Vernon Field2100 Foxhall Road, NWSupport GW Men’s Soccer as they take on Duquesne. This event is free and open to the public.

Sunday, Nov. 6 at 6:30 p.m.Ananiashvili - Ratmansky Ballet GalaLisner Auditorium730 21st St., NWEnjoy as the world-famous Prima Ballerina Nina Ananiashvili performs three ballets by the acclaimed choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, Bolshoi Theatre, Artist in Residence at American Ballet Theatre. Tickets are $75 to $115 and can be purchased at www.ticketmaster.com. Thursday, Nov. 10 to Saturday, Nov. 12Generic Theater Company Presents: Speech and DebateLisner Downstage730 21st St., NWCome and enjoy the rich student theater at GW. Speech and Debate, written by Stephen Karam and directed by Ariel Warmash will be performed by a dynamic cast of GW students. Tickets are $5 and can be purchased at the door.

Saturday, Nov. 12 at 1 p.m.GW Women’s Swimming vs. TowsonSmith Center Pool600 22nd St., NWSupport GW Women’s Swimming as they take on Towson. This event is free and open to the public.

Wednesday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m.GW Women’s Basketball vs. Morgan StateCharles E. Smith Center600 22nd St., NWSupport GW Women’s Basketball as they take on Morgan State. Fans interested in opening new season ticket accounts can call 202-994-7325 during regular business hours to purchase their seats.

Saturday, Nov. 19 at 2 p.m.GW Women’s Basketball vs. Virginia TechCharles E. Smith Center600 22nd St., NWSupport GW Women’s Basketball as they take on Virginia Tech. Fans interested in opening new season ticket accounts can call 202-994-7325 during regular business hours to purchase their seats.

Sunday, Nov. 20 at 7 p.m.Yamato: The Drummers of Japan present Gamushara / The Beat of CourageLisner Auditorium730 21st St., NWThe Japanese taiko drummers of Yamato combine thrilling percussion with jaw-dropping physicality in the stunning new program Gamushara. Precision, grace and power connect with ancient and modern traditions to create an exhilarating evening for sound, sight and soul. Tickets are $25 to $45 and can be purchased at www.ticketmaster.com.

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Sunday, Nov. 6 at 6 p.m.GW Men’s Basketball vs. Bowie State (Exhibition)Charles E. Smith Center600 22nd St., NWSupport GW Men’s Basketball as they take on Bowie State. Fans interested in opening new season ticket accounts can call 202-994-7325 during regular business hours to purchase their seats.

Friday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. (Home Opener)GW Men’s Basketball vs. UMESCharles E. Smith Center600 22nd St., NWSupport GW Men’s Basketball in their home opener against University of Maryland Eastern Shore. For season ticket packages or single game tickets, please visit www.GWsports.com/tickets, call 202-994-7325 or email [email protected].

Wednesdays at 3 p.m.Foggy Bottom Farmers MarketEye Street Mall I Street between New Hampshire and 24th streets, NWThe Foggy Bottom farmers market returns for another season. Oerings include fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs, organic and grass-fed meats, handmade cheeses, breads, desserts, preserves, herbs, owers, plants and more. Every Wednesday from 3-7 p.m. through Nov. 23. For more information, visit www.freshfarmmarket.org.

Tuesday, Nov. 1 at 6:30 p.m.FRIENDS November MeetingSt. Mary’s Church Parish Hall728 23rd St., NWThe November FRIENDS meeting will be a special Thanksgiving menu tasting sponsored by Whole Foods Market. In addition to the Thanksgiving menu tasting there will be a number of community updates and post Block Party discussions. See you there! This event is free and open to the public.

Friday, Nov. 4 at 3 p.m.GW Men’s Soccer vs. St. BonaventureMount Vernon Field2100 Foxhall Road, NWSupport GW Men’s Soccer as they take on St. Bonaventure. This event is free and open to the public.

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West End. But for the buyer who wants a compact spot in the leafy reaches of Ward 3, options are fewer and the perfect home can seem impos-sible to find. A row home added to the market last month may be just the thing. With two bed-rooms and one bath, the 700-square-foot property clocks in at condo dimensions, but offers single-family amenities — and no condo fees. For green thumbs, for example, there’s a small yard in front and a deck and brick terrace ringed by mature greenery in the rear. The latter two are ideal for summer grilling — an activity not possible on most condo balconies. And with no pesky condo

restrictions on pet ownership, this home in the Tenleytown/Friendship Heights area is wel-coming to dog owners, thanks to the open green space of Fort Reno just steps from the front door. The ground floor of the end-unit home is open from the front door to the back, meaning that sun streams in from three exposures. A sitting area waits closest to the front door, followed by a dining

spot and recently ren-ovated kitchen. Hardwood floors run the length of this high-ceilinged level, helping to visually enlarge the space.

Most condo kitch-ens lack the ample storage space of this white, bright spot. Even the back of a supporting column has been turned into shelving ideal for cookbooks and other items. Also hard to

find in multi-family dwellings is the classic kitchen setup found here of a sunny window set over the kitchen sink. A laundry closet is another kitchen convenience, and next to

that spot waits a storage closet that stretches deep under the stairs. Upstairs, the larger of the two bedrooms, sized to fit a queen-sized bed, is cool in a light blue-gray. A ceiling fan keeps things comfortable during D.C. summers, and trees shade the space from two exposures. The smaller bedroom also fea-tures two exposures, a ceiling fan and the hardwood floors that also line this level. This spot could accommodate a twin-sized bed but is also suitable for a home office

or nursery. Recent renovations have also updated the bathroom in this 1920s home while maintaining a vintage aesthetic. Tiles in a classic basketweave pattern line the floor, while marble subway tiles frame a shower enclosure. In an on-trend move, renovations partially enclosed the shower space with a glass half-wall. Though situated on quiet

Ellicott Street, this home also offers close-by amenities such as the restaurants and shops along Wisconsin Avenue as well as the nearby Tenleytown Metrorail stop. After a recent price drop, this two-bedroom, one-bath home at 4002 Ellicott St. is offered for $504,900. For details, contact Realtor Joan Cromwell of McEnearney Associates at 202-441-8912 or [email protected].

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the worn-out playground equipment and improve the condition of the grounds. Felten said the organizers are looking to design the playground thoughtfully and with community input, considering not only for the school’s outdoor education but also as green space for the entire community. PTA members recognize that this is a long-term proj-ect that won’t happen overnight. Fundraising efforts and design plans are in the early stages. “This is a legacy project,” Scott said. “It’s exciting and big-scale — and we hope it will benefit hundreds of kids in the years to come.” Borrowing from the theme of the 2000 film “Pay It Forward,” the PTA has named the fundraising campaign “Play It Forward.” “The folks before us made Key the special place it is today, so we want to pave the way for the next generation of kids,” said Scott. “‘Play It Forward’ really captures the spirit of what we’re trying to do — passing on good deeds.” According to Scott, the playground committee is cur-rently evaluating other school playgrounds and talking with vendors who have experience renovating school-yards. Once a proposed site plan is drafted, the commit-tee plans to work together with D.C. Public Schools to implement the renovations. “We’re ready to try to partner with the District to get it done,” said principal Landeryou, adding, “It’s another example of the Key community getting behind some-thing and getting really energized for the sake of the kids.” Other public schools in the District have also

improved their playgrounds with the help of PTA and community fundraising efforts, including Watkins Elementary in Capitol Hill, Mann Elementary in Wesley Heights and Shepherd Elementary in Shepherd Park. The Key School playground committee raised initial funds for the project during the PTA’s annual spring auc-tion, and has set a goal of raising $150,000 by this sum-mer. The committee is meeting this week to plan upcom-ing fundraising events. Key School PTA president Karen Kelliher described the effort to improve the playground as a “public/private partnership.” “We hope it’s something we can achieve together so that it’s not strictly a DCPS burden,” Kelliher said. “The Key School playground is such a gem for the commu-nity — it’s a place where kids learn to ride their bike for the first time, or where a child has gone down a slide for the first time. For more information on the campaign or to get involved, contact the Key School PTA or send an email to [email protected].

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tees. Some of those salaries were reduced, but the mayor has also argued that he needs to offer top pay to attract top talent. Cheh said the current salaries of the four depart-ment heads are about 25 percent above regional averages. An amendment offered by Council Chairman Kwame Brown provides a small “incentive pay-ment” for Henderson. Brown said former Mayor Adrian Fenty prom-

ised Henderson a $12,500 bonus for assuming the top school job in the middle of the year without assur-ances that his successor would keep her on. That bonus has not been paid yet, Brown said. “She honored her end of the bargain, so DCPS could oper-ate without interruption” when for-mer Chancellor Michelle Rhee resigned, he said. Brown noted that Henderson’s payment is much smaller than the $41,000 signing bonus that Rhee received. The salary bill requires a second vote by the council.

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Photo courtesy of Key Elementary School PTAThe Key PTA hopes to corral both private and public funds to restore the school’s playground.

again, he noted, it took four and a half years to renovate and expand the Tenleytown fire station on Wisconsin Avenue, which became mired in design, preservation and contracting disputes. But the Cleveland Park plans are now on track, said Battalion Chief David Foust, who took over con-struction management duties from longtime Deputy Chief Christopher Jordan this fall. The final plans have already passed historic review, and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, which reviews municipal construc-tion projects in the nation’s capital, signed off in October. The latest delay is minor, Foust said. After work on a retaining wall behind the sta-tion was added to the project’s scope, the deadline for sub-mission of bids had to be pushed back from Oct. 11 to Nov. 7. If all goes well, a con-tractor should be selected this winter, with actual construc-tion under way in February 2012. Once work begins, the station is expected to reopen in about a year. Plans for the little station at 3522 Connecticut Ave. include “gutting and rebuild-ing the whole inside,” Foust said. Outside, the brickwork, mason-ry, roof and windows will be restored. The only major change visible to passersby will be a widen-ing of the two main vehicle doors to accommodate modern firefighting equipment. Their height will stay the same, and they will still be “arched, not squared,” he said. The contract has been combined with another similar fire station ren-ovation project, at Engine Co. 29, in the Palisades, for a total cost of about $7.5 million. The projects were joined to achieve economies of scale and also, Foust said, in hopes of attracting a larger contractor who might get the work done faster. But the two stations offer an interesting contrast. The Palisades station at 4811 MacArthur Blvd. is still up and run-ning, while a prefab metal tempo-rary station — known as a Butler Building – has already been erected on the grounds of the Washington

Aqueduct about a mile west on the same street. Foust said communica-tions equipment and gates are now being installed, and as soon as the old station closes down for renova-tion, the staff and vehicles from Engine Co. 29 can move right in. But in more congested Cleveland Park, the search for a temporary site proved futile. The Cleveland Park Citizens Association “worked many hours, together with [fire officials], to identify a temporary location. We really beat the bushes,” said associa-tion president Susie Taylor.

But no one could find a large enough site, with good street access and utilities already in place, to accommodate a temporary station.

“So we went to ‘Plan B’ — figuring out how FEMS can disburse person-nel and vehicles so as to not adverse-ly impact response times,” she said. “We had meetings about how FEMS was going to handle a tempo-rary closure,” Taylor said. “But it wasn’t supposed to last this long.” Foust insists there’s been no dete-rioration in response times. Cleveland Park’s crews and vehicles have been relocated to stations at 4930 Connecticut Ave. and 1763 Lanier Place. But an Automatic Vehicle Locator in each vehicle means the closest one, whether in a station or on the road, can be quickly pinpointed and sent on calls. “In reality, these trucks are available 24 hours a day,” he said. Taylor agrees she’s seen no data to indicate a problem with response times since the station closed. “We haven’t heard any horror stories, nothing anecdotally,” she said. “But doubling up in these other facilities, it’s obviously not a good situation.”

FIREHOUSEFrom Page 5

Rendering courtesy of D.C. governmentPlans for the Cleveland Park firehouse have passed several reviews.

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Kim Williams, the city’s land-mark coordinator, said the condi-tion of the property is so bad that “I don’t believe the National Register [of Historic Places] would accept the Brightwood car barn.” The hastily formed Brightwood preservation group retained its own architectural historian, Oscar Beisert, to make its case. Beisert’s presentation showed trolley cars plying Georgia Avenue and other major corridors, and an assortment of the District’s 29 streetcar barns — some plain and utilitarian like the one in Brightwood, and some more “fancy.” “There are only eight left,” Beisert said. “Obviously, there are integrity issues, but it still has the overall feeling of a car barn. While there are additions, the basic brick shell is there.” He said the building helps illus-trate how Brightwood grew from a hundred households in 1910 to a dozen times that number in the 1940s, with streetcars providing convenient transportation up 7th Street and Georgia Avenue from downtown. “We don’t disagree about the history, but that building as it his-torically was does not exist any more,” responded Foulger-Pratt’s architectural historian, Andi Adams. Adams said the firm’s removal of roof trusses this fall was legally permitted. But because the filing of the landmark application forced a halt to all work on the site, unse-cured walls are now starting to

crack as well, she said. Phil Feola, Foulger-Pratt’s attor-ney, argued that the motivation of landmark backers is suspect. Feola noted that four years ago, when Foulger-Pratt proposed a different mixed-use development on the site, also requiring substantial demoli-tion of the car barn, “there was no outcry. Now the proposal is for a Walmart, and it’s suddenly impor-tant. This is not about preservation,

but stopping this development.” Longtime board member Tersh Boasberg, chairing the hearing, cut him off. “We don’t consider moti-vation,” he told Feola. “We know there are lots of other issues going on in the neighborhood, but we have no jurisdiction.” “I don’t want to talk about Walmart,” Boasberg said at anoth-er point in the proceedings. Though a majority of the 40 or so audience members seemed to favor the anti-car barn/pro-Walmart side, the attendees were clearly divided. “We can’t make a building like this today,” said Missouri Avenue resident Woody Baker, noting that even the Curtis Chevrolet era is part of Brightwood’s history. “This car barn goes from horses to trol-leys to taxis to cars. These are pieces that tie together what we

are.” “There’s really nothing to pre-serve,” offered another resident. “I walked over, and there’s nothing but junk inside — nothing unique about the windows, roof really just about gone. It’s a blighted area, and has been since Curtis Chevy left. Now there’s an opportunity for more jobs, an opportunity to shop in the city. If we declare it historic, it would just stay blight-ed.” Ultimately, the condition of the building sealed its fate. “I’ve driven up Georgia Avenue, and only recently realized it was a car barn,” said board member Chris Landis. Said Boasberg, “There’s no doubt about the significance of the structure, but it’s simply too much loss of integrity. Much as we would like to, we cannot order the building restored.” Instead, said Adam Davis, a development executive at Foulger-Pratt, the company can now resume removing the car barn’s roof and trusses, then pull an already-requested permit to raze the rest of the building. That should take about five weeks, he said, and con-struction can begin on the 106,000-square-foot store once final drawings are approved. Baruti Jahi, a leader of the Brightwood preservation group, said the fight is not yet over. “They’re rewarding the developer for taking away the integrity,” he said, adding that his group will consult on whether to take further action. “They can demolish it tomorrow, but that doesn’t mean they can build a Walmart tomor-row,” he told The Current.

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and other civic leaders that D.C. has “the hottest real estate market in the country — unquestionably.” But in answer to a question, he said he fears “the 2013 budget will be worse than any budget we’ve ever seen.” With federal aid for cit-ies being cut, he explained, the District will definitely suffer. Brown also expressed a fear that the recently adopted top income tax rate might spur some wealthy resi-dents to leave and potential wealthy newcomers to choose the suburbs over the city, thereby depriving the District of their taxes. But Brown does not oppose all revenue-enhancing measures. When asked if the District should follow the lead of Singapore and London and charge a fee for cars driving downtown, Brown said the city is studying a high-occupancy toll lane for 14th or 16th streets. “I haven’t seen all the details, but

it’s something we’re looking at now,” he said. New development will also bring jobs and tax revenue to the city: Brown cited the U.S. Department of Homeland Security facility in Ward 8, Shaw’s O Street Market, the soon-to-be-built Howard Town Center at the foot of Georgia Avenue, and the planned Walter Reed development. Brown predicted that in the not-too-distant future, Anacostia would be the city’s next H Street as a hot place for development.

BROWNFrom Page 8

I’ve driven up Georgia Avenue, and only recently realized it was a car barn.

— Tersh Boasberg

Bill Petros/Current File PhotoChairman Kwame Brown says education reform must continue.

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also on traffic congestion, pedes-trian safety and their own property values. Some neighbors, as well as the Tenleytown-American University Park advisory neighborhood com-mission, have also complained that university planners and city preser-vation staff worked out details of the plan behind closed doors. Not so, city preservation plan-ner Steve Callcott told the preser-vation board last Thursday. “Consistent with our regulations, the [preservation office] works with property owners. But there were many meetings, with the owners and other stakeholders,” including neighbors, he said. Callcott said the university ini-tially presented a proposal for one big building in the middle of what is now a central lawn or quadran-gle. During months of discussion, “there were 15 different iterations — not just fine-tuning, but funda-mentally rethinking” — that broke down the proposed construction into “a scale of development that respects the community” while preserving most of the property’s green space, he said. The long history of the site led the Tenleytown Historical Society to submit individual landmark nominations: one for Dunblane House on the western edge, built in the 1830s and now one of only two 19th-century estate houses still standing in Tenleytown; and a sec-ond for Immaculata Seminary, which bought the estate and built the imposing Capital Hall fronting the circle in 1904. City architectural historian Tim Dennée agreed that both should be “considered neighborhood land-marks in the broadest sense,” as they help tell the story of Tenleytown’s country estates and then of the enclave of Catholic institutions that clustered around Tenley Circle. But he recommended establish-ing a historic district instead of naming individual landmarks on the campus. The board agreed, not-ing that it used the same tool to guide growth on the Lowell School campus earlier this fall, allowing designation of both “contributing

buildings,” to be preserved, and “non-contributing” buildings that could be demolished to make way for new construction. Next, the board moved on to the university’s plans, developed assuming the property would be designated historic and outlined by David King of SmithGroup Architects. Under those plans, the exterior of Capital Hall will be preserved and restored, with the interior gut-ted to create faculty meeting and office space. A 1921 chapel will be preserved and converted into a moot courtroom. The new land-scape plan will mean reducing the slope of the broad front lawn to make it more usable, but retaining the interior quadrangle “as wide or wider than now existing, and retaining all large trees,” King said. Two large and now “non-con-tributing” 1950s-era buildings — housing dorms, a dining hall and a gymnasium for Immaculata — will be demolished. In their place, two new four- and five-story buildings will rise: a classroom wing set back in an attempt to respect the scale of the houses along Yuma Street, and a more imposing library building

along Nebraska Avenue. “It’s quite a bit of building to look at at once. But it’s done quite successfully. You’ve preserved the heart of that property,” said board member Maria Casarella. “Overall, it’s a very, very good plan, and seems to keep the size of the new buildings under control,” said member Pamela Scott. Dunblane itself is still in conten-tion. The university has no plans as yet for reusing the old estate house, and no detailed plans for restora-tion. American’s architectural his-torian, Andi Adams, argued that the building has been so heavily altered over the years, with major parts destroyed by a fire, that it’s difficult to know what is still original. “It’s definitely a remnant of a 19th-cen-tury house,” she told the board. But Jane Waldmann, president of the Tenleytown Historical Society, pleaded for its restoration. The university is proposing “huge, huge building in a swath of very historic property. It dominates our history in a way I find problemat-ic,” she told the board. “My heart is with Dunblane, and I would like you to encourage preservation of Dunblane.”

TENLEYFrom Page 23

Rendering courtesy of American UniversityThe university plans to relocate its law school to its Tenley Campus, where it wants to preserve some structures and demolish others.


Spring Valley residents appear supportive of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposal for cleaning up chemical contamination and munitions at 4825 Glenbrook Road — and Army officials say they aren’t surprised to be hearing positive feedback. The Army announced over the summer that it hopes to tear down the house at the site so workers can identify and remove any remain-ing World War I-era hazards buried below the

structure. The $13.5 million effort is “the most aggressive” possible cleanup for the property, officials told residents at a public meeting last Wednesday. Of the five options the Army considered for the property, its preferred alternative is “the most expensive. It’s also the most effective,” Col. Dave Anderson, commander of the Army Corps’ Baltimore region, said in an interview. “It removes all doubt for all time of what might be under the house, what might be in the soil,” Anderson said. “We’re going to go down to bedrock and find out.”

The Army buried chemicals and munitions in then-undeveloped woods downhill from its American University Experiment Station in 1918. One such burial pit is believed to have been disturbed when the home at 4825 Glenbrook Road was constructed in the early 1990s, scattering arsenic and flasks of chemi-cals around the American University-owned property. The Army has already cleaned up much of the property — which has been fenced off since 2000 — but concluded over the summer that there was an “unacceptable risk” from

further hazards beneath the house. Barring objections from the public, environmental agencies or American University, the 18-month demolition and cleanup process will likely begin in summer 2012. So far, the public has generally supported the Army’s preferred alternative, said project manager Brenda Barber. The Army will continue to accept written feedback via email at [email protected] through Nov. 12, and it will decide next month whether to adopt the cleanup pro-posal it has presented, Barber said.

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Concerts Grammy-winnerRahimAl-Hajwillper-form.5:30to8p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. TheNationalSymphonyOrchestraandpianistPeterSerkinwillperformworksbyShepherd,Messiaen,BenjaminandStravinsky.7p.m.$20to$85.ConcertHall,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.The concert

will repeat Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. ProMusicaHebraicawillpresentJaschaNemtsov&Friendsperforming“TheLastRomantics:JewishComposersofInterwarEurope.”7:30p.m.$38.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Discussions and lectures TheGreaterWashingtonBoardofTradewillpresentTomBrokawdiscussinghisbook“TheTimeofOurLives:AConversationAboutAmerica.”8to10a.m.$115.Newseum,555PennsylvaniaAve.NW.bot.org. GeraldDarschandKathyEvangelosoftheU.S.ArmyNatickSoldierResearch,DevelopmentandEngineeringCenterwilldis-cussthehistoryoffeedingthemilitaryandcreatingusablecombatrationsthatarebothnutritiousandtasty.Noon.Free.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000. RobinRauschoftheLibraryofCongresswilldiscuss“MuzioClementi:FatherofModernPianoTechnique.”Noon.Free.WhittallPavilion,JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-5502. ScholarMarkGeigerwilldiscusshisbook“FinancialFraudandGuerrillaViolenceinMissouri’sCivilWar,1861-1865.”Noon.Free.Room119,JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-7678. Panelistswilldiscuss“PresidentObama’sUpcomingTriptoAustralia.”Noonto1p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room141,InterculturalCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.auspol.eventbrite.com. “WhoShouldGoverntheInternet?”willfeatureSeverineArsene,afellowattheInstitutefortheStudyofDiplomacyatGeorgetownUniversity;BertranddeLaChapelle,boardmemberoftheInternetCorporationforAssignedNamesandNumbersandprogramdirectorattheInternationalDiplomaticAcademyinParis;andLauraDeNardis,professorofcommuni-cationatAmericanUniversityandafellowattheYaleInformationSocietyProject.2:30to5p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.MortaraCenterConferenceRoom,MortaraBuilding,GeorgetownUniversity,36thandNstreetsNW.internetgovernance.eventbrite.com. RobertBailis,assistantprofessoroffor-estryandenvironmentalstudiesatYale

University,willdiscuss“ArrestingtheKillerintheKitchen:ThePromisesandPitfallsofCommercializingImprovedCookstoves.”5:30to6:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequested.Room505,ElliottSchoolofInternationalAffairs,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,1957ESt.NW.bit.ly/rkc49g. PoliticaltheoristTimothyMitchell,apro-fessoratColumbiaUniversity,willdiscuss“CarbonDemocracy:PoliticalPowerintheAgeofOil.”6p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.Room241,InterculturalCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.eventbrite.com/event/2278683604. “TheFighttoBeHeardFromSusanB.AnthonytoHillaryClinton”willfeaturepanel-istsRep.TammyBaldwin(shown),D-Wis.;ChristineJahnke,authorof“TheWell-SpokenWoman:YourGuidetoLookingandSoundingYourBest”;andAnnLewis,presidentoftheNoLimitsFoundation.6p.m.$15.Sewall-BelmontHouseandMuseum,144ConstitutionAve.NE.sewallbelmont.org. NewYork-basedexpertElizabethFerrerwilldiscussthecreativeandculturalexchang-esbetweenEdwardWestonandManuelÁlverezBravo,twopioneersofmodernpho-tography.6:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.MexicanCulturalInstitute,[email protected]. FelixMatosRodriguez,presidentofHostosCommunityCollege,CityUniversityofNewYork,willdiscussthesocialhistoryofPuertoRicointhe1940s.6:30to9p.m.Free.AbramsonFamilyRecitalHall,KatzenArtsCenter,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-885-2787. JohnsHopkinsUniversityastrophysicistAdamGuyRiesswilldiscuss“PuttingSomeLightonDarkEnergy.”6:45to8:45p.m.$40.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. DaleSalwak,professorofEnglishlitera-tureatCitrusCollege,willdiscussbeingtheonlyAmericanmagicianevertohavebeeninvit-edtoperforminNorthKorea.7p.m.Free;res-ervationsrequired.KenneyAuditorium,NitzeBuilding,JohnsHopkinsUniversitySchoolofAdvancedInternationalStudies,1740MassachusettsAve.NW.uskoreainstitute.org/events. ShiniqueSmithandionarozealbrown,twooftheartistsfeaturedinthe“30Americans”exhibitionattheCorcoranGalleryofArt,willdiscusstheirworkandreflectontherolethatartisticcommunityplaysintheirartworkandprocess.7p.m.$20;$10forstu-dents.CorcoranGalleryofArt,50017thSt.NW.202-639-1770. HariJones,curatoroftheAfricanAmericanCivilWarMuseum,willdiscuss“AmericanFormation”aspartofalectureserieson“ForLightandLiberty:AfricanDescentSpiesoftheRebellion.”7to9p.m.$10;$5forstudents.Auditorium,AfricanAmericanCivilWarMuseum,1925VermontAve.NW.afroamcivilwar.org. JournalistScottWallacewilldiscuss“TheUnconquered:Brazil’sPeopleoftheArrow.”7:30p.m.$18.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700.

Film The16thannualArabianSightsFilmFestivalwillfeatureSamehZoabi’sfilm“ManWithoutaCellPhone,”aboutthesocialmilieuofaPalestinianvillageinsideIsrael.6:45

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Thursday, novemBer 3Discussion: TomBrokawwilldis-cusshisbook“TheTimeofOurLives:AConversationAboutAmerica.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

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p.m.$11.Goethe-Institut,8127thSt.NW.filmfestdc.org/arabiansights.The festival will continue through Sunday.

Performances AspartoftheKidsEuroFestival,Portugal’sCativarwillpresent“ThePolesofOurEarth,”aplaythatusespuppets,storiesandsongstotellaboutthepolarregions,theconsequencesofclimatechangeandhowsimpleactionscanmakethingsbetter.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. TheTopazHotelBar’sweeklystand-upshowwillfeaturelocalcomics.8to10p.m.Free.1733NSt.NW.202-393-3000.

Special events TheChickasawNationofOklahomawillcelebrateitstribalheritageandhistorywiththreedaysoffood,hands-onactivities,dem-onstrationsandperformances,includingdancing,singing,fluteplayingandstorytelling.10:30a.m.to4:30p.m.Free.NationalMuseumoftheAmericanIndian,4thStreetandIndependenceAvenueSW.202-633-1000.The festival will continue Friday and Saturday from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. “PhillipsAfter5”willfeatureinteractivemagicdemonstrationsbyDavidLondonandagallerytalkonPhillipsCollectionfounderDuncanPhillips’explorationoftheworkofemergingartists.5to8:30p.m.Costvariesbyactivity;registrationsuggested.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.phillipscollection.org/phillipsafter5. “ManyStories,OneNight,”acelebra-tionofD.C.’simmigrantcommunities,willfea-turethereleaseofapreliminaryreportonimmigrants’experiencesaccessingpublicbenefitsandascreeningofRobertWinn’sdocumentary“CommunitiesinTransition,”abouttheimpactoflanguagebarriersduringemergenciessuchasa2008firethatdestroyedaMountPleasantapartmentbuild-ing.6to9p.m.$10donationsuggested.GalaTheatre,333314thSt.NW.202-621-1001.

Tasting Inconjunctionwiththeexhibition“OneFoodinAmerica:TheWorkofEugeenVanMieghem,”theAnnLoebBronfmanGalleryandEntryPointDCwillpresentasocialeventfeaturingBelgianbeer,wafflesandchocolate.6:30p.m.$10inadvance;$15atthedoor.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org.

Walk WashingtonNationalCathedralhorticul-turalmanagerDeanneEversmeyerwillspot-lightfallcolorsandnativeplantsonawalkthroughtheOlmstedWoods.10a.m.Free.MeetattheOlmstedWoodsentranceonGarfieldStreetnear35thStreetNW.202-537-2319.

Friday,Nov.4

Concerts TheFridayMorningMusicClubwillpresentaconcertofworksbyHaydn,SchubertandVilla-Lobos.Noon.Free.CalvaryBaptistChurch,7558thSt.NW.202-333-2075. ConcertorganistRichardSpottsofDoylestown,Pa.,willperformworksbyCharlesTournemire.12:15p.m.Free.NationalCityChristianChurch,5ThomasCircleNW.202-797-0103. TheFridayMusicSerieswillfeaturetheRochester,N.Y.-basedVoltaTrioperformingtheworldpremiereof“Sun”byBaljinderSekhon.1:15p.m.Free.McNeirAuditorium,

GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.202-687-3838. NationalSymphonyOrchestraoboistNicholasStovall(shown),violinistsJoelFullerandAlexandraOsborne,vio-listMahokoEguchi,cel-listRachelYounganddoublebassistAnthonyManzowillperformworksbyDvorákandSeanShepherd.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. TheU.S.AirForceBandandsaxophonistKirkWhalumwillper-form.8p.m.Free.LisnerAuditorium,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,73021stSt.NW.202-767-5658. TheMozartPianoQuartetwillperformworksbyMozart,MahlerandSaint-Saëns.8p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.CoolidgeAuditorium,JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-5502. TheAmericanUniversityChamberSingerswillpresent“GenderSettings.”8p.m.$5.AbramsonFamilyRecitalHall,KatzenArtsCenter,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-885-2787. The performance will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m.

Discussions and lectures CharlesK.Ebinger,directoroftheEnergySecurityInitiativeattheBrookingsInstitution,willdiscuss“EnergyandSecurityinSouthAsia:CooperationorConflict?”12:30p.m.Free.Room806,RomeBuilding,JohnsHopkinsUniversitySchoolofAdvancedInternationalStudies,[email protected]. AlectureseriesonthephilosophicalthoughtofMartinHeideggerwillfeatureatalkbyEmoryUniversityprofessorRudolfMakkreelon“Heidegger’sNon-IdealisticReadingofKant’sTranscendentalPhilosophy.”2p.m.Free.AquinasHallAuditorium,CatholicUniversity,620MichiganAve.NE.202-319-5259. CraigHayden,assistantprofessorininternationalcommunicationatAmericanUniversity,willdiscuss“HowNation-StatesTranslateSoftPowerObjectivesIntoCommunicationPractice.”3to5p.m.Free.LibraryTrainingandEventsRoom,BenderLibrary,AmericanUniversity,[email protected]. MichaelJ.Naughton,professorofphys-icsatBostonCollege,willdiscuss“ShrinkingUbiquitytotheNanoscale:NewUsesforanOldTechnology.”4p.m.Free.Room108,HannanHall,CatholicUniversity,620MichiganAve.NE.202-319-5315. StevenNaifehandGregoryWhitesmithwilldiscusstheirbook“VanGogh:TheLife.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. TheSt.Columba’sPeaceFellowshipwillhostatalkbyDr.RuchamaMartonofPhysiciansforHumanRights-IsraelandDr.AllamJarrarofthePalestinianMedicalReliefSocietyon“HealthCareasaHumanRight.”7p.m.Free.GreatHall,St.Columba’sEpiscopalChurch,4201AlbemarleSt.NW.202-363-4119. “What’sNextintheSocialMediaRevolution”willfeaturepanelistsMaconPhillips,WhiteHousedirectorofnewmedia;PamelaS.Wright,chiefdigitalaccessstrate-gistattheNationalArchives;andDavidWeinberger,seniorresearcherattheHarvard

BerkmanCenterforInternet&Society.7p.m.Free.McGowanTheater,NationalArchivesBuilding,ConstitutionAvenuebetween7thand9thstreetsNW.202-357-5000.

Film TheInter-AmericanDevelopmentBankCulturalCenterCineClubwillpresentJohnTurturro’s2010film“Passione,”acelebrationofNeapolitanmusic.6:30p.m.Free.EnriqueV.IglesiasAuditorium,Inter-AmericanDevelopmentBankCulturalCenter,1330NewYorkAve.NW.202-623-3558.

meeting TheClevelandParkChessClubwillreviewhistoricalgames,studyscenariosandplaychess.3:30p.m.Free.ClevelandParkNeighborhoodLibrary,3310ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-3080.The group meets every Friday.

reading TheaterJ’s“VoicesFromaChangingMiddleEast”serieswillfeatureareadingbyLauraGianerelli,RobbieGringasandAlexanderStrainofGringas’one-actplay“TheBigBlueTentandJewishDissent.”2p.m.$5.KayCommunityHall,WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.800-494-8497.

Special event AlaunchpartyforFotoWeekDC2011—aweeklongcelebrationofthepowerofpho-tography—willfeaturecocktails,horsd’oeuvresandapreviewofthisyear’sexhibi-tions.5p.m.$55.FotoWeekCentral,1800LSt.NW.fotoweekdc.org.The party will contin-ue at 8:30 p.m. at the Corcoran Gallery of Art with DJ Fatback, projections and FotoBooths; the festival will continue through Nov. 12 with events at various venues.

Tasting GuillaumeLamy,vicepresidentanddirectorofeducationforCognacFerrand,willleadacognactasting.6:30p.m.$35;reser-vationsrequired.AllianceFrançaisedeWashington,2142WyomingAve.NW.202-234-7911.

Saturday,Nov.5

Bazaar TheannualUnitedMethodistWomenbazaarwillfeatureattictreasures,books,col-lectibles,Christmasitems,jewelry,accesso-ries,crafts,bakedgoodsandanon-sitelunch.8a.m.to3p.m.Freeadmission.MetropolitanMemorialUnitedMethodistChurch,3401NebraskaAve.NW.202-363-4900. Children’s programs “SaturdayMorningattheNational”willfeatureYoJoinaprogramthatshowsthroughcomicalmishapsthatreadingisnotonlyimportantbutalsocanbeenjoyable.9:30and11a.m.Free;ticketsrequired.HelenHayesGallery,NationalTheatre,1321PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-783-3372. GeorgetownFamilySaturdayswillfea-tureaperformancebytheKaydeePuppets.Proceedswillbenefitthechildren’sroomandchildren’sprogrammingattheGeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary.10:30a.m.$25perfamily.St.John’sEpiscopalChurch,[email protected]. NationalSymphonyOrchestramusi-ciansMarissaRegniandDotianLevalierwillpresent“Tunes’n’(Pig)Tales,”abouthowsounds,melodies,rhythmsandinstrumentscanbeusedtobringastorytolife(forchil-

drenages3through5).11a.m.and1:30p.m.$18.FamilyTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Classes InteriordesignerLauriWardwillleadaclasson“SustainableInteriors,orHowtoGetGreenInside.”10a.m.to3:30p.m.$120.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. JanettaReboldBenton,professorofarthistoryatPaceCollege,willleadaclasson“Non-WesternTraditionsinArt.”10a.m.to4p.m.$120.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030.

Concerts TheWashingtonPerformingArtsSocietywillpresentpia-nistMarouanBenabdallahperform-ingworksbySchubert,Debussy,Ravel,Granados,AlbenizandBenabdeljalil.2p.m.$38.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. ViolistRobertoDíaz(shown)andpianistKwanYiwillperformworksbyLiszt,BrahmsandBachinaconcertfeaturingthe1690Tuscan-MediciStradivariusviolaonloantotheLibraryofCongress.2p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.CoolidgeAuditorium,JeffersonBuilding,LibraryofCongress,101stSt.SE.202-707-5502. TheSingingCapitalChoruswillpresentits65thannual“HarvestofHarmony,”featur-ingselectionsfromBroadway,themovies,TinPanAlleyandcontemporarymusic.3and7:30p.m.$20to$25.GreenbergTheatre,AmericanUniversity,4200WisconsinAve.NW.202-885-2787. The21stCenturyConsortwillpresent“TheGreatAmerican…,”featuringworksinspiredbythepoetryofWaltWhitmanandRalphWaldoEmerson.5p.m.$20.SmithsonianAmericanArtMuseum,8thand

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Saturday, novemBer 5Children’s program: AspartoftheFriendsoftheTenley-FriendshipLibrary’schildren’sauthorseries,KatyKellywillreadfromherbook“MelonheadandtheUndercoverOperation”andfromoneofher“LucyRose”books.3p.m.Free.Tenley-FriendshipNeighborhoodLibrary,4450WisconsinAve.NW.202-727-1488.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 2011, 5 PM WASHINGTON NATIONAL CATHEDRAL

FstreetsNW.202-633-3030. RecessMonkey,atrioofelementaryschoolteachers-turned-rockers,willperformhigh-energy,kid-drivensongs.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. SopranoJenniferEllisKampani(shown),mezzo-sopranoMegBragleandtheGeorgetownUniversityChamberSingerswillperformworksbyGiovanniBattistaPergolesi.6p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.ItalianEmbassy,3000WhitehavenSt.NW.www.iicwashington.esteri.it. TheCongressionalChoruswillpresent“OurStoryinSong,”featuringmusicthattracesAmerica’shistoryfromColonialdays.7:30p.m.$25to$40.NationalCityChristianChurch,5ThomasCircleNW.InstantSeats.com. SingerNancyScimonewillperformjazzselections.7:30to11:30p.m.Free.BlueBarLounge,HenleyParkHotel,926MassachusettsAve.NW.202-638-5200. GeorgetownUniversity’sall-femaleacappellagroup,theGraceNotes,willhostthe“DCACappellaFestival,”featuringtheYaleWhiffenpoofsandtheUniversityofDelawareDeltones.7:30p.m.$10;$8forstudents.GastonHall,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.202-687-3838.

Discussions and lectures CollectorFrancesPlunkettwillsharehercollectionofsaltbags.10:30a.m.Free.TextileMuseum,2320SSt.NW.202-667-0441,ext.64. ColsonWhitehead(shown)willdiscusshisnovel“ZoneOne,”at1p.m.;andCharlesBracelenFloodwilldis-cusshisbook“Grant’sFinalVictory:UlyssesS.Grant’sHeroicLastYear,”at6p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. Dr.AllamJarrarofthePalestinianMedicalReliefSocietyandDr.Ruchama

MartonofPhysiciansforHumanRights-Israelwilldiscuss“HealthandHumanRightsinIsrael/Palestine:TwoPhysiciansReportFromtheFrontLines.”5to7p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. JeffreyCouchmanwilldiscusshisbook“NightoftheHunter:ABiographyasFilm.”5:45p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.MainLobby,DavisPerformingArtsCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,[email protected]. NaturalhistoryphotographerMattiasKlumwilldiscuss“BeingThere,”aboutdramaticvistassuchastheOkavangoDelta,Iceland’sglaciersandtherainforestsofSoutheastAsia.7:30p.m.$20.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700.

Film “TheMet:LiveinHD”willfeaturetheMetropolitanOpera’snewproductionofWagner’s“Siegfried.”12:55p.m.AMCMazzaGallerie,5300WisconsinAve.NW.fathomevents.com.

Performances JaneFranklinDancewillpresent“24HourDanceProject,”featuringworksbyBrianBuck,EmilyCrews,JaneFranklin,WaylesHaynes,NancyHavlik,DianaMoviusandDanielZook.5and8p.m.$25.MeltonRehearsalHall,WoollyMammothTheatreCompany,641DSt.NW.703-933-1111. ClancyWorksDanceCompanywillper-form.8p.m.$22;$17forseniors,teachersandartists;$10forcollegestudents;$8forages17andyounger.DancePlace,32258thSt.NE.202-269-1600.The performance will repeat Sunday at 4 p.m.

Special events TheAmericanHeartAssociation’s16thannualGreaterWashingtonRegionHeartWalkwillfeatureanoncompetitive,three-milewalk,aswellasgiveaways,ahealthexpo,healthscreeningsandfamilyactivities.8:30to11:30a.m.Free.NationalsPark,1500SouthCapitolSt.SE.703-248-1715. CapitalAreaAssetBuildersandMoneywisewillholdthe“MoneywiseFinancialEmpowermentTour,”featuringpaneldiscus-sions,one-on-onecreditcoaching,creditreports,financial-planningassis-tance,andhealthandwellnessdemonstra-tions.SpeakerswillincludeKelvinBoston(shown),hostofPBS’“MoneywiseWithKelvinBoston”;WillieJolley,motivationalspeakerandauthorof“TurningSetbacksIntoGreenbacks”;MarieJohns,deputyadministratoroftheU.S.SmallBusinessAdministration;andtheRev.Dr.DeForest“Buster”SoariesJr.,seniorpastorof

FirstBaptistChurchofLincolnGardensinSomerset,N.J.8:30a.m.to5:30p.m.Free.MetropolitanAMEChurch,1518MSt.NW.caab.org. ThefifthannualParadeofTrabantswillfeatureadisplayofthevintageEastGermancars,withexpertsonhandtoanswerques-tionsandmusicbytheBlaskapelleAlteKameradenGermanBand.10a.m.to4p.m.Free.InternationalSpyMuseum,800FSt.NW.202-393-7798. The2011MetropolitanCookingandEntertainingShowwillfeaturemorethan300exhibitors,tastingandentertainingwork-shops,andcookingpresentations.$24.50;$12.50forchildrenages4through12.10a.m.to7p.m.WalterE.WashingtonConventionCenter,801MountVernonPlaceNW. The expo will continue Sunday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. ThePhillipsCollectionwillcelebrateits90thanniversarywithadayofgallerytalks,livemusicandotherspecialactivities,includ-ingopenadmissionto“Degas’sDancersattheBarre:PointandCounterpoint”andballetstudentspracticingintheexhibitionhall.10a.m.to8p.m.Free.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151.

Walks and tours AbustourwillvisitD.C.locationsusedasbackdropsinmorethan50televisionshowsandmovies,including“TheExorcist,”“TheWestWing”and“WeddingCrashers.”10a.m.$34;reservationsrequired.TourdepartsfromalocationnearUnionStation.800-979-3370. NativeWashingtonianandfreelancewriterRoccoZapponewillleadaninteractive“WalkingTourasPersonalEssay,”filledwithhisreminiscencesandimpressionsofalife-timeinD.C.10a.m.orbyappointment.$25.MeetatthestatueofAndrewJacksonin

LafayetteSquare,16thandHstreetsNW.202-341-5208. Aparkrangerwillleadages8andolderonahiketoFortDeRussyanddiscusswhatlifewaslikeforUnionsoldiersencampedthereduringtheCivilWar.11a.m.Free.RockCreekNatureCenter,5200GloverRoadNW.202-895-6070.

Sunday,Nov.6

Concerts TheKennedyCenterChamberPlayerswillperformworksbyBachandMendelssohn.2p.m.$35.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. TheNationalMen’sChorusandpia-nistThomasPandolfiwillpresent“TurnYetoMe,”aprogramofsacredmusicandfolksongs.4p.m.$15;freeforstu-dentsandchildren.WesternPresbyterianChurch,2401VirginiaAve.NW.202-244-7191. SopranoHaeranHongandpianistKenNodawillperformworksbyBellini,Donizetti,LisztandWolf.4p.m.$20.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151. TheTalichStringQuartetwillperformworksbyBeethoven.6:30p.m.Free.WestGardenCourt,NationalGalleryofArt,6thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. DahlakRestaurantwillhostitsweekly“DCJazzJam”session.6:30to9:30p.m.Free.1771USt.NW.202-527-9522.

Discussions and lectures TheSundayForumserieswillfeatureapresentationbymembersofSt.Andrew’sEpiscopalChurchinRamallah.10a.m.Free.St.John’sEpiscopalChurch,LafayetteSquare,16thandHstreetsNW.202-347-8766. JamesMeyer,associatecuratorofmod-ernandcontemporaryartattheNationalGalleryofArt,willdiscusstheexhibition“IntheTower:MelBochner.”2p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. SmithsoniancuratorDianaN’Diayewilldiscussherresearchfortheproject“TheWilltoAdorn:AfricanAmericanDressandtheAestheticsofIdentity.”2p.m.$25;reserva-tionsrequired.TextileMuseum,2320SSt.NW.202-667-0441,ext.64. ADCReadsdiscussionofWesMoore’sbook“TheOtherWesMoore:OneName,TwoFates”—abouttwoboysgrowingupinBaltimore—willfeatureHowardUniversityLawSchooldeanandformerBaltimoremayorKurtSchmoke,theauthor’smotherandthesisterofthe“other”WesMoore.5p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. JournalistAmyAlexanderwilldiscussherbook“UncoveringRace:ABlackJournalist’sStoryofReportingandReinvention.”5to7p.m.Free.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638. EnumaOkorowilldiscussherbook“ReluctantPilgrim:AMoody,SomewhatSelf-IndulgentIntrovert’sSearchforSpiritualCommunity.”6to8p.m.Free.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

DeborahLipstadt,professorofmodernJewishhistoryandHolocauststudiesatEmoryUniversity,willdiscuss“TheEichmannTrial:ThenandNow.”7:30p.m.Free;reserva-tionsrequired.KesherIsraelCongregation—TheGeorgetownSynagogue,2801NSt.NW.tinyurl.com/KILipstadt.

Performances TheKidsEuroFestivalwillfeaturePoland’s“Mr.Feather—HeadOverHeelsinLove,”apantomimeshowwithelementsofshadowtheater.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. AballetgalawillfeatureballerinaNinaAnaniashvili(shown),stardancersfromRussiaandGeorgia,andRussianmusiciansper-forming“CharmsofMannerism,”“BizetVariations”and“DreamsAboutJapan”bychore-ographerAlexeiRatmansky.6:30p.m.$45to$115.LisnerAuditorium,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,73021stSt.NW.202-397-7328.

reading TheWashingtonWriters’PublishingHousewillpresentreadingsbythegroup’s2011winnersinfictionandpoetry—MelanieS.Hatter,authorof“TheColorofMySoul,”andDanGutstein,authorof“Bloodcoal&Honey,”respectively.1p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Special event TheJewishHistoricalSocietyofGreaterWashington’sannualmeetingwillfocusonthe75-yearhistoryofGiantFood.3to5p.m.$10donationsuggested.AdasIsraelCongregation,2850QuebecSt.NW.202-789-0900.

Symposium Asymposiumon“JewsandCreativity”willfeatureviolinistJoshuaBell,scientistZekeEmanuel,designerJudithLeiber,dancerLizLerman,cartoonistBobMankoffandpoetRobertPinsky(shown).ProceedswillbenefitMomentMagazineanditsDanielPearlInvestigativeJournalismInitiative.6:30p.m.$180.KatzenArtsCenter,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-363-6422.

Walks and tours Aparkrangerwillleadages8andolderawalkingtourfocusingonthemanychangesinGeorgetownthroughoutitshisto-ry.10a.m.Free.GeorgetownWaterfrontPark,WisconsinAvenueandKStreetNW.202-895-6700. Aparkrangerwillleadages8andolderonatouroftheOldStoneHouse’sgardenwhiledescribingthemultiplebenefitsofplantsandherbsusedduringColonialtimes.2p.m.Free.OldStoneHouse,3051MSt.NW.202-426-6851. Abehind-the-scenes,lantern-littourwillexploretheNationalBuildingMuseum’shauntedpast.8to9p.m.$20;reservationsrequired.NationalBuildingMuseum,401FSt.NW.202-272-2448.

Monday,Nov.7

Concert TheNewOrleansbandFlowTribewillperform.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,



Saturday, novemBer 5Concert:DumbartonConcertswillpresentguitaristBertaRojas(shown)andsopranoRebeccaListerhighlight-ingthecolorful,melodiclandscapesofSpainandSouthAmerica.8p.m.$33;$29forstudentsandseniors.DumbartonUnitedMethodistChurch,3133DumbartonSt.NW.202-965-2000.

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Discussions and lectures AspartofFotoWeekDC2011,photo-journalistStephanieSinclairwilldiscuss“ReflectionsonaDecadeofPost-9/11ConflictandSocialIssuesReporting.”Noon.Free;reservationssuggested.HammerAuditorium,CorcoranGalleryofArt,50017thSt.NW.corcoran.org. CharlieRitchie,associatecuratorofmodernprintsanddrawingsattheNationalGalleryofArt,willdiscuss“NewLightonJohnTaylorArms.”12:10and1:10p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. Sevenaward-winningphotojournalistswilldiscuss“BeyondWitness:NewApproachestoCrisisPhotography.”5:30to7p.m.Free;reservationssuggested.JackMortonAuditorium,MediaandPublicAffairsBuilding,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,80521stSt.NW.beyondwitness.eventbrite.com. YoavGross,videodirectorofB’Tselem,theIsraeliInformationCenterforHumanRightsintheOccupiedTerritories,willdiscussthegroup’scameradistributionprojectwithparticipantsAwatifAljadiliandArafatAmira.6to8p.m.Free.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-387-7638. BeppeSevergniniwilldiscusshisbook“MammaMia!Berlusconi’sItalyExplainedforPosterityandFriendsAbroad.”6to7:30p.m.Free.InterculturalCenterAuditorium,GeorgetownUniversity,[email protected]. ErinMorgensternwilldiscusshernovel“TheNightCircus.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. TheChevyChaseDCLibraryBookClubwilldiscussthisyear’sDCReadsselection,“TheOtherWesMoore:OneName,TwoFates,”abouttwochildrenwiththesamenamegrowingupinthesamedecayingcity.7p.m.Free.ChevyChaseNeighborhoodLibrary,5625ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-0021. WilliamB.Bushong,vicepresidentofhistoricalresearchandnewmediaattheWhiteHouseHistoricalAssociation,willdis-cuss“FirstFamiliesandTheirPetsattheWhiteHouse.”7to8p.m.Free.WashingtonAnimalRescueLeague,71OglethorpeSt.NW.202-375-7746. LordChrisPatten,chairmanoftheBBCTrustandco-chairoftheInternationalCrisisGroup,willdiscuss“TheNewWorldBalance:GlobalPoliticsinUncertainTimes.”7to8:30p.m.Free;reserva-tionsrequired.MortaraCenterConferenceRoom,MortaraBuilding,GeorgetownUniversity,36thandNstreetsNW.lordpatten.eventbrite.com.

Films AfilmseriesonchallengespresentedbyglobalizationandscientificprogresswillfeatureAdrianThoma’s2009film“TheSimpleshowExplainstheCreditCrisis”andJanPeters’2010film“NothingIsBetterThanNothingatAll.”6:30p.m.$7.Goethe-Institut,8127thSt.NW.202-289-1200,ext.160. The“GentlemenPreferMarilyn”serieswillfeatureJoshuaLogan’s1956film“BusStop,”starringMarilynMonroe,DonMurrayandEileenHeckart.6:30p.m.Free;ticketsrequired.HelenHayesGallery,National

Theatre,1321PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-783-3372. The“OperainCinema”serieswillfea-tureGounod’s“Faust,”performedattheRoyalOperaHouseinLondon.7p.m.$20.WestEndCinema,23rdStreetbetweenMandNstreetsNW.202-419-3456.ThefilmwillbeshownagainNov.12at11a.m. “WJFFYear-Round”willfeaturethe2010film“77Steps.”Adiscussionwithdirec-torIbtisamMara’anawillfollow.7:30p.m.$10;$9forseniorsandstudents.WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.washingtondcjcc.org. TheWashingtonPsychotronicFilmSocietywillpresentTomDeSimone’s1986film“ReformSchoolGirls.”8p.m.Donationsuggested.McFadden’sRestaurantandSaloon,2401PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-462-3356.

readings TheKalmanovitzInitiativeforLaborandtheWorkingPoorwillpresentareadingbyU.S.poetlaureatePhilipLevine.5p.m.Free.GastonHall,GeorgetownUniversity,[email protected]. ThePEN/Faulknerreadingserieswillfea-tureEmmaDonoghue(shown),authorof“Room,”andChrisAdrian,authorof“TheGreatNight.”7:30p.m.$15.FolgerShakespeareLibrary,201EastCapitolSt.SE.202-544-7077.

Tuesday,Nov.8

Class TeacherandtherapistHeatherFerriswillleadaweeklyyogaclass.Noon.Free.WathaT.Daniel-ShawNeighborhoodLibrary,16307thSt.NW.202-727-1288. ThegroupYogaActivistwillpresentaweeklyyogaclassgearedtowardbeginners.7p.m.Free.ClevelandParkNeighborhoodLibrary,3310ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-3080.

Concerts TheTuesdayConcertSerieswillfeatureLevineSchoolofMusicfacultymembersJoshWalker,VasilyPopovandPepeGonzalesper-forming“StringConversationsinJazz.”Noon.Free.ChurchoftheEpiphany,1317GSt.NW.202-347-2635,ext.18. ItaliancomposerandpianistLudovicoEinaudiwillperformhisoriginalrepertoire.7:30p.m.$45.TerraceTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. BroadwaysingerMelbaMoorewillper-formabenefitconcertfortheMorrisCafritzCenterfortheArtsattheWashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter.7:30p.m.$100.GoldmanTheater,WashingtonDCJewishCommunityCenter,152916thSt.NW.202-777-3262.

Discussions and lectures TheWashingtonNationalEyeCenterLowVisionGroupandthePreventionofBlindnessSocietyofMetropolitanWashingtonwillpresentaseminaron“PreventingFalls.”11a.m.Free.WashingtonHospitalCenterEyeClinic,110IrvingSt.NW.202-243-1010. AspartofFotoWeekDC2011,AmyYenkinoftheOpenSocietyFoundation’sDocumentaryPhotographyProjectwilldiscussthegroup’sworkandtheintersectionofpho-tographyandadvocacy.Noon.Free;reserva-tionssuggested.HammerAuditorium,

CorcoranGalleryofArt,50017thSt.NW.corcoran.org. OsherLifelongLearningInstituteatAmericanUniversitywillpresentatalkbyIonaSeniorServicesartist-in-residenceMickeyKleinonherapproachtowatercolorpaintingandphotography.12:15to1:15p.m.Free.TempleBaptistChurch,3860NebraskaAve.NW.202-895-4860. TheHistory-Travel-BiographyBookClubwilldiscuss“AmericanLion:AndrewJacksonintheWhiteHouse”byJonMeacham.1p.m.Free.ChevyChaseNeighborhoodLibrary,5625ConnecticutAve.NW.202-282-0021. TheGraphicNovelClubwillpresentadiscussionofnewreleasesandoldfavorites.6:30p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232. FormerU.S.EnvironmentalProtectionAgencyadministratorWilliamK.Reilly—recip-ientoftheVincentScullyPrizeforhiscommit-menttowiseenvironmentalplanning,com-prehensiveland-usepoliciesandpreservationofopenspace—willdiscuss“FromMilitaryBasetoanUrbanJewel:TheTransformationofSanFrancisco’sPresidio.”6:30to8p.m.$20;$12forstudents.Registrationrequired.NationalBuildingMuseum,401FSt.NW.202-272-2448. RogerLaunius,seniorcuratorinthedivisionofspacehistoryattheNationalAirandSpaceMuseum,willdiscuss“Science,Technology,HumanEvolution…andCyborgs?”6:45to8:45p.m.$40.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. ChadHarbachwilldiscusshisbook“TheArtofFielding.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. SandraBeasleywilldiscussherbook“Don’tKilltheBirthdayGirl:TalesFromanAllergicLife.”7p.m.Free.ArtsClubofWashington,2017ISt.NW.202-331-7282. TheCenterforEnvironmentalFilmmakingwillpresentatalkbyfilmmakerandsustainablelandscapedesignerCatherineZimmerman,authorof“Urban&SuburbanMeadows:BringingMeadowscapingtoBigandSmallSpaces.”7p.m.Free.WechslerTheatre,MaryGraydonCenter,AmericanUniversity,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.environmentalfilm.org. JosephFarriswilldiscusshisbook“ASoldier’sSketchbook:FromtheFrontLinesof

WorldWarII,”aboutlifeinthefoxholesasayoungArmyphotographerbeforebecomingarenownedcartoonistfortheNewYorkermag-azine.7:30p.m.$18;$10forveteransandmilitarypersonnel.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700.

Film TheGeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrarywillpresentthe1966film“Who’sAfraidofVirginiaWoolf?”6p.m.Free.GeorgetownNeighborhoodLibrary,3260RSt.NW.202-727-0232.

meeting RecoveryInternationalwillhostagroupdiscussionforpeoplesufferingfromstress,anxiety,panic,depression,sleepproblems,anger,fearandothermental,nervousoremotionalproblems.7p.m.Free.ChevyChaseCommunityCenter,5601ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-2680.The group meets every Tuesday.

Performances TheKidsEuroFestivalwillfeatureBelgium’sThéâtreMaâtperforming“Banquise,”amusicalwithoutwordsthatcentersonanimaginaryArcticexpeditioninvolvingagroupofpenguincircusperform-ers.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. SpeakeasyDCwillpresent“IronChef:Storiesaboutcooking,diningandsecretingredients.”8p.m.$14inadvance;$15atthedoor.TownDanceboutique,20098thSt.NW.speakeasydc.com. BusboysandPoetswillhost“TuesdayNightOpenMic,”aweeklypoetryevent.9to11p.m.$4.LangstonRoom,BusboysandPoets,202114thSt.NW.202-387-7638.

reading PoetMarkKraushaar,recipientofthe

AnthonyHechtPoetryPrize,willreadfromhisworkaspartoftheO.B.HardisonPoetrySeries.7:30p.m.$15.FolgerShakespeareLibrary,201EastCapitolSt.SE.202-544-7077.

Sporting event TheWashingtonCapitalswillplaytheDallasStars.7p.m.$55to$138.VerizonCenter,601FSt.NW.202-397-7328.

Tasting ChrisO’Brien,authorofthebook“FermentingRevolution:HowtoDrinkBeerandSavetheWorld,”willleada“tutoredtast-ing”ofbeersthathavebeenbrewedinwaysthatsupporttheirsur-roundingcommunities.7p.m.$15inadvance;$18onthedayoftheevent.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.sixthandi.org.

Wednesday,Nov.9

Class HousingCounselingServices,alocalnonprofit,willpresentaforeclosure-preven-tionclinictohelphomeownersindangeroflosingtheirhomes.Noon.Free.Suite100,241017thSt.NW.202-667-7712.The event will repeat Nov. 16 and 23 at noon and Nov. 30 at 6 p.m.

Concerts The“HappeningsattheHarman”serieswillfeaturetheWashingtonBalalaikaSocietyperformingRussianfolkmusic.Noon.Free.SidneyHarmanHall,610FSt.NW.202-547-1122. TheNationalGalleryofArtNewMusicEnsemblewillperformworksbyAntosca,


Monday, novemBer 7Discussion:JusticeJohnPaulStevenswilldiscusshisbook“FiveChiefs:ASupremeCourtMemoir.”7p.m.$12inadvance;$15onthedayoftheevent.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.sixthandi.org.

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Karreandothercomposersinhonoroftheexhibition“Warhol:Headlines.”12:10p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. TheEmbassySerieswillpresentpia-nistÁdámGyörgyper-formingworksbyLisztandChopin.7:30p.m.$80.EmbassyofHungary,2950SpringofFreedomSt.NW.202-625-2361.The concert will repeat Thursday at 7:30 p.m. SouthAfricanmusiciansAbigailKubekaandSharonKatzwillperform.8p.m.$20inadvance;$25atthedoor.Reservationssug-gested.TheCornerStore,900SouthCarolinaAve.SE.202-544-5807.

Discussions and lectures AspartofFotoWeekDC2011,D.C.-basedphotographerMurielHasbunandMexicoCity-basedphotographerPabloOrtizMonasteriowilldiscussMexico,photographicdiscourseandtheirfriendship.Noon.Free;reservationssuggested.HammerAuditorium,CorcoranGalleryofArt,50017thSt.NW.corcoran.org. “LunchBytes—DigitalArt&Culture”willpresentapaneldiscussionon“DigitalMaterial,”featuringartistsAramBarthollandSiebrenVersteeg,curatorRodolfFrielingandartprofessorHasanElahl.Noonto2p.m.Free.Goethe-Institut,[email protected]. ArtistMelBochnerwilldiscusshisworkinaconversationwithJamesMeyer,associ-atecuratorofmodernandcontemporaryattheNationalGalleryofArt.3:30p.m.Free.EastBuildingAuditorium,NationalGalleryofArt,4thStreetandConstitutionAvenueNW.202-737-4215. ArtistJillDownenwilldiscussherwork,whichexploresarchitecturalspaceasadimensionthatdevelopsanddeterioratesmuchlikethehumanbody.6p.m.$10;freeforstudents.Registrationrequired.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.

phillipscollection.org/calendar. JohnDavis,professorofmodernItalianhistoryattheUniversityofConnecticut,willdiscuss“Italy’s150YearsofUnification,”andapanelwilldiscusstheroleofGiuseppeGaribaldiandthereachofhisinfluencebeyondItaly.Areceptionwillfollow.6to8p.m.$35.ItalianEmbassy,3000WhitehavenSt.NW.202-633-3030. ArchaeobiologistTorbenRickwilldis-cuss“ReachingIntothePasttoSaveOurMarineEcosystems.”6:45to8:30p.m.$30.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. TheTenley-FriendshipNeighborhoodLibrarywillhostadiscussionofthebook“TheOtherWesMoore:OneName,TwoFates,”thisyear’sDCReadsselection.7p.m.Free.Tenley-FriendshipNeighborhoodLibrary,4450WisconsinAve.NW.202-727-1225. UmbertoEcowilldiscusshisbook“ThePragueCemetery.”7p.m.$12inadvance;$15onthedayoftheevent.Sixth&IHistoricSynagogue,600ISt.NW.202-364-1919. AspartofFotoWeekDC2011,photogra-pherMarkChesterwilldiscusshisbook“Twosomes”andhisvisionofphotography.7p.m.$6;reservationsrequired.AllianceFrançaisedeWashington,2142WyomingAve.NW.202-234-7911. TheRev.CharlesGibbs,foundingexecu-tivedirectoroftheUnitedReligionsInitiative,willdiscuss“ToBelieveorNottoBelieve:MakingRoomforAllinaDiverseCommunity,”followingascreeningofSarahFeinbloom’sdocumentary“WhatDoYouBelieve?”7p.m.$10.LowellSchool,[email protected].

Film TheLionsofCzechFilmserieswillfea-tureRadimSpacek’s2009film“WalkingTooFast,”aboutaboredmemberoftheCzechoslovakian

secretpolicewhoaimshisdemonsatayoungwoman.8p.m.$11;$9forstudents;$8.25forseniors;$8forages12andyoung-er.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.202-966-6000.

open house TheGeneralFederationofWomen’sClubswillholdanopenhousereceptionforpeopleinterestedinlearningaboutvolunteeropportunitiesandthegroup’shistory.5:0to7:30p.m.Free;reservationsrequired.GeneralFederationofWomen’sClubsHeadquarters,1734NSt.NW.202-347-3168.

Performances TheKidsEuroFestivalwillfeatureRomania’sPuckPuppetTheatreperforming“TheBookWithApolodor,”aboutamulti-tal-entedbuthomesickpenguinwhoperformsinoneofBucharest’sgreatestcircuses.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. “Choreolab2011:DanceDanceEvolution”willfeatureaneveningofdanceworksinprogresscreatedbyAmericanUniversity’sstudentchoreographers.8p.m.$5.GreenbergTheatre,AmericanUniversity,4200WisconsinAve.NW.202-885-2787.

Thursday,Nov.10

Benefit TheEveryChildMattersEducationFundwillholdabenefitreceptionfeaturing30photographsfromtheColorsofLifeInternationalCompetitionandhonor-ingMotionPicturesAssociationofAmericachairmanandformerU.S.Sen.ChrisDodd(shown),D-Conn.,andpediatricianandauthorT.BerryBrazelton.6to8:30p.m.$150.HouseofSweden,2900KSt.NW.202-223-1183.

Concert TheU.S.CoastGuardBandwillpresent“OurFlagWasStillThere:ATributetoOurNationandItsVeterans.”8p.m.Free.LisnerAuditorium,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,73021stSt.NW.lisner.org.

Discussions and lectures DianeRandall,executivesecretaryoftheFriendsCommitteeonNational

Legislation,willdiscuss“Women,PeaceandSecurity.”11:30a.m.$30.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-232-7363. U.S.EnvironmentalProtectionAgencypolicyanalystKevinNelsonwilldiscuss“SmartGrowth:EssentialZoningCodeFixes.”12:30to1:30p.m.Free;registrationrequired.NationalBuildingMuseum,401FSt.NW.202-272-2448. ElizabethSteele,headofconservationatthePhillipsCollection,andAnneMaheux,headofpaperconservationattheLibraryandArchivesofCanada,willdiscusstechnicalstudiesofEdgarDegas’“DancersattheBarre”andhisuseoftracinginpastelsandoils.6:30p.m.$12;$10forseniorsandstu-dents;freeforages18andyounger.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.202-387-2151. DebraDiamond,curatorofSouthAsianartattheArthurM.SacklerGallery,willdis-cuss“TheArt,Romance,andDivinationofYoga.”6:45to8:45p.m.$40.S.DillonRipleyCenter,1100JeffersonDriveSW.202-633-3030. PoliticsandProsewillpresentatalkbyJoanDidion,authorof“BlueNights.”7p.m.$12inadvance;$15onthedayoftheevent.AvalonTheatre,5612ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919.

Films ReelFestDC2011—featuringshortandfeaturefilmsfromaroundtheworld—willopenwithRodWebber’sfilm“MyAmerica”at7p.m.andSamMoussavi’sfilm“AmateurHour”at9p.m.$20.BostonUniversityCenterforDigitalImagingArts,1055ThomasJeffersonSt.NW.reelfestdc.com/tickets.html.A free 5 p.m. showing of Webber’s film “Northern Comfort” will precede the official opening; the festival will continue through Monday. TheCinéFrancophoneseries,spon-soredbytheAllianceFrançaisedeWashington,willfeatureBertrandBlier’s2010film“LeBruitdesGlaçons,”aboutamantryingtolivewithafatalillness.7p.m.$9;$4forseniorsandstudents.LetelierTheater,3251ProspectSt.NW.202-234-7911.

Performance TheKidsEuroFestivalwillfeatureBulgarianpup-petshow“BonBonOle,”star-ringpastriesthatmustbandtogethertofightacommonenemyandsavethesugarworld.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.

Wine tasting The“LeStudio:WineTasting101”serieswillpresent“Montlouis,VouvrayandBourgueil”withwinemakerJackyBlot.7p.m.$75.LaMaisonFrançaise,4101ReservoirRoadNW.InstantSeats.com.

Friday,Nov.11

Concerts TheFridayMorningMusicClubwillpresentaconcertofworksbyMozart,Debussy,BlochandFauré.Noon.Free.CalvaryBaptistChurch,7558thSt.NW.202-333-2075. OrganistLawrenceP.SchreiberoftheFirstBaptistChurchoftheCityofWashington,D.C.,willperformworksbyBach,Buxtehude,Schumann,SchreiberandSowerby.12:15p.m.Free.NationalCityChristianChurch,5ThomasCircleNW.202-797-0103. TheU.S.NavyBandwillperform.1p.m.

Free.NavyMemorial,701PennsylvaniaAve.NW.202-433-2525. TheFridayMusicSerieswillfeaturevio-listErikaEckertandcomposerPaulRudywillpresent“AtRomeAroundJovianMoons”andselectionsfrom“2012StoriesSeries.”1:15p.m.Free.McNeirAuditorium,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.202-687-3838. TheEricFeltenJazzOrchestrawillper-formclassicbigbandmusicoftheswingera.6p.m.Free.MillenniumStage,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. JazzmusiciansToshikoAkiyoshi,GeriAllen,CyrusChestnut,DaniloPérez,FrankWess,TerenceBlanchard,HarolynBlackwell,CarmenLundy,ChipJackson,WinardHarperandChristianSandswilljoinHowardUniversity’sjazzvocalgroupAfroBluetopres-ent“JazzontheElevens:ATributetoBillyTaylor.”8p.m.$35to$50.EisenhowerTheater,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600. TheAmericanUniversitySymphonicBandwillperformatributetothenation’sheroes,featuringworksthatfocusonveter-ans,firstresponders,athletesandothers.8p.m.$10;$5forseniors.AbramsonFamilyRecitalHall,KatzenArtsCenter,4400MassachusettsAve.NW.202-885-2787.

Discussions and lectures TateBritaindirectorPenelopeCurtiswilldiscusshereffortstoshednewlightonTateBritain’scollectionbyemphasizingexpe-rienceoverinterpretation.6p.m.$20;freeforstudents.Registrationrequired.PhillipsCollection,160021stSt.NW.phillipscollection.org/calendar. Author,photographer,activistandsocialentrepreneurShahidulAlam,anativeofBangladesh,willdiscusshisbook“MyJourneyasaWitness.”6:30to8p.m.Free.CullenRoom,BusboysandPoets,10255thSt.NW.202-387-7638. JimNewtonwilldiscusshisbook“Eisenhower:TheWhiteHouseYears.”7p.m.Free.PoliticsandProse,5015ConnecticutAve.NW.202-364-1919. “TheBigIdea:WhoLives?WhoDies?”—aboutwhyonlycertainspeciessurvive—willfeatureNobellaureateMartinChalfie(shown),whopioneeredusingafluorescentpro-teintotrackcancer,andNationalGeographicemergingexplorerBethShapiro,whousesplantandanimalDNAtostudyevolution.7p.m.$20.GrosvenorAuditorium,NationalGeographic,1600MSt.NW.202-857-7700.

Film TheCinemaClubwillpresentEranRiklis’2004film“TheSyrianBride.”7p.m.$5.Woman’sNationalDemocraticClub,1526NewHampshireAve.NW.202-232-7363.

Performances WilsonHighSchoolwillpresentthemusical“Oliver!”7:30p.m.$15;$5forstu-dents.WilsonHighSchool,[email protected] performance will repeat Nov. 12, 18 and 19 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. TheGeorgetownUniversityDanceCompanywillpresentitsfallperformance.8p.m.$10;$8forstudentsandseniors.GondaTheatre,DavisPerformingArtsCenter,GeorgetownUniversity,37thandOstreetsNW.202-687-3838.The performance will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m.



Thursday, novemBer 10Concert:FormerNationalSymphonyOrchestramusicdirectorLeonardSlatkinwillconducttheNationalSymphonyOrchestraandcellistGautierCapuçon(shown)performingworksbySaint-SaënsandRachmaninoff.7p.m.$20to$85.ConcertHall,KennedyCenter.202-467-4600.The concert will repeat Friday and Saturday at 8

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“The Privileged Series,” featuring mixed-media works about the upper classes by Anthony Dortch

Jr., will open today at Touchstone Gallery and continue through Nov. 27. An opening reception will take place Friday from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Located at 901 New York Ave. NW, the gallery is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. 202-347-2787. The National Gallery of Art will open two exhibits Sunday and continue them through April 8. “Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes” highlights works by the Mantuan sculptor and gold-smith Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (circa 1455-1528), known as Antico for his expertise in classical

antiquity.“In the Tower: Mel Bochner” featuring

40-some works at the inter-section of linguistic and visual representation by an innovator of conceptual art in the 1960s.

Located at 4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, the museum is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 202-737-4215. “Mystify,” presenting pho-tographs by Alexander Vasiljev of the remote Amazonas Department in Peru, will open tomorrow at Watergate Gallery and con-tinue through Nov. 30. An opening reception will

take place tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m., and

the artist will give a talk about rain forest photography Nov. 9 at 6 p.m. Located at 2552 Virginia Ave. NW, the gallery is open Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 202-338-4488. “David Suter: Outside the Box,” featuring more than 35 new paintings and sculptures by D.C. native Suter, will open tomorrow at Alex Gallery/Gallery A and continue through Nov. 30.

An opening reception will take place Friday from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

Located at 2106 R St. NW, the gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-667-2599. The Freer Gallery of Art will open three shows Saturday and keep them on view indefinitely. “Chinese Ceramics: 10th-13th Century” presents two dozen ceramics from the Song dynasty that highlight diverse glazes. “Cranes and Clouds: The Korean Art of Ceramic Inlay” reopens the museum’s Korean gallery with examples of the distinc-

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Anthony Dortch’s mixed-media works about the upper classes will be on display at Touchstone Gallery through nov. 27.

“Jersey Boys” will return to the National Theatre Nov. 10 through Jan. 7.

Winner of the 2006 Best Musical Tony Award, “Jersey

Boys” is the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. It’s a tale of how a group of blue-collar boys from the wrong side of the tracks became one of the biggest American pop music sensations of all time. Performance times are generally 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Tickets cost $41.50 to $276.50. National Theatre is located at 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-628-6161; nationaltheatre.org. Georgetown University and the University of Maryland will co-produce the new multimedia pro-duction “A Child Shall Lead Them: Making ‘The Night of the Hunter,’” Nov. 3 through 6 at Georgetown’s Davis Performing Arts Center. Written and directed by Georgetown professor Derek Goldman, the play is a histori-cal reimagining of the making of the 1955 film “The Night of the Hunter,” which was largely ignored when released but is now considered a great American film. The play provides a new framework for experiencing

this tale of corruption and evil. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $7 to $18. The university is located at 37th and O streets NW. 202-687-2787; performingarts.georgetown.edu. The ensemble dog & pony dc will present “Beertown” Nov. 9 through Dec. 10 at the Capitol Hill

Arts Workshop. What objects serve as a town’s “artifacts” — carrying the col-lective memories of citizens for-ward over time and telling their story?

“Beertown” places audience members and

performers on an even playing field to actively explore the dynamic and tenuous relationship between indi-viduals and their community. Performances, which open with a dessert potluck (attendees are

encouraged to bring a nut-free des-sert to share), are at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Tickets cost $10 to $25. The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop is located at 545 7th St. SE. dogandponydc.com. Washington National Opera will present Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” Nov. 10 through 19 at the Kennedy Center. Lucia is the sacrificial lamb in her brother’s scheme to regain the family fortune. Forced to abandon the man she loves and marry for money, she relinquishes even her sanity, killing her bridegroom and finally succumbing to madness. Performance times vary. Ticket prices start at $25. 202-467-4600; kennedy-center.org. Howard University will present Ntozake Shange’s “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” Nov. 2 through 12 in the Environmental Theatre Space. A series of poems choreo-

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graphed to music express the per-sonal tribulations of seven African-American women. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday; 2:30 p.m. Saturday; and 10 a.m. Friday, Nov 4. Tickets cost $5 to $15. Howard University is located at 2455 6th St. NW. 202-806-7050; coas.howard.edu/theatrearts. Studio Theatre will present Roland Schimmelpfennig’s “The Golden Dragon” Nov. 2 through Dec. 11. In the cramped kitchen of an Asian restaurant, four cooks pull the tooth of a young Chinese co-worker. His tooth ends up in the Thai soup of a flight attendant, who overhears the fight of a young cou-ple who live above the restaurant, whose fighting disturbs the shop-keeper of the dry goods store next door, who is more connected to the young Chinese man than anyone suspects. Performance times are 8 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and 7 p.m. Sunday. Studio is located at 1501 14th St. NW. 202-332-3300; studiotheatre.org. The Washington Ballet will revive artistic director Septime Webre’s adaptation of “The Great

Gatsby” Nov. 2 through 6 at the Kennedy Center. Performance times are 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 and 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $20 to $125. 202-467-4600; kennedy-center.org. George Washington University will present “The Merchant of Venice” Nov. 3 through 6 at the Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre. Shakespeare’s “Merchant” is classified as a comedy, though it is probably best remembered for its dramatic scenes and for the tower-ing character Shylock and his famous “pound of flesh” speech. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $10 to $15. The Marvin Theatre is located at 800 21st St. NW. 202-994-8072; gwu.edu/~theatre. Washington Stage Guild will present “Wilder Sins,” an evening of Thornton Wilder, Nov. 3 through 27 at Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church. In portraits of ordinary people whose failings affect themselves and those around them, Wilder, by turns comic and serious, never fails to surprise his audience with the cosmic implications of the com-monplace. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Saturday

and Sunday. Tickets cost $40 to $50. The church is located at 900 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 240-582-0050; stageguild.org. Shakespeare Theatre Company will present a concert version of “The Boys From Syracuse” Nov. 4 through 6 at Sidney Harman Hall. Based on “The Comedy of Errors,” the play tells the story of two identical twin brothers separat-ed in a shipwreck as children. Adapted in the late 1930s, “The Boys From Syracuse” features music by Richard Rodgers and lyr-ics by Lorenz Hart. Performance times are 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $55 to $75. Sidney Harman Hall is located at 610 F St. NW. 202-547-1122; shakespearetheatre.org. Arena Stage will close Karen Zacarías’ “The Book Club Play” Nov. 6 in the Arlene and Robert Kogod Cradle. Ana is a type A personality liv-ing in a letter-perfect world, with a husband who adores her, the per-fect job and her greatest passion: book club. But when bizarre cir-cumstances put her ideal book club under a magnifying glass, things begin to heat up. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday; 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday; and 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

Tickets cost $45 to $85. Arena Stage is located at 1101 6th St. SW. 202-488-3300; arenastage.org. Rorschach Theatre will close “After the Quake” Nov. 6 at the Atlas Performing Arts Center. In the aftermath of a terrible earthquake, a writer fueled by heartbreak heals a broken little girl, while a menacing frog saves Tokyo from an enormous worm. Frank Galati’s play is adapted from the short stories of Haruki Murakami. Performance times are generally 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $15 to $25. Atlas is located at 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993; atlasarts.org/events. The Apron Theatre Company will close Kyle Encinas’ “The Continuing Adventures of John Blade, Super Spy!” Nov. 7 at the Letelier Theater. For years the world has had one man to thank for its safety, and that’s super secret agent John Blade. Dangerous and debonair, Blade is the flawless hero, but even he can’t see how an evil professor’s weather machine is about to literal-ly take the world by storm. Performance times are 8 p.m. Nov. 4, 5 and 7. Tickets cost $16. The Letelier Theater is located at 3251 Prospect St. NW. theaprontheatre.com. GALita, a family program from GALA Hispanic Theatre, is pre-senting “Las aventuras de Don Quijote de La Mancha” through Nov. 10. Based on the novel “Don Quijote,” this bilingual adaptation follows the misadventures of the gentleman from La Mancha and his loyal squire Sancho Panza. Obsessed with chivalrous ideals, Don Quijote takes up his lance and sword to set wrongs to right throughout the countryside. Performance times are 10:30 a.m. Tickets cost $10. GALA is located at 3333 14th St. NW. 202-234-7174; galatheatre.org. The Chevy Chase Players group is presenting Neil Simon’s “The Gingerbread Lady” through Nov. 12 at the Chevy Chase Community Center. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Tickets, avail-able at the door, cost $15; $13 for students and seniors. The commu-nity center is located at 5601 Connecticut Ave. NW. The Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint is presenting Timothy Guillot’s “We Fight We Die” through Nov. 12. Guided by a modern-day cho-rus, “We Fight We Die” tells the story of Q, a homeless virtuosic graffiti artist who has transfixed the local city with his stunning and subversive work. Performance times are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $10 to $15. Flashpoint is located at 916 G St. NW. 202-315-1305; flashpointdc.org. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company has extended “A Bright New Boise” through Nov. 13.

In the parking lot of a mega craft store in Idaho, someone is summoning the rapture. Samuel D. Hunter’s play will shatter your pre-conceptions about the sacred, the profane and the secret lives of big-box retailers. Performance times are generally 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, 3 p.m. Saturday and 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday. Ticket prices start at $30. Woolly Mammoth is located at 641 D St. NW. 202-393-3939; woollymammoth.net. Keegan Theatre is presenting Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible” through Nov. 19 at the Church Street Theater. Miller’s classic portrait of one man’s struggle toward grace is set in the scorching context of the 17th-century Salem witch trials. Performance times are 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $30 to $35. The Church Street Theater is located at 1742 Church St. NW. 703-892-0202; keegantheatre.com. Constellation Theatre Company is presenting George Bernard Shaw’s “Arms and the Man” through Nov. 20 at Source. A young lady fantasizes about the bravery of her heroic fiancé when the reality of war bursts into her bedroom in the form of a fugi-tive enemy soldier. Performance times generally are 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $20 to $40. Source is located at 1835 14th St. NW. 202-204-7741; constellationtheatre.org. Scena Theatre is presenting “Greek,” a modern retelling of “Oedipus Rex,” through Nov. 27 at the H Street Playhouse. Set in 1980s London, this twist-ed version of the myth combines Shakespearean grandeur and Cockney rhyming slang to tell a rags-to-riches story. Performance times are generally 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $27 to $40. The H Street Playhouse is located at 1365 H St. NE. 703-683-2824; scenatheater.org. Theater J is presenting Arthur Miller’s “After the Fall” through Nov. 27 at the Washington DC Jewish Community Center. One man follows a quest to make peace with history — his own and that of the tumultuous world around him. Performance times vary. Tickets cost $25 to $35. The center is locat-ed at 1529 16th St. NW. 800-494-8497; theaterj.org. The Folger Theatre has extend-ed “Othello” through Dec. 4 in the Elizabethan Theatre. Shakespeare’s drama reveals the power of manipulation as Iago undermines Othello in a deadly game of betrayal. Performance times are generally 7:30 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; and 7 p.m. Sunday. Ticket cost $30 to $60. The Folger is located at 201 East Capitol St. SE. 202-544-7077; folger.edu.

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and improved design, which lever-ages the Hilton Garden Inn brand, better addresses the needs of the guests in this market and comple-ments the architecture of this neigh-borhood,” Thomas Messervy, a rep-resentative of the Spartanburg, S.C.-based OTO, told the Zoning Commission Thursday. Some community leaders initial-ly resisted the changes, saying the new plan wasn’t upscale enough for the neighborhood. The Foggy Bottom/West End advisory neighbor-hood commission’s September resolution — though not an objection — highlighted disap-pointment that the planned 1 Hotel never materialized. “I think a lot of peo-ple really liked what we saw first” in 2008, neighborhood commis-sion chair Rebecca Coder testified at the hearing. “We get the state of the markets … and I think most people don’t want a vacant lot at that site, so we look forward to this moving for-ward.” The Foggy Bottom Association and the West End Citizens Association also support the project. Developers have said the build-ing’s design avoids any stereotypes about an anonymous suburban motel possibly associated with the Hilton Garden Inn name. The hotel is designed to meet Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Silver standards, they said, and its glass and terra-cotta walls would be among the neighborhood’s nicest. “We asked [architect] Shalom Baranes to design a building that fit in with the community,” Messervy said. “We did not ask him to design a Hilton Garden Inn.” Zoning commissioners agreed. “From my perspective, it looks like a rather nice building. … I think this is a good project,” commissioner Konrad Schlater said. “And also, people may not like a Hilton Garden Inn, but it fills a need in the city and

I don’t think we should be elitist about this,” he added. But despite support from other community groups, the board of directors for the 22 West condomini-ums, which sit catty-corner from the planned hotel, asked the commis-sion to reject the project. The board’s concerns were that projecting win-dow bays would extend too far over the sidewalk, that truck drivers would find the planned loading dock inconvenient for deliveries and park on the street, and that the planned

“lay-by” lane for guests to drop off their cars was badly designed. Although zoning commissioners expressed skepticism of most of Blumenthal’s fears, they agreed with concerns about the lay-by lane, which community leaders had also raised. As planned — and as recom-mended by the D.C. Department of Transportation — the lane would cut three feet out of the 22nd Street side-walk for guests to drop off and col-lect their cars from the hotel’s valet parking service. The design forces drivers to move over a full lane to go around stopped cars, providing a buffer for people getting out of their cars and loading or unloading their luggage, according to the Transportation Department. But neighbors and zoning com-missioners said despite developers’ assurances that the valets would process cars quickly, they’re worried the parked cars would obstruct traf-fic. Zoning commissioners asked to see an alternative full-width lay-by lane design before they vote on the project Nov. 28.

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But Muckle said the store’s lease is expiring and “uncertainty related to the ownership of the plaza” also played a role. The retail plaza’s owner, Chicago-based Capri Capital Partners, did not respond to requests for comment by press time. “The folks who have been loyal to Safeway, we appreciate that and hope they’ll continue to shop with us in Georgetown or at another loca-tion,” Muckle said. And yet, some residents say they haven’t given up on keeping the grocery store right where it is. Approximately 1,300 neighbors signed a petition seeking to save the

Safeway. Last month, the Foggy Bottom advisory neighborhood commission passed a resolution sup-porting the effort. “Many of its customers are senior citizens and George Washington University students who live on fixed budgets and cannot afford to buy groceries at more expensive and distant grocery stores,” the resolu-tion states. “Closing this Safeway would result in financial hardship and be a physical burden to these and other customers.” Asher Corson, president of the Foggy Bottom Association, says his group will be weighing in with a similar sentiment. “It’s a really unfortunate turn of events,” he said. “Whatever can be done we’re going to do.”

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farther from the property line would force them to remove 12 units from the project. By making one of the five units “at risk” units larger, though, the new plans leave only four apartments with their sole win-dows facing the neighboring parking lot. The revisions also designate a

new spot for the affordable unit. “I still think they could have designed a different solution there … but I do appreciate that they paid some attention to [the issue],” com-missioner Peter May said last Thursday. “And it makes me feel more comfortable about the project going forward as is.” The Zoning Commission also decided not to take a stance on whether residents elsewhere in the

neighborhood should be allowed to lease parking spaces at Il Palazzo. The Adams Morgan advisory neigh-borhood commission has pushed for such an arrangement, but the D.C. Department of Transportation said it would increase the number of people driving in the neighborhood. “I’d rather leave it up to the developer and the community to figure that out,” said Zoning Commission chair Anthony Hood.

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Rendering courtesy of OTO DevelopmentDevelopers said their hotel at 22nd and m streets will be among the area’s nicest.


tive Korean ceramic decoration known as sanggam. “Silk Road Luxuries From China” highlights objects that show the influence of the many cultures that traded along the Silk Road for nearly two millennia. Located at 12th Street and Jefferson Drive SW, the gallery is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-633-1000. FotoWeek DC will present 14

photo exhibits, including the win-ners of its 2011 International Awards Competition, at FotoWeek Central beginning Saturday and continuing through Nov. 12. The festival will also include many other events, activities and exhibits at various locations around town. Located at 1800 L St. NW, FotoWeek Central is open daily from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. For more information, visit fotoweekdc.org. Conner Contemporary Art will open two exhibits Saturday with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and con-tinue them through Dec. 17.

“The Welcome Guest” presents video and small- to large-scale sculptures by Australian artist Patricia Piccinini that navigate between nature and biotechnology. “Scenes of Mid Peril” features lush color photographs of women by Australian-born Arlington artist Victoria Gaitán. Located at 1358 Florida Ave. NE, the gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-588-8750. “New Visions: A Selection of the Latest Acquisitions From the IDB Art Collection, 2008-2011,” pre-

senting 25 works by 17 artists, will open Monday at the Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center Art Gallery and continue through Feb. 3. Located at 1300 New York Ave. NW, the gallery is open Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 202-623-3558. “Mail Call,” telling the story of military mail from the American Revolution to 2010, will open Tuesday at the National Postal Museum and remain on view indefinitely. Located at 2 Massachusetts Ave.

NE, the museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. 202-786-2120. Studio Gallery opened four exhibits last week and will contin-ue them through Nov. 19. “Secrets of the Elements 3: Dark Matters” is the third chapter in a continuing collaboration between chemist-artist Langley Spurlock and poet John Martin Tarrat. “Lemmings?” highlights works by Nancy Frankel that reveal her love of nature and architecture. “A Rustic Life” features sculp-ture by Brian Kirk inspired by nature and manmade forms. “The Professors,” part of FotoWeek DC, presents works by professors from the photography departments of several area univer-sities. A “First Friday” reception will take place Friday from 6 to 8 p.m.; a reception for “Secrets of the Elements 3” will be held Nov. 12 from 4 to 6 p.m.; and a closing art-ists’ reception will take place Nov. 19 from 4 to 6 p.m. Located at 2108 R St. NW, the gallery is open Wednesday and Thursday from 1 to 7 p.m., Friday from 1 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 1 to 6 p.m. 202-232-8734. “Sweet Tides,” featuring paint-ings suggestive of coastal land-scapes by Alison Hall Cooley, opened recently at Thos. Moser’s D.C. Showroom, where it will continue through Dec. 31. An artist’s reception will take place Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. Located at 3300 M St. NW, the showroom is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-338-4292. “Tom Wolff’s U Street Portrait Project,” highlighting Wolff’s pho-tographic exploration of the people and culture of D.C.’s U Street neighborhood, opened last week at Smith Center for Healing and the Arts’ Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, where it will continue through Dec. 17. An opening reception will take place Friday at 7 p.m. Located at 1632 U St. NW, the gallery is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. 202-483-8600. “Eye to Eye: Joseph Marioni at the Phillips” opened recently at the Phillips Collection, pairing 15 of modernist Marioni’s recent glow-ing paintings with some 30 works in the museum’s collection. Aiming to show the development of color and light in modernist painting, the exhibit will continue through Jan. 29. Located at 1600 21st St. NW, the museum is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday until 8:30 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission to the exhibit during weekdays is by donation. Admission during weekends costs $12 for adults and $10 for seniors; it is free for ages 18 and younger. 202-387-2151.

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opment of 600 beds of student hous-ing in two dorms, and growth of the school’s student population from 3,200 to 6,500. But although there was less vociferous community resistance than from neighbors of American or Georgetown universities, some Van Ness residents still expressed con-cerns about noise and traffic from a denser University of the District of Columbia campus. “In recognition of the impor-tance of protecting residential neighborhoods, we ask that you undertake needed revisions of the expansion plans to accommodate the neighborhood’s requests,” the council members’ letter states. In the letter, the council mem-bers recommend that the university cut its dorm plans from 600 to 250 students until officials demonstrate an ability to control student resi-dents’ behavior, and not to add campus population without a corre-sponding parking increase. The council members also urge dialogue with community members on con-struction management and other local issues. Despite the letter’s calls for major changes, however, Cheh said she recognizes that the plans have already been approved. The under-lying point of the letter, she said, was to highlight the importance of working with the community and to raise issues that will affect future campus plans. “I didn’t really expect a lot of substantive movement,” she said of the letter, “but I do think it had a salutary effect nevertheless.” University spokesperson Alan Etter noted that the D.C. Council has already allocated some $200 million to carry out the develop-ment initiatives outlined in the cam-pus plan. “The renovation of the Van Ness campus has garnered incredible support from across the city,” Etter said. While Etter said the university has considered the possibility that

funds could be withdrawn over a disagreement with the council, he said the school doesn’t think it will come to that. “I would say it’s more excitement than anything else,” he said of the campus plan. “This is a historic change that’s been approved by the Zoning Commission.” Cheh said she and her colleagues are still behind the university’s broader goals. “My letter to them made it very clear that I and the council are just very, very strong supporters of the university and what they’re doing,” she said. “The improvements that will be made in the university are needed to make this a really viable equivalent of other state universities.” University President Allen Sessoms is preparing a written response to the council members’ request, Etter said, but the school is not expecting to scale back its cam-pus plan. “We’ve gone through a pretty rigorous process to get the plan approved,” Etter said. “This was a public process, so we’re moving forward. That’s really all I can say about that.” North Cleveland Park advisory neighborhood commissioner Adam Tope wrote in an email that while some concerns raised in the letter have already been addressed and others will likely be resolved later, he believes it will have an impact on the university. “The letter sets forth many of the issues that the ANC and our neigh-bors fought for in the zoning pro-cess and we expect it will be a powerful reminder to UDC that many Councilmembers are watch-ing UDC and expecting UDC to accommodate the views of its neighbors to the best of UDC’s abil-ity,” he wrote. The details of the planned dorms’ design, for instance, will be addressed at a future Zoning Commission hearing, and Tope said he is confident the university’s com-munity task force will help smooth out issues during the construction process. The task force will meet Nov. 10, when members will hear an update on construction projects.

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city’s central library in 1972. There’s been debate about whether the 400,000-square-foot modernist building — with its vast open spaces and mazes of stairways and halls — is an ideal home for a central library. Regardless, the D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board designated the building a city landmark in 2007. The Urban Land Institute’s assessment will begin Nov. 14 with briefings from city library staffers, according to Bonvechio. The next day, the panel will interview stakeholders “ranging from community members to archi-tects to developers to religious organizations to nearby businesses,” he said. The library system has sent out more than 100 invitations to such entities. One of those stakeholders is the D.C. Library Renaissance Project, a watchdog organization founded by Ralph Nader. The group’s director, Robin Diener, said that “the

development forces in the city… seem to have a real bias against the [901 G St.] building as a library” and “are constantly looking for other ways to have a central library other than in the building we now have.” Diener said she’s personally “neutral” on whether the building is the best home for a central library, but she expressed concern about funding for any project that would con-struct a new facility. “I find it hard to believe that they could build a new library, obtain the land downtown … more cheaply than expanding and renovat-ing the current library,” she said. “But there may be something that hasn’t been revealed yet.” Diener pointed out that the library system has already been grappling with funding prob-lems, and is unable to keep neighborhood libraries open on Sundays and at other desir-able times. The system also recently proposed closing the King building on Sundays, but a city funding shift managed to avoid that out-come. For the final three days of the Urban Land

Institute assessment, the panel will conduct internal discussions and research, and then “present their findings and recommendations” to the public on Nov. 18 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the King library, according to a news release.

“Whatever recommendation comes out of that panel is not a final recommendation,” said Bonvechio. “It will continue to be vetted and explored with the city.” According to the release, the panel will be chaired by Wayne Ratkovich, president of a Los Angeles development firm, and will include various other “national experts in the fields of architecture, urban planning, com-mercial and residential development, finance and library sciences.” One group that will be watching the dis-cussions closely is the newly revived Friends of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library group. LaToya Thomas, who orga-nized the group and is serving as its president before official elections next month, said the organization will be approaching the issue “in an exploratory manner” and potentially issu-ing a response to the Urban Land Institute’s recommendation. “A number of people who have come to our group are very interested in the architec-tural significance of the MLK library,” Thomas said.

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conclusion,” she said. She also said she doesn’t think taxes discourage people from living in the District. “I don’t believe we have a problem attracting and keep-ing wealthy residents here,” she said. “Living in Bethesda is very different from living in Georgetown.” Improving schools and services is the key to attracting residents, she

said. “And residents are more valu-able than businesses.” Still, she said she would have favored a major effort to attract Northrop Grumman Corp. to the District. The company opted to locate its headquarters in Virginia instead. She also supports engaging with D.C.-based Living Social, which is running out of space and might be considering relocating. Greig plans to send her daughter to Hyde Elementary School and hopes to keep her in the public school system, though she noted that middle schools can be a sticking point. “The rubber does hit the road when you hit middle school,” she said. Like Evans, Greig is a strong supporter of mayoral control of the school system and likes the idea of charter schools. “Some [charter schools] far

exceed DCPS in quality,” she said. “Others are just as good, and a few are weak.” Greig would like to see streetcars traveling up and down Wisconsin Avenue, a Georgetown Metro sta-tion and more Capital Bikeshare stations in the neighborhood. “I myself am car-free, as is my hus-band,” she said. Asked about Foggy Bottom’s historic but closed Stevens School, which is the subject of a city gov-ernment request for proposals, she said she would favor a use related to education, perhaps to George Washington University. She said she would not object to an apartment building, as proposed by the Fenty administration, in con-junction with something education-al. She also said she does not buy into the idea that the land is so valu-able that an educational use for the building would be inappropriate. Greig said the “first source” pol-icy, where companies receiving tax or other breaks from the city must hire District residents for 50 percent of their new hires, should be changed to eliminate a loophole by which a builder can shift workers from another project. She also called for stricter enforcement. Asked about past community work, Greig said she initiated a pro-gram, Bank on DC, to help the one in eight District households that do not have bank accounts and there-fore must use money orders when paying bills. The organization works with several local banks as well as credit unions to help the residents open accounts. Greig holds a doctorate in public policy from Harvard. Her husband, Paul Kihn, is also with McKinsey, where he specializes in education issues.

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“The budget that passed was the largest budget in the history of the city,” he added. “I think I’m serving on the worst council in the 20 years I’ve been on it.” Still, Evans said, “I wouldn’t trade our situation here for any city, state or county in America. Our finances are strong and stable. We really have made an effort to man-age our money wisely.” He praised the school building modernization pro-gram under both the Fenty and Gray administrations. “This time we did something right. ... We now have some of the finest school buildings in the country.” Evans took credit, while also praising Ward 4 Council member Muriel Bowser, for finding the money to reopen the shuttered police academy. “Gray jumped in when Muriel and I found the money,” he said. “I have introduced legislation to require the District have 4,000 officers. At one time, we had 5,000.” City services, he said, have generally improved in recent years. “We’re doing much better than we did,” he said, noting, however, “I continue to hear complaints about DCRA, which I feel is slipping backwards.” Evans also discussed the city’s Democratic primary, explaining that holding it in April rather than September will save money. The city scheduled its presidential primary to coincide with Maryland’s and Delaware’s, and the goal is to combine both the local and federal elections. When asked why neighborhood libraries are closed on Sundays, Evans said he would be happy to shift some funds from the education or human services budget to libraries in order to change that. He credited Ward 6

Council member Tommy Wells with helping him find the money to keep the main Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library open on Sundays. “There is not an infinite amount of money to spend,” he said. “Schools and human services have advocates in the Wilson Building every day of the year.” When asked about the council’s December approval of Internet gambling without public input, Evans faulted Gray, the council chairman at the time. “There was no discussion,” he said. Evans praised Wells and at-large member Phil Mendelson for introducing legislation to repeal the mea-sure, which his committee will consider first. “I intend to hold hearings on their bill,” he said. “Very few people are for [Internet gambling] except the professionals.” But he declined to take a position on the subject himself. “I’m waiting to get all the information,” he said. When asked whether the city should double the pay for council members and then ban outside employment, Evans said the District already has the second highest salary levels in the country and that people would be outraged if it were increased. As for suggestions to ban outside employment, he answered, “I think it is a bad idea. ... You’d lose me and perhaps Mary [Cheh],” Ward 3’s council member and a law professor at George Washington University. Evans said he thinks the council made a mistake when members decided to tax new purchases of non-D.C. municipal bonds. “In Maryland, you have thousands of options at various levels of risk. In D.C., you have six. We sell them out immediately. ... We now will offer the least amount of choice of any American citizens.”

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