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IN THIS ISSUE JUNE 2021

13 ON T G IN dition H S A er E W ON Summ S ’ AT WH capitol streets

Open Air Drug Market Flourishes on H Street

CHV Little Free Library Contains ‘A Little Bit of Magic’

by Elizabeth O’Gorek

Open Air Drug Market Flourishes on H Street: Residents Say Marijuana “Gray Market” Brings Safety Concerns by Elizabeth O’Gorek

Local Theaters Rebound: Reckoning and Reinvention in a Pandemic by Barbara Wells

Women’s Boutique Opening July: With Return to Eastern Market, Boutique Kashmir Comes ‘Full Circle’ by Elizabeth O’Gorek

Romana Pizzeria Opening at 7th Hill Site: Transplanting Family Traditions - And Family - From Rome by Elizabeth O’Gorek

The Capitol Hill Home Photo Contest–2021 by Elizabeth Nelson

Commissioners Protest Several Liquor License Applications ANC 6A Report by Nick L. Alberti

Commissioners Withhold Support for Santa Rose Taqueria License: ANC 6B Report by Elizabeth O’Gorek

ANC 6C Opposes Smoking Exemption for H Street Business: ANC 6C Report by Sarah Payne

Greenleaf Redevelopment Dominates Meeting: ANC 6D Report by Andrew Lightman

Bulletin Board by Kathleen Donner

homes and gardens

Capitol Cuisine by Celeste McCall

Graduation Special!

CHV Little Free Library Contains ‘A Little Bit of Magic’ by Elizabeth O’Gorek

The Hill Gardener: Be A Part of The Solution Join a CSA to Support Local, Sustainable Farming by Rindy O’Brien

Dear Garden Problem Lady by Wendy Blair

Changing Hands by Don Denton

arts and dining 67

Capitol Cuisine by Celeste McCall

At the Movies by Mike Canning

The Wine Girl by Elyse Genderson

Art and The City by Jim Magner

Literary Hill by Karen Lyon

Poetic Hill by Karen Lyon

The Jazz Project by Jean Keith Fagon

health and fitness 81

Our River, The Anacostia: Six Summer Walks Along Our River by Bill Matuszeski

Using Psychedelic Plants as Medicine: A New Solution for Mental Health Disorders by Pattie Cinelli

The District Vet by Dan Teich

graduation special 90

A Letter from Charles Allen

Graduate Yearbook Collage

family life 102

Kids and Family Notebook

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Sunday Afternoon Flying Circus Airshows

On Sundays through the end of October, Bealeton, Virginia is the place for outdoor thrills: wing walkers, stunt pilots and dare devils. The pre-show starts at 2 p.m.; the airshow promptly at 2:30 p.m.; gates at 11 a.m. Biplane rides are available for purchase before and after. Admission is $15 for adults; $7 for kids five to twelve; and under five, free. The Flying Circus Aerodrome is just off Route 17, at 5114 Ritchie Road (Route 644) in Bealeton, VA. (about 60 miles from DC). flyingcircusairshow.com.

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w a s h i n g t o n (away from screens and outside)

DC Polo Society Summer Sundays

On Sundays, June 13, July 11, Aug. 8, Sept. 12 and Oct. 10, bring friends, family and kids for a Sunday afternoon of polo at the Congressional Polo Club in Poolesville, MD. Tickets are sold by the car/group. Gates open at 1 p.m.; first polo match begins at 3 p.m.; second at 4 p.m. Admission is $125 to $200 depending on group size and comes with a bottle of wine (free for 16 and under). The Congressional Polo Club is at 14660 Hughes Rd., Poolesville, MD—about 32 miles from DC on Route 28. dcpolo.com.

Photo: Celebration by Mike Landsman

Exposed DC Photography Show

Exposed DC is partnering with Focus on the Story and Lost Origins Gallery to present the 15th annual Exposed DC Photography Show in an outdoor installation in Mount Pleasant, June 6 to 27. The exhibit will be installed on the exterior wall of Ellē restaurant at 3221 Mt Pleasant St. NW. A special celebration of the 2021 Exposed DC photography show will take place on Sunday, June 6 at 3 p.m. as part of the kickoff for the fourth annual Focus on the Story International Photo Festival. Since 2006, Exposed DC has produced their annual show to shine a spotlight on life in the area as seen through the lenses of some of the region’s most passionate amateur and professional photographers. exposeddc.com.

Independence Fireworks at Mount Vernon

On June 25 and 26, 6 to 9:45 p.m., enjoy an evening of family fun and fireworks along with patriotic music to celebrate our nation’s founding. Picnic on the lawn, see character presentations, visit Washington tomb and watch ice cream making demonstrations. With mansion tour, $50 for adults; $38 for kids. Tickets are on sale now. Watch highlights from last year’s fireworks at mountvernon.org/planyour-visit/calendar/events/independence-fireworks/. Photo courtesy of George Washington’s Mount Vernon

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Alicia Keys at National Harbor

Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys will appear at a rescheduled-from-8/7/2020 concert on Friday, Aug. 6, 2021 at 8 p.m. at the Theater at MGM National Harbor, Oxon Hill. Her seventh studio album, Alicia, was released on Sept. 18, 2020.Tickets are from $158 to $2,723. mgmnationalharbor.ticketsoffice.org. Alicia Keys is a classically trained American singer-songwriter.

Tango Musical Revue at GALA

Ella es tango is a live (socially distanced), original musical revue that highlights the contribution of women composers and singers to this world-beloved, but traditionally male dominated genre. Enjoy spectacular dancing with artists from Argentina and the US. Dance tango to live music for an hour after the show on Wednesdays. Ella es tango is at GALA Hispanic Theatre, 3333 14th St, NW, June 2 to 20. Presented in Spanish with English surtitles and some songs in English. $25 to $45. galatheatre.org.

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WABA’s The Sweet Ride

On June 13, choose from a 16 ($55), 30 ($70) or 50 ($85) mile route and wind through Northern Virginia on a combination of bike lanes, quiet neighborhood streets, and trails. Enjoy water and the WABA staff cheering you on at pit stops along the way. This ride is a fundraiser. Registration fees support WABA’s work in the DC region and their mission empowering people to ride bikes, build connections and transform places. Participants will be spread out along the route and navigate using the provided physical cuesheet, or with free turn-by-turn navigation on their smartphone using the Ride with GPS app. Join WABA for a discount on the above prices. waba.org/goodness/events.

Gettysburg National 19th Century Base Ball Festival

The 11th Annual Gettysburg National 19th Century Base Ball Festival takes place on July 17 and 18 at the Schroeder Family Farm, 965 Pumping Station Rd., Gettysburg. Twenty-four clubs from across the country will play base ball by the rules of 1864, i.e.no gloves. Admission is free; donations to the Gettysburg Little League are accepted. You can bring picnic baskets, chairs, tents and blankets. Food also available for purchase. No alcohol or pets. gettysburgbaseballfestival.com. 16 H HILLRAG.COM

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Guns N’ Roses at Nat’s Park

Heavy metal, hard rock Guns N’ Roses is at Nationals Park on July 13. Formed in 1985, with an earned nickname of “the most dangerous band in the world,” they have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, including 45 million in the United States, making them one of the best-selling acts in history. Tickets start at $94 and are on sale now at washington.eventticketscenter.com.

Courtesy of Guns N’ Roses

NGA’s West Building Reopens

The National Gallery of Art has reopened the West Building to the public. Daily hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free, timed-passes are required. Passes will be released each Monday at 10 a.m. for the week. The East Building will reopen in June; date TBA. The West Building Rotunda now features a welcome kiosk. Visitors are able to customize their experience by browsing thematic tours of the main floor that feature popular topics and artists. As a COVID-19 precaution, the kiosk’s interactive screen pioneers new gesture-based technology to offer guests a safe, touchless option for exploring the collections. nga.gov.

Chesapeake Crab, Wine & Beer Festival

Visitors enjoy Joseph Mallord William Turner’s Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight, 1835, National Gallery of Art, Washington, oil on canvas, Widener Collection.

The 11th annual Chesapeake Crab, Wine & Beer Festival at National Harbor on the waterfront, on Aug. 14 (rain or shine), noon to 5 p.m., is an all-you-can-taste extravaganza complete with over 30,000 seasoned crabs, lots of beer, wine, arts and crafts, live music and family fun. Other food for purchase. The event features thousands of tables, chairs, umbrellas and tents. Tickets are $30 to $149. mdcrabfest.com. Courtesy of the Chesapeake Crab, Wine & Beer Festival

Montgomery County Agricultural Fair

The 72th annual Montgomery County Agricultural Fair, known for its traditional agricultural entries, kids’ zone, free live entertainment, carnival rides and fair food, is at the Montgomery County Fair Grounds, 501 Perry Pkwy in Gaithersburg, from Aug. 13 to 21. Open daily from 10 a.m. to midnight, except on Friday, Aug. 13, from 3 p.m. to midnight. General admission is $15 ($12 online); children 11 and under, free. Parking at the fairgrounds is $10. mcagfair.com.

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Wilco & Sleater-Kinney Join Forces at Merriweather

Nightly Spirits Ghost Tour & Pub Crawls

Nightly Spirits offers a two-and-a-half-hour haunted Old Town pub tour. Guests will be led by a costumed tour guide along a walking route that explores the history and haunted past of some of the most historic and haunted places in Old Town Alexandria. The tour will visit three or four different bars/pubs along the way. Guests can enjoy a drink (not included) at each stop while they soak in the stories. Tours run Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights starting at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $25 per person. Attendees must be 21+. Nightly Spirits also offer White House Ghost Tours. Again, drinks not included. nightlyspirits.com/washington.

Two indie rock giants join forces for the hotly anticipated coast to coast It’s Time Tour. Following the release of their 11th studio album Ode To Joy, Wilco co-headline the jaunt with Riot Grrrl pioneers Sleater-Kinney. Since forming in 1994, Wilco have amassed one of the most respected catalogs in modern American rock. With songwriter Jeff Tweedy at the forefront, the band has successfully dabbled in Americana, folk and even electronica over the course of its storied career. There are few more impressive sounds in rock than Sleater-Kinney at full throttle. Comprised of Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker, the band honed their assault of dueling vocals and guitar ferocity over the course of a decade, beginning with their self-titled debut and ending with 2005’s The Woods. The album Ode to Joy presents a unique rhythm track and a minimalist instrumentation, with lyrics at once observant, hopeful, morbid, tolerant, and abstract.

Ulysses S. Grant’s ceremonial carriage

The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden Alexandria’s Cameron Run Waterpark

Cameron Run Regional Park, 4001 Eisenhower Ave. in Alexandria is open for the season. Spend a summer afternoon splashing and sliding at Great Waves Waterpark. Test your swing in the slowpitch and fastpitch batting cages. Book one of their picnic shelters for a family or community picnic or bring your friends for 18 holes of miniature golf. Through June 23, hours are M-Th, 4 to 8 p.m.; F, 4 to 9 p.m.; weekends and holidays, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Then through Aug. 22, hours are M-Th, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; F, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.; weekends and holidays, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Weekday prices: under two, free; 48” or more, $16.50; less than 48”, $13; 55 and older, $10.25. Weekend prices: under two, free; 48” or more, $17; less than 48”, $13.50; 55 and older $10.75. novaparks.com/parks/cameron-run-regional-park. 20 H HILLRAG.COM

The American Presidency: A Glorious Burden exhibition at the American History Museum explores the personal, public, ceremonial, and executive actions of the 44 men who have had a huge impact on the course of history in the past 200 years. More than 900 objects, including national treasures from the Smithsonian’s vast presidential collections, bring to life the role of the presidency in American culture. The American History Museum reopened on May 21. Free, timed-entry passes are required at si.edu/visit. americanhistory.si.edu.

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Georgetown Spring GLOW

Through June 27, local and national artists are showing five commissioned artworks during Spring GLOW in Georgetown. Presented by the Georgetown BID, the free public art experience is viewable by day, and brighter by night. DC artists represented include are Stephanie Mercedes; Chris Combs and David Greenfieldboyce; and Nara Park. Edwin Baruch (New York City) and Curated Creative (Milwaukee, Wisconsin). In addition to the installations, Spring GLOW programming includes in-person and virtual options--from walking tours to artist talks. Following Spring GLOW, Summer GLOW will feature three artworks that will transform Georgetown’s public alleys, July 2 to Sept. 26. georgetownglowdc.com. Enjoy Georgetown GLOW art installations through June 27. Photo: Virginia Cheng, Georgetown BID

Katrina Colby and Crystal Edge at Wunder Garten. Photo: Diego Bonilla

KiKi Drag Bingo & Pop Culture Trivia and Games

Table Reservations are required on Sundays, 4 to 7 p.m., at Wunder Garten, 1101 First St. NE, for KiKi Drag Bingo & Pop Culture Trivia and Games. Wunder Garten, inspired by the beer gardens of Germany, opened in 2015 as a pop-up beer garden that quickly became a cornerstone of the NoMa neighborhood. A year-round community gathering place for friends and family, Wunder Garten has a carefully curated selection of German and craft beers and a well-regarded wine and liquor selection. Food served. wundergartendc.com.

Mary Chapin Carpenter at Wolf Trap

Renowned and beloved singer, songwriter, and performer Mary Chapin Carpenter will be at Wolf Trap for a one-night-only performance on Saturday, Aug. 28, 7:30 p.m. Her performance was originally scheduled at Wolf Trap on Saturday, August 22, 2020. All current tickets will be honored for the rescheduled performance. Carpenter has won five Grammy Awards and is a 2012 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee. Tickets are $30, up. Wolf Trap’s Filene Center, 1551 Trap Rd., Vienna, VA. wolftrap.org. 22 H HILLRAG.COM

Parker Quartet at Strathmore’s Patio Stage

Inspiring performances, luminous sound, and exceptional musicianship are the hallmarks of the Grammy-winning Parker Quartet. The Quartet dazzles with a program of Beethoven, Brahms, and contemporary Israeli female composers Chaya Czernowin and Sivan Cohen Elias. They’re performing on Thursday, June 24 at 6:30 and 8:30 p.m. at Strathmore’s new 120-seat Patio Stage. The Patio Stage’s lineup is varied and inclusive of the myriad of genres Strathmore typically presents. The space has a roof to provide protection from the elements and open sides allow fresh air to circulate. Tickets are sold as pods—with tables that sit one to four people; $112 to $152 per table. The Patio Stage will be in full swing through September. For tickets and the lineup, visit strathmore.org/patiostage. Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Hot August Music Festival

The Hot August Music Festival is on Saturday, Aug. 28, at Oregon Ridge Park, 13403 Beaver Dam Rd., Cockeysville, MD. Scheduled performers this year, on the Main Stage, are Never Never, Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, Lettuce, Shakey Graves and Green-sky Bluegrass. Petty Coat Junction, Dancing Bears and Andy Franco and the UN appear on the Professional Vision Zeiss Stage. Music on the Main Stage starts at 11:30 a.m. and ends at 10 p.m. General admission is $64 to $89 depending on the timing of your ticket purchase. Cockeysville is north of Baltimore and about 60 miles from DC. hotaugustmusicfestival.com.

Greensky Bluegrass appears on the main stage from 8 to 10 p.m.

The REACH, the Kenned Center’s family-friendly outdoor food and wine garden. Photo: Andrew Lightman

Millennium Stage Summer at the REACH

Through Oct. 2, the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage presents free weekly, day-long mini outdoor festivals (Thursday, Friday and Saturday) curated in partnership with organizations and artists across the city. Events will offer an array of musical and cultural styles of performance, film screenings, yoga, and interactive dance and movement classes in a wide variety of styles. All activities will take place outside at the REACH, where the Center’s family-friendly outdoor food and wine garden, Victura Park, has reopened to guests at the River Pavilion. Advance registration is required and will be available the Friday prior beginning at 10 a.m. kennedy-center. org/whats-on/millennium-stage/2021/ reach-summer.

NSO’s SWEENEY TODD in Concert

In this infamous 19th-century tale, Sweeney Todd, an unjustly exiled barber, returns to London seeking vengeance against the lecherous Judge Turpin, who framed him and ravaged his young wife. The road to revenge leads Todd to Mrs. Lovett, a resourceful proprietress of a failing pie shop, above which, he opens a new barber practice. Mrs. Lovett’s luck changes when Todd’s thirst for blood inspires the addition of an ingredient to her meat pies that has the people of London begging for more. Sweeney Todd in Concert is at Wolf Trap on July 2 and 3, 8 p.m. (gates at 7 p.m.). Tickets start at $42. wolftrap.org. 24 H HILLRAG.COM

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OPEN AIR DRUG MARKET FLOURISHES ON H STREET Residents Say Marijuana “Gray Market” Brings Safety Concerns

year ago, George Franklin, an alias, was working in his living room when he heard the clatter of footsteps outside the house. The noise was quickly followed by sirens. Franklin was disconcerted, but unsurprised. The sounds were not unfamiliar given the proximately of his home to H Street NE. However, Franklin was surprised by what he found in his backyard a few hours later. Backpacks, thrown over his fence from the alley, littered the yard. They contained guns, cash and marijuana. According to Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), a raid on a nearby marijuana pop-up was the source of the abandoned items. “When we’ve got people piling over our fences with backpacks full of product and guns, it’s kind of unsettling,” said Franklin. In the District, it is legal to possess up to two ounces of marijuana. One can also “gift” up to an ounce to another person. However, retail sales, outside of the District’s medical cannabis stores, are illegal. Some entrepreneurs have gotten around the prohibition by including a “gift” of a cannabis product in return for the purchase of other items such as artwork and tee shirts. These “gray market” establishments, some of whose gleaming white, trendy interiors resemble the Apple Store, are geared towards upscale consumers. According to neighbors, at least five gray market cannabis retailers are located between the 300 and 800 blocks of H Street NE. The concentration has attracted the notice of Virginia and Maryland residents, whose states still do not allow retail cannabis sales. The market created by these establishments draws individual street dealers, hoping to lure customers with better deals before they enter these stores. Taking a stroll down these blocks, this reporter was solicited multiple times by itinerant weed merchants. The combination of an unregulated gray market, a concentration of retail weed purveyors, street dealers and out-of-state consumers has created a “New Amsterdam,” the first open drug market in this area

by Elizabeth O’Gorek since the dark days of the early 90’s crack wars when over 80 open-air drug markets proliferated in DC. Due to its semi-legal nature, this market runs completely on cash transactions, which makes its patrons, entrepreneurs and retail establishments ripe targets for robberies. Cognizant of the risk, some retailers allegedly employ armed guards while those on the street often pocket “protection.”

An Open-Air Cannabis Market Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner (ANC) Joel Kelty (6C-05) said he isn’t against marijuana. “I’m against the chaos that comes from an unregulated market,” he states. Kelty’s constituents complain about businesses “gifting” marijuana. Some of those establishments, they say, have security personnel wearing body armor, and may be carrying guns. “It’s been described to me as ‘paramilitary,’” Kelty said, “and it makes people nervous.” One of the biggest problems is the sheer number of such establishments in the area, Neighbors worry that this is making their residential commercial zone into the marijuana market of choice for the region. H Street Main Street Executive Director Anwar Salem said he is aware of five legal businesses “gifting” cannabis-related products, but said there could be many more operating illegally as pop-ups. COVID has helped create a “whack a mole” of empty storefronts selling marijuana, neighbors add; as soon as one closes in one place, another pops up. Cannabis entrepreneurs are even known to operate from sidewalk card tables. All business is done on a cash basis because cannabis remains a Schedule 1 illegal substance, so such businesses have no access to banking services or credit card fulfillment. The concentration of cannabis establishments, according to Kelty, attracts large numbers of outsiders to the neighborhood. The congestion caused by these cannabis shoppers creates headaches for residents such as limited street parking. More importantly, pedestrians face harassment from groups loitering to smoke on street corners.

Street dealers often hand passers by a business card promoting their wares. Photo: Liz O’Gorek

“I don’t think this is what voters were voting for when they passed Initiative 71,” Kelty said. “We as a community need to collectively agree what the parameters are and go with the parameters.”

Congress Stalls Legal Retail Cannabis “The gifting probably isn’t legal, and we’re probably not doing anything about it because the current situation really is irrational,” said DC Council Chairman Phil Mendelson (D), “and that’s because of the Congressional rider.” In 2018, Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) tacked a Congressional rider onto a budget spending bill that forbid the District from spending any local tax revenues for the regulation of retail cannabis sales.. Lifting the rider, according to Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), is important because regulation of marijuana is key to public safety. “If marijuana sales were legal in DC, we would not be having these problems in our neighborhoods,” she said. “Essentially what we are doing is inviting illegal activity with all its concerns about public safety,” Norton said. “Marijuana is going to be used, and it’s going to be sold in the streets with people fighting among one another about those sales.” The open June 2021 H 27

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market for cannabis on H Street is a direct result of the lack of DC Statehood, Ward 6 Councilmember Charles Allen (D) concurs. Allen regularly speaks with Kelty and other H Street neighbors about partnering with MPD and DCRA to investigate gray market cannabis retailers. “I share my neighbor’s frustrations that we haven’t seen more progress,” Allen said, “but I am hopeful we’re getting closer to creating a legal structure for regulation of marijuana sales that can address many of these ongoing issues.” Regulation is queued up. In March, Mendelson, Allen and Councilmember Kenyan McDuffie (Ward 5-D) co-introduced comprehensive legislation to regulate recreational cannabis sales in the District, a few weeks after Mayor Muriel Bowser presented a slightly different bill. In the absence of the Harris rider, the District could regulate cannabis as it successfully regulates the sale of alcohol. Under competing bills proposed by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) and the Chairman to legalize retail cannabis, the regulatory regime would be overseen by the civilian Alcohol Beverage Control Board and enforced by the Alcohol Beverage Regulation Administration (ABRA). Both specifically outlaw “gifting” and limit the total daily amount purchased by consumers. They also restrict cannabis businesses from locating in most residential areas or within 400 feet of schools or recreation centers. They also tax cannabis sales. The DC Council is unlikely to consider cannabis legalization until the Harris rider is lifted. Residents are looking for solutions before then.

Enforcing Existing Laws MPD officers, according to neighbors, express frustration with the nebulous nature of marijuana legalization. It is not illegal to possess or gift marijuana. As a result, it is often difficult to discern when an actual sale has taken place, especially in the absence of extremely large amounts. However, brick and mortar retailers are subject to civil regulation. In the District, DCRA issues business licenses and Certificates of Occupancy. Gray market cannabis sales are not a legal use of private commercial property. According to DC Code, DCRA can revoke a business’s license or its cer-

tificate for possession or sale of restricted substances or operating outside of the approved commercial use of the property. According to its spokesperson, DCRA has issued seven such notices over the last six months. If there is alleged criminal activity, MPD is tasked with the investigation. Officers say investigations of brick and mortar businesses are complicated. ”Operationally, it’s not something you just launch into,” said MPD First District Commander Morgan Kane. “It requires coordination, and planning.” Still, MPD regularly conducts raids on criminal businesses, the latest on the 1200 block of H Street NE on May 19. Capturing street sales is also difficult because in order to secure evidence for a conviction, officers need to see and hear elements of the transaction. Even when necessary evidence has been collected, those efforts do not always result in attempts to prosecute. “Is there the appetite for the prosecution when it comes to the lower level street marijuana dealings? I don’t think there is,” said Kane. She points out that an individual can legally possess up to two ounces of marijuana—enough for 100120 joints, by most estimates. “If they’re within the confines of the law, there’s not much we can do,” she said. But it’s not the pot that alarms neighbors. It’s the potential for violence attracted by the large amounts of cash held by both street dealers and gray market retailers.

Street Violence On Aug. 20, 2019, two men tried to rob a man seated in a bus shelter at Fifth and H Streets NE in broad daylight. The man was frequent local presence. According to neighbors, he moved his retail cannabis business to the bus shelter after his landlord evicted him from the second floor of a nearby commercial building. Officers confirmed the eviction, but said the man had not been charged with a cannabis-related offense. According to the MPD, the seated cannabis entrepreneur pulled out a handgun and fired multiple rounds at the robbers, shooting one in the leg. Bullets also struck the windows of several neighboring businesses. This case is not unique. According to MPD Firearm Recovery Reports, every week since the beginning of this year, police have charged at least one person for both

possession of a firearm and marijuana with the intent to distribute. While few of these individuals were arrested on H Street NE itself, there is a clear linkage between cannabis street dealing and firearms. While crime is generally down along the H Street NE corridor, Kane confirmed that there have been instances of robberies and carjackings clearly associated with marijuana dealing. “There’s a perception that there is no violence around marijuana,” Kane said. “I disagree with that. But H Street is a very diverse corridor. Is it something I’m concerned about? Absolutely. But is it to the level where it’s reflected in our stats as one of our driving sources? It’s not. But there is violent crime associated with, and guns associated with the sales of marijuana.”

Living With The “Market” Resident Mike Handel doesn’t want to push these issues out to another part of the city. He wants to figure out how to make the situation work. “I think that the difficulty is figuring out what to do,” said Handel. “Absent anything changing with statehood, we have to figure something out. This is “the place” to go; the sheer density of these shops right here is also concerning—what’s going to happen? I don’t know how well they get along, and if there’s going to be some violence associated with trying to control the area.” Kelty, the ANC Commissioner, says that one way around the problem would be to reduce the concentration of these types of businesses in any single area. Someone needs to take ownership of the situation, Handel said. “I think everybody’s just kind of hoping it will all work out, or that we’ll somehow magically become a state sometime soon, and that will solve everything, and I think we can’t wait for any of that stuff to work out.” u June 2021 H 29

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LOCAL THEATERS REBOUND Reckoning and Reinvention in a Pandemic

By Barbara Wells

n March 2020, pandemic jiting with new ones hunkered down ters reverberated across the at home. In April, Mosaic began its District. By April, a stay-atEncountering Emmett Series, online home order was in place. In events that explored the political and the next 14 months, the leadsocial impact of the death of Emmett ers and creative teams of two CapiTill and the continued struggle for tol Hill theater companies and their justice and equality. neighbors to the west and south Arena Stage launched Artistic would deftly navigate operations Director Molly Smith’s interviews and creative development amid a with people she calls “innovative national shutdown. They will nevthinkers and creative firebrands.” er be quite the same. “It was fun and enlightening to speak On March 23, 2020, Mosawith so many people from all over ic Theater Company suspended Beth Emelson, Associate about our reactions to the vital soits season and postponed its world Director of Public Programs cial justice movement and how we premieres of “The Till Trilogy” and and Associate Artistic Producer, were dealing with the pandemic,” Folger Theatre “Inherit the Windbag.” The theSmith said. ater’s announcement harks back to However, moving performancthe innocence of the “before times”: “Resuming operes online could be more complex. Although compaations in late summer — when the worst, we hope, will nies often record archival films of their plays, their be behind us — seems to be the best path forward...” dissemination is strictly limited by contracts with Arena Stage cut short its 70th anniversary season. playwrights, directors, actors and production staffs. Theater Alliance, midway through the run of “This Thanks to the contract governing the filming of its Bitter Earth,” canceled rehearsals for the season’s fi2008 Helen Hayes Award-winning production of nal show. “Macbeth,” the Folger was able to release the film for Folger Theatre seemed to fare the best, having free on YouTube in March. “That was an amazing opclosed for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s longportunity for students, teachers and other audiences,” planned renovations on March 2. Still, a partnership said Emelson. “We‘ve had 250,000 views this year.” with the National Building Museum to stage “A MidOther theaters found an answer in creating new summer Night’s Dream” as part of the “Folger on the works that blend live theater and film. Arena Stage Road” season was put on hold. “The very nature of theater and performance is to constantly be creating and sharing,” said Beth Emelson, the Folger’s associate director of public programs and associate artistic producer. “For theaters, being in the room with actors and audiences is the very essence of the work.” Suddenly, they had to pause: Step back, reflect, and thoughtfully respond.

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Production still from Theater Alliance’s “City in Transition.”

produced “May 22, 2020,” a docudrama that captures one day in the life of 10 local residents living through the pandemic. Area playwrights interviewed the residents and transformed their stories into original monologues — performed by local favorites such as Ed Gero, Nancy Robinette and KenYatta Rogers. “Our purpose as a regional theater reflecting our city is a powerful motivator,” said Smith, who directed the film. “This part of America is unlike any other part of America, and we want to capture it.” Mosaic tackled the challenge of safely filming a production by taping actors at home in front of a green screen. “We had already held a dress rehearsal for ‘Inherit the Windbag’ before we closed,” said Managing Director and Producer Serge Seiden. “So we bought the lights, cameras and mikes; took them to the actors’ homes with props and costumes; and held a Zoom rehearsal and performance.” (The production can still be viewed free of charge through June 30 on Mosaic’s website.) Mosaic also streamed “Dear Mapel,” attracting more than 1,000 viewers for Playwright in Residence Psalmayene 24’s first development project. “We workshopped it and recorded it in a restaurant,” said Seiden. “The process was hybrid and experimental, applying animation to the footage that will probably be part of the live production next year.” Theater Alliance broke new ground integrating stage and film production and never looked back. “We didn’t want to dip our toe into digital production if we weren’t going to do it over the long term,” said Managing Director Jen Clements. “It’s a great way to reach more people, including those who have been unable to travel to the playhouse as well as the communities that people involved in the theater can bring with them from great distances.”

Reckoning With Racial Equity In May, even as theaters were still pivoting to hosting conversations and performances online and grappling with their longterm options, a second crisis shook the nation after the murder of George Floyd. Amid the burgeoning Black Lives Matter movement, theaters played a key role

in examining systemic racism within the District and beyond. Folger Shakespeare Library Director Michael Witmore issued a compelling statement on that role. “Calling out completely unacceptable violence against African Americans, including the killing of George Floyd, is only part of what we must do. It is a start,” he wrote. “We must acknowledge, in words and actions, that the fight against racial injustice is essential to what we do as an institution presenting the arts and humanities to the public.” Theater Alliance burst out of the gate. Fargo Tbakhi and Dina Soltan, in Mosaic’s “Keffiyeh/Made in China, “We asked ourselves, how do we act reEpisode 1: 60 Seconds.” Photo: Chris Wren sponsibly and responsively?” said Clements. “How do we make a choice that’s formed to advance cultural understanding and social right for this moment?” The answer: “A Protest justice. But as Seiden explained, “We took the time in Eight.” to examine antiracism in the theater. We honed our Drawing on Theater Alliance’s own reservoir of values against the ways in which we make decisions. writing talent cultivated through its Hothouse series, Our focus had been broad, but we educated ourselves, Producing Artistic Director Raymond Caldwell comstudied ‘How To Be an Antiracist’ (by Ibram X. Kenmissioned young Black playwrights di), and learned new things about to develop eight 10-minute plays on intersectionality. We really put our the legislative changes needed to values to the test. address our nation’s racial oppres“Our view had to be replaced sion. Their inventive narratives — with a more specific analysis,” Seproduced as half theater, half film iden said. “For example, we discov— illuminate issues such as reparaered that in our work focused on tions, stop and frisk, school-to-pristhe Middle East, we had never proon pipelines and more. The compaduced a play by a Palestinian withny was able to safely film the series out using the lens of a Jewish Israeat the Anacostia Playhouse with acli, and very few of our productions tors who were already working towere written by Palestinians.” At gether in a pandemic “bubble” at the same time, Mosaic established Howard University and a design a form of collaborative leadership: team that shared a house. Instead of having a single creative Molly Smith, Artistic Director, Arena Stage produced its third Arena Stage director plan the coming season, film in four months, “The 51st Mosaic created a broadly represenState,” a docudrama inspired by the summer’s protative core planning team that selects and meets with tests and the ongoing quest to make the District a sovthe playwrights. ereign state. The 60-minute film showcases the divergent perspectives of 11 residents — from a first-time Raising Diverse Voices protestor to a fourth-generation Washingtonian politIn the pandemic’s second year, theaters continued ical scientist — through stories told by 10 local playtheir creative adaptation and response to the burning wrights. “What an amazing and overwhelming time to issues of justice and diversity, even as they prepared live in, in the midst of a pandemic with tragedy after for a return to the stage. tragedy, and yet people coming together for positive In April, the Folger collaborated with Woolly change,” said Smith, who directed the film. Mammoth Theatre Company to film “Where We BeFor Mosaic, the examination of diversity and long,” a one-person play by Mohegan theater-maker equity extended to its own structures and processMadeline Sayet (streaming on demand from June 14 es. That may seem surprising for a company that was to July 11). Sayet based the play on her time studying

Shakespeare in England, where she found a country unwilling to acknowledge its ongoing role in colonialism. The play draws parallels between her experience and those of her Native ancestors who journeyed to England in the 1700s. Mosaic’s search for a play that speaks directly to the experiences of Palestinians led the planning committee to “Keffiyeh/Made in China” by Ramallah-based playwright Dalia Taha. Comprising seven web episodes — the first premiering on May 11 — the play depicts slices of Palestinian life under the decades-long Israeli occupation. As part of the company’s commitment to authenticity and inclusion, the film’s production team was majority Middle Eastern and North African. This spring, Arena began streaming Arena Riffs, its three-part commissioned musical series, created by indie-folk duo Abigail and Shaun Bengson, composer Rona Siddiqui and Mosaic Theater’s Playwright in Residence Psalmayene 24. The films span themes of the grief and void created by the pandemic, the nationwide reckoning on racial injustice, and finding joy in difficult times. Theater Alliance premiered “City in Transition: The Quadrant Series,” a film that was originally envisioned for performance at the Anacostia Playhouse and in venues across the District. Instead, it became a fully digital production. Four playwrights working in the Theater Alliance Hothouse New Play Development program each developed a narrative specific to one of D.C.’s quadrants, weaving together an exploration of hip-hop culture, the nonprofit industrial complex, gentrification, and changing demographics. As Caldwell explained, “Each of the quadrants is so different, but their symbiotic relationship is what makes our city so unique. City in Transition is both an exploration and a love letter to the city we call home.” These four companies, pillars of the theater community, have not only endured and survived the pandemic; they have used the daunting challenges of the past year to fuel their creative insight and energy. As they announce their plans for the coming season, it’s clear that their work will never be the same. It will be even better, whatever the pandemic may bring. Barbara Wells is a writer and editor for Reingold, a social marketing communications firm. She and her husband live on Capitol Hill. u

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WOMEN’S BOUTIQUE OPENING JULY With Return to Eastern Market, Boutique Kashmir Comes ‘Full Circle’

hen they open their boutique near Eastern Market this July, Pat McCarty and Javid Mahajan will be coming home again. That’s because the founders of women’s boutique Kashmir got their start as Eastern Market vendors over 21 years ago, selling their fine embroidered wares from two tents every weekend. That market continues to take place on the plaza right outside their doors. Kashmir is slated to open July 1 at 760 C St. SE.

A 500-Year-Old Tradition Mahajan named the boutique Kashmir for the region of India where he was raised and where he sourced the hand-embroidered coats, jackets and shawls for which it is known. It is a family business both on Capitol Hill and in India—Mahajan’s brothers live in the Kashmir Valley of India. They still work directly with the master weavers, seeking them out in their homes high in the Himalayan Mountains. The craftsmen practice a tradition of hand-embroidery brought to the region from Persia more than 500 years ago and passed down from generation to generation., McCarty said. Patterns and techniques are closely-guarded secrets. “Handembroidery is really a dying art,” said McCarty. “They’ve started using machines, but it doesn’t have the depth —or the stories.” Their work is of such high quality that Kashmir has sold pieces to museums and art galleries, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Textile Museum, the Boston MuseThis soft, earth-tone dress has a rolled edge and is easy to dress up with heels or down with boots. Courtesy: Kashmir

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by Elizabeth O’Gorek um of Art and the Maryland Historical Society. After five successful years at the weekend market, Kashmir made the move to seven-day a week retail in 2005, taking over a large kiosk in Union Station on the recommendation of other vendors who had taken the same step. The shop was tremendously successful. It relocated several times within the station, each move taking them into larger spaces until Kashmir settled in their last and largest shop, located across from the New York train.

outfit. Packing what they’d worn on the train, executives and politicians would emerge freshly wardrobed, many heading directly to meetings on Capitol Hill. In March 2020, finding themselves in-between leases and unable to open due to restrictions on nonessential business, Kashmir hit the pause button on boutique operations —until they learned of the opportunity on the C Street Plaza. The Eastern Market shop is actually smaller than the one that was at Union A Full Station, meaning that offerThis Samuel Dong coat dress works Fashion Boutique well as a classy day-to-day piece ings there will be even more --or for an outdoor wedding in crisp Expansion to a brickintensely curated, McCarweather. Courtesy: Kashmir and-mortar store alty said. There will be simlowed Kashmir to ilar offerings, but fewer of grow into a full women’s fashion bouthem. The focus will be on garments over accessotique, adding lines of chic, modern ries: from the finely-embroidered coats and jackets and classic clothing dethey are known for, to stylsigns, jewelry and accesish garments a woman can sories. “Each side of our wear to a meeting, a date, business complements the other,” said McCarty, “mixing clothing, casual or dressy, with the exquisitely embroidered shawls and wraps for which we were known.” Something unique was born. For many, Kashmir would be their first stop in the District. Kashmir co-Founder Javid MahaCustomers would disjan draws on connections with Co-founder Pat McCarty embark from the train, family and artisans living in the says that Kashmir is coming Kashmir Valley of India, where he walking through the ‘full-circle’ with their return is from. Courtesy: Kashmir to the Eastern Market area. shop to select a new Courtesy: Kashmir

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First Place: Robert Weinstein’s unique image of a front yard pond, itself a home for fish, reflecting the house behind it. Second Place: Stephen Morris’s charming photo of twin houses, a common theme on Park Street NE. Third Place: Stephanie Cavanaugh’s portrait of an ideal garden home – with just a glimpse of the Chippendale railings at 154 11th St. SE Special Mention: Nathaniel Liu’s brooding reflection on the U.S. Capitol – the Home of Democracy

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(Continued from pg. 35) more and more familiar.” Costantini and his family forged friendships that endured even at a distance. Now he and his wife Angela are bringing both their family and family tradition to the Hill. “We want our girls to be able to live their American dream,” Fabrizio said of daughters Iulai, 13 and Amélie (Amy), 9.

Hoping for July Opening Due to open in July, La Casina will seat 33 guests indoors with 20 on the patio. Besides pizza, the pinseria will serve salads, fried vegetables, mozzarella-filled rice balls, fried stuffed olives, and other Roman dishes. Complementing these classics will be draft beer, wine and other beverages. “Our pinse will be tasty, traditional, but light;” Fabrizio said. “If you want to eat two, lunch is specially designed to make quick but in a street version – smaller but always tasty.” The restaurateur said that he will be on site to greet his new customers and neighbors. “You will see us at the forefront making dough and cooking the pinse for our customers,” said Fabrizio. He’s excited to meet his new customers, neighbors and friends. “We found this beautiful place in an equally beautiful neighborhood, and we are working on a great project,” Costantini told the Hill Rag. “We hope to see and meet you in our restaurant soon.” With additional reporting from Celeste McCall u

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Commissioners Protest Several Liquor License Applications ANC 6A Report from May by Nick L. Alberti Chair Amber Gove (6A04) convened the May 13, 2021 meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 6A via Zoom with Commissioners Keya Chatterjee (6A01), Phil Toomajian (6A02), Mike Soderman (6A03), Laura Gentile (6A05), Robb Dooling (6A06), Sondra Phillips-Gilbert (6A07) and Brian Alcorn (6A08) all in attendance.

Summer Crime Initiative Captain Pail Hrebenak of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) spoke to the ANC about this year’s Summer Crime Initiative. The goal of the Initiative is to reduce violent crime within a focused area, typically one that is experiencing resource deficiencies or an increase in reported criminal activity. This year that area includes the Rosedale community and the Carver Langston neigborhood. The Initiative aims to utilize resource allocation and outreach programs to mitigate the typical rise in violent crimes that occur during the summer months. This year, MPD will hold an event open to the community at the Rosedale Community Center that will include a cadet-recruiting program.

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Specialist with the Department of Public Works (DPW) shared an update regarding services that will begin again starting on or around June 1st, after being decreased or halted due to the pandemic. These services include street and alley clean-up, area ground maintenance such as care for triangle parks, medians and other large grassy areas controlled by the city, plus parking enforcement of all areas such as metered spots and RPP, though DPW will not be booting cars for the time being.

Alcohol Beverage Licensing Committee •

The Commissioners voted, unanimously, to protest the application of 18th & D Liquors at 1806 D Street NE (ABRA #074594) for renewal of its Class A Retail License on the grounds of negative effect on peace, order, quiet, and property values. • The Commissioners voted, unanimously, to protest the application of Capitol Square Bar and Grill at 1500 East Capitol Street NE (ABRA #118000) for a Class C Restaurant License on the grounds of negative effect on peace, order, and quiet, and on vehicular and pedestrian safety, unless a satisfactory settlement agreement is finalized before the protest deadline. • The Commissioners voted, unanimously, to take no action on the applications of Andy Lee Liquor, t/a New H Wine & Spirits at 914 H Street NE (ABRA #093440); Jumbo Liquors, Inc., t/a Jumbo Liquors at 1122 H Street NE (ABRA #000420); Sky Globe, Inc., t/a Grand Liquors at 409A 15th Street NE (ABRA #10850) for renewal of their Class A Retail Licenses. • The Commissioners voted, unanimously to send a letter of support for the application of 7 River Mart at 250 11th Street NE (ABRA #074594) for renewal of its Class A Retail License. The Alcohol Beverage Licensing Committee meets at 7:00 pm on the fourth Tuesday of each month.

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The Commissioners voted to approve a Resolution on the Negative Impact of Fencing Around the U.S. Capitol on Local Transportation. The vote was 5 in favor, 0 opposed with Commissioners Soderman, Toomajian and Gentile recusing themselves. The Commissioners voted, unanimously, to send a letter to the District Department of Transportation in support of a dedicated parking spot for HIPS in front of their location at 906 H St. NE from 11:00 pm – 6:00 am, seven days a week, with the option of

ADVISORY NEIGHBORHOOD COMMISSION 6A AMBER GOVE, CHAIR, AMBERANC6A@GMAIL.COM Serving the Near Northeast, North Lincoln Park, Rosedale, and H Street communities ANC 6A generally meets the second Thursday of the month, at Miner Elementary School, 601 15th Street, NE.

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Other Business •

The Comissioners approved the motion to send a letter to Mayor Bowser and Chairman Mendelson in favor of installing public restrooms across ANC 6A, as stated in previous letters, but in opposition to the proposed location of a public restroom pilot at 17th Street and Benning Road NE. However, this letter will also stress the need for additional city services and resources to be routed to this specific neighborhood to address ongoing public health matters and safety concerns. The vote was 7 in favor, 0 opposed with Commissioner Chatterjee abstaining.

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Commissioners Withhold Support for Santa Rose Taqueria License ANC 6B Report from May by Elizabeth O’Gorek

t the May 11th meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 6B, commissioners voted to request a 30-day extension to the petition deadline in the matter of a request to transfer the address of a Class C Restaurant liquor license held by Santa Rose Ta-

queria from their former location (313315 Pennsylvania Ave. SE) to their new premises at the former site of Pret A Manger (301 Pennsylvania Ave. SE). Santa Rose Taqueria closed the location at 313 Pennsylvania Ave. SE in December 2020, citing the pandemic. Pret A Manger closed earlier the same year, in July 2020. Owner Spike Mendelson, who also owns We the Pizza (305 Pennsylvania Ave. SE) and Good Stuff Eatery (303 Pennsylvania Ave. SE) on the same block, did not have representation before either the meeting of the ANC Alcohol Beverage Committee (ABC) on May 6 or the full ANC May 11. Commissioners said that they had questions about what was planned for the new space. They wanted to ensure that the business would adopt best practices regarding trash and rodent management. Neighbors told commissioners that they felt ANC approval should be conditional on the incorporation of an indoor trash room in the plans. If the extension to the hearing date is not approved by either the Alcohol Beverage Regulation Administration (ABRA) or the applicant, the commission will protest the application, citing the effect on peace, order and quiet.

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The Next meeting is 2nd Thursday, June 10, 7:00 p.m. Economic Development and Zoning Committee meeting 3rd Wednesday, June 16, 7:00 p.m. Virtual Meeting via WebEx Community Outreach Committee meeting 4th Monday, June 28, 7:00 p.m. Virtual Meeting via WebEx Transportation & Public Space Committee meeting 3rd Monday, June 14, 7:00 p.m. Virtual Meeting via WebEx Alcohol Beverage Licensing Committee meeting 4th Tuesday, June 22, 7:00 p.m. Virtual Meeting via WebEx Instructions for accessing the meeting via WebEx have been posted under Hot Topics at anc6a.org. Call in information will be posted under Community Calendar at anc6a.org 24 hours prior to the meeting. You will be able to enter the meeting no earlier than 15 minutes prior to its scheduled start time.

Advisory Neighborhood Commission 6C P.O. Box 77876 • Washington, D.C. 20013-7787 www.anc6c.org • (202) 547-7168

Next meeting Wednesday, June 9, 2021. Information will be posted on the ANC 6C website.

ANC 6C COMMISSIONERS ANC 6C01 Christine Healey 6C01@anc.dc.gov

ANC 6C04 Mark Eckenwiler 6C04@anc.dc.gov

ANC 6C02 Karen Wirt 6C02@anc.dc.gov

ANC 6C05 Joel Kelty 6C05@anc.dc.gov

ANC 6C03 Jay Adelstein 6C03@anc.dc.gov

ANC 6C06 Drew Courtney drewcourtney.anc @gmail.com

ANC usually meets the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 pm, 214 Massachusetts Ave, N.E. Please check the ANC 6C website for dates.

ANC 6C COMMITTEES Alcoholic Beverage Licensing First Monday, 7 pm Contact: anc6c.abl.committee@gmail.com Grants Last Thursday, 7 pm Contact: torylord@gmail.com Twitter: @ANC_6C_Grants Environment, Parks, and Events First Tuesday, 7 pm Contact: 6C06@anc.dc.gov

Transportation and Public Space First Thursday, 7 pm Contact: anc6c.tps@gmail.com Planning, Zoning, and Economic Development First Wednesday, 6:30 pm Contact: 6C04@anc.dc.gov Twitter: @6C_PZE

Commissioners voted 9-1 to support a Historic Preservation Application (HPA) for a second-story addition to a two-bay garage at the rear of 313 Ninth St. SE. The design is a modification of plans approved by the Historic Preservation Review Board (HPRB) in 2010. The addition is to be used as an artist’s studio and plans do not include washroom or kitchen facilities. The most recent, slightly modified, design was presented to the ANC Planning and Zoning (P&Z) Committee in April 2021, but applicant Kitty Kaupp agreed to request a 30-day delay in the hearing before HPRB to allow for disJune 2021 H 39

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DC HOUSING AUTHORITY PUBLIC HEARING AND PUBLIC COMMENT NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AND COMMENT PERIOD FOR THE PROPOSED 2022 MOVING TO WORK (MTW) PLAN The District of Columbia Housing Authority (DCHA) is providing notice of a Public Hearing and Comment Period to solicit comments on the agency’s proposed 2022 Moving to Work (MTW) Plan. MTW is a HUD program that allows select public housing authorities to design and implement innovative programs and policies with the intent to: 1) reduce costs and improve efficiencies; 2) encourage residents to obtain employment and become economically self-sufficient; and 3) increase housing choices for low-income families. The Public Hearing will take place online on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 6 p.m. at https://www.facebook.com/dchousing. COMMENTS Written comments will be accepted through Tuesday, June 22, 2021. Email your comments to MTW@dchousing.org. Alternatively, you can mail comments to:

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cussion with neighbors. Many neighbors expressed concern about the construction plan as well as the effect of the project on privacy and light. Others argued that the height of the alley addition would change the character of the alley. Architect Jennifer Fowler said that the nearest home was more than 60 feet to the north and emphasized that the design used few windows on the public-facing walls.

In Other Business The Commission voted to support: • an application from Congressional Liquor (404 First St. SE) for renewal of their Class A Retail license by a vote of 7-1 with two abstentions. Although the applicant did not appear before either the ABC Committee or the full commission, commissioner for the area Jennifer Samolyk (6B01) said that they had been a good neighbor. • unanimously an application for renewal of the Class A Retail sales license from Capitol Hill Wine & Spirits (323 Pennsylvania Ave. SE). The owner, appearing before the full committee via Webex from behind the counter of his store, indicated his cooperation with community needs. Appearing were Commissioners Jennifer Samolyk (6B01), Gerald Sroufe (6B02), Brian Ready (6B03), Kirsten Oldenburg (6B04), Steve Holtzman (6B05), Corey Holman (6B06), Edward Ryder (6B07), Peter Wright (6B08), Alison Horn (6B09) and Denise Krepp (6B10). The next meeting of ANC 6B is scheduled for 7 p.m. Tuesday, June 8, 2021. For the most up-to-date information on meetings and how to join a virtual meeting via Webex, visit anc6b.org. Learn about Commissioners and committees and subscribe to the ANC 6B newsletter by visiting anc6b.org or connect with the commission via email at 6b@anc. dc.gov or via @ANC6B on Twitter. u

ANC 6C Opposes Smoking Exemption for H Street Business ANC 6C Report from May by Sarah Payne

t the May 12 meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission (6C), commissioners unanimously voted to oppose an application for a smoking application from the Felicity Bar and Lounge, located at 707 H St. NE. The ANC previously protested a liquor license renewal for this location. Commissioner Kelty proposed that the ANC send a letter to the Department of Health opposing any application for smoking exemption for Felicity Bar and Lounge with a copy sent to the District Alcoholic Beverage Regulation Administration (ABRA). “I don’t think that hookah bars are appropriate in the neighborhood commercial district,” Kelty said. In response to a question from Commissioner Eckenwiler as to whether Kelty’s opposition to the proposal was as “blanket” opposition to future requests, Kelty said that the District’s policy as he understood it is that smoking is a public health hazard. “The District should be consistent with its own public policy,” Kelty said.

‘More than Paint’ Requested for Bike Lane Projects The ANC voted to support two proposed bike lane projects proposed by the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) but asked that the agency do more than just paint lines in order to create them.

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DDOT released a notice of intent allowing for two sets of community feedback about the proposed bike lane projects. The first would be located on C Street NE between Second and Fourth Streets. The second is planned for Third Street NE between East Capitol Street and Massachusetts Avenue NE. The ANC Transportation and Public Space (TPS) committee was in support of the implementation of these bike lanes, but shared concerns about cyclist safety given the location of these lanes. TPS committee chair Christy Kwan also emphasized that the area of most concern was on Third Street NE at the intersection Maryland Avenue as it lacks a stop sign for cars. The commission supported a letter to DDOT in support of the two NOIs but to also request a stop sign to protect cyclist safety at this dangerous intersection. While the committee proposal also includes a stop sign for bicycles at the intersection of G street NE and I street NE, Commissioner Joel Kelty (6C05) expressed concern over its value. “In my experience, (cyclists) don’t follow those at all,” Kelty said. “Bicyclists don’t follow the big stop signs either, so why are we doing that? Why don’t we just accept that bicyclists are not going to stop unless they want to.”

Additional Items The ANC voted to: • adopt a recommendation from the TPS Committee to submit additional comments about the Baltimore-Washington superconducting maglev super-fast train) project and its impact on parking, bike lanes and Union Station’s operation. • support a recommendation from the Planning, Zoning and Economic (PZE) Development to support an application for affordable rental housing units located at 220 H St. NE and to waive the 35day waiting period for a develop-

ment application located at 200 K Street NE. • oppose the renewal of a license for Kogod Liquors (441 New Jersey Ave. NW) and a request to terminate the current SA. The current agreement is 20 years old, and the ANC wishes to pursue a new SA that better addresses current issues. • support a neighbor letter proposing an idea for a children’s garden, to be installed in a small plot of land on the grounds of the Northeast Public Library (330 Seventh St. NE), and to send a letter of support for this project in principle to the Executive Director of DC Public Libraries. All six ANC commissioners: Christine Healey (6C01), Karen Wirt (6C02), Jay Adelstein (6C03), Mark Eckenwiler (6C04), Joel Kelty (6C05) and Drew Courtney (6C06) were in attendance. The ANC will meet next on Thursday, June 9 at 7 p.m. virtually via Webex. Find the link to the meeting, agendas and more information about the commission at www.anc6c.org. Sarah Payne is a History and Neuroscience student at The University of Michigan interning with HillRag. You can reach her at sarahp@hillrag.com. u

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C Housing Authority (DCHA) Director Tyrone Garrett briefed the commission on his agency’s plans for the redevelopment of the Greenleaf Gardens public housing complex located between Delaware Ave. and Third St. SW. Garrett, who has since resigned, offered a fullthroated defense of agency’s administration of the complex. DCHA, Garrett stated, has created an effective rat abatement program across its properties. Currently, the agency is both repairing and replacing elements of the heating and air-conditioning infrastructure in Greenleaf midrise. While all residential units have had some environmental issues, he admitted, all residents living in such at-risk units have been relocated. This is combined with a stabilization campaign including asbestos/lead abatement, HVAC improvement and repairs, he said. “Greenleaf was stalled before I got here,” Garrett stated referring to the property’s redevelopment plans. “I want to meet with residents until residents feel meeting fatigue.” In-person meetings with the community will resume as soon as COVID restrictions are lifted, he promised. Returning to agency reform efforts under his leadership, the agency’s transformation started with “no money,” Garrett stated. Since that time, DCHA has received $90 million from the District to stabilize its properties. Guiding principles for his reforms include: one-for-one replacement, “Build First, “zero permanent displacement” of ex-

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The project will be done in phases due to financing, EYA and Bozzuto representatives stated, promising to share best and final offer as well as their current plan with commissioners. Commissioner Litsky questioned Bozzuto about its plans for redevelopment at Westminster Church. The company is a major partner is that deal, which is not under zoning review. “I have no understanding of how 99 units at that site could be used for Greenleaf Build-First,” stated Litsky. Would those units be subtracted from the marketrate condominiums whose proceeds were pledged to subsidize 123 affordable units of senior housing planned on that site? Will Bozzuto commit to building both the towers planned for that property simultaneously as was promised in its zoning application, he asked. Representatives of Bozzuto declined to make any commitments regarding the timing of their Westminster project citing the complexities of financing. The commission unanimously agreed to send a letter to AtLarge and Ward 6 councilmembers demanding the specifics on Greenleaf ’s redevelopment.

Illegal Utility Truck Parking Verizon Director of Operations Chad Thompson from Verizon addressed the issue of illegally parked contractor and utility vehicles. All the issues raised by the ANC chair have been dealt with, stated Thompson. “When I approach a driver and tell them they can’t park there and the f-word comes out of their mouth, it is a problem,” stated Chair Edwards. “It’s unacceptable. I can only address that issue if I know who that person is,” responded Thompson. Edwards stated that he had taken dozens of photos. “I will do everything in my power to have these illegally parked trucks ticketed and towed to Blue Plains,” said (continued on pg. 54 ) June 2021 H 47

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Hill Center Is Opening Up! Hill Center has been bustling with activity throughout the past year, although it has looked a little different than before. Beginning early in the pandemic, Busy Bees – an arts and music camp – became a valuable resource for parents, offering children a safe, socially-distanced, and educational space during the week. Tippi Toes, Young Warriors and Super Soccer Stars continued to offer their in-person programs as well. This summer, Hill Center will host several summer camps, including Boolean Girl, Busy Bees, Mad Science and Young Warriors. In mid-July, they are piloting in-person classes with small group Spanish and French language courses. This will mark the return of in-person programs for adults. Looking towards fall, there is a robust schedule of in-person events. From fall 2021 to fall 2022, Hill Center will commemorate its 10th anniversary year and the return of public programming, including the American Roots Concert Series, Talk of the Hill with Bill Press, cooking classes, art classes, Pottery on the Hill, Family Day, Galleries exhibitions and many of the other programs you know and love. Visit HillCenterDC.org and sign up to get notifications of all upcoming programs. Meanwhile, the special events and rentals team has been busy handling inquiries and booking dates for birthday parties, baby and wedding showers, bar and bat mitzvahs, and meetings and conferences. Many dates for summer and fall are already booked! The staff and board of the Hill Center thank the community for the enormous show of support, whether it be attending one of the many online classes, viewing a virtual gallery exhibit, donating to the All Hands on Deck campaign, or simply offering a note of encouragement along the way. The support is so appreciated! 48 H HILLRAG.COM

The Barclay Brass, one of Washington’s most renowned musical ensembles, will perform on Sunday, June 13 at 3 p.m. on the plaza in front of the Lutheran Church of the Reformation at 212 E. Capitol St. NE., at a Benefit Concert to celebrate the launch of the Good Neighbors Capitol Hill Refugee Education Initiative and mark completion of the 60th apartment it has furnished for refugee families newly entering the US. Since 2016 a coalition of eight Capitol Hill congregations plus volunteers from around the DMV have helped new arrivals (mostly from Afghanistan) learn English, qualify for employment, obtain drivers’ licenses, and navigate the challenges of adapting to a new culture. Proceeds from the concert will pay for technical training needed to enable our new neighbors to qualify for better paying jobs. goodneighborscapitolhill.org.

CHRS Forum on Researching Oral Histories, June 22 The Capitol Hill Restoration Society presents “Voices from our past—Researching Oral Histories of Capitol Hill with Bernadette McMahon and Brian Kraft on Tuesday, June 22 at 6:45 p.m. They will discuss how to take advantage of two important on-line resources: the Overbeck Oral History Project and the new, interactive DC Oral History Map. Free. Virtual. chrs.org/researchingoral-histories-mm/.

Carpe Librum Used Book Sale On Saturday, June 19, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., join Carpe Librum in the southern block of Canal Park, 200 M St. SE, for a pop-up, socially distant nonprofit used book sale. Browse through thousands of books all under $6 in a safe, outdoor setting. Crowd size limited to 50 at any time. This sale is weather dependent. capitolriverfront.org/canal-park.

Critical Race Conversations: Race, Philosophy, and Political Thought On Thursday, June 17, 3 to 4:15 p.m. join moderator Sharon Achinstein (Johns Hopkins University), along with Charles W. Mills (City University of New York), Jennifer L. Morgan (New York University), and Robert Bernasconi (Pennsylvania State University) on YouTube for a discussion of Race, Philosophy, and Political Thought. This virtual event is part of a series of Critical Race Conversations hosted by the Folger Institute. Free. folger.edu.

Pete’s Diner Shines! Pete’s Diner, a Hill hangout for decades, has been transformed into “support central” for the National Guard, Capitol Police and others providing security to Capitol Hill. Longtime patron, Captain Phillip Bush, Navy retired, helped organize the outreach which includes providing toiletries, socks, daily necessities and more says, “what started out as helping a few of our troops has grown to a full time operation and in addition to the meals, people are sending supplies for the troops from throughout the country from aspirin to snacks to canned food. He shows cards, letters and supplies sent from throughout the country saying “just today we have orders for meals from troops 20 meals for troops from New Mexico, 53 for those from Maine, 60 for a group of troops from New York and another 15 from California for a total of 148 which just came in.” Owner Mrs. Gum, originally from Malaysia, was suddenly confronted by troops coming to her diner beginning in January looking for a hot meal and a place to take a break from the occupation and what started as a project with Captain Bush for a meal on the house has grown to nearly 10,000 meals to date provided to the National Guard. Anyone

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New Southwest Library Opens The new Southwest Library, at 901 Wesley Pl. SW, has opened. The $18 million library blends with the mid-century modern architecture for which the neighborhood is known. The library features 20,000 square feet of public space; a variety of seating options and spaces for reading, a meeting room for at least 100 people; three conference rooms for 12 to 20 people; four study rooms for one to four people; separate areas for children, teens, and adults; an outdoor reading porch and an Innovation Lab with 3-D printers. The Southwest Library is open daily, except Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. It has the same limited in-person services as the other current open libraries: return materials; pick up a hold; check out display items; have a book pulled from the stacks; get a library card; manage your library account; receive print, copy and scan services; sign-up to use a limited number of computers for a 45-minute session once per day or one 15-minute express session per hour; and use the bathroom. dclibrary.org/southeast.

The new Southwest Library, at 901 Wesley Place SW opened on May 15. Photo: Courtesy of DC Public Libraries

recreation activities every Thursday evening and some Saturdays of every month through October. Learn about the natural and cultural history of the Anacostia River on a guided canoe tour as part of the Anacostia River Explorers program. Your guide will lead these one or two hour trips and participants will paddle with the group in Anacostia Watershed Society supplied canoes. You will see area wildlife and stunning views of Washington, DC. You can also explore the river while riding in an open-air motorized boat. Anacostia Watershed Society staff will take participants on a one or two hour tour of the river while discussing natural and cultural history along with restoration efforts. You will experience the joy of being out on the water while observing this beautiful local area. Registration is required and lim-

ited for these events. Participants under the age of 18 must be in a boat with an adult. Canoe tours are limited to 14 people, and 10 people for motorized boat tours, with a limit of 4 people per registration. Participants must arrive wearing a face mask. AWS has personal flotation devices for children of all ages (including infants). anacostiaws.org.

DC Expands Vaccinations for Residents 12 and Older DC residents who are 12 and older can now get vaccinated at walk-up sites and pharmacies across DC that are administering the Pfizer vaccine. Twelve and older residents can get vaccinated at the following District walk-up sites whenever they are open: Arena Stage, 1101 Sixth St. SW, Thursday to Sunday, 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m.; June 2021 H 51

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Signature Theatre Accepting New Play Submissions Signature Theatre is accepting submissions for original and unpublished full-length plays (no musicals) through June 14. Playwrights must currently reside in Virginia, Maryland or DC. Only one submission per playwright. Plays that have been professionally produced or published are

Through June 27, local studios barre3 and VIDA Fitness bring five weeks of fitness to Yards Park and Canal Park. Registration is free but capacity is limited to the first 50 participants. Yards Park classes are Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7 a.m. Canal Park classes are Sundays at 9 a.m. Sign up at eventbrite.com/e/ outdoor-fitness-at-capitol-riverfront-tickets-155872891013.

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Summer Sunday Organ Concerts at the National Shrine The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, 400 Michigan Ave. NE, presents organ concerts by some of the best organists in the country on Sundays in July and August at 6 p.m. Carillon recitals precede at

Dom Flemons headlines 2021’s Bourbon & Bluegrass. Flemons plays the banjo, guitar, jug, harmonica, percussion, quills and rhythm bones. Flemons will be joined by two local bands that are returning favorites to Bourbon & Bluegrass, Hollertown and Moose Jaw. Photo: Timothy Duffy

President Lincoln’s Cottage Presents Bourbon & Bluegrass On June 13, 4 to 7 p.m., President Lincoln’s Cottage, a national monument in Washington, DC, is hosting its biggest fundraiser of the year, Bourbon and Bluegrass. This virtual event will be livestreamed from the Cottage porch where it will be performed in person for the veterans of the Armed Forces Retirement Home, who share their campus with President Lincoln’s Cottage. This year’s event will be held virtually to ensure safety and reach wider audiences, while simultaneously providing the retired veterans an exciting live event. Beam Suntory is providing Bourbon, with VIP ticketing options that provides Maker’s Mark or Basil Hayden’s custom cocktail kits delivered directly to homes. The event will also feature custom cocktail videos from the Mixtress of DC, Gina Chersevani. All proceeds support the continuing preservation of President Lincoln’s beloved summer home, the birthplace of the Emancipation Proclamation. General admission is $45; VIP, $85. lincolncottage.org.

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Ford’s Theatre and Ford’s Theatre Museum Reopen Ford’s Theatre and the Ford’s Theatre Museum has reopened with advance tickets required. Visits to Ford’s Theatre are self-guided. Ford’s Theatre and Museum will operate with a modified schedule for daytime visitation on Wednesdays through Sundays with required advance tickets. Tickets will be available each Friday for the following Wednesday to Sunday. Timed entry to Ford’s Theatre and Museum will be available on the hour from 10 a.m. to noon, and from 2 to 4 p.m. A maximum number of 25 visitors per hour are permitted in the building during this stage of reopening. Entry times include walkthrough visits to the Ford’s Theatre balcony level and Presidential Box. National Park Service rangers will be on hand to answer questions and explain the events surrounding Lincoln’s assassination, though no formal ranger talks will be scheduled during this reopening phase. The orchestra-level of the theatre will be closed until early June for restoration work. Ford’s Theatre is at 514 Tenth St. NW. fords.org.

Washington Sculptors Group Call for Entries “Past & Present” seeks to celebrate the historic Oxon Hill Manor, 6901 Oxon Hill Rd., Oxon Hill, MD, through traditional and contemporary work that respects the familyoriented nature of the facility. Artists are encouraged to draw on a variety of sources ranging from the lives of the Manor’s many inhabitants to the property’s architecture and landscape design and its changing functions. Application deadline is June

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DC Fray Summer Sports Leagues Time to register for DC Fray summer leagues. Bocce on the National Mall begins June 24; cornhole at Garfield Park on June 23; hockey at Watkins Field on June 22 and 24; kickball at Walter Pierce Park on June 20 and 23, Stead Park, June 23 and 24, Amidon Elementary School on 20, 223, 23, 24 and 26; softball at The Fields at RFK and Randall Field on June 20, Harry Thomas on June 22 and New York Avenue Fields on June 23; ultimate Frisbee at The Fields at RFK on June 23; vollyball at Garfield Park on June 22, 23 and 24. DC Fray believes that play has the power to transform lives, build communities, and create positive impact in the world. Read more and register at dcfray.com.

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Lost in Place: Voyages in Video The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has announced “Lost in Place: Voyages in Video,” an online screening series of 11 videos by international contemporary artists. The featured artworks, spanning the past 20 years, include classic works and favorites from the Hirsh54 H HILLRAG.COM

horn’s collection and delve into the complicated, unusual and uneasy relationships between people and the places they inhabit. Viewed in the present context—more than a year into the global pandemic—the works take on new relevance not only as artworks that speak to the moment, but also as art forms that reflect today’s primary mode of communication and connection: video. Hosted on hirshhorn.si.edu, the series makes a new video available for streaming each week for 11 weeks. Each video will remain on view for one month, with the last viewable through Aug. 20. hirshhorn.si.edu.

Free eWaste Recycling DC residents, small businesses and non-profits can recycle electronics without cost at e-waste recycling events throughout 2021. Upcoming events are (rain or shine) from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 5, 41st St SE between Alabama Avenue and Fort Dupont Street SE; June 19, Sumner and Wade Roads SE. Covered electronic equipment includes desktop and laptop computers, tablets, E-readers, small-scale servers, portable digital music players that are battery powered, computer monitors, mice, keyboards, computer speakers, desktop printers, televisions, cable and satellite receivers, and gaming consoles used with TVs. A complete list of events and acceptable items is at rlgamericas.com/DCecycling.

Toiletries Sought for Refugees There will be collection boxes in the St. Mark’s courtyard, 301 A St. SE, Saturday, June 5 from 1 to 3 p.m. Please donate only unopened full-size items (no complimentary or samples). Volunteers will be in the Courtyard on A Street to receive your donations. These supplies support personal hygiene/health for newly arriving families: toilet paper, toothbrushes, toothpaste, dental floss, razors, shaving

cream, feminine hygiene products, condoms, shampoo, conditioner, bath soap, body wash, facial tissues, deodorant, body lotion and first aid kits. goodneighborscapitolhill.org.

Federal Program Helps Eligible DC Residents Access Internet The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has launched an Emergency Broadband Benefit (EBB), a temporary program to help low-income residents subsidize their athome internet service. This $3.2 billion program will provide eligible District residents with free and subsidized internet service. Up to $50 a month for internet service for low-income households; and a subsidy of up to $100 to participating internet service providers to offer a laptop, desktop or tablet for between $10 and $50. Eligible households can enroll through a participating broadband provider or directly with the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) using an online or mail-in application. Additional information about the Emergency Broadband Benefit is available at fcc.gov/ broadbandbenefit, or by calling 833511-0311 between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. any day of the week.

Hot War to Cold War: How Germany and the US Shaped Post-war Europe On Tuesday June 22, at 7 p.m., Christian Ostermann will present the next Village Voices on-line program, speaking about American diplomatic policy toward East Germany following World War II and deployment of Cold War covert operations. Ostermann leads the Cold War International History Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Free and open to the public. To register and join the online discussion go to capitolhill.helpfulvillage.com/events/index_list. u

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Mazes and Maps: An Exhibition Inspired by Digital and Analog Gaming Mazes and Maps has opened in person (and online) at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, 4318 Gallatin St., Hyattsville. For many of those who sheltered in isolation or in a small group this pandemic year, playing games has been a needed source of entertainment and socialization. Mazes and Maps, on exhibition through July 11, celebrates the importance of the game while putting focus on a particular aspect: cartography. In this eight-person exhibition, each artist has uniquely interpreted game maps through a balance of projection, labeling, and symbology. Some works are pure whimsy, but others are deeply reflective and socially acute. The first weekend’s in-person viewings are by appointment only. June 2 to July 11, the public is welcome during regular gallery hours without appointment. Gallery hours are Wednesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. pyramidatlantic.org Founded in 1981, Pyramid Atlantic is a nonprofit contemporary art center fostering the creative disciplines of papermaking, printmaking, and book arts within a collaborative community. They equip, educate, and exhibit in their historic Hyattsville home.

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Other Matters The commission voted to send a letter in support of the Marine Corp Marathon planned for Oct. 31, 2021. Alan Brown of the Office of Human Rights gave a presentation on his office’s mission and programs designed to protect residents from discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations. Community member Steve Gross complained about the double parking and congestion under the highway on Maine Avenue SW next to the Fish Market. He asked that illegally parked cars be towed. Commissioner Litsky agreed it was a public safety issue. The commission, he stated, has raised it with Allen and the city. Representatives of the US Attorney’s Office briefed the commission on the office’s work. The commission voted unanimously to: • write a letter and vote a resolution to the federal EPA asking them to investigate and regulate Vulcan Concrete’s air quality issues and water issues at its Buzzard Point plant; • send a letter to DC United asking for their Covid protocols and thanking them for well-run opening day.

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home and garden CHV LITTLE FREE LIBRARY CONTAINS ‘A LITTLE BIT OF MAGIC’

here’s a small crowd gathered on the sidewalk at the midway point of E Street SE between 13th and 14th streets. “Look!” exclaims a child, pointing to what looks to be a tiny scale model of the building behind it, mounted in front of the full-scale edifice. “It’s got its own doll house!” “Yes,” smiles her bemused parent, before realizing “It’s a library!” It is a Little Free Library, designed by artist and craftsman Bert Kubli to look exactly like the green building at 1355 E St. SE, the offices of Capitol Hill Village (CHV). The library is a precise model of the CHV headquarters. Kubli replicated it down to the scars left above the door after an awning was removed. It also has its own little library in

The Little Library is an exact duplicate of the CHV building (behind). Courtesy: E. Nelson

by Elizabeth O’Gorek front of it —and that tiny model has a minuscule little library in front of it as well. Kubli deliberately incorporated the Droste effect in the piece, the recursive appearance of an image within itself, to help people really see the surroundings. “I wanted to teach people to learn how to see,” he said. “I don’t think that’s a natural thing —most people aren’t looking at details.” The project has certainly helped CHV be seen, Capitol Hill Village Executive Director Judy Berman said.

A Little Bit of Magic The neighborhood nonprofit gives senior residents of Capitol Hill both the practical means and the confidence to live their lives to the fullest in their own homes. CHV moved into the premises a year ago but did not have a chance to fully occupy the space due to the pandemic. “The library being there has made Bert Kubli at work on the CHV Little Library in his studio near people stop by and say, ‘What is Cap- Garfield Park. Courtesy: B. Kubli itol Hill Village?’” said Berman. “That Bert, because I just thought it would be fantastic kind of stuff wasn’t happening before,” to have something special, and something made by she said. “It’s kind of doing a little bit of magic a member,” she said, “and the streams all came tofor the Village.” gether and resulted in something pretty amazing.” Some of the passersby decide to volunteer, she added. A Career in Art It took eight months for Kubli to put the A former grants officer in the visual arts program of work together, toiling almost obsessively in his the National Endowment for the Arts, Kubli spent studio space below his home near Garfield Park. more than 20 years rubbing shoulders with artists, “When he gets working on the project, he just got musicians, architects, engineers, academics and his head down and nothing else matters,” said even celebrities such as Gary Cooper as panels deKubli’s spouse, Mark McElreath. “I had to bring termined which art projects would receive funding. food down to him and remind him to eat it.” “The process, the panels —the depth of the It was Berman who asked Kubli to build the discussions was unbelievable,” Kubli said. “I reLittle Library, which is dedicated in honor of formember going to international conferences where mer CHV Executive Director Molly Singer. all the other art administrators admired what the Berman met Bert through McElreath, who Americans were doing.” was in her meditation group. “I decided to ask June 2021 H 57

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his Little Library, said former Capitol Hill Restoration Society (CHRS) President Elizabeth Nelson. Kubli did most of the extensive rehabilitation himself, including rebuilding the central staircase. A three-dimensional scan of the home, with videos of Bert operating the various builtins, and his basement workshop is included on the CHRS virtual house tour: chrs.org/ CHV ED Judy Berman poses with the Little Library. Courtesy: E. Nelson vht6-521-2nd-st-se/ “While I was there for the preparaHe was part of the selection process that tion and scanning, Bert showed me the archichose the artist for the Vietnam Memorial and tectural drawings for the book box —so I knew the Salem Witch Trial Memorial. By the end it was coming and that the design would be of his career, he was an expert in art in pubamazing,” said Nelson. lic places. Kubli applied this tremendous store of A Library of Distinction knowledge and experience to his own works Nelson proved correct. Kubli’s project for of art, considering not only the way they look CHV was selected by Little Free Libraries for but the way it would be used. He is also the crea 2021 Libraries of Distinction award. “That ator of the Blessings Box at 14th and E Streets is a club I am proud to be a part of,” Berman SE. “I did that project because I believed in said. The distinction recognizes book exchangthe work,” he said, noting that the pantry has es for their unique or exceptionally creative or helped feed local families in a time of crisis. “I inspiring designs. did this one for me.” Kubli has a definite answer when asked to define himself as a creative —is he a carpenCreating Safe Spaces ter? Woodworker? Craftsman? Artist? “All of The CHV project helped him work through the above,” he said. the pandemic, Kubli said. He learned to work What is certain, said Berman, is that the with his hands during his childhood in ruCHV Little Library —and Kubli himself —deral Massachusetts. He used placemaking and serve recognition for the work. “It’s a masterbuilding to create his own sense of security, piece,” she said. he said. By the mid-1960s, he had rebuilt the The CHV Molly Singer Little Free LiBethesda home he shared with his then-wife. “I brary has not yet been formally dedicated. A always was trying to create a space that I could ceremony is expected to take place this spring. be safer,” he said, “and I’ve done that throughYou can visit it now outside the CHV offices out [my life].” (1355 E St. SE). In 1998, Kubli bought his current home Learn more about CHV, its programs and on Capitol Hill. Before he and McElreath met, resources, by visiting capitolhillvillage.org u Kubli had set about building his nest there, creating the space where he was able to embrace a new chapter in his life. The house is every bit as fascinating as

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s there anything better on a hot summer afternoon than biting into a fresh tomato right off the vine or enjoying a bowl of fresh strawberries and cream. Sustainable and organic food is not only healthy for us, but also good for the environment and climate. For a few lucky ones, a spot in one of the Hill’s coveted community gardens may have finally opened, and you are now able to plant and harvest your own radishes, cucumbers, and tomatoes. For others, the farmer’s markets at Eastern Market, RFK parking lots, or H Street provide a great way to grab fresh produce, but it is one step removed from the actual farm experience and often only available on the weekends. Community-supported agriculture, commonly known as CSAs, are a way to be a part of the local farming movement. The CSA system connects the producer, farmer, and consumers within a defined local area. The CSA model began in the 1970’s first in Japan, spreading to Switzerland later that decade. Today, there are more than 2,500 in the United States, and we are very lucky to have some really dynamite CSAs to choose from on Capitol Hill. Some have been bringing vegetables to the Hill for over a decade or more. June is a great time to sign up for a summer sea-

Rachael Smith, coordinates the CSA for H Street Farms on Bladensburg Rd., shows an egg laid by the residential hen.

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Article and Photos by Rindy O’Brien son of vegetables. Like the they might pass over in the vendors at the farmer’s margrocery store. kets, CSAs bring you the The shares vary widevegetables that are currently ly in price and in the numgrowing and being harvestber of weeks of the season. It ed. You get what is in season is possible to buy half shares, that week. For example, you but farmers really encourage will not receive watermelons finding friends or family to in June, but rather in Aujoin and buy one complete gust when they have had all share. In the case of Little summer to grow in full sunWild Things Farm that ofny conditions. Watermelons fers weekly deliveries of loat the markets before August cally grown microgreens, are usually shipped in from salad blends, and edible other parts of the country. flowers, the shares are delivIn the sustainable agered in plastic reusable conriculture world, there has tainers that are recycled evbeen a long debate and efery week. H Street Farm lights shine on Hailey Rohm, Director of fort to determine how to Pink offers a CSA workshare. Operations of Little Wild Things Farm, showcertify organic food. To be ing the microgreens grown on site, and part In exchange for volunteercertified USDA organic, a of the weekly salad package. ing four hours a week volfarmer must apply, pay a fee, unteers receive a heavily reand follow a rigorous process that often just doesn’t duced price of $10 a week for their CSA share. CSA work for the small farmer. An independent certifidirector, Rachael Smith, says all the work share spots cation process (just as good) has been adopted by for 2021 are full, but you can get on the waiting list for most CSA small farm operations, called “Naturally an opening. The One Acre Farm CSA offers 12 weeks Grown Certified.” It means the vegetable or fruit summer shares, and a 10-week summer-fall share, so is free of synthetic or artificial ingredients and is you can get a 22 week share that provides a little savgrown following the USDA standards minus a lot ings for the package. Mike Protas of One Acre Farm of the paperwork. says that the price of vegetables are a few cents higher than you find at your local grocery store, but the qualHow Does It Work? ity and the added benefit of contributing to the susEach CSA operates a little differently, but the gentainable environment more than pays forward the cost. eral concept is you sign up for a share of the harvest from the farms’ summer vegetable crops. Each One Acre Farm week, or every other week, the farmer brings to One Acre Farm’s roots begin on Capitol Hill, and a Capitol Hill what is ripe and delicious. Sometimes decade later Mike Proust is proud to be delivering his there is a designated pick-up location and window farm goods to 11th Street and other locations around of time. You go and retrieve your bag of vegetables. the city. The farm has grown from one acre to 34 acres, Other ways to participate involve having the weekly and a network of farmers in the Dickerson and Poolshare delivered to your house or apartment. Farmesville area also contribute to the effort. ers are trying to decide how to operate under CoMike and Charlotte Henderson, the farm’s vid rules, but in the past, there has been a chance Membership Coordinator, manage 200 CSA shares to trade vegetables at pickup if there is something a year, with approximately 35% of the shares on Capyou know you won’t eat. For many CSA’s families, itol Hill. Charlotte says One Acre Farm and many it is a chance to try different kinds of vegetables that other CSA farms are an essential part of the local

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from W.S. Jenks Hardware and The H Street Farm headquarters, is a lavender door leading up a set of stairs to the most amazing CSA type farm operation, Little Wild Things Farm. Hailey Rohm, Director of Operations, says the six-year-old CSA prepares 200 salad shares a week of locally grown microgreens, salad blends and edible flowers. This Farm operates all four seasons and a share costs $275 for ten weeks. The Farm will do home delivery, or you can pick up at the shop, where you can be engulfed in 52 stacks of greens growing under multi-color lights, and some hydroponic flowers. The CSA sends salad shares home in reusable plastic containers ready to go into your fridge. If you love salad, this may be the CSA for you. www.littlewildthingsfarm.com Little Wild Things Farm has been providing weekly grown Microgreens, salad blends, and edible flowers for 6 years.

economy. They provide a fair wage to their workers and are part of the path toward sustainable living. She really encourages Hill residents to connect to this sustainable movement in eating and improving the environment. A bonus of One Acre Farm is the opportunity to go on a guided tour, get a chance to meet Farmer Mike, and see how the vegetables you will be eating all summer really grow. www.oneacrefarm.com

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Cultivate the City Cultivate the City, also known as H Street Farms, is yet another very local CSA to check out and participate in. On the rooftop of W.S. Jenks Hardware on Bladensburg Road, NE, the space is full of green vegetation, and even some chickens. Rachael Smith coordinates efforts for this CSA and is thrilled to be a part of this growing movement. She says they get their produce from participating with a number of community gardens, and a network of common market East Coast farmers who contribute about half of their produce. Each CSA share provides vegetables and fruits, plus one herb, and one finished food product, often hot sauce and salsa that they make. Like other CSAs, shares can be picked up at the headquarters or delivered. Part of the CSA share helps build nutrition programming and support for garden activities for youth and young adults throughout the DMV area. June is the perfect time to jump on board with a CSA that fits your lifestyle. Not only will you be eating healthy delicious food; you will be helping our environment by encouraging sustainable farming. www.cultivatethecity.com

Charlotte Henderson of One Acre Farm working in a Green house preparing crops of the farm’s annual CSA shares. Photo: One Acre Farm

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by Wendy Blair What can I plant to hide the old leaves of daffodils? And, when my Virginia bluebells die back to nothing, as they do – and my white bleeding heart also disappears from view, do you have ideas for what to put in the blank space that will not interfere with the bluebell bulbs and the Dicentra roots? To mask daffodil foliage, which you know must remain to replenish the bulbs for next spring, bright annuals will do the job. For the spring ephemerals – bleeding heart, bluebells, first make note where these are, before they disappear. Then try shadeloving annuals – Astilbe comes in white and colors. Our vigorous four-year-old Wisteria still has no blooms. Ideas? In Georgia and South Carolina Wisteria – both Chinese and Japanese – (which are not native plants) – are invasive, and bloom profusely. Native varieties bloom well there too and are not invasive. Here in DC the secret seems to be enough sunlight. In other words, although “some shade” appears on the store label, Wisteria can’t bloom well without what’s known as “full sun” – 8 or so hours. Some do bloom, perhaps after years of waiting. Wisteria’s not blooming is notorious. You can try adding phosphate. Make sure you water well. Apply compost if

Butterfly Weed (Asclepias Tuberosa)

soil is poor, although Wisteria doesn’t need rich soil. And some swear by pruning. Directions vary on whether Wisteria blooms on last year’s wood or on new growth! But prolific new growth without flowers leads many to cut off all new growth, feeling it “saps” the plant’s bloom

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potential. Finally, some do root pruning to “shock” the plant into blooming. Dig 10 inches down with a sharp shovel about a foot all around the main stem, to cut the roots. It won’t hurt the plant. All this said, Wisteria gardeners wait three, four, up to 15 years for blooms to arrive. Is Butterfly weed the same as Butterfly bush? I’ve been reading about native plants, and apparently butterfly weed attracts lots of butterflies and also tolerates drought. Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa – like a milkweed ) has a deep taproot, making transplanting difficult. It is a hardy, native perennial with magnificent bright orange flowers in clusters at the top of branching stems. The flowers produce large quantities of nectar. The plant needs well-drained sandy or gravelly soil in full sun. Butterfly Bush is much taller, also with copious nectar attracts butterflies, but at only one stage of their life cycle. Butterflies need host plants on which to lay eggs and on which their caterpillars feed. Not a single native caterpillar eats Butterfly Bush leaves. Without caterpillars, there will be no adult butterflies. Without caterpillars, birds will not survive. www.capitolhillgardenclub.org for meetings and announcements. Feeling beset by gardening problems? Send them to the Problem Lady c/o the Editor, Hill Garden News. Your problems might even prove instructive to others, and help them feel superior to you. Complete anonymity is assured. u

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CHANGING HANDS Changing Hands is a list of residential sales in Capitol Hill and contiguous neighborhoods from the previous month. A feature of every issue, this list, based on the MRIS, is provided courtesy of Don Denton, manager of the Coldwell Banker office on Capitol Hill. The list includes address, sales price and number of bedrooms. NEIGHBORHOOD

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51 Rhode Island Ave NW #1 1929 1st St NW #101

FEE SIMPLE ANACOSTIA 1242 U St SE 1615 Ridge Pl SE

BLOOMINGDALE 46 Randolph Pl NW

CAPITOL HILL 320 12th St SE 409 6th St SE 404 Constitution Ave NE 1311 D St NE 305 Tennessee Ave NE 5 16th St NE

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS 3635 11th St NW

CONGRESS HEIGHTS 3336 Brothers Pl SE 855 Hr Dr SE 3963 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SW 303 Atlantic St SE

DUPONT CIRCLE 2256 12th Pl NW 1752 Church St NW 1770 Willard St NW

FORT DUPONT PARK 4331 Dubois Pl SE 1208 45th Pl SE

H STREET CORRIDOR 707 12th St NE 628 Morton Pl NE

HILL CREST 3200 Nash Pl SE 3224 O St SE 3414 Carpenter St SE 3008 K St SE

LEDROIT PARK 1854 3rd St NW 322 Elm St NW 60 U St NW 333 Elm St NW

LILY PONDS 311 34th St NE 3321 Dix St NE 1000 Kenilworth Ave NE 343 36th St NE

OLD CITY #1 1327 E St NE 604 Tennessee Ave NE 1521 Isherwood St NE

OLD CITY #2 1256 10th St NW 2210 12th Pl NW

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215 I St NE #101 611 D St SE #4C 418 7th St SE #201 220 4th St SE #4 725 5th St SE #3 1391 Pennsylvania Ave SE #519 101 North Carolina Ave SE #106

$600,000 $450,000

3 2

$900,000

$1,408,000 $1,270,000 $1,168,500 $1,105,000 $1,020,000 $799,900

3 3 4 4 3 3

$1,085,000

CENTRAL

$475,000 $450,000 $439,100 $430,000

3 3 3 4

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS

$708,000 $1,900,000 $1,580,000

2 3 5

$576,000 $574,990

3 3

$995,000 $847,000

3 3

$825,000 $696,500 $685,000 $421,000

5 4 4 3

$1,925,000 $870,000 $775,000 $650,000

6 3 3 2

$510,000 $438,000 $430,000 $330,000

3 2 4 2

$1,190,000 $940,000 $801,000

3 3 3

CAPITOL RIVERFRONT 1211 Van St SE #PH 13B 1211 Van St SE #313 1211 Van St SE #1214

CARROLLSBURG 240 M St SW #E115

777 7th St NW #318

ROSEDALE 448 20th St NE

SHAW

1601 5th St NW #A 319 R St NW 1714 New Jersey Ave NW

TRINIDAD 1821 M St NE 1325 Queen St NE

U STREET CORRIDOR 1200 Florida Ave NW

$716,000

$1,812,500 $1,600,000 $850,000

4 4 3

$690,000 $601,000

4 3

$975,000

WASHINGTON HIGHLANDS 508 Foxhall Pl SE

$310,000

3566 13th St NW #1 755 Fairmont St NW #2 1512 Park Rd NW #2 2920 NW Georgia NW #407 3420 16th St NW #308 1020 Monroe St NW #409 1421 Columbia Rd NW #404 3900-3902 14th St NW #501 1401 Columbia Rd NW #104 1401 Columbia Rd NW #206 1417 Chapin St NW #204 2600 Sherman Ave NW #202

CONGRESS HEIGHTS 3865 Halley Ter SE #303

DUPONT CIRCLE 1745 N St NW #410 1830 Jefferson Pl NW #23 1740 18th St NW #201 2114 N St NW #37 1718 P St NW #904 1722 U St NW #B 1330 New Hampshire Ave NW #610 1704 19th St NW #1 1545 18th St NW #303 1718 P St NW #406 1725 New Hampshire Ave NW #203

ECKINGTON

$985,000 $755,000

3 2

217 R St NE #A 233 S St NE #6

CONDO 14TH STREET CORRIDOR 1449 Corcoran St NW #2

ADAMS MORGAN 2434 16th St NW #B101

BLOOMINGDALE 71 U St NW #1 1922 1st St NW #A 35 Rhode Island Ave NW #B

$812,500

$715,000

$895,000 $779,000 $700,000

2 3 2

H STREET CORRIDOR 911 9th St NE #1 1219 Wylie St NE #1 1011 18th St NE #4

KINGMAN PARK 1620 E St NE #2

LOGAN CIRCLE 1117 10th St NW #308

$525,000

$555,000 $360,900

2 1

$1,105,000 $925,000 $880,000 $707,000 $669,000 $650,000 $322,500

2 2 2 2 2 3 1

$1,600,000 $504,900 $439,900

2 1 1

$445,000

$365,000

$670,000 $642,500 $637,000 $619,000 $591,000 $570,000 $540,000 $411,000 $369,000 $365,000 $350,000 $340,000

2 2 2 2 1 2 3 2 1 1 1 1

$158,000

$1,275,000 $1,075,000 $740,000 $450,000 $379,500 $657,321 $459,000 $420,000 $395,000 $390,000 $233,000

2 3 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 0

$735,000 $651,000

3 2

$765,000 $510,000 $437,500

3 2 2

$399,900

STEP INSIDE OUR SIZZLING SUMMER SALES! 1401 Q St NW #303 1311 13th St NW #206 1325 13th St NW #35 1529 14th St NW #307 1201 Q St NW #402 1442 Corcoran St NW #4 1211 13th St NW #103 1212 M St NW #202 1401 Church St NW #410 1245 13th St NW #103 1217 10th St NW #B 1618 11th St NW #303

$1,170,000 $857,500 $810,000 $795,000 $786,201 $720,000 $644,900 $581,000 $530,000 $519,000 $1,240,000 $815,000

MT VERNON SQUARE 448 M St NW #1 811 4th St NW #418 440 L St NW #701 460 New York Ave NW #206 460 New York Ave NW #202

OLD CITY #1 301 G St NE #35 1101 Florida Ave NE #2 1101 Florida Ave NE #3 1101 Florida Ave NE #1

OLD CITY #2 1545 6th St NW #1 57 N St NW #229 1211 13th St NW #306 2120 Vermont Ave NW #211

$660,000 $653,000 $590,000 $530,000 $485,000

2 2 2 1 1

$540,000 $460,000 $450,000 $443,000

1 2 2 2

$1,100,000 $550,000 $525,000 $454,930

PENN QUARTER 631 D St NW #1226 912 F St NW #701 616 E St NW #1020 777 7th St NW #819

$750,000 $575,000 $493,500 $360,000

RANDLE HEIGHTS 2832 Hartford St SE #104

RLA (SW)

700 7th St SW #118 800 4th St SW #N520 350 G St SW #N305 1435 4th St SW #B507

ROSEDALE 1661 Gales NE #2 1661 Gales NE #1

SHAW

501 Rhode Island Ave NW #2 801 N St NW #T-02 929 Florida Ave NW #6001 801 N St NW #104 1806 6th St NW #102

$171,000

TRINIDAD

1241 18th St NE #4 1016 17th Pl NE #7 1016 17th Pl NE #1 1219 Holbrook Ter NE #3 24 N St NW #2

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2001 12th St NW #408

WATERFRONT 1250 4th St SW #W301 807 Delaware Ave SW #232 300 M St SW #N405 u

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$722,000 $589,900 $539,000 $490,000 $429,000

2 1 1 1 1

$529,000

$380,000 $304,900 $298,897 $295,000

2 1 1 1

$344,000

$559,000

$415,000 $715,000 $300,000

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515 7th St SE 9BR/5BA (Multi-Family) $2,399,000

2115 36th Pl SE 4BD/3.5BA $859,000

1412 G St SE 3BD/2BA $999,000 PERFECT PORCH FRONT PERCH! Savor three levels of luxurious living space, all renovated with crisp contemporary style. Front porch welcomes you to open floor plan w/ Classic original features: hardwood floors, exposed brick, and new upgrades like skylights, open kitchen off private patio & rear deck to offer a peaceful oasis! FULL LL w/ great storage & walk-out stairs...QUIET BLOCK! Perfectly positioned for convenience and quality of life, just one block from two groceries or two blocks from Congressional and the River Trail!

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1814 M St NE 3BD/2BA HISTORIC PORCH-FRONT, IMPECCABLY REDESIGNED INTERIORS! Historic porch-front façade belies AMAZING MODERN interiors, with EASY ACCESS to the glorious green spaces of the Arboretum, the new bars & restaurants of Ivy City, and the best of Capitol Hill! The DC rowhouse re-imagined with clean lines, floating stairs, expanded room sizes & ceiling heights across all 3 levels. Every aspect thoughtfully executed by owner-designer team for flow and flexibility. Bonus – private rear oasis with stone patio, green garden, and secure parking option.

FAMILY COMPOUND AT HEART OF THE HILL - MILES FROM ORDINARY! Nestled between Barracks Row and Eastern Market - walk or bike everywhere from this GRAND 1851 Historic porchfront with multiple units + 3 level carriage house, standing proudly in a row of striking wood frame houses! Unique investment opportunity with bountiful square footage in an incredible locale- a lovely tree-lined block at Eastern Market Metro.

$540,000 $464,000

1409 East Capitol St SE 4BD/3.5BA $1,825,000 GROUND-UP GRAND ON EAST CAPITOL ST! Local Capitol Hill builders Pitch Pine Building Co. have done it again! This gorgeous ground-up construction creates another classic Capitol Hill porchfront along favorite East Capitol Street, just steps to Lincoln Park! Delivers 3 soaring above grade levels with all of the beautiful touches you expect and appreciate from these longtime Hill builders: gorgeous woodwork & cabinetry, high-end kitchen and bath finishes, and plenty of living, working, and entertainment space for the modern homeowner! Don’t miss a walkthrough of this BEAUTIFUL home.

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$615,000 $525,000 $424,000 $334,500

SW WATERFRONT 355 I St SW #311

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PALATIAL PROPORTIONS IN PARK SETTINGS! Welcome to Hillcrest! Just steps from the forest trails of Fort Circle Park, this new home is minutes to Capitol Hill and downtown Washington, but feels like a green and serene world away. Constructed all-new from the ground up in 2017, this home’s open and spacious floor plan welcomes bountiful natural light throughout the open main level, stepping out to the deck and meticulously maintained yard. BONUS: full solar panel array!

508 4th St SE 3BR/2.5BA $1,590,000 A TALE OF TWO HOUSES AT THE HEART OF THE HILL! Well-preserved original details (1875) seamlessly blend w/ MASTERFUL 2015 expansion that DOUBLES the size of the home! Historic front porch, wide plank heart pine floors, and stone hearth up front flow to new mudroom with separate side entry and STUNNING farmhouse kitchen open to coffered-ceiling GREAT room! Upstairs features rich reclaimed barn wood floors in owners’ suite w/ giant walk-in closet & tranquil spa bathroom, plus two add’l spacious bedrooms and laundry. All new windows and systems for low-maintenance / high-efficiency living.

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Renewed Mussel Power

One bowl easily feeds two. For sides, we chose broccoli with butter, garlic and parmesan, It’s BACK! The Atlas District’s which we swirled into the fritGranville Moore’s, beloved for es’ accompanying truffle mayo. mussels and pommes frites, has There is also a brief sandwich returned. During the pandemmenu: Italian sausage, meatball, ic shutdown, proprietor/chef chicken parmesan. Desserts: Ryan Gordon tried to save his cheesecake and chocolate torte. 13-year-old Belgian tavern by The mostly Belgian beer morphing into “GM’s Pasta listing has been beefed up; Peter Place,” slinging spaghetti and enjoyed his Belgian Baptist Wit meatballs. That didn’t work; brew. You can also order wine Pasta Place folded last Sepand Fling cocktails by Bouletember. But, much to our devard Brewing Company. light, late last month, Granville Located at 1238 H St. Moore’s reopened. Granville Moore’s long-time employee NE, Granville Moore’s is open Once again, guests are Jolene Lewis provides excellent barThursday through Sunday for slurping mussels swimming in tending and serving duties. dinner only. No cash is acceptwhite wine, garlic and herbs, ed. For more information call 202-399-2546. To bleu cheese, or spicy Thai curry. (Since shellfish make a reservation, visit www.resy.com or www.grandon’t travel well, guests may not order mussels to villemoores.com. take home.) Also returning are mounds of crunchy fries to be dipped in truffle, Old Bay, chipotle or garlic aioli sauces. Viva La Famosa! When we returned to Grandville Moore’s after We recently checked out La Famosa, un Poco Clasico more than a year, we ordered mussels laced with pork (“famous little classic”) at 1300 Fourth St. SE, near belly, spinach and red onions in wine-lemon broth. Nationals Park. The entrance is around the corner on Tingey Street. The Puerto Rican “fast fine” eatery serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. We decided on lunch on an unseasonably chilly Saturday, when we savored the best Puerto Rican fare we’ve tasted north of Miami. Chef/owner Joancarlo Parkhurst hails from that US island territory. From his picadera (appetizer) lineup we chose bolitas de queso—a trio of little globes fried to a golden crisp and filled with meltingly delicious cheese. Pastelillos are fried turnovers (similar to empanadas) stuffed with choice of beef picadillo, crab or veggies. I opted for the In the Atlas District, customers can again savor Granville Moore’s signature dish: mussels swimming in a white wine/herbed/garlic sauce. minced beef, which spurted out of

the fluted pastry shells and practically melted in my mouth. From the sandwich menu Peter passed over the tripeta—pan de agua stuffed with pork butt, deli ham and Swiss cheese, similar to a Cuban sandwich, and went for the creole-style cod sandwich, toasted multigrain bread enveloping the fish, mango, arugula and avocado. Among platos fuerte (main dishes) is mofongo— fried mashed plantains with choice of pork, shrimp or vegetarian picadillo, served in a traditional clay pot. Whole crispy snapper is escorted by coconut rice and spicy slaw. Bistec encelollado (steak) is swathed in on-

At La Famosa, a Puerto Rican eatery near Nats Park, bolitas de queso are little globes fried and filled with melted cheese.

ions and presented with rice and beans. Desserts include pastelillo de guayaba (guava pastries), coconut macaroons and that all-time classic: flan. Yummy pastries are displayed out front. Batidos—milk drinks flavored with mango, pineapple and other tropical fruits, are popular. Potent potables run the gamut of beer, wine, and cocktails like el nacional (rum and apricot liqueur), Negronis and pina coladas. La Famosa is open daily for dine-in and carryout. Call 202-921-9882 or visit www.eatlafamosa.com.

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ABOUT THIS EVENT The Southwest DC Community Center (SWDCCC) all-volunteer Board and Community Engagement & Communications Committee have been busy getting up and running as a non-profit, establishing an online presence through our website and social media channels, gathering information from local partners to build a community asset map, and planning for a series of community engagement initiatives so we can hear from YOU about what you’d like to see in the new Community Center—currently planned to open in October 2023 at the future site of 375 M Street SW.

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to Taste,” is now streaming on Global LGBTQ+ streaming network Revry. Bardzik has written three cookbooks including “Seasons to Taste: Farm-Fresh Joy for Kitchen and Table,” the inspiration for the series. For his show, Bardzik shares seasonal recipes and the people they bring together. Guests include his parents, husband Jason and other culinary experts. Bardzik opens each episode by sharing: “I believe life can and should be lived with joy…preparing a simple meal, setting a table and sharing it with the people I love. And I want to share it with you.” Self-taught, he got his professional start 10 years ago with his demos at Eastern Market. He and Jason live on the Hill. “Jonathan’s Kitchen is available on demand at Revry.tv. For more information visit www.jonathanbardzik.com or www.revry.tv.com.

And... Capitol Hill welcomes back Art and Soul, 415 New Jersey Ave. NW in the Yotel Washington DC Hotel. Having debuted in 2008, the flagship restaurant has reopened after a multi-million dollar facelift. The 5,100-square foot space contains three private indoor dining rooms and an adjacent bar; the patio boasts a panoramic view of the U.S. Capitol dome. Designed by the New York-based Wimberly Interiors, Art and Soul’s interior features azure hues, reminiscent of the Chesapeake Bay. Chef Danny Chavez showcases ingredients from Chesapeake Bay watershed communities, including panseared octopus, adobo-rubbed pork belly, chicken roulade, “spring spaghetti” with veggies and preserved lemons. For more information, visit www.artandsouldc.com.

Crazy Love Coming to Barracks Row in mid-June is Crazy Aunt Helen’s, bringing American comfort food prepared with sea-

La Famosa’s yummy all-day breakfast pastries are displayed in front for all to see.

sonal ingredients (and love). You’ll find it at 713 Eighth St. SE, formerly Finn McCool’s. Co-owner of the two-level newcomer is Mary Quillian Helms, whose family has owned Mr. Henry’s for 50 years. Crazy Aunt Helen’s coowner is local restaurateur Shane Mayson. Designing the interior is Miss Pixie Windsor of Miss Pixie’s (Logan Circle), showcasing her signature vibrant colors and funky tableware. Executive chef is Mykie Moll, formerly with Pom Pom (Atlas District). He plans to whip up traditional Jewish-style brisket, Reuben sandwiches, corned beef hash, roasted chicken and other classics.

Crabby In the Atlas District, welcome the Crab Boss, 1001 H St. NE. Operated by Lenell Watson and Ashleigh Watson, the newcomer has a sister eatery in Brandywine, MD. The Floridastyle/Cajun-inspired menu showcases shellfish: crabmeat draped over crispy fries crowned with “signature” sauce; charbroiled oysters, seafood mac-andcheese. Plus Cajun-style chicken pasta; beer, wine and cocktails. Dine in, takeout and delivery. Call 202-813-3463 or visit www.crabboss.com. u

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AT THE MOVIES Saudi Movie a Breakthrough for Female Director and an American Entertainer Pays for Her Nazi Collaboration by Mike Canning Of course, now everything has changed, and we have leave the country. She scurries to cinemas going up all across the Kingdom. But the largacquire such a document, but, afer issue of a lack of infrastructure in the film industry ter an official mix-up, ends up signremains. We have a lot of work to do in building up the ing a form making her a candidate tools and resources necessary to make quality films... to run for her municipal council, But things are happening fast, and I think we will see which had refused her entreata lot more Saudi films in the coming years.” ies to pave a muddy road leading Still, with “The Perfect Candidate”—as with to her clinic. Forced into this new “Wadjda”—Al Mansour has told a touching and heartrole, Maryam tackles it with deterening story of a newly-emerging Saudi woman. mination, eager to fight for her personal cause of the new road. Luckily, she has the fervent support of American Traitor: The Trial her two bright younger sisters, Sara of Axis Sally (Nora Al Awadh) and Selma (Dhay Loosely based on a true story of post-WWII, “AmerAl Hilali), the latter of whom has semi-pro video skills. ican Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally” follows the warMaryam’s father, Abdulaziz (played by Khalid time life of an American woman, Mildred Gillars Abduraheem) is a widower, a bandleader, and a skilled (Meadow Williams). Dubbed “Axis Sally” for broadplayer of the oud (a lute-like stringed instrument), casting Nazi propaganda to American troops during working against the odds to get prominent outlets for World War II, her story exposes the grim nature of his musical group (his story underscores Al Mansour’s the Third Reich’s propaganda machine, her eventuintention to highlight Saudi culture in her work). A deal capture in Berlin at the war’s end, and her subsecent and laconic man, he is sympathetic to his outspoquent trial for treason—the core of the script—against ken daughters, in part because they reflect the activthe United States. ism and spunk of his departed wife, also a musician. Al On her radio shows, Axis Sally would typicalMansour works out the rest of the film in shifting, parly alternate swing music and propaganda messages allel sequences: Maryam’s fluctuating campaign foraimed at American troops. These messages would tunes (aided by Selma’s video promotions) contrastadvocate surrender, stoke fears that soldiers’ wives ed with Abdulaziz’s search for a major gig. and girlfriends were cheating on them and note that Freed from her earlier restrictions of just years the Axis powers knew their locations. US soldiers before, Al Mansour (now living in California) was thrilled to be working in a much more open environment. (“It was really good to be out of Meadow Williams as “Axis Sally” in the new film “American Traitor.” Photo courtesy of Vertical Entertainment the van,” she said.) She has more money, a larger crew, and an ability to move about freely within her locations and set-ups. As she herself has noted in an interview: “The changes are extraordinary for local filmmakers. It was incredibly difficult to make a film in 2011, and people were still very hesitant to embrace any public form of artistic expression. Film especially was seen as taboo, and the idea of opening theaters had become a red line that most of us thought would never be crossed.

Mila Alzahrani (as Maryam) with a chastened patient in “The Perfect Candidate.” Photo courtesy of Music Box Films

The Perfect Candidate The world is changing—specifically in Saudi Arabia— in the new film “The Perfect Candidate,” the illuminating story of a partially liberated young woman making her way in the world. A modest film, but one full of resonances in the time of the #MeToo movement. (This film is rated “R,” runs 107 minutes, and opened on streaming sites on May 28). In 2012, the director-writer Haifaa Al Mansour released the well-received “Wadjda,” about a feisty ten-year old Saudi girl who dreams of owning a bike, a desire seen as unladylike. It was the first feature film made by a woman in the Kingdom, but even then the filmmaker, who could not be seen mixing in public with a male crew, had to hide in her production van to direct the shooting! With her new effort, the “creeping liberalism” in Saudi Arabia has filtered into Saudi life. For example, the new ability of Saudi women to drive appears right up front when we see the film’s protagonist, Maryam (played by the energetic Mila Al Zahrani), driving her own car to her job in a small clinic in a rural town. She’s a young but already mature ER doctor whom we see early confronting an aging curmudgeon, who steadfastly refuses to be treated— much less touched—by a female. She receives an invitation to attend a conference in Dubai, but, in attempting to board her flight, she is refused at the gate because she lacks a document from her “guardian” (a responsible male) permitting her to 70 H HILLRAG.COM

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listened to Gillars’ broadcasts for the entertaining music even as they were skeptical about her attempts at blatant propaganda. While the film uses sequences showing Gillars’ studio work, it intercuts these with her trial in 1948-49 outside Washington, DC, where she is represented by cynical lawyer James Laughlin (Al Pacino). The film does not show DC locations, however, because it was shot in Puerto Rico. Her trial, on eight counts of treason, results in one conviction, based on one specific broadcast. Directed by Michael Polish and co-written by him and two others, this is an intriguing historical footnote which somehow never fully gels on screen. There is an unfortunate dankness to the cinematography, especially the gray-brown tones of the jail and the courtroom—although this may actually have been the intent of Polish. Al Pacino, long in the tooth now (at 81), lacks coherence as the defense. He becomes a senior version of his over-the-top defense attorney in “And Justice for All” (1979). Meadow Williams personifies—in wardrobe, makeup, and lipstick—a pin-up girl of the period, but her performance is tentative and stiff, and her face looks like a mask. Other players are adequate, such as Swen Temmel as Billy Owen, Laughlin’s naïve assistant (who appears to be falling for Mildred), and Thomas Kretschmann as a swinish Josef Goebbels, but a good many are stilted. “American Traitor” seems like something of a vanity project for Williams, who also executive-produced. It might have turned out better if she had been able to distance herself more from it. Hill resident Mike Canning has written on movies for the Hill Rag since 1993 and is a member of the Washington Area Film Critics Association . He is the author of “Hollywood on the Potomac: How the Movies View Washington, DC.” His reviews and writings on film can be found online at www.mikesflix.com. u

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13 WINES TO SIP THROUGH THE SUMMER SEASON by Elyse Genderson

ummer 2021 is here and with the promise of lockdown restrictions easing, it is an exciting time to celebrate with great seasonal wine. From Albariño to Zweigelt Rosé I’ve got you covered with a dreamy selection of light but serious wines. A great summer wine should be approachable, lively, and of course, refreshing. This roundup includes brand new releases that fit the bill for warm weather sipping.

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2020 Rieslingfreak No. 44 Riesling Eden Valley, Australia ($16.99): Eden Valley Rieslings are delicate and refined. Rieslingfreak No. 44 is no exception with aromas of citrus and white blossoms, and flavors of lime and lemon, with a background of sweet spice. The wine drinks well young but will reward with a little cellaring. Pair with grilled shrimp for the perfect match.

While everyone should drink rosé all year-round, summertime just begs for the crisp pink drink. Sophisticated and dry styles from Southern France are the pinnacle for quality, but standouts are made around the world including Austria. 2020 Vievite Provence Rosé ($22.99): This stunning rosé is aromatic and perfumed with aromas and flavors of strawberries, rose petal, and violets. Zippy, refreshing acidity with a smooth texture. Its lively freshness makes it the perfect beach wine for the season. Pair with salty potato chips and fried chicken. 2018 Lustig Zweigelt Rosé ($14.99): This Austrian rosé is just delicious, with flavors of strawberry, melon, and a hint of dried green herbs, and cracked white pepper. 2020 L’Olivette Bandol Rosé ($26.99): L’Olivette from the Mediterranean’s most serious rosé appellation, Bandol, is a bold blend of mostly Grenache, offering rich concentration. Fresh strawberry, hibiscus, and tangerine burst out of the glass. 2019 Vicchiomaggio San Jacopo Rosato ($13.99): Bright pale pink color with copper tints. Rose petals, wild strawberry and raspberry aromas. It has a light body and soft texture. Very refreshing with delicate citrus flavors. Pair with sushi, pecorino cheese, salads.

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2018 Sparkman Cellars “Birdie” Riesling Colombia Valley, Washington ($19.99): Lively aromas of jasmine, lime, Asian pear, crushed river stones and pepper spice. Delicious now and will age gracefully for decades. Pair with sushi, raw oysters, Asian dishes, and much more.

2019 Kilikanoon Killermans Run Riesling, Clare Valley, Australia ($19.99): Spicy white pepper, citrus blossom, ripe pineapple, white cherries, and lemon rind show off on this outstanding Clare Valley expression.

Sancerre France’s Loire Valley is the home of this summertime classic made from Sauvignon Blanc. These selections are made by serious winemakers in small batches offering aromatic and complex flavors of lemon-lime citrus, melon, green herbs, and stony minerality with rich texture. 2019 Gitton Silex Les Belles Dames Sancerre ($32.99): Produced from vines grown on silex soils of the 12-acre single vineyard, Les Belles Dames, this Sauvignon Blanc truly expresses a sense of place. Flinty minerality, acidity, and tart citrus fruit. This thirst-quenching Sancerre has a wonderfully rich and full texture. 2018 Henri Bourgeois Sancerre Les Barons ($19.99): This stunning Sancerre is full of ripe peach, honeydew melon, and lemon. It is versatile and food friendly.

Albarino The most well-known grape variety in Galicia flourishes in Rías Baixas, Albariño is considered Spain’s quintessential

white wine. The sea influence is prominent, and the best wines display a briny, salty character backed by zippy acidity. The granitic soils in Rías Baixas contribute to the mineral expression of the terroir. Think Pinot Grigio on steroids! 2019 Sonrío Cuando Llueve Albariño ($19.99): Aromas of green apple, lemon, pear, and pineapple burst from the glass. The palate has a creamy and round texture along with racy acidity to create a balanced and lively white wine. 2019 Rectoral do Umia Albariño Rías Baixas ($26.99): Granny Smith green apple aromas are lifted by honey, lemon and lime. The salty flavors on the long finish are ultra-refreshing!

Summer Reds Don’t forget to chill! While white wine and rosé are always a fabulous choice, branch out and chill down these juicy reds. These reds should be chilled down even more and enjoyed with reckless abandon while dining alfresco. 2017 Barrique Cellars Pinot Noir ($29.99): A beautifully expressive, layered Pinot Noir with ripe red cherry and blackberry flavors. 2018 Sparkman Cellars Wonderland Grenache Washington ($34.99): Fruit comes from three very different vineyards, all fermented with a third whole cluster, which deliver ripe aromas and flavors of raspberry, anise, black olive tapenade, citrus, and cinnamon. Visit Elyse Genderson at Schneider’s of Capitol Hill to discover wines you love. u

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ARTandtheCITY by Jim Magner

ARTIST PORTRAIT: KYM KAMRA

ym Kamra shoots “Street” – people on the street or on the Metro…places around town. It’s always about people, people who are different in obvious ways, or maybe just inside themselves. Or it can be a human space like Union Station—the visual door to infinity and another dimension of wonderment. Street photography looks simple. Just point and shoot. Why should you worry about composition, or contrast, or light effects? With digital cameras that can catch unlimited images, with a dizzying variety of Apps to artsy it up, it’s a snap. Who needs life experiences? A child can do it.

Ah, there’s the rub. To be more than a statement of fact, or a glitzy picture signifying nothing, there has to be a connection…and deep understanding—a transfer of meaning— the life force that is built on seeing and touching. Kym Kamra (her professional name) saw and touched and felt through ten years in the Peace Corps and three different countries. Seeing was painful at times: the girls in New Guinea, standing in the field with their machetes, too poor for shoes, covered with sores. That is a reality that burns your soul. But pain and poverty can be balanced with the power of helping, and the pure joy of being alive. Kym grew up in New Orleans, received a BFA from the USL in Lafayette. She goes back often to photograph the musicians and capture the soul of the city. She also has been shooting the Capitol Hill Jazz Jam at Mr. Henry’s for years. Kym reaches into the very heart of jazz for improvised sound—the musical highway to the heavens. You can buy her postcards, and photographs printed on metal at Groovy DC at 321 7th Street SE, and you can see her work on Instagram and Tumbir.

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What is the meaning of anything? Is everything a charade—a dance of light—a jitterbug of light rays—a rumba of reflections? When I started out as an artist, I drew to diagram reality. I believed art was the door to meaning and I wanted to find meaning in everything. If we have an analytic brain—a questioning mind—there has to be a reason for it. Right? I would stand in a pre-dawn desert canyon and wait for the sunbeams to strike the rock faces and for the whole canyon to explode with life. Why? I wanted to paint the way it talked. What it said to me. There had to be an answer, or at least, hints. It was the same as I looked out over DC

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from across the Potomac at dawn. I wanted answers in the colors and lines and movement—the elusive understanding. It wasn’t just about what I asked of art—about the meanings it would uncover—it was about what those meanings asked of me. It was a conversation that could take me flying: visually, emotionally… reaching into ideas and holding them in my heart if not my head. And why not? Wasn’t the beginning of man the compulsion of meaning? What other purpose could there be, I reasoned. Was it beauty—loveliness? The power of another dimension? The fragility of thought? The flying…the freedom of boundless splendor? Or could it be merely the groveling for power and status? Many artists, composers and writers have chased the same questions. Kym Kamra, (see artist profile) looks for the reality behind the visual facade. Me, I’m still looking and wondering if the meaning is there in the sunbeams that strike the canyon walls or dance on the surface of the Potomac.

At the Galleries ‘From the Earth’ Zenith Gallery Presents 1111 Pennsylvania Ave, NW – July 31, 2021 Hadrian Mendoza and Kirsty Little use the mate-

Papua New Guinea school garden program, Peace Corps

rials of the earth to craft ideas and conceptual gestures. Mendoza is “constantly reinventing what it means to be a ceramicist.” His pieces are a balance between “functionality and high art.” Kirsty Little creates organic movement— whether it’s the qualities in wire and wood that lead her to explore “the gesture,” or porcelain that leads to “organic shapes, and tightly tailored works.” art@zenithgallery.com

Jenae Michelle, Capitol Hill Artist Torpedo Factory The Smithsonian Craft Optimism show has concluded, but Jenae Michelle, who marketed her one of a kind, designed purses and wearable crafts at the Eastern Market for many years, continues at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria. jenaemichelle@rangeofemotion.com. www.rangeofemotion.com

“Mixed Media” Zenith Gallery Presents 1429 Iris St. NW – June 26 “Much out of Little -The Art of Mixed Media,” features Linda Atkinson, Holly Boruck, Ram Brisueno, Julee Dickerson-Thompson, Michael Madzo and Joanathan Ribaillier. Think ‘creativity’ in every combination and color. Check for times. art@zenithgallery.com

“MEG Collaborative Exhibition 2021” Multiple Exposures Gallery Torpedo Factory – July 25 This is the popular annual Group Photography Show in which gallery members use a “collaborative approach to create a sequence of images, each one chosen for its relation to the previous image.” www.multipleexposuresgallery.com

Anne Saybolt Foundry Gallery 2008 - 8th St., N.W. – June 30 Guest artist, photographer Ann Saybolt, exhibits large silkscreen photo-derived works. She is also known for her inquisitive black and white photography. foundrygallery.org. annmccormicksaybolt.com

On a personal note: You can watch the very short video (85 sec.) for my historical fiction novel, The Dead Man on the Corner. https:// youtu.be/bQad2_Ck78Q You can buy the book on both Amazon and Barnes and Nobel, along with my other new historical fiction novel, John Dillinger and Geronimo. See: www.JamesJohnMagner.com. A Capitol Hill artist and writer, Jim can be reached at Artandthecity05@aol.com u

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the LITERARY HILL A Compendium of Readers, Writers, Books, & Events

Off the Grid When JoAnn Hill and her husband moved to DC nineteen years ago, her interest was initially captured by the “majestic monuments [and] worldrenowned museums.” Then she went off the grid. She soon realized that the “fabric of the city isn’t solely embedded” in politics and tourism, but in its “eccentric individuals and hidden histories.” In “Secret Washington, D.C.: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure,” Hill takes readers on a lively romp through some of the lesserknown delights of our capital city. For each of her more than 80 entries—from a miniature Washington Monument buried under a manhole to a set of marble bathtubs in the US Capitol—she presents a brief explanatory essay, photos, factoids and, for those who wish to see things for themselves, a useful sidebar that details “What, Where, Cost, and Pro Tip.” Did you know, for example, that DC has a memorial park dedicated to Sonny Bono? That there was once a thriving bordello on the site of the current National Museum of the American Indian? Or that a sign denoting Capitalsaurus Court commemorates the discovery of a dinosaur bone near Garfield Park? As Hill notes, there’s a “treasure trove of mystique, peculiarities, and hidden history just waiting to be explored.” And you couldn’t ask for a more enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide than JoAnn Hill. A former DC public school teacher, she writes

JoAnn Hill explores oddities in the nation’s capital in “Secret Washington, DC: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure.”

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more Jillian wrestles with questions about influence and power, wondering whether her mother “would be proud of what I was doing and who I had become to do it.” Hankin is a master at skewering pretention and her pitch-perfect descriptions and wise-cracking dialogue are laugh-out-loud funny. But “A Place for Women” is much more than a witty romp; it also tackles some deeper issues, of loyalty and trust, and of whether it’s ever morally justified for people to “carve grooves in the world so that the water flows where [they] want it to.” Laura Hankin (www.laurahankin.com) is also the author of “Happy & You Know It” and writes for publications such as McSweeney’s and HuffPost. Her musical comedy has been featured in The New York Times and The Washington Post, and her singing video, “Indoor Book Tour,” can be viewed at www.literaryhillbookfest.org.

Nevertheless…

Tilting at Windmills

In Laura Hankin’s new novel, “A Special Place for Women,” a gutsy reporter infiltrates the inner sanctum of an elite women’s club.

Jillian Beckley is having one of those days. You know the kind, when “you need to take one more tequila shot and splash some water on your face.” She’s just lost her reporting job and is badly in need of an idea to land her a new one. Then she learns of Nevertheless. Laura Hankin’s new book, “A Special Place for Women,” focuses on a fictional club for wealthy women in New York City. “An unholy elitist union of corporate interest and pseudoscience,” Nevertheless is suspected of being behind both the election and the eventual downfall of the Big Apple’s first female mayor. So, what if someone were able to infiltrate the club, discover their secrets, and then write an exposé? “An undercover operation would be very difficult,” her editor points out when Jillian pitches the idea to him. “I eat difficult for breakfast,” she swaggers. Jillian’s mission would not only secure her some gainful employment, but it would also keep a promise she made to her dying mother, who was a big fan of the former mayor, to find out the truth about what happened. Of course, being a “pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword warrior” is easier said than done. The further she gets into the inner circle of Nevertheless, the

Dominguita Melendez would rather spend recess reading than playing dodgeball (a girl after my own heart). But when a bully throws her copy of “Don Quixote” into the dirt, she is forced to defend herself and she proclaims herself a knight-in-training. “A knight!” he scoffs. “Girls can’t be knights!” So Dominguita dons a cape and becomes Dom Capote. She takes on a squire and a steed (a mangy mutt she names Roco), and sets off to show the bully that girls can SO be knights! “Knight of the Cape” is the first in Terry Catasús Jennings’s “Definitely Dominguita” series of

Terry Catasús Jennings has created a series of children’s books based on classic literature, starting with “Definitely Dominguita: Knight of the Cape.”

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T chapter books for six- to nine-yearold readers. Charmingly illustrated by Fatima Anaya, the stories are based on Dominguita’s (and Terry’s) love of classic novels. In “Knight of the Cape,” Dominguita follows in the bumbling but well-meaning footsteps of Don Quixote, “wander[ing] around looking for adventure and for creatures who need rescuing.” Early on, however, “she made a decision on the damsel thing. Most damsels can take care of themselves,” she declares. “I’m going to rescue anyone who’s in distress. Not just damsels.” Like her literary inspiration, Dominguita’s adventures sometimes go amiss (who knew the blades on the restaurant’s decorative windmill would snap off ?). But, as her brother points out, Don Quixote “always tried to do the right thing. The thing a good knight would do. And that’s what you did.” As Dom Capote might say, “Just so.” In the second book in the series, “Captain Dom’s Treasure,” Dominguita and her new friends try to decipher an old map they’ve discovered in a copy of “Treasure Island.” The third installment, “All for One,” based on “The Three Musketeers,” will be published later this summer, and “Sherlock Dom” comes out this fall. Terry Catasús Jennings, who came to the US from Cuba in 1961, is an award-winning author of children’s non-fiction and fact-based fiction who writes for various educational outlets, including Ranger Rick and the Smithsonian’s Science and Technology for Children series. www.terrycatasusjennings. com u

his year’s virtual Literary Hill BookFest featured a number of treats for poetry lovers: video readings by E. Ethelbert Miller, Teri Ellen Cross Davis, Dana Gittings, and many other local poets; an online reprise of our live event, “Poetry on the Patio,” hosted by Jonathan Lewis; and a crowd-sourced poem that Lewis shared publicly for the first time on May 2. You can still view it all at www.literaryhillbookfest.org. Lewis, the award-winning author of “Babel On,” compiled the crowd-sourced poem from more than 17 entries. He also contributed the opening line. “I was thinking about how much has changed in the past year alone,” he says, “and even as we are returning to normalcy, nothing really is the same. In our Capitol Hill neighborhood especially, so much has happened in the first few months of 2021. And so I came up with the prompt ‘I see my life with new eyes now’.” The resulting poem, which reflects themes of disruption, reflection, and renewal, is printed below. “It was incredible to read so many thoughtful, powerful, heartbreaking, and even funny poems that were written in a very short turnaround based on this prompt,” Lewis observes. “And the wonderful privilege and challenge of working on a crowdsourced poem, is that you are creating a completely new work that still pays homage to each of the poems that contributed to it.”

Now I See My Life with New Eyes A crowdsourced poem by Serena Agusto-Cox, Dean Blehert, Stanley Chin, Tori L. Collins, Darryl Denning, Mark Fishbein, Lucy Gettman, Chris Haley, Donald Illich, Katie Irish, Monica Masiello, Keith David Parsons, P.S. Perkins, Kim Roberts, Heather Schoell, L.B. Sedlacek, and Mary Sesso. Arranged by Jonathan Lewis Now I see my life with new eyes, after winter dug a ditch in my days. I was stuck until pulled out by the yellow of forsythia and the gold of dandelions. I catch a thread of light. Now I see my life with new eyes, where Spring on the Hill brings cherry blossoms to bloom. But this year, any pleasure found in their beauty is steadied by guilt from police violence, COVID sickness, and overall gloom. Now I see my life with new eyes, where we had before worn pleasure in our smiles, today we wear it masked. Family members survive, friends of friends gone, masks, distance, isolation, eyes still wide open. Now I see my life with new eyes, new eyes that rage at injustice that can’t be remedied, at so many families broken and in crisis. Always we must beg forgiveness for surviving in the charnel house, for being the ones to sort bones back to names. Now I see my life with new eyes, new eyes that dampen at the killing of people too brown to be protected and served like I am. It is too easy to claim the eyes of the dead. The eyes of George Floyd. I don’t hear, taste, touch, smell or see everything. How dare I pretend to?

Now I see my life with new eyes, no longer filtering out the gray, only wanting to see in black and white. Yes, now is different, unlike before, as more people understand and act, if they could keep on keeping on with all the dirt the earth has muddied under them, turning sighs to human power. Now I see my life with new eyes, the eyeballs I stole from the neighbor who sunbathed in his backyard, sleeping, and will hardly notice they’re gone. This day I will not think about tomorrow. I will delight in all that exists around me. I am free to choose my path, and leave the one I’m on. Now: to see my life I close my eyes and let my fingers read the braille of your hips, rising like a dune. Leaving the east for the west, bringing me closer to the sky. Now I breathe in with new lungs, a trip to the drugstore feels like a vacation, a handshake is a hug. It’s not freedom, but I’ll have people to talk to and touch, laughter I can share, fingers and toes to count.

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I see reality with new eyes – airplanes and skyscrapers! An apple peel curls around my hand, touch like skin on skin. My daughter smiles, leans into me, eager for a bite. Your hand, reaching for mine: A miracle.

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“Por la Orrilla del Mar” Matt Willard, saxophone Saxophonist Matt Willard, from Virginia, has just released his debut single, “Por la Orrilla del Mar.” The exotic track, which he wrote, showcasing the tenor saxman’s impassioned play, is the first in a series of singles for his upcoming album later this year. A staccato Latin rhythm constructed by 78 H HILLRAG.COM

drummer Steve Brewster and bassist Jacob Lowery is the pedestal for the lush melodies of “Por la Orrilla del Mar.” Guitarist Dave Cleveland adds to the harmony, while keyboardist Jason Webb shines when trading solos with Mr. Willard, whose deft saxplay runs the gamut of emotion from intense, raw and emotional to restrained, poised and harnessed. A horn section underscores and illumines the saxophone excursions. “Por la Orrilla del Mar” offers a promising glimpse of what’s to come from the artist upcoming album.

Exhale • • • Richard Smith, guitar Last March, guitarist Richard Smith was in a battle for his life with stage-3 throat cancer. A year later and now cancer free, Mr. Smith has released his first US single in five years, “Let’s Roll,” which he wrote with guitarist Adam Hawley, and featuring saxophonist-flutist Jeff Kashiwa. The single previews the artist forthcoming 13th album, Language of the Soul, which he plans to drop in the fall. According to Mr. Smith the album title comes from a piece written by the Nobel prize poet Pablo Neruda, whom he discovered while on tour in Argentina. The new album will feature a collection of pieces that the artist recorded over the last two years while living in Finland, Italy, Greece, London, and while isolated in LA due to the pandemic. Although Mr. Smith describes the exuberant R&B instrumental groove on “Let’s Roll” as “very West Coast, very LA,” songs from the upcoming album tackle weightier subjects than just “palm trees, ocean breezes and great vibes.” u

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s summer approaches, it is time to start thinking about all those special places to walk along the Anacostia and its tributaries, especially this year when we long to get out and away. Here is a set of six of my favorite hikes, some well travelled but others you may not know about. Let’s start at the top of the watershed and come downstream to more familiar territory.

Sandy Spring Starting at the very top where the River bubbles forth out of a spring in the middle of a field, let’s take a walk to the place that gave its name to the village of Sandy Spring in Montgomery County. Sandy Spring is generally recognized as the farthest source of the Anacostia. And it is an attractive spot, out in the middle of a field but not very far from the edge of the woods on public land rented to farmers. The spring itself is surrounded by a low fence and bubbles up through the rocks, then finds its way south through the woods, growing into the Northwest Branch. In addition to this attractive scene, there is an interesting piece of history here. To reach the spring, you drive past the Quaker Meeting House that served as a stop along the Underground Railroad for enslaved people escaping from the south, and using the Anacostia as part of their route. You feel surrounded by history and nature. There are many trails to walk in the area around the spring, so even though getting there is not more than a half mile or so, you can continue to explore. Directions: Take the Beltway to I-95 north towards Baltimore. Take Exit 33 after a few miles and follow MD 198 west (left) to MD 650 north (right) to MD 108 west (left) at Ashton to Sandy Spring (this all happens fast and is not far). In town, turn left on Meeting House Road, pass the Quaker meeting house, park near the gate at the end of the road and walk through the gate into the field, following the

by Bill Matuszeski dirt track and looking for the low fence and spring on the left.

Burnt Mill This is the starting point for a spectacular walk along the Northwest Branch where it crosses the fall line in a series of falls over huge rocksand cliffs. It starts a mile and a half north of the Beltway and most of the falls are in the first part. The three-mile round trip allows you to avoid the rough trail along the falls coming back by staying on the Northwest Branch Trail which returns you to the same parking lot as the Fall Line Trail. Make sure you have excellent traction on your feet as you scramble over the rocks! Directions: Take the Beltway west past the I-95 interchange and exit at MD 193 north onto University Boulevard, then quickly another right onto MD 29 North, Columbia Pike. After a mile or so you will start down a long grade that has the mill on the left, and parking and trails on the right.

Directions: Exit the Beltway at New Hampshire Avenue, the first exit west after the I-95 interchange. Go south to the first major intersection, turning left on Adelphi Road then right on Riggs Road; the Mill and parking are on the right in about a mile and a half.

Lake Artemesia Shifting over to the Northeast Branch, there is a very special place hidden on the other side of the tracks from College Park. It is slowly becoming known to

Adelphi Mill This is a smoother trail suitable for bicycles, in contrast to the one above, to which it connects. It passes along a much calmer Northwest Branch, but is still located in a beautiful wooded valley with many plant attractions. It is about a seven-mile round trip walk from the Adelphi Mill to Beltway, where it meets the Northwest Branch Trail segment from Burnt Mill, but the last half mile is not paved. The Beltway high overhead where the two segments meet is impressive. If you bring children, there is a great playground back by the parking at the Mill.

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folks as a place to go to walk around the ponds and get away from the world. It is located right above where the Branch splits into Paint Branch which heads northwest into the University campus, and Indian Creek, which advances north into the lake area and spreads out as Indian Creek Stream Valley Park. Bicycles are welcome throughout the area of lakes and parklands. Directions: Auto access and parking is best from Greenbelt Road, staying east of the railroad and Metro tracks and driving south to the Park areas. Via Metro, exit at the College Park Station, then walk or bike northwest towards College Park. At US 1, Go right for 100 feet, cross the bridge and go right again onto Paint Branch Trail, passing under the Metro and entering the Park.

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Across the River from the National Arboretum is another spectacular place to spend time with nature – the National Park Service’s Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens. This is the best time of year to see it in its glory – with the acres of lotus in bloom and many other flowers and plants providing contrast with their colors and shapes. There are so many places to wander among the flowers, and then the wooden walkways out

over the marshes and all the wildlife that resides there. Not to be missed! And accessible either by car or by taking the hiker/biker trail along the River to the entry path just south of the New York Avenue bridge.

Pope Branch Park Continuing down-river, Pope Branch Park is a very special place hidden away so well in the residential neighborhoods above Pennsylvania Avenue that it is unusual to run into a single other human, and quite normal to be greeted by deer, owls and all their friends. Pope Branch is a partly restored stream that crosses under Minnesota Avenue and the Freeway and enters the Anacostia. Upstream is a deep woods with a wandering trail that begins off of M Place, SE, right above Minnesota Avenue. The trail rises up to street level in a few places, but then draws you on to take another dip down into paradise. It must be seen and experienced. And it is best to get lost. Bill Matuszeski is a member of the Mayor’s Leadership Council for a Cleaner Anacostia River, and the retired Director of the Chesapeake Bay Program. He also serves on the board of Friends of the National Arboretum and on Citizen Advisory Committees for the Chesapeake and the Anacostia. u

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with a very small dose each morning but took days off so she would not build up a tolerance. “I liken a day of micro-dosing to what I consider my ideal morning routine,” explained Lavasani. “A solid eight hours of sleep with a morning workout, shower and a good breakfast. It feels like you are well rested and ready to troubleshoot your day. There is no ’trip’ experience with a micro-dose. It’s more of a feeling of empowerment than anything. You feel in control of your emotions and your body.” Lavasani and her husband are both well educated, both working in DC government jobs, the parents of young children – not the type of couple one might imagine looking to psychedelics as medicine. When a friend suggested she listen to an episode of the Joe Rogan Experience that featured the mycologist Paul Stamets speaking about the benefits of psilocybin mushrooms on mental health, Lavasani was quoted in a “Washingtonian” article (July 2020) as saying, “I assumed people that took psychedelics were people that were trying to escape their reality, that couldn’t deal with adulthood. But these weren’t normal times.” Lavasani got involved with plant medicine advocacy after treating her depression with psilocybin and ayahuasca. She wanted to share her experience with others and wanted to find a way that others could benefit from her knowledge without the secrecy she had to adhere to and the fear she felt of being “discovered” and even possibly losing her job. Melissa Lavasani and Daniel Conner with their children Lola, 6, and In November 2020 she launched Ramsey, 3.

n 2017, Melissa Lavasani and Daniel Conner were about to have their second child. Towards the end of her pregnancy Melissa started to have severe depression. “Instead of taking medication prescribed by my physician I chose to tough it out. Unfortunately it got worse after birth. I could barely function. I still did not want to take pharmaceuticals.” Lavasani chose a different path to healing. The couple secretly grew their own magic mushrooms in their closet. Her husband Daniel Conner grew up knowing about mushrooms. He became the cultivator, grower and doser for his wife. Lavasani micro-dosed her way to feeling better. “It was as if I was blind and deaf and could see colors and hear again. The quality of my life vastly improved.” It’s estimated that 10 percent of women struggle with postpartum anxiety or depression. Other studies have suggested that number may be even higher at 20 to 25 percent, according to Huffington Post. Lavasani said micro-dosing psilocybin enables one to get the benefits of the plant’s healing properties without hallucinating. She said she started

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Initiative 81 on the DC ballot. “It won by 76 percent which is the biggest margin for any DC initiative in its history,” said Lavasani.

Entheogenic Plant and Fungus Policy Act The Initiative did not legalize or decriminalize. Instead it shifts enforcement of laws against natural plant medicines or entheogens to be among the lowest law enforcement priorities. An entheogen is a natural plant or fungi substance that initiates non-ordinary states of consciousness which can inspire cognitive emotional, relational and spiritual growth and healing. An entheogen includes psilocybin-containing “magic mushrooms,” mescalinecontaining cacti, iboga-containing plants, and/ or DMT-containing plants and preparations such as ayahuasca. The passage of the initiative is just the beginning. Lavasani is working with the DC government to ensure proper implementation of the Act. “We want to educate by sharing our story. We also want to keep people safe,” she said. “We are working with the DC Metropolitan Police on implementation. We also want a worker/child protection bill to protect anyone who gets arrested with plant medicines from losing their children or their job.”

The Plant Medicine Coalition In January 2021 Lavasani founded and became the executive director of the Plant Medicine Coalition, whose mission is to “create, protect and promote safe, equitable access to natural and synthetic psychedelic and plant medicines through local and national advocacy.” Lavasani is working with other jurisdictions as well. “We are helping them develop a legislative strategy and learn how to talk to elected officials,” she said. One of Lavasani’s goals through the Plant

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versity of Basel and the University of Zurich. According to “Spirituality & Health” magazine, for thousands of years, people have used psilocybin mushrooms for spiritual journeys and various kinds of healing. Why? It’s powerful, but not addictive. Last year Oregon made the therapy legal for PTSD. What is old is becoming new again. When I googled books about magic mushrooms, there were no less than 20 ranging from the bible of psychedelics published in 1964 co-authored by Timothy Leary, The Psychedelic Experience, to a more contemporary book published in 2018 called How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan (author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma). To find out more about The Plant Medicine Coalition log onto: plantmedicinecoalition.org. To contact Lavasani email her at: melissa@ plantmedicinecoalition.org. Pattie Cinelli is a health and fitness professional and journalist who focuses on holistic and non-mainstream ways to stay healthy and get well. Please email her with questions or column suggestions at: fitmiss44@aol.com. u

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eartworm disease is endemic to the United States, and most of the dogs in Washington, DC, are taking a preventive to ward off this potentially deadly disease. Whereas heartworm has traditionally been rare within the dogs of DC, this has changed with the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and dog and cat parents need to be more vigilant than in the past. The pandemic did not cause more dogs to have heartworm, but more dogs with heartworm are now living in the city. As people increased dog ownership, many dogs came to the District from areas where the parasite is endemic and prevention is scant. Therefore they imported the disease to our city. It is important to remember how heart worm spread.Dogs look normal and usually show no clinical signs. Inside their bloodstream, larval heartworms called dirofilaria traverse blood vessels awaiting a chance encounter with a mosquito. When a mosquito bites an infected dog, it draws up some blood and possibly dirofilaria. These small baby heartworms live and mature within the mosquito and may be transferred to another dog if the mosquito bites it. Heartworm can only be acquired via a mosquito bite—there is no chance it can be obtained via play, casual contact, or from boarding or daycare situations. Once inside a dog, the small heartworms slowly migrate through body tissues, eventually settling and maturing within the right side of the heart and the arteries leading from the heart to the lungs. The process from time of entry until full maturity can take about six months. Adult worms will produce more microfilaria, starting the cycle once again. The six month lag between first acquiring microfilaria and maturity poses an opportunity

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HEARTWORM by Dan Teich, DVM and a major challenge. Current testing technology only permits screening for adult worms. Many dogs from shelters in endemic areas initially test negative for the disease, but are later found to be harboring mature worms in subsequent testing six months to a year later. This is not an uncommon scenario seen by the veterinarians at District Vet. The opportunity presented by the delay allows for preventives to kill micorfilaria for their first thirty to forty days within a dog or cat. Once the microfilaria reach above this age, they are usually not susceptible to monthly or infected preventives. Cats are not capable of harboring reproducing heartworms as they are not the definitive host, but they can be infected and have adult worms within their heart. There is no readily available treatment for adult heartworms in cats. The best treatment is prevention. Prevention is simple, especially for dogs. A number of oral preventives, given once per month year-round, will greatly reduce the incidence of any immature worms from surviving. HeartGard Plus, Interceptor Plus, and others prevent only heartworm and several intestinal parasites. Simparica Trio, new to the United States pet market in 2020, prevents heartworm, select intestinal parasites, fleas and ticks. It is a once per month combination medication, which has proven to be popular.

ProHeart12 is an injection given once per year by your veterinarian, which also prevents heartworm, but has no flea / tick prevention and only treats one intestinal parasite. It has utility, though, as some dog owners utilize flea / tick preventive more selectively through the year, and some dog absolutely refuse to eat the oral preventives. ProHeart12 is also foolproof: it is one and done for the year. Oral and topical preventives for cats are available and highly recommended especially for cats who are indoor/outdoor or live in a row house or non-high rise building. Remember, mosquitos are common, especially below the third floor of a building. Heartworm preventives are effective, but not foolproof. Annual testing is recommended in dogs. Preventive failure can result from missing doses, vomiting up a dose or pretending to eat it, or simply a few dirofilaria being resistant to the medication. When caught early, heartworm has a much better chance of successful treatment in dogs. Dan Teich, DVM is Medical Director at District Veterinary Hospital Eastern Market. u

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SARAH OROZCO graduated from Basis DC. GABRIELA OROZCO graduated from School Without Walls.

Lucien Anderson. He's graduating from School without Walls. He will be attending the University of North Carolina School of the Arts for filmmaking in the fall

Pasha Ishaq attends BASIS DC. Xavier L. Grimaldi, St. Anselm’s Abbey School

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Javier Benson, Maret, New York Univerity Helena Ikenberry, Washington Latin PCS Max Kuhn, Gettysburg College

Daniel Voss, Graduating from Washington Latin PCS

Congratulations Griffin Smith!, Washington Latin Class of 2021. CRC Juniors Co-Captain and now... "On, Wisconsin! On, Wisconsin! Grand old badger state!" Computer Science Major

Maxine Payne. She started school at SWS at Peabody and is graduating this spring from SWW HS.

Langston Jones, graduating from School Without Walls HS. Will be attending the University of Wisconsin – Madison in the fall.

Ben Butler

LiQian Shoag. Washington Latin Public Charter School, class of 2021. UCLA, class of 2025

Quinton, Graduating from School Without Walls. Going to Virginia Tech. Joesephine Crittenden and David LaFears on the first day of school together...

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Congratulations!,

Alex Mills

From Capitol Hill Montessori Monarch to School Without Walls Penguin (and soon University of Wisconsin Badger), you have shown up, treated friends with love and compassion, developed a growing fan club of educators, coaches, supervisors and team members, and as a former teacher best said it, maintained the attitude of “Ambassador of Positivity”! It’s just the beginning and you’re already more than we could imagine! We love you so much, Alex, and couldn’t be prouder!

Congratulations!! Annie TX Garner

A shout out to the Capitol Hill Community for supporting Annie from her toddler days to the present — playing in Garfield, Turtle, and X Parks, exciting days at the Thurgood Marshall Child Development Center, awe-inspiring days at Capitol Hill Day School, St. Peter School, with Ms. Frances, and beyond, yummy breakfasts and lunches at Eastern Market, Pete’s, and Le Bon Café, shopping at CVS and Frager’s, haircuts and lots of wild color with Ms. Latifa, and thoughtful, fun times at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. Our friends and neighbors have helped raise her from the shy but curious little one she was at 15 months to the daring, strong, confident, intelligent, and lovely young woman she is today.

Annie TX Garner will be attending LSU in fall 2021.

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Congratulations GrifFIn Smith! Washington Latin Class of 2021 CRC Juniors Co-Captain and now . . . “On, Wisconsin! On, Wisconsin! Grand old badger state!” Computer Science Major

– Love Mom & Dad

Congratulations!

Isaac Smoker We are so proud of you for following your dreams with humility, hope, and joy. May you always be smarter than whatever’s being pitched, have courage to catch what comes your way and throw everything back that doesn’t hit the mark with truth. We love you, Sweet Pea! Play Ball!

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Congratulations!

Congratulations Shelby for obtaining your Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Pittsburgh! We are so proud of your efforts to complete in four years a double major in Finance and Supply Chain Management with a minor in Sociology. A Capitol Hill kid to the core, you attended The Hill Preschool and St. Peter’s before heading off to St. John’s College High School. We could not be prouder of your accomplishments at Pitt with membership in Beta Alpha Psi and Alpha Delta Pi, to being co-president of the Finance Club. We look forward to your new adventures in New York City working for AIG!

– Much love, Mom, Dad, and Zachary

Wynne Magura-Comey Graduating from School without Walls HS Attending UCLA

You made it, Shifu! We are so proud of who you have become and can’t wait to see what you will do next! You amaze us with your creativity, insight, and poise. We love you to the moon and back!

– Mom, Dad, and Maeve

Gabriela Orozco

Mazal tov, felicidades, & congratulations!

Our poet, historian, apple monster, reader, dreamer. From Walls to Columbia University and List College. Enjoy! LOVE always!

Sarah Orozco

Congratulations, Mazal tov y felicidades! Our scientist, journalist, earth-protector, dancer, and BASIS DC salutatorian extraordinaire. Enjoy Emory. LOVE always!

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Congratulations!

Fiona Campbell

CONGRATULATES THE CLASS OF 2021!! In this unique year with unique challenges, you have shown unique strength and an ability to handle whatever comes your way. I’m grateful for the opportunities I’ve had to get to know many of you and I join you and your families in celebrating your graduation and your future. You have much to be proud of, and I wish all of you the very best.

– Becky Claster

Fiona – May you continue to find joy and adventure in every moment. Your lucky and loving family. – Robert, Claire, Elizabeth, Mom, Dad (and Timmy)

Congratulations to our Graduate,

Jackson Musie Class of 2021 St. Anselm’s Abbey School

– Love Mom Michael, Miles and Moon

Congratulations Ellie!! Our favorite daughter!:) We are so proud of everything you have achieved; it is difficult for us to put in words what we feel in our hearts. You have such a bright future ahead of you, UCLA is going to be a wonderful start to your adventure, and no doubt, an adventure it will be! Continue to be bold, challenging yourself, for we will always be your safety net, ready to catch you when you need us, guide you when asked, and love you always.

– LAMUM,D,N,O&J

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Congratulations!

Amalia Proper BASIS DC, Class of 2021 Congratulations Amalia! We are very proud of you!

Congratulations!

Daniel Voss

Your next adventure awaits and we’re excited to see where it leads you. With love and pride today and always, Mom and Dad

Congratulations!, Josephine Crittenden

Joey, we are so proud of you! Congrats on your School Without Walls HS graduation and your acceptance to the writing program at the University of Iowa! Love, your family, the Crittenden’s and the Scherr’s

Congratulations, THORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR! Keep bringing Peas on Earth at Virginia Tech! We are so proud of the person you are. – Love, Mom & Dad

Congratulations David LaFears David, we are so Proud of You! Congrats on your graduation from Archbishop Carroll High School and your acceptance to Marist College.

“Oh The Places You’ll GO”

Congratulations

Graduates!

Your community is proud of you! Good Luck & Godspeed!

– your friends at the Hill Rag!

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Hill Center Mad Science Summer Camps Hill Center Mad Science summer camps (for rising first to sixth graders) give kids the opportunity to learn about science through their interactive and hands-on science activities. These summer science programs let children become junior scientists for the summer and embark on a series of science adventures. Before care, aftercare, and half-day options are available. The Hill Center is at 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. hillcenterdc.org.

Art Tales for Pre-K Need ideas for how to talk about art with your little ones? Visit nga.gov/education/teachers/lessonsactivities/pre-k.html. In each box, you can explore artworks with your children, read books with related themes, and try your hand at making some art of your own. Find out about Romare Bearden, George Bellows, Louise Bourgeois, Mary Cassatt, Joseph Cornell, Wassily Kandinsky, Jacob Lawrence, Henri Matisse, Joan Miro; Claude Monet, Georgia O’Keeffe, Raphael, Diego Rivera, Henri Rousseau and Alma Thomas. Download the relat-

ed coloring pages and cut-outs for extra creative fun! nga.gov. Planning to visit the National Gallery of Art with a pre-K class? Register for Art Tales tours at nga.gov/education/teachers/school-tours/art-talessky-color.html.

Baseball: America’s Home Run The National Postal Museum will present, as soon as it reopens, a blockbuster exhibition exploring America’s national pastime. Featuring hundreds of US and international stamps commemorating great

National Zoo Reopens The National Zoo reopened to visitors on May 21. Zoo hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily. Free timed-entry passes are required. Masks and social distancing are also required. Restaurants and food trucks are open. Viewing of the Zoo’s newest panda cub, Xiao Qi Ji, will be limited for social distancing purposes and will require a separate free timed-entry pass. Visitors can obtain a free pass for Asia Trail/ Giant Pandas when they arrive at the Zoo. Passes will be released throughout the day. As a reminder for the public, Xiao Qi Ji is still young and sleeps a lot during the day. Xiao Qi Ji along with his parents can be viewed on the Zoo’s live panda cams. Visitors driving to the Zoo who wish to park must purchase parking in advance. Visitors can reserve passes online at si.edu/visit or by phone at 1-800-514-3849, ext. 1. si.edu/visit. Photo taken on Feb. 21, 2017. Giant Panda Bao Bao Departs Smithsonian’s National Zoo for China. Photo: Eric Long, Smithsonian’s National Zoo

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players, historic moments, and drawing on original artwork and archival material from the United States Postal Service’s esteemed Postmaster General’s Collection, the exhibition approaches the story from a unique, worldwide perspective. The display of stamps and mail will be complemented by dozens of objects loaned by other Smithsonian Institution museums, the National Baseball Hall of Fame, law enforcement agencies, and private collectors. The exhibition, in English and Spanish, will have broad appeal to collectors of stamps and memorabilia, family audiences, and diehard fans. Baseball: America’s Home Run is opening soon at the National Postal Museum, 2 Massachusetts Ave. NE. postalmuseum.si.edu.

#EZScience from Air and Space In the National Air and Space Museum’s #EZScience video series, presented in collaboration with with NASA, Museum director Dr. Ellen Stofan and NASA’s associate administrator for science Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen talk about the latest in planetary science and exploration. The 13 YouTube shows include: Exploring the Moon with Apollo; The Search for New Planets; Our Favorite Star-The Sun; The Path to Mars 2020; Balloon Science; NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope-Our Window to the Stars; Your Space Science Questions Answered; Your Career Questions Answered; Launching to Mars with NASA’s Perseverance Rover; Mars Perseverance Rover Will Look for Signs of Ancient Life; Preparing to Launch the Perseverance Rover to Mars; OSIRISRex Touches Down on Bennu; and International Space StationOur Home in Space for 20 Years. Share your questions about space

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The Swampoodle Park Wallholla Swampoodle Park is at the corner of Third and L Streets, NE. This 8,000-square-foot parcel--named for the vanished 19th century neighborhood it sits near--includes a dog space with an agility structure, a Wallholla (not in the dictionary) for children to climb on, and public seating. Designed by Lee & Associates in conjunction with community input, it is owned by the city and managed by the DC Department of Parks and Recreation. The dog park is maintained by Friends of NoMa Dogs. nomabid.org. Photo: Courtesy of the NoMa Business Improvement District

on social media using #EZScience and they could be answered in a future show. airandspace.si.edu.

The National Portrait Gallery’s Introducing... Introducing… a new kind of story time. Each week the National Portrait Gallery shines a light on some of this country’s lesser-known history makers and their portraits. Join them on YouTube every Wednesday at 11 a.m. for Introducing… with a Portrait Gallery educator. Children will learn more about art, hear the stories behind the por104 H HILLRAG.COM

traits, and even learn some new vocabulary. Select story times will be in Spanish. For children ages three and up and their families. npg.si.edu/events/ family-programs.

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National Children’s Museum is closed until further notice. Find STREAMwork classics on their website in the categories of design & build; nature spotlight; sensory play; science exploration; community connection; and climate action challenge. nationalchildrensmuseum.org/steamwork.

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Upcoming Shows at Wolf Trap’s Theater-in-the-Woods

Inez Barlatier: Ayiti, Stories and Songs from Haiti appear on Tuesday, July 20, 11 a.m. (gates at 10 a.m.) at Wolf Trap. Photo: Michell Zachs

Six Flags (formerly Wildworld) is Open for the Summer The Six Flags Amusement and Water Park, 13710 Central Ave., Upper Marlboro, is open almost daily, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., for the summer season. It offers thrill rides, family rides, kids rides, water rides and live entertainment. sixflags.com.

Tidal Basin Paddle Boats This summer, paddle your way around the Tidal Basin and spend some time with Thomas Jefferson. Soak up the sun and make monumental memories on the water in a paddle boat. One-hour ($32) and two-hour ($64) rentals are available. Boats accommodate up to four people. Tidal Basin, 1501 Maine Ave. SW, is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (all boats in at 7 p.m.). Best to reserve a boat in advance at boatingindc.com/boathouses/tidal-basin.

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vaccinated at walk-up sites and pharmacies across DC that are administering the Pfizer vaccine. Twelve and older residents can get vaccinated at the following District walk-up sites whenever they are open: Arena Stage, 1101 Sixth St. SW, Thursday to Sunday, 8 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m.; RISE Demonstration Center, 2730 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE, daily except Sunday, 9 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m. Safeway, CVS, and Walgreens pharmacies that are using the Pfizer vaccine can also vaccinate. In addition to these walk-up sites and Children’s National, 12 and older residents can also get vaccinated at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital and One Medical sites. coronavirus.dc.gov/vaccinatedc.

Inez Barlatier: Ayiti, Stories and Songs from Haiti on Tuesday, July 20, 11 a.m. Miami native Inez Barlatier celebrates Haitian art and culture through energetic drumming and singing, magical folktales, traditional dances, and colorful costumes. Joined onstage by her band of talented young Ayisyen artists, Inez explores themes of community and gratitude through song. For ages three to nine. $12, up. Oran Etkin, Timbalooloo: Finding Friends Far From Home on Wednesday, July 21, 11 a.m. Award-winning clarinetist Oran Etkin and his friend Clara Net (his clarinet) travel the world to make new instrument friends. Evoking a tale of friendship and understanding, the instruments speak to each other through music and open a window for audiences to experience other cultures. For ages two to ten. $12, up. Dan + Claudia Zanes with Friends: New Beginnings on Saturday, July 24, 11 a.m. Grammy Award-winner Dan Zanes (The Del Fuegos) and Haitian-American jazz vocalist and music therapist Claudia Zanes perform a mix of old and new songs from near and far. During this highly interactive show, the audience is invited to dance and sing along. For ages three to twelve. $12, up. Tickets are sold in socially-distanced pods of two to eight tickets. Pods must be purchased in their entirety. No single tickets are available. For Children’s Theatre-in-theWoods performances, each pod must include an adult over the age of 18. Joanie Leeds: All the Ladies on July 27, 11 a.m. Aiming to inspire young girls and people of all ages and gender identities, Grammy Award-winner Joanie Leeds’ music celebrates influential women of yesterday and today, such as Harriet Tubman, Amelia Earhart, Malala Yousafzai, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with a passionate and honest serving of female empowerment folk tunes. For ages four to twelve. $12, up. Elena Moon Park and Friends on July 28, 11 a.m. Join Korean-American musician Elena Moon Park and her friends on a journey around the globe as they perform folk and children’s music from East and Southeast Asia. Reimagined to celebrate musical traditions, languages, styles, and stories, plus original songs, the tunes range from northern Japanese sea shanties to Tibetan jump rope rhymes; joyous Korean harvest sing-alongs; Taiwanese train songs; and much more. Expect to dance and sing along in many different languages and take this “unhurried journey” around the globe. For ages two to nine. $12, up. wolftrap.org.

DC Kids Emergency Preparedness Guide Emergencies and disasters can be scary, but it is important to teach kids how to build an emergency kit,

recognize and respond to signs of danger, and be aware of their surroundings. Use the ReadyDC resource to help your children feel more prepared without being scared. Find a Kids Activity Page in English and Spanish at ready.dc.gov/resources.

HBCU’s Run the District Kids One-Mile Fun Run The Washington, DC Metro HBCU Alumni Alliance, Inc.’s community outreach mission is to improve the health and well-being of their communities. Their efforts are aimed at reducing health disparities that are pervasive in predominantly African American communities. Depending on where you live in the Washington, DC area, there is a 15-year difference in life expectancy. By leveraging the full value of the Alumni Alliance, they educate the community, provide financial resources, offer volunteers and work strategically with community partners to make a measurable impact. The 2021 (virtual) Run the District Kids’ Fun Run is for kids ten and under—meaning kids run independently. Sign up by June 26. $20 for kids. dchbcu.org.

Club Joe’s: Summer Arts Learning Summer Arts Learning at Joe’s Movement Emporium, 3309 Bunker Hill Rd., Mt. Rainier, MD, provides kids, ages five to thirteen, with exposure to the arts. Joe’s offers one-week sessions for elementary school-aged children to explore world arts traditions through performing and visual arts disciplines. Participants can enroll in one or all weeks. Early drop-off at 8 a.m. is available at no charge. From June 21 to Sept. 3, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., students will spend two to four hours in motion each day. Children experience dance, step, vocals, drama, percussion, creative movement play, jump rope and hooping. Small group sizes, masks, and social distancing will be incorporated as a general practice. $250 per week. joesmovement.org.

National Maternal & Infant Health Summit For the past three years, Mayor Muriel Bowser has convened District res-

idents, along with local and national elected officials, health and education thought leaders, and community partners to explore strategies to improve perinatal health and address racial inequities in birth outcomes. On Wednesday, Sept. 15, join Mayor Muriel Bowser for the fourth annual National Maternal & Infant Health Summit. This year’s Summit will feature panel discussions and community-led sessions dedicated to connecting District residents with local and national resources and supports needed to ensure babies, their families and communities have what they need to thrive. Learn more at dcmaternalhealth.com.

Lubber Run’s Family Performances Generations have enjoyed free summer cultural events at the sylvan venue nestled two blocks off Route 50 (North Columbus and Second Street North), Arlington. Bring a picnic and enjoy the arts at Lubber Run Amphitheater. Family performances are on Sundays at 11 a.m. Here’s the summer lineup: July 11, Encore Stage & Studio; July 11, Levine School of Music; July 25, Encore Stage & Studio; Aug. 1, Mr. Jon & Friends; Aug. 8, Mr. Gabe and the Circle Time All-Stars; Aug. 15, Rainbow Rock Band. Admission to Lubber Run Amphitheater remains free. Check their webpage and social media channels for the latest updates before making plans to attend a performance. arts. arlingtonva.us/lubber-run.

kidsrights.org Children are able to move the world. KidsRights puts their words into action. To directly realize child participation and children’s rights, KidsRights supports grassroots projects and actions of young change makers. KidsRights works with local partners to improve the environment for children’s rights on the themes Violence June 2021 H 107

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Marine Corps Marathon Kids’ Fun Run The Marine Corps Marathon has just announced that the 2021 Marine Corps Marathon Weekend will be held live and inperson this October 29 to 31 in Arlington. Both the marathon and the kids’ run will also be virtual. The virtual run means that kids run one mile but register to receive a shirt and finish-line medal. Registration is $8. Registration for the one-mile Kids’ Fun Run will open shortly at marinemarathon.org.

their family day events. Current online family days are: Cherry Blossom, Lunar New Year, The Nutcracker, Dia de los Muertos, SAAM Arcade, Gardens, Pride and May Day. americanart.si.edu/events/ family-zone.

Book Club for Kids Podcasts Book Club for Kids is a free 20-minute podcast designed to turn reluctant readers into lifelong book lovers. It has received grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Capitol Hill Community Foundation. Public radio veteran Kitty Felde calls Book Club for Kids “a podcast for kids, but also for we adults to eavesdrop on what the next generation is dreaming about and worrying about and passionate about.” Explore the Book Club for Kids Podcasts is at bookclubforkids.org.

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against Children, Child Participation, Education, Street Children, Child Labor and hiv/aids. The International Children’s Peace Prize is awarded annually to an exceptional child, whose courageous or otherwise remarkable actions have made a difference in improving children’s rights. KidsRights feels that children should be recognized, awarded and motivated in their efforts to improve their own situation and that of the children in their environment. Read more at kidsrights.org.

ments straight from their holdings. Here’s the lineup: June 2, Representing Congress; June 17, The Cold War in Political Cartoons; June 23, Foreign Affairs in Political Cartoons; Aug. 17, 6 Big Ideas in the US Constitution; Aug. 18, In Their Own Words-Women’s Petitions to Congress; Aug. 19, Racial Discrimination in the Jim Crow Era. Read more and register at archivesfoundation.org/civics.

Civics Education Online Workshops

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has moved their family days online. Enjoy all of your favorite SAAM activities including step-by-step instructions for crafting at home, printable coloring pages based on artworks in SAAM’s collection, schedules for upcoming online family programs, and videos from kidfriendly performers who partner with them during

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Awesome Con, Aug. 20 to 22, is DC’s own comic con. It celebrates all aspects of pop culture, including comic books, collectibles, toys, games, original art, cosplay and more. Awesome Con is one of the largest family-friendly events of its kind in the nation, with a large area dedicated to kids programming and events, including celebrity voice actors from Adventure Time on Cartoon Network, Guardians of the Galaxy on Disney XD, and the Skylanders video games. Don’t forget to join their kids costume parades, happening all three days. Washington Convention Center: Tickets $35. Children 10 and under get in free when accompanied by a paid adult. Tickets are $15 (kids) to $85 for a three-day pass. The Walter E. Washington Convention Center is at 801 Mt Vernon Pl. NW. awesomecon.com. u

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