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The Dupont Current

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Vol. XV, No. 25

Serving Dupont Circle, Kalorama, Adams Morgan & Logan Circle

Kramerbooks expands Dupont shop

POTTY PROBLEMS

■ Business: New owners say

they won’t change store flavor

By MARK LIEBERMAN Current Staff Writer

Kramerbooks and Afterwords Cafe, recently under new ownership, is in the process of expanding its store into a vacant retail space next door to its Dupont Circle location, with plans to open as

early as next week.

The space at 1511 Connecticut Ave. NW, previously occupied by Willie T’s Lobster Shack, will help Kramerbooks expand and spread out its offerings, according to Jamie Galler, the store’s new chief operating officer.

“Over 40 years Kramers has become 10 pounds of you know what in a 5-pound bag,” Galler said at last week’s meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commis-

sion 2B (Dupont Circle). “What we hope to do is give the business, particularly the cafe, some more breathing room.”

Willie T’s Lobster Shack closed in February and reopened nearby at 1333 19th St. NW in May. Galler — who has prior experience in fast-casual and upscale restaurants in New York City — appeared hesitant to offer specifics about the Kramerbooks expanSee Expansion/Page 5

Area high schoolers rally against Trump

By MARK LIEBERMAN Current Staff Writer

Brian Kapur/The Current

Wilson High School opened its production last week of “Urinetown, the Musical,” an irreverent, satirical tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution set in a city in the grips of a water shortage that has led to a ban on private toilets. Performances continue Friday and Saturday.

More than a thousand high school students — perhaps many more, according to some estimates — from across the region spent their Tuesday afternoon out of the classroom and in the streets of downtown to protest the election of Donald Trump.

The protest started as an effort by several Wilson High School student groups, which announced the protest on social media earlier this week using the hashtag #DCPSWalkout. Media reports on Tuesday morning about the planned event didn’t do justice to the scale and scope of the four-hour, five-mile demonstration, which began at the Trump International Hotel before heading to the Supreme Court and U.S. Capitol, then back across the Mall to the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, and finally to the White House.

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Initiated by Wilson students, the anti-Trump protest swelled as various high schoolers cut classes to march against the president-elect.

Dupont ANC opposes station redevelopment

Commission moves toward modest reform of PUD rule

By MARK LIEBERMAN

■ Zoning: Critics still wary of

Current Staff Writer

A significant apartment building project at a gateway into the Dupont Circle neighborhood rankled community leaders and residents at a meeting last week, airing concerns that the project would close a heavily trafficked service station and compromise the neighborhood’s aesthetic integrity.

Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2B (Dupont Circle) passed two resolutions objecting to the 2200 P St. NW project last Wednesday. One urges the developer, Marx Realty, to seek city approval to close the existing Sunoco before proceeding with its current application to relocate the landmarked service station building elsewhere on the property to make room for its planned nine-story building. The other expresses concerns about the relocation plan.

added flexibility on lot sizes

By BRADY HOLT Brian Kapur/The Current

Developer Marx Realty has proposed relocating the landmarked service station building to make room for a nine-story apartment house at 2200 P St. NW.

Marx Realty purchased the site with plans to close the Sunoco and construct a 34-unit 59,000-squarefoot apartment building with a ground-floor restaurant and outdoor dining area. The plan currently includes three different options for the new orientation of the station building on the site, but ANC 2B member See Station/Page 5

Current Staff Writer

The planned unit development process is a popular way for developers to receive substantial flexibility from land-use restrictions in exchange for providing public benefits and undergoing detailed design review by the city’s Zoning Commission.

The complications, uncertainty and expense of such a process generally impose a de facto limit

on these planned unit developments, or PUDs. Generally, only developers of a large property would be interested. But the Zoning Commission sparked concerns from some community leaders earlier this year when it considered a proposal to allow PUDs on any lot size.

Last month, commissioners granted preliminary approval to a compromise. Existing minimum lot sizes would remain, and the Zoning Commission could continue to waive only 50 percent of that minimum in low-density residential and commercial areas, as See Zoning/Page 7

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Spring Valley project

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Calendar/26 Classifieds/37 District Digest/4 Dupont Circle Citizen/11 Exhibits/27 In Your Neighborhood/16

Developer of Ladybird building presents traffic plan, but fears remain in community / Page 3

Local festivals bring holiday traditions from around the world to Washington / Page 18

New exhibit at National Gallery showcases 100 compositions by modernist Stuart Davis / Page 11

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Spring Valley project sparks concern about traffic issues

By CUNEYT DIL

Current Correspondent

Developers behind a proposed grocery store and residential project at 48th and Yuma streets NW presented an early look last week into how much traffic they anticipate in the neighborhood and on Massachusetts Avenue.

The project by Valor Development — dubbed The Ladybird — would bring 230 residential units, a large supermarket and some additional retail space spread across two buildings at the former Superfresh site in American University Park, neighboring the Spring Valley Shopping Center.

Opponents have said the density is out of character with the surrounding neighborhood of largely single-family houses and with the small-scale commercial buildings on the nearby stretch of Massachusetts Avenue.

The debate turned to traffic issues at last Thursday’s meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3E (Tenleytown, Friendship Heights, American University Park). At morning peak hours, 90 vehicles are expected to be entering the entire development site while 97 exit, according to find-

ings from Valor Development’s traffic study. At evening peak hours, the study anticipates 244 vehicles to be entering the site and 196 exiting.

The preliminary findings were presented at last Thursday’s meeting, and the five ANC 3E members generally did not express concern over the projected traffic figures.

“I’m not spotting a lot of trouble,” commissioner Tom Quinn said of the side streets and Massachusetts Avenue, though he wanted officials to take a look into easing the flow of vehicles at intersections.

Residents at the meeting had stronger words for the developers.

Some residents expressed concerns that the influx of traffic in the neighborhood could pose safety issues for children. Shelly Repp said that his group, Citizens for Responsible Development, is pushing for a smaller-scale development on the site and has hired its own traffic consultant to critique the findings presented by the development team.

“Our view is that it’s too big,” he said. According to Repp, a lot of neighbors would support “a See Traffic/Page 5

Bowser hears Woodley Park concerns about development

By KATE MAGILL Current Correspondent

Mayor Muriel Bowser recently spoke before an overflowing room in Woodley Park in an attempt to address community concerns over planned development at the Marriott Wardman Park hotel property.

The mayor’s remarks at the Woodley Park Community Association’s Oct. 26 meeting, however, left some residents frustrated that she wasn’t able to offer more details on how the city will deal with the project’s possible impacts — which she had been invited to the meeting to discuss. Bowser offered procedural information but said she didn’t have detailed information on this particular development, saying she was there to hear what residents thought about the issue.

There has been neighborhood outcry in recent months over real estate company JBG’s proposal to redevelop the 16-acre site at 2660 Woodley Road NW into a residential housing complex. More than 400 residents have signed a petition officially opposing the project, citing concerns regarding the historic preservation of the neighborhood, the loss of open green space and the strain that so many new residents could put on the

area.

While JBG recently withdrew a proposal to eventually raze the hotel and build more than 1,600 residential units on the property, the company is still pursuing a second plan to build on the open green space along Woodley Road.

Residents raised their concerns with these plans to Bowser, asking that both JBG and the D.C. government respect the opinions of community members who worry about the impact that a greater number of residents in the area could have on traffic, schools and park space.

Bowser said that the Office of Planning will look at JBG’s proposal and how it aligns with the Comprehensive Plan before making a recommendation to the Zoning Commission concerning the development. She also said that the construction of more housing is necessary to accommodate the growing population in the District, but that developers should work closely with communities from the beginning of the process so that their voices are taken into account.

“Just saying ‘There’s too many people’ is not the way to argue against the application,” Bowser said. “It’s push/pull everywhere.

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The week ahead Thursday, Nov. 17

The D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board will meet at 9 a.m. in Room 220 South, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW. ■ The D.C. Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting to discuss the proposed “Union Station to Georgetown Streetcar Environmental Assessment.” The meeting will focus on the west end of the study area, from K Street at 20th Street NW to lower K Street at Wisconsin Avenue NW. The meeting will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in Ballroom A/B, Pinstripes at Georgetown Park, 1064 Wisconsin Ave. NW; the presentation will begin at 6:30 p.m.

■ The D.C. Department of Transportation will host a community meeting to discuss traffic safety at Ward Circle.

The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. in the community room at Mann Elementary School, 4430 Newark St. NW (enter from 45th Street).

■ The Cleveland Park Citizens Association will host a community meeting with Mayor Muriel Bowser at 7:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Park Congregational United Church of Christ, 34th and Lowell streets NW.

Friday, Nov. 18

The Ward 4 Democrats group will hold its annual Ethel Delaney Lee Din-

ner at 6 p.m. in the ballroom at the St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, 4335 16th St. NW. Honorees will include Mayor Muriel Bowser, Sterling Tucker, Ella Peete and Theresa Cusick. Tickets are $75 to $85. For details, visit ward4democratsdc.org.

Saturday, Nov. 19

The West End Citizens Association will hold its fall membership meeting at 2 p.m. in the Parish Hall at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 728 23rd St. NW. The featured speaker will be at-large D.C. Council member Robert White. A representative of Urban Investment Partners will also attend to discuss plans for the old Howard Johnson’s property at 2601 Virginia Ave. NW that was most recently a George Washington University dormitory.

Tuesday, Nov. 29

The D.C. Public Schools will hold a public hearing to obtain feedback on the upcoming fiscal year 2018 budget. The hearing will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. at Kelly Miller Middle School, 301 49th St. NE. To sign up to testify, call Allen Francois at 202-442-5112 or visit bit.ly/2016BudgetHearing; the deadline is 3 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 25.

■ The Citizens Association of Georgetown will host a meeting on the renovation of Hyde-Addison Elementary

School and the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Speakers will include Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 3240 O St. NW. A tour of Hyde-Addison will be available during the pre-meeting reception from 7 to 7:30 p.m.

■ The Chevy Chase Citizens Association will host an informal discussion and meet and greet at 7:30 p.m. at the Chevy Chase Community Center, 5601 Connecticut Ave. NW.

Wednesday, Nov. 30

The Ward 3 Wilson Feeder Education Network will meet at 7 p.m. at the Chevy Chase Library, 5625 Connecticut Ave. NW. The guest speaker will be Faith Gibson Hubbard, chief student advocate.

Thursday, Dec. 1

The D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board will meet at 9 a.m. in Room 220 South, One Judiciary Square, 441 4th St. NW. ■ The D.C. Public Library will hold a community meeting on plans for the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library’s renovation. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Library, 7420 Georgia Ave. NW.

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District Digest City touts progress on housing veterans

The District has housed nearly 1,800 homeless veterans since August 2013, D.C. officials announced ahead of Veterans Day last week.

The city’s progress on that front can be attributed to a coalition of government agencies and partners called Veterans NOW, according to a news release from Mayor Muriel Bowser. The group includes participation from the D.C. Interagency Council on Homelessness, the D.C. Department of Human Services and the D.C. Housing Authority, among other city agencies, along with a long list of nonprofits including Friendship Place, Miriam’s Kitchen and Catholic Charities.

Currently, there are just over 300 veterans experiencing homelessness on any given night in the District, according to Bowser’s

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release, which notes that this count “reflects both significant progress and underscores the magnitude of need in our community.�

Affordable housing projects win funding

City officials last week announced the selection of 13 projects to produce or preserve over 1,200 affordable units across D.C., with support from almost $108 million in public funds.

Four of the projects are located in Ward 4 in Northwest, including Abrams Hall at the former Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

There, the Urban Atlantic and Hines firms will work to redevelop the campus’ “Building 14� with 80 new affordable units for seniors, according to a newsletter from Ward 4 D.C. Council member Brandon Todd.

The Ward 4 projects aiming to preserve existing affordable units will take place at the 5610 Colorado Ave. NW Cooperative (36 units), the Fort Stevens Place Apartments at 1339 Fort Stevens Drive NW (59 units), and the Partner Arms 2 at 4506 Georgia Ave. NW (12 units), according to Todd. The latter project, he said, will provide permanent supportive housing for extremely lowincome and homeless families.

In total, the Ward 4 projects will produce or preserve 187 affordable units, according to Todd.

These projects and the nine others that Mayor Muriel Bowser announced last week will receive investments from a number of sources, including $102.5 million from the city’s Housing Production Trust Fund. In total, the projects will use nearly $108 million in public funding plus private funding from developers, and will house approximately 2,730 District residents, according to the D.C. Department of Housing and

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Bowser and other officials announced the projects the same day the DC Housing Preservation Strike Force released a final action plan for preserving and producing more affordable units across the city. The mayor assembled the 18-member task force in 2015 with housing experts and selected stakeholders.

The group’s action plan includes establishing a preservation unit within a designated District agency, creating a public-private preservation fund, developing an affordability program for small properties, and establishing programs geared at seniors aging in place. The plan aims to strengthen the decades-old Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act and establish new regulations for DOPA (the District Opportunity to Purchase Act) to allow the city to transfer properties at risk of losing affordable units to prequalified developers.

Georgetown rink now open after brief delay

Ice skating at Washington Harbour began Sunday after brief delays from unexpected weather conditions, according to assistant manager Samy Bensidhoum.

The rink at 3050 K St. NW in Georgetown was scheduled to open on Friday, but wind conditions were making ice production difficult, Bensidhoum said. “It’s the weather. Mother Nature’s our biggest enemy here,� he said. “We were trying to make a lot of ice, and we had to deal with a lot of wind, which makes slush.�

Small portions of the rink, particularly on the edges, remain cordoned off, allowing more time for them to become even. Bensidhoum said the rink will be fully open by this coming weekend. “There’s certain areas that are higher and lower in certain spots,� said Bensidhoum. “We’ve got to get the ice leveled out.�

Regular hours for the rink are noon to 7 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, noon to 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, noon to 10 p.m.

Friday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. Adult entry costs $10; children, seniors and military personnel pay $9. Skate rentals are $6.

The rink is expected to stay open until March.

Interim plans outlined during MLK closure

The D.C. Public Library system is laying out plans for interim services after the central Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library is closed next spring, including expanded hours at neighborhood libraries and the opening of a temporary library at 19th and K streets NW. Library officials are hosting

community meetings throughout November and December to share details on interim services.

The downtown King library at 901 G St. NW is slated to shut down in spring 2017 for its $208 million modernization project. At that time, the 25 neighborhood libraries across the District — currently closed on Thursday mornings — will start operating that day at 9:30 a.m. In addition, the neighborhood libraries will be housing “many items that are unique to the [King library] and books that are in good condition,� according to a news release.

A 5,750-square-foot “Library Express� location will open at 1990 K St. NW, covering some of the central library’s downtown services, including public access computers, the Adult Literacy Resource Center and the Center for Accessibility.

The King library’s Special Collections, including parts of its Washingtoniana collection, will be available at partner organizations such as the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., with certain items available on request at the Library of Congress and the Georgetown Library’s Peabody Room. And “The Labs� at the King Library — which include fabrication, memory, and studio labs — “will be modified and relocated,� officials said.

In Northwest, upcoming community meetings to discuss the plans will take place at the Juanita E. Thornton/Shepherd Park Library on Dec. 1 at 7 p.m., and at the Tenley-Friendship Library on Dec. 13 at 7 pm.

Full details on the interim services plan and images of the latest modernization designs for the King library are available at dclibrary.org/mlkfuture.

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device to be in place for six months, and a second conviction requires the device for a year.

The measure — a part of the District’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Act — cleared congressional review last month after Mayor Muriel Bowser signed it into law in July. According to WRAP, the law advances the goals of Bowser’s program to help achieve zero fatalities and serious injuries to D.C. travelers by 2024.

Registration opens for DPR programs

Registration for the D.C. Department of Parks and Recreation’s winter programs will begin this Thursday, the agency announced.

Offerings at recreational facilities across the city include sports programs, swim classes for adults and children, fitness classes like aerobics and Zumba, enrichment activities for teens, and a variety of programs geared specifically toward seniors, the agency says.

Residents can register for the programs online starting at 6:30 a.m. on Nov. 17. The full listing of activities is available at tinyurl.com/dcdpr-classes, but residents must create an account in order to register.

New city law expands interlock ignition use Van Ness group holds Convicted drunk drivers in fruitful fundraiser D.C. are now required to install

breathalyzers, or “interlock ignition devices,� in their vehicles for a minimum of six months.

Under the D.C. law, any person with a D.C. license who is convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol or a narcotic drug is required to enroll in the Interlock Ignition Program as a condition of their restricted license. The devices prevent a car from starting if the breathalyzer detects that the driver has consumed alcohol.

The nonprofit Washington Regional Alcohol Program is celebrating the law as an important step forward for safe roads. “With the District of Columbia averaging a DUI arrest [every] six hours, this new law is not only welcomed but necessary,� WRAP president Kurt Gregory Erickson says in a news release.

Under the law, a first conviction requires a certified interlock

Van Ness Main Street held a sold-out fundraising party Nov. 5 at the recently opened Park Van Ness mixed-use building. The event attracted more than 150 attendees and netted $7,500.

The money will be used for landscaping and streetscape improvements in the neighborhood that are not covered by a Department of Small and Local Business Development grant recently received by the group.

Food was provided gratis by the soon-to-open Sfoglina Restaurant and the recently opened Soapstone Market, both located in Park Van Ness. Wine and beer were provided by Calvert Woodley Fine Wines & Spirits.

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TRAFFIC: Project stirs concerns From Page 3

lower residential building with fewer units and a smaller grocery store.�

Will Lansing of Valor said at the meeting that the final traffic report will be available in early to mid-December.

The development team recently filed its application for a design review with the Zoning Commission. Valor’s plans are to build five floors of residential units over a grocery store, in addition to setback penthouse units on top, at 48th and Yuma. A second building, four stories tall, would be built at 48th and Windom Place, after Windom is extended west as a 40-foot-wide pedestrian walkway into the site’s core.

Valor representatives listed traffic mitigation strategies that could be employed in the neighborhood, such as retiming traffic lights and adding a mid-block crossing across Massachusetts Avenue. They also plan to run a

shuttle for residents to and from the Tenleytown Metro station.

There will be a total of 460 underground parking spaces, with 147 intended for grocery and retail customers, according to Valor’s filing with the Zoning Commission. For residents of both buildings, 77 spaces will be reserved, while 236 additional spaces will be shared between Ladybird residents and American University’s building next door.

The development has been a source of contention between residents who are against the scale of the development and those who welcome the added housing and vibrancy it could bring to a quiet slice of Northwest.

Lansing said his firm plans to return to ANC 3E in December or January for another presentation.

ANC 3D, which represents the area just across Massachusetts, is also expected to weigh in. The plan is likely to see a hearing at the Zoning Commission in February.

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Daniel Warwick thinks the relocation concept itself is “troubling,� he said last Wednesday. “When you think about a historic landmark, it’s not just the building, but the built environment that surrounds it,� Warwick said.

Even before the developer gets around to that phase, though, Warwick and his colleagues think it has a bigger hurdle to overcome: securing approval from the city’s Gas Station Advisory Board.

Under legislation passed in 2014, the conversion of a service station in the city to another use can proceed only if the board recommends to the mayor that an exemption be granted, according to a report from the D.C. Council’s Committee of the Whole.

The new legislation stemmed from a 2008 report indicating a steady decline in the number of service stations in D.C. Information about the status of the Gas Station Advisory Board is hard to come by online, and Department of Energy & Environment spokesperson Julia Christian didn’t respond to a request for further details in time for publication.

The project will continue to face community opposition even if it secures the seal of approval from the gas board. ANC 2B’s Mike Silverstein said the design plans are “straight out of the factory of bad ideas,� blasting in particular the notion that a singular service station like the Sunoco building, which has remained largely unchanged since the 1930s, could be cast aside. “This is an extraordinary piece of history,� Silverstein said. “It’s almost like taking its arms and

legs off and saying it’s still here as it was.�

The developer will also face opposition from the Dumbarton Place Condominiums at 1414 22nd St. NW, behind Sunoco. The condo board’s Seymour Hepner

â??When you think about a historic landmark, it's not just the building.â?ž — ANC 2B’s Daniel Warwick said his colleagues haven’t yet resolved conflicts over a possible overhang from the Marx project onto Dumbarton Place’s property.

He’s also concerned about closing the service station, which he’s observed to be popular with out-oftown commuters and locals alike. “This is a community resource, it’s a city resource, and it’s an areawide resource,� Hepner said.

The Dupont Conservancy also weighed in against the project at the meeting, calling the station “one of the most iconic structures� in the neighborhood and arguing that relocating the building would lessen the historic character.

The Commission on Fine Arts, a federal design review board, did not reject the proposals when it reviewed the plans last month.

Members said they want to see the station remain “highly visible� at the intersection of 22nd and P. The Historic Preservation Review Board will consider Marx Realty’s plan at a meeting Dec. 1.

The project will also require a Board of Zoning Adjustment variance for exceeding the height maximum for the site — 90 feet instead of 50 feet.

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Northwest Business Escape room craze arrives in Georgetown

The popular escape room activity trend has made its way to Georgetown, with the opening of the new Escape Room Live at 3345 M St. NW on Oct. 28.

During escape room challenges, participants in a locked room must solve puzzles and find clues to “escape� from the room before the buzzer sounds.

The Georgetown location includes six different themed rooms, including “Friday the 13th,� “Titanic,� “The Curse of the Mummy,� “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles� and “Ghostbusters.� Each one has special features — gamers in the “Titanic� room can watch “water� fill up through porthole spaces in the walls, for instance.

Computer-generated imagery, augmented reality, and lighting and sound effects make each experience different, according to Escape Room Live’s Darren Keese-Burton. Visitors can enjoy a drink or two at a bar and lounge area before and after playing, and semi-private party areas are also available.

Escape Room Live has one other D.C. location — 2300 Wisconsin Ave. NW in Glover Park — and another in Alexandria, Va. The Georgetown location is open on Wednes-

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Glover Park firm helps ease daily tasks

A new company from a Glover Park resident seeks to help people focus on activities they want to do, rather than what they have to.

Savvy Sidekick, launched in August by Ryan McLaughlin, provides a personal assistant to take care of menial tasks, with particular attention to seniors who might need more help.

The company’s roster of personal activities is vast, including party planning, appointment scheduling, grocery shopping, meal preparation, Internet searches and appliance repair. Home management tasks like purchases, mail management and relocation assistance, as well as corporate services, also fall under the company’s purview.

McLaughlin got the idea for the company two years ago after his dad passed away, leaving his mom to tackle many tasks his firm now offers to do. Having started a landscaping company while in college, McLaughlin felt secure leaving his stable job in sales management to start a new business.

Customers in D.C., Maryland and Virginia can request service at savvysidekick.com.

BOOKSTORE: Kramerbooks readies store expansion

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sion, though he added that some book sections including the children’s department will have more space in the enlarged store.

The well-known bookstore, restaurant and bar has been in Dupont since the mid-1970s. In 1998, federal investigator Kenneth Starr presented the store with a subpoena, seeking information about books that Monica Lewinsky had bought for Bill Clinton.

Kramerbooks successfully challenged the subpoena, and Starr sought the information from other sources. A more recent White House connection has occurred

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The Internet age has not been kind to the brick-and-mortar bookstore industry, with many of the nation’s biggest chains going out of business or dramatically scaling back the number of locations.

Some independent bookstores have also struggled, but notable D.C. shops such as Kramerbooks, Politics and Prose and Upshur Street Books have enjoyed success in recent years with highprofile book talks and other similar events. Kramerbooks greatly

expanded the number of author events at the store in early 2015 as a way to attract literary-minded crowds.

Though new ownership and management often has devoted customers worried, Galler assured residents at last week’s meeting that the personality of Kramerbooks won’t change substantially under his leadership. More changes are in the works, he said, but they’ll retain the store’s spirit. “We hope that we will stay true to the Kramers brand and feeling,�

Galler said. “We don’t want to make any huge changes, but we do know that we want to be around another 40 years.�

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Police Report This is a listing of incidents reported to the Metropolitan Police Department from Nov. 7 through 13 in local police service areas, sorted by their report dates.

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Theft ■ 1100-1199 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 7:57 p.m.

Nov. 7.

■ 1200-1299 block, New York Ave.; 9:13 p.m. Nov. 7.

■ 900-999 block, F St.; 8:07 p.m. Nov. 8.

■ 1100-1199 block, New York Ave.; 8:59 p.m. Nov. 9.

■ 1300-1399 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 11:18 a.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1200-1299 block, F St.; 1:05 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1200-1299 block, G St.; 5:22 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1200-1299 block, F St.; 5:31 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1100-1199 block, F St.; 6:10 p.m. Nov. 11.

■ 1000-1099 block, F St.; 8:32 p.m. Nov. 12.

■ 1200-1299 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 12:58 a.m. Nov. 13.

■ 1000-1091 block, 11th St.; 5:45 a.m. Nov. 13.

■ 1200-1299 block, G St.; 7:24 p.m. Nov. 13.

Theft from auto ■ 1100-1199 block, G St.; 2:27 a.m. Nov. 9.

■ 1300-1399 block, K St.; 2:36 a.m. Nov. 11.

■ 1000-1091 block, 11th St.; 4:54 a.m. Nov. 12.

■ 1200-1299 block, L St.; 5:13 p.m. Nov. 13.

■ 700-1199 block, Jefferson Drive SW; 6:14 p.m. Nov. 13.

PSA PSA 207 207

■ FOGGY BOTTOM / WEST END

Assault with a dangerous weapon ■ 1200-1299 block, 24th St.; 10:25 p.m. Nov. 9.

Expires 11/18/2016; other restrictions apply.

Theft ■ 700-799 block, 23rd St.; 9:27 a.m. Nov. 7.

■ 600-699 block, 15th St.; 5:11 p.m. Nov. 7.

■ 2000-2099 block, Pennsylvania Ave.; 10:16 a.m. Nov. 8.

■ 1700-1709 block, K St.; 3:45 p.m. Nov. 8.

■ 2100-2199 block, F St.; 7:17 p.m. Nov. 8.

■ 2200-2299 block, I St.; 9:19 a.m. Nov. 9.

■ 2100-2109 block, M St.; 10:48 a.m. Nov. 9.

■ 1709-1799 block, New York Ave.; 1:02 p.m. Nov. 9.

■ 800-899 block, Connecticut Ave.; 1:37 p.m. Nov. 9.

■ 1700-1799 block, I St.; 6:17 p.m. Nov. 9.

■ 2200-2299 block, M St.; 8:01 p.m. Nov. 9.

■ 1500-1599 block, K St.; 3:07 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1100-1199 block, 19th St.; 11:22 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 2100-2199 block, L St.; 8:30 p.m. Nov. 11.

■ 1100-1199 block, Vermont Ave.; 12:15 a.m. Nov. 12.

■ 900-915 block, New Hampshire Ave.; 6:35 p.m.

Nov. 12.

Theft from auto ■ 1100-1199 block, 19th St.; 6:48 a.m. Nov. 7.

■ 1100-1129 block, Connecticut Ave.; 7:08 a.m.

Nov. 7.

■ 1000-1099 block, 16th St.; 11:29 p.m. Nov. 7.

PSA 208

■ SHERIDAN-KALORAMA PSA 208

DUPONT CIRCLE

Robbery ■ 2100-2199 block, P St.; 6:28 p.m. Nov. 7.

■ 1200-1219 block, Connecticut Ave.; 4:43 a.m.

Nov. 9.

■ 1300-1699 block, Connecticut Ave.; 2:11 p.m.

Nov. 11.

■ 1300-1399 block, 14th St.; 10:35 p.m. Nov. 12.

Motor vehicle theft ■ 2300-2399 block, Kalorama Road; 1:49 p.m.

Nov. 7.

■ 1200-1219 block, 19th St.; 12:44 a.m. Nov. 8.

■ 1800-1899 block, R St.; 2:50 p.m. Nov. 8.

Theft ■ 1400-1499 block, Rhode Island Ave.; 2:03 a.m. Nov. 7.

■ 1400-1499 block, P St.; 11:09 p.m. Nov. 7.

■ 1300-1499 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 7:36 p.m. Nov. 8.

■ 1500-1520 block, 14th St.; 12:58 a.m. Nov. 9.

■ 1300-1699 block, Connecticut Ave.; 6:15 p.m.

Nov. 9.

■ 1500-1520 block, 14th St.; 10:58 a.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1400-1499 block, P St.; 1:40 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1218-1299 block, Connecticut Ave.; 10:36 p.m.

Nov. 10.

■ 1309-1399 block, 19th St.; 9:06 p.m. Nov. 11.

■ 1300-1399 block, 14th St.; 5:08 p.m. Nov. 12.

■ 1400-1499 block, P St.; 7:44 p.m. Nov. 12.

■ 1309-1399 block, 19th St.; 5:10 a.m. Nov. 13.

■ 1400-1499 block, P St.; 4:37 p.m. Nov. 13.

Theft from auto ■ 1800-1899 block, T St.; 7:52 a.m. Nov. 7.

■ 1700-1799 block, N St.; 11:07 p.m. Nov. 7.

■ 1400-1499 block, Church

St.; 9:28 a.m. Nov. 9.

■ 2100-2199 block, Ward Court; 12:46 p.m. Nov. 9.

■ 1721-1799 block, 19th St.; 3:51 p.m. Nov. 9.

■ 2100-2199 block, P St.; 5:17 p.m. Nov. 9.

■ 1400-1499 block, Church St.; 7:23 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1500-1599 block, O St.; 8:34 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1900-1999 block, N St.; 8:50 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1400-1499 block, 21st St.; 3:52 p.m. Nov. 11.

■ 1623-1699 block, 19th St.; 6:46 p.m. Nov. 12.

■ 1300-1379 block, 20th St.; 11:15 a.m. Nov. 13.

■ 1700-1799 block, P St.; 12:33 p.m. Nov. 13.

■ 1500-1549 block, Rhode Island Ave.; 4:32 p.m. Nov. 13.

■ 1520-1599 block, 16th St.; 5:49 p.m. Nov. 13.

PSA PSA 301 301

■ DUPONT CIRCLE

Burglary ■ 1700-1799 block, Willard St.; 7:41 p.m. Nov. 9.

Theft ■ 1820-1899 block, 14th St.; 8:48 p.m. Nov. 7.

■ 1600-1699 block, S St.; 4:07 p.m. Nov. 8.

■ 1600-1618 block, 17th St.; 5:32 p.m. Nov. 8.

■ 1921-1999 block, 14th St.; 5:50 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1818-1899 block, 18th St.; 2:30 a.m. Nov. 13.

Theft from auto ■ 1700-1712 block, S St.; 10:07 a.m. Nov. 7.

■ 1500-1599 block, T St.; 10:26 a.m. Nov. 7.

■ 1600-1699 block, Corcoran St.; 9:46 p.m. Nov. 7.

■ 1700-1726 block, 18th St.; 1:16 a.m. Nov. 8.

■ 1400-1499 block, W St.; 7 p.m. Nov. 8.

■ 1800-1820 block, 15th St.; 7:23 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1400-1499 block, V St.; 9:51 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1700-1799 block, 15th St.; 9:05 p.m. Nov. 12.

PSA PSA 303 303

■ ADAMS MORGAN

Assault with a dangerous weapon ■ 2300-2399 block, 18th St.; 3:04 a.m. Nov. 13.

Theft ■ 1730-1797 block, Lanier Place; 11:49 a.m. Nov. 7.

■ 2400-2499 block, 18th St.; 2:51 p.m. Nov. 8.

■ 1781-1799 block, Columbia Road; 2:12 p.m.

Nov. 9.

■ 1900-1902 block, Wyoming Ave.; 7:23 p.m. Nov. 12.

Theft from auto ■ 2000-2048 block, Allen Place; 3:14 p.m. Nov. 8.

■ 1800-1881 block, Kalorama Road; 9:38 p.m.

Nov. 8.

■ 1690-1741 block, Lanier Place; 8:50 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1800-1899 block, Wyoming Ave.; 4:10 p.m. Nov. 11.

■ 1734-1769 block, Euclid St.; 5:34 p.m. Nov. 12.

■ 2300-2399 block, 20th St.; 7:56 a.m. Nov. 13.

■ 2400-2499 block, 18th St.; 1:35 p.m. Nov. 13.

■ 1800-1819 block, Clydesdale Place; 2:15 p.m.

Nov. 13.

■ 2201-2299 block, Champlain St.; 5:25 p.m.

Nov. 13.

PSA PSA 307 307

■ LOGAN CIRCLE

Robbery ■ 1500-1599 block, Vermont Ave.; 8:46 a.m. Nov. 13 (with gun).

Sexual abuse ■ 1108-1199 block, 12th St.; 2:51 p.m. Nov. 11.

Assault with a dangerous weapon ■ 1100-1199 block, 9th St.; 2:23 a.m. Nov. 11.

Theft ■ 1100-1199 block, 10th St.; 6:01 p.m. Nov. 8.

■ 1300-1399 block, 13th St.; 1:28 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1300-1399 block, 13th St.; 1:48 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1300-1399 block, 13th St.; 6:25 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1100-1199 block, 10th St.; 6:43 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1400-1499 block, 11th St.; 4:06 p.m. Nov. 11.

■ 1600-1699 block, 12th St.; 2:48 p.m. Nov. 13.

Theft from auto ■ 1300-1399 block, S St.; 12:24 a.m. Nov. 7.

■ 1300-1499 block, Massachusetts Ave.; 11:47 a.m. Nov. 7.

■ 1100-1199 block, N St.; 11:38 a.m. Nov. 8.

■ 1300-1329 block, Q St.; 3:17 p.m. Nov. 8.

■ 1300-1399 block, Corcoran St.; 3:56 p.m. Nov. 8.

■ 1300-1399 block, 12th St.; 5:12 p.m. Nov. 9.

■ 1300-1399 block, 11th St.; 1:59 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1300-1399 block, 10th St.; 2:09 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1700-1737 block, 11th St.; 2:14 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1600-1630 block, Vermont Ave.; 6:19 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 1400-1499 block, 9th St.; 8:38 p.m. Nov. 10.

■ 900-999 block, N St.; 2 a.m. Nov. 11.

■ 1200-1299 block, R St.; 4:13 p.m. Nov. 12.

■ 1300-1399 block, Vermont Ave.; 5:24 p.m. Nov. 12.

■ 1100-1199 block, M St.; 2:30 p.m. Nov. 13.

■ 1500-1599 block, 9th St.; 8:44 p.m. Nov. 13.

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PROTEST: Local students demonstrate downtown against Trump’s presidential win

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of congressional staffers waved and cheered from the Cannon House Office Building, and a DC Circulator bus driver offered high-fives and fist bumps to kids at the eastern end of the National Mall. One particularly vigorous sideline supporter bellowed, “Stand up for what you believe!�

Word spread quickly from Wilson — The Current talked to student protesters from Edmund Burke School, School Without Walls, D.C. International School, KIPP DC College Preparatory and McKinley Technology High School. Some said they were concerned about Trump’s lack of political experience, while others decried the hateful, openly racist rhetoric that sur-

Many students carried signs bearing phrases like “Not My President,� “Love Trumps Hate,� “No Human Being Is Illegal,� “Build Bridges Not Walls� and “Deport Racism,� as well as several that contained profane references to Trump’s lewd comments. Others expressed their feelings with fashion choices — one student offered fellow demonstrators a rainbow splash of paint across the cheek.

The protest, rife with chants and the occasional blast of music from a smartphone speaker, attracted considerable attention from outside observers. A small group

rounded his presidential campaign. “I don’t think he’s in it for everybody. I think he’s in it for him,� said a 15-year-old student at School Without Walls.

Wilson principal Kimberly Martin said in a statement Monday that the school would allow students to engage in peaceful protest but that those who left class at midday would receive “an unexcused absence for the periods they miss.�

A few students at the head of the protesters led chants and encouraged the participants to thank police officers, who spent the afternoon blocking and directing traffic.

Donald Trump himself has been critical of nationwide protests that have sprung up

since the election. He tweeted Nov. 10 that those protesting his candidacy are “professional,� “incited by the media� and “very unfair.�

A student at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School told The Current during the protest that he thinks Trump will argue that children’s voices don’t matter because they’re not legally allowed to vote. He hopes not, though. He’s worried about what Trump’s presidency will mean for some of his family members who want to immigrate to the United States.

While walking, the 14-year-old and a friend of his ripped up a magazine picture of Trump and threw the pieces on the ground.

ZONING: Commission dials back proposed regulatory change for PUDs after criticism

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under the current regulations.

Meanwhile, in denser areas the commission could choose to consider a PUD application on a lot as small as 5,000 square feet instead of today’s 7,500 or more depending on the zone.

The latest version responds to the strongest critics, who worried about drastic changes to residential communities if developers could win permission to evade height and density caps there.

However, various concerns still remain. According to Larry Hargrove of the Committee of 100 on the Federal City, the latest changes

are “a very considerable improvement from where things stood before, but they don’t go far enough in certain respects.�

In an interview, Hargrove said his main issue is that smaller lots along major thoroughfares — but abutting low-density residential areas — could be considered for PUDs, as a lower minimum lot size would make it easier for developers to create potentially intrusive projects there. While a PUD application on a 5,000-squarefoot lot would first require a waiver from the commission and would then need to win approval on its merits — in both cases with input from affected community stake-

holders — Hargrove expressed concerns about leaving too much power in the hands of zoning commissioners. “When you bought your property, you didn’t think the future of your neighborhood would be determined by a bunch of public officials using their unfettered personal discretion,� said Hargrove.

The PUD lot-size discussion emerged due to Georgetown developer EastBanc’s effort to construct a small mixed-use building on the site of a gas station at Pennsylvania Avenue and M Street NW, a prominent site across from the Four Seasons Hotel at Georgetown’s eastern gateway. East-

Banc’s property, at 7,420 square feet, fell just shy of the 7,500 square feet needed for a PUD under current regulations even if the Zoning Commission were to grant its maximum waiver of 50 percent from the standard 15,000.

EastBanc is seeking PUD flexibility to create its building with eight residential units atop a ground-floor restaurant. The project team argues that the project’s architecture and related openspace improvements will be valuable community amenities that offset requests for greater height and density and the elimination of an on-site parking requirement of three spaces.

“In this circumstance, the deviation is quite minimal,â€? zoning commissioner Peter May said at an Oct. 31 discussion of the project. “The concern that was raised about wiping out minimums entirely was based more broadly on the issue of PUD minimums in residential neighborhoods. ‌ I did not get the impression [that an issue like this] was a major concern.â€?

However, the commission was deadlocked on whether to grant preliminary approval to the EastBanc project at that meeting, electing to wait instead until they have finalized the broader PUD change.

Commissioners expect to vote on both issues on Dec. 12.

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Davis Kennedy/Publisher & Editor Chris Kain/Managing Editor

Election reform

This morning, the D.C. Council’s Committee on the Judiciary was scheduled to hear testimony on two campaign finance reform bills: one that would create a structure for public funding for candidates, and another that would prohibit campaign contributions from government contractors. A hearing on these issues is long overdue.

The current proposals have many specific provisions, but the general idea behind both is to increase ordinary citizens’ voices in elections and to reduce perceptions of a “pay-to-play” culture between elected officials and the businesses pursuing government contracts. To that end, there are two particular recommendations we would like to offer.

In regard to public financing for elections, the best option in our view would be a one-to-one match of public funds for small donations from private citizens. By doubling the amount of small donors’ donations, we would be supporting the candidates who are pulling in donations at the grass-roots level. A $50 donation from a private citizen — especially a lower-income resident — can be a significant expense, yet it can easily be drowned out by a flood of money from contractor interests.

Matching schemes can increase residents’ confidence that their donations matter, making them more likely to support the candidate of their choice and to get more involved in the civic process. They can also make it less likely that a candidate can win without financial help from ordinary citizens — potentially changing the outcomes of some races, or forcing candidates to be more responsive and engaged with citizens.

That said, although some advocates have pushed for large matching amounts — the original bill as introduced calls for five-to-one — we believe that a one-to-one match is the most fiscally prudent compromise. Many taxpayers have legitimate concerns about too much public money going toward political candidates.

The second key measure included in the proposed campaign finance reform would prevent campaign donors from securing contracts with the District. Not only is there a perception among many residents that contractors have been buying influence with our elected officials, but honest business owners have reportedly felt pressured to donate to campaigns to stay competitive. This reform would take steps toward addressing both of those issues. However, while current proposals call for an outright ban, we continue to favor the exemption of small donations — less than $100 — so that these business owners aren’t fully excluded from the political process.

The two bills that the Judiciary Committee is considering today have been floating around for months, having been introduced this past winter.

It’s now too late for the council to pass campaign finance reform during the current legislative session, but we believe it’s essential that the next council take action quickly so that the changes can be in effect in time for the next scheduled election: the primaries in spring 2018. And if council committee assignments change in the new year, we would urge the next chair to use the record from today’s hearing as a basis for advancing legislation, rather than restarting the process from scratch.

Time for a local measure

Determining how much snow has fallen in the District seems like a simple enough proposition: You pick a location somewhere in D.C. and measure the amount of snow.

But this seemingly obvious idea has persistently eluded the National Weather Service. The agency makes its determination based on Reagan National Airport — which, as even geographical novices can notice, is in Virginia.

Not only does the Weather Service’s decision represent a snub to the District’s very existence, but D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton notes that the location has practical consequences as well. National Airport frequently records lower snowfall totals than the D.C. side of the Potomac, which underplays the significance of our own weather events.

“Accurate snow measurements are not only important for weather tracking, but also for weather preparedness and weather response,” Del. Norton wrote last week to the Weather Service’s director.

Del. Norton does concede that National Airport has an operational advantage: The airport needs to have weather experts on site around the clock regardless. Even so, we agree with her that the Weather Service should work to identify a suitable snow-measuring location within D.C. While the expense should be considered, we’re optimistic that a costeffective site is possible and that the benefits would be substantial.

The Current

The political Richter scale …

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e are not going to rehash last week’s presidential election.

You have seen and heard the results.

You’re reading about the president-elect’s appointments.

Looking ahead is what we are doing — the aftershocks, you might call them.

The sound you hear in the background is the knife-sharpening recriminations bubbling up in the losing Democratic Party. Who will lead the Democrats in the midst of second-guessing and generational change? Should the party go more left or more centrist, really reaching out to disaffected middle-of-the-road white voters?

The Republicans are in a power-shifting tizzy among themselves, amid speculation over who’s in and who’s out and what the new president will do or more importantly allow to be done.

Given the uproar, we have some simple advice.

If you are so inclined, get your Airbnb account in order and straighten up the extra room. There is going to be an onslaught of events in January.

■ Inauguration week. Whether you voted Republican or Democratic, or sat it out in a huff, there’s money to be made from folks arriving for the swearing-in ceremony. If you don’t cotton to the winners, there will be plenty of protesters looking for a convenient and inexpensive stay.

The day after the inauguration, there’s also the aspiration-imbued Women’s March on Washington (initially dubbed the Million Women March) set for Jan. 21. A large crowd is expected, but just like the Million Man March in 1995, prospects for a true million aren’t likely. However, attendance could be boosted by the extensive social media coverage we are already seeing, and any unusually large crowd will get attention.

You need to know that planning for the Jan. 20 official inauguration and its inaugural balls is complicated by many things, so stay tuned for what will be happening.

Which brings us to the third event that week.

After more than 40 years of large and smaller demonstrations, we think the March for Life on Jan. 27 could be one of the largest ever.

The March for Life is a professional nonprofit organization that has drawn hundreds of thousands of marchers, who have gathered each year since the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision by the U.S. Supreme Court legalizing abortion.

The size of the crowd has varied a lot depend-

ing on the weather and political climate. Given the Republican victories in Congress and the White House, it would seem the 2017 attendance could be significant.

The president-elect signaled in his interview with “60 Minutes” that he hopes — through court appointments — to send abortion-choice back for states to decide. The GOP’s 2016 platform had one of the strongest anti-abortion planks ever.

To sum up, the inauguration, the protests and the March for Life may lead some of you to just get out of town for the week, either for political or convenience reasons. For all who stay, buckle up.

■ Metro and the march. The marchforlife.org site has a special section on how to use Metro to and from the march. Its six tips include a reminder to “walk left, stand right” when using the escalators. Whatever your politics, you have to appreciate that these tips are being passed along to the thousands of out-of-town folks expected.

■ The lightning round: ■ Cheaper eats. Fairfax voters rejected a 4 percent tax on prepared food and beverages that could have raised as much as $100 million, most of which would have been used for pressing education needs. The vote was 48 percent in favor to 52 percent opposed. Sandra Bulova, chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, acknowledged what she called an “uphill” battle for the tax, even though non-Fairfax residents would have paid more than a third of it. She was quoted in the Fairfax County Times predicting a protracted battle over the school budget in coming months to make up for the lost funds.

■ Time’s up. For the first time, Montgomery County voters approved term limits on elected leaders. Rejected in 2000 and 2004, this success means several council members’ political careers are over, although one or two may run for county executive since incumbent Isiah Leggett had already announced his intention to retire.

■ More government. Voters in growing Prince George’s County voted to add two at-large members to their nine-member council, which currently is divided into wards. The vote is seen as a way of getting council members to focus on countywide issues, not just wards. Others see it as a way for current council members to get around the two-term limit for a seat in the county.

Tom Sherwood, a Southwest resident, is a political reporter for News 4.

TOM SHERWOOD’S

NOTEBOOK

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Community service was a great honor

Ten years ago a neighbor asked me whether I’d be willing to serve as secretary of the Woodley Park Community Association. I said, “Let me think about it.” After some further conversations, I said yes.

In the years that followed, I served as secretary under Jay Sushelsky and Bill Menczer, two committed community volunteers who spent time as president. Three years ago I myself made the jump from secretary to president.

The association’s October meeting marked the end of my service as an officer of the community association. As I reflect

back on my time in the Woodley Park Community Association and as its leader, I think of two words: “Thank you.” Thank you to the community for their support, thank you to the group’s amazing board members and committees, thank you to our elected officials and thank you to our amazing businesses — Stanford University, the Wardman Park Marriott, Woodley Ace Hardware, Lebanese Taverna and many others.

Together we have made tremendous progress.

It has been a true joy to represent the greatest neighborhood in Washington, D.C. There were some dark days: the shootings at the National Zoo, the traffic debacle associated with Rock Creek Park, disagreement about protecting our restaurant overlay. However, the bright days far outshone the negative days:

the neighborhood picnics, the neighborhood holiday parties, tree dedications, the cleanup days, the historical lectures at Maret School, the call box restoration project. There were the small things, too, like fixing the 29th Street NW sidewalk, getting the bench for the 96 bus stop and removal of dead trees.

The next couple of years will be challenging. Developers are seeking to fundamentally alter our neighborhood and to take away precious green space from the community. Thankfully, we have an amazing team taking over in the form of Carolyn Abbey and Jeff Myers, and our assiduous secretary Warren Gorlick and faithful treasurer Gasper Martinez are staying in place. It has been an honor and pleasure to serve.

Peter W. Brusoe Woodley Park

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Hotel tax fiasco is sadly the norm for D.C. VIEWPOINT BRYAN WEAVER

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n 2010, I sat down with then-Ward 1 D.C. Council member Jim Graham and the principals of the development group Foxhall Partners and hammered out an agreement for a $46 million tax abatement for a boutique hotel project in Adams Morgan.

In exchange, the developer agreed to hire 342 District residents as full-time construction workers to build the hotel. Furthermore, a majority of the permanent jobs would go to D.C. residents, and the developer would fund a jobs-training program and provide at least 4,000 square feet of incubator space for local nonprofit groups.

When this agreement became law in 2011, it became the first enforceable “claw back� of a tax abatement in history of the District of Columbia.

The deal was groundbreaking in requiring that in order to share in the taxpayers’ largesse, the developer would be giving back to the neighborhood where it was doing business.

It should have become a model for equitable development, not only throughout Ward 1, but the entire city.

I was so sure that this agreement was a gamechanger that I wrote that to the Zoning Commission: “In an unprecedented agreement ‌ local residents will be recruited, trained, and ultimately rewarded with livable wage jobs and benefits packages that could help stem the chronic unemployment that has beset segments of our local community for generations.â€?

I dared to dream.

Today, as the hotel nears completion, the cold reality is that the developer has not held up its end of the bargain. At best, the developer has hired about 30 percent of the legally required 342 local workers.

And until recently, the D.C. government did nothing to enforce the legally binding agreement, finally taking action only because of local press attention.

In February 2016, the D.C. Department of Employment Services reported that the developer was in compliance with local hiring requirements — even though they clearly were not.

When I approached the D.C. Council in March, there was no awareness of the situation or the requirements of the law that had been passed.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR No decision made on Tenley station plans

The Current’s Nov. 2 article “Metro offers plan for Tenley station plaza� incorrectly states that Metro and the D.C. Department of Transportation have “settled� on a concept design following the conclusion of the Tenleytown Station Access Study.

In a presentation to Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3E (Tenleytown, Friendship Heights) last month, Metro and the Transportation Department recommended a revised design concept for ANC 3E approval that incor-

In reality, no one in the local government — from the Department of Employment Services to the Executive Office of the Mayor to the D.C. Council — seemed to know the parameters of the law. This pernicious lack of oversight allowed the developers to skirt their obligation, and they may still receive the huge tax abatement. Sadly, in D.C. that’s the norm.

A report by D.C. Auditor Kathy Patterson found the District does a poor job of monitoring community benefit agreements and of fining developers if they fail to meet commitments: “The city is potentially leaving millions of dollars on the table and not providing incentives for developers to follow through on their commitments.�

This is clearly the case in the Adams Morgan hotel project. The developer is not even close to meeting the threshold, and the construction phase of the project — one of the richest opportunities to hire local construction workers — is almost over.

What gets lost in this imbroglio is that these commitments would have benefited mostly young African-American adults who are looking for better paying jobs with the possibility of a path toward a successful middle-class life.

A recent report by the Economic Policy Institute showed that D.C.’s African-American population had the highest unemployment rate in the country at 13.6 percent, while the unemployment rate for the white population in the city sits at 2.4 percent.

That’s a stunning racial gap.

The extremely low expectations that D.C. voters have of the council, from decades of sloth and corruption, allow it to slide by on minimal effort on many important issues. This malfeasance of laziness hurts the very residents these laws, regulations and agreements were meant to help.

So what do we do?

Does the council pull the tax abatement negating the remainder of the requirements including fulltime jobs, job training and nonprofit space? Or do we once again capitulate and renegotiate a deal with developers who had no intention of fulfilling their obligation in the first place?

Progressive, cutting-edge laws are paper tigers without the political will and the elbow grease needed from committed lawmakers to ensure their fulfillment. But the voters of the District of Columbia deserve nothing less.

Bryan Weaver is a former Adams Morgan advisory neighborhood commissioner.

porates the most desired elements from all the alternatives studied.

The drawing that accompanied the story, however, mistakenly shows one of the three alternatives from the study as the chosen design.

The cost of the project is expected to range between $10.1 and $16.7 million. It is not the “most expensive� design as stated in the story. Rather, an estimate of low-, mid- and high-cost options was developed depending on the cost of relocating utilities.

The project website on wmata. com/planning will be updated with the final report and revised design concept once they are reviewed by the appropriate stakeholders.

These proposed changes go beyond traffic improvements. The

project is designed to provide safer, multi-modal access to the station including walking, biking and transit. The D.C. Department of Transportation will seek funding to implement the improvements only after receiving ANC approval. No decision has been made.

Metro and the D.C. Department of Transportation are committed to working with the community to provide better access at the Tenleytown Metro station. As such it is important to ensure the public is accurately informed of the project’s design, cost and implementation.

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‘Red top’ meters would hurt D.C. residents VIEWPOINT LARRY WERNER

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he Current’s Oct. 12 front-page article on “red top� meters should have been headlined “DDOT to begin harming disabled next year.� There are so many ways this disgraceful DDOT regulation should disgust all of us it’s hard to know where to begin.

The red top meter “plan� that the D.C. Department of Transportation, Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Council member Mary Cheh are imposing — in total disregard of public opposition — intentionally harms the vast majority of those of our citizens who suffer mobility disabilities. Not a single public citizen has testified in support of any of the department’s red top meter proposals.

This action means that more than 90 percent of affected parking spaces will become functionally unusable for the disabled. Most of the disabled and those assisting them need more time to get to and from their medical and other destinations; need to be closer to those destinations; and recognize that limiting the mobility challenged to one red top meter per square (four sides of a city block) effectively forces them — unlike the nondisabled — to pay premium commercial parking rates or abandon usage of much of our city.

The Transportation Department, Bowser and Cheh inflict this harm despite having made no (exactly zero) attempt to redress bad acts of the non-disabled. The agency disregarded the resolutions in opposition twice passed by advisory neighborhood commissions 3F and 3/4G. No part of its evaluation process ever has been made public. That’s not the open and transparent government we citizens expect and should be demanding.

Many cities — including two often cited as

models by the department, Toronto and San Francisco — found ways to either end or substantially reduce fraud. Another frequent model, Portland, Ore., found innovative ways to address many of the concerns identified by the public in multiple testimonies before Cheh’s committee.

The agency won’t say with which “groups� it even has communicated — let alone which support its red tops. The agency won’t release the minutes of its “working group� (which on paper consists mostly of other city officials). The few non-governmental organizations appear to be national, not local, and seem to be part of several “groups� within the Department of Transportation.

The new policy effectively guts “aging in place� if, like many seniors and the mobility challenged, you live on a block that is ineligible for the Residential Parking Permit that lets so many park for free all day on regulated streets within the same zone.

The Transportation Department continues to try to hide its intent from disability permit holders. It still hasn’t even attempted to make the promised notification to those whose lives will be so adversely affected.

It shouldn’t be about “the money.� D.C. subsidizes all kinds of transportation: free parking for D.C. Council members, bike sharing (average users earn six-figure incomes), student bus passes, the DC Circulator, half-price senior fares on Metro, et cetera. And D.C. Council finance chair Jack Evans publicly acknowledged the city didn’t need the money.

We can and should do better. Will it take a lawsuit to make that happen, or will our city government at least make the attempt to punish those it believes are acting badly rather than those who need this very minor bit of help?

Larry Werner is a Forest Hills resident.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Flushable wipes bill not fully researched

Ward 3 D.C. Council member Mary Cheh is rushing to pass the Nonwoven Disposable Products Labeling Act of 2016, a bill that claims to help alleviate clogs in the DC Water waste stream. But the opposite is what will really happen.

This bill would effectively ban the sale of flushable wipes in the District, forcing residents to use nonflushable baby wipes and other substitutes, and those substitutes are major contributors to the clogs.

Many District consumers depend on flushable wipes for their personal cleansing needs after toileting.

Flushable wipes are designed for just that: They are highly engineered products made of degradable cellulose fibers; they sink in tanks, and break down when flushed. And they are less than 2 percent of what is found in clogs. What should not be flushed are baby wipes, paper towels, feminine hygiene products, disinfecting wipes and other non-flushable items that inevitably do get flushed, clogging pipes, snarling pumps and causing expensive problems.

For some reason, Cheh is rushing ahead with this misguided legislation without the necessary research to establish the real problem here.

INDA, the Association of the Non-

woven Fabrics Industry, has repeatedly asked Cheh and DC Water to find out exactly what products are in D.C.’s pipes before passing reckless legislation that could cause more harm than good.

A recent analysis of New York City’s pipes found that pieces of flushable wipes made up only 2 percent of what was found on pipe screens. Perhaps because of this fact, Cheh and DC Water have refused to conduct a study. Cheh has refused even to meet with industry representatives — one of whom is her constituent.

This law would be unenforceable — who is going to police your bathroom? District residents who want flushable wipes could simply buy them in Maryland or Virginia or online. At a council markup session, Cheh herself admitted, “I recognize enforcement challenges exist here.�

When pressed by her colleagues, Cheh suggested — seemingly making it up on the spot — an “audit� system where officials would buy flushable wipes and test them, even though no such process or authority exists.

This is the worst kind of legislation: a bad bill devoid of facts being rushed into law. We ask Council Chairman Phil Mendelson to block this misguided legislation and urge District consumers to tell Council member Cheh to stay out of their bathrooms.

Dave Rousse President, INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry

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While growing up and playing soccer in his backyard, Washington International senior Nico Ubide practiced penalty kicks while thinking about hitting a game-winning shot to win a title.

On Saturday night, that childhood dream became a reality when Ubide stepped up to take a penalty kick in overtime, which propelled the Red Devils to a victory against Bell for the D.C. State Athletic Association championship. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only thing going through my head was, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I have one job to do for all of those guys over there and everyone in the crowdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201D; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s who that was for,â&#x20AC;? said Ubide. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This was never about the team or one player â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been about giving back to the school community.â&#x20AC;?

Washington International senior Jason Goldstein had complete confidence in his teammate. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Never a doubt, never a doubt,

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Washington International toppled the WCAC and IAC champions en route to the DCSAA crown on Saturday night.

never a doubt,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have seen him do it a thousand times, never a doubt.â&#x20AC;?

Ubide left no doubt.

The senior calmly buried the shot to propel the Red Devils past Bell 1-0, sending his teammates sprinting around their field in jubilation while celebrating Washington Internationalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first DCSAA crown.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the dream,â&#x20AC;? Ubide said while holding back tears. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You take the penalty to win the game and get to celebrate with the fans.

I guess, living that fantasy, like in my backyard â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s paid off.â&#x20AC;?

Both the Griffins and Red Devils battled in a closely contested game through the first half of action. In the second half, Bell dominated possession and had more runs at goal. But Washington International stood tall on defense to force overtime with the game tied at 0-0. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we have done all year,â&#x20AC;? Goldstein said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did it against Gonzaga and against St. Albans â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we stand for.â&#x20AC;?

The Red Devils completed an incredible run to the DCSAA championship. Washington International defeated Gonzaga â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference champions â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and St. Albans â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Interscholastic Athletic Conference champs and defending DCSAA winners â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the state tournament to claim the title.

Cadets topple Wilson for state championship

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Last November, the St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s girls soccer team had to watch Wilson rushing the field in jubilation to celebrate winning the D.C. State Athletic Association championship while the Cadets sank in defeat.

On Saturday night, the Cadets avenged that loss with a 6-0 drubbing of the Tigers to capture their first DCSAA soccer title. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Last year, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t explain how devastated I was in losing 1-0 in such a close game,â&#x20AC;? said junior Brooke Milligan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All we wanted was to win this game.â&#x20AC;?

For the Cadets, getting ready to play Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy. A week earlier St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lost in the Washington Catholic Athletic Conference finals.

But the team didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sulk with the prospect of facing its local rival on Saturday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This has been a rivalry for a very long time,â&#x20AC;? junior Paige Merz said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We lost to them last year, and we came out with the mindset that we were going to go all out.â&#x20AC;?

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St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s captured its first DCSAA girls soccer championship with a 6-0 win over Wilson.

In Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s romp, sophomore Maliah Morris scored twice, freshmen Olivia Reese and Makenna Morris each added a goal, sophomore Meaghan Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donovan chipped in a goal, as did junior Nicole Latifullah. The Cadetsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; scoring was aided by several assists as well: Merz dished out two, while Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donovan, Morris and senior Ashley Ventura all notched an assist each.

St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sweeps Model for fourth DCSAA title

By BRIAN KAPUR Current Staff Writer

The St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volleyball team swept Model 3-0 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with set scores of 25-12, 25-13 and 25-15 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to capture its fourth straight D.C. State Athletic Association volleyball crown on Friday night.

St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remains the only team to win the title since it was first created. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every year we always have the one superstar on the team; this year we are all about the same,â&#x20AC;? said senior libero Emily Goodwin, who was named the player of game Friday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So we work really well together and instead of rely-

ing on one person, we rely on each other. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t easy, but when we worked together we could do anything.â&#x20AC;?

In the title game, Antonucci, who moved into a setter role along with junior Becca Frye, dished out a team-high 19 assists. Meanwhile, Frye was at the top of the squad with 11 kills, Goodwin led the way with 12 digs, and Nia Taylor took up the blocking responsibilities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really enjoy playing volleyball and try to do my best to get that block, get that set, get that kill,â&#x20AC;? Frye said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really special. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really glad that we won it four years in a row.â&#x20AC;?

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St. Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s won its fourth DCSAA volleyball title on Friday.

Northwest Passages

The People and Places of Northwest Washington

The Current

November 16, 2016 ■ Page 13

GWU interior design class takes on a labor of love to help nonprofit

By SUSAN BODIKER Current Correspondent

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hen your mission is to nurture homeless children with play, it helps to work in an office space that inspires creativity and collaboration.

But like most nonprofits, the staff of the Homeless Children’s Playtime Project at 1525 Newton St. NW chose to put its precious time and money in service to those in need rather than its own comfort.

Enter Nancy Evans and Erica Riggio, co-professors of the graduate course Interior Architecture and Design, Studio 4, at George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.

“It all started with a phone call from my friend, HCPP co-founder and executive director, Jamila Larson,” Evans said. “The organization had outgrown its offices, and [the leaders] were looking for advice on how to reconfigure their space to accommodate the new staff.”

The timing could not have been more perfect. “We had been looking for a project

that would give our students real-life experience,” said Riggio. “And suddenly we had the perfect assignment to take them from design to execution, working with real clients and confronting real challenges in real time.”

The Playtime Project took shape quickly as George Washington students had just four weeks to complete a design plan and organize themselves as a team, with every member taking responsibility for a particular task.

The first hurdle was deciding who and what went where. The Playtime organization was working out of cramped quarters in a church building in Columbia Heights, sharing a large room with another nonprofit. This meant that some of its staffers were located in other rooms down the hall, an inconvenient setup that got in the way of communication and privacy. Thankfully, the students found a solution that pleased everyone: an office swap that gave each organization its own separate space and a lot more breathing room.

With that out of the way, the university team set about taking measurements and

The George Washington University design team joins client Jamila Larson (lower right, front) and professors Erica Riggio (lower left, front row) and Nancy Evans (left, second row) to show the new design for the Homeless Children’s Playtime Project office. At left, the playbook design plan helped guide the process. creating concepts for Playtime’s new office. The goal was to create a vibrant, playful work environment that was both functional and aesthetically pleasing.

As with any kid’s playroom, organization and mood are important elements, so the students’ design plan focused on bright but soothing colors; sleek, durable furnishings; and storage systems that would allow

Hotel restaurants hustle to stay trendy Chefs at Casolare, elsewhere work to draw neighbors as well as guests

This month in ...

■ 1971 — Students at Georgetown University opened a newspaper recycling center on the main campus. Project coordinator Anthony Vallek, a junior, said that the venture would net $6 a ton from a Georgetown salvage company that supplied the two-ton dumpster. Proceeds were to go to a scholarship program for District residents.

■ 1976 — A status report on the D.C. Council-mandated program to recycle paper produced in D.C. government offices showed significant progress.

From Our ARCHIVES In the first six months, the program generated nearly $5,000 in revenue and recycled nearly 70 tons of highgrade paper that otherwise would have been dumped into the city landfill, reported Ward 3 Council member Polly Shackleton.

By BRIDEY HEING Current Correspondent

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he once-overlooked D.C. restaurant scene has been getting a lot of hype in recent years.

With regular entries on “best of” lists each year and recognition as the year’s “best food city,” according to Bon Appetit, the District is experiencing a wave of dining innovation that has caught the world’s eye.

But as a city known for its numerous and diverse visitors, where do hotels fit into the dining world that’s rapidly evolving? Hotel restaurants have already been asking themselves this for years, and coming up with a comprehensive vision that challenges what we think of as hotel dining.

Anyone who travels with any frequency has probably eaten at a hotel restaurant. Usually favored due to convenience, the hotel dining offerings that became normal in the 1980s and 1990s rely on a standard menu and outdated trappings of fine dining, like white tablecloths and bread baskets. These are holdovers from the heyday of hotel dining in the early 20th century, when dining at the Ritz or other top-tier hotels was a favored outing of the young and fabulous.

staffers to manage — and easily retrieve — the vast amounts of clothing, paperwork, seasonal goods, snacks, supplies, toys and other materials they need for the programs they run throughout the city.

Playtime office manager Rebecca Staple served as the client contact person, working with the students and sharing insights See Design/Page 17

Photos courtesy of Casolare

James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Schlow created the Glover Park Hotel’s restaurant, Casolare.

In D.C., hotel restaurants are adapting to a changing market by casting a wide net, carving out their own unique identities, and staying on the cutting edge of trends. Today’s hotel restaurants, like Casolare at the Glover Park Hotel and Firefly at Hotel Madera, see themselves as catering to their neighbors and hotel guests alike, positioning themselves as local restaurants that can be enjoyed by all.

“We want to provide an experience that the neighborhood would love just as much as hotel guests,” Matt Wexler of management company Foxhall Partners said of Casolare.

To do that, Wexler and his team looked at the needs of not just visitors, but the neighborhood itself. They saw few options for family-friendly dinSee Restaurants/Page 17

■ 1981 — The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority prepared to open the Van Ness Metro station on Dec. 5. The event was to include the University of the District of Columbia’s marching band, as well as political leaders and representatives of several nearby embassies.

■ 1991 — The Citizens Coalition, still in the midst of its long fight against a proposed power plant at Georgetown University, won support for its claim that the developers had not adequately addressed the project’s environmental impact. Consultants hired by the D.C. Office of the People’s Counsel declared the environmental impact statement and the cumulative risk assessment incomplete and partially inaccurate. As a result, the office said it would urge the Public Service Commission not to approve the project until Georgetown University and Dominion Energy revised the statements. “The data does not clearly state the levels of pollutants,” said Sandra Mattavous-Frye, assistant people’s counsel.

■ 1996 — A proposal for a new retail development on Wisconsin Avenue NW won the unanimous support of the Friendship Heights advisory neighborhood commission. Developer Dan McCaffery’s plans called for three shops and a family restaurant sandwiched between the Chevy Chase Pavilion and Chevy Chase Plaza, as well as 29 town houses on 43rd Street behind the shopping center. The proposal was a major departure from the planned unit development originally approved for the site, which would have had about 450,000 square feet of office, retail and residential space. The earlier project would also have had three levels of underground parking, compared with no new spaces in the McCaffery plan.

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Condo unit offers light-filled sanctuary in the West End

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the market for $1,490,000. The apartment also comes with one parking space (in the same tower) and a large storage space. The monthly condo fee is SUSAN BODIKER $1,211, which 2425 L St. NW. The Mediterraincludes water and nean Revival building that once gas. housed the Columbia Hospital for Of the 225 apartWomen underwent its own stunments in the building ning transformation in 2006 with (and more than 80 the addition of two new wings, different floor plans), redesigned residential layouts and this unit must surely be among a host of amenities that evoke the sunniest. From the moment apartment living at its most grayou walk into the entry hall, the cious and refined. sightline is clear all the way The Columbia, which pays through the open plan living homage to its history with vintage room to large windows with a photos in the view of main lobby, Georgetown also features and Rosslyn to 24/7 security, a the west. rooftop pool To the left and sun deck, a of the hallway fully equipped as you enter fitness center the living/dinand three sepaing area is an rate entertainergonomically ment spaces designed chefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with a catering kitchen with Photo by Susan Bodiker black granite kitchen.

Vestiges of the former hospital Unit 741, a countertops, 1,531-squarePoggenpohl remain in the condo complex. foot corner unit soft-close cabiwith 11-foot ceilings, two bednetry with chrome hardware and rooms, two full baths and two glass back-lit backsplash. Stainlarge balconies with exceptional less appliances include a Subviews to the south and west, is on Zero refrigerator with lower

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The light-filled Unit 741 at The Columbia Residences in the West End is priced at $1,490,000. freezer, double sink, Viking Professional microwave, wall oven with warmer drawer, four-burner gas range, hood and dishwasher.

A separate island with seating for two provides additional storage, prep or dining space.

French doors off the kitchen open to a 93-square-foot southeast-facing terrace thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ideal for flower, herb or vegetable container gardening or al fresco dining.

Ditto the larger terrace (102 square feet) off the living room.

Between the two balconies, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always a breeze or a sunrise/sunset view. And with all this natural light, lamps are almost superfluous.

The open living/dining space is wrapped in large picture windows and anchored by a custombuilt wall unit/library to the right as you face the second balcony.

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Down the hall from the public rooms is a large closet hiding a stackable Whirlpool Thin Twin heavy-duty large capacity washer and dryer. There is a spacious guest bath with marble floors, pedestal sink and large glassenclosed shower with marble tile walls. There is also a bright, comfortably sized guest bedroom/ office with a deep closet for folding, stacked or hanging storage.

The spacious private master bedroom features a wall of large windows with an unobstructed view to the west. Just outside the door is an almost room-sized walk-in closet with custom builtin shelves, hanging space and dressers. The marble-tiled master bath includes a large soaking tub,

glass-enclosed shower and wallto-wall Poggenpohl vanity with polished granite counter, deep sink and chrome fixtures.

The Columbia Residences is located in the heart of the desirable West End neighborhood and boasts its very own Trader Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

It is within walking distance of George Washington University, Whole Foods Market, SoulCycle, the Foggy Bottom Metro station and Georgetown.

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Northwest Real Estate ANC 1B ANCColumbia 1B Lower Heights ■ LOWER COLUMBIA HEIGHTS / SHAW Pleasant Plains PLEASANT PLAINS / U STREET Shaw/U Street LOWER GEORGIA AVENUE The commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 1, at the D.C. Housing Finance Agency, 815 Florida Ave. NW. For details, visit anc1b.org.

ANC 1C , november 16, 2016 16 Wednesday ANC 1C Adams Morgan ■ ADAMS MORGAN

The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, at Mary’s Center, 2355 Ontario Road NW. For details, call 202-332-2630 or visit anc1c.org.

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At the commission’s Oct. 20 meeting: ■ Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Zenobia McBride reported that overall crime in the Foggy Bottom area is down 80 percent year-toyear.

■ Rachel Joseph and Benjamin Link from the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services outlined the current process for reporting and addressing homeless encampments. The office partners with other agencies to give encampment residents at least 14 days’ advance notice before the city conducts a public space cleanup of the area. The office is currently working to streamline the

system by which residents report ■ Brook Katzen of Urban Investencampment issues. ment Partners revealed plans for Commissioner William Kenne- the former hotel and dormitory dy Smith reported that several building now known as the Hall encampments that were previously on Virginia Avenue or HOVA at addressed have come back over 2601 Virginia Ave. NW. The projand over again. He also said that a ect will entail a zoning application substantial percentage of the for a map amendment that would neighborhood’s homeless popula- take the site from residential to tion doesn’t accept services and mixed use. The new building will would prefer to live on the street retain theD existing frame but look rather than move to housing. The CurrenT dramatically different, with a res ■ commissioners voted 6-0 to urge taurant on the ground floor and the Alcoholic Beverage Control nine floors of apartments above, Board to shut down the Shadow as well as a private rooftop cafe Room club at 2131 K St. NW fol- for residents only. ANC 2A will lowing news reports of a violent consider the project once the zonincident including gunfire on ing application is filed later this Columbus Day morning. Commis- year or early next year. sioners also voted to protest the ■ commissioners voted 6-0 to renewal of the establishment’s oppose EastBanc’s request for liquor license application, and to Sunday construction hours at the authorize $5,000 in funds to seek site of the new West End Library counsel for ANC 2A when the building, 1101 24th St. NW, but issue comes in front of the alcohol supported an additional hour of board. construction on weekday evenings ■ commissioners voted 6-0 to and an additional two hours of oppose a requested rate increase construction on Saturday evefor Washington Gas following a nings. The developer’s Jennifer vigorous discussion with company Webber said the building project is representatives concerning what currently three to six months many in the neighborhood feel has behind and needs extra hours in been inadequate management and order to recover lost time, but design for recent projects. commissioners hesitated to allow Doreen Hope and David Thom- Sunday work given the inconveas from the utility assured resi- nience and disruption to nearby dents that they’re willing to listen residents. to concerns and plan to make ■ commissioners voted 5-0 to improvements to their contractors’ oppose Metro’s proposal to elimiprocesses as their long-term proj- nate late-night train service, sugects continue. Commissioner Wil- gesting instead that Metro could liam Kennedy Smith implored the reduce hours in the short term with utility to establish a direct point of a planned end date for that schedcontact for the neighborhood so ule. The needs of low-income that issues can be addressed effi- workers, including those in the ciently, and commissioner John service industry, require a longer Williams said he wants to see span of service than Metro is curmore coordination between Wash- rently proposing, commission ington Gas and the D.C. Depart- chair Patrick Kennedy said. ment of Transportation so that ■ commissioners voted to request roads aren’t newly repaved by the that developer Akridge alter the latter only to be torn up again by location of planned arts space in the former. its proposal to construct an office

building at 2100 L St. NW next to the former Stevens School building. Commissioner Florence Harmon wants to see the gallery located in a more prominent place, rather than being in the back of the building. The commission also voted to request a setback of the office building from the historic Stevens School building in order to allow proper light and views, and to respect the history of the property.

■ commissioners voted 5-0 to urge D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine and the Federal Aviation Administration to take all steps necessary to move flight paths from Reagan National Airport away from neighborhoods like the Palisades and Foggy Bottom that have long complained about abundant airplane noise affecting their daily lives.

■ commissioners voted 5-0 to urge D.C. Public Schools and the Department of General Services to complete renovations to the cafeteria and gymnasium at School Without Walls at Francis-Stevens, 2425 N St. NW. ■ commissioners voted 5-0 to support a public space application for exterior renovations at the Washington Marriott Georgetown, 1221 22nd St. NW. The commission will meet at 7:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16, in Room 108, Funger Hall, George Washington University, 2201 G St. NW. Agenda items include: ■ police report.

■ reports from the offices of Mayor Muriel Bowser and Ward 2 D.C. Council member Jack Evans.

■ reports from the Ward 2 Education Network and the West End Library.

■ commissioner updates.

■ public comments.

■ presentation by the DC Water and Sewer Authority regarding

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■ discussion regarding an updated construction schedule and public space plan for the West End Library redevelopment site on Square 37.

■ discussion regarding an updated construction schedule and affordable housing application process for the West End fire station redevelopment site on Square 50.

■ updated discussion regarding needed improvements to the School Without Walls at FrancisStevens.

■ discussion regarding possible legislation to control unregulated utility work such as the Washington Gas project in the Foggy Bottom Historic District.

■ consideration of a resolution regarding the Zoning Commission application for a minor modification to the planned unit development for the Hilton Garden Inn at 2201 M St. NW. ■ consideration of a resolution regarding the Historic Preservation Review Board application to amend the Washington Monument and Grounds Historic District.

■ consideration of several Alcoholic Beverage Control license renewal applications for taverns and nightclubs.

■ consideration of a resolution regarding the poorly placed parking meter in front of James Monroe’s former home at 2017 I St. NW. For details, visit anc2a.org.

ANC 2B ANCCircle 2B Dupont ■ DUPONT CIRCLE The commission will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, at the Brookings Institution, 1775 Massachusetts Ave. NW. For details, visit dupontcircleanc.net.

ANC 2C ANC 2C Quarter Downtown/Penn ■ DOWNTOWN / PENN QUARTER The commission will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 9, in Room A-3, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G St. NW. For details, visit anc2c.us or contact 2C@anc.dc.gov.

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on what the office needed to work efficiently. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They took what we told them into account,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I attended their presentation, and it went above and beyond our expectations. The new office has been a complete turnaround and helps us work better.â&#x20AC;?

Deborah Sherman, the organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volunteer coordinator, agreed: â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was really great to have these design experts share their knowledge and energy with a nonprofit like us.â&#x20AC;?

Eliza McNabb, one of the students on the project â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and, when we met her, painter-in-chief â&#x20AC;&#x201D; emphasized that the experi-

ence was valuable for her class as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our biggest lesson was learning how to talk to clients and really hear what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re saying,â&#x20AC;? McNabb said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are a lot of moving parts in a project like this, and we wanted to make sure we were speaking the same language so we could give them what they expected and stay within their budget and time constraints.â&#x20AC;?

In addition to the design work and heavy lifting during the renovation, students worked with Evans and Riggio (both practicing interior designers) to obtain inkind donations (materials and labor) from construction, furniture and paint vendors.

That was another teachable moment for the students: learning the fine pro bono arts of volunteer management, fund- and friend-

raising. They collected more than $40,000 of goods and services from Allsteel (contract furnishings), Patcraft (contract flooring), Paintzen (paint, labor, materials and supplies), Sherwin Williams (paint) and Wills Decorating (paint and supplies).

According to Paintzenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s director of East Coast operations, Joe Falcicchio, pro bono projects like this are a natural for his firm.

He praised the students for their work ethic and painting skills. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a future with us,â&#x20AC;? he said.

For their part, the students were happy to get their hands dirty. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something exciting about the smell of fresh paint,â&#x20AC;? said one. Another was happy to learn tangible skills like this pro tip: Before you use a new roller, rub it on tape to remove the lint

so you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t inadvertently add texture where you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want it.

As part of their design work, the team also refreshed the visual identity (logo and colorway) of the organization, recommending options to communicate the Playtime brand promise in a more compelling and visually appealing way. Branding is becoming a more important tool in the interior design experience, Riggio said.

Without it, she said, the look and feel of a project is incomplete, â&#x20AC;&#x153;like wearing the wrong shoes with a dress.â&#x20AC;?

Staffers â&#x20AC;&#x153;didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand how transformativeâ&#x20AC;? the project could be, explained Melanie Hatter, Playtimeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s communications coordinator. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fresh, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energizing, and it has changed our outlook,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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ing, and recognized that filling that need could help them become an integral part of the local community while providing the kind of dining experience that domestic and international travelers would appreciate. For Wexler, that means making sure that the offerings of the restaurant and inhotel dining options are of the highest quality, both by industry standards and local dining expectations.

Striking the balance between feeding hotel guests and local visitors is something Dupont Circle restaurant Firefly knows very well. For over a decade, Firefly has been a local favorite known more for its own neighborhood reputation than for its connection to Hotel Madera. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Even with the changes going on in D.C. now with the restaurant boom, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still known as Firefly,â&#x20AC;? general manager Meredith Cutler said.

Both Casolare and Firefly have been able to adapt the concept of the hotel restaurant to appeal to a wider audience. For Firefly, commitments to sustainability that it shares with Hotel Madera are part of the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique identity, while Casolare is able to tap into a neighborhood need to draw in those who live nearby. Casolare also sees itself as playing a role in helping guests connect to the neighborhood, a bridge of sorts between two worlds that are often kept apart. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The hotel isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just a place for people to stay,â&#x20AC;? Wexler said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a place to truly experience what this corner of Northwest Washington, D.C., looks like, and we think Casolare allows guests to do just that.â&#x20AC;?

For both Firefly and Casolare, putting together a strong team has been crucial to making their visions come to life. Casolare is headed by James Beard Awardwinning chef Michael Schlow,

while Fireflyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive chef is critically acclaimed local chef Jammir Gray. Celebrity chefs offer some unique allure for restaurants, but for Cutler and Wexler itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s less about their level of celebrity and more about their being the right fit for everything from the job itself to the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s values. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any chef can cook any cuisine, but what are they really passionate about and what drives them?â&#x20AC;? said Cutler. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were interested in finding someone who was passionate about the same things that we were.â&#x20AC;?

That sentiment was echoed by Wexler, who also looks beyond skill in cooking when explaining why Schlow is key to Casolareâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operations. Wexler recognizes that hotel restaurants have to go above and beyond expectations to draw the attention of those who live nearby, and in doing that Schlow has been a critical partner in all aspects of development. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so talented, and not just from the food perspective but from the dining experience, the menus, the design, the entirety of the experience,â&#x20AC;? Wexler said.

Firefly and Casolare both represent the way hotel dining can carve out a space in the rapidly changing dining scene. According to Cutler, it comes down to seeing a restaurant as more than just part of the hotel package, but rather opening up ways for these dining options to become as unique as their neighborhood competition. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve come from hotel restaurants as amenities and having a standard menu in any restaurant, to really getting that focus and that passion we have now,â&#x20AC;?

Cutler said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has to be a service that is bar none â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and it has to work from both a hotel guest perspective and guests who are coming from all over the world,â&#x20AC;? Wexler said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It really has to be outstanding.â&#x20AC;?

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The Zoning Commission is an independent body that isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t controlled by the mayor or the D.C. Council. But some Woodley Park residents are asking the Bowser administration to create a planning document that would reflect city goals for the Wardman Park site. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Primarily we see that there needs to be a better and more comprehensive plan for the area,â&#x20AC;? Jeff Myers, chair of the Woodley Park Community Associationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s JBG Committee, said during the meeting. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to see an implementation of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commitment to open space and parkland that is accessible. ... [JBG is] trying prematurely to build additionally, and that is something that is deserving of a small-area plan that takes into account all of the impacts and takes into account the voice of the community.â&#x20AC;?

Several community members, including Roger White, a resident of the neighborhood since 1975, questioned if the JBG development would be in line with the

Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Comprehensive Plan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Favoring development and wanting it in an orderly way is one kind of priority in this long list that shows up in the comprehensive planâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goals and policies,â&#x20AC;? White said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Open space is another, but how do you pair these up?â&#x20AC;?

Bowser encouraged concerned community members to be organized and specific in their opposition to the plan, which can be put into a recommendation to the Zon-

ing Commission from the local advisory neighborhood commission. Bowser said that the quality of the recommendation would affect its impact on the Zoning Commissionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decisions whether to support the project and JBGâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s application. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not here to advocate for a project,â&#x20AC;? Bowser added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to learn as much as I can about the project, but I appreciate the feedback youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re giving me.â&#x20AC;?

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he weather is only just beginning to turn colder and leftover candy might still be a reminder of Halloween, but holiday cheer is popping up across the District. As with years past, one of the first events to welcome the season took place in early November at the Embassy of the Czech Republic, where the annual Christmas Market has become a favorite holiday cultural event.

With a blend of local and international vendors offering traditional Czech and Eastern European holiday gifts, goods and treats, the Czech Embassy Christmas Market is a fun burst of the holiday spirit that appeals to the internationally minded. Hosted each year in cooperation with the

group Young Professionals in International Affairs, the event is a celebration of Czech holiday culture. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vendors on Nov. 5 ranged from Bohemian crystal artworks to local bakery La Bohemia, along with kidfriendly games and toys.

But although it is the first, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s far from the last opportunity for District residents to learn more about Christmas culture around the world. With D.C.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uniquely international character comes a wide range of holiday celebrations hosted by organizations and embassies around the city.

These unique events, many of which have become area holiday institutions, are a chance to learn about the world, get some gift shopping done, and bring the family together for a few hours of multicultural fun.

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Items available at the annual Christmas market at the Embassy of the Czech Republic included ornaments, chocolate figures and La Bohemia bakeryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s delicacies. ket takes place from Nov. 25 to Dec. 23 on F Street NW, in front of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery. Featuring vendors with art and gifts from around the world and performances of traditional holiday song and dance from numerous cultures, the Holiday Market is a constantly changing portrait of the holiday season.

Similarly wide ranging is the Winternational event at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center at 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, taking place this year on Dec. 7. The event features crafts, food, and art from around the world, and is timed to overlap with lunch hour for those who work nearby. Displays and gifts are arranged by embassies

from all around the world.

Other specifically focused holiday markets are also taking place. The Norwegian Holiday Bazaar that was once housed at Union Station has moved to Fairfax, taking place this year on Dec. 2 and 3. Demonstrations of traditional crafts and music, a cafe with Norwegian food and drink, and local vendors will all be present at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event, which marks 46 years celebrating in the area.

But the District isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t totally left out. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Norwegian Christmas tree lighting at Union Station. The tree lighting will be held on Nov. 30.

A Swedish Christmas Bazaar will take place on Dec. 3 as well,

at the House of Sweden at 2900 K St. NW in Georgetown.

On Dec. 10, the Italian Holiday Festival returns to the Kogod Courtyard at the Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery. Blending ballet, crafts and music, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a wellrounded and family-friendly holiday event.

Embassies are also offering holiday parties with a little more black-tie flair. The Embassy of Bulgaria and the International Club of DC are hosting a Holiday Feast on Dec. 16, with food, music and information about the country. The French Embassy will host its annual Holiday Ball on Dec. 17, with games, chocolates and ballroom dancing in addition to an open bar.

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Holidays in Washington

Musicals, plays and spectacles buoy holidays

By MARK LONGAKER Current Correspondent

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fter an election season that seemed as long as it did dispiriting, a different season is at hand â&#x20AC;&#x201D; one known for its good cheer and goodwill.

The holidays are arriving, not a moment too soon, and area theaters are gearing up to give us relief from the rancor of recent months. Here is a look at some of their offerings.

Perhaps no story is so well represented in area theatricals at this time of year as â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Christmas Carol,â&#x20AC;? penned

by Charles Dickens in 1843. Though he hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t intended it as a play, the iconic tale has nevertheless been adapted endlessly for stage and screen. At least three versions of the story will be mounted locally over the next two months.

Best known to audiences is the version presented annually at Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre. In fact, this straight-up presentation of â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Christmas Carol,â&#x20AC;? a faithful adaptation of the original novella, is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year. Something new for the occasion is the introduction of a different actor in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge, as Craig Wallace replaces Edward Gero, who played the character for the last seven years.

A more recent tradition is a version of Dickensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; story presented over the last six years by

Keegan Theatre. Called â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Irish Carol,â&#x20AC;? it takes place in an Irish pub on Christmas Eve during modern times, with the establishmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wealthy owner seen as a Scrooge-type facing a friendless old age, unless he changes his ways.

A third permutation of the story this year is comedy troupe Second Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parody â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickensâ&#x20AC;? at the Kennedy Center.

A related story is Dr. Seussâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;How the Grinch Stole Christmas!â&#x20AC;? The Broadway-musical version of this childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fantasy will alight next month for a two-week run at the National Theatre. There will also be a rock opera about a wayward teen coming to grips with her life, courtesy of ghosts and spirits on Christmas Eve. Titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Ghosts of Christmas Eve,â&#x20AC;? it will spend one night in mid-December at Verizon Center.

The story of Jesusâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; birth is central to Christmas, of course, and the season would hardly be complete without some theatrical references to it. One version this year is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Black Nativity,â&#x20AC;? written for an all-black cast by 20th-century poet Langston Hughes.

Replete with gospel music, Theater Alliance of Washington D.C. will present it at Anacostia Playhouse beginning next week. Taking a different view of the nativity story will be the â&#x20AC;&#x153;dragapella beautyshop quartetâ&#x20AC;? Kinsey

Sicksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; humorous â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oy Vey in a Mangerâ&#x20AC;? at Theater J. Another side of the season is the relentless invasion of darkness, making it an ideal time to celebrate traditions opposed to this encroachment. A family entertainment of long standing in this vein is Discovery Theaterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seasons of Light,â&#x20AC;? which introduces children to such festivals as Diwali, Hanukkah, Ramadan and many others. Similarly, there is â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shine a Light: A Solstice Circus,â&#x20AC;? a spectacle with acrobats, aerialists and jugglers presented

by Sweet Spot Aerial Productions at the Atlas Performing Arts Center just ahead of the winter solstice.

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Carol.” Ford’s Theatre Society’s 35th annual production of the classic Charles Dickens story adapted to the stage, with Craig Wallace as Ebenezer Scrooge.

Ford’s Theatre through Dec. 31.

Tickets $24-$107.

23 — “Black Nativity.”

Theater Alliance of Washington D.C. presents its third annual production of the Langston Hughes “Gospel Song-Play” about the birth of Jesus and the unique cultural identity and heritage of black Americans. Anacostia Playhouse through Dec. 31. Tickets $40-$50.

30 — “Seasons of Light.”

Back for its 17th season, this sig-

nature holiday show by Discovery Theater celebrates the history and customs of Diwali, Hanukkah, las Posadas, Ramadan, Sankta Lucia Day, Kwanzaa, Christmas and the First Nation’s tradition of Winter Solstice in an interactive event.

Recommended for ages 5 through 10. S. Dillon Ripley Center and National Museum of the American Indian through Dec. 20. Tickets $3-$8.

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6 — “Into the Woods.”

Fiasco Theater’s witty reinvention of Stephen Sondheim’s Tony Award-winning musical classic that intertwines several fairy tales. Kennedy Center through Jan. 8. Tickets $45-$175.

9 — “The Second City’s ‘A Christmas Carol: Twist Your Dickens.’” Comedy troupe the Second City parodies Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” with improvisation and sketches.

Kennedy Center through Dec. 31.

Tickets $39-$49.

13 — “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

The Musical.” D.C. premiere of Broadway musical about the mean Grinch who decides to steal Christmas from the holiday-loving Whos. National Theatre through Dec. 31. Tickets $48$98.

14 — “Wicked.” Return of the musical about the untold story of the witches of Oz. Kennedy Center through Jan. 8. Tickets $79-$299.

15 — “The Ghosts of Christmas Eve.” Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s rock opera about a runaway teen who is convinced by ghosts and spirits to turn her life around. Verizon Center. Tickets $51.50-$76.50 (a portion of sales donated to the Capital Area Food Bank).

16 — “An Irish Carol.”

Keegan Theater’s sixth annual presentation of playwright Matthew Keenan’s comic and touching take on Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” Set in a modern Dublin pub, the play follows the establishment’s wealthy owner on an evening when he confronts his parsimonious past — and lonely future. Keegan Theatre through Dec. 31. Tickets $35-$55.

17 — “Shine a Light: A

“Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical” will run Dec. 13 through 31 at the National Theatre.

Solstice Circus.” Sweet Spot Aerial Productions’ holiday spectacle features acrobats, aerialists, jugglers and more in entertainment for the whole family. Atlas Performing Arts Center through Dec. 18. Tickets $15-$25.

20 — “Oy Vey in a Manger.” The Kinsey Sicks, billed as “America’s favorite dragapella beautyshop quartet,” make their long-awaited return to D.C. Theater J through Dec. 28. Tickets $17-$47.

Theater Locations

■ Anacostia Playhouse 2020 Shannon Place SE; 202241-2539; theateralliance.com ■ Arena Stage 1101 6th St. SW; 202-488-3300; arenastage.org ■ Atlas Performing Arts Center 1333 H St. NE; 202-399-7993; atlasarts.org ■ Ford’s Theatre 511 10th St. NW; 202-347-4833; fords.org

■ Keegan Theatre 1742 Church St. NW; 202-2653767; keegantheatre.com ■ Kennedy Center 2700 F St. NW; 202-467-4600; kennedy-center.org ■ National Museum of the American Indian 4th Street and Independence Avenue SW; 202-633-1000; nmai.si. edu ■ National Theatre 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW; 202-628-6161; thenationaldc.org ■ S. Dillon Ripley Center 1100 Jefferson Drive SW; 202633-1000; si.edu/museums/ ripley-center ■ Sidney Harman Hall 610 F St. NW; 202-547-1122; shakespearetheatre.org ■ Theater J Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC 1529 16th St. NW; 800-494-8497; washingtondcjcc.org ■ Verizon Center 601 F St. NW; 202-628-3200; ticketmaster.com

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The Macyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s store downtown at Metro Center will unveil this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s holiday window displays on Saturday, Nov. 19.

Festivities kick off at 3 p.m. in the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s department, which will host arts and crafts activities, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nutcrackerâ&#x20AC;? performance by the Ballet Theatre of Maryland, and opportunities for photos with Santa and Snoopy.

At 5 p.m., activities will shift outdoors to the main stage along G Street between 12th and 13th streets NW. Live performances prior to the reveal will feature the Washington Performing Arts Children of the Gospel Choir; the Ballou High School Marching Band; Georgetown Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all-female a cappella group, the Georgetown GraceNotes; and R&B recording artist Anthony Hamilton.

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Starting Friday, Giant will begin a three-week food drive at its regional supermarkets to seek donations from customers. Meanwhile, Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Capitals game will host the Caps Care Food Drive in partnership with Giant, where fans can also donate food. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a grocery store, we continually recognize the important role we can play in the fight against hunger,â&#x20AC;? Giant president Gordon Reid said in a news

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The National Zooâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ZooLights display, shown here in 2015, is returning nightly from Nov. 25 through Jan. 1. release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Through partnerships such as the ones with Capitals owner Monumental Sports & Entertainment, we are able to help the Capital Area Food Bank push the needle on helping those who are facing food insecurity rest a little easier this holiday season.â&#x20AC;?

Giant has donated 28,750 turkeys to various food banks since 2011, according to the release.

ZooLights display set to return next week

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not too common to see the National Zoo after dark, as its grounds typically close at 5 p.m.

But starting next week, the annual ZooLights festivities will welcome guests for the holidays with live music, shopping and snacks â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and, of course, the 500,000plus lights that lend the event its name.

Visitors can see the Zoo transform â&#x20AC;&#x153;into a winter wonderland complete with a dazzling light show set to music,â&#x20AC;? according to the eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website. The free event will be in place from 5 to 9

p.m. Nov. 25 through Jan. 1, except Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Now in its 10th year, ZooLights also offers a look at the nocturnal animals of the Small Mammal House, Reptile Discovery Center, Think Tank and Great Cats building; a tour on a family-friendly trackless train; and â&#x20AC;&#x153;snow-less tubingâ&#x20AC;? on a 150-foot-long track.

The festivities also include BrewLights, a ticketed microbrew and craft beer event to be held Dec. 1 from 5 to 9 p.m., with tickets on sale now, starting from $45 per person; Military Night on Dec. 2, with discounts on purchases available to patrons with military ID; and Date Night on Dec. 8, which includes Champagne, hot toddies, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;sweet treatâ&#x20AC;? and access to the eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rides for $50 to $65 per couple.

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Holidays in Washington

Communities prep for small business

Georgetown to host monthlong light show

By BRADY HOLT Current Staff Writer

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he annual Small Business Saturday is coming next week — and neighborhoods across D.C. are ready to show off their beloved little shops and eateries.

The nationwide event, formed in 2010 by American Express, is intended to ensure shoppers don’t forget about their local independent retailers amid the discounts of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. In Northwest D.C., various business groups are organizing a host of events and other enticements to draw customers to local shopping and dining.

“The Saturday after Thanksgiving is always a big day for local businesses and we’re hoping this year will be huge for them,” Brian Barrie, spokesperson for the Adams Morgan Partnership Business Improvement District, wrote in an email. “We’ve got some wonderfully unique shops in Adams Morgan that locals know about, but we’re trying to draw people in from farther away to not only enjoy great shopping and eating, but to rediscover everything that our neighborhood has to offer.”

Looking more broadly to the future, Ward 6 D.C. Council member Charles Allen has scheduled a hearing for 2 p.m. Thursday to discuss ways of helping the District’s small businesses, including a “Made in DC” program and government support for Small Business Saturday.

But for this year, here’s what shoppers can expect on Saturday, Nov. 26, in various Northwest neighborhoods: ■ Adams Morgan: The neighborhood’s business improvement district is holding a promotion called “Hashtag for a Swag Bag” — a contest to win a collection of prizes donated by various local merchants. To participate, take a picture of yourself in front of the neighborhood’s “shop small” mural in the alley next to 2423 18th St. NW and post it publicly to Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #ShopSmallAdMo. Winners will be chosen at random and will receive various gift cards and merchandise from businesses that include Amsterdam Falafelshop, Little Shop of Flowers, Roofer’s Union, Grand Central, The Brass Knob, Urban Dwell and The Diner, among others, Barrie said.

■ Dupont Circle: A social media campaign by Historic Dupont Circle Main Streets will highlight a different local retailer every 30 minutes on Small Business Saturday, according to executive director Bill McLeod. He encouraged residents to follow the group on Twitter at @DupontCirMainSt and on Facebook at facebook.com/HDCMS. ■ Georgetown: The neighborhood is kicking off its fifth annual holiday window decorating contest for area businesses, and carolers will regale shoppers with holiday tunes, according to Georgetown Business Improvement District spokesperson Lauren Boston. The BID is also promoting a steadily growing list of special offers from neighborhood establishments — 16 as of Tuesday afternoon, available at tinyurl.com/gtown-sat-16. Boston said past Small Business Saturdays have been successful in the neighborhood and that this year should be, too.

“More than 300 small businesses are the heart of Georgetown,” Boston wrote in an email. “They create the unique fabric of our commercial district and are vital members of our community. It’s important that we support them and remember to shop small

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Northwest’s Small Business Saturday events will include Shaw’s annual holiday tree lighting ceremony at City Market at O, shown in 2013.

not just on Small Business Saturday, but throughout the year.”

■ Shaw: Saturday events will include a holiday tree lighting ceremony at City Market at O, ribbon-cuttings that celebrate newly opened businesses, free samples from area businesses and other festivities, according to Shaw Main Streets executive director Alex Padro — who says a record-high 20-plus ribbon-cuttings could be featured.

“Small Business Saturday is a great opportunity for DC to show off the incredible boom in local, independent retail that has taken place in many of our neighborhoods, especially those that have active DC Main Streets programs,” Padro wrote in an email.

■ Tenleytown: The neighborhood will be celebrating its first Small Business Saturday, organized by the newly formed Tenleytown Main Street. Executive director Leigh Catherine Miles said the group — which works to improve coordination among the neighborhood’s businesses — will be launching Tenleytown’s first window display contest in connection with the event. The decorations are due to go up by next Wednesday, and a committee organized by Main Street will announce a winner as part of Small Business Saturday. The day’s events will also include live performances at Middle C Music and Coffee Nature, Miles said.

“We’re hoping that we’ll get more people coming out to Tenleytown to see what we have to offer,” she said. “We hope that people will support local retailers year-round, but Small Business Saturday is an opportunity to shine a spotlight on our smallbusiness owners who really are a cornerstone of our community.”

If you don’t make it to Tenleytown on Nov. 26, you still have other chances to participate in holiday festivities there as part of the annual Tenley Winterfest, which already works to attract customers to the neighborhood with events that include performances and a scavenger hunt through local shops. The event runs from Nov. 25 through Dec. 3.

■ Van Ness: Various businesses will offer specials and small giveaways, and patrons should use the hashtag #VNShopLocal, according to Van Ness Main Street executive director Theresa Cameron.

“Since this is the first time we are hosting, we are keeping it simple and manageable,” she wrote in an email. “The most important thing is that folks are participating and we really want our residents to spend locally on Saturday, November 26.”

The third annual Georgetown GLOW light-art series is returning for the holidays from Dec. 2 to Jan. 1 in eight locations throughout the neighborhood’s commercial district, including along the C&O Canal and Wisconsin Avenue NW. “The site-specific illuminated installations for this year’s Georgetown GLOW are larger in scale and have a deep connection to their surroundings,” Deirdre Ehlen MacWilliams, curator of the event, said in a news release.

“Each work has an element of interactivity allowing the viewer to walk in, on, and around the piece, while other works ask the viewer to become part of the art-

work. We hope each installation will delight and surprise all that visit Georgetown this holiday season.”

The event is organized by the Georgetown Business Improvement District and funded in part through a grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. This year the event has expanded from 10 days to a full month, with displays lit nightly from 6 to 10 p.m.

The BID had selected all of the participating artists and seven of the eight sites for installations

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Spotlight on Schools Eaton Elementary School

We had an in-school field trip from the Historical Society of Washington. Ms. McDonough came to our class to talk about history and Washington, D.C. Our class is studying monuments, memorials and important D.C. buildings. The Historical Society has old pictures, maps and city directories where you can find peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s addresses from a long time ago. We even got to see an old picture of our school!

Next, we got to solve a history mystery. In table groups, we looked at a picture of a man. It looked old. It was black and white and the man was wearing an old-fashioned overcoat. We turned the photo over and there was old-fashioned cursive writing that was hard to read because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the type of writing we see today. Ms. McDonough wanted us to find dates and we did.

We also got to look at old newspaper articles, website pages and a copy of a book. Using these we had to figure out who was on the photo and what it was about.

It turns out that the guy in the photo was Mr. Buckingham and the writing on back told us that he was the last person to talk to John Wilkes Booth before Booth shot the president. Booth asked Mr. Buckingham, the doorkeeper at Fordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theatre, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What time is it?â&#x20AC;?

And he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Look at the clock and you will see.â&#x20AC;?

Do you know which president was killed? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Jami George, Tseion Shiferaw and Mare Valk, third-graders

Key Elementary School

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ed our annual Veterans Day Assembly. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the most popular events of the year. I was one of the emcees along with Cole Riley (third grade) and Delaney Lester (fifth grade). We had a great time speaking.

The idea of the assembly is to honor all veterans of the military.

These distinguished guests are presented by someone at Key who is related to them. We all thank each one individually for their service with a scroll and applause. I introduced Gunnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mate First Class, Thomas J. Camarda of the U.S. Navy, World War II. He is a friend of Ms. Lindenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s: kindergarten teacher and organizer of the event. She said he was very grateful. Twentythree veterans were presented in all: grandpas, dads, uncles and neighbors who have served or who are currently serving.

The main speaker was Lt. Commander Ray Castillo, father of Laila (Ms. Lindenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kindergarten class) and Josiah (Ms. Gildenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fourth-grade class). He is from the U.S Coast Guard. He showed us a film and answered questions.

The Key School Veteranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Chorus, comprised of Key students from all classes, sang the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Star Spangled Bannerâ&#x20AC;?, â&#x20AC;&#x153;America the Beautifulâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Tribute to the Armed Services.â&#x20AC;? During the tribute, we sang the song of each military division while the fifth-graders walked out with signs: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Army,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Air Force,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Navy,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Marinesâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coast Guard.â&#x20AC;?

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also helped organize. We are thankful for their hard work and for everyone who participated. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Robert Swift, third-grader

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Our Lady of Victory School

On Oct. 28, kids were dancing, music was blaring and everyone with braces was secretly eating the sticky candy. Welcome to the annual Our Lady of Victory Sock Hop! Attendees wore creative costumes, and there were many activities to choose from.

In the science lab, students competed in Halloween-themed games that left us restless for days. In the art room, kids made arts and crafts that could decorate a house in the ghostly spirit. Even though these things were lots of fun, the main event was busting moves with friends while getting in the Halloween groove. Many kids say that the best night of the year would be listening to your favorite tunes while partying with friends at the OLV Sock Hop. The masterminds behind all of the success were the parents of the second grade and our vice principal, Mrs. Sague. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event was especially fun because the DJ had popping tunes, and we had Sprinkles Cupcakes, which were the â&#x20AC;&#x153;icing on the cakeâ&#x20AC;? of a Sock Hop to remember. There were also snacks to enjoy that wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave you with cavities.

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Leading up to the Nov. 8 election, Jewish Primary Day School students created a voters guide with kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; perspectives on key issues. In compiling the guide, they visited eighthgraders at Center City Public Charter Schools and other area schools to share their learning and discuss the issues. the Dead where we learned the who, why, and how of â&#x20AC;&#x153;el DĂ­a de los Muertosâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who celebrates it, why they celebrate it and how they celebrate it. We learned that many Mexicans and other Latin Americans celebrate this holiday to remember and honor their deceased loved ones. The holiday comes from a mixture of Aztec and Christian beliefs.

Students in Grade 4 researched in books and on different websites and put all the information together in a Google Slides presentation. We learned that people celebrate by making altars, having parades and making special foods.

Students and teachers made an â&#x20AC;&#x153;ofrenda,â&#x20AC;? which is an altar where we put objects that reminded us of our loved ones. We put many other things on the altar, like â&#x20AC;&#x153;pan de muertos,â&#x20AC;? a special bread.

Grades 2 and 5 buddies made paper marigolds, the traditional Dia de los Muertos flower. Some students also made sugar skulls, and Grade 3 students made ceramic skulls.

At a special chapel, we sang Spanish songs and prayers. Grade 4 will go on a field trip to the Mexican Cultural Institute to see the ofrenda that Mexican artists made. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Grayson Gaynor, fourth-grader

Sheridan School

Fourth grade is learning about what goes into newspaper arti-

cles. We are writing about people in the school and their jobs. First we thought of interview questions. You have to come up with questions that help your reader understand what is going on, or what the person does at the school. You have to ask questions like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why did you come to Sheridan, and what is your priority for the school?â&#x20AC;? You have to know what to include and what to describe. We are going to publish a class newspaper.

Newspaper articles are not like other kinds of writing. You never can say â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;? or talk about yourself in a newspaper article. You have to talk about the community and use someone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opinion to state what someone thinks. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really hard to make sure that you are using only the facts you got from the person you interviewed and not what you think. You have to make sure you understand a topic. You also have to make sure if you are writing about someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feeling or an event that you tell two sides of the story. There might be more to the story, and you could totally change someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opinion if you only tell half of it.

It can be really hard to make sure that you arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cutting things out that you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think are important. The journalist has to tell the reader what actually happened, not what you think happened. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Kendall Peterson and Naja Skrine, fourth-graders

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Wednesday NOVEMBER 16 Children’s program ■ Local mime artist Mark Jaster will present “Piccolo’s Trunk,” featuring a character who delights through playful interactions with the audience, brilliant gestures and witty musical surprises, all without words (for ages 3 through 8 and their families). 10 and 11:15 a.m. $25 to $39. Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H St. NE. 202-399-7993. The performance will repeat Thursday and Friday at 10 a.m.; Saturday at 9:30 a.m., 11 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.; and Sunday at 3:30 p.m.

Performance ■ Washington National Opera will present Donizetti’s opéra comique “The Daughter of the Regiment,” about a woman raised by soldiers who must convince her “fathers” to let her marry a peasant — just as a mysterious marquise comes to whisk her away to become a proper lady.

7:30 p.m. $45 to $315. Opera House, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. The performance will repeat Thursday and Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 7 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

Thursday,NOVEMBER Nov. 17 Thursday 17 Children’s program ■ Friends of the Cleveland Park Library will present weekly chess instruction for kids of all ages, temporarily relocated to the Chevy Chase Library.

5 p.m. Free. Chevy Chase Library, 5625 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-0021.

Classes and workshops ■ “Pasta With Peppa,” a cooking class led by Giuseppa Paparelli, will explore how to make a traditional holiday pasta known as Cappelletti. 4 to 5:30 p.m. $25; reservations suggested.

Via Umbria, 1525 Wisconsin Ave. NW. viaumbria.com/events.

■ The Chevy Chase and Georgetown chapters of National Active and Retired

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Federal Employees will present a seminar on the Federal Health Insurance Program’s “Open Season,” led by health economist Walt Francis. 6 to 7:30 p.m.

Free. Iona Senior Services, 4125 Albemarle St. NW. 202-518-2519.

Concerts ■ South African guitarist Derek Gripper will perform music inspired by European classical traditions, avant-garde Brazilian works, kora music from Mali, the ghoema and vastrap music styles of Cape Town, and Indian classical music.

6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ Philadelphia’s Nick Andrew Staver, who earned a master’s certificate in songwriting and guitar at Berklee College of Music, will play contemporary jazz and blues. 7:30 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

■ Legendary saxophonist Jorge Pardo will present an evening of jazz and flamenco featuring the Juanito Pascual Trio. 7:30 p.m. $20; reservations required. Former Residence of the Ambassadors of Spain, 2801 16th St. NW. spainculture.us.

■ The Georgetown University Jazz Ensemble will perform some of Quincy Jones’ most famous hits, as well as arrangements by Michael Philip Mossman. 8 p.m. Free. Gonda Theatre, Davis Performing Arts Center, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. performingarts.georgetown.edu.

■ The Z3, a Frank Zappa tribute trio from Connecticut, and the Next Step Band, a Grateful Dead devotee group from the D.C. area, will perform. 8 p.m. $10 to $12. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

■ “Thursday Night Bluegrass” will feature Memphis Gold, Charlie Sayles and the Scrap Iron Band playing blues.

8 to 11 p.m. No cover; $12 minimum.

Mr. Henry’s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-546-8412.

Discussions and lectures ■ Joel Blecher, associate professor of history at George Washington University, will discuss “Textile Fragments From Mamluk Egypt.” Noon. Free. George The John E. Marlow Guitar Series

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Thursday, NOVEMBER 17 ■ Concert: The National Symphony Orchestra will present Dvorák’s “New World Symphony” led by conductor Krzysztof Urbánski, as well as the rarely performed original version of Tchaikovsky’s “Rococo Variations” featuring young virtuoso cellist Johannes Moser (shown).

7 p.m. $15 to $89. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

The concert will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m.

Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW. 202994-5200.

■ “Thursdays at Noon: Portrait Conversations” will feature National Portrait Gallery curator Taína Caragol discussing the oil painting of Juan Nepomuceno Seguín by Thomas Jefferson Wright.

Noon. Free. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000.

■ International best-selling author and illustrator Alona Frankel will discuss “Girl: My Childhood and the Second World War,” her newly translated memoir about growing up as a hidden child during the Holocaust. Noon to 1 p.m.

Free. Pickford Theater, Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. 202-707-9897.

■ Ryan Reft of the Library of Congress will discuss “Sexual Equality Through Military Technology,” about gay liberation in Los Angeles, the militaryindustrial complex and Washington, D.C. Noon to 1 p.m. Free. Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. 202-707-8437.

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■ Kai Wang, a visiting scholar at George Washington University’s Sigur Center for Asian Studies, will discuss “Does Aid Lead to Corruption? Evaluating China’s Poverty Alleviation Program.”

3 to 4 p.m. Free; reservations required.

Suite 503, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1957 E St. NW. go.gwu.edu/kaiwang.

■ Documentary filmmakers Erica Ginsberg, Sandy Cannon-Brown and Andy Fernandez will discuss their work and careers in the second of six talks held in association with the new Dumbarton Oaks Humanities Fellowships. 5:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Oak Room, Fellowship House, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1700 Wisconsin Ave. NW. events@doaks.org.

■ A seminar series on “Trauma and the Brain” will feature Johns Hopkins University and National Institutes for Health neuroscientist and researcher Bill Marks and attorney Jeanine Hull. 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-7271488. The series will continue Dec. 1.

■ In conjunction with the exhibition “Color in Relief: Woodblock Prints From Origins to Abstraction,” the Washington Print Club and the Washington Printmakers Gallery will present a panel discussion with Joann Moser, senior curator emeritus at the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Ingrid Rose, conservator of works on paper; Terry Parmelee, artist and printmaker; and Karen Seibert, artist. 6 to 8 p.m. Free.

Murray Room, Lauinger Library, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. library.georgetown.edu.

■ Artist Rowland Ricketts, who uses natural dyes and historical processes to create richly hued contemporary textiles, will discuss how growing and processing indigo shapes his art, informs his worldview, and serves as an act of resistance in a culture of overproduction and overconsumption. 6 p.m. $10 to $15; reservations required. George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW. 202-994-7394.

■ “Small Press Night” will feature four literary fiction authors published by small presses, discussing their works and careers: Andrea Klein, author of “Calf”; Kia Corthron, author of “The Castle Across the Magnet Carter”; Jen Michalski, author of “The Summer She Was Underwater”; and Rion Amilcar Scott, author of “Insurrections.” 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free; reservations requested.

East City Bookshop, 645 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. eastcitybookshop.com.

■ Henrik Williams, a professor and chair in the department of Scandinavian languages at Uppsala University, will discuss “Cracking the Runic Code: The Alphabet of Mystery.” 6:45 to 9 p.m. $30 to $45. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-6333030.

■ Alexandra Zapruder — granddaughter of Abraham Zapruder, whose film of the moment John F. Kennedy was shot provided crucial evidence for the Warren Commission — will discuss her book “Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History

of the Zapruder Film,” which describes the lasting effect the film had on her and her family. She will be joined by novelist Susan Shreve, author of “You Are the Love of My Life.” 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

■ Meg Leta Jones, assistant professor at Georgetown University, will discuss her book “Control + Z: The Right to Be Forgotten,” about the legal, cultural and technical aspects of the digital world. 7 to 9 p.m. Free; reservations suggested. The Potter’s House, 1658 Columbia Road NW. pottershousedc.org.

■ Jan Grabowski, professor of history at the University of Ottawa, will discuss the Polish “Blue” Police, which the Germans created shortly after their conquest of Poland to enforce various German regulations directed against Polish Jews and which later took part in the brutal liquidation of ghettos in Poland. 7 p.m. Free; reservations required. Helena Rubenstein Auditorium, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW. ushmm.org.

■ Zadie Smith (shown), author of “White Teeth” and “On Beauty,” will discuss her fifth novel, “Swing Time,” about a brief but defining friendship between two women who dream of becoming dancers — only one of whom has the necessary physical talent, with the other using movement, rhythm and movement as a framework for understanding her identity as a black woman, an Englishwoman and a descendant of a West African tribe. Smith will be joined by former NPR host Michele Norris, curator of The Race Card Project. 7 p.m. $28 to $30 for the book and one ticket. Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, 600 I St. NW. sixthandi.org.

■ The Georgetown Book Club will discuss Adam Johnson’s story collection “Fortune Smiles,” recipient of the 2015 National Book Award for Fiction. 7:30 p.m. Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. julia.strusienski@dc.gov.

■ The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington’s new “Imagine Israel: Meet the Changemakers” series will feature a talk by journalist, filmmaker and TV personality Gal Uchovsky, called “the most influential LGBTQ person in Israel” by Pink Time Magazine. 7:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Carnegie Institution for Science, 1530 P St. NW. shalomdc.org/ changemakers.

■ Author and war crimes expert Lawrence Douglas will discuss his book “The Right Wrong Man: John Demjanjuk and the Last Great Nazi War Crimes Trial,” which follows one of the most serpentine trials to come out of the Holocaust — that of 89-year-old Ukrainian-American John Demjanjuk. 7:30 to 9 p.m.

Free; reservations requested. Kay Community Hall, Edlavitch Jewish Community Center of Washington DC, 1529 16th St. NW. 202-777-3228.

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■ The Korean Cultural Center’s K-Cinema series will present Hong Jiyoung’s 2013 hit comedy “Marriage Blue,” about four very different couples about to be married who face compatibility issues and start having second thoughts. Appetizer social at 6 p.m.; film at 6:30 p.m.

Free; reservations required. Korean Cultural Center, 2370 Massachusetts Ave. NW. KoreaCultureDC.org.

■ The Library of Congress will present a double feature: the 1952 movie “Chicago Calling,” about a poor father who makes monumental efforts to get money to keep his phone installed, so he can get word on his critically injured little daughter; and the 1949 movie “The Big Steal,” about an army lieutenant accused of robbery who pursues the real thief on a frantic chase through Mexico aided by the thief’s fiancee. 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Free. Pickford Theater, Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. 202-7075603.

■ The International Cinema Series will feature Luis Buñuel’s 1954 comedy “Illusion Travels by Streetcar,” about two entrepreneurial transit workers who borrow a streetcar and crisscross Mexico City giving free rides to a cross section of humanity. A post-screening discussion will feature Carlos A. Gutiérrez, co-founding director of Cinema Tropical, and Jeffrey Middents, professor at American University. 6:30 p.m. Free. Doyle/Forman Theater, McKinley Building, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. bunueldc2016.org.

■ Georgetown University will host a screening of the film “Almost Sunrise,” which follows Tom Voss and Anthony Anderson, former soldiers haunted by combat experiences, as they take a 2,700mile trek on foot across America seeking redemption, acceptance and a way to close the moral chasm opened by war. 7 to 9 p.m.

Free. Bunn Intercultural Center Auditorium, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. guevents.georgetown.edu.

■ A Kazakh film festival will feature a screening of the 2013 film “Nagima,” with introductory remarks by director Zhanna Issabayeva about her unblinking look at the vulnerable social position of single women in Kazakhstan. 7 to 9:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Marvin Center Auditorium, 800 21st St. NW. go.gwu.edu/nov17.

■ The last night of the “Third China Onscreen Biennial,” co-sponsored by the Smithsonian’s Freer and Sackler galleries, will feature the D.C. premiere of Chinese superstar director Feng Xiaogang’s 2016 film “I Am Not Madame Bovary,” about a village woman who pursues a

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■ “Refugee,” featuring photographs that illuminate the plight of refugees, will open Friday at the Newseum. On view through March 12, the exhibit includes works by Lynsey Addario, Omar Victor Diop, Graciela Iturbide, Martin Schoeller and Tom Stoddart.

On EXHIBIT The Newseum also recently reopened its Pulitzer Prize Photographs Gallery after a monthlong makeWest Building of the National Gallery of Art and over. continue through March 5.

Located at 555 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, the muse Located at 4th Street and Constitution Avenue um is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission NW, the gallery is open Monday through Saturday costs $22.95 for adults, $18.95 for seniors and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to $13.95 for ages 7 through 18; it is free for ages 6 6 p.m. 202-737-4215. and younger. 888-639-7386.

■ “Consider Yourself Illuminated,” a group show of ■ “Bill Viola: The Moving Portrait,” presenting works art that emits light, will open today at Smith Farm by a video artist who focuses on the face and body, Center for Healing and the Arts’ Joan Hisaoka will open Friday at the National Portrait Gallery Healing Arts Gallery and continue through Dec. and continue through May 7.

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Located at 8th and F streets NW, the gallery is Featured are artists Fabiola Alvarez Yurcisin, Ani open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. 202-633-1000.

Bradberry, Melissa Burley, Tatiana ■ “Virtual Palestine,” a group show Gulenkina, Robin Schaefer and Jo that views the reality of Palestine Ellen Walker. A reception will take through videos and slide shows, will place Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m., and open Friday with a reception from 6 to an artist-and-curator talk will be given 8 p.m. at the Jerusalem Fund GalDec. 10 from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. lery Al-Quds. The exhibit will contin Located at 1632 U St. NW, the galue through Dec. 16. lery is open Wednesday through Friday Located at 2425 Virginia Ave. NW, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday the gallery is open Monday through from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. 202-483-8600.

Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-338■ The Hirshhorn Museum and 1958.

Sculpture Garden will unveil a large ■ “District II,” presenting photographs site-specific painting by American artof Mount Vernon Square and down©Omar Victor Diop town D.C. from the 1960s through the ist Mark Bradford tomorrow. On view through Sept. 17, the painting will 1980s, will open Saturday at the The Newseum’s occupy the entire circumference — National Building Museum. Pre“Refugee” exhibit almost 400 feet — of the museum’s sented by the Historical Society of includes this photo Inner Ring Galleries.

Washington, D.C., the exhibit features of Ibrahima and his Located at Independence Avenue work by Bill Barrett, Chris Earnshaw mother Hawa, who and 7th Street SW, the museum is and Joseph Mills. It will continue fled the Central open daily from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. through Feb. 12.

African Republic 202-633-1000.

Located at 401 F St. NW, the ■ “Gene Davis: Hot Beat,” presenting museum is open Monday through Satwhile pregnant.

15 so-called “stripe” paintings by a urday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunleading Washington Color School artist, will open Fri- day from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission costs $10 for day at the Smithsonian American Art Museum adults and $7 for students, seniors and ages 3 to and continue through April 2.

17; it is free for ages 2 and younger. 202-272-2448.

Located at 9th and G streets NW, the museum is ■ “The Material Instant: Zoetrope Animations by Eric open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. 202-633-1000. Dyer,” featuring Dyer’s modern take on the 19th-cen-

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“Stuart Davis: In Full Swing,” featuring some 100 jazz-inspired compositions by one of the most important American modernists, will open Sunday in the

grudge arising from a “fake divorce” and manages to flummox all the government suits who cross her path in her decadelong pursuit of justice. 7 p.m. Free.

Landmark’s E Street Cinema, 555 11th St. NW. asia.si.edu.

Performances and readings ■ The Happenings Happy Hour series will present the local cabaret group La Ti Do performing an evening of songs and spoken word written by female authors and featuring local actors and poets, in celebration of the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s production of “The Secret Garden.” 6 to 7 p.m. Free; reservations suggested. Sidney Harman Hall Forum, 610 F St. NW. 202-547-1122.

■ Two poets who revel in the history and experiences of African-Americans — Robin Coste Lewis, fellow in poetry and visual studies at the University of Southern California, and Tyehimba Jess, associate professor of English at the College of Staten Island — will read their poems inspired by “The Migration Series,” a 60-panel work by Jacob Lawrence, one of the most celebrated African-American artists of the 20th century. 6:30 p.m. $15. Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW. 202-387-2151.

■ Catholic University will “The Outcasts of Poker Flat: A New American

Opera,” based on the short story by Bret Harte and featuring music and libretto

by Andrew Earle Simpson, head of the Rome School of Music’s theory and composition division. 7:30 p.m. $5 to $20. Ward Recital Hall, Catholic University, 620 Michigan Ave. NE. music.cua.edu. The performance will repeat Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

■ Dance Place’s first full-length production, “What’s Going On,” will look through the lens of Marvin Gaye’s music and insights on life, love and social justice to find a reflection of the world today, with choreography by Vincent E. Thomas, Ralph Glenmore and Sylvia Soumah. 8 p.m. $15 to $30. Dance Place, 3225 8th St. NE. 202-269-1600.

The performance will repeat Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 4 p.m.

Special events ■ Guy Mason Recreation Center will host a new weekly pingpong club (ages 21 and older). 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Guy Mason Recreation Center, 3600 Calvert St. NW. 202-727-7736.

■ In celebration of Pizzeria Paradiso’s 25th anniversary, chef Ruth Gresser and beer director Josh Fernands will re-create the restaurant’s first-ever beer dinner with an exclusive five-course

Stuart Davis’ 1940 oil on canvas “Shapes of Landscape Space #3” is part of an exhibit at the National Gallery of Art. tury optical-animation toys known as zoetropes and other works, opened recently at Georgetown University’s Spagnuolo Gallery and will continue through Dec. 11. An artist’s talk and opening reception will take place Thursday from 5 to 7:30 p.m.

Located in the lobby of the Walsh Building at 1221 36th St. NW, the gallery is open Wednesday through Friday from noon to 7 p.m., Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

202-687-9206.

■ “Light & Rhythm: Small Works by Tazuko Ichikawa,” featuring Ichikawa’s sculptures made from natural materials like wood, wax and rope, opened recently at George Washington University’s Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, where it will continue through Dec. 2.

Located at 805 21st St. NW on the second floor, the gallery is open Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 202-994-1525.

■ The House of Sweden recently opened two exhibits.

“Spirit of the Wild — Through the Eyes of Mattias Klum,” on view through Dec. 18, presents naturalhistory photographer Klum’s pictures from places as far flung as the Arctic tundra and the Borneo rainforests.

“Woodland Sweden,” continuing through Dec. 11, tells the story of Sweden’s rapidly developing field of contemporary architecture and the use of wood in construction.

Located at 2900 K St. NW, the gallery is open Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. 202-4672645.

meal paired with iconic Belgian Trappist beers. Guest speakers John Brown of Merchant du Vin, and Sir Thor Cheston of Right Proper will discuss the life of the Cistercian monkhood and the pas-

sion behind monastic brewing. 6 to 8 p.m. $70; reservations required. Pizzeria Paradiso, 3282 M St. NW. eatyourpizza.com.

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Continued From Page 27 ■ “Crossing the Street Van Ness”— a Creative Placemaking project sponsored by the Kresge Foundation — will provide intergenerational social activities that facilitate interaction between people of diverse social and economic backgrounds, including a main event at the University of the District of Columbia Student Center. Activities will include games, live painting, a fashion show and community conversation. 6 to 11 p.m.

Free. Various locations along Connecticut Avenue between Veazey Terrace and Windom Place NW. ■ The Heurich House Museum’s monthly History & Hops series will feature Alexandria’s Port City Brewing Co. The event, for ages 21 and older, will also include snacks and tours of the historic home. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $30. Heurich House Museum, 1307 New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-429-1894.

■ Station Kitchen and Cocktails will host a beer pairing dinner with Right Proper Brewing Company, with instruction on the beer-making process from head brewer Nathan Zeender. 7 to 10 p.m. $35; reservations required. Embassy Row Hotel, 2015 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-939-4135.

■ Alliance Française de Washington and the French-American Chamber of Commerce will host “Beaujolais and Beyond Celebration 2016,” featuring light fare from leading D.C. restaurants, a French buffet, free-flowing Beaujolais Nouveau, dancing, a silent auction and a raffle drawing for round-trip tickets to Paris. 8 to 11 p.m. $75 to $135.

Embassy of France, 4001 Reservoir Road NW. francedc.org.

Sporting event ■ The Washington Wizards will play the New York Knicks. 7 p.m. $29 to $679. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.

Friday,NOVEMBER Nov. 18 Friday 18 Children’s program ■ Matthew Olshan will discuss his book “A Voyage in the Clouds: The (Mostly) True Story of the First International Flight by Balloon in 1785,” a picture book inspired by the historic adventure by an Englishman and a Frenchman across the English Channel (for ages 4 to 8). 10:30 a.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.

Class ■ TechMoxie will present a workshop on how Uber works, the advantages over a traditional taxi, tips on safety and the basics of setting up an Uber account. 10 to 11 a.m. $18; reservations required.

Hera Hub DC, Suite 100, 5028 Wisconsin Ave. NW. uberforbeginners. eventbrite.com.

Concerts ■ Organist Sherry Graveson of Alexandria, Va., will perform. 12:15 p.m.

Free. National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Circle NW. 202-797-0103.

■ The Friday Morning Music Club will present a concert featuring works by Moreno-Torroba, Debussy, Scarlatti and Chopin. Noon. Free. Calvary Baptist Church, 755 8th St. NW. 202-333-2075.

■ The Friday Music Series will feature guitarist Richard Miller performing Brazilian choro. 1:15 p.m. Free. McNeir

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Go-go music was the star of a new musical that debuted this month at Georgetown University, sharing the story of a young nanny spreading her love of D.C.’s signature genre.

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On STAGE Onoda Power created and directed “Wind Me Up, Maria! A Go-Go Musical,” bringing in as musical director local go-go musician Charles “Shorty Corleone” Garris, lead singer of D.C. band Rare Essence. The show ran Nov. 3 to 12 at Georgetown University’s Gonda Theatre to capacity crowds.

Power described the pairing of theater and go-go as “a match made in heaven.”

“Theater transforms spaces, celebrates communities and heals people. That’s what go-go music does too,” the playwright wrote in an email. “People of all backgrounds, ages and views have had a great time together in the audience every night, and I love that.”

The plot follows Maria, a D.C. native and lover of go-go, the funk-affiliated music genre that swelled up in the city in the 1960s and 1970s under its celebrated “godfather” Chuck Brown.

A rising senior at Georgetown University in need of a summer job, Maria finds work as a nanny and tutor to six children in an affluent D.C. family. The household is politically correct to the max: kale chip-eating, documentary-watching, SAT prep starting in first grade.

In a riff on nanny storylines like “The Sound of Music,” Maria shares her love of go-go music with the children, bringing them on field trips to unlikely places. The story explores themes of diversity, homosexuality, political correctness and freedom of speech.

A live band brought vital energy to the show, performing on stage in a recessed area behind the actors and sometimes proAuditorium, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. 202-687-2787.

■ Zack Zadek — a composer, lyricist, songwriter, performer and playwright — will perform as part of the “Broadway Tomorrow” series. 6 p.m.

Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The Embassy Series in cooperation with the Fabretto Children’s Foundation will present a concert by the Darwin Noguera Jazz Ensemble, led by New York City-based pianist Darwin Noguera, a native of Nicaragua. The event will include a buffet reception and wine.

7:30 to 10 p.m. $110. Embassy of Nicaragua, 1627 New Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-625-2361.

■ Contemporary jazz pianist, composer and songwriter Kayla Waters will perform songs from her debut album “Apogee,” with a special appearance by her father, smooth jazz saxophonist Kim Waters. 8 and 10 p.m. $18 to $20; $18

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“Wind Me Up, Maria! A Go-Go Musical” paired theater with go-go for an inspired combination at Georgetown University. viding a musical undercurrent to the dialogue. The band — a blended ensemble of professional go-go musicians and Georgetown students, playing keyboards, drums, congas, guitar, bass and timbales – captured the essence of go-go music with a strong percussive groove and sudden bursts of energy.

Garris conducted the band onstage, showing professional polish with his vocals and clever arrangements.

The show’s songs utilized the classic go-go feature of “call and response,” with actors and audience members repeating phrases back and forth to each other. The songs supported messages of resilience and self-reliance, with titles such as “Learn Your Culture, Make the Connection,” “Work Hard for Success” and “Get Ready for the SAT.” There aren’t many musicals about D.C., but “Wind Me Up, Maria” relished its roots with inside jokes for locals, with character names like Morgan Adams, Sherry Kalorama, Kay Street, Noma and Lincoln. At one point, a panda wandered across the stage. The children characters enjoyed halfsmokes at Ben’s Chili Bowl.

Georgetown University freshman Myiah Sahulga Smith brought an infectious energy

food and drink minimum. Mr. Henry’s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. mrhenrysdc.com.

■ New Jersey singer-songwriter Jesse Elliot will perform a blend of folk, rock and blues music influenced by Bob Dylan, Randy Newman, John Cale and others. 8 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys. com.

■ The American University Workshop will present “The Music of Steve Reich,” exploring the work of one of minimalism’s founders and most active proponents. 8 p.m. $5 to $10. Abramson Family Recital Hall, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-3634.

■ “DECLASSIFIED: Bryce Dessner LIVE” will feature the multifaceted guitarist from The National, soughtafter composer and all-around borderless artist joining the National Symphony Orchestra for a pro-

and fresh look to the title role of Maria Anacostia, charming the audience with imperfections like her habitual tardiness.

Power — a longtime go-go fan who had Chuck Brown perform at her 2008 wedding — said her musical exposes the genre to a wider variety of audiences. “This is an interesting time for go-go with a lot of renewed interest,” she wrote in her email.

“Go-go belongs in the city, not just in clubs.

This show is taking go-go out of its usual club context and making it accessible for people who are not 21, and for families too.”

“Wind Me Up, Maria! A Go-Go Musical” was produced by the Georgetown University Theater and Performance Studies Program, Mask & Bauble Dramatic Society and the Black Theatre Ensemble. The show also featured a special appearance by Capital Kidds, an educational children’s group that Garris runs as part of the Innovative School of Performing Arts, which he founded.

“It’s been brought up, is go-go dead, over? Will it survive?” Garris said in a recent Georgetown University release. “This project gives it a new platform, and shows that go-go is standing the test of time yet again.”

gram of his music. 9 p.m. $39. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, a Brown County, Ind., group that plays blues, ragtime, folk, country and punk-fueled rock, and Seattle-based rock, punk and country band the Supersuckers will appear. 9 p.m. $16 to $19.

Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

■ Baltimore’s Tongue in Cheek Jazz Band — featuring Bridget Cimino and Zach Serleth — will perform traditional jazz. 10:30 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys. com.

Discussions and lectures ■ Francisco Pedraza, professor at the University of California at Riverside, will discuss “Latinos, Elections, and the Making of Cautious Citizenship.” 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 2, Mary Graydon Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. ccps@american.edu.

■ Dallas attorney Talmage Boston

will discuss his book “Cross-Examining History: A Lawyer Gets Answers From the Experts About Our Presidents,” which is based on interviews with presidential insiders about what made many of the country’s major chief executives tick.

Noon. Free. McGowan Theater, National Archives Building, Constitution Avenue between 7th and 9th streets NW. 202357-5000.

■ Ghanaian writer Kwame Dawes will read selections of his work and participate in a moderated discussion with Angel Batiste, Africa area specialist in the African and Middle Eastern Division at the Library of Congress. Noon to 1:30 p.m. Free. African/Middle Eastern Reading Room, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-707-5394.

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Anderson House, Society of the Cincinnati, 2118 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-785-2040.

■ The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at American University will present a talk on “A Taste of Jewish Soul Music — From Eastern Europe to the Shores of America” by Caron Dale, founder and lead vocalist for the music group Lox & Vodka and founder and CEO of the nonprofit Chords of Change. 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room A-101, Spring Valley Building, American University, 4801 Massachusetts Ave. NW. olli-dc.org/lecture_series.

■ The first day of a symposium on “Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959-1971” will feature introductory remarks by Harry Cooper, curator and head of the National Gallery of Art’s department of modern art, and a keynote address by Pamela M. Lee, professor of fine arts at Stanford University.

3:30 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. 202-7374215. The symposium will continue Saturday from 11 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. with lectures by other scholars.

■ Laura Jane Grace — founder, lead singer, songwriter and guitarist of the punk rock band Against Me! — will discuss her book “Tranny: Confessions of Punk Rock’s Most Infamous Anarchist Sellout,” an account of her coming out as a transgender woman in 2012, her early gender dysphoria, her struggles with identity and addiction, and her relationships. 7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.

■ National Geographic photographer Robin Hammond, who has dedicated his career to documenting human rights and development issues around the world, will discuss his current project: “Where Love Is Illegal,” which documents the intimate moments of LGBT survivors of discrimination and persecution around the globe. 7:30 p.m. $25.

Grosvenor Auditorium, National Geographic, 1600 M St. NW. 202-857-7700.

Films ■ The Petworth Library will host its “Retro Film Matinee” series. 10:30 a.m.

Free. Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202-243-1188.

■ George Washington University will host a screening of the 2014 documentary “Poverty, Inc.,” followed by a postscreening Q&A with scholars in international development. 3 to 5 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 113, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1957 E St. NW. elliott.gwu.edu/calendar.

■ The Woman’s National Democratic Club’s “Cinema Night” will feature Michael Moore’s documentary “Where to Invade Next,” featuring a look at how Europeans view work, education, health care, sex, equality and other issues. Bar with light dinner opens at 6 p.m.; movie starts at 7 p.m. $10 to $30. Woman’s National Democratic Club, 1526 New

Hampshire Ave. NW. 202-232-7363.

■ The Japan Information and Cultural Center will present Ryotaro Makihara’s 2013 film “Hal,” about a heartbroken woman who finds comfort in an ultra-lifelike robotic surrogate created to take the place of her boyfriend after his death in a tragic airplane accident. 6:30 p.m. Free; registration required. Japan Information and Cultural Center, 1150 18th St. NW. www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/ jicc.

■ The “Shooting Stars: Bowie and Prince on Film” series will feature the 1990 movie “Graffiti Bridge,” an unofficial sequel to “Purple Rain” in which Prince and Morris Day operate rival Minnesota nightclubs. 7 to 9 p.m. Free; tickets required. Pickford Theater, Madison Building, Library of Congress, 101 Independence Ave. SE. 202-707-5502.

■ Docs in Progress will screem two not-quite-finished documentaries — “Color Correction,” about a man who goes on a quest to find his ancestral and ethnic background; and “Crank,” about the history and legacy of go-go, D.C.’s hometown music. A workshopstyle feedback session with the filmmakers will follow. 7 to 9 p.m. $10 donation suggested. Room B-07, Media and Public Affairs Building, George Washington University, 805 21st St. NW. docsinprogress.org/screenings.

■ “Reel Affirmations XTRA: Washington, DC’s International LGBTQ Monthly Film Series” will feature Ingrid Jungermann’s film “Women Who Kill,” a wry comedy on modern romance’s hollow results. 7 to 10 p.m. $12 to $25. Human Rights Campaign, 1640 Rhode Island Ave. NW. reelaffirmations.org.

Performances and readings ■ The Kennedy Center will present “Where Words Once Were,” a world-premiere commission from playwright Finegan Kruckemeyer — set in a city where language is rationed, a sentence can get you sentenced, the silent are rising, and a word can change the world (for ages 9 and older). 7 p.m. $20. Family Theater, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. Performances will continue through Nov. 27.

■ Opera Lafayette will present “Menu: Plaisirs,” the U.S. premiere of the staged cabaret production from Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse in Lyon, featuring tenor Jean-Paul Fouchécourt (shown), one of the foremost interpreters of French baroque repertoire of song and arias. The event will include a discussion an hour before the performance with violinist Ryan Brown and stage director Jean Lacornerie, and complimentary wine and more entertainment following the concert. 7:30 p.m. $25 to $100; reservations required. Embassy of France, 4101 Reservoir Road NW. 202-5469332. The performance will repeat Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

■ Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School will present its fall play “The Curious Savage,” a comedy by John Patrick about greed and love set at The Cloisters, a refined 1950s sanatorium. 7:30 p.m. $8 to $10. Nolan Center, Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School,

Friday, NOVEMBER 18 ■ Discussion: A fundraiser for Hyde-Addison Elementary School will feature investigative journalist Amanda Ripley (shown), author of “The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way,” in conversation with NPR’s Guy Raz, host of the “TED Radio Hour” and “How I Built This.” 6 to 8 p.m. $15 to $20. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 3240 O St. NW. bit.ly/hydedonate.

1524 35th St. NW. visi.org. The performance will repeat Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

■ Wilson High School will present “Urinetown, the Musical,” an irreverent, satirical tale of greed, corruption, love and revolution set in a Gotham-like city in the grips of a terrible water shortage that has led to a government-enforced ban on private toilets. 7:30 p.m. $5 to $15. Auditorium, Wilson High School, 3950 Chesapeake St. NW. wilsondramatickets@gmail.com. The performance will repeat Saturday at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.

■ “Modern Rangila: A Festival of South Asian Music and Culture” will feature a variety of performances from dif-

ferent regions of the subcontinent. Proceeds will benefit Next Purpose, an organization dedicated to providing medical facilities to remote regions of Nepal.

7:30 p.m. $20. Gaston Hall, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. georgetownrangila.org. The event will repeat Saturday at 7 p.m.

■ The Metro Players will present “On the Verge,” featuring three intrepid sojourners who set out on their journey in 1888 and ultimately arrive at Nicky’s Paradise Bar and Grill in 1955, having met many interesting and delightful characters along the way. 8 p.m. $10 to $15. Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church, 3401 Nebraska Ave. NW. 202-363-4900. The performance will repeat Saturday at 5 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.

■ Laugh Index Theatre will present its monthly House Comics show and open mic. 10 p.m. $10 to $15. DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW. 202-4627833.

Special events ■ “Cashmere Sip & Shop,” a special two-day event, will feature Umbrian cashmere, prosecco and caviar. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free admission. Via Umbria, 1525 Wisconsin Ave. NW. viaumbria.com/ events. The event will continue Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

■ The 52 O Street Artist Open Studios will feature public visits to the creative spaces of the artists and designers who work and live in the building. 5 to 10 p.m. Free. 52 O St. NW. 52ostreet.com.

■ The 39th annual National Press Club Book Fair & Authors’ Night will feature Jennifer Close, Matthew Dallek, Pati Jinich, Wesley Lowery, Ralph Nader and Dan Zak, among others. 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. $5 to $10. National Press Club, 14th and F streets NW. press.org/ bookfair.

■ Hera Hub DC will host a wine and cheese reception in conjunction with a

display of the works of local artist Kathy Karlson. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Free. Hera Hub DC, Suite 100, 5028 Wisconsin Ave. NW. herahub.com/dc.

Sporting event ■ The Washington Capitals will play the Detroit Red Wings. 7 p.m. $50 to $650. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.

Tours and walks ■ The American University Museum will present a docent-led tour of one of its fall exhibitions. 11:30 a.m. Free.

American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-1300.

■ The Washington National Cathedral’s “Classic Tower Climb” will offer a look at the ringing chamber, 333 steps high in the central tower with scenic views of Washington. 1 p.m. $40; reservations required. Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. cathedral.org.

Saturday,NOVEMBER Nov. 19 Saturday 19 Children’s programs ■ “Saturday Morning at the National” will feature “Rainbow Puppets: The Really Big Dinosaur Show.” 9:30 and 11 a.m.

Free; reservations suggested. Helen Hayes Gallery, National Theatre, 1321 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. thenationaldc. org/events.

■ The Kreeger Museum’s “First Studio: Story + Workshop” will feature a gallery tour of paintings, sculpture and architecture, as well as a story and a hands-on art-making experience (for ages 3 to 5). 10 to 11 a.m. $10 per child; registration required. Kreeger Museum, 2401 Foxhall Road NW. 202337-3050.

■ Alliance Française de Washington will present “Heure du conte,” an interactive storytime in French. 11:30 a.m. to See Events/Page 30

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■ Swedish artist and art teacher Karin Lithell will hold an arts and crafts workshop for children. Noon to 3 p.m.

Free. Embassy of Sweden, 2900 K St. NW. www.swedenabroad.com/ washington.

■ A park ranger will lead a planetarium program about American Indian star stories and constellations in honor of Native American Heritage Month (for ages 5 and older). 1 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.

■ Children will hear a story about Sitting Bull and then create a special piece of art. 1 to 4 p.m. Free. National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. 202-6331000. The program will repeat Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m.

■ The House of Sweden will host a weekly storytime for children and families to experience Swedish children’s literature. 2 to 5 p.m. Free.

House of Sweden, 2900 K St. NW. www.swedenabroad.com/washington.

■ A park ranger will lead a planetarium program about the solar system, the Milky Way and other deep space objects (for ages 7 and older). 4 to 4:45 p.m.

Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070. The program will repeat Sunday at 4 p.m.

Classes and workshops ■ Art historian Joseph Cassar will present a class on “Spanish Art and Architecture: A Treasury of Delights.”

9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. $90 to $140. S. Dillon Ripley Center, 1100 Jefferson Drive SW. 202-633-3030.

■ The Mount Pleasant Library will present “Saturday Morning Yoga.” 10 a.m. Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-671-3122.

■ Instructor Luz Verost will lead a casual Spanish Conversation Club session designed to grow, revive or develop Spanish language skills. 10 to 11 a.m.

Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.

■ Volunteer teachers from the Washington English Center will hold a weekly conversational practice circle for adults who already have some English speaking ability. 10 to 11:30 a.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.

■ Yoga Activist will present a class for beginners. 11 a.m. Free. Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202243-1188.

■ Colors of Happiness Coaching and Healing facilitator Florencia Fuensalida will present “Living in Harmony: A Revitalizing Guided Meditation to Find Daily Joy and Balance.” 11:30 a.m. Free.

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■ The Creative Class will present “Adult Craft-ernoons” with instructions and all materials provided. 2 p.m. Free.

Takoma Park Library, 416 Cedar St. NW. 202-576-7252.

Concerts ■ The Friday Morning Music Club will present its High School Competition for Strings. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free. National Presbyterian Church, 4101 Nebraska Ave. NW. 202-333-2075.

■ Pianist Sandro Ivo Bartoli will pay homage to the great Italian composer and pianist Ferruccio Busoni on the occasion of his 150th birthday. 2 to 4 p.m. Free; tickets required. Coolidge Auditorium, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-707-5502.

■ The Ukrainian pop-rock band S.K.A.Y., on its first U.S. tour, will perform a charity concert with all proceeds going to support United Help Ukraine’s charitable projects in Ukraine.

5 to 7 p.m. $55. 945 G St. NW. skaydc.eventbrite.com.

■ Sean Hartley — playwright, producer, music and improv theater educator, and theater wing director of the Kaufman Music Center — will perform as part of the “Broadway Tomorrow” series.

6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ The Emerson String Quartet will present a recital with violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violist Lawrence Dutton and cellist Paul Watkins performing works by Mozart, Shostakovich and Ravel. 6 to 8 p.m. $56 to $72. Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History, 10th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-633-3030.

■ Jazz@Wesley will present a concert by the Sandra Y. Johnson Group. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. $7 to $10; free for ages 12 and younger. Wesley United Methodist Church, 5312 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-966-5144, ext. 325.

■ The Axelrod String Quartet — featuring Mark Destrube on violin, James Dunham on viola, Marilyn McDonald on violin and Kenneth Slowik on violoncello — will present Bach’s “The Art of Fugue, BMV 1080,” with a lecture preceding the concert. Lecture at 6:30 p.m.; concert at 7:30 p.m. $25 to $35. Hall of Music, National Museum of American History, 14th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-633-3030. The lecture and concert will repeat Sunday at the same times.

■ The KC Jazz Club will present saxophonist, composer and bandleader Tia Fuller and her Angelic Warrior Quartet, featuring John Patitucci on piccolo bass, Shamie Royston on piano and Rudy

Saturday, NOVEMBER 19 ■ Concert: The Ariel Quartet will perform Mozart’s “Quartet in G major, K. 387”; Shostakovich’s “Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73”; and Beethoven’s “Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131.” 8 p.m. $30 to $40. Kreeger Museum, 2401 Foxhall Road NW. 202-3373050.

Royston on drums. 7 and 9 p.m. $30 to $39. Terrace Gallery, Kennedy Center.

202-467-4600.

■ The Embassy Series will present pianist Christopher Schmitt performing works by Schubert, Beethoven and Chopin. 7 to 9:15 p.m. $25. International Student House, 1825 R St. NW. 202625-2361.

■ The John E. Marlow Guitar Series will feature Cuban guitarist Rene Izquierdo performing traditional classical repertoire as well as Cuban traditional and popular songs. Pre-concert lecture at 7:15 p.m.; performance at 8 p.m. $14 to $28; free for ages 17 and younger. Westmoreland Congregational United Church of Christ, 1 Westmoreland Circle. 301-799-4028.

■ D.C. singer-songwriter Dan Lipton will play a mix of Americana, folk and altcountry, with a twangy vocal style. 8 p.m.

Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

■ “Ladies of Jazz” will present Maija Rejman. 8 to 11 p.m. No cover; $15 minimum. Mr. Henry’s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-546-8412.

■ A double bill will feature Richmond’s horn-driven, 10-piece No BS! Brass Band and the Big Mean Sound Machine, which mixes West African, Latin American, Caribbean and North American sounds with traditional funk and avant-garde jazz. 9 p.m. $15 to $19. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

■ Soul singer-songwriter Stolar will perform in a style somewhere between Bruno Mars and Sam Smith. 10:30 p.m.

Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Discussions and lectures ■ The Macular Degeneration Network and Sibley Senior Association will present a talk by macular degeneration expert Dr. Richard Garfinkel and ForeSeeHome Monitoring Program clinical representative Matt Burton on the first Medicare-covered home monitoring

device designed to detect early changes in “dry” age-related macular degeneration. 10 a.m. to noon. Free; reservations requested. Conference Room 2, Sibley Medical Building, 5215 Loughboro Road NW. 202-364-7602.

■ Artist Mira Hecht will discuss her work in conversation with Jack Rasmussen, director and curator of the American University Museum, and Christopher Addison, owner of Addison/Ripley Fine Art. 11 a.m. Free; reservations required.

Addison/Ripley Fine Art, 1670 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-338-5180.

■ Curator Lee Talbot will lead a tour through the exhibit “Bingata! Only in Okinawa.” Noon. Free. George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, 701 21st St. NW. 202-994-5200.

■ Sandro Ivo Bartol, Italian master of repertoire ranging from Casella and Malipiero to Liszt, will discuss the great Italian composer and pianist Ferruccio Busoni on the occasion of his 150th birthday. 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Free. Whittall Pavilion, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-7075502.

■ Carol S. Steiker, a Harvard Law School professor, and her brother Jordan M. Steiker, a law professor at the University of Texas at Austin and director of the Capital Punishment Center, will discuss their book “Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment,” which examines the history of judicial regulation that has reformed and sometimes halted capital punishment without abolishing it. 1 p.m. Free.

Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

■ Temple Sinai’s Zwerdling Shabbaton for Social Justice will focus on “Gun Violence Prevention,” featuring a keynote address by American University law professor Jamie Raskin (shown), newly elected U.S. representative in Maryland’s 8th District; a screening of the new documentary “91%,” about the 91 percent of Americans who support universal background checks; and a panel discussion with experts on gun violence prevention.

A Havdalah service and dinner will follow. 3 to 8 p.m. Free for program; $20 to $25 for dinner and program. Temple Sinai, 3100 Military Road NW. zwerdlingshabbaton2016.eventbrite.com.

■ Tyler Anbinder, professor of history at George Washington University and author of “Five Points,” will discuss his book “City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York,” a comprehensive history of the city’s central role in immigration that traces the stories of some of the millions who started new lives there, from Alexander Hamilton to Charles Atlas to Oscar de la Renta. 3:30 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202364-1919.

■ Nick Lovegrove, U.S. managing partner of the Brunswick Group, will discuss his book “The Mosaic Principle: The Six Dimensions of a Remarkable Life and Career,” which cites six examples — successes, such as Paul Farmer and David Hayes; and failures, such as Enron — to argue for breadth of knowledge over specialization, and liberal arts education

rather than trade school training. 6 p.m.

Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

Film ■ The Mount Pleasant Library will present the 2016 film “The Purge: Election Year.” 2 p.m. Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 3160 16th St. NW. 202-6713122.

Performances and readings ■ The George Washington University South Asian Society will present “Raas Chaos XVI,” a national intercollegiate dance competition featuring a traditional style of dance originating in western India. 7 p.m. $15 to $20. Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. 202-994-6800.

■ As part of the Smithsonian’s “Performing Indonesia: Islamic Intersections” series, the Lightbulb Ensemble will present the world premiere of “Hamsa: Five Tales,” an allegorical story of a beggar’s perplexing dreams that offers a compelling and original perspective on the Five Pillars of Islam.

7:30 p.m. Free; tickets required. Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, George Washington University, 500 17th St. NW. asia.si.edu.

■ The Congressional Chorus will present “Fascinatin’ Rhythms,” a celebration of Washington in song, poetry and dance highlighted by Duke Ellington’s rarely performed “Sacred Concert.”

The performance will feature a 17-piece, all-star jazz band of Army, Air Force and Marine musicians; Howard University’s jazz a cappella group Afro Blue; swing and tap dancers from Joy of Motion Dance Center and Capitol Movement; the Capital Hearings a cappella group; and slam poetry artists from the Beltway Poetry Slam Team. 7:30 p.m. $35.

Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. congressionalchorus.org.

■ AU in Motion will present “Get Down!,” its annual fall dance festival featuring varied dance styles from jazz to hip-hop. 8 p.m. $10. Greenberg Theatre, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-2587.

■ Laugh Index Theatre will present “In the Hot Seat,” a monthly comedy show featuring some of the best comedians and improvisers in town. 10 p.m. $8 to $15. DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW. 202-462-7833.

Special events ■ Annunciation Catholic Church’s annual Christmas Bazaar will feature jewelry, antique treasures, home and kitchen items, Christmas decorations, wine, handbags and scarves, toys, sporting goods, baby and toddler clothes and toys. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free admission.

Parish Center and Gym, Annunciation Catholic Church, 3810 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-362-3323. The bazaar will continue Sunday from 9 a.m. to noon in the Parish Center.

■ La-Z-Boy will host the Human Rescue Alliance’s mobile pet adoption vehicle with adoptable cats and dogs. Noon to 3 p.m. Free. La-Z-Boy, 1328 14th St. NW. 202-727-7369.

■ In conjunction with International Games Day, the Tenley-Friendship Library’s monthly “Game On!” event will feature a bevy of board games and a Mario Cart Tournament with prizes. 1 to 3 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727See Events/Page 31

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Continued From Page 30 1488. â&#x2013; The National Building Museum will host a Design Showcase, featuring the work of young designers in the Design Apprenticeship Program who work together over the past seven weeks to design and fabricate seating for museum visitors. 1 to 3 p.m. Free. National Building Museum, 401 F St. NW. 202272-2448. â&#x2013; An International Games Day event will feature opportunities for open play in games such as Pandemic, Forbidden Island, Qwirkle, Dixit, The Resistance and Sushi Go Party. 2 to 5 p.m. Free.

Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library, 1630 7th St. NW. 202-727-1288. â&#x2013; The Lido Civic Club will celebrate the civic achievements of Tom Raffa and present him with its Man of the Year Award at the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Past Presidents Night, a fundraiser for scholarship and charitable programs. 6:30 p.m. $250.

Capital Hilton, 1001 16th St. NW. lidoclub.org. â&#x2013; The African American Civil War Museum will celebrate the contributions of two former members of its board of directors â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Beverly Perry, senior adviser to Mayor Muriel Bowser and former vice president of government relations for Pepco; and Emanuel J. Friedman, philanthropist and co-founder of EJF Capital LLC â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for their work in restoring and preserving the history of U.S. Colored Troops and the white officers who led them in battle. 7 to 10 p.m. $125. African American Civil War Museum, 1925 Vermont Ave. NW. 202-667-2667. â&#x2013; The Smithsonian American Art

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Museum will host a dance party to celebrate its newest exhibition â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gene Davis: Hot Beatâ&#x20AC;? and say farewell to museum director Betsy Broun, who is retiring after nearly 30 years. The 1960s-themed event will feature a retro buffet, drinks and dancing inspired by the artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s colorful, rhythmic stripe paintings. 8 to 11 p.m. $60; tickets required, Kogod Courtyard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and G streets NW. 202-6331000.

Sporting event â&#x2013; The Washington Wizards will play the Miami Heat. 7 p.m. $19 to $746.

Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-7453000.

Tours and walks â&#x2013; Washington Walks and tour guide Brian Kraft will present the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Columbia Heights Historical Drinkabout,â&#x20AC;? featuring an exploration of the neighborhood with stops at several of its cafes and bars. 2 to 5 p.m. $20 to $25. Details provided upon registration. washingtonwalks.com. â&#x2013; A Washington National Opera staff member will lead a backstage tour for a behind-the-scenes look at â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Daughter of the Regiment.â&#x20AC;? 6 p.m. $50. Opera House, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

Sunday, Nov. 20 Sunday NOVEMBER 20 Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and family programs â&#x2013; A park ranger will lead a planetarium program about the seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brightest stars, planets and constellations (for ages 5 and older). 1 p.m. Free. Rock Creek Nature Center, 5200 Glover Road NW. 202-895-6070.

Sunday, NOVEMBER 20 â&#x2013; Concert: Washington Concert Opera will present Massenetâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;HĂŠrodiade,â&#x20AC;? based on Flaubertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of the biblical tale of Herodias. Performers will include tenor Michael Fabiano (shown), soprano Joyce El-Khouy and mezzo-soprano Michaela Martens. 6 p.m. $40 to $110; $15 for students. Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, 730 21st St. NW. 202364-5826. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kids@Katzen Family Dayâ&#x20AC;? will feature a family art-making workshop based on works in one of the current exhibits (for ages 5 through 12). 1 to 3 p.m. $20 for a family of four; $5 for each additional child. Reservations suggested. Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. tinyurl.com/aumtickets.

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Concerts â&#x2013; The World Percussion Ensemble will perform works by some of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most prominent percussion ensemble composers, as well as original compositions. 2 p.m. Free. Gonda Theatre, Davis Performing Arts Center, Georgetown University, 37th and O streets NW. performingarts.georgetown.edu. â&#x2013; The Music With the Angels Concert Series will feature flutist Yana Hristova and guitarist Cristian Perez performing original compositions and the artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; own arrangements. 2 p.m. Free; $10 donation suggested. Church of the Holy City, 1611 16th St. NW. 202-462-6734. â&#x2013; Clarinetist David Krakauer and the Boston-based chamber orchestra A Far Cry will perform a concert with the theme â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dreams and Prayers.â&#x20AC;? 3:30 p.m. Free.

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Discussions and lectures â&#x2013; St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Parish will host a presentation on its history as part of its 150th anniversary celebrations. 10:30 a.m.

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Free. American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202885-1300. â&#x2013; Harry Cooper, curator and head of the National Gallery of Artâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s department of modern art, will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Stuart Davis: In Full Swing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; An Introduction to the Exhibition,â&#x20AC;? about the art and influence of the American modernist, whose work is the subject of a new exhibit. 2 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. 202-7374215. â&#x2013; Chicago-based artist Riva Lehrer will discuss her drawing â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alison Bechdel,â&#x20AC;? a portrait featured in â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Outwin 2016â&#x20AC;? exhibition. 3 p.m. Free.

National Portrait Gallery, 8th and F streets NW. 202-633-1000. â&#x2013; Richard Peabody, founder of Gargoyle magazine and Paycock Press, will join an array of local women writers to discuss the D.C.-area writing scene, as well as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abundant Grace,â&#x20AC;? edited by Peabody and the seventh volume in the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Grace & Gravityâ&#x20AC;? series of fiction by women authors. The event will feature readings by contributors Kelly Ann Jacobsen, Caroline Langston, Fiona J. Mackintosh, Atossa Shafaie and others.

3:30 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. â&#x2013; Jane Ziegelman, director of the Tenement Museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s culinary center and author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;97 Orchard,â&#x20AC;? and Andrew Coe, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chop Suey,â&#x20AC;? will discuss their book â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression,â&#x20AC;? which combines statistics, stories and recipes to trace the effect of the 1930s through the rise of processed meals, regional cuisines and dietary guidelines. 5 p.m.

Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919. â&#x2013; Director David Armstrong and George Washington University professor emeritus Judith Plotz will discuss Shakespeare Theatre Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new production of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Secret Garden,â&#x20AC;? a Tony Award-winning musical based on the beloved childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book of the same name about beauty discovered in unlikely places and hardship turned into hope.

5 p.m. Free; reservations suggested.

Forum, Sidney Harman Hall, 610 F St. NW. 202-547-5688.

Film â&#x2013; The National Gallery of Art will present Miroslav Janekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2014 film â&#x20AC;&#x153;Olga,â&#x20AC;? about Olga HavlovĂĄ, the famously forthright first lady of the postcommunist Czech Republic. 4 p.m. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. 202-842-6799.

Performances and readings â&#x2013; The monthly â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Your Earâ&#x20AC;? show, which presents readings and performances by poets who draw on an avantgarde tradition, will feature James Belflower, Matthew Klane, Michelle Dove and Matvei Yankelevich. 3 p.m. $5. DC Arts Center, 2438 18th St. NW. 202462-7833. â&#x2013; The Gandhi Memorial Center will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Satyam: A Bharatanatyam Dance and Music Performance,â&#x20AC;? featuring Madhavi Reddi. 4 to 6 p.m. $10 to $15; free for ages 9 and younger. Gandhi Memorial Center, 4748 Western Ave. 301-320-6871. â&#x2013; Petworth Citizen and Upshur Street

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Classes and workshops â&#x2013; The West End Interim Library will host an all-levels yoga class. 6 p.m.

Free. West End Interim Library, 2522 Virginia Ave. NW. 202-724-8707. â&#x2013; The Petworth Library will host a D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs workshop on how to start a new business in the District. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Free; reservations required.

Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. dcbiz.ecenterdirect.com/events/43008.

Monday, NOVEMBER 21 â&#x2013; Concert: The Fortas Chamber Music Concerts series will feature the Berlin-based ATOS Trio performing selections from its â&#x20AC;&#x153;Czech Album.â&#x20AC;? 7:30 p.m. $45. Theater Lab, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.

Books will present the DC Literary Open Mic, hosted by Mike Persley and Anna Thorn and featuring writers sharing poetry, a story or a piece of flash fiction.

5 to 7 p.m. Free. Reading Room, Petworth Citizen, 829 Upshur St. NW. petworthcitizen.com. â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sunday Kind of Loveâ&#x20AC;? will feature readings by emerging and established poets, followed by an open mic segment. 5 to 7 p.m. $5. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets 14th & V, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638. â&#x2013; The Washington Improv Theater will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;iMusicalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10th Anniversary Celebration: One Night Only,â&#x20AC;? featuring iMusical members past and present taking the stage. 7 p.m. $40 to $100. GALA Theatre, 3333 14th St. NW. witdc.org.

Special events â&#x2013; Temple Sinaiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;Holiday Martâ&#x20AC;? will feature food, wine tastings, a bake sale and childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free admission. Temple Sinai, 3100 Military Road NW. 202-3636394. â&#x2013; The Dupont Circle FreshFarm Market will host the Human Rescue Allianceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mobile pet adoption vehicle with adoptable cats and dogs. Noon to 3 p.m. Free. 20th Street and Massachusetts Avenue NW. 202-727-7369. â&#x2013; A â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mentalism and Mysteries Mixerâ&#x20AC;? will feature TV mentalist Alain Nu. 6:30 p.m. $15. Mr. Henryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. mrhenrysdc.com.

Sporting event â&#x2013; The Washington Capitals will play the Columbus Blue Jackets. 12:30 p.m. $31 to $501. Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-745-3000.

Monday,NOVEMBER Nov. 21 Monday 21 Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s programs â&#x2013; Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performer Frank Cassel will present â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rise + Rhyme,â&#x20AC;? a storytelling and performance series for ages 5 and younger. 9:30 to 11 a.m. $5 per child. Busboys and Poets Takoma, 235 Carroll St. NW. 202-726-0856. â&#x2013; The Petworth Library will host a Thanksgiving craft activity with a viewing of â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Charlie Brown Thanksgivingâ&#x20AC;? (for ages 5 and older). 4:30 p.m. Free. Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW.

Concerts â&#x2013; The musical series â&#x20AC;&#x153;Broadway Tomorrowâ&#x20AC;? will feature composer and lyricist Alan Schmuckler, whose work includes â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wait, Wait, Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Kill Me,â&#x20AC;? a musical adaptation of a book about the popular â&#x20AC;&#x153;Serialâ&#x20AC;? podcast. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. â&#x2013; The Catholic University of America Symphony Orchestra will perform works

by Brahms, Verdi, Mascagni and DvorĂĄk.

7 p.m. Free; reservations required. Auditorium, Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St. NW. www.iicwashington.esteri.it.

Discussions and lectures â&#x2013; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Conversations at The Kreeger Museum,â&#x20AC;? a program for those with memory disorders and their caregivers, will feature a discussion of Edgar Degasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; painting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Woman Brushing Her Hair,â&#x20AC;? including whether the workâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unusual vantage point can be interpreted as a view into the inner life of the subject. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Free; registration required. Kreeger Museum, 2401 Foxhall Road NW. 202-337-3050, ext. 318. â&#x2013; Merouan Mekouar, assistant professor of social science at York University of Canada, will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Protest and Mass Mobilization: Authoritarian Collapse and Political Change in North Africa.â&#x20AC;? Noon to 2 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 602, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1957 E St. NW. elliott.gwu.edu/calendar. â&#x2013; Benjamin Cowan, assistant professor of history at George Mason University, will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;Securing Sex: Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil.â&#x20AC;? Noon to 3 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 505, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1957 E St. NW. esbi@gwu.edu. â&#x2013; The Ward Circle Chapter of AARP will present a book talk by writer, lecturer and tour guide Garrett Peck, author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Walt Whitman in Washington, D.C.: The Civil War and Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Great Poet.â&#x20AC;?

Social time at 12:30 p.m; program at 1 p.m. Free. Metropolitan Memorial United Methodist Church, 3401 Nebraska Ave. NW. 202-363-4900. â&#x2013; Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post, will discuss his book â&#x20AC;&#x153;They Canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore and a New Era in Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Racial Justice Movement,â&#x20AC;? a detailed account of life in communities hit hardest by police violence, civil unrest, high unemployment and underSee Events/Page 33

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■ Brown University professor, novelist and MacArthur fellow John Edgar Wideman will discuss his book “Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File,” a deeply researched account of the execution of Louis Till by the Army for rape and murder 10 years before his teenage son Emmett Till was lynched. 7 p.m.

Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

■ João Augusto De Castro Neves, director for Latin America of the Eurasia Group, will discuss “Politics of Economic Recovery in Brazil.” 7 to 9 p.m. Free; reservations required. Room 505, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, 1957 E St. NW. esbi@gwu.edu.

Film ■ “Marvelous Movie Mondays” will feature the 2010 film “Circumstance,” about freespirited Tehran teens struggling with their burgeoning sexuality under the rigid rules of an oppressive theocracy. 2 and 6:30 p.m. Free. Meeting Room, Chevy Chase Library, 5625 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-282-0021.

Sporting event ■ The Washington Wizards will play the Phoenix Suns. 7 p.m. $21 to $510.

Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-7453000.

Tuesday, Nov. 22 Tuesday NOVEMBER 22 Children’s programs ■ “Tudor Tots: Turkey and Thanks” will feature songs, stories and movement (for ages 2 to 4). 10 a.m. $5; free for accompanying adults. Tudor Place Historic House and Garden, 1644 31st St. NW. tudorplace.org. The fall “Tudor Tots” series will conclude Nov. 29.

■ The Palisades Library will host a Thanksgiving Day-themed craft activity for kids of all ages. 4 p.m. Free. Palisades Library, 4901 V St. NW. 202-2823139.

Classes and workshops ■ A certified yoga instructor will lead a walk-in gentle yoga class targeted to ages 55 and older. 10 a.m. Free.

Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.

■ The Georgetown Library will present a walk-in yoga class practicing introductory viniyasa techniques. 11:30 a.m.

Free. Georgetown Library, 3260 R St. NW. 202-727-0232.

■ Lindsey Crawford of Yoga District will present a yoga class for beginners.

1 p.m. Free. Watha T. Daniel/Shaw Library, 1630 7th St. NW. 202-7271288.

■ Instructor Diana Abdul will present a hatha yoga class. 7:30 p.m. Free. Tenley-Friendship Library, 4450 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202-727-1488.

■ Yoga Activist will present a class for beginners. 7:30 p.m. Free. Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202-

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Concerts ■ As part of the Tuesday Concert Series, organist Jeremy Filsell will present a celebration of the music of French composers Gaston Litaize and Maurice Duruflé.

12:10 p.m. Free.

Church of the Epiphany, 1317 G St. NW. 202-347-2635.

■ The University of the District of Columbia’s “JAZZalive” series will feature a Thanksgiving celebration performed by small jazz ensembles under the direction of Allyn Johnson.

12:30 p.m. Free. Recital Hall, Building 46-West, University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW. jazzaliveudc.org.

■ The “Broadway Tomorrow” series will feature Australian musical theater artists Ashleigh Rubenach and Stephen Ross Madsen in performance. 6 p.m.

Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center.

202-467-4600.

■ Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge will host its weekly open mic show. 8 p.m. Free.

Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Discussions and lectures ■ Syed Tariq Fatemi, minister of state and special assistant on foreign affairs to the prime minister of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, will discuss “Pakistan-U.S. Relations: Present Trends and Future Prospects.” 12:30 to 2 p.m.

Free; reservations required. KenneyHerter Auditorium, Nitze Building, Johns

Tuesday, NOVEMBER 22 ■ Discussion: Julianne Malveaux (shown), president emeritus of Bennett College for Women and current president of PUSH Excel, will discuss her book “Are We Better Off? Race, Obama and Public Policy”; and Michael I. Days, editor of The Philadelphia Daily News, member of the national board of the Associated Press Media Editors and a frequent political commentator, will discuss his book “Obama’s Legacy: What He Accomplished as President.” 6:30 p.m.

Free. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets 14th & V, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.

Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, 1740 Massachusetts Ave. NW. sais-jhu.edu.

■ The Japan Information and Cultural Center and the Washington Innovation

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Network will present lectures and panel discussions led by Toshio Obi, professor of information and communication policy at Waseda University, on “Politics of Japan’s Digital Innovation”; and Naoko Iwasaki, associate professor at the Institute of e-Government at Waseda University, on “Women and Innovation in Japan: Analytics of the Present and the Future.” 2 to 6:15 p.m. Free; registration required. Japan Information and Cultural Center, 1150 18th St. NW. www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/jicc.

■ The World Affairs Council will host Kirsti Kauppi, ambassador of Finland to the United States, who will discuss the U.S.-Finland relationship, her country’s approaching centennial, Finland’s climate change research in the Arctic, and its relationship with Russia. A wine and cheese reception will precede the talk. 6 to 8 p.m. Free. Horizon Ballroom, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. 202-293-1051.

■ David Hajdu — music critic for The Nation, professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and author of “The Ten-Cent Plague” — will discuss his book “Love for Sale: Pop Music in America,” which investigates the role of American popular music in shaping the self-image of America from the Victorian era through the heydays of the blues, soul, disco and more. Leon Wieseltier, former literary editor of The New Republic, will join the conversation.

7 p.m. Free. Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-364-1919.

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■ Busboys and Poets will present an open mic poetry night hosted by Gowri Koneswaran. 9 to 11 p.m. $5. Langston Room, Busboys and Poets 14th & V, 2021 14th St. NW. 202-387-7638.

Wednesday,NOVEMBER Nov. 23 Wednesday 23 Classes and workshops ■ The D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs will host a workshop on how to open a small business and navigate through the city’s regulatory process. 9 to 10:30 a.m. Free; reservations required. Room E-200, D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, 1100 4th St. SW. dcbiz.ecenterdirect.com/events/43215.

■ Kripalu yoga teacher Eva Blutinger will lead a “Yoga in the Galleries” class.

10 a.m. $5 to $10. American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, American University, 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW. 202-885-1300.

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■ Guitarist John Kadlecik & the DC Mystery Cats will perform a benefit concert, with part of the proceeds going to D.C. Central Kitchen. 8 p.m. $30. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Film ■ The Avalon Theatre’s Reel Israel DC series will screen “Tikkun,” director Avishai Sivan’s 2015 drama about an ultra-Orthodox religious scholar who escapes death but loses his devotion. 8 p.m. $7 to $12.25. Avalon Theatre, 5612 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-9663464.

Performances and readings ■ Singaporean dance company Chowk Productions will present “The Second Sunrise,” a dance that uses verses from Tamil poet Cheran’s war anthology written after the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009. 6 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

■ Lisner Auditorium will host a performance of the dance drama “The Red Crowned Cranes,” featuring a moving story about these endangered birds and

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■ The Cincinnati Ballet will present the D.C. premiere of the company’s bright and colorful production of “The Nutcracker,” featuring elaborate scenery, whimsical stage effects, awe-inspiring acrobatics, and entrancing choreography from artistic director Victoria Morgan. 7:30 p.m. $59 to $250. Opera House, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. The performance will repeat Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 and 7:30 p.m.

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Sporting event ■ The Washington Capitals will play the St. Louis Blues. 7 p.m. $40 to $613.

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Tour ■ The National Gallery of Art will present a “Picture This” tour of the West Building for people who are blind or have low vision, featuring intensive verbal description. 1 to 2 p.m. Free. West Building Rotunda, National Gallery of Art, 6th Street and Constitution Avenue NW. 202-842-6905. The tour will also be offered Nov. 26 at 1 p.m.

Thursday,NOVEMBER Nov. 24 Thursday 24 Dinner ■ St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Church of the Annunciation and Washington Hebrew Congregation will present their annual Thanksgiving Day Community Dinner. Noon to 2 p.m.; volunteer shifts begin at 9:30 a.m. Free; reservations required. St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, 3001 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 202895-6307.

Special events ■ So Others Might Eat will host its 15th annual Thanksgiving Day Trot for Hunger, a 5K run and 1-mile children’s run to benefit programs for the homeless and hungry. 8:30 a.m. $35 to $50.

Freedom Plaza, Pennsylvania Avenue between 12th and 13th streets NW. some.org.

■ The Washington National Cathedral will present its annual Thanksgiving Day Holy Eucharist service, featuring a sermon by the Very Rev. Randolph Marshall Hollerith. 10 to 11:30 a.m. Free.

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■ A “Thanksgiving Day Swing Dance Party” will feature music by the Phat Cat Swingers. 6 to 9 p.m. Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600.

Friday, Nov. 25 Friday NOVEMBER 25 Children’s programs ■ The Petworth Library will host “Kokopelli: Drum in Belly,” a storytelling program with Native American flute music and a craft activity (for kindergartners through third-graders). 10:30 a.m.

Free. Second-floor Children’s Room, Petworth Library, 4200 Kansas Ave. NW. 202-243-1188.

■ A puppet show will celebrate the 150th anniversary of Beatrix Potter with a 40-minute original production based on three of her famous stories — “The Tale of Peter Rabbit,” “The Tale of Benjamin Bunny” and “the Tailor of Gloucester.” 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Free.

Young Readers Center, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 1st St. SE. 202-707-1950.

Concerts ■ Elena & Los Fulanos, a bilingual folk rock band, will perform music that melds language and tradition, catchy melodies and inventive chords. 6 p.m.

Free. Millennium Stage, Kennedy Center. 202-4674600.

■ Wounded Knee band member Marc Delgado, a singer-songwriter from Woodstock, N.Y., will play solo tunes mixing alt-rock, folk and Americana styles. 8 p.m. Free. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

■ NSO Pops will present a screening of Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi film “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” with John Williams’ soaring score performed live. 8 p.m. $29 to $99. Concert Hall, Kennedy Center. 202-467-4600. The performance will repeat Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m.

■ “Jazz on the Hill” will present Aaron L. Myers II. 8 to 11 p.m. No cover; $15 minimum. Mr. Henry’s Restaurant, 601 Pennsylvania Ave. SE. 202-5468412.

■ Guitarist John Kadlecik & the DC Mystery Cats will perform with tenor saxophonist Ron Holloway as special guest.

9 p.m. $15 to $20. Gypsy Sally’s, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Discussion ■ “The Journeys of George Catlin”

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Film ■ The National Gallery of Art will screen four films from this year’s International Festival of Films on Art, held in Montreal each March. The screening will feature “Soundhunters — A Musical Expedition,” “One Million Steps,” “Viva Dada” and “The Collection That Did Not Exist.” Noon. Free. East Building Auditorium, National Gallery of Art, 4th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW. 202-8426799.

Special events ■ The 12th annual Downtown Holiday Market will feature exhibitors, local food and live music. Noon to 8 p.m. Free admission. Sidewalk of F Street between 7th and 9th streets NW, in front of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery. downtownholidaymarket.com. The market will continue through Dec. 23 from noon to 8 p.m. daily.

■ “ZooLights” will feature environmentally friendly LED displays, a light show set to music, 150-foot-long “snow tubing” tracks, the Conservation Carousel and live entertainment. 5 to 9 p.m.

Free admission. National Zoo, 3001 Connecticut Ave. NW. 202-633-4470.

The event will repeat daily through Jan. 1 (except Dec. 24 and 25).

■ Dead Images photographer Robbi Cohn, who has been photographing famous musicians since 1984 and specializes in pictures of the Grateful Dead, will present her work. 8 p.m. Free admission. Gypsy Sally’s Vinyl Lounge, 3401 K St. NW. gypsysallys.com.

Sporting event ■ The Washington Capitals will play the Buffalo Sabres. 5 p.m. $63 to $750.

Verizon Center, 601 F St. NW. 800-7453000.

Tour ■ The Washington National Cathedral’s “Combination Tower Climb” will present both the “Gargoyle Tower Climb,” featuring a close-up look at various gargoyles and grotesques while visiting the open-air walkway wrapping around the two western towers, and the “Classic Tower Climb,” offering a look at the ringing chamber, 333 steps high in the central tower with scenic views of Washington. 10:30 a.m. $75; reservations required. Washington National Cathedral, Massachusetts and Wisconsin avenues NW. cathedral.org.

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BERKLEY, WASHINGTON, DC Extraordinary custom built 7 bedrooms home with sunny level private yard, heated saltwater pool, geothermal heat/cool, two car garage. A must see! $4,595,000 Eileen McGrath 202-253-2226

SPRING VALLEY, WASHINGTON , DC Elegant six bedroom, five and a half bath home.

Gourmet kitchen, conservatory, master suite with his/hers baths, lower level with theater, pool, 2-car garage. $3,895,000 Cynthia Howar 202- 297-6000

SPRING VALLEY, WASHINGTON, DC Georgian Colonial on coveted street. 6BR, 6FBA & 2HBA on 1/2 acre lot. Grand rooms for entertaining, elegant master suite, wine cellar, private setting. $3,495,000 Lauren Davis 202-549-8784

CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND To-be-built! Fabulous new construction by Churilla Homes. Six bedrooms, five and half Baths, Attach Garage. Steps to Brookville Market, parks. Delivery Spring 2017. $1,995,000 Lauren Davis 202-549-8784

POTOMAC, MARYLAND Rarely available, 7,000SF, fully renovated, all brick colonial in popular River Falls. Two staircases, high ceilings, daylight walk-out lower level. It has it all! Whitman. $1,698,000 Anne Killeen 301-706-0067

CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 6BR/4.5BA grand Colonial with spacious rooms, large windows, generous closets. Private culde-sac on 0.66 acres. Sunroom and lower level library. Two car garage. $1,395,000 Alyssa Crilley 301-325-0079

GEORGETOWN, WASHINGTON, DC Three bedroom, one and a half bath home on shady west Village street. Built-ins, fireplaces and hardwood, gourmet kitchen, lovely garden, two car parking. $1,375,000 Jamie Peva 202-258-5050

PENN QUARTER, WASHINGTON, DC 2-level condo at The Ventana w/nearly 2,000SF. 2BR+den, 2.5BA, high ceilings and designer finishes. Garage pkg. 1-block to Metro! $1,300,000 William F. X. Moody Robert Hryniewicki 202-243-1620

CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND Elegant and expanded 4 bedrooms, 3.5 baths center hall colonial. Open kitchen, breakfast area and family room. Updated BAs. Patio + attached garage. $1,299,000 Alyssa Crilley 301-325-0079

CHEVY CHASE, WASHINGTON, DC BRAND NEW CONDOS! ONLY 1 LEFT â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 2BR/2.5BA Penthouse with Gourmet SS Kit, Italian Cabinets, 2-car pkg, Private Elevator & Roofdeck! $1,099,000 Nate Guggenheim 202-333-5905 William F. X. Moody 202-243-1620

CAPITOL HILL, WASHINGTON, DC Charming 4 level townhome with nearly 2,000 SF w/ 3BR w/ 3 en-suite FB + 1HB. 2 FLEX spaces: 4th floor Family room & 1st floor office/4th BR. 2 car garage with storage and sunny deck! $1,025,000 Lee Murphy 202-277-7477

ECKINGTON, WASHINGTON, DC Contemporary renovation w/ high-end finishes.

4BR, 3.5BA w/ SS appliances, open floor plan, great LL in-law suite. 1 car parking. Walk to metro, restaurants & shops in Bloomingdale! $975,000 Lee Murphy 202-277-7477

SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND Contemporary Mid-Century Modern showpiece in Woodside Park near it all! 5BR/3.5BA with three-story atrium. Lots of natural light. Fantastic location! $885,000 Alyssa Crilley 301-325-0079

WESLEY HEIGHTS, WASHINGTON, DC Elegant 2 bedroom, 32.5 bath unit at The Foxhall with a large living & dining room opening to an expansive & private terrace, renovated kitchen.

Community pool, tennis. 1-car parking $795,000 Mark McFadden 703-216-1333

OBSERVATORY CIRCLE, WASHINGTON, DC Tree top views, pleasantly bright. Two bedroom, two and a half bath renovated condo. Lovely balcony, garage parking, full service, perfect. $799,000 Jennifer Wellde 301-602-1596

CHESAPEAKE BEACH, MARYLAND 45 minutes to DC! Historic, waterfront home with sweeping views of the Chesapeake Bay. 3 bedrooms, 3 full baths, 3-car parking. $699,000 Doc Keane 202-441-2343 Mark McFadden 703-216-1333

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Distinctive Details

Kenwood. Stately 1981 custom home. Elegant foyer. 1st flr Lib. w/frpl & wet bar, BR & BA, Bay windowed eating area in kitchen. Above:2 rm MBR suite w/2 BAS, sit rm w/frpl.+ 2 addit. BRs & BA. LL w/2 level rec rm w/frpl, built ins, Pub area & sliding drs to patio. $1,875,000

Melissa Brown 202-469-2662 Beverly Nadel 202-236-7313

Classic Perfection

Potomac. Light filled once in a lifetime home w/5 BRs, 4.5 BAs. Stunning new gourmet custom kit w/top of the line appliances.

Main flr sudy & family rm. Rear Patio. Beautiful 1 acre lot, 3 car garage. Near to Potomac Village amenities & library. $1,589,000

Andrea Evers 202-550-8934 Melissa Chen 202-744-1235

Victorian Charm Forest Hills. Classic Victorian TH w/period details & modern amenities. 5 BRs, 4.5 BAs on 4 finished levels. LL in-law suite w/2 entries. 2 flr family rm. TS kit w/SS & granite. Patio, garden & 2 car pkg. $1,249,000

Lynn Bulmer 202-257-2410

Grace & Glamour

Picture Perfect

Arts & Crafts Gem

Bethesda. Lovely new luxury home with three dramatic levels of

Chevy chase, MD. Dramatic offering on a choice lane near downtown Bethesda! Impressive residence on a premium lot w/ panoramic golf course views of Columbia CC. 5 BRs, 4.5 BAs, Garage, Finished LL. $1,795,000.

Palisades. Many custom features in this 2003 four level home.

Eric Murtagh 301-652-8971

Nancy & David Hammond 202-262-5374

space, custom kitchen, stunning master bedroom suite. 5 BRs, 4.5 BAs, two-car garage. Near Metro, shops and restaurants of Friendship Heights. $1,795,000

Eric Murtagh 301-652-8971

One Of A Kind Town of Chevy Chase, MD. Contemporary masterpiece with stunning renovated kitchen and master bath. Impressive open spaces & exquisite finishes throughout. Main level BR, rec rm. 4 BRs, 4 BAs. $1,500,000

Eric Murtagh 301-652-8971

Victorian Gem

Old Town Alexandria. Period end unit row house wrapped in windows & sunlight. 3 BRs, 1.5 renov. BAs. Renovated kitchen, sep DR. Tall ceilings & original detailing. Fenced yard w/patio.

1 blk to King St. Zoned commercial. $719,000

The Perfect Blend

Shepherd Park. Traditional Colonial w/striking contemporary addition. 4 BRs, 3 BAs, library/blt-ins, renov. kit, brkfst rm, family rm. 2nd flr study, 3 frpls, LL professional office. Garage, multiple decks. $1,355,000

Susan Berger 202-255-5006 Ellen Sandler 202-255-5007

6 BRs, 4.5 BAs. Open flr plan. Large LL rec rm + in-law suite w/ sep entry. Front porch & balcony. $1,695,000

Stately Spaces Bethesda, MD. Exceptional Colonial in popular Kenwood.

Well proportioned rooms. 1st flr family rm & library. 6 BRs,5.5 BAs. Huge TS kitchen. Redone LL. Gorgeous rear yard. Near Whitman. $1,295,000

Linda Chaletzky 301-938-2630

Sunset Views

Dramatic Elegance

Boyd, MD. Stunning lake views from deck overlooking your

Martha Williams 202-271-8138 Rachel Burns 202-384-5140

room w/frpl. Finished LL, Garage. Almost 1/2 acre. $625,000.

Fort Washington, MD. Stunning home in Tantallon; home to National Golf Course & Marina. Two story foyer w/ curved staircase. 5 BRs, 4.5 BAs include luxurious MBR suite. Gourmet kit, brkfst rm & sun rms. Finished LL. Deck. $610,000

Kathi Kershaw 301-613-1613

Linda Green 301-467-2732

Old World Charm

Cathedral View

Van Ness. Classically maintained & freshly painted 1 BR condo.

Cleveland Park. Large 1 bedroom unit w/fabulous view from

Urban Favorite

City Lifestyle

Bethesda, MD. One of the largest 1 BR + den w/ 2 BAs at The Adagio. Unique one of a kind flr plan. Top of the line finishes. Custom kitchen, private outdoor terrace, garage pkg.

Close to Metro. $599,000.

Tenley. Light filled modern 1 BR 1 BA unit at The Cityline

Noel Fisher 301-919-1379

Sacha Moise 202-656-8218

atop the AU Metro Stop. Kitchen w/granite. W/D in unit.

Hrdwd flrs. Garage parking included. 24hr desk, fitness center.

Desirably Situated! $475,000.

pool! Access to lake for outdoor activities. 5 BRs, 3 BAs. Family

Kitchen w/dining area, private screened balcony w/garden view.

Hrdwd flrs throughout. Near to 2 metros. $339,900.

Marina Krapiva 301-792-5681

sunny bay window. High ceilings, hardwood floors. Gas cooking, W/D. Move in ready. Pets welcome. Bldg has gated private garden w/dog run. $295,900

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